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- 0:32I was recently accused of teaching women how to manipulate men in order to get men to provide for them.
- 0:40Now, if you watch most of my videos, you know that I have said,"Hey, healthy men are never going to fall for manipulation," so that's not what we're doing here.
- 0:46However, I know that to the untrained eye, that what I teach could look like manipulation, and the reason why is because I used to think the same thing.
- 0:5610 years ago, when I first came into polarity teachings, and a few years ago, when I was coming into nervous system regulation and actually taking care of our own internal world as it related to dating and relationships, it looked like manipulation to me, too.
- 1:10So I completely understand that perspective.
- 1:13And in this video, I'm gonna be teaching you, uh, what to do with men rather than manipulating them.
- 1:18I'm gonna show you what manipulation actually is so you don't do it, and I'm gonna teach you what to do instead.
- 1:25Hi, my name is Amanda.
- 1:27Welcome to this channel where we talk about how to manifest what you want in life without all the extra stress, chaos, and drama that most people are accustomed to.
- 1:34On this channel, I teach women to stop chasing what they want and become magnetic to what they want instead.
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- 1:49And if you are new here or returning and you haven't done this yet, then I highly recommend taking our Divine Feminine Archetypes quiz because oftentimes in my videos, and you'll hear it in today's video, I will mention the archetypes that I teach.
- 2:03So I teach the Wounded Maiden, the Awakening Warrior, the Conscious Queen, and the Magnetic Empress.
- 2:08So you'll hear me saying those words a lot.
- 2:11And if you take our quiz, which is only about three minutes, it will let you know which of the archetypes is most dominant in your life and how it's showing up for you.
- 2:21And then you can go deeper and learn how it shows up for you in relationships, how it shows up with you when it comes to money, how you view yourself, how you view the world, et cetera.
- 2:30We've had over 200 women take this so far, and it's helped them get a ton of clarity on themselves and the patterns that they've got playing out in their lives when it comes to relationships.
- 2:43So make sure to take that free quiz if you haven't done so already.
- 2:46There will be a QR code here.
- 2:47It will be in the description.
- 2:49It will be in the first comment.
- 2:52So let's get into it.
- 2:54Let's talk about, um, manipulation and why what I teach is not manipulation, and instead of manipulation, we're looking for regulation of yourself.
- 3:05So one of the things that's really interesting is a lot of people do not know the difference between manipulation and a regulated person.
- 3:14Now, I kind of picked up on this in my last business because I taught sales for a long time.
- 3:20So I taught business.
- 3:21I taught women how to put offers together.
- 3:23I taught them how to market.
- 3:25And I was known specifically for teaching sales, because a lot of people would teach online business just in terms of like,"Use social media and make money," but I was actually teaching people how to have conversations, how to negotiate, and that was one of the differentiating factors between me and every other female business coach out here, is I was actually teaching like a solid skill, uh, that you need to understand.
- 3:46You need to understand other humans.
- 3:48You need to understand how to talk to humans.
- 3:50Oh my gosh, what a concept, right?
- 3:52So what I realized is, for example, when it comes to money and sales in particular, or marketing, this happens a lot, right?
- 3:59Where a lot of people will confuse good marketing and good sales for manipulation.
- 4:04Now, here's the crazy part.
- 4:05Good marketing and good sales is a person who is direct.
- 4:09Good marketing and good sales is a person who is okay with themselves and detached from the outcome and just doing their damn job.
- 4:17That's all they're doing.
- 4:18But what's so interesting is that a lot of people will say that that's manipulation because a lot of...
- 4:24Well, number one, a lot of people don't know the difference between manipulation and influence, which is something that happens a lot, um, in business.
- 4:31But the other reason why that happens is because most people themselves are very manipulative.
- 4:35Now hear me out.
- 4:36I used to teach this to my women who, when I, when they wanted to learn sales, and they're like,"What are you talking about?" And I would be like,"Listen, most people are very manipulative." So when they see someone who is direct, they project onto that person that they are being manipulative.
- 4:52And the thing is, that oftentimes we will see people who are direct in their communication or who own who they are in their communication or, or just in themselves or the requests that they're making, so on and so forth, and they will project onto that person that they're being manipulative.
- 5:08Now, the reason why is because the person doing the projecting, the person accusing the other person of being manipulative, is usually the first one to manipulate you.
- 5:17But the difference is that in that person, instead of being direct in their asks, the way that they manipulate is by being a people pleaser.
- 5:25The way that they manipulate is by holding the ball or hiding the ball, I should say, as they call it.
- 5:30The way that they manipulate is by being nice to your face, but then doing something else.
- 5:35The way that they manipulate is by trying to seem like a really good person.
- 5:39That's how most people manipulate.
- 5:41The way that they manipulate is not giving you a straight answer.
- 5:44So you could ask them a yes or a no question, and they're not gonna be like,"I don't know.
- 5:47I need to think about it.
- 5:48I need to do this.
- 5:49I need to research.
- 5:50I need to do more.
- 5:51I need to understand more." Because most people are not taught to be direct.
- 5:55Most people, since they're very, very young, um, actually learn to manipulate their way out of situations, and usually it's for a good reason, right?
- 6:02I'm not...
- 6:02And most people are not even consciously aware that they're doing this.
- 6:06So what happens a lot of the time is you start becoming a more regulated person.
- 6:10You start becoming a person who is more direct in their communication.
- 6:13You start just owning yourself more and being more okay with you, and other people are gonna think you're manipulating them.
- 6:19The irony being that the person accusing you will be the first one to manipulate you.
- 6:25Again, most times they don't know that they are doing this, but I saw that happening in business all the time.
- 6:33So I wanted to, um, put that in there as an example.
- 6:37So let's go into what manipulation actually is, especially when it comes to relationships.
- 6:42So manipulation tries to control his choices.
- 6:46So if you're using guilt, if you are using affection, if you're using silence, if you're using sex, if you're using intimacy, and you're using those things as leverage to control his behavior, then yes, you are being, uh, manipulative.
- 7:02And by the way, when I say sex, I don't mean restricting someone's access that you're dating when they, when they treat you poorly, right?
- 7:09Like, I don't mean, like, not sleeping with someone on the first date.
- 7:12I don't mean cutting off access when someone shows up they're not a good person when, when, um, you're dating.
- 7:18I mean, like, you're married to your spouse and you got in an argument, and now you're withholding sex.
- 7:23That's what I mean, right?
- 7:24It's more like that manipulation and control of behavior.
- 7:27Taking care of yourself and, and taking care of who has access to you when you're out here dating, that is not manipulation.
- 7:33So another way in which women will manipulate men is by comparing him to other men.
- 7:39"Oh, so and so makes more money," or what, or,"You know, my ex-boyfriend did this," or the,"That man that I was with paid for all my bills." That's manipulation.
- 7:47Okay?
- 7:48That is manipulation because you are, using past experiences as leverage You know what else is manipulative?
- 7:55When women out here say,"Well, you know a real man would provide," that is manipulative.
- 8:00And I don't mean like that in the sense of like we're in a teaching moment and like,"Hey, healthy masculine men, they're providers.
- 8:06They provide, and here are all the ways in which they provide." I mean more like you're in a conversation with a man, he doesn't wanna provide for you, and then you say,"Well, a real man would provide." That is manipulation.
- 8:18Um, becoming cold when he doesn't do what is expected.
- 8:22And again, like you can have boundaries, but it doesn't mean you're cold.
- 8:26You can have boundaries and be kind.
- 8:27And I cover this in a ton of my training programs.
- 8:30You can find them below, particularly the ones having to do with feminine communication, um, are really good places to start.
- 8:36So, um, Feminine Magnetism Mastery talks about this.
- 8:40High-Value Woman Transformation talks about this.
- 8:43Magnetic Commitment Program talks about this.
- 8:45And of course, um, Magnetic Woman Transformation talks about this.
- 8:49So you can find the information for all of those below because I've done lots and lots of trainings on how to communicate boundaries in a way where you are, um, kind.
- 8:59Performing feminine energy is also a form of manipulation.
- 9:03So performing it looks like, um, knowing exactly what to say, how to dress, um, what to say to twist a knife, in other words, or push a button, um, in order for you to extract resources from another person.
- 9:19When a woman is performing femininity, and I've told you a million times you have to be careful who you follow on the internet because a lot of these women are wounded maidens and awakening warriors trying to extract a man for everything that he's got, and then they will use femininity or things that look and seem like femininity, but in reality it's just a costume.
- 9:37So when femininity is a costume and a performance, then yes, you are manipulating.
- 9:43And a lot of women, you know, wear it as a costume.
- 9:47They just do.
- 9:47They haven't embodied it.
- 9:49Once we get into embodying feminine energy, regulating your nervous system, and this is your new identity, then you're n- you don't even have to manipulate anyone, right?
- 9:59It's just not even necessary to have to manipulate.
- 10:02And on top of that, manipulation is a lotta hard work.
- 10:04It's very exhausting.
- 10:06It's just too much work to manipulate people, so you're better off just learning how to heal yourself, and then you don't have to manipulate people.
- 10:12And then not only do you not have to manipulate people, you can better spot when people are trying to manipulate you.
- 10:18That's the other benefit of healing yourself.
- 10:21So The alternative is this, right?
- 10:23The alternative is when a woman starts to tell the truth about what it is that she actually desires.
- 10:29Oh my gosh, what a concept, right?
- 10:31Um, the, the alternative is observing how a man naturally responds and then making a decision accordingly, rather than trying to manipulate and twist a situation to get a result that you want from this particular man.
- 10:44An alternative is to let a man reveal who he is over time.
- 10:48An alternative is to decide whether or not a man's values align with yours.
- 10:53That's the alternative to actually manipulating someone.
- 10:56And like I said, manipulation is just exhausting.
- 10:59It's exhausting.
- 11:00And ask any woman who has been with a man.
- 11:02We ha- recently had a comment come in.
- 11:04I did a video on, uh, Shakira and Piqué, which performed pretty well on this channel.
- 11:10Some of you found this channel because of that video.
- 11:12Hi, hello.
- 11:13Um, welcome back.
- 11:14And someone commented, and they said,"I did this." Right?
- 11:17"I, I played small for an insecure man.
- 11:20I would even hide purchases that I would buy with my own money to not trigger him." That's actually manipulation, right?
- 11:28Now, it's not manipulation in terms of hurting somebody necessarily.
- 11:32In this case, it was manipulation to not trigger somebody.
- 11:35Um, but maybe, and I don't know this person, but I'm just guessing based on when I've, when, how I've heard this play out before, they r- probably really wanted to keep the relationship.
- 11:44They probably cared about this person, so then they would manipulate, uh, the situation to not upset this person so that they would stay in a relationship.
- 12:53And I said,"Oh my gosh, that must have been exhausting." And she was like,"It was, and I'm never going to make that mistake again." So manipulation, whether you're doing it to hurt somebody and extract resources, or you're doing it to stay in a relationship, like it's just exhausting.
- 13:06It's just exhausting.
- 13:07It's not even worth, um, the time and effort and all the brain power it takes to manipulate someone.
- 13:14It, it's just ugh.
- 13:16Ugh.
- 13:16That's what it is.
- 13:17It's ugh.
- 13:18So- Another alternative is you wanna learn how to regulate yourself, right?
- 13:23You wanna learn how to regulate your internal world.
- 13:27And that's a big part of a woman embodying feminine energy so that she doesn't have to perform feminine energy.
- 13:36So a woman can consciously choose that she wants a provider.
- 13:40Why not, right?
- 13:42But if underneath that desire she has limiting beliefs, then that's where we start running into problems.
- 13:49So these beliefs could be,"If I depend on a man, he will control me," very common.
- 13:54I had that one for a long time.
- 13:56"If he pays, I owe him something.
- 13:58Um, men always use money against women." I was afraid of that for a long time too.
- 14:03"I have to do everything myself." Hello, battle cry of the awakening warriors.
- 14:07Uh,"Receiving makes me weak," um, or,"No one gives without wanting something back," right?
- 14:13So if you're like,"I want a provider," but what's running the show internally is those beliefs, you're not gonna get what you want, and then you might find yourself in a situation where you feel like you have to manipulate and control and twist yourself into a pretzel and be a people pleaser in order to get what you want, which is actually when you go into manipulation, where if you just own your desire and you're okay with your desire and you've regulated yourself, again, you're just being direct with people and there's no need to manipulate them.
- 14:40What you see is what you get And how this shows up, right, in terms of women shutting down the provision because internally they're incongruent is, for example, if he offers help, you immediately reject it.
- 14:53If he pays, then you become suspicious or, like, you whip out your wallet on a date to pay half.
- 14:59Um, if you- if he gives you something, you immediately wanna rush to repay him.
- 15:04Um, if you say that you desire support, but then you leave no room for someone to support you.
- 15:08Hi.
- 15:08Hello, me when I was an awakening warrior.
- 15:11Um, if you want generosity, but then your body treats generosity like danger.
- 15:15These are all blocks to provision.
- 15:17So, and, and these blocks are what cause women to manipulate.
- 15:21It just...
- 15:21It's manipulation in ways that, again, to an untrained eye, um, may seem like just normal, basic human behavior.
- 15:29But what do I say all the time?
- 15:31Most people are wounded maidens and awakening warriors.
- 15:34Most people are not that conscious, so they're manipulating you all the time for different things.
- 15:39So the reframe here is that these beliefs may have protected you before, and they had a reason, but they're no longer necessary.
- 15:47They no longer have to run your life.
- 15:49And when you clear that and you work through that, which in our temple offering where I do group coaching, we do somatic practices to clear a lot of these things.
- 15:59Well, now you're clean, right?
- 16:00Now you're clean in your ask.
- 16:02Now you're, you're making an ask where you have a preference or you have a request, but you're being honest and upfront with someone.
- 16:09I don't know what's manipulating about that.
- 16:11Um, and you're clean in your energy when you are making the ask'cause most people are out here...
- 16:16Most people pick up on energy and your body language more than they pick up on what you say Now here's another thing that's really important to note.
- 16:22So unregulated fear can sound like manipulation.
- 16:27So sometimes, as with the example that I gave, um, a couple minutes ago, sometimes a woman is not consciously trying to manipulate anyone.
- 16:36Sometimes she's activated, and then she ends up manipulating.
- 16:39So she's afraid of being abandoned, unsupported, or left carrying everything alone.
- 16:44So then instead of naming the fear and working through those internal fears, she'll pressure him, she'll manipulate him, um, she'll, you know, in the case of the example that I gave, maybe hide herself to make the other one feel better.
- 16:57That, that is a form of manipulation And it may sound like, you know,"If you loved me, you would do this.
- 17:02Other women do not have to ask.
- 17:04You're making me feel masculine.
- 17:06A provider would already know," as if he's a mind reader.
- 17:09Uh,"You clearly do not value me," or again, changing your behavior in order to maintain the relationship or trying to take control.
- 17:16Control is another one.
- 17:17So when you have a controlling woman, oh, that is a manipulative woman.
- 17:21So that, that's an example of that.
- 17:23And what might be underneath this is actually,"I'm afraid I will have to do everything alone.
- 17:29I'm afraid to choose another man who cannot meet me.
- 17:32I'm afraid of being abandoned like I've been abandoned before.
- 17:35I'm afraid I'm not valuable unless I do X, Y, and Z.
- 17:39I do not trust myself to leave this relationship that is not aligned." These are all the internal stories that could be running that then would cause a woman to start manipulate.
- 17:49So sometimes we'll try to control someone else because we do not trust ourselves.
- 17:54Sometimes we do not trust ourselves to speak clearly.
- 17:57Sometimes we don't trust ourselves to choose well.
- 18:00Sometimes we don't trust ourselves to walk away.
- 18:03And some...
- 18:03So what we default to is to manage someone else's behavior, which is therefore manipulation.
- 18:09So the key here, right, is you wanna learn to regulate first, and then once you're regulated, then you communicate.
- 18:15Then your communication is clean.
- 18:17Then your communication is clear.
- 18:19Now, their response to it is their response to it.
- 18:22And, and again, to an untrained person, they might accuse you of being manipulative, but the reality is that they've probably manipulating you the whole freaking time.
- 18:31Again, a lot of people not knowing that they're doing that, but that's probably what they've been doing, so then of course they just...
- 18:38Or they mirror back a fear to you, because a lot of women also have a fear where they're like,"Well, if I ask a man to provide, he's gonna call me a gold digger or that I'm trying to manipulate him." So if you have that fear, guess what?
- 18:48He's gonna mirror right back to you.
- 18:50That is some of the things that happen as well.
- 18:52So before speaking, before making a request, before, uh, being in a conflict of some kind, before opening your mouth in other words, you wanna ask yourself certain things.
- 19:04What am I actually feeling?
- 19:06What am I actually feeling?
- 19:09What story is creating this behavior?
- 19:12What story is creating this reaction in me?
- 19:15Another lesson of A Course in Miracles, I'm a, I'm a student and a teacher of A Course in Miracles, one of my favorite lessons, Justin got this one, um, this morning, is,"I am not upset for the reason I think." And another lesson is,"I'm upset because I see something that's not there." Right?
- 19:30So you're probably upset for something that has nothing to do with what's going on in that moment.
- 19:35Something's been activated, and it's your job to figure out what that is.
- 19:40You also wanna ask, you know, am I asking for support from a man, or am I demanding proof that he values me or that he likes me?
- 19:46The two are not the same.
- 19:48Is this about what is happening now or what happened before?
- 19:51Like I said.
- 19:52Am I sharing a desire or am I try, or am I trying to control an outcome?
- 19:57Again, the two are not the same.
- 20:00So you have to be clear on what it is that you're trying to do, and that requires us to slow down and do some self-inquiry and see what's actually going on inside of us.
- 20:10And again, when you learn to do this, right, then you can learn to work through your stuff, and when you learn to work through your stuff, now you can get to a place where you can communicate with someone honestly.
- 20:21Communicating honestly, not manipulating them.
- 20:24So honest communication can sound like,"Generosity is important to me in a relationship.
- 20:31I feel supported when a man takes initiative." That's what I told my husband, right?
- 20:35"This is the kind of partnership I desire That's also what I told my husband.
- 20:40I appreciate when you contribute in this way.
- 20:42I say that all the time, right?
- 20:44If you want a little life hack, for those of you who are already married, just say thank you and appreciate your husband, even if it's for, like, tiny little things because again, these men wanna be your hero, and then they're gonna wanna keep doing things for you but also because you genuinely appreciate it.
- 20:58I genuinely appreciate it when my husband takes out the trash.
- 21:01I know it seems like a little basic thing, but I do genuinely appreciate it, and a lot of women just, um, they, they take men for granted, I'm just gonna be honest.
- 21:10Like, a lot of women do take their husbands, uh, for granted, and then they wonder why there's a little bit of wonkiness, and a simple, like,"Thank you, I really appreciate that.
- 21:17That made me feel really good," or X, Y, and Z can solve a whole lot of problems in, uh, long-term relationships.
- 21:24So why is this different?
- 21:26Why is this different than manipulation?
- 21:29You are not shaming him.
- 21:31You're not threatening him.
- 21:33You're not using emotions against him.
- 21:35You're not using sex against him.
- 21:37Um, you're not using femininity against him.
- 21:41You're simply just telling the truth, and then both people get to choose what the next step is.
- 21:45So the key here is to regulate first and then communicate and then observe, And, and here's the thing.
- 21:53You have to be detached, right?
- 21:55So people who are trying to manipulate, they're very much attached to an outcome.
- 21:59They're trying to make something happen, and then it just...
- 22:02It's either exhausting or it doesn't happen.
- 22:05Whereas a person who is not manipulating, they're just kinda like,"Let the dominoes fall where they may," right?
- 22:11"And I'm gonna be good either way." And then they're more likely to get what they want or at least not be exhausted all the time.
- 22:18Now, one thing that's really important to note here, and this has to do with the character of a man, and this has to do with who you choose as a partner is choose a generous man instead of trying to create a generous man.
- 22:31A man is either generous or he is not, so don't try and take a- Don't try and create one.
- 22:36He either is or he isn't from the beginning, and that has nothing to do with money, by the way, right?
- 22:40He could have, like, very little money and still be generous with what he has.
- 22:44This is a character thing.
- 22:46So you wanna observe certain things.
- 22:48So, you know, does he follow through?
- 22:50Does he enjoy contributing or does he resent contributing?
- 22:54Is he generous only when he wants something?
- 22:57This is all manipulative on the part of men, by the way.
- 23:00Does he use money as control?
- 23:03Does he take responsibility?
- 23:05Do his values match the relationship that you desire?
- 23:09Now here's what this looks like.
- 23:11Here's the connection with all those archetypes that I teach, which again, if you have not taken our Divine Feminine Archetypes quiz, make sure to do that, mindfulsuccesspath.com/quiz, and we'll have the QR code here as well.
- 23:23So here's what this looks like through the different archetypes that I teach.
- 23:27The awakening warrior who's in survival mode, she may try to create safety in her life through control and also con- controlling other people, which is manipulative.
- 23:37So her practice is regulating the fear that is beneath her reaction.
- 23:42Now a conscious queen, she clearly communicates her standards, okay?
- 23:47And she lets incompatibility with another person be information.
- 23:51And I don't know, this might sound like a shocker, but like you and your man don't have to agree on everything.
- 23:56I know that's like crazy.
- 23:57I'm saying like generally speaking, um, through life.
- 24:01Obviously on the big things, yes, make sure you're on the same page, but you don't have to like agree on every single little thing.
- 24:06You're two different humans.
- 24:07Now the magnetic empress, uh, she does not pressure or extract.
- 24:12She just receives, observes, and chooses, and that's it.
- 24:15And then the wounded maiden- her usual form of manipulation is she doesn't feel safe unless she's being picked and chosen, so she usually defaults to people pleasing.
- 24:24Which is also extremely manipulative, um, and it's one of the things that people are taught to do from a very young age.
- 24:32So, lo and behold, I do not teach women how to manipulate men for money.
- 24:39I teach women how to examine the beliefs that make receiving from a man feel dangerous or vulnerable.
- 24:47I teach women to regulate the fear that causes them to test pressure, control, and manipulate a man.
- 24:55I teach women to communicate honestly with themselves and also with others, and I teach women to choose men whose values already align with hers.
- 25:05That's it.
- 25:06That's all we do here.
- 25:08Very simple, but easier said than done.
- 25:11So here's the final reframe for you.
- 25:13Healing your hidden blocks does not guarantee that a man will provide for you.
- 25:17I'm sorry to burst your bubble, okay?
- 25:20But it helps you stop rejecting healthy support.
- 25:23It helps you recognize real generosity.
- 25:27It helps you tell the difference between provision and a man honoring you versus control.
- 25:32And it helps you leave a relationship when it is no longer aligned.
- 25:37That's what it helps you do.
- 25:39And if the relationship that you're in is not aligned, it'll help you find the next one.
- 25:42That's the whole point, right?
- 25:44Because if we stay in relationships that are not aligned for us, then that's when we are actually liable to manipulate and control in order to stay in the relationship.
- 25:54And if you wanna know how your patterns are playing out right now, then again, I invite you to take our Divine Feminine Archetypes quiz.
- 26:01It's three minutes.
- 26:02It'll let you know which of the archetypes is most dominant for you and how it's showing up.
- 26:08So darling, you do not need to manipulate a man into becoming a generous person.
- 26:13You regulate yourself.
- 26:15You handle yourself and your internal state.
- 26:18You tell the truth.
- 26:19You communicate honestly and cleanly, and you choose a man who already knows how to give.
- 26:26If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up, share it with a girlfriend, and make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss another video that we have coming out on this channel, and I will catch you on the next one.