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Why You Can’t Manifest When Your Nervous System Is Overwhelmed

Guided meditation for manifestation, visualising desires with a calm nervous system

How Nervous System Regulation Unlocks Manifestation & Receiving

If you’ve been visualising, affirming, journaling, or “doing all the right things” yet still feel stuck when it comes to manifesting your desires, there’s a reason this keeps happening.

You can’t manifest from a stressed, overwhelmed nervous system.

When your body is in survival mode, it’s wired for protection, not creation. No matter how positive your mindset is, a dysregulated nervous system will always override intention.

This is the missing link in manifestation work and it’s why so many people feel frustrated, burnt out or disconnected from what they want to call in.

The Neuroscience Behind Manifestation and the Nervous System

From a neuroscience perspective, manifestation isn’t about forcing outcomes. It’s about creating internal safety.

When your nervous system is dysregulated, your brain prioritises threat detection and stress responses. In this state:

  • Your body resists change - even positive change

  • Your mind struggles to access clarity, creativity, and trust

  • Your subconscious blocks receiving to maintain perceived safety

This is why manifestation often feels impossible during periods of anxiety, overwhelm, or emotional exhaustion.

A calm nervous system signals safety to the brain and when the brain feels safe, it allows connection, possibility, creativity and expansion.

Woman meditating with calm nervous system, practicing manifestation and nervous system regulation

Why Nervous System Regulation Is Essential for Manifesting

Manifestation doesn’t begin with “thinking positively.” it begins with regulating your nervous system.

When your body feels safe:

  • You stop gripping tightly to outcomes

  • You release the need to control

  • You become more open to receiving support, opportunities, and clarity

This is why calming the nervous system is one of the most powerful and overlooked manifestation tools available.

Why I Created The Manifestation Edit

This understanding is exactly why I created The Manifestation Edit, which is a 2-hour immersive ONLINE workshop designed to help you gently reset your nervous system and reconnect with your capacity to receive.

The Manifestation Edit is about editing out the stress, resistance, and self-doubt that keep you stuck in survival mode.

This workshop creates the internal conditions required for manifestation to actually work.

What You’ll Learn in The Manifestation Edit

This experience is for you if you want to manifest from alignment rather than exhaustion.

Inside the workshop, you’ll learn how to:

  • Release self-doubt and resistance

  • Regulate and calm your nervous system

  • Feel truly worthy of your hopes and dreams

  • Let go of control and trust in the universe

  • Befriend your inner critic

  • Align your nervous system with your 2026 vision

  • Feel safe enough to receive what you truly desire

This is manifestation grounded in neuroscience, self-compassion and emotional regulation.

What We’ll Be Doing Together

During this 2-hour live online workshop, we’ll work gently and powerfully through:

✨ Insight
Understanding the neuroscience of manifestation and how nervous system regulation supports lasting change.

✨ Breathwork
Practices designed to activate your parasympathetic nervous system.

✨ Visualisation
Future-pacing into how you want to feel in 2026, creating emotional alignment before action.

✨ EFT Tapping
Releasing resistance, control, and self-doubt while opening up to worthiness and receiving.

✨ Manifestation Practices
Clarifying your true hopes, intentions and desires from a regulated, grounded place.

✨ Vision Boarding
Creating a visual anchor to guide your inner compass beyond the workshop.

Are You Ready to Feel Worthy of Receiving?

If you’re ready to stop manifesting from stress and start creating from safety, alignment, and self-trust, i’d love you to join me.

🕊 The Manifestation Edit
2-hour live online workshop
💷 £38
Limited spaces available

Get in touch to book your place.

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Build Emotional Resilience: A Practical Guide

What Is Emotional Resilience?

Emotional resilience is the ability to navigate challenges, adapt to change, and recover from setbacks by learning and growing. It’s a skill that can be cultivated at any time in life — and one that supports you through every twist and turn that life throws your way.

Developing emotional resilience doesn’t mean you’ll never feel stress, sadness or frustration. Instead, it’s about learning how to process those emotions, care for yourself, and return to balance with kindness and perspective.

What Qualities Do Emotionally Resilient People Have?

Emotionally resilient people tend to share certain qualities and habits that help them stay grounded, even in uncertain times. The good news? Every single one of these can be learned and strengthened.

1. Self-Awareness

They regularly check in with how they’re feeling and recognise their emotional triggers. This awareness helps them respond to challenges thoughtfully, rather than react impulsively.

2. Emotional Regulation

They understand the importance of a strong self-care practice. Whether through meditation, tapping journaling or breathwork, they have techniques to identify, express and process their emotions in healthy ways.

3. Befriend the Inner Critic

Instead of letting their inner critic take the lead, they notice it with compassion and choose kinder, more encouraging self-talk. They don’t let limiting beliefs hold them back.

4. Healthy Boundaries

Resilient people know when to rest, say no, or ask for help. They protect their energy and understand that balance is key to long term wellbeing.

5. Optimism and Perspective

They keep things in context, focusing on what’s going well and trusting that stressful moments will pass. They see challenges as opportunities to grow and learn.

6. Adaptability

Change doesn’t throw them off course. They adjust when plans shift, viewing change as something to navigate rather than something to fear.

7. The Power of Connection

They reach out to trusted friends, family or mentors when life feels heavy. They know that resilience doesn’t mean doing everything alone, it means knowing who to lean on and having a support network.

8. Not Afraid to Fail

Resilient people embrace failure as part of growth. Each setback becomes a teacher that helps them evolve.

9. A Problem-Solving Mindset

They focus on what they can do, rather than what’s out of their control. This practical mindset helps them move forward even when things feel uncertain.

Would You Like to Build Your Emotional Resilience Today?

You can start right now with this 30-minute guided session called Build Emotional Resilience. It’s designed to help you feel grounded, clear, and more confident in your ability to cope. This session includes:


Insight – a deeper understanding of what emotional resilience is and how to cultivate it.
Breathwork – to engage your parasympathetic nervous system.
Tapping (EFT) – to process a time you feel you failed, reframing your negative thoughts and gaining new hope and perspective.

Take a moment for yourself today to reconnect recharge and remind yourself just how resilient you already are. Watch Build Emotional Resilience now.

For more support building your inner resources check out the Complete Wellbeing Reset designed to transform your mind, body and soul over the course of 10 weeks.

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Big Love

Kim Murray xx

Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach | Founder of Happy Heads