3 things I’d tell past me who was struggling with shifting/manifesting
This is pretty harsh and definitely not sugar-coated, because it’s legitimately what I would tell MYSELF in the past. If you don’t like yelling … please skip this one lol. I’m the pseudo-target, because she had some ridiculous views of herself, her journey and reality. Written after reading some old journal entries, so this is what I’d tell that past version of me to snap myself out of it if I could—knowing what I know now that I shift frequently. Could be helpful for someone else too, but don’t take anything to heart, because these are pretty opinion-specific <3
1) Why are you accepting anything else?
Shifting isn’t some magical teleportation to another place. Manifesting isn’t gaining magical powers and being done with it. It’s a metamorphosis, like it or not. It’s an identity-level mutation, because now you’re no longer a part of the crowd who has accepted one singular reality. Or that manifestation is “too good to be true.” Hello?? That’s not you anymore!
Why are you accepting that you’re just lost and the answer is out there somewhere? That you’re this doomed person who’s been trying for years? Why are you accepting this identity?? And don’t even come at me with the excuses that you’ve “done everything but nothing works,” because right there you ARE accepting it as an identity—saying “hey yeah, I’m the person who keeps trying but nothing works and I’m lost.” Why is THAT the identity you’re giving yourself??
For lack of better words: have some dignity! Lead with arrogant pride! Be stubbborn! Inflate your ego and refuse to label whatever you’re going through as failure. This is not the time to be humble and accepting, even in definition. “I’m someone who’s struggling and can’t get anything right.” HELLO?
I know you’re someone who’s honest and logical, so let’s put aside the law of assumption for a second here and look at it “logically” because it is basic.
If you say you’re stuck—you’ll talk, think, and act like someone who’s stuck.
If you say you’re lost—you’ll start moving through life like a person who’s lost, second-guessing and looking for signs instead of making decisions. Because if you accept that you’re lost, you’re going to take the actions and think like someone who’s lost.
The way you translate reality cues your mind; your mind cues your behavior; your behavior cues your reality. Like an ouroboros. Yes, Clover, how unfortunate it is that you can’t act like you don’t know shit 24/7, and then MAGICALLY KNOW SHIT. YOU’RE NOT EVEN MANIFESTING TO MAGICALLY KNOW SHIT WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING.
The moment you decide you’re not stuck, not lost, not trying—you will start to take actions accordingly. This means that, for example, you’ll decide what needs to be done next instead of searching for the key outside of you. You’ll perceive the lack, mixed signals or signs as part of your intention being fulfilled. Instead of treating it as evidence that you're stuck or don't know what you're doing.
But then you sit there and think “Gee, I already did everything. And everything I do won’t give me results, so I need a key, an answer, a light.” WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? THAT’S THE IDENTITY YOU’RE GOING TO ACCEPT?? You’re going to excuse this as “Oh, but this isn’t helpful because I don’t know what to do anyway, so I guess I’m stuck.”
I need you. To wake up. Like actually wake up.
2) You’ve been given the key a hundred damn times already. A hundred.
Sometimes it’s called the law of assumption, sometimes it’s called letting go and trusting it’s already yours, sometimes it’s a method that tells you to just know it’s already working, sometimes it’s “act as if,” sometimes it’s “live in the end,” sometimes it’s “persist,” sometimes it’s try to achieve this altered state through trial and error. But it’s all the same truth dressed in different costumes: what you want is already yours in some form, and you align by knowing that. YOU. No one else can do it for you.
You sitting there wearing the identity of someone who’s lost, hopeless, searching, waiting for a savior will not cut it. It never did. It’s not about effort—because effort is hit or miss, and sometimes it happens in the moments you least expect it, without lifting a finger.
But do you know why that happens without lifting a finger?? It’s because for a split second, you dropped the damn story and you weren’t TRYING, you were being—even if you were being exhausted and over it. At least you weren’t begging and rehearsing that you’re the “one who can’t shift.” You just existed in a state where the prediction of failure didn’t interfere anymore. Why else do you think you can go to sleep randomly, not expecting anything, and shift?? Manifest without trying??
There is no time, no space, no justification for dropping the assumption, intention, identity, observation—whatever name you give it—just because it didn’t yield instant results. None. Zero. Why? Because, again, this shit is a metamorphosis. You are no longer the person constrained to one reality, one outcome, one timeline. YOU UNCOVERED THE TRUTH.
Every time that you slip back into the old story, you’re rehearsing your defeat. I do not mean you have to ignore your reality, or your circumstances. That’s not necessary. What’s necessary is waking up and altering how you perceive what’s going on around you. Because the moment you intend to have something:
3) You are never not in the process of getting what you want. Never. Ever ever ever ever.
You may hate the term “process,” let this be my filthy propaganda to indoctrinate you. Please let shifting be a process. Let manifestation be a process. Because the answer to everything is to treat it like it’s part of the process. And I do mean everything.
“The shifting method didn’t work.” Part of the process.
“I’m manifesting this person but they won’t text me back.” Part of the process.
“I fell asleep before finishing the method.” Part of the process.
“I feel nothing’s happening.” Still the process.
“I reacted. I cried. I spiraled.” All of it, part of the process.
Every high, every relapse, every agonizing day that feels like nothing’s changing and you don’t know what you’re doing—part of the process. Why? Because:
The second you decide you’re in the reality where it works and start acting accordingly. You claim every single thing that happens as part of the process confirming that your intention is being fulfilled, so that’s now the world you live in.
Awareness begins filtering the world through that lens. Literally. Because you’ve signaled to your awareness that “hey we’re in the reality where we get what we intend, so everything we see from now on is a part of that,” now the yellow brick road path opens up and reality has no choice BUT to lead you where you want.
The trick is to stop treating what’s happening as a mistake. The moment you drop that label, your awareness stops scanning for failure, starts validating progress and observing reality accordingly.
Intention is action— not metaphorically, but functionally. The instant you set an intention, awareness shifts its focal point and reorganizes perception, behavior, and probability around the new reference. And action inevitability breeds what? AN OUTCOME. How the flying fuck are you gonna intend to shift and not shift? What are you worried about?? Never learning the “how” ?? News flash: the how is born from the intention, never the other way around.
When you set an intention, you create a reference point that awareness now has to bridge itself toward. That bridge (the sequence of events, ideas, coincidences, impulses, whatever) is the “how.”
But how are you going to cross that bridge if you still identify with being doomed and stuck?? You’re allowed to have any self concept you want. A negative one won’t stop you from shifting, least of all manifesting— BUT LEAST acknowledge you’re in the process of shifting.
And don’t acknowledge anything else!! BECAUSE NOW THE BRIDGE TOWARDS THAT IS BEING BUILT INSTEAD!!
“I feel stuck and miserable, but at least It’s already unfolding” >> “I feel stuck and miserable, plus I don’t know what to do.”
The former is gonna lead you towards the “how”.
“But a process implies that I don’t have it yet,” “a process implies it’s not instant.”
Dude, even instant things are a process. Blinking is “instant,” and yet if you take into account the muscles contracting, the nerves, the brain signaling—it’s still a process. The second you intended to have it, instantly it became yours in your awareness, in your reality. But even if it were to show up 1 second or 1 week later— it would be a process either way.
Let yourself breathe and accept that you’re in the process of shifting/manifesting. The alternative is constantly flipping between “shifted” and “not shifted,” “manifested” and “didn’t manifest.” As if it’s that black and white. It’s not. It never is. What feels better? Sitting there telling yourself you don’t have your manifestation yet, that you don’t know what you’re doing wrong—or saying that you do have it, you’re just in the process of it unfolding?
Why are you accepting anything else?? Why would you, now knowing that it’s unfolding, approach advice hoping it’ll be the key that’ll make you shift— and then abandon it 2 seconds later when the words you read didn’t magically spawn you into your DR? Do you have any idea how insane you look? When you know that reality is literally whatever you make it to be? Do you? (y’all, I didn’t).
The way you observe reality— be it through the law of assumption, law of attraction, non-duality, idk—it matters. It unfortunately matters. My god I wish it didn’t, but it matters.
So at least, AT LEAST acknowledge that you’re in the process of it unfolding. Just like wavering, contradicting yourself, doubting, and crying won’t stop you from shifting, calling this thing a process won’t delay it.
If anything, it makes it happen faster. Because now you’re defining every moment (the wins, the fails, the lows, the breakthroughs) as part of the process of getting what you want. That automatically tells your awareness it’s observing a reality where it’s inevitably yours. So it’s already guaranteed.
Your ONLY job is to not accept anything else. ... OH! There you go again, saying you “don’t understand, don’t know what to do, that you’re lost” when YOU KNOW FULL WELL THAT —METAPHYSICS ASIDE— IF YOU ACT LIKE A PERSON WHO’S LOST, YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE ACTIONS OF A PERSON WHO’S LOST MOTHER FUCJCJDHSHS
Anyway yeah this is what I’d tell myself. And then I’d go make myself coffee and dump Baileys in it....
