World Leading Psychologist: How to Manifest Anything & Create the Life You Want

**Mel Robbins** (0:00)
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast.
I am so excited for today's episode because you're going to learn how to manifest anything and create the life you want from a world-renowned researcher and psychologist who is also the director of three different institutes that research mindfulness, consciousness, and imagination. Today, she is here in our Boston studios to teach you the simple science-backed framework to move from reacting to your life, to intentionally creating it. She's also going to share cutting edge research and teach you step-by-step how to apply the science of visualization, manifestation, and consciousness, and use all three of these tools to create more possibilities in your life. Doesn't that sound great? I sure think it does. Because after listening to this episode, you'll know how to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
You will have gotten a private master class from one of the world's most cited researchers and professors on the subject of consciousness and manifestation. And she's going to tell you, no matter how hard, difficult, or unfair your life may seem right now, you are not trapped by your current circumstances. You are more powerful than you may feel. There are possibilities beyond what you can see.
And Dr. Cassandra Vieten will teach you how to use these three powerful tools to see greater possibility and start intentionally creating the life you want. And you'll be able to start doing that as soon as you're done listening to this episode.
Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast. It's such an honor to spend this time together. And if you're new or somebody shared this episode with you, I just want to take a moment and welcome you to The Mel Robbins Podcast family. Our topic today is extraordinary. Dr. Cassandra Vieten is going to teach you how to manifest anything and create the life you want using the science of imagination, consciousness, and mindfulness. Dr. Vieten is a PhD clinical psychologist and professor at UC San Diego, as well as one of the leading researchers in the world studying imagination and consciousness. She's the Director of the Center for Human Imagination at the University of California San Diego, where she conducts ground breaking research at the intersection of psychology, imagination, and spirituality. She's also the Director of the Center for Mindfulness at the Centers for Integrative Health at UC San Diego, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noatic Sciences, where she studies consciousness and human experience. Her peer-reviewed academic articles and work have been cited over 5,000 times. She's the best-selling author of five books. Today, she hopped on a plane and flew to our studios here in Boston for you. She's going to teach you how to manifest anything and create the life you want. So please help me welcome Dr. Cassandra Vieten to The Mel Robbins Podcast.

**Cassandra Vieten** (3:24)
Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

**Mel Robbins** (3:26)
I am thrilled that you're here. The subject of your research is so fascinating.
What I want to start with is what could change about my life if I take everything to heart that you're about to teach us about the power of our imagination, visualization, manifestation, consciousness? If I apply everything you're about to teach me, what could change?

**Cassandra Vieten** (3:50)
Well, I mean, I think it's a couple of things. One is that you become the author of your life. You become the person who creates the world that you want to live in. The second is sometimes you'll hear the phrase, the magic is gone from a relationship or from a job or something. I really believe in imagination's power to bring the magic back into your life.
I don't mean magic in a fake sense. I mean the vitality, the awe, the wonder, the mystery, the beauty, just the fun parts of life, the spices that make life so interesting and bring back that curiosity.

**Mel Robbins** (4:27)
I love that.
I want to put a giant highlighter on what you just said. The power of your imagination to bring magic back into your life.

**Cassandra Vieten** (4:40)
Yeah.

**Mel Robbins** (4:41)
Is that possible?

**Cassandra Vieten** (4:42)
Absolutely. Absolutely. I work with hundreds and hundreds of people every year who feel like, as you grow up, you become 9, 10, 11 years old, and people say, okay, time to stop imagining, time to get real. You know, that's imaginary.
That doesn't really happen. None of that actually happens. And so you're trained over time to become this very serious, logical, rational, reasonable type of person. And what happens, unfortunately, is that it's almost like the pendulum swings too far in that direction, and you lose that sense of awe and wonder and mystery. And even like noticing synchronicities that happen or noticing things that are amazing, you're sort of like, oh, filter that out, just stay focused. When those are the things that people actually, when they look back at their lives, they remember those moments as some of the most important things that happened to them.