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What Happens When You Make the Wind Your Ally

TL;DR: The author relates a story of a client, a college maintenance manager, who faces two setbacks during work. But by shifting perspective, he demonstrates a key aspect of alignment, and in doing transforms these “setbacks” into joy, abundance, and vibrational sovereignty.

There’s a subtle art to living a sovereign life — an art few ever know about let along consciously choose to master. It begins not with rearranging outer circumstances, but by observing the unfolding of experience. Observing it and discovering one’s agency within it. That agency, in the Positively Focused practice, shows up in three primary stages:

Post-Manifestational Awareness: When we realize, after something has already happened, that we could have influenced the outcome — but didn’t. The awareness comes after manifestation, but still offers wisdom.

Mid-Manifestational Awareness: When something is unfolding, and we know we could shape it… but we don’t. Not because we don’t want to, but because dominant momentum — emotional, habitual, historical — keeps us in reaction mode rather than creation mode.

Pre-Manifestational Awareness: When we recognize the unfolding in real time, remember our agency, and consciously activate it — transforming the experience before it completes, thereby alchemizing the moment into something aligned, sovereign, and beautiful as a manifestation.

What one of my clients — let’s call him Kyle — recently demonstrated was a shining example of that final stage. And it all started with a leaf blower.

Stormy Weather and the Setup for Contrast

Kyle works at a college campus, where part of his job is groundskeeping. On a recent Saturday, he showed up expecting a team effort to clean up leaves scattered across the main quad.

But the weather had other plans. It was cold, windy, and wet — the kind of day where even committed coworkers mysteriously “get sick.” One by one, Kyle realized: no one else was coming. He took a breath. And he got to work.

For hours, he methodically cleared the entire quad of autumn leaves — solo. His muscles ached. His feet throbbed. But he pushed through, determined to finish the job. And finally… he did. The quad looked pristine. He stood back to admire the work. There was a sense of accomplishment.

Then — like a perfectly scripted slapstick comedy — a massive gust of wind ripped through the campus. It left leaves everywhere. In one gust, nature rendered the entire morning’s labor undone. In seconds, the wind reversed everything — leaves blew back across the freshly cleared space. The wind erased Kyle’s efforts. Seeing this, his body tightened. His thoughts stirred. He felt a tinge of annoyance….

This was a mid-manifestational moment: he felt the contrast. Kyle knew he had agency — but hadn’t yet fully activated it. Not yet. Still, something inside him shifted. He took another breath, then began clearing leaves again.

Another Opportunity to Choose

He worked harder, faster. Kyle was determined. He got all the newly fallen leaves up. And then…another wind gust. The quad was covered again — completely. That’s when the deeper stories surfaced in Kyle: What if my boss thinks I didn’t do anything when he arrives to work Monday? What if I look lazy? What if I get in trouble for something I actually did right?

The second gust brought more anxiety and frustration, but also fear. Kyle’s emotional momentum got stronger. This time, however, Kyle didn’t just notice it. He took the reins.

He remembered that this wasn’t personal. It was vibrational. The wind was just feedback. A lovingly crafted opportunity to choose his state of being before the story crystallized. And that’s what he did.

He paused. He smiled. Then he got inspired.

He saw what was happening as a pre-manifestational doorway — an invitation from the Universe. It said: choose alignment before the story completes itself. And Kyle did exactly that. He paused. He breathed. And then he reached for a better-feeling thought.

He remembered a scene from The Secret, where the narrator describes imagining money falling from the sky like autumn leaves. And suddenly, Kyle began to imagine each leaf — not as a burden — but as a $100 bill. With this shift in perspective, the wind wasn’t working against him. It was showering him with abundance.

Turning Work Into Wealth

That’s when Kyle literally became a different person. He raced to collect the leaves like a joyful scavenger hunt. He laughed at the storm. Kyle stuffed his trailer like it was an overflowing bank vault. He even timed himself like it was a game.

By the end of the day, his body was still sore — but his vibration was radiant. Kyle not only did his job, he also achieved new heights of vibrational alchemy. What could have been a story of bitterness and burnout became one of alignment, joy, and confidence.

That’s the power of pre-manifestational awareness: it lets us shape the mirror’s image before it fully forms. Most people believe life is happening to them. They react, cope, survive. But Kyle’s story reminds us of the deeper truth: Life isn’t happening to us. It’s responding through us. When we become aware of this — even after the fact — we begin the process of reclaiming our agency.

When we become aware in the middle of a moment, we start to practice holding our power even when momentum is strong. But when we catch it before it lands — when we see the wind blow and realize, this isn’t personal, it’s perfect — that’s when we step into the real magic of deliberate creation.

Everyone Can Do What Kyle Did

You don’t need to work at a college. Nor do you need a windstorm. Life will deliver everyone their own tailor-made “leaf moments”. They may show up as a conversation that doesn’t go the way we planned. Or maybe it’s a task that feels thankless, a delay that disrupts our schedule. Or a storm that blows in at the worst time. These all are portals, opportunities to chart a course through to the divine.

And if we’re paying attention — if we remember who we are, even for a moment — we can choose. We can choose to see the leaves as money and laugh at the timing. We can choose to align before the mirror hardens. That’s pre-manifestational mastery. And like Kyle, we’re more ready for it than we think.

All it takes is a little foreknowledge and awareness and a desire to be happy above all else. It all begins with seeing everything in a positive light. That’s the foundation of the Positively Focused framework. Because positivity is a constant of the Universe. Nothing happens in the Universe that isn’t positive. And if it looks like what’s happening isn’t positive, that’s only because we don’t have a big enough picture to see it the way it actually is.

Want to know more? Reach out. Let’s talk.

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What Happens When the Mirror Gets This Powerful

TL;DR: Over four intense days, Marcus’s life reflected his vibrational focus with stunning precision. From social scrolls to sacred hugs, each event revealed the truth: life doesn’t punish us—it mirrors us, perfectly and compassionately.

Sometimes, life gives you experiences that are both memorable and multidimensional. Experiences where every moment, every encounter, and every emotional charge reveals exactly what you’re practicing vibrationally. And if you’re paying attention, it becomes the perfect mirror. That’s what happened for a client of mine — let’s call him Marcus — over the course of four days.

The contrast was rich. The orchestration was precise. Marcus’ expansion was unmistakable. And it all began with scrolling on social media.

The Algorithm That Read His Vibration

Marcus hadn’t planned on going deep. He was just passing time. But as he began scrolling through Instagram and Facebook, the algorithm tuned in — and it knew exactly what to deliver. Gaza. Israel. Racism. LGBTQ+ discrimination. Corruption. Division. Outrage.

His scrolling revealed more than political news — it was emotional architecture. Every post added another brick to the structure of fear, injustice, and helplessness Marcus didn’t realize he was building. Instead, he thought he was “staying informed.”

But his body told the truth: He was doomscrolling. He felt drained. His nervous system became frayed. The lightness he normally carried dimmed. He couldn’t see it yet, but he saturated his vibrational field — and life was preparing to reflect it all back.

The Party, the Couple, and the Hug That Meant Everything

Later that day, Marcus went to a pumpkin carving party. The party represented something simple, something creative. Marcus thought he’d have fun. And he did. But he also met himself.

Two men — a gay couple — were there. One white, one Lebanese. The Lebanese partner, whose name happened to be Seth, shared his deep uneasiness living in the U.S. in the current climate. As a gay man of Middle Eastern descent, he didn’t feel safe — not just emotionally, but existentially.

Marcus listened with full presence. Their conversation was honest, layered, and emotionally resonant. And when it ended, they hugged. Seth and his partner then left the party.

But a moment later, Seth returned. He asked Marcus for another hug. Something in the first hug wasn’t finished. So they hugged again — slower this time. More grounded. More knowing. That hug represented more than affection. It was recognition, a soul-level confirmation that Marcus had called in this encounter vibrationally. He called it in so he could see the reflection embodied in his reality. Seth was a living reflection of the very themes Marcus had been engaging with online. But instead of outrage, Marcus met it with love.

This was the first mirror. And it was beautiful.

The Friend That Didn’t Show, and the Feeling That Did

After the party, Marcus got in his car. There he noticed for the first time several texts from his wife. She was worried where he was. When Marcus returned home, she didn’t conceal how she felt. She had a friend who planned to visit, but cancelled at the last minute. So Marcus’ wife was left alone.

Marcus returning home after he said he would, left his wife worried, but also, she excluded. At first, Marcus was confused. He hadn’t intentionally excluded her. They hadn’t made plans after all. But the deeper truth was this: his wife was reflecting Marcus’ beliefs precisely.

Marcus had spent the day consuming content about marginalized people. People being left out of systems, rights, safety, belonging. And now his wife — someone he adores — was expressing that very vibration in real time.

Good thing Marcus caught it. He didn’t defend himself or spiral. He opened. He withdrew from the story — not from her, but from the version of himself who believed he had done something wrong. And in that stillness, something shifted.

The Open Mic and the Rule That No One Followed

The next night, Marcus attended a local open mic. He brought his instrument and signed up early. But he never got to play.

The people who did perform didn’t follow the house rules. They didn’t respect the list or share the space. These people weren’t being malicious, instead they followed their passions and got caught up in the excitement. At first glance, this might seem like bad luck. But vibrationally, it was exact. Following their passions indulgently offered yet another reflection of Marcus’ inner momentum.

They reflected the very societal disorder Marcus had been digesting through his feeds — people not following the rules, not being inclusive, not leaving space for others. The macro showed up in the micro.

It was yet another gift reality shone on Marcus. Life as mirror never misses. It’s always precise.

Your life experience is the same. Life for all of us is a mirror. It’s also a gift. It faithfully reflects our inner state. Why does it do that? So we can know ourselves better. So we can tune into the Source of our life experience: our inner reality. Do something constructive about that inner reality and the mirror — our life experience — must reflect that constructive improvement.

That’s the result all my clients receive once they get good at interpreting what they see in their mirrors.

Marcus had more in store given the momentum he created doomscrolling. Let’s get back to his story.

The Pregnant Woman and the Gentle Realignment

After all this, Marcus did something subtle but powerful. He didn’t push through. He didn’t collapse. Instead, as he sat at the bar, he paused. He meditated inconspicuously — lightly, sincerely. He let go of fixing. He turned toward better-feeling thoughts.

And the next day, his world began responding differently. A miscommunication with his wife resolved into softness and mutual understanding. Arriving at work, he shared an intimate moment with a pregnant coworker. He offered reassurance and calm to her worry about being a new mother. Soothed and thankful, she offered him a surprising career opportunity — seemingly out of nowhere, but perfectly timed.

After all the soothing Marcus did, allowing his doomscrolling momentum to subside, Marcus’ Broader Perspective confirmed he had done the work. The confirmation came in the form of this career opportunity. It was his Broader Perspective winking: you’re back in alignment.

In The Seth Material, there’s a passage I often return to:

“Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy and see, through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion.”

This is exactly what Marcus experienced. He recognized what happened had nothing to do with being punished. He was training himself. Training himself into being able to perceive the transformation of thought-into-form, the materialization of belief into lived experience.

“As a child forms mud pies from dirt, so you form your civilizations out of thoughts and emotions, and then see what you have created.”

Marcus saw what he had created. And instead of reacting, he chose to recalibrate.

This planet — this dimension — is a training system. A dream-school. A mirror of emotional energy turned physical. And Marcus, like all of us, is here to master the art of turning thoughts into things.

The Dreamer Within the Dream

Marcus had a weekend full of contrast. But he didn’t get stuck in the mud pie. He saw it for what it was — a reflection of what he was ready to integrate.

Marcus practiced power — not force. He used awareness not reaction. Then he practiced love — not as an idea, but as action. He practiced sovereignty — not changing others, but changing where he placed his attention.

“The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.”

And in the dream he created, the dream responded.

That’s how this works. The gift that’s physical reality is the ability to see exteriorized our inner state. It’s the greatest gift ever. One that’s always memorable and always multidimensional.

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How One Old Fable Hides the Truth About Abundance

TL;DR: The author reexamines Aesop’s famous fable through a spiritual lens, revealing how both diligence and joy arise naturally when aligned with one’s Broader Perspective—culminating in a liberating, heart-opening rewrite of the tale.

For centuries, Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper has shaped our cultural mindset about productivity, planning, and what it means to live a good life. You probably know the story:

A diligent ant spends the summer storing food and preparing for winter. Meanwhile, a carefree grasshopper sings and dances in the sun. When winter comes, the grasshopper finds himself cold and hungry, and the ant—well-stocked and warm—scolds him for his laziness. The moral? Work hard today or suffer tomorrow.

But what if that moral is false? What if it’s not even close to how the Universe—or nature—actually works?

And what if that fable, passed down generation after generation, is one of the most well-worn distortions keeping us from trusting joy, spontaneity, and the natural abundance we’re born into?

Let’s take a look through a Positively Focused lens.

A Story Written by the Intellect

The entire structure of the fable rests on a fundamental assumption: that survival is scarce, and only through toil, planning, and resistance to the ease inherent in the now can we secure the future. The ant is praised for “working hard,” while the grasshopper is dismissed for “doing nothing.”

But here’s the truth: in real life, ants don’t know they’re “preparing for winter.” They follow their internal cues. Just as the grasshopper does. Neither is projecting fear into the future. Neither is planning in the way humans do. None of them are working hard. They are both moving as they are designed to move: in tune with the larger intelligence that orchestrates everything from tides to cloud formations to galaxies.

And humans? We’ve overwritten that natural wisdom within us with fear-based beliefs.

The fable upholds a distorted version of value: that worthiness is earned through struggle. That the present moment is a trap unless you’re using it to prepare for the next one. Indeed, indulging in joy, spontaneity, and trusting life will lead to punishment.

This is exactly the kind of thinking that the Positively Focused practice helps us unravel.

The Trap of “Working Hard”

So many of my clients — beautiful, gifted people — come to me carrying this exact programming. I once did too. It shows up in our relationship to money, our creative work, our ability to rest, our relationship to the now, even our self-worth.

Nearly all of us have internalized the idea that ease is irresponsible and joy is unearned. That any expression not tethered to utility or “the grind” is frivolous. And what’s more? We often judge ourselves for wanting to follow our bliss.

But that desire for joy isn’t laziness. It’s guidance.

The desire to bask in the sun, to play a song, to take a nap, to follow an impulse with no “productive” outcome—that’s not a failure of discipline. It’s our Broader Perspective calling us back to our natural alignment. The Universe doesn’t reward effort. It responds to vibration.

Which means: the better we feel, the more the Universe can give us what we ask for.

Joy Is Not Optional—It’s the Signal

The fable pits joy and responsibility against one another. But in reality, they’re inseparable. When we’re aligned, when we’re feeling good, when we’re trusting the unfolding—everything gets taken care of. Including “winter.”

Our Broader Perspective is always guiding us toward the version of our lives where our needs are met, our desires fulfilled, and our expression fully supported. Not through spreadsheets and strain, but through resonance, clarity, and inspired action.

And when contrast shows up—as it did for me recently in the form of forgotten financial fears or a friend’s gloomy worldview—I use it not as a reason to panic, but as an invitation to realign.

When I do that, reality literally shifts. Money shows up on the ground. Clients confirm they’re staying. Opportunities fall into place. My YouTube momentum picks up.

And I didn’t plan for any of it. I allowed it. That’s what the fable misses entirely.

The Grasshopper, Reframed

In this light, the grasshopper isn’t a cautionary tale. He’s a symbol of non-resistance. He holds trust that summer is here to be savored. He’s letting the Universe do the heavy lifting. And the winter? Maybe it never even arrives. But only for him. Because he doesn’t plan for a winter. He aligns to constant abundance.

I know that sounds radical. But I’ve experienced it. So have my clients.

The more aligned we are, the more time and space shift around us. Apparent “deadlines” extend. Unexpected windfalls appear. People bend over backwards to support us. It’s not fantasy. It’s the physics of focus.

So rather than teach the next generation to be afraid of “winter”, what if we taught them to trust their inner song, follow their delight? To move with nature rather than brace against it?

That’s the version of the story I want to tell. And maybe next time, when the ant passes the grasshopper in late autumn, he doesn’t sneer. Maybe he sits down. Listens. And hears a melody that melts the frost of his fears.

The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Story of Alignment

Once upon a summer’s morning, the Earth hummed with golden light. In a quiet clearing, two small beings went about their lives.

One was an Ant. Tireless. Methodical. She moved in lines—back and forth from her colony—gathering bits of grain, storing them deep beneath the soil. Her legs ticked like a clock. Her eyes stayed fixed on the horizon, where winter loomed in her mind like a shadow.

The other was a Grasshopper. Luminous. Iridescent. He leapt through tall stalks of grass, chirping melodies that rose with the breeze. Sunned himself on warm stones. He ate when he was hungry. Slept when he was tired. And sang because it pleased him.

The Ant watched him with a kind of pity.

“Why do you waste time like this?” she called. “You should be working. Winter is coming. You’ll starve.”

The Grasshopper paused. “I trust the Earth,” he replied. “Right now, it’s summer. So I sing.”

The Ant shook her head. “You’ll regret this.”

The Grasshopper didn’t answer. A breeze moved through the field, and he leapt joyfully into it.

Seasons Shift, But Alignment Endures

As days passed, the meadow ripened. The sun stretched long and low. The Ant, now deep in her work, had gathered piles of food, stacked in careful rows. Her back ached. Her mind was restless. Though her pantry was full, her heart was not.

The Grasshopper?

He followed a pathless path. One day he discovered a patch of ripe blackberries. Another day, he encountered a stream with minnows glinting like coins. At night, he curled under leaves and listened to the stars.

He met a turtle who gave him shade. Then a robin who shared her song. And also child who left breadcrumbs from her picnic. He never lacked.

One afternoon, a heavy cloud rolled in. A chill swept the meadow. The Ant hurried home, burdened by fear. But the Grasshopper felt only stillness. He found a hollow log, warm and dry. He rested there. And dreamed.

The Reunion

Months passed. Spring returned. The Earth sighed green again. The Grasshopper stretched in the light. He felt no need to recount the past. Only to leap forward into joy. But as he passed near the Ant’s hill, he saw her—hunched and tired, sorting a new pile of grain. Her eyes darted, already planning for winter.

He approached gently. “Hello again,” he said.

She looked up, startled. “You survived?”

He smiled. “I did more than survive. I lived.”

She frowned. “But you had no food. No shelter. No plan.”

“I had presence,” he said. “And it brought everything I needed.”

She shook her head slowly. “That’s not how life works.”

He tilted his head. “Then whose life have you been living?”

The Moral

The Ant and the Grasshopper parted ways. But that night, as the Ant returned to her tasks, she paused. She thought of his song. The way his eyes shimmered with ease. The calm in his voice. And for the first time, she wondered: what if she had it backwards?

What if all her striving didn’t guarantee safety—but only delayed joy? Might the Grasshopper’s freedom not be luck… but alignment? What if the Universe wasn’t a test to pass… but a partner with whom to dance?

And then—just for a moment—she let herself rest…

And so, dear reader: The Universe doesn’t reward effort. It responds to resonance. Prepare if you feel inspired. Work if it delights you. But above all—listen to your song. Because the grass isn’t greener. It’s alive. And it’s waiting for you to leap.

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The Truth About Your Value in the AI World

TL;DR: You were never meant to earn our worth—and the rise of AI proves it. From a Positively Focused perspective, AI doesn’t diminish our value. It frees us to live from inspired alignment, where our presence—not our productivity—is the most powerful force on the planet.

What if the rise of artificial intelligence isn’t a threat to your value… but an invitation to finally stop pretending you ever had to earn it? Let’s be honest: the stories are everywhere. “AI is coming for your job.” “Machines will outthink us.” “We’re headed for mass obsolescence.” It’s tempting to believe this moment is about shrinking. About guarding what’s left. Or proving humans still matter in a world that seems to value output more than essence.

But what if this moment is about something far more thrilling? What if the arrival of AI is actually a global permission slip to stop hustling for your worth? Because here’s the truth: You were never meant to earn your place here. Not before AI, not during it rise, not ever.

AI as a Mirror, Not a Master

For generations, society has fed us a ridiculous myth: that we must do in order to deserve. It told us we must work hard, prove ourselves, make something of ourselves — or else. This is the lie that built capitalism. It’s the lie that fills late-night search histories with phrases like “how to be more productive”, “ways to stand out at work”, “how to improve my hustle” and “how do I get an edge.”

It’s also the lie that fuels so much of the panic about AI. Because if your worth has been tied to how useful you are, what happens when something “more useful” shows up?

But from a Positively Focused perspective, we see that panic for what it is: contrast revealing a deeper reality. One that says our value was never in what we do. It was always in who we are.

AI isn’t some alien intelligence sent to dethrone humanity. WE CREATED IT. It has come from our questions, our dreams, our desire to evolve. In that sense, AI is a mirror. A highly trained, mathematically precise echo of our collective vibration.

Just as dreams reflect the state of our inner being, AI reflects the momentum of collective thought. It carries our curiosity, our anxieties, our longing for efficiency, even our fears and distortions. It also carries our deep yearning for creative freedom. Our yearning for freedom of all kinds. That’s why fearing AI is like fearing a dream: fear misunderstands the point. It treats the reflection as the source.

The real question is not, “What will AI do to us?” It’s, “What does AI reveal about what we do to ourselves?”

And that is something we really should look at. There’s lot of room for humanity to grow there.

From Earning to Allowing

In a world where machines can perform tasks better, faster, and cheaper than humans ever could, we are collectively nudged toward the truth we’ve always resisted: Doing isn’t where our power lies. Being is. Being doesn’t mean “passivity”. It means alignment. Alignment to what? Alignment to our natural state of unlimited love.

It means shifting from survival-driven effort to joy-inspired action. We weren’t meant to grind. We were meant to attune. To hear what wants to move through us and follow that—not because it earns our worth, but because it feels authentically like us.

That’s the path forward in the age of AI: not more performance, but more permission. The challenge, again, the opportunity for growth in that is realizing when we feel a knee-jerk, negative reaction to each of us being “love”, that negative reaction, that resistance, is not the truth. It’s an entry point.

It’s an entry point to greater self love and appreciation as well as the appreciation of others…ALL others. This isn’t new age, smarmy, pap. It’s the future. A future where humanity can begin thriving and stop grinding, hustling and, in the process, missing out on the beauty of All That Is.

What AI Can’t Touch

Let’s look at some things we gloss over when thinking about artificial intelligence: It cannot feel joy. AI cannot love. Artificial intelligence cannot soften into a dream and wake up with new eyes, a new perspective, and a thrill only given to the dreamer. AI cannot hold a newborn and see the Universe in its eyes. It can simulate. AI can predict. It can assist. But it cannot be. That’s our realm.

So is the realm of eternity. Some humans strive for immortality in the age of AI. The paradox is, we already are immortal. We live on beyond what humans call death. It’s just that so many of us have failed to remember that absolute fact.

Our eternal presence — conscious, connected, flowing — is the greatest asset on Earth. Because it’s through that presence that All That Is expands. It always was that way and will forever be that way.

But now, as machines take over the doing, machines offer us the opportunity for our being to move to the forefront. For being to take center stage. It’s the opportunity for the authentic us to shine. So if you fear replacement, don’t. Instead, embody radiance.

How? I write about that every week here in my blog and now, I talk about it on YouTube.

You Are the Dreamer, Not a Product

None of us came here to compete with the tools we create. We came to wake up inside the dream. AI is part of that dream—again, crafted by us, for us. It’s not meant to make us obsolete, it can’t do that. But it can give us back the one thing we’ve forgotten how to trust: our innate creative worth. The more we relax into who we really are, the more everything begins to rearrange itself around that knowing.

We don’t need to scramble to stay ahead of the curve. The curve is us. We are the evolution. So let this moment be what it really is: a call to reengage and trust our alignment. Let the machines do what they’re here to do—so we can do what only we can do: Love, radiate, exist in-joy. Be.

Our worth is not at risk. Our worth is rising. And the more we let it, the more everything—AI included—will reflect that truth back to each and every one of us.

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How to Make Life Better by Returning to Eden

TL;DR: The author explores why reconnecting with our Broader Perspective can feel difficult at first—and how the Positively Focused practice gently guides us back to our natural state of ease, alignment, and worthiness. They do so by examining the story of Adam and Eve’s “fall from Eden” and interpreting the story in a new way.

The Positively Focused practice is, at its core, stunningly simple. It asks nothing more than that we cultivate alignment with our Broader Perspective—our eternal, nonphysical self—and allow manifestations to unfold from that vibration. And yet, for some, this proves to be the most difficult thing they’ve ever attempted.

Over the years, I’ve worked with dozens of brilliant, deeply sincere clients who came to me wanting lives full of ease, clarity, love, wealth, and purpose. Some of them get it—quickly. Others struggle, flounder, or resist the very practice they sought out. But it’s not because they’re not ready. It’s because the very mindset they’re bringing to the work is the mindset that’s keeping them from Eden.

Let me explain.

The Fall from Alignment: A New Interpretation of Eden

The story of Eden is not just a biblical allegory. It’s a vibrational map of humanity’s shift from spiritual knowing to intellectual survival.

Before “the fall,” Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden. They lived in ease, joy, and a natural connection with their Source. This is the Charmed Life I speak of in the Positively Focused practice. It’s the state of full receptivity—where desires are fulfilled even before we act, often before we know we have a desire, where the Universe anticipates and delivers joy before we can articulate it.

Then came the Tree of Knowledge. Not the tree of wisdom. The tree of knowledge—of facts, reasoning, and dualities. “Good and evil.” “Right and wrong.” “Cause and effect.”

In biting the fruit, humanity shifted from intuitive alignment with Source to a state of mind-based knowing. From vibrational attunement to cognitive calculation. That shift—that was the fall. Not sin. Not punishment. Just an orientation that pulled us out of the Now and into the intellect.

Ever since, most humans have been trying to “think their way” back to Eden. But you can’t get to the garden through the mind. You have to feel your way there. As the legendary rap group Outkast puts it: you must “free your(self from your) mind and the ass will follow”.

The Intellect as a Distraction From Source

I’ve had two recent clients—let’s call them Kelly and Carl—who are textbook examples of this Eden exile. Both are deeply thoughtful, educated, and introspective people. They devour information, stay up on current affairs, and explore the world around them with an intellectual passion. They “understand” the Positively Focused framework. I would say they even resonate with it. And yet, they resist doing the actual practice.

Why?

Because doing the practice would mean letting go of the very faculty they’ve learned to rely on for everything. That aspect of themselves they’re so proud of: their minds.

Instead of meditating daily to establish connection with their Broader Perspective, they over-analyze their contrast. Instead of practicing soothing thought to generate high vibrational states, they try to outsmart their negative beliefs. They treat their transformation like a riddle they’re trying to solve, not a frequency they’re tuning to.

This is incredibly common. We’ve been trained to believe that the mind is the highest authority. That if we can just intellectually “figure it out,” we’ll finally get what we want.

But the Universe doesn’t respond to logic. It doesn’t reward intellectual analysis. It responds to vibration. And that’s the kicker: when you’re trying to make sense of your reality with the same beliefs that created it, you can only ever rearrange the furniture in your prison cell.

You Can’t Fake Belief—But You Can Realign

Here’s the paradox: people don’t come to me when things are going great. They come when they’re in deep contrast—financially, relationally, emotionally. That contrast makes them ready. But they often try to resolve the contrast using the same tools that generated it: effort, willpower, discipline, mental inquiry.

The Positively Focused practice requires none of those things. It asks you to:

  • Meditate to quiet the mind
  • Practice soothing thought to align with better-feeling probable realities
  • Celebrate manifestations that prove your alignment
  • And gradually become a match to the life you want by calibrating to how you want to feel

But for the intellect-bound, these actions feel too passive. Too “woo.” Too easy. So they try to improve their lives through deeper analysis, self-criticism, or by “fixing” themselves.

That never works.

You don’t get to the Charmed Life by becoming “better.” Instead, you get there by remembering who you already are: a sovereign extension of Source, endlessly worthy, fully supported, and already living the life you want—just on a frequency you haven’t yet matched.

We never left Eden. It’s still there. Most are just not tuned to it so they can’t see it.

You Are the Garden You Never Left.

Here’s what I tell clients like Carl and Kelly when I see them spinning in mental overdrive: You’re not “becoming” worthy, you’re not “earning” ease. You’re not “healing” your way to success. You’re remembering.

The garden was never destroyed. We never actually leave it. Instead, we simply turn our gaze away from it. We believed someone else’s story—our parents’, our school’s, our church’s, our culture’s—that said, “Life is hard. You have to earn your worth. Nothing comes without struggle.”

So now, when we try to meditate, we get fidgety. When we try to feel appreciation, it feels fake. When we try to do the practice, it feels silly.

That’s not failure. It’s just resistance meeting its match. It’s our old momentum pushing back as our true orientation starts to return. Stick with it. The garden is still here.

The Charmed Life Begins With One Realization

The Positively Focused blog is full of stories—mine and my clients’—that prove this. I’ve shared how money has literally appeared on the street after I soothed a scarcity belief. How dream sequences showed me future relationships. How clients began loving their spouses in ways they hadn’t in years, or saw evidence of their artistic expression becoming possible, or found themselves believing they could have the love they once bitterly forsook — after they did the practice as prescribed.

Not because they became more intelligent. But because they became more attuned.

The Charmed Life doesn’t come from mental effort. It comes from vibrational alignment. That’s not a metaphor. It’s physics, reality. That’s Eden.

And here’s the best part: once we start to feel the garden again—through a well-timed manifestation, a deep meditation in which we have an out of body experience, a random compliment from a stranger—we want more. We want to do the practice because we’re seeing the results. That’s when worthiness kicks in. Not as a thought. But as a state of being.

Final Words for the Intellectually Inclined

If you’re reading this and feeling defensive—or intrigued—or deeply called into something you can’t quite name—that’s your Broader Perspective stirring. You don’t have to throw away your mind. The intellect has its place. But it’s not the pilot. It’s the co-pilot.

Your intuition, your alignment, your joy—that’s what’s flying the plane. So if the Positively Focused practice feels “too simple,” or “too emotional,” or “not intellectual enough,” consider this: That’s probably your sign to lean in.

Because the garden didn’t go anywhere. You’re standing in it right now. All you have to do… is look. Book a free session. Let’s get you into Eden.

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Why AI’s Best Future Needs an Awakening of Spirit

TL;DR: The author explores how aligning with spiritual clarity ensures humanity embraces the promise — not the peril — of artificial intelligence. This piece reframes the Stellar future proposed by Tony Seba and James Arbib. It suggests the future is a vibrational invitation, not a technological threat. As such, the author asserts, it offers humanity a powerful seat in shaping the future.

What if humanity’s future hinges not just on tech innovation, but on how deeply we root ourselves in spiritual alignment?During my recent Worthiness Wednesday vlog, I proposed a bold concept: that the inner development of worthiness and the outer explosion of AI technologies must converge. It’s the way to the fully optimistic future available to us all.

We’re on the cusp of entering what Tony Seba and James Arbib of RethinkX call a stellar civilization—a system powered by stellar technologies. Stellar technologies include solar power, wind power, AI, robotics, precision fermentation, and battery storage.

These technologies scale exponentially. In doing so, they lower costs and increase access for all. As Seba explains: “Once built, they keep producing with almost no additional input. That’s never happened before”.

But real and lasting transformation isn’t just technical. It also must be metaphysical. If we don’t have a spiritual foundation, abundant technologies can amplify fear and scarcity. We see that already with so many concerned about “terrifying” futures AI, alone, portends.

If, however, we cultivate inner worthiness, AI becomes a tool for species upliftment. Instead of the source of scary scenarios. Seba agrees, as you’ll see.

What Stellar Means—and Why Spirit Matters

Stellar systems require sunlight and are self perpetuating. Such systems depend on no ongoing extraction. A society based on such systems produces extreme abundance that eventually replaces scarcity and limitation.

This matters deeply for spiritual alignment. If you feel worthy, you trust the unfolding. The natural abundance of the Universe becomes your reality. That abundance then becomes perpetual. You don’t grasp — you let go. You don’t combat — you align. Limits then are dissolved as are the distorted beliefs they represent.

Seba and Arbib describe how familiar systems collapse when new ones emerge: “We’re not building the butterfly,” They say. “We’re sticking wings on the caterpillar”. The extractive order built our current existential structures. These structures are hierarchical, competitive and scarcity‑based.

Such structures were necessary. After all, they have benefitted humanity tremendously. Now, however, it’s time we expand beyond them. That’s what All That Is is offering. And it’s offering that in response to our asking. In other words, we are the creators. We’re living into our creation. Stellar civilizations are that creation.

Breaking free from the old, extractive order requires spiritual evolution. An evolution matching the emerging technological evolution. In other words: if we don’t evolve being, abundance can collapse us into old fears.

A Stable Foundation

Consider the alternative: AI and robotics improve ten‑fold every year, humanoid robots operational costs approach $0.10/hour by 2045. These are not isolated systems. Nor are these figures are not fantasies. Instead, they are curves coming into synch with what is our future. Yet without spiritual alignment, these innovations will amplify inequality, loneliness, or even create weaponized versions of themselves. That’s because these technologies are mirrors of our collective inner state.

And if you observe humanity, you’ll find evidence of what that inner state contains. It contains a lot. A lot of good stuff. And a lot of not so much good stuff. We could argue that there’s more not-good-stuff in that container. But if that were true, humanity would have ended itself long ago. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of not-good-stuff in there. There is. But the ratio of influence between positive vibrations and not-positive ones is not 1:1. It’s more like 1 × 1⁰¹⁵ : 1.

That’s not an exaggeration.

This influence disparity ratio explains why human civilization continues to thrive, often despite itself. It’s literally a three-steps-forward, two-steps-back endeavor, netting one step forward. That’s something I’ll write more about in the future. Our rather lacking spiritual maturity perpetuates slow progress. That’s why inequality, war and other unwanted situations still exist.

By contrast, spiritual maturity—worthiness grounded in recognizing inner evidence of universal love and supply—creates a stable foundation. In worthiness, we welcome AI as an expression of All That Is. We let the Universe serve us. Fear doesn’t drive us. In worthiness, we understand that reality is vibrational, not transactional. We see that abundance in the outer world simply reflects the alignment and plenty of the inner world. And from there, we realize the ways we’ve run our societies are not universal constants.

That means we can embrace them changing. Changing for the better. For the better for all.

Why This Moment Is a Spiritual Opportunity

We may be experiencing the fastest, deepest transformation of civilization ever. Indeed the pace is faster than the agricultural and industrial eras combined, according to some. But these “stellar” possibilities won’t be guaranteed for all. Not unless we make choices that move us towards inclusion. And since the abundance on the horizon is virtually unlimited, for all practical purposes, why not include everyone?

If we stay in scarcity narratives and old patterns, AI becomes extractive. If we align, we step into co‑creation of super abundance. And that requires worthiness. Worthiness allows us the possibility that another’s gain is our gain. That’s not naïve—it’s necessary. It’s also a universal constant.

Tony Seba urges: “Protect people, not jobs, firms, or industries”. That’s a spiritual statement. It says: no matter what changes externally, every human being is sacred and unreplaceable. AI isn’t about replacing us. Instead, it’s about liberating us. Liberating us from our spiritual immaturity. Liberating us so we can create in ways that matter. And in creating those ways liberate others.

Alignment is the throughline of the Positively Focused practice. It means we recognize manifestations—like receiving $10K no strings attached, or a miraculous synchronicity— as important. We see them as confirmations that the Universe loves us. Not as isolated, random coincidence.

What Alignment Looks Like in Practice

When we collect these manifestations, we do more than that. We also remember how they happened. Further, we recognize their synchronistic nature. These aren’t coincidences. They are the Universe’s blessings. Those blessings are bestowed upon us because we’re inherently deserving of them. Unless we block them through our resistance.

When we release the resistance, however, we begin filling a basket that, once filled, something notable happens. We realize the Universe loves us. From there, worthiness happens naturally. Worthiness can’t be conjured. It emerges on its own once we realize the unlimited number of ways universal blessings fill and shape our lives.

Again, our worthiness basket is filled through noticing small and large manifestations. A closed client becoming open again, for example. Or seemingly random events happening like animals rendezvousing with us. Keeping tabs on this evidence creates trust in the unfolding. Trust emerges naturally when we see the performance of something we want to trust being consistent in its performance. This is why assembling the worthiness basket is important. The basket fosters trust. Worthiness then, is the next natural evolution of that trust.

In a stellar future, the external syntax changes—AI writes code, robots automate logistics, solar delivers free electricity. But the internal syntax remains the same. We remain at the mercy of distorted beliefs. Or we choose sovereignty. In sovereignty, one asks: Is this expansion aligned with my spiritual trajectory? In distortion, one says: this future is terrifying we must protect ourselves from it.

Spiritual Alignment and Conscious Surrender

Stellar civilizations aren’t just about self‑sustaining systems. They’re also about self‑sustaining spiritual systems. They’re about inner clarity, worthiness, spiritual sovereignty. They encourage a process in the individual. When spirit and AI converge, we are invited into vocation, not occupation. Into radiance, not resistance.

We may not need to build regulatory structures for AI. Not if we’ve already built them in our hearts. Nor need we fear disruption if we’re aligned with being rather than becoming. The choice is ours. We can ride the phase‑change disruption or be worn by it. In a stellar paradigm, the choice is always ours. That choice happens through spiritual alignment and conscious surrender.

This is the most beautiful invitation of this moment: to align worthiness and wonder with technological possibility. That offers an incredible future. One in which we become so vibrationally radiant that AI is just another expression of All That Is supporting our highest expansion.

Stellar civilizations, as Seba puts it, requires “Stellar Humans,” people who rise above distorted beliefs that have them feeling insecure, competitive and limited. We can’t have one without the other. Stellar humans inhabit stellar civilizations.

So the question, then, is: are you becoming stellar?

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What Lost Keys Reveal About How Powerful You Are

TL;DR: The author explores how a client’s missing keys became a mirror of internal beliefs. Through contrast, he’s invited to align with his power—and choose the reality he wants next. This is final part of a four-part story.

Steven didn’t lose his keys. Not in any ultimate sense. Not in the way most people think of losing something — as a punishment or a mistake or evidence of failure. No. Steven’s keys were lovingly, exquisitely, purposefully withheld for a larger purpose. One important for the expansion of himself and All That Is.

Because the keys weren’t just metal. They were symbolic. They were, in every sense, the keys to Steven’s kingdom. And the kingdom they opened wasn’t a maintenance shed on campus. It was a vibrational kingdom — the realm of self-worth, of true power, of knowing who he really is.

But the question the Universe posed was this: Is Steven ready to claim that kingdom? Not metaphorically claim it. Not rhetorically either. The question asked: is he energetically ready to claim it?

The answer, of course, is always “yes”. Otherwise the experience wouldn’t be happening. But Steven’s relationship with that yes… that’s what this entire expansion was about.

His Mom Was the First Portal

When Steven first came to me, his mom was the figure around whom most of his contrast orbited. There was judgment, control, and emotional volatility. Those things came from him, not his mother. His mother did the best she could as a young single mom of three, back when Steven was a boy. She didn’t know back then, what Steven is learning today. Today, Steven’s mom is learning, however, because she, like Steven, is a Positively Focused client.

But while Steven was a child, his mother, like most parents, was completely oblivious. Oblivious about a lot of things. She didn’t know her son came to teach her, for example. Not the other way around. Steven’s mother didn’t know she had an Inner Being, an unerring guide showing her the path of her liberation. But what she most didn’t realize was that every time she punished Steven, every time she lost her cool, she wasn’t in love with her child.

But nothing was wrong with any of that. Steven’s mother was exactly what Steven knew he would come into reality through. He had prepared the experience prior to even showing up. So everything young Steven experienced was good for him.

Steven’s mom represented a mirror through which Steven came to believe he had to prove himself. He had to earn love, earn respect, earn safety.

That belief as well as others knocked Steven off course for a while. Good thing he discovered the Positively Focused practice.

Over time, through his Positively Focused practice, Steven regained his footing. He stopped reacting when his mom pushed his buttons as an adult. But then he wobbled between blaming and appreciating her. He also wobbled between diagnosing pathologies he perceived she had. In between all that, he gradually stopped needing her approval. With help from his sister, who also is a client, he gradually began generating stability from within. That was a massive vibrational accomplishment.

The Universe is watching

He’s still not done with any of this. That’s because it takes a while to soothe momentum, and, on the subject of his mother, Steven has over 40 years of negative concluding on her as a subject. That’s a lot of time to build momentum.

The Positively Focused is not magic. It can’t soothe old beliefs instantly. Actually, the practice does nothing. It’s clients putting the practice into use that creates results. Like any thing with a lot of momentum, it takes a long time to slow down beliefs practiced over 40 years. That’s what Steven is up to.

It’s a heroic thing to take on for most humans. That’s because it demands that we look at ourselves as the creator of ALL of our experience. That can be hard. Especially when we believe in victimization. And many, many humans do. Steven once did too.

Now, however, he’s soothing those old beliefs. And the Universe is taking notice.

See, as we soothe beliefs creating contrast, the contrast doesn’t repeat—it evolves. When we integrate an old pattern, the Universe doesn’t punish us with a harder version. It celebrates us by offering a broader one. It says, “Great! You’ve learned to find your footing when family triggers you. Now… what happens when external authority and livelihood are on the line?”

Enter: Richard, Steven’s boss.

Learning as creators

In the days after the keys “disappeared,” Richard became unusually critical. The warmth Steven once felt from him seemed gone. Instead, Richard scrutinized Steven’s every task. The sprinkler system. The backlog, the other tasks still undone on Steven’s desk.

Richard’s scrutiny rattled Steven.

What he didn’t immediately see, though, is that he had become a match to this version of Richard. Just like he had once summoned a combative version of his mother, now he was summoning a critical version of his boss.

That’s not failure. It’s evolution.

When old beliefs are active they continue creating our reality. As Steven soothed his, that same frequency that once showed up as “Mom” now appeared as “Supervisor.” But the purpose was the same: to show Steven these beliefs are still active. Still shaping his experience. Still distorting his view of himself.

Steven’s experience is evolving him into the god he is.

Some call this process transference. But that’s too close to the psychological concept of projection. What’s happening is not projection. What is it? Ascension. It’s vibrational navigation through and into expansion. Think about it. Dealing with a mother within the confines of family is one thing. Your livelihood and social/working reputation on the line? That’s a completely different level. A higher level.

Ultimately, we’re all evolving to become the gods we are. Beyond our human experience lies tremendous responsibility. We are the creator of worlds. And we are learning to create, ultimately, in an environment where no resistance exists.

That means wherever we put our attention, what we focus on grows immediately, and exponentially. That’s how powerful we are. This physical reality, therefore, is a sandbox for us to play, explore, refine. That’s what Steven’s doing…at ever increasingly significant levels.

Keys as Evidence of Alignment (or Not)

The most powerful part of this story isn’t just what happened after the keys became lost. It’s what those keys represented all along.

Steven was on the cusp of a major promotion—to locksmith. Those very keys were tied to that promotion. Those keys were literally one of very few sets of its kind. Also, some keys in that set were master keys. They open ANY door on the college campus. They therefore were symbols of trust, capability, and responsibility. Losing them, in Steven’s eyes, felt like losing his future. In Richard’s eyes, according to Steven, they were a test: Can Steven shoulder the responsibility?

But what Steven didn’t see at first was that those keys also simply mirrored his vibration. When he felt unsure, they disappeared. As he judged himself, they became even more lost. When he doubted his worth, the Universe gave him a reality that matched: a world in which he didn’t have the tools, wasn’t trusted, and couldn’t move forward.

Again, that’s not punishment. It was reflection. Precise, perfect, loving reflection. That’s because physical reality is never fixed. It’s vibrationally curated and constantly flowing into something more.

Let’s say, for example, upon noticing the keys not where they should be Steven relaxed into a feeling of HAVING the keys, instead of collapsing into the state of them being lost, and then amplifying that reality with intense emotions (fear, fright, worry, etc.). Had he done so, the key would have (seemingly) appeared somewhere. This has happened to me DOZENS of times. I’ve written about two instances before. Here, and here.

But Steven didn’t do that. Instead, he collapsed. And then amplified the reality he collapsed into: Lost keys.

The Bigger Pattern: From Proof to Permission

Here’s the most overlooked thing about Steven’s story: the keys didn’t disappear because he was out of alignment. They disappeared so that he could find stronger, more stable alignment. Let’s say that again: Contrast is not evidence of failure. It’s evidence of readiness.

The moment Stevens keys went missing, he wasn’t being tested (only humans test each other). He was being invited. Invited to stand where he hadn’t stood before. Where he could see himself differently. Then choose a new story. A story where he’s not the person trying to prove himself worthy of the promotion. Worthy of the promotion or his mother’s love.

By the end of our session, Steven was steadier. Not euphoric. Not fully turned around. But steadier, clearer and more open to possibility. And with that openness, a choice began to emerge: Will he continue to tell the story of a man who lost his chance? Or will he tell a new story… one where the keys were never the point?

Keys can’t unlock doors like alignment can. Which means Steven could go back to work tomorrow and find those keys tucked in a place he never thought to look. Or… a completely new solution might show. Perhaps the promotion still pops into his reality. Or it doesn’t.

But either way, the real reward is who Steven is becoming.

The Takeaway: The Kingdom Was Never Outside Him:

The Universe doesn’t care about metal keys or job titles. It cares about the vibration we hold—and who we become by aligning with that vibration. Steven’s keys were never lost. Not really. They simply retreated from view until he becomes a match to their presence. That’s how all reality works. And now, Steven stands on a threshold.

Not an employment threshold, but an embodiment threshold. Will he lean into what he knows? Will he trust that this isn’t a setback, but a setup? The door is already ajar. All that’s left… is for Steven to walk through.

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Why Losing Keys Was Steven’s Greatest Spiritual Gift

TL;DR: The author explores how a lost set of keys led client “Steven” into a vibrational tailspin, revealing old belief patterns and offering a powerful opportunity for realignment and expansion. This is part 2 of Steven’s story.

Steven was already off balance. He’d ignored his Broader Perspective’s gentle invitation to stay home—a nudge his wife had unwittingly overridden. He’d also hit a baby deer the night before. That was a jarring event. But it still reverberated through his body the next morning. He hadn’t slept well. And even though he showed up to work as scheduled, something inside him knew: he wasn’t calibrated.

That matters. Because when you’re not calibrated, when you’re not aligned, the Universe doesn’t punish you. But it will offer a mirror so accurate, so refined, that if you’re paying attention, you’ll see exactly what stories you’re still telling—whether you like them or not.

For Steven, that’s exactly what was about to happen.

Steven could have avoided all this had he listened to the gentle whisper. The whisper from his Broader Perspective to stay home. Not avoiding it, however, introduced a wonderful unfolding. Although Steven would see it that way for many days.

When Keys Vanish, Beliefs Speak

It started simply. A moment that could have gone unnoticed. As Steven performed his usual rounds on the college campus where he worked, he had just used a lockbox key—one of many keys specifically assigned to him as part of his facilities management role. These keys weren’t just tools. They were symbols. The keys were tangible representations of the next level of his career: campus locksmith. The locksmith job promised higher salary, better hours, more freedom and more recognition. It was a promotion Steven looked forward to.

One moment while using the keys at the lockbox, Steven had the keys. The next moment, however, they were gone. Steven’s heart sank. He looked everywhere. He retraced his steps. Steven checked every pocket, every surface.

The keys were simply not there. Not in a metaphorical “they’ll turn up later” kind of way. But in that physical-reality-has-shifted kind of way. A loss so precise it almost felt orchestrated.

Because it was.

And yet, Steven’s boss, Richard, wasn’t pleased. “That’s not going to look good for your locksmith promotion,” Richard said shaking his head. “A locksmith who loses his keys?”

And with that, Steven’s vibration—already shaky—collapsed into a tailspin.

“Lost” is a vibrational reality

For most people, losing something like keys is common. I’ve written several stories about my experience losing things. Here’s one. Here’s another. When something goes lost, the best thing to do, if possible, is forget about trying to find it. Instead, if we just go about our business, we’ll be led back into the reality where the item is present.

But most people, myself included sometimes, instantly start looking for the item. Doing that, we amplify the reality in which the thing is “lost”. Moreover, the more we try to find it, we amplify its lost state even more. So losing things, especially minor things, is a great way to prove to ourselves that we constantly move from one dimension to another. Losing something gives us a chance to play with alternate realities.

Sometimes, however, we lose something significant. When that happens, we’re not likely to just forget about it. In those cases, the lost item represents a more important movement of dimensional reality. For Steven, losing his keys was part of an ongoing series of manifestations. Manifestations that began with a wonderful visit to his sister’s house.

Killing that dear was part of that unfolding. So was being unable to sleep. Indeed, I’m sure, in the dream state, Steven soothed a lot of what he had stepped into. But he didn’t allow the momentum to soothe further. That’s why his Broader Perspective wanted him to take the day off.

He didn’t though. And everything changed. The intensity of his disconnection increased. As it did, more benefit unfolded for him.

From Whispers to Storms

Suddenly, everything Steven hadn’t done yet became a spotlight of failure. There was the broken sprinkler system. The backlog of requests. His own perfectionism kicked in, too — frantically reviewing all the ways he might have prevented losing his keys. Richard’s comments, the increased scrutiny he laid on Steven, the backlog of requests — all these things represented increased intensity.

But the real storm raging wasn’t Richard or anything outside Steven. It was the internal narrative Steven summoned in response. Richard, who had previously been mentoring Steven for the locksmith role, now seemed like a different person. He showed up as critical, cold and suspicious. Steven felt judged, watched, scrutinized and criticized. This new version Steven created had him feeling completely disempowered. And his lost keys left him feeling helpless to do anything about the situation.

Steven’s vibration changed. So everything around him did too, including Richard.

All that didn’t happen because Richard suddenly changed. It happened because Steven’s vibration changed. In his state of fear, he rendezvoused with a version of Richard that reflected exactly what he feared most: rejection, disappointment, and lost trust.

That’s how manifestation works. It doesn’t just hand us things. It reveals the shape of our beliefs so we can do something about them. Do something and we become a match to better alternate realities. But if we don’t, the shape of our beliefs, projected outward as a physical reality, gets more intense. It gets more intense because our Broader Perspective and All That Is wants us to align with that which we desire.

It’s the only way we can have what we want. So the Universe and our Broader Perspective cooperates in nudging us in the direction of what we want by giving us cues. They start as whispers. However, if we ignore them, they can turn into storms.

Mother becomes the boss

So the intensity of Steven’s reaction wasn’t about keys. It wasn’t about promotions. It was about something deeper. Something older. Something Steven had felt before.

The feelings—of being misunderstood, scrutinized, punished unfairly—were eerily familiar. They echoed memories of his relationship with his mother. Back then, he often felt like he couldn’t do anything right. No matter how hard he tried, she’d find something wrong. Her love and trust were conditional, easily withdrawn at the first sign of what she perceived as “failure.” Another way of describing “failure” is “any time Steven didn’t meet her expectations.”

Now here he was again. Different setting. Different authority figure. Same emotional response. That’s the gift of manifestation. It’s never random. It brings the unsoothed pattern back to us—but dressed in new clothes. This time it wasn’t “Mom.” It was Richard. And instead of a scolding at home, it was pressure at work. The stakes were higher, for sure. But vibrationally, the match was perfect. And the situation? Exactly the same.

All this wasn’t bad, though. It reflected Steven’s upgraded status as a vibrational being. The stakes were higher. His job was potentially on the line, or so Steven believed. His boss was furious with him, he thought.

What I knew was this whole experience was a higher-level opportunity to soothe his old beliefs. Beliefs still creating realities in his life that revealed where he is relative to his desires.

Steven is doing great. In other words, he’s progressing and progressing fast. It seems like these kinds of situations shouldn’t happen for someone advanced as Steven. And yet, these kinds of things do happen in the early stages of the advanced practice. That’s because they act as clearing gateways to brighter, better alternate futures.

Beliefs Hide in Plain Sight—Until They Don’t

Steven didn’t notice the parallel at first. Nor did he recognize how perfect all this was.

It wasn’t until our session, as we slowed everything down, that he saw it. The shame. The fear. Impulses to over perform in order to prove his worth. The sense of being “on trial.” All of it tracked back to a belief constellation first activated in childhood — and still quietly vibrating in his present-day experience.

Again, the lost keys didn’t cause this vibration. They revealed it.

That’s why the Positively Focused practice is so powerful. It shows us nothing ever “goes wrong.” Even a lost object is a portal into deeper knowing—if we’re willing to look. Not with blame. Not with urgency. But with curiosity and compassion.

And Steven did just that…eventually. It took him a week. In the days leading up to our session, he struggled. When he came to the session, he was deep in negative emotion. Despair. Helplessness.

By the end of our session, however, he saw what was unfolding—not as punishment or setback—but as a tailor-made invitation to liberate old beliefs from their hiding places. He didn’t just lose keys. He found himself.

Takeaway: When something’s lost, something deeper reveals itself.

See you tomorrow for Part 3.

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What Happens When Animals Confirm Our Powerful Alignment

TL;DR: The author reflects on divinely-timed animal encounters—especially dogs—as living proof of vibrational alignment, showing how nature responds to high frequency with loving, unmistakable confirmation.

This afternoon (at the time of starting this post), I basked in the afterglow of a particularly delicious client session — one of those conversations where the energy flows like warm honey and every word feels like divine transmission. The client felt it too, which is why he asked for a copy of the session. He wanted to listen to it again. While the recording processed, I took my usual walk to the park, letting the joy of the session simmer in my cells. The sky was open, the grass alive, and I was in no hurry. I rarely am these days.

As I made my way into the open space, I saw a man ahead of me, walking with one of those curved dog-ball throwers. But strangely, I saw no dog with him. Curious, I asked him, “Where’s your dog?” He smiled and gestured down the way, saying, “She’s over there.” And like clockwork, as if on cue, a Springer Spaniel popped her head out from under the bushes—perky, alert, focused.

That moment felt like a wink.

The Dog Wasn’t Lost—She Was Led

I continued toward my usual place beneath the trees, pulled out my phone, and began dictating my client session notes. And that’s when it happened: I looked up, and that same dog came bounding across the park toward me. Full gallop. Tennis ball in mouth. Zero hesitation. She dropped the ball right at my feet. And I laughed out loud.

I knew exactly what this was. This wasn’t just a dog wanting to play fetch. This was a delivery. A divine gift wrapped in fur and slobber. My alignment had magnetized this moment—this joyful, beautiful interaction that felt more like ceremony than coincidence.

You see, this kind of thing happens to me all the time. Especially with animals. It’s always a little different, but the message is the same: You’re on the path, you’re seen. You’re loved.

Just last week, an elderly man walked into the same park with his wire-haired terrier. As he approached, he warned me that his dog was blind. But the moment I reached out my hand, that dog walked straight into it. Like a compass finding north. The man blinked and said: “You have very positive vibes. He can tell.”

He wasn’t wrong. His dog wasn’t either.

Wild Confirmations

It’s not just domestic animals, either. Hawks, owls, otters, falcons, seals — they all find me. Months ago, while walking along the Willamette river, I spied a river otter emerging from the water. It look directly at me then disappeared again beneath the surface.

Another time, while walking along the same river, a seal poked its head above the waves just as I looked in that direction. It stared at me for a long moment, then blinked and vanished.

An owl I spied spying me while on a walk. Usually, I don’t get a photo because such encounters are so spontaneous.

And once, while navigating a period of intense inner clarity, I looked up from a trail and locked eyes with a barn owl perched in broad daylight. We stared at each other for what felt like forever. I didn’t dare move. It was too sacred.

When we’re aligned—truly, deeply aligned—nature responds. Wild animals are not distracted by emails, deadlines, or stories about their past. Their attention isn’t distorted by chronic negative thinking. They don’t care what car you drive or how many followers you have. They feel resonance. Period.

They respond to presence.

A wonderful encounter with a Nutria. Totally unscripted….this is part of a longer video I made of a bike ride I took.

So when a creature we didn’t call walks (or swims or flies) directly into our path… that’s not just a “cool moment.” That’s a message. A mirror. A perfect rendezvous arranged by our Broader Perspective. A falcon sighting? That’s not just luck. That’s the Universe whispering: “You’re flying higher now.” A doe pausing to meet your eyes on a forest path? That’s Source saying: “I trust you with the sacred.”

And a dog galloping across a park, ignoring every other person in favor of dropping a ball at our feet? That’s a thunderous confirmation: “Keep going. You’re radiating.”

The Universe Uses Every Messenger

Some people wait for signs in numbers, or synchronicities in conversation — and those are wonderful. But the natural world has its own language. Animals aren’t just passive observers. They’re participants in the vibrational symphony we’re conducting every time we choose alignment. When we’re tuned in, turned on, and tapped into the frequency of love, clarity, and joy — birds will fly closer. Butterflies will linger. Dogs will drop tennis balls at our feet.

And when they do? Throw the ball. Honor the visit. Smile and say thanks.

It’s easy to overlook these moments. To think, “Oh, the dog was just playful,” or “I happened to be in the right place.” But the truth is, we’re always in the right place when we’re vibrationally aligned. What looks like happenstance is actually choreography.

The more I live this practice, the more obvious it becomes: alignment creates access. Access to beauty, to love. Access to nonverbal communication with the entire natural world. So when that dog dropped the ball at my feet, it wasn’t random. It was evidence. It was a nod from All That Is. A gentle, slobbery, joyful confirmation: “You’re walking with Me.”

And isn’t that what every animal encounter really is? A nudge, a mirror. A little miracle, perfectly timed. Just like us.

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What Happens When You Finally See The Crown

TL;DR: In this fifth part of a six-part series, the author recounts how a funeral cracked open a deeper truth for his business-owner client: our judgments blind us to others’ divinity—until alignment lets us finally see what was always there.

Jane wasn’t prepared for what she walked into.

She had driven to the funeral of Alba—the representative of one of her customer organizations—with little expectation other than to show respect. After all, Alba had recently passed, and throughout their working relationship, Jane had long felt a measure of frustration toward her.

Alba was, to Jane, unreliable. She canceled meetings often. Alba spoke in ways Jane found circuitous and unfocused. She had become one of Jane’s most challenging clients—not because of what she asked for, but because of what Jane thought she represented: disorganization, distraction, a time-consumer.

And then came the funeral.

It was held in a Black church. Jane, who is white and was raised attending traditional white congregations, immediately noticed something different. There was music, joy, laughter. There were tears too—but the tears flowed alongside testimonies and praise. The pews were filled—300 people strong. And at the front of the sanctuary, the body of Alba rested peacefully…with a crown placed gently upon her head.

It took Jane’s breath away.

This funeral wasn’t about grief. This was a coronation. A recognition of the royal life Alba lived. And Jane could feel it—viscerally, undeniably. The room pulsed with love, gratitude, reverence. Here Jane witnessed a version of Alba she had never allowed herself to see. A revelation began. And with it came a reckoning.

The Version We See Is Always Ours

Here’s the great paradox of physical reality: we never interact with “the person” we’re interacting with. Instead, we interact with our version of that person. A version filtered through our active beliefs, biases, expectations, and emotional momentum. That’s true for clients, coworkers, lovers, friends—and yes, even for funeral guests. When Jane was alive in her stories about Alba, she couldn’t see the woman who had:

  • Served time in prison
  • Lost her children during incarceration
  • Rebuilt her life and reclaimed her family
  • Founded an entire organization to help formerly incarcerated women do the same

She couldn’t see the god in Alba, the angel, the founder, the force. But the version of Alba celebrated at that funeral was undeniable. That version shattered Jane’s perceptual filter. It wasn’t that Alba had changed. It was that Jane’s vibrational relationship to her had.

The crown on Alba’s head wasn’t just a tribute. It was a mirror. A powerful, public display of what Jane hadn’t allowed herself to see in life—but could now finally acknowledge in Alba’s transition.

The Hidden Grace in Every Human

This is the real culmination of the six-part story we’ve been sharing. It hasn’t been only about Jane and Sally, or about customers and contracts—it’s been about the sacred truth behind everyone we interact with: Every person is divine: Every person is on a path.

And every person reflects back to us our own energetic state. If we meet someone in frustration, resentment, or judgment, that’s what we get. We don’t see the fullness of who they are because we’re too busy projecting who we think they are. But when the filters fall away—whether through expansion or, in this case, grief—we see something else entirely. We see Source.

This is true of Alba. It’s also true of Sally.

Because Jane couldn’t see Sally’s value, she saw waste. She saw a blank database instead of a robust content strategy. She saw misalignment instead of leadership. But all of that was Jane’s story—not Sally’s.

The same way Alba’s story was far grander than Jane’s story could contain.

When Jane called me after the funeral, she was in tears—but not of sadness. These were tears of revelation, and awe. She told me everything—how beautiful the service was, how inspired she felt. And I just listened. I felt no need to emphasize what Jane discovered. Not then.

But I will next session because this is a crucial moment for Jane.

The Sacred Reminder: Alignment First, Clarity Follows

That’s because Jane’s experience shows how powerful the Positively Focused practice is. It’s not about controlling others or highlighting their flaws as though those flaws are all they are. It’s about aligning with the broader awareness of who others are so that we can be a match to it.

When we’re aligned, our filters change. We perceive more clearly. We receive more graciously. Then we soften. We soften our view of the world and those in it. And the people become radiant reflections of the love and clarity we’ve cultivated within.

That’s what Jane touched in that church. It’s exactly why I want to solidify that in her awareness next session. And it’s exactly what Sally was offering Jane, right up to her “termination.” An opportunity to shift perspective. And that’s the fundamental beauty of what this entire six-part journey reveals.

The final gift of this story is simple, but profound: Every single human you meet wears a crown. It’s not always on their head. Sometimes it’s in their actions. Other times it’s in their perseverance. Sometimes it’s in the way they reflect back to us what we still can’t see in ourselves. But it’s always there.

And if we let the stories fall away… if we pause long enough to shift our vibration… if we open our eyes from alignment, rather than resistance… we’ll see it. And when we do, life becomes a coronation. Not just of others, but of ourselves. Because the crown we see on another’s head?

It’s our crown, too.