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THE FORMULA: Activate numerous brain regions (energy/frequency being emitted) + form more neural connections (new reality forming) + rewire previous neural connections (old reality) =  MANIFEST! ✨

I’m so happy that many of you are interested in how to use Neuroscience to manifest! I am eager to share with you how to take your manifestations to the next level  Few people know this information, which is a huge problem because as an individual, you possess so much power and no one knows how to effectively use it. 
I have written this step by step guide to manifesting a life of luxury. If you are doubtful, I encourage you all to try this for 30 days, and see the difference in your life. I am 100% confident this will work for you.

Give it a try. After all,what do you have to lose?  

The first thing I want to ensure you all understand is that depending on what you are manifesting, the approach will be different.  The nervous system is extremely complex. With that being said, I made this guide to focus more on living a luxurious life because manifesting luxury is one of the easiest things to manifest. So is money, but that’s a topic for another day.

1. Define Luxury. [motor neurons, dorsal parietal cortex, frontal + temporal lobe, feedback loop]

Begin by writing out what luxury means to you! Is it lots of wealth? Shopping trips each weekend? Being spoiled? Self care? Lots of fun and new adventures? Write. It. Out.  Be sure to write this in present tense. Example: “I love my luxurious life! I shop every single weekend, and eat at the most exquisite restaurants everyday!”.

Script EVERY single day during these 30 days. Do not skip! Your mind has thousands of thoughts a day, some that still contain limiting beliefs (that you may not be aware of!). If you are not actively rewiring your brain each day for luxury, you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. If you do this now, in the future, your brain will automatically project luxury because it has been wired to. 

Neuroscience behind it: Scripting is more effective than just speaking affirmations because you are not only writing them, you are simultaneously reading.
Writing = giving. Reading = receiving. By scripting you have unknowingly created a neural feedback loop! This is the beginning of the formation of your new reality. 
Avoid writing the same phrases every single day, otherwise habituation may occur (very common with verbal affirmations). Habituation will lead to less neural firing. This is why reciting the same 10 affirmations each day, everyday eventually stops working. Switch it up! 

2. Emotional Visualization. [visual association cortex/VAC, limbic system, hippocampus]

Now, associate emotions with luxury. What emotions do you feel when you thinkof luxury? What emotions do you feel when you experienceluxury?Comfort? Bliss? Relaxation? Security? Pride? Choose at least 3 emotions if possible.

Next, visualize a scene with these emotions. This scene should be short, less than 10 seconds. It can be something as simple as you purchasing a designer bag! Just be sure to be feelingthe emotions fully. There is no point in absentmindedly visualizing with no emotion. The goal is to trick your brain into believe it is really occurring. 

Neuroscience behind it: If you manage to evoke a strong enough emotion, it has the potential to become a memory in the hippocampus. Create a memory of luxury in your brain, so it can be retrieved and projected by your subconscious at any time. 

Visualize every night as you are falling asleep. This is the best time to visualize! Most coaches will tell you to enter Theta state to manifest– which is true. However, I want you to aim to enter DELTA. This will take some practice, but will really help your manifestations.   

If you struggle with experiencing emotions while visualizing, a trick I like to do is think of something that makes me happy, then when I feel that happiness, I switch to the scene I am visualizing and carry the emotion over  

3. Self Care [afferent neurons, limbic system, frontal lobe]

Aim to always live in a wish fulfilled state. The easiest way to do this when manifesting luxury is devoting yourself to self care. Some examples include:

- Waking up 15 minutes early to meditate/do yoga in the morning
- Enjoying hot tea and journaling 
- Getting a facial
- Taking a bubble bath
- Getting a massage
- Protecting your energy/setting up boundaries (less negative interactions = more positive emotions)

Neuroscience behind it: By activating your afferent neurons (“sensory” neurons), the signal will automatically travel throughout your nervous system, and activate the limbic system (emotional network). The positive sensations you are experiencing will lead to positive emotions in the limbic system. This system is also related to the manifestation of behavior. This is why when those are experiencing altered realities (through use of psychedelic drugs, schizophrenia) the limbic system is heavily involved. Therefore, if you give yourself these luxurious experiences, your brain will have no choice but to spit out luxurious EMOTIONS, luxurious BEHAVIOR, luxurious REALITIES. Is it all starting to come together now?

If this is a confusing concept, let me share a real-life, medical example with you all: I encountered a patient last month who had Pica due to anemia. She was craving soil/clay and had started eating it. So what happened here?
Her body was anemic —> her brain picked up the imbalance/signals of the anemia —> her brain created the desire (emotions) for her to consume dirt —> the behavior manifested into reality because her brain kept getting the signals that she was anemic. The constant thoughts/desire REWIRED her brain until it manifested into her reality.

4. Relax. Don’t. React. Don’t. Doubt. [All reactions = firing of neurons. Neurons that FIRE together, WIRE together!]

The biggest mistake people make while manifesting is when they have a less preferable emotion or thought, they REACT. You might quickly rush to change the thought to a positive one, thinking if you quickly change the thought, the “universe” won’t hear the doubt you experienced.

This is amusing to me, because all you are doing is making your neurons react more. Because that second of panic you felt as you quickly tried to change the thought was millions of neurons firing to correct that one moment of doubt. You created a cascade over one little thing.

Relax  If you ever doubt yourself, or think something that does not match the frequency of what you are manifesting, simply observe the thought. Allow those neurons involved with the thought to finishtheir cascade.
Your neurons are like children: they repeat whatever they hear. And if they’ve been hearing one thought for so long (a less preferable one), they will naturally fire that thought even if you haven’t been thinking about it for a while. Why? Because that was what they were wiredto do.
Silly neurons. 
Whenever you have a less preferable thought or doubt creeps your mind: allow it. Welcome it. Do not scramble to change the thought. Scrambling will only cause chaos and resistance. 
Instead, mentally tell yourself, “Thank you for showing me what I have ascended from.” And begin experiencing one of your short visualizations regarding luxury. Be gentle with your brain. You are one. You are the operant power.

5. Essential Catalysts [rewiring neurons, neuroplasticity, synaptic pruning apoptosis]

The easiest way to make your manifestations occur faster is to introduce essential catalysts to disrupt your old frequencies and neural circuitry. If you have been stuck in a certain mindset for a long time (depression, poverty, low self esteem) you cannot expect these neural connections to just “disappear” because you avoid thinking about them. You must do one of two things: 

- Rewire the neurons (because your brain is “plastic” and can change always!)
or
- Synaptic pruning (elimination of synapses/connections that we no longer use). 
Eventually neurons will naturally die (apoptosis). Avoid doing anything that will cause cell death prematurely because you probably will end harming neurons you needin the process. 

At least 3 times during the week, do something you would not normally do. Although this can be anything, I recommend the following:

- Eat at a restaurant you have never tried before
- Make a new friend each week
- Sign up for a class (such as dance, painting, or yoga)
- Explore the upscale areas near where you live
- Take a bubble bath

I wish you all luck on your journey to luxury. Please update me on how your progress is going. I hope I explained it thoroughly and simplistically. If there are any further questions, you are all welcomed to submit them   Lots of love.

~ holy hedonist // 1.9.21

Alice in Arcadeland

2022’s word is “elevate.” Sound on and don’t grow up too fast! I’ve done the expected photo manipulation, but over the weekend I started teaching myself Ableton Live 11 for music production. The best way I’ve found to keep my creativity from stagnation is learning a new skill. Let me know what you think.

Here is an alternative idea I came up with for a recent article about the UK government’s levelling-up agenda in The Planner. 

There was mention in the original article of the government using a magic wand to try and even up investment between the different areas of the country. I thought this lent itself well to the concept of regional disparities.

© Zara Picken 2021 www.zarapicken.com

I was commissioned by The Planner to illustrate an article about the UK government’s levelling-up agenda.

The author discusses how some communities still don’t get a “fair slice of the cake”, with regional disparities in the UK above those in comparable developed economies. 

I came up with a couple of concepts and this one was chosen, reflecting the inequality of investment between Northern “red wall” areas and South East Conservative-voting towns. 

© Zara Picken 2021 www.zarapicken.com