Manifestation is the clear expression of your brightest dreams and highest goals and active action on them, which in turn leads to your best, happiest life.

How does manifestation work?

As Roxy Nafusi explains in her book "Manifest: 7 Steps to Your Best Life", manifestation is the ability to achieve what you want, it is a self-growth practice that includes other practices such as self-care, self-love and positive habits. This means that the manifestation is not only about expressing wishes for the future. Rather, it's about being aware of the present, because as Roxy Nafusi points out, every journey of self-growth begins with awareness.

Manifestation is based on the law of attraction, which states that when thoughts are changed, feelings, emotions and vibrations change, ultimately, reality as well. In short, we attract what we emit. We will return to this law several times.

Let's take a look at Roxy Nafusi's seven steps to achieving your goals and living your best life.

The first step - clearly formulate your vision

Roxy Nafusi writes that the first step on the path to manifestation is a clear awareness of one's desires and imagining or visualization as accurately as possible. In order for dreams and goals to come true, you need to manifest what you really want and what will bring you fulfillment. Be true to yourself and indulge your most authentic dreams. Manifestation will not work if you try to attract what you supposedly want or what others expect from you. Sometimes people really don't know what they want and are guided by ready-made templates. But if you want to manifest your best life, you have to ask yourself what you really want.

When defining your dreams, remember that manifestation is not about attracting possessions, but discovering the most loving and authentic version of yourself. Therefore, the greatest emphasis should be placed on what you want to be, not what you want to receive. This is also where the most common misunderstandings about manifestation lie - people think that manifestation is like giving an order to the universe, and accordingly they are disappointed when they do not receive this order. Actually, manifestation is work with yourself - a way to guide yourself towards a better and happier life.

Visualization helps in the realization of dreams and goals mainly in two ways. First, the Law of Attraction states that our vibrations affect what we attract. The images we create in our mind when visualizing create changes in sensation in the body, thus changing the vibration as well. Second, when we visualize regularly, the brain changes perception according to the imagined goal. We begin to get used to this goal and act on it - we notice new opportunities by sifting out unnecessary information.

For the visualization to be effective, it is important to add that it should be specific - the more detailed it will be, the more true it will seem. Moreover, it is not enough to just imagine, you also have to feel when visualizing. If you still cannot give yourself a concrete answer to the question of what you want and what your goal is, then visualize how you want to feel.

Second step - get rid of fear and doubt

this step is one of the most essential in Roxy Nafusi's seven-step program. As already mentioned, the law of attraction states that we attract what we emit. If you want to attract good and be successful, you must radiate this positive vibration. The second step teaches you to work with yourself and get rid of negativity, because only by consciously choosing to think positive thoughts that cause high-vibration emotions, abundance comes into life.

Sometimes this struggle with doubts, fears and limiting beliefs requires more time and effort than the first step - formulating and visualizing wishes. It may happen that you even have to take a step back - when you start to get rid of fears and doubts, you will ask that perhaps your dreams and goals need to be supplemented, because you did not dare to dream to the end before.

In other words, you can only manifest what you believe you deserve. However, for most people, this confidence is undermined by subconscious fears, doubts and limiting beliefs. Perhaps there is something that you do not even dare to dream about, because it seems that it is not feasible. Maybe you choose not to dream or express your wishes out loud to protect yourself from failure and disappointment. It sounds absurd, but people sabotage themselves this way more often than you might think.

To reduce the power of fear and doubt over you, you need to recognize them. Avoidance will not help, you have to be clearly aware of them in order to work with them. this inner work consists of managing one's thoughts, resisting negative thoughts, and cultivating supportive, empowering thoughts. Disprove your negative beliefs about yourself and replace them with positive ones.

Change the scenarios you play out in your mind - instead of thinking about everything that could go wrong, imagine all the possible ways it could work out. There is power not only in visualization, but also in language, so use affirming language, formulate wishes positively and talk about what you want, not about what you don't want.

Self-love - the basis of manifestation

In the second point Roxy Nafusi also talks about the importance of cultivating and practicing self-love . Only by loving yourself do you allow abundance to enter your life and dreams to come true. If you accept yourself and believe in yourself, you rise above fear, doubt and limitations. There are countless ways to love yourself, but they all boil down to making decisions that are good for you. For example, you must choose to think positive thoughts, you must choose to spend time with people who inspire you, you must choose to develop healthy habits. It all matters because taking care of yourself makes you feel good and shows the universe that you are in a positive vibration.

Step Three - Adjust Behavior

Like thoughts and self-care, behavior is a direct reflection of our self-esteem. Manifestation is an active action and it appears especially vividly in this step. As Roxy Nafusi writes, adapting behavior means acting like the person you want to become. She emphasizes that this version of you already exists in you - it is the most authentic and also the strongest version of you.

Become the energy that you want to attract. In order for change to manifest, it must first be created. Of course, when you act differently, you will feel differently, you will encounter the unknown and the unusual, but the subconscious mind will probably want to stay with the usual. We have already mentioned self-sabotage in relation to fear and doubt. An unconscious tendency to stick with the routine is another way this can happen. However, try to recognize it and not give in. You have to learn to live in the new life full of possibilities. Because where it is comfortable and usual, nothing changes. Only when you change something and start to feel differently, you will realize that with your inner strength you can create a wonderful and abundant life, inspiration will arise in you, creativity will increase and ideas will be born.

Fourth step - pass the tests of the universe

Basically, this step teaches patience and surrender. It is understandable that when you have formulated your desires, fought with your limiting beliefs, you will wait for the result. But apart from fear and doubt, there are other aspects that can affect the fulfillment of dreams. They will be different for everyone. Someone will have to get rid of the old in order for something new to come into life. Someone will have to give up a tempting opportunity that is supposed to be good, but is not exactly what you want. Whatever your trials may be, use them to develop your inner strength, adaptability and courage.

Fifth step - feel gratitude

As you have already noticed, the law of attraction is mentioned in almost every step of the manifestation. We have already talked about getting rid of negative thoughts and feelings. Another way to do this is to practice gratitude. Roxy Nafusi writes that gratitude is one of the most powerful emotional tools for getting out of low vibrations, bad emotions and negativity. Your motivation should be filled with positivity and love; you will not get out of it with negations against the reality of the moment. Be conscious and present in the present, list the good things that happened to you today. Express gratitude to yourself, to life and to the world, because that's the only way you'll get more.

The sixth step - turn envy into inspiration

this step is related to two ways of thinking - thinking of scarcity and thinking of abundance. A scarcity mindset assumes that when someone else has what you want, you don't have it. Abundance thinking, on the other hand, knows that there will be enough for everyone. If someone else has it, it means you can have it too. Envy is associated with lack and it only attracts more lack. Therefore, turn envy into its opposite - inspiration. If someone has what you want, don't envy, but learn and be inspired.

Seventh step - trust the universe

Finally, the last step in Roxy Nafusi's manifestation program is trust. As she explains it, when you trust, you stop doubting and you know that everything will happen. Going back to the law of attraction, you already know that your belief and faith will allow you to attract everything you want to manifest.

Manifestation - active action towards the fulfillment of dreams and goals

If approached carefully, manifestation is a simple, clear and understandable self-growth tool that helps you live a conscious life, increase positive thoughts, love yourself and achieve what you desire. Manifestation teaches you to believe in yourself, to act according to your desires and, ultimately, to let go and let go.

It's just that simple - if you increase the positive in yourself, everything will happen.

Source of information: Nafusi, Roxy. Manifest. 7 steps to the best life. Translate G. Graudiņa. Helios publishing house, 2023

Author of the article: Renate Berga