Gratitude & Manifestions

November 12, 2009

I landed at the Oakland airport, on a sunny day in 1997. My mom came to rescue me from a dead end situation in Seattle, and as we drove back to her place in Napa, we started talking about manifestion. and it’s link to the force of gratitude.

From this one spark of conversation, came a new way of thinking that changed my life, forever. I tried thinking on what I was grateful for. And sure, at first it was awkward and embarrassing. All I could think of were money and material related things (hey, I was 23.) I yearned for a great romantic love. I wanted a job that stimulated and appreciated me. I wanted to own a big ranch. All I could think about were my far off dreams, not the things in front of me. With reluctance, I expressed gratitude for my health. (big whup). Then for my mom, for paying for me to take a weekend break from my pathetic life in Seattle. (Moderate gratitude-ok, this sort of works.) Then for my best friend, Dee (wow, big wave of love there-cool!) Pretty soon, I was finding all kinds of things that made me happy in tiny, incremental ways. The sunny sky. The working car, hurtling us down the freeway. The laughter from good music (Weird Al Yankovic). It was WEIRD, realizing how much my mind was actually picking up from my environment, until I really started to notice it.

and when we had run through a breathless, LONG giggling list of things we found, Mom started to tell me…

“Okay, see the way the Universe expresses itself is through Abundance, and Diversity. The Universe doesn’t edit your expression. If you say, ‘ I want to fall in love. I want to be over this flu.’ then the Universe will GIVE you an abundance of you WANTING to fall in love. OF WANTING to be over the flu. If you really want to manifest your intent, you need to express it as if it’s already happening, then release it utterly into the hands of the Universe. Whatever you spoke, wrote down, or expressed, WILL come into being, if you are clear in your intent.”

WHOA! Can I just say–HOLY WHOA!!

So I tried it.I could feel how open my heart was after expressing gratitude, especially out loud. I‘ve always believed that words are like keys in doors. If you can find the right words or combinations of words, you can open any door to people, to places…to the world. There is a power and grace in the spoken word. It’s magic in action.

the opening this creates will blow your mind!

So I decided to do two things with my own manifestations-speak them out loud, and add some bread and butter daily ones, to keep up the caliber of life I wanted to make for myself.

Because I love my readers so much, I will share some of them with you.

Everywhere I go today, I will be on time.
I am healthy, happy and whole, guided, guarded and protected at all times.
I am refreshed and relaxed as if I had a restful night’s sleep.
I am singing, dancing, and writing.
Money is flowing into my life~~ easily and effortlessly~~.
I intend the highest possible good for all my loved ones. (Here I insert prayers for specific people, such as Devilish who is recovering from a devastating accident-I found out through his mom Highjinks’s posts.)

Then I get into more specific intent regarding life path, home/hearth, love, and travel. Speaking the words out loud, sending my dreams and hopes into the ether..flat out, people, is POWERFUL medicine. I encourage you to do this RIGHT NOW. Yes, you can [[whisper]] it at your monitor if you like. I will wait. Don’t feel weird, it’s been time to start doing this anyway.

a Rubens tube uses sound waves to make fire!

I was doing this faithfully for years, then only sporadically. I realized that I felt a bit demanding of the Universe, and I wasn’t sure what I was doing to balance that out. But now, I’ve been back to doing them every morning, and my heart is the happier for it.

Quan Yin is still in my life. Her presence touches me continually, and I feel a better woman made for it. But Gratitude and Manifestation are also two forces I could not do without. When I think that my life used to be battered about, on the waves of my emotions, that I had no control, no sense of which way was sky and which way was earth.. that no lifevest could help me, only the occasional random wave would fall back, so I could gasp of fresh air..

create a loop, then follow the road.

Well. Hallelujah to Now, is all I can say.

It doesn’t matter what you believe, insofar as Universe, the Buddha, or Jesus. At the very least, can you believe in yourself? What was the first time you decided to show your individual spirit?

I intend to Believe!