THE FEELING IS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION

FIRST (hu)manifestation nugget

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This writing contains one manifestation principle plus: 1) some thoughts to support your deeper understanding; 2) some ways to play with it, as no concept will do you any good unless you know how to put it into practice. Practice, by the way, is a great word. Keep playing with anything that seems promising to you until you get better and better at using it effectively and with ease.

I want to begin with a pair of principles that really go hand-in-hand and work together as one.

THE FEELING IS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION.
A FEELING IS THE EASIEST THING TO MANIFEST.

WHAT THIS MEANS
Well, if you’ve ever fallen in love, you remember that before you ever know the details of what you and this other beautiful human being are going to do together; and before you know the details of all you later came to know about them (a body of knowledge you may still be adding to)--first of all, you felt all kinds of feelings. You felt feelings you wanted more of. You felt a pull, a curiosity, something that wouldn’t let you go. In short, you felt the love.

Um, you may have experienced this with non-human sentient ones (wonders!) as well—the animal we take one look at while visiting the shelter, and we’re done for. I’m not going home without you.

From another angle, think specifically of when you got an idea to look for a certain kind of job or explore a certain course of study or learn how to become an X [fill it in and get specific here, so that you’re learning from your own lived experience]. You might remember the first jolt of Whoa, what about this? Or the curiosity that stirred and kept growing as you looked into different possibilities. Or the excitement that grew as you talked about it with others or read things written about it.

(Side note: You know that some kinds of talking to certain people dashes the dream while it’s unformed, so take care with that!)

You know when you started wondering about buying a car or a house or a taking a trip, and as you looked into things and dreamed into different possibilities, you felt a momentum build to carry you in that direction. That momentum came from feelings. You could feel what it might feel like to live there or drive that or vacation there, and perhaps as this grew inside you, it seemed more and more DOABLE until perhaps it felt inevitable.

The feeling comes before the manifestation. The feeling is in fact the first manifestation. Once you get the feeling going related to the thing you want, that fuels the going after it, the grabbing of ideas and opportunities that come to you to explore it. You know they come and you miss them, or ignore them, or talk yourself out of them; OR, they come and you go with them and grow the thing. The feeling make the difference. It allows you to take a risk when a part of you (or someone in your world) objects. The feeling is the magnet that brings it in.

And the feeling is easier to get in place than the lover or the car or the advanced-degree program or whatever. Way easier. But most of us don’t give a lot of attention to cultivating that feeling—except when we’re falling in love, which is why I began there. The love buzz is so compelling that we let the feeling take us and we go with it. It’s possible to do that (in different ways, at different levels) with other things in life, with anything in life, as well.

It’s not only possible--it’s a necessary component of manifestation. The feeling will fuel the journey from wanting to having, from dreaming to creating.

HOW TO WORK WITH THIS CONCEPT
You may trip yourself up (many people do) by mentally jumping too soon to the finish line. You don’t need to know now what it (whatever you’re after) will look like or how you’ll go about getting the right information or making the choices involved or how you’ll finance it or how long it’ll take you to get it nailed down. Don’t jump ahead. Stay out of not only the outcome but also the details of the journey. Do show up for the journey as it unfolds, now and now and now, with each thought, each bit of research, each conversation, each little or large trip to explore the site, etc, etc, etc.

Most important: ENJOY THE JOURNEY. FEEL GOOD WHILE YOU’RE ON IT. HAVE FUN DOING IT. START FEELING NOW HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL WHEN YOU GET THERE. CULTIVATE NOW THE FEELING that goes with whatever you’re after.

The easiest way to work with this is by going very general with the feeling you’re after. At the least-specific level, you want this thing because it will feel good to have it. You’ll feel better in some way. It will improve your life, your sense of purpose and fulfillment, the amount of fun you’re having, the joy of having an experience, developing a talent, offering a service, relating with a certain someone or population in a certain way. All of that feels good. Feels like you being you. Feels like life is good and worth living.

So … the work is first and foremost to feel good now. Feel good in any realm of life. Feel good getting up, feel good first thing in the day, feel good going to work or wherever you’re going. Feel good with people, feel good with tasks, feel good in the world, feel good noticing what you notice, feel good moving in your body. Feel good, now, living where you live, doing what you do, relating with whoever’s around you, moving in your body as it looks and feels now, experiencing the nature in your vicinity. Notice that these things aren’t necessarily related to the thing you want or even in the same realm of life--you may even think you’re off-course or at least off-topic giving this your PRIMARY attention, but you’re not. (I’ve written before about how the universe doesn’t care about categories, and your feeling good here and now will spill into the good feeling of what you want to bring in.)

As you carry on and live life and go about your business, yes, you’ll need to move toward the thing you want by exploring a possibility here and another there, taking one simple next step at a time to flesh out the dream, learn more about the various forms it could take, check out what seems most promising. But don’t just take steps to check steps off a list. Take steps to keep cultivating and growing the feeling. Take steps while paying attention to how you feel!

Last way to apply this: In your process of exploration, when it feels good to explore, and you feel it as expansive (fun, interesting, exciting), KEEP GOING. When it feels bad (stressful, confusing, overwhelming, deflating, frustrating), MOVE AWAY FROM THE TOPIC.

You’ll kill it for no good reason by staying fixated on the how when where and getting preoccupied and confused by what you don’t yet see. The not-yet-visible is probably something you couldn’t possibly see right now and won’t ever bring into view by keeping your blurry, squinty gaze on it as you feel worse and worse.

Whatever you’re after, get the feeling in place first, and feel good in whatever step you take in that direction. Feel the feeling grow. Consciously expand it. Feel good in general all the time in all that you do (or in resting, playing, NOT doing). Manifest the feeling first. That’s the easiest way, and it really is a manifestation in itself.

Love & blessings, Jaya

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