How to Manifest - Step 1 - Know What You Want

The key to knowing how to manifest your desires comes from the strange but wonderful fact that your unconscious mind can’t tell the difference between things going on around your body in the physical world (what we’d call “real” things) and things that are going on inside your mind (in what we’d call “imagination). In a wonderfully childlike way, your unconscious mind believes your emphatic imaginings to be just as real as concrete “reality.”

Scientific studies have shown that people have improved their weight loss success by imagining that they’re exercising. Athletes have improved their performance by imagining that they’re practicing and honing their skills. Just like the people in these studies, you can manifest the results you want by experiencing them in your imagination, so that your unconscious mind will make that imagination a reality.

If you’ve ever woken up during a strong dream, you may have felt your heart pounding and your muscles clenching. Tears may have been rolling down your cheeks, or you might have laughed so loud that you woke yourself up. These experiences demonstrate the fact that your mind and body buy into the “imagination” of your dreams absolutely. While you were dreaming, the experience was as real to you as what happens while you’re awake. To your unconscious mind, both experiences are equally real.

Many times, this use of your imagination during the process of manifesting is referred to as “visualization,” but this term is somewhat misleading, because (as any child could tell you) imagining goes far beyond just seeing. In order to manifest your desires, you have to imagine experiencing the desired situation or condition right here, right now, with the wild abandon of a four year old.

You have to see it around you, feel it within you. Bring as many of your senses into the imagination as possible: tasting, hearing, smelling, touching, as well as seeing your manifested desire as a reality that surrounds you. Most importantly, you must FEEL the desired experience having manifested into reality.

Feel the joy it would bring you. Experience your heart swelling in your chest. Feel the smile spreading across your face. Your eyes may fill with tears of joy. You want to dance and jump and throw your arms about in utter glee. Please do so; it just makes the imagined experience that much stronger.

This is the first basic component of how to manifest your desires. Be sure that you do it right, not just knowing what you want, but feeling what you want, in order to create the abundance you desire in your life.

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