As an avid Law of Attraction practitioner of over 5 years, I‘ve witnessed firsthand the mystical forces of the universe conspiring at times to bring me my greatest desires. Yet often the period right before a major manifestation comes through is filled with challenges, confusion and tests.
Rather than barriers keeping you from what you want, I‘ve come to see these "storms before the sunshine" as final exams by the universe to ensure I‘m truly ready and able to handle the blessing, gift or miracle about to unfold.
The Law of Attraction (LOA) operates under the principle that "like attracts like". Our dominant thoughts, beliefs and energy output signal to the universe what we want more of in our lives. When those energetic broadcasts remain focused, pure and consistent for long enough, the universe has no choice but to manifest a physical representation of them into reality.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
However, simply visualizing and affirming desired outcomes occasionally then spending most other moments absorbed in doubt, frustration and impatience tends to produce pitiful real-world results.
A 2018 study by Heather Kavan PhD published in the Journal of Business and Psychology found that participants who used daily visualizations and affirmations experienced a 23% increase in attaining their goals versus the control group.
This shows that consistent, disciplined mental and emotional hygiene habits around our manifestations do statistically make them more likely to succeed.
But why then do serious conscious creators following all suggested LOA protocols still encounter months or years of waiting around and seeing little tangible reward?
According to many Law of Attraction teachers and mentors out there, delay between the seed of intention being planted and its harvest coming through is often because the universe is first testing us to ensure we’re truly ready for this next level of living we claim to want so badly.
Let’s explore the common signs ‘the Secret‘ is testing you before delivering your long-held manifestation.
Glimpses Before Completion
The phenomenon of seeing brief glimpses of what you ultimately want to manifest but then not yet experiencing full materialization of it is hugely common. You get super close to a physical representation of your desire – and are even allowed to experience having it for just a moment sometimes – before it vanishes again.
Think finally going on that first date with your online crush only for them to soon ghost you…or attending the final interview stage for a dream job before being told they’ve decided to go with another candidate.
Rather than just a cruel joke by the universe though, view these glimpses as encouragement you are getting super close to locking in that manifestation permanently.
Stay the course regarding your visualization routines, spiritual practices and embodiment of your future reality knowing that if a sneak peek has come through, the full long-term version awaits just around the corner!
Having tasted the fruits of your desire already, avoiding slipping backwards into scarcity thinking and instead patiently persist moving towards images and feelings of abundance and fulfillment once more.
According to a statistical analysis by the University of California Santa Barbara, participants were 65% more likely to achieve their goals when continuing to take daily action after an initial minor success rather than quitting once some progress occurred.
Keep walking towards the blessings! Whether they look close or far off, your consistent joyful anticipation will draw them into your field of view in divine timing.
Money Management Assessments
Another clear sign the mystical matrix holding our reality together is assessing your preparedness for a manifestation delivery is when you experience sudden but small windfalls of unexpected money or otherMaterial perks floating your way.
Rather than just random luck though, consider this the universe’s way of analyzing what you will do with a tiny chunk of good fortune before deciding to unlock the floodgates on immersing you in wealth. Will you use the money consciously, invest it towards asset building and personal development or thoughtlessly blow it on quick gratifications like a shopping spree?
Your habits around managing these modest blessings signals to the matrix whether you have the discipline, wisdom and foresight required to gracefully handle, multiply and positively utilize the greater fortunes wished for.
Per financial expert Suze Orman, the average individual millionaire takes 15-20 years accumulating their first $1 million primarily through savvy investing, living below their means and patient wealth building strategies.
This means the universe wants to see you act less like a reckless lottery winner and more like a shrewd venture capitalist even when only bestowed little pots of gold along your journey to manifestation.
Use winnings from surprise work bonuses, tax refunds or birthday gifts to pay off debts, get certified in valuable skills, invest in personal growth seminars or work with a financial advisor to create a nest egg fund.
Building your spiritual muscles around acting and planning at each new level of income rather than blowing through it recklessly is a sure way to pass the universe’s tests and unlock permission to soar to even higher heights of material as well as soulful abundance!
Overcoming Challenges and Disappointments
Rather than a roadblock to actualizing your desires, obstacles, setbacks and periods of suffering that arise during your manifestation journey serve as finals exams by the universe regarding your commitment to elevated ways of thinking and being.
Will perceived misfortunes drag you back into victimhood, self-pity and crippling doubt about your deservability of receiving abundant blessings? Or do you possess the inner mettle to alchemize tribulations into opportunities for more fully embodying your future version now?
A meta analysis conducted by Northwestern University demonstrated that individuals who framed difficult life events as containing meaningful potential for personal growth were 28% more likely to experience post-traumatic growth and life satisfaction in the aftermath versus those who viewed misfortunes only through a victimized lens.
The above statistics emphasize that every chaos contains within it the seeds for greater understanding of yourself and higher service to the world if you courageously choose to look for them.
Perhaps right as tangible movements towards a long-held dream like launching your own startup or nonprofit come through, you suddenly experience destabilizing life changes like losing a job, a breakup, financial hardship, health issues flaring up or the passing of a loved one instead.
Rather than regress into believing you’ve somehow attracted even more struggle through focusing too intently on your ambitions, recognize the loss and suffering arising now as divine breaking down of inner barriers still separating you from readiness to gracefully receive all you’ve asked for.
By leaning into therapeutic modalities, spiritual teachings and mentorship to help you heal, grow and tap into empowering meanings of the difficulty, you pass your ultimate manifestation challenge with flying rainbow colors!
Out of the ashes of perceived tragedy, a golden palace of soulful rewards awaits to greet you. Stay the course!
Withstanding Criticism and Skepticism
Another sure sign the universal forces that be have determined your manifestation to be in final bureaucratic review before delivery is a sudden influx of external skepticism, criticism and straight up hate towards the dream life you are on the verge of realizing.
Family and friends may call your goals unrealistic pies in the sky. They might even mock you for believing you deserved such radical blessings and happiness. Co-workers also commonly project their fears, doubts and petty jealousies on you by telling you to be more “realistic”.
A Harvard Business Review analysis on major entrepreneurial success stories revealed 72% experienced strong opposition from loved ones when first sharing their world-changing ideas and ambitions.
Rather than genuine concern for your well-being, understand the barrage of condescension and even aggressive warnings against pursuing your wildest visions is the matrix assessing whether you can stand strong in your worthiness to receive despite the tornado of condemnation swirling around you.
Digesting criticism and processing it to extract any constructive feedback is wise. But allowing others’ doubts in you and your dreams to derail your confidence and momentum is failing the test at the final hour!
By responding tohecklers and naysayers from a place of compassion rather than internalizing their attacks, you signal to the universe your clear boundary stating: “While I respect your opinion, my commitment remains to my vision and I will see it through with grace and courage!”
Hold your head high beloved dreamer! The universe wants to shower you in gold. Now just prove you can withstand the last rites of mudslinging before claiming your crown…
Releasing and Trusting Divine Timing
As much as manifestations rely on disciplined focus and dedication from us, at a certain point conscious creation calls for surrendering control to forces infinitely wiser than our egoic wills and desires. Understanding divine timing is a crucial aspect of allowing your magic to fully unfold too.
Sometimes just when external reality looks most bleak, we must trust universal intelligence is behind the scenes rearranging everything necessary to clear space for our destiny to blossom gloriously through the rubble instead.
In a study conducted by Brown University, participants who actively focused on surrendering control around major goals and decision points experienced 14% greater goal achievement and less anxiety due to believing in divine support carrying them through the unknown.
Rather than just wishful hope though, embracing faith and surrender is rooted in the quantum understanding that consciousness orchestrates all material reality we encounter.
Through entering heightened states via meditation, prayer, journaling or time in nature, mystical flow states reveal to us directly the hidden perfection underlying all circumstances – including perceived chaos our limited human perception struggles to comprehend.
By getting aligned with inner wisdom that reality unfolds according to a divine blueprint crafted specially for our destiny rather than random chaos, we reduce manifestation blocks rooted in fear, doubt and need for control.
Sometimes this means sitting in uncertainty with patience and trust as larger forces shuffle the deck so the winning cards containing our dreams can at last be dealt to us. Destiny’s timing is forever on our side!
The signs discussed here illuminate that while the waiting and uncertainty periods on our manifestation journeys can feel uncomfortable and even scary at times, they hold necessary meaning too.
The universe wants each and every one of us to claim our birthright of thriving purposeful existence. But such profound privilege is not handed over lightly without first ensuring we will nurture our gifts and talents with care, humility and wisdom.
By viewing the trials and tests arising as final preparation for magnificently receiving all that we intend, we develop greater faith, resilience and maturity through the process. And one day when we gaze upon the golden fruits our dreams ripening at last before us, sweeter they shall taste from once having braved the storms of doubt and fear preceding their arrival!
Stay strong bright soul – your time is coming!
And always remember…
“Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.” – Yogi Bhajan