The Science Of Manifestation: Can This Stanford Neuroscientist Convince A Skeptical Dan To Give It A Shot? | Dr. James R. Doty

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is James R. Doty, a neurosurgeon who has just written a whole book about the science of manifestation – although, as you’ll hear him admit, there’s very little ‘magic’ involved in his process.

James R. Doty, M.D. is a Stanford neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, compassion researcher, inventor, entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He’s the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University.

In this episode we talk about:

Doty’s six steps to manifest
His very interesting backstory
The art and science of intention setting and the role of our neural pathways.
How caring can ignite our Parasympathetic nervous system, which in turn can help us manifest better
Practical tips for embedding an intention into our subconscious.
The keys to understanding what we want vs. what we need
And how to ‘alert the bloodhound’ to harness the full power of your mind

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now.
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0:08.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing
0:29.4	how we doing people who have listened to this show for a minute probably know that I have a long running
0:33.8	beef with the concept of manifestation.
0:38.1	I associate it with the power of positive thinking, the law of attraction, or that book The Secret from the 2000s. of your own
0:55.0	cancer, whatever, all of which is very clearly bullshit.
0:59.0	Back when I was a news reporter, I interviewed some of the proponents of this hogwash and many of their
1:04.7	followers who had spent tons of money trying to make this stuff real for
1:08.7	themselves and usually from what I saw it didn't work out so well for people although it did
1:13.7	usually work out quite well for the gurus themselves.
1:16.1	Anyways you can hear I've got a bad attitude about manifestation however my
1:20.3	friends Jeff Warren and 7 A Sali, both meditation teachers who I deeply trust and admire,
1:26.6	have long tried to convince me that there's a more subtle and legitimate version of manifestation.
1:33.0	Thus far, they have worked on me with minimal success.
1:37.0	Which brings me to today's guest, James Doty,
1:40.0	who's a neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist
1:42.0	who has just written a whole book about the science of manifestation.
1:45.8	And I have to tell you, he definitely opened my mind a little bit, but I also have to tell you
1:50.1	his version of manifestation bears almost no resemblance to the secret or the
1:54.7	power of positive thinking or stuff like that. Dr. Doty has a new book it's called
1:59.2	Mind Magic although as you will hear him admit there's very little magic involved in this process
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