Manifesting Story: My New Yoga Mat

I have needed a new yoga mat for some time now. The one I have is worn and, well, looks worn. Shopping for yoga mats is not my favorite activity. Styles are constantly changing and surfaces are so different, it is hard to know just what will work for you. Since there is no yoga mat store, all ordering is done online which means returning what doesn’t work and starting the process again. So, now you know why I have needed a new mat for some time – pure procrastination.

In comes Woyopracmo (World Yoga Practice Month). This website was started by a fellow yogini to encourage those who signed up to practice yoga daily for the month of January. Several of us also donated prizes to be given away in a random drawing of those who did complete the entire month.

Have you figured out what I won yet? You guessed it! A yoga mat. But not just any yoga mat, The Black Mat. Apparently it is the crème de la crème of yoga mats. (I admit, I had not heard of it. Even my husband, who does not practice yoga, exclaimed, “It’s THE BLACK MAT!” with such reverence, I had to be impressed.) Here’s what is so fabulous, the mat is perfect. It is amazing. I have never had a yoga mat like this one before. I didn’t know yoga mats could be this fabulous! The invoice said it cost $75. I would never have spent that much money on a mat. Yet again, the Universe provided me with more than I would have provided for myself. Thank you!

Manifesting Story: Ants

I just have to share this manifesting story. It is definitely negative – what you don’t want to d – and amusing all at the same time. My husband, Ron, doesn’t like ants. I certainly don’t enjoy them, but his dislike plays with the edge of fear. Two years ago we realized the hill in our back yard had a lot of ants on it. Last year the ants were much closer to our house and he began to get nervous. In the summer, he saw them on our deck. Then, we were reading a book to our daughter. A character in the book left a donut out on the floor and the next day ants were swarming around it. Ron got visually disturbed by it (I think the term is “grossed out”!) Anyway, the next day we had about 200 ants just inside the door of our deck, swarming our breakfast table. Hmmmm...connection? He did see how he had manifested it and we haven’t had an infestation since!

Manifesting Story: Growing Tomatoes

I have a student who gave me 7 of the most beautiful tomato plants you have ever seen. They came from heirloom seeds that she had planted and she had cultivated them with love and attention. After receiving them, I planted three and the other four…well, they languished in my garage! I kept forgetting to get them in the ground. When we finally did, my husband said, “forget it, they are too far gone.” But I was so sad about neglecting them that I couldn’t just give up so iton the ground they went. Almost all of them did fairly well. It took some time, but they seemed to be growing and taking to their new situation. One, though, was so sick. I mentioned to my daughter that I didn’t think it would make it. She said, “Give it another chance.” I looked at her and realized she was right! I began to feel good around it, to enjoy looking at it and feel grateful it was there in my life. Most of all, I began to see it as healthy and vibrant. Yep, that plant was huge! In fact, it was easily three times larger than any of the other plants. It was a cherry tomato plant and at one point during the season, it had at least two hundred tomatoes on it. (Yes, we counted. I homeschool, remember?) Hmmm….manifesting a beautiful harvest. It can be used everywhere!

Manifesting Stories: My Garden

This next story is one of my favorites. It is such an example of how we are taken care of when we just relax and go with the flow of life. I just began gardening this summer. I dreamed of it last year and what I wanted to do. I would often drive by a house with a beautiful garden. This house also had a beautiful garden planted along its walk to the front door. There were coleus plants (plants with beautiful and colorful foliage) with a flowering annual in between them. I have a similar walk at my home and decided that is what I would do this year. I dreamed of this walk all winter.
I plant most of my plants from seed as a wonderful winter project with my children. We planted coleus but they just didn’t grow very fast. By the time planting time came around they weren’t large enough to take outdoors yet. I was a bit disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to use them, but only briefly. About a week after I realized I would not be able to use them, my mother called and mentioned that she had about a dozen hosta plants from her garden that needed a home and would I like them? I thought they would be a good plant up my walk for this year and I could do the coleus next year so I planted hostas.
Have you figured out the end to the story yet? I drove by the house that I designed my walk after and what do you think was planted in the garden? Hostas! Yep, and hostas are perennials which means that last year what I thought was coleus was actually hostas. So I manifested exactly what I had requested despite myself!

Manifesting Stories: Traffic

I want to share some stories from my own life of what I have manifested. Of course, I have a few “biggies” such as my perfect mate (and this wasn’t easy. My request was for a true partner – someone who did half the housework, half the child-rearing, half the bringing in a paycheck. I wanted a man who “got it” around women and I got it! But that is another story…) I also manifested my perfect house (which, three years later, I keep finding things that are perfect that I hadn’t even considered when I bought it.) I also manifested my perfect work – something most of you already know! But I also find fun is seeing the little things that we can manifest in our life which is what these stories will describe.

My daughter and I were headed to downtown Minneapolis during rush hour one Friday evening for a “knitting date” with some friends. I was tired and not sure I was up to driving through traffic to get there. My daughter (quite pointedly, I might add) said, “Just ask for no traffic, Mom.” (I think she might have added “duh” but if she didn’t, her attitude said it all!) Anyway, as we drove, there was no traffic! I couldn’t believe it. We were on the worst traffic highway in the Twin Cities. We came up to a hill at one point and there was a slow down of cars. I said, “Well, this is it, we have traffic now.” My daughter said, “Nope, just get over the hill.” Wouldn’t you know it? She was right! Although I have seen the benefits of manifesting in the big areas of my life, I hadn’t considered using it for traffic and here was my 6-year old teaching me!