Messages From The Woods
  • Home
  • Embodied Root Wholeness
  • Events and Classes
  • About Me
  • Testimonials
  • Contact
  • Blog

The problem with manifesting...

4/5/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Manifesting is all the rage, and being good at manifesting is seen as being spiritually strong, enlightened even.  Books about manifesting fill the New Age section of the bookstore, and many of the popular spiritual teachers talk about it, share how to do it.  It is seen as being closely connected to the Divine.  Maybe it is, but in truth, I have a conflicted feelings about manifesting. 

Manifesting is the act of calling something into being that is not currently present in a life.  Maybe it's more money, a bigger audience, a new job, a new car or house.  I think it's important to be clear what is working in our lives and what is not, what feels good and what does not.  But my conflict is this: in my experience, there is a pain at the root of wanting - at a deeper level it can be about wanting something to be different.  For me, any desire I have for something to be different is rooted in an underlying pain.  There is an underlying pain that we think that thing or that experience is going to fix.

For me, I find more power in looking at the pain beyond the desire.  To look directly at it, getting really honest with myself about the desire and what I think it represents.  It frequently represents something, it is not about the thing.  So, I get still and quiet, look beyond the desire, see the pain or fear directly, name it, claim it, and get comfortable with the root pain.  When I do this, I can't help but know myself better, and see myself with more compassion.  And when I feel compassion for myself, thing I want no manifest longer satisfies me, no longer holds the spark it once held.  It is no longer needed. 

​Somehow, this awareness, this attention, this compassion all helps me to know myself better.  And then, somehow, nothing has to change as much on the outside.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Norma Van Horn

    .

    Archives

    September 2022
    June 2022
    March 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • Embodied Root Wholeness
  • Events and Classes
  • About Me
  • Testimonials
  • Contact
  • Blog