Have you ever unknowingly experienced the awe-inspiring, liberating feeling of manifestation? Perhaps you are inspired by the many miraculous recounts of others’ experiences of success with manifestation, only to try your hand and repeatedly fall short of manifesting your heart's desires.
On all accounts, you’ve done the work, repeatedly set intentions, following all of the steps down to the most minute detail, only to fall short every time. Disappointed and bewildered, you’re likely perplexed by the fact that it feels like you can’t seem to quite get it right. Next thing you know thoughts of worthiness and other downward spiraling thoughts begin to fill your awareness.
Searching for some semblance of clarity, you resolve yourself to the belief that maybe this practice just isn’t meant for you. Luckily, there is good news.
Contrary to popular belief, manifestation as well as every other mindfulness practice is accessible to all who seek to access it. This post will explore the six essential elements of manifestation that works.
The Truth About Why You may have Trouble Manifesting
As a collective, there seems to be this notion that when it comes to manifestation, you set an intention for what you desire to invite into your experience, and wait for it to come to fruition. In doing so, we curate an imagined vision of the where, how, and when it will come to fruition. Unfortunately, anything that differs from this meticulously curated vision is in adamantly deemed unsuccessful.
Like most, we want things to unfold in a manner, and time, in which we see fit. In today’s society, the quicker the better, and anything that doesn’t satisfy our expectations within this timeframe is deemed suboptimal. In essence, expectancy essentially rules this space, often leading us to conclude that this practice isn’t meant for us.
Instead of taking a deeper dive to examine the potential areas within our process that we may have made a misstep, we often rush to judge and internalize our experience as ineffective. In some cases, this can easily send us into a downward spiral of self-critique and low vibration thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This internalizes our experiences which informs and shapes our beliefs and/or lack thereof.
These beliefs and thought patterns, in turn, become hardwired within our neurological system, making it dam near impossible to rewire, without hard work and consistency. In other words, the more ingrained you believe that manifestation does not individually work for you, the less likely you are to experience satisfactory results. Likewise, changing your beliefs, increases your likelihood of bringing your heart’s desire to fruition.
The Power of Belief: The Beauty of Manifestation
Beyond anything you could ever hope, wish, or desire, manifestation evolves through the power of belief. Essentially, everything happens to you as you believe. This means, that one just cannot simply wish something into manifestation without truly believing that it is possible. At its core, our beliefs are hardwired into our subconscious as they shape our actions, reactions, and responses. Therefore, the key to embracing change lies within reshaping your habitual patterns, and beliefs through practice and consistency. As the old saying goes “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” which reinforces the notion that change is an iterative process that evolves with consistent effort.
Consistently introducing new actions over time, creates new habits which essentially unwire old hardwired circuits, forging new ones along the way. In other words, we essentially have to unlearn and release habits, and beliefs, that no longer serve, in order to be open and available to embrace new practices. Essentially, Theres’ nothing quite like the soothing reassuring realm of a safe comfort zone. However, change emerges at the very edge of our comfort zone, as it essentially beckons us to lean into the very things that both feel unfamiliar, and uncomfortable.
Let’s take for instance your job. Perhaps when you first started you began to shadow your fellow coworkers to essentially learn the ins and outs of your new position. All the while it likely felt unfamiliar, foreign, and disjointed, as well as a variety of other adjectives that added to your discomfort. Just maybe there were times when your confidence arose, and you felt like it would be a smooth easeful transition. Whereas other days it felt like it would take practically six months or more for you to even begin to feel a level of comfort that would support you to thrive. However, with consistent work, effort, repetition, and consistency. Your role now feels like second nature, as it is likely something you can practically do with your eyes closed.
Much like the above example, you consistently leaned into the discomfort as you continued to preserve through the discomfort of new tasks, actions, responsibilities, and the like. In time, you hard-wired new habit patterns that empowered you to not only survive but to thrive and likely excel in your role. Much like the process of learning and embodying new roles, habits, and practices, the same applies to manifestation. One must firmly believe that the change he seeks is possible before it can even begin to materialize into the physical realm. Each of us resides within a space of the familiar which is informed and shaped by what we believe is possible for ourselves and others.
What do you believe is possible for you? Do you dream too big? Are your desires and dreams so expansive that it’s hard for you to envision it for yourself?
These are just a few questions that invite you to contemplate and query the expanse of your belief. Essentially, if everything happens as we believe, how can we truly manifest great things if we don’t truly believe it is within our reach. When it comes to manifestation, self-inquiry, journaling, visioning, intention, and mediation, are key to materializing your heart’s desires.
5 Secrets to Manifestation that Actually Work
1. Self Inquiry
Change emerges in our ability to query our thoughts, habits, and beliefs. Whenever you desire to invite something new into your experience, it calls for you to make space for it to materialize. We operate and function based on a core set of habits, and beliefs that govern our actions.
If you continue to do the same things in the exact same way, it essentially yields the same results. Therefore, change requires that you release something. Be it the nature of your thoughts, beliefs, or otherwise, you must stop doing something. But before, you can practice self-inquiry, you must first journey within to make the unconscious, conscious. In other words, you must mediate to truly look at the hard-wired thoughts that lie within our subconscious. Meditation provides a lens that shine the light of your awareness on the nature, content, and frequency of your thoughts.
2. Intention
Self-inquiry informs us on the inner working of our thoughts. It essentially informs us to cultivate and shape an intention for our practice. In essence, it refines our focus on the very things that we are seeking to invite into our experience. Whether our intention centers on ushering in more joy, love, freedom, or peace, it supports us to get clear on what we exactly want to invite in. Once you know the what, it empowers you to be intentional with your practice.
3. Meditation
Mediation is an essential practice that supports us to truly observe and familiarize ourselves with how we identify. As a collective, we predominately recycle a number of thoughts within the course of a day, week, month, etc. When we sit in the quiet stillness of meditation it gives us a birds-eye view of the nature, frequency, cadence, and content of our thoughts. In other words, it shines the light of our awareness on that which otherwise remains hidden.
Siting and observing our rampant thoughts can elicit a diverse range of feelings, and emotions. Most often it elicits a sense of discomfort that in turn, prompts us to judge the very thoughts that flow through our awareness. Judgment yields low vibrational feelings of self-critique, fear, doubt, and a number of other reactions that can potentially send us into downward spiraling thinking. However, in spite of any amount of discomfort that arises, continue to bring your awareness back to your intended focus.
Most often the intended focus is centered on the natural, rhythm, and flow of the breath, as it is rooted in the present moment. In every instance your attention strays, essentially bringing it back to your intended focus as many times as need be. Releasing judgment and redirecting your awareness, time and time again throughout the duration of the practice.
4. Journaling
Consistent meditation practice yields insights, realizations, and revelations. Bringing the unconscious into the conscious shines the light of awareness onto the very habits and beliefs that remain hidden. True change emerges as a result of familiarizing yourself with your true real self. Not the idealized self that we project out into the world, but our true real self that lies beneath the mask.
Often times we become so intertwined with how we perceive ourselves that we turn a blind eye to who we really are. At its core, meditation empowers us to peel back the layers of perception to bridge the gap between our perceived and actual selves. Immediately after meditation, you may experience a rush of downloads that presents itself as insights, realizations, and revelations. This data can be transient in nature, meaning just as quickly as it comes in, it can dissipate. Therefore, it is essential to write it down immediately after practice.
Journaling grants you the space to release and document any downloads that you experience. With journaling, there are no prerequisites or requirements. You just simply document in whichever manner you see fit. Be it writing, or voice recording, this practice provides space for you to express and release. There are no minimums, writings and recordings can be as brief or as long as you’d like.
5. Visioning
After you journey within to evaluate what limitations, lie at the core of your beliefs, manifestation invites you to tap into your imagination to envision yourself living the very reality you are seeking to manifest. Much like the old adage, seeing is believing manifestation lies at the cornerstone of you being able to envision yourself living in the space of it already being a reality. Our imaginations are a powerful facility that empowers us to amplify our ability to manifest our heart’s desires. Frequently viewed as a classical element of childhood, a large majority of adults have tucked away their ability to tap into the imaginal realm.
Contrary to popular belief, using your imagination is not childish . So in reference to the old saying, put away childish things, it absolutely does not apply to manifestation. Seeing is believing, the more you can see yourself living, feeling, and breathing your imagined reality, the quicker it becomes manifest. In addition to, or simultaneously with meditation, practice seeing yourself embodying the reality you seek, and it will materialize.