Manifesting $10k/m, again

I tried manifesting $10k/m in 2025 but failed.

I probably needed to be manifesting something else altogether. So wrong goal.

But perhaps I was also doing it wrong. Wrong process.

Just repeating “I’m so happy and grateful that I have achieved X” just didn’t resonate for me. It simply had not happened yet, so it always felt kinda fake saying as if it already did (a prerequisite of manifestation 101 apparently). When you say something you don’t really believe in, guess what? It doesn’t happen. Self-fulfilling.

The Universe follows your energy, not your words.

Today I saw this reel which made me pause:

How to pray in five steps

Step 1 - Arrive in your body. Slow breath in, slow breath out, no forcing, just presence.

Step 2 - Start with gratitude before the proof. Thank you for what’s already shifting in my favour.

Step 3 - State, do not beg. I’m open to alignment. I’m open to the clearest path forward. What needs to leave, can leave. What is mine can arrive.

Step 4 - Release the how. However it comes I trust the intelligence moving it.

Step 5 - Go silent, the last step of prayer is listening.

It isn’t asking the universe to fix life. It’s tuning the nervous system to receive what’s already available. It’s already available for you, and you have the power within yourself.

Prayers sounds just like manifesting.

And this definitely sounds more do-able and believable.

I love how it starts with stopping in your body. Manifesting always felt like it should be a whole mind body soul thingy. Besides, arriving in your body also brings full attention to the prayer, instead of being distracted.

State not beg – now that, I can do. It’s not happened yet and I’m not having to say it out loud like it is, but rather, saying “I’m open…” to it. And not being caught in the how lets go of expectations, maintaining the openness.

And the final step of silence… wow. That’s inspiring. Sometimes praying and manifesting sounds loud and noisy and entitled. Always about you you you, I I I, what I want, what I expect. Listening quietly for a response back from the Universe, for signs if that’s what I truly need, sounds like what I learned about trying to manifest the wrong goal last year.

So yeah.
Five steps to prayer.

Go.