I think that on a certain level, we all face the same challenges in
our life and what I've discovered after
so many years of research that if you really want to break down the
concept of change - to change is to be greater than the conditions in
your environment.
And so many times, our environment is controlling for the most part
how we feel and how we think. And our response to certain people,
certain conditions in our life,
causes us to feel good or feel bad.
And so, if someone says: Why are you unhappy?
You say: I'm unhappy because of these circumstances. What you're
really saying is: Something in my outer world is actually controlling,
I think it's controlling the way I feel in the way I think.
The problem is that the response from the environment typically
it's driven by the harmonics of stress weakens the organism.
So, the environment over time begins to break down our very health.
And so, the brain is a record of the past.
It's an artifact of everything
we've learned and experienced to this moment.
So, most people wake up in the morning, and they think about their
problems. And their problems are memories that are etched in their
brain that are connected to certain people and certain
problems at certain times in certain places. And the moment
they start thinking of their problems,
they're thinking in the past!
The challenge is that every one of those problems has an emotion
associated with it. And emotions really are a record of the past.
So the moment you feel unhappy, the moment you feel suffering,
the moment you feel fear, now your body's in the past.
So it's the thought being the language of the brain and the feeling
being the language of the body. And how we think and how we feel
creates our state of being!
So, many people reaffirmed their state of being completely by the past.
And so, it only takes thought and a feeling, an image and emotion,
a stimulus and response to start the conditioning process.
So we start the condition the brain and body, hardwire the brain,
condition the body emotionally into the past.
The problem is - the body's
so objective that it doesn't know the difference between the real-life
experience that's creating the emotion and the emotion we are creating
by memory alone. The body is
believing is living in the same past environment 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week, 365 days a year.
So, then the person gets up and then they run through the same routine
as they always do.
And in time, their body moves into a state of autopilot.
Now their body is a set of programs, a habit, that's dragging them
into the same future based on what they did in the past.
And so, to change then also requires being greater than the emotions
that have been conditioned into the body, and the
habituations that have been conditioned into the body and the
predictable future.
So, we have to understand then that that change requires not only being
greater than the environment, but also being greater than our body.
Which is really for the most part been conditioned to be the mind.
That's what the habit is.
So then to change then, to be greater than the body, to be greater than
the environments and be greater than time,
instead of living in the familiar past which is the known, and the
predictable future which is the known, you teach people how to
settle into the present moment and that's the unknown.
And for most people, the unknown represents a very threatening place.
And so, when people start to do meditation as an example, and their
body starts looking for and arousal, wants to get up and do things,
they think they can't meditate.
But in fact, if they can settle their body back down into the present
moment and lower the volume to that anger, to that frustration, to the fear,
to the sadness,
it's like training an animal.
Now you're telling the body
it's no longer the mind, that you're the mind!
And our research shows
there's a liberation of energy, the body starts expanding and relaxing
into the present moment instead of getting up and checking your cell
phone and doing something.
You notice that propensity. Instead of responding to it and say: I can't
meditate, you settle your body back down into the present moment.
Now you're executing a will that's greater than the program! Because
most people lose their free will to a set of programs. And it's the
act of doing this, to be greater than the conditions in our environment,
to be greater than our body as the mind, and to the greater than time,
that all of a sudden causes the person to start believing in themselves a
little bit more. And that's when possibility starts to unfold.
Well, I think the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of
being ourselves. Because you know, we think 60 to 70,000 thoughts in
one day, and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before.
Well, if you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny,
if you're thinking the same way - your life is going to stay the same way!
Because the same thoughts lead to the same choices, the same choices
lead to the same behaviors.
The same behaviors create the same experiences, but the same
experiences produce the same feelings and the same emotions. And those
same feelings and emotions drive our very same thoughts!
Now, here's the problem. Our biology, our neural circuitry,
our neurochemistry, our hormones, and even our gene expression stays the
same because we're the same.
So, the payoff from a habit is the feeling.
You drink the coffee because it gives you arousal,
gives you a rush of energy, it gives you something.
And you say: Wow.
You don't say this consciously.
Something in my outer environment changed my internal state. And the
moment you notice a change in your internal state and you pay
attention to what caused it,
the next time you feel uncomfortable, the next time you feel tired,
the next time you feel lazy, your brain creates the image of exactly
what you want. And that's how we become conditioned to different things.
So, when we break a habit, as you know
the body craves the feeling, craves the chemical, the stimulation.
And so, in order to overcome a habit, you have to be conscious.
The hardest part of any sort of change is not making the same choices
as you did the day before. And that takes an incredible amount of energy
and incredible amount of awareness. First step, and we've studied
thousands and thousands of people in the process of change and
transformation, even when they healed themselves from really serious
health conditions, they will tell you the moment
they decided to make up their mind to change.
They make a decision
with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carries
a level of energy that's greater than the hardwired programs in the
brain and the emotional conditioning in their body. And their body is
responding to the mind!
In other words, the choice that they're making becomes a moment in
time that they never forget!
And so, all they did was they married a clear intention - a thought of a
new possibility in the future, and then they married it with an
elevated emotion, whether it was inspiration, whether it was passion, whether it
was invincibility.
When you combine those two things, you begin to condition the brain
and body into a future instead of the past!
So most people say: I'm gonna change tomorrow. And they're on the couch
with a remote control watching TV.
They have their cell phone, their computer, their iPad, and they say:
I think I'll change tomorrow, and the body never gets a signal.
So, most people who have a trauma as an example,
the stronger the emotion that we feel from some experience in our life,
the more altered we feel inside of us, the more the brain
freezes a frame and takes a snapshot - that's called a long-term memory.
And then people think neurologically within the circuits
of that experience, chemically within the boundaries of that emotion.
And every time they recall the event, they're producing the same
chemistry in the brain and body as if it was occurring.
So, can you then begin to do the exact same thing and have it working in
the instrumental way? So, the stronger the emotion that you feel
when you make that decision, the more you remember the choice.
And that's long-term memory. And that's a big explosion in the quantum field.
So, if we could say it another way, you're giving your body a taste of
the future emotionally.
The body is believing
it's in a new environment, because it doesn't know the difference
between the experience that creates the emotion and the emotion that
you're creating by that choice!
So when a person feels that exuberance,
that passion, they make up their mind to change, they'll say to you:
I remember the exact moment
I made up my mind to change!
At this particular time
I was in my kitchen, it was this day, I can tell you everything about it.
Because it's a long-term memory.
So, what if
you did that every day?
What if you could do that enough times that you literally, from a
biological standpoint, begin to erase the emotion
that's been stored in the body, that produces the pain, or the fear,
or the confusion?
And now you're conditioning the body to an elevated emotion like
gratitude or love?
So, we've studied this.
When you feel passion, when you feel love, when you feel compassion,
when you feel inspiration, when you feel gratitude, when you feel
appreciation, when you feel true care and kindness,
the heart does something so beautiful.
It starts to beat in a very rhythmic fashion, like beating a great drum!
And that kind of consistent coherent beat produces a magnetic field
that's up to 3 meters wide.
Now, the heart is emanating energy and frequency.
Frequency carries information.
Now, getting the brain to work in a coherent way,
we kind of demystified the process.
So coherence is order, coherence is a cadence,
it's a rhythm. And when the brain is coherent, it can send a signal out.
It's a directive.
It is the electrical charge in the quantum field.
The feeling, the elevated emotion of gratitude or love is the magnetic charge.
So, that's what draws experiences back to us!
And so, if you do that enough time with brain coherence and heart
coherence, you got a Wi-Fi signal. And you begin to produce outcomes in your life!
And when you start seeing synchronicities, serendipities, coincidences,
opportunity showing up in your life, and you feel the feeling like:
Oh my God, the Universe is responding to me, all of a sudden you stop
believing unconsciously that you're the victim of
your life and you start believing that you are the creator of your life!
And when you do that then, it inspires you to do it again. Because you
don't want the magic to end.
Now, the problem is that most people 70% of the time,
if they're living by the hormones of stress, and living in stress is
living in survival,
when we're in that state where we feel threatened,
we're in that state where we feel out of balance. Because stress is
when your brain and body or not that of homeostasis, we try to control
everything in our life, we try to predict everything in our lives, we try
to force outcomes. And the act of shifting our attention when we are
aroused by the hormones of stress, from one person to another person,
to another meeting, to another problem, to another thing, to another place,
every one of those elements has a neurological network in the brain.
So, the arousal of the stress hormone says: Pay attention, there's
danger in your outer environment, and make sure you can predict
everything.
So, as you shift your attention to all these elements, like a lightning
storm in the brain, the brain starts to fire very
incoherently, starts to fire out of order. And when the brain is incoherent,
we are incoherent.
So we lost our Wi-Fi signal.
We don't have a signal the send out.
At the same time,
if you're feeling the arousal of stress hormones and you can't run,
you can't fight,
you can't hide, you're stepping on the gas and you're stepping on the brake
at the same time,
the heart is pounding and beating, but it's beating against the closed system.
So the heart starts beating out of order, and the interference of
energy that's incoherent
causes energy to drop in the brain and the heart.
And when that occurs, you lose your other part of your Wi-Fi signa,
in a sense you feel separate.
You feel like you got to do it by yourself.
You feel separate from your dreams, separate from people in your life.
Because in survival and stress, it's not a time to open your heart.
It's not a time to be compassionate.
It's not a time to give, it's not a time to even learn, it's a
time to run, fight and hide!
So, 70% of the time people spend their life living in survival.
And no organism and nature can live in that state for an extended period of time.
So, if you teach people then that the long-term effects of the hormones
of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease, and you say:
All that anger that you feel, all that hatred that you feel, all that
frustration that you feel is affecting nobody else, but yourself
and your own body! When people start to realize that that arousal gives
them a rush of energy,
and in time they can be need that rush of energy to feel something,
and you teach them how to break the addiction
from those hormones, just like you overcame coffee,
it's the same thing.
When you free your body from the chains of those emotions,
when you look back at your past, you don't see it from the same place.
Because it's only the emotion that keeps you connected to the past!
Overcome the emotion,
when you look back at your past, you see the wisdom behind it.
You see the
lessons behind it.
You're seeing it from a greater level of consciousness!
So, when we combine the clear intention with an elevated emotion, we
practice this way of creating brain and heart coherence, in time
now, you start seeing things come to you! And that's the cool part.
Now you no longer have to go and get it. Somehow,
those opportunities start showing up in your life!
And that's when you start believing that we're creating
our lives instead of being victims!