The Downside to Manifesting What You Want

What is the downside to manifesting what you want?

I recently listened to a call with Carol Look and Bob Doyle featuring EFT. One of the questions she posed during it was, "What is the downside to reaching your goals?"

I've asked this of myself and clients before. Not in the same way. I inquire about how a particular pattern or habit serves me or them. I mean, we don't do anything without a reason. We just don't know it. And the reason doesn't have to be healthy or updated to what you think your current truth is. We've just adopted ways and keep them because they serve us somehow.

And then, there's change. Really, that is so much of what this all comes down to. We have such an odd relationship with change as humans. We resist it. Fight it. Run from it.

I believe it's tied to our survival consciousness. Something primal in us thinks it's threatening on some level. Threatening to our very existence. I mean, why else would humans do such destructive things to themselves and others?

Ok.

Moving to my next train of thought which is the fear of actually receiving and being all that we desire. We are afraid of having what we want. How silly is that?

Face it. See it for what it is. With compassion, mind you. And you will be released from it. Maybe even get to the point of being able to laugh about it.

As I get real with my own intentions, I explore the question. What is the downside to manifesting what I want? It's not the change for me anymore. I'm not afraid of changing my life. Of re-arranging circumstances. Of re-establishing my understanding of my identity.

What comes up for me again and again is "being seen". What does that mean?

There is something about being visible that has been scarey to me. I believe that some of it is past life, as I don't know a woman today who does not have some kind of fear around putting her self out there (we have all been persecuted in one way or another in some life time).

I am already visible in my work. As I write, publish, expand my business, speak more, coach more... all to see my mission through to help people be fully alive... I increase my visibility.

There is a part of me that thinks that is vain. It is ego. I know my purpose is greater than that. I know that ultimately I will transcend this concern. In this moment, I take the time to honor it.

So what are my limited, fear-based beliefs about being seen? I will be laughed at, I will make a fool of myself, I will fail, I will be called a fraud, I will put myself in harms way, I will be accessible to negative energies....

It's more than that. There is something deeper in me. It doesn't "make sense". I don't know that fear ever does on some level. But it's there. This idea that being visible is dangerous. Wow. I will release that.

And you know, I don't care if I'm laughed at. I don't care if I fail. I don't care if I'm called a fraud. Because there is life to live. There are people to serve. There's humanity to awaken. There's a planet to restore. All this is far greater than any moments of terror I create for myself in believing limited thoughts.

I align with purpose.
I align with higher principles.
I align with consciousness that is for the highest and best.

With these choices I am free.

What is the downside to you manifesting what you desire? Get real about it. Make a list. Lovingly honor yourself for what arises. Honor it so that it gets the attention it needs and then move on. Do not stay there.

Do what you need to do to be that which will create what you desire. Release your ideas of the downside. Get support. If it is grounded in something "real" (i.e. leaving a job), get support in navigating the change process. Feel your feelings.

And finally, keep focused on your purpose, your values, your intentions. They will guide and inform you through it all.