What Is Reality Crafting?

By Suzanna Kennedy

Reality Crafting is consciously, deliberately creating the life experience you desire. It’s creating your version of Heaven on Earth. Reality Crafting is unwrapping the gift of your Self. It is stripping away all that you are not -- and discovering and expressing the Divine Spark that you are.

What is it like to live in Heaven on Earth? I can share what I’ve experienced. I have crafted a life that is rich with abundance. Abundance of love, abundance of joy and passion-for-life that flows through me almost all the time now. My life is filled with magical-mystical adventures. I have loving supportive relationships – gone from my life is all manner of codependency and heavy emotional dramas. I live in a beautiful, comfortable home here in Sedona. When I open my eyes in the morning a fantastic view of the red rocks greets me. I have an abundance of creativity; prosperity and plenty of play time to enjoy all of this.

And I want you to know my life wasn’t always like this. I have been where you are now. Knowing within my deepest self that my life was meant for more. More love, more joy, more purpose, more of everything wonderful.

So how do you get there from here? How to you take the first step in creating Heaven on Earth? The creation process is beautiful in its simplicity. It has three steps. First become clear in your mind about what you want to create. Imagine that creation in vivid, sensual detail. Make it so real in the present moment that you feel the joy and the gratitude because you know it is already created.

This automatically moves you into the second step, which is to inject your mental image with your emotion. Your emotion is the fuel for your creation. So as your joy and gratitude build, let it launch your creation into Heaven. And then the third step is to simply let it go and allow it to happen. Know that the universe is busy gathering your creation into form. It is on its way, so just forget about.

“So what DO you want?” I’ll often ask this question after listening to someone tell me about how their life isn’t going the way they want it to. “I don’t know what I want, but this ain’t it,” is usually the reply. It’s pretty hard to create the life you desire if you haven’t identified what it is you really want.

Starting with goal-setting techniques of the 1980s and moving on through affirmations and visualizing, many of the proponents of Creating Your Own Reality tell you that the first step in creating a more positive future is being specific about what you want. But what if you honestly don’t know?

Don’t be discouraged, there is a way to find out. Start by emphatically stating “I want to know what I want.” This simple statement gives your subconscious mind something to work on. Then simply open your mind and allow the data to start coming in.

Notice the times during the day when you are feeling positive emotions such as happiness, peace, contentment, warm fuzzies and the like. What is happening at these times? What are you doing? What environment are you in? What kind of people are you with? What types of interactions are you engaged in?

Feeling positive emotions is a sign that you are doing something that you want. You are aligned with your deepest desires and your inner being gives you feedback in the form of positive emotions. Look for patterns in what makes you feel good. Are you always with children? Are you out in nature? Are you happiest when you are being challenged with a difficult problem? Do you feel energized when you are helping others or does it drain you? Do you like being around people who are highly intelligent or do you prefer to be the teacher? Just notice what is going on when you feel good.

The nice thing about this technique is that the Law of Attraction will kick in. The Law of Attraction is like attracts like. If you focus your attention on something, you will draw into your awareness other similar thoughts and events. Your thoughts are like magnets. So when you focus on good feelings, you will begin experiencing more good feelings. When you focus your attention on finding out what you want, you will draw into your awareness more examples of things you want. You will begin to notice that you are feeling good more often. Then the list of things you want in your life will grow and grow.

Accumulate details about what you want. Get a shoebox and fill it with examples. Cut out pictures from magazines or newspapers showing things you want such as clothes, cars, furniture, jewelry, houses, vacations, people engaged in activities you think you would enjoy, etc. Jot down notes describing what you are doing when you notice you are feeling good. When you meet somebody who has a pleasing personality trait that you would like to project, write it down. Accumulate details about all the little things you want and put them all in the box.

When you have gathered enough details, it’s time to organize them into a more complete picture. A method that I’ve seen work well is to paste the pictures and notes onto a poster board. Some people like to create a collage-style board, with pictures and notes intertwined in no particular order. Others like to subdivide the board into categories such as home, work, play, travel, relationships, appearance, etc.

If you are a writer, you may prefer painting a picture with words. I suggest you look at what you want in many areas of your life such as health, wealth, self-expression, personal growth, spiritual growth, etc. Write the statements about what you want as if you already have them. Use “I” statements to make them personal and real for you.

After going through this exercise myself, I came up with these very specific statements about what I want. I will share them with you now to give you a flavor of what I’m talking about, to simply serve as a thought starter.

Self-Expression

The universe pays me abundantly for expressing my passion for life each day. I sing, I dance, I write, I heal, I teach, I compose heavenly music, I channel unconditional love and wisdom. I feel the creative vitality of life coursing through me.

Travel

I travel to beautiful, exotic places at times when the weather is sunny and warm. I spend just enough time in each place to experience the beauty, meet and enjoy wonderful people and learn about the unique aspects of the culture. I am welcomed as an ambassador of love and tranquility wherever I go. Traveling from place to place is always easy, comfortable and safe.

Home

I live in a beautiful home that is simple, lovely and comfortable. The climate is warm and sunny most of the time and I feel completely safe here. Food and other supplies that add to my comfort and enjoyment are easy to acquire and are in abundant supply. The view from my home is breathtakingly beautiful, with water and mountains, sunrises and sunsets. This place on Earth enhances my feeling of tranquility, creativity and strength. My home echoes my favorite colors, designs and tastes and is filled with wonderful artwork that I have collected from my travels around the world.

Like I said, I wrote that in 1996 and I have been living in my version of Heaven on Earth for a while now.

One of the most wonderful things about this physical playground we call Earth is that the people here have wonderfully diverse tastes and desires. There is an abundant supply of everything so that everyone’s desires can be fulfilled. You can have everything you want.

I want to have my cake and eat it too. And I don’t want it to go to my hips! I’m in a cliché bustin’ mood and I have to tell you that, “You can’t believe everything you hear.” Especially when what you are hearing is limiting your ability to get what you want.

I’d like to stimulate you to examine how many limiting beliefs you subscribe to. I further invite you to explore the possibility that when you believe in abundance and understand the Creative Process, YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU DESIRE.

Consider these statements: “There’s only so much to go around.” “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

And what about all the trade-offs we buy into? How many of us believe: “If it tastes good, it must be bad for you.” “If it tastes bad, it must be good for you.” “If it’s fun, it can’t be safe.” “If it’s worth having, it's worth working hard for.” “You can’t have fun unless you’re high.” “You can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need.” “If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, don’t make a pretty woman your wife.”

It seems as if you have to choose between fun and safety; between sexy and nice; between wealth and love; between smart and pretty. Do you want handsome or faithful? Do you want beauty or a nice personality? Then you are told, “Don’t set your sights too high, you might be disappointed.”

These are limiting beliefs. Why should I have to choose one over the other? I want to have my cake and eat it too.

Arnold Patent says, “You Can Have It All.” I choose to believe him.

Here’s an idea: pretend it is your mission in life to identify what you want and then create it. How would you go about it? Consider this metaphor. You are a young prince or princess. Your father, the king, has ordered his servants to bring you a large variety of life experiences so that you may choose the ones you want.

At first the servants will not know exactly what you are looking for, so they will show you experiences that they are most familiar with. They show you their poverty and their fear. They show you their belief in not being in control of their lives. And you say, “This does not feel good. I do not like this. Show me wealth and power.”

So they show you an example of a wealthy baron who lives in a wonderful castle and commands a huge army. But with all of his wealth and power, he is not happy because he has a fatal disease and only months to live. So you say, keep the wealth and power and add perfect health. So they bring you another example of a man who is rich, powerful and healthy. He too is unhappy because the responsibilities of his position prohibit him from enjoying his life. So you say, keep the wealth, forget the power, keep the health and add time for fun.

Now they show you an example of a wealthy woman who enjoys good health and has time to pursue any leisure activities she desires. As you watch her move through her life, you notice that she often feels lonely because she has no one to share her fun experiences with.

So you say, “Now add a companion.” So they add a handsome, wealthy, intelligent male who also happens to be a drunk and a womanizer.

This process continues. You are given many examples and you sift through them adding and subtracting until you find just the combination you are looking for. You allow yourself to identify what you want by observing those things that make you feel good. You get better and better at identifying those things you don’t want because you pay close attention to those things that make you feel bad, and quickly identify what you do want instead. Then you put together some very definite statements about what you want, allowing and expecting to receive them, because after all, you are royalty. Of course you get exactly what you ask for.

After you get what you want, you notice that what you want -- changes. This is all right. This is wonderful. Of course what you want will change, for you are developing into a king or queen who is a growth-seeking, joy-seeking being. As you want, and allow and receive, you change your perspective. As your perspective changes, so do your desires; and you are continually wanting, allowing and then joyfully receiving your desires.

Guess what? You do not have to pretend. It IS your mission to identify what you want and then create it. And this is not really a metaphor, but a true description of your position in God’s plan. We are all magnificent co-creators of our own life experience because He created us in His image. Our presence in these bodies on this physical plane is undeniable evidence of our co-creative ability.

Isn’t it wonderful that we are all so unique, wanting different things at different times? It is because of this wonderful diversity that we may be confident in the Law of Abundance. Parmahansa Yogananda describes how the Law of Abundance works, “Human consciousness should become an unobstructed channel through which the divine intelligence may flow freely. Divine Will and human will then operate in harmony to manifest whatever man may need from God’s unlimited supply of health, happiness and abundance.”

There is more than enough of everything in this Universe to fulfill everyone’s desires. And if it does not exist now, you can create it. You need not be concerned that your wanting and receiving will interfere with the wanting and receiving of another.

Consider this personal ad:

"Queen of Deliberate Creation seeks King of Deliberate Creation to share and co-create a joyous life experience while granting freedom to all others to create the life experiences they desire."

Would you like some ice cream with your cake?

So we’ve talked about how to find out what you want to create and how to go about creating it. I know that you’ve already done this in your life and its worked sometimes. And sometimes it doesn’t seem to work. The truth is you are creating in every moment. Every thought will take form sometime. Right now there is a perceived time lag between when you think a thought and when you bring it in to form. Have you noticed that the time lag is getting shorter? It will continue to get shorter and shorter my friend.

As we move into the new millennium, the energy that is radiating onto the earth is changing, causing a collapse of time. Soon there will be no time between when you project a thought and its manifestation. So now I ask you. What are you thinking in every moment? What if, my friend, every thought you had took form immediately? I’m talking about Instant manifestation. What would your life be like?

To answer that question for yourself, look at your life right now. Understand that whatever you have in your life is an outward manifestation of what is on the inside of you. Your outward life, your environment, mirrors your inner world. See yourself as the creator that you are. Don’t waste your time feeling the victim. There are no victims – only creators. God did not create any handicap creators.

Now you might be looking at your life right now and you see that there are many good things. Or you might believe that your life is somewhat messed up. Maybe you are reluctant to take responsibility for what you have created. Maybe you are reluctant to believe that if you have this kind of mess on the outside, it is reflecting a mess on the inside. Maybe.

Or maybe you are ready to take responsibility. Maybe you are ready to forgive yourself for not being fully awake in the creation process. That is all that has happened, my love. You have only fallen asleep in your awareness of the Divine Creator that you are. It is time to wake up. Rub the sleep out of your eyes. And let’s get ready to clean up the mess. Whether it’s a little mess or a big one, know that you have so much loving support. Support from me and support from spirit to help you clean and clear what’s on the inside. And then the law of attraction will quite naturally begin shifting your outer reality to reflect your new clarity.

Let’s begin with understanding how this mess was created in the first place.

As we move through our lives and interact with others, some of our experiences seem to hurt us. We perceive others as judging, lying, betraying or abandoning us. We look for approval outside ourselves and never quite find the unconditional love we crave. We react, not to the person who is standing in front of us or to the event that has just taken place, but to a whole history of associated events and transgressions.

As we were growing up, our parents, with all their good intentions, attempted to socialize us – make us ready to live in this world. In this socialization process, our own feelings and knowing were continually invalidated. Take for instance, a simple example of a mother telling her child to wear a sweater when he already feels warm. This sends the message that he can not trust his own body signals and that he should fear a cold if he doesn’t comply with her wishes.

And we’ve all had much stronger messages of self-denial. These kind of continual messages caused us to disconnect from our true selves and taught us not to trust our body, our feelings, our intuition or our sense of what was right for us. And this socialization process replaced our inner knowing with what our parents and society judged as normal. It replaced our Divinity with humanity.

But these body signals, feelings and beliefs weren’t released. They were stored in the four-body system as energy blockages. The electro-magnetic energy that is our life force can’t move through these blockages. And without the life force, illness can occur.

Besides physical illness, these energy blockages display themselves in other ways: imbalance between work and play, dysfunctional relationships, fear of success and failure, poverty consciousness, victimhood, martyrdom and stagnation.

In our society, we don’t learn how to deal appropriately with strong emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, jealousy, abandonment, betrayal, guilt, pain, sorrow and grief. When we feel these emotions, what do we do with them? We usually hide them because it’s not nice to express them. Strong emotions make other people uncomfortable, they move away from us when we try to express and release them. So we suppress our emotions. And these suppressed emotions don’t really go away. They stay stored in our bodies and energy fields, creating energy blockages.

The natural state of our bodies, is health. So our systems seek health naturally. Your soul feels a sense of urgency these days to release these hidden and suppressed emotions because it knows that we are quickly drawing upon the time of instant manifestation. It knows that if you don’t clear this hidden and suppressed stuff, you will be spending all your time and energy fighting the monsters of your own creation.

The natural way for your soul to release hidden and suppressed emotions, beliefs and thought patterns is to draw people and situations to you that will trigger what is hidden and suppressed and bring it to the surface of your conscious awareness. That way you can look at your shadows in the light of day and consciously choose to release them.

Again, the Law of Attraction plays a big part in this natural clearing process. The Law of Attraction is -- like attracts like. So if you have suppressed anger, for instance, the Law of Attraction will draw to you an angry person or situation that will trigger your anger. Then you have an opportunity to look at your anger and the associated beliefs and thought forms that go with it. You have the opportunity to express your anger and let it go.

Unfortunately the downside to this is that if we are not conscious in this process – your anger can get triggered and released in a way that is harmful to others or to yourself. It can put your relationships at risk. I have seen people lose friends, family and businesses while going through this type of clearing process. Please understand that everyone on the planet is going through this clearing process now.

So you see, you are creating in every moment. If you are not deliberately creating joy, you are unconsciously creating the mess. And even when you do consciously intend to create joy and you get a mess instead, it could be because the hidden and suppressed stuff is sabotaging your good intentions.

Is there a kinder, gentler alternative? Of course there is. The clearing sessions that are part of the Reality Crafting Playshop or that I can conduct with individuals or groups is one such alternative.

In a clearing session, we deliberately choose to clear a particular issue. We do it at a time and in a sacred space that is completely safe. Then we tell your four-body system what core issue we want to release. The process includes guided visualizations and a particular breathing method. It takes about an hour. You experience the core issues coming to the surface and then being released.

Sometimes you might feel or sense the events that caused those blockages to occur. Other times you won’t. It really isn’t necessary to know or understand the cause. It is only necessary to release.

The release that you will experience during a clearing session occurs on a cellular level. All of the blockages were stored in your DNA. They may have been stored there during your lifetime. Some blockages may have been carried over in your DNA from your ancestors. If you believe in reincarnation, you may perceive these as blockages that were created in past lifetimes. Either way, you have blockages that have occurred before you were even born and were carried in your DNA as cell memories. The clearing session releases these cell memories.

The clearing sessions clear blockages from your four-body system, which is made up of your physical body, emotional body, mental body and spiritual body. It also clears blockages from your chakra system. It your chakra system that connects you will all other aspects of yourself including past life aspects and aspects of yourself in other dimensions.

After a clearing session, you will probably be able to feel the empty space that was created when the dense cell memories were released. Then we fill this empty space with lighter, higher vibrations. So if we cleared the cell memories of fear, for example, we will fill those empty spaces with the vibration of open-hearted courage.

So you might be wondering what issues can we clear in a session. There are five core issues that we have found pretty much cover the whole human experience based on how we were socialized.

One session clears issues associated with feminine relationships. Inherent in all of us are severe, yet reasonable negative attitudes regarding why women (and feminine energy) cannot be trusted. This would include the feminine aspect of God (Goddess), your genetic mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, lovers, your own feminine aspects of intuition, receptivity, sensuality, nurturing, all the women you have ever loved, know or been throughout all time, all dimensions. These attitudes include feelings of hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, abandonment and betrayal. During the clearing process, these negative states are transformed into open-hearted trust and acceptance toward all things feminine in nature, essence and form.

Another session clears masculine issues. Likewise, we all carry negative attitudes regarding why males (and male energy) can’t be trusted. This would include the male aspect of God, our fathers, brothers, sons, husbands, lovers, your own male aspects of protector, provider, giver, initiator of action, and any male you have ever know, loved or been throughout all time, all dimensions. It would also include the patriarchal aspects of our society such as government, religion, education, financial institutions, etc. These attitudes include feelings of hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, abandonment and betrayal. During the clearing process, these negative states are transformed into open-hearted trust and acceptance toward all things masculine in nature, essence and form.

Another clearing sessions deals with fear. The fear patterns include all manner of instituted fear used to control behavior from a religious, political or social point of view. This would include fear of life and death, fear of success and failure, fear of light and darkness, fear of God, fear of persecution and execution, fear of intimate relationship with yourself. During the clearing process, this pattern is transformed into open-hearted blatant courage.

We have a session that clears guilt and self-judgment. These are the destroyers of self-worth, which keep all of us from rising to the Divine Self-Image that is our right to inherit from the Creator. Guilt, self-judgment and self-denial, self-pity prevents us from enjoying life to the fullest. This pattern is transformed into open-hearted, radiant joy.

And of course, we have a session that clears all types of pain, sorrow and grief. The deepest level of suppression deals with all the ancient wounds that we bring back over and over again into each lifetime. The activities of hurt, pain, sorrow and grief constantly create upheaval and conflict in our work and personal relationships. These disruptive patterns are transformed into open-hearted, unconditional love and deep compassion toward self and others.

Let’s take a closer look at how these hidden and suppressed emotions and beliefs limit our freedom to manifest our heart’s desire and really express joy in our lives.

First we should understand how ego operates. As far as I’m concerned, ego has gotten a bad rap. Some disciplines suggest that we should suppress the ego or even kill it. But I recognize that ego plays a very important part when we are in a physical body on this planet. It is ego’s job to protect us. Unfortunately, the poor ego is much overworked and under trained for this job. Our egos are currently stressed out to the max and need to be relieved.

Here is the way the ego operates. Whenever we enter a situation, the ego scans the four-body system for cell memories that are similar to the current situation we are entering or contemplating. If it finds that there were ever any similar situations that resulted in our being hurt, it will attempt to protect us from being hurt again. It may throw up feelings of fear and doubt. It may initiate thoughts, beliefs or memories that distract us from participating in the situation. Sometimes it will create road blocks that will prohibit us from participating such as time, financial setbacks, illness. It will do anything to get in the way.

Poor ego. What a huge job you have. In the clearing process we seek to give ego a break. This is what we want ego to understand.

The reason we encounter hurtful situations is because of the hurtful energy that is stored inside us. Remember the soul it is always seeking to bring us back to health and joy. So it is trying to release the hidden and suppressed energy. It uses the law of attraction and magnetizes the people and situations to you that will trigger the opportunity for release.

So what happens after a clearing session? You’ve cleared the hurtful energy. So as you move through your life now, ego’s job is so much easier because, number one, since there is no hurtful energy to be released, you are not drawing hurtful situations to you anymore. And number two, when you move into a new situation and ego scans for hurtful memories, it can’t find any. So the ego then allows you to move into new experiences with no limitations.

The most amazing thing happens. You move through your life with a new sense of wonder. You feel like a brand new baby that has been born into a world of joy and kindness. When you meet with someone who hasn’t been cleared, you understand this and display great compassion instead of being triggered into your previous negative patterns. You are able to see that the person is behaving out of his own pain and are able to treat him with loving kindness. They may not know what to do with it, but it usually is so confusing, it dissipates the negativity and the situation resolves itself rather quickly and gracefully.

So this is how you engage ego in the clearing process. You let it understand that you seek to make its job easier. You acknowledge it for its valuable service to you. You assure it that you still need it to help keep the physical body healthy and safe. It should remind you to eat healthy foods and get plenty of rest. It can warn you not to walk in front of moving cars or not to poke a bear in the butt with a short stick. Things like that.

This clearing process allows you to transfer your sense of safety and security into the identification of yourself as a Divine Being who is divinely guided and protected directly by The Source of All That Is.

Another benefit of this clearing process is that it clears karma. Karma is created whenever you don’t follow your heart. Karma is also stored in the DNA and is released with the other cellular memories. So what does this mean for you? A couple of things. It gives you a clean slate, a new beginning. If you have karmic relationships and karmic debts, these are all automatically balanced and released. So you won’t need to draw to you relationships that are based only on karma. You know the ones I’m talking about. They are usually very difficult relationships and you can’t even understand why you stay in them, but you do. You feel some sense of “I know this isn’t good for me, but I feel that I must stay and I don’t know why.” Karma. In the past, you bonded yourself to that person when you didn’t follow your heart or speak your truth. So that person shows up again to give you the opportunity to release the dept or balance the scale. The appropriate action is always speaking your truth, from your heart, with respect.

When your karma is cleared and you don’t create anymore, then you will disentangle yourself from the cycle of death and rebirth.

Understand that these clearing sessions will transform your life. You may find that some relationships may fall away. This may include people who are very close to you now. If the law of attraction brought you together through karma or through some of the core issues, you will see a shift or dissolution of that relationship. You will retain all the relationships that were attracted to you through joy and unconditional love. You might find you lose your job if it supported one or more of the five core issues.

But the universe hates a void. So when all these negative relationships and situations are cleared out of your life, you will automatically attract relationships and situation that vibrate at your new frequency of unconditional love, peace and joy.

You will have cleared out all of the hidden and suppressed energies that were blocking or distorting your conscious manifestations. Now your conscious creations will come to you quickly and easily, without distortion.

So we talked about how to become consciously aware of what our version of heaven on earth is. We talked about the creation process – knowing what we want to create, injecting it with our emotions of joy and gratitude and then letting it go and allowing the universe to bring it in to form. We’ve talked about how hidden and suppressed emotions and beliefs can sabotage our conscious creations and how they draw unpleasant experiences to us. We’ve talked about the clearing process to erase the cell memory of the five core issues and the benefits of replacing the cell memory with light and higher vibrations.

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