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Recent findings in neuroscience has taken a quantum leap in understanding how the brain works. It is now certain that we are making new brain cells and neural connections in every minute which is very much in line to the thought vibrations approach discussed in the area of the Law of Attraction.

Before the introduction of real time brain scans, it was believed that a process of cell division creates brain cells, called neurogenesis, which begins to slow down in early life and stops when we reach adolescence. The result, according to scientists,  is that as we get older we simply base or behaviours on the way we were taught to think in early childhood to the point that our brains become hardwired based on early life sense impressions.

However, the discovery of neuroplasticity changes all this thinking to a much more hopeful view of life. We are creating new brain cells and creating new neural connections all the time. So this goes beyond the findings of neurogenesis that says we stop brain cell production in our teens and that we actually create brain cells and neural connections all the time.

No matter what your age, your brain is perfectly capable of creating new neural pathways which means that every time you have a new thought or experience, your brain is making new neural connections. It would seem that the neural connections form stronger pathways when you have bursts of inspiration. Inspiration is usually a thought mixed with an emotion which is the basis of how the Law of Attraction can be used to create new results and new experiences faster.

If you want to find out more about this fascinating subject, John Assaraf has written about this in his latest book The Anwser which cover aspects in neuro science, Law of Attraction and how to apply this information in building a business.

We can set intentions and some of these come to fruition while others just fizzle out.

Why is that?

My research and experience around this shows that intentions need enough emotional charge to keep them alive and more importantly enough charge so that the intentions become a reality.

The emotional charge part can be referred to feeling a sense of excitement, enthusiasm or a strong knowing. The emotional charge of the intention is the important part that touches the quantum field in order for the manifestation to kick in.

When I coach a client on a specific goal or intention I will ask the client the following and important question:

“On a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 is the highest, how would you rate your feeling on the goal”?

Most people have a good idea of how they feel about a goal they are going for. If the answer is “I feel it is a 4″, then they have to change the focus or structure of the goal or perhaps the goal is not what they really want. If the goal is rated say at 8 then it is likely to be a goal the client wants however we need to do some work to get it up to a 10.

The secret around great goal setting is to design a goal or intention that has a 10 intensity. The difference between a rating of 9 and 10 is the difference of an earth quake rated 7 on the Richter scale where 7 is at least 10 times more powerful than a 6.

What this means is that if your intention has an intensity of 10 then you have a high possibility of making that goal happen much faster than a goal set at say an 8.

You may ask “how do I know I have a goal set high on the intensity scale?”.

The answer is how you feel about the goal and then put a number around the feeling. The mind needs a way to measure and quantify and this is a very good start to getting clear of intentions worth working on.

For further clarification on the intention and emotional intensity test or if you have any feedback, please let me know.

When you set a goal or intention, a good strategy is to have an expectant attitude about the thing or circumstance you want to bring into reality.

If after setting a goal you say to yourself “It would be nice for this to happen and I hope it will” implies is a kind of wishful attitude and this could actually block your path to making your goal a reality. Better still is an attitude of “I will make this happen and as I affirm this I feel it already happening for me”. In other words have the attitude of both mental and emotional expectation.

In quantum physics, scientists say that the intelligent quantum field of energy responds to emotion. The stronger the emotion behind the intention the easier will be the delivery of your intention in the physical world.

Yes, there are going to be obstacles that may prevent you from achieving this. Many of the excuses I have observed come from the mind and all the limited beliefs and statements it throws at you. Also feelings of unworthiness kick in and you start sabotaging the whole process. These have to be acknowledged, welcomed and released and there are plenty techniques to let go of non supporting beliefs.

So in spite of all this, expect that the goal will happen no matter what shows up on your path. See all set backs with the attitude “it´s all good” because you may need the setbacks to make you stronger in the process. Look upon it as a kind of maturing your character.

When I set a goal I work with the power of gratitude and often say to myself “Thank you that this goal is happening for me and thank you that I have the ability to make this goal my reality”. I install a sense of expectancy within myself.

The manifestation process requires this attitude of expectancy. If you don´t have it, struggle ensues and you end up giving up on your goal or dream.

All great achievers have this expectancy attitude within themselves and plough on through their limitations knowing there goal will happen.

There is now scientific proof that there is a brain in the heart or the heart has an intelligence all of its own. The affect is that the state of the heart´s intelligence affects how we live our lives, our health and the state of the environment.

When you say “I know it in my heart” you are actually tuning into the heart´s own intelligence. The heart is not just a pump beating at an amazing 40 million beats a year, it is also a self contained area of great intelligence and power.

For this reason making heartfelt commitments on creating the life you want is engaging the power of the heart to bring this reality to you much faster than an intention coming from the head only. Really understanding this has powerful ramifications in personal and business lives.

Negative emotions lead to increased disorder in the heart´s rhythms and your body´s nervous systems which leads to stress. Improving the health of the heart improves your perceptions, which reduces stress and helps you to deal with difficult situations.

Techniques like meditation and cultivating love and compassion will only help to improve heart beat rhythms and improve your overall well being.

To find out more of this fascinating research check out the HeartMath Institute web site below. Here is a short summary of the Institute´s findings on Heart Intelligence:

“The answers to many of our original questions now provide a scientific basis to explain how and why the heart affects mental clarity, creativity, emotional balance and personal effectiveness. Our research and that of others indicate that the heart is far more than a simple pump. The heart is, in fact, a highly complex, self-organized information processing center with its own functional “brain” that communicates with and influences the cranial brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways. These influences profoundly affect brain function and most of the body’s major organs, and ultimately determine the quality of life”.

If you are interested here is the link to the HeartMath web site.

I have read alot of books on wealth including the excellent book by Napoleon Hill: Think and Grow Rich

There is no doubt that thinking wealth and abundance is the first step towards riches showing up in your life. However, the underlying power is to feel your way towards abundance and wealth. By feeling abundant you attract abundance because attraction works off the emotional energy you put out there. In other words, when the intellect (thinking) is in sync with the heart (feeling) you have a powerful formula for attracting whatever you want.

If you think “I want $1 million” and feel “I can´t have this” the feeling energy will ALWAYS win out over the thinking. The right feeling has to be there for things to really happen for you.

So when you imagine yourself wealthy, inject alot of emotional feeling into that image. The emotional feelings are about excitement, gratitude, joy and so forth. In fact I would suggest that you spend more time accessing your emotional side than visualising as this is the bridge to the Quantum Field that triggers the sub atomic particles to become part of your experience in whatever you are observing or placing you attention on.

Remember a time in the past when you felt really abundant – bring that into your visualising. Use past powerful events or memories to trigger emotions to bring into your life new forms of wealth and abundance.

Becoming rich or wealthy is not so much about the attainment of money but more the feeling it will give you when you have the money – focus on that for a while. For me it is a feeling of creativity, peace, ease and new possibilities.

Thinking and feeling abundant is a great start. This has to be then matched with actions because actions have the habit of raising the vibration even more. Feel and grow rich is part of what I term the success triangle: thinking, emotions and actions.