Manifestations. What do we think of when we think about manifestations? Do we think of ghosts and goblins appearing out of the woodwork to come get us? Do we think about some evil manifesting itself into the real world and causing problems? Why must a manifestation always be evil?
When we think about manifestations, we tend to think about ghosts and goblins and various similar things. Most of that comes from watching too many horror movies. But why must something that's manifested always be evil?
About three years ago, I related the story of how my teacher Kay, and the students she was with, manifested some Moose. (March 30, 2001) The people she was with wanted to see some Moose while they were up in Maine, and sure enough they found some. After standing by the Moose, and having their pictures taken, they drove on. Unfortunately, when they got the pictures back from developing, they were very surprised to find that there was no Moose in the picture. As you can imagine, this literally shook their world.
But what are the things that we manifest the most? I don't think each one of us goes out and manifests Moose, not that it couldn't be interesting in downtown city streets. I'm talking about hopes, and dreams, and yes, fears.
Whether we believe it or not (and this is an issue too), we manifest the things that happen to us and around us. I said before how we can have a good day or bad day based on what kind of vibrations we put out. What kind of vibrations are we manifesting? Are we going to manifest a good day filled with happy emotions and good things? Or are we going to manifest a bad day by holding on to problems, lingering thoughts of bad things that have happened?
Our emotions play a big factor in determining what we manifest. And sometimes we can even manifest those emotions themselves. One of the emotions that we tend to give in to all too often is fear. (Remember, fear leads to the dark side of the force.) This is something I am all too familiar with.
My mother used to be someone that worried constantly about everything. Her worrying would make itself into energies causing her to shake nervously at times. I remember when I went for my drivers license. My mother was so worried about my failing, that she actually had to walk away so I wouldn't pick up what she was feeling. And yes, I passed on the first attempt.
My father is also a person that does a lot of worrying, and over the years has had good reason to do so. In fact, he used to worry quite a lot about me. He worried about whether I'd make out a high school and get some kind of decent job that I could live on. He worried about whether I'd flunk out of college and be a bum all my life. Thankfully, I did manage to get through college and hold a good job (or many good jobs) throughout my life. Actually, it is now that I wonder about being a bum, not having a secure income at this point.
So when you look at the people that raised me, it shouldn't come as a big surprise that I'm a person who worries about things. The problem is that worry often becomes fear. When we start manifesting our fears, that's when bad things start to happen. By dwelling on the energies of what we are afraid of we actually make that fear happen. If we are terribly afraid of failure, and we see ourselves failing, we will fail.
I know I'm not alone in this, but what about a person who is afraid of failure, and afraid of success at the same time? That may sound strange, but it's a lot more normal than you might think. When I look at my business, and the bills coming in, and know that I don't have money to pay them, I fear. I fear that I'll fail. To me, failure means not being able to do healing work, and having to find a real job out there somewhere. It means going back to an office and programming computers again. The problem with that thought is that I will be so far behind technology, that what languages I used to work in will either no longer be used, be so far advanced I won't recognize them, or I just plain old won't remember enough for them to be able to use them. (The latter is most likely.) So, right now I'm doing what I want to be doing, I'm helping people. Failure means losing my business, and not being able to do what I want to anymore.
On the flipside of that, is success. Now, initially, that doesn't sound too bad. But having been told some of the things people have seen for me, some of that can be scarier than failing. Now, I know what you're saying, I shouldn't put too much stock in what people say simply because energies change and their vision at the time may never come true. But some of what people have seen has been truly amazing.
I have been told by a few people that at some point I will be living in a mountainous area while the Earth changes are going on. I have actually seen myself through meditation as a village healer. Now, that is not so scary. But one person I worked on, said that at some time in the future I will be addressing a crowd of people. Well, I've addressed a crowd of people before, but he saw me doing it in a stadium filled with people. Now, that is scary. When you figure that I work and teach with small groups of people, talking to a crowd of thousands is not at the top of my list of things I want to do. I bare my soul to all of you that read these journal entries, but I do it in the safety of my own home through cyberspace.
There is success, and there is success. Looking at the success where I would be addressing thousands of people can make me fear being successful. Unfortunately, things never stay the same. Things are constantly changing. I saw something that basically said "change is the status quo".
Okay we've manifested Moose and we've manifested fear. What about manifesting hope? We wish, we pray, we hope for better situations and better times. We can manifest that just as we manifest fear. Instead of worrying about what could happen, think about what should happen.
Years ago, somebody told me I needed to turn things around and become more positive. Because of that, she had me change the way I speak. If I was going to say something that ended on a negative tone, or negative word, I needed to change that so the last word would be a positive word even though the sentence may be a negative sentence. Because I still do this, I know people think that I talk funny sometimes (what do I mean sometimes). Instead of saying "gee, that's bad", I'll say "gee, that's not good". This is something I do all the time, and do without thinking. It makes the last word I say in a sentence be a positive word even though the entire connotation of the sentence may be negative. It still leaves me on a positive note.
Changing our attitudes on what we think about and how we think about them is the key to what we manifest. If you are a person who worries a lot like me, it takes an extreme amount of effort to stop worrying, and put all that energy into hoping.
I've talked with a lot of people over the years, people in good situations, people in bad situations. I've talked with people that have had bad times, and people who have just lost loved ones. In most cases, I have tried to come across as someone that is positive and full of hope, in hopes that these people catch that hope and start believing in it themselves.
But working with others is always easier than working with yourself. It is a lot easier to stand outside the situation, see alternatives, and present them. It is much harder when you are in the center of everything and you have to stick your head outside of that to be able to see what's going on. It is hard to see the big picture when we're stuck in the details of a small portion of it.
There is an old joke that is actually a true statement of life. It defines several steps to solving a problem. What it shows through the process, is the fact that we can get stuck in the details, and lose sight of what the task was that the we were there to complete. As the punch line says, that while you're up to your ass in alligators, you have to remember that your task was to drain the swamp.
We can all manifest good health and well-being for ourselves, but we usually don't because we're bogged down with all the little details of what makes life. That's the point when we go see people to help us. Yes, even healers need to go see other healers to help them get control of the things that they can't seem to manage to get control of themselves. In going to another healer, we go to somebody who is outside looking in, and are not themselves bogged down with the details. They generally have a clear view of the big picture.
But, we can manifest whatever we want. What we need is faith, and hope, and confidence. And believe it or not, this can be manifested too.
So, what are you going to manifest today?