A short YouTube talk by Betsy Guerra that explains manifestation through both psychological and spiritual lenses. She equates manifestation with the psychological concept of self-fulfilling prophecy, leads a brief guided visualization exercise, explains the brain mechanism (reticular activating system) that helps notice aligned opportunities, and connects wholehearted desire with prayer and spiritual partnership. The clip ends with a brief call-to-action to visit betterwithbetsy.com for support.
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Today we're going to talk about the spiritual and psychological side of manifestation. I once read in a book that life is images of the mind expressed. And that's essentially what manifestation is. Manifestation in psychology is probably called self fulfilling prophecy. And that's one of my favorite terms in my field. A prophecy means that you say something's going to happen, and it does. Self fulfilling implies that you contributed to making it happen. So then self fulfilling prophecy is. Manifesting is saying something's going to happen, believing something is going to happen. And it does. But it has to do with the way you showed up and you acted and your brain responded. So if you have something in your heart that you really want to accomplish, if you have a goal, a dream, a thing, a place that you want to visit, think about that right now. Think about that thing that you want wholeheartedly and visualize it. What visualize it means is you're going to sit with that image and you're going to explore it and experience it as if it was really happening in your mind. So close your eyes and imagine that thing that you want. It's that day that you accomplished your goal. Who are you with? What are you wearing? Where are you? What are you seeing? Who are you sharing with? How are you feeling like? Put all your senses in there in that vision and just try to gain a lot of clarity of what that moment will show up for you as. That is visualization. And the power of visualization is that the subconscious mind does not know how to differentiate truth from fantasy. It is, you know, if you go to the movies and you watch something and it's a sad movie and somebody died and you're like crying, well, that's not real. Those are actors that's made up. Why are you crying? Because your subconscious mind doesn't know that's a movie, that it's fantasy. Your subconscious mind's role is to believe whatever you tell it or whatever you expose it to, then mindfully expose it to the outcome that you're dreaming about so that your mind can start believing that it's already happening, it's already true. And in that thing that you want in the future, you will experience in the eternal now. Because now is really all there is. But that's another video for another time. So practice visualization. See it, experience it, and then what happens is that since your mind, your subconscious mind already thinks that that's true, then it's going to help you find the opportunities that are gonna enable you to make it a reality. And the way that works is there's something called the ras, the reticular activating system. And the role of the RAS in the brain is to look out for stimuli or you know, the things that happened outside of you to see what is in alignment with what you have inside in your subconscious mind. So for example, if you're looking to buy a jeep and all you think about is jeeps, jeeps, Jeeps, and you read about jeeps and you look at jeeps and you study jeeps and you study prices and you go to car dealers, if all you think about these days is jeeps, when you go drive for a ride or you're around town, you're going to see more jeeps than ever and you're gonna be like, oh my goodness, look at that, the jeeps really are on style. It's like the car to buy these days. It's not that there are more jeeps around you, it's that your reticular activating system is paying attention and is choosing what to focus on in your external world. The same is true for your dreams that you've visualized. When you, when you have something clear in your mind, your reticular activating system is going to be looking out for the jeeps or opportunities for the people, for the connections, for the experiences that are going to bring you closer to fulfilling your prophecy. And guess what? Where spirituality comes in in all of this is that if you have a dream, like a wholehearted dream and a fervent desire to accomplish something, God put it in your heart and God and prayer and staying in communication with him and connecting with him through meditation, through silence, through prayer will allow you to enforce that biological tendency that you have to seek out and fulfill your prophecies. So now it's going to be you with your human wisdom and God putting everything in place to support you in your self fulfilling prophecy. So it's time to start manifesting what you were created for. And if you want a little more support in doing that, please feel free to Visit us at betterwithbetsy.com and we would be delighted to support you.
