3 Strategies for THRIVING in Today's Economy EP 1468

27:26You've got to drive to work. It takes energy. You've got to fill your car with gas. You've got to eat food. You've got to work. You know, all this. You've got to sleep. You've got to recover if there's stress. and now people are in a sense waiting for the experience that's 10 years down the road or 30 years down the road to happen to take away the lack of them not having it and unfortunately many times when the experience finally occurs they can't enjoy it because they're too exhausted right so then so you play the game you you go to school you study really hard or you study on your own you develop some skills, you make the right choices, you start saving money, you start learning from your mistakes, and then the game is how many things can you accumulate, and that accumulation then you associate with being wealthy or being abundant or being successful, right?

28:17And some people get really good at it, right? You can get really good at that. But for the most part, though, when we create from three-dimensional reality, we're creating from lack and separation. In other words, you're driving down the road and see someone driving a car that all of a sudden you realize that you don't have. The moment you become aware that that person has that car and you don't have it, you're in lack of having it, right? So what the brain naturally does is it naturally creates you driving that car. And you have an image of yourself driving that car and you start identifying, wow, that would be a greater experience for me to have.

28:51the problem is the distance between the thought of what you want and the experience of actually happening it happening for most people is the concept called time right between cause and effect right so some people develop the ability to manage themselves and manage their life they develop certain skills and they can pay for it and they can get it very quickly the problem is when the novelty of that experience wears off you know the car and they're no longer identifying with that. And the feeling of emptiness and lack comes back. They need to find something else. They got to go find something else.

29:25And so there's this game that goes on where you never have enough, right? And that's the lack game, right? So then if you think about people having the things they want in their life, when they create from lack and separation, it's the experience in three-dimensional reality that produces the emotion. And the emotion is saying, let's feel that experience this thing that you've been in lack and separation from, and that emotion then takes away the lack or separation. But you've worked really hard to get it. Okay. Nothing wrong with that. Is there another way to do it? Yes. Okay. So the person who's living in lack is waiting for their wealth to feel abundant.

30:06They're waiting for their success to feel empowered. They're waiting for their healing to feel gratitude. They're waiting for their new relationship to feel love. They're waiting for the mystical experience to feel awe. That's the Newtonian model of reality of cause and effect, waiting for that event to happen to take away this separation or lack. Nothing wrong with it. It's the way most people create. But what we've discovered is actually something else. The moment you feel gratitude, your healing begins. The moment you feel worthy and abundant, you're generating wealth. the moment you're empowered you are moving towards your success the moment you're in love with yourself and you're in love with life you'll create an equal the moment you are in awe of life you're going to have a mystical experience and so that's causing an effect right so then if you can teach people then how to create instead of from lack or separation but create from wholeness and create from what we call the quantum field instead of three-dimensional reality.

31:15What's the difference? Okay, so the way you, first of all, it takes knowledge, okay? The quantum field is an invisible field of energy that exists beyond our senses. You can't see it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it, you can't hear it, you can't feel it. It exists beyond our experience of three-dimensional reality. Would this be in our mind's consciousness, or would this be in a different space? Okay, let's look at that. So the answer to the question is how much of your waking day do you put your attention on matter, on the material world, and how much of your waking day are you aware of energy and frequency?

31:53For most people, they're unaware of the quantum field, and if you're unaware of it, it doesn't exist for you. Just like you have a nose, but if you're unaware of it, it doesn't exist for you. The moment you become aware of it, it exists. Well, the quantum field, you can ask, you can study all kinds of science, and they'll tell you there is this invisible field of frequency and energy that exists beyond the senses that tend to connect everything physical and material. In fact, everything physical and material is connected to this field. Okay? So how do you get there? Right? How do you get there?

32:26How do you get there? How do you get there? So we discovered that when you take all of your attention off your body and you are not paying attention to your emotions, your drives, your habits, if you take all of your attention off of every element in your environment, your cell phone, your tablet, your computer, your car, whatever it is, your bed, take your attention away from everything, every place that you live, where you sleep, where you work, and you're not thinking about time. You're not thinking about your schedule, where you need to be, or what happened yesterday. You can relax into the present moment.

33:07There tends to be a dramatic change in the way the brain functions when people do this properly. We call it getting beyond yourself, but in a sense, you're dissociating from your three-dimensional reality. Why? Because if you're thinking about anything in your three-dimensional reality, that's where your attention is and that's where your energy is, okay? So we kind of figured out this formula when people really become nobody, no one, no thing, nowhere, no time. We are pretty much all of a sudden outside the constraints of the Newtonian world of got to do something to get an outcome. And if you can teach people how to linger there without a name, without a face, without a profession, without a family, without a culture, without a past, without a disease.

33:50You teach them how to be in this place we call the unknown, right? And you teach them that from that place, that invisible field, is where everything material comes from. And if they could create coherence in their brain, you need a strong signal in the brain. The more coherent the brain, the more stronger the signal. What do you mean a strong signal. Okay, let's see how I could say this. When most people, we look at, when we look at brains in real time and we're looking at people's, how their mind is working, when you're under stress, okay, stress is created by not being able to predict something that's going to happen in your life, the perception that something's going to get worse or you can't control something, right?

34:34So when that occurs, we switch on that primitive nervous system called the fight or flight nervous system and the brain goes into this very alarmed state called high beta. That means pay attention to the outer world. There's danger out there. But if it's not a predator and it's traffic or your coworker or your ex, this is where it gets to be a problem because it becomes very maladaptive. So when we're in that state and the brain is in that aroused state, we try to control and predict everything so every person every object everything every place every even your body has a neurological network in your brain right so as the arousal happens we start shifting our attention to all these elements and like a lightning storm in the clouds the brain starts firing very very incoherently and when the brain's incoherent we're incoherent that's not a strong signal that's not there's it's a static on the wire that's disconnection there is no signal right so So when we're in that state, we're always really looking for the worst case scenario of what's going to happen.

35:35Because if you prepare for the worst, anything less happens, a better chance of survival, right? So in this kind of aroused state, as we shift our attention to each one of these elements that are known in our environment, the brain starts compartmentalizing and firing out of order. And that is what creates what's called autonomic dysregulation. That causes the brain and body to get really out of balance, right? So in that state, we're over-focused. When you're stressed, you're over-focused on something. You can't stop thinking about it. Our research shows that when you do that, you actually make your brain worse because you're analyzing your problems within some disturbing emotion, and that emotion is driving you further out of balance.

36:20You're actually knocking your brain and body out of balance by thought alone, and you're driving it into these more aroused states. For someone that's been living like that for decades, that's their base state. How do they even realize how to get out of that? They don't. Usually it takes crisis, right? It takes trauma. Extreme breakdown. Yeah, breakdown. A loss, a death, a breakup, a divorce, a near... Bankruptcy, whatever it is. A disease, a diagnosis, whatever. Something where you just can't go on business as usual. Now it's time to really start looking. They have to wake up then. Yeah. So let's get back to the concept of abundance here because...

36:56You need a strong signal in this field. Right. So then, if you can teach people to do the exact opposite, go from putting all of their attention on everything physical and material in the world of separation, and instead of narrowing their focus on something material, ask them to broaden their focus and put it on nothing. I know that sounds kind of crazy, but when you put your attention on space and you divert your attention, the act of sensing without thinking actually starts to slow the brain waves down not only slow it down but all of a sudden cause the brain to start reintegrating starts to synchronize right and so you see different compartments of the brain that were firing out of order start to resonate they start to communicate they're they're they're all of a sudden synchronizing and what sinks in the brain kind of links in the brain so when a person has their whole entire brain firing in rhythm That's a very strong signal that you can send out into the field.

37:58So when that signal is strong in that position, what can you create from that space? Okay, but that's only one element. Okay. So then the clear intention tends to be a very important element that we have to have to get down. And the more coherent the brain, the more clear the signal for that intention. So with intention and attention, we could actually make thought more real than anything else. Now, what is that? you're saying what would it be like to be wealthy what would it be like to be abundant what would it be like to have all my needs met what would it be like to have more than i need what would i do if i had everything i ever wanted the answer always is the same you start giving stuff away because if an abundant person is truly abundant why would they hold on they would say there's i'm not in lack there's more for everybody okay turns out though that the signal sent out isn't enough you're gonna have to draw the experience back to you so setting the signal out to you know coherent brain financial freedom whatever that is all these different right right right whatever that is for you whatever that is you're putting that out there with a signal that with the intention and the attention right and then how do you draw it so so now so physical world right in the physical world you got to go get it you got to do something this is the plane of demonstration you got to go get it and when you you're in lack until it occurs right so but I'm here you say there's a way to not chase but attract All right, so if you're creating from the field instead of from matter, right, there's a very strong possibility that you'll shorten the distance between the thought of what you want and the experience of having it.

39:31And when there's a vibrational match between your energy and that future that you want to experience, now if you're creating from the field, you actually don't go anywhere to get it. You actually draw it to you. So here comes the synchronicities, the serendipities, the coincidences, the opportunities, and they come out of nowhere. And you say, I don't understand. I didn't do anything. Well, you changed your energy. And so then the other element is a coherent heart, right? And the heart has a magnetic signature. And the magnetic signature is what draws reality to us, right? So you combine that clear intention with a coherent brain.

40:17Now, here's the key. This takes practice. Yes. Because the person who's living in lack is usually unworthy, is usually insecure, is usually in their past. They're usually frustrated. They're usually impatient. They're usually resentful because nothing's changing out there because it's taking too long. Everything takes a lot of time when you do matter to matter, right? So then if you teach them, okay, we know all about that. We know the story behind that. We know what your parents told you about money, all that. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. But now let's do something that would be really cool.

40:56Let's write down the feelings of how you would feel if that future happened. And you're going to have to feel that feeling before it occurs. so now okay what does an abundant person feel pretty much free a lot of freedom peace excited joyful in love with life grateful to be alive abundant okay now let's practice feeling those turns out when you're feeling those other emotions like resentment and impatience and frustration you're stepping on the gas pedal just turning on the sympathetic nervous system and you're stepping on the brake at the same time, which is you're angry, you're frustrated, but the fight or flight nervous system says run, fight or hide.

41:43And you're sitting in a Zoom meeting and your neck is pulsating is because the heart is beating against the closed system, right? You're not using it in an adaptive way. So the heart starts firing out of order. It starts firing incoherently and incoherent waves cancel each other out. It's called destructive interference. And then we stop trusting our future. Energy leaves the heart. When you control from the inside, like we're in control of ourself, we're in control of our world. So it doesn't matter what happens, you figure out how to get to where you're going. The goals don't change. Sometimes the methods of getting there do.

42:25But I have never, I think probably I had great teachers. I had a half a dozen phenomenal mentors. And I think I was raised the right way. You stay in control regardless, you know. Yeah. What would you say are some of the habits that you have that people wouldn't expect that you would have? Maybe they would expect certain things like waking up early or journaling or, you know, getting eight hours of sleep. But what are some habits that you do differently that maybe are unexpected in the personal growth space? I study every day. Every day. I've studied every day now for 60 years. I started to study this book in 1961, and I read it every day.

43:14Same book, Think and Grow Rich. I have just here behind me, I've got the laws of success, the original ones that Napoleon Hill wrote in 1928. And then he came up with this in 1937. And the man that gave it to me, he said, if you'll study this every day, he said, you're going to have a wonderful life. And he pointed out Napoleon Hill spent his whole life studying the lives of 500 of the world's most successful people. He was mentored by Andrew Carnegie, who at the time was the wealthiest man in the world. And he said, since he spent his whole life putting this together, he said, it would be a prudent move on your part if you spent the rest of your life trying to understand And apply what he was teaching.

43:58And that just seemed to make some sense to me. And that's what I started to do. And I've never stopped. If there was only one principle inside of Think and Grow Rich that you could only live by and only talk about. And you wouldn't be able to talk about anything else inside the book. What would that one principle be? Persistence. he said there he said in the book he said there may be no heroic connotation to the word but the quality is to the character of the human like what carbon is to steel see i think the trick lewis is get some good habit patterns and live with them all of your life

44:42because you're either going to grow or you're going to die it's uh it's create or disintegrate There's no such thing as leveling out and staying where we are. And some people think they can just hold it where they're at, but they can't do that. You're either going to go ahead or you're going to go backwards. It's create or disintegrate. And so if you have good habits, you're going to keep growing. Way back, I think around 1938, 39, Albert E.N. Gray worked for the Prudential. and he wrote The Common Denominator of Success. It's a great article. And he said, The common denominator of success is informing the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

45:28And he was speaking one time, a young guy said, Why do successful people like doing these things? And he said, They don't. That's why they've turned them into habits. I thought that was beautiful. because that's why they've turned them into habits. They don't like doing them. You see? And of course, a habit is... What do you think... Well, a habit is something we do automatically without any conscious thought. We just... It's part of our paradigm. We're programmed. What do you think are the three most difficult habits to develop that actually will support us for the most growth long-term if we can take these habits on?

46:07One of the things I think the most difficult is repetition of studying the same thing. I have a book here on my desk. It's in a book holder. And when I went to visit Earl Nightingale way back 1968, no, it was earlier than that, it was around 66, and I saw he had this book stand on his desk, and I asked him what it was. He said it was a book holder. And I said, why do you have it? He says, because I want to read those two pages every day for the next month, maybe two months. I said, really? The same thing. And he said, yeah. He said, then they'll become a part of me. And he said, that's really the secret of success is the repetition of an idea.

47:03You see that in sports. You play ball. I mean, it's definitely part of your game. you know, how many, how many plays would you have in your head?

47:18Well, a lot of different plays, but in football, there's really only like nine different routes a receiver can run as part of the tree of running a route. But there's so many different variations within plays that that one receiver could run. And then another person could run in tandem with that. So you have to, there's a massive playbook that you go through at the beginning of the season, and you've got to remember a lot of different things. But if you typically know the route you need to run and what other people are doing around you, then you can figure it out. But it's repetition that enables you to do that, isn't it?

47:54Over and over and over and over. You see, same route over and over. That doesn't just apply to football. I think that applies to life. And if a person will really understand that, it's through repetition that you program your subjective mind. And it's your subjective mind that controls your behavior. Doesn't make sense to some people, but if they would study it and start to understand it, they would start to do it. What's the most important thing on those two pages that you have up in front of you? Most important thing here. Read it to you. The lesson to be learned from the practical aviation of the present day is that of triumph of principle over precedent, of working out of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of the accumulated testimony of all past experiences to the contrary.

48:49With such a notable example before us, can we say that it is futile to inquire whether by the same method that we may not unlock still more important secrets and gain some knowledge of the unseen causes, which are the back of external and visible conditions. And then by bringing these unseen causes into a better order, make practical working reality of possibilities, which at present seem but fantastic dreams. They're talking about the Wright brothers. He said there was a secret. They got off the ground because nobody knew how to fly. And neither did they until after they got it in the air. But he pointed out that it was principle over precedent.

49:37And we let precedent control us too often.

49:43What's the difference between principle and precedent? Well, precedent, you're letting something that has happened in the past control you. The principle is that there's always a better way.

50:00Doesn't matter what you're doing. Better is a beautiful word.

50:08What's something in your life that took a long time where you were holding on to the precedent of something for a while? Maybe it was months, maybe it was years, decades that eventually the principle finally started to fly and you had a breakthrough. Is there an area of your life you can think of? Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Just as soon as you said it, yeah. You see, when I started in this, and I first got this book, I was such a loser. And I mean, in every way you look at it, I went to high school for two months. And I didn't quit. They kicked me out. They didn't want me there. And I was kind of happy because I didn't like it there anyway.

50:53I held dumb jobs I never had a half decent job the idea that I could even get a good job never entered my mind I had such low self esteem I didn't understand that at the time I didn't even know what self esteem was and letting go of the fact that I didn't have a formal education that I never had any business experience the man that gave me the book He said, none of that matters, Bob. That's the past. He said, let it go. Well, I had a difficult time letting that go. Because we're programmed that if you don't go to school, you can't get a good job. That if you're going to earn a lot of money, you've got to be really smart.

51:44Well, you see, I didn't think I was very smart, and I didn't have any formal education. that's a hard thing to let go of. But through the repetition of studying this over and over and over, as he pointed out to me, Edison had grade three. And he pointed at different people that had no formal education. And I finally made a break, left it behind. I'm not quite sure exactly when, but I let it go. Yeah. What would you say are some deciding factors that can help someone with their self-esteem? Because you and I are very similar where my childhood, I didn't, I didn't have much confidence in myself or esteem because I was in the bottom of my class in school because I was, you know, had tutors and special needs classes because I just wasn't able to understand and comprehend that well and felt awkward and goofy in my life.

52:46What are some things you think people that in their teens or even in their 40s and 50s who don't have confidence yet, what are the things we can be doing differently to gain confidence, to build self-esteem? Because I think this is one of the key factors of success is believing in yourself. It doesn't matter if the world believes in you if you don't believe in you. What can we start to do to change that? Well, I think a person has to start to study themselves. Most people know very little about themselves. They think they're their body. You're not a body. You have a body. And you have a marvelous mind.

53:20And when I first started to study this, I thought, you know, studying the mind, that's for psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists. And the man that told me, he said, no, it's not. He says that's for anybody. That's for little kids. And so I think as we start to understand something about our mind and something about our higher faculties, see, we're all programmed to live through our senses. We go by what we see, hear, smell, taste, touch. Well, I've got a little dog at home that you can see, hear, smell, taste, touch. All the animals in the world, they're completely at home in their environment.

53:59They blend in. They operate by instinct, which is perfect. we had instinct removed and we had higher faculties put in the place. And if we would study these and gain an understanding, your self-image would automatically start to improve. You have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, and intuition. Those six faculties will give you the ability to create your own environment. See, we're totally disoriented in our environment where all the other little creatures are completely at home in theirs. And we're disoriented in ours because we can create our own. But we don't know that. School doesn't teach us that.

54:48School is more interested in the development of your intellect than in the development of awareness. like a person doesn't earn$100 ,000 a year because they want$100 ,000 a year they earn$100 ,000 a year because they're not aware of how to earn$100 ,000 a month awareness is really the key and when we become aware of who we are and what we've got working for us you know, marvelous things start to happen to us and that's really what happened to me I never went back to school.

55:32I built a very successful company. It operates all over the world.

55:39I didn't do it myself. I have a tremendous team of people. I've got just an absolute genius of a business partner, a woman who's an attorney. I mentioned to you before, you should have her on sometime. You'd be fascinated with her. she's that interesting. But there's a group of people. We've attracted a phenomenal group of people in our company. And we're operating now in 91 countries. Wow. Teaching this information.

56:11I don't know another company that teaches what we teach. like I think Tony Robbins has probably done more for our industry than any individual The Secret has probably done more for it as much as Tony has the movie but there's I don't know anybody else teaching what we're teaching and what we're really doing is teaching people how their mind functions and how to expand their understanding of how it operates. What are the six faculties again? You shared this before, which I love. And I think if people really understood this, it could help them build their self. There's perception, the will, imagination, memory, reason, and intuition.

57:10Which one is the hardest for people to... I don't think any of them are. Awareness. They're all equally valuable. You take your imagination. Think of this for a minute, Lewis. Nothing is created or destroyed. Look here. Here's a little cell phone. What you can do with this almost blows your mind when you think of it. Yeah. Well, when I was a kid, we didn't have a phone. We didn't have a phone because we didn't have any money for the first reason. But the second, not everybody could have a phone. We were not aware that there was an infinite number of frequencies. Today, there's, what, a zillion phones because there's an infinite number of frequencies.

58:02This phone is on its own frequency. Yours, it's on its own frequency. If I have your number in here and I hit send, you and I connect. We're on the same frequency. It won't matter where you are. We can see each other. We can communicate because we get on the same frequency. Well, the good that we desire is already here. It's on a frequency. The way to build this has always been here. We weren't aware of it. But somebody took their imagination and went off into no place. what they were really doing is going on to a higher frequency. And if you'll stay on that frequency, you'll attract everything that you require.

58:44That's why Dr. Warner Von Braun, when President Kennedy asked him what it would take to build a rocket that would carry a man to the moon and then bring him back safely to Earth, Von Braun said the will to do it. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea on the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions. See, if you take your imagination, do it. You have goals. Take your imagination and then take yourself there. See yourself already have completed the goal. And then hold that picture with your will. When you go there with your imagination, there is a place.

59:35Whatever it is you want, you went there with your imagination, there is a place. You stay there in your imagination. You will attract everything that's required for the manifestation of that picture. You saw Brady doing it last Sunday. Yeah, as a machine. Yeah. Absolutely phenomenal. So holding the imagination, the picture that you want in your mind and then attracting it on the steps to get there. You see, we don't work toward the goal. We work from the goal. You get the goal in your mind. Our problem is we measure everything on the physical. And you look at the physical and you say, well, I haven't got it yet.

1:00:24If you think your conscious mind, if you get an image there of your goal, you've already got it intellectually. If you didn't have it, you couldn't share it with me. But if you have it, you can share it with me. You can share with me the idea that you've got in your mind. So you've already got it there, haven't you? Right. As you get emotionally involved with that idea, you've got it also on an emotional level. You've got it there. You've got it intellectually. You've got it emotionally. The only place you haven't got it is physically. Now, there's a period of time must elapse for that idea that you have intellectually and emotionally for that idea to move into physical form.

1:01:09We understand... How much time? Pardon? How much time does it usually take? We don't know. We don't know. That's the only thing we don't know is the gestation period for an idea. We know what the gestation period is for wheat. We know what it is for a carrot. We know what it is for a baby. Moment of conception is about 280 days. We didn't always know these things, but we do now. We don't know what the gestation period is for a spiritual seed, and that's what an idea is. But it grows by exactly the same law. And so if we hold that idea in our mind, it must, by law, manifest in form. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness.

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