Have any of you read The Secret? Its funny, I read it and as I read it I felt I already new everything that was in the book. Now we can know it all but putting it into practice is so much harder!
I had a very spiritual experience around the words "Positive Things Happen to Positive People"! Now those who know me know I have LOTS of ghost stories to tell - I have had lots of 'experiences' with the other side - but this story isn't really about ghosts - or may be it is but I think of it more of my Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides agreeing with me and letting me know that they agreed!
So to the story....
3 years ago - the anniversary is only a couple of weeks away - I was producing a short film called Saved which was a Creative Scotland and BBC Scotland funded short film. We only had a budget of £11k so a tiny amount of money to achieve our script. Prep went well and we had 2 12 year old kids chosen as our stars who are great wee actors. On day one we had 22 young children as background extras in the school bus - and as many of you will remember the 1st November 3 years ago was when we headed into one of the worst winters to hit Scotland for 15 years and of course it started snowing. Day one was not too bad and we got through it as the snow was not too heavy but by day 2 Cumbernauld our shooting location was getting deeper under snow and everyone was looking to me as the producer to make the decision to call it a day or to keep going - as all my wonderful crew realised that day is that I do not give up on anything easily and I dragged them willing or not through the whole of the shoot! I am sorry its just a bit of snow!!! We dug ourselves into our locations and we dug ourselves out of locations. We lost locations because we couldn't even get 4 wheel drives into them so I went off and found new locations - some of them I never was able to get permission from because they were not home, SORRY, but I did try! There were crew who couldn't get through the weather and I filled in for them but there were so many crew who did make it and picked up a shovel and started either digging us in or digging us out. We had trouble from the locals and while the security guard hid behind the camera truck, I talked the youths out of throwing ice bombs at my crew as they packed up the camera kit. This wee short film was a true test of my resilience, grit and determination.
It was on Day 4 of a 5 day shoot with some of the worst weather - the M8 was closed because of ice on the motorway - that my location manager called me in hysterics saying we couldn't get into cumbernauld because of a jack-knifed lorry. I ask if there were other roads open into Cumbernauld and in the locations managers panic she started telling me that we weren't going to get in and we should all be allowed to go home - it was at this point I tried to calm her down and tell her that everything would be fine and there is more than one road into Cumbernauld and I did understand it was difficult on the roads because of the weather BUT it wasn't impossible. I said to her "Come on positive things happen to positive people"! She didn't believe me and after we said goodbye on the phone I repeated my Mantra "POSITIVE THINGS HAPPEN TO POSITIVE PEOPLE". At that point my radio starting turning up and was turned to full pelt - Kylie Minogue, I should be so lucky! - I didn't have a car with one of those fancy steering wheel radio controls and as I looked at the radio surprised that it had suddenly started blasting out as it was on quiet as I was on my handsfree, I moved my hand towards the radio control but something stopped my hand from turning down the music - it was weird - it was like a forcefield between my hand and the radio making me acknowledge my statement and 'I Should Be So Lucky'.
Something stopped me from switching Kylie down and by doing that it made me acknowledge what I had just said - Positive Things Happen To Positive People.
Its true - I dragged my crew, some willing, some not so, through our wee short film and it has done very well on the festival circuit winning some awards - for those interested here is a clip http://vimeo.com/channels/420075/22835788
That moment of being physically stopped by some amazing spiritual/angel guide from turning my radio down has stayed with me and 3 years later I have a great belief that being positive is the only way to make things happen in your life.
I have realised more and more in the last few years that I am surrounded by people who just don't have it in them to thing positively and I have noticed that lots of not so good things happen to them - they seem to manifest bad things with their gloom on life. I want to shake these people and make them realise that actually by turning your thoughts by just 1 degree to being positive you can make a tiny bit of difference to your own life and those of others.
I have lived part of my life being one of those negative people - when you can only see that shit is coming and why would anything good happen but I have turned this around and feel so blessed to have what I have and I say THANKYOU a lot to the Universe - it has never failed to deliver if it is something that is right for me.
If you REALLY want something then go and get it - don't be scared or don't think you are good enough just go and get it. Manifest it, imagine yourself doing it and that is what will happen. If you really want it then as the Universe to help - the Universe LOVES it when you ask for help - especially when it is for something that you really really want.
NEVER doubt and always believe in what you want, its the ONLY way forward!
Good luck!
suzxxx
