Manifestation Journaling 101: A Complete Guide to Starting a Manifestation Journal

Welcome to Bri Books! In this episode, I'm covering how to start a manifestation journal, and sharing my. favorite manifestation journaling tips. Consider this your guide to manifestation journaling and morning pages. This episode will be a crash course on what exactly manifestation journaling is, where to start with manifestation journaling, scripting, and how to make manifestation journaling less overwhelming.

What Exactly Is a Manifestation Journal: How to Start Manifestation Journaling

A manifestation journal is an excellent way to describe your life story the way you want to manifest your dream life. You can also use it to track everything you've already attracted. Just add self-gratitude, a dash of self-reflection, and your manifestation journal is complete. Manifestation journals area great tool to help you realize your goals. Through the process of writing, you can reveal your most important goals to yourself. The act of sitting down with a pen and paper can help clarify your visions and define what you really want. The process of manifestation journaling not only forces you to organize your thoughts and establish paths to your dreams, but also sparks motivation to go after them. 

What’s the Goal of Manifestation Journaling?

The goal of manifestation journaling is to create new neural networks and belief systems. By writing each goal and each experience in the present tense to convince your mind into thinking it’s already a reality. This primes your subconscious mind to be able to make the changes to achieve your goal while helping you shift self-identity. Remember, the goal here is to bring something into reality by establishing expectations.

Where to Start with Manifestation Journaling

1. Get a Pen and Paper: Avoid digital versions of manifestation journals at the beginning of your journey, because you want to give the time and energy with pen and paper to unlock your desires. It’s so easy to get sidetracked and distracted with digital journals. You want your manifestation journal to feel almost ritualistic: something you look forward to. 

2. Define Your Vision: Take a look at your current reality and identify what areas you’d like to improve. I’d say stick to 2 clear visions for 90 days, to avoid completely overhauling your life. Examples of vision areas include professional life, personal/ spiritual growth, physical health, relationships, financial health, creativity, fun/ adventure. 

3. Align Your Emotional State With Your Vision: Cultivate the emotions associated with the reality you’re working to manifest. How does it feel to achieve this goal? Match how you feel to what you want. Don’t wait until you’ve achieved everything on the list to feel happiness. When you act as if you already have achieved your goals, your reality will shift to match your emotional state. 

4. Set a Purpose for Your Vision: This will be your North Star on days when you feel unmotivated. A clear purpose will fuel you to move forward. Having a strong ‘why’ will drive you to make the changes you need to materialize your goals.

Manifestation Journal Prompts

1. What does my highest version of reality look like?

2. What would make me fulfilled and satisfied from the inside out in this area?

3. What do I want this area to look like in 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years?

4. What value will this manifestation bring to my life?

5. What am I working towards and why?

6. What’s the value behind this goal? What are my motivations behind this vision

How to Make Manifestation Journaling Less Overwhelming

1. Combine manifestation journaling with something you love like morning coffee or tea. Morning pages help to make it a daily ritual you look forward to. Be as consistent as possible. Journal at the same time every day (after showering, before bed, upon waking).

2. Be present as you write: feel the emotions of achieving your goals, feel the formation of your new intentions, feel your visions come to life. Put away distractions and give writing your full attention. 

How to Integrate Self-Reflection and Gratitude into Manifestation Journaling

1. The greatest emotion you can cultivate to manifest your goals is gratitude. Gratitude is the state of receiving. When you feel gratitude for what you want before you have it, you naturally attract it into your life. 

How to Use Scripting in Your Manifestation Journaling

1. Scripting involves going into detail on the thing you’re working to manifest and what it feels like to receive it. Live in the end.. The 3D just needs a little time to catch up--give it a push. Write affirmations at the end of the script, and write as if you’re currently recapping your present moment.

I’m sharing my favorite journals for manifestation journaling below, from one of my favorite stationary brands, BeRooted.

BeRooted ‘Trust the Journey’ Journal ($13, Target)

BeRooted ‘Take Up Space’ Planner ($15)

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