Have you tried the practice of manifestation to create your best life? If so, how do you know when your manifestations are working, and what do you do if they are not?
Touted as a magical method to attract whatever you desire, the concept of manifestation has surged in popularity over the past few decades. This is due in part to the focus of many bestselling books and wellness gurus, such as Oprah, Eckhart Tolle, and Deepak Chopra.
Yet despite all of the information available on the subject, many people struggle with getting it to work for them. This is often due to an overemphasis on manifestation as a magical method, rather than its reality as a practical one.
Keep reading this easy guide to learn valuable tips, tricks and things you need to know, so you can make manifestation work for you.
How to Manifest
Here are the basics steps to make manifestation work:
Decide: What do you want to do, to see, to feel, or have in your life?
Visualize: Picture it in your mind’s eye, adding as much detail as possible.
Feel: Add emotion to your visualization. Imagine what it will feel like to you when your manifestation materializes.
Link: Make a physical representation of it in some way. Create a vision board, write yourself a pretend check, draw a picture, make a model, or find any other way to physically represent your manifestation.
Declare: Declare what you want. To make sure you aren’t limiting yourself, or over-stepping someone else’s free will, state this out loud; “This or something better, manifests for me now, for the highest good of all concerned.”
Act: Take real world action toward your goal. Any step in the right direction, from writing it down, to doing the work, will help anchor what you want into reality.
Boost: Practice gratitude for what you already have, and strive to find inspiration and joy in your life as it is now. The more you are satisfied in the present moment, the more you release resistance to creating something new for yourself.
Release: Release your desire and go about your day. The more you cling to getting what you want, or worry about whether or not you will get it, the more you block yourself from receiving it.
Repeat: Repeat the whole process again, every day, or at least a few times a week.
Why Your Manifestation Is Not Working
Despite your best efforts, sometimes your desired manifestation does not work. If this is the case, one or more of the following is true for you:
- You don’t feel inspired or excited in daily life. Instead, you feel a lack of energy in everything you are doing.
- You struggle to connect with the feeling of it.
- You don’t believe you can do it, have it, or deserve it.
- The timing is not right
- You are trying too hard
- The thing you want is not what is best for you or other people
- Other people’s free will is involved
- You skipped too many of the basic steps.
- You didn’t give it enough time to manifest.
How to Tell When It is Working:
Many people make the mistake of giving up too soon on their manifestation. To prevent this, look for the signs that it is working.
When what you desire is on its way to manifesting, you will notice one or more of the following:
- You are increasingly inspired
- Your creativity is flourishing
- Your moods are heightened
- Synchronicities are increasing
- New opportunities are presenting themselves
- You have a boost of personal energy
- Time seems to have sped-up
- Life feels effortless
- Your manifestation becomes a reality
Manifestation: Guiding You to Your Best Life
The one constant in life is change. You cannot stop change, nor can you control what you must inevitably experience or endure. But as a co-creative being, you always have a choice to steer your life toward a higher direction. Manifestation is your tool to do this.
Ultimately, manifestation is an exercise in learning to trust in a higher power to guide you. The more you practice it, the more you notice that when the thing you desire is not what is best for you, life will slow down, issues arise, and roadblocks will appear.
Conversely, when what you want is best for you, doors open unexpectedly, desires manifest quickly, and you move into an effortless flow within the current of life. In this way, the very act of manifesting will guide you to your best life.
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