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

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.

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.

Big Love

Kim Murray xx

Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach | Founder of Happy Heads

TAPPING TO BOOST SELF LOVE

Self Love is a term that is often talked about but many people still struggle with it. How do you cultivate self love if you've been speaking negatively to yourself for a long time?

This is where tapping is hugely powerful because it helps you to literally change the way you think - transforming your inner narrative from self criticism to self compassion and loving kindness.

• Do you struggle to speak kindly to yourself?

• Do you you find it hard to give yourself a compliment?

• Do you often want to reject the term ‘I love myself?

• Do you struggle to be compassionate to yourself?

• Do you find it hard to say words of loving kindness to yourself?

• Are you often self depricating?

If you answered YES to any of the above then this tapping process is exactly what you need right now! Watch the video above to boost your self love and kick start the path to thinking differently.

For 1:1 support please get in touch kim@happyheads.me I would love to hear from you xx

WELLBEING RETREAT - 1 DAY TO GO!

TRANSFORM YOUR MIND, BODY & SOUL…

“The happy heads retreat was the perfect reset button for me. The retreat was a brilliant combination of self help tricks, reflection and goal setting. Kim is a truly wonderful facilitator who draws on her own experiences and struggles to help her clients rationalise and work trough theirs. I would highly reccomend this retreat to anyone, those with specific areas they want to work on, or those who want to book in and just get a life MOT, it’s a fantastic course I would love to do all over again." Liz

Only 5 days until the Happy Heads Wellbeing Retreat begins! It's been specifically designed to help you transform your mental and physical wellbeing enabling you to kick start 2023 feeling calm, grounded and empowered.

"I got so much from the retreat with Kim. I learned some really effective ways to control my demons and make the day-to-day more manageable. And the guided meditations gave me a beautiful introduction to the practice. Kim has the most open, comfortable and kind presence - it was a real joy. Would highly recommend."

Toby

To make it easily manageable the retreat is set across 4 lunch time sessions.

Each Wednesday @12pm there will be a 1.5hr LIVE online workshop that will help you delve deeper into what you really want from the year ahead and overcome any self doubt that may be holding you back. Every workshop includes insight into the brain and topic, breathing techniques, guided meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping).

4th January - Self Love & Set Intentions

11th January - Overcome Negative Beliefs

18th January - Manifest the Life you Want 

25th January - Step into your Power

"The Happy Head’s retreat came at the best time possible for me. The retreat provided the perfect pause for reflection.I would definitely recommend."

Doula

After the workshops you’ll receive a support email that has all the key insights from what you learnt, a meditation recording for you to use, tapping videos to follow and a weekly (easily doable) practice to help you integrate the tools and techniques into your day. Each one will be recorded so if you miss one you can always catch up.

"That was AMAZING Kim thank you. I cried the whole way through it!"

Rachel

It’s been designed to completely reset your mind, body & soul. Spaces are limited, to book on click the link below or you can get in touch kim@happyheads.me.

The whole retreat is £110, spaces are limited don’t miss out!I can't wait to see you all.

Big Love xx

“I have just finished the Happy Heads Retreat and really cannot recommend it highly enough. As someone with a chronic neurological condition I have suffered with worry, self-doubt and anxiety most of my adult life. Kim delivers the sessions in a very calm and gentle manner and she has such a reassuring way about her which really helped me to believe I could achieve what I wanted to. The retreat left me feeling truly empowered. If you want to make a change in your life then I urge you to try it for yourself."

Vikki

SELF COMPASSION 💫

You may not necessarily be where you want to be but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate where you are right now. The problem with always looking forward to somewhere else is that you fail to appreciate the present moment - which is really all we ever have. Never put labels on where you are in life because all your focus ends up on that final ‘point’ but life is a continuous process. Practicing self compassion is vital for a good functioning mental health. If you fail to be kind to yourself you’ll miss all the small achievements, which are just as important as the bigger ones.
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To practice Self Compassion every day, simply write down three things that you love about yourself or that you're grateful for. Even if it's the same each day, focus your mind on your POSITIVE qualities and achievements. Physically writing them down helps to train the mind, decreasing negative thinking and strengthening your neurological pathways. .

Life is hard and we’ve all had obstacles that we needed to navigate so be proud that you’ve come this far - believe in yourself and believe in your abilities .
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Love this wonderful artist @lucialitman xx
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