If you feel like a failure,
you're going to think you're a failure!
And when you think you're a failure, you're going to feel like a failure.
And when you feel like a failure, you're going to think more thoughts equal
to being a failure. And the cycle of thinking and feeling and
feeling and thinking causes you to say: I am a failure!
The research shows that one hour of focus
concentration on a concept or an idea doubles the number of connections
in your brain. That you have physical evidence,
you're installing new hardware.
Now, I now know if you can build a model of understanding with people,
and then the next step is to have them turn to the person next to them
and explain it, if they can't explain it - it's not wired in their
brain and they're going to doubt it's possible!
Once they start developing this model,
they're making their brain fire new sequences, new patterns and new combinations.
Whenever you make your brain work differently, changing your mind
because mind is the brain in action.
So then, as they're able to build this model and repeat it, they're
installing the neurological
hardware in their brain in preparation for an experience. And the more
you understand what you're doing and why, the "how" gets easier!
So then, if you can set up the conditions in the environment and give
people the proper instructions, and certain percentage of those
people are going to get their behaviors to match their intentions,
they're going to make their actions equal to their thoughts, they are going to get their mind
and body working together.
And when they do, they're going to have a profound experience.
Now, experience further enriches the circuitry in your brain.
That's what experience does, it enhances circuitry.
The end product of an experience is an emotion.
Now all of a sudden you start to feel unlimited, you start to feel
inspired, you start to feel abundant, you start to feel empowered,
whatever the feeling is.
Now you're teaching your body emotionally to understand what your
mind is intellectually understood.
So, knowledge is for the mind and experience is for the body.
And in that moment you're beginning to embody the truth of that
philosophy, that theory.
And you're literally signaling new genes in new ways.
The body's getting new information. And that new information
is what's selecting and instructing the gene. And genes make proteins.
And proteins are responsible for the structure and function of your body.
And the expression of proteins is the expression life!
So all the sudden, you make new hormones, new enzymes, you make new tissue.
You're beginning to become the very thing that that you're
putting your attention on!
Now, if you've done it once, you should be able to do it again.
And if you can repeat an experience over and over again, you're going
to neurochemically condition your mind and body to begin this work as one.
And when we've done something so many times that your body
now knows how to do it as well
as your mind,
now it's innate in you.
It's automatic.
It's second nature.
It's a skill.
It's a habit.
It's who you become, it's who you are.
Now you're beginning to master that philosophy or embodying it.
You're owning it.
So I think we go from philosopher to initiate to master, from mind
to body to soul, from knowledge to experience to wisdom, to thinking to
doing to being, to learning it with your head, applying it with your
hands and knowing it by heart.
And people have to come to a point where they all of a sudden
realize that they are participants in this whole thing.
And even if the person says, if they accept: Hey look, I don't know
that I can beat this thing.
But at least I can live the next several years of my life happy.
It makes a huge difference!
And so, people who are depressed because of a diagnosis, then they
can't think greater than how they feel.
And that's the challenge.
When feelings become the means of thinking
or we can't think greater than how we feel,
then for the most part
we're thinking in the past! And we've studied brains during the
transformational process,
and we see that when you start analyzing your life within some
disturbing emotion, and it's typically derived by the hormones of stress,
that 100% of the time the analysis is going to make your brain worse!
It's going to drive it more out of balance. Teach a person how to get
beyond the emotion, the memory
without the emotional charge is called "wisdom". And now you're no longer
anchored to the past, the body's free.
I think insight is important but insight never changes behavior.
You can... I don't care what the insight is.
Your father was overbearing.
Your mother was a perfectionist.
You have a chemical imbalance in your brain.
Mercury's in retrograde.
You were this person in a past life. All the insight, all the
information does not change the condition.
We have to get into the operating system.
We have to get into those programs,
those emotional reactions,
those unconscious beliefs, those unconscious habits and begin to
reprogram that.
And there's a way to do that, because the whole purpose of meditation
is to get beyond the analytical mind. And what separates the conscious
mind from
the subconscious mind is the analytical mind. Then the only way you're
going to know how to do that
is to learn how to regulate your brain waves and begin to slow
them down.
So, as you begin to slow down your brain waves, you get beyond your
analytical mind and
you're entering that operating system, or where all those programs
exist. And 95% of who we are
by the time we're 35 years old is the set of memorized behaviors,
unconscious emotional reactions, unconscious beliefs, perceptions,
hardwired attitudes that function automatically like a computer program.
That means that 95% of the time people are unconscious of how
they're being.
And so, becoming conscious of that, overcoming, even if you just say
everyday: I'm going to overcome my fear,
every day
I'm gonna overcome my depression, every day
I'm going to feel better than yesterday, that act of doing that, that
you're informing the system,
you're putting new information into your body
that's causing your body
maybe slowly slowly every day to begin to change.
And then of course, some days are easier than others. But I have so
much hope in that because I think that's innate in us.
I think that's what we naturally know what to do
when we're
challenged to that measure.
There are 2 very important windows that open up that allow your body
and your brain to be more suggestible to information.
And that is when you wake up in the morning, your brain waves go
from very slow Delta to Theta to Alpha to Beta.
And when you go to bed at night, you go from Beta to Alpha to Theta to Delta.
So you slide up the scale when you wake up and you slide down the
scale when you go to bed at night.
And most people when they go to bed at night, they just go from Beta
right down the Delta, they fall very quickly. But you can teach people
then how to just sit and slow everything down, and begin to visualize,
begin to affirm, begin to change their thoughts, to begin to work with
their body when they wake up in the morning and when they go to bed at night.
And it seems, according to our research, that those changes can
last for hours, a person feels better!
They don't feel as stressed,
they don't feel as imbalanced,
they don't feel it as incoherent,
they're not worrying as much, they're not obsessing as much, they're not over
focused about something as much.
And those are beautiful windows when we wake up in the
morning and when we go to bed at night. So, stepping into that river
and beginning to make a new choice and understanding that that
uncertainty, that unpredictability is the unknown,
now you're in that river of change and it is the
neurological, the biological, the chemical, hormonal,
genetic death of the old self! And people say to me:
Well, if there's uncertainty, I can't predict my future. and I always
say the same thing:
The best way to predict your future is to create it!
Not in the known,
right there.
That uncertainty, you can learn now how to regulate your state. Instead
of living in fear.
Because well, the idea that things are going to get worse, the idea
that you can't predict, the idea of being uncertain or can't control
something actually sets off the stress response.
So now you're in the unknown and this survival
gene is switched on, of course people are going to out of the infinite
possibilities that exist in the quantum field.
They're going to select the worst scenario in their mind, right?
So then, what if you're in the unknown and you understand that, and now
you can work back into that present moment and you say: What thoughts
do I want to fire and wire in my brain,
put my attention behind? What behaviors today, one day, what behaviors
do I want to demonstrate? And the act of closing your eyes and mentally
rehearsing who you're going to be when you open your eyes, begins to install
the neurological hardware in your brain to look like you've already done it!
Now the brain is no longer a record of the past, now
it's a map to the future!
So, by rehearsing mentally and doing it over and over again, the
hardware becomes a software program. And who knows,
you just might start acting like a happy person!
Well, there's no magic there.
You installed the circuitry.
You may start thinking in more unlimited ways.
You put those circuits in place.
Now, here's the tough part.
Can you teach your body emotionally
what that future is going to feel like before it's made manifest?
That means - you can't wait for your healing
to feel gratitude and wholeness.
You can't wait for your wealth to feel worthy
and abundant.
You can't wait for your new lover to feel love.
That's the old model of reality of cause and effect, waiting for
something outside of us to take away our emptiness and pain that we
feel inside of us.
That's Newtonian cause and effect. The quantum model of reality is about
causing an effect.
That means - the moment you start feeling worthy, abundant,
you're generating wealth! The moment you're in love with yourself and
you're in love with life,
you create an equal!
The moment you start feeling gratitude and wholeness, your healing
actually starts to begin.
So then, the word "meditation" literally means "to become familiar with".
That's what that word means.
So, the biological model is
you got to become familiar with your unconscious thoughts.
You got to become aware of your unconscious habits and behaviors.
You got to become so familiar with your emotional state saying: Oh my God,
I've been feeling guilt for the last 10 years.
I didn't know his guilt.
It just felt like me.
And so then, as you begin to observe those states of mind and body
consciously, you're no longer the program.
You're the consciousness observing the program and you start pulling
consciousness out of our biology, right?
Objectifying our subjective self.
Now, that overcoming process is the most important part of this work
Because once you overcome it, you're no longer looking at your future
through the lens of the past. In your brain and in your body,
chemically and emotionally, you're seeing possibilities.
So then, it's natural once you've disentangled from those programs to
start thinking differently, to start acting differently, start feeling
differently.
And as you start thinking differently, firing and wiring,
and you start installing the circuits and rehearsing who you're going to be,
you start behaving differently.
You start feeling differently.
Keep doing that,
it's going to begin to become familiar to you. And over time,
as you overcome, as you overcome, as you overcome those aspects of
yourself, you're actually becoming somebody else!
There's a becoming process that begins to take place.
And some people do it very quickly.
Other people,
it just takes some time.
But once you understand the formula and once you understand what it
all means, you start seeing people
make some pretty big changes!