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When we lived in Washington state, we had a kind of cabin colony with about seven friends who lived close together. We were all studying about manifesting, quantum physics, and the law of attraction. And we were practicing the principles we were learning as often as we could.

One night in the fall, Karen decided to make homemade pizzas for the group. She had almost everything she needed, but no Mozzarella cheese. So she made the rounds of everyone’s homes to see if anyone had Mozzarella cheese. We all dug through our refrigerators, hunting for the cheese.

No luck. So she made the pizzas with other cheeses, and they were great.

The next day we decided to dig up the carrot bed in our raised bed garden. The carrots were mature and were just waiting there for us to harvest. We headed over to the garden with our pitchforks and dug in.

After a few forkfuls of dirt and carrots were turned over, the next pitchfork stab uncovered a 2.5 pound block of Mozzarella Cheese buried under the carrots. The block of cheese was fully wrapped with thick plastic, as if we had picked it off the supermarket shelf. And the expiration date was still a few months away.

So what really happened here?

Did we accidentally plant the 2.5 block of cheese deep in the dirt when we were planting the carrot seeds in the spring? Is there any way we might have accidentally dropped the cheese into the dirt and not noticed it when planting?

Did one of us run to the store to get the cheese, and then sneak out and put it under the carrots in the night?

Did it just appear out of nowhere in response to our attention to it and desire for it?

Who really knows for sure. We all swore that we didn’t sneak it into the garden in the night, and somehow bury the cheese under the mature carrots without disturbing the ground. And we couldn’t imagine being so braindead that we would have accidently planted it deep in the dirt under the carrot seeds the previous spring.

But there it was — the cheese Karen had wanted and had us all searching for in our refrigerators the night before. Right there before our eyes.

Strange, right? And wonderful. The world is full of mysterious things.

When you use these principles, remember to leave room for the mysterious and unexpected. And plan to be delighted!

To Your Wealth,
Mynders & Deb

Deb here -

I have created some pretty amazing things in my life by writing a simple list.

Mynders has already written a short blog on how I attracted him into my life, but I wanted to add my own thoughts. After all, I’m the one who wrote the list!

It was November of 1989. I was in graduate school at the University of Minnesota, finishing up my Ph.D., writing my dissertation, and taking some neuroscience classes in the medical school. My mom was really ill and was in the hospital in intensive care. And I was working full-time as a School Psychologist.

Stress? You guessed it.

I decided to take a week over Thanksgiving and visit a friend in Denver. Lorie was also a School Psych and in grad school, so we had lots of book-related needs. Naturally we headed to The Tattered Cover bookstore.

I wanted a book on Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and it was shelved in the metaphysical section, so we headed over there. While I was looking through the NLP books, a white book fell from a shelf high above me and landed on my foot.

I picked it up and paged through it, and saw comments about joy and creation. It looked interesting, and so I put it in the bag with about 17 other books I wanted to buy. I was also picking up books on visualization and stuff like that, since my neuroscience research was showing me some very interesting stuff about how the brain works.

And a few months later, I got around to reading the white book. One of the exercises in the book was creating a list defining something I wanted. And in the back of the book there was a free audiotape offer, which I requested. When it came, it included a list of classes I could take, spread out over the next 18 months.

I’d just come out of a pretty messy relationship, and was fed up. I wanted a positive and supportive relationship, so I wrote out a list of qualities I wanted in a guy. I meditated on the list for a few minutes, and then folded it up and put it in my underwear drawer.

And promptly forgot all about it.

But while I didn’t obsess about the list, I did start to do the things that brought me joy in my life. I took classes for fun, I hung out with friends, and I signed up for a class from that white book. The last one on the list.

I flew to Washington state for the weekend class, and really enjoyed it. I decided to go to the next one as well, and it was a week-long class in August of 1991.

At the August class I was standing in line for my ticket, and a cute guy was standing behind me. Mynders. We chatted, and ended up sitting in the same row for the class. We hung out a bit during the class, and then I headed back to Minneapolis at the end.

A few days later, Mynders called. We talked, he visited, I visited. And we decided that mid-October was a great time to move to Washington to hang out with Mynders.

He came in to town to help me pack for the move, as I was still working. One day I came home from work and saw a yellow sheet of paper thumbtacked to the front door.

It was my list!

And it had a note on the top that said “I know this guy!” and signed with his initials, MG.

Mynders had found it while packing my dresser, and every single item on the list fit him.

We got married and have been happily living the Law of Attraction since we got together in 1991.

Here’s a picture of my list. Can it get any simpler?

Oh, I almost forgot. In a recent post about common mistakes we make in visualizing, I discussed seven common mistakes in visualizing what we want. The first was being too specific - and I did just that in my list.

Know what it was?

Yup! I wrote down the age I was at the time, wanting a guy my own age. Well, it was a couple of years before Mynders appeared, and sure enough, he was almost 38. I, on the other hand, was almost 40 by that time. I guess I should have written ‘My age’ instead!

On the other hand, if I had written that, maybe I wouldn’t have attracted Mynders. It’s all good!

Deb here -

Examples of using the Law of Attraction and the Principle to attract what we want into our lives are everywhere…if we just pay attention and know what to look for. For example…

Mynders and I built a cabin in SW Colorado a number of years ago (that’s a great manifestation story we’ll tell you later…), and we simply love it here. It’s one of my special places where I can really relax and release resistance.

The first spring after the cabin was completed, friends John and Paige were visiting us from Scottsdale, and we spent a lovely morning on the deck, watching the river and drinking our coffee. We chatted a bit about elk and the lovely racks they have, whether they really do shed their antlers every year, and we wondered a bit about why we never seem to find elk antlers just lying around on the ground. We must have chatted about this for about 10 or 15 minutes, and then we changed the subject.

A bit later that day we decided to hike on Elk Creek Trail (are you sensing a theme here?) and headed out into the glorious sunny day. At the end of the hike, Mynders and I took off up a hill and got a bit ahead of John and Paige. We sat on the hilltop waiting for them, enjoying the scenery and the fresh mountain air.

All of a sudden I noticed the sun glancing off of some whitish material a ways in the distance. We headed over to check it out.

You guessed it! A bull elk skeleton was lying there, complete with a set of wonderful antlers. We celebrated the fact that we had manifested such a wondrous thing, and headed off home with our friends and our new elk rack.

We took our treasure to the taxidermist and had it mounted. It now hangs above our cabin fireplace, reminding us of how quickly the universe can deliver anything we put our attention on, if we don’t start talking ourselves out of it!

Here is a picture of that amazing elk hanging above our fireplace.

I love these kinds of reminders that I can have, or do, or be anything I desire. And so can you.

To your wealth!

Deb

Three months after we first met, 17 years
ago, as I was helping Deb move from Minneapolis to
my home near Seattle, I found in one of her
drawers a list of attributes she was looking to
attract in a relationship. The list of 10 or so
items described me to a “T”…right down to my
then current age.

Mynders