Manifestation Q&A

Answering questions about manifestation! Nikki recently hosted a live class on InsightTimer. Today, she is answering some of those questions for you because if one person had this question then many more people did too!

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Welcome to the Stepping Up Podcast. I'm your host, Nikki Gingrich, A busy working mom who spent years searching for the perfect career and balance, Only to find it's not about the job and that balance is not even real. I have found myself in love with personal development, Which has led me to leaving my full time job with nothing but a prayer and a ton of faith. Today I'm bringing you inspiration through my own journey and interviews with amazing people who have followed their dreams and teaching you how to love yourself and become who you are meant to be. It is time to redefine life as a working mom and I hope that you find the inspiration here to follow your dreams and take your own path through this podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. Hello and welcome to the Stepping Up Podcast. I'm your host, Nikki Gingrich, And I'm excited to share with you this episode today, To share this information with you today because I, If you don't know, I am a teacher, Meditation teacher on the Insight Timer app, Which is a meditation app and I absolutely, I love this app. It is the app I use for my own meditation practice and becoming a teacher on there has been a true blessing and just a really, Really place for me to find joy. And I have found a beautiful, Beautiful community about on a weekly basis. I go on there and I teach something live. I've been teaching a lot on manifestation, Doing some Q and A's, Doing some angel card reading. So please, If you're on the app or you're not, Download the app. It is completely free. You can join the live videos for free. You can always upgrade to get courses and such that are on there, But you don't ever need to. Everything you need is on there for free. And I teach on there live. All the live classes are free. But what I was thinking about doing for this podcast today, Which I'm kind of excited about, Is the other day I did a manifestation Q and A and Insight Timer. I can see replays, But only for a certain amount of time. I don't record them. I like to kind of keep them as you have to show up live. And it's just I don't know where I'd use the recordings or what I would do with them. So I don't record them at this moment. And you can't get replays as a as somebody who's watching it. So what I decided to do is pull up the replay that I can get as the teacher and go through some of the questions and answer them here for you. Because I always tell people if there's 200 people on a live and one person asks a question, I can guarantee there's at least one other person with the same exact question. But I guarantee you there's more people with a similar question or the same exact question. So if you're not on Insight Timer or maybe you missed the live or you just wanted to hear this information again, Awesome. I'm just going to pick a few questions to go ahead and answer. I want to keep this episode to be one of the shorter episodes. I like my interviews to be longer, But a regular episode like this I will keep a little bit shorter. So I'm going to start with this one. This first question is I'm good at manifesting, But I need to expedite it. It takes too darn long. And I love this question because I feel that for myself as well. And I remember when I was answering it, I was also answering for myself because there are things on there that we ask for. I say there. I speak of my vision board or things of my manifestation goals. And there are things that we desire, Things that we want that we're like, I want it and I want it now because that's the society we live in. But what happens is we don't get exactly what we want. Not because the universe or God is laughing at us like, Ha ha ha ha. I'm not giving it to you yet. It's because we're not ready to receive it. There are there is some sort of blockage in our way. We are we are resisting. We are creating resistance or our desire is simply not strong enough. If your desire is bigger than any belief that you have of why you can or cannot have something, Then that's going to override any any your desire is going to override any belief that you have or it's going to make it really, Really hard. So what can you do if you want to expedite a manifestation and it's taking too long to come into your physical reality? What I want to say first is it's the manifestation happened. The desire was put on your heart. The desire was given to you. The idea, Whatever it is that you're looking to have was given to you. And you have to remember that it was given to you. And it's okay to want more than what you already have. And it's been given to you. So therefore the manifestation has happened. It has been created. The desire has been there. Now the work is to allow it to come into your reality. And it really starts by stopping and not asking. When you ask for something or you say, Why hasn't this come to me? Or Oh, I really want this or I really need this. When you're coming from that asking perspective, It's because you're coming from a place of lack. When you're asking for something, It's because you don't have it yet. But when you trust that that idea has come, You're like, Yep, I have that already in my mind that has existed in my mind, This event has happened in my mind, I have had that experience. And now my job is to open up and release resistance and trust and allow it to be and allow it to happen, Allow the opportunity to open itself up to me. So you don't have to ask repeatedly for something you only need to ask once. If you look at the Abraham Hicks book, It's titled asking it is given. And if you ask and it's not coming, Well, Pay attention, Become a little bit more aware of why isn't it coming? What belief do you have? That's keeping that thing that experience that money that whatever from coming to you? What are you blocking? Do you actually believe what beliefs do you hold that are keeping you from getting there? And you can work on releasing those beliefs? Absolutely. But what you can also do is increase the desire. And if you're able to release the resistance and increase the desire, Your manifestations will come into your physical reality that much quicker. So it's a really, Really beautiful question. So let's, Let me move on. Let me see what other questions I can pull up here for you. And if, As you're listening to this, If a question pops up in your mind, Shoot me an email, Send me a message on social media. If you're on insight timer, Send me a message on insight timer. You can also hop into our circle, Which is our little manifestation manifest your life community. It's the circle is manifest your life. You can hop into the circle and ask the question and I'm happy to answer it there as well. Oh, Shoot. I just clicked something on my computer. It's going to slow me down. Okay. All right. Let's see. Okay. Oh, I love this question. I spent a lot of time on this question on the live one is a really, Really beautiful, Beautiful question. The question is manifestation is something I'm conflicted about. I have a spiritual practice to do my higher powers will not mine, Which invariably is selfish when I do get what I want. Uh, It has been a disappointment or a disaster. And I loved how this person ended. The question is, How can I make plans without making God laugh? Well, I love the quote and I remember somebody put it in, I think are my senior yearbook in high school that said, If you want to make God laugh, Tell him your plans. And I just, I laughed for quite a while once I read that question and then I got into the answer, But let me get into this answer for you. And I love, I really did love this question because it's conflicted. I'm doing my higher powers will, Which is invariably selfish. And I want to start by saying, Just like I said before, If it's on your heart, If it's coming from your higher power and you know, I'm on a mission that is greater than myself, That is not selfish. You stopping yourself from fulfilling that mission feels selfish. That's what selfish if you stop it and say, I'm doing this, This is bigger than me. And I explained it in a way that I have this vision of myself speaking on a stage to thousands of people. It is a vision that I had a number of years ago and it has stuck with me and it's something that really helps pull me through when I think about what's next for me or what's coming. And I said recently within the last few months, I said to my husband, You know, This vision of mine, Because I feel very selfish saying I want to speak on a stage to thousands of people. Great. What makes you so important that you can speak on a stage to thousands of people? Why do you want to be out in front of all of the people? And I feel very selfish doing that. And there are definitely some beliefs that I've had to work through and I still am working through and working on to, To, I don't want to use the word fight, But to release any resistance so that I can allow that vision to come to my reality. But a few months ago, A realization came to me and I said to my husband, I can release resistance to this vision and to making this and allowing, Not making this happen, Allowing this to happen because it's not my vision. I believe it's selfish because in my limiting beliefs, In some story that I hold onto, I was maybe told that being up on stage and being in the, In the spotlight is selfish and greedy. And who are you to do that? I was probably told something along the way or seen something or something got in my subconscious that told me that. And I said, But this vision, It's, It's more than me. This, This vision isn't about me. It's about something I meant to do. I meant to share a message, A story, Inspiration, Something to, To help and serve. So that vision of me being on stage, Isn't a selfish one. It's not ego driven. It's spiritually driven. It's inner being driven. It's higher power driven for me. And that's what gets me moving forward. So you are truly following your purpose, What you were put here on the planet to do. And that is not the job that you do or the work that you do, But it is how you show up in the world and who you are being, Who you are being, Who down to your core you are meant to be and what brings you joy and brings you satisfaction and brings you happiness. If that is what you are following, That is not selfish because God wants you to be happy. And if being happy means I'm speaking on a stage to thousands of people then, And I'm supposed to be doing that because I was made to do that, Then it's selfish of me to not follow that mission. So if you're doing your higher powers will, It's not selfish. We feel like it's selfish because our ego selves have told us that it is, Or we've learned it along the way or a parent or a teacher, Somebody told us that to believe what we believe is possible was selfish. So we need to release the resistance to that and realize this isn't about me. This is bigger than me and I can do this and allowing it to happen because as this person said, I get what I want, But it's been a disappointment or a disaster. That means that this person is not lining up to exactly what they're wanting and they're learning. So if you're getting what you want, And maybe it didn't come in the way that you want it, Well let's recreate it. Okay, What can you do? Ask yourself questions. This is how we learn as human beings. We ask ourselves questions. Things don't show up perfectly the first time. We are meant to experience contrast. We are meant to have experiences that challenge us because they help us grow and they help us understand and gain more clarity. So you received what you want, But it was a disaster how it showed up or it was a complete disappointment or something was missing. Then it wasn't, You weren't in exact alignment. Then no, You didn't get exactly what you wanted. There's more work to be done. Gain more clarity. Ask yourself more questions. Okay, So it showed up, But what's a, How could this have gone better? How would I have preferred this to show up differently? And maybe you didn't have those answers in the beginning or maybe you did, But you weren't really clear on them. You weren't lining up to it. Now you can gain more clarity. Now you can have more belief in what's possible. Oh, It can show up. Okay, Now I have more belief and more clarity of how I want this to come about, How I want this to come into my life. I absolutely, Absolutely love that question and God is, Is not laughing at us. He is, He, She, They is supporting us and saying, Keep going, Keep going. You are human being. You are not meant to live a perfect life. You are not meant to be happy. We have to have different moments in our life, Different contrasting moments that we feel sadness and we feel anger so that we know what we don't want so that we can know what we do when we are on this journey for a reason. Okay, This is going to be the last question I'm going to answer because it was a really powerful question. Somebody asked, How can I get my power back? She had gone, Is going through a situation where she feels like she'd lost her power and her strength. And what I said is, You didn't, You don't need to get your power back because your power never left you. Your power is inside of you. What happened was you became out of alignment. You are disconnected from your own power. So your job now, The work now is to not feel like you need to get it back, But to just be realigning with your power and maybe the situation that you are in, Whether it's this woman or you feel this way yourself, That you've lost your power. The best way to do is don't try to realign with your power through that situation that you're in, That you're feeling that loss of power, That disconnection. Find a place in your life where you feel powerful. What do you do? What do you say? Who are you talking to? Where are you? Are you in a place that makes you feel powerful? And your job is to find your power and reconnect with it. And it's going to be easier to do because you need to remember what it's like to feel powerful. So find that activity, Find that person, Find that experience, Find that place where you can go and you feel powerful. Maybe it's a walk in the woods. Maybe you're going to start a new workout program or you're going to a class at the gym or you're meeting up with a friend and just having dinner with a friend because this friend is really powerful and confident and when you're around them, My gosh, It's hard for you to not feel that way. Because the job now is to reconnect and remember what it was like to feel powerful. And when you start to feel powerful, The law of attraction will increase that for you and will say, Oh, You feel powerful? Let me give you more opportunity to feel powerful. Let me give you a new experience. Let me connect you with a new person that's going to make you feel powerful. And you might not be connected 24 seven, But if you can find those pieces and every day find a little space where you can feel powerful, Then do it every day. Wake up and do it again and do it again and do it again. And little by little, Just like a snowball is going to to grow as you roll it in the snow, It's going to get bigger and bigger. So is your power because you first have to reconnect with what it feels like to be powerful. And this is any emotion you make might have feel you're disconnected with. I want to feel happy again. I want to feel joy. I'm sad. Whatever it is, You are not disconnected. You are not you do not lose your power. You do not lose your joy. You are just simply disconnected and you forgot what it felt like to feel powerful, To feel joy, To feel happiness. And it begins by starting small. Does feeling joy mean you're sitting outside and enjoying the sun? Does feeling joy mean you're you're going to go hike a mountain? Does feeling joy mean you're going to go for a bike ride? Does joy mean you're going to go for a swim? Is joy going and having a drink with a friend like whatever that means, Whatever that that is for you reconnect with that feeling and remind your body and your mind what it feels like to feel powerful. And I absolutely absolutely love that question because we all go through these moments in life where we feel like something's been taken from us. You took that from me. You took away my joy. You took my happiness and we want to blame somebody else. No, We can blame them, But it's not going to solve anything for us. It is not somebody else's job to make us feel powerful. It is not somebody else's job to make us feel happy or joyful or excited about life. It is our job to make ourselves feel good. It is up to us to make it happen. So how today can you feel that way? How can you remember what it feels like to feel happy and powerful and joyful and then reconnect and reconnect and reconnect and that feeling will grow bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger over time. But giving up is not an option. You must keep moving forward. That's it for me. I don't want to answer any more questions. I want to wrap up this episode, But remember you can join me on Insight Timer for any of my life classes. Come and follow me. Just search my name. Follow me as a teacher. You'll get notifications. Join our circle. It's called manifest your life. If you have other questions you want me to answer, Whether it's about manifestation or meditation or mindfulness or simply my transition from my full time working life to my part time working life to having my own business to being a coach, Whatever question you have, Please reach out to me and ask social media, Email, Find me and ask your question. And if I can't answer it directly, I will probably answer you directly, But it will help me and I can come out here because you have a question. Everybody else has the same question or a similar question. And by me being able to answer your question on a larger platform, Then I have the, Then you have the ability to help somebody else because you stepped up and you did the uncomfortable thing and you asked the question and by you asking a question, You're probably most likely helping somebody else. Thank you so much for joining me on this podcast episode. Thank you so much for being here. I have a wonderful interview coming at you for next week. It was get delayed a week because of scheduling with my kids and family life and all as well. But and DeSantis is going to be coming and talking with us. I was on her podcast recently called sewing hope and it was a beautiful interview with Ann and her cohost Bill Snyder and they're just wonderful people and I'm so excited to have and come and talk with me on the podcast and being able to flip the switch and be able to ask her questions this time. So thank you so much for joining me and you can always go back to any previous episodes that I have done here. I just did an interview with Jen Sippel. We talked about women and investing. God, It was a really, Really great conversation. Women and money, A conversation that we need to have in a conversation that I'm having for myself. So go back and listen to that episode with Jen. The her interview was incredible. Contact her, Reach out to her. She's super down to earth. Um, And what's investing made easy. It was amazing. It's a topic that really freaks me out and it's something I know I want to learn. So I'm so grateful for her for that conversation. And then again, Listen next week as I bring on and to Santas and we talk about all things life, Mom life, Working mom, Living intentionally and living within your faith. That's what Ann is all about. I'm so excited to have those conversation. Thank you guys for joining me for manifestation Q and A. I can't wait to talk to you via email, Social media, Insight timer, Wherever it is. Come reach out to me. Thank you so much. Have a great day. Thank you for joining me on the stepping up podcast. If you loved this episode, Please take a moment to rate and review the podcast on iTunes so that we can share this message with more and more people together. Let's redefine what life as a working mom looks like and feels like. Until next time, Have a great one.