The Myth of Manifestation

Blaise Haylock

The Myth of Manifestation

Manifestation is understood as positive thinking that creates a space for positive outcomes by inviting them into your life through repetition and directed focus. However, I believe you can only manifest proportionate to what already exists as a truth in your deepest knowing of the now. Let me expand on this.

A friend of mine had decided she wanted to peruse her acting career. She had been manifesting jobs coming her way for a whole year, focusing on welcoming this into her life and creating space for this through manifestation. However, her manifestations were not being fulfilled despite dedication and practice. She was encouraged to look at herself and her confidence and it was revealed that she held an unconscious belief that she was not worthy and not good enough. Yes, manifesting helped to design a life where she was “thinking” more positive and hopeful but was not able to remove the block that her lack of confidence and belief in herself was creating for her.  Her “feeling” remained the same, making the act of manifestation limited in terms of its return because she was unable to manifest beyond her core belief that she was not good enough.  

 Manifestation cannot eradicate trauma or be used as a substitute to resolve pain or conflict. It is an act of the advantaged not the wounded. The challenge is to heal the beliefs that limit us so we can practice manifestation from a place of conviction. It’s from this place we can fully benefit from the full success of this practice as you cannot convince the universe you are manifesting something you don’t truly believe that you deserve.   

THINKING positive is a robotic act from logic and reason – the mind seeking to influence the body’s emotions through force and repetition.

FEELING
positive is grounded, effortless, and honest – it cannot be summoned by will and it cannot be felt unless one has aided their own body in releasing the uncomfortable emotions that are blocking it.  

When you’re successfully manifesting, I don’t believe you are manifesting, I believe you are claiming what you know to be already yours.    

We will all experience a certainty in aspects of life and the presence of doubt in others. I don’t believe manifestation can heal doubt. Healing-blocks heals doubt, and then the fruition of a manifestation is the outcome of the removal of doubt or there never having been the presence of one anyway. Doubt is always there for a reason and will often be a response to a situation where fear was created. We may find that someone who has always struggled with money issues is more likely to have financial fears around the future and find it more difficult to manifest a financially lucrative future while others move effortlessly through life claiming money and prosperity in a way that appears easy. Is that because they are manifesting more successfully or is that because there are no blocks denying them of what they are attempting to claim to be there’s. Equally, someone who has repeatedly suffered with challenges with their health and faced illnesses, may live vigilantly attempting to protect and preserve their health with a constant fear of becoming ill. While others, push their bodies, exploit their health and swan through life trusting they will not experience any health limitations. Tell me, are these people better manifesting good health or simply just not challenged with the doubt that created the blocks to developing a resilient body and the accompanying beliefs that insulate this fear.   

By this view, we can see positive outcomes in part, owing to positive thinking and successful manifestation but also because of natural advantages that make bright futures easier to claim. I feel it is useful to see manifestation through this lease to invite an awareness for ourselves and for each other that we’re not all attempting the act of manifestation from the same starting point and that there are layers of complexity that will determine its success. Furthermore, as we play with manifestation it can reveal to us our unconscious fears and doubts as we notice what feels more effortless to claim and by acknowledging when we’re faced with challenges. It’s important to uncover the accompanying belief by noticing when something is either consistent with your positive thinking or resisting it, as reality will be determined by the core belief and not the scripted thought.