Expanded guide on how I started manifesting more consistently - 11 minutes read
I realized after a few messages since my last guide that it might be not as clear as I thought it was... Apparently just giving the instructions isn't enough, there needs to be a complementary explanation.
I'm going to show you exactly how I went from scratch to manifesting consistently. I just want more people to stop suffering and saying the LOA 'doesn't work'. Just allow me 10 minutes, and if you read through this guide, you won't regret it. I've had many friends, family members, and acquaintances tell me how it's worked incredibly well.
I need to warn you that this is not a quick fix. You cannot possibly build the ability to manifest overnight, even though it's a "natural" ability. There are simply too many bad habits that we have incurred since birth. It takes time to remove them. Habits don't break easily until they're at least past day 60.
The main problem here with many beginners is that they take the teachings of LOA and immediately try to apply them, without understanding the mechanism of how it works.
I will use the metaphor of a Professional Football player and a beginner player. The professional can tell the player his "tricks" but he cannot tell the beginner player about his experience and practice that has led to his current skill level. What a bad beginner player will do, is try to incorporate all of these "tricks" and try to play professionally. The result? Well, there might be some hits... but the majority of the time, it's a huge miss, because the beginner didn't have a foundation in the first place.
Similarly, there are many people out there who have gotten good at manifesting things (These are Professional Football players). I for one, have managed to get things manifested extremely quickly with at least, I daresay, a 70-90% success rate.
For many other people out there who have never gotten anything to manifest at Will, you would be functioning at a Beginner level. What many people do is they start reading the advice of "Professionals" and try to implement things like Specificity, affirmations, etc. (It's not wrong. There's a reason why people are saying they work! I'll show you in a minute.) It works to "improve the specificity" of the result, but what happens is that the beginner loses his/her foundation to manifest because he/she doesn't start from the ground up.
The foundations to manifesting are very, very simple:
- An extremely focused Will when manifesting.
- An extremely clear Will when NOT manifesting.
Simple, but definitely not easy.
The concepts of many things are simple, but mastery is hard. I myself, cannot say that I've mastered the LOA because if I had, I would be averaging at a 99% success rate at least. The fact that I'm losing that tiny percentage means that I'm still lacking practice (and you will be able to tell too).
When I talk about "Will", I define it as such: Attention given to thought. Many people might talk about having a "strong Will" - but what that means is not that the Will is stronger. It just means that the Will is of higher clarity, away from the "noise" of other thoughts.
The ONLY way to achieve such acuity in focus? Meditation. I cannot stress this enough. Meditation. It's CRUCIAL. I really cannot stress this enough. People read this and think, oh, meditation, and they start walking away for a different quick fix.
Why meditation? Isn't meditation just sitting down and doing nothing? How does that even help anything?
I would like you to sit down now, close your eyes and try to focus on the tip of your nose. If within 10 minutes, you are able to NOT have your mind wander to ANY thought, I will say that you have a decent level of concentration. My mind used to flicker every 30 seconds, and now, I am able to sustain my concentration for at least 60 minutes before any thoughts arise.
What does this tell you about the mind? When untrained, the mind is like a monkey. It jumps around from branch to branch, from thought to thought. You are merely a "puppet" of it. You thought you "think"? Well, no. The mind controls you if you do not tame the mind. Yes, the brain is part of your body, you own your body... But think about it - Where did you learn everything from? Where did your identity even come from? Your "I" is a complex of imitations, emulations and adaptations.
Now here comes the million-dollar question: How do you possibly have a focused Will if you cannot control your mind?
The following paragraph is going to be a little difficult to understand and it is about how I've realized the mind creates manifestations, so if you have difficulty understanding, just skip this paragraph and just remember that negligence is not bliss.
Here is the layout of any origin of effect: Negligence > Subconscious habits > Consciousness > Concepts & Definitions > Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Feel, Thought > Interaction > Emotion > Attachment/Feedback > Realization/Attraction/Formation > Manifestation -> Decay/Flux. The bad effect from this is due to our limited human thinking - we "freeze-frame" concepts and this causes things to not be perceived in their actual reality - instead, it becomes a "picture" in the mind... That of the past. If you understood this paragraph, you're probably on to a high level of understanding the LOA. :)
I'm going to summarize it up lay-man and say that in order to change the Without, we must change the Within. Here are the steps for meditation I used:
(0) Sit in any position that allows you to have comfort. I prefer sitting lotus pose, but you can certainly sit in a chair. Make sure it's not too comfy to the point where you can fall asleep. Spine upright, yet back muscles relaxed. Shoulders, neck, arms, legs, and trunk muscles all relaxed. Eyes closed but not shut forcefully tight.
(1) Choose an object of attention. I used the breath. You can use a sound or even a mantra. Anything that you can focus on at the expense of everything else is good.
(2) Choose a focal point of this object of attention. For the breath, I usually focus either on the feelings at the tip of my nose or the diaphragmatic level.
(3) Focus all your attention on this focal point. Nothing else. If you're new to this, try it for 60 breath cycles. Then go to 120 breath cycles. Then go to 240 cycles. Each time a thought springs out, just simply reset the count and start from zero. Your goal is to reach at least 500 uninterrupted cycles.
Note: If you're having problems getting rid of thoughts, then you need to understand the meaning of "Resistance is insistence". Instead, accept them, treat them like passing clouds. Pay no attention to them, and just focus on putting your attention on your focal point. It's hard at first, but believe me, after practice, it gets much, much better.
(4) Do this every day. Set aside 15 minutes. If you have problems in your head, just write them down on a piece of paper and imagine dropping every burden you have in the day on this paper. Resume them only after your meditation. Set an alarm clock if you're afraid of exceeding the time or falling asleep (that may happen if you're too sleep-deprived).
(5) You can reach higher levels when first, you have reached at least 1000 counts, and you realize your breath is getting too shallow (it normally gets shallower as you increase in focus) by switching your object of attention from something physical to something more mental. For example, I switch my focus from my breath to the pleasant sensations tingling in my hands or in my head. Since they are more "mental" in nature, these things can "expand" when you focus on them. Do not be overwhelmed. Many people snap out of this state because of fear. The way to get past it is to continuously practice it because fear comes from the unknown. This might also be called a "Jhanic" state in yoga. Just keep in mind that it is the same thing as the first object of attention, though it has switched from a physical focus to a mental focus.
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What meditation does is that train your mind to be able to clean itself of unwanted thoughts. You start to tame the monkey's mind and force him to do what YOU want. Here is what you can do with a tamed mind:
- You can keep your mind away from negative habitual thoughts consciously and subconsciously.
- You can change your habits more easily because you have a higher sense of concentration and control over your mind.
- Every thought you produce is now of "strong Will", because of the higher clarity there is.
- If you are meditating to even higher levels, you might experience some effects like "intuition" or what some people might label as ESP.
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Next, now that you've gotten a huge advantage by clearing your mind and getting control over it, you need to do some cleaning of your bad mental habits. This might include things like... No self-confidence easily stressed personalities, etc. The biggest problematic one? The lack of belief in being able to manifest.
To tackle this, make sure you already have control over your mind.
What you're going to do now is to write a Journal. This is going to be a record of what manifestations you have made in response to things you have thought of.
We always manifest things but we don't realize it. I call this phenomenon "Chaotic Manifestation". Our mind springs things up spontaneously, and suddenly you might find that it manifests later on. You didn't think too much of it, but it manifested! What's going on?
Since the mind isn't tamed well, it jumps around. When it jumps around, it has perfect freedom to manifest random things. Sometimes, it helps to manifest things you've been thinking about the whole day. It can help solve problems. But essentially, the subconscious mind is a pattern-seeker. Your conscious mind is the real decision-maker, don't let the subconscious do whatever it wants!
A perfect example of it: A beginner tries to manifest a car. He uses affirmations and tries to visualize the car in his head. Sure, he seems to be able to visualize the car. To start with, his concentration is poor. It's like a low-quality television screen, where there's noise flickering around, and many other thoughts bouncing around in the same mental screen. When he's done visualizing, he might try to forget it. But he can't! So he worries about it, thinks about it, and wonders, "Will this really work? Why isn't it happening? No, I need to believe, I need to believe..." But this stems from insecurity! The emotions say: I don't believe! You can fool the world, you can even fool yourself, but you cannot fool your subconscious mind. As a result? He doesn't manifest! Or maybe... by the time his affirmations "sink in" into his subconscious and make him believe, it'll be 20 years before he gets his car.
The aim of this journal is to slowly convince your subconscious. The gatekeeper to the subconscious is logically based, but it can get by when it sees proof. Write down the food you manifested, the people you manifested, etc. There's a list of easy things to manifest in the old post I made, also found in the wiki.
Make it a daily thing and the rate of manifestation will speed up, or you're going to see that the effects slow down. I think this is because the subconscious gets into that strong belief that you're manifesting things and it causes a positive feedback loop. When I first wrote this, I was astounded. It went from half a page to 1 page to 2 pages and now I'm writing at least 7 pages worth of pure manifestations and they aren't minor manifestations.
Like I tell a lot of people, just give it a 60-day try. If it doesn't work for you by then, then it's simple. It's free anyway. You'll still get all the health benefits from meditation. But it's much more likely to work if you're following the steps to a T. Good luck!