Manifestation has become all the rage in recent years as people try to will a positive lifestyle into reality just by thinking about it. People claim that they have used it for any number of things including healing themselves or becoming millionaires.
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In the name of science, I’ve tried out a lot of manifestation techniques over the years and these are the things that appeared to work. Or, at the very least, helped me find some inner peace.
Having a bath
Stay with me for this one but I’ve found having a bath can help clear my mind. I try to have a bath twice a week, on a Friday and Saturday night. I don’t take my phone with me, I use a good quality bath salt or bath bomb. I take a drink of water and something with alcohol (a cold beer is always nice). I lie in the water for 20 minutes with my eyes shut and think of nothing. This is my *full stop* and *end of* for the week. Everything stops. I might put on some meditation music but my phone stays out of my hand. The added bonus to having a bath like this is that it helps relax muscles, ease aches and pains, and helps remove dead skin and dirt that you might have missed in the shower every morning. It sounds gross, it kind of is, however, having a bath helps to cleanse your mind, body and soul. All of which is essential for manifestation.
CBD before bed
The inner chatter that comes with living in this society, especially as a working mum, can cause massive internal chatter. I first discovered CBD when I grabbed a random bag of bath salts when I was shopping. When I put them in the bath, I didn’t think much of it. They couldn’t be that great, could they? That night, I had one of the most relaxing baths I’ve ever had. Since then, I’ve tried to use high quality CBD in different forms. My favourites so far are bathing using CBD bath salts or bath bombs twice a week, and having a CBD drink before bed every night. Again, the drink was something random that I picked up shopping but worked wonders on my mental chatter at bedtime. This in turn helped me sleep, eased the worries I had, and helped me focus on what I wanted to do and what is important in my life. If manifestation is about positive chatter and thoughts, using CBD can help quieten the mental noise so that you can focus on the things you want to create in this reality.
Breath through your heart
I was strolling on TikTok one night and came across a video from Michael Manifestation (search @sleepfix on there for his videos) and he was talking about how to breath through your heart to help find inner peace and manifest your desires. In one of his videos, he talks about an ancient Taoist technique for feeling good called “Heart Mind Meditation”. This breathing technique which he describes is supposed to help clear your mind and help bring positive emotions to the front of your mind instead of having negative worries taking up your attention. His recommendation is that you do this technique for 15 minutes at a time, and try to do it at least three times a day. Using this technique, it has helped me focus on what is happening now, not the problems or worries that might happen. Once you get the hang of it, it is easy to pull out of your back pocket when you feel overrun with negative emotions.
Trust your intuition
Recently I started a course Flow With Wisdom and found it very helpful when it came to trusting the process. Within the course, there is a range of meditations and inner work that you go through. One of the guided meditations helped me realise how I have reacted or felt when it has come to life changing circumstances. For example, when I pitched my idea for my book, I felt nothing. It was like making a cup of tea. It just happened. The flip side of this is when I buy a lottery ticket, I get a feeling in my stomach just below my ribs. I’m told this is my Solar Plexus Chakra. Understanding this feeling, and combining it with the breathing technique I just mentioned, I felt more at peace, had a clearer mind about what I want, and have more focus in the day.
Get clear on what you want
This might sound stupid but most people don’t know what they want. A lot of people love their jobs but they just want to be paid better for them so that they can live rather than survive. Maybe you want a million quid to drop into your account, but what are you doing with it? It’s enough to buy a house and you might have enough to redo it the way that you want, however, what is left over will not be enough to live on every month. And even if you did have enough, you would get lonely. Speaking as someone who worked from home for several years, it can be lonely, and work is a great way (sometimes the only way) for adults to make new friends. Besides, success comes in many different forms. You need to work out what it means to you. Would winning the lottery mean success? Maybe, maybe not. Get clear with what you want, why you want it, and start your process from there.
Make your space work for you
The place that you live in is your personal castle. That castle might be a flat or an actual castle. It doesn’t matter. what does matter is that your castle is clean, everything has a place, and it works for your current needs. Sure, you might want a country cabin with a stream and no neighbours for miles around when you win the lottery, but there is no reason why you can’t turn your current home into the place of your dreams. If you have a landlord, you should check with them before you change anything, and if they say no, you need to work around it. This can be as simple as keeping the place clean, fresh bed sheets once a week, your wi-fi connection is good, and making sure that the fridge has been stocked. Make your home your own little castle, a small fraction of your desire, and your life will flow a lot easier.
And there you have it, some of the manifestation techniques I have used over the years that I have had various levels of success with. Try them out for a month, see how you get on, and let me know in the comments if you have manifested the life of your dreams.