by Linda West
That's when my wish was born.
Hawaii was my answer to conquering surfing. I wanted to learn to surf in Hawaii just like the girls in the Roxy video!
Of course, a trip to Hawaii is not cheap and so at the time not in my budget at all. I was talking to my ‘then’ boyfriend and he said, “Why don't you try and manifest this with the techniques you use with your clients?”
Big Duh!
All right. The game was on! We decided to try manifesting the trip together (even though he didn't really love surfing. He just wanted to go to Hawaii - valid enough).
We picked out the perfect date and gave ourselves a month until the end of October, because that's when the crowd thinned and the water was still warm. Okay, so far, so good.
I was pretty new at ‘wish manifesting’ consciously, so I didn't know what to expect. As most people would think, I thought some magical money would appear that I didn't know about. Falling from the sky when I needed it most...
Alas, no sudden windfall of cash came in that month which would have allowed us to go on vacation.
I continued to watch my surf videos, fake practicing along on my carpet and putting out good vibes. I really didn't think about our wish until it hit the end of October.
My boyfriend (smirkingly) said to me, "I guess your ‘manifesting stuff’ doesn't work. You didn't manifest the trip and you didn't manifest the money to take the trip."
I looked at the calendar and the date hit me. There it was, the last day of October circled in bright red flare, and there was no trip in sight.
The truth of it was glaring at me in red, almost sad, now positioned right next to my favorite surf poster of the Roxy girls surfing happily on Waikiki's beautiful perfect waves.
I was kind of disappointed and thought, “Well, all right. Maybe I did something wrong or maybe the technique wasn't right.”
I certainly had enough enthusiasm and love for it, and that's the most powerful attractor.
I had certainly manifested many other darn right unbelievable things before so I knew it was possible.
I believed.
In any case I didn't get all bent out of shape about it.
Remember when I told you that when your wish is granted it often shows up in an unusually delightful way you never would have thought of? That surprise delivery aspect is actually one of the coolest parts about the whole wish thing coming true!
You understand you don't have to know how, you just have to believe it will...
You understand the magic of life and the divine design working. That is worth a thousand dream vacations and wads of cash because it is the source of true happiness which is connection.
Wholeness. Unity. One.
I really meant that, and sometimes it's as good as getting what you wish for, as you will see!
Continuing on, remember that this happened to me, and this is a completely true story.
It’s Halloween morning. The last day of October . . . the 31st is circled in red. I'm staring at it mocking me, when I receive a phone call.
It was from a former client that I had known when I worked at the rehab. (I had a short stint as a spiritual counselor at a ‘la dee da’ Malibu star rehab.)
The former client, Ruby, told me that she had relapsed and hurt herself and her daughter had found her. (Ruby had a bad alcohol problem and had been battling it on and off for years.) Ruby's best friend, after finding out about the drunken incident, had gotten so upset, that she took the daughter to her house and refused to let her go back home until Ruby went back to rehab.
( This best friend may or may not have been a famous 80's rock star but I can't really say..:)
Fair enough.
The problem was that Ruby and her daughter had a special family vacation planned and they were all packed and ready to go. There was no time for a rehab visit.
What were they to do?
Hmmm. And this is how it flows folks.
This is how one person's problem needing to be solved
merged with the manifestation of my wish being granted.
This is near to exact the conversation that ensued.
Ruby said, "I really need your help Linda. I totally screwed up and drank. I know it's last minute, but xyz has taken my daughter and won't give her back to go on our trip unless she knows for sure I won't drink. If I pay for everything can you please go with us to Hawaii tomorrow all-expenses-paid and be my sober coach?”
She continued on to explain that, “My daughter and I have signed up for surf lessons all week so I hope you're up for that. We're staying right in Waikiki...”
Gee, I had to think long and hard on that one!
I packed my bags and surfboard and we left the next day!
The next day, November 1, I was surfing in the warm waves of Waikiki.
I was surfing exactly in the same place as the girls in my Roxy ‘learn to surf’ video.
(I wasn't surfing anything like the girls in the video but I was there doing my best and happy as a clam!)
That's how I learned to surf in Waikiki.
For free.
How cool right???!
Surfing has since become one of the greatest joys of my
life. I still surf all the time. It still reigns as one of my happiest and favorite manifestations and it gives me great muscles too.
Remember if I can do it, you can do it.
This is my story, but you'll be telling your own stories soon because this works for everyone.
If you love it you will manifest it, and I can help you.
Unfortunately, the ex-boyfriend did not manifest Hawaii.
I can only assume he wasn't excited or nearly as much in love with the idea of surfing as I was.
The universe brought it to me, but he stayed home. He did not get to learn to surf and he did not get the tan, but he did get to learn a powerful message about the laws of manifestation.
Moving along, darlings. Let's go get you what you want!
Now it's your turn to manifest your dreams.
So, what kinds of dreams do you have locked inside of you? What kinds of fantasies?
What kinds of wishes and what kinds of joys are just waiting to be released and sprung into your life?
Because people do have so much resistance to even
finding out what they really love and what would make them happy, I developed this simple exercise to help you.
Please take a moment to try this now and then afterwards write down everything that you get.
Step 1 exercise – Figuring out what you want.
1) Sit down in a quiet place and take three deep breaths,
one for mind, one for body, and one for spirit.
2) When you are comfortable and relaxed I want you to:
Imagine...
You were just given $300 million dollars as a gift.
Now, check in with your triangle. Ask your mind what it wants to do with $300 million dollars. Ask your body what it wants to do with $300 million dollars.
Now ask your heart and spirit what dream it wants to follow with the freedom allowed by that $300 million dollars?
Now that you have all the money in the world.
What DO YOU want?
Chapter 5
The Triangle Check
How did you do with your exercise?
Did wishes and ideas pour in, or did you find a dry well?
Even after years of manifesting, you will find that you still have to dig to find out what really makes your heart soar. You just can't coast through life. Change enlivens and rejuvenates you.
You must learn, stretch, and grow toward bliss.
Joy is not stagnant it is a force and a flow. Like a river you must run and rejoin all of yourself as a creator to experience true happiness.
So just as I recommended to you, I urged myself to 'create' my life instead going on autopilot.
I used the same sample question below to help me to identify what I really wanted next in my life.
As I instructed you to do, I sat down I took a few breaths and imagined what would I do if I had $300 million.
Every so often, we need a boost to start dreaming again. Life gets in the way of joy sometimes.
What if I did have that elusive trust fund from my Uncle Buffet or I hit the lottery? Oh, the power of what if I had $300 million dollars - then what? If the world's the limit, what in the world do I really want?
Now, this sounds so rudimentary, I know, but don't discount it because it sounds so obvious!
Having a true passion for something is the only way to make it real.
My beginning thoughts went like this:
First of all, I would buy the rainforest to protect it and send a bunch of money to charities I care about.
I would take care of the people in my life that need help, a home, or need support or a car, or whatnot, and I would buy that for them.... but then I'm going to have several millions leftover. So then, what about just for me?
You think that would be easy. You'll see later that it's one of the hardest and most important parts to successful manifesting!
What I came up with, was that I didn't care about owning a yacht or a mansion or anything like that. I wanted experiences!
I wanted to go touch everything in the world!
I wanted to see all the far away lands I'd heard about!
I wanted to meet unique people!
I wanted see different exotic places!
I wanted to try new things and I wanted to see the world!
Wow, now I was excited!
Excitement is the biggest key in manifesting.
When you get excited it means you're having joyful feelings about it coming true.
Feelings are the little motors that create the vibrations that manifest for you.
Those excitement feelings are exactly what we are looking for!
I realized what I really wanted to manifest, was traveling around the world.
When I checked in with myself, I found out that I had no resistance to traveling. Every bit of me wanted to experience all of these different places around the globe.
The only thing I didn't have was money. Ha ha. Now I know that seems like a large part of the puzzle piece missing. But as you'll see, that part we can manifest.
The next day, a girlfriend of mine, Andrea, walked into my restaurant and she was glowing.
I asked her what was new and she explained to me that she had just come back from being on a new TV show that was like "Survivor," and she had been in a far-away place doing exotic, interesting things.
I was so stoked that my friend had just walked in and said she'd just done exactly what I wanted to manifest for myself. On top of it, she won money?
I gushingly said, "Oh my gosh, Andrea, that's exactly what I was wishing for too! I want to be able to travel and see exotic sites and do something unique like that. It sounds amazing!"
She looked at me kind of oddly and then she took my hand and said, "Oh Linda, I can make that happen for you. I know the producers. I can get you on the next show!"
I was floored!
I had been reluctant to say anything about my own great desires, but if I hadn't, what would have happened?
She would have had her coffee and a nice chat about the weather and off she would have gone.
Instead, my love for the adventure of it all blurted out of me and here was my wish being answered!
In less than 24 hours of my identifying what would really make me happy and excited, in walked the answer to my dream coming true!
...or so I thought.
Very often, we get a sign before we get the manifestation, as in this case.
Sometimes the universe has to put into action the bigger plan before your wish can manifest. You will often get little symbols or hints of your desire manifesting before it actually occurs.
In this case, my friend was just a symbol of what was about to come into my life, as far as traveling the world.
(But I'll save that story for last) :)
I identified this wish a month ago, and now my wish has come true.
I'm in the middle of living that wish now and sharing how I manifested that with you while I'm actually in the reality of that wish coming true.
I write this for you now so that you will know that it's going to be a surprise! Wishes truly are ‘kissed’ by the divine because they show up as gifts. Not just what you wanted, but tied with a beautiful special bow, to let you know that the angels brought it to you.
I didn't know how my wish to travel the world was going to come through, and you won't know how it's going to come through either. All I can assure you, my dear friends, is that it will come in a beautiful, amazing way.
I teach my clients this technique because I love people, and I want you to help yourself and to help everyone you love to have a better life.
Maybe you need better health. Maybe you need more than a trip. Maybe you need a miracle.
I really believe any kind of miracle is possible with this technique because you're tapping into God, and as a child of God, we have access to the divine powers of God when they're used in divine ways.
Dealing With the Three Judges
Now that you have figured out what you love and want to manifest, now we have to go see the judges.
You have to be clear about what you want.
The reason you have to be clear is because you will not manifest what you want unless all of three parts of you want it.
Meaning that, sometimes we shut out voices we don't want to hear - but they are trying to communicate with us.
In the West, we tend to listen primarily to our mind, and not as much to the voice of our bodies or our spirit hearts.
What we manifest always depends on an agreement between the three parts that make up our whole in the third dimension.
Very often, you will find that some part of your triangle of judges wants to take smaller steps than the other parts. This means a part of you is unsure.
Don't fight that.
That voice is protecting you and looking out for an integral part of your happiness.
As much as you want to leap straight into your dream, sometimes steps towards it are better.
The Beauty of Taking Steps
Sometimes a dream takes steps. It takes steps, not because you can't immediately manifest it, but because we are humans. The truth is, change is scary to most humans.
Big leaps mean big cajones.
Your life changes when things change.
Things change when you change.
These are things you might not be so ready to change yet, but that must be moved to allow your wish to come in.
Sometimes that means changing jobs, sometimes friends, sometimes marriages....
Even when those things that we change are for the better, it can still be scary.
That's why I encourage you to take steps.
Take steps towards what you want.
Manifest and re-access.
How do you feel?
If the rush is on, take another step towards manifesting your wish.
If the thrill is gone, go with it...
You're over it. You got it and it stinks.
Great. You didn't change your whole world to figure out you were going in a direction that doesn't make you happy!
I was so happy because I manifested winning a big news reporter contest. As a result I was offered a position as anchorwoman on the show that I really admired.
Not only was I happy for the job; but, come on, the wish coming true thing is just AWESOME!
I went to Austin, Texas to look for a place to live and I was psyched. I was ready to pull up all my roots from California and move fully into my new life as a news reporter on a big show.
However, when I started working at the news office, I felt awful. I hated it.
I liked my team but the rest of it just wasn't for me.
I packed up and went home.
I was going in the wron
g direction for my ultimate happiness and I was not going to keep walking one more minute once I knew that.
