Dear Reader,

In January, I declared 2025 my year of healing. Since then, there has definitely been progress, but lately, I feel stuck, struggling with infections and worsening eczema. So, I've turned again to manifesting as a complementary tool in my healing toolkit (don't worry, I take antibiotics against those infections). Let's return to have another look at manifesting, which I have only started to understand now.

Manifesting

What is manifesting again? Best-selling author Gabby Bernstein writes, "Manifesting is cultivating the experience of what it is that you want to feel — and then living and believing in that experience so that you can allow it to come into form." Hm, ok. Aligning myself with what I want. Does anybody else go like "eh, how?".

Manifesting meditations recommend adopting a higher frequency so that the universe sees that you are ready to take on more. Right. That helps. Not. However, I started to get the thing about frequency. It's pretty much positive thinking. If you're sitting grumpily or scared in the corner, it's unlikely that opportunities and solutions will show up. Actually, they might show up, but you cannot see them. Positive thinking opens our horizons because we are relaxed while negative emotions get us into the stressed tunnel view.

Ok, so we might be able to work with higher frequency then. Good.

What and Why

The usual recommendation is also to know the Why and the What but not the How. This means that you need to know what you want and why you want it. How you will get it is not important. That is the pathway that will show up when you have figured out the What and the Why.

In my case, I am pretty clear about the Why - eczema is painful. The What turns out to be more complicated. I realised that the last time I had good skin was probably 25 years ago. So, when I wish for healed skin, I'm not sure how that looks and feels. I went to work and imagined parts of my body healed. Bit by bit. Again and again, and I can imagine my healed skin much better now. I feel that I'm finally giving my body a blueprint of what the result should look like instead of letting my body figure out what "healed skin" (what I usually wish for) looks like. A clear picture, not just a blurry wish.

Manifesting as Focus

While working with a manifesting meditation for health, imagining my healed body and trying to get myself into a higher frequency, I read an article by Darius Foroux, whom I've been following for years. He writes about how he found manifesting silly but also fascinating. He defines manifesting as having a clear idea (aha!) and focusing on ONE thing you want to accomplish. And that's certainly a definition I can work with. There are so many distractions and things to want. Just focusing very hard on one thing I really really REALLY want and having a clear idea what that looks and feels like - there we go.

This focus doesn't mean I conjure things from thin air. It means that my scanner is programmed to look for opportunities and solutions supporting me. That could mean a specific treatment, or, in my case, it has to do with resolving some stuff and finding out how to relax. Manifesting works as guidance to follow hunches.

Can we work with that? Let me know if you're manifesting anything.

Have a happy week!

Anja