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The Law of Personal Creation states that what you think, feel and expect will shape the reality you experience on the physical plane. Although many people are familiar with this law as being related to the Law of Attraction, only a relatively small number actually know it from personal experience. This Inner Temple exercise is therefore designed to help you view the law of personal creation in your own life, both past and present, and prepare you to make deliberate use of it in the future.
Go to your Inner Temple and think of your life, from your earliest memories to the events of today. Now recall, as objectively and honestly as you can, the attitudes and expectations which preceded key events in your life.
For example, perhaps you may recall something that happened that disappointed you. Think about your attitudes and feelings before this event. How might your inner thoughts have helped to create the disappointment that you later experienced? How might things have developed differently if you had adopted a different attitude or different feelings?
Explore as many key events in your life as you can, and keep in mind that your reality is your own creation. Study your key events and try to see how and why they manifested themselves in your life. What can you learn from these cause-effect discoveries?
Once you have gained an understanding of how you yourself have created your own reality in the past and in the present, realise that your future is not yet written. You can experience any kind of future you desire if you deliberate put the law of personal creation to work in your life. To do this, simply memorise and act on the following truth: Your expectations determine your outcomes!
Expect success and you will get it. Maybe not immediately, but surely. Of course, expect failure and you will get that too. The law of personal creation is not selective – it will simply give you what you ask, and your consistent expectations are the requests that you are putting out into the universe.
Explore this Law of Personal Creation in your Inner Temple, and before long you will discover deep down inside that you are the creator of your own reality. All you need to do is start creating on purpose instead of in some haphazard ‘automatic’ manner.
You can use your Inner Temple to explore aspects of the universe that most people don’t even think about. In this post and the next I will describe how to do just that so that you can explore both the nature of reality and the law of personal creation. Let use start with the Nature of Reality…
Exploring the nature of reality sounds quite daunting, but all it really involves is spending some time questioning just how real your inner reality is when compared with external reality. This exercise can provide many breakthroughs in your knowledge of your true spiritual identity and in the way you live your day to day life. To start exploring the nature of reality, proceed as follows:
Sit in your inner temple and look around. Now ask yourself: Is this place real? It may not be physical, because you know that you created it with your imagination, but is your inner temple real nevertheless?
Now think about the nature of physical reality. Is that real? You think it is, for you live in physical reality. But what if both inner reality and outer reality were just two different aspects of the same dream? What if your entire life is a dream and you are really the dreamer of that dream?
Explore this concept further in any way you choose. Here are some other questions you might like to ask yourself:
- If I am the dreamer of this dream of reality, where is the dreamer?
- What is the purpose of this dream of reality?
- Is physical reality nothing more than a mass illusion?
- If I am the dreamer, and my reality is my dream, how can I change the reality I experience?
- By asking these questions, am I, the dreamer, beginning to wake up within the dream?
- What would happen if I became fully awake and realised that my life is a dream of my own creation?
This exercise has nothing to do with health, wealth or success. Rather, it is an exercise designed to do just one thing: help you further along the road to true awareness and clarity. Once you have carried out this exercise several times, you may well find that your new understandings of reality make the manifestation of health, wealth and success child’s play, but I will leave you to discover that for yourself.
An inner temple (also referred to as an inner sanctuary) is an environment built in your imagination for the purpose of spiritual retreat and work. It does not have to be a ‘temple building’ as such, but it can be any place where you will feel relaxed, at peace and able to focus your energy on a regular basis. Here are some inner environments which are commonly used for temple work:
- A log cabin situated next to a babbling mountain brook. Here the sky is clear blue, the mountains green and the air fresh and invigorating. Inside, the cabin is simply furnished with an open fire, a comfortable chair, and any other items you find necessary to make this inner temple appealing.
- A stretch of coastline, unmarred by human construction. Your temple in this case is not confined to a building. Instead, your spiritual work and play is enjoyed on the sandy beach as you watch the surf of the clear blue ocean lap back and forth.
- A ‘Garden of Eden’, with all manner of exotic plants and wildlife helping to surround you with the beauty of nature. In this kind of inner temple, there is often an open glade area where you can sit and carry out your energy work.
There are many other kinds of inner temples which you can choose to build, but the three examples that I have just provided should illustrate that your temple doesn’t have to be a building in the conventional sense. With that fact established, you should now start creating your inner temple – your personal oasis of spiritual peace, power and enjoyment. To do this, simply follow the guidelines below:
- Go to a place which is quiet and where you will be free from distractions for at least half an hour.
- Sit or lay in a comfortable position, close your eyes and spend a few minutes relaxing your body.
- When you feel totally relaxed, imagine your inner temple as clearly as you can. For example, if your temple is to be a log cabin in the mountains, see the cabin from the outside. Look at the scenery around you. Breath in the fresh, crisp air. Hear the babbling brook nearby.
- Now enter your temple and look around. Notice the flickering fireplace. Sit down in the comfortable chair in your temple space and simply enjoy being in this new place.
- Now affirm: ‘This is my inner temple. This is my personal oasis where I can come and be at peace with myself and the universe. This is where I can focus my spiritual energy for the benefit of my ongoing evolvement as a spiritual being.’
- When you feel that you have spent long enough in your temple, decide to return to normal waking consciousness and open your eyes.
Repeat this simple exercise every day for a week or two and your inner temple will soon begin to feel very real. This is because it is real as far as the inner plane of reality is concerned. You have built a personal oasis in your imagination – an oasis you should feel able to retreat to whenever you wish for the purpose of carrying out spiritual work or simply relaxing and enjoying the environment.
