Believe & You Shall Perceive

Did you ask but haven’t received? It sees through your beliefs — the Reticular Activating System that can be your co-pilot on the course towards achieving your goals.

Simona @ Mindful Copy Agency
7 min readJul 13, 2019
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Write down your goals, visualize the end result, feel a bunch of delicious feelings, and you will get what you desire. Right? Not necessarily.

If you are using conscious goal-setting methods and visualization to help focus your mind on achieving certain outcomes, there may be an important step that you are overlooking.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you are right.” — Henry Ford

Those with an interest in the neuroscience behind the Law of Attraction may have heard of the Reticular Activating System as the scientific reason why visualization paired with strong emotions is likely to help us attract what we desire into our lives. Many of these explanations only skim over the importance that our deeply-held beliefs play in the manifestation process.

The scientific research on how our beliefs control what our brains focus on and therefore what we end up seeing more of in our lives is still in its early stages. Summarized below, this analysis by Eugene Shea sheds some new light on the subject in relating…

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