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In this episode, our host, David Bayer, expounds on into the transformative power of journaling, a practice he describes as more impactful than any other morning routine. David introduces "communion journaling," a method that combines gratitude, requests, and prayers for others, fostering a deep connection with oneself and a higher power.

David emphasizes the importance of writing by hand, which he believes imprints thoughts more deeply into the brain and the universe. He shares his personal journey of waking up early to engage in this practice, highlighting its profound effects on his spiritual growth and emotional resilience.

Tune in to explore how this ancient art can elevate your personal and spiritual life.

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What We Explored This Episode

00:17 The Science Behind Handwriting in Journaling

03:03 Communion Journaling Process

08:30 The Power of Intentional Writing

22:22 Creating a Communion Journal

Memorable Quotes

"When you journal, you're imprinting the information to a much greater degree. You're spending more time on each word, each sentence, each thought, which deepens its imprint on the brain and the field."

"Writing is the mastery of the ancient arts. It is the movement of your hands, just like you move your body in ancient tai chi. Whether you are printing or writing cursive, realize that what you're doing is you're casting spells."

"I start with the first step, which is writing in prayer. I write as if I'm writing a love letter to my lover, which is God, because I have wanted to have a more personal relationship with God."

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When you journal, you are imprinting the information to a much greater degree. And what I mean by that is you're spending more time on each word, each sentence, each thought, which deepens its imprint on two different things.

Number one, the brain, and number two, the field. And so when we write, we're actually creating memories. We're creating memories of either things in the past that we're writing down, that we're reinforcing. We're creating memories of a future that hasn't happened yet as we write down what we desire into the future. And we're doing it at a pace where the grooves are very deep. Welcome to a changed mind, a journey into the topics that matter to you most. From the neuroscience and spirituality of mindset and personal growth, to groundbreaking strategies for health, wealth, and relationships. To open and honest conversations about pressing global issues such as the environment, censorship, corporate capture, and democracy. Each and every episode reminds us of the certainty of the goodness of the future and provides the teachings, tools, and timeless wisdom inspiring you to create real, lasting change in your life and in the world. If you've been desiring a sanctuary for your spirit, a place to go to tune out the distraction, negativity, and doom and gloom so that you can tap into the deep power, the vibrancy, and the potential you have inside, you're in the right place. Welcome to a changed mind. Hey, it's David Baer. Welcome to a changed mind. A sanctuary for your spirit. A place where each and every episode I remind you of the certainty of the goodness of the future. I am your friend, your host, your guide. In today's episode, I'm going to share with you one of the, if not the most powerful tools in my arsenal for personal growth. This isn't something that I started out doing, but as I feel like I've transformed so many of my limiting beliefs, and my life has just grown with abundance and prosperity and purpose and clarity. And as I've strengthened my emotional resiliency and spiritual connection, this has become one of the most important daily practices for me. And that is the practice of journaling. Now, there's a ton out there on journaling, but what I'm going to share with you is really nothing like what you may have already heard. And I wish I had realized this sooner, because it would have made my journey of spiritual growth and business and life so much easier. But you know what they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. And so, over the last several months, I've been getting this stronger and stronger intuition that I needed to begin my day with journaling, and I put it off for a few months until I finally listened to my inner voice. And, man, this has been an absolute, 100% game changer for me. So here we go. I did not realize how powerful journaling was, even though I've done it all throughout my life. You know, I thought it was about just getting my thoughts down on paper and giving myself

Some time to process or emotional release. But journaling, for me, has been more powerful than any other morning routine I've ever had ever engaged in. More powerful than cold plunges, more than a hard workout in the morning, more than meditating or visualizing, especially in the specific ways that I've been doing it. And there are three specific things I've designed into this practice. I call it communion journaling. And if you've ever been told that you need to write out your gratitudes, and you do, but you just don't feel that grateful while you're doing it, I totally get it. Right. Or there's this idea that you should write out the things you want and really feel as if they've already been accomplished, but you have a hard time doing that. I have to my entire life. Or you've been wanting to feel a very close connection to God or your higher power in the process of prayer or meditation, but it just feels like you're speaking out into some void in the universe, and the connection is just so far away. You are absolutely going to love the communion process. Before I share these three steps of the process with you, let's talk about why journaling is so powerfully, unbelievably powerful. Let's get to a root cause conversation around journaling. The first thing is when you journal, and I don't mean when you're typing on your laptop, journaling. There's a big difference. When you write, when you journal, you are imprinting the information to a much greater degree. And what I mean by that is you're spending more time on each word, each sentence, each thought, which deepens its imprint on two different things. Number one, the brain, and number two, the field. As we experience life, we're recording every experience. This is why when we're born, we're born with about 100 billion neurons and about 25 billion synaptic connections. The whole neuronal structure of the brain is not even wired up yet, but by the time we're seven years old, we still have 100 billion neurons and a quadrillion synaptic connections. And a lot of the growth of the brain is really just that it's become a storehouse for memories. Every experience that you had, you ingested the information of that experience, what it looked like, what it sounded like, what it tasted like, what it smelled like, what it felt like. And all that sensory data gets put through the nervous system up into the brain, and the brain starts to build new neural networks that compiles that information and also stores with it the meaning that you gave the experience, and that becomes a memory. And so when we write, we're actually creating memories. We're creating memories of either things in the past that we're writing down, that we're reinforcing. We're creating memories of a future that hasn't happened yet as we write down what we desire into the future. And we're doing it at a pace where the grooves are very deep. It doesn't mean that it's not going on throughout the course of your day. As you're thinking things, you're reinforcing the grooves of your brain. As you're feeling things, you're reinforcing the grooves of your brain. As you're remembering the past or worrying about or anticipating the future, you're grooving your brain, but you're doing it at a very light touch way. You can think about a record player, right? It's a very light groove on the record. When you write things out and you slow things down, you're spending so much more time on each piece of the concept, on each idea. And so not only is it becoming recorded, and we'll talk about what I recommend you record more deeply inside of you, you're also experiencing whatever it is that you're writing down in a very intentional, meaningful way. And your nervous system is a receiver transmitter. So as you're experiencing this, you're also transmitting that information out. Out where? Out to consciousness, out to the field, out to God or Jesus or Allah or higher power, whatever you want to call it. The information is being communicated, and it's being communicated in a very clear way because of the intentionality of the writing. When you're ripping through typing something on a computer, if you think about it, the same amount of words that you could write, you could probably type three times faster. Well, that means that the typing process is three times less impactful or imprintful than the writing process, because you're spending less time and less attention, less awareness with each word of. Even if you think about speaking, we can speak so much faster than when we write. So when we write, there's a magic to it. My wife double clicked on this the other day. And she said, you realize that when we write, we're writing on paper. We're literally imprinting or codifying our thoughts on the living fabric of the planet, right? It's almost as if we're chiseling what we believe, what our hopes, what our dreams are, what our concerns are, what our worries are, the things that we'd like to let go of. It's like we're imprinting them onto the planet because we use trees as paper. At least we used to. Who knows what half this stuff is printed on today? But that's an important thing to understand about journaling is like, when you slow it down, you're imprinting it at a much deeper level. And again, we'll talk about what I recommend you imprint and why this process has completely blown away, blown me away over the last month. But the second thing is, as you're engaging in writing or journaling, you're slowing down your thought process. And so, as you write, not only is it a deeper groove and a greater imprint on your brain and on the field, but because you're writing more slowly, you're able to receive the next word, then the next thought in the space of the writing.

But there's three parts to the communion journaling process. Number one, what you're grateful for. Thank you. Higher power. Number two, what you want, I declare and ask for this higher power. And here's why. It's in the name of you. It's in the service of humanity. It's to do your work in the world. This is how you remove the ego from it. It's fine to have a dream home. I think that's amazing. Ask for it. It's fine for a plane. But notice as I was riding, I'm like, I'd like a private jet so that I can travel the world with ease and bring your work to every country in the world and travel with my family, because it's all for you. It's all for this work. It's all for my mission in this world. And then the third thing is, pray for other people. This is the most powerful vibration raising exercise I have ever been in in my entire life. And after I finish writing, I meditate for ten to 20 minutes just to still my mind and stay in the space of my prayers and my gratitudes and my declarations. And then after that, I go walk out the door of my studio, out onto the grass I stand in the beautiful sun of the early morning sunrise. I ground my feet for about five minutes. I take some deep breaths and then I walk upstairs and I start my day. So there's no right way or wrong way to do this, but just an encouragement to use this great power of journaling to deepen your relationship with yourself, to deepen your relationship with the higher power of your own understanding, and to get your day started on the right vibration and with right thinking. So if you love this episode, let me know. I'm also thinking of creating a communion journal to actually offer to you where you can go through this process. It'll incorporate things from my mind hack program so you can wake up and set some intentions, work through some limiting beliefs, go through the communion journaling process. If that's of interest to you, just comment in the comments. It's a lot of work to build something like that. But if that's something that would excite you guys to have a structure and a process to connect more deeply with your higher power in the morning, to be in prayer, to be in gratitude, and to shed some of the limiting beliefs every single morning, it would be a pleasure for me to create something like that. And if you love this episode or you have any questions, comment below. Let me know if you're following on YouTube, of course. Subscribe hit that bell icon so you get reminders, because that's really the only way you get reminders these days. And share this episode with a friend who may need to hear it if you're listening on the audio platforms. Thank you so much. Leave me a rating or a review that is like I literally checked two times a day. I'm like, did we get any more ratings or reviews? You will light my day up. That is the best way to pay it forward. Subscribe rate Review Share this work and let's stay in this community together. I will continue to bring you tools, distinctions, my personal process, what's working so that we can continue to grow, involve as a community and really create a new world out of creating new versions of ourselves. I love you so much and I will see you in the next episode. Hey, it's David. One more thing. If you want to go even deeper on everything we've talked about on today's episode, don't forget to jump over to www.davidbear.com. you can find the link in the show notes and subscribe to our newsletter. A couple of times a week I'm going to be sending you the latest episodes that we've released along with additional free trainings, you'll get immediate access to my free mindhack ebook and go even deeper into all the tools, the technologies and the frameworks that have helped tens of thousands of people established a changed mind. Don't forget to jump on over to the site and I will see you in the next episode.