~architecting life with energy~
Awww, is it over already? All I have left to do is pack and sleep. How sad!!
Well, the good news is I took nearly 200 pictures. The bad news is, I’m going to make everyone I know look at them. Hahahahahahaha…
I love the energy in Tokyo, I will surely miss it.
But no worries, I’m already manifesting my next trip, well actually, the next five trips because I really like Tokyo and it hasn’t seen the last of me yet.
Okay, so The Secret really does work. I just won a manju plushi (which I’ve been coveting since I got to Tokyo) in one of those crane games. The reason I say The Secret works is because I have always believed it’s nearly impossible to win anything from a crane catching game.Â
And to back up my belief, I’ve never won anything from those machines and I’ve only seen one person (some 10 year old boy with mad skills) actually have success and get a toy out.
Well, after dumping 1500 yen (about $15)Â on two different occasions, I decided to stop fretting and just ask my genie… so I went to Starbucks this morning and wrote down that I wanted a manju plushie from the machine.
Then I went shopping and wandered around until I came back to that same crane machine. I fished a handful of coins out of my pocket thinking it would take all of them and I’d still not get one. But then, I put the first coin in and whad’ya know, I got a plushie on the first try (okay, really like the 16th try in all, but so what).
I’ll post a picture of it when I get home, but I was so surprised that I was like, “I need to sit down and write out that I want an Audi and Prada shoes.”Â
I’ve had many wonderful things happen in Tokyo, so look for my pictoral report when I get home!!
My manifested manju plushie~
~~~~~~~~~ IN TOKYO ~~~~~~~~~
 I made it to Tokyo!!! Wahoooooooooooo! And now I am going out to enjoy the most populated metropolis in the world.
*cries* I just woke up all grumpy! *pouts and gets back in bed*
I have a headache, I don’t want to do anything, and of course, I have to get up and attend to things I promised to do today…so… I manifest a better, sparkly, happy, mood for the rest of the day!!!
*gives a fake smile*
I’ll let you know how that goes ~ See 2.18.07 post for update.
I really didn’t give much thought at all to Valentine’s Day today, or any Valentine’s Day in nearly a decade for that matter, but then, while driving home from the law office, I thought of something I discussed with a friend last night - the love of my life.Â
THE LOVE OF MY LIFEÂ <<<<<Â *echoes loudly for emphasis* >>>>>
For YEARS, I have gone around saying that my college boyfriend was the love of my life. The LOVE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE. Well, I met him when I was 20, so that’s it? 8 months of happy love in my life is all I get? I don’t get anymore super, sweep-me-off-my-feet, magical love - ever? There’s only one shot and I blew my payload in between thesis papers and using my fake ID to get into bars??
Well shit, that can’t be right!? If it were, I’d be stuck in a bad episode of the Twilight Zone and my love life would be the punchline!!
But it is right because I have been saying it, believing it, and living it that way since I met him… 10 freaking long years ago! I created it that way whether I meant to or not.
So here I face a dilemna. I truly considered him the love of my life and I don’t want to change that memory, so I devised a solution so that I could STOP condemning myself to mediocre love or no love at all.
For who I was as a young adult, he was the love of HER life. But for who I am now, I am ready to meet the love of my life.Â
This sounds like a pretty good solution to me because I get to hold onto the memory of loving him and what our relationship meant without letting those feelings interfere with a new love that may come into my life. While I have no active manifesting for a new love right now, it never hurts to shift beliefs around for future manifesting.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
How fitting that I’d come to this realization today, on Valentine’s Day.
One of my favorite things in life - actually, it may be my ultimate favorite thing - is sleeping. I love to sleep and whenever I wake up for my day, I think about how long it will be before I can go back to sleep. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy being awake, but sleep has always represented “my time” away from the world where I don’t have to worry or be responsible. And the BEST part of sleep is waking up without an alarm because you are ready to wake up and realizing, “I don’t have to be anywhere,” so you snuggle back into bed.
I use this time to manifest. My brain hasn’t started racing to figure out the day’s plan yet and I still have enough of the dreamy, sleep state to let my imagination work at full capacity. It’s kind of like daydreaming.Â
This morning I woke up feeling super comfortable and the perfect “warmness” under my covers, so I decided to manifest. I mostly manifested for my trip to Tokyo next week. Now, you might be asking, what exactly did I do to manifest because I surely didn’t have a pen and paper in hand to write stuff down?Â
I imagined/daydreamed/fantasized that I was in Tokyo. I put myself in the clothes I want to wear while I’m there. I “felt” the way I want to feel when I am there. I walked down city streets, seeing all the Japanese people go to and fro while I stopped to shop and get a latte. I even imagined the weather: how the air feels, is it damp? Warm?
I went as far to imagine going to the concert and because I’ll have to walk quite a bit to get there, I imagined my feet feeling good (as in opposite of hurting), that my hair looked awesome even after a twenty block hike, that I acclimated to the temperature in the theater.Â
I imagined all this the same way we fantasize and the same way we remember memories. Our mind doesn’t know the difference between the two. Maybe that’s why it is so easy to alter details to memories… I’m not sure about that, but it’s a thought.
If I can “feel” my experience before I get there, my energy will align itself to create that feeling when I arrive in Tokyo. Sure, my experiences may be different than what I imagine. It might rain even though I wanted sunshine (which reminds me to pack an umbrella), but maybe when it’s raining, I’ll be tucked away in a small cafe, sitting in the window watching the rain while enjoying a hot chocolate.
Just because it rains, or just because bigger things happen, doesn’t mean I have to be “caught up” by them or have them interfere with my desire to be happy.Â
I manifest for my energy to be free-flowing and content/happy while in Tokyo and traveling to and from Tokyo. I manifest to feel good and find enjoyment in each moment of my trip. I also manifest to take a clear picture of the Tokyo skyline on a clear day or night (because if it’s going to rain, I want one moment when it is clear to take my skyline picture).
So, I’m not saying, “I manifest for it not to rain in Tokyo while I’m there,” because really, I don’t have control over that. Instead, what I am asking for is the intuition to know what time is best based on the weather and what not to go to the Tokyo Government building’s observation deck and take my picture. It is much easier to manifest when you align yourself to what it is you want instead of making something else align to you. Make sense?