3 Signs You Are Trying Too Hard to Manifest What You Want With the Law of Attraction

Aaron Doughty identifies three signs you're overcomplicating manifestation: feeling resistance to your actions, believing it requires hard work in a linear way, and obsessing over when and how results arrive. He argues that embodying the desired emotions now, rather than forcing outcomes, is what actually works.
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This video, I'm gonna be sharing with you 3 signs that you are trying too hard to manifest what you want. I'm also going to show you how to make it so much easier so that you don't have to try so hard and you can simply start to create from a much easier paradigm. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you those 3 signs that you may be trying too hard to create what you want in your life, and I'm going to share with you ways of going around that to make it so much easier. Now, many times with the old school way of thinking about the law of attraction, we have these preconceived notions about how the process of manifestation is, and if we believe that it is something that is hard, We believe that it's something that doesn't come easy, then that's the kind of experience that will create our life. Now, one of the most important parts of this process and something that for a long time I wasn't really talking much about is that of understanding the state of being. How do we feel in relation to what we want to experience? Because every subject is actually two subjects. This is a traditional Abraham Hicks type idea. There is the subject of what you want and then the lack of what you want. So you could say that there's the subject of you being in a relationship and then you feeling lack of being in a relationship. So this is why it's so important because many times we try so hard because we're coming at it from this point of view. We're coming at it from the point of view is I don't already have it and I really desire and want it, which reaffirms that we don't have it in the present moment. And we have to try very hard to then get to the place to where we do have it. So this is first off being aware of how you feel in relation to the goals that you have. And when you start to do that, everything changes. Now, when I first had the YouTube channel and I was first talking about the law of attraction, it was mainly about just taking action. And that's because I was rewarded for taking so much action. I started, you know, really putting a lot of energy and effort into what I was doing and I started to get a certain result out of it. And it was something that I was rewarded for, so therefore I just kept doing it. And that was an important part of the process because I love doing what I'm doing. I love and am passionate about making videos, so that energy in a way became leverage. Now that is an important part of the process, I believe, but even more important is the energy from which the action is being taken. So many times people say, oh yeah, take a lot of action. But then if they go in and they're taking action, doing something that they hate doing, they create a lot of resistance. They're coming from this paradigm that says, I don't have what I want, I don't feel good about the process, and therefore it creates a lot of resistance along the way. So the first sign that you are trying too hard to manifest what you want is simply that you are feeling a lot of resistance. Resistance is trying to be something different than the natural self. The natural self, when you're doing what you're passionate about and you found out what that is, it's very easy to align with doing it more and more because there's a certain feeling behind it. But if we come at it from the point of view that we need to take a lot of action and not only take action, but it's something that we don't really enjoy doing, then we create that resistance. Without even knowing it. So the good thing is that if you're feeling resistance, resistance is telling you that the way you are relating to the situation you're in or to whatever you're doing is out of alignment. So maybe you're doing different actions, maybe you're just thinking about it a different way. Now there's normally two ways that this happens. Either it's something we're really not passionate about and we're really creating resistance around it, or it's something that we could be more passionate about, but the way we're thinking about it is causing us to feel resistance. So for example, we may feel resistance in going to the gym if we haven't gone in a very long time and we associate a lot of pain with going to the gym. But if we were to switch around the mechanism of our mind, the way we think about it, we could start to go to the gym and enjoy it if we started to associate it in a new way in our mind. It's not that we're just not passionate about it. It's that we're maybe thinking about it in a way that's not conducive to us getting what we want done. So there's two main ways. So the key to this is being honest with yourself, saying, am I really not passionate about this or is there a little bit different way I can look at it? I used to have a sales commission job before I did YouTube full time, and when I knew I wanted to do YouTube full time, I started putting a lot more energy into my videos. At the time I was working 40 hours a week plus I was making videos daily, so it was a lot of energy. However, what I realized is that when I went into work every day, I feel so much resistance because I was resisting the present moment there because I wanted to be creating more videos. Now from a certain perspective, that gave me the fire to do what I'm doing now full time and put more energy into it. But from another perspective, what I did is I started to more so think about it differently while I was there. I was like, I'm going to enjoy the present moment. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to be more here now while I'm at work and to enjoy the process. And the result of that was I actually made more money. I actually enjoyed the process more. Therefore, I increased my state of being, which remember is the most important part, and I got much more done. And then I made that transition much faster from February of when I started putting, really dedicating myself to what I was doing. And then August is when I was able to leave. So it wasn't that long period of time. So the resistance I felt was able to be reframed by looking at the situation in a new way. Before I was like, I have to go to this job I don't like, I don't want to be here. I switched it around. I was like, you know what? I do choose to be here because do I have to go to work? No, there are other opportunities, other things to be doing, but I choose to go to work because I know it's a temporary thing. And I know I can enjoy the moment. I get to talk to people. I worked in women's shoes at Barneys New York, which is a high-end retail place, so I was in a suit all day in a nice AC place with other people that I enjoyed to be around, so it wasn't that big of a deal. However, the way I thought about it changed. I started increasing my state of being. I enjoyed the process more. I got more done with my videos and everything else I was doing. I went full-time much faster because I let go of resistance. So you can let go of resistance by being aware of the way you're thinking about it and what you're doing. And if you're feeling resistance, that is a sign that you are trying too hard. So make it easier by aligning with who you prefer to be, because as you align with how you prefer to be, everything becomes easier. Now, the second sign that you are trying too hard to manifest what you want is that you are feeling blocks with your beliefs about the process. Now, this is what I want to ask you. How do you believe the process of manifestation works? Do you believe that you always get a reflection of how you feel or who you are being? Because many times we believe that the law of attraction process is very hard, or we believe that things don't come easy. We think that we do have to take a ton of action, and action is powerful, especially if we believe in action. However, that is a belief, so I always bring it back to this. What would I have to believe is true to be having this kind of experience? If you believe that the process is hard, then the process will be hard. If you believe it's hard for you to visualize, then that will also be the case. If you believe that everything doesn't come easily, then that will be the case. It's about your beliefs in relation to the whole manifestation process in general. So this is something that I also reframed with the whole action thing I was talking about. Instead of me believing that it's all about the action, which I still do take action because I love what I do. However, I realize it's also more important, the energy aspect of it than anything else. So I started to focus on my own energy. How do I feel in relation to the process? How do I believe? What do I believe about the manifestation process in general? If I think about it from a linear type perspective, I'm like, here I am, here I want to be, I got to do this, this, this, this, and then eventually I'll be here. What I do is I create a longer process than it has to be. The stories we tell ourselves influence the kind of experiences we're having. So if instead what I did is I did something that is more so considered what is called quantum manifestation, I let go of this story I was telling myself. And I simply believe that I can go from here to here instead of from here to here to here to here to here. What is necessary for me to get to that space? What is necessary is for me to drop the story of the whole process of how things work. And the other thing that's necessary is that I embody the emotions of being here right now in the present moment. As I do that, everything will change and I can go from here to here instead of from here all the way mixed in. So this comes from the belief about the process. Do I believe I have to go through all of this or can I just embody this and go forward with that? I want to encourage you to understand that you can make this process so much easier. All you have to do is understand that it can be easier. You have to believe in alignment with who you are. You have to align with the true energy of who you are, which means what you're passionate about, and then imagine the best version of yourself and how you'd be acting in the preferred reality. You could say, I'm here and this is where I want to be. How are you acting over here? I look at that with myself. What is my body language like in the reality where I am doing what I love? And of course I'm already doing what I love, but what I mean by that is what is my body language like when I'm traveling the world and I'm giving speeches in front of thousands of people, when I'm going to amazing restaurants and connecting with other people that think very similarly? How am I doing when I go to these exotic places and film videos? How am I feeling? What is my body language like? How do I act? And then what I do is I don't have any preconceived notions about how I have to get there. I simply choose to embody those emotions now because I realize those emotions exist within me right now. And as I focus on feeling those emotions, because I know that part of those emotions are freedom, passion, excitement, all of those emotions I can feel right now through my focus. Focus equals feeling. The more we focus on the emotions we want right here, the more we can quantum jump from here to here by making the process so much easier than we are priorly making it. The more we think in a linear time fashion, the more we're going to have to go through that process. Make it easy. Embody the best version of yourself, and as you do that, you find that things happen in a very powerful way. Third sign that you are trying too hard to manifest what you want is that you are very attached to either how things happen or when things happen. When we are in the linear type mind and we're thinking of when things will happen, we are in a way saying that we don't trust that things could happen faster than what we believe. We are trying to control how things happen because our ego is trying to take the driver's seat. However, the job of the ego is to focus, but it is the job of the higher mind, of the source energy of the universe, whatever we want to call it, to bring it into our life experience. That's why it's more so about alignment than it is about us creating what we want. Here's something that changed my perspective of manifestation. It's understanding parallel realities, and this is something quantum physics is showing. So there's an infinite number of parallel realities that exist. We are shifting constantly through different parallel realities based on our focus, our state of being, and what we are doing. Those three things are the main things that determine which parallel realities we shift to. Now we're constantly shifting based on all of those three different variables. And the thing is, is what you want to experience exists right now in the present moment. It exists right now. So we don't have to try so hard because it already exists. We don't have to create our own reality. All we have to do is choose it from the space of infinite parallel realities. And how do we choose it? We choose it with our state of being. We choose it by allowing it. Allowing, choosing is so much easier than creating and trying and having the ego do everything. Your ego doesn't have to do everything. Your ego, all it needs to do is to focus in a certain direction and start to feel as if that reality is already here, but if we are attached to how things happen, If we are attached to when things happen, then we are still thinking about it from the ego point of view. We are still ingrained in thinking that we have to put everything on our back and we have to make things happen. We have to create our own reality. That's an old paradigm. It does work. It takes a lot of resistance, but there's easier ways to go about it. And the easier way to go about it is by simply choosing to know that that exists right now. And all you have to do is align, align your energy, align your energy. You can still take action, but you do it from a place of leveraged action. You do it from a place of my cup is already full. I'm already whole and complete because that reality already exists and it's really who you are. If we believe that we're not whole and complete, that's a belief. That's all that is. If we believe that the process is hard, that's a belief. It can be so much easier if we allow it to be. Understand that your cup is already full. You are whole and complete. All you have to do is embody the emotions of what you want right now, and the process will be so much easier. You won't have to try so hard. You just simply are. You don't have to create your own reality. You just have to choose it from a place of understanding that it already exists. As you make it easier for this process, The universe will show you how easy it really is. It's as easy as you allow it to be. So let me ask you a question. What are your beliefs about the manifestation process? Do you believe that it can be easy? Do you believe that you could feel the emotions of what you want to experience right now in the present moment? Do you believe that you are whole and complete? And if you don't, it's okay. Be light on yourself, but allow yourself to know and to start to shift your focus because whatever you focus on, you feel. Shift your focus to this reality that you want to experience, that you really already are, and all you have to do is is let go of these layers that no longer serve, these beliefs that create resistance, this belief that you have to do everything from the ego's perspective. You are much more beyond that of the ego. The ego is one aspect of who you are, but you are much more vast than you can possibly imagine. And the more you start to really tap into that, the more you will completely change your life because you're going to start to embody more of that essence of who you are. You are so much more than you know, and the way you tap into that is with your focus. It's with your feeling, and it's with your embodiment of knowing that you are whole and complete and you can choose to come from that frame. Now, another part of this process is understanding our vibration. When we raise our vibrational set point, Everything in our life will begin to change when we start to create or choose from this higher perspective, this higher vibration. Things happen so much easier. That's why I've created a free guided meditation that will show you exactly how to raise your vibrational set point. I think it can absolutely change your life. It can make the manifestation process so much easier and it's absolutely free. You can download it in the top of the description box below and it will help you to create that powerful change in your life. Another thing I'll be doing is I'll be doing more live Q&As on Instagram. So if you want to be able to have more interaction with me, if you want to ask me questions, go ahead and follow me. I'll go ahead and put it right here or right here for you guys. And what you can do is you can follow me there and we'll have more of an interaction type thing, which I think is really cool as well. So with that being said, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please like this video if you liked it. Subscribe if you haven't already and hit that notification here because the way YouTube does things now is you actually have to hit that button in order to see the vids. I got a lot more vids coming out. I got some great stuff coming and I'm excited to share it with you. So with that being said, peace, much love, and namaste.
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