Science - Slow to Show What We Already Know
It has been quite a few years now, since the 'law of attraction or manifesting your desires' became a widespread phenomena.
Books like The Secret or The Power became international best sellers nearly overnight
People like Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey or even the currently jailed Kevin Trudeau have raved about the wonders it has done for them, their careers and even secret societies throughout history.
Words like meditate and manifest or energy and vibes became common language.
The claim was simple - we can and do create our realities. And simply by meditating or directing our energies towards our dreams and desires will manifest themselves into being.
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For many, the notion seemed too good to be true.
And those that believed in such a simple ideology were just pseudoscientists who'd never experienced the tragedies of the real world.
But it is now the tin-hats and hippies who can have the last laugh 😜
Because mainstream science seems to finally be catching up to what many seemed to already know.
Though the terminology used is dressed up in a white coat, the notions are the same.
Our brain is simply an interpreter, interpreting the stimuli we gather via the senses. Our reality manifests itself based on the input, the fuel we feed our survival-trained machine.
Just read up on Epigenetics or Biologist Bruce Lipton
or browse through psychology's take on the subject of training the brain.
There is also a relatively new video - amongst many others - on TED which describes some of the research done by a plethora of scientists describing the ease in which we can manipulate the inner machine.
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So take baby steps -
Meditate, read Eckhart Tolle or simply look at yourself in the mirror everyday tell yourself you can.
Because you can.
Lets put our brains together and lets manifest the BEST steemit universe for all 👯
Happy days, Sweet Steemers
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If what you desire is physical, as opposed to psychological, then no, you can't just will it into reality. And moulding our (and other's) psychology isn't a particularly monumental assertion.
You are right that we cannot magically will a Lamborgini into our driveway one Sunday afternoon, but I think the idea here is that research shows that our psychology affects how we see the physical world. If you watch the links Anil explains our brain as a predicting device. What you perceive is not reality: it's your perception. That is, our brain does not see light and feel cold. It understands only electrochemical signals and from that it builds a prediction of reality. Now this prediction can be a distortion of reality that hinders you from achieving a physical desire. Molding our (and other's) psychology is, in my opinion, a very monumental assertion. Changing your mindset can change your life in a monumental way - also physically - and this is what materialist neuroscience and epigenetics is proclaiming.
It's not a monumental assertion. It's a well known phenomenon. It would be like saying that me asserting that "water is wet" is monumental.
You right, I did not catch your use of the word assertion. English is not my first language. I also must say that I do not completely agree with the original post. There is a difference between believing your thoughts can get you what you want and that your thought can hinder you from getting what you want. Despite this, I do believe the assertion Anil Seth makes in his TED talk is not limited to "us molding our (and other's) psychology". It extends to claim that reality is an illusion created by our brains and therefore a hallucination. Reality as we understand it is our perception and our brain therefore literally molds it. This I find is, despite not a particularly new claim, a pretty monumental assertion! If it's true, on the scale of monumentality its right up there next to the Copernicus revolution in terms of how we define our relationship to nature and the universe.
Maybe I'm just a nerd with too much time on his hands, but this isn't particularly ground-breaking either. ;) They've been hypothesising about this sort of thing for thousands of years. If I'm not mistaken the philosophy of Idealism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_idealism) is essentially what he is talking about. I didn't watch the whole video, so I could be mistaken.
Could it be that it is not a monumental assertion to you because you already follow these principles or other similar guidelines?
I think that the fact that these claims are hitting 'mainstream' backed by science is monumental. It is monumental for some, to break through some of the beliefs that hold them back from achieving their goals or desires - both physically and psychologically. Not only that, understanding that the brain is the sum of its parts/inputs and being able to systematically understand this opens the door to more holistic approaches to mental sickness and disease - and that for me will always be a monumental feat.
I can see on your blog that you are an activist? What would you consider to be a monumental assertion from your perspective, if you should make one?
Everything I say is monumental.. :p
I am (well, was) a scientist, so I'm a bit defensive when it comes to claims about science. I accept that it may be a novel concept for some, but to claim that this is new to science isn't correct. Clinical psychology, psychotherapy, CBT etc have been around for over a hundred years.
Epigenetics is an interesting modern extension of genetics but you have to be careful making direct claims that thinking a certain way will necessarily trigger an epigenetic switch. It's certainly possible I'd guess, as 'thinking' is nothing more than a biochemical process in the body, and as such could be part of an environmental trigger. Isolating such a thing, though, would be incredibly difficult, I'd imagine.
I appreciate your opinion and thanks for the comment :) There are many however that may disagree with you. Take a look at the links to epigenetics and the psychology link :)
Steemit will become amazing :) I am going to try this, hope it works.
every belief and thoughtform is like ink in the mirror of physical reality. by defining that you can't manifest, guess what - you can't manifest ;)
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