Inspirational Quotes and Stories

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 :)

Today our nanny asked my husband and I to go out to eat lunch so she would have time to clean the house instead of cooking while my baby is asleep.  My husband and I love to go a Chinese Hot Pot restaurant nearby that serves great Hot Pot with soft serve ice cream as dessert at the end of every meal.  My husband’s favourite flavour is Peanut.  One time he craved the peanut ice cream so much we went out to have Hot Pot but they didn’t have room for us in the restaurant.

While I was parking my car near the Hot Pot restaurant I jokingly said to my husband, “I wonder what is for dessert today, I kind of feel like a green tea ice cream…”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if they also have the peanut ice cream?” he said with a playful smile.

“Well, why don’t we intend for it?  The intention is to have a great meal and finish with a green tea ice cream and a peanut ice cream!” I declared.

Off we went with our meal and while I was ordering, I asked the server, “what’s the ice cream flavour for today?”

“Oh, we have an excellent blend of green tea ice cream today.  I really like this flavour.” the server said, “I’m not sure what is the other flavour but I will check later.”  She took our order and went off to help other customers.

We had a great meal as I shared with my husband what I had done so far today.  As we were finishing our meal I called the server over to ask about the other ice cream flavour.

“Oh, we also have peanut today!” She said as we watch the kitchen staff pour the peanut mix into the soft serve ice cream machine…

At dinner time my husband suddenly blurted out, “I really had a nice time with you at lunch today.”

“Oh really?” I said, “what was so nice about our lunch today?” I asked (I must be having many coaching sessions since I am asking these questions).

“Hmmmm, you got me there…” he ponders, “I think it was the peanut ice cream.” he response with a guilty smile.

Man, I almost believed that he had a lot of fun with ME!~

“Ok wait,” feeling like he should explain himself he said, “it was felt great to have received exactly what we had intended for.”

Well, since he put it that way, I couldn’t feel sorry for myself for not being the reason why he had a wonderful lunch.  After all, this was a moment we shared together.

Recently I have been contemplating the possibilities of being a coach.  It seem like coaches get to charge a lot of money for asking questions and I am the Queen of asking questions.  I have rarely met anyone with the same abilities to get to the heart of an issue as well as I can within a short period of time.

Since I thought of becoming a coach, I started doing some research online to see what kind of courses I can take to certify me as a coach.  I found 3 different institutions that could train me locally and one even offer online courses.

I started to ponder which programs I should consider because the tuition is very similar.  Then I was inspired by a great idea!  I thought to myself, why don’t I try to solicit free coaching from the student coaches from each institution and see which style of coaching I like the best?

Feeling incredibly pleased with how brilliant I am (I’m sure that’s my ego taking credit from a tip from my higher self), I started calling each coaching school to see if I can get student coaches to coach me.

Of all the schools I called (Erickson College, Rhodes College, and the Coaches Training Institute), the Coaches Training Institute left me a more significant impression than the others and here is why:

• they had an automated system to route their calls
• I was placed on hold
• I was put through voicemail
• I then sent an email, asking if there would be students interested to coach me and this was the response I got:

Thank you for your inquiry about CTI.  We do not act as an agent for our students.  The best idea would be to post your request on the main community discussion board of our online network, www.coactivenetwork.com.

• I signed up for a forum and posted my request for free coaching and got a whole bunch of responses within 2 days. With 3 coaching sessions scheduled in less than 2 days.  I even got a coach from Erickson responding to my post on the CTI forum!
• Despite not having spoken to one individual on the phone, I got the results I wanted.  Who needs the phone when you’ve got the internet?

Choosing Coaches

I have chosen two coaches to work with. One from Erickson and one from CTI.  They are the same and yet very different.  My criteria for selecting a coach is simple, those who made an impact on me in the first session gets my vote of confidence.  Here are some of the kinds of impact I have experienced in my first coaching calls with these two coaches

• Both left me feeling fulfilled at the end of the session
• My vibration was high at the end of the session
• They did an exercise with me that allowed me to see a glimpse of what I want for myself
• It was fun
• The session left me wanting more of the same thing
• I felt great afterwards

What is the benefit of coaching?

In my opinion, the benefits of coaching are:

• Increases the emotional tone and thereby raising vibrations to allow an individual or a group to effectively manifest their desires
• To increase clarity for an individual / group so that they can more effectively manifest their desires
• To acknowledge accomplishments and successes so that an individual / group can better manifest their desires.

Equation for Manifestation

Thoughts + Feelings = Manifestation of your Desires

Some of the things that may help people to manifest their desires more quickly are:

• having clarity on exactly what you want
• feeling good
• receiving and accepting the manifested reality with gratitude

In summary, a coach helps an individual or organization to produce results by doing exercises and asking questions to improve clarity and emotional tone to quickly manifest goals and desires.  This is why and how coaching works.

The sky was grey and the rain is drizzling down, the kind of weather that was classic to the west coast.  I was on my way home from the airport with my new live-in Nanny, fresh off the plane (not a boat) from China.  I couldn’t help reminiscing about the first day I got off the plane nearly 20 years ago from Singapore.  The weather was exactly the same and I remember looking out the window of my father’s car, watching the rain and taking in my new environment.

It was exciting and scary at the same time.  I was 10 years old and it was my first trip to Canada.  I didn’t speak much English, I knew the alphabet and a few words, but that was it. I had a strong feeling that my life was going to change forever and it did.  Not only did I make a really good life for myself in Canada, I also ended up marrying a great guy and have two beautiful children.

I feel excited for my nanny.  As she sat there in the passenger seat of my car, I knew her life is going to change forever.  I was the one who sponsored her from China and the process took nearly a year to complete.  She was a complete stranger to me and younger in age than any other applicants I have interviewed.  I chose her because I found her to be more straightforward than some of the other applicants.

Whether she stays on as a nanny for us, I feel a sense of accomplishment for helping to change someone’s life forever.  My life is so incredible here in Canada and I just want the same for someone else and I hope she will have an incredible life here too.

Nearly 30 years ago a very wise man told me that “the surest way to success was to find something that I absolutely loved doing, and then find a way to make money doing it”. It was a lesson that I have never forgotten, and one I continue to share with others.

J Walker (a.k.a. “Cricket”)

This came in my personal email inbox today.  Interestingly it is not from a person involved in personal development.  It is a person running a free SEO course through a Yahoo Group ( I found this course by Googling “SEO Training” and they were the #1 result).

This is a very timely email because I recently started feeling like I am not spending my time doing things I LOVE to do.

What are the things I LOVE to do?

• helping to set people up with a girlfriend/boyfriend
• talking with friends and family and helping them manifest what they want
• writing my thoughts down and having discussions with people about whatever interests me (i.e. manifesting what they want, how I feel about the world at large).
• telling stories…

What am I doing right now that I would rather not do?

• working for a monthly wage
• working with people who ignore my requests to chat
• being assigned administrative tasks and made responsible to perform these tasks

I began to wonder why I got into this situation in the first place.  I have always hated working for a monthly or hourly wage.  When I was working as a nurse, I felt trapped each day going to work.  Even though I was great at my work, I have enriched the lives of many people, I wasn’t satisfied with where I was going in life.  Even my higher self wanted to get my attention.  I got into car accidents and work place injuries (not on purpose on a conscious level) to force me to turn to a new direction.

How did I get into my present situation in the first place?  Kind of ironic I must admit:

=> Started a Business

=> Investors Bought Majority Shares in the Business

=> Became an employee of the Business I Co-Founded as part of the contract

=> Hired a CEO

=> CEO asks me to do administrative tasks

I have literally come a full circle and all I wanted to say to myself is, “Shit!”

No wonder I’ve been acting like a bitch.  If I spend my time doing something more in line with my higher purpose than I would be so much happier.

Yesterday I got hypnotized.  This wasn’t the first time I got hypnotized.  My first experience with hypnosis was March 2007.  Since then, I have had 3 past life regressions which I will write about soon but the session yesterday was different from what I was used to doing.

Prior to my session with my friend Suzy, who had recently became a hypnotist, I had this feeling that I didn’t want to see a past life.  I had wanted to be hypnotized again because I am currently experiencing some interesting aches and pains in my body and I wanted to see why I was having these issues.  I am a strong believer that my physical state is very much influenced by my emotional and spiritual state and I was hoping to find some answers.  Maybe on a subconscious level I knew that I needed to do something else — I needed to tap into the wisdom of my higher self and guides.

Unlike other past life regression sessions I have had, I cannot remember much from the session I had with Suzy yesterday.  I think the Ego always wants me to forget my higher purpose in exchange for self preservation and security.

Here is what I remember:

Suzy: “Would the higher self and guides of May come forward please”.

May: “Er, we’re here!”

Suzy: “Who are you?”

May: “We are May!”

Suzy: “Can you tell me why May is having issues with her back and wrist?”

May: “This should not be surprising to May.  We have done this before, and she knows it.  Every time her life was not going in the way that is a fit for her higher purpose, we will get her attention some how.”

Suzy: “What is May’s higher purpose?”

May: “Joy! LOTS of JOY!”

Suzy: “Can you elaborate more?”

May: “Well, May is having the ball of her life.  Her life is full of joy and love but she is afraid that life can’t really be this good.  She is afraid that something might come along and take away all the love and joy in her life.  What we want her to know is that life really IS that good and it can only get better.  We wanted to point it out to her that she needs to learn to ACCEPT and RECEIVE the joy that is being given to her.”

Suzy: “She is worried about having enough money to do all that she wants to do.”

May: “She doesn’t need to worry about the money at all! As long as she is serving her highest purpose, then she is abundant!  Didn’t she see something like ‘get an MBNA Mastercard at 0% financing for 15 months?’ In the realm of spirit, we don’t really care where the money comes from and it doesn’t matter where the money comes from.”

Suzy: “What would you say is May’s purpose here?”

May: “May knows what her purpose here is but maybe she needs a little reminder.  She is here to share her joy with people.  She is here to walk the talk. She is here to live an extraordinary life and show others they can do the same.  The next evolution in her life is stepping outside of her ‘self’.  In the past 4 years, May spent her time and energy on herself, now she is going beyond the realm of ‘self’ and into ‘Oneness’.  She has a lot of work to do and she knows that.  She may be worried that there are tons of people doing this out there already and there might not be enough people she can help.  What we are saying is that there can never be enough people.  We need MORE people to work on raising the vibration of our planet, we need more people to believe that basking in the light of joy is possible.  May knows that there is particularly a lot of work that needs to be done in Asia.  Those who can be helped by May will be attracted to May.  There is never enough work to be done to raise the vibration of the planet.  Those who pursue their highest purpose here shall be abundant.  May is caught up on some of the things that are happening in the company she had created before but we want to remind her that what is bothering her is so insignificant in the grand scheme of things.  In fact, the higher selves of those involved are conspiring to nudge May to do the work she needs to do.

Suzy: “What do you mean by Oneness?”

May: “We are many parts of a whole, we all come from the same place and we are all going back to the same place.  We are all going back to where we came from, to become One with love and joy.”  (Strangely enough, this passage is the hardest to remember and I feel my ego protesting as I write).

Suzy: “Do you have any advice on how May can carry out her higher purpose?”

May: “All we have to say is read and write, read and write, read and write.  We hesitate to say more at this time.”

End of Session

What I do also remember is seeing myself talking to groups of people.  Very big groups of people.  I also remember that this is not the first time I told myself what I am here to do but never has it been as clear as this time around.  I did an automatic writing session that resulted in something very similar.

While I haven’t written down every single one of my intentions and how they have manifested.  I can’t remember not getting what I want.  I have asked for the seemingly impossible.  I asked for $300,000 and got $500,000, I asked for a soulmate, met him in 3 months and married a year later.  I wanted 2 kids…it all happened within 4 years of learning the magic of manifestation.

For the longest time, I couldn’t think of what else I could ask for, but now, I am inspired by the possibilities of embarking in a new direction in life.  I would ask for money but I think it is more interesting to focus on what I would like to do with the money I will be making.  I would like to have the following experiences while making tons of passive income to support all my expenses with plenty to spare for investment and charitable donations.

Here are some things I want to accomplish in the next 18 months:

Create a Passive Income Business

I have created a business once and found myself assigned menial administrative tasks.  Nothing wrong with this except this is not what I want to be doing with my valuable time.  So, the plan is to replace the income I am making from physically doing the work with a passive income revenue stream.  More on this as the universe shows me how.  Oh, did I mention that I would like the universe to show me how? Dear Universe, can you show me how I can create many passive income generating business that would allow me to do the following?

Travel to Taiwan

One of the things I would like to do is travel to Taiwan and live there for 3 to 6 months with my family. This is something I would like to do next fall / winter since my youngest baby will be around 18 months old, able to attend daycare and fend for himself.  While in Taiwan, I would like to have tasty Chinese food every day, Chinese acupressure foot massage at least 3 times a week, facials at least once a week, and have acupressure hair wash with essential oils at least 2x a week.  I would like to do this while having to do minimal work to maintain the passive income vehicle and giving me some opportunities to expand my empire (whatever that will be :).

Fly First Class Comfortably

Ok, this should be a no brainer, of course flying first class would be comfortable, but I mean financially comfortable.  I don’t even want to have to blink when I schedule for my whole family to fly first class anywhere we go (this includes Taiwan of course).

Sell our investment properly for at least $500,000

One of our properties are currently under renovation right now.  There has been talks about the real estate industry slowing but of course the universe is going help me and someone will feel that our apartment would be worth $500,000 to be living 1 block away from the one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

Help other people achieve what they want to achieve

Yesterday I was walking on the trail near my house and ran into a local resident walking with her baby.  She expressed her sadness as the end of her maternity leave looms around the horizon.  She didn’t want to abandon her baby to go back to work.  I said to her, “why don’t you work from home?” and she said, “what can I do?”.  I didn’t have a response to her at the time.  While I have successfully worked from home in the past 2 years, but I did it with a lot of hardship and stress and I don’t feel like I am in the best position to tell her what to do.  I couldn’t have pulled it off without my husband, who is very savvy with technology.  In the next little while I feel like I have to feel things out on my own and see if I can create something that will fulfill my purpose in life.

I will blog more about this as time goes on…

I have been away for awhile.  I have been either pregnant or breastfeeding a baby since 2008.  I had 2 babies in a row with the boys being only 16 months apart and trying to build a business at the same time.  I recently decided to return to writing as a means of expressing my own thoughts and opinions.

When I returned to my blog after an extended absence, I was surprised to find that people were actually reading my blog posts!  When I first started Manifestation Stories I watched my analytics daily watching if people would come by and read my stories and there was barely any people or anyone commenting besides my close friends.  I was pleasantly surprised that over the course of the last year, people have been leaving comments and I have been ignoring them.  This was not done on purpose of course as I was not aware of those comments.  I am going to take some time to go through them one by and one and give you the best responses I have :)

Thank you for your continuing support, it means a lot to me.

Recently I have found myself to be increasingly annoyed.  I know it must be my ego playing tricks on me because only the ego gets annoyed, my authentic self cannot.  I am caught up in the day to day things and forgetting what is hidden, my desire to be compassionate.

In the past I have had opportunities to be compassionate.  I was a compassionate nurse, I was a compassionate customer service representative…

What I noticed about my compassion is that it is very outward facing.  I am compassionate to people outside of my own domain and less so within my own domain.  For example, I am compassionate towards patients, I am compassionate towards customers, but I am not compassionate to my family and the managers I work with.

Why is that so I ask?

I think it has something to do with expectations.  With people who matters to me at the deepest level, I expect them to be all that I think they can be.  I am not as accepting to who they are at the present moment.  Some of my closest friends have also experienced this.  Once one of my best friends was out of a job and feeling depressed.  I was not very compassionate towards her situation, I just said to her, “why feel depressed? You can manifest a job if you wanted to.”  I guess I must have been implying that if she “wanted” a job, she would have gotten one already.

When I am being that way I feel heaviness in my heart.  I cannot name that heaviness yet but I am becoming aware of it.  I can also see myself becoming this way with my children and I know that they are the primary motivators of why I wanted to take a step back and examine this kind of behaviour.  Why can’t I just accept people for who they are now?  I even pick on my dear Dobes sometimes and he is the best husband anyone could find.

Maybe the next few days I will practice accepting things as they are.  Not that I will stop myself from trying to improve on things I could improve on, but if things are not the way I want them to be, I would like to practice accepting that.

If you are puzzled by the title of this blog post you are not alone.  Lately I have been feeling some what strange.  Since 2006, I have spent a lot of my spiritual energy learning about setting intentions and manifesting them.  In fact, when I checked back on my written intentions, I have nearly manifested them all.  Some of the intentions I have set were seemingly impossible at the time.

The first time I actively tried to manifest an intention was in April of 2006 when I wanted to manifest a soulmate in 3 months.  That came true.

Then I wanted to manifest $300,000 by December 31, 2008.  That didn’t come true on December 31, 2008 but by April 30, 2009, I manifested $500,000.

Now I feel like I have got everything I want and I don’t know what else there is to ask for.  Then on April 18, 2010, I had a new baby boy.  Unlike most mothers who are enthralled with the experience, I always wanted out in the first little while.  I don’t like being stuck at home, I don’t like missing sleep, I don’t like having no time to myself.

This is when I was presented with my biggest lesson: being present.

When my back was tired and the baby is screaming, I kept thinking about how I would rather be doing something else.  I had stepped outside of the present and into the past or future.  This decreased my vibration, making it difficult for me to manifest solutions.  I have been down that road before and somehow picked myself back up.  The trick for doing so has always been taking the time to accept my current situation and be grateful for it.  When I looked more closely at my present situation, my 3 month old baby is sleeping 8 to 10 hours through the night, he is learning to fall asleep on his own without me carrying him around and he is way calmer because I figured out he was allergic to soy and wheat.

Maybe the secret to feeling better is to find the blessings in my present situation. Soon after accepting my life as it is, I found a great nanny that would cook, clean, help me with the baby AND give me hour long massages while the baby sleeps.  You just can’t beat that!  What’s more interesting is that this nanny just live up the street from me and have been sitting around bored out of mind for the last 3 weeks.  If I had been more clear minded and posted an ad for a nanny sooner, I could have had 3 more weeks of massage!  Ok, I don’t think it really works that way.  I suppose when the student is ready, the massage master appears!