Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself, “What do you want?”, “What makes your heart soar?” Maybe you’ve been seeking a higher power, or you’ve been wanting more abundance in life, a fulfilling career, better health, supportive relationships, or anything at all. Everyone has their own dreams and desires. A manifestation is taking those dreams, wishes, and desires and putting them into your physical reality through your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. In other words, whatever you focus on is what you are bringing into your reality. This is based on the Law of Attraction, which states that maintaining positive energy will bring about positive things in your life, and maintaining negative energy has the power of manifesting negativity in your life. There are various ways to practice manifestation, such as through meditation, visualization, journaling, or through your conscious or subconscious. Our dreams and desires inspire us to grow spiritually and give us a sense of purpose in our lives. This highlights the importance of learning how to manifest your dreams and desires.
Here are some examples of manifestation methods that you can utilize on your spiritual journey:
- Vision Board: These are great tools for visual learners as a visual tool to capture the big picture of their life. Typical supplies you’ll need will vary according to the person, but a large sheet of heavy-weight paper, a corkboard, magazines, flyers, other print materials, scissors, glue, and writing tools will work best. In order to craft your dream board, take a few moments to mindfully reflect upon what it is you yearn to experience in this life. Consider the place you yearn to call home, the people you wish to have in your life, and the activities you wish to pursue. Allow your mind to expand as far as possible as you begin scrapbooking its words and images onto paper.
- Intention Journal: If you have found yourself dissatisfied with your life, it may be because you are living without realizing you haven’t consciously and affirmatively expressed your intent for something different. In your journal, make a list of three to five things you intend to do within the day (or during the following day if you are writing at night). An intention journal can be used once a day, once a week, or once a month, and your intentions can be either specific or broad, such as going on a run or completing a big assignment you’ve been procrastinating. Not only is this a good way of keeping yourself accountable, but it helps to ensure that your intentions are aligned with your highest values.
- Gratitude Journal: It can be easy to focus on the aspects of life that we are lacking or feeling unsatisfied with. However, a conscious shift in our focus can help inspire positive thinking and future manifestations. A gratitude journal is one way to become more aware of the abundance you are already blessed with. You might consider making this a nightly or weekly practice.To do so, take a few minutes before bed to write down five to ten things that you are grateful to have embodied or experienced during the day. If bedtime journaling is difficult for you, you can substitute this practice with a moment of appreciative silence instead.
- Manifestation Affirmations: Positive affirmations are a very powerful way of reprogramming our subconscious mind. It is a strategy that involves going beyond our conditioned beliefs that already exist and making an effort to move beyond them. By doing this, we can begin to instill empowering beliefs in the form of manifestation affirmations. The affirmations you choose should resonate strongly with your highest self. A few examples include, “I am continually learning, growing, and evolving.”, “I open my heart to the world with trust and faith.”, and “I am enough. I forgive myself. All I need is within me now.” You can repeat your positive affirmations during meditation or as you drift to sleep.
- Positive Networking: An important yet underrated part of manifestation stems from the environments we find ourselves in and the people who we engage with in these environments. The key to success is maintaining positive, inspiring networks of people that can applaud you and further push you in your efforts at manifesting your dreams. In one way or another, we become just like the people we hang around with, and they become more like us. If you are serious about manifesting your dreams, it is important to This serves as a reminder to be more conscious of the people we are around, the environments we work in, and the conversations we are a part of.
