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How does our brain connect dreams and reality? And what do we lack for a miracle to happen in our life? How to create the right mood to make a wish come true? Psychologist Lucia Suleymanova says.
Due to the turbulent events of 2020, we seem to have lost faith that our desires can come true. “It makes no sense,” most of us think. After all, in the outgoing year we faced a huge number of catastrophic external factors. Does it mean that we are not in control of our lives? What is new here – to preserve the good that is …
However, there are rules that make the fulfillment of desires a matter of time. The good news is there are only two.
1. You need to make a wish in a state of inspiration
The right inspiration is not a whim, not a momentary desire to fix something, and not an empty wandering in the clouds. This is a resource state in which the set goal will, like a magnet, attract you to itself. How to reach it?
- Learn to fix and live the state of stress in such a way that it “throws” you new desires, and not negative emotions. Stress is a powerful source of resource, and it must be used, not clamped down or suppressed.
- Formulate your desires without condemning them to “impossibility”. Don’t think about the outer limiters, but remove the inner ones.
- Allow yourself to enjoy. The basic, physical pleasure of the good things you have and the anticipation of the best things to come.
This state is called right inspiration. It helps to accomplish a lot, because with it your desires will not be painted in a shade of unfulfillment. By the way, there is a scientific explanation for this.
When you imagine your desires coming true, you create new neural connections that help you act in new ways.
Recently, scientists from Harvard and the Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences proved that our imagination is a powerful tool for managing reality. The fact is that the brain does not separate what happens in fantasy and what actually happens. When you remember something emotionally charged or imagine your future actions or states, the same chemicals are released in the brain that would be if it were all real.
It turns out that it doesn’t matter to the brain whether a desire is realized or just conceived: neurons work in it, which automatically communicate with each other, reacting to emotions. And by imagining the fulfillment of your desires, experiencing sincere pleasure from this, you yourself create new neural connections that help you think and act in a new way.
Therefore, visualization – an imaginary picture of a fulfilled desire – is rightfully considered a powerful technique. In a sense, it really does work, whether you want it to or not.
However, if everything is so easy, why can’t we instantly get everything we want? Here the second rule comes into play, and it is not so simple. More precisely, not at all simple.
You have to be completely honest with yourself.
Few people know how to be honest with themselves. It is always easier for us to formulate a goal that is beautiful and noble, but alien to us, than to admit to ourselves what we really want.
We may refuse to accept and speak out our true desires. For example, when we crave a new apartment, we actually want to separate from our parents and live our own lives. But if it seems to us that it is “wrong” to experience such feelings, we block our true desire. This means that we are blocking the right, creative inspiration.
An honest desire changes our emotional state, invigorates, and allows us to honestly see the fullness of possibilities. An emotionally charged state gives us the energy to move. And if our emotions are suppressed, if we are dissatisfied with ourselves because of “wrong” desires, then our internal resource is also suppressed.
Wanting change is as specific as writing any plan of action. Then it will be possible to acquire without losing anything
The energy of movement is not generated, there is literally nothing to move towards the fulfillment of desire. So, alas, simply drawing the desired picture in your imagination and getting its implementation, as if printed on a 3D printer, will not work. The brain only focuses on possibilities when the need is clearly and honestly defined.
Wanting change is as specific as writing any plan of action. Then you will be able to acquire without losing anything. Manage your life plans – and therefore desires.
And don’t be afraid to want, don’t waste your energy! With the right inspiration, you don’t have to wait for miracles on a schedule—you create it yourself.
Lucie Suleimanova — clinical psychologist, PhD, TV expert on relationships in a couple and in business, financial temperament, the second half of life, author of books and the online course “I want change!”. Her