I had struggled for years without this key. In fact, at times, I found myself having serious doubts about my belief system and chosen life path. If I truly create my own reality, why would it be so difficult to consciously determine my experience? Why did it seem like negative manifesting was so much easier than the positive? If I possessed any intelligence at all, why wasn't I getting the results I wanted?

Part one of the answer came a few years back in the form of Lynn Grabhorn. In the audio series Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, she stresses the importance of feeling as you visualize your desires. To borrow from the band Queensryche, it “hit me like a two-ton heavy thing.” While listening to her own success stories, I found myself transported back to the times in my life when I had consciously manifested – experiences both good and bad – and was reminded of the powerful emotions I generated prior to my intentions taking physical form.

After the excitement of Lynn's message wore off, I again fell back into the slumber of day-to-day life. It seems most of us, at least in western cultures, are taught that physical action is the primary (if not sole) cause of physical results. Despite learning at such an early age that my/our source is spiritual, not physical, I quickly retreated into the habit of micro-managing my experience through predominant physical action. It didn't take long before I was feeling greater frustration than prior to hearing Grabhorn's series.

Fast forward to this year. In a one-two punch, I was presented with material by Dr. Robert Anthony ( Know How to Be Rich ), and a movie called The Secret . Dr. Anthony took two decades of metaphysical education and tied it all together, beautifully filling in the gaps. As with Lynn Grabhorn, Anthony speaks of the importance of emotion. The Secret delivers essentially the same message, accompanied by powerful visuals and special effects.

To say I was “blown away“ by this material would be a huge understatement. I was literally brought to tears many times, both listening to Dr. Anthony and watching the The Secret . These were tears releasing so many years of frustration and self-doubt; tears of gratitude and joy in “finally getting it.” I now know the sequence, and where to place the emphasis, in the manifestation process.

The final component (at least for me) is integrating emotion into the visualization equation. Words, mantras, affirmations and self-talk are powerful and necessary, but can take time. They form the vehicle in which we drive around to our “field of infinite possibilities” superstores and collect our desires. Emotions fuel that vehicle. Words by themselves can get us where we want, akin to getting out and pushing our transport – slowly, and likely painfully. Emotions – truly focused and powerful emotions, coupled with imagination – can supercharge that car and rapidly manifest our desires.