Magic Check

Since the new year started, I have been using Rhonda Byrne's book "The Magic" to practice increasing my gratitude levels. The book is divided into 28 days, with a different gratitude practice each day. In particular, there is an exercise called the Magic Check, in which one writes down his/her desired amount of money for a particular need, expresses gratitude for it, and keeps it in a familiar place - until one day money magically appears in your life!

Back then, I wrote a magic check for three thousand dollars, wanting to use the money to spend on my vacation. I went to their website, downloaded the check, printed it, filled it in, affixed my gratitude upon it, and placed it in my wallet. This was about a month ago - I actually never really thought about my magic check again, nor did I remember how much money I asked for...

Until today.

After finishing 28 days' worth of the Magic, I have been randomly assigning myself daily gratitude assignments, and today, it fell on the Magic Check again. I thought to myself, "Wow, I probably need to be more grateful for money in my life."

Until when I fished for the check inside my wallet and re-read it again.

Sometime in the past week, the stock markets crumbled and crumbled, and my dad reached out, asking me to buy certain stocks. I happily obliged, and after putting in a sizeable amount, I told him that I would need liquidity. He said, yes, and without me specifying the amount of money needed, he wired over three grand. Exactly a three followed by three zeroes. Of course I was immediately grateful for it, but I did not make the connection to the magic check I wrote in January.

This is it. Scary. I got exactly what I asked for. Not a cent more, not a cent less. I am really grateful, because this is a sign, an answer to my question earlier this weekend regarding manifestation. Yes, I am a generator, but we have our own ways to manifest. The magic, the secret, the law of attraction, the wonders of appreciation, detachment, and gratitude can work for us, in our own ways. I didn't initiate physically (i.e. I didn't go around asking for money nor actively seeking to obtain $3,000), but it involved a physical affirmation (writing a check), and I guess this is one component of the power. The other component of the power is the obedience to the law of detachment - I forgot about it after doing the physical affirmation. I was really grateful for it, really happy, but I didn't give it much thought or resistance. I was able to divorce my intent from my attachment to the outcome (sure, $3,000 is a lot of money for me, and it's nice to have that extra cash, but somehow I wasn't desperate chasing for it, nor did I anxiously try to speed up the process of obtaining it).

This is just another reminder for myself in the future in case I end up questioning my (our) power and/or ability to create, to manifest. It's the law, there's no way around it. I want to treat every single desire in my life like a game, so that it's fun manifesting them! Hehe. Happy creating, my fellow creators.

R