An understanding of the fundamentals of the Law of Attraction is the foundation upon which to build your house of dreams. To get started with the work of bringing into your life experience the various circumstances and things that you desire, read and practice the following list of steps. Each is simple and easy to do whenever you have a quiet moment during the day.

The Six Basic Steps of Manifesting

• Clear the clutter, confusion, and negativity from your mind. Try deep breathing, meditation, or quiet reflection to release any doubt, conflicting ideas, or disbelief. Be calmly but intensely focused on the thing you desire to manifest.

• Set forth the intention to manifest something. Make a mental declaration of your intent. No fuzzy thinking and weak, wishy-washy dreaming allowed. Be bold and let your mind wrap around the possibility that the thing you most want is already allocated to you by the abundant universe. Perhaps what is coming is even bigger, better, and more beautiful than your desire. Allow for that in your life.

• Be expectant. Be ready to receive. Believe you deserve it, and it is already yours.

• Visualize yourself having it. Feel the emotion associated with getting what you desired. Resist the temptation to question or concern yourself with how the universe rearranges itself to allow your desire to manifest. In other words, don't worry about or question the “how” aspect of manifestation. This is where you suspend disbelief.

• Feel and express gratitude for the blessings you already have, the gifts of the universe that the higher power makes available to you, and the power that makes each manifestation possible.

• Repeat these steps often each day.

You can ramp up the energy of your thought, turning it into a high-energy idea or concept, just as you can build muscle in your body. It just takes practice and frequent repetition. There are many other things you can do as well to intensify the energy about your intention. You can read more about those subjects in Chapters 8 and 9, but a brief discussion of the use of symbols follows.

The Indian yogi Paramahansa Yogananda once asked a holy man if it were possible to find one's way to God. The holy man replied that just the simple act of thinking about such a high-minded notion changed a person. Moreover, if one held on to that thought and nurtured it, he would eventually attain his desire. His point seemed clear: Desire and intention to satisfy the desire through manifestation must be strong.