Happy New Year readers and visitors! I hope 2025 brings joy and wonder.
And good health!
Given many of us are thinking of what we want – or don’t – for the coming year I thought I’d share a holiday manifesting story.
On Christmas Eve I received a gift that included a hand-written note providing special information about each piece that was part of the gift. Unfortunately in my haste to clean up wrapping paper the note was lost. When I couldn’t find it I assumed it was accidentally thrown away.
I felt very bad as the gift giver made a point to tell me the note provided unique details about each piece.
Over the next days as I took my morning walk I considered the lost paper with no small regret.
I felt guilty I hadn’t slowed down to look at the paper when the gift giver mentioned it.
I did something else. I visualized the paper in my mind and thought how cool it would be if it somehow turned up somewhere.
As in maybe it didn’t get thrown out with the trash!
When I returned from my walks I would check various places thinking it might have wound up under a piece of furniture or in some other out of the way place.
No luck.
I continued to visualize the paper while I walked and casually thought how cool it would be if it turned up.
Randomly.
I’d like to point out I did not consider what I was doing a manifestation attempt.
It wasn’t done with intent.
A few days ago I decided instead of taking down the Christmas tree I would go to the garage and break down boxes.
Which Aaron and I would take to the recycle center later this week.
Normally I do this type of activity with Aaron but he was on a work call so I waded into the cardboard on my own.
Along with bubble wrap and styrofoam peanuts.
I was about 2/3 through sorting recycle from trash – organizing it for further disposal when I reached into a small box and pulled out the mesh bag that had held the gift. Setting it aside – it too had gone missing – I thought “Wouldn’t it be cool if I found that paper in some box?”
Drum Roll
I reached into the same box seconds later and withdrew the paper I thought lost!
What makes this pretty cool from the Manifesting 101 side
- Though I was unhappy about losing the paper I didn’t do the visualization with the intent to find it.
It was one of a number of thoughts that went through my mind while walking on a chilly morning.
- The Wouldn’t it be Cool? was not a heart-rending level of emotion tied to it all.
In spite of my disappointment at losing the paper.
- Something told me to break down the cardboard boxes rather than take down the Christmas tree in spite of knowing I’d be doing it myself.
It’s an activity Aaron and I enjoy doing together.
- If Aaron had been helping me chances are the paper would have been tossed into a recycle bag and lost for good.
I didn’t tell anyone I’d lost the paper so Aaron wouldn’t have known to keep an eye out for it.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
I want to circle back to what I feel is an important point when it comes to manifesting.
Pun intended.
The concept of releasing/letting go of attachment to an outcome is considered an important step in manifesting. It’s also one of the steps I’ve had the biggest challenge with.
How the heck can you not feel emotion about something you want?
Some part of me must have been working in the background over the years to give me the key to this step because I’ve come to see that whenever I’ve manifested something it went with the following
Wouldn’t It Be Cool?
Or Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
I don’t know if this will work for others but for me when I feel that phrase? The emotion attached is pretty low level.
Caveat
This isn’t to say it means I don’t care if I get it or not or that I’m not prepared to accept what goes along with having it. It’s just that I recognize my life won’t be ruined if it doesn’t happen.
I had a plan B – to talk with the individual who designed the piece so I could get the information.
Knowing this, I can frame future efforts in such a way as to lower emotional noise that would interfere with its coming to be.







