Hello, friends, and welcome back to Let It Flow.
I'm Alexis. I'm so excited you're here.
I am your mindset, manifestation coach, human design reader,
overall just spiritual girlfriend.
And we're just going to talk about all things manifestation
today, specifically manifestation immersion therapy,
which is just like the funniest little thing that popped into my
head honestly a few months ago. And I just haven't taken action
on it. And I literally talked to, I
talked to my like angels, God, Jesus, whoever, but my, my whole
team up there, I talked to them all the time.
And I was like, please do not take this idea away from me.
Because if you've read the book Big Magic, they talk about like
how ideas magically come to you. And if you don't take action on
them, they will find somebody else to bring them to life.
And I was like, Hey, guys, like, please don't take this idea away
from me because I think it's really funny.
I'm just figuring out the best way to share it.
So I'm ready to share about it now because it is one of the
most like, OK, funny term for it, but it's like the most
essential thing that you can do to bring your manifestations to
life. Manifestation immersion therapy
is just kind of like a cheeky way of saying you need to feel
the energy of the thing you want before you have it.
So it's my new favorite phrase And a little teaser about it is
that manifestation is not just vision boards and affirmations.
There's actually an energetic level that a lot of people miss.
Or if you're in the mindset and manifestation world, you
probably hear it all the time that you need to feel the energy
before you have it, which is just really confusing.
Like how do you feel the energy of something that you want to
have before you have it? That's why it's on your vision
board in the 1st place because you don't, you don't freaking
have it. Like how do you even step into
that energy if you have no idea what it feels like to have that
thing or do that thing or be that thing?
So at the core, this is about immersing yourself in the energy
of your dream life before you actually see it in your physical
reality. And I'm going to share how you
can actually do that. For an example from my life when
I was back living in Bloomington, MN, this was like
mid COVID times. I was watching so many YouTube
videos of people going on adventures and van lifing and
traveling and I just thought they were the coolest, most
adventurous, spontaneous people and that for some reason they
were different from me. And I journaled about it and I
would vision oh what would it be like to be that type of person?
And I didn't view myself as spontaneous and adventurous.
I was waitressing. I had no idea how to get there,
but I knew that I would not get to be that version of myself
that is spontaneous and adventurous if I was still
planning every single day to a tee and not taking any risks.
So an easy way for me to get into that was maybe I don't have
anything on my calendar for the weekend and I'm maybe I let
someone else make the plans for once.
Or maybe we spin the wheel and make a random decision on where
to go for dinner. Like those are little ways to be
spontaneous and adventurous within the bubble that I was
currently living. And then of course, if anybody
doesn't know the rest of that story, like I did, decide to
actually quit my job, trade my car, road trip for three months
and travel across the US and be very spontaneous and
adventurous. I tend to do that.
I tend to make leaps before I'm ready.
And it's all because of manifestation immersion therapy.
I just never called it that, but it truly is.
I would journal about the life that I want and I still do this.
I like write down everything that I want and the energy that
I'll feel when I have it and that version of myself that has
it and actually take the steps to do it before I feel ready.
Because if not now, then when. There's truly never a good time.
There's maybe better times than others, but truly it comes down
to you just making the commitment to make it work and
just move forward. So there's two different vision
boards that I think are essential.
And this is something that I started doing even just in the
most recent couple of years, and I didn't realize that I haven't
heard anybody else talk about this.
And I think it is so, so important and really helpful if
you're a visual person like me, I know that at the new year or
at your birthday or checkpoints throughout the year year, you
make vision boards. I'm sure you've done it.
You probably have a Pinterest board filled with pictures of
things that you want to bring into your life or what your
dream life would look like. And this would be so nice.
And thinking that it's so far away from you and you're putting
all these pictures of things external world.
And there's like boats and villas and jewelry and ocean
views and friends and like everything that you're calling
in and you're like, this is so awesome.
And then you shut your laptop and you keep living your life
And you're like wondering why your vision board is not coming
to life when you're doing the exact same things that you've
been doing every single day. News flash, it shouldn't be a
news flash. But like if you keep doing the
same things you've been doing, you're not going to get the
things that you want and that you're manifesting.
So we're going to fix that because the traditional vision
board is very external world based.
You're going to cut out a picture of a mansion and glue it
to the board. You're going to cut out a
picture of like shoes and clothes and jewelry and things
that you want in the external world that you're trying to call
in. Versus.
I think it is essential to then after you make that traditional
vision board that you need to make an energetic vision board,
an aligned self vision board. That's actually what mine is
called on Pinterest. I have 2025 vision board,
manifestation board, and then I have aligned self energy.
This is different. This is about the internal world
of the version of yourself that has all of that stuff that's on
your traditional vision board. Obviously, if you were in the
energy of the version of yourself that has the things on
your vision board, you would already have that.
So there's a gap between the version of yourself now that
wants the things that are on your vision board and the
version of yourself in the future, probably near future,
that has those things on your vision board.
So there's a gap between the internal world that you have
currently and your thoughts and your beliefs and your values and
the version of yourself that has that future life when you make
this energetic vision board, I want you to scroll through
Pinterest very freely. I want you to search blue
aesthetic. I want you to search clouds
aesthetic, water aesthetic, like emotional things you can do,
adventure aesthetic you can anything with aesthetic on the
end of it just brings up better photos like aesthetic.
What would I do? I would do like cloud aesthetic
photography or purple cloud aesthetic photography, like
whatever you want to just get like photos that make you feel
something. I want you to have a vision
board that's like, wow, this is how I feel inside.
Maybe it's sparkle for me, it's sparkle aesthetic and bubble
aesthetic and, and, and things like that or like rich
aesthetic, green aesthetic. Like these are all different
things that I've searched to pull up things that that I want.
Or you can also add quotes. So my board actually the biggest
difference between mine. So if I were to describe my
boards, my traditional vision board has things like group
retreat workshops on there. It has the shopping cart of like
the foods that I that I want to have in my fridge.
It has boats, it has Italy, it has a villa, it has my friends
in a villa like hosting a girls trip.
It has airplanes and passports. It has all of the external
things that I either want to do, have or see versus my energetic
vision board has pictures that represent the internal world of
the version of myself that has that.
So it has certain quotes that she lives by.
It has fitness things on there. She's the type of person that
takes care of herself, that prioritizes her fitness routine.
It has skin care on there. Like this type of person that
cares about her morning and evening routine.
She what else is on there all sorts of things that just make
me feel like what? Like this is the type of energy
she brings to the table in order to bring that world to life.
And that is where vision boards are so amazing because they,
they don't show you just what you want, but like who you need
to become in order to have that. So quotes, beliefs, fitness,
food, celebration, mantras, everything with your internal
world. So you have two different boards
and then you can identify the gap like I was saying, so the
gap between who you are now and who you want to become.
A lot of people think that this is a huge gap.
Maybe you're one of those people you've, you see your vision
board and you're like, Oh my God, that is so much different
than my life now. There's just no way that I could
even get there in the next month, year, 2 years, maybe even
five years. You think is a long shot for
getting what you have on your vision board, but I need you to
snap out of it. Spoiler, it is not that far
away. If you actually look at the
energy of what are you currently bringing to the table, the
energy that you're bringing to the table is what is creating
your life right now. So if we can tap into that
future version, what does she believe?
What is she doing? Things can move really fast the
minute you decide to stop bullshitting yourself and step
into the energy that you need to have to bring that to life.
It takes a lot of self responsibility.
I'm going to say that right away.
It's not easy. That's why personal growth, self
development, I feel like is so like so fun.
I love this manifestation, but it actually comes down to at the
core of it, you believe you're not worthy of it.
You believe that it's not possible.
Maybe there's negative voices around you and your environment.
Maybe your community is not supportive.
There's there's gaps there. So you can clarify where that
gap is and how you can take tiny actions and also how you can put
yourself in the energy that that future version of yourself or
aligned version of yourself has. An example that of my life that
I did a couple weeks ago to experiment with manifestation
immersion therapy. I want to be clear.
I was shaking in my little rather leather jacket.
Like I It's so funny how we have this concept of what is above or
below us or in our realm or out of our realm or what we're
allowed to do and not allowed to do.
You have so much free will that you are just giving away every
single day. You are choosing to live exactly
how you're living every day. OK, We, we all have choice.
Stop pretending that you don't. I went to a mall in Minneapolis
called the Galleria. Anybody from here knows that
that is kind of the fancy mall, and I decided to just go into
Louis Vuitton just for fun. Can I buy a Louis Vuitton bag
right now? Absolutely not, Not at this
moment. But I walked in there and it was
funny how much walking in there kind of triggered some anxiety
in me of feeling like I can't go into that store until I can
feasibly buy something in there. There is no rule saying that you
cannot walk into Louis Vuitton. There's no rule.
Anybody is welcome to walk through those doors, OK, You're
allowed to go in whatever store you want to.
I think this is just a really fun and approachable way to
challenge those limits and those boundaries that you have set up
in your head of like what you have permission to do.
And maybe you grew up with somebody saying like, Oh my
gosh, I can't believe they would spend so much on a bag.
Like I can't believe this is all just Louis Vuitton example.
That doesn't have to be Louis Vuitton.
It could be anything that you want.
Like, Oh my God, I can't believe they would buy that house.
And they're only like, it's, they're just a couple.
Why do they need 8 bedrooms? Like, I don't know, whatever you
grew up with, with the verbiage around money and desires and
what you want. Like if you want a boat, if you
want, maybe you want five kids and somebody's like, Oh my God,
why would you ever want that many?
Like whatever people have projected onto you throughout
your whole life can really dampen what you say you desire.
So stop guessing yourself and actually write down what you
want. Actually claim what you want.
I, I think I have been stuck in this for any time I say, I think
if you say I think this like you probably know I know I have been
stuck in not claiming what I actually want for I don't know,
maybe there's fears there of like people thinking that things
are superficial or unrealistic or just unnecessary, but maybe I
want a Louis Vuitton person. I deserve it.
OK, so just claim whatever you want and then put yourself in
the energy of it. So I was walking through the
Galleria and walking up to Louis Vuitton and I felt my heart
start pounding. OK, Like I start.
I was like, why do I feel like the unpopular?
Like, I don't know, I don't even want to say this, but like the
unpopular kid at the party or like I actually, I was feeling
like it was bringing up the anxiety that I had the social
anxiety from middle school, high school of feeling like, Oh my
gosh, like, like, is anybody going to talk to me?
Like, should I be here? It was like that kind of that
anxiety of like, am I good enough to be here?
Because I know that like my bank account's not not going to
support a purchase at the store today, but it doesn't mean that
it can't in the future. And that is what I'm calling in.
So why would I not put myself in that position to be surrounded
by something that I want, like literally surrounded walking in
a store, surrounded by something that is just out of out of range
at the moment. But it's like on the vision
board. So you can do this in so many
ways. So this is just a really easy
way to immerse. You do not have to want a Louis
Vuitton. This is just like the best
example I can come up with right now.
But immersing myself in luxury energy before the purchase is
possible because then I understand what it feels like to
touch the thing, to hold the thing.
You know what, I actually paced around.
I looked at everything. I took a selfie in the mirror in
there. I then started talking to a
sales associate and was just like, Oh my gosh, this colourway
is so beautiful. Like how would I act if I were
the person that was going in there to buy one?
I'd be looking at the colourways.
I was like, I'm going to have the audacity to try it on and be
like, this one's a little bit too small.
I don't know, I'm looking for one that's about X size.
And I really like that colourway.
But do you actually have it in white?
Be the person, act like the person.
Do the thing before you're ready to do it.
And it was amazing. Like at the end of the day, it's
just a purse. I can get a purse from Target.
I'm really not a handbag gal. If I were to have a like all the
money in the world, I'd probably buy a lot of sneakers, not going
to lie. But just to be in there and put
yourself in the energy of like, this is not as big as I'm making
it out to be. It is just something that I can
have one day and I'm surrounded by it.
I watched people walk in there. I think that was even more
empowering is like being around people that are going in there.
I watched a lady walk in and compare multiple bags and like
she bought one. One of the biggest ones
actually, and just like nothing. So if that's not the energy that
you're around, it's something you're calling in.
You're calling in wealth and abundance.
You need to surround yourself with other people that have the
mindset of wealth and abundance, OK?
You can't keep expecting to manifest something that you
want. When you surround yourself with
people that don't believe it's possible or think it's stupid,
or talk down about your dreams or don't want to hear it, put
yourself in the energy that you need in order to bring your
dreams to life. If we're being honest here, we
all want very similar things. I feel like it's a very human
thing to want freedom. I want a different career, I'm
attracting the love of my life, blah blah blah.
Like we all want similar things. We're all very, we're all
unique. You are special.
But at the end of the day, it all comes down to safety, love,
support, freedom. That's always generally the same
thing. But when you say you're calling
in a dream relationship and maybe you're pinning those
photos, like I have some photos on my vision board, I'll be
completely honest of like this couple in the ocean and like
holding hands on a plane and like we're traveling together.
Cool. Like you can want a soulmate all
you want, but it doesn't come to you until you really love
yourself enough to attract a healthy relationship.
If you're hoping for someone else to give you the support and
love and freedom that you desire, that is just going to
put so much pressure on them, so much pressure on the
relationship, and then eventually leads to you feeling
like you can't be yourself in safe without them.
So if you want something that's more stable and you want to call
in that person that's right for you, the more you know yourself,
the more aligned the person is that's going to come to you.
And it's kind of funny because I for a second there thought
because so many of my friends are dating a ton.
They're they're like going out on multiple dates a week.
And that just sounds so exhausting to me.
But then I got in my head thinking, Oh my gosh, do I need
to be going on so many dates? Because people say like, as you
date, you figure out what you want.
And I think that you can also figure out what you want by also
living vicariously through them. I, I listen to all their stories
and I'm like, Yep, don't want that.
Or yeah, that sounds nice. Maybe want that.
I'm also a very deep visualization person.
So I actually envision the energy of the person that I want
with me. Like how do I want to feel when
I'm with the person that's right for me?
So then when I'm with that person, like when I meet that
person, I remember that energy because I've already played in
it. I've already imagined so deeply
how I want to feel in that partnership.
And I've also journaled a lot, like, what do I want?
What don't I want? I've written down the names of
all the people that I've dated or or been in a relationship
with before. What did I like?
What did I not like? So I have a lot of work on the
back end, but I haven't actually gone on a lot of dates.
I'll be completely honest, but I know that I can, will, and have
recognized what I want when I meet that person.
So I just highly encourage you get to know yourself first.
Another very common manifestation is a career, a
dream job. Like maybe you're unhappy with
where you're working right now and it just doesn't seem like
that career leap is going to happen.
And people around you are saying, Oh my gosh, well what
you have is so good. Like why would you leave that
job? It's giving you health insurance
benefits and you're making X amount of dollars a year.
Maybe that's not what you want, or maybe it it is just enough,
but you can see yourself doing so much more.
It starts with embodying confidence, leadership, clarity,
and networking in the right circles.
If you're surrounding yourself with a bunch of people that tell
you that what you have is good enough and you know, why would
you want anything else? People would kill to have your
position, but you just feel deeply dissatisfied.
That's not helpful. And if you're in a friend group
or with family and they're saying things like that, it's OK
to say. I really appreciate your
support. I know how good I have it right
now and I'm very grateful for what I have.
But it is OK to want more. I'm giving you this permission
slip right now. It's it is OK to want more even
though what you have is already awesome.
Just because what you have is great doesn't mean that you
don't deserve to desire more or desire better.
And there are circles for you to immerse yourself in that goal.
Manifestation immersion therapy to immerse yourself in that
before you have it. Join a Facebook group, network,
go on LinkedIn, find a convention, find a workshop in
the city or town that you're in. Find a virtual master class to
learn something how? Join master class that's an
actual website. Learn something new.
Find other people that are interested in doing what you
want to be doing. You have that vision board, find
somebody who is living that vision already.
What are they doing? Who are they associating with?
I would not be expanding at the rate that I am right now if it
were not for my friend group in person that is always going
after things and always open to brainstorm and hold space for
the vision. We do that for each other.
But also, I actually just joined a training that I am not going
to talk about yet, but I'm so lit up about it.
And the girls in that group are just talking about their wins
and what they're doing. And it's just, Oh my God, like
so expansive for my mind for people to talk casually about
that amount of success. I'm, I'm just blown away and so
excited to be a part of that circle.
It's so expansive. And there's a lot of people in
my life that would be be so confused and just like not
they'd be like, what? Like what do you, what do you
want to do? So put yourself out there.
One of the things that I live by is the quote, Nothing changes if
nothing changes, whether that is your physical state or your
mental state. Usually it's a bit of both, but
nothing changes if nothing changes.
And what you're not changing, you are choosing.
So choose a new circle if that's what's right for you.
The next thing that people usually want is travel in
freedom. People just say I want freedom,
I want freedom. What does freedom mean for you?
Is that time freedom? Is it financial freedom?
Freedom to spend time with your kids?
Is it freedom to travel home to see your family?
Freedom to visit a new country? Do you want two weeks of freedom
a year and that's enough for you?
Or do you want complete location freedom?
Get very specific on what freedom means for you and jet
setting lifestyles require adventurous thinking.
So learn to be more adventurous in your daily life.
Like I said earlier, you can do really small things, small
spontaneous things. Write down on pieces of paper
anything on your summer bucket list, put it in a jar and every
weekend draw a new one out of there and just be like, Yep,
this is what I'm doing. Do it without a plan.
At least it's something that you have on your bucket list.
So something that you're you're interested, something that you
want to learn. If you're in a relationship and
you want to have more spontaneity and more freedom and
adventure in your relationship, do it with both of your bucket
lists. Maybe you both write down
individual things that you want to try, see, do in the city.
Whatever it is, put them all in a jar and then you draw and that
gives you that energy of wanting to leap before you're ready and
just try something new. It doesn't mean that you have to
quit your job and get a remote position and like travel every
day of the year. You need to just figure out what
does that look like for you and how can you embody that energy
right now? So what does adventure and
freedom feel like for you and how can you call that in right
now? With all of that being said, it
is very important to stay grateful for what you currently
have. And I say this all the time when
I'm talking about my future vision.
I'm very forward thinking. I'm very future thinking.
And I will be the first to admit that I get caught up in that and
forget to express gratitude. But coming back to how great
life is right now, honestly, my stress recently has been due to
the amount of opportunity that I have.
I'm so grateful that there's so many different avenues and
people in my life and I have built so many skills over the
years that I have a million different directions I could go.
All I have to do is choose what I want to do.
That is such a blessing, even when it causes me stress and
because I feel like I need to pick the right path.
You just need to choose a path in case anybody else needs to
hear that like I do. Just choose something and it
will lead you down a road. There's no right or wrong Rd.
It's just a road that will lead to another choice and that's
life. So practicing gratitude,
specifically on Sundays for me, I kind of do a weekly review and
reset. I do a check in, I take my
planner out. I also have the intelligent
change. Best day, best year, that's what
is best year journal. So I do a reflection on Sundays
and it's just what is the most like the greatest thing that
happened this week? What are three things I learned
this week? What steps have I taken toward
my goals? And it's just a quick little
check in just to be grateful. And I think the thing that
brings me back to gratitude more than anything is looking at my
Google Calendar. I still Google Calendar, you
guys. I'm not saying that I threw that
out the window. I just have a lot more white
space and I'm comfortable with the white space.
I think that's key is I'm comfortable with the flexibility
and spontaneous plans now. And that took work for me, but I
reflect and I see what are all the things that I did this week
and how many people did I spend time with.
I think that's just one of the most important things to me are
the relationships in my life, whether they're acquaintances,
deep friendships, family. I FaceTime my sister multiple
times a week and and my friend Carly that's over in Italy, we
FaceTime and make sure to touch base.
I get coffees, I do Co working. So reflecting on Sundays and
seeing how many people I actually got to spend time with
and chat with, that is what fills my cup more than anything.
So I'm always grateful for that and grateful for now.
I'm grateful for my space. I love my home right now.
And you can still love your present while building your
future. It's not an either or.
You don't have to be unhappy in order to want to make a change.
I think that is something that is not touched on enough because
I feel like there's a lot of pain point selling and pain
point triggering in like the news and media and how awful the
economy is in the United States and blah, blah, blah, blah, and
how people are just so unhappy. You don't have to be unhappy.
There doesn't have to be this big deep reason that you want to
change your life. You can change it anytime just
because you want to, because you're a human and there's other
things that you want. That's it.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Some actionable takeaways for you today.
Make that vision board. Maybe you refresh the one that
you started in January. These are all the physical
things. This is what you're calling into
your life. And then you need to make a
separate board. I want you to create your
energetic vision board, your aligned self board.
Have that alongside your classic traditional vision board and you
will start to see and feel the difference.
Remember traditional vision board things that you want to
call in whatever that dream life looks like to you, looks like,
sounds like, feels like. And then your energetic vision
board is who are you? Who are you stepping into that
version of yourself? Maybe she dresses differently.
Maybe her habits are different. Maybe she eats different foods,
maybe she prioritizes her time differently.
All of that needs to go on that vision board because that is
where you can take action. That's where you start working
on yourself and making yourself into the version of your version
of you that is stepping into that dream life, that is
creating that dream life. So a couple questions for you.
What small immersive action can you take this week to step into
your next level self? Small, small immersive action.
Maybe you go on a home tour. Maybe you go test drive a car.
Maybe you go for a walk in the neighborhood you want to live
in. Maybe you take a road trip to a
town nearby. Maybe you can't go far, but you
want a road trip more in the future so you take a little trip
out of town. It doesn't have to be huge, you
guys. Maybe you go do a pottery class
because you want to have more art in your life, keep it
approachable and just do something to get yourself out of
your current rotation. Second question, are you
dreaming big enough or are you playing safe?
Be fucking for real, be for real with yourself.
Are you dreaming big enough or are you playing safe?
And I need to throw this in here because I appreciate and love my
friend Anna and roommate Anna dearly.
She called me out because I told her one of my goals and she goes
that should be your basement. I felt like I was punched in the
gut in the kindest way. I told her my goal and I was
like Yep, this is on my wall. This is my goal.
And she goes Alexis, that should be your absolute basement of a
goal. You can do so much more than
that. Like she was almost disgusted
that I even said that was my goal.
I I love and appreciate my friend group so much because
they really push and expand me in ways that I'm not expanding
myself, which is why community is so important.
Put yourself in groups that expand you.
It is so so so important. I would love to hear how you are
immersing yourself in your manifestation this week.
Please DM me if you do. I would love to hear what's
going on. Screenshot the episode and tag
me. I would love if you would share
on Instagram and leave a review if you feel called.
Tell me what action you're taking.
Tell me what you're manifesting. If you have something that
you're manifesting that's on your vision board and maybe
you're like Alexis. I have no idea how to immerse
myself in that energy before I have it.
Like this is confusing. Tell me and I will give you some
examples of how to immerse yourself in that energy before
you actually have it. So we're in it together.
I'm here to help you. Please DM me anytime.
Messages are are always open. I'm here to listen, but you've
got this. I'm so excited to see what you
bring to life. And also PS more than anything,
I love vision boards. Please screenshot.
I mean, if you're open to sharing what your vision is,
send me a screenshot of your vision board and your aligned
self board. I would love to see them side by
side. I want to see what this version
of you is that you're stepping into and cheer you on.
I'm in it with you. So with all of that, I will see
you in the next episode. I hope you have the greatest
week we have stepping into the warmer days of summer and I
think my pool is opening soon. I can't wait to just be a little
salamander in the sun honestly. I love you guys.
Thank you and have a great week. Bye as always.
I just want to say a huge thank you for being here and being a
part of the lot of Flow community.
If you feel called to leave a rating or review, I would love
to hear your thoughts. I read every note coming out
with me on socials. You can find me over on
Instagram at Destination X Alexis.
I will link all current offers in the show notes below,
including the booking link to book your human design reading
with me. And with that, I will catch you
in the next one. Bye.