The Neuroscience of Manifestation (James Doty, M.D.)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Elise Loehnen

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jim Doty is a neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and the director of Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education. Jim is also a bestselling author—his first book, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, tells his improbable life story: Jim had a tough start in life. He wandered into a magic shop where he met the shop owner’s mother, Ruth, who offered to spend six weeks teaching him mindfulness and meditation—these weren’t really things at the time—and ultimately how to manifest. After a rollercoaster of a life, including manifesting the list of things he wanted as a tween, he found himself back at the bottom again, and began to attend to making real meaning with his life. This ushered in his last chapter, where he has become much more than a neurosurgeon: He is one of the leading figures in the globe drawing connections between the brain, compassion and care, and how love shows up in the world. We caught up when Jim was in Riyadh, in the middle of the night for him—thank you Jim!—launching a new AI-enabled mental health app called Happi.ai, which isn’t therapy but is a friend in your pocket. Our conversation begins there before we dive into his newest book, Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How it Changes Everything. If you think of Manifestation as woo-woo, Jim explains why it’s actually not—and the underlying brain mechanisms that are activated when you focus attention and intention. MORE FROM JAMES DOTY, M.D.: Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How it Changes Everything Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart Jim’s App: Happi.ai Jim’s Website To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Elise Lunan host of Pulling the Thread. Today I'm joined by Dr. Jim Doty, neurosurgeon,
0:06.9	director of the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, and best-selling author.
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1:11.9	Search for Adobe Express to find out more and get started today. Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. Pulling the thread is about big questions, why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical context, the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other
1:16.9	better, and what's required to heal ourselves and our world.
1:21.0	I'll be joined in conversation by luminaries and wise elders, those who have laid tracks in
1:25.8	their work and lives to help us bring meaning
1:27.8	and understanding to a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming. My hope is that these
1:33.5	conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively
1:39.6	learn and grow. And what saved me was walking into this magic shop one time and meeting this woman,
1:49.0	Ruth, who was there, who was this radiant individual.
1:53.0	And after we spoke for a period of time, she said to me, I like you very much.
1:58.0	I'm here for another six weeks and if you show up every day, I think I
2:01.6	could teach you something that could help you. Now, I was 12 years old and frankly, I had no
2:07.4	self-awareness or insight whatsoever. But what I did have was this sense that she cared.
2:15.2	And as I said, she created this environment of psychological safety where I felt
2:19.6	comfortable. I felt I could trust her. And as a result, and this was before the concept of
2:25.7	mindfulness or mind training was used at all or the concept of neuroplasticity, she taught me a technique
2:33.2	of mindfulness.
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