When I first learned about positive thinking and affirmations, I thought I had to think the polar opposite positive thought to any negative thought I had, which at times, just felt very challenging.
At the time of learning about manifesting I was also starting out in my career and being trained in suicide prevention and mental health.
I found myself thinking; what about when you’re really struggling?
It sounds patronising to tell someone to just think more positively when they’re not wanting to be here anymore. 🥺
Then I started listening to Abraham-Hicks.
Esther Hicks, many years ago, began chanelling an entity/stream of consciousness, that we call “Abraham.”
Whether you believe that’s true or not, it doesn’t really matter when you listen to them speak. 🗣️
Esther travels all around the world speaking to audiences – the audience asks questions, and Abraham answers – and what they say made complete sense to me and helped me answer some of my questions around manifesting.
Here’s some of the ideas that resonated with me the most.
SOOTHE YOURSELF
One of the things they say is to soothe yourself when things aren’t working out for you – so, instead of thinking you have to be positive all the time, if you’re feeling like absolute dogs balls, then just focus on one tiny thing you can do to feel a bit better, and then keep doing that until you feel better. ❤️🩹
While you’re still feeling like shite, give yourself a break and just choose more neutral thoughts – soothe yourself in the same way you’d soothe a child who’d fallen over and hurt themselves.
FOCUS ON BEING THE RIGHT VIBRATION
Abraham talks a lot about focusing on getting your vibration right – because it’s all well and good trying to manifest what you want, but if your energy is resonating a shitty vibration because of bad lifestyle choices, or because you’re spending your time with fuckwits, or because you’re in low vibrating emotions like guilt, grief, shame, hopelessness, helplessness etc, then you’re not an energetic match to the thing that you’re asking for – so get back to basics and just focus on a better feeling thought and taking action to help you feel a bit better than you do right now.
TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF YOURSELF
When we put so much pressure on ourselves to manifest what we want by doing “all things manifesting”, we can get to a point where we’re actually in resistance energy because we say “I want XYZ” and then we say “but it’s not here yet” – so we focus on the thing we don’t have and get stuck in resistance mode.
Just keep it simple, ask for what you want and then surrender the “how” to the Universe – you don’t need to know the ins and outs of how that thing will come to you.
THE UNIVERSE KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT
Once you’ve stated your manifesting goals, also exercise the Law of Detachment – just know that if it’s truly meant for you, you’ll get in somehow but in the right timing – by getting frustrated about not receiving it yet you take yourself out of flow state and stay in resistance, which messes with your vibration. 🌀
When you just focus on feeling good and keeping your vibe as high as you can, staying in flow state, you become a manifesting magnet for all those things you say you want (as long as they’re meant for you and as long as you take inspired action along the way). 🧲
You also need to get the fk out of the way and open to receive what you’re asking for – so many people I work with try to manifest stuff but they’re blocking the receiving of it because they subconsciously don’t believe they’re worthy of what they’re trying to manifest! Sound familiar?
Have you ever listened to Abraham-Hicks? Would love to hear your thoughts.
If you’re stuck on any of the above points and want to work through it to become a manifesting magnet, drop me a message and let’s chat about how coaching and/or energy work can help. 💫
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Happy manifesting,
