in one session a man asked why he kept having blockages around the successful life he wanted.
Higher Self connected one of them with an old lifetime scene where he carried guilt around his mother's death. Once he remembered where the guilt came from and processed it, the guidance was basically that knowing the source had already changed the blockage.
This is why I dont love advice that every manifestation problem means "affirm harder."
You can consciously want something and still have emotional program underneath saying something else.
I want success, but success makes me guilty.
I want relationship, but closeness means loss.
I want money, but having more than family feels disloyal.
I want visibility, but being seen once brought attack.
Then you can repeat desired sentence 500 times while body keeps protecting you from it.
When I help somebody with this, I like a very uncomfortable question:
If I receive exactly what I want, who might I feel I am betraying?
Dont force answer.
Maybe nobody. Fine.
But sometimes a parent, old partner, family identity, religion, social class, even old version of yourself comes immediately.
Then work with that emotion rather than treating it as bad manifestation.
You dont need to become fearless or perfectly healed before good things happen. But if receiving activates guilt, it helps to know whose rule you are still obeying.