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Discipline Your Mind: Stay Focused and Achieve Your Goals · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: A victim consciousness is when we allow something in our
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  Speaker 1: outer environment to control the way we feel and think.
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  Speaker 1: Something in my outer environment, some person, or some condition
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  Speaker 1: is controlling the.
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  Speaker 2: Way I think and feel.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not the truth, that's just a response, right,
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  Speaker 1: So anything that controls our thoughts and feelings causes us
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  Speaker 1: to be victim to those things. And the stronger the
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  Speaker 1: emotion we feel to some circumstance in our life, the.
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  Speaker 2: More we pay attention to it. And where we place
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  Speaker 2: our attention is where we place our energy. So we're
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  Speaker 2: giving our life force, We're giving our.
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  Speaker 3: Power away to that circumstance.
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  Speaker 4: Weak people are a problem in general. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: mean physically weak, I mean cowardly. Let's say I'm deceitful
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  Speaker 4: because I'm thinking it more in terms of moral weakness.
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  Speaker 4: Don't make your pathway.
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  Speaker 5: If you don't pick a fourth, right and useful and
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  Speaker 5: noble pathway through life, then you will become bitter and
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  Speaker 5: too hurt by the tragedy of existence, and then you
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  Speaker 5: tend to seek your revenge wherever you can get it.
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  Speaker 6: And that's not good, hard thing to accept, but in
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  Speaker 6: our lives, we are getting out of our life right now,
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  Speaker 6: exactly what we believe we're worthy of, exactly what we
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  Speaker 6: think we deserve. Our life is a direct reflection of
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  Speaker 6: our identity, which is the thoughts, concepts, beliefs, values, and
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  Speaker 6: worth we hold true to be about ourselves. And so,
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  Speaker 6: as hard as it is to accept, we're getting out
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  Speaker 6: of life right now what we believe we're worth.
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  Speaker 3: I believe the way that you think is a choice.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that you are either going to repeat the
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  Speaker 3: thinking patterns that you've always had this year, or you
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  Speaker 3: can evolve them.
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  Speaker 7: Because when you change how you think, you will change
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  Speaker 7: your life.
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  Speaker 8: Our belief system is based upon our evaluation of something. Frequently,
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  Speaker 8: if we reevaluate a situation, our belief about it will change.
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  Speaker 8: I began reevaluating who I was. I started to study.
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  Speaker 8: I never stopped studying, and I found as I reevaluated
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  Speaker 8: much higher opinion of myself. I found out things about
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  Speaker 8: me that I would have never believed if you had
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  Speaker 8: told me. The power that's locked up within us, the
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  Speaker 8: marvelous system we've got. Do you know the blood circulates
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  Speaker 8: through your veins every thirty three seconds, two hundreds of
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  Speaker 8: miles of passageway. Dang, just like that callures all the
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  Speaker 8: food in and all the garbage over seven. Think of
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  Speaker 8: the central nervous system. It's the most complex electrical system
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  Speaker 8: in the world, and you've got it. Think of your
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  Speaker 8: brain an electronic switching station. Like that, you can change
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  Speaker 8: the vibration of yourself and everything around you. We have
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  Speaker 8: awesome powers, and it's all based on what you believe
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  Speaker 8: about you.
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  Speaker 9: It's necessary as you look at your goals, your dreams,
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  Speaker 9: it's necessary that you have a strategy and a game
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  Speaker 9: plan to change the story that you believe about yourself.
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  Speaker 9: And that's an ongoing process I've discovered and many people have.
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  Speaker 9: But what we do, what we accomplish, what we produce
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  Speaker 9: as a result of the story we believe about ourselves.
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  Speaker 9: Favorite book, says Biggie and not conformed, because this is
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  Speaker 9: where being transformed by the renewing of your mind. And
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  Speaker 9: so as I begin to work on myself, I realize
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  Speaker 9: that I'm getting out of one story and stepping into
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  Speaker 9: another story. As I've become aware of some things, there's
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  Speaker 9: still some things I'm not aware of. So I'm still growing,
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  Speaker 9: I'm still developing. But I realize that that you have
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  Speaker 9: to work on yourself on a regular basis and write
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  Speaker 9: this out for mental mindset, for mental mindset and stamina.
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  Speaker 10: Every time you have a thought, you make a chemical
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  Speaker 10: And if you have a great thought or an unlimited thought,
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  Speaker 10: or a joyful thought, you turn on a set of
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  Speaker 10: circuits in your brain that fires in a very specific sequence,
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  Speaker 10: pattern and combination that produces a level of mind that
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  Speaker 10: turns on another part of the brain that makes a
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  Speaker 10: chemical for you to begin to feel exactly the way
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  Speaker 10: you are just thinking great or unlimited or joyful. Now,
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  Speaker 10: if you have a negative thought, or an unhappy thought,
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  Speaker 10: or a self depreciating thought, you turn on a different
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  Speaker 10: set of circuits and a different combination, a different sequence
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  Speaker 10: and a different pattern that produces a different level of mind,
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  Speaker 10: And the brain then begins to make a different batch
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  Speaker 10: of chemicals that signals the body for you to begin
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  Speaker 10: to feel exactly the way you are just thinking, negative
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  Speaker 10: or unhappy or unworthy. So, the moment you begin to
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  Speaker 10: feel the way you think, because the brain is in
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  Speaker 10: constant communication with your body, you begin to think the
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  Speaker 10: way you feel, which makes more chemicals for you to
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  Speaker 10: feel the way you think. And then you think the
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  Speaker 10: way you feel, and then you feel the way you think,
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  Speaker 10: and then you think the way you feel. And some
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  Speaker 10: people do this for twenty or thirty or forty years.
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  Speaker 3: Each behavior casts a vote for the type of person
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  Speaker 3: that you want to become, and if you cast enough
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  Speaker 3: votes for that type of identity, you start to believe
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  Speaker 3: that about yourself. Right, Like, if you go to church
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  Speaker 3: for twenty years, you believe that you're religious. You study
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  Speaker 3: Spanish every Tuesday for thirty minutes, you believe that you're studious.
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  Speaker 3: So in that way, your habits provide evidence of your
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  Speaker 3: desired identity. And I think that that is probably the
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  Speaker 3: ultimate reason that habits are so important. It's true, like
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  Speaker 3: habits can help you earn more money, or be more productive,
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  Speaker 3: or lose weight, and all that stuff is great. But
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  Speaker 3: in addition to the external results that habits provide, they
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  Speaker 3: also shape your sense of self. They like are the
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  Speaker 3: engine or the avenue through which you've learned to believe
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  Speaker 3: things about yourself.
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  Speaker 7: But by seeing and being in the dreams in your mind,
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  Speaker 7: it trains your mind to be a little more confident,
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  Speaker 7: because when you understand something or see it, you get
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  Speaker 7: a little more confidence. Right, Familiarity by itself can breed confidence.
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  Speaker 7: Think about why you're so confident in the things that
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  Speaker 7: you do all the time, Like if I ask you
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  Speaker 7: to tie your shoe or ride a bike, you've done
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  Speaker 7: it enough times. It's real too. You can see it,
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  Speaker 7: you can imagine it, you can feel it, tastes its,
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  Speaker 7: experience it in your mind. So you're confident about your
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  Speaker 7: ability to do it well.
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  Speaker 2: Now the future.
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  Speaker 7: We need to pull that to your mind today and
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  Speaker 7: start having you visualize it more, see it more, see
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  Speaker 7: it more, because if you can see it, you can
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  Speaker 7: achieve it.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard that in personal development.
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  Speaker 7: I know you have, so that's really important.
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  Speaker 11: You are equipped for your race. You have the right personality,
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  Speaker 11: the right gifts, the right lives. You're the right height,
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  Speaker 11: you come from the right family. You weren't short changed.
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  Speaker 11: You're not at a disadvantage. You've been fearfully and wonderfully made.
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  Speaker 11: Walk in your anointing. Be confident with your gifts. Let
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  Speaker 11: your personality shine. It's not another person in this.
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  Speaker 9: World like you.
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  Speaker 11: The enemy would love for you to go through life
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  Speaker 11: trying to be an imitation coffy in someone else that
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  Speaker 11: you think is more attractive, more gifted, more successful.
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  Speaker 10: No, be you.
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  Speaker 11: Nobody can do you like you can do you. You're
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  Speaker 11: not annoying to be someone else. The anointing on your life,
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  Speaker 11: the favor of the blessing.
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  Speaker 9: Is to be you.
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  Speaker 1: When we focus on thoughts about bitter past memories or
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  Speaker 1: imagine dreadful futures to the exclusion of everything else, we
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  Speaker 1: prevent the body from regaining homeostasis. In truth, we're capable
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  Speaker 1: of turning on the stress response by thought alone. If
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  Speaker 1: we turn it on and then can't turn it off,
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  Speaker 1: we're surely headed for some type of illness or disease,
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  Speaker 1: be it.
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  Speaker 2: A cold or cancer.
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  Speaker 1: As more and more genes get down regulated in a
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  Speaker 1: domino effect, until we eventually arrive at our genetic destiny.
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  Speaker 1: For example, if we can anticipate a possible known future
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  Speaker 1: scenario and then focus on that thought to the exclusion
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  Speaker 1: of everything else, even for just one moment, the body
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  Speaker 1: will physiologically begin to change in order to prepare itself
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  Speaker 1: for that future event. The body is now in that
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  Speaker 1: known future in the present moment. As a consequence of
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  Speaker 1: this phenomenon, the conditioning process begins to activate the autonomic
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  Speaker 1: nervous system, and it creates the corresponding stress chemicals automatically.
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  Speaker 1: This is how the mind body connection can work against us.
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  Speaker 1: When this happens, we are demonstrating the three elements of
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  Speaker 1: the placebo effect in perfect symmetry.
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  Speaker 2: First, we start to condition.
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  Speaker 1: The body to the rush of adrenal chemistry in order
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  Speaker 1: to feel a boost of energy. If we can associate
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  Speaker 1: a person, thing, or experience at a particular time and
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  Speaker 1: place in our outer reality with that rush of chemistry
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  Speaker 1: within us, will begin to condition the body to turn
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  Speaker 1: on the response just by thinking about that stimulus. In time,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be able to simply condition the body to be
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  Speaker 1: put in mind of that emotionally aroused state by thought alone,
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  Speaker 1: the thought of a potential experience with someone and some
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  Speaker 1: thing at some time in someplace. If we can expect
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  Speaker 1: the future outcome based on the past experience, then the
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  Speaker 1: expectation of the event when we emotionally embrace it will
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  Speaker 1: change the body's physiology. And if we assign meaning to
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  Speaker 1: the behaviors and experiences, we're putting our conscious intention behind
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  Speaker 1: the outcome, so that our bodies will change or not change,
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  Speaker 1: equal to what we think we know about our reality
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  Speaker 1: and ourselves. But whether or not you believe that the
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  Speaker 1: stress in your life is justified or valid. The effect
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  Speaker 1: of that stress on the body is never advantageous or
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  Speaker 1: health enhancing. If your environment changes and you then program
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  Speaker 1: new genes in new ways, is it possible, based on
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  Speaker 1: your perceptions and beliefs, to program the gene ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the actual environment. Feelings and emotions are normally the end
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  Speaker 1: products of experiences. But can you combine a clear intention
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  Speaker 1: with an emotion that begins to give the body a
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  Speaker 1: sampling of the future experience before it's been made manifest
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  Speaker 1: when you're truly focused on an intention for some future outcome.
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  Speaker 1: If you can make inner thought more real than the
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  Speaker 1: outer environment during the process, the brain won't know the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the two, then your body, as the unconscious mind,
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  Speaker 1: will begin to experience the new future event in the
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  Speaker 1: present moment. You'll signal new genes in new ways to
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  Speaker 1: prepare for this imagined future event. If you continue to
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  Speaker 1: mentally practice enough times this new series of choices, behaviors,
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  Speaker 1: and experiences that you desire, reproducing the same new level
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  Speaker 1: of mind over and over again, then your brain will
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  Speaker 1: begin to physically change, installing new neurological circuitry to begin
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  Speaker 1: to think from that new level of mind, to look
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  Speaker 1: as if the experience has already happened, I'll be producing
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  Speaker 1: epigenetic variations that lead to real structural and functional changes
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  Speaker 1: in the body by thought alone, just as do those
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  Speaker 1: who respond to a placebo. Then your brain and body
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  Speaker 1: will no longer be living.
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  Speaker 2: In the same past.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be living in the new future that you created
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  Speaker 1: in your mind.
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  Speaker 2: This is possible through mental rehearsal.
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  Speaker 1: This technique is basically closing your eyes and repeatedly imagining
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  Speaker 1: and performing an action and mentally reviewing the future you want,
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  Speaker 1: all the while reminding yourself of who you no longer
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  Speaker 1: want to be and who you do want to be.
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  Speaker 1: This process involves thinking about your future actions, mentally planning
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  Speaker 1: your choices, and focusing your mind on a new experience.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go over this sequence in greater detail so we
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  Speaker 1: can more thoroughly understand exactly what's happening in mental rehearsal
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  Speaker 1: and how it works. As you mentally rehearse a destiny
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  Speaker 1: or dream about a new outcome, you imagine it over
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  Speaker 1: and over again until it becomes familiar to you. The
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  Speaker 1: more knowledge and experience you have wired in your brain
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  Speaker 1: about the new reality you desire, the more resources have
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  Speaker 1: to create a better model of it in your mental picturing,
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  Speaker 1: and so the greater your intention and expectation are, you
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  Speaker 1: are reminding yourself of what your life will look like
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  Speaker 1: and feel like once you get what you want. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you are putting an intention behind your attention. So it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense that we should concentrate not merely on avoiding
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  Speaker 1: negative emotions like fear and anger, but also unconsciously cultivating
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  Speaker 1: heartfelt positive emotions such as gratitude, joy, excitement, enthusiasm, fascination,
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  Speaker 1: awe way, inspiration, wonder, trust, appreciation, kindness, compassion, and empowerment
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  Speaker 1: to give us every advantage in maximizing our health. Studies
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  Speaker 1: show that getting in touch with positive, expansive emotions like
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  Speaker 1: kindness and compassion, emotions that are our birthright, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: tends to release a different neuropad called oxotokein, which naturally
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  Speaker 1: shuts off the receptors in the amygdala, the part of
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  Speaker 1: the brain that generates.
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  Speaker 2: Fear and anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: With fear out of the way, we can feel infinitely
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  Speaker 1: more trust, forgiveness, and love. We move from being selfish
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  Speaker 1: to selfless, and as we embody this new state of being,
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  Speaker 1: our neurocircuitry opens the door to endless possibilities that we
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  Speaker 1: never could have even imagined before. Because now we're not
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  Speaker 1: expending all our energy trying to figure out how to survive.
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  Speaker 2: Scientists are finding areas in the body.
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  Speaker 1: Like the intestines, the immune system, the liver, and the heart,
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  Speaker 1: as well as many other organs that contain receptor sites
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  Speaker 1: for oxoton king. These organs are highly responsive to oxotokein's
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  Speaker 1: major healing effect, which has been linked to growing more
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  Speaker 1: blood vessels in the heart, stimulating immune function, increasing gastric motility,
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  Speaker 1: and normalizing blood sugar levels. The frontal lobe is our
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  Speaker 1: ally in mental rehearsal. That's true because, as we established earlier,
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  Speaker 1: the frontal lobe helps us unplug.
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  Speaker 2: From the body, the environment, and time.
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  Speaker 1: The three main focuses of someone who's living in survival mode.
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  Speaker 1: It helps us get past ourselves to a state of
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  Speaker 1: pure consciousness where.
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  Speaker 2: We have no ego.
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  Speaker 1: In this new state, as we envision what we desire,
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  Speaker 1: our hearts are more open and positive emotion can flood
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  Speaker 1: through us, so that now the loop of feeling what
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  Speaker 1: we're thinking and thinking what we're feeling is finally working
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  Speaker 1: in our favor.
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  Speaker 2: The selfish mindset we.
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  Speaker 1: Were in when we were in survival mode no longer
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  Speaker 1: exists because the energy we channeled towards survival needs has
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  Speaker 1: now been freed up for us to create. It's as
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  Speaker 1: though someone paid our rent or mortgage for the month
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  Speaker 1: so that we have extra cash to play with. Now
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  Speaker 1: we can understand exactly why it is that if we
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  Speaker 1: hold a clear intention of a new future, marry it
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  Speaker 1: to a state of expansive, elevated emotion and repeat that
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  Speaker 1: over and over until we've created a new state of
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  Speaker 1: mind and a new state of being, these thoughts will
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  Speaker 1: seem more real to us than our previous.
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  Speaker 2: Limited view of reality.
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  Speaker 1: We're finally free, and once we truly embrace that emotion,
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  Speaker 1: we can more easily fall in love with the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that we've been envisioning. The symphony conductor frontal lobe feels
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  Speaker 1: like a kid in a candy store, excitedly and joyfully
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  Speaker 1: seeing all sorts of creative possibilities for new neural connections
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  Speaker 1: that can combine to form new neural nets. And as
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  Speaker 1: the conductor unplugs us from the old state of being
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  Speaker 1: and switches on the circuits in this new state of being,
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  Speaker 1: our neurochemicals begin delivering new messages to our cells, which
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  Speaker 1: are now prepared to make epigenetic changes that signal new genes.
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  Speaker 2: In new empowering ways.
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  Speaker 1: And because we've used heightened emotions to make it seem
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  Speaker 1: as though it's already happened, we're signaling the gene ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the environment.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're no longer.
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  Speaker 1: Waiting for the change and hoping for the change.
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  Speaker 2: We are the change.