Manifesting Money & Abundance
(This is taken from our conversation in the Zen Den on Monday, August 19th under a super Blue Full Moon! Magic happens when a circle of women come together.)
Tonight we are discussing Manifesting Money and Abundance. Manifesting has become a real buzz word in the last decade and one that has very much become part of my life and work.
Definition of Manifest:
To "manifest" means to bring something into reality or to make it evident.
In Personal Development and Spirituality: It refers to the idea of bringing your desires or goals into reality through focused intention, belief, and action. For example, if you manifest a goal, you might visualize it, set intentions, and work toward it, believing that these efforts will help bring your goal to fruition.
Do you feel like you intentionally manifest in your life right now?
The alternative to that would be just going through life unconsciously. Going through the motions so to speak and not putting out to the universe what it is that you wish to see happen in your life.
Or maybe you feel like you live in the present moment all of the time and are intentional about all aspects of your life. I personally can’t sustain that vibration. I have moments, maybe even days of it and then I become distracted by my own drama. That’s life. So it helps to have sessions like these where we remind ourselves to come up with a bit of a manifesting game plan.
We know that manifesting means to bring something into reality. And how do we do that?
Focused intention,
belief,
and action.
I would add one more piece to that and that is the power of Gratitude. When we can be grateful for the things, events, people and opportunities in our life, our mindset begins to shift into one of positivity. And the power of a positive mind will very quickly shift you into a place of limitless potential.
Now we have talked about this idea before. Happy, happy, joy, joy! If your life is sucking, I’m not asking you to pretend it’s not. If you just had your car repo’d, your dog died and you just got evicted from your home, I’m guessing you couldn’t actually “feel” grateful in that moment even if you said words like…. “God has a plan for me and I feel grateful for these events.”
It’s important to authentically feel what you feel. What I am asking you to do is to find something, one thing in your life that you are grateful for. So in that situation, you might say, My entire life is crumbling around me. I feel hella overwhelmed but I am grateful for my health.
If you can focus for just a few seconds on the one good thing going on for you, you are already winning. If you can name 3 things every day that you are grateful for, your life will begin to change.
In a book called the Joy Project written by Tony Reinke, he encourages the reader to review the last 24 hours of your day and list 3 things/people/events that you feel grateful for. The 24 hour review will make sure you are being grateful for different things everyday. It is challenging you to see the greatness in your everyday life.
take a minute or two now to think about a few things that you feel grateful for. You might write them down.
How did it make you feel just thinking about those things?
Be Intentional
An important part of manifesting is to be organized. If you run a tight ship at home you are organized. If you are great at your job you are organized so why should manifesting be any different?
If you want to get good at manifesting you need to be intentional and you need to be organized.
So what does that look like? Well first you need to know what it is that you want to manifest. If you never truly focus on one thing it will be really hard to dial it in and get it done.
If you’re like, “I want a new car, and I want a boat just a bit bigger than what my neighbours have. I want to earn $250,000 a year because this being poor is bullshit and I want to go on 3 trips a year”. Even just listening to that run-on sentence is overwhelming. How could you even manifest that all at the same time?
So pick one thing.
Make sure it’s a thing you actually want. Not a thing that social media is telling you, you should want.
Sit with it and notice how it makes you feel. It should feel aligned with your values and it should scare you a little but; make you a little bit uncomfortable.
Now commit to this being your thing. I am going to manifest the shit out of this. I’m not going to waffle halfway through and change to something else. I’m not going to start making up excuses why I can’t do it like I have all of the other times.
COMMIT TO IT!!
Believe in yourself
If you just set a goal that feels so far off and unattainable for you. I would ask you to maybe start with one that is a little easier in the beginning, until you get good at it.
If you just set a goal that feels far off and kinda crazy but you are excited and believe in yourself and the unlimited potential of the universe that you are a part of, I would say you are exactly where you need to be.
Let go of the limiting beliefs about yourself. The voice in your head that tells you what you can and cannot do. Just let that go for now.
During our many times together we have talked about a higher power and you have given your higher power a title that is comforting to you: God, Universe, Creator etc… Bring that to your mind’s eye now.
Not only am I asking you to believe in yourself, but I am asking you to believe that there is a higher power at work and I am asking you to believe in him/her/them.
If you can believe that you are a creation of a higher power and that you are a part of a universe that has limitless potential doesn’t it make it easier for you to believe that you CAN manifest whatever you want? Because you aren’t actually manifesting alone are you? You have a spiritual posse working with you every step of the way.
We are all connected to this universal energy and so if you succeed you put that positive energy into the universe and I benefit from that amazing high vibe energy. If I succeed, well the same thing happens for you.
ACTION
Where people so often fall short in this process is that they get all hyped up. They feel grateful, they believe in themselves and the universe … and then they don’t do a thing. They wait for their dream to fall out of the universe and while that does sometimes happen, it doesn’t happen often and to be honest where is the life growth in that?
A critical step of manifesting is to take action. If you are focusing on one thing, you are coming from a place of gratitude, you’re believing in yourself and your spiritual posse you will be shown the steps you need to take to get you to that magical point of manifestation.
Remember one step in front of the other. In the beginning you can name the end goal that you would like to see but then offer it to the universe and let your job be one step and then the next and the next and the next. Visit the end goal from time to time, but if you constantly focus on the end goal rather than the steps needed you will become overwhelmed and frustrated and you will give up.
If you can maintain a positive mindset you will succeed.
If you are trying to manifest from a place of fear…”If I don’t manifest this house, or job, or lover I’m fucked” you will not have the clarity and openness of mind to receive the universal messages or next steps to succeed.
You can’t be in a mindset of FEAR and manifest good things. You will only manifest more fear.
And fear might look like stress, money worries, loneliness, depression, anxiety, anger… I could go on.
If you want to grow a beautiful garden, you must start with a beautiful healthy environment with beautiful and healthy soil. You wouldn’t try to grow prize roses in a chemical factory. You can’t manifest from a place of fear.
MONEY VS ABUNDANCE
I entitled this “Manifesting Money and Abundance'“. And some might say, “well they are the same aren’t they?” but they really aren’t.
Society leads us to believe that the only way to be abundant is to have money which gives us societal power. Abundance equals power and money.
The more I do this work and the longer I live on this earth (this time) I realize that money has very little to do with abundance. There are many people that have lots of money but are lonely, unhappy, and unloved because they love their money more than anything else.
My parents were never wealthy but we never wanted for much of anything. During COVID they decided to sell their home and move into an apartment as it suited my mom’s mobility needs better. So they sold high and rented a cute little apartment for a very reasonable rate. My dad said to me, “you know it’s funny Mel. All these years I always worked hard to provide. I struggled with money and always thought if I just had more it would feel so much better. And here I am now with a lot of money in the bank and it doesn’t feel a bit different. It doesn’t change a thing”.
Why? Because my Dad was already abundant in so many other ways, the ways that truly matter and are the definition of abundance…LOVE, FAMILY, INNER JOY, HAPPINESS, FREEDOM. He was already abundant and no amount of money made that feeling any better.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I would like more money because it can offer the freedom to do the things you want, to live the way you want, to help others but given the choice I would choose abundance over money any day as my dad demonstrated.
To me abundance means:
Having the time to do the things you want
Helping others
receiving unconditional love from my pets
Having people in my life that I love and that love me
being able to share my insights with interested people like tonight… I feel abundant. Right now, my cup is full.
As my Kevin would say, “WHY NOT BOTH?”
Go for it!! Manifest money and abundance but know the value of each. Don’t sacrifice all of the other great things just for money and don’t be such a martyr that you say no thank you to the abundance of the universe if someone hands you a few thousand bucks!