Nerve cells that fire together wire together!
You keep thinking the same way, making the same choices, demonstrating
the same habits, creating the same experiences that stamp the same
networks of neurons into the same patterns, all for the familiar
feeling called you, and you do that for 10 years on end,
you're going to begin to hardwire certain patterns in your brain
that becomes your identity!
And by the time we're 35 years old
it kind of becomes fixed, right?
Psychology used to say that you can't change that, but we now
know that you can.
So then, that kind of box in the brain,
that is the habit of ourselves.
We're 95% of the time running a series of programs.
So then, sitting and doing the work, we have to become disentangled
from those programs.
And so, the moment you decide to do something differently or make a new
choice, what most people don't want to face is that discomfort.
And that discomfort, that uncertainty, that lack of
predictability,
that unknown is
what people are afraid of. Because they'd rather live in guilt, at least
they can predict who they are going to be than take a chance and possibility.
So, when a person begins to understand this and you say: Well, how long
have you been this way?
And they say: I've been like this for 35 years. And you say: Why 35 years?
Because 35 years ago
I had this one event. Well, the stronger
the emotion you feel from reaction from that event,
the more altered you feel inside of you, the more the brain narrows its focus
and freezes the image
and takes a snapshot, and that's called a memory, right?
So then, forget the memory. Just overcome the emotion! Because it's the
emotion that keeps you anchored to the past.
So, that sounds really good theoretically, but when you step out into
that unknown, into that void, the body really is in a habit.
And a habit is when the body becomes the mind. Or if you're
thinking about that past event and it's producing an emotion,
well, you need an image and a feeling to start the conditioning process.
So, the body's either conditioned into the familiar past or it's
hardwired in the predictable future. Because it wakes up every single
day and runs through the same series of routine actions.
So, the present moment then becomes the unknown. When people start
feeling that discomfort, they'd rather get on their cell phone
and call someone, or get up and say: I can't meditate. Or you know:
I have too much to do. They excuse themselves.
They return back into that familiar feeling.
Because the body's actually telling the brain, a habit is when the
body becomes the mind. So, the body is stepping out into the unknown and
says: Woo, I'd rather feel guilty,
I'd rather feel unhappy than be in this discomfort.
So then, at least then when they return back to that familiar feeling,
then they feel safe.
So, they step out in the unknown and the body starts influencing the
mind saying: You can start tomorrow.
You're too busy.
It's your mother's fault, you know, it's your culture's fault,
I don't have enough money.
This isn't going to work.
Those are the programs in there that are standing in the way between
you and your future!
So then, nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together.
So, the act of observing those states of mind and body means you're no
longer the program.
You're the consciousness observing that program!
So then,
to meditate it means to become familiar with.
So, as you become familiar with those thoughts,
you become conscious of how you speak,
you become aware of how you act,
you notice how you're feeling, the more conscious you become of those
unconscious programs, the less unconscious
you'll go in your waking day.
Why?
Because it's not enough to just have a great meditation,
get up and get on the freeway, and get in traffic, and getting stressed.
You just returned back to the old self again! Our job then
is to sustain that modified state of mind and body the entire day.
And if you can, get ready! Because something different or unusual it's
going to begin to happen in your life. And it will come as a
coincidence or synchronicity. And that's breadcrumbs from the Divine
saying: You're on the path.
Just keep doing it.
There will be another one!
Just keep staying in that energy.
And so, teaching people then to understand that there is a formula,
that we now know
that if you apply that formula, you'll begin to see those changes.
And now, as people are doing it more and more effectively, the results
are going up as well.
We just had Bond University,
they just took a whole bunch of my brain scans
from 10 years ago, huge clinical study, a lot of analysis. And they're
blown away by the speed at which the community can change brain and
heart coherence, they know how to do it!
It's not something that's separate from them.
They've practiced it enough times that they now know how to do it.
So, what's the significance of that?
Well, really simple! In your life,
if you start returning back to the same reactions, to the same people and
circumstances, you're returning back to the old self.
So, you got to stay conscious in your life.
And if you're not being defined by a vision of the future,
then you're left with the memories of the past, and you will be
predictable in your life.
So, crossing that river of change from the old self to the new self,
there's a neurological, a biological, a chemical, a hormonal,
genetic death of the old self.
But if you teach people there's something on the other side, they
won't give up on themselves.
They'll keep goin!
So, there's enough evidence to encourage people. And you can't tell me
you're too old to do this work.
You can't tell me you're too sick to do this work.
You can't tell me
you had a turbulent past
or that you're too overweight, or too underweight, or too out of shape.
You can't even tell me that you've never meditated before.
In fact, some of our greatest scans are people who just have never
meditated before, they are are not trying to do anything.
They just follow instructions.
So, our community now is beginning to understand that it is possible,
and they go all in! Not 50% in, not 60% in, we do a week-long event.
We got 1.000 people or 1.500 people and they are all in.
And when they
start getting beyond themselves, that first day or second day,
once they start getting beyond themselves and that magic starts to happen,
Then I have no idea,
I can't predict what's going to happen next, and it's usually pretty exciting.
I think we've been hypnotized and conditioned into becoming materialists.
I think that we define reality with our senses, and I think that is one
of the biggest Illusions.
So, the fundamental question is: Can you believe in the future that you
see or experience with your senses yet,
but you thought about enough times in your mind that your brain is
literally changed to look like the event has already occurred?
Now, the latest research in plasticity says that's absolutely possible!
And can you select a new possibility in the quantum field and begin to
emotionally embrace that future every single day to such a degree that
your body, as the unconscious mind,
the objective mind, does not know the difference between the experience
in your life.
that's creating the emotion and the emotion that you're fabricating by thought
alone to the degree that you begin to signal new genes in new ways to
change your body to look like the experience has already happened?
The latest research in epigenetics says it's absolutely possible!
Now think about this. Every day
installing the circuitry, everyday conditioning the body into the
emotion of the future that your body begins to change to look like
it's already happened!
Now, this is where it gets fun. Because
now you no longer have to go anywhere to get it.
Now it begins the come to you.
You become the vortex or the magnet to your destiny!
So then, people who come out of their meditation and they say: Well,
I just focused on my wealth, why isn't it there?
Well, you're not that good. If you're asking why isn't it there, you're
back to the old person again.
Stay in that state for an extended period of time as an
experiment, as the scientist in
your life to keep your energy connected to the dream of your future.
And then see what kind of effects begin to take place without moving
into impatience, without moving into frustration, without starting to analyze
why it hasn't happened, that is the trap of defining reality
with your senses!
So you have the thought of your future and you don't see it, then you
experience separation. But people who are practicing this work,
they have the thought of the future and they feel the emotion of their future,
they're still connected to it.
Right?
So that takes practice. And it's just learning like hitting a golf ball,
hitting a tennis ball, dancing
the salsa, crocheting, whatever it is. You got to
start out staying real conscious and learning, then you get good at it
and gets to be instrumental, gets to be fun.
And that's what I want for everybody. The act of creation
should be blissful, ecstatic, loose, free process!
And so, I love the idea of people taking time out of their lives to
prove to themselves that if they're defined by the vision of the
future, then they're not living by the memories of the past. And that's
where the unknown exist.
So, many people,
the unknown is a scary place. So, they don't see that future, because
they're used to seeing their future with evidence with their senses.
And you have
to be able to get beyond that and stay in the unknown.
Stay in that discomfort.
And then, in that moment to begin to self-regulate. Like, oh I'm
starting to feel a little anxiety.
Oh, I'm starting to feel a little frustration.
That's the defining moment where your body is going back to the past.
Because emotions are a record of the past. Or you go into routine again.
So you catch yourself,
it's a victory! And if you keep catching yourself, those victories add up.
And it's
not so much about your wealth, or your health, or your freedom,
or your new relationship,
it's actually about who you become. And so, overcoming the old self
allows us to become somebody else!
And there is that period of transition,
I call it "the void" where there's just not a lot happening.
And you just got to be able to keep going and continuously get to the end
of your belief where most people stop.
I just had a fabulous
conversation with someone this weekend.
Broke through to the other side and now there's so much magic
happening around this person, but she's worthy now to receive it!
And that is the key, because the Universe only gives us
what we think
we're worthy of receiving!
So, we got to come initiated into this and understand it.
Thousands of years of programming that says that we have to change
things matter to matter in 3-dimensional reality, and it will
take time. But to begin to connect to that resource called "the quantum field"
and create from the field
instead of from matter,
there's a lot of unlearning that has to go on!