How Manifestation Works
Every day we look out at the people, places, and world around us and see the experiences that are available to us. We receive feedback and information from the outside world through our senses, and then our nervous systems decide how to respond to these signals. It takes more time and energy to have your conscious mind come in and make a decision than for your body to respond automatically. As part of our survival mechanisms, our human bodies don’t trust our minds to make all the decisions. From an evolutionary standpoint, it saves energy to automate the process, so once something is perceived as true, your body will file that decision away as the way you do things permanently.
Deep in your unconscious programming are things that were perceived as true before your conscious mind developed (around the age of 7), as well as truths that were programmed into the DNA that made you. Some of the decisions your body is making could be from four, five, or six generations ago. Conditioning is helpful and necessary for our evolutionary standpoint. The process of passing down wisdom and information so that it is just a part of the future generations shows us how impactful our conscious decisions are. Our world has been evolving at the speed of conscious evolution lately, and not physical evolution.
Manifestation is the process of consciously moving through time and space to experience a desire that is currently only an idea. You are wanting to make an idea into your physical reality. Manifestation REQUIRES your mind and your body to work together. Your mind is responsible for choosing what to focus on, and your body is what will actually be turning the idea into a physical concept.
The biggest issue people have when it comes to money manifestation is that their minds and bodies are not on the same page. It doesn’t matter how many times you tell yourself you want to be a millionaire; if it is programmed into your unconscious mind that being a millionaire is a bad thing, then your body is going to reject the opportunities before you consciously even become aware of them.
Your body gets the opportunity to respond to stimuli before your mind does. When you touch something hot, the signal goes from your fingertips to your spinal cord and back with the jolt of electricity that pulls your hand away before you become aware that it is hot. If it is an emergency, your body is programmed to keep you safe and take action before letting your overthinking brain anywhere near the information. If the signal is not an emergency, it still goes up the spinal cord and is processed by your unconscious mind. Your unconscious bases its decisions off of your beliefs, your past experiences, and your genetic programming.
When we talk about manifestation, we are talking about using our conscious mind to make decisions that will move us through time and space towards specific events and experiences. The manifestation process is similar to a GPS system where you put in your desired destination and your starting location, you get ready for the trip, and then you start driving and following the directions. Your intuition is your inner guidance system for anything non-driving related.
When you first started driving, it probably took a lot of conscious thought to even get the car started. I remember going through the checklist of “seatbelt, foot on the brake, key in the ignition, start, check mirrors, look around me, put the car in gear, then slowly start driving.” Years later I get in the car and start driving while thinking about something else entirely; the process has become automatic. What once took lots of focus and conscious decision to start driving now is done without acknowledgement, interruption, or a second thought.
If this is how automated something can become as an adult, how automatic do you think the beliefs are that you picked up as a child? Or from your parents? Or that is seven generations old?
In my experience, those beliefs are pretty automated!
Your current financial reality is the exact mirror of what your body feels safe having, managing, and experiencing. This, right here and right now, is your financial safety zone. Even if it is not what you consciously want — remember your body gets a shot at making the decision before your mind does because it sees the information first.
If you are trying to manifest money and are consciously doing all the things that you know how to do to make it happen, but it is still not happening, it means your body is rejecting it. This rejection is not your fault. It has nothing to do with your actions, desires, worth, or anything like that. It just means that your body is rejecting the opportunities to make more money right now. And that almost always means that the opportunities go against a value you have, a truth you believe in, or an identity that you are holding onto at a deeper level.
Trauma doesn’t make sense. It is not logical, and no matter how much logic you hold in your mind, the trauma living in your body is going to be difficult to rationalize yourself through. The significance of the trauma you experienced has nothing to do with the significance of the trauma and has everything to do with how alone you felt when you were navigating that trauma. There doesn’t have to be bankruptcy, or homelessness, or someone stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from you in order for there to be money trauma.
Trauma occurs when a memory from the past is stronger than your vision for the future. Trauma wins when you allow the memory to decide how you respond in the present moment. When you are able to look at your memories from an entirely different perspective, you can process them in this present moment instead of having to limit yourself to the emotional capacity you had at the time of the memory. What I have seen in my experience with healing is that it is really easy to get caught in the past and just use the labels as a rationalization.
Every time you get triggered, if you tell yourself the story, “That triggered me because ____ happened when I was little, so it is okay for me to be traumatized by this, and my emotional overreaction makes sense," yes, you are acknowledging the trauma. But acceptance is step one, and in the moment of the trigger, you are not actually processing the emotion; you are looping into a feeling from the past that you are imagining right now.
When you can find the awareness that the trigger is not actually that scary, you can laugh at the response. It is like taking a child to a museum, and they start freaking out at a picture of a monster. You know it is not a real threat, and you can see that the child is reacting to it as if it were real. You see a child imagining something scary happening. To help the child emotionally regulate in that moment, you want to help them see that it is not something to be afraid of. You try to pull them out of the emotional response because they are reacting to something imaginary.
If you did what you do to your trauma responses to a child, you would justify and expect them to cry every time they see a picture of a monster and never grow out of it. When you allow the trauma to dictate how you feel, how you react, and how you identify, you are choosing victimhood. Yes, scary things have happened in the past around money, and we can acknowledge them. But we do not have to relive them on repeat and pretend they are happening to us now over and over again. We can look at the behavior patterns we are currently experiencing and use them as an opportunity to change the pattern.
If you are reading this, you are ready to change your financial reality. Know that you are currently on a journey towards doing that exactly. The challenges, breakthroughs, and transformations that occur along the way get to be a joyful surprise. You are dedicated to creating this change for yourself, and you are willing to do whatever it takes, including bringing laughter and delight to replace the pain of the past.
I believe in you!
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