Cloning is very much in the news today. Dolly the sheep may have forever changed the certainty of old traditions like “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” There is no question that all of the science around the subject is cutting edge. Neither is there any doubt that genetic research in general and cloning in particular will need to undergo an ethical scrutiny that is unprecedented. So how can you use the principle of cloning now-without a big investment in laboratories, chemicals and an assistant with a properly gothic name?

The answer is the same as how we have used the computer, and then the hologram in describing our minds–metaphorically. Because it is our fertile imagination that is the real source for all these scientific “advances,” it only makes sense that useful advances can be reflexively applied to our imaginations with, perhaps, even more fantastic results. This procedure works particularly well if a good friend guides you through it. You may also record it and play it back to yourself. You may also schedule an appointment with me for a coaching session. The following procedure is a thought experiment.

One warning: Put on your goggles and be careful of what you wish for-this can be a powerful way to contact your own prodigious resources.

The Procedure

Step One: Sit comfortably and relax. Take five deep breaths and let each breath take you further into the center of your inner sanctuary. This is the center of your safety and peacefulness.

Step Two: Clearly (silently or aloud) state your desire. What would you like more of in your life? Why not “lots” more?

Step Three: Visualize success. See a perfect clone of you, sitting just as you do, across the room, dressed in clothes just like yours. But there is a difference. The clone is still an empty slate, a clean whiteboard, with no beliefs, thoughts, feelings or gestures…yet. You will be sending all those things over…but not yet. Just notice….thinking about what you want more of:

• Send over only those beliefs that would make your clone more resourceful. Notice how those additions change your clone’s appearance.

• Send over the thoughts and strategies that your clone might need to get more of what you want. Since you are only sending what’s valuable, you may notice new differences in your clone.

• Send over just (and only) those emotions that increase your clone’s confidence and sense of self-worth. Keep doing this until you see a special change in your clone’s facial expression.

• Send over just the gestures and moves that help your clone to elegantly express the feelings it has as it steadily and surely gets more of what it now, too, wants.

Step Four: Test the feeling. Close your eyes if they are not already closed. Allow your relaxed and receptive self to float out of your body and over and down into your clones body. Its eyes are closed now just like yours. Do not open them yet. Just settle into the clone’s body, so much like yours, but resourced with only your best. Gently…slowly…open the clone’s eyes…and look out…noticing how things look, sound and feel from this special perspective. Make any adjustments needed by your clone…and then float back into your own body. Gently open your eyes and look at your clone. Is there anything else you’d like to send to your clone? Anything at all? Send those things now.

Step Five: When your clone is just right for getting more of what you really want, imagine that you can see the clone rising from the seated position…elegantly to its feet, and gracefully, slowly turning in a dance-like way to spin before you and sit down…into your body…that’s right…right to the center of you…fully at one with you now…all these resources were yours before and, because of the way you have organized them, somehow are even more surely yours now.

Step Six: Now let it go. Just release this whole exercise to settle into your every cell…into the very marrow of your bones. Shift your attention to the feelings you will have when you begin to receive more and more of what you want.

Step Seven: Trust that you have done all that you need to do to instruct your Unconscious mind to support you in your preparations. Trust that in many of the most important ways, an engine of opportunity has already been put into service.

Some people find it very beneficial to take a walk or talk with a good friend when they complete this exercise. Enjoy! And let us know about your successes. One friend asked if they could use this over and over for different things. We said, “No, (grin) it only works once.” Please…use it again and again!

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