Please talk about non-attachment to outcomes and how to reconcile that with goal setting.
The key to manifesting is to hold a vision vividly in your heart and to release it. The emotional charge powers the vision and it is through non-attachment that the vision can become manifest. Non-attachment is the absence of clinging. Clinging is a perpetual reinforcement of lack, of an anticipated loss.
Non-attachment to outcome is not to be mistaken for lack of desire/or rather intention. Desire too is a slippery notion in so much as it crosses over easily to clinging. The first spark of desire is a pure impulse. It is charged by emotion in a moment of inspired vision. It is in this moment that vision can be ignited to form itself in the material. After the initial spark, the crystal purity of the moment easily gives way to wanting and attachment. The attachment to the outcome reinforces its absence and dims the possibility that the spark may expand to become the flame of the dream made manifest.
What is important is to connect directly with the vivid experience of the outcome, without the longing. To experience the goal as complete, with all the attendant emotion. Each time you think of the goal, refocus your experience to one of the present rather than one of possibility. Bring the completion into the NOW. Discipline your focus to BE the outcome rather than longing for it. In the experience of the moment, there is no attachment to the moment you are living.
In the setting of goals, it is all too easy to approach it as if composing a wish list. And indeed, you may initially be defining your goals from wishes, defined from a sense of lack. The thing to remember is that once a circumstance is manifest, there is no attachment to outcome, there is only the living of it. The outcome dissolves into the experience of the moment. The future dissolves into the present and all there is, is the moment and the richness it brings.
Choose to use goals as markers, as directional becacons. Experience them as complete, in your body, in your bones. Focus on the moment, the moment holds the magic of pure presence, the creation of Reality in the living of it. Time as a barrier, slips away and the present is all there is. You control the present in that you control your experience of it. By bringing the vision of your desires, your goals, into the present moment, you harness the power of creation. In the moment all things are possible.