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I was raised in a household of Trekkies, (a.k.a. Star Trek series enthusiasts.) We watched all the original episodes with Captain Kirk and the next generation with Captain Picard. As a young viewer of this show, I felt its lessons were analogies for life and an imaginative foretaste of what we could expect as future innovation many years ahead.
There is a particular episode that stood out in my recently, as I contemplated our abilities as “Masterful Creators” here on Planet Earth. Captain Kirk and his crew are weary and in need of relaxation, so he sends his team to recon a “paradise planet” before the rest of the crew beams down, and they begin to experience some very strange things. Dr. McCoy sees a big a white rabbit and Alice in Wonderland who chases it. Sulu sees an ancient samurai who engages him in sword battle. Yeoman Tonia Barrows is accosted by Don Juan. Kirk beams down to verify these crazy reports and seeming “hallucinations” from his team, and runs into an childhood rival whom he’s always wanted to beat in a fight, as well as encounters a former high school girlfriend not seen in years. It is Spock who beams down and figures out they are on a planet that reads their thoughts.
“We all are meeting people and things that we happen to be thinking about at the moment,” says Captain Kirk. “Yes, somehow our thoughts are read and things are quickly manufactured and provided for us,” the ever-so-wise Spock deducts.
Voila! This is much like Earth. What we hold in our mind and wish for tends to manifest in our reality. What dictates how fast these visions manifest is a result of how much focused energy and thought is invested.
This is a controversial subject I love to contemplate, speak and write about. We are responsible for everything we manifest into our existence, good or bad…everything.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve seen a mixture of wonderful and not so wonderful people, things and events transpire in your life so far. I’ve made and lost a lot of money, been married and divorced twice, found myself overweight and also in top physical condition, and the list continues.
At times my ego wanted to reject the fact I am the creator of my reality, and what I hold in mind long enough, consciously or unconsciously, indeed ends up manifesting into my reality. Am I truly 100% responsible?
A favorite book of mine, “Ask and It is Given” written by Esther Hicks/Abraham teach, “By the powerful Universal Law of Attraction, you draw to you the essence of whatever you are predominantly thinking about. So if you are predominantly thinking about the things you desire, your life experience reflects those things…Whatever you are thinking about is like planning a future event. Worrying is using your imagination to create something you do not want.”
I am an experiential learner and informal ‘scientist of my own life’ conducting ongoing experiments, and I decided to really play with this notion of focused thought/emotion/vibration = physical manifestation. One weekend for 48 hours I focused on manifesting a trip to Hawaii; I was extremely clear–I intended to take a trip there for 7 days, I’d travel there within 30 days, my vacation would entail delightful relaxation on Hawaii’s beautiful beaches complete with fantastic activities, and this trip would somehow come to me for free.
For 2 days I remained in an incredible state of joy and positivity, only focusing on my desire as if it had come true already. I listened to Hawaiian music, talked about it with friends, wrote it down in a journal, posted pictures of people surfing in Waikiki Beach, and even created a vision board with photos of Hawaii.
Like magic, at the end of those 48 hours I received a phone call from a friend who told me they’d been wanting to go to Hawaii for a week-long vacation, thought of me, and invited me on a trip they’d pay for. Whoa! I remember laughing hysterically, partly in gratitude and belief that the law of attraction was definitely in-action, and partly in disbelief of how quickly it transpired.
I’ve experienced countless examples of rapid manifestations in my life, some amazingly positive and others disappointingly negative, and if I meditate on it enough, can trace the root of my thought and feelings to periods when I focused with incredible emotion on those subjects.
Hicks/Abraham recount that we have a ‘buffer of time’ that serves us with our thoughts; there is no need for apprehensive monitoring 24/7 of what we think and feel. However it does beg the question, “Are we aware of what the majority of our emotions are focused on daily?”
I applied the Star Trek episode premise to Facebook one day as I scanned the updated posts from friends and colleagues; what were they consistently focused on? I saw a lot of friends posting they were sick again and how bad they felt; I’d seen a trend of posts “focused thought” in their lives in that arena, and it seemed they were repeatedly sick. Many were complaining about politics or celebrity drama, others recounted happenings in their children’s lives, and some Facebook posts were brilliantly and consistently happy/grateful.
I’ve come to appreciate the beauty of contrast in my life; without the dark, how do we know the light? Contrast, (a.k.a. “bad”) is actually a good thing because it’s given me a greater perspective on what I prefer to attract and manifest in my life. Let’s just say I’ve experienced enough contrast now at age 34 to know what I desire so I can focus my thoughts on the amazing things I wish to create.
I like another Star Trek analogy using the Holodeck as an example for instant manifestation. “The Holodeck is an enclosed room in which objects and people are simulated by a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields onto which holographic images are projected.” In short, crew from the Starship Enterprise would enter this room and create instantaneous simulations, (i.e. people, environments, trainings, food/drink, etc.) that felt, tasted, smelled, sounded and looked real, and they did this by a simple command within the Holodeck.
As we live out this ‘dream’ as human beings, what we call forth into our reality feels very real to us. My car in-need of a good wash looks real, my sore back muscles from a recent workout feel real, the peanut butter and jelly toast I ate this morning tasted real. Thus, if my lifetime is truly my creation, and I know in my heart I am deserving and can attract and manifest what I wish by the focus of my feelings, I will experiment with this “Holodeck” called Planet Earth, and enjoy playing with this wonderful power by inviting up the most loving, joyful and extraordinary thoughts possible. Some manifestations may occur fast, others may take some time, alas I am aware what this process feels like, and practicing has never been so much fun!
In the modified infamous words of the Star Trek character, Spock: “Love long and prosper.”
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