This is a picture of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. It is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, with its deep azure waters surrounded by lush volcanic peaks, and extraordinarily happy locals.
I was gifted the pleasure of visiting there in 2005 when I was using The Charmed Life Formula.
I was invited to be a guest on a month-long retreat at a metaphysical centre sited at one of the towns along the shores of the lake. However, as fate would have it, I never did go on that retreat, as a few days before we were to depart, Hurricane Stan ripped through the area and set off a chain of fatal landslides around the lake.
At the last minute, plans were changed and I spent most of the trip attending Spanish school in Antigua, Guatemala – which was, in fact, my real heart’s desire as I had wanted to learn Spanish for as long as I could remember.
I spent approximately three weeks of a five-week vacation attending Spanish school in Guatemala, with the rest of the time spent sight-seeing around the country (including a short visit to Lake Atitlán.)
At Spanish school, I was assigned my very own teacher for one-to-one lessons, four hours per day. It was bliss.
I learned more Spanish in those few weeks in Guatemala than I had done in the years prior to my visit, or in the nearly ten years that have followed.
The thing is, learning Spanish when you are surrounded by spoken and written English is slow-going and strangely difficult.
On the other hand, learning Spanish when you are in a Spanish-speaking country and taking lessons four hours per day is fast-going and strangely easy.
This is what is known as “immersion.” Immerse yourself in the language and you’ll pick it up faster.
Well, it turns out that this principle works not only for language learning but for other areas of life too.
For example, I read a story of a woman who was sick and diagnosed with an untreatable disease. She got the idea to move to Rome to study the healing miracles of Jesus. She immersed herself in researching miracles to the point where she forgot about her sick body. After some time she realized that she was no longer sick and she herself had experienced a healing.
When I read that story I realised this woman had done for her body in Rome what I had done for my Spanish skills in Guatemala. She took an “immersion vacation” and changed her results.
Then I came across more stories of people who used the same formula but without the foreign travel. My favourite of these stories is the one Denise Linn tells of how she manifested AND married her husband in three weeks.
One day Denise decided she wanted to get married but she had no prospects in her life at that time. So she made a vision board – a visual representation of what she wanted – and hung that board up on the back of her bathroom door. Every time she went to use the toilet she would look at her vision board and immerse herself in the feeling of being married.
Within three weeks she met and married her husband David, and they have been married now for 40+ years. That all happened because she took an immersion vacation with her mind.
I’ve come across so many of these immersion stories that I now incorporate them into the work that I do.
For example, when I work with a client who has experienced results they don’t want for a long time, we take a virtual immersion vacation together. We immerse ourselves – if only for a short time each day – in the vibration of the experience they say they do want and take a break (vacation) from that which is unwanted.
A very simple way to do this is to spend some time each day researching stories of people who have experienced the kind of result you wish to experience. Immerse yourself in that for as much time as you can spare each day and within a month you will notice a difference.
So The Guatemala Formula is simple and can be used by anyone: immerse yourself in what you want to experience and you will find yourself making a whole lot of progress in a short amount of time.
How to use The Guatemala Formula in your own life:
- What area of your life do you want to shift or make progress in?
- Find a way to take an actual or virtual, immersion vacation to your desired result. For example, if you are wanting to experience a physical healing you could spend time every day reading stories or watching movies about people who have experienced a physical healing.
- One of my favourite resources for positive result stories can be found here.
- If you do end up taking an immersion vacation, drop me an email and let me know your results.
Louise x
