Sabrina, you have been talking for weeks on and on about the mental-first stuff – we get it –, but what about the “good old 3D action”? Aren’t you missing something? We can’t sit around and wait for a magic fairy to come along and swirl it into place. We want to DO something. With our hands, you know. The spirit of “getting things done”! Why shall we wait for some internal alignment stuffi-puffi-dipidi-du, when we can hammer it into place?
Sabrina, WE WANT ACTION! Good old rock’n’roll things!
I do, too. And, in fact, I do act. I do not sit all day long on my sofa, and fairy dust is floating to me, though, a bit, it does. However, the key is that I learned that action without alignment is as fruitless as driving a car without knowing where to go. It’s like rowing frantically in a boat using a spoon instead of a paddle; the moment the force ends, the result fades. Since my last rock-bottom moment (see article), I am not willing to spend my energy on fruitless endeavours. Hence: alignment first, and then action, aka aligned action.
Let’s first recap the alignment process, as it is, in fact, the key to your manifestation. Take one topic, one desire you wish to have. First, review your internal state; check which negative beliefs hold you back from already having your desire. Then move up the emotional ladder (see gratitude trap article), as your feelings are the first 3D reflections of your state of consciousness. It’s a process of honest self-observation and release. Then, start using the manifestation tools of your liking. Before you apply them, check in: are you feeling doubt or tightness in your gut? Then stop and check out this article. If you feel good, then go ahead, fully immerse yourself in the experience of already having it by using your tool. Now, after weeks of releasing and feeling good about your desire, you still feel the urge that you need to apply tools to get your results? Then, it’s time for this article to understand the final step. After that, you are literally done. You feel good. You feel satisfied. And, it’s done.
Maybe you ask now: but why shouldn’t I act during the process of release and alignment? The short answer is: it will backfire.
Let an easy example show this. Imagine you are on a mission to lose weight, like a lot of people nowadays. Imagine you are at the beginning: you hate your body. The tightness of your clothes makes you angry. The look of other people lets shame creep up your neck. In that state, aligned to a state of consciousness where your body is your enemy, you will act accordingly. You will treat your body as an enemy. You may visit a doctor to get the latest injection to lose weight fast. But six months later, you are back to the same state – still hating your body. In fact, you hated it all along, even thinner. That uncooperative bastard (I stretch it on purpose here, but basically, it’s true). With no further injection, fighting your body size – hence confirming the state of being the winner in the fight between you and your body – the body “wins” the fight. Similarly, for any other method: diets, fasting, excessive gym routine, etc. They all confirm your state of consciousness: you are in a fight against your body. The moment you stop fighting, you “lose” – back to the initial physical state, the state of your consciousness. So, yes, you can “bang it into place”, but there will be a point where exhaustion hits, because no one can keep up a fight forever.
I believe it is simple to see why action without alignment is not helpful, but I also understand that action makes one feel better. So, when exactly could you take your first action without negative side effects?
Personally, I try not to take action (yes, I still oppose my own rules because fear is a strong motivator) before I am at least at the zero point (see my diagram in the gratitude trap article), meaning past releasing the negative emotional charge. Often it feels like a “clean slate” or like “a new page” for that topic. For example, during my change of my state of consciousness about my body, I worked on our relationship. I reached a point – after years of working on getting there – where I saw that my latest “get-my-body-in-line action” – regular water fasts – was just a roller coaster over the last year: I lost weight fast while fasting, but I gained it back within the month. I even blamed my cycle and hormones for it, because I did not properly review my belief systems. However, the moment I saw the 3D roller coaster, I knew I did not like the 3D reflection and started to look within. Basically, I found: “my body is my enemy, and I need to fight its bad behaviour”. I worked on switching my belief from “my body, the enemy” to “we are partners in the game of life”. With the final relief that partners trust each other, I reached Point Zero. I was not euphorically happy nor satisfied, but I was on the brink of the upper half of the emotional ladder. With that, in less than a week, I experienced that the relationship with my body indeed has changed. For example, I had been avoiding the gym for multiple months, with many excuses. Yet I found myself willingly going there, just like it was normal, and the best part of it, it was fun. And I still like it. Fasting, on the other hand, is not a tool of war anymore; it is a valid tool for giving my system a chance for internal clean-up – it feels “aligned” when I fast.
You may now say: Sabrina, that is all right for your body, but what about work? I need to pay my bills!
Right, the bills – those evil bills, and the evil boss, and the evil world… It is time to review your state of consciousness here, too. Imagine that you hate your current job, or you have no job and urgently need one. In both cases, physical action will deliver what you believe in – what your state of consciousness is. In the first case, you might attract another job you hate, because it does not matter where you go; as long as your state of consciousness is that you hate jobs, nothing will change. Similarly, the person desperately looking for a job will get turned down as a reflection of their state of consciousness.
Well, Sabrina, what shall we do then?
First of all, right in this moment – nothing; just breathe. Then, take the first step into the transition process: accept what is. Yes, that can seriously s*ck, but as long as you keep replaying in your mind “what is”, you waste your energy on things that are already manifested. It does not need your attention, nor your energy. It already is. However, what needs your attention is your desire, and a fitting state of consciousness first. This is not meant as spiritual bypassing; it is a redirection of focus. Accepting what is gave me relief in my own rock-bottom phase. I thought: it’s done, it’s over. Now, next. That state allowed the new to flow in and the freed-up energy to be used somewhere else. Imagine instead of hating your job – replaying all the shitty stuff in your head over and over again – you use the energy to research jobs you might like. Maybe get a new certificate that will support you in your new job. Maybe you get a coach to discuss career paths, or talk to a headhunter who provides some good insights. The redirection of your energy from the past to possibilities is a great action you can take. Along with this kind of action, check your belief system, and release old beliefs that do not serve you anymore. Step by step and day by day, you will feel better, more hopeful, and then maybe even excited about what’s to come. Similarly, for the person who currently has no job, the moment you accept what is, you can redirect your energy. If it soothes your fear, take any job that pays the bills. Keep working on your internal state, which is the key to your desires.
So, this is not about never taking action?!
If an action soothes your fear, then do it. If it spirals into more anxiety because you fear the outcome. Then not. In any case, keep working on moving up the emotional ladder by releasing old beliefs and redirecting your energy – and thus actions – to be in line with your desire. Again, do not take action out of fear and anxiety. Just imagine the person without a job sends 200 applications. All get rejected. The person will be even more devastated as their negative belief “I can’t find a job” is perpetuated. Now imagine that person did already a bit of alignment work, accepted what is, took any job to pay the bills, and starts the application process over again. They would probably not send 200 applications. They would say: I want a job that is in line with my desires. Even if an application might be rejected, they do not care too much. In fact, they might have already had a feeling it’s not the right job.
You see, action is not the problem. The question is whether the action is reaffirming the old self (unwanted) or your new self (wanted). Usually, we are not able to act from one state – “having it” – while believing we do not have it. Hence, “fake it until you make it” is not really what I recommend. Preferably, move up the emotional ladder close to hope, better to the zero point, and act from that state.
Let’s look at a very emotional topic – reconciliation with an ex – to see when Point Zero is reached. As long as the person is feeling anxious, desperate, or in despair, all of their actions will feel the same. The moment they accept “what is”, they allow things to start changing internally. Then, cleaning up their internal clutter – in particular, old beliefs around love (like love is chaotic, love is demanding, love feels tough,…) – and their projections onto the ex (who was merely reflecting your internal state back to you). Reaching the zero point feels a lot like an ’emotional clean slate’. It’s one where either they don’t care anymore whether that person is in their life or not, or it’s a basic, positive curiosity that bubbles up inside. It’s like being at the starting point, where one has all possibilities at hand, and all the negative ballast from the past is gone. To test if one has completed their homework in shifting states, they can play (any) scenarios in their head. Does it feel good? Then “green light” on actions. Does it feel bad? Then, back to shifting states – releasing old beliefs and negative projections.
This little excursion on action shows that action is always valid to undertake, but only action that is in line with the state of consciousness of already having or being it is truly fruitful. Hence, alignment first, and then action. By then, action feels normal; feels good; feels satisfying.
