{"id":17318,"date":"2014-01-13T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=17318"},"modified":"2015-06-02T20:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:37:40","slug":"manifestation-thoughts-create-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/manifestation-thoughts-create-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Manifestation: Your thoughts create your reality (Pam Grout)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/manifestation-thoughts-create-reality\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17320\" alt=\"dog manifesting a bone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dog-manifesting-a-bone-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What if you could prove that your reality is malleable? \u00a0Join CJ as she interviews Pam Grout on her #1 New York Times Bestselling book, E-Squared: Nine Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove that Your Thoughts Create Your Reality. Learn how to use manifestation techniques to create your best life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/securestatic.iheart.com\/widget\/index_talk.html?showId=25229902&amp;episodeId=25231424&amp;ref=embed&amp;autoPlay=0\" height=\"224\" width=\"398\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Show Summary<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Segment 1: How do you balance &#8220;being with what is&#8221; with the idea of free will and creating your reality through manifestation?<\/li>\n<li>Segment 2: When we manifest our deepest desires, who are we praying to?\u00a0God looks like ZZ Top and Other Annoying Myths.<\/li>\n<li>Segment 3: Listener questions: Pam&#8217;s newest books. \u00a0How Pam came up with the 9 experiments? Reader&#8217;s stories and the magnificent things they&#8217;ve manifested using the 9 exercises in Pam&#8217;s book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Article by Pam Grout published on Hay House<\/h1>\n<p>Our brains continually sift through the possibilities and pick which bits of information to \u201csee\u201d and believe. Out of sheer laziness, the stuff we choose to perceive\u2014and make no mistake . . . it is a choice\u2014is stuff we already know. It\u2019s stuff we decided on way back when. We see, feel, taste, touch, and smell not the real world, but a drastically condensed version of the world, a version that our brains literally concoct.<\/p>\n<p>The rest zooms by without recognition. John Maunsell, a neuroscientist at Harvard University, says, \u201cPeople imagine they\u2019re seeing what\u2019s really there, but they\u2019re not.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCreating Neural Pathways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once your brain decides which bits to let in, it builds bridges between various nerve cells, interlacing nerve fibers to create neural pathways. The average human has 100 billion nerve cells, each with innumerable extensions, so different highways get built in each brain. The map of neural pathways in your brain and, say, Johnny Depp\u2019s brain are as different as the maps of Wisconsin and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get the pathways set up, you quit traveling the rest of the country. Interstate 70 in my home state of Kansas makes for a perfect metaphor. Believe it or not, Kansas\u2014the state\u00a0<em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>\u00a0portrayed in black and white\u2014actually contains lots of geological landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a miniature Grand Canyon in the northwest corner, for example, and a huge seven-story limestone formation called Castle Rock near the town of Quinter. But since people traveling through Kansas rarely leave I-70, nobody has a clue that these geological formations exist. They\u2019ve literally bypassed all the beautiful, worthwhile stuff and come to the erroneous conclusion that Kansas is flat and boring.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not reality.<\/p>\n<p>Like those highway planners who put I-70 on the flattest, quickest, and easiest route, we build our neural pathways on the least complicated routes\u2014the ones we\u2019ve traveled so many times before. But this doesn\u2019t show us reality. Not even close. We don\u2019t begin to see all that is there\u2014only three and a half minutes, compared to 821 years.<\/p>\n<p>The roads and highways of our brains get set up pretty early. When we\u2019re born, every possibility exists. Let\u2019s take language, for example. Within every newborn is the ability to pronounce every sound in every single language. The potential is there for the r rolling of the Spanish language.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also there for those guttural German diphthongs. But very early on, our brains lay down neural pathways that mesh with the sounds we hear every day, eliminating other sounds from other languages.<\/p>\n<p>With the possible exception of Barbara Walters, pretty much everyone who speaks English can pronounce the following phrase: \u201cRolling Rock really rouses Roland Ratinsky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when people from China try to learn English, they no longer have the neural pathways to properly say their\u00a0<em>r\u2019s<\/em>, so that\u2019s why \u201cfried rice\u201d becomes \u201cflied lice.\u201d Just so no one\u00a0 thinks I\u2019m ethnocentric, I should probably add that I\u2019ve tried pronouncing some of those guttural German words only to discover that my German neural pathways have been shot to hell and back.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best example of how your mind creates its own virtual-reality game is the everyday, garden-variety dream. When Morley Safer showed up on your doorstep last night asking all those embarrassing questions, it seemed pretty darn real. But once the alarm clock went off, Morley and that virtual<em>\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0interview popped like the flimsy soap bubble it was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinging To Our Warped Illusions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our neural pathways establish reruns of what has gone on before. Like the three-year-old who insists on watching\u00a0<em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>\u00a0over and over and over again, we cling to our warped illusions with a tenacious grip.<em>\u00a0Get your bloody hands off my illusion!<\/em>\u00a0Even though it makes us miserable, we prefer to place our faith in the disaster we have made.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask me, learning how to transform energy is so important it should be taught along with reading, writing, and arithmetic. It all starts with intent, the force that lies behind everything. It\u2019s the energy, the fuel, the electric charge that sets up a resonant field and sends out probability waves into the FP (field of possibility). Esther Hicks, who facilitates the Abraham-Hicks material, calls it \u201claunching a rocket of desire.\u201d Giving it attention adds mass.<\/p>\n<p>The minute you make an intention, you create it. It\u2019s instantaneous. It exists as an actual thing. You don\u2019t see it yet because you\u2019re still operating from linear time. You\u2019re still sold on the old-school adage \u201ccreating things takes time.\u201d So you keep working and waiting. You keep following the seven steps from the latest self-help book.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhat Physicists Say About the Quantum World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s what physicists tell us. Things, in the quantum world, do not happen in steps. They happen immediately.<\/p>\n<p>So the thing you intend, the minute you intend it, exists, but like Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat, a famous thought experiment devised in 1935 by Austrian physicist Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, you\u2019re only aware of the reality you choose to observe. The physical manifestation remains enfolded outside your current consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting-edge physicists tell us life is multidimensional. But most of us are stuck in our one-dimensional physical reality, restricted to what we experience with our five senses. What we experience with these alleged foolproof tools of observation are nothing but what we decide to look for. It\u2019s not even a chicken-or-egg question. What we see, experience, and feel with our five senses always comes after the decision to see, experience, and feel it.<\/p>\n<p>I liken consciousness to a giant skyscraper. I may be living on the second floor, but the \u201cthing\u201d I created with my thought is up on the 17th floor. Until I can get to the 17th floor, it appears it\u2019s still missing, that I\u2019m still waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Another great analogy is a television set. If you have cable, more than 100 channels are yours for the clicking. TiVo aside, you can only watch one channel at a time. When you\u2019re watching, say,\u00a0<em>Modern Family<\/em>, you\u2019re chuckling at the antics of Cam, Mitchell, Phil, and Gloria and you\u2019re completely unaware of the other 99 (or more) channels. That\u2019s why it\u2019s really important to stay on the channel you want.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t give any airtime to the reality from which you\u2019re trying to escape. Tune in only to your intent.<\/p>\n<h1>About our Guest<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/manifestation-thoughts-create-reality\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17319\" alt=\"pamgrout\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pamgrout-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Pam Grout is the author of 16 books, three plays, a television series, and two iPhone apps. She writes for\u00a0<i>People\u00a0<\/i>magazine,<i>Cnngo.com, Huffington Post,<\/i>\u00a0and her travel blog, www.georgeclooneyslepthere.com. Find out more about Pam and her out-of-the-box take on life on her website: www.pamgrout.com.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Grout is a world traveler, a loving mother, a best-selling author, a millionaire and an inspiring witness to everyone she meets.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, only four of the above are true so far, but that line is an affirmation I started using 20 years ago before I\u2019d ever had a child, before I became a travel writer, or an author and, for that matter, before I even liked myself all that much. Evidently affirmations work, because now I can proudly say all but one of the above are true. I\u2019ll let you guess which one is yet to manifest.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Lawrence, Kansas, a fun, funky university town that has lots of artists, liberals and other like-minded folk. I love anything having to do with creativity. Maybe that\u2019s why my second book was about how to be more creative. I play tennis, I love to garden (although I refuse chemical help of all kind), I write screenplays (unfortunately nobody buys them\u2026..YET)\u00a0 and I love to putter. Putter, in case you\u2019re unfamiliar with the term, means doing very little. I like just hanging out, talking with friends, reading books with my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>For a career, I write articles and books. I have 15 published books so far and I\u2019ve sold articles to dozens of publications. The ones I\u2019m probably most proud of are Travel &amp; Leisure, Outside, Family Circle, Modern Maturity, New Age Journal, Scientific American Explorations, Arizona Highways, Travel Holiday, Tennis, Powder, Snow Country, the Washington Post, the Detroit Free Press, First for Women, Amtrak Express and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a Midwestern stringer for People magazine. Working out of the Chicago Bureau, I\u2019ve written about everything from a dinosaur hunter to a couple guys who opened a bakery for dogs to a wonderful Boeing lineman who ran into a burning building to save six children.<\/p>\n<p>I also write a travel column called \u201cNow, Where Was I?\u201d I\u2019ve been to all the continents and I\u2019ve tried practically all the sports. I\u2019ve yet to jump out of an airplane, but I have to save something for my 90th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could prove that your reality is malleable? \u00a0Join CJ as she interviews Pam Grout on her #1 New York Times Bestselling book, E-Squared: Nine Do-it-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove that Your Thoughts Create Your Reality. 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