The Pygmalion Effect And How Manifestation Works

I recently came across something fascinating called the Pygmalion Effect. Basically it’s a psychological principle where an individuals’ performance is impacted by someone else’s expectation for them. It’s based on the urban legend of a sculptor named Pygmalion who loved his sculpture so much that he willed it to life. 

The Pygmalion Effect works positively and negatively. Someone who has high expectations imposed on them, like the child of two doctors, is more likely to rise to higher levels. And equally someone who has low expectations for their life is more likely to tolerate low levels of performance, like a child who has limited family support. 

In other words, the Pygmalion effect explains how others' expectation of you serves as an environment that influences you. Our environment is constantly feeding factors that impact our choices, and from there the actions we take that create the results we experience. Our environment is unrelenting as it constantly nudges us in a certain direction, and the power of its influence is often underestimated and unknown. 

This mechanism operates in a way that’s similar to the concept of manifestation. Manifestation isn’t a result of just thinking things into existence, it’s a process of priming your awareness so that you notice pathways toward achieving something specific. It’s not that manifestation creates new options, it reveals the options that were already available. And those who take action on those options then manifest the results they’re seeking. 

Your future isn’t determined by accident or randomly... It’s the byproduct of the factors that are designed into your life. Your health, income, and relationships are all a specific and calculated output. You can analyze what happened behind the scenes to produce a certain end. It’s called ‘cause and effect’ and it’s a universal law that all things are affected by.

If your life isn’t where you want it to be, it’s likely because your environment is pushing you further away from what you want, and creating resistance to you being consistent with the right actions that will generate the right results. But you can get the environment to start working for you, not against you, so all of the success you’ve earned starts to flow naturally instead of it being a constant fight!