Scripting the Future: Manifestation and the Power of the Written Word with Ben Molyneux

Have you ever penned a dream in your diary, only to witness it unfold in reality? Our returning guest, the endlessly talented Ben Molyneux, joins us to share how his own writings transcended the pages of his journal, influencing his life in ways he never anticipated. As an artist, photographer, and author, Ben's experiences with the law of attraction are as captivating as they are instructional, and we discuss the profound impact of writing with vivid emotion and clear intentions. Weaving through the tales from "The Journey to the Edge of Reality: An Englishman's Shamanic Tale," we uncover the transformative potential of scripting our future, and I muse on my own experiences where the written word bridged the gap between thought and existence.

Venture deeper into the art of manifestation with us, as we explore the value of having a vision that encompasses more than material gains or romantic pursuits. Find inspiration in the idea that desires might have a gestation period, and the inventive approach of creating characters who carry the essence of the life you're eager to step into. In this heartfelt exchange, we stress the need for patience and an openness to life's unfolding opportunities. Whether you're seeking a tranquil space to amplify your manifestation efforts or looking for guidance on raising your vibration, this episode promises to arm you with the strategies to script a dynamic future. So, grab your notebook and let's turn the page to a new chapter, brimming with possibility and guided by the wisdom of our remarkable guest and the stories of manifestation that have coloured my own life.

Ben's book is available through Amazon and his artwork is on sale at the Marisa Arna Jewellery studio and gallery in Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex or via his website: www.benmolyneux.co.uk and www.benmolyneux.com 

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Speaker 1: 2:30

So welcome everybody to another episode of Barm to the Soul and happy new year to you all. And today we have a returning guest, that's Ben Mollinieu, who's an artist, a photographer and an author. So welcome, ben, and thank you so much for coming back onto the podcast. It's pleasure to be here, I'm really excited.

Speaker 1: 2:56

So Ben came and chatted to us before Christmas I think November. We chatted, didn't we? We talked about his book, the Journey to the Edge of Reality and Englishman's Shamanic Tale, which was really interesting. So if you haven't listened to that, go back and have a quick listen. And today we're going to focus on very much a part of your book, isn't it? But it is manifesting, yeah, by writing. So, just just tell us about that.

Speaker 2: 3:34

Well, I researched this many years ago when I discovered the law of the law of attraction and how it worked, and embarked on my own journey of trying to manifest things. And it's always been using the law of attraction, purposefully and sometimes accidentally, in my life. And sometimes you look back through old journals and pieces of writing and you realise I remember when I really wanted that and now here it is right in front of me and you see the universe out working in all its glory Through writing. It's interesting because on a part of my spiritual journey I discovered a novel that I had written magically came to life. But it caused me all sorts of challenges Because it wasn't an easy novel where I'd written down everything I wanted.

Speaker 2: 4:40

It was a fast-paced action adventure involving time travel and the Civil War and the plague and all these things that were universally playing out in my life, and it took me on a very, very deep spiritual journey of understanding and at the end of this, one of the big realisations is well, actually I've survived this, but I've learnt so much, as we do in all of our own spiritual journeys, because they're not easy. It's not the easy part, and when I look back at what I'd actually understood and taken most from my journey. It was the fact that the imagination I'd had had created all of these scenes for me to play out. And what would it be like now? Now I have a blank canvas that I could write the future I wanted. So I said about dividing my life into lots of different aspects, lots of different parts of what makes me whole, and then started writing vision for the future, as I am now.

Speaker 1: 5:57

I love that idea, but I was thinking about it today because a lot of the techniques about manifesting they talk about emotions connect to gratitude, connect to what you're grateful for now, and put yourself in that sort of position.

Speaker 2: 6:14

So when you're writing something out, are you connecting to an emotion or it's absolutely fascinating for me because when I realized I was playing out these characters in the novels that I'd written, it wasn't just the scenes that I'd written were manifesting and people were quoting lines from my book, but I was experiencing the emotions that I'd written about, that my characters experienced.

Speaker 2: 6:48

It wasn't the scenes playing out. I felt the highs and the lows, and the more detail I'd put into the descriptions, the more real it came in my life. So, looking at it from the other way, from what you've just said, when you said about to write a part of what you want to manifest by writing in detail those emotions that you want to tap into, how you want to feel when you get there, I think it creates those feelings whilst you're connecting to the piece of writing, because you're imagining yourself in that scene in your life and you can't help but feel the joy, the pride, the happiness that you're creating just by being there in that scene in your head.

Speaker 1: 7:51

Yeah, yes, very true. So if you're really picturing yourself there as you're writing it out, you are doing exactly what they talk about. You're putting yourself in that place, aren't you? Yeah? And the other thing they always tend to say is then you forget about it and you let go of it. And I suppose when you were writing your first novels, you did then. Just, you weren't doing it to manifest anything, were you? You were just writing a story.

Speaker 2: 8:23

Yeah, exactly, I hadn't realised the power that you know when we create these stories and we put so much imagination into things. The universe doesn't know that in my case that was just a story. It was. I put so much of myself into the characters.

Speaker 2: 8:45

Yeah, and because in my mind they were parts of me I guess it was easy then to manifest these scenes that I'd written for them. So, yeah, when we're looking to write aspects of ourselves in the future, it's really important to think, in everything that we write down, you know, is that how we want things to be? And I think, yeah, words are more powerful than we can possibly imagine.

Speaker 1: 9:22

Yes, definitely. It's interesting what you said then, because I remember we listening to somebody talk about how our brain doesn't know whether we're thinking it or doing it. There's no decipher, and that's exactly what you've just said.

Speaker 2: 9:39

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:39

If you get, if you're so focused in what you're writing and you're getting embodied in the characters, and if that one, if you want, you're doing it for your own life you can get embodied in yourself if you like in the future, can't you? Yeah, you are really tapping into your mind. Your subconscious doesn't know whether that's happening or not.

Speaker 2: 10:01

Yeah, and you know I'm no expert to say how this all works and how we manifest, but you know we're all connected, we're all energy. Yeah, that's we. I wrote this in my novel in my recent book that was published last year, that it's almost like when you do a piece of writing, you're doing a shopping list, and you're just telling the universe what you want good or bad and you don't realise. And there's a lot about negative language. It's almost like the knots in the don't want just disappear and we're left with the wants.

Speaker 2: 12:50

So by putting out we don't want this, we're putting out I want this. So it's being very careful with the language that we're phrasing everything and we're thinking about everything to bring stuff into our lives, not to move away from something or to focus on what we don't want. It's very important for that magic of manifesting to just focus on the positive aspects of what you want to bring in. So, rather than moving away from illness, it's moving towards good health.

Speaker 1: 13:30

Yeah, exactly, and the most successful times for me, I think, when I've manifested something was when I didn't mean to do it and when it arrived I thought back and thought actually I did actually sit and think actually that would be really nice. But there are two occasions where I asked for something and it turned up about 18 months later. But I wasn't deliberately trying to manifest and the point I'm getting to is that my thought I would really like that, the only way I can describe it was just really light. There was no intensity, there wasn't like any. Oh, I really really want this, I really want. I just was lying in bed one morning thinking I really want that, and it was just easy. And I forgot about it afterwards and it was only when it turned up that I thought I think I did that. It doesn't have to be intense, does it? It doesn't have to be an effort. When you're in the flow, when you're putting that out there, it's just really gentle and what I would call a light thought.

Speaker 2: 14:42

I think that's a brilliant analogy and I think of when you're learning to drive a car and I remember the driving instructor said to me you don't hold the steering wheel really tightly, you just let it glide through your hands tiny little adjustments. If you hold it too tightly you're going to make. You know is not going to work. And I think it's a bit like this it's just you tell the universe what you want and you just relax in the knowledge that it will come and let it go.

Speaker 2: 15:16

And then you're focusing on, I believe, the higher our vibration is and when I talk about the higher our vibration, I mean being in states of high vibration. I love enjoying gratitude the more powerful we are at manifesting those things that we want. And if we are just grateful that we have them before we've even got them and then we do our best not to hold on to the anxiety of maybe we actually really need this thing, and that's where the difficulty lies. You might really need more money or you need really need a new job or really need a new partner in your mind and that anxiety around it is so hard to let go of that. But of course you know it's just focusing on being mindful and being seeing the beauty all around you and just keeping the positives and changing your perspective as best you can to see things in the best way. These help you raise your vibration and in doing so, I believe your magnet you know that we are with our thoughts becomes more powerful and these things flow to us easier.

Speaker 1: 16:37

Yeah, and so really the good time to do it is like I just woken up and was sitting in bed and just very relaxed. Or perhaps sit down and think how grateful I am for a, B and C We've all got stuff we can be grateful for and to just get into that, before we then do this, what you know, do this bit of writing or whatever, you need to be in the right mindset, don't you? I think so.

Speaker 2: 17:07

For me, the journey starts with knowing what you want. Yeah, because it's quite hard If you don't fully know what you want. You may have given yourself some time and say, well, I've got. You know, I want to work on manifesting something tonight. But if you don't know what you want, it's a different part of your brain, a different focus than the actual manifesting itself. So just set yourself ideas of how you want your life to be now or in the future and do that separately to the manifesting, just to kind of do the planning and work it out. And then, once you're happy with what you've got, then absolutely find that right time for you. When you're in a peaceful state, perhaps after a meditation, a good night's sleep, maybe you decide well, tonight's, that night, I'm going to spend some time working on my future. And you have a nice hot bath and put some incense in the room and just relax and get yourself into a really nice space, Thank you, and that's a great place to you know. Then just start.

Speaker 2: 18:18

And we're talking about writing. So you know, working out, we've all got different levels of writing, but when we're writing about ourselves and what we want, very personal, no one needs to ever read it. So we haven't got to worry about grammar or how creative it is. It's just the more. I believe, the more detail we can put down there, the more real we make it in our mind. And then we can come back to that piece of writing and read it and add to it, and every time you read it you don't necessarily need to find yourself in that peaceful state because you've already started putting that out there into the universe. You've already worked out what you want. Then you've started writing it down and now you're just reading it and reminding yourself, and as you read through your writing, of this story of the future that you want to manifest. You're filling in the details and creating this picture and it's doing a lot of the hard work for you.

Speaker 1: 19:20

Yeah, so it's sort of reinforcing every time you read it, I suppose reinforcing that signal that you're giving out.

Speaker 2: 19:28

Absolutely, and, of course, then you can add to it. You can add more detail. So I designed an online course where we break up all aspects of your life that would be important. That might be your relationship with your partner, your health and fitness, your spiritual path, your career, your finances, your home, your family life all these different aspects. And then it was about writing a story for you with characters that they don't have to be you and your friends and family. These can just be fictional characters.

Speaker 1: 20:07

Right.

Speaker 2: 20:09

That you're going to tell a story covering these different aspects, with all the things you want a happy story. Don't do what I did inadvertently. That was awesome.

Speaker 1: 20:22

I've taught most of it at home.

Speaker 2: 20:23

My life, no, unless, of course, you want some adventure. But yeah, I found that to be an incredibly powerful way, and when I set back to write the course, what I actually did was I knew, if I write this stuff down, very good chance I'm going to live this myself. So I used it as an exercise to write stuff that I would like, and I did this about a year and a half ago, and so much, so much of what I wrote for this course is now my life, including exactly how I met my partner and how my life is now, and the work aspects that I'm following through was what I wrote about a year and a half ago when I was sitting down and thinking what do I want? And a lot of the characteristics in the people who are new in my life were people I'd wrote written about in these stories.

Speaker 1: 21:20

Yeah, what came to my mind then? One I always manifest. It takes 18 months, a year and a half, for it to turn up.

Speaker 2: 21:29

OK, interesting A period of time.

Speaker 1: 21:31

It's not just great for that, isn't it? I don't know what that's about. I keep trying to shorten it, but maybe I shouldn't. That's just the way it works for me. But I like the idea of writing characters and just having a lot of fun with it, Because straight away you're in a lighter sort of creative sort of mindset, aren't you?

Speaker 2: 21:55

Yeah, I'll give you an example. Perhaps you would like more interesting friends in your life who you haven't met yet, who have these quirks and have these shared interests that you absolutely. Maybe you love going to the cinema, but you've got no one to go to the cinema as an example. And then you could write this aspect of your future life, that you've got these two or three new friends who you've met and you're going out and you're going to see this movie, and then you're writing little bits about their character, how one likes this type of movie, one likes to go for a meal in this particular restaurant beforehand, and so on. And you'd be amazed when you come back to this year, two years later, and you can look and say, oh gosh, that's that person, or this opportunity did open up to me Sometimes. Perhaps you wrote these things but you didn't notice when the opportunity came and passed by, which does happen sometimes. We have to be open, of course, to see the opportunities and take them when they present themselves to us.

Speaker 1: 23:02

Yes, we've got to just trust that they're going to turn up as well, don't we? We just have to just there's. No, we can't second guess ourselves, because I think that probably blocks a lot of it.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Trust and, I think, sometimes remind the universe Because that's worked. That's worked for me. I've had conversations with whatever's out there and said, ok, I know this is fun, you know this life that you've created and I've manifested, but I'm ready for this now. And I just want to make it completely clear I'm ready for it now, yeah, and I have these conversations and then there you go, that these things, just you know things move out of the way and opportunities arrive quicker. So sometimes I think you have to let the universe know you're in control.

Speaker 1: 23:53

Yeah, trust it, but let it know that exactly what you want, like you say, I think it sounds amazing. So, how you talk about your course, that's on your website. So how can people get get?

Speaker 2: 24:07

Yes, so that's on thenmollinewcom, and there's an online course at the top with the details on there, and what I do is talk you through aspects of how to you know, like I said, create that powerful magnet so you raise your vibration, but also I give really good examples of how to write in a particular way, no-transcript, to be able to make things manifest in your life. And I think sometimes you know, if we're just left to do something, we might make a start, but actually, if we've got some guidelines of what to do and what order, how to do it, it just. And also we invest in that, don't we? We've invested in some things, which means we're more likely to get through, and why wouldn't you want to design your life?

Speaker 1: 25:08

Yeah, when you'd say it like that, why the?

Speaker 2: 25:11

way you want to and you know, at the very least, even if you struggle to believe in manifesting, you know what you want and that is a powerful tool to have in your armory. And I think a lot of the time people they use tools like you know how to manifest. Or I have an energy group where people help each other manifest together. It's very easy to forget that we've done that and we focus on the fact that this person knocked on the door and offered us the opportunity, rather than the fact that we've been working to manifest the fact that this person knocks on the door in the first place because it's not tangible, is it? But when you look back at a piece of writing and you think, gosh, yes, I wrote that and that matches this so accurately, it proves to you how powerful these tools are and you've got that for the rest of your life then, because you know that you did that and it produced this result, and you can always come back to it forever in a day.

Speaker 1: 26:21

It's like a business plan for your life, isn't it? For the next chapter, it's exactly that.

Speaker 2: 26:27

That's brilliant. That's brilliant, yes. And why just look at? We do create these business plans or we might make some life goals, but why not look at all of it, your entertainment, your fun, your creativity, your hobbies, all these aspects that make up who we are? And if we're fulfilled in all aspects of our life, then that's an incredible place to be. And I guess that was the aim behind the course was not just to focus on finances or a partner or whatever, but to focus on wholeness.

Speaker 1: 27:06

Yeah, yeah, and not to get impatient, not to be ticking off the days until it happens.

Speaker 2: 27:14

Yeah, absolutely. I think that's a really powerful point. So if you've written all aspects of your life with all these different things, and you go back and you have a look, you can start to see things happening and that encourages you to keep going and stay positive and in trust.

Speaker 1: 27:34

Yeah, and actually you can often feel energetically. You can feel that something's moving, can't you? You can feel that you're gaining some momentum. It might not have come out yet exactly how you asked for it, but you can often feel that you're beginning to move in things.

Speaker 2: 27:53

That's totally right, and I talked about raising your vibration. All these things lift you. Yes they all lift you.

Speaker 1: 28:02

If you can feel that you can start to get a bit excited, can't you? Yeah?

Speaker 2: 28:07

it's easier to jump from one state to a higher state if there's steps you've got to in between. Yeah, that makes sense. So if we're really at a place of despair, it's hard to jump from there to joy. There's all the steps in between and if we start to notice these steps, it becomes easier and easier to climb the mountain.

Speaker 1: 28:33

Yeah, and not to get it frustrated. I used to sometimes when I was manifesting I'd get really frustrated and have a good old rant at spirit and say this isn't working usual but, actually that's just a block, isn't it? Because it's just angry and it's not trusting either.

Speaker 2: 28:56

Yeah, it's perspective, isn't it? It's being able to step outside of ourselves and trust that this painful time and experience we've just been through is for a higher good. And many times we go through these painful experiences and later on we think, wow, if I hadn't have been through that, I wouldn't be here now. And now, this is great, this is so much better than I was before. Yeah, and that is the journey that we go on, and being in the middle of that transition, when we're experiencing the pain, to be able to step outside and take that perspective that this is life. This is why I'm here. This is pain, for this hurts, but I will take the learning, I will take the growth and I will become a new version of myself. So, at the end of it, it's hard, it's really hard, and that, of course, that's the spiritual path that many of us choose is to take all of that on board.

Speaker 1: 30:04

Yeah, and just understand that it's part of the process and actually that clearing energetically, clearing emotional stuff, can raise our vibrations. Maybe that's part of the process and why we go through these chapters where we have to deal with that. It's almost like we're just moving up a spiral, if you see what I mean.

Speaker 2: 30:24

Yeah, yeah, and of course we take the wisdom. You can't use that wisdom, and then you know we share that with others, and perhaps this is for the next challenge.

Speaker 1: 30:33

Yeah, so would you recommend that people have like a journal that they just use for their writing, or does it not really matter?

Speaker 2: 30:42

I would recommend a future life journal. Oh yeah, you know lots of people have got journals and I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say don't do that. That's brilliant and it works and it's fantastic. But I've never heard anyone recommend a future life journal. And here, imagine when you feel inspired. Maybe three or four times a week you've got a little book and in it you write a day of the future that you've just lived, where you've experienced something you always wanted to do.

Speaker 2: 31:13

you know and it can be that you know you've just had this wonderful testimony from your ideal client, or somebody has just found you up to say, well, an inspiration. You've been in their life, or you've just ran this longer distance, or you've reached your ideal way. Whatever it is that you would love to have in a day in the future, just start writing one scene one day, as if you've just lived it and you're telling the universe exactly what you want and you're inspiring yourself every day.

Speaker 1: 31:52

Yes, it's in spite. That's the right word, isn't it? It's inspiring you. So, no matter where you are, you're looking ahead and inspiring yourself to keep going, to keep manifesting.

Speaker 2: 32:07

I suppose it's something wonderful, because I've been doing this for a little while. I don't do it religiously every day, because I'll go through a couple of weeks and do it and then I'll forget about it for a while and then I'll go back and look through it. And then, because I'm writing a journal and I write books about my experiences and stuff, you marry this up and say, gosh, I actually wrote the scene, I lived the scene and then I wrote about it again. It's this incredible synergy of the amount of times I've written just days in the future and they have just manifested exactly or almost exactly if I've written them down. And it's just. Once you start seeing this, it really changes your perspective of how the world actually works.

Speaker 1: 33:04

Yeah, it's so fascinating. It's interesting you're talking about future life journals, because I did a future life progression hypnosis course. Yeah, yeah. Which was fascinating, and they talk about us having four options. As we move forward, we always have four options. That's quite interesting. I wonder what would happen if you wrote down two options. You know you're about two different things. I suppose, though, you could argue, you'd have more emotion towards one, and that's why that would happen, or?

Speaker 2: 33:44

I don't know, yeah. Yeah, I mean if they're contradictory you know, if you can't have them about the other.

Speaker 1: 33:51

Both positive but completely different.

Speaker 2: 33:54

It would be interesting One way you're living in Australia and one way you're living in England or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you'll have to do it and let me know.

Speaker 1: 34:04

Or maybe the listeners will try it Two contradictory positive outcomes and see what happens. Brilliant, Thank you so much, Ben. I really I'd love talking to you about it and I shall definitely be trying some of those techniques. I should definitely get my future life journal going yeah, and have a good.

Speaker 2: 34:28

Good luck and thank you. Yeah, thank you so much for having me on. It's always really wonderful experience coming on your show. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 34:36

And so I'll put your details below the episode, so and people can contact you through your website about manifesting and other courses, can't they?

Speaker 2: 34:48

Yeah, absolutely, and I do want one to one coaching if it's helpful, even if it's just a one off session. Yeah, I mean, they're just to help people find their part.

Speaker 1: 34:57

Yeah, lovely, brilliant. So if you've enjoyed looking to us chat, please like and share and you can always subscribe to Barn to the Soul, and I will speak to you again soon.

Speaker 2: 35:09

Thank you very much, take care, bye, bye.

Speaker 1: 35:11

Bye.