Aug 19, 2026 · 27 min · 14 segments
Have you ever wondered if your relationships are affecting your ability to manifest? One of the most common questions I am asked: "How can I manifest when my family/friend/spouse is so negative?"…
So one of the things I wanna start with is this concept that I learned a long time ago from the late author Shakti Gawain.
She wrote the book Creative Visualization, and I think she had a book that was called The World Is Your Mirror or something like that, and it talked about relationships as a mirror and how they mirror our energy and how the whole world is a mirror of our own energy.
And this can be a little bit difficult to wrap your head around a little bit, but I'm gonna ask you to kinda follow me here 'cause this is gonna lay a little bit of the foundation.
As I said, you might be going along on your manifestation journey, and the people that are around you are maybe, maybe, like, they're not supportive, or maybe they're even worse than not supportive.
Maybe they're actively trying to veer you off the path and get you to think back the way that you used to think.
Or maybe you just have some energy in your life that is particularly challenging, and you know it's affecting your energy, and we'll talk about why and what's going on there.
And it could also be that there's some other things that are going on just in relationships in general, where, mm, it's creating, like, crosscurrents for you, and you're having a difficult time staying on your path and staying in that high vibe place, right? So all of those scenarios, and I'm sure there's lots more.
Well, the first thing I'm gonna say to you is that I believe that relationships are a mirror for us.
But the analogy that I like to use and the metaphor I like to use when I'm teaching manifestation is you wanna look at your life like a movie, and you are the writer, and you're the director of your movie.
And we often feel powerless, like this person is this way, and there's nothing that we can do about it.
And I'm not suggesting that you go out and try to change other people because that would be a disaster.
But I am recommending that you start changing the script and the character that you've created in your own mind.
And one of the ways that you can know, is this somebody that's a projection of my own subconscious beliefs about relationships, is have you seen this character before? Have you seen this relationship before? Have you seen this pattern before? 'Cause we know all patterns come from the subconscious mind, which means that's where you have to go to start to change some things, which is the great news.
So let's say that you have somebody in your life, maybe it was a boyfriend that you had a long time ago or a girlfriend that you had a long time ago, who had this particular trait.
And then you're like, "This is annoying," and you broke up with this person, and then you meet another person, and this person is always late.
And then you say, "I've gotta get a new person," and you get a new person, and then this person comes in, and this person is good in the first couple of months, and then they're always late.
So one of the things I wanna start with is this concept that I learned a long time ago from the late author Shakti Gawain.
She wrote the book Creative Visualization, and I think she had a book that was called The World Is Your Mirror or something like that, and it talked about relationships as a mirror and how they mirror our energy and how the whole world is a mirror of our own energy.
And this can be a little bit difficult to wrap your head around a little bit, but I'm gonna ask you to kinda follow me here 'cause this is gonna lay a little bit of the foundation.
As I said, you might be going along on your manifestation journey, and the people that are around you are maybe, maybe, like, they're not supportive, or maybe they're even worse than not supportive.
Maybe they're actively trying to veer you off the path and get you to think back the way that you used to think.
Or maybe you just have some energy in your life that is particularly challenging, and you know it's affecting your energy, and we'll talk about why and what's going on there.
And it could also be that there's some other things that are going on just in relationships in general, where, mm, it's creating, like, crosscurrents for you, and you're having a difficult time staying on your path and staying in that high vibe place, right? So all of those scenarios, and I'm sure there's lots more.
Well, the first thing I'm gonna say to you is that I believe that relationships are a mirror for us.
But the analogy that I like to use and the metaphor I like to use when I'm teaching manifestation is you wanna look at your life like a movie, and you are the writer, and you're the director of your movie.
And we often feel powerless, like this person is this way, and there's nothing that we can do about it.
And I'm not suggesting that you go out and try to change other people because that would be a disaster.
But I am recommending that you start changing the script and the character that you've created in your own mind.
And one of the ways that you can know, is this somebody that's a projection of my own subconscious beliefs about relationships, is have you seen this character before? Have you seen this relationship before? Have you seen this pattern before? 'Cause we know all patterns come from the subconscious mind, which means that's where you have to go to start to change some things, which is the great news.
So let's say that you have somebody in your life, maybe it was a boyfriend that you had a long time ago or a girlfriend that you had a long time ago, who had this particular trait.
And then you're like, "This is annoying," and you broke up with this person, and then you meet another person, and this person is always late.
And then you say, "I've gotta get a new person," and you get a new person, and then this person comes in, and this person is good in the first couple of months, and then they're always late.
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