The Secret Formula to Manifesting!

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Hello, everybody! Expensive with Anna Gatmon. Another Expanding on Expensive weekly tips and teachings. And this week today, I’m going to focus on manifesting.

We’re still at the beginning of the year, and while every day is just another day, there’s this feeling of renewal that always happens with a new year. And so it’s a time to, yes, create intentions, but also to know what it takes to realize them and to manifest them. And so I posted this week, I described manifesting. And then I asked you a question and I said, “Manifesting: Creating the earthly conditions for your thoughts and visions to take form.” And then I asked you, “What do you want to manifest this year more than anything?”

So there’s a lot of misinformation, I find, around the law of attraction of manifesting. You want it, you just feel all high because you want it, and you’re excited about it. It’s going to happen. It doesn’t work that way. Think of the billions of years it took to create planet earth. The millions of years it took to evolve as a human species.

Respect.

We need some respect, first of all, to what it takes to manifest. If it took that long time to manifest to where we are today, as humanity, maybe it’s going to take you and me a bit of time to create the conditions to manifest what we want in our life. And I’m not talking about millions of years, but sometimes it is lifetimes in order to manifest something.

But there’s hope. I’ll show you how you can manifest today, what you want, and in this year. So first of all, the thing to know is that spiritual-material unity is needed in order to manifest. First of all, the first step is having the idea, having the vision. Okay? So I ask, what do you want to manifest this year more than anything?

So think, what do you want to manifest? The first part is your idea about it, your vision, your dream about it, right? Your goal about it. That’s the first thing, the second thing for anything to manifest on our planet, the physical, material. So wait, so the goal is the spiritual, right? It’s the ideas; it’s in the field of pure potentiality, right? It’s in the spiritual realm of ideas and imagination. Now for any such idea to manifest, the material, physical conditions have to be prepared and ready for the manifestation. Can’t just happen because I’m thinking about it and I’m dreaming about it, and I love it, and I’m all high about it, therefore it will manifest right now. And if not, then I’m flawed.

You’re not flawed because things are not manifesting. You’re just expecting it to happen without actually preparing the ground for it. So the material conditions have to be prepared in order for something to manifest. You have an idea, you want to manifest something? Now the physical material conditions have to be prepared. Now, what happens when things manifest immediately? Because sometimes they do.

Well, they do when the conditions are ready. There are so many pieces of the whole that come into play into any manifestation that we’re not aware of. That sometimes everything is ready for manifestation, except for you. We’re finally showing up and willing to show up for something to occur, willing to dream big and go, okay, I’m going for this. And the conditions were just sitting and waiting there and it manifests really quickly. And you go, Oh, law of attraction works. It’s manifesting. But that is because all the conditions were prepared– the ones you’re aware of, in yourself, and the ones around you.

When the conditions are not prepared, we’re not flawed. You’re not flawed. When the conditions are not ready, then they’re just not ready. It’s just, you need to prepare them. So there is the secret formula for how to manifest. And first of all, you need to know that the conditions have to be ready for any thought, any idea, any wish, any dream, any goal to manifest. Now, how do you know when the conditions are ready or how can you create the conditions for it?

So let me give you three tips, and I want to read again from Eileen Caddy’s book, “Opening Doors Within,” and you’ll find the link in the bio. It is daily readings, and I read from it every day, and you can see I’ve done it for over 15 years. The book shows that, so I’ll be doing that. So the first part is creating the conditions within you in your attitude.

So first of all, it’s a shift in your attitude or before that you need the vision, right? So you need to the desire of what you want to manifest- the intention of what you want. And then the first action is a shift in your attitude, because if you are here manifesting other things and you now want to manifest something new and different, you need to shift your attitude to be aligned to what you want to manifest. So you need to shift your attitude. And so I’m going to read from the reading that was on February 18th, from the book opening doors, within by Eileen Caddy: “It is up to you to make today the most wonderful day you have ever lived by your right attitude, by your positive thought. See today as my day”– that’s God’s day or Spirits’ day– “a day fully blessed by me and see it all unfold for you in true perfection with never thought of disappointment. Why should you be disappointed at anything today that anything today may bring? Remember that you are in full control of it. You are the master of the situation. Therefore it is up to you how it unfolds. If you are faced with a problem, know there is an answer to it and never allow the problem to get you down. See it as a stepping stone, see it as a challenge, and the solution will reveal itself. Never, never allow the problem to control you. You have to do it. You have to make the effort to think positively, to think big, to think success, then watch it come about step-by-step.”

So as you prepare, I mean, if you think even evolution of tree species, I mean, things worked out and things don’t work out. And when they don’t work out, it’s a stepping stone and, and species evolve in different ways. Well, likewise, when you manifest something, when you want to manifest and you hit a wall, it doesn’t work. I mean, I’m guilty of feeling immediately that something’s wrong with me, but nothing’s wrong with you and nothing’s wrong with me, although we feel that way. We hit a block, we hit a wall. Now we’re going to pivot. We’re going to learn from it. It’s an opportunity to go, “Oh, well, this doesn’t work that well.” Like this, here’s something, the solution as it says, if you see it as a stepping stone, the solution will reveal itself and you’ll have a better, more effective, efficient solution for your manifestation. So your attitude is number one, and that is vital.

And seeing the silver lining in challenges, which can be hard many times, but that is what will take you to the other side, seeing it as an opportunity to pivot, to shift so that you can manifest faster, so that you can manifest more efficiently, effectively. So that’s number one.

The next one is to shift in preparing to grow. You have to be willing to grow and change because every manifestation, everything on this planet has a tone, a vibration, right? It has a vibration, and what you want to manifest has a very unique vibration. And we’re trying to create the conditions for that vibration to manifest on the planet, right, in your life, in the world. And so you’re going to need to change and grow and pivot and shift the vibration to fit the manifestation that you want to manifest.

You can’t just sit and think about it and be all high about it and think, well, I’m high. I’m happy. I can manifest it. The vibration has to fit. There are rules to how things come about. Just like there’s a secret formula to manifesting, there’s a secret formula to health. There’s a formula to financial wealth. There’s a formula for relationships.

There’s certain principles that work. There are many variables. There’s a lot of mystery. There’s more mystery than we know, and that we’re aware of, but there are basic formulas for each one of these– for parenting, for health, for nutrition, for finances, for spiritual wellbeing, for self-care, there are certain rules and boundaries and formulas that just help you be more effective in manifesting that in that area.

And so you can’t just ignore it and just think that you’ll get into some vibrational state and you’ll manifest. You need to follow the physical or the rules that apply for this field, for this sort of manifestation, and then you need to tend to it with care, you need to shift your attitude and you need to be willing to grow into this new manifestation.

There’s a wonderful saying by Barbara Streisand that I have that she says in one of her songs, “If you want to do something you’ve never done”– no,– “if you want something you’ve never had, you’re going to have to do something you’ve never done.” And that is true for everything. Everything we use today didn’t exist before. Somebody imagined it.

And somebody put in the work, working with the conditions of whatever, if it’s technology, they didn’t just sit and imagine, you know, a camera or an iPhone or a mic, they worked with specific materials and capabilities of the materials and capacities human capacities in order to manifest something technological. And the same goes for here, right?

And so the reading for changing is from January 19. So that’s from yesterday: “You cannot hope to grow spiritually unless you are prepared to change. Those changes may come in small ways to begin with. But as you move further and further into the new, they will become more drastic and vital.” So keep hope, because once you go in a direction of manifesting and it’s the good and right direction, things will begin. They’ll accelerate. Manifesting will accelerate. “Sometimes it needs a complete upheaval to bring about a whole new way of life. But it is amazing how soon you can get used to change as long as you have the courage and conviction that the changes, which are taking place are all for the very best. Let perfection always be your aim. Keep stretching, keep reaching up to the seemingly impossible, keep growing in wisdom and understanding, and never at any time be content to remain static. There is always something more to be learned. There is always something new and wonderful to discover in this life. So expand your consciousness and your imagination to make room for it. Keep open and receptive so that you miss nothing.”

So you see, we need to prepare ourselves. Now again, when manifestation happens quickly, you were prepared. You maybe are not aware of how prepared you were, but you were prepared. And when it’s not happening, it’s because you are not prepared. I might not like the answer to what I just said, because I want something to manifest now and not, “I still need to do some more shift,” but so it is. This is a loving world. It’s a loving universe, and it is working and nature is the most efficient. It works always in the most efficient way. We come in and destroy that delicate balance. But nature in itself always works in the most efficient and effective way.

And so the universe, likewise, we are part of nature. We are a creation of nature. We come from the earth, from the stars, from the planet. And so we too, if we allow the universe to dance with us, it will do it in the most efficient and effective way. And so we need to be humble. Remember it took millions of years to evolve as a human species to where we are today. It’s going to be faster for you. Although some things take lifetimes to manifest, but a lot of what you want to manifest in your daily life, you can manifest in short times, if it’s small things or in a few months or a few years, if you need to build something that’s bigger, more robust, that needs more moving parts to be aligned, but you need to do the change to shift your vibrational state, to align to what you want to manifest.

I want to go back to the reading that I said before that when you, your attitude, it says, “then watch it come about step-by-step.” So it goes back to the idea of spiritual-material unity. You need to allow the universe to do its part. You need the spiritual reality, the spiritual realms to work with you, to create together with you, what you want to manifest. So don’t try to do it all by yourself. As human beings, we have the capacity to travel from the spiritual to the material, to tap into our spiritual dimension and to the larger spiritual realm, and to work with a spiritual realms using our physical-material capacities to manifest what we want to manifest. So it’s important to always be in collaboration in this dance.

And that really takes us to the third tip, the third ingredient that is needed for manifesting and for sustaining the change. And that is appreciation, being in gratitude, and celebrating along the way. Because it’s one thing to say, “Okay, I’m going to be on a diet now for two days or four, or for whatever, for a week, I’m going to do a 30 day diet. I’m going to do something for 30 days, okay?” Maybe you can do it for a certain amount of time, but if it’s not well-built, you will lose it. It will dissipate.

So the way to sustain the new state and the new conditions that you’re creating is through appreciation, is through celebration, is through gratitude, because think about it. As you are changing, shifting your internal attitude, shifting, growing, and changing, preparing the conditions for something to manifest. If you get pep talks, and if you get appreciation for how good you’re doing, and if you celebrate all the changes and the miracles happening and the silver linings, if you are celebrating and seeing how the universe is dancing with you to help you manifest, if you are celebrating that, you are fortifying this new vibrational state and allowing it to be more sustainable long-term versus to collapse as soon as your deadline, you’ve hit your deadline and now you can’t, you don’t have it in you anymore. You just want to go back to how it used to be, to what’s normal, to what’s easier, more convenient. You want to change internally. You want to change in your actions, and you want to sustain it with celebration, ongoing celebration, appreciation of the spirit, your spiritual capacities of the spiritual realms, your physical capacities, and anyone who is part of your project. Because many things we don’t manifest on our own. We need an expert, someone who helps us in collaboration, some service, some objects, and artifacts that’s going to help us to manifest, right? Few are the things that we just do completely on our own.

Even if you’re doing a diet again, to use that, you are using vegetables, and fruits, and grains. So there’s the farmers, and there’s the delivery, and there’s the supermarket. All of these are participating, collaborating with you to manifest a healthy diet. So you’re never doing things on your own like this, right? So I’m going to read the third and final about the gratitude, again from Eileen Caddy’s book. And if I didn’t say it before Eileen Caddy was one of the original co-founders of the Findhorn community, spiritual community education center and ecovillage, and these are messages from what she called “A Voice Within” that she called God. And you can call that voice God, she found it through her own divinity. You can call it whatever spirit, universe, Jesus, whatever works for you that you call this oneness and flow of energy, the force that creates worlds. And so here is the one from tomorrow, January 21st, about gratitude and appreciation:

“Start the day by giving things. Realize that you are mightily blessed and that my blessings are being poured down upon you all the time. It does not matter how ungrateful you were yesterday. What matters is what your attitude is now. Leave the past behind. Do not waste time, concentrating on your past mistakes. Simply learn from them and then move on and enjoy life, giving constant thanks for everything. When you are grateful and you appreciate all the good things in life, love flows freely in and through you. It is when you fail to give thanks and to appreciate all my good and perfect gifts that you grow dry and brittle. You become self-concerned and cease to care for your fellow human beings. The quickest way to change this wrong attitude is to start thinking for others and to start living and giving to the whole. You will find a self and self concern will melt into the background and become as nothing. Why not do it now?”

So this is the third ingredient in order to sustain the new operational state you’re trying to create to manifest is by celebrating it, appreciating it, being in gratitude for it, realizing that you are as a human being can travel between the spiritual and the material, and you can tap into your own spirituality, but also to the larger spiritual realm, receiving intuitive guidance, synchronistic events, all of those are happening in the larger spiritual reality and manifesting in our material world, right?

And so you, me, we can all as human beings have this amazing capacity. We are the creative force on this planet and we can create from ideas and manifest them. And so celebrate, be grateful as a way to sustain it so that you can actually manifest it.

So, this was a bit of a long one, but I read three different daily readings, but I really want to give you the secret, what seems like the secret formula to manifesting, and to know that when you’re able to manifest immediately, it’s because the universe was waiting for you.

You were the last piece in the puzzle that wasn’t up to manifesting. And when you showed up and said, I’m doing it, all the other pieces were like, “okay, she’s on it. Now she’s ready.” And they manifest instantly. But when it doesn’t happen instantly, don’t lose heart. Don’t lose faith. Don’t lose your courage. Just know that there are pieces that are not there in place. And the ways that you, there’s the universe is going to bring other people and other things in to create and to manifest. So the universe will do its part, but your part is to shift your attitude, to see challenges and blocks as stepping stones, and to find the silver lining in them, to be willing to grow and change from one manifestation in vibrational state to another, and to build your patience, to build your persistence, your perseverance in order to do it with a lot of love, to put as much love into your, what you want to manifest as the universe has a spirit, as God has, as evolution, nature has put love and intelligence into creating our most wonderful and wondrous world, and you to have that love and that light, that capacity to bring that in, in order to manifest.

And then finally, in order to sustain it, celebrate small successes along way, appreciate miracles, appreciate synchronistic events, appreciate your capabilities and your capacities. Don’t shy away from appreciating your part in making this happen. It’s not just a miracle from outside your putting something in and sometimes a lot of love and hard work and devotion to manifest something.

So keep appreciating yourself. That’s going to be the biggest shift that will allow you to stay in the new vibrational state versus to do it for a certain amount of time and then lose it when that goal, when that deadline is over. So I hope that helps you to manifest this year. I bless you with manifesting a lot of spiritual-material abundance in your life this year however, it shows up in your life. Whatever you want to make happen, ask, and you shall receive.

And remember to do your part. I’ll be here next week, again for another Expanding on Expensive weekly tips and teachings. Thanks for joining and listening. I send you much love and blessings.