The promise is one of the oldest human-specific behaviors promoting cooperation, trust, and partnership.
In 2009 at the University of Zurich, researchers found they could measure a specific activity in the brain when a promise was made and broken. What was really surprising is that they could tell when the promise was being made if it was likely to be broken.
In short, they were able to measure intention. 

To measure this the researchers used very sophisticated instruments capable of sensing the smallest of electrical charges and measure those charges……. through our skull.
Making promises is easy, but keeping them can be difficult, especially to ourselves.
 If I make a promise to someone else, the guilt and their reminding us, etc... helps us fulfill that promise. If we make a promise to ourselves, we often easily let ourselves off the hook for failing, but our brains (sub concious) and the universe are often still waiting, and waiting and waiting for the promise to be kept. SO the way They try to hold us to our word is through guilt and anxiety.  Yes...failing to live up to the promises we make to ourselves, actually causes anxiety.
Good news!! We can give our brain and the universe some closure on the promises we failed to keep, and get rid of the guilt and anxiety that could be holding us down.
We can do that through meditation, and to help us to remember to let us off for those broken promises to ourselves, we are going to meditate using Promise as our mantra.

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