Once I Stopped Believing This One Lie, I Manifested An All-Inclusive Trip To Chicago

The story

My life has never been the same since I changed this belief

I couldn't believe it.

It was September 2019.

My ass was sitting on a plane, en route from Sydney to Chicago, for free.

My first trip to America. The most exhilarating 21-hour trip.

How did I manage to manifest an 8-day all-inclusive trip? Let me share one belief that changed the manifesting game for me.

I have since applied this belief and manifested many more trips, experiences, and things.

The Epiphany

I was routinely listening to a segment of Abraham Hicks.

What they commented next made my world come to a standstill:

"Manifesting a button is the same as manifesting a castle. The only difference is your belief."

Wait a damn hot minute.

I've never received a message so loud and clear.

And that was all I needed to hear. I decided then and there that I was going to manifest a holiday (my castle) as effortlessly as I would manifest a juice (my button).

I didn't know how. I didn't know when. I didn't know where.

I trusted that would be chosen for me.

The Knowing

It was August 2019. I had just finished co-hosting an in-person workshop on connecting to our Higher Self and bringing together other spiritual souls in Sydney.

I impulsively told my friend/co-host, "I feel like I'm going to America. I don't know why. But it just feels like I'm going."

I had no thought of going to America before this. I had in fact forgotten about the button-and-castle epiphany when I made that comment.

The intuitive knowing was too strong to ignore. I didn't resist or doubt the feeling. I just allowed it to exist.

The Message

During my time running a spiritual mentoring business between 2018–2022, I made plentiful connections with like-minded souls across the world.

One of these lovely souls was also a spiritual mentor. We had been friends and each other's supporters for 4 years.

One day, I received a message from her — the message that changed it all.

She was running a small, week-long in-person workshop/training in Chicago 2 weeks away. One of her speakers had fallen ill and was unable to attend.

"I thought of you immediately! I would love if you could come and speak on the Wednesday. You're the perfect fit. I know it's last minute so I gladly cover all your flights, accommodation and other travels. I'll arrange it all. Any other spending you can send me the bill for. You have to say yes!"

(She embodied abundance, clearly.)

I didn't need to hear more. I knew exactly what this was — manifesting a button is the same as manifesting a castle.

I got my passport, made all my work arrangements, and got my ass onto that plane.

The Belief vs. The Belief

A castle isn't more difficult to obtain than a button. Why? Because both are energy, like everything else that exists.

We have blocked ourselves from this knowing because we have been conditioned that big things require big efforts.

You want to earn more money? Then work more hours; You want a bigger house? Then work harder — the belief that our effort is incremental to our outcome.

This belief is true. But it's true because we believe it.

After realising this, I decided to play games with the universe.

I discarded my old belief about effort and adopted a new one — effort does not equate to outcome; manifesting a holiday is the same as manifesting a juice.

The Belief Without Doubt

My new belief however wasn't enough to turn it into reality.

I knew that there were more critical elements to the game — I must not offer contradictory thoughts and feelings to my new belief.

For example — you can tell yourself that you believe you can manifest a trip. But then you offer:

1. Contradictory thoughts:

- "But I don't have enough money"

- "I don't think I have time to go"

- "Only lucky people get holidays and I'm not usually lucky"

2. Contradictory emotions:

- Feeling fearful of traveling

- Doubtful of your ability to manifest

- Hesitant with how the manifestation could happen

The Delusion

If you are not offering doubt and contradictory energy, then what can you offer before the manifestation has come to physical life?

Delusion.

Gen Z calls it delulu.

And boy, was I delulu.

I walked, talked, and breathed like I was a person who already had her tickets booked (to somewhere unknown).

You need to have the audacity to believe in yourself before any physical evidence reveals itself.

Have the audacity to believe in magic!

Some traits that helped nurture my delusion were:

- confidence

- unconditional joy

- walked around with a bounce in my steps, whilst saying "all is well" repeatedly in my head

- eager for my day

I called this a game because it's exactly how I approach it.

Manifesting or changing your vibration shouldn't be treacherous work.

If you are feeling like it is, then you're taking the wrong approach.

This is all about lightening yourself up.

Have fun, play with your reality. If you can't get it right the first time, try again, and again, until you've clocked that level.

Make this button-and-castle epiphany a new game you can play.