One day, a professor decided to visit a famous Zen master…The professor was keen to prove to the master how much he knew about Zen. As the professor babbled, the master poured his cup to the brim… and then continued to pour.

“My cup is full!” cried the professor, “Stop pouring!”

“You are this cup”, the master replied, “Unless you first empty your cup I cannot teach you anything.”

I think manifesting what you want is like making tea!

To enjoy the perfect cup of tea you must first empty your cup. If you forget to do that, you end up making a real mess!

In today’s modern world, we’re already totally overloaded with stress and past programming. In my experience, adding more programming when your cup is already full, just creates poor results and obscures who we really are.

We are the emptiness not the tea.

However, the more programming we add, the more we hide our true essence and the more mess we make. That’s how a worthy desire can become entangled in reactive emotions, stress and other conflicting patterns of the mind.

In addition to what was in your cup to begin with, now you have all the extra thinking about your desire – “What if my desire manifests?” “What if it doesn’t manifest?” Plus all the extra emotion – the fear of success and the fear of failure, or the frustration of having to wait longer than 2 seconds And how do most people respond to all that unecessary tea? That’s right -

More positive self programming!

That’s a recipe for internal conflict, fatigue and poor results. In my experience, “The Secret” and the law of attraction works far better when you first “empty your cup”. The breathing and meditation practices I teach are designed to clear a space inside so that the emptiness that you already are can shine through.

That’s the first step.

When we reach that clear place, then everything else seems to fall into place.

What you truly want becomes clear – manifesting is no longer something that “you” do – rather it’s inspired. The right focus for your power and the right actions then become obvious.

If you’d like to know more about my daily practice for doing this, click here.

Be happy,

Matt

Matt Clarkson
The Mind-Body Training Company