The Truth Chocolate Mints Tell About Magic

TL;DR: The author recounts a series of outstanding experiences, including stunning actions in nonphysical, which revealed the power of a simple four-step Positively Focused practice. Dream symbols confirmed the shift — proving again that presence is powerful, and alignment speaks through both waking life and the dreamworld to reveal to us our magical abilities.

This story begins with a whisper — one I’ve heard before. It was a quiet suggestion that perhaps my client flow might slow, that income could dip, that momentum might stall.

These were old thoughts, familiar ones. Their tone wasn’t quite panic. The suggestion didn’t conjure fear or dread. Instead, I calmly felt the suggestion like an old friend knocking gently, seeking access to my psyche. That tone represented a vibration I’ve felt before. One I’ve let in, in the past.

But this time, I didn’t answer the door with urgency or dread. Instead, I recognized the pattern and named it: old belief momentum. It wasn’t the truth and it wasn’t a problem. What it was: just old energy surfacing, asking to be seen and soothed.

And so I did what I teach my Positively Focused clients: I got still. I didn’t try to overwrite the feeling. Instead I let it be. Then I let it soothe.

Soothing is a powerful process. It is how we move from old, repeating, and dissatisfying outcomes into fresh, outcomes aligned with everything we’re wanting. The Universe constantly leads us to those fresh outcomes. But our comfortable, disempowering focus prevents us from hearing the guidance. Soothing those old beliefs we keep energizing through our focus is a hallmark of the Positively Focused practice.

One of those practice tools I whipped out when I felt this old friend, this comfortable, but undesirable suggestion rise in me. I knew it came to be soothed. And so that’s what I did. Here’s how I turned old momentum into presence, ease and reintegration.

The Soothing Practice: Four Steps to Integration

What I did next changed everything — not just in that moment, but across dimensions. The tool I used requires grounding in the Positively Focused Practice elementary level skills. Once those are mastered, the following four-step process not only makes intuitive sense, it also profoundly shifts our created reality:

In the first step we recognize the energy as old momentum — not a reflection of who we are now, but of what we once believed. Next, we accept that it’s there, in us, fully. We do so without pushing or resisting. We let is rest there in our awareness and accept that it is there rather than resist it. This is a crucial step. Next, we return to presence.

This is an advanced practice requiring personal instruction and something I show clients how to do. There, in presences we acknowledge (and experience) everything we want as already existing — here, now. Finally, once we’ve prepared our inner space with these three steps, we’re ready for the final, most profound step: Invite the energy home. This is a process of spiritual integration. We’re not trying to fix or flee what’s there. Instead we’re bringing back in what we once projected (rejected) out of us, as something we couldn’t accept.

The moment I did this process, my body relaxed. My breath expanded. That old belief — that abundance had to come through clients or anything else “out there” — lost its grip. I could feel the deeper reality: that I, myself, am the supply; that the Universe partners with me through resonance, not transaction. The process created within me a knowing; a knowing that I am the creator and the world around me bends to my focus.

As simple as this process sounds, it’s extremely effective. It’s also easy to do. One client used this practice in the middle of the night after waking in a panic about a health situation with her mom. In an instant she felt relief, relief that told her she aligned with a more empowering probable future reality. One in which she knew all is well and unfolding perfectly.

In my own case, confirmation came in the dream state. Just as it has so many times before.

Dreams as Reflections: Multidimensional Affirmation

In the first dream I saw a strangely structured crumbling house. Its laundry room was too large. Its walls were scratched with blackberry vines. It’s architecture, old and decrepit matched the architecture of old beliefs. I wandered through it aimlessly.

I came to a box. It was labeled “Chocolate Mints” — but appeared empty. In the dream I didn’t feel lack. Instead, I stayed present, and in that presence, I heard the sound of a soft rattle. When I opened the box again, it overflowed with delicious, chocolate mints — exactly what the label had promised.

Why hadn’t I seen the chocolates, the delicate sweets the first time? Because I had to align with the vibration, the probable reality, in which they were, not the one where they were not. The process in this dream was one of initiation: of asking me to make the vibrational shift. That I manifested in the dream the mints was the success indicator of making that shift.

In another dream, I glided through a winding trail in a silver Porsche. Then later, I maneuvered a wheelchair, once abandoned, now active. It carried me with surprising grace. At one point, large boulder-beings nearby took a bite of food and transformed — from rock to radiant human form just like that.

These images sound stochastic, and meaningless…but they weren’t. These images mirrored yet again the shift I’d made: taking “old” vehicles — discarded ways of being — and infusing them with new conscious movement. In the dream I was alchemizing nonphysical reality: turning what was once inert, to travel into expansion.

Aligning with the vibrational frequency in which the chocolates existed was part of my expansion in the dream.

There was an aquarium too. I released a small garfish into a vivid reef, narrating the scene like a nature host. But then, a new sound emerged: slow, deliberate breathing. It represented something foreign and shadowy but not scary. My nervous system registered it as threat. But instead of fleeing in fear, I moved away in peace. Just like I had hours earlier in physical reality when scarcity tried to whisper its story again.

And then came the final scene: a ridgeline real estate deal, followed by a quiet space of soaking tubs, elderly women, and light eroticism. That meetup wasn’t sexual — not exactly. Instead it was luscious, spacious and relaxed. It was pleasure with no pressure, no expectation. Like wealth with no proving or seeking validation. It was delicious.

The Moment of Knowing: Real-Time Realization

This final dream represented the culmination of my night’s adventure. An adventure of flowing through the vibrational landscape I moved through when I did the four-step focus process described above. Dreams confirmed what presence already accomplished.

When I woke, the dreams remained like misted glass — luminous, still humming. And I knew immediately: these weren’t just dreams. They were the continuation of the alignment I had chosen just hours before. The Universe didn’t wait to show me physical results. It responded instantly. Not through money or new clients (though those, too, are coming), but through metaphor. Deeply personal, symbolic architectures told me in no uncertain terms: You’ve shifted.

I saw the old beliefs — the broken house. Then I felt the familiar doubt — the empty box. Yet I stayed with myself long enough to allow the mints’ appearance. Next I rode the new vehicle, used the old one, then watched as others awakened simply because I did. And this phrase came through like a bell: “The idea that your abundance is externally tied to others’ choices is dissolving.

What this experience showed me — once again — is that there is no division between dreaming and waking. Both are vibrational classrooms. In each we create canvases for clarity. In each we respond immediately and precisely, to the frequency we hold.

Coming Home In Correspondence

The Positively Focused practice is not about pretending contrast doesn’t exist. It’s about seeing contrast for what it is: a mirror. It’s a messenger. A beautifully wrapped invitation to return to the Self. When we respond with presence — when we integrate old momentum with grace as I did, as my clients are doing — reflections (physical reality) change. Not later. Now.

That night, I didn’t manifest mints in a box because I did some advanced dreaming technique. I found them because I focused where the mints were not where they were absent. Since writing this, two new clients have manifested and, in January, I had more people expressing interest in the practice than ever before.

Coincidence? I think not.

This is what I believe mastery is: not control, but correspondence. Not chasing signs, but allowing the conversation. This is the magic that chocolate mints told me. But it’s not magic. It’s how the Universe brings us all that we want, effortlessly. Including stable client rosters.

It is always available — not just in dreams, but in every quiet moment we choose to come home. Are you ready to come home?

How Small, Happy Manifestations Lead to Big, Better Ones

TLDR: The post discusses “castles and buttons,” terms for big and small manifestations, suggesting that acknowledging small ones (buttons) prepares us for larger ones (castles). The author shares a personal experience with medication as a “button” manifestation, reinforcing their ability to create desired reality and anticipate more significant successes.

Sometimes my creations are delightful. Sometimes they’re surprising. And sometimes they come in ways that just confirm that I’m a creator.

Most of my creations are “buttons”. “Castles and buttons” is a categorization of manifestation Abraham coined long ago. “Castles” are “big manifestations”; things people really desire. “Buttons” on the other hand, are smaller manifestations, things that happen, usually without people noticing them.

The manifestation I’m writing about in this post is a button. But that doesn’t make it any less special. Indeed, it’s quite noteworthy. That’s because noticing it having happened primes my sensitivity to real-izing other, significant manifestations. In other words, when I regularly recognize buttons happening, I’m preparing my reality to allow in my castles.

Let’s take a look at what happened. But first, let’s talk just a bit more about castles and buttons.

Mastering creation

Abraham’s statement rings true: “It’s as easy to create a castle as it is a button.” The trouble for most people is, “castles” come ladened with a lot of resistance. In other words, people want them so bad, their focus on wanting them, focuses them on “not having” them. So castles SEEM to take a long time to manifest. They also seem harder to manifest.

They seem to be harder because people must weed through their resistant focus and thoughts. We can’t create around existing beliefs. Both Seth and Abraham affirm this. And if people don’t know what they’re doing as a creator, existing beliefs often represent what most delays castles from manifesting.

Buttons, on the other hand, aren’t so ladened. They happen easier because we tend not to think about them much. Just like real life buttons – on our shirts and blouses and other things – buttons are more numerous too. There are more buttons on the planet than castles, in other words. That makes sense, right?

That buttons are so numerous makes them powerful manifestational tools. Armed with the knowledge expressed in what you’re reading, a person can use buttons to make manifesting castles feel easier.

We can practice on them. We can become better creators using them. And, since there are so many, we have a lot of opportunity to practice. In that practice, while we learn our skills, that practice also has the effect of soothing resistance. Resistance holding our castles at bay. It also firms up our belief in this whole “you create your reality” business.

So there are a lot of good reason to appreciate “little things” we manifest. They may be little, but they offer impressive opportunities to master creation.

Abraham has said this over and over…

An opportunity shows in medicine

The button I’m writing about today involves care I get from the Veteran’s Administration (VA). I take a pill each day. It contains a drug that turns off some of the acid pumps in my stomach. Apparently my stomach produces too much. So I get acid moving into my esophagus, which scars that part of my body. That makes it hard to swallow sometimes.

Since taking this medicine, however, I don’t experience that trouble. Now it’s not escaping me that perhaps I could use my practice to alter that physical condition. I am doing so. But I recognize physical symptoms like these, once they become physical, have a lot of momentum behind them. So soothing them into non-existence takes some effort.

Yes, we could call “curing” medical conditions “castles”. I won’t go into this deeply, but there is a LOT of momentum behind manifested medical conditions. The entire medical world is in on their creation. So is science. So is our education. As is our collective agreement that such things exist and are scary. Being able to sooth a medical condition back into non-existence, therefore, is quite a feat. Not impossible, but it does take focus.

I’m practicing doing that. In the meantime, I’m using this mediation for relief.

Late last year my prescription was getting low. I got a refill in the mail, but the pills looked different than the ones I originally had. They were larger as this photo shows:

The smaller, old pill on the right. The new one, on the left.

Button manifestation!

I wrote my doctor to ensure it was the same dose. He assured me it was. He said the new pill was within tolerances stipulated by government bid.

So I gave it no other thought. I mixed my old, smaller pills with the new ones. But the moment I took one of the newer, larger pills, I realized something else was up. They had an acrid taste. The capsule material wasn’t the same as the previous pills. At first I thought about writing my doctor again and complaining. Then I had another idea: this was a “button” opportunity. One where I could practice manifesting something other than these bad-tasting pills.

By the end of the year I noted that my prescription had expired. In the ensuing two months or so, I took the new pills. I did my best to ignore their acrid taste. Instead, I focused on how much I appreciated the smaller, normal tasting pills more. Since I take the medicine every day, I had a daily opportunity to practice. So that’s what I did.

In January, I was getting low on pills. So I wrote my doctor and asked if he would write me a new prescription, which he did. I didn’t give any thought at all about whether the new pills would be the larger, new ones, or the smaller old ones.

Two weeks or so later, the new pills arrived. And…you guessed it: the bottle contained the smaller pills!

A nice little addendum

What’s interesting about all this is when I got the new pills and noticed they were the ones I wanted, I immediately poured the old ones into the garbage. But then I realized this was a manifestation I could write a story about, so I went back to dig the pills out of the garbage.

Well, my Broader Perspective must have known I’d decide to write a blog, because the garbage was arranged in the pail in such a way that when I poured the pills into the pail they all fell into this plastic lid I threw in there days ago! So I didn’t need to fish them out one-by-one! I could get them all out just by pulling out that lid. How cool is that?

The pills right where I poured them.

The Universe is always on it. It is always delivering experiences that delight us. Experiences large and small. And experiences on top of experiences. Just like this. I’m positive the same thing happens to you all day, every day. It’s always happening for everyone. The question is: do we notice?

I’m glad I do. Because through noticing them, I amplify my ability to see them more often, which turns my life into the Charmed Life I write about here.

Getting better at getting better

This was a wonderful example of creating my reality. A reality representing a new dimension where I’m aligned with pills I wanted rather than those I didn’t want. And it was so easy!

We are literally surrounded by alternate dimensions. An infinite number of dimensions are constantly created by us from within the Moment of Becoming. Which one becomes our actual reality depends solely on our vibration. And our vibration is what we are. So we can adjust our vibration (who we’re being) and in that moment, align with a new dimension.

That’s how we create reality. It’s not like these dimensions don’t already exist. They do. We just align ourselves with ones reflecting back to us the state we emanate.

I like knowing that. I also like knowing the “castles and buttons” concept. I’ve gotten really good at manifesting buttons. I write about these all the time in this blog. I write about my castles too. Which is why my life is increasingly improving, including my financial abundance and work-life balance. I’m also feeling better and better as days go by. What a wonderful life!

As a result, I look forward to my other castles coming into my experience as well. They really are foregone conclusions. The fact that I see all this manifestation happening in my life tells me that. So I rest in a steady knowing they are happening, instead of a hoping, wishing or even believing they are happening.

I love knowing they are happening. It’s a state I’m helping my clients realize in their lives as well. You can get there too. You don’t need my help. But if you’d like it, I’m around.