I Got A Raise!

I was on my way to work the other day and thinking that I needed to open my mind and really stretch myself, and pondering the thought that I could be limiting the universe in its attempts to flow money into my life. I started brainstorming about all the ways that money could show up: a rebate in the mail that I have forgotten about; winning a contest; winning the lottery; a tax rebate/refund I knew nothing about; a raise (imagine that!); money on the ground; an inheritance; paying off something in my budget that frees up more money; my book selling like hot-cakes; new clients; a friend paying me back money I didn't realize they owed me. The list got quite long in my mind and I tried to jot it down quickly when I got to the office.

I had just settled into my computer to catch up on my emails when my boss walked by and asked if I had a minute. When I followed her to her office she closed the door behind me. This is a sign of a need to have a confidential conversation, which could be either positive or negative, and my mind dashed through a mental list of possibilities.

There was a bit of small talk first, and then she picked up a white envelope on her desk. When she smiled, I knew it was good news, but when she put the document in front of me I think I had an out-of-body experience! Somewhere out there my spirit was dancing for joy, for there in front of me in black and white was a figure that was just a tad over a number I had long ago set for myself as a target income. I had arrived!

Now, if you know the whole story about what's going on in my life right now, you'll catch the irony here. For those of you who do not know me well, I am in the process of being laid off from my corporate job. Now don't get me wrong or feel sorry for me; it's all good. Everything! I am finally exiting Corporate America and diving fully into the work I've always dreamed of doing.

The irony comes in that, with a mere 40 days remaining with this employer, I was presented with this raise. The raise is in recognition of my accomplishments from last year, so it is all on track in their corporate matrix of events, but more significant than the events in the corporate matrix is how this raise is the embodiment of one of my manifesting intentions. It was almost as if the universe was saying, "See? We're slipping this in just under the wire to underscore a point; it was here waiting for you all along. It's all yours, and it's always been yours."

The magic comes in that a raise was one of the things on the list I made on the drive into the office that very day! I opened, and the universe flowed its gift into the vacuum of openness I had created and brought me three things I was wanting in one beautiful package: proof that I can receive my abundance in unexpected ways, proof that there is never a time or a way that won't work, and the achievement of that magic figure I had held as an income goal for myself. All achieved with one fun game done on my drive to work.

I've heard it said that the universe loves a vacuum and also that the universe loves speed, but I'm always a little amazed to see things manifest so quickly when I apply The Secret (LOA). What a great use of time! That was easy!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

"Cha-ching!"

This was a fun one, so gotta share!

I have a friend who has a rockin' good business and I love to hear her talk about it. When she does, she inevitably uses the word, "cha-ching!" I just love that word. Of course it sounds a lot like what it stands for ... money cascading into your experience. I was driving about the other day (one of my favorite activities because I can just play in my mind with so many fun thoughts, it's my own little focus temple), and in my mind I started hearing her say "cha-ching." I started playing with the word and decided I really love that word ... how it sounds, how it feels to say it, and what it represents.

I keep a Magic Creation Box full of pictures of things I want to manifest in my life. As I flowed love and gratitude about that word I felt myself shoot off a desire to manifest that word in print (I usually get my pictures and words from magazines) for my Creation Box.

Today I got a new magazine and I was turning its new pages as I ate my supper, when I happened to turn just one more page and saw: "Cha-ching!" There it was in big bold print, just like I'd wanted it! My happy word! Guess where it is now?!!!

Cha-ching!
CJ

Manifesting ... A Horse, Of Course

I have a friend (yes, one of my many friends, which is still another story) who has a love affair with horses. She is a horse expert, or perhaps a better word would be guru. Anyway, when I met her she did not own a horse, but shortly after meeting her she got an intuition that her horse was about to enter her life. She got very excited.

Soon after telling me this, a woman she knows who breeds horses called to tell her that one of her mares was close to giving birth. My friend was sure this was her new horse about to be born. She knew it had been born before she received the phone call, and upon visiting the stables received several delicious confirmations. It just so happened that this beautiful new horse had another interested party wanting to buy it. The breeder said she could hold off the sale to the other woman for one week, but Amber needed to make her purchase by that time. It was a significant amount of money and a relatively short period of time to pull it together.

My friend told me her concern over this dilemma as we were driving one day, and I assured her that she could manifest this money. We did some dreaming about her new horse, and then played with the ideal future she wanted, playing the game of Virtual Reality, which is simply acting as if something is already so. In other words, while we drove about we chatted about her horse as if he was truly hers already and was in her life now! Anyone eavesdropping would have thought we were crazy, but we spoke with confidence and joy about this wonderful horse that had entered her life. We had a great time and left the conversation full of joy, and most importantly, confident that this was all a done deal.

For my part, I went home and spent the week excitedly awaiting the phone call from my friend telling me she had gotten the horse. I played and replayed all different scenarios of that phone call in my mind’s eye as if it was a memory I was recalling with joy and fondness.

The call did come! She did indeed manifest the money, on time (one whole hour before the deadline), and brought her beautiful new playmate home! Not only did she manifest the money, but a free stall at a boarding facility where she had also just manifested a job and a place to stay. One nice, complete package!

What a wonderful universe!

Manifesting People

I was walking through a shopping mall a number of years ago, on my way to a department store where I was going to make my credit card payment. As I approached the escalator to go up a level I saw 3 young guys, all wearing what looked like identical black leather jackets, getting off the escalator. I had eye contact with one of them and got a very bad feeling, like they were members of a gang and that they were on a mission of mischief.

I passed them and got onto the escalator going up and was almost all the way up when I got another creepy feeling and turned around to look behind me. They had just gotten back onto the escalator and I had a feeling that they knew I had money and were following me.

When I got off at the top of the escalator, both my legs and my mind were working fast. It was the middle of a weekday, so the place was pretty bare. I thought about ducking into a store and having a clerk call mall security, but it just sounded so extreme. I decided to set the intention to bump into someone, ANYONE, I knew. My heart rate was high and so were my emotions (passionate feelings about what you want are an important ingredient in the manifesting process). As I walked and pictured myself bumping into a friend, I got calmer. In fact, I felt a tangible wave of serenity pass through my being like a cool breeze, even though I still had a sharp edge to my senses. Into my mind popped the image of a particular friend and she was smiling.

I turned a corner in the mall just then and found myself looking right into the face of the very friend I had just pictured in my mind’s eye! I heard myself call out her name and she ran the short distance between us and gave me a warm, happy hug. Her son was with her and we made a happy little group. Joy swept through me. I had the presence of mind to turn and look back the way I’d come and the three leather-clad fellows were just coming around the corner. They saw me and I swear their mouths dropped open, then they hustled guiltily back around the corner they’d just rounded and disappeared.

Doesn’t it make you wonder … if I hadn’t lined myself up in this way, would I have seen my friend? Think about it.

"Knock, Knock"

One of my dear friends (and I have SO many, but that’s another story) has an interesting story of her own. This past New Year’s holiday, she decided to set intentions rather than resolutions. She liked the idea of “putting in her order” to the universe, as if it were a restaurant, knowing that when you place an order it WILL be fulfilled. One of the intentions she set this year was something like this:

“I want a relationship, and if I’m going to have one I want it to be the love of my life, and since I don’t go out much (her business is in her home) he’ll have to come to me.”

Sometime in March there was a knock on her door.

“You may not remember me, but I decided that this visit home I was going to find you before I left.”

He invited her out for dinner, this old classmate of hers, and from that first date she was smitten.

Yes, the universe brought him right to her door!

It can happen!
CJ

Money! Money! Money!

I was living in Chicago for a time. I’d moved there after listening to my Inner Guidance System (aka, intuition, gut, heart). I was a single mom, recruited by a high-power corporation and I knew this move was important … not just for my career, but the path of my life. As our first winter came on, we discovered how drafty our cute rental home really was and I faced huge utility bills. My heating bill that first winter month was $750.00, and then $800.00 the next month. This was way out of my budget and I didn’t know what to do. I’d called them about a payment plan, but the thought of this debt accruing was really bothering me.

The third month of this I faced a total utility bill of about $2100.00 (I’d paid a little), and I knew this money thing was a big challenge for me. Here I knew how the Law of Attraction worked and I hadn’t been applying it very well. I’d been creating more of what I didn’t want instead of what I did want.

So one Saturday morning I got up early and started my weekend routine. I went and made tea, got my journal and favorite pen, and sat on my couch to meditate. This meditation was so full of good feelings I brought in the money topic. I was soaring! In the state I was in I could feel without a shadow of a doubt how the universe was supporting me and how easily money flows into and out of my life. The ease and love were so pronounced that I felt myself relax to a very deep state of confidence that my current situation was somehow already resolved.

I came out of the meditation, wrote my meditation experience in my journal, got up for another cup of tea, then sat back down in the same spot to catch up on my week’s mail. I had a habit of leaving “fun reading,” like magazines, for this Saturday morning time and this time I had Friday’s mail in the mix, so I started there. One envelope I opened made me gasp, then shout, then giggle with glee! It was a check … for $2600.00! Some fund from my former employer that I had no idea about had been cashed out and mailed to me.

I smiled to myself and thought … that was easy!