It’s been a while since my last post here. I have been dealing with some unfavorable circumstances in life and having my human feelings about them. But I know those feelings are not me.
I think there is still a misconception in this community that you have to feel good or be constantly bringing good things into your life to speak on manifestation. Even though I say I’m not a coach, I have struggled with a fair amount of impostor syndrome speaking or writing about the teachings of Neville Goddard. Full disclosure: my life is not anywhere near where I want it to be, but a couple of things that have happened recently have reminded me of my power.
On Friday, work meetings caused the morning to get away from me a little, and I didn’t have a chance to shower. I finally had a break mid-morning and something told me that I needed to go ahead and get my shower in. I had a fleeting thought that they could turn the water off for emergency repairs. So I did, and when I finished and got out of the shower, I saw an email from the leasing office about water to be shut off for emergency repairs - sent right around the time I had that thought.
Maybe this is more an example of thought transmission, but it stood out to me because it’s not something that happens regularly here. I had no reason to think they would shut the water off. It was just a tiny thought that I had no attachment to, and I let it pass the moment I stepped into the shower.
As another example, I have a friend that lives in another state, and I hadn’t spoken to her since September. I had thoughts of reaching out to her between then and now, but I had so much going on, I didn’t write to her until recently. And after I initiated the text with her, she responded and said, “I was just about to sit down and write you an email.”
Again, this is a perfect example of thought transmission and how it works. Because we only have our own thoughts, and sometimes the external world doesn’t validate them immediately, it can be easy to imagine that we’re just in this vacuum, believing our thoughts about others go unnoticed or unreturned. How many times did I think about my friend before I actually texted her? And how many times did she think about me before she started on that email?
I have another person that I know through my work. She lives in another country. We text each other periodically, and usually she initiates. I was thinking this week: “I should really text her to see how she’s doing.” But I didn’t do it right then as I thought of it because, again, a lot of things were going on. That very same day as I had that strong thought of reaching out to her, she texted me!
In both of these cases, I had no resistance to getting contact from these people because I don’t have any negative stories running in my mind about them. I know they care about me and that we’ll be connecting, and I don’t have any attachment to the when or the how. And in both of these cases, I manifested contact from a specific person. That’s how easy it is.
Manifestation may not always seem like a grand miracle. Yes, people manifest lottery wins. Yes, people manifest their dream jobs, dream relationships, homes, cars, all the things we think of as big. The truth is you’re always manifesting, even when you’re running errands or going out for your morning coffee. (I also manifested someone in the drive-thru at Dunkin’ paying for my coffee recently. The free coffee manifestation has indeed happened for me too.)
Now, when I say that I manifested contact from a “specific person,” a lot of people might think of a person they want to be in a romantic relationship with. I do believe it is possible and have read many success stories where people did manifest a specific person in this sense. But a lot of the time, people may struggle because of the negative stories running on repeat in their minds. “Oh, s/he won’t contact me because…”
Whatever comes after the ellipsis there is what you need to shift. Think the opposite. “Of course s/he will contact me, because they love knowing what is going on in my life and I am important to them.” Or try the what if method: But what if they did reach out? How would I feel then?
I get it, because I have experienced the old stories continually coming up too. I know what it is like for the mind to give you a plethora of reasons why something won’t happen, and many of these reasons will be based on things that occurred in the past or even our own limiting beliefs about ourselves. I want you to see the truth of this and the reason why many law of assumption teachers and coaches tell you to drop the old story. You are so powerful without that story. You know the one I mean – it’s the story that holds you back or tells you that something is impossible. Nothing is impossible. It is only your thinking that makes it seem so.
I am still in the process of dropping some old, unfavorable stories, so let’s do it together. I intend that I will soon have a blog post about a “big” manifestation, and I will come back and inspire you with it. In the meantime, I hope you will choose to remember your power. Even if you’re feeling down, you’re still manifesting. It’s not something to do or to stop doing. You already are doing it all the time. So why not create something beautiful for yourself?