- I want to tell you how you can change yourself
and change your mind with a lemon.
You see, you make your beliefs
and then your beliefs turn right around and make you.
And since that's true, that means
you can choose what you believe.
And you might as well choose to believe great things
because our beliefs have a profound, powerful impact
on who we are and how we behave.
If you believe, "I'm healthy, I've got a great immune system,
"I've got a great metabolic rate,"
that will probably be your reality.
If you believe, "I've got a fantastic memory,
"I'm really good at my job, it's easy for me,"
then you will probably be amazing at your job.
Whereas if you believe, "My immune system is useless,
"I get colds every winter,
"whatever I eat, it goes straight to my hips.
"If I look at a cake, I gain a pound.
"If my eyes weren't screwed into the back of my head,
"I'd lose them. Money slips through my fingers."
You see, we say these things
that we think are throwaway statements.
Actually, they are fixed beliefs.
And if your beliefs are negative,
it is really important to change them.
So, why does this happen?
Well, it's very important to understand your mind's job.
Your mind's job is to do what you tell it.
If you say, "I'm terrified of speaking in public.
"I'd rather die than give that presentation at work.
"I could never stand up and speak in front of people,"
then when you decide to do that,
you mind goes, "No, hang on a minute,
"you said you'd rather die than do that
"and my job is to keep you well and safe.
"So since you're now planning a presentation next Wednesday
"and you're saying, 'I wish I'd never done that,
"'it's going to kill me to do that,
"'I'd rather die than give that talk.'"
Next Wednesday, you might wake up with chronic diarrhea,
a migraine, a cold.
Your mind goes, "There you go.
"You see, I listened to you saying,
"'I don't want to do that,
"'I'd rather die than do that,
"'I'd do anything to get out of it.'
"And I've listened to you and I've given you diarrhea.
"And now, you can't leave the house
"and there's no way you have to give that presentation. Yay.
"Aren't I cool?" Because our mind does what we tell it.
If we say, "I'm so scared of being dumped,
"if another breakup happens, it will kill me."
Your mind goes, "Well, you can't be killed.
"Let's just keep you away from it.
"Let's make you difficult, cold, overweight.
"And now you're not going to have a relationship
"so it can't hurt you." Because your mind's number one job
is to move you away from pain.
When you link pain to simple tasks,
"This commute is killing me,
"I'm dying under this paperwork,
"my boss is driving me crazy,
"this relationship is making me lose my mind,"
you're telling your mind,
"I don't want that."
And your mind goes, "I can make you ill, sick, phobic.
"Now you don't have to have it."
And since the mind does what you tell it,
you might as well tell it something amazing.
You see, you can choose what you tell yourself.
You really can. But you know what you can't choose?
What you do to your body when you say negative things,
"I'm always sick, I gain weight really easily,
"money slips through my fingers, I can't talk to people,
"I'm no good at being the focus of attention."
You can choose to say that
but you cannot choose the impact it has on you
and your health,
and even your wealth, when you use negative language.
And you might think, "Well, I don't really believe that."
And it's okay,
but thoughts are things.
Every thought you think has a physical reaction
and an emotional response.
It's why we can blush to a thought.
It's why our stomach rumbles when we see a picture of food.
It's why we can look at a picture of someone very alluring
and become aroused.
The thought is having a physical effect on you.
And I'm going to show you exactly how that is.
So I'm just going to hold this lemon in my hand
and I'm going to put it under my mouth, and I'm going to inhale
and breathe in that great lemon smell,
I'm going to squeeze the lemon until drops of lemon juice are
on the surface and I can see them.
And I want you to close your eyes, just for a few moments.
Please do this, it's actually great fun
and it will change the power you have over yourself.
Close your eyes.
Put your hand up to your face.
Imagine you have a big, fat, juicy
half a lemon in your hand.
I want you to put that imaginary lemon
under your nose and sniff it.
Inhale, that's it. Nothing smells quite like a lemon.
I want you to squeeze that lemon until lemon droplets
come onto the surface,
I want you to stick out your tongue and lick
off that lemon juice, that's right.
And now, open your mouth, in your imagination, and shove
that half a lemon in your mouth and start eating it.
I want you to chew the flesh of that lemon,
suck out all the juice,
swirl it around your mouth.
Bite into that lemon, chew and devour every segment,
suck out all the juice.
Keep eating the lemon, chewing the lemon,
sucking the lemon, swirling that lemon around your mouth
until your tastebud starts to swell and pucker
as you keep eating half a lemon.
And now open your eyes.
And here's some questions.
Did you notice that your face went a bit sour,
that you actually started to pump out saliva to a thought?
You thought you were eating a lemon
and your mind went, "You know, lemons are very acidic,
"they actually can damage tooth enamel.
"Let me create ton of saliva to wash that away."
You thought about eating a lemon. And here's a question,
was there a lemon or was there no lemon?
Actually, whatever answer it is, you're correct.
There was no lemon, but you reacted to it.
But, actually, there was a lemon,
it was in your imagination.
Your imagination will go, "Oh, don't be silly.
"There's no lemon, I'm imagining this."
Your mind didn't go, "No,"
your mind went, "You're eating half a lemon,
"I need to wash that acid away from your enamel,
"so let me pump out saliva." And many people find
their face puckers, their eyes squinch up
as they just think about eating a lemon.
So now you have proof, you thought a thought
and your body made that thought real.
You thought a thought that your mind said, "This is real,"
and your body agreed.
And if you can think about a lemon
and create saliva to a thought,
just imagine what else you can do by thinking a good thought
and making it real.
Because when you think a bad thought, you make it real.
So it really is all down to telling your mind things
that are empowering and positive.
And the more you do it, the easier it is;
the easier it is, the more you do it.
Your job is to feed your mind with powerful self-talk
and to make it even more empowering,
because your self-talk is your choice.
And as you form better self-talk, you form better beliefs.
So look at the words you are using
that are shaping your reality.
Because if you are committed to changing
your subconscious beliefs to reprogram
and to rewire your mind
so that you can rewire your life
and have a life that's positive and rewarding,
and you can do that for your health, for your wealth,
for your relationships, for your success,
then I have created a completely free
'5-Day Rewire Your Subconscious Beliefs Challenge.'
Join me now to see how you can change your life
by changing your mind.
And you get to keep the change.
It's easy,
and you know what? It's actually fun.