Manifesting True Success

Day 1 - Success is a Living Reality

Centering Thought: I create my success from within
Mantra: Sheevo Hum
Meaning: I am in nity

• Write in your journal your vision of a successful life.

• Make a list of three or four worthy goals.
• Describe how you are already living and actualizing certain parts of your worthy goals.

Day 2 - Success Increases Love

Centering Thought: I am here to bring more love into the world
Mantra: Aham Prema
Meaning: I am love

• How do you express love in your work? Write down three ways you emotionally connect at your
job.
• Write about how you share the bene ts of your success with those around you.
• Re ect on the affection you hold for those who share your passion and who are helping you
succeed. Now write down three ways you can strengthen those connections.

Day 3 - Success Frees Your Creativity

Centering Thought: I draw from the wellspring of my creativity
Mantra: Har Haray Haree
Meaning: Creative forces ow through me

• Consider how much of your life is lived creatively, independent of past conditioning and old
beliefs. Do you feel you are ready to let go of some of that conditioning and those constricting
beliefs?
• Write down a description of yourself as a creative spirit who generates your personal reality
from within. List some of the old thoughts, feelings, and attitudes you used to hold on to that
limited your expression.
• Expand on this description of your creative self by envisioning yourself feeling new and
energized each day, eager to embrace the unknown and the possibilities it may bring.

Day 4 - A Successful Body

Centering Thought: I gain lightness and energy from my body
Mantra: Om Ram Ramaya
Meaning: Perfect balance energizes my body

• Today’s meditation encourages us to relate to our body as a trusted friend to ensure it supports
our success. Write about how you can better listen to your body and respond to its signals
when it’s hungry, tired, or stressed.
• List three things you can do to be a protective friend to your body and minimize stresses and
toxins it may be exposed to.
• Knowing that your body likes regular rhythms for eating, sleeping, meditating, and exercising to
help it maintain balance, what adjustments in your routine can you adopt to support your
biorhythms?

Day 5 - A Successful Mind

Centering Thought: I gain insight and inspiration from my mind
Mantra: Om Hreem Namah
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• Explore strategies for improving your relationship with your mind and making it your ally in
success. Write down three ways you can be more creative.
• Sometimes our minds are so active that our mental energy works against us. To address this,
bring to mind a thought or memory that is calming, and induces con dence and trust. Write that
memory down and then hold it gently in your awareness as you breathe deeply for a minute or
so.
• Try not to judge yourself harshly by comparing yourself to people who you see as smarter, more
educated, or cleverer. List the ways your mind is intellectually equipped and well-suited to
giving you the answers, solutions, and insights necessary to make your life a success.

Day 6 - Successful Emotions

Centering Thought: My emotions are my most intimate ally
Mantra: Oh Shanti Om
Meaning: I invoke peace

• To help make your emotions a better ally in your success, you must become better acquainted
with your feelings. Ask yourself, “How do I feel?” and write down in your journal a few words
that describe your emotions.
• Now note how your body feels in relation to those emotions. Do the positive emotions feel more
open, expansive, and light in your body? Do the negative emotions make your muscles,
breathing, and posture feel more contracted, tight, and tense? Write down the feelings you
experience.
• Sit comfortably and notice one of the uncomfortable emotions within. Perhaps it’s a persistent
worry you have about your mother’s health or a dif cult relationship with a coworker. Notice
where that worry is held or felt in your body, then begin to take slow, deep breaths from your
diaphragm. Dialogue with your emotional self and say, “We can manage this worry and start to
feel better.” As you continue to breathe, see your body relax in your mind’s eye and release the
worry it is holding. Write down your experience of how the release process went, and how you
felt afterward.

Day 7 - Success Is Wholeness

Centering Thought: Success ows from my being
Mantra: Sarvatva Namah
Meaning: I open my awareness to wholeness

• Today’s meditation is about recognizing your Being as the root of all your success. Being itself
is abstract and outside of sensory experience, but we can monitor our connection with Being by
noticing how we feel after meditation. After today’s meditation, did you feel more relaxed, clear,
and peaceful? Write down anything you notice. Any feelings of ease and calm indicate a
growing connection to your Being.
• Feeling insecure, anxious, and glum are often indications of disconnection from your state of
Being. When you feel safe, centered, happy, and alert, you are connected to Being. Think back
over the last few days of the Meditation Experience and write down the general feelings you
have after meditation, during your daily activities. Do your feelings during activity indicate
greater connection to Being?
• Our Being is intelligent, creative, and self-organizing. When we connect with it, it automatically
balances and organizes divergent aspects of our life. Have you had an experience where the
organizing power of your Being seemed to solve a problem, without you having to do much?
Maybe it was a misunderstanding with a loved one, where you couldn’t talk to them directly, but
you felt the silent organizing in uence of your Being resolved the issues effortlessly. Write down
an experience where the power of your Being solved a problem.
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 Day 8 - Smart Choices Smooth the Path
Centering Thought: I make choices from my true self
Mantra: Aieem Namah
Meaning: I receive the pure wisdom of life

• Today we learned that success depends on smart choices, and smart choices are not bound by
old habits and beliefs. List a few of these beliefs and habits that hold you to your past.
• Consider how being afraid to act or explore new avenues reinforces inertia and prevents you
from taking timely action. Write down one new choice you can make today that encourages you
to go beyond the comfortable, safe, predictable choices you make unconsciously. It could be as
simple as trying a new dish on the lunch menu, or starting a conversation with a work colleague
you normally walk past.
• It’s important to be aware of our patterns of static choices so that we can change that habit and
opt for dynamic choices. List some of the uncomfortable situations that lead you to make safe,
static, and rigid choices when it comes to your relationships, nances, or career.

Day 9 - Every Choice Can Be Smart

Centering Thought: I Make Smarter Choices Every Day
Mantra: Eem Hreem Shreem
Meaning: My reality is pure intelligence and abundance

• Today’s meditation teaches us the value of stretching our ideas before making a decision. Write
in your journal your ideas on what "stretching" means when it comes to making smart choices.
• Practice mental stretching with a decision that you are currently working on. Perhaps it’s buying
a car, in which case you could consider other cars or ownership options you may not have
thought of before, and talk to people who may not be car experts, but who have a point of view
that could be useful. Write down how opening up to new perspectives can help you make a
smarter decision.
• Re ect on how exible thinking can keep your decision process uid and not stuck behind an
obstacle. Write down an experience you had where an apparent solution had hit a wall, but your
mind didn’t stop and eventually came up with a creative way around the obstacle.

Day 10 - Measuring What Matters

Centering Thought: I control my life by knowing what counts
Mantra: Sharavana Namah
Meaning: My awareness is unbounded and focused

• Measurement is a way of maintaining a perspective on the direction of a project with useful

feedback. Write an example of how you’ve seen the importance of measurement in your own
life – it could even be as simple as knowing your checking account balance.
• One of the most obvious measurements we can use is time. For example, we can ask
ourselves, “Did I spend enough time sleeping last night?” Write about how you can use your
time more effectively in attaining your goals.
• Another way we can apply measurement to our life is to evaluate how much energy and mental
focus we give to various activities. List areas of your life you dedicate a lot of energy toward, but
are not necessarily meaningful to you. List the areas that are more important to you that get too
little attention. Now consider how you can reapportion your energy to match your priorities.

Day 11 - Matching Inner and Outer

Centering Thought: My inner and outer worlds mesh perfectly
Mantra: Om Houm Namah
Meaning: I open my awareness to divine grace
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 • Meshing your inner world with the outer world requires you to nd your center where the two
meet. Write down any past experiences in which you have felt the calm, centering awareness
that comes from your inner and outer worlds being in agreement.
• Take one of those experiences, in which you felt you were in the “zone” and everything owed
effortlessly. Describe that knowingness inside that you were doing precisely what was needed
at exactly the right time. That is agreement of the inner and outer.
• Think of another time where you acted while you were feeling upset, anxious, or ill. Write about
the difference in the outcome of those actions, compared to the time when you felt centered
and calm.

Day 12 - To Succeed Is to Grow and Flourish

Centering Thought: I can feel myself growing every day
Mantra: Om Shreem Namah
Meaning: I let divine joy, abundance, and beauty into my life

• Our inner growth and pursuit of success require feedback from the self. Write down the different
ways your body, emotions, and mind give you feedback. Being aware of this feedback is a way
of recording your progress.
• Take the list of feedback you wrote above and explain what messages your progress is showing
you. For example, when your body feels light and energized, it shows that your body is moving
closer to its goal of wellbeing.
• Write down some of the feedback you are noticing from your body, mind, and emotions, and
then make a general assessment of how well you are growing and progressing.

Day 13 - Timing for Success

Centering Thought: I allow the ow of time to move me forward
Mantra: Om Kala Namah
Meaning: I allow cosmic time to guide me

• Take one of your worthy goals and set a time frame for attaining a major step toward that goal.
For example, with the goal of having more friends, you might give yourself a month to make
three new acquaintances. Write down your goal, your next step, and the time frame to get
there.
• List all the different activities that apportion your time: work time, play time, quiet time, social
time, down time, physical time, and sleep time. Next to each area, write down how much time
you give yourself for that activity each day.
• Write down next to each activity how that period of time nurtures you, and how it enriches the
quality of your day rather than detracts from it.

Day 14 - Trusting Your Decisions

Centering Thought: I trust that my life ts a larger plan
Mantra: Eem Hreem Kleem
Meaning: I draw knowledge and truth to my core self

• When we are in touch with our higher intelligence, we can make the uncertainties of life our
friend. We feel this greater purpose that carries life forward, even though we cannot see or
anticipate how all the details t together. Write about an experience in your life where a great
uncertainty was resolved when you released your need to control events, and in which you
were able to relax into your higher self and embrace the uncertainty.
• Uncertainties that present themselves as life crises or major setbacks to our goals can
undermine our sense of trust. These events challenge us to go deeper within our Being, and
eventually lead us to the understanding that even these disappointments and frustrations are
serving our evolution. The growth that comes from living through these crises with awareness
and openness create an even deeper trust, and become important components of our success.
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 Describe an experience in your journal where going through a crisis led to a deeper feeling of
trust within.
• Describe other insights you gained going through this experience. Aside from developing a
more profound level of trust, did you uncover unknown resources of inner wisdom and strength
that made you a more complete and successful person?

Day 15 - Success Organizes Itself

Centering Thought: I use the organizing power of my awareness
Mantra: Shree Gum Namah
Meaning: I open my awareness to unlimited possibilities

• Re ect on your old strategy for organizing your life: trying to control every detail, multitasking
three or four activities at the same time, and using willpower and emotional intensity to impose
order. Was that a successful strategy that achieved long term results? Did you gain support
from others? Did it allow you to feel relaxed and satis ed afterward?
• For awareness to organize your daily activities, it must be centered, calm, and alert. When your
awareness is agitated, upset, or tired, your day will not be successful. Write about the events of
two different days that represent those opposite states of awareness.
• The organizing power of consciousness creates a natural ow to the events of your day.
Describe a time when you felt well-connected to your source, and everything owed smoothly
the entire day.

Day 16 - Synchronizing Body and Mind

Centering Thought: I let body and mind act in harmony
Mantra: Om Ram Ramaya
Meaning: Perfect balance energizes my body

• For your mind and body to work together to create balance, the mind must be responsive and
the body must be adaptable enough to return to a resting state. Recall a time when you had to
respond to a stressful situation, and your mind and body worked together to quickly bring you
back into balance.
• Bio-rhythms are Nature’s patterns of motion that keep the body functioning smoothly. Since
disruption of our bio-rhythms is typically due to the mind, not the body, what mental choices can
you make that will support your body’s biorhythms?
• Since sleep is our most important bio-rhythm, what three things can you do to ensure you get a
full and deep sleep every night?

Day 17 - Taking Advantage of Unpredictability

Centering Thought: I turn unpredictability into a creative possibility
Mantra: Om Purnamidam
Meaning: I invoke the fullness of universal Being

• Unpredictability is recognition of the limitations of our conscious awareness, and we make

friends with it by relying on our unlimited, unbounded awareness. Write about an experience in
which the relaxed and open awareness after meditation allowed you to be more comfortable
with an unpredictable situation.
• Many people fear what is unpredictable because it feels uncontrollable. Write about something
unpredictable that is a source of fear for you. Now reframe that fear as merely an unknowable
future and see it as an opportunity for a creative response.
• Now expand this vision by writing down how this fear serves your evolution as something that
ts into and is an essential part of your larger life plan.

Day 18 - Success Meets No Resistance

Centering Thought: I always intend to be in the ow
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Meaning: I invoke the nurturing, protective power of Mother Nature

• Take notice of an area of your life that you usually resist. Maybe you feel yourself emotionally
pushed back when a certain person starts to dominate a staff meeting. Write down an
alternative response for yourself next time, one in which you don’t feel the need to control the
situation and aren’t threatened by anyone’s behavior.
• When awareness expands, trust grows. Write about an experience in which you gave more
freedom to someone, and discovered things turned out better than if you had tried to control
and micromanage each step.
• Write about a way you can practice alert, appreciative awareness with someone today. It might
be praising someone for taking the initiative, or for contributing a helpful idea.

Day 19 - Success Is Without Judgment

Centering Thought: I nd my success without judging others or myself
Mantra: Karuna Hum
Meaning: I open my consciousness to universal compassion

• Judgment is a major block to success is often unconscious, therefore we need to take an

honest look at judgment. How are you judgmental with others? How are you making their
decisions and behavior wrong or somehow bad?
• How are you judgmental with yourself? Write down the ways you may be subtly, or not so
subtly, judging yourself harshly.
• To help free yourself and others from judgment, recognize that everyone is making the best
decisions they know how to with the awareness they have at the time. Think about someone
you know whose actions seem negative to you, and write down ways in which that person may
believe what they are doing will bring them happiness.

Day 20 - Success Finds Its Own Path

Centering Thought: I value my uniqueness and rejoice in it
Mantra: Siddho Hum
Meaning: I am perfect and complete as I am

• You are unique in the world, and your success is also unique. Write down your special talents,
gifts, and perspectives that will make your success in the world unique.
• Learning how you t in and relate to others is part of your uniqueness. It is how you gain
support from others for your success and how you contribute to the success of others. List
some of the ways you share yourself and enrich the lives of those around you with your talents,
your conversation, or, simply, your presence.
• Consider how you are enriched and enlarged by those around you as well. List the ways your
social network supports your uniqueness and your success.

Day 21 - Success Comes from All Directions

Centering Thought: I open every avenue for my success
Mantra: Akhando Hum
Meaning: I am the in nite

• All success comes from expanded awareness. Write about how this Meditation Experience has
broadened your awareness.
• Describe how your understanding of success has evolved during the course of this Meditation
Experience.
• Write about your personal vision of success. Look at the worthy goals you listed on the rst day
and make any adjustments you feel necessary.
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Day 22 - The Success That Transcends Success
Centering Thought: I exist beyond all limitations
Mantra: Aham Brahmasmi
Meaning: I am the wholeness of life

• Was there any particular experience or idea during these past 22 days that had a profound
transformative effect on you, a kind of “aha” moment?
• As you continue manifesting your successful life, take notice of others around you who are
models of success in certain parts of their lives. List two or three people with life skills you
admire and would like to emulate.
• Bring to mind those close to you who may be looking to you as a role model – your children, co-
workers, even friends and associates. Recognize that as you discover your own version of a
successful life, you may be helping others nd their own successful life at the same time. Write
down the ways in which you inspire, guide, and uplift those close to you.
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