“You decide you’re not worthy the moment you try to become worthy,” Sam Rossi.  Rossi mentioned this in conjunction with, “We don’t get what we ask for, we get what we believe.”  I heard these quotes and I understood the act of manifesting differently than I’ve ever understood it before.  The focus needs to be on the act itself, not merely the result.  We are a results oriented society and we tend to forget that the action is what produces those results.  Sam talked about making money because she loves to sell things so she focuses on selling because she enjoys the notifications of someone buying, not because the goal is to make money.  I’ve studied manifestation for a long time and this is the first time I’ve understood the process like this.  Shortly after I heard Sam’s words, I came across a video that explained manifesting isn’t about letting things fall in our laps, or that what we “get” determines our worth or what we are meant to have.  Manifestation and receiving are decisions.  More specifically, manifesting is an active receiving which means actively using the gifts we are given help others.  We have to do something in order to receive, we have to act on the gift in order to develop it and receive more.  Receive really is an action.  We need to demonstrate the assertiveness to take hold of the gift and use it.  It’s through that willingness to apply our gift we show our faith in ourselves and the universe—our worth.

The act of trying to become anything suggests we are currently NOT whatever we are trying to become.  The act of seeking suggests we do not currently have something, that we are lacking it.  We often put our focus on the end result rather than the process.  The process is work and we feel vulnerable when we are in the middle of anything with no results to show, so we feel weak and unsure.  Constantly extending the goal and ignoring what we’ve accomplished implies there is always more to do, that we are never fully worthy as we are, where we are.  Any suggestion we are not currently what we want to be means we are not that.  In this context we are showing the universe we believe we aren’t whatever it is we seek to be.  This is why we need to align our energies and actions toward what we want.  We need to believe that our action means we know we will get what we are meant to have.  That we have decided we are worth it and we believe we can accomplish anything, that we can handle whatever comes our way.  Change the way we think and what we believe and all will fall into place.