Light touch manifestation

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by  Richard Dotts

Light Touch Manifestations
How To Shape The Energy Field To Attract What You Want

By Richard Dotts

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Hidden Power of Taking a Light Touch
Chapter 2 - Understanding Your Internal Filing System
Chapter 3 - Unboxing The Black Box of Manifestations
Chapter 4 - How Physical Manifestations Really Happen
Chapter 5 - Breaking The Chain of Unconscious Manifestations
Chapter 6 - Dealing With Major Recurring Life Themes
Chapter 7 - Setting The Stage for Light Touch Manifestations
Chapter 8 - Light Touch Manifestation Points
Chapter 9 - Manifestations Involving Change
Chapter 10 - Light Touch Dropping Sequence
Chapter 11 - The Power of Focusing on the White Space
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Chapter 1 - The Hidden Power of Taking a Light Touch

For most people, the thought of taking a light touch in their lives seems unimaginable. What
does it really mean to take a light touch? Does it mean giving up and not trying so hard in life? Does
it mean settling for less? Or does it mean asking for things and accepting that we may not have it all?
These are some of the themes we will explore in this book.

We have been taught all through our lives that going after what we want (with all our might) is
virtuous. Just the other day, I was surprised by the response given by one of my college students. I had
asked him about his philosophy in life and he replied that he was always “looking for a bigger fight.”
While he of course meant this metaphorically in terms of always looking for better opportunities and
bigger challenges in life, I could not help but wonder who or what might have inculcated this mindset
in his young mind.

Who instilled the idea in so many of us that life is about engaging in constant battles with
unknown enemies, problems and issues? Who even gave us the idea that life is a struggle, that we
have to “try hard” to get what we want… because we may not always get what we ask for? (That in
itself is another pervasive belief.) Implicit in his innocent response lay the hidden belief that life is
one long fight, or a series of problems and challenges after another. Sadly, that is also the reality
which many people experience on a daily basis as a result of holding this fundamentally faulty belief.

Life always gives back to you what you strongly believe in. If you believe (at a very deep level)
that life is a struggle, a pain, and made up of one set of challenges after another… then that is what
you are going to experience in your everyday, outer reality. It does not matter that you relish a
challenge or hold some very positive attitudes about facing the various challenges in your life. Life
(the Universe) is just going to throw up more obstacles and problems in your way.

I am often sent inspirational stories of various individuals who have triumphed against the
challenges in their lives and emerged victorious against all odds. If you look closely at the lives of
many of these individuals, you’ll find that their days are filled with one “obstacle” after another,
whether in the form of health, relationship challenges, business failures or some other catastrophic
event. Of course, they might have emerged victorious against these stumbling blocks in their lives
and even tackled them head-on with great determination. Their spirit is commendable, but there is still
a big question left unanswered — Why do these challenges keep occurring (or recurring) in their
lives? Why is it that when one crisis is solved or averted, the next one looms just round the corner?
Could something be faulty in their own belief system?

I have often taught (just as I discovered for myself) that anytime there is a recurring pattern of
positive or negative events in one’s life… it is likely caused by a strong, underlying belief. Most of
the time, these beliefs are unconscious and not obvious to the person who holds them. One of the most
pervasive beliefs in our culture is that “life is a struggle.” An individual who believes so will be faced
with one major challenge after another in life because that is what he expects and focuses upon.
Another related belief is that there is some higher being (for example, God) who is “testing” us by
deliberately giving us all these trials and tribulations. Therefore, we must endure these hardships in
order to “prove our worth” to God.

This is perhaps one of the most dis-empowering and self-defeating beliefs that is common to
believers of organized religions. One has to realize why it is in the interest of religious leaders to
perpetuate this belief. They themselves do not know better. What else can you say to the throngs of
followers who are facing hardship and problems in their lives and knocking at your door? What
better way to explain their pain and suffering by telling them that it is a “trial” from a higher being,
and that it is only through these tests that they will be worthy of greater things in life?

Anyone who has studied and examined these spiritual principles for themselves will know that
this is absolutely untrue. You do not have to take my word for it. Neither do you have to take the word
of the leaders of organized religions. You can prove all of this to yourself and know the truth at a
very deep and intimate level through your own spiritual practice. No intermediary or medium is
necessary. In other words, you can know God, and know the nature of divinity through your own
beingness alone.

When you are aware of the nature of your own being through continued focus on your inner
states, you’ll quickly realize and understand that God is omnipotent and that God is everything. There
is no place or nothing that God is not. As such, it follows that God knows everything and has no need
to set things up in order to “test” anyone. Why would God do so? You’ll also realize that you are
inseparable from God, in fact you are God. You are Universal, divine source energy projected
through a physical consciousness. So why would God (or this Universal divine force) need to set out
to deliberately test itself? There is nothing it is not, nothing it does not know, and nothing it needs to
know. Once you see the true nature of your being, many of these untrue beliefs perpetuated through
superstition or propaganda immediately fall apart on their own accord. But prove everything to
yourself.

Another common belief is that we need to face the challenges and problems in our life
positively. That is certainly a good belief to have, until you stop and ponder why you have all these
challenges to deal with in the first place. Is it because you believe that life is about solving one
problem after another? Is it because you have come to expect human life as one filled with problems,
hardship and challenges? If so, facing your challenges “positively” only compounds the issue. You
are setting yourself up in an endless loop — for some really tough challenges in life so that they can
then be “handled” positively by you. Do you see the conundrum that most people unknowingly get
themselves into? By simultaneously believing that life is a struggle (belief #1) and that it is a virtue to
meet challenges head-on (belief #2), they have unknowingly set up a life of struggle and strive for
themselves.

Perhaps it is time to intend an alternative reality, in which your life is one of ease and flow and
drop the notion of challenges or problems from your mind once-and-for-all. You’ll be surprised at
what happens once you adopt this new intention in life.

For the first half of my life, I believed wholeheartedly that life was a struggle and that it was a
series of problems and challenges after another. I had come to believe that everything, ranging from
my finances to relationships, was difficult. I adopted this belief unconsciously from my parents and
from those around me, who constantly complained that life was tough and that it is “natural to have
problems in life”. There are also various “inspirational” stories making their rounds about how the
only people who do not have problems in life are those who are dead! While these stories certainly
serve to motivate and inspire us in tough times, they also unintentionally keep us trapped. These
stories perpetuate the mistaken belief that problems are to be expected in life, so we must face them
with gusto whenever they crop up.

My suggestion for you is to gently drop the notion of “problem” or “challenge” from your
consciousness entirely. I will show you an easy way to do so in the second half of this book. You’ll be
surprised at what happens when you do so. I spent the first half of my life worrying myself to
depression and to the verge of suicide because I saw no feasible way out of my problems and
suffering. Life just seemed to be one challenge after another. There was very little joy in my life, and
whatever joy I found was conditional and short-lived.

However, once I understood these spiritual teachings and applied them in my own life…
everything turned around within a very short period of time. Even I am amazed at my own progress
as I look back! What happened here? Did all the problematic people and events in my life simply fade
away overnight? No, they still remained (physically) in my reality for a while more, but my inner
state has changed drastically. I am no longer the same person on the inside. As I continued to maintain
my newfound inner state of love and peace, they became vibrationally / energetically incompatible
with my new inner state and hence had to leave my life in one way or another, without my active
intervention. This does not mean that they all passed on physically (thankfully!), it just simply means
that we have become so vibrationally incompatible with each other that our paths no longer crossed.
We no longer attracted each other into our own experience.

The Universe has infinite ways to satisfy, delight and fulfill the destinies of each and every one
of us. This means that I can continue living in a way that is in accordance with my highest intentions,
and so can they. As I focused more on changing myself and working on my own inner state, outer
reality had to match up to my new level of consciousness. This is Universal Law.

We are going to adopt a three-step approach in this book. The first step is to “deal with” the
current problems and challenges in your life with a light touch. This is probably the last time we will
mention the concept of “challenges” or “problems” because what we are going to do is to drop them
completely from our consciousness. We are erasing this concept of “problems” from our mental
awareness. It is also the last time we will use the analogy of “solving” or “dealing with” them. But for
the ease of exposition and explanation, let’s stick to the old vernacular for the time being.

Once you have erased all the perceived problems and challenges in your own life, it is time to
move on to the second stage. The second stage is one in which you consciously decide what you want
to create as a conscious creator. But it is important to return your consciousness to a blank slate first.
It is difficult to maintain your focus and purposefully create if your consciousness is filled with
worries and problems, which is why it is crucial that we drop them in the first stage.
The third step is where you give everything up to the higher power within you. In fact, this is
when you realize that you are this higher power which you have been seeking your whole life! The
infinite being which you are seeking… is you! The good that you are seeking is you! This is what
spiritual teachers mean when they say: The good you are seeking is seeking you! This is the final
stage which I hope you will be at by the time you finish reading this book. Of course, everyone starts
at a different place and so will perceive this material slightly differently. Each reader will have their
own takeaways, but I am convinced that you will at least gain some new understanding from this work
if you follow the general path I have sketched.

What I have attempted to do in this book is not to fit everything into a rigid, step-by-step system.
I have never taken well to a step-by-step approach for spiritual growth or manifestations. Rather, I
recognize that each of us start from a different place and may have different preferences and styles
for discovering our inner worlds. As such, I have laid out a roadmap with broader principles. You are
welcome to invent your own rules or to make things up as you go along, based on your own
understanding and application of these broader principles. My explanations in this book are meant to
clarify and guide, and certainly not meant to restrict. They are all intended to set you on a path of
pondering and higher self-realization.

This is an experiential book. As with all of my recent works, I have moved from merely
“explaining” concepts on paper to inviting readers to experience what I’m sharing for themselves.
This is another way of saying that you don’t have to take me at the level of my words! You are always
welcome to experience exactly what I am writing and describing through these words. When you do
so, you reach an even greater level of understanding. When your own personal experience matches
up to what you have read, you will now be able to confidently say, “Now I know exactly what you are
talking about! So this is how it feels!” This form of learning will stay with you. You will be positively
transformed as a result of this experience in more ways than one. Therefore, I encourage you to have
fun with all of this as you read. Don’t just read and memorize my words. Instead, read and apply my
words. Act them out and live them on a physical level. Only then will you realize their true power for
yourself.

Life is meant to be easy. When you take a light touch and stop pushing so hard against the
perceived issues and challenges in your life, they stop pushing back at you as well. A newfound sense
of ease, flow and natural momentum soon emerges. I am so excited and thrilled to be sharing this new
way of living with you in the pages that follow. Let’s get started!
Chapter 2 - Understanding Your Internal Filing System

As one deepens his spiritual practice, he starts to realize a simple and fundamental truth. This
truth would have been unimaginable or even unfathomable to him before, for his old way of
operating in the world would not have allowed for it. Yet as an individual deepens his connection with
Source (spirit / divinity), he begins to realize that all the problems in his world are man-made. Put
differently, problems are an artificial, man-made construct held in place by our beliefs. Realizing this
is the first step to ultimate freedom.

A construct is a theoretical concept which we have created in our minds through our perception
or understanding of a situation. Different people can look at the same situation (the same set of facts)
and come up with completely different conclusions about the matter. As a result, they may hold
differing viewpoints and opinions about the very same facts, and be utterly convinced that their
viewpoints are valid! What our mind does when it perceives any situation is to distort and organize
the information in a way that fits our existing beliefs and worldviews. It does so automatically by
default, so much so that we often do not realize the underlying filing process that has taken place.

Whenever we attempt to “file” or “categorize” something into broad categories for ease of
retrieval, we invariably lose a certain level of detail while gaining an artificial “structure” that holds
everything together. This structure is one that has special meaning for us so we can always fall back
on it when needed.

Suppose that I have set up a filing system in my office organized by the type of documents
received. I may then have a file for my bills, another file for my contracts, another file for my
unfinished manuscripts and so on. When a bill for my mobile phone subscription comes in, it
immediately goes into the file for all my bills. I do the same for my credit card and utilities bill for
the month. When I need to refer to my credit card bill from last December, I instinctively know where
to look as a result of my filing system. Having a filing system speeds things up and allows me to
make sense of all the information that is thrown at me in a meaningful way.

If I had chosen to set up my filing system based on the corporation I’m dealing with, I would
have one file for my mobile carrier, one file for the credit card company, one file for the utilities
company and so on. My mobile phone and credit card bills would now end up in different files as a
result of my new way of classification. Note that the way of classification is completely arbitrary and
up to me. I can choose to set up my filing system in whatever way I choose, so long as I stick to the
same set of filing rules once they have been decided upon.

This way of classification is similar to what happens in our own belief system. In fact, the belief
system that operates at the level of our mind is similar to a physical filing system. We have set up
various rules in advance to deal with (interpret) each new piece of information that comes up. Unlike
our physical filing systems which may have been thoughtfully designed, this internal belief system
was built up with a large number of haphazard, often illogical rules over a period of time. Some of
these “rules” may have been put in place when we were small children or by various authority figures
in our lives. We often do not closely examine the “decision rules” which we use to respond to various
life situations, and this can lead to unnecessary pain and suffering.

For example, if you have always believed that people are generally unkind and rude to others
(your belief), then each encounter with a brusque individual will be interpreted in a way consistent
with that belief. This results in a belief that is slowly but surely strengthened over time. Each new
encounter becomes a confirmation that people in this world are indeed selfish and uncaring. Now
suppose that your underlying belief is that people are kind and generous. What happens when you
have an unpleasant encounter with someone? Instead of perceiving that individual as inherently rude
and unkind, you may instead attribute his behavior to a bad day at work, or to some valid reason
which caused him to be upset. Do you see what just happened here? The exact same set of
circumstances on the outside, but completely different interpretations on the inside. Our mind does
this filing process every single moment of every day, interpreting and distorting what it observes to
fit our innermost beliefs without us realizing it.

If you understand my analogy above, it becomes easy to see why all problems are actually man-
made constructs. All problems in our world can be traced to an originating, faulty belief. Once that
belief is changed or dropped, then the outer situation has to be restored.

The first individual in our earlier example has a problem. His “problem” is that people in this
world are rude, selfish and uncaring, and he therefore needs to take extra steps to safeguard against
them. Someone who operates with this negative belief will then engage in lots of defensive and
political actions at the workplace, quite possibly leading the individual into even more unhappy
situations with his co-workers. Each additional unhappy situation further reinforces his original
belief and may even lead to the formation of additional unresourceful beliefs. He has thus, by virtue
of his own beliefs, attracted more and more of the unwanted. This is the fundamental Law of
Attraction at work.

The second individual who perceives people in this world as kind, generous and caring does not
have these issues. Because he perceives everyone as kind and always willing to help, he responds in a
similar fashion in the world. He thus attracts himself to more and more happy situations that match his
deeply held beliefs. Even when he encounters a situation to the contrary, his belief system classifies it
as an anomaly and he dismisses it as contrary to his own beliefs. This is why both positive and
negative beliefs can be pervasive and difficult to change once they are formed.

Each new input from the external world (each new document we receive) either confirms or
invalidates our previous beliefs. However, it is the job of your belief system to assimilate these new
pieces of information into your current beliefs as much as possible. As such, our minds often distort
and generalize the information without us realizing it. Put differently, we do not have an objective
view of our own reality. Instead, we interpret reality in a manner that is consistent with our existing
beliefs without realizing we are doing so. Just as in a physical filing system, “a bill from the mobile
phone carrier” generalizes into “a bill” so that it can fit into the right file. Similarly, an unpleasant
encounter with a rude service staff generalizes into “people are rude” so that the new encounter can fit
under an existing belief. Notice how we lose the full details of the situation each time we classify or
file it according to our beliefs. This is our brain’s way of making sense of the information and world
around us.

Once you have understood how our internal filing system works, we can see the source of
problems / issues / challenges in our lives. When your office is in a disorganized mess, are the
documents themselves the problem… or is there a problem with your filing system, and with how you
handle the various documents? Do you blame the various parties that send you letters and
correspondences in the mail, or do you attribute the problem to an inefficient filing system that needs
to be improved?

When there is a disorganized mess on our desk, we know better than to blame the documents
and pieces of paper themselves. We do not demand that the companies stop sending us those letters.
Instead, what we do is to fix the root cause of the issue — our filing system. We examine which aspect
of the filing system has resulted in this mess and rectify the oversight accordingly.

Suppose we find our desk always piled high with a certain document. This makes us realize that
we have no file set up to handle this particular type of correspondence. The solution is to set up a new
ring file in which all these documents can be filed, instead of having them pile up on our desk in
future. What we have done here is to incorporate a new filing rule to deal with the mess. Focusing on
the individual pieces of paper (events in our lives) themselves will be doing it the hard way, because
we would not have dealt with the issue completely. This means that the next time we receive the same
document, the same issue of “where to file it” or “how to handle it” crops up again. The issue is a
faulty filing (belief) system, not the events in our external reality. In fact, a recurring event gives us a
strong indication that something needs to be corrected in our belief system.

I love this filing analogy because it provides an accurate representation of how our emotional
systems work. Our emotional (mental filing) systems become overloaded when we do not have an
effective belief / filing system to deal with life. An individual with a weak, overridingly negative
belief system is unable to cope with the various inputs from the outside world in a resourceful and
empowering way. What often results is that this individual falls into a state of depression, a state in
which the mind cannot cope with external stimuli and seeks to limit the amount of input received as
much as possible. This is akin to trying to reduce the number of documents we receive on a daily
basis in order to deal with the mess on our desks, which is a backward and unrealistic solution to the
issue. The real issue that needs to be addressed is the faulty belief system in itself.

To an untrained mind, there is nothing more it can do other than to deliberately try and reduce
the amount of external stimuli received. Depressed individuals often have very poor appetite and coop
themselves up at home all the time. I should know, because I was once depressed for a few years!
During this period of time, all I could do from morning to night was to stare at the wall and cry.
When I was not crying, I was asleep. What my mind was trying to do at that time was to minimize the
external stimuli from external events and from interacting with others. Crying was a way for the body
to release the emotional overload.

Depression is a sad state of affairs which I certainly do not wish upon anyone. But understand
that even if you are there, it is not the end of the world. The events which I perceived so strongly to be
the unsolvable problems in my life at that time were not the “actual” problems at all! In fact, the actual
issue was within myself. The answer was within me all along. Over time, I had allowed myself to
build and rely upon a faulty, unresourceful belief system that was causing me great misery and
suffering. This misery and suffering in turn led to an overloading of my internal emotional system, to
a point where I had so much negative energy within myself that I could not deal with it effectively any
more.

All I needed to do back then was to ease off a little, to realize that everything originated from
my faulty beliefs and not from the tangible events in my outer world. When you realize that your
beliefs are arbitrary and can be changed at any time, just like how the rules of a filing system can
easily be changed, you are free.