1. Introduction

At its core, the concept of manifesting is grounded in tradition - the spiritual, religious, scientific, and cultural roots of all humanity. It reflects theories espoused by timeless traditions and cultures and explains why generations of people live in varied degrees of happiness or unhappiness. And in recent years, the art of manifesting has been in the spotlight, commanding attention as people have become more driven and less trapped. After all, to manifest change in your life is to be fully conscious, fully responsible for one's own intent. Practice this action to reveal the thrill awaiting at the crossroads of self-belief, self-worth, and ultimate enlightenment.

Manifesting is a superpower that lies within each of us. It’s our ability to bring our deepest desires to life. While not everyone understands the meaning of manifestation, it’s something everyone does, whether consciously or unconsciously. Manifestation, at its core, is based on the Law of Attraction, which states that whatever your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve. Everyone's always manifesting at all times whether willingly or unwillingly. In fact, manifestation is such a powerful concept that people often link it to other non-scientific phenomena like superstitions, voodoo, and "the secret." But the truth is you won't need to apply for membership in the secret society or to enroll in a manifestation course.

1.1. Definition of Manifestation

Can I make what I want show up just by the power of thought? This is a frequently asked question. The short answer is no - followed by a big yes! If the thought is spiritually based, maintained by belief, action, patience, the overcoming of doubts, fear and opposition, then next is the long answer - yes. The question now left is what is the right way to turn a mere thought into reality. There are those who say that if what you desire financially does not align with your values or morals it will have less of a chance of manifesting. There must be a genuine passion in your desire and it should not only be to solve a problem for yourself but the problem of others in your world, country or globally. The best kind of success is one that comes from a place of passion.

The most suitable explanation I recently learned from reading two books titled "Infinite You" and "Becoming Supernatural" is that a thought we bring into focus or visualize until it becomes our reality, a literal material fact in our lives. It can also be the process of 'attracting' what it is we really desire. Some would say that there is no such thing as separate minds, one human separate from another human's mind, that there is only one mind and all humans are using the collective mind of thoughts to create their lives together.

2. The Science Behind Manifestation

In Eastern thought, this contradiction does not occur. In some Eastern traditions, consciousness or energy is said to thread through every living thing, creating our essence or life force. As a result, human beings consist of body, mind, and spirit, each interconnected and equally powerful. In other Eastern traditions, however, the center is not viewed as the source of human consciousness, but as part of a larger entity. In some spiritual traditions, individuals learn how to manipulate these connections to create specific effects such as telekinesis, clairvoyance, astral projection, instant healing, or other not yet understood phenomena. In the West, these abilities fall under the heading of metaphysical phenomenon. While metaphysical phenomenon involves the manipulation of consciousness or energy, our knowledge's current limits curtail our abilities' successful explanation or understanding.

Long before modern-day science, scholars and philosophers attempted to understand human consciousness. For centuries, they sought answers, bridging the gap between tangible and untouchable forces. In the process, these individuals explored and debated concepts that many still struggle to agree upon today. Though the focus began with understanding and explaining the essence of human existence, the field of consciousness evolved. Today, researchers use dualistic concepts to explain the connection between the human brain and the mind. Although an explanation's creation may fill a gap, it also creates a problem: determining if consciousness or specific human abilities developed first, or if the elements developed in parallel.

2.1. Law of Attraction

Imagine a big universal map or a ledger, which has different paths leading up to what we want and what we don't. Every path has an invisible scale to measure which route you are feeding your thoughts to. The more you think about something, the heavier the scale on that side will be. In the same way, other scales begin to weigh down slowly as your brain gives equal importance to these particular thoughts. Consequently, these thoughts powerfully manifest as experiences. The challenge we all face is to keep our thoughts under control and unwavering from what we want and not what we don't want. You may believe it or not, but this invisible ledger is working all the time and can be easily influenced by how passionately you believe in the theory.

The simplistic definition of the Law of Attraction (LoA) could be understood as 'like attracts like.' The concept of the LoA goes beyond that of magnetic attraction. You draw what you want rather than what you don't want into your life based on what you are focusing on. Our mental state at that moment creates a vibration which aligns with something similar which is already present or about to take place. Moreover, the universe doesn't differentiate between ideas of what we want to bring into your life and what you don't. It just focuses on what you were thinking or expressing about. You attract more of what you are giving your focus on.

3. Techniques for Manifestation

Feng Shui is a Chinese art that can be used in supporting manifestation. This ancient art states that in order for good chi or good energy to flow, you need to clear out your house or workspace. Clutter is energy that is stuck. Where energy is stagnant, so will the manifestation be. This is a good way to use your natural environment to support your goals. The great thing about your environment is that it can be used to support your goals all the time without effort on your part. Just do it once, and it is always out there working for you. Feng Shui can do so much in enhancing your energy and creating the life that you envision and ultimately create your dreams.

Moving on, if you want to manifest, there are many methods. You can write out your goal every single day. You can carry a picture of your goal with you and look at it all the time. You can even use your computer and set up a goal screen saver on your computer. You can do affirmations to support your goal. If it is a material item, you can put a picture of it on the back of your bedroom door and see it before you go to bed and when you wake up. There are different methods, and you have to experiment to find the one that works best for you. Just make sure that you use repetition. The more you use repetition, the quicker your goal will manifest. You need to have an absolute knowing that your goal will manifest in order for it to come true.

3.1. Visualization

During training at the many commercial seminars all around the world where people get acquainted not only with the basics of the Silva Method of Mind Control, Autosuggestion, and related macroprograms, the main drawback of manifestation - to put it in valid, more customary and wide terms compared to the debate on hypnosis - gets known and encountered. People share their opinions, argue, and invent various abstruse laws concerning visible and hidden consequences of wishful thinking. While some people are always in undue hurry to call down a curse on their enemies, the others try to visualize their friends surreptitiously, to cheat them, or even to somehow force them to behave at least exactly in the desired way. You certainly would agree that in the case of such raising the dead or trying to call a halt on all known others, the secret laws should work in reversed fashion. No joking apart, visualization, if performed jointly with suggestion, creates a path of change not only for oneself. Nuancing these meaningful laws leads to two enlightening points: that, as deeper levels are being explained and Higher Selves are being invoked, the human factor edges slightly towards the receivership, and that these levels do their utmost in work, for they can easily distinguish between the right and the wrong. And therefore, before accepting and welcoming generally recognized vanity as the primary distinct urbane mind potential effectuator, let us subject to a mature discussion the nature as well as the literary and historical parentage of the assertion that "what you think upon grows!"

A popular approach in harnessing the power of the subconscious, and only by extension that of the superego or Higher Self, in order to create pathways for change, as it were, is the one called visualization. This method is employed in various forms, starting with simple preparation for a significant day or successful performance in an important task, and ending with picturing a recovery from severe illness. Whenever the targeted goal is "at some point in time or space" in the future, the method can work - but it is normally a long-term one by its very nature, since it does not involve material a person should acquire or direct deeds to perform other than such that would help channel his thought on the chosen Inner Supreme Value. What is meant by planning, is neither prerequisites for success, destined across repetitions of the visualization until it finally materializes; material conduct, nor routine practice in itself; rather, it is the structuring process inherent in each particular individual step towards the intended there-and-then.

4. Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them

Another major block to benefiting from manifestation is giving undue attention to the concept of deserving. This is not really what manifestation is all about. In the universe created and overseen by the divine, there is no idea of needing to deserve or earning the good things in life. There are no moral qualities assigned to what one attracts to oneself. Good and abundance are the birthrights of every living creature. It is inherent within the truth that a person or living thing is always a part of the universe and can never be separated from it. Many who follow spiritual paths look upon a state of continuous manifestation of happiness and good fortune with skepticism. It is only to be expected if you're not seeing the divine laws that run the universe at a deeper level. Don't allow negative thought or responsibility to deflect the blessings away from your person. After all, we're playing on a level field. No one person or living thing is higher than another. Only through levels of awareness and gained wisdom does one alleviate oneself, but everyone can be whatever they believe themselves to be that adheres to the collective whole.

There are a few major pitfalls with the use of the manifestation principles in your life. Many people see the idea of becoming a co-creator with the universe as a type of "blank check" that they can continuously draw from. While this is true, many have difficulty in keeping the focus on what they really want. They get stuck around the things that they don't want in their lives. Or they focus too much on the time when their manifestation will happen. This wealth of outcomes will only put the brakes on your forward progress because these types of thoughts are incompatible with the attitude that allows highest good to find you. One must understand that time is often an arbitrary dimension. We live in a world of past, present, and future solely to maintain order. Should the idea of Zeno's paradox of infinite divisibility is true, the present moment continually moves towards the future without ever reaching it.

Manifestation Pitfalls Loom Large

4.1. Limiting Beliefs

We are all possessing of natural laws that are governed by the universe within which we exist. A primary mental rule, which is like a repetitive hammer to your psyche, functions to create self-censorship of your possibilities for the future. Mental fatigue from acting as your inner critic is inevitable. We do not desire to be average. However, we have ingrained outdated mental filters that limit our sense of possibility and conspire to hold us back. Have you ever been unable to reach a "stretch" goal, not because you were not willing to underperform, but rather because someone, who was likely close to you, overperformed you right out of individual competition?

Think of manifesting in the same way that you would think of dreaming about the future, or hoping or praying for a particular outcome. When you focus your mind, your intention and energy on a particular possibility, you enhance the likelihood of it happening. "Think positive" and "visualize victory" are popular sports phrases that suggest you will play at your best if you think about playing at your best and think about feeling terrific and winning the game. Imagine yourself in your truest, most powerful form and play from that mindset. Use the psychological tool of goal setting to pinpoint the specific role that you would like to play in your future, identify the potential for mental distractions or self-doubt, and establish strategies to address them.

5. Harnessing the Power of Manifestation in Daily Life

Harnessing the power of manifestation, as a fact of life, is only possible with the awareness and consciousness to use the power constantly and consistently. This is easier for infants and animal species. Everybody knows that a weeping baby will be cuddled after a while. Everybody is capable of distinguishing the merits of respect and love these charming, innocent creatures exude to complete their journey in life with a peaceful mien. Some wild animals in the jungle have their reasons when they mutually select and try to live with a specific type of bird, a different species itself. While it is rather difficult for a human to get along with one another, and everybody feels the need to engage in different activities and settings, the myriad species of the animal world traverse the universe completing their existence in peace. Human beings can only attain the level reached by animals through their habits, which set them apart from animals. The hormones released here are the only means for animals enabling the performance of their duties. The state of being associates with tasks is also called being (BEE-ing). This task-listing and assignments for each animal change, as hormones vary.

The answers we come up with for the existential questions of life manifest themselves as longings in the deepest level of our soul. In daily life, our thoughts and emotions drift towards our longings and create the reality we live, as if these longings were magnets that shape our life. The secret behind everything we experience and observe lies in this magnetic resemblance of our longings. People do and experience everything in life according to their own longings and thoughts. You don't have to worry and try hard to control people around you. Those who love and find peace in your presence will be attracted to you by the longing in their hearts. Those who expect the opposite and project negative emotions and thoughts will move further away from you. All things and their concurrent living environments are inherently designed with the same magnetic influence.

5.1. Setting Intentions

Through intention, you help the Universe take steps to create the reality you seek. You make the invisible visible because you dwell on what is important to you. Thoughts vibrate and shape energy that attracts life experiences, which is why it's so important to process what you want, not what you don't want. Fundamentally, we all want love and light, pure and simple. By embracing that concept and setting powerful intentions of peace and love, you help shift vibrations around the world. Even in a state of panic, by fixing your thoughts on a peaceful resolution and the outcome of love and mutual understanding, it's possible to create miraculous results. The possibilities are profound, and they exist thanks to the energy of how you feel. Energy vibrates, so when you think of something, you automatically take ownership of it through the vibrational relationship that thought creates.

Never forget the power you have to control your life. Your thoughts shape your experience on a daily basis, and creating a habit cycle of fearful thinking only brings more fear into your life. An antidote is to set the wheel in motion for a different result by setting intentions each month. Intentions give meaning to your life, and it's well worth taking an hour or so at the beginning of each month to reflect on what you would like to create. Be sure to incorporate clear guidance that states your intention and asks for what you wish to manifest. You might not remember them being there, but keep in mind that your spiritual helpers are just waiting to be asked to serve you.