Dr. Jim Doty

There's no reason to be anxious at all. It's just to find a place where you feel comfortable. And then I go through this breathing exercise of slowly breathing in for four to six seconds, holding it for four to six seconds, slowly letting it out through the mouth. And then that shifts me into the parasympathetic nervous system or strengthens where I'm already at.

And then I think of the joy and awe of being in this world. And I just sit with that for a minute or two. And that centers me for the day. And if I'm centered looking through that lens, then that actually creates the environment for me to manifest because I am in the right mindset. I'm calm. I'm thoughtful. I'm thinking about others. I'm not self-focused.

And the very nature of that allows me to manifest. Now, I was going to mention in the evening. All of us have goals, all of us have intentions, and you can prioritize them from ones that are mildly important, moderately important, incredibly important in the time frames, and then you focus on them.

And what I will do is I will again write them down, whatever the top three are, and then I'll go through the exact same exercise I mentioned, which is to write them down, to repeat it silently, to repeat it aloud, to see it happening, and over and over and over again.

All of those things strengthen the power and put you in the right mindset to have the greatest likelihood of you manifesting your intention. And the very nature of that puts you in the right mental state.

where you don't feel you have to hide yourself, where you don't feel that you have to put on a show for everybody about how successful you are, and where you're just feeling comfortable with who you are and accept yourself. And the hardest, hardest part for so many people is accepting themselves as they are, not be lost in how they want to be. or lost in what could have been.

And this is also a thing that distracts you from the energy you have to change things. Because if you spend 80% of your time on the past and the future that hasn't happened, lamenting, then you can never be present to actually make things happen. And this is the key. You have to be present. You have to be authentic. You have to understand your past. And you have to understand that

When you want something to manifest, yes, it is a future intention, but it's not something to get lost in. It's something simply to sit with instead of be pathologically focused on. As an example, I'm sure you've seen people who have sacrificed everything to get to the top of the mountain. Well, they've sacrificed everything to get to the top of the mountain to stand there by themselves.

What was the purpose of that? Our purpose in life is connection. It's not to so be focused that you don't have any connections and you're walking alone. It's to connect with people. I mean, many, many of the aspects of what we're talking about are the journey with others, not necessarily standing by yourself.

That is a Buddha. That's water? And that's a Buddha centered on the pool. So you see it as you walk in.

And it's a headless Buddha.

Because it reminds you to not get lost in your head.

Well, having complete lack of knowledge is actually a benefit oftentimes because you're not restrained by other people's opinions.

I think we already are.