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Buckle. Up. This one is huge.

 When I found out that “Is manifesting real?” was a huge trending search term on Google, I knew I had to do a podcast episode about it. There’s so much confusion and doubt surrounding the topic of manifesting, and I get it. Believe me, I get it.

There’s a lot of stuff out there about manifesting and the Law of Attraction, but not a lot of practical, tangible, reliable information. What are the best manifestation tips and techniques? Are positive affirmations the same as manifestation? Am I doing this manifestation thing right? Am I wasting my time with manifestation?

people are drawn to the idea of manifestation because at its core, it is about hope

It’s about the hope that you have some tiny measure of control in this wild life. Without hope, life feels really scary. That’s why people try to manifest love, to manifest financial abundance, to manifest the family they’ve always wanted, to manifest the perfect job. There is a lot riding on these dreams. No wonder the topic is so full of tension and uncertainty—especially when you’re getting different information from a million different sources.

Maybe you’ve been using positive affirmations to attract a major miracle for a long time. Maybe you are simply trying to manifest that one endless traffic light on your daily route to turn green sooner for once. 

Either way, if it doesn’t happen the way you’d hoped, it’s completely understandable that you’d be frustrated and skeptical—and, ultimately, ask the Big Question:

Is manifesting real?

This question most often arises when we are blocking our manifestations. Here are five major blocks that lead us to question whether manifesting is real. 

block 1

limited beliefs

These are negative or short-sighted beliefs about yourself, the world or the possibility of achieving desired outcomes. These beliefs create a barrier and limit your ability to attract and receive what you desire.

block 2

resistance and control

Trying to force or control the outcome can create resistance. Manifesting is often about surrendering and allowing the Universe to guide the process. When you hold on too tightly to a specific outcome, you can block the flow of abundance and synchronicity.

block 3

lack of clarity

Uncertainty or a lack of clarity about what you truly want can impede manifestation. It’s important to get clear about your specific desires and intentions so you can take inspired action toward your goals. 

block 4

emotional blocks

Emotional baggage, like fear, guilt, shame or resentment, can create energetic blocks and hinder manifestation. Releasing and healing these emotions is crucial to create space for positive manifestations to become your reality. 

block 5

impatience and attachment

Being attached to a specific timeline or outcome leads to impatience and frustration, creating resistance. Manifesting requires patience and trust in the divine timing of the Universe. Letting go of attachment to the outcome and embracing the present moment allows the Universe to get to work on your desires.

Gabby Bernstein: Is manifesting real?

So now you know some of the blocks to manifesting that may make us question the Law of Attraction. But once these are removed, we can finally answer the question, “Is manifesting real?”

On this week’s episode of Dear Gabby, I answer the question once and for all. Yep, no holding back. I’m not exaggerating when I say this will change your life forever.

The life you want is within reach.

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in this week’s episode, you’ll learn:
  • Why more effort doesn’t equal better results—and might actually be sabotaging you
  • Real, practical advice on creating financial abundance
  • The major factor that could be holding you back from finding the love of your life
  • How to get out of your own way so you can unlock your manifestations
  • The secret to changing your energy and frequency

I had the chance to speak with three listeners, and I couldn’t have asked for more perfect questions for such a big topic. We were able to cover three of the most common challenges that we navigate in life: love, money and achieving goals.

I mean, come on. If you truly can’t find something to relate to in this episode, please call me, because I want to know your secrets.

best episode yet?

One listener called the lesson she learned on this episode “the best thing ever.” Another received five words that will genuinely alter the trajectory of her life. I think this is one of the most important episodes I’ve ever done.

I cannot wait for you to hear it.

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dear gabby #139 May 22, 2023 manifesting

is manifesting real?

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Hi there, Gabby here. This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I'm not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from a psychological or medical condition, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

Before we even dive into today's episode, and it's a big episode today, I wanna give you a little inside tip that will come in handy, especially after you listen to today's show. You've heard me say it over and over and over again. This is my mantra. The path to inner peace is through meditation, period. Period. End of story.

I literally do not go a day without meditating. I've been on this journey for 17 and a half years. Frankly, I've been meditating pretty much most of my life as a child and have had a daily devotional practice for 17 and a half years. And when it comes to manifesting, well, there's simply no greater tool to support you on that journey.

That's why I'm going to give you my most powerful guided manifest. Meditation for free, totally for free. You can use this alongside all the other tools and techniques that I talk about on this show, and particularly in this episode. So all you have to do is go to deargabby.com/manifest and download this truly transformational meditation to help yourself begin to manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams.

This meditation will greatly compliment today's episode, so I highly recommend that after listening to this episode, you go to deargabby.com/manifest. And download that meditation, practice it, maybe even practice it for the next 30 days. See what transpires. Leave me a review and tell me about the miracles.

You will thank me later.

Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Welcome back to the show. Today we are responding to Google Analytics.

We really are. We really are, our VP of marketing came to us and said, you guys, so many people are searching, the term "is manifesting real." And she just brought that to our attention just to give us some ideas of what's happening in the world of spirituality and personal development.

And I said, oh my God. What a great title and topic for our episode on Dear Gabby. So thank you Google keywords for the search and the information because there's so many people right now interested in having a spiritual practice, interested in manifesting, interested in the law of attraction, but there's not a lot of people that really understand why.

In my opinion, the question "is manifesting real?"—the only answer is it's the only real thing. Because we forget that we have a energetic state that is constantly attracting its likeness. And that truth that this is a world made up of energy. We are beings made up of energy and everything is a frequency that's consistently bouncing off of one another—people things, even walking into a room.

I’m back in the studio today, this studio versus the studio next door. This studio has some f-ed up energy, right Wolf? I don't know, there's some up funky shit happening in this studio and next door it's like high vibes. So energy is everything. And we have to recognize that we can be the conductor of the world we see when we start to fine tune our energy.

And that's how manifesting is in full form. That is the answer. Is manifesting real? Hell yes, manifesting is real because what it is, simply put, is our ability to attract our energetic likeness. And so when we enter into spaces that don't feel in alignment, we have to do whatever it takes to get back into that alignment.

Right before my first interview in this room, my friend Amanda Decadenet, who came on for the interview, she grabbed me by the hand. She said, let's just tune in because the energy in this room is funky. We have lovely Wolf here today. We've got a lot of faith in him, so we're leaning into that and everything technically seems to be working right now so we're gonna lean into that.

And I can shift my energy around what I walked in with right here, right now. And in shifting my energy, I can actually manifest a really good episode. I can manifest a really great show. I can manifest a lot of healing and support. Whereas if I hadn't been in tune with that energy, if I hadn't had the awareness of what my energy's doing in this moment and how I can adjust it, then I'm gonna manifest more of what I don't want.

I'll probably manifest more tech issues today. I would manifest just a low vibe energy. I would show up for this feeling a little bit funky and everything would feel really off. So, recognizing and accepting that manifesting is merely the energetic reaction and response to what our energy is putting out.

Is manifesting real? Hell yes. And it's a lot more simple than we make it, but it's the folks out there that are constantly saying things to themselves like, Hey, you know, I'm gonna think it and then it's gonna happen. Or the more I talk about something, the more it's gonna happen. Or if I make a vision board, something's gonna happen.

That is when manifesting becomes a game, and that's not how it works. Manifesting is really accepting the power of your energy and learning the tools and the methods to realign with the energy of joy, the energy of love, the energy of grace, the energy of inner peace, the energy of simplicity and relaxation.

And in that place of genuine grace, we have the power to start to be the conductor of the world that we see and co-create our reality. Rather than be the victim of the world we see because we're not caring for our energetic state. So then, today's episode may be disappointing to all of you out there who are like, I just want some tricks for manifesting.

Well, my loves, I'm gonna give you some of the most powerful tools for manifesting, which is how to change your energy, your thoughts and your belief system so that you become a point of attraction for more of what you want rather than what you don't want. This is our topic today. I'm excited to see who comes on in. And what kind of energetic adjustments they may need in order to get back into alignment with what it is that they wanna create in their life rather than what they are misaligned with.

Take that in. Manifesting is real and is actually the most real conversation we could be having here. Let's get started.

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GABBY: Let's bring in our first guest.

CALLER: Hi Gabby.

GABBY: Hi sweetheart. How are you?

CALLER: I'm good. How are you? Thank you.

GABBY: I'm good. Thank you.

CALLER: I felt this, honestly.

GABBY: So you felt that you were gonna come on, you felt that you were gonna make it on, and you did. I think that's actually very reflective of what I just taught.

That you were feeling it and you were the first person that we were able to bring in. Let's talk about that. You're feeling it. There you go. You manifested it, baby.

CALLER: So I think I manifested a few things in my life so far, and I couldn't be more grateful for how life turned out right now. But at the moment there are a few things that are full of uncertainty, I would say.

And last year, I had everything sorted out for the next three years. Everything had been planned. And then the universe was like, no, definitely not. But at the moment, there are days where I'm super like, I know this is just unfolding the way it should. And then there are moments I'm full of anxiety, I would say.

GABBY: Hmm.

CALLER: And I don't really have the faith in some moments that everything's going to work out just as it's supposed to be.

GABBY: So my love, I’ve heard you say now a few times, that when you first started, you said, I had the next three years totally planned out. That is the problem. Because the key to getting back into alignment with your attracting power is all about forgetting what you think you need.

So if you're in a story of, I am going to get that, or I need that, or I has to be that way, what's happening? If it's not that way, you then start to feel disappointed, out-of-control, misaligned, and in that place of, it's not happening on my time, it's not happening in my way, you're actually creating more resistance to actually attracting what it is that you do want.

So the practice here is to forget what you think you need and just start to be in the feelings, be in the energy, ground yourself in the essence of what it is that you want, which ultimately, we all want the same thing. We wanna feel good. We wanna feel good about ourselves, we wanna feel good in our bodies.

We wanna feel good in our relationships. We wanna feel ease, joy, happiness, grace, abundance. And those feelings are in our control. We have the power within us to adjust our nervous system, adjust our energy and adjust our feelings. But if our feelings are completely based on an outcome and if we're gonna put all of our stake in the outcome, then we're gonna stay in misalignment.

Because nothing outside of ourselves can actually be the source of grace that we have to access and learn to access from within. So your Dear Gabby lesson today is to forget what you think you need. Let go of your timeline, let go of your plans, surrender it all, and get into a regular practice of prayer.

So prayer or intention-setting, whatever you wanna call it, I don't care. But every single day, thank the universe for taking from you whatever you think you need, and revealing to you how you can feel good today. Thank you universe for taking away from me whatever I think I need, and helping me get into alignment with feeling good today.

And if you just say that prayer now, my love, for the next year start with 90 days, everything will change. When we try to control things, I just got over two weeks of trying to control some stuff and the second I said that prayer, everything just whipped into shape because I got out of the way. Get out of the way, my love.

Does that resonate with you?

CALLER: Yes. A lot. And that prayer is probably what I needed. Yeah.

GABBY: There you go. You got your Gabby kick in the ass today. You got your Gabby kick in the ass today.

CALLER: Thank you so much.

GABBY: Remember, it's about the energy that is going to attract, not how much you control it. Okay? Thank you, my love.

CALLER: Thanks a lot.

GABBY: Thank you. Who's next? Hi gorgeous. What's your name?

FRANCESCA: Francesca.

GABBY: Francesca. How are you, my love?

FRANCESCA: I'm doing well. I actually spoke to you at the Happy Days book event.

GABBY: Oh, right on, cool.

FRANCESCA: For a minute, when I was speaking to you, I was so nervous, excited. Yes. So this topic of course, resonates with me uh big time.

I guess I'm struggling between the energy and being in the moment and feeling, and that tangibility factor of what am I supposed to do? Like the steps, like I know to be in the feeling in the moment and try to be in that happy place. Cause I wanna manifest my person. I'm trying really hard and trying to be—

GABBY: I'm gonna stop you right there, love.

FRANCESCA: Yes.

GABBY: Did you hear what you just said? I'm trying really hard.

FRANCESCA: Yeah.

GABBY: Ohhh. Trying really hard to manifest your person. Is trying really hard sexy, Francesca?

FRANCESCA: Not really. No.

GABBY: No. Right? No. Trying really hard. Not a sexy vibration. Not a sexy energy, right? Hmm. So let's make an adjustment here. Letting go is what allows for the highest good to come into our life.

You can go on your dating apps and you can tell your friends that you're looking and you can visualize. But if you do all that from a place that's trying really hard, your energy is going to send out a message out into the ether that you're trying really hard, and we both agreed that that's not sexy.

FRANCESCA: Yeah.

GABBY: So I want you to become very hyper-attuned to the moments when you are trying really hard. When you notice that, when you notice yourself obsessing over the app or trying to get your friends to set you up, or whatever it is, when you're trying too hard. I want you to step away, stop, drop, and meditate.

FRANCESCA: [LAUGHS]

GABBY: I want you to step away and I want you to get into alignment. I want you to sit down and breathe. I want you to put your hand on your heart. I want you to remind yourself that you are absolutely perfect right here, right now. That all is well. I want you to do whatever you need, whatever your spiritual tuneup is that you lean towards.

Whether it's meditation, whether it's a prayer. Thank you, Universe, for taking this from me. I wanna let go and allow. Whether it's opening a passage of The Universe has Your Back, or Super Attractor, or listening to one of our episodes, re-listening to this episode, whatever it is that will get you back into your center.

Because all of the trying is making your attracting impossible. Stop trying so hard.

FRANCESCA: Yes. That makes perfect sense when you say it, and it's so clear and easy and I feel like sometimes I get into that mode of like, okay, I'm gonna calm down. I'm gonna just let things happen. I feel like I'm living groundhog day over and over again sometimes, and then trying to meet people and then trying the apps.

And so, sometimes, it just feels like I'm stagnant.

GABBY: Trying the people, trying the apps. I kind of want it to become more about shaking it up a bit and having more fun with it. So you're in your house, get outta your house, take a walk and get a juice or a water bottle or coffee, and just enjoy a nice long walk in the middle of the day.

If you can step away for 10 minutes, five minutes, an hour, whatever you got. Get outta the house. After that walk, notice that your body's vibrating in a different frequency. Notice your energy's in a different state. Maybe do a little bit of meditation or journaling at that point. Visualization about what it is that you wanna attract into your life.

Just shake it up a bit. From that energy, once you feel that shift has occurred, that's when you can spend 10 minutes on that app, because that's when you know the energy that you're putting out is magnetic. But if you are in a trying place, if you're trying to make something happen, I want you to stop, put that app down and get outside. Go for a walk, sit down and meditate, whatever it is that you have to do.

Because anything we do from that frantic, needy, controlling place will actually have a negative outcome. You can say this firsthand. You with me on that?

FRANCESCA: Yes. I'm completely with you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your words and I'm really gonna take them to heart.

GABBY: And I look forward to seeing you here back on the show.

FRANCESCA: The next time I'm calling you, I'm gonna put that out there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a fun story to tell you.

GABBY: Yes, that's, I like that answer. I'm gonna have a fun story to tell you. That was an excellent answer. Because you're not like, I'm coming back with my man cuz that you're not, maybe you don't believe that yet.

Right? We don't wanna throw out affirmations of things that we're not energetically aligned with. So the fact that you just said to me, I'm gonna come back with a really fun story, that's something that you believe in, that's something that you trust, that's got momentum. Come back to me with a really fun story.

FRANCESCA: Okay. I promise I will.

GABBY: I love it. Go girl. I really feel that you took that in and you heard me, and I'm, I'm gonna say I believe that this is gonna make some major changes for you.

FRANCESCA: I will. I did. And I put my fan girl aside and I'm with you.

GABBY: You're with me baby. You're with me.

FRANCESCA: It means so much like when I hear these stories play back or any of the, the boards and stuff, you change people's lives so it means so much.

GABBY: I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. I hear you. And I feel that, cause I often don't take that in completely. And I'm taking it in now. Thank you. You're so wonderful. Bye, gorgeous. Go have some fun. Go for a walk.

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GABBY: All right, who's next? Let's bring in, uh, one more manifesting question. Hi, gorgeous.

CALLER: I knew this was gonna happen.

GABBY: You all know.

CALLER: But, and I was nervous about it. The chances that I'm gonna get called on last was, anyway. I'm gonna get it together.

GABBY: You're glowing. You're glowing.

CALLER: Because of you.

First of all, you popped up on my Facebook. Maybe in December. I was going through this manifestation whirlwind. And I decided to do the uh, 2- day challenge, got my friend onto it and have been a miracle member. I hear your voice every single day. And I just wanna say thank you for that. So what I'm struggling with is, so my life has changed a huge deal since last summer.

I'm an attorney by practice, but I wasn't really feeling fulfilled in the way that I was practicing. It's a noble cause for sure, but the way that I was practicing wasn't aligning and I was just going in through this like full, deep spiral down and I finally decided that I was going to quit my job and start my own practice.

But I really had other dreams that I wanted to fulfill, and so I went on and started fulfilling those other dreams, which is to get into television and film theater. So I've been doing a lot of theater, a lot of film, been getting a lot of green lights toward the television film. When I'm doing the manifestation practice and meditating and just reading all the books, I know that manifestation works.

I manifested a trip with my family last week and it was amazing. Doors are opening in ways that I think are just reassuring. The one issue that continues to be a thing is my finances, and it's probably one of the first things that I manifested was financial abundance and freedom, and I'm just not there yet.

I want to thank the other people who have come up because you get a little bit from everyone's situation to sort of help ease the anxiety and the stress that you're dealing with. So I know that I need to get into a good vibration. The week that we did Joy, just have fun for the week, I booked my first commercial, right?

GABBY: Yeah, girl.

CALLER: It's like, oh my God. It was just, this works. This works. So I know these things, but at the same time, I get notifications that I have bills coming up. They're these real life things that just keep taking me out of where I know I'm supposed to be.

GABBY: Okay.

CALLER: I had gotten two commercials this past two weeks, and I had been shortlisted for both of them, but I think the anxiety of the money and needing the money and needing the money, I ended up being backups for both of them, and I was just like, this is my energy. It's my energy that's doing this. How do I get back to this space that I know works and feels good and is right, but I'm constantly being taken out of it? I can't, can't settle down.

GABBY: Okay. So lemme ask you a question. Are you still doing the legal practice on the side?

CALLER: I am, but it's not really moving well because I don't know if, in my heart, that's what I really wanna do.

I'm doing it to pay the bills to try but my energy is not there.

GABBY: There you go. Okay. Well listen, abundance comes in many forms and sometimes it comes in ways that aren't as sexy. And I wanna give you a little practical guidance in addition to spiritual guidance. What I believe is that when we wanna make a change in our career, we don't always wanna just leap too fast because it actually interferes with the manifesting process. Because not having any money doesn't feel good and it's also not sustainable.

And so, by focusing all in on the new career, there's this element of actually creating more resistance because you're not allowing yourself to have a sustainable financial income to keep you in an energy that feels safe and secure.

So I actually think that the best manifesting method right now would be to make sure that you're focused on earning in the way that you know you can consistently earn and open up to creative possibilities for clients that bring you more joy, for projects that are are more fun for you.

You have a skillset that you're good at, that makes money. That can be with you for as long as it needs to be till the universe really reveals to you, oh yeah, it's time to walk away. And I can say this firsthand, I was a publicist by day and a spiritual teacher by night.

And running my PR business consistently in the early days of working to build this career gave me the freedom to speak for free. Gave me the freedom to not have to put pressure on my purpose-driven career.

And it made it more fun. And so I really wanna encourage you to just hold on to that practice, put energy into that practice.

Recognize the abundance that you have, the skillset that people need. Recognize the abundance when a client passes your desk and you can charge less than the other big firm over there, and you can make it really valuable for that person. The abundance is reciprocal. And what that does, my love, while it's not your dream career, it actually puts you into a better point of attraction to attract more of what you want for your dream career.

CALLER: Right.

GABBY: You hear me?

CALLER: I hear you. I hear you. I know that, that's, I knew that here. I didn’t wanna do it, you know, like that little…

GABBY: Of course, of course. I mean, here's the thing.

CALLER: And so, it's, it hasn't been growing into this thing, and I'm just like, well, is it not growing because, in my heart, that's not what I really wanna be doing right now? Not that I hate it.

GABBY: I think that you just also need a little bit more clarity because I feel like you could define what that is. You can say, I wanna manifest five clients at this monthly retainer, at this many hours. That will offer me the abundance I need to have savings, pay my bills, and the time I need to nurture my future career.

That clarity really sets the boundaries of what it is that you want to attract so that you're not feeling tethered from one thing to the other thing. And you're clear. You're clear with universe. This is the time I'm willing and want to allocate. This is how much money I wanna make. This is actually logically how I can make that happen.

This is the desire. And that this situation will give me runway to open up the creative possibilities to be in my art. We gotta pay the bills, baby.

CALLER: I know. Don't I know it?

And, and I've been okay up until this point, right? Like, you know, it's almost been a year.

GABBY: Good for you.

CALLER: Yeah, I, yeah, I feel good about it, but it's like it's getting to that point where it's like, okay, get it together, man.

Get it together.

GABBY: I think also, I mean, listen, we can be multi-passionate. We can have lots of different right talents, we can have ways that we make money. Listen, I think anyone that's an actor or in that field, they have multiple profit centers. So you've got a great one. Don't lose it. Nurture it.

Nurture it. Nurture it. Let it be part of what it is that you're creating. Big deal. And then trust that you can use it later when you need to read your own contracts.

CALLER: Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much. And this is, this is amazing, best thing to happen.

GABBY: Thank you so much. You're so awesome. You're definitely glowing. I can't wait to see you on my television screen.

CALLER: Oh, thank you so much.

GABBY: Bye my love. Thank you. What a show. This is gonna go down history as one of our best, best, best shows. I feel it. I feel so connected to each person that came on. I feel so realigned and back in my energy.

I also feel that the message came through clearly: manifesting works, but it's all about your energy. It's not about vision boarding or thinking it. It's about feeling it. It's about making sure that whatever you are doing is aligning you with the feelings of grace and joy and possibility. And that sometimes the things you do on a day-to-day basis may not be what you think you should be doing or wanna be doing, but they're actually perfect because they're setting you up for something more.

Letting go of your plans and your timeline, forget what you think you need, give it over trust and allow, and in the process of allowing, in the process of trusting and the process of being open to creative possibilities, you align your energy in a way that will attract more of what you want. And that's the secret to manifesting.

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