Manifesting

Notes

Manifesting is when we try to impose our beliefs onto the world, instead of matching our views based on how the world is right now Accepting what we cannot control is the path to peace.

On the one hand, it opposes Confusing current reality with how things should be blocks change, we don't surrender our thinking to the Past choices constrain future options and behavior of reality, it is not limited by how things are or base our beliefs on false justification just because "that's the way it is" We prefer existing situations over alternatives despite better options. Additionally, to manifest is like the mental equivalent of Being emerges from action not belief, by saying to ourselves "I will have a great day" or "I will get the success I deserve", we set the stage for those things to happen.

However, manifesting is problematic due to several reasons:

Nativity - there's often a distinction between thinking and doing, when we focus on manifesting rather than Taking active control rather than accepting circumstances passively, we naively think that manifesting is enough. Instead of "I will have a great day", we need to ask ourselves "how can I make my day great"
Entitlement - sometimes manifesting leads us to think that we already have it in the bag, or that we deserve as a matter of "promised " it Deferring happiness to future goals creates present suffering. We set our Expectations shape wellbeing through the gap between desires and reality way too high, we become attached to this reality that doesn't yet exist, which could lead to Disappointment is the gap between expectations and reality when life doesn't go our way.