Four Reasons Why Manifesting Isn’t Working For You
If you’ve been applying the Law of Attraction or the Law of Assumption and still aren’t seeing results, you’re not alone. Many women who are very intuitive, self-aware, and committed to personal growth find themselves wondering:
“Why isn’t manifesting working for me?”
The truth is:
Contemporary manifesting laws are real, but they overlook deeper energetic and soul-level factors that directly shape how you manifest.
There are four main reasons people struggle to manifest, even if they're doing “all the right things.”
Here is a breakdown of each one:
1. Karmic Complexes: The number 1 Block to Successful Manifesting
Karmic complexes are the biggest barrier to successful conscious creation.
To understand karmic complexes, it's helpful to zoom out and view manifesting from a soul-level perspective. Our souls evolve across many incarnations, carrying forward both wisdom and wounding. When we experience trauma, whether in this life or in a past one, and it never fully resolves, that unresolved energy becomes a karmic complex.
A karmic complex is a lingering energetic imprint stored in the subtle energy bodies.
It acts like a deep groove in a record, replaying the same beliefs, fears, and emotional patterns over and over. That internal pattern then manifests externally as repeated circumstances, limitations, or blocks.
A real example shared with permission
A client of mine was manifesting a loving, healthy marriage. Yet something kept blocking her progress. Through an Evolutionary Manifesting reading, we uncovered a lifetime where she was trapped in an abusive relationship. She tried to escape, got caught in a snowstorm, and tragically froze to death.
Her past-life self concluded:
“I never should have left.”
This conclusion became a karmic complex, one that was continuing to broadcast the opposite of what she wanted to manifest in her current life.
This is what karmic complexes do:
They broadcast an energetic message that conflicts with your desires.
Until they are fully resolved, they override conscious manifestation techniques.
2. Using Healing Modalities That Don’t Fully Clear Karmic Complexes
Many healing modalities are supportive in that they can relieve symptoms, bring insight, or soften emotional pain. But most do not completely delete a karmic complex from the energy field.
They may:
lighten the load temporarily
create emotional relief
reduce the intensity of certain patterns
…but the karmic complex still remains.
This is why people often:
make progress but backslide
repeat cycles
attract the same dynamics with new faces
feel “almost there” but never quite break through
Only a few modalities fully neutralize karmic complexes, and it’s important to know what you’re looking for so you can choose tools that truly shift your energetic blueprint, rather than just finding relief from the symptoms.
3. The Downstream Consequences That Come With Karmic Complexes
Karmic complexes also often come with downstream consequences that are present in a person’s auric field. These may include:
ancestral or lineage influences
negative thought forms
present-life trauma
soul loss
unwanted influencing energies
Here’s the important part:
These cannot be fully resolved until the karmic complex is fully neutralized.
Otherwise, they are replaced with other downstream consequences that resonate with the energies of the karmic complex.
This is why people often do endless clearing work, cord-cutting, or mindset work, and still find the same issues reappearing. It’s not because they’re doing something wrong. It’s because they haven’t addressed the root of the issue.
4. Not Having Enough Energy for Conscious Creation
Even if you heal the karmic complexes and clear the downstream consequences, you still need energy to manifest something new.
Manifesting requires energy.
Your energy field is the “currency” that fuels conscious creation.
If your energy field is too small, you’ll only have enough energy to create more of the same circumstances.
Signs of low energetic capacity include:
burnout
chronic exhaustion
emotional heaviness
feeling creatively “flat”
difficulty maintaining manifesting practices
low pleasure, low joy, or low vitality
This is why expanding your energy field is essential for successful manifestation. You need enough energy not only to live your daily life, but to create something new.
Signs You May Have a Karmic Complex
While not all struggles are karmic, common indicators include:
persistent emotional or physical suffering
patterns of misfortune or “bad luck”
repeating relationship dynamics
chronic low confidence, fear, or intrusive thoughts
financial instability
growing up in unhealthy or abusive environments
cycles of success followed by sudden loss
difficulty manifesting or maintaining desires
a deep curiosity about past lives
feeling disconnected from your purpose
low energy or vitality
You don’t need all of these to have a karmic complex.
Why Some People Manifest Easily While Others Struggle
Some souls are in what’s known as a rest or holiday lifetime.
Their karmic complexes are “on ice” for this incarnation, giving them a break from deep evolutionary work. People in these lifetimes often manifest easily using standard techniques, because there’s no contradiction in their energy field.
This is why you may hear:
“Just affirm and persist.”
“Just raise your vibration.”
“Just visualize more.”
It’s not wrong advice.
It’s just incomplete for anyone not in a rest lifetime.
How to Know What’s Blocking You (And How to Clear It)
All four of these pitfalls are addressed in an Evolutionary Manifesting Reading, where we look at:
whether you have karmic complexes that are interfering with what you are manifesting
what they are
how they’re affecting your manifesting
what downstream consequences exist
what healing is needed to neutralize them
how much energy you have for conscious creation, and if you don’t have enough, what the specific causes of this are
how to build more energy so you have enough for conscious creation
If you’ve been doing everything “right” and still not seeing movement, this reading leaves no stone unturned when it comes to figuring out what is stopping you from getting what you want.
If you feel called to go deeper, you can explore Evolutionary Manifesting Readings or Somatic Hypnotherapy Sessions on my website.
Your desires are not random. They are invitations from your soul.
