Dr. James Doty: The Neuroscience of Manifesting the Life You Want

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Dr. Doty authored the newly released “Mind Magic”. Since 1997, he has been a Stanford Neurosurgery Department professor and adjunct professor, and he founded the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). His research focuses on meditation, compassion, and self-compassion.

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Highlights

• “You’re the only person that can accept yourself, forgive yourself, and understand that we are all frail, fragile human beings and nonetheless, we all deserve to be loved.” Dr. Doty explains how, in many ways, trauma and unconscious baggage cause people to lose their self-agency in seeking external affirmation. This validation-seeking becomes an unconscious driver of your behavior, even manifesting perhaps the “bad” things that happen to you.?
• “I realized my actions were fear-based because of what I felt my deficiencies were, and I was masking them by showing off to other people. Once I reoriented myself after this period of reflection, I realized it's not about me, and what really makes a life is to be of service to others.” As a seriously successful neurosurgeon with a plethora of high-value material possessions, one might think Dr. Doty ‘had it all.' Well, he did. But he felt a deep emptiness inside and entered a period of reflection that pointed him in a new direction. Even though he had manifested everything he wanted, he had not manifested what he needed.
• “When you don’t believe you deserve it, that limits you in achieving.” Dr. Doty explains how all of our habits and beliefs make up all of our decisions and actions, for good and for bad. You can use the power of the mind to change your life.

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