Here’s what a lot of folks think the manifestation process is like:

You pick a new thing you want to manifest in your life. You meditate. You say affirmations. You make a vision board. When the new thing comes, it fits neatly into your life. Like the final piece of a puzzle. Voila! You are complete.

Here’s what the manifestation process is actually like:

You pick a new thing you want to manifest in your life. You meditate. You say affirmations. You make a vision board. When the new thing comes, it doesn’t fit into your life at all. Indeed, it totally disrupts it. Letting in the new thing means you have to reevaluate and rearrange a bunch of other elements of your life. It’s all good, because everything works together once you get it sorted out. But you have to sort it out.

This isn’t always the case, of course. Manifestation can be Puzzle Piece style, at times.

But, in my experience, it’s often Divine Disruption instead.

Case in point.

When I first met Melissa, I had been working on manifesting my person for a long time. When she finally came into my life, it was extremely exciting.

My life was pretty good when Melissa entered the scene. One would think that there was great potential for Puzzle Piece manifestation to reign. That I wouldn’t need to change a thing.

One would think wrong.

I can still remember the first time Melissa was hanging out in my house in the morning. We were trying a little experiment. Morning was my writing time, and I was used to writing with no one else in the house.

But since Melissa was now my person, and we knew we were going to move in together, we wanted to see how it would be for me to write with Melissa in the house.

So I went into my office and shut the door. And that is where the trouble started.

I knew Melissa was out there. Even though she was being super quiet, I still knew she was there. The silence of her presence was deafening. It was like a rowdy marching band was tromping through the house, and even though I couldn’t hear them, they were clanging and banging up a storm, preventing me from working.

It was tough.

And it was a great example of the Divine Disruption style of manifesting.

I had my person, but now I had to fit her into my life. And it wasn’t always easy.

The writing was just the beginning. Being with Melissa made me reevaluate my day job and my vocational path. I ended up leaving the day job and going to ministerial school.

And there were other changes. My exercise routine. My diet. My social life. My spiritual practice.

In other words, basically everything.

The other morning, I was in my office writing. As I was doing so, Melissa kept coming into my office and asking me questions. I finally told her I was in the middle of writing and asked her to let me finish what I was working on before she asked me any other questions.

She was fine with that and I went back to my work.

Later that day, I thought back to that first morning when Melissa was in the house during my writing time.

At that point, her mere physical presence prevented me from writing.

Now she can literally barge into my office and it doesn’t throw me off.

And it’s not just that. My writing life is so much better with her in it. Meeting Melissa sparked a deeper commitment to living my spiritual practice in the world, so that even what I write about now is more aligned and fulfilling for me.

It took time to get to the place where everything fit together. Divine Disruption isn’t for the faint of heart. But it’s totally worth it.

If you’re experiencing Divine Disruption now, it’s important to remember that nothing is going wrong.

Other elements sometimes crumble when a new one enters the scene. And that’s okay. That’s more than okay. It simply means that your manifestation is working.

Maybe not exactly how you pictured it, especially if you’re going for Puzzle Piece style.

But manifestation is a process of working with Universal Forces.

And Universal Forces are waaaaay smarter than you are. (No offense.)

Prepare to be surprised.

Prepare to be amazed.

Prepare to be disrupted.

What’s your experience with Divine Disruption? Share your comments below!

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