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- Alexa Pena: What if I told you that one of the greatest skills that you could ever develop has nothing to do with how confident you are, how hard you work, how much money you have. But what if it had everything to do with discernment? You know, every single one of us has a voice in our head, right? Whether it's a voice of fear, whether it's a voice that is talking about your past, how you didn't do this good enough, how you actually dropped the ball on this other thing. Sometimes it's our past, sometimes it's our ego trying to protect us, other times it's our culture, the way that we were raised, what roles we should play, what roles we shouldn't play. And what if in the midst of all of that chaos, there is a stillness that we could get to where we can actually listen to the voice of God. The voice that is actually worth following. Because it's not about whether we're hearing a voice, it's actually which voice are we actually paying attention to. And today I'm going to do my very best to help us bridge together scripture, psychology, neuroscience so that we can really understand like why does our brain even create fear in the first place? And how we can actually develop discernment instead of having anxiety over everything in our life. How our thoughts are legit shaping our reality. This is not. Something that you can actually call pseudoscience anymore. Like it has been proven that your thoughts actually create your reality. And how to recognize the difference between a protection actually coming from God and a limitation actually being created from fear. Now, here's the thing God has given us the power of a sound mind, not the spirit of fear. And this is something that has really been resonating with me. I've been listening to Pastor Mike. I have really been liking some of the teachings that he'd been sharing. If you don't know who he is, I highly recommend you go and look at his content. He has amazing content online. And even at my local church, we have been talking a lot about the soundtrack. Like, what is the soundtrack that you constantly have playing in the background of your head? And if you know me, you know that I believe that Jesus came to actually teach us how to manifest. That God sent Jesus to actually remind us that we're made in his image. And therefore, if God is a creator of everything that is, you and I have the power to manifest a life that fuels us, a life that feels exciting, a life that feels magnetic, a life that is of service. And this is what I want to really help those of you that are in a path of just becoming a better version of yourselves, understand that it's not that manifesting is bad. It's what are you worshiping when it comes to manifesting? You see, if I start manifesting or I should say, if I start praising or worshiping a stone or the moon or the sun, I'm not actually worshiping the creator of those things. Which it would be the equivalent to me giving my kids some brand new shoes and giving them a nice room and everything that they could ask for. And then all of a sudden they say, Yeah, this is what I did. It's kind of like, no, dude, it was because of me. That's the difference between new age thinking when people are trying to talk about manifesting from a place of I am the source. And there's a difference between God is the source, and through his source, through his wisdom, through his power, I get to manifest a life that is worthy. So the first thing is that not every thought we have is true. And on 2 Timothy 1 through 7, it says, For God has not given us the spirit of fear. But the power of love and of a sound mind. Okay? Now that is so important because that means that God has given us the power to actually have a sound mind, to have the ability to discern between what is for us and what is not for us. When we understand that, then we can understand that God did not give us the spirit of fear. That fear actually comes from this other side of us, and whether you want to call it, you know. evil forces, whether you want to call it, you know, your ego, whether you want to call it whatever you want to call it, there's a psychological explanation to it. Our minds produce thousands of thoughts every single day. Okay? We have over 50,000 thoughts a day, for those of you that didn't know. And many of these thoughts are actually automatic, right? Think about it. You get in the car, you think, okay, I need to put on my seat belt. I need to turn on the car, I need to turn on the air, I need to put my favorite song, or I need to put my favorite podcast, I need to make sure that I get to the place that I need to get to. All of these thoughts are just like boom, one after the other, one after the other. You don't even realize that you just had 50,000 thoughts in 24 hours. Why is that important? Because many of those thoughts go actually even deeper and they come from your childhood. They come from circumstances and experiences that you have lived through. And this is really why it gets so intriguing for me because the thoughts that you're having are actually the very thing that's shaping your reality. Because if you grew up with somebody saying, money is always hard to come by, you should not start the business because you're going to fail. I failed and therefore you shouldn't do it. Everything is always so hard. Life is always falling apart. Look at all the chaos happening in the world. Chances are you're not going to take all the chances that God has actually placed in your heart for you to take because you're just listening to the world. You're just listening to what everybody else is feeding you. Now, neuroscience actually teaches us about the amygdala. So this is a little puny little peanut inside of our brain. And what this does, it actually detects any threats, okay? And the main job of the amygdala is to keep us safe, okay? It's not to make us successful. It's not to help us strive and become a better version of ourselves. No, no, no. The amygdala is there to literally keep you alive. It's the thing that goes off when you're like too close to the edge of a place that you can fall from. And it tells you, you better stand back because we're gonna die. We're gonna fall. That is what the amygdala does. Now, the problem is that your brain often treats uncertainty as danger. Like that's mind blowing. That's one of the first things that really allowed me to start seeing, like, so that means that everything that I don't recognize, aka, everything that I have not done, is always going to be chopped up as fearful, as uncertain, as therefore I am going to die. Okay. And that is what your amygdala does. Why is that important? Well, because maybe you're looking to start a business. Maybe you're looking to start speaking publicly and putting your business out there or You wanna fall in love. You wanna take a career change. All of those activities, if you have not done them before, are going to signal to the brain, uh-uh, that is unfamiliar. That is the equivalent to your brain saying, Nope, we're not doing it. You could die. I don't know. I don't know what could happen. So you know what? We're just not gonna do it. And I am so like, I'm just gonna be super vulnerable with you guys. Like that's something that I'm actually going through right now. And when I look back at my life, the times where I've been bold enough to say, you know what, even though I don't know how things are going to play out, I'm going to do it. I'm going to put one step in front of the other and I'm going to figure it out. When I look back at those times, it has been one of the best rewards of my life. And as I'm in a new phase of my life right now where I'm having to make a big decision, where I'm having to have some discernment and understand, okay, God, are you Placing these thoughts of fear right now, or is this just the lower part of me, the ego, the protection mechanism in me, trying to keep me safe and trying to keep me with what I already know? And this is why it's so important because once we can understand that everything that's unknown is simply being chopped up in your brain as uncertain, as therefore we don't do it, you can start reprogramming the way that you see the world. So that you're more willing to take on the chances that are going to help you grow. Because if I last checked, anything that we did at one point, we once had to start by not knowing how to do it. Like if you have cooked, if you have cleaned, if you have drove your car, if you have started a new job, all of those things were things you didn't know how to do. And now if I asked you like, hey, was it the worst that you did? Like, was it hard? You're gonna look at like, No, you know, it was super hard at the beginning because I didn't know how to work or I didn't know how to drive, but now I do it and I'll be listening to music the whole time. Now there is a universal law that I want to put you on, which is the law of materialism. Everything begins in consciousness. The thoughts that you are constantly entertaining actually begin to shape your perception, your decisions, and ultimately your life. That means that Anything that is, anything that you can see right now comes from a thought. And I really encourage you to also read the book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Waddles. He talks so clearly about how becoming rich and it ties into this whole like having discernment is actually something that's like our God given gift. It's something that you should be able to create. And a lot of the times, the reason why you feel so fearful is because you're in survival. And when you have more abundance, like I remember there was a time where I was in so I was just like in survival all the time because I never had enough money saved up. And once I hit a point where I had more than 12 months saved in my savings account, my energy completely shifted because I was no longer in survival. I was no longer afraid of how am I going to pay the next bill. I just knew like I have, I'm good. I have more than 12 months saved. I have Three years and I could stop working if I wanted to. Now, will I? No, I will not. But it was a very different mindset shift. And that's what I feel that a lot of us, if we could just have more discernment over understanding that God wants you to have an abundant life. God wants you to live anything, live out anything that you desire. But again, it comes with discernment. Now I want you to ask yourself a reflection question. Is that thought actually trying to protect you? Or is that thought actually just preventing you from getting to the next level that you've been praying for? Now, discernment is very, very different from fear. Now, overall, not everyone is going to understand what the difference between discernment is, what is godly, what is something that's just your ego. But this is where your relationship with God is so important. There's certain doors that sometimes are opened. In order for you to actually understand, that's not a door I should go through. That's not a door that I should settle for. And I'm gonna give you a quick analogy. There's this video that came up some time ago where there's this girl eating pasta at a restaurant. And then there's this other girl, it's the same girl by the way, it's a little skit. There's this other girl that goes to the restaurant, she sees her eating pasta, and she's like, Wait, like I thought they only serve fish sticks here. And then the girl's like, No, like. They serve pasta. They have a universal magic menu. You can order whatever you want, girl. Then the girl's like, my God, like I would really like some pasta. Well, this goes on for like four minutes, and the girl that's eating the pasta says, Well, then if you don't want the fish sticks, send the fish sticks back and order your pasta. And at one point, the girl's about to get her pasta, and then the fish sticks come back up. Like it's like a little distorted, you know, image, and then the pasta goes away and the fish sticks are back in her plate. And she's like, man, maybe I'm just not meant to have pasta. Maybe just certain people can get pasta and I'm just not meant to have pasta. And the girl's like, Do you really want pasta? And she's like, Yes, I really want pasta. She's like, then send the fish sticks back. Wait patiently until you get your pasta. So she does this and at the end of the skit, she's so happy because she got her pasta. And if you didn't catch this by now, the pasta is your life. The pasta is the blessing that you're praying for. A lot of the times, universe, and I like to see it as like God created the universe, God created certain laws that operate in the universe, kind of like automations, right? Like imagine you're God, you're the creator of everything, you can make your life so much easier. And God just created certain automations inside of the universe, which some of those automations are like, okay, I want my children to be abundant. I want my children to have the free will to choose whatever they want. So, what we're going to do is that when they focus on what they want, they're going to get more of that. So, if they focus on all the abundance of life, they're going to get more abundance. When they focus on all the lack of life, well, they're gonna get more lack. And it's kind of like this little automation system, if you will, that's already part of the universe. That's the way I like to see it. So when I talk about the laws of the universe, it's the laws that God has ingrained in the universe. So when you are praying for a blessing and there's a door that opens. And it's not quite the door you wanted. You know it. You know that that's not the door you want it. It's a job that maybe is better than the one you have, but it's not the job you want it. Or it's a relationship that's okay, but it's not the relationship you wanted. It's a, you know, a job promotion that you're like, yeah, but I was actually about to just leave the job because I wanted something better. Those are the tests. Those are the fish sticks of your life. Those are literally acting as like, okay, well, are you gonna settle? Are you gonna settle for the fish sticks? Or are you gonna send them back and go back and actually get your pasta? And I think this is something so powerful because not every no is actually fear. Sometimes we need to have wisdom and say, I need to wait for the very thing that I actually want. Fear sometimes creates more paralysis. This is why they say paralysis analysis. Discernment. Actually, it creates more clarity. Fear is where you're feeling more confused, more overwhelmed. Discernment is actually moving you closer to your purpose. Fear is always gonna keep you trapped in comfort. And that is something that I've noticed in my own life. Whenever I feel too comfortable, I'm like, it's time to grow. It's time to grow because if we're not growing, Tony Robbins says this, we are dying. And I'm pretty sure Jim Rohn says that too, because Jim Rohn, you know, coached Tony Robbins. So if you want to throw back, that is something that has been said by some of the most elite people that have shared their wisdom with us. And they're telling us, hey, like if you're not growing, at one point in life, you're gonna feel like you're dying. And I've seen it. I've seen it with my own family members, I've seen it with my own life. Whenever I'm not growing, whenever I don't feel like I'm actually focused on something that's making me better, I very quickly feel my energy drop. Now, let's tie this into scripture. In Proverbs 3 5, it says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lead not in your own understanding. So discernment is actually not about ignoring your mind, it's about allowing your mind to be guided by wisdom rather than ruled by fear. And this is really where healthy intuition often feels more so grounded, even when it's challenging you. Fear tends to be Catastroph catastrophized. It ends up feeling like you're being so catastrophic about everything and you feel uncertain and you don't want to take action. However, learning to distinguish these two principles is actually the very thing that's going to allow us to keep stepping into the highest version of who you can become. Now, the last thing I want to leave you with is the story you believe is actually what becomes your truth. So there's a scripture verse that you've probably heard of, which says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. So when you understand that, identity isn't formed by one event, it's formed by repeated stories. I will always fail, I am not lovable, I am bad with money, things always happen to me, everybody always leaves. Those stories actually become self fulfilling stories. Prophecies, aka things that you're literally creating. And this is really where I have mentioned this before. Neuroscience teaches us that neurons that fire together wire together. What does that mean, Alexa? What you're constantly telling yourself is what you're going to believe. If you're constantly telling yourself that you're unlovable, you're going to emit more signals that are going to make you actually be more unlovable with other people because you already don't love yourself. When you feel that you're bad with money, you're already going to sabotage yourself because of course you're gonna say, Well, I'm not good with money, so I should just go and drink this weekend and have lots of fun and get myself in more debt. Because what's the point? This is really where you can start understanding that you have the power to create more discernment in your life. God is always talking to us. It's just about whether or not we're actually willing to sit still enough to listen. And we need to be okay with becoming. Observing observant of our mind. A lot of the times we believe that God is just going to pave the way and make everything super simple and that everything's going to work out and you're not going to go through any struggles if you're following the word of God or you're following your highest intuition, like Bashar likes to say, which is like follow the thing that makes you feel the most enlightened and the most happy. Sometimes me going to the gym does not make me feel like that in that moment. Like the thing that makes me feel the most happy all the times, which is like the equivalent to having instant gratification, right? That's actually not always the best thing. Like I really, really, really like I think that what would really make me feel happy is if I never worked out again and my body just looked the best and that I just felt super happy and that you know I could eat ice cream all the time and never gain weight. I think that would make me feel really happy. Is that the healthiest for me? No, right? So that's also something that I think is super important for us to understand so that you're also conscious of the fact that God is literally giving you a blueprint for you to follow and for you to create anything you want in your life. But it's up to you. So this week, I just want you to ask yourself these next questions. What is the story of fear that I am constantly telling myself? Number two, is it okay? Based on evidence or is it actually based on an assumption, a story that I'm telling myself? Does this align with the character that God has given me? Or is it simply a lie? The next one is is this fear trying to protect me, or is it actually protecting my old identity? And the last one, if I fully trusted God in this moment, what would my next step be? My goal in this conversation wasn't to just like eliminate fear because I think it's a really human thing, right? The goal is really to just stop letting fear rule your life. When you develop more discernment, when you begin to recognize the same thoughts that you're having that are coming from your past, the same things that are hijacking your nervous system, the things that you keep telling yourself to keep you safe. This is where you really understand that you're creating a new identity. Because now you're actually becoming the vibration of the identity that you want to hold. I've come to believe that one of the greatest gifts that God has given us is that we have the ability to discern between what is truthful and what is fear. And we can see it. We can see it in n neuroscience. We can see it in neuroplasticity. We can see it in quantum physics. We can see that God has given us the power to create the life of our dreams. If we just allow for those thoughts to be rewired, renewed, and restored. So with that, thank you so much for hanging out with me today. I hope that if this conversation helped even one of you, I feel that I have served God in the way that I feel God has put me on this planet to serve, and I'm happy with that. So Thank you again for hanging out with me. If there's anything else that you feel we should talk about on our next conversation, feel free to send me a DM on Instagram. And until then, if nobody has told you, just remember that you are loved, you are worthy, and you can absolutely manifest anything you want.