Manifesting really has two distinct phases, and most of us only give our attention to the first one. The broadcasting phase is the part everyone knows. This is where you visualize, linger on your vision board, feel the desire alive inside your body, and live the experience inwardly before it ever shows up on the outside. You are sending a signal, tuning the dial, letting your inner world hum with possibility. This part feels active, intentional, and even a little exciting because it feels like you are doing something. But the second phase is quieter, and strangely, far more powerful. This is the receiving phase. This is where the manifesting “machine” responds and starts delivering the results of what you’ve been broadcasting. And here’s where we often miss the doorway. We keep pushing the signal out, but we forget to open our hands. Receiving is a choice. It’s a soft surrender, a willingness to be open, to let life place the response right into your experience. Broadcasting is choosing to speak. Receiving is choosing to listen. When you allow yourself to truly receive, without tightening, doubting, or grabbing, the desire doesn’t just arrive. It lands. And that’s when it becomes real. Link to full article: https://www.hemispherelearning.ca/post/the-two-phases-of-manifesting-why-most-of-us-stop-halfway

There are moments when every part of us wants to do something, as if motion itself is the only proof that we are moving forward. We’ve been trained to believe that if we aren’t taking visible action, we must be stuck. But there is a quieter, deeper kind of power that lives in simply standing. Standing in what you know. Standing in what feels true to you. I once heard a line in a show that landed like a bell in my chest: I would rather die believing in something than live believing in nothing. That’s not drama, that’s devotion. Because when you choose to stand in your truth, resistance will show up. Doubts will whisper. Outside voices will question you, and inside voices will try to negotiate you away from your dream. Yet there is immense strength in not moving, not explaining, not shrinking. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is remain rooted. Sometimes the greatest action you can take is to stand your ground and let your truth do the work. Read the complete article here: https://www.hemispherelearning.ca/post/the-power-of-standing-still-when-not-moving-forward-is-the-bravest-choice Download the guided meditation: Standing in Your Truth from our Meditation Class Room

Whenever a real desire lights up inside you, something interesting tends to happen almost immediately. Before you can even take a step forward, an inner voice shows up with a long list of reasons why you should not bother. It whispers that the desire is unrealistic, too big, too far out of reach, or simply not meant for you. Its goal is simple. If it can convince you not to begin, the journey ends before it ever starts. Many dreams quietly disappear right here, not because they were impossible, but because they were never given a chance to breathe. If you move past that first gate, a subtler tactic often appears. Instead of stopping you outright, it encourages you to aim lower. It nudges you toward something safer, smaller, and more comfortable than what you originally felt called toward. This is the more dangerous move, because it feels reasonable. Understanding these two patterns is a turning point. Once you see them clearly, you can choose how to respond instead of reacting automatically, and that choice is what keeps you moving toward what you truly want rather than what you were talked into settling for. Check out my podcast on this topic as the feature on www.hemispherelearning.ca

This popped into my awareness this morning as I was crafting my desires and wanted to share this quick video cause I think this is a trap a lot of us slip into.