Does anybody believe in manifestation ?

[lavendarandvanilla]

I have a question about setting an intention but despite being guided to let it go , I’ve also been advised to live that intention as though it’s already happened and now I find that I’m fiXated on that intention.

Funnily enough I was talking to a colleague about his mother. I used to work with his mum years ago (we talking 30+ years) She divorced & moved away though continued working for the same organisation.

We lost touch, but I know that she had remarried.

It seems that she's been recently widowed. She was at work and cleared her desk, passing on some work to a colleague saying that, for some reason, she knew that she wouldn't be at work the next day. She arrived home to find her husband dead - he'd had an embolism & literally dropped dead on the kitchen floor. Somehow she had had a premonition that something would prevent her from working the next day.

Just for the record. I have never spent a penny on any programmes/courses/anyone's attempts to monetise LoA. Nor do I believe in a 'higher power'.

Edited to add: Or prayer!

Thanks! I am attracted to a man. I’m divorced so trying to move out of my comfort zone ! I put myself in a position to
meet him and there was a greeting etc. I am now fixated on him. Trying to let this go and trust but I’ve had designs on him for many years, casually. I feel he ticks so many boxes but of course I do t know him
well enough to say that truthfully. I’ve manifested thousands of pounds and excellent health in the last year.. again form follow g the basic steps of intending and living like I’ve already received. Inspired action has been the measure of my
success. It truly works for me . Let’s hope this does too.

It’s just thought re-directing and where you put your attention.

Thought + action = result.

I do cosmic ordering .. for years I've been asking to find a way for my daughter to loose weight without surgery or becoming ill.
She was at the end of her tether.. depressed/ crying.. was awful.. ( she's in a wheelchair)... then along came mounjaro.. easily available... so with her GPs guidance she bought her first pen a year ago.
Seven stone weight loss.
Her mental health greatly improved.

Thanks for that clarification! Your post about "manifesting" the Windermere opportunity really resonated with me. As I understand it, manifesting seens to be more about working with your unconscious, and with your mind generally, so that you are in the right frame of mind to notice opportunities and to take advantage of them, as opposed to falling prey to distractions and to negative thought patterns which predispose you to talk yourself out of taking action. Have I understood this more or less correctly? If you wanted to do an AMA, it would be very interesting!

If you mean manifestation to imagine yourself as more confident so that you are more likely to make friends or get the job you want, that sort of thing, then yes as it's positive thinking.
If it's to win the lottery and be a millionaire, then no. (Of course if anyone knows different, I'm willing to hear the secret!)

Yes this is more how I see it also. It’s common sense and a logical approach to trying to make what you want happen. It’s just been given the ‘manifestation’ name for money making purposes I guess.

Eg after about 6 years ago after being single for over 10 years and not having any friends, I thought hard how to meet someone. I couldn’t do it usual way tho right going out as had no friends. Didn’t want to sacrifice my mental health so OLD was out. Eventually I saw advert for a local friendship/activity group so despite being petrified I joined it. At the first meet up it was v cliquey and I hated it swearing to never go back but I forced myself to. One of them posted a pic of a recent meet up and I fell hard for one of the guys there who was a member also and looked like David Beckhams older brother lol. I swore to myself if I even had to move heaven and earth I neede him to like me and date and become a couple - and quick 😅. Fast forward, that’s exactly what happened. I only met him once and there seemed to be chemistry but then covid hit and that was that. I thought he’s so god lucking amd charming, I bet he’ll probably have met someone and forgotten about me after a year and half of lockdown. However, the positive side of my brain for some reason refused to accept this and I know this s cringe haha but I actually saved a photo of him on our only group night out and blew it up and used it as my phone wallpaper so I looked and thought about him every day throughout the lock down. Anyway when the group was running again, he was there and just never left my side and inside I was secretly laughing thinking’what if I’ve bewitched him haha’ 😂. Anyway he messaged me from there on for proper dates and we went onto to have a fantastic 2 years. The relation was eventually ended by me as red flags started to creep in so is a shame I don’t get an Disney ending but it was great he was there for me during quite a dark time in my life actually. So if I wanted to ‘make money’ from this I romanticise my experience and swear blind I manifested this whole experience since there are elements of that but it wasn’t really. It was about not just dreaming about it happening but physically figuring out the steps and making it happen!

@lavendarandvanilla Be careful what you wish for! You can "make your own luck" with money and health up to a point (and depending to an extent on genes and/or where you're starting from, of.course) but there's no such thing as a love spell yet, I'm pretty sure. In fact any strategy that depends on the whim of a particular other person isn't manifesting, just wishful thinking. We've all been there...

No but as Paul McKenna says, You get what you concentrate on.

So if you want a new man, do lots of online dating, if you want a new job, make lots of applications, if you want a new house, save up and start looking! I believe in that!

Fixation, especially on a person is extremely unhealthy. I'm guiding him to run a mile from your nonsense!

I think its ridiculous but I'd a friend who believed in it (she is very suggestible and skips from one believe/trend to another). She told me she was manifesting a new car and explained how she did this every morning, had pictures of the car she wanted stuck around the house and was confident she'd get it, well she did get the car but not by any magical means. Her fiance who lived in the UK arrived to visit her in Ireland with a lovely newish car and told her he bought it for her, she was absolutely thrilled and then found out he'd used the money they (she, in reality) had saved towards her move to the UK and the wedding as the down-payment and there were monthly payments due!! When she told me all this I advised she send the car back with him but she wouldn't hear of it. She also had to pay VRT (Vehicle Registration Tax) to keep the car in Ireland and she only had part time work so every spare cent went on paying for the car. That's years ago, she's still driving the car but the 'generous' fiance is long gone. Maybe she'd have been better off manifesting a decent fella who wouldn't spend her saving without her knowledge.

If you believe in it, you'll see every outcome as evidence it works. Get that the big job, and yay, it's worked. Don't get the job and it's because you're being guided away from it and the universe wants you to continue working in Costa.

So it would be my fault for not thinking magically enough to cure me of a genetic autoimmune disease? Are parents whose children have cancer causing it from their thoughts or failing to think them better?

As for that bloke - you are talking about making it obvious you're up for a shag and dressing it up as what would be described historically as either prayer or witchcraft. If he's not remotely interested, which is likely if you've been hovering around for years, the only thing you could be about to manifest is a court order to stay away.

That sound suspiciously like magical thinking.

You have not willed yourself into good health, you've just not had anything happen that happens to people every day - viruses, bacterial infections, broken bones, cancers, the list goes on. You cannot pray or positive think your way out of something medical.

Well if manifesting means focussing on, planning and taking solid undistracted action, then yes I do believe in it.

If it just means willing or daydreaming about something, then no. It's bollocks.

I do gratitude practise and I absolutely believe in it. I was in a bad place a few years ago and it's changed my life. It's nothing fancy or difficult.

No but there are many posters who believed it in the past when this question was asked.

Interesting point about living as a healthy person.

So if you are down about being overweight, you think “I’m overweight and unhappy about it. I might as well eat this second donut as I’m already overweight and it will cheer me up”

But if you believe you are a healthy person you think “I’m a healthy person, a healthy person doesn’t eat a second donut”. And you go for a run instead because that’s what healthy people do.

I like it,

Not sure it will win me the lottery though,

How ?

Manifesting is not about magic. It's not about winning the lottery or magicking away a genetic disease. It's about being intentional about the life you want to live and making choices and taking up opportunities that get you there.

@Ohrightyho the example you've given there about living as a healthy person is exactly it. It's not about saying it's your fault if you have a disease or illness, it's about saying if I want to live as well as I can, I am going to make choices and approach my life with an attitude that helps me to do that.

It's not about denying reality or wishful thinking. It's about taking control of your thought patterns, being aware of how we can often sabotage ourselves, and being more aware of and open to opportunities presented to us that will allow us to move towards our goals.

If the goal is to be a millionaire, relying on winning the lottery would not be a useful manifestation. That would be passive. Manifestation is about being active. What can you do to get that million pounds? Which people would you need to meet, what jobs might you need to retrain for, what opportunities might you need to say yes to, what courses might you need to take and so on - and then you get started on the road towards your goal, rather than buying a lottery ticket and hoping your numbers will get picked.

Edited to add - a lot of people never get what they want because they tell themselves they don't deserve it, they'll never get it, they're not good enough, it's impossible, etc. So they don't try. And then their lack of achievement in that area perpetuates that thought cycle.

If we want a new job but we don't believe we'll get one, and so don't apply for any, then guess what - we won't get a new job.

If we want to earn more money but we don't do anything about improving our skills, networking with the right people, diversifying our income stream or adjusting our work habits - then guess what - our income doesn't change.

Manifestation is all about telling yourself you do deserve it, you can get it, and then actively doing things to move you towards achieving what you want.

I once heard a podcast with a TV writer talking about how they manifested a certain guest star.

What that actually meant was, she wrote a character with that guest star in mind, made contact with the agent, etc. So she didn't just say "I want X to appear on the show", and wait for them to turn up to set one day, she actively pursued it, while not making it a deal breaker for her show.

Well you start very simply by saying thank you for ten things you're thankful for every morning, and before you go to bed. And then when you need something you focus on the gratitude for the thing as if you already have it whether its money or health or whatever it might be. You be thankful for it as if you already have it.
I listened to The Magic by Rhonda Byrne (audiobook) and I loved it. You listen to a chapter a day and it will give you exercises to do each day. If you have spotify/audible it should be on there.

Yes! That’s exactly as I see it and do it. In the same way if you go to the gym you see yourself as ‘healthy’ so are less likely to grab a McDonalds on the way home.
That’s is very simplistic, I know. I don’t think you can manifest your way out of illness like another poster suggested you should be able to ‘if it worked’ however I also lived with chronic illness and my mindset of healing, doing what I can with what I have etc has really helped me. If I focused on the illness I think it would have been different.

Hope so I am manifesting a lotto win but then it hasn't happened yet so maybe it is a pile of bullshit.