manifest schmanifest
Okay, this might be a pretty controversial opinion in my line of work, but I feel like manifesting gets too much praise.
I have a friend who has just moved to Bali, and she attributes the entire thing to the fact that she manifested it. And look, she did. She wrote it down, made a mood board, journalled on it… But you know what else she did? Worked her arse off to get there and made MANY sacrifices along the way.
And see, here is my issue with manifesting. Sure, your dreams and ideas START there… but there is a lot more that has to happen before the dream becomes a reality. If manifesting was all that needed to happen, we would all be living our dream life, but we aren’t, so what is missing??
ACTION.
That is what comes next, and that is what makes the real change.
Yoga sutra 1.14
Sa tu dirgha-kala-nairantarya-satkara-asevito drdha-bhumih. Sa tu dirgha-kala-nairantarya-satkara-asevito drdha-bhumih.
Continuous, long-term practice done without interruption and with deep respect or devotion becomes a firmly rooted, stable foundation
In this sutra, Patanjali guides us by revealing that the practise needs to be done continuously over a long period of time and with devotion. He never says that if you manifest it, you’ll get it!
By the ‘practise’, he means anything;
You want to lose 10kg? What actions are you taking to get yourself to that goal?
Want to write a book? How often are you sitting down and writing scenes?
Want to meet someone? Have you even downloaded the dating app?!
You can manifest all you want, but the change comes from the doing!
And look, I am throwing shade on manifesting, but I am not saying there is no value in writing down what you want and saying it out loud- there is a lot of energetic power in doing that.
Buuuuuuuuut… that is where you start, it is not where you end.
So, if there is a gap between what you say you want, and what you are receiving, then firstly ask yourself if you really want what you have written down. Then, look at what actions you are doing repetitively that are taking you away from this goal.
You don’t manifest what you want, you manifest what you repeat