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Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
- “Shut up, I’m manifesting” became a meme.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- All promise a future far brighter than the present. But it’s only manifesting that also requires you to put on happy face.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- “You can only manifest in line with your higher purpose.” (Essentially, the universe can say no, which is often the explanation when things don’t happen.)
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Traditional prayer is all well and good when you’re wishing for the wellbeing of others, but it’s slightly frowned upon to get God on the case when you simply want a new partner or a Porsche. Most manifesting sessions, I noted, end with our palms pressed together in a prayer-like pose, though it’s “the universe” we’re told to give thanks to.
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- Now, Silicon Valley tapped into millennial ennui – or, depending on your amount of cynicism, self-obsession – by taking astrology into the app age.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- The concept, roughly, is this: manifesting takes the idea of a positive mental attitude and runs with it. So, while negative thoughts create “limiting beliefs”, and in turn prevent positive things from happening, positive thoughts – when focused on specific goals and outcomes – can make those things happen. “You are co-creating with the universe,” ... See more
from Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting by Stuart McGurk
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- “I think particularly for people who have been abused, who have lived in poverty, who have dealt with real traumatic hardship, it can feed into and deepen this belief of, like, I am the reason that bad things happen to me,” she says. “They really believe these things in their life were caused by their beliefs.”
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- It’s hardly the first time people have sought answers in faith following trauma. After the First World War, for instance, there was a sharp rise in spiritualism: after so much death, people found comfort in the thought that death itself wasn’t the end.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Part of manifestation, I was learning, essentially involved looking on the extreme bright side of everything. After all, once you believe events are the direct result of your manifestations, then the logic follows that even negative consequences must be the result of them, too – and therefore must actually be positive.
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