Don't Make It Happen. Let It Happen.

One of the ideas discussed often in manifestation circles is “lack” and the necessity of not being in a place of lack when you’re trying to manifest. Some people say that’s essential, some people say it’s irrelevant, but I think everyone can agree that “lack” is a topic so deep it can make your head spin if you think too long about it.

When Neville talks about not willing the “how” or the “why,” I think he’s touching on something adjacent to the lack issue. If I am trying to will the exact details of my desired experience, I end up in a de facto “lack” state — I’m forced to “do” something. Even if that something I’m doing is burdening myself with perfectly crafting every detail of my manifestation.

I think a more effective strategy can be to let your manifestations happen, instead of make or force them to happen. When you start from a place of saying, the existence of my desire means I am meant to experience it (that’s why it arose in the first place), and what I’ve been doing is standing in the way of the natural, effortless manifestation process, then you take a lot of pressure off of yourself.

Instead of relying on brute force to reprogram your conscious and subconscious states (a monumental effort if you have a lot of emotional hang ups) you can just make an effort to stop sabotaging the natural flow of energy in your life. To me that was a monumental shift.

When you let things happen, your entire perspective on the world changes. Instead of climbing a mountain — fighting against the “natural order” of your reality — you’ll be following the river downstream. Going with the flow, so to speak.

A consequence of this is that little changes in thinking/feeling/knowing end up paying major dividends, almost immediately. When I’m pushing a boulder up the mountain, the first moment I falter I’ll tumble right back down to where I started. When I move with the current, every subsequent obstacle in my mind that I overcome allows me to move more and more swiftly. And if I encounter a set back, it might slow my progress a bit, but it won’t reverse it. I’ll still be moving faster than I was when I started out.

I think little perspective shifts like this can have a major impact. Lester Levenson, a teacher I reference often, always said “be not the doer.” His point was, to “do” by default means the world is in a state of resistance to your desires. If it weren’t, you wouldn’t have to do anything. Things would just fall into line.

Now, all this doesn’t mean you literally should sit still in your room all day and never act. But try your best to adjust your mentality at the highest level. The world is on your side. It’s not fighting against you, and you don’t have to fight against it. If you haven’t been making any progress, just know that the second you lighten the burden on your consciousness, you’ll return to moving with the flow of things.

As always, good luck.