Manifest My Dream Life

My road to actively creating my reality through my thoughts began with a cockroach and a cup of coffee. I use the word actively because we are always creating our reality, we just don’t know it. So the moment I realized it, truly realized it – not just used the terminology verbatim, I was in bed thinking about the time I found a cockroach in my coffee grinds. Here’s my personal story of how I became more conscious of negative thoughts and began to train my brain so that I could manifest my dream life – working for myself as a photographer in the jungles of Costa Rica.

I like to prepare my coffee at night, so when I wake in the morning I just turn on the switch. During this particular time in my life, I had a habit of opening up the coffee lid each morning to make sure there were no bugs in it. (We live in Costa Rica and there can be lots of bugs!) Well, as you can imagine from the previous paragraph, this one particular morning I forgot to check. I poured myself a cup of coffee, and then opened the lid. Lo and behold, there – dead – lay a steaming hot giant cockroach on the top of the coffee grinds. To this day, I can’t recall if I drank any of that coffee.

And so, for months and months, that vision of the dead bug would pop into my mind from time to time. On this particular morning, I remember it was Christmas Eve, also my wedding anniversary. The first thought as I woke up was, you guessed it, that damn roach in the coffee grinds and I said, Enough Jaime. You’re gonna have another bug in your freakin coffee if you keep thinking about it. The feeling I had was so certain, so definitive, that another bug was going to be found in my coffee grinds, and then a lightbulb went off within me. It was instant. It was such an aha moment in my life. I thought, if it’s so easy to allow these negative thoughts to infiltrate my mind and become a reality, why not actively create positive thoughts and manifest my dream life. Surely it’s the same science?

I got out of bed that morning and downloaded a book about manifesting. Mind you, this was not that long ago. The term manifest was nothing new to me or the rest of the world. Heck, I grew up with a free-spirited mother who would always tell me to visualize what I wanted. We’d be driving to a swim meet and she’d have me close my eyes and visualize winning the race. Imagine what it feels like as you reach the wall and look up at the time clock, she’d prompt. I would use the same ideology on my children and remind them to be careful about the words they use because each cell in their body is listening. But like most things, the reality of all of this never truly sank in until this Christmas eve morning. This time around, there were emotions mixed in and not just random thoughts and words. There was a new knowing within me. A light that turned on that morning and has burned brightly ever since.

Do I have big aspirations and plans for my future? Absolutely. I feel like I’m at the beginning of my true path with so much more creativity inside of me. But when I look back at my life a decade ago, it’s difficult to find many similarities as to my current path. Where the next 10 years will lead me is up to me!

(The book I downloaded that morning was a book by Gabrielle Bernstein. That book led me to books by Abraham-Hicks, which led me to read Jane Roberts and Napoleon Hill. I credit these authors along with a dozen others who have helped me to open my heart and mind in order to manifest my dream life.)