How to use the Reticular Activating System part of the brain to improve your manifestation power? Sri Amit Ray talks about the techniques to purify and reprogram your reticular activating system for effective visualization and manifestation.

In this article, we explain how to reprogram your reticular activating system effectively to manifest your dreams. You will also know how it is related to some of the chakras, in the Sri Amit Ray 114 Chakra System framework. 

Success in manifestation and Law of attraction needs clear vision, unshakable determination, and persistent smart work. Smart work means working efficiently with innovative ideas. However, smart work alone is not sufficient, you need to align with higher consciousness. You need to keep your focus consistently on your higher goals. To keep your focus consistently on your higher goals, you need purification of your reticular activating system. 

Here, we discussed the 7 techniques to purify the reticular activating system for higher manifestations.

Reticular Activating System for Manifestation

Your reticular activating system part of the brain can improve your manifestation and visualization power with mantra and exercises. Before deep-diving into the roles of RAS in manifestation of your dreams, let's first understand Reticular Activating System in brief.

Seven Scientific Benefits of Om Chanting

Here, Sri Amit Ray explains the scientific aspects of om chanting benefits.

Om chanting is a disciplined and  flexible process to remove tension, anxiety,  fear, depressions, and negativity from life.  It can bring positivity to your life like courage, focus, concentration, happiness, and joy, effortlessly. It can improve your state (short term) as well as trait (long term) health, happiness, joy and well-being. 

Om chanting is a series of step-by-step process. It is a scientific art but it should be learnt properly to get its benefits. Systematic guided Om chanting can change your emotional reactions and responses to external stimuli and internal experiences in a positive way. It can enhance your efficiency, calmness, tranquility, and mental clarity.

Dr. Ray explains how low frequency Om chanting can reduce our daily stress, strain, anxiety and tensions. Om chanting is effective for stress management.  Under various pressure conditions such as before examination, before public speaking, before important sports events and during critical challenges of life Om chanting can enhance confidence and eliminate stress and anxiety.  Om chanting improves the connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, which is the key component for relaxation, stress control and better decision making. 

Low frequency seven step deep Om chanting increases gamma wave in the brain. The gamma brain waves are known as “feeling of blessings”.  The seven step deep Om chanting and meditation is supposed to be practiced for 20 minutes, two times per day. Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins are the four key hormones generated in the body during low frequency Om meditation and these four hormones have huge impact on regulating both state anxiety as well as trait anxiety.

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Impact of Om Chanting for Stress Management

Here, Sri Amit Ray explains how Om Chanting can improve our state (short term) and trait (long term) stress management.  Om chanting changes our emotional reactions and responses to external stimuli and internal experiences in a positive way.

Dr. Ray explains how low frequency Om chanting can reduce our daily stress, strain, anxiety and tensions.  Under various pressure conditions such as before examination, before public speaking, before important sports events and during critical challenges of life Om chanting can enhance confidence and eliminate stress and anxiety.  Om chanting improves the connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex is the key to stress control. 

Low frequency seven step deep Om chanting increases gamma wave in the brain. The gamma brain waves are known as “feeling of blessings”.  The seven step deep Om chanting and meditation is supposed to be practiced for 20 minutes, two times per day. Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins are the four key hormones generated in the body during low frequency Om meditation and these four hormones have huge impact on regulating both state anxiety as well as trait anxiety. Om chanting is not simple. It is a series of step-by-step process. Om chanting is a scientific art but it should be learnt properly to get its benefits. The seven main benefits of Om chanting are as follows:

Why smiling face is so important during meditation? Soft smiling brings instantaneous joy. It relaxes the mind and the body.  It is not necessary to smile all the time during meditation. However, at the beginning of a meditation session smiling is very important. Smiling is a positive lens through which you can see the world positively.  In this article the basic neuroscience of smiling, during meditation is explained.

Children smiles as many as four hundred times per day. Smiling stimulates our brain reward mechanism in a way that even chocolate cannot match. Smiling can help reduce the level of stress-enhancing hormones like cortisol, adrenaline and dopamine, increase the level of mood-enhancing hormones like endorphin and reduce overall blood pressure. 

The feel good neurotransmitters dopamine, endorphins and serotonin are all released when a smile flashes across your face as well.  This not only relaxes your body, but it can lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Smiling can transform you and the world around you.  Smile spreads from our face, through our respiratory system, and eventually through our entire bodies. 

Smiling decreases stress hormones and  triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals. It increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.  Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain. Smiling increases the amount of T cells, which are the body’s natural defense against viruses.  It also increases memory and cognitive functioning.

The Inner Smile as a Somatic Anchor

In neuroscience, facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions send feedback to the brain that influences emotional states. A soft, natural smile activates the zygomatic major muscle, which in turn sends calming signals to the autonomic nervous system—especially the vagal tone.

Practical Technique:

• As you inhale, bring a soft smile to your lips and eyes.
• On the exhale, let that smile sink inward—to the heart, to the brainstem, to the belly.
• Imagine the smile as a golden light circulating through your brain chakras.

References:

"When you smile, the world smiles at you: ERP evidence for self-expression effects on face processing” by Alejandra Sel, Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Simone Tuettenberg and Bettina Forster in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Published,  June 2015 

R.D. (2000). Neural correlates of conscious emotional experience. In R.D. Lane & L. Nadel (Eds.), Cognitiveneuroscience of emotion (pp. 345–370). New York: Oxford University Press.