"There Is A Thinking Stuff"

A few years ago, I came across the book, "The Science of Getting Rich."   In this 104-year-old book, Wallace Wattles talks about a student, a poor man who rented a house, who had only what he had earned for the day.  Following the steps outlined in the book, the student thought that it would be reasonable enough to ask for a rug for the best room of his home and for a coal stove to keep the house warm when it was cold outside.  Following the steps that Mr. Wattles outlined throughout the book, the student obtained those things in a few months.  At the end of it all, the student wound up owning and rebuilding the home.

A year or so ago, I knew that I would like to obtain a new car.  Even though I was not in the market and not in the position, I kept having this urge to make up my mind what I wanted.  I went back between a sedan and an SUV.  I liked the sedan because of the sealed trunk but then I wanted an SUV for the wintry months.  I already knew the make and then began making comparisons on the colors of the sedan and the SUV.  I started building the car on an app like I was going to buy it the next week.  Something just kept pushing me to make up my mind what I wanted.  I settled on the color for the sedan.  It was done. I made my choice, so when it was time to buy it, which was not in the near future as far as I could see, I already knew what I wanted.  I knew that would be what I would get. 

In the book, it talks about how thinking about something would have it manifest it some way.  For example, if a person wanted a sewing machine, then he or she would "hold the mental image of it with the most positive certainty that it is being made or is on its way..."  Then,  "have the most absolute and unquestioning faith that the sewing machine is coming.  Never think of it or speak of it in any other way than as being sure to arrive. Claim it as already yours."  Then the book goes on to say that the sewing machine would come "by the power of the supreme intelligence, acting upon the minds of men."

Sure enough just a few months later, after a series of events from upon the minds of men, I came to begin driving the same make, model, and color of the car that I had decided would be the car "whenever it was time" for me to obtain it.

"There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe.
A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created."
Wallace D Wattles – 1910

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One Thing That Everyone Is Born With....

...Dreams.

Either conscious or sub-conscious.  Everyone has dreams - either in imagery and/or in sound.

It was in 2006 where I was formally introduced to The Law of Attraction through the video, The Secret*.  This particular year was the most monumental and pivotal of my life.  Not because of the video, but how things have been unfolding since the very day after watching that video including associated full circle moments.

In the video, I learned about vision boards.  Notable speakers shared how they used various visionary tools.  One of the all-time best selling authors of our time shared how he did one thing where he would see it everyday and spoke about how his international book series soon came after.  Another speaker spoke about how there was someone who wished for companionship and how they changed things in the living environment while love, soon after, came to their door. Others spoke about supernatural healing, financial abundance, and the list goes on.

I created a vision board and my daughter created one.  My daughter was 8 at the time.  We bought poster boards and taped cutout pictures of things we would like to see in our lives on the boards. Those boards remained on the walls of our bedrooms until we moved.  Eventually, after moving subsequent times, those poster boards wound up dusty and either made it to a closet or under the bed.

In 2012, I pulled out my vision board and looked at it.  I had it under the bed because I didn't want anybody who would just happen to come into my room to see my wildest dreams.  Worse yet, I didn't want anybody to see my wildest dreams and laugh about them.  I put the board back under the bed face down.

I was reminiscing with my daughter about when we first created our vision boards and she pointed out that some of the images on my board had come true and all of about one or two images on her board came to pass exactly how she intended.

I decided to update my vision board and keep it displayed.  I have grown since 2012 and stopped caring 98.6% of the time about what someone may think or say.  I slip ever so often, but striving to increase that percentage.

More visions have come to pass.

A word about vision boards is that the exact thing on the vision board will not or may not come to pass, but the quality or the theme of that vision will indeed manifest.  The board is not to be stared at or worshipped.  The vision board is just putting it out in the atmosphere while the ever-producing universe responds.

These are pictures of the original vision board postings.

I wanted to be able to go see more movies. Not only do I go to movies frequently, I am blessed to appear in two roles in an award winning film project and work as an extra in a major network movie project.

I wanted to attend more theater productions.  I have since had the opportunity to perform in various productions on stages in various renowned theaters including Playhouse Square.

I traveled much during my childhood and always wanted to take my children to California.  At the time I created the vision board, that was almost a ridiculous dream.  This year, my children and I took a road trip across the nation to Los Angeles,  stood on the shores of the Pacific, toured through almost all of Los Angeles County, and stayed for several days at a beautiful hotel around the corner from the beach.

I hadn't seen family who came from Las Vegas to visit in several years and I wanted to be able to visit with them again.  We visited this summer for a week in Vegas during our cross country road trip.

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”  - Helen Keller

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*The Secret

Right Where

This past week, I had the awesome experience to be an extra on the film set for an upcoming Lifetime movie starring some of Hollywood's and the music industry's best. Two of them I have admired, have gone to seen in concert (one of them), follow, and have both of their work in my current playlist. 

We were told to find a seat on the set.  I found an open seat near the back of the room. Once I got settled, I looked around and saw that many were sitting in the front toward where it would be assumed it will be much action. Then, I started looking at where I was and started second-guessing my seat choice. I began looking up towards the front of the room to see if there was somewhere where I could fit in.

I took a deep breath and told myself to be happy where I was sitting at a table by myself. I was blessed just to be in the room. After we rehearsed what we were supposed to do for the first scene, it was time to bring the principals in.

Who came and stood right next to me? 

Eve. One of the two principals that I admire. 

The other principal whom I absolutely love?  Who I listen to and sing with to warm my vocals for a production? Who I stood next to during a scene break?  Jill Scott. 

No.  Did not speak with them.  Just exchanged smile and presence acknowledgment.  We were instructed not to do so.  Learned the lesson of obedience...the day before.

That was my lesson for the day on being happy, content, satisfied, and trusting on where I am. 

A lesson through eternity. 

Exactly where I am supposed to be. 

(written while chilling outside after waiting on a no-show to view a property, enjoying the wonderful, sunny, early Sunday morning air, the birds singing, and grooving to Case's "Happily Ever After" blasting from the van parked at a neighboring home)

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