Stop trying to "Manifest" money and instead do this

In this motivational video, Aaron Doughty argues that the common approach to "manifesting" or "making" money is fundamentally flawed because it treats money as something that must be created from nothing. He explains that our language and underlying beliefs shape our reality, and that the phrase "make money" implies scarcity and illegality. By reframing money as a neutral energy exchange and focusing on giving value rather than taking, we can align with our true passions, raise our vibrational frequency, and allow money to appear as a side effect. Aaron shares personal anecdotes of moving from a 9‑to‑5 sales job to becoming a full‑time creator, describes how shifting his self‑image from consumer to creator transformed his abundance, and outlines a practical process: visualize the version of yourself who lives the desired lifestyle, embody that mindset, and consistently provide value. He also promotes a vibration‑calibration tool (whatsmyvibration.com) and offers meditations to help viewers raise their consciousness. The video concludes with calls to action for likes, comments, and suggestions for future topics.
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This video, I'm going to show you why you should stop trying to manifest money or make money. I'm going to show you this one little twist that when you make in your thought process changes absolutely everything. And by the end of this video, you'll know exactly how to apply it. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you a perspective shift, a twist that changes everything when it comes to you creating more money or more abundance in your life. And first off, realize that when I share these videos and these ideas, it comes under this premise and this understanding that our beliefs are creating or allowing us to perceive of a certain reality. So our beliefs are reflected back to us, and if we want to change the outer reality, we must first change the inner reality or what we believe about the inner or outer reality. When we change our beliefs, we change everything. Now within our beliefs, we have our language, and our language to us will reveal what we believe about reality, what we believe about relationships, what we believe about money. And based on what we say in our language, that will determine subconscious beliefs about it. There are many times I get where people will ask me, how do I manifest this when this happens? How do I do this? And in the language you can see their beliefs about money. Now it might be something like, how can I attract more money when it's really, really hard to do? How can I attract a certain person to my life when I don't feel worthy? Or why is every guy or girl that I date this type of way, this type of like negative way? If you're saying, why is this type, why is every person I date this type of way, there's a belief in that language that says, that girls or guys that you date are this type of way. It's embedded in there, but you don't, we don't necessarily always see it. So when it comes to this, what we can then become aware of is the language we are using. Now here's the thing with making money and manifesting money. Think about what that implies. If you have to make money, it is implying that the money doesn't already exist. And not only that, it is illegal to make money. If you were to go and make money and print off money, the Secret Service— if you're in the United States, the Secret Service would show up at your door and you could go to jail for a long time. It is illegal to make money. But even beyond that, I know that that's just kind of like a funny play on words, but think about it. We are implying with our beliefs, with our language, that we have to create something that doesn't already exist. And that's why a lot of times when I share ideas on the law of attraction, what I talk about is you don't have to— when we say beliefs create reality, a more accurate statement is that beliefs perceive of different realities because all realities you can imagine already exists. If you believe you have to create your own reality, it's almost like you would imagine that this house doesn't already exist for me to experience it. I have to create it. All of this energy has to go for me to create it. It implies so much trying, so much struggle. And the key to this is realizing you don't have to create it. It already exists. The money you want to manifest already exists. Even manifestation sometimes implies that it doesn't already exist. I have to manifest it out of thin air. It is about acquiring and collecting that money, that abundance. And the philosophy I share in this video can be an absolute game changer in your life if you begin to apply it. I applied it in my life and my whole entire life's changed. I went from working a 9-to-5 job, which by the way, I believed that I was only worthy of working a 9-to-5 job I wasn't passionate about. Not only did I believe that, but my self-image, I saw myself as somebody that worked a 9-to-5 job that I wasn't passionate about. And therefore the reality that was equal to my beliefs New York selling women's shoes. It was all equal. It was all in alignment to the beliefs I had, to the self-image that I had. Now when we're talking about creating and making money, it is implying that struggle is implying that, that, that difficulty. Many people have beliefs that money is hard to make or you have to work really, really hard to get money. I will talk a lot, a little bit about that as well. But in general, the thing I really want to show you is that money is a side effect. Money is a side effect of you doing what you love and adding value. And when you're doing what you love, normally you are adding value energetically. So that is what shifted everything for me. Even when I had that 9-to-5 job I wasn't passionate about, if I went in every day to it and it was a completely sales-based commission job, if I went in every day and I was focused on trying to make money. It was all about me acquiring the money. Can I just please make it? Can I have it? Because if I have it, then I will feel better, then I will be able to buy things that I want. But you see, the way that the universe works is what you put out is what you get back. When you switch the focus from how can I get, which by the way is a selfish way of looking at it, instead what can you give? Because all energy, like money is bad. That's what a lot of spiritual people think. Money is bad. If you believe money is bad, then subconsciously you will do everything you can to keep it away from you because you don't want to be bad. Now the thing is, is when you realize that money is neutral, money is just a neutral prop that we use in reality to exchange energy, then you start to relate to it in a different way. That's all money is. Money is an exchange of energy that we've agreed upon, has a certain value. So therefore, because we've agreed upon it, we exchange money for different services, for different energy, for different products. So the way people go about manifesting money and making money is they're only focused on the taking of the money versus focusing on the energy exchange, the giving of the money, which then giving of the energy that then exchanges the money, which then changes everything. When I even went into my 9 to 5 job that I wasn't passionate about, if I focused on trying to get from customers. Oh, will you buy that shoe? Because then you'll give me the money for it and I'll end up getting a commission of that. That's very selfish. People could feel that too. If you have a sharky salesperson, you could feel it. You're like, this person just wants to help me to get to make the money. But see, when you switch that in your mind and you start to see, wait, how can I give value to this person? How can I genuinely help them? Not only how can I genuinely help them, but how can I like increase their state? How can they leave better than when they came in? The days that I did that were the days I had amazing days. I'd go in and like, sometimes I wouldn't even focus on the making of the money. I'd focus on just the giving. I'd focus on just, let's, I'm gonna enjoy myself. I'm gonna talk to this person and connect with them. Every customer I have, I'm gonna be present with and I'm gonna increase their state of being. And the irony is that when you increase someone's state of being, they're then more likely to be in a good state to where then they do wanna buy. So it was something that worked. In that way, and very powerful. And the reason I share that with you is because most people, when they talk about manifesting money, making money, first off, you believe that it's very hard to do. You have to create something out of nothing. But secondly, you're focused on only the taking of it instead of the giving of the energy. And if you're doing what you're passionate about, it won't be hard. When people say, oh, it's hard to make money, it means that the way you're going about trying to make money is you're doing something you're probably not passionate about. When I make videos every day, I make videos every single day, and I have for 3 years in a row, and I'm absolutely passionate about it. And some days when I'm— especially when I was back in Vegas, I'd work like 12 to 14 hours a day. It was not hard work at all. It is so easy for me to focus on what I love doing. So this is about being aware that if you believe you have to work hard for money, then it is implying that you aren't doing what you love. And what I would then do is start to focus on what do you love to do? What are you passionate about? Everyone here on the planet has a purpose. Many of you have a purpose to spread light and love and heal. And you know, you might be a Reiki practitioner, you might be somebody that spreads ideas, or these— this is a powerful time right now where many people are waking up on the planet. It might have something to do with that. But the idea is to become aware of what it could be, start to set the intention to find out. And when you find out what that is, it'll change so much about you. I started— when I started to see myself as somebody that was a creator instead of a consumer, changed everything. I saw myself as a consumer for years. I would read books, I would listen to seminars, I would meditate, and I wouldn't create at all. I wasn't putting out any energy into the world. I was just taking it. I was very happy with it. Everything changed when I started to create, started to see myself as a YouTuber. I started to see myself as somebody that added value. And the irony of that is now I'm more abundant than I could even, even dreamed of probably 2 years ago, even a year and a half ago. And it all comes from making this shift within yourself of knowing that your reality is simply a reflection of of what you believe about yourself and how you see yourself. And the key to this, 90% of the transformation is simply becoming aware of what that is for you, aware of what the story you tell yourself about money is, aware for the self-image of the way you see yourself and how much you think you're able to make. When you pay attention and you become aware of this, you can then see that it's most likely on autopilot. You may believe that you can make the same amount that your mom or dad made. It's a hand-me-down belief. It was an agreement that you made subconsciously through seeing them interact in a certain way. They told you, oh, we don't have the money to afford this toy that you want. And you said, oh, that's the way reality works. There's not enough to go around. But when you start to question those beliefs and you start to see them for what they are, not your beliefs, agreements that you made in the past, you take accountability that you agreed to it. You agreed to their beliefs and you thought they were your own, but no longer do you continue to want to live like that. So this is about being aware of that. Now, the more you do what you're passionate about as well, the more high your vibration goes. And the higher your vibration goes when you're thinking and intending for things, the easier it happens. Has to do with raising your vibrational state of consciousness. So when we're talking about making money, if the focus is on the money, then of course, especially making it, which is completely illegal, The idea is you have to print it out of nothing. No, you want to vibrationally resonate with money, but in order to resonate with that money, you have to also be putting out the energy of who you really are. And maybe who you are is you create amazing art. Maybe who you are is you're an amazing team leader and you love to work with other people. Maybe who you are is somebody that has a— spreads ideas via podcasts or via social media. Maybe you're an amazing athlete. That still adds value because some people love to watch that. You see, any— the way that money works is money comes to those that add some sort of perceived value. I say perceived, perceived value because you could say— because that could be debatable. You could look at Coca-Cola who has corn syrup inside of their products, and when you eat it over time or you drink it over time, it has a very acidic effect on your body, and over time it could be very unhealthy for you. but the people that drink it don't see it that way. They get some type of perceived value, even if it's a tasty drink for the 3 minutes that they drink it or whatever it is. So this is about being aware of your value system, but this is more about just being aware that everything that is exchanged for money has that of some type of perceived value. And if you're putting out value, don't focus on the money, focus on the value. The money will come easily, the money. And, and the more that you develop this momentum, this wheel that starts to go in a certain direction, is the more that then what happens is it becomes easier and easier and easier to spin that wheel in a way. For example, for me to manifest more money now, it's very easy. It used to be and take more energy, but now it just happens because of, of, of being in a high vibe, setting little intentions, because I developed a certain amount of momentum. So what I would recommend to you is a process where you look and you imagine. Use your imagination, connect to the reality which, by the way, already exists because all quantum physics shows us is all realities exist. So your imagination can connect you to the version of you that is doing what you're passionate about. Must be connected to your heart. You doing what you love, you living the kind of lifestyle you want. And what you do is you imagine that version of you and imagine how you think, how you act, how you feel, the habits you have, the books you read. Imagine that version of you, and what you can then do is just decide that's who you are now. You can visualize, feel into it, and know that that reality exists. If you mirror that version of you, the way you think, feel, and act, which also involves the value you put out into the world, you will eventually get the same effects. As long as you trust that vision, move towards that vision, don't surrender and say, oh, it hasn't happened yet. It doesn't— there's a certain momentum that your life has led you up until this point now. So if it takes a little bit for the mirror of life to change, it's because there's a little momentum. But what you can do is start to trust the process. If I was starting to make daily videos on YouTube when I was like, oh, the Aaron that I prefer to be is the one that makes daily YouTube videos as a full-time YouTuber. If after 2 weeks of doing that I said, ah, there was not a huge difference in my reality, I give up, then this— I wouldn't be here right now living in beautiful Tulum for the next month. Couple more weeks actually, and then going to Costa Rica for a month. I wouldn't be living that lifestyle because I would have never got to this point. I would have trusted that vision enough, but I trust this vision. So the thing I encourage you to do is to switch around the focus on money and realize money is a side effect of the energy you provide out in the world, but also realize you don't have to make it. You just want to vibrationally resonate with it, and the way you vibrationally resonate it with it is by choosing that you're going to put out the value into the world, put out value into the world by being you, by being you. And by, by doing that and by taking action with that and then by raising your vibration, that is what's going to change everything. Now, something that I do have as well, if you want to calibrate your vibration, plus I'll give you 2 meditations for getting to the next level of vibration and you want to see what your vibration is currently at, you go to whatsmyvibration.com. I'll go ahead and link it in the top of the description box. Whatsmyvibration.com, and it will use about— it's like 15 to 18 questions. It will calibrate your thought processes and show you where your vibration is using an archetype. And then what that will do is that will allow you to go from where you currently are to the higher level of consciousness. Plus I'll send you emails in the weeks going forward that show you how to get to the next level. So it's personalized for you. So you get 2 meditations plus advice as to how to get to the next level of consciousness, go to whatsmyvibration.com, calibrate your vibration, comment below and let us know what you calibrated at. Also, if you could do me a favor and smash that like button, if you like, but if you like videos like this and videos about belief systems as well and how to reframe different beliefs and how that can change your life, you want me to make more on that, go ahead and hit the like button and then comment below. Let me know. Think of also doing one on this on relationships. So if you want that, let me know too. So other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video, and as always, I'll see you in the next one. Peace, much love, and namaste.
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