imagine living in a house with no lights
24 hours a day 365 days a year but 30 or
40 years of your lives in total darkness
and you're still eating sleeping trying
to wash your sheets and everything else
imagine if that 20 years you turn the
lights on what do you think you'd see
you have probably become very
overwhelmed and the first thing you'd
probably say is oh my god how did this
happen
I don't remember doing this but the
first thing that you will experience is
overwhelm why can't you just be a little
more real what do you always feel you
have to say these things to be this way
that you want to up the stakes and play
a video game the first thing you need to
up the stakes is drop it - sup stop
trying to be something that you're not
fake it till you make it is almost like
carrot and stick motivation if you want
to up the stakes it is not about faking
it anymore it is about being real
authentic and genuine and wearing your
heart on the sleeve
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where does self-sabotage show up most
for you what is self-sabotage
self-sabotage is a conflict of values if
self-sabotage is a conflict of values
what is it that creates that conflict
the order is very easy not to succeed
when you don't know what you're doing
but here's the challenge when you know
everything that you have to do then all
of a sudden guess what you're aware but
then there's only one thing stopping
so when we make the decision to become
more conscious and we turn the lights on
the first thing we're going to
experience that there's an overload of
information we're going to feel vocal
well that is going to trigger one stress
and stress is going to have a
biochemical effect now I'm not going to
go into all the biochemical responses
that the body has distress but there's
one in particular but it's really
important to be aware of what is it
cortisol and what does quarters of them
it makes you fat it makes you all it
makes you cut so genic and it makes you
stupid
your IQ will be cut in half the average
IQ is about 80 to 100 points the moment
you have cortisone you're going to take
roughly 50% of your IQ and that's going
to be diminished within seven minutes
within seven minutes of you experiencing
a higher level of consciousness within
seven minutes of you being introduced to
a higher level of consciousness you are
going to experience overwhelm which is
going to trigger stress and you are
gonna have a tremendously great chance
the probability is very low for you to
lose half of your intelligence in the
next seven minutes
how do we make sense of all of this we
take responsibility first of all we need
to be aware that when we become more
conscious we'll experience information
overwhelm and we will experience stress
in most cases when we experience the
stress as a result of seeing more we
label we use the authority we give the
power to someone else in that creation
so in order to be consciousness we must
be willing to accept full responsibility
for everything we see when we turn the
lights on if we're not we're going to
experience very high levels of
repetitive pain
I've got was to see more but when we see
more what is the biological response
overwhelmed what's the biochemical
response stress and what is the
psychological response stupidity which
then comes back and counters
consciousness so the very thing that
we're chasing in many cases the result
lowers unless we develop a relationship
with stress that is different than the
one you have right now
now when I say a relationship was
stressed well I mean use it over use it
at the drive to be aware it when it
happens let me ask you them when you
feel stress what is the emotion that you
feel
imagine for a freakish moment instead of
feeling any one of those emotions you
train your psychology to experience
gratitude when we change the meaning we
change the molecules when we change the
meaning we change the molecules
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so what I'm suggesting is when we turn
the light on we need to accept full
responsibility for what we're now
starting to see we need to expect that
it is quite normal and we don't need to
fight the information overload and the
overwhelm we can be aware that often
when we feel overwhelmed stress will
become present but this is where we need
to interrupt we need to intervene and go
right I I am not choosing to feel
anxious I'm not choosing to feel pain of
our choosing feel anger frustration
panic I'm now choosing the field
grateful but consciousness without
responsibility equals pain
you must be willing to iron your
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