Become Limitless and Create Your New Reality with Dr. Joe Dispenza

24:41It's not about your freedom. It's who you become. So then as you overcome, overcome, overcome, overcome, you become someone else. And so most people don't understand that the truth is, is that every time you overcome yourself a little bit more, the side effect is that you love yourself a little bit more. And so self-love is no longer about pleasure or having a car. It's something that you're cultivating within you. So then imagine we have research to show. And this is such a duality. so hey guys as you know i've partnered up with my good friend brennan brouchard who's created the greatest personal development system that has ever been designed called growth day there's everything from journaling to accountability programs live messages every monday from myself and other influencers there's an opportunity for you to get courses that would cost thousands of dollars completely for free it's incredible go to growthday.com forward slash ed and check it out that when you start seeing the brain start synchronizing getting coherent the front of the brain and the back of the brain that two hemispheres coming together and you we can say to scientists that come and study our work oh watch this ed's gonna pop what do you mean just watch this is gonna be good and all of a sudden you see this brain going into this kind of psychic union the heart blows wide open you see coherence going on and you know look around at that person and there's tears running down their face.

26:06Imagine feeling so whole that it's impossible to want. I mean, how can you want when you're whole? Because you feel like you already have it. Now, when you reach that point, that's when the magic happens because now you are worthy to receive. And the universe only gives us what we think we're worthy of receiving. Share this with them, please. Yeah, I think, you know, for me, I mean, I'm curious and I'm a pragmatist. I mean, if you tell me something, all I want to know is how I'm going to use it in my life. Yes. And I'm not into dinner conversation because nobody changes from that. You know, I mean, I'm a doer and I want to be around doers.

26:45That's why you and I connect so well, I think. Yeah, obviously. And you have a group of people that are passionate about transformation. And they've done some of the work. When we were doing our four day, four and a half day advanced workshops, right around the end of the event, I was seeing people starting to notice, seeing some really great transformations. And I thought, this is the pop. Yeah, it's a pop, big pops. And we were like, we had to send them home. And I was like, oh God, man, if I could just have them for a week. So we created these week long events where people retreat from their lives.

27:20And they remove the constant stimulation in their external environment that reminds them of who they think they are as a personality. They separate themselves from the people they know and the places they go and the things that they do at a certain amount of time in their routine mundane life. So we'll bridge a little quantum physics with a little neuroscience, a little endocrinology, a little epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology. Those are all sciences about possibility. And I now know that if you can give people sound scientific information, you know, for me, that's the language. I know. And then if they can turn to the person next to them and explain it, you're not gonna get off the hook.

27:59If you can't explain it, it's not wired in your brain. But if you can build a model and explain it, you're installing the neurological hardware in your brain in preparation for the experience. So the more you understand what you're doing and why, the how gets easier because you can assign meaning to it. So then if I can set up the conditions and the environment and give them the proper instructions and push the envelope a little bit, And people who get their behaviors to match their intentions and their actions equal to their thoughts, they get their mind and body working together, they're going to have a new experience.

28:28And the experience then is not only going to enrich the philosophical circuits in their brain, because experience does that, but it's going to produce an emotion. So they're going to start feeling more unlimited. They're going to start feeling more free. Now they're teaching their body chemically to understand what their mind is intellectually understood. So if you've done it once, you should be able to do it again. You have the recipe, you have the formula. So if you can repeat it, you will neurochemically condition your mind and body to begin to work as one. In other words, the body will start to learn how to do it as well as the mind, and you won't have to consciously think about it any longer.

28:59So it gets easier, right? So we follow that format, and the first couple days is that getting beyond your life, getting beyond your emotions, everybody's got to do it, but if you just keep applying the formula, keep going, and I keep reminding you and keep building the model, I give them numerous opportunities to connect and numerous opportunities to overcome themselves. Sooner or later, you're just going to figure it out. It doesn't matter. You're just going to figure it out. And when you do, then we start seeing now these incredible transformations and changes. And it's like a four-minute mile.

29:31Because I really think now, Ed, that evidence is the loudest voice. Sure. It is the loudest voice. And so we've got all the brain scans. We've got all the heart rate measurements. We've got great measurements on immune regulation, how you can strengthen your immune system by thought alone. We have great measurements on that you could actually change your genes in four days, lengthen your telomeres, lengthen your life within 60 days, change your neurotransmitters, change the energy around your body, the energy centers of your body, and change all this stuff. And so that's the scientific evidence, but the evidence of people now is really the laboratory.

30:09So then what's the side effect of a person then who begins to make significant changes in just mastering that formula? Well the side effect is a remission from a health condition. So we have seen not once, not twice, more than twice blind people. Like that one lady had a stroke on the optic nerve, a nurse from London, very smart lady. And the lesion was on the optic nerve and it created a blind spot in her visual field from six o 'clock to nine o 'clock. So she can't see anything there. And so she lost her license. She has her own company. She She couldn't read emails and sooner or later your brain accommodates a little bit but not fully.

31:05The typical prognosis with a stroke when there's neurological damage is that if your brain doesn't recover within two weeks, it's going to stay the same and slowly get worse. She has great relationships with all the physicians and they all said, yeah, you're going to have to learn to live with it. And believe it or not, one doctor said, hey, why don't you try going to this event? And this nurse, nurses are practical people. I mean, they are super practical people. You want to get a good doctor, ask a nurse, right? Right, sure. And they're just very, very practical. So she did the online course.

31:40She did both the courses. She read all the books. She did all the meditations. And she came to the event with the intention of learning how to live with her condition. It didn't occur to her fully that she could heal it. And she went because she wanted to start a nonprofit to help people. Wow. So she went with a doctor that recommended the work. And just a certain point in the middle of the event, she was doing a walking meditation on the beach with a thousand other people there. And it occurred to her that maybe she should think about healing her eyes. So she went into the meditation the same day, and she laid down after we finished the meditation, and she said it was like someone taking cellophane, crackling it in her head.

32:34She felt something going on inside her brain, and she was crying because she knew something spectacular was happening. And she didn't want to open her eyes, and then the meditation ended, and she said when I opened my eyes, it was like I was seeing so much brighter. Wow. And she said I could see, no blind spot, and the doctor was laying right next to her, and she was sobbing or hugging each other. Oh, my gosh. And so she went on the Monday morning to get her eyes, the visual fields, measured. And hopefully we'll get the image for you. Sure. You can see on the pre-measurement, just a black, that quarter of the sphere, of the circle was just all black.

33:17In other words, blindness. You see the post-measurement on the Monday morning after the event. There isn't a black spot. Unbelievable. Complete restoration of sight. Now, if you ask me if that was possible, you know, two years ago, I would say, yeah, it's possible theoretically. But now, like, this is the four-minute mile. Then we have another lady that was blind from birth, 5 % vision. And again, you know, she had an amazing experience with our coherence healing. We teach people how to heal. When she opened her eyes, she could see faces for the first time. And in fact, they had these two big bouquets on the stage, really big, beautiful flowers.

34:02And, you know, she had 5 % vision, so she could just see a little bit of light. and she thought they were two guards, two bodyguards on the stage guarding me the whole event. When she sat up, she could see flowers. Or you see the nurse tell her story. Or the lady who's allergic to everything at the same event, who's wearing a mask with the filters and the whole bit that had anaphylactic shock every day of her life. By the second day, she's on the floor with her mask off dancing around. That person sits down after they witness that. When they close their eyes and they do their next meditation, their acceptance, their belief, and their ability to surrender and trust that it could happen to them becomes greater.

34:43What I want our community to do is say, what is standing in the way between me and my ability to connect to that field? Because I want to eliminate every belief, every emotion, every past, you know, whatever. I want to remove all of those veils. Why am I doing this because I want to get so good at this. We have some MIT researchers that are going to organize all the data. 50%. I want to get to 50 % and then we are going to walk into children's hospitals and we're going to say, what kids? Just give us your kids. We won't touch them. We don't want any money. All we want to do is help. And I think that is...

35:22That's amazing. That's a living organism called the human beings. The living organism, the human being, The age of selfish individuality has to end right now. The living organism has to take care of one another. They have to heal one another. They have to teach one another. They have to exchange important information amongst one another. They have to shine for one another, not to be outstanding and competitive, but to show others that they can shine. That's the only way we're going to make our way out of this mess. Oh, my gosh. My favorite things that I've ever had said here, just so you know.

35:55Because the application of this is beyond just someone going from 5 % vision to 95 % vision. The application of this in humanity and consciousness, as you've just described there at the end, is what really I'm hearing and seeing all of that. That's what fascinates me. And I must say to you that we all agree that certainly our thoughts can make us unhealthy. So if that is true, there's got to be a way that the mind and the heart can be able to heal the body as well. And I'm fascinated by the study of epigenetics. And what you've just covered here is it's a whole new level. I love what you said.

36:28We've poked a hole. It's the four-minute mile. But the reason it's the four-minute mile is because once the four-minute mile was broken, two weeks later, everybody was breaking it because it was a new belief, a new level of consciousness. So the evidence of all these amazing healings, and not only just healings, people are creating new jobs, new opportunities, new relationships, new mystical experiences that transcend language where you just can't be Ed anymore. You know too much after that. That's the unknown, right? So in order for you to really begin to explore the unknown aspect of yourself, you got to learn how to get beyond the known aspect of yourself.

37:06And if you keep coming back to the known, you're going to miss out on the unknown. So you would say, well, I don't know anything in the unknown. Of course, it's the unknown. And if you try to control it there, you're back to the known. If you try to predict it, you're back to the known. So you got to go through this trial and error of just kind of refining your attention, refining your ability. And it's just got to be something like playing tennis or playing golf or doing martial arts or working out or crocheting or dancing the salsa. You just got to keep going, man. In the beginning, it's tedious.

37:33And then when you start finding your groove, like our community, they don't miss their morning meditations. You know why? Because the magic is happening. And they know if they miss it, they're going to cut off from the magic. So whether they're tired, whether they're hung over, whether they're in. And if you wake up in the morning and you can't get your butt out of bed, you know what that means? It just means you can predict the feeling of everything that's going to happen in your life. Your body's resigned. The body's resigned. So then when you went on a school trip when you were a kid, you woke up before your parents because you knew something new was going to happen.

38:11That's the body going, wake up. Wake up. Something unexpected is going to happen. What happened to us? Christmas Day. Yeah, so why not, you know, put in your time and then measure the effects of you would cause, I mean, become a scientist in your life and really start to experiment with it. Okay, let me change my energy. Let me just write down four thoughts that, like, I can't, it's too hard, I'll start tomorrow, this doesn't feel right, whatever it is. It's this person's fault. Just write those down and say these thoughts, like Gandalf on the bridge. Yes. You may not pass today. This is the end.

38:49So then if you become conscious of those thoughts, now you're the governor of your thoughts. What actions, what behaviors do you want to change? Do you complain? Do you blame? Do you judge? Do you make excuses? How do you talk? Do you speak limited? Just pick four things that you're not going to do any longer. What emotions get you in trouble? What are the emotions that you're addicted to, too, right? That you're addicted to that keep you returning back to your past? If you don't know, close your eyes for about 30 minutes and just watch where your mind goes and watch your feelings and just say, okay, it's frustration.

39:22It's unworthiness. It's self-doubt. It's guilt. It's frustration. It's shame. Just become conscious of those and just review them in your mind so that you don't go unconscious in your waking day. It's so powerful because, by the way, everyone that's listening to this is so awesome because if you've been listening to my content for the last three or four months, we've been laying this foundation. And now I just bring you this master that takes it to a master class level and explains to you the scientific reasons that these things work. But I want to jump back in with you here on something because I just want to do a couple basic application things for everyone here.

39:56These emotions that our body gets addicted to. There's a power, everyone, because I've experienced this in my own life. Everything that Joe's explaining here, other than healing my own body, I've watched them happen in my life from the standpoint of becoming something. and then these things are in my life rather than me sort of forcing them to happen. I mean, most people that have had any great things happen in life can define at least moments of their life where this is just a known truth. Dr. Joe talks so eloquently about the fact that, you know, this epigenetics concept is fascinating me, but at the same time, you talk eloquently about only about 1 % of us are predisposed to most of these negative ailments in our lives in the first place anyways.

40:34This is a misnomer. But I want to talk about meditation for a second because there's people listening to this that have never done it before So I just want them to start it a bit because the thing that you say that just as a base level thing by writing these emotions down You either don't want to experience or do or the thoughts that do or don't serve you the power in just that everybody Okay, I want to go back to what Joe said earlier I just want to give you my two cents on this is you become aware of them when they when they reveal themselves to you Just the awareness gives you a power over them.

41:03You didn't have before Remember what Dr. Joe said before, every time you sort of make progress on something like this, you are remaking yourself. So give yourself credit for these small wins. But the cool thing about meditation for me is it strips me of the distractions. It strips me of what I see, of the kinesthetic, of the auditory. Can you talk about just that basic concept for a second? Again, I mean, this is brilliant. This is because you're a practical guy and so am I. So, all right. So if the word meditation means become familiar with, right? then you know people say oh well you shouldn't focus on the negative well really that's 95 % of who you are and you got to begin to dismantle or denature that old personality and that means you're gonna have to come up against the cravings that the body has emotionally you know like it is it's eight o 'clock in the morning and you're doing your meditation you're normally in traffic and you want to get angry and your body's going hey you're off schedule so let me just find something that's mapped in the brain that I'll bring up a past experience why you can feel a little anger well now once you become aware of that now now the game is on right because now you're working to become conscious of that and not go unconscious again and it takes an incredible amount of awareness yes it takes a great amount of consciousness and you can't have consciousness without energy so you got to raise your energy in order to get to otherwise you're going to be consumed yes you're going to return back right so gosh so if you start becoming familiar, so conscious of those unconscious thoughts, they would never slip by your mind unchecked by you.

42:37Now, that is when you really catch yourself, right? And the research shows that you can get better at this. You could actually sense the thought before it comes. So then you start firing and wiring new thoughts. You start thinking to yourself, who am I going to be when I open my eyes? How am I going to make a difference in the world today? Who am I going to be? How am I going to love? How am I going to give? How am I going to serve? How am I going to contribute? What things do I want to really do today? And the act of closing your eyes and just thinking about and rehearsing what you're going to do.

43:08Your brain doesn't know the difference. And if you get caught up in it, you begin to install the neurological hardware in your brain to look like you've already done it. Now the brain's no longer a record of the past. Now it's a map to the future. You are priming your brain. And if you keep doing it, the hardware will become a software program. You know what that means? You just might start acting like a happy person. Well, there's no surprise there. You install the circuits. Stress hormones arouse the body so you have your attention on your body. Stress hormones alert the brain so you're aware of everything in your environment, like an octopus with tentacles in all different directions.

43:43You got to control and predict everything in your life. And if you're living by the hormones of stress, you're always investing your attention and energy into the known future based on the past. So you're on a line of time here, on a timeline. So then let's think about it. How are you gonna make thought more real than anything else? How are you gonna create from thought? Well, let's close our eyes. Let's disconnect from the environment. Less sensory information coming into the brain. Less distraction, as you said. Let's play some soft music in the background. Let's stick some earplugs in our ear.

44:12Whatever you wanna do. Diminish sensory. But now you're sitting down. You're not eating. You're not tasting. You're not smelling. You're not feeling. So there's more, less sensory input coming to your body. So then now your brainwaves begin to change. They start slowing down and you move from this beta brainwave pattern where You're aware that you have a body in space and time or your attention is on the outer world or your senses are giving you information Less sensory information now your inner world starts becoming more real than the outer world and you're not the voice in your head That's always talking to you as your brainwaves change you start seeing images and pictures and Symbols and less in that vocalization that sub vocalization so your brain waves start changing the alpha you're gonna start creating start dreaming pretending right so then If you say to your body You're gonna sit down for an hour And I know you're on a program because you wake up every morning and do the exact same thing And now I'm gonna make you sit just like sit to an animal you sit you stay and your body's gonna say I'm gonna die My bladder is gonna explode.

45:18I need a coffee I got a lot of emails to do. That's the program and you say to your body Today we do battle today This is it and you sit through that and you make your way even though your body's trying to get up and you keep settling it back down I'm telling you when you start your day that day You will be more kind more loving less judgmental more patient more present because you're mastering the present moment That means you're not in the predictable future. You're not in the familiar past you're mastering time. And so then, if where you place your attention is where you place your energy, and all of your attention is in the present moment, you've got a lot of energy to do amazing things.

46:00And you know when someone's present with you in your life because they're paying attention to you. And you know when they're not present with you because they're not paying attention to you. So the act of getting more present means you're putting a lot of energy in the present moment and you're taking your power back from all these things and people in your life. So we teach people this as they start breaking through and they start being able to unfold into this field as an awareness And they're not putting their attention on their boss or their ex or their wife or their kids or their cell phone or their whatsapp or their Facebook that they're they're they're they're not thinking at all So then as they're sensing the space they can't think and if you can't think you can't analyze and if you can't analyze The analytical mind is what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious.

46:47We just open the door Wow And so now you can reprogram in there. Right? So then It's so important then that of the infinite places you can put your attention Let's put it on your heart Now where you place your attention is where you place your energy. Why because we want this center to bloom 1400 1300 different chemicals that we storm regenerate the body. Let's breathe. Let's open this up Let's practice this. Let's start learning how to lead with our heart, a different consciousness. Yeah, in the beginning, it's a little difficult, but you stay with it and you practice it, pedal by pedal by pedal, placing your attention there, you're putting your own life force back into your heart.

47:28You're turning your love inward, and the body will start responding. And in a week's time, if we're doing that three times a day, or over and over again, sooner or later, that thing's gonna start blooming. And just like when your sexual organs are aroused and they're engorged with blood, this center, when you start feeling love, you make a chemical called oxytocin. Oxytocin signals nitric oxide. Nitric oxide signals a chemical called derived endothelial relaxing factor. You know what that is? It causes the arteries in your heart to literally open up. So your heart is going to be filled with blood and oxygen and nutrients.

48:08It's physiological. It's going to feel full. You're going to have a heart on, in a sense. Your heart is going to fill, right? And when that happens, you experience a level of love that passes all understanding. Your cup runneth over. I mean, it is, and people are in, they're sobbing because they realize that this center finally, like a child. So then back to your question, let's demystify meditation. because it has so many stigmas around it. Close your eyes. Retreat from your life. Disconnect from your body. Disconnect from your environment. Disconnect from your schedule. And just give yourself an hour or 45 minutes or 20 minutes because when you invest in yourself, you invest in your future.

48:59And when you believe in yourself, you believe in possibilities. And when you believe in possibilities, you believe in yourself. And if you don't believe in possibilities, then you don't believe in yourself and you don't believe in yourself. You don't believe in possibilities. So then, but if you have a community, a living organism, where it's becoming the new normal, you want to join that living organism and you want to, you want to be a part of that. And, and every, every stride you make feeds the living organism. Every stride, every effort you make to connect is, is amazing because that which we are seeking is seeking us.

49:35It's not like, it matches our efforts. And so then when people have that uncompromising will, the same way that they go shopping for a dress or a pair of earrings or go to the gym and work out, with the same intensity, with the same passion, come up against themselves and just say, when the body's going, giving everything it has, it's when you say, that's all you got? That's it? That's all you're gonna put out? I'm ready. And so then when you start overcoming that, the side effect of it is that all of a sudden you're happy for no reason. And you're less seduced in believing that you need something outside of you to make you feel better.

50:20All of a sudden you're feeling better every day without anything outside of you. And now all of a sudden you start showing up unpredictable in your life. You're saying, that Ed guy, he's different. He's on a different medication. He said what's going on with it. But in actuality, you're just freer, right? And so then as we begin to remove these layers that stop the flow of the divine in us, that an essence in us, the side effect is we become more willful, we become more mindful, become more conscious, we become more loving. It's its nature, you know? It just becomes who we are. I love how you explain things that everyone that's listening to this has had flickers and little moments in their life of this.

51:03And there's been a moment or two where you've had that red tie experience. There's been that moment or two where you felt bliss or energy. And now Dr. Joe's beginning to give you the formula and the recipe to do that all the time, to become that person. So I've been talking for a long time here on the show about the fact that I've been really working on my Spanish. And I just took a trip to Mexico the last few weeks. I went on a speaking tour down there with John Maxwell. And I got a chance to really see whether or not I've improved. I got to tell you, thanks to Babbel, My Spanish is pretty darn good.

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52:05Get up to 60 % off at babbel.com slash mylet. Spelled Babbel, B-A-B-B-E-L dot com slash mylet. Rules and restrictions may apply. Please visit babbel.com for details. I think you've got to pick an area and laser in on it to use your terminology. Why? It's connected to the second thing we're going to talk about, which is energy. When you're focused on a lot of different things, you've depleted the energy, right? And you say in the book, you say, or one of the talks too, is that Einstein says everything is energy. Not some things. Everything is energy. Driving here to do the interview today, I've had a little bit of rest lately.

52:45And I knew today was going to be awesome because I was coming in, I'm like, I'm vibrating at a high frequency today. I know what it feels like to be vibrating at a high enough frequency where I'm going to produce a great result. And I know what it feels like oftentimes where I am not. the different things I've had in my life, my new book, all this other stuff, I've just not been vibrating at quite the energy level that I know is the success level that I need to be at. So talk a little bit about this. You said something in this I've never heard someone say about cells and volts of energy and like you can actually prove almost with neuroscience or chemistry or math why this is actually true.

53:19So let's go to the energy thing for a second and how one might direct it. Yeah, so everything is energy and not just us, right? You know, the cells and atoms in our body, but everything. Like this table that we're, it's just condensed energy, this table right in front of us here. Everything's energy and everything's created twice. First inside, then outside, right? This table was an idea in somebody's head at one point in time. And then they, you know, through work, they formed energy and now we've got a table that we can put our hands on and microphones and everything. So everything's energy.

53:53And Einstein also, he was a big believer in the imagination and that energy follows thought. And so when we think of thought, energy follows that. When the president of the Ukraine was thinking, hey, we need help here. Like energy was behind that thought. And that thought came to you. You heard it. And I heard it. And all of a sudden, And we're rooting for them, right? We're rallying for them. So when you understand, the challenge I think most people have at is they live so firmly planted in this physical world of the only thing that exists is what I can touch, what I can see, what I can feel.

54:34But everything's created twice. So there's things you can't touch, see, and feel that are being created now. They're not in physical reality yet. They're in the non-physical. But that's where all the greatness starts. And when someone's struggling, all they can see is what is already there for them and they get stuck and then they conform. What I think we as human beings ideally should do, and this is hard because it's fun to live in the physical world. You've got all these great houses. You know, I have different toys and fun things and it's fun. And that's why we're here. So I like doing that.

55:08But we also have to have ideally a foot in the non-physical where there are no boundaries. where energy is waiting. It's just literally saying, what do you want, Ed? What do you want? Like everything you have, you're telling me about your beautiful homes. Those all came from first you directing energy inside you to go out and make those opportunities real. Okay, brother, no one's ever said that on the show before. And it's so true. One, I talk a lot about, I think 99 % of people operate out of a pattern of thinking that is history and memory. 1 % of humans have worked to the extent that they operate of imagination and vision.

55:43They actually have that as their operating platform. The people that I naturally enjoy their energy, to quote you, are people who operate out of imagination. And by the way, you can just take an inventory of yourself and the people around you. How many of your conversations, your thoughts are about imagining and visioning, and how many of them are about history and memory? And in my life, I've just sort of, as I've gotten older, gravitated. But I'm telling you, almost everything I accomplish or that I do, I consciously begin to think about it. So out of the physical. I've never heard someone phrase it that way before.

56:13It's exactly what I do. I'm working on a few things right now. My process unconsciously, now that I'm 51 years old and has repeated it over 30 years, my process is to actually sit, get in a quiet meditative state to some extent. And I'm talking about holding my hands and praying. I'm talking about just getting alone almost for me is that state. And it is to have a thought. And then I am actually literally intentionally pouring energy into the thought. I'm trying to pour more and more and more energy into the thought. And then I actually separate from it and I get away from it for a while. And I let it just sit with its energy.

56:44And then I pour more and more and more energy into that vision and that imagination. And it amazes me how the world begins to conspire to help me make it true. Whether it's that running on the street or a conversation today or something I then read. And I'm like, what in the, why does this pop up? Right? So this is the process of creativity. It's thinking and then flooding it with energy. and the more successful you become, the more you have some wins, the more you begin to understand what that feels like when you're actually doing it. And it's liberating because now, you know, there's nothing that can stop you.

57:19Right. Yeah. And that's what most people don't have. They literally think there's lots of things out there that can stop them and they're not willing to take that leap of faith. And you got to take the leap of faith in the beginning. Like people that are listening to this that haven't that, you know, that are not at Ed's level yet. Just know at one, at one point he was at your level, right? But he just outgrew that. And it wasn't because, you know, he or me or anyone else is better than anybody else. It's just, we're using the tools that everyone's using. As a matter of fact, people that are struggling, the reason they're struggling is because their subconscious is so powerful that it's taking all this information that they've put in that life's a struggle, life's hard, you can never get ahead.

58:00And it's making it absolutely true for them. Yeah. So I, I so know that it's not that I'm different, which is why I'm in this space. I know humans can change. I know the reality can change because I'm so aware of my own limitations. I'm so aware of how many things I am either average at or sub average at that if I can produce certain things in my life, because I, this is not even humility. I just realized my own limitations in terms of my intellect or my strength or my upbringing or my experiences that if I can produce these things in my life, I absolutely 1 million percent sure know you listening to this or watching this can as well.

58:39And there is a process. It is both art and science. The art part, you're going to figure out as you go. The science part, which is what we're talking about today, is absolutely a replicatable process that you can start with. So let's start with a few of what those things are. I want to go back one thing because you just use a term I've not heard before, which is use your own electricity. and so just I want to just like what does that mean to you because people say energy I think a lot of people have heard the term energy before and like look I just don't get it you know but electricity yeah I don't think most people look at themselves as electric and they are and it's almost like use the example of a light everyone god bless you but if you really are an electrical being it's so sad to dim your light over time great great analogy I like that me too and just reading your work and you've reduced your electrical charge.

59:30And the external evidence of that is the lights dimming in your life. The cool part is that at any given time, you can start to take control and charge of your electricity. I just like that term better than energy. So are we electric actually as human beings? And maybe like one thought or concept about how one begins to up their amp level, so to speak. Yeah. So Bruce Lipton, who you probably are familiar with, biology belief he's the one that that i got the data from on each cell uh has a certain charge and we've got i can't even remember since i wrote it but we have you know like billions or trillions of cells in our bodies so yeah we got a lot of electricity like we could light up a city if we used it effectively i i really love what you just said though like because i've never thought of it like someone dimming their light because i think that really is what's happening or what's happening to a lot of people.

1:00:24It's not like they don't have the charge available, but they've got it on the dimmer, right? And they're just so used to having it dimmed out that they think that's all there is. You and I, the reason we do this, and I've been doing this a long time and don't necessarily have to do it anymore, but I really feel like my purpose, and I know your purpose, is to help people understand they can do so much more and it's not about doing more it's about really expressing themselves and living their purpose and do the work that they came here to do and i think a lot of people have lost sight of that or they're not even clear what that is what if you had never pushed yourself to an extreme i'm just curious the light you burned your legs you're in your feet and by the way he's in this hospital it's unsanitary his cat walking over his body like and again his mom comes and what if after that because he decides by the way he's got to give this away to everybody it blows my mind he's like his mom says what's your everest basically while he's laying there he's like i don't know i'm never gonna get out of here i'm never gonna walk again and i'll just speak at four call and call and says um i'll do a triathlon 18 months later this dude does a triathlon after he was told he could never walk again and he freaking wins it he freaking wins the triathlon it's insane and then you've gone on what if you had never pushed yourself never known what you were capable because there's a lot of people calling that go through this whole life in the five six range never knowing what they're capable of what if you would have never done that in your life how much different do you think you would be your marriage would be you as a person would be just I mean I don't know if you ever sit back and think about that what if I'd have never seen what I was capable of it it's such a powerful and important question and it just I'm smiling because it just strikes at the heart of the what I'm passionate about sharing what I've shared about those ones and tens you know people have asked me and it's a different question but it's come from the same place of I was 22 years old the reason I got burned this fire was I was I jumped a flaming jump rope I was on a beach in thailand 22 years old clearly not a fully formed prefrontal cortex and i saw a couple guys with a kerosene soaked jump rope and i was like gee that looks like fun what could possibly go wrong here right and i wrapped that rope around my body lit my fire completely on lit my body on fire to my neck and i thankfully was near the ocean jumped in the ocean saved my life but not before about 25 percent of my body was burned as you mentioned predominant my legs and feet and doctors thought i would never walk again normally and i spent months in rural thai hospitals i was in a wheelchair all these things, right?

1:02:59And people have asked me, well, if you could go back in a time machine and whisper to your 22 year old self, would you tell them not to jump the jump rope? And it's an interesting question, because the knee jerk response is, of course, don't jump the jump rope. Don't don't light your body on fire. And I wouldn't wish the physical pain of that injury on my worst enemy. And I'll tell you what was worse than the physical pain was the emotional trauma, not only that I suffered, my mom, thank God, she saved me from that mess. But she also had to stare and see her child severely burned in a place where no one spoke the language in the middle of nowhere that she couldn't move and the hurt that that caused her and my family.

1:03:38So on one hand, I wouldn't want to cause that hurt to anyone in my family. But here's the thing. I learned some of life's most valuable lessons from the resilience gained to recover from that, from having that specific goal, at least for me, which was a triathlon. And so that's all to say, I sit here with 10 world records. And we're not talking about the 10 world records that I set before I stupidly burned myself in a fire and screwed up my entire life. I set those records after that burn. And I only could have walked across Antarctica if I had burned myself in the fire. And forget about the external achievement.

1:04:14I love that you brought up marriage into this. I show up for my wife with love and compassion and grace and I don't always get it right I'm not perfect but I am a better person because I have sought out what what what uh the limitations and the challenges and I've suffered some and so it's a weird thing I know I know you were uh I was just listening to your most recent episode with uh Eric the hip-hop preacher love that dude what a guy And you're saying, you're saying to him, he's like, you know, he's, he's been homeless. And he's been in the four seasons, you know, you know, he's been illiterate, and he's got a PhD.

1:04:52There is something about pushing the edges of what we're capable of in any given moment that teaches us so much about life. And that's why people ask me even after I share a story about five of my friends dying, five of my friends died. There's not a day that goes by, I tear up often still 18 months later, thinking about the tragedy of that moment that I share. And people sometimes ask me, they say, hey, Colin, aren't you afraid of dying? I think about it. Yeah, I'm afraid of dying. I'm super afraid of dying. This life is such a gift. I am afraid of dying. But you know what I'm more afraid of?

1:05:27I'm afraid of not living. I'm afraid of not living and just sitting there in that five day after day after day and never seeing what you're capable of and never seeing what you can create and never feeling into your full potential even if to feel into that hurts a little bit for a moment in time those ones those twos those threes that is the juice of life that's the spice and the 12-hour walk even the walk itself is a metaphor for this experience. Guess what? If you walk for 12 hours, even if you take a ton of breaks, your feet are going to get tired at some point. You might be a little bit out of your comfort zone in terms of bring some food with you, bring some water.

1:06:05You might be a little dehydrated. You might get a blister on your foot. You might be tired. You might think to yourself, I hate being alone. This is uncomfortable. Yes, you are likely going to experience some ones and twos and threes on that day. But how many five days over the last 365 can you not even remember? What'd you do last Tuesday? What'd you do a month ago? What'd you do two months ago? There are so many days in our life that don't even imprint and register in our memory because they're just, eh, because you're not alive. You're not fully living. You take this 12 hour walk, you're gonna seek some discomfort.

1:06:37It is going to be challenging at times, but I guess you what? If I ask you a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now, have you ever walked very far? You know what? 10 years ago, I did walk by myself alone in silence. It's not going to be a five day. You're going to feel some ones, some twos, some threes, but every person I know to get back to their front door, every person I know that wakes up in their bed the following day with a few sore muscles, this, it's a seven, it's an eight, more often than not a nine, a 10. Thank you. I felt alive. I am not afraid of as afraid of dying as I am afraid of not living.

1:07:10Oh my gosh, Colin. Again, I just have to tell you, I'm so grateful. I'm sharing this time with you, brother. I feel the exact same, man. So fun to be here with you. When you're talking, I think about this thing I say often, which is extremity expands capacity. When you do something to what you think is an extreme, you expand your capacity to do extreme things, even if they don't seem very significant to you. And then I think about, this might be an ironic thing I just wanted to tell you when I was prepping, but take this the right way. And I know that, I just say it the way I mean it, I have no grain of salt.

1:07:41This is a dude who struggled to jump rope with some fire, right? I know you're a college swimmer, but it's junk. And the same dude who couldn't jump rope was fire that almost ended his life is now doing world records across Antarctica, climbing peaks, doing the grand slam. So it's amazing. I think oftentimes we think, well, I'm not very good at something now, so I'll like never be good at it. Well, this is a dude who didn't even jump rope correctly when he was 22 years old. I know there was fire with it and all that. But then to think that same dude is now the dude shattering all these records that literally no physical living human being has ever done before is a dude who couldn't get the jump rope thing right when he's 22 in Thailand.

1:08:21Do you ever think about that? Like that proves extremity expands capacity, right? I'll go one step further, which is after the Antarctica crossing, I had a lot of doors open to me. There was so much press media, 2 billion media impressions, most widely viewed expedition in modern history. and of course um that's going to open some doors right yeah and it was a beautiful experience a beautiful moment in time that i'm deeply humbled and grateful for was able to build a very successful and lucrative series of businesses on the back of that etc etc but i decide at perry zones what's your next expedition i get this idea to row a boat across drake passage so a rowboat tiny little rowboat for people who don't know drake passes most treacherous stretch of ocean in the entire world.

1:09:03So from the southern tip of South America, all the way to Antarctica, 750 miles is where the Atlantic and Pacific and Southern Ocean all converge. And that convergence of those ocean currents creates like 40 foot waves and there's icebergs, it's freezing cold. I mean, it's insane. There's been a laundry list of 1000s of boats that have shipwrecked in Drake Passage, but not just like 100 years ago, 10 years ago, a cruise ship sunk in the middle of Drake Passage. Like that's how crazy like that's a modern time cruise ship still sunk in Drake Passage. And I'm thinking I'm going to get a couple of buddies and we're going to row a boat, no motor, no sail, 28 foot long, three foot wide, two feet off the water's edge and open hole.

1:09:41So we're getting crashed the entire time. So I go to discuss discovery channels. Like I want to film your next thing, whatever it is, tell me what it is. And so I go to them and I say, well, my next thing is a row boat crossing a straight passage. No one's ever done it. And they said, great, great, great. They, they, they signed this big, you know, seven figure check to produce the whole thing and paying you know whatever great great great it's gonna be awesome i'm leaving in three months this is a pretty quick turnaround and i finally i feel all the paperwork signed everything's dialed ready to go i turn to the producers my family knows this but most people don't realize this i'm rowing a boat across straight patches that's great and i said but i got some one thing i got to tell you i've actually never rowed a boat anywhere come on man anywhere literally not at summer camp not it not oh my gosh come on dude not at uh you know not in college not not like ever i've never i mean i've also not spent you know it's like i'm a sailor so i don't know like everything about ocean and sea frang i this is a 100 fully unfamiliar thing that's the thing that's not unfamiliar is pushing my body right or pushing my mind or taking on big goals or things of that nature but i have literally never rode a boat anywhere ever and so i reach out to a buddy of mine who's a rowing coach in portland oregon where i grew up and i said i need you to come meet me down at this dock and teach me a little bit about rowing and so he's like yeah sure and i kind of explained the whole thing he thinks you're out of your freaking mind maybe five years from now when are you doing this i said well i'm leaving in three months and so he gets me on this one man's single rowing school you maybe have seen people do that or pictures of it or whatever and i get in there.

1:11:18I'm in six inches of water on the dock. I try to take my first stroke and I fall flat on my face. I literally fall out of the boat and I'm like flailing around in six inches of water and I stand up soaking wet. And this is that moment where you go like, either I am an idiot. Of course, this is an extreme example. I'm never going to be a rower, but here's the thing. I said to him i look at him and i go well i guess i'm not a rower but one word changes that i guess i'm not a rower yet yet i'm not a rower yet we've got three months for that and that is everything right we talk about god that is it i'm not whatever you are right now no matter what age you are you're listening to this podcast wherever you are your hopes your dreams your mount everest what's your Everest, you haven't reached the summit of your Mount Everest yet.

1:12:13Here's the thing. Kobe Bryant had to shoot his first hoop at some point. Stephen King had to sit down and write the first paragraph of his first novel before he could write 65 of the best-selling books of all time. Meryl Streep had to try out for her school play. All of these people were not at the top of their game when they came out of the womb, but at some point they chose to stay in their identity, in their own confidence, and their own strength in the story that they are writing about themselves. I am not this yet, but I can be and become anything I set my mind to. And three months later, I became the first person in history to row a boat successfully across the most stretcherous stretch of ocean in the world.

1:12:54You can see the documentary Discovery Plus as it's called The Impossible Row if you want to see me get bashed around in some crazy ass situation in the middle of the ocean. But we can be and become anything we set our minds to. And that's the truth. That's just unbelievable. And the way you tell the story and weave in the point, it's just so freaking good. I really do believe this too. The people that I know that are the most happy and successful or just one or the other have a lower threshold of how good or how prepared they think they have to be before they actually start something. And the people that aren't very happy or that aren't very successful have this massive threshold of what they think they have to know to just begin.

1:13:34And so they don't begin to your point. Now, that is rather mind blowing. It's like Rob O 'Neill was on my show, Kill Bin Laden. He couldn't even he didn't know how to swim weeks before becoming a Navy SEAL. Then I have you on and you're telling me I've never rode a boat and you're doing something that freaking bananas. Just it just it just blows my mind, bro. I've reached the same conclusions you have, yet I have this vast toolbox of tools that I still use because God's put those people in my life that have given me those tools. But ultimately for me, those aren't the final answer. There are steps that may get me in a position where I'm more ready to receive something, but the final answer is I've come to the same answer you have.

1:14:16I'm going to ask you some hard stuff now, though. Yeah, let's go. I'm going to push you. Not that what we haven't already covered is hard, but I'm going to push you on it. the slideshow, does that mean it never comes back again? Or does that mean that you've got some peace and comfort when stress, guilt, shame does repeat itself? Because for me, you and I just share the same belief system. So I'm just going to say it in our language. Everybody can do it, take it what they want. But like the adversary still attacks. The adversary is still trying to get you. So for me, my peace and comfort comes from there as well, but I haven't escaped it entirely.

1:14:46Meaning in my own case, the slideshows of my life have reappeared in my case, but that I know where I go for comfort and peace when it does reappear. Does that mean for you that at that day, you've never had another slideshow? You've never had another feeling of guilt or shame? Or does it still resurface from time to time? Yeah, I can answer that. That day wasn't the end of the slideshow. Okay. But I wasn't ready yet. That was the beginning of the journey of who is this guy, Jesus. The guy that I called out to just instinctively because that's what kids in America do. But who was he really? That began that journey.

1:15:27And so I still had the slideshow, but things really changed for me March 1st, 2020. That's when the slideshow drastically changed. And so to answer your question, I do still see the slideshow even today, but it has lost its sting. Lost its power over you. It does not have its power over me. Yeah. What happened on March of 2020? During that journey from December to March, the first thing I thought was, I need a preacher. I don't really know. See, I'm a guy, I'm a country music guy traveling on the weekends. I didn't really go to church. Sure. Besides as a kid, I didn't have any consistency in church ever.

1:16:07So I thought, I need a preacher. First one I thought of was Billy Graham. That's the first name that came to my mind. I don't really know him personally at all, but hey, I've heard of this guy. Looked him up, found out YouTube has a plethora of Billy Graham videos. Started just watching it. And it had an effect on me. It's like, I dig this. I dig this guy. I like what he's saying. He was pouring the gospel all over these stadiums worldwide for decades. and it was having an effect on me so much that I started replacing some of the self-help audio books I was listening to in my truck. I was like, instead of finishing that book, I'll trade it in for another Billy Graham classic sermon.

1:16:46People thought I was crazy. Really? They were like, what are you doing, man? You're driving in your pickup truck in Texas, windows down with a Billy Graham sermon playing? That's bizarre, man. One day, one of my friends goes, hey, I got some more stuff for you. There's some deeper stuff. Like there's this pastor named John Piper. He's deeper, but he's super intense, very passionate. My wife is at a conference with him right now as we speak. As we're sitting here? Yeah. Okay. She loves him because his words saved her husband, you know? So that's why she has an attachment to him. But I liked this guy, John.

1:17:22I liked his rhythm. I liked his intensity and his passion and his articulation of the gospel specifically. What's going on? What's the mechanics of what's changing within a man when he hears these words? John was good at articulating that. And it goes down to this one sermon randomly popped up on my algorithm on March 1, 2020, driving in my truck. County Road in Texas. I remember everything about that morning, my hands on the steering wheel, the feel of the accelerator in my foot. I mean, I felt I knew I know what that moment was like when he was reading out of John 14. And he said this. He said, Piper's reading, right?

1:18:02And the disciple asked Jesus, Lord, why is it that you manifest yourself to us, the disciples, but not to the rest of the world? Jesus answered him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. There's a pause. Pastor Piper comes in and he says, that's not unconditional love. That is profoundly conditional. Boom. It hit me. He reads it again. If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love him in a way that he doesn't love everybody. I thought, oh man, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Not that I needed.

1:18:46He wasn't saying, if you want me to love you, then you keep my word and earn it. He wasn't saying that. He was saying, there's people that I love that I will save, redeem, restore, forgive. And you could tell those people because those are the ones that keep my word. And I thought, what's his word? I don't know it. I don't know all of it. So I went home like all in that moment. I knew, I knew in that, that bus in Boise, Idaho, that I was redeemed, that I was saved, I was restored, I was adopted as a son. And yet as a gratitude and humility in response to that, I wasn't doing what he asked me to do.

1:19:25So I went home and I told Amber, I said, we're going to read the Bible. Not a devotional, not something that commentates it, but we're just going to go to the word itself. We'll start, I don't know, where's a good place to start? Maybe just start there. And she goes, okay, I'm in. I mean, we literally - You read the whole Bible too, didn't you? Yeah. I mean, we literally knocked the dust off of these Bibles that we hadn't really touched, calling ourselves Christians. Boy, I got in there and seeing, reading the Bible in its entirety and truly digesting it is how we learn who God is in the same way that you know your son because you spend a lot of time with him.

1:20:10That's right. So much so that if you go to a restaurant tomorrow and your son's not with you, you'll go, I know what my son would like. I know what he would order. I know what he would not like. I know what girl he thinks would be cute. I know what kind of car he likes. You know him. You've spent so much time with him. So as we read the Bible, we start to learn who God is. When we learn who God is, is the sovereign, providential king. then we go, oh, I could surrender to that. Not in a weakness type of way, not in a passive way, but I'm going, God, all my strength that you have given me, I hand it to you and I trust you.

1:20:46I follow you. And there is power in a man when he learns that kind of surrender. There's confidence. The shame, the guilt, the slideshow lost its sting. Yeah. Brother, I got to just tell you having known you before this and seeing you now. By the way, it's not like this is like a 30-year journey for this man. Like this is the last few years. Like the Holy Spirit's all over you. These aren't your words. These are, like, it's so awesome to be like, for me, it's so awesome to see God's greatness pouring through you. Like there's evidence right in front of me. This is a dude who was playing beautiful music three or four years ago.

1:21:27And the truth is, really, like most of these thoughts and words weren't within this man at that time. And now they're just coming out of you. I think so many people use guilt and shame as a weapon against themselves over and over again. And they're trying to somehow grab some strategy or tool to somehow rectify this pattern that they've repeated millions of times over and over and over again, whether that be the slideshow or the way they speak to themselves or all these other things. And a lot of the things we teach here, by the way, in this space, when I say here as if I own it and I don't, are incredibly valuable things.

1:22:03It would be like saying that you shouldn't eat the food and the plants that God's planted in our lives. You're supposed to consume these good things. But if you don't understand the source of where they come from, the real source, when you really need an answer, there's going to be a time where you reach that place in your life where you're just like, it's not enough. It just doesn't work. I can't go to that thing again, that trigger, that anchor. It just doesn't do what I need it to do. And I'm loving the way that also that you phrase this because it's interesting. You actually take away many of the objections most people have probably unknowingly about these things.

1:22:42Like for me, we'll just both plug different things. Like for me, I'm a little bit cerebral. My surprise people since my IQ is not that high. But I needed to see some evidentiary stuff. So like Lee Strobel's work, The Case for Christ, had a big profound effect on me. And I've also tried to surround myself in my life with people that are more knowledgeable about God's word than I am as I work on it to help me answer questions when I read something or when I navigate a situation. And God's put those people in my life also. But those people aren't my answer. Those tools aren't my answer. Men will eventually probably let you down, and things of this world will probably eventually let you down.

1:23:25But in my case, Jesus never has, ever. And he can take purpose through your pain. You talk about this in the book, which we might as well get into a little bit right now. You say there's really, you reference two things about pain. One is that it's temporary, I believe. You say that. By the way, the book made such an impact on me. I can picture the pages right now as I'm reading it. I want you to talk a little bit about that. Like, now we found where your answer is. And by the way, you know what? I want to go here first. You're so committed to what you've just discussed. Most people may not know this yet, but like he's completely devoted his life to do this.

1:24:03So tell him what you're kind of really not doing anymore. Because it's not like a little thing, right? Like you've made a massive commitment. So if you're wondering like, hey, this is really interesting words this guy's got. Wow, really cool. I just felt really motivated, and I'm going to pick my Bible up. It's a lot more than that. So tell them what you've decided to do with your life as a commitment towards what you just described. This may be a surprise for some people that haven't been paying attention. In the book of Matthew, chapter 13, verse 44. Look at you right now. My gosh, go ahead.

1:24:36Hey, I've got to ground myself in the truth first. Jesus is talking a parable, and he says, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covers up. Then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. So this is where I'm living right now. I'm living in a moment where I found this treasure, the ultimate value. And I'm going, man, I found this treasure and I want to, I want to own this treasure so much so that I want to show everyone else this treasure. Now, there's a word that we can't miss in that parable, and it's joy. Then in his joy, he goes and sells all he has and buys that field.

1:25:22Because if you don't feel that joy, you're not feeling it right.

1:25:38You