QUOTE(Hugh @ Nov 30 2006, 06:33 PM) [snapback]1444884[/snapback]
Hi Empurpledsoul, great thread, nice frisbee yin yang avatar too.

This sounds a lot like what Tony Robbins talks about, and you know what, there is a lot of truth in it. Years ago I sat down and wrote up what I wanted to have happen in my life and a lot of what I wanted and worked for actually came true. There is a saying that I've heard that much of what we see around us was at first, a thought in someone's brain.
It's true that whatever you focus on you'll get, whether it is something good or bad.

Thanks for the compliment Hugh!
You know I started saying the same thing about a decade ago, but didn't read it anywhere, it just become the logical truth of looking around at everything 'physical' surrounding me and realizing that not a single material object could have existed without being thought of by a human first!
I am always exploring the power of creativity in my life, and my current challenge is to discover what I call those "disqualifiers" which negate a thought, thus preventing an outcome from being manifest (like I used in my example).
I have also had the personal experience since I was young of "unmanifesting" prized items in my life!
The most powerful instance was one that happened back in 1999. My son was in 4th grade at the time and collected gel pens. I love to write in my journals and he brought home a nice gold gel pen that worked well (some just suck cuz they drag on the paper). He let me use it for a while then took it back. But at the end of the school year, just before he left for the summer (I am divorced and my children returned home every summer to live with their father in another state) he gifted me with a brand new gold gel pen just like the one he had that I loved so much. It was a great gift, because whenever I wrote I would think of my son.
About a week after he left, I was enjoying my morning, sitting out on my porch swing with my pen writing in my journal, smelling the sweet honeysuckle filling the air all around me. My phone rang and I went in to answer it. It was a client (I was a freelance garden designer at the time) with some questions about their project. My desk (and the rest of my home) was spotlessly clean and in order, since my children were gone and I could maintain this order without effort!

I was holding the pen in one hand, had the phone in the other and had to grab the clients file to search for what was needed, so I set the pen down on the CLEAN desk to my right (It was an L corner config type desk). The files were on the left. The weird thing was that the moment I began to set the pen down, I had a very clear thought that said...if you do that this pen will disappear completely! I heard it and made an affirmation of it (a return thought that didn't negate it but said, yes) and because I was a bit distracted with the client on the line I set it down and focused on the task at hand. When the conversation was over about 10 minutes later, I hung up the phone and turned to pick up the pen to go back to my journalling on the porch. But nope! It WAS gone.
I remembered then the thought that had instantly entered in when I went to set it down (even that was odd to me, how it just popped in so randomly). I looked at the space where I had set it and nothing was there. Nobody else was in the house or room with me. I had not pets. My logic kicked in and said NO WAY is this pen gone missing like that! Of course I searched the desk (there was very little on it, no clutter at all) thinking it had rolled off. It wasn't there. It wasn't on the floor. It wasn't anywhere and I had not left that space with it in my hand, I had stayed in the same spot at the desk the whole time.
Eventually I just gave up looking for it. I never found the pen, it truly did disappear. This event though triggered memories I had of things disappearing on me all the time as a young girl. It was always something I truly cherished (I am not really materialistic, I tend to cherish things that were given as gifts to me). Things would disappear from where I had placed them, and most of the time I blamed my sibs who would deny it but I could never be sure. There were times when the circumstances were like the one I just described but my mind could not accept that things would just disappear. I would usually give up though like I did with the pen and accept the object was gone!
One time I just didn't want to part with the object. It was a necklace I had received for my birthday. I was very upset when it went missing and I had a fit! Then I asked the "angels" for help. I said, I don't know where it is and I don't care! I just want it to be put right back where I left it. I am going to leave the room (my bedroom) for a few minutes and when I come back I expect it to be on my dresser! I left my room, nobody else came in while I was outside of it, and when I went back in the necklace was exactly where I left it again.
Now this can really mess with a persons mind ya know? So for the most part I let it go and didn't try to think about it too much. Now I am wondering about this more. I have come to some conclusion that I am 'storing my treasures up in heaven' meaning I am choosing to pick very meaningful items from my material life here to keep in eternity for the love that they hold in them.
All that being said, I really would like to experience more manifesting and less unmanifesting in my life!
It is very difficult to be fully aware of all of our unconcisous thoughts...since they ARE unconscious. I guess it is a matter of being able to look at what I am experiencing, especially if it is 'lack' and discovering why I might feel comfortable in that and what I LIKE about it that keeps me there.
As the law states, the universe doesn't judge our energy, meaning, it doesnt use a logic that says, oh, thats not Good, so you dont' want that...it can't. It matches what we put out, "good" or "bad". We are the ones who are subjective.
Now, if I can give more power to the things I want and less power to the fears that seem to produce alot of what I don't want....lol.
I agree about the act of writing things down. It totally brings power to the manifestation process.