Not Aladdin's Lamp.
Fed up with reels teaching the correct way to wish, she takes the formula apart – no quota, no required form, no shame.
This one is a rant, and she's earned it. The reels that teach the correct way to make a wish – the right count, the right tense, the right formula – get the answer they deserve: spiritual practice has no "how it must be done". Her mother-and-sweet analogy does the demolition in one move: a child who says I want a sweet gets the sweet; no mother replies say it in the present tense first.
Under the heat, the position is exactly this site's ground: not a method – a companion. The universe isn't Aladdin's lamp with a wish quota; the form was never the point, and the shame around asking – who invented that? Take It All made the same correction at the scale of one toddler and two toys; here it is said at full volume, for everyone. The Manifest guide keeps the same posture: it offers steps, never rules – take what fits.
She ends the way she always does when the fire burns down into warmth: wish for everything you want. I hug you.
I am so fed up with seeing reels that TEACH YOU HOW TO MAKE WISHES. Blinovskaya immediately came to mind 🤦♀️
I'll definitely film a reel about this and post it, but for now I want to share it here.
Spiritual practices have no rules and precepts like Religion has. Spiritual practices have no "how it must be done". Anyone who isn't an Instagram fake shaman will tell you there are no rules for how to use this or that knowledge, instrument or technique. The universe hears you and understands you – more than you think. Roughly speaking: when you're little, you come to your mum and say – I want a sweet. Mum gives you the sweet; she doesn't say – well, keep on wanting, but if you say "I have a sweet", then she'll give it to you. Absurd, honest to God. In the same way, the universe is not Aladdin's magic lamp; it doesn't come with a set number of wishes. You can ask for 100 wishes – or 1000. And it doesn't matter whether they're small or big, whether they seem silly or minor to you, or maybe it's the dream of your whole life – MAKE THE WISH. And it doesn't matter how – say it out loud, write it on paper, in the present tense, as if you already have it – IT DOESN'T MATTER. The universe isn't stupid; it will understand you and give you everything you need at the right moment in time.
Who even decided how many wishes there should be? Why must they come in a particular form? Is this a meatloaf that has to be cooked by the recipe, or else dinner turns out crappy? And why is making wishes shameful, and asking for a lot bad manners? Who made that up? Most likely the people who have everything and aren't very keen to share it. But I don't grudge you a thing – take everything you could possibly want.
The universe is like your mum who loves you more than anyone; she wants to help you, to hear you out and to give you all the good things of this world. You just have to ask, however silly that sounds – and, of course, do something toward it. Believe in your dreams, walk toward them and don't be afraid of them. Wish for everything you want, and don't worry that people won't understand you.
I hug you.
Thank you for reading.
If her words reached somewhere mine don't – good. That's what this blog is for. Take what fits and leave the rest.
– Jan