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Episode #2 - 4 Reasons Why Vision Boards Are An Essential Manifestation Tool Welcome back Last time we talked about what it means to manifest something. It’s the act of taking something from the immaterial and bringing it into the material world. Essentially, it is to getting into vibratory alignment and to make something happen. Manifestations can be physical things, experiences, beliefs or feelings. In the previous episode, we talked about how everything starts as a thought first before it comes into the physical world. This brings me to today’s topic of 4 reasons why Vision boards are an essential tool for manifestation. Reason #1 it brings clarity. So many people are stuck at the wishing stage. I wish I had more money, I wish I could go on a vacation, I wish I had a different job, I wish I could find love. They stop there in this vague state. The word wish also has this subtext of I don’t believe it’s possible, or it’s not likely to happen. I wish X but Y is the reality type thing. What’s important to remember is…The universe says yes. When you say I wish I had more money ….. the universe may give you a nickel, a dollar. You did not specify that you wanted more something along the lines of $100, $1000, $10,000 or a million dollars. If you say I wish I had a different job… The universe may help you depart your job, end your current job (get laid off or get fired) but what comes open or presents itself to you next, may not be what you really want, or even better than what you had. But you said you wanted something different. So yes… the universe said… here is something different. By creating your vision board or doing one of my vision board workshops where I guide you through this possess, it helps you get clarity on your desires. Some of the clients I’ve worked with during my vision board workshops have had a hard time envisioning what they want for their dream life. When this happens I ask them to explore if they have an underlying belief of feeling unworthiness. If you feel unworthy of having an abundance of money, or an amazing dream home, an exotic vacation, flying first class, or getting the job you have always wanted then that is what you will manifest. You are saying to the universe I can’t have this i’m not worthy so you will not get it. I have several specific exercises that I guide my clients through to help them get out of the small box they are currently in. Honestly, it’s ok if you just even have 1 thing on your vision board you want to work on. Once you start making progress, once you start seeing shifts and things coming to you, it will open your mind to what’s truly possible. The limited mind will start to shift to seeing more and more opportunities, possibilities and abundance. The more you do on this personal development journey the more you will open up and increase your self worth, your thoughts of what’s possible and feelings of abundance. This is one reason why your vision board will change and evolve with you. Reason #2 Transforming thoughts into the physical Remember how I said at the beginning that everything starts as a thought and to manifest something means to take it from the immaterial world, a thought and to bring it to reality. The act of creating your vision board has you go through the process of taking something from the immaterial, your thought or desire and bringing it into a physical form with the print out of what you want. This is an aligned action step in making your manifestation happen. It’s aligning your energy in that specific direction. Reason #3 - Keeping the Vision In creating your vision board it’s important to choose images that deeply resonate with you. Try to get images that you feel connected to, that most closely represent what you can see in your head. It’s never been easier to make vision boards now that we have search engines like Google and Pinterest and even AI image creators. You are no longer limited to what’s available in the numerous magazines you would have to get doing it that way. Search engines also suggest other images that are related to what you are searching for, this can help expand your mind of what’s possible. I love pinterest for sourcing beautiful images when vision boarding. Your vision board serves as a constant visual reminder of what you are working on manifesting. You should look at it every single day. Take a few minutes in the morning to visually visit all the photos you have chosen and put on your vision board. Feel the connection. Why did you put those up there? How will you feel when those items or experiences have manifested? I prefer a physical vision board vs a digital vision board. Why you might ask? Because as you grow and transform in your journey you will manifest things on your vision board. With a dynamic (meaning you can change it as you go) you can add things as you think of them or remove things around as your manifestations come to fruition. My vision board is a magnetic one for that reason. Or some of my clients use a pin or cork board. One reason I love intentionally manifesting things is it requires you to evolve into that next version of you. The version who thinks differently, acts differently, has different energy and different self-confidence. Mastering the art of intentional manifestation is really a journey in personal development. This is why I teach both the energy aspect, the science aspect and the personal development techniques inside the Modern Manifestation Academy. When it all comes together that’s when things start shifting. Some people have asked me why not do a digital vision board. It’s a great question. Other than the fact which I explained previously it’s taking one step further in that direction of making it a physical item, I find often times when people make one that’s digital it doesn’t get updated or changed and can get lost on your computer, the cloud collecting digital dust if you don’t put it somewhere where you see it every day without a lot of effort. You can always take a photo of your physical board to keep on your phone lock screen or desktop of your computer if you want to have it more mobile. Reason #4 Aligning Your Energy I encourage you to put words on their vision board. They can be motivational words that remind you of the energy you need to be in to manifest those things. On my board are the words courage and perseverance. I also have my dream foundation word on my board which is freedom. Between the act of visually connecting with the images and reading these words, it helps me to align my energy of who I need to BE in order to make my desires manifest. At the time of recording in December of 2024, we are coming up on a magical time of the new year. With the new year comes renewed energy and this sense of a clean slate, or permission to start anew. While I encourage everyone to have a vision board and not wait for the new year, it is The BEST time to make one. You can capture that momentum that is inherent this time of year and it really can propel you off into new energy and a new direction. It’s also a great time to reflect on the previous year and release anything from the previous year that does not serve you. Anything that you don’t want to bring into the new year. Remember that the past only exists as a sentence in your head. I want you to make this the year, the year that everything changes for you. NO longer will you settle in life. My mission with the Make it Happen project is to guide, teach and empower you to design manifest and live the life of your dreams. I am personally inviting you to join me January 2nd through January 4th for the special New Year edition of my Vision Board workshop called Your Best Year Yet. You can find a link on the homepage of my website the make it happen project.com to register. We will do the review and release bonus training for the new year. I’ll guide you through getting clarity of what your dream life looks like. I’ll teach you how to create your dynamic physical vision board including a list of resources for supplies. On the 3rd day I’ll go over what the common blocks are that prevent people from achieving those goals or manifesting those desires. You will get lifetime access to the training so you can revisit the lessons as needed. If you are in the Las Vegas area I’ll be hosting an amazing in person version of this workshop on January 4th. Visit the website at www.themakeithappeneproject.com for more details spots are limited for the in person event. Making decisions and getting clear on what you want from life, from the universe is one of the foundational steps to manifesting. I hope you understand now why a vision board is an essential tool for manifestation. I’d love for you to attend one of my workshops, and would love even more to see you post a picture of your finished vision board. So many people spend time learning things but never implementing them. Take this aligned action to start your manifesting journey. Give yourself permission to borrow the thought that best time to start is now. Even if you are listening to this episode past the new year, you can find my vision board workshop available for purchase on themakeithappen project.com Until next time, stay aligned, stay focused, and keep manifesting your dreams into reality. Let’s make it happen!

Episode 1 - What Manifestation is and what Manifestation is Not Intro: Welcome to the Let's Manifest podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Alissa Esposito, a certified life coach and manifestation expert, dedicated to helping you design and live a life that you absolutely love. Together, we're diving into the magic of the law of attraction, quantum physics, and powerful personal development techniques. Whether you're new to manifestation or seeking inspiration, this podcast offers clarity, motivation, and actionable insights. So are you ready? Let's make it happen. Episode 1 Content: Welcome. As this is the first episode for this podcast, you are likely here to learn the skill of manifestation. And I thought I'd start with the topic of what is manifestation and what it is not. Now you might be new to the world of manifestation. If so, then perhaps you think it's full of a bunch of woo woo and wishful thinking for people who are desperate and delusional. Maybe you even roll your eyes or snicker inside when you see some video telling people all they need to do is recite some mantras x number of times and voila, something's supposed to appear or happen. That their life is supposed to change, that they win the lotto, receive a huge inheritance, or even that special person magically shows up in their life. Well, perhaps that's not what you think now, but maybe that was your initial impression of manifestation before you learned more. So that leads me into what manifestation is not. Manifestation is not just positive thinking and repeating mantras. I was one of those people who thought it was woo woo. And by that, I mean empty positive words and wishful thinking. A bunch of made up BS that just gave people false hope. I think we all know that you can't just wish and hope that you change your way into making this amazing life or just making more money. While positive thinking is important and a part of manifestation, it's not the full picture. If you're thinking positively, but your underlying beliefs, emotions, are rooted in fear, lack, or doubt, that energy is going to override your positive thinking, and it will result in what you attract. Manifestation requires doing the inner work, addressing the limiting beliefs, healing emotional wounds, aligning with the feeling of already having what you desire. This is one reason why just reciting mantras over and over doesn't work. Your brain has to believe what you're reciting to yourself. It's not going to believe you if you keep saying, I'm rich, I'm rich. If your underlying feelings are rooted in scarcity and lack. So if you log into your bank account and it's always negative or it's low and your stomach just drops and you feel frustrated, down, ashamed, worried, and stressed every time you logged in, just repeating these positive mantras is not going to do anything. In order to manifest, you actually have to believe it. You have to believe in something. So honestly, if you have to repeat these mantras to yourself, it means you don't believe in it, right? What do we do then to change our belief? Well, you have to build up to those thoughts in small little increments. What could be the next believable thought? Maybe it's, I have everything I need right now. You can see just by switching your thought to that, it feels a little better than I should be rich. I should be off than I am now. I shouldn't be in debt. It's likely a thought that you can believe right now versus I am rich. Eventually, you work your way up to a higher vibrational, more abundant thought that actually feels true to you. This is shifting your belief and shifting your energy. Okay. Let's move on to number two. Manifestation is not magic. It would be super awesome if it was that easy, but it's not. There's more to manifesting. I used to be a huge Harry Potter fan. Okay, I might have been Hermione for Halloween for like a decade, but let's be honest, who wouldn't love magical powers, right? As much as I wish it was, and all I had to do was wave a magic wand, manifestation isn't magic. Things don't just appear, there's actually science behind it. The science behind it is based in quantum physics. It explains how the law of attraction actually works, how manifestation actually works, the why. I'll cover this utterly fascinating topic in a future episode. But having a background in science, when I understood the why and the how, it all made sense. That's how my brain works. It just likes to know the why and the how behind things. And in a way, I think everybody does. It helps us to strengthen our beliefs. Manifesting can take time, and it takes trust, and it requires you to come in alignment with your thoughts, your feelings, your energy, and your actions. That brings me to number three, manifesting is not a substitute for action. Manifesting does start in the mind, however, it requires more of you. It's not about sitting back and just waiting for things to happen. But it's also not just all about the hustle energy and forcing thing to happen either. You have to take inspired and aligned action towards your goals. For example, if you're manifesting a new job, it starts in the mind that thought of maybe I could have that dream job I wanted. Maybe I could be higher up in the company. But you also need to take Steps to update your resume, network, apply for the position, right? You need to go in with the mindset and the energy and the belief that that position is already yours, that you're the perfect person that they need for that position. The universe responds to your energy by taking steps towards your desires. You create the momentum and that's when things start to align in your favor. So exactly what is manifestation? Well, at its core, manifestation is the process of bringing something into your reality through the power of your thoughts, your beliefs, your emotions, and your actions. Manifesting is taking something from an idea, something immaterial, and making it into a reality in your world. So in essence, it's Making it happen. Okay. A little side note. When I learned that definition in particular, I was really excited because that's the name of my coaching business, the Make It Happen Project. So you can see how everything just aligned for me. Right there, that explanation of manifestation makes it a lot more tangible, a lot more realistic, understandable and relatable. It's not just some mystery, mystical, magical thing, right? It's the process in which an idea actually becomes a reality. A thought becomes an experience or a tangible thing. Everything around you was once just a thought. Let's take the example of an inventor. They come up with something in their idea in their head, and they actually turn it into an invention, a thing, or a product. Like your iPhone. That was once just an idea in someone's brain, and now you hold it in your hand. It's a product. Here's another example. If you had a goal that you're working on, let's say you wanted to complete a marathon, you have this idea of that's what you want to do. You see yourself crossing that finish line. You have the number on your chest, you have a certain outfit on, you have people in the crowd just rooting you on. That starts as a mental picture in your head. You go from that energy and you create a training routine, you sign up, you take all the steps to make it happen, and you eventually see that come to play in a physical form in your life. Manifestation requires a thought. It requires you to be in faith that that actually will happen. It requires you to align your energy and your emotions to what you are trying to manifest. And it requires you to take aligned, inspired action to make it happen. This is why so many people don't manifest what they want. They stop at the thinking phase. Or maybe it's a wishing phase for them. They don't understand what it actually takes to manifest. There's a lot of things that can block your manifestation, and these are topics for later podcast episodes. But for now, you might be telling me that you don't think you've ever manifested anything, or you don't know how to manifest. Well, I'm here to tell you that you are wrong. You are already manifesting in your life and you always are manifesting in your life. You're likely just not manifesting what you want and therefore you think you can't manifest. Let's say you're someone who's living paycheck to paycheck and you really desire to have more money in your bank account. You're probably frustrated by the lack of money. You look around your life and see where it's not measuring up. What you don't have. All the failures that you have had. The promotions that have passed you by. While your desire may be to be more wealthy, your vibrational state Of your energy is in lack somewhere. There is likely a belief that it's not going to happen for you or that you never get the raise. You're always getting passed by or that you will never be successful in life or that you can never have your own business. So you see, with that underlying thought pattern, the energy of disbelief, frustration, self pity, victimization, scarcity and lack, When you're in those energy states, that emotion, that negative energy, do you actually think that you're out there in 100 percent belief taking inspired aligned action to make it happen? Probably not. What you're going to manifest is more of the same. See, you thought you weren't manifesting yet, but you are. When we have the same thoughts, the same beliefs, the same feelings, the same actions, we are going to keep getting those same results. And you can easily see how this keeps you stuck in a cycle . And every day is kind of like Groundhog Day, right? You are not manifesting what you want. Don't feel bad if this is you. It's likely every person started right here until they learned this, or they chose to do something different. That's when things start changing. Knowing this allows you to recognize and break that cycle. It serves as a pivot point, so you can reorient yourself, your thoughts, your energy, and your actions to start manifesting what you do want in your life. So for now, I would recommend you become the observer. Observe yourself and your mind for the next week. Look to identify areas in which you feel stuck, or areas that you feel you're manifesting things you don't want. If you're lost on this, ask yourself, What do I wish was different in my life? That should give you some direction where you can look for where you're stuck at. And you can explore your thoughts around there. What emotions are you commonly feeling? This is an easy place to start from. From there, ask yourself, what common thoughts do I have that's causing these feelings these emotions? Awareness is always the first step to change. So take this small micro step this week and just observe. Don't feel bad or judge yourself for having negative thoughts and energy. It's just your starting point and you can always shift from there. Until next time, stay aligned, stay focused, and keep manifesting your dreams into reality. Let's make it happen. We hope that you've liked this episode. If so, check out the Make It Happen project, where you can learn more about the Modern Manifestation Academy. You can also find a community of like minded people and coaching resources to help you create and live your dream life. And for fun manifestation swag, check out www.themanifestationshop.com. Thanks for tuning in to the Let's Manifest podcast. And if you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe and leave us a review. Let's keep the momentum going because you deserve to manifest your biggest dreams. Until next time, remember, you've got the power to make it happen.