If you stop feeling suffering and you stop feeling pain, you stop
feeling guilt, and you start feeling elevated emotions like goy or
inspiration, or gratitude,
not just in a momentary state like positive thinking, but to be able to
self-regulate and maintain that, we could teach that, could we produce
the same effects in people?
So, I think this is a time in history Mark where it's not enough to
know, it's a time in history to know how!
And so, all that philosophy is all great dinner conversation, but when
you're given a diagnosis, now you got to step
out of the bleachers and you gotta go on the playing field, and you got
to start making different choices.
And the hardest part about change is not making the same choice as you
did the day before. And the moment you decide to make a different choice,
whether you like it or not, you're going to feel uncomfortable.
It's going to feel unfamiliar.
You're not gonna be able to predict what's going to happen.
There's going to be some uncertainty, because you're leaving the known
familiar self.
And so, how does the person become the person they are
and why do they keep their health condition
the same? Well, most people...
Your brain is a record of the past, it's an artifact of everything
you've learned and experienced to this moment.
So, most people wake up in the morning,
if you think that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny,
they start thinking about their problems. And those problems are just
memories that are etched in their brain that are connected to certain
people and objects, and certain things at certain times and places.
And the moment they start thinking about their problems, they're thinking in the past.
Now, because every one of those problems has an emotion associated
with them, the moment they start feeling
unhappy or feeling sad,
now their body's in the past. Because thoughts are the language of the
brain and feelings are the language of the body, and how we think and
how we feel creates our state of being! The problem is that the person
thinks that the problem feels the emotion, and that is a thought and a feeling.
That's an image and an emotion.
It's a stimulus and response. And that starts the conditioning process
to get the body emotionally conditioned into the past.
Now, here's the crazy part about it.
The familiar past,
emotionally,
is producing dramatic effects on the body.
Because the body is so objective that it does not know the difference
between the real life experience that's creating that emotion, and the
emotion that person is fabricating by thought or memory alone!
The body's believing its living
in the same past experience 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
And the problem with that is is that the environment signals the gene.
That's epigenetics. And the end product of an experience in the
environment is an emotion.
So, the person is keeping
the same gene regulated, because the body's believing is living in the
same environmental condition.
So, getting that person to step outside of that familiar known
territory into the unknown, where there is uncertainty and have them
be comfortable there, and begin to think about how they are going to think.
So, if we don't address those unconscious programs,
you could have
the healthiest, ketogenic, vegan,
enzymes, food combining,
and if you're living in fear, if you're living in pain, the cell is
not in a state to actually absorb anything.
It's in a state of emergency. And in emergency
there's no growth and repair.
So then we said okay, let's see if we can demystify the process.
So, the concept, the word meditation
literally means "to become familiar with". If you look at the symbolism
of it and you look it up as familiarization.
So you sit down.
And you say: Okay,
I don't want to be unhappy.
I don't want to be angry.
I don't want to talk trash about people.
I don't want to complain.
I want to blame.
I want to make excuses.
I don't want to feel lack.
I don't want to have a attitude
that's telling me
I can, it's too hard.
That's the old identity, right?
So, the moment you start becoming conscious
of those unconscious thoughts, the moment you become aware of your
automatic habits and behaviors, the moment
you can notice that this is actually guilt that you're feeling,
or sadness, or pain,
the moment
you can become conscious and familiar with those states of mind and body,
if you keep becoming familiar with it, if you keep becoming conscious
of it, you won't go unconscious.
So, sitting in meditation to know thyself, most people all of a
sudden here comes the barrage of thoughts.
Here comes the propensities and habits, and here comes the emotions.
The body's saying: You normally complain at this time.
What are you doing
sitting with your eyes closed?
Let's think of a reason why you can complain. And the body starts
influencing the mind.
So, if you break it down for a
person to understand, how many times do we have to forget until we
start remembering and keep remembering and stop forgetting?
That's the process of change.
So then, you put a person in a meditation and they hear that voice,
they hear that chatter,
they want to get up and go to the bathroom,
they want to check their cell phone,
they want to feel angry. And instead of getting up and saying I can't
meditate, they're coming to the end of the known. So, they
want to go back to what's known.
Yes, if you teach the person what to do and you show them that on the
other side of that is freedom,
on the other side of that is joy,
you got to become so conscious and it takes a lot of awareness,
it takes a lot of energy to sit with yourself long enough to
disentangle from those programs.
Now, we now know that it's a formula! That if you follow a formula, you will
actually start pruning circuitry, you'll stop the
conditioning process and move the body out of the past. And it starts
liberating energy!
And that's energy to heal with, that's energy to create a new life,
that's energy to digest again.
The body is no longer living in survival, living in an emergency.
And the majority of people's emotions
then tend to be derived from the hormones of stress.
And so, we started realizing that the arousal of the stress
hormones, that the rush of the chemistry, is actually tapping the
body's resources. And the stronger
the emotions
we feel towards any problem or person our life, the more we pay
attention to them. And if where you place your attention is where you
place your energy, then you're giving your power away to that person
or problem.
And if a person can learn to sit in the
fire and say: It's not my boss.
It's not my ex.
It's not my job.
It's not the pandemic.
It's me, that this emotion isn't serving me. Because this emotion is the
exact emotion that's pushing the genetic buttons that's creating disease.
Okay, if I can keep practicing lowering the volume to that emotion,
I'll keep taking my attention off that person or problem.
And in a sense, the body starts moving back into the present
moment, it starts getting relaxed in
the unknown. So, we started teaching people the process. And by a
person overcoming their past, not the trauma, just
the emotion,
they just have to work on breaking that conditioning process. Because
if you keep doing it over and over again, a habit is when the body
becomes the mind.
Now, the servant...
Now the body is influencing the mind. So, if you teach a person then how to
break that conditioning process, the body starts moving into the
present moment.
It's no longer in the same environmental condition. And then all of a
sudden, we start to see some pretty dramatic changes in people's health!
The arousal causes us to narrow our focus on the material world.
As we become, our senses become heightened, and we focus on
everything that's physical and material, and we start overfocusing,
that's what stress does.
So we thought, what if we taught people to do the opposite? Instead of
narrowing their focus on whatever is material or known to them,
let's have them open their focus and broaden their focus
and put their attention on nothing physical, and put it on
nothing, on space, on energy.
And if we can create what's called a divergent focus, is it
possible that the brain will begin to fire more coherently?
And all of a sudden, we started seeing the front of the brain talking
the back of the brain, synchronizing areas together. And what sinks
in the brain, links in the brain. And all the sudden, you see the person starting to
feel more whole!
You keep doing that, more coherence creates more energy, waves
start standing and they start building
on each other.
And when that happens, there's an arousal that ultimately takes place
in the brain, but the arousal is not fear.
The arousal is not pain, or aggression, and the arousal is not
anger, the arousal is ecstasy!
The arousal is bliss!
When that occurs, the stimulation that's being created,
and we see these high Gamma patterns that are off the scale,
the arousal that's taking place is not taking place from anything out
there in the environment.
It's not taking place from the sports car,
the wardrobe, or the movie, or the cell phone.
It's happening inside the person. And all of a sudden, that's a new feeling.
They've never had that feeling before and they start feeling connected.
The side effect of that is even greater levels of order in the brain.
And all of a sudden, the heart gets very turned on, it gets very
signaled, and the person is moving into an elevated state. And that
kind of combination of energy between the heart
and the brain causes the
person to become creative. Not a little creative, but really seeing
possibilities.
They're conscious of things
they were never conscious before.
And that's a greater level of awareness.
That's a greater level of energy.
And so, people all of a sudden start seeing synchronicities that
start taking place in their life. Because they have a coherent brain
and a coherent heart, and you got a Wi-Fi signal. And you feel
connected to something.
You don't feel separate, stress causes us to feel separation
and lack.
And this feeling makes you feel whole.
And all of a sudden, all the things that you wanted because you were
in lack, you no longer want, because you feel like you have them.
And that's the kind of place where you can relax more into the present
moment and enjoy the sunset, and enjoy the meal, and enjoy the
conversation, and enjoy the connection. Because you're present.
And I say that that's the skill. Because a lot of people
don't know what to do
when they have that thought, they have no formula
that's scientific and practical. That if they can practice enough times,
if nerve cells that fire together wire together, the nerve cells that no
longer fire together no longer wire together!
And if you stick with it, and we can tell you this, that sooner or
later that thought is going to start to have a weakening effect on
your mind, until ultimately it's no longer going to be there because
you no longer paid attention to.
No longer accepted it, no longer believed it.
No longer surrender to it.
And most people, when they get to this point mark, they think: I'm doing
my meditation wrong. And I always tell them:
No, no, no.
No, you're actually doing it right!
That's what I want you to see, that staying in the way between you
and your happiness. On the other side of that is a whole new area that
you get to wire your brain
anyway you choose.
So then,
there's a nun learning process before the relearning process.
There's a breaking a habit of the old self and a reinvention of a new self!
You got to prune synaptic connections that you're going to practice sprouting
new ones.
You got to unfire and unwire.
You got to refire and rewire.
You got a deprogram and reprogram.
You got to lose your mind and create a new one!
And you have to unmemorize emotions that keep you connected to
the same familiar past, and then recondition the body to
a new mind and to a new emotion.
So then, that process, if there's a formula to apply, let's just say
you sitting in your meditation, it means... It sounds good,
but how do you get from here to there?
But everybody's done it.
They've done it.
They just, they just haven't made it a habit.
And so then, if you're sitting in meditation and you have
something to do and your body starts going: I'm angry.
I'm frustrated, it's my ex-wife.
It's whatever.
And you go
like this to your body:
Okay.
Now listen: You settle down, you know exactly what to do, and you tame
the animal.
You tell it to settle. Stay! And relax it back into the present moment.
That's a victory, that's a victory.
And then if the body starts going: I got to get up.
I got to check my cell phone.
I gotta go.
I got a meeting, I'm busy. And you notice that your body's habituated
into the same predictable future and you settle your body back down
into the present moment,
now you're executing a will that's greater than those unconscious
programs, and that's a victory!
And if you keep doing this over and over again, just like training an
animal, the body's going to stay.
It's going to surrender to a new mind. And when that occurs, there's a
liberation of energy and the person relaxes into the present moment.
That's the unknown!
The familiar past is the known, the predictable future is the known.
The only one place left is the sweet spot of that
generous present moment!
Now, let's get the person
so familiar with their unconscious
thoughts that when they come, they don't respond to them. So aware of
their habits and behaviors,
so conscious of the emotions that they typically feel in a
waking day that they would never go unconscious to that emotion again.
And you say to the person:
Hey, Mark.
Well, what thoughts
do you want a fire in wire in your brain? And with intention and
attention, if we showed you how to do that, nerve cells that fire
together wire together.
Just take a little repetition, a little presence,
you start installing the hardware! Keep doing it,
it's going to become a software program.
What does that mean?
That's going to be the new voice in your head that says: Mark, you can do it!