There are many misconceptions out there about what manifestation is or how the process of creating your life actually works. Many people incorrectly think that just thinking about something can make it come true. Others believe that just being a good person means good things will automatically happen to them. While both of these are components of manifesting your dreams, they are missing a key element. Your beliefs play an influential role in manifestation. Here is how.
The Power of Belief for Manifesting Your Dreams
Manifestation is a multifaceted process that involves several things. The most foundational of these is your beliefs because, without these, the other ingredients will not come together properly to help you manifest your goals and dreams in life. For you to manifest anything, you have to have beliefs, desire, and action. And because your beliefs affect everything else in this equation, they become the natural starting place for your manifestation work.
Your beliefs, that is, what you value about yourself and believe to be true, influence everything from how you see the world, how you react to others, the words you choose, and every decision that you make. If you are trying to manifest something into reality, you must first begin by looking at the beliefs that may be limiting your ability to do this, as well as those that color your actions and choices.
Every thought that passes through your mind is filtered and colored by what you believe. When you take in the world through all your senses, your beliefs tell your brain what to pay attention to, what to ignore, and what to like or dislike. Your beliefs are the basis of all the energy you put out into the world, all the passion or excitement, all the disappointment or anger, which affect how well you can manifest a new reality.
If you want to try manifestation, you must value what it is you are trying to achieve. You have to believe that you are the Operant power capable of achieving any goal. You must believe that you are worthy of accomplishing what you most want in life. You have to believe that, no matter what, your manifestation can and will work, that your thoughts have power.
Importance of Belief
Belief in yourself and your capabilities is perhaps the most critical part of this equation. For example, if you are trying to manifest wealth into your life but you secretly believe that you are incapable of earning much money or that you do not deserve abundance, you will not manifest this dream.
Consider what the great Mystic Neville Goddard had to say about the importance of belief
Chance or accident is not responsible for the things that happen to you, nor is predestined fate the author of your fortune or misfortune. Your subconscious impressions determine the conditions of your world. The subconscious is not selective; it is impersonal and no respecter of persons. The subconscious is not concerned with the truth or falsity of your feeling. It always accepts as true that which you feel to be true. Feeling is the assent of the subconscious to the truth of that which is declared to be true. Because of this quality of the subconscious there is nothing impossible to man. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and feel as true, the subconscious can and must objectify. Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. Neville Goddard
Did you know that your core beliefs are what are being impressed upon your subconscious?
You will continually sabotage yourself, ignore helpful signs from the universe, and neglect to see opportunities that could bring you closer to your desired outcome. Without belief, all the actions in the world will not get you where you want to be.
Examining your beliefs is the first step to manifestation. Figuring out which of these might be limiting your ability to realize your goals will help you figure out how to transform these into thoughts that are more positive and helpful. If, for example, you believe that all rich people are inherently wrong or evil, you will never attain riches yourself because your beliefs will constantly interrupt your actions and choices that could bring you closer to this objective.
Even in the biblical text, great emphasis was put on the power of belief.
All things are possible to him that believes..
Mark 9:23
Your beliefs have infinite power. As such, you can change them, revise them, and let go of those that are not serving your life. And when you do, you can replace them with more powerful notions that can fuel your manifestation journey. You are destined to be whatever you choose in life. Your beliefs will feed you.
Michael SutherlandMichael Sutherland is the founder of TrueCosmic and a devoted student and practitioner of Neville Goddard teachings. His path to this work was not academic — it was forged in crisis. Raised as a devout Jehovah Witness and Baptist, Michael walked away from the church at eighteen and spent the next 25 years in what scripture calls the far country — the prodigal son, wandering. He built a life by the world rules, searching without knowing what he was searching for. When the biggest crisis of his life arrived, he turned back — not to the church, but to scripture itself. Through Neville Goddard teachings he found what the church had never shown him: that the God of scripture is not an external being to be feared and appeased. God is your own awareness. Your own consciousness. Your own imagination. The I AM within. What he discovered was not a set of Neville Goddard principles — these are cosmic laws, written about not only in the Bible but across every ancient spiritual tradition the world over. The same truth, expressed in different language, in every age. The law of consciousness operates whether we are aware of it or not. We are manifesting constantly — the wanted and the unwanted alike. Understanding how this law works allows us to work with it consciously and intentionally, directing it toward the experiences we actually desire rather than the ones our unexamined assumptions are silently producing. In 2017, guided by two mentors — Dr Bruno R Cignacco and Roupa Jetto, a hypnotherapist and Buddhist practitioner — Michael had his first transcendent experience during deep meditation. In 2018 came something he could never have sought or engineered: what is described across traditions as a Kundalini awakening. A sound like rushing wind in both ears. An electrical current rising from the base of the spine, so intense it seemed impossible to survive. Every experience that followed — out of body states, movement along the spinal cord, sensations inside the skull — was documented in scripture, passage by passage, hidden in plain sight. This is not something that can be earned or manufactured. It is grace. According to scripture, it is every soul birthright — every one of us will experience this unfolding, in this lifetime or another. Michael does not share this to define himself above anyone else. He shares it because it confirmed, beyond any doubt, that what Neville Goddard taught is true — and because that confirmation is the foundation on which TrueCosmic was built. TrueCosmic today is home to the most comprehensive Neville Goddard library available online — 292 lectures — alongside an academy of courses, masterclasses and workshops, and 13 specialist coaches serving students across every continent. At its heart is a global community of over 92,000 members, all discovering what happens when you begin to work consciously with the law that was always operating anyway. The invitation is simple: become aware of the law. Understand how it works. And begin, deliberately, to use it.