Manifesting
Intentions - Be careful what you wish for!
Current mood: 
giggly
Category: Dreams
and the Supernatural
This started out as a comment
on MySpace Friend, Van's blog. It got lengthy, and by the time I
finished and pressed the "Post" button, the thing
disappeared into the ethers of MySpace. You'd think that would
teach me not to be so wordy ... but NO! It merely taught
me to compose my messages somewhere else.
I have had so many
experiences with "the power of positive thinking" that
I have absolutely no doubt that it is a valid theory. My first
"experiment" with it, consisted of making a list of
the qualities I hoped to find in a mate. Sure enough! Within
three months of making my list, I met a person whose
characteristics precisely matched most of the things on my list.
Believing that this was a gift from Providence, I immediately
became personally involved.
Much to my chagrin, a few
weeks into that, I realized that there were also numerous
qualities that I had NOT asked for. The man was a sociopath, and
the eventual conclusion to that "experiment" was
horrifying. It took me years to recover from the aftermath.
Nevertheless, I realized that
my "wish" had been granted. The Devil, it seemed, was
in the details -- or the lack of them. I made another list.
Sure enough! A few months
later, I met another man that matched the criteria. I'm not
going to say that it was a mistake, because we had a couple of
very pleasant and comfortable years together, before items not
listed began to appear. When the house of cards came down, I
could only blink in amazement.
I determined then, that I
would NEVER make such a list again. If I was destined to find my
soulmate, I would just leave all the particulars up to a Higher
Power, trusting that Divinity has a better idea of what I need,
than I do, in my conscious mind. I have remained true to my vow,
and now, eight years later, the soulmate still has not appeared.
That's OK. I am satisfied that perhaps such a one does not exist
for this lifetime. Just gives me more time to explore and create
independently.
There have been several
amusing "manifestations" since then, and they tend to
convince me that the Universe has QUITE a sense of humor. The
one that stands out most vividly in my mind, was when I was
living in the old ghost town that is my hometown. I got
into the habit of taking long walks, and nearly every time I
walked, I would find artifacts from the 1800's, when the town
had been a booming metropolis of a few thousand souls. Most of
my finds were old and rusty, not of any intrinsic value.
After a while, I began to
develop SOME sense of discrimination about the things I would
drag home from the desert. I began experimenting with
"Intent". While I walked, sometimes I would ask to
be lead to specific types of articles, and very often, I would
find something that fit the general description. No valuable
treasures, but it was interesting.
One day, I sent out an
intention: "I would like to find something very
PERSONAL. Something that belonged to someone, and that they
valued in a very personal way." Of course, what I
was hoping for was perhaps a man's watch, a perfume bottle, or
maybe a lady's piece of jewelry. I had walked maybe fifteen
minutes when I looked down and saw a nearly perfect
semi-circle of what appeared to be pearls. "A
BRACELET!" I thought, and my heart just leaped with the
excitement of what the Universe had presented in answer to my
"request".
As I knelt down and
carefully brushed away the accumulation of decades of dirt, I
found myself laughing hysterically.... I had unearthed a
lady's upper plate -- DENTURES (vintage: 1950's)!
Well, you have to admit, it
doesn't get much more personal than THAT!
I keep that "trophy"
in a glass case, along with some of my other discoveries, to
remind myself to always be careful what I wish for!
