Manifestation glossary: every term, A to Z

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Find a word in the A to Z list, or read a whole theme. Each entry gives a short meaning and the word in a sentence. It also gives other names for the word, what it gets confused with, and where to read more.

Manifestation has its own language. Most of it was born on TikTok, on Reddit and in Neville Goddard’s lectures, not in dictionaries. Many of these words mean something completely different in everyday life, like SP, the 3D, the void and RAS. Each one is explained below. So every entry also says what the word is not.

The words below are the ones people really use. In June 2026 we read 7,323 comments under 39 manifestation TikToks. The most common manifestation words were SP (134 mentions), affirm (87), delulu (58) and the 3D (34). About one comment in five was “claimed” or a similar short reply that people post under these videos.

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3rd party · 17-second rule · 55x5 method · 369 method · Affirmation · Alignment · Angel numbers · Aphantasia · Aya method · Bay leaf method · Booster · Bridge of incidents · Claiming · Creative visualization · Delulu · Delulu era · Delulu is the solulu · Detachment · DR · EFT tapping · EIYPO · Ex back · Frequency · Frequency illusion · Future self · Glass of water method · I am affirmations · Imaginal act · Implementation intentions · Inner conversations · It’s done · John Doe · Law of Assumption · Law of Attraction · Living in the end · Lucky girl syndrome · Manifestation · Masc · Mental diet · Mind movie · Mirror work · Neville Goddard · New moon manifestation · No contact · Persisting · Photo method · Pillow method · Placebo effect · Quantum jumping · RAS · Reprogram the subconscious · Revision · Robotic affirming · SATS · Scripting · Self-concept · Self-efficacy · Shifting · SP · Spiritual bypassing · Subliminal · That girl · The 3D · The void · Toxic positivity · Two-cup method · Vision board · Visualization · Whisper method · WOOP

The basics

These are the big words that all the other words build on.

Manifestation

Bringing what you want into your real life. You get clear on the wish, believe it is coming, and keep coming back to it. Then it shows up. The person texts, the job offer comes, the apartment is yours. To manifest is the verb.

Methods differ in how you do it. In the Law of Assumption, you assume and feel the wish as already done. In the Law of Attraction, you raise your feeling to match the wish. Repetition methods like affirmations and the 369 method repeat the wish until it sinks in. Ritual methods like the pillow method set an intention in a small act and let it go.

In a sentence: “I’m manifesting a new apartment before my lease ends.” · Not to be confused with: the everyday meanings of “manifest” in English. It can mean “to show clearly,” or a ship’s list of cargo. · Read more: What is manifestation?

Law of Attraction

The teaching that like attracts like. Your thoughts and feelings pull matching people, events and things into your life, so feeling good brings good things. It became famous around the world through the film and book The Secret in 2006.

In a sentence: “The Law of Attraction says I have to raise my vibration first.” · Also called: LOA. · Not to be confused with: the Law of Assumption, which is about assuming, not attracting. Some people write “LOA” for both, so check the context. · Read more: Law of Attraction vs Law of Assumption

Law of Assumption

The community’s name for what Neville Goddard taught. What you assume and feel to be true hardens into fact. So you assume your wish is already fulfilled and live from that feeling, and it shows up in your real life.

In a sentence: “In the Law of Assumption you don’t attract your SP, you assume you’re already together.” · Also called: LoAss. Some people also write LOA, which can be confusing. · See also: Neville Goddard, self-concept. · Read more: The Law of Assumption explained

Frequency

In the Law of Attraction, the emotional “tone” you give off. Like attracts like, so what you give off draws matching things into your life. Raising your frequency, or vibration, means feeling better, and better things then come to you.

In a sentence: “I watch funny videos before I affirm to get my frequency up.” · Also called: vibration, vibe. · Not to be confused with: frequency in physics. It is also not the “frequency” music tracks that are sold as a way to bring money or love.

Alignment

Feeling in tune with what you want. You feel calm and sure that it is coming, and your actions match that feeling. In that state, what you want comes to you more easily.

In a sentence: “When I’m in alignment I stop checking my phone.” · See also: living in the end.

Reprogram the subconscious

Using repetition to change your deep beliefs. Your subconscious is the part of your mind that works without you noticing. Affirmations, subliminals and scenes before sleep are the usual tools. Over time, the new belief feels automatic, and your life starts to match it.

In a sentence: “I’m reprogramming my subconscious to believe I’m lucky with money.” · See also: SATS, subliminal, self-concept.

Love and SP words

Most manifesting is about a person, so love has the most words of its own.

SP

Short for specific person. It means the one person you want a relationship with. That could be a crush, a partner, someone you are dating or an ex.

In a sentence: “I’ve been scripting about my SP every night this week.” · Also called: specific person, John Doe. · Not to be confused with: the many other meanings of “SP” online. In manifestation it always means a person. · Read more: What does SP mean? and How to manifest a specific person

John Doe

A made-up name for an SP. People use it to share their story without naming the real person.

In a sentence: “I can’t say his name here, so he’s John Doe for now.” · See also: SP.

3rd party

Another person in your SP’s life who seems to stand between you, such as a new partner or a crush. In the Law of Assumption, the 3rd party belongs to an old story. You stop living in that story and assume your own relationship, and your life moves to match it.

In a sentence: “My SP posted with a 3rd party, so I revised it that night.” · Also called: 3P, third party. · Care: the 3rd party is a real person. Manifest your own relationship, not harm to theirs.

No contact

A stretch of time with no texts, no calls, no likes and no checking their profile. It usually comes after a breakup. People do it to heal, or as part of manifesting an ex back.

In a sentence: “Day 12 of no contact and I finally stopped checking his stories.” · Also called: NC. · See also: detachment, ex back.

Detachment

Still wanting your wish, but letting go of the need to check, chase or control how it comes. You still want it. You just stop holding on so tightly, because you know it is on its way.

In a sentence: “I’m working on detachment, so I muted her stories for a while.” · Also called: the law of detachment. · Not to be confused with: not caring, or being cold. · Read more: Am I obsessed with my SP?

Ex back

Manifesting a past partner back into your life. It is one of the most searched love goals. It has its own methods, and its own things to be careful about.

In a sentence: “I’m manifesting my ex back, but I’m working on my self-concept first.” · Read more: How to manifest your ex back

Masc

Slang for a person with a masculine look and style, used mostly in queer communities. “Manifesting a masc” means manifesting a relationship with one.

In a sentence: “Manifesting a masc who brings me flowers for no reason.” · See also: SP.

Law of Assumption and Neville words

Most of the deeper words come from one teacher, Neville Goddard, and the groups that study him.

Neville Goddard

A teacher and lecturer (1905 to 1972) who was born in Barbados. He taught in New York and Los Angeles that imagination creates reality. His books include Feeling Is the Secret (1944) and The Power of Awareness (1952). Most Law of Assumption words go back to him.

In a sentence: “Neville says to feel it as done, not to hope for it.” · Also called: Neville. · See also: Law of Assumption. · Read more: Who was Neville Goddard? and his books, in reading order

SATS

Short for state akin to sleep. “Akin to” means “like.” It is the drowsy, relaxed state just before you fall asleep. In it, you replay a short scene that shows your wish has come true. What you feel as real in this state becomes real in your life.

In a sentence: “I do SATS every night with the scene of him proposing.” · Also called: state akin to sleep. · Origin: Neville Goddard, Feeling Is the Secret (1944). The book describes prayer as “a state akin to sleep.” · Read more: SATS: the state akin to sleep

Living in the end

Thinking, feeling and acting as if your wish is already fulfilled. You live from the end point, not from the point of wanting it, and your life catches up.

In a sentence: “Living in the end means I plan my weekend like we’re already together.” · Also called: living from the end. · Origin: Neville Goddard. In plain words, once you accept the result, the way to it follows. In Feeling Is the Secret he wrote that accepting the end “wills the means.” · See also: it’s done.

It’s done

A short phrase people say to mark a wish as fulfilled and stop asking for it. It is often said after a SATS session or under a video.

In a sentence: “I wrote it once, said ‘it’s done’, and closed the notebook.” · Not to be confused with: claiming, which is about a video, not your own wish.

Revision

Replaying something that went wrong, in your imagination, the way you wish it had gone. It is usually done at night, like rewriting the day. The revised version, not the old one, is what your life goes on to reflect.

In a sentence: “He ignored me at the party, so I revised it: he came straight over and hugged me.” · Origin: Neville Goddard, “The Pruning Shears of Revision,” a chapter of Awakened Imagination (1954). · See also: the 3D.

Self-concept

What you believe about yourself. For example, that you are lovable, lucky, good with money or worth choosing. In the Law of Assumption, everything else grows from it. Change it, and the way people treat you and what comes to you change too.

In a sentence: “I’m working on my self-concept before anything else.” · Not to be confused with: the wider psychology term, which means your whole picture of yourself. The two overlap. Manifesters use the word for the beliefs they are changing on purpose.

Persisting

Holding your assumption as true, day after day, even when nothing around you has changed yet. You keep going until it comes into your life.

In a sentence: “I’m persisting, I don’t care what the 3D shows.” · Also called: persistence, persist. · Origin: “Persistence” is a chapter of Neville Goddard’s The Power of Awareness (1952).

The 3D

The physical world you see with your senses. It means your current situation, as it looks right now. “Ignore the 3D” means you do not treat today’s evidence as final. The 3D always catches up to what you assume.

In a sentence: “The 3D is just catching up to my assumption.” · Also called: the physical, current reality. The opposite is the “4D,” which means your imagination. · Origin: a community short form. It echoes the title of Neville Goddard’s book Out of This World: Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally (1949). · Not to be confused with: 3D movies or graphics.

The void

A community word for a state of pure awareness, with no thoughts and no senses. In the void, any assumption you make becomes real at once.

In a sentence: “I tried to enter the void last night but kept falling asleep.” · Also called: the void state, pure consciousness. · Not to be confused with: “the void” in other spiritual talk or in games. · Origin: online Law of Assumption groups. It is not one of Neville’s own words.

EIYPO

Short for everyone is you pushed out. The people around you act out what you assume about them. So if you change how you see someone, you change how they treat you.

In a sentence: “EIYPO, so if I assume she respects me, she will.” · Origin: a community summary of Neville Goddard’s teaching. The exact phrase is widely repeated, but no one has traced it to one book or lecture. · See also: inner conversations.

Bridge of incidents

Neville Goddard’s phrase for the chain of ordinary events that carries your assumption into your real life. Because of it, you never have to plan how your wish will happen.

In a sentence: “Getting the internship was just the bridge of incidents to moving to London.” · See also: living in the end.

Imaginal act

A short scene you act out in your imagination, as if it is really happening. The scene only makes sense if your wish has already come true. Examples are a handshake, a ring on your finger or someone congratulating you.

In a sentence: “My imaginal act is my best friend hugging me and screaming ‘you got in!’” · See also: SATS.

Inner conversations

The silent talks you have in your head with other people. They shape your life and how people treat you. So, as Neville Goddard taught, you make them match what you want.

In a sentence: “I caught myself arguing with my boss in my head, so I changed the inner conversation to him thanking me.” · See also: EIYPO.

Mental diet

A set time, often seven days, when you refuse to keep thinking negative thoughts. Each time a worry comes, you turn your mind back to what you want.

In a sentence: “I’m on a mental diet this week, so no worrying about money.” · Origin: Emmet Fox’s 1935 booklet The Seven Day Mental Diet.

Words and audio

The words you say, write or listen to.

Affirmation

A short positive sentence you repeat until it feels true. Once it feels true, it starts to show up in your life. It usually starts with “I” and talks about now, not the future.

In a sentence: “My morning affirmation is ‘I am easy to love.’” · Not to be confused with: self-affirmation in psychology. That means thinking about the values that matter most to you. · Read more: How to write affirmations that work

I am affirmations

Affirmations that start with “I am.” They describe who you are, not what you want.

In a sentence: “I swapped ‘I want confidence’ for ‘I am confident.’” · See also: affirmation, self-concept.

Robotic affirming

Repeating affirmations again and again, like a machine, without trying to feel them. The repetition does the work, and the feeling often follows on its own. Neville put the feeling first, so many manifesters affirm with feeling once the words sink in.

In a sentence: “I don’t feel it yet, I’m just robotic affirming until I do.” · Also called: affirming. A popular version is affirming while you look at a photo of your SP (see photo method). · Not to be confused with: “affirming” in other settings, such as gender-affirming or neuro-affirming.

Mirror work

Saying affirmations out loud while you look into your own eyes in a mirror.

In a sentence: “Mirror work felt so awkward the first day, now I love it.” · Origin: made popular by Louise Hay, who wrote Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life (2016).

Subliminal

An audio or video track with spoken affirmations hidden under music or noise. They are mixed so quietly that you barely hear them, if at all. You play it again and again to sink a belief in deep, so the result becomes part of your life. The list of hidden lines is called the script.

In a sentence: “I listen to a self-concept subliminal every night.” · Also called: sub, subs. · Not to be confused with: subliminal messages in psychology labs. Those are words flashed too fast to see. · Read more: Do subliminals work?

Booster

A subliminal meant to make your other subliminals work faster or stronger. It is usually played before them or at the same time.

In a sentence: “I play a booster before my glow-up sub.” · Also called: subliminal booster. · See also: subliminal.

Scripting

Writing about the life you want as if it has already happened, in a journal or a notes app. Writing it as done is a way of assuming it, and what you assume shows up.

In a sentence: “I scripted our first date down to what I ordered.” · Not to be confused with: a subliminal’s script, which is its list of affirmations. · Read more: Scripting manifestation

Pictures and visualization

Ways of seeing the life you want before it arrives.

Visualization

Picturing what you want, as a scene you are inside of, until it feels real. What you picture and feel as real is what comes into your life.

In a sentence: “My visualization is waking up in our apartment with the sun on the bed.” · Read more: What is visualization?

Creative visualization

An older name for using visualization to change your life. Shakti Gawain’s 1978 book Creative Visualization made it famous.

In a sentence: “My mom did creative visualization in the 90s, I just call it manifesting.” · See also: visualization.

Mind movie

A short video of the life you want, made from pictures, words and music. You watch it every day, usually in the morning and before sleep. It keeps you in the feeling of that life until it shows up.

In a sentence: “I watch my mind movie every night before SATS.” · Read more: What is a mind movie?

Vision board

A board or collage of pictures and words that show your goals. You keep it somewhere you will see it often, so your wish stays in front of you until it is real.

In a sentence: “My vision board is my lock screen this year.” · Read more: How to make a vision board

Photo method

Looking at a photo while you affirm or imagine. The photo can show you, your SP or the life you want. The picture holds the scene for you.

In a sentence: “I do the photo method with a picture of us from last summer.” · Also called: the picture method. · Read more: The photo method

Future self

The version of you who already has what you want. In future-self practices, you picture that version of you. You might also write as them or listen to them speak.

In a sentence: “I asked my future self what she’d do, and she’d send the email.” · See also: Aya method, living in the end.

Aphantasia

Not being able to make pictures in your mind on purpose. Neurologist Adam Zeman and his colleagues named it in 2015.

In a sentence: “I have aphantasia, so I manifest with words and photos instead of picturing.” · Not to be confused with: finding visualization boring or hard at first. · Read more: Manifestation with aphantasia

Method names

New methods appear on TikTok every month. These are the ones people keep searching for.

369 method

Writing your wish 3 times in the morning, 6 times in the afternoon and 9 times at night.

In a sentence: “Day 21 of the 369 method for my dream school.” · Origin: often linked to a Nikola Tesla quote about the numbers 3, 6 and 9. No one has found where that quote first came from. · Read more: The 369 method

55x5 method

Writing one affirmation 55 times a day, 5 days in a row.

In a sentence: “Starting the 55x5 tonight, wish me luck.” · See also: 369 method.

Pillow method

Writing your wish on paper, or choosing a photo of it, and sleeping with it under your pillow. Some people spray it with a perfume they love.

In a sentence: “Pillow method with his name and my favorite perfume.” · See also: SATS.

Whisper method

Picturing your SP, then imagining that you whisper into their ear how they feel about you. You imagine that they hear it.

In a sentence: “Doing the whisper method tonight before bed.” · See also: SP, imaginal act.

Bay leaf method

Writing your wish on a dried bay leaf, then burning it to let it go. If you try it, burn it over a sink or a fireproof bowl. Keep it away from anything that can catch fire.

In a sentence: “Bay leaf method on the new moon for my apartment.” · See also: new moon manifestation.

17-second rule

A teaching about holding one clear thought. If you hold it for 17 seconds with no opposite thought, a matching thought joins it. At 68 seconds, the thought gains enough strength to start drawing the thing itself to you.

In a sentence: “I hold the scene for 17 seconds, then another 17.” · Origin: the Abraham-Hicks teachings on the Law of Attraction.

Two-cup method

Labeling one cup with your current situation and another cup with the one you want. Then you pour the water from the first cup into the second. You drink it as a sign that you have switched over.

In a sentence: “Did the two-cup method for my exam results.” · See also: glass of water method, shifting.

Glass of water method

Holding a glass of water while you focus on your intention, then drinking it.

In a sentence: “Glass of water method every morning with ‘I am calm.’” · Origin: adapted from José Silva’s Silva Method, which used a glass of water for problem solving.

EFT tapping

Tapping your fingertips on set points on your face and body while you say statements out loud. Manifesters use it to calm their doubts before they affirm.

In a sentence: “I tap through my money fears before I script.” · Also called: tapping, Emotional Freedom Techniques. · Origin: developed by Gary Craig in the 1990s from Roger Callahan’s Thought Field Therapy.

Aya method

Listening to your future self talk about the life you want, as if it is already yours. Your future self speaks as “I,” in one long talk. The method is named after the Aya app, which spread it on TikTok.

In a sentence: “I do the Aya method on my walk to class.” · See also: future self. · Read more: The Aya method

Shifting words

Shifting is a related practice with its own words.

Shifting

Moving your awareness into another reality, often a fictional world. People usually try it through visualization as they fall asleep.

In a sentence: “I’ve been trying to shift for months.” · Also called: reality shifting. · See also: DR.

DR

Short for desired reality. It is the reality you want to shift to. Your current one is your CR, short for current reality.

In a sentence: “In my DR I live in a cottage by the sea.” · Not to be confused with: “Dr” as in doctor.

Quantum jumping

A visualization practice where you imagine meeting another version of yourself in another reality. That version already has what you want, and you learn from them.

In a sentence: “I quantum jumped to the version of me who’s already a nurse.” · Not to be confused with: “quantum jumps” in physics or economics.

Science words

Words from psychology that manifesters use, and what each one means. Many of them show how powerful parts of the practice are.

RAS

Short for reticular activating system. It is a network in the brainstem that helps control how alert and awake you are. Manifesters name it when a wish makes them alert to every sign and chance linked to it. That alertness helps, but it is only one small part of manifesting. The wish itself still arrives in your life.

In a sentence: “Once I set my RAS on my dream job, I spotted the opening the day it was posted.” · Not to be confused with: the noticing itself. Psychologists study that as selective attention (see frequency illusion).

Frequency illusion

A psychology name for seeing something everywhere right after you first notice it, because your attention is now tuned to it. It describes noticing. It does not explain away the signs and results that come when you manifest.

In a sentence: “I know about the frequency illusion, and 111 is still my sign.” · Also called: the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, selective attention. · See also: angel numbers.

WOOP

Short for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. It is a method from psychologist Gabriele Oettingen. You picture the best outcome, then the main thing in your way, and then you make a plan for it. The research name is mental contrasting.

In a sentence: “I used WOOP for my exam: the obstacle is my phone, so it goes in the drawer.” · See also: implementation intentions.

Implementation intentions

If-then plans, such as “If it is 7 p.m., then I open my notes.” Psychologist Peter Gollwitzer and others studied them. People who plan this way follow through on their goals much more often.

In a sentence: “My implementation intention: if I wake up, then I do my affirmations before my phone.” · See also: WOOP.

Self-efficacy

Your belief that you can do what it takes to reach a goal. The term comes from psychologist Albert Bandura (1977).

In a sentence: “Every small win builds my self-efficacy.” · Not to be confused with: self-concept, which is who you think you are. Self-efficacy is what you think you can do.

Placebo effect

Feeling better, or doing better, because you expect something to help. Medicine has studied it for decades. It shows how much power what you expect has over what you experience.

In a sentence: “The placebo effect shows me how powerful expecting really is.” · Not to be confused with: the nocebo effect, where expecting something bad makes you feel worse. · See also: reprogram the subconscious.

Toxic positivity

Forcing yourself to feel positive at any cost. You push away sadness, fear or anger instead of feeling them. You can feel a hard feeling and still believe your wish is coming.

In a sentence: “Telling myself I can’t be sad because it’ll block my manifestation was toxic positivity.” · Not to be confused with: optimism, which makes room for hard feelings. · See also: spiritual bypassing.

Spiritual bypassing

Using spiritual ideas to skip over painful feelings or real problems, instead of dealing with them. Psychologist John Welwood introduced the term in 1984. Manifesting goes alongside your normal life, never instead of it.

In a sentence: “Calling my sadness ‘low vibration’ was spiritual bypassing, I needed to let myself feel it.” · See also: toxic positivity.

Signs and cycles

The ways people read the world around them.

Angel numbers

Repeating numbers, like 111, 222 or 444, that show up as signs that your wish is on its way. You spot them on clocks, receipts and license plates.

In a sentence: “Saw 444 right after I affirmed, it’s done.” · See also: frequency illusion.

New moon manifestation

Setting intentions or starting a new practice at the new moon. Many people also let go of what they no longer want at the full moon.

In a sentence: “Writing my new moon list tonight.” · See also: bay leaf method.

Culture and slang

The internet words that grew up around manifesting.

Delulu

Short for delusional. Online it means believing in something that looks unlikely, and being proud of it with a sense of humor. Examples are your crush liking you back or landing your dream job.

In a sentence: “Call me delulu, but I’m getting that internship.” · Origin: first known use on a K-pop fan forum in 2014. It spread on TikTok from late 2022. · Read more: What does “delulu” mean?

Solulu

A playful rhyme on solution. You almost always hear it in “delulu is the solulu.” It is also the name of the Solulu method. That is a manifestation method built on seeing yourself inside the life you want.

In a sentence: “My solulu is to stay delulu.” · Read more: What does “solulu” mean?

Delulu is the solulu

A motto. It means that believing in your dream, even when it seems unlikely, is how you get it.

In a sentence: “Applied to the job I’m underqualified for. Delulu is the solulu.” · Read more: “Delulu is the solulu”: meaning, origin and how to use it

Delulu era

A stretch of time when you choose, on purpose, to believe big things about your life and act on them, so they come true.

In a sentence: “Entering my delulu era: I’m the main character now.” · See also: delulu, lucky girl syndrome.

Lucky girl syndrome

The habit of believing and saying that you are extremely lucky, and that things always work out for you. Then they keep working out. It went viral on TikTok in December 2022 after creator Laura Galebe posted about it.

In a sentence: “Lucky girl syndrome: I always get the last seat on the train.” · See also: I am affirmations.

That girl

A TikTok and Pinterest image of a disciplined, glowing life. It shows early mornings, journaling, workouts, green juice and a tidy room.

In a sentence: “My vision board is very ‘that girl’ this year.” · Not to be confused with: the everyday phrase “that girl,” which fills most search results for these words.

Claiming

Commenting “I claim this,” “claimed” or a similar line under a manifestation video. It means you take the wish in the video for yourself.

In a sentence: “Claiming this for my SP and me.” · See also: it’s done.

How new words get added

A word joins this glossary when people keep using it and we can say clearly what it means.

The language of manifesting moves fast. A method can go from one video to millions of views in a month, and some disappear just as fast. We add a word once it has stayed in use for a while and we have checked where it came from.

Where a word has a full guide, its entry links to it. The rest of the site links back here the first time it uses a manifestation word. For every guide by topic, start at the learning center.