Manifesting – a re-think

(Nimue)

At the moment if we talk about manifesting, it tends to mean trying to bring things we want or need into our own lives. I’ve never felt easy with this – how can I ask for things for me, when we need solutions to climate chaos, genocide, poverty, extinction and all the rest? I recognise that I’ve struggled to think magically because I cannot solve any of these massive issues and because my own far smaller issues never feel worthy of attention when there’s so much wrong out there.

Recently it struck me that there is a whole other way of approaching this. A way of thinking about manifesting that doesn’t just revolve around personal privilege, and that doesn’t feel problematically self-indulgent.

What I need to manifest in the world, is me. I need to manifest myself as effectively as possible, to do the most, the best, that I can do. I need to bring myself into the world effectively. There’s still a great deal I won’t have the power to change, but if I manifest myself effectively, I’ll have the most power I could have to do the most good that I can do.

This is available to all of us. It means working with what we have. To be effective, we need to be as well as we can be, and have the resources we need. Seeking to magically manifest yourself isn’t self-sacrificing or self-defeating because to be able to show up, you need the means to do that. If you’re asking for help to show up effectively, you are by definition asking to be in a position to be able to act.

We need to manifest ourselves as acts of magic in the world. Seeking inspiration and pouring that out. Seeking enough abundance that we can share something of it with others. Bringing kindness into the world, hope, possibility and whatever else our manifesting leads to. Working out who to be, and how to manifest ourselves effectively. Being open to what’s being asked for. All around us, every day, beings – human and not human – are filled with need. What if we are the ones who are meant to answer those cries for help? What if it is our purpose to become the magic we want to see in the world?

I’m going to be investing more time in trying to figure out how to do this. I can’t fix everything – and its pure ego thinking that’s on me in the first place. It’s on all of us and we are in this together, whatever we choose to do as individuals.