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Manifestation practices involve visualizing what you want, believing that you have received it and feeling grateful. Some people write their visions down, perhaps every day. Others repeat affirmations or chants. On the surface, this might appear to be obsessive-compulsive disorder. But what distinguishes OCD form repetitive manifestation practices is that OCD is fear-based: “I have to do this or something bad will happen.” This is antithetical to manifesting what you want.
When your attempt to manifest comes from fear or worry, you are putting energy into that worry, that lack, that dread. For example, if you try to manifest not being poor, you are focusing on lack instead of abundance. The Universe is agnostic; it responds to thoughts, feelings and actions. Those may be positive, which can result in a positive outcome, or negative, resulting in a negative outcome, even if that’s not what you were intending.
After a lifetime of trying to cure my various problems through the repetitive thoughts and actions of OCD, I finally turned around and manifested my cure from OCD itself. This came as the culmination of a lot of work on manifestation. I focused on manifesting small things: my perfect parking space, healthy knees, money coming at just the right time…. Curing myself of OCD had never occurred as a possibility; that was a bridge too far. But one…
