Manifesting is not a linear process, and manifestations fail to show up for a number of reasons. It’s frustrating, but it’s part of the process, and it doesn’t mean you should throw in the towel and give up on your dreams. 

You’re failing to manifest because you’re reacting to what is going on in this moment, rather than believing in what is coming. For example, you’re not manifesting making more money because you’re freaking out about being unemployed the day after you get laid off. Instead of freaking out, you could be using this moment to go all out on your business, or landing a higher-paying role, or pivoting to the field you’ve always wanted to be in. You’re getting in your own way, so let’s fix that, together.  

In this week’s episode, we’re talking about the #1 reason your manifestations fail and how to fix it. Life is always going to throw curveballs at you, and your manifestations are going to test you. How you react to these curveballs and tests is going to determine if you’re ready for your manifestations to come true. Having faith in yourself and your manifestations is a skill you’ll need to learn and cultivate. Which is why I’m going to help you kick-start your manifesting journey in this week’s episode. 

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EP. 185: The BFF Method: Manifest Anything by Rewiring Your Mind

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Episode Transcript:

Erika: If you have been manifesting, but it feels like nothing is happening, then this episode is for you. I’m gonna share the number one reason why most manifestations fail and how to shift it so that opportunities can actually start flowing to you so that you can actually manifest the things that you desire.

My name is Erika Cruz. I am the host of the Chingona Revolution podcast, and I have manifested some wild things such as interviewing Lisa Ancy before even having a podcast. I maybe had a business for about a month. At that time, I also was hired by Harvard to lead meditations for them, and I did not have a mindfulness certification or some type of meditation certificate.

And last but not least, I manifested being on the front page of The New York Times in the Sunday print edition. It was a article about leaving my job. My good friend Kat and I are in the, on the front page [00:02:00] of that article. 

Okay. Let’s get right into it. The number one reason why your manifestations are not coming to fruition, the number one reason that they are failing is because you are reacting to what is at this moment. Let me try to say this a different way. If we are looking to manifest, that means we are looking to create something that doesn’t exist yet, but if you keep reacting to what is. What’s happening in this moment, you are only going to keep creating more of what is, so we’re going going to get into some examples.

If you listen to the podcast episode, that was the BFF method, it’s my manifestation method. Then you might remember that The first F in the method is forget reality. We must forget what is, if we want to create something new. Why? Because reality is a reflection of our past thoughts, our past actions, and our past feelings.

But whenever we’re reacting to what [00:03:00] is, guess what we’re creating more of. What is. So I want you to think about manifestation like planting seeds. Imagine that you’re going to plant some cilantro and some tomatoes to make some salsa from your garden, okay? And if you go and you plant those seeds, they’re not going to instantly come up.

But once those seeds are planted, then in the following, whenever you know it’s, it’s that season. That plant or that produce will bloom and it will come up. So let’s say that today you decided I’m going to plant something different. Let’s say you’re like, I’m gonna plant a jalapeno plant.

So you plant the seeds, but the cilantro plant that you planted, I don’t know, last year or a few months ago, is coming up. Reacting to what is, is like walking up to the cilantro plant and being like, what the hell I just planted, jalapeno seeds, your cilantro. Like, what? Why are you here? And if you were just over there like mad at the cilantro, that’s literally what’s [00:04:00] happening.

Whenever we, we are reacting to what is at this moment, because whenever we are planting new seeds. Again, which is like what manifestation is what, where people go wrong is they get so impatient with the manifestation and they want it to happen right away. That it’s almost like, let’s say for this new jalapeno plant, you keep digging up the seeds.

Well, what happens? You keep breaking the roots. You’re not actually allowing the the plant to bloom. You keep taking the seeds out. Or another example is, let’s say that I love baking. I actually started off my business being a food blogger and doing baking. But I knew that as a baker, if I kept opening the oven to check on the thing, that item that I was baking.

The cold air would come into the oven and it wouldn’t allow the baked good to bake evenly. It would actually ruin the baked good if I kept opening the oven.but what is happening with us is [00:05:00] that we are so impatient that we keep opening the oven or we keep taking out the seeds to check them 

So the problem here is that we are not trusting, we are doubting. And because we are doubting, we keep double checking. But I want you to know that what is at this moment is old news. Just like the cilantro plant that you planted seasons ago or a year ago, that that’s already old news. That’s something that was already planted from a long time ago.

When you want to create something new, we can’t focus on what is, because your current reality is just evidence of your past, beliefs of your past, actions of the past, things that you’ve done. So let’s go through some examples and how this can actually show up in your life. So let’s say that you are a business owner or a creator and you finally made an offer on social media, but if nobody responds right away, you decide that it’s not working, and then you stop showing up.

That’s an example of responding to [00:06:00] what is, instead of allowing those seeds that you planted to grow roots and bloom and grow. Or let’s say that you send an email to your email list and when whenever you don’t get an immediate sale or a response, you assume that it’s just not working for you. And it’s not that it’s not working for you, it’s that you’re trying to control the timeline.

You’re reacting to what is instead of what it is that you want. Or let’s say that you are looking to create content and you finally muster up the courage to post a video and it gets a few likes and you get super discouraged because maybe it didn’t go viral or maybe you didn’t get as much engagement as you wanted. And again, you are saying it’s not working. These are all examples.

Of digging up the seeds that you just planted, being mad that the plant isn’t growing, being mad that the produce hasn’t happened yet, that you haven’t been able to reap the, the benefits of the, of the plant. Or let’s just use like a personal example. Let’s say you start going to the gym for a week [00:07:00] and you don’t see abs right away.

Or maybe instead of losing weight, you actually start gaining a little bit of weight, but the reason you’re gaining weight is because you’ve gained muscle and you’re like, oh my gosh, this isn’t working. So you just stop going. That is a perfect example of reacting to what is instead of. Manifesting a future reality for yourself.

But in all of these examples, I mean, as you’re listening to me say this, I think you can agree with, yeah, if you make an offer on social media, nobody responds right away. Well, what if. What if people just need more time? What if people are considering it and they just need you to need you to show up more?

Or let’s say that you send one email to your list. What if you don’t even have that many people on your list yet? What if right now you’re just getting good at sending emails and people like, what if one email can change somebody’s life? Would that be worth it? Or let’s say that your first few videos don’t go viral, but.

You know that you’re getting comfortable with posting, you’re getting better at creating content, and you know your content is changing people’s [00:08:00] lives. And sooner or later you will have a viral video and honestly, viral. I can tell you as somebody who’s had many viral videos, virality does not equal business growth.

Virality does not equal peace. Sometimes virality being going viral is not that fun. Just an FYI. Or let’s say that maybe you try going to the gym for a week, right? Like as we just talked about. And if you’re not seeing these abs yet, but you’re seeing that your weight’s going up, well, what if you stuck with it and you, maybe your weight didn’t change, but maybe your body composition changed.

Maybe your energy changed, maybe the way you started to feel about yourself changed. Would that be worth it to keep going? [00:09:00] [00:10:00] So the big issue here is that as humans, we want to know how the manifestation iss going to happen and when it’s going to happen. And that’s actually not our job. Our job is to focus on what we want, why we want it, and what is in our control.

So in these examples, posting is in your [00:11:00] control. Sending emails is in your control. creating videos is in your control or creating content, going to the gym, showing up at the gym, and doing the workouts in the best way that you can. Or let’s use another example. Let’s say that you try meditation three times and you don’t feel calm right away, so you’re like, Ugh.

It’s just, I just can’t meditate. That’s limiting belief. That’s you reacting to what is instead of what it is that you want, but the power of of sticking with something without putting a strict timeline on it, beautiful things can happen. I mean, I’ve seen it happen over and over with my clients, like my client.

Deanna had 500 followers, under 500 followers, and she ended up attracting 13 opportunities inside of Magnetic Mastermind, or my client, Rebecca, had a like months of a dry spell, and then the following week she had a $70,000 week. And it’s because we were working on this specific thing about forgetting reality and tapping into the reality that they actually [00:12:00] want to manifest.

So rather than reacting to what is at this moment. Imagine what it is that you want and react to that because your job is not to control how it’s going to happen or when it’s going to happen. Your job is to hold the vision that you have for your future and then align your energy, your identity, with that version of you who already has it, and that’s where you take action from.

I really think we live in this world of Amazon Prime and Netflix, and everything’s on demand. I mean, even on Instagram, if you tap the screen on the top right, the video starts going at two XI mean, I listen to my podcast, uh, the podcast that I listen to, I listen to them on 1.2 speed or 1.5 speed. I mean, we’re just, we’re, we’re in this fast moving world.

So it makes so much sense that we get impatient with our manifestations and that we start reacting to. What is, instead of reacting to what it is that we want. And in my experience, or even just working with [00:13:00] clients, when you make a decision to manifest something, it’s not uncommon that the opposite of the manifestation will happen first. So, for example, I decided that I was going to bring on more clients and when I, the week that I decided that I was going to bring on more clients and that that was something I was going to manifest, I ended up actually losing a client.

And the way that I react to that determines whether my manifestation is going to happen or not. Or let’s say that you’ve decided you are going to manifest love and then you go on a date and it’s a horrible date. This is a common thing I’ve seen over and over, but how you react to that horrible date is going to determine your magnetism to be able to attract the manifestation that you want. Or let’s say that you’re like, okay, I really want to bring in financial abundance.

But then once you make that decision, these [00:14:00] unexpected expenses come, how will you react to that? So once again, the solution to this is to react not to what is, but react to what you want and take action from there. The best way to do this is through journaling, through writing it down, you can write down what has happened and you can say, the way that I immediately want to react is this way, and that might be reacting to what is now write down.

The ideal situation. If you already had your manifestation, how would you show up? What actions would you take? What thoughts would you practice? What feelings would you have, and lean into that and watch your life completely change. The other kind of solution to this is community, really. Community makes manifestation so much easier.

There are something called mirror neurons, which is our brains are literally mirroring the energy and the behaviors of those [00:15:00] around us. Research shows that this is, that this is real. If we actually are at a concert, our heart rate will start to mirror one another’s.

And when we are manifesting with other people or in community with other people, our energy and our behaviors will really start to. Be affected by the people around us. So when you are in a community of people who are manifesting, you can borrow their belief. Until yours grow stronger. And this is something that we saw happen inside of Magnetic Mastermind over and over.

Once one person had a manifestation, it was, it was evidence. For other people, they’re like, oh my gosh. If it’s possible for them, it’s also possible for me. And that’s also what’s going to happen at the Magnetic CEO Method webinar, which is my completely free webinar. I invite you to join us. It’s happening on September 15th at five o’clock Pacific.

I’m gonna show you how you can three x your opportunities without. Three x the effort by using manifestation and neuroscience. And you’re gonna learn the exact framework that I teach [00:16:00] inside of my mastermind, and it’s helped my clients land speaking engagements, clients collaborations, and even press features.

So if you’ve been downing your manifestations or constantly checking in if they’re working, this is your invitation to make a shift 

At the end of the webinar, I am gonna be opening the Doors for Magnetic Mastermind, which is my spiritual business Mastermind for entrepreneurs and creators. So join us. You don’t wanna miss it. The doors will only be open for about a week. So if you’ve been having your eye on this program, or if you wanna work with me in a really high touch container that’s intimate and going to help you grow your business, if you create content to grow your brand or grow your business, this is the program for you.

But if you loved this episode, share it with a friend who’s also manifesting right now, and don’t forget to register for the free webinar. The link is down below in the show notes, and I can’t wait to see you there. [00:17:00]