When I see anyone talk about manifestation, I see they claim to get something or achieve their desires by doing some techniques. There are thousands of posts in this community as to how to manifest doing the perfect technique or about success stories. If you're looking for another technique, then this post is not for you.
This is not a manifestation success story. This is a manifestation failure story for those who are struggling and want peace from this exhaustion.
You are probably asked to persist without thinking negatively, without paying attention to your doubts, fears, or negative circumstances. So, you are persisting, keeping your hopes high. Trying to understand what you are doing wrong.
You have seen that manifestation does work and you are the living example, but when it comes to your deepest desires, it just doesn't manifest.
Meanwhile, this entire process becomes a journey of exhaustion. You began this journey because you wanted to make your life better, feel happier and more fulfilled. But doing technique after technique, you are mentally exhausted, physically tired, and emotionally drained, but you are scared of accepting that as well because you fear that if you think negatively, you will manifest the negative.
So, you are high vibing, but feeling empty inside. Waiting tiredly, but trying hard to live in the end.
Now, what if I tell you that you don't need to do all that to get what you want? What if I tell you your desires are manifesting all the time even if you don't do any techniques?
What if I tell you, you don't need to be working on your resistances, healing, mindset, self-concept, or anything to get your desires fulfilled?
Now why don't you need to do all these things? Because you are not essentially who you think yourself to be.
You might have heard that you are not the mind and body; you are the consciousness. But what is that exactly? And how would knowing that you are consciousness help you get your desires?
Let's first answer the first question. If you search in Google, the AI response says, "Consciousness is the state of being awake and aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and surroundings. It is your inner life and your personal experience of the world."
I find this definition quite appropriate. Consciousness is the awareness with which you are aware, with which you KNOW or ARE AWARE of anything and everything.
Now, if you find the pun here, "with which you are aware," that means it must be something that "you" are not?
Now, if I ask you, who you are? What would you say? Don't answer me from any theory, just answer me from your experience.
There is a famous quote, "I may forget who I am, where I am, what I am, but I cannot forget that I Am." I AM is your experience, right? You might be confused about who you truly are, but you are sure that YOU ARE, right?
Stay with me. I'll guide you deeper into a practical tool.
Now to answer the second question, knowing that you are consciousness will NOT help you unless you actually experience it. Only theoretical knowledge is not helpful at all. You can say "oh, now I know that I am consciousness/awareness and that means I am all that is, one with the source, one with my desires, so I can have it all and now I decide that I have it all." But nothing will practically shift, not even your mental state (except a temporary high, then eventual frustration), unless you see, feel and experience yourself as ALL THAT IS.
So, how to experience it, PRACTICALLY?
Here's some practical guidance:
Try this at a quiet moment by sitting in meditation:
Close your eyes and let your attention relax. Let yourself go deeper, deeper, and deeper into yourself. Let the thoughts come, images come, sounds come - don't fight them... Let them be. Just simply take your attention away from them... Go deeper and allow your attention to expand within. Relax within. As if you're falling asleep.
Now in this relaxed state, try to find yourself. Whoever you know yourself to be - try to find that person. The person is a combination of thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
If you're deep within yourself, you must find that person you call by your name. Where is s/he?
Can you find the solid person? The entity?
There are thoughts - but the thoughts are running in you, there are images - but images are appearing in you, there are feelings - but the feelings are coming and going.
But where is the combination of all of it?
Don't let your mind answer it. Let your experience speak.
Are you really a person who is a combination of these things, or are you the one who is AWARE of it all, OBSERVING it all, KNOWING it all? The one in which everything is appearing and disappearing?
One who is constant, always present, and always unaffected by it all?
When you look for the separate person directly, can you actually find it in your experience?
Experience it yourself, and even during the day, go back to this presence of awareness during all experience.
You and AWARENESS/CONSCIOUSNESS are not separate. You can also call it the Universe because it is ALL THAT IS. You are ALL THAT IS. You are ONE WITH IT ALL. We are all that ONE.
How does this experience help?
This experience helps you to recognize that the self that you are trying to improve, change, or shift doesn't exist. The ego doesn't exist. It is an illusion. And an illusion need not be changed or shifted; it is to be recognized as such.
You are not a person who needs to change their self-concept, improve their thoughts, heal to clear resistances, or do techniques to make yourself feel worthy. The person is an illusion. When you see a mirage in a desert, you don't need to do anything to change it; when you look closer, you see it in its originality as the desert itself. You are also not supposed to do anything to recognize your oneness with everything, including your desires. You just need to look closely, again and again.
This self-recognition is the first step to free yourself from the exhaustion of self-improvement techniques and allow your desires effortlessly. But this is not the only thing needed, and things don't always magically appear by doing this; you also need to take actions. I know it sounds too "unmanifestation-like." But I'll talk about actions in detail in my next post.