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our research shows that your thoughts can make you sick and the question is if your thoughts could make you sick can your thoughts make you well that's
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absolutely possible and it's easy to learn so when you wake up in the morning Dr Joe dispen researcher and
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best-selling author one of the most sought-after speakers in the world all with the aim of helping people better
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understand and unlock the power of their mind I'm concerned about human species why 75 to 90% of every person that goes
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to a health care facility goes because of psychological or emotional stress and it gets addictive to people they need
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the bad relationship a bad job in order to feel and there's so much research to show that when they analyze their life
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within some disturbing emotion we saw that they were actually making the brain worse but 50% of that story isn't even
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the truth people are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing you
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can't wait for your wealth to feel success you can't wait for your new relationship to feel love but 95% of Who
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We Are by the age of 35 is programmed yeah but there is a way to change and so
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the model of change is breaking the habit of the old self and Reinventing a new self if you teach people how to do
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that in 7 days you can see very significant changes so try this out as an experiment first thing you have to do
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is Dr Joe you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas about way humans are and the
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way the universe is what are the beliefs in your head that you're too scared to share oh boy I I have a very strong
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episode Dr Joe 95% of Who We Are by the age of 35
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is programmed when I read that in your work kind of hit me like a ton of bricks
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because I just turned 30 and if what you're saying there is true without realizing it there's a
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puppet master that sits above me that's calling the shots in a way that I don't think I've
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realized is that true I think if we Define a habit is is a redundant set of
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automatic unconscious thoughts behaviors and emotions that's acquired through
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repetition The Habit is when you've done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your
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conscious mind then it's program subconsciously so then when the body knows how to do it better than the
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conscious mind then for the most part the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of being ourselves right so
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there's a principle Neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together if you keep thinking the
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same way uh if you keep making the same choices if you keep doing the same things if you keep reproducing the same
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experiences and feeling the same emotions your biology begins to become
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hardwired in a sense it be it becomes programmed so in order to change uh
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something to arrive at a new vision of your future if you were wanted to arrive at a new goal or new vision of your
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future you'd have to change something about yourself in order to get there and you'd have to change the way you think
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the way you act and the way you feel when you begin to become conscious of those unconscious thoughts
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so conscious that you don't let them slip by your awareness unnoticed or unchecked by you if you catch yourself
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speaking in a limited way or um you're you become conscious that you're
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behaving in a certain way in habit and can notice or pay attention to
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how you're feeling then you're no longer the program now your Consciousness observing the program you're only
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unconscious when you're in the program and so to change then is to become so conscious that you don't don't go
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unconscious again and in a sense that is consciousness that is really the puppet
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master that really decides who we want to be I think the biggest problem uh is
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that people lose their free will uh to a set of programs and so their body is
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basically um programmed into a predictable future based on what they've done in the past so to change then to
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change that habituation takes an enormous amount of energy an enormous
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amount of awareness why is this operating system
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this program useful because I look at everything that I the way that I do and from doing this podcast and speaking to
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experts I've stopped thinking that my body is against me and I've stopped realiz I've started to realize that
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there's a reason for these things there's a reason for the habits and patterns and so why is this useful
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because it seems to be working against me in so many ways well um first of all
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um when we when we look closely at uh certain habits whether you um can ride a
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bicycle whether you can speak a language whether you can snowboard when you first
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learn any of those things it takes an enormous amount of conscious awareness is to get your body to do what your mind
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is intending but if you keep doing it over and over again then the body begins to
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economize it in some way and so we have a lot of things that we can do
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automatically or unconsciously or subconsciously that allows us to multitask to drive your car to talk on
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the phone to do several different things at the same time so a habit isn't a bad thing they can work for you or they can
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work against you the problem is is if you're as an example complaining and blaming and making
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excuses and feeling sorry for yourself and judging other people and you practice that and you get really good at
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whatever you practice you practice that enough times that you're unconscious to the fact that you're doing it um the
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moment you become conscious that you want to change that uh you're going to be uncomfortable uh it's going to feel
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unfamiliar it's going to feel some degree of uncertainty you're Le kind of
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familiar known territory and you're stepping into the unknown and so uh many people when they want to change a habit
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um they have to be willing to be uncomfortable to do it but habits can work for us uh there's a lot of great
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habits that you and I both have that I would never want to change or would want to evolve in some way but then there's a
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lot of habits that don't serve us and and so a person really wants to set a vision of the future whatever that is
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and they just have to agree that in order to arrive at that Vision they have to change in order to get there someone
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said to me that there's a certain type of behavior pattern that we can't change they said when we get trauma under the
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age of 10 things that happen at a very early age some of those things cannot be changed and then there's things that
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happen later in life that can be rewire and changed is that true are there some
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traumas Behavior patterns that just appear to be too stubborn and too resistant to
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change if you ask me that question just a few years ago I probably would have a
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different answer than I do today because if you look at a lot of the work uh that
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we're studying in terms of human change and human transformation um we've seen people with
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really difficult pasts really brutal pasts that were abused and traumatized
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at a very early age um and then repeated traumas that took place in
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people's lives and they had night terrors and and uh they uh couldn't be
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in relationships they had social anxiety uh they had a lot of health conditions
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we've seen them completely change uh completely change to be happy people again to to free themselves from the
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past and so I would never put a limitation on change because I just
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don't think uh you can really predict that I think many people that are learning how to change uh and they
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understand what they're doing and why they're doing it and the how gets easier I think for the most part people can
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change all kinds of things and when they do change uh our research shows that their brain changes their heart rate
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changes their gene expression changes there's thousands of metabolites that are being released into their
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bloodstream that weren't their prior U there's a host of different changes that take place biologically that kind of
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support the person's transformation is there a specific
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transformation that sticks in your mind as being the most is the clearest
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evidence that you should never write off um someone's ability to transform wow
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um I'm so pleased to tell you that uh my beliefs have been
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challenged uh just in the last two years in witnessing so many different changes in
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people's Health that I I never knew was even possible uh you know everything from
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stage four cancers that were in a very progress state that metastasized to
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organs and tissues and bones in the body a complete reversal in uh that uh in
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that health condition not once not twice not three times uh we've seen it many
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times uh we've seen people that were blind uh that have been dead F that that
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have ALS that have Lupus that have MS that have Parkinson's disease that have
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spinal cord injuries that have strokes PTSD myasthenia gravis cystic fibrosis
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muscular distrophy uh we had a woman that had her thyroid
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removed surgically removed and I know this is difficult even for me to accept
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uh and grew a new thyroid back you know we have the medical evidence for that so I don't know uh any longer what the
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limit is I think there's something really cool happening in the world when
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uh people believe in themselves and when you believe in yourself you have to believe in possibility when you believe
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in possibility you have to believe in yourself so uh when somebody uh has the opportunity and I
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think a story is uh there's no there everybody loves a story there's nothing better
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than a story and when someone stands on a stage in front of 2,000 people and talks about
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their um journey to heal themselves from a chronic health condition and they it's
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not um always pretty they lose things they lose family they sometimes lose
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their careers they get sick before they get better and you see this person's persistence and you see that they were
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not doing the work uh their inward work to heal they were doing the work to
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change and if they understood if they truly changed that their biology should change and they were um uncompromising
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every day in showing up for themselves and staying conscious of their unconscious self and and then
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reprogramming themsel in some way and they tell that story it's the four-minute mile it's somebody breaking
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through a level of Consciousness or unconsciousness and the collective that's
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observing the example of truth they're actually relating with
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that person in a way that causes them to examine possibility differently and when
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you become conscious of a new possibility a change in Consciousness is a change in Awareness right so now it's
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in the collective and lo and behold it's not uncommon we just had this happen in
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our weeklong event in Denver just uh a little over a week ago two weeks ago and we had six people stand up out
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of a wheelchair at by the end of the event now I wasn't expecting that but
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one uh person that had Ms in the middle of the week had a very profound
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experience very profound experience and a professional athlete NFL football
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player and um stood up and he stood up for the audience and when he stood up he
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said I thought I was going to a Yoga Retreat I thought my brother was taking me to a yoga retreat I had no idea what
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we were doing here and then he said I just I just never loved
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myself and it was his act of change that
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somehow changed his health condition he somehow upregulated genes in different ways
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suppressed the genes for Ms and somehow he was more mobile he was walking uh by the end of the event and he was the
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magic number one and when everybody saw that and they C the audience was excited
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we started seeing other people have a similar experience now that possibility is becoming more of a reality for people
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so I would always I never limit what could actually happen but I can tell you that what an amazing time right now uh
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to witness uh people really uh doing The Uncommon when you recited that story I
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could see the emotion in your face as you say it and I can only imagine with the information that you have and the
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beliefs you have about healing change transformation the sense of urgency you
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must carry and the sense of like responsibility almost I guess you must carry knowing knowing what's possible
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yeah well um um it I I do feel responsible for always keeping the
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information based in science and as pure as possible I feel it's really important
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to do the research that we're doing I mean we've we've studied so much uh from a scientific standpoint
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the process of change and the process of transformation and what meditation actually can do for a person in terms of
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their biology and and some of the changes that we're seeing just in seven days um my responsibility really is to
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give people my greatest understanding of the truth and numerous opportunities to
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experience it nothing more you know there is a way to inspire people into
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possibility and so they we combine different models
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of science whether it's quantum physics or Neuroscience or neuroendocrinology or psychon neuroimmunology the Mind Body
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Connection epigenetics electromagnetism all of these Sciences
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allow people to understand themselves better and if knowledge is powered knowledge about yourself is
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self-empowerment you can Empower people to do something with it so the more you
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understand what you're doing in the process of Chang the more you understand why you're doing it as I said the how
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gets easier so we now know that if you give people sound scientific information and that is
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the Contemporary language of mysticism and they can learn that information they're basically making new
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circuits in their brain that's what learning is learning is forging new synaptic connections but if you don't review what you learn if you don't
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repeat it it's so much easier to forget it than to remember it so you got to repeat it over and over again so we
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allow people in our workshops to then begin to turn uh and teach it back to somebody they have to really explain it
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if they can't explain it it's not wired in their brain and they're going to something's going to be left the conjecture to Superstition to Dogma to
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spirituality and and that's not that's not the result we want we want them to
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use science as that model and if they can explain that model and remind themselves what they've learned
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reproduce the same level of Mind nerve cells that fire together wire together so they begin to install the
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neurological Hardware in their brain by teaching others yeah exactly so that
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they are prepared for an experience so then if that information is installed in their brain that
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philosophy that theory uh that knowledge and information and now they can remember it and they have that model of
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understanding and they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it if we can set up the conditions in the
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environment and give them the proper instruction if they can get their behaviors to match their intentions
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if they can get their actions equal to their thoughts if they can get their mind and body working together they're going to have a new experience now
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experience enriches circuitry in the brain that's what experiences does the moment those neurons begin to string
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into place though another part of the brain makes a chemical and that chemical is called a feeling or an emotion and
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the moment you feel unlimited the moment you feel grateful the moment you feel empowered the moment you feel whole now
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you're teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood the
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information is just not in the brain now the information now is literally in the body and now you're embodying the truth
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of that knowledge of that philosophy of that theory so then you're teaching your body
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and and instructing your body chemically to understand what your mind is intellectually understood okay so then
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that information that's coming as a new experience is changing your biology in some way and we've actually shown this
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so then if you you've done it once then it means you should be able to do it again and the idea is to be able
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to repeat an experience and if you can repeat it over and over again both neurologically and chemically
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neurochemically you can condition your mind and body to begin to work as one and when you can do it so many times
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that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind it's inate in you so I want to map out this process so that I make sure I understand
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it starts with the neurology which I I I I heard is a a thought which you then
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ingrain in your mind by teaching it to someone else is that accurate well first thing you have to do is you got to give
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people information yeah and science is probably the closest to the truth in terms of
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information and so when your brain is exposed to information and you're present and you're paying attention that
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neurons begin to connect that's what learning is learning is forging new synaptic connections the noble prize
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research kandell in the year 2000 his re the researcher said that if you learned
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one bit of information and you paid attention that information for about an hour you would double the number of
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Connections in your brain as a result of your interaction with that information but if you don't review it if you don't
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repeat it if you don't to think about it the circuit's prune apart right so if learning is making new synaptic
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connections and remembering is maintaining and sustaining them so it's so much easier to forget get this
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information then to remember it so you learn it once I got a person's head nodding then they turn the person next
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to and say let me try this out let me try this out and me see if I can repeat it and so between the two of them they exchange that information and they start
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to build a model of understanding ah I understand I got that okay then we advance the information a little bit
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more and they they're adding new Stitches into the three-dimensional tapestry of their gray matter and they
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have to remind themselves what they've learned reproduce that same level of Mind mind is the brain in action
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as you install those neurological circuits in your brain then now you're prepared it's the Forerunner to the
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experience you're prepared for the experience so give the proper instruction get your body involved get involved in the process the experience
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then causes circuits to become more enriched that's what experience does and then it makes a chemical and that
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chemical is called a feeling or an emotion and the stronger the emotion you feel from the experience the more you remember it and what is that experience
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what abundance Health wholeness IAL experience success a new relationship a
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new career um a new life whatever the
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person's whatever whatever that Vision that person wants to arrive at in the future and to actually go from the
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thought of that Vision to the actual experience of it and the distance between that thought and that experience
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is called time so if we can teach people to shorten the distance between the thought of what they want and the
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experience of having it um then they they start believing more that they're the creator of their life
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what would you say to somebody that doesn't think thoughts matter that much I would say 95% of the World Plus or maybe more 99%
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of the World Plus sees thoughts as something that we are you know it's my head talking it's me talking in my head
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and as long as I don't act on those thoughts they're inconsequential I would I would say then
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that's their truth is it their truth I don't know but for for me my thoughts do
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matter I think every thought that you have makes a chemical and you can have thoughts that make you feel good and
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thoughts that make you feel bad and and I think that if
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90% of the thoughts that we think are the same thoughts as the day before the
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same thoughts lead to the same choices the same choices lead to the same behaviors the same behaviors will create
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the same experiences and the same experiences produce the very same emotions and those same emotions
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influence a person's very same thoughts and their biology their neuros circuitry their neurochemistry their hormones and
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even their gene expression stays the same because they're staying the same there's nothing wrong with
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that but I do think that if you think differently and you learn new information and you have new thoughts if
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you can make new choices and demonstrate new behaviors and create new experiences
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and arrive at new goals and feel new emotions I would say that's Evolution and I think that people really
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really secretly believe in themselves elves on some level and and I think being defined by a vision of the future
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or really always always dreaming of another great experience I think is a
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great reason to wake up in the morning I've had lots of conversations with very smart people on this podcast from
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multiple disciplines you know psychiatrists psychologists athletes Health practitioners and they've given
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me such great advice on which is irrefutable scientific advice on so many areas of my life and for some reason
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there's still areas of my life that I still can't act upon that advice and I think probably for most of my listeners
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who've heard great advice on this podcast and they think yes that's who I want to be I have an intention to stop eating sugar at 1 1:00 a.m. at night or
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I have an intention to become organized or to be this kind of friend or partner they have the information right what
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there's something stood in the way of me doing something about that information on a regular basis yeah well I can give
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you a few answers for that unfortunately it normally takes crisis
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trauma disease diagnosis betrayal loss
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the person has to reach that lowest denominator where nothing's making that
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feeling go away has to well not they don't have to but this is human this is The Human Condition this is the moment
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where they don't feel like returning the texts they don't feel like going to dinner and seeing the same people they
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don't feel like um watching the same television show any longer the sports car the Wardrobe the
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none of that is making this feeling go away this is a a moment of Reckoning for
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the soul and this is really when you could actually see yourself Through The
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Eyes of someone else because you don't feel like yourself anymore and that's the moment where people begin to change
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they can see how they've been thinking they can notice how they've been acting they could pay attention or become aware
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of how they've been feeling for the last 20 years and that that idea in in Neuroscience is called metacognition
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that's the moment you're no longer the program now what we believe and what
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we've seen and what I think is much better approach is um being defined by a vision of the
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future and if you understood that you could actually elevate your state without anyone or
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anything every single day and hold whatever that intention of your future
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is and it takes a coherent brain to do that and feel the motion of your future
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before it happens that is you know you can't wait for your wealth to feel success you can't or abundance you can't
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wait for your new relationship to feel love you can't wait for the mystical experience to feel awe or your healing
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to feel whole or grateful that's kind of the old model of reality of cause and effect waiting for something out there
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uh to change to take away this emptiness this lack that I feel in here you teach
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people then they could elevate their state and we teach that model through meditation and they can combine that
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clear intention with an elevated emotion and teach them how to make that heart of theirs more
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coherent if they do that properly then they'll live their life feeling like
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their future has already happened now from that elevated State instead of that
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self-limited state they can become as conscious of that unconscious self as
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they could if they were at that limited and and being defined by that vision of the future getting up every day inspired
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by it and not letting any person any circumstance anything in our life remove
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us from that Vision that would be a day well- lived so then most people then
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they have that vision of the future but they give up on that Vision because in
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order for them to arrive at that Vision they have to do something they have to think differently they have to act
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differently they have to feel differently and it's so much easier to make the same Choice every single day
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and the hardest part about change is not making the same Choice as you did the
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day before and the moment you decide to make a different Choice you're going to
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feel uncomfortable because you're stepping from the known into the unknown so some people would rather
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cling to their self-pity than take a chance and possibility they'd rather tell the story
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of their past instead of telling the story of their future they' rather believe in their past instead of believe
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in their future uh it's so much more important though to romance your future instead of romance your past and I think
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if people understood that they could actually arrive at it I think many people have done this
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already in their life I think everybody at least once in their life has done something great and when they did
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something great they just made up their mind and they made a decision in that moment to do something or to change with
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such firm intention that the amplitude of energy in making that choice caused their body
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to respond to their mind that the choice that they were making to change became a moment in time that they would never
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forget and the stronger the emotion they felt in order to change the more they remembered the choice and we could say
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then that they're giving their body a taste of the future emotionally and they're literally aligning to that
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Destiny we discovered that if you keep doing that every day somehow you'll arrive at that
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Destiny and your biology will literally begin to change to look like you're living in a different life what are some
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of the biggest myths relating to behavior change and I guess character
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and personality change um that hold people
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back I probably belief I think in so many ways that a belief is a unconscious
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process a belief is a thought you keep thinking over and over again until it's hardwired in your
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brain and most beliefs are based on past experiences and so many people have a
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belief about something that has to change in order for them to arrive uh at
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a new place in their life and what we discovered a lot of times with people in
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this work is that they they when they say for example
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they were healings of a health condition sometimes they would do their
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meditations three times in one day and I asked them why three times and they said because I stopped
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believing uh and when I caught myself no longer believing in it I had to sit down and change my belief again in other
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words they had to get up believing more in their future instead of believing Less in it and they have to change their
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state of being to do that so I think that that's a limitation
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I also think that consciously we're always waiting for something out there in our life to change so that we can
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change or feel the relief of the lack of what we don't have and I do think that's kind of a
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limited model of reality I think when you start changing inside of you and you start seeing the changes happening
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outside of you you go from being a victim in your life to being a creator of your life and and I think that when
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that occurs then all of a sudden it's no longer a have to it's something that you
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want to do you don't you actually don't want the magic to end in your life so now you become a work in progress by
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investing in yourself when you invest in yourself you invest in your future so there is
00:30:09
probably a chronic disbelief that many of us have that
00:30:14
we're not creators of our life uh and that only when we get the parking space
00:30:20
or something good happens to us do we believe that we're the creator of our life but imagine a world where everybody
00:30:27
actually took responsibility in being the creator of their life and no longer the victim of their life I think we
00:30:33
would see a dramatic shift in Consciousness that makes people feel uncomfortable this idea of personal
00:30:38
responsibility it's quite a it's almost become quite a controversial controversial idea the idea that we are
00:30:44
the creator of Our Lives because then I have to accept responsibility for all the bad things that happened Dave dumped me I got fired from
00:30:50
work uh someone bumped into my car and it hurt my neck well maybe maybe that
00:30:57
happened by default maybe that happened by not creating
00:31:02
maybe you were just left to the randomness of reality that that maybe
00:31:08
you're not creating and the fact that you're not creating you're you're left to the effects of your environment
00:31:15
actually controlling you controlling your feelings and thoughts and by creating what you mean by creating is in
00:31:23
well well if you intentional if you woke up every morning and you truly made time to to think like this
00:31:29
okay if my personality creates my personal reality and my personality is
00:31:35
made up of how I think how I act and how I feel if I want to create a new personal
00:31:41
reality a new life I'm going to have to change my personality and most people
00:31:47
try to create a new reality a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work we literally have to
00:31:53
become someone else so if you said okay let me not default and go
00:31:59
unconscious to that 95% of who I am that's programmed let me become so
00:32:05
conscious of the way I think let me become so aware of how I'm going to act today let me decide what emotions keep
00:32:11
me connected to my past and bring me to a lower level lower level of energy let me not go
00:32:18
unconscious and then if you said okay A belief is just the thought I keep thinking over and over again what
00:32:24
thoughts do I want to fire and wire in my brain and with with attention and with
00:32:30
intention to begin to familiarize yourself with a new way of thinking meditation means to become familiar
00:32:37
with if you keep firing and wiring those circuits you're going to begin to install the hardware repeat it enough
00:32:43
times and it becomes a software program that could be the new voice in your head that says I can it is
00:32:49
possible if you said okay when did I fall from grace yesterday when did I
00:32:54
when did I lose it oh my gosh it was with at work work with my co-workers with my ex with my enemy with the news
00:33:01
with traffic acting this way is not going to make me happy if I had another
00:33:08
opportunity another opportunity how would I do it if you could close your
00:33:14
eyes and rehearse in your mind mentally how you're going to behave in certain situations I'll give you a specific one
00:33:21
anyone so I'll give you the specific one where late late at night on occasion
00:33:26
I've eaten things things that I really regret eating Al also another one that I'm I'm trying to work hard on is I can
00:33:32
be very messy with when I travel so my my hotel room can look like a mess and I don't like that about myself and I don't
00:33:39
know why I do it but it's almost like you talk about being unconscious I'm clearly not thinking about it but that's
00:33:45
part of the problem and it's the same with the bloody sugar midnight eating ordering things that are and then
00:33:52
feeling instant guilt 10 seconds after I've put it in my mouth well well it may
00:33:57
be that on some level well you could actually be
00:34:03
addicted to the guilt not to the sugar and so you you return to the same
00:34:10
emotional state that allows that action to reoccur
00:34:16
so if you said let me decide how I am going to act what I'm not going to do
00:34:22
and you rehearsed it the research on mental rehearsal says your brain will look like you already did it that you'll
00:34:29
be so present the brain won't know the difference between what you're imagining and what is real the brain will begin to
00:34:35
change to look like the experience has already happened now you're priming your brain for that behavior keep rehearsing
00:34:41
it rehearsing it how so give me well so I mentally mentally rehearsing mental
00:34:47
rehearsal is one of these great ideas in Neuroscience where you can actually install circuits in your brain right so
00:34:53
everybody has done this musicians do it they're playing a song in their mind all the time athletes do it they're always
00:35:00
going over their moves uh dancers do it actors do it uh so many people rehearse
00:35:06
mentally what they're about to do and when they do that they actually Prime their brain they actually can change
00:35:12
their brain and change their body just by thought alone physiologically change it physiologically change you can take a
00:35:18
group of people that never played the piano before and divide them into two
00:35:23
different groups and do functional brain scans on both groups one group they'll come for two hours a day for 5
00:35:30
days and they'll practice these one-handed scales and chords now you learn something new you make new
00:35:36
Connections in your brain you get some instruction you get your body involved when you get your body involved you're
00:35:41
going to have an experience you pay attention to what you're doing and you repeat it over and over again nerve cells that fire together wire together
00:35:48
you're going to begin to install new circuits in the opposite side of your brain that's that's common you do the scan at the end you
00:35:55
see those actual physical changes it's you take those people uh the other group and you ask them to close their eyes
00:36:00
without lifting a finger have them mental rehearse those scales and chords and at the end of five days they grow
00:36:07
the same amount of circuits in their brain as the people who actually physically demonstrated the act in other
00:36:12
words they were so present with what they were doing the brain did not know the difference between the real life
00:36:18
experience and what they were Imagining the brain was physically changing to look like they already experienced it
00:36:24
they already did it so now you take those people people never played the piano before they just been mentally
00:36:30
rehearsing for two hours a day for 5 days you set up in front of a piano and they could actually play those scals and
00:36:35
cords why because they Prime their brain for that behavior so then if you're going to prime your brain for a new
00:36:42
Behavior whether you're the CEO of a company whether you're a parent uh whether you're learning
00:36:49
something the more you rehearse it mentally the more you prime your brain and body for the act so you could
00:36:55
actually practice rehearsing how you're going to change in your life and if you
00:37:01
keep doing it enough times your behaviors will match your intentions automatically because you have the Mind installed to do it if you don't have the
00:37:07
Mind installed to do it you'll go back to the same past Behavior so I play through that scenario of making the decision
00:37:15
differently exactly and rehearse it in your mind until it feels right till you feel like I could actually do that and
00:37:21
go from start to finish without losing your attention and so that it gets easier each time you do it it makes
00:37:27
sense then you're you'll you'll actually do it and then if you said okay enough of this
00:37:34
guilt i' I've felt enough of it I don't like feeling that way I could actually
00:37:39
break the conditioning of that emotion in my body can I condition my body can I
00:37:45
teach my body to feel something differently what would be the feeling that I want to feel if I was able to do
00:37:50
it would it be worth would it be self-love would it be Freedom would it be Joy let me teach my body emotionally
00:37:58
what a future could actually feel like before it happens if you keep doing it over and over again you're going to
00:38:04
start making more of those chemicals and it's become easier for you to do it it's going to become familiar to you and
00:38:09
that's exactly what meditation is to become familiar with an old self to know thyself become so conscious of that
00:38:16
unconscious self that you don't go unconscious to that self and how many times do we have to forget until we stop
00:38:23
forgetting and start remembering that's the moment of change what thoughts do I want to find fire and wire in my brain
00:38:28
let me become familiar with those what behaviors do I want to demonstrate what would greatness do what would love do
00:38:35
and actually rehearse a greater a greater way rehearse it enough times so that you could actually step into that
00:38:41
footprint teach your body emotionally that there's another way to feel and do it over and over again it'll become
00:38:46
familiar to you and so the model of change is unlearning and relearning it's breaking the habit of the old self and
00:38:53
Reinventing a new self it's pruning synaptic connections and sprouting new connection C it's uniring and unwiring
00:38:59
reiring and rewiring deprogramming and reprogramming losing your mind and
00:39:04
creating a new one
00:39:16
unmoral changes if they immerse themselves into the experience and what do those biological changes look
00:39:23
like well um so we run week-long events um around the world and I think it's so
00:39:30
important to do events uh in person with Community uh because it's a flock it's a
00:39:36
herd it's a school um it's a collective and so uh that exact process
00:39:43
in seven days uh we uh take people through a very immersive experience and
00:39:48
we do functional brain scans or fmis or quantitative eegs before they start the
00:39:54
event and then we at the end of seven days we look at their brains at the end of seven days and there are dramatic
00:40:00
changes in the way their brain works very significant changes some of them are really outstanding changes we uh put
00:40:09
uh teach people how to create more heart coherence when you feel anger when you feel frustration when you feel
00:40:14
impatience when you feel resentment your heart beats out of order when you feel gratitude when you have kindness and
00:40:21
Care You Feel Love For Life your heart beats in a more orderly fashion you can actually train somebody to get good at
00:40:27
feeling that way and we we use that and we see people at the end of seven days be able to regulate uh their heart much
00:40:34
better and it's a function of really how soon or how slow we age we take blood and we measure
00:40:42
2,882 different metabolites in in a person's blood and at the end of s days
00:40:48
we measure again and I can tell you that if you're a novice
00:40:54
meditator really never meditated before kind of your first event uh and you go
00:41:00
through that 7-Day process at the end of seven days there are so many biological
00:41:05
changes that are taking place in the collective in the community not just one not just two the majority of people and
00:41:11
I mean a significant majority of people suggesting that their body literally is living in a new environment in in a new
00:41:18
life and there are chemicals in their bloodstream in terms of information that wasn't there prior to
00:41:26
the event in other words some way without taking any drug without
00:41:31
any taking any exogenous substance um without changing their diet
00:41:36
without changing their lifestyle in any other way except going through this process eating the same foods that they typically eat that at the end of seven
00:41:44
days there's chemistry there's biology that suggests that somehow their biology
00:41:50
is changing significantly um we measure gene expression uh I can tell you that you
00:41:56
can change your Gene expression in 7 Days uh we measure the microbiome and um
00:42:02
once again 7 days there are dramatic changes in the microbiome uh and the mind somehow is making uh significant
00:42:10
and effective changes in our in our body so um our research is pretty outstanding
00:42:15
because um an 7-Day uh intervention uh
00:42:21
that's producing these effects uh there's there's not a whole lot of drugs that that are as effective
00:42:27
and we've discovered that the nervous system makes a pharmacy of chemicals right now that works better
00:42:34
than any drug that's what we've discovered and it's all within
00:42:39
you I am a fixer in my friendship groups and what I
00:42:45
mean by that is I'm someone who probably over involves them themselves in trying to help friends change stuff which gift
00:42:52
and a curse often times a curse but um I often get because I love someone and
00:42:58
they're close to me and I want the best for them when when I see that they are experiencing a recurring pattern of
00:43:04
behavior or habit um that is causing them unhappiness loneliness to miss the
00:43:10
goals they have in their life of becoming a you know a husband or a wife or a partner whatever it might be I have
00:43:15
a growing sense of um frustration because and I and that sometimes exerts it it's that sometimes
00:43:22
manifests itself as trying to you know fix and help and give advice and change them you must experience that in a
00:43:29
different way you're much smarter than me you must experience that in a different way when you meet people that you can see having these recurring
00:43:35
patterns of behavior and when you see that in them has there any has there any ever been frustration on your part have
00:43:43
you ever been frustrated that change hasn't happened in someone that you loved God I you know I think it's I
00:43:49
think it's such a noble act to change and I and I understand how hard it is to
00:43:55
change uh I understand that process so I think the greatest thing that I
00:44:00
could ever do for someone is to show them what change looks like it's so much more profound than anything that I could
00:44:06
ever say um and I would never offer my opinion to them I would love them
00:44:13
unconditionally because I maybe see a part of myself uh that I've changed and
00:44:18
I understand how hard it is to change or or I understand that they'll they're going to have their moment uh when
00:44:25
they're ready to change and so I think it's I think it's really interesting because what I've learned over the years
00:44:31
is that no new information can enter the nervous system that's not equal to the person's
00:44:37
emotional state you can give them the answer the right answer to the problem
00:44:43
and they won't hear it because it's not relevant equal to the emotion that
00:44:48
they're experiencing what we've learned is a you take people in just just say seven days
00:44:54
just cross the river of change go from the old self to the new self immerse yourself fully into it break free from
00:45:01
the chains of those emotions that keep you anchored to the Past overcome those habits and behaviors that keep you
00:45:07
programmed into a predictable future um overcome um all those aspects of your
00:45:13
beliefs that keep you stuck in a certain state in terms of how you're thinking in those hardwired perceptions 7even days
00:45:20
break free and and normally the person has the answer uh to their own question
00:45:26
I think that's when it becomes really relevant when you have your own Insight your own Epiphany when it's your own
00:45:32
truth because you've you've worked to get Beyond it people when they analyze
00:45:38
themselves or analyze their life within some disturbing emotion when we looked at the real time brain scans we saw that
00:45:44
they were actually making their brain worse they were driving their brain further out of balance overthinking
00:45:51
overanalyzing uh and so when you analyze something within an emotion and emotion is a is a record of
00:45:58
the past so you're thinking in the past the solution could never be there free the person from that emotion and of
00:46:04
course they they see they they see it from a greater level of
00:46:11
Consciousness for all those people listening right now that are like me that try and
00:46:16
fix because through I mean through what they think of as love may maybe be I'm doing it for other reasons
00:46:22
but what what could they do to be a better ally or friend or partner to that
00:46:28
individual B based on everything you've said that maybe they need their own moment or you know their emotional
00:46:34
system isn't in regulation with their information God anytime we want to do anybody a great service is to help them
00:46:41
out of their emotional state I mean it's not a lecture that's going to help them come on let's go do something come on let's go just get them doing something
00:46:48
just breaking themselves out of that state it's not like the answer it's that you they have to change their state to
00:46:53
get the answer so if I were to do anything I would want to help them shorten their
00:46:59
emotional reaction to get them get beyond the emotion whatever that is and I wouldn't be a lecture it would be something fun that we did or something
00:47:05
unusual that we did or just trying something just let's just do something and I think I think showing
00:47:12
people what what what love looks like show them what Joy looks like show them what happiness looks like I think I
00:47:18
think people notice that I think I think they pay attention to that it gives them permission uh to do the
00:47:25
same so um maybe just show up as um the person
00:47:32
you would want to be around if you were feeling that way when you look at the state of the
00:47:38
world at the moment and the direction of travel the trajectory of you know technology and the way we're living our
00:47:44
lives and the decisions we're making at a collective level what are the things that most concern
00:47:50
you well I always ask myself is it getting better or is it getting worse you know and I I think um
00:47:57
in my lifetime I don't think I've ever experienced the world as it is today
00:48:03
just with so many variations of so many things uh and I question the information
00:48:10
uh that I'm receiving uh and I think that we need some type of intervention uh as a
00:48:17
species we need we we need a change uh uh we need an intervention in some
00:48:23
way you question the information you're receiving from where and what kind of in intervention are you suggesting I just
00:48:29
don't know that the information that I that I am exposed to or information that people are exposed to is the truth I
00:48:36
just question that these days and and there because you can you get so many you can get so many degrees of it and so
00:48:42
many uh and I and I don't know if it's uh based in altruism you know for the
00:48:48
for the goodness of human beings or or for self-interests and I and I think
00:48:53
that's a I think people are waking up more to the understanding that something
00:48:59
has to change you know for us to really survive as a species and what are the
00:49:04
symptoms of the cultural disease that you're talking about what are they a lack of
00:49:12
connection uh you know you know we're in 3D reality you know connecting communing
00:49:18
cooperating uh uh uh creating I think those are things that um I think if you
00:49:26
keep people in in survival and you keep them in fear and you keep them at War and you keep them angry and you keep
00:49:31
them in pain and you keep them confused and you can control their attention um
00:49:36
by controlling their emotions um I think I think um we're
00:49:42
going to you know we may not make it you know as as a species but I think that
00:49:49
when people Truly Come Together in in in an elevated State I think it's
00:49:55
Collective networks of observers that determine reality and I don't think it's
00:50:00
the number of people I think it's the most coherent uh in heart and brain that begin to produce effects so the coming
00:50:08
of a new Consciousness um has to be a collective it's not one person it's a
00:50:15
collective uh group of people and and I believe that you get enough people collectively coming together that we can
00:50:22
hopefully uh steer it in a different direction hopefully yeah how about you
00:50:29
are you optimistic I am I'm optimistic because I think people by
00:50:35
Nature are good I think there's goodness in human beings and I have the privilege
00:50:40
of traveling around the world and I see that and it transcends countries and
00:50:45
cultures and races and gender it transcends diet it transcends all that stuff uh it's just when people are happy
00:50:52
with themselves and in love with life um I think I think they're natur natural tendency is to give and I think we're
00:50:58
wired to do that when we're not in survival when we're not in survival when
00:51:03
you use this word survival are you talking about the the fight or flight state that we um many of us live in yeah
00:51:11
the an say I would say that living in stress is living in survival and stress is when your brain and body are knocked
00:51:17
out of homeostasis stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance the stress response is what the body
00:51:23
innately does to return itself back to balance the problem is is that if you keep
00:51:29
turning on that fight ORF flight system you keep turning on that emergency system um you'll actually cause people
00:51:36
to stay out of balance and that inbalance becomes the new balance and they're headed for some type of disease
00:51:41
some type of breakdown no organism can tolerate emergency mode for an extended period of time and when you're in
00:51:47
survival and that primitive system is switched on it's really about the self uh when you're in survival you have to
00:51:53
take care of yourself so um the emotions of anger and hostility and aggression
00:52:00
and competition and frustration and resentment and envy and jealousy and insecurity and fear and anxiety and
00:52:07
hopelessness and powerlessness and depression and pain and suffering guilt and shame are all derived from the
00:52:12
hormones of stress and psychology calls them normal human States Of Consciousness those are Altered States
00:52:18
Of Consciousness and when we're in that state when we're living in survival we experience separation we we
00:52:25
divide in in in a lot of ways and so there's biology that goes along with that and um
00:52:33
the hormones of stress heighten the senses and cause us to become materialists and and now when we're in
00:52:38
lack or separation we force outcomes we control outcomes we fight for outcomes we compete for outcomes we manipulate
00:52:45
outcomes in a lot of ways we we turn into more of a primitive self so hard um to change that especially
00:52:55
when you don't have enough money or you just lost your job or you just ended a
00:53:01
relationship or your best friend past uh it's really
00:53:06
hard um to move Beyond those emotional states um and so I think that that
00:53:12
teaching people um how to change those emotional states and move out of those are really important and um 75 to 90% of
00:53:22
every person that goes to a health care facility in the Western World goes in because because of psychological or
00:53:28
emotional stress that's eight or nine out of 10 and and emotional stress and psychological stress are the ones that
00:53:33
tend to be the most harmful because if it's not T-Rex that's chasing you but it's your coworker in the next cubicle
00:53:40
what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive and and the rush of those
00:53:47
adrenal hormones become kind of addictive to people and they use the problems they
00:53:54
use the conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion they need their enemy to feel hatred and
00:54:00
and if their enemy died they they'd still feel hatred or they'd find another one uh they need the bad relationship
00:54:08
they need the be bad job in order to feel and that's why it's hard to change and people become addicted to the life
00:54:14
they don't even like and so if you can turn on the stress response just by thought Alone by
00:54:20
thinking about your problems and that's the truth you can become addicted to your own thoughts and if the long-term
00:54:26
effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease your thoughts can make you sick then the
00:54:33
question is if your thoughts could make you sick and your thoughts make you well and we're actually discovering that that's absolutely possible so then
00:54:41
teaching people then a little bit about how to manage their emotional state and self-regulate I think is a great gift
00:54:47
for people because when they begin to break an addiction to any emotion or the
00:54:54
conditioning of any emotion there's going to be Cravings that go on just like uh just like any atct there you
00:54:59
know and and you've many people overdose and many people have bad trips and and
00:55:05
so when they start changing and the body's craving uh those familiar
00:55:11
emotions the body starts signaling the brain you know of memories or to think
00:55:16
certain ways and to make certain choices do certain things crave certain experiences just to feel of that same
00:55:21
emotion and people say well this feels right no that feels familiar that really
00:55:27
feels familiar and and many people will tell the story of why they feel that way
00:55:34
based on some past experience and it's usually not in the recent past it's usually many years ago like a toxic
00:55:40
relationship or something whatever that is and so they're basically saying I had an
00:55:45
event in my life and since that event I'm still living by the same emotion and I haven't been able to change and
00:55:52
they'll tell the story of that past and in Psychology the latest research on memory shows that 50% of that story
00:55:59
isn't even the truth they're they're they're making it up because they don't have the same
00:56:04
brain as they had then and so then people people are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse
00:56:11
themselves from changing they embellish the story so that it sounds really hard
00:56:17
to change so what is it what is that point then for a person when they say
00:56:23
the only person that that this emotion of hatred or anger or frustration or resentment
00:56:30
the only person that this is hurting is me because those those chemicals are
00:56:36
downregulating genes and creating disease and a person finally really realizes that and they really decide to
00:56:43
change when they overcome the emotion the memory without the emotion is called
00:56:49
wisdom and that's the name of the game and three-dimensional reality now they're ready for a new experience it's
00:56:54
not it's not reliving the past you don't need to you don't need to talk about it all you need to do is overcome the emotion when you overcome the emotion
00:57:00
you're free from the past you can see it from a greater level of Consciousness and that's when a person so many times
00:57:07
when they truly change they'll say this we've seen it over and over again they reach that point where they finally
00:57:12
break through and they and some of them have had some really difficult pasts they'll say I would not want to change
00:57:19
one thing in my past because it brought me to this moment that's the moment the
00:57:24
past no longer exists and they can look at their betrayers and see it what all had to
00:57:29
happen for that moment and now they're they're free they they no longer belong to the past they belong to the Future
00:57:36
I've never heard the concept or idea of being addicted to a negative emotion people talk to me about being addicted
00:57:42
to dopamine and pleasure and you know and all those things and you know like masturbation and sugar and but the
00:57:49
thought of being addicted to a negative emotion it's what you said to me earlier about the guilt well well think about
00:57:55
this what do people do when they when they feel an emotion what do they do they
00:58:02
rely on something outside of them to make that emotion go away so whether
00:58:08
it's the masturbation or the pornography or the gambling or the shopping or the
00:58:14
sugar or the whatever it's all because they're trying to make that feeling go away and they're using something outside
00:58:20
of them so then there is some emotion that the person is regulating that's why they're doing that that they're doing
00:58:26
that right so so change the emotional state and it makes sense then the need to do it
00:58:34
diminishes which is not doesn't seem to be very easy to do change my emotional
00:58:40
state well again I think um if you if you
00:58:46
understood what you were doing and why you were doing it just like learning anything if you if you understood a
00:58:51
formula I think it wouldn't be as hard as you think it is I mean because there is a way to
00:58:58
change and step one in that process of change is new information always it's the Forerunner to any
00:59:06
experience without the information we doubt that it's possible and that again that the
00:59:14
information and the science removes the
00:59:19
doubt I've I was doing some research recently about um why people change their beliefs and why they don't change
00:59:26
their beliefs and some beliefs they're more susceptible to take on some information they're more susceptible to
00:59:31
take on one of the things I read about was when they believe the source another thing I read about was when they when
00:59:36
it's good news so in studies where they say to someone you're more attractive according to the public than you believe
00:59:42
they're likely to shift rather than finding out they're less attractive and also things like Health you're more healthy than you thought you were
00:59:47
genetically they're more likely to shift a belief the nature of our beliefs and the nature of belief change um I I was
00:59:54
writing in in in my book about how um looking in the mirror and telling
01:00:00
yourself something like some of the sort of modern day manifestation Community belief doesn't seem to work just looking
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in the mirror and telling myself that I'm beautiful and Rich and successful and Powerful doesn't seem to be an
01:00:12
effective way to cause actual belief change do you agree or disagree with
01:00:18
this idea that you can look in the mirror and say something to yourself when when we study belief and
01:00:24
the change in belief uh I want I'll answer it on two levels Stephen the first level is that in order
01:00:31
for a person to change a belief or perception about themselves and their life the majority of those people made a
01:00:38
decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carried a
01:00:44
level of energy that was greater than the hardwired programs in their brain and the emotional conditioning their body as I said earlier their body
01:00:52
literally responded to their mind the choice that they were making became a moment in time they would never
01:00:58
forget they'll tell you where they were what time of day it was who they were with when they made up their mind to
01:01:03
change it became a long-term memory and the stronger the emotion we feel the more altered we are inside of us the
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more we remember that choice that's why we need pain sometimes that's when you said when you painted yourself into a
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corner and you said this is it I don't care how I feel
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body I don't care how long it takes time I don't care what people think I don't
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care what's going on on my life environment I'm going to do this and you made up your mind the moment you felt
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that emotion you were aligning to a new future and to change is to be greater than your body to be greater than your
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environment and to be greater than time and so when a person comes out of the
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resting state because your body is trillions of cells 70 trillion cells and
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they're all spying on your brain and if you were sitting there and and you said
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nine out of 10 times I'm going to fake standing up one time I'm actually going to stand up before you ever made that
01:02:00
conscious decision your body is so precognitive it already knows when you're going to stand up because it's
01:02:05
got to release a certain amount of adrenaline so the same volume of your blood goes to your brain so if you're
01:02:11
sitting on the couch with a remote control and you got your cell phone here and your iPad here and your computer
01:02:18
here and your dog here and your beer here and the big TV there and you're eating your popcorn and and you say you
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know I I think um I'm going to change tomorrow you what do you think your precognitive body is
01:02:31
going to say relax he's lying again he's not he's not willing to he's not willing
01:02:37
to Signal the body it's time to ride you know it's not there's no signal to the body and so making that choice to change
01:02:46
your state of being with a clear intention and elevated emotion actually changes your state to believe in that
01:02:52
future more than you believe in your past keep it up keep keep doing it that's a big explosion in the field
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that's important that's a change in energy and nobody changes until they change their energy and when they change
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their energy they change their life so then you make up your mind to do that and all of a sudden you have that
01:03:08
synchronicity you have that Serendipity you have that coincidence and all of a sudden you're saying hey that worked
01:03:14
something I did inside of me produced an effect outside of me I'm going to pay attention to what I did I'm going to do it again let's try it again let's the
01:03:20
experiment continue you do it again and then you say Well when did I stop disbelieving oh my God stopped
01:03:26
disbelieving when I ran into that person we had that conversation and oh my God I I returned back to my old belief again
01:03:32
okay next time that happens I'm going to this is what I'll do you rehearse it in so your
01:03:38
evolution in your belief and self changes as well so then so many people
01:03:44
second point will actually say this you know I read the philosophy I understand
01:03:50
the knowledge I understand what it means to change I understand the power of meditation I saw the testimonial I saw
01:03:56
people heal I believe it's the truth I just didn't believe it could work for me this is a big moment this is a moment
01:04:03
where you step out of the bleachers and you got to get on the playing field that's the person who says if this works
01:04:10
and I believe it works I got to prove it to myself I got to actually I got to actually prove it to myself that I
01:04:16
believe that it could work for me and some of them show up every day for a year and never miss their work
01:04:23
never miss their meditation a whole year and changing from the old self to the new self they were doing their
01:04:28
meditations to change not to heal they were doing their meditations to change and when they changed they healed they
01:04:35
did their meditation sometimes three times a day because they stopped believing they stopped disbelieving and they were like I defaulted why because
01:04:42
I'm feeling the emotion of my past some stray thought some response to someone or something caused me to feel that I
01:04:48
forgot I'm back to the emotion that's familiar and I can't believe in that future I'm believing in my past let me
01:04:54
sit down and change my state of being again and get up believing in my future again and sometimes they had to do it
01:05:01
three times in one day and when they understood that's the environment that
01:05:06
signals the gene that's epigenetics and the end product of an experience in the environment is an
01:05:11
emotion and it is you could actually signal genes ahead of the environment by
01:05:17
changing your emotional state they were doing it with that intention and when you assign meaning to the ACT you get a
01:05:23
greater outcome and you turn on the prefrontal cortex and now your biology literally begins to change and we have
01:05:29
data that suggests by just having the intention to make certain genes to make
01:05:35
certain proteins or signal certain genes and make certain proteins just having the intention literally begins to cause
01:05:41
the body to make those chemicals and what causes relapse in
01:05:47
those moments because I've had multiple moments of where I thought Behavior change had been established and I
01:05:52
managed to conduct a new habit cycle in new Behavior favorable in you know intended behavior for a period and then
01:05:59
something happens in my life almost subconsciously seamlessly seamlessly and
01:06:06
I'm back yeah to old the old circuitry you went unconscious you went unconscious and normally it's some
01:06:13
unconscious to some thought or some response in your environment you see
01:06:20
someone or you do something or you have some interaction in your outer world and the moment you have that interaction you
01:06:26
C it causes you to feel a certain way and you return back to a to the Past
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basically the emotion is the past and that the body is actually living in the
01:06:36
past it's so objective it doesn't know the difference it doesn't know the difference between the real life
01:06:42
experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is living by every day it's believing it's in the
01:06:47
same past experience again and it will behave in the past and it will think in the past subconsciously subconsciously
01:06:53
seamlessly so I could for for for example if going to I don't know let's say France I had a traumatic experience
01:07:01
in France when I was 10 years old let's just say and then I go to France when I'm 30 years old and I get back I just
01:07:06
start eating junk food for example and I don't know why I've like fallen out of
01:07:11
my gym habit and I'm eating junk food that that theoretically that could be my subconscious that um falling back into a
01:07:20
experiencing that survival without me knowing knowing it yes so so if to change is to be greater than your
01:07:25
environment to be greater than your body and to be greater than time then your
01:07:31
neocortex your thinking brain is a reflection of everything you know in your life it's an artifact of the past
01:07:37
it's a record repository of everything you've learned and experienced to this date and you have a neurological Network
01:07:43
for everything known in your environment your parents your friends your car your
01:07:49
computer every object every person everything you have a neurological Network for your identity as your body
01:07:54
from your past your Ambitions in your future your brain is a reflection of everything that's known and because
01:08:00
you've experienced all these elements in your environment there's an emotion associated with it so you have an emotion associated with certain people
01:08:07
different emotions associated with other people different emotions associated with other objects and things and other
01:08:12
places in time so then there's so much research to show
01:08:18
that when you put a person in the same environment and they see the same people and they go to the same places and they
01:08:23
do the same things at their exact same time it's no longer their personalities creating their personal reality their
01:08:29
personal reality is creating their personality their environment is controlling unconsciously or
01:08:36
subconsciously the way they're thinking and the way they're feeling so when they see their co-worker when they see their
01:08:42
friend when they see their parents they're seeing their parents their friends their co-workers in the
01:08:47
neurological Network as a memory of the past and because every one of those
01:08:52
people has an emotion associated with it they start feeling the emotion that's connected to them and now their state of
01:08:58
being then is returning back to the past so then to change then is to be greater than your environment to think
01:09:07
act and feel differently in the same conditions in your life that's called change and how does how would I do that
01:09:15
wake from you know I walk in I see my parents Mom Dad dog house where I grew
01:09:21
up in is there something that I do in that moment before that moment moment when I woke up that morning to make sure
01:09:27
that I didn't slip off into the unconscious um memory and then for therefore get the sort of unconscious
01:09:33
feelings about that experience well whatever it is that you want if it's if it's overeating I don't know I'm making
01:09:39
stuff up if it's some emotional button that you have with your family and and
01:09:45
you don't want to feel that way yeah I would rehearse that if I if I didn't want to have that if if you have a great
01:09:50
if you're I mean I go when I go to my parents home when I when I got older it
01:09:55
was all most of the associations were so fond for me just being at home and being with my parents and remembering where I
01:10:01
grew up it was always fun for me and and coming back and see how much I changed in coming back and seeing the the life
01:10:07
that I lived at one point you know one point in in my timeline so if it's something that you truly want to change
01:10:13
you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to think you're going to you're going to remind
01:10:19
yourself how you're not going to act you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to feel and you got to
01:10:24
remind yourself enough time so you don't forget because the moment you forget you go unconscious then you're going to
01:10:30
remind yourself how you are going to think you're going to remind yourself what you're going to do and rehearse it
01:10:35
in your mind and you're going to remind yourself what feeling you want to stay in the entire time so you don't default
01:10:41
back to the old self if you practice that I guarantee you'll make some progress if you lose it nothing wrong
01:10:48
tomorrow's another day you got another chance and we just get really good at whatever we practice so then when you
01:10:55
return back into your life and you say okay no person no place no thing No
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Object no circumstance no pain no craving is going to cause me to move
01:11:09
from this state today I guarantee you if you're able to maintain that modified State of Mind and Body your entire day
01:11:17
something unusual happen and will come in a way that you least expect that
01:11:22
surprises you and leaves no doubt that what you're doing inside of you is producing some effect outside of you and
01:11:29
the moment you see the feedback in your environment as a result of your internal change you're going to pay attention and
01:11:35
do it again and you're going to start believing got it did I really create that did that really happen because of how I changed that's when the game
01:11:42
really begins to become exciting practice practice I've been at it a long
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time I can tell practice yeah um people hear that they go Joe how long how much
01:11:56
practice you know are you talking about uh I've got to I've got to do this for three four five years or you know and
01:12:02
and that practice what does that look like practically for someone like me who hears everything you've just said and
01:12:08
wants to make changes and kers of my life okay so there's two times when the door to
01:12:15
the subconscious mind opens up when you wake up in the morning because your brain waves are going from Delta to
01:12:20
Theta to Alpha to Beta when you go to bed at night you go from beta to Alpha Theta to Delta and you slip through that
01:12:27
scale pretty quickly in the morning in the evening but your brain waves start to change during those times and and one
01:12:33
of the features one of the important elements of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind and what separates
01:12:39
the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind so 5% as we said is our conscious mind 95% is
01:12:47
programmed subconsciously and if you're going to try to change yourself with your conscious mind you're outside the
01:12:52
operating system so then you got to learn how to change your brain waves slow them down get beyond the analytical
01:12:59
mind and enter the operating system where you can rewrite a program where you can make those changes and
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so learn how to do that practice learn how to do that and again it's not a big
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deal it's easy to learn and then once you can slow your brain waves down and you're more suggestible to what you're
01:13:19
thinking now you can reprogram you can't do it with your conscious mind you can say I'm healthy I'm healthy I'm wealthy I'm wealthy I'm Unlimited I'm unlimited
01:13:26
I'm happy I'm happy I'm whole unho and your body saying no you're not dude you're miserable you're unhappy that
01:13:32
thought never makes it past the brain stem to reach the body right so it's important for us to in the
01:13:39
morning or the evening instead of reaching for our cell phone as the first thing as a habit that we do and checking
01:13:46
our texts and our WhatsApp and our Telegram and our social media and our Instagram and our Twitter and and
01:13:52
Facebook whatever else people do their emails they get connected to everything known in their life before you start
01:13:58
that try this out as an experiment before you start your day instead of falling into that redundant habit you
01:14:05
know go on autopilot just say okay if the change is to be greater than my body to be greater than my environment be
01:14:11
greater than time and and the environment's so seductive and my body's
01:14:16
craving certain emotions and it's programmed to get up and do things I'm going to sit my body down I'm going to
01:14:21
tame the animal here and when I'm ready to get up we're going to get up not when it's tired or when it wants to
01:14:28
go if you could literally go Inward and forget about your outer world no longer
01:14:34
think about anything out there if you could lose track of the familiar past or
01:14:40
the predictable future and fall into the present moment and if you were sitting there in silence aware of nothing but
01:14:47
you and you said okay what is the greatest expression of myself I can be
01:14:53
today and do that exact process let me write down two thoughts that are not going to slip by my awareness unnoticed
01:15:01
by me today two memories whatever it is what are two behaviors I want to change today let me stay conscious of them and
01:15:07
not go unconscious to them today even if it means how I speak what are two emotions that I live
01:15:15
by every day that I can literally change I want to become conscious of what they feel like in my body I want to catch them the moment I start feeling them let
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me review them over and over again enough times so I don't go unconscious okay now I'm conscious of my unconscious
01:15:29
that 95% how do I want to think how would greatness think today let me review it let me repeat it let me
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remember how I am going to think let me remember how I am going to think let me remember how I'm going to behave here
01:15:42
when how am I going to act here let me rehearse a change I want to make in the certain circumstance let me think about
01:15:49
how I do want to feel today let me open my heart to life again let me feel kindness and care and love gratitude and
01:15:55
appreciation let me let me just bring up that feeling let me feel it with my heart let me keep bringing it up so I
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can bring it up enough times I want to get so good at bringing up this feeling with my eyes closed I can do it with my
01:16:06
eyes open you practice that and you not make a decision to not get up until you feel
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that emotion and ask yourself can I stay in the state my entire day and if you can't
01:16:19
and you go unconscious ask yourself at the end of the day how'd I do where' I go unconscious okay okay tomorrow
01:16:25
morning new day new lifetime let me go again let me try again and it's the practice it's the repetition that causes
01:16:32
the change now here's the beauty behind this because all of a sudden when those synchronicities start to happen when the
01:16:38
coincidences start to happen it's no longer a have to it's no longer oh geez I got to go create my life it's not like
01:16:45
that it's like the magic is happening you don't want it to end like you you you realize that you are actually
01:16:50
creating outcomes in your life and now you're not you're you're you're you're wanting to do the work because you want
01:16:57
the magic to continue in your life and that's kind of what I'm super proud of with our community we're doers you know
01:17:02
we they do the work not because they have to because they love all the changes that happen in their life as a
01:17:08
result of it whether it's a mystical experience a transcendental moment you know a great opportunity in their life
01:17:14
they're like wow I I I somehow had a hand in creating this and so the so the
01:17:21
excitement of Life The Adventure of Life the unknown becomes the becomes the
01:17:27
quest I'm so so I got to admit I'm one of those people that wakes up in the morning and then just gets dragged
01:17:33
dragged off out of the bed by my phone and notifications and off into my day
01:17:39
totally unconscious and there's been so many things that I reflect on in my life and
01:17:44
go man I just really want to I'll get home at the end of the day and I'll look at certain instances where I responded
01:17:50
in certain ways and go man I hate that about myself and I really want to change that
01:17:56
and it happens again the next day and I come home and I think man I hate that about myself and I really want to change
01:18:01
that and it happens the next day and it's been happening for two
01:18:08
years when do you want to change that when you're ready to change that you will when you're when it's becomes
01:18:15
boring and it becomes predictable I don't want to have to wait for a crisis you know cuz well now that you know you
01:18:22
can't not know yeah I know yeah now that you know you can't not know and on some
01:18:27
level you may have a belief that you think this is hard yeah I do yeah yeah
01:18:33
because I've struggled with it yeah yeah and it's just like uh what you going
01:18:38
learning snowboarding and never taking a lesson right it's going to be like it's going to be tenuous it's going to be
01:18:44
challenging it's going to be difficult put your time in learn how to do it and it gets easier as you do it it's just
01:18:50
like you just just have to learn the formula there's a formula that we've discovered that
01:18:55
it's it's actually enjoyable when you do it right and you actually like it and people want to do more of it because it
01:19:01
feels so good and I mean we see you look at the the HRV measurements with our
01:19:07
community look at our brain scans these are people that they're not faking ecstasy they're not Faking It their
01:19:13
brain is at such a a level of arousal and the arousal is not pain the arousal
01:19:18
is not fear the arousal is not aggression or anger the arousal is ecstasy the brain is going going in this
01:19:25
heightened state they're making a connection to something really big and that feels really good and when they
01:19:31
realize that they've hit something really big and it's not coming from anyone or anything outside of them they
01:19:37
stop looking for it out there and they realize it's been within them the whole time I think I think so many people want
01:19:44
so many things in their life but what we really want is wholeness because when you have wholeness you can't want how
01:19:49
could you want when you're whole you only want when you're in lack when there's brain and heart coherence
01:19:55
um there's a level of wholeness that takes place where a person is no longer interested in separation or lack they
01:20:01
feel like they have everything they want that's a great place to be in and we've discovered that the more relaxed you are
01:20:08
in your heart the more awake you are in your brain it's relaxed in the heart and awake in the brain and we teach that
01:20:15
people actually can get good at doing that I really want to talk to you about this brain coherence and this heart coherence um I have to close off on that
01:20:23
morning routine thing by asking you exactly what did you do this morning oo
01:20:29
this morning uh I was up probably around uh
01:20:36
4:30 yeah why because there's nobody that can bother me at that time there's
01:20:43
no emails there's no texts there's there's no there's my it's my time what time were you in
01:20:49
bed um probably between 10 and 11: okay
01:20:55
is that not enough sleep for you huh well no that is I think I I actually
01:21:00
measure my sleep so I and I look at it every day that's part of the reason I'm dragged out of bed but yeah for me 4 in
01:21:05
the morning 5 in the morning is a really great time I just I I've just conditioned my body that way um that's
01:21:11
the time and and I I spend a little time uh remembering what I'm doing what am I
01:21:17
doing what are you doing in this meditation why are you doing this meditation what are you about to do I
01:21:23
like to just get myself in my think box organizing what am I not going to think
01:21:28
about what am I going to stay away from what am I not going to do in my meditation me review that what am what am I going to do when I get that all
01:21:35
worked out then I get in my playbox in my playbox there's no thinking I've got all the thinking done in my think box my
01:21:41
play box it's really about me changing my state and so um I allow for two hours
01:21:47
every morning doesn't mean I always take it or need it let me say that but I allow for two hours sometimes I like to
01:21:53
just get my mind straight and then uh I do the work I do the work and and uh I
01:22:00
like to get to that point where when I'm done I feel like something changed do the work yeah what does the work look
01:22:08
like it's meditation yeah it's finding the present moment it's getting into the
01:22:13
unknown it's getting Beyond Myself disconnecting from my body getting Beyond any thought of anyone or anything
01:22:21
getting Beyond Time moving beyond space and time turns out when you focus on nothing
01:22:27
there are so many amazing things that happen to your brain I've seen this scans over and over
01:22:32
again what have you seen in the scans well there's this thing in the brain called
01:22:39
modularity and when we're living uh by the hormones of stress and stress is when you can't predict something when
01:22:46
you can't control something or you have the perception that something's going to get worse you switch on that fight ORF
01:22:52
flight nervous system and the rush of those chemical causes us to become alert to become
01:22:57
aroused and we narrow our focus on the material world and so when you're not
01:23:02
able to control everything in your life and you can't predict everything in your life you start shifting your attention
01:23:08
to everyone and everything every person every object every place we've all had that experience when we're under stress
01:23:13
and every one of those people those objects those things those places has a neurological Network in the brain so
01:23:19
like a lightning storm in the clouds the brain begins to fire out of order very incoherent ently it becomes modulated or
01:23:27
compartmentalized It's A house divided against itself and those individual compartments don't talk to the rest of
01:23:33
the brain and we tend to get overfocused you never notice when you're under stress you're obsessing about something
01:23:39
you're over focusing about something you're overthinking something you're overanalyzing you're driving your brain higher and higher into higher states of
01:23:46
arousal High beta brain wave patterns we discovered that if you teach
01:23:51
a person to go from a narrow focus on something physical something material and broaden their focus open their
01:23:58
awareness and put their attention on space on nothing and create what's called a Divergent Focus the act of
01:24:05
sensing and no longer analyzing thinking begins to slow the brain waves down from
01:24:11
that beta brain wave state to a low-level beta and then all of a sudden to Alpha if they keep doing it sensing
01:24:17
space tends to cause those different compartments that were modulated or divided to begin to synchronize
01:24:25
and what sinks in the brain actually links in the brain so the brain starts firing in a more holistic state in other
01:24:31
words every single area of the brain is resonating at the same frequency and now the brain is functioning as one
01:24:38
neurological network instead of individuals that kind of holism that kind of order feels really good it feels
01:24:46
really good and so people practice slowing their brain waves down not only to get beyond the analytical mind but to
01:24:53
cause the brain to fire in a more coherent way and if we're going to have a clear intention about what we want the
01:25:00
more coherent the brain the clearer the intention so we've seen in seven days even in four days these dramatic changes
01:25:08
in the levels of coherence and order that take place in the brain the brain's firing in a more holistic State that's
01:25:14
when the person notices a change in their anxiety and the depression and there PS PTSD whatever it is there's
01:25:20
more order in the brain and and uh the ACT to focusing on nothing and opening your awareness to space creates that
01:25:28
kind of amazing change did you set an intention this morning I did can you tell me what it is
01:25:35
oo um I want to be relaxed and awake I want to be present with everything that I do um I want to stay in my heart the
01:25:43
entire day and um I want to be inspired by you know the idea of helping people
01:25:49
change do you struggle I do yeah what you struggle with well now um I run a
01:25:56
lot of different aspects of my company I have
01:26:01
events side uh we have a product side we have corporate Consulting we have 250 corporate trainers uh we have a vitamin
01:26:10
uh company uh called biospy we work with remote coherence healers that actually
01:26:16
are we do research and they're remotely changing People's Health we have a huge
01:26:21
research team with University of California s Diego uh we have a lot of players on the team we have um uh
01:26:29
nonprofits uh what else do we have um we have an inner Health Coalition for
01:26:35
Physicians and and doctors and Healthcare practitioners around the world that want to teach a different model so I have a lot of different
01:26:42
things that I have my hand in um and I think uh you know I'm creative by nature
01:26:48
and I like to be creative and sometimes I have a lot of obligations in terms of
01:26:54
making making decisions for 2026 uh decisions about things that I need to do uh documentaries whatever it
01:27:01
is uh and I think I struggle with not having wanting more time for being
01:27:07
creative and that's kind of the fun part of my job whether I look at the data I see the research and then I go oh my God
01:27:14
I want to do a meditation now I understand how to do this meditation or teach this better all the information that we're
01:27:20
gathering in our research is to teach transformation better that's why I went close the gap between knowledge and
01:27:26
experience so it's we have billions of data points and it's a a lot of time uh
01:27:32
to look through all that and to learn about it uh but if I would if I would choose to do something I would love to
01:27:39
study the research more love to uh do more me Teach um um uh create more
01:27:44
meditations you know teach some more unique courses uh and so I I think I I
01:27:50
think one of my challenges really is to is to be able to stay creative uh with
01:27:55
everything I have going on in my life I think everyone that's a high achiever
01:28:00
always wishes they could pause time I think um we're we're at such a level of
01:28:07
growth right now to just uh uh globally I mean our events sell out in
01:28:13
10 minutes you know 5 10 minutes and and we have a waiting list of uh sometimes
01:28:19
10,000 people that's a problem you know that's a and and I won't give up doing um Live Events you know and I think it's
01:28:26
I won't do it online I think it's there's something special that happens uh in community and so I've never met
01:28:34
someone who is so Mission driven and doing so well in this department that
01:28:42
also isn't paying a personal cost for the mission in some regard or capacity
01:28:48
well I think I've learned a few things over the years about that and I think one of the great things
01:28:56
number one is I have an amazing team I mean I nothing without my team uh and
01:29:02
they're creatives and they're cool and they're emotionally intelligent and they
01:29:07
they're not nineo FS they share the same Mission with me they they see the same vision they they do it for the same
01:29:13
reason somehow they're part of that that change and transformation um so my team um uh is
01:29:21
able to allow me to do something really really unique and that is to focus on focus on what I love to do more than
01:29:28
anything else so uh my team is super super huge help for me so I I I think
01:29:34
that it's an important element the other thing that I work on I think every day of my life is uh to be the example of
01:29:41
everything that I teach I I mean that's important for me because uh uh I want to
01:29:47
be I want to be in the game with everybody so when I see transformation when I see Miracles when I see healings
01:29:53
when I see change when I see poor people become rich whatever that is and I'm a part of that I think it's
01:30:00
really it humbles me it really makes me more humble in seeing what's possible for human beings and and so I never want
01:30:07
this work to be about me I want it to be about you I want it to be I want to celebrate your story uh you know I I
01:30:15
want I want to I want to be there for that person when they open their eyes and were blind and they're seeing for the first time I want to be right there
01:30:21
I want to be there I want to remember that moment uh and and and her Joy um
01:30:28
so for me I I work on on being the example uh in every way that I can and
01:30:34
and and it sometimes it requires um a lot you know extra time to do that
01:30:41
yeah what is what is the what is the um and this is an interesting use of phrase because I'm saying the word cost is as
01:30:48
as as if it's a negative but I just I think everyone that's leading a mission whatever that might be and really
01:30:54
dedicated to that mission in the way that you are flying around the world continuing to do it in person where most
01:30:59
people you know everyone knows you could just do it online and you'd probably make more money to be honest you know there's people that just have moved
01:31:05
online post pandemic you're you're giving a level of dedication and
01:31:10
personal investment into this mission that must well I assume it must come at
01:31:15
a personal cost to some degree um you make sacrifices um you
01:31:21
have to sacrifice uh relationships at time you know sometimes you can't be where you want to be um but I think that
01:31:28
the people in my life that love me understand my mission uh and and they respect that uh sometimes I'm on six
01:31:36
different time zones in four weeks and and that's a lot for my body you know but um God watching somebody on the
01:31:44
stage just the other day tell the story of how she overcame trifacial neuralgia in One Moment In the Event she wanted
01:31:51
someone to chop her head off that's how much pain she had had in her face for years one moment she said I have no pain
01:31:58
I was the first time I've not had pain in years uh to me like that's worth all the
01:32:04
lost luggage the misf flights the uh the jet lag that to me is worth more than
01:32:10
all the gold in the world I mean I don't know it's just so it's so uncommon and yet something innate in US wakes up
01:32:16
something wakes up in us uh when we see that we we we forgot we forgot and
01:32:23
somehow remember so um you ask my staff what is the greatest part of their job they'll tell
01:32:29
you being a part of transformation being a part of it being a part of that so
01:32:34
there is a cost um always uh uh and at
01:32:40
the same time I really I really work on uh figuring out ways to do things better I mean uh I think that's one of the
01:32:46
things I love about myself is just learning learning from my experience learning from my past and I think
01:32:52
experience is the Great greatest professor and and just saying okay if I had another opportunity how could we do
01:32:58
it differently how could we serve better you know how can we make it easier what can we do differently and and again I
01:33:04
just have a great team that's super committed to whether they're running events whether they're creating logos
01:33:10
whether they're doing a brand whether they're managing the website whatever they're you know running them composing
01:33:16
music with me for meditations uh or doing research we just have a really people that share that
01:33:22
same Mission and and I think um changing individuals one by one to somehow make a change in the world being
01:33:29
a part of that's pretty cool was there a cous moment in your life that sent you more so in this
01:33:35
direction um sure I I mean I got run over by a truck in a triathlon in 1986
01:33:41
in Palm Springs California and um I broke six vertebrae in my spine and I
01:33:48
had bone fragments on my spinal cord and I had the neural arch of T8 uh pressing
01:33:54
on the cord so uh the typical uh prognosis for that you know is is uh
01:34:02
Harrington Rod Surgery they they put these long stainless steel rods in your spine so in my case it would be from the
01:34:07
base of my neck to the base of my spine stabilize the entire spine and
01:34:13
um I just had four opinions from four of the leading surgeons in Southern California and I was in my 20s and I
01:34:20
just I just couldn't imagine myself living on you know addictive medications or not
01:34:26
being able to do whatever I love to do physically so I decided not to have the
01:34:31
surgery I just went against the the opinions of the experts and I just thought maybe there's a way that my my
01:34:38
mind could heal my body and so um that started my journey and somehow it worked
01:34:44
so I've been spending the rest of my life studying that had that not happened do you think you would have gone a in a
01:34:49
different direction sure absolutely absolutely yeah what if the worst thing that happened to
01:34:55
you was the best thing that happened to you I don't know and that starts this this you
01:35:01
create this belief in your mind that you can heal yourself using your mind well it was kind of crazy because um I think
01:35:07
when you're faced with crisis like I in a situation like this we tend to focus on the worst thing that could happen
01:35:13
instead of the best thing that could happen and that's because of the hormones of stress and emergency you always prepare for the worst better
01:35:20
chances of survival if you think about the worst so it took an enormous amount
01:35:25
of energy for me to stop that to stop thinking that way and stop feeling that way 6 and a half weeks of a Dark Night
01:35:32
of the soul I would say because I couldn't get my brain to do what I wanted it to do even though I theoretically and understood it I just
01:35:40
kept defaulting and uh spent hours and finally uh I was able to to kind of get
01:35:46
control over it and then soon as I started noticing some changes in my body that's when I that's when I just the
01:35:53
moment I started feeling my limbs again and the moment I started noticing I was moving a little
01:35:58
better I knew somehow I was having an effect and that's that's the moment it all changed for
01:36:05
me running all these businesses Joe and you have such an Empire of businesses and projects and people and teams all
01:36:12
over the world how have you managed your relationship with technology because technolog is on omnipresent in my life
01:36:19
yeah and that's why I say I get dragged out of bed by it Stephen I never planned on doing any of this I never I never planned on doing any of
01:36:25
this I mean all the corporate stuff just came out of a few lectures because there
01:36:32
were CEOs and presidents of companies that urged me to create a model for change for companies and organizations I
01:36:37
never wanted to do that I never wanted to do interner Health Coalition with doctors just our community there's an
01:36:44
emergent Consciousness that says please do that you know so we're we're working
01:36:50
on uh in the same vein of the same mission giving people our community listening to
01:36:56
our community and creating you know more of that for people I don't have I don't have any difficulty if it's part of the
01:37:03
mission to do any of those things I think it's uh I think it if I were just
01:37:10
doing my events and and that's it and we could just do that my life would be a whole
01:37:17
lot simpler but all these other things that we're doing now in terms of they they also bear a lot of fruit I mean the
01:37:23
research that we're doing right now is is I can say right now Stephen that what
01:37:30
we're doing is no longer pseudo science I can say that now it's no longer pseudo science I can say that in seven days
01:37:38
your body can make a a pharmacy of chemicals that work better than any drug I can tell you that one intervention
01:37:46
called meditation can change a host of different health conditions there's no drug that does that so if I weigh those
01:37:54
all those different things that I have to evolve uh in some way against the
01:38:00
effects it's producing it's always for me worth the effort are you happy yeah
01:38:05
what does that mean um that I don't need anyone or anything to make me
01:38:12
happy that's your definition of happiness I think yeah I mean if you have a kind of a freedom of expression
01:38:18
without any real limitation and you're and you're comfortable with you and you're and you love what you're doing
01:38:24
and you feel good about it and sure I mean I'm always in the river of change I'm always looking for blind spots I'm
01:38:30
always working on evolving who I am I always want to be I always want to evolve my experience I always want to
01:38:36
look to see if it serves me uh so um do you have sad days I have I have days
01:38:44
where I'm overwhelmed by just just everything and what's what are the symptoms of that
01:38:49
overwhelm um it takes me a little bit to focus my attention again just too many things I have to think about so I have
01:38:55
to take a little time and get get uh centered and organized but do I have sad
01:39:01
days I don't know sad I don't really know sad but uh kind of a days where I'm
01:39:11
um kind of kind of introspective uh without needing much
01:39:16
emotion yeah I I have those days yeah if this were to be your last day on Earth Joe wow
01:39:24
and there was just a central message that the millions of people you know that could
01:39:30
be listening right now you felt that they needed to hear that would serve them the best and serve us collectively
01:39:37
the best what might that Central message be it's important for people to believe
01:39:43
in themselves I think it's really important for people to remember that they're the creators on some level uh
01:39:49
and they have a hand in creating in their life and that
01:39:54
uh possibility is something that they should always keep their mind open to I
01:40:00
think that we're greater than we think we're more powerful than we know more unlimited than we could ever
01:40:08
dream do you realize how many people you've helped um gosh I don't know I don't know
01:40:16
maybe you must be moved by the feedback you get because I was reading through
01:40:21
testimonials and messages and all the top comments and stuff and it's really really profound stuff you know and I
01:40:28
it's hard to imagine a world where that that doesn't touch you know it it sit
01:40:34
with you for Better or For Worse you you know people stop me a lot of times and I'll be somewhere and they'll say hey I
01:40:39
I know you hear this a lot but um you you really help me or you really changed my life and I always say to them I never
01:40:45
I never get tired of of the story it's the feedback for me that uh inspires me
01:40:51
to keep doing what I'm doing so I love the stories I I love those I love to
01:40:56
hear them and it uh it challenges many times my own belief about what's possible so um yeah I think I I I'm I
01:41:05
love to celebrate that with people this next chapter of your life is successful
01:41:11
if we sit here 10 years from now and you say Steve that was an fantastic decade for you what would have happened in that
01:41:18
decade for you to say that gosh um we would publish a lot of papers that show
01:41:24
um how powerful people really are um we would have our own research center where
01:41:29
we could do even further studies on cancer on uh all different chronic
01:41:34
health conditions uh we were studying the effects of healing on others and we have really profound data on that as
01:41:42
well um I think that the conversation in in healthcare and Medicine could change
01:41:49
on some level I mean the conversations that I'm I'm having with researchers and Physicians are not the
01:41:56
same conversations I was having just two years ago especially when they look at our data they they kind of fall out of
01:42:02
their chair I mean it's I mean as an example a drug study is about 25% causality one and
01:42:09
four responds and it's usually you know 60 days 90 days a year
01:42:15
before you see a change our data is between 75 and
01:42:20
85% causality that means eight out of 10 people are getting a response and
01:42:25
they're not taking anything no exogenous substance in other words their their nervous system is
01:42:31
producing a pharmacy of chemicals that works better than any drug right so I think the conversation around emotional
01:42:39
regulation and emotional health uh could change that's something that I'm interested
01:42:45
in I think meditation could be something that is a a way of life for more people
01:42:50
to to be healthier and to be be happier and to be more whole uh I mean when I
01:42:56
started this journey Steph you couldn't even say meditation in public you couldn't even couldn't say it in certain
01:43:02
organizations corporations government agencies it was not allowed right now it's sexy now it's cool right um
01:43:10
so demystifying uh that process because
01:43:16
there's so many colloquialisms and slangs and idioms that have to do with meditation demystifying that process you
01:43:23
know we don't teach any traditional meditation we don't teach anything that's based on culture religion we we
01:43:30
teach meditation based on the data we see based on the brain scans based on the hrvs based on the data that we're
01:43:36
collecting we know the we know the words now we know the music we know the timing we know a lot of things uh in terms of
01:43:44
transformation that has helped us in so many ways so what do you think is going to become sexy in 10 years from now
01:43:50
that's not sexy now like meditation God I hope it's not AI I hope it's not I hope it's not AI I
01:43:57
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and I saw this um as I was on your website earlier on today I was looking at some of your upcoming initiatives one
01:46:29
in particular was this walk that you're doing which I found really really
01:46:34
interesting um this is the first ever Global walk that will take place on Saturday September the 23rd 20 um 23
01:46:42
this year um all the details are at walk for the dot world so
01:46:48
www.walk for theworld and I was reading about why you're doing this the words
01:46:54
Community came up the words illusion of Separation came up yeah I think you know
01:46:59
if you study the peace Gathering projects that have been done peer-reviewed articles of Peace
01:47:05
Gathering projects when people come into a community they meditate on peace City the prime crime rates go down violence
01:47:11
goes down car crashes car accidents go down economic growth goes up somehow there's a change in the in the
01:47:18
collective but when the meditation ends in the peace Gathering proc ends the
01:47:24
crime rate returns back to the same the you know the the car accidents and the violence return back to the same sealing
01:47:30
value as it was before it's not enough to just uh pray it's time to be the prayer
01:47:38
right so walking meditation we do in our community and we do a lot of them because you got to be able to walk as it
01:47:43
you got to be able to do it with your eyes open doing it with your eyes closed is a practice so you can do it with your eyes open so you can demonstrate it
01:47:50
demonstrate peace demonstrate love demonstrate um change for the world and
01:47:55
so uh the walking meditations there's four types of meditations there's seated meditation we do a lot of that and
01:48:01
that's traditional there's a standing and walking meditation and there's a lying down meditation we teach all of
01:48:06
those but the standing and walking meditation is a great way to stand up for the world and decide if I change and have
01:48:14
enough of us change we could actually change the world so meditation starts with our eyes closed standing up with
01:48:20
our eyes closed and getting into an altered music changes we open our eyes and we
01:48:26
walk as that change we embody that change we live that change we think about what we're going to leave behind
01:48:31
for a new world what what what if I change what would be could I am I part of the whole could I affect the
01:48:38
whole and so a person walks for a period of time they stop again they close their eyes they recalibrate they get back in
01:48:44
that feeling they open their eyes and they walk again and so walking meditation is a great way for uh
01:48:50
thousands and thousands of people from around the world to walk for change in the world and and
01:48:56
and we have such compelling data about Collective networks of observers with
01:49:01
brain and heart coherence that somehow when you have a random event generator in our in our ballrooms and people
01:49:10
change their state and they have an intention that random events become less
01:49:15
random and more intentional in other words a machine that's programmed to
01:49:20
toss a coin a thousand times a second second multiple times a second the more you toss a coin the more you're going to
01:49:26
get 50/50 right so if you if you have a machine in the room and and nobody's in
01:49:31
the room you see just kind of this line stay right around the 50/50 mark But when you fill that room with people and
01:49:37
they change their state and they have an intention all of a sudden you see that line break way out of normal and a
01:49:43
program machine that's normally flipping zeros and ones starts behaving very differently it tells us that Collective
01:49:50
networks begin to determine reality and it's not the number of people it's not the amount of energy you got have
01:49:55
entropic energy it's the mo most coherent group of people so if we come together on one day and this will be one
01:50:02
of many walks you leave everything behind bring your family bring your
01:50:10
friends bring your co-workers bring your neighbors you never have to have done a meditation before we'll will'll guide
01:50:16
people through it uh we'll give them the MP3 file and um we have just over 800 or
01:50:25
900 cities now from around the world uh that are from people from around the world that are participating and the
01:50:31
numbers are growing so we don't know where it'll go but it's our first uh attempt to just say if we just could
01:50:37
move the needle one degree and off that trajectory off that timeline just in
01:50:43
another timeline then it served its purpose so so um yeah we're excited about it it's the first one and
01:50:49
hopefully we'll do uh some more I'll put all the details below wherever you're listening to this so you can check it out is it I was wondering as you were
01:50:55
speaking Joe I was was asking myself you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas and
01:51:01
hypotheses about the world and the way humans are and the way the universe is do there exist beliefs in your head that
01:51:08
you're too scared to share you mean beliefs that I have that
01:51:13
that are from experience or beliefs that I have that I'm that are conjectures either both
01:51:22
yeah I have a very strong belief that that um the probability of us seeing the
01:51:28
truth and reality is zero I think that we perceive less than 1% of reality the
01:51:35
the brain is missing out on a lot of data and I think that we should never
01:51:41
exclude ourselves from the unknown you know I think there's a whole part of the unknown self that that we're unaware of
01:51:47
that that I'm that I think exists Beyond linear uh time and space
01:51:53
and I and I do believe that that it's real and and you don't know what that is
01:51:58
oh I do yeah yeah I think it's a realm beyond space and time that that I think
01:52:04
uh you know your eye right now is perceiving a very small spectrum of frequency visible light it's a very tiny
01:52:12
slice in the electromagnetic uh spectrum and that visible light red orange yellow
01:52:18
blue green indigo violet is is actually uh bouncing off of the slowest and most
01:52:25
stable form of energy called matter and that gives us this perception of Separation right well that small
01:52:32
spectrum is less than 1% of what we actually can perceive so I think that
01:52:37
our senses plug us into reality into three-dimensional reality but I think there are realities that exist beyond
01:52:44
space and time that we're unaware of that we can tap into yeah yeah I do and
01:52:49
I think there are latent systems in the brain that once activated allows the
01:52:54
brain to transduce that energy that frequency into profound uh information
01:53:00
the psychedelics drug drugs work in in that in that way I think psychedelics uh give a person a perception of reality
01:53:08
that's beyond three-dimensional reality we're discovering that the nervous
01:53:13
system makes its own Pharmacy of psychedelics in fact we have really
01:53:19
recent data that shows that um many people that have a mystical experience
01:53:24
in our work that have fmis uh look like they're on
01:53:29
psilocybin yeah and yet your nervous system is making that that that uh
01:53:35
natural chemical endogenously and how were those mystical
01:53:42
experiences triggered I'll give you the short version um there's a tiny little
01:53:47
gland in the back of your brain called the pineal gland and the pineal gland has tiny little crystals inside of it
01:53:53
that are stacked up on top of each other rhombohedron in shape and that little tiny gland acts like a radio receiver
01:54:01
for electromagnetic frequencies and when those crystals be can can become
01:54:07
activated uh like a radio receiver they can pick up frequencies that are beyond
01:54:12
your senses the quantum and they can transduce it's called a transducer it can transduce that frequency like a TV
01:54:20
antenna into profound imagery a very full-on sensory experience
01:54:25
without your senses interesting explains a
01:54:31
lot explains a lot my girlfriend always talks to me about the penal gland and DMT and you know and the power of
01:54:37
everything you've just described I just want to remain
01:54:42
open-minded because being closed-minded at any point in my life is not conducive
01:54:48
with progress and growth so my my um desire in doing this podcast generally
01:54:54
is just to learn from people that have New Perspectives on the nature of the world and to
01:55:00
remain humble in the fact that I know very little so what you said at the end there about us knowing almost knowing
01:55:06
zero about the nature of true reality or whatever that might mean I do believe I do believe that I know very little about
01:55:12
the true nature of reality and my senses have deceived me whether it's in psychedelic States or other states so I'm very aware how the fragility of this
01:55:19
experience or you know whether the truth is what I think it is yeah well um I
01:55:26
think it only takes one mystical Moment One transcendental moment for us to realize that um we're missing out on a
01:55:33
little bit of reality we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest without
01:55:40
knowing who they're leaving a question for if you were made president oh boy of
01:55:47
this country and you had to implement laws that would make Our Lives better wow
01:55:55
what would you do and
01:56:01
why Wow where do we [Laughter]
01:56:07
start oh boy um well um I would consider education uh
01:56:15
to be a much bigger priority for uh both people that teach uh that they're reward
01:56:22
wed in a in a better way and the educational system to be uh more
01:56:28
Socratic and more stimulating for uh people to question and and and to have
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healthy debates I think that's great um I would consider looking at the medical
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Model A little bit more and really look to see if healthc care is really uh helping people in this country uh I
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would find ways to uh unify
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uh uh different uh uh sects or or different uh uh organizations or bring
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them together bring them to the middle in some way I I I think uh standing up for
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principles in instead of politics is is a really healthy thing to do uh I'd
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probably try to figure out a way to reduce the debt to end War uh to find
01:57:20
ways that we could coexist with countries um I'd certainly think a lot about artificial intelligence and decide
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if it was uh really really healthy for human beings
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uh I I would uh encourage in many ways uh different religions to come together
01:57:38
and and find ways to to um to get along um I would spend a lot of time
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with regenerative agriculture in bringing life back to the soil and back to the Earth uh
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and figur out ways to help the the oceans and species that are passing and
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and to address uh healthy food food that is good for people that that is medicine
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for people Joe thank you for your work and thank you on behalf of all the people the millions of people all around
01:58:10
the world that you're clearly helping without really even knowing it um I've never seen such profound testimonials in
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any you know in anything I've ever seen and also the reason why I actually have this on the table isn't because you asked to promote me I think your team
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actually said I didn't need to put on the table but it's because one of our members of our team um their elderly
01:58:30
relative has been going through a lot of a lot of pain and struggle in their lives um and they read your book and it
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really really helped them this week oh that's great so they asked if they could you could get if I could get it signed on behalf of them absolutely which I
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think is a testament to to the impact you're having on people so thank you so much Joe it's an honor no thank you
01:58:48
Stephen for all the work you do also I appreciate it it's funny every year around this time
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of year for whatever reason I go on a little bit of a psychological shift and that psychological shift I think is somewhat inspired by summer but it's
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also inspired by the fact that I want to feel strong in this season of life and
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as I age strength training is my number one form of training and the question becomes how do you build muscle and how
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