The law of attraction will deliver a few premanifestations along the path to the actual manifestation. Each premanifestation can be used as a signpost to gauge our progress.
Emotions as immediate premanifestations
Think a thought and feel the emotional response. It’s there, it’s immediate, and in fact, we could go so far as to say the emotional response is attached to the underlying thought.
Abraham occasionally says our emotional responses are manifestations. Emotions are certainly provided as a result of the underlying thought, so the sentiment behind saying they are manifestations certainly fits with the rest of this list. Emotions are immediate premanifestations.
It’s useful to think of the emotional response as an immediate manifestation for two reasons. First, it indicates to you whether the thought is aligned with what you want, or that it’s aligned with what you don’t want. Second, you get instant gratification!
The whole point of wanting something is because you think you’ll feel better in having it. Then realize you’ll immediately feel better as a result of the good feeling emotion arriving in response to productive thought. You get to experience an aspect of the goal immediately.
“Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination.”
The Magistrate, Star Trek (original series), pilot episode
The opposite of this works too. Unproductive thoughts are not only a warning that you’re going in the wrong direction, they’re immediately undesirable.
A train of premanifestations
You can consciously control your next thought. This is literally the extent of all the control we exert over our lives and our world. It’s the mechanism of free will even. Learning, acting, speaking, comprehending, realizing. Everything follows from your next directed thought.
Short of that, where do your thoughts take you when you’re not consciously directing them? When you’re not exerting conscious control over what you’re thinking, then the resulting train of thought more or less dances around what you normally think about. Let’s call that your default thought process. These are your undirected thoughts and daydreams, and they too are premanifestations.
Your default thought process obeys the law of attraction as much as anything else. More accurately, the vibration of your default thought process is in alignment with your typical daily alignment for every subject visited. The thoughts that come to you match your typical vibration. Abraham calls this your vibrational setpoint.
Similarly, the emotional response due to your default thought process is essentially how you feel most of the time. Call it your typical mood, if you want.
Together, your default thought process (and the associated mood) is a fantastic indication of where your typical pattern of thoughts is taking you. Your undirected train of thought tells you what you’ve been thinking about, and the associated mood tells you what the resulting manifestation is going to feel like.
Indirect participation
Have you ever gone car shopping for a certain model of car only to later start seeing that car everywhere? Sure, we all have. Insert Ford Focus joke here. Have you ever learned a new word or phrase only to start hearing it frequently? It’s a much cheaper version of the same phenomenon.
The law of attraction begins to show us what we think about before a full-fledged physical manifestation appears in our direct experience. Providing great benefit, this gives us time to refine what we want based on what we see. It also shows us what we’re attracting into our daily experience.
How are the moods of the people you interact with daily? How’s the traffic? What do the cars look like? How does the weather feel, or rather, how do you feel in the weather? Everything you observe in those around you is a premanifestation of what you’re attracting to yourself, so try paying attention.
Dreams as premanifestations
Abraham speaks about dreams frequently enough. Dreams similar in content or feeling to your default thought process can and should be thought of as premanifestations. Dreams can be another signpost showing the direction you’re heading.
Was it a frightening dream? Maybe don’t watch the news before bed.
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Direct experience
Similar to indirect experiences, direct experiences temporarily expose us to what’s on the way. This is really situation dependent, but as these direct experiences flood into your awareness, you can think of them as premanifestations as well.
Instead of indirectly watching other people experience something, maybe you get invited to try it out yourself. Maybe a discount code will land in your inbox. Some kind of try-before-you-buy. A first date or job interview. A saleswoman might remember your name. An armored car turns around in your driveway. You get an unexpected small check in the mail.
As with everything, this works both ways. If you’re attracting unwanted things into your life, you might have a near miss on the freeway. The person next to you gets laid off but you find out after the fact it could just as easily have been you. Maybe it’s heartburn that feels too much like something worse.
When you catch something bad that hits too close to home, spend a little time meditating. Often, it’s easier to think nothing at all than to turn around and contradict your train of thought too much at once. After all, the law of attraction isn’t going to let you deviate too far from your default thought process in one sitting.
Full manifestation
There’s not much to say here besides congratulations! Hopefully, it was something you wanted!
For unwanted things, full manifestations quickly become the impetus for what’s next. In this sense, they too are premanifestations for a more complete version of you (i.e. your inner being). Without dwelling, let every unwanted manifestation be a learning experience. Acknowledge the various premanifestations you saw along the way. Revel in the validation of your understanding as you make the connections! This can be a fabulous learning experience if you let it.
Faith the size of a mustard seed
An earlier post, Faith the size of a mustard seed, detailed the lifecycle of a thought ranging from conception to full knowing.
Each type of premanifestation above is sorted in order of increasing physical permanence. Well, surprise, surprise, the premanifestations in that order coincide with the list in the mustard seed post. Let’s reproduce it here for convenience.
- Fleeting thought
- Concept
- Attitude
- Faith
- Belief
- Knowledge
Knowledge is full manifestation. Whether internally or externally, pretty much the moment you truly know something, you’re living it.
If direct experience doesn’t foster belief, then really nothing will. Belief is usually necessary for direct experience.
Indirect experience and dreams parallel a sense of faith. When you observe evidence, whether external or internal, you have faith that something is possible.
Attitude is a thought you think routinely, at least in a certain context. Something hitched a ride to your train of thought.
You need to consciously exert control over your next thought to ponder a concept, at least in any meaningful way. Otherwise, it’s just a fleeting thought.
The permanence of the premanifestations tells us a great deal about how far along we are in the process. Isn’t that nice to know?
