Maybe—but first identify why nothing is happening. Changing technique without diagnosing the bottleneck can just create a new ritual.
The cleanest way to answer this question is to ask what the practice actually changes: attention, behaviour, interpretation, planning, or nothing measurable at all.
Direct answer in practice
A technique should have a job: clarify, regulate, rehearse, plan or support behaviour. If it is not doing that job, change or drop it.
This keeps the practice falsifiable enough to learn from. A rule that explains every outcome after the fact cannot tell you what to change before the next attempt.
What the idea can genuinely do
Change technique when the current one repeatedly creates friction, false beliefs, avoidance or no useful output. Before repeating the practice, ask what changed because of it.
Useful outputs include a clearer criterion, a calmer response, a decision, a rehearsal, a plan or a completed action.
What it cannot establish
Technique hopping can prevent you from noticing that the real problem is market fit, study quality, communication, resources or another external constraint. A warning sign is temporary relief followed by a stronger need to repeat the ritual because uncertainty has returned.
Use this test instead
Audit the goal before the technique: desired outcome, current stage, evidence, bottleneck, then choose the tool that fits the bottleneck. Put the result somewhere observable: a calendar entry, checklist, decision rule, progress measure or conversation you can actually complete.
Example from real life
If a job seeker gets interviews but no offers, another scripting method is unlikely to beat interview practice and feedback.
The important part is the causal chain. The practice may influence preparation or behaviour; the external result still depends on the system around it.
Keep the claim proportional
Do not keep a practice solely because someone claims stopping it will delay the universe. Money, health, safety, employment and relationships all contain consequences or other people's choices that no inner practice can simply erase.
What to measure
Measure benefit at the level the practice can plausibly affect. Change one variable at a time where practical. If both the plan and technique change every two days, you learn almost nothing about what helped. Do not demand supernatural proof from a psychological tool or call ordinary progress proof of supernatural causation.
A seven-day experiment
Run a short comparison rather than relying on memory. For one week, use the grounded version of the practice: Change technique when the current one repeatedly creates friction, false beliefs, avoidance or no useful output. Keep the goal itself unchanged. Note what you actually do differently and whether the external process receives better inputs from you. If nothing useful changes, you have evidence that the technique may be optional for this goal even if you still enjoy it personally.
A two-minute audit
Use Should you change techniques if nothing happens? as a decision question: what is the technique supposed to change, and what evidence would show that change within ordinary life?
Then add: what I can influence next and what evidence will make me review the plan. This keeps the manifestation technique in proportion to the larger strategy.
Bottom line
You can hold spiritual meaning if you choose while still letting external evidence govern high-stakes decisions.
No journal, phrase, tense, mood, visual image or ritual deserves more authority than the evidence and values relevant to the actual goal.
A useful threshold for keeping or dropping the practice
Keep the practice behind Should you change techniques if nothing happens? when it creates a repeatable benefit you can name. A technique should have a job: clarify, regulate, rehearse, plan or support behaviour. If it is not doing that job, change or drop it. A benefit might be better preparation, less avoidance, a clearer criterion or a completed next step. “It made me feel certain for twenty minutes” is weaker evidence if uncertainty immediately sends you back to repeat the ritual.
Also keep the boundary visible: Do not keep a practice solely because someone claims stopping it will delay the universe. A technique that asks you to ignore that limit has stopped being a support tool and started competing with reality-based judgment.