Manifesting

After reading Dr. Joe Dispenza’s You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter, I ordered one of his earlier books. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: Losing Your Mind and Creating a New One promises to be equally good. The first chapter, The Quantum You, is one of the clearest explanations of quantum reality that I’ve ever read.

All potential possibilities of the life you want to live exist in the quantum field – what Abraham/Esther Hicks call the vortex. Think of it as a wave of potential. Our job is to collapse the wave of what we desire – health, wealth, happiness, a more satisfying job/career, a great relationship, friends, whatever it is – into a particle – i.e. manifest it in physical reality. But a particle can’t manifest in physical reality  until we observe it.

Quantum physics calls this phenomenon collapse of the wave function or the observer effect. Dispenza writes: “We now know that the moment the observer looks for an electron, there is a specific point in time and space when all probabilities of the electron collapse into a physical event. With this discovery, mind and matter can no longer be considered separate; they are intrinsically related, because subjective mind produces measurable changes on the objective, physical world.

“The thoughts we think send an electrical signal out into the field. The feelings we generate magnetically draw events back to us. Together, how we think and how we feel produces a state of being, which generates an electromagnetic signature that influences every atom in our world. This should prompt us to ask, What am I broadcasting (consciously or unconsciously) on a daily basis?”

The field of potential won’t respond in a consistent way when we think one thing and feel the opposite. If, for instance, you want to be healthy or wealthy and are thinking thoughts about health and wealth but feel unhealthy or poor, then your reality won’t change. However, “…when our thoughts and feelings are aligned, when we are in a new state of being, then we are sending a coherent signal on the airwaves of the invisible.”

Dispenza adds another piece that I don’t recall reading anywhere else before: that to change our reality, the outcomes we attract “have to surprise, even astonish, us in the way in which they come about.” We shouldn’t be able to predict the outcome because if we can do that, then it’s nothing new.  If you try to control how an outcome will unfold, then “you just went Newtonian. –  Newtonian physics was about trying to anticipate and predict events; it was all about cause and effect.” Instead, he says, change your internal environment – what you think and how you feel and see how your external environment shifts.

He shares a terrific story about an experience his 20-something daughter created. She was in college, it was spring and he asked her what she wanted to manifest during her summer break. Her desires were specific: to work in Italy, learn and experience new things, visit at least 6 Italian cities, and spend at least a week in Florence. She wanted to work for the first six weeks and then spend the rest of the summer at home.

“I asked her to create the vision in her mind until it was so clear and real that the thought she was thinking became the experience, and her brain’s synapses began to wire that information as if it was a reality.”

His daughter called a few weeks later and told Dispenza that her university was offering an art history summer course in Italy. She could get the cost of the program and all expenses down from $7,000 to nearly half that and asked if he could help pay for it. Dispenza felt she was trying to control the outcome of this particular experience “instead of allowing the quantum field to orchestrate events. He told her to really “inhabit” the trip to Italy until she got “lost” in the experience.

Several weeks later, she called again. She and her art history teacher had been in the library  and started speaking in Italian, which they both spoke fluently. The teacher said he suddenly remembered that one of his colleagues needed someone to teach Level I Italian to some American students who would be studying in Italy that summer.”

Dispenza’s daughter got the job, she would be in 6 different Italian cities for 6 weeks, with the last week in Florence, and would be home for the second half of the summer. In short, she got everything she had desired. “My daughter changed her state of being to the extent that she was causing an effect. She was living by the quantum law.”

Pretty cool. So, what do you desire?