The Manifestation Method Podcast by Ayelet Polonsky

At the The Manifestation Method Podcast by Ayelet Polonsky, AKA "The Manifestation Mentor" we'll be sharing weekly episodes to take you step-by-step through your journey towards manifesting a life you love. Ayelet spent 6 years learning under enlightened masters in India, and another 6 years studying deep mysticism and Kabbalah in Israel. She is a Therapist trained in CBT, Narrative Therapy, NLP and Emotional Freedom Technique. Whether it's love, money, health or emotional wellbeing, listening to the The Manifestation Method Podcast will teach you how to use your mind to create your reality. Tune into episodes where Ayelet interviews celebrities, influencers, authors, speakers and just about anybody with an epic story of growth and transformation. Their stories and advice will transform the way you perceive what's possible for you. You will also receive episodes where Ayelet will be sharing her own wisdom that she's gathered from a decade and a half of researching how the mind works

The Manifestation Method Podcast by Ayelet Polonsky is a education podcast hosted by Ayelet Polonsky, with 174 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ayelet Polonsky hosts The Manifestation Method Podcast by Ayelet Polonsky, a education show with 174 episodes published.

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  Episode #173

  Ep. 173 - There Are No Bad Parts: How to Break the Trauma Loop and Heal

  Aug 18, 202651 minS1

  What if the parts of yourself you’ve been trying to fix, silence, or get rid of aren’t actually the problem? In this episode of The Manifestation Method Podcast , Ayelet explores trauma through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and shares a powerful reframe: there are no bad parts. The fear, shame, disconnection, avoidance, perfectionism, or emotional reactions you experience may be protective parts of you that learned how to keep you safe after moments of heartbreak, rejection, or rupture. But when these protective parts stay in the driver’s seat, they can keep us trapped in familiar trauma loops—recreating the very disconnection we’re trying to avoid. Ayelet shares how to begin moving from the trauma loop into the healing cycle by developing compassion for your protective parts, reconnecting with your authentic self, and creating an internal sense of safety, intimacy, and belonging. In this episode, you’ll learn: How trauma can begin with a rupture in connection, safety, or belonging Why protective behaviors are not “bad parts,” but attempts to keep you safe How disconnection, numbing, avoidance, and perfectionism can become part of a trauma loop The difference between speaking from a triggered part and speaking for that part Why compassion and intimacy are the bridge between trauma and healing How to shift from an inner experience of scarcity into one of safety and abundance A simple four-step practice for working with yourself when you feel triggered How to access your self-energy —the calm, curious, compassionate part of you beneath fear and protection Ayelet also closes the episode with a guided meditation for moving from trauma into healing , helping you connect with the parts of yourself that need care and meet them with presence instead of judgment. Healing isn’t about erasing your pain or pretending heartbreak never happened. It’s about learning to hold your experiences differently—so your wounds no longer have to run your life. Every act of compassion is an invitation back into connection, belonging, and your authentic self. Manifestation Portal App - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/mm Inner Circle - http://ayeletpolonsky.com/innercircle Ayelet’s Courses : THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION MINDSET COURSE: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/manifesting MANIFEST ABUNDANCE MEDITATION SERIES: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/abundance Connect with Ayelet: Instagram: instagram.com/ayeletpolonsky/ | Tiktok: tiktok.com/@manifestationmindset | Youtube: youtube.com/@AyeletPolonsky

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  Episode #172

  Ep. 172 - What 8 Years of Living in Israel Taught Me About Love

  Aug 11, 202624 minS1

  What is the actual formula for everlasting love? In a world where 42% of marriages end in divorce-that's 86 divorces per hour-most couples walk down the aisle with no blueprint for making it last. In this deeply personal episode of The Manifestation Method, I'm sharing everything I learned as a love investigator: the wisdom I gathered from rabbis, mentors, and years of living in Israel, and the three secrets that I believe are the difference between a marriage that survives and one that truly thrives. I'm opening with the moment I sat across from a white-bearded rabbi in the small Israeli town of Bat Ayn, newly engaged, desperate for the long list of practical marriage advice. I told him everything I needed to know about staying happily married. He looked at me, smirked, and said one word: Avoda. Work. Then fell silent. I left disappointed. Seven years later, I finally understand. The rabbi was right. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom of my own marriage, I'm revealing why couples go into marriage with a completely distorted understanding of what it's actually for. We seek the person who will complete us, fill the void, heal our wounds. But marriage is not a healer. Marriage is an amplifier. Whatever trauma or wounds you bring into marriage will not be dissolved by your partner; they will be magnified by your partner. Struggle with loneliness? Your partner will amplify it. Carry abandonment wounds from childhood? Your partner will activate them. This isn't a curse. It's the design. Because it's in confronting those amplified wounds that the deepest growth becomes possible. I'm breaking down the second piece of wisdom from another rabbi at an engagement party: imagine you want to go to Peru and your husband wants to go to Italy. He should do everything in his power to get you to Peru. You should do everything in your power to get him to Italy. I left confused: where does me getting what I want come in? But the teaching is profound: love is not created by receiving; it's created by giving. Parents love their children unconditionally not because children are giving back, but because parents are constantly pouring out. You don't have to work on loving your partner more—you have to work on giving to your partner. When your partner is winning, you are winning. When your partner is losing, you are losing. This episode includes the third and most fundamental secret from my Israeli wizard, my personal mentor who I sought out after a friend came to me hysterically crying after her husband discovered she had cheated. I asked him if there was ever a way back after infidelity. His answer: yes, as long as there is commitment, any couple can get through anything. And the research backs this up: 75% of divorcing couples cite lack of commitment more than infidelity as the reason their marriage ended. Commitment is everything. My friend and her husband are now living happily with their kids in a new home. You'll learn about the spiritual surgery that takes place at a Jewish wedding, why the presence of Shekhinah (God's divine presence) makes two people becoming one so palpable it can be felt in the room, why I lived with one foot in and one foot out in every relationship before marriage because there was no sacred contract, and what shifted instantaneously the moment my husband and I became officially husband and wife a relief so deep, so cellular, it felt like I could finally surrender. Whether you're newly married, in the trenches of a long-term relationship, or hoping to call in a partner worth committing to, this episode offers the reframe that changes everything: stop running from relationship to relationship thinking the next person won't cause you the same pain. You take your wounds with you into every relationship. You cannot see yourself without a mirror. Your partner is not here to complete you; they are here to show you what needs to be healed. Press play and discover: there is no perfect marriage. Any image you see on social media portraying one is complete deception. But if you have work, giving, and commitment as your three wheels in motion, you can absolutely experience your happily ever after. My husband and I choose each other again and again in every moment. And it's in our differences that I now see exactly why God brought us together. Manifestation Portal App - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/mm Inner Circle - http://ayeletpolonsky.com/innercircle Ayelet’s Courses : THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION MINDSET COURSE: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/manifesting MANIFEST ABUNDANCE MEDITATION SERIES: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/abundance Connect with Ayelet: Instagram: instagram.com/ayeletpolonsky/ | Tiktok: tiktok.com/@manifestationmindset | Youtube: youtube.com/@AyeletPolonsky

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  Episode #170

  Ep. 170 - An intimate conversation with my Dad ft. Yosef Shimron

  Jul 28, 202645 minS1

  What does it look like when a daughter sits down with her father and asks him everything she's always wanted to know? In this rare, unscripted, deeply human episode of The Manifestation Method, I'm joined by my dad, Yosef Shimron, born and raised in Jerusalem, built a life from scratch in America with nothing but determination and a bag of cash at the end of each day for a conversation that went places neither of us planned. We open with the spontaneous, the curious, the Sagittarian energy my father brings to everything, his insatiable curiosity about nations, individuals, societies, and the big questions he still asks God. Because yes, my dad asks God questions. A lot of them. About Abraham and the binding of Isaac. About earthquakes and wars. About punishments in the Torah that don't seem to match the crime. About why God needs to be praised a hundred times in a synagogue when you can just feel it in your heart. My father is a man who loves Judaism deeply and questions it fiercely and somehow holds both at once. We go into the generational wounds that shaped him: a strict father who favored the stick over the carrot, a teacher who publicly shamed classmates for not doing homework, the quiet boy in the circle who was afraid to say something wrong and get laughed at until the army at 17 or 18. And the moment that still lives in his body: breaking his hand as a child and coming home in tears, only to be told it was his own fault for playing with the wrong kids in the wrong places. My father carries all of this and still he softened the cycle for us. This episode includes the conversation about how parents pass down both their gifts and their wounds across generations, what it meant for him to watch his own grandchildren be parented differently, why he read everything he could find about child development after disagreeing with how Beryl and I handled a situation, and why he came around to understanding that shame is never the shortcut we think it is. You'll hear him reflect on what he wishes he had done differently, delegating more, trusting more people, not trying to carry every single thing on his own shoulders. On what he regrets most about his mother, who passed away, and the fear that one day that same distance might happen between us. On what he's most proud of in his children. And on what he thinks the secret to Shalom Bayit really is: learning to give up, to compromise, to not hold on too tight—and above all, affection, touch, intimacy, talking, connection. I ask him what he thought when I left India and moved to Israel to become observant. What he wanted for me when I was growing up. Whether he was secretly hoping I'd come back to my roots without the religion. And what he sees in me that reminds him of himself, the restlessness, the questioning, the refusal to take anything for granted. Whether you're working through your own relationship with a parent, carrying wounds from how you were raised, or simply hungry for a real, unfiltered conversation between two people who love each other and see the world differently, this episode will crack something open in you. Press play and discover: the secret to financial success according to my dad (love what you do, delegate, become an authority, sell the story not the product), the one life lesson he wishes he'd implemented earlier, and his theory on why God closes one door and opens two and why he thinks opening just one would have been perfectly sufficient. Manifestation Portal App - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/mm Inner Circle Waitlist - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/pl/2148783042 Ayelet’s Courses : THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION MINDSET COURSE: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/manifesting MANIFEST ABUNDANCE MEDITATION SERIES: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/abundance Connect with Ayelet: Instagram: instagram.com/ayeletpolonsky/ | Tiktok: tiktok.com/@manifestationmindset | Youtube: youtube.com/@AyeletPolonsky

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  Episode #169

  Ep. 169 - The 3 Words That Changed my life: "Listening is God"

  Jul 20, 202640 minS1

  Over a decade ago I picked up a book, read three words, closed it, and sat there while something inside me rearranged. Those words were: listening is God. In this deeply intimate episode of The Manifestation Method, I'm unpacking why those three words might be the missing piece you didn't know you were looking for and how they connect ancient Jewish wisdom, Krishnamurti's philosophy, and the somatic practice of the felt sense into one of the most transformative practices a human being can embody. I'm opening with the philosopher Krishnamurti, not interested in giving you five steps or a new belief system, but obsessed with truth as something directly perceived, felt in the bones, not borrowed from any authority. He said something counterintuitive: the very attempt to fix, transcend, or escape an experience might be the thing that keeps us divided from God. Instead of asking how do I get rid of my fear, he asked: can you observe fear completely without escaping it, suppressing it, or analyzing it? Can you just be with it? What remains when the self becomes quiet enough to listen that is the sacred. Drawing on the Shema Judaism's most central declaration, said upon waking, before sleeping, and before taking our last breath, I'm revealing why the very first word of our core prayer is not believe, trust, or surrender. It's Shema. Listen. In Hebrew the root doesn't just mean to hear with your ears, it means to understand, to internalize, to let something land so deeply it changes how you move in the world. God isn't something you argue your way into. God is something you listen your way into. I'm breaking down the story of Elijah the prophet hiding in a cave on Mount Chorev, utterly depleted, convinced he's the last one standing for God. First comes a wind so powerful it shatters rocks, God is not in the wind. Then an earthquake, God is not in the earthquake. Then fire, God is not in the fire. And then, after all the spectacle and noise, there's the kol demama daka: the still small voice, the sound of delicate silence. That's where God was. Not in the dramatic breakthrough, not in the thunderbolt moment, in the quiet we keep running from because it almost feels like nothing is happening there. This episode includes why most of us aren't actually listening to others, not to ourselves. In conversation we're already halfway into our response before the other person finishes their sentence. We listen through our memories, wounds, opinions, desire to agree or disagree, impulse to fix. We meet our reaction to what's being said, not what's being said. But when the psychological self goes quiet, what's left is pure attention. And that is where the divine moves through the space between two people. Slice that energy with a knife, it's so potent with presence. You'll learn the somatic practice of the felt sense from psychologist Eugene Gendlin's book Focusing, that fuzzy, preverbal bodily awareness of a whole situation before you've put language to it. That something in your chest or gut when you're about to make a decision, before your mind has named it. The complete step-by-step process: clear a space and ask "what's between me and feeling completely fine right now?", pick one thing with charge and find where you feel it in your body, sit with the bodily sensation without labeling it, gently ask "what does this need me to know?", then wait, listen, receive whatever comes (an image, a word, a shift) with warmth and no urgency. Then simply say: thank you. I hear you. That is the Shema in practice. Whether you've been avoiding the inner work out of fear of what's under there, or wondering why nothing quite shifts no matter how many tools you try, this episode offers the truth that changes everything: your shadow doesn't disappear because you're not looking at it. What lives unexamined becomes the background music of your whole life, running the show behind the scenes, driving the mindless scrolling, the unnecessary purchases, the numbing, the shallow connections, the projections onto others. The unexamined shadow is always at the root. Press play and discover: listening is not passive. It is the most active, courageous, sacred thing you can do. Once a day, even ninety seconds, pause, ask your body what it's carrying, and listen without fixing, labeling, or rushing. That sacred pause is the Shema, the kol demama daka, the felt sense, all at once. The divine was never far away. We were just too loud to notice it. Manifestation Portal App - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/mm Inner Circle Waitlist - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/pl/2148783042 Ayelet’s Courses : THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION MINDSET COURSE: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/manifesting MANIFEST ABUNDANCE MEDITATION SERIES: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/abundance Connect with Ayelet: Instagram: instagram.com/ayeletpolonsky/ | Tiktok: tiktok.com/@manifestationmindset | Youtube: youtube.com/@AyeletPolonsky

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  Episode #168

  Ep. 168 - The Awakening of Grief

  Jul 7, 202632 minS1

  I was 21 years old, scrolling through social media half asleep, when I started seeing her name everywhere. Rest in peace, Dawn. We love you, Dawn. And then I saw her face, my high school friend, 19 years old, gone. In this tender, profound episode of The Manifestation Method, I'm sharing the story that cracked my heart wide open and sparked my spiritual awakening and making the case that grief is not a problem to solve but one of the most sacred, transformative experiences a human being can walk through. I'm opening with what so many of us absorbed somewhere along the way: that grief is something to move through as fast as possible, to heal from so we can get back to "real life." But what if grief is real life? What if it's not the interruption to your story but one of the truest, realest chapters of your whole story? What if grief is simply what love feels like when it no longer has anywhere familiar to land? You cannot grieve what you have never loved. Your grief is not evidence that something has gone wrong in you, it is evidence that your heart was and is very much alive. Drawing on the Jewish tradition of sitting Shiva, I'm revealing why this ancient ritual holds one of the most profound teachings on presence that exists. We don't tell the mourner to stay positive or be strong. We lower ourselves. We sit on the floor, close to the earth. Friends come in quietly. Nobody rushes anything or tries to fix anything. Nobody rescues the mourner from their own feelings. Presence becomes the medicine. Because maybe the kindest thing we can do for someone in pain is not help them feel better faster, it's refusing to let them carry it alone. I'm breaking down the Kabbalistic teaching that every heartbreak physically expands the vessel of the heart. Nothing stretches without first being pulled. Nothing grows without first creating space. When your heart cracks, it's not falling apart, it's becoming large enough to hold more love than it could have held before. Rabbi Nachman teaches: there is nothing as whole as a broken heart. And Rumi: the cracks are where the light comes in. Have you ever noticed that the people with the gentlest eyes are usually the ones who have carried the deepest grief? The most compassionate people you know are the ones who know suffering intimately. This episode includes the many faces of grief most people never talk about: anticipatory grief (mourning while the person or thing is still right in front of you, which is why you seem fine at the funeral but you've been grieving for years), disenfranchised grief (the miscarriage, the pet, the estranged parent who dies before you got the relationship you always hoped for grief that happens in the car, in the shower, at 3 AM when the house goes quiet), and collective grief (what gets woven into songs and stories and the things entire cultures never say out loud but pass down in silence, generation after generation). You'll learn the Hebrew word Rachamim (compassion), rooted in the same word as Rechem (womb). Compassion is womb-like: it doesn't rush you, doesn't demand you hurry up and heal, doesn't shame you for still being in it. It simply makes enough space for something fragile to become whole in its own time. And what grief is actually asking of you: to sit with the pain instead of running, to put down the phone and the busyness and the wine, to let yourself be witnessed, to say out loud this mattered to me, this loss is real, and I don't have to pretend I'm fine. Whether you're grieving a person, a marriage, a friendship, a dream, an identity, the parent you never really had, or the version of yourself you thought you'd become by now, this episode offers the truth that changes everything: healing is not the absence of grief. Healing is discovering that your grief no longer lives in a lonely place. That your heart has become spacious enough to hold both sorrow and joy simultaneously, both absence and gratitude, both tears and laughter, both endings and beginnings. The heart never chooses between grief and love it carries both, always, at the same time. Press play and discover: grief is love's holiest form. A cracked heart lets more light in. A broken heart holds more compassion. And a grieving heart is simply a heart that loved with everything it had. Don't rush your becoming. Don't apologize for the ache. Nothing truly loved is ever wasted. It just changes form. Manifestation Portal App - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/mm Inner Circle Waitlist - https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/pl/2148783042 Ayelet’s Courses : THE ULTIMATE MANIFESTATION MINDSET COURSE: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/manifesting MANIFEST ABUNDANCE MEDITATION SERIES: https://www.ayeletpolonsky.com/abundance Connect with Ayelet: Instagram: instagram.com/ayeletpolonsky/ | Tiktok: tiktok.com/@manifestationmindset | Youtube: youtube.com/@AyeletPolonsky

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