My Manifesting Journey: From The Secret to Robotic Affirming

Affirmations and manifesting have been a huge part of my life since around 2012-2013. It was my brother making me read or watch The Secret (knowing him, it was probably both) that sparked my ever-growing desire to learn how to manifest anything I want. Still, the idea that I could “control my reality through positive thinking” sounded almost too good to be true. Little did I know it would eventually lead me to robotic affirming, the method that finally clicked for me.

Part of me (call it intuition or my Higher Self) knew that this was something I was supposed to learn about and live by. And so I delved deep into all of it, from Abraham Hicks and the Law of Attraction to esoteric ideas and gnostic beliefs.

Manifesting is how I got my old YouTube channel back after being locked out for over 10 years (and being told I’d never get back in). It’s also how I got my channel monetized after so many people on the YouTube customer care team told me it couldn’t be done. More on that below!

Manifesting Methods I’ve Tried

I have tried just about every manifesting method, including visualization with and without a vision board, meditation, scripting, gratitude journals, listening to affirmations, subliminal audios, solfeggio frequencies, binaural beats, and guided meditations. I’ve even tried writing down what I wanted and then sticking it in the freezer!

Some of these methods have worked for me, but my favorites have been creating vision boards and listening to affirmations.

My Past Go-To Methods

Vision Boards

For me, vision boards are a great way to focus and get clear about what I want to manifest. I’m a visual learner, and I love aesthetics. So creating a sort of Pinterest board on a piece of paper or large cardboard and sticking it on my wall works for me. I also like to create a digital vision board and use it as my phone and computer background and screensaver.

Listening to Affirmations

Listening to affirmations has also helped me get clear on what I want and manifest it. In the past, I made a huge list of affirmations on money, love, confidence, and more. I recorded myself saying them, and then I would listen to them all day at my office job and as I fell asleep (if I woke up during the night, I’d either lower the volume or turn it off).

How Affirmations Brought Me My Husband

The loving marriage I’m in now is all thanks to those affirmations! Ever since I was a teenager, I knew I did not want to get married. Everyone always said that when I found the “perfect man,” I would change my mind. But I figured traveling the world and being independent worked better for me.

Until I found the “perfect man” that I affirmed for. Needless to say, we’ve traveled around the world, and I am still the ever-independent woman I wanted to be (but with a husband). Want to see the exact affirmations I recorded and listened to? Check out my personal list of affirmations.

How I Manifested My YouTube Channel Back

Trying & Failing

Initially, I tried manifesting my YouTube channel back (after losing the password around 2012-2013) by affirming and visualizing at the same time. According to “manifestation experts,” that’s one of the “easiest and fastest” ways to manifest.

But visualization is very hard for me. My mind likes to wander or change the picture in my head; I can’t really focus when I try to visualize. Attempting to visualize and affirm at the same time would give me a headache. I’d do it for a minute or two, and then give up.

I also tried recording and listening to affirmations to get my channel back. I didn’t stick with that method for long either. And eventually I gave up on manifesting my channel, and everything else I wanted, too…

Finding a Breakthrough

Then I decided to try again, and something in my head clicked…

I went through the same process I had years before, but I guess this time around, there wasn’t any resistance. Or maybe it was a culmination of everything I’d done in the past that led to that moment. To tell you the truth, I can’t say exactly how I manifested it. But it happened, and I am giving credit to manifestation.

You can watch the full story here:

Discovering Robotic Affirming

Finally, after years of deep dives and rabbit holes, I found Sammy Ingram on YouTube, who talks about robotic affirming. She broke down how to manifest with robotic affirming in the simplest way, and it just clicked for me. And like everyone else who comes across Sammy’s videos, I became (and still am) obsessed.

Robotic affirming is, in my opinion, the easiest way to manifest. All I have to do is repeat my affirmation over and over and over and over… whether or not I believe it.

Small Wins with Robotic Affirming

I’ve tried robotic affirming with little things, like seeing a certain color of car or a butterfly. I’ve also affirmed that my husband and mom would say something, and then they would, almost exactly how I affirmed it.

What I’m Manifesting Right Now

My biggest issue with manifesting has been flip-flopping on which affirmation to stick to. Sammy always says not to waver and to stick to one affirmation. It takes me a while to land on an affirmation with no resistance and no loopholes for my mind to push through. A perfect example: manifesting a bracelet I lost.

When we first started dating, my then-boyfriend, now-husband, bought me a Tiffany gold-bead bracelet. It was one of the first things he bought me, and it meant (and still means) a lot to me. I wore it everywhere! When we decided to move in together, I packed up everything, including my jewelry. My last sight of that bracelet was putting it in the backpack I used as a purse. I searched for that bracelet for years. I even tried talking to “the beyond” in hopes of being led to it.

Then I started robotically affirming “I found my Tiffany gold-bead bracelet” over and over. One day, I saw someone wearing it. I thought nothing of it and kept affirming.

Then I saw someone else with it… and it made me wonder if the word “found” in my affirmation was letting my silly brain find a loophole. Because technically, I “found” my bracelet, just on someone else.

I’ve made some adjustments to my affirmation, and when I manifest it, I will share that story!!

My Manifesting Tips

Get Very Clear on Your Desire

I think the most important thing when it comes to manifesting with affirmations (or any method) is getting extremely clear on what you want. For me, the less vague my affirmation is, the less resistance I have saying it, and the fewer loopholes my brain tries to find.

Use Present Tense

I like using present tense, as if it’s already mine. When I use the past tense (like “found” in my bracelet affirmation), my brain starts going in circles and finding loopholes, and I start spiraling. Sometimes adding the word “now” to the end of my affirmations makes me feel more relaxed, as though what I want is already here!

My Current Method: 10 Minutes, 3 Times a Day, for 30 Days

Like most people, I have many things I want to manifest right now, at this very moment, ASAP! So I find the perfect picture on Google or create it in Canva, print it out, and stick it onto a big piece of cardboard. I make the photos as perfect as I can (like printing out a photo of me wearing that bracelet, or screenshotting my bank account app and editing it to show the amount I want) so that when I look at my vision board, there’s no resistance whatsoever.

Sammy Ingram also talks about “The List Method,” where you make a list of everything you want and then repeat one umbrella affirmation. As I mentioned, I’m a visual learner, so my vision board is my list, and looking at the photos every day helps me.

Umbrella affirmations I’ve tried are “My vision board is my real life” and “Everything on my vision board becomes mine” (I’m still tweaking them). I pick one and robotically affirm it for at least 10 minutes, 3 times a day, for 30 days. I also fit it into things I already do every day, like:

when I wake up
while I’m waiting for my coffee
while doing my skincare
while folding laundry
while sitting in a waiting room

30 days seems like a long time, and obviously I always hope to get what I want before then. As I get better at manifesting and believing in my power, hopefully the zero will drop off, and I’ll be able to manifest in 3 days. I’m still learning, growing, and figuring out the manifestation methods that suit me best.

Hopefully by this time next year, I’ll have many more manifestations that came true, including my Tiffany gold-bead bracelet.

♡, S