“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
— Jesus, Matthew 6:26 and 6:28-29
People often ask me about manifesting.
They want to raise their vibration and increase the power of their meditations and visualizations so they can get precisely what they want, faster.
It’s a powerful thing.
But make sure you get super clear on what you want.
You can indeed, for example, attract THAT person into your life – but are they really what you want?
When I manifested a particular person, it quickly became clear that I didn’t want her, I wanted what I hoped she would give me: Passion, connection, understanding, love, empathy.
Do you see?
So – What do you truly want?
Get so very clear before you start cosmic ordering.
The other, less recognized, aspect of manifestation comes directly from this. It’s ultimately why I stopped consciously trying to manifest.
I realized that I could be very controlling in manifesting, and in those times – ironically trying so hard to get the thing I thought would make me happy – I was least happiest.
When I let go (which is light years away from giving up) I was the most fulfilled, the most aligned, the most at peace.
Given my controlling tendencies, did I honestly know the best way to create what I truly wanted?
No, it became obvious that I did not.
I felt like I was being shown I needed to make a choice: The controlling and craving of my ego? Or the true desires of my life?
The clearer I became on what I truly wanted from life – peace, fulfillment, connection, adventure, freedom – the more I realized that trust was a huge part of that.
Did I want to go on the ultimate adventure, and like Jesus said about the lilies and the birds not toiling, truly trust that by surrendering to the higher power, every single need and want would be taken care of, without me controlling and struggling and pushing?
Yes, yes I did.
In that trust, in that surrender, so much has opened up that my poor little ego could not even comprehend.
I also saw that in this letting go (again – not inaction) there will always be more, but what is already here, Now, is wonderful and perfect in and of itself.
And that perhaps what I needed to most manifest was a change in my own attention and appreciation, and actually see how I created peace and fulfillment or pain and emptiness in each and every moment – for myself.
Ultimately I recognized it’s not about the outside, it’s all about me.
Go well,
Arjuna