Manifestation 101: Honor Your Timing - Moving to NYC
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Just me calling you out for sitting on yourself ❣️😜
Loving reminder to go ahead and own whatever you dreaming…it’s meant for you!!!
It’s plot girl summer and my life has been playing out in a sequence of events I can only liken to the most beautiful romantic comedy ever. I can’t even make it up - the sequence of signs and steps leading me down the path of least resistance to manifested dreams is truly beautiful to witness.
I am moving to NYC and the sequence of steps to create that reality has been so “out of order” for me. If you know me, I have been saying for YEARS I want to live there and of course it is finally happening! I have been walking in such trust that it is inevitable so I just keep following the pull of my heart and it felt just right finally.
When I would come to NYC in the past, I would walk around and say I want to live here….but something in me said not yet. When I came back over the summer this year, I felt like the butterflies, the spark, the deep pull and walked through the streets feeling like - yup, I’m ready. Now is the time. I am a resident here.
This is the exact sequence of feelings and energetics I have been falling into with all the manifestations that have happened for me like magic. I felt the pull to move to Charleston - and then I said to myself what is the next aligned step for me? And moved from there. Now we apply the same method at a new level of healing and trust with NYC.
And I want to share with you this story so you may feel into the trust that what you feel is meant for you will come. It is inevitable - can you walk in trust and ease as it occurs in divine timing?
I was about to start the process and have heard from many, many people - it’s hard, the market is crazy, it’s a full time job — I said to myself nope, not for me.
When I started my healing journey I decided I’m operating in a new paradigm. I choose to see there must be a path of least resistance to me that is pleasureful and easeful in every area of my life.
And that is how I manifested my current day job (WHICH I LOVE! blog post coming on this!)
I do not have to sit for hours scouring the internet searching for aligned matches….
I do not have to apply to misaligned options because there aren’t enough….
I do not dwell in the suffering, the waiting, the pain….
I’ve done that before and the process of manifesting results was no fun.
And isn’t the point to actually enjoy the creative process?
Yes - for me it is. And that looks like choosing to see everything is working out for me in divine timing and my intuition is the greatest guidance system I could ever tune into. I trust myself and I trust that I will receive all the signs to make a move towards where I want to be. And the process will be fun and playful no matter what.
I chose to move in trust and lower alllll levels of stress.
The steps my heart pulled me towards began with getting super specific about what I was looking for.
Not like the exact color of the wood floors, but the overarching feeling…
Open, spacious, 1 bedroom, clean building - well maintained…so on, so forth. Broad standards of luxurious, refined living…because at my core, I knew that was what I wanted. A clear, clean desire.
And I started talking about it with CERTAINTY.
Like “I am moving to New York.” To my loved ones, to friends…I simply owned it - just absolute trust and certainty it was happening.
I felt pulled to look at the map and choose a few neighborhoods - I thought Brooklyn, Williamsburg or Greenpoint. I started looking at listings and emailing out to a few - maybe 5-10 about a potential showing. I only looked when the vision of my apartment felt certain and true. Otherwise I was in full on play, giving my current place in Charleston notice that I am moving out, beach days, meeting up with friends, fully checked in to the current reality I was in with full gratitude…
It felt a bit wild to be owning the certainty so fully that I was already like yup, I’m moving out - but when we own what we desire in such clarity we are literally sending all the signals to the Universe that yes, this is inevitable. This is happening.
I put in my energetic order for my apartment and it is going to happen when it’s meant to…I surrender all worry because I can’t know how it can happen…I’m just open to receiving the next aligned step here and now…
And my intuition said to me..go to NYC and look around…
I am blessed to have my bestie from high school living in Midtown so I asked to stay with her. She had to leave town unexpectedly and graciously still offered to put me up. Somehow, I manifested a whole weekend living in an apartment (not mine of course) in NYC scoping out neighborhoods. What an amazing way to feel into the vision I was creating!
I kept affirming I am going to find my apartment. I’m going to walk into it and just know.
I had 2 apartment showings set up… my inner protective self immediately went to fear and doubt - saying this is not enough so the apartment can’t happen this weekend. I could sense this desire to set myself up for failure already…saying how is it possible that we are going to find the apartment? Let’s just give up before we feel the pain of dissappointment.
In that moment, I took a breathe and became aware of the protector within me - soothing and saying I am not attached to needing this apartment today because I know it is meant for me inevitably. I can face disappointment if it arrives but I feel so turned up and on by this vision. And so I tuned into my higher self, my inner truth speaking - saying you have no idea how this could unfold. What if you just allow it to be in this moment? What if we just slow down, got really present in here, and allow the rest to unfold exactly as it’s meant to?
When I released my attachment to time, that I would need to know what would happen next - I couldn’t have fathomed that as I am walking down the New York streets I receive an email from a realtor who has a apartment showing for me. I did not personally go looking for her - she just dropped in through the path of least resistance to support me. She then proceeds to get on the phone with me and is sending me listing after listing that we can look at together….alll beautiful options within my specifications.
How could I have forecasted that would happen? I couldn’t have and the creation process was so relaxing when I observed my inner protector and tuned into such deep trust that it was all going to pan out.
The apartment showing I decided to go with here was hilarious. It was in the middle of Greenpoint and Williamsburg - right in between. Spacious, clean, well maintained, luxurious…of course my entire list. We walk up to the apartment door of the man who said he would share his space with us. Right outside his door his doormat reads “Château de Luc” — you can guess his name was Luc. He opens the door a smidge and looks at both of us, and says. “Are you ready?” He quickly nods, shuts the door, and barreling through the closed door we hear choir like sound. He swings the door wide open and Céline Dion is blasting throughout the entire apartment singing…
“Every night in my dreams
I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on”
My jaw is on the floor in awe of this peacock show and I am just fully receiving. He looks at us both and the realtor looks to me whispering “I’m so sorry.” I am dying to laugh here…and he is saying, “Isn’t this the most amazing apartment ever?!” He proceeds to show off the entire apartment talking through every single detail in the space from the Bluetooth speakers to the recess lighting… he even swings his closet doors open to show off his color coordinated closet.
I could not have fathomed I would receive such a wild experience…
I leave the showing to walk the neighborhood and see if this is where I want to live….
The realtor tells me there’s a café that I absolutely love you could try called Abracadabra. I didn’t tell her I am eating a gluten-free, dairy free diet right now, so finding options in New York is a blessing compared to Charleston food scene, but I still would Google most options before walking in. I trusted her word and where it led me was walking into Abracadabra to happen upon the magic of finding Magic Maca Brownies that are both gluten-free and dairy free. I was so excited I felt that the man at the counter could sense my energy and I received a free brownie!
How could I have forecasted any of this?
I’ve just fully immersed myself into the magic of what could happen on this beautiful journey.
Stories like this happen to me alllll the time, this is just one moment in the incredible plot line.
The next day I had a showing in Bed Stuy- I didn’t have clarity on if that was the exact apartment for me so I followed my flow into what was next. Bed Stuy was way out of the neighborhoods I was looking at but there was something about the place that was drawing me in.
I got to the showing early and stood outside waiting for the realtor. Two women who are similarly looking for apartments stood there and since I have nothing to lose, I trusted the pull to talk to them. They were so kind to me, and even though we were competing for the same place, they were sharing all these amazing tips about looking at properties and what they had found along their journey. When we get into the space it was absolutely gorgeous, fully renovated in a walk up, and a total steal.
After leaving that apartment, I had a long car ride back to Midtown.
I tuned into my gut and recognized that I actually really enjoyed my time in Manhattan because I was in the hustle and bustle of the city itself.
The thing is these were all really good, amazing aligned apartments that fit into my specific criteria. But I trust my gut that was saying no. And it is actually such a blessing when we say no, because we allow space for our aligned yes to finally fall in. This was the weekend I was supposed to sign lease but I decided to trust my gut more…
So I went back home without a signed lease… and I just kept moving with the certainty that I was moving.
That week I booked movers saying I don’t have an address in New York but I will be there…
I received a vision in my dreams that was soooo clear of my apartment, of what I wanted my apartment to look like furniture wise and it did not have any of the current furniture that I had. I reached out to my sister-in-law who is a interior designer and we started visioning my space (I know a blog post come from this process because it is going to be magical!!!)
I began selling my furniture… I began going through every belonging I had, purging all that was no longer in the vision of my desires….
All the while without an apartment…
All the while - I was not scouring the Internet for the perfect place. I would only look when it was playful. When I felt frantic, I would stop and tune in to things that were pleasurable
I was starting to feel internal pressure about the timing and saying to myself I have to book a trip, I HAVE to have to book a trip and go and see a place and sign a lease NOW.
Every part of my being was like wait, no, not right now…I don’t want to.
It didn’t make any logical sense because my move out date was coming out so soon yet every part of my being said don’t do it…
In a moment of frantic energy I looked at flight ticket prices to New York and it was around $300 which was pretty high…I could easily buy the ticket but something in me was saying wait.
So I pulled myself back into my higher self energy and waited.
A week later, I woke up and did my daily meditation practice…I felt my hell yes in my body. Book. The. Trip.
I went back online right then and saw a ticket for $97. Immediately booked!
Wow. I couldn’t have planned that…
How could I have forecasted that?!
I book my ticket and I don’t feel a pull to book a hotel… same drill… I wait until I feel the pull.
Within minutes of feeling a pull two days before my trip, I found the most aligned beautiful hotel and book it without knowing many details about it other than the location being in lower Manhattan where I knew I would be looking at apartments.
I had no listings planned to see the day before my trip…
I arrive in the city and email a few different listings…
Suddenly I find my schedule booked with all sorts of open houses and apartments that are complete aligned matches…
There isn’t just one, there are many!!!…
And I walk into my hotel room to find the vibiest room ever with the wall saying “Machine, alive with pleasure!”
Holy moly - that is the word I live my life by - PLEASURE.
That is me - ALIVE WITH PLEASURE!!!
The divine timing of everything is like a sequence from a movie
I can’t even make this s@#$ up and I just keep following the pull, the synchronicities just keep falling in… I can’t make it up!!! My imagination could not fathom…
Now I have to actually tell you about how I got the apartment that I wanted. That my body said hell yes to….
The story is actually still unfolding as I write this and as I said, I feel that certainty - that it is happening…
And to keep you on the edge of your seat, I will be sharing that story in a new post…very, very soon…
The lessons sprinkled throughout this journey of manifestation are true for all manifestation journeys
Listen to your aligned yes and aligned no
Honor your timing
Hold your standards
Be open to receiving it all - release control
The Universe is conspiring for you if you allow it to
You get to choose your paradigm
Each of these lessons is loaded - each of these lessons are powerful.
AND it only gets juicier from here!
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