How to attract a new job by watching tv | Andrea de Michaelis – Creating my own reality, one thought at a time

A friend is ready for a new job. I wanted to help her prepave the result she wanted to attract, using creative visualization. I began the process by asking her: “What would you like to do, ideally, and where would you like to work? Let’s start there. Tell me someone who has a job you would like. This exercise requires you actually researching and discovering someone in the flesh that has a job you think you might enjoy. Doing that forces your mind to get more specific in its seeking, it forces your mind to ask questions and do research more detailed than in the past. So tell me who has a job that looks like fun and why you would like that job. Yes, this is all an exercise but YOU benefit by it by getting what you’re focused on.”

My friend replied: “Jonathon Scott, on the real estate show The Property brothers. I have little interest in swinging a sledge hammer but I think I’d kill it in staging a home.”

Her short, flippant answer let me know we weren’t going too deep, but that was okay, too. We’re pals. If she was a client, I’d have required her to answer more fully. I asked, “When you watch shows like that, do you ask the Universe to point you toward a job you might enjoy as much? I’m trying to determine exactly how much prepaving and visualization you are doing right now on it.”

“I am not asking,” she admitted, “but I will.”

“Not asking?????” I squealed, “I ask every freaken day for every freaken thing I get!!! Oh, you are such a brat!”

She replied, “It never dawned on me. So I should watch the show and ask the Universe to point me to a job I would enjoy as much? How can I avoid being directed toward some sort of janitorial position? There’s a lot of clearing and cleaning that goes on in that show. I just want the creative aspects.”

What I would do would be to initially set my intention that I was going to watch an episode of the tv show with the goal of finding ideas and things I like and appreciate, so that I may, for the 30 minutes of the tv episode, vibrate in harmony with things i’d like to attract into my experience.

This is a minute by minute process. Every time something appears on the screen that pleases me, I take note of it and imagine myself having or doing or being in that situation myself. At the same time, I am on the lookout in the next scene for things that please me. After I come across several pleasing happenings, I will have generated that feeling within me that is the fuel, the shakti stirred up with appreciation and desire to experience more of the same. That feeling we get of being in love, of being inftuated, of seeing our beloveds, it’s all the same feeling.

Now that I have generated that feeling, I want to fan the flame of it because it is this feeling, coupled with my focused, conscious intent, that will attract what I want into my experience. How does it do that? Because when I hold a focused thought of what I want, along with the feeling generated within me of already doing it, then I am vibrating in harmony with the having of it. As soon as I drop any resistance to having it, I’ll have it.

Ah, yes, the resistance. As my friend asked, “How can I avoid being directed toward some sort of janitorial position? There’s a lot of clearing and cleaning that goes on in that show. I just want the creative aspects.” I’d say it all has to do with your focus, and you are the only one who knows where your focus actually is. And even you may not know it.

In my friend’s case, her focus immediately went to “how can I avoid what I don’t want?” The point of the exercise is not to avoid what you don’t want, but to look for what you do want, to look for what pleases you. At first you may find it hard to sift through so much of what you don’t want in order to glean from it what pleases you, but with practice you can do it. That goes for whether it’s in real life or whether you’re using a tv show to practice creative visualization.

The answer is, she needs to train herself to look at each scene (whether of the show, or of daily life itself) with the intent of finding something about it to like, to appreciate in each scene. That is how she will be led by her own intuition and internal guidance system to attract more of what pleases her, so she has a flood of it coming into her experience. When this happens, she will be guided to opportunities all around her, right under her nose. She will be shown jobs she might like to have, and meet the people who have them, she will have jobs offered to her so she can sift and choose between them. All she has to do is stay focused, no matter what and despite appearances, stay focused on what about the situation pleases her and she will continue to have a pleasurable experience. But again, it’s a moment by moment process, you don’t just do it once and it stays in place forever. You have to create it again in every minute, just as you do with your current life right now.

Question: “What about if this pal of yours cruised through Zillow and Brevard MLS and pretended to be “hired” to stage these listings. Mentally staging each room, picture walking through with the owner and/or realtor discussing ideas for the home. So do you think that would be effective?”

Answer: Yes, that would be effective visualization and it would definitely attract new opportunities and new doorways to be opened and explored. What my pal finds behind each door would depend upon her expectation, belief and level of conscious and unconscious resistance. It would be a great experiment in showing her what she really believes, since it will appear in front of her. I’m stunned sometimes at the stuff I still believe only because it is a habitual pattern and I haven’t yet given it serious thought. That can change in a minute. Literally.

It’s important to note that along with going through the real estate listings and mentally staging each room, I’d be asking the Universe to direct me to find a job that sparks the creative interest this gives me. I myself wouldn’t limit it saying I want to be paid to design beautiful rooms, because I’d want to be open to finding satisfaction in other ideas presented to me. I never wanted to be a publisher, I always just wanted to get my ideas down “on paper.” I remember idly glancing thru a New Age Journal in 1991, sunbathing in my backyard and thinking “How cool it would be to get to hang around the homestead all day and read stuff like this and ponder on these things.” The universe took that as a wish and granted it. I didn’t even know I was seriously asking, so I had no resistance to it.

When I want something, I typically practice the visualization and feeling for about 2-5 minutes every hour or so during the day, 10-15 times a day. This isn’t idle daydreaming. This is having a goal and doing the practice needed in order to attract the result I want.

Visualization — not everyone is into doing what feels like boring work to them, what seems unlikely to work. Some think they can’t visualize effectively but if you can bring to mind a big red elephant wearing a gold tiara and polka dot umbrella, you can visualize. It doesn’t matter whether you saw the image in your mind’s eye or just listened to the words and had a fleeting thought, that was visualization.

So if I know how this works, why haven’t I won the lottery? The times I’ve set “winning dollars” as an intention I’ve had moderate success, but that boils down to how much can I get myself into the state of mind where I expect and believe I can or need to win the lottery. How much resistance do I have to the idea of winning millions of dollars? I clearly have some resistance since I haven’t won. I always know what I really believe because the evidence of it is playing out in front of me in every moment. I may not have won the lottery but I’ve attracted the result I’ve wanted in every area of my life I’ve done the process on, for me and for friends. So, basically, yes, you can attract what you want, it just takes practice.