The Truth About Visualization & Manifestation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2023
- In today's video, we're diving into the often-discussed yet sometimes misunderstood concepts of manifestation and visualization. We'll explore the intricacies of effective visualization techniques, shedding light on a topic that happens to be both my least and most favorite.
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Join us as we dissect the art of visualization, aiming to bridge the gap between mere daydreaming and purposeful manifestation. The goal is to provide a clearer understanding of how to harness the power of visualization effectively.
▼ Timestamps ▼
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00:10 - The power of visualization is kind of BS
01:41 - Quantum mysticism
04:24 - Interpretations of manifesting the universe
06:07 - An unbelievable study on visualization
08:25 - The Placebo and Nocebo Effect
10:15 - Visualization fosters resilience
12:37 - Visualization and Imagination
16:15 - The basics of visualization
19:10 - Recommended viewing materials
19:37 - Dr. K’s opinion on visualization
24:25 - We need to be scientifically humble
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It feels more like a personal mental confidence booster. Like you'd do the thing better by just thinking you can than you can't
Agreed
My thoughs too. By visualizing, you are building confidence that a certain outcome will occur. People with higher confidence are more likely to attempt things, and to try again when failing, hence the probability of success increases
@@mephyst_pixel can't succeed if you never start. Can't start if you don't believe
Yea but then I have unreasonable fears of me becoming narcissistic or smth. But tbh, Id dather be a narcissist than someone with extremely low self esteem.
A positive outlook (even in failure) produces positive results because you're looking for them during the process- and you'll still get some useful feedback out of situations that could be considered taking an L
Dr K: *studies techniques that are literally as old as the concept of civilization*
Western medicine: "Oh you're into that trendy new-age stuff huh?"
Yeah new-age freaks usually repackage hokey superstitions that have been discredited since the enlightenment era
Wooow, you're right, if it's old that must mean it's true, thanks!
@@001variationhave they been discredited tho
Meditation was discredited by the scientific community too
@@001variationOoh, look at me, I am calling people I disagree with freaks and I am using the exact same words that the cool online skeptics use to signify something they do not understand, I am so clever.
techniques "as old as the concept of civilization" are nothing special. lots of bullshit is really old. what matters is repeatability and measurable results.
'Visualizing myself as a failure;' I've never viewed it that way. Thank you so much for helping me change perspective for the better!
Lol no fun in only visualising the first part of a rocky movie lol 😊. Remember that failure is just another action, it’s not a personality trait. View failure as the fun, goofy stage, where everyone must start. Helps avoid the perfectionism/procrastination cycle. Once you see yourself developing competence in some parts of whatever you’re working on in yourself then make the decision to maintain/grow/test the skill/behaviour etc....power/skills etc should be treated with respect by taking responsibility for them (but I legit can’t say that without the Spider-Man movie flashing through my mind hahahaha)
Show up. Be present. Do what you can today to the best of your ability, and let that be good enough for today ❤
A success story:
Just the other day, I was listening to a band I love. With a casual mind, I said, "I wonder what it would be like to meet the lead singer."
On Saturday I went out of town for a party and that same singer ended up HOSTING the party! I got a selfie with him, and it was his birthday. It was very cool.
Nice story! Which band?
When you visualized did you do it like you are watching it like a movie (third person) in your head or you visualize like you are there and you see everything through your lens almost like a camera looking around you know? Which way would you do it?
I’ll be completely honest, speaking as someone not in medicine, visualization sounds like self inflicted priming. For those unaware priming is the effect of being psychologically primed can make you act in line with that priming. Example being that when prompted with words that are related to aging (retirement, senior citizens, gray hair, etc.) participants ended up walking slower down the hallways outside the test room as opposed to the control. Another example from my psych text book was that Asian women did better on an academic test when asked to identify their ethnicity before the test as opposed to their gender. This is due to the positive and negative connotations of those groups in relation to academic environments. Visualization simply accomplishes the same task on a specific individual level as opposed to a general identity level.
The manifestation stuff sounds like confirmation bias honestly. In the airplane example one of two scenarios was going to happen. The plane takes off on time or it doesn’t. In either scenario a claim can be made that one of the parties manifested the outcome. Either you manifested that the plane would take off on time and so it does or your wife manifested a delay and so it was. Neither outcome would have disproven your view so in effect all you’ve done is reinforce a narrative about the world. Not saying that that narrative can’t help you or that you’re actively harming yourself but you’re essentially playing slots against the universe and every success you get you claim to be evidence your system works.
A purely scientific explanation for this would be that visualization/priming provides an outlook/identity/confidence that allows you to manifest in your actions and mentality a world view that is resistant to negative feedback and receptive to positive feedback. On top of this you can use confirmation bias to amplify this by focusing on each success as a reinforcement of this outlook. The outlook provides a cushion from negative feedback that might stall forward momentum and acts as a foundation to start from when you have nothing else. But I don’t see any supernatural explanation being necessary to ascribe agency to the void, it’s just the way to look at the world that will on average yield the most success.
This is a Wendy’s.
Well said 🙏
why u write so long messages on internet i cant make myself read it... no dopamine spike
10000%.... Couldnt have said it better!
@@ludiqmarmot4194I can't tell if you're being serious
visualization is huge in archery, knife throwing, card throwing, and dart throwing. i've thrown darts since i was about 11 (im not a profesional, but id say im pretty good and its helped with some free drinks at bars) but visualizing is one of the most common things in all of them.
Any physical or creative activity, in general, because it strengthens the mind-muscle connection.
I do fencing and it works there too. Visualizing moves and the opponent's actions working out your way actually makes you more precise and ready. But intuitivelythis seems about right to me. Reminding your body what to do before doing it makes it more controlled
oh yeah i heard that archers cant control the moment they let go right? like they do it in a way that makes it so its random because if not they will miss so they visualize as they do the thing and it shoots on its own and somehow its way better than timing when to release the arrow
also as someone who trains muay thai and especially BJJ visualization is KEY, i sometimes even visualize myself in third person like if it was a streamer cam and imagine what im gonna do a split second before i do it in first person, its weird to explain but it works
not just normal minds eye visualization but like i imagine my specific body movements and muscle twitches
Yes I’m a novelist and I visualize the scenes before and as I write them. If I have brain fog 😶🌫️ it’s sooo hard to write like. No inspiration.
As someone who went down the rabbit hole of "The Secret" and "What the Bleep Do We Know?" about 15 years ago I noticed my life became better in almost every way after visualizing what I wanted my life to be like. After about 5 years of doing that I had (almost) the kind of life I wanted. Obviously taking action towards what I was visualizing was the secret ingredient but it primed me mentally to take those actions more frequently and weather challenges much easier than before.
A lot of manifesting and The Law of Attraction is complete BS but intriquingly some of it isn't....
How does it help you to take action easier? Just curious
@@pentingberhasil633There are some areas of life like romance and finance where the average person is so beaten down they carry a gloomy outlook. Said outlook affects their behavior in harmful ways. "Why should I talk to people if nobody is interested in me?" "I'm going to be poor anyway so I may as well waste all my money." Positive visualiztion might be a way to counteract that, or it's just something happier people do and you can't actually force yourself to do it. "The Secret" and what Dr. K said at the end of this video is a specific variant of mysticism built on false assertions that mind can manipulate matter. You'll often find these people saying nonsense about quantum mechanics when they don't actually understand it. The reason particles "react to being observed" is because observation equipment, be it a camera or your eyeballs, must take up physical space. Anything in the path of light waves will cause disruption of the wavelengths, similar to how a rock disrupts a wave in the ocean.
@@JohnSmith-mc2zz ah thank you for your explanation of particles reacting to being observed. I actually have had difficulty finding a straightforward explanation like that and now i think i can go back to other literature and understand it better
@@JohnSmith-mc2zzyou must not understand. in the double split experiment, the photons were observed not by the result but simply which hole it went through. this changed the result, therefore the observation changed reality not some effect on the eyes. it was literally a physical change
@@GameHub1- Photons are a theoretical particle that travels in a wave. Waves are disrupted by physical presences in their space, such as a piece of observation equipment, whether that "equipment" is a sensor plate or a human being.
Probably your best video so far. I saw a humble and human side of Dr K that I've never seen before. Not dumbing down the scientific approach just to look appealing to the modern-age mystic bulshit, but bringing both high quality scientific data available (recognizing the intrinsic limitations of the marvelous scientific method) plus your personal experience (risking a bad look from your hard-core scientific audience). Thank you, this video moved me.
Couldn't agree more! I usually watch a lot of content here but don't usually feel compelled to comment. When Dr K started getting into the personal anecdotal stuff with the mantras and visualization, it definitely felt like a deeper discussion. Which could lend itself to criticism (knowing the science and still believing that something else can't be explained).
I was definitely moved as well. I wonder where I can get my own mantra? 😄
Maybe you're a new viewer, all of Dr.K old video on this channel are very humble and human, ( not to say his new video are devoid of that, is just his old videos are very based, if you know, you know)
@@issac7787 yeah I still like his current stuff, but I prefer when he's just going off the cuff and talking to chat as opposed to this lecture type format.
*hardcore scientistic-materialist. There is absolutely nothing scientific about dismissing things right off the bat because of "how it sounds when you talk about it", associated controversy, and ignoring or not talking about experiments that do succeed in showing something statistically significant. The same goes for holding certain types of evidence that point towards something not within the current scope of science to an extraordinarily high standard, a type of standard that is almost never afforded to things that currently do fall within the scope of what is recognized in the mainstream. It has more to do with ideology and comfortable preconceptions about the world, than science. It is a good thing that there are currently certain scientists, and scientific environments, that have no problems with publically admitting that materialism as well as physicalism is simply bunk, and fails to explain certain newly discovered aspects of the surrounding world.
@@xaime3802 Hey man I don’t comment a lot but I wanted to say that I wish more people shared your attitude. I am a firm believer in the scientific method as the most reliable way to test falsifiable claims about the world, but I can’t stand when people turn it into a dogma that invalidates unconventional ideas indiscriminately. I find it especially strange because we know, at least within the field of mathematics, that there are statements that are true but that nevertheless cannot be proven (Gödel). Although it’s totally reasonable to not embrace things that don’t have scientific backing, it’s also foolish and naïve to reject things on the basis of how foreign they seem.
TLDR: Yours is a 10/10 top tier comment
it's so facinating that the placebo/nocebo effect is a thing. its like magical or something. i wish there was more research into the mechanisms of why it works.
And the fact that even if you know about how nocebo works you can get nocebo anyway.
If you think placebo is magical, wait till you hear that your body is keeping you alive without you even thinking it.
Reminds me of a series of studies that at first revealed willpower is limited, and the revealed that it’s only limited if you THINK it’s limited
@@ErebosGRand?
The brain stem being able to keep things ticking without our input is a very different beast to being able to survive sickness just by wanting it bad enough
my psych prof said that thinking a pill would work decreases your stress which strengthens your immune system which makes your body likelier to recover
you’re actually really so real bro thank you for existing
dayum
just read like 5 novel-length comments (which were good), then hit this one and it's honestly the best
Dr. K, please don't ever delete this video. You showed to us your vulnerable side, sharing what is on your mind even at risk of backlash and people using it against you. You bringing out the second half of the video and talking about your own beliefs has been very refreshing. More importantly, I think you have set a very good example in how to think for one's self, and I thank you for enabling the masses in this way.
I am a science person myself, and at the same time am quite spiritual and had similar "mystical coincidence," especially after I have dabbled in psychedelics. After a high dose of shrooms and experiencing "ego death", I did experience not having a self, but the self being everything and nothing, in all planes of time and dimension beyond my understanding. I was the person in the past, an animal in the future, a humble rock somewhere; I was time and existence. But there is no singular "I", just that it is.
I recall this experience and am somewhat able to evoke this while sober, especially when meditating. I have become quite familiar with this experience that it naturally happens when I am just going about my day. I am under the impression that this is what highly experienced meditators/yogics achieve. It shaped how I viewed the world, in all my limitations of my senses and logic; how I interacted and affected the world outside and inside of myself, and what the self might even truly mean.
I remain to be open minded about all these things, and the possibility that this understanding is false and is merely a product of human's drive to create stories so that they may explain what the unknown is, falling into biases such as this.
I can't thank you enough for the content you share with us.
I am also a firm believer of science but the lack of information about consciousness makes me want to understand more using spirituality. I feel like there is so much more that we could discover in the next 50 years and it will involve experiments with psychedelics on the consciousness and brain.
TL;DR This turned into a short essay about how the discussion of psychedelics often lacks nuance on either side, sorry for the rambling, it's not thoroughly revised. I like using comments as a writing exercise and ranting into the void is fun. Somewhere along the way I got lost in tangents not so directly related to OP, but rather to fully explain my opinions to avoid misunderstanding. The original comment pre-TLDR starts at the next paragraph.
While I like your positivity and open-mindedness, psychedelics don't have the same effect on everyone, and I find that the people who have positive life-changing experiences on psychedelics were already mostly morally good and well adjusted people to begin with. This is purely anecdotal of course but I've met many proud psychonauts who think the world would be better if everyone used psychedelics and they all drive home the importance of set and setting. The set includes the self, all of your knowledge, wisdom and intentions working in tandem with your setting, which is you immediate environment. If someone lacks knowledge, has little wisdom, their intentions unclear, and they use psychedelics on a whim at a party, I think it's not likely to affect them spiritually, and could even precipitate a bad trip. This is purely conjecture, but I'd bet money that prior to your "dabbling in psychedelics", you probably already had a decent moral compass, some understanding of self, were likely well read, already open minded, had at least one or a few healthy relationships, and maybe even mostly physically and mentally healthy. I said it's conjecture so obviously that's likely wrong, but most people I've met who claim to experience "ego death" were already stacking the cards in their favor with their set and setting.
I've heard people say "there is no such thing as a bad trip" but I think that's inconsiderate and insensitive to the huge disparity in how people are affected by the use of psychedelics. I've heard people who claimed to experience "ego death" blame individuals who had a bad trip for having a bad trip because they didn't "let themselves go" which is toxic, unproductive, and even self-absorbed to assume everyone should have the same revolutionary experience on psychedelics. By the way I'm not accusing you of contributing to this, but there's so much more nuance to using psychedelics for so called "spiritual" purposes, that people who praise them conveniently ignore any slight possibility that maybe psychedelics aren't the answer for everyone.
I also believe that there's so much we don't know, that to discount any wild ideas because there's no scientific proof is close-minded and unproductive. Technology today looks like magic to people 100 years ago, and things we deem fantastical or impossible today, could likely prove true in the distant future. Discovery is impossible if you're only considering known possibilities. Basically what I'm getting at is that there could very well be some cosmic force you're tapping into with using psychedelics, but we have to be honest about our shallow understanding of these things. Just because you or someone you know had a life changing experience on psychedelics, doesn't mean it's the answer for everyone. I'm not accusing you of implying that psychedelics are the answer for everyone, but testimonials like your while having some skepticism, is mostly shining light on the positives without mentioning any potential risk factors.
Now I have to explain that I think psychedelics are a net positive for, this is a vague estimate, about 90% of the population or more. I know two people personally who had zero notable symptoms of mental illness prior to psychedelic use, and their use of psychedelics triggered the early onset of something they had an underlying risk of forming later in life, both types of schizophrenia. One of them it helped by allowing them to get treatment before it became a big problem, the other got blasted off out of reality, developing an extremely dissociated god complex which in their mind justifies avoidance of treatment. Obviously it's not the drugs fault 100%, but there needs to be discussion of risk factors when we talk about psychedelic use for spiritual purposes. It's dishonest or at the very least ignorant to praise psychedelics as "miracle drugs" without a nuanced discussion of their appropriate and safe usage. I want to reiterate that I'm not against psychedelics, but I find that the conversation around them often lacks nuance on either side.
@@bearrett50kal17I can relate hard to the overly verbose comment ranting as writing exercise cause I do that a lot myself.
Pro tip if you ever care to bother - if you know you're about to get on a roll and write a whole ass essay and you really do want to go ahead and do the, drop it in a separate document. See if the last paragraph maybe with a sentence or two from the first covers your point and you may be able to just post that instead. Then it might actually get read and be more than just essay practice. Or if you're just getting carried away and want an actually brief comment on something you can rant for hours on, type out bullet points for each big idea thought then usually you can turn that into a relatively quick short paragraph instead of rambling
You helped out me to realize that I was using day dreaming instead of visualization and I was "focusing" on so many things that my new myself were looking more likely a wish list, thanks!
You've phrased this so well.
Yes!!! Thank you! It's the wish list that feels so empty. I don't get inspiration from a wish list. At one point I thought so until I felt all the work and the cost of it unfold before me. It's not the cost I fear it's drifting away from the reality and what I see moves me. Does that mean I don't have the passion to manifest? No, it means I've found a means within reality that makes the dream work. 😩😥
I wholeheartedly believe in the power of visualization. While some people might view it as overconfidence to think that I can achieve whatever I want, I personally believe I'm mad enough to embrace failure and rise repeatedly until I reach my goal. I visualize myself falling and getting up all the time; thus, when it actually happens, getting back up feels as natural as any other routine in my life.
Failing forward to overcome the procrastination/perfectionism spiral 👍
Ah! My kind of people❤
I wish Doctor K maintained records of cases when his wife was proven right (causing an "impact on the universe") and when she was wrong (without any noticeable "effect on the universe"). Analyzing the statistics would likely reveal a mere cognitive bias devoid of any magical influence.
Statistically, I am sure there would be no proof of this idea and its very likely that it’s just a cognitive bias towards remembering cases that impressed more emotions and also confirmation bias exists. However, I think subjective reality is what really counts for our life as an individual and there is no difference between believing something and the reality in our subjective experiences in my opinion. It is already impossible for us to see the reality for what it actually is as every input of our senses are translated and distorted by our brains. Like what he said about quantum physics, our actual world could be just an ethereal state of probabilities, but our eyes don’t see it that way. To put it simply, If someone believes in something, it is true for them, and I don’t think theres anything wrong with that unless they try to force their realities onto others.
It sounded like survivorship biais
@@clickpwnwell said
@@clickpwn well said
"Dear diary, today Kruti bent the universe and made me play LOL again for 6 hours"
Not so bad if you're looking for an excuse...
As a professional dancer, visualization is key for us. We use it to imagine ourselves executing the choreography correctly, because details start to fade as you become more physically tired when performing. We visualize ourselves on stage in front of an audience to work on our nerves. I've experienced situations where I was dancing, and it felt like déjà vu because I had already "lived" that situation, and the nerves were more manageable. I've worked with people who like to imagine themselves winning (if it's a competititon) but I personally don't believe that's as powerful, because like you said, if what you're trying to change is outside of you, it most likely won't do anything. (Perhaps motivate you to achieve that success but that's it)
Oh this is gold❤
One thing that I have done like this is that I had loads of projects and stuff I wanted to get done that I had accumulated in my head for years, and one day a couple months ago I wrote down every single one of them on paper. It was like three pages. It was all smaller goals, like instead of “clean the garage” it was broken down into “get rid of the stack of cardboard boxes in the corner” and “throw the old mower away”. I brained dumped the list, got more ideas over the next hour while I did stuff and kept adding to it. I then flipped the list over and forgot about it for months, and did not look at it once. The other day I found it while cleaning, and I went through and had accomplished 90 percent of what I wrote down, and some of this stuff I wanted to do for years. So I want to experiment more with writing down micro goals, just letting my mind crap out on paper and seeing what that does.
Funny story, one time in third grade afterschool, me and some kids went to look for four leaf clovers and I found 2 of them. From that day I decided that I was lucky and as Dr. K described as "bending the universe" things sort of went my way. It was only about the time of high school when I started doubting myself and looking for ways in which I wasn't lucky and that the luck was running out did things start going downhill for me. Now I just gotta get myself into that lucky mindset again.
The most important takeaway for me about all of the manifestation and visualization talk is to generally keep a positive mindset throughout life*, which means instead of keeping negative thoughts replace them with constructive thoughts instead. A way of doing that is by reminding yourself that you are capable of doing things, even if that is one step at a time. A way through which you can achieve things is to set goals, believe you can achieve them and then work towards them, and whenever you feel pressure you need to remember that preparation can take most of that pressure away. This is partly where visualization can come into play. See yourself doing the presentation that you fear for instance and use this a preparation beforehand.
I remember trying to watch "The Secret" (and I guess also listen to the audio book). In maybe the first 5 minutes, they tell the actual truth: if you think you can't do something, you won't do it. That makes sense since you won't engage with things if you think you can't/won't. The rest of the movie/book goes on to say that if you visualize doing the thing, then you will end up doing that, and that's wrong in the sense that you can't make something happen by thinking it. You may keep a goal in mind and then take opportunities to get there because the goal is in mind, however that's not woo-woo magical thinking, it's just working towards a goal.
The trap I think is thinking that "keeping a goal in mind" is something mundane, or even easy. Keeping a goal in mind is a skill, and it's a skill that sometimes takes a level of magical thinking to reinforce in your head. Take art for example, anyone can put down marks on a substrate, there's nothing explicitly magical about it, and yet the best artists tend to be those who can convince themselves of there being a higher meaning to what they are doing. Whether they are ultimately correct or not seems to be irrelevant if the only question we're asking is if an artist is good or not.
Friend of mine reads that. I'm interested in it as well now
Yeah, I had a hard time watching The Secret and thinking there’s much to it when a bald guy was telling me I could have complete control of physical reality
The Secret lost me when they claimed in the book that a woman cured her cancer, then I looked her up, and turned out she died.
There were a few more examples like that. I'm 100% convinced visualization works as a way of priming and guiding your subconscious. But the universe helping us seems very narcissistic and far-fetched.
@@tommieirl1 yeah that's where I would also call it quits
Visualization has helped me when I did exercise, and trying to get the technique right. Seeing myself having correct posture, let me watch out for possible injuries.
Man, thanks for this video, because this bs of law of attraction made my ocd get a lot worse when I was getting better. Really, If you have OCD DO NOT read about this on the internet, even by curiosity.
Even my logical thinking knowing that this doesn't make any sense and there's nothing to be scared, my mind keep finding ways to make me fear of this bs of manifestation of my intrusive thoughts, I'm still in recovery after the pandemic.
The video didn't made me heal totally, but it helped me calm myself and try to stay on my logical thinking instead of these irrational fears.
tbh i got very delusional and obsesive when i was into the manifestation stuff. not fun times!
@@ayemzu888 Yeah, how to overcome it?
I can’t say if this would be helpful to you or not, i have ocd tendencies rather than ocD itself with the symptoms coming and going in security at different points in my life. I know you can’t always control how you think about these things, but I’ve told myself that my OCD and intrusive thoughts are categorically different in a way that the universe/god/whatever understands to be different. The things I want and the things I can’t help but think about are separate, and those unwanted thoughts aren’t manifested the same way the things that I want are.
I hope this doesn’t come across as victim blaming or telling you to just get good, rather if you can tell yourself that and make yourself believe it it could help a lot. My ability to do this might even be the reason I was able to handle these tendencies as well as I do in the first place
You are calm, you are strong, and the world is better with you in it.
@@unSeife thanks for the advice, I'll work on this separation
im glad for the part at the end. i was always a very logical, overly rational type of person. but at this point, i also can’t deny what i’ve seen with my own two eyes, even when it doesn’t hold up scientifically. its a mysterious world.
His wife didn’t bend the universe to make the plane late. The end is beyond stupid
@@elaineklein2385 ya believe it or ya dont! 🤷♀️
@@ahem8013 C’mon. You don’t actually believe the plane was late because his wife bent the universe or whatever. It’s stupid. And it matters because it makes me question whether the other stuff he says is reliable or if it’s also irrational, based on his own (kinda egotistical) cognitive biases, conflates common coincidence with causation, etc
Science is how we humans decided to view reality, so it's really just a perspective.
I used to think if I can't see it with my own eyes, it doesn't exist 😂 But, like you, I'm realizing there is more to this world than what we perceive or think we can explain. I love it!!
@@elaineklein2385It shouldn’t make you question everything else he says. He very clearly differentiated when he’s talking about personal belief stuff vs when he’s talking about scientific stuff. All you have to do is be careful to suspend your disbelief when he says it’s a personal opinion, and trust him when he’s talking about the science he’s studied and applied.
Im totally on the same page. Im a skeptic when it comes to these things but man... the amount of stuff (including food) that I've "manifested". Like I have had SO many experiences of thinking things like: "I could really use some bananas right now". And a few hours later, I find a bunch of bananas that someone dropped on the road outside. It's not like finding bananas where I live is a regular occurrence. This has happened with all kinds of furniture as well. It sounds like a joke but it really isn't. And this has happened A LOT by now. In the last 6 months, it has happened at least 7 times ... a few weird coincidences I can explain away but this often? I don't know... it's very specific stuff that is showing up as well. Things that I have never (or very rarely) seen dropped outside before or since.
Another example: a few months back I was going through a REALLY hard time. Like truly the darkest phase of my life. I prayed to God/the universe for a sign. Just anything to help me keep going. And I literally found a pillow in the trash the next day with the words "Everything will be alright" written across it... it's been on my couch since and it was right. So, yeah... I believe there's some weird connectivity stuff going on, even if the logical part of my brain is fighting against it.
I went through some of Neville's stuff, I've had some interesting situations. HOWEVER, it's clear tom that setting a goal is THE thing to do but you need to a pick a goal with a deep desire to achieve YET also remain a bit unattached to the outcome. Tough balance.
Dr. K seems to have mixed all the best stuff together in this video.
This is an interesting comment! I’m curious about the interesting situations you mentioned, if you’d care to share. Also, do you have any tips about balancing the deep desire with non-attachment?
@@KayKayBayForever I ask this question, if you can do anything you want, or buy anything you want but YOU CAN'T TELL ANYONE... what would it be? I find a lot of our desires are heavily influenced by social factors. Now, it's okay to have social factors, but try to aim for 80% you and 20% others. Buying a dream car for example, is less about you and more about the other. No one buys a Ferrari for themselves, it's to show off. This is why I won't buy a Ferrari lol
The idea of changing beliefs and assumptions in your self-concept that Neville talks about was really helpful. I've had a few situations where I would think about my deep desire/goal and my dream car drove by.
Yes, I think, anecdotally, when I achieve things - that's how it happens. However you're right, it's really REALLY hard to remain a bit unattached to the outcome, very well said.
"Imagining and visualizing are complete opposites" 🤯🤯
I already knew a lot of what you'd said up to that point, but this particular point is blowing my mind. To me these were always one and the same, and I never got anywhere "visualizing", I knew there was truth to it but I never experienced the benefits because I've been doing it wrong! 😱 This is life changing stuff. Thank you Dr. K.
Doctor K I 100% agree with you. I’ve had some incredibly weird things happen. Bumping into people the very next day that I visualised bumping into. Every time I’ve not cared much about the outcome of the visualisation it seems to happen. Weird stuff
Do an experiment. Carry a journal with you, and write every single person you imagine meeting/bumping into/talking during the day. Chances are, they are much more than you remember, and you only recall those you do happen along. It's a very well researched cognitive bias, affecting all of humanity. Kind like survivor bias.
@@stormlord1984 tbh I suspect you’re right! And I think I shall!
@@guitarpaul1 Would you mind sharing the results with us, after like a week? Sounds like a fun mini-experiment we're doing together!
I've watched a lot of the videos on Arnold and visualization, and I think it's pretty clear that when Arnold talked about visualization it was more about having concrete goals, about knowing exactly what you're working towards so that you're focused. And then he talks about how he would use that for visualization WHILE he was working toward that goal to push through the hard work and hard moments where you'd want to quit. I think that is the main distinction between "manifesting" and what he was talking about. And i've used that before. If you're working out and you're wanting to lift less reps or less sets, clearly visualizing why it is you're doing what you're doing (in his case wanting to win a competition and become a world champion) then you can push through. For him it was about focused goals so you know where you're going and you're doing what you're supposed to in order to get there, and then using that focus during the tough times. His talks about visualization were never about thinking about something so hopefully it comes to you, he used it as fuel to work toward the vision. Of course you need to have the self belief that what you're visualizing is indeed possible to achieve otherwise it won't sufficiently motivate you, but that is a different topic.
I know you can't logically control things outside of yourself but like I've heard all these stories of people where they just get this "feeling" that tells them a certain thing is about to happen and it always ends up being true, and the same thing has happened for me a few times as well. It definitely doesn't feel the same as like hopeful wishing or fantasizing, and it's hard to describe.
for example?
@@smoothjazz2143 like thinking about something seconds before it happens, it’s happened to me a couple times in the past b4 as well.
Ever since I started meditating, I do get subtle signs. For example, I will be going though a particular experience and then read it in a book. Some would say it's coincidence but it's way too specific to be coincidence. Who knows what it is (God, the universe, whatever you believe) but it's magical.
Confirmation bias
Kind of like synchronicity?
@@vr_connoisseur How do you know? Have you tried to explore this more yourself or are you just reciting what you have been told it is. And whether it is wrong for this individual to believe in that it can be from an outer source? Do you have all of the information to make the conclusion? If so please share.
Visualization is so real. You’re basically showing your mind that something is possible, therefore it makes the actual experience way less intimidating.
I got aphantasia
As long as you're visualizing the effort itself and not just the awesome effect of it.
@@PsychobellicVisualization doesn’t have to be “visual”, funnily enough. I don’t have a very strong internal “seeing” myself, but I can feel the feelings of being in a certain place, doing a certain thing. And that together with the focus is the important thing, I think.
@@KayKayBayForever never worked for me and I hated meditation for years because of that.. The Shunya technique was the first that worked for me, its more like a body scan
@@Psychobellic I really like body scanning type stuff as well! I’m curious about why not having an internal visual sense would make you hate meditation, though? I wasn’t under the impression most meditation was supposed to be visual.
I'm studying my masters at the moment. I've been surrounded by science of the natural world for so long, yet I cannot deny the things that have happened to me and to those around me just with visualisation, meditation, prayer and focusing on what we want. A great example of this...
One day on my way to work as I was leaving I had a distinct feeling to pray for protection. That day I had a near miss car accident and instead of being crushed by cars behind me and in front of me, one guy hit our car gently from behind and the people in front of us missed each other by millimetres. On the way back home, the rest of the sky was clear blue and in the horizon, there was a rainbow in the exact width of the highway. I can't explain the way I felt other than I felt seen and known by something way bigger than what we can possibly fathom. The world is definitely connected and we are connected to it in more ways than you think.
oh i totally get what you mean by shaping the universe. i always think of myself as a lucky person because things always seem to fall into place for me. i used to literally roll a dice during my exams when i didn't know which was the answer and i'd always get it right. if i was late, somehow all my transport arrives right on time/everyone else is late. if i was really worried about something, someone will come and approach me with a perfect solution that falls into place. i'd get a random impulse to try a gacha game/claw machine once in awhile and i always get what i want on the first try.
i figured maybe my intuition is really, really good, but what is intuition really? my personal theory is that i think i've been able to somehow hone it to the point that i can pick out patterns on a subconscious level and my body just intuitively knows when to strike at the exact right time.
i do visualise my ideal outcome very strongly so it's quite in line with what you mentioned! i think having the absolute confidence that you can make it happen plays a big role in actually being in the right state of mind to Make it happen. and obviously, since i've been "lucky" my entire life i've had a whole lifetime of positive reinforcement that i CAN indeed make it happen.
Videos like these from you got me to try again on TH-cam! Thank you!
I seem to be much more competent at making myself physically/mentally ill using my mind than improving myself physically, mentally, and practically using the same Jedi mind. This is the worst habit/skill/superpower that I need to reverse.
Hyper focus on it and write down step by minute step how you do it. Like legit everything from thoughts/behaviour/environment, basically construct a thought tree....basically not only will this make yourself super bored and not interested in doing it if you add these mundane admin tasks to it, but once you have something, you can challenge different parts of the sequence to try change the trajectory
Yep, feel like my brain is trying to achieve every label in the DSM lol
I too believe it bending the world to your will. I have found over the years that people I can't stand to be around tend to leave my sphere. They either quit the job, get transferred or a better job just falls into my lap.
ha, I love this! Would totally have had this as a full conversation at a party! (positive thinking - fun parties are still a thing)
Another aspect is how stereotypes can affect test scores - if you remind yourself of a negative stereotype then you do worse and if you remind yourself of a positive one you do better - priming yourself to respond to difficulty in a certain way. I also like how athletes use visualization to improve their best performance. I think beyond just emotion there is also the somatic aspect of psychosomatic - i.e. focusing on visualising the sensations in your body that you would have successfully doing the thing. Muscle memory and working through stuck responses in the body to make sure things are freed up to respond differently is part of PTSD healing too. It's such an interesting field that we are really just exploring, with so many possibilities, even if some folks go off on tangents with it
I appreciate your courage to share the last bit of the video. Open mindedness is one of the most massive keys to human progress
Very insightful! I shall put healthy visualization into practice. Thanks, Dr. K!
This video is so helpful. I really liked this, I think this is why subliminals work, it forces your brain to focus on your goals either because of the messages it sends to your brain or because you have to dedicate your time to thinking about that goal.
This is exactly what I needed to hear today! I've been making a concious effort to be more active and healthy, but sometimes the dread of having to move/get out of my comfort zone pushes me back. I tried vizualization for a bit today, and it feels like the amount of effort required to do something greatly reduces. Maybe it's just my anxiety of the "unknown" or fear that doing some activity will be a burden on me, but when I picture myself going through those actions and imagining focusing on certain aspects within that (without any negative feelings), I feel a lot more confident and sure of my own capabilities. Gonna keep practicing with this everday!
Thats made sense ,keep going!!
Hi Doctor K, and to all HealthyGamers. This video has genuinely been helpful for helping me with initiative, be it with cultivating relationships, staying physically fit, and diving into my hobbies without my mind to block me. Visualization is a powerful force, and I thank you for making this video so succinct and poignant. Do watch this video my friends, and give it a shot. I believe in y'all!
The more Dr. K talks about how to visualise, the more I realise how close visualisation is to meditation.
Thats kinda cool
As a kid, I've often visualized myself getting a lot of money. I thought about it often before sleep, and then one day, I suddenly find a 1000 swiss frank bill on the ground near a store. So somehow, I made something happen and it really blows my mind!
I think you nailed the head of my dreaming/fantasizing! Thanks for showing me coping.❤
This is a great vid by Doc K, I love how he breaks this concept down and the life application.
For anyone interested, Andrew Huberman has a great in depth video on this as well.
This story happened more than 40 years ago. I was a teenager, playing some caching the other guys game on the street with two other teenagers. Then it started raining and we paused. A good friend of mine and myself stood somewhere under a little roof, watching the other guy strolling around. I suggested: let us focus on him, making him to cross the street. This worked immediately. My friend said that happened just due to coincidence. I suggested to try something more difficult. The guy should pick up a stone from the garden of the house he was standing in front of. This also worked immediately. There we stopped this and laughed, but we never tried again.
Something like that happened to me a few years ago.
I was at a party and there was a girl who started to smoke really close to me and the smoke was going on my face (I’ve headache when I smell smoke). So I looked at her and thought “I want her to stop smoking” and keep staring and thinking that over and over again. Out of nowhere she dropped her beer cane on the floor (she was really suprise). And I thought “Oh maybe this is working” and continued to stare and repeat that phrase in my mind.
After some minutes her cigarette fell on the floor, she looked down and looked at it like super surprised, It was she was as if she was seeing a ghost or something. Then she looked up and saw me staring. I panicked and pretended to be busy. Unfortunately for me she picked the cigarette on the floor and continued to smoke (I know ew).
I tried to do it for a third time, but it didn’t work and I didn’t have time because my friends were calling.
I never did that again. Actually, I forgot about it and when I saw your comment, I remembered.
So dude I believe you.
@@LE-se7ry Thanks for your comment and thanks believing me!
Man this video is truly amazing!
Absolutely love this! Best explanation of visualization I’ve ever seen. Thank you for mixing the facts of science with the reality that not every outcome can be explained logically. Some must be felt with the heart.
I studied physics and I'm admittedly not a great student, but you have misunderstood quantum mechanics too, Dr. K.
A cat cannot be in a superposition of alive and dead, these rules do not apply to macroscopic objects. Nobody ever thought they did. Schrödinger's cat was just a metaphor to illustrate how absurd the microscopic behavior seems to be, and was never intended to be taken literally.
"Observation" in quantum mechanics also doesn't necessarily need to involve a conscious observer like a human. "Observation" is more about particles' interactions with larger objects, conscious or not, that force their observables to take on a specific value.
Two genuinely cool things about quantum mechanics though:
1. We might actually create the past through participation and observation, not just the present and
2. Without quantum uncertainty, electrons would crash into protons within fractions of a second. There would be no atoms and we wouldn't be here.
This is great timing. I recently started reading Psycho-Cybernetics and only about 5 chapters in and performing the exercises I already feel way more confident and relaxed about taking steps towards attaining my goals. I don't think it really matters exactly how it works, only that it does. You've given me a lot more things to visualize while I do the exercises so this was a great video to watch!
Wow amazing, 😮I feel like I've known this deep down for years but I couldn't somehow put it in words and got stuck within the law of attraction material but it never seem to work that way. I have been feeling stuck between these ideas for over 10 years. Thank you for this explaination it has given me so perspective and some relief oddly. ❤🙏
I'm thankful this video hasn't been deleted. Props to Dr K for saying something risky while being in such a field. He's hinted at this stuff in other videos and podcasts, but never fully dwelled into it probably because of fear of people not taking him seriously, which would be understandable. For anyone who is sleptical about the later parts of the video (which would be very understandable), i would say there's enough validity especially from actual people who have had success to give it an honest wholehearted try for this line of thinking. I was sleptical before too and I've come to this video several times over the past couple of months. It sucks that the only evidence i or anyone could give is just words. My personal experience has been pretty positive overall, granted not every single thing I've visualised has come to fruition and even the ones that did didn't end up being exactly what i imagined but 9 out of 10 times, i found myself to be in the same state I often forced myself to be in. In retrospect, after working on complete self persuasion, it's kinda obvious that it worked, feels like how could it not. But seriously, i went into this as scientifically as possible for myself, i maintained a specific journal just for this stuff. For me what worked is combining visualisation with yogi nidra as suggested and I've had good success. I do think people should give it an honest try but then again it's not too easy to convinve yourself into that state, i know I myself have had kany hurdles.
Well, for visualization of physical training it is making sense, cause by real training you don't just build muscles - you're also build stronger nerve connection
As someone with aphantasia I always wondered how much more or less impact my version of "visualization" has. I always wondered what the "visualize yourself as successful" was supposed to achieve until I learned of my aphantasia. I mean yeah sure I can think of what I want to achieve can't literally visualize myself achieving it.
I don’t have aphantasia but I also don’t “visualize” well in my mind. I try to do it by focusing on the feelings and concept of the goal. People also say focus on the other senses. What would you hear, smell and touch when you achieve your goal? I’m Still a total beginner at it though.
It's important to notice that visualization and mental image are different things. Most people can imagine things in their thoughts but it's not like they can really see it, visualization is when you close your eyes and you can see the thing. I think what is even more important that this is a skill that can be actually trained and learned to the extend where you can even do visualization with open eyes but requires a hell of a focus to do, if it's skill that you have obtained by training.
To train any kind of visualization you need to learn how to focus and that's done usually trough the meditation and learn how to empty your mind completely this step is absolutely required for training visualization (if you can keep your mind empty for 5 minutes that's all you need). Next you put very simple basic shapes in front of you like square or ball and empty your mind then focus on the object and try to not blink. After 20 seconds close your eyes and you should see object as a black/white after a two or three seconds it will start vanishing out.... don't open your eyes yet just try to recall the object shape again. After some time you will be able to recall it not gonna lie this alone have taken me at least two months to do and i was training usually 30-40 minutes daily and i wouldn't recommend go over that time since it's extremely tiering to do so. When you will be done with basic shapes you can go higher but before you need to learn how to center objects since you will notice that they are flying away from the center of your vision this can't be explained it's more about where you imagine things it's like reassembly of object from one place to another.
Last thing i mention and it's not something that usually people say and that's that not only you can train your visual imagination like this but basically all the senses it goes same with hearing, smell, touch or taste it's not really that different it just requires different input since it's nothing else then tricking your brain that it's receiving something that it actually doesn't.
You also can't visualize yourself as a failure
I came to the comments ask about people with aphantasia. I am very bad at visualizing
Also aphantasic here, I wonder if you have poor vision as well? (Like a high lens prescription) it could be that your brain prioritizes another sense. For example, I majorly suck at visualizing anything that's not directly in front of me (like I can't picture places I'd recognize, but I can solve visual puzzles really easily, and I quickly pick up handcraft such as musical skills, knitting and sewing). I think my brain development prioritized the kinetic sense (among others like smell and hearing) over sight. When I imagine something, it tends to be experientially - I feel the emotion, the temperature of the place, possibly even ambient sounds and smells, humidity - and this has all gotten more vivid the more I've studied and worked on my alexithymia. I think the exact sense you use doesn't matter to what Dr K refers to here as visualization. I think the point is making it real to yourself. And the stronger the sense you access your goal with, the more real it should seem.
Really appreciate the story and your reaction at the end - so funny and enlightening. Thank you!
About the whole bending the universe to your will thing, been there done that.
And it was for desire and pleasure. Fortunately I had the moral compass to stop the moment I slipped from desire into selfish desire aka greed and I (think I) managed to do everything I could to curtail/prevent pain and suffering for the world and people around me. I believe I'm paying a stern yet fair price for my recklessness till date.
It is a double edged sword that I do not trust myself to wield at the moment and I don't think I could even if I wanted to because I've lost that "connection to the universe".
Either way, thank you for letting the science go for a bit. I truly enjoy the passion in your "backed only by personal experience and not science" beliefs. My understanding of life and myself are abstract in nature. You can throw the science of motivation at me and I can parrot it to the world with understanding and accuracy but I KNOW the difference between visualisation and imagination through lived experience. So, please do more of this (if you'd like to) and thank you for planting seeds and showing me how to nurture them to bring me closer to that "connection to the universe" in a healthy, sustainable, non-psychedelic catalysed way.
I 100% agree, one of my stories is I was determined to work for Virgin Active health club and kept visualising getting a job, got rejected by about 6 gyms and the last one I got and ended up being the top tire health club,
And I have lots of other stories if this kinda thing happening
A few times I've visualized something that came true:
Senior night at my highschool we had games to play and we could win tickets to put in a raffle for prizes that the winner of would be announced at the end of the night. I only had 6 tickets, I put them all in the laptop bucket. I wanted that laptop. 3 separate friends came up to me and just gave me all their tickets cause they were like "ahh I don't really care, here have my tickets". I put them all in the laptop bucket. The next two hours I was just screaming internally to myself: I want that laptop. That laptop is mine. I felt it. And when the time came I won the laptop. Now you could say, "no you just had a shit ton of tickets in there so you were likely to win anyways". This is true, but I firmly believe if instead of visualizing I was thinking crap like "Man I'm not gonna win it, I never win anything, I ain't that lucky", then I don't think I would've won.
Another moment:
I'm a musician and working on putting a band together, and I've been saying to myself "as soon as I get a band together I want us to cover this one song". I've been practically visualizing covering this song. I get hit up from a friend to fill in playing guitar on this tribute night on just one song, a different song. I'm like sure hell yeah. I show up to rehearsal, the song I was visualizing wanting to cover was also on the setlist. I told them like "wait I already know that song, it's one of my favorites ever". They had someone already on it, but he didn't have time to learn it perfectly, so they asked me to fill in instead and they gave me the spot. And there it was. I was literally dreaming of and visualizing playing this song and within like 2 weeks it happened.
I’ve been there man, my family has lived by The Secret since it came out and I believed it as a kid in 2006. I was looking up at one of those plastic glow in the dark stars on my ceiling, thinking “If I really, REALLY believe that star is gonna fall…there’s no way it will….is there?” I stared at that star, feeling it fall and knowing it would fall…and that damn plastic star fell off the ceiling and onto my bed. It felt really, really weird.
Also, I’m a musician as well and I gotta know what song that was!
When you visualized did you do it like you are watching it like a movie (third person) in your head or you visualize like you are there and you see everything through your lens almost like a camera looking around you know? Which way would you do it?
great video, not only for the interesting takes on what you'd expect, but also because of the discussions it brings to the comments
You're right to a certain degree Dr. K. We can definitely manifest certain things to come to life of course with some limitations because the things you wish to happen have to be reasonable too. Hard to defend but like you say everything is connected in one way or another. Believing strongly in something is the power behind it. Emotions play a big part in so many aspects of life. If you believe you will fail you will not make smart and practical decisions to prevent yourself from failing on the other hand if you believe you will succeed you will put more effort in doing everything you can to succeed. Being more optimistic rather than dreadfully pessimistic HELPS a lot. The best thing to do is not disclose your true desires because people can ruin it for you if they don't want you to have it.
dr. K really out here changing the game. this is fascinating stuff!!
A wonderful psychology prof I had really stressed how important mental practice was too. The example she used was someone trying to learn piano, and the key to their progress was visualization practice right before bed. Shadowboxing is an important part of preparing for a fight for the same reason. People actually being able to increase strength is news to me, but not entirely surprising. Super cool though; I'm mentally squatting 500 as I type this. I'm gonna be jacked 💪
Because a big part of strength depends on the nervous system, through mind-muscle connection, achieving more efficient muscle activation.
In a religious context, it is often said that prayer doesn't change the world, or the omnipotent and omniscient being's will, but changes the mind of the supplicant. So there's more correlation to lived human experience and experimenting over eons. I do appreciate your balanced approach, breadth and depth of your work and your sharing. I recently started paying for Spotify and have been so re-energized by music (ironically as a longtime professional musician and music educator, I always resisted paying a monthly fee, but I was wrong. So satisfying.). In particular a random Ravi Shankar piece of music that I understand to be a meditation, mantra, raga? on peace. Called Shanti Mantra of course. A very powerful connection in my young adult life that I both enhanced and hindered with chemical and botanical means, as a Middle aged person, I breathed, chanted "Om, Shanti" and visualized myself doing the things that entail what I want to be for myself, my family, and my students. I will endeavour to learn the rest of the mantra(?) Lyrics?. I struggle with shame and fear of never being able to find the balance between doing enough and living with passion and expertise, so peace seems like a good mantra to me. And a delightful, delicious soundscape, harmony, melody and performance just for a start. Thanks Dr. K, team and community!
I honestly can't wait to get back on track knowing all this information. 3 years of manifestation junk leading to the mentality that my plane left without me. It really is a bunch of crock. I never had a problem showing up when my goals were passion based. Maybe it's time I reframe what I want, and let the rest roll off me like beads of sweat they truly are. ❤
I’m also kind of mixed on manifestation/law of attraction. On one hand I don’t believe that there are particles in the universe and if you vibrate them correctly you can attract your dream life or whatever. Nevertheless I believe in visualization and affirmation. I’m a dj and I visualize and affirm my success as a dj/producer in my journal almost daily. I write things like “I am djing at xyz festival” “I am becoming a better musician” and I have found success through doing that. I’m not headlining Coachella or anything like that but I have played at smaller festivals and I’ve made a name for myself in my local edm scene. Furthermore I have gotten better at making music. It’s not as good as skrillex but I am getting better at making electronic music, this is through regular practice and watching videos. Therefore what I think visualization/manifestation actually does (in a realistic/scientific way) is it primes your brain to focus on what you want and therefore motivates you to go after it. Not like fantasizing where you dream about being a popular dj but don’t do anything to get there. Furthermore the success i have gained as a dj has been relative to my skill level/where I’m at. So I visualize and write down “I am playing at abc festival” I won’t be headlining it by tomorrow instead my hard work will be gifted by an opportunity to play at one of the nightclubs in my area, or playing at a smaller fest or opening up for a bigger dj and as I keep visualizing and working I’ll be gifted bigger and better opportunities. Weird stuff!
success would skyrocket by just stop calling it edm :P
The example you gave of your wife having the flight delayed is so weird to me because I have had so many experiences of things like this happening for me. For example I would hang out with my friend after school in high school and very consistently over years, I would very often have it where I do the homework most nights and this night I decide nah I don't want to. My friend would tell me how I should and how it will come back to bite me, yet almost every single time I was never punished for it in any meaningful way. Countless times would the homework be delayed or the teacher forgot. Or they just wouldn't get to my project yet on the day of presentation, and mine wasn't ready anyways. Another example would be my friend could look for hours and find maybe 1-2 four leaf clovers. I could find like 8 within 2-3 minutes walking home without even trying. Just a few examples yet I understand what you mean by that feeling.
That’s true but think about how many things are happening in your life every second and every minute, your gonna notice the odd things that stand out, statistically it makes sense these “bending the universe things” happen X amount of times just based on how many things are always happening
I don’t know much about the science but I have been using visualization for years and it’s gotten me everything I visualized so far. Some things I’m still working on. In this way it builds confidence and momentum. Occasionally I realize I don’t want the things I worked for anymore, but still retain the satisfaction from having achieved what I aimed for. David Goggins has also been influential to me on this topic, he is a master of visualization imo
I was a skeptic. I had no faith and believed only in science, even that I took with a grain of salt. Until one day I was desperate in my life situation and found out about these theories. They said.. you must believe it so it can work. And i was so desperate I decided to believe it and test it out for myself to see if it was true. But I need to believe in order for it to work... and so i did. I visualised and let it go. Visualised and let it go. Didn't even try excessively hard. Somehow little by little strangely almost impossible life circumstances started to happen and fall into place. I don't know, maybe i was extremely lucky, maybe i didn't aim high enough. Now i wonder if i should have aimed higher in my visualisation. I spent some time writing the details of what happened but i realised i don't want to disclose them. What i will tell is that everything just fell into place on its own through widly improbable circumstances.... how could i not believe?
if you are looking for a simpler point to understand, sometimes you naively want something and it happens, and then you say "oh I wish I wanted something else", this is a good point to start understanding the subject, goodluck all godspeed dr.k
Flip a coin if you’re trying to make up your mind on something. You’ll know the answer when the coin is in the air!
GODSPEED SPIDERMAN
If you've experienced psychedelics, then you understand what I'm about to say. I 100% believe this to be true. Our physical state is just one way of experiencing these layers of reality. We are one. We are all weaved into the layers and fabric of the universe as energy, and pure love.
After having done Ayahuasca (once), psilocybin and LSD a few times in both nature and city settings. The experience is completely unreal. I also find it so interesting that our bodies are programmed to have those experiences by default from those compounds.
I hope they figure it out in our lifetime, because if that is what we go back to after this experience - we're going to go back to something so beautiful it transcends any words.
The universe has its own feeling, it use to flow through me... Id have what I needed when I needed it. Now that I have slinked into depression I realize we get severed from the universe in some way. There is something to this topic as there is a lot more to reality than we have confronted. I will say this video filled in some blanks in what I have been personally trying as of late, so thanks Dr.K I shall be trying some new things in the coming days thanks to this video.
Great video dr. K you are so good at explaining and breaking things down. Its so true i had moments of clarity in life when i could feel my body alignin with the visualization of what i want. It really does take an everyday pratlctive you reminded me its an in enteral process and not an external day dream of your future. I love the story of your wife its totally true you can sorta make things happen i guess. She sounds awesome share more of your personal experiences find it very interesting
I used visualisation to become more confident and become a teacher. As someone who was extremely shy growing up, I imagined how I would be if I was already a confident person- how would I talk and act with others? After a lot of constructive feedback and resilience, I eventually got the qualification. I think visualisation really does help, especially since it helps you get that self-confidence and then take action towards it.
On a similar topic - can you please make a video about aphantasia? I'm dying to know more but I fail to find a lot of information.
Really interesteing video. I went and searched for some of the studies you mentioned and they were some great reads. It would be awesome if your team could link things like that in the description so people could find them more easily.
Your content is top shelf! Thanks for the great take on this concept.
The younger me was so far disconnected from my self I never couldve imagined actually understanding and using "woo hoo" things to become more unified. You really cant accept it until things start happening. I feel its like liberation of being an npc.
Would you mind sharing your experience and what made you start to believe in it? Asking for an npc (it’s me, I’m the npc)
@@candlerobeI'm replying with my own experience. Initially, some philosophy from Taoism made me look at things through a wider lens. I would listen to lectures from Alan Watts, take some of those philosophies into my daily life, and question the assumptions I had. (For example, assumptions about what the difference between pain and suffering is)
I added up these new philosophies into a worldview that was much broader, more flexible, and accepting. After that, good things just happened after I looked for the right solutions. I wouldn't brute force things, I would equip myself with knowledge and find the easiest solution. I stopped forcing things to happen and they kind of just worked out
I absolutely believe manifestation works to the point of influencing the world around yourself not just yourself. There are so many people who have manifested very specific things so it is impossible for me to deny their experiences.
Would love to see more about this topic. Even some guided self visualisations by dr K. I'd pay for that
Love the whole bending the universe to your will topic. It's happened far too many times in my life to ignore it or be in disbelief of it. It's actually astonishing. GGs
I remember playing UNO with my sister's family at one point and I was low key pissed off at my sister because I frequently felt like she didn't take me seriously a lot of the time and it led to all of them treating me in a similar fashion. I'm the youngest in the family and even though I was in my thirties, I felt like she would still treat me like a child because she has always been my older sister. I wanted to get back at them in the moment and I focused really hard on playing and won every. single. game. We played like 8 rounds of UNO and I don't know how but I somehow thrashed them by getting all of the right cards and making all of the right moves which was really satisfying because I feel like it got her off my back a little bit. I feel like it couldn't have been just luck or skill but that I somehow managed to manifest something to my benefit. I don't think I have superpowers, but that experience left me open to considering that my intention sometimes has an effect on the universe that I don't fully understand.
I'm an Agnostic Atheist and a Skeptic. I've read all of the popular books and watched lectures and I used to say I don't believe in the supernatural at all. I'm now in a place where I consider the supernatural to be what we give to something that we can't explain in the moment. I feel connection with the universe and I'm always open to having my mind changed about things that science tells us is impossible.
I experience the exact same "bending the universe" thing. It seems to me that "high vibration" activities (meditation, yoga, eating lots of vegetables and natural food, sunlight, nofap, good sleep, etc.) really strengthen those powers while I get basically none of it if I am staying up late, eating junk food, not going outside, watching p*rn, etc.
Visualization has been one of my greatest tools for learning new skills. I imagine myself performing the physical and mechanical actions that I have been practicing. I find it very helpful to watch a video at someone very skillful at whatever you’re trying to learn and use it to visualize from. For instance when leaning a new song on the piano, I will watch their hands as I’m imagining myself playing the same exact keys. This type of thing certainly does manifest into learning quicker, at least for myself. I’ve done many basketball moves, and performing mechanical actions in competitive video games. When imagining say a spin move or euro step by a defender to the rim, I’m imagining each specific step(footwork) and the associated movement. Sometimes I’ll do the movement while I’m visualizing, for instance doing that spin move, but without a basketball. I haven’t tried more conceptual or larger things like Dr. K suggested but it’s certainly interesting.
Thank you for giving us your honest opinion Dr K (on how you feel about the mystical portions of spirituality)
There is a lot I want to say. But I feel that the more I say, the more muddy it will become. (blaming it on language)
Both "science" and "spirituality" seem to try to explain "reality". Both of them got some of it right, and both of them got some of it wrong.
Luckily, we live in a reality where things are repeatable. And science took advantage of it; which is what the "scientific method" is all about. If it is repeatable, we can prove it. And when contradicting evidence shows up, they have no choice but to admit that the model is not complete or that something is not quite right.
Also, because reality is repeatable, humans who live in "reality" will eventually have "shared experiences". Because it is hard to communicate all the variations of these similar experiences, we find patterns which we summarize and group them as "principles of the universe". These principles are manly conveyed via human language and shared experiences.
Then, there is the weakness of "human language". Both science and spirituality uses "language" to communicate its knowledge. The advantage science has, is that it is allowed to use other tools and even create new ones to show repeatability. Spirituality on the other hand, can't always show you the results until one is on the right set of conditions to experience it.
There are a lots of nuances with human language. Even science becomes hard to explain when we give crappy names to scientific concepts. But spirituality is particularly affected by these disadvantages. Because principles are “summaries”, it has to leave out a lots of details. And without the details, it can be misinterpreted even more easily. It is not until the right conditions that the light-bulb lights-up in our head and we say "ah, that is what it meant".
When the language has no vocabulary to explain a concept or experience, one starts resorting on "analogies". That is why some spiritual sayings or scriptures are not always meant to be taken literally. At other times, it is meant to be taken literally. But more often, it lacks of detail about the situation which it’s for; and one ends up applying it on the wrong scenario.
As for if I believe in the mystical parts of spirituality, my current true answer is “I don’t know”. I haven’t had any strong and repeatable experience to say it is real. At the same time, I can see how a strong believer would easily “interpret” any simple day-to-day experience as to be the work of God or the universe. Similarly, I can see a strong non-believer always finding excuses to say, it is just a coincidence.
I remember as a kid looking up to people who had a strong belief of either side. But as an adult, I now see it more as a sign of arrogance; and me being a dumb kid who got impressed by their confidence. And I also remember as a kid looking down on people who told me they "don’t know” when in reality they were being honest and humble about their understanding.
My day isn't complete without listening to Dr. K at least once. What a beautiful human being.
Loved that ending from 19:00 onwards. Connection are there for sure. For what I know is that researching things from curiosity and for fun leads to a lot of insight on how the world works. I am only 22 now, but for the last couple of years I've learned so much. Can't wait for what is more to discover. Read some books people. Even music lyrics have so much more meaning than I've ever expected them to have.
I just love how this man talks about and explains stuff, it's so easy to be interested in the topic and follow along.
For me me, manifestation is the merging of your internal landscape which brings your awareness to opportunities that align with it while also disconnecting from societal norms and stresses that have no place in killing your authenticity of the expression of yourself. While your vision evolves, your brain identifies the tools available within your awareness to get towards a goal, though I have to get better at overcoming obstacles without negatively impacting my mental health.
I wonder what the connection to aphantasia is. Is there an alternative to *picturing* things? Does it work the same way? I would love to know more
And in all honesty I manifested my channel in my life. All I did was visualize the process. I just figured out the end goal, and wrote down what were the daily things I would have to do, and then just visualized me doing those things. In my experience, it works
Visualizing yourself vs external factors is key.
My most recent job interview, I had thought through where id look on the table and where my hands were before delivering my closing statement. It's absolutely a thing!
my mother bends the universe to her will, its insane and I'm so glad someone else knows someone like this
This is so interesting, this is exactly how I’ve felt about manifesting over the years.
I’ve achieved so much more success believing I could and made situations much worse believing I was incapable of doing anything to change it and that’s good enough reason for me to keep doing it. Of course I try to do it without proselytizing that it’s a magic lifestyle that’ll fix all of life’s problems.
It can make a real difference in your life to truly believe you’re capable. Great video as always!
I love how he call it then explains it in such a simple way. So amazing at expressing his ideas. Great video
I sooo needed this today, thank you ❤
This is a very interesting topic and not something I had ever even considered before.
Just as a point, you reference a large number of studies over the course of this video, but I can’t see them actually cited anywhere in the video, description or comments (if I’m just being blind please do let me know). I think it would both greatly strengthen your argument and help us engage with the wider topic if you put the sources somewhere. Many thanks!
You know you're going to achieve what you visualize when the visualization and seeing the success comes naturally and is not forced to visualize to come into being.
My ex told me that she would be manifesting her happiness and that I needed to as well for us to be together. She basically said in as far as I could understand that if I didn't i would be stuck here without her in the crappy reality while she jumped to another reality where we are together and everything is great.
Man I wish I was making this up. You wanna talk about some sleepless nights..
bruh I found a science youtube channel trying to explain this stuff with physics (amateur level). Quantumn leaping, and stuff. These ppl imo are coping.
What?! I'm pretty sure that when a relationship is going well, you automatically imagine yourselves happy together. That makes no sense.
And what about her? Supposedly she jumped to another universe, I guess, but I'm assuming she didn't disappear from this one right? So does that mean she both manifested enough to deserve the happy future and didn't at the same time?
Did she switch places with a version of her in a different universe? I'm so confused.
That is some next level gaslighting
@@Ran_DoI study physics and I have given up trying to explain to some of my friends that it doesn't work like that.
People who never studied physics come to me often and say "did you know that quantum mechanics says it's possible to_____"
Me: "no it doesn't say that."
Them: "yes it does, I know for sure!"
Me: "ok you know what, fine, believe that if you want"
At least I know who my halfway intelligent friends are now.
@@Iudicatio did you know that the field of quantum physics was actually developed to determine the size of my penis? (it is very small) Average, I mean, average.
Very well said! Thank you for being transparent!
thank you again, you're helping me a ton, please continue