The Solulu method vs scripting: which one should you use?
Scripting is a great method for people who love to write. You describe your life in a journal, in rich detail, as if it has already happened. Both methods bring your wish into your real life the same way. You live in the end until it shows up. For most people the Solulu method is the better pick. It takes the best moment from your script and turns it into a scene you can see yourself living. It does not depend on your imagination. And it takes a few minutes at two set moments, not 10 to 20 minutes of writing.
What scripting is, and why it works
Scripting means writing about the life you want as if you already live it. Most people do it in a journal, and they write with “I.”
You might script a whole day: “I wake up in our apartment and they are already making coffee.” You might script a single scene. Or you might script a conversation: “My best friend screams when I show her the ring.” Most people write in the present tense. Some write in the past tense, as if telling a friend what happened. The point is to write from inside the life, not about wanting it.
Methods differ in how they bring a wish into your life. Some repeat it, like affirmations. Scripting comes from the Law of Assumption, and so does the Solulu method. Neville Goddard was a manifesting teacher from the mid-1900s. He called it living in the end. You feel the wish as already true, now. What you assume and feel to be true hardens into fact, and your life catches up.
Writing makes this easier, because it makes you choose. What exactly do you want? Where are you, and who is there? That makes the wish specific, and a specific wish is easier to feel as real.
Research supports writing about your best future, too. In one study, students wrote about their best possible future self for 20 minutes a day, four days in a row. Three weeks later, they felt happier than students who wrote about something neutral. Five months later, they had made fewer visits to the campus health center for illness.
So scripting is a strong method. Its limit is that it stays on the page.
Each method in three lines
Both methods start from the same place: the life you want, written as if it is now. Scripting stays in words. The Solulu method turns the words into a scene you see.
- What you do: write a page about your life as if your wish has already come true.
- How long: 10 to 20 minutes, most days.
- What you need: a journal or notes app, and some quiet.
The Solulu method
- What you do: write one specific moment from the life you want and see yourself in it. Watch it every morning and night, with fresh pictures every few days.
- How long: a few minutes, twice a day.
- What you need: your scene, and a photo or mind movie with you in it. A mind movie is a short video of your wishes, with words and music.
Side by side
Scripting asks for more time and more imagination. The Solulu method asks for less of both.
| Scripting | The Solulu method | |
|---|---|---|
| Minutes a day | 10 to 20 | A few, at two set moments |
| Effort | High: a fresh page of writing | Low: you look and feel |
| Needs a strong imagination? | Partly: the words have to bring up pictures | No, the scene is in front of you |
| What you need | A journal and quiet time | One scene, and a photo or mind movie of you in it |
| Best goals | Big, detailed lives, how you see yourself, feelings you want to work through | Any goal you can turn into one moment |
| How people track progress | Rereading old scripts and seeing what came true | The scene feels like a memory, then it shows up in your life |
Where scripting is better
Scripting does some things better than any other method.
- Depth. A script can hold a whole life: the morning, the job, the friends, how you feel walking into a room. One scene cannot.
- Working things out. Writing helps you find out what you really want. You might start scripting about your SP, short for “specific person.” That is the one person you want to be with. Then you realize that what you want most is to feel chosen.
- It suits writers. If journaling already calms you, scripting is a joy, not a chore.
- Goals about who you are. “I am the kind of woman who walks into any room relaxed” works well as a paragraph. It does not need to be one moment.
- A record. Old scripts show how far you have come. Some people love rereading them once a wish comes true.
- Private and free. You need a notebook and a pen, and nobody needs to see it.
Where the Solulu method is better
For most people, the Solulu method is the better choice. There are four reasons.
1. You see yourself living it
A script gives you a page. You read words about yourself, however vivid they are. The Solulu method shows you your own face, already living the scene. You are at the dinner table with your person. You see it, instead of reading a paragraph about it. That is the difference between reading about a memory and having one. And what you hold as a memory is what comes into your life.
Research points the same way. In one well known study, people pictured themselves voting. Some saw it from the outside, as if in a photo. Others saw it through their own eyes. The first group was more likely to actually vote. Seeing yourself in the scene is powerful.
2. It does not depend on your imagination
Scripting works when the words bring up pictures in your head as you write. On days they do not, it turns into homework. You write sentences you cannot feel.
About 4 in 100 people have very dim mental pictures, or none at all. This is called aphantasia. For them, the pictures never come.
With the Solulu method, you do not have to build the picture from words. You look at it. Neville wrote that prayer “must be without effort.” Prayer was his word for this practice. Staring at a page and trying to force a feeling is effort.
3. It never goes stale
Most methods give you the same words or the same pictures every day. After a few weeks, your mind gets used to them and the feeling fades. That is why so many people keep switching methods. The Solulu method makes refreshing part of the practice. Every few days, you swap in a fresh picture or the next moment in the same life, so the feeling stays strong.
4. It is easy to keep doing
Scripting asks for 10 to 20 minutes and a blank page, most days. That is a lot to find on a tired Tuesday. Once you skip a few days, the journal can start to feel like a test you are behind on.
With the Solulu method, you write once and come back many times. Your scene is ready when you wake up and before you sleep, for a few minutes. There is nothing new to write and nothing to fall behind on.
From script to scene: a worked example
Your script is not wasted. It is where your scenes come from. Here is how one script becomes a scene.
Step 1. Write your script as usual. Here is a short one about an SP:
It is Saturday and we are at my friend’s birthday dinner. They sit next to me and keep their hand on my knee under the table. Everyone is loud and happy. When my friend makes a toast, they lean over to me. “I love your friends,” they whisper. Later we walk home holding hands. I think, this is my life now. It is so easy.
Step 2. Underline the moment you would most like to see. Not the whole evening. Pick the one moment that makes your chest feel warm. Here, it is the whisper at the table.
Step 3. Rewrite that moment as one hyper-specific scene. Use one place, one action and one thing you could see:
At my friend’s birthday dinner, they lean over during the toast, their hand on my knee. “I love your friends,” they whisper. I grin into my glass.
Step 4. See yourself in it. Find or make a picture of you at a dinner like that. Add your person if you have photos of them. That is your scene.
Step 5. Watch it every morning and night, for a few minutes, and make a fresh picture every few days.
This works for any goal. A career script might fill a page about your first week at a new job. Here is the scene inside it:
On Friday my manager stops by my desk. “Honestly, best hire we’ve made this year,” she says. I text my mom a screenshot of my new email signature.
And a home script about a whole life in a new city holds this scene:
I carry my coffee out to the balcony, still in my pajamas, and watch the street wake up below my apartment.
The script finds the scene. The scene is what you keep.
Use both: a combined routine
You can keep scripting and add the Solulu method on top. Here is a simple way to do both.
- Script once a week. On Sunday evening, write a full page about your life as if it is true. Enjoy it, and write as much as you like.
- Pull out one scene. Underline the moment you most want to see. Rewrite it as one specific scene.
- Every morning and night that week, look at that scene for a few minutes, with you in it.
- Next Sunday, script again. Keep the scene if it still makes you feel something. If not, pull out a new one.
You get the depth of scripting once a week. And you get a scene you can see, every day. For help writing the scene itself, see mind movie script: what to write.
The verdict, by reader
For most readers, the pick is the Solulu method. Writers do best when they keep their journal and add a scene.
| If you are… | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| New to manifesting | The Solulu method | One scene and two set moments are easier to start than a daily page |
| Someone who can’t picture things | The Solulu method | You look at the scene instead of building it from words |
| Busy | The Solulu method | A few minutes, with nothing new to write |
| A writer | Scripting once a week, the Solulu method every day | You keep the journal and add seeing it |
| Manifesting your SP | The Solulu method, with scenes pulled from your scripts | A love story is made of moments, and moments are seen |
How to start the Solulu method
You can start the Solulu method today, by hand or with an app.
- By hand. Take your favorite script and pull out one scene. Find the closest photo you can with you in it. Look at it when you wake up and before you sleep, and step into the moment. It is free.
- With the Solulu app. Solulu is the iPhone app we make. It works like a script that turns into a film. You describe the life you want and add your photos. You can also add photos of your SP, places, outfits, pets and things you want. The app makes mind movies with you in the scenes. Each one has a calm kaleidoscope opening, scenes of you living that life, affirmations and music. You get up to three new mind movies each week as your goals grow.
- Other tools. Use a notes app or voice memo for your scripts. Then make a mind movie yourself from photos you already have.
Of these, Solulu is the easiest way to do the Solulu method. The reasons are the same four reasons the method beats scripting alone. You see your own face living the scene, instead of reading about it. You do not have to imagine anything, because you watch it. Fresh scenes keep it from going stale. And it takes a few minutes at two set moments. New scenes come as your scripts grow. So the practice keeps up with you, and you never sit waiting in front of a blank page.