For everything showing up meaningfully in your reality, taking full ownership of how it’s you who is making it matter moment after moment is a key part of stepping into your full power. It’s you who makes something matter when you think about it, talk about it, replay it in your mind over and over, and bring it up at every opportunity. You are the meaning maker. What you give attention to, what you focus on, what you create individual and shared awareness around is what becomes a meaningful experience in your reality. If it’s meaningful, it’s because you’ve made it that way.

Resistance during the process of deliberate creation comes in many forms, a common form of which is the anticipation of rejection from your environment. To continually project a negative environment out before you and then live and express your moments in relationship to that projection is to continually expect rejection to be what meets you at every turn. A negative environment is one in which you anticipate denial of your desires, wants, and/or needs from the world. The root of it is a premise that says your environment, the world, the universe cannot or will not give you your desire, cannot or will not meet your needs, cannot or will not fulfill your wants, cannot or will not support you in the ways you desire to be supported. In short, it is a belief in an unresponsive Universe. 

​Your indoctrination into earth life, into embodied experience may make it feel like at times that other people can create in your reality, that their decisions, their behaviors, their thoughts and feelings about you can determine what you do and don’t experience. Such a belief then makes you behave in ways where you are continually trying to assess and influence what others think, feel, and do where you’re concerned. 

​Emotional self-validation is an essential practice on the path of deliberate creation. Part of emotional maturity, a necessary milestone in your ability to call forth whatever you desire to experience and experience it, is knowing how valid your emotional reality is, is knowing and accepting yourself as an emotional being – this requires both a higher level of awareness and a higher level of self-acceptance, a willingness to acknowledge and accept the gamut of emotional realities that swirl and curl within the layers of your being. 

​How do you appraise yourself in your life? What is your sense of value and worth right now in all aspects of your experience – in your relationships, in your career, in your creativity? What is that sense based on? Are you valuable and worthy just as you are? Do you matter just as you are? Or do you need to be something else, achieve more, generate more, do more, be "better than" to feel like you have value and worth in life, in the world?

​One of the more critical explorations of your psychological evolution is your relationship to value and worth.