When, on the other hand, our actions result in frustration, confusion, or even harm to ourselves or others, we can pause to take stock of whether our intention actually serves us, and whether we want to continue to pursue it with passion or resilience, or alter it to better serve the lives we are building and the context in which we want to make a

I will say it again: manifesting is not a one-off. On the contrary, it’s the process of refining one’s intention more and more specifically and clearly. As we practice visualizing our intention, putting it out into the world through our speech and actions and seeing what comes back, we create a feedback loop that helps us get in closer touch with

As counterintuitive as it sounds, part of the manifesting process is the necessity of letting go of our expectations. One of the pitfalls we can easily fall into when we are manifesting is to become overly attached to the outcome of our actions. Attachment to outcome, and the suffering that arises when we are overly attached, takes many forms. We

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes and figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. —Epictetus

Another way to approach blocks to manifesting involves making use of our brain’s natural ability to scan for clues in our environment. In the previous chapter, we learned about the filing clerk and the bloodhound in our subconscious. Once the filing clerk has classified our intention as salient and given its scent to the bloodhound, the hound will

It is not only repetition that forms a habit; it is the positive emotion we attach to doing a good job and completing it.

The subconscious responds deeply to strong emotions associated with a particular behavior, which explains why so many manifesting practices revolve around rituals, typically acts that are performed repeatedly in a precise manner. Ritual is one of the most potent ways of aligning our conscious and subconscious minds into focus, allowing us to enter

What we are doing is using the cortex, the higher level control system in the brain, and changing how the vagus nerve responds to our intentions on a conscious level. By doing so we are creating a direct neural route to influencing the subconscious. When we consciously practice repetitive visualization techniques and rituals to conjure powerful

As long as the SNS is curating the subconscious, the filing cabinet will be filled with fears, phobias, insecurities, and habitual beliefs that will be skewing our experience of life to the negative, the frightening, and the limited. Before we bring the light of awareness to our subconscious, we must see that it is really the domain of our survival