A Tsunami Is Coming

People struggle with the idea that creation is finished. They set out to manifest something, then keep a keen eye on the 3D, every day becoming more and more dejected when their desired object/experience doesn’t present itself. This is natural but ultimately self-defeating.

It’s important to remember that when you manifest, you’re operating in two different realms — the mental and the physical.

(Note that I’m using these terms strictly for the sake of communication and not making any notable metaphysical claims; ultimately, consciousness is the only reality, but I’m making a concession to language in hopes of clarifying a larger idea).

In the physical, concreteness comes at the expense of changability. Things are more “solid” or tangible here — but time is an impediment in the physical, too. For something solid to change or transform, time is required. The physical is governed by laws of cause and effect, so things don’t just change completely with a snap of the fingers.

By contrast, in the mental realm, we sacrifice some of the solidity of experience in exchange for increased changeability. Think of a dream — things aren’t as concrete in the dream world as they are in “physical” reality. One second, you’re talking to your Uncle Carl; the next second, he’s been replaced by a gopher riding a longboard — then you turn around, and you’re not in your high school gymnasium anymore, you’re on a tropical island with the cast and crew of Me, Myself, and Irene.

Fluidity is the name of the game in the mental realm. Stability is the name of the game in the physical. But these “realms” (again, I’m just using this language to make a point; don’t take it too literally) aren’t completely independent of each other. They’re meshed together, and each is capable of influencing the other. A seemingly “physical” experience can change your mental state — everyone would agree here. The flip side of that coin, though, is that a mental experience can change the physical, too.

Here’s where people get hung up:

Because the mental is so fluid and subject to change, we get used to the pattern of physical experiences causing spontaneous mental shifts. I’m feeling great; someone rear-ends my new car, and I immediately feel awful. Something very solid and concrete occurs in time and space, triggering a spontaneous mental change.

Then we learn about manifestation and we expect the same process to work in reverse. I work and work and work to shift my mental state, then I’m finally successful, and I expect a physical change to happen spontaneously. Or, if not spontaneously, very quickly. Or, at the very least, we worry about our not seeing physical progress and wonder if our attempts at manifestation have failed.

Remember, though, fluidity and stability can’t co-exist. The fact that physical experiences can trigger spontaneous mental shifts isn’t evidence that mental experiences will trigger spontaneous physical shifts. It is simply not the nature of the physical to change spontaneously

(For the third time, I want to note, just so that it’s absolutely crystal clear: when I talk about the “physical,” I’m making a concession for the purpose of explaining a method of thinking about manifestation; ultimately all reality is mental, yes; consciousness is the only reality, I know. This framework is only a tool to help make sense of things that can sometimes be confusing.)

By the time a tsunami hits the coastline, it has already traveled thousands of miles through open ocean to get there. Just because you can’t see a wave yet doesn’t mean a wave isn’t moving toward you — it’s moving toward you incredibly fast, actually. A shift in your mental state is the equivalent of an earthquake in the deep sea; the second it occurs, a tsunami is born. The mental change happens spontaneously, and the outcome of that change is destined the second the change occurs (the tsunami is destined to reach land eventually), but the nature of the physical means it’ll take some time before the inciting incident comes to fruition as the destined outcome.

So long as you hold your desired state in mind, your desired outcome will manifest. It has already manifested, really, in the same way that the energy driving the tsunami arose immediately following the earthquake.

Just hold your state and let the wave travel. It’ll get here. All you can do to stop it is exit your desired state and enter a new one — that’s the equivalent of triggering a new earthquake and a new tsunami; perhaps one that is moving in the opposite direction strongly enough to cancel out your initial intention.

As always, good luck.