How to Manifest - Step 2 - Feel What You Want

In order to manifest the abundance and prosperity you desire, you can’t just calmly think the words, “I want abundance and prosperity.” There are several reasons why doing so won’t manifest what you desire.

The first is the use of “I want” (or “I wish” or “I will have”). Your unconscious mind has no concept of a future. It only have now. Therefore, if you tell it that the reality you’re manifesting is, “I want abundance and prosperity,” then what it will create for you is a reality in which you are always wanting abundance and prosperity … because you never get it. To manifest your desires, you must imagine already having them. “I live in abundance and prosperity” is a much better reality.

Additionally, your unconscious mind doesn’t speak English (or any other language involving words). How can it, when your unconscious mind is with you from the day of your birth, and you live several years with no (or very few) words. If your conscious mind communicated with words, it wouldn’t be able to fully speak to you until you were 5 or 6 years old. So, instead, you unconscious mind must communicate in a method that makes sense from the very beginning: images and emotions.

You unconscious mind communicates to you through images of your five senses (not just visual images but also sound, taste, touch, and smell) and the emotions that this create in you. Therefore, to communicate back to your unconscious mind, you must use your imagination to create the images and emotions that you want it to create in your reality. Have an imagination (”visualization”) experience of your desire having come true all around you. Repeat this imagination experience at least twice a day, for at least 10 minutes each time.

This causes your unconscious mind to start to struggle with something psychologists refer to a “cognitive dissonance,” which essentially means that you can’t believe two opposite things at the same time. You can’t believe, “I attract wealth easily” at the same time you believe, “I’ll never have any money.” If you convince your unconscious mind that the true side is “I attract wealth easily,” then it will set out to help you notice and easily act on the opportunities that prove this statement to be true.

If you want to attract wealth easily, then have an emotional imagining (visualizing) experience of attracting and being joyously wealthy several times a day, as often as possible. Keep your mind off the idea of not having money. If (”when,” really) you have a thought about not having enough money, briefly follow it up by thinking, “Cancel that” and take 10 seconds to feel a burst of emotion over the experience of easy wealth that is the reality of your imagination.

When you convince your mind that wealth is your reality, your senses will start to bring to your attention the real opportunities to increase your wealth that are around you every day. This moves you on to step 2.

1. KNOW/HAVE/BE what you want. To get what you want, you have to first know what it is. What do you want? You need to go beyond just knowing that you want in your head, You have to experience the emotions of already having it. You need to visualize yourself already doing, being, having whatever it is you want, and the visualizations can’t be cold and clinical. This is your dream come true. You must experience the visualization including the waves of joyous emotion that you’d have if you were living that dream at this very moment.

When you convince your subconscious mind that you in fact HAVE what you want (and you convince it by having the emotions and visualizations identical to those you’d feel and see when the dream comes true), then your unconscious mind feels no option but to create that reality around you.

See also:

How to Manifest - Introduction
How to Manifest - Step 1 - Know What You Want
How to Manifest - Step 2 - Feel What You Want
How to Manifest - Step 3 - Taking Action
How to Manifest - Step 4a - Don’t Worry While Manifesting
How to Manifest - Step 4b - Release the Result