Crafting Your Unique Manifestation Routine as a Neurodivergent Thinker

What if you could transform your daily routine to better support your unique manifestation goals, especially if you're neurodivergent? On this episode of Manifest Differently, I'm Carissa Andrews, guiding you through innovative approaches to crafting a daily rhythm that aligns with your natural energy cycles and brain chemistry. 

If traditional routines have ever felt restrictive or overwhelming, particularly for those navigating executive function challenges, discover how a rhythm-based approach can be your key to unlocking potential and fulfillment. Learn practical strategies to set an energy vibe for each part of your day, enhancing your manifestation journey without rigid schedules. 

Embrace the ease of incorporating manifestation techniques into your everyday habits and see how AI tools like ChatGPT can break mental blocks and offer fresh insights when you feel emotionally stuck. We explore how effortless manifestation can become when you weave it into simple activities, such as visualizing during your morning coffee or using EFT tapping for midday resets. Reflecting on daily wins and cultivating gratitude foster the ultimate vibration of receivership, reminding you that structure should empower rather than confine. Let’s keep aligning and manifesting differently, with the reassuring reminder that you're doing better than you might think.

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Chapters

• 1:01 Neurodivergent Manifestation
• 10:12 Effortless Manifestation With AI Support
• 17:37 Structure for Neurodivergent Manifestation

Transcript

Carissa Andrews: 1:02

Welcome to Manifest Differently, the podcast for neurodivergent thinkers and anyone looking to approach manifestation in a way that truly works for them. I'm your host, carissa Andrews, here to explore the science, energy and strategies that will help you create the life you love. Let's dive in and Manifest Differently.

Carissa Andrews: 1:29

Hey there, beautiful souls, welcome back to Manifest Differently, the podcast where we explore manifestation in a way that actually works for neurodivergent minds. I'm your host, carissa Andrews, and today we're diving into a topic that I know so many of you have struggled with how to bring structure to your day without feeling rigid or overwhelming, so you can manifest more consistently and with ease. And I can definitely feel this one. It's been one of the biggest challenges that I've had in my own life that I've been working through, so I'm hoping today's discussion is going to really hit home with you guys. But before we dive in, let's take a moment to drop and slowly exhale. Let's do that again Inhale deeply, hold at the top and let it all go. Oh, starting to feel good there? Okay, let's try one more time feeling your body soften as you inhale, hold and exhale, let your shoulders drop, let your jaw relax. Maybe bring some smile energy to your day. Good, okay, now I want you to set an intention for this episode. Ask yourself what would my life feel like if my daily structure supported my manifestations effortlessly. Just let that thought sit as we move through today's episode. Just let that thought sit as we move through today's episode. It's a good one, isn't it? I love the concept of supporting myself and my manifestations effortlessly.

Carissa Andrews: 3:25

I think many of us who are neurodivergent have a tendency to kind of overthink it or not think about it enough, and then we start to judge ourselves right and that's definitely not the vibe, not the vibe we want to be in at all. So let's talk about why structure plays such a crucial role in manifestation, especially for neurodivergent minds. Our brains are wired differently. We might struggle with executive function, time management or dopamine regulation, which makes typical productivity hacks feel like a setup rather than a support. So traditional structures often fail neurodivergent people because they assume a one-size-fits-all approach. Things like strict schedules, rigid morning routines and linear time management can actually increase resistance instead of reducing it, and that is not the way we want to start our day. It's not the way that we want to start manifesting from our true power. That's just not the vibe. But here's the kicker Our nervous system thrives on a certain level of predictability. Right, it's not about rigid structure, but about intentional structure. So when we create a framework that honors our energy cycles and brain chemistry, we make it easier to stay in alignment with our manifestations and it makes us feel good. It makes us feel like we are connected in a way that maybe we haven't felt like in our whole lives.

Carissa Andrews: 4:53

So here's an example I used to force myself into morning routines that drained me before my day even started. Sometimes I would get up, I would just like go straight to work and I would hop into like it was still a routine. I would be checking emails and then I would be responding, and then I'd be checking uh, at the time I was just starting out in my author career, so I was checking stats for my books. I was doing all that work. I was checking up on ads, books. I was doing all that work. I was checking up on ads. But when I started to shift to a flow based rhythm, working with my natural focus peaks instead of against them, what ended up happening was I felt better. I felt more in tune with how I wanted to structure my day, how I wanted to feel, and manifestation became easier because I was no longer fighting myself.

Carissa Andrews: 5:46

Now let's get into the how. Here are four neurodivergent, friendly ways to create structure without feeling trapped, and these are ones that I have utilized over the years. They're ones that I have kind of intuitively started playing around with. Whenever one starts to feel a little bit stagnant, I'll switch to another one just to shake it up a little bit. But because I've played around with them, there's also a level of predictability that my brain already knows about as well. Right, it's not quite so. Out there to shake it up, the first one is rhythms over rigid routines. So, instead of setting a strict schedule routines. So, instead of setting a strict schedule, work within time blocks or energy waves. So, for example, morning creative time, midday movement, evening reflection, something along those lines. This allows flexibility while still providing a framework, right?

Carissa Andrews: 6:32

So for me mornings are definitely more of that like early kind of wake up, get into the flow of my day. I will start the day reading. Once the children have left the house Gets a little bit crazy. Otherwise, midday I definitely do the movement where I'm getting closer to lunchtime, and then my manifestation or reflection. Part of it is really more in the morning. I do it kind of between my creative time, my reading, and then my midday movement. But you can definitely do it in the evening because then you're focusing on, like, what worked today, what kind of good stuff has been happening, and I guess I kind of do it a little bit. I have a full focus planner. So at the end of the day, as I'm getting prepped for the next day and I'm writing down like what has to become a thing for tomorrow, I am thinking about and reflecting on how this particular day went. So there is a little bit of that.

Carissa Andrews: 7:27

But the manifestation tie in here is when you set a specific vibe for each time block rather than a fixed task. It really really helps you to get into the flow of everything. Really really helps you to get into the flow of everything. So, for example, morning equals expansiveness rather than journal at 8am right, because that's kind of a little bit boring and it's not as expansive literally it's not as expansive or as fun or as in flow than just kind of setting the tie in the vibe for each block, all right.

Carissa Andrews: 8:01

So number two sensory or emotional cues. Your environment can help anchor habits. Want to visualize daily? Have a dedicated cozy chair with a vision board nearby. Want a script, keep your journal where you drink your coffee. Like, put things in your way to give you emotional cues or sensory cues to help you to get into the vibe of things. So the manifestation tie-in here is when you set an emotional tone before manifestation work. So, like lighting a candle, playing binaural beats or using specific scents to signal your brain, it's time to align. It's way easier to get that flow and that particular habit on track, and I personally love using this, even in some of the morning routines and the rituals that I do anyway, just because it helps to anchor into my subconscious mind the work that I'm doing. And so, even if I'm working with like the rhythms over rigid routines and setting the tone and the vibe for each time block, sometimes I still use sensory and emotional cues to get me on board. All right. Number three is habit stacking and anchoring. I want you to attach manifestation habits to things you already do. So if you brush your teeth every morning, do three gratitude affirmations while you're brushing. If you drink coffee, visualize your dream reality while sipping.

Carissa Andrews: 9:25

What's really interesting about this? I can't remember if it was a TikTok that I saw, but I think it was. It was a while back where the guy was basically saying that you know, as a person with ADHD, he struggled to clean his apartment, and actually I think it was a podcast interview on my Author Revolution podcast, come to think of it. And so what was happening for him was that he started tying in cleaning and getting cleaning done, because he didn't really enjoy it either. So of course you kind of set things off. You don't enjoy, but he did that whenever he was on a call, and it got to the point that it became so natural for him to do cleaning while he was on a call that you know like, let's say, your mom calls and you know that you're going to be on a phone call for a while, or you know you're on a business call and you work from home.

Carissa Andrews: 10:13

Whatever the case might be doing other things, and tying it to something you're already going to have to do can really help you. And that really does help with manifestation as well, because when we tie in manifestation into things we're already doing, it's easier to integrate into our days and the more consistent you'll be too, and consistency compounds your results, which obviously we definitely want. We want to be able to get the results of manifestation without having to put so much effort into things right. Efforting is not the vibe Abraham Hicks talks about that a lot where it's like you know, if you're efforting, you're kind of focusing on the wrong end of the stick. Your manifestations should be flowing and coming into you with ease, because that means you're focusing not on the lack of something or on the vibration of it you need to work hard in order to get it or any of that. You're focusing on the flow of it coming into your reality, and the way that it comes to you can be and feel just so easy right Now.

Carissa Andrews: 11:14

Number four is AI and external supports. So take decision fatigue off your plate by using reminders, automation or tools like ChatGPT to plan out your manifestation, scripting or even affirmations for the day. I also use it in so many other supportive ways, like when I am stuck on a pattern or in a loop that I can't seem to break out of. I'll have chat help me to understand what this pattern is by prompting it to basically give me questions, to answer one at a time. It likes to do a whole bunch of them and I would rather go back and forth, so I'll prompt it so that we are going back and forth. It asks a question, I elaborate on it, I give my answer, it asks another question, and we continue to do that until some clarity comes, for either myself or chat is able to offer some clarity on chat side, right, and I've done this with inner child work, trying to locate the limiting beliefs or the resistance I might be having that could be based out of childhood beliefs.

Carissa Andrews: 12:15

All of this stuff is so helpful and tech isn't the enemy, it's a tool, and AI is going nowhere. Right, it's not any different from using a digital planner or using automations to, you know, keep track of people who are signing up for your newsletter, like. All of these things just make our life easier. And it also provides a way for us to kind of have a springboard, a sounding board, I guess, instead of just being in our own looping thoughts, because you can't break out of old patterns when you're stuck in them. And so when you're able to ask, like chat, gpt, for a different perspective on something, it helps you to reframe and look at things just slightly differently, in a way that when you are emotionally or vibrationally stunted, let's say you're in those lower vibrations of like worry or blame or discouragement or any of those things you can't quite reach to a reframing point of view or energy, and so having chat be able to do it for you is super, super cool and it just it really does help because now, all of a sudden, you have a way to be able to look at it and go oh yeah, I just I didn't think of it like that, and you can go back and forth until you start to feel better.

Carissa Andrews: 13:28

Right, when we're manifesting, our goal isn't always to be in a place of 100% high vibration. Our job is really to just notice when we're not in a high vibration, to be the observer of those feelings, to understand where they came from, to kind of bless them along their way, to be thankful for them because they're trying to show you something about yourself, and then allowing them to shift and move on so that you can go back into that higher vibration. We're not stuffing them down, we're not trying to make them bad or wrong. We're just trying to help ourselves kind of move through those emotional waves. So if you take one thing from this today, let it be this try the non-negotiable three. This is something that I really enjoy. Three small manifestation supporting habits that anchor into your day, naturally. So this goes along with the um, the habit, stacking and anchoring right.

Carissa Andrews: 14:27

So, for example, morning, one minute visualization while making coffee. So while you're doing your coffee, just be envisioning whatever it is you're calling in this week. Whatever it is that you are manifesting vibe with it, give yourself one minute to really just viscerally feel it. Then, midday, I want you to think about like EFT tapping to reset your nervous system. When we are, you know, by the time we get to midday we have been probably dysregulated at some point in time. Something has happened. We've read an email, we've saw the news, we've watched a TikTok, we've gotten stressed about our workload, like whatever the case might be. So if you can take 10 minutes, even five minutes, to just do some EFT tapping to reset your nervous system, you're going to find that it just really puts you back into a state of flow for the rest of your afternoon.

Carissa Andrews: 15:19

And then in the evening, I want you to reflect on one win from the day before you go to bed. Okay, you don't have to write it down if you don't want to, but it helps to write it down. But just reflect on your wins, like think about one that really made you feel good, like how did you accomplish it, what were the circumstances, what was the vibe, all of those good things, because it helps us to like stay in the vibrational vicinity of gratitude, and we've talked about this on the podcast before, but gratitude is the ultimate vibration of receivership, so the more that we can like venture into those spaces and train our neurology into accepting and thinking about those types of thoughts, the easier your thinking will just naturally go there, versus the doom and gloom or why is this not working? Or any of those other things that we don't want to be thinking about. Right, the goal is ease here, not pressure. So just choose three things that feel natural to you One thing to do in the morning, one thing to do midday, one thing to do in the evening, and if you can anchor those in, you're going to find and see so much shifting in your reality. All right. So I have a special announcement At this point.

Carissa Andrews: 16:38

It's currently, as of the airing of this podcast episode, it is February 12, 2025. And the Future Self Blueprint five day manifestation challenge has officially wrapped up. But if you're looking for a manifestation challenge designed specifically for neurodivergent thinkers, you can still access it on your own time. So head over to manifestdifferentlycom forward slash seven or manifestdifferentlycom forward slash future self to sign up. Since the live calls are now complete, you get to go through the course at your own pace and integrate it in a way that works best for you. You don't have to hop on a call. There's no having to shut off your camera or your your mic or anything like that. You literally can just go through the videos, go through the exercises and the bonuses that are in there. There's a meditation for you as well. There's so much goodness in there and I think it's going to help you to understand a new flow to your manifestations. Think it's going to help you to understand a new flow to your manifestations. All right, so there you have it.

Carissa Andrews: 17:38

Manifestation doesn't require rigid discipline, just smart structure that works for your brain, and I want to hear back from you what's the one way you'll bring structure to your day that feels good. Let me know in the comments on Substack or reply to this podcast episode by responding over to Carissa at manifestdifferentlycom. I'd love to hear from you Now. Next week we're going to be diving into EFT tapping and why it's so helpful for neurodivergent minds. I want to devote a whole episode to this particular tool because I found it to be really, really beneficial and it just helps me get into a place of calm. We'll probably also touch on just a little bit vagus nerve stimulation, because in my mind, they kind of go hand in hand. At least that's how I utilize them. So just a little quick FYI there. Until then, though, remember, structure is about support, not about restriction. You're already doing so much better than you think. All right, keep aligning and keep manifesting differently. Not about restriction You're already doing so much better than you think. All right, keep aligning and keep manifesting differently.