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It's a scientific fact
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that the hormones of stress
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down regulate genes and create disease,
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long-term effects.
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Human beings because
of the size of the neocortex
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we can turn on the stress
response just by thought alone
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We think about our problems
and turn on those chemicals.
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That means then,
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our thoughts could make us sick.
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So if it's possible that
our thoughts could make us sick
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is it possible that
our thoughts could make us well?
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The answer is absolutely yes.
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All organisms in nature
can tolerate short-term stress.
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You know, a deer gets chased
by a pack of coyotes
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when it out runs the coyotes
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it goes back to grazing
and the event is over.
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And the definition of stress
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is when your brain and body
are knocked out of balance,
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out of homeostasis.
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The stress response is
what the body innately does
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to return itself back to order.
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So you're driving down the road
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someone cuts you off,
you jam on the brakes,
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you may give them the finger
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and then you settle back down
and the event is over and boom.
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Now everything is back, back to normal
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but what if it's your coworker
sitting right next to you
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and all day long
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you're turning on those chemicals
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because they're pushing
all your emotional buttons.
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When you turn on the stress response
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and you can't turn it off
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now you're headed for disease
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because no organism in nature
can live in emergency mode
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for that extended period of time.
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95% of who we are
by the time we're 35 years old
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is a memorized set of
behaviors, emotional reactions
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unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes,
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beliefs and perceptions
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that function like a computer program.
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So then, a person can say with
their 5% of their conscious mind
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"I want to be healthy,
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I want to be happy, I want to be free"
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but the body's on
a whole different program.
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A habit is a redundant set
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of automatic, unconscious,
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thoughts, behaviors, and emotions
that's acquired through repetition.
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So if you think about it,
people wake up in the morning
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they begin to think about their problems,
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those problems are
circuits of memories in the brain
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each one of those memories
are connected to people
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and things at certain
times and places
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and if the brain is a record of the past
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the moment they start their day
they're already thinking in the past
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each one of those
memories has an emotion.
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Emotions are the end product
of past experiences.
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So the moment they recall
those memories of their problems
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they all of a sudden feel unhappy,
they feel sad, they feel pain.
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Now how you think and how
you feel creates your state of being.
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So the person's entire state of being
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when they start their day is in the past.
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So what does that mean?
The familiar past
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will sooner or later
be predictable future.
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If you believe that your thoughts
have something to do with your destiny
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and you can't think
greater than how you feel
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or feelings have become
the means of thinking
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by very definition of emotions
you're thinking in the past.
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And for the most part you're
going to keep creating the same life.
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So then people grab their cellphone,
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they check their WhatsApp,
they check their texts,
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they check their emails,
they check Facebook,
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they take a picture of their feet,
they post it on Facebook,
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they tweet something, they do Instagram,
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they check the news
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and now they feel really connected
to everything that's known in their life.
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And then they go through
a series of routine behaviors
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they get out of bed on the same side,
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they go to the toilet,
they get a cup of coffee
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they take a shower, they get dressed,
they drive to work the same way,
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they do the same things,
they see the same people
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they push the same emotional
buttons and that becomes...
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the routine and it becomes like a program.
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So now they've lost their free will
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to a program
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and there's no unseen
hand doing it to them.
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So when it comes time to change
the redundancy of that cycle
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it becomes a subconscious program.
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Most people then wait for crisis
or trauma or disease or diagnosis,
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you know they wait for a loss,
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some tragedy to make up
their mind to change
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and my message is why wait?
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And you can learn and change
in a state of pain and suffering
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or you can learn and change
in a state of joy and inspiration.
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And I think right now,
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the cool thing is that
people are waking up.
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The moment you start
feeling abundant and worthy
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you are generating wealth.
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The moment you're empowered and feel it
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you're beginning to step
towards your success.
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The moment you start feeling whole
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your healing begins
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and when you love yourself
and you love all of life
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you'll create an equal
and now you're causing an effect.
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And I think that's the difference
between living as a victim
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and your world saying,
"I am this way
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because of this person
or that thing or this experience
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they made me think and feel this way."
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When you switch that around
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you become a creator of
your world and you start saying,
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"My thinking and my feeling is
changing an outcome in my life"
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and now that's a whole different game
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and we start believing more
that we're creators of reality.
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If you're not being defined
by a vision of the future
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then you're left with
the old memories of the past
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and you will be predictable in your life.
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If you can sit your body down
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and tell it to stay like an animal.
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"Stay right here, I'm going to
feed you when we're done.
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You can get up and check your emails,
you can do all your texts
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but right now, you're going to
sit there and obey me."
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When you do that properly
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and you're not eating anything
or smelling anything or tasting anything,
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you're not up experiencing
and feeling anything
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you would have to agree with me that
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you're being defined by a thought, right?
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So when the body wants to
go back to its emotional past
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and you become aware that
your attention is on that emotion
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and where you place your attention
is where you place your energy
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you're siphoning your energy out
of the present moment into the past
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and you become aware of that
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and you settle your body back
down in the present moment
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because it's saying, well it's 8 o'clock
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you normally get upset because
you're in traffic around this time
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and here you are sitting
and you're used to feeling anger
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and you're off schedule.
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Oh it's 11 o'clock and you usually check
your emails and judge everybody, well
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your body is looking for that-
that predictable chemical state.
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Every time you become
aware that you're doing that
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and your body is craving those emotions
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and you settle it back down
into the present moment
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you're telling the body
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it's no longer the mind,
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you're the mind
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and now your will is getting
greater than the program
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and if you keep doing
this over and over again,
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over and over again,
over and over again
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just like training a stallion
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or a dog, it's just going to say,
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"I'm going to sit"
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and the moment that happens
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and the body is no longer
the mind, when it finally surrenders
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there's a liberation of energy.
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We go from particle to wave,
from matter to energy
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and we free ourselves from the chains
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of those emotions that keep us
in the- in the familiar past.
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So if you think 60 to 70 thousand
thoughts in one day and we do
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and 90% of those thoughts are
the same thoughts as the day before
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and you believe that your thoughts
have something to do with your destiny
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your life is not going to change very much
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because the same thought
leads to the same choice,
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the same choice leads to the same behavior,
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the same behavior
creates the same experience,
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and the same experience
produces the same emotion.
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So as you become familiar
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with the thoughts, behaviors
and the emotions of the old self
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you're retiring that old self
as you fire and wire new thoughts
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and condition the body
into a new emotional state
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if you do that enough times,
it'll begin to become familiar to you.
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So, it's so important
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just like a garden
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if you're planting a garden
you've got to get rid of the weeds,
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you got to take
the plants from the past year
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and you've got to pull them out,
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the rocks that sift to the top
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that are like our emotional
blocks they have to be removed
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the soil has to be
tenderized and broken down,
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we have to,
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we have to make room
to plant a new garden
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so primarily, we learn
the most about ourselves
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and others when we're uncomfortable.
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The stronger the emotional reaction
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you have to some experience in your life
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the more you pay attention to the cause.
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And the moment the brain puts
all of its attention on the cause
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it takes a snapshot
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and that's called the memory.
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So long-term memories are created
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from very highly emotional experiences.
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So what happens then is that
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people think neurologically within
the circuitry of that experience
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and they feel chemically within
the boundaries of those emotions
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and so when you have an emotional
reaction to someone or something
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most people think that they can't
control their emotional reaction.
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Well it turns out if you allow
that emotional reaction
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it's called a refractory period,
to last for hours or days
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that's called the mood.
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You say to someone, "Hey, what's up?"
And they say "Well I’m in a mood"
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"Well why are you in a mood?" "Well I had this
thing happen to me 5 days ago
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and I’m having one long emotional reaction."
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If you keep that same emotional
reaction going on for weeks or months
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that's called temperament.
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Why is he so bitter? I don't know,
let's ask him why is he so bitter.
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"Why are you bitter?" "Well...
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I had this thing happen
to me nine months ago."
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And if you keep that same emotional
reaction going on for years on end
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that's called a personality trait.
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And so learning how to
shorten your refractory period
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of emotional reactions
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is really where that work starts.
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So then,
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people when they have an event
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what they do is they
keep recalling the event
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because the the emotions
of stress hormones,
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the survival emotions
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are saying pay attention to what happened
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because you want to be
prepared if it happens again.
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Turns out most people
spend 70% of their life
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living in survival and living in stress.
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So they're always anticipating
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the worst-case scenario
based on a past experience
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and they're literally,
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out of the infinite potentials
in the quantum field
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they're selecting
the worst possible outcome
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and they're beginning to
emotionally embrace it with fear
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and they're conditioning
their body into a state of fear.
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Do that enough times
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body has a panic attack without you
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you- you can't even predict it
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because it's programmed subconsciously.
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The hardest part about change
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is not making the same choices
you did the day before, period
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and the moment you decide
to make a different choice
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get ready because it's
going to feel uncomfortable.
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I think that, I think that
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the bigger thing is that we- we keep
firing and wiring those circuits
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they become more hardwired,
so they're...
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you have a thought
and then the program runs
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but it's the emotion
that follows the thought
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if you have, if you have a fearful
thought you are going to feel anxiety
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the moment you feel anxiety
your brains checking in with your body
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and saying, "Yeah you're pretty anxious"
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so then you start thinking
more corresponding thoughts
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equal to how you feel.
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So the body says, "I want to
return back to familiar territory"
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so the body starts influencing
the mind then it says,
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"Start tomorrow,
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you're too much like your mother,
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you'll never change,
this isn't going to work for you
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this doesn't feel right."
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And so if you respond to that thought
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as if it's true
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that same thought
will lead to the same choice
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which will lead to the same behavior
which will create the same experience
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which produce the same emotion.
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When people say to me,
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well I can't predict my future
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I'm in the unknown, I mean I always
say the best way to predict your future
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is to create it
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not from the known but from the unknown.
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What thoughts do you want
to fire and wire in your brain?
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What behaviours do you want
to demonstrate in one day?
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The act of rehearsing them mentally
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closing your eyes
and rehearsing the action.
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By closing your eyes
and mentally rehearsing some action
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if you're truly present
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the brain does not know the difference
between what you're imaging
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and what you're
experiencing in the 3D world.
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So then you begin to install
the neurological hardware in your brain
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to look like the event
has already occurred.
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Now your brain is no longer
a record of the past.
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Now it's a map to the future
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and if you keep doing it,
priming it that way
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the hardware becomes
a software program
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and who knows, you just may
start acting like a happy person.
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And then I think the hardest part
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is to teach our body emotionally
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what the future will feel like
ahead of the actual experience.
