Why You Should Stop Looking Outside for Validation While Manifesting

There is but one root cause for feeling “nothing is working” or “everything is going against me or what I desire.” Your absolute focus and belief in the world of facts outside and no belief in your inner world of imagining, visualizing, and conscious praying.

There is only one mistake you are making; you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you…The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. Think yourself out of it. There is no other way.

Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When he says think yourself out of it, it means, set your thinking right by:

• Practicing the awareness that your inner world is Reality, not the external world of changeable facts.
• Trusting yourself so much that your self-trust becomes your new sight/eyes.

Because of your belief in external things, you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions…Seeing is believing should change to believing is seeing.

Neville Goddard

You have been practicing seeing the outer world, its attractions, objects, and colors with your physical eyes throughout your life. How much time have you spent going within with your eyes closed, getting to know yourself, your inner world, and its connection to the outer world? For, as the saying goes, ” As within, so without.”

Since childhood, you have conditioned your mind & gaze to turn outwards for anything you need. In doing so, you have practiced and conditioned yourself to believe what you see so much, that you have entrenched the belief within you- “What I see is true.”

Now, the only way out is to instill the opposite belief – “What I believe is true.”

For this, simply turn your gaze inward. Focus on your inner world, get to know yourself, understand yourself. Initially, this may sound like a lot of work. But, when you were a toddler, who had just begun walking, did it feel like work to you? It didn’t. Because it was a natural process, a part of who you are.

So is this. Going within into your inner world is a part of who you truly are. You simply have to switch yourself off from all external conditionings. And no, you do not have to go to the Himalayas, or the Alps to do that. You can do it wherever you are and there is an easy way to do it.

Tune In To Your Heart

Get into your heart space and listen to it. Your heart is the seat of the Source energy within you. Your heart knows what you want, for all your unique desires arise from the Source/God encased in the energy of your heart.

The Source, call it God, Oversoul, etc., is the space, the vastness, the Forcefield, within which all the possibilities, or finished realities, exist. Therefore, the bigger picture, the possibilities that you want as experiences in your life are in the direct line of sight of the Source, and thus your heart.

Your heart knows what you want, AND it knows the way to what you want too. Since all the realities exist in the Force-field/ God-field/Source, who resides in your heart, it’s your heart that holds the map of the direct path to where or what you want to be.

The mind creates an abyss, the heart crosses it.

Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This is precisely the reason why whenever you want anything, you simply have to look within, into your own heart. That’s your guiding Northern light.

Desires arise from within you. Your looking outside for movements and signs is looking in the wrong direction!

When you make the mistake of running after the object of your desire in the external world, you get entangled with the energy of chasing. That’s chasing shadows! This produces more chasing, because you are relying on external circumstances.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of the senses.

Neville Goddard

Instead, change the direction of your seeing, and change the way you see…go in, make believing your new seeing…your faith your new seeing…your self-trust your new seeing.

Remind yourself, you did not manufacture the desire. You did not plan last year that at this time this year, you are going to have this or that particular desire and then you will follow some rigorous steps to “manifest” it into “reality.”

Whenever you feel restless, or impatient get into your heart space.

Get curious, what is this desire awakening in me? What aspect of me is it unravelling? How will I be when this thing that I desire happens or if I have it?

The desire has come merely to reveal to your physical awareness, an aspect already hidden in your consciousness.

Because that is the part in you asking to be fully awakened, released, and expressed.

It has nothing to do with the external object which you desire. So instead of running after the external object, turn your attention inward, to the energy of the desire itself.

Wouldn’t you want to get to know a person you love well? It’s the same. The desire in you is some form of love seeking expression. Allow it to express itself to you first through your heart. Understand it before you suffocate it with your own meanings, or assumptions coloured from past experiences.

It has been given to you as a gift for you to nurture. If you get anxious and keep practicing techniques after techniques forcefully, you’ll smother it. Its growing is not your responsibility. That is the “how.” The “how” is not your responsibility. The “how” comes about through inspired action, arising from your acceptance and being at peace with your desire and embodying it.
(You can read the article on Inspired Action here – From the Womb of Being, Doing is Born)

You are not responsible for bringing the desire to fruition.

Read that sentence again.

Your work is to accept with all innocence and purity the desire that has been given unto you. Shower it with love and trust. That will help it unfold & flower. You shower love on it by frequenting the energy of your heart and trusting your heart’s guidance.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction…Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Jalalludin Rumi

The “sky” Rumi is referring to here is the Forcefield, or Godfield which contains all the created realities, or finished possibilities.

So, stop looking outside for what you want! It is on the inside. Go within and look within.

The self-existent Brahman (God) created the senses with outgoing tendencies, therefore, man beholds the external universe and not the internal Self….but some wise men turn their gaze inwards and behold the Self within… They realize the Self’s separate existence from the body and know that the body moves and acts on account of Its (The Being’s) presence therein, just as the iron moves and acts in the presence of the magnet.

Katha Upanishad (An ANcient Sanskrit Scripture)

Go in. That’s the practice.
Go in. That’s the practice.
Go in. That’s the practice.
Go in. That’s the practice.

Till faith becomes your sight. Till your and the Source’s sight becomes One.

Live by faith not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7, The bible

For strengthening your belief in your internal world you could also follow some modalities such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). This modality is clinically proven to produce fast and lasting results. You could check out the EFT Script – What I Seek is Already Within Me.