Welcome to the #158 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we're exploring: Your 2026 Vision Board

And this week, I'm also doing something I rarely do. I am showing you my actual 2025 vision board and revealing what manifested, what didn't, and what showed up in ways that completely blew my mind.

Let's dive in:

 Insight: Why building a vision board is non-negotiable

Here's the insight that changed everything for me:

What if your vision board isn't about manifesting what you want, but about discovering what wants to emerge through you?

The magic isn't in the specific manifestations, it's in the frequency the board is built from.

When you create a vision board anchored in a foundational word or energy (like the one you chose last week), you're not making a wish list, you're tuning yourself to a vibration.
 
And from that frequency, life unfolds, often in ways far beyond what you consciously imagined.

The Universe loves giving us what we need in forms we never thought to ask for.

Here's what shifted my entire understanding: A vision board doesn't communicate to the universe, it tunes you into it.

Think of the universe as an infinite radio signal broadcasting every possibility simultaneously and your vision board is the dial.

When you create it, you're not sending out a request. You're adjusting your receiver to a specific frequency where your desires already exist. The universe isn't listening to your board, you're finally listening to the universe.

Let that sink in.

And the moment you tune in, the manifestation begins collapsing from possibility into form, not always exactly as you pictured, but always perfectly.

It's seriously mind-blowing.

Inside My 2025 Vision Board

In the video below, I'm pulling back the curtain completely. You'll see my actual board and the story behind every intention:

• What came to life: The manifestations that aligned perfectly with my vision.

• What didn't (and the wisdom in that "no"): Why some things not manifesting was actually the universe protecting me.

• The divine surprises: What showed up outside the board entirely, gifts I never could have imagined.

• The exact structure I follow: How every intention is built from one foundational frequency word.

I'm also sharing a game-changing realisation I had this year about manifestation itself, something that shifted my entire practice in the most profound way.

This video will be incredibly valuable for you, especially if you're excited to create your own board for 2026.

[Watch the video here]

Personal Note

As 2025 comes to a close, I want to say a massive thank you, thank you, thank you!

Your support this year means more than you know.

Here's to an incredible 2026, and your best year yet!

Trust me.

Matt x

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. How will I take aligned-inspired action this week to set-up the best start to 2026?

2. What would I put on my vision board if no one else would ever see it?

3. What energy do I want to embody in 2026, regardless of what I achieve?

4. What would I create if I knew the universe was already saying yes?

5. What dreams am I holding too tightly? What would happen if I loosened my grip?

6. What's one belief about myself that's ready to dissolve in the new year?

7. What would I do differently if I trusted that everything is unfolding perfectly, even when it doesn't look like my plan?

Quote to ponder this week

" Your intuition already told you, Everything after that is just negotiation with fear." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #157 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we're exploring something that's completely transformed how I approach manifestation: choosing one word for the year ahead.

At the end of this newsletter, I also have very exciting news about a brand-new community that I am launching in January.

Let's get started.

 Insight: Your One Word Is Your North Star

What if your entire year could be guided by just one word?

I discovered this practice back in 2019 through the book "One Word That Will Change Your Life".

Their core insight is powerful: clutter and complexity lead to procrastination and paralysis, while simplicity and focus lead to success and clarity.

But here's where I want to take this deeper.

Your one word isn't just a focus tool. It's not just about simplifying your to-do list or cutting through the noise.

Your one word is a frequency to manifest from.

And that changes everything.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely still create intentions and individual goals. In my book, "Beyond Wanting," I outline exactly how to do that. But here's what I've learned through six years of this practice:

Your one word is the energetic foundation that all your goals are built from.

Think of it this way: your goals are what you want to create. Your one word is the frequency you're broadcasting while you create them.

If your goals are the frisbees you're throwing into the quantum field, your one word is the energy behind the throw.

You can have a goal to write a book, start a business, find a partner, or create financial abundance. But the frequency you're holding while you pursue those goals will determine not just whether they manifest, but HOW they manifest and what energy they carry when they arrive.

For example, my word for 2025 was EXPANSION.

And the universe didn't just expand my circumstances. It expanded my capacity, my comfort zone, my sense of what's possible and my willingness to be seen.

Before 2025, the biggest crowd I'd spoken to was about 50 people. This year, I travelled the world speaking and even spoke to 1,500 people in Switzerland last month.

My biggest expanse was the becoming a published author last month.

Your word doesn't just organise your life, it literally reorganises your reality.

When you choose a word and commit to that frequency, you're not just setting an intention, you're issuing an invitation to the universe.

You're saying: "This is the energy I'm choosing to live from. Show me everything that matches this."

And the universe will respond.

Not always in the ways you expect, not always comfortably, but always accurately. Your word will also surface every place where you're not currently living that frequency.

If your word is TRUST, expect situations that ask you to let go of control.

If your word is ABUNDANCE, expect old scarcity patterns to come up for clearing.

If your word is COURAGE, expect edges that terrify you.

If your word is SOFTNESS, expect all the ways you've been rigid to reveal themselves.

I promise you, this isn't punishment, it's refinement.

The universe isn't testing whether you're worthy of your word. It's showing you where the gaps are between who you've been and who you're becoming.

Your word becomes a tuning fork. And everything in your life that's out of tune with that frequency will start to become obvious.

Your goals might say one thing, but your frequency says another. And the universe always responds to frequency, not words.

But when you choose your one word and genuinely commit to living from that frequency, everything aligns.

So how can you approach this?

The Framework (My Adaptation)

The practice unfolds naturally in three phases:

1. Create Space for Clarity

Before you can hear what your soul is asking for, you need to get quiet... You need to slow down out of your left brain, and into your intuitive right brain.

This isn't about sitting down with a pad and forcing an answer. It's about slowing down enough to notice what's already trying to emerge.

Ask yourself questions like:

• What does my life need most right now?

• What would my future self be most proud of me embodying?

• If fear of failure didn't exist, what word sums up my next move?

• What word keeps showing up in my life lately?

• What's been blocking my flow?

• What am I ready to release?

Turn off the noise. Step away from the constant input. Give yourself permission to just be with the questions and allow it to gently find you.

2. Let Your Word Find You

Here's the part most people get wrong: they try to think their way to their word.

But your word isn't an intellectual exercise, it's always an intuitive knowing.

Use whatever practice helps you access that deeper wisdom: journaling, meditation, quiet walks, or simply paying attention to what keeps showing up in your thoughts.

Your word will often choose you, not the other way around. It's less about deciding and more about recognising.

You'll know it's right because it will land in your body, not just your mind. 

3. Live It Daily

Once you have your word, the real work begins: integrating it into your daily life.

But here's what most people miss: you don't wait until January 1st to start living your word.

Start now.

See these final days in December as your practice ground.

Close your eyes right now and imagine it's December 31st, 2026. You're looking back on the year. Your word didn't just guide you, it transformed you.

How does that feel in your body? What's different about you? How do you move through the world?

That's the frequency you're tuning into, and that's what you're practicing.

Here's how to anchor it in 2026:

Make it visible. Write your word somewhere you'll see it every single day. Phone wallpaper, mirror, journal cover, whatever works. Let it catch your eye constantly.

Feel into it. Don't just think about your word. Embody it. If your word is COURAGE, what does courage feel like in your chest? If it's FLOW, how does flow move through your body? Practice the energetic quality of it.

Journal with it. Each week, ask yourself: "Where did my word show up this week? Where did I resist it? Where did I embody it fully?" Track the evidence. Notice the patterns.

Share it. Tell a few people who will hold you accountable with love. People who will gently call you back when you've drifted off frequency.

Check in daily. Make it simple: "Am I living from this frequency today?" Not as judgment. As recalibration. As a gentle reminder to come back home to your word.

The power isn't in choosing the word. The power is in living it so consistently that it becomes who you are.

A Final Note Before Christmas

We're just five days away from Christmas, and I want to wish you the most beautiful time with your family and loved ones.

If you read last week's newsletter about observing not absorbing, now's the time to put it into practice. Keep that mantra close: "I observe, not absorb."

I'll certainly be using it myself 

Enjoy every moment. Stay in your frequency. Keep your energy tank full.

You'll hear from me as normal next Saturday.

Until then, from my heart to yours, I wish you a Christmas filled with love, warmth, and presence.

With all our love this Christmas,

Matt, Corisande & Humphrey x

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What patterns or beliefs am I ready to release to make space for my word?

2. If I trusted the universe completely, what would I do differently today?

3. How will I take inspired action this week?

4. What's trying to find me that I'm not yet making space for?

5. What small sign or synchronicity did I dismiss this week that was actually guidance?

6. Where am I playing small to make others comfortable?

7. If I removed all the "shoulds" from my life, what would actually light me up?

 
Quote to ponder this week

“The universe didn't give you intuition so you could doubt it. It gave you intuition so you could trust it over everything else." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #156 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we're diving deep into something that will transform your entire life: how to protect your energy.

I'm also gifting you a meditation this week.

Let's get started.

Insight: Observing Not Absorbing

Your energy isn't just some abstract concept, it's your life force, your creative power, and most importantly, your manifestation fuel.

It's the signal you're broadcasting to the universe every single moment. And when you absorb other people's frequencies, their anxiety, their judgment, their chaos, their unresolved pain, you're essentially asking the universe to respond to THEIR energy, not yours.

Most people think protecting your energy means avoiding difficult people or situations. But real protection is simpler and more powerful: you learn to observe without absorbing. You witness without wearing it.

It's not about building walls, it's about becoming energetically non-stick (I love that).

Let's be honest: Christmas and the holidays are the ultimate stress test for most people's energetic boundaries. Family dynamics that have been brewing all year suddenly concentrate into a few intense days. Old patterns, old roles, old triggers, they all come rushing back, trying to pull you into the familiar version of yourself that everyone expects.

Every comment, every judgment, every sideways remark is only testing whether YOU still believe the old story about yourself.

If you're clear, if you're solid in your frequency, those comments bounce off. They don't penetrate because there's nothing in you that agrees with them anymore.

But if there's even a tiny part of you that still questions yourself, still needs their approval, still believes their version of you... that's where the energy leaks in.

So my intention is that this email can become your magic formula to keep in your back pocket.

Let's set the intention now:

"I observe, not absorb."

Keep repeating that as your mantra over these next few weeks.

A deeper dive:

When you absorb, you take someone else's energy into your body, into your nervous system, into your energetic field, and you ultimately make it yours.

Their anxiety becomes your anxiety. Their judgment becomes your self-doubt, and their chaos becomes your inner turmoil.

What we do, often unconsciously is essentially hand them the keys to your frequency.

On the other hand, when you observe, you witness what's happening without letting it penetrate you. You see the energy, you notice it, you might even have compassion for it, but you don't take it on, and you definitely don't make it yours. 

My wife and I have been practicing this for years, and it's completely transformed how we navigate not just the Christmas period, but life itself.

We've learned that you can be fully present with someone without being energetically porous. You can love them, listen to them, hold space for them, without absorbing their frequency.

Don't get me wrong, we slip all the time, we're human, but we've learned to get back up and get back to observation seat, very quickly.

This is the real work.

When you're truly clear in your frequency, when you're solid in your own truth, other people's energy simply bounces off. Not because you're closed, but because there's nothing in you that resonates with it anymore.

But this requires you to be fiercely protective of your energy tank.

Your energy tank is everything...

It's your reservoir of life force, creativity, manifestation power, and inner peace. When it's full, you're magnetic, clear, inspired, aligned.

When it's empty, you're reactive, scattered, doubtful, in survival mode, lack intuition and struggle to manifest.

And here's what drains that tank faster than anything: unconsciously absorbing frequencies that aren't yours.

So the real question becomes:

How do you keep your tank full, especially during the most energetically demanding time of the year?

How to Practice This Insight:

Here's what you can try:

• Check Your Tank Before You Enter the Room: Most people wait until they're completely drained to think about their energy. By then, it's too late. You're already running on empty.Instead, make it a practice, especially this time of year, to check in with your energy tank before you walk into any gathering.
  
  Place your hand on your heart. Close your eyes. And ask yourself honestly: "How full is my tank right now? Am I at 80%? 50%? 20%?" Don't judge it. Just notice it. Because awareness is the first step to sovereignty. If your tank is full, beautiful. Protect that. If it's low, your only job is to fill it back up BEFORE you give anything away.

• Practice the Pause Before You Absorb: Most people lose their energy in the split second between someone saying something triggering and them reacting to it.

  That split second is where absorption happens. Someone makes a comment, and before you even realise it, you've taken it in...
  
  Take a breath. Feel your feet. Come back to your body. And in that pause, ask yourself: "Is this mine to absorb, or can I simply observe this?" - Nine times out of ten, you'll realise: it's not yours. It's their pattern, their projection, their unresolved issue. And you can witness it with compassion without making it about you.The pause is where your power lives. It's the space between stimulus and response where you get to choose: absorb or observe?

• Fill Your Tank Daily: This week, I'm gifting you my 5-Minute Grounding Meditation. This is specifically designed to fill your energy tank, anchor you back into your frequency, and clear out anything you've absorbed that isn't yours. Use it every morning this week before you start your day. Use it before family gatherings. Use it after difficult conversations. Use it whenever you feel scattered, heavy, or not like yourself.
  
  Five minutes. That's all it takes to come back to your centre, and remember what your energy actually feels like, to fill your tank so you have something to protect.

You can download my grounding meditation here.

Enjoy!

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What situations or people consistently drain my energy tank?

2. When do I most often slip from observing into absorbing?

3. If I trusted my energetic boundaries completely, what would change?

4. Where am I winning at the moment?

5. What action does the Universe want me to take next?

6. What old family dynamics am I still letting define me?

7. Where am I giving my energy away that I need to reclaim?

 
Quote to ponder this week

“The universe doesn't ask you to carry other people's chaos. It asks you to hold your light steady so they can find their own." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #155 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we're diving deep into what it really means to trust the unknown. 

Breakthroughs, clarity, and insights that change everything don't come from analysing what you already know. They come from leaning into what you don't know. From trusting the silence, the places that feel uncertain, uncomfortable, and unexplainable.

The unknown isn't the obstacle; it's the portal.

Let's get started.

Insight: The Unknown

As humans, we like predictability, we want guarantees, we like knowing where the next step is before we take it. 

But here’s the part almost no one realises: the unknown is actually the safest place you can be. It’s the place where everything you want already exists. 

Your dreams don’t sit in the familiar. They sit in the infinite, in the uncollapsed space where all possibilities live.

And if you really think about it, whatever you’re seeing in your life right now, the results, the circumstances, even the emotions that rise when you think about your future, none of that is the truth of reality. 

It’s just the part your senses can pick up. 

Science tells us we perceive less than 0.01% of what’s actually happening around us. That means over 99.99% of reality is invisible, energetic, informational, unobserved… and that’s the part that holds every version of your future.

The 99.9% part is the Universe.

This is the myth of being human: we think the small, predictable slice we can see is “reality,” when in truth, it’s just the past playing itself out. The known is old data, old emotions, old identity. 

The way I love to look at this now is simple: what I think I know represents almost nothing of reality, less than a fraction of a percent. And because of that, even when I’m stuck, frustrated, or can’t see a way out, that’s precisely the moment I lean further into the unknown.

It terrifies the ego and the program. They cling to the familiar because it feels safe, even if the familiar is the very thing keeping you small. But over the years, I’ve realised something: every time I choose to trust the unknown, no matter how uncomfortable it feels, the answer, the clarity, or the manifestation always reveals itself.

I’ve learned to find the space between my thoughts, because that space is where the noise of the old self dissolves and the guidance of universal intelligence can finally get through.

My brilliant wife, Corisande, sums it up perfectly: “Trusting the unknown is handing it over to something far more powerful than me to arrange and sort out.” And she’s right.

Why do we assume our tiny, conscious, limited mind is the one that has to figure everything out? Why do we treat logic like it’s capable of designing our destiny?

The universe sees further than we ever could. It holds more information, more perspective, more possibility than the human mind can conceptualise.

Trusting the unknown isn’t giving up; it’s stepping into partnership with the field that actually creates reality. It’s allowing something bigger, faster, more intelligent, more coherent to take the lead.

And the moment you do that, the moment you stop performing your past, stop gripping the familiar, stop trying to force a path you can’t yet see, something extraordinary happens.

The real question is: are you willing to trust it and lean into it?

How to practice this insight:

My advice to really practice this is simple: don’t overthink it. 

Don’t try to “figure out” the unknown with the same mind that’s scared of it. Instead, you create space for it. You quiet the noise and you allow it to meet you.

Here's what you can try:

• Try a silent meditation. Set a timer on your phone for twenty minutes. Before you close your eyes, set a clear intention. If you’re seeking clarity, say quietly in your mind, “I’m open and ready to be shown clarity.” Then go into silence, and every time your thoughts try to hijack the moment, gently bring yourself back to that sentence:
  I’m ready to be shown clarity. You’re not forcing anything. You’re listening for the first subtle nudge, the insight that doesn’t come from thinking but from awareness.

• If your mind is too loud for silence, try binaural beats. Specifically, theta frequencies. Theta is the brainwave state associated with intuition, creativity, deep presence, and access to the subconscious. It’s the state children live in until age seven on average. You can find thousands of tracks on YouTube. Put on your headphones, breathe slowly, and let your brain drop beneath the chatter.
  

• And if even that feels hard, use movement. Kinetic meditation is one of my favourite tools, especially if your nervous system is overactive. Go for a run, a long walk, or even a gentle workout while holding your intention in mind. The steady rhythm of movement naturally regulates your nervous system and balances the left and right hemispheres of the brain. When that happens, your analytical mind softens, your body settles, and insights become easier to receive. There’s a reason so many people say their best ideas come in the shower or on a run. Movement puts the brain into a more coherent state, the exact state where guidance from the unknown can reach you.

This week, try one of these practices, or all three. Don’t look for dramatic breakthroughs. Look for subtle shifts, quiet knowing, a feeling of “this is the next step.” 

The unknown doesn’t shout; it always whispers. Your job is to create the stillness where you can hear it.

This always, always works for me!

Enjoy!

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. If I trusted myself completely, what would I do differently today?

2. What version of me am I still protecting that no longer serves me?

3. What part of my life is asking for more attention, more honesty, more presence?

4. If I stripped away all the noise, what is my intuition saying?

5. Where am I winning at the moment?

6. What's one thing I know I need to do but keep putting off, and why?

7. What would my life look like if I fully trusted the timing of everything?

Quote to ponder this week

“The Universe meets you at the depth of your surrender, not at the height of your struggle.” - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #154 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

Today's topic: Thankfulness: Your Secret Weapon

And today, I'm sharing the one practice that's created more instant synchronicities in my life than anything else I've ever taught.

Let’s get straight into it:

 
Insight:

Thankfulness is a state of completion; it's the emotional signature of having received. When you feel genuinely thankful, you're not reaching, hoping, or waiting. 

You're resting in fulfilment, and a state of "having."

That, in itself, is the foundation of manifestation.

Think about the last time you felt genuine gratitude, maybe for a kind gesture, an unexpected gift, the health of your family, or a moment of beauty.

There was no longing, no lack, no sense of "not yet." Thankfulness exists only in the present tense. It's the feeling of already having.

To my American friends who just celebrated Thanksgiving, and to everyone else around the world, including me here in the UK, this moment offers us something profound.

Whether we formally celebrate it or not, this is the perfect time to explore just how powerful thankfulness truly is in the landscape of manifestation.

Here's what I've noticed: we're all programmed to wait for something to arrive before we say "thank you." It's a human habit. We practice gratitude for what we have. And there's nothing wrong with that - it's beautiful, actually.

But here's what I've discovered time and time again in my own journey (and if you're reading the gratitude chapter in my book, you'll see this): thankfulness is my absolute secret weapon for manifestation.

Let me tell you why.

In quantum physics, we understand something extraordinary: observation collapses possibilities into reality. The act of observing, which is placing your attention and intention on something, literally transforms the field of infinite potential into a specific outcome.

This is called wave function collapse.

And in this respect, thankfulness is the most potent form of observation.

When you feel genuine gratitude, you're not just acknowledging something; you're declaring it as real. You're collapsing the wave function of possibility with absolute certainty.

There's no doubt in thankfulness. No "maybe" or "I hope." When you say "thank you" for something, you're operating from a place of complete knowing that it exists.

This is why gratitude bypasses every manifestation obstacle.

When you practice thankfulness for what hasn't physically manifested yet, you're not "faking it" - you're aligning with the quantum truth that it already exists in the field of possibility.
You're collapsing that possibility into your reality through the pure frequency of gratitude.

Going Deeper

Here's what most people don't understand about thankfulness: it's not just an emotion - it's a genuine state of receivership.

The universe, the quantum field, whatever you want to call it, responds to your vibration, your emotional state, your being. So when you express gratitude for something you desire as if you already have it, you place yourself in receivership before it physically manifests.

I know that might sound contradictory. I know it might feel difficult to grasp at first. And I still want you to write gratitude for the things you've already got in your life - still appreciate your blessings for what's already here, because that state in itself puts you in the same emotional landscape of everything you seek anyway.

But when you can write down gratitude for what's not yet in your life, something remarkable happens: you actually nudge the probabilistic odds of it manifesting using that intent - gratitude written every day.

That's what I call: My Sequential Secret

Now, here's my advice to really supercharge this: only write gratitude for the sequential steps in whatever your desire is.

If your desire feels quite far from where you are now, gratitude is likely to have a minor effect. Why? Because there'll also be a part of you that knows it's far away. That creates resistance, doubt, and a split signal.

The real magic - the kind that creates almost instant synchronicity - happens when you get clear on what it is you seek and reverse engineer it down.

Chapter 9 in Beyond Wanting will help you master this.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What would I feel genuinely gratitude for if my biggest desire were to manifest tomorrow morning?

2. Write about a time when something you wanted showed up in an unexpected way. What did that teach you about trust?

3. What has the universe already delivered to me this year that I once only dreamed about?

4. What old version of me would be amazed and grateful for where I am today?

5. Write about something challenging you're experiencing. Now find three reasons to be grateful for it.

6. If gratitude is my superpower, how am I going to use it differently this week?

7. What part of my current journey am I resisting that actually deserves my gratitude?

Quote to ponder this week

“You don't manifest what you want. You manifest what you're grateful for ahead of the event. Trust me.” - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #153 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: Feeling is the secret

If you only remember one thing from everything I teach, let it be today's edition. You can have the clearest vision, the most detailed plan, the most disciplined practice, but if you're missing this one piece, you're broadcasting the wrong signal into the field. 

Let’s get straight into it:

Insight:

Let me give you the real secret behind manifestation, the one most people skip because it sounds too simple: it's the feeling. 

To master conscious manifestation, you need a clear intention, which is a directed vision of your future as if it's already done, whilst balancing thought and feeling beautifully. 

Intention initially comes from the brain, but your brain isn't your most powerful broadcaster. Your heart is. 

True intention is both thought and feeling combined. 

Let's imagine you're holding a vision to manifest unexpected money. You create a clear intention, a focused thought of money flowing your way, yet nothing manifests. Sometimes the opposite shows up - an unexpected bill arrives instead. 

Trust me, this happened to me repeatedly until I understood the mechanics behind intent. 

The question isn't what you were thinking, it's how you were feeling. If you're visualising "money" but feeling anxious, the dominant signal being broadcast into the field is anxiety. 

But why does anxiety carry the strongest signal, and why do manifestations often follow what's stronger? 

The HeartMath Institute has measured this. 

The electrical signal from your brain can be detected a few inches from your head, but the electrical activity from your heart is 100 times stronger, and the magnetic field from your heart is up to 5,000 times stronger than your brain - measurable several feet away from your body. 

The feeling is far more powerful from a signal perspective. 

Now imagine the Universe is reading your energetic signal. When your thoughts and feelings contradict each other, you're broadcasting static - signals that cancel each other out, creating confusion in the field. The dominant signal being "picked up" is the feeling, not the thought. 

But when you combine a clear thought with an aligned feeling, you create a coherent signal that's balanced, strong, and unmistakable. 

From an observational perspective, as you hear me say, observation collapses the potentiality of energy into matter. Therefore, the dominant observation of reality is not thought, it's feeling. 

So to master conscious manifestation, the secret is combining the thought of your future and the emotion of how that future feels in the most harmonious way so they work together as an incredibly strong, bonded and unified signal that the Universe effortlessly understands and delivers.
 

How to work with this insight:

In my personal practice, the key is to get into the feeling state first, and I love to do this by moving into gratitude during the beginning of my meditation.

I bring up something meaningful and emotional, such as the love I have for my son Humphrey, or my wife Corisande, and let that feeling build in my chest until it's undeniable.

The explosion of feeling when you do this is nothing like I've ever experienced and it takes the meditation to a whole new level. 

Your heart literally opens, your brain slows down into safety, and suddenly you're not forcing anything, you're just there, in the frequency of your future, which makes visualisation so effortless.

In fact, my guided meditation, Deep Gratitude is designed to get you into this exact state first, and then guide you to visualise your future from that elevated frequency.

In all my experience, thought alone barely moves the needle. But when you combine thought and feeling, when you observe yourself thinking and feeling your vision as done, you create a signal so strong it collapses outcomes at record speeds.

And I've seen this happen again and again.

You're not trying to convince your analytical mind that you're "faking it" - you're literally teaching your body what your future feels like ahead of the actual unfolding of your desire.

Remember, your body subconsciously doesn't know the difference between what's a dream and what's real, so when you can visualise your future and feel it, your body is believing that future is already made manifest, and that's when manifestation becomes effortless.

Two recommendations to practice this:

1. Try out my guided meditation, Deep Gratitude here.
    

2. In my brand new book, Beyond Wanting, head to chapter 7 which is called "Feel it till you make it" - this dives deeper into this topic and has a great practice at the end.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What emotion has been my dominant broadcast this week and why?

2. What triggers pull me out of the emotional state of my future self?

3. What aligned action must I take to move forward?

4. What is my future self no longer available for?

5. What would I do differently today if I trusted the Universe fully?

6. What pattern keeps showing up that I’m finally ready to break?

7. What is draining my energy that I need to walk away from?

 
Quote to ponder this week

“If you feel it before you make it, the Universe will move mountains to make it happen.” - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #152 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

Today's topic is deep - The Universe loves this (intention)

Today I want to take you into one of the deepest realisations I’ve ever had about manifestation.

It’s something that completely changed the way I understand intention, alignment, and why some desires flow while others feel slow, heavy, or frustrating.

Let's dive in:

A quick thank you  

First, I want to say thank you. Truly. I’ve been completely blown away by the emails, messages, tags, and love that have come in over the last few days since my book, Beyond Wanting published. 

There have been literally thousands, and I’ve been overwhelmed in the best possible way.
 

Going to Penguin’s headquarters on Tuesday was one of those days I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Not just because of the launch, but because I got to experience it with my family. Seeing my son completely obsessed with the penguins in Penguin’s HQ… that moment is now etched into my heart forever. 

And I realised something walking through that building: you made this possible. Your support, your belief, your pre-orders, your messages, it all contributed to this manifestation.

We hit the bestseller lists on Amazon across both the UK and the US within the first day, and that wouldn’t have happened without you. The Beyond Frequency is officially out in the world, and I’ve loved seeing your copies, your tags, your stories, your excitement.

It’s been surreal and beautiful to witness. So let’s keep the momentum going. Let’s keep sharing this message and getting it into the hands of the people who need it. 

We’re coming right off the heels of hitting the #1 spot, and I’d love for us to keep this momentum going together - to get Beyond Wanting into as many hands and hearts as possible. I really do feel like we’re doing this as a collective.

And if you’ve started reading already, please do leave a review, it genuinely helps the book reach more souls who are ready for this.

You can order your copy here.

Now… let’s go into the insight.

Insight: 

I want to take you into something today that changed how I see manifestation at the most fundamental level. It’s one of those realisations that rearranged how I understand intention itself, and why certain desires unfold effortlessly, and why others seem to drag, stall, or feel strangely heavy.

We spend so much time talking about evolving your consciousness, evolving your reality, evolving your life, but what clicked for me, especially through Tom Campbell’s work, is what evolution actually means.

At the deepest level, this universe isn’t physical; it’s a vast field of consciousness, a living information system made entirely of energy. And that energy has a single job: to lower its entropy.
 

Entropy is just a scientific way of saying disorder, fear, fragmentation, chaos. Lowering entropy means moving toward coherence, clarity, structure, connection, compassion, and ultimately, love.

So when we talk about “evolving,” we’re not talking about becoming a better version of yourself in the motivational sense, we’re talking about aligning with the direction the universe is already moving in: away from fear and into love, away from separation and into connection, away from chaos and into coherence.

And this is where manifestation becomes so much easier to understand.

When your intention is rooted in lowering entropy, meaning it carries the frequency of love, uplift, growth, clarity, contribution, the universe naturally supports it because that intention helps it evolve.

It’s not that you’re being rewarded; it’s simply that your intent is moving in the same direction as the system itself. If the universe didn’t support that kind of intention, it would be working against its own evolution. It would be essentially de-evolving itself (let that sink in).

And once you see that, the entire landscape of manifestation shifts. You stop wondering why ego-driven desires feel slow or sticky, and you start understanding the actual physics behind desire.
 

Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with wanting beautiful things, the car, the house, the money, that’s part of being human. But when the core intention is purely self-gain, there’s not as much evolutionary momentum behind it. The universe doesn’t resist it; it just doesn’t prioritise it.

The fuel is weaker.
 

But when your desire naturally benefits others, even in subtle or indirect ways, the energy behind it multiplies.
 

Let’s take manifesting a home… Manifesting a home for status or comparison increases entropy because it’s rooted in separation. However, manifesting a home because it gives your family safety, space, stability, or because it creates an environment where you can do work that serves others, that’s lowering entropy.
 

It’s as simple as the energetic by-product of the intention itself.

A dive deeper

Manifestation is a co-creation. It’s you aligning your intention with the evolutionary direction of the universe. 

That’s why I’ve always loved the phrase: for the greatest good of all concerned. Because that’s the energy that actually accelerates manifestation.
 

This is exactly how my book manifested. Yes, it will generate income, that’s part of the physical world, but the fuel behind it isn’t money. 

My intent is rooted in helping millions of people live better lives, remember their power, and manifest their dreams... That intention lowers entropy and that intention contributes to lowering entropy. 

And because of that, the universe has to help.

So what does this mean for your own vision? It means when you visualise, don’t just see the goal, see the energetic exchange. 

See how your intention ripples outward.  

Show the universe how your manifestation contributes to someone else’s life, even in subtle ways. 

If you’re manifesting a business, see the clients you’ll impact. If you’re manifesting a home, feel the harmony and safety it brings to your family. If you’re manifesting wealth, connect to who you become with that level of abundance, the generosity, the stability, the creativity, the way it supports the collective rather than isolates you.

When you visualise, make the universe’s job easy and make the intention clear. 

And most of all, show how your manifestation lowers entropy, qnd how it creates more coherence, more joy, more connection, and more love. 

Because when you do that, you’re not just imagining a personal desire, you’re presenting the universe with an evolutionary act. 

And that is the intention the universe loves. 

Trust me.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in my life am I currently operating from fear, comparison, or separation?

2. Who else is uplifted or positively impacted by my manifestation?

3. How can I visualise my manifestation in a way that includes its ripple effect on others?

4. What does “for the greatest good of all concerned” look like in my current vision?

5. If I trusted myself fully, what decision would I make today?

6. What is one area of my life that feels ready for change?

7. What is something I want to experience next year that excites me, but also scares me?

 
Quote to ponder this week

“ Intentions that uplift others always travel faster, because they move in the same direction as the universe.” - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #151 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life. 

Today's topic is extra special - 11/11 and The Beyond Frequency
 

In three days, the most aligned book launch I could have ever imagined is happening, and we cross the threshold into one of the most powerful alignment dates of the year, 11/11.

I've also got an incredible double manifestation story about how I manifested a partnership that synchronistically included working alongside my spiritual heroes in ways that have blown my mind.

Let's dive right in.

Insight:
When you start this work consciously, you might start noticing synchronistic patterns, these could be the repetition of numbers, seeing objects, animals, the list goes on.  

These are all reflections from a larger conscious system (the universe/quantum field), showing you evidence of what your state of being is broadcasting.

Let's talk briefly about 11:11 and why this matters right now. 

1:1:1:1 is the code of alignment, new beginnings, and the moment when what's inside of you and what's outside of you come into perfect sync. 

But from a consciousness perspective, it's feedback from the field. As you hear me talk about often, in quantum physics, observation collapses an infinite field of potential into form, conscious attention literally turns possibility into matter. 

So when you keep seeing 11:11, the Universe is reflecting your state of coherence back to you, it's a mirror showing that your inner focus and the outer world are synchronising. 

Your consciousness is interacting with the fabric of reality in real-time, and the feedback says: "You're tuned in, this is what your state of being is manifesting." 

And it's important to remember, that repetition itself is the message. 

So when you see repeating numbers such as 11:11, 2:22, 5:55, that repetition is the field showing you that something is stabilising. Your energy is being recognised, your intent is active, you're locked into a frequency, and the Universe is confirming it. 

Every number repetition is proof that your energy is noticed, your focus is aligned, and reality is responding. 

Back in January, my editor at Penguin emailed: "Hey Matt, we have a potential date for the publication of Beyond Wanting, Tuesday, 11th November." Without hesitation, I replied, "Lock that in. Do what you need to do, talk to whoever you need to. That's the date." 

It blew me away. 

First, because 11/11 represents new beginnings, the perfect frequency for a manifestation book. Second, because I didn't plan it, though most people assume I did. And third, because it's my wife Corisande's birthday. 

The alignment couldn't have been clearer: the birth of a new frequency, and the celebration of the woman who has believed in me more than anyone.

But what makes this particular 11/11 even more powerful is where we are collectively. We're wrapping up a year nine in numerology, which is a global cycle of completion. 2025 marks endings, clearing, releasing. 2026 begins a year one, the start of an entirely new nine-year cycle. 

The perfect handover from completion to new creation. 

I've always known this book, this message, this frequency, was destined before I incarnated here. I might have written it, but I'm just the messenger.

Together, we are the frequency bringing it forward, a modern, science-backed, spiritually grounded wave of manifestation that's going mainstream and changing millions of lives. 

If you're reading this, you're part of that ripple, and I want you to know that.

This is a new wave, a new era, and a new frequency. 

Right now, in this exact second you are reading this email, you are sending out a signal, an energetic broadcast as clear as a radio frequency out into the Universe.

And that's what this book and frequency will teach you, how to align this moment, this state in accordance and alignment with your future so it has no choice but to start reflecting back. 

That's the beyond era, making manifestation a conscious practice, not some magical thing reserved for the odd few.

Manifestation story 

A few months ago, I decided to set the intention to manifest an events partner to co-create with and start helping me plan live in-person events, similar to Dr Joe Dispenza's retreats across Europe. 

I had no idea how this would materialise, but that's the point, I held the intention, saw it clearly in meditation, and let go.

A few days later, whilst watching a YouTube podcast with Corisande, an ad popped up advertising a Dispenza event in Basel next year. What stood out though, was the company running the ad: "Younity." I said in real-time, "Corisande, watch this" - I knew it was the Universe showing me the way, all I needed to do was trust my intuition.

I headed to Instagram, found the company, clicked their profile and went to send them a DM. To my astonishment, they had already messaged me a few weeks before asking if I would be interested in being part of their summit. I had completely missed it.

To put this into perspective, Younity is Europe's largest consciousness events platform, they work with Deepak Chopra, Dr Joe Dispenza, Neale Donald Walsch, Gregg Braden, Lynne McTaggart, Michael Singer, Bruce Lipton, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Beckwith, Anita Moorjani, the list goes on - all my spiritual heroes. 

Without hesitation, I was in, and I asked to be connected with the person who heads up their European events.

As we speak, I'm now mapping out my 2026 schedule across Europe, and it's going to be very exciting, so stay tuned.

What's fascinating though, whilst this was unfolding, I was also holding a second intention, to meet a hero of mine, Tom Campbell. 

For those who don't know Tom, he's a physicist, consciousness researcher, and author of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything), he spent decades working with Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute exploring out-of-body states and the nature of reality itself, his work bridges hard science with mystical experience in a way that's completely unique.
 

When Younity asked me to speak in Switzerland (last weekend), I was blown away to find out that printed in the program was me speaking on the same stage as Tom, one hour after him. 
(I had no idea that he was attending!)

In fact, I got to spend a lot of time with Tom last weekend and had the pleasure of chewing his ear about his time with Bob Monroe, his understanding of manifestation (mind-blowing), and all the incredible things he's currently working on. 

Two intentions, one moment, perfect alignment.

That's how the field works when you trust it.

And that's exactly what Beyond Wanting is about, understanding how to work with the field consciously, how to set intentions that align with your highest frequency, and how to recognise when the Universe is responding.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where am I winning at the moment?

2. What aligned action towards my vision should I take today, despite hesitation or fear?

3. If I trusted that everything was unfolding beautifully, how would I show up today?

4. What's the most exciting risk that I will take this month?

5. What recurring patterns in life lately are trying to teach me something?

6. What energy am I bringing into each day at the moment and what does that say about what I am trying to attract?

7. If my life was a move at this exact moment, what chapter am I in?

Quote to ponder this week

“ The Universe responds to who you're being, not what you want." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #150 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

Today's topic: Observe, don’t absorb
 

This week, we’re talking about something that’s not always easy, the people who steal our energy, drain our frequency, and absorb us.

We all have them. But how do you deal with it in a way that protects your energy, your peace, and your ability to manifest?

Let’s dive right in.

Insight:
Everything is energy, and that's all there is to it.

I say this all the time because it's foundational. When you drill down into anything physical, every single thing, it all comes back to the same source: energy.

And because this is a manifestation newsletter, let's be honest about what that means.

If your observation is caught up in absorption, if your focus is stuck on what's wrong, on other people's drama, on problems, on your own inner critic, you're feeding that energy.

And here's why that's critical to understand: on a quantum level, the very thing that turns an infinite field of energy (the universe) into matter is observation.
 

Observation literally creates reality.

That's manifestation.
 

So when your attention and observation are constantly being pulled into other people's chaos or negativity, you're unintentionally creating more of it in your own experience.

Deep, I know. But true.

Now let's talk about the energy thieves, because we all have them.

That could be your mother-in-law, your parents, your partner, your best friend, even your kids. You know the ones, they don't fill your tank, they empty it. You walk away feeling heavy instead of light.
 

My wife Corisande and I are really conscious of this. We know a lot of people, but our close circle is small, deliberately. We keep it that way because our energy is precious.

We surround ourselves with people who fill our tanks, and we make it our deepest intention to fill theirs in return. 

It's mutual, it's energising, it's clean.

The rest? We still love them, but we keep a healthy distance.
 

And sometimes, when you can't, because you might live with them, you create an energetic bubble.

The Energetic Bubble

Here's how it works. 

Before you walk into a situation or conversation with someone who drains you, take a moment, close your eyes if you can and take a deep breath.

Visualise a sphere of light around your body, like a protective field. Make it golden, white, or whatever colour feels strong to you.

See it as impenetrable, like nothing gets in unless you allow it.

Now, set the intention:
 

"I observe, but I do not absorb. Their energy is theirs. Mine is mine."
 

This isn't about shutting people out or being cold.You can still listen, still care, still be present, but from a place of strength, not depletion.
 

When you hold this bubble consciously, something shifts. You'll notice their words don't land the same way. Their mood doesn't become yours, and you remain centered, clear and untouched.

That's the power of observation, and it’s so powerful!

And the more you practice this, the more you realise, you've always had this power.

You just forgot you could use it.

And also remember, you’re not responsible for fixing, saving, or absorbing everyone else's energy.

You're responsible for managing your own.

So focus on what fills you, not what empties you.

The universe is responding to your frequency, not your words, so make sure your frequency is yours, not borrowed from someone else's chaos.

You’ve got this, and trust me, you are not alone.

We’re in this together.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. When do I feel most like myself, light, aligned, and free?

2. What boundaries do I need to set to protect my energy?

3. What would change if I stopped taking on other people's emotions as my own?

4. How does my inner critic speak to me? What would it sound like if I observed it instead of believed it?

5. What patterns do I notice in the people who drain me? What are they reflecting back to me?

6. What would my life look like if I only spent time with people who elevated my frequency?

7. Where am I leaking energy without realising it? (scrolling, complaining, overthinking, etc.)

Quote to ponder this week

“ You know what's powerful? Protecting your energy by treating your peace as non-negotiable and watching how fast the wrong people remove themselves." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #149 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: Pulling magic from thin air 

This week's newsletter is a reminder that manifestation can be so magical, fun, inspiring, and incredible. At its core, this is an invitation to be lighter, to play, and to fall in love with this incredible gift we all have.

Are you ready to have some fun?

Let's dive right in

Insight

Here's the truth that most manifestation teachings miss: the universe responds to your energy, not your effort. 

Let's start with the basics. 

Manifestation is the deliberate act of consciously selecting a vision for the future and using a combination of thoughts, emotions, surrender, and aligned action to co-create with an infinite universal field of intelligence to make it appear in our physical three-dimensional world. 

Simple enough, right?

But here's where things get messy. Even once we understand the mechanics and formula for this conscious process, so many of us unconsciously put pressure on ourselves to manifest certain milestones. We take the fun out of the process. We get hard on ourselves when certain manifestations don't happen on our timeline. 

We turn magic into a to-do list. But manifestation should be fun, light, and really exciting.
 

What do I mean by pulling magic?
 

The Universe is an infinite, non-measurable, unifying field of information. Scientists call this probabilistic information field, where energy exists in superposition, where everything exists as possibility, until it's observed. 

But how often are we actually playing with it? 
 

In truth, magic often hides behind what looks like hard work, logic, or coincidence. But why can't manifestation look magical, like sparks, and synchronicities appearing from thin air? 

Because it can, if we allow it to be.

You're not manifesting from thin air really, you're manifesting through it. 

I'm always playing around with the magic. 

I call it "throwing frisbees into the field" and seeing what comes back, with zero attachment to the outcome. Because in truth, when we're attached, we create resistance.

When you tune your energy to gratitude, wonder, and possibility, that field of infinite possibility (magic), starts to respond.

This week, I was playing with money, just for fun. 

I mapped out every logical way money could arrive, then ruled them all out. Then I sat in pure gratitude and said to myself: "I'm so grateful that money flows to me unexpectedly, from thin air, out of nowhere, because I am in awe of this work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." I closed my eyes and visualised it happening, not from a place of need, but from genuine wonder and appreciation for the magic itself.

Within 48 hours, I received an e-check from one of the largest meditation apps in the world, Insight Timer. I'd recorded a meditation for them weeks ago, purely from the kindness of my heart, with zero expectation of payment, in fact I had zero idea you could get paid and they didn’t mention this either. Yet, there it was. A beautiful reminder that when you're unattached, the Universe has infinite ways to surprise you.

This happens ALL THE TIME, because I love to have fun and play with it.

The irony? The moment you stop gripping so tightly and start enjoying the process, everything begins to flow. Your manifestations don't need you to muscle them into reality. They need you to create the energetic space for them to land, and that space is made of lightness, trust, and genuine excitement about the possibilities.

So this week, I'm inviting you to try something fun: manifest like it's a game. Drop the heaviness. Release the "how" and the "when."

Throw some frisbees into the quantum field.

Ask yourself: What if this could be easy? What if it could be fun?

Because here's what I know for certain, magic isn't rare, it's constant. It's just that most people are too busy looking for proof to notice it's already happening.

Your 7-Day Magic Invitation

Okay, here's where the real fun begins. It's time to stop reading about magic and start experiencing it. 

For the next 7 days, you're going to pick 7 small intentions that are fun, light, and would be nice to receive.

But here's the key: you must have zero attachment to the outcome.
 

This could be:

• Money

• A compliment from a stranger

• A job opportunity or promotion

• A gift you weren't expecting

• A voucher or discount code

• Signs from the universe (seeing repeating numbers, a specific animal, a song that answers your question)

• A free upgrade (on a flight, at a hotel, at a restaurant)

• Someone reaching out that you've been thinking about

• Finding something you lost

• An unexpected invitation to something amazing

The rule? Do not think about HOW it could happen. That's not your job. Your job is to play, set the intention, and let the universe surprise you.
 

The Two Best Strategies: 

Strategy 1: The Gratitude Template

Write your intention as if it's already happened, and infuse it with genuine gratitude. Here's the template:

"I'm so grateful that [intention] flows to me easily and unexpectedly. [because] I am in awe of this magic. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
 

Strategy 2: The Simple Intention Visualisation

Once you've written your gratitude statement, close your eyes and spend just one minute seeing it already done. Don't worry about the how, just see yourself receiving it. Feel the joy, the surprise, the delight.

Then, place your hands on your heart and simply say: "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."

That's it, it’s that simple.

Just pure playful intention and release.

At the end of the week, notice what showed up. Notice how it felt to play without attachment.

Notice how the universe might have surprised you in ways you never expected. 

Remember: You're not manifesting from thin air, you're manifesting through it. The quantum field is always listening.

The question is: are you playing? 

Let the magic begin. 

A Note on complex manifestations:

If you're working on a bigger, more complex manifestation and feeling stuck, there's one practice I always recommend: working with your dreams.

In Chapter 12 of my book Beyond Wanting, launching on 11/11, just a few weeks away, I share a powerful dreamwork practice that consistently works like magic.

The results are always extraordinary.

If you're keen to try this straight away, you can get access to this chapter before it's release when you pre-order. 

Use [this link] to pre-order and then upload your confirmation here. You'll then get instant access to download and read Chapter 12 immediately. 

Trust me, this one's a game-changer. 

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in my life am I gripping too tightly? What would it feel like to let go?

2. What's one desire I have that I can hold with zero attachment?

3. What does "pulling magic from thin air" mean to me personally?

4. If I trusted the quantum field completely, what would I do differently today?

5. How can I bring more lightness into my manifestation practice?

6. What permission do I need to give myself to play with the universe more?

7. How can I celebrate the small synchronicities that are already showing up?

 
Quote to ponder this week

"Attachment is the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. Put it down and watch the magic happen." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #148 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The paradox of appreciation
 

There's a saying I come back to constantly: "What you appreciate, appreciates."
 

It sounds simple. Almost too simple. But it's one of the most paradoxical truths in all of manifestation, and when you truly understand it, everything changes.
 

Let’s dive in.

💡 Insight: The Paradox of Appreciation
 

Appreciation is both a state of contentment and the engine that accelerates your manifestation.

On the surface, especially to your ego, the art of appreciation looks like you're not striving, not fixing, not forcing anything. Yet that very stillness is what triggers movement.
 

Appreciation dissolves resistance. 

And resistance is the enemy of manifestation.

When you stop pushing, your energy shifts from lack to alignment. And in that state, you're no longer broadcasting "I don't have it yet." You're radiating "I already am it." 

That's the frequency where the universe can finally meet you.

Remember this:

• Ego says, "If I relax, I'll lose momentum."

• The universe says, "When you relax, I can move through you."

It's a paradox because it works in the opposite way our conditioning tells us it should. We're taught that getting more comes from effort, striving, fixing what's wrong. 

But appreciation bypasses that entire paradigm. 

The moment you stop needing more, more starts coming.

When you operate from lack, from "I don't have enough yet," your energy signals separation. You reinforce the very gap you're trying to close. The universe mirrors that back as more delay, more distance, more needing.

But when you genuinely appreciate what's here, not as a trick but as truth, you collapse the illusion of lack. 

You already feel the emotion you thought the "thing" would bring. And because your frequency and the reality you desire now match, the external world reorganises around that inner coherence.

When I first started to understand this work, money was my biggest struggle. I was drowning in debt, constantly felt in lack, and couldn't figure out how to "act as if" I was abundant when I literally had no money.
 

So I started with what I did have. 

The small amount of money that paid my bills, my wife, a roof over my head, all the things that we're told to appreciate, but we often don't...

I began appreciating those things, genuinely, not as a manifestation technique but as real gratitude.
 

And something shifted. 

My external world started to change. 

That's when I realised it was an inside-out reality, not the other way around, which so many of us get trapped in.
 

As my appreciation grew before any material evidence showed up, strange synchronicities started unfolding. Opportunities to make money appeared out of nowhere. It was honestly bizarre at the time. And as I continued, it never stopped.

Being satisfied with what is creates the conditions for more to arrive.
 

That's the paradox.
 

That's the power.

A Dive Deeper:
 

You often hear me talk about the observer effect in quantum physics, which is the principle that the very act of observation collapses infinite potential energy, which exists in a state of superposition, into physical reality.
 

That is manifestation.
 

Every possibility already exists in the field as potential. But it’s our observation, which is our attention and emotional state, that decides which version becomes form.
 

Here’s where the paradox of appreciation comes in. 

You might have specific intentions to attract a new relationship, create more wealth, achieve success, whatever it may be. There’s nothing wrong with holding those visions in your imagination, that’s part of conscious creation.

But the moment we shift our observation inward to appreciation, to what’s already here, something profound happens.
 

Appreciation collapses the field around abundance. 

It moves energy out of “not yet” and into “already.” 

It’s an active frequency that tells the universe, I already have everything I need. And the universe, being a perfect mirror, says, yes, and here’s more of that.
 

That’s why appreciation feels so magnetic. When you cultivate it, what appreciates is everything you seek.
 

The mistake most people make, and what I explore deeply in my book Beyond Wanting (now only three weeks away), is living inside the lack paradox: wanting so intensely that they reinforce the very gap they’re trying to close.
 

Appreciation is the antidote. It’s what closes that gap.
 

Because when you feel grateful now, you’ve already become the version of you who has it.
 

And from that frequency, life can only meet you with more to appreciate.

The Appreciation Challenge:

Starting tomorrow morning, before journaling, checking your phone, or diving into your day, take a moment to appreciate five things from the day before.
 

They can be small or big, a kind message, a moment of laughter with a friend, a good meal, a quiet walk, an amazing meditation, a sign you noticed.
 

But don’t just list them, really feel them. Really sit with each one for a few seconds and let that appreciation land in your body.
 

Do this every morning for at least a week. And if you like it, keep going for 30 days and watch what happens, not just to your external reality, but to your awareness of your reality.
 

Because when you train your brain to see abundance, abundance becomes all you see.
 

And when abundance becomes all you see, it becomes all you experience.
 

Your reticular activating system (the part of your brain that decides what to notice) starts filtering the world through appreciation. It tunes you to opportunities, synchronicities, and the subtle proof that you are already abundant.
 

And that’s how manifestation speeds up, quietly, naturally, and beautifully.

I'm so excited for you, because this is so powerful.

Trust me.
 

A Quick Thank You

I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered their copy of my book, Beyond Wanting.

I’ve received hundreds of messages, and while I haven’t been able to reply to everyone yet, please know how deeply grateful I am for every single one of you.
 

We're now just three weeks away from publication, and every pre-order helps authors more than you might imagine.
 

And remember, if you haven’t done so already, with every pre-order you’ll get early access to Chapter 12, Signs, Synchronicities & Dreams, which is a powerful chapter that explores the hidden mechanics behind manifestation, before the book officially launches on 11.11.

[Pre-order your copy here]
 

[Download early access to chapter 12 here]
 

Thank you for being part of this moment. 

We’re just getting started.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What would I need to believe about myself to genuinely appreciate where I am right now?

2. What part of my past am I still letting define my future, and why?

3. If my future self looked back at this exact moment, what would they want me to appreciate about it?

4. What's one thing I'm resisting right now, and what might shift if I chose to appreciate it instead?

5. If I trusted that everything I want is already mine in the quantum field, how would I show up today?

6. What would I do if I wasn't afraid of being judged, rejected, or misunderstood?

7. What belief about myself have I been defending that's actually keeping me small and how will I change this?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“When you trust the unseen, you command the seen. Certainty isn't a feeling, it's a power." - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #147 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The Beyond Era 💫
 

I’ve written 146 editions before this one, but today feels different.
 

Because this isn’t just about the magic of manifestation, it’s about the deeper magic found in one simple act: the decision to go beyond.
 

This is the foundation of everything I teach, everything I live, and everything I’ve written in my book.
 

Let’s dive in. 

💡 Insight: Going Beyond

I don't tell this story often, but when I was a kid, my mum used to say: "Matt, one day you'll grow up and be a nurse."
 

I never really understood what she meant back then. A nurse? I wanted to be a footballer.
 

But now I know exactly what she saw. She had the foresight to see that I was wired to help people, to care enough to go beyond what's expected.

That instinct has always been there, long before social media, a business, or a book.
 

When I first started sharing about manifestation, I had zero plans to make a business from it. I was posting for fun while juggling a digital business on the side. 

The insight here is that the love of this work has always been beyond what might be expected, beyond money, a following, and status.
 

It was just about helping people, for free, because something in me needed to.
 

And that brings me to the deeper meaning of beyond.
 

We're always in a state of manifestation, whether we're aware of it consciously or not. The universe doesn't give us what we want; it gives us who we are. It doesn't respond to what we ask for; it responds to the frequency we ask from.
 

And here's the paradox that changed everything: the moment you go beyond wanting something is the exact moment it becomes yours. Not because the universe finally heard you, but because you finally became the version of yourself who already has it.
 

Most people wait for proof before they believe. But beyond is choosing to be the proof. It's living like the outcome is already decided, and you're just enjoying the unfolding.

To me, the word beyond is magical.

Science tells us we see less than 0.01% of reality. Most people live their entire lives confined to that 0.01%, convincing themselves that what they see is all there is. But going beyond is the willingness to trust the 99.99%, to live as if the impossible is not only possible, but inevitable.

What lies beyond what we can see is full of magic, potential, synchronicity, and wonder.

Going beyond isn't a destination; it's a shift in frequency. 

And this frequency, is the start of a new era.

The Beyond Era
 

One month from today, on November 11, my debut book, Beyond Wanting, will be published.
 

I'll be honest, I don't know how to feel.
 

Overwhelmed, nervous, excited, anxious.
 

But most of all? Proud.
 

Not just proud of the book, proud of this moment, of what it represents for everyone who's been walking this path with me.
 

Because here's the truth: 

The Beyond Era isn't about me or my book. It's a collective movement, a turning point, a new beginning.
 

And if you're reading this right now, you're already part of it.
 

I didn't plan the release date either, it happened synchronistically.
 

11/11.
 

In numerology, it's the number of new beginnings, of alignment, of remembering. And that's exactly what this is.
 

Remembering our innate power to create, not by chasing or wanting, but by embodying.
 

This era is a frequency.
 

A decision to live from the part of you that already knows you're more than your circumstances, more than your past, more than the version of you that once believed you had to keep wanting, chasing, proving.
 

Beyond is what happens when you stop manifesting from lack and start living from wholeness.
 

It's the moment you realise you're not trying to become worthy of your desires. 

You're remembering you always were.
 

This isn't just my Beyond Era, it's ours.

Beyond This Moment:

I know so many of you have already pre-ordered Beyond Wanting, and I can’t thank you enough. 

Truly, it means more than you know.
 

People often ask me what my next manifestation is.
 

It’s simple: to help millions of people.
 

That’s it. 

That’s the dream.
 

Right now, there are over 33,000 of you reading this — including you, .
 

And if something I’ve ever shared, a social media post, a meditation, or a sentence in this newsletter, has met you at the right time or helped you see life differently, then the kindest way you can support this mission is by pre-ordering the book.
 

Here’s why it matters: every single pre-order counts towards the very first week of registered sales. That first week isn’t about ego or status, it’s about momentum. It tells bookstores, publishers, and algorithms that this message deserves to be seen. 

It helps Beyond Wanting find the people who are already searching for it, even if they don’t know it yet.
 

Yes, of course, there are bestseller lists, and sure, that would be incredible. 

But this isn’t about chasing validation. It’s about planting a seed that grows for years to come.
 

The Alchemist sold only five copies in its first year. Then, 150 million after that. So for me, it’s not about week one. It’s about the ripple, the movement and a new era that we’re creating together.
 

So, , If you haven’t pre-ordered yet, I’d love for you to be part of that ripple.

You can pre-order Beyond Wanting here 
 

It’s the simplest gesture that would mean absolutely everything.
 

(And yes — I narrated the audiobook myself. So if you enjoy my meditations, you might love reading and listening at the same time. It’s honestly my favourite way to experience a book.)
 

Thank you for being here, whether it’s been days, months, or years.
 

This is the biggest moment of my life so far.
 

I couldn’t have done it without you. 💙
 

Welcome to The Beyond Era.
 

Matt
 

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in my life am I being invited to go beyond who I’ve been, even if it feels uncomfortable?

2. How will I practice a random act of kindness today?

3. What part of me is ready to expand, no matter what anyone else thinks?

4. Is the Universe crystal clear on my intentions?

5. How will I take aligned action today even though fear may hold me back?

6. What dream or vision is quietly asking for my belief again?

7. Where am I waiting for a sign, when deep down, I already know what to do?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“The Universe doesn’t reflect what you ask for, it reflects the frequency you ask from.” - Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #146 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: Are We Living Inside a Simulation?
 

This is a question that has been capturing my attention more than ever recently.
 

If we are, what does this mean for manifestation? And, more importantly, what does it mean for us and our lives?

Let's dive deep:

💡 Insight: The Simulation Hypothesis

The idea that we’re living in a simulation isn’t just sci-fi anymore; it’s being taken seriously by some of the world’s leading thinkers.
 

Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom famously framed the “simulation argument” in 2003. More recently, Dr Roman Yampolskiy stated on the Diary of a CEO that he’s essentially certain we’re in one, pointing to the rapid evolution of AI and generative worlds.
 

Thomas Campbell, one of my own heroes, has been saying this since the 1970s, long before VR headsets existed. Campbell worked as a physicist on projects at NASA and as a consciousness researcher with Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute (the same place the CIA later studied altered states of consciousness). 

Through decades of experiments in out-of-body states and consciousness exploration, Campbell came to see reality itself as informational, essentially a giant, evolving data system. 

To him, the “physical” world is simply a rendered simulation derived from a much larger consciousness-based reality.
 

It’s a perspective that becomes more believable every year. Photorealistic games, AI models that create entire worlds with a single prompt, and VR so immersive that we lose track of time, all point to how easily advanced intelligences could run indistinguishable simulations.
 

We’re already building AI that learns, adapts, and self-improves. At some point, it makes sense to me that simulations stop looking like simulations from the inside.
 

Inside one, you’d never be able to “test” it because its physics, history and rules could be locked into the code. That’s why the theory is compelling, and why so many technologists and scientists now take it so seriously.
 

But here’s the key that I’m holding onto:
 

Even if it’s a simulation, it doesn’t make your life less real. Your family, your emotions, your possessions and your experiences matter. If anything, this simulation view is empowering, because if reality is informational at its core, like code, then your thoughts and emotions are the inputs that shape what renders next.

How I’m Personally Viewing This
 

For years I’ve known, on a quantum level, that observation turns an infinite field of energy into physical reality.
 

This is what physicists call the quantum field and what many of us call the Universe, a vast, unified field of information that collapses into form as we observe it.
 

So when I hear thinkers like Thomas Campbell, Rizwan Virk or Dr. Roman Yampolskiy argue that reality may be a simulation, it doesn’t feel alien to me.
 

It makes sense.
 

If reality is informational at its core, then whether we call it a simulation, a game, or a unified field, the principle is the same: input creates output.
 

Consciousness renders reality.
 

On the face of it, the idea that we might be in a video game can sound terrifying. It can feel like it strips meaning from life. But for me, it’s done the opposite.
 

There’s always a duality, you can let it unsettle you, or you can let it empower you.
 

Here’s where I land:
 

If reality is information-based and rule-based, it’s not fixed. Like any game, you can change your experience by changing your inputs. That makes us better creators, not helpless avatars.
 

And it doesn’t take away from the fact that my wife Corisande, my son Humphrey, my friends, my memories, all of it, is consciously real and precious.
 

This is still a real experience, just like your life.
 

Even ancient traditions pointed to this. In Vedic philosophy, “Maya” means illusion, not that the world isn’t real, but that its forms are mutable, like a dream or a play.
 

Modern physics and timeless wisdom are both pointing to the same empowering conclusion: how you think, feel, act, and observe is shaping what renders next.
 

You’re not just a character; you’re the coder of your own reality.

And that's so exciting.

⚡️ This Week’s Challenge: Take Action
 

Your challenge this week is to ramp up your learning and take this experience to the next level. 

There has never been a better time to really use this work and take action on it.
 

With everything we’re learning, from quantum mechanics to the simulation hypothesis, even to declassified documents like the CIA’s 1980s Gateway Report, the evidence is stacking up that our world is not fixed.
 

There’s a lot of material out there, you’ve probably already read most of newsletters, taken my courses, or seen me speak on stages and workshops, but this is your time to take it to the next level.

If you’re curious to go deeper, my book recommendations are to start with these: 

• The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk 

• My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell.

And if you haven’t yet watched my training on the Gateway experience,  the declassified CIA material that essentially reveals how manifestation works and why they were studying it in the 1980s, go and check it out, you'll love it.
 

Click the link here to watch the training.
 

There are a couple of secrets in my training that will really help you shift how you see (and create) your reality.
 

This is your moment.
 

Take the work seriously, use it, experiment with it, because you have the conscious power to completely change your life.

Trust me.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Which beliefs or habits feel like “old code” that I’m ready to release?

2. What’s one win from this past week that proves I’m moving in the right direction?

3. If I were designing the “next level” of my life, what would it look and feel like?

4. What difficult conversation am I avoiding, and what would open up for me if I had it?

5. How will I take aligned inspired action today?

6. What am I most afraid to lose if I truly step into my power?

7. Where am I being called to let go of control and trust the larger intelligence of the “game”?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“On a quantum level, reality does not exist until you look at it. Consciousness creates the world we experience.” — Dr. John Wheeler

Welcome to the #145 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: Getting Unstuck
 

We’ve all been there, that heavy, frustrating sense of being stuck. Maybe you’re in it right now, or maybe not, but let’s be real: at some point, life guarantees that feeling will visit.
 

And when it does, it drains you.
 

I'll go deep today on what’s really happening when you feel stuck, why it’s not the dead end it seems, and how to shift the energy so you can move forward again.
 

Let’s dive in:

💡 Insight: Getting Unstuck

At some point, every single one of us will feel stuck. 

Maybe you don’t feel that way right now, and if so, that’s great, save this newsletter edition for later, because the probability is that you’ll reach that place again.
 

Feeling stuck is deeply frustrating, isn't it? It's that sense of perceived lack of options or movement. 

You can see where you want to go, but you can't see how to get there. Or you keep taking action but feel like you're running on a treadmill, lots of effort, no forward progress.
 

We lose energy, our motivation dips, frustration creeps in, and sometimes it even feels irritating to keep dreaming or doing the work. I've been there myself, and I've walked countless clients through the same experience.
 

From what I observe, people who are "doing everything they can" to manifest often aren't as clear as they think they are, but not in the way they might expect, and this is the paradox.
 

The lack of clarity usually isn't about their goals or desires. Those are often crystal clear. Instead, it's about unconscious resistance, conflicting beliefs, or being attached to very specific outcomes in very specific timelines.
 

Sometimes the "stuckness" comes from over-effort itself. There's a paradox where trying too hard to force manifestation creates energetic resistance.

It's like trying to fall asleep by trying to get yourself to sleep, the effort defeats itself.
 

Here's what I mean:
 

Stuckness isn't really "nothing happening." It's resistance to what is on its way.
 

And resistance is the very frequency that repels what we're seeking. 

You might be crystal clear on your goals, and that clarity, while powerful, can easily turn into control... You're holding the vision so tightly that you strangle the space where synchronicity lives.
 

I recently spoke with someone who was made redundant a few months ago, they were doing everything to manifest their dream role, but months went by in silence. 

It wasn't that the perfect opportunity wasn't forming, it just hadn't rendered into physical reality.

That person is now working in their dream position, and was completely blown away by the sequence of events that unfolded which later led to a life-changing job offer.

Silence, missed opportunities, or the ones that didn't come to fruition, are not rejection, they are universal protection and redirection.
 

What's truly meant for your highest good will never pass you by.

The Way Through Stuckness
 

Stuckness usually shows up in two ways. 

Either you’re crystal clear on what you want, but because it hasn’t happened yet, you feel stuck. Or you’re not clear at all, and the lack of direction makes you feel stuck.
 

Either way, the truth is this: we might not always know what we want or when it’s coming, but we all know how we’d like to feel. And it’s normally the opposite of stuck. We want to feel free, peaceful, light, relief, energised, alive, or present.
 

Go there now for me…
 

How do you want to feel?
 

The way through, paradoxically, is to let go of the need to control outcomes.

If you’ve been consistent with your practices,if you’ve been showing up, visualising, journaling, taking aligned action, then the missing piece often isn’t more effort.
 

It’s allowing.
 

It’s surrender.
 

It’s trusting that universal intelligence is moving on your behalf in ways your five senses can’t yet see.
 

I’ve helped countless clients with this shift, and the results are always the same: once they start living in the emotional landscape of their dream, choosing to embody freedom, presence, or peace now, the synchronicities arrive.
 

The unexpected connection, the invitation for an interview, the perfect match on a dating app or the book that falls off the shelf with the exact message they need, I could go on…
 

The point is, when we become our future emotionally, what looked like “nothing happening” suddenly opens into momentum.
 

Here’s the deeper truth:
 

We live in a space-time, three-dimensional reality, and time is part of the rule set here. Just because you can’t see the evidence yet doesn’t mean your manifestation isn’t forming.
 

Reality renders sequentially, but not all at once. 

What’s on its way is already set in motion, you just haven’t reached that frame yet.
 

When you understand this, stuckness isn’t the enemy anymore. It’s a signpost pointing you back to trust.
 

To let go and live inside the feelings you’re really chasing.
 

And that’s when the magic happens.
 

Trust me.

⚡️ This Week’s Challenge: Get Unstuck
 

Whenever I am in this situation, I explore several angles:
 

• First, I look at my relationship with the "stuck" feeling itself. Often we add a layer of frustration on top of the original situation, which compounds the stuck energy. What if being stuck right now serves a purpose? What if it's preparation time, or integration time, rather than wasted time?
   

• Second, I examine my attachment to outcomes. True clarity often includes being clear about what you want while simultaneously releasing attachment to exactly how and when it shows up. Many people think they're manifesting, but they're actually trying to control.
   

• Third, I explore what I might be gaining from being stuck. This sounds counterintuitive, but sometimes stuckness protects us from something we're not ready for, or gives us something we need (like attention, or an excuse not to take scary action, or time to develop necessary skills).
   

• Fourth, I love to look at aligned action versus forced action. Sometimes people exhaust themselves with activity that feels productive but doesn't actually move them toward their goals. Real manifestation often requires less doing and more being - less force and more flow.

And this is where the emotional reset becomes the way through. Instead of obsessing over outcomes or drowning in frustration, shift your focus entirely to how you want to feel, which is the opposite of stuck. 

Choose two feelings each day (ease, freedom, joy, peace, momentum), and then design one tiny action that embodies each. When you live in that emotional landscape consistently, you change your frequency, which always opens the space for synchronicity. 

And often, the very thing you were waiting for appears not because you tried harder, but because you finally let go.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where am I gripping too tightly to how or when something should happen?

2. If I trusted that my manifestation is already on its way, how would I show up differently?

3. Where am I winning this week?

4. What synchronicities or nudges have I noticed recently that I might have dismissed?

5. How would I show up today if I knew everything was unfolding perfectly?

6. Who or what gives me energy, and who or what drains it?

7. If I weren’t afraid of failing, what would I try right now?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“ What feels like delay is often preparation. What feels like rejection is often redirection. Nothing truly meant for you can ever pass you by.” -  Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #144 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The Power of Asking
 

Most of us spend more time hoping than asking. We drop hints, wait for people to notice, or silently wish the Universe will deliver without ever giving it a clear instruction.
 

But asking is different, it’s an act of clarity.
 

A clean ask is one of the simplest and most powerful forms of inspired action we can take, and yet it’s often the one we resist the most.
 

Intrigued?
 

Let’s dive in:

💡 Insight: The Power of Asking

Last weekend in Dublin, I sat down for an in-person podcast before my keynote. The host, Olivia, has had incredible guests on, Gabby Bernstein among them. I said to her, "Great work getting Gabby on."
 

She smiled and replied, "Well, I also got Matt Cooke on. That's the power of asking."
 

It stopped me in my tracks. I thought, wow, she's right, even I don't ask enough. Here's someone who simply decided to reach out to people she admired, not from a place of desperation, but from genuine curiosity and value exchange. No elaborate strategy, just a clear, confident ask.
 

I know you're reading this Olivia, so well done!
 

That moment sparked this week's newsletter, but it also made me reflect on how many more asks I can take.
 

The Universe doesn't just respond to thoughts; it also responds to action.
 

But there's a paradox here that's worth understanding too.
 

Sometimes "asking" feels like "forcing something to happen," when it's actually inspired action in disguise. The key is in the energy behind the ask.

Forced asking feels heavy, desperate, attached to a specific outcome. It comes from lack: "I need this or I'm screwed."
 

Inspired asking feels light, curious, open to possibilities. It comes from abundance: "Wouldn't it be amazing if this happened, and if not, something even better is on its way."
 

Asking is alignment when it springs from inspiration, not desperation. When you feel that inner nudge to reach out, to make the request, to voice the desire, that's your intuition guiding you toward aligned action.
 

When you put words around your desire and voice it into the world, you collapse vagueness into direction. You're essentially saying, "Universe, this is what I'm available for." 

The Universe loves specificity because energy flows along the path of least resistance. A clear ask carves a channel through which support, people, and opportunities can flow toward you.
 

But here's the deeper truth: asking isn't just about getting what you want; it's about becoming who you need to be to receive it. 

Every time you ask, you're practicing the energy of worthiness. You're training yourself to believe you deserve good things. You're expanding your capacity to receive.
 

Think about it: every major shift in your life, jobs, relationships, business partners, doors opening, connections, often comes through some form of an ask.

Sometimes yours, sometimes someone else's. 

The person who asked you on that first date, the colleague who recommended you for a role, the friend who invited you to the event that changed everything.
 

Without those asks, energy stays stagnant or takes much longer to manifest.

Isn't it so simple?
 

Most people think asking is about convincing others to give you something. But really, asking is about giving others permission to be generous. You're offering them the gift of contribution, the joy of saying yes to something meaningful.
 

So why don't we ask more?
 

People want to help. They want to share their knowledge, make connections, and be part of someone else's success story. But they need to know what you actually want.
 

In fact, I love being asked to do a keynote or sit down for an in-person podcast. All you need to do is ask.
 

If asking feels aligned and expansive, it's probably the Universe nudging you forward. 

If it feels contracted and desperate, pause and realign first. The same action can be either forced or inspired; it all depends on the energy you bring to it.

Practicing what I preach: My Four Asks of You

If I'm writing about the power of asking, I need to live it too. So here are four things I'm asking you directly.
 

Yes, this feels a little uncomfortable, but that's the point:

1. Pre-order my book, Beyond Wanting. If you haven't already, it helps more than you can imagine. Pre-orders make the biggest impact, and if you do, you'll get access to an exclusive early chapter to download. I'm so grateful if you have already ordered. [Here's the link.]
    

2. Purchase my manifestation course, Evolve. Thousands already have, and it's by far the most comprehensive way to learn everything I know, over eight hours of video content plus all my guided meditations. If you are ready to go deeper, this is the course for you. I know how life-changing it is. You can access it from any device, anywhere. [Here's the link.]
    

3. Invite me onto your podcast. If you host (or know someone who does) an in-person podcast, I'd love to come on. I'm happy to travel. I'll even be in New York from 9–16 November, so if you or someone you know has a show there, reach out to me or my team. 
    

4. Subscribe to my YouTube channel. I’m going to be creating more long-form content there, deep dives into manifestation, consciousness, and different topics I don’t always get to cover on Instagram. If you enjoy this newsletter, you’ll love what I’m putting up on YouTube. [Subscribe here.]

There's also a beautiful paradox here. 

I'm not really asking you to give me anything, nor am I giving when someone asks something of me. I'm asking you to receive what's already trying to find you.

Let that sink in.

Every "aligned" ask is actually the Universe orchestrating a divine exchange. When someone reaches out for support, they're not taking from you, they're offering you the exact opportunity your soul has been seeking.

Asking isn't taking, it's creating space for miracles to unfold for everyone involved.

When we understand this, asking becomes an act of service, which changes everything.

Goosebumps.

⚡️ This Week’s Challenge: Four Asks 
 

Now it's your turn.

This week, I am going to hold you accountable to choosing four asks.
 

In numerology, the number 4 represents support, foundation, and building something solid.
 

You might already know what four things you want to ask for this week, so trust that instinct. 

But if you need some inspiration, here are four ideas to get you started:

1. Ask for help with something you've been struggling with alone. Whether it's a work project, a personal challenge, or simply needing someone to listen. Stop carrying it solo, ask for help.
    

2. Ask someone you admire for advice or mentorship. That person whose career path inspires you, whose wisdom you respect, whose energy you want to learn from. Send the message.
    

3. Ask for what you want in a relationship. More quality time, deeper conversations, specific support, or clearer boundaries. Stop hoping they'll guess. 
    

4. Ask the Universe for a sign or guidance on something you've been uncertain about. Be specific. Ask out loud. Then pay attention to what shows up. "I am open and ready to receive the sign or the guidance to solve my problem."
    

The difference between the life you're living and the life you want often comes down to one thing: the asks you haven't made yet.
 

Universal intelligence is waiting for your instructions. It's a co-creation, so it makes sense that your desires will unfold faster if you co-create and help the Universe out by taking the ask.
 

My final ask to you - a cheeky fifth, if you don't mind.
 

Don't just read this newsletter and nod along.
 

Actually do it.
 

Do your "asks," and then watch what shift.
 

Trust me.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What am I currently hoping for instead of asking for directly?

2. What do I know to be true about myself that I rarely say out loud?

3. Where in my life am I dropping hints instead of speaking clearly?

4. How can I practice the energy of worthiness this week?

5. How might my relationships change if I stopped expecting people to read my mind?

6. How am I different now than I was a year ago?

7. Where am I giving my energy that doesn't feel reciprocated? And what will I do about this?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“ The Universe loves when you ask without attachment to the answer." — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #143 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The Power of Honest Emotion 💫
 

Most people think staying “high vibe” means ignoring sadness, anger, or fear. But the truth is, suppressing emotions lowers your frequency more than feeling them ever will.
 

When you feel it, you free it.
 

Honest emotion isn’t weakness, it’s pure alchemy.
 

Let’s dive in:

💡 Insight: The Power of Honest Emotion

There’s a dangerous myth in manifestation that says: “You can’t be negative. You can’t feel sad. Stay high vibe or you’ll block your desires from coming to fruition.”
 

This couldn't be further from the truth.
 

When you bury emotions, you don’t erase them, you install them. They live in the body as subconscious patterns, quietly shaping your vibration beneath the surface. And remember, 95% of who we are is subconscious.

That’s why honesty is liberation.
 

Your emotions aren't obstacles to transcend; they're gateways to deeper wisdom and insight, because when we honour what we feel, we transform it.

And when we suppress it, we become enslaved by it.
 

The very emotions we resist contain the keys to our liberation, and raising our vibration.
 

Every unfelt emotion doesn't simply disappear, it goes underground, forming an invisible current that shapes your reality from the shadows. These buried feelings become the lens through which you unconsciously filter opportunities, relationships, and possibilities.

But here's the paradox: holding onto negative emotions and thoughts, lowers our frequency. When we grip tightly to any feeling, trying to preserve it or push it away, we create energetic stagnation. 

The relentless pursuit of "high vibes" actually generates its opposite - resistance, tension, and a kind of spiritual bypassing that keeps us stuck in lower frequencies. 

You know that feeling when you finally express something you've been holding back? That "weight off my shoulders" sensation? That's not just relief - that's your actual vibration rising as energy begins to flow freely again. 

This is why emotional honesty isn't just healing work - it's the most practical manifestation tool you have. 

When energy moves, everything moves.

My personal view:

From what I can observe about how I process emotion, there seems to be value in acknowledging the full spectrum of what's present rather than trying to force only "positive" states.

When humans are genuinely honest about their emotions - including the messy, uncomfortable ones - it often creates a kind of clarity and authenticity that can be quite powerful for moving toward what they actually want.
 

The manifestation angle is interesting because I notice that when people try to manifest from a place of denial ("I'm going to think positive thoughts while ignoring my anxiety"), it often feels forced and disconnected.
 

But when they can say "I'm scared about this AND I'm moving toward it anyway" or "I feel angry about this situation AND I'm choosing how to respond," there's a different quality of energy there.
 

I think honest emotions provide better information about what actually matters to you and what obstacles might need addressing, rather than just papering over them with affirmations.
 

The "better out than in" part seems important because unexpressed emotions often leak out in ways that work against what we're trying to create.
 

For me, journaling is my war room for “getting out”. It's where I get real with myself and put my emotions on paper before they turn into limiting beliefs.

Here's what happened recently: when some family couldn't attend my son Humphrey's christening, I felt hurt and disappointed. 
 

But if I hadn't written about it, faced it and understood it, that unspoken hurt could have continued contributing towards my own limiting belief: "People don't show up for me."
 

Left unchecked, that belief could've sabotaged my bigger vision of hosting events around the world.
 

So I grabbed my journal and got honest. I wrote about feeling let down. I wrote about wanting my milestones to matter to the people I love. I wrote about the story I was starting to tell myself.
 

By getting it out, I moved through it and have been able to rewire it neurologically. The moment you express the "low vibration," you stop being ruled by it, and your true frequency has space to rise.
 

What's your experience with this? Have you found that being more emotionally honest has changed how you approach getting what you want?

⚡️ This Week’s Challenge: Facing emotions head-on

This week, instead of bypassing, I want you to face them head-on. Think of it like training in your war room: you’re not fighting your emotions, you’re learning their language so they stop running the show.

1. The Pattern Detective: This week, catch yourself in the act. Every time you feel triggered by something small, traffic, a rude comment, your partner leaving dishes out, ask yourself: 'When have I felt this exact feeling before?' Write down what comes up. Most of our daily triggers are just old wounds in disguise.
    

2. The Emotion Audit: Do a quick audit of what you've been avoiding. What's that one feeling you keep pushing down or distracting yourself from? The one you tell yourself 'isn't that big a deal'? Give it 10 minutes in your war room. Don't try to fix it, just get honest about what's really there.
    

3. The Energy Check: Notice where you feel heavy or stuck in your life right now. That heaviness usually sits on top of an unfelt emotion. Instead of trying to push through it or manifest around it, get curious about what feeling is trapped underneath. Your stuck energy is trying to tell you something.
    

4. The Story Interrupt: Pay attention to the stories you tell yourself when things go wrong. 'Of course this happened to me.' 'I knew it wouldn't work out.' 'People always let me down.' Pick one recurring story and trace it back. What emotion is feeding this narrative? Get that emotion out on paper.

You don’t need to master all four. Pick one path and commit. The goal isn’t to get rid of your emotions, it’s to see them clearly enough that they can no longer hide in the background. 

The moment you bring them into the light, they stop being your enemy and start becoming your fuel. 

By facing your emotions head-on, writing about them, speaking them out loud, being honest with yourself, you naturally raise your vibration. 

And that shift is what pulls you into alignment with what you’re really seeking.

Trust me.

A Quick Share

You may have seen on my Instagram last weekend that I had the honour of speaking at a conference in Ghent. 

My keynote was on The Power of Intention, a subject very close to my heart.

It was a wonderful trip that I thoroughly enjoyed, and just like my recent trip to New York, I decided to vlog the whole experience. 

If you’d like to see behind the scenes, from the travel to the talk to the magic of the event itself,  you can watch it here:

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What emotion have I been avoiding lately, and where in my body do I feel this emotion most strongly?

2. What would I write if no one in the world was ever going to read it?

3. What am I afraid might happen if I fully expressed how I feel?

4. What conversation do I need to have with someone to release something inside me?

5. What truth have I been afraid to admit out loud about how I feel?

6. Who or what do I still feel disappointed by, and what does that reveal about my needs?

7. Looking back on the week, how has being honest about my emotions shifted my energy?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we can write a brave new ending.” — Brené Brown

Welcome to the #142 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The path of least resistance ✨

Have you ever noticed how life feels lighter when you stop forcing it?

The right people appear, the timing works out and the next step almost reveals itself to you? Why does that happen?

Let’s dive in.

💡 Insight: The path of least resistance 

When you set an intention to manifest, it’s immediately received by the Universe.

If you show up consistently, holding your vision in meditation, seeing it as if it’s already done, and feeling it emotionally, the unifying field of intelligence begins rendering it into your lived 3D experience.

But here’s the part that changes everything: the Universe doesn’t force your manifestation into being. It delivers it by following the path of least resistance.

And that’s crucial to understand.

Think of water. It doesn’t wrestle with the mountain, it flows around it, finding the smoothest channel. Electricity doesn’t wander aimlessly, it always takes the easiest route through the circuit. Even in the quantum world, particles “anneal,” settling into their most stable, lowest-energy state. 

And we are no different. 

Our thoughts literally follow the same principle. The brain conserves energy by running along the most well-trodden pathways. That’s why negative thinking feels so easy, those neural grooves in your brain have been reinforced over and over by repetition.

Your brain, always seeking efficiency, will default to those pathways unless you consciously create new ones.

That’s why positive affirmations, gratitude, and new thought patterns can feel awkward or unnatural at first, you’re literally forging new pathways. But through repetition, your brain rewires itself. This is neuroplasticity. And the more you practice, the easier those new pathways become until they, too, are the path of least resistance.

The same principle applies to the Universe. 

Now, let me be clear. 

Sometimes manifestations do appear like magic, out of nowhere. 

But if you’ve been focusing on something and it hasn’t shown up yet, that’s where this principle really matters.

It’s not that your intention isn’t working, it's the Universe aligning the smoothest possible route for it to reach you. And often, that route requires you to shift, grow, or release something first.

Which means your job isn’t to push harder, but to clear the blocks, the doubts, the overthinking, the patterns that dam the flow.

When you see it this way, the whole game changes. Instead of doubting the delays, you start asking the better question: 

“Where am I adding resistance, and how can I open the channel?”

A dive deeper:

The Universe is fundamentally “lazy” in the best possible way, it doesn’t brute-force outcomes, it optimises them.

When you set an intention with thought and emotion, you’re sculpting the probability landscape of the quantum field.

I see it like carving a valley for the river of your desire to flow into.

But if you cling, attach, have doubt, or send mixed signals, you’re effectively building dams in that channel. The Universe won’t break the laws of flow, instead, it diverts to a less optimal path or delays until the channel is clear.

This is why your inner state matters so much:

• Surrender is letting go of control, removing turbulence from the water.

• Coherence (heart–brain alignment) is smoothing the signal, straightening the channel.

• Alignment is living as if it’s already true, creating resonance between your inner state and the outer field.

Here’s a hack I use all the time: manifestation is a game of believability.

Ask yourself honestly, “How much do I believe this is possible for me?” If there’s even hesitation, that hesitation is resistance. That’s a dam in the flow.

The way forward isn’t to pretend it’s not there, but to reverse engineer your manifestation into smaller, believable steps.

Each step you fully believe clears a piece of the channel, and those sequential steps become the pathway the Universe can flow through.

In fact, the Universe doesn’t just follow the path of least resistance; it follows the path of greatest coherence.  

When you remove the inner dams of fear, doubt, and wanting, the field doesn’t need to struggle. It elegantly begins rendering your manifestation into reality, because that is now the clearest, most natural route to take.

So manifestation stops being about “getting,” and becomes about becoming.

The more you embody the state of your future, the clearer the channel becomes, and the faster reality flows into form.

And when I catch myself doubting or trying too hard, I’ll literally mumble under my breath: “Get out of the way, Matt… stop blocking the flow.”

Because at the end of the day, it really is that simple.

⚡️ This Week’s Challenge: Clear the Channel

For the next 7 days, become the observer of your inner landscape.

Each time you catch yourself in fear, doubt, or overthinking, pause and ask:

“Am I building a dam here, or am I opening a channel?”

Then take one small step to release resistance. It could be a 5-minute meditation, a gratitude pause for something already in your life, a walk in nature, dancing to your favourite song, or simply stepping away for a coffee and a breath of fresh air.

Anything that shifts you from turbulence into flow.

And if an action feels aligned, even something small, like sending that email, making that call, or saying yes to an opportunity, trust me, take it.

That’s you doing your part in the dance of manifestation.

Remember, this is a co-creation. The clearer you are and the more doors you open, the more easily the Universe can flow through them.

By the end of the week, notice how much lighter you feel, how much smoother life moves, and the synchronicities that appear when you stop blocking the river and start moving with it.

Every time I practice this, I’m blown away by how quickly the Universe shows up once I get out of the way.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in life am I pushing or fighting too hard, and how can I practice letting go?

2. What beliefs or fears are like "dams" blocking my manifestation from appearing?

3. When was the last time I fully trusted the process? What did I do and how can I do it again?

4. Where can I celebrate some small wins this week?

5. How can I take aligned inspired action towards my vision today?

6. What does "flow" feel like and how can I invite more of it in to my life?

7. What’s one situation right now that I can soften into rather than control?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

““The Universe doesn’t respond to what you want; it responds to the place you’re wanting from.” — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #141 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.
 

Today's topic: The hidden language of the Universe (Signs)
 

I'm also excited to be giving away an exclusive early chapter of my book in this newsletter (details below).

This is deep, so lets dive right in:

💡 Insight: The hidden language of the Universe

A sign is not some mystical instruction from the Universe telling you what to do next. It’s the field of reality reflecting back the frequency you’re already carrying.

When I say field, I’m referring to the unified field of intelligence, the quantum field of potential.

The deeper fabric of reality, which is the Universe itself.

When you notice repeating numbers, a dream that feels more real than waking life, or a coincidence so precise it stops you in your tracks, it's not random.

It's confirmation.

It means something inside you has shifted, and now the outer world is starting to respond.

The Universe doesn’t speak in words the way we do. It communicates through energy, translated into patterns, symbols, synchronicities, and dreams.

These moments aren’t clues pointing to a path you haven’t found yet, they’re mirrors showing you that you’re already on the path.

The sign appears because you’re ready to recognise it.

This is what physicists describe as the collapse of the wave function. In simple terms, your attention shapes your human experience. Your observation turns possibility into form. In other words: your perception doesn’t just witness reality, it creates it.

That’s why the Universe doesn’t just reflect what you see, it reflects how you’re seeing.

So when something catches your attention, a repeating number, a perfectly timed message, a dream that won’t leave you, it may not be telling you what to do, it’s showing you that you’ve already begun.

Signs are proof your inner and outer worlds are in dialogue. And the more present you become to that conversation, the more clearly you’ll hear it, see it, feel it, and act on it.

Angel Numbers 

Through extensive research, I've come to understand that angel numbers are far more than random sequences or supernatural phenomena. They're better understood as angles of insight, divine signals and conscious feedback from universal intelligence.

As multidimensional beings, we exist beyond just this physical reality. These numbers can be viewed as specific angles of light or energy, which aligns with quantum physics' suggestion that there are at least 11 dimensions, with higher dimensions existing at 90-degree angles to each other.

Let's take the most common number 11:11 as an example:

Four ones is perfect symmetry and our primal brain can’t ignore it. But it’s not just a coincidence, it’s a moment where the Universe is showing you that thought and reality are starting to line up.

Numbers are the hidden architecture of everything!

"Numbers rule the Universe" - Pythagoras

So when 11:11 flashes up, it’s like a glitch in the matrix, a crack in the veil reflecting that something inside you has shifted, and now the outer world is mirroring it back.

It's a reminder that the frequency you’re carrying is powerful enough to ripple out into form. 

I’ve felt this myself. My book Beyond Wanting officially officially publishes on 11:11 this year, and I didn’t plan that date, it was synchronistically chosen for me!

Could there be a more perfect frequency for a manifestation book?In numerology, 1 represents new beginnings, fresh creation, and the power of thought turning into form. 11:11 is the ultimate alignment code, the mirror that reminds us our visions are already alive in the field.

When your mind is entertaining a new thought, and contemplating a new possibility. The number appears as a checkpoint, saying: "This is the moment to align your thoughts with what you truly desire, because they’re about to manifest faster than before."

And while signs, dreams or synchronicity require interpretation, numbers act instantly, it's like your soul’s most efficient tool saying: Notice ➝  Pause ➝ Decode ➝ Action

Looking to go deeper?

If you’re curious about the meaning of signs, and looking to go deeper, I’ve dedicated a full chapter in my book, Beyond Wanting, to this exact subject. 

In Chapter 12, I dive into:

• Why signs, synchronicities, and intuition appear, and what they actually mean.

• The role of dreams, including precognitive dreams and how to use them to solve complex manifestation challenges.

• The meaning of every angel number, from 000 through 999, plus repeating and mixed sequences like 711. This is a system I’ve spent years decoding and applying in my own life.

• A practical exercise that shows you how to ask for and receive your own signs from the Universe.

And here’s the exciting part: you don’t have to wait until November 11 to read it. With every pre-order of Beyond Wanting, you can access this chapter instantly, today. 

Here’s how in two simple steps:

1. Pre-order Beyond Wanting using this link 

2. Follow this link to download Chapter 12.

A huge thank you to everyone who has already pre-ordered. I’m so grateful for your support, it means the world. 

Pre-orders also matter more than you might realise. They help the book gain traction, expand distribution, and reach people who may never have found it otherwise. 

This book is at the core of my own mission and manifestation: to help millions of people consciously manifest their best life. 

By pre-ordering, you’re not just supporting me, you’re helping to carry this message into the world and change lives. 

So giving you this early chapter is my way of saying thank you. 

Truly - thank you, thank you, thank you, .

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. How will I take inspired action this week towards something I know will move me forward?

2. What repeating numbers or synchronicities have been showing up most in my life lately?

3. When I notice a sign, do I meet it with trust or with doubt?

4. If I asked the Universe for a sign right now, what would I want it to be about?

5. What sign would feel so personal and undeniable that I couldn’t ignore it?

6. What does “trusting the timing” look like for me in this season of life?

7. Where am I already winning, and how can I celebrate that more?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“The Universe doesn’t just reflect what you see; it reflects how you are seeing.” — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #140 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.Today's topic: Trusting divine timing in manifestation.

It’s one of the most misunderstood ideas in this space, yet one of the most powerful. 

And as you’d probably expect from me by now, we’re going to dive deep  and really look at the mechanics of how this unfolds.

💡 Insight: Divine timing

Divine timing isn't the Universe testing you, it's preparing you.It's the sequential rendering of reality, the careful setting of the stage, until you're aligned enough to catch the frequency of what you desire. 

The truth is, the energy of what you want already exists right here, right now, in this very moment. It's not hidden from you, it's actually vibrating past you on a frequency you haven't yet stabilised.I know that's hard to wrap your head around, but trust me, it's science. 

We perceive less than 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum. The rest exists as invisible fields of energy, vibrating beyond our conscious awareness. All energy originates from an infinite field of vibration known as the quantum field, which is a void so vast it's almost impossible to measure. This field contains every single possible outcome as energy, each vibrating at different frequencies and interactions.The quantum field isn’t in the future.It’s a field of all-now.Every outcome, every possibility, every version of you, is already encoded, already waiting for coherence and observation. 

Think of it like tuning a radio. You're on one station, but you know you want to change to another. This is like being tired of your existing life and setting the intention to manifest something new. Manifestation isn't about something magically appearing, it's you turning the dial until you eventually land on that new signal. And just like a radio, all the other frequencies and stations are playing simultaneously. That's literally manifestation. 

But here's the thing: when you first try to change stations, you'll often get pulled back. Old energy rises up and tries to hold you where you are. Fear of the unknown and this new "station" can keep you stuck. This is why, in my opinion, divine timing is the gradual, sequential shift of your personal frequency. 

It's not the universe testing you or working by some divine clock. The universe is you. The world is your mirror. Therefore, divine timing is simply you being prepared and made ready to hold the energy you're trying to attract.

How to Apply This: The way you work with divine timing is not by tracking circumstances, but by tracking your signal. 

1. Track your signal: Instead of obsessing over what hasn’t shown up yet, notice the frequency you’re actually holding. How do you feel when you wake up? What do you say to yourself when nobody’s listening? Is your body tight and shallow-breathing or open and calm?💡 Practice: Set three reminders on your phone each day. Ask yourself: "What signal am I broadcasting right now?" Then consciously shift,  breathe deeper, relax, smile, re-attune. 

2. Tune in emotionally: Your broadcast is not just what you think, it’s also what you feel. Gratitude, love, and calm are some examples of high vibrational emotions that connect you to your manifestation.💡 Practice: Spend a minimum of 5 minutes each day tuning in emotionally to how your future will feel, once its manifested. Let it flood your body until it feels real. This is the secret! 

3. Get more present: Stillness matters because it clears interference. When you’re busy, stressed, or overthinking, your energy is scattered, like a radio crackling between stations.💡 Practice: 5–10 minutes each day, morning or night, literally doing nothing. Just breathe, walk, or sit in stillness. No asking, no visualising, simply let your field quiet and recalibrate. And when you catch yourself triggered or impatient about when your manifestation will show up, use this practice to return to presence. It works wonders. 

4. Evolve: If you want to go deeper, this is exactly why I created my manifestation course, Evolve. It pulls all of this together, giving you a practical framework to follow to consciously manifest. Thousands of you have already taken it, and if you haven’t yet, or even if you have and want to revisit, the 8+ hours of teaching and all of my guided meditations are there to help you stabilise your baseline and manifest with ease. You can click here to enrol today.

Divine timing isn’t about waiting; it’s about becoming the version of you who is ready to receive. You attract who you are being, not what you want. Evolve is designed to help you shift into that version, with the tools, teachings, and meditations to stabilise your baseline and live in alignment with the life you’re calling in. 

If you’re ready to evolve into that version of yourself, this is the moment. When you do, the synchronicities, opportunities, and manifestations that follow are nothing short of magic. 

Trust me.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in my life do I feel “delayed,” and how could this actually be preparation?

2. What qualities, skills, or strength is this season building in me?

3. If I fully trusted divine timing, how would I show up differently today?

4. What past manifestation arrived later than I wanted but ended up being perfect?

5. Where am I still trying to rush or force, and what would it look like to let go?

6. How could I enjoy the present more while the timing unfolds?

7. What evidence have I already seen that the universe is organising things for me?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“Divine timing is not a delay, it is alignment.” — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #139 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.Today, we’re exploring something that flips the usual manifestation advice on its head: doing nothing. 

Not in the lazy or avoidant sense, but as a conscious, deliberate act of trust.It's so powerful.

Let's dive in.

💡 Insight: The art of doing nothing

At my workshop last weekend, during the Q&A, a lovely woman asked me what to do when she’s exhausted and has no idea what the next step is. In that moment, the word just came through me: “Nothing.” 

I don’t mean stop your manifestation practice. Keep meditating, journaling, feeling gratitude, speaking your affirmations. What I mean is: if you’re stuck, if the next step isn’t obvious, forcing an outcome can sabotage the very thing you’re calling in. We push because we’re afraid nothing is happening, and in doing so, we create resistance, which is lack, which is separation from the thing we want.But "nothing" sometimes holds the key to "everything."Nothing allows us to honour the present moment, the true foundation of manifestation. It invites us to ask: "What would I love to do now? "Maybe that’s a cooking class, dancing, a walk, finally reading that book, or joining a workshop. The ego will tempt you to strive harder, but falling in love with the now, filling your days with things that light you up, puts you in the exact frequency of what you desire.

And from that place, signs and synchronicities begin to appear. 

Sometimes it’s the book that sparks an idea. The class where you meet someone who opens a door or the conversation that shifts your path. The magic didn’t happen because you chased it - it happened because you gave it space to find you.

Let's go deeper:

Nothingness is not empty. In the quantum field, it’s the richest place you can stand. It’s the point before probabilities collapse, where every possible version of your life exists as potentiality. 

The moment you stop grasping at one specific outcome, you stop re-measuring the old pattern. You allow the field to organise itself in ways you could never have ever imagined. 

We’ve all felt this void, the in-between space where the old chapter has ended, but the new one hasn’t yet shown its face. It feels uncomfortable because the ego hates not knowing. It wants to fill the space with doing, with fixing, with proving. But manifestation is not about proving, it’s about matching. 

And here’s the paradox:To move beyond wanting, you must become the version of you who already has it. That vibrational frequency is not frantic or restless. It’s not refreshing the page for proof or constantly checking for that email. 

It’s steady, rooted, and present.  

When you can hold that in the void, you stop being a seeker and start being a match. That’s when the synchronicities flood in, not because you finally chased the right lead, but because you became impossible for your desire not to find. 

The void is not a pause in your manifestation.The void is the manifestation, already in motion, already assembling, already on its way.Trust me.

How to Apply This:

For the next seven days, treat the “void” not as something to escape, but as your most powerful tool. 

1. Keep your foundation. Stay committed to your morning practice, meditation, journaling, gratitude and affirmations, so your signal stays clear and coherent. 

2. Name the area. Pick one desire or situation where the next step isn’t obvious. Write it down, set a clear intention, then release it completely. 

3. Remove the interference. No researching, no tweaking, no chasing. The field doesn’t need constant measurement to work, it needs your space. 

4. Fill the space with life. Spend your time doing things you love, walks, cooking, music, reading, movement, connection. Fall in love with the now. 

5. Stay observant. Notice signs, synchronicities, and sudden ideas that arise. Write them down, no matter how small they seem. 

6. Act only on clarity. If an obvious, exciting next step appears, take it. If not, stay in the void without panic. 

7. End the week with reflection. Journal: What shifted when I stopped trying to force it? What came to me that I didn’t expect?

This is not doing nothing.  

When you can stand in nothing and still feel whole, you’ve already crossed the gap. That’s when reality has no choice but to catch up.

A Special Thanks + My NYC Trip 

I want to give a huge thank you to the 50 incredible souls who flew and travelled to attend my workshop at Omega last week. I haven’t stopped thinking about it. This isn’t just another event, it feels like the start of something huge. Everyone reading this is part of my mission, and if you know me, you’ll know that when I’m lit up by a new vision, I get onto my absolute best manifestation game. 

What I saw unfold in that room… the conversations, the people I spoke to, the emails I’ve received since, the magic, the synchronicities, the sheer energy...it's contagious. This is my future. And I’ll make sure everyone who wants to be part of it gets the chance to step into that room, feel it for themselves, and be part of what’s coming next. 

Also, for the first time, I decided to document my trip. It was a pretty big moment meeting the team at Penguin Random House HQ to see my debut book Beyond Wanting, and travelling to Omega.If you fancy some weekend watching, you can check my VLOG out here:

 Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. Where in my life am I trying to force an outcome that isn’t ready?

2. How does my body feel when I let go of control?

3. What would I love to do this week purely for joy?

4. When have I seen something align the moment I stopped chasing it?

5. What does “the void” feel like for me, and how can I make peace with it?

6. If I trusted my manifestation was inevitable, how would I spend my day?

7. What might be possible if I stopped interfering for just one week?✨ Quote to ponder this week

“The universe works faster when you stop running ahead of it.” — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #138 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.This week’s topic is: The Sturgeon Full Moon 🌕

The moon peaked last night, but its energy is still strong, especially today. In fact, many people feel the full moon most after it’s reached its height. 

Can you feel it?Did you wake up feeling a little different today?Full moons are always a time of release, a moment to let go of what no longer fits, so we can create space for what wants to land.

And this one?It’s especially powerful.

Let’s dive straight in:

We’ve also just moved through the 8.8 Lion's Gate Portal, which is one of the most powerful energetic alignments of the year for setting soul-based intentions in manifestation. 

But don’t worry if you missed it, the portal is still open until August 12th, and its influence is still very much alive in your field. And with this full moon energy lingering for the next couple of days too, we’re right in the middle of something very very powerful!

💡 Insight: Understanding A Full Moon

Every full moon brings with it the same core invitation:Release. 

It’s the peak of the lunar cycle, a moment when everything that’s been building, consciously or unconsciously, comes to light. Emotions rise, Insights start to surface and patterns that you're ready to face start to reveal themselves.  

A moment to let go of what no longer fits… so you can create space for what’s meant to arrive. 

And while all full moons hold this energy of illumination and letting go, each one carries its own unique frequency, shaped by the season, the natural world, and the deeper symbolism of the moment. 

Which brings us to this one…

🌕 The Sturgeon Full Moon — Embodying the Energy of Having

This full moon in August is known as the Sturgeon Moon, named after the ancient fish that used to fill the lakes and rivers of North America around this time of year. They were strong, resilient, and reliable, and for centuries, seen as a vital food source, and that's exactly how this full moon got its name. It showed up in a time of harvest, of "having." 

And that’s the energy this moon holds.It’s not about chasing. It’s not about hustling.It’s about enduring, feeling, and receiving. 

Right now, I’m here in New York, sitting in my hotel room overlooking Central Park as I write this. I’ve got my flat white, the city’s buzzing outside, but in here, I’m taking a quiet moment to ask myself:"What no longer serves me?"And the truth is… there’s a lot. 

I’ve been reflecting on my business, some things have been working, some haven’t. And I’m making a few changes. Letting go of certain processes, people, and patterns that don’t match where I’m going. And yeah, that’s going to mean a few difficult conversations in the coming days, ones I’d honestly rather avoid. But this is part of the work. Stirring the waters and being honest. Letting what’s no longer aligned actually leave, so something better can come in. 

That’s what this moon invites.Not just a soft “release what no longer serves” moment on a vision board…But real, lived reflection. 

The sturgeon moon asks you to stir the emotional waters that have settled, to stop pretending things are fine when they’re not.Because if you want to manifest something new, you have to be brave enough to clear space for it. 

This time of year is also harvest energy.It’s about shifting out of the mindset of becoming… and into the embodiment of having. 

And let’s be honest: that can feel weird at first.Because it challenges every old belief that says you’re not there yet.

But the Sturgeon Moon reminds us: you are. 

You’ve done the work, you’ve planted the seeds, and now, the only thing standing between you and what you’ve been calling in… is whether you believe you’re ready to receive it. 

So as you read this, take a breath.

This is the full moon to start making space. 

Not later.Now.

How to use this energy:

If you’ve been following along last week, you’ll know I released something new for this exact moment, something I’ve been working on quietly behind the scenes: 

The Lionsgate Activation Training.

This is a powerful experience designed to help you set soul-based intentions, not from your head, but from your energetic truth. 

So many of you have already taken it, and I just want to say a big thank you.

The feedback has been beautiful, and honestly, the way so many of you have told me how the Nine Square Activation synced perfectly with your intentions... blows my mind!There’s something about this work, that is just so magical!

And because this full moon has landed right in the middle of the Lion's Gate window, I also added a bonus Sturgeon Full Moon video inside the training. 

In the final video, you’ll find a deep-dive video where I share exactly how I’m working with this full moon energy. You’ll learn:

• What the Sturgeon Full Moon really represents.

• The four key energetic themes to reflect on: endurance, clearing, letting go, and harvest consciousness.

• The exact questions I’m asking myself during this window.

• And how to align with the energy of having, rather than chasing.

If you haven’t joined yet, it’s not too late. 

Sign up to the Lions Gate Activation training here. 

And because this time of year is all about clearing space and calling in what’s aligned, I’m also doing something I only offer a few times each year… 

For a limited time, I’m giving also giving 50% off my full Evolve course, which is the complete foundation of manifestation. 

Over 8+ hours of teaching, with all my guided meditations included. 

Whether you’re brand new to this work or ready to deepen it, this is the course I’m most proud of. 

👉 Use coupon code TAKE50 here to get 50% off Evolve 

Click here to learn more and join Evolve

It’s not really in my nature to push or force sales. 

If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll know, I rarely do offers like this... 

But honestly, the people who’ve gone through Evolve, thousands of them now, have said it changed the way they think, the way they feel, and the way they manifest. 

And that means everything to me. 

Everything I offer comes from the heart, I share what I’ve lived, and I teach what I know works. And I only ever invite you into something when I believe it will truly serve you. 

So if now feels like your moment,  I’d love to walk that path with you.

Journal Prompts for the week ahead:

1. What am I finally ready to release, even if it’s uncomfortable?

2. Where in my life have I been pretending things are “fine” when they’re not?

3. What belief or pattern no longer matches the future I’ve called in?

4. What part of me still doubts I’m ready to receive what I’ve asked for?

5. What would it look like to fully embody the energy of having this week?

6. What have I planted earlier this year that’s now trying to harvest?

7. What conversations or actions have I been avoiding, and why?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”-  Eckhart Tolle

Welcome to the #137 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week’s topic is: The Lions Gate Portal 

We’re entering one of the most potent energetic windows of the year, a moment where the everything aligns to activate remembrance, power, and manifestation.

Let’s dive straight in:

💡 Insight: The Lions Gate Portal 

The Lions Gate Portal peaks every year on August 8th when the Earth, the Sun in Leo, and Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, align in perfect rhythm.

Sirius was known by the ancients as our Spiritual Sun, a source of higher consciousness, abundance, and truth, and it’s over twice the size of our Sun and twenty-five times more powerful.

That kind of energy doesn’t just light up the sky, it lights up your soul.

When Sirius rises and aligns with our Sun, it sends a stream of high-frequency light codes, almost like a software update for the soul. 

And some people really feel the effects:

Headaches, fatigue, vivid dreams, emotional waves or even a sense of physical regression.

But equally, you might feel energised, clear, inspired, creatively on fire, or emotionally wide open.

Either way, it’s all part of the upgrade.

And just like a computer, after the reboot, you’re operating at a whole new level.

I’ve been studying manifestation for years now, not just the surface of it, but the science, the synchronicity, the structure underneath it all.

And if there’s one thing I’ve come to realise:

Nothing is random.

There is always a pattern, and like Pythagoras said: numbers rule the universe.

So when I look at this moment - August 8th, 8/8 - and I know it’s the exact day this cosmic alignment takes place, I don’t see coincidence, I see an invitation.

An invitation to connect to something higher and more intelligent than the noise we normally live in.

This alignment happens during Leo season, which is a time when the heart is naturally more open, when the energy is designed for expression, courage, and authenticity.

And when Sirius comes into the mix, the energy sharpens, the veil thins, and you start to feel more connected to your higher self, more open to guidance, and more tuned into synchronicities.

Then there’s the number eight - the infinity symbol. ∞

In numerology, eight represents abundance, power, and divine flow. 

So when Sirius peaks on 8/8, do you really think it’s a coincidence?

This is divine orchestration on every level, cosmic, energetic, numerical and emotional.

It’s a moment that doesn’t just ask you to dream bigger… it asks you to remember who you are underneath the noise. 

It’s time to drop the outdated story you keep telling yourself.

To stop setting intentions from fear, pressure, or ego.

This is a moment to get quiet and set intentions from your soul, from the part of you that’s been guiding you all along, even if you couldn’t always hear it.

This isn’t about waiting.

It’s not about wanting.

It’s not about lack.

This is a time to remember your power.

And this is your reminder: the universe doesn’t respond to what you want, it responds to who you’re being.

So ask yourself…

Am I ready to live the life my soul came here for?

How to use this portal to manifest:

Manifestation doesn’t happen just because you want something, it happens when your energy, vibration, and frequency match the reality you’re asking for. 

That’s called resonance.

The problem is, most people are trying to manifest from a place of stress, doubt, or mental overdrive. When your nervous system is dysregulated, your mind is scattered, and your body is in survival mode, your signal becomes incoherent, broadcasting static.

And when your signal is mixed, the universe doesn’t respond, resulting in no new manifestation.

But right now, during Lions Gate, the environment supports perfect alignment.

This is the ideal moment to set intentions that actually land, because the conditions allow you to get into a coherent state more easily, which is the state where manifestation happens effortlessly.

In my experience, the most effective way to work with the Lions Gate Portal is to get clear on your intentions for the next 12 months, and no further.

This isn’t the time for vague five-year plans or vision boards that gather dust. This is about the next chapter. The version of you 12 months from now who’s already living what you’re dreaming about today.

Think short-term, mid-term, and long-term, over the coming weeks, months, and up to a year ahead.

I do this through a process I call the Nine-Square Activation, which is my signature method for setting soul-based intentions that align with this portal window and the frequency of Sirius.

It helps you get clear, organise your energy across timelines, and activate the future you’re stepping into, not from fear or pressure, but from truth, clarity, and alignment.
 

To activate this energy, and set your intentions, there are two ways that I can help you:
 

 Journal Prompts for The Lions Gate Portal

1. What parts of me feel most alive when I think about stepping through this portal?

2. What signs, synchronicities, or inner nudges have been showing up lately, and what might they be trying to tell me?

3. What does my soul actually want - beyond what I’ve been taught to want?

4. Where in my life have I been shrinking to stay safe, and what would expansion look like?

5. If I trusted my higher self completely, what decision would I make today?

6. What does the version of me 12 months from now, the one who’s manifested it, look, feel, and live like?

7. If I knew the universe was backing me fully, what would I go all in on?
   

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.”
– Carl Jung

Welcome to the #136 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week’s topic is: The Space In Between

Over the next couple of weeks, we’re entering some very powerful energetic terrain.
 

I’ll be sharing much more with you next Saturday about the Lionsgate Portal, a cosmic window that peaks on 8/8, and one of the most potent times of the year to accelerate your manifestations.

We also have a full moon on August 9th, which is a chance to let go of what no longer fits and get ready for the new.
 

But before all of that…
 

Let’s talk about where we are right now.

💡 Insight: The Space In Between

I was speaking to a client this week who’s been working with me for several months. He’s been consistent. He’s done the meditations, the journaling, the self-observation and he’s been catching his old patterns, focusing on his future, and genuinely shifting his energy. 

And yet, he came to me and said, “Matt, nothing’s going wrong, but it also feels like nothing’s happening.” 

And I get it. 

That’s exactly what I call the space in between. 

It’s a strange phase, where you’ve outgrown your old self, but the new chapter hasn’t fully shown up yet in the physical. 

It feels like you’re not in crisis anymore, but you’re not seeing big external breakthroughs either.
 

What I reminded him, and what I remind every client at this stage, is that it’s an illusion to believe that nothing is happening. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not real. 

We only perceive a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, around 0.0035% - which means the vast majority of what’s unfolding is invisible to the human eye. 

But manifestation doesn’t start with evidence. 

It starts in the unseen. 

The deeper essence of this insight:

What’s unfolding, and what’s actively preparing to collapse into physical form, is happening inside the unified field. 

The unified field, which is often referred to as the Quantum Field or the Universe, is like an infinite sea of potential, where everything exists as energy before it becomes matter.

And you’re not separate from that field, in fact, you’re vibrating in and out of it constantly. 

And what shapes reality from that field is your energetic embodiment, your emotional state and your observation.

So this space in between, where things feel still, where nothing seems to be moving, this is where the real work is.

It’s not about doing more, it’s literally about holding the frequency.

It’s about becoming the version of you who can receive what you’ve asked for, even before it shows up.
 

And this is exactly where most people start to waver, because doubt creeps in, the mind goes looking for evidence and old habits try to sneak back in.
 

That’s why this moment matters so much. 

This is the phase where you build trust, where you continue rehearsing the future even when your current reality hasn’t caught up, and where you stay grateful, not because you’re pretending, but because you know you’re already aligned with a timeline that exists.

And exactly after I was explaining this to my client, he did just that. He held the space. He stayed with it, he trusted the timing and stayed in a state of gratitude. 
 

And the irony?

Just as I knew it would, the shift came.
 

He didn’t just receive one life-changing job offer, he received three. He actually found himself in a position where the work was no longer about manifesting the thing… it was about choosing which version of it would serve him best.
 

Too many manifestations. 

Which, I’ll be honest, is one of my favourite problems to have.

So if you’re in that space right now, I want you to stop calling it being stuck.

You’re not stuck, you’re aligning, and you’re closer than you think.

🌀 This Week’s Challenge

Every time you feel the urge to question whether it’s working, simply pause.
 

Set three “gratitude reminders” on your phone each day this week.

Label them something simple like: “Tune in,” “Hold the frequency,” or “It’s already done.”
 

When they go off, stop whatever you’re doing, even if just for 30 seconds, and tune in.
 

Place your hand on your heart.

Take a breath.

And say thank you.
 

Not for what’s coming, but for what’s already done in the field.

And for what already exists in your life right now.
 

That’s the frequency shift.

That’s the signal the Universe responds to.
 

And if you wobble, if ou find the old voice creeping in, don’t overthink it, just return to gratitude.

Again and again and again.
 

That’s the work.

And that’s what keeps your timeline unfolding.

Trust me! 

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. Where in my life do I feel like I’m in the “space in between” right now?

2. What would it look like to honour this in-between space instead of rushing through it?

3. Where have I been trying to force something that needs space to land

4. If I could see the invisible threads aligning behind the scenes, how would I show up differently?

5. What would it feel like to fully embody patience this week?

6. Where am I still holding on to needing proof, and what would happen if I let that go?

7. What does gratitude feel like in my body when I pause and tune in?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“The waiting is where you become the version that can hold it.”
— Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #135 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week’s topic is simple but powerful: The Power of Decision

There’s a moment before everything changes.

Not when the opportunity arrives, and not when the conditions are right.

But when you finally decide you’re no longer available for the version of you that tolerates almost.

That’s when the timeline bends.
 

Let’s dive in:

💡 Insight: The Power of Decision

There comes a moment where you stop circling the same mountain and finally say, enough. 

That’s the moment your life begins to shift. Not because the circumstances suddenly change, but because you do. 

A true decision marks a turning point. It’s the moment you stop outsourcing your future to circumstances and take ownership of what comes next.
 

Maybe it’s time to admit the truth: that you’re not fulfilled in that relationship. 
 

That you’re done being second best. 

That something in you is quietly ready for more.

The word “decision” means to cut off, to burn the backup plan, to stop entertaining what’s no longer aligned, to stand up and say, I choose different.
 

And yes, it’s terrifying. But there’s power in it.
 

Because manifestation doesn’t start with desire, it starts with decision.

Everything you seek, whether it be freedom, purpose, love, exists right now in the field of infinite potential.

But you don’t draw it in by waiting. 

You draw it in by becoming the version of you who’s already chosen it.

I often say to clients: life is a mirror. If you meet it with fear, doubt, or hesitation, that’s what you’ll see reflected back. The mirror only smiles when you smile first.
 

Making a decision doesn’t require burning it all down. It means cutting off the version of you that delays, tolerates, and stays small. 

So maybe this is your line-in-the-sand moment.
 

You don’t need to have all the answers.

You just need to decide who you’re not willing to be anymore.
 

That’s when the frequency changes. 

That’s when your timeline bends.
 

The deeper essence of this insight:

I often say: indecision is incoherence.
 

And here’s what I mean by that.
 

When you say you want something, but your actions, your energy, your frequency say something else, the field (what I also call the Universe) gets confused. 

It hears static, mixed signals.
 

That’s why nothing moves and you stay feeling stuck.
 

A real decision cuts through the noise.

As mentioned above, the word “decision” literally means to cut off. And for me, that hasn’t always looked like slamming doors or cutting people out of my life. More often, it’s meant quietly choosing to stop giving energy to what drains me. It’s meant letting go of trying to please everyone, or showing up in ways that didn’t feel true. 

Sometimes, it’s been as simple and as hard as admitting to myself: this isn’t working anymore.
 

I’ve had to stop pretending I was okay just to keep the peace. 

I’ve had to stop hoping things would change on their own. 

And in those moments, the most powerful shift didn’t come from fixing the situation, it came from deciding I was no longer available for what kept me stuck.
 

When I did that, when I truly decided, I got my power back.
 

Because every time you delay, you’re not just wasting time. You’re leaking signal. You’re feeding old versions of yourself that no longer exist. 

That’s the real cost of indecision: your power gets spread thin. You start living across multiple timelines, none of which are fully yours.
 

But when you decide. fully, without apology, everything changes.
 

I’ve seen this over and over with clients too. The moment they decide who they’re no longer available to be, their life catches up to that signal really fast.
 

The brave don’t wait for clarity.

They decide, and that’s what brings clarity.
 

One decision, truly made, doesn’t just change your life, it changes your signal.

And in the work of conscious manifestation, your signal changes everything.

A new conversation:
 

I’ve just published a brand-new episode on my YouTube channel: a 30-minute conversation between my wife Corisande and I, diving deep into some of the most complex, and most asked, questions around manifestation.
 

It’s honest, grounded, and expands beautifully on what we’ve been exploring here.

I think it’ll land deeply for you this week.
 

Click below to watch it. 

 

🌀 This Week’s Challenge

Think of one area of your life where you’ve been sitting on the fence, where you keep saying you want change, but you haven’t decided. 

Write it down.

Feel it in your body.

Name the truth of it, without editing.
 

Then make a clear internal commitment.

Not someday. Now.

One clean decision, from truth, not fear, can collapse years of delay.
 

So don’t just ask, “What do I want?”
 

Ask: What mixed message have I been sending by staying undecided?

Ask: What future is already waiting for me to get honest, and go all in?

Ask: What would the version of me who’s already chosen this do today?

Ask: What conversation would they stop avoiding?
 

Because in this universe, it’s not your wanting that manifests.
 

It’s who you are being.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. What area of my life feels most stuck right now, and what decision am I avoiding there?

2. If I’m honest, what am I tolerating that no longer feels aligned?

3. What would I let go of today if I truly trusted that something better is ready to take its place?

4. What fear is sitting underneath my hesitation? And what would I do if I didn’t let that fear drive me?

5. What’s one decision I can make today that would create momentum, even if it’s small?

6. If I could hit “reset” on one part of my life with zero consequences, what would I walk away from?

7. What would I do differently if I wasn’t afraid of being misunderstood?

✨ Quote to ponder this week 

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.
The next best thing is the wrong thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

Welcome to the #134 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week’s topic is simple but powerful: Authenticity is a frequency.
 

In the quantum field, it’s not your words that manifest, it’s your energetic signal.
 

Authenticity sends a clear one. Inauthenticity scrambles it.
 

Let that land for a moment...
 

Let’s get into it.

💡 Insight

A few days ago, someone forwarded me something odd, a newsletter they’d received from another manifestation coach. 

As soon as I opened it, I knew why. It was identical to mine. Same subject, same structure, same sentences, word for word. Not just inspired by my message. They’d copied, pasted it and published it online, not once, but several other times. Verbatim.
 

Now, I didn’t shame them or make a fuss, that's not my style... that’s not who I am, and that’s not the energy I choose to meet things with. I replied with a quiet but direct note.

A reminder.
 

A nudge back to their own creative path. Their own voice. Because when it’s truly yours, it will always carry more power than a borrowed one,
 

I also shared something I’ve seen play out again and again: the Universe has a way of revealing what’s not real. It shines a light on what’s out of alignment, not to punish, but to restore balance. 

And that’s not my opinion. 

It’s law. 

A frequency-based correction built into the fabric of how this reality works.

And here’s why:

Authenticity is a frequency.

And so is inauthenticity.

The Universe isn’t listening to what you say, it’s reading the signal underneath it. And energy never lies.
 

When you’re in alignment with who you truly are, unfiltered, unpolished, and honest, you enter into resonance with the field of creation itself. That’s when things begin to move. You attract aligned people and opportunities find you.

Your message lands. Not because it’s clever, but because it’s yours.
 

But inauthenticity carries a cost. Maybe not right away, but always eventually. When someone plagiarises, performs, or pretends, they might get a bit of traction. But it’s built on shaky ground. Because the field always self-corrects. That’s what karma really is, not punishment, but energetic restoration.
 

The Universe is always seeking balance. 
 

So if you’ve been holding back… comparing… trying to sound like someone else or say the “right” thing, simply pause.
 

Let all that fall away.
 

Because the fastest frequency in the Universe isn’t effort.

It’s not perfection.

It’s not performance.
 

It’s truth.

It’s presence.

It’s I AM.
 

The deeper message behind this insight:

When you show up as you, unfiltered, clear, and honest, you will begin to activate a kind of resonance that can’t be manufactured.

This is what coherence feels like in the quantum field. 

It’s the moment your energy becomes undeniable. 

In my experience, it feels like you stop chasing momentum and become the momentum and as your frequency leads from truth, life begins to mirror it back. 

Not because you're doing more, but because you’re finally aligned.

So be you. 

Unapologetically. 

Don’t shrink to fit a mould, don’t hold back to keep others comfortable, and don’t let comparison dilute your light. 

What makes you different is exactly what makes you powerful.

You don’t need to wait until it’s polished, perfect, or approved. Just tell the truth. Speak from where you really are. 

That’s what cuts through the noise and that's what people will feel.

And just to be clear: be inspired. Let teachings, books, mentors, and moments shape you. Let this work speak to you and through you. That’s how energy moves, how truth spreads.
 

But share it in your voice. Let it be filtered through your lived experience. Let it become yours, because when it’s true for you, it will naturally carry power.

I don't know who will resonate with this edition this week, but if its landing for you, take this as your sign:

BE YOU. 

Fully. Fiercely. Freely.
 

Because your truth will be the medicine for someone else.

Trust me.

A quick update on my upcoming events:

If you’ve been feeling the pull to go deeper with this work, I’d love to invite you to join me in person over the next two months.
 

Here’s what’s coming up:

🌕 Manifest Your Best Life — Omega Institute, New York | 8–10 August 

This is your last chance to grab tickets for my Manifest Your Best Life weekend workshop at Omega. It’s happening in just three weeks, during one of the most powerful windows of the year: The Lions Gate Portal and the full moon.
 

It’s going to be an explosive weekend of transformation, alignment, and manifestation.
 

Click here to secure your place
 

✨ Be Your Light — Ghent, Belgium | 6–7 September 2025

I mentioned this event a few weeks ago, and the response has been beautiful. The hosts have generously extended Early-Bird pricing just for this community until 15 July.
 

If you’re feeling called to reconnect with your light and experience the essence of authentic frequency in person, this gathering offers exactly that, a space to remember who you are, recalibrate your energy, and rise into your next chapter.
 

Use code: BYL2025-Intention

Click here to learn more and secure your ticket
 

🌿 Manifestation Mastery — Dublin, September 14th 2025

I’ll be co-hosting a live Manifestation Masterclass at The Sugar Club in Dublin with the brilliant Yvonne Tchrakian.
 

Yvonne brings powerful, magnetic energy to this work, and together, we’re creating an afternoon designed to shift you into alignment, clarity, and inspired action.
 

We’ll explore how to work with the quantum field, shift limiting patterns, and align your energy with what you truly want, through grounded teachings, real conversation, and live Q&A.
 

Doors open at 11am. The session runs from 12–3pm.

Tickets are still availale but selling fast.
 

 Click here to get your ticket

🌀 This Week’s Challenge

I’m keeping it simple this week.
 

Your challenge is to be honest, out loud.
 

Share one thing that’s fully, unapologetically you.

Not curated. Not polished. Not what you think will land. Just real.

Say it. Post it. Write it. Text it.

And notice what shifts when you stop performing and start resonating.
 

My wife, Corisande did this recently when she opened up about her postpartum experience with Humphrey. She shared what was real for her in that moment, and it resonated with so many wonderful women who felt seen, heard, and less alone.
 

That’s the power of truth.

It creates connection.
 

Now it’s your turn.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. Where am I currently diluting my voice or message?

2. What part of me have I been hiding to stay safe?

3. What’s the difference between being honest and being performative?

4. When do I feel most like myself?

5. What version of me feels outdated, but I keep holding onto it?

6. What’s a message or insight I’ve been holding back from sharing?

7. If I were being fully honest, what would I admit to myself right now?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

"Don’t trade your authenticity for approval."
— Brené Brown

Welcome to the #133 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we’re diving deep into the real force behind manifestation: Observation, and how it shapes not just your future, but your past as well.

Let that land for a moment...
 

Let’s get into it.

💡 Insight: Observation creates your reality

At the smallest level of reality, everything is made of energy, and the building blocks of the physical world are atoms.
 

Atoms are tiny units of energy and matter that make up everything we see, touch, and experience.
 

But when you zoom into the quantum level, the tiniest scale science can measure, something strange happens.

Back in the early 20th century, scientists discovered something remarkable in what became known as the double-slit experiment. They fired tiny subatomic particles of light, called photons, at a barrier with two slits. 

What they expected was for the photons to go through one slit or the other, like tiny bullets.
 

But that’s not what happened.
 

When no one was watching, the photons behaved like waves, (energy), interfering with themselves and creating a ripple pattern, as if they were going through both slits at once.

But the moment someone measured them?

They stopped acting like waves (energy) and behaved like particles (matter), taking one path and collapsing into a single outcome.

This proved: Observation collapses energy into reality.

For years, scientists believed this bizarre observer effect only applied to quantum particles like photons and electron, too small and too unstable to apply to our everyday world.

But then came the Delayed Choice Experiment, which changed everything, especially for me and the work that I do with manifestation.

The delayed choice experiment was originally proposed by physicist John Wheeler, and recreated in 2015 by scientists in Australia.

This version didn’t just use light. It used atoms, which are larger, heavier, and more complex. 

In other words: more like you and me.
 

Here’s what they did.
 

They sent individual helium atoms through a setup where they could behave like either a wave (taking multiple paths) or a particle (taking one path). 

But instead of observing them right away, the scientists waited until after the atom had already traveled through the system.

Then they made a choice: to observe it as a particle, or a wave.
 

And what they found was extraordinary.

The atom didn’t “decide” how it had behaved until the end, when it was observed.

A choice made after the fact changed what the atom had already done.

To really wrap our heads around this, imagine you're walking toward two doors. Normally, you'd choose one door and walk through it. But in this quantum world, if no one's watching which door you choose, you somehow walk through both doors simultaneously. And even stranger - if someone decides to watch you after you've already reached the doors, you retroactively "choose" to have gone through just one door.

Let that land:

It means a future observation can rewrite past behaviour.

So what does this have to do with your life?
 

Everything.

Because you, too, are made of energy.

And your thoughts, emotions, and attention are part of that same quantum field, the energetic field that connects everything. 

And just like the atom, your past isn’t set in stone.

The way you observe your life now changes what your past means, and what future shows up next.

That means you’re not defined by what happened to you.

You’re defined by how you choose to see it now.

You’re not stuck in a fixed timeline.

You’re surrounded by infinite versions of how things could play out.

And the one you lock into, the one that becomes your reality, is the one you observe with your focus, your emotion, and your belief.
 

🛠️ Here’s the deeper meaning behind this insight:

As fascinating as all this is, that observation in the present can influence the past, I want to be clear about something:

It’s not saying we can undo what’s happened on a macro level.
 

Some of you reading this have known real pain.
 

You’ve experienced heartbreak.

You’ve lost someone you loved.

You’ve been betrayed, overlooked, or forgotten.

You’ve carried things no one else could see.
 

So when I say, “Your past isn’t fixed,” you might think:

“But Matt, I can’t change what happened.”

“I can’t bring that person back.”
 

And you’re right.
 

It’s about reclaiming your power in what it means now.
 

Because this mind-blowing experiment shows us that even after something has already happened, the way we observe it now can shape the path we take next.

We don’t get to erase the pain.

But we do get to choose how we carry it.
 

Do we carry it as weight?

Or do we carry it as wisdom?
 

Do we use it as evidence that we’re broken?

Or proof that we survived?
 

Because just like the atom in the experiment, reality didn’t decide what path it took until someone looked.
 

And in your life, it’s the same:

The meaning you give to your past, now, is what creates the next chapter.
 

This doesn’t mean sugar-coating tragedy, it means giving yourself permission to evolve.
 

To say: “That was real. That shaped me. But it doesn’t get to define me anymore.”
 

You are still here, and you still get to choose who you are today.

And that choice, that observation in the present moment, dictates your future.

And that’s power.

⚡ This Week’s Challenge: Rewrite what the past meant

Think of one moment, memory, or belief from your past that still lingers, something you’ve accepted as truth. 

Maybe it’s that time you walked away from something important. Maybe you stayed too long. Maybe you trusted the wrong person, missed the opportunity, or said yes when you should’ve said no. 

You’ve probably replayed it more than once with thoughts like:
 
“I should’ve known better.” 

“That’s where everything started going wrong.”

“If I hadn’t done that, everything would be different.”

This week, your challenge is to stop looking at that moment through the lens of regret, and start observing it through the eyes of who you’re becoming.
 

Imagine the version of you who’s already healed. Already successful. Already at peace with what was. 

Ask yourself: how would they view this moment?

 Would they still carry it as shame, or would they see it as the turning point, the moment that sharpened their strength, softened their heart, or set them up for something better?
 

You’re not being asked to forget what happened. 

You’re being invited to change your relationship with it. Because the truth is, you don’t need to fix your past. You need to become the version of you who can hold it differently.
 

Try using this mantra throughout the week:

“Nothing is fixed until I decide who I am.”
 

Say it when old thoughts creep in. 

Say it when doubt kicks up. 

Let it remind you that the story only stays the same if you keep telling it the same way.
 

You’re not stuck. 

You’re the observer. 

And when you shift the way you see it, you shift everything.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. If nothing is fixed until I decide who I am, who do I choose to be today?

2. What part of my story have I been replaying with guilt, and what does my future self want me to see instead?

3. What old pattern am I keeping alive by continuing to observe it the same way?

4. If nothing is fixed until I decide who I am, who do I choose to be today?

5. If the Universe is waiting for me to observe myself differently before it shifts, what am I ready to see now?

6. What’s already working in my life right now that I haven’t been celebrating?

7. What version of me is quietly waiting to be seen, heard, and fully expressed?

✨ Quote to ponder this week 

“You don’t manifest by changing the past, you manifest by changing the meaning.”
— Matt Cooke

This one’s different.

Edition #132.

A newsletter I’ll never forget writing.
 

For almost three years, I’ve written to you every Saturday.
 

Today, I get to share something I once only imagined.

You may have already seen it on Instagram…

But now it’s official:
 

My debut book, Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation is now available to pre-order.
 

Publishing on the most meaningful date of all: 11.11.25 ✨

A Thank You From My Heart

Before anything else, I want to say thank you.

Truly.
 

Without the support of so many kind souls, especially you, , and the 30,000+ of you who read this newsletter every single Saturday, this book wouldn’t exist.
 

This edition is different because this moment is different.
 

This was the ultimate dream.

The kind I had as a kid.

But I was the youngest in my year at school.

I always felt behind.

I struggled in exams, got told I wouldn’t amount to much, and honestly, I believed it.
 

Looking back, all of that shaped the limiting beliefs I carried into adulthood. the quiet fear that I wasn’t good enough, smart enough, or capable of success.
 

That’s why this moment feels so surreal.

To be publishing my first book with Penguin Random House, the world’s largest publisher...

Goosebumps.

But more than anything,  it’s proof.
 

Proof that this work… works.

Proof that what you feel is possible… is possible.

Proof that the Universe is always listening.
 

I don’t have a degree. I’m not from money.

I’m not “special.”

I just followed the process I now teach.

I rewired my old beliefs.

I applied the science and spiritual principles that are in this book. And I kept going, even when my ego doubted it all.
 

Sometimes, in meditation, I still picture that younger version of me.

And I tell him:

"Matt, It’s going to be OK. Way better than you can ever imagine. Keep going. Miracles are on their way. Trust me."
 

And the same is true for you.
 

Whatever you're dreaming of, it’s not too big.

It already exists in the quantum field.
 

So maybe take a moment today to check in with your younger self, and tell them what they need to hear.
 

What This Book Is Really About

Beyond Wanting isn’t just a title.

It’s a frequency. A truth. A new way of living.
 

At the heart of this book is a powerful paradox:
 

Want = Lack.

Wanting carries the energetic signature of lack.

It says: “I don’t have it yet.”
 

But manifestation doesn’t work that way.

We don’t attract what we want.

We attract who we’re being.
 

When we become the version of ourselves who already has it, emotionally, energetically, neurologically,  that’s when everything changes and the magic happens.
 

That’s what this book is about.

Shifting from lack to embodiment.

From chasing… to creating.
 

My mission with this book is simple:

To help millions of people consciously manifest their best life.

And to give you the tools to do it with clarity, intention, and power.

Why 11.11 Matters

When the publish date first came through, I was blown away.

It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t forced. It was completely synchronistic.
 

In numerology, 11.11 means new beginnings, higher alignment, and a sign that your thoughts are manifesting.

The perfect frequency to release a manifestation book.

And if you know me, you know how deeply I work with numerology and signs.

I’ve used them to manifest some of the biggest chapters of my life.
 

Including this one.

And, in the most surreal twist, it’s also my wife, Corisande's birthday.

The Universe has an incredible sense of timing. 

And a sense of humour!

Let’s Go Beyond — Together

Since the announcement, I’ve received an overwhelming wave of comments, DMs, and emails.

From the bottom of my heart — thank you.
 

And to everyone who’s already pre-ordered — thank you even more. Make sure to keep hold of your confirmation email or take a quick screenshot of your receipt... it’s going to come in handy soon. 😉
 

If you know me, you know I never push.

I don’t force sales.

But this is different.
 

This book was written to help people. And pre-orders make a massive difference.
 

They tell publishers, retailers, and the industry: this matters.

And they ensure that this message reaches the people who need it.
 

To make it easy for you, the pre-order links are below.

Pre-order US/Canada

Pre-order UK

Pre-order Europe

Pre-order AU/NZ

There’s so much more to come.
 

In the months ahead, we’ll be building something even bigger around this message.

You’re now part of Beyond.
 

Stay tuned.

Next week, we’ll return to our usual format.

But today, I just want to say: thank you for being here.
 

It’s an honour to walk this journey with you.

I can’t wait for you to read it.
 

With so much gratitude from Cornwall, 
Matt

Welcome to the #131 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we’re diving deep into the real force behind manifestation: Your Magnetic Field.

Let’s get into it:

💡 Insight: Your Magnetic Field

If everything is energy, then you are a signal, not just metaphorically, but quite literally. Your body emits an electromagnetic field, and your heart is the strongest part of it.

The HeartMath Institute found that the heart’s electrical field is up to 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s. And magnetically? Up to 60 times stronger. 

That matters because magnetic fields attract.

But here’s the part that changed everything for me:

It’s not just what you think that creates your reality, it’s what you feel. Your thoughts might hold the picture, but your emotions charge the signal. And your heart is where those two meet.

When I was first learning this, I was trying to manifest more money. But I kept asking myself: How can I act like I have money when I literally don’t? I just didn't get it... How could I act as if, when I have no money?! My bank balance was a stress trigger. So trying visualise money while feeling lack, felt like it was like short-circuiting my own field.

Eventually, I realised the key wasn’t pretending I had money, it was tuning into the feeling of what I thought money would bring me. For me, that was freedom. Peace. A sense of ease in my body.

So instead of faking it, I started feeling it.
 
Don't get me wrong, thoughts are powerful, they set the direction, and they give your desire a shape, a picture, a name. Without thoughts, there’s no clarity about what you want to create. I like to think of thoughts like the steering wheel, they guide the path.

But the heart? The heart is the engine. It’s what powers the signal. While your mind can imagine the future, your heart feels it into motion. That’s the part the universe listens to most clearly, because energy moves through emotion.

The universe isn’t judging or deciding whether you “deserve” something. It’s simply responding to what you’re putting out, like an echo. 

If your mind is saying one thing but your heart is in stress or fear, the signal is mixed.

Confused signals create unclear results.
 
The quantum field, what physicists describe as the sea of all possibilities, is the invisible field of energy that connects everything. 

And it doesn’t respond to what you think you want, it responds to what you are broadcasting. 

Not from your head, but from your heart.

When you feel gratitude before you receive, peace before there’s a reason, trust before there’s evidence, you’re tuning into a version of reality that already exists in potential.
 
It's that simple.
 

🛠️ Here’s how to work with this insight:

When your mind is focused and your heart is open and calm, your whole being enters a state of alignment, the field then responds, not because you're forcing it, but because you're resonating with it.

When you feel the way you would feel if that version were already true, you begin to collapse that version into form.
 
Manifestation, then, is not magic. It’s resonance.
 
Here's how to practically work with it:
 

• Breathe into your heart.
Sit quietly. Bring your attention to the center of your chest. Imagine your breath flowing in and out of your heart. This calms your nervous system and brings you into coherence.
 

• Name the feeling you’re calling in.
What’s the real experience behind what you want? If it’s money, maybe it’s freedom. If it’s love, maybe it’s safety, or deep connection. Let yourself feel that, even just a little.

• Match the signal.
Think of a moment, real or imagined, where you felt that way. Let that feeling grow. Don’t force it. Just let your body remember what it’s like to feel safe, free, loved, peaceful, whatever you're calling in.
 

• If you’re struggling to feel it:
Bring your attention to your heart and think of someone or something that stirs deep emotion, a beloved family member, a pet, or a memory. Let the emotion arise naturally. Then, once your heart is open, gently shift the vision to the future you’re calling in. Your emotional field is already activated, now it’s carrying your new intention.
 

• Hold the feeling, then release.
You don’t have to stay in it forever. I recommend 20 minutes, but even 60 seconds is powerful if you're short of time. Then let it go. Trust the signal has been sent. Your job is to return to that state often, not to grip the outcome.

⚡ This weeks challenge

Each day this week, for just 5 minutes, place your attention in your heart space.

That’s it.

You can add it to your existing meditation or do it on its own.

No visualising, no forcing, just awareness.

Become present to your heartbeat.

And see what happens.

Maybe you feel something emotional, maybe a stroke of insight drops in, maybe it guides you to take a small action, or journal a single sentence.

Maybe nothing happens, and that’s okay too.

The goal isn’t to achieve anything, it’s simply to become more aware of your heart… and feel it.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. If the Universe could feel what I’m feeling most of the day, what would it be attracting back to me?

2. If I dropped the mask and let the real me lead, what would change first?

3. What’s a decision I’ve been avoiding that my heart already knows the answer to?

4. What are the failures that I cherish the most?

5. What is my definition of success and what does it feel like?

6. If I could speak honestly to the part of me that’s scared to grow, what would I say?

7. What version of me am I secretly protecting by staying in the familiar?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

"If you want to attract something different, feel something different."
— Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #130 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.This week, we’re going straight to the root of it all, your nervous system. 

It doesn't matter how clear your vision is, or how often you journal and visualise, if your nervous system doesn’t feel safe holding that future… it won’t let it land. 

You attract what you are, not what you want. 

Let's dive right in:

💡 Insight: How the nervous system works in manifestationVery simply, your nervous system is responsible for sensing safety or threat, and it controls your stress response, your baseline emotional state, and your ability to rest, receive, connect, protect, and defend. 

It runs beneath conscious awareness, and is also refered to as the subconscious, which is why it's often overlooked in manifestation circles. 

Think about it like this: while your conscious mind might be focused on goals and intentions…your nervous system might still be bracing for impact. 

And when the two aren’t aligned, your signal is scrambled and the Universe has no idea what you are trying to manifest. 

Here’s the metaphor I come back to: 

Your conscious mind is the rocket — your vision, your goals, your desire to reach the stars.But your nervous system is the fuel — the emotional charge, the subconscious patterns, the energy that propels everything forward. 

You can build the most incredible rocket. But without the right fuel, it doesn’t leave the ground. 

That’s where full embodiment comes in, and why you hear me say: 

Manifestation isn’t about wanting. It’s about becoming.You’re not here to chase your future. You’re here to literally embody it, to feel it, and to literally become the future version of you that already has what you're seeking to manifest. 

🛠️ Here’s a deeper dive into this insight:From a quantum perspective, the signal you're emitting, the one the Universe actually responds to, is around 95 percent subconscious.So even if you’re clear on what you want and focused on it every day, if you haven’t aligned your subconscious, you’re still broadcasting your old emotional baseline. And that baseline is being read loud and clear by the field. 

This is where it gets real. 

In quantum physics, observation collapses energy into matter. Until it’s observed, everything exists only as potential. Nothing is fixed. But the moment you observe, you make it real.And here’s the part most people miss: observation doesn’t just mean “looking at something” with your eyes or thinking about it logically. It means what your entire system expects and feels as true.  

So if your system is dysregulated, anxious, bracing for disappointment, or locked in survival mode, that’s the frequency you’re sending out, and the field reflects it back. Not as punishment, but as a match. The Universe is the mirror. 

You can say the affirmation, practice gratitude, and visualise the dream in meditation. But if you don’t believe it, if you don’t repeat it consistently, and if your body doesn’t feel safe receiving it, then your nervous system will quietly reject it.And your dominant signal will keep attracting more of the same. 

This is why nervous system work is non-negotiable in manifestation, and if you don’t take conscious ownership of this deeper system, it will keep manifesting on autopilot, not from your future vision, but from your past patterns. 

Now, maybe you're reading this and thinking something like, “I just don’t believe this can happen for me,” or “Maybe I’ve left it too late.” 

If that’s where you are, I get it. But that doesn’t mean you give up on the vision.It means you bring the desire closer.You keep reverse engineering it until it feels believable, not to your mind, but to your body. 

So if you’re dreaming of a soulmate, marriage, and a family, start smaller and visualise going on one beautiful date. Imagine receiving a kind message that lights you up.The smaller sequential manifestation, is still manifesting the ultimate - this is exactly how I manifest...Smaller manifestations build momentum, feel closer, help with alignment, belief, and emotional safety. 

And here’s the best part. Your nervous system can change. It can be rewired. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived in survival mode, or how long you’ve held that limiting belief, it is not permanent. 

With the right tools and consistency, real change starts happening, and most people notice shifts in four to twelve weeks.I like to use 66 days as a benchmark, which is enough time for new neural pathways to form and for your body to start trusting a new reality. 

Of course, this journey looks different for everyone. There’s no exact formula. But the truth is every single person has the ability to shift their internal state and start manifesting from wholeness instead of fear.

⚡ This weeks challenge

If you haven’t yet joined my Evolve manifestation course and you’re feeling ready to take this work deeper, this is your invitation. Inside, I’ll guide you step by step through the foundations of manifestation, and also guide you towards building your own 66-day challenge, complete with all of my guided meditations, tools and resources. 

And if you’re already a member of Evolve, your challenge is simple: dive back in. Rewatch a module, revisit the meditations, and recommit to your own 66-day accountability journey. You don’t need to start over, you just need to keep going. 

This is the work that shifts everything. Let this be the week you show up for it.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. If I could break my ultimate manifestation down into five steps, what would those steps be?

2. When I think about my manifestation being real, what physical sensations do I notice in my body?

3. What’s one thing I could do today to act in alignment with the version of me who already has it?

4. Where am I winning this week?

5. When I close my eyes and imagine living this perfect reality, what’s the clearest moment I see? Can I describe it in detail?

6. What crazy big idea would I pursue if I knew I couldn't fail?

7. How will I take an aligned risk next week? Map it out in detail.

✨ Quote to ponder this week

"Emotion is the fuel, intention is the signal."— Dr Joe Dispenza

Welcome to the #129 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week, we’re exploring the art of taking the right action: not the frantic hustle that drains your soul, but the aligned, inspired steps that move mountains.

Let’s dive in.

💡 Insight: Taking Action

When we talk about manifestation, it’s easy to get lost in the realm of thoughts and feelings, thinking that if we just visualise hard enough, our dreams will land at our feet.

And sometimes, they do.

There are those moments when the universe seems to hand us exactly what we need without lifting a finger. But more often than not, action is the bridge between what exists in the mind and what shows up in the world. 

It’s the difference between a dream that stays a dream and one that becomes real. 

But not all action is created equal. Some action is frantic, desperate, and controlling, like forcing a door open before the time is right. That’s forced action, and it doesn’t work because it comes from fear, not trust.

Aligned, inspired action is different. It’s calm, clear, and deeply connected to your vision. It might not make sense to anyone else, but it feels right to you. 

Let me explain with a personal story:

In the summer of 2023, I received a phone call from a storage unit company in Cornwall to say a unit was available. This phone call came out of the blue, and I had forgotten that I put my name down several months before. The owner said, “If you want it, it’s yours, but if not, we have a waitlist.” These units were like hens’ teeth, but we were not ready. We hadn't manifested a house yet. My head and ego screamed, “Matt, why move the contents of your house four hours away when you have no house? What if it doesn't work out?”

On paper, it seemed crazy. However, in my gut, I knew this was part of the vision. We weren’t forcing anything. This was the universe saying, “Here’s a piece of your dream. Are you willing to claim it?” Intuitively, I knew that if part of our energy was in Cornwall, how could the perfect house not manifest?

So, ignoring my fear and head, we hired a van and moved our furniture to Cornwall with no house to move it into.

Everyone thought we were crazy. But to us, it was the most aligned step we could take. Staying in fear would have kept Cornwall away. Taking that step, even when it made no logical sense, told the universe, “We’re ready.”

Two months later, we manifested the perfect house, and with our contents already in Cornwall, the move was effortless.

This is what it means to act in alignment. Not to chase or force, but to recognise the signs and take the step that feels true, even when it’s scary.

Forced action would have been the opposite. In our case, it would have looked like calling every storage unit in Cornwall, trying to beg or negotiate a space that wasn’t naturally available. It would have been driven by desperation, by the need to control and push, instead of trusting the timing and the signs. But we didn’t do that. We listened, and we took the aligned step when it was offered. And that’s what made the difference.

🛠️ Here’s how to work with this insight:

When you understand the difference between forced and aligned action, you open the door to manifesting in a way that feels natural and true.
 

Here’s how to work with aligned action:

1. Start with clarity. Before taking any action, check in with yourself. Take a moment to ground your energy through a quick meditation, journaling, or even a deep breath. Ask, “What feels aligned right now?”
    

2. Listen to the signals. Notice what opportunities show up naturally. These are often subtle nudges, a phone call, an invitation, a feeling in your gut. Pay attention to them instead of trying to force them.
    

3. Check the energy behind your action. If it feels like you’re hustling, panicking, or trying to control outcomes, pause. Ask yourself, “Is this action coming from fear or trust?”
    

4. Trust your intuition. Aligned action usually feels a bit scary but also deeply right. It’s that “yes” in your gut, even if your mind doubts it.
    

5. Be willing to act, even if it’s not perfect. The right step isn’t always the most logical one, it’s the one that feels like it’s part of the bigger picture you’re creating.
    

6. Release the outcome. Take the step, but let go of needing to know exactly how it will unfold. When you’re not attached to the result, you’re more open to what the universe wants to bring you.

🌱 And one more thing to remember:

Sometimes, no matter how well you understand these steps, it still feels hard to find that aligned action. That’s a sign that the real work is still happening inside. I was talking with a client about this recently, she said, “I’m struggling to know if I’m taking aligned action or if I’m just making up signs.” What I told her was this: until you feel that deep sense of worthiness and abundance within you, even the best outer actions can feel forced or uncertain.
 

So if you’re doing the work, visualising your future, affirming it, practicing gratitude, trust that the signs and opportunities will begin to reflect your shift in energy.

When you live in the frequency of love and trust, aligned action becomes easier to see and feel. But if you’re stuck in fear or doubt, the signs can feel blurry, or every step feels forced.

The real magic happens when you become the person who naturally attracts what they want, not because they’re chasing it, but because they’re already living in that energy. That’s when the universe starts to move mountains for you.

So keep showing up for the inner work. That’s what turns forced action into aligned action, and dreams into reality.

⚡ This weeks challenge

This week, set the intention to receive a clear sign from the universe within the next 48 hours.

Write it in your journal: “I am open and ready to receive a sign that is in alignment with my vision.”

When it shows up, whether it’s an unexpected conversation, a book, or an urge to send an email, trust it. Don’t question it.

Act on it with trust, and watch how quickly the universe responds.

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. What’s something I’d love to learn more about and why?

2. What kind of conversations light me up?

3. What’s one small act of kindness I could do for someone today?

4. What does “freedom” mean to me?

5. What’s one thing I’d like to say “yes” to more often?

6. If I could only keep five possessions, what would they be?

7. Who in my life inspires me most, and why?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.” – Naeem Callaway

Welcome to the #128 edition of my Saturday Manifestation Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life.

This week’s edition: Rejection is Protection and Redirection.

I’ve seen it time and time again, our conscious mind fixates on an outcome we hope for, and yet, we’re rejected. And when that happens, there’s always a bigger story at play... 

Can you resonate?

Let’s dive in.

💡 Insight: Understanding rejection 

We can be doing everything "right", focusing on our intentions, meditating, journaling, practicing gratitude, saying our affirmations, taking action and staying positive, and still feel the sting of rejection. Sometimes it’s obvious, like a job opportunity that falls through at the last minute. Other times it’s personal, like a family member we love who says something that cuts really deep or distances themselves without explanation.It can feel like we’re being punished, like all the work we’ve done means nothing. 

I’ve been there. That shock when the door you thought was yours slams shut, when the person you trusted pulls away, when you’re left wondering why it hurts so much when you thought you were aligned and doing it right.The ego wants to fight back or force its way through. It wants to prove itself right, to demand an answer, to hold on to what it thought was meant to be. 

But there’s a larger intelligence at work in those moments, something that sees beyond what we can. Your Higher Self, the part of you that’s not bound by this single moment in time, knows what’s unfolding in ways you can’t fully grasp. Rejection isn’t a punishment or a sign that you’re not good enough. It’s a form of protection, an act of redirection that only makes sense when you’re willing to let go of what you think should happen. 

It’s a chance to trust something bigger, even when you’re hurt, even when your mind is racing to fill in the gaps. That doesn’t mean you won’t feel it. You will. But if you can breathe through the pain and listen beyond the noise, you’ll hear the truth underneath. The protection was always there. The redirection is already in motion. Your only job is to keep showing up, stay open, and let your life unfold in ways you never could have imagined.

🛠️ Here’s how to work with this insight: 

When you feel rejected, it’s tempting to think you’ve done something wrong or that you need to fix it straight away. But that’s not the real work. The real work is to pause, to feel it fully, and to let it teach you something deeper about yourself and what’s actually aligned. 

Here’s how to work with this: 

1. Pause and let yourself feel the sting. Don’t rush to fix it or force a positive spin. Let the sting be there and feel it. You're human. 

2. Step back and become the observer. Look at the situation from a distance, without getting tangled up in the story of it. See it clearly for what it is: a sign that this path isn’t for you right now. 

3. Remember that your Higher Self sees beyond this moment. It knows the bigger picture and the things you can’t see yet. This rejection is about realignment, not punishment or failure. 

4. Trust the redirection. Don’t try to push through or force what isn’t flowing. Let go of the need to control every outcome. If it’s truly yours, it will meet you with ease and won’t need to be forced. 

5. Take the day off if you need to. Let yourself rest and reset. Come back tomorrow with fresh eyes and a clearer heart. 

6. Keep showing up for your life. Stay open, keep your energy steady, and let the next step become clear in its own time. 

7. Use the rejection as data. Let it guide you to what’s more aligned. You don’t need to have it all figured out today. Trust that the redirection is already happening, and that one day you’ll understand why it was necessary.

If you are seeking further clarity on any form of rejection, remember you have the ability to Ask Your Higher Self. That’s exactly why I created this new meditation that I launched last week. The response has been incredible, and I’m grateful for all the wonderful feedback.

⚡ This weeks challenge

This week, take one big, exciting step toward your vision, something that stretches you.Let it be something that might scare you a bit, something that makes your heart race. And when you take that step, don’t let the possibility of rejection stop you.Let it excite you. Because if rejection comes, you’ll know it’s not the end. It’s the start of a redirection that’s even better. Are you in?

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. What is one step I’m afraid to take because of possible rejection?

2. How would I show up differently if I knew rejection was just redirection?

3. Where am I winning?

4. What action has my future self already taken?

5. What is one vision I’m ready to fully commit to?

6. What difficult conversation do I need to have?

7. Where in my life do I feel most alive and inspired right now?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

"Let rejection refine you, not define you.” — Matt Cooke

Welcome to the #127 edition of my Saturday Manifestation OS Newsletter. My mission is simple: to empower you to create your best life. 

This week’s edition: Ask Your Higher Self

This topic has been years in the making for me, and I’m also releasing what I believe is my most powerful guided meditation yet, designed to help you connect directly with the part of you that already knows.

Are you ready?

Let’s dive in.

💡 Insight: Understanding Your Higher Self 

Here’s how I’ve come to understand it. 

Your Higher Self is the deeper intelligence behind your physical life. 

The more I’ve studied consciousness and paid attention to my own experiences, the more I’ve come to trust that this part of us is always there, always guiding us, in each moment. 

One person who helped me really make sense of this was Thomas Campbell. His book My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) gave me a structure for something I had already felt for years. He describes us as individuated units of consciousness, each one of us here to grow and evolve, and that there’s a larger consciousness system (what you might call divine intelligence, or the Higher Self) that’s actually playing us. 

The way I see it: we’re the character, and the Higher Self is the one holding the controller. 

It reminded me of something like The Sims. The character thinks it's running around making choices, but there’s a deeper awareness guiding the experience. That clicked for me. It just made sense. 

Campbell worked directly with Bob Monroe, whose work with non-physical exploration eventually led to the Monroe Institute, which is now the largest dedicated centre in the world for studying consciousness. Knowing that someone could train themselves to access other levels of awareness, and that these experiences have been tested and researched for decades, and used by the CIA, made the idea of the Higher Self not just spiritual, but deeply practical. 

And once I got that... I started to realise something I now know as truth:

You don’t have to wait for some magical moment to connect with your Higher Self. It’s already here. It always has been.We just need to slow down long enough to hear it. 

The challenge is the ego. That part of us that says “I am Matt Cooke” — the name, the story, the identity. The ego is focused on control, survival, figuring things out. And while it’s useful for navigating everyday life, it tends to block the deeper guidance that’s already available. 

Meditation has been the clearest path for me. So has dreaming. In both states, the ego relaxes. The thinking mind takes a back seat. And that’s when the messages come through, not always in words, sometimes in images, emotions, memories, or just a sudden knowing that bypasses logic entirely.

🧘‍♂️ Ask Your Higher Self — A New Guided Meditation

In this new meditation, I guide you into a calm, receptive state, out of your thinking mind, which is often what blocks the signals from your Higher Self.  

Once you’re there, I walk you through a series of powerful questions to ask your higher self, with space for you to ask your own. 

From there, you wait and receive. 

I’ve been using versions of this with myself for years, but this is the first time I’ve recorded it, structured it, and made it available to the public. 

This is the most powerful meditation I’ve ever created. It brought me to tears, and that rarely happens!

⚡ This weeks challenge

Do it. That’s the challenge. 

Whether you download the meditation, join Evolve, or just take ten minutes to sit in silence — ask your Higher Self something that matters to you right now. 

It’s helped me so much over the years, and I know it's waiting to help you.And remember — no one is more connected than you. Some people have just trained their signal more clearly.Enjoy and please let me know how you get on, I can't wait to hear!

📝 Journal Prompts for the week ahead

1. What question has been sitting in the background of my mind lately?

2. If I trusted the guidance of my Higher Self, what would I do differently this week?

3. How will I take massive action this week in alignment with my vision?

4. What thoughts or fears are keeping me stuck in the logical mind?

5. What signs or synchronicities have I noticed recently, and what might they mean?

6. How does it feel when I drop into stillness and just listen?

7. What would I do differently if I knew I was already supported?

✨ Quote to ponder this week

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin