Too Good to Be True Syndrome: The Manifesting Block Nobody Talks About
A client I’ll call Priya sent me a message a few weeks ago describing something I hear constantly.
Things were going really well for her… better than they had in years 🎉
She’d signed new clients and she was seeing significant momentum in her business. Her important relationships were sparkling 💖 Everything was working perfectly!
“So why do I keep waiting for it to fall apart?” she asked me.
I knew right away what was happening. I call this the Too Good to Be True Syndrome and it’s one of the most underestimated blocks in manifesting.
Here’s what makes TGTBT Syndrome so tricky: it doesn’t feel like a manifesting block!
Instead, It feels like old fashioned good sense: stay alert, don’t get too comfortable, the other shoe always drops!
TGTBT presents itself as the voice of wisdom. It’s essentially your old identity trying to protect you from a reality that you’re not familiar with.
What Priya needed (and what we all need in this state) was to give her body, mind, and energy the chance to catch up with her life.
It was time to help herself recognize that the good things were real, they belonged to her and they were not going anywhere!
This looks different for everyone, but here’s what worked for her (and what works for most people). I invited her to:
❤️Narrate the good to herself as it happened. She said it out loud, wrote it down, and texted a friend.
💚She took 1 Healing Breath of Ease (see below for instructions on how to do this) whenever she felt herself stressed so she could create enough internal calm to stay in the experience.
🩵She asked herself regularly: what if this is just what my life looks like now?
These practices are based on repetition. They let you let the good become familiar a little more each day 🎉
They let you normalize what feels phenomenally, outlandishly, extraordinarily good and that’s important because what you normalize, you get to keep.
A few days later, Priya messaged me again: “I think I’m finally letting myself enjoy this.” and I was thrilled for her 😀
So how about you? Can you recall a time when things were simply working out for you or are you in a stretch of unexpected good right now?
Maybe a relationship that makes you smile every time you think about it, a business win, a string of opportunities coming in or you’re simply feeling at peace with your world?
Here’s my invitation to you…what would it mean to let yourself stay immersed in the good and to give yourself permission to relish and enjoy every second without waiting for “the other shoe” to drop?
