Manifesting Anything
Posted By Min Yi on December 8, 2011
It’s never too early to teach children about manifestations, and it’s certainly not too late to learn more about it myself. When Jing Wen and Clay, were nine and six respectively, they were obsessed with collecting bottle caps. At first, it was what they could collect from our home and from friends. Then it evolved to them looking for them everywhere they went. Before long they had baskets full of these bottle caps.
Later they discovered that bottles and cans were worth five cents and they wanted to collect them instead. Suddenly, bottles and cans were everywhere. Wherever we drove, walked and hiked, they would spot bottles and cans.
“Did you see those bottles before you wanted to find them?” I asked.
“No”, they said.
“Do you notice them now?”
“Yes, bottles and cans are everywhere.”
“What’s the difference between not caring about them and wanting to find them?” I inquired.
“When we wanted to find them, they were everywhere.”
“Were the bottles everywhere when you weren’t looking for them?” I pressed.
“Probably, we probably just didn’t notice.”
This is where our first lesson of manifestations begin. When we set an intention to see something, when we set an intention to want something, the universe shows it to us. Whether or not it’s what we want, whether it will truly make us happy, is a whole other story.
Deepak Chopra speaks of this in The Way of the Wizard. He wrote, “Whenever a word is backed up by intention, it enters the field of awareness of the message or requests. The universe is being put on notice that you have a certain desire. Nothing more is required to make desires come true than this, because the computing ability of universal awareness is infinite. All messages are heard and acted upon.
“Mortals and wizards are not so different as you may think. Both are sending their desires into the field expecting an answer, but in the case of mortals the messages are garbled and confused; in the case of wizards they are crystal clear. No intention is ever ignored, but there can be obstacles to their fulfillment because so many conflicts are hidden in them, all the conflicts within the human heart.”
Bruce Lipton puts it in another way, he says our energy is like money, spend it wisely.
So, I asked my boys and myself, what are we here to manifest with our energy? Because it sounds like we’ll probably get what we ask for whether it’s bottle caps or something else.
I would even to go as far to say that thoughts shape our reality. How we perceive reality affects our feelings about ourselves. Failure is a fear of acceptance from the world. When our children learn that their access to belonging, connection and love transcends their performance in the world, they will feel peace within themselves to thrive. George Bernard Shaw wrote so wittily, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
The question I would ask is what does he need to hear, see and live for him to realize – to believe – he already belongs, he is connected and he is most certainly loved.
Totally true, I need to explore this concept with my 11 year old son. Aother big concept we are working on is; Your thoughts shape your feelings. If you think you are bad at something, or a failure, or something is too hard for you , not only will you make it so, but you will feel miserable. I sure hope he is learning to understand that. Looking forward to talking to you more.
Karen