Overcome Your Negative Thoughts & Beliefs | EP 851

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

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0:44Because when you know it, the whole world knows it. And the world will believe what you believe about you. I'd also say you make your beliefs. And then your beliefs make you. And then you go into the world and it starts to mirror whatever you believe. So make your beliefs amazing. Make your beliefs good. If you believe that dogs bite you, you make that belief, and then you act badly around dogs, and then dogs pick up your anxiety, and they do bite you because you've made them nervous. If you believe dogs are wonderful and loyal and man-sensitive, oh, I love dogs, the dog will love you because our beliefs, our thoughts become feelings, and they resonate out from us and back to us events that always match up our thoughts and beliefs.

1:27And when you know that, all you have to do is change your thoughts and beliefs make them positive. It's like there's not enough money. There's enough money for everyone. There's more than enough. But your belief that, well, if I have more, you get less, and the spiritual people shouldn't ask for money, and it's arrogant, and I'm not worth it. If you make that belief, that's your blueprint. Why don't you make a belief that if I have more money, other people get to benefit too, and there's more than enough for everyone? Because there really is. It says that in the Bible, man is what he believes.

1:59But it doesn't say, well, so go ahead and make great beliefs then. You are what you believe and you get to choose whatever you believe. I know what I'd say. You can choose whatever you wish, negative, positive. You get to choose. What you can't choose is what you do to your body and your health and your negative. You can't choose that. I could say I'm just a negative person, but over here is a positive person. We all can choose to do that. But you can never choose how you ruin your health, defeat your immune system, paralyze your autoimmune system, affect your nervous system. What goes on in your body when you're negative is horrific because the body can't choose.

2:41It has to react to negative. You make cortisol. That's a stress hormone. That shuts down fertility. It lays down fat. So all the stuff you're doing when you're negative, giving yourself heart attacks and strokes and high blood pressure, all because you're choosing to be negative when you come over to the positive world, which is so much better, you have better health. You live longer. You look 20 years younger. That's a good thing too. You don't like yourself. Nothing counts. Nothing you have is enough, and that's what's behind so many people. We think of everything. It becomes suicidal. Its strength is its simplicity, but also its absolute truthfulness, because everyone's enough.

3:23And the minute you know it, the whole world knows it, and they treat you differently. You see, we think, I'll buy a Porsche, and then I'm going to say, look, I'm enough, I've got a Porsche. I'll get an Armani jacket, or I'll get breast implants or lip implants, and then I'm saying I'm enough. But we see lots of people who've got all of that and are desperately, desperately unhappy. because everything you want is because it might make you feel enough. When you can feel enough without the stuff, now you've won. And then you'll get the stuff anyway. But you only get the stuff because you want it, not because you need it to feel enough.

4:00If someone said to me, I keep buying all these Jo Malone candles to feel enough, I'm like, but you've got 22. And if they worked, why would you need 26? You've got 18 pairs of shoes to feel enough. do you think 19 is going to make any difference? Stuff can't make you feel enough it's out there feeling enough is in here and when you know you're enough you can still love a pair of shoes believe me I love a nice pair of shoes but I never buy them to feel enough because I'm enough without them

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