Email Addresses and the Power of Manifestation

At Abambyh Business Coaching, our email addresses are not derived from our names or titles. They're not random collections of letters and numbers or bland words like “info”, either. From the inception of Abambyh, Alison Hartrum had a different idea of what she wanted for her team’s email communication.

She asked each of us to carefully choose a word that precedes the "@abambyhbusiness.com" portion of our email address and to have something very specific in mind when we did so: what we want to see happen, both for ourselves and for our clients.

Before we get into the choices we made, let's back up a bit and talk about the idea of manifestation, a practice that has been popular for some time because it’s repeatedly been proven to work.

There are several common misunderstandings of what it means to manifest an idea/goal/vision, but the most pervasive is that it is about dreaming, or hoping, or wishing something into being.

There's a lot more to it than that.

Our thoughts have a proven, valid effect on the world around us. Read, for instance, Dr. Masaru Emoto's The Secret Life of Water, in which he discusses, among other incredible subjects, how human thought affects the structure of ice crystals. See also this brief talk on the science behind manifestation. Or, for a more neurologically minded perspective on how manifestation works, you can check out this discussion with neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart.

The neuroplasticity aspect of manifestation is fascinating! But when it comes down to it, the most important thing to know about manifestation is that it WORKS.

With the Law of Attraction (a concept and practice of manifestation that she has employed regularly since reading The Secret) in mind, Alison Hartrum asked us, her team members, to choose for ourselves an email address that touched on our vision for our work. What word would express the effect we want to have on Abambyh's clients, and what we want for our own life?

Alison knows that manifestation works. She regularly creates vision boards and other tools to assist her in envisioning what she wants and needs from the world. She also encourages and assists her clients in doing the same. In choosing words that truly meant something to us regarding our vision for Abambyh Business, she intended us to speak that vision into existence every time we convey our communication information, to speak power to ourselves and to our clients with each email interaction we have.

Thinking over what Alison had requested of us, we gave serious consideration to what we wanted for the word that would be in alignment with our feelings, our hopes, and our motivations. What would encompass our greatest wish for what we would accomplish in our work for Abambyh Business? What did we want for our clients, for Alison, and for ourselves?

For me, brainstorming a short list was the first step. I then took some time to narrow it down to a half-dozen words or so. At this point, I genuinely liked all the choices I had left and was struggling to eliminate any of them from my list, so I decided to ask my family for their opinions on the ones that remained.

Overwhelmingly, unanimously, they looked to one particular word on my now-shortened list. This word, they pointed out, was easy to remember and had an unmistakably clear, positive meaning.

That word was "thrive". It's a word that expresses not just success, but growth. It has connotations of a nurturing environment, appropriate sustenance and stimuli, health and longevity.

It’s perfect. And every time I see my email address, every time I provide it to a client, it makes me happy. It reminds me of why I’m with Abambyh Business, why I love supporting Alison’s work. And every time a client sends me an email, they are being reminded, however subtly, unconsciously, of their own dreams and visions of what success looks like to them, their personal interpretation of what it means to thrive.

Another team member gave the matter a great deal of thought but kept returning repeatedly to the word “prosper”. She is someone that is inherently giving and supportive, assisting others in building themselves up and providing, whenever possible, the help they need to get where they want to be. This word embodied her desire for what she wants to see for not only those with whom she works as an Abambyh team member, but all those she cares about and supports in her life.

Prosper, like thrive, is a word that denotes not just success but an increase in strength, a flourishing. Each of the two of us chose our words without knowing what direction the other was leaning in, so the fact that we independently decided on email addresses with such remarkably similar meanings surprised me — at first.

Then the more I thought about it, the more it made sense to me that the two of us would be on the same page in choosing our words. We are both support professionals for Alison, whose investment in the success of her clients is the driving motivation for what she does. It seems inevitable that we would be thinking along similar lines regarding what our work with Abambyh means to us, and what we want to achieve. And it should come as no surprise that Alison herself, at the very beginning, chose “success” for her own email, reflecting her vision for her clients, for Abambyh Business, and for her team.

What are you manifesting? How are you affecting your world? How do you remind yourself of your vision and your hopes for success?

Consider how you might regularly remind yourself of those dreams. You can start with something as simple as a daily affirmation, or a mantra. You can create a vision board or a brief vision statement, one that’s easy to remember and that you can repeat to yourself as often as you need to, to ground yourself and remember what you’re striving for.

Or, you can start with something as simple as an email address.

Regardless of where you begin, remember to surround yourself with reminders of your vision for what you want in life. You can make it happen!

To learn more about how Abambyh Business can help you realize your dreams, reach out to us on our Contact Page.

Written by Tina Harmuth