Shouldn’t I be taller or the incredible shrinking man

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You can be anything you want…

I remember back in the early 90s, I felt I was too short.

Everyone seemed to be taller than me and I was starkly aware of it.

What was more, I was repeatedly told that women did not find me attractive because they were looking for someone taller. (Gosh, nothing shallow about that, right?)

I bring this up because back in early 90s, me and a friend of mine were discussing Taoism. He had done an intensive course on it and had been told that you could manifest anything you wanted.

So I decided that if anything could be manifested, I was going to manifest being taller.

At the time I was five feet five and a half inches (or 167 centimeters). I put the energy towards making it happen, and then forgot about it. In the back of my mind, I didn’t really believe I could really become taller.

As the years went on, I one day noticed that I no longer felt short. I was the same size as I always was, but it no longer was an issue. I didn’t feel or look short anymore.

I’m not sure if this was a result of setting the intention of being taller that my reality shifted to where my height did not matter, but I found it of interest anyway.

Now the above alone does not make much of an interesting entry, but something happened in April 2017 that I was unable to explain. Continue reading “Shouldn’t I be taller or the incredible shrinking man”