Journaling is an extremely powerful tool that you can use to shape your reality.

By putting your dream life in writing, you can manifest it.

These are my three favorite ways to use journaling as a manifestation tool:

1. Scripting
2. Releasing/flipping limiting beliefs
3. Gratitude

1. Scripting

Scripting is the act of writing down the future as you desire for it to happen.

You can get really specific with this and imagine minute details.

For example, maybe you have a job interview coming up. You can write about the interview going really well. You can write about how you felt confident answering all of the questions. You can write about your perfect outfit, arriving on time, and hitting it off with the interviewer. You can even write about the moment you receive an offer for the position!

Scripting is about bridging the point of where you are now (the present moment) to the point where you want to be (your desired future).

When scripting, try writing in the present tense as if it is unfolding right then and there. I find this a really potent way to immerse myself in the moment of the desired reality taking shape.

Some people also like scripting in the past tense as if they are reflecting back on how it all already happened. Do what feels best for you.

You can get as detailed as you like. You don’t have to get into every detail, but some details certainly do help to land the intended outcome.

As you script, you want to believe that this is going to happen. You are priming your mind for the thing you want to happen and how you want it to take shape. You must play an active role in your manifestation coming true, so see yourself in that reality because that’s going to actually be you when the time comes around!

Scripting makes it real in your mind like a dress rehearsal for the reality to come. Then, when the time comes, you’ll step into that reality as you’ve already seen it play out.

Remember, though – just because you’ve written it doesn’t mean it will come true. You have to do the work of making that script come true. But scripting helps you create your own blueprint of how you want it to play out.

Consider this: How would you act if it were already yours? Start showing up as that person today. That’s the version of you that manifested what you wanted. If you can imagine that person, you can be that person.

Journal prompts for scripting:

1. What is it that you desire?
2. Write about it as it if it already yours, or it has already happened. Write in the present or past tense – choose what feels right to you. As you write it out, feel into the script as if it is all in fact true. Feel within yourself as if it is already yours, it has already happened. It’s like you’re playing out the movie of the future, of what is to come. When the time comes for this to happen, you’ll feel it naturally because it’s already happened in your journaling practice. It’s just a matter of you stepping into the reality of it.
3. After you’re done, reread what you wrote and continue to soak in the feeling of it really happening or really having happened. Scripting is a pathway to embodying the feelings of it being true so that you can easily step into the version of you that achieves the goal. (This process may take time as you adjust to believing this is possible for you. If you are struggling, the next point can help.)

2. Releasing / Flipping Limiting Beliefs

Releasing limiting beliefs is about letting go of the thought patterns that hold you back. Flipping those beliefs is about rewriting those thought patterns into ones that work in your favor and serve your goals.

Get clear on what limiting beliefs you hold about yourself that are holding you back from reaching your goals.

You can do this by asking yourself the direct question, “What self-limiting beliefs do I have about myself? My potential? My ability to do X?”

Journal this out. As you get into the flow of writing, more things will come out than if you just thought of them in your head. It also helps to see them on paper when you work on adjusting these beliefs.

It also helps to see your limiting beliefs on paper as you work on adjusting these beliefs.

See these beliefs for what they are. They are not absolute reality. You actually developed these beliefs from somewhere. Maybe a parent or a partner or a teacher or a friend told you something about yourself that made you start to think poorly of yourself. Maybe you did something in the past that made you adopt a certain negative belief about yourself. Understand where these beliefs came from. Then understand that these beliefs are not absolute truth.

Allow yourself to let go of those beliefs.

You can set them down and leave them behind you.

You can choose to believe something different about yourself.

What would be the healthier, more positive, more constructive version of those limiting beliefs? Write those down. Start telling yourself these things. Try it on for size. Eventually, wear the new beliefs as comfortably as you used to wear your self-doubts. These uplifting beliefs look better on you and will take you where you want to go.

Journal prompts for releasing and flipping limiting beliefs:

1. What are limiting beliefs do I hold about myself? About my potential? About my ability to achieve my goals?
2. Where did these beliefs come from? For each one (or just a few if you wrote a lot) go back as far as you can to reach the original memory of when you developed this belief. Also, if there is an outstanding emotional memory involving this limiting belief write about that as well.
3. Realize that that these beliefs are not absolute truth. You can move forward in your life without carrying these beliefs. Let yourself put them down and step forward into the present moment and your future without them. (You can visualize this in an abstract way too, like the beliefs being sugar cubes that dissolve in water, or stones that you leave on a path behind you, or whatever other imagery works effectively for you.)
4. Now for each limiting belief, write a new version of it that is a positive, constructive, self-affirming belief. Define your own set of new beliefs that serve your journey to becoming your best self and reaching your desired goals.
5. Put it into practice. Tell yourself these new beliefs every day. Morning and night is a good start. You can even write little reminders to yourself so that you’ll see them throughout the day. Try putting them as reminders in your calendar that will pop up throughout the day. Put little notes in various places where you’ll see them – on your home screen, desktop, journal, planner, etc. The goal is to internalize these beliefs or affirmations as strongly as the limiting beliefs you once held.

3. Gratitude

Journaling is a great way to express gratitude with a meaningful practice.

Thinking of your gratitude and feeling it is also great, but I find that the act of writing seals in the gratitude with more ritual and gives it more gravity. This in turn helps the gratitude yield more abundance more easily.

Express gratitude for what you have already. What you express gratitude for, you will start to find in abundance.

The next layer is to express gratitude for what you desire as if it’s already yours. This is almost like scripting, where you write in the present or past tense as if the thing you want is already yours. By writing how grateful you are for the thing already being yours, you are inviting it in by being a match for that thing entering your field.

I heard a thought from YouTuber Simone Squared that really struck me. What if you woke up tomorrow with only the things that you were grateful for today? Then what would you be left with? And what would you realize you were actually grateful for all along?

Journal prompts for gratitude:

1. What am I grateful for? List 5 – 10 things that you are GENUINELY feeling grateful for right now. It doesn’t matter how big or small they are. They just need to be things you are truly feeling grateful for in the moment.
2. What do you desire? Maybe this will be the thing you scripted about. Now write in the past or present tense about how grateful you are that the thing you desired happened, or came into your orbit. This is coupling scripting with a gratitude practice. You are inviting your desires to come into your field even more strongly.

Conclusion

Journaling is a powerful tool for manifesting and can be used in a variety of ways. There are tons of techniques for manifesting besides what I shared above, but these three tools are the ones I always find myself coming back to. They are simple and effective.

So to recap, here are three tools to manifest through journaling:

1. Scripting
2. Releasing / flipping limiting beliefs
3. Gratitude

Do you already use any of these journaling practices to manifest? If you have a good manifestation story you’d like to share, feel free to drop it in the comments to inspire others!

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