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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 day, while reading about miracles that other people have manifested, I used an affirmation from the 100-year-old text, The Master Key System: “I can be what I will to be.” And I willed to be free from OCD.
The key is a complete belief in the reality you seek. There’s an episode of the original Star Trek series, where the only way to keep from being killed on an alien planet is for Spock to infuse the human crew with absolute, doubt-free belief that the bullets coming their way will not harm them. Any doubt that you harbor will kill the aspiration. Miracles do not work with doubt.
On the other hand, OCD cannot be used to manifest a positive outcome, because your OCD mind is picturing the things that could go wrong. It’s the difference between thinking, “I am going to have a wonderful car ride” and “I won’t get in a car wreck.” The second thought is focused on a potential bad outcome, whereas the first is focused on an inevitably positive…
