Shadowing Practice: STOP CHASING! 4 Ways to Manifest Love (Based on Science) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Let me start with something honest.
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Most people who say they're trying to manifest love are actually doing things that quietly push love away.
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Not because they're unworthy, not because they're broken, but because they've been taught the wrong definition of manifesting.
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Here's the reframe that changes everything.
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You don't attract the relationship you want.
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You attract the relationship you're ready to participate in.
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That's not spiritual language, that's psychological reality.
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Research shows that relationship formation is predicted far more by emotional availability,
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attachment security, and behavioral consistency than by looks, money, or status, no matter what the internet says.
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So manifesting love isn't about calling someone in.
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It's about becoming someone love can actually stay with.
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Manifesting love isn't about attracting the right person.
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It's about becoming emotionally available when they arrive.
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Manifesting love isn't about chemistry.
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It's about nervous system safety.
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It isn't about visualizing a relationship.
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It's about making room to actually have one.
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Manifesting love isn't about fixing yourself.
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It's about stopping the behaviors that block connection.
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Manifesting love isn't about being wanted.
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It's about being able to receive.
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Manifesting love isn't about waiting for a sign.
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It's about recognizing consistency.
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Manifesting love isn't about high standards.
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It's about clear ones.
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Principle one, emotional availability.
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One of the most well-researched ideas in relationship science is attachment theory.
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Decades of studies show that people tend to fall into patterns of how they connect.
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Secure, anxious, or avoidant.
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Here's what's important.
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A large meta-analysis published in Personality and Social Psychology Review found
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that securely attached people are consistently rated as more desirable long-term partners, regardless of physical attractiveness.
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Why?
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Because secure people communicate clearly, respond consistently, and are emotionally present.
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Secure people don't disappear to be chased.
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Insecure people withdraw to see if you care.
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Secure people bring issues to the person involved.
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Insecure people talk to everyone else first.
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Secure people don't confuse intensity with intimacy.
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And here's the quiet truth.
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Many people say they want love, but they're not emotionally available.
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They're still attached to an ex, a fantasy, or a version of love that hurt them.
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So ask yourself, am I emotionally open or just emotionally hopeful?
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Because hope doesn't create availability.
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Presence does.
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Remember this, chemistry without safety feels exciting.
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Safety without chemistry feels boring.
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Secure love learns how to hold both.
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Manifesting love begins when you stop chasing emotional unavailability and stop calling it a passion.
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It's so fascinating to me.
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I was at an event during the holidays and I was speaking to four women
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who all said to me that they wanted to find love.
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And I asked them how dating was going.
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and they all said they weren't dating.
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They weren't meeting people.
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It's fascinating to me when our action is misaligned from my intention.
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Now I realize dating is exhausting.
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I realize that the apps can be challenging.
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I recognize that this isn't easy.
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But what I want to share with you is this.
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When you become more emotionally available with your friends, your family, open to connect,
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when you're figuring out how you're actually showing up as the person you want someone to fall in love with already, guess what?
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There's going to be more opportunities for you to create that connection.
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Now, anyone who says it doesn't happen magically, you're right, it doesn't happen magically, but it's that you start to spot the opportunities.
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It's that you start to see where there might be a connection or compatibility.
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And the best part is you also know when it isn't.
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I think that's another thing.
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A lot of us waste our time in areas or with people
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that we know aren't the one because we're so desperate
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and want to be with someone
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that we actually miss out on someone who might be right there because we're too busy over here.
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And so making space is so important.
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Now, step one won't work unless we understand principle two.
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Identity shapes attraction.
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Let's talk about identity.
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Psychologists have known for decades that self-concept predicts behavior more reliably than intention.
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Think about this.
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You don't act based on what you want.
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You act based on who you believe you are.
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Studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology show
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that people subconsciously choose partners and tolerate behavior that confirm their self story,
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even when that story hurts them.
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The story you tell yourself, the story you tell others,
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the story you believe about yourself is the kind of partner you allow into your life.
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If you always believe that you're unlucky in love, you will find the evidence to match that.
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See, what our mind does is that it seeks out proof for what we already believe.
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It seeks out evidence for what you already believe.
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So if you believe you're unlucky in love, you'll meet someone and it won't work out and then you'll feel unlucky.
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You are noticing, you're training your mind to notice that.
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So if somewhere inside you believe I'm unlucky in love.
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People always leave.
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I'm just too much.
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You don't just think those thoughts, you live them.
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You over explain, you over give, you ignore red flags.
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You stay longer than you should because ultimately you're simply trying to prove the argument in your mind.
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If you tell everyone the story of, you know what, I've just never been able to find someone that everyone in my life connects with.
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You will find the person that everyone in your life connects with apart from your sister, right?
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Because you're trying to repeat that evidence.
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You're trying to prove that to yourself.
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It's fascinating how the mind works.
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You've probably seen this in other areas as well.
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Whatever you believe, you start to see it everywhere.
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But manifesting love requires shifting from intention to identity.
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You don't want to say, I want a healthy relationship, but I'm someone who is part of healthy relationships.
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I'm someone who participates in healthy relationships.
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Notice how it's a different shift.
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That identity shows up as boundaries without guilt, standards without defensiveness, and curiosity without the anxiety.
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Here's the line to remember.
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Love responds to identity signals, not affirmations
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I want you to be really clear About what you notice about yourself And what you believe about yourself
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Everyone can tell two stories The incredible things they did
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Or the bad things that happened to them It's all about
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which one you notice And which one you expand upon
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When you believe that everything you've been through in your life Has brought you to this place
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where you're ready for the right relationship, you're ready for a healthy relationship, you're not gonna settle for less than you deserve,
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but you're not gonna have crazy expectations that aren't realistic, you actually get to move forward.
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But when you keep creating stories about why your love life hasn't worked out, you will constantly exacerbate and expand them into your life.
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Now, I know that I've talked to you about principle one and two, but principle three is the real practical unlock.
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Principle three is all about proximity and probability.
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Now let's ground this even more.
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One of the strongest findings in attraction research is something called the mere exposure effect.
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Simply put, the more we see someone, the more familiar and attractive they become.
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Another well-established principle is the propinquity effect.
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Relationships form through repeated proximity.
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In fact, research consistently shows that most long-term couples meet through shared environments,
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shared routines, and repeated interaction, not destiny.
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So here's the reframe.
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Love doesn't show up when you're ready.
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Love shows up when you're reachable.
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If your life has no rhythm, love has no entry point.
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Manifesting love looks like showing up to the same places at the same times around people who share your values.
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This isn't forcing love.
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This is designing coincidence.
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Think about it.
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So many people meet at work.
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So many people meet at their place of worship.
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People meet people in places of similar value, like a charity.
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Some people meet people at a party of a mutual friends.
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Most of the time, And if you think about just 25 to 50 years ago, most people got married to someone within a five mile radius of where they grew up.
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If we don't have proximity with opportunity, our probability of finding love goes down.
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And for most of us, we're trying to find love more randomly.
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What feels like magic, what feels like synchronicity, rather than looking for it, sometimes in the most obvious places that are right there.
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you're more likely to fall in love
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and find someone who's right for you in a place
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that you've repeatedly gone to than somewhere where you went once
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and we always hear about those amazing stories oh I was
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on vacation oh I was taking a little sabbatical oh we just bumped into each other those are beautiful
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and that's amazing but the research proves that it's the repeated interactions
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that increase the probability for connection this principle that I'm about to is so necessary because when we're looking for love,
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it's usually from a place of desperation, a place of anxiety, a place of stress.
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Maybe you were told if you're not married by 30, your life's incomplete.
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If you haven't got kids by 35, that's really late.
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And now those times play on your mind and play on your subconscious.
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Your body's stressed out.
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You're feeling anxious.
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Your heart's beating fast.
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I interviewed Quinlan Walther who's a relationship coach and she said
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you should never go shopping when you're hungry
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and in the same way you should never go dating
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when you're starving
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when you're feeling like you don't have anything think about all the decisions you would make
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if you went to the grocery store
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and you were starving you'd buy everything it probably wouldn't even be good for you
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and you'd probably overbuy you'd probably overspend we make mistakes when we come from a place of lack
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but then you're saying to me jay how am i meant to go full shopping like how do i do
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that in love how am i meant to feel full in love
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when i'm looking for someone to love me how does
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that make sense well that's where principle four comes in it's
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nervous system compatibility now this might be the most important principle your nervous system is choosing your partners before your mind does.
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According to research from polyvagal theory,
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humans are subconsciously drawn to people whose nervous systems feel familiar, not necessarily healthy.
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That's why chaos can feel like chemistry and calm can feel like boring.
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Here's the hard truth.
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Many people aren't attracted to love.
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They're attracted to what their nervous system already knows.
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So manifesting love means retraining your body to tolerate consistency, predictability, and emotional safety.
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After a date, ask yourself, do I feel regulated or dysregulated?
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Calm or anxious?
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Grounded or on edge?
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Love isn't proven by butterflies.
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It's proven by how your body feels after the interaction Remember, you can fall in love with someone who isn't good for you
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Because they make your nervous system feel familiar in the fear and anxiety
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Until you choose to regulate and rise above
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that for yourself You won't be able to connect with a higher frequency And we get lost, right?
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We think it's all about if I have everything on the list if I know exactly what I want, if I'm really aware.
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That's what we think manifesting love is.
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But can you notice how far the points I'm sharing are from that form of manifestation?
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That's almost like wishful thinking.
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It's like imagination.
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It's dream works.
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But to actually do the work, to actually create shifts in our life,
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to actually change and upgrade ourselves so that we actually connect with the right energy, we connect with the right frequency, makes a massive difference.
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If we're aligned, then we're going to meet people that are more aligned.
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And that's not aligned from some spiritual, mental perspective.
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It comes down to your regulation of your nervous system.
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Principle five is all about standards versus defenses.
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Let's talk about boundaries.
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Research shows that clear, calm boundaries increase relational respect, while defensiveness reduces connection.
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Here's the difference between a standard and defending yourself.
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Standards say, this is what I value.
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Defense says, this is what I'm afraid of.
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Defenses push people away.
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Standards invite the right people closer.
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But here's what's fascinating.
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We're so scared that we sound like we're defending ourselves that in the early stages of a relationship, we will lower our standards.
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We will remove boundaries.
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We'll let someone walk right over us because we don't want to push them away.
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So what do we do?
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Here's how it works.
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Someone asks you to do something.
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It's breaking a boundary of yours, but you do it anyway because you think, well, I like them.
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They like me.
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Let's just make it work.
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Two months in, three months in, maybe even two years in sometimes you say, now I need to set this boundary.
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Now that we know each other better, you now set that boundary.
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and that person goes, well, why didn't you send this boundary before?
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I've never heard this before.
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I didn't realize that was important to you.
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We make it out like they're attacking us.
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So we're defending ourselves.
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No, this is what I'm afraid of.
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No, I don't want it to be like this.
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No, I don't.
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No, no, no. It's not saying what you value.
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It's not saying what's important to you.
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I remember when Radhi and I first started dating, she'd always say to me, it's really important to me that I'm present with my family on their birthdays,
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on celebration days, on the weekends.
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Like that's really, really important to me.
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And I'd always say to her, it's really important to me that I'm doing my service.
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I'm out there spending time with people, sharing insights, sharing wisdom.
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I wasn't saying to her, I'm scared that if I'm with you, I won't get to do that.
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And she wasn't saying to you, I'm scared if you're doing that, then I won't get to do this.
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If someone respects you, your boundaries will bring them closer.
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If someone doesn't respect you, you setting a boundary will push them away.
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Setting a boundary is a great way to know whether someone truly loves you and respects you or whether they don't.
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Here's what I want you to remember.
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Manifesting love doesn't mean lowering standards to avoid loneliness.
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It means raising self-respect so you don't have to chase.
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I think when we think about standards and boundaries, we start proclaiming them as no I won't accept less than
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this no this is what I deserve that's fine for you to feel
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that but the way you communicate
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that to someone has to be receivable digestible understandable sharing something is your value as your priority as something
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that is important to you is far more valuable than sharing it in a way
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that makes someone feel that they have to value it.
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This is the key.
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When you share your value, it's not so that the other person can value it to the same degree.
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It's so that they can respect your value and you can continue to prioritize it.
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Your goal in a relationship is not to convince your partner to value what you value.
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It's to respect what they value and let them respect what you value and continue to have a healthy relationship.
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Trying to convince our partners to have different values, different focuses, different priorities is a waste of time.
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And I think one of the biggest reasons why we struggle to manifest love is we look at people like a project.
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We want to find someone that we can fix, solve, improve, upgrade.
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That isn't love.
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That's called work.
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And love and work are not aligned.
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You can't manifest love when what you actually were looking for was a project.
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Someone who depended on you, someone who made you feel worthy, someone who made you feel significant because they were so lacking.
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Only for you months in to realize you're putting in all the energy and the effort.
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Let me leave you with something simple.
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If you want to manifest romantic love this year, focus on four things.
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Number one, regulate your nervous system.
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There are subconscious parts of ourselves that are attracting us and connecting us with other people's subconscious.
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These are usually the things you only see when you break up with someone.
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They're usually the things that you only notice when things finally end.
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If you think about all your relationships that didn't work out
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and go back to the moment you connected and think about what state you were actually in at that time, you'll immediately be able to know that you weren't ready for a relationship.
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It wasn't the right relationship.
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You were looking for the wrong things.
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You weren't focused and aligned in your nervous system.
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It didn't feel regulated.
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And what ends up happening in that position is we often want the other person to regulate our emotions, to regulate our nervous system for us, which exhausts them.
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So even if they are the right person, we push them away because we're asking them to do all of our work.
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Number two, align your identity with the relationship you want.
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The stories you tell about your past relationships, the stories you tell about yourself,
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the stories you tell about your ex and the stories you tell about your dating life are not just stories.
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They're your identity.
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If you believe you're unlucky in love, you will find more people to prove that is true.
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If you feel you don't deserve love, you will find more dates to prove that is true.
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You are going to prove the story you tell the most true.
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So change the story to what you want to be true.
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Your identity and the relationship you want should be aligned.
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Number three, create environments where love can find you.
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Places of similar values, places of mutual friends, places that you go often.
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Don't keep thinking that love's going to magically appear in the romantic movie way in the randomest of places.
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That's less likely to happen.
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And the more you wait for that, the more you could be missing out on someone who's ideal for you, where you least expect it, because it's where you visit the most.
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And number four, choose safety as intentionally as chemistry.
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Someone who makes you feel safe is more important than someone who makes you feel wanted.
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Someone who makes you feel safe is more important than someone who makes you feel pursued.
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someone who makes you feel safe is more important than chemistry
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or butterflies or any of those initial experiences
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because you want to feel safe for the rest of your
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life you want to be at peace that's what will last
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and finally love doesn't arrive when you think about it enough it arrives when your life makes room for it.
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To find love, you don't need to become perfect.
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You need to become present because the love you're looking for is also looking for someone who's ready.
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The video challenges common myths about manifesting love, emphasizing that true connection stems from emotional availability rather than chasing. It’s a rich resource for english speaking practice, with clear, conversational language ideal for learn english with videos approaches. The dialogue balances psychology and practical advice, making it perfect for honing listening and speaking skills.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "Emotional availability" – Describes being present and open in relationships. Example: "Are you emotionally available, or just hopeful?"
- "Attachment security" – A key concept in relationship science. Use it to discuss healthy connections: "Attachment security makes long-term partnerships stronger."
- "Nervous system safety" – Refers to feeling calm with a partner. Try: "Nervous system safety is more important than chemistry."
- "Behavioral consistency" – Reliable actions in relationships. Say: "Behavioral consistency builds trust over time."
- "Emotionally present" – Being fully engaged. Practice: "To connect, you need to be emotionally present, not just hopeful."
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Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if I'm with you, I won't get · if you're doing that, then I won't get · If someone respects you, your boundaries will bring |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | they've been taught · is predicted · being wanted |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people who say · anyone who says · someone who might |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | they've been taught · have known · I've just never been |
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