Week 1 – Manifest Success Testimony Tuesday
So, what does this all mean and how can I use it to succeed?
Practicing and integrating manifestation into your daily routine will increase your chances of living a happy and successful life tailored to your own wants and needs. I first learned about manifestation through the movie documentary “The Secret,” which teaches you how to manifest the life you want through visualization techniques, paying attention to the signs in the universe, and going after the things you desire without hesitation or fear.
Personally, I practice manifestation with everything I do now-a-days, from parking my car to finding impossible doctor appointments to purchasing my dream home in a tropical vacation destination. Manifestation has helped me overcome fear and doubt, by turning my thoughts into actions and my actions into the results I desire. By visualizing the things I want, I start with the end goal in mind, and picture all the micro-steps I need to take to turn that vision into reality, doing whatever it takes to complete the steps one-by-one until I reach my goal. Once I reach a goal, I immediately start visualizing my next so I don’t remain stuck in my own glory. Inaction is an action itself, and a dangerous one to get stuck in.
I teach manifestation during my groups as a Licensed Addiction Counselor, and have clients make vision boards to display in their room for inspiration. A vision board is a group of pictures and/or sayings that represent the things you want in life. For example, an old vision board of mine had pictures of a balcony overlooking water and beaches with white sand and turquoise waters. Now, I live on the second floor overlooking a bayou with dolphins and manatees in my backyard and can walk to white sand beaches with picturesque turquoise water.
So, how did I make my vision board into reality? Hard work, resilience, pain, loneliness, tears, frustration, despair, and grit. Not the answer you were hoping for? For most people, the easy answer is the best answer. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s that nothing comes without a price. If you want to achieve success, you need to sacrifice your time and reprioritize your commitments. If you want to stay stagnant, you can keep dreaming without action. You appreciate the things you work the hardest for, so the harder you work the more gratitude you acquire in the process.
Using the core principles of manifestation, anyone can achieve what I have achieved. I don’t have skills or resources or talent that brought me here, I have the belief that I am enough, and I can do whatever I put my mind to. Those thoughts weren’t automatic in my head growing up, quite the opposite in fact. Growing up, I was taught to believe that I was not enough and did not deserve to be happy or have nice things. Without the help of my friends and colleagues throughout the years, I never could have broken free of those inner voices and external influences telling me I wasn’t good enough.
How you talk to yourself matters, and who you talk to matters. There have been plant studies where the only difference between 2 plants is how they are spoken to. Every time, the plant that is given love and encouragement thrives and the plant that receives discipline and harsh words dies. That’s not a coincidence, and the human mind/body connection isn’t that different. Everything on this Earth is made of energy and is felt on a cosmic level.
The energy you put out is the energy you attract, so make sure the energy you are emitting is the same energy you are looking for. The core principles of manifestation are: 1) Energy flows where attention goes, 2) Like attracts like, and 3) Thought + Emotion + Action = Manifestation. This means positive thoughts and ideas create a life you desire while negative thoughts and ideas create a life of chaos and uncertainty. We only have one celestial life to live, and nobody is going to live it for us. Life happens to us, not for us or against us. Use manifestation to create the life you want to be living and see how your future comes alive in the moment.
The steps you can take to manifest success include setting your intentions, believing it’s possible, visualizing daily, taking constant action, releasing resistance, and staying grateful. Each of those steps is expanded on during Fact Friday, with a step-by-step guide on how to manifest success in your own life. Because everyone’s “dream life” looks different depending on where you came from, where you want to go, and what you want your life to look like.
For instance, my son would never manifest a life in Florida because he hates the heat and loves snow mobiles. My daughter hates the cold and loves the beach, so Florida is something she is manifesting as we speak. She plans to attend college here next year and is working very hard to make her dream a reality with school and extracurricular activities. My son is working equally hard, and just bought his first house in Minnesota after becoming the youngest supervisor at a large courier company. I am just as proud of both kids for following their own path to manifest the life they want, not the life other people want for them. Hopefully everyone reading this can create the life they want and deserve as well.
Do what you love and leave the rest. You are worth it!