I used to think manifestation was about waiting.

Visualizing. Hoping. Aligning my energy just right. Saying the affirmations. Feeling into the future. Trusting the universe to deliver.

And for a while, it felt like it was working.

Until I realized something uncomfortable.

I was manifesting the same sh*t over and over again.

Different packaging. Same pattern.

Always almost there.
Always one breakthrough away.
Always circling the thing instead of living inside it.

If that sounds familiar, stay with me.

Here’s the truth that shifted everything for me:

You’re not manifesting.

You’re collapsing reality into form.

And if you’re stuck in a loop, it’s not because you’re bad at visualization. It’s because your brain is wired to keep pulling in the same version of life, over and over again.

That’s not a personal failure.

It’s design.

Quantum physics calls it the Observer Effect.

Reality doesn’t just happen to you. The act of observation influences what becomes solid. What you believe is possible, what you expect, what you’re primed to notice—those become the raw materials your brain organizes into experience.

Your brain is not scanning for your dream.

It’s scanning for confirmation.

And your nervous system? It isn’t looking for what you want.

It’s looking for what feels familiar.

That’s the part most manifestation conversations skip.

You can journal about abundance all day long. You can script the dream relationship. You can meditate on the next level of success. But if your nervous system is calibrated to struggle, chaos, almost-there, or not-quite-enough… it will keep collapsing reality into that version.

Not because you’re cursed.

Because you’re consistent.

If your reality still looks suspiciously like yesterday’s reality, that’s not random.

It’s patterned.

You’re not “failing” at manifestation.

You’re collapsing the same template again and again.

And the good news?

If you’re collapsing reality already, you can collapse a different one.

But you don’t do that by waiting.

You do it by moving.

Here’s a simple override you can use right now.

First, think about something you really want but keep getting stuck on. The promotion. The relationship. The launch. The version of you who feels powerful, clear, steady.

Now ask yourself: “If I already had it, how would I be moving today?”

Not what would I be thinking. Not what would I be affirming.

How would I be moving?

Would you send the email instead of rereading it five times?
Would you stop overexplaining?
Would you rest without guilt?
Would you raise the price?
Would you stop checking to see who liked your post?

Then do one thing from that version of you.

Right now.

That’s it.

You don’t need to redesign your life in a single afternoon. You need to interrupt the familiar pattern with one aligned action.

Because the version of you who “has it” isn’t waiting to feel worthy.

She’s behaving as if it’s already true.

And when you act from that version—even once—you shift the collapse point. You give your nervous system a new reference for what’s possible. You teach your brain that a different outcome is safe enough to attempt.

This isn’t about pretending.

It’s about pattern interruption.

You’re already influencing reality. You’re already collapsing something into form.

The only question is:

Are you collapsing the life you’re used to… or the one you actually want?

Choose one move from the future.

And make it today.

-Abi