Episode 134 – This Ancient Manifestation Practice Will Reset Your Nervous System

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Note: This blog post serves as an accompaniment to the corresponding podcast episode of A Changed Mind, where we’ll distill down the core ideas of this week’s theme, along with additional distinctions and insights. If you haven’t listened to the episode yet, you can go here to do so.  Enjoy.

Most people try to manifest from the mind—but the mind isn’t what’s creating your reality. You can do all the visualizing, the affirming, the meditating… and still not see the results you want. And if you’ve been there—putting in the work, staying “high vibe,” checking all the spiritual boxes—but your life still feels out of alignment, I want you to know: there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re just trying to manifest with the wrong system.

Here’s the truth:

You don’t manifest through effort. You manifest through frequency. And your frequency doesn’t live in your thoughts—it lives in your nervous system. Let that sink in.

Your nervous system holds your energetic position. It’s the “tone” you carry. When your body feels unsafe, your field contracts. You start creating from survival. You attract chaos, resistance, and more of the same problems you’re trying to escape—because energetically, you’re still rooted in fear.

But when your nervous system is regulated—when it feels safe—you open. You expand. You begin creating from the field of possibility, not limitation. You become magnetic to miracles—not because you’re trying harder, but because your system is finally able to receive.

That’s the shift most people miss. They try to change their thoughts without changing their baseline frequency. But your vibration isn’t something you can fake. It’s not just what you think—it’s how your entire system is wired to feel.

And that’s what we’re here to change. Because if you’ve been doing all the “right” things and still not seeing the breakthrough, it’s not because you’re broken. It’s because your nervous system is still holding onto an outdated pattern of survival. And until that pattern is rewired, no amount of high-vibe thinking will move the needle.

Living in Your Head Is Costing You Your Life

We’ve become experts at living in our heads. Just take a moment and ask yourself—how often do you drive from point A to point B without noticing a single thing around you? How many times have you replayed a conversation in your mind, trying to win an argument that’s long since passed? Or walked through your own home completely unaware of your surroundings, because your attention was hijacked by mental chatter?

Most of us are living in a constant state of over-mentalization. We’re not present in our bodies—we’re suspended somewhere above them, reliving the past, anticipating the future, obsessing over what went wrong or what could go wrong next. And we think this is normal. But it’s not just normal—it’s dangerous.

This mental overdrive has momentum. By the time we hit our late 30s or 40s, the neural patterns are so deeply embedded that they’ve become our default identity. And here’s where it gets tricky: that identity, the one rooted in fear, limitation, and over-responsibility, becomes the lens through which we experience reality.

It becomes the energetic position we broadcast to the world. And the world responds in kind. Your identity isn’t just who you think you are—it’s the emotional frequency you live in. Thoughts like “I’m not enough,” “Money never sticks around,” or “I have to earn my worth” aren’t just beliefs—they’re vibrational signals embedded in your nervous system. And those signals are what shape your experience of life.

So if you’re not getting the results you want, it’s not just because of what you think. It’s because of what you’re being—moment to moment. And what you’re being is determined by what your nervous system believes is safe to feel. And that’s exactly what we’re here to rewire.

Unsafe but High-Functioning: The Hidden Pattern

If we’re being honest, most of us—especially high performers—are living with a baseline of unsafety that we’ve just learned to tolerate.

I know this firsthand. Even now, after years of doing this work and teaching it, I still catch myself slipping into that old, familiar sense of unsafety. It shows up in subtle but powerful ways. When something unexpected happens in my business and it threatens the vision I’ve been building, my body tightens. When I feel pain in my body, my mind jumps to “What if this is serious? What if it never goes away?” When there’s tension in my relationship, I revert to childhood wiring—blaming myself, trying to prove I’m still worthy.

This is what so many of us do. We’ve built success on top of survival. We’ve learned to function—even thrive—while disconnected from a true sense of safety. But the nervous system doesn’t lie. You can’t outwork the internal feeling of being under threat.

And so we create coping mechanisms. We try to control our environment. We chase perfection. We strive for success not for fulfillment—but for relief. Because we believe that maybe, just maybe, success will finally make us feel safe. But it doesn’t. Not for long.

Because feeling unsafe has become a habit. A reflex. A default setting that’s been trained into our nervous systems over time. We’re not just dealing with thoughts—we’re dealing with patterns encoded in our biology. And those patterns are the invisible forces driving how we show up, how we create, and how we limit ourselves.

So the real work—the deep work—isn’t just pushing harder or achieving more. It’s rewiring that internal sense of safety. Because the more safe you feel, the more your world begins to reflect that safety back to you.

Safety Is the Superpower You’ve Been Missing

We talk a lot about mindset in the personal growth world. About raising your vibration. About becoming magnetic to what you desire. And those things are important. But without safety in the body, they’re just spiritual performance.

Meditation, visualization, affirmations—all of these can be powerful tools. But if they’re layered on top of a dysregulated nervous system, they don’t stick. They don’t land. Because at a fundamental level, your system is still bracing for impact. It doesn’t feel safe enough to receive the very things you’re calling in. And that’s why safety isn’t just a soft concept. It’s a requirement for quantum creation.

When you feel safe, your field expands. You become open, available, and attuned to the guidance, inspiration, and opportunities life has been trying to send you. You reconnect with the field—the unified intelligence some call God, source, spirit, the divine. It’s no longer a concept. It becomes felt.

When you don’t feel safe, your system contracts. It moves into defense. Into control. Into scarcity, fear, and force. And that’s when you begin to create from survival, not vision. This is why so many people struggle with inconsistency in manifestation. One moment they’re clear and inspired, the next they’re anxious and doubtful. It’s not a mindset problem—it’s a nervous system pattern.

And here’s the wild part: you can be spiritual, successful, and self-aware—and still be unconsciously operating from survival. High-achievers are often the most disconnected from their bodies because they’ve relied on the mind to carry them through.

But there’s a better way. One that doesn’t rely on force, but flow. One that doesn’t push through fear, but heals it. And it all begins with choosing safety—on purpose, every day. Because safety is what allows everything else to work.

The Practice Of Rewiring Your Reality

So how do you actually create that sense of safety in the body? You practice it. You train it. Just like you would train your muscles at the gym, you train your nervous system to feel safe, open, and connected—until that becomes your new default.

One of the most powerful ways I’ve found to do this is through a simple, science-backed breath and meditation practice. It’s something I learned years ago from a HeartMath facilitator, and it’s become a non-negotiable part of my daily routine.

Here’s how it works:

First, find a quiet space. Close your eyes. Bring your attention to your heart center. Begin breathing as if you’re inhaling and exhaling through your heart. Not your chest. Your heart. Feel that space expand with every breath. This alone begins to shift your physiology. But now we add the emotional frequencies that rewire the system.

Breath 1: Inhale through the heart. On the exhale, feel yourself opening. Imagine stretching your arms wide, receiving the sunlight, the love, the abundance life has been trying to send you. This is the energy of receiving.

Breath 2: Inhale again. As you exhale, let it all go. Imagine the tension, the fear, the stories, sliding down your body, out through your feet, and into the earth. This is the energy of release.

Breath 3: Inhale once more. On the exhale, drop into the present. Right here. Right now. Say it silently: I am safe. I am okay. I am in my body. This is the energy of presence.

Repeat that cycle—receiving, releasing, returning—for five minutes, or longer if you like. Do it once. Or do it three times a day, like I do. Because the more often you remind your system what safety feels like, the more it becomes your natural way of being. And from that place? Creation becomes effortless.

You Already Ordered the Life You Want—Now Align With It

Everything you’ve ever asked for is already in motion. The field knows your desires. The quantum intelligence that surrounds you—God, source, life itself—heard you the moment you placed the order. The question is no longer what do you want? The real question is: can you become a match for it?

That’s where the nervous system comes in. It’s not just the vessel through which you experience life—it’s the transmitter that tells life what to send back. And when you shift the signal, the world responds.

Most people try to control their reality by controlling their circumstances. But that’s backwards. The deeper shift happens when you change your frequency—your energetic posture—your identity. You don’t need to strive harder. You need to feel safer.

Because from a state of safety, your system opens. You become available. You stop trying to get and start allowing yourself to receive. Joy comes back online. Creativity flows. The path becomes clearer. People show up. Doors open.

And not because you forced it—but because you aligned with it. So if there’s one practice I’d urge you to commit to above all else, it’s this: regulate your nervous system. Make this breathwork sequence your anchor. Five minutes. Three times a day. That’s it.

Because the world doesn’t change when you do more. It changes when you become more—when you embody the version of yourself that your desires are already calibrated to. You’ve done enough striving. It’s time to soften. To open. To trust the field. To trust yourself.

You’ve already ordered the life you want. Now it’s time to receive it. And it starts with one breath.