Creating a world of magic through thinking and feeling

Thoughts are things. Strongly visualizing an event or object we desire tends to make changes happen or show up in our lives.

Sasha lived in Puschino, a small historic town with a population of 20,000. During a fierce dog and cat fight, a dog attacked Sasha, the Russian teenager when she tried desperately to rescue her cat.

The dog's sharp teeth and claws bored deep wounds into her right arm. Sasha's arm was swollen to her shoulder. She had been hospitalized for more than a week now. Her arm worsened. She couldn’t move her swollen fingers. Her hand turned blue, her arm-pit black blue, and dark patches covered her swollen arm.

The doctors in this small town noted for its scientific research discovered that she had blood poisoning. The doctors scheduled Sasha for surgery and possible amputation.
Sasha didn’t want her arms amputated.

In the second week in the hospital, Michael, a teenage friend and college student in Moscow traveled 75 miles home to visit her parents. He heard about what had happened to Sasha. He brought her three roses in the hospital. One of the roses was fiery red, the other had red and pink and the third was dark red. She loved roses; the beauty of these roses struck her in an unusual way. Was it because she secretly admired Michael? Sasha saw the perfection in the roses. Was she transferring her love for Michael to the flowers?

Sasha’s eyes were full of tears as she wanted the the same perfection in the roses to manifest itself in her. Throughout the evening until early dawn, she cuddled with the roses, kissing them, playing with the leaves and petals, loving them for what they were as well as what they symbolized. She felt deep peace and release. She became one with the roses.

When the nurses and the doctor came by in the morning to get her ready for surgery or possible amputation, they couldn't believe their eyes. Alexandra's arms took a turn for the better. The swelling had diminished. The wounds were healing and the color of her skin changed from dark blue to her normal skin. Roses marked a turning point in her healing. Sasha’s arm was not amputated.

Ten years later, Michael became a scientist and married Sasha, who became a teacher. The couple moved to the US, where Michael is a research scientist and Sasha works with children and volunteers with non-profit organizations in the Seattle area where they now live with their two children.

The power of the mind over the body and our circumstances may not be as dramatic for everyone as it was for Sasha. But the story points to the mysterious power of thought when it is energized with deep desire.

If thought is fire, then events and situations and all visible things are the smoke that that fire creates. Just as there's no smoke without a fire, there are no events, or circumstances in our lives without the thoughts that generated them in the first place. Strong consistent feelings are fuels that convert focused intention into physical realities.

When we act as if we know or believe or even suspect that what we think matches what we live, we are able to consciously trigger forces that bring about synchronicities and the miraculous in our lives.

Yet, the effects of thoughts on everything we do in our lives holds true for everyone whether we know it or not. In other words, even if we are unaware of the workings of this mysterious force, the process still works. I wonder if Sasha knew that contemplating the roses could contribute to her healing. It was something she did naturally. And I wonder if Michael brought the roses to heal Sasha.

We're the results of our thoughts and the compelling thoughts of others around us. In this story, Michael's thought was expressed as love for Sasha through the roses. We live in an interconnected thought field. Our thoughts flow through this field drawing what is similar to us and repelling away what is contrary to our usual thought patterns.

All manifesting techniques — prayer, treasure mapping, mental treatments, to name a few examples — have their basis in this uncanny understanding: Thoughts are things. When we have a handle on what happens in our mental workshop, we are able to gain a larger measure of control over what happens in our outer world.