So when you teach people how to do that with a meditative process,
turns out that when they're in their life, they're less likely to emotionally react.
They're less likely to be so rigid and believe the thoughts they were thinking.
They're more aware of when they go unconscious back into a habit
and that is what starts the process of change.
Just because you have a thought, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
So if you think 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts in one day and we do
and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before
and you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny,
your life's not gonna change very much. Because the same thought leads to the same choice,
the same choice leads to the same behaviour, the same behaviour creates the same experience
and the same experience produces the same motion. And so then, the act of becoming conscious
of this process to begin to become more aware
of how you think how you act and how you feel, it's called metacognition, and so then,
why is that important? Because the more conscious you become
of those unconscious states of mind and body, the less likely you're gonna go
unconscious during the day and that thought is not gonna slip by your awareness unchecked.
It means to know thyself. The word meditation means to become familiar with.
So as you become familiar with the thoughts, the behaviours and the emotions of the old self,
you're retiring that old self. As you fire and wire new thoughts
and condition the body into a new emotional state, if you do that enough times,
it'll begin to become familiar to you. So it's so important, just like a garden,
if you're planting a garden, you've got to get rid of the weeds.
You got to take the plants from the past year and you got to pull them out.
The rocks that sift to the top, that are like our emotional blocks, they have to be removed,
that soil has to be tenderized and broken down. We have to make room to plant the new garden.
And so, primarily we learn the most about ourselves and others when we're uncomfortable.
Because the moment you move into that uncomfortable state, normally a program jumps in.
When that program jumps ins, it's because the person doesn't want
to be in the present moment and engage it consciously.
So when you teach people how to do that with a meditative process,
turns out that when they're in their life, they're less likely to emotionally react.
They're less likely to be so rigid and believe the thoughts they were thinking.
They're more aware of when they go unconscious back into a habit
and that is what starts the process of change. And so, we have to unlearn before we relearn.
We have to break the habit of the old self before we reinvent a new self.
We have to prune synaptic connections and sprout new connections.
We have to unfire and unwire, and refire and rewire.
We have to unmemorise emotions that are stored in the body.
Then recondition the body into a new mind, into a new emotion.
Deprogram and reprogram. That's the act and it's a two-step process.
I guarantee people watching right now are having like a hundred "aha!" moments.
For sure that was definitely the case for me as I was researching you and when you said that,
I was like "and that's the danger." That you have the "aha!" and then nothing.
Yeah, and it is a danger because then people will shrink back into mediocracy
and they'll use the insight to excuse them from taking a leap.
They'll say, "yeah, you know, I have a chemical imbalance in my brain."
"Yeah, my father was really overbearing, he was a perfectionist, that's why I am the way I am."
People, they come up with stuff to excuse themselves.
The insight is actually giving them permission to stay limited.
And it's an amazing idea because they'll say to you
that they really want to get over their anxiety, but okay, let's take your ex-husband,
let's put him in a straitjacket, let's duct tape him and shoot
them to the moon now what? I mean, what are you gonna
do now? You still have to make those changes. And so then the person's enemy dies or their...
something shifts in their life and that person's gone, they'll find another person to hate.
This is just how we function as human beings. We just slide another reason to feel those emotions.
So, I think I think when people start to understand this,
I think knowledge is power but knowledge about yourself is self-empowerment.