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Ep 81. Lets Take a Trip to The Manifestation Gym · The Manifestation Station

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You're listening to the Manifestation Station podcast.
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I'm your host, Holly Edwards, and together we can help create your magic.
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Hello, you gorgeous manifestors. Welcome back to another episode of the Manifestation Station.
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We are episode 81.
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What are we going to do when we get to 100? I feel like,
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all of a sudden when I started this episode let's go back and not this episode
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when I started the podcast which I think might be about two years ago now,
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I think I've said this to you before but you never know who's going to listen
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you don't know what you're going to be talking about if anyone's going to take it in,
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and I remember thinking even when I'd done episodes sort of like seven, eight, nine.
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I remember thinking, I can't wait until I have a podcast that has loads and
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loads and loads of episodes ready to go.
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So that if you've just found me, you could go, I'm going to have a binge listen
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of the manifestation station. And I feel like we're there.
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I feel like reaching 80 episodes last week just felt like a huge, humongous milestone.
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Own now I feel very proud about that actually and I thank each and every one
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of you who has come along for the manifesting journey,
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you're all amazing whatever you're doing in your life whatever you're manifesting
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however you are just getting by if you are just.
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Surviving I see you I feel you and I'm just very happy to have you here but,
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I might need your suggestions of what I should do when I reach 100 100 episodes that's only,
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when I say that it's still 20 weeks away actually isn't it that's gonna fly
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by that is gonna fly by maybe I'll do,
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like a competition online I can give away some maybe some one-to-one manifesting sessions or some,
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free tickets for an event that I'm doing.
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I want to celebrate you all coming along for the ride. So anyway,
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we're here, number 81. Thank goodness we've made it.
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And today I want to talk about something that I've been thinking a lot about recently.
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And I think I often talk about how your life might seem very up and down.
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And sometimes you might find that you dip into manifesting and then you step
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away and you think, oh, I'm having a really low moment. I must get manifesting.
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And listen, I'm going to let you into a little secret. Even as a manifester
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myself and a coach and a podcaster, there are times in life when I feel a little bit less motivated and.
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And I would say that I have adopted a lot of the tools in my toolkit,
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in my manifesting toolkit.
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I've adopted a lot of them into my lifestyle in general. So even if I'm having
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down days, I can still kind of function as a default with a lot of my tools and manifesting tools.
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But there are still moments when I go, come on, Holly, come on, you know how to do this.
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Let's get our head in the game. And I think that's very normal.
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And I think it's really important to remind you. I speak to so many people and
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they go, oh, Holly, almost like, oh, gosh, I've fallen off the wagon.
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I've fallen off the wagon. I don't know what to do. And I'm like,
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guys, it's fine. This is life. You're human. You're a human being. It's all normal.
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But I think that this is where we're going with this today because I'll hear
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people and they'll say things like, oh, I've been saying affirmations for a
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week. I've been visualizing every day.
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I've tried gratitude but nothing's happening and every time I hear it I think,
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right this is a journey you are on a manifesting journey so every time I hear those I've.
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Been visualizing every day but that thing hasn't happened I just want to go
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stop let's breathe let's just breathe for a moment we can't expect results huge results overnight,
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but like think about this right okay so you wouldn't walk into a gym for three
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days look in the mirror and say well do you know what that didn't work I don't
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have abs yet you know exercise isn't working for me and then you fall off the wagon,
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going to the gym working your body exercising swimming running getting faster
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times with your with your running work.
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It doesn't happen overnight. You train. You train your body.
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You understand that building physical strength, it takes repetition.
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And this is what I find funny is that so many of us, why do we expect our minds
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to suddenly change overnight? Well, I did that thing. I did the affirmations.
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It didn't work for me. I'm giving up.
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But we know that maybe dropping a couple of dress sizes may take months,
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may take you a year may take longer.
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And that is exactly the same with your mind and your mindset your brain is exactly like a muscle,
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so imagine you haven't exercised for years okay imagine you haven't exercised
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for years you walk into the gym,
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maybe you pick up 20 kilogram dumbbell maybe you can't lift it. It's too heavy.
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Does that mean that you're weak forever?
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Absolutely not. No, it doesn't. It just, all it means is that muscle hasn't
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been trained yet. And I think we accept that.
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We accept that. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to lift that yet. I'll start small.
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I'll practice. I'll repeat. I'll work up in increments one day,
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not so long in the future with my self-belief and my actions and my repetition,
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I'll lift the 20 kilogram dumbbell.
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And your mindset works exactly the same way.
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So if you've spent 20 years worrying, expecting the worst, maybe feeling bitter
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or putting yourself down or,
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thinking that you feel sorry for yourself for these situations that are going
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on in your life or thinking that you're not good enough,
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that your positive thinking muscle is going to feel pretty weak at first.
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If you're going through heartache if you've lost your job your positive thinking
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muscle is going to feel pretty shattered right now,
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and it's not because manifestation doesn't work it's because you're learning
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a completely new way of thinking,
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and listen unless you are a PT,
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with a six pack and bulging muscles
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and that is your lifestyle I think majority of the people that I know,
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the majority of people in reality I think
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you may be fit you may exercise that's great but I think there are times when
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we're fitter than others there are times when you I don't know fit into your
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clothes better than other times and I think this is all it is it's that,
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it's we go through seasons but each time it takes a little bit of work.
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So when it comes to mindset and it comes to manifestation, every thought that
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you have, I always tell you this anyway, you are your thoughts.
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So what you think and what you feel is what you become and what you attract into your life.
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So if you're constantly feeling negatively, if you're constantly complaining
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about people's circumstances, lack of money,
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that is what is going to come back to you okay likewise you know alternatively,
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if you are positive and you're seeking the good in situations and you generally
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have quite a healthy outlook on life and situations and circumstances,
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the likelihood is that you will
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be attracting well it's not the likelihood it is the law of attraction,
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that you will be attracting more positive situations, people and circumstances
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and events into your life.
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So therefore, every thought is a rep.
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And I love this idea. I want you to think about working your mindset as if you're
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working your body in the gym.
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Every single thought that you have is a rep. Imagine doing a rep in the gym.
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Every, well, imagine this, right? So every single positive thought,
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every single positive thought you have is one repetition.
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And if you're like, Holly, what does that mean? I'm not a gym person.
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If we go into the gym and we do, let's say we're going to do some squats.
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So one squat is one rep.
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10 squats would be 10 reps. If we're lifting weights, how many reps are we doing?
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How many times are we lifting it?
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So I want you to imagine that every single positive thought is one repetition.
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And I want you to kind of visualize yourself working out your mind,
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working out your energy, taking your mind, taking your brain to the gym,
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giving it a manifestation workout.
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How many reps can you do? Imagine every single positive thought is one repetition.
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Every time you stop spiraling, that's another repetition.
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Every time you choose gratitude, that's another rep.
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Every time you challenge a limited belief, another rep.
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So I want you to imagine that each and every day from now on,
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imagine that you are working out your mind and count the reps that you can do in a day.
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So if you've interrupted a negative thought and you replace it with a positive
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one, there you go, you've done a rep.
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If you are telling yourself I can't do that I can't apply for that job I can't run 5k,
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and you challenge it and you say actually no I can do that and I'm going to
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start doing that then that's another rep.
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Every time you say actually you know what this could work out that's another
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rep as well nobody builds muscle from one repetition you're not going to go to the gym
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lift one 100 kilogram bar and that's it you've nailed it,
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nothing grows from one repetition they build from thousands upon thousands of
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stacked upon each other and your confidence like your confidence as well is
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built in exactly the same way,
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it's stacking your reps and this is how at the start like I said that it becomes,
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it becomes more of a lifestyle the more reps you do the more that that becomes a habit,
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and the easier those reps are to do so if you manage only two reps today you
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might be able to manage three reps tomorrow,
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five reps by the end of the week I think you can do more than that anyway that's been being very very,
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very very easy on the numbers there but let's face it you could do 10 reps today
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I can give 10 positive gratitude today I can stop myself spiralling today,
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I can do something kind for me today.
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And then maybe you can do 20 reps tomorrow. And this is the way that we build
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it. So I think it's really important to remember here to stop expecting instant transformation.
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Now, I've often told you about someone very close to me who loves manifestation,
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reads the manifestation books, wants to give everything a try.
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But normally after about one or two weeks, they go, oh, this isn't working. It didn't work for me.
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I did this. And they're dating at the moment. They went, oh,
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I was chatting to this guy and I was really positive and I was putting it out
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there. And then I've been ghosted and that's it. It doesn't work.
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The books get closed. The books go on the shelf. And I'm like,
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no, this has to be, we have to work this mindset.
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We have to take our mind. We have to take our brain to the gym.
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We need to call it like the manifestation gym. Let's call it the manifestation gym.
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And I think social media has made us incredibly impatient.
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We want everything now. We see people's transformations online,
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but we don't see the work that goes in it behind the scenes.
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And I've even been spoken to about this before myself. So at the moment,
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I'm very lucky to have grown a really big following online. And I think I've
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got something over 27,000 followers at the moment on Instagram.
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I'm really pleased about that because about a year ago, I set myself a challenge,
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to reach 10K followers because I wanted to reach more people with the work of manifestation.
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I just wanted to help people feel a little bit better on a day-to-day basis.
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But people now say to me oh I've had a couple of people nothing they're not
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trying to be bitter or trying to be negative but they go well it's all right
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for you because you got those followers the kind of.
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Allude to the fact that I got these followers overnight they didn't I worked
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at that I set out a plan I posted things that got no likes I had to keep posting
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and it was repetition it was me doing my reps now that wasn't just about being online,
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I've done this a lot with manifestation in general you get disappointments but
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it's how you overcome these disappointments remember that you've been,
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redirected not rejected,
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and yeah and I think sometimes we can compare ourselves too much on social media
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so we we want everything right now we download one meditation it up we say three
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affirmations listen to a podcast,
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and then we wonder why we're still anxious and it's not working,
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but imagine imagine you're planting a seed you would not plant your seed and
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then dig it up every morning to see if it's growing.
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You'd water it, protect it, trust it.
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And then one day you will notice that tiny little green shoot start to sprout
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through the soil and your mindset is the exact same thing.
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Sometimes you won't notice the changes straight away because they are happening so gradually.
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And this is the biggest thing that particularly when I'm helping people with
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manifesting is that they go all in for a couple of weeks and then it just filters
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off and they think oh do you know what they have these moments of doubt,
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these seeds of doubt and then they just go no do you know what I've lost momentum
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maybe that's the moment when your little green shoot is just about to sprout through,
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and that's what I want you to remember is that there is growth even sometimes when we can't see it.
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And I still practice. People assume that because I teach manifestation that
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I've somehow arrived at that place. I've arrived at Manifestation Island and
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I just stay here and it doesn't take any work.
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Or that I wake up every morning like floating through life like,
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you know, I'm so happy. Life is fabulous. And do you know what?
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Sometimes I am, but it's not like that every day. I still have worries.
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I can still have moments when I overthink or I can catch myself sinking,
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jumping to worse, you know, imagining worst case scenarios.
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But the difference is I have built the muscle.
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I have built the internal muscle in the brain so I can notice it much quicker.
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I don't unpack and decorate the negative thought anymore.
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I notice it. I smile. I choose another thought. And that choice gets easier
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because I've practiced it thousands of times. and it's like muscle memory.
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Your brain, your mindset muscle, it remembers.
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So if you take the time to practice manifestation and to practice these lifestyle
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tips that I give you or that you see online or that you read in the books with
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manifestation, I'm going to give you a little,
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I just want you to keep going with them because the more reps you do.
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The easier it will become over time to control your emotions,
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to arrive and emit your thoughts and feelings onto a positive frequency instead
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of a negative one by default.
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And I think that's the thing. I speak about this a lot, but a lot of our thoughts
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and our feelings run from our subconscious.
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They come out of our subconscious without us even realizing.
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So if you decide to train your brain to take your brain to the manifestation gym, yes, I love that.
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If you decide to do that, then what you can actually do is to help your subconscious
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naturally, easily, by default, start operating on a more positive frequency.
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So if you think about when you're learning to drive, like do you remember your first driving lesson?
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There were so many things to think about.
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It was almost overwhelming, wasn't it? It was like, check the mirrors,
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where's the clutch, the indicators, the speed, looking at other cars around
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you controlling the gears steering and actually,
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that can be quite exhausting when you're trying to first learn something there's
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a lot to think about but now if you drive I'm sure most of you do,
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now you can drive somewhere and barely remember the journey and why is that?
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Because repetition created that automatic behavior.
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Your thoughts work exactly the same way.
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So think of you driving your car, you're subconscious, you're on autopilot,
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you're changing the gears, you're in manual, you're listening to your radio,
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maybe you're listening to me on the manifestation station. It's just automatic.
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That is what you can do for your mind.
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Your thoughts work exactly the same way. At first, choosing positive thoughts
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over negative ones might feel a little bit tricky.
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They might feel a little bit unnatural, but eventually it becomes your default,
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and your brain believes what you repeat.
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So the more you repeat, don't be like my lovely friend who gives up in two weeks.
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The more you repeat consistently, your brain will believe.
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And this is why things like affirmations, positive affirmations work,
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but not because they're magic words necessarily, but because the repetition
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literally creates like a familiarity in your brain.
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So if you think about adverts on the television or on the radio,
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you hear the same jingle enough times. Suddenly you're singing it as you're
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doing your shopping in the supermarket.
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You weren't trying to memorize it, but your brain had listened and it's been
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repeated so much that actually you're kind of just, your subconscious starts to sing in it, you know?
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And now imagine replacing your thoughts. So think about your thoughts now because
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your brain is simply repeating your thoughts.
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So imagine if you're thinking, oh, do you know what? I'm not good enough.
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Imagine replacing that with everything is working out for me.
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You won't believe it immediately. That's okay. The goal is never perfection. It's about repetition.
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So every time you're thinking, I'm not good enough to do that,
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I can't do that, I can't, I'm not good enough to get with a person like that,
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I'm not good enough to apply for that job, just stop and say,
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everything is working out for me.
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The more you repeat this, the more your brain believes it, and the more you
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repeat it, that's one rep in the manifestation gym.
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So you get a little tick. She's done a little positivity there.
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So build your mindset like a gym routine. And I want you to consciously think about it.
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I want you to consciously think like if you're getting up and going for your
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walk or you're going for a swim or you're going to the gym, I want you to think,
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I must go to the mindset gym today.
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I must kind of follow that routine today. So when people join the gym,
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they don't just go once a month.
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In fact, maybe you do. Let's face it. We have all been there I know but generally,
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consistency beats the intensity and imagine treating your mindset in the same way,
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even five minutes every morning listening to uplifting podcasts in fact if you have just
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listened to this whole episode and you've got through you can tick yourself
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a little rep off of your list from your gym routine your manifestation gym routine and.
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If you read 10 pages of a positive book, write three gratitudes,
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talk kindly to yourself, not because you have to, but because you're training.
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So what can you implement into your manifestation gym routine today?
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Think about like you don't go and brush your teeth because they're dirty today.
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You brush them because it's routine.
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It's normal. It's autopilot and you want them to be healthy tomorrow and that's
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what we're trying to achieve with our brain.
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Now what happens if you skip the gym?
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If you stop exercising for six months, we've all been there,
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we know what happens, would you expect your muscles to stay exactly the same?
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Would you expect your six-pack to still be bulging?
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Probably not, that's okay but the same applies to your mindset.
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When life gets busy that's often when people stop doing the things that keep them mentally strong,
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and that's why I want to really drum it into you that this routine this gym
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workout for your mind taking yourself to the manifestation gym,
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it's so important when life gets carried away with us we become busy sometimes
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the first thing to go is our kind of mental ability Okay.
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That ability to stay mentally strong, sometimes like the journaling disappears,
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the gratitude disappears, then we wonder why we're feeling anxious again.
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We wonder why nothing feels like it's going right for us.
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So sometimes those practices in the gym, the mindset gym, they aren't necessarily
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there to just fix you, but they're also there to maintain you.
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This is about maintaining a healthy brain, maintaining a healthy,
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positive energy, a healthy frequency, a happy, feel-good frequency.
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And train for those ordinary days. This is something that I really believe.
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Don't only practice manifestation when your life is falling apart.
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Now I opened this episode today and I said you know there are times when you
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sink and everything's going wrong and you,
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get out your manifestation book of your journal and you go right I'm feeling
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the lowest of the low I must start manifesting now I know that that's a reality and that happens,
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but what I want you to do is to get into a routine just like the gym in the manifestation gym,
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you don't just practice manifestation when your life is falling apart we practice
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it when everything feels normal it's like a preventative we are keeping our mind muscle strong.
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Because then when challenges do arrive in our life, and they will,
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that's normal life, you've already built the mental strength to be able to deal
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with them so much better than if you hadn't been doing any of your reps.
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So just like you don't wait until you need to lift a heavy sofa before deciding
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to build a muscle, you train it before.
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You train it before you need it. And then all of a sudden, you need to move
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that heavy sofa. You could do it. You have the strength.
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And this is what I want you to remember this is what I want you to remember is that
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even on your darkest days you can still take yourself to the manifestation gym
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even if it's for 10 minutes five minutes even in the morning if you can manage
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start you know to start introducing this
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into your routine properly maybe three times a week for 30 minutes wow,
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you are going to be exercising your brain muscle and do you know what,
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we're just talking about maintaining at the moment and that's what I want you
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to do but the bigger impact of this is that you can really start manifesting big big things,
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if you've done those smaller repetitions and built those muscles so that on
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autopilot you are naturally attracting amazing things into your life.
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That said, I have a challenge for you this week. I don't want you to focus on the big things.
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I don't want you to focus on manifesting something cute. I don't want you to
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focus on manifesting the house, the relationship, the money.
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All I want you to do is to count your reps. Every time you catch a negative
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thought and gently replace it, one rep.
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Every time you choose the gratitude, one rep.
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Every time you speak highly to yourself, one rep. every time you believe in
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yourself when it's easier not to one rep and by the end of the week you'll realize something,
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you haven't just been hoping for a better mindset you've actually been training one
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and this in turn will help you get those bigger manifesting dreams but this
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week is only about counting your reps and that is it.
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So please take yourself to the manifestation gym I will see you in there wouldn't
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it be lovely I just had this idea when I was talking then wouldn't it be lovely
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to open up a manifestation gym,
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bit of like a wellness sanctuary where you could just pop in and go do you know what,
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I'm here for my half an hour of manifesting reps and we do some journaling we
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do some meditation we do some visualization I'll give you a lovely manifesting
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upbeat talk and a challenge for you to take away.
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Should we open a manifestation gym? Okay, let's do that. If anyone has any ideas
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how we do this, please DM me. I'm at thehollyedwards and at the.manifestationstation.
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And if you are listening today and you're feeling frustrated because your manifestations
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haven't arrived yet, I want you to remember this from today's episode.
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Nobody walks into a gym expecting to leave with a completely different body after one session.
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But every single workout matters.
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Every single workout matters. Every single rep counts.
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Every small choice is shaping the person that you're becoming and your mind is no different.
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So keep showing up, keep practicing, keep lifting those mindset muscles,
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even when you can't see the results.
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That's it. Thank you so much for listening to today's episode.
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If this episode has resonated with you.
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I'd love it if you could share it with someone who needs a reminder that maybe
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they need to take themselves to the manifestation gym and it's not about seeing results overnight.
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And until next time, remember your future is not built by one perfect day.
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It's built by the small mental reps that you will choose over and over and over again.
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So have a gorgeous, gorgeous week and remember you're exactly where you're meant to be.