Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2016 My Turn by Miriam S. Cody • Believing is seeing: manifesting change through positive energy

A friend of mine was reading one of my editorials while I was in Montana for Christmas, and suddenly a light went on in his eyes and he popped downstairs to his library.

“It looks like you’re conflicted on something.” He said, “Read this.”

He handed me a book, “E Cubed” by Pam Grout. It’s about conducting experiments to prove that magic and miracles can be manifested.

Manifestation (revealing things) through believing was not a strange concept to me. In fact, perhaps I manifested the book in previous weeks while my boyfriend and I discussed similar topics.

I read it while I was there and it reinforced my budding idea that I can manifest the things I wish for. All I have to do is believe in my future.

When we first came to California, I trusted in our ability to relocate to another state with no plans, just these ideas: I wanted to write, and my boyfriend wanted to mine gold, and we needed to survive in the process.

We put our faith in the universe’s ability to give us those things. Now I write full time, between my novel and your paper, and Larry is on a busy mining operation. We have more than what we need, an abundance of material things.

Many other things have come to me as a result of believing in them, good and bad, so I had no trouble grasping the concept.

My first experiment after reading the book was to manifest money on the road trip home. The morning we left, I thought, I am going to find random money today. Random money. Random money. I believed I would.

In a gas station in West Yellowstone, Montana, I found $7 on the floor, just sitting there.

Now, I know $7 isn’t much, but how often do you find any cash lying around these days?

I wasn’t convinced when I found the money. I was convinced long before that. I believed, and that’s why it was there.

Making magic happen
We can use the power of positive energy in every area of our lives. Here in Plumas County, we have political conflict, harmful confrontations, illness. It could all be dissolved using positive energy.

This energy is generated through positive thoughts. It comes through openly and thoroughly believing in a positive outcome.

Some may think, really, Miriam? Healing illness with your mind? Hippie …

Fair enough, but dude! It works. I have had poor vision for most of my life and I wear contacts. A few weeks ago, I stopped wearing them and decided to train my eyes to see well again. I believed firmly that this would work, and I would see everything crisply without my contacts or glasses.

It’s not perfect yet, but I don’t need either my contacts or glasses all of the time now. If I need to see out over yonder hilltop, then I whip my glasses out of my purse and check it out, but I can drive, work, read, watch TV without them. I couldn’t do that a year ago.

It’s just an experiment, but one that seems to be working. That’s what manifestation is all about.

Tesla said, “To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

Some physicists believe that everything we see, everything we feel and know is energy, whirling about itself and interacting.

There is a balance there, and when it is disturbed and tilted heavy on the negative, illness can arise. If the energies can be restored to a healthful vibration, illness is cured. This is medicine, just not the kind widely accepted in the U.S.

We can, in the same way, heal unrest among our communities. The Indian Valley Community Services District has had a difficult year, to say the least. But I look around me at their meetings and see a group of people who mostly just want the best for their community.

What if every one of those people strongly believed that the IVCSD would bounce back financially, this year? What if they believed that by the end of 2015 trust would be restored between the two sides of a currently divided community?

It would happen. I believe it would happen.

If each Plumas person put some focus into manifesting money for the county, really trusting it will come instead of worrying, worrying, worrying how, we would see it.

I’m going to finish my novel and start talking to agents this year. I believe and expect to be picked up and published. I banish all doubt. And this is what will happen, because of my faith.

It is simple. You can believe or not, but you will unlikely ever see what you do not believe in.