“Behavior (B) happens when motivation (M), ability (A), and a prompt (P) come together at the same moment.”

As we go about our lives, many of us feel ourselves to be the victims of forces outside of ourselves, or even forces within ourselves that we can’t control, tame, or regulate. Our reactions to these forces feel automatic, and we watch helplessly as they seem to steal our inner power away from us. In the moment, these forces feel overpowering and

disruptions in their activity have been implicated in a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, Alzheimer’s

All of the things we want, or have been taught to want, flood in. It turns out our wants are not as clear as we may have thought. As we attempt to sort through the endless images offered up by our desires, we realize they come from many sources: what our culture values, what our family considers worthwhile, what our friends or social circles prize,

Philosophers, spiritual teachers, and scientists have identified two forms of well-being: hedonic and eudaimonic. Hedonic well-being, what we often call “happiness,” is transitory and characterized by attaining pleasure and avoiding pain, whereas eudaimonic well-being focuses more on meaning, realizing one’s potential, and contributing to one’s

the systems by which it is possible to install our intention in our subconscious,

Manifesting is essentially the process of intentionally embedding the thoughts and images of the life we desire into our subconscious. We are all manifesting intentions in an untrained and uninformed way already, and the results are often haphazard, vague, and unfocused. To manifest consciously, we must learn how to reclaim and direct the power of

This is the reason the cortex is instrumental in manifesting: it has the power to focus our fifty bits of attention where we choose.

experiences of elevated positive emotion, whether imagined or recalled, teach the subconscious to pay attention. The release of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin get the brain’s attention, and the subconscious is then primed to seek out similar experiences in reality and pursue them with resilience.