What is Manifestation?

What is Manifestation?

Manifestation is consciously creating your reality by aligning your vibrations and intentions with your thoughts, words, actions and most importantly, feelings. If it sounds like a mix of esoterism, behavioral and cognitive psychology, you're not far off. Essentially we're combining the subtle world and quantum physics with the physical, material world that surrounds us. Whether you realize it or not, you are already manifesting! It just so happens that most of us are manifesting unconsciously because we are not fully aware of the frantic carousel of thoughts running through our minds, not to mention the roller coaster of emotions we experience on a daily basis. Through a little self-discovery and daily practice, you'll be on the fast-track to consciously manifesting the life of your dreams. 
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​How to Use Manifestation?

Manifestation can be used in a limitless variety of scenarios. You can manifest material desires, such as a car or a house. You can use it to manifest experiences like traveling the world, furthering your education or reaching a personal goal. You can even use it to open yourself up and attract fulfilling relationships and overcome personal challenges. Keep your head and your heart in a positive place to make sure you're manifesting a reality that serves your higher self to tap into your own growth and development. The goal can be something concrete or abstract, but there are particular details to have in mind so that your endeavor is successful. Let's take a look!
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Tips for Manifestation: Essential checklist

It's not enough to imagine your dream in some vague sense and then put it on the backburner while you cross your fingers and wait for fate to deliver. As you venture down the rabbit hole of manifestation, you'll find lots of technical information as well as anecdotal examples to lead you in the right direction (I've included some sources at the end of the post) and while it's generally helpful, it can get overwhelming. Below you'll find the six things I found most helpful in expediting my manifestation journey and I hope they work for you, too!

1. You have to truly believe that what you are manifesting is possible

Many times we set lofty goals which is a great way to get into high gear, but they serve a more motivational purpose instead of being defined to be attained. Instead of lowering your goals, it's time to change the way you think about yourself. Easier said than done, right? There's a hack to shortcut those feelings of being undeserving or that while the feat may be possible for others, it's out of reach for you. Instead of focusing on your end result directly (because you may inherently believe you can never get it), side step that to focus on the by-products of attaining your goal. Here's an example, let's say I want to manifest financial independence but perhaps I'm saddled with debt, a low-paying job and with my expenses I'm living check to check. In this case, I would imagine a scenario where I'm in a boutique trying on designer dresses to buy, I'm traveling to an exotic beach destination, or I went to the market, loaded up my cart and checked out without needing to look at the bill. In each of these imagined scenarios, I would concentrate on the details and focus on what it FEELS like to be doing all of those things and the relaxed, carefree state I would be in while enjoying my time that way. Those are all scenarios that I can imagine and dive into without my subconscious giving me a reality check and they would all be by-products of financial independence. 

2. It's not enough to manifest from your mind, you have to emotionally engage

We all daydream from time to time and the fluid nature of our imagination keeps our brains active. Manifestation however, apart from the creativity needed to define your goals, requires you to feel the emotions associated with the outcome. Science has made great strides in proving that we are more than just the biological and chemical physical processes that we can observe with our five senses. Thoughts are a creative activity that emit waves, vibrations, which is one of the first components for things and events to manifest physically. Emotions further condense the matter and speed up the process of becoming. It's not enough to hold the object in your mind, you have to feel it, sense it and interact with it on an emotional level to bring it into being.

3. Act as if it were true NOW

When you dig in to that emotional side, the relationship you create with the object of your manifestation should be as if it existed in your life now. Through this perspective of the present moment, it is in the now that we adjust our vibrations to attract that which we desire. Like attracts like. Going back to the example of financial independence, if you imagine what it feels like to live that way now and act, think and speak as if it were true, you are showing the universe who you are and how you vibrate so that in the natural order of things, that which is the same will be drawn to you. If you believe that you are wealthy and behave in such a way (albeit, responsibly) you will attract just that, more wealth. If you continue in the subconscious stupor of poverty out of habit, you will be telling the universe that is what your are, and you will attract just that, more poverty. Fake it 'til you make it and the universe will make sure that you're no fake.

4. Be specific

In order for manifestation to work expeditiously, not to mention effectively, you're going to want to be as specific as possibe. Get a clear idea of what exactly it is that you want. A lot of times we roll around in an unneccesary state of angst that comes down to a lack of clarity in who we are and what our goals are. If you're vague, you don't know what you may end up with on your plate. Think about what you want, when you want it, what it would mean to you and get after it!

5. Stop changing your mind and be consistent

We can be so fickle. When the Sun is out and shining brightly we enjoy it for a bit before our mind wanders off and we're fantasizing about a little rainstorm. In the midst of a drizzle, we attune temporarily to the soft grey of the skies before we start pleading for the Sun to come out again. One day we're set on mastering a new language and the next we're looking up how-to tutorials to learn programming. Everytime we change our direction, the universe picks up those vibes and prepares to send what you've been asking for but if we're constantly changing our minds you may never manifest your desires to begin with, or end up with some mediocre representation of your grandest dreams. Decide what it is you want to manifest and stick with it, see it through until you're living that reality. The more you commit, the faster it can take shape.

6.  Don't become attached to one specific way your desire could manifest

The universe will always respond to what we're creating, however sometimes we're so fixated on what we think the final result should look like that we don't recognize it when it does eventually show up. You must be specific about the desire, but open-minded when it comes to the result. Why? Because the universe knows you better than you know yourself and the result will be the version of what you were manifesting that is tailored best for you in the grander scheme of your life mission. For example, as a child I constantly imagined myself as an adult living in a high-rise in New York City as a bigshot lawyer, cooking dinner with my husband with wine in hand and some good jazz music on in the background. I can remember imagining that scenario even 20+ years later. What I remember most is how that fantasy felt, the ease of the moment, the loving banter, the beauty that surrounded us. Well the universe absolutely delivered far beyond what I could have ever imagined and that is my reality, but I'm not in New York and I'm not a lawyer. Instead I'm living that reality in a bustling South American metropolis, which is much more my pace than New York, and working in a profession that I find immensely more fulfilling for me than law would have been. When I was younger was I disappointed that things didn't lead me to that ultimate dream? Sure, but the feeling of that future image stayed with me and the forces at work kept pushing me down my  path, even when I put up resistance, because I held on to that image and trusted that it would work out. And it did, just not in the way I had origanlly imagined, but it became something far greater than I could have dreamed. The results may not always look how we thought, but if we go with the flow and stay open, we'll find we get exactly what we were manifesting in a way that's perfect for us. 

Manifestation and Tarot

Tarot is a beautiful tool for understanding ourselves and all of the vital energy that goes into our experience. The Magician in Tarot has perfected the art of manifestation and brings us some great advice as per the characteristics and qualites we can sharpen to be effective at manifesting. Inner balance and harmony are supreme. This means uniting the intellectual, emotional, intuitive and sensory aspects of ourselves so that they may work together toward achieving our goals. We frequently hear instances where the heart and mind are in two different places, but bringing them into alignment is an exercise that can bring much peace and clarity into precisely who we are and what we want. Operate from the mental side, be analytical, seek out knowledge. Work from an intuitive side and get in touch with the small voice inside that is always guiding us. Enjoy the experience of being in your body by being fully present and taking in all of the physical stimuli and sensory output of the world. Get your feelings involved and observe how they ebb and flow until you begin to recognize patterns and become aware of what's going on within you on a deeper level. The work to progress in self-awareness is the greatest gift you could give yourself and from there, manifesting becomes second nature.

Now you're armed with some tips and at least a general idea of where to start. If  you would like to check out some books on the topic, I recommend:

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Soygal Rinpoche
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Let your Mystic Revolution begin!
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