One afternoon, about 15 years ago, I was sitting at work, mind wandering away from my PowerPoint slides and Excel sheets. It was a lovely sunny spring afternoon and I would have much rather been anywhere else. I thought of an excuse to take a walk to the nearby convenient store and get a snack – rather than something from the vending machine. As I thought about various things to snack on, an escape from my daily tasks, I absently grabbed a granola bar from my desk drawer and returned my fingers to the keyboard. Suddenly a thought hit my mind so strong that it threw me out of my typing mode. “Chocolate Chip Cookies!” - and no, I was not going to pick up a bag of Chip Ahoys. I frolicked in the idea of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven. I started a visualization of gooey, warm chocolate chips oozing as I broke the cookie in half. As I continued to daydream, I could smell them as the oven door opened, feel the crunch of the pecan in my mouth, and even taste the milk washing them down. From 3:00 until about 4:30 that afternoon, my mind was solely connected to chocolate chip cookies. By the time I got home, I hadn’t bought any chocolate chips en route, so I went on and did something else, promising myself that tomorrow I would go by the store and buy some chocolate chips and pecans.
By the next morning, for some reason I had forgotten.
Then….. around 8:45, Robbie from the engineer division next door, came in and announced, “Folks, I baked chocolate chip cookies last night. Come by my office later and grab some. Happy Friday.”
Robbie had not only baked chocolate chip cookies, he had a ceramic jar containing 4 dozen soft, yummy cookies. I froze. How did I know?
That evening, I called my sister. “Guess what?” After I went through the unedited account of my experience, including the excel sheets, she gasped, “You’re a powerful being! You created that!” Honestly, I hadn’t realized it until that moment. Did I really manifest 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies? “Sure you did.” She chirped. And by golly, I did. I went into deep imaging of every detail of sight, taste, smell and feel – and what else would the Universe do but bring it into my world?
I thought about it for years, and wondered from time to time how I could manifest something more important in my life. Well, I had to remind myself that there was no attachment to actually having the cookies. I desired them, but I wouldn’t have been destroyed if I didn’t get them. Not only that, but Robbie, who worked in the next building, 30 feet away, had somehow felt the desire for chocolate chip cookies as well.
It would be years later when I understood principles of quantum physics and how I had created a neuron synapses for chocolate chip cookies in my brain. Until then, I had referred to it as my chocolate chip cookie manifestation theory.
This gives all of you readers something to chew on for a while.
By the next morning, for some reason I had forgotten.
Then….. around 8:45, Robbie from the engineer division next door, came in and announced, “Folks, I baked chocolate chip cookies last night. Come by my office later and grab some. Happy Friday.”
Robbie had not only baked chocolate chip cookies, he had a ceramic jar containing 4 dozen soft, yummy cookies. I froze. How did I know?
That evening, I called my sister. “Guess what?” After I went through the unedited account of my experience, including the excel sheets, she gasped, “You’re a powerful being! You created that!” Honestly, I hadn’t realized it until that moment. Did I really manifest 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies? “Sure you did.” She chirped. And by golly, I did. I went into deep imaging of every detail of sight, taste, smell and feel – and what else would the Universe do but bring it into my world?
I thought about it for years, and wondered from time to time how I could manifest something more important in my life. Well, I had to remind myself that there was no attachment to actually having the cookies. I desired them, but I wouldn’t have been destroyed if I didn’t get them. Not only that, but Robbie, who worked in the next building, 30 feet away, had somehow felt the desire for chocolate chip cookies as well.
It would be years later when I understood principles of quantum physics and how I had created a neuron synapses for chocolate chip cookies in my brain. Until then, I had referred to it as my chocolate chip cookie manifestation theory.
This gives all of you readers something to chew on for a while.
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