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Speaker 2: Back with doctor James Dotie will take calls with him
Speaker 2: next hour here on Coast to Coast as we talk
Speaker 2: about mind magic, the neuroscience of manifestation and how it
Speaker 2: changes everything. James give us an example of manifesting.
Speaker 3: Well, let me preface it by making a statement that
Speaker 3: traditional ways of manifesting, typically that's promoted or promoted from
Speaker 3: books like The Secret as an example, we're all self focused.
Speaker 3: I want to be a millionaire, I want a mansion,
Speaker 3: I want a car. And what happened to so many
Speaker 3: people who in fact manifested some of these things is
Speaker 3: they realized when everything was focused on them, it did
Speaker 3: not create happiness or at least any type of sustained happiness.
Speaker 3: And also when you're self focused, oftentimes this in and
Speaker 3: of itself activates the sympathetic nervous system, which actually decreases
Speaker 3: the efficiency or shuts down certain cognitive brain networks. So
Speaker 3: it limits your ability also to manifest maximally. And so
Speaker 3: when you're in a calm state or engage your pair
Speaker 3: sympathetic nervous system. That actually is when you're able to
Speaker 3: manifest its best because your cognitive brain networks function at
Speaker 3: their best and as a result, you're more efficiently able
Speaker 3: to if you will file your intention into your subconscious
Speaker 3: and have the bloodhound of your subconscious work day and
Speaker 3: night to manifest and this then results in the reality
Speaker 3: that what the subconscious seeks, the conscious finds.
Speaker 2: Now finds it. How do you know you've accomplished it?
Speaker 3: Well, of course there's different techniques to embed that into
Speaker 3: your intention are inter subconscious. But what you have to
Speaker 3: do is you have to use all of your sensory organs,
Speaker 3: if you will, as an example, you write it down,
Speaker 3: you read it silently, you read it aloud, you visualizing
Speaker 3: you in that position. And what happens is the more
Speaker 3: this repetition occurs, the more neural circuitry gets a stimulated.
Speaker 3: And this is why there's this saying that what fires
Speaker 3: together wires together.
Speaker 2: How much of manifestation James is related to the brain
Speaker 2: or is outside of the brain.
Speaker 3: Well, this is what I try to emphasize in the book. Now,
Speaker 3: if you're talking about looking to the universe, I think
Speaker 3: I commented on that, but really this is all occurring
Speaker 3: in the brain because so many people have limited beliefs,
Speaker 3: and as you know, once you say it is not possible,
Speaker 3: I cannot, I am not worthy, then by definition you
Speaker 3: have answered the question. So one of the things you
Speaker 3: also have to do is to stop being hypercritical and
Speaker 3: give yourself also positive affirmations, because again, being hypercritical of
Speaker 3: yourself stimulates your sympathetic nervous system. The way we evolve
Speaker 3: as humans, though, is really to live with our parasympathetic
Speaker 3: system engaged, which allows not only our brain function to
Speaker 3: maximize it, but also our physiology. And in fact, if
Speaker 3: you are able to focus through positive thoughts and efforts
Speaker 3: and looking at the world through the lens of being
Speaker 3: of service, generosity, kindness, this is how we were designed
Speaker 3: and this is when our brain networks function at their best.
Speaker 2: Why can some people manifest and it works, other people
Speaker 2: try and it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Well, there are a couple answers to that question. One
Speaker 3: is what a lot of people don't appreciate is and
Speaker 3: I even mentioned this earlier in my own experience. Our
Speaker 3: childhood often results in many people carrying baggage of those
Speaker 3: that childhood, and if the baggage is negative and people
Speaker 3: keep repeating it because they haven't paused to understand what
Speaker 3: they have been manifesting and actually how they've been doing
Speaker 3: it wrong. As an example, I'm sure you've met people
Speaker 3: who will sit there and they'll say, geez, I don't
Speaker 3: understand it. My third marriage here, and I keep picking
Speaker 3: an alcoholic and an abuser, and it's oftentimes due to
Speaker 3: that trauma. So the first thing is you have to
Speaker 3: understand what you're manifesting today and gain insight into that
Speaker 3: and understand the baggage that is motivating those behaviors. But
Speaker 3: also you have to clarify what your intention is. And
Speaker 3: as I said earlier and this happened to me, is
Speaker 3: I made my list of what I intended to manifest
Speaker 3: and it was all about me. And this is the
Speaker 3: difference between what we call hedonic happiness or hedonism or
Speaker 3: seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and this results in a
Speaker 3: very shallow, short lived happiness, while if you focus what
Speaker 3: you intend to be of service to others, this activates
Speaker 3: the cast how do the brain networks, and results in
Speaker 3: what we call udamannic happiness or purpose and meaning, and
Speaker 3: this is long lasting sustained happiness. And while all of
Speaker 3: us are trying to manifest, oftentimes it's incorrect or leads
Speaker 3: us to the point to realize that what we thought
Speaker 3: we wanted isn't really what we need and doesn't make
Speaker 3: us happy. So you also have to reflect on that
Speaker 3: aspect of it. What will make you happy and what
Speaker 3: will happen to many people is when they change the
Speaker 3: narrative from being self focused. And here's the difference in
Speaker 3: thinking I want to be a millionaire versus I want
Speaker 3: to live a life where I can support my family
Speaker 3: and be supportive of others to make their lives better.
Speaker 3: It's a completely different narrative and it actually activates your
Speaker 3: brain networks maximally. But manifestation number one takes work and two,
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean it's one hundred percent, and it does.
Speaker 3: It also mean that it works on a specific timeline.
Speaker 3: I have some projects that if you will, I have
Speaker 3: been manifesting for well over a decade, but I believe
Speaker 3: that they ultimately will. But I don't control the time clock,
Speaker 3: and this is one of the problems. Also is that
Speaker 3: so many people have attachment, and with attachment or craving,
Speaker 3: this results in suffering for so many people, So you
Speaker 3: also have to not be attached to the outcome. And
Speaker 3: oftentimes the greatest reward for people is actually to recognize
Speaker 3: that they are on a journey, and often with others,
Speaker 3: and oftentimes this is the greatest part of the goal setting.
Speaker 3: It's not always just obtaining the goal. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: you know many examples where people climb the mountain and
Speaker 3: there at the top of the mountain, but they're by themselves.
Speaker 3: They left carnage of disrupted or families or divorces or
Speaker 3: unhappy people in their way. So what was the purpose
Speaker 3: of that journey?
Speaker 2: I've always said, James, always all my life, and I've
Speaker 2: used this example, just like you've pointed out that if
Speaker 2: you get to the mountaintop alone, it's not fun.
Speaker 3: Exactly. And you know, I look at my own situation,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, I grew up in poverty. Here not
Speaker 3: only was I able to go to college, to medical school,
Speaker 3: become a neurosurgeon, become a professor, become a successful entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: And I was and here I had a mansion a
Speaker 3: Newport Beach, I had a multiple car Ferrari's porsches. I
Speaker 3: had a pithouse in San France, Cisco. I had a
Speaker 3: villa in Florence. I was buying an island, a sixty
Speaker 3: five hundred acre island in New Zealand. I was dating
Speaker 3: beautiful women and all my friends would tell me how
Speaker 3: great my life was. And I was never more unhappy
Speaker 3: at that time. Really, I wasn't ever worth no I.
Speaker 2: Was Why were you unhappy?
Speaker 3: Because it was all about me. Everything I focused on
Speaker 3: was about me. And when I got to the top
Speaker 3: of the mountain, yes I got external affirmation, but it
Speaker 3: didn't change how I felt about myself, the shame, the insecurity,
Speaker 3: the anxiety, because only you can give yourself happiness. If
Speaker 3: you seek happiness outside of yourself, you're going to be very,
Speaker 3: very unhappy. As we've talked about you, you only can
Speaker 3: give yourself happiness, and that actually is through mind training
Speaker 3: and being not self critical. So many people are hyper
Speaker 3: critical of themselves, and that's how we evolved, unfortunately, what
Speaker 3: we call negativity bias, because as we evolved the course,
Speaker 3: the environment was very harsh, so things that were negative
Speaker 3: stuck to us or things that caused fear, and unfortunately,
Speaker 3: oftentimes that ends up resulting in being hypercritical of yourself.
Speaker 3: And if you're hypercritical of yourself, you're never going to
Speaker 3: be happy. So you have to be able to change
Speaker 3: the dialogue from one of negativity to one of positivity.
Speaker 3: As I said earlier, statements such I am such as
Speaker 3: I am worthy, I deserve love, I deserve to be happy.
Speaker 3: Those things change the lens through which you see the world.
Speaker 3: And I would suggest to you that when you change
Speaker 3: that lens and become less hypercritical of yourself, you understand
Speaker 3: that others are suffering, that we are all part of
Speaker 3: a whole, and that when you are of service to
Speaker 3: others and place your focus there, one, your needs change. Two.
Speaker 3: Many of the things that you may have looked at
Speaker 3: from a hedonic point of view you may get, but
Speaker 3: fundamentally the thing that makes you happy and whole and
Speaker 3: gets rid of that emptiness. So many of us feal
Speaker 3: is to care for others. And there's a whole lot
Speaker 3: of research such as the Blue Zones, which many people
Speaker 3: are familiar with, or the workout of Harvard, this eighty
Speaker 3: five year long study that often people call the Happiness
Speaker 3: longevity study. When you activate the parasympathetic nervous system, where
Speaker 3: if you live there, you live longer, Your physiology works
Speaker 3: its best. You often have the release of hormones or
Speaker 3: neurotransmitters such as oxytocin or the love or ailiation hormone,
Speaker 3: and these things make you feel better about yourself about others,
Speaker 3: and they also result in you having your own self
Speaker 3: agency and empower yourself when you're in this state.
Speaker 2: Do some people manifest better than others?
Speaker 3: Well, that is true, and just like in life, there
Speaker 3: are people who have natural attributes and as a result,
Speaker 3: may But the other reality is it's like training for
Speaker 3: a marathon. You don't start out day one running twenty
Speaker 3: six miles. So you have to educate yourself or be
Speaker 3: educated about the processes that are necessary to maximize your
Speaker 3: ability to manifest. And one of these is also not
Speaker 3: putting too much pressure on yourself. I mentioned you don't
Speaker 3: go out day one and so I'm going to wake
Speaker 3: up at six and run five miles, And I have
Speaker 3: a tendency to think that way, like I'm going to
Speaker 3: get out that I'm going to really push it. But
Speaker 3: the most important thing is what we call tiny habits
Speaker 3: or baby steps. And once you repeat and again I
Speaker 3: talked about this repetition when you do an action which
Speaker 3: you repeat over and over. It starts to create neuropathways.
Speaker 3: So when you're able to get into the mood if
Speaker 3: you will by relaxing by breathing, which is outlined in
Speaker 3: the six week program in the book, this shifts you
Speaker 3: from this fear state which so many people have in
Speaker 3: modern society, this chronic low level activation of their sympathetic
Speaker 3: nervous system. It shifts you over into your parasympathetic nervous system,
Speaker 3: where you're open, you're thoughtful, you're connected, and all of
Speaker 3: your brain networks work at their best, and your physiology
Speaker 3: is working at its best.
Speaker 2: Could you say, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
Speaker 2: manifesting done properly is an amazing tool.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. The problem is people don't understand the power that
Speaker 3: they have. And in some ways, what this book teaches
Speaker 3: you is how powerful your mind is. When you're able
Speaker 3: to overcome the beliefs that limit you, then you unleash
Speaker 3: this amazing power. And you'll see people who have done this.
Speaker 3: And it may not necessarily be specifically about manifesting a
Speaker 3: thing if you will, but you look at some athletes
Speaker 3: or wim Hoff, the fellow who runs in shorts, everest
Speaker 3: or water exactly, or to bet monks who can control
Speaker 3: their body temperatures well and their heart rate. And even
Speaker 3: from my own practice, I have been able to change
Speaker 3: my heart rate twenty or thirty bats a minute just
Speaker 3: through relaxation techniques and mind training. And this is analogous
Speaker 3: to so many other aspects when you embed an intention,
Speaker 3: because this is one of the hardest things. We have
Speaker 3: ten million bits of information coming to us through our
Speaker 3: century organs of which the vast, vast majority are associated
Speaker 3: with maintaining what we call homo homeostasis of our systems.
Speaker 3: But we are able on a conscious level to deal
Speaker 3: with about fifty tow one hundred bits of information. But
Speaker 3: it's done correctly through the practices outline and through repetition
Speaker 3: and using the techniques I had mentioned earlier. What happens
Speaker 3: is the brain has limited capacity on a sub conscious level,
Speaker 3: and therefore it's selective. Once you're able to embed that,
Speaker 3: that activates certain brain networks. One of those is called
Speaker 3: the default mode network, and this is associated with mind
Speaker 3: wondering or dreaming, and it's very self referential and it
Speaker 3: also defines what we want. And once that system then
Speaker 3: connects to what we call the salient system. What is salient,
Speaker 3: what is attractive to the unconscious. Then it focuses our
Speaker 3: attention through the attention network. Once that system is activated
Speaker 3: when you are in your parasympathetic mode. This part of
Speaker 3: our brain or network is called the executive control network,
Speaker 3: and that's in the frontal areas, and that is then
Speaker 3: what creates what is in your subconscious To bring it
Speaker 3: into
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