Perhaps the greatest paradox in manifesting a new reality is the need to be vaguely specific when plotting the course that sets you on that new timeline.

If I asked, “What are you trying to manifest?”, most people would say ‘I want to be a millionaire’, or ‘I want to live in a fancy house with a pool in the backyard’. But those responses lack specificity and are therefore open to interpretation, which is how trickster genies trip up people who make wishes.

If you win a one-million-dollar lotto, you’d technically be a millionaire right up until the moment you cash the ticket and they snatch the tax out of that prize. If you get a job as Kim Kardashian’s new live-in housekeeper, you’d technically be living in a fancy house with a pool, just not your own.

A generic response indicates that you have a vague idea of what you’d like for yourself, but you’re not 100% sure what exactly it is that you’re trying to call into your life, and that confusion results in you emitting a distorted frequency, a static noise which the universe is then forced to mirror in the form of identical confusion – the kind of confusion that results in stagnation.

On the other hand, if you were to say ‘I want my real estate business to magnetize an elite clientele so I earn hefty commissions on sales, thereby growing my business into a million-dollar enterprise.’, you’re basically drawing the map you’ll be using to move into your new timeline; you’re telling the universe exactly what you want and how you plan to go about achieving it.

But this is the part where it gets tricky.

Now that you’ve outlined the path you’ll need to follow in order to shift into your new timeline, the inclination to micromanage each phase of the journey becomes almost overwhelming. You have the vision of how your life is supposed to go in order to achieve your goal, so your inherent desire to oversee the process kicks in and you find yourself trying to cram a square peg into a round hole as you attempt to forcibly coerce reality into bending to your will.

And this is where most people ‘fail’ at manifesting, because this stage requires us to let go.

Yes, you want your real estate business to garner an elite clientele. Yes, you need to take the bull by the horns and make things happen if you want to be successful. But it’s probably not a good idea to start randomly DMing celebrities on Instagram, asking if they want to sell their homes. You might want to consider first starting a social media account to increase your business’ visibility, or maybe investing in a billboard on a busy street in an affluent neighborhood, or perhaps even going old school and dropping flyers in people’s mailboxes, anything that doesn’t get you blocked and blacklisted by the very people with whom you’re trying to connect.

Once the map has been drawn, you need to surrender control of the ship to the winds of change, to have faith that arriving at the desired destination will be the inevitable outcome of the journey, often without any tangible proof that you’re on the right course – a requirement easier said than done.

And the reason people ‘fail’ at this point is because that need for control originates from a place of scarcity and thus emits a frequency of desperation – “I don’t have any clients for my business as yet, and I need to do something before I run out of money to pay the rent for this fancy office space, so I’m going to DM Oprah Winfrey on a random Tuesday morning and see if she wants to sell her house.”. However, an elegant social media page or a classy billboard aligns with the higher energy of the version of you who has already attained your manifestation, because it says “I know my worth, and I don’t need to chase because I magnetize.”

And that is what separates those who receive the manifestation from those who don’t.

It’s not the universe ‘testing’ you and finding you unworthy, or withholding the blessing until you’re capable of sustaining it. It’s simply the universe mirroring the energy you’re emitting when you try to micromanage every step of your manifestation: the energy of lack and fear and uncertainty; and it’s why people who have successfully quantum leapt into new timelines collectively agree that nothing shifts in your 3D reality until you surrender control and simply exist in the faith that ‘It is done’.

So, stop acting like a helicopter parent. Stop obsessively checking to see if your 3D reality has finally begun catching up with your inner reality.

Remember, Neville Goddard told us that the 3D is merely the shadow of yesterday’s frequency, and the shadow doesn’t disappear in the blink of an eye. It takes time for the 3D to catch up to the inner, for the energies to align and vibrate in that precise frequency required to manifest your dream. So, continue working toward that dream from a position of determination rather than desperation, standing firm on faith rather than fear.

And now, to end today’s post, I’m going to share my choices for the
Top 10 Quotes about Having Faith.

Until next time,