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Hi everyone, it's Britney, and today I want to talk about experiencing what you want.
Brittany explains that you are awareness, not the character you identify with, and how this shifts the approach to manifesting desires.
Key Takeaways
- You are awareness, not the character you identify with.
- Manifestation is about experiencing what you want, not obtaining something external.
- Trying to change the character to manifest is unnecessary.
- Awareness is always present, regardless of your thoughts or feelings.
- You have the authority to define your experience beyond the character’s limitations.
What the video covers
- Manifesting is often misunderstood as obtaining something outside of oneself, but everything appears within awareness.
- The character (e.g., Sarah) is a part of the dream-like experience, not the dreamer or awareness itself.
- Identifying as the character limits perception and creates the illusion of something missing to manifest.
- Awareness observes the character and all experiences, so you are not confined by the character's current state.
- Trying to 'fix' or transform the character to manifest desires is unnecessary and counterproductive.
- Disidentifying from the character means recognizing you are the awareness behind all experiences.
- You do not need to constantly monitor or remind yourself of awareness; it is always present.
- Being awareness does not mean passively watching a stagnant life; you can still experience what you want.
- The character’s perspective does not define what is possible; you are the authority over your experience.
- Manifestation is simpler when you stop trying to change the character and instead realize your true nature as awareness.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to Experiencing What You Want
- 00:55Everything Appears Within Awareness
- 02:01Identifying as Sarah Creates Limitations
- 03:03Sarah as a Dream Character
- 04:04Why the Dream Limits Don’t Define the Dreamer
- 05:57No Need to Transform the Character
- 06:49Awareness is the True Self
- 07:30Disidentification and Authority Over Experience
- 09:09Forgetting Awareness Does Not Mean Losing It
- 10:10Avoid Over-Monitoring Your Awareness
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[laughter] Um, I think that we've made this way more complicated than it actually is.
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And I'm intentionally saying experiencing instead of manifesting because even the word manifesting kind of makes it sound like there's something that you don't have that exists somewhere outside of you, and now you need to figure out how to get it.
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But where exactly would it be? Seriously, what is there to obtain? The body is appearing within awareness.
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The bank account is appearing within awareness. Other people are appearing within awareness. Literally, the entire world you are experiencing is appearing within awareness. So, where is this thing that you supposedly don't have?
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Where could it possibly exist outside of what you are? And I know that sounds like a ridiculous question because we're so used to looking at everything from the perspective of the person. So, I'm going to use Sarah as an example here because it's
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easier than saying the character a million times. So, [sighs and gasps] maybe Sarah has $5 in her bank account.
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Okay, she is single. She looks a certain way. Maybe there's something that she's wanted for 10 years. Obviously, from Sarah's perspective, she doesn't have it. Not a problem.
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[snorts] But then I'll go, "Well, I'm Sarah. Sarah doesn't have it, so I don't have it." And there it is.
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Now, there's something missing that I somehow need to obtain. That's where the whole manifestation frenzy starts because suddenly Sarah has a job to do.
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Now, she needs to change her thoughts and beliefs, fix her self-concept, get into the state, persist, stop reacting, ignore the 3D, whatever. And hopefully, if Sarah does enough of this correctly, eventually she'll turn into the Sarah who gets what she wants.
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Except I'm not Sarah. I'm aware of Sarah. I'm aware of her body, her thoughts, her feelings, what she has, what she doesn't have. And all of that is something that I'm aware of.
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So, how could I be Sarah? Think of it like a dream. Let's say Sarah is the character in the dream. She is standing in her apartment staring at her phone waiting for someone to text her. She checks her bank account
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and there's $5 in it. She looks in the mirror and she hates what she sees. And then she starts thinking about the last 10 years, wondering how the heck she's ever going to get to the new life from
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this life. And from Sarah's point of view, all of that is real. Of course it is. The $5 is real to her. The person not texting her is real to her. Her body and her past are real to her. So obviously, she's
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going to look at all of that and make conclusions about what she has, what she doesn't have, and what could realistically happen next.
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But Sarah is in the dream. She isn't what's dreaming it. So why would the $5 inside the dream establish what the dreamer can dream next?
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Why would Sarah being single establish what the next scene has to be? Why would her body, memories, or thoughts about what's possible establish the limits of the dream?
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Obviously, they wouldn't because they're a part of the dream, too. And this is really what I mean when I keep saying to you guys, leave the character alone.
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I mean, why are we trying to fix Sarah so that the dream can change? She's the dream character. You don't need to turn her into God. You don't need to make her stare at $5 while trying to convince
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herself she's a millionaire. You don't need to make her believe anything is possible. You don't need to make her stop reacting to what she sees.
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That was never her job. She can literally just be Sarah. She can go to work, talk to people, make decisions, get annoyed, [laughter] have a great day, have a horrible day, think whatever she thinks.
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She's allowed to just exist as the character. But then people hear, "Okay, so I'm not the person." And then somehow give Sarah another job.
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Now she needs to disidentify correctly. Now she has to remember that she's awareness all day. Every time a crappy thought appears, she has to catch it and go, "Wait, that's not me." Same Sarah. New job.
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No, guys. You don't need to turn broke Sarah into millionaire Sarah. You don't need to manufacture some preferred version of the character and then figure out how to become her. You're aware of both Sarahs.
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Neither one is what you are. And really, this is so much simpler than we make it.
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You know what you want. Perfect. So, what exactly is missing then? It only looks like something is missing when you're looking through Sarah because Sarah apparently doesn't have it. And the second Sarah is taken to be me, everything about her gets claimed.
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Her bank account becomes my bank account. Her relationship status, my relationship status, her body, my body.
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You get it? Her past, my past. Whatever her brain considers possible becomes what's possible for me.
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So now this one tiny limited point of view is being used to establish what I am and what I can experience.
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But none of it was ever defining you. It was defining Sarah. Um, and I get asked this all the time.
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Okay, but haven't I always been awareness? Why would knowing this now suddenly change anything?
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Yes, obviously you've always been awareness. You didn't just watch one of my videos and suddenly become awareness.
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You were awareness before you had any concept of the word awareness. What changes isn't what you are. It's seeing that you are taking yourself to be something that you were aware of. And this is important because you are the
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authority. Taking Sarah to be you wasn't some meaningless little misunderstanding while Sarah's life was being independently created somewhere else.
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There is no independently existing Sarah. When Sarah was taken to be me, her experience was taken to be your experience. And because you are the authority, that's what you are conscious of being. So seeing that you aren't Sarah isn't just some nice spiritual
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realization where you become detached from her and her life and nothing changes. It means Sarah no longer gets to define you.
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You're not confined to this particular expression of the character just because it's the one appearing now.
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You don't need current Sarah to somehow transform herself into preferred Sarah before something different can appear.
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Current Sarah was never the authority over what could appear next. You are now. Um, another question that I get is okay, but what if I forget?
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[sighs] Forget what, guys? Let's say tomorrow you get completely wrapped up in Sarah's life. You don't think about awareness once. You are pissed off about something. You're dealing with work. Somebody annoys you.
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Doesn't matter. Did awareness disappear? No. You don't need to remember awareness in order to be awareness any more than you need to remind yourself that you exist in order to continue existing. And yeah, it can still feel like you're Sarah. Of
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course, it can. You've spent what appears to be your entire life looking through this point of view. Her thoughts can feel like your thoughts. Her problems can feel like your problems.
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You can get completely absorbed in whatever she has going on. That's fine because even I still feel like I'm Sarah is something you're aware of.
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So guys, please don't turn this into another thing that you need to monitor all day. Oh my gosh, am I identified? Am I awareness? Did I forget?
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Am I looking through Sarah again? Uh, now Sarah has another full-time job. You could forget every word I said in this video. Sarah can get completely wrapped up in her life again.
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Knowing what you are isn't something Sarah has to keep remembering correctly in order for it to remain true. And no, this does not mean you realize your awareness and then peacefully sit there watching Sarah continue having the same
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crappy life forever. What would be the point of that, guys? I wouldn't even talk about this. You're allowed to actually experience what you want. Sarah is not an independently existing person who now has to keep moving along the same exact um what word
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am I thinking he
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Think about it. Her body changes. Her thoughts, feelings relationships and circumstances all change. And if we're going to refer to time, Sarah from 10 years ago isn't the same Sarah is right now. So why are we treating current
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Sarah like she has some independent existence that gets to dictate what Sarah has to be next?
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Current Sarah does not create the next Sarah. She's part of what's appearing too. And when I say the person you experience is a reflection of what you're being, I do not mean you must go embody the preferred Sarah 2.0 and
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identify with her instead. No, not at all. That's just giving Sarah another job. And this is where knowing is being comes in because I know exactly what happens next. Okay. So, how do I be the person who has it? You don't. You are not a
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person. Knowing isn't some technique that Sarah performs. Think about your own existence for a second.
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Do you have to affirm that you exist all day? Do you need to believe really hard that you exist?
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Do you wake up and go, "Oh my god, am I existing correctly today?" No.
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You just are. That's what I mean by being. It's not a performance. It's not a state you maintain. It's not an affirmation you need to repeat so it stays true.
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Knowing is not a technique. It's your sense of being. And obviously Sarah's brain is going to go, "Okay, but how does it change?" Honestly, why in the heck would Sarah's brain know?
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Her brain is literally a part of the experience we're talking about. Its entire reference point is the identity of a person. So, a past, memories, biology, cause and effect, probability, everything it's learned about what's realistic to being a person.
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[clears throat] So asking Sarah's brain how awareness can experience something Sarah currently thinks is impossible is like asking the dream character what the dreamer is allowed to dream next.
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She has no clue. And honestly she was never supposed to. But this is really exactly what we keep doing. We look at things inside the dream and ask them to tell us what's true. I'll know I have money when my bank account tells me.
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I'll know I'm loved when this person shows me. I'll know that this works when reality finally proves it.
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Do you guys see how that makes no sense? You're looking at something inside the dream and asking it to tell you what's true.
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And maybe this is the simplest way I can say it. You know what you want to experience and once you know you are not confined to the person who apparently doesn't have it, that is enough.
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You don't need to do something else in between. You don't need to become Sarah who has it. You don't need to make Sarah believe it.
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You don't need to figure out how awareness is going to turn it into an experience. You are the authority.
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The only reason I don't have this had any authority in the first place was because you were taking the person who didn't have it to be you. That's what we've done away with. So yes, you know what you want. You know you weren't
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confined to Sarah. That is all that's needed. Sarah doesn't need to get you there. So when I say leave Sarah alone, I actually mean it. Not just leave Sarah alone really well so she gets the money. No, she was never doing manifestation in the
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first place. She's a part of the experience. Why are we acting like what you want is sitting somewhere outside of awareness, waiting for Sarah to finally become good enough at manifestation to obtain it again? Where would it be?
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That's really it, guys. Stop [snorts] asking the current character what you're allowed to experience. Stop asking her brain to explain how it's going to happen. And please stop giving Sarah the job of getting you there. She does not have it.
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She never did. All right, guys. Thank you all so much for being here with me today. I have missed you. I hope you all are doing fabulous. I'm doing amazing. My son is at college now. Everything's going well
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with him. Um, my little one just started school, so we're getting into the swing of things with like a routine and all.
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Um, and my middle one has just started soccer. So Izzy over here enjoying things, having having a good time, but I have missed you all and I appreciate all of your emails and your comments and everything. I love you all so much. Hope
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you have a wonderful rest of your week. Um, if you have any questions, of course, leave it in the comments below and I will see you all soon.
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