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52: "It’s All Mental" - How to Harness The Incredible Power of Your Mindset · The Oreaganic Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello my friends and welcome back to the organic podcast.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is gonna be a bite-sized little blast of motivation for you because I have been feeling fucking fired up today.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I feel like I can run through a wall, and a lot of it is centered around mindset improvement and kind of just putting intention behind your thoughts, your words, the stories you tell yourself, and the importance of just like making a decision to change your life, change yourself concepts, like believe in yourself more, put yourself in the shoes of the future version of yourself who you want to be, the version of you that has the life that you want to live and start acting like that version of you.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I'm feeling freaking like fired, fired up, and my goal is to share this energy with you guys today.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: So let's get into it.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Organic Podcast.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Reagan, mechanical engineer, lifelong athlete, and recovered overachiever here to empower you to pursue your highest potential and live freely as your happiest, most organic self.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Every week we'll dive into topics ranging from personal growth, mindset hacks, psychology, and a blend of science and spirituality to give you all the tools you need to stop living on autopilot and start creating a life of freedom, meaning, and fulfillment in your most organic self.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you're ready to become ready to be yourself, there are some things that I do, or phrases that I say that I have always said or done, and sometimes they kind of make me feel weird.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like it makes me feel a bit not like insecure, but just like kind of worried of like how people will judge me, or like, am I being like too quirky?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Am I being too weird?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, am I being a freakazoid?
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Am I being too much?
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: I have these thoughts, but one phrase in particular that I always say when I'm going through something struggling like mentally, when I'm going through a challenge, a mental, physical, emotional challenge, is I will tell myself, it is all mental.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: It is all mental.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: And it goes back to literally like high school soccer conditioning, like preseason conditioning, because it was like quite intense for what we did.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that other athletes can relate, like preseason conditioning, especially in like the heat of summer and like the start of fall.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it can be rough, it can be rough.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I built a very strong mindset in these formative years of high school, which sounds funny to me because I'm like, it was just high school, but it really did shape like my entire concept of self when it comes to going through challenges, particularly physical exertion, like the conditioning.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: And the phrase that I will always say, always, always, always, is it's literally all mental.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: If I am tired during a sprint, if I am fucking gassed hiking up the last mile of Mount Washington on the Tuckerman's Ravine Trail, as I was this past weekend, there these are the times where I lean on the mindset that I formed when like during during this time of my life, where any time that things felt really hard or I didn't want to keep going, but I knew that I could and wanted to push myself, I would literally just say it's all mental.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: And I know this can sound cliche and kind of general and a little bit boring, but when you zoom in, or maybe zoom out to the greater meaning behind this phrase, you will understand that it applies to literally everything in life.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like our entire reality, what we believe is possible for us, like how much we push ourselves, the kind of goals that we set for ourselves, that is entirely shaped by your mind.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And when we use the example of physical exertion, like preseason soccer conditioning, you can say that it's easy to just be like, oh my god, yeah, it's all mental, but like I'm still fucking exhausted.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: But in reality, you might feel like you're completely gassed, like you can't do anymore, but your body can handle like so much more physical exertion than what you think.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: You like your body, it is physical capability will usually not be the thing that's actually stopping you.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: What stops you when you're doing a really hard workout and you feel so just like, oh my god, I can't keep going anymore.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's not actually like your body is completely 100% exerted, tapped out, like you are have absolutely no energy left.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: It starts with a mental block first.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like your mind gets tired a lot earlier than your body because you start feeling discomfort, you start feeling pain, you start feeling really winded.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: And your mind immediately goes, Oh my god, this is uncomfortable, I don't want to do this, this is boring, this is hard, this is challenging, get me out of here.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: And your mind will be the first thing to sound the alarms of like hold up, fuck off, like please stop.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: But in reality, if you in a in an extreme circumstance, if you are being freaking chased by a bear, if you were escaping from some situation, your body can go so much harder than what you give it credit for.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not saying go exert yourself until you freaking pass out here.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like, obviously, it's important to note the limits of your body, especially in like physical circumstances.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: But point being, is your mind is so incredibly powerful at shaping the experience that you have in your life.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, when you're physically exerting yourself, when you're working out, but also with literally every other part of your life, and it's so critical to remember that, it is so deeply critical for everyone to actually really seriously understand just how powerful your mind is.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Your mindset is literally everything.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I know there are thousands of people online who talk about mindset work and mindset coaching and subconscious reprogramming and all the things, and this can sound like a very big buzzword, but it literally creates your entire experience of life.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: What you believe is possible for you, the amount of happiness that you feel comfortable holding, like so much of it starts with your mind.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: And your mind and your body on like a somatic level are very connected here.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like the experiences that you have stored in your body, like trauma stored in your body on a somatic level, like 100% influences your experience of life as well.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not saying that mindset work is completely 100% like the key to absolutely fixing every single internal wound or block that you have in your entire life.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say that making a positive change, changing your life, like changing your self-concept and actually being bold about what you want for yourself and making new choices starts with a decision and it starts with your mindset.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like your mindset should be the first place that you are starting when you are trying to enact some kind of change in your life.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: I really don't think we give enough credit to just how powerful it can be to literally just make a decision.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: Make a decision about who you are, your identity, and who you want to show up as.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: And once you make that decision, once you really commit to it and you actually say, like, yeah, I'm gonna be a millionaire, yeah, I'm a runner, I'm an athlete, like insert whatever thing you want to be or have.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: When you actually make that decision and you claim it and you say it out loud and you speak it and you intentionally create your thoughts or put energy into the thoughts that support that belief, your life will begin to change.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Your life will begin to change.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: And why I feel so fired up today, I I've listened to um I love this podcast, but I've listened, I've talked about her before.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Sam Daly's podcast, Makeshift Happen.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was listening to her episode about the Shelby Sapp event that she went to, the Women in Wealth Conference.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, you know, naturally motivating, pretty expansive to think about, just like in greater levels of wealth, of impact, of actually changing your identity and shifting your self-concept and who you believe yourself to be.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: But it just it just fired up something inside of me, it reminded me of all these things that I know on an objective level are important.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know how much your mindset influences your life, I know how your subconscious programming basically codes the entire experience of reality that you have because your subconscious mind is what programs your brain to be filtering out information from everything that you process in a day just to match the beliefs and thoughts that you have and like what you believe about yourself and the world.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: So it's called your reticular activating system.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: I've also talked about it on the podcast before.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Basically, it's the idea where it's like if I told you to look around your room right now and I said, look for something that's red.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: And you looked around, and you saw a couple things that were red, and you know, maybe you saw something that was a dark brown, but you're like close enough that's kind of red.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then I ask you, okay, so what things in your room are blue?
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: You probably can't really name as many things because you are actively looking for the red.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, so you will even like make things that aren't exactly red fit in with the goal that you have, so like be filtering out and seeking things that are red or I guess red adjacent, and you will completely miss the things that are blue.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: The comparison here is the fact that your brain does the exact same thing for your entire life, your experiences with everyone and everything around you, except it is filtering in what it believes to be important.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: And what your brain thinks is important is what is familiar, comfortable, safe, and repeated.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are constantly telling yourself, I can't do that, I'm not an athlete, I'm not capable of that, that's too much.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: Rich people suck.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I there's no way I can have that abundant of a lifestyle, there's no way I can have that much peace.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that feels weird, that feels uncomfortable, that's possible for other people, but not for me.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: When you have these like kind of freaking like I don't want to say shitty, but like kind of shitty beliefs about yourself and your life.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: Your brain is going to say, Okay, great, that's what we believe, that's what we find important.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna filter in everything that I see and experience out of the bajillions of freaking gigabytes of information that our brain is processing like every day.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: I am only going to filter in those beliefs, and I'm going to find evidence for what I believe.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: So we see how important this is, because your brain in this filtering process, again, is shaping your experience of reality because it is what you are focusing on.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_00: And what you are focusing on, you are putting more energy towards.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: And when you're putting more and more energy towards thoughts, beliefs, patterns, and experiences that don't serve you, and you're actively subconsciously looking for evidence to support the mindset that you carry when it is something that does not serve you, it can be extremely detrimental and a very big challenge when you're someone who is also trying to improve your self-concept, like improve your identity, not improve, but change your identity, shift it to one that's more abundant, wealthy, freedom-oriented, purposeful, fulfilled, expressed, like all the good things.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: This mindset block is like the first big step because your mindset and your identity are so intertwined.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like they work together, your thoughts, your beliefs, they shape the belief the beliefs that you have about yourself and others, which shape your personality, which shape your decisions, and all this is just like a feedback for loop basically for your identity.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: But your identity and mindset are so interconnected, and that is something that is incredibly powerful because that means that you can literally shift how you show up and the version of yourself that you are being, the life that you are experiencing, like what you see as possible for you just by shifting your thoughts.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Literally shifting your thoughts.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: And if you feel like you don't actually have that much control over your brain or your mindset, or you feel a little hopeless, let me remind you, as I said before, your brain will put limits and blockers on you far before you have actually reached your fullest potential and capacity to break through like whatever fake ceiling that your mindset is putting on you.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, with the physical exertion, like technically, yes, your body can probably do like you could handle probably a lot more than you think.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: It is just your mind that talks you out of it.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like safely, your body can probably handle more than you think it can.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: But our minds are the first thing to be that weakest link to just be like, no, no, no, we have to stop.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is too much.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's the exact same thing with mindset when you're changing your thoughts.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you believe that it's hard to change your thoughts, it's hard to change your mind, and you consistently find evidence for that, and you feel like you are blocked.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: This just means that you have not broken through the ceiling of what you believe you are capable of.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I promise you, like you have so much more control and power over your own mindset and identity than you believe.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: And changing your thoughts is something changing your thoughts and your mindset, I should say, is not something that happens overnight by any means whatsoever.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: It happens in small, daily, mundane, repeated moments, and it starts with just actually putting conscious awareness into what thoughts are on repeat in your head.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if you this is such a good practice, especially for understanding your subconscious mind more.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: If you even you could look them up, I'm sure.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'll read out a few, but if you prime yourself to say, like, I don't know, an example, I believe like all men are blank.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: What's the first thing that comes to mind?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Or I don't know, life is blank.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: Insert whatever it may be, like these prompts where you kind of prime yourself to come up with like the first thought that you have are a great way to reflect back to yourself where your subconscious stands with different areas of your life, like the the men one, for example, that's a great example for relationships and how you see your relationships with other men.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you're saying m all men are blank, like if you say shitty, selfish, cruel, whatever, like not cruel, but you know what I mean?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you have like a bad word in there, then that's a clear sign telling you, like, hey, your subconscious has some kind of programming that's telling you that like all men are this.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do you actually want to keep believing that?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, is that absolute fact?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is that truth, or is that something that's just shaped by your experiences of life that may or may not be serving you?
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: And you can apply this same practice to so many different beliefs.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: And this is honestly something that I look forward to doing within the next couple days in my journal.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because, in case you did not know, for my astrology queens and kings out there, we are in the period of the Lionscape Portal, which is an astrological event that happens every year, and it's essentially related to Sirius aligning to the sun and our planet, and also we're in the sign of Leo.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like the sun is in Leo right now, which is a very like bold, expressive go for your dreams kind of energy sign.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: And Sirius as a planet is thought to be an amplifier of like this positive manifestation kind of energy where it's like anything is possible for you.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just a very abundant time to manifest per se.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: And before I won't maybe I'll make an entire separate episode about like manifestation, because I feel like people hear the word manifestation and they immediately are like, oh my god, like hissing, thinking that it means the devil, and it means that you just magically expect things to happen for you, and you are all powerful and you are God, and blah blah blah.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like all of these things that I'm just like, that is not manifestation at all.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you have no idea what you were talking about, respectfully.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you have actually no clue.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, there are people who can go a little, you know, off the rocker with like very woo-woo, airy-fairy kind of stuff, but I'm not one of those people.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: If anything, the the woo-woo shit that I believe in is actually like extremely fascinating to me because there is a level of very deep divine like intelligence and intellect behind it.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: And astrology is one of those things.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyways, the point is that we're in a very abundant time to be kind of reflecting on your self-concept and making new decisions about like, okay, who do you actually want to be?
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are your current beliefs about different areas of your life?
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: And do you want those beliefs to stay?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like, do those beliefs actually support the version of yourself, the version of your life that you want to have?
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Because if they don't, then guess what?
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: You do not have to carry them forever.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: You can literally write two separate pages, like you could even write a line down the middle in a journal of my current beliefs are, and then kind of just sort through like how you see the world, how you see yourself, what you believe is possible for you.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then after taking kind of an inventory of that, and more so being the observer of your mind rather than the person who's being ruled by it, you can actually start to like shift your mindset and shift the pathways in your brain to understand and see that, like, oh, this actually isn't complete 100% truth.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, this doesn't have to be my reality.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: I actually have the ability to change that, and you can write the beliefs that you actually want to have and the beliefs that your future self is probably thinking or carrying that can then overwrite the old code in your brains of your current beliefs.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like you it is so it it sounds, you know, there's a lot of work to it, and it does sound simple, but as the famous Michael Smoke, higher up wellness says, it isn't easy, but it is simple.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Don't overcomplicate it.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: And this exact principle can be applied to the mindset work because yes, it sounds uh simple and it is not easy, but it is something that like it just takes a decision.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: It just takes being able to step out from being the complete subject of your thoughts to being the observer of them.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: And it it just takes you realizing that like every thought that you have, the current circumstances that you're experiencing, like the life that you currently have, it is not permanent, it does not have to be permanent, and you can change them.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: You have the ability to change so much of your life, like just through even just simple, basic understanding of mindset work.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: But like you can't you have so much more power and control over your life than you give yourself credit for.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I promise you, the more that you learn about mindset, the more that you actually take time to be introspective and reflective and curious about the thoughts that you currently carry, and you put intention behind, actually saying, Okay, do I want to keep these thoughts?
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Do I want to keep thinking this way, or do I want to think a different way?
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Once you just make that decision, you you have that clear distinction, bro.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: The world is your freaking oyster.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: The next step is simply just remembering, like reminding yourself of those beliefs that you want to carry.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: And every time you catch yourself having one of those old beliefs, you're gonna decide that this set of beliefs that I currently have, they're old.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: They're old news, I don't want them anymore.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: And when they come up, you are going to consistently over time tell yourself, like, oh, okay, so this is not complete truth.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: This is not how I want to believe anymore.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I choose to believe, insert new thought, and you just keep doing that to yourself over and over and over and over and over and over and over again until one day you wake up and suddenly these things that you told yourself, these beliefs that you wanted to carry of your future best, better version of yourself, are just fact.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're just fact.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: It this is it's why I'm so fired up because it's like so many people just live in this prison of their mind where they think that they are the victim and they cannot change their circumstances, and that's just how the world is.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: But in reality, that's literally just a thought.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: It is literally just a repeated thought, and it is not fact.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: The only thing that is factual is the fact that your thoughts are not facts.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds so backwards, but your thoughts are not factual when it comes to self-concept a lot of the time.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like believing that something is completely unchanging about you is usually not 100% true, and especially not about your circumstances.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you believe that your life is shit, you can't do anything about it, and you're gonna be miserable forever, guess what?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly what your experience of life is going to be reflected back to you as.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: So all it takes is for you to start with changing your mind.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, everything is mental.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Everything is mental.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's conditioning, whether it's improving your life, improving your habits, improving how you respond to things, literally everything starts in your mind.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I encourage you to explore it more.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, friends, that's all I've got to say on mindset for now.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: I just lost every single person who was listening.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I will say for you, you guys, it's a special treat listening to the last couple minutes of this episode that one other thing, you know how I said in the beginning how I feel weird about certain phrases sometimes?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Other things that I will tell myself, particularly when I'm going through like a really hard hike or in the middle of like a conditioning workout that I'm doing, whatever it may be.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: I will literally tell myself, like, I am a Navy SEAL.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: I am a Navy SEAL.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: I am a Navy SEAL.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: I am a Navy SEAL.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I will get myself into this mindset where I'm like, yeah, I'm fucking I'm locked the fuck in.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's literally nothing that can stop me, and my body is so much more capable of what like then what I'm giving it credit for, and I can do this.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I pulled that out a few times on uh Mount Washington this past weekend.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: Also pulled out the uh alien galathenius, you do not yield, and Nesta Archeron of uh Never Again.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: So shout out to uh my Akatara Throne of Glass fans because that also came in clutch, you know, you do not yield.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: But I just I don't know, guys, maybe I'm weird, but try it.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Try it out next time you're doing a workout.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: If you're feeling like shit, if you're feeling like you can't get through it, just remember there are people, there are Navy SEALs out there who put themselves and their body through so much more than like we think that we could ever possibly handle.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And they're real and they exist, and most of it is mental.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, you know, physical too, but a lot of it is mental.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: So if you need a little pick me up, a little boost, just tell yourself I am a navy SEAL, and this is all mental.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you guys enjoyed listening to this episode.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for spending time with me in your beautiful ears.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: Ew, that sounded weird, but thank you for spending time here with me today.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Go be your most organic selves, and I will see you in the next one.