Day 11

For a long time, I thought I wanted things. I really did. Certain stuff, certain success, a certain someone, etc.

And so I’d try to manifest them.

I got very good at it all too. I’d visualize, journal, script, act “as if,” and express gratitude for blessings not yet delivered. All that stuff.

But here’s what I’ve come to understand, and it changes everything:

Manifesting is not the point.

It’s a side effect. A bonus. The natural outcome of something much more powerful.

The deeper work—the real work—is not to bend reality to our egos, but to be so deeply rooted in presence, so plugged into the blissful stillness of our own being, that we don’t need reality to look any particular way to be abundant, fulfilled, and at peace.

Once you no longer need the external world to validate, soothe, prove, or reward you, it becomes oddly cooperative. It starts to reflect the fullness you already feel.

Not because you chased it.
Because you stopped.

You stopped needing, and started being.

Faith is an unshakable rootedness in something so vast, so still, so alive in you, that fear surrenders to its presence.

And it’s from that presence—the essence of who we are—that true manifestation arises. Not from egoic will. Not from lack. Not from the hope that if you finally land the thing, you'll finally feel okay.

If you need it, you weaken yourself. If you don’t, you create freely. You play. You move from fullness, not hunger.

When Jesus told us to pray as if it was already ours he wasn’t giving us a mental trick to game the universe. He was inviting us into an energetic truth: you already have everything you want when you know who you are.

The ego hates this, by the way. It would rather “make it” and get credit. It wants the story of its own greatness. It wants the carrot on the end of the stick that it’s been chasing for years. And, for many of us, it actually wants the chase more than anything.

But here’s the cosmic joke: the more you want anything, the less you're ready for it.

Because the more you want it the more you think you need it to give you something that you’re missing.

So here’s where I land: Manifestation is secondary, our state of being is primary.

Let go of the game where you try to win life. Root yourself in that deep part of you that needs nothing, because it has everything, and watch what flows through that channel. Watch what comes when you no longer need it to.

That’s where the magic is.

Everything else is a byproduct.