Any great leader in history understands that
the first thing you have to do is you have to decide
are you going to be defined by a vision of the future
or are you going to live by the memories of the past?
So give you an example, most people wake up in the morning, and your
brain is a record of the past.
It's an artifact of everything
you've learned and experienced to this moment, right?
It's a memory bank.
So most people wake up in the morning
and they start thinking about their problems.
And those problems are connected to certain people and things at
certain times and places. And the moment
they start turning on those circuits,
those memories are actually causing them to think in the past. Every
single one of those memories has an emotion associated with them and
emotions are the end product of past experiences.
So then, the moment they recall the event or they recall
some problem in their life,
they start feeling unhappy,
they start feeling discouraged,
they start feeling nxious
Now, thoughts of the language of the brain and feelings are
the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates
your state of being.
So we could say then, most people's entire state of being when
they start their day is in the familiar past.
Well, if you live in the familiar past, then it makes sense
you're going to create a predictable future.
So what happens for most people is they get stuck in their biology,
So think about this. Your body, as your unconscious mind,
it doesn't know the difference between an experience in your life that
creates an emotion
and an emotion that you can create by thought alone. So, if you're
living by the same emotion every single day and those emotions are
influencing your thoughts, and you can't think greater than how you
feel, or feelings have become
the means of thinking, you're thinking in the past! Your lens of the
future is going to be colored by the past.
So you can't see possibility.
So, most people like to wait for crisis or disease or diagnosis before
they wake up
enough to see.
Well, the challenge is that biology tends to be redundant.
So,
if you keep thinking the same thoughts and those thoughts begin to
fire certain circuits in your brain, the nerve cells that fire
together wire together.
So all of a sudden, you start getting hardwired.
And those are the thoughts that you can think
the easiest. At the same time, those thoughts produce chemicals called
emotions.
And the next thing you know, your body gets accustomed to living by
the same emotions, and it could be guilt,
it could be unhappiness,
it could be pain, but at least it's familiar to you.
At least you can predict it.
So, some people would rather
cling to the familiar than take a chance and possibility.
So for most people then, they say: Well, I don't really see how my
thoughts have anything to do with my destiny.
Well, that's because 95% of those thoughts are subconscious programs.
Right?
So you're not even conscious that you think those thoughts.
So, the first step to change is starting to think about what you've
been thinking about and change it.
And then, when you begin to observe those thoughts, you're no
longer the program, you're the consciousness observing that program! Just simply by
being an observer of your thoughts? Right!
So,
most people though, when you do that, when you decide to really
take a look, it's like lighting a match in a dark place.
So you feel uncomfortable.
So it's easier to turn on your TV,
it's easier to play with your cell phone, to distract yourself from
those feelings.
Well, when you understand that change really requires becoming
uncomfortable to a certain degree, and that's normal, that you're
leaving the known and you're stepping into the unknown, then it begs
the question:
What thoughts
do you want to fire and wire in your brain?
Because your attention on those thoughts begins
to reorganize circuitry, remold the brain. Because most people
are waiting for their life the change
so they can feel gratitude, to feel abundance, to feel whole.
You know, that's the old model of cause and effect. So, if you're
living with emptiness, you're living with lack, you're living with pain,
most people have been conditioned that something out there has to take
away this emptiness or feeling inside of them.
But if you believe that you're creating your life and you're living by
lack, lack isn't
going to create abundance, right?
So then, it makes sense then that you don't really actually create wealth.
You generate wealth, you generate abundance!
So, the moment you start teaching your body emotionally what that
future is going to feel like before it's made manifest, your body
as the unconscious mind believes
it's living in that future and the present moment! Now, it's a
scientific fact that it's the environment that signals the gene.
Okay?
The end product from an experience in
the environment is an emotion.
So when you begin to embrace an elevated emotion, you're beginning to
signal the gene ahead of the environment.
What's the importance of that? Well, genes make proteins.
And proteins are responsible for the structure and the function of
your body.
And the expression of proteins is the expression of life!
So, by you creating an elevated emotion and teaching your body what
that future will feel like before it's made manifest, your body's
starting to live in that future reality in the present moment.
Now, here's the key.
If you were able to become familiar with gratitude, become familiar
with wholeness, become familiar with abundance, to become familiar with
freedom, and you're able to generate those chemicals every single day,
more than likely you would be walking around
feeling like your future has already happened!
And you would no longer be looking for it to happen.
You would already feel like it has happened.
Now,
what is the importance of that?
Well, you're literally becoming somebody else.
So you're leaving your lack, you're leaving your guilt,
you're leaving your emptiness behind.
So, your personality literally is made up of how you think, how you act,
and how you feel. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel
is your personality. And your personality is intimately connected to
your personal reality - your life!
So then, if you want to change your life, your personal reality, you
got to change your personality.
And here we go again.
You got to start becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts.
You got to start noticing how you act, how you speak.
You got to pay attention to how you're feeling. Because some people
would live in guilt their whole entire
life and don't even know it's guilt.
At least it feels like them.
So then, when you start doing that, you begin to objectify your
subjective self.
So then, when you begin to make small changes, back to thought. A new
thought should lead to a new choice.
A new choice should lead to new behavior. A new behavior should
create a new experience, and a new experience should create a new emotion.
And that new emotion is teaching your body
chemically to understand what your mind is intellectually understood.
Now your body is embodying the truth, right?
So then the new emotion should Inspire new thoughts and that's called
evolution.
So how did we get stuck?
It's really simple. The stronger
the emotion
you feel from some event in your life, be it a betrayal, or a trauma,
or whatever,
the more altered you feel inside of you, the more you pay attention
to the cause outside of you.
So the brain takes a snapshot.
It freezes an image and embosses that pattern neurologically in the brain,
that's called a memory.
So we create long-term memories from strong emotional events.
So, certain people have a strong experience in their life and it catches
all of the brain's attention.
So now they think neurologically within the circuits of the past
experience and they feel chemically within the boundaries of those
emotions.
And so, how you think and how you feel creates a state of being.
Now, here's the problem. That if you don't know how to mediate or
control your emotional reaction to that event, and you keep that
refractory period of chemicals going on for extended periods of time
so that the event produces a
chemical change, and the body needs to return back to homeostasis or
balance.
But if it can't, then the elongation of that emotional reaction for
weeks say, for days or weeks is called a mood.
So you say: Ed,
what's wrong with you?
I'm in the mood.
Why are you in a mood?
Well, this thing happened to me 5 days ago and I'm having one long
emotional reaction.
So, then what you do is you keep telling the story about it, keep
firing and wiring the same circuits, and you keep conditioning the body
into the past.
So then, you wake up in the morning,
you look for the emotion.
So then now all of a sudden, you keep it lingering for weeks or months,
that's called temperament.
Well, why is he so angry?
I don't know,
let's ask him.
Why are you so angry?
Well, this thing happened to me 8 months ago.
I'm having one long emotional reaction.
I'm memorizing
my emotions.
You keep it going on for years on end,
that's called a personality trait.
So then, a person then is memorizing themselves by living in the past.
And so then, you say to them:
Well, tell me the story. Now, the latest research on memory says
that 50% of what we talked about in our past isn't even the truth.
So, we make stuff up about the past.
In other words, people are reliving a life that they didn't even have
just to reaffirm that they can't change, right?
So then, what's the significance of this?
Where you place your attention is where you place your energy! Period!
So then, the stronger the emotion that you have to some problem
or condition or person in your life, the more you're paying attention to them.
So, they captured your attention.
You're giving your power away to that person, right?
Because they're capturing your attention.
So then, there's an energetic connection to every person, everything,
everything in your past present reality has your energy connected to it.
So now this is the significance. When a person really decides to be
defined by a vision of the future instead of the memory of the past,
the hardest part about it is all of a sudden becoming conscious and
not making the same unconscious choice.
So then, if you lower the
volume to your frustration, to your hatred, to your anger,
if you truly knew how to do that,
if you lower the volume to that emotion, you would take your attention
off that person. Which means - you would begin to break those energetic bonds
and now you're taking your power back!
You're calling energy back to you.
We've measured this. And all of a sudden, it builds this bigger
electromagnetic field around the person's body, that's
energy to heal! That's energy to create a new future with!
Right?
And then, if you didn't want to lower the volume to the emotion, then
just take your attention
off the person. And every time you take your attention off the person, if
you became conscious of that, you wouldn't feel the emotion.
Now, the body though has been addicted to that emotion. Because you're
using that person to reaffirm your addiction to hatred or frustration.
And if that person died, you'd find another one.
So then, here you go now. So, now you're in a position now where you
begin to lower the volume to that emotion and the body's going: Wait a second,
you've been doing this for the last 20 years and all of a
sudden you're just going to stop hating?
And the body says: Well, I've been conditioned this way.
And conditioning is based on the past.
So when the body feels the lack of that emotion, just like a drug addict,
it says: Hey, you're off schedule here.
So now the body starts influencing the mind to think about
experiences that are embossed in the brain that are based on that emotion.
So the emotion now is causing you to think in the past.
If we teach a person then how to trade that frustration or that
hatred for an elevated emotion and they'll say: Yeah, but you know,
it was my ex's fault,
or I got betrayed by my partner in business.
Yeah,
yeah, we know that.
Okay.
So let's take your partner in business, or take your ex,
let's duct tape and put them in a cannon and shoot them to the moon.
Now what are you gonna do? Sooner or later
you got to reckon with yourself and change, right?
So then, teach a person then how to trade that emotion for an elevated emotion,
Now... Trade the emotion for an elevated emotion? Right!
So, you're going to give that up and you're going to practice feeling
gratitude as an example.
Yes.
The person says: Well, I can't feel gratitude.
And I say: Absolutely you can't because you don't
practice feeling it.
You practice spending most of your time feeling hatred and
frustration.
So now it's going to take a little time the cause
that heart of yours to bloom. Once they're able to feel even
the smallest measure of gratitude, where they start feeling appreciation,
thankfulness, gratitude,
it's emotional signature, when you get something, when you're
receiving something, when something has happened to you or when
something is happening to you,
you say: Thank you! Because you're receiving something.
So the emotional signature of gratitude means the event has already
happened or it's happening to you.
So, the moment you open your heart and you feel gratitude,
well, that emotion then is telling the body that the experience has
already occurred. And the thought then can make it into the body
because it's consistent with the thought!