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In this episode of "A Changed Mind", our host David Bayer shares a step-by-step blueprint for rewiring your brain for happiness in just seven daysâwithout therapy, meditation, or psychedelics.
Drawing on neuroscience and real-life results, including a client who boosted his happiness score from 3 to 10 out of 10, David explains how changing your patterns of thinking can transform your life. Listeners learn how to identify desires, root out self-limiting beliefs, and create new, empowered habits.
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What We Explored This Episode
06:00 Neuroscience, Resistance, and Mapping the âOld Selfâ
12:00 Building the âNew Selfâ Game Plan & Evidence for Change
18:00 Seven-Day Game Plan for Rewiring Your Brain
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"If your brain can learn limitation, it can also unlearn it. You donât need another year to figure this out. You just need seven days of awareness and a game planânoticing the bad plays and practicing the new onesâto begin rewiring your brain to power, peace, clarity, and happiness."
"Transformation doesnât have to take time. It takes alignment. Your brain is not broken; itâs just been programmed to protect you, not expand you."
"The transformation weâre looking for in personal growth or mindset is not just motivation and inspirationâitâs a genuine change in the way that you think. And now, with modern science and technology, we can measure this."
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A few years ago, one of my private clients underwent a week long intensive brainwave
Speaker:training using one of the world's most sophisticated technologies. They
Speaker:measured his capacity to achieve happiness and he scored a
Speaker:measly 3 out of 10. Then we worked together for a year and he
Speaker:just went back for another round of brain training. This time he scored a 10
Speaker:out of 10. A 328% increase in his
Speaker:capacity to feel happiness. Now, if that's not mind blowing enough,
Speaker:listen to this. Over the course of the year, we didn't do therapy, we didn't
Speaker:use psychedelics, he didn't meditate. What I had him do was much
Speaker:simpler. He simply learned how to change the way he was thinking.
Speaker:He's also not the only one. For the last decade, I've been helping entrepreneurs like
Speaker:him reprogram their minds to operate from power instead of fear. Now, my
Speaker:private clients like him pay $150,000 a year to work with me.
Speaker:But I'm going to give you the exact same game plan I gave him in
Speaker:the next few minutes for free. In this video, I'm going to show you how
Speaker:to rewire your brain for happiness. And not in a year, but in just seven
Speaker:days. Welcome to A Changed Mind,
Speaker:a journey into the topics that matter to you most. From the
Speaker:neuroscience and spirituality of mindset and personal growth, to
Speaker:groundbreaking strategies for health, wealth and relationships, to open
Speaker:and honest conversations about pressing global issues such as the
Speaker:environment, censorship, corporate capture, and democracy.
Speaker:Each and every episode reminds us of the certainty of the goodness of the future
Speaker:and provides the teachings, tools, and timeless wisdom inspiring
Speaker:you to create real, lasting change in your life and in the world.
Speaker:If you've been desiring a sanctuary for your spirit, a place to go to
Speaker:tune out the distraction, negativity and doom and gloom so that you
Speaker:can tap into the deep power, the vibrancy, and the potential you have
Speaker:inside. You're in the right place. Welcome to
Speaker:a changed mind. So, best feeling in
Speaker:the world. A client messaged me the other day. He said, hey, I just went
Speaker:to do brain training again. He had done it a year before. Then we
Speaker:started working together. He was really bummed out the first time he did the training.
Speaker:He had a very limited capacity to feel happiness. And what that really
Speaker:meant was his nervous system had just not been trained or primed to be able
Speaker:to achieve states of joy. He had been spending most of his life
Speaker:in states of anxiety or overwhelm or feeling not good enough. And at
Speaker:the initial test, he scored a 3.3out of 10 a year. Later,
Speaker:following the process, he achieved a 10 out of 10. What happened was a
Speaker:transformation in his neurophysiology. So a lot of old wiring,
Speaker:both in his brain and in his nervous system, the old ways of thinking and
Speaker:the old ways of behaving literally got rewired. And the
Speaker:concept here is called neural pruning. It's where you can take old
Speaker:memories that hold old stories and old belief systems. And if
Speaker:you are able to consistently pull your attention away from those old memories and direct
Speaker:your attention towards new meaning in your life, you can literally change your brain. This
Speaker:is the concept of neuroplasticity. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker:We can rewire our own brains. And when he did, over the course of the
Speaker:year that we spent together, this ended up giving him access to even more happiness.
Speaker:And from there, of course, lots of other things changed. Better connection and
Speaker:relationship with his family. He stopped drinking. He started doing more
Speaker:productive things in his life. Exercising, training, making more money, getting even
Speaker:more clear on his spiritual vision or his purpose. And we didn't achieve
Speaker:a greater capacity for happiness by trying to achieve a greater
Speaker:capacity for happiness. He just stopped running the bad
Speaker:plays, the negative thinking, and the unproductive actions. He had a game
Speaker:plan for producing different results. And so that's
Speaker:what I want to talk to you about today. Because the transformation that we're looking
Speaker:for in personal growth or mindset is not just motivation and inspiration. It's
Speaker:a change in the way that you think. And now with modern science
Speaker:and technology, we can measure this. The truth is, you have
Speaker:the same capacity. Your brain is just as responsive to the
Speaker:truth. Now, the challenge that most people have when they get into personal growth, and
Speaker:they want to start changing the way that they think. Let's say you've been believing
Speaker:in financial insecurity. You've been believing that money is scarce, or money is hard to
Speaker:make, or money is for other people, but not for you, and you want to
Speaker:start actually changing the way that you think. We have to establish first the
Speaker:better play. A lot of people want to stop the negative behaviors, but
Speaker:they haven't established what the positive behaviors are. Whether it's your thoughts,
Speaker:whether that's your emotions, or whether that's your actions, or
Speaker:you've come up with some new belief systems, or you've identified
Speaker:some better behaviors that you could engage in, but you haven't actually found evidence
Speaker:for the fact that these new belief systems are actually true,
Speaker:that they're more congruent and more in alignment with what you believe about yourself. And
Speaker:about reality. And without finding the evidence, they just become sort of blank
Speaker:affirmations or incantations that you're saying to yourself. But they never
Speaker:really take root. And the brain keeps running the old program,
Speaker:the one that says there's not enough time or you're not good enough, or that
Speaker:you don't matter. So the question becomes, how do I stop thinking
Speaker:negatively, and what would that look like in my life
Speaker:if I stopped feeding those thoughts? And
Speaker:so, you know, a lot of times entrepreneurs, because that's my line of
Speaker:work, and the people that we work with, those who stop doubting
Speaker:themselves but haven't established what self trust actually looks like, very
Speaker:easily go back to self doubt. If you, for example, have been working on this
Speaker:belief, belief that you're going to find your soulmate, you're not going to be alone
Speaker:for the rest of your life, but you haven't found evidence for that, then when
Speaker:your reality shows up in the same way that it has been, it's going to
Speaker:be very easy for you to undecide or go back on the new belief that
Speaker:you've established. Neville Goddard, one of the great mystical teachers, talks about the
Speaker:importance of staying loyal to your new decision. But what
Speaker:I found is that in order to stay loyal, we should actually look for the
Speaker:evidence that already exists in your life. Because there is evidence. Everything that you
Speaker:want right now, there's evidence for it in your life. That's one of the reasons
Speaker:why you want it. But what's happening is that as a result of your conditioning
Speaker:and your programming, the way that you think, you've been filtering out the evidence that
Speaker:supports all of these new empowered belief systems that will actually transform your
Speaker:identity and transform your life. So when my client and I started,
Speaker:we broke it down into three columns on a piece of paper. And you can
Speaker:do the same thing. I'm going to give you the step by step process here
Speaker:today. Two vertical lines, three columns on a piece of paper.
Speaker:The first column, he wrote down what he wanted. He wrote down his dreams,
Speaker:he wrote down his desires. He wrote down what he wanted to create in his
Speaker:business, what he wanted to create in his relationships with his family. He had a
Speaker:vision for running retreats. He had a vision for building his business with his wife.
Speaker:They had a vision for being able to travel around the world and have extraordinary
Speaker:experiences with their children while they were building their business and making an impact in
Speaker:the world. He wrote all of it down in that first column. That first column
Speaker:is what do you want? The second column or the middle column?
Speaker:We took a look at all the resistance that he had to the things that
Speaker:he wanted to. What were his beliefs? Well, in order to do that, I have
Speaker:to achieve a certain amount of wealth or financial security first.
Speaker:My wife's got her job and so it's not possible. A lot of
Speaker:the things that I want to do because she really likes her job. We'd like
Speaker:to have more friends, but we live in this small town in Canada where there
Speaker:just aren't that many people and they aren't very like minded. And so we're kind
Speaker:of stuck there. We looked at all the resistance. That second column with
Speaker:the resistance to what he actually wanted, that started to reveal to us his limiting
Speaker:beliefs, his process of thought or perception that needed to be changed.
Speaker:The third column, we identified all the behaviors that he was engaged
Speaker:in as a result of the resistance. So one of the things we identified was
Speaker:drinking, drinking alcohol and drinking caffeine,
Speaker:hypercaffeinating, overworking, burying himself in work,
Speaker:thinking that if he could just make some more money and get further ahead and
Speaker:be more successful, then someday in the future he'd have the resources
Speaker:to be able to live the life that he wanted to live with his family.
Speaker:The overworking, comparing himself to other people. Right. This was a
Speaker:behavior that he was engaged in as a result of the resistance. Why are other
Speaker:people able to figure out how to have this kind of life or have this
Speaker:kind of wealth? But I struggle with it. Indecision as a
Speaker:result of these beliefs. He was very indecisive,
Speaker:wanting to make the perfect decisions and therefore oftentimes
Speaker:procrastinating or self sabotaging. So when he looked at the
Speaker:page, it became obvious that this was his current
Speaker:self. This was the current form of thinking, the current form of feeling, the
Speaker:current behaviors. This was the current personality, or what we decided was
Speaker:his old self. Right? We made that declaration, this is your current
Speaker:self, really your old self. Because we're moving beyond this. And
Speaker:the life that he has, he created based on
Speaker:this old version of himself. So the work was to actually
Speaker:start to transform the way that he was thinking, the way that he was
Speaker:feeling, and the things that he was doing. So we needed to come up
Speaker:with some better plays. So after we identified his current self, we
Speaker:came pulled out another piece of paper and we came up with a new game
Speaker:plan. We titled this new self at the top. In fact, he gave himself a
Speaker:new name for his new self. Old self had a name, new self had a
Speaker:name. And the new game plan was him
Speaker:starting to operate as the Future version of himself right here,
Speaker:right now. So I'm not saying that he would spend money that he didn't
Speaker:have, but the thoughts that he would have and the feelings that he would have
Speaker:in some of the day to day behaviors, they were aligned with the version of
Speaker:him that he would be. If he had accomplished all those goals and dreams already,
Speaker:if he had accomplished everything that was in column one of that first piece of
Speaker:paper. So the first part of the process was looking at all the resistance he
Speaker:had, the thoughts he had, the beliefs he had, the actions. And then the second
Speaker:part was, well, but what would you believe if you had accomplished all of this?
Speaker:So he literally took every limiting belief that he identified in the
Speaker:middle column on the first piece of paper and he came up with a new
Speaker:decision. He said, well, if I was already living in financial prosperity and abundance, that
Speaker:I would believe that money is easy to make, if my wife had
Speaker:decided to travel around the world with me and changed out of her
Speaker:job and that was already something that had happened, I would believe that any decision
Speaker:I made, my reality would catch up to it. So he started
Speaker:writing down all these new belief systems. And we said, well, if those are your
Speaker:new beliefs, how would that feel? And he said, well, these would be
Speaker:the emotional states that I'd be living in. And we said, well, if those are
Speaker:the emotional states, what would you be doing? So some of the things he identified
Speaker:was, well, I wouldn't be drinking anymore, I wouldn't be using caffeine as a crutch.
Speaker:I wouldn't be overworking. So this started to give us our new game plan.
Speaker:The other thing that we did was we looked at all of those new belief
Speaker:systems. The belief that money could easily flow to him, the belief that whatever decision
Speaker:he made, reality would align to match it. The belief that he has all
Speaker:the time in the world to actually get things done. And we said, what evidence
Speaker:do you have for the fact that this is actually true right now? We started
Speaker:sourcing evidence in his life right now. But this is really important. This
Speaker:is part of the neurosculpting or neural pruning process.
Speaker:Finding evidence for the fact that your new belief systems, the ones that are
Speaker:aligned with the future version of you, that they're actually true right here, right
Speaker:now. See, neuroscience tells us that your limiting
Speaker:beliefs, when they're driving the bus, they will dismiss any evidence
Speaker:in your life that is counter to the limiting belief. In other words,
Speaker:you have evidence in your life right now that there is enough time or that
Speaker:help is on the way, or that resources always show up, or that anything is
Speaker:possible, or that money is easy to make, but your brain has been filtering out
Speaker:that information because it's not congruent with your limiting beliefs that you have to do
Speaker:things on your own, that you might make a mistake, that money is scarce.
Speaker:And so as we started to map out this new version
Speaker:of him, we said, hey, what evidence do we have in your life right now
Speaker:or in your life, in your past experiences that supports these new
Speaker:beliefs, these new decisions that you're making? So now we had two
Speaker:different versions of my client mapped out. Old version
Speaker:that has created the current reality, and new version. Who
Speaker:he would be, how he would think, what he would do if his goals and
Speaker:dreams were already accomplished. We identified new behaviors like
Speaker:rather than going out on the weekends and watching sports and drinking with his buddies,
Speaker:he'd take his kids out for adventures. And so we started doing those things.
Speaker:He started practicing these new plays. Anytime the old limiting
Speaker:belief would show up, he'd take a look at the future version of himself,
Speaker:he'd find the new decision, and he'd remind himself of the evidence for the fact
Speaker:that this new belief system was already true. Anytime he started to be
Speaker:encouraged into old bad behaviors, he had a new set of good behaviors at the
Speaker:ready to engage in as an alternative and a choice. And
Speaker:we worked this quarter by quarter, 90 days at a time. And then after every
Speaker:90 days, we did a review, and then we reiterated on it and we evolved
Speaker:it. And over the course of the year, his income grew, the
Speaker:connection and intimacy he had with his family grew, his relationships grew, he
Speaker:felt better about himself, and eventually the brand brain scan confirmed
Speaker:that his neurophysiology had reorganized itself, that he had literally
Speaker:rewired who he was. He had intentionally evolved from
Speaker:his old self into his new self, and his life reflected that.
Speaker:And so this is the beautiful thing about the
Speaker:brain is neuroplasticity, that we can actually transform
Speaker:our own lives by taking a look at the way that we think
Speaker:and coming up with some new plays to run on a day to day basis.
Speaker:Now, most people never give themselves a year, and you don't need to,
Speaker:because what I found is that if you just stick with this process in just
Speaker:seven days, you can really begin to feel the shift. So I want to go
Speaker:through this prescription with you one more time so you have it as a real
Speaker:fundamental takeaway from this episode. This is compressing a year of
Speaker:working together into a framework that you can implement over the next seven days. Step
Speaker:one, Write down what you want, all of it,
Speaker:what you want to create in your business, in your relationships, in your family.
Speaker:Okay, that's column one. Step two, look at your
Speaker:resistance. Write down the thoughts and the emotions that resist what it is
Speaker:that you want. The fears, the doubts, the beliefs that you can't have it.
Speaker:That's column two. This is a really important exercise
Speaker:around self awareness, Becoming aware of the resistance you have to the
Speaker:life that you want. Step three, identify the
Speaker:behaviors that those thoughts and emotions are creating. The
Speaker:drinking, the overworking, the digital
Speaker:addiction to social media platforms, and the swiping, the comparison,
Speaker:the indecision. That's column three. And then at the
Speaker:top, go ahead and name that. That's your current self. Now, step four
Speaker:is write down the thoughts, the beliefs
Speaker:that you would have if you had already achieved your list,
Speaker:if you had already achieved your goals and dreams. These are your new
Speaker:decisions. This is what your future self believes.
Speaker:And these are your new belief systems that we're going to reinforce
Speaker:with step five. Find evidence that these new beliefs are
Speaker:already true somewhere in your life, that you already have the
Speaker:time. You're just using it differently. You already have value.
Speaker:You've just been discounting it. And then number six is
Speaker:develop the new plays, the new set of behaviors and actions
Speaker:that your future self would be engaged in. The healthier alternatives
Speaker:than the destructive behaviors that your resistance is creating.
Speaker:This is it. And now you practice this for seven days.
Speaker:You continue to expand your awareness because you're gonna be paying attention, and awareness
Speaker:is transformative. You're gonna start to notice the negative thinking and the negative emotions that
Speaker:you have on a daily basis. At a deeper level, it may be uncomfortable at
Speaker:first, just like changing your diet and going through a detox is continue to
Speaker:inventory them, keep track of them for seven days. Every time you
Speaker:notice them, observe them, don't judge them, just see them.
Speaker:Because when you see them, you can shift them. And then, as best as you
Speaker:can, remind yourself of your new belief systems and the evidence that you
Speaker:have for them in that moment. That is the process of neural pruning. There's a
Speaker:part of your brain that's becoming active automatically, and you are intentionally moving
Speaker:your attention to your new decision or your new belief system and the evidence that
Speaker:supports it. When you feel compelled to engage in the old activity or
Speaker:behavior, you've got a list of healthy activities and behaviors that your future self would
Speaker:be engaging in. Do your best to choose those. And it is progress, as we
Speaker:say in addiction recovery, not perfection. You work this
Speaker:one Day at a time. You can pause this video right now if you want
Speaker:to write your list. I'm serious. If you're not going to do this, don't keep
Speaker:watching. But these are the six steps that you want to go through.
Speaker:Maintain a gentle but firm commitment
Speaker:to going through this as you do it on a day to day basis.
Speaker:So look, transformation doesn't have to take time. It takes
Speaker:alignment. And your brain is not broken. It's just been programmed by
Speaker:repetition to protect you, not expand you. And if
Speaker:your brain can learn limitation, it can also unlearn it.
Speaker:So you don't need another year to figure this out. You don't need another degree.
Speaker:You don't even need another guru. You just need seven days of awareness and
Speaker:seven days of a game plan. Noticing the bad plays and practicing the new ones
Speaker:to begin rewiring your brain to power, peace, clarity and
Speaker:happiness. So here's the question I want to leave you with. What if the next
Speaker:version of you isn't years away? What if it's not even months away?
Speaker:What if it's just one decision away? One week away, One new pattern away?
Speaker:Because when you stop running the bad plays, the negative thinking, the
Speaker:unproductive actions, the resistance to what you actually want, and you start practicing the new
Speaker:plays, your entire reality begins to shift. And not
Speaker:someday way out there, but now. So I hope you love this episode
Speaker:as much as I love sharing it with you. It's a simple game plan. If
Speaker:you need to come back and rewrite that script down, do it. I'm telling you,
Speaker:that little process is worth its weight in gold. Do me a favor. If you
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Speaker:it's David. One more thing. If you want to go even deeper on everything
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