What Is Possible? Question From a Reader

Dear Mr. Elliott, I read your book and love it so much! Thank you for this masterpiece. When I think about this thought power stuff, would you say, for example, being a famous actor/singer or entrepreneur that makes millions in a year is just as easily possible as being poor and homeless? Would being single be just as possible as dating 5 women / men at the same time, if one wants to, of course? This question may sound naive or even silly from a worldly point of view, but I think your answer to this with your background would really help me to understand the science behind it even more. In our manifesting movies you can put in every possible scenario and it is always easy, right? Would be very nice If you could answer this. Thanks and best wishes from Austria! A. My reply: Thank you for writing. To answer your question, there may be two things to first consider: your destiny here and all that you can manifest. It may be that you are destined to be poor or rich, famous or unknown, in loving relationships or not. You may remain in that state or only experience it for a time. Regarding destiny, I subscribe to the idea that you have a life plan with major things you will do and experience, along with certain skills and aptitudes. You would also encounter a series of lessons in that plan and the opportunity to learn and carry out what you came here to do. Keep in mind that there are equivalents of rich and poor, etc. I could be that you might experience all of the things you mentioned without actually living them. In your life or career you may come into close contact with wealth or poverty and you gain considerable experience that way. Suppose you wanted to be an astronaut. You can certainly manifest that idea. It is very likely that instead of being the astronaut, you will come in close contact with the experience of being one. You may become friends with someone in the space program or find yourself immersed a newly released, 72-hour documentary about all things related to being an astronaut. It would be the equivalent of that physical experience. Supposing your destiny is not to be a career astronaut along with the years of training that takes, your life plan has you on the ground instead, within your soul’s design. It doesn’t preclude your ‘being’ an astronaut for a time though. I like the idea of manifesting at least two important things as a priority. I would offer perfect health and second, the idea of doing what we are here to do. Once those are covered, create a number of scenes in your movie… go big! Two things will surely happen. We will literally create the results we specify or we will encounter the equivalent of that idea. If being famous sounds interesting, then put it into your manifesting scenario. It may come to pass in some small or large way. You may experience celebrity by following it in the media or directly as a friend or associate. Perhaps you are not comfortable being on the stage, so to speak, but you prefer the proximity of fame. A nice possibility. Perhaps after seeing fame up close or giving it a try, you decide celebrity is not for you, thank you very much, and you no longer feel that desire. Here are questions back to you: With your current skills or accomplishments, how can you be made famous? How will you have that wonderful relationship you seek? As we are manifesting things and concepts, many discover they are becoming more suited to the outcomes they desire. People realize they are changing and growing. Perhaps they are less inclined to fame unless it beings meaning into their lives. For those manifesting relationships, many observe they are becoming more loving, open and patient. Also, some of their unattractive traits fall away – they become more desirable. Like attracts like and they are becoming a better match for the partner they desire. My wish for you is that you are healthy, you are fulfilled because you are doing your heart’s desire – what you are here to do, you are well-thought of and admired, you love and are loved (even as a single person), living comfortably, balanced and happy without financial concerns.  Should you find yourself in the place outlined above, you would possess much – great happiness, fulfillment and love. It may be that you are only famous to your many good friends and that your heart is full. There are numerous ways to attain the goals we seek, Something like fame may come with serious limits, but if you so wish, ask it to come wth an ease and a grace. Be good to yourself. Point yourself to Happiness! Ken Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you! _____________________ At last, creation itself is explained simply and convincingly. This is the book that changes everything! Ready to start now? Click Here to purchase your copy from Amazon Paperback 160 pages.  $14.95  Amazon $13.74 Kindle ebook $9.99 also… Audible audio download       3 hours, 23 minutes   $9.99 Ibook (Apple) download       3 hours, 23 minutes   $9.99 also….   The entire book as read by the author on a 4 gb (3.5 gb free space) capacity jump drive that can fit on your keychain. This is a great way to have Manifesting 123, your personal files and music with you anywhere. PC and Mac compatible, 1 5/8 x 1/2 inches, 1 oz Audiobook read by the author on a USB drive (MP-3 version) $14.95 + ship  purchase here Photo credit: upper left: Support Possibilities

Cooking Up a Quick Solution

This is a story from some years back. I had gone on a long trip that turned out to be way more expensive than I anticipated. I arrived home on a Sunday morning with only $1.35 to my name and an empty kitchen. I had cleaned it out before I left and it really looked bare on my return. I was expecting a payment for some recent work but in the meantime I had nothing to eat. I could have called my ex-boyfriend but didn’t want to re-involve myself with him or be indebted in any way. I could have also called one of several friends but my Leo pride wasn’t crazy about that. So I went to work on the problem. I laid down with the intention that the Universe could help me “cook up” something. Within a few minutes I remembered that I had been invited to a community potluck from an organic gardening group scheduled for that afternoon. I did not have an organic garden but had helped out on someone else’s and thus was put on the invite list. The only problem was that they asked you bring either a dish of food to share or give a donation of $8. I had neither, but for some reason I thought to check their Facebook page again. I saw that the organizer was asking if anyone could come an hour early to help set up the event. This of course would be in lieu of needing to bring food or money. I had just enough time to get there, so I was out the door quickly. On my arrival I helped set up tables, chairs and decoration, an easy and fun task. Shortly after the people started coming with massive amounts of food to share. There were about 6 tables filled with an amazing variety of healthy and delicious dishes. Not only did I eat till I was stuffed but there was so much food leftover that they insisted I take home a container with enough for 2 more meals! I felt really grateful and this totally renewed my faith that the Universe is abundant and generous. Karen This appears to be a simple story with a nice ending but at its core, an idea was engaged, an intention was created. This simple procedure creates miracles, your miracles. In this story, a solution was quickly found with her rested mind or perhaps the information she needed miraculously emerged. This is what our thoughts can do. In this book, for the first time, you will learn how your thoughts literally become form and how to simply put this profound discovery to work for you. This is another of Karen’s stories that have appeared in this newsletter and I happily thank you again for your encouraging words. Ken Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you! _____________________ At last, creation itself is explained simply and convincingly. This is the book that changes everything! Ready to start now? Click Here to purchase your copy from Amazon Paperback 160 pages.  $14.95  Amazon $13.74 Kindle ebook $9.99 also… Audible audio download       3 hours, 23 minutes   $9.99 Ibook (Apple) download       3 hours, 23 minutes   $9.99 also….   The entire book as read by the author on a 4 gb (3.5 gb free space) capacity jump drive that can fit on your keychain. This is a great way to have Manifesting 123, your personal files and music with you anywhere. PC and Mac compatible, 1 5/8 x 1/2 inches, 1 oz Audiobook read by the author on a USB drive (MP-3 version) $14.95 + ship  purchase here   Photo credit: Walsworth, and from Manifesting 123 on Pinterest

Making the Equivalent of Money Work for You!

OK, OK, this car photo is over the top and it is not the one mentioned in this story, but Catherine had a critical problem with the tires on her car. For some time now, those tires needed replacing. She was working the problem, asking for the money to take care of the problem and she was also manifesting that the problem would somehow be solved… a grateful outcome. The tires were in very fragile shape, limiting Catherine’s use of the car to small errands or must-do trips. One was frayed and balding, presenting an obvious hazard and the others needed to be replaced ASAP. Her good friend Missy heard about the upcoming Shifting Your Reality Conference where I was speaking last week and invited Catherine to attend as her gift. The plan was for Missy to fly in, rent a car and the two of them would ride together for the two-hour trip to the Conference at the Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado. For some strange reason, Missy’s rental car reservation had been bungled and a car was not available, stranding her at the airport. She called Catherine to recommend using her car for the trip and that’s when she learned about Catherine’s bad tires. “OK,” Missy thought, “If we can’t use Catherine’s car, we will just go this other car rental agency away from the airport.” So Missy just waited for Catherine to arrive when the ideal of purchasing all new tires for Catherine just popped in. Missy explains, “Catherine picked me up and explained everything about her current finances and the tires. I said I would buy her new tires and we drove to her tire place. They were able to install four new tires and the car was ready in about two hours. It was about the same out of pocket money for me as the rental car would have been. I feel so thankful and honored that I was used as a vessel for helping to manifest her needs. I know the manifestations of desires often come through normal channels in our lives. I am so grateful to be a part of those creations.” So what happened? Catherine definitely manifested the tires. As it turns out, Catherine successfully manifested the equivalent of money – exactly the amount to put new tires on her car. Without any extra-earned income on her part, Catherine’s thoughts created the exact solution elegantly. We had fun at the conference calling Catherine the Tire Master. I also got a kick out of asking Missy where the idea for buying the tires came from. It was amazing how it came from out of the blue. Missy was intent on working the rental car option, nothing more. Funny how a rental car was unavailable and then having the purchasing idea abruptly present itself! Catherine is well into what she will be creating next and we want to hear all about it. Nicely done, Catherine and Missy! Ken More stories and information about the equivalent of money from the Manifesting 123 archives: There is the Equivalent of Money Another One of Those Stories: The Equivalent of Money The Equivalent of Money   Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you!   Photo credit: Covini Engineering

Can You Create What You Desire? Are You Worthy?

I have a lot of conversations with people on the subject of manifesting and there are some common themes. Surprisingly, a large number of people aren’t really sure of how they would like their lives to be. We get so busy we don’t leave time to really consider what we would like our future to be. We don’t make it a priority. Here’s an idea from the forward of the book: we are truly like that Genie. As we think of something, it immediately begins to form right in front of us.  This is all fully explained in the book, but consider it to be true.  Many of us have experienced this to be a fact. Your thoughts are creating what you’re thinking, so it is fundamental to have a script, a blueprint of what you want your life to be, where you prefer to go. Here is a guide for starters: health, safety, fulfillment, love, financial security… you get the idea. These are wonderful concepts and it is not necessary to specify how they must happen. All that’s left to do is to use the simple instructions in Manifesting 123 on a daily basis and magnify those thoughts with gratitude. But that’s not the way it is for all of us. We run into another very common roadblock: worthiness. Perhaps this example will help. Everyone is born with the ability to breathe. Breathing is a fundamental gift that maintains our lives. When we wake in the morning we don’t pray or beg for air. It is freely given to everyone without judgment. Regardless of our stature or standing in life, we are all allowed to breathe. Creating with thought is a natural law, also freely given. You would not deny yourself the ability to breathe, so take advantage of what you are allowed to create by simply thinking it. Don’t miss out on what is equally offered to everyone. I have over 15 years of experience sending things in thought to people gifted enough to see those thoughts start to take form in real time. This is a real and incredibly important tool. Please don’t deny this great gift you were born with. Point yourself to happiness. Use your thoughts to create your life of joy and fulfillment. Here’s some wisdom and encouragement from Mohammed Ali: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” Start now! Ken Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo credits: Apensiveheart’s Blog and from Manifesting 123 on Pinterest. Mohammed Ali photo: The Telegraph

Here are some of the best stories and information from the 1st half of 2016

Manifesting 123 is the book that explains for the first time how your thoughts actually create your reality. Thanks to readers, here are just a few of the great stories from the year so far. Keyword search and view over 150 more here   Manifesting and those Amazing Side Effects One of the great purposes of manifesting is to improve our lives in a variety of ways. This newsletter / story archive abundantly proves that people are getting results when they ask, pray or purposely manifest toward a goal. Then there is that extra something that happens… read more   Since your thoughts can create anything, why not go for that perfect career? Grace writes: “I began manifesting my ideal job: Something where I can be a patient advocate and help patients gain access to the medications they need. ” the rest of the story   Does manifesting work? Absolutely! Does prayer work? Yes! Is is always on time or in the form we expect? Not really. But sometimes manifesting or prayers come in right on time and exactly as we desire it. Here are a couple of great examples where two women went straight to prayer to solve a problem that needed a really quick resolution. Two women manifest the money they need right on time. more story   My Simple Wishes Brought Us the Perfect House Mona writes: Recently we were living in a small, 2-bedroom house, in a small town, with 2 children and one on the way. We were already tight for space and a bigger home was definitely needed and soon! We didn’t have the unlimited resources to just go out get anything we wanted and ideally we wanted to stay in the same school district. I know one way to make things happen, so at night when I would go to bed, I would make my Wishes.  find out what happened next   Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you.   Photo credit: Mike Jackson photography

I Manifested Pure Love in the Park Today

Well, I took your book “Manifesting 1.2.3” to the park with me yesterday to catch a few rays before the afternoon sun went down. As I usually do, I opened to the page “What do I need to know from this book,” the Movie Exercise that explains, “I am in my future, and in my future ______ .” So I started to manifest “I am in my future and in my future I am with my beloved.” I hold that thought, imagining it with love and gratitude. I feel a lot of gratitude because of what I have come through and learned from my past. I was calling in my beloved that is pure and who would resonate with who I am. We would have fun and be about our work in the world helping to change lives and making a difference. This intention occupies a deep space in my heart. As timing and location would have it, I was near the restrooms at the park, so I left my spot in the park to use the ladies room. When I returned to my blanket there was a couple with a toddler. Mom was behind him as he made his way to the rocks, wanting to be closer to the water. I went back to reading and imagining my beloved. All of a sudden I noticed the little one had crawled up on the bench next to me, looking over at me. I asked him his name. No answer. He was just staring at me. I asked him how old he was and he made a gesture with his fingers that clearly was not his age.  Soon he was over on my blanket pointing to your book. I read him a passage in the book about choosing from love or fear. I have the first version with the white cover and I pointed out the treasure chest, heart and rainbow illustrations as he babbled indiscernible baby talk. Next we picked those little white flowers that grow in grass and we were literally smelling flowers together. Then he walked around behind me and gestured for me to lift me up, I gathered he wanted to walk somewhere. So we took a little walk hand in hand until his mother called out, “That’s far enough.” He was obedient and we turned around and went back to the blanket and smelled our flowers some more. He pulled up a few pieces of grass to show me and then gathered a handful and we pretended to throw it up in the air like a surprise and we laughed out loud. His smile was so cute with his two big front teeth. He walked around a bit and then came back and sat straight on my lap and hugged me. Hmmmmm, pure, sweet love. My beloved? Perhaps I should specify someone more my age! LOL. When it was time for me to go, I walked him back to his mother and her companion. She pulled him up on the picnic table and he stood there and started to cry pitifully as he reached his arms out to me as I waved good-bye to my little beloved. My heart soared! I am so grateful that by just asking, I experienced pure love. A. C.             Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you.   Photo credit: framedfrosting.com

My Life is Getting Better. I Am Ready and it Was For the Asking

Special note: Don’t miss this upcoming Colorado Conference! Shifting Your Reality Conference: A Peek at The Afterlife & Healing Tools Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado July 15 @ 6:00 pm – July 17 @ 3:30 pm Special price through July 1, $199. Info and registration My Life is Getting Better. I Am Ready and it Was For the Asking Katie writes: It was 20 years ago that a significant book was published and one of my co-workers was very excited about it. He kept mentioning how wonderful it was. As a frequenter of thrift stores, book and metaphysical shops, I would often see new and used copies of this book, I always put off purchasing it because other topics were more enticing or prevalent to my needs, interests, or desires… or so I thought. Ten years later, while working at a yoga studio in Palo Alto, CA, I connected with the book author’s daughter as she was launching her greeting card line. We spoke at length multiple times when I would place card orders from her. I still had not read that book. Another ten (challenging) years go by. It is 2016 and I am living in Mount Shasta, California.  I now keep an eye out for the first book by this author. I have often seen the follow up Books 2 and 3 in the series but not Book I. Another friend offers 2 and 3 but he no longer has Book 1. This friend invites me to go with him and others to Ashland, Oregon to listen to this author speak. Making excuses, I put it off… next journey I will go, I say. After 20 years, I recently reconnected with my former co-worker and now friend, who has since gone on to publish his own book, one of which he generously gifted me. Interestingly, over the last six weeks or so I have meet a number of other authors, receiving their books and garnered another invite to Ashland, Oregon. Recently, a flood of recommendations also came in from friends with favorite books and speakers. As it turns out, that first book my friend raved about 20 years ago was mentioned every time. June 7th, 2016 – A new friend teaches me how online videos can be converted and stored on my computer, so I bank a variety of materials to listen to at home. I have no idea what some of the videos are since they are often renamed. The next day I press shuffle on my music player and I heard a motivational speaker talking with the author recommend so long ago. My jaw is on the floor… “Why did I not read this material 20 years ago? It was virtually handed to me and kept appearing in my life, yet I did not act on it.” It was important for me to hear this information! Today is June 14th, 2016, I just left my therapist, having spoke of my recent procrastinations and those missed opportunities (including financial opportunities, etc.) I was walking down the main street where the local metaphysical bookstore has put out a rack of used books. I quickly and unceremoniously scan the books then I stop. I slow it down for a second look and purposefully read each title. On the bottom rack is that book, Part I. Picking it up, I carefully hold it and for the first time ever, I open it. Then I turn it over and see the cost – used, and reasonable, maybe a little high considering the age, stains and highlights. Right now that is two meals. Two days, not necessarily in a row, of food. Hmmmmmm… I am about to launch into my creative financing and inner haggling when a local friend, with whom I spoke with on Saturday about this author-speaker steps out of the coffee shop. He walks over to me and looks at the book and says “I will buy that for you. Everyone needs that book.” Wow!  Before I remember the lost opportunities just spoken of, before I can regret 20 years of procrastination for not buying the book, before I can justify NOT buying the book because I am healing and working at keeping steadily nourished, my friend steps in and says “Here, let me buy this for you.” Thank you, my friend. This is a small series of happenings that illustrates the many synchronistic experiences, messages, abundance, timing and blessings I have received in my lifetime. I know I will rise out of this challenging time. I heard the message, stop procrastinating – Act on Your Guidance and Intuition. I AM ON THIS! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For all I have, all I receive, and all we are. My friend who gifted me the book is Richard Montane aka Mountain Ghost. The author of Book I is Neale Donald Walsch. The book is Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue. My friend from 20 years ago is none other than Ken Elliott. Conversations with God has brought me new insights and I am continuing to use what I have learned with Manifesting 123 and you don’t need #3. I have been manifesting change and the results are increasing in a profound and gentle way! Thank you! Katie   Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you.    

From My Suicide, Then to Paris and Finding My Love

Patrice writes: My manifesting days began long before I read Manifesting 123, but his book definitely outlines the path that makes all of it come to pass much quicker. Waking up in gratitude is my key to unlocking my manifesting door. I was once profoundly disturbed enough by a real life circumstance that I attempted to stop that misery in a very final way.  I was actively committing suicide. As my own respirations were growing more shallow and my eyesight became more blurry, I started to weep. I gently wept at the thought that my life was coming to an end before I had even seen Paris, the city of light. The most eternally romantic of hearts have beaten there. I had longed to walk those streets, breathing in those sights and aromas as many of the greatest artists had. I could and still do hear Edith Piaf, the songbird & the sparrow, as she sings Non Je Ne Regrette Rien. No regrets. Somehow through that haze I did the unthinkable, the thing that I had promised myself I would NOT do. I picked up the phone & called a friend. That friend also did the unimaginable and called the paramedics who were at my door quickly. I was placed on a stretcher with eyes unable to adjust to the intense sunlight outside my hotel room door. I arrived at the ER where one is forced to speak of the deed. At the hospital they induced the vomiting that is necessary to purge what I had taken. Being transported by EMT’s and being hospitalized after a suicide attempt is a lot like what I would imagine being arrested and jailed is like. No one in either the ambulance, emergency room or on the floor will speak with you beyond stating the obvious. Blood draw. Drink this. I am here to take your vitals. There is no banter.  You are the lowest of the low. Rightfully so. These employees are there to save lives from real illness or injury, not to save a life of a grown up who looks for the easy way out. Suicide watch is a misery and no hairdryers or razor blades are allowed. My body did react to the toxins and was covered in a full body rash: face, scalp, ears, nostrils, etc. It was somewhat of a battle to get released and I needed some help. While an inpatient, I called some friends in Florida, (who were also both employed in the health industry) and they generously offered me a safe haven to go to. Not even one full year later, I married a European in Key West, Florida. We immediately did some traveling and I had an ever so brief time in Noisy-le-Roi and Paris. My husband knew why my tears were freezing to my cheeks. As a former art student, I simply had to visit the Louvre. I simply had to do all of the touristy type things as well! I had to climb those steps to Montmartre & I had to have a small painting, which still hangs in my home I made it to Paris after all, though I am now divorced. The highlight to this visit was not the Seine cruise, or real frites near the Arc de Triomphe, nor walking the Champs Elysee at dusk, lit by thousands of twinkling white holiday lights. It was not the romantic & pricey dinner. Nor ducking in & out of chartcuteries, boulangeries or chocolate shops or even Hediard’s. It was not the Eiffel Tower. It was entering the most beloved cathedral, Sacre Couer. Looking at the candles and the fee for each. I bought a candle for every day I had lived. I lit every candle, having to search for places to place them. At each stop, I deliberately prayed anew: that I may never forget the lesson learned that past year and that day. It was a renewal of my deep gratitude and will to live. These experiences led me to change. I reached out to a brighter future and once again, I began to ask, pray and manifest what would benefit me. All of us come to this life with gifts. All of us suffer difficulty, extreme loss and heartbreak. The miracle of all miracles is that with a bit of gratitude and a well-turned thought, we can actually manifest a different life for ourselves, an easier, more connected-to-source life. This is what Manifesting 123 has done for me. I am now very connected to source, to wellspring, to my own creativity. I credit the book & the amazing chance opportunity of actually meeting Ken Elliott in person as the foundation to abundance that has brought me so many recent amazing and spectacular outcomes. Chief among these is my new love, a main squeeze of the lasting kind. I did pretty much exactly as Ken describes in the book, I did not visualize any of his real physical characteristics. I did not have the usual list of attributes that I had once prepared, only specifying this would be for my highest good. I even made up my mind in advance that no matter what man arrived, I would not ask that even a hair on his head change. “Don’t change your hair for me, not if you care for me.”  My dear love and I found each other. What I have received is far greater than even my own imagination is capable of!  The very, very best part is that this man loves me just the way I am. I have not listened to one single person’s opinion about how quickly and deeply we fell in love, because those people are not privy to what has transpired between us in our short time frame. They have not read the countless lengthy emails or the amazing early morning texts or had the really long revealing telephone conversations or felt our hands when they touch. This IS white on rice. This IS the real thing. This IS a huge, huge, huge love. And we both feel it. I am 64 &

Clear Intentions and Difficult Changes for My Best Result

Margaret writes: Back in 2008, I went through a mini “mid-life crisis” where I wanted to lose weight and work out so as to improve my overall physical, emotional and mental health. I also wanted to gain back much of my independent spirit I’d seemed to have lost years earlier when I first married and year by year, gave up and gave in to my husband who controlled the bills/finances, planning vacations, even when/where we moved, what home, furnishings, etc., we purchased. Through the years of being a wife/helpmate, mom, etc., I was loosing more and more of myself, always giving to my husband and sons and others. As I continued my healthy regime, I became happier and the more this developed for me, the more my husband withdrew. One of my dreams was to move to California and pursue a new career. My thinking was that I’d devoted my entire married life to his career pursuits, so perhaps he would be open to following me for once. This couldn’t have been further from the truth. He was adamant about how his work prevented him from leaving. I indicated that there might come a time when I felt the need to leave and therefore I would follow my own heart/dreams. This was the beginning of my “putting out into the Universe,” my desire to be independent, happy and free. Although I have to add that I NEVER intended for my marriage to end, it was time for some adjustments. I loved my husband and wanted him in my life. Believing that I needed to prove to I could go on a solo vacation, I  planned a trip and made it happen.  I spent a peaceful, blissful, solitary time by myself in another state, driving all over, taking in the sights, journaling, photographing and even driving over to the next state to meet a childhood friend, spending a few days with her. This was something I never thought I could do on my own, so I was quite proud of myself for following through. For my husband, however, it became yet, another reason to pull a little further away. From here on out, things became more strained but subtly. He decided to take his own “solo” vacations, work out more often, and change his clothing style. Later we even had separate bedrooms. With all of the growing signs, etc., I knew we needed professional help so I told him if we were to save our marriage, we needed to get counseling. He agreed to the counseling so I was encouraged. We had seen counselors before with a good rate of success, but this time was different. We would have a great session and leave the office only for things to go back to the way they’d been with his coming home later and later, not checking in, etc. After about eight months of sessions, our counselor moved away and we never tried to find another. All of the positive things I’d done for myself began to fade away as my husband’s appearance improved and his behavior began to shift in a positive, confident direction. He decided to take another of his solo vacations to another state. He was way too eager to leave on this particular trip, telling me he was going to get up very early in the morning to get a good start. Intuitively, I’d known for some time that he was having an affair, but I kept denying these feelings. I begged him to tell me if he was meeting someone out there, or taking someone with him but he denied it all. I had tried everything in my power to honor our marriage, but I felt I was finally owed the truth so I hired a private investigator. It was easy work because on this trip and only on this particular trip he shared all his contact information…the location of the cabins, the phone number, etc. I truly think it was the Universe trying to help me out. I was prepared to do whatever it took to hold our marriage together, but the information that was provided by the investigator was irrefutable, leaving no other choice but to end this union once and for all. I truly believe that my wish to be happy, independent and free was answered succinctly, leaving me no other alternative. It was very tough, but now all is clear to set my own course for a happy and fulfilling life. Like a sunrise, each day presents me with a beautiful potential. Margaret How Solutions Sometimes Manifest Once Margaret became more focused on her intention, it appears that all fell into place and a solution was presented. In this story, a considerable amount of pain was experienced, but is very possible that everyone is happier for the outcome. Certainly that is the case for Margaret. Once manifesting begins, our thoughts will create the most direct path to the goal that is envisioned. Sometimes it becomes the loss of a job so that the better opportunity can appear or as in this case, the end of a toxic relationship. No one is advocating the break up of marriages here, but in this instance there was no other way forward. What appears to be ‘bad’ news is sometimes not what it seems, but instead, the event that leads us from our comfort or secure place to a place of our best and highest good. Ken   Have a manifesting story to share? Please email it in and if it is used for this newsletter I’ll send you a free, signed copy of the book as a thank you. Photo:  MacWallpaper.com