I see the trendy ‘power of manifestation’ the same way as ‘gut feeling’.
Gut feeling or intuition sounds less scientific but I believe that it is actually judgement based on analysis of small events and experiences over the time, each of which maybe too small to have clear recollection of, yet collectively forms a strong base for our judgement. ‘An intuitional person’ is sensitive and intelligent enough to collate these fractions of information to utilize instead of having some god-given power. That’s how I see.
And I approach the power of manifestation in the same logical way. I take an example of a hat maker one man business.
Right from the beginning, I had people asking where I saw myself in 5 years or what my plans for scaling up was. Of course I had none of these, which meant that I could not use power of manifestation because I wasn’t manifesting anything.
To me, these concept sounded irrelevant because all that mattered to me was the very piece I was making. I had some idea of what I wanted to end up yet never lost focus at each step because, once the material started behaving from what I’d imagined, I had to work differently, or got a new idea of what to do with the material. And at the end of the process, I would have a piece that I can honestly say that I tried my very best for. And I could present it to anyone and tell the story with confidence.
However, having turned my passion into business without much thought, I hadn’t realized that we all have different priorities, goals and what we wanted to manifest. Whenever I was asked about my goal/manifestation, it was mostly in a business context, to which I had no answer, and I was labeled as not aspiring and I somehow started believing that.
However, after a period of external/internal denial, I am clear of my value. First I wanted to design and make free from other people’s ideas but according to what I believe to be beautiful. And I wanted to meet a few people who share similar ideas and find values in it. Also from business point of view, of course it would be nice if I could make lots of money yet I don’t want to earn non-labour profit nor margin as a middleman. So not a fortune for me but now I know exactly where I stand and feel very comfortable where I am.
And these days it seems that my confidence seems to convince a few others, leading to gradual development of the community, which I hoped to have for my ‘project demure’. And this experience is truly manifestation, which brings me utmost joy.
