The Magic of Manifesting: 15 Advanced Techniques To Attract Your Best Life, Even If You Think It's Impossible Now

by Ryuu Shinohara

Resisting your emotions is a lot like fighting fire with fire, and this only makes things worse. When a negative emotion like anger arises, being angry at the anger will never work to diffuse it. Judging yourself excessively for feeling an emotion will cause it to erupt even more frequently. Don’t pass judgment on negativity that crops up. Recognize that it exists and return to the present moment as best as you can. The first time you do this, your mind will resist. But with practice, you will get used to it and soon, negative emotion will pass you by like a fleeting rainstorm. You’ll have adapted to the situation and will no longer fear the onset of emotions, no matter how bad your circumstances get.

When functional, receptive energy manifests as openness, awareness, and acceptance. It puts us in touch with who we are and the reality of our situation. With the help of active energy, we can take steps to rectify our situation.

Love plays a crucial role in your ability to develop receptivity. When you love life, life loves you. Love moves the world. It is the emotion that connects us to our soul and infinite intelligence (as we saw in the previous chapter). Developing awareness is crucial for love to exist since love requires an attitude of leaving the ego (or separate-self) behind and prioritizing the connection between all things.

To manifest your desires, you need to embrace obstacles, challenges, insights, lessons, opportunities, people, and the situations the Universe gives you.

Understand this: when you commit to opening up to reality, the Universe will reward you in kind.

At first, letting go of emotions will be difficult. You’ll shy away. You’ll think of every reason why your dream isn’t possible. You must have courage. Not everyone has it. But those that do, create lives many of us wish we had. What are the emotions you find to be the most disruptive in your everyday life? What are the triggers that set off these emotions? When do you typically experience them?

Our body has two major nerve centers: the brain and the heart. Often, as we navigate the trials and triumphs of our lives, we rely on logic and rationality to guide us rather than listening to our intuition and hearts. In essence, we ignore the intangible wisdom of the heart in favor of the groundedness of the mind. This is the biggest mistake we can make

most of us don’t realize is that there is a connection between the heart and the mind. The more we nurture this connection, the better we become at manifestation.

The truth can hurt sometimes, especially for someone who is lost. This causes a lot of us to turn a deaf ear to the whispers of our hearts. One reason we don’t enjoy hearing harsh truths is because of judgment. The brain (or in this example, the ego) specializes in judging, labeling, and creating narratives. When we hear negative things about ourselves, we take it personally. We believe what’s being said. We allow others’ ideas to manipulate us into thinking and behaving in limiting ways. The heart doesn’t judge. It accepts everything as it is and seeks only to improve situations through subtle impulses and sensations. Your heart doesn’t justify its reasoning. It’s pure in its intent to support and guide you toward living your best life.

Curiosity and a sense of wonder are just a couple of things we lose as we grow older and become indoctrinated with societal thinking. Indulge your inner child. Never stop exploring. Never take the world for granted.

One final exercise you can begin to adopt is to visualize the possibility of success and abundance before going to sleep. A few moments before falling asleep, our brains enter what’s known as an alpha-wave state. This is an extremely receptive state, making it easier to connect the heart and mind. Once you’ve begun visualizing your success, allow yourself to feel the emotion come through. Doing this practice will encode new data into your subconscious mind. By giving this layer of the mind a clear direction, you allow new insights and ideas to manifest in the form of intuition.

Events in your life will set themselves up in strange ways. There will be moments with little time to test the validity of an impulse. In these cases, seek positive expansion. Follow the path that is both exciting and will help you grow.