If you're waking up every morning being defined by a vision of the future
instead of the memories of the past, and you get up and you're
inspired from an elevated self now
instead of a limited self, you could observe the old self from an
elevated state instead of that diminish state. And people are doing that!
So they are aware.
of those thoughts. And yes, it takes effort.
And if it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
But just because you have a thought, doesn't necessarily mean it's true!
And when you start looking and observing those thoughts,
I think you are like Gandalf. Because Gandalf also said, you know:
You may not pas! When he meant like that's kind of
severity when it comes to how we make up our mind about things.
That's the kind of energy or
intention that begins to create the biggest volume of change in our life.
And I've interviewed thousands of people in our work that have healed
from really serious health conditions. And I would say, about 90% of them,
when I asked them:
So what happened? The first thing they say all the time is: I just made up my mind!
I just made up my mind
I was going to do this. And they made a decision.
With such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carried
a level of energy that was greater than the hardwired programs in
their brain and the emotional conditioning in their body. And the
choice that they made caused their body to respond to a new mind.
In fact, the choice they made became a moment that they would never forget.
It was an event, and the stronger the emotion they felt, the more they
paid attention to the choice. And in a sense, they were remembering
their future!
And the body emotionally was getting a sampling, a taste of the future!
And they're lying to that future. And that's when the body's healing began.
That's when the miracle started, right in that moment.
That's how powerful we really are!
Now, what if you did that every day?
What if you made up your mind every single day you weren't going to
get up from your meditation until you were that person
you wanted to be? Game on now! Because you'd have to do battle with all
the things that are not consistent with it.
And that's exactly how our brain works.
So then, if you want to be wealthy,
you can't feel lack.
You want to be a master,
you can't judge your coworker.
You want to be like somebody great in history,
then you better execute peace in every area of your life.
That's the law!
So, you take the prayer out on the road now.
You're the living example of prayer!
That's where it matters the most! And that's when people
start getting suspicious, and they say: Man, you changed your medication?
I mean, you're looking way too happy all of a sudden.
You're not rely on anything
outside of you to bring you joy.
You're overcoming yourself every day. And people say to me:
Well, why do you do your meditations in the morning?
I always say: Easy, because if I can overcome myself at the beginning of
the day, the rest of the day's easy! Because that's the biggest, that's
the biggest mastery, right?
It's the self.
So people are waking up to that, and you know, they enjoy the process
of seeing when they make those type of changes. The feedback that's
happening in their lives! You know, the synchronicities.
The opportunities, the coincidences, those
serendipities, they're starting to happen and they're going:
Wow!
I am powerful!
Hey, I am a Creator! And nobody's excluded from the equation.
That's what makes it so cool!
So, people that are really sick, really really sick that are healing,
they'll tell you that when they go to the doctor and the doctor said:
Where's the stage 4 cancer?
They'll tell their doctor it's in the old person.
I'm somebody else!
Well, how did you do it?
Well, I down-regulated the genes for disease by overcoming these
emotions and these behaviors and thoughts.
And I up-regulated the genes for health. The doctor kind of looks like:
Wow, because it is possible to do that.
And we've actually measured it in our events. We know that in 4 days
you can really change your gene expression. Genes that help restore
balance for a cancer cells and tumors, genes that
activate stem cells to repair cells that
are damaged, genes for neurogenesis, the growth of new neurons in
your brain, genes for oxidative balance for the microtubules or
cellular structure and the replication of cells.
These are all activated in 4 days by people thinking differently,
making different choices, doing different things,
having new experiences, feeling new emotions. Your genes actually change!
And so, we're not doomed by our genes.
We're not hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of our lives.
We are marvels
of adaptability and change.
So then, what does it mean
to change? Change means then to be greater than your body! Greater than
the body that has been conditioned emotionally to be the mind.
Greater than the body habituated into a predictable future. To be greater than
the environment, to be greater than the conditions in your life.
And if you're not being defined by a vision of the future and you wake
up every morning, it makes total sense then,
when you see the same people, and you go to the same places,
and you do the exact same thing at the exact same time,
now your personality is no longer creating your personal reality.
Your personal reality is creating your personality!
Because every person, every object, every thing, every place, is mapped
neurologically in your brain.
And since you've experienced your boss, since you've experienced your
coworker, since you've experienced your ex, the moment you've
experienced them, at some point there's an emotion associated with them.
So then all of a sudden, people wake up they're not aware of this,
but their environment is influencing the way they think and the
way they feel.
So, when things are going good, they feel good.
When things are bad, they feel bad. Which means - they're victims to their environment!
Why are you unhappy?
Well, this person made me unhappy. Which means unconsciously,
that person is actually controlling the way
I feel and the way I think!
Now I'm a victim to that circumstance. So, to change then is to be greater
than that environment.
So then, you would have to reprogram the way you think
and the way you'd feel to no longer return back to the same state of being.
Now, that's the mastery. Because it isn't just having
a great meditation
and then getting on the freeway and flipping everybody off, or judging
your coworker.
You just return back to the old self.
You got to be able to maintain that modified state of mind and body
your entire day.
And if you can, get ready! Because we're things are going to happen in your life!
So, the person who starting to try it out in a curious way, like let's
just do the experiment,
let's just see if I change my energy, I change the way you think I feel,
is there going to be some effect in my life? When they
start seeing that,
they're no longer like:
Ohh, I gotta go create my life today.
They're actually excited to do it, because they don't want the magic to end.
They want to keep it going!
Now, that's when it gets kind of cool, because this is when you start
believing in yourself. And when you believe in yourself, you believe in
possibilities, right?
When you believe in possibilities, you got to believe in yourself!
When you stop believing in possibilities, you can't believe in yourself.
So, people are waking up and going:
Wow, doesn't matter your skin color, doesn't matter how rich you are,
doesn't matter how healthy you are,
it doesn't matter
how young you are, how old you are,
how in shape, out of shape.
Not even if you ever meditated before, it doesn't
even matter.
It's a formula!
And you don't need 40 years of dedication to meditation to get it.
You just got to understand the formula. And like playing ping pong,
or hitting a golf ball, or dancing the salsa,
you're going to figure it out sooner or later.
It's going to get easier and it's going to get fun.
That's what we want for people.
I assert
that if you're not in the present moment, you're running a program!
And paying attention is being present. And it's a skill, just like
anything else. The more you practice it, the better you get at it.
And you know when someone's present with you and your life because
they're paying attention to you. And you know when they're not present
with you because they're not paying attention to you.
So, where you place your attention is where you place your energy!
So, if you have all of your attention in the present moment, you're conserving
a lot of energy to create with. If I'm talking to you and you're
thinking about where you're going to go for lunch, and who you're going to
go with, and how you're going to get there, and I'm talking to you, you left
the present moment. And your attention went to some future. And your
energy will go down! And you won't be able to comprehend what I said.
If you start thinking about what you should have said at the staff
meeting 3 days ago,
and I'm talking to you
and your mind is back in the past, you're siphoning energy out of
the present moment into the past.
So, people are constantly siphoning their energy into a familiar
past or a predictable future, because that's where their attention is.
And the stronger
the emotions that we feel to certain problems and conditions in our life,
the more we pay attention to them.
So we give our power away to our ex,
we give our power away to that big problem.
And that's creative energy that we should be able
to use to create a new future.
So then, when a person's sitting in a meditation and they're doing
absolutely nothing, and it's 8:00 in the morning, and their body
for the last 10 years has been going in traffic and getting angry and
frustrated in traffic,
and now they're sitting in a meditation at 8:00 in the morning,
the body's going to say:
Hey, you're off schedule.
I'm used to suffering getting angry here.
So, the body is going to start looking for that emotion, and it's gonna
start influencing the mind, and you're gonna start getting images
and memories. Just
so you could feel that emotion.
Like now, now the person's back in the past.
But if they become aware that they're siphoning energy out of the
present moment into the past ,and they settle the body back down into
the present moment,
that's a victory!
And those victories add up. And you're telling the body in that moment
that it's no longer the mind, that you're the mind.
And that's a victory! And then people get frustrated and they say:
I can't meditate.
Oh really?
Well actually, you're doing it right.
That's actually what,
you're doing exactly what
you're supposed to be doing. And then all of a sudden, the body says:
Well, it's 8:15 now.
This is when you normally go get something to eat, and you
have your coffee, and your body starting to want to get up and do something.
You become aware that your body wants to get up and move, and you're in
the meditation. And you tell your body: A-ah, you bring it back to the
present moment.
You settle it back down, you were training the animal.
That's a victory.
Now you're executing a will that's greater than the program. Because
most people lose their free will to a program.
Now you're telling the body:
I'll tell you when we get up.
Not when you want to get up.
You're not the mind.
I'm the mind.
And that's a victory.
Now, we've done the research on this.
If you keep doing this and you stay with it, sooner or later
the body's going to surrender to a new mind. And when that happens,
there's a liberation of energy!
The body is freed from those habituations and those emotions.
The body's going from particle to wave, from matter to energy. And all of a
sudden, you're dialing down the anger, you're dialing down the
vigilance. And the body
now is being conditioned to a new mind.
That is the present moment.
And when you're in that present moment, something really
amazing happens!
You forget about you. All of a sudden,
you're not your face,
you're not your culture, you're not your marital status,
you're not your diet,
you're not your past.
You're basically just an awareness. You're in the unknown. And that is
the perfect place to create from!
So, it turns out that when people do this properly, they heal
themselves of anxiety.
Why?
Because they're no longer obsessing about some future.
When they find the present moment, they heal from their depression.
Because they're not hopeless and powerless in their past, the body's
conditioned now.
And so then,
when they overcome themselves in their meditation and they step out
into their life,
they are more present.
They can connect, they are more patient.
They are more loving. Because they overcome the animal part of themselves.
And the beauty behind that is that all of a sudden, you're not predictable.
All of a sudden, something's different about Sean.
I'm noticing he's not behaving the same way.
You're out of the known, right?
You're in the unknown! And all of a sudden, people... It's no longer what
you're saying to them.
It's who you are.
They're just kind of scratching their head going:
Hey, he looks like he's really happy.
I want some of that.
And now we're out of the philosophical, theoretical realm, we are in the
practicum, which is where really the magic happens.
So, the eternal present moment, the sweet spot of the generous present
moment is the place we can create from!
And when we are, when we are there, we disconnect from our bodies, we
become nobody.
We disconnect from people in our lives, were not thinking about our ex or our boss.
We are no one.
We're not thinking about our
cell phone or computer.
We are no thing.
We are not thinking about where we live, where we work, where we sleep.
We are nowhere.
And we're not thinking about the predictable future and the familiar past,
we are in no time.
And when you're disconnecting or dissociating from everything known,
You're in the unknown, and that's where the magic happens!