Manifesting and Me

Every single person that has experience of manifesting can remember the first time they came across it and I am no different.

For me, it was about 10 years ago and I was in a book shop at Brighton train station feeling a bit low at the prospect of having to make the long journey home to Leeds and return to my life, which at the time felt like nothing was going right. 

I was working in a job that was slowly chipping away at my self-esteem and I had become a shell of myself. Tensions in my relationship were becoming difficult to bear and I wasn't sure if I was at crossroads there. and perhaps most challenging my partner's business had come to a crushing halt and the fall-out of which turned our lives upside down - we lost our house, our possessions and had to move in with my parents. 

It was against this background that I found myself somewhat randomly in a self-help section of the bookshop and it was there that I picked up the book ‘The Secret’, by Rhonda Byrne.

This might cause you to roll your eyes as it is a pretty divisive book, that has quite rightly being questioned over the years.

That said, what I found in those pages like millions of other people almost immediately changed my life and it was putting into practice the ‘ask, believe, receive’ technique where my manifestation journey really started and IbBegan to know and believe that there were powers and energies and magical sources of creation available to me that had never imagined before.

I opened myself up to the universe and got started straight away. I wanted to manifest leaving the toxic environment I found myself in at work. I chose the sign of a blue flower to help be an anchor and be a sign from the universe that my manifestation was on its way. 

I chose a blue flower, because they are rarely seen in nature and I knew this would really stand out to me... a couple of weeks passed and still no blue flower. I was looking for it on mugs, on people's clothing every time I looked through magazines…and yet no blue flower. 

And just as I was starting to doubt whether there was anything in this, I found myself travelling by car with a friend and the road closure meant there was a diversion. As we whizzed around an unexpected corner, we passed a house with its hanging baskets overflowing with blue flowers and I almost burst into tears on the spot. For me, was all the evidence I needed that there WAS something in this.

It was at that time I started a loving, but not always straightforward, dialogue with the universe that I am still in today. 

I found manifestation at my lowest point, but it has without a doubt played a conscious part of me achieving the highest points in my life, of which there are so many to mention. 

I have used, and do use, the principles of manifestation shared in this section to call in all sorts of amazing things into my life. Designer handbag, holiday upgrades, book deals, clients, friendships, chance meetings, late trains, you name it  - I’m in a state of conscious manifestation pretty much all the time.

How? Let’s get into it. What follows are the principles you’ll need to follow, as well as the nuance unpacked and the how-to part so you can actually be and do manifesting.

Let’s dive in!