Disclaimer: I do not call myself an expert in manifestation. Coming from the land of yogis and sages, I will not pretend for even a millisecond that I am an expert. Manifestation, as I understood the term growing up, is where the great yogis and sages produced something out of absolutely nothing – a whole different level that takes years of training of mind. I consider myself a humble student still on the entry level of this discovery path!
However, given the growing number of people who have been using the term, I became curious about what it means in our modern day thinking.
According to my research and understanding, manifestation has 3 core elements:
1. Goal
2. Action plan
3. Mindset
Technique used is visualisation.
1. Goal
Clarity of goal is fundamental. What is it that you want to manifest? Just having your goal defined using SMART is not sufficient. Your mind has to be immersive in the goal. This is where visualisation comes in. Visualisation is the techniques where you create reality using all of your senses:
– Imagine you have reached your goal. Close your eyes and use the questions to create your reality,
– Where are you? Physically imagine yourself in the place you are in
– What can you see? Bring in more detail of your surrounding
– Who are you with? Make it even more real by bringing in the people you are with
– What are you doing? Imagine yourself doing the task you are manifesting
– What can you hear? As you are doing the task, take note of the sounds around you
– How are you feeling? Feel the feeling inside your heart, head and gut
Dig deeper on the above to make it even more real.
As you visualise the goal, it gives your mind more clarity on what it needs to achieve.
I use a project plan as an analogy. If you don’t have a good business case, which defines the goals of your project, you will flounder and never be able to deliver the promised benefits, because you can’t deliver something you have no clarity on.
2. Action Plan
List your Actionable steps that will lead you to achieving your goal.
Take into consideration all realisations that came with the goal visualisation
Now, as you did with the goal, visualise in detail each action step.
To me this is a bit like doing premortem when doing risk analysis. Quite often at the beginning of a project, we do a premortem – imagine that you have finished the project. Looking back, in hindsight, what went wrong? Document the answers as the risk that needs to be managed as you move forward on your project.
Visualising each step is like doing a premortem, because detailed visualisation gives you information on the gaps in your planned steps. You then (consciously and unconsciously) modify your action plan to address the gaps.
This obviously enhances your chances of success.
In a project, it is important to review and take stock with weekly status reports. Similarly, re-iterate your visualisations daily – it is like doing a project review. it allows you to keep your actions up to date by allowing you to gather information on anything that has changed.
3. Mindset
Now none of this will be achieved if the mindset is not right! So to me the mindset trumps it all – it is absolutely, the single most important part. (I realise my English grammar is incorrect here – but it is genuinely, absolutely, the single most important thing ?)
Mindset is important because even a hint of negativity will take you away from your goal.
What do I mean by negativity? It is where we feel we can’t achieve something because of external factors – we feel helpless. In reality, this is like giving our power away – we give our power away to these external factors, because now they are controlling our actions – Instead of us controlling our own actions, and hence destiny.
So for manifestation to work at any level, it is important to believe in your own power and focus on the actions you have to take.
In summary, for me, it is a curious combination of control and letting go:
Control – because you have to take charge of your mindset and focus on the goal and actions. This in effect means that you have made a decision – you have committed to achieving your goal.
Letting Go – because in the control, you have to know when the negativity is creeping in and let go of it. Yet you have to know when to tweak your action plan because the circumstances have changed.
Would love to hear from others more experienced – what aspects of this resonate with what you do?
What do you do differently?
And as we close this year, and enter a new one …. Happy Manifesting!!!
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