Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality

opportunities, and new adventures—equal to our ability to imagine it; and initiating mystical experiences that literally transcend language.

That’s the risk you take when you’re a consumer of information rather than a producer.

You have this magnificent brain and mind, capable of creating wealth, happiness, health, and well-being in your own life and the lives of those around you. Your consciousness is powerful—much more powerful than you realize.

As soon as you wake up in the morning, place your hand over your heart and feel love. Buy a journal. Write down a list of your intentions. What are 10 things that would transform your life? Breathe and send healing intentions to someone who is sick. Make a donation of 10 percent of your next paycheck to a charity dedicated to social change.

You’ll learn how to use your mind deliberately, as a creative tool, to think nurturing thoughts.

When you’ve done something so many times that the body knows how to do it as well as the mind, it becomes automatic, natural, and effortless—in other words, a skill or a habit. Once you’ve achieved that level, you no longer have to consciously think about doing it. That’s when the skill or habit becomes the subconscious state of being. Now it’s inn

Each time my thinking brain began to panic, I refocused my consciousness in my heart area. I

from thinking to doing to being; and from learning with their head to practicing it by hand and knowing it by heart.

“I later discovered that my friend Lorin Smith [a Pomo Indian medicine man] in California, upon hearing of my heart trouble, had assembled a group of his students for a healing ceremony the day before the second angiogram.