by Margaret Hirsch
My mother came from a reasonably middle to upper class family where she had been brought up with everything she needed. She had married the boy next door, and they had moved to the old Rhodesia where they went to seek their fortune. They had two children, myself - and my brother five years later - and everything was perfect. My mother was living her dream, playing tennis at the country club and socialising over weekends and being the proverbial housewife. My father’s sudden death was devastating to her! She was quickly swindled out of the pension money she had been left and found herself having to cope with two children, no job and no money and she was only in her mid 30’s.
It was a Saturday afternoon - I had been invited to a “session’ which was a dance at the local school - I had made myself a dress using my grandmothers old sewing machine and a piece of light blue fabric which was so thin that I really needed a petticoat as it was almost see-through. I was sitting on the front step of the house we lived in - well actually we rented a room at the back but there I was sitting and contemplating the petticoat I needed so badly. We had no money and anyway the shops were closed already so I sat and thought and thought about the petticoat which was essential to my being able to wear the dress to the party. I could see it very clearly in my mind, right down to the last piece of lace on it.
I just focused and focused on the petticoat I needed so much. About half an hour later I was still sitting there when a car drove past and a lady looked at me and said - you look like a deserving family - and with that she threw a bag of old clothes at me and drove off. I scrambled down the stairs, ripped the bag open and there in the middle of all her old clothes was exactly the petticoat I had imagined in my mind - it was exact down the last piece of lace. It needed a bit of alteration which I managed on the old machine and that night I wore the dress to my first ever party and even managed to get a kiss from my first ever boyfriend.
That taught me the power of manifestation - if you really want something very badly you can just focus on it in your mind. Have the vision as clear as you possibly can, see it down to the very last detail and just think about that thing and nothing else. Have a laser like focus on it and think about it every waking minute and before you know it, it will manifest itself into your life. Not everything is instant - God’s delays are not God’s denials - sometime the time is not right for you but never let it leave your mind and one day when the time is right, it will appear.
Vision boarding is a great help with this type of manifesting. I love beautiful beaches and I was sitting at the beginning of one year planning my vision board and cutting pictures out of magazines to stick onto the board - the saying is “if you can see it in your mind, you can hold it in your hand”
I cut out a picture of a beautiful beach - I didn’t know where it was but I cut it out and pasted it onto my vision board. Later that year my husband was asked to accompany the South African cricket team to Barbados - now I don’t like watching cricket but I do love to travel and I had never been to Barbados - so I went for the ride. It is a beautiful country and while he was watching cricket - I went to the beach. I spent the day there and it was amazing so I asked a passer by to take a photo of me - this was in the days before selfies! He took the photo and in those days you took the whole reel of photos home and had them developed at the local pharmacy. Later that year I was pasting my photos into a photo album and as I looked at the photo of myself on the beach - I looked up at my vision board - the photo was on that exact same beach as was pasted on my vision board! That is the power of manifesting.
Over the. Years I have manifested many fabulous things into my life, not only physical things like a 5 carat diamond ring, a Porsche and a beautiful holiday home but also I have manifested people into my life with whom I have fantastic relationships, I have travelled the world and been to the most amazing places and I have met the most incredible people.
They say that most people don’t get what they want because they don’t know what they want. With manifesting you have to absolutely decide exactly what you want, clarity is essential as the clearer you can see the article, relationship or place, the easier it is to manifest it into your life.
I have helped so many people manifest what they want into their lives - I sat with a co worker one day - she was devastated - she had been let down in love for the second time and she was bewailing her fate that she was already in her late 30’s and now she had to start dating all over again and she was worried that she would be too old to find someone, get married and have a family before her biological clock stopped ticking. We sat together and I asked her what she wanted her future husband to look like, what sort of personality he should have, what job she wanted him to have, what their wedding would be like, how many children she wanted. We sat and planned it all out - she said she wanted him to be a doctor - no a specialist - what type of specialist I asked - ENT she said. We planned the wedding right down to the bridesmaids dresses and the fact that her husband to be would wear a kilt. We put everything onto a vision board and she looked at it day in and day out and added to it where she thought things were missing. Less than a year later she met the man of her dreams and he was a doctor studying to be an ENT specialist, I went to her wedding and he did wear a kilt - they married in a small church in the Berg which looked exactly like the one on her vision board and she is now happily married with two little boys.
I have taught my children to do this - at the beginning of last year my son put a picture of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore on his vision board. Covid was just over and he was really busy at work and with a young family the chance of him flying to Singapore was slim. However during that very same year he was asked by an international company to speak at their conference in Singapore. They would do all the bookings and would you believe they put him up at the Raffles Hotel - all expenses paid!
The famous Robin Banks says that he manifested his partner into his life - he knew exactly what type of person he wanted to spend his life with. He thought about her all the time, wrote down every aspect of her looks, personality and it took five long years until she arrived and now they are so happy together.
If there is something or someone that you want in your life - I challenge you to learn how to manifest - start practising with small things like seeing a parking space exactly where you want it to be as you drive into the supermarket - I have this absolutely right! I used to park miles away and walk but now as I am driving down the hill I visualise a parking exactly where I want it to be - right near the front door - and almost always its there waiting for me - sometimes I drive round and keep manifesting til someone pulls out and I can drive into that perfect spot.
Once you understand manifesting it becomes easier and easier - in fact I am often still shocked how quickly the things I manifest happen so I encourage you to start working on manifesting what you want in your life and before long you too will be living the life of your dreams as I am today.
Much Love,
Margaret Hirsch