I’ve been thinking about the difference between manifestation and self-help.
Self-help is practical: read Meg Jay's Defining Decade, Mark Manson, Models, How to Win Over Friends etc. Change your habits, be less needy, take action, become socially competent, stop ruining your own life.
But manifestation feels stranger and more appealing to me because it deals with bigger, almost embarrassing desires. Not just “be more disciplined” but “what if reality actually bends when you assume a new want” The Neville Goddard-type stuff feels less like advice and more like occult psychology: write it down robotically, embody the wish fulfilled, detach, forget, let the world reorganize around the assumption and let it happen.
I know action probably works better in the obvious way. But I want to believe manifestation works for the grander wants love, status, beauty, money, destiny, becoming the person you privately think you want to be.
Has anyone actually manifested something insane, or is it just cope, which one do you believe in more self help or manifestation.
I know its a cringe topic but the people I meet for my finance job and my current life woes make me believe in Manifestation more.