We carry a lot of negative energy and/or blockage in our physical forms. There is the tendency to forget about the body on the path to spiritual enlightenment, and therefore negativity can be stored for long periods of time for the simple fact that we are not fully aware of its presence.

It’s important to remember that our bodies are every bit as sacred as our minds. Consciousness manifests not only as what we call the spirit, but also in the beautiful forms and processes of our physical nature.

Often a person can completely change the circumstances in their life by simply releasing stored negative energy from the body!

How is this possible? Physical negativity impacts our constant process of creation and manifestation, just as negative thoughts do.

So when we let go of a physical blockage it’s just like releasing a self-defeating thought pattern.

When you cultivate your awareness you’ll begin to identify the physical experiences that parallel your emotional and intellectual activity. This is an important step on the life journey, and it can open doors we never knew existed.

We’re all a little different in this regard. And the way your body communicates with you is not exactly the same as how my body talks to me.

You may find that when you worry about money the backs of your shoulders burn subtly. Or perhaps concern over a romantic upheaval creates a churning in your belly.

This article is not about finding every specific signal and matching it to a state of mind. I just want to get the wheels moving, so to speak, so you can pursue your own study of how your body processes information and interactive feedback.

The point is: the more aware you become of your body’s signs and signal, the more easily you’ll be able to release negativity and thus return to a state of alignment with your highest goals.

Releasing physical negativity is not difficult. In fact as soon as you acknowledge negative energy in a specific region of your body you can intentionally let go of it.

For example, let’s say you learn that your hands feel tight, tense, and a bit “sick” when you are holding negative energy patterns. Once you understand this, you can simply think about your hands, wiggle your fingers, and ask this negative energy to go away.

You’ll probably even be able to feel the negative blockage disperse. And thereafter you may notice a remarkable shift in both your mood and your dominant thought patterns.

Embracing this practice is like becoming a whole new person in many ways. You’ll be blown away by the amount of negativity you have been allowing to exist in your physical form before you focused your attention on this area of your life.

But What About Negative Energy I’m Not Currently Aware Of?

It’s also important to note that you may not find all physical negativity right away. In fact many of us live with negative or limiting physical energy that we can’t sense.

You’ll be pleased to know there are many ways to let go of this as well. Basic practices like a positive diet, healthy exercise, a good sex life, and really enjoying your sleep time will all help to reduce and eliminate subtle physical negativity.

And you can take this to the next level with studies like Yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, and other esoteric work. One really fabulous method that anyone can learn quickly is emotional freedom technique.

EFT (short for emotional freedom technique) is about tapping along the body’s energy meridians to release negativity on a regular basis. Actually this art is about a lot more, but for the context of this article I definitely wanted to mention the release benefits.

I hope this post has given you something new to think about. Naturally I’ve only touched on the basics.

Entire books can and have been written on this topic. So you should consider body awareness a lifelong pursuit that will add great quality to your life and an additional sphere of empowerment to your journey.

You understand the power of visualization. That which you can see vividly in your mind’s eye is bound to emerge in the physical world.

You know that affirming your desires will help train your thoughts. And you understand that what you think and feel about on a continual basis will ultimately manifest as your reality.

These simple basics are central to the understanding of attraction and manifestation. But there’s another truth that is less easily grasped, yet infinitely more powerful.

To have, do, be, and otherwise experience our desires in this life we must come into complete alignment with the reality we wish to manifest.

This concept is difficult for most of us to grasp at first. In a way, it’s along the lines of time travel and teleportation.

What I mean is: attaining a new alignment is like moving to a new space/time reality in a way that’s not fully explainable via modern science.

In his book Thought Vibration, Law Of Attraction In The Thought World, pioneer thinker William Walker Atkinson spoke of using the will to “see the truth” despite the interference of the present reality. Atkinson was urging his reader to develop an ability to transcend the illusion of current results.

Most of us allow our minds to be imprisoned by what we see and experience as the world around us. Understand that I am a strong advocate of allowing the present moment to unfold, but this doesn’t mean we must accept current circumstance as the truth.

I’m getting fairly deep into the philosophical here so let me move a bit closer to the surface. Consider this statement:

The way things are in your life right now, is the result of your previous thoughts and actions. These present circumstances are certainly real, but they reflect what you have previously created rather than what you are now creating.

With me so far? Great.

On the basis of the above statement, what will happen next in your life is the result of your current thoughts and actions. If you fixate on the present state of things, you will create more of the same in the coming moments, days, months, and years.

Again, it’s important to embrace the now. This moment is where life happens, and right here and now is the sum of all universal creation.

But a paradoxical sense, it’s equally important to be in a state of pure potentiality and not fettered by the facts and figures of right now. In other words, as you embrace this moment allow your mind to remain free of attachment so you can vibrate that which you wish to create.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say you want to lose 10 pounds so your pants are more comfortable and so you look more attractive to the opposite sex without your clothes on. While some people might call this vanity, the fact is you are entitled to have the exact body you want for whatever reasons suit you.

It’s important to keep living in this moment. Embrace the now, and be grateful for all the good things in your life. And certainly you are using your current body state (10 pounds too heavy) as the contrast to form your desired direction.

However, if you are to actually lose those ten pounds you must align yourself with the you who is ten pounds lighter! In other words you need to really feel and vividly think like the person you will be, and not like the person you are at this moment.

This is a highly experiential process. I can only go so far toward describing it with words. But I hope I am leading you to some level of understanding the nature of this metaphysical transformation.

Because your “future” is the response to how you think and feel (your vibratory expression) right now, it’s imperative that you quite literally become the person who has already lost ten pounds in every sense of the word. Here are two more things for you to think about, both of which may help you wrap your mind around the idea of aligning with the person you will be.

Everything Is Vibrating Energy

Only a little research is required to learn that everything in the universe (that we know about) is vibrating energy. This is true even of “solid matter”.

A bone may appear to be quite solid to the naked eye, but placed under a microscope it becomes clear that even a bone is made up of vibrating energy. Most of our universe is “empty vacuum” with vibrating particles in the interim.

With this in mind, and in consideration of the fact that consciousness appears to be the force behind all of nature, it should not be difficult for you to grasp the idea of shifting from one form to another.

Evidence That Our Minds Define Our Reality

You can find a wide range of studies to indicate that all of our reality is defined and organized for us by our minds. In fact there is no tangible reality in the absence of intelligent observation.

Did you know the same part of your brain processes vision whether you are looking at an object next to you, thinking about the same object with your eyes closed, or dreaming about the very same object in your sleep? Think about what that must mean for a second!

Also consider this: Documented cases of people with multiple personality disorders show human beings in dramatically different physical states depending on which personality is active.

In some cases patients have medical diabetes when one personality is in charge, but have a healthy pancreas in another personality! And at least one study actually documented a woman with a scar on her face while one personality was active, but when other personalities surfaced the scar was not visible!

Back to the premise of this article…

Getting back on track, my point is simple: To have the life we want, it’s important that we make a shift in consciousness so drastic that we honestly begin to embody the person we intend to become.

Read this article again. Meditate on it. And ask yourself without prejudice how you might be able to use this information within your own life.

It’s hard for most of us to let go. We want to be proactive, hands-on, and fully involved.

But when we try to hard, overthink, and just refuse to let go and allow things to flow, we risk pinching ourselves off from the source of all abundance. Life is not meant to be a dire struggle, yet many of us are addicted to the idea of struggling, pushing, and working hard to “make things happen”.

When I was younger I didn’t care much about money or responsibility. To be honest I spent most of my days drinking beer, chasing women (most of whom ignored me), and just goofing off.

I had fun. And I never went without anything.

In fact things just had a way of coming into my life. I always had enough money to get by, people gave me cars, and food & shelter were always plentiful.

Of course I eventually started thinking about having more money. And I decided to “grow up” and start working hard.

I made many big changes in my life, but the going was rough. While I was making substantial progress, it seemed there was a ceiling on how good things could get.

After a few years of traditional J-O-Bs I was able to start working from home. And I made more and more money each year.

But at the same time, I was never able to really break free and experience the kind of abundance I wanted. Money would come in, stay for a while, then vanish and I’d really have to struggle to get it back.

This went on for a long time. Then one day as I reflected on my “past life” as a drunken couch surfer with no worries, I had an epiphany.

No, I didn’t decide to start drinking again and shut down my business. I just realized that I had forgotten how to relax and allow blessings to flow to me in the natural manner.

It wasn’t until I really began to let go of my own need to control things that my life began to unfold in the wonderful way I truly wanted. Hard work, goals, and discipline are great, and all have their place in this life.

But more important than all of these is the ability to trust the greatest good to flow through our lives. Our dreams begin to manifest when we can focus on what we want, put in a little hard work to get it, and then let go and allow things to come together without micro-managing.

Every great teacher of manifestation talks about letting go and allowing. Yet somehow these concepts are easily lost, as we strive to work work work and push things forward, so to speak.

I’m reminded of a passage from the Tao Te Ching:

“Good work is done and then forgotten, and thus it lasts forever.”

I thought I understood this verse long ago. But now, having actively studied the laws of attraction and abundance for some time, I see these wonderful words with a new and powerful clarity.

My highest aspiration now is to trust, allow, and let the great life I want manifest. Does this mean I’m all done working and setting goals?

OF COURSE NOT!

But rather than work and strain under the guidance of my ego mind, I must allow inspiration to lead my efforts. When I move from my intuitive center I am always on track to create the best possible results.

At the same time, when I expect miracles in my daily life, and wake up each day with the utmost faith that incredible things are going to happen all around me, I am harnessing the power to build worlds within my small corner of creation.

Do you find yourself often furrowing your brow, tensing up at the shoulders, and really leaning into your work with a kind of tired resignation, yet feeling always as if your dreams are just out of reach? If so begin to cultivate hte practice of just letting go and trusting the greatest good to flow naturally.

It’s incredible what happens within a small frame of time when you combine this kind of relaxed faith with confident visualization and moment-by-moment gratitude. The world has a way of opening up when you are in alignment with this simple philosophy…