I am not half as able to put passion into manifestations for myself as I am for others

You are trying much too hard - and it's not helping you.

When you "manifest" brushing your teeth in the morning, do you work yourself up into a frenzied passion until you can no longer contain your excitement for your toothbrush?

And then do you brush your teeth with a passion greater than you would if you were brushing someone else's teeth? Do you frantically move the toothbrush up and down until your mouth is bursting with foam? :)

...or do you just calmly pick up your toothbrush with the gentle expectation that your teeth are going to be clean in a few minutes, and then just get on with it?

Manifesting what you want requires as much passion as brushing your teeth i.e None.

All the manifesting potential was already realized in the moment you wanted your desire ...you don't need any hyped-up emotional state at all to get what you want.

In fact, trying to build passion for you want while noticing you don't have it often just channels that passionate energy into even more powerful lack.

If you are willing to try an experiment to prove this to yourself...

Give up all attempts to deliberately manifest anything for a month. And, instead, just focus everyday on finding things to feel good about...for no other reason than to feel good.

You might be surprised at what happens :)

Generally, doing things for others works well because it bypasses any limiting beliefs you may have for yourself, in addition to the increased feeling of flow that you get from sharing- which also helps loosen up any blocks you may have.

If you have recognized a common theme here, it is the blocks you may have with regard to what you believe you may have to yourself. So focus on receiving, and use clearing techniques to remove limiting beliefs you may have about yourself.

My favorite receiving technique is a Hawaiian traditional invocation to ask the seven elements to give you their power- fire, wind, water, stone, plants, animals and humans. Here is a demonstration:

Kalaha Hula Demonstration

each of the arm movements represents one of the elements, starting with arms above the head for fire, up and outward for wind, sideways for water, down and outward for stone, left arm down and outward for plants, right arm down and outward for animals, and a hugging motion for humans.

You can use anything you like, of course- but this is an example for a technique that has been extremely effective for me to increase the amount of receiving I feel able to do.

My second favorite technique for clearing negativity in general is to imagine an energy field, and just shooting anything that feels less than 100% great right in there- using any imagary I can that evokes getting rid of something. I like to imagine tension just burst into the field, safely, and then disappear in a flash of light. I will then imagine a gentle rain of loving light trickle down on me and heal all of the dramatically affected parts of my body.

Finally- ask people to send good energy to you. Start in your imagination, call on not just the elements, but specific people, spirits, entities, gods, nymphs, helpers, to send you their power, to support you in your cause- be that to look better naked or to save the world, it doesn't matter, because any improvement is love, whether you start with yourself and naturally radiate it to others as kindness, or whether you start with others and then feel good about yourself.