Ma nifesting 101

Covid-19 has much to answer for. Along with baking feta pasta, building 1 000-piece jigsaw puzzles and tie-dying everything but the cat, it made manifesting, well, manifest. According to Google Trends, from March to July 2020 Google searches for ‘manifesting’ shot up 669%.

As a distraction from the pain of the pandemic – loss of income, security and life – the appeal is understandable, especially for a generation largely without the solace of organised religion. But as a way to attain whatever you want in life, which is what it’s touted to do? You be the judge…

Definitions of manifesting depend on whom you ask, but in essence it’s bringing whatever you want into your life by ‘tapping into the universe’. Magical thinking (meaning our thoughts can change reality) or the ‘law of attraction’ (the