In such a fast-paced world, many of us are longing for well-being that goes beyond what we currently understand. One way to acheive this could be via the practice of manifestation. This week’s guest blogger and holistic health expert, Madison Brookes, credits manifestation with helping her heal from a chronic illness, and here she tells us how you can use it to enhance your own well-being.
Manifestation, is a practice on how the power of our thoughts can create our reality and provide a meaningful pathway to holistic health and lasting well-being. A practice I embodied and aligned myself with when I was overcoming a chronic illness.
In order to harness the power of manifestation, it’s essential to align your body, mind, and soul. This alignment doesn’t just bring forward the achievement of our goals and desires, but it fosters a deep sense of gratitude, fulfilment and harmony with our mind, body and soul. Here’s how cultivating a connection between the body, mind, and soul enhances manifestation, and why it is the key to lasting health and well-being!
Understanding manifestation
Manifestation is the practice of bringing our dreams into reality through the power of our thoughts, beliefs, and our actions. Rooted in the ‘Law of Attraction’, it is the idea that what you focus on, you will attract. If you think negative thoughts and you feel pessimistic about life, you could be attracting negative things into your life. If you think positive thoughts and have a bright optimistic energy, you will probably find that luck always finds you.
You could subconsciously be attracting negative things into your life through deep-rooted beliefs (that might not even be your own and have been passed down onto you), unresolved emotions, and habitual patterns that you might not even be aware of. Therefore, you’re unintentionally sabotaging your own well-being.
Start setting clear intentions, visualising your desires, cultivating a positive mindset, and working through limiting beliefs that might be holding you back – then you can start creating the physical reality that aligns with your true desires. Beyond just attracting what you want, manifestation helps you focus on who you are becoming.
Aligning the mind
Our mind is often seen as the starting point for manifestation, because our thoughts shape our behaviours and beliefs. True mental alignment is much more than just wishful thinking, it’s also:
- Practice of gratitude: The practice of gratitude positively transforms your mental and emotional well-being, it helps you focus on what you have and not what you ‘lack’. Regularly reflecting on what we’re grateful for can shift our mindset from a scarcity outlook. Instead of focusing on lack, shifting to an abundance mindset, can help you recognise the value in what you already have. This shift helps you to reduces any stress and anxiety, strengthen resilience and have much greater happiness.
- Clear intentions: To truly manifest our health and well-being desires, we need to identify what we genuinely do desire and not just focus on others’ expectations. Defining clear and authentic goals allows our mind to focus, stay clear and keep its energy focused on our desires to keep us aligned with our true purpose.
- Mindfulness: Presence is essential for manifestation, because it allows you to become aligned with opportunities that will start to come your way that align with your goals. Practices such as meditation, journalling and visualisation help to strengthen the mind, reduce scattered thoughts and help you connect to your vision and goals.
For example, when I was sick with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) my deepest desire was to overcome this chronic illness so I could once again go back to work, start exercising, enjoy socialising with friends and family, and one day be strong enough to stand on my two feet with enough energy my body could sustain for the entire day! I dove deep into visualisation, meditation and journalling to rewire my thoughts, and beliefs to being in the new reality I wished for myself.
Aligning the body
The body can often be overlooked during the practice of manifestation, but it still has a key role in achieving your health and well-being. When we ignore our body’s needs, this creates a roadblock for our manifestations, making it more difficult to achieve. Physical alignment involves:
- Nutrition and self-care: Taking care of our body through balanced nutrition, rest, and exercise fuels us with the energy needed for manifestation. When we feel good physically, our thoughts are clearer, and our focus is sharper. When I was sick with CFS, I changed my nutrition to ensure I was nourishing my body to help me heal and made sure I stayed rested, which is a huge aspect when you are recovering from CFS.
- Movement and breathwork: Practices such as yoga, stretching and tai chi all create a bridge between the mind and body, creating awareness and balance. Breathwork can really help to release any tensions that you could be holding onto and bring you back into the present moment to reconnect with your intentions.
- Listening to the body: The body holds emotional wisdom, which is truly fascinating! The more we tune into our body’s signals (fatigue, back pain, butterflies etc.), we can start to HEAR any underlying emotions that may need to be addressed. This awareness is absolutely crucial in preventing any physical and emotional blockages. My body was crying out to me for rest before I got sick with CFS; if I had started to listen to what it was crying out for before I got sick, I believe my health wouldn’t have hit rock bottom as much as it did.
Aligning the soul
Our soul represents our deepest self, our source of purpose, and it is the energy that connects us to the universe. Connecting to our soul aligns us to our goals with a higher purpose, fostering inner peace and resilience. Spiritual alignment involves:
- Tapping into intuition: If you have gone a long-time ignoring your intuition, it can feel scary at first to start trusting yourself. For example, maybe decisions have always been made for you by other people, so you have never truly listened to what you desire. Or maybe you have been too scared to follow your inner soul out of the fear of upsetting others. It can take some time to start trusting your gut feelings if you’ve never done this before, so be easy on yourself. Start making small choices for yourself that resonate with your true path, leading to a life that feels purposeful and aligned with your higher self.
- Connecting with inner values: Manifesting for lasting health and well-being means aligning your desires with your core values. When your goals are in sync with your deepest beliefs, you will be less likely to be thrown off course by any external challenges that are thrown your way.
- Thinking positive: Your thoughts create your reality, so when you start focusing on your wildest dreams and don’t let your fears or opinions of others get in your way, you will begin to prime your mind for success. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ignore any challenges that you may face on the way, but instead approach them with resilience.
Combining it all together for lasting well-being through manifestation
Manifesting a balanced life means embracing an integrated approach that brings the body, mind, and soul into harmony. When you start to cultivate alignment from within, you start to unlock profound transformation, guiding you towards a life that is rich in well-being, connection, and true fulfilment. Manifestation then becomes more than just achieving goals, it becomes a journey toward living with joy, purpose, and peace. Start today by:
- Setting your intentions
- Practicing daily Alignment
- Staying open, present and grounded
- Embracing challenges as part of the process
Thank you to Madison for this guest blog. Follow her at @manifestwithmadison
Last updated on 13th November 2024 by cytoffice
