I just had a massive epiphany, which I need to write down somewhere. Might as well be here, and it might come in useful for someone, maybe.
I don't know if you have noticed, but sometimes, when you try to manifest something on one side of the good - bad spectrum, something bad happens after your manifestation, as if trying to compensate. You manifest money, but extra expenses happen. That kind of thing.
I figured out that when this happens, there's a preexisting "pattern of energy", for lack of a better term, due to bad mental diet, trauma, previous conflicting manifestations, etc.
The spontaneous, compensating (and often undesired) event is always proportional to the distance between the preexisting pattern and the conscious one you have tried to establish (the distance between your mental diet and your visualization, so to speak). Transurfing calls this "balancing forces", and I had not really understood what that meant until now. I'm sure either Neville or Murphy have to have had a similar concept.

The obvious take-away is that you should check for and fix preexisting patterns in your imagination, in your feeling, before trying to add more to the mix, for optimal success. But I'm pretty sure there's another that is true, that I have yet to test: if you create a weak imaginal event that is *worse* than a well-established pattern in your energy, you will cause a compensating knee-jerk reaction in the *good* (desired) direction. This is bound to have some use.

In any case, I'm sure this phenomenon is why the universe seems to punish want (which means "to need" or "to lack" in old Norse), and rewards disinterest in the manifested desire. Because want is negatively charged, and causes compensating pulls. Disinterest is at least neutral.
I'm sure this can be weaponized much more than it seems at first glance.