Can Meditation Help You Manifest Your Desires?

Can Meditation Help You Manifest Your Desires? Ask anyone who believes in a collective human consciousness and the will answer yes. When we enter the alpha wave brain state, or even the lower theta brain pattern, we are more able to access our inner reserves and re-pattern our neurology.
Unconscious resistances bubble to the surface of our consciousness and the act of detached observation releases the emotional glue from our conditioned responses.

A practiced meditator can quickly enter the alpha state. Sometimes the alpha state is neurological anchored to a physical action so it can be achieved easily.

We all know that mental visual rehearsal achieves remarkable results with Olympians. Since Maxwell Maltz wrote Psych-cybernetics, visualization has revolutionized success coaching.

I think we all understand the method. Visualize your desired outcome, excite your mind, live out the outcome and let your brains internal cybernetic mechanism find the way for you.

For example, Australian psychologist Allen Richardson improved basket ball performance of athletes 24% by mental rehearsal alone, compared to 25% with actual practice. Also, Doctor Carl Simerton has effectively combined visualization with modern medicine to improve treatment of serious illness.

Many combine visualization and affirmations with incredible results.

Perhaps you have used the affirmation ‘Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.’ This was used by French Physician Emile Coue (1857-1926) who documented thousands of healings combining western medicine with affirmations.

Today success coaches Chant affirmations as mantra to whip up a reinforcing emotional conditioned response to form a physical trigger for change.

However, meditation works in reverse. In a meditative state an intention or affirmation is dispassionately released into the subconscious.

Is this comic alignment? Believers of prayer and meditation would answer yes.

In 1975 Dr. Herbert Benson, an associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, discovered that prayer could have remarkable physical effects. However, Dr Bensons research indicated that it worked whether you prayed to the Biblical G-d, Krsna, Allah or if you meditated as a Buddhist who does not believe in a creator G-d at all.

It was the act of prayer or meditation that counted and how the prayer was performed. After years of study he concluded that the relaxation response was responsible. This relaxed state is prolonged in meditation.
In modern times, Law of Attraction teachers use simpler methods to release resistances like Ho’oponopono, and EFT to break down energetic barriers.

Does detached awareness activate a cohesive left-right brain decision making process and release cognitive dissonance? Or does it do more than access our brains abilities?

If you believe ‘The Secret’ the same method can access the universal oneness guiding the universe. Nor would you be alone. The idea of collective consciousness is taught in India and in Jewish, Christian and Islamic mysticism. Einstein, Edison, Jung, Carnegie and Goethe suggested the mind can create ‘coincidences’.

Edison believed he accessed ideas already formed from ‘the air’, Schubert described his music as remembering a melody already written. It is as if they were remembering something already formed and scientists have noted similarities between the creative and memory processes.

Tantric practitioners also believe that sustained orgasm places you in a state of divine consciousness. Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga teacher, Jaiya practices releasing an intention such as world peace while in a state of sexual ecstasy.

The Hare Krisna movement promotes ecstatic chanting on any name of God to achieve Krsna consciousness. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada claimed miraculous events were recorded after the Hare Krsna chant was repeated at gatherings.

Is this truly verifiable?

Although, attempts to unify western and Eastern thought gained ground under Jung, he found that as his experiments were inconclusive. Research from Princeton and Stanford demonstrate intention can influence random number generators, dice and electronic equipment. The variations are significant, but I would not buy a lotto ticket on them.

Experimental proof that you can meditate a billion dollars remains allusive.

Nevertheless, many believe as astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944):

‘I believe that the mind has the power to affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior, and that even the course of the world is not predetermined by physical law, but may be altered by the uncaused volition of human beings’.

What is certain that removing our resistances and implanting a goal in our unconscious promotes achievement and the possibility of success. It may not be popular to say, but that is simple cognitive Psycholgy. This is easily achieved with mediation.

Perhaps then, we can agree with George Bernard Shaw:

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, You will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”