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0:00You're not waiting for your life to
0:02change to feel worthy. You're actually
0:04changing your life by becoming worthy.
0:06You're generating abundance. You're
0:08generating love. You're creating an
0:10elevated emotion.
0:17If someone's having a negative
0:20repetitive thought specifically around
0:23self-worth, what they believe they
0:25deserve in love, where do they start
0:28with that thought? Well, we think
0:30primarily uh 90% of the time we think
0:33the same thoughts as we thought the day
0:35before. The challenge with that is the
0:37thought that you keep thinking over and
0:39over again becomes a belief. And nerve
0:42cells that fire together wire together.
0:43So the more nerve cells fire, the more
0:46they develop long-term relationships and
0:48the more hardwired they become. The more
0:50hardwired they become, the more
0:52automatic they are. The more automatic
0:53they are, the more unconscious they
0:55become. So the process of change really
0:58requires becoming conscious of your
1:00unconscious thoughts. Which means just
1:02because you have that thought doesn't
1:04necessarily mean it's the truth. If you
1:07have that thought and you accept it, you
1:09believe it, you surrender to it without
1:11analyzing it, that thought will lead to
1:13the same choice which will lead to the
1:15same behavior which will create the same
1:16experience which then will produce the
1:18same emotion. The same emotions then
1:20drive our very same thoughts in time.
1:23our biology, our neurosircuitry, our
1:25neurochemistry, our hormones, and even
1:26our gene expression stays the same
1:28because we're the same. So, in the
1:30process of change, when you come up
1:32against that unconscious belief and you
1:34make it conscious, most people get
1:36uncomfortable uh when they confront that
1:39thought and they're stopping an
1:41automatic process. And the body which
1:44has been conditioned to be the mind
1:45because it's doing something over and
1:47over again. That's a habit is craving
1:49the experience because it wants the
1:51emotion associated with it. Right? So
1:54the thought of being unworthy produces
1:57the feeling of being unworthy. That
2:00feeling then when the person feels
2:01unworthy tends to cause the person to
2:04think more unworthy thoughts. It only
2:06takes a thought and a feeling, an image
2:09of yourself and an emotion, a stimulus
2:12and response and you can condition the
2:15body to memorize that behavior and that
2:17emotional state better than the
2:18conscious mind. So the moment we inhibit
2:21that thought or the moment we become
2:23conscious of it, we no longer accept it,
2:25there's a biological craving that takes
2:28place in the body because the body has
2:31been conditioned to be the mind. So the
2:33body starts influencing the mind to
2:35think more corresponding thoughts equal
2:37to that feeling. So here comes the
2:39assault. Then you're not only unworthy,
2:42you're you're everything else that goes
2:43along with that feeling. And this is
2:46where uh people have to make up their
2:48mind if they truly want to change.
2:50Because if you decide to confront that
2:53thought and make a different choice, get
2:54ready because you're going to feel
2:56uncomfortable. It's going to feel
2:58unfamiliar and it's there's going to be
3:00some uncertainty cuz you're stepping out
3:02of familiar territory. You're stepping
3:05out of the known and you're stepping
3:06into the unknown. So, if you said,
3:08"Okay, I'm going to sit down for a few
3:10minutes. I'm going become so conscious
3:11of my unconscious self, my unconscious
3:14personality that the victory today would
3:17not be going unconscious to those
3:18thoughts, behaviors, and emotions."
3:20Okay, let me get so familiar with them
3:23that I don't go unconscious. Okay, I got
3:24that down. I don't know what what
3:27thoughts do I want to fire and wire in
3:29my brain. And if a belief is a thought
3:31that you keep thinking over and over
3:33again with intention
3:35and with attention, you'll switch on
3:37that prefrontal cortex and assign
3:39meaning to the act and start installing
3:42new circuits in your brain. If you keep
3:44doing it over and over again, it becomes
3:46more hardwired. It becomes more
3:48automatic. And now you're installing a
3:50new belief that you are worthy of love.
3:52You are worthy of abundance. You are
3:54worthy to heal. Whatever that is, that's
3:56the thought you do want to believe in.
3:58And when it matters the most is when
4:00it's the hardest
4:01>> because if you don't have the circuitry
4:03in place, you'll default back to the old
4:05programs. Right? So then if you said,
4:08"How am I going to be in my Zoom calls
4:12today? How am I going to be in traffic
4:14today? How am I going to be with my ex,
4:16my co-workers?"
4:18uh and you started thinking about and
4:21rehearsing
4:23how you were going to act in certain
4:25situations, the brain actually doesn't
4:27know the difference between the real
4:28life experience and what you're
4:30imagining. The research on mental
4:32rehearsal shows that the brain will look
4:34like in time that it's already had the
4:36experience and it's vacant of the
4:37experience. Now, keep firing and wiring
4:39those circuits and you're going to begin
4:41to behave that way. M.
4:42>> So now you're installing circuitry now
4:45to use in your life to get your
4:47behaviors to match your intentions. If
4:49you said, "How would it feel to feel
4:52worthy of love? How would it feel to be
4:54grateful for life? How would it feel to
4:56be worthy of abundance?" And you said,
4:58"I'm going to teach my body emotionally
5:02what this feels like before the
5:05manifestation of the event." And when
5:07you feel the emotions of your future,
5:09something amazing happens. you're no
5:12longer in lack or separation. So, you're
5:14no longer looking for the event to take
5:16away that feeling of lack or separation.
5:18Your body's actually believing it's in
5:20the event.
5:21>> And so, then you're not looking for it.
5:24You feel like it's already happened. Get
5:25ready because that's when your life
5:27begins to change. And so we've
5:30discovered that if you're actually
5:32practicing this and you immersed
5:35yourself in that experience fully for
5:37seven days, the amount of metabolic and
5:41biological changes that will take place
5:43in your body will be so significant that
5:46your body will actually believe it's
5:47living in that future. And yet most of
5:50the people that come to our workshops
5:51are literally in a ballroom. There's
5:53nothing really exciting happening in the
5:55environment, but their body's believing
5:57they're living in a whole new life. Life
5:58is an experiment. So if your personality
6:01creates your personal reality and your
6:04personality is made up of how you think,
6:06how you act, and how you feel, if you
6:08keep thinking the same way, you keep
6:10acting the same way, you keep feeling
6:11the same way, your life is going to stay
6:14the same because you're the same. So the
6:16experiment is, okay, let me begin to
6:18think differently. So I got to remind
6:20myself how I do want to think, and I
6:22have to remind myself of how I no longer
6:23want to think so I don't default and go
6:25unconscious. Let me remind myself how
6:27I'm going to behave so that I could
6:29actually get my behaviors to match my
6:31intentions. And let me remind myself of
6:33how I'm going to feel. If I'm able to
6:34succeed in that day, then there should
6:37be some change in my life. That it's the
6:38experiment and and and if it doesn't
6:41change, that doesn't mean the law
6:42doesn't work for you. It's just you're
6:44not that good yet. It just you just got
6:46to keep practicing, right? So the act of
6:49disconnecting from your life long enough
6:50to remind yourself of who you do want to
6:52be and who you no longer want to be.
6:54That experiment then is the experiment
6:56called life. Now it's not that you
6:59react. The question is how long are you
7:02going to react? That's the real
7:03question. Cuz I mean I react all the
7:05time. Everybody does. But if you're
7:08going to stay there and you're going to
7:10live in that emotional state, you will
7:12see life through that lens of that
7:14emotion. Right? So now it gets
7:17complicated because the stronger the
7:19emotion you feel towards certain people
7:21or problems in your life, the more you
7:24pay attention to them and where you
7:26place your attention is where you place
7:28your energy. So from a purely biological
7:31as well as quantum state, we could say
7:33then you're using that person or that
7:37circumstance to reaffirm your dependence
7:40on feeling that emotion. So you have to
7:43hate your enemy. And if your enemy dies,
7:45you'll find another person to hate
7:46because that is that is the response,
7:49right? So the body is is the animal.
7:52It's been conditioned a certain way. And
7:54it's and if it's been doing something
7:56and feeling something for an extended
7:58period of time, there's a modification
8:00of its receptor sites. It's it's needing
8:02those emotional states. So in the
8:05process of change,
8:08just be ready because you're going to
8:09feel uncomfortable a lot of the time.
8:11Now the question is, do you want to stay
8:14there? So then most people think they
8:17they don't have any control over their
8:19emotional state. They think, I'm just
8:20this way and I feel this way. Well, we
8:22we actually can show people that that's
8:25not the truth. That when it's the
8:27hardest, it matters the most. And if
8:29you're able to really work and train
8:32your body like you're training an animal
8:36to stop feeling one way and start
8:38feeling another way. So, the research
8:40that we've done over and over again is
8:42that the the only way you're actually
8:45going to reprogram your brain to work in
8:48your favor is you got to learn how to
8:51regulate your brain waves. In order for
8:52us to begin to change those programs, we
8:56got to get into the operating system.
8:58And the only way we do that is we got to
9:00slow our brain waves down in that
9:02thinking neoortex. The challenge for
9:05most people is they have so many demands
9:08in their life. They have so many
9:12emotional responses to circumstances in
9:15their life that they're living in a
9:18state of stress and living in a state of
9:19survival. In a state of stress and
9:20survival, you don't close your eyes. You
9:22got to keep your eye on the ball. You
9:23you got to keep your attention on the
9:25outer environment. So, uh their brains
9:27tend to work in a higher brain wave
9:29pattern, a mid-range or high level beta
9:32brain wave pattern. That's like driving
9:34your sports car in first gear. It's it's
9:36a lot of energy for the brain. So, and
9:40uh when the brain starts to relax and it
9:42moves into less of that chatter that
9:45takes place in your brain and more of
9:47kind of an imaginary state, the brain
9:49sees in pictures and images, it's more
9:51creative. We're moving into that alpha
9:53state. So now the door between the
9:54conscious mind and the subconscious mind
9:57opens up as we get beyond our analytical
9:59mind. And our analytical mind is
10:01actually what separates the conscious
10:03mind from the subconscious mind. So as
10:04you slow your brain waves down, you get
10:06into alpha. You're entering the
10:08operating system. And that's where you
10:10can rewrite a new program. That's where
10:12you can rehearse a new script. That's
10:14where you can begin to plan your
10:17behaviors in a in a in an intentional
10:19way. If you if you can't change your
10:21brain waves, then it's like your
10:24computer running a muk with all of those
10:27programs and you yelling at it, telling
10:28it to stop. you're not in the operating
10:30system. Some people can get to the point
10:33where they're so relaxed
10:36that the body's in a light sleep and yet
10:39they're conscious and awake and now
10:40they're in this theta brain wave
10:42pattern. And in theta, that's a hypnotic
10:44state. We're very suggestible to our
10:46thoughts.
10:47>> We're very suggestible to information in
10:49that state. And that state then is where
10:53we see the most change take place. And
10:55so the person can literally change from
10:57the inside out when they learn how to
10:59get into the operating system. I can
11:01tell you that if you are willing to see
11:04that thought is just a thought in your
11:06brain and you're curious what's on the
11:08other side of that thought, yeah, you're
11:11going to feel uncomfortable. But if you
11:13had some tools and skills to apply and
11:17you were able to take your attention off
11:19your cell phone and settle your body
11:21back down into the present moment, that
11:23would be a victory. And then your body
11:25would say, "Come on, you got to feel a
11:27little frustration now. You got to be
11:29impatient. You got to be judgmental.
11:31Come on. That's how what you always
11:32think. That's how you always feel." And
11:34you, like an animal,
11:36you settle the body back down into the
11:39present moment. And you tell it it's no
11:41longer the mind, that you're the mind.
11:43That's a victory. Then the body says,
11:45"Hey dude, you're super busy. You got a
11:48lot of things to do. You got a lot of
11:50people to see. You got a lot of places
11:51to go. You got a lot of things to do.
11:53and you've been doing the same thing
11:54every day, your body's going to want to
11:56get up and do something, you're going to
11:59want to quit cuz your brain's telling
12:02you that you can't do this. If you had
12:04the awareness to settle the body back
12:08down into the present moment, you would
12:10be executing a will that's greater than
12:13the program because most people lose
12:14their free will
12:16>> to those programs. And it's that tedium
12:19in the beginning that is an
12:20uncompromising will where you keep
12:23training the animal to stay to take all
12:27of its attention off the environment to
12:30get beyond all the cravings, the
12:32feelings, the habits of the body, the
12:35drives of the body, and catch yourself
12:38defaulting to that predictable future.
12:40bringing your body back into the present
12:42moment, siphoning energy back, your
12:44attention into the past based on those
12:46familiar emotions of the past. We've
12:48discovered that if you're willing to do
12:49that for just a few days, you could
12:53actually liberate an enormous amount of
12:55energy from your body. You go from
12:57particle to wave, from matter to energy,
13:01and you're literally transmuting those
13:03limited emotions into elevated emotions.
13:06and something really beautiful happens
13:08if you're willing to fire the crucible
13:11and sit through that long enough. All of
13:14these emotions move, that energy moves
13:17right up into the heart and the person
13:20starts falling in love with life. They
13:22start feeling this state of gratitude,
13:26this gratefulness to be alive, this
13:29ineffitable word of relaxed and awake.
13:34And something really magical happens
13:36when we've discovered uh this little
13:39simple thing. When that energy makes it
13:41to the heart, there's only one place it
13:44wants to go and it goes straight to the
13:47brain. So the person starts relaxing
13:50into their heart when they feel this
13:52feeling. And the more they relax into
13:54the heart, the more their brain all of a
13:56sudden starts becoming aroused and they
14:00start going into these elevated gamma
14:03brain wave patterns. Now gamma is not
14:06unconscious. Gamma is actually super
14:08conscious. It's actually super aware.
14:10You're outside the program now. So when
14:14that occurs and the brain goes into
14:16gamma brain wave patterns, what we
14:18discovered is not it's not a little
14:19gamma.
14:21It's not a lot of gamma. It's not a
14:24whole lot of gamma. It's a supernatural
14:26amount of gamma. Here's the beauty. We
14:29we could see people do this in 15
14:31minutes. The most important takeaway
14:34around all of this is that feeling that
14:36they're feeling is not coming from
14:39anywhere outside of them. No person's
14:41doing that. No wardrobe change is doing
14:45that. No sports car, no football game,
14:48nothing is doing it to them. it's
14:50actually coming from within. That is the
14:52moment they stop looking for it outside
14:55of them and the love affair begins. And
14:57so when we start feeling these elevated
15:00emotions, these more selfless emotions,
15:03it's not like you have to try to
15:05forgive. It actually is the side effect
15:09of you changing your emotional state.
15:11You no longer want uh because you feel
15:15so whole. How could you want anything?
15:18So we've discovered relaxed in the heart
15:21and awaken the brain. And that process
15:23of transformation is your willingness to
15:25sit past that thought, past that
15:28emotion, and keep training the animal
15:30and sooner or later you can re
15:31recondition it to a new mind. We've done
15:33the largest studies on meditation than
15:35have ever been done just because we have
15:37a community of 1,800 people that come to
15:40an event that are going to be getting up
15:42at the same time, doing the same thing,
15:44uh, pretty much eating, making the same
15:46food choices in pretty much a big
15:49laboratory, right? One of the cool
15:52things that we've discovered is that we
15:53have so much compelling data to suggest
15:57that you're greater than you think,
15:59>> more powerful than you know, more
16:01unlimited than you could ever dream. We
16:02have compelling data that suggests that
16:05your nervous system is the greatest
16:07pharmacist in the world. That it makes
16:10drugs that work better than any drug in
16:13a drugstore. A drug study is about 18 to
16:1625% cause and effect causality. Our data
16:20is between 75 and 85% cause and effect.
16:24This is a person creating their own
16:26pharmacy of anti-inflammatories, their
16:29own pharmacy of anti-carcinogenic
16:31chemicals, their own pharmacy of uh pain
16:34relievers. We're seeing this over and
16:36over again. So, we have this incredible
16:38data that says that this is no longer
16:40pseudocience. This is the real this is
16:43really science. The side effect of a
16:45person's transformation
16:48is has changed my belief in what's
16:51possible. I have seen people stand on
16:53the stage with stage 4 cancers that were
16:56in every single organ in their body that
16:58metastasized and and they have no sign
17:02of cancer in their body. And we have
17:04data that suggests that you put the
17:06blood of an advanced meditator and a
17:08uterine cancer cell, a pancreatic cancer
17:10cell,
17:1270% of the mitochondrial function in the
17:14cancer cell is diminished. And the
17:15mitochondria is the energy packets of
17:17the cell. It's taking energy out of the
17:19cancer cell. It's perfect with what
17:21we're seeing with uh uh the testimonials
17:24uh that that people are telling around
17:26the world. We've seen we had someone
17:28with bilateral breast cancer just
17:31recently. Uh no evidence of cancer in
17:33her breasts or any lymph nodes, no
17:35longer in her liver. I'm looking out at
17:38the audience and everybody's leaning in.
17:43There's the 4-minute mile and that
17:45person's telling the truth and they're
17:46they're telling a story and it's not
17:48pretty. It's not always uh rosy. They
17:50they went through a lot of dark nights.
17:52They went through a lot of their
17:53condition getting worse. But every day
17:56they had to show up for themselves. If
17:58they stopped showing up and doing the
18:01work, they would really not believe it
18:03was possible. But if they showed up and
18:05did the work, it means that they believe
18:07it's possible. And I think when you
18:10believe in possibility, you got to
18:11believe in yourself.
18:12>> Mhm.
18:13>> When you believe in yourself, you got to
18:14believe in possibilities. like you're
18:15saying like I'm going to be 30 minutes
18:17late for a job interview or I just had
18:20an argument with my partner this morning
18:22and I've got a big presentation this
18:24morning as well at work now I'm stressed
18:27about it because I'm thinking about that
18:29or my kid just had got yeah I had to
18:31rush him to hospital and now I'm late
18:33like I guess when you're looking at it
18:34from a very human point of view it's
18:36really hard to understand the value in
18:38this what do you say to anyone who's
18:40thinking and feeling that way?
18:41>> Uh no I think it's I think it's a
18:43reasonable conversation. I mean um uh
18:45sometimes we have to be super aroused
18:49and sometimes we really have to pay
18:50attention and sometimes there are
18:52threats and dangers where that primitive
18:54nervous system actually works in our
18:56favor and and that's the emergency
18:57system. But you got to also realize that
19:00you only have a certain amount of
19:01energy.
19:02>> And if you're living in emergency mode
19:03for an extended period of time, there's
19:05no energy for growth and repair. There's
19:06no energy for long-term building
19:08projects. And so when it's needed
19:11uh and you have to outrun the predator,
19:13you go.
19:14>> You don't sit and try to make friends
19:15with the predator. We're not that good.
19:18You you run, right? The problem is if
19:20you keep that alarm system switched on
19:22all the time, it gets very addictive.
19:24>> It's a great entity.
19:25>> It's gets very addictive, right? And so
19:28>> I have looked at people's brain scans uh
19:31and watched their brain get worse in the
19:32early days and tap them on the head and
19:34say, "What were you doing in there?"
19:38100% of the time they were analyzing the
19:41problems in their life within that
19:44disturbing emotion. And if an emotion is
19:46a record of the past and they can't
19:48think greater than how they feel,
19:49they're thinking in the past, there's no
19:51solution there.
19:52>> Cross the river, get beyond the emotion
19:55and you'll see possibility because
19:56you're no longer in the box of that
19:58emotional state.
19:59That's so much easier said than done cuz
20:03you're going against
20:05if you're if you're living in stress and
20:07you're living in survival and that
20:09system is switched on, then everything
20:10will be a threat.
20:12>> Everything will be a danger. Everything
20:13will be a reason to rush, to be
20:15impatient, to be frustrated, to be
20:17judgmental because that's that's the
20:19consciousness. That's the emotion we're
20:21living by. So now you you have a a
20:24problem with a coworker, you have a
20:25problem with your partner, whatever it
20:27is that you use as an example, and you
20:28have to give a presentation. Now, now
20:30you really have one of two choices.
20:32Either be victimized
20:34by those conditions in your life, and
20:36you stay in that emotional state. And
20:38I'll say to you, Jay, why are you that
20:39way? Well, I'm this way because of this
20:41person, the circumstance. That person or
20:43circumstance is controlling the way I
20:45feel and the way I think. Anything that
20:47controls the way I feel and the way I
20:48think, I'm victim to. Right. Okay. or I
20:51actually can be a creator now. Okay. So,
20:54when it's the hardest, it matters the
20:55most. Okay. So, there's going to be a
20:57story, a valid story that's going to go
21:00along with those emotions that you're
21:02going to have to give up that you can
21:04address at another time from a different
21:07state. If you're altered in that state
21:10and you say something, you do something,
21:12you write the email, you send the text,
21:14you'll always regret it. You'll always
21:16say, "I should have never said that. I
21:17should have never done that." We got to
21:18learn that we're in an altered state at
21:20that time. So there's only one of two
21:22choices. You either stay there the whole
21:23day and tell everybody that story. Or
21:26you say, "Okay, let me take a moment.
21:28Remember that this is the experiment
21:31called life. Okay, let me practice
21:33getting relaxed in my heart. Let me slow
21:35the animal down. Let me practice that.
21:38Take a few minutes now. Let me breathe.
21:40Let me get my state back. Let me change
21:42everything. Okay, let me remember who I
21:44am, who I want to be when I open my
21:45eyes. And let me practice that again."
21:47Now, even if you had to do that 10 times
21:50in one day, I would say it was a day
21:52worth living.
21:53>> I would say it was a day worth living.
21:55And when we do walking meditations,
21:57uh, in our our retreats, we're doing
21:59walking meditations so you can practice
22:01doing it with your eyes open. Like, if
22:03you're going to be relaxed in your heart
22:04and awake in your brain, and you can do
22:06it with your eyes closed, okay, let's
22:08take it out for a test drive.
22:09>> Let me open my eyes. Let me pay a little
22:11bit more attention to my inner world.
22:13Let me practice feeling this feeling.
22:15Let me practice feeling this way. And
22:17let my brain do what it does. Let me get
22:19define. Let me change my physiology. Let
22:21me change my state. Let me walk as the
22:24healed person. Let me walk as the
22:26abundant person. Let me walk as if my
22:29prayers are answered. Let me walk in
22:30this state.
22:31>> If I keep practicing that over and over,
22:32it's going to become a habit, right? And
22:34so, so we hit it as many ways as we can.
22:37We want you to be able to do it with
22:39your eyes open, with your eyes closed,
22:40standing, walking any way you can so
22:42that you don't default and return back
22:44to that person. Now, if you do default,
22:46you didn't fail.
22:47>> That's a program. You just went
22:49unconscious. And how many times
22:52>> do we have to forget until we stop
22:55forgetting and start remembering? That's
22:57the moment of change.
22:58>> No one no one no one cares how many
23:00times you fell off the bicycle. If you
23:01ride the bicycle, now you ride the bike.
23:04So, it's it's the constant process uh
23:07every single day. And I think that
23:09sometimes we look for evidence in our
23:11life and it hasn't happened. And I think
23:14it's so important that we still show up.
23:17>> Yeah.
23:17>> Yeah. Cuz that's the that's where you're
23:20changing the most. And when you get to
23:22that point where you could care less if
23:24it happens or not cuz you feel so happy,
23:26so grateful for who you are, get ready
23:29because your life is going to begin to
23:30change in magical ways. So then when
23:33they change the way they feel and the
23:36way they think and they start seeing
23:37evidence in their life, they're going to
23:39remember what they did inside of them to
23:41produce that outcome. woman, they're
23:42going to believe they're creator of
23:43their life unless they're the victim of
23:45their life. And that's empowerment.
23:46>> Yeah.
23:47>> And you can't take that away from
23:48anybody. You can't tell me now you're
23:50too sick to do that. You can't tell me
23:52you're too old to do that. You can't
23:53tell me you had a horrible past. You're
23:55too out of shape. You can't even tell me
23:57that you never meditated before because
23:59you have people that come, they know
24:01nothing. They get dragged by somebody
24:03and they have the most profound
24:04experience because they're not expecting
24:06anything. And we have data to suggest
24:07that when you don't expect anything,
24:09you're going to have a profound moment.
24:11So everybody can do it. There's nobody
24:14that's so special to be excluded from
24:18this process. And we have had people
24:19that have had brutal pasts with abuse,
24:22with trauma. We we've seen Navy Seals
24:25and prisoners with horrible, horrible
24:28memories uh literally transform,
24:30literally transform uh in 7 days. And I
24:34could say right now that you make the
24:36time every single day to decide who
24:38you're going to present to the world.
24:40and you get up as that person, you're
24:42going to fall a lot of times, but sooner
24:43or later, once you start to change, it's
24:46pretty hard to go back. Here's an
24:48example. Many people who are changing a
24:50health condition in our work, they start
24:53to do the work. They start noticing,
24:55"I'm sleeping better. Uh, I have less
24:58pain. Uh, I got my appetite back. I feel
25:01like I have more energy." They start
25:03noticing these subtle subjective
25:05changes. that go to their doctor uh and
25:07their their scans still show that they
25:09have their health condition. So, they're
25:12noticing a change, but they're not
25:13healed all the way. Now, they don't say
25:14it didn't work. They say, "What is it
25:17about me that I still have to change in
25:20order to heal? What thought? What
25:21behavior? What emotion?" So, they're a
25:23work in progress, right? Many of those
25:25people discover that they have one
25:28really good hour of meditation where
25:31they feel connected. They feel like
25:33their heart is opening up. They feel
25:35like their brain is coherent. They feel
25:37really great. They don't want the moment
25:38to end. And then they spend 15 or 16
25:42hours of their day back in a program
25:44>> rushing around back in their emotional
25:46states responding and reacting. And they
25:49realized that how could one hour of an
25:53elevated state weigh against 15 or 16
25:56hours of my response to everyone and
25:58everything in my life emotionally is
26:00derived from those familiar emotions of
26:02fear or anger or hatred or or pain or
26:04suffering whatever.
26:06>> Okay. So now this is where the practicum
26:10actually goes to the next level because
26:12they're no longer just sitting down and
26:15rehearsing who they want to be. They're
26:17actually rehearsing for their life.
26:20>> They're saying, "Okay, when I see that
26:22person, when I'm in that circumstance, I
26:25can't go unconscious and feel this
26:26emotion, and I can't go unconscious and
26:28say these things or act this way. How am
26:31I going to act? What would love do? What
26:33would greatness look like?" They don't
26:34know. They read about it. They get more
26:36information, and they're building this
26:38model. And now all of a sudden the
26:40response
26:42to people, to circumstances, to problems
26:45in their life are changing. That's
26:48because they're changing.
26:51and and you could have the best diet and
26:53you could do the best exercise and you
26:55could be really rigid in the food
26:57choices and vitamins and minerals uh and
26:59keep your body chemically balanced and
27:01physically balanced. But if you're not
27:02emotionally balanced and you're
27:05constantly in that fight orflight
27:06system, stress is when your body's
27:08knocked out of homeostasis. The stress
27:10is when your brain and body are knocked
27:12out of balance. So, so you you could
27:15have all those things working for you,
27:16but if you are living in fear or you're
27:18controlling and you're rigid and you're
27:20perfectionist and you're hard on
27:21yourself, it's going to make sense that
27:24that is going to have to change
27:27>> in order for you to change, right? And
27:29so people start getting they start
27:30getting it. I that's the only way I'm
27:32going to change. If I don't change, it's
27:33not going to change. 95% of who we are
27:36by the time middle age is a set of
27:37unconscious thoughts, behaviors, and
27:39emotions. I mean those are beliefs and
27:41perceptions that we have about ourselves
27:42and our lives. So
27:44>> I mean this is a never ending process of
27:46self-discovery. I mean there's always
27:48challenges that you'll have in your life
27:50that are going to initiate you into
27:52becoming conscious of what you're
27:54unconscious to.
27:55>> And you got to meet those challenges
27:56from a greater level of consciousness
27:58than the consciousness that's created.
27:59And you can't if you don't your response
28:02in the way you feel and the way you
28:03think being the same. And if you believe
28:05that how you think and how you feel
28:07creates your life. If you don't change
28:08the way you think and the way you feel,
28:10your life's going to stay the same
28:11because you're the same. I mean, that's
28:12the way it works. So fundamentally, it's
28:15so important for people to understand
28:17that it is actually possible to