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How to Reprogram Yourself · Spiritual Sense: Practical wisdom to quiet an overthinking mind and recharge your soul

• 0:00
  Speaker A: Welcome to this episode on how to reprogram yourself. We've all been programmed by our society, by our thoughts, by our beliefs and the things that we think in our head, the beliefs that we have. The way we talk to ourselves has profound effect on how we feel, what we create in life, what we do, what we don't do, our success, our health in it affects absolutely everything. And if we are programmed with negative beliefs and thoughts about who we are that are destructive, it can totally destroy our life. In fact, we are living the consequence of our previous beliefs and our current beliefs. So today we're going to be talking about how to reprogram yourself in the most effective way so that you can feel happier and more joyful. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the podcast. Hello, Shereen. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to you.
• 0:54
  Speaker B: Welcome to you. Nice to be here. How are you?
• 0:58
  Speaker A: Doing great, doing great. So we have a wonderful episode here which I have printed out on how to reprogram ourselves. And this has multiple layers, of course. The thoughts, the perception we have, our self image, the way we speak to ourselves. It's not just the thoughts, it's also the tone of voice in our mind, the kind of energy behind what we say. There's so many layers to this. So where are we going to get started and what's the research on this research? Researching away. Researching away. There's always more research to be done, right?
• 1:35
  Speaker B: There's always more research, right? This is actually very fascinating research. There is this psychologist called Stephen Hayes and he found that we don't really know the difference between something being true and thinking about that. So if I think like, there's no way that the soul, like the mind and the way everything works, there's no like no fact checking going on, right? It's not fact. You're not fact checking yourself. So if you think, oh, I'm no good, right, there's no way of actually knowing. You don't know the difference between thinking that and that being true because you're thinking that you will just think that's true.
• 2:40
  Speaker A: Yeah, I suppose it's the same with everything, isn't it? Like, I can't do that. It's not going to work. No one likes me.
• 2:48
  Speaker B: Yes, it's not going to work. Or even like simple things, right? Let's say if I drop something. Oh, Shireen, why did you do that? You always do that, right? If I'm talking to myself that way, right? You would you talk to a child that way? No, if I'm talking to myself that way, then I really don't know whether it's true or I'm just thinking it's true. Right. I, I have no way of knowing.
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  Speaker A: That's very interesting. So there's no fact check.
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  Speaker B: So it becomes true. Because I'm saying that to myself, it becomes true.
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  Speaker A: So whatever you think becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
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  Speaker B: Absolutely. Whatever you think becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
• 3:33
  Speaker A: That's very concerning.
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  Speaker B: And there are two other research I want to talk about here before. I'm sure you have things you want to share on this, but let me talk about one more. Festinger. Festinger is the name of the guy who did this research. So let's say there's a belief and then there's an action, right? And if, say the belief is different from the action, it's called a cognitive dissonance. And we don't like cognitive dissonance. Right. So always they will try to match. The belief in the action will try to match. But guess which one changes? Always the behavior changes. The belief about you never really changes. The beliefs never change, the behavior changes. Right. And so what that actually means is let's say I lied about something, right? And I think I'm an honest person, but I lied about something. So what will I do? I will keep telling myself, oh, they must have deserved it, they must have done this, they must have done that. Right. Or justify myself. Or then rather than change that, let's
• 5:01
  Speaker A: say someone believes a certain politician is the best person. Right. And they vote for them in any context. Right. Or a certain band is the best, or certain sports team is the best. Right. And then it turns out that it wasn't what they expected? Do they carry on believing that they're still the best and it wasn't really their fault and you know, something, something happened and they're not.
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  Speaker B: Right? Right.
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  Speaker A: They're not going to say, I'm not going to support them anyway, I'm going to support somebody else.
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  Speaker B: So no, no, they won't. They won't.
• 5:34
  Speaker A: Yeah. So it doesn't matter whether or not the external reality is matching up at all. You just have some justification why it doesn't count in this case, right?
• 5:44
  Speaker B: Absolutely. Absolutely. And one thing we need to understand about this is the research is actually quite complicated when it comes to your personal vision of yourself. Right. Because the other one is Bem. And Bem is the one, the researcher that James Clear always quotes. Right. He did a lot of research on identity and stuff like that. And I totally love BEM's research, but one of Bem's research is this, that, that you are constantly gathering evidence about yourself, right? That's what you're doing in every moment, you're gathering evidence about yourself. So let's say this morning you woke up and you felt overwhelmed, right? In that moment, you're gathering evidence about yourself that you're someone who gets overwhelmed. Let's say you spoke to yourself a certain way, then you're gathering evidence about yourself based on how you spoke and what you spoke to yourself about. So these things are very, very, very important. Because first, you know what shifts, right? Watch shifts, right? Identity, really, behavior shifts or belief shifts. That's something you really need to think about. Because now what you're talking to yourself. If, if you're constructing yourself, it's almost like you're constructing yourself every moment. You're constructing yourself every moment. You're constructing yourself. There's no time where you're not constructing yourself. And so if so today is, you're constructing yourself of tomorrow, tomorrow you're constructing yourself of later, right? Because you're gathering evidence and you're constructing yourself. And so if you are constructing yourself, then imagine how important it is. You know, one of the last episodes we were talking about the mind wandering. And so where is the mind wandering, right? Where is it wandering to? It's wandering to the same grooves that you have put in there constantly. It wanders to the same places, same places it wanders to. Because it's like a groove in the mind and it keeps wandering there. And so now you're gathering evidence about yourself and the mind is wandering to the same places. So imagine how important it is to reprogram the way you talk to yourself. Because if you start thinking about something, because in the Brahma Kumaris we have a practice called self respect or swaman, where especially the last few weeks, the supreme soul Baba has been really talking about instilling self respect in yourself. Instilling self, self respect in yourself. Instilling self respect in yourself. And it might, you might not feel it's true at that moment, right? So let's say I'm a pure, peaceful soul. In this moment, I might not be feeling very peaceful. But just remember, just accepting that you're a pure, peaceful soul, you are gathering evidence about yourself. And because you have changed your belief about who you are, your behavior becomes pure and peaceful. And so even though it's not true, you just have to reprogram yourself that way. You have to talk to yourself differently. And it's not even, oh, you're a good person, you're wonderful, you Love, you know, it's not that it has to be somewhere very high level, spiritual installation because. Because this is a very important thing. You are constantly installing yourself, constantly installing yourself. It's like there's a new software being installed in you constantly. Or the old software is reinstalling, Reinstalling, reinstalling.
• 10:20
  Speaker A: There's a fascinating book called In Search of Now, which I've been listening to, about how the perception of now, like, because we're experiencing now all the time we're in now, it's. It's not based on actually the information coming from the world. It's baked because it comes at different speeds. It's. It's basically a best guess on what we think is probably going to be happening in this moment because we don't have all the information. So it's a. It's. The now is basically put simply an hallucination from science. Point of essentially, because we can't experience. Seems like this beautiful flow, doesn't it? Like, if you think about now, there's no. It's a very seamless experience we're having. It's not jerky. But the information from our senses is coming in in a jerky way. If you think about it, right? It's coming in piece by piece. But we don't feel that, do we? We feel it's very smooth. That's because it's all getting smoothed out in consciousness. And it's going through many, many layers of filters. And the beliefs we have about ourselves, who we are, has a profound effect on us. And I remember I kind of discovered this by accident many times, many years ago in Hawaii. And I was sitting on the beach. I vividly remember this. It was a very powerful experience. I was sitting there. It's January. And it was January. In Hawaii's like most countries, it's the coldest month. And it was gray and it was kind of drizzling. And I was sitting there and there's loads of wind. And I was. And I was like, I just feel awful. I just feel terrible, right? And I'm like, why do I. Why do I feel so bad? You know? And I was just sitting there and I said. I asked God, what's going on here? How come I feel so awful? And I had this experience where I was shown a vision of how I perceived myself here on. Sitting on the beach, up here, like above my head. I saw this like. Like a. Like a little image of myself, the character, the body, the person. And that little character was basically someone who's unhappy sitting on the beach. And then like that, I saw a happy version of me sitting on the beach. This image changed and I immediately felt profoundly better. I was like, ah, there it is, right? And I was like, oh my God. This is a secret to life right here. Because my self image, the way I perceive myself in my head, that image of myself is a rep. Physical is a representation of all my beliefs and ideas of who I am in. In moment to moment experience. And that can be changed. That can be changed. And that, that also, right? All these things ultimately is about changing the self image. And I thought I discovered this, like.
• 13:30
  Speaker B: No, especially beliefs about the self, right? Especially beliefs about.
• 13:34
  Speaker A: Beliefs about the self are embedded in the image. Actually that, that's the thing.
• 13:39
  Speaker B: Because the psyche, right, Absolutely.
• 13:41
  Speaker A: The psyche doesn't really like words are just words. But how we picture ourselves in our mind is an embodiment of the beliefs we hold about ourselves. You know, that's why, for example, someone who might be anorexic, they've done studies on this where someone who's anorexic, they, they look in the mirror and they say, I'm so fat. I'm so fat, I need to. You're such a pig. You shouldn't eat so much, right? And, and, and they're like, they're about to die, right? They're like really, really, really skinny. And then someone could take a photograph of them and say, look, does this look like someone who's overweight, right? And, and the woman's like, no, that's just clearly very skinny. But, but this, but she says, yeah, but I still feel fat, so I'm not going to eat. So she can see outside. This is clearly someone who's very, very thin. But she won't eat any food or only have a tiny amount because she's in her head, she's a fat person because of the belief I'm fat, I'm fine, I'm not big, I'm not, I need to lose weight.
• 14:48
  Speaker B: So this whole idea of beliefs changing, right? Instead of behavior, because behavior, because to bridge the gap, right? To bridge the gap between behavior and belief, belief comes here. Behavior doesn't go here, right? So easiest to change the ability. Belief. And also in the belief, right? Thinking something about yourself makes it true. So if thinking something about yourself makes it true, this is. So there's behavior, there is belief, right? In the belief, thinking something about yourself makes it true. And so in the behavior, belief always changes, but the behavior does it. And so if I keep changing what I keep thinking about myself, Right. I have these list of self respect things that I can do. You know, I'm a pure soul. I'm beautiful, I'm, you know, a diamond. I'm, you know, I'm all powerful spiritually. I'm, you know, I have love for everyone even if I don't have love for everyone right now that I keep reinstalling this, reinstalling this, reinstalling this, reinstalling this and then eventually what I do about this will change, but I have to keep reinstalling because really this is so important. What you think about yourself is what is true. Right. Because there's no way that the mind can fact check. Is that true or not true? It cannot fact check. Right. There's no stress test going on. Is that true or not true in the mind? Right. It's just accepting whatever you put into it. You're accepting it. And so the self talk, the, you know, if the self talk is so important, then imagine how important we, we actually need to sit down and write down what we are going to say to ourselves. Because then we keep repeating those things. We keep repeating those things.
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  Speaker A: Yeah. Because if we don't think our own thoughts, we'll be thinking random nonsense all the time. And we had another session about how what we're thinking affects our life again and again and again. We pretty much talk about this all the time really. So it is important to write it down and it's not. Just, just keep in mind that when we reprogram ourselves, there's a few different layers to this first layer is obviously the thoughts themselves, right. What are we thinking then is the tone of it and the feeling about it. Because for example, if you, if in your mind you're thinking, I'm so relaxed, I'm so relaxed, I'm so relaxed. I'm so relaxed. Right. I'm the most relaxed person in the world. It's, it's not you, you don't really believe it, right. And it's not really coming from the right place. So we need to have a loving, kind tone of our voice. Right? So one is the thoughts, the other is the tone. And then there's the image and the five senses, right? Because ultimately the perception of who we are, that little self image, that little version of you that lives in your head somewhere, that's what we base it on. Not the thoughts themselves. Like the thoughts lead to the self image change ultimately so.
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  Speaker B: Exactly. We can change the self image, right. Just by thinking different things. We can change the self image thinking
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  Speaker A: different things and also just producing A new image. Like realizing it's not just because words aren't things, like, because words are pointing towards something else, but the actual image itself is closer to the thing than anything else is. And so, like, if you're thinking, for example, I am an embodiment of peace, that's a word. But if you can imagine your yourself as this person, as a soul, but then there's also the person who actually is an embodiment of peace, that's much more powerful than just the word.
• 19:21
  Speaker B: Absolutely. Absolutely. You know one thing, right? Where are we getting this talk, right? Most of it is inherited. Most of it is inherited, but also a lot of voices in our life these days, right? Every time we scroll, every time we open an app, there is a voice getting into your head. And most of these, right? Most of the apps, most of everything is constantly telling you you're not enough, right? You need some lack. There's a lack going on, right? You need this to make yourself feel better. You need this vacation. You need this gadget. You need to have this much money. You need this, right? It's constantly telling you these things because they have something to sell, right? That's how they are making their money. They have something to sell, but you don't have to buy into it, right? We shouldn't just blame them for thinking, oh, they have something to sell. And they're, you know, there's all this nonsense going on in the world and people are so greedy, but they're hooking onto something in you, right? If there's nothing in you, they wouldn't hook onto it. And so you have to see what the hook is inside you and not buy it and really reprogram yourself because every time you ingest any kind of media, it's programming you a certain way. It's programming you a certain way, and you have to reprogram yourself because the program is always lack, right? Look at their life compared to my life. Look, look at how much money they have compared to me. Look how good they're doing compared to me. You know, there's all of this stuff going. Always this comparison, always this comparison going on.
• 21:23
  Speaker A: Yeah. No wonder everyone's. Most people are anxious and depressed, you know, because there's always something wrong, something missing, something you haven't got. There's always another product. You know, a friend of mine was telling me that she, she wants more hair products. She's. She's got enough hair products. She wants more hair products. And like, well, because there's never enough, is there? There's never Enough, there's never enough of. I mean, potentially there's never enough of anything, is there? You know, there's always more of absolutely everything. I mean, where does it end? Where does it end? So sooner or later we're going to have to upgrade our self image and our perception. And another thing that can help with this is to, instead of saying, for example, I am a powerful soul, because that can. The problem with this is that it can cause friction, right? Because if your current self image is I'm not good enough, I'm not good enough, I'm not good enough stuff, right? And that's what you've been thinking for 50 years or whatever it is, or 30 years or 20 years, and then you start saying, I'm a powerful soul, I'm a powerful soul, I'm a powerful soul. There's immediately friction there because you're basically saying something that's complete opposite what you were saying previously, right? And there's a fight going on there. So you can overcome that in two ways. One is you can say, what if I was a powerful soul? Or how would it feel if I was a powerful soul? Because it's not, it's taking it from a different angle that goes to the same place, that doesn't have that resistance. If I was an eternal being, how would I feel? Right? It's a curious type of approach. Rather than hammering it in. I mean, it still can work the other way, but sometimes there's such resistance that it's just not going to work very well. And even thinking you don't even need the word I am, actually you can use the word I am. It's good to use it. But just if you think, for example, if you think infinite joy. Infinite joy, Infinite joy, you'll start to feel infinite joy. Without the word I am. You don't actually have to say the word I am because it's just an experience. The soul is experiencing everything. These are all just words, right? If you end up thinking something and feeling and imagining it, you come into it in the same way that you can watch a movie and you can be terrified and you can be excited and depressed. Even though it's. You're not thinking I am anything. You're just watching something and having an experience. So. So it's not about any particular words themselves. It's coming into the feeling over and over and over again until it gets reprogrammed.
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  Speaker B: If you don't have the feeling, start with the words.
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  Speaker A: Just start anyway.
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  Speaker B: Start anyway. Start somewhere. Start somewhere. Just start, right? Just start because we. What you say to yourself, right? Okay, so most of the time, most of the talk that's going on is actually installed by someone. So remember, you're constantly installing yourself. It's installed by someone. So let's say you're six years old and your dad said, oh, you're no good, right? And then kept repeating, you're no good, you're no good, no good. What's going on to happen? That's the belief that is going on inside, right? That's the belief that's going on inside. I'm no good, I'm no good, I'm no good. But I can change my belief. And remember, the person who said it is not in the room with you right now. So they can't dictate what you're thinking about yourself. Right? We need to shine a light on these things and bring these out into the open so we know, know, oh, this is what I'm thinking about myself. And this is some random person gave it to me. I don't need or like, you know, some school teacher somewhere or someone, you know in the playground somewhere. And all of these beliefs about myself are going on, right? I need to cleanse. I need to cleanse and just really reinstall self respect. I am love, I am peace. And it can be a good thing, like, oh, I'm appreciative, I'm grateful. It can be simple things like that also, or I have courage. I have courage. I'm a courageous person. Right? Because if I change my belief, my behavior will change. Yeah, because we think behavior comes because of belief, but no behavior, behavior. I'm sorry. Beliefs come because of behavior, but actually it's the other way around. When my belief changes, my behavior changes.
• 26:30
  Speaker A: Yeah. If you think I can't do something, then you're not going to do it, even if you can do it. I mean, it's just as simple as that. Like if I think, for example, I can't fix something unless there's something broken, I'm not going to do anything, am I? I'll just, I'd say, well, there's nothing can't be, nothing can be done about it, so what's the point? So the belief always causes the, the action or lack of action, you know, And I think that's a, a big, big issue is if you don't believe something, then everything else is finished because.
• 27:08
  Speaker B: Right.
• 27:08
  Speaker A: Nothing's going to happen. So do you believe you can become enlightened and liberated? That's the big question, right?
• 27:18
  Speaker B: Some version of this research Happened, I think. But there's this, or I don't know if someone was giving it as an example, but let's say you give money to someone and you ask them, are you a kind person? And the person says, no, I'm not a kind person. Right? And you give them money and say, I want you to go use this money to help people, right? This is the money I'm giving you. And it's only to use to help people. So they go use the money to help people. And then after a little bit of doing this behavior of helping people, now it's not their money, they just used it to help people. It's not. Not their money. So after a while you ask them, what do you. Are you a kind person? And they say yes, because their whole belief about themselves changed because of one little behavior that someone else paid for.
• 28:19
  Speaker A: Well, you've just said belief create action causes belief. Then in that case, I mean, so it can work both ways then can't.
• 28:30
  Speaker B: Can work both ways. It can work both ways. But what happens is most of the time belief has to adjust to behavior. But what happens is we don't like cognitive dissonance, right? We don't like the difference between my actions and what I'm saying or what I'm thinking about myself. And so depending on what's going on, eventually they have to match.
• 28:57
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 28:58
  Speaker B: And so if I change the beliefs, sooner or later they have to match. So if I change the yes. So I have now I have choices. Now I have choices in my beliefs and I keep changing that and I keep installing. Remember this, you're reinstalling yourself. You're installing yourself constantly, installing yourself constantly. When you're installing yourself enough, then the, then they start matching, right? Because one of the things is not only this right now, the behavior and the belief is matching, but also you are constantly gathering evidence about yourself. Constantly gathering evidence about yourself. So it's not like what you did two days ago, right? What you did in this moment actually helps matters because then you're gathering evidence about yourself in this moment. And then so let's say the evidence about your two days ago, whatever you did doesn't matter. This is great for self forgiveness. Doesn't matter. It matters that you don't repeat it. But anyway, it doesn't really matter because now if you say, no, I'm a kind person, I say good things to people, I send good wishes to people. This is who I am. This is what's going on. All of these things, right? Then slowly you reinstalling you're installing yourself differently because you're constructing a different self. Because we are not fixed, right? Things about us, our personality, they're not fixed. That's what we think. Oh, they'll never change. But that's not true. We will change.
• 30:48
  Speaker A: Yeah, everyone's going to, everyone's changing anyway, even if they don't mean to. But. Right, we can. Yeah, it's. I think it's, that's a wonderful thing to realize that you're literally recreating your sense of self in, on a moment to moment basis based. Based on what you think and also what you do. Because for example, if somebody starts to drink tea, right, like here's a cup of tea, they might not be a tea drinker in their mind, but if someone keeps giving them tea and they keep drinking tea, then sooner or later they'll think of themselves as a tea drinker, you know, and because the cognitive dissonance can't hold up after a while, you know, it's like. So we have to. Basically the principle behind this is consistency. We, we have a desire to be consistent with who we are. Which is why often in the media, a politician or anyone who changes their views gets, gets attacked most of the time, right. It could be that they change their views because they found new information and turned out their previous views were wrong, right. But they'll still get attacked because people. That's a very strong thing that I have to be concerned consistent with, with who I am over, like, over long periods of time. But actually that's a bit of a problem because what happens if we come across the fact that we're wrong about loads of things, chances are we're wrong about nearly everything. And so to be holding on to the idea that I'm always right and I'm not going to change and my opinion is the best is a bit toxic really. Unless we happen to always be right, like I am, of course. But I mean, but you know, most of the time we're not, we're not right all the time, right? We need to. Except for Michael, someone's got to be right all the time. But we need to make some upgrades and, and they can be done at, at any moment. So let's.
• 32:48
  Speaker B: Right every moment.
• 32:49
  Speaker A: Yeah, let's jump into. Exactly. If someone wants to reprogram themselves, right. Exactly what they should they be doing?
• 32:59
  Speaker B: I'm a soul first, right. People think that's not important, that that's really important. I'm a soul. Because the labels of the body are very limiting, Very limiting. I'm a soul. I'm a spiritual being. My original nature is being peace. I. Whatever quality I need, I have within me. I have a eternal connection with the Supreme Soul. The supreme soul loves me, loves me more than anyone else in the world. And I need to feel that love. I need to feel good wishes for myself. I need to feel good wishes for everyone. Just, you know, don't hold anything inside. How about you, Michael?
• 34:00
  Speaker A: I think that the first, first thing is to. I mean, I agree with everything you said, first of all. And it's useful just to sit down and notice what we're thinking. What are our beliefs? You know, I've spent a long time doing this. Like, what is going on? What are the stories I'm telling myself? It's useful to know what exactly we're working with because there's often a lot of bizarre stuff going on. If we can even sit down and just write it down. You can sit down 10, 15 minutes. What am I thinking about all this, this, this, this, this, this, this. But what I've personally found is that some of these beliefs, they're so continuous and there's so many thoughts around it that to see an alternative, it immediately gets suppressed in the mind. I'll give a practical example. I am still struggling with sending emails out after all these years. I mean, it's just ridiculous. This is something I talked about in a previous podcast. Like, I've got all this mailing list and I'm got thousands of emails.
• 35:12
  Speaker B: What is behind it?
• 35:15
  Speaker A: The thing is, I think the reason the belief is, I'll just tell you, is that I think I can't send out a message until I have this thing to send people to. All right? And I can't do that. It seems fair, which is reasonable. And I can't do that thing until I've got this thing over here done, right? So I need to get this. This thing. There's a bunch of work has to be done before I can create that thing. And once that thing's created, then I can send a message, which is kind of logical. And that's what I've been telling myself. So I haven't been sending any messages, right? But truth is, I have tons of things that I could send people able to. And I could just send a message to say, I love everybody and I hope you're doing great. I mean, it doesn't, you know, I mean, it doesn't. I'm saying this out loud on this podcast, but, like, this is. I'm just. This is the sort of beliefs unless Unless I like reveal this. Like when I speak to my project manager and other people, I'm like, oh, I see what's going on. But it's when it's in my head, it just goes round around and it just kind of gets put in a box of. That's just how things are. And I don't think about, I'm not really analyzing and looking at it. So it's quite useful to talk to someone else about it, to say it out loud to me, write it down, to speak it out loud, to kind of see it. Because otherwise we don't know what's going on. And if someone's thinking I'm no good, I'm no good, no one likes me, no one likes me, no one likes me or I'm better than everyone else or whatever it is, or there's either normally it's yeah, I'm the best in the world or I'm not good enough, it's a problem. Right, so we need to know what's going on and then we need to upgrade our inner self image and the thoughts again and again and again and again and again. That's why we have that clicker thing or mala beads or whatever. You need to use the, the tally counter, I think it's called tally counter to, to just put in the doubt. I mean, I think honestly we need at least a thousand powerful thoughts a day. I mean, let's be honest, just one, one powerful thought at a time, at least a thousand times a day is, is. I mean if you can't do that, then start with 1 or start with 108. But it needs to be brought forth. And it's not just the thoughts, it's also the image. Now you can close your eyes and you can imagine who, who am I at my high. Who. What is my higher self? What do I, how do I feel as a spiritual being but also embodied in the world? What does that feel like? What does that look like? What would I be doing differently? Because if we, the belief is comes down to our sense of who we are in our mind, not just words. So if we can see a vision of ourselves in a more expanded state, then that becomes the belief and then we act based on the self image and people treat us differently based on our self image. So if you see yourself as someone who's loving and caring in your mind, in your self image, people will treat you differently even though nothing else changed, you know. So like I'll give a just final example. I went for a walk yesterday at the Beautiful Place up here called West Fork. And when I'm going on these walks, sometimes I'm like, I want to be on my own. I'm going out to get away from everything. I don't want to see any people on the trail. Right. I just want to be in nature. That's. That's a belief that people are a problem, and I'd rather they aren't there. Right. But then I have. Then I think, no, no, that's not very useful. I. Everyone I meet is a spiritual being, and they're part of my family, and they're very special, and this might be the only time I get to see them. Right. That's kind of. That's. So I change my thinking. And I've noticed that whenever I'm in that sort of awareness, everyone I meet smiles at me. But when I don't have that awareness, then it's not the same vibe, even though nothing else is different because I'm just walking around. So that's a belief, and it affects the world, even though it's all very subtle. So this is a big topic. And now you know how to reprogram yourself. You just need to be having at least a thousand thoughts every day for the rest of your life. Any final thoughts, Shireen?
• 39:54
  Speaker B: No. You're thinking anyway. You might as well think nice things about yourself.
• 39:57
  Speaker A: Exactly. And speak nicely like anyone not thinking. The. The tone of voice make. Make the way you speak to yourself the tone that you use to be loving and kind, not just the. The words. So there's the image, there's the tone, and there's the words. And why not recreate yourself in anew millions, thousands of times a day, One day, one moment at a time? Yay.
• 40:26
  Speaker B: Blessing.
• 40:27
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 40:29
  Speaker B: This is the 108th blessing.
• 40:32
  Speaker A: That's great.
• 40:33
  Speaker B: And this is God's blessing for you. Worthiness. You embrace a humble attitude and serve others from your heart, understanding that shortcuts will only lead you astray. You embrace diligence and cooperation. You, the soul, realize that blessings come to those who give of themselves.
• 41:00
  Speaker A: Yay. Thank you.
• 41:02
  Speaker B: Yay.
• 41:03
  Speaker A: Blessings. Blessings. Blessings. So maybe everyone see your higher self and remain stable in that awareness, because that's the truth, ultimately, even if we don't believe it. Yay.
• 41:19
  Speaker B: Om Shanti.
• 41:20
  Speaker A: Om Shanti.