Manifesting and The Ego

Manifesting is an amazing tool. So, it requires a lot from us.

Ah, manifestation. The key to everything you could ever desire in this lifetime. Although magical in a sense, we have to be careful when we tap into this. Manifesting is the act of calling in your desires through various methods. It can be anything from making a vision board, writing them down, or affirming them. There are so many ways it can be done. The general rule to go along with this is that, anything you say goes. Don’t take that lightly either. Once you’re set on something appearing into your reality, it’s on its way to you.

Before manifesting that one dream you’ve had for the past six months, you need to regulate your energy. There’s a need to understand your power as an entity on this earth. This can take some significant consideration. Once you’re aware of yourself, you need to realise that your individual energy will always be in alignment with the universe. After all, we are all one with the earth. This means that whatever you’re putting out, you’re getting back. Keep gratitude for your existence and the things you’ve already experienced and have yet to. These aspects will help you to consciously align with your desires. One thing to note, with great power, comes great responsibility.

The lesson I’ve been focused on, is how to navigate my ego when manifesting. Some might argue that your ego is highly necessary as it would know the things that make you feel good. I stand on the counter argument. Your ego is actually negatively interfering with your manifestations. The ego gravitates towards things that make us look good externally, rather than internally. That’s where you’d leave a note for external validation. Instead of acknowledging what makes you truly happy as a being, it perpetuates skewed ideas that make us look a certain way. You need a good grip on your ego to manifest what your soul craves.

A lesson like this comes with first-hand experience, of course. I had reached a period where I was accidentally manifesting small things quickly. It would be anything from running into certain people, or receiving something I had mentioned once in a passing thought. I was at my most connected stage and had no clue how I got there. It took me a minute, but I managed to succumb to my ego. I knew I had messed up when I manifested my traumas as an entire person. Thankfully, it didn’t take me long to recognise this, but I still had to go through it. My ego told me that I wanted to be perceived a certain way, and to have that, I needed a certain type of person in my life. All wrong. When I met them, I was completely disconnected from self, and my higher self had been drowned out by my ego. Without recognising that I was out of touch, I focused on something I thought would help. It was the shock I needed to realise that I was on a rocky path.

For me, my ego wants things that I didn’t have growing up. When she’s wounded, she reverts to defence and needing things that she thinks would make her “whole”. It can show up in any form, and I even did it with a job (story time for another post). The biggest takeaway is that, when trying to manifest your most aligned reality, you need to be in touch with your most spiritually aligned self. Everything will always begin from within, and if you’re operating from an unbalanced ego, you will call in things to reflect just that. It’s good to know what wounds you do have, because that can help you to create your life. Recently I realised that if you’re not healing, you’re stuck in a version of you that was created in a response to trauma. That isn’t really who you are at your core, and so it can be difficult to tell what resonates with your heart.

My only advice: get to know yourself, truly.

Only then can you begin to understand what life your whole existence craves to live.