Manifestation

Now that I view my life through a new filter, I look back and see so many situations that raise questions. It seems that I always kind of had a "spiritual" outlook on things. I never really stressed about anything and just went with the flow. I have always just believed that things would work out for me and honestly they always really have! Now that I've studied different aspects of spirituality, my outlook on life really seems to align with Abraham-Hicks' teachings on the law of attraction.


The law of attraction, for you new comers to these topics, basically states that we create our own reality through the vibrations that we give off. If you wake up dreading the day ahead, the universe will deliver events and people who will fulfill what you expect. If you go into a restaurant expecting bad service, guess what? You'll have terrible service. Luckily, although luck has nothing to do with it, the law of attraction works both ways... If you wake up looking forward to the day and expecting things to work out for you, they will! If you expect to get that job you interviewed for and don't doubt yourself in the least, you will get it. Life literally follows the path of least resistance and goes with the flow.


I look back at certain events in my life and can't help but wonder if I manifested them! I was born chubby. I weighed 10.15 oz  at birth and was always big for my age. I wasn't ever fat, but I might as well have been. I remember being invited over to my now best friend's house for the first time at four years old and hearing her Mama say that she wanted us to become friends since we were both "bigger." Anyway, when I was around twelve years old I began to really long to be slim and trim like most of the girls I was friends with. I thought about it constantly. I would lie in bed at night and just imagine what it would feel like to be skinny and I would literally use every shooting star, birthday candle, or wishing well to ask for a slimmer frame. Suddenly, without any changes in my exercise or eating habits, I slimmed down. For the first time in my life I was very slim and it just seemed like it happened over night. I stayed skinny for several years (until I had babies, haha!). Looking back I see that I held the "dream" in my attention and willed it to happen. I feel like that was one of the first times that I manifested something into physical reality.


Another example is my husband. I was a newly slim 7th grader and he was a cool and handsome senior. He worked at the local Piggly Wiggly as a bag boy and I had a major major crush on him. He was unattainable. I had braces, was 5 years younger than him, and was nobody, but I decided that I would marry him someday! I changed my email password to "Daniel," and offered to run in Piggly Wiggly every single time that we ran out of something. I really liked him and never stopped. I forgot about him for awhile, but anytime I would see his green mustang in town, I'd remember my crush and it would reignite. In eleventh grade I took yearbook for the first time. I had never taken it before and don't know why I did, but I realized that my new friend was his little sister. I told her that I had the biggest crush on her brother and she told me to write down my number. Within a few weeks we were dating! Within a year we were married and expecting a baby. Now nobody says that manifestation is going to be instant, but because I didn't doubt my proclamation that I would marry him, eventually things aligned and I DID! Now I don't know whether this was a manifestation or not, but it definitely feels like I knew him on a soul level and recognized that we had a future together, no matter how silly I seemed for believing it at the time.


Now my next example is undoubtedly a manifestation. I have no other way to explain it! When our first born son was 8 months old we found out that I was expecting again... This news did not sit well with my husband. He saw it as proof that I couldn't handle "birth control" responsibly and he could just see us with 12 children within a decade. I don't blame him, two accidental pregnancies was not a very good track record for a 19 year old. When I was 9 months pregnant with our second son, my husband informed me that he had made an appointment for a vasectomy. He was 24 and I was 19. It seemed like an extreme decision, but I am not very good at saying no and just went along with the decision. Throughout the years I remember saying things like "I just feel like I have another baby left inside of me!", and "Maybe we can adopt someday...", and "I guess when we're older he can have it reversed." It was hard. As the boys got older my longing for another baby became so strong. I prayed for a baby, used every birthday wish and shooting star to beg for one, and even threatened to divorce him over it. It was a huge wedge in our marriage. Well guess what? When our boys were 7 and 8 we had a baby girl! To make a long complicated story short and simple, it turned out that my husband had an infection that reopened the components within him that were blocking semen from being released. After seven years, that just happens? The doctor who redid the procedure said that we had very slim odds of pregnancy, but it all worked out how it was supposed to! Everything aligned and our family is now complete!!! I literally could not be happier!


You see, we are creators. We were made in the image of our creator and we too have the ability to create our own reality. Most of us don't realize it and most of us just create our reality based on responses to the things we see around us. Even in the bible it says "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."(Matthew 7:7) We live in a lovely reality that we can mold and change to suit our desires. The beautiful thing about it is that the work is never done... Once we reach one "goal" another one is birthed within us. We are never satisfied, and that is okay! I'm more careful now about the thoughts that I think (Abraham says that you only have to think of something for 17 seconds in order to begin to make it a reality), and I am more aware of how far being positive and upbeat can go in life. I do not watch the news, I do not get into politics, and I do not harp on negative things that worry me (like chemtrails or cancer), because focusing on those things may make them part of my reality.


Whether you realize it or not, you attract things to yourself. Whether you believe it or not, just give it a try... Listen to a few Abraham videos on YouTube, look at your life and identify times when you've attracted good or bad outcomes to yourself, and just start to try and keep your thoughts and moods in a good and positive zone. It can't hurt to give it a try and see what comes of it! Whether the examples that I gave above were truly manifestations or not, I believe with all of my heart that LOVE and HAPPINESS and OPTIMISM are the keys to HAPPINESS!!! Count your blessings and stay thankful for what you have and it will multiply! These are things that were outlined for us in the bible, and now it is time to take them and apply them in our real lives and in a current, useful, and valid way. I can't wait to see what life has in store for me, and I can't wait to see what it has in store for you either!