The universe doesn’t need your help to help you. I know that sounds backwards, but stick with me because this is going to change everything about how you approach manifestation techniques. Let’s dive into why you can’t manifest and how to fix it.
Watch the Featured Video – Why manifesting brings up shadows and unpleasant emotions (the ego death)
Techniques are useless
Because doing a technique for 5 minutes only to shift back to the old story for the remaining 23 hours of the day will only frustrate you.
Your subconscious already knows what you want. It already exists. But here’s the problem – it can only manifest through YOU, and you have blocks. Specifically, you don’t feel safe yet to handle what you’re trying to manifest.
So our job, the only job, is to understand what is blocking it and the hint is in the nervous system – it doesn’t feel safe yet to receive. It doesn’t feel safe with such a big change.
Reason #1: Your emotional conditioning
Let me break this down for you why you keep asking why can’t I manifest. Your nervous system carries weight connected to the idea of safely receiving what you want. It doesn’t know how to handle success, love, money, or whatever you’re manifesting if you’ve never experienced that before.
What it DOES know? The struggle. The conditioning that’s familiar, even if it’s limiting. Because familiar equals survival to your subconscious mind.
And here’s the thing most people don’t understand – self-sabotage is protection. Learn more about shadows and triggers coming up to the surface while manifesting.
When you get close to what you want and suddenly start procrastinating, picking fights, or creating chaos? That’s not you being broken – actually that’s your nervous system trying to keep you safe by pulling you back to what feels familiar. That’s the part of you who is so madly in love with you that it wants to protect you by keeping you in the familiar, even if it means stagnation.
This is why repetition of affirmations won’t help you if you don’t attach a feeling to it and train it often enough to make it your dominant state. And by feeling, I don’t mean the elevated emotion of when you receive that thing. I mean peace, fulfilment, love, naturalness of having it. You’re trying to convince a part of you that’s literally programmed to keep you alive through familiarity.
The solution isn’t more affirmations. It’s healing increased awareness and emotional mastery.
Reason #2: You haven’t trained safety yet
Here’s what actually works – you need to train feeling safe with what you want.
Start journaling that you already have it. Not just writing the words, but really feeling into it. How does it feel in your body? What does your day look like? How do you move through the world? How do you behave, react to triggers, how do celebrate the milestones?
You’re training your nervous system to be that person, making it familiar and safe to be that version of yourself and have those things.
This is mind discipline in action – not forcing thoughts, but gently conditioning your system through consistent practice. Through repetition because repetition dissolves doubt.
Remember, you’re the universe experiencing itself in this human form. It’s not that serious because you’re ALWAYS safe here. This perspective shift alone can unlock massive capacity to receive.
Reason #3: The resistance is stronger
When doubt comes up – and it will – don’t ignore those thoughts and emotions. We want to acknowledge them and deactivate them, allowing a new story to take its place.
The doubt is a good sign – it means that the status quo has been meddled with and a new story is emerging. The old identities won’t give up without a fight. Speak to yourself with reassurance like this: ‘It’s okay to feel this, but it’s part of the old story. I choose differently. I am safe.’
This isn’t about toxic positivity. This is about soothing yourself back into alignment.
You’re literally rewiring your nervous system to feel safe with expansion. The goal isn’t to never have doubt. The goal is to not let doubt run the show. Because even the most advanced people in this practice experience doubt.
Reason #4: You dwell in the state of feeling unsafe
Here’s your practical takeaway: Repeat this process often. Shower yourself with love and reassurance as I instruct in the video with the Patronus Charm- How to raise your vibrations FAST.
This is healing through increased awareness. You’re not trying to convince the universe of anything (it already knows) – you’re convincing YOUR subconscious system that it’s safe to receive what you desire.
Your capacity to receive expands as your nervous system feels safer with having more.
This is real manifestation work. This is how you actually embody the version of yourself that naturally has what you want.
Conclusion
manifesting isn’t a complicated concept but shifting to feel safe to receive is the real culprit. No worries though because with the proper nervous system regulation and emotional mastery, all is possible. And if you need help with that – I coach people to achieve emotional mastery, heal through increased awareness of I AM and improvement of their mental diet.
Start with one thing you’re trying to manifest. Journal about having it for 5 minutes every morning. Feel into it. Make it familiar. And keep the feeling for as long as you can afterwards.
And let me know in the comments – what’s one thing you’re going to start feeling safer to receive?
