Personal Manifesting Explained

You hear about manifesting principles everywhere you turn these days.

There's even a movie out that's all about the intention-manifestation model of reality.

While there's lots to say about it, today I'll let Steve Pavlina ("Personal Development for Smart People") give a personal account of how he experiences it in his own life.

Check it out, it's an well-written, intriguing read.

Use SMOG, not MOSG

When I was first learning to drive a car, my drivers education teacher taught me the acronym SMOG, which stands for Signal, Mirror, Over the shoulder, Go. It’s the order of actions to perform when changing lanes on the highway. Note that the first action is to signal your intention to change lanes. Of course, what do most people do? In practice they follow something like MOSG: Mirror, Over the shoulder, Signal, Go. They first determine whether or not they can change lanes by looking for an opening. If there’s no opening, they wait. They speed up or slow down to find a spot. They’re afraid that if they signal first when there’s no opening, they’ll look like a dolt because no one will let them in. But the truth is that even if there isn’t an opening, many drivers will allow you an opening if you signal first. If you don’t signal, the only way they can tell you want to change lanes is via telepathy. The longer you signal, even when there’s no opening at first, the more pressure you build in the other drivers to let you in.

This is a great analogy for how intention-manifestation works. You have to signal (intend) first. Sometimes if you look before signaling, there just won’t be an opening. But signal anyway, and you’ll create the very opening you seek.

Juho Tunkelo

PS. If you're looking for a well-researched, tested and documented method of manifesting, I would recommend you get to know Stuart Lichtman's work. It's as fool-proof as they come.