this video I'm gonna be sharing you the danger of acting as if and faking it
till you make it these are things you may have never heard of before I'm gonna
share with you what those are and how you can bypass it welcome back to
another video my name's Erin and I help people expand their consciousness now in
this video I'm gonna be showing you the dark side or the danger of acting as if
and faking it till you make it these are things that I've found from personal
experience in my life also things that I've noticed for a lot of people when it
comes to the law of attraction or manifestation in general and it things a
lot of people don't think about because we hear it a lot in the law of
attraction community and I think it's a powerful thing it's like you know fake
it till you make it or that even a better analogy of that or a saint of
that is fake it till you become it I've heard that from from a couple different
people and I really like that because it's understanding our identity as well
but there's a dark side to it it's a double-edged sword it's also a
double-edged sword when we talk about that of acting as if because acting as
if to be a great day because then we're in the frequency of the reality we want
to experience however on the other side of that there's a certain level of
resistance that will come up and many times we may put on this front of
someone that we're really not even at our deep core and if we're putting on
that front then we're acting out of alignment of
who we really are so we want to really think about this in the form of
alignment are we in alignment with who we really are at our core
now what inspired this video is last night Lior and I went to go see the
movie Aladdin and it was with Will Smith and like the new version of the cartoon
I'm sure you've seen previews for it or trailers for it somewhere and in it
Aladdin spends he meets jasmine and he falls in love with her and they have
this thing together however he then thinks that everything he has to do is
to gain her approval in order to do so he has to be a prince because she's a
princess in order for him to be with the princess he's got to also be a prince
and he then has to he thinks that what she wants is a whole bunch of money and
a whole bunch of Gold and all of this power so he starts
to go for that and starts to go to be a prince to have all this money to have
all this abundance and he tries so hard that it puts her off that then she's
like not attracted to him and it actually works against him so that got
me thinking because a lot of times in life the more you really really want
something the more you can't have it the more you can't have it because you're
not in vibrational resonance with it if you say I really really want something
you are energetically saying I really really don't currently have it that's
what you're seeing vibrationally so when some people go about trying to manifest
something in their life they're coming at it from a place of lack they're
coming at it from a place of I would really really want that which once again
emphasizes you don't currently have it but a lot of times what will happen is
then people will develop this mask they'll develop this persona and
literally the word persona and for a personality persona means mask so they
put on this mask of someone they actually aren't and the like Aladdin was
putting on this mask of being this Prince knowing eventually one day he's
gonna have to tell her that he wasn't really a prince he was really this
street rat that she met a long time ago however it's about understanding the
dark side of that the dark side of that comes out when you go for symbols rather
than going from source the difference between going for a symbol and going
from source has understanding that the source is within you
Aladdin could feel more abundant even though he's poor by realizing that he
had his monkey may have some bread or something like that or by going straight
to the core of who he is and expressing that to Jasmine he would have actually
got what he wanted maybe much sooner maybe it would have made for such a
great story but he could have but a symbol is when we go for money a symbol
is when we go for something to house whatever it is that isn't really what
you want what you want is an emotion and within
you right now is the emotion you want to feel it's just you giving yourself
permission to feel that emotion if you want more money you may want security
you may want freedom if you want a relationship you may want love and
compassion in connection well guess what in your life right now there's things
you can feel connected with there's things you can feel compassionate about
there's people in your life that you love at some level so you see these
things these emotions these vibrations are within you right now and when you
come from source it's much powerful however sometimes what we do the dark
side of this process is us putting on this mask of this kind of person we have
to be which isn't actually really who we are at our core I went through this
about a year and a half ago I was so focused on becoming successful and that
mask I wore a mask for a while of being this being this hardcore business person
that was making a video every time still make a video a day but it was with this
desperate energy of me trying to get where I wasn't currently because I had
to get to the next level so I spent a long time blocking out a lot of good
things in my life blocking out doing certain things I
would have enjoyed doing maybe trips that I could have taken because I was so
focused on trying to get somewhere else so I had this and I had this certain
persona that I was putting on like like I'm a hard worker you know people would
always tell me Aaron I don't know how you make a video a day and you do all of
this stuff like you're a machine I prided myself as like yeah I'm this this
person that could do all of this stuff and therefore I was always acting
consistent to that now here's the paradox that was causing me to become
too serious I wasn't enjoying my life as much and I realized I was always trying
to get somewhere I currently wasn't the irony is when I let that persona go I
said you know what I'm gonna still do what I love to do which what I love to
do is making YouTube videos what I love to
do is I still love the business stuff but I'm not gonna do it from a desperate
place the moment I let that go is the moment that more abundance flowed in
than ever before and it came easier than it ever came before I wouldn't send as
many emails as I was before I wouldn't do as much business things that you say
we got to do this in order to be more abundant I would do less and get more
because my vibration increased because I was coming from source I was doing what
I enjoy doing
so acting as if can be powerful but it's about understanding how are you going
about act as if are you going for symbols you can say I want more
abundance in my life and you can feel more abundant with the source within you
and then as a reflection on your outer reality you can send an intentions for
maybe a certain dollar amount of whatever it is but what is the energy
that you're moving towards it is at this desperation or is it more of just this
awareness but it's what you prefer you see there's different ways of going
about it and one way is desperation and in other ways with intention and Aladdin
was going about it in a very desperate way he was overthinking everything and
he used it as like a moment when he was talking to Jasmine he was just like he
couldn't he could hardly string words together and he's everything he said
sounded wrong because he was overthinking it and that's how some
people get when it comes to manifestation and the irony is at the
very end when he finally got Jasmine and he was with her he was so not attached
it was like he was allowing the universe to do what it does he's like you know
what you deserve something amazing maybe that's not me and this is the way it is
and then he just started walking out of the palace at the very end and then she
comes running after him and then obviously it turns and he can then be
with her so you see it was it's when you let go of meaning anything that you can
then have everything you don't need it you might want it
you might intend for it but you don't need it from a desperate place
you see that's the that's the difference in the dark side is when we put on these
masks of trying to be someone that were not at our core we look for validation
from other people we look from validation from family from friends from
people that know us from body like YouTube audience events like the role
people like this video but what I've learned is the more than I'm just myself
the more people love me anyways or the more people at least Express that back
to me even if I have friends that don't agree with maybe some of the content I
put out they're like oh you puts up video metaphysics videos Law of
Attraction I don't know about all that stuff but they say you know what he's
himself though that's what he loves doing they respect that so the
stereotypical cliched thing that I want to say today is to be yourself which is
also one of the most annoying things someone can tell you to do just be
yourself you're thinking yourself I am myself
what do you mean be myself what I mean is don't apologize for being you and the
you that I'm speaking to right now is you at your core you when you're doing
what you're passionate about you're not wearing a mask when you're trying to do
something that you think will get you some symbol you might be wearing a mask
and the symbols are money the symbols are the things that you think you'll
want you'll want to learn win the lottery you don't want to win the
lottery you think you do most people I mean 99% of people don't really want to
win the lottery they're not that passionate about winning the lottery
they just want that it's a symbol of the money that comes with it and the money
that comes with it is a abundance of you never happened to work again a day in
your lives but the irony is when you find out what you're passionate about
you never want to go a day without working in your life so it's just it's
this thing that you can start to become aware of is how can you focus more on
getting to your core what is your core vibration what is your vibrational set
point think about acting as if and fake it till you make it as aligning to who
you really are the best version of yourself that's connected to your
passion the difference is the dark side is when you're connected
to the version you think you should be for other people that like you or you
think that this is what will get you some result but when you're doing what
you're passionate about that's not a mask that's who you really are
and when you can unapologetically be that version of you
everyone else will validate you anyways you have to validate yourself before
other people will validate you because reality is just a mirror anyways so
maybe look to a part in your a part of your past where you had that you chose
to you had to be someone in order to get by you chose that you had to be a
certain type of way for people to like you or people who loved you I realized
that when I was younger and I was going through a lot of stuff when I was in my
teenage years because of my ex stepmom back in the day I put on this armor
around me where I had to be let's try to be strong and I to be a certain way and
I had to be somebody that was successful in life because it would give me
somewhere else and I'd to prove everyone wrong I also and sometimes these masks
these this way of acting as it for take until you make it
sometimes it can serve us up until a certain point but there becomes a point
when it becomes a little darker for example maybe part of the reason I
wasn't that validated and I didn't have much worthiness when I was a kid maybe
that propelled me to take a lot of action to actually want to also help a
lot of people to become the best versions of the sounds because I've been
trapped within my own little identity before I've been trapped within a
paradigm of belief and I wasn't worthy so maybe that led me to then eventually
wanted to help people so that served a certain purpose but it maybe also
allowed me to take action to make daily videos to like become someone because
also a lot of people when I first started making YouTube videos a lot of
people didn't believe in me I was looking for validation on moçambique an
YouTube videos and people like okay Aaron yep another one of those things
are doing you see so then I was like I'm gonna prove them wrong I'm gonna make a
video a day every day and eventually people will see that I'm
something so I was like act as if I used act as if to become a full-time youtuber
I'm not dissing on act as if I acted as if I was a full-time youtuber and then I
became a full-time youtuber it works but where is that energy coming from that's
what I'm asking you the dark side of it is if it's coming from a sense of
desperation you see some people they are doing things because of the validation
it gets them and I've done that I mean I've made videos before like I hope
you'll really like this many people like me more but I've realized that you get
everything by needing nothing by just being by being yourself by being
unapologetic with who you really are think of acting as if as aligning with
the perfect version of you that's connected to your passion if you align
with the perfect version of you that's not connected to your passion that might
be the dark side the mask your passion is who you are the frequency of your
passion is who you are you don't know what that is set the intention say if
the intention to find out what that is for you and who that is for you and by
doing so you start to get more to your core and you start to find out what that
is your reality will give you evidence of it so the process that I'm sharing
with you today is understanding act as if is powerful fake it till you become
it as powerful it's just simply yeah it's called faking it because it's
unfamiliar thought patterns it's unfamiliar actions that you're not used
to taking but the dark side of it is if you're doing it for symbols if you're
doing it because you think that will make you more worthy or if you're doing
it to be liked by other people if you're because then then you're you're you're
you're dependent on those other things if people don't like you for a day then
your date is horrible but if you love you people what the ironies people will
love you anyways or you'll lose perceive of that but also you won't need it from
other people you come out of place from not needing it then you can actually
have it and you can be it just like Aladdin the moment he didn't need it and
he wasn't being needy and he wasn't trying to control it he allowed it to
happen so in the same way allow yourself to be the
version of you allow yourself to be the version of you connected to your passion
allow yourself to give yourself permission to be yourself be
unapologetic with who you are and whatever that means to you today and
make the choice right now that at this point going forward you're going to live
in that alignment knowing it's going to lead you to something amazing so the
meditation that I think that will help you to really get to your corne to raise
your vibrational set point is right below you can click on it let's do it
for 21 days I think it'll change your life
it's read the comments to see what's possible and getting to your core really
is the key to this process so would that being said I hope you enjoyed this video
Leo and I are gonna go to a place called moon juice right now get some juices or
some moon juicer what's a call but it's like juices and stuff right the ORS here
by the way okay
never done that before say hi I get my camera I love it okay Peaks okay
convenes up so we're gonna go take peace much love and namaste