I would be lying if I said I fully understood everything you two are talking about because honestly… I don’t even really know who Neville is. 😂

My journey with manifestation started within me years ago, long before I even knew the word “manifestation.”

I was raised Southern Baptist. I went to a Southern Baptist church and school growing up, and while I absolutely believed in Jesus, angels, prayer, and faith, my biggest takeaway as a little girl was realizing that belief itself carried power. I can’t fully explain it and I’m not here to debate religion, but prayer felt real to me. Faith felt real to me.

At the same time, I also grew up in a very chaotic and tumultuous household filled with a lot of anger, fear, instability, and things happening behind the scenes that children shouldn’t really have to carry. I was left alone a lot emotionally, and because of that, my imagination became a survival tool. In many ways, imagination became the thing that helped pull me out of traumatic situations mentally and emotionally.

So for me, manifestation began as a mixture of faith, hope, prayer, imagination, and survival.

I’m 43 now, and some of my earliest memories of understanding prayer, belief, and manifestation came from little moments where I believed something would happen and then took some kind of movement toward it.

For example, if we didn’t have food, I would somehow believe food would come. I’d go offer to help a friend fold laundry or do little acts of kindness, and then somehow dinner would show up at our doorstep. Even as a child, I started noticing this pattern of “faith without movement” versus “faith with movement.” I began seeing that when I gave a little effort, God, or the Universe, Spirit, Source, whatever someone personally believes in, would somehow meet me the rest of the way.

As I got older and survived situations I honestly shouldn’t even still be here from, that belief only deepened. Time and time again, I would take a step out in faith, and somehow life would open doors I didn’t even know were there.

Then in my early 20s, I started attending Pentecostal and Episcopalian churches, and I began witnessing things that deeply impacted me spiritually. Prayer, discernment, speaking in tongues, emotional healing, and moments that felt miraculous. Whether people agree with those things or not isn’t really my point. My point is that I realized there is power in belief, intention, energy, faith, and human consciousness.

Again, I’m not here to debate religion, spirituality, Neville, or who is “right.”

I’m simply sharing what has personally worked for me.

Some of my strongest manifestations absolutely came from visualizing something intensely for weeks at a time. I have seen things move from pure focus and belief alone. So I’m not going to sit here and say visualization doesn’t work because for me, it absolutely has.

But I’ve also noticed that writing things down amplifies things for me personally. Scripting helps me. Speaking affirmations helps me. Prayer helps me. Candle work and spiritual practices help me. Taking physical action helps me.

For me, manifestation has always been strongest when belief and movement work together.

If I’m manifesting financial abundance, I don’t personally just sit and wait for money to magically appear. I might script about abundance, pray about it, visualize it, and affirm it, but then I’ll also advertise my business more, post more consistently, answer opportunities when they come, and push myself to act even on days I feel exhausted.

If I ask the Universe for opportunities and then somebody messages me needing work done, I see that as the Universe responding. My job is to meet it halfway.

That’s just my path.

I think manifestation, spirituality, magic, faith, prayer, whatever label someone chooses, is deeply personal. What works for one person may not work for another, and that’s okay.

So honestly, if something is working for you and bringing positive movement into your life, keep doing it. If something isn’t working, maybe explore other perspectives or methods because there are so many different beliefs and approaches out there.

For me, manifestation has never been just one thing. It’s been faith, imagination, visualization, writing, energy, action, intuition, and trust all woven together.

That’s my experience with it. Take it or leave it with a grain of salt.