Making Commitment to the Universe

Happy Day! 🥳

Welcome back. So what did it feel like sitting under the tree? The feeling is the most important element of a successful Intention. Awe and flow.

I hope you feel in the depth of your solar plexus and up through your heart and brain the excitement of discovering what you really want, what you really would do if there were no impediments. Again, if you don’t yet feel that awe keep doing these activities until you one day free your ego enough to allow it.

For some people, immediately after sitting under a tree imagining what your dream showing up would feel like, a sense of reality strikes hard. It can snap back at you like a stretched elastic band. Then perhaps the mailman brings a credit card statement, or the teenager behaves like… well, a teenager. When that happens you will feel well and truly snapped back into ‘reality.’ Immediately, search for that feeling again. You’ll find it and it is this habit of drawing on the feeling whenever we get knocked back that helps us sustain the power to achieve.

The tool for making your dream a reality is called Timeagination. I will explain it in three activities and I suggest you do all three at one sitting, then go away to let it sink in.

The first activity is a commitment ritual to your dream, which I will describe here in this activity.

The next is the science of Intention setting, which is the last part of the commitment ritual, but needs its own activity for clear understanding.

Thirdly, we develop what I call a mini-mind movie from that Intention and carry it around with us constantly. That also needs clarification so will be the third activity that together form Timeagination.

Commitment to accept change and do the required work.

Setting the Intention

Producing the mini-mind movie.

Together they make the most powerful targeting tool on the planet and in history.

Why a commitment ritual again?

A popular story is the one in which a person sells his/her soul to the devil for personal gain, but then changes his/her mind, and tries to cancel the covenant. Once made, however, a covenant cannot be broken. You are going to make a covenant with yourself to go get your dream, and you should treat the process with the same reverence as you would a job interview or medical appointment.

The adventures you set in motion when you commit to change your life cannot be undone.

There is no going back and no returning to the old life.

This change is for real.

”It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.” -Ralph Ellison

”Strategy is all about commitment. If what you’re doing isn’t irrevocable, then you don’t have a strategy — because anyone can do it… I’ve always wanted to treat life like I was an invading army and there was no turning back.” -Troy Tyler

Okay, deep breath. There is a power of creation. Now don’t panic; put your barf bags down. I am not turning all New Age or radical religious on you, just stating a fact that most people intuitively understand but don’t contemplate much. It exists everywhere and in everything, but as hard as it is for our simple brains to compute, it exists as nothingness. Just as the silence between the notes creates the music we can appreciate, so the nothingness between things creates our life experiences. The power of creation cannot be seen or imagined until the right conditions or events occur to turn nothingness into something we recognize in our dimension. Just as electricity has always existed even as the cavemen struggled to invent fire, this creative power has always existed. But it exists as nothingness until someone or something causes just the right conditions for a connection to be made. Another way to say the same thing is that nothing exists until someone intends turning it into something. – Trevor G Blake Three Simple steps

The commitment to change. (Do not skip)

To get in the right mindset to make a commitment to change for a specific Intention, being what you want, I suggest you set this up as a formal appointment again. That idea should feel a lot less weird right now. If you have read my free e-course The Practical Magic of the Five-Hour Workday you’ll know that I schedule all my personal time (time in nature, afternoon nap etc) with the same diligence as any business activity. This discipline helps a lot.

Make it official so it achieves the right degree of importance in your life. Add it to a calendar as you would a business meeting. By treating this formally you ensure you do not fall into the trap of letting something in your life interrupt or overtake just when you need this most.

For the location, select a place that has special meaning for you. It should be a quiet place, and if possible, outdoors or connected to nature in some way. A park bench or riverbank is ideal. You might like to dress up a bit as you would for any formal appointment.

There is a beach cove I like to go to whenever I need to make a commitment to a new Intention. It is hard to access, but I am usually certain to be alone. I take a blanket and comfortable clothes. A glass of wine helps me relax, (any excuse) and I always take some of my favorite snacks. Doing this with a ritualistic style ensures I don’t fall into the trap of rushing or skipping anything. Of course, I take a pad and pen. No electronic devices. If you have a cell phone place it in airplane mode.

Now try not to think about anything. To help with shutting down the left side of the brain, you can take your conscious self out of the way by simply focusing on your breath. Breathe deeply in and exhale forcefully. Follow the air as it enters your nostrils, sweeps down into your lungs and forces your diaphragm down. As you exhale slowly, follow the warmed air back out of the lungs and down your nostrils, out into the universe. Pause for a moment, and repeat. Repeat ten times, and if it helps, count each full breath.

This is a wonderfully relaxing exercise, and it has many health benefits. We are, however, only interested in one aspect, which is the way this allows you to access your neural network. It is not the remit of this book to explain why, but this simple breathing cycle is powerful. Please do not do the breathing cycle more than ten times. If your brain is still full of chatter, just follow the shallower breath the same way. (I recently discovered a great technique for shutting down the chatter. Bend your body until your head is between your legs and lower than your upper back. So simple. Works a treat)

One of the more exciting findings of contemporary brain research has been the brain’s inherent plasticity. Neuroscientists have long seen that neurons and their dendrites—the physical structures behind thought and perception—act together to create brain patterns that we experience as thoughts and feelings. What they have now discovered is that this brain patterning is fluid and malleable. Even deeply embedded patterns can be changed through practices like cognitive shifting, and especially through distracting the conscious. We use that here.

After a few minutes, or longer if you are enjoying the stillness, it is time to make your covenant. Take a pen and pad, and write down your decision.

I, (your full name), from this day forward, take full control of my life. I accept responsibility and accountability for my experiences. I intend abundance to flow in my life. I commit to change all patterns of destructive behavior, and to consistently introduce whatever it takes to succeed. I Intend the following (Here you will write out your dream, but how to do that is in the next activity)

And then sign and date it (keep it in a place where you can read it often and avoid having it discovered by someone else. You don’t want their energy around it).