Latest / Beauty In Positivity / struggling with manifestation/religion shame?
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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome back to the Beauty and Positivity Podcast.
- 0:04SPEAKER_00: My name is Alyssa Skinner.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: I'm a multi-six-figure entrepreneur who created her dream life in a brand new state, knowing absolutely no one.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: And I did all of this through manifestation and shadow work, of course.
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: And I share every single practice and piece of knowledge that got me here through my podcasts and my academies.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: I'm multi-passionate with the beauty industry and spirituality, and I fully believe in practicing every single hobby, every single passion, absolutely anything that interests you.
- 0:34SPEAKER_00: Do it all.
- 0:35SPEAKER_00: So today's topic, it's very touchy, it's very controversial, and it's juicy, and that's why I want to talk about it.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: And I bet most of us have struggled with this topic at some point or another.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: In fact, I went through my old journals recently to see my growth, to reflect, to see what I've manifested that I didn't even know yet.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: And I could see immediately that I was struggling with this particular topic.
- 1:04SPEAKER_00: And that is struggling with mushing religious beliefs and spiritual beliefs together.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: I grew up in a very Christian household, and my parents were pretty strict.
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: Um, I did, my parents are not together, they both remarried, so I had stepparents, and one household was a lot more strict than the other, and that was the house I lived in full time, and they would look at the type of music I was listening to.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: I just remember them going through my MP3 player at the time.
- 1:38SPEAKER_00: Okay, I was I was a 90s baby, and being like, You have grills from Nelly on here?
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not, and I was like, What?
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: I lost my bedroom door at one point.
- 1:50SPEAKER_00: I was grounded pretty much all the time, every single weekend, it felt like.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: And you know, everyone is only as good as their parents unless they choose otherwise.
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: But of course, our parents love us, and with that being said, I went to church every single weekend, and I would even go to church groups throughout the week and on the weekends, um, like Friday nights.
- 2:15SPEAKER_00: So I was fairly involved.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: Um, and when I started learning about the law of attraction as an adult and spirituality as a whole, I really struggled with guilt and fear and shame.
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: And I was afraid that I was abandoning God and that I was, you know, far away from the God I was taught to believe in, if that makes sense.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: And so reading my old journals in the last decade, because I have journaled since I was a kid, um, I only have journals from like 2018 and up.
- 2:50SPEAKER_00: And I could tell the language I was speaking in my journals was still of Christianity, but I was trying to manifest.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: I was trying to step into my full power and create the life that I desired, my dream life.
- 3:03SPEAKER_00: But I kept diluting my manifestations, my spirituality as a whole, with religious guilt and fear.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: So I never saw my desires manifest because this signal, the power, the connection between God and I to manifest, to co-create my desires, my dream life, it was a weak signal.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: I was too wishy-washy.
- 3:26SPEAKER_00: I did not have a full, strong baseline of how to manifest.
- 3:32SPEAKER_00: And I think a lot of people experience this and they never see their manifestations come to life because they hold back subconsciously.
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: So if this is you, if you still have fear of saying words like the universe, um, and you do believe in Christianity, but you also want to learn the law of attraction, I'm speaking to you because I have struggled with this in the past.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: And I was, you know, in the past very much struggling with the religious guilt and shame and how to combine the two.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: And I know people who are still going through this today.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: So I believed in manifestation.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: I believed that we were magnets and we attracted the reality that matched the vibration we were in.
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: I believed in all of that, and I was so excited to study it.
- 4:23SPEAKER_00: I was obsessed with learning about it.
- 4:25SPEAKER_00: I was reading books after book, class after class, podcast after podcast.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: I couldn't get enough of people talking about it, sharing their experiences and how they manifested everything they desired.
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to learn the magic that was right in front of me.
- 4:41SPEAKER_00: Everyone had, you know, all these gurus and successful people that I looked up to, they were confident in their beliefs, and I wanted that.
- 4:52SPEAKER_00: But for years I was too scared to fully dive in because I was afraid that I would be punished.
- 4:57SPEAKER_00: I was afraid I wouldn't get into heaven, right?
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: As if God has a cool kids' club and a bad kids' club.
- 5:04SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 5:05SPEAKER_00: So at one point, someone that I was dating brought up religion.
- 5:10SPEAKER_00: I don't remember the topic.
- 5:11SPEAKER_00: We were just in the car, very casual.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: And I remember something I'd mentioned.
- 5:17SPEAKER_00: Um, and he was very disagreeable and he had conviction and very gracious as a person.
- 5:24SPEAKER_00: So this person being very, you know, stern in their beliefs, telling me that I, you know, he didn't agree with what I believed, it caught my attention because that wasn't the norm.
- 5:34SPEAKER_00: I remember just him looking at me being like, absolutely not.
- 5:38SPEAKER_00: I do not believe God sends us to hell.
- 5:40SPEAKER_00: God loves us.
- 5:41SPEAKER_00: That was just the one little clip of that memory that I have.
- 5:45SPEAKER_00: And I remember in that moment being like, huh?
- 5:48SPEAKER_00: What?
- 5:48SPEAKER_00: Really?
- 5:49SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
- 5:50SPEAKER_00: Because I'm like, I never considered that.
- 5:54SPEAKER_00: And that did something in my soul, and it felt right.
- 5:58SPEAKER_00: And I'm not here to tell anyone what to believe in.
- 6:00SPEAKER_00: I'm here to share what I believe in.
- 6:02SPEAKER_00: So the moment that moment right there was like a light bulb in my brain.
- 6:07SPEAKER_00: And suddenly I questioned everything I had ever been taught about God.
- 6:12SPEAKER_00: And that was the moment where I pivoted.
- 6:14SPEAKER_00: I didn't know at the time that I had yet, but I looked back and that was the moment something shifted.
- 6:20SPEAKER_00: And but my beliefs shifted.
- 6:23SPEAKER_00: And I thought, I do believe God loves me wholeheartedly.
- 6:26SPEAKER_00: That makes sense.
- 6:27SPEAKER_00: That feels right in my whole, in my heart, in my soul.
- 6:30SPEAKER_00: And it made me question religion in general, all of the religions, right?
- 6:35SPEAKER_00: Like, why are there so many interpretations of this?
- 6:38SPEAKER_00: And, you know, how have these interpretations been transferred over, you know, thousands of years?
- 6:44SPEAKER_00: And this is where we are.
- 6:45SPEAKER_00: So it just made me think.
- 6:47SPEAKER_00: It made me question.
- 6:48SPEAKER_00: And I believe we were all, every single one of us, we're just doing our best to connect to God, to be the best version of ourself that we can be to ourselves and to other people.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: But in this episode, I just want to share how common it is to be fearful in practicing the law of attraction because the commonality of religious guilt.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: And, you know, a lot of churches do say manifestation, the law of attraction is worshiping the devil.
- 7:19SPEAKER_00: A lot of churches don't say that.
- 7:21SPEAKER_00: I've heard very good things about some churches that have friends go to, and you know, they use terminology intertwiningly.
- 7:28SPEAKER_00: They do believe that we co-create with God.
- 7:31SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I didn't grow up with that experience.
- 7:36SPEAKER_00: It was definitely devil worshiping and crystals and astrology, as if God didn't create every single thing, including the stars and the planets and the patterns they take on.
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: But, you know.
- 7:48SPEAKER_00: So all of this just began to really obscure my opinion.
- 7:52SPEAKER_00: And I started sharing my opinion.
- 7:55SPEAKER_00: And I would argue that someone telling you manifestation, the law of attraction, is the devil testing you, the devil's trying to get to you, the devil has this control over you, it's clausering you, and it's taking power over your life, and you know, that is actually putting another god above God, right?
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: That's that's how I see it.
- 8:17SPEAKER_00: It's literally saying there are two gods.
- 8:20SPEAKER_00: Choose wisely.
- 8:22SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I I don't believe in putting something evil like that above God and giving it more power than God.
- 8:30SPEAKER_00: I believe God is in us, and so it's almost like, you know, you're saying there's God and the devil.
- 8:36SPEAKER_00: There's two very powerful gods, and you can choose which one you entertain.
- 8:41SPEAKER_00: So there's just too many things that don't add up for me personally.
- 8:45SPEAKER_00: And I believe in astrology, I believe in the laws of the universe.
- 8:49SPEAKER_00: There are 12 laws.
- 8:51SPEAKER_00: I believe in energy.
- 8:53SPEAKER_00: People have a hard time believing in energy.
- 8:56SPEAKER_00: Um, Wi-Fi is energy.
- 9:00SPEAKER_00: Your cell phone is energy.
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: So I believe God created everything, including energy, including the planets, including the stars, and the patterns they take on.
- 9:11SPEAKER_00: God created the beautiful crystals and gems on this earth and the trees and you and me and dogs and birds.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: We all agree on that, right?
- 9:21SPEAKER_00: But for some reason, certain people draw a line in the sand.
- 9:27SPEAKER_00: Well, God created the plants, but don't follow their patterns.
- 9:30SPEAKER_00: That's worshiping the devil.
- 9:32SPEAKER_00: A little confusing for me.
- 9:34SPEAKER_00: So I believe we create and we create with God.
- 9:38SPEAKER_00: We co-create.
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: And God gave us the energy and the free will to use, to manipulate, to create with.
- 9:48SPEAKER_00: So I believe God created all the laws of the universe and the law of attraction, the law of karma, the law of assumption, the law of cause and effect, God created astrology.
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: God is everything to me.
- 10:01SPEAKER_00: Absolutely everything.
- 10:04SPEAKER_00: The planets, the stars, the crystals, none of that has anything to do with evil, in my opinion.
- 10:12SPEAKER_00: So the air, the water, the earth, nothing is bad.
- 10:16SPEAKER_00: It is all good.
- 10:17SPEAKER_00: And I don't believe that there's a man looking down, testing me, grading me, seeing if I get to be let in the cool kid club or not, seeing if I'm doing right or wrong.
- 10:29SPEAKER_00: That is Santa, not God, in my opinion.
- 10:33SPEAKER_00: And I believe that we are connected to God and God is within us.
- 10:36SPEAKER_00: We are made up of infinite source energy.
- 10:40SPEAKER_00: The fear that you feel trying to practice spirituality and pray to God, you feel like you're mixing two things that are wrong.
- 10:49SPEAKER_00: But you can pray to God and you can practice the law of attraction.
- 10:54SPEAKER_00: You don't have to worry if you're being watched, tested, and if you're gonna get punished.
- 10:58SPEAKER_00: This is just conditioning from humans, from other humans.
- 11:03SPEAKER_00: It is societal conditioning and it is human constructs we put on each other.
- 11:09SPEAKER_00: And this comes from tribalism, right?
- 11:12SPEAKER_00: The Lord of the Flies.
- 11:14SPEAKER_00: We all have to be one.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: Uh we all have to have our clicks to survive.
- 11:21SPEAKER_00: But in reality, we are all one.
- 11:24SPEAKER_00: We are all one with everything.
- 11:25SPEAKER_00: We are one with each other, we are one with God, we are one with planet Earth, we are one with the universe, the galaxy.
- 11:34SPEAKER_00: We are one of everything.
- 11:36SPEAKER_00: So I feel like our ego, you know, the guilt that you are feeling, trying to practice both, it's your ego trying to keep you alive, telling you you must belong to a group.
- 11:49SPEAKER_00: You cannot do both.
- 11:50SPEAKER_00: You have to pick one or the other.
- 11:52SPEAKER_00: We are animals and we run in packs.
- 11:55SPEAKER_00: And God made everything.
- 11:57SPEAKER_00: So why are we choosing one or the other as if God didn't create it all?
- 12:02SPEAKER_00: I believe God or the universe or source energy or spirit, whatever word you choose, those words are just for us to articulate ourselves.
- 12:12SPEAKER_00: They don't mean different things, but for some reason people believe they do.
- 12:16SPEAKER_00: People believe if you say the universe, you're not connected to God, and I'll pray for you.
- 12:23SPEAKER_00: It's all it's all one.
- 12:24SPEAKER_00: I think we just use terms that feel right with us, but we're all talking about one, one source.
- 12:32SPEAKER_00: The magic that exists, the magic that God is.
- 12:35SPEAKER_00: Our words are magic, our thoughts are magic, our emotions are magic, and everything is of the power of God.
- 12:43SPEAKER_00: Our brain waves sync up with our heart waves.
- 12:47SPEAKER_00: That is magical.
- 12:49SPEAKER_00: Our words are made up of God, they literally change the physiology of water particles.
- 12:55SPEAKER_00: Okay, I teach this in my Lang Babe Academy.
- 12:58SPEAKER_00: Frequencies, when certain musical frequencies are achieved, the water dances at a different pace.
- 13:06SPEAKER_00: Plants respond to our words and our energy.
- 13:11SPEAKER_00: So I personally had to decide at one point that it is okay to question what another human has interpreted as God.
- 13:20SPEAKER_00: It is okay to ask questions because that is seeking God.
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: That is seeking a deeper connection to God.
- 13:28SPEAKER_00: But a lot of times we're taught to believe and ask zero questions.
- 13:34SPEAKER_00: But at some point it becomes control.
- 13:37SPEAKER_00: And I believe in a lot of what religion teaches, believe it or not, I really do.
- 13:42SPEAKER_00: I just don't believe in separating the two spirituality and religion, they have the same foundation and they're saying the same things.
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: But at some point, people start cherry-picking their personal beliefs in their home and they add it to what you should believe about God.
- 14:02SPEAKER_00: So I do believe in asking questions versus not asking questions and accepting whatever someone else has told you to believe in.
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: Trust your own intuition, trust your own connection to God, trust your own heart.
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: Do not go against your own connection to God.
- 14:23SPEAKER_00: Because when you feel good, you're in alignment with God.
- 14:26SPEAKER_00: When you feel bad, you fall off alignment for a minute, and you just need to reconnect.
- 14:32SPEAKER_00: That is our emotional guidance system.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: So let's be real, a lot of religion has how do I say this?
- 14:43SPEAKER_00: It's become very critical.
- 14:45SPEAKER_00: It's kind of lost the plot in some areas.
- 14:48SPEAKER_00: There's way too much fear, there's way too much guilt tripping.
- 14:52SPEAKER_00: The love of God is all we need.
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: And we bring our human constructs into religion and we say it's the word of God, but it's the word of us, it's the word of our ego.
- 15:04SPEAKER_00: So a lot of it's fear-based.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: I don't appreciate that part, uh, which is why I do consider myself more spiritual.
- 15:11SPEAKER_00: Because I believe in treating every single person with love.
- 15:16SPEAKER_00: I don't believe in threatening the people that I treat with love for being punished for eternity.
- 15:23SPEAKER_00: I do not mix those two.
- 15:26SPEAKER_00: I do believe that is evil.
- 15:28SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, some things are are very scary to me.
- 15:32SPEAKER_00: And so I just do what feels right for me.
- 15:35SPEAKER_00: And the purpose of this episode is not to convince you one way or the other, but to convince you to trust yourself to connect with God enough to find the answers.
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: Trust yourself that you are co-creating with God.
- 15:50SPEAKER_00: God wants you to live your best life.
- 15:52SPEAKER_00: That's why those dreams were implanted in you.
- 15:56SPEAKER_00: You can get there together.
- 15:58SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about what someone else is judging you over, about how you get there with God.
- 16:04SPEAKER_00: Trust yourself.
- 16:06SPEAKER_00: And you want to experience everything you can here.
- 16:10SPEAKER_00: That is the magic.
- 16:11SPEAKER_00: That's why we are here.
- 16:13SPEAKER_00: It's the fun, it's the joy, it's the love.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: And one day we just decided to call achieving all of that manifestation.
- 16:21SPEAKER_00: Just another word we use to articulate ourselves.
- 16:25SPEAKER_00: And so over time, I was able to connect spirituality and my relationship with God.
- 16:31SPEAKER_00: I do believe in praying.
- 16:32SPEAKER_00: I also believe in meditating.
- 16:34SPEAKER_00: In my opinion, they're the same thing.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: They are the same thing.
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: When you pray over someone, your intention is to reach a vibration of God and help them reach that same vibration.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: We are all running at a certain frequency.
- 16:54SPEAKER_00: So when I journal, it is like love letters to God.
- 16:59SPEAKER_00: I visualize God, I visualize God as this big source of energy, everything intertwined.
- 17:06SPEAKER_00: The trees, the clouds, the oxygen, the water, us.
- 17:09SPEAKER_00: And everything is made up of the same molecule.
- 17:13SPEAKER_00: That doesn't make sense.
- 17:16SPEAKER_00: My table is made up of the same molecule that I am made up of.
- 17:21SPEAKER_00: That doesn't make sense because everything is God in its own physical form, experiencing physical reality outside of the spiritual realm.
- 17:33SPEAKER_00: When I meditate, my only intention is to connect to God, to source energy, to be of my highest self, which is of God.
- 17:42SPEAKER_00: When I do good in the world, it is me seeing the God in everyone.
- 17:47SPEAKER_00: I love to go give and connect because I'm connecting to God by doing that, by connecting to strangers, by spreading love, by spreading joy.
- 17:58SPEAKER_00: That's why I that's why I give money, that's why I do these fun surprises in the salon.
- 18:05SPEAKER_00: I am feeling the most connected to God when I do those things.
- 18:10SPEAKER_00: So if you're trying to manifest, think of it as creating with God.
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: You and God are the magic together.
- 18:18SPEAKER_00: And you can gain inspiration from wherever because God is everything.
- 18:26SPEAKER_00: You're not going to be, I don't believe that we are punished for buying the pretty crystals.
- 18:34SPEAKER_00: And every God created everything.
- 18:37SPEAKER_00: It's just, I don't understand it.
- 18:38SPEAKER_00: It's so silly to me.
- 18:40SPEAKER_00: So if you do want to pray in a circle of crystals, pray in a circle of crystals.
- 18:45SPEAKER_00: Mix the two.
- 18:46SPEAKER_00: Do everything.
- 18:48SPEAKER_00: I just believe we're here to create, we're here to experience everything that brings us joy.
- 18:53SPEAKER_00: And there is a reason when you achieve things, goals, it feels good because you are in alignment when you do that.
- 19:01SPEAKER_00: And being on the right path, in my opinion, just means you're more connected to God, your highest self.
- 19:06SPEAKER_00: Your highest self is your soul, which is of God.
- 19:10SPEAKER_00: So I do not allow other human constructs to dilute my dreams, my co-creation with God.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: Your goals are the life you're meant to live here because you are God experiencing itself as the human, as you in your life experience.
- 19:28SPEAKER_00: That's what I believe.
- 19:30SPEAKER_00: God is experiencing itself through being a tree.
- 19:33SPEAKER_00: God is experiencing itself as the air, the wind that flows through the earth, the water.
- 19:41SPEAKER_00: So don't miss out on your own power.
- 19:44SPEAKER_00: Don't miss out on learning the energies and frequencies of everything around us, of astrology, of Buddhism, of Christianity.
- 19:56SPEAKER_00: All of it is rooted in good.
- 19:59SPEAKER_00: When we start taking in other people's egoic opinions, that is when we dilute our own connection to God.
- 20:09SPEAKER_00: So allow yourself to step out of the box, create in a way that makes you feel in alignment and the most connected to God, to source.
- 20:18SPEAKER_00: Allow yourself to step out of just needing to be a part of another group, of needing to have a title, of I'm this, even spirituality.
- 20:27SPEAKER_00: I say I'm spiritual because, in my opinion, that feels the most open to me.
- 20:34SPEAKER_00: It's the least box, the least boxy feeling of them all.
- 20:40SPEAKER_00: I believe when I'm when I say I'm spiritual, it's almost like I believe in all religions.
- 20:46SPEAKER_00: That's how I see it.
- 20:47SPEAKER_00: But for someone else, being spiritual means something totally different.
- 20:52SPEAKER_00: And this is why, you know, our words are just to articulate ourselves.
- 20:56SPEAKER_00: And this is why we all need to step out of the box.
- 21:00SPEAKER_00: So don't make yourself smaller to be liked by people that you don't even like.
- 21:06SPEAKER_00: And I hope that gives you just a little bit of insight of how I overcame guilt and fear and shame with manifesting my dream life because I'm always doing it with God.
- 21:17SPEAKER_00: Some people think manifestation that is all me, me, me, me, me.
- 21:21SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
- 21:23SPEAKER_00: I manifest more to give more with every single person around me.
- 21:28SPEAKER_00: That is what makes me feel in alignment.
- 21:30SPEAKER_00: It is not about me.
- 21:32SPEAKER_00: When people say billionaires shouldn't exist, why?
- 21:37SPEAKER_00: First of all, that's a money block for you.
- 21:39SPEAKER_00: You should never ever judge how someone else spends their money because that does not hurt them.
- 21:44SPEAKER_00: It hurts you.
- 21:44SPEAKER_00: It pushes money away from you.
- 21:46SPEAKER_00: And two, you're right, a lot of bad people have a lot of money.
- 21:52SPEAKER_00: And that is why you need to heal your money beliefs.
- 21:56SPEAKER_00: You need to heal the judgment you put on others so that you can have more to give more.
- 22:03SPEAKER_00: It's not about being a billionaire so that you have more than other people, it's about having more to give.
- 22:10SPEAKER_00: It's not all about you, you, you.
- 22:12SPEAKER_00: And those people that say, I would never want to have that much money, that's way too much.
- 22:18SPEAKER_00: They are stuck in the mindset of me, me, me.
- 22:20SPEAKER_00: And that's why they push that money away.
- 22:22SPEAKER_00: It's not about me, me, me.
- 22:24SPEAKER_00: It's about having more to give.
- 22:27SPEAKER_00: If good people like you have more money, that is better for people in the world.
- 22:34SPEAKER_00: So somehow this turned into money, but we all need to heal the shame we feel within us because that helps the people around you in this world, truly.
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: If you heal, it heals others.
- 22:51SPEAKER_00: It is a butterfly effect.
- 22:54SPEAKER_00: So don't feel guilt about being one religion or the other.
- 23:00SPEAKER_00: Just do what feels right.
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: And what feels right for me is saying all the words intertwiningly: source, God, the universe, infinite, inf infinite source energy.
- 23:14SPEAKER_00: I use them all because God knows my heart, God knows my connection, I know my connection.
- 23:23SPEAKER_00: If you're feeling like you're struggling, it's because you're stuck thinking, what will someone say about me?
- 23:30SPEAKER_00: So as soon as you can overcome that, you can manifest your dream life.
- 23:35SPEAKER_00: Okay?
- 23:36SPEAKER_00: I'm sending you so much love and success.
- 23:38SPEAKER_00: You can find all of my academies, my Money Babe Academy, if you want to heal your money beliefs, and my enlightened babe academy, which is the full identity work, the deep meat and potatoes of how I manifested my dream life, in my social media bio at gorgeous by Alyssa.
- 23:57SPEAKER_00: Bye.