If your thoughts can turn on the stress response and those stress
chemicals are addictive, then we become addicted to our own thoughts!
So then, stepping out into that unknown is where true
greatness happens.
Because that's where the person begins to say:
What thoughts
do I want to fire and wire in my brain?
What behaviors will
I want to demonstrate in my new life?
Can I rehearse them in my mind? And the mere process of mental rehearsal,
this is neuroscience now,
begins to
install the circuits in your brain to look like the experience has
already occurred!
You're priming your brain into the map of the future instead of the
record of the past.
And then, the true true person who's in the process of transformation
will say: Can I teach my body emotionally what that future is going
to be like? Can I begin to embrace the joy of my new life? And their body,
as their unconscious mind, begins to believe
it's in the future instead of in the past.
Now, that process
is not an overnight process.
We don't jump from the old self to the new self.
It requires that continuous process of changing our biology, but I can
tell you in observing people who have healed themselves of very
serious health conditions, who have healed themselves of some pretty
difficult scars
from the past, who have overcome addictions, who've created new
opportunities and new jobs and new relationships and a new life,
had to cross that river.
And that is when they're literally, from a biological
standpoint, a new personality. And your personality creates your
personal reality!
That's it.
And your personality is made up how you think, how you act and how you feel.
So, the present personality who's sitting here today has created the
present personal reality called "their life". Which means then - if you
want to create a new personal reality,
you got to change your personality! And that means you got to start
thinking about what you've been thinking about and change it.
Look at your unconscious habits and behaviors, what you say, what you do
and become conscious of it and change them.
And look at the emotions that have kept you anchored to the past and decide
if those emotions belong in your future. I think the biggest problem
is that most people try to create a new personal reality as the same
personality and it doesn't work.
So then, as we begin to demystify
this and the person starts to say: Oh my God, the disease that I have
is because it's connected to this personality.
Is it possible that if I changed my personality,
just like a person with a multiple personality disorder who has an
allergy to nylon stockings in one personality and type 1
diabetes in another,
is it possible
then if I changed my personality that the disease exists in the old
personality and I'm literally someone else?
Is it possible then, from a biological standpoint, that they're healed and changed?
So, to answer the question,
it's difficult because we're breaking out of a biological mold.
It's difficult because most people don't know that they have within
their reach all the tools to do it. Because they have, number 3,
been conditioned on some level to believe that the new hairstyle,
or the new type of beer they're going to
drink, or the sports car,
whatever it is, is going to change their state. And that's the
hypnosis. And when I wrote the placebo, "You are the placebo",
the biggest thing that I walked away with after writing that book was
how hypnotized and programmed we really are.
And that's bothered me ever since I wrote the book because people
watch things in their external environment and they accept,
believe and surrender to those
that information without any analysis and they're programmed.
And so, when you and I start waking up and say no to those programs
and we start to think that we're maybe a little bit more unlimited
than we're given credit for, and it's not driven for profits or
self-interest, but people start to wake up and say: Hey, you know, I
healed myself of this condition.
I've healed myself of Parkinson's, I've healed myself of lupus,
I've healed myself of cancer, I've healed myself of rheumatoid arthritis,
I've healed myself of chronic pain, I've healed myself
of food allergies.
Hey yeah, I was abused as a child.
Yeah, it's right.
I was beat up by a violent father and I lived in
vulnerability and fear the last 25 years, but that fear has signaled
the wrong gene and I developed this genetic condition.
The doctor said I had no way of healing, but when I overcame that fear
and I broke out of it, I started to signal new genes in new ways and
that disease doesn't exist!
Let me tell you,
if you listen to that woman's story and you listen to all the trials
that she had gone through and how she overcame herself and she reached
a place of such wholeness and self-satisfaction that she could care
less if she had the disease,
and that's the moment it went away,
and you listen to that story,
it's going to give you permission on some level that it's possible for
you to do the same!
You see someone dance the salsa well,
you'll dance
the salsa better.
You see someone
hit a golf ball like Rory, you'll hit a golf ball better.
You see someone lead with love and compassion in their life,
you will lead with love and compassion in your life.
You see someone standing on a stage in front of 500 people
and talk about how they overcame their cancer after their
husband committed suicide, and the 3 years that it took her to do it,
you will be inspired that it's possible for you.
So then, it has to start with a new consciousness. And that it's
going to come
from common people doing the uncommon and that's where my passion is!
We do have beliefs that feel good to us because those beliefs are
based on past experiences, and those emotions
keep us attached to the belief chemically.
It's in our biology.
And we tend to think neurologically and feel chemically within
experiences then that are connected to the past.
So when our beliefs are challenged, we hold on to the emotion, like
Jesus had a brother?
Whaaat? That doesn't feel right. He was married to Mary Magdalene?
Whaat? I mean people freak out because they've been conditioned
and they want to hold on to that because that then ensures a future
that they can rely on. When you step out of your belief systems and
stepping into the unknown, you are now leaving behind your past.
So then, you have the faculty and the ability to
create!
You have that ability.
If not, because then, in order for you to go from that old belief to a
new belief, then you better have a plan. And you better be willing to
have a new experience that is no longer
a wishy-washy belief.
It has to be a very strong impression in your biology that comes with
an accompanying experience
that then changes your biology to understand you believe something else.
But that's not the end either.
Because then you have to question from that point
what is the next belief that helps you to understand the next thing.
The person in our work who, I'll use a simple example,
has a very, very difficult marriage. And her marriage falls apart,
her husband was abusive and lived by the stress hormones
for extended period of time, of course all our energy is going for
some threat in our external environment.
She has no energy in her internal environment for growth and repair,
no energy for long-term building projects, the body is in
vigilance.
It's always anxious.
She's anticipating something bad happening all the time.
And she's got food allergies to everything.
She's allergic to her environment.
She comes to the event,
she does the work, it takes your 3 months and all of a sudden, in
one event
she has a breakthrough and she's eating anything
she wants.
Now, she changed her belief about her past because she's no longer
saying: I am this way because of my
relationship with my husband.
Because when you say: I am this way because I had abusive father,
I am this way because I had a difficult marriage,
I am this way because I got fired from my job,
what you're saying is - I haven't changed since that event emotionally.
And so now you're viewing your future through the lens of the past.
When you overcome that emotional state, a memory without the emotional
charge is called "wisdom".
Now you're ready to create a new future because if you're
still attached to the emotion, you're still attached to the past and you
can't create a future!
So all of a sudden now, the person has a transformation.
She had a shift, she knows that she knows that she's liberated from
that anxiety.
She feels it! And as a result of it,
in a matter of moments, her biology reorganizes to a new mind.
And now she eats,
I'm watching her eat pizza.
I'm watching her eat a hamburger.
She's laughing, she's...
And it's sustained!