Jen MazerPhoto by Elyse Cosgrove To some, January means breaking out magazines to start vision boarding. For Jen Mazer, a manifestation coach and published author, it’s not necessarily the right approach to moving the needle. “Vision boarding is like preschool for manifesting,” she says. “It’s just scratching the surface.” Mazer, a Cobb County resident, was nicknamed the Queen of Manifestation by her friends due to her ability to manifest some fairly outlandish-seeming things: living rent-free in Manhattan for 10 years, marrying a Grammy-nominated musician, having artwork in the New York Times, and getting a book deal with her dream publisher, just to name a few. Mazer is naturally intuitive and found her work as an artist allowed her visualize things and physically create them, helping her hone in on her craft as a manifestation master. Her version of the practice is more about tuning in, receiving, and tapping into intuition and less about forcing something to happen via positive thinking. “Manifestation is about understanding that your imagination is how you tap into your intuition,” she says. It’s not magic or woo-woo delusions, nor is it the ability to force things to happen via over-efforting. Mazer explains that neuroscience and quantum physics are involved in manifestation, but the practice can be boiled down to a few simple ideas. First, ask yourself three key questions: “What do I want? How will I feel when I have this thing I want? And how can I feel that way now? The last part puts out the frequency that matches your desire,” she says. “Focus on what expands.” She also advises changing thought patterns from “I have to” to “I get to,” and practicing daily gratitude. Finally, she follows the acronym BEAM—Belief plus Expectation plus Action equals Manifestation. Ideas and desires are intuitions, but the action has to happen from a place of expectation. “Manifestation comes from a feeling place. Ask yourself ‘How can I?’ while simultaneously believing that it will happen. It detaches you from the outcome,” she explains. The post Jen Mazer, the Queen of Manifestation, on how to think about this popular practice differently appeared first on Atlanta Magazine.