Favorite Stories from 2024

Throughout the year, it is such a gift and surprise to receive these stories from the readers of Manifesting 1,2,3 and you don’t need #3. I hope their experiences will encourage you to begin and continue with your current practices. As for the ice cream photo, yes, it’s a favorite and dear friends got me on that jag the night before… it’s getting closer! Ken I Didn’t Realize How I Manifested a Remarkable Gift to Myself! Holly writes: I recently took an art workshop from Ken and toward the end of the weekend he asked each one of us, “Do you know where you want to go with your heart?” I decided on an artistic answer, that I wanted to exhibit my works, not really focusing on an income, but to get my artworks out there where people could see it and enjoy it. So what do think happened next? After Two Negative Years, Manifesting the Opposite! M. writes: Sometime back, my sister, K. was working at a compounding pharmacy in Texas. It’s where custom medications are made to fit the unique needs of patients that can’t be met with mass-produced products. It was an OK job and the bills were paid. Then a group from Colorado bought it in order to turn it into a sterile lab. She was then laid off and next, she got a horrible, just horrible job with somebody breathing down her neck all day. She has a tendency to be negative so I jumped in and said, “Look, when you speak it, you’re bringing it to you. So you need to turn that around and you need to say that this is the job I want. Imagine yourself working in that large hospital you like that is 20 minutes away, not something with a one hour commute each way.” You will like the result she manifested.  Can I Manifest Something and Then Change My Mind for Happiness Sake? Tim writes: In 2016 I had spent a lot of time in Africa, resulting in my being afflicted with a parasite for a time. I had to stop performing after 7 years and it gave me a lot of time to relax and find out who I was as a person without the performing arts career. The arts were a big part of my life and I realized that most of my friendships were from that field and particularly around singing. I recall the day being in my bedroom and coming to the realization that I didn’t want to be known as a singer, that I just wanted to be known as a human. It was an aspirational thought but I soon regretted saying it. I put it this way and said it out loud, “I never want to sing again.” That statement, that command, ended my singing career. I stopped performing but the time off did help me find out who I was without the acclaim of others. Many years later, in December 2023, I decided that singing was a valuable gift and a worthy part of who I am. I wanted to sing again, so I began to manifest that outcome in my meditations while also taking action, singing periodically in Sunday morning church settings – a good start.  Can you successfully change your mind? Lost, in Trouble and Reaching Out with a Prayer Mikaela Rae writes, I was living in Nashville, Tennessee, making a living as a singer. I was on the road at 6:30pm and it was dark during the rush hour. I had the radio on and this song, Why We Sing from Kirk Franklin came on: ‘I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free, His eye is on the sparrow. That’s the reason why I sing.” And I’m crying. I’m lost. I have no idea what I’m doing with my life or my career, and all of a sudden, my back left tire pops and goes flat. I got to an underpass and pulled over on the left side of the road near the fast lane. I sat there, feeling very depleted, very beaten and really, really lost.  I had just purchased new tires on my car, but no matter.  What am I going to do? This is before the convenience of cell phones. I grabbed my keys, kept them in my hands, and decided just to walk up the highway and find a place to run across five lanes of rush hour traffic to get home. I quickly realized that would be impossible, a death wish. My walking path on the side of the highway was very narrow and spooky. It was then I realized that I was trapped in a bad situation. A remarkable solution presented itself!  It Bears Repeating… Add the NOW to Your Manifesting Practice Earlier in May, 2024, I went over how some of my fellow artists were discussing manifesting and how we could use the idea of the Now to eliminate the annoying gaps that are common between art sales. So let me bring you up to date on what happened in the last two weeks, a personal experience of the artist / author Nancy Rynes and myself. I had an internet radio interview about the Manifesting 1,2,3 book with Richard Dugan coming up and my thought was to try using the Now idea to create a fast sale of one of my paintings, and if the sale came through I would discuss it during the interview. I wanted the experiment to have a very short window to better illustrate that thoughts can act quickly with the Now idea. So two days prior to the interview I repeated this simple thought, “A painting is selling NOW.” That was it. What was the result? Manifesting and the Equivalents First, let me begin with two points, simply stated. First, our coordinated thoughts with two people or larger have great power. Never underestimate what two or more people can create together. Peace in the family? World peace anyone?