Pop star Dua Lipa says she manifested her slot as a headliner at this year’s British Glastonbury Festival in Britain – one of the world’s top pop festivals.

American gymnastic Olympian Simone Biles claimed she owed her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals to manifestation.

And now ‘manifest’ has been crowned ‘Word of the Year’ by the Cambridge Dictionary, as the most looked up word of 2024.

Many scientists and psychologists are decidedly unhappy about this because they believe that manifesting has no basis in fact, calling it nothing more than ‘magical thinking.’

I beg to differ. Of the 41 Intention Experiments I’ve run with prestigious scientists from top universities, 37 have shown positive results. And through my Power of Eight® groups, I’ve helped tens of thousands of people manifest their dreams, whether for better health, relationships, finances or career, and more.
There’s no question that intention works.

The only magical thinking has to do with the many myths surrounding how exactly to ‘do’ intention.

One of the most overlooked methods in popular culture about manifestation is ‘mental rehearsal,’ practicing how to fulfil your dream by rehearsing it in your head. No question that Simone Biles will have practiced her routines hundreds of times in her head until she’d rehearsed every last move before stepping out on the Olympic floor.

In fact, every elite athlete today, from football players to rock climbers to Olympic swimmers, uses mental rehearsal to prepare for a match or event of any variety because they know that mental visualization spells the difference between winning and losing.

The reason why it works so well comes down to this one fact: your brain, extraordinary as it is in other regards, just cannot tell the difference between the thought of an action and the action itself. Rehearsing in your head is the equivalent of rehearsing with you body, smoothing the way for its actualization in the world.

In case you missed it, here’s an early podcast I did exploring the science of why this works.

I also cover why mental rehearsal is so essential to highly effective intention and how this amplifies the power of your thoughts to transform your body or indeed any area of your life.