Sweet Miracles

Just a quick one before Mr Gua Gua and little boy comes to my office and we go off on our Sun outing…

Wow, today is the best workshop i have given ever. It was from 10 – 5 pm, 3 hours more than my 1st 2 workshops, and this is only Part I, and i was a little worried that i won’t have sufficient material for the entire 6 hours. I ended up extending by a little, and despite the long day i have had, i feel GREAT!

I have to thank the universe for sending me all the people and resources i need for this event’s success. The 2 last-min signups today were the amongst “entertainers” that really enlivened the atmosphere of my 1st Level I workshop, and once again, their enthusiastic and open sharing helped to make today a rather lively and humourous one.

And there were quite a few other amazing synchronicities that happened today that confirmed my feeling that the whole universe is in support of me doing this workshop. First, it started raining a little after we broke for lunch, and i knew a few participants went across the road for lunch. While i was chatting with my volunteer friend, we reminded each other to manifest for the rain to stop before lunch. In my heart, i was asking the universe to bring my participants back safely and DRY. Guess what, the rain did stop towards the end of the lunch hour, and all of my participants came back dry. A live testimony to the power of the mind, which was one of the teaching points of the workshop today, on the Palace of Possibilities. (And yes, there will be those people who say we can’t possibly control the weather with our thoughts… well, to each his own.)

2nd synchronicity occured when i was buying lunch, which came up to $2.70. I had exactly 70 cents in my wallet, so i gave the guy $10.70 and received 4 2-dollar notes in return. Only then, i remembered that i actually did need 2 dollar notes because my cards which i was promoting during the workshop were $48, and pple would be giving me 50-dollar notes. And again, guess what? I sold exactly 4 decks of cards. And i made the connections only after the workshop, so i was certainly not thinking, ok i have 4 2-dollar notes so maybe i can only sell 4 decks. It just happened that way.

3rd synchronicity happened when my friend passed me the receipt as she bought some teabreak refreshments on my behalf. I looked at the receipt, and it was exactly $14.40. These days, aside from my favourite number signs 111, 1111,  i’m also starting to get numbers like 1010, 1212, and 1144 or other combinations of 1s and 4s. It might be my own imagination, but my belief is that the numbers have special significance to me, and the universe send them along my way to affirm that i’m on the right track. In fact, yesterday my groceries receipt came to $11.30, and i tot, hmm, that’s pretty close. Then my focus naturally went upwards, and i realised 10 cents were deducted from the cost as i brought my own bag – the original amount was $11.40.

Well, whether these are just coincidences or not, i love it when it happens and with amazing regularity! Makes me feel like i’m living in a magical world, and the universe is on my side.

Today’s workshop was simply fantastic. The participants were interested and enthused. They asked questions, challenged me with their own views, shared their own experience, and even had a dynamic dialogue with one another, which to me entails a very successful group learning.

I also shared a lot of personal experiences. In fact, when i was thinking of how to present Palace of Possibiliies and studied Gary’s DVDs, i realised one thing. I could not imitate him even if i wanted to. He shared so many of his own personal experiences, and even if i described them to the participants, it wouldn’t be as engaging and personal. So what did i do? I shared my own! Thank gdness, i am a great believer of manifestation and positive thinking, and i have had enough miracles happen in my own life for me to share with the participants. One was The Journey, and i even showed them the website header with the affirmation that i did and put on my office cubicle wall. Another was my fears of success, which came straight out from my blog entry on this subject. All these contributed to a workshop that was more than just theory, but rather based on actual experience and demonstration.

One very fun moment for me was when i was sharing Gary’s idea of incorporating your affirmation into a catchy tune, to help you say it more consistently. As you would know, some tunes are so catchy that you can hardly get them out of your head, even if you wanted to, so if your affirmation was sung to that tune, it would stay in you often enough to reorientate your entire system to become in sync with that affirmation.

I used Gary’s idea of singing “My consistent thoughts become my reality” to the tune of Old MacDonald had a farm. It was fun singing it to the participants. And again, “coincidentally”, on the way to the workshop this morning, i decided not to rehearse my script in my mind and just trust that things would go well.

Cos i was not jamming up my mind with carefully prepared scripted stuff, an affirmation jingle came into my head, and to me, it was fantastic. I’m not sure of the name of this tune, but it’s a booming, upbeat, spirited tune that in its original version is sung by a group of men with deep, macho voices, so that its effect is very motivational and makes you want to march! I came up with the words that went:

I am a very huge success today, hurray
I am a very huge success today, hurray
I am a huge success today
And not just today, but everyday
I am a very huge success today, hurray!

Just singing this tune in my mind made me smile, and i was smiling all the way to the office. I had great fun singing it to the participants and received applause for my little renditon.

This reminded me of my JC days when i was making up songs everyday, and one of them was about keeping the blues away. It had great lyrics (to me!), and the song came in 3 different parts: a whiny part (like the guy who sang Lemon Tree), a rock band part (imagine guy strumming electric guitar and wildly shaking his head with long hair all over the place) and a sing-song style (where it’s almost like talking, and in my head, i imagine only a triangle chiming with the words). Cos this was so vivid to me, and the lyrics were very uplifting, i was almost in a constant high during the time when the song were consistently being played out in my head. One of these days i’ll search for that old book where i wrote down my songs and sing it to myself again.

Okie, little boy and Mr Gua Gua are here! Gee… i just love the sight of him running down my office corridor. Now he is busy with his Mummy office routine. Filling up a plastic cup from the water dispenser. Maybe he will make Milo later. Finding my table (i just heard his footsteps and him calling Mee-mee), climbing up my chair, using the phone, making some notes on my rough paper, and of cos using the computer.

Haha…he’s beside me and wants to sit on my chair so that’s the end of my entry today.