Unlocking Your Universe: The #1 Reason You’re Not Living Your Dream Life (And How to Fix It!)

Manifesting, Creating, and Permission: The Hidden Secrets No One Talks About!

Are you struggling to manifest the life you desire? Have you ever felt like something is holding you back, despite all your best efforts? What if the missing piece isn’t about working harder, but about giving yourself permission to create?

STOP Manifesting the Wrong Way!  Most people think that manifesting is about visualizing and waiting, but what if that’s only a fraction of the truth? There’s a massive misconception about manifesting, creating, and permission that’s keeping so many from achieving what they want. Science and spirituality agree: True creation requires something deeper.

In this episode of  the Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious Podcast special series Unlocking YOUR Universe, Dr. Sandra Marie and Nikki Ackerman, Reiki Master, spiritual teacher, and energy worker, uncover the real truth about manifesting, creating, and permission that most people never hear.

The universe expands with your curiosity, keep exploring!

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Dr. Sandra Marie (00:03.084)
Enjoy this Wild Soul gathering production. I'm Dr. Sander Marie. Pour yourself a really tall glass of spiritual curiosity and join me for the Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious podcast. In the spirit of happy hour, cheers to some new insights, peace, revitalization, and perhaps an aha moment that may change your life. Welcome to Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, where curiosity meets consciousness. I'm your host, Dr. Sander Marie.

And today I'm joined with my co-host, Ackerman, a Reiki master and a spiritual guide for another episode of our special series, Unlocking Your Universe. So grab your favorite drink, open your heart, and let's dive into today's conversation where we challenge perspectives, ignite curiosity, and explore what it truly means to unlock the universe within you. Hey, Nikki, how are you doing today? Wonderful. How are you? Good. It's a good day.

I know last time we did a bit of an introduction. Today we're going to talk about manifestation. Did you want to get started with that or you know, I've had some weird thoughts about it, so I'll let you get started with it. Okay. So one thing that just keeps coming to me, I almost feel like it's not the spirit would hit me over the head with anything, but it's kind of like that nudge. Like the one thing about manifestation that really, I think a lot of people

have an impression on is what comes to me is like the law of attraction, if you will. When we talk about manifestation, I think a lot of people are thinking about something outside of them is being attracted to them. Whereas I don't necessarily believe that. Well, and I know that it's not necessarily true. I think part of me just feels like there needs to be that clarification for people who are trying so hard to make something from the outside come to them that.

Manifestation that is not manifestation. We don't necessarily want anything that's out in this worldly experience that we have. What is out picturing in the world in our experience is already something that took place in our consciousness. That is the effect of cause, if you will. I know I'm throwing a lot out there very quickly and very in a short period of time, but everything that we desire is actually moving in through an

Dr. Sandra Marie (02:24.778)
us and we're radiating out so that it outpictures and shows up in our lives. Yeah, we're the magnet, right? It's interesting because manifestation is like really huge and significant and people put a lot of energy and work into manifestation. I've just removed the word manifestation. And I've had other people talk about manifestation as more an old way of doing things. In some of the work that

I do in my spiritual realm, it's really a big focus has been on creating and that we, you know, the realization as I awaken more to my true self is recognizing that I'm a creator being like I've had all these abilities to create. And as I've delved into that work a little bit more and sat with it to try and get a little more clarity and understanding with it.

The whole manifestation thing has gone away for me. So I think that we create, but we don't manifest. And I'm not sure, did I ask you one day if you thought there was a difference between creating and manifesting? I feel like I asked something. I think we've had a discussion about this in the past before. Do you think there's a difference? I know I had a conversation with someone else with it and they were like, man, you're going off the deep end.

And I'm like, no, I don't, feel like it's different, but I can't explain it. With each word, they're going to have a nuance, you know, and people are going to have different ideas of what manifestation is. They're going to have an idea of what creation is, if you will. You know, from my own understanding from my teacher that I had learned from manifestation, while it's a great thing, it's just one level of consciousness. It's one.

It's one level of consciousness up from the idea of living in victimhood. What we do is we manifest to move out of victimhood. However, that's not the end, you know, and we were just talking about this before, that there really is no end point to what we do in terms of evolving and enlightening and becoming more aware. When we start moving through this idea that we're manifestors,

Dr. Sandra Marie (04:48.204)
We then start to understand that spirit is actually utilizing us and working in through us and things are coming through us and then it's working as us. So when we connect with consciousness and we hold that space in consciousness and we totally feel the alignment of being one with everything and hold an idea of visual, that's when things start showing up in our lives.

it starts radiating from us, if you will, the law of radiance. And I actually just had this experience a week and a half ago. So it's kind of interesting that we're talking about this today. So yeah, just, as I was going through my spiritual growth, I think I had literally just went on break from the spiritual studies program I'm in. And I just really felt the sense of peace and really felt oneness, knowing that spirit really is in.

living as each and every one of us that there's more to me than this physical body, than my emotions, than what have you. Like I could literally feel the presence within me. And it was just this most expansive, free, peaceful space. And as I'm staying there and I'm like, I had this awareness going on that I was in the state. And I'm well, let's play with this. This is where we get to have fun, right? So I literally was just in this space and I'm like,

What would it be like to bring in such and such amount of money? What would it be like to bring in such and such amount of money each and every week? You know, that would be really cool. just, how would that feel like? What would that be like to just experience that? And then as I was going through my business finances and doing some end of the year stuff, I'm going through closing the cash drawer. And here I found a ticket from a Monday

of a pretty hefty sale. And I'm like, I don't remember that. I would have remembered that. I would have remembered this ticket coming through. And I look, it's on a Monday. I don't work Mondays. It's kind of like, I just kind of sat back and chuckled and laughed. And I go, and this is literally probably 48 hours after I had this experience of just playing around with the idea, right? That all of a sudden I have this ticket on someone I don't know who bought a gift certificate of a nice price, I will say. And I'm just like,

Dr. Sandra Marie (07:08.502)
this works. Whether you call it manifestation, whether you talk about this being just being in the quantum field and things showing up where your attention is, all as I know is it happened. Well, it's interesting because someone else told me that they did a manifestation ceremony and I wish I could remember the specifics of it. There was some, you know, letting go and drawing in and increasing the frequencies. They said two days later,

They work in the real estate field, some listing that they had referred out nine months ago that they had totally forgot about. Apparently then a piece of property sold and they were going to get a check for it. And they were like two days, two days after they had done that. hear those shout outs all the time. I've shifted just a little bit on how I'm looking at it. it was like, I had Sarah Wiseman on the podcast.

And she talked about picking that we liked to be like pickers. And she says, I'm not a good picker. She goes, we don't trust that the universe has our best interests, has our back all the time. And we think that we at times may know more of what's better for us and that the universe knows. I do this practice every day where I wake up and I use three words about what I'm trying to draw into my life. So I've been using

beauty, excitement and ease and the frequency of beauty, excitement and ease. And then I pick three words that I dress myself in for the day. So I may be dressing myself and feeling capable, knowing, I don't know, I have so many words, healthy. And those are my three words. If I'm picking beauty, excitement and ease, to me that puts me in a flow and that flow is going to bring

positive things that supports those concepts. I'm broadening my horizons and my frequency with it, but you said something really important. That is my intention I sent, right? Beauty, excitement, and ease. But if I just do that for a minute or two, or as I have my cup of coffee, and I don't put a focus on keeping an attention to that, at least.

Dr. Sandra Marie (09:34.752)
here and there throughout the day, it's sort of you slide back into whatever you're putting that attention into, which many times is a victimhood type of something that's out there, right? I guess manifestation is just, it's simple, but it's bigger than what we thought. Like it's bigger than just doing a storyboard, right? And I feel like it's evolved. I mean, if the universe is evolving and consciousness is evolving,

I think that that's evolving too in what it looks like and how it works. I don't want to dismiss the work, but I think that it's evolved and that's part of what this is all about is being curious and asking questions. Keep being curious and keep asking questions. I don't know. Does any of that make sense or did I just ramble? Absolutely. No, it absolutely makes sense. I think too.

I love the idea of having these qualities, icon qualities, that we start our day off with. Beauty, health, vitality, protection, courage, whatever quality you have, you know. But not only to just think of the quality, but to allow them to move from the mind, drop into the heart, and really feel. Can we allow ourselves permission to just pause? Can we allow ourselves the permission

to slow down and like, what does that feel like? What does that feel like radiating from me? And then when we get that sense of feel of beauty, of courage, and we have clarity as to what is to unfold, that opens that space for that manifestation to come in as well. And the other piece I think of it too is many times there's something that we feel like we are lacking in some way that we're trying to obtain in terms of manifestation.

I wonder, are people giving themselves the opportunity and the permission to say, this is something I want to change and I would like to attract this into my life or I'd like to radiate this into my life? Are we willing to shift and change any limitation that may be holding ourselves back? It all starts with just being willing to be willing, right? Can we be willing to be willing to just put this aside?

Dr. Sandra Marie (11:54.512)
this doesn't this couldn't happen for me. This is why I would like to see it show up because I want something different. Well, can we put that aside? Can we just drop those layers just for a moment and peek out and like, OK, I can breathe. This is what I desire to have. This is what I'm desiring, whether it's money, relationship, whatever it is, you know, and just be what does that feel like?

it radiates beauty from me, it radiates freedom, a sense of overflow, a sense of I have more to give, I have more I can contribute, and how does that feel, and feeling that, know, that is all part of the process as well too. But allowing ourselves to move past those limitations, you know, some of those limitations are pretty ingrained, and that's okay too, without judgment, and just holding ourselves in compassion, just being able to drop it for a moment.

to tap into the flow of what we desire and just holding that for as long as we can. If we notice we start getting back into our little shell again, can we get ourselves permission to be like, I'm back in here again and be okay with that without beating ourselves up like, what am I doing back in here? This is not gonna help me. If we can let go of that, if we can let go of the judgment, the criticisms and just be, simply just be in the moment and be like acknowledging.

loving yourself in that moment and be like, okay, well, I'm just gonna open up a little bit. I'm just gonna let that fall to the side again. And I'm gonna imagine, I'm gonna really feel what would this be like? And sometimes people are desiring something that is really big and like, I don't know what I would feel like. Okay, well, let's back it down just a tiny bit. What if you were to get a little bit, you know, and just to feel that? Or it's okay not to feel, but just imagine, can you picture it?

And can you just hold that picture for a little while until you do to elicit a feeling? Those are some of the things. Yeah, you're spot on. It's a consistent belief or fact out there. Thoughts are electrical and emotions are magnetic. And that's a big part of it. What I really love that you brought up is the giving yourself permissions. We came into this world with a lot of baggage, either generational or, you know, baggage from

Dr. Sandra Marie (14:09.528)
belief systems that were given to us at home, church, society, know, different cultures, giving ourselves permission to let go of a lot of those things that don't serve us and that weren't even ours to begin with. I think that I give myself permission. Maybe I'll have to dress myself in permission. Hmm. I think that that's really important that we can give ourselves when you're not feeling it, you can say, I give myself permission.

And there's so much freedom in that statement.

Yeah, there's a lot that can come up with that though too. And that's where we get to practice. We get to practice being compassionate. get to, it always starts with ourselves. I see that, I say this every time we talk, it always starts with ourselves, right? We want to see more compassion in the world or whatever. Well, can we be compassionate with ourselves when we're having a day where we're not feeling it? Can we give ourselves permission to slow down? Can we give our permission not to have to be this productive worker bee? Can we give ourselves permission?

to really acknowledge what we're feeling, even if it's something we don't desire to feel, but can we give ourselves permission to allow that to come up and move through and allow ourselves that freedom and that builds that inner love, that builds that inner safety, that builds that inner integrity. That's one of the things that'll help us expand and grow. Because once we can do that and empowering ourselves, that's when we start seeing the world open up. The world shifts, literally will change.

as we change. We have been talking for quite a bit on this. I think that we probably can take this topic and chunk it out down the road. As we're going to tie this episode up, anything that you want to add there, I think that was pretty powerful what you just said. I know it was, I don't think, I know it was very powerful. Yeah, just know that anything is possible. The possibilities are infinite and they're all within and we're just

Dr. Sandra Marie (16:11.032)
The universe is just waiting for us to express them. So have fun with it. Absolutely. For everyone listening out there, I want to thank you for joining us. Remember, the universe expands with your curiosity. So stay open, stay curious, and keep unlocking your universe. Excited for you to join us on our journey, and we're excited to join you on your journey. Until next time. Thanks, Nikki. Thank you.

Thank you for joining us for this episode of Wild Soul Gathering's Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious. To learn more about our guests, please go to our website, WildSoulsGathering.com. We're very eager to hear from our listeners what you thought of the episode, topics you might like us to cover in the future, your thoughts on spirituality, questions you may have. Please feel free to send us an email at WildSoulsGathering.gmail.com.

This is your host, Dr. Sandra Marie, sending each of you peace and love. Until we meet again, embrace your wild soul.