Manifesting Your Reality featuring Jen Gilchrist

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Hello, my name is Edwin and I am the Chief Happiness Officer with the I Am Happy Project and also the Happy Neighborhood Project. And to me today I have a special guest and she’s an entrepreneur for 17 years and a spiritual mentor for seven years. Jen Craig killed Christ, and I hope I said that right.

Has gone from struggling single mom to a six figure business owner, making money doing what she loves and empowering others to do the same. Jen, welcome to the call. Hi, Edwin. Thank you so much for having me. I’m happy to be here. Absolutely. I think we are going to have some fun today because we are going to be talking about a topic that really can be as close to the foundation of happiness as any other subject, and that is manifesting and happiness.

So I want us to jump right into it. What is the important, you know, to know when you decide you want to manifest more happiness into your life? I believe finding alignment to your deeper soul desire is key, right? Really understanding that you are a powerful creator by nature. We are all powerful creators and we’re always in control of our creative experience a hundred percent of the time.

So when you are manifesting your reality, whether you’re, you know, we always are, whether it’s conscious or unconscious, and you can really, truly tune in and find alignment with your passions and your deeper desires, happiness is gonna be inevitable at that point. Um, sometimes I do see one thing where people are, are seeking, uh, to create experiences that they think with their mind will make them happy, right?

Whether that’s, oh, I’ll be happy when I lose the 10 pounds. I’ll be happy when I retire. I’ll be happy, you know, when my debt is paid off or whatever. Or. They may even try to create things to gain approval or things from their loved ones that I think will make them happy. But when we create from that place, I think you’ll find that when you get what you’re creating, you’ll find that you’re actually still unhappy and unfulfilled.

So really the key is tuning into your deeper inner passions and your shows desires and creating from that place. Okay, so if I’m hearing you correctly, so we all have the power to manifest things. Okay? So now we have to be really careful what is it that we are manifesting? Okay? So, so can you share how to begin aligning with your deepest desire?

Yes, there’s three things that I find to be very powerful, and the first thing is really getting clarity of your desires. Uh, I think sometimes we don’t, you know, we’re so busy with the course of the day just doing our, doing our lives right, that sometimes when I’ve worked with my clients in the beginning, they may not even actually know what their deeper passions are.

And so really getting the clarity is the first key, and that does require. Really quieting the mind a bit, right? Going within and tuning in and maybe journaling or meditating on what do I truly desire? What are my passions? And, and just allowing yourself to really use your imagination to think into how, how that is for you or how that could look.

And the next step would be taking that, that clarity. A deep further, a step further. I’ll give you kind of a, a simple example to follow me on. Say I want, I think, oh, I would love to take my daughter on a trip to Europe. Okay. I just put it on my vision board so I’m clear that I wanna take my daughter on a trip to Europe.

But if I took it a step further and got clear on my why, so that’s the second key is your why. Well, why is I wanna have. Uh, cultivate relationship and bonding moments and memories with my daughter. Like that’s really why. It’s not so much the trip would be fun, but it’s creating that experience and deepening my relationship with my daughter.

That’s my why. Now, if you go further, the last step would be to feel right. How do you wanna feel is key? So when you can really tune into the clarity of what your desire is, why you want it. And how you want to feel in that experience. You know that right there is a very powerful catalyst and it’ll also help you to get, uh, very tuned into those things that you actually do want to have, because you’re gonna be seeing that, wow, that’s gonna feel amazing to have those memories and create that, that loving relationship that that’s much more powerful and that really tunes in your alignment to what it’s, you wanna create.

Does that make sense? Wow. Absolutely. And, and one of the things, you know, that I have found and, and, and, you know, I’ve been spreading happiness all over the place and, and, and, and sometimes the actual journey of just getting clarity, you know, understanding your why and feeling. That already make you happy.

I guess that’s why kids are so happy when you say, oh, we’re gonna go on a trip. They don’t even worry about the destination and any of those things. Just the feeling alone gets you really happy. So I can see why if you in tune, you know, with your deepest desire, just the experience already makes you happy even before the actual stuff manifest stuff.

So the manifesting the process, I think is also very exciting. So now let me, let me ask you this. So once you are aligned with your deep depressed desire, how can you actually begin to manifest this into your experience? Because how do you not translate to that? Oh, this is one of my favorite topics. I love this.

So when you’re aligned to your soul, right, to really get clear on your desires and feel your why, you are really having quiet and go within. And when you begin to really get in alignment with your soul, you’re automatically beginning to open up your intuition, okay? And you’re beginning to learn how to listen to that inner voice, that inner wisdom, because that’s.

That’s where you’re getting into the alignment from the beginning, right? So now you need to take, what I like to call is full inspired action. Okay? So we can do all the visualizing in the world, but if we don’t start to ground it and take the guided action, it simply won’t show up. So really tuning in and answering, like listening to your intuition and your divine guidance.

Right. I always like to ask whatever your religious, spiritual beliefs are, right? Um, whether you ask God or the universe or your higher self or your angels, begin to open up and, and ask for that spiritual support from the universe and begin to then pay attention to the sign and take the inspired action because that’s how you’re going to start to call in all of the, all of the things that you need to have, uh, for what you’re asking for.

Okay. Wow. The, the, the, this is definitely exciting. You know, folks, I I, I, I tell, I tell you this, you know, we need to at least just have, take time for ourself to really let things sink in, you know? And, and Jen, I think you’ve kind of breaking it down. Uh, one thing that I always like to do with this interview.

You know, is I want to leave my audience with something very concrete, something very practical that they can put to work right away. So can you share a few things that our listening can put into action right away that will support them in manifesting more happiness? Yes, for sure. I have a few things. Um, for sure.

So the first thing I would say, especially when it comes to manifesting happiness. Make a decision and a commitment to yourself to be happy, right? Honoring your desires. And, and really taking, um, an honest assessment of how you’re honoring your time. One thing I noticed is people will often fill up for calendar with too much, uh, stuff where they’re shooting themselves.

I would say things you should do, right? It’s really, really important to make time for you. And the things that, as I would say, fill up your love cup. Okay? So make sure that you have space open on your calendar for the things that fill you with joy. That’s important. Key number one. Um, number two I would say is actually book time on the calendar for this play stuff, right?

We book appointments all day long for clients and doctor’s appointments and everything else, but we often forget to plug in the play time. So I actually put on my calendar, I believe this is what helps sustain my success and happiness, is I broke in, you know, my exercise Zumba time. I broke in a walk. I actually write down and make a placeholder for the fun, um, fun things, whether that taking a nap or reading a book or whatever that is that fills you up.

And then lastly, I would say really spend some time journaling with yourself, you know, quieting the mind and even fighting it a day of really tuning into. Would really, what is my soul or desire? What would, what really makes me feel happy? How do I wanna feel? And your why and when you start on that journey, that’s exactly, that is it, right?

Happiness is, we need to cultivate that in our every day. And so when we create our lives and walk through our life from a place of this level of alignment and truly honoring who we are. Uh, life gets really fun and then, you know, the doors start to open up and you’ll start to experience that synchronistic flow and the wonderful, um, guidance and support that the universe is always there giving you.

So that would be my three things to start with. That is awesome. Well, Jen, I wanna say thank you so very much, uh, for your nuggets and your wisdom folks. Uh, if you have not downloaded our app yet, the Happy Button app, please go to happy button app.com on your smartphone or your tablet, and you can download it.

Jen Gilcrest is one of our feature coaches and you’ll see her on the app and also if you go to the I Am Happy Project website, she’s also one of the feature coaches you’ll hear, see a bio and you see a website. And so if any of the things that she’s saying now connect with you, you definitely wanna connect with her again.

Jen, thank you so much. For this, uh, information, this, uh, money folks, uh, just like any other Monday, the way we end with our tradition and you know, I believe that whatever we focus on is going to grow. And so if you focus on manifesting happiness, guess what’s going to grow in your life. Happiness is gonna grow in your life.

Yay. Alright. Thank you.

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