for me it clicked when i stopped treating affirmations like magic and realized they're literally just my thoughts. and for anything to manifest i just need to affirm from my new story until it becomes dominant. i also stopped thinking manifestation was a process.
"MGS4 will be more prophetic in 20 years than MGS2. The loss of personal autonomy and anonymity is a greater threat than algorithms and general AI. People are already forced to ID-tag themselves to use many sites and things like Neuralink will cause controlled physical reliance"