Feel into it and you’ll have it.
When we are manifesting or fleshing out our desires onto this plane of existence, we need to be aware that what we want is not the thing itself but the feeling we think it’ll give us.
The magic lies in knowing this secret no one seems to talk about. You don’t want the money, you want the freedom. You don’t want the lover, you want the love. You don’t want the job, you want the security. You don’t want the trip, you want the expansion. And so on and so forth. Everything is merely a feeling and if you get to the bottom of what you want to feel, things become much easier when you are asked to “act as if.”
If you have ever heard the “act as if” reference in manifestation which is basically to pretend you have what you want already and embody this as much as you can, then you know it can be hard to hold it because it’s not physically there. If we act as if we have the job, the lover, the trip, we can get a little lost in what this even means. Does it mean we buy the ticket irresponsibly? Does it mean we don’t apply to jobs?
I am going to break it down for you:
You are meant to still take the actions you feel called to, don’t pretend you have a thing and then not take the steps your body is asking you to take.
The feeling of what you want will always be more important than the thing itself.
“Act as if” just means to take this emotion that you want and embody it, act as if you are already getting loved from your lover, you are already getting the security from your job, or whatever applies in your case.
You might not get exactly what you pictured but you will get what the emotion you are seeking and embodying applies to.
Do not go back and forth, go all in your embodiment of the feeling of what you want, act as if it’s already here because it is!
The feeling of what we want is the thing we actually want to manifest. We can want a particular amount of money, a partner that is with us for life, or the best trips in the world, but what does it matter if when we get it they all feel empty? That’s not the goal. You want something because you believe it will make you feel a different way than how you are feeling in this moment.
Get down to the bottom of why you want what you want: What feeling does it fulfill? What emotion are you trying to get from it?
Start self-sourcing that feeling. You are the only one that can make yourself feel a particular way, the outside world won’t do it for you, it will only nudge you to do it without your conscious awareness. You are a conscious being that can fabricate these feelings even if outside stimuli is not nudging you to do so.
How you self-source the feelings is different depending on what you want. I recommend always meditating and visualizing. Imagination is the most powerful tool we have. But you can also use the outside world to help you get a feeling.
If you want to feel security from a job, what are some things that make you feel secure and how can you lean in more into them? If you want to feel loved by a lover, what are some things you can do for yourself that make you feel this way? The first step is always to fulfill yourself.
The cosmic joke is that once you fulfill yourself, the manifestation feels unnecessary and you will detach organically. And, of course, once we aren’t desperate to have something, that is always when it comes to life.
The secret sauce is in the feelings. You get to those, understand truly what you are seeking, and fulfill yourself, you can and will get anything you want.