How does manifestation work?

The secret to manifesting your best life is having a growth mindset.

The idea of manifesting one’s reality through the power of positive thinking has catapulted into popular culture over the last few years, taking personal growth and self-improvement narratives by storm. Influencers, intellectuals, skeptics and everyone in between knows someone whose claimed to have changed their life simply through setting intentions and “manifesting” them. So, is manifesting really as magical as it sounds? Or, is it just another trend that been co-opted by a white-washed wellness movement and the shiniest iteration of new age spiritualism?

Manifesting your reality is not magical thinking, its scientific.

To be more precise, the transformative power of manifesting is neurobiological. It is psychological, and it is phenomenological. Anyone can experience the seismic shift in reality that occurs when you realize you’ve done it – You’ve somehow managed to accomplish your goals, manifesting the life you’ve always wanted. Usually, this shift is so incremental that you’ve barely even noticed your change of direction until that seismic moment.

I promise you… One day, you will look back and be grateful for how far you’ve come. But first, you must believe that you deserve success, because you do. ⁣ You must have faith in your limitless potential above all else in order for manifesting to work its “magic”.

⁣Manifesting is not some magical mechanism the Universe only bestows on the blessed few that have the fortitude to force themselves to constantly “think positively”. ⁣You don’t need to invalidate your feelings or experiences by constantly confining your perspective to adhere to any type of toxic positivity ideal. ⁣

Positive thinking is not the key to manifesting your dreams. Rather, manifesting the life you deserve requires adopting a growth mindset. Wait, did I just swap one generic self-improvement buzzword with another? Maybe. But, not quite.

At it’s core, having a growth mindset simply means believing in yourself and your infinite potential as an ever-evolving being. ⁣

⁣It’s not as psychedelic as it sounds. Adopting a growth mindset is as simple as choosing to view your mistakes as lessons, instead of failures. Every mistake you make or moment of failure you endure, rather than perceiving them as fatalistic, intentionally choose to view them as nothing more than opportunities to learn and grow. Most important, be grateful for these opportunities.

Every failure is a learning opportunity. Learning leads to growth. Growth results in more opportunities. Gaining new opportunities is success in itself, but they will inevitably lead to more failures.

So, you must choose to be grateful for your mistakes, because they inevitably lead to your future success. Now, read that again.

⁣Every failure is a learning opportunity. Learning leads to personal and professional growth, which in turn, creates more opportunities.

While gaining new opportunities is a form of success in itself, they will inevitably lead to more “failures” as you traverse into new territory, finding your footing. But, that’s a good thing. Always be grateful for your mistakes, because ultimately, they lead to your eventual success.

When you start reframing challenges and setbacks as nothing more than opportunities to learn and grow, miraculous things start happening in your life… but it’s not magic. It’s neuroplasticity.

⁣Adopting a growth mindset retrains your brain to seek out and accept the possibility of opportunities existing where you never would have seen them before, because you wouldn’t have thought them even possible.

Eventually, you start seeing opportunities everywhere you look, and as a result, you take advantage of them. ⁣

⁣Suddenly, every decision you make becomes centered on building the life that you’ve always wanted. You believe that achieving your wildest dreams is possible, because you’ve accepted the reality of your limitless potential. ⁣In a short time, you will start to see, take and ultimately grow from opportunities that did not exist in your world before, simply because you didn’t believe they were there. But, these opportunities were always there… you were just blinded by self-doubt and your fear of failure.

Perhaps I am just projecting here, but to me, the fundamental reason why many people never reach their goals is simply because they didn’t truly believe they deserved them. So, they barely even bothered trying.

In order to manifest your dreams, above all else, you must believe that you deserve success.

Before you write this statement off as ridiculous, ask yourself: Have you ever stopped yourself from doing something you wanted to do, or from going after an opportunity, because you came up with some excuse about it not working out, anyway? If so, you’ve been the victim of your own self-sabotage, rooted in the belief that you don’t deserve happiness or success.

Once you’ve adopted a growth mindset, it won’t be long until a snowball effect occurs, in which every opportunity gained leads to another, and another. As long as you put in the work, forgive yourself and learn from every mistake you make, growth inevitably follows suit. Before you know it, you’re living the kind of life that you used to dream about. You’ve slowly, steadily created the life you always wanted, because now, you believe that you deserve it. This is how the magic and science of manifestation really works.

Manifestation simply mirrors your own power back to you.

In conclusion, to start manifesting your dream life, you must do the following:

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Believe you deserve happiness and success, because you do.

Perhaps I am just projecting here, but to me, the fundamental reason why most people never reach their goals is simply because they didn’t fully believe they deserved them. So, they barely even bothered trying. You must undo whatever self-limiting beliefs are preventing you from committing to your goals, and have faith in your limitless potential in order for manifesting to work its “magic”.

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Be grateful for your mistakes.

Mistakes are an essential catalyst for learning, and learning is growth. The more mistakes you make, the more you are learning, the more you are growing. If you maintain a grateful attitude towards your mistakes and intentionally do your best to learn from them instead of avoid their fallout, your only trajectory is upwards. Every mistake leads you closer to success.

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Adopt a growth mindset.

Adopting a growth mindset retrains your brain to seek out and accept the possibility of opportunities existing where you never would have seen them before, because you wouldn’t have thought them even possible.