A very informative and empowering book, Playing The Matrix by Mike Dooley talks in detail about the right action steps to take and the right attitude to have to easily and consciously create and manifest your desires in life – a guideline presented in a grid or matrix form that you can easily play out with. It teaches about the process on how to be within reach of Universal magic, and allow the unlimited help and assistance that you always have.
In this post I’m sharing with you 8 things I learned after reading the book. Mike Dooley is one of my favorite authors on topics about awakening and enlightenment, and it is my pleasure to share these key points with you. So let’s begin 🙂
1. The key is to focus on generating the happy feelings associated with your desires, rather than getting too specific and attaching to details as to how they will happen.
When you become more general about your goals and desires, you remove the tendency for doubting and resistance. By going after the feeling and doing things that make you feel happy and satisfied, with or without direct connection to your desires, you will allow the Universe to have more leeway in orchestrating the best path to give you what you want. Instead of constantly trying to figure everything out and “messing with the cursed hows”, as how Mike Dooley puts it in his book, you leave the details to the hands of the Universe while you take care of maintaining the general feelings of happiness, satisfaction, trust and appreciation. You match your own inner energy with the energy of your desires so that the specific details can easily flow into your experience.
2. Release the tendency to judge things and events in your life based on physical appearances.
Being in a reality where there is the concept of time and space, there will be things, events, and people that need to be in alignment first before you can see tangible evidence of your desires moving for you. Even though sometimes, life seems to be working for others and not you, always know that the Universe is working tirelessly in your favor. There are significant movements in your life in the unseen, which in time will make its way into the visible. In a world where there are billions of co-creators, there is a perfect timing involved in the matching up of cooperative components. Keeping the faith and having patience as you continuously hold the vision and certainty of your desires are the key traits to maintaining alignment until they manifest.
3. What you’re thinking and how you’re feeling right now is what you are saying to the Universe as “give me more of this please”.
Thoughts becoming things is the central concept in all of Mike Dooley’s books. All the thoughts you are thinking are sending energy vibrations to the Universe and are continuously gathering more similar energies toward it. Your thoughts are essentially like energetic invitations you send out to the Universe that will eventually attract into your life more of the same. These energies come back to you in the form of experiences that will generate the same feeling you’ve been sending out. That’s why taking care of the thoughts you habitually entertain in your mind is of paramount importance in creating pleasing manifestations in your life. You will always get more of the things you dwell upon, think, or talk about to others.
4. Keeping an open perspective as to how your desires will come about will release insistence on any specific detail.
Knowing that there are many doors and pathways that are available to you to get to where you say you want to go will release the tendency to be frustrated on any one door closing or any pathway being unavailable at the moment. Always remember that what your physical mind can think of right now is just one way, among hundreds of ways, that the Universe can orchestrate for you. Knowing this will remove unnecessary insistence and attachment to any particular happening in your life because there will always be another one coming that will be a better match for what you want. There is no end to the good things that can come to you so you can start letting go of any scarcity mindset that you may have regarding your desires.
5. Taking steps toward what you want communicates your faith and belief in yourself and in your desires.
Mike Dooley has stated many times in his book how important it is to keep on “knocking on doors and turning over stones”, as he emphasized keeping yourself moving in the direction of what you want. It doesn’t matter how small the step is, as long as you are making yourself available to the Universe by taking small actions or baby steps that feel good to you, you are allowing yourself to be an easy reach to the infinite magic of life. Start doing the things you can do, with what you currently have from wherever you are in life right now.
6. You are already worthy, blessed and loved as you are, forevermore.
Realize that anything that is happening in your life is just a temporary event that passes through you, without any effect on who you truly are. You are a divine being who is naturally inclined for joy, success, love and happiness. These are your default settings. You are more than your circumstances or the events that are happening in your life, which are what Mike Dooley called “illusions of reality”. You are greater and bigger than the illusions that the circumstances might represent.
Always remembering this will help you move past the temporary contradictions you may encounter along your path, and continue moving forward with confidence, peace and stability in knowing who you really are. Being stable in these feelings of worthiness and blessedness will serve as your solid foundation for allowing all of the specific details of your desires to come easily to you, giving you even more proof of how worthy and loved you truly are.
7. All challenges are gifts that present themselves to you to help you grow and become more than you were before.
All the things that you see as problems are actually stepping stones to move higher in your evolution in life. It allows you to learn and remember things that you will eventually need in order to get to where you want to be in the future. And when you make it a perspective to always see challenges as opportunities to better yourself and become more ready, you cultivate optimism and trust which are essential traits that will allow the improvements in your life faster and will eliminate holding out your desires. You will be clearing the way for your own manifestations and making the best of wherever you are.
8. Today is the best time of your life.
Realizing the joy of being where you are now will pave the way for an even better tomorrow. As you continue having a grateful attitude to the things that are currently working in your life, big or small, and as you feel satisfied moving in the direction of your still unfulfilled desires, then you are in the perfect place to be in right now for pleasing manifestations to occur. The state of incompletion is how being in this life is. It is natural and normal to always be reaching for something more because this is how the Universe continuously expands itself. Stay at peace with being perfectly unfinished and realized how blessed you are now in this moment of your life. 🙂
P.S. If you would like to delve deeper and read the complete “Playing The Matrix” book by Mike Dooley, you can head on to Amazon Here for a direct link to Kindle version, Audiobook and Paperback.
As always, blessings to you and namaste,
Iona Kristina 🙂
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