How are you doing? Are you okay? Today I'm going to talk about our subconscious
mind and what we can do to stay strong and happy and still focus on our dreams
and our goals even during the pandemic even during this crazy time when we're
constantly filled with overwhelm anxiety fear and it doesn't have to be that way
yes we have an issue as a world to deal with yes it is serious and yes you are
in control of your life as crazy as it feels right now as out of control as it
can feel right now this is the time when we are at home when we can take charge
and really focus on what it is we want to do with our lives and it helps us
recognize how vulnerable we are how valuable this life is and that it is now
time to really focus and make the most of it so today I want to talk about our
subconscious mind how it works and how you can actually use it to achieve your
dreams even if we're stuck at home okay if you're with me on this can you like
and let me know welcome back now if this is your first time here hi I'm Amanda
van der Gulik from www.CleverDoughKids.com where I teach financial education and
entrepreneurship for families and I am so happy to have you with us here today
now achieving our goals starts with our brain we have to actually believe that
we are capable of achieving our goals so I want to do a little brain quiz for you
it's really fun it's really yummy too alright so I have these licorice candies
here they're called the goodies in them
delicious if you like black licorice which I do and what they do is I want I
want you to count in just a few seconds I want you to count how many white
candies there are on here so see if you can see this there how many white
candies go
okay do you have that number keep that in your mind how many white candies did
you come up with did you see three did you see five did
you see seven if you saw seven congratulations
that is how many white candies there are see go ahead and count them again how
many white candies do you see are there seven congratulations
so what does that mean your brain is focused on finding all of the white
candies and you meticulously are able to then count the white candies now a
question for you how many yellow candies were there do you know you want to look
again how many yellow candies do you see see that there's only one yellow candy
did you see that the first time when you were counting the white candidates do
pay attention to the fact that there was one yellow candy or were you focused on
finding the white candies they probably didn't even pay attention to any yellow
green pink purple eat prob'ly didn't notice quick question how many green
candies are there can you remember what I see how many green candies do you see
four that's right so how many black candies are there are you getting the
picture we can only focus on so much now I'm not saying that you didn't know that
there was one yellow and that you didn't know that there was or green possibly
you did but the majority of us are only able to focus on what we are telling our
brain to focus on and more importantly what our subconscious brain is telling
us so our subconscious brain tells us when we need to focus on something like
count how many what candies there are our brain will automatically filter out
everything else that is not important so that we can get our tasks done and that
is a wonderful thing that helps us actually achieve our goals and and live
in our world safely so this was a very good thing the problem is is that we are
very influenced by the world around us and if people are constantly yelling at
us look for the white candies look for the white candies look for the white
candies over time we totally forget yellow candies are green candies even
exist and we're missing out on the beautiful vibrance of these yellow in
these green candies and we're only focused on the white candies does that
making sense and it's our dream in life is to have a green candy we're never
gonna find it if we're only focused on white candies are you getting my point
here so one of the first things that I do to make sure that I stay in a
positive mindset and trust me there are many days when this is difficult but we
have to have tools in place to help us get back on track and one of the most
important things I highly recommend cut out watching the news and people will
say to me but it's important to know what's going on in the world trust me
you will find out people will let you know when it's really important but you
don't need to be filling your head with how many white candies there are how
many green candies are out if your focus on finding a yellow candy that makes
sense and if there was an overload of green candies trust me your friend would
say did you see how the green candies just flew in through town people are
going to let you know when it's really important but if you want to find your
dreams and focus on them and achieve them you need to first take away the
distractions that are not helping your subconscious mind so that you can find
those yellow candies those green Andie's okay all right so that is the
first thing is to be in control of what is going in your mind so cancel out
anything that is going to have a negative effect and going to work
against you for achieving your goals the second thing I do every day I have two
journals that I that I write in every single day this one is my morning
journal and in here I write the five things every single day what I am
grateful for so every single day I write down five things I'm truly honestly
grateful for that have already happened in my life or that can happen right like
I know for sure is happening today so something that absolutely has happened
or is going to happen today that I know is going to happen today so for example
our washing machine is broken I am so happy and grateful that though while she
was here a repair person that's coming today is one example and he's not but
that's okay the second book and this one is the
gratitude journal that I love the most because this is like a dream gratitude
journal it's taking all of your goals and your dreams and you're writing it
out in present tense as if they've already happened and so I tend to
dedicate one page for each day depending on the day are the write big or small
depending on how much I want to achieve that day and every single day I write
out my dreams as if they're already happened so one of my dreams is to build
a beautiful log cabin in the country for myself and my family and so quite often
almost every single day I will write a bed if I will see myself sitting on the
porch drinking my cup of coffee I will see myself with my beautiful big white
kitchen and the marble islands that I work on and they make my cakes on so I
can I can literally walk through the entire house and I feel the coldness of
the wood on the feet on my feet on the floor I feel this softness and there's a
little bit of a give on the car but as I walk into the bedroom I can
feel what it feels like and you do this with whatever your goal is so one of
them for me is my own home my own log cabin mansion so I can feel it another
one is it's here in my lungs because as you know aniline patients and if you
didn't know you can check out this video here and and see what happened to me so
another thing that I write about often in my journal is how easy it is for me
to breathe and how my lungs have completely healed and I am vibrant and
strong and able to dance and sing I just write it as if it has already happened
the way that I want it to actually happen and very careful with the words
that you use make sure you're speaking present positive tense so if you wanted
to lose some weight don't write down something like I am so happy and
grateful now that I've lost 20 pounds because your subconscious brain goes oh
my goodness I lost something I better go find it and it goes to weight pounds I
need to focus on weight in pounds and guess what you get more weight in pounds
so instead I don't focus on healing my my damaged lungs I write down things
like I'm so happy grateful now that I can breathe freely I get full oxygen
through my whole body I'm able to cleanse my body easily so I'm focusing
on the positive words that are the end result of what I want rather than I'm
still having grateful now that my scarred lungs are healing because my
brain would focus on I have scarred lungs so I need to have scarred lungs
does that making sense I hope so alright now the big thing so I do many
things to make sure I stay in a mindset of prosperity happiness progressive
movement forward achieving my goals and trust me as especially right now in
these times there are many days when even I and as difficult as it is to
imagine get overwhelmed have anxiety attacks and that is normal it's being
able to notice those and then intentionally work with it rather than
letting it overwhelm and consuming it is okay to have a cry fest and then
move forward staying stuck is not going to help you feeling and releasing is
going to help you okay so my journals and making sure I use my words you know
positive present tense way that's going to help cancelling out any of the
negative environment that is not going to help me achieve my goals like
watching the news these are tools you can use to help you now the thing is do
you know what your biggest mental block is because if you don't know what that
block is then yes you're going to do it's good by doing journaling by doing
meditations by creating vision boards as you can see my vision board here which I
absolutely love and if you want to make your own vision board you can see how to
do that in this video here but you need to know what are those subliminal
negative beliefs that you have in your psyche that you have accepted as being
true for you for your life and they're blocks that you probably picked up as a
child or a teenager blocks like I am not worthy I am not as good as other people
other people deserve success I don't deserve success or if I succeed people
won't like me money is evil you know how many of these blocks you have and what
you feel biggest block what is the block that makes you procrastinate achieving
your dreams achieving your goals what is the one where just when you're getting
to your goal you find yourself putting other things in the way making it harder
for yourself something inside you it says look I really don't deserve this
goal so I'm gonna busy myself with this other thing you know what I mean right I
have something for you today super simple I take you thirty Seconds
to do and it is a quick that my friend Natalie Ledwell from Mind Movies put
together and it is so easy to do and it's fun to go through parents it will
show you in just 30 seconds when he finished the quiz nobody will actually
show you what your specific freedom blocker is all right when I went through
it I was I was just shocked I thought really I'd worked on that I thought I'd
done that and I didn't understand how it had sent so deep in my subconscious and
how it was working against me and I want to save you that you heard if it took
for me to figure out myself so that you can just figure it out within 30 seconds
I know it sounds ridiculously you did it 30 seconds that she knows what questions
to ask and then after you finished the quiz Natalie will walk you through a
video explaining your specific block why it's in there and more importantly what
you can do to start removing it all right so I put a link in the description
below if you go to www.amandavandergulik.com/freedomblockerquiz
I'll put a link in the description below for you so you can just click on it but
go there and take the quiz it's free it's the only 30 seconds and then watch
the video where now they will walk you through what your specific freedom
blocker is and more importantly the things that you can do to change that
all right it's time for you to find your yellow candy and cat check out this mind
movie here to help you get your mind and bright mindset for success I love you as
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