If you think that your thoughts have something to do with your future,
just from a theoretical standpoint, that your thoughts create your
destiny, and you think 60 to 70,000 thoughts in one day and 90% of
those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before,
well then your life is going to change very much as long as you're
thinking the same way.
And if those same thoughts lead to the same choices, the same
choices lead to the same behaviors,
the same behaviors create the exact same experiences
and we anticipate the same feelings or emotions from those
experiences. And those emotions are the payoff that drive our very
same thoughts. Well, our biology, our neurocircuitry, our neurochemistry,
our hormones, and even our gene expression will be equal to how we
think, how we act and how we feel.
And how we think, how we act
and how we feel is called our "personality". And our personality
creates our personal reality, that's it.
So the present personality who's listening to this show has created
the present personal reality called their life.
So, if you can latch onto this idea, if you want to create a new life,
a new personal reality, you got to change your personality!
Which means - you better
start thinking about what you've been thinking about it and changing it.
You begin to become conscious of your unconscious actions or habits
or behaviors
and modify them.
And then we have to begin to look at the emotions that we live by
every single day that keep us connected to the past and decide - do
these emotions belong in our future?
So most people are trying to create a new personal reality as the
same personality and it doesn't work! You literally have to become
someone else!
So, the principle in neuroscience says that nerve cells that fire together
wire together. You keep thinking the same way, making the same choices,
demonstrating the same habits,
creating the same experiences that stamp the same networks of neurons
into the same patterns, all for the familiar feeling called "you",
and you do that for 10 years on end, you're going to be in the hardwire
certain patterns in your brain that becomes your identity! And by the
time we're 35 years old, it kind of becomes fixed, right?
And psychology used to say that you can't change that, but we now know
that you can.
So then, that kind of box in the brai, that is the habit of ourselves.
We're 95% of the time running a series of programs.
So then, sitting and doing the work, we have to become disentangled
from those programs.
And so, the moment you decide to do something differently or make a
new choice, what most people don't want to face is that discomfort.
And that discomfort, that uncertainty, that lack of
predictability,
that unknown is what people are afraid of. Because
they'd rather live in guilt, at least they can predict who they are going to
be than take a chance and possibility.
So, when a person begins to understand this and
you say: Well, how long have you been this way?
And they say: I've been like this for 35 years. And you say: Why 35 years?
Because 35 years ago I had this one event. Well, the stronger the
emotion you feel from the reaction from that event,
the more altered you feel inside of you, the more the brain narrows
its focus and freezes the image and takes a snapshot. And that's called
a memory, right?
So then, forget the memory, just overcome the emotion. Because it's the
emotion that keeps you anchored to the past.
So, that sounds really good
theoretically, but when you step out into that unknown, into that
void, the body really is in a habit.
And a habit is when the body becomes the mind. Or if you're
thinking about that past event and it's producing an emotion,
you need an image and a feeling to start the conditioning process.
So, the body's either conditioned into the familiar past or it's
hardwired in the predictable future. Because it wakes up
every single day and runs through the same series of routine actions.
So, the present moment then becomes the unknown. When people start
feeling that discomfort, they'd rather get on their cell phone and
call someone, get up and say: I can't meditate, or you know, I have too
much to do. They excuse themselves,
they return back into that familiar feeling because the body's
actually telling the brain,
a habit is when the body becomes the mind. So the body's stepping out
into the unknown and says: Woo, I'd rather feel guilty,
I'd rather feel unhappy than be in this discomfort. So then, at least then when
they return back to that familiar feeling, then they feel safe.
So, they step out in the unknown and the body
starts influencing the mind saying: You can start tomorrow,
you're too busy,
it's your mother's fault,
it's your culture's fault, I don't have enough money,
this isn't going to work...
Those are the programs in there that are standing in the way between
you and your future.
So then, nerve cells that no longer fire together
no longer wire together.
So the act of observing those states of mind and body means you're no
longer the program, your the consciousness observing that program.
So then, to meditate - it means to become familiar with.
So, as you become familiar with those thoughts, you become conscious of
how you speak,
you become aware of how you act, you notice how you're feeling,
the more conscious you become of those unconscious programs, the less
unconscious you'll go
in your waking day.
Why?
Because it's not enough to just have a great meditation, get up and
get on the freeway and get in traffic and getting stressed.
You just return back to the old self again.
Our job then is to sustain that modified state of mind and body the
entire day.
And if you can, get ready! Because something different or unusual it's
going to begin to happen in your life! And it will come as a
coincidence or a synchronicity. And that's breadcrumbs from the Divine
saying: You're on the path.
Just keep doing it.
There will be another one.
Just keep staying in that energy! And so, teaching people then to
understand that there is a formula that we now know that if you apply
that formula, you'll begin to see those changes.
And now, as people are doing it more and more effectively, the results
are going up as well.
We just had Bond University, they just took a whole bunch of my brain
scans from 10 years ago.
Huge clinical study, lot of analysis, and they're blown away by
the speed in which the community can change brain and heart coherence.
They know how to do it.
It's not something that's separate from them.
They've practiced it enough times that they now know how to do it.
So, what's the significance of that?
Well, really simple! In your life,
if you start returning back
to the same reactions, to the same people and circumstances,
you're returning back to the old self.
So, you got to stay conscious in your life. And if you're not being
defined by a vision of the future, then you're left with the memories
of the past and you will be predictable in your life.
So, crossing that River of change from the old self to the new self,
there's a neurological, a biological, a chemical, hormonal,
genetic death of the old self! But if you teach people there's
something on the other side,
they won't give up on themselves, they'll keep going.
So, there's enough evidence to encourage people. And you can't tell me
you're too old to do this work.
You can't tell me you're too sick to do this work.
You can't tell me
you had a turbulent past or that you're too overweight or too
underweight or too out of shape, or you can't even tell me that you've
never met before.
In fact, some of our greatest scans are people who just have never
meditated before that are not trying to do anything.
They just follow instructions.
So, our community now is beginning to
understand that it is possible and they go all in! Not 50% in, not 60% in,
when we do a week-long event
we got 1.000 people or 1.500 people, and they are all in.
And when they start getting beyond themselves, that first day or
second day, once they start getting beyond themselves and that magic
starts to happen, then I have no idea, I can't predict what's going to
happen next. And it's usually pretty pretty exciting.