Understanding the Process of Manifestation

Up until a few months ago, I would have stubbornly disregarded almost everything that I’m about to put down in this post. I personally think that’s great because I’ve rigorously beat this idea to death and back in an attempt to strengthen my own understanding of it so that you may also experience the benefit of understanding it as well.

Part of the reason I hesitated to believe it is because up until recently, I hadn’t come across consistent models/frameworks/processes/whathaveyou that really captured what was happening in the process of manifestation. I would have written everything off as new age psychobabble because, well, I consider myself to be very, very logical. (Which is debatable. Just ask any one of my exes.)

What I soon discovered was that I began seeing this model very consistently throughout research in which I had absorbed myself. From texts on psychology and motivation to finance and wealth creation, I kept seeing this more, and more, and more. Continually seeing this model in various publications by authors whom I respected, I began giving the idea more consideration and testing to ultimately come to believe and leverage the tools in this post.

What is the Process of Manifestation?

The Process of Manifestation is a roadmap of how and why you get the results that you get in your life. In short, this is the answer to “Why is this happening to me?” questions.

Through pattern recognition and rigorous hindsight, the Process of Manifestation withstands most critiquing and allows for a solid reference to a formerly interpreted “new age psychobabble” idea.

The process is this:

Our…
Beliefs lead to our…
Thoughts lead to our…
Feelings lead to our…
Actions lead to the…
Results that we get.

Breaking it Down

The first, and most powerful, thing you may notice is that you can begin changing the results that you get in your life by changing your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, or actions.

You may also predict that by changing your actions, without changing your beliefs, thoughts and feelings, that your results will feel incomplete and lacking.

You may notice that you don’t have to change each of those things to change your results, and that you can achieve different results in your life by changing your beliefs.

Since you’re a pretty smart guy, you’ve also probably asked “Well, what about situations when someone is about to die? I can’t just believe that they won’t die and therefore they’ll live.” Correct, there are things that are beyond your control. But, that which is beyond your control is a LOT less than you would imagine, and may just be within someone else’s control and that person may be open to your influence in changing their beliefs.

If you truly want to make change in your life, you must first believe the change that you wish to experience is real, possible, and achievable by you.

Understanding the Process of Manifestation

Is there a time in your life that you can look back on where you were extremely confident and things just continued to fall into place? How about a time when you were extremely depressed and things continued to fall out of place? Did the feeling of greatness or helplessness come first or last? Maybe it came in the middle? After the feeling of greatness or helplessness, did things seem to accelerate and become augmented by your belief?

Use this process of hindsight to ask these questions and see how your beliefs affected the outcome in situations that you found yourself succeeding or failing in achieving your goals.

I can think of nights where I’ve been out on a Friday or Saturday night and just feeling like my game was spot on made it even better. I’ve been in business situations where certain changes were an uphill battle that would not have succeeded without a firm belief in their integrity. Or, how is it that when you’re in Love, that everything seems right in the world? (We’ll discuss neuroscience and emotion in another lesson, class.) Likewise, those days where “nothing seems to go right” always seem to stay that way throughout the entire day. The moment a relationship seems to befalling apart is the moment it seems to get progressively worse until the end.

Yet, we see every day that great businesses begin dying from internal disbelief. Relationships are turned around for the better because the people believe that it can be better. People spend more on clothes or food because they believe it’s more valuable than a lesser expensive brand of equal quality. In all of these kinds of situations, when they’re looked at from an objective and honest point of view, we see that the root of the results achieved have stemmed from the belief of those involved.

Leveraging the Process of Manifestation

In religion, you may have the act of prayer. In personal improvement or social solidarity (business, sports, politics, volunteer organizations, etc), you may define your goals as aggressive and achievable. These are also examples of where a belief is being set forth, committed to with full intent, and followed through with thoughts, feelings, and actions to get the desired results.

To make change, you must first believe that change is possible. It is when all steps of the Process of Manifestation come together that it is most powerful, and is able to be leveraged toward the goals that you declare.

When you truly believe that what you wish to achieve is possible, everything else in the Process of Manifestation becomes easier. (This is not to confuse it with being easy.) It’s for this reason that I recommend that people really spend time understanding and improving their confidence and openness to ideas so that they may create more powerful beliefs to be manifested throughout their lives. A stronger psyche and consciousness will also help you to strategically adjust your actions as needed.

When moving forward with a new goal or objective, consider framing it with this process. Think about what you would have to believe for a certain change to occur. What thoughts would you continually hold if you believed that this change could occur? What feelings and emotions would carry the most value through this change? What will your actions be in order to achieve this goal or change?

I encourage you to play with this idea and see how powerful it can become for you.

Start with something that can be accomplished this week that you currently feel is just beyond your ability to get done and immediately change your belief on how long it will take to get done. With focus on this process and your goals, you’ll find some other things in your life changing, and most likely for the best.

Start small if needed. Are you shy? What would it take to meet one new person this week? Are you overweight? What would it take to lose two pounds this week? Are you living paycheck to paycheck? What would it take to spend 10% less than your salary this week? Are you upset at the world pretty often? What would it take to be happier with the world around you?

And, if it works enough for you to commit to a larger goal, consider applying it to The Four Week Challenge and gain more momentum toward your goals.

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