The Love-and-Light Gurus Are Ruining Your Life

Wake up and smell the bs!

The love and light movement is a scam.

And it has many followers, duped into wearing pink-colored glasses and snorting affirmation glitter 3 times a day.

It’s only natural. Because we all want to be in the light. We all want to love and be loved. I know I do.

And I know I fell for it, just like most of us. The moment it got very obvious that this was all fake was when I heard everybody using the same words: ‘woke’, ‘enlightenment’, ‘meditation’, ‘manifestation’, ‘how I manifested my ideal husband in 6 months, etc.

Woke — is an ego term that people use about themselves to pretend they are better than others.

Enlightenment — the very few people who actually reach it don’t waste time bragging about it on social media.

Meditation — the most amazing tool when actually used, not just talked about

Manifestation — a grain of truth turned into the biggest money-making scheme of all time.

How I manifested my ideal husband in 6 months — I’ll tell you how, you started dating, looking for a certain type of guy and you eventually found him. Could have been a month, a year, or 6 years. You just found a guy you liked, period.

There is nothing wrong with having hope, believing in yourself, and having a positive outlook on life. Actually, it’s the basis of a happy and prosperous life. The problem is when you are stuck on a fake path to imaginary enlightenment, buying book after book about how to improve your life by believing in unicorns and chasing rainbows right into every guru’s retreat.

Hey, I’ll tell you a little secret. I believe in unicorns. And by unicorns, I mean the magic of everyday life: your cat giving you wet nose kisses, you getting the job you always wanted right when you needed it most, sitting on your sunglasses and finding a pair that someone lost in the park 5 minutes later, etc. One time, on my drive to work, I noticed at least 80% of the cars in front of me having 11 in their number. It was like a synchronicity miracle and I was happy the whole day. I am that person. The one who allows some wholesome clean everyday magic to make her day awesome.

But this is the person I’m not: the one who pretends everything is ok because if you are not happy and serene it means you’re doing something wrong. The one who buys every detoxing funky smelling tea to cleanse her aura. The one who believes she’s more woke than anybody else and the government put tracking devices in her vaccine.

I’m not smarter than the rest of you. On the contrary. I’m an idealist and a believer and we are easy to fool. And fooled I was! I just happened to hop on the manifesting train earlier so I had the time to figure it out and jump right off. I was in the first wave of believers and now I’m in the first wave of disbelievers.

The answers to the great questions are not easy. Why we’re here, what’s our purpose on this earth, they can’t be answered on a mushroom-fueled trip to a Bali retreat. There’s more to life than love and light. While positivity is amazing, it got to a place where you are just ignoring what you’re truly feeling.

Changing your feelings to change your life is not physically possible. Feelings are impossible to change. What you can change is your outlook on the situation, while acknowledging that you have less than happy feelings. It’s ok, they’re part of you. That’s the beauty, complexity, and chaos of being human.

All the fake influencers on social media, looking happy, hashtagging themselves as blessed while snorting blow in the bathroom are robbing you of the full experience of being a real human being, experiencing life at its true potential.

Eventually, you get stuck in a rut of meditating, saying mantras, fumigating your house with sage and not doing anything for days or doing everything like a fake love-fueled zombie.

That’s why you don’t manifest anything. Because you’re doing it wrong.

Here’s the manifestation technique that will 100% bring you results or money back guaranteed:

• believe in yourself
• work hard
• work harder
• work smart
• get your ass to work

and, most importantly,

• work your ass off.

It will work like magic. How do I know? Because it worked for everybody since the beginning of time.

Manifestation is a wonderful tool, but it only has results when you use it as inspiration for your work.

If you just dream about being a writer, you will not manifest it. To be a writer you have to write. Hard, a lot, and with little results in the beginning. Just go write! You can substitute the word ‘writer’ with anything else.

Do you see the big financial advisers, the great novelists, the fitness models, the Tim Denning’s of this world ever say they reached their level of income and success through manifesting? No! What do they say? That they worked for it!

You know who says they manifested their dream apartment, their ideal life, their 5 figure income, etc.? The ones who want to sell you manifestation courses, love and light retreats, and magic potions.

There is only one form of manifestation that has been proved to work time after time. It’s called inspired work. Not giving up. Believing in what you do. Answering your soul’s desire to serve yourself and your fellow humans.

Could you do it any other way? Yes. If your belief was strong enough to be able to physically move mountains, then you could manifest everything you wanted from your couch, while watching Netflix. You can test that right now. It doesn’t even have to be something as big as a mountain. Just look out the window. See your neighbor’s car. Try to move it with the power of your belief.

Did it work? No? Then get your ass to work.

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