Thank you, Stephen for this story. When I first read it, the subject of the knife was a bit jarring but I know Stephen to be a kind, considerate and ethical person. At the core of this is the idea that our thoughts can create anything: knives, cars, lawnmowers and concepts like happiness, less stress and abundance. I keep coming back to his statement about worthiness and his resulting success.
Ken
From Stephen:
I’m really interested in primitive skills. I love being in wild places looking for interesting and useful things. When I’m indoors I sometimes chat about my interests on internet forums. Related to this is my appreciation of cutting implements like axes and knives. I have more knives than I need, but I still make or acquire a knife from time to time. There is often a ‘better’ knife for a particular task.
For most of my life I’ve been interested in the connection between our thoughts/beliefs and what we experience. I was raised in Christian Science, a religion in which it is considered normal to change things through prayer or ‘right thought’. In more recent years I have explored meditation, the use of affirmations, and visualization. I recently enjoyed Ken Elliott’s book “Manifesting 123…” and I think his method of visualizing a future ‘movie’ is a great idea.
I am fairly certain that our thinking, attitudes and beliefs do affect our experience. Possibly to a much greater degree than I’m prepared to admit to at this stage. As I look at my own life and the lives of others, I think I can see a definite connection between the mental and the physical realms. Here is a recent example….
Earlier this year I visualized ‘knife satisfaction.’ I did not own a decent big knife that would be useful for heavier work like chopping, so I was looking for that tool. This was before I had downloaded Ken’s book, but I think what I was doing was pretty darn close to playing one of Ken’s movies in my mind.
‘Knife satisfaction’ is probably a subject that isn’t considered much by many students of manifestation and the topic may not seem as worthy as ‘world peace.’ However…. charity starts at home, and until I can demonstrate some manifesting success for myself, I can’t be sure that I can do much to help the world.
Furthermore, I’m inclined to think that when individuals are passionately doing their own thing, the world must become a better place (provided that the ‘own thing’ is motivated by high ideals).
A short time after the visualization exercise, I uploaded an outdoors story and some photos to an internet forum. Another member made a comment saying that he thought my story would have included a ‘BK9,’ this being a well-respected, large knife that would be very suitable for heavier tasks in the bush. The BK9 is a Becker knife made by Ka-Bar in the USA. I responded that while I’d like a knife like that, they were relatively expensive to buy from New Zealand. Another member said ‘you must have a BK9.’
I could buy such a knife but I couldn’t really justify the purchase considering that I had other tools that would suffice. It was possible that one day I might buy one. Within a few days of posting my story, two guys in the USA contacted me to get my address because they each wanted to give me a BK9 knife.
This was a bit hard to deal with in a way. I guess I felt a bit unworthy of being given things that I hadn’t earned. Perhaps I needed to learn a bit about my own true worthiness. Outwardly I’d be inclined to say that everyone was worthy of good stuff, and this is something I believed in theory, but inside things could be a bit different where my own history and feelings of worthiness were concerned.
Even as I type this story I feel a little awkward about the generosity of those nice guys. Anyway, I supplied my address and I now have two beautiful knives that are proving to be excellent tools.
This experience has given me some great food for thought about worthiness and what may be possible.
Best wishes from New Zealand..
Stephen
Photo credit: Manifesting New Zealand
