To think manifesting works?

Thinking positively to help manifest carefully crafted personal goals is not in any remote sense "dangerous".

And what if it doesn't happen? Can you not see how a vulnerable person could think "I'm not doing this hard enough, I can't even do this right" and end up worse off?

I needed to hear this - thank you!

@PashaMinaMio intriguing , i’d love to hear the story if it’s one you don’t mind sharing?

This.

Christ on a bike. Really???

One desires things; learns how to manifest them by becoming more accepting of their desires, hopeful about their outcomes and grateful for what they have.

Then one realizes that what really makes them happy is to be accepting, hopeful and grateful. And that’s the magic of it.

Well it all worked for me.
i am in no way a woo person but id had enough and just went for life instead of maintaining my negative mindset.

i got a new job. New life. Went from 19k job in a terrible flat to 8 years later house owning and 6 figure salary. New life, country and man 😀

and nothing to do with my narc parents who I’m NC with.

Yes.. I'm going to see it as a positive that I've seen this post. I've been working on something for a couple of weeks now, I can not wait for it to materialise!

How does it work? You decide you want to manifest something (something that's actually possible/ achievable) and if it ends up happening, you manifested it and if it doesn't, you didn't believe in it hard enough/ weren't positive enough?

I could not agree with you more @Ponoka7 . Those poor people in Gaza are clearly not manifesting hard enough.

That's very cool! How interesting that just focusing on the end result actually doesn't get you a win necessarily. It makes more sense that you'd need to break it down, which is really what you'd do if you weren't visualising. More like preparing in small stages.

Absolutely, the first nations people, those taken on slave ships, anyone who collectively went through a famine etc just didn't want life enough, if only they'd tried harder. Perhaps send some books about this to the suffering millions of people. Congratulations, you've cured infertility. Strange how these things are weighted towards the privileged to start with.
Realistic goal setting, planning, focus and putting the work in, helps make things happen. Re relationships, if you open yourself up to the idea, then it's more likely to happen. Some get things through luck.

That reminds me that I listened to an episode of a psychology podcast that was all about common myths. It included visualisation/manifesting. It was probably the podcast that Professor Richard Wiseman does.

Visualising the end goal eg winning a race, getting the job you wanted, getting great exam results etc actually makes you less likely to achieve that goal.

But if you think of your goal and then visualise the steps that you need to carry out in order to achieve that goal, then that can be a successful strategy.

Yes l definitely believe in manifesting,

I was longing for something to come about. It was 45 years overdue.
Suddenly it happened after much manifesting usually just before sleep.
I did nothing but the event came to me in a most obscure way.
Happy days.

It's bollocks for the gullible I'm afraid.

And to state the bleeding fucking obvious, in case no one else has yet, it's the rich/privileged that have the confidence behind them or financial backing to get what they want in life anyway, that are the type to promote this shit. Spoiler: you didn't wish your luxurious life into existence you just have a rich mum and dad.

You might be onto something there

Maybe we need to do it on the night of a full moon or something, not quite sure of the rules 🤣

How about you manifest Monday through Wednesday, and I'll manifest Thursday through Saturday, then we can give him a break on Sundays?

It depends. Visualising you're going to win the race you're preparing for, or imagining you've got the job when you're going for interview - yes that works. Visualising a happy life when you have anything but, and trusting in the universe to provide (?!) Not so much.

And if you stick to the rules all you'll manifest is a serious mental illness 🤓

Wow. A comment on how victim culture increasingly pathologises positivity, aspiration and achievement.

Thinking positively to help manifest carefully crafted personal goals is not in any remote sense "dangerous".

If you don’t believe in manifesting though by the rules, you wouldn’t manifest 🤣

I think it's the wedge end of a very gross, blame-the-victim mentality, and it's no surprise it has been formetnted in the most individualistic and capitalist societies on the planet.

If your lives aren't what you want them to be, I totally understand. If you wish you were more in control of them, I totally understand. But I think it is the grossest form of gaslighting that someone has persuaded you it's your fault and not the result of societal and economic factors disabling you.

By all means determine that you and going to approach things with a positive mental attitude and try to focus in your lives on the things you actually feel are worth working towards. I really hope that you get them and I also believe you deserve them. I just also believe that even shit people deserve nice lives and if we were more up for facing that, more people could have nicer lives and as a result might have positive mental attitudes.

It is a form of delusion borne out of traumatic disappointment to believe you got a nice life because you had the right thoughts in your head. It will haunt you even if you do actually achieve the things you want.

Read Smile or Die by Barabara Ehrenruch for a bracing call to arms

I've done the same with Henry Cavill but alas he has yet to arrive at my door.