According to the psychological and scientific model,
the majority of people in their waking day, in their normal day,
spend about 70% of their time living in stress. And living in stress
is living in survival.
And the actual definition of stress - stress is when your body is not
that of homeostasis!
Stress is when your body is knocked out of balance.
The stress response is what your body innately does
to return itself back to order!
You have 3 types of stress. You have physical stress like trauma,
injuries, accidents, falls.
You have chemical stress like bacteria,
viruses, blood sugar levels, heavy metals and food, hangovers, whatever.
And you have emotional stress like traffic jams, internet connection,
second mortgages, single parenting,
401 K's, family tragedies... All of those things
knock the brain and body out of balance.
Now, all organisms in nature can adapt to short-term stress. Pack of coyotes
chases a deer in the forest.
The deer outruns the coyotes, the stress is over.
The deer returns back to homeostasis
and it grazes again. The event is over. When the deer perceives a threat in
its external environment,
it turns on a primitive nervous system called "the fight or flight
nervous system". And that autonomic nervous system, that sympathetic
nervous system begins to mobilize enormous normal amounts of energy for some
thread in the external environment.
Now, dear has all its physiology changed.
All the blood is sent to the extremities, heart rate increases,
respiratory rate increases, pupils dilate, the 1.300
chemicals that are created in a matter of seconds is to precause the deer
to survive in some difficult condition.
Now, human beings have the same mechanisms. And when we perceive a threat
in our external environment like a lion, we are going to run or fight or freeze.
But if you've had problems with your coworker, or you've had a very
difficult experience with your mother-in-law,
the moment you perceive your mother-in-law or your coworker,
and you have a past experience with them,
you're going to turn on the same primitive nervous system
just like you're being chased by a lion.
So, what was once highly adaptive now becomes very maladaptive. Because
when you're mobilizing all of that energy,
you are going to operate in very predictable ways.
You're going to be an amped-up animal with a big memory bank! So that
your blood flow is
going to go to the hindbrain and away from the forebrain, which means
you're going to react instead of think, rationalize!
But human beings,
the privilege of being a human being is that we can make thought more real
than anything else.
That's the privilege.
So then, you can begin to forecast some future worst-case scenario, and
you can attend to that thought to the exclusion of everything else.
And you can focus on it to such a degree that you will begin to anticipate
the event and produce the same chemicals as if you're in that
experience. And you're knocking your brain and body out of balance just
by thought alone!
You can begin to unfold some past bitter memory
that's tattooed in the recesses of your gray matter.
And like magic, you can bring it to life.
And in that moment, it's real! And you will produce the same chemistry
in your brain and body as if that event occurred! And your body, as the
unconscious mind, is literally living that experience!
So then, when we're living by the hormones of stress, and you turn on
that stress response and you can't turn it off,
now you're headed for some disease. Because no organism in nature
can tolerate living in emergency mode for extended periods of time.
So, if 70% of the time a person is living in survival, living in stress,
in survival what we do in order to survive
is we are going to select the worst-case scenario.
And we are going to begin to plan our behaviors and our emotions in
that experience.
Because anything less than the worst-case scenario means we have
better chances of survival.
So, we plan for the worst,
we emotionally embrace it. And anything less means we can survive.
So, out of the infinite potentials in the quantum field,
anxiety really represents a poor imagination! But it's highly adaptive
if you're living in survival, because you got to get ready for that.
So, 70% of the time people are selecting the worst-case event in
their life and emotionally embracing it. And they are
programming their autonomic nervous system into a very
specific destiny! And turns out, if you keep doing that and you create
the emotions of fear and worry and anxiety,
and you do that for 10 years, or 5 years, or 3 years, your body is going
to unconsciously become programmed to fear! And it's going to have a
panic attack without you. Try as you may with your conscious mind to
control it,
you've programmed it subconsciously. And now the body, as the mind,
is running the show.
So, the hormones of stress create the emotions of anger,
of aggression, of hostility, of violence, of frustration,
of hatred, of fear, of anxiety, of guilt, of shame, of hopelessness,
of powerlessness, depression... Those are all chemicals that are derived
from the hormones of stress!
And when we live by the hormones of stress, we become very selfish.
Why?
Because when you're in survival, you got to take care of the self.
Your attention is on your body, right?
Your attention is on your external environment.
There's predators out there.
The rush of adrenaline causes the senses to become heightened and you're
a materialist, and you're trying to predict the future because there's
better chances of survival
if you can predict the future based on the past.
When that occurs then, over time
the body begins to break down. Because it's a scientific fact that the
hormones of stress down-regulate genes to create disease in the long-term.
So, if you can turn on the stress response just by
thought alone,
and the hormones of stress can make you sick, then your thoughts can
literally make you sick!
So the question is: If your thoughts can make you sick,
is it possible then
that your thoughts can make you well?
My definition of addiction is something that you can't stop, right?
And most people who struggle from addictions are trying to regulate
and alter their internal state.
Now, you and I have been hypnotized and conditioned to believe that
change happens outside of us.
People are looking for something outside of them to change
their internal state. It's kind of a Newtonian principle. You wait for your
wealth to come to feel abundant. You wait for your healing to occur to
feel wholeness.
You wait for your success to show up
so you feel empowered. You wait for your new relationship to show up
to feel loved.
You're waiting for the event outside of you to happen to change how
you feel inside of you - that's cause and effect.
And we're conditioned based on consumerism, and marketing,
and programming that that's the way it works.
To get something to relieve yourself.
And the problem with that is that people begin to confuse true
happiness with pleasure, and they're not the same thing!
So people who have addictions like that
typically have had some very difficult past experiences that have
branded them emotionally. And they just don't know
how to change.
They just don't know.
And they're just looking from some relief inside of them so that
they can make that feeling go away.
So, we can become distracted by our external environment for a period
of time, you know. But then when you realize that the sports car,
or the new wardrobe, or the vacation, or whatever people do to try to
make the feeling go, and the novelty of that thing outside of
us wears off, because we're trying to re-identify with our
environment, and that goes away.
The next thing that people do is they look for some immediate change.
And so they take a drug.
They drink something.
They gamble, they watch pornography. And the event outside of them
changes their internal chemistry. And the moment
they notice that the pain or the emptiness goes away,
the moment they feel differently, they look to see what caused it.
And this is when the attachment begins!
Here's the problem though.
The rush of chemical change that takes place in the pleasure centers in
the brain,
there's a huge release of the pleasure chemicals. And the
release, the intensity of those
release of those chemicals,
begins to desensitize the receptor sites in the brain.
So, as the brain
chemicals are released and the receptor sites become desensitized,
the next time you gamble, the next time you take the drug, the next
time you shop, you need a little bit more the next time.
So then, what happens is the pleasure center start to get
re-calibrated to a higher and higher level.
So, you're always going to need more to make that feeling go away.
Sounds like an addiction to me!
And so, people get lost. Because then without the dependency on that
external substance, the body, which has become the mind, is craving
it's relief. And so, an addiction really is when the body is the mind.
So you may say with your conscious mind:
I want to give up drinking.
I want to give up
pornography.
I want to give up gaming, I want to give up over shopping.
I want to give it up, consciously. But the body has been conditioned
from the past, subconsciously.
And so, now the body's the mind!
Now, no one's told people that true change can happen within them.
And so then, when people start to realize that there's a gap between the
external world and how they present themselves to the world,
and their attention on the outer world, and their attention on their inner world
and how they really feel, if they're spending the majority of their
time looking outside of them for change and they don't want to look
at this feeling,
all they want to do is make that feeling go away,
they're going to wind up in trouble.
So true change is
when you start looking within, and you become conscious of your
unconscious thoughts. In neuroscience it's called "metacognition".
You become aware of your habits and your unconscious behaviors.
And you look at those emotions that are connected to past experiences
and allow yourself to observe them.
So then, think about this. If 95% of who we are by the time we're 35
years old are those program states,
the moment you are observing how you think, how you act, and how you feel,
it means you're no longer the program!
You're now a consciousness observing the program and you're beginning
to objectify your subjective self.
You are seeing yourself through the eyes of someone else!
Turns out that the size of the frontal lobe,
the crowning achievement of the human being, 40% of our entire brain,
that's what separates us from all other species,
it's the boss, it's the CEO, it's the conscience, it's the creative center.
It's what speculates possibilities' it's what learns from its mistakes.
It's what has intention, attention, regulates and controls behaviors
and emotional reactions.
When your forebrain begins turn on,
when that begins to happen,
you are now beginning to become the executive in your life!
You're starting to gain more control over your life.
If you're living primarily as the body-mind, then the hind brain is
looking for some chemical relief.
So, by the mere fact that you can begin to observe who you're being,
means you could modify who you are to do a better job in life!
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It's true that the brain is shaped and molded by our environment,
but what science is beginning to realize is that our brain is shaped
and molded by our ability to ___ ___! And the correct
answer is: pay attention.
So, it's true that our brain is shaped and molded by our environment,
but what science is beginning to realize is that our brain is shaped
and molded by our ability to
pay attention.
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