Each chapter is filled with exercises that are designed to cultivate self-awareness, reflection and growth, and therefore empower and enhance your manifesting process. Accepting and recognising negative thoughts are natural can help make embracing positive thoughts easier,' say Kamara, who suggests individuals try mindfulness techniques that allow them to be present in the moment and reflect on all that you are grateful for. Be grateful for what you already have and grateful for what other beautiful blessings are to come.’ I feel like I am having to do damage control for manifesting. There are loads of misconceptions and I think it does give it a bad name," Roxie explains. But, the coach says you'd be forgiven for being skeptical about manifesting: "I understand though. If I hadn't delved into it, if I was on the outside and watching some of the videos on TikTok then I would probably be a sceptic, too. I love the approach as it contains simplicity and is broken down for you but I've trouble fully resonating with the steps given because it feels repetitive and too surface. And sometimes, it's like a workbook with too many pressing questions and less action. Do you get what I mean?

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During the research for her second book, Nafaousi says she was surprised when people would tell her: 'I’ve been having a really bad week and I’m really worried I’m ruining my manifesting journal'. She adds: "I can only do what I can to spread my message and the people that want to hear it and are open to it will benefit from it and the people that don't won't. It's as simple as that. I'm not here to try and convince anyone of anything," Roxie adds. For the uninitiated (sorry, do you not live on TikTok?) manifesting is a practice that encourages people to harness positive thinking to achieve their wildest dreams. Essentially, manifesting says that if you think positively, you will operate on a high vibrational plane, which will encourage positive things to come your way. Yes, it sounds totally woo-woo, but boiled down, using mantras, channelling positive thinking, and developing gratitude are also methods that form part of some more traditional therapies.While manifestation’s popularity on social media has improved people’s awareness of the practice, its effectiveness can often be misconstrued and provide false hope. For example, last year’s viral 3-6-9 Manifestation Method on TikTok focusses on the importance of numerology, which is the pseudoscientific belief in a mystical relationship between certain number and events. The method encourages users to write a goal down on a piece of paper three times in the morning, six times during the day, and nine times before going to sleep. Tiktok users who have used the method claim to have had almost immediate results, from receiving a text message from an ex to acquiring money. With the New Year upon us, Nafousi says one of the biggest rules for manifesting in 2023 is to learn to say 'no'. 'Saying "no" is empowering, liberating and it frees up so much time and energy for us. It’s a big part of Step 4: Overcoming Tests from the Universe. Get into the practice of saying "no" to things that don’t align with your future self or that don’t serve your best interests! I promise it gets easier the more you do it!' Put in whatever work you can from your side to move you closer towards your goal, and leave the rest to the universe.’

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Moon Onyx Starr, a wellness entrepreneur and host of the Over the Moon Retreats in the UK, delved deeper into manifestation during the pandemic during a period of what she describes as a ‘great instability’ in her life. For her, manifesting is about ‘breathing life into your goals through thought, action, emotions and belief. You must be clear about what it is that you want to manifest and then take inspired action to help make those dreams a reality.'

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But manifesting, which is essentially willing your goals into existence, isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Based on the Law of Attraction, which was part of the New Thought movement and theorised by 19th century spiritualist Phineas Quimby, manifesting is all about the belief that our thoughts are energy. The concept has its foundations in several philosophical and religious traditions, from Hermeticism and Transcendentalism to Hinduism, and has been expanded on by several Twentieth Century theorists such as Napolean Hill ( Think and Grow Rich, 1937 ) and Louise Hay ( You Can Heal Your Life, 1984). To put it simply, manifesting aims to put the individual in the driver’s seat of their own life and makes them responsible for the positive and negative effects in their lives. I think manifesting has a bad rep because of Tik Tok. It’s become such a trend and people really don’t understand it. I sometimes feel I’m the PR for manifesting trying to do damage control! People on Tik Tok say they manifested their Chanel bag. Well, that’s not really manifesting is about. Manifesting is a practice of self-belief that everybody can benefit from. It’s about bringing things into your life that will give you fulfilment and contentment and joy and peace. It’s also a misconception that it’s just about visualising. It’s about hard work”.

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Where Nafousi's first book was an entry into the manifesting practice, Dive Deeper focuses more closely on helping the reader with their self-belief. It follows the same seven-steps as Manifest, but approaches them from a more introspective angle, and provides more exercises, advice, and personal anecdotes from Nafousi's own manifesting journey.'* - COSMOPOLITAN Energy flows, where attention goes. Give loving energy to whatever is in line with your goals. Once you are in this state of flow, you will begin to attract more of the right people and situations to help you fulfil your goals. And in the due course of time, you will find yourself walking through doors you once prayed would open.’ Likewise, the repetition of manifesting one’s goals and the possibility that the goal might not come to fruition might exacerbate one’s negative views about themselves or the world. ‘Manifesting encourages focus on only the positives; however, this can increase the pressure to feel happy all of the time,’ warns Kamara. I did love parts of this book, don’t get me wrong and I love love love the author and she was someone I wrote down in my “5 people who inspire you” list, I just wish this book dove deeper into the science behind manifestation whilst weaving in the 7 steps. With that all being said, if you are a beginner to self development you’ll love this book as it does make it very simple and broken down for you, however if you’re someone who understands gratitude, how to connect your behaviours to your thoughts / actions and vice versa, has awareness over the things that drive your choices etc etc this book may not fully resonate.Rather than wishing material items into our lives, manifesting, Nafousi says, is about re-training our brains, reflecting and refocussing. For her, this looks like regular journaling, and visualisations, but also “the way I show up, how I overcome tests, the boundaries I set in my life with other people.” Where Nafousi's first book was an entry into the manifesting practice, Dive Deeper focuses more closely on helping the reader with their self-belief. It follows the same seven-steps as Manifest, but approaches them from a more introspective angle, and provides more exercises, advice, and personal anecdotes from Nafousi's own manifesting journey.' - COSMOPOLITAN