The 3 Stages Where Your Manifestations Get Stuck (And How To Move Forward)
I was trapped in Stage 2 at the pull-up bar. Here’s the single question that built the bridge to Stage 3.
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Let’s get straight to it.
This work — the real work of shifting your identity to change your reality — isn’t about more information.
You already know what to do.
But knowing and being are two different worlds.
And most people get trapped in the gap between them.
I see it all the time. From my own journey and from guiding our community, people who understand the law get stuck in one of three places.
See which one sounds familiar.
Stage 1: You understand the concept, but your 3D world hasn’t budged.
You’ve read Neville Goddard’s book The Power of Awareness (affiliate link to book). You get the “feeling is the secret” part.
But when you look at your bank account, your relationships, or your fitness level… it feels like you’re staring at proof that the law doesn’t work for you.
You’re waiting for the outside to change to prove the inside shift is real.
What you need isn’t another teaching. You need a “halfway pull-up.”
Stage 2: You’re doing the practices, but from the old identity.
You visualize. You affirm. You script.
But you’re doing it as the person who lacks the thing, trying to get it. There’s a subtle strain, a quiet desperation in the background. It feels like spiritual homework, not embodied truth.
This is why it feels fragile. You’re building the new identity on the shaky foundation of the old one.
What you need is to stop the old story before it starts.
Stage 3: You have moments of breakthrough, but you can’t sustain the state.
You’ve had glimpses. A flash of perfect confidence. A day where money flowed easily. A workout where you felt unstoppable.
But then life happens, and you snap back to the old default. It feels like trying to hold a new pose that your muscles keep forgetting.
What’s missing isn’t belief. It’s a daily repetition so simple that failure is impossible.
Then, naturally, the sky is the limit.
I was in Stage 2 just the other day.
Standing under the pull-up bar, my coach asked me to try. My mind instantly served up the inner talk of the old identity:
“I can’t do a pull-up yet.”
I was about to retreat. To confirm the old story.
But my coach simply said,
“From what I’ve seen, you’re closer than you think.”
His words didn’t give me strength. They reminded me of the identity I’d been practicing in my mind for months: the athlete.
I pulled myself higher than ever before.
That “halfway pull-up” wasn’t the final goal. It was the 3D proof my subconscious needed to lock in the new story. It was the bridge between Stage 2 and Stage 3.
This is the entire game:
Find your “halfway pull-up.”
For our writing, it was hitting “publish” daily. That action could only come from the identity “I am an abundant author,” not from “I am a wanna-be writer.”
That one shift changed everything.
Wherever you are, your next step is to identify and complete your very next “halfway pull-up.”
Not the full manifestation. Just the one, small, physical action that only the new version of you would confidently take.
Do that, and you’ve given the 3D its first instruction to conform.
Your “Halfway Pull-Up” This Week
The theory is simple. The practice is where freedom is won.
Your mission is to finish this sentence:
“This week, the new version of me will…”
Make it so small that it’s effortless.
“…write one paragraph before checking email.”
“…schedule 15 minutes of quiet for visualization.”
“…say no to one thing that drains my energy.”
Just name it. That’s the first pull.
Extra-credit for lasting change: Write it in the comments below. Declare it. This public commitment is a powerful act of self-assumption. It tells your subconscious you’re serious, and it lets us celebrate your start.
Where This Goes Next
A single “halfway pull-up” creates momentum. But true identity shift requires a practice — a supportive space where your new self is reflected back to you daily, and where the old stories lose their power.
That’s why we built Shift Your Identity (SYI), our free Skool community.
It’s not another course. It’s a living workshop where we:
Name & celebrate our weekly “pull-ups.”
Troubleshoot the old stories when they surface.
Practice the “feeling-first” method together in real-time.
If you’re ready to move from reading about the shift to embodying it alongside others on the same path, you are welcome.
→ Click here to join Shift Your Identity for free.
Make the shift inwardly,
Cristof (and Sophia)
The mirror of life is bound to conform.