Master Hypnotist Reveals The Manifestation Formula That’s MORE Powerful Than The Law of Attraction | Jim Curtis

34:56And so let's say that all I saw was evidence that I was a slow learner and I struggled in school. Yeah. It was an assumption, right? It was an assumption, but I was like, but it might be true. You know, there's some truth to it because of the results I'm getting as well. Yeah. How do I not lie to myself and say, actually, I'm a great learner and this is easy for me. How do I start to reprogram myself without lying based on evidence that's shown, actually, you haven't been good at this, or you have been in bad relationship after relationship, or all these guys did leave you, or these girls did screw you over, whatever it is.

35:35How do you not lie to yourself with a false assumption, but start to be of greater service to yourself with an empowering assumption so that you can remove the blocks to manifest more. That's interesting. Because are there really any truths or any lies? Meaning like perhaps there was a truth that in that way of learning that you didn't resonate with them. We were learning. But would there have been a different way of learning that would say that you picked it up really quickly? Or did you learn other things really quickly? Meaning like was there plays on the football field that you were like, oh I'm a better learner at this and therefore the truth could be that you're an excellent learner and so we start to think that like oh I'm not doing something in a way that is an expectation and therefore believe it creates a belief about this an assumption but and and that if I go against that go against that empirical evidence then it's a lie and how do I be practical and real and breaking free and what i do with people is like oh the truth is there's no reality there is no lie and there's no truth it's the matrix there's no spoon right the truth is that you can see even money take money to a desert island it has worthlessness it's worthless so the truth is you're probably a fantastic learner and so anybody that's or the truth is like you're probably incredibly dateable or incredibly lovable and that you just need to see it from a different reality which is when you find the person that resonates with you or when you find the modality of learning or when you find X instead of the empirical evidence says because there's no real evidence yeah no what would you say that is the biggest thing that blocks people from manifesting more so the blocks of manifesting more is their belief that they need to go down a particular avenue to get it right so if i believe that i need to do it this way to have more money but listen perhaps you don't have to be in finance i worked in finance i was i was worked on the floor of the america stock exchange and is it true that i would never have made much money on the floor of america stock said yes and so i recognized that but it didn't mean that I wasn't capable of making money.

37:57I was able to. I just had to find the right avenue to do it. And so you can have more love. You can have more money realizing that there's no one reality. It's all subjective. Yeah. You can have whatever reality you want. What do you think is the biggest thing that blocks you from from attracting more, manifesting more and raising your frequency every single day in this moment? That's a great question what what is it is blocking me I think that what what the what I'm still working on myself and the parts of me that I'm still working on that's blocking me is my clarity right or my real I don't wear your head it or what you want or know about I'll take on too many things huh I'll take on too many things and then I'm like okay I'm going to be able to do all these things and now I'm gonna have to find people to help me and so I think what blocks me is that okay I'm gonna commit to this one thing and go all for it and even if I think I can help someone over here or here I'm just gonna commit to this thing this one thing and do it and so by not doing that I think that I spread myself too thin so you you you put yourself in a focusing on one thing and you feel like you can't help more people or more progress at once or you feel like by taking on so much it all suffers I think by taking on so much that I'm splintering my focus yeah it all suffers yeah your energy is spread thin yeah yeah it's interesting because I I was at a mastermind years ago in Fiji with Tony Robbins yeah a week-long thing with Tony Robbins is this mastery now it's like a 20 person like private mastermind with him not a business mastery thing it was in 2018 or 2019 and i think it was 2019 and we all went around and we're like in his private resort right with like the ocean behind us and we're like sitting out and barefoot you know with like hawaiian shirt type of vibe like just a little hanging out like full day with tony and uh my and my buddy dean graciosi they were putting on this mastermind and you know there's 20 of us and everyone's got a hundred million dollar exit somewhere or something else or a big influencer or whatever and everyone went around and like asked a question and I think I was the last person to ask or one of the last couple people so I got to see everyone's kind of questions and there were a lot of breakthroughs and realizations so it's kind of like uh they all you know they all kind of asked something maybe I would have asked so something came to me for whatever reason because I kind of prided myself as a I used to be a decathlete in track and fields I was an all-american decathlete which is ten events as a one event thing in track and field yeah right it's like I wasn't great at one event but I was good at ten which allowed me to be great at the event of the decathlete I mean that's kind of amazing it was cool right because I wouldn't have been able to accomplish my dream of being an all-american athlete in one event but I was good enough at everything that I can excel in that event of decathlon and so I kind of like took that into life and business where I was like okay I'm gonna be great at everything I'm gonna be good at everything right I'm gonna try all these different products and revenue streams and all these different things at once now and try to accumulate them all to get to where I want to be but I found myself energetically drained trying to whack-a-mole every product and project and thing that I was doing at once to try to get them all to excel and being great.

41:40And so I was talking, my question was something around like, you know, how do I manage all these things? How do I make all these things better? You know, I'm doing like 10 or 12 different things and I feel like I'm like a seven out of a 10 on everything. It's pretty good. You know what I mean? I was like, yeah, It's pretty good, but it's like, I feel like I've been like a 7 out of 10 for the last decade. Yeah. And he goes, do you want to be a 7 out of a 10 type of guy, or do you want to be a 10 out of a 10? I was like, yeah, I think I want to be more of a 10 out of 10. He's like, you got to learn to focus your energy on like a couple of things, you know.

42:12And really, until you get the process and the people in place to accelerate those things, then you can take on something else. Unless you like being a 7 out of a 10. I was like, no, I just don't like that. Yeah. So it was a few years of eliminating certain big revenue streams that brought in a lot of cash, but kind of drained me energetically or just pulled away. And I started going all in on more of just the show being the main thing and everything started to grow and the impact started to grow as well in that few year transition. So it's not like it all happened overnight and it was like this effortless thing.

42:49There was pain. There was loss. There was grief. there was like a letting go of an old identity but a but an emerging new identity stepping forward um which has its challenges so it's interesting to think about but that's the way you're at now you're getting this audience growth and awareness and so you have more opportunities coming your way i have more opportunities and i can't help everyone although i want to of course and what will help the most amount of people but um there's two things that came up with you said like i've had a chance to work with Tony and Sage and like there's no one in my better and he's great so it he that question he asked you was NLP because it made you think of you know really the decision and the avenue that you wanted to go down and so that's that's a really powerful use of allowing your mind to kind of like direct itself with just one simple question and what's the difference between questions and directives.

43:47Yeah, directives. If he was to say to you specifically a question that was, if you weren't to splinter your energy over there, what would you accomplish? Something like that, right? Instead, he could have just said, don't splinter your energy. Do this. this and you say okay well it's tony robbins yeah i'm gonna do what you tell me to do but all of a sudden you empowered yourself by thinking like oh my god what could possibly be possible if i didn't do that right that's why with compliments it's the same thing sometimes people can't take a compliment like you look so your hair is so wonderful why is it so hard for people to receive compliments because they have that inner voice that says uh they're lying that's not true i'm not good enough I looked at myself in the mirror today and I actually hate my hair, whatever it is.

44:43But if you say something like, I wonder if you know how good your hair looks today. Oh, I wonder if that is true. Okay. All right. I'm thinking about that. And yeah, you know what? I think it does. It has much more of an impact. So as opposed to saying, I love the way your hair looks. You have great hair today. As opposed to like directing, you have great hair today or you have great energy today. If someone's not feeling that they're not gonna believe it right away if they have a critical mind Yeah, if they're ever clear mind and they're open to receiving it. They might say oh, thank you so much I appreciate it or they have a belief that their energy is good.

45:18Yeah, they're gonna say thank you so much I appreciate you acknowledging that and you look great too or whatever it is But if they're critical which is probably a majority of people Yeah, they are gonna deflect or say ah now I'm just kind of having a bad day But thanks or whatever they're gonna be dismissive of at first yeah or or they're gonna say thank you and feel awkward that they got the compliment or they won't really believe it because they don't believe it yeah but if we compliment someone by saying I wonder if you realize how good this looks or how your energy is or that you've got a great smile today or whatever yeah then it allows someone to reflect on the compliment in a different way yes it allows the subconscious mind to actually subconscious mind loves questions so it answers questions good and bad so it will allow it to answer oh, I wonder, and then, yeah.

46:06And then you added the positive aspect of it. So it's like, oh, I wonder. I wonder why that is. Oh, it must be true. And so that's, it's an NLP tactic, neuro-linguistic programming, but it's super effective to get below the critical mind into the subconscious to actually have someone receive something and start to change. That's what Tony did with you that's so powerful. What's another way that someone could complement besides I wonder? what's another like entryway to complimenting with a question did you know start with the preposition like perhaps yeah you know so start with something that has the mind thinking mmm before you ask their compliment you know and be specific be specific about what they're wearing so if you're going on a date and instead of you know with a beautiful person man or woman that probably gets a lot of compliments, you know, or perhaps the alarms will go up if they feel like they're being love-bombed with compliments or something like that.

47:10So, you know, find something specific and compliment it. Like, you know, did you know how amazing it is that you came on time? Wow. Did you know how amazing it is that you wore that dress? I love that color. You know, like, oh my God, yeah, that's an interesting loophole to get into someone's to allow them to really mix them, you know, a compliment. That's cool. Yeah. Because most people are stuck in stress and anxiety mode pretty consistently with what's going on in their lives or what they're consuming, the content, or they're judging and assessing, or they're in criticism mode or they're in envy mode or they're in self-loathing mode.

47:55so if someone is feeling stressed and anxious consistently what's a way that they can raise their frequency to start to feel better on a daily basis yeah yeah we're constantly in this high delta beta scroll scroll compare compare so we're constantly you can start to raise your energy just by emotional regulation and so when you emotionally regulate you realize that i'm here now in the present moment and by the way this really helps with this realization or this manifestation that when we start to emotionally regulate that i'm here now in this present moment that we relax and there's so much more that's capable of and so we start to ask ourselves two things what's true meaning is that really true or is it a thought is it could there be another truth to it right is there any other way that's the truth meaning there's if I was to cut your body open and look within your brain and your organs is that truth in there and if not then it's in our thoughts and beliefs and if that's true then there's 50 truths depending on 50 different people who look at it the same way and the second part is a lot of people just kind of feel like they're doing it wrong and I say this a lot and I say it after every meditation after every hypnosis after every coaching you know like you're doing it exactly right this is the school of life no pun intended and the curriculum is difficult and to think that you're doing it wrong it's not true it's not true you're doing it exactly right all these troubles all these circumstances all these things you you're meant to experience in some way yeah because the consciousness says that it's not happening to us it's happening through us for us as us as your consciousness rises and it's possible to raise your consciousness grow your consciousness from victims happening to me why this boy this man this woman this job this person this life this illness to it's happening for through and as it's like okay that kind of changes that even opens up my chest a little bit why is something challenging or bad happening for us perhaps it's a lesson perhaps you know if if you believe in something greater than yourself maybe it's a karmic lesson maybe it's a lesson that will help us get to a higher elevation of mind and spirit maybe it It was meant to happen so you could help someone else.

50:44Maybe it was your, for me, this illness was incredibly difficult. The stress at work was incredibly difficult. All the things that I've dealt with in my life have been really difficult. But I would not be in this moment here across the table from you if everything didn't happen. And so I'm insanely grateful for it. How old are you, Jim? 49. 49. It's almost three decades of pain or a challenge that you've been working to overcome and get back into wholeness and healing, it sounds like, right? Yeah. And it's a lot of pain. Like every day, I'm assuming you woke up with pain and you struggled to walk and you had doubts or challenges, at least in the first couple decades, it sounds like.

51:33in the last 10 years it sounds like you've really transformed your thinking and your your energy and you started to really heal and create wholeness yeah from the inside out right but that's that's hard when you have chronic pain like that specifically in your back yeah it feels like debilitating right it just feels like you can only you're limited to what you can do physically emotionally you can i move at a certain speed it feels limiting right would you take it back no really i i know what people feel like when they wake up in the morning and they're like excuse my language they're like they wake up in the morning and they're just like getting out of bed is hard because their their body hurts and then it's like immediately your mind hurts yeah right because inflammation of the mind inflames the body even more so vice versa it's working against each other and then you're like okay now i'm now i have this pain and it's like zapping my energy and and i have this physical condition that's making me different from people and i don't know what it is and so now i'm obsessing about it now i'm unworthy and all those things so i and that's an incredibly now now try to date yeah that's incredibly painful place i that's why i know people so well because i've been there but there is relief on the other side because of the mind-body connection.

52:58When you can start to realize, okay, this isn't happening because I'm a bad person, and there are things I can do to get out of this pain that the mind is miraculous and the body is too. And if we are actually a projection of something bigger, meaning like there is more, we are not our bodies, we are not our jobs, we are not our clothes, we are not our bank accounts. There's something actually bigger. the awareness of all that above it all we can all kind of like say what is that voice in my head that's asking these questions that doesn't feel pain and definitely not subconscious about the way it walks right that is that is love and when you can start to tap into that i've had a couple of these epiphanies that i would just break down in tears of relief because i tapped into this oh, oh, that's relief.

53:48And that relief is love. And when you can tap into that through some of these techniques that we've been talking about today, everything gets easier. The pain goes away. And there have been so many actual clinical studies that using hypnosis, meditation, other things, the people with chronic pain, it eliminates it. It eliminates the need for opioids. Self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis, different forms of TM, transcendental meditation and other forms that gets into the subconscious mind in such a way that the mind-body connection, you start to alleviate the inflammation that causes a lot of this pain.

54:24Because in a sense, I mean, it's your mind interpreting the pain of the body. Isn't that correct? Like the pain is really just the mind or the brain setting a signal of like, oh, there is pain in this joint or this muscle or this bone area, whatever it might be, this part of your body. it's the mind that's perceiving that correct yeah and so if you can calm the minds and almost get out of your body or above your body or through that pain with calm mind you almost don't feel the pain anymore yeah I mean this there's the physical and the energetic so one we have the biggest pharmacy in the world in our bodies yes all the best drugs that pharmaceutical companies can't replace it right right and they just enhance what's in our body so like the dopioid receptors and the opioid receptors and all those drugs are just being blocked so that we don't feel pain so if an outside drug can do that and it's releasing drugs within our body or creating changes then our body can do it yes in fact there have been i love the story of this um mountain climber.

55:36He was climbing, climbing, climbing, and he got into a predicament where he was going to fall. And he reached up and he held on to a part of the mountain or a stick or just something that was sticking out. And he felt no pain and an overwhelming calmness. and then he was able to pull himself up and he climbed over and leaned himself against the rock and he had like an out-of-body euphoria experience right and all that was was his mind releasing dmt all the opioids all the oxytocin so that he could have a painless death really yeah that's where he died no he didn't okay but he's in case he would it would be uh yeah and so He had a complete euphoria.

56:30So if we are capable of that through deep trance states, we can recreate it. And we can eliminate this fear and this pain. And then there's this energetic state that when you grow the energy, and Joe Dispenza talks a lot about this. I know he's been on here, and I love him. You can start to grow the energy within your body and your meridians. Some miraculous things happen. And I've seen some totally miraculous things happen. Yeah. So for those people who are like suffering physically because they've had a breakup or suffering physically because they're unhappy or they have pain in their body, there's hope.

57:15but again a lot of people live in pain and then they stress and have anxiety around having the pain and trying to find solutions to get out of it which causes more stress or more sense of control or uh consuming energy around what do i do to get out of this or i'm not good enough i'm not lovable enough so how do we tell the difference between our intuition and our anxiety speaking to us um that's a great point especially that vicious cycle of i need to do like all how do i get out of this right and and you can step back and say this listen i'm not wrong for having this i'm not doing anything wrong i'm not wrong and i can also find a path forward right so like stepping out of the weeds for a second just to say i'm gonna this is happening and it's okay and now let's find a pass through and so then the next question what was the next question the difference between understanding your intuition or anxiety speaking to us yes so often and we can talk about muscle testing and kind of how you feel it in your body too because intuition is expansive and you usually feel it in your body and it doesn't create a lot of thought it's a knowing you know like it's kind of a maybe you get a little voice or you just kind of feel this expansiveness in your body um and you're like that's the right one if you walk into an apartment you're with a person you feel that energy in resonance with anxiety or it starts to feel it in your stomach or in your chest and then you start to think obsessive like you start to find all the avenues the algorithm runs and you're trying to figure out figure out figure it out but the intuition really tells you and you So the other day I'm swimming, and I'm in the pool, and I'm doing my typical workout, and I start to think about all the things I have to do.

59:14And I started to think about, oh, God, I don't have the right resources to get these done. And then I was like, oh, and I didn't respond to these five people who are waiting. And I literally was getting slower and slower until I just stood up in the middle of the pool. And I like I just found myself standing up in the middle of the pool And I was like, oh, I have to really practice what I preach Well, and so what I started to think about I have a 17 year old son who's amazing I got this dog that I love I got all these awesome things happening with work and community I got my family all these amazing things I'd start to think about the sunset that I really love and I started to swim again more powerfully stronger than I ever did before and I started to say okay when you focus on the positive and the outcomes that you want it your body responds and you can actually do muscle testing yeah have you ever done it yeah of course it's so interesting to say that because i remember my senior year playing college football uh the second game of the season my dad left to go on a vacation with his girlfriend at the time my parents were divorced many years before then and he got into a car accident that left him in a coma for almost three months oh my god in new zealand so i'm in ohio in columbus ohio i'm 22 i'm a senior um and he gets into this car accident and i get a call at like 10 or 11 o 'clock a night before a game on saturday morning so friday night before the game and we don't know if my dad is alive or dead we just know like he was in an accident he's in a coma and it's all the way on the other side of the world this is in 2005 and so it was a lot of uncertainty and anxiety the next day I'm like do I play in this game do I like get on a plane and go to New Zealand right now which is going to take 24 hours to get there like what do I do right is my dad alive is he dead it was just this uncertainty and it was a lot of stress getting going to that game the second to last play of the game I break three ribs oh my god we lose the game in the last minute I break three ribs and I feel like oh my season's over I don't know if my dad's alive or dead right now and this is really sad all this is sad because it was my dream to play professionally and I broke three ribs and I'd broken the same three ribs the year before in a football game oh my god so i was out for the whole season the year before recovering from this bro these broken ribs it took me like months to recover and the same three broke again someone hit me from the side as i caught a ball and speared me and i could hear the cracks and so i'm just all this pain and stress and anxiety and overwhelm is in my mind right now like my my season is over again I don't know if my dad is alive or dead what am I gonna do and my sisters ended up going to New Zealand I stayed back because this pain was like throbbing and to get on a flight for 24 hours with like broken ribs I was like I need to wait anyway so if I'm gonna do this so I stayed back and they got there and he's in a coma for this first week while I'm in pain and I just made a decision I go I'm going to heal my my body I'm going to come back and I'm going to play the rest of this season whatever it takes and I'm going to do it in service of my father and energetically I'm going to send him love and inspiration while he's in a coma I get chills thinking about it because within two weeks I heal my ribs it's kind of like this miraculous thing yeah now I put a pad over it so I'm not just like I keep hitting it over and over I like put a pad over it but I'm able to run jump catch everything move how I need to and I get back on the field I missed two games and I come back and every day in practice and every game I would put tape around my wrists and on my my cleats and just put for dad and I put his name so I was playing for something bigger than myself yeah I'm playing to send energy so that he would heal or recover or get out of this coma.

1:03:33And by playing for something bigger than me, I felt like it made me heal faster. It made me stronger. And the crazy thing, Thanksgiving week, he woke up. So a couple months later, he woke up. Now he had a very long, he never fully recovered. And he was, he struggled for 17 years after that until he passed. But it was a powerful way to think beyond the pain and beyond the brokenness physically or spiritually that I was experiencing with my father, where he was, I wasn't sure if he was going to live or not. And it gave me a sense of energy to get out of myself, something greater than the sadness I was facing, the anxiety, the worry that I was facing, the loss that I might be facing.

1:04:21And it allowed me to put my energy and attention towards healing and sending love through the journey of how I'm going to show up every single day, how I'm going to practice with love and joy, how I'm going to, you know, come back and do my best to help the team win. And, um, I had the best season of my life, missing two games with three broken ribs. Wow. And that's gave me chills. Yeah. It was, it was powerful, but it was, and I could have easily gone into, why did this happen to me? My, my, my dream is over. All these things are over and it did do that for a few days until I made a decision and a lot of it was just directing myself like you said and creating new mantras new beliefs and reprogramming no I am going to create a healing for myself I am going to show up every single day in appreciation and gratitude even though I may have lost my dad and I'm going to do the best that I can do and it was a it was a powerful two three month journey while there was so much uncertainty with if he was going live or die and if i could play but it was a powerful for me for that season of life when i was 22 just trying to figure out what to do with my life at that time yeah and some people may be listening to that and be like yes but you know my my sadness is too overwhelming i can't do that and that's a mind trap of the backfire if i get it and and and it's completely possible but it's also because you had a mission and a vision right so if we don't figure out what our mission and vision in his life or something greater than us that like you know make money have a fancy car um then um then we will stay stuck in ruts longer because we don't have like that greater something propelling you yeah and to have a real mission and vision you got to figure out what you know a little bit of what you want and say what is that driving force that is going to drive me in my vision so when things get tough, I can be resilient.

1:06:23One of the things I like around having a mission and a vision, like you said there, is creating a season of life within that mission and vision. I had a three-month window. It was a season. It wasn't like, okay, the next 10 years I have to do this thing. It was, this season is over in three months. What can I do within this season? What is my mission right now? to heal, to recover, to be the best I can and practice every day, to play my best in the games and finish this season the best I can within the next three months. And I think sometimes people, I'm not saying you always need a timeline of things, but I think having a season of life knowing this is what I'm up to right now.

1:07:03It may not be forever, but this is what I'm creating for this year, this six months, this month to get me out of this rut and into this process. Achievable. Yeah, something in a season timeline. Yeah. I got a couple of final questions for you, Jim. One of them is, what's the difference between creating results by focusing on the outcome you want versus the outcomes you don't want? All right. Well, you're going to create whatever you focus on. So constantly we start to focus on what's missing or what we don't want. Meaning so I had I had these terrible pains in my stomach, terrible pains in my stomach.

1:07:45And I was like, oh, geez, this something's wrong. This is not, I didn't need something bad. This is an issue. And so I tried to ignore it. And finally, I went to the emergency room in Manhattan near my house, which is, you know, very crowded. And it is near a methadone clinic. It's a very difficult place. People are detoxing. People are very ill. It's very crowded. So they admit me. They put me on a gurney. I'm in a hallway. There's no room. You're just in a hallway on a gurney. And I had maybe two years earlier been to the emergency room, spent like 13 hours in there. And so I went in at like 7 p.m.

1:08:25And so all I'm thinking about is this is a major issue. This I'm going to be here all night. Who's going to take care of my dog? I have things to do. Maybe I have to like stay overnight. And it's like they're never going to get to me. and so I'm laying on the gurney I start to really freak out and stress about the things that I don't want and and the pain is getting worse worse and worse and worse the more I think about it the more I stress that the pain is getting worse and so the nurse comes over is like how long is this going to take and she's like expect to be here for hours and so it's getting so bad that I'm laying on this gurney in the middle of people are detoxing I'm in the middle of the the wing it's a mess and I start to think to myself, I need to, again, practice what I preach.

1:09:15What is the outcome I want? What is the real outcome I want? I want this pain to go away. Okay, what does that feel like? That feels like joy, that feels relief, that feels like excitement. What else do I want? I want the doctor to come and say, there's no problem, you can leave. Okay, what else do I want? I want to be out of here by 9 30. yeah I want to be out by 9 30. literally I'm just as a two and a half hour experience to me I want in and out and so the nurse comes over again I say listen what's the next steps here and she's like well you're gonna get this imaging I like which we're pre backed up it's like you know okay so like let's something's gonna happen here mm-hmm where the woman comes out and says you're ready we're ready for you literally in 15 minutes woman came out and said we're ready for you.

1:10:02And as soon as she said, we're ready to take your imaging, my pain went like from a 10 to a seven. I was like, okay, this is good. We're getting somewhere. That's, I like that. And so I get the imaging. It's very quick. I come back and say, how long do results usually take? Oh, about an hour or two, because we're backed up. I started to think, okay, what's the best result here? Okay. They come back quickly with, with quick imaging. And within 20 minutes, they came back and they said, we got bad news. You have appendicitis. And I was like, this is not, this is not the outcome I want. How did I do all this work and still get a really difficult outcome?

1:10:37Cause they have to do surgery on that. Right. And so, uh, is it like appendix? So you take your appendix out or something else? That's surgery. That's emergency surgery. Right then. Right then. So I started to say, okay, that's not the outcome. That's not good, but I'm still not going to go there. Really? I'm still not going to go there. I'm going to continue to focus on the outcome that i want and i said i'd be out of here by 9 30 and this is i'm gonna the surgeon's gonna come down and say that there was a mistake or something but what's the outcome that i want the feeling that i want and i started to focus on this expansion this feeling that i want and it's like this is not happening to me this is not my reality i'm focusing only on the outcome that i want that's ease and joy and me walking out of here with relief at at at 9 30 And so the surgeon does come down and he's like, listen, we don't really do surgery that much anymore for appendicitis unless it's about to burst.

1:11:27And in fact, we could probably give you some antibiotics now. And if it flares up again, you go see a surgeon on your own time and you get it taken out quickly. Really? And here's a surgeon's name that is associated with the hospital. So I can leave? And they're like, yeah, you just get this like a bag of IV of antibiotics. And she puts it in. She's really quick about it. And it goes in about 10 minutes. And I'm like, holy, I can't believe this is happening. And then I'm just like, I get up. I said, that's it. I can go. I'm going to sign these papers. I go. I walk out the door. And I'm like, let me just check.

1:11:58I go reach in my phone. I check 932. Wow. 932. Wow. So when you focus on the outcomes that you want, instead of the outcomes that I don't want, oh, my God, this is painful. This is terrible. All these, life gets easier. You manifest what you want. And also your pain goes down. I was walking out of there and the antibiotics shouldn't have been didn't take effect that quickly, but my pain had gone from a 10 to a 3 Yeah, you struggle walking some days, but you were skipping out of there. You're like jumping out of it I was literally walking so easily out of there. So like When you focus on the outcomes that you want You get the outcomes when you want when you focus on the outcomes that you don't want you get the outcomes You don't want what are your favorite affirmations for abundance then that people can say to themselves every single day yeah so um i really love studying the i am frequency that's of creation wholeness that you are not the separate wave you are the ocean and so i use i am and so like i am money like i am the energy of money i am the frequency of money uh i am abundance itself um i you know money flows to me easily the I am oftentimes when you just repeat the mantra I am it's like the message to the universe that you are whole one and complete and so I don't say anything I feel my energy expand and I did it to prepare for this interview today I did it to prepare for everything it's such miraculous things because when you're not separate you're one with everything that you want.

1:13:40And so the I am mantra, just sitting in a quiet place, feeling your energy expand with I am positive thoughts about what you want. I am, I am, I am that I am. And just repeating that at any moment throughout the day. Yeah. And then with your affirmations, um, you can put what you want at the end of I am and, and, and then using the question format, right. Even start to say, how is it that I am? How is it that I am so worthy of money? So I mean, show me universe is what you're saying. Yeah. So like the questions before that we were asking the subconscious mind, the NLP, you can start to use questions within your affirmations.

1:14:21Like, how is it that I am so good at making money? Right. And the subconscious mind isn't going to say, no, you're not good at making money. That's not its job. The subconscious mind is to say, answer that question. How is it that I'm so good at making money? Remember, well, you're industrious. When you were 10, you had a paper route. You know how to do it. Yeah. You're resourceful. You're this, you're that. You got this job. You did this thing when you showed up this way. So keep doing more of that. Exactly right. You've got great content on social media. Jim Curtis one, I believe it is right on Instagram.

1:14:51Jim Curtis one, Jim Curtis one everywhere. And there was a video you talked about, which are the top four signs. Someone is living in a high vibrational state. Can you share what those four signs are i love this yeah if you notice like animals are like coming over to you all right calmly and just like loving yeah yeah i was at a friend's house the other day she's like boy my dog hate you know he's always growling and biting people and this dog is like in my face like wanting me to pet it um so you know cats are always at your legs the the dog that no one likes is kind of like trying to get your attention animals like you friends and family members are asking your advice they want your counsel they're they're interested in kind of your point of view and you're do you ever have that kind of baby that is just always staring at you you walk by babies and they're like kind of caught up in your aura they're like staring at you yeah if it was an adult it'd be a creep but since it's a cute baby you're like i keep staring for like five minutes into my soul yeah and you're staring back yeah those are some really easy ways to tell that if it was an adult you'd be in jail you know but for the baby it's different yeah yeah yeah yeah those are some ways just to show that like you have a higher frequency uh-huh that you're off you're resonating at a higher frequency.

1:16:18So if animals like you, friends, family ask for your counsel, babies stare at you, staring at you, you know, the, you know, things just seem to go your way. It's like you have luck all the time. Not all the time, but it seems like, yeah, like things go your way. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. And why do you think animals and babies or people, um, can intuitively sense when someone is in a high energy state like what is that what is that energy that aura that essence is it a belief that someone is living within is it a calm is it a relaxed state is it you know can you trick them can you trick animals or babies to like hey i'm this charismatic like human but really be negative inside yeah especially horses they know they feel it yeah they feel it so that is our true essence.

1:17:15That's our truth, right? We have this ability to sense things. And that's why I always say when we're about to do a session that has trance or hypnosis work, like lock up your babies, lock up your dogs and cats. I say it jokingly, because as soon as you get into that theta state, they're like, oh, you're here too? What are you doing here? And then they jump on you but we all have this innate wisdom to be able to sense the vibration and energy and it's just our mind so loud we don't we we second guess it but we're all feeling it we're feeling the energy of each other be in the first second peeling it from when when we walk in the room if the person's in another room you can just peel it yeah and when you quiet down your mind you know we all have it's so interesting because i feel like i've always you know i struggled with not feeling like i had the smarts or the skills from school to be useful for people in life because i was in the bottom of my class all through school so i had this belief like i'm not good in school can i be useful in life but as i started to play sports and I started to learn human dynamics of teamwork of being coachable of coaching others of just like in a dynamic of we're setting up for a goal we're practicing we're going through challenges and overcoming them together and we're accomplishing goals or we're failing at them but we're learning lessons together and kind of enduring this season of sports I started to understand people better and I said okay maybe I don't have skills or smarts here from school subjects and like memorizing stuff or tests but when it comes to sports and mobilizing a goal and trying to accomplish that within a groups of people I can excel and I'm actually really good and I'm very talented in this in this side of life but I remember going into you know after my sports career was over and I was like how do I make money like and everyone's asking about your resume and about the college degree and like what was your GPA this is back in like 2007-8 like I can't show them any of those things because I didn't have any skills from that world right but I don't know if this sports stuff would translate into a career or business so I was really concerned about it I was Will I ever make money?

1:19:47I have no idea. Early on, I started attending these kind of like social media meetups. And I just went in there with like curiosity and joy. And so I was just going in for fun. I was meeting people. I was asking questions. I was like, man, what you're doing is so cool over here. And I was just curious the whole time. And by doing that and asking questions and kind of bringing that energy people just wanted to help me and so i always started to so i started to go to a lot of events and i started to build relationships and i just brought energy and joy and positivity to these events knowing that i couldn't bring like some skill from a work career because i didn't have a work career but i had energy i had passion i had curiosity i had like sense of like wonder and love for what people were doing and what they overcame and I always found that people just wanted me to like they wanted to invite me to the next thing and they wanted to introduce me to this person and that led to something because you made them feel in a different way they don't know it's how you feel it's it it's it and so I just really leaned into that and anytime I felt self-cautious like man I don't I have nothing to offer these individuals like everyone here is smarter than me way more talented I was like but when I enter this room I can I can stand up a little taller I can smile and I can ask questions and be curious and I can bring joy to what people are talking about and I felt like that was one of the greatest skills that I brought for many years and probably still bring because I still don't feel like I'm the smartest person ever in any room but I can bring positive energy and joy and curiosity and I think people are craving that.

1:21:31So you got to look at what are the resources you can bring to a situation that raises your frequency and raises the energy in any room to be of service to those individuals. Yeah, I think that's an amazing point. How do you think you learned that? How do you know? Survival. Survival. Because I was like, you know, the housing market crashed and the economy was down at this time. And I was like, how do I get the job? I don't know. I was living on my sister's couch for a year and a half. Someone else might have gone a different route. How did you know that you were going to go with curiosity? I think because I didn't have the skill from school.

1:22:04I didn't have like a high GPA or like skills from school. So it was survival. It was like, how do I get into a room? How do I get a seat at the table? How do I meet these people? Let me show up at the event and let me ask questions. Because I can't say something like I know what I'm talking about. So I just didn't speak about anything I knew. I just ask questions and said what do you know and guess what people like to be asked question? They love it They love it and they were like I would ask questions I wouldn't say anything about myself and at the end of the night people like this is the most interesting guy in the room And no one knew anything about me, right?

1:22:41Yeah, but I was just like fascinated with people's like man How'd you do this man? Tell me more? This is incredible and people like I like this guy. I'll meet this person Oh, you know and curious that's I mean anybody listening to this in their business or dating life Like find find some authentic curious questions to ask absolutely. Yeah, people people like to be listened to that's it man Jim, I appreciate this. I got three final questions for you two final questions for you Before I do I I want people to follow you Jim Curtis on social media. Can Jim Curtis one? On social media give a website to what people can go to your Curtis one Jim Curtis one.

1:23:18Yeah, calm. Yeah, they can check it out there. Cool But you've got a lot of great content if people are looking for affirmations and mantras and just great inspiration to serve you if getting out of anxiety or stress. Check you out on social media. A lot of great content there. And I want to acknowledge you, Jim, for, you know, all that you've endured and overcome for three decades of pain. Because I know how challenging life can be when you feel constant pain, fatigue, stress in your body. it can feel daunting. It can feel like it's so hard to overcome. Like, is there ever going to be a relief?

1:23:56Am I going to be stuck like this for the rest of my life? It can feel like the biggest weight in the world holding you down. So I want to acknowledge you for not letting that weight define you, but redefining who you are and continually evolving your identity to be of service to humanity by learning new skills by learning new resources by finding new skills to serve your mind and your body to be whole and free again and being a messenger of hope for other people who might be experiencing something in their life physically or mentally that's holding them back so i want to acknowledge you for the journey you're on and the the process of you continually showing up and being of service i appreciate you doing that thanks i appreciate that um this is a question i ask everyone towards the end it's called the three truths so imagine hypothetically you get to live as long as you want but it's your last day on earth and many years in the future and on this last day you have accomplished everything you want in your life and you've experienced life to the fullest and you've seen all your dreams come to reality physically spiritually materially everything but it's the last day and on the last day in this hypothetical world you've got to take all of your work with you your content your message your book this video anything you've ever shared with the world it's got to go with you to the next place when you pass so we don't have access to your content anymore but you do get to leave behind three things that you know to be true three lessons from all of your experience and we do get to keep that what would be those three lessons or three truths for you that you would leave behind ah that's amazing we are not defined by our pain or our body we are greater than our pain in our body we are not defined by it

1:26:00all people, all of us, every one of us are at our core, our very, very core need that drives everything else that we possibly do in life is love. That's our core need, our core desire, our core everything. We want to be loved and to love something, someone.

1:26:27and the third is we are in our reality our current outer reality is always shaped by our inner reality and and both of those are are mutable meaning we can change them we can craft them we we can affect them. I love those. And final question, what's your definition of greatness? A definition of greatness is your contribution to the world. Not what you have, but who you can actually impact. Yeah. Jim Curtis, thanks for being here, man. Appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links.

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