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Ep 6. The Science Behind Manifesting: Unlocking the Magic Within · The Manifestation Station

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Music.
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You're listening to the Manifestation Station podcast. I'm your host Holly Edwards
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and together we can help create your magic.
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Hi everybody and welcome back to another amazing episode of the Manifestation Station.
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I hope you've all had a lovely week. now if you're listening in the UK we have
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got summer back haven't we the weather has been so.
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Lovely this week so I'm feeling inspired feeling
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ready for action I'm not quite ready to say
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goodbye to summer yet now I love winter and I love autumn but I just am not
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ready to say goodbye to summer so I'm hanging on to every last bit of sunshine
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I'm putting my flip-flops on Little summer dress is back out and I am ready
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to sunbathe, have a pool party, have a barbecue.
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So I really hope you're enjoying the weather wherever you are.
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I know we do have some listeners elsewhere as well. So I hope you're enjoying
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whatever the week has brought you.
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If you managed to listen to the podcast last week, it was about money and manifesting
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and attracting money into your life.
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And I have to say that some of the tips and the tricks that I gave you to start
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using in order to grow your money mindset and to attract money in,
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when I started using some of those tips,
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I had some instantaneous reactions and responses and the universe delivered.
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Which was just amazing.
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Now, some of those tips, I only started myself probably 10 days ago.
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And today, I have just had an unexpected payment from nowhere.
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This is unexpected money go into my bank account for a previous job that I was not expecting.
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So just, you know, I've sat there for a minute and just thought about this.
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Now that I'm tracking the money and tracking all the money that comes into you,
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which is one of the tips in the podcast.
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If you haven't listened to it, do go back and have a listen.
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And I just thought that was amazing. That's literally happened today.
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So I've already had a few strange experiences. I say strange,
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amazing kind of law of attraction manifesting moments off the back of those
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kind of money growth and manifesting tips.
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So I hope that you are on the journey of attracting more money into you.
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But today, today we are
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moving on because when we think about
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the law of attraction and manifesting it really can seem
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like magic and it is magic it really
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really is and I thought that today when that money hit my
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bank account but to some it
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can it can seem as though it's just fairy
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tale it can be a bit wishy-washy or kind of a bit hippie-ish kind of go outside
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and worship the moon and wish upon a star and all your dreams will come true
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and it can by some be discredited as kind of not having any substance or hard facts to it.
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So over the last week or so, I've actually been speaking to a few more men about
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manifesting and about the law of attraction.
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Now, I'm not one to gender discriminate, so please do not feel that's what I'm doing here.
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But I would say generally on the whole, from my experience, when I'm chatting
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to men about manifesting and the law of attraction,
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whilst they all seem quite curious, I always feel like there's just maybe something
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holding them back from diving in and thinking it's maybe living in a dream world
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rather than kind of hard facts and logical scientific thinking.
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And I think it's good for all of us to be reminded that there is a science to
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manifesting and there is research and science and backing and trials that have been done,
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which lean towards proving the process of manifesting.
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So for hundreds and hundreds of years, some of our most famous and successful
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public figures have believed in the law of attraction.
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Even Albert Einstein, probably one of the most amazing scientific brains there
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have ever been, believed in the law of attraction.
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And his quote is one of my favorite quotes when it comes to manifesting.
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So he said, everything is energy and that's all there is to it.
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Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.
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It can be no other way. This is philosophy.
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This is physics. I just find that mind-blowing that even Albert Einstein,
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he knew the idea of bringing in law of attraction practices into your life, seeing things,
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believing things and bringing those things into reality.
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They first thought that the law of attraction was mentioned in around 1906 by
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a William Walker Atkinson.
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So he used the phrase thought vibration, which I quite like that.
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He also used the phrase law of attraction. That's where it feels like it began.
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But there are ancient drawings on walls that kind of emphasize and prove the
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fact that law of attraction and manifesting has been believed for kind of many of years.
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But coming back into our time and how we perceive the law of attraction.
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There are so many celebrities and athletes and successful people who believe
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in the law of attraction.
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So I think it's really good place to look at when we look at professional athletes.
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Professional Olympic medalists.
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And so many of them practice visualizations and manifesting when it comes to
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winning their sport, running their races.
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And many of them are using the law of attraction.
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They visualize their race from start to finish, imagining running,
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imagine their legs working, building up a sweat,
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sprinting across the finish line and holding gold medal up on the podium and
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winning their race and feeling the happiness around winning their race.
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So sports Thoughts visualization is actually a genuine training experience,
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particularly amongst elite athletes.
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So what I find absolutely fascinating about this, and this is where science
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comes into backing our manifesting thoughts.
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So when athletes visualize or imagine successful competition,
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they actually stimulate the same brain regions as you do when you are physically
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performing that same action.
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So your brain releases chemicals and your brain releases neuropaths that actually
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support your thoughts as if they were really physically running those races
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or running through that sport.
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So there is something known as neuroplasticity and positive thinking.
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So neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to reorganize and form new neural connections.
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So by focusing on positive outcomes, visualizing our goals and cultivating optimism,
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you are literally rewiring your brain and this creates new mental pathways that
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reinforce productive goal-oriented behavior,
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Making it easier for those actions to take place and align with our intentions.
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So these athletes that often visualize themselves winning, this primes their
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brains to perform better in real life.
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So visualization is activating the same neural pathways as physically performing the action.
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Isn't that absolutely fascinating? I think if you can rewire your brain,
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there really are no limits to what you can manifest.
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And you can adopt this to any area of your life.
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So take Michael Phelps, for example, Olympic swimmer.
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He is one of the most decorated Olympic medal winners of all time.
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Something like 18 gold medals and 22 other medals or something absolutely bonkers
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like that. So he would factor in visualization training with his coach.
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So his coach would instruct Phelps to watch a mental videotape of his races
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every day before he went to sleep and when he woke up.
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He credits this visualization with winning his races and winning his medals
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and achieving his goals.
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Now there's also another really famous Olympian called Emily Cook.
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So she is a three-time Olympian freestyle skier and she describes how she created
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specific imagery scripts and mental race rehearsals involving all of her senses
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in order to help her win her races and win her gold medals.
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So she said this, visualization for me doesn't take in all the senses.
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You have to smell it, you have to hear it, you have to feel it, everything.
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So when she detailed the process of visualizing her races before she raced them,
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she said, I would say into a tape recorder, I'm standing on the top of a hill.
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I can feel the wind on the back of my neck.
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I can hear the crowd kind of going through all the different senses and then
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actually going through what she wanted to do for the perfect jump.
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She said, I would turn down in the run, stand up, I engage my core,
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I look at the top of the jump and I was going through every single little step
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of how I wanted that jump to turn out.
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So I think it's fascinating that she spoke about bringing all of her senses
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into her visualizations.
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And this is something I feel is so important when it comes to manifesting.
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Now, we've spoken about this previously, but the more detail you can put into
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your goals and into your visualizations, then the more realistic they will feel
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and the more realistic they will come back to you.
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This means we need to have a multi-sensory approach when it comes to visualising.
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So you can adopt this into visualising your dreams too.
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Don't just imagine what your life would look like once you've received your manifestation.
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You need to feel it. You need to taste it. You need to smell it.
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You need to hear it. Look at this as an example.
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So let's say that you really want to manifest in your dream relationship.
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Relationship, you want to manifest your soulmate and you need to create a visualization
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to involve all of your senses and play it out in your head like a movie.
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Or maybe you want to record it on your phone like Emily Cook.
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So imagine where you would like to go with your new soulmate.
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Where would you like to go on a date? Maybe you want to go to the beach.
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So imagine walking and strolling along the beach with them. Maybe your favorite place.
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Visualize hearing the ocean and and the waves crashing in. Visualize hearing
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the seagulls and the kids playing on the beach.
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Visualize feeling their hand, their touch of their hand in yours.
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Maybe the touch and the warmth of their arm around your shoulder.
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Visualize them speaking and whispering into your ear, telling you they love you.
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Imagine smelling their neck and smelling their perfume or their aftershave. What can you taste?
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Maybe you share a bag of fish and chips on the beach and you can taste those salty chips.
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Or maybe you've given them a cheeky kiss and you can taste their lip balm.
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Whatever it is, add as many senses into your visualization as possible.
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As we're looking at science today, looking how science can really back our manifesting
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dreams and back the theory of the law of attraction.
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Going to look at some scientific backing. So one of the things we can look at
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here is something called cognitive behavioral therapy and self-fulfilling prophecy.
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So this teaches that our thoughts, our feelings and behaviors are all interconnected.
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So positive thinking leads to positive actions, which in turn leads to more positive outcomes.
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That's a science. The magic of it is that you can implement these new ways,
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rewire your brain today, and it can have a huge impact on your life.
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Science or magic, it feels like magic and it is magic.
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The brain creates neural connections based on thoughts, emotions and experiences.
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So if you're focusing on something good, those neural connections are proven to become stronger.
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And the brain will literally rewire itself to take action to prove those positive connections.
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So visualizing or mental imagery, visualizing your goals activates the same
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neural pathways as physical experiences.
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So we've just spoken about that when we're speaking about athletes visualizing their race.
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So this actually helps to prepare your mind to perceive the goals as attainable and tangible.
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So you are tricking your brain and rewiring it to believe that these goals can
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happen, they have happened and they will happen.
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Now I've often spoken about one of my favourite quotes, where your focus goes, your energy flows.
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So if we want to look at the scientific backing of this, there is such a thing
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as called reticular activating system or RAS.
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So this is a network of neurons in the brainstem and it filters info and directs the attention.
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So this means that when you set clear intentions and you focus on your goals,
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the RAS is activated, which means it helps you to notice opportunities related to those desires.
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So very simply put, this is in those occasions where perhaps there's a new car
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that you want and you've got your heart set on this car, you've looked at it,
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you know what it is, you've got a picture up, and then maybe you start seeing
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that car everywhere you go.
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This is because your RAS, your reticular activating system, has been activated.
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Science or magic, it all rolls into one. The point is that it is helping you
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to notice opportunities relating to your desires.
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There is also such a thing as self-fulfilling prophecies. is.
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Now, I've seen this a lot recently.
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It's the idea that we as humans will go out of our way to prove something,
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whether that's positive or negative.
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So, for example, if you don't think you can succeed in getting that new job
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that you want, you will set motions in place, whether,
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subconsciously or consciously, to prove that you can't and you won't get that
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job, to confirm and back your negative thoughts.
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There have been trials and studies done on this, that we as humans operate in
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this way, that we will try and prove whatever thoughts that we have, positive or negative.
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So perhaps if you're telling yourself that you won't get that new job and you're not good enough,
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to kind of self-prophesize and prove to yourself that you are correct,
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maybe you'll engage in negative talks with others about the job,
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or maybe you'll feel ill and under the weather for your interview,
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maybe not even show up, or maybe you'll feel so bitter at the situation already,
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you don't even put the work in.
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So guess what? You don't get the job.
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And it's just like we've spoken before about being positive and raising your vibrations.
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If you're positive and you're feeling positive and you're looking for positive
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opportunities, you are then proving to yourself that you can do that thing and
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that you will do that thing. You will get the new job.
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You will get the promotion. self-fulfilling prophecies
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is a very very true thing there's a
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very famous neurosurgeon called dr
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james i think it's dr james dotey i'll
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check that he's a really successful stanford neurosurgeon an entrepreneur a
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philanthropist and now a very famous author now you may have read the book called
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into the magic shop if you haven't i highly recommend it this neurosurgeon and
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has written it about his life.
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He was born into a life that was kind of very much stacked against him from
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the beginning. He had an alcoholic father.
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He had a mother who suffered from mental health and physical disabilities as well.
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He recalls not having very much going for him at the time.
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And at 12 years old, he recalls, this is a true story.
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He recalls walking into a magic shop where he encountered a woman who changed
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his entire perspective on life.
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So I think she, it's a really heartwarming story, but she recognized something
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really special in him and she made him an author.
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So it was his school holidays. He was kind of kicking around,
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not having very much to do.
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He wasn't particularly well educated at the time and she said I'm here for six
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weeks if you show up every day then I'll teach you something that will help you.
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So guess what he showed up every day and he discovered the disciplines of meditation
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and manifesting which after lots of practice changed the trajectory of his life completely.
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He became a really successful neurosurgeon, making lots of money and having a really lovely life.
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And he takes you through the details of how he started adopting this new process
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of manifesting and kind of taking control of his life and seeing what he wanted
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to achieve and believing it and going for it and taking action. Yeah.
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So highly recommend that book. It's called Into the Magic Shop.
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There are so many celebrities and famous successful figures that believe they've
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manifested their dream roles or their dream life or, you know, millions in the bank.
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And it's funny because when you look, most great people in history tend to know
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the law of attraction, whether knowingly they practice or not.
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Now, Now, many believe that Walt Disney practiced manifesting and knew the idea
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of the law of attraction.
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And now, if you watch a lot of the Disney films, you will notice that there
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are so many quotes that kind of fall into the idea of the law of attraction.
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When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
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What about this line from Cinderella? Have faith
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in your dreams and someday day your rainbow will come
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smiling through no matter how your heart is grieving
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if you keep believing the dream that
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you wish will come true so hilariously here we
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have moved on from science to magic so whichever way you view manifesting and
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the law of attraction ultimately it doesn't matter whether you feel like you
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need more science backing there is science and research to back up the theory
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of the law of attraction.
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If it's good enough for Albert Einstein, it's good enough for us.
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But also for me, there is so much magic in manifesting. So call it what you will.
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But when you start achieving and bringing in and attracting in your goals and
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your desires, it is magic.
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It feels magical, but the principles of it are very set in stone.
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Whatever you put your mind to, you can accomplish.
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Like attracts like. It makes perfect sense.
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Positive feelings create new
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neural connections to look out for more
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positive opportunities and that in
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turn will help with our self-fulfilling prophecies of
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ourselves trying to prove the theory that our positive thought is correct the
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science and the magic is entwined there was a study done in america where it
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said that if you smile so even if you're feeling really down and in the dumps
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if you physically use the muscles in your face to smile and sometimes I try
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to do this you look a little bit bonkers but if you force a smile use the muscles
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to smile I'm doing it now that's why,
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that's why there was a pause if you use the muscles in your face to smile you
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get the same dopamine hit in your brain so your brain actually releases the
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smile chemicals the happy hormones hormones into your brain,
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the same as if you were really smiling through happiness.
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So that's the idea again of fake it till you make it. Trick your brain into
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believing it is positive and it is happy.
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So just by putting on a smile, you are sending and creating new waves and activations
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in your brain to believe that it is happy.
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And in turn, that dopamine hit
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will flood into your body and release happy
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hormones which will lift your vibrations will lift
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your spirits and in turn will help you to
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feel more positive to help you feel happier and
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more in control of achieving your goals
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try it try it next time where you're feeling
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a little out of sorts a little
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bit unhappy a little bit low just try
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and fake smile sometimes i try to do it in the mirror you may want to do this
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alone because you'll feel like you look absolutely mad but honestly it can work
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and it's a little bit like when we go back to our positive affirmations our
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positive affirmations are reinforcing the science about our neurological pathways so we are creating,
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new neurological pathways that support our positive affirmations and that is
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why they are are so important.
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By saying, I can do this, I already have this, I love myself, I am a money magnet.
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By saying these positive affirmations, you are creating very real new neuropathways
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in your brain and into your body, which will support your affirmation.
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So you literally are rewiring your brain to become successful,
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to become wealthy, to become healthy, to become loved, whatever it is that you want to desire.
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You have the power. Think of the neurosurgeon in the book, Into the Magic.
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He was given the power.
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And it very, very much feels, if you read it, like a magical book.
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He says that he was let into this most amazing secret.
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And he cannot believe that he had been gifted with this new thought process.
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Why hadn't anyone else got it? He felt almost like he was cheating.
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And when he became a neurosurgeon, he almost felt like he was cheating,
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thinking, this is amazing.
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Someone has kind of waved a magic wand and here I am from a not very good background
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to suddenly being this highly successful neurosurgeon.
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So we've got heavy stuck into the science today, guys, but I hope you can see
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that it kind of really sits well with just your reality and your everyday manifesting life as well.
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So for those that need to hear the science, I hope that some of that science
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backing and that science research can really help you and help fuel your manifesting journey.
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And for those like me who see it as a little bit more magical,
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either way, it's inspiring and either way, it's matter of fact.
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Sometimes the magic for me, it feels wonderful to feel as though it's wishing
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upon a star and the magic comes true.
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But the reality is there and the proof is in the pudding. You are rewiring your brain.
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You are attracting positivity. You are attracting positive experiences to you.
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So whilst I feel like the results are magic, the process of manifesting is very much factual,
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realistic and achievable so
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having bombarded you with a whole lot of science today i'm going to leave you
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with a lovely quote from walt disney who clearly knew the idea of the law of
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attraction but before i do next week i would love to be answering your questions
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about manifesting on the podcast.
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So please slide into my DMs.
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I'm on Instagram at TheHollyEdwards and follow on TikTok at TheHollyEdwards
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where I have lots of lovely manifesting tips and tricks to get started on today.
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So please send in your questions, anything you have. There are no questions out of reach.
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I'm happy to answer all of them and to help you on your manifesting journeys. is.
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I really hope that you're making waves in your manifesting journeys and that
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you are creating your own magical manifesting stories.
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Please do get in touch and let me know how you're getting on.
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share it with someone who you feel would benefit from listening to this podcast.
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about manifesting. And I really,
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really appreciate all of your lovely messages and your reviews so far.
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You have been so kind, but more than anything, it just makes me really happy
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that you are mastering the art of manifesting your own dreams into your life.
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So I'll leave you with this from Walt Disney, dream, believe, dare, do. Goodbye.
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Music.