Testimonials, page 3
I have manifested many things. My friend J. handed me a brochure that talked about the Spiritual Focus Week-ends that the College of Metaphysics has. I called my dad and asked him if he would at least partially support me financially in going as a birthday present. I wanted to go as a full participant, rather than pay half price and being a server. I got to go as a full participant. I owe my dad $250 and I plan to pay at least $5.00 a month to show my good faith and intention of paying him back in full. While at the Spiritual Focus Week-end, I got clued in some, through experiences, about how I am when I'm in a bi-polar phase. How I disconnect from God, others, and myself.
In other words, I got the opportunity to look at my
illness objectively a bit, while in the middle of experiencing it. In the
past, because of the state I was in, I may not have been able to drive home
safely, as it would have spiraled down into further illness. And, yes, I used
all sorts of ABE and other techniques to keep me afloat. But, what really
helped was a young 20something year-old man (I'm 45) who reached out to me, and
talked with me. Or more accurately listened. He has the healing quality of
Wholeness. (The week-end was about discovering our healing qualities.
Mine is
Interest.) He was pure in his connection to God, and that led me to a better
place.
Leigh
Hi, 557, Thank you for asking! See what you've manifested? I too am a Testimonial-aholic. I love hearing about goodies that people manifest. I too want SPECIFICS. I am not satisfied with " I manifested 20,000 out of the blue." Well, unless that meant a bag of small unmarked bills plopped on your front doorstep by a wings and tutu Money Fairy, it wasn't out of the blue. If you mean you renegotiated your mortgage and SAVED 20,000 on the total payout, that is a manifestation, indeed, but I want to know the DETAILS.
I must understand exactly what you manifested to fit it into my understanding of manifestations. I think I categorize them. Money Fairy manifestations, physical goodies and opportunities to attract (earn) squillions to name just a few. As a very committed Abe Rookie I was RELENTLESS about the How's. I mean, you can't do Abe perfectly without understanding EVERYTHING and explaining it all to your own satisfaction, right???? I listened to Abe tapes all the time and found them utterly delicious. Had to know WHY..... I also have a great connection to my feelings and was delighted to find a place that said Feeling good is ALL. Why is that? How does that work? Luckily, I am not alone with this. Abe patiently answers ALL my questions and clarifies it all, and it only took a year or so to get the softer finer points of Abe-speak, and lo and behold, the recurring theme that I noticed was FEEL GOOD.
Of course, as long as I am manifesting all that I ask for, by asking and receiving, of COURSE I'll feel good. SO obvious. And the List was brilliant in easing me into pursuing a different approach to seeing my world. I truly did not understand some of the language used, but there is SO MUCH that I do delight in reading, that I read it all, because it is all going in the same direction. OK, if FEEL GOOD is the point, the way to be, then HOW to feel good when I schmucked my car on my very own snow/ice bank? I wanted an eye for an eye. Abe gives a whole new universe for the perceived eye.... I can look at the car schmuck in many different ways, and they are all my choice. Sometimes, I have a lot of fun playing with why this is SO GOOD, because it is what I make of it. I manifested it and it is all good. AND, get this, I don't have to know WHY. Not so much anymore. It really helped to ask why, to understand why isn't nearly as important as I had originally suspected. And feeling good, no matter what is no longer cheating.
I still love Stuff Manifestations because it gives me unequivocal proof of what many are way ahead of me in trusting, and reassures me that I manifest everything, and I will blow a mental gasket trying to figure out how/what. It used to be fun and I'd spend hours figuring it all out, just for the sheer satisfaction of being right!!! Now, I am delighted to mostly sit back be "right", without all the research. It's all happening anyway, so why not just enjoy it, sort of relax (your mind) and allow (yourself to feel good first...). Now there's a novel concept..... I must let Abe know about that idea.... AND get this. Last night, a colleague gave me a cheque for a workshop I have yet to present, AND wanted to know if I wanted to accompany a client to Florida, all expenses paid AND get paid to go. ( I live in snowy south Ontario....and I have never been to Florida...) So how did I manifest this? Who cares? I just went straight to feeling good. It's just so much easier. Hey... maybe THAT'S how it happened...... Keep asking for specifics until you don't have to! It's just another way to feel good. Miami here I come!
Loving it all, Jane
Hi 557: I gotta jump in here too. I could list a host of physical manifestations, but so many have done so with such eloquence that I feel compelled to underscore something: the "Art of Allowing", used to be called the "SCIENCE of Deliberate Creating". I think this is important as it's dealing with energy, as in quantum physics.
Abraham once said that if you listen to Esther's voice on the tapes often and regularly, you will raise your vibrational frequency like that of one who meditates regularly. There has been a study of the brainwaves of men who meditated consistently for 20 years or so (don't know the actual details) and their brainwaves were found to be resonating at a different frequency than non-meditators. I am an avid, avid, avid listener and I am here to say that this has been very much my experience. While I am also one who meditates, the experience of resonating with Esther's voice and feeling compelled to hear or not hear certain tapes at different times is really fascinating. The shift in mood after listening can be great. I recommend that.
My point is, as everything is vibrational, and while the idea of manifestating "the goods" was the seducer for me, the actual science of cellular motion, the experience of raising my vibration, of experiencing conscious expansion, of watching how that manifests in my daily experience, is what I'm truly, truly thankful for. It really, really is "the goods", and this is coming from someone who worships Architectural Digest. It's what's being translated here in these emails by way of discovery, appreciation, joyful observations, new awareness, even in the mention of cars and money.
It's all illusory code perceptible by humans, translating the vibrational activity that each focused consciousness is experiencing. That goes, of course, for the flipside of the good stuff being attracted, as someone mentioned earlier. In this way, I have come to appreciate contrast. As well, I have come to understand that everyone is their own vibrational bag of tricks so even asking for proof of manifestation, while I appreciate the inspiration behind the question, is sort of a red haring to the workings of LOA. Abraham has said that LOA precedes the law of gravity. In that way, it's like an energetic umbrella under which everything that is, is. Not one person on this list could have manifested a single button and you, by working the tools or raising your vibration, could be a match to, and manifest, whatever you're wanting.
Like many, I have been a seeker and prober, a student of thought (with a degree to back that) for most all my life. I studied my evolution with this material and am awed at the transformations in me, some tangible to others, some not. How to explain coming back to yourself! (LOL) And yes, I have lists of material stuff, from the simple to the sublime and don't get me wrong either, I love the stuff in life. Yet, to recognize that it's all truly the product of how I'm vibrating and of the scope of myself as a vortex for the only energy stream that is, what is referred to as the stream of "well-being" (and of course, with an understanding of LOA, and the workings of energy translated through thought and emotion, the products are more and more a match to what I have been wanting by being conscious of my thoughts), is the gift of the goods. And yes, it's all really just very, very fun too. Your email initially perplexed me because you really can't separate the two: manifestation and what you're terming "spiritual". They are simply two different translations of the same energetic experience. Enjoy the car and the driver or, as someone on this list so aptly put it: Until Further Notice: Celebrate Everything! Love, Laurie
And.... Hi 577 and anyone else who enjoys instant, pie-from-the-sky manifestation stories. This one is one of my favorites and was told to me by way of introduction to the Abraham materials. That introduction was a magical unfolding that changed my life forever. After the story, the woman who told me gave me two random seminar tapes without introduction. I had no idea that this was work involving channeling nor who Esther and Jerry were but I just soared when I heard Esther's voice and the way she spoke.
And I found it strange that this woman kept referring to these people, Jerry and Esther as examples but I was giddy because every word resonated to my core. The story told me was the personal experience of the woman doing the telling. She is one of my husband's client, now a gainfully employed woman in the music industry who responded to a comment I made about what I had thought was appropriately termed my "money karma. This was after I returned from my new friend's house, the wife of a major celebrity, and lamented, as had become my daily mantra, the fact that I hadn't manifested more.
Of course, I manifested the most magnificent contrast and the Universe answered my outpouring vibrationally with the hooking up of this new friend. She had done almost everything, almost everything, the way I would have, if I had the kind of unlimited millions she did. And she and I shared so many commonalities, including home birthing, all organics and, we discovered, mutual friends from our past so the difference between what she "had" and what I "had" was that much more comparable. And when I returned home from this visit, in the kitchen was this client, a woman never usually in our home, always in my husband's studio, and never really with too much time to chat but somehow.....I was ready and she was the conduit to the amazing gift of Abraham. I hope you enjoy the story she told as much as I did then and do now, just preparing to retell it: Peonies: At the time, this woman was a struggling musician in a band fraught with discord. Her dear, wise friend, an Abraham-Hicks student, told her to try an exercise every day for just five days. He said to pick something that was inconsequential to her overall well-being but something that would delight her and to visualize it coming into her life. She decided to chose her favorite flower, Peonies, and to visualize her entire studio apartment filled with them.
She also decided they had to come to her, as a gift, not by purchase. Her wise friend also told her to remember how the visualization felt and to state the feeling, to look for signs of the universe responding to her visualization and to thank the universe when she sees any signs. He also told her that during her visualizations she should use all her senses, her eyes, (see them, what color? size?), smell, sound (are you listening to pleasing music?), touch (are you reclining in your nicest chair?), taste (are you drinking wine, what flavor, kind?). All this fleshed out the experience of sitting in her room filled with peonies. She was reluctant but thought, "What the hey, it's just flowers, I'll try anything" and preceded to do so. I think she VRed for anywhere from one to five minutes per day (might only have been one or two)? day one: Saw peonies sold by a vendor on the medium doing her route home (never there before, used to sell roses) She thought, "huh" and thanked the universe. day two: Flipping through a magazine in the store, saw an entire bridal spread using only peonies. She smiled and thanked the universe. day three: She ran into the market and noticed a sale on flowers, what kind? Peonies. Bigger smile, Thank you, universe. Day four: She was working with a catering company on the side, trying to make her rent and was asked to do a party in Santa Barbara, 2 hours from where she lived in Los Angeles. The caterer said she could either drive with the van or take her own car. She decided to take her car and enjoy the ride. It was a beautiful drive. When she got to the large, mansion of a house, she went inside. The woman who was hosting the party had each table decked with flowers, the predominantly favorite flower, in abundance in each vase? You guessed it: Peonies. My friend smiled big, "Oh Universe, you are good. Thank you". At the end of the party all the flowers were taken into the kitchen and as my friend was cleaning up she couldn't believe her eyes and thought, "Now this is almost as good as my apartment filed with Peonies". With all the cleaning done, the rest of the catering crew left in the van. The woman of the house had gone upstairs to bed. My friend had her hand on the door, prepared to leave in her own little Toyota when the woman, in her nightgown, called from the top of the stairs, "Hey, why don't you take the flowers, I don't want them". My friend filled her car (to overflowing) with the flowers and drove home to LA. When she got there, she put all the flowers in her apartment, Peonies, Peonies and more Peonies. Her entire studio filled with them. You can now imagine the size of her smile. I still get chills. Thank you Universe. And thanks for the opportunity to recount this magical story of manifestation. Love, Laurie
Hi 577: I wrote my response to your email very late last night before I went to bed. I then did my own private accounting of all I've manifested and ways I've expanded/my own private rampage of appreciation and I woke up this morning exquisitely happy. I know you asked not for appreciations but it just feels too good: Thank You. And thank all you who are co-creating on this one. Fun, fun, fun! I hope everyone has a great day.
Love, Laurie
Hey 557 -- You Rock - I love what a wonderful "asker" you are -- look what you've manifested? I love writing to 557 -- you see my oldest son was #57 for 5 years playing football with a Canadian University -- that $57 sweater is framed on our wall -- his team won not one, but two National Titles -- he has audacious, ostentatious, outrageous gold rings -- two of them -- just like Super Bowl rings! He attracted a professional football contract. And then attracted contrast that led him to the amazingly wonderful, spine tingling choice of his values and sense of fun -- over the long-term football career. Lost the sight of the fun in what he was doing, said thanks for the memories -- now what a marvelous role model I manifested! So -- manifestations you ask??
To name a few... Free tickets to plays, basketball, movies, air travel! I wanted tulips and the next day my neighbor came over with a whole wheel-barrow full! Free telephone calls Ease in losing weight Money coming in all times of the day and night from E-book and websites Fulfilling work -- contracts that pay me to travel the world -- in executive class accommodations some times and with people in communities when it is more fun! I take vacations when I want Renovations to my house and then a world class contemplative photographer gifting me art work for the walls. Seeing 0's on the balance of credit card statements] New furniture Leading magical spaces in workplaces and in spiritual retreats Service award from a former employer of $16,000.00 Wonderful health Evidence of how I'm adored whoever I'm with, wherever I go, whatever I'm doing I choose when my payday is! Three university degrees paid for by a former employer New home office with waterfalls and my fav music New furniture This amazing group of uplifters, seekers, brilliant manifesters -- gracious beyond imagination Stunning friends who I've met through this group that add so much to my life I dream in Gold! Joyfully and Springingly.....
Judi R.
Hi, 557 During my break at work I read this Abe quote: As you playfully choose three subjects that you spend 17 seconds (of pure thought) upon, you begin to notice the Universe's response to your clear thought. It doesn't take very long before you acknowledge the Law of Attraction is consistent and it will bring back to me that which I am willing to give my attention to. I wrote my thoughts: Bring me fascinating things that I can get interested in. Things that will fascinate me and things I can create that are unique and beautiful. Creations I make from my well stocked buffet. Projects I can lose myself in - that totally fascinate me. Things that I can align with from start to finish. Within 12 hours I received: Assistant in planting my time-spiral garden New speakers for my computer for my fav "wild Divine" New high-end clothes for my gift shop Vogel jewelry Customers for my singing bowls - $1800.00 + a new set of bowls for me I love playing them and aligning my chakras and clearing my blockages Vivid clear imagery for my stone/copper - stone/aluminum window hangings - new to this planet as far as I know Gift of a new computer - Abe and email only Adjustment on my sewing machine for my own line of clothes. Then came the appreciation for all I have been given - how loved, protected and adored I have been all my life. I've always known I was not alien - ever. All the great adventures I've had. The appreciation took over an hour to list and I just hit the highlights. I am truly blessed - Happy journey to you.
Sue B
What if phasedance557 is a manifestation of this group: The collective wanting to find a way to raise our personal and collective vibrations together, all at once? I mean, come on, look at this magnificent thread and all that it has encompassed so far: awesomely uplifting "testimonials" and stories that not only melt our hearts, but allow us to know one another more and more, David's astonishing gift of compilation, many of us immediately pivoting upon first being a bit put off by the post (absolutely no negative stuff!- OMG!) - just the pure outpourings of joy for one another, delicious postings from people who don't post a lot and much more... Probably we all, at some point, reading one story or another were moved to tears or shouts and happiness and fresh intent and expectation and love for one another. Think about the last few days since the first post - man oh man, the group has been joyful, playful, soulful, grateful, focused and blissed and most interactive. Having been here a year, I am in awe of this time. We are good! Phasedance557 you rock, and so do we! Clearly, clearly, clearly, there is great love here for us.
Lesley
Hi 557 (and everyone else), I am fairly new-ish to Abe but I had studied for a few years with the Science of Mind church (SOM) and Seth teachings before that. This story here isn't directly about results from using Abe's processes, but it's quite similar. I wanted to share it to perhaps encourage you to believe in "magic". Life can be more fun this way. :-) Recently, when cleaning out all my closets, drawers and cupboards (inspired by one of the Abe process ideas ;), I came across a piece of paper I had hidden so well in early 1997 I had totally forgotten about it. It was something that had been given to all in attendance one Sunday at the SOM group during a talk by a great teacher from Alabama, Edwene Gaines. The paper was titled, 'Great Golden Goals of [name]', with inspirational quotes from various teachers underneath. The "12 Steps to Successful Achievement' explained to write down 12 most important, very specific desires no matter how large or small, in order of importance, Be open and receptive to change, Determine the date by which you desire to achieve the goal, Read the goals at least 3x each morning and evening, Imagine yourself achieving each goal, Accept your success now and act as if you had already achieved, Take positive action, in faith toward goals, Believe you receive, etc. When I read what I had written I saw myself as I was then, a young woman who was just barely getting by, and mostly living in the lower ranges of the emotional scale. But I had a willingness to believe (a lack of resistance) that there could be something so much better available for me to experience, and a strong intuition that life wasn't supposed to be a struggle. It made me teary in a sweet way remembering back then how I didn't know how in the 'ell the dreams I put on that list would manifest, but I really wanted them just because they thrilled me to think of them. And I liked the thought that there was a Source that wanted all of us to be happy and well. That it was supposed to be that way. And yep, all but one (a goal which I had firmly changed my mind about afterwards) manifested. I hadn't done the part of reading my goals 3x a day, I just thought about them a lot. As I look back, it was a step by step process, but when the goals came to be it felt easy and natural. I love that! Seeing that list plus reading all the stunningly inspirational stories that have poured forth from the result of your posting, I feel again that this a great way to live one's life. -
Rachel, the garden elf
First I'd like to say that I've been an "Aber" most of my adult life-------long
before I came to know the name Abe-Hicks. In fact friends would frequently say
things to me like" are you sure you're not an Abe-Hicks follower----you sound
just like them."
I "use this stuff" every day and have manifested so much more than I would want
to type here. Since manifesting is your focus I will share some of the most
recent blessings that have appeared in my life. If you are interested in
techniques, I use only a couple and they pretty much work all the time with me.
You said "All I read is how Appreciative everyone is ...{I know....Rampage of
Appreciation...I'm familiar with this stuff, ok?} Well you've just pretty well
identified what is to me the absolute "MAGIC WAND "in all of this stuff.
Process #1 in Ask and it is Given---The Rampage of Appreciation is the single
most powerful thing that I can do anywhere, anytime, to open to the flood of
abundance that my Universe is determined to bathe me in. I have kept a daily
journal of appreciation for many years now. That is such a simple and powerful
way to acknowledge all that is already present in my life as well as to invite
my Universe to top up my life with even more of what pleases me. So if you want
a process that always works, I would encourage you to get a lot more familiar
with appreciation. Speaking of which----I so appreciate your email and the
opportunity to sit in my appreciation some more.
The other process that I regularly use is #10 in the book----the place mat
process. I use this one almost every day and honestly I've never found a better
way to locate something that I have misplaced or can't find than by using this
process. Of course I use it for lots of other things as well. Now on to
the stuff you want to hear about.
"I received/achieved the following by doing the above mentioned techniques".
Last fall I decided that I wanted to take the winter off from working. I thought
how nice it would be to stay home throughout much of our cold and snowy winter.
I live in central Canada and we do get some cold ones. I imagined how decadent
it would feel to me to snuggle into my feather bed and downy comforter at 7 in
the mornings totally indifferent to the storms raging outside. To just wake up
when I feel like it and then go about my day doing only things that please
me-----feels so delightful. So I placematted it ------once. I also thought
wouldn't it be nice if my Universe brought me money every day this year again
placematting}. It's been more than 3 months now and I am loving being a kept
woman------kept by my Universe that is. I 've had more money and services and
stuff coming in to me than when I was working fulltime! And yes I have been
having money coming to me almost every single day so far this year from all
kinds of places----some I could have imagined, most I could not. I think I will
take the spring off as well, maybe even the entire year.
In Dec I wrote to the list about how a complete stranger handed me a cheque for
several thousand dollars one evening, virtually on my doorstep----placematting
{once. I love to travel and do so frequently. Now I am playing with
placematting and enjoying loads of FREE and almost free and even first class
travel to
places like Cancun, Santa Monica, England, Boston. who knows where
else----anywhere I want to go is my guess.----placematting and appreciation.
I love to talk with my friends all over the world regularly and so have now
manifested FREE telephone calls anywhere , anytime I like------appreciation and
a little wouldn't it be nice if process#12
I decided that since I now had the time and the money this winter that I would
do some renovations on my home. I placematted {once} my way to meeting two
wonderful men who now come regularly to my home and ask " what would you like
done today? How great is that! And------ turns out one of them owns a delightful
chalet on a pristine lake 40 minutes away and has offered us the use of it in
June while he is away in New Mexico. My home is looking gorgeous these days!
And then there's Kokomo---my 9 month Pomeranian girl. She reminds me daily to
breathe appreciation. I won't go into all of the many so called coincidences and
details, etc Suffice it to say that I placematted for her and then literally
went to pet and play with my two other dogs.----pure pleasure, thus allowing her
to come to me exquisitely and with no resistance.
And this amazing list of people who's wisdom and compassion and inspiration and
soothing remind me sometimes hourly to keep asking myself which thought feels
better? David's impeccability and Connee's Grace shine on this list and I
appreciate what they bring here with them tremendously.
And then there's my excellent health and living with my best friend and husband
for 34 years and on and on and on. And then there's all that wonderful stuff
that around "enlightenment" and spirituality and just plain
feeling good etc, and we won't go there today. This is already longer than I
thought it would be.
Endorphins Multiply
SUE
Dear 557, Very thankful to you for asking these questions - what a delightful and amazing thread that you helped create! I'm pretty new to Abraham and to be honest I really haven't been focused on manifesting any specific "stuff" at this particular point so I don't have a specific experience to share about that (although I have noticed a lot of amazing coincidences, which I now no longer see as mere coincidences). I am pregnant with my second child who has been diagnosed with some issues during the pregnancy.
For many months I was in total despair and depression - thinking only the worst, really dreading any doctor visits. I would spend time looking up every possible condition and even ones that didn't relate to us and what that would be like for us. I guess I came to the Abraham concepts originally to see if I could help to improve the issues at all and the news has gotten steadily better to the point where the issues now seem very small but something interesting has also happened in all of this: I've come to realize that it really doesn't matter - All is Well and I know can choose to feel better no matter what is happening and there are many outcomes for any situation.
I know that this child is absolute perfect for our family and what he has to share with the world. I know we will be a thriving happy family no matter what happens. I am now so thankful for the issues the baby has had because I've found more joy concentrated in the last few months than in I have in most other times of my life. So, what have I manifested? : JOY!! I know this isn't a thing you can feel and touch but it has literally changed my life in the last few months. It has allowed me to reclaim my pregnancy and look to the future expecting good things. One of my favorite Abe quotes right now (and it is also on my fridge): "The standard of success in life isn't about the money or the stuff. The standard of success in life IS absolutely the amount of joy you feel".
Love, Kathy