I got exactly what I asked for. A watch that did not have a display, that just tracked my heartbeat and my steps. This, for me, was a perfect instant manifestation example, unfolding in less than 24 hours from desire to fulfilment.

The Search for Less

I had been focusing on my fitness for a couple of months. I had gained weight, and so after almost a year since I stopped, I started tracking what I was eating again. I also tracked my steps using my phone’s step counter.

But my phone isn’t always in my pocket, and I didn’t want it there all the time. Also, as I did not have a heart rate monitor, the tracking app I was using was unable to track the exact calories I spent walking. That data gap frustrated me.

This led me to look into fitness trackers that did not have a display. I didn’t want yet another display and distraction. I just wanted something that would track my heartbeat and steps. Some models do this, but all of them were beyond my budget right now.

Then I remembered.

The Ghost in the Cupboard

There was an old fitness tracker I had left in my cupboard. Something had gone wrong with it, and I could not get it fixed. So I had left it in the cupboard.

I went, opened my cupboard, took it out and put it in to charge.

Nothing appeared on the display. Still, I decided to keep charging it overnight to see what happens.

The next morning, I took it out of the charger, and I saw the green light at the back, the light that tracks the heart rate, was blinking.

It is alive!

Alive but Invisible

I connected it to my phone. Downloaded the app to sync data to Apple Health. And it synced my heartbeat data.

The display was still not working. But that was when I realised that that was exactly what I wanted. A watch that tracked my steps and heartbeats and wasn’t a distraction. And I didn’t have to spend a rupee to get it!

I laughed again at the moment, the perfection of this instant manifestation example. The uniqueness. The thing I needed and felt I couldn’t afford was right there in my cupboard. I mean, if that is not beauty, I don’t know what is. It felt good.

An Instant Manifestation Example?

I was sort of surprised by all this. The sort of instant manifestation made me wonder about the nature of the desire itself.

You see, just a few days before this incident, I was learning from Rupert Spira about the universe finding it easy to fulfil impersonal desires, desires that arise from something deeper than the ego. While personal desires, desires that are not in alignment with what the universe wants to manifest, will take forever or might never happen.

The speed of this instant manifestation example confused me. Wasn’t my desire for a fitness tracker a personal desire? It was for me, my personal fitness tracking after all. But then this personal thing manifested itself effortlessly and instantly. So then was this an impersonal desire? If this wasn’t an impersonal desire, why did the universe answer so quickly?

Have you ever noticed how the universe seems to move faster when you stop pushing? What desires in your life have appeared effortlessly, and what were you seeking through them?

The difference, I believe, is that I wasn’t attached to the end goal of a smart watch. I wasn’t bothered by my then-seeming inability to own one. Or chastising myself. I was content using my phone’s step tracker. I was at peace. And that probably made it an impersonal desire and led to its effortless manifestation.

PS: Another interesting story around this watch itself was when I first got it. Some years ago, I was talking about buying a fitness tracker with my cousin. And within a couple of days, this same smart watch was in my hands. It had come to me as a gift from a relative who had no idea I was thinking of this. Beauty or what!