Manifesting In Three Steps

TL;DR

1. Alignment: Get your body, mind, spirit, and emotions into alignment

2. Purpose: Know your purpose - commit to directionality and locomotion

3. Surrender: Give up all desire to control outcomes

I have but one purpose in this lifetime - to allow the unmanifested energy of the universe to manifest through me. To allow this, I purify my body, still my mind, and expand my nervous system. I sit, listen, and then act with purpose. In the words of Katie Hendricks, I am committing to growing a nervous system that enjoys abundant amounts of energy for long periods of time.

Manifesting, put simply, is allowing the energy of the universe to come through you into the form most needed now to share the message that is most needed for this time.  You may not be surprised to learn that the messages from the universe have largely stayed the same for thousands of years. Only the form of the message has changed to meet the needs of the time, place, and culture. For this reason, every generation has its own teachers.

The unmanifested is the unfocused energy of the universe. It’s the energy of each of us in our natural state - the state of connectedness to each other. In a word, it’s love. It’s the love that connects all beings. It’s the energy that reminds us that we are all the same. It is always there for those who are ready to manifest it and possess the knowledge of how. Becoming available for manifesting first requires internal work.

Oneness

The source of all manifestation

I believe that we are all one. We are all connected to the same fucking energy source. As astronomer Carl Sagan once said, "We are made of star-stuff.” We come from the same oneness and return to the same oneness. And, that doesn't capture it either.

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We are all already one - we are the same oneness now as before our arrival and after our farewell. It is only the physical form of the stories we create that drive separation between us.

Our natural state is love and oneness. You see this in toddlers on the playground who wander up to each other, become instant friends, fall in love, and play like they’ve known each other a lifetime. And when I think about it, they already have.

Alignment

Preparing the portal

Only when I am in complete alignment does the universe manifest through me. When I am in alignment and living in service to my purpose, everything I need appears at the exact right time in the exact right amount. This includes money, energy, inspiration, resources, connection, and above all, time.

I remember a time when I was writing my first book Mindfulness Handbook for Urban Warriors, and I was stuck for weeks on a chapter about Sex Magick. I didn’t have the resources I needed, I knew it, and I was completely blocked. Being stuck was blocking the energy I needed to continue with the project.

On a whim, I decided one morning to go to a coffee shop to write instead of going to my office. Standing in line, I ran into my grown-up niece, who had taken the day off for self-care and magickally was at the same coffee shop as me. Surprisingly, it was her first time there. She had no idea why she chose this place - it’s certainly not near where she lives or works.

We sat together and talked over coffee, tea, and food. During the conversation, I brought up my project and how I was stuck. My niece had what I most needed right then in the form of a connection to a witch. I manifested a sex magick witch at a coffee shop!

Not long after, I was interviewing this witch named Sugar Cyanide and gained a wealth of knowledge from her for my book, and my personal life too. We even came up with a spell together over tea to include in my book. It was exactly what I needed, in the exact right amount, at the exact right time - now.

There is no logical reason my niece and I were there on that day at the same time. I don’t put much thought or apply logic to why we were both there that day. Asking why is one of the quickest ways to shut down abundance and block manifestation.

Being aligned to my purpose presupposes that I know my purpose, that the universe has a message to share through me. It means that I am surrendered, that I am doing what is needed to allow creation to be realized in tangible form.

Purpose

You are here for a reason. There is something you are meant to learn or do in this lifetime. You may already know what your life’s purpose is, or you may be in the process of discovering it. Everyone has their own journey and their own essence pace. Know that if you have not found your purpose yet, it’s okay. Until you find your purpose, it’s the journey to that eventual understanding of why you’re here. If that is you, keep exploring. You are exactly where are you are meant to be, my dear.

I believe that you have special gifts. Special gifts are things you excel at that come naturally to you. Your gift might be listening, accounting, cooking, sensing emotions, solving problems, finding connections amidst the chaos, or building things. It might be something that you don’t even recognize as a special gift yet because it comes so easily for you. Often when things come easy for you, you just assume it’s easy for everyone else too. If you are not sure what your special gifts are, start with the things about you that you frequently get complimented on, the things that don’t seem like as much of a big fucking deal to you as others make them out to be.

I call my special gifts my superpowers. One of my superpowers is that I have an equal balance of masculine and feminine energy in me. This awakened in me when I started solo-parenting. Being both mom and dad to my 9-year old boy cultivated a deep understanding of the types of energies available to me. Years later, when I was studying yoga in Mysore, India, my teacher Yogacharya Arvind spoke this truth out loud to me for the first time.

Because of that balance, I can bridge the divide between linear and organic thinking. I can also be the bridge between men and women, engineering and design, and stoicism and emotion. I have come to learn that I am that link and a teacher who can meet people where they are and show them a path to another way of understanding.

I can help people unlock the masculine or feminine powers that already exist inside of them and make them accessible for those ready for the path. What are your superpowers? How can you align your superpowers to have a big impact, have fun while doing it, and be paid abundantly in the process? Therein lies purpose.

Surrender

Manifesting the abundant power of the universe does not work on your schedule. To truly be an instrument to manifest the unlimited power of the universe into this physical world, you must be surrendered. For me, surrender comes through a daily practice of prayer and meditation and letting go of my desire for control. I give up fear and hope and don’t desire anyone to change.

Prayer and meditation are two essential practices in a healthy spiritual life. They have similarities and yet are different at the core. In prayer, you are giving up your will to control the world around you and yourself. You are acknowledging that your personal higher power is bigger than you and outside of you. You enter a state where you commune with the life energy that connects all beings. It is a state of a surrendered mind. Not surrendered to yourself, but instead surrendered to something outside of yourself. In meditation, you go inward.

You may have resistance to the word prayer, and that is understandable. I offer you a different story about prayer. You can choose to create a new story in your life about your relationship with the divine. The word prayer is nothing but a signpost. If you have continued resistance to the word, you may choose another signpost to signify this practice. Some suggestions are surrender to the universe, connect with earth mother, or even feel the force.

Meditation is a process of going inward and learning to still the body and mind. Meditation can take many forms from sitting and walking to doing the dishes. Acting with intent and in full presence, not clouded by thoughts, is a cornerstone of the practice.

Mediation, on its own, or in conjunction with other practices, is a spiritual practice. A twice-daily practice of 20 minutes is guaranteed to change your entire fucking life. Meditation can be a part of any other religion or practice. Some religions like Catholicism sneak it in with practices like reciting the Rosary. Anything can be turned into meditation, even mundane tasks like folding laundry.

Love

You and I and every living thing are the same. The sameness that connects us all is summed up in the word love. When you truly know yourself and your purpose and practice daily to come into alignment, the universe manifests through you. When you start to exert control or look too closely at why you are living in abundance, or attempt to apply logic to the situation, it disappears. Manifesting and abundance are like a castle made of cards that topple over at the slightest detection of your direct gaze.

It takes courage to show up fully aligned and to surrender to the power of the universe as a tool for its designs. You are the universe. You are love.

This is manifesting, and everything you need to manifest is provided by the universe abundantly.

xo

—Jason

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