I love the fact that the Universe provides us with so many examples everyday of the wonder of Creation and our ability to create in it. The idea of manifesting our dreams and desires is a new “buzz” word that people are excited about with the hope that they are able to create a life with more baubles, shiny items and piles of cash.
For some, the ability to visualize and manifest comes quite naturally. For others, manifesting can be frustrating, hard to grasp and difficult to assimilate. Why the difference? Why the ability to manifest some areas of our lives with ease and other areas seem indiscernible? The art of manifestation can flow with grace like a stream heading towards the ocean, natural and unencumbered. Alternatively, the journey can feel like an arduous climb to the top of the Himalayan Mountains. Let me share a story that might help you begin to make sense of this art and gift of Creation.
My audaciously daring 14 year old son, Bailey, decided to go off a 40 foot ski jump on his first run of the day 8 weeks ago. As he often does, he threw caution to the wind (literally) and decided that it was wise to act first. In the air, he “knew” that he was in trouble. The rest of the family was finishing breakfast as Bailey stumbled into the lodge with a look of shear pain and agony on his face while holding both hands. We knew without a shadow of a doubt that he had broken at least one of his hands if not both. We were off to the emergency room…
Six weeks later, after 4 trendy colored casts, surgery and the removal of two metal pins that had held Bailey’s hand together, we sat in the hand surgeon’s office waiting to hear what we could expect next for our athletically active son. The surgeon explained that it could take months to get a “somewhat normal” range of motion into his fingers and there was a chance that he would never have complete range of motion again. He gave Bailey exercises to help him gain back mobility in his hand and explained that at the next visit we could determine if he was able to go back to his two loves, hockey & lacrosse.
We were forewarned that initially the exercise movements could be painful but that he would need to push through the pain to gain back a level of motion close to normal. Out of the corner of my eye, on the ride home, I watched Bailey move his fingers gingerly. As we got closer to home he seemed to be pushing it way beyond what the doctor said he would or should be able to. I winced a little at the thought of what I was watching. However, I decided to take the highroad and not tell him what to do (that usually backfires with this, “I’m going to do it my way” 14 year old). Instead, I nonchalantly inquired if it hurt at all. His response was that he couldn’t feel anything. “Ok, just don’t push it too far, you don’t want to break it again.” I figured that some motherly wisdom needed to permeate through to his seemingly imperceptible common sense.
Everyone in the house felt the weeks drag by as we waited for Bailey’s next doctor’s appointment. I was frustrated that he would often loose his splint even though he was supposed to keep it on “at all times”. I would find him bouncing balls off the lacrosse rebounder as he practiced lax or I would see pictures of him on Facebook jumping his mountain bike off big logs. Again, I would shutter and wince at the idea of any impact on his fingers. He would come home elated from a friend’s house excited to share with me that he had just learned to do a flip on a friend’s trampoline. I would try to patiently remind him that the surgeon had said, “No impact, don’t do anything where you could fall on it.” Bailey’s response would be, “Mommm, I am fine! It is fine! It doesn’t hurt! It is totally normal.” I would have to walk away from these discussions because although I knew (or at least thought I knew), how the healing process worked, I was very conscious of how my words could plant seeds, negative or positive, that could activate the process of manifestation for him and I certainly didn’t want to put negative ideas in his head.
Finally the day arrived for the recheck. The surgeon was astounded at Bailey’s recovery. The x-ray’s showed a full restoration without a hint of any break or pins. Again, with complete astonishment the surgeon watched the unimpaired mobility of the fingers that could stretch in one direction and contract in another. In disbelief the doctor begin to manipulate the hand himself asking if it hurt at all. The surgeon was given the same response that I had been hearing for weeks, “It is fine, I don’t feel anything.” The hand surgeon shared with us that he was amazed because he had an identical case to this one with a child of about the same age. The other child was three months out from surgery and was experiencing a very limited range of motion. He had expected the case to be the same today with Bailey. He was baffled at the miraculous healing that had rapidly occurred.
This story poignantly illustrates that the art of manifesting is in the unfettered belief that ‘It’, (whatever ‘it’ is for you) is possible, probable and unequivocally going to happen! Manifesting materializes in whatever form when you can feel it without a shadow of a doubt in every cell of your body. Actually, every cell of your body “hears” and feels your command thus, reacting to your command. Even the ancient Book of Proverbs (23:7) teaches us that, “For as he thinks in his heart, so he is.” The idea that we can “think” the design of our whole life and as long as we can feel it in our hearts is really the basic tenant and message of this phrase. It means that if we don’t naturally have thoughts that create an ideal life in all areas, we need to practice this mindfulness.
Take a look at those around you living vibrantly, joyful, successful lives full of vitality and good health. Are they naturally inclined to a positive outlook? Is one of their core beliefs that everything always works out for the best? Do they know, without a shadow of a doubt that they will be healed? These people are living examples of proof positive. As the Buddha shared, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
Bailey knew in his heart and mind that his finger’s would be healed. He had no doubt that he would join his team at lacrosse practice the same afternoon that he had his recheck with the hand surgeon. He knew it with every inch of his being. He felt it to his core. His thoughts created his reality, “For as he thinks in his heart, so he is.”
Do the dreams you wish to create radiate from your heart with the unfettered knowing that anything and everything is possible? Maybe we all can take a lesson from an audaciously daring and confident teen who unabashedly believes that he is in charge of the design, creation and destiny of his life.
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