Manifesting Your Dreams: Aligning the Mind, Heart, and Gut for True Creation
- Jo Moore
- 2 days ago
- 8 min read
“You do not attract what you want. You attract what you are.” — Wayne Dyer
Manifesting our dreams is not merely about wishful thinking or repeating affirmations into the void. It’s about alignment — a deep and harmonious resonance between our mind, heart, and gut. When these three centers of intelligence work together, manifestation becomes less about chasing and more about allowing.
In recent years, scientists, spiritual teachers, and psychologists alike have started to converge on a single truth: our thoughts, emotions, and actions shape our reality. Books like Atomic Habits by James Clear, and teachings from Dr. Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden, and other modern mystics all point toward the same principle — we become the creators of our own lives when we consciously program our inner world.
1. The Science and Spirit of Manifesting Your Dreams
Manifestation has often been misunderstood as a mystical or “woo-woo” idea — something detached from science. Yet, neuroscience, quantum physics, and psychology now provide a powerful framework to explain how it actually works.
At its core, manifestation is the process of bringing our internal state (thoughts, feelings, beliefs) into coherence with external reality. It’s about aligning who we are internally with what we want to experience externally.
Dr. Joe Dispenza, author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Becoming Supernatural, describes this process as “causing an effect in the world by changing your internal energy state.” He teaches that our thoughts send out an electrical charge, and our emotions send out a magnetic one — together, they form the electromagnetic field that attracts similar energy.
“When you combine a clear intention (mind) with an elevated emotion (heart), you begin to change your biology to look like the event has already happened.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza
This idea is now being validated through studies in neuroplasticity and the autonomic nervous system. When we repeatedly visualize, feel, and act as though our dreams are already real, the brain rewires itself to support that new identity. The body, as Dispenza says, “becomes the mind of the future.”
2. The Three Brains: Head, Heart, and Gut
We often think of intelligence as being purely cerebral — housed within the brain in our skull. But new research in neurocardiology and neurogastroenterology, expanded upon in the groundbreaking book mBraining: Using Your Multiple Brains to Do Cool Stuff by Grant Soosalu and Marvin Oka, reveals something profound: we actually have three fully functional neural networks — three “brains” — in our head, heart, and gut.
Each of these centers of intelligence has its own specialized competencies and ways of knowing. The mBraining framework describes them as follows:
Head Brain — The Seat of Creativity and Cognitive Perception
The head brain processes logic, analysis, planning, and meaning-making. It’s the center of imagination and vision — where we create mental pictures of what we want to manifest. In the manifestation process, this is where intention begins.
Heart Brain — The Source of Compassion and Connection
The heart brain governs emotions, relationships, and values. It’s our compass for authenticity and alignment — helping us ensure that our goals come from love rather than fear. The mBraining authors call this the prime integrative center, because the heart acts as a bridge between thinking and doing, ensuring coherence and integrity.
Gut Brain — The Center of Courage and Action
The gut brain drives instinct, mobilization, and implementation. It is responsible for the courage to act and the resilience to persist. It also governs our sense of personal power and boundaries. When we say “I just feel it in my gut,” we’re tuning into this deep somatic wisdom.
According to mBraining, when these three centers are out of sync, our energy fragments — we may overthink (head-dominant), over-feel (heart-dominant), or overreact (gut-dominant). But when they are aligned, we experience neural integration — a flow state where insight, intuition, and instinct harmonize into effortless action.
Soosalu and Oka describe this as “multiple brain integration,” or mBIT, a process that uses simple practices to bring all three centers into coherence. Their research shows that when we do this consciously, our decisions become wiser, our creativity expands, and our capacity to manifest increases exponentially.
“When all three intelligences are aligned and communicating, we access our highest expressions — creativity of the head, compassion of the heart, and courage of the gut.” — Grant Soosalu & Marvin Oka, mBraining
This alignment is not merely philosophical — it’s physiological. The vagus nerve connects the three brains, forming a communication superhighway through the body. When the heart and gut send coherent signals to the head, stress levels drop, intuition sharpens, and the body’s energy system synchronizes.
This is the essence of manifestation coherence:
The head envisions what we want,
The heart ensures it is aligned with our values and emotions,
The gut gives us the will and courage to act.
When all three intelligences agree, creation flows naturally. You stop pushing against life, and instead, life begins to move through you.
Practice: Aligning Your Three Brains for Manifestation
This short mBraining alignment exercise can be done anywhere — ideally before visualization, meditation, or making an important decision. It brings your mind, heart, and gut into harmonious coherence.
Step 1: Breathe into the Heart
Sit or stand tall. Place one hand over your heart. Breathe slowly and deeply, imagining each breath flowing in and out of your chest. As you breathe, bring to mind a feeling of gratitude or love. Allow that feeling to expand until it fills your whole being.
Step 2: Drop Awareness to the Gut
Now move one hand to your abdomen. Feel your breath reach deep into your belly. Ask your gut quietly:
“What does my intuition say about what I’m creating?” Notice any sensations — warmth, tightness, or calm. Your gut often speaks in feeling, not words.
Step 3: Rise to the Head
Bring your attention to your forehead or crown. Notice your thoughts becoming clear and calm. Ask your head brain:
“What do I need to focus on to bring this dream to life?”Let images or insights emerge naturally.
Step 4: Bring Them Into Coherence
Now imagine a gentle flow of energy connecting your head, heart, and gut. Visualize these three centers glowing with light — communicating, supporting, and aligning. Finally, affirm quietly to yourself:
“My mind is clear, my heart is open, my gut is strong. I am aligned and ready to create.”
Breathe deeply, smile, and notice how your body feels — grounded yet expanded, calm yet energized.
This is the state of mBraining coherence, the fertile inner field where manifestation begins.
Bridging Inner Alignment and Outer Action
When our three brains — head, heart, and gut — are in harmony, we become clear, connected, and courageous. But alignment alone isn’t enough; it must be lived. This is where the wisdom of Atomic Habits beautifully complements the energetic principles of manifestation. Once the inner system is synchronized, it’s the small, consistent, physical actions that give shape to our vision. Manifestation, after all, is energy made tangible — spirit grounded in structure.
James Clear reminds us that lasting transformation doesn’t come from one grand gesture but from the daily choices that reinforce who we believe ourselves to be. When we pair mBraining alignment with simple, repeatable habits that reflect our new identity, we build a bridge between the energetic and the practical — between who we are becoming inside and what we are creating outside.
3. Bridging Habit and Manifestation: Lessons from Atomic Habits
James Clear’s Atomic Habits may not mention manifestation explicitly, but its principles form the practical foundation for bringing dreams into reality. Clear’s central message is simple yet profound:
“You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems.”
Manifestation, then, is not about visualizing wealth while maintaining habits of scarcity — it’s about building daily systems that reflect the identity of the person who already lives that dream.
Clear identifies three layers of change:
Outcome change – what you want.
Process change – what you do.
Identity change – what you believe about yourself.
Manifestation begins at the identity level — the same place Dr Dispenza and Bruce Lipton (author of The Biology of Belief) locate transformation. When you shift your self-image, your thoughts, emotions, and actions naturally begin to align with that new identity. This creates neural coherence — the same harmony between the three brains that spiritual manifestors speak of.
For example, instead of saying, “I want to write a book,” you might affirm, “I am a writer.” Your mind begins to rewire around that belief, your heart gets emotionally invested, and your gut (intuition) starts nudging you to take aligned action.
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.” — James Clear
Each morning routine, meditation, or journal entry becomes an energetic signal to the universe: this is who I am now.
When you live this way, your habits cease to be chores and become rituals of embodiment — small, sacred acts that anchor your dream in the physical world. And as Clear reminds us:
“Tiny changes, remarkable results.”
When your identity, energy, and actions all speak the same language, manifestation no longer feels like effort — it feels like evolution.
4. Heart–Brain Coherence and the Frequency of Emotion
Dr Joe Dispenza often says, “The moment you start feeling abundant and worthy, you are generating wealth.”His work at the intersection of neuroscience and quantum energy shows that emotions are the language of the body — and that the heart’s electromagnetic field is the most powerful generator of this language.
The HeartMath Institute has found that the heart’s magnetic field is about 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s and can influence the brain’s activity patterns when the two are synchronized. When we cultivate emotions such as gratitude, joy, and love, the heart becomes coherent, and the body’s systems fall into harmony.
“Gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.” — Dr Joe Dispenza
Manifesting from gratitude and love raises our vibration, sending out a signal that matches the reality we wish to create. Fear and lack create incoherence, while appreciation and joy expand coherence — making the invisible visible, the imagined tangible.
5. Embodied Manifestation: Walking It Into Being
Dreams solidify through motion. After inner alignment and emotional coherence, the body becomes the bridge. Every step we take in nature can reinforce our chosen reality if we walk with awareness. As you move, imagine each footstep grounding your vision into the earth. Let your senses — breath, heartbeat, stride — merge with your intention.
This is manifestation as a living meditation:
The head visualizes the dream ahead.
The heart walks in love with the present moment.
The gut propels you forward with courage and trust.
In that rhythm, you embody creation — turning thought into form, one conscious step at a time.
6. You Are the Creator
When we bring all of these principles together — the science of mBraining, the practicality of Atomic Habits, and the energy of heart–brain coherence — we reclaim our innate creative power.
We are not passive participants in life’s unfolding; we are active collaborators with the universe.Every thought, emotion, and action becomes a brushstroke on the canvas of our reality.
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” — Rumi
True manifestation is not about forcing life to bend to your will — it’s about aligning your inner world so deeply that reality naturally mirrors it back. When your mind is clear, your heart is open, and your gut is brave, you become a living magnet for the experiences your soul desires.
So, dream vividly, act consistently, and walk each day as though your vision is already unfolding — because in truth, it is.
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