Understanding "Ignoring the 3D" Differently
I've been realizing that over the years I may have been looking at the idea of "ignoring the 3D" from a completely different perspective than what actually serves me. For a long time, I thought ignoring the 3D meant that I needed to stop reacting to what was happening around me. If something wasn't showing up the way I wanted it to, I felt like I needed to redirect myself back into my assumptions. If I felt disappointed, frustrated, or uncertain, I questioned whether I was somehow getting out of alignment.
Without realizing it, I turned manifestation into another thing I needed to do correctly.
I think this is something that happens to a lot of people when they first discover manifestation. We find something that gives us hope and helps us understand ourselves differently, but then we can accidentally start approaching it from the same place we were trying to move away from. We start trying to control our thoughts, control our emotions, control our reactions, and control the timeline, when the whole point was supposed to be creating a deeper sense of trust within ourselves.
When I look back at the times in my life where things seemed to come together with the most ease, I actually wasn't approaching manifestation this way at all.
In my early twenties, I had no idea about manifestation techniques. I wasn't studying the law of assumption, I wasn't analyzing my state, and I wasn't trying to figure out whether I was doing everything correctly. I was just living my life. I was a very different person then, and while I don't necessarily want to go back to that version of myself, there was something about the way I experienced the world that I lost along the way.
There was a sense of curiosity and openness that came naturally to me. I had a lot of whimsy. I would get excited about possibilities, imagine things I wanted, and allow myself to dream without constantly questioning whether I was being realistic or whether something was taking too long. I wasn't sitting there trying to force anything into existence, or spending hours analyzing what every circumstance meant. I would want something, feel excited about it, and then continue living my life.
That state of being had a lot more to do with the experiences I had than any specific technique.
Not everything I wanted happened during that period of my life. There were plenty of things I desired that never panned out, and they were definitely things I wanted from a place of fear, insecurity, or attachment that I can recognize much more clearly now. But there were also many experiences that did happen, things I imagined, hoped for, or felt drawn toward that eventually became part of my reality. When I reflect on those moments, the biggest difference I notice is not that I had a better method. It's that I had a different relationship with my desires.
I wasn't constantly checking whether they were coming, I wasn't measuring myself against the circumstances around me, and I wasn't looking for proof that something was working. I was simply allowing myself to experience the excitement of wanting something.
When I started learning about the process of manifestation, I unintentionally turned it into something that needed to be optimized. I consumed so much information about it that I started taking in other people's rules, interpretations, and assumptions about how it was supposed to work. Instead of trusting my own experiences, I found myself comparing them against everyone else's.
This is something I have noticed happens in a lot of areas of life, especially with the internet. We are constantly surrounded by other people's beliefs about what is possible, what is impossible, what relationships should look like, what success should look like, what healing should look like, and what we should or shouldn't be experiencing by certain points in our lives.
For years, I've spent a significant amount of time on Twitter for work, and I eventually realized that I wasn't just consuming information when I took in other people's posts. I was consuming assumptions. I was absorbing thousands of different perspectives about love, money, health, relationships, creativity, and success, and even when I didn't consciously agree with them, I was still allowing them to take up space in my mind.
I found myself measuring my own experiences against other people's interpretations of reality.
Whenever I step away from that environment, I notice that my mind feels quieter, I have more space to think my own thoughts, I naturally become more creative, curious, and more interested in my own life instead of constantly analyzing everyone else's. I start writing more, creating more, learning more, and following the things that genuinely interest me.
That has made me realize that the biggest thing I needed was not another manifestation technique, but that I needed to reclaim my own attention.
I still believe that our assumptions matter. I believe the stories we tell ourselves influence the way we move through the world and the choices we make. I believe that the relationship we have with ourselves affects the way we experience our lives. But I also think there is a piece of manifestation that often gets overlooked, and that is what we are allowing to influence those assumptions in the first place.
If our minds are constantly filled with fear, limitation, comparison, and other people's beliefs about what life is supposed to look like, it becomes much harder to connect with our own inner knowing.
For me, ignoring the 3D has started to mean something very different. It doesn't mean pretending my circumstances don't exist, forcing myself to be happy when I'm uncomfortable, disconnecting from my emotions or acting like I don't care about the things I want.
Instead, it means choosing not to let every external circumstance become the authority on who I am, what I believe is possible, or how I feel about myself. It means allowing myself to want things while still being present in the life I have right now, trusting that discomfort does not mean something has gone wrong, and remembering that I am not reduced to a person waiting for something to happen. I am the person creating, experiencing, learning, growing, and becoming.
The more I have focused on my relationship with myself, the less manifestation has felt like something I have to force. It has started feeling more like a natural part of how I move through life.
The version of myself who seemed to manifest things with ease all those years ago wasn't someone who knew some secret I don't know now. She was simply someone who wasn't looking outside of herself for constant confirmation. She trusted herself more and left more room for life to surprise her.
My goal isn't to become that exact version of myself again, but to bring that same openness, curiosity, and sense of possibility into the person I am today.
