In my last post I shared my love and grief for my yellow lab Casey who passed away on August 20th peacefully at the age of 14.  I wrote in the post that I was confident that Casey would let us know at some point that all was well and now she has!  This actually happened Sunday the 24th but with the kids’ final 2 days of summer I put off writing to enjoy my time with them.  Now, however, I am so excited to share this with all of you in the hopes that you will begin to know your immense power of manifestation and the true, abundant nature of the Universe and how it conspires to bring us everything we want.

I follow the writings of Dr. Lissa Rankin.  Lissa Rankin attended Duke, University of South Florida and Northwestern and was a practicing conventional OB/Gyn until 2007.  Due to her dissatisfaction with the conventional medical system and her own health issues she left and began instead practicing in an integrative medical practice.  She found that although these patients seemed to be doing everything ‘right’ they were just as sick as the conventional patients.  She began asking them questions like “what do you think you need to do to heal?” and they would answer “I need to quit my job, leave my bad relationship” etc…  When the patients she saw had the courage to follow their own prescriptions they got better.  This led to her epiphany that our health is a direct reflection of our thoughts, feelings and life circumstances.  This is also what I have come to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt.  She closed her practice in 2010 to pursue writing, spiritual development and to shine a light on the crisis in healthcare this country is facing.  I love the way she writes and so identify with her journey having myself come from a very conventional, success-driven background.  She has been experiencing some radical spiritual awakenings as I have.  It can feel like being on a deserted island.  The truths that are opening to me and the experiences I am having differ so much from what I ever anticipated my life would be like.  It can be quite hard to share these experiences because you don’t really want to be labelled as crazy.  There are many people who have lived their whole lives in touch with their sixth sense and beyond but western culture, in particular, marginalizes them.  Finding Lissa Rankin felt to me like finding a soul mate.  I feel as though in some way we are waking up together and I am greatly benefiting from her journey.  I know with certainty that I will meet her at some point.  I have actually been told this by a spiritual mentor of my own too.

Lissa wrote in early July about her African safari with her spiritual teachers.  She wrote a blog about “How to Call in a Cheetah” in which she describes the process she went through to manifest seeing a wild Cheetah on the Londolozi Game Reserve.  At the time, there were only 2 male cheetahs on the entire 6 million acre reserve and they are notoriously stealth.  As soon as I read it in early July I started committing the process to memory.  Summer isn’t exactly ‘slow’ around here, however, and I didn’t find much time to practice.  When Casey passed away on August 20 th, I came back to the house and set my intention to “Call in the Casey”.  I knew I could do it but had no expectation for how it would look.

On Sunday August 24th Mike, Aidan, Kyra and I were eating dinner together and talking about our next dog.  We had found a cute little guy on a dog adoption site and started to wonder if he would be the one.  He is not as he found a new home already but the exercise got the kids very excited and happy.  I told the kids how we came to select Casey.  We had intentionally picked the bully of the litter as Riley, our other lab, was a very sweet but shy girl.  We thought getting a super outgoing lab would deflect attention away from Riley, keeping her feeling safe and secure.  Casey rocked at this role!  She loved the attention and, in looking back Sunday night, Mike and I realized that Casey probably played a critical role in keeping Riley’s shyness from ever turning into biting someone.  Both of us got quiet as we sat with our gratitude for this amazing gift Casey had bestowed to Riley and to us.  I think it was the first time that I truly felt this deep gratitude and understood what Casey’s soul purpose in this life had been.  Just then, Kyra started playing the Pet Vet Dogs game on the Ipad with us.  Kyra excitedly told us that the dog that came up was a yellow lab wagging its tail.  I immediately felt like this could be a sign and was grateful just for that.  About a minute later Kyra said excitedly “Mom, the dog’s name is Casey!”  Wow.  I have since looked at the game and although there are only a few dog types that come up there are many, many dog names.  Throughout the course of the night we kept testing the game to see if another yellow lab named Casey would come up.  It never did.  What are the chances that the very first dog we played with that night would be a yellow lab named Casey as we were talking about our yellow lab Casey?  In our state of happiness of living in that moment and our state of gratitude and love that we were feeling for Casey we opened the energetic portal for her to come through. This was getting fun.  We all expressed our gratitude at our wagging yellow lab Casey on the screen in front of us.  We continued to feel the love and excitement from just this simple show.  Aidan was the only skeptic but his skepticism was about to fall…

I next began telling the kids and Mike about how I had been practicing Lissa Rankin’s “Calling in a Cheetah” and renamed it ‘Calling in the Casey’.  Kyra, in her enthusiasm, decided to Google images of yellow labs.  About 10 minutes later she excitedly said “Mom, I was only googling yellow labs but one of the images that came up was a yellow lab with a cheetah.”  Whoa.  This was getting really fun!  I asked her again “are you sure you didn’t google dogs and cheetahs or just cheetahs?  But she said “no, just yellow labs.”  She brought it over to show me and sure enough, it was a yellow lab and a cheetah who are best buddies.  As Kyra and I looked further, we discovered they were part of a documentary on unlikely animal pairs.  Together we snuggled up to watch their unlikely story of friendship.  At some point around this time I said to the family “I wonder if we’ll hear from Riley too.”  About 3 minutes later I had my answer.  The next segment in the unlikely animal pairs video was a male lion and a female coyote.  The coyote’s name…Riley.

Some of you may still be skeptics after this.  I am not.  We are all energy at our core.  Energy can switch form but it never dies.  Communication from beyond this energy dimension happens all the time.  We just need to allow it in.  I have experienced these amazing synchronicities time and again over that last 4 years and they continue to bring me an immense peace that we are never alone, that we have immense power to create that which we want and that the Universe is benevolent and always conspiring to bring us our desires.  The steps of the process as we performed them are below but please do read Lissa Rankin’s process in her own words as well and get ready for the magic to appear.

Happy manifesting!

 

Step 1: Set the Intention – get clear about what you want.  In my case, my intention was to hear from Casey for the reassurance that she was indeed still with us and all was well.

Step 2: Surrender – not easy right?  It’s likely why I haven’t manifested the complete healing from the brain tumor yet.  We throw out the pitch to the Universe and now we need to allow the Universe to do its magic.  Lissa mentions 2 approaches here.  You can either relish the desire and feel the feelings of desire and want fully…really fully or let it go from your thoughts and sights.  In the case of Casey, I let it go after 3 days of working way too hard at manifesting it.

Step 3:  Get Wordless – As we all relished in the memory of Casey’s puppy antics and Mike and I wordlessly felt deep gratitude for the way she shielded Riley we were activating the right sides of our brain in a deeper state of consciousness.

Step 4: Tap Into Oneness – This is the knowing that we are all energetically connected to each other and all life.  Mike and I achieved this state at the same moment we achieved wordlessness as we both lovingly, silently and with gratitude reminisced about Casey’s awesomeness.

Step 5: Imagine Your Intention into Being – In truth, I don’t totally understand how we did this step.  I think it was the loving ways we were thinking about her with no expectation at that moment of connecting with her that brought her to us, especially the way she revealed herself to us wagging her tail in joy.  She was literally ‘feeling the love’.

Step 6: Be on the Alert for Guidance – Watch and listen for the signs.  They are everywhere.  For me, however, there is a fine line between obsessing over seeing the signs, which I did for the first 3 days, and observing them or ‘allowing’ them when divine timing is right.

Step 7: Take Inspired Action – The word ‘inspire” originates from ‘in spirit’.  In our case, Kyra’s excitement over what was transpiring and her realization that all the crazy stuff Mom is always talking about was actually real truly lit her up!  From that moment on all she wanted to do was look up yellow lab pictures on the internet and stay very close to me snuggling.  I went with this (my inspired action and my pleasure) as it was such a treasure to see her so content, connected to all of life and in a deep state of gratitude herself.  Snuggling with her on the couch looking at yellow lab pics – what could be better?

Step 8: Practice patience – It’s the passive activities that really get me.  Once I let go of the need to hear from Casey, I opened up the energetic pathway to allow her to connect.  Divine timing is orderly.  It is not for us to dictate the timing, it is our role to allow events to unfold in the perfect divine order – something I know well but struggle with a bit!!!

Step 9: Practice Gratitude – Do not ever skip this step!  A single thank you will suffice.  I often say “thank you Universe” but use whatever language works for you.  We did this right away and continued to throughout the evening as our spirit doggies continued to give us messages of their presence.

I know that I am not the only one to have experienced something like this.  Please share your experiences in the comments and let’s build a community to support each other in our growth and discovery!

P.S. this is the last picture Kyra ever took with Casey the morning she passed away.  Check out Kyra’s pjs!