You’re right, that’s an interesting idea. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts about this sorta thing more.

Every Monday, I take a couple of bags of garbage (Something) and I put them inside my garbage cans and I put them out on the curb. A garbage man comes and takes that “Something” in the cans, and leaves me with “Nothing”. I pay him for this. Therefore, I must value “Nothing”.

You are right, I would not recommend trying to manifest “Not having cancer” because that will simply manifest cancer. I am more pointing out that not having cancer is valuable. We simply need to give this state of “not having something” a positive name, such as “perfect health” and then manifest that.

Maybe another way of making my point is this. Have you ever heard someone say that their parents or grandparents came to North America with NOTHING? Two dollars in their pockets and nothing else. They had to start from “scratch” with “nothing”. If they had “nothing” how did they create something out of nothing? Just because they came with no material possessions, doesn’t mean that they came with nothing.

Even accountants struggle with this one. Sometimes you’ll see someone buy a company with zero tangible assets for a lot of money. Why? Because the company may have brand recognition or a reputation, which are simply “concepts” which exist only in the minds of the public and not in the hands of the corporation selling it’s assets. Accountants call this “Good Will” and sometimes it’s worth millions of dollars on financial statements.

There *is* value to “nothing”.

I find that putting a dollar value on my “non-work” time is an exercise in true futility. Laying on the couch at 1000 dollars an hour just makes me feel more guilty and less able to relax. But consider this: “the need to resharpen the saw is just as valuable as using the saw.”

I try not to think about “nothing”. Or the state of having “nothing”. I would much more prefer to think about abundance. If you think about “not having cancer” you manifest cancer. If you think about not going to Disneyland (good reference by the way) You’ll never go to Disneyland. I’d rather think about solitude, being physically fit, and being in a state of happiness that generates from within.

There’s a big difference between appreciating “What you have” and thinking about “what you don’t have”.

My life is now about Abundance, Freedom, Creation, and the ability to Help others. If a thought enters my mind that doesn’t eventually lead to a Positive emotional state, I tell myself that it’s time for a pivot or to refocus. If it doesn’t get me from point A to point B, I might wind up at point Z where I don’t want to be. And the Universe is equally as good at giving you what you don’t want.

Stay focused on “feeling GOOD”

A slightly different twist on it, from Edward de Bono: you can sell air for the price of chocolate – it’s called an Aero bar.