Manifesting Safety and Security

Yesterday on the way to my Toastmasters meeting I almost got in an accident. Although I was successfully able to avoid the situation, I want to share my thoughts in order to help the next person work through anything similar that might come up in their world.

First let me quickly describe how the situation unfolded. I was in the far right lane in a dual lane street driving at about 60km/hour. As I approached the intersection were a batch of cars were in the left hand lane waiting to turn I suddenly became very alert. This was partly due to the fact that an SUV had pulled out into my lane less than 10 feet away from me.

Thank goodness that my reaction was immediate and I was able to turn the car into the curb. If the weather in my city hadn’t received snow for the past few weeks prior, I would have smacked into the curb and likely written off my wheel or axle going at that speed. Fortunately for me and the passenger in my vehicle the car  slid up along the snow bank and allowed me to steer my way out of trouble. After surfing the sidewalk I was able to guide the car back onto the road to safety.

My heart was pounding inside my chest and the thought of just how close that was really lingered in my head for a while. I couldn’t even recall how I was able to react in such a short time and was thankful for once in my life for the snow that accumulated on the side of the road. The point of this post could simply be that sometimes even snow has a purpose, however, I want to leave you with something more impactful.

What I was most proud of was not the fact that I was able to avoid an accident, but rather the way that I reacted afterwards to the driver of the vehicle that started this incident. I must admit that my ego was screaming inside my head, telling me to get out of the car and tell this “idiot” how close he came to killing us all. It was loud and the message was clear… “you have to say ‘something’ to this guy”…

However, I was able to take a few deep breathes and realize this situation in a bigger context. First of all, nothing happened, so yelling at someone about something that didn’t happen seemed like a waste of my time. My ego wanted to let the driver know that if it wasn’t for my cat-like reaction times, we would have been seriously inconvenienced and possibly fatally injured. However, staying calm I realized that the driver clearly saw what transpired and probably had there own experience to deal with.

Giving the driver a piece of my mind or mouthing them off in disgust for their actions would not do anything to the situation that just occurred, despite the best attempts from my ego to convince me otherwise. Instead of wishing this person bad thoughts, I sent this person unconditional love. I found solace in a higher-context for this occurrence. Since everything occurs for a reason and if we didn’t get in an accident it clearly wasn’t meant to be.

So what could be a reason for this? Perhaps the reason is that this person will drive with more awareness next time. Perhaps they would have got in a worse accident had they not had this experience to draw from. Perhaps the reason has nothing to do with them at all. If you are reading these words then perhaps the reason this happened was to spread my thoughts out into the world and to challenge your next reaction.

Every moment, no matter what happens in your world you have a choice. You can react by giving into your ego and being emotional, or you can respond, by taking a moment to collect your thoughts and breathe before deciding what to do next. This choice is entirely up to you and it is a choice you have been blessed with at every moment of your life. Choose wisely.

Manifesting Police Leniency

You are manifesting 24/7, 365 days a year whether you want to or not. You are manifesting 24/7, 365 days a year whether you believe it or not. You are attracting to you, by effort of your dominant thoughts, the situations and circumstances of your life, good, bad or indifferent. Many people view manifestation as something they are responsible for in good times only. What this means is that if there is a favorable outcome, then people tend to take responsibility for it, versus when the outcome is less desirable, then all of a sudden they forget who is in charge of manifesting.

When good things happen we like to take credit, but when things go wrong we are often tempted to dodge our accountability. Take for instance a recent trip I made to my mothers to pick up some things. After leaving my mothers and heading home I noticed that a lot of police vehicles were on the road. In two seperate instances I witnessed the police utilize u-turns to chase down their culprits. It made me think to myself “wow, the boy’s in blue are sure out in full force tonight!” as I continued the 35-minute drive home.

Just as I reached the half-way point I came across a very hard driving decision. I was doing about 10-15km over the posted speed limit when the light about 200 yards in front of me turned yellow. Being caught in one of those “grey” areas, one that doesn’t offer a clear cut solution, I was forced to decide whether to run the light or slam on my brakes and potentially skid through the intersection. Considering that it was very late at night and the limited number of vehicles on the road I decided to speed up and try and make the light before it turned completely red.

As I cruised through the intersection I thankfully noted that there were no vehicles and it helped me feel like I made the right decision. I continued on my route for another few minutes until I was distracted by the horn and siren of a police car in my rear-view mirror. I immediately pulled over to allow the vehicle to pass me but when they didn’t go around me I knew it was I whom they wanted. I pulled over at the next intersection, shut off the lights and turned off the car.

Two officers approached the vehicle and the first officer asked me where I was going and where I was coming from.  I replied to him that I was heading home from visiting my moms. He then asked the inevitable question “do you know why I pulled you over tonight?” upon which I replied “I have no idea”, which is recommended to everyone in such a situation. I think the only reason the cops ask you that question right up front is to allow you the opportunity to implicate yourself on charges that they weren’t yet aware of. Despite my apparent cluelessness, the officer very kindly reminded me that I had run a red light and that he had to speed (130km) just to catch up to me.

Uh oh… when you talk about manifestating something that you don’t want to take responsibility for this was definitely one of those not so good positions to be in. Afterall, who really consciously or deliberately admits to manifesting police officers to pull them over. Yet by the fact that this was what I was experiencing, it must be true. I wasn’t really aware of my “led foot” but since I was experiencing this reality I figured I must have been doing at least ”something” to get their attention. Then I thought back to all the police cars that I seen on the way home, and wondered if it was my thinking about the cops that had actually gotten me pulled over.

I patiently sat in my car as the officer took my drivers license and registration information and went back to his vehicle. At this point I was resisting the desire to get upset with myself for speeding and running the light, and thankfully was able to center myself in the feeling of allowance, just being with the situation. At first I wanted to get angry at myself, then I wanted to get angry at the police, then I realized that this situation was all perfect, and that everything and everyone was on purpose. What happened the moment I truly let go of the situation was something I will not soon forget.

All of a sudden the officer came back up to my car and handed me my drivers licence and registration back, along with… not a single ticket, and instead a few words of wisdom and advice. The officer had decided to exercise lenience in this occasion and told me to keep the speed down and watch out for red lights. Wow… I couldn’t believe it! Somehow after letting go of the fact that I was about to get a ticket somehow the sitaution reversed itself for the better.

I really must applaud the officer for exercising his right to be lenient. The officer clearly had the right to write up a traffic voilation but opted to use leniency instead to enforce his point. I’m unsure about the exact reasons why the officer decided to do that, but I truly believe that it had to do with my letting go. I truly believe that had I fought the fact that I was pulled over from the beggining I would have walked away with at least two tickets.

In situations where you attract something in your life that is not truly desireable the trick is to be present with it and not allow it to affect the decisions you make in the moment. The more you can “just be” with any feeling, place, person or situation that you manifest, the better position you put yourself in to create a solution or to move forward from that point. Manifestation happens, sometimes for the better, other times for the seemingly worse. The more that you “own up to” all the things you attract in your life the more power you weld over the manifestations in your world.