- I found that it would be really powerful.
I said them out loud on my way to the tube this morning.
I do it everyday.
And so, I know they're powerful,
but I have never thought why they're powerful,
and how that whole subconscious works?
And I just wonder, if I could get your thoughts on that.
- Yeah sure, monks have been using affirmations forever.
Mantras as they call it in Sanskrit.
We use these beads to chant on them,
and a lot of the times, people say these are prayer beads.
But we actually, yeah you could say they're prayer beads,
but were actually more like affirmation or mantra beads.
So we use these to actually programme our subconscious.
So as we chant on each bead, we chant an affirmation.
"I am happy,"
or, "I'm confident."
And we repeat the same chant over and over again.
And there are a 108 beads in here, so you can imagine
how your subconscious gets programming.
- You memorise like 108 different chants?
- Oh, just one chant.
- One chant, okay.
- One chant, over and over again.
So it's, "I'm happy,"
or, "I'm confident."
You repeat it 108 times.
- Okay.
- So, with affirmation, three ingredients are necessary.
Concise choice of positive words, clear visualisation,
and a corresponding feeling.
And most people don't understand this
when it comes to affirmation,
they just say the words,
but no visualisation and no feeling.
So for example, if I say, "I love apples."
Concise choice of positive words.
Now when I said the word I,
my mind knows I'm talking about me.
When I say the word love,
my mind knows that, "He likes it,
"he enjoys it, he adores it, that's what love means to him."
When I say the word apples,
my mind gets confused.
Because it's searching my entire hard-drive,
my entire subconscious from the day I was born,
for every occurrence of the word apple,
red apple, green apples, yellow apples,
honey-crisp apples were delicious,
Fuji apples, Washington apples, Apple MacBook Pro,
MacBook Air, Apple Watch, iWatch, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad.
What apples is he talking about?
I've no idea, right?
So words alone is not enough.
So that's why we have visualisation.
So when I say, "I love apples,"
and I visualise a bright red apple,
my mind goes, "Oh, that's what he's talking about.
"I love apples.
"He loves bright red apples,
"this particular type of apple."
It's a Washington or a honey-crisp apple,
which has a little yellowish tint to it.
- Okay.
- So that's why words and visualisation are important.
And then feeling, feeling is emotion, emotion is energy.
You know the famous scientist Tesla?
- Yeah.
- Not personally, but obviously through reputation.
He had this beautiful saying
which kind of encapsulates Hindu philosophy really well.
He said that, "To find the secrets of the universe,
"Think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
So to find the secrets of the universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
Everything is made up of energy
that's vibrating in its own frequency, right?
So the chair has molecules and atoms
that are vibrating at a certain frequency
binding it together, creating a certain matter.
So, what we believe is that
if your subconscious is filled with patterns
that are vibrating at a certain frequency,
anger could be vibrating at 20 kilohertz,
happiness at 30 kilohertz.
I don't know what the numbers are,
I'm just making stuff up in terms of numbers,
But everything is vibrating at a certain frequency.
And if you can go into your subconscious
and create a pattern, infuse it with energy
that's vibrating at a certain frequency,
you can attract things of a similar nature to it.
So if I go into my subconscious,
I repeat an affirmation
which has a concise choice of positive words,
clear visualisation, I infuse a feeling into it.
What does it feel like?
Right, and it starts to vibrate in my subconscious
at that frequency,
now it attracts anything of a similar vibration
or a similar frequency towards it.
So give you a very simple example.
Boy dates girl, they go out for two years,
they have a great intimate relationship, they break up.
Boy hangs out with his friends to get over the relationship,
the girl does chocolate, shopping, wine therapy
with her girlfriends for six months
and finally says, "I'm over him."
She starts dating again.
Who does she attract into her life?
Quite often a similar guy, a different person,
but with the same vibration, same type of person.
I've had so many people come up to me
boys and girls say,
"I keep attracting the same type of person into my life."
A common thing I hear all of the time, why?
Because you date, John dates Sue,
they have two years of a relationship,
Sue has vibrations that are experiences,
emotional experiences that are vibrating
at the frequency of John in her subconscious.
They break up, those experiences are still vibrating
at the frequency of John in his subconscious.
Now she goes to date, who does she attract?
Another John, name Peter of a similar frequency.
And that just happens.
So, energy doesn't know how to discriminate
between what's good for you and what's not good for you.
It's just energy.
So anything of a similar frequency gets drawn to you.
So if you know how the subconscious works
and you know how to programme it using affirmations
with a clear concise choice of positive words,
clear visualisation and a corresponding feeling,
feeling being the most important component
because it's the actual energy that attracts,
then you can draw, bring into your life anything you want.
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