You have to FEEL it

Apparently, you can have what you want in this life, as long as you FEEL it. This applies not only on a personal level, but also on the level of groups of people all wanting the same thing, and actively feeling that whatever it is they wish has already happened. So says Gregg Braden, author of, amongst others, Fractal Time, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, The Science of Miracles and the Divine Matrix.

Braden is a scientist who has spent a large part of his life travelling and studying in remote mountain villages in different parts of the world, to look for other civilizations' 'timeless secrets'. His main thesis is that there is a direct correlation between our thoughts and 'events' in the world. This sounds a bit like Louise Hay and the film The Secret, about manifesting what it is you want. But Braden goes a step further. According to him you can carry on wanting all you like, and the Universe (or Divine Matrix) will allow you to carry on wanting. Almost as if it is saying 'how nice that you want that, you can continue wanting that'. Instead Braden says you have to act as if you already have what you want, feel the gratitude and happiness you would feel if you already had it and then give thanks.

He states that the heart is the strongest centre of electrical impulse in the body (not the brain) and that if therefore the 'feeling' in the heart is involved in the imagining of what it is you want, then the message to the Divine Matrix becomes much stronger, rather than when you just repeat affirmations in the brain.

I am not so sure that the physical heart really is the seat of emotion, and there are plenty of other criticisms that can be levelled at his theory, but I found it an interesting idea anyway, and one that maybe would be worth practising for a while.

A good introduction to his ideas can be found here

Hope you enjoy it, I found it thought provoking but remain to be convinced. O well, keep on practising I guess - what is that I see,... my new car parked outside the house ?