Manifestation journals take your intentions to the next level. By encouraging you to put pen to paper, they help you carry your positive thoughts into the physical realm. No matter what you’re looking to attract, here’s how manifestation journals can help, plus how to get started working with one. You can think of a manifestation journal as a written record of what you want to attract, in the same way that a vision board is a visual depiction of those things. Energy flows where attention goes, so by holding your goals in mind as you write, you’re fueling your intention. As professional intuitive Tanya Carroll Richardson previously explained to mbg, working with the law of attraction is like “putting in an order with Spirit,” and that’s essentially what you’re doing with a manifestation journal: writing out your goals, aka “putting your order in.” To that end, neuroscientist and author of The Source Tara Swart, M.D., Ph.D., previously recommended journaling for that same reason. She says journaling daily can help you recognize a scarcity mindset versus an abundance mindset—because you won’t get far manifesting from a scarcity mindset! Writing also gives us the space to give the “thinking brain” a rest and enter a flow state, Reid adds. And when we’re in a flow state, we can better hear “what our heart and soul have to say about what we truly desire.” And of course, she notes, writing is a way of focusing one’s energy, “which brings more potency to the manifestation process.” As Reid notes, if you wanted to manifest wealth, for example, you could write down (multiple times), “I call in $10K in the month of December 2021,” and then include lots of details about all the incredible things that will come out of your manifestation. Expressing things that would bring you joy from the manifestation allows you to get into that feeling, she explains, “and that’s what creates an energetic frequency that helps align you to your desires.” She adds that once you’re energetically aligned, it can lead to the inspired action necessary to achieve the thing you’re looking to manifest. And as registered yoga instructor Sonia Lopez Simpson previously wrote for mbg, even keeping a “worry list” of anything that’s bothering you can help to “release the heavy energy that often keeps us stuck.” She and Reid both note doing this often makes you realize your worries might just be wasting your energy—and keeping you from manifesting. So, the more you start seeing those feasible goals manifest, the more you strengthen your ability to believe in receiving something you don’t already have, she adds.
