What is manifesting? It is basically the process of aligning yourself with the powerful energy of the universe in order to cocreate what you want in reality. We are all manifesting all of the time, whether we are aware of it or not. Here are some steps on how to do it consciously, powerfully and positively!
- Pay attention to your vibes
You are all in charge of our frequency and it’s up to you to keep in in a positive place. As Nikola Tesla says “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” The universe responds to your frequency, your vibration, your feelings about what you want rather than your thoughts. You actually have to get into the feeling or vibration of what you want in order to receive it. For example, you can’t tell the universe we want a new job, and then feel angry about the job you are in, pessimistic about future jobs, and negatively about yourself and think there’s any way to achieve your goals. The universe doesn’t respond well to mixed signals, only to a consistently aligned vibration of what you want to create. When your energy is elevated, expansive, open, happy, you tend to attract positive things into your life. When you are closed, angry, frustrated and negative you are in a different vibrational frequency, bringing different things into your life.
The things your authentic soul wants are in the positive higher dimensional frequency. You aren’t even able to perceive much of the wonderful things that could be in your life when you are in a lower vibrational pattern. Momentum is powerful, thoughts become things, what we think about we create. The more we can be in a positive open energy of what we want, and fully trusting that all is well all of the time, the more wonderful things we are able to attract into our lives.
Some ways to keep your positive vibration consistently are, keeping things around you that you love all the time, staying focused on the positive, clearing out anything negative in your life, and using your imagination to think about things that make you feel happy and expansive.
- Get clear on what you really want
The feeling of happiness, lightness, joy and love are beautiful energies to use for manifesting. Being in these high frequency states not only aligns us with our higher purpose, in doing so it actually increases our ability to see more possibilities of our potential outcomes. It literally changes our reality and the options for our present moment and the future, how exciting!
Once you are in a high vibrational place with your energy, and are ready to look forward, it’s important to be clear on what you’d like to co create in your life. Many times when energy is low, or you are in fear or worry you might be trying to manifest something into your life that wouldn’t be in your highest good.
Our logical minds are not the place to be when we want to manifest. Our minds tell us things all the time that are completely untrue and full of fear, so it’s important to connect to our soul’s inner truth instead, that always knows what is in your highest good and how to get it. When you are feeling good, and are able to get still and quiet and listen to your intuition about what would be the next right step for your soul’s evolution, that’s when the real magic happens.
- Stay Open and general
In general, we want to be general when it comes to manifesting. Feeling more of the feeling of gratitude for the intended outcome than needing something specific to work out. When we can put our intention out there, practice gratitude for the feeling of it as if it is already here, releasing it to the universe and keeping our vibration high, our intended manifestation or something better comes into our reality.
When we are in fear, need a specific thing to happen, think about it all the time, and are in our ego or mind more than the feeling or energy of what we want, is when things get harder. It’s almost like when we need or want it less it is easier for our energy to come into alignment with it. Fear or desperation energy actually lowers our vibration and makes it more difficult to bring what we want into our awareness. When we are too specific about what we want, fear and ego creep in and it becomes harder to manifest.
For example, rather than: “I have to have this accounting job at this specific company by this specific date”, a more effective manifesting mantra is “What if the ideal job for me is on the way?” It is important to remember that the universe loves to surprise you and is much wiser than any human. Being too specific about what you want is very limiting, asking the universe to provide what’s in your best and highest good allows amazing surprises beyond what you could imagine to come into your reality.
- Feel the feeling of what you want
This is very important. The universe responds to our frequency, or feelings, not our logical mind. It’s very important when working on manifesting that you spend time feeling the feeling of what you want multiple times a day.
Research continues to prove that our imaginations are incredibly powerful. Using your imagination to get into the feeling of what you want creates the same chemical response in your body as the actual event happening. It is amazing but true, actually imagining yourself on a beach in Hawaii, or petting your beautiful dog replicates the feelings of this happening in reality.
It is so important to be mindful of what you are imagining because you are incredibly powerful, and are manifesting your reality all the time, consciously or not. We all want things because of the way we think it will make us feel. It is so powerful to understand that we are capable of having that feeling now, and that is the way to manifest it into reality. Using the job example again, rather than imagining the specifics of the job, it is much more effective to conjure the feeling.
Releasing the specific outcome and considering how you’d like to feel if you were working in that job, and spending time consciously multiple times a day imaging that feeling. If you’d like to feel for example: comfortable, purposeful, happy, content, etc., focus on feeling those feelings rather than thinking about the actual job you want
- Pay attention to your thoughts
Just as we are in charge of our vibration, we are also in charge of our thoughts. What we think about becomes our reality so it is very important to become aware of what we are thinking. Most people most of the time are unconscious to most of their thoughts. The more mindful, conscious and aware we are of what they are, the more able we are to shift them to something more helpful and positive.
The more conscious we can become of our thoughts, the easier it is to stay out of the very common human condition of fear, worry and other low frequency thought patterns that are all around us. The more and more of us that wake up the power that we all possess to become conscious to and change the way we think, the more that ripples out and helps all of humanity awaken to our amazing power to cocreate as well.
- Acknowledging your awesome manifesting skills
As you begin the process of conscious cocreation it is very important to pay attention to even the seemingly tiny things that you start to manifest. The more you can shine a positive spotlight onto your amazing manifesting skills the more they will continue to grow and expand.
For example, if you are working on manifesting more abundance into your life, keep a journal to remember any way you are bringing more resources into your life: a coupon for free coffee, saving $10 on an oil change, an unexpected bonus at work, etc. The more you pay attention to and celebrate these manifestations the more they will continue to grow!
- Appreciate everything in your life, just as it is
It might sound counterintuitive that in order to get what you want, you have to appreciate the things you already have that you don’t want, but that’s the way it works. To feel dislike, frustration, anger or other negative emotions about how our lives are is a negative lower vibrational energy that pushes away the ability to bring in anything new or more positive.
The more you can love what you have now, even as you are working on bringing in something even more amazing, the more effective you will be at transforming it into what is more aligned with your new vibrational reality.
For example, if you would like more resources in your life, focusing on loving and appreciating what you already have rather than focusing on anger, frustration and resentment about what you don’t have will allow the new stream of abundance into your life, rather than blocking it with a lower vibrational energy.
- Shift your relationship with money
Money, abundance, prosperity, etc.…is a common area of focus for manifesting. It can also be a negatively charged word for many people. It can sometimes be helpful to change the word you use when thinking or speaking about money: resources, prosperity, assets etc. can sometimes bring up less resistance from the ego instead.
It’s very important before paying bills, or doing or thinking about anything else having to do with money, to get your vibration in a really good place. This can be done by appreciating yourself, meditating, doing something that makes you really happy, etc. Don’t even think about money if you are not in a very high vibrational frequency.
Another tool in shifting your relationship with money can be imagining it as something else. For example you can imagine it is beautiful water, flowing into your wallet. It could be sparkly pink energy, moving into your bank account, or anything else that makes you feel happy.
Imagining yourself as a money magnet. You are lit up with white light from the inside, with beautiful money, whatever it looks like to you, gently flowing towards you.
Only speak about money in a positive way, no talking about being broke, or not being able to afford anything. Remember, our words are our wands, they are magical and powerful. Speak of money with love and appreciation only “I love my money and my money loves me!”
The more you practice these powerful energetic techniques with your money the more you will be in alignment with manifesting more and more abundance into your life.
- Have faith!
The universe doesn’t respond to mixed signals. If most of you is feeling the feeling of what you want, being mindful of your thoughts, keeping a high vibration, and appreciating your life but another part of you is arguing and saying “this can’t work”, “I don’t believe it”, “It will never happen”, etc., that will block the manifesting process.
When those old negative beliefs surface just remind yourself “Things are getting better in my life every day, and the universe has my back!” This will help to re align your energy again, and get you back in the energetic flow of what you want.
10. The secret sauce: self-love
The missing ingredient in manifesting sometimes, and the only way to make it permanent and consistent is to practice self-love and appreciation.
As you continue to work on your consciousness, thoughts, feelings and vibration, generally a beautiful side effect is an increase in self-love. While this happens naturally as we expand, and it begins to become clear that we are amazing, powerful, magical beings of light, it no longer resonates with our new state of consciousness to be self-critical or judgmental.
While this definitely will continue as you work on the other aspects of manifesting, it is important to proactively and with awareness send yourself loving energy frequently. Letting yourself know how proud you are of your manifesting skills, your compassion, your strength, etc.
Self-love increases our vibration, which increases our manifesting ability. In order to know and have what you really want in your life, it is vital to continue loving yourself forever, just like creation does, you are amazing!
Keep me posted on your manifestations, you are powerful beyond measure!
Read more about Spiritual Counseling with Shana Olmstead.
Shana Olmstead, Intuitive Consultant
I see my life purpose as helping people to awaken to the truth of their divine nature, the powerful spiritual beings that they are. I have assisted hundreds of clients in my therapy practice to wake up to the understanding that we are all made of source energy, and are here to increase our consciousness and joy to help the evolution everyone on the planet. I am so excited and inspired to continue helping people through their own awakening! Contact me to schedule an appointment in person in Kirkland, Washington or for a phone or video consultation wherever you are located.
