Buttons & Castles

Today I want to share with you a profound little manifestation of mine (tomorrow I'll share a much bigger one!). This manifestation has impressed me greatly. Though small, it has made big changes in my understanding of how to manifest ... anything!

I manifested a button. An unusual button. It happened like this...

I was at the home of another Abing couple and my friend, Jan, started talking about how she can FEEL the button in her hand. She was so passionate about it she held her hand, palm open and upward in front of her, stared at it, and encouraged Pete and I to do the same thing. Couldn't we FEEL it too? Well, I COULD! I still CAN! I've done this with money before and I could feel the light touch of paper on my palm. Anyway, the three of us stood there and tried to feel the button in the palm of our hands and it was so delicious. When I left their house for my 30-minute ride home, I thought about the button in my hand and the rocket I'd launched some time ago to be able to manifest things right in the palm of my hand, or "out of thin air," as I'd been phrasing it for a couple of years. It felt so fun and exciting to just tumble all these thoughts and feelings around within me as I drove home. I was actually laughing out loud in the car!

When I got home, my son came upstairs to greet me and said he had something for me. He held out his hand in a fisted fashion and just stood there grinning at me in delight. I thought, it must be something really interesting for him to be this tickled. Anyway, he said, "hold out your hand," and I did and he placed the object into my hand.

It looked like a token with an interesting Aztec or Mayan pattern on it. It was so interesting that I didn't catch at first that the two dark circles I'd taken for "eyes" were HOLES.

It was a BUTTON!

I'd manifested a button in less than 45 minutes. And actually, when I thought about it, I'd manifested immediately because he got it from work on an impulse just before he clocked out. That meant he'd gotten it just about exactly when we were standing with our hands open in my friends' kitchen!

It was a thrilling moment for me, silly as it may seem.

It was piddly.
It was impersonal.
It was insignificant.
It was preposterous.
It was poignant.
It was perfect.

Most of all, it was FUN!

Silly or not, it truly was profound for me as it highlighted in brilliant, vibrant FEELING how to manifest. It was such a stark example, in a simple form, one that I can now use as a bridge to other, more "important" desires for manifestation. For they are all truly THE SAME. "It is just as easy to manifest a castle as it is to manifest a button." (Who said that? :D)

Seriously, I can sit in meditation now that this has happened and I can translate the feeling directly into something I used to think was "big" and it now feels EASY. This experience has become a "handle" for me, or a "bridge," into more personal desires. The button experience brought me more peace, it brought me more knowledge (about the dynamics of what happens within me and then out their in the universe), but mostly it brought me to a higher place of trust ... in the process, in the universe, in the unlimited capacity and unfathomable possible applications for this, and in myself.

Funny how the lessons and the teachers appear when we are ready. Amazing how many nuances and levels and facets of understanding there are, even about one simple concept.

A good friend of mine once shared with me her tactic of asking herself, "Do you, Self, really believe that the LAW of Attraction works for everyone else, all the time, including you, but just not on this ONE subject?" Of course it does! This button experience helped me to deepen my belief in this.

Knowing we can do anything,
CJ

First Class All The Way!

I want to jump into this blog as if we've been communicating all along and I trust you'll pick up on where we are in this universal dialogue ... NOW.

In truth, I don't know where your beliefs lie on this subject, but I trust that we are a vibrational match at some or many levels since you have found your way here. I hope by now you realize that your thoughts are powerful, that they create your experience, and that you can be, do or have anything your heart desires. So, old friend, I'd like to tell you one of my latest manifestations since we go so far back (are you keeping up here?).

I was headed home from a cruise (a truly luxurious thing). I ended up sitting in the San Diego airport for a while before my two flights home, so I got a cup of coffee and sat with my notebook to record my intentions for the next phase of my trip. I wrote that I wanted to have 2 pleasant (smooth, quiet, easy) flights, with good (spacious, comfortable) seating and friendly, compatible seat mates.

My first flight was as smooth as butter and I sat on the aisle next to a very congenial young man. He offered to share his headphones and the movie he was watching on his portable DVD player. When we spoke, he was just as friendly as could be. As I disembarked I thought, “It just keeps getting better and better” and “more of this please!”

The next flight was a small express jet. As I boarded I felt a stifling heat hit me. The heat increased as I walked further towards the back of the plane towards my seat. I thought, “This isn’t right” and turned to the flight attendant who was just a few paces behind me (I was the last one to board the plane as my previous flight was just on time). I simply said, “Is there a seat a bit more forward than this one?” She smiled and said, “Just a second,” and disappeared to the front of the plane. She peeked around a corner up there and wagged a finger indicating I should come to her. When I got up front she said, “Just take one of those two seats,” and pointed just behind me. I turned and saw 2 empty seats in first class! Without a question to her, I sat down. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee! That was easy!

I got a meal (for free) and an after-dinner liqueur (for free), and as fate would have it, a really friendly gentleman sitting across the aisle from me who was comfortable talking about wonderful things the whole flight. We talked about holistic medicine, Bach flower essences, spiritual books and thoughts, and I had a very nice time.

When I was drifting off to sleep that night I thought back over my day, from docking in the morning, to seals in the harbor, to time on the docks at the marina and lunch with 3 wonderful friends, and then the series of events on my flights home. I sent out gratitude for the quick and lovely ways the universe had manifested my desires, down to the littlest detail. What a wonderful life I have! Truly first class!

INDEED!