(And of course, if you resonate with that phrase and love using it, I deeply respect and honour your choice. This writing is more for people who also don’t resonate with it and would like to hear why I don’t!)
In the Willingness Work that I offer, we understand that we are constantly in Conversation with Life, with all that is.
It is Life that gives us everything – every bite to eat, every breath, everything we’ve ever known.
To me, the “I manifested it” has a flavour of a colonised way of thinking.
I think of this being a bit like a baby who is being carried around, and thinking that they made it happen.
(And of course, the baby did have a lot to do with our willingness to carry them around – they do have a powerful role to play – they want to be carried, they call out to be carried, they are willing to be carried – but they are not the one that is doing the carrying).
As individual souls, we are constantly being carried by Life.
And YES, we absolutely are a key part of the Conversation. The Conversation IS between us and Life.
This is a relationship.
Our wanting and our willingness is a central part of the Conversation.
But Life is the giver and we are the receiver.
(On the deepest level, we and Life are one, but that is not usually the “I” that we’re referring to if we say, “I manifested it.”
The way I see it is when we believe we are making something happen, when we believe that we are manifesting things, Life loves us so much that it is like the loving parent, carrying us everywhere, happy to give us that, knowing all along that They are giving us that. Life loves us so deeply and so unconditionally.
In The Marion Method work, our willingness and Life’s response are the two sides of the Conversation.
Our willingness IS pivotal.
But we are not making it happen.
We are willing for it to happen.
Life is responding to our Willingness.
When we’re willing, Life is free to say yes.
To me, this presupposes deep Love for Life and deep gratitude for all that we are given.
It presupposes that we are deeply interconnected with Life, and holds grace and humility for what we are given.
In this way of seeing things, we are not manifesting, we are willing to receive.
I wonder if this way of seeing things resonates with you?
I wonder if you feel a difference in your body when you say,
“I manifested that,”
compared to,
“I was willing to receive that.”
When you say the latter, do you notice feeling more deeply connected with all of your body? Do you notice a sigh of relief?
When you speak of your willingness, do you feel a resonance in your voice, an openness in the front of your body, and a sense of connectedness with what is around you?
The Willingness Practice is so much about our relationships with what we love and what we want, AND it is so much about our relationship with Life.
As we embody and integrate willingness rather than coercion, force and making things happen, we generally feel a deepening and widening sense of interconnectedness with all of Life.
A sense of belonging, of meaning and purpose, of Love.
I wonder if you resonate?
If you missed The Room, Mary Walker and I are creating a course all about Conversations with Life, and willingness to receive.
This course will also be a prerequisite for people wanting to do The Marion Method Mentoring Training, which is also coming soon!
Big love xoxo