Speak Your Desires, and Your Truth Emerges - and Nothing Prevails Against the Truth

Talk only about your desires. What you focus on, you strengthen.

I often give these instructions in my Unleash Your Calling workshops. But of course, on weeknights, with my best girlfriend, when no one is paying me, and the moon hangs low, I allow myself to whine. Well, just a little.

But the other night, I did the exercise I often assign in workshops. I told my friend to keep me talking about what I loved, and not let me interrupt myself with why I thought I couldn’t have it. She did her job and I did mine. I spoke aloud my latest desires, dreams, and excitement for 8 minutes straight. I did not say, “But I don’t know how to make it happen.” I did not say “Of course, it’s unrealistic to want this to just fall into my lap like this.” I did not focus on my past and former disappointments or the fact that I have dated men that have been locked up– so how could I think I know what to want?

Now keep in mind, before I began the exercise, I was not in a positive place. I told my friend I was going to ignore “realistic” concerns about this particular desire. I would turn off the sirens for 8 minutes. I also told her, in very grave rational terms, just to get it off my chest, before I dived off the deep end, that my desire would sound inflated and hallucinatory. I didn’t have high hopes for where this exercise would take me, and started feeling for all the students I’d ever inflicted it upon. Nevertheless, I bravely suited up and trudged off into cotton candy land… Read more