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The subconscious responds deeply to strong emotions associated with a particular behavior, which explains why so many manifesting practices revolve around rituals, typically acts that are performed repeatedly in a precise manner. Ritual is one of the most potent ways of aligning our conscious and subconscious minds into focus, allowing us to enter

A clever way to balance this stress is to pair each major work project with a corresponding rest project. The idea is simple: after putting aside time on your calendar for a major work project, schedule in the days or weeks immediately following it time to pursue something leisurely and unrelated to your work.

A similar hole in the solar plexus appears in this Alaskan Inuit image of the body (figure 4.14) of a shaman, or tutelary deity. The idea is that, in religious life, the body is opened up, broken down, and transformed. In terms of Inuit mythology, if we maintain a respectful religious attitude toward our suffering as the price of transformation,

Their laughter seems to free up their compassion and liberate them from narcissistic worry about themselves.

“Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,”