Author: Anna

Some people in the Neville Goddard/Law of Attraction community look down on SP manifestors.

I don’t.

In my view, an SP manifesting journey can be a huge catalyst for spiritual growth and awakening.

The opportunity and desire to manifest an SP is about your soul asking you to ascend in your awareness to embody a state of love and worthiness in yourself, and if you succeed in doing this, it has far-reaching consequences for your whole life.

That’s why I never look down on SP manifesting.

Having said that, I do believe the SP community has strayed beyond what Neville Goddard taught when it comes to SP’s. There are only two things we know about Neville’s attitude to SP manifesting:

1. That he said it was possible to manifest an SP (he manifested his wife that way)
2. But he also said that you don’t actually want your SP, what you really want is to be happily married so maybe it’s better to manifest for that.

(You can read about his statements on those two things in detail towards the end of this article.)

He didn’t say that SP manifesting always works or is desirable in every single circumstance, as some LOA coaches seem to think.

Here are two situations where I feel the SP manifesting community has strayed way beyond the ethos of what Neville taught.

Abusive SP’s

I have come across people who are manifesting someone who has abused them, verbally, physically and/or emotionally.

Technically it is possible to change an abusive person through the Law of Assumption.

We attract abusive partners into our lives because our beliefs, assumptions, thoughts and feelings about ourselves is a match for that behaviour.

Maybe we were abused in childhood and that gave us certain beliefs about ourselves that means we are likely to attract abuse. Or maybe we’ve been in an abusive relationship before and we’re used to being abused, so it feels normal and familiar to us.

Here is what Neville said about changing other people:

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

So technically, it is possible for an abusive person in your life to change, when you change.

When we change our self-concept and who we are being on the inside, the people around us change.

However, it’s a dangerous thing to do. Here’s why:

You never know if you have succeeded, and the stakes are pretty high.

You could do a lot of work on your self-concept and completely change what you’re attracting in your life. But to have an abusive person completely change, you may need to remove every single “chink in your armour” which is causing you to tolerate that abuse. You may need to revise all abuse or mistreatment from your past. You may need to do some of this work or you may need to do the totality of what you could possibly do, before this person changes. Then because there is a time lapse in manifesting, you may need to wait weeks or even months for the change to reflect in the 3D.

(and something I have repeatedly observed is that most people who go through this process realise they’d rather move on because they feel they deserve better…)

Good luck trying to work out if you have changed sufficiently for the abuser to change, and then trying to work out what the time lapse is for your manifestation to appear in the 3D and if it’s safe to reconcile yet.

If you think you have changed and the person has changed, and you let them back into your life, and then you find they haven’t changed, you are in a dangerous situation.

Through consciously applying the Law of Assumption, you can create the best and the highest love you have ever known.

Is it a good use of your creative energies to recreate an abusive person when you can focus your energies to create something amazing with someone else?

Personally I think to manifest an abusive SP constitutes a squandering of your creative energies.

If when you’re back together with the abuser, you drop the ball and you’re no longer embodying a desirable state, you’re in a vulnerable position. Essentially you’re living with a crocodile who won’t attack you as long as you stay on top of your self-concept and transform yourself completely.

Too risky, in my book.

Relationships are not about this. Relationships are about love.

Why subject yourself to this when you can have something much better?

Why not attract a wonderful new love instead – someone who will never have you guessing if they might attack you, or when?

Let’s have a look at the second category of SP manifestation that I think no-one should bother with.

Happily Partnered SP’s

I know of people who are manifesting a relationship with someone who is happily partnered with children.

I think this is wrong and I also don’t believe Neville would ever have thought this was OK.

People justify this endeavour by saying that we live in a “multiverse” and that they are simply manifesting the reality where they are together with their SP but there also exists a reality where their SP is still happily together with their current spouse and children.

Neville did say that “creation is finished” and that essentially we are “lighting up” the version of reality that we want through our focus on it. Whereas the rest of the possible realities stay ‘in the dark’ and are not seen because we do not focus on them.

So, therefore, if we follow this line of logic, we’re not causing harm to anyone if we take away a happy person from their current happy spouse and children.

I disagree with this.

This is like saying, I have an enemy who has wronged me and I’d really like to do some harm to them. Because we live in a multiverse, it’s ethically OK for me to run this person down with my car, and the reason why it’s OK is because there exists another reality where they didn’t get hit by my car.

Neville said in his 1968 lecture ‘Power’:

“You can [use the Law of Assumption] to do evil. You can, but I’m telling you, don’t. Don’t do it. Use it for good.”

Note that not only did he say this, he also didn’t say: ‘it’s fine to do unethical things, because we live in a multiverse and therefore there exists a reality where you didn’t do the unethical thing you’re contemplating doing.”

In my view, breaking up a happy relationship for your own ends (especially if there are children involved), is the kind of evil Neville was talking about.

Since we always create what we hold inside of us and the energies we are dealing in, if you manifest breaking up someone else’s relationship, don’t be surprised if you lose that SP to another third party once you attract them in.

So, to summarise, even though Neville manifested an SP himself, he was a bit washy-washy on whether anyone should manifest a specific person. At one point, he also said that some people should go general instead of specific. For these reasons, I doubt that he would have been on board with some of the SP madness that can be seen in the LOA community, where people are trying to manifest their already happily married SP or someone who has abused them.

Further Resources & Reading:

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

I’ve been immersed in the manifesting community and Law of Assumption space for around 18 months now, and I’ve coached others in their conscious creation process. Back when I started immersing myself in this space, I was so green and enthusiastic that I didn’t see the potential harms of using the Law of Assumption to consciously create.

Now I want to state what I see as potential harms and how they can be avoided on your path of conscious creation. There is a clear way to manifest positive outcomes in your life while maintaining excellent mental health. Use the tips below to avoid taking yourself down an unhealthy path.

1. Thoughts on their own don’t manifest powerfully

One of the things that can sometimes scare people about getting into conscious manifesting is the idea that our thoughts create our reality.

I do not believe that thoughts are a powerful way to manifest, on their own.

I believe that for something to manifest in your world, it needs to combine both thought and feeling. Emotionalised thoughts manifest. Thoughts that we identify with (as meaning something about us) manifest.

Let me give you an example of what I mean:

If you are checking your bank balance and you think “oh, my balance is low. I hope I have enough money to pay my rent this month.”

Acknowledging that you don’t have enough money this month is not going to manifest more poverty.

If you check your bank balance, see that it’s low and then tell yourself you’re a loser because you have no money and you’re in debt, that’s a thought you’re identifying with, and it means something about you. That’s what manifests — who you believe yourself to be and what you feel the low bank balance means about you.

Or if you check your bank balance, see it’s low and then go into a full-on panic which lasts a while, that is a reaction. It’s a combination of a thought and a strong emotion. It’s an emotionalised thought. When you do it repeatedly and consistently, that is what manifests your world — what you are reacting to and resisting.

This is also the most powerful way to manifest something good — through emotionalised thoughts. In visualisations and affirmations, we have thoughts and we allow those to elevate our emotions while we’re using those techniques. When practised consistently, this is what leads to positive conscious manifestations.

2. If you have certain tendencies with your mental health, hold those in mind while manifesting and ensure the techniques you use are right for you

For example, if you have OCD or you’ve had symptoms of OCD in the past, be wary around obsessive, robotic affirming. This is probably not the right technique for you.

Also be cautious with your mental diet — don’t obsess over it. If keeping a mental diet makes you feel obsessive or upset, just drop this idea altogether for now.

If you have anxiety and a manifesting technique makes you more anxious, step away from it. Choose the technique that really feels good to you and improves your mental health. If it doesn’t feel good, stay away from it (this applies to everyone; not just those who have anxiety).

You can find a list of manifesting techniques here.

3. Don’t view manifesting techniques as helping you to get something in the outside world — instead do them for enjoyment

Let’s be real. We are interested in manifestation because we want something in the 3D world. We want more love, more money, more freedom, more peace, more joy, better health, or whatever it is.

However, when we view techniques in a transactional way: if I do X, I will get Y, it doesn’t work so well. We’re forever fixated on the 3D world and whether it is yielding what we wish to see. We get impatient and frustrated if it doesn’t shift.

The paradox here is that even though we usually start out doing techniques to get something in the outside world, it doesn’t work that way.

The reason that conscious manifesting works is this:

If you are looking for something in the outside world, you cannot see it in your world until you have found it on the inside.

This is the absolute essence of what Neville Goddard taught.

An example: If you feel unloved and unwanted in your life, you will not find love in the 3D. Or if you do, it will be with someone who doesn’t satisfy your desire to be loved. You won’t feel loved by that person even if they love you.

Everything you want in the 3D can be found on the inside and must be found on the inside first. Only then can it be found on the outside. You are the source of all. God/Source is the source of all. I believe, and Neville Goddard taught, that all human beings are a piece of God. We all have a soul or a higher self (which is a piece of God) that takes us on a path towards what we want to create, starting with our imagination.

If you see the good stuff of life — love, freedom, wellbeing, abundance as existing outside of you, and things that life is withholding from you, that you need to GET, you will not succeed in your conscious manifesting.

Learn to enter states of feeling loved, feeling abundant, feeling free, feeling vital and healthy. Learn to cultivate these states within by having new positive thoughts, new positive feelings and a new level of wellbeing, and when you do that consistently, that is when your 3D reality will shift to reflect these energies in your life.

4. Be discerning when it comes to Law of Assumption teachers and content creators

I have been immersed in the LOA space for 18 months, as mentioned, and I’ve come across what I would consider maladaptive manifesting behaviours and recommendations during that time.

New thought philosophy has been repackaged by many on YouTube and online (and I include myself in this category). But the problem I see with this is that the titles of videos and articles have people running around in circles with the manifesting process.

I see video titles like these:

“This is the ONLY manifestation technique you will ever need”

And the next day:

“If you don’t do this, you won’t get your manifestation.”

And the next day:

“Use this technique to manifest what you want instantly”

(From the same video creator.)

When people see titles like these, they start to get anxious about whether they’re missing something in their process. This creates thoughts and feelings of lack, and makes people more likely to purchase a course from one of these creators to see what they’re missing and why they aren’t getting their manifestation instantly. It turns out the person was not missing anything — in fact, you can find everything you need in Neville Goddard’s and Joseph Murphy’s teachings. (As an aside, Neville Goddard said that every manifestation has its own timeline to appear in the 3D and it’s not within our conscious control.)

You don’t need to spend a lot of money – or in fact, any money – to learn about the Law of Assumption. All of Neville Goddard’s work is in the public domain, and you can read it for free here. (It does take time to get used to his slightly archaic writing style but if you do immerse yourself in his work, I think you will be richly rewarded.)

5. The Law of Assumption isn’t about controlling people, it’s about changing yourself

Neville Goddard taught that when using the Law of Assumption to manifest for someone else, we must assume the best for that person. We must see them happy, healthy, loved, healed (if applicable) and with everything they need financially.

From this place, positive outcomes manifest for those we love, and for us.

In addition, Neville taught that everyone is you pushed you – the entire world is your mirror. If you want to see change in another person, it’s not about changing them and controlling that person to behave a certain way. You need to change yourself. You need to dissolve the part of you that is “holding them in gridlock” (as spiritual teacher Agnes Vivarelli puts it) and seeing them in a way that is less than ideal. As Neville said, there is no-one to change but self.

Having said that, I don’t ever recommend using these spiritual principles with people in your life who are behaving in an abusive manner. It’s too risky and can result in physical or emotional harm.

6. Using the Law of Assumption is a lifestyle — not a magic trick

Practising the LOA is a lifestyle. It means a dedication to bringing more positive thoughts, emotions and behaviours into your life. It’s also about shedding what doesn’t serve you and allowing for more possibility. And it’s about observing your thoughts and challenging the negative ones. In some cases, this can take tremendous inner work and a lot of rewiring of neural pathways — this is not usually a magic trick that you can insert into your life to get a desire as a one off. People who use it like a magic trick and manage to manifest what they want, often can’t sustain what they manifested. If you want a new outcome in your life, you have to change who you are being on the inside.

Don’t use the LOA simply to get something on the outside — instead, change on the inside, and your outer world will reflect the change.

7. Don’t invalidate your emotions or resist them, thinking negative ones will manifest.

Remember that it’s the combination of a thought and an emotion (aka a reaction) that manifests an outcome — and this needs to be repeated so that the subconscious mind is impressed. 

Emotions on their own do not manifest. Let negative emotions pass through you and meet them with acceptance. What you resist, persists.

Using the Law of Assumption is not about invalidating your emotional experiences.

8. Be realistic

Sometimes it can take months, or a year or longer for someone to do the inner work required to manifest what they desire. If you started off from a very bad place in your life, it might even take you a few years to manifest the life you want. Again, this is not a magic trick. This is about making a change to your self-concept that lasts so that your outer world can change.

Neville Goddard said: “There’s no-one to change but self”. Your current self has been years in the making. Your slightly different self, that has a slightly different reality, may take time to bring into being.

9. Pick and choose your own beliefs

My personal belief is that we are manifesting all of the time — for better or worse — and that our state of being (thoughts, feelings, beliefs, assumptions, etc) are perfectly reflected in our lives – I wrote more about this concept in this article.

As an aside, Neville Goddard taught that the only exception to this is that people die when it is their time, and we do not manifest the deaths of people around us.

Some people don’t believe that we manifest everything in our lives and think this is victim blaming.

You get to decide. If you don’t believe in EIYPO or if you don’t agree that we manifest everything in our lives, discard these ideas.

If you want to use visualisation/SATS and affirmations, but you don’t believe you have manifested everything in your life, go for it and use the techniques anyway. You don’t have to subscribe wholesale to the New Thought teachings in order to successfully manifest a new outcome in your life. You could just use the techniques to improve your mental health and emotional state. You can discard the beliefs you don’t ascribe to.

I have seen that good things will happen as a result of consistently applying Law of Assumption techniques, regardless of what you believe.

Further Resources & Reading:

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

In working with my Law of Assumption coaching clients, I’ve noticed something that came up again and again that I wanted to share in this article, around working with the subconscious mind.

In my sessions, clients have had 2 common questions:

1. “I know my subconscious ‘stories’ and assumptions are what manifest in the 3D — but they are subconscious, which is not something that I’m consciously aware of. How do I know what is holding me back, if it’s subconscious?”

2. “How do I know which affirmations to use to manifest what I want? I have a list of affirmations and I don’t know which ones to pick or how long to say them for.”

These two questions may look like two different questions, but they are essentially getting at the same thing, which is about how to identify and change your unfavourable subconscious stories about an area of your life, so that you can create change in the 3D.

In order to consciously manifest a new outcome effectively, you have to be aware of your current subconscious unfavourable stories around it, so that you can affirm something different.

Here are some quotes from Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy (who were New Thought authors and teachers, both taught by the Ethiopian rabbi and Law of Assumption teacher known as Abdullah)

“Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world.” – Neville Goddard, ‘Resurrection’

“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.” – Joseph Murphy, in The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

“Nothing comes from without; all things come from within – from the subconscious” – Neville Goddard, in his book ‘Resurrection’

To put it in a more technical way, we receive vital life force energy from the Creator/God and that we condition it with the contents of our subconscious mind (also reflected in our chakra systems). So that energy from the Creator is conditioned with emotions, stories, assumptions, beliefs, thoughts, and our self-concept. Then it goes back out into the quantum field and with a time lapse, that energy is reflected back to us in the 3D – in our body, our environment and our relationships.

So, when we find ourselves in a particular physical condition, environment, situation or relationship, it is purely a reflection of the contents of the subconscious mind.

Therefore, becoming conscious of unfavourable subconscious stories and changing them is key to consciously manifesting a desired outcome.

And in this article I’m going to teach you how you can become aware of your unfavourable subconscious stories and change them.

I’m also going to share a technique or process you can use to ask your higher self (or soul) what the antidote to your unfavourable stories is, so that you can create something different (this is a process I go through with my coaching clients.)

I’m going to give you this process, and you may well be able to go through it on your own.

OK, so how do you find out what your subconscious stories are?

This is easy. Just look at your past history and life so far.

Take your desired outcome, and look at the life area it is in.

Maybe it’s health, love, money, work, or whatever.

Go over your life history so far in that particular area, and see if you can spot the story that repeats. There is often a common thread.

So, for example, let’s say that a woman called Janine would like to manifest more money. She grew up poor not because her family didn’t have money but because a parent was mean and wouldn’t spend money on the things she needed. Maybe Janine often had shoes and clothes that were too small because her parents were too frugal.

Then later Janine never has enough money in her adult life. She sometimes goes without food to pay the utilities bill and make ends meet. Her parents have money but won’t help her out or pay for an education.

Janine gets into a new relationship with someone who seemed like a wonderful partner and this new partner asked to take a loan out for them to start a new business to the tune of $40,000 in just Janine’s name. She agreed. They paid some of it back but 18 months later, with $20,000 still left to pay on this loan, they disappeared and Janine found out she had no legal recourse and had to pay the rest of the loan, which she could hardly afford.

What is the energy behind this money story so far?

• Betrayal
• Lack
• Being screwed over
• Not being provided for
• Being used/exploited
• Struggle

These are the contents of Janine’s subconscious mind when it comes to money.

You know what is in your subconscious mind because your life bears witness to it. Your life will always tell the story loudly and honestly of what your subconscious is whispering, if you are willing to look at it with brutal honesty.

The unfavourable story doesn’t actually mean anything about you. The subconscious mind will in fact believe anything we tell it, no matter how false (just look at stage hypnosis videos to see how accurate this is). Therefore, if you have an unfavourable story, it just means that you were told something or concluded something unfavourable based on something that happened to you in the past, and you took it to heart (which happens especially when we are very young or we experience a trauma.)

Let’s take a look at another situation as an example:

Sandra grew up with a very critical and mean mother who was often unfavourably comparing her to her younger sister, who seemed to be more accomplished and prettier than she was. Sandra grew up not often feeling good enough, unwelcome and unwanted.

In adulthood, she’s had 2 significant past relationships. In 1 of them, she was cheated on, and in another she was left for a woman she felt was somehow “better” than her.

These two relationships and her childhood history are reflecting a story of her not being good enough to be in a happy relationship with a partner who adores her.

Here are the energies behind that story:

• Lack of self-worth
• Not good enoughness
• Being defective
• Being second best

So, investigating your past like this is one part of how you get to the heart of what is holding you back.

Another way to spot your subconscious thinking is to go on how you feel. If you often do not feel good and have bad moods that seem to come from nowhere, ask yourself why – what is the story behind that? Bad moods don’t come from nowhere. If they’re not connected to a current life event, they are the result of what you are subconsciously thinking.

For example, it took me about a year in 2021-2022 to come to terms with the fact that even after extensive inner work, I was still running a strong subconscious story of victimhood and powerlessness. I was going over past injustices and ways people had treated me badly in the past subconsciously because they were popping into my mind and I would feel disempowered and incapable somehow. The motto of these stories seemed to be “I can’t”.

So, if old memories pop into your mind from the past or you have repetitive dreams about past events, pay attention. These are often connected to subconscious stories you’re running in the here and now.

Your unfavourable subconscious story may not even be something that occurred as a result of your previous relationships or childhood — it could just be a result of the same thoughtless comment made by a couple of people on separate occasions or even ideas you’ve absorbed from the media.

For example, the media loves to push the idea that women are ‘past it’ when they get to their late thirties and forties. This can hold some women back when they are in their 30s or 40s or older, from consciously manifesting a new relationship, having a baby or even getting started on a new career path.

OK, back to the process of changing your subconscious stories…

Once you know what your unfavourable subconscious story is, identify the opposite of the negative energy you pinpointed.

For Sandra who was compared unfavourably to her sister, it would be:

• Self-worth
• Being first best
• Being good enough
• Being whole and complete, just as she is

For Janine, who has the bad financial situation, the opposite of those energies would be:

• Abundance
• Relaxation
• Enoughness
• Freedom
• Trust (in others and herself)
• Being provided for
• Being taken care of
• Being empowered

Then what you want to do is create affirmations that affirm the opposite of your unfavourable subconscious story. If you do this correctly and you hit the nail on the head with your affirmations, you can completely change your life and manifest what you want.

To get to the heart of her subconscious stories, Janine would want to affirm things like:

My world always takes such wonderful care of me (this is an affirmation from Vadim Zeland’s book Reality Transurfing, and it is an antidote to being deprived, used and exploited)

I can trust the people I love with my heart (an antidote to betrayal)

I am inherently abundant (an antidote to lack)

I am the place money and opportunities come from

I love that I always have more money than I need

I feel relaxed and secure in my life

I create everything that appears in my world, through what I focus on, affirm and think about

I am worthy of the best

I was always meant to be financially comfortable

These are the antidotes to Janine’s unfavourable story.

Sandra, with the critical mother (and partners who left her and cheated on her), would want to affirm things like:

I am always prioritised by my partner

I put myself first

I am (more than) good enough

I love everything about myself

I can trust the people I love with my heart

I am first best

I am always chosen

I choose myself

I love myself

I am loved

I am love

I am wanted

I am worthy of the best

I know that I am so deserving of love

I know that I deserve an amazing relationship

I am whole and complete

These affirmations get to the heart of her not enoughness, and this is why I love affirmations when used regularly — they are, in a short sentence, the refreshing antidote to our unfavourable subconscious stories.

How to know which affirmations to use, how often and for how long?

This is another question conscious manifestors often have.

Once you know you have your affirmation that gets to the heart of your unfavourable story and contradicts it, you should repeat it often for weeks or months until it becomes your new story on the inside.

I also have a process that I use sometimes and which I’ve passed on to a couple of my clients.

My process for choosing affirmations

When I know what my dominant negative subconscious story is (let’s say in this example it’s powerlessness), I create affirmations which affirm the opposite.

I collect many variants on those affirmations, I create my own and maybe I also do some Google research (e.g. “affirmations for being a powerful creator”), I write the affirmations that resonate out by hand and usually I’ve got a few pages at least of affirmations.

So, for victimhood or powerlessness, I’d affirm things like:

I am a powerful creator

My imagination is God

As God, I shift realities easily and effortlessly

I create my world, based on what I focus on and affirm for

My affirmations create my world

I am powerful

I love feeling so powerful

My whole world is a projection of my consciousness

Then I use pendulum dowsing and I ask my higher self, which affirmations do I need to focus on today?

(If you’d like to use this process, use these instructions to program your pendulum.)

Next, say:

“My higher self, please be with me”

Next, inhale to the count of 4, hold your breath to the count of 4 and exhale to the count of 8. Repeat 3 times altogether.

Then say to your higher self: “please give me the affirmations that I need to say today.”

Next, ask your higher self: “how many affirmations do I focus on today?” Ask: “Is it more than 1/2/3/4 etc.” until you have the right number (I’d restrict it to 5 or 6 because it’s hard to memorise more than a few at a time.)

Then ask, for the first affirmation, is it on page 1/2/3/4 of my affirmations?

When I have the right page, I ask, is it the first affirmation, the second one, the third, etc. I go down all the affirmations until I’ve found the right one.

Then I take my affirmations for the day, I memorise them and I affirm robotically any chance I get (although note that I do this mindfully – I take care not to let my mind wander onto other topics while affirming.)

What I love about this process:

This may seem like a super anal way to approach manifestation, but it’s extremely powerful. Here’s why:

1. We often don’t know which affirmations we really need that are really the antidote to our subconscious stories.

2. Even if we manage to find the right affirmation, we often don’t know how long to do it for and we often don’t persist in it long enough.

3. People have a tendency to stay away from the very affirmations they need. Often affirmations that contradict our dominant subconscious story trigger us and bring up negative emotion, or feel wrong, and like we’re lying and need to stop saying them.

I’ve had times where I ask my higher self which affirmations do I use today and I’m given the same three for the whole week, and I’m thinking: Really? I’m bored of these three now.

But then I experienced a shift in my self-concept because I persisted in using those affirmations. So, being prompted by our higher self to focus on a particular affirmation that we might otherwise unconsciously avoid can be very helpful.

This process of uncovering your subconscious stories and changing them is incredibly important work…

I believe going through this process is deep and sacred work that holds the key to not only transforming your life but also evolving your soul.

Most of us who have an unfavourable story will find it isn’t just restricted to this lifetime.

If you have for example been betrayed in this lifetime, you’ll find it has its roots in and is echoed by a past life. I believe we choose our family in this lifetime based on our karmic past and stories from past lives. Our family in this lifetime will insert certain subconscious beliefs into the mind based on what they teach us or what happens in childhood. We carry those stories with us all our lives, unless we change them. So, the person who is betrayed in a past life often learns in childhood this time around that other people can’t be trusted, and then experiences that self-fulfilling prophecy in the rest of their adult life.

If you want to break out of your soul’s karmic past and alter the trajectory of your soul’s future, this is how you do it. You locate your unfavourable story, you change it, and you live in that changed story until it manifests in the 3D.

Changing your unfavourable stories doesn’t always need to be hard, onerous, or complicated.

It doesn’t have to involve healing (although it sometimes can and does.)

It often involves affirming a new story and sticking to it as our new story, over a longer period of time. In doing this, at some point many people will become that person for whom the story is true.

Although, if after affirming for a long period you don’t see any inner change, I recommend you read this article, to assess if you need to do further inner work.

Finally…

I wanted to share something that I believe about manifestation, in case it is interesting to my readers:

A friend said to me a while back “The thing I dislike about the Law of Attraction/manifesting space is that it’s selfish and individualistic, so focused on me, me, me and what I can get through manifesting.”

I disagree.

I actually believe that when we desire something in the 3D and set about consciously manifesting it, what the soul is really after is the change in state that the 3D will bring about. The soul is, through the medium of desire, asking you to change and embody a higher state.

You can’t have the thing you want in the 3D until you give it to yourself in the 4D. For example, to manifest a loving relationship in the 3D you have to become loving and loveable on the inside.

By desiring a loving relationship, your soul is asking to embody a state of love.

When you achieve the loving relationship and sustain it in your life, you ascend in awareness to a more beautiful and loving state of being.

If we are all pieces of consciousness (and part of one larger consciousness), I believe that every time one of us manifests something positive that we desire, and ascends to a more beautiful state of being to achieve it, it impacts the whole wider consciousness — God. We are all pieces of God, on a journey back to God. Manifesting desires in your life is about ascending in your energy and in doing so, I believe it raises the vibration of the whole consciousness and Planet Earth itself.

Your desires are a clarion call from your soul. Embrace them, and become the person who has them. That way, in embracing a new state of being, you find your way back to God, and the whole consciousness benefits.

Further Resources & Reading:

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

I wanted to share another success I have had with the Law of Assumption recently.

I recently moved house. Prior to moving, I had been living in a rental property for 3 years and the reason I needed to move was the landlady’s behaviour. I could write a book about all the things that had gone wrong with the property and the lack of maintenance, but in short she refused to maintain the property or replace/repair multiple broken appliances that came with the rental.

When I would bring these matters to her attention, she would become belligerent, and made it clear she did not consider it her responsibility to maintain the rental property.

To get this rectified, I would have had to take legal action, which I didn’t want to do. Instead, I decided to move out of the property.

I had left the rental property in better condition than it was in before I moved in (I repainted much of the interior of the house at my own cost) but to my dismay, I was told I wouldn’t be getting my rental deposit back in full.

We discussed the deposit shortly after I moved out, it devolved into a bitter argument and it was clear the landlady felt entitled to some of my deposit for spurious reasons. Although the law was on my side, since she was a belligerent and determined individual, I knew I faced the possibility of going to the tenancy tribunal to get the deposit back, which I didn’t want to do.

I didn’t care about the money (it wasn’t a large deposit) nor was I in need of it. Instead, it was the principle of it. I was tired of being bullied and I wasn’t going to put up with it anymore.

Upon leaving the rental back in June, I felt quite angry about how I’d been treated.

Before applying for the deposit back, I decided to wait to let those feelings of anger pass. I had old stories of victimhood running through my mind for a few weeks and I had to cut those stories off time and time again in my mind, until eventually I started to forget about it.

When I did think about the situation, I used a prayer, which went as follows:

Thank you <belligerent landlady> for giving my deposit back in full.

I forgive you for how you treated me.

The karma between us is complete.

Go in peace.

I said this prayer on and off for several weeks until I felt like I was definitely getting the deposit back.

It was important to me that I got rid of this person from my life forever, so I didn’t apply for the deposit back until I felt free of her, inside my mind.

Then when I knew my subconscious mind was impressed, I applied for the deposit back and I was told that the landlady had a few days earlier applied for my deposit to come back to me in full, and it was being processed. The people in my life who knew all the details of what had gone on with this person were very surprised. None of them expected me to get it back without a legal fight.

The prayer above is helpful to use if someone who has bullied or harmed you in some way and you want them out of your life. It is simple and powerful, but it works. (In fact, any prayer you use consistently like this will work, simply because your thoughts and words are that powerful.) You can also adapt this prayer to suit your circumstances – just remove the words ‘for giving my deposit back’ and replace them with what you want to happen in your 3D reality. I probably wouldn’t use this prayer unless you want someone to leave your life altogether because the wording of it does imply finality.

Further Resources & Reading:

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.

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Recently I watched a really great interview with lottery winner Cynthia Stafford.

In 2004, Cynthia Stafford decided that she wanted to win the lottery and began using conscious manifesting techniques to achieve this. In 2007, she won $112 million on the lottery which she attributes to her persistence in manifesting.

I love manifesting stories from people who achieved big success, mainly so I can learn from their experience.

You can get the lessons by watching the whole interview above, but if like me you’re not really a fan of watching videos, in this article I’ve summed up the main points that I took from this interview that can in fact be applied to any manifestation.

Lesson #1: Manifesting Techniques

In the interview, Stafford tells how she began her manifesting journey by reading Joseph Murphy’s book The Power of the Subconscious Mind. (Joseph Murphy was also trained in the Law of Assumption by Neville Goddard’s teacher & I highly recommend his book The Power of the Subconscious Mind.)

She says she used the following techniques to manifest her win:

• She wrote her intention down (essentially, she set a written intention)
• She made a vision board and looked at it daily
• She used affirmations
• She often visualised herself holding the lottery cheque, and she felt how it felt to win. She even visualised the exact amount she was going to win (which she did in fact win), which makes it even clearer that this was not a lucky fluke!
• She “got into the vibration of being a winner” as she put it — essentially, she created a new self who had won the lottery, and she became it (I have an article on that technique here.)

In my opinion, the manifesting techniques that you use are not that important. The main thing is that the techniques you choose are ones that appeal to you, and that you enjoy using.

You can find a list of manifesting techniques for manifesting any intention here.

Lesson #2: Persistence

Since it took Stafford 3 years to manifest that lottery win, there was clearly a lot of persistence involved in her manifesting process.

She said she trained like an Olympic athlete long term to remain in the state of the wish fulfilled of having won the lottery, on a daily basis.

I find this the most valuable lesson of all from her interview.

What I took from this is that if you have a big intention, you can expect to do a lot of inner work that may even take you years.

What kinds of intentions count as big intentions?

• Releasing “dis-eases” that you’ve had for a long time or which are deeply entwined with your story about yourself and your life
• Manifesting large sums of money
• Manifesting big success in your career, especially if you’re just starting out

You can expect these kinds of intentions to take a while…sometimes, but not always.

Lesson #3: You’ve got to want it for the right reasons

In order to be motivated enough to consciously manifest an outcome like this over a period of 3 years, you have to really want it and your reasons need to be powerful ones.

One of Cynthia Stafford’s reasons for wanting to win the lottery was because she had been given custody of several children of a family member, and then she had lost custody of them because of an assessment made by a social worker that the children would be better off in foster care, which Stafford disagreed with. In order to get the children back, she would have had to spend large amounts of money on a lawyer, which she didn’t have.

It sounded to me like a large part of her reason for wanting to win was to get the children back and have the means to look after them.

Her intention seemed to be about love. Personally I feel that this would have had a lot to do with her success.

People who want to win the lottery because they hate their job and hate their lives are unlikely to be successful. This is because of the law of karma.

Let me give you an example of this.

Let’s say that you are renting a house. The landlord asks you if you’d like to renew your lease for another year. You’ve had an awful time with rental properties in the past – every time you get settled, the landlord either decides they want to move back in, or the lease isn’t renewed for some other reason. You have children and pets, and moving with your kids and pets in tow is traumatic each time. Maybe you’ve moved your kids several times already in their short lives. So, when you renew your lease out of fear and trauma because you hate moving and don’t want to move again, the consequences of that will be that you create more things to be fearful about, when it comes to your living situation.

But if you decide to renew the lease because you’d like more stability in your life — you know you deserve that and you’re embodying stability in the way you live — you will create more of that stability when you decide to renew your lease.

So, whatever energies we’re focused on and dealing in, is what we will see more of.

If you make a choice out of fear, you will create more fear. If you make a choice out of hating your job, you will create more of hating your job.

We reap what we sow.

So, this is something to bear in mind. If you want to win the lottery because you hate your life and you want to escape it, you’re less likely to be successful.

Instead I recommend working on creating a life you love. Then you will be able to come at the intention of manifesting a lottery win with more likelihood of winning.

I also find that sometimes people want to win the lottery because they perceive that it would solve a bunch of problems for them (such as hating their job and needing to buy a house.)

But often it’s easier and quicker just to find another intention and work on manifesting that. So, if you work long hours in an uninspiring job with a boss you hate, manifest work that you enjoy for 30 hours per week, with a great boss, or being your own boss. (I have a free guide to the Law of Assumption here, which teaches you how to manifest intentions like these.)

Then once you’ve manifested work you enjoy, you can work on manifesting owning your own home. This will be much quicker and easier than manifesting a lottery win.

So, that’s just something to think about if you have a life you don’t enjoy.

Let’s get back to the other lessons we can learn from Cynthia Stafford’s story:

Lesson #4: Faith

Cynthia Stafford came from a Christian background and was a woman of faith.

She really believed she was going to win the lottery — her belief was so strong that she even interviewed financial advisors to help her manage the money, before she won!

In the interview, she quoted a Bible passage that had inspired her:

“For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.“ (Matthew 17:20-21).

Every time Cynthia Stafford didn’t win the lottery, she would tell herself “maybe not this time, but it will happen”. She didn’t get discouraged and she didn’t deviate from that sense of faith she had that she was going to win the lottery.

I don’t believe that total faith in your power as a creator is 100% necessary to manifest an intention (after all, the Law of Assumption is at work all of the time, whether we know it or not.) But having said that, I do think that faith can really super-charge our intentions and allow us to persist in our desires.

(If you’re a beginner and you’d like to build your faith in the Law of Assumption, try out Neville Goddard’s ladder exercise.)

Lesson #5: Feeding the mind with positive things

Stafford mentioned that she made it her job to feed her mind with positive information, and she read inspiring books about manifestation regularly to help her keep the faith.

If you are currently using the Law of Assumption to manifest an outcome in your life, and you don’t yet own a copy of either Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind or Neville Goddard’s Complete Reader, you need to get onto that.

I read a few pages of Neville Goddard’s work every night before I go to sleep. There is huge power in his words and the stories he shares in his work and any Law of Assumption student and conscious manifestor needs to be reading one of those books. Just reading my blog or watching someone’s Law of Assumption YouTube channel isn’t enough. It should be an add on to those works written by Goddard or Murphy.

Another great book to read is Frederick Dobson’s book Parallel Universes of Self.

Lesson #6: She reached the Sabbath

Stafford mentioned in the interview that after having used techniques to manifest her lottery win for a while, she stopped using them, and didn’t think as much about her desire to win the lottery. It sounds to me like she entered the Sabbath, a state that many conscious creators get to once they know their manifestation is on the way. You can read more about the Sabbath (and how to know you’ve reached it) here.

Lesson #7: Self-concept is important

I added this point a few months after I published this article because I found out that Cynthia Stafford (like many lottery winners) later went bankrupt and had to rebuild from scratch.

What can we learn from this part of her story?

We know from Neville Goddard’s work that your reality reflects your self-concept.

As within, so without — whoever you believe yourself to be, is what manifests in your external reality.

To manifest a large sum of money, Cynthia Stafford would have convinced herself that she was an extremely lucky lottery winner.

What she didn’t manage to convince herself of is that she was someone who was great at managing money and a long-term wealthy person.

It looks like she focused on the former (being the lucky lottery winner) but not the latter (being the wealthy person.)

Either that, or she had something in her subconscious mind or energy field that she was still unaware of, and which was emitting poverty and cancelling out her intention to remain wealthy.

This is the main problem with how many people these days are using the Law of Assumption. Most do not know the unfavourable ‘stories’ their subconscious mind contains. Most are using affirmations to “mow over a weed” in their “lawn” every day or every week. This means they are using affirmations to neutralise their long-term negative beliefs. Living that way is exhausting and it’s not how I teach people to use the Law of Assumption.

Using affirmations can be great, but not when people have limiting beliefs and they are not doing the work to pull those beliefs out at the root.

So, my experience with the Law of Assumption community is that not many people are pulling the weeds up at the root.

The subconscious mind often contains negative beliefs that come from childhood (which in turn often come from past lives.) If you’re just putting new favourable stories into your subconscious mind, but you also have negative stories, you’re just treading water. You’re not going anywhere. The two will be cancelling each other out.

In that scenario, you will need to do some inner work to pull out the weeds, so to speak. You may need to revise, or consider other forms of deep inner work.

Some people need to do deep inner work to manifest, and others don’t.

My guess is that Cynthia Stafford was someone who needed that kind of inner work but failed to do it. She was still living out an old story of poverty, even after she won.

Here are some articles which go into that further:

1. How to revise (in my opinion this is the best way to remove limiting beliefs)
2. How to work out whether you need deep inner work to remove negative beliefs as part of your manifesting process (this long article goes into the topic of karma) — this is something many people in the Law of Assumption community often do not address, to their detriment. It is the number 1 reason people struggle long term to create what they want and hold onto it.

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A common question I get from coaching clients is:

Do you need to heal before you use the Law of Assumption?

And:

Is it OK if I resolve trauma while I’m working on consciously manifesting a new outcome in my life?

This is a complicated and nuanced topic and I’m going to try to bring as much nuance to it as possible.

I find great value in healing and trauma therapies. But at the same time I don’t recommend actively resolving trauma with a therapist while consciously using the Law of Assumption to manifest a new outcome in your life.

This is just my perspective based on my personal experiences. Below I explain why.

I have an extensive history with trauma, beginning in childhood and continuing throughout adulthood (my ACE score is 8/10.) I had C-PTSD for my entire adult life but finally let go of it in the last couple of years.

I used healing modalities and trauma therapies for around 12 years. I made a lot of progress, but I didn’t get rid of the C-PTSD through these modalities.

When it comes to manifesting a new outcome in your life, the problem with many healing modalities is that you’re focusing on the old story (of past trauma) while you’re doing them.

Focusing on old stories is going to yield more of the same in your 3D reality.

To manifest a different outcome in your life, you have to “become” that person on the inside, who is experiencing your desired outcome. You have to change on the inside — there is “nothing to change but self”, according to Neville Goddard.

Therefore, if you want to see significant change in your 3D, you need to significantly change on the inside, in terms of your thoughts, feelings, moods, assumptions, beliefs and identity/self-concept.

It’s very difficult to do this while you are “running old stories” and focusing on the past.

So, if you are currently using a trauma therapy, and you’re also consciously manifesting a new outcome in your life, the two cancel each other out to a large degree.

The trauma therapy has you focusing on the old story and the manifesting practices have you focusing on a new story. You may make some progress, but you won’t make as much progress in manifesting a new outcome because these two do neutralise each other energetically to some extent.

The nuance

Note that healing modalities and trauma therapies have their place. I don’t feel my time was wasted with them.

But they may not fully heal C-PTSD or trauma. They will get you some of the way there. I believe that to heal fully, you need to do your trauma therapy, then switch to manifesting. Using the manifesting practices is what finally regulated my nervous system, and my nervous system didn’t become regulated until I started using manifesting practices.

I still occasionally get dysregulated/triggered, but when I do, I notice quickly and I am able to re-regulate by myself within minutes. This is such a big change for me on how things used to be, because I used to spend days in a state of dysregulation. Essentially, in the last 18 months I’ve retrained my body and mind so that my autonomic nervous system is under my conscious control.

Manifesting practices have been a large part of being able to do that.

But the following work did also contribute to this end result of me being able to re-regulate myself:

• Craniosacral therapy
• Body-centred psychotherapy/Hakomi
• EMDR
• “Parts work”/Internal family systems
• Revision.

I would say the healing got me 60-70% of the way there and the manifesting practices were the icing and the cherry on top of the “nervous system cake”.

So, to sum up my views on healing and manifesting

1. Trauma therapies and conscious manifesting practices are not compatible, in my view, if the trauma therapy involves going over past negative experiences (EMDR is a good example of this). There’s a time for one and a time for the other. They shouldn’t be done in tandem unless you’re OK with wasting some of your time and energy on manifesting practices that may yield little to no results. Personally I feel that is a bad idea because it will cause you to feel that manifesting isn’t for you and that it doesn’t create much change in the 3D.

2. You don’t need to heal 100% before you start using Law of Assumption practices. However, if you find that if you are too dysregulated to actually use techniques or start a routine with daily practices, healing may be helpful before you start.

3. While consciously manifesting, it may be OK to use healing modalities that don’t go over past negative experiences, such as internal family systems or inner child work.

4. A great technique to use for those who dissociate, is robotic affirming or listening to affirmations that you recorded for yourself. You can use that technique no matter how you feel.

5. If you are traumatised and you manifest consciously while dysregulated or while engaging in a lot of negative thinking, you can sometimes succeed, but in my experience your bridge of incidents will be rockier than for someone who doesn’t consciously manifest from that place.

6. One of the things I’ve had to let go of with my extensive background in healing and trauma, is that there’s something wrong with me. I’m not broken and I don’t need anymore healing.

The problem with the healing techniques when used for years and years is that they reinforce the old story that you need healing. If you focus on healing work for a very long time, what you’ll see in your life is more healing work. If you have had C-PTSD, I’m sure you know what that’s like. The healing can be never-ending.

Update Feb 2025: Neville Goddard’s DIY revision technique can be especially helpful for people who have experienced a lot of trauma (since it deals with healing the past, it should not be done alongside LOA techniques that focus on manifesting a desired outcome.)

This article is for people who are using the Law of Assumption to consciously create their lives.

(You can read my first article on mental diet here. )

In this second article on the topic of mental diet, I’m going to talk about an aspect of your mental diet that is worth considering: what you are consuming throughout your day, in terms of media. I’m going to recommend some tweaks you can make to your daily routine & activities that can yield big results for manifesting.

Neville Goddard & Mental diets

Neville Goddard often talked about the importance of a mental diet for aligning with the reality you wish to create. Here are some quotes from his 1955 lecture “Mental Diets.”

“Talking to oneself is a habit everyone indulges in. We could no more stop talking to ourselves than we could stop eating and drinking. All that we can do is control the nature and the direction of our inner conversations. Most of us are totally unaware of the fact that our inner conversations are the causes of the circumstance of our life.”

“A man’s mental conversations attracts his life. As long as there is no change in his inner talking, the personal history of the man remains the same. To attempt to change the world before we change our inner talking is to struggle against the very nature of things. Man can go round and round in the same circle of disappointments and misfortunes, not seeing them as caused by his own negative inner talking, but as caused by others.”

So in these quotes, Neville Goddard is saying that our inner conversations (i.e. what we say to ourselves in the privacy of our own minds) direct the course of our life.

Ideally our inner conversations are not going to be negative. The problem is that negative stories are all around us in our culture (in social media, in the news, in songs, in books, and in movies & TV) and we do consume them in a passive way without even thinking about what it is doing to our subconscious mind, and this can negatively affect our inner conversations. 

We are wired for empathy. When we see or hear about someone else having a negative experience, the mirror neurons in our brain are activated, and we unconsciously imagine ourselves in the situation(s) we are hearing or reading about. Then we have thoughts and feelings that align with these situations. Some of this occurs on an unconscious level, and different people are affected to different degrees by this (- if you are an empath or know you have a suggestible subconscious mind, then you will be affected more than most.)

Therefore, when we are engaging in a process of manifesting our desires, it helps to eliminate any negative input that could lead us down an unfavourable pathway in the mind, and see us unwittingly imagining unfavourable situations for ourselves or others.

The subconscious mind is just like a computer, and everything we take in, in terms of what we think, we what say to ourselves, what we say out loud, what other people say to us and what we hear around us, programs this computer (and creates our life), for better or worse.

The fact is, we can spend 30 minutes doing great work in terms of reprogramming the subconscious mind towards something favourable, through affirmations or visualisations, or just resting in the state of the wish fulfilled. And we can undo all of that good work in just a few minutes by passively consuming something really toxic. We create everything in our lives according to the contents of our subconscious mind. And the subconscious mind is really easy and quick to reprogram, which is great when we want to use techniques to reprogram ourselves for something favourable, but it’s also not so great when we accidentally take in information that reprograms the subconscious towards something unfavourable. 

So I recommend that you become aware of the potentially negative sources of information in your life, and eliminate them while you are going through this process of creating a desired outcome through manifesting. Otherwise you may be sabotaging yourself. 

Here they are:

Conversations about things you don’t wish to see more of in your life

Sometimes people are working on manifesting a particular intention, for example, more money, but then they find that they keep having conversations with their spouse about how they don’t have enough money. If you’re manifesting money, you don’t want to be hearing people complain about money nor do you want to be affirming “we can’t afford that” or “we don’t have enough money.” Do what you can to avoid these conversations as much as possible. 

Therapy

This also applies to getting psychotherapy or counselling. I think therapy is often helpful, but it may not be helpful in a situation where you are manifesting something in a particular area of your life but then talking negatively about that life area in therapy. For example, you are manifesting an improvement in your relationship, but you’re often talking in therapy about what is going wrong in the relationship. When manifesting, I prefer to use therapy strictly for problem solving and not to vent. Otherwise, I’m focusing on something I do not want to see more of in my life.

News

I highly recommend not reading or watching the news while you are in this process. I don’t think many people reading this article need convincing that news is toxic. We all know this already. It is a run down of the most horrible and sensational things that are happening or have recently happened on the planet today. Studies show that consuming news triggers the limbic system of the brain and raises stress hormones in the body, like cortisol. Raised cortisol can cause your immune and your digestive systems to function less efficiently. There are many other side effects of elevated cortisol, too, that I won’t go into here, but suffice to say news is bad for the mind, bad for the body, and can steer your inner conversations in an unfavourable direction, undoing your previous good work. 

An example of this is if you are currently working on manifesting a higher income, but you keep seeing news stories about rising inflation, high house prices and people experiencing poverty and hardship. This is going to trigger the limbic system of your brain that is tasked with your survival, and you will be taking in the message that “it is hard to get ahead and normal to struggle.” How is this going to help you to “live in the end” of having more prosperity in your life? It is doing the exact opposite.

So, if there’s one change I can recommend you can make to manifest more of what you want, I would say give up news altogether. Your life will become more peaceful overnight. 

I recommend asking a friend or family member to notify you if there is any news that you really should know about, and then stop reading or watching. 

Social media/online forums

The same goes for most of the spaces where people gather online. If it’s on a social media website or it’s an online forum, the algorithms are geared towards strong emotions, such as anger. If you can evoke a strong negative emotion in someone, the more likely he or she is to react and engage with the social media content, and the longer the person spends on that website and the more likely they are to share things and bring in other users. The longer they spend on the website and the more they share the content, the more ad revenue the social media company or forum will make. 

So social media and online forums make money off our negative emotions. They are like vampires. The less time you spend on them, the better.

Reading or watching stories about triggering topics

If there is a cause that is dear to your heart, but also triggers negative emotions in you, be careful about engaging with it while you are in the manifesting process.

For example, if you’re an animal lover, don’t read or watch stories of animals that have been neglected or abused, even if that story has a happy ending. Know the triggers that are going to upset you or make you feel negative emotion. This can cause you to slip into an undesirable state while you’re in this process.

Songs

When I was first getting into manifesting and I was doing the DNRS program (which is actually a program for applying the principles of the Law of Assumption for improving health, although it doesn’t present or market itself that way) I was encouraged to only listen to uplifting music, and no sad lyrics. 

So, I went through my YouTube playlists and I found that many of the songs I had in them were sad and depressing. I was a sucker for a sad love song, in particular. I started to observe what these songs were doing to my state of mind when I listened. 

I found that when I listened to a sad love song, it would activate memories of times when I listened to that song when I was sad, such as after a break up. In a flash, it put me into that old self that was suffering. Activating such memories was bittersweet.

Be careful of the lyrical content of the songs you listen to. Read the lyrics. Feel the energy. Your subconscious is taking this stuff in and receiving info about what kind of reality you’re living in right now (which is what creates your future), so don’t listen to anything with negative undertones, when you’re in the conscious manifesting process.

As an example, if you’re manifesting money, you don’t want to be listening to stuff like this or this.

Instead, listen to positive, uplifting music.

Note that this isn’t about repressing emotion. If you already feel bad and need to have a cry, sad music can be a great way to get it out of you and it’s fine to cry. I’m not talking about that. Instead, I’m saying that if you already feel OK, don’t listen to music that may elicit a change of state in the negative direction.

(As an aside, remember that negative emotions on their own don’t manifest our lives – what manifests are the negative emotions and thoughts we actually identify with consistently, day after day.)

TV and Movies

Similarly, when manifesting be careful of what you watch. Don’t watch violence, or stories where people are struggling or depressed. Some of this will be specific to what you are manifesting. For example, if you’re manifesting an improved relationship, don’t watch a movie or TV show about an unhappy couple. These stories can plant unfavourable seeds in our subconscious minds or cause you to focus on an existing unfavourable story that you’re running inside your mind, that you really need to take your focus off. 

True crime

Stay away also from true crime. I’m a fan of true crime so this one was hardest for me. Darkness and sickness are the underlying energies associated with most true crime stories. These are not energies you want entering your subconscious mind while you’re consciously manifesting a positive outcome in your life.

In summary, don’t feed your mind garbage while you’re manifesting. What is going on behind your eyes is what you will see in your life maybe several weeks from now, and what is going on behind your eyes is powerfully affected by what you consume.

Here are some ideas as to what you can consume instead of the above:

• Gaia.com documentaries – I particularly like the Dr Joe Dispenza Rewired series on there. They do a free 7 day trial.
• I find that cooking shows and travel documentaries are always very “neutral” in terms of how they affect my state, so I watch a lot of travel documentaries on YouTube.
• I love watching this YouTube channel: Scenic Relaxation, which combines beautiful music with panoramic drone footage of various countries.

Further Reading:

I offer a free online resource for manifesting your desired reality using the Law of Assumption — it’s a collection of online articles which are presented in the right order so that you can use them as a ‘how to’ guide. It’s quite a comprehensive resource and can help take you from A to B with almost any intention. You can find that here.