To think manifesting works?

Did you also keep an eye out for opportunities, see one, apply and interview?

I’ve always thought it’s rubbish but after this month I’m not sure.. I’ve been struggling with work (self employed) after some mental health issues last year. Things have been better this year but I still have not been getting as much work in. Last month I decided to be much more intentionally positive in my outlook, practice gratitude (writing things down), work out every day etc… I haven’t changed anything in terms of approaching clients but I have made more than 3 times what I have been making on average in other months this year (and 10x what I was making on average last year). I can’t help but think it’s something to do with the positive outlook / gratitude / manifesting… even though I probably wouldn’t admit that in real life!

It’s nonsense but I manifested a new job last year and I got one 😄

That's just luck and effort though. Many, many people know what they want in life. Some get it, most don't.

This is the 2020s . We need a label for everything, apparently. It makes people feel better to be labelled or to have a title put on their behavious

All that in only 8 years of manufesting....

What the fuck is it today with the envy of money? you are making assumptions about those who may have money to buy stuff
Jeez, people think the landed gentry are snobs, but the reverse snobbery, bitchiness, and sheer hatred towards anyone with, or assumed to have, money on this forum is incredible

I feel like I ‘manifested’ my life.

I always knew what I wanted and, even though it seemed unlikely, I am now living that life. Obviously I made conscious decisions to get there, but it definitely feels a bit like I pre-wrote the story of my life 😂

Nobody makes things happen through magical means - but obviously people who are positive with a can do attitude get things done. Nothing new there.

Basically, manifestation is the 'grown-ups' version of 'The Little Engine'...
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

Yes, it monetises credulity.

Agreed - awful ‘friend’. Sorry you had to navigate that at such a tough time.

So all a cancer patient needs to do is manifest a full recovery?

No, you can't magic things into existence.

But I do think that focusing on what you want, believing that you deserve it, making little steps every day towards achieving it, must increase your odds of achieving achievable things.

As a tool for sequencing steps to achieve something I suppose it has merit but it’s prime use is as a method of monetising followers/readers whose essential credulity and continuous surprise at confirmation bias makes them complacently self satisfied while building wealth for others. As a tool for preventing war, abuse, starvation, illness or for delivering a fully crushing on me Jason Momoa it’s woefully lacking.

I hope you threw said bok right back at her!
What a cow

It's one of those things like 'the secret' that was invented by a mid class white woman in the States. I'd like to see someone tell it to people living in extreme poverty I'm a third world country.
In other words, the idea of it being at all mystical is crap.

However, if you focus on what you really want, assuming it is a realistic proposition for your circumstances, then it will probably subconsciously influence all your minor choices and lead you in the right direction.

Only ever used it once and that was for our dream house.
Everyday I imagined the house I wanted so much as home with all my belongings, putting the key in the door.

It fell through and someone else bought the house.
It doesn't work.

Funny how people always “manifest” quite banal things like a new job or partner.

No one ever manifests an elephant walking through their town on a Monday morning or for people living in war zones not to have a bomb dropped on their house.

This is just a different type of religious thinking, along the same vein as faith healing.

The universe isn't Uber Eats. You can't order something and it will somehow land in your lap.

Millions of really good, kind, happy, positive, well-meaning people live and die in horrible conditions - poverty, disease, war, etc.

To believe in manifesting is to believe that these people weren't good enough for peace and riches. That's a really shit way to view the world.

The better way is to accept the dumb luck and circumstances in your life, work at bringing more good into the world than existed before you came along, and seek contentment. Happiness is fleeting, but contentment can last a lifetime.

Look into Stoicism. That's a solid way of thinking that won't steer you wrong in life.

I have been practicing it for a long time and unexplainably believe it works. In terms of what I do, I thank the universe for all the things I am grateful about (list them) out loud, and then I ask for what I want or need. It is like praying. That is all I do, and time after time the thing I have asked for has happened, be it more money, a job, a school place, a new flat to rent in a certain place, cheaper rent, a bonus at work, help with weightloss etc. I don’t ask for help with serious medical issues or ask for anything beyond the realms of possibility. But anything job or money related seem to transpire. What is the harm in trying, it costs you nothing.

I can remember reading years ago that positive psychology was in effect blaming individuals for the faults of the system. The example used was if people were unhappy in their work the advice was for them to approach their work in a more positive manner ( basically try harder) when in reality the employer was taking advantage of the employee.

It doesn't work in any kind of supernatural sense. It can work as a form of positive thinking in that, by focusing on your goals and being clear about what you want, you are more likely to make efforts and see opportunities to achieve them. But you do have to remain realistic. There is no point 'manifesting' that you want £1million to land in your bank account out of the blue, but you could 'manifest' that you want a specific, better paid job, or to be successful in starting your own business.

Nailed it.

I’m willing to bet you were going out and meeting meeting or doing OLD when you found your fiancé, rather than he just knocked at your door and said, ‘Hi I’m Mark, the Universe sent me’.

Ditto similar with your job.

This is the pernicious side of manifestation. I was told my MIL had ‘manifested’ her terminal cancer ( as she had always been scared of cancer). Utterly disgusting thing to say.