Following the newsletter last week on the subject of The Parable of Delayed Manifestation, I received many messages on various aspects of manifestation, and specifically how to make it work for them.

One of the biggest issues seems to be "how do we associate with our desires if we have never actually experienced them before", and therefore have no benchmark or point of reference.

This of course is an excellent question - if we have no point of reference for a desire, how can we experience it in our Mind in order to subsequently externalise it into our reality?

There is in fact an entire chapter in my book dedicated to this very subject  entitled "Harmonising Your Desires":

Harmonising your desires is a large and very important subject, which, in its entirety, is beyond the scope of a newsletter, requiring as it does many pages to discuss in depth.

However, we can discuss here some effective methods that you can use as a basis for harmonising many of your desires.

First of all it is absolutely true that in order to manifest our desires we need to relate to that desire to the highest possible degree by experiencing it in our Mind, as if playing a movie on our Mind, while knowing, beyond any possible doubt that it is true here and now.

So the question that arises is this - if you wish for a luxury home for example, or a brand new sports car, how can you experience it in your Mind in order to harmonise with it effectively?

There are many ways of accomplishing this this, for example by using a vision board. There is sometimes however a way that the experience can be strongly reinforced, and that is by physically going out and actually experiencing it. But how can you do this?

The answer is very straightforward and fun - which it should be.

If for example you wish to own a luxury home, then find one for sale that most exactly matches your ideal specification, and ask the estate agent, or realtor, the term depending on where you live, to actually go and look around it. When you do, make sure that you focus very intently on every aspect of the house, taking in all of its features, quality and overall feel and vibration as if you live there now - which in your Mind you do.

In particular memorise every room and every detail in as much detail as possible, and actually feel yourself living in the house now,feeling all of the the emotions and gratitude invoked.

Next, take time each day, as often as possible, to deeply relax and re-live every aspect of the house, feeling the excitement, an knowing, beyond doubt that it is yours right now.

In the case of the sports car - go and get a test drive. And then, as with the house, absorb all of the sensations, the thrill, the excitement and all other strongly positive feelings associated with driving the car of your dreams, knowing that it is true right now.

Later, as with the house, as often as possible take time to deeply relax and play back your test drive in your Mind, but instead of thinking of it as a test drive, actually know, beyond all doubt, that the car is yours right now, and that you are really enjoying driving it. Just before sleep at night is an excellent time.

This will work for almost anything that you can "test drive" and therefore experience. The more you can assimilate and re-live the experience, the more powerful the effect on your Mind, and the quicker it will manifest into your experiential reality.

As mentioned before, there is much more to harmonising your desires, depending on the nature of your desire and many other factors - all of which are encompassed in my book, Our Ultimate Reality.

But finally I must conclude by mentioning the paradox that most people talking about "manifestation" never talk about.

As channels of expression and experience of The Source, The First Cause, God, it is fine to experience all of these things and more, but here is the caveat - it is crucial to keep these experiences in context and to know them for what they are - experiences and genuine needs, and also to be of service to others in some way.

It is crucial to never, ever seek to manifest anything in order to satisfy the demands of the Ego - in other words to look better than someone else, or to collect things for material gain, in other words to gather material things just for the sake of it. Material things can very easily bind you to the material world, and this is the very last thing anyone should want, especially as we progress through the transition of the ages and all that will bring.

All experience must have a purpose both at an individual level and in the great Universal scheme of things as individual channels of experience and expressions of God.

The most powerful way to attract anything into our experience is when we attract things that also benefit others in some tangible way, and in particular benefit the expansion and greater good of the Universe, and when we fulfil our true reason for being here including living our lives by the Principle of being of service to others before service to self.

So before you set about manifesting anything into your experience, first ask yourself this important question:

How will this be of benefit to others?

If you cannot intuitively answer the question, then your motives are not appropriate and you should not progress. Do keep in Mind however that there are numerous ways that others could benefit, so the first thing to do, before commencing, it to spend some time deeply relaxing and meditating on the question of how your intended manifestation will be of benefit to others, would total honesty. If such benefit exists the answers will be quickly forthcoming, and you can proceed with confidence, expectation and joy, knowing that the power of the Universe within you is also operating in harmony with your desire.