A Simple Manifesting Guide
If you have wanted to manifest a specific something into your life, but whenever you get close to achieving your manifestation - it either goes wrong, you get triggered, or you just feel blocked entirely. Or maybe it actually does manifest into reality, but it only happens once off, and the manifestation doesn’t stick. Well, I have some information that can help you keep your manifestation and push you past your blocks and mental barriers.
So, let’s break down how to manifest into a simplified step-by-step guide.
Steps to Take
Get clear on what your dominant beliefs are about yourself. To manifest your desires and have them stick, you need to figure out first what your self-concept is - you are the key, so this is a very important part of the process. Shining a light on your self-concept will reveal limiting beliefs and blocks or issues that you need to work on to make manifesting work for you instead of against you.
Affirmations. Affirming it is done can help you get into a positive mindset. If you want to manifest your dream job, for example, affirm that it is already yours. “I love my job” – “I am so excited to have landed my dream job” – “I feel so happy at my new dream job”. Affirmations aren’t something you need to do all day, but they can be a big help when you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts. Reflect on how it feels to affirm these sorts of things. Is there resistance? If so, the next step will help guide you on what to do about this.
It’s time to reflect and dig deep into your subconscious to figure out what the limiting beliefs are that you may have. Do you feel worthy of your dream job? Do you believe good things CAN and DO happen to and for you? If there are blocks, start changing those negative thoughts to positive ones, affirm, visualise, journal - or do all three! If you think things like “What if I screw up?” – “There are so many other people who are more qualified than me” – “I’ll probably get rejected” – “Why would they want me?” start getting into the habit of catching those shitty thoughts and changing them to positive ones on the spot. Even if you find it difficult to believe these affirmations, they will eventually become core beliefs if you persist long enough. It takes time, but new beliefs can form if you’re patient with yourself and persist. Think things such as: “I am qualified” – “I have the talent and skills to land this job” – “I never screw anything up!” – “They are desperate to hire me for my skills and expertise”. Self-awareness can be key, but having a confident mindset can get you further than you realise!
Live in the end. When you wake up, or you’re getting ready for bed, take a few minutes to imagine a scene where you have the dream job and envision what that version of yourself would be doing. Don’t worry about how it will happen or when, instead focus on the result you want - live in the end. It could even be a scene where you’re calling your friends and telling them that you landed your dream job. Make it as detailed as you can and do it daily.
Now that you have a step-by-step on how to do it, let’s delve a little deeper into what this is all about by beginning with your dominant thoughts.
Your dominant thoughts are what becomes reality. So, whatever it is you’re dominantly assuming, believing, or thinking is what your reality is. Not every little thought will manifest into reality, so don’t panic! However, sometimes you will notice that random thoughts can manifest easily, it just depends on whether you have resistance to them or not. And sometimes those sneaky negative thoughts fly under the radar, and you don’t realise you’re dominantly thinking them because they’re quick to pass by, or you’ve just grown accustomed to thinking them, and they’ve become a normal part of your day.
So, pay attention to what you are thinking and especially the inner conversations that you’re having as they can manifest into reality and could cause you to spiral and freak out, which isn’t fun. Being unaware of dominant thoughts and letting them run a muck is one of the reasons why people tend to repeat patterns, it’s a difficult cycle to break, but it’s not impossible!
Being able to manifest something into reality simply means that you become aware of it. For example, if you always think “I always see spiders when I’m in the garden” then you’re going to see spiders when you go out into the garden. And it’s not that you’re magically causing the spiders to appear, it’s because you’re aware that it could happen most likely because it’s happened before and your brain is filtering things out due to the belief that you always see spiders in the garden, which is why it is easier for you to find them. This is called the frequency illusion.
So, trying to change your dominant assumption to “I rarely see spiders in my garden” will help your brain realise that spiders are no longer important things to pay attention to, and you won’t notice them as often, and it’s not because they aren’t there but because your brain now believes it isn’t an important piece of information and won’t look for them now. Changing a dominant thought takes time, patience and persistence!
Repetition is how these thoughts become dominant, so imagine what could happen if you repeated positive thoughts throughout the day instead of negative ones. But it isn’t always that easy to just say a few positive things and turn your life around. You first need to focus on what your self-concept is.
But what is self-concept? Simply put, it is the belief you have about yourself (your subconscious identity). And whatever your beliefs are will be reflected by the world around you. So, who or what do you believe you are? Loveable? Lucky? Wealthy? Successful? Or do you believe you’re ugly, a nuisance, unchosen, unlucky? Maybe all the above? Self-concept goes deeper than that, and it isn’t only ever one belief you hold about yourself, and sometimes it isn’t obvious. So, take note of how you talk and think about yourself, and this will show you what your true self-concept is.
And if repetition is what creates a dominant thought or belief, then how can you use that to have a positive self-concept?
By creating your own personal affirmations.
Affirmations are positive statements that can help change your negative thoughts over time by becoming new thoughts, and if done long enough they eventually turn into core beliefs. And so, your self-concept changes along with your entire life.
Here are some affirmation ideas:
I love everything about me
I am important
I bring out the best in others
I am a powerful manifester
My life is so wonderful
Everyone I meet is kind
Everything is always working in my favour
However, creating personalised affirmations is a lot more powerful than general ones. Targeting your core beliefs and changing them to something positive will help you move further along your path and change your inner world entirely.
When it comes to affirming, you do not have to say your affirmations out loud, you can simply think them anytime, anywhere. You can do affirmations in the shower or when you are working out, when you are in front of the mirror, taking a walk, while you are in bed, or when you are cooking. Journaling can also be quite helpful!
I also highly recommend listening to audio affirmations that you have recorded while you sleep or when you’re doing things throughout the day.
So, really focus on affirmations that affirm against your negative self-concept, and especially affirm when you are triggered!
This does not mean you have to force yourself to be happy and positive. You are human, allow your emotions to flow through you. It’s your thoughts that you need to control, not your emotions! When you realise thoughts come first and emotions follow, then you may find you won’t get triggered so much when you take control of your thoughts and have a positive mindset.
Your imagination can help you to create your ideal life, it is a powerful tool that a lot of us overlook when we become adults. So, use your imagination to ‘live in the end”!
But what does that mean?
To live in the end means knowing that your manifestation is done. You no longer desire it because you have it. In your mind, it is already yours. Imagine yourself having the thing you want and focus on what that would be like and what emotions that brings up. Live as the version of yourself who already has the thing you want.
Don’t worry about how or when, just trust the process. While you’re living in the state of having, then you may come up with ideas that move you closer to your manifestation, but you may not notice during that moment that the inspired action you’re taking is moving you closer to your desired reality. It won’t be clear until it is done, and you will look back and be amazed by how everything worked out the way it did to get you where you want to be.
Manifesting is a natural thing we do daily, it doesn’t have to be complicated. It is simply the fact that your thoughts create your reality, and what you’re aware of is what manifests. So if you put your focus on the right things, then nothing can stand in your way.
And just remember that you may have setbacks, but it doesn’t erase the progress you’ve made, as long as you work on your self-concept, your dominant thoughts and beliefs then you are golden.
