Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

Remember that the experience of strong positive emotion is part of how the brain decides what is important, worth pursuing, and deserving of our attention. The more we pair a strong emotion sensuously experienced in the body with an image in the mind’s eye, the more salience the brain will give it and the more resources it will devote to noticing i

the difference had grown even larger. This increasing benefit is unusual: many other studies suggest that the mental health benefits of positive activities such as pleasurable hobbies decrease over time, while the opposite was true of the gratitude-writing study.

attachment to results is just another form of fear,

However, we have to remember that the high level of detail in our visualizations is for classifying our intention as important within the subconscious, not for actually exerting influence on our external world.

As counterintuitive as it sounds, part of the manifesting process is the necessity of letting go of our expectations. One of the pitfalls we can easily fall into when we are manifesting is to become overly attached to the outcome of our actions.

synchronicity, the sudden, often surprising appearance of meaningful coincidences in our lives that we did not notice before.

One extraordinary example is that the middle-range muscles in our ears come online, and these are the muscles that are designed to hear nuances in the human voice. As researchers into the polyvagal theory have discovered, the human voice sounds special to our ears only when we feel safe. When we are in fight, flight, or freeze, our ears focus only

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

When we practice visualizing our intention with full sensory detail, we strive to enter the flow state in our imagination.