The question of how to manifest anything from a luxury lifestyle to getting your ex back is certainly one that most of us would like to have the power to do.

The science behind the law of attraction, quantum physics, has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that consciousness influences material reality. It's quite possible that it does more than that - it may even create or alter it. The problem with the science, however, is that it all happens at the sub-atomic level where things seem to behave rather differently from the way they do in the more visible world we inhabit.

So we're still left wondering in our own day to day existence whether we can indeed manifest anything ourselves. To answer that, perhaps we should drop the science and instead rely more on experience.

We are, after all, a manifestation ourselves. Where do we come from? (I don't mean that way!) Where does anything come from, or indeed go? Things manifest and unmanifest all the time. The only question is whether we can influence the process.

Ask yourself this: did you ever meet a permanently miserable lucky person? Have you ever heard of an optimist for whom things didn't come good in the end? Have you ever seen someone who isn't classically good looking but who is somehow beautiful because they've always got that sparkle in their eyes and spring in their step?

Positive energy is attractive, there's no question about it. Atractive and infectious. Clear intention is powerful too. I'm not talking about force of will, but unwavering clarity - the kind of penetrating energy that enables water to wash mountains into the sea.

If you want to know how to manifest anything, as the Chinese might say, be like the wind.