In my work with clients over the years I have seen many reasons why they cannot seem to manifest what they want in life. Generally, it is because of a Subconscious Limiting Belief system, and the energy it creates in their life.

Do you recognize any of these things in yourself?

You mistakenly believe that if you are happy with what you have, you are being complacent and you won’t get more.

Here is an example of that from my own life. I am happy with what I have. I do want more, but my husband said to me once, “Well, you don’t want anything”. It’s not that I don’t want anything, quite the contrary. I just know how energy works, and I know that if I focus too much on what is not in my life yet, I block it. I do want more, I just refuse to be unhappy while I am waiting for more. An energy of happiness will bring more things to be happy about. The difference is that I KNOW I will have what I want. I do not need to talk about the lack of it all the time. I write down what I want, and I let it go and get patient. It ALWAYS comes.

Just because you are happy with what you have, does not mean that you don’t want more.

You think you don’t deserve more, or worse, that if you want more, you are “greedy”. That you should be ‘happy with what you have’ (you do need to be happy with what you have, but that does not mean you shouldn’t want more). Other people ‘out there’ are suffering, you shouldn’t complain about what is missing. “How dare I ask for more when there are people worse off than me in the world”.

This is simply ‘programming’ from those that want to keep you in the dark and disempowered. From the time we are young we are bombarded with messages that tell us we should not want or ask for more. A lot of it is due to religion (think of all the religions that tell you to give your money to them. Meanwhile the religious leaders are covered in, and surrounded by gold).
You are told stories of people getting money, but bad things happen. Someone had to get hurt or die for them to get insurance money, people win the lottery and then end up penniless and unhappy, your house burned down and now you have insurance money.
These are “programs”. There are tons of ways to have more without doing harm to anyone. I am pretty certain, if you are reading this and are trying to better any aspect of your life, that if you had more money, more people on this planet would be receiving help from you.

You are stuck in one way of thinking, or one way of doing, and don’t allow for things to flow in that may be different than what you imagined.

You think that your work defines you. You think that there is only one way for abundance to come to you, so you don’t even think about other ways that it could come. You cannot imagine how it will come, so you stop trusting that it can.
The trick here is to not try to make things happen. Be in your moment, truly trust that what is yours will come to you, that the Universe is abundant, and then “Let go Let God”. Chances are that there will be some action you need to take, but you need to let yourself feel good, and take “inspired action” to get to where you want to be. No amount of “action” will get you to a good feeling, abundant place if it is not inspired. Doing for the sake of doing is not your goal. Doing because it feels good and inspired is your goal.

You rely on others perceptions of reality, or rely on them to tell you what to do rather than following your own inner guidance and passions.

You read in the news how bad things are, and you “own” that information. “The news told me there was a downturn in the economy, so I won’t make money this year”. This is simply not true. If it were true, there would not be anyone out there doing anything.
You read and believe that “the older you get, the harder it is to meet a new mate”, or, “the older you get the harder it is to lose weight and stay fit”, so you don’t even try. Even if there are grains of truth in these statements, you can either make them true by believing and focusing on them, or you can buck the odds, and be the exception to the rule.

Be careful who you listen to. Don’t let the disempowering words of others’ shape your reality.

You suffer from ‘wishful thinking’ and get into worse situations than before.

You really don’t have faith that money is coming your way but you fake it. Subconsciously you don’t really think it is available to you or you would have it. In your quest to be “positive”, you think, “I know life is abundant, I know the money will come in, therefore, I will prove it by spending money on credit and trust the universe to take care of the rest”.
I won’t work that way. What happens to your energy in this situation is that as you get into more debt your vibration changes. You start to feel more controlled by the debt. As the debt goes up, you start to doubt that you can pay it back because the money is not flowing to pay it back.
If you really trusted and had faith that money was coming your way, you would wait for it to arrive before buying what you want. You would use the money that you have now to pay for what you have already consumed (electricity, rent, credit card bills), and then ‘manifest’ the money for your wants. If you trust that the money is coming, you do not have any reason at all to get yourself into more debt.
Which leads us to…..

You get impatient and frustrated with where you are and stay there.

“I know I can have what I want, but it’s not here yet, and that frustrates me”. It is not here yet because you are frustrated and your frustration leads to impatience. If you really knew and trusted that you could manifest your desires and have the life you want and think you deserve, there really would almost ever be any reason to be impatient.

The more impatient and frustrated you are, the more elusive your desires will be. This is especially true if your frustrations are directed toward others’. If you get frustrated, and then take inspired action, it can help. If you get frustrated and blame others, you will wind up with nothing.

If you ask for something and it has not arrived yet, don’t get frustrated, get patient. Your calmness and patience are what will bring it to you. From my observations, getting frustrated is like 3 steps back after the one step forward of asking for what you want. Frustration with the timing just proves that you do not trust that things will work out for you.

These are not the ONLY limiting belief systems I have seen over the years, but they are by far the most common.