Roxie Nafousi - Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

Roxie Nafousi

MANIFEST

7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

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About the Author

Roxie is a Self-Development Coach, Manifesting Expert, Ambassador for the Mental Health Foundation and Instagram Agony Aunt and contributor for Kourtney Kardashians wellness platform, POOSH. Roxie works with one-to-one clients as well as hosting monthly self-development workshops and webinars to over 600 people a month. She is the host of popular podcast series called The Moments That Made Me. Her commitment to transforming the lives of people who suffer with emotional and mental-health issues and helping them to fulfil their potential has seen her become a well-known and respected figure in the wellness world.

Introduction

Manifesting is the ability to create the exact life that you want. It is the ability to draw in anything that you desire and become the author of your own story. It looks and feels like magic, and we are all the magicians.

MY MANIFESTING JOURNEY

In May 2018, my life looked entirely different to how it does now. I was twenty-seven years old and I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life; I had no job, no direction and no sense of purpose. I had been in a battle with depression for over a decade, and in the grip of addiction for almost as long. I was overwhelmingly sad for much of the time, my self-worth was non-existent and, after a string of failed relationships, I was very much alone.

I had just returned from Thailand, where I had gone for a month to complete a yoga teacher-training course. I had gone in hope that not only would I get a qualification I could potentially use to assemble some sort of career but also that, in being away from the temptations of city life, I would be able to heal my pain and change my hedonistic, partying ways. But I was back in London for less than twenty-four hours before I found myself in the same old cycle; smoking, drinking and taking drugs. It was then and not for the first time that I hit rock bottom. I felt completely hopeless. If not even a month of self-reflection, daily meditation, clean eating and two hundred hours of yoga could help me, what would?

I called my friend Sophia, totally broken. When would I ever feel happy? I asked her. She said to me, I listened to a podcast on something called manifesting last night. Ill send you the link now, I think it could really help you. I was on my way to get a manicure at the time, so I figured that while I sat and had my nails reapplied I may as well just put on my headphones and listen. As I recollect this story now, I have such a vivid image in my mind; I can see myself sitting in the white chair, wearing my black leggings and oversized denim jacket, having my nails painted a candy-coloured pink as I listened intently to something that was about to change my world for ever.

When my nails were done I went straight home and opened up my laptop. I typed into Google, What is manifesting? and I sat and read and researched and listened and learned and absorbed everything I could on manifesting. I already knew the first thing I wanted to manifest: unconditional love.

Just one week after listening to that podcast episode and putting into practice some of the things I had learned, I received a message on a dating app called Raya from an Australian actor named Wade Briggs. We had no friends in common, but I thought he looked particularly cute and so I replied, and we quickly began a non-stop texting marathon.

Two weeks later, Wade happened to be stopping in London for four days after travelling through Europe in a van for several months with his best friend, before heading back home to Australia. So we decided to meet up the day after he arrived in the city.

Our date went so well that Wade decided not to get on his flight home so that he could just stay a bit longer and see what happens.

Three months later, we found out I was pregnant.

On 7 June 2019, exactly one year to the day after receiving his message, our baby boy, Wolfe, was born. There it was: unconditional love.

Three years later, Wade and I are stronger than ever, and totally and utterly obsessed with our perfect little boy. On top of that, I am free of all addiction, I have carved out a successful career for myself which is full of purpose and passion, I am happier and more content than I could put into words and I finally possess something I thought would be forever out of my reach: self-love.

After discovering manifesting, I took everything I learned and, almost instinctively, organized it in my mind into seven simple steps. I started following the steps myself and then everything began to unfold in the most magnificent and rapid way. The change felt so magical, yet at the same time it made so much sense to me that it felt entirely logical, too. My life transformed in every way imaginable; not an inch of it was left the same. And it all happened because of one thing: understanding the true art of manifestation.

I started telling all my friends, and my small following on Instagram, about this incredible thing called manifesting. Most people had no idea what I was talking about and those that did always said the same thing: Oh, isnt that when you just visualize what you want and it happens? I realized then that the majority of people had never even heard about manifesting, and those that had only seemed to understand the surface layer of it: that was why so few people were successfully doing it.

I felt this urge, a calling within me, to teach as many people as possible how to uncover the power that lies within them. Over the last two years I have shared my 7-step guide to manifesting with thousands and thousands of men and women in my workshops and webinars. I receive daily messages from people who have transformed their worlds and made their dreams come true, thanks to this powerful and magical practice. As we entered 2021, I knew that it was time to write this book, because I knew that I could reach and teach so many more people through the written word.

I continue to use manifestation every single day, and I live and breathe the steps I am going to teach you. It serves me in all the best ways and enables me to wake up every single day both grateful for all that I have and excited about what the universe is going to bring to me.

Since starting my workshops, I have seen a rise in interest in manifesting, and this interest has certainly been gaining momentum. It has been so exciting to see more and more people opening their minds to the idea that they are in charge of their destiny, but, for many people, the amount of information can be overwhelming and it can be hard to know where to begin. Within this book, I have streamlined everything you need to know into 7 simple steps so that you can unlock the magic for yourself and begin your journey to manifesting your dream life.

I want to say this, though, loud and clear: manifesting is so much more than just a trend. Manifesting is a meeting of science and wisdom; it is a philosophy to live by and a self-development practice to help you live your best life.

Manifesting is not a new concept. William Walker Atkinson introduced the concept of manifestation in his book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, all the way back in 1906. And one of my favourite definitions of manifesting was written in 1937, by journalist Napoleon Hill, in Think and Grow Rich . He said You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be. Since then, many great philosophers and thinkers have gone on to write about the power of manifesting: some of my favourite teachers include Louise Hay, Abraham Hicks, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey and Dr Joe Dispenza.