Are you open to manifesting any possibility?

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In my last newsletter I shared my thoughts on following through with my 10 year Turkey hike goal. One of the paragraphs I wrote said this - “that our thoughts are the most powerful thing in this world. They LITERALLY create our reality. Our mental perspective can shift how we interpret our day to day life, how we see ourselves, frame the past, and set the future”.

That sticks out to me right now because of a small thing that occurred on my walk yesterday.

Yesterday I manifested palm size bouncy ball.

Now you might shake your head at this being woo-woo but the meaning behind what I am about to share is simple - once you let go of control, accept what is happening now, and continue to do your best, you will draw better outcomes. They may be small and fleeting but they will arise.

I was walking along the shoreline close to where I am currently living. I had set off to run a 5k and almost stopped at 2.5k. I forced myself to continue onward. I got to 4k and the perfect entrance to the wood strewn beach just off the roadside. Instead of turning around on the road to finish my 5k I stopped and decided I did well enough running and I want to enjoy the brief sunshine along the water.

That decision to stop running, but feeling accomplished enough - not upset that I quit early, like if I would have at 2.5k, lead me to walk the beach which led me to picking up the bouncy ball that had washed ashore.

This bouncy ball was on my mind a few weeks ago, when I was feeling really low and anxious. I wished I had something I could do with my hands to keep my mind busy or when I had a few minutes lull instead of scrolling on my phone. I thought of it and how having it would be fun. (I am also supposed to practice hand eye coordination for my past TBI and my stressful, overwhelmed thoughts had me thinking back to that in my life.)

I felt that having this little thing would be so relieving for me. It would be something simple to bring some joy and childlike fun into my day.

Now here is the KICKER - I thought of the bouncy ball a few times over the coming weeks, BUT mostly in passing not in a I need this thing to make my life better or I need this thing it will fix me, or I am so obsessed to have this thing - this will be the thing that allows my life to change.

The important factor for manifesting into your life is putting trust into the universe. (Something I am very very very bad at doing, most of the time.)

It’s about replacing the obsessive need and constant thought, desire, or want - with a simple feeling that this would be great for me. Think about what you want or dream but in a way that is only about feeling the importance of change but not the need of it and it will come when it is ment to.

I brought this ball into my life. How it came to my life is irrelevant. Just that it came into my life at a time when I felt I did not want to be depressed anymore.

I could have gone out and purchased a bouncy ball at the store, ordered one online, or even said that’s a stupid idea but I didn’t. I allowed the feeling that I wanted to change and having this show up in my life, not at my choosing, is what manifesting is.

You could call it change, serendipity, luck, any of those things but once you open yourself up to the fact that small happenstance’s happen - maybe, quite possibly, bigger ones can too….

Writing this is more for my mind sake if I am being honest, I feel a desire to read these words, to continue to open myself up to bigger and better possibilities. To strive or let go when I feel such an attachment to an idea or thought not aligned with my path.

That is how we can capture adventure.