Ready to upgrade your life? This episode serves up some hot tips on mastering the art of manifestation. Dive in to turn your dreams into your everyday reality. 

Today, we're diving into the magical world of manifesting. Forget your magician's hat, all you need is your inner power. 

 🌈 Bullet points of key topics + chapter markers

[00:01] Intro 

• Brief overview of the podcast and its mission 
• Introduction to today's topic: Manifesting 

[00:50] What does manifesting mean? 

• Personal perspective on manifestation 
• Discussing the importance of 'allowing' 

[02:09] Manifestation examples 

• Friend's story about manifesting money for medical equipment 
• Personal story about manifesting a bank cheque 
• Personal story about manifesting a flexible and fulfilling job 

[08:11] When manifesting doesn't work 

• Discussing times when manifesting efforts fail 
• Personal introspection on limitations in manifesting 
• Role of beliefs and mindset in manifesting 
• Example of not experiencing joy in motherhood due to emotional blockages 

[13:16] How to manifest? 

• Consideration of where you are emotionally before manifesting 
• The importance of clearing emotional blocks and understanding your triggers 
• Exploring work-life balance, self-worth, and relationships 

[17:13] Grounding to Manifest 

• What it is and why it's like a spa day for your soul. 
• Let go of negative beliefs, mindsets, and whatever emotional lint is cluttering up your pockets. 
• Free eBook: Get the low-down (or should I say "ground-down") at artoflifecenter.com/grounding/. 

[18:21] Life Makeover 

• Reinvention through Art: Life Makeover isn't your basic lifestyle change. It's art therapy for the soul! We'll color outside the lines and inside your life. 
• Expand Your Horizons: Imagine your mindset is like a blank canvas, and this program gives you the paintbrush to create any world you desire. 
• Link & Wink: If you're wondering where all this artful magic happens, well it's one click away, darling. Head to artoflifecenter.com/art/

🌈 Episode Highlights 

What is Manifesting? 

The law of attraction isn't just for rom-coms. Learn how manifesting isn't just about wishful thinking but a practice of allowing. Yeah, permission slip from the universe, anyone? 

Manifestation Stories to Pump You Up 

From scoring a hundred-thousand-dollar medical equipment to mysteriously manifesting checks in the mail— we've got tales that will make you believe fairy godmothers are real, but they're YOU! 

When Manifestation Takes a Rain Check 

Ever feel like the universe put you on hold? We break down why sometimes you're manifesting a dial-tone and how to fix it. Spoiler alert: it's all in your head! 

Vibrate at the Frequency of Fabulous 

The universe is your mirror. Like what you see? If not, let's talk about how to adjust that reflection to something you adore! 

Life Makeover 

• Life Makeover: Reinvention through Art: Life Makeover isn't your basic lifestyle change. It's art therapy for the soul! We'll color outside the lines and inside your life. 
• Expand Your Horizons: Imagine your mindset is like a blank canvas, and this program gives you the paintbrush to create any world you desire. 

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Hi there.

Welcome to another episode of the Art of Life podcast.

So this is our podcast where we learn how to heal our life.

We learn ways to look at our life in a different manner so that it becomes a

whole lot easier, a whole lot magical.

Everything flowing a lot easily and manifesting easily, being

abundant, being fulfilled.

That's what this podcast is about.

So welcome to the show.

Today we will talk about a topic called manifesting.

You've probably heard of that, right?

Sometimes you wondered about stuff that you've manifested and about stuff

that you haven't been able to manifest.

So let's unpack that.

First up, what does manifestation mean?

Right?

To me, how I look at it is thinking of an idea, creating something, so maybe you

want to visualize how the next month looks like for you, and then bringing that in.

So making it a reality.

So creation, and then allowing that to happen.

Now, personally for me, I put a lot more emphasis on the allowing part, as in

allowing the manifestation to come in.

I have a belief that we, as souls on earth, we already have a whole

lot of power with our thoughts.

We create our reality.

I believe that when we think there's somewhere, something in the universe

that already manifests that idea.

So let's say if I wanted to create a rockstar business, or if I wanted

to have a million dollars in the lottery, that is already created.

Then my job on earth, so my job as a human being is literally

to allow that to come in.

So we'll delve into that a little bit.

But before I dive into it, let's just look at some manifestation

examples and I'll share some of mine, other great stories that I've heard.

I have a very good friend.

She recently told me how she was wanting to manifest a really good costly

equipment for her medical practice.

Now the equipment cost about a hundred thousand dollars

and she didn't have that much.

She didn't have enough money.

She was still short of twenty.

And yet she really wanted to buy it.

This was very important for her practice.

So she just went out and put it in.

The guy asked her are you ready to pay?

Do you have all the funds?

And she's like, yep, yep, I do.

All the while knowing that she was short of 20 grand.

Now lo and behold, she's still thinking what she's to do, but

she's talking to the universe and just telling the universe that, you

know, you better make this happen.

This has to materialize.

I don't know where the money is coming from, but just send it my way.

And so her parents called her and they said, well, we have given your brother

20, 000 grands and we think we should give you this money and we should

give your sister this money as well.

Being the good soul that she is, she did try telling them, it's

okay, I don't really need it.

It's all right.

But well, she did get the 20, 000 grands, just the exact amount that

she needed to buy that equipment for.

I'll share another of my stories.

So this goes back to some time, maybe three or four years ago.

I was listening on YouTube to someone who manifested a check in today's world.

And that time I was just starting my own journey with meditation.

So all of this was relatively new and I went like, well, cheque,

it's not something that I have a huge resistance against.

So let me just see, maybe can I manifest a cheque for myself?

So I put that small intent out there, really didn't even do

anything much and left it at that.

Maybe about a month after, I got a cheque in my mailbox.

Now, in today's day and age, nobody sends a bank cheque.

But this was a bank cheque by an electricity company.

I had a business that I was running and apparently the power

had gone off for some time.

The laws required that if the power is off for some time,

you credit the business people.

So I got a little cheque.

I got a little bank cheque in my mail.

Another example, I've probably previously shared this in my

podcast as well, is around a job.

I wanted to have a job that would really allow me to spend time

with my son, that would give me a lot of flexibility as well.

And I was doing some meditation courses during the day.

So I wanted to be able to do those as well.

And to make things a little bit, miraculous, of course, I wanted the job

to be really well paying and somewhere where I would have an amazing team, really

bond well with everybody and have a very good time, very mutually fun time for

everyone around me and for me as well.

And I got that.

This wasn't even a job that I applied for.

I happened to chat with someone who wasn't even in my city and he asked me where

are you these days, what are you doing.

I told him I'd moved and now I'm in this city and he went like, well,

they're looking for people there.

Just send me your CV and I'll see if something works out for you.

Now the type of job at the time, like I wasn't looking at this.

industry.

I wasn't looking at the work style in terms of the roster.

I really wasn't looking at anything which would have on a regular basis

some time away from my family.

I wasn't looking at that at all.

If I try and analyze this, there's, there's probably very, very

little probability that I would have even looked at this job.

Like I said, I wasn't looking at this industry.

I wasn't looking at these sorts of roles, really nothing on my radar

at all, but it gets even better.

I applied and that was the exact match for the profile that they were looking for.

And I got the job.

And then afterwards, my boss and I, we are talking when I got my

contract after that, I'm like, well, this doesn't exactly suit me.

And he's like, don't worry, we'll just make it work.

You join and then whatever days you want or whatever time you want for doing your

own things, you'll be able to do that.

And I'm sure we'll be able to work out a balance.

That's how the flexibility turned out.

The team was amazing.

My boss was amazing.

I had the most amazing time working there.

A whole lot of growth, a whole lot of contribution for the

team as well, and a whole lot of personal growth for me as well.

So really, really good.

Now if this manifestation story inspires you, I really hope it does.

I do encourage you to set out some manifestations for yourself.

A lot of times I think we go through life and we don't ask enough.

We don't tell the universe enough that this is what we would like to have.

Start chatting and just start going, well, this is what I'd like to create.

This is what I like.

Just have those conversations.

There's no harm, but just let the universe know.

Now, as I'm speaking this, there perhaps a whole lot of you who are saying, well,

my manifestation hasn't worked for me.

So let's talk about the times when manifesting doesn't work.

It's happened with me as well.

A lot of times when I analyze this in my own meditation space, as I

investigate, why is it that I haven't been able to manifest something, I

realize that a whole lot of times, it's my own beliefs, it's my own mindset.

So I'll give you an example.

I was looking at my time with my son and I was just wondering, why is

this not as joyful, as fun as I would like it to be at the moment for me.

Why do I feel like I'm missing something?

And so I looked at it in my meditation space.

I looked at how much I allowed myself as a mother to receive and how much

I allowed myself as a mother to give.

My own answer for myself was that I was good in terms of giving.

That space was really open.

When I looked at myself in terms of receiving.

That place wasn't that open.

Now, some of you might know this if you've listened to my podcasts,

but I lost my daughter when I was 31 weeks pregnant with her.

And there's an episode where I've talked about my own self forgiveness

journey as well with that.

So when I lost her, and I lost her when I was sleeping, I really did

hold a lot of guilt for myself.

How could I let that happen?

And somewhere with that, the whole space of receiving as a mum, I

blocked that off too, because I was telling myself I'm not a good mum.

So you see how the beliefs come into play.

And then that stops me from experiencing the joy of motherhood fully.

So, I would like you to think about whatever you wanting to

create and bring into this life.

I would want you to think from a point of view of are you allowing that to happen.

Let's say you want to manifest a really good relationship.

Before you start doing that, I want you to see where are you at?

In terms of love, where are you at?

What is your vibration?

Are you feeling good with yourself?

Are you feeling loved?

Are you feeling enough?

Complete?

Are you feeling like you've got it?

Are you feeling like you are deserving of love?

Because my experience is that life will give you back the vibration

at which you are vibrating.

If you manifest something with fear, then you will get that

back in your relationship.

Maybe the other person will come around and say, well, I'm really afraid of

committing to a relationship right now.

Because you manifested from a place of fear.

The world that we see around us is a mirror to us.

It's a mirror to how I'm feeling.

And It's, it's not a punishment.

It's more our soul's way of showing us the reality of where we are

vibrating so that we can clean that and then become more abundant and

more fulfilled versions of ourselves.

I believe the soul has every capability.

The soul is really capable enough, empowered enough to

bring you whatever you want.

All you're working in this lifetime is literally that piece around bringing

it in, around allowing that to come in.

So maybe you've had a past relationship where you felt scared,

where you felt unloved, unsafe.

It's time to heal that and then step into a relationship.

And as I say, that doesn't mean that you have to a hundred percent

heal because to a lot of extent, healing is a work in progress.

As long as you are living, you will be healing, you will be growing, you will

be expanding in new areas of your life.

But what I do mean is that clear out some of the really important blocks

and be aware of where you are at.

Another example could be, let's say you want to manifest a work which

has a good work life balance, which gives you a lot of money, where you

do enjoy working with the people around you and your contributions are

valued, you have a whole lot of growth.

So if you wanted to do that, examine how do you feel as an employee?

What are the triggers?

Maybe sometimes you want to look at the people who had those triggers.

And we often tend to punish ourselves.

Or we tend to judge ourselves from the eyes of someone else.

That could be a past teacher.

That could be a parent.

That could be friends.

That could be family.

Write for yourself the affirmations that allow you to be who you want to be.

Let's say you wanted to manifest a great relationship for yourself.

Now, you can start writing affirmations for yourself to first tell yourself

that you are enough, you are complete, you're absolutely adorable, lovable,

and a prize to be loved just as you are, because that is the truth.

It's just that sometimes we have labels and we think about things from a different

perspective that shifts our thoughts.

There's another episode that I've done, which is around

holding space for yourself.

And one of the examples I've given there is that maybe in this

world you've come as an apple.

Now , that's just an example, so bear with me, it'll make sense.

So let's say if you are an apple and then you have lots of fruits around

you or even vegetables around you, your role on Earth is to hold your space

is to still be an apple and to enjoy being an apple, to be happy as an apple.

It's not comparing with maybe the broccoli or peas or kiwis or mangoes.

It's not comparing with anyone else.

It is accepting that you are an apple and loving yourself as an apple.

If you want it to manifest whatever you are thinking of, I urge you

to think of where is it that you're holding yourself back?

Where is it that you're saying?

Ah, no, like I can't have this

Let's say you want to have a whole lot of money.

Play with your thoughts and imagine what would you do if

you had a whole lot of money?

So play with maybe 100 and say, let's say you got 100 unexpected.

What happens?

How do you feel?

Then put in 200, put in 1000, put in 10, 000.

You can even do some exercises around that.

So every day you can imagine that you got more money and just say this is what

I would do, this is how I would play with it, this is how I would spend this money.

Make it real and real and real, whatever baby steps you can take.

Now a lot of manifestation coaches say that you need to feel your manifestation,

you really need to believe is because by doing that you are allowing your

internal resistance to fade away.

The more and more you see that, the more and more you get ready to own it.

So play with that idea and see whatever resistance is coming up.

Ask yourself, Oh, okay.

Am I stopping this somewhere?

What is my belief around this?

What is my mindset?

What does my family say around this?

Who would be the negative nagger in this one saying, ah, I can't have this.

And then just work on that.

I have written a beautiful ebook on grounding.

Grounding is a technique where we can release stress and anxiety

by connecting with the earth.

It's a mindfulness practice.

You imagine that you have a connection with the center of the earth and

the earth allows you to then release anything that's holding you back.

Grounding can be a really good way to let your beliefs go, to let any negative

mindsets, any negative blocks that you've got, anything that's holding you back.

grounding can be a super cool way of letting all of that go and having

more ownership, allowing a whole lot more of flow into your space.

You can find the grounding ebook at artoflifecenter.com/grounding/.

That's free for you.

It's really playful.

It doesn't need a whole lot to be done either, like you could practice

grounding wherever you are, even while you're standing in a grocery queue.

So I really encourage you to reach out for that.

There is another program that I'm launching as well.

It's called the Life Makeover program.

As it says, it is aimed on a complete life makeover.

So allowing you to have the life that you want, heal your past traumas, really

living in the flow and having a magical life every day, every moment, creating

a really abundant life in all spheres, whether it's your work life, whether

it's your personal life, your spiritual life, everything blends together.

It's all art therapy based and very gentle exercises around your mindset

that help you think through stuff with a whole new angle and then bring a

whole lot of expansion into your space.

I cannot wait to see you there.

The link for that one is artoflifecenter.com/art/

I will see you next time, next week with another episode.

Till then, stay happy, enjoy life, and have fun.

Bye bye.