The Science Of Manifestation: How To Transform Your Energy To Change Your Reality

29:42okay so then how do we down regulate that old belief if the trauma created an emotional quotient of six or seven then your decision to change your beliefs got to be a nine right and you got to come out of your resting state and that moment has to define you you could say i know exactly where i was the time and day it was who i was with when i made my mind up to change right because you created a long-term memory long-term memories are created from strong emotions yes but at the amplitude of that emotion is greater than the betrayal boom the body starts responding to mind then you're actually giving your body a taste of the future emotionally so you brand your what's possible no your body is actually getting the taste of that future of it experiencing the future now exactly big explosion in the quantum field big explosion so the side effect of that is if you combine that clear intention with that elevated emotion, you're basically remembering your future.

30:44And it looks no different than remembering your past. Think neurologically within the circuits of that memory and feel within the emotions of that new belief and watch your life begin to change because nothing changes in our life that we change. And when we change our energy, we change our life. So now the experiment all of a sudden is no longer based on it being hard or trying or wishing or wanting or hoping that's what we do when we're lacking or in lack of separation it's about change so then when we finally realize in order for us to become abundant we have to overcome the old personality and that's 95 % of who we are right yes so then the side effect of the beginning of this process is a lot of discomfort it is a lot of discomfort because you're stepping outside the known into the unknown and now you can't predict.

31:37It's scary. No, you'd rather hold on to your lack. The pain, the suffering. Rather tell the story of that at least it makes you feel something that's familiar. When you step outside and you're saying I'm not gonna complain about money any longer, I'm not gonna complain about I don't have any, I'm not gonna judge other people who do, I'm not gonna say I can't, I'm not worthy, it's never gonna work. All those things gotta go. I'm not gonna feel lack, I'm not gonna feel unworthy, I'm not gonna feel separation, I'm not gonna feel resentment. These are the things that are keeping my reality the same.

32:04Now it's no longer about abundance, about who you become. So the overcoming process becomes the becoming process. And so many people come through this work, they want abundance, they want healing, they want a new relationship, they want a new career, they want the mystical, but really they want wholeness.

32:27what does neuroscience tell us about signs signals and synchronicities are they you know something we should be paying attention to based on neuroscience and brain chemistry or is it more spiritual woo-woo well neuroscience doesn't tell us anything about that or much let's say about that at the moment but that's why I'm probably going to write another book which i said i would never do but i'm just so fascinated by this um so when i get back um to london i'm going to start like properly doing the research on this so far it's being kind of something i'm interested in and i have to say i wasn't sure if my book publisher would be okay with it um and about these things science signals yeah that's fascinating i love that stuff And I think that it coming from a neuroscientist is a new angle.

33:24It's not that there aren't books out there on this kind of thing. But I really want to open up that conversation as well, because there's a lot of people suffering. And like I said, you can sound like you're crazy if you start talking about stuff like this. So I want to open up the conversation, being open, but trying to keep it as rigorous as possible to give people permission to come forward and share these stories, because I think that's only going to be good for everyone. Wow. That's cool. So when someone sees the signs, signals, and synchronicities happening in their life, what do you think that's telling them?

34:05That they're on the right path, that they should be paying attention more, that they should be trusting their intuition more when they're seeing these three things? um so i feel like what it says and somebody said this to me actually the last time i was in la but it had to land really emotionally for me to to believe it and that's what i want for everyone is it tells you that you are being guided and it tells you that you're safe and protected all right and one of the things i picked up from you a couple of years ago was that you said sometimes you know if I'm feeling like in an emotional crisis I just say to myself I'm safe I'm safe I'm safe and I can't tell you how many times I've used that in the last two years that's beautiful but that's kind of like self-soothing the inner child right yes with this kind of interest and more esoteric things that I've had like since I met you that time I'd like to think that it's not I'm not just safe because I tell myself I'm safe but I'm safe because I believe in something greater and I'm tapping into it and I'm allowing it to make me feel safe.

35:17Because however good you become psychologically at soothing yourself, you can still feel very alone. So feeling like - Unless you have a deeper spiritual connection to something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what I meant to say. Wow. That's fascinating. Do you believe that we can be in beautiful, healthy, loving relationships and we can manifest everything we have on our vision or action boards if we have yet to heal the wounds of our childhood as a neuroscientist? No. Really? Wow. Wow. So if we have these visions and dreams and goals that we want to go after, if we want to have a beautiful relationship, but we are wounded still, the inner child is wounded inside of us as adults, what will happen to us?

36:10So this is really about inner child and shadow, right? So I think people understand that you've got an inner child that maybe didn't get over things that you experienced in your childhood. shadow is about the parts of yourself that you've rejected because as a young child you rely on your primary caregivers for survival yes and if there is something that they don't love about you you want to hide that for all the world so that they will still love you and like not let you die you don't want anyone to notice about you no that's shame so you hide it away in childhood and often find yourself in adulthood no longer even aware of what those things are because you've rejected them so deeply.

36:53Wow. Yeah. But that's driving a lot of your unconscious behavior. Right. So if you put together the inner child and the shadow, then what happens is you meet people on the same level of psychological wound as you. Oh, man. You also leave people if you evolve out of that and they haven't been able to. Wow. Which I think goes back to one of the pieces of content I heard you talk about, which is like the sense of smell connecting to someone's stress levels or anxiety levels. Like you'll kind of attract a similar nervous system or I guess a certain similar like, I don't know, stress level. Yeah. Is that right?

37:33It's not smell. It's sensing. sensing, not through smell, the level of the stress hormone. Interesting. But that's short term, right? But the inner child and shadow stuff is longer term. Gosh, that's fascinating. Yeah. So you think we attract people based on our psychological wounds? 100%. Wow. And as we start to heal and grow, if the other person's not healing and growing, we kind of pull away. Mm-hmm. Wow. That's interesting.

38:07oh i can see the cogs moving in your brain it's fascinating speaking i guess about relationships and men and women with all of your expertise on the brain is the process of manifesting love and falling in love different from men versus women i think if it's love you're really looking for then it's not different not lust yeah the issue is what you're actually looking for So you think men and women manifest love the same way, similar ways? Yeah, I think if you want that sense of partnership and friendship and intimacy and you want to be loyal and you want it to be for the long term, then it doesn't matter what gender you are.

38:48but if the disconnect is often and you know this is a bit of a stereotype but usually it's more that men sorry that women want a loving stable relationship and men perhaps you know don't want that as much want sex or whatever yeah or don't you know just don't want it right now but go through periods where that's what they want and go through periods where that's not what they want which I guess could be true of any gender as well but overall more likely women will want to like be in a monogamous relationship Why is that based on kind of the brain size? So it comes from evolution. So when we lived in the cave, women did need men to protect them from predators and to hunt for food.

39:30I guess especially if they're pregnant too and they weren't able to go out and hunt or gather or whatever it might be. I mean, they generally didn't hunt as much, so they gathered more. But then it's hard to get protein from what you gather rather than what you hunt. So for survival, and they use the fat and the skins and everything. So it wasn't just food, it was shelter and fire and all of that kind of stuff. So although we don't necessarily need a man for those physical things now, it's a very strong survival wiring in the brain. And so what we have, in the cave, we lived nomadically. So often the men would go and hunt and be away for a very long time.

40:18Or if they went far enough and they found a cave of the same tribe, they would just stay there and not go back. Why risk your life to travel back for six weeks? But over time, a lot of societies in the modern world have asked people to live in unit families. And so we have seen men's brains be rewired. Really? Yeah. Relatively recently, like maybe in the last 10 years, researchers showed that when you become a dad for the first time, oxytocin rewires your brain so that you're more into bonding and less into the testosterone competitive stuff. Because if you think about it, lions and tigers, they'll eat their own children.

40:59You have to tame that in some ways, right? But how do you tame it, but also harness it in other ways? You know what I mean? It's like a dance of having drive and testosterone. testosterone yeah like i never want to lose that yeah right right i get this question all the time but i also want to be like a great loving parent and yeah partner and all these things yeah and not let testosterone drive me in doing damaging things you know so well so from about the age of 35 your testosterone will have started dropping significantly already not mine

41:37one's testosterone tends to drop from that age um so when you do become a dad it drops after you become a dad for the first time oxytocin goes up testosterone drops you become much more about like cuddling and bonding and wanting to stay in the home and look after the interesting mom and the baby less about less about like lifting and like hunting right yeah Interesting. If you keep lifting, then you would actually keep your testosterone levels higher. Also, if the baby sleeps in the same room as you, then your testosterone levels drop even more. Come on. So you might want to move out for three months to a different bedroom.

42:14Yeah. I've already told her, I'm getting my sleep the first few months. So your testosterone drops? If you sleep in the same room as the baby. Why is that? Because the oxytocin's becoming higher and higher because you've got this cute little warm thing that smells so nice and is so like vulnerable and dependent on you. And it's like in the room with you the whole eight hours, you know, just oxytocin boost. But are women attracted to men with less testosterone? They are when they're not fertile, but they are not when they are at peak fertility. Really? So mid cycle, when you're ovulating, you're going to want a bad boy.

42:53And the rest of the time, you're going to want a nice man that will stay at home and help you look after the baby. So if you're not a bad boy when you're at peak fertility as a woman, is that going to hurt the relationship if you don't give women what they want? Hang on, say that again. So if a man is not a bad boy when a woman is at peak fertility and the man just wants to cuddle and chill and not be driven by testosterone and give the woman that testosterone feel, will that ultimately hurt the relationship long term if the woman doesn't get what she wants sexually? I mean, I think if she's chosen him by then.

43:29So this is more about when you're like in the choosing phase. Once you've settled down with someone, then you have like a logical conversation about are we trying for a baby or not, right? But logic and emotion are two different things in relationships, you know? You might logically say, okay, I'm safe, but emotionally you want something else. This is a reason that people cheat. Right, because they're not getting what they want sexually. Yeah. And so it's like, how do you suppress the thing you want sexually to be like, oh, but he's such a good guy or this. But if he's not giving me what I want, then I'm going to find it from this other younger testosterone man.

44:05You're getting really jealous here. I'm not getting jealous. This fantasy younger high testosterone man. Well, I'm just thinking, is this what women deal with? I know. Is this what women deal with? Yeah, to some extent, you know, more consciously or less consciously, depending on the woman. Yeah, it's interesting, right? So let me kind of explain the physiology behind it from the research that we know the best. Yes. Which is in prairie voles. So there are two types of voles in America. Marsh or mountain voles. Voles? What's a vole? Vole. It's a little rat-like creature. Prairie dogs? No. No, it's a vole.

44:47It's more like a mouse or a rat. Okay, cool. The ones that live in the marsh or the mountain, they have plenty of food and plenty of shelter, and they're super promiscuous. The ones that moved to the prairie, where there's scarce food and shelter, they snuggle in and settle down and become monogamous for life. The same rat, the same mouse, but just living in different areas. Come on. so so wait you tell me rats are monogamous these voles these voles are monogamous um if they live in the prairie if they live in the prairie but not if they live in the farm but if they have a if they have all the food and abundance they're just and lots of female voles that they can go and visit they're just little polyamorous voles yeah because they know that if they get they get um you know one vole pregnant and she's left on her own to look after her young they're going to survive because they're well sheltered there's plenty of food for her to nip out and bring it back to the babies yeah but in the prairie if he was promiscuous then the chances of his offspring dying are quite high because she can't defend the nest herself she can't find enough food for herself and then without help and so let's extrapolate this how does this help humans right okay well which first off which which mice are happier the ones that are more promiscuous or the ones that are coupled i think it depends on the on the bowl so you think the female mice are happy if they just you know are pregnant but then their partner just leaves they're not happy no how do we know can we test that okay so how do we apply this to our lives there is an answer to that okay we test it through um levels of oxytocin and vasopressin come on have we done this have people done this yes no way these mice yeah wow that's crazy um and actually just to be serious the research has done more to help with loneliness grief and heartbreak but obviously it's got implications for dating wow um so because one of the things that we saw with the receptors in the brain is that like if if i'm in no it's got to be the other way around if you're in love with me you've got more vasopressin receptors in your nucleus accumbens which is on the reward circuitry and then every time you see me you get a reward and the longer that we've been dating and stay together and become closer that reward becomes more intense every time you see me however if we then had a prolonged separation time can down regulate the effect of those receptors so obviously there are implications for that in a breakup or grief right right um and but one of the things i think is like so so important for dating is that if a woman if a couple are getting to know each other and this is all on like heterosexual couples research then as a woman is sexually interested and liking the guy and enjoying the dating her oxytocin levels is like slowly slowly starting to go up when they start actually having sex she's going to be releasing higher levels of oxytocin every time she orgasms and that's going to make her bond to the guy much more if you have sex on the first date the guy's vasopressin levels will plummet straight away and all he'll be interested in is testosterone.

48:24If you make him wait, his vasopressin and oxytocin levels go up. And then when you do actually have sex, he's already bonded. So it's more likely to become part of a loving relationship. Wow. So if a woman sleeps with a man on the first date or two, is a man driven to want to bond long-term with that person? No. Why not? Because the vasopressin levels drop as soon as he has sex. What does that mean? So vasopressin is the one that makes the prairie voles monogamous. The higher the levels of that, and that the receptors appear in the reward circuitry of your brain. And so basically, if you see your partner in distress, it affects your brain, those neurons, and you want to comfort her through physical touch.

49:17So that's oxytocin. but if you haven't had time for those receptors to appear in the correct place to make you bond then it's just it's just you know it goes back to lust so what i say about love and relationships is that the genetics and the receptors will load the gun but sexual activity will pull the trigger Mm-hmm. So based on neuroscience, if you sleep with someone quickly, you're less likely to bond long-term together. They're more likely to be promiscuous or just not be as interested in that person long-term. Is that right? Mm-hmm. That's fascinating. I know. But you hear a lot of people just be like, you know, just sleep with them on the first day.

50:06It's fun. Just have fun. You know, it's all good. But I just feel like you're setting yourself up for letdown. But if that's what you want, that's fine. But don't expect the guy to keep liking you after that. No, no. And don't say it's fine and it's fun if you actually want a long term relationship and then be disappointed that they didn't want that too. Yeah. So the brain chemistry within a man changes if they have sex earlier with a woman. And it changes in a different way if they wait and they actually create a bond. First, and then have sex. Yeah. What changes within a woman when they have sex with a man?

50:45Do they become more bonded to the person? Yeah. So for the woman, it's not so much to do with whether they are already in love with the person or not. If they're having sex and they're releasing oxytocin, because we don't have as much testosterone as you. you've got at least seven to eight times as much testosterone as me. And that buffers the effect of oxytocin, whereas I would get the full effect of oxytocin. That's fascinating. So a woman, when they have sex with a man, they're bonding quicker. Yeah. When a man has sex with a woman, he's not necessarily bonding right away. He has to have more time connecting with her until he bonds.

51:24Yeah. That is interesting. And then sex will, then the oxytocin isn't as buffered by the testosterone. So when you've got the vasopressin and the oxytocin high, then the testosterone has less negating effect on it. This is fascinating. Okay. What else about neuroscience and relationships should we address since we're on this topic that you think is really interesting? um so i think you know the whole like visual and smell thing at start is quite interesting and then the receptors and hormones to do with bonding and sex is really interesting i would say that because we live so much longer now you know we we're using these cave analogies but to be honest in cave times you and i would both be dead died 30 yeah um so relationships potentially have to last for longer and I think there's two things to say here one is that you can use neuroplasticity to keep growing and changing in a way that keeps a relationship fresh if you are holding on to this fantasy that a relationship has to last forever even if we're now living till we're 100 right so I think another way to look at it is about being in the present not necessarily putting this intense pressure on yourself your partner and the relationship that it has to last forever yeah um understanding that even if a relationship breaks down and that's obviously difficult to handle at the time that there are potential possibilities for something that's more right for you at a different age than maybe a choice you made in your 20s um so you know nothing you don't have to be a neuroscientist to say those two things it's kind of like just using your brain to understand that there's a certain amount of time there are you know benefits to being in long-lasting relationships but there are possible alternatives as well.

53:23Yeah, that's interesting.

53:29How does someone start to believe something is possible when they've never created it for themselves? That's a beautiful question. How does somebody believe something is possible when they haven't created it for themselves? It's possible for me to make a million dollars or possible for me to become financially free when I've never created it and I've always been broke. There's two ways to do that. Number one, people think that it's very difficult to get there and it's actually much easier. Your body and your mind and your soul are very compliant. If you say something over and over again, and it's so simple, I don't want to overcomplicate spirituality.

54:02If you say something, a mantra over and over again, even if you're faking it in the beginning, your body, your mind, and your soul will comply with that vibration. And then you will do actions that will be closer to that vibration and they will reinforce each other. So what I do literally every day is I just ask myself, what is the highest vibration I need to get to. I see the delta of where I'm at now and where I need to get to. And I just keep hitting that point over and over and over again, incessantly until all of me complies with it. And it happens every time. How do you hit that point when you're feeling depressed or depleted or down?

54:36That brings me to the second thing. Every single week, I try to find people who have already achieved what I'm trying to achieve and spend time with them, add value to them and serve them. because Kabbalah explains there's a universal law. If you add value to someone or serve them in a way that makes their life better, you draw from them their positive qualities, traits, and vibration. So there's something that I want from Lewis, meaning what do I want? All I want from you is the consciousness you've already created. I want the vibration you've already achieved in your life. I want the real wisdom because wisdom and consciousness is the one thing I can take from you that doesn't take away from you but adds to you.

55:20It doesn't ask of me, it adds to me. It does, because if I become one more person that learns from you, the universe then replenishes you with even more wisdom and energy. So as you grow your audience, your wisdom increases because your audience craves more through you. And so the creator bestows upon you much more wisdom and energy. And that's the value of growing your audience. And I'll tell people on social media, people are growing their audience because they think, well, that's how I monetize or that's how I become famous. than the ego gets in. The only intention you should have for growing your audience is you now have all these mini vessels which are craving your wisdom.

55:57So what happens is it forces the creator to give you more wisdom and you become a greater channel. And that should be our intention for growing our audience. Yeah, how do I serve my community in a deeper way? Correct. It's all about service. It's all about the customer, all about service. And when you have that mindset, everything opens up and grows. Yeah, of course. What has been the thing that has blocked you in the last year the most? This is something you've been practicing for 20 plus years, 25 years roughly, these spiritual laws, but what's the thing that's still hard for you to break through or sometimes you forget and you have to be reminded with a painful lesson?

56:38That's a great question. One of the things I've learned is it doesn't matter how long you've been spiritual or you've been working on something or what your past experience has been. Every test you go through is sent to you by the universe that is exactly on your level. The challenge, your opponent is exactly equal to where you're at in order to get you to your next level. And the only reason the next level isn't comfortable is because it's not your current level. It's a level that you're not familiar with. So of course you don't see it. Of course it's illogical. Of course it's dark. And so what I realized in this year, this has been probably one of my most transformational years, is that I am such a perfectionist.

57:28I'm sure maybe you can relate. You look perfect, man. You got perfect hair. You got perfect outfit. Everybody's like, put together, man. You look good. I am such a perfectionist that everything I do, I've always felt has to be the best. And this was the year I realized that part of why I'm trying to always be the best is I don't want to let other people down. I have to kind of give off this persona because I'm representing spirituality. And I don't want to make spirituality look bad. So I have to have everything put together. I have to. Plus you've got a big business. You want to make sure your employees, your team, your investors, whatever it might be, customers feel like you're credible as well.

58:11Correct. Correct. It's just a sloppy human being walking around. Correct. I can't be sloppy externally or internally. But what I realized was that what that was causing was a lot of guilt and shame every time I fell short of the mark I needed to be at or the expectations I put on myself. and then what was happening was the guilt and the shame was creating much more negativity than all the things I was trying to perfect. So guilt and shame lowers your vibration more than any other mistake you make. People make mistakes like, I don't know, let's say you're in a relationship and you say something to your spouse or to your girlfriend or boyfriend that hurts them or upsets them and you feel bad about it.

58:49That was one moment in time where you created a little negative energy. But the guilt and shame that we carry after making a mistake is a million times the negative energy because it's constant. Every second you hold on to guilt and shame is another moment you're injecting negative energy. So the test isn't the mistake you make. It's the guilt and shame you have afterwards. So how do you remedy that? And this was my biggest lesson. It was taking the pressure off of myself of trying to appear as someone that's perfect and spiritual and allowing myself just to be myself everywhere I went. And I can't tell you, you know, how freeing that was, but at the same time, it created so much instability in other people because everyone's like, wait a minute, this was the David we knew.

59:38And now what's this? I said, no, this is today a little bit more of the real me. And now I'm actually building a new foundation in my life that's much more authentic to who I am. How so? There are people whose approval I wanted so badly and I would, I know, I mean, look, I connected with your energy and I feel like we share so many similar qualities. I know exactly what somebody needs to hear to feel comfortable. Sure. I know what buttons to stay away from. I know how to talk to them in a way that can just make them feel really good and comfortable. And I learned that many times I'm killing myself or sacrificing myself, or I'm being inauthentic to just make them feel comfortable.

1:00:19So now I'm just learning to be me and still be a giver, but to be in the way that maybe makes them uncomfortable in the moment, but I'm being true to myself. And these examples have been happening more and more. It happens with my parents, happens with my friends. It happens with business partners and colleagues. I'm just learning to just show up as me versus who I think they want me to be. It's beautiful. What do you think people are getting wrong about manifestation today? What are people getting wrong about manifestation today? I think there's a prevailing belief system that we need to suffer to be successful.

1:01:02And that's incorrect. I think there's so much grind culture that's being thrown out there. And by the way, you do have to work hard and you do have to work consistently. But 99 % of it is your belief system about what it takes to manifest. If you believe you must suffer to be successful, then that is the destiny you are creating. You will be successful, but you will only do it after you suffer. Elon Musk has the same hours in the day as we do. He thinks it's easy to colonize Mars. He thinks it's as easy to colonize Mars as we do, you know, maybe preparing a cup of coffee. Sure. Because he thinks it's easy to colonize Mars, that consciousness creates a vessel that draws in the right engineers, that draws in the right ideas, that draws in the right lawmakers to change the laws to satisfy him.

1:01:53Of course there are challenges, but he's loving even the challenges to an extent where it all seems easy. If I think something is hard or impossible, then I literally call in the entire universe to create a movie for me that makes it hard and impossible. There are people who every relationship they're in is a drama. It's difficult. It's hard. Every city I go to, I ask them, is dating hard in this city? They all say yes. They say, I say, which city is the hardest? They say, oh my God, I'm in New York. It's so hard to date here. I'm sure it's easier in Los Angeles. People in Los Angeles say it's impossible to date here.

1:02:31I'm sure it's easier in New York. Everyone always says it's harder wherever they're at. Why is that? Because they haven't been successful yet in their own city. They haven't been successful in their own city. And if I say it's hard to date, then I don't have, it doesn't reflect poorly upon me the fact that I'm single. So I will tell everybody this narrative it's hard to date so that they don't judge me and and I don't judge myself, then I can't find a man or a woman. It's not me. It's everyone else. Everyone else. It's the city. It's the energy here. Everyone in LA is so superficial. But the truth is, even if everyone in LA was superficial, if you earned your soulmate, that one person would appear right at your door.

1:03:16Think about it. There are serial killers in prison who are married. Crazy. They found their soulmate. If someone in a maximum security prison who has a reputation of a serial killer can find their soulmate, I'm sure you can too in Los Angeles. Yeah. Yeah. With millions of men or women here. Exactly. It's funny. You just got to know where to go. You just got to try new things and you got to change. You got to transform on the inside out. Exactly what you just said. When your consciousness and belief systems and energy is in the right place, then you will be guided. Your legs will start moving in the right direction.

1:03:51Your profile on a dating app algorithmically will change. People will feel your energy. People will find your profile at the right time and feel called to match with you. All of that comes from your vibration. I talk about products on a shelf, right? So one of the things that we talk about in our company is that the energy of the founders, so Mayruth and I, our consciousness, down to the executives, down to the directors, to the managers, and to the associates all of us our energy needs to be of such a high vibration of an unlimited mindset in order for energy to flow from the creator through us to the product and then people feel that product on the shelf and they don't know why they like it they just say it's good branding right but they feel something in the bottle and then that's what they should feel when they consume it when they take it and then the energy shifts and here's the thing in your company if you have one person who's toxic or you have one person who has a limited mindset, they are clogging the pipes of energy flowing down to the product level.

1:04:54So one of the things that I do, I have very little business experience, but from the spiritual side, I'm always checking in with the employees. Where's their mindset at? I once went to my head of sales and I said, hey, in my walk this morning, so every morning I walk and I talk out loud to the universe in the form of prayer. Prayer is just a technology to expand your vessel. People think prayer is something you do to bribe God to make you more comfortable, but there's no bribing God. God is a perfect force. Prayer is a technology to transform our vessel, to increase the frequency to allow more energy.

1:05:29So every morning I'll talk out loud to the universe. And what's the best way to pray for miracles or abundance in our life? Any way that makes you comfortable. The way I do it is I walk and I talk out loud in the morning before everyone's awake. Some people like to be still some people like to do it in their head I like to talk out loud something very powerful about it in the first five minutes of prayer all these negative forces will attack you to try to distract you not to do it and you'll think it's not working You'll want to get to your phone and you'll want to quit I always say you got to go past the first five minutes and then you break through kind of a miracle zone and Then when you talk out loud to the universe your words become a vessel for energy to come in And so ideas my best ideas best product ideas have come on these walks and I will talk out loud and these ideas will come and I had an idea and a vision for a revenue revenue number for my head of sales I went to him this guy's got 40 years experience I said hey I think we can get whatever it was a hundred products into Whole Foods this was right when we first got into Whole Foods.

1:06:27100 SKUs? 100 SKUs. Holy cow. We had 100. Oh wow. I said I think we can get all 100. Today we have about 300 but I said we can get all 100 into Whole Foods and he looked at me and he started laughing he's like you know 40 years experience I said we need to aim for two this year to get into Whole Foods. And that's how it works. And we can get to four next year, whatever. And I said... That's a limiting belief, though. Based on statistics and history, which is what most people use to form their belief systems. Most people aren't going to Mars also based on history. Exactly. The people who are changing this world are people who are not looking at history as a way to forge their belief systems.

1:07:02They're looking at something bigger, more divine, which is endless. And they're drawing these belief systems from a higher place. So I said, look, you have the experience. I don't. But as a founder, in the last eight years, we've been doing this together. As a founder, I do get ideas. And thankfully, we do control this company. So I want you to really be open to this idea. And we had this back and forth. So no, it's impossible. I said to him, I said, listen, I want you just to be open to it. He's like, okay, we'll be open to it. Something happened on a call at Whole Foods. And they said like one of their brands wasn't doing well.

1:07:37Manufacturing started to like malfunction. And like a whole shelf became open. Lo and behold, that year, I think we got 75 products. Wow. Never happened before in the history of Whole Foods. We shot up to be like one of the number one brands. And I think today we're at almost like 120 or 130, like somewhere up there. And this all happened in one year. And every year I go back to the team and I say, guys, and this happens in every department. Remember what we thought could happen. Remember what we saw visually. And if we saw it and we feel it, it means it exists. and we have to be open to it. At the very minimum, I need you to be open to it.

1:08:13Yeah, I love the question I like when I present this to someone is, in a world of possibilities, if this was possible, what would need to happen? Beautiful. In a world of possibilities, if it was possible for us to get 100 SKUs in Whole Foods, what would need to happen? You just opened up their mind to bypass their old limited belief system. That's a great way of framing it. Yeah, yeah. I love that. I love that. Wow. So you got 75 SKUs in in one year. Yeah. when you had like a couple before then or something, right? Yep, yep. And you also said that, something you said earlier, you said you were made a million dollars at 15, is that right?

1:08:48Yeah. But then you were kind of broke for 15 years? So I made all this money in the stock market early on because I was just, I had a lot of desire, a lot of energy, I just didn't know where to put it. And so I started to trade and it started to do really well, but that's when my life started to get out of control as a teenager. And I became a gambler, I started to, really? Oh yeah, I started playing poker eight hours a day. Oh man, I did that back in 10 years too. In college, just like poker till 4 a.m. Till 4 a.m. Sometimes I'd go into a casino on like a Sunday and come out on a Tuesday. Oh man.

1:09:18Even in see daylight. I was like playing like$15 hands with my college buddies. Not casino life, but yeah. With that, I mean, it's never enough. So casino life was the next thing, right? And so I was doing that and I realized why am I like, I just kept feeling more and more drained, right? You got the highs and then you feel low. And once I started to learn Kabbalah, I started to realize that the highs and the lows were I was drawing energy, but I didn't create the vessel to hold this energy. Gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex, all of these things draw energy. You're drawing God. You're drawing the universal force of creation.

1:09:56The reason why it ends up causing chaos is there's no vessel to hold this energy. So you short circuit. And what does a short circuit look like? There's a flash of light and then there's darkness. But the flash is very bright. That flash is very addictive. So most people, they draw energy, but there's no vessel to hold it, which we can explain what that means to create a vessel. There's no vessel to hold it. They feel this flash and then there's darkness. There's emptiness. There's addiction. because they may not know spiritual laws, they'll go right back to more flashes to feed the addiction.

1:10:37So it sounds like there's almost a three-step process is what I'm seeing. Number one, learn to draw the energy you want to you. Number two, create the vessel within you so that you can hold it. And I'm assuming number three is where to bring that energy, how to be of service with that energy, and then just continue to draw, have a container big enough to hold it, and then pour it out into others. Is that a... That's a beautiful way of putting it. So how would we first draw energy to us of the things we want to manifest more? The way we draw energy to us is first to to be clear about your belief system of what you deserve to receive and what you're meant to receive.

1:11:24How do you get clear on what you deserve and are meant to receive? Whatever your desires are, it means you are meant to receive them at some point. Don't question that. So if you actually had to write down all your desires, these desires, the Creator gave you these desires, so you go out and manifest them. What's the difference between a desire and a temptation? Because you could be like, oh, I don't know. Just like crazy drugs and I don't know. Just like stuff that's not a spiritual energy. But what if it's the desire? I feel like it's a desire. I'm supposed to go drink all night and gamble all night and just whatever.

1:12:02Correct. So this is why I tell people I say all of these things that are given to us, drinking, gambling, drugs, sex, these are all, for example, let's say if you go to Costco. Costco has samples. and you eat a sample and you like the sample but if you like the sample you need to go buy the full product nobody goes to Costco all day long they just eat samples you don't just sit by the sample station all day long to fill your belly with the samples that they give you well if you're poor people who just eat samples all the time so when a person does a drug what do they feel like they You feel like God.

1:12:39You feel this euphoria. This is a sample to eventually inspire you to buy the full product. The full product is to realize you can feel that if you unlock the power of your soul. Without the drug. Without the drug. Most people think the drug is the power to unlock more. And so they need to keep doing the plant medicine or the drugs that create the awakening, the awareness, to then feel, heal, see, do things differently, as opposed to creating from within, right? Because no one's told them that they have the power inside of them that is nuclear. You have this power inside of you that is millions of times greater than any drug you're taking, but we've been told that we need to keep taking the drug to feel that way.

1:13:27But anyone that I've talked to who's done the plant medicines, they're like, no, nothing is greater than this. This unlocks more than anything I could ever do on my own. And it's true. It has unlocked more than they've ever experienced. So I don't ever tell people, don't do this plant, don't do this drug. When people tell me, I love sex, I'm having sex with everybody. Is there a problem with that? I said, that's fine. You can have sex with everybody you want. You can have all the drugs you want. I have, but I do want you to know that you have something greater inside of you that will give you even more pleasure and more euphoria.

1:13:59If you're open to it, we can talk. And also, if you're doing the drugs or the alcohol or the sex or the addiction things that create this energy feeling, what does that do to your vessel? See, that's the thing. You actually begin to shrink the vessel. How do we know? Because every time you take the drug, it's never as potent the next time. You need more. You need more frequently. You need it more frequently. So you actually begin to shrink your capacity until you experience death. and then there's some kind of death or painful scenario that breaks your vessel open again and then you start that process over the only way to really expand your vessel spiritually is a concept there's a spiritual law that is certainty beyond logic you have to be put in a dark situation a difficult situation where you do not see any logical way of getting out of it and then choose to have certainty that you can.

1:14:55Even if you have to fake that certainty, but you have certainty beyond your logical mind, this breaks open the vessel and allows the next level of your soul to come in to hold this energy. Yeah, and what you've said about, you've said this about certainty. Certainty is the way to guarantee a positive outcome. As long as you have complete certainty beyond logic that everything is good and will be good, you are guaranteed to have the outcome be good. Absolutely.

1:15:25What is the number one thought and number one emotion that blocks us from the ability to manifest greater? Fear. What type of fear? Well, it's insecurity. It's shame. And this results in you limiting your beliefs. And so in some ways, what we're talking about here actually is a decision between fear and love. Right? And when you're fearful, this stimulates your sympathetic nervous system with all the negative aspects of it. When you love, you're open, you're generous, you're thoughtful, you're kind because you've engaged the parasympathetic nervous system. And you have a choice. this is like if you look at stoic philosophers like somebody like epictetus who was a slave he says i cannot control my external environment what i can't control is how i react to my environment right so you meet people i'm sure say my life's miserable my life's horrible while you meet other people go well it's tough right now but i'm you know optimistic it's going to get better or i know if i do this it's going to get better these are completely oppositional attitudes that have a profound, profound effect, depending on what you're believing.

1:16:49Yes. But how does someone shift their attitude into positive when they're in a suffering state and they feel like they're a victim to so many different things happening to them? Sure. Well, I can't sit here and say, you do this and your life's going to be perfect. There's some situations either because of, as an example, structural racism that's built into the system or chronic poverty because throughout the world and even in America, the ability to overcome poverty, for most, it's highly unlikely that's going to happen. So yes, you do have power, but it's not necessarily I'm going to change it and everything's going to be perfect for me.

1:17:34And I'm sure things are not perfect for you, right? And no matter how much you try or want, while externally things may look fantastic, it's not perfect. Sure. And it's not the way you necessarily want. And I have to say the same thing. But there are people who, yeah, no matter how hard they're going to work, it's going to be very challenging. That being said, what we do know is there are certain practices and rules, and if you are going to get out of something or if you are going to change things, then the best way to do that which has the highest likelihood of success is to go through some of the things that we're talking about here.

1:18:17And one of those is that, as an example, there is a tendency for us to want to achieve, right? And if you're an athlete, you have a goal you set there. Well, goals are fine, but if you focus only on the goal and have no concern about any of the other things that are going on. The process. Yeah. Then you reach the goal and there's nothing there. Yeah. Yet what we do know, the greatest cause of suffering is what? It's attachment and craving. Desires. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is, when that is your absolute focus, and we can't all get these things, you're going to be highly disappointed, and you've ignored all the people in your life as you focus solely on that.

1:19:12And unfortunately, many people learn that lesson far along after they've destroyed their families. They've been through multiple marriages. Their kids don't like them. Right? Because they've been chasing a result or a goal or a dream, but neglecting everything else. Yeah, because again, as I was saying even about myself, I thought, well, if I just do this, you know, my shame and insecurity will go away. I'll be loved by everybody and my life will be perfect. Yet at every one of those peaks, all I had was disappointment. And while everyone told me life was great, I did not feel that inside because I had not understood that I was the only one who had the key to the self-created prison.

1:19:54And until you realize that, you're on a very difficult path. So if we're coming from a place of insecurity, fear, or lack, and we're saying, you know what? I want to manifest. I want to create more for myself. I want to have more money. I want to have more opportunities, accomplishments, success. And that's what I want. I desire these things. And I start to apply some of the practices of manifesting and creating more abundance in my life. But if I create those external results and I haven't shifted the insecurities or the shame, what happens next? Well, you end up the way I did, which is you have everything and you're incredibly unhappy.

1:20:38Yeah. So you can still manifest and attract what you want and create what you want and accomplish goals, but it's not going to make you feel different about yourself. It might of makes you actually make you feel worse. Exactly.

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