Where is my money?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by May Chu

With all the hype about the law of attraction and The Secret, some people are left wondering, “if the law of attraction works, where is my money?”  In my previous posts, I have mentioned that limiting beliefs buried deep in our subconscious minds are often the culprits of what prevent us from manifesting whatever we want.  I asked my readers to ask yourselves the following questions:

  1. What comes to mind when you hear the word money?
  2. What does your father think of money? How much money does he have?
  3. What does your mother think about money? How much money does she have?

I would like to take this opportunity to share a reader’s response and analyze why money has not been manifested so far:

Question: What comes to mind when you hear the word money?

  • U.S. currency, many $100 bills
  • My lack of money
  • What I should have
  • What money I have borrowed, and have not been able to repay.
  • My desires in their physical form
  • The way my life should be
  • Reminds me to manifest my desires
  • Reminds me that I should meditate
  • Good/evil potential of money
  • Other’s situations with money
  • The abundance of money
  • The amount of people that live prosperous lifestyles

First of all, I wanted to share that I am deeply touched by this reader’s honesty and the willingness to play along with me and my questions.  What this reader wrote is not unlike what many people would write.  I remember when I thought I had no money and I kept worrying about not having money, this is the natural human condition, it is what our ego does to us to make us feel insecure about the lack of money that we have.

Here is what I realize is one of the most fundamental step to manifesting greatness:

Accept whatever you have right now~

Notice that this perspective is a bit different from thinking about what is missing in our lives.  The universe gives us whatever we think and feel:

Thoughts + Feelings = Manifestation

So if whenever I think of money, I just keep thinking about how my life *should* be, then I am in fact, thinking about all the things that are lacking in my life.  If we apply this to the equation for manifestation, then it will look very much like this:

I don’t have enough money + disappointment = No Money

If you have watched the movie The Secret, or have read about the law of attraction, you probably have heard of people talking about gratitude.  I think sometimes when things are not going so well, it is hard to think about gratitude.  Perhaps before we go to gratitude, we can think about the following question:

So what *DO* I have?

Let me give you an example of how this works:

Question: What do I have?

I have….

  • A full head of hair, lots of gray ones but I can dye them if I wish :)
  • A pair of glasses allowing me to see clearly
  • A straight nose
  • Kissable lips
  • All my teeth in tact so far…

See how easy it is to think about what you already have?  Now let’s get to business:

I have…

  • 3 meals a day plus a snack or two
  • great coffee
  • a roof over my head
  • a jacket to wear when it is cold outside
  • stove to cook my food on
  • a fridge to keep left overs
  • a computer to use to write this post
  • high speed internet…

Wow, life is getting luxurious…

  • a warm body to cuddle with when it is cold (thanks to my husband)
  • two beautiful healthy kids laughing all the time (they cry too but that comes with the package)
  • a nanny to cook my meals and giving me time to write
  • my own en suite bathroom in my master bedroom
  • a Honda Accord to drive around in
  • recently manifested an iPad, someone just decided to give one to my husband and I consider it an iPad for me :D

Life just keeps getting better!

I am sure if I wanted to, I can list a lot of things I don’t have.  Last week I was one iPad short, but I put it on my list of things to manifest for the week and it showed up.  I didn’t sit there feeling bad that I was one iPad short or that I should have had an iPad already.  I just thought to myself, wouldn’t it be nice to have an iPad to read my ebooks with?  Then I recall imagining myself holding one.  I spent an hour looking on the internet at pictures of an iPad.  I ordered an Apple Fanboy a birthday cake that looked like an iPad:

iPad Cake

As you can see, I called it the iKake :)  The iKake I designed was made with real fruit and the piece at the top of the cake was a piece of chocolate to resemble the back of an actual iPad.  This iKake cost me $55 to custom order it.  Coincidentally, 2 weeks after I ordered the iKake, the person whom I gave the iKake to gave us an iPad that costs approximately $550.  Very interesting…

In this case, I didn’t manifest any money but I thought I manifested as approximately $500 of value :) Maybe I should have titled this post: “How I manifested an iPad.”

I think the most important thing to take away from this edition of Manifestation Stories is this:

Think of what you already have instead of what you should have.

Once you have accepted life as the way it is (after all, we manifest everything in our lives), then you can start envisioning yourself having some other things.

So the exercise for today is:

Start a word document or take a piece of paper (or your iPad :P), write down what you already have and feel good about it!

As for the things you think you *should* have, pick something you want to practice with and envisioning yourself already having it before you go to sleep and immediately after you wake up in the morning.  So for example, if you really want an iPad, find a picture of it online / in a magazine, hold it in your hand as if you already have one, close your eyes and envision what you would be doing with it like you already have one. When you do this, make sure you are in a good space (like in a good mood), don’t try this if you are in a foul mood, or you might not like the results :P Don’t try to think of too many things at once first, start with something simple.  For example, one week I wrote down that I want to manifest a free hot drink.  When my husband went to Starbucks to get me a drink, the person at the counter said to him, “would you like to fill in a free online survey to get a free drink the next time you visit Starbucks?” To which my husband said, “Why wait until next time?” So he whipped out his smart phone and completed the survey right there and got us a free hot chocolate! Yuummy!

So if you are new to this, start with something small you want to manifest and let the game begin!

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Weight Loss Success

Posted on December 14, 2010 by May Chu

Since I wrote the about wanting to be 115 lbs by February 23, 2011, I have had one update in which I talked about my new revelations about weight loss.  It is time I provide another update…

I have changed my strategy to weight loss after finding that I had gained 3 lbs after going to the gym consistently for 2 weeks (nearly daily).  Instead of going to the gym on a daily basis, I went to 3 hot yoga classes lasting 90 minutes / class over the last week.  After a week, I have lost all the 3 lbs I have gained from going to the gym and lost 2 inches around the waist.  I also feel more grounded after each class.  I also like the way people “look” at hot yoga.  Besides being hot and sweaty, I like the way people are comfortable wearing as little clothing as possible and don’t really care about what other people look like.  I mean, each pose done in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius is very taxing on the body and requires a high level of concentration.  Whenever I found myself checking out the great abs of some of the people who have been visibly practicing hot yoga for awhile I would fall over from lack of concentration.  I am sure it is the same way with other people in the room.  When I first went there I felt uncomfortable showing my belly because it is not very pretty looking right now after being pregnant.  So despite doing yoga in a hot room, I felt compelled to wear a shirt.  But by my third class I could care less about how my belly looks and felt comfortable practicing in a sports bra and a pair of booty shorts.

I intend to continue with hot yoga 2 to 3 times a week.  I do feel like I need a day in between each session to rehydrate myself since I can’t seem to drink enough fluids.  Whenever I don’t feel like going back I keep reminding myself of my goal and that gets me back in the game.  I suppose this is why having a goal and declaring it on the world wide web can be effective in following through and possibly accomplishing a goal.

I look forward to having another one to two inches shaved off my waist by next week :)

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How can you manifest money?

Posted on December 14, 2010 by May Chu

I received an email from a reader a week ago with the following question:

Dear May,

I’ve been following your blog for about three months. It is very inspirational to see your manifested intentions. I’d also like to add that it is very refreshing to see someone with manifestation experience genuinely try to help people without experience. Not to mention not trying to charge people for your help.

The intention of my email is to enlist in your help. I have spent countless hours on the internet looking for help, but you seem to be the only person that I feel comfortable in contacting. Anyways, I have been manifesting my desire for an upwards of 5 months. My desire is to make $100,000, a year. I am only 19 years old, so I am unsure if this manifestation is realistic. When I think about my desire, it does seem reasonable. There are teenage movie stars who make millions of dollars. Anyways, I was just wondering how long a desire like this would take to manifest? Also, are there any specific steps I can take to speed the process? I haven’t seen any results thus far. Christmas is rapidly approaching and I do not have a dollar to my name. I would love to manifest some money to give money where it needs to go… to my family. I do not have a job and I am currently leaching money off of my parents. I really hate the idea of that, the economy is bad enough in Rhode Island. I would love to give my parents what they deserve and also what I deserve. So, if you could, please help me out.

Thanks in advance for your help…

First I wanted to share with my readers how I felt when I received this letter…

I was excited, then I was scared.

I was excited because someone asked me for help.  I am always so excited to help other people especially when it comes to helping them manifest their desires but I am scared because I thought, “What if I couldn’t help him? Would that make me a failure?”

I began to feel the responsibility of being asked questions and I am afraid that I am some how responsible for the events that will transpire.  It took me a long time to write the reader back because I needed to thing back to the process I went through to finally manifest some decent chunk of money.  After some deliberation this was what I wrote:

Hi There,

Thank you for writing. I think I need to know a little bit more about your situation before giving any advice. Manifesting money is easy and yet it is not. It requires personal and spiritual development and a lot of self awareness. If you are willing, we can work together and see if there is something you can do. The universe often doesn’t hear your verbal requests, it senses how you feel about things. From what I can tell from your email you are feeling a bit hopeless and the universe picks up on that. It is hard not to feel a bit disappointed in this economy.

Here are a few questions I would like to ask you:

  1. What do you know about the Law of Attraction? What books / movies have you seen about it?
  2. Why do you want the money?
  3. If you manifested $100,000, how would you use it?
  4. Why do your parents need the money?
  5. What is the biggest amount of money you have ever seen in one lump sum?

I can ask even more questions but I think I will stop there for now. I really wanted to manifest $300,000 once but it didn’t materialize within the time frame I had set for it. I realized that it is probably because I didn’t have a really good reason for the money. Can you imagine, there are tons of things I could do for $300,000, like pay off debt and stuff like that, but paying of debt is one of the worse reasons to want more money. I think it must be because the money is filling in somewhere where there is a lack…Anyways, I started really manifesting money when I felt the desire to get pregnant soon after my first son was born. I felt my next child knocking on the door and my husband and I lived in a one bedroom apartment where we had to share a bedroom with our new baby. I said to my next child by just saying out loud to myself, “No No, you can’t come yet, there is no room for you. If you really want to come, you have to help me manifest a bigger place!”. Within a few months I got a check for $500,000, bought a house with 4 bedrooms and was pregnant (much to my surprise at the time because my first child is still very young) as soon as moved in.”

*I have asked the reader for permission to share his / her questions on my blog while protecting his / her identity.

Why did I ask those questions and why was I my purpose for sharing my own story?

I really feel that sharing myself is important with those who interacts with me.  I am not above everyone else, I am just like everyone else.  I started from scratch and I wanted to share what I have gone through so that others may find inspiration in my stories.  I think there are some important things to take away from wanting to manifest money:

  1. The Universe helps us manifest experiences more than it helps us manifest money.
  2. If the experiences requires money, the money will come.

More important than talking about how to manifest money is the process of uncovering limiting beliefs.  I think this is the most critical element of manifesting anything we want.  This is why sometime reading books and receiving advice is not good enough.  The limiting beliefs are what stops us from manifesting the money and since limiting beliefs are not always visible to our own awareness, the process of uncovering them and eliminating them will require some effort on the part of the individual who wants to manifest money and the person helping to eliminate limiting beliefs.

I have had my own share of limiting beliefs in all areas of my life.  Pertaining to money, I have once written about how I felt that if I have money, my mother will take it all away.  Or that I won’t be deserving to keep the money I have because life can’t possibly be this good.

Here is the process I have found helpful in beginning to eliminate limiting beliefs:

Block 1 hour aside at a quite place and sit down with a piece of paper.  On top of the piece of paper, write the title, “When I hear the word ‘Money’ what are some of the things that come to mind?”  One the other side of the paper (I am assuming that a piece of paper has two sides),  write the title, “What my father thinks about money?” and “What does my mother thinks about money?” Write down as much as you can and trace all the way back to your childhood and any events and stories that have made you realize what you thought about money and what your parents thought of money.   I found it easier to do this with paper than it is with typing on the computer but others may find it easier to type on their computer.

After you have done this exercise, you can read it over to see if you find any revelations about you and the way you think about money, or your parents and how they think of money and how these thoughts of money relates with one another.  You can also consider doing this exercise and sending a scan of it to me at may@manifestationstories.com and I would be happy to look over it and point out possible limiting beliefs I can see.

I have had a lot of success in helping friends uncovering limiting beliefs by doing this exercise with them.  If you send me your Uncovering Limiting Beliefs worksheet, I would be happy to look over it and see how you can begin manifesting the life of your dreams :)

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A Promise to Myself

Posted on December 14, 2010 by May Chu

Recently I have been battling this horrible cold.  The worse part of this cold is the fact that I cannot control the coughing at night.  Strangely enough, I do some coughing during the day but most of my coughing occurs at night.  These coughing fits are so bad that I cannot sleep all night long.  The only thing that have helped so far is for me to have a cough drop in my mouth at all times when I sleep.

There are however, two activities I did that stopped the coughing at bay:

  1. Doing Hot Yoga
  2. Meditating

Last night during one of my coughing fits I decided to simply get up and sit on the side of my bed.  I closed my eyes and began to meditate by centering my energy.  I meditated with a question in mind: “why am I coughing?”.

Interestingly enough I got an intrinsic answer to my question!  This is something new I a playing with.  I ask a question during meditation and I listen to my intuition — what pops into my mind. What my intuition told me was quite interesting:

I am coughing because I have something to say that I am not saying.

I began to drill down and asked myself what I wanted to say that I am not saying:

I am not sharing my inner knowledge and wisdom.

And why is this important may I ask?

My higher self is using this to remind me that I have things to do and I better get on it.

What do I have to do?

I need to do activities that will contribute to the transformation of people I am meant to help and they are waiting!

What kind of activities do I need to do?

Write, write write!

So I made a deal with my higher self.  I promised myself that I would come back and write down all that I have to say in return for some hours of good sleep and I must admit I have been sleeping well and with minimal coughing fits.

I feel like a whole other door has been opened to me.  Meditating is fun.  Hopefully next time I won’t have to manifest coughing fits to remind myself to meditate.

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Attracting Money

Posted on December 2, 2010 by May Chu

Everywhere I go I am coming across people writing about how to attract money.  This is not just from The Secret, this is people from other parts of the world who are exposed to different cultural norms.

Yesterday I went to the Chinese supermarket to do some grocery shopping and came across their book section.  I casually browse the romance section and making my way slowly to the self-help section.  This seem to be the section of the bookstore that always draws me in somehow.  I picked up a book written in Chinese with the title “Those who spend money makes money”.  Ironically I am translating this title from Chinese and the book was originally written in Japanese.  I wonder if something might have been lost in translation…

Regardless of what might have been lost in translation, the author seemed to believe that there is not point to save for retirement.  He asserts that those who spend money will make money.  The way to do it he said was to make dreams that you want to accomplish and the money will flow in.  Most of the books I have been reading lately have been focusing on the importance of making long term goals / dreams instead of focusing on how much money I want to make.

I think there is a level of synchronicity there.  Why would this information suddenly come to me from different directions?  I have no doubt been exposed to the teachings of The Secret but I am now noticing an explosion of people writing about how to “attract” money instead of how to “make” money.

Maybe the universe knows that I am at a point in my life where I would like to create a new level of transformation for myself and it is showing me the things I need to learn.  While nothing has been materialized, I find that I have been making weekly energetic shifts from the inner work I am doing.  I find my life to be quite exciting right now even though nothing is ‘happening’.  After all, the first steps to manifesting a physical reality that I want begins in the non-physical plane…

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My new revelations about weight loss

Posted on December 2, 2010 by May Chu

Last week I set a goal of being 115 lbs by February 23, 2011.  Over the last week,  I have exercised on a daily basis by going 40 minutes on the elliptical / stationary bike, doing some yoga at night, as well as going to a post-natal step class.  I have also tried to eat smaller portions and cut out coffee (which I usually take with milk and sugar).

And the result is…

I GAINED 3 lbs!

Yes, you are not blind, I can hardly believe the scale when I saw it.  I thought to myself, “Damn! I might as well eat whatever the hell I want to eat!”.  I used to eat a lb of chicken wings a day and still loss weight consistently and now that I tried to eat better, it didn’t make one bit of difference.  So I decided to ask my dad and see what he has to say about weight management…

My father is a very fit individual.  At nearly 60 years of age, he still plays basketball with people in their teens and early 20s.  He told me that he never found vigorous exercise useful for weight loss.  In fact, he said that when he went to attend a conference in Germany, he ate greasy food every day and basically had very little exercise.  Yet, he told me that he did not gain a bound.

Then I did some self examination.  I asked myself one key question:

At what time in my life was I at my ideal weight and what was I doing?

There were 3 recent points in my life in which I remembered I was at my ideal weight of 110 to 112 lbs.

  1. When I was studying in West Virginia
  2. When I was in a course to learn how to be an Operating Room Nurse
  3. When I studied to be licensed as an insurance sales person

Do you see something in common here?  I certainly do.  I am at my most ideal weight when I am STUDYING!

I also tried to examine if I did anything differently in diet or exercise during those periods of time in my life. And here is what I realized:

  • I ate out a lot (I had no time to cook)
  • I drank a lot of coffee with cream and sugar
  • I did not exercise (there was no time to exercise)

I also lost weight after major breakups with ex-boyfriends but I am certainly not going to break up my happy marriage to lose a few bounds.

So what have I learned about myself?

I need to be learning something to let my brain burn up all the calories!

I am not going to make any major changes to my plan besides continuing to eat whatever I like to eat.  I am on a forced wheat free diet because my baby is allergic to wheat and it has done well for me.  I think I will continue to go to the gym and using the bike / elliptical while taking a book with me with something that I would be interested in learning.  Despite the weight gain, I also know that my core muscles are very weak from childbearing and I need to be stronger.  I will also keep up with the Yoga / Meditation because I remember feeling hungry after meditation sessions.  I think the brain works hard during meditation so I will be finding some time each day to do some meditation / visualization.

Next I’ll have to figure out what I am going to learn to get my brain going…

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How am I going to be 115 lbs?

Posted on November 25, 2010 by May Chu

On Tuesday I had a coaching session with Coach Coral and I wanted to explore the possibility of being 115 lbs.  To give you a little bit of history I used to be around 112 lbs, very fit and healthy.  Then I got into a relationship and I love eating out and got a bit heavier.  By the time I got engaged I was around 125 lbs and by the time I got married I was 132 lbs on my wedding day.  Two weeks after I got married, I got back to about 125 lbs (must be the stress of getting married)

Before I got pregnant with my first baby I was 128 lbs.  Right before Dante (my first baby) was born, I was 200 lbs from the pregnancy (including Dante of course).  Seven months after Dante was born I was down to 138 lbs with a flabby belly still.  That was when I got pregnant again and the cycle began again and I was about 205 lbs right before Cedric was born.  Now that Cedric is 7 months old, I am 138 lbs.  I have been 138 lbs for a month now and I haven’t done much exercise.  I signed up for My Yoga Online when Cedric was 3 months old and that has been very helpful.  But I found it difficult to watch the screen and do Yoga.  I have also been feeling increasingly isolated.

I have been breastfeeding Cedric aggressively for the past 7 months, no bottles, breast only.  He is one chubby baby.  I am finally at a point in which I can be out of the house for about 2 hours at a time without having to be there to feed him.  I know the time I have away from Cedric to do something will only increase over time and that is a great relief for me.

I have not been feeling very sexy about my post baby body lately.  I used to be hot and I want to be hot again.  But I know this will take some discipline and motivation.  I know that is it possible to become 112 lbs again because my own twin sister had accomplished this after having her baby.  She had a similar weight gain as me and because she is a professional ballroom dancer, getting her body back was a priority.  She was super disciplined, she didn’t breastfeed her baby, she pumped her breast milk into a bottle and hired a nanny 24 / 7 to get her body back.  She danced 2 hours every day and went to Hot Yoga daily for 90 minutes daily.  That is a total of 4 hours daily spent exercising.  I am not quite as hardcore (after all, I was still working in my online accounting software business and taking an active role in caring for my baby) but I know some level of hardcore-ness is necessary for me to lose the additional 26 lbs with a nice firm belly.

First, let’s begin by looking at where I am not doing well in terms of my goal of being 115 lbs:

  • I eat a lot, 3 meals a day plus snacks, some times even 4 meals a day (my nanny is a great cook)
  • I love sweet drinks, I drink coffee with milk and sugar and I love milk tea, I recently found this great hot chocolate from Costco…need I say more?
  • My nanny cooks us dessert some times after dinner.
  • I don’t exercise regularly

Let’s also look at some other accomplishments and things I have done well at:

  • I have lost 67 lbs, that includes Cedric
  • this equates to about 50 lbs of weight loss after accounting for Cedric, amniotic fluids and the placenta.
  • I have been breastfeeding.
  • I don’t eat bread (not by choice since Cedric is allergic to wheat but it probably contributed to the weight loss)
  • I still do some yoga poses at least once a week on a mat in my bedroom before bed.

My Health Goal

I want to be 115 lbs 3 months from the day I had my coaching session with Coach Coral, which is on February 23, 2011.  In addition to be 115 lbs, I will also have a nice firm tummy.

How do I plan to achieve a weight of 115 lbs in 3 months?

Food

  • use a smaller plate to serve my meals (I tried that last night and found that I was piling the smaller plate a little higher…heehee)
  • one sweet drinks a day instead of many sweet drinks
  • try hot herbal tea with no honey or sugar to replace my milk tea and coffee
  • Eat fruits for snacks instead of hot chocolate or buttery pop corn

Exercise

  • get a monthly unlimited membership and go on the elliptical for 30 to 45 minutes 3 times a week.
  • do core strengthening yoga moves at home before bed for 15 minutes 3 times a week.
  • attempt to go to local post natal core strengthening classes 2 times a week.

What do I need to do to make my health plan possible?

  • get a monthly fitness pass — done
  • make room in my schedule and make this a priority — done
  • set an intention with the goal of manifesting my intention — done with this blog post!
  • publicly declaring my intention — done
  • write in my calendar on February 23, 2011 that I am 115 lbs on that day — done
  • communicate my intention to those around me so that they can help me with my goal — will speak to Jackie (my nanny) tonight.

My progress so far

I have already begun the process before my call with Coach Coral.  This greatly illustrates that fact that time is not linear when manifesting my desires.  Here is what I have accomplished so far:

  • I have gone to the gym 3 times this week already beginning on Sunday night.  I was on the elliptical for 30 minutes the first time, 40 minutes the 2nd time and 45 minutes the 3rd time.
  • I found post natal fitness classes I can attend.  I was going to go today but the snow is very heavy so I decided to wait until next week.
  • I did some core strengthening exercises before bed last night.

I haven’t loss a bound yet, but I am going to persist with my current plan for a month and re-evaluate.  I also found a Hot Yoga place I can go to, but it is a 20 minute drive away from my home and the class is 90 minutes long.  In order to attend Hot Yoga, I just need to wait a bit longer until Cedric doesn’t have to feed as frequently.  But if I do not drop close to 10 lbs in a month, then I will begin going to Hot Yoga starting next month. It is also more expensive at $150 / month.

Why do I want to be 115 lbs?

  • I want to be hot and sexy
  • I want to feel hot and sexy
  • I want to fit into my old clothes (right now I am in between sizes so I only have a few articles of clothing I can wear)
  • I want to look good when I go on Oprah
  • I want to have greater core strength so I can carry Cedric around without wrecking my back

I will continue to update with my progress :)



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Fear Still Runs my Life

Posted on November 24, 2010 by May Chu

Today during a coaching session it occurred to me that the biggest obstacle I experience is fear. There are a lot of things I fear and it has been running my life since I was very little. Often times I want to do something but I stop myself because of fear. I am not sure what I fear some times, but what I do know is that I often regret making decisions based (or the lack of decisions) due to fear.

I think it is easier to resort to fear because it gives me a reason why things will not work out.  If there is always a reason why things doesn’t work out, then I don’t have to be responsible and therefore I won’t look bad.

Ah! There it is! I am afraid of looking bad!  I want to look good.  I don’t want to look bad.

I am a hypocrite! I keep telling others that I don’t care how people think of me (since I often don’t bother wearing nice clothes or shoes) but in actual fact I do care about how good I look in other areas of my life.  This is especially so in my career and maybe perhaps even my family.  I hate to sound egotistical but secretly I am quite proud of the gorgeous husband I found and the good looking kids he help produced (hee hee).

I guess this is not that much of a secret now…

So what have I really learned about myself?  Many of my decisions are based on fear of looking bad.  In fact, sometimes I prefer inaction over action because I am afraid that my actions will look bad.  But at the end of the day, I am the one that feels really sorry for myself because I haven’t done anything fun / meaningful.  I don’t want to go out and fail but when I am lying in my death bed I may feel like I have failed.  Maybe the fear of looking bad to myself when I am old and wrinkly (assuming I live that long) will get me going…

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A Conversation with Oprah, Eckhart, and Jack

Posted on November 23, 2010 by May Chu

Last week I had a fun coaching session with one of my coaches.  What was interesting about this session was that I got to listen to a recording of my own coaching session one week later.  I must say that it is quite a different feeling listening to myself on a recording.  For one thing, I have one hell of a cute voice, maybe too cute some times but I can’t really complain.  I was afraid that I was going to sound like a Chinese person speaking English but it didn’t turn out to be that bad.  I also can’t stand the fact that it took me so damn long to answer some questions.  Like, stop deliberating May! Just answer the damn questions.  There was definitely a lot of hesitation there.  I think I was afraid to share too much because I feel like things might get out of hand and digress somewhere I don’t want to go…

One of the things that made the coaching session so fun was because we did an exercise together and I really want to write things down so that I can come back and read it later.

I was asked to choose three people I look up to or people that I would regard as my mentors.  Maybe I would call them my secret mentors because they don’t know they have been selected :P  For the purpose of my exercise I chose: Oprah, Jack Canfield, and Eckhard Tolle.

I first included Steve Jobs but actually eliminating him.  Later on I realized I eliminated him because I no longer wanted to be in the tech field.  I am sure there is a lot I can learn from Steve, but maybe not at this time. Bye bye Steve.  I also thought I wanted to include T. Harv Eker but I ended up cutting him and Steve Jobs out in favour of having Oprah because I wanted a woman mentor :)

Disclaimer, the following exercise is a visioning exercise in which the topics being discussed are only pigments of my imagination.  I will be speaking with my mentors in spirit and not in person.

Coach Coral asked me to pick a place where I was going to speak to my mentors and I decided to invite them out for coffee.  I thought about the logistics and wanted to sit at a small table where I get the couch and all 3 of them sat in the other 3 corners of the table in a chair.  I didn’t invite them to Starbucks because they don’t brew very good coffee.  In fact, I invited them to a local favourite of mine, Cafe Artigiano.

I can see it clearly that I had Eckhart sitting on my left, Jack on my right and Oprah right in front of me.

I chose to talk to Oprah first.  Coach Coral asked me, “What question do you have for Oprah?”

“How do I be like you Oprah?” I asked.

“What does Oprah say to you?” asked Coral.

“Well, she said, there is no point trying to be like me because everyone is different” I responded.

“Well, how do I get to be like a media mogul and have my own show?” I asked.

“A show may or may not be a fit, but you have got to start somewhere.” Oprah responded.

“I have an idea!”, I exclaimed with excitement, “I can interview people and put the interviews online!”

“OK!” Oprah said, “Go interview people!”

“Is there anything else Oprah wants to say to you?” Coach Coral asked.

“Yeah! She said ‘come to my show sometime!’” I responded with a bout of amused laughter.

“Better hurry up!” Coral laughed.

“I know! I know!” I said.

“When Oprah is finished let me know” Coral said.

“Ok she is done and she said ‘Great Coffee!’”I added.

Next up we are going to talk to Jack Canfield (in my imagination of course).

“So what question do you have for Jack?” Coral asked.

“Well…How do I be like you?” I asked much to Coral’s amusement.

“You are not that far off!” Jack said, “Why do you want to be like me? My hair is all gray!”

“Well, I want to know how I can make millions of dollars publishing stories!” I said.

“Then write some stories!” Jack said with his face beaming as always.

“What else does he say?” Coral asked.

“What other advise do you have for me besides writing stories?” I asked Jack.

“Share them with people! He said with a smile.

“So how was the inner message communicated to you? asked Coral.

“Write some stories!” I giggled.

I think I was surprised at how straight forward the advice were given to me.  Like duh! Sit your ass down and write some stories!

Next up we are going to talk to Eckhart.

“What is it you want to learn from Eckhart Tolle?” Coral asked.

“Are you making a lot of money?” I wanted to ask Eckhart.

“Well…” Eckhart responded slowly, “What is money to you?” he asked.

“Like mulah? Cash in the Bank?” I responded.

“Sure I am making money,” said Eckhart and then he didn’t say much after that.

“What are you doing with your money?” I asked Eckhart.

“I give a lot of it away and I am not particularly attached to money.  I buy food, I have a place to live.”  He responded slowly and decisively without offering any other comments.

“Ok, let’s ask another question.” I said. “How do you know what to write in your book?”

“Well, I went somewhere and it just came to me.” He responded.

“How do I make things just come to me?” I asked.

“Be present.” He said.

“Be present.” Coral echoed.

“‘Be present’ and that is all he has to say about that.” I said.

“Ok…, that’s all he has to say about that. Does he have anything else to say right now? Coral asked.

“Nope!” I said, “Quiet guy. Doesn’t say much.”

“So how is the inner message from Eckhart communicated to you?” Coral asked.

“Meditate.”  That was all I have to say about that.

Was this spiritually legal?

After the visioning exercise was over I had a few thoughts. I think if I was doing this kind of exercise again, I will want to ask my mentors permission to speak with them in spirit.  This is because the mentors seemed so real to me and they talk in the way they would normally talk and give responses like how they would give responses if they were to be interviewed.  I feel their energy /aura and I wonder if they knew that I have been talking to their higher selves.  No one can prove that I had spoken to them but they seemed so real.  So next time around, I should probably asked for permission in spirit first :P

Regardless of the legal fine print in the spiritual world, I had a lot of fun in this exercise. I love doing exercises like these because it takes me out of my ego and focuses me on what is truly important.  It takes me from my fear in to a land where all things are possible.

I would love to do more exercises like these going forward and write about them :D


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Four Roses

Posted on November 20, 2010 by May Chu

Previously on Manifestation Stories I spoke about the fact that I am ready for a change in my life.  I went on a quest to realize the purpose of my existence through various methods.  I have tried hypnosis and coaching.  In this post I wanted to share a session I have had with an aura reader.

I have known Patricia since 2006.  It was a time of transition and Patricia has made an incredible journey with me.  She has supported me through all the major events that happened in the last four years.  I went to her

  • when I was single
  • when I met a guy
  • when I contemplated dating him
  • when I contemplated marrying him
  • when I contemplated having kids
  • when I started a business with my husband
  • when I was sick
  • when I was pregnant for a soothing massage
  • for meditation classes

Recently I went to her so she could read my energy and aura and translate what my energy is showing her. As much as she could have just told me what she saw, she took me through a guided meditation in which I did my own spiritual reading. Patricia was right there with me every step of the way. When I told her what I saw she told me what she saw (they were quite similar), when I was stuck, she was there to guide me along. She asked me to visualize my next career paths as roses of different colours. We saw four roses together and she asked me to tell her the colour of the roses and what they meant to me in terms of career possibilities and here is what I saw.

Yellow Rose

The first rose I saw was a yellow rose. When Patricia asked me to tell her what possibilities this rose presents I told her “children”. I am not quite sure what this means, but I have a feeling that it has something to do with educating children in a way that is free and conscious. This may mean my own children or it may refer to running a school or institution for children. This possibility is not the most immediate one (at least this was how I felt).

Pink and White Rose

This rose is the rose that represents “Coaching” but I don’t know what kind or how I will accomplish this yet.  But I am following through with this one by seeking out student coaches to coach me to see what it is like to be coached.  I must admit so far I feel like the word “coach” is over utilized and majority of the population don’t really know what it means when someone is a coach.  I will have to continue my feelings around the “coach” word in a separate blog post.

Red Rose

This is the “Relationship” rose. It is not quite about my own relationship but more to do with helping other people with their relationships.

Dusty Blue Rose

This is the “Writing” rose. This is the one that I feel is most immediate and accessible to me since I feel the desire to write and have a medium (this blog) to express my thoughts and experiences. I am not really sure what topics I will focus on, maybe I will draw from the possibilities I have outlined above but I feel strongly that I can write a book or an ebook. I will also write and design courses (these thoughts are coming to me as I write). I also sense that this rose not only represents “writing” but both “reading and writing”. On a weekly basis I ask the universe for inspiration and it has not failed me yet.

Over the course of the year I feel that I will being to explore each of these roses and the possibilities they present. When I meditated I saw that I can do everything simultaneously and not having to choose one possibility over another. It is quite natural for me to carry the fear that I may not be able to follow my dreams or that I would fail, but deep down inside, I know that as long as I keep writing here, I will flourish :)

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