The Secret Is Wags

Instant manifestation.  We all want it, but if we give it any intelligent thought, we know it’s generally a bad idea.

Whenever I think of instant manifestation, I remember one of the original Star Trek episodes in which the crew took shore leave on a planet where whatever they thought about happened.  Some of the thoughts ended up having deadly results.  With no buffer of time between thought and result, we can create quite a mess.

Still ….. instant manifestation.  You want it.  You get it.  If we could be deliberate about our desires, instant manifestation could be pretty cool.

I know this.  Because I experienced it on Sunday.

Sunday, I afternoon, I started working on posts for The Joyful Springer.  For that blog, I like to do a week’s worth of posts at a time.  It’s a fun interlude I look forward to each week because I get to play with pictures of Ducky and Muggins and other cute animals.

On Sunday, I had a little quandary.  When I first started the site, I did one picture of Muggins and one of Ducky per day, and they were the stars of the site.  I wanted submissions by readers, though, so I invited people to submit photos of their dogs to the site and sometimes, I’d directly approach dog owners on Twitter or Facebook.  It didn’t take long for me to get a pretty steady stream of submissions, and I started alternating Ducky and Muggins every other day so the site had one picture of my dog and one of a “guest star” each day.

When I started working on the posts on Sunday, I had no guest stars lined up.  I hadn’t had any submissions in over a week.

Realizing that I would go through my pictures of Muggins and Ducky too quickly if I put one of each up per day indefinitely, I hesitated to set it up that way for the week.  I decided to do just one post a day instead of two.

While I happily poked through my files and chose photos of Ducky and Muggins, I thought, “I’d like to have a new submission.  It would be nice to have a dog in some new and interesting poses I haven’t put on the site yet.”  I thought about how new poses would make it easier to come up with titles and blurbs to go with the photos.

After I’d picked the photos to use and figured out titles for them, I started preparing draft posts.  I was totally immersed in what I was doing, relishing the memories that went along with the pictures I was working with.  With all my attention on pictures of my beloved Muggins and my precious Ducky, I was, as you can probably guess, in the vortex.  I was totally aligned and feeling fine.

In the middle of my project (think little kid happily playing in the middle of a pile of toys), I noticed I’d received new e-mail.  I glanced at it.

One of the e-mails was from a Joyful Springer reader who wanted to submit photos.

Ta da!

Instant manifestation.

I wanted a submission.  An hour later, I had one.

And it gets better.  It wasn’t just any old submission.  A couple days before, a woman named Maria made a friend request to Ducky on Facebook.  When Ducky accepted, Maria asked Ducky to request friendship with Maria’s dog, Stacey Mae Mountain.  Ducky did.  I looked at photos of Stacey Mae, a Greater Swiss Mountain dog, on her Facebook page, and I thought, “She’d be great on The Joyful Springer.”

So who was the submission from?  You guessed it.  Maria.  She wanted to send me pictures of Stacey Mae.

I immediately responded to Maria and told her to send me one or more photos. Then I went back to playing with my pictures.

Fifteen minutes later, Maria sent me eight photos of Stacey Mae, the extraordinarily cooperative dog willing to assume just the kind of interesting poses I was looking for.

In addition to these photos, I got two more from another submission, and by the time I was done with the day’s project, I had a week’s worth of Joyful Springer posts—Ducky and Muggins alternating and 7 day’s worth of guest star photos.

So how was it I got this practically instant manifestation?

Here’s the way I think it happened:

A Punny Story

I mustard up a desire.  I knew what I wanted—new and interesting photo submissions.  Specifically, I wanted Stacey Mae’s photos, but I’d have been happy with ones like those.

I played catsup with my alignment—I brought myself up to speed with the nonphysical part of me by playing with my own photos and being okay with having just those photos on the site for the week.  I didn’t have to have a new submission.  I felt no sense of lack.  I felt only acceptance and contentment. I was happy.  In other words, I had what I wanted.

I added a touch of relish. While I worked on the posts, I heartily enjoyed what I was doing.  I LOVE working on The Joyful Springer, and I immersed myself in that zestful feeling of appreciation for what I was doing.

And hotdog! There you have it! A perfect combination for doctoring up the law of attraction.

In case you missed it, here it is without all the corny puns:

1.     Have a desire.

2.     Align you with YOU (the nonphysical part of you) by finding good feeling thoughts about the way things are now, by accepting how things are now.

3.     Crank that alignment up with appreciation, by absolutely LOVING what you have now.

This process was so easy as it applied to The Joyful Springer, probably because I set up The Joyful Springer from the beginning to be a source of joy.  I have no resistance about the site.  It’s just fun for me.

The reason this sort of manifestation doesn’t happen to us all the time is because we bring so much resistance into most areas of our lives.  I know I still have it in the money area, in spite of all the work I’ve done to find the feeling place of “already there.”

Sunday’s experience, though, lit me up.  It was extraordinary—having the desire and within an hour having the manifestation of that desire.

Think about what had to line up for the manifestation to happen.  I had no direct communication with Maria about her photos.  I didn’t take any action to get Stacey Mae’s pictures on the site.  Stacey Mae has over 5000 Facebook friends. I had no reason to think that Maria would reach out to connect with me, through Ducky, within a couple days of their new friendship.  And when she did reach out, against extraordinary “odds,” she did so in just the right time period when I needed her to do so.

The experience was phenomenal.  It encourages me to take that desire, acceptance, and appreciation into all areas of my life.

I hope it inspires you to do the same.

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Photo of Stacey Mae Mountain by Maria Mandel.

Photo of hotdog by OiMax on Flickr.

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