4 Celebs That Manifested Their Extraordinary Dreams (& The Techniques They Used To Get There)

When I was researching stories for this article, I was blown away by how many celebrities had used manifestation techniques in their rise to success. When choosing my favourites I was completely spoiled for choice.

From visualisation to scripting, almost every person I came across who had achieved incredible things in their lives and careers claimed to have manifested them in some way. Wether you’re a believer in the spiritual and universal laws like me, or just think it’s a nifty mind hack to keep wandering human brains on track, the evidence is clear on manifestation - it works!

So as we begin our 2023 chapter, let’s get a closer look and take some inspiration from these incredible stories of fame and fortune. Maybe you can take something away that will change your life too.

1. Jennifer Lopez

World renowned, award winning, artist and actress Jennifer Lopez came from very humble beginnings before becoming one of the biggest names in show business. At the start of her career, she became homeless in pursuit of her dreams and slept in her dance studio. But it all paid off in the end when she went on to become a Grammy award winner, and the first female artist to have a number one album and movie simultaneously. Today she has her own skincare brand, and even performed President Biden’s inauguration. It really seems there’s nothing she can’t achieve when she sets her sights on it.

She also happens to be a huge fan of manifestation techniques, and credits her practices as an integral part of her massive success. In a recent “Coach Conversations” episode with former monk Jay Shetty she opened up about her spiritual beliefs, stating on the show that we all have an internal compass that will guide us to our calling if we just pay attention to it.

‘What you say becomes your reality. When something really speaks to you—a mission, a calling, a purpose—you need to trust that you’re the right person to manifest that.'

Her techniques include practicing gratitude and visualisation, using mantras and affirmations, and calming and centering herself with meditation. Gratitude is an important part of her practice, her parents taught her from a young age to be grateful and to visualise their home as the best home in the world, even though it was a fairly average home. She also used affirmations for a long time because she believes our thoughts create our life, and too many of us automatically have a lot of negative thoughts. When it comes to the challenges of life J-LO uses a technique called transcendental meditation to keep her stress and anxiety at bay.

2. Grant Cardone

CEO, husband, father, self-made billionaire and best selling author Grant Cardone really is a testament to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a lifetime. He does his best to share his life and advice on social media with the hopes of inspiring other’s to chase their dreams. His online presence led to him being listed by Forbes as one of the top social media business influencers in the world.

The leap from his old life to the life he lives today seems almost impossible. Grant battled addiction for 9 years, lost his father at a young age, and was raised by a single mother. He tried every day for three years to get sober and failed, overdosed three times, and nearly lost his life before going to rehab aged 25. Today he owns multiple extremely successful businesses and travels the world in his own private jet.

I’ve watched Grant’s content for years. And one thing I’ve realised is how at the backbone of his mindset work are core manifestation techniques like scripting, visualition, Law of Attraction, and vision boarding. Take his video below for example:

He even had a picture of an aeroplane on his very first vision board. As we know now, after years of keeping his focus and actions consistent, the plane appeared in his 3D reality. He stays focused by writing his goals down on a notepad he keeps on his bedside table every day, twice a day. If he isn’t living proof of the power of what we can achieve with a combination of manifestation and massive action, I don’t know what is.

3. Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande took her big break on Nickelodeon as a child star in “Sam & Cat”, and went on to forge a career as one of the most well known artists in the music industry. Her music career boasts three platinum albums, three American music awards, 3 MTV Europe music awards and an MTV music video award. She was even named as one of Time magazine’s top 100 most influential people in the entire world.

She’s known as the poster girl for the phrase “the universe has my back”. And you don’t have to look far to see her spiritual beliefs reflected in her song lyrics. She even wrote an entire song dedicated to the wonders of manifestation, which reads like a step by step guide on how to think your dreams into reality. It’s called “just like magic”, and was released by Ariana in 2020.

Ariana’s mother taught her from a young age that if she wants something she can have it, because anything is possible. And she claims to have an amazing capacity for manifesting things into her life by visualisation. It’s reported that she even thought her relationship with Pete Davidson into existence. Extraordinarily, she began manifesting her career at Nickelodeon into reality at just 4 years old, when she rang the studio for an audition.

In one of her lyrics she sings the words “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it”, which seems to be the formula she lives by. And can be used as a blueprint for anyone else looking to try her technique for themselves.

4. Jim Carrey

Two time Golden Globe award winner Jim Carrey is without a doubt one of the most well known names in comedy acting. His individual, over the top acting style sets him apart from anyone else. And it shows in his multiple well known roles such as “Ace Ventura”, “The Mask”, “Bruce Almighty” and “Dumb and Dumber” to name just a few.

It’s rare to find someone who doesn’t know his name, though Jim is another incredibly successful person who came from humble, very ordinary beginnings. His childhood included leaving school to support his family, working long shifts, and living out of a VW van with his family trying to make ends meet. Jim struggled with depression and loneliness at different times throughout his life. Some of his success could be said to have been born out of these struggles. When he was lonely as a child he would reportedly look in the mirror for hours and make faces at himself, which no doubt is in part how he developed his impressions and expressive acting style.

His strong will and belief kept him going. Even when things seemed bleak, he kept visualising his dreams.

“Whenever I wanted something to happen, I manifested it. I stood there in an open field like this, [with] my arms out.”

Jim has one of the most shared manifestation stories on the internet, about how he wrote himself a cheque for $10 million for acting services rendered and gave himself 3-5 years to get there. He dated the cheque “Thanksgiving, 1995”, and in 1995 he landed the role in the cast of “Dumb and Dumber” for the amount he had written on his cheque - $10 million.

The thing that I found most incredible about each of these stories, is that they were all at one point just ordinary people like me or you reading this. Their lives weren’t extraordinary, but their dreams were. The vision they had for their lives was always extraordinary, even when their lives were as average as anyone else’s. So if you take one thing away from this article let it be that, that extraordinary lives start with an extraordinary dream. And an extraordinary dream is something absolutely anyone can have.

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