New book reveals the choice we all have to become our dreams
At the beginning of Becoming Your Dream, Joan McManus offers the main point of her book: “Right now you have the mental skills to learn to synchronize your dominant mental attitude with the higher frequencies of the ideal person you dream of becoming. yours, you will become, by universal law, your dream. “
This powerful statement sets the tone for an adventure through the ten essential steps McManus explores that will bring transformation to anyone who follows them. McManus dedicates a chapter to each step, including Designing Your Dream; Taste, digest and invest in your dream; Understand the power of your thoughts and words; Take leadership of your mind; and receive its abundance. To achieve his dream, McManus explains that we must become familiar with the six mental faculties that determine the life we live. She refers to these as our Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). They include intuition, will, perception, imagination, reason, and memory. McManus explains to us how to use these HOTS to their fullest potential to achieve the lives we currently only dream of having.
Throughout Becoming Your Dream, McManus draws on scientific research and the knowledge of numerous spiritual and leadership experts. For example, when speaking of the power of imagination, he quotes Eben Pagan, who tells us: “We were born into a world that seems to want us to believe what we first imagine in our mind. It is a reality that is spectacularly friendly to us.” creative design and manifestation “.
Building on this focus on imagination, McManus tells an incredibly powerful story that alone is worth the price of the book. She reveals that as a child she had polio and was in a hospital with other children who had it. Her grandmother continually sent her inspiring postcards and, at the insistence of a friend, she spoke openly about her grandmother’s vision for her: “that I was a daughter of God, made in the image and likeness of my Creator. She said I should.” I see myself “walking. I must not accept these circumstances as my reality; that was Mistake in speaking. I did not have to understand how, but I had to know that I would walk. He said that image has already formed in his mind -Soon it would begin to form in the material world “.
When McManus shared his grandmother’s vision with his five-year-old friend Kenny, he said five words that would change his life: “I can see you walking.” At that point, McManus started seeing him too, and before long, she was recovering and heading back to school, able to walk and play like the other children. Here he discusses how his other HOTS, such as the role of memory, came into play in his ability to walk. She says it was necessary to “de-memorize” the many attempts when her limbs failed her, and to “re-remember” herself as a whole and healthy person. He also needed to dispute a common reason and replace it with an unusual reason. “A rare reason was needed here to say that although I couldn’t conceive of how it would happen, I had an inner knowing that it was possible, because I could clearly see my upright, walking body in my mind.”
McManus continues to speak about the power of faith and knowing that the Spirit has your back. Just as she had faith that she could walk again, we can all achieve our dreams if we have the same faith. She agrees with the biblical analogy of needing mustard seed-sized faith to move mountains, but says, “However, you must have that seed firmly planted in the fertile soil of your mind.”
Many more powerful stories and messages fill the pages of Becoming Your Dream. McManus looks at how our reptilian brains stop us and how we can conquer them. He advocates the importance of meditation, during which time we can reconnect with the intelligent field of consciousness of which we are all an inextricable part, but which we forget because we are too busy. She agrees with Blaise Pascal here, whom she quotes as saying, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” And he looks at the power of forgiveness, using as an example the genocide in Rwanda and how Paul Kagame, its president, spread a message of forgiveness to help heal his nation.
Personally, I found McManus’s discussion of the false rules we have all learned and how to overcome our faith in them especially valuable. These rules are generally based on false beliefs and no longer work; They cover a wide range of areas of our life, from religion to sex. Ultimately, we have to learn to create rules that work for us.
Becoming your dream concludes with a beautiful chapter on how to receive abundance, which includes these powerful words: “As you learn to receive your goodness and abundance with grace and gratitude, you will find that the same inner divine light that shines so brightly in your loved ones are also present in each of us. You will be joyfully motivated to share your wealth of knowledge, resources, experience and happiness with the world as a whole. There is no private good. Your gifts are part of the fabric of humanity. ” .
