I am sorry for the times I have abused you and the physical harm I caused you through the consumption of poisons and chemicals in an attempt dull or numb the pain and confusion of this world at times when I was lost in the gap between false ego self and true soul self, and desperately trying to fit in someplace.

I am sorry for the times I have neglected you, for disregarding your needs and failing to serve you as you have so faithfully served me. I am sorry for the times I have been lazy and scared of the physical work to keep you strong and fit and healthy, that some part of me deemed ‘too hard’, seeing you as unworthy.

I am sorry for the times I have insulted you, constantly and incessantly comparing you to others and finding you ‘not good enough’. I am sorry for the superficial faults I insist on finding with you, which I know are in fact a projection of some deeper judgements I hold about myself.

Dear body, you are a gift to me. A wonderful, beautiful, perfect gift. You are a complex mechanism of trillions of cells all working together in an exquisite ballet, born of me and for me, responding to my needs and desires. I feel so much gratitude for the many ways in which you serve me. You are my vehicle to navigate this physical world. You allow me to communicate with others, to move through space, to breathe the holy life force. You bring me so much pleasure too – when I walk, when I run, when I dance, when I laugh, when I sing, when I cry, when I hug and when I join in union with another through lovemaking. You are me, expressed.

I make a commitment to you now, dear body, to honour you and love you in the way you deserve. I commit to protecting you from harmful substances, thoughts, and from neglect. I commit to nurturing you with nutritional foods and water. I commit to exercising you that you may continue to serve me. I commit to seeing and knowing your perfect beauty.

Thank you, dear body, thank you.

I’ve written a few posts about this in the past, like this one, exploring Your Creative Super Power and this one, about Beginning to Create Your Life Consciously. Today, however, I feel compelled to discuss your other super powers, all of which combine to make you the master creator you are. In order to become a conscious creator, it’s helpful to understand just how powerful really you are. Your powers are numerous and extensive. Unlimited, in fact. Here I will outline and briefly explore the nine powers that we all possess which I feel are key in the process of becoming a conscious creator.

1: The Power of Observation

Have you heard of the Observer Effect? Fundamental to contemporary quantum theory is the notion that nothing exists as a physical form until it is observed. Nothing can manifest in our physical universe until it is observed, or witnessed. Nothing exists unless there is an awareness to observe its existence. Further still, the physical form manifests in accordance to the expectations of the observer. What does this mean in simple terms? It means that your very consciousness is shaping the world around you. Now, as a multidimensional being, your consciousness exists on many levels, some of which your lower mind is unable to even comprehend due to its lower vibration. Keep in mind how extraordinarily powerful observation is as we discuss your other super powers, and you will soon begin to see how you can combine these gifts in order to create a life of abundance, success, and fulfillment. You have the ability to utilise the power of observation as part of the process of conscious creation.

2: The Power of Belief

What you believe to be true, is true for you. You have the power to shape your reality with your beliefs. Have you heard of the placebo effect? This is when somebody with a physical ailment takes a medication believing it has proven therapeutic effects for his or her condition, but it actually doesn’t. This inert medication is known as a placebo. A placebo can also be given in the form of a therapy or surgery. Placebo treatment has been reported to cause an actual physical improvement in the condition or relief in the symptoms experienced by the patient in around 30% of cases. This is just one means of demonstrating the power of belief. Look around and see for yourself – think of those people you know who think positively and approach life with an attitude that ‘anything is possible’. Such people often experience far more success and happiness than those who limit their life experience with limiting beliefs. That which you believe to be true, is true for you.

3: The Power of Story

You are a master storyteller. It’s how you have learned to give structure to your world. You have defined yourself by a series of stories that you tell to yourself and to others. Every small part of you, every little aspect, has many stories that it tells – these stories are how you maintain your construct of the world. If you have experienced lack in your life, it’s likely that you have many false beliefs about your ability to be abundant and you are telling the story of lack. This part of you, this part that experienced lack and keeps telling the story of lack, is a very real (in as much as anything is) part of you, and needs to be recognised, and integrated with your higher consciousness. If you have experienced ill health, one of your lessons is to learn (or remember) is the truth that you are a refection of the perfection of perfect divinity and illness is only created from any belief otherwise. The same goes for all aspects of life that seem negative, limited, less than wonderful. None of these things are bad, unless you perceive them to be, they are merely opportunities for you to break the pattern, see the truth, and then we never have to experience them again. Unless we choose to. This is true in all areas of your life. You can begin to really examine your world and see for yourself how you have created the situations you are experiencing by the stories you tell. See the power of story? See how it shapes your entire life? You also have the power to write a new story for yourself now.

4: The Power of Compassion

Compassion is so important. Compassion allows you to open your heart in acceptance. I am talking about compassion towards other people, yes, but I am also talking about compassion towards yourself. Really, they are one and the same thing, since there is only one of you in the room and all ‘others’ are actually a projection of some aspect of yourself (but that’s outside the scope of this post). When you discover your shadow aspects as you inevitably will as you move through your life journey and begin the process of self discovery, and likewise, when you find yourself being triggered by somebody in your life (whether in anger, jealousy, annoyance, judgment, blame, or any other such emotion), stop for a moment. Become the observer. Breathe. See the shadow aspect or person with divine eyes. See that they are doing the best they can with the tools they have. They need only love and acceptance, and you can provide them with that. This process is called integration. To the extent that you can be compassionate towards your shadow aspects, you will find the emotional charge removed from those people who represented that shadow aspect in your life. Compassion lifts you higher.

5: The Power of Courage

Sometimes in life just a few seconds of courage can change everything. Courage isn’t absence of fear, courage is taking action despite your fear. It is the only way to expand and grown, for fear is a response of the lower self, the lower mind. Fear is your ego voice urging you to play small and stay safe. It’s the voice of your shadow. Fear always tells a lie. In taking courage, you are acting from a higher part of yourself that knows the truth. In taking action despite your fear instead of running and hiding, you are changing the patterns of the lower mind. You are expanding what is possible for you, you are widening your horizons. Open yourself up, reveal your authentic self, stand out from the crowd, tell the truth, tell someone how you feel, do something that feels great even if it scares you! Being brave instead of retreating into your shell will open up worlds of possibilities for you. Go on, you can do it!

6: The Power of Desire

There may be many things you desire in your life. A new love relationship, a new job, a change of career, a beautiful house in the country, more travel. This is wonderful, there is absolutely no reason why you can’t or shouldn’t have any of these things. But first, you need to understand that it is not really these things you want at all. It is the quality that these things express for you that you are really desiring. When you can identify that quality, you will know what your  soul is seeking to embody. Desire is your soul’s way of calling you towards expansion and expression – to become more and more of all you can be, to fulfill more and more of your potential. Just be sure to identify the source of your desires and ensure you are acting on soul desires as opposed to shadow desires (distractions and synthetic highs). That feeling of passion when you tune into your desires, that fire in the heart, that enthusiasm that makes you breathe more deeply and smile more brightly, is an indicator that you are right on track. Passionate enthusiasm is the feeling of divine sacred purpose being embraced. When you feel passionate about something, when it consumes your very heart and you simply can’t not  do it, you know you are working in alignment with your highest good, you are doing your soul work. The power of desire can lead you there.

7: The Power of Imagination

Somebody imagined everything you experience in your material world before it came into existence, and you experience it because you adopted the belief in it from a young age. You have the power to create something entirely new from your imagination! Allow yourself to wander in your imagination, to take a stroll through the garden of potential, a swim in the sea of possibility, where all is formless, where nothing and everything exist all at once, where you can take a paintbrush and create ANYTHING you desire! Why constrain your life to that which others have imagined before you? Use your imagination – be a creative pioneer!

8: The Power of Faith

Faith is the power of trusting in the unknowable. The mind is of a lower energy vibration than your higher soul self and as such there is only so much your mind can know. In order to allow for something new to manifest in your life, something more than you have previously experienced, you have to be willing to allow something larger than your mind to come into play. You have to use the power of  faith to co-create with the powerful creative forces of the universe. You want to hold the essence of that which you desire to create but also allow for that higher part of yourself that transcends your limited mind and is in fact unlimited potential. It’s like a balancing act. In your mind you form a vision of that which you desire but you also hold an awareness that the actualisation of the vision could be so much more than the vision itself. It’s this space of allowing for anything that enables us to create amazing things. There are powerful forces at play in the universe and they can only work for you when you have faith in them.

9: The Power of Intuition

You have an inner tutor, a teacher that is always available to guide you on your path. In fact, this inner tutor has been whispering to you since the day you arrived on this Earth – it is the voice of intuition, and you feel it as a gentle knowing. You can trust this voice, for it is wise. It knows more of your path than your limited mind, it sees the bigger picture. You are not alone on this journey, in fact, you have so many guides and supporters it is astounding! These guides and supporters are, like everything, a part of your very consciousness and we are intrinsically connected to them. These guides and supporters, as aspects of our very higher consciousness, are often communicating with us in order to comfort us. They send us signs, or guide us in a certain direction that is aligned with out path and purpose. This communication can come through dreams, random thoughts, and even through manifested forms such as books, videos, messages from people, and anything that strikes you as significant. Allow the power of your intuition to guide you on your journey.

In my forthcoming book, Awakening to Your Super Power: The Art of Conscious Creation, I explore this subject in far greater depth and also offer you a simple process through which you can begin to consciously create your life in alignment with your deepest desires and intentions. To keep updated with news of the books release, please subscribe to my newsletter:

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I see you there hiding, and playing it small
But I know that fear keeps you from standing tall
Your smile remains fixed, you insist you are fine
But under that lie you are aching to shine
No matter what disguises you view the world through
I see what’s beneath, yes I see you

I see you there posing, commanding all eyes
But I know it’s acceptance you’re hoping to find
Your body’s a tool, attention you crave
But under that show you just want to be saved
No matter what disguises you view the world through
I see what’s beneath, yes I see you

I see you there suffering, victim again
But I know it’s unworthiness that keeps you in chains
Your world is an enemy, nothing is fair
But under that story I see your despair
No matter what disguises you view the world through
I see what’s beneath, yes I see you

I see your disguises, for they are mine too
For showing them to me, I sincerely thank you
Let us cast off these masks, let us tremble in awe
As we stand in the fire now, naked and raw
Let us view one another with eyes of truth
Reflecting divinity, becoming the proof
Authentic and vulnerable, open and true
I see through your layers, yes I see you

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A year and a half ago I flew to Colorado on my own to spend a week with people I had never even met in person. Last November I stood on stage in front of a room full of 100 people at my book launch. How did I get over my fear? I didn’t!!! That’s the key – I learned that the fear was okay. I had spent so long judging the fear, making it wrong, wanting it to go away, turning it into a monster, but in truth it was just a very small part of me that was scared. It was in denying and rejecting the fear that I became so over identified with it until it was all I could see.

I discovered that the key is not to run and hide from my fear, as I always had done in the past, but to face it. I had to tell the truth about my fear, and look deeper into it. In doing so, everything suddenly becomes clear and a massive weight melts away from me. I now have the ability to view everything that appears in the mirror of my life from the point of view of the ‘observer’, to watch what is going on for me. It doesn’t always happen immediately – some parts of me get so loud and I tune into them for a while before my consciousness switches back out to the level of observer. When I see myself reacting from this tiny scared part of me that is reading out an old script, and I acknowledge that part of me but throw away the script. She’s still there, yes, I’m not going to deny that. but I don’t let her control me anymore I don’t embody her.

Human emotions would look like a rainbow if they were visible and every part of that spectrum is valid and beautiful, we are supposed to experience it all – even the fear and sadness. No emotions are ‘wrong’. I still feel fear, but it is no longer a monster. I simply allow for the part of me that is scared – give her a means of expression, take deep breaths, tell her it’s okay and I find I am free to focus on my intentions in the situation, whatever it may be. I have released myself from self created shackles which held me back for so long – I know I can achieve anything now, nothing can hold me back. And nothing can hold YOU back either.

Now things are different for me. very different. I feel like my life has opened up immensely and things I wouldn’t even have considered possible for me are now like little adventures, just waiting for me to embrace them. This might sound quite twisted but I am actually starting to quite like that little twinge of fear – because I know it indicates that something new is opening up for me. I know that I don’t have to be paralysed by the fear, I don’t have to run away and hide. SO I say yes to things that come along if they are aligned with my intentions and desires, even those that scare me.

The biggest lesson I have learned on this journey of awakening – I believe one of the biggest personal lessons of my entire life – is that fear is my friend. I used to want my fear to go away – I used to believe that I would only be okay, only be successful, when I didn’t feel fear anymore. But that’s bull. I know now I am okay when I accept that my fear is a part of me, it is a valuable part of me because it leads me towards the experiences that will be valuable and expansive for me.  That’s it -  just to show up as all of me, fear and all, with no shame, and to declare ‘this is me’!

- Lynda Louise Mangoro

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Do you remember the magical sense of wonder you experienced as a child? Do you remember the uninhibited delight you felt when playing, running, and laughing with your friends? Do you remember summer days that felt endless and were full of delicious possibility?  Perhaps you can recall the emotions you experienced when reading a good book or watching a wonderful film, or even when daydreaming? You may be surprised to realise how powerful these feelings were, and still are now when you allow yourself to recapture that sense of childhood wonder, and how you can embrace them to begin to infuse your life with a magical newness and rich opportunities.

I remember as a child how easily a feeling of wonder was evoked in me, and how much joy that feeling gave me. Often I dreamed of flying, opening my window and launching myself into the night sky with no bonds to hold me down, soaring over houses and trees, towns and cities, liberated. In another recurring dreams I recall taking a car and embarking on a great adventure, destination unknown. I can remember so clearly navigating dark empty streets, knowing that an important mission lay ahead for me. I always awoke from these dreams with a sense of magic and freedom. Christmas inspired feelings of anticipation, that magical sense of something wonderful unfolding. In fact, the festive time of year was the time most full of this magical atmosphere of possibility. Just the sheer excitement of the whole period, carols and decorations, movies and cozy fires. My sister and I tucked up in our beds, spinning festive stories in excited whispers, feeding our joy. And it wasn’t about the presents, it was more about that sense of unity, that shared indulgence of so many people in just feeling good!

Storms too, would be a catalyst for this state if wonder; howling winds and lashing rain whipped up in me a delightful sense of adventure and mystery. Thunder and Lightning conjured up a tempest within, a tempest of elation. All these experiences and many more would ignite a fire inside me, a lust that could only be sated by the act of creation. In this state I simply had to create! It was more than just an urge, it was a need, a need that would keep me awake and fired up until expressed, until birthed. As a child I would satisfy this impulse by creating a drawing or writing a story.

The Gateway

I know now that these feelings were my connection to a deeper place, to the creative consciousness that is our source. Wonder, anticipation, and mystery are all gateways to this place, for it’s a place that is far greater than space and time, a place that exists on a quantum level. As such, we can’t think or analyze our way there, we can’t go there physically. Look again at the descriptions above of all the things that took me to this place. See the words I have used to describe it: feelings, senses, dreams, emotions, atmosphere, imagination. These are not physical or quantifiable things, they are energetic qualities. We must feel our way to this magical place.

I still often experience this spontaneous connection to creative consciousness and it is usually sparked by outward inspiration. Often it happens when out walking in nature; the way sunlight plays through the spring leaves on the trees can light this fire, the waves rolling onto a pebbly beach can also ignite this flame. Often I will be walking with my husband on a gloomy day, rain lashing from the early evening sky, car headlights and streetlights reflecting in the puddles, and capturing the raindrops in their beams, and I will feel my pulse race, my breath quicken, and I will declare “I have to write a story.” Right there and then in that moment is when the seeds are planted for that new story. At this stage in the process I will indulge in this energy of pure potential, swimming in it, immersing myself in it, allowing it to wash over me, allowing my imagination to run wild in these waves of possibility. Ideas and storylines will start to emerge, to form from the formless. I might make notes of some of these sensations but I wont yet cling to them, I will let them shift and grow before grasping them with my mind and forcing them into a definite shape.

Reconnecting

I welcome and embrace the enchanting sense of mystery that takes me to this place from where all my creations are planted and tended. I believe it’s my openness to this place that has made me so successful as a creator. Not just as an artist and a writer, but also as a conscious creator of my very life, including the creation of a wonderful relationship with a man I am deeply in love with, the creation of a beautiful family, the creation of a thriving personal business through which I make a living doing what I love (website and graphic design services for inspirational people whose intentions are perfectly aligned with my own purpose), the creation of a cherished network of supportive and inspiring friends (the tribe), and the creation of innumerable amazing opportunities and experiences throughout my life journey. I believe it’s possible for everyone to revisit this place, to learn to let go and allow themselves to enter the realms of possibility, the creative consciousness. From there, we can truly create something new in our lives. This is the first stage in the process of conscious creation. In fact it’s not even the first stage, it’s simply setting the scene, preparing the fertile ground.

I know we often lose this ability to connect to a sense of wonder as we grow up and are encouraged to live in the ‘real’ world, but I highly recommend redefining your definition of real. If you believe only what you can experience with your physical senses, you will never allow for something new to become a part of your reality. Suspend your disbelief for a moment and wander in wonder, move into mystery, embrace your creative essence and watch your world come alive with magic. What have you got to lose?

With Love,

Lynda

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