I recently had a big Inner Alchemy “ah-ha” – sparked by the viewing of a couple of amazing video clips of scientist/mystic Gregg Braden. In an interview for a Louise Hay program, Mr. Braden talks about the relationship between thoughts, feelings and emotions, in relation to the practice of prayer and creative manifestation.

Our conscious thoughts – our visions of what we wish to manifest – are, Mr. Braden proposes, something akin to a quantum blueprint. These visions typically originate in the three upper chakras (crown, forehead & throat) or, in Taoist terms, the upper dantian.

While these visions, or prayers, might by themselves be quite beautiful and inspiring, they seem often to remain as just that: internal images or aspirations. But how do we actually bring them into existence within our material world? According to Mr. Braden, we do this by activating the feeling level of our Being, rooted in the lower three chakras (root, sacral & solar plexus).

Generating strongly-energized positive feelings about what we’re envisioning is the key to manifesting these visions. Once we’ve generated this energy - in what Taoist Inner Alchemy calls the Lower Dantian and Snow Mountain areas – we allow it to flow upward, at the same time as the vision-energy flows downward.

As these two energies meet within the electromagnetic field of the heart chakra (the middle dantian), the vision is infused with the life-blood of our feeling-energy – a kind of "immaculate conception" which births the vision into the manifest world ... [read the entire essay]