The world of money manifestation is becoming more and more widespread. But the truth is, the manifestation movement is toxic! It sits on the idea that anyone can make a tremendous amount of wealth by merely visualizing and attracting positive energy. As if wealth comes like magic.
Much of the prosperity manifesting was drawn from an old theory of Law of Attraction, which was made notable by the bestseller book Think and Grow Rich of Napoleon Hill back in 1937.
According to the Law of Attraction, refashioning our energy and envisioning positive outcomes will manifest things that our hearts desire in the real world. This so-called process of “raising our vibrations” can be laid to anything, but these days, it is increasingly targeted at wealth.
Contrary to many people’s beliefs, manifestation actually does more harm than good. In fact, there’s scholarly proof that if you want to reach your goals, you’re better off disregarding manifestation altogether.
Nonetheless, with every TikTok swipe and scroll on social media platforms, we see people manifesting their dream life. Historically, financial collapse is just like clockwork every time this trend catches on. It has been like that in the past century. So much belief in manifestation signals the beginning of a financial crisis.
Social media is saturated with countless posts about manifestation and all of them target the vulnerabilities and pain points of someone financially insecure. You shut your eyes, you view with the mind’s eye every good thing you want and send out metaphysical cues to the universe and allow it to manifest into your life.
Manifestation scams are making crazy numbers on YouTube and other social media networks, which are replicated across accounts and posts, with each account then leaving a remark on others’ posts as a way to boost each’s popularity. It is no surprise that more vulnerable fall for it as the enticement is there.
And what the usual counter whenever manifestation is getting called a scam— “There’ no harm in trying anyway! I need no money to do, and I can do it on my own accord.” Well. Although this argument sounds quite real, it goes against academic studies that ascertain the opposite.
In a study conducted by Gabriele Oettingen, a psychology professor at New York University, he found out that fantasizing about happy outcomes doesn’t help. In fact, it hinders people from discovering their dreams.
Studies have shown that people who are manifesting bigger income saw less money coming in compared to those who are doing nothing about it. Those who were vigorously manifesting weight loss lost lesser weight in comparison to those who are not manifesting. The reason behind this lies in chemistry.
The Brain Chemistry
The reason why manifestation is a myth is backed by chemistry. Each time we “manifest” or assume that we have already gotten what we want, the chemistry in our brain changes, making us less motivated to go after our dreams than everyone else.
The concept of manifestation leads to self-sabotage, and it reduces our chance of moving ahead.
Statistics Over Wishful Thinking
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you better trust statistics than mere wishful thinking. It may be quite a brutal truth, but you need to be aware of it.
The oozing appeal of manifestations will not distinguish anytime soon because. There would always be people who want to think their way to better circumstances with little to no effort. However, this kind of mindset goes against this undeniable truth: Easy choices lead to a hard life, and hard choices lead to an easy life.
Being an optimist isn’t truly a bad thing until optimism leads to fallacy. You must have been hearing these lines over and over again:
“You bring about what you always think of.”
“If you believe in something extremely enough, it will happen.”
“If you show yourself over to something becoming a reality, you’ll eventually turn it into reality.”
If you think the same way, then you’re too disfranchised to think that grand things could take place just through the law of attraction alone. No one will be hungry around the world if all things can be solved by the poser of manifestation.
The Manifestation Queen
People who are responsible for spreading this movement are those who are after easy money from foolish individuals. Of course, we should never forget that a monetization mechanism is always hooked to a stick waving a carrot.
There’s obvious money to be earned in manifestation schemes and people are getting sold not on the results, but just on the promise itself. The internet is loaded with people marketing one-on-one coaching sessions where they will make use of the universe’s energy to extract all bad energies and obstacles from your life.
Paid articles are also listing down people who offer such services. But you know what? The only thing these people are manifesting in their own life— only at the expense of your money.
This is no different from what happens during a gold rush. People don’t get rich by finding gold but by selling pickaxes and shovels to people in search of them.
Life coaching is yet to be a regulated field, so it’s no wonder that it’s growing at a rapid speed of 50% per year. Certification isn’t even needed to become a life coach! You can just claim that you are one, and you’ll officially become one!
Everyone is now a life coach! Everyone is aiding everyone else to attract all material pleasures. But is this a bad thing? What harm does it cause other than making gullible people lose their hard-earned money?
2 Distinct Events that Made History
As investors in the money market, it is necessary to find cynical behaviors and macro trends. However, during research, experts noticed two distinct financial events that marked the previous century: (1) the great depression in 1933; (2) and the financial collapse in 2007.
Wanna know what’s the catch?
Napoleon Hill’s Think & Grow Rich came out back in 1937 and The Secret transpired in 2006. Is this coincidence or not?
To tell you the truth, these books aren’t the root cause of the financial crisis. However, they served as a marker of where the culture is at before the financial catastrophe take place.
The existence of manifestation movements promising returns without sweat is signaling that society is stuck, not seeing a clear path to where they should go to grow so they are turning to whatever promise that will help them escape from harrowing reality.
Fortunately, such events are always followed by a reset, typically through a technological breakthrough.
Consistently call to mind that nothing around you materialized simply out of a manifestation. A society can only thrive through disciplined work and innovation.
Everything around us was given birth after it was sourced and undergoing the building process by people who made themselves busy instead of waiting for their wishful dreams. No one has ever materialized results of something they haven’t put some work in.
Come to think of this. No matter how much you dream of having six-pack abs, and no matter how much you manifest it, you’re not going to achieve this goal if you would lay down on your bed all day long, eating pizza while scrolling through your social feeds.
The only antidote to the law of attraction mindset is the progress through work. Stop working hard to look for shortcuts. Otherwise, you’ll only waste your time and money.
