What thoughts do you want to fire and wire in your brain? Well?
And with attention, with and with intention,
if you keep practising firing and wiring those thoughts, you start installing hardware.
Do it enough times and it becomes like a software program.
And now that's the new voice you program in your head. That said, "I can do this."
People wake up in the morning and they think about their problems.
And those problems or memories that are etched in their brain,
that are connected to certain people and objects at certain times and places.
The moment they wake up in the morning and they start thinking of the problems,
they're thinking in the past.
Now, every one of those problems has an emotion associated with it.
So when they feel unhappy, when they feel bitter, when they feel fearful,
now their body's in the past.
Thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings of the language of the body.
Thought and a feeling, image and emotion, stimulus and response.
You're conditioning the body to be the mind of that emotion subconsciously.
Now the body is believing, it's living in the same past experience,
24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Why? Because the body's so objective.
It doesn't know the difference between the real-life experience
that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is creating by thought alone.
And so, the environment signals the gene, that's epigenetics,
the end product from an experience in the environment is an emotion.
A person is signalling the same genes in the same way.
And genes make proteins and proteins are responsible
for the structure and function of your body,
and the expression of proteins is the expression of life.
And now the person is actually headed for genetic destiny.
And when people labour for the present moment,
and they take their attention off of their body, off of all the people in their life,
all of the objects they own, their cell phone, their computer, their car, their house,
they're no longer identifying with where they're sitting, where they need to be,
where they live, where they've lived in the past, where they need to go,
and they're not thinking about the predictable future or the familiar past.
They're dissociating from everything physical and material, everything known.
That is the exact moment we call getting beyond yourself.
Now, when we're in that place then
at the beginning, it's uncomfortable because we're survival is the unknown.
You have better chances of survival in running from the unknown.
But that unknown is the perfect place to create from.
So in the process, no different than any rehab,
people are, they're basically rehabbing from their emotional states and their habits.
And they're sitting in the presence of that discomfort.
And the discomfort is because the body is leaving the known.
But, if the body has been conditioned to be the mind,
the moment you take it outside of its familiar territory,
it's going to start telling you, "Ed, why don't you quit?"
"You know you're not really good at this. You know, you're more of a physical person."
"You don't really want to do this. You're not very this or very that..."
And most people just get up when they do the meditation,
they believe that thought as if it's true.
Now the question is, what's on the other side of that thought?
Can you sit there long enough
till that's no longer the thought you accept, believe and surrender to?
Well then,
what's on the other side of that familiar emotion?
Can I sit and work with my body and settle it down?
"Stay. You stay. I'm gonna feed you. You're not gonna die from this.
Your bladder's not going to explode. You're not going to go crazy."
And you work with catching those thoughts, it's called metacognition.
If you're in that 95% of programming where you're unconscious,
then the first step to change is becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts,
so conscious that you would never go unconscious
or let that thought slip by you unnoticed.
Just because you have a thought doesn't mean it's true.
And if you're left alone to yourself, you'll start believing every thought you think.
And that's the problem.
So then, the majority of people's thoughts then,
are based on what they perceive about themselves from their past or their life.
And if you catch yourself complaining and blaming and making excuses
and judging someone else
and you say, "I want to be a happy person."
Well, a happy person would never do that, it would make them unhappy.
If you notice that you've been feeling guilty for the last 20 years,
you didn't know it was guilt because it just felt like you and you want to feel joy,
well, if you can't feel joy, it should tell us volumes
about what you've been practising doing.
So then most people give up because
they don't know that there's anything on the other side of it.
So then the next question is
What thoughts do you want to fire and wire in your brain? Well?
And with attention, with and with intention,
if you keep practising firing and wiring those thoughts, you start installing hardware.
Do it enough times and it becomes like a software program.
And now that's the new voice you program in your head. That said, "I can do this."