Journaling For Manifestation: What You Need To Know
Are you ready to open up your life to new opportunities? Whether you’re looking for love, success, money, or fame, and anything in between, manifestation is a practice that helps you to achieve your goals through the power of your thoughts and actions.
Whether you’re new to manifesting or have been practicing for a while, journaling for manifestation is a great tool that can help you to focus your energy on attracting your dream life.
In this blog, you’ll find everything you need to know about journaling for manifestation, from why it works to how to start.
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What Is Manifestation?
Manifestation is a way of using your thoughts, beliefs, and actions to achieve specific outcomes. This concept is based on the law of attraction, which states that positive thoughts attract positive outcomes while negative thoughts attract negative outcomes.
Practicing manifestation involves techniques which help to align your thoughts, beliefs, and actions to the things you want to achieve. The best manifestation methods help with:
Getting rid of limiting and negative beliefs
A negative mindset can impact what opportunities you take, and how much energy you put into them. Negative thought patterns can also cause self sabotage and self destruction, all which can prevent you from achieving your desired outcome.
Practicing positive thinking
Practicing positive thinking, for example with daily affirmations, can help to reduce conscious and subconscious beliefs you have that may not be serving you, which can open doors to new opportunities. For example, someone with low self esteem may decide not to apply for a job because they don’t think they are worthy, which causes them to miss out on a career opportunity. Practicing daily affirmations such as ‘I am worthy’ and ‘I am capable of success’ can help to rewrite negative thought patterns so that they are confident in applying for jobs and opportunities.
Setting goals and intentions
Part of manifesting involves clearly defining your goals and the steps you need to take to achieve them. Having this roadmap makes it easier to achieve your goals, as you can make sure you are constantly working towards them.
Visualising success
Visualising your success helps with mindset and confidence, key elements of manifesting.
Can You Manifest Everything?
Manifestation isn’t magic (unfortunately!) – it works by giving people the confidence and the clarity to take the actions needed for success. Manifesting can help with all areas of life, from health to finances, but it can be limited by a few things including the energy you put into it, and what is realistically achievable. For example, manifesting can help to improve your health but it won’t help you to cure a terminal illness. Likewise, you can’t manifest winning the lottery but you can manifest a successful career with financial benefits.
Benefits Of Manifestation
There are multiple benefits of manifesting, including:
Improved mindset: Manifesting helps to focus more on the positive and can improve mindset, confidence, and happiness
Increased clarity and focus: Practicing manifestation encourages you to identify and focus on achieving your goals
Control and accountability: Practicing gratitude raises awareness of how thoughts and behaviours affect your experience
Journaling And Manifestation: How It Helps
Journaling can be a useful tool when it comes to manifestation for a few reasons:
Dedicated time for manifestation
Manifesting works best when you are consistent, even if it’s just for ten minutes a day. You need to continually practice positive thoughts to change subconscious beliefs, and regularly check in on your goals to make sure you are working towards them. Having a manifestation journal is a great way to ensure you dedicate time for manifesting each day.
Minimises distractions
There is no right place or time to manifest, but it’s easier to focus on manifesting when you are journaling versus manifesting when there are distractions.
Writing things down reinforces thoughts
Writing down your affirmations and intentions makes them harder to dismiss, as they are no longer just thoughts. When you repeatedly write down your positive thoughts and visualisations, they become permanently embedded in your subconscious – similar to how revision works!
Encourages you to be specific
Manifestation journaling involves identifying and clarifying your goals and desires, from what outcome you want to how you can achieve it. Knowing these details are key to making these changes.
Provides something tangible to look back on
Your manifestation journal is a written record of jour journey that you can look back on and remind yourself of your how far you’ve come, what you’re trying to achieve, and why.
How To Start Journaling For Manifestation
Now you know why journaling helps with manifestation, here are some of the best manifestation tips to get you started.
Set goals and intentions
Writing down your goals and steps you need to take to achieve them is a great way to clarifying your intentions and committing to them.
When you first start your manifest journal, look at the bigger picture goals – where do you want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years’ time? What actions do you need to do now to get there?
You can then spend a few minutes setting your intentions each day to keep you on track.
Record your desired outcomes as if they have happened
Visualising your dreams is a manifestation technique that works great as a journaling exercise. One way to do this is to write a letter from your future self, outlining everything you’ve achieved and how you got there.
Write manifestation affirmations
Using your journal to write down positive affirmations can be really helpful, especially if you struggle with believing your affirmations. Try writing down your affirmations 1-2 times a day to help them become subconscious beliefs.
Practice reflection
Your manifest journal can be a great place to reflect on your journey so far and be honest with how hard you are working towards your goals. You can also reflect on negative thought patterns, beliefs and behaviours that may be holding you back, so that you can begin to change them.
Manifestation Journaling Tips
Here are some more tips to help you with your manifest journaling.
Create the right environment
You can manifest anywhere, but having a calm, distraction free environment makes it easier to focus on what you’re writing down. The more attention you pay to your thoughts, the more they will sink in.
Allow mistakes
It can be tempting to try and keep your manifest journal ‘perfect’ and free of flaws, but this removes your focus from the manifesting itself as your focus is on how you’re writing instead of what you’re writing. Allowing for scribbles and spelling mistakes frees up mental space to manifest, and removes pressure that might stop you from journaling.
Practice different techniques
There are many manifestation methods you can try, and you may find some work better than others for you. Use your journal to try different techniques and methods and work out what is most beneficial for your journey.
Be consistent
There are always going to be days where you don’t have the time, energy, or mental capacity to do long manifestation sessions. Allow yourself the grace you need when you need it, but try to journal consistently as you can – even if it’s just writing down one affirmation as your entire journal entry. Committing to your manifestation journey, no matter how small, helps to reinforce the energy you are trying to attract.
Use guided journals
Want to start manifesting but need some guidance? Guided manifestation journals are great for beginners – they provide prompts and examples so that you can begin manifesting right away while learning the techniques that work for you.
Prefer to create your own layouts? Look up different prompts you can use online, or check out our Blind Date With A Manifest Journal here which includes a handmade blank notebook with manifest prompts and accessories.
Remember - manifesting isn’t magic, but it can help you to create a lifestyle that aligns with your desires.
Interested in learning more about journaling? Check out our blog on the different types of journaling here.
