Transcript
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How does manifestation actually work and how are most people misunderstanding it?
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Your innermost dominant thought becomes your outermost tangible reality. So you automatically spontaneously think without having to be externally motivated, whatever it is that's highest on your value. Whenever you're doing something that is aligned and congruent with that highest value, the medial prefrontal cortex comes online and so you see a vision. I always say those with a mission have a vision and a message. Purpose+Thought+Vision is the first three steps of the manifestation formula. When you're doing something high in your values, your energy and mitochondria fire and burst tremendous amounts of energy. When you're alive doing what you love. And so your energy is infinite. Once you recognize that source, that's just neuroscience. So wasting time on anything that's a fantasy and not really highest in priority is going to lower your self worth and you're not going to see the synchronicities that are abounding around you.
A (0:54)
Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast. Today we're going to talk about manifestation, quantum physics and the science behind personal growth. We'll unpack the common misunderstandings around the law of Attraction, why chasing love oftentimes backfires, and how aligning with your core values supports you in more effortlessly stepping into your goals. We'll also explore how comparison, procrastination and anxiety hold you back, giving you practical tools that you can immediately use to have more clarity and confidence. Joining us is Dr. John Demartini who is a world renowned human behavior expert and bestselling authority with nearly five decades of experience. He's going to share with us how we can transcend not only our self doubt but also our perspective so that we live with more purpose and authenticity. Let's dive in. So I love that you are here. I wanted to get started because I know you were part of this secret and that movie just brought the law of attraction to millions of people. And I'm curious about your point of view around what actually are things that people misunderstand when talking about manifestation so that we can debunk some of it. So how does manifestation actually work and how are most people misunderstanding understanding it?
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I'm a kind of a grounded guy. I like to keep things, you know, not too far out. Although I've been studying, you know, metaphysics and philosophy for many decades. I like to crown things, but I had a gentleman present to me when I was 17, I'm 71 now, so I'm got an inverted number now. But When I was 17, I had a gentleman introduce to me what I call the manifestation formula. And he said that the first thing in the formula was getting really clear and concise on what you feel. Your mission or purpose is that you want to dedicate your energies and life to what your life demonstrates intrinsically. When you're inspired and authentic, what is it you absolutely love to do and to bring to the world. Now, that could be a talent, it could be a skill, it could be a business, it could be raising children. Each individual has a unique set of values. So whatever that is, that's the first step in the formula being clear about what it is that you're most intrinsically called to contribute. In my case, it's teaching. And then right underneath that is researching and writing. So I have something to do it. And the other is travel. Cause I travel every day. The second thing is your innermost dominant thought becomes your outermost tangible reality. So you automatically, spontaneously think without having to be externally motivated, whatever it is that's highest on your value, whatever is really most important to you. So I've been teaching for 53 years. Nobody ever had to remind me or motivate me externally to go and teach. I love presenting and sharing ideas. So the second step in the formula, besides being clear on what it is that you want to dedicate your energies to and what your life really is demonstrating, if you have to be motivated to remind you to do it, it's not it. It's an intrinsic calling. And then you will automatically think about it. You can't not think about it. It feels like it's impossible for you not to think about it because you feel it's your destiny. That those two right there, getting clear on those two, a very significant manifesting something. Because you're going to excel in whatever is valuable most. Because it's something that spontaneously emerges in your brain. And whenever you're doing something that is aligned and congruent with that highest value, the medial prefrontal cortex comes online. And it's connected to the visual associative area in the V5, V6 area in the occipital cortex. And so you see a vision. I always say, those with a mission have a vision and a message. I'm a man on a mission, so I have a vision and a message. And that vision becomes crystal clear to the degree that you're congruent with what you value most. So purpose plus thought plus vision is the first three steps of the manifestation formula. These are practical things. It's not really esoteric. It's very Practical, neurological, physiological levels of excellence that emerges spontaneously when you're congruent. I worked with a pole pola vaulter who was a three time gold medalist in pole vaulting and their focus was pole vaulting. They were masters of it, they just lived it, they dreamed it, they visualized it, they were just totally into it. The next one is so purpose plus thought plus vision. The next one is to be able to articulate it fluently and congruently. So if you were to be able to say what you're committed to, people can see it in their mind's eye when you say it. So you can articulate so fluently that it pours out with inspiration out of you when you speak. And people can feel that inspiration because there's now what I call the transcendental feelings of gratitude and love and inspiration and enthusiasm and certainty and presence when you speak. And you, you create a ripple effect in other people by the presence you have when you're speaking about what it is you're committed to. I had a meeting with a gentleman who was at three years old. He knew he wanted to be a great pianist and a concert pianist. By the time he was nine, he was traveling around the world doing concert performances as a virtuoso. And he's now 83 and he's been every major country in the world. He's performed, he practices 13 hours a day. He absolutely loves doing it. I met with another 91 year old who's a famous painter. His paintings are all over the world. He'd been painting since 3. He has been clear on his mission since 3. Most people don't develop that until older. Mine was 17, but he was 3. So purpose plus thought plus vision plus internal dialogue and internal affirmation. So you're clear and concise and articulate about what it is you're committed to. When you, if, if somebody has to ask you, what do you. What is your mission if you have to go, ah, let me think about it. It's not clear. When it's clear, it's clear, you know what you're committed to. Your life is demonstrating it. There's a congruency there. The next one, besides internal dialogue, or affirmation, if you want to call it of affirmation means a condition of firmness in one's mind. It's not positive statements, that's how New age people put it, but it's basically, it's a condition of firmness in one's mind. It goes back all the way to Egypt, into the words of power that the sacred initiations were initiated through. So being really clear about that and articulating that, the next one is when you're clear about it, you will have the transcendental feelings. You'll feel grateful, you'll love what you're doing, you'll be inspired. Peter lynch in his book, went up on Wall street, and in an interview I saw, he said there were four, six things that he noticed in people that were engaged in a very successful business. They're grateful for their job, they were loving what they were doing, they were inspired by the vision, they were enthusiastically working, they were certain about their skills, and they were present when they did it. Those are those magical feelings that allow somebody to excel in excellence. And that's a sign that you're congruent. Then the other thing is that when they have those feelings, we've all been inspired by a feeling somewhere in our life. A moment of tears, of aha and eureka. Moments where we had to write things down. And you want to write things out and lay them out and write them down. And where you're going to do it, when you're going to do it and see your thing and put it into, like a short pencil is better than a long memory. You're articulating it out or typing it out. And master plan. That's what I'm in a program right now doing. And I'm training executives on master planning right now to get really clear and concise. Even if it takes you an hour to write one paragraph of exactly how you want it and getting concise on it, writing things down in space and time translates intangible ideas into tangible reality. And the second you're clear about your plan and you can see the strategic objectives and. And how you're going to do it, you spontaneously want to act. If you have to be motivated in any way from an external source, you're not tapped into what's really the calling intrinsically. So I don't need to be motivated to go and teach every day. I'm doing it 53 years, every single day. I mean, literally 350 speeches a year, at least, sometimes 400 something. So you will automatically act spontaneously. There's spontaneous action potentials in the medial prefrontal cortex. When you're congruent that are there, they fire off. It's measurable. The functional MRIs show it. And when you act, your energy goes up. When you're doing something high in your values, your energy and mitochondria fire your little endosymbiotes, the Mitochondria literally fire off and burst tremendous amounts of energy. When you're congruent and alive doing what you love. And so your energy is infinite. Once you recognize that source, it's just congruency. And you realize the way the pulvinar nuclei and the thalamus is, it filters sensory information. And when you're living congruently with according to what you value, you have the most awareness consciously of your environment for the resources that are synchronously available to you. Most people that are going off and trying to do something that's not really priority, they can't see the synchronicities in their life. But people are congruent. Their life is filled with synchronicities. They're at the right place at the right time to meet the right people, to do the right deal, to make things happen. And you're also automatically your self worth goes up because you feel you're congruent and authentic doing what you really love to do. And your self worth is maximal. And you have the most gratitude because you're manifesting things. So those are the thirteen steps of manifestation. And it starts with an intangible idea and it becomes some sort of tangible reality. And your life reflects congruently what's really most important to you. So knowing what that is is the starting point. It's not wise to waste your time on anything that's not really priority. And if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, it's going to fill up with low priority distractions that don't to kick your butt to get you back onto what is priority and what is authentic, what is inspiring, so you can be a master manifester on the planet.