Lou Anne Hunt speaks with Alan in this week’s episode of Mindful You. Lou Anne was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and managed to reverse it in under three months. One of the key components to Lou Anne reversing her diabetes was creating a vision board. Vision board’s are a powerful way to keep you motivated and positive. They help us to manifest and affirm. Jack Canfield has also had a huge impact on Lou and she tells us about working with him and for him. Alan and Lou talk about how important it is to write out your goals and always take 100% responsibility for yourself. How can we overcome our fear and become the best versions of ourselves? Find out on this episode of Mindful You.
About The Guest:
LouAnne is a Canadian Keynote Speaker whose down-to-earth humour compels audiences to laugh while they learn. After thirty-six years, she retired from her government job. A second career in teaching the fundamentals of Business to thousands of adult students as a College Professor allowed her to polish her presentation skills. She has made a name for herself as a sought-after speaker, teacher, and Personal Development Coach.
Additionally, LouAnne is an award-winning entrepreneur, putting into practice what she teaches every day. She is a Certified Canfield trainer in The Success Principles™
She is a 2-time Best-Selling Author for her contribution in The Book On Transformation and The Book On Gratitude.
Her latest project as TV and radio talk show host for The Mindset Playground can be found on Youtube and your favourite Podcast App
If you are interested in having LouAnne work with you, in a group or as a motivational speaker, connect with her through her website.
Contact:
Website: louannehunt.ca
Email: louanne@louannehunt.ca
About Alan:
Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.
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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of
Alan Carroll:the mindful U podcast. Our guest today, I met several months ago
Alan Carroll:at a seminar called embracing the Woo, focusing in on
Alan Carroll:spirituality, focused on healing and focused on mindfulness. And
Alan Carroll:when I was talking to our guest, she mentioned that she was a
Alan Carroll:certified trainer for Jack Canfield. Jack Canfield is one
Alan Carroll:of the most popular Buddhist instructors, teachers, author of
Alan Carroll:books, seminars in the world. And I said, Wow, let's invite
Alan Carroll:you on to the mindful you podcast to share about what you
Alan Carroll:are discovering, working with Jack, and other things that
Alan Carroll:you've done to become more present, and more mindful. Our
Alan Carroll:guests name is Luanne hunt. And I am excited because she has so
Alan Carroll:much knowledge. She has knowledge of the mindfulness,
Alan Carroll:she has knowledge of the meditation, she has knowledge of
Alan Carroll:vision boards, she has knowledge of books, she's written in
Alan Carroll:books, she's written chapters. And so she's a wealth of
Alan Carroll:information. And I enjoyed interviewing her on the podcast,
Alan Carroll:and it is with a great joy to welcome the WAN hunt, to the
Alan Carroll:mindful you podcast. Luann Welcome to the mindful you
Alan Carroll:podcast. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to be able to talk
Alan Carroll:to you today. And well, I'm
Unknown:excited to be here.
Alan Carroll:First two people that are excited, I like that, I
Alan Carroll:like that. And what excites me Luann is the fact that you have
Alan Carroll:traveled a path. And I will call that path, mindfulness
Alan Carroll:meditation. And one of the key people that you have connected
Alan Carroll:to on the path, which I've heard, all my life is Jack
Alan Carroll:Canfield. And to have someone who has been certified by that
Alan Carroll:organization, dealing with mindfulness, meditation,
Alan Carroll:forgiveness, gratitude, all those, all those terms. And that
Alan Carroll:conversation is very exciting to be able to have you share with
Alan Carroll:us some of the learnings and some of the teachings that Jack
Alan Carroll:has given to us and given to the world. Um, so that is just, you
Alan Carroll:know, wonderful opportunity that I couldn't miss having you be on
Alan Carroll:the podcast to share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax magic.
Lou Anne Hunt:Yes, magic it is. He's pretty amazing. He's
Lou Anne Hunt:written several books, and they become number one bestsellers on
Lou Anne Hunt:the New York best selling Times list. So that's exciting, too.
Alan Carroll:And my understanding is that some of
Alan Carroll:those best selling books has a chapter that was written by you.
Unknown:Well, actually, yes, I have written chapters in two
Unknown:books that are inspired
Alan Carroll:to talk about the chapters. Okay.
Unknown:The first book was actually released last June. The
Unknown:forward is by Jack Canfield, and it was called the book on
Unknown:transformation. So how I basically transformed my life.
Unknown:In one chapter, I went from a reading a high reading for my a
Unknown:one C, which is the diabetes reading, I went from a pretty
Unknown:high level of type two diabetes, to actually lowering it to just
Unknown:below the minimum amount that should be or the maximum amount
Unknown:I should say, and I have actually reversed my type two
Unknown:diabetes without the use of drugs. And I did that wonder
Unknown:within three months, yes. And are you I wrote about it in the
Unknown:book.
Alan Carroll:Yeah. I was wondering, are you making a
Alan Carroll:connection between what Jack teaches and what you have
Alan Carroll:implemented? Is there a connection between the two?
Unknown:Oh, for sure. Jack teaches us all about
Unknown:transformation and how important It is in our lives and how we
Unknown:will always be going through some sort of transformation in
Unknown:our lives, no matter what happens. So it just goes from
Unknown:one level to another. And at that point in the book, when I
Unknown:talk about reversing my type two diabetes, it's one of the
Unknown:highest pandemics, believe it or not, in the United States and in
Unknown:Canada. And after the pandemic, which was COVID, it actually was
Unknown:even higher, because of all the sedentary and everybody getting
Unknown:locked down and getting locked in and Jack chat taught us to
Unknown:never give up. And I was studying under Jack when this
Unknown:came about. And one of the things that I studied under Jack
Unknown:was actually vision boards. And I put right in the center of my
Unknown:vision board, which is right over my head that I look at
Unknown:every day that I wanted to beat type two diabetes within three
Unknown:months. And that is right in the center of my vision board. And
Unknown:what's interesting is, I actually accomplished that when
Unknown:I went in to get my A when C tested again, I told the nurse
Unknown:when she was taking my blood work, that I was going to lower
Unknown:my a one C two below the normal amount. And she started
Unknown:laughing. She said, Well, don't be disappointed if that doesn't
Unknown:happen. She said, because that's a kind of a rare thing. And I
Unknown:said, Well, it's going to happen because I put it in the middle
Unknown:of my vision board. And she started laughing. And she was
Unknown:telling everybody in the office, she's like, Oh, get a load of
Unknown:this one, she's gonna lower a one see, because she put it on
Unknown:her vision board. Well, I kind of had the last laugh, because I
Unknown:did lower it. So and I lowered it lower than what I had
Unknown:actually targeted for. So it was pretty funny at the time.
Alan Carroll:And so there's a power that is available, if you
Alan Carroll:can utilize various resources, and one of the resources you're
Alan Carroll:talking about is a vision board. So for audiences may not be
Alan Carroll:fully aware of what a vision board is, why don't you sort of
Alan Carroll:take us on a little tour of what a vision board is, and how to
Alan Carroll:create a vision board?
Unknown:Sure. Actually, I'm doing a talk next week, on
Unknown:Wednesday, through Kimberly Crowe, and I am doing my
Unknown:presentation on vision boards, how to create a magical vision
Unknown:board. So isn't this great timing? And wasn't that what I
Unknown:talked about during the session when I met you? When we did
Unknown:embrace the Whoo?
Alan Carroll:Absolutely. Yes, I'm very familiar with embrace
Alan Carroll:the Whoo. And also I want to delve into what are some of the
Alan Carroll:key if I wanted to create a vision board? What absolutely, I
Alan Carroll:What would I do?
Unknown:Well, the first thing that you should do is if you
Unknown:already have a vision board, there's ways that you can make
Unknown:it more powerful, which I'll talk about in a second. But if
Unknown:you're just kind of getting ready to start a vision board,
Unknown:the very first thing that you should do is you should sit down
Unknown:and write out I would say 20 to 25 things that you have
Unknown:accomplished goals that you have accomplished in the last six
Unknown:months to a year. And the reason why you want to do that is
Unknown:because you want to get those juices flowing. And you want to
Unknown:know that it's possible. You want to make your mind the
Unknown:mindset, you want to set your mind up so that it knows that
Unknown:things that you think about are possible. And then from there,
Unknown:what you want to do is you want to write down, you want to write
Unknown:out your goals that you would like to actually work on or the
Unknown:goals for maybe your business, or in the six areas such as your
Unknown:health community, maybe your love goals, your employment
Unknown:goals, your or your retirement goals, your fitness goals. You
Unknown:want to write those down, even if you just keep them short and
Unknown:sweet. That's okay. But you want to make a list so that you can
Unknown:know exactly where you're going. Because you don't want to go to
Unknown:the ocean with a teaspoon Correct.
Alan Carroll:That's cute. No, you want to
Unknown:and you definitely don't want to go to a casino
Unknown:without any money. So when you write down your accomplishments
Unknown:before you even write down your goals, you're setting yourself
Unknown:up to know that it's fun Basketball, and that you can do
Unknown:it. So that's the first thing that you want to do, you want to
Unknown:sit down and you want to write out those goals. And then from
Unknown:there, what you want to do is you want to make it kind of
Unknown:visual, and you want to make it so that you feel those goals.
Unknown:And the best way to do that is to maybe flip through some old
Unknown:magazines, or believe it or not some travel magazines, that's
Unknown:exciting. You want to flip through magazines, because
Unknown:you're actually using both sides of your brain. When you do that,
Unknown:you're working both sides of the brain. And you're the one who
Unknown:kind of taught me a little bit about that. So you're engaging
Unknown:both sides of the brain. And that's a good thing. Because
Unknown:that will definitely bring into place, you want to wrap your
Unknown:head around that whole site. Since hearing, touching. And you
Unknown:want to pick out some pictures. Now I'm not saying that if you
Unknown:want to create a vision board on Canva, or on the computer on,
Unknown:I've done many on PowerPoint or anything to that effect, that it
Unknown:doesn't work, it's just a lot better. Like I said, it engages
Unknown:both sides of the brain. And it really is effective if you can
Unknown:cut pictures out. And not just pictures, but little things that
Unknown:that you'd like to hear that just they bring you a motion.
Unknown:And like they make you feel good. And this is where you're
Unknown:going to say, Yes, that sounds like me, that sounds like a
Unknown:goal. One of the one of the vision boards, and I just want
Unknown:to say this too, if I could back up a little bit, you don't have
Unknown:to have, you don't have to have a vision board with, say, the
Unknown:next year's goals. So you can have a vision board for
Unknown:something that's coming up that you want to achieve. So if I can
Unknown:give you an example, I had surgery last November, and I was
Unknown:very concerned about the surgery. So I sat down. And I
Unknown:actually put a vision board together to represent how I'm
Unknown:going to feel after that surgery. So all of the pictures
Unknown:that I cut out were pictures that were representing, you
Unknown:know, things that were healthy, I cut out some pictures on, you
Unknown:know, like me hiking or that type of thing. And words that I
Unknown:knew were going to empower me to feel better to really make it
Unknown:work so that the mindset would set in. And I would have these
Unknown:words. So if I can give you some examples I have I have living
Unknown:well that I cut out healthy choices with a heart. Feeling
Unknown:good starts inside. Give peace of mind this holiday because it
Unknown:was in November. So celebrate the moment I put down things
Unknown:like plumb Perfect. Keep on track, never give up. Take care
Unknown:of your health, naturally, I make a difference in the world.
Unknown:And right in the center is a huge picture of me with the
Unknown:mindset playground because that's my true love. And then
Unknown:down in the other corner is a picture of a bowl of fruit. And
Unknown:just things that are healthy. And keep going. Never let them
Unknown:dull, your sparkle. All things are possible, manifest. Feeling
Unknown:peachy, like all these things that I put on this vision board.
Unknown:So these are just words that I cut out. There's a little
Unknown:bathtub picture and it says take care of you. Just little things
Unknown:like that. That made me smile as I was flipping through the
Unknown:magazines. And I just cut them all out and arrange them on
Unknown:cardboard, just a piece of Bristol board. And I actually
Unknown:brought that with me to the hospital. And I had it posted
Unknown:right across from my hospital bed. And everybody came in the
Unknown:room. All of the nurses all of the visitors because I had a
Unknown:roommate, even my roommate, they all commented on the board. And
Unknown:they said, You know what is this and I said this is my vision
Unknown:board for getting healthy. And because I was really determined
Unknown:that I was going to do that I was really going to use that
Unknown:vision board to help me feel better to put me in a better
Unknown:mindset so that I found that I wasn't in pain, like I thought
Unknown:it would be and And I just found that I was up walking around the
Unknown:next morning, I just felt very invigorated and actually
Unknown:liberated, you know, that I had made it through. So I'm just
Unknown:saying that you don't have to have a year long vision board,
Unknown:if you're getting married, or if you if you're doing something
Unknown:that you want, you know, you're you're hoping to maybe win an
Unknown:award, maybe, maybe you're going to write in a book, anything,
Unknown:you can do a small vision board, focusing on just that, it
Unknown:doesn't have to be something that you want, you know, a year
Unknown:from now. So that's important. So then you just arrange them on
Unknown:the board any way that you want to, there's really no wrong or
Unknown:right way to do it. But here's a couple of hints. Number one,
Unknown:make sure that you include a picture of yourself, when you're
Unknown:happy when you're smiling. So make sure somewhere on the
Unknown:vision board, your picture is there. And you're smiling.
Unknown:Whether you're you know, if you want to lose some weight,
Unknown:whether you're heavier, or you're thinner, whatever the
Unknown:case is, it doesn't matter. As long as you have that smile. And
Unknown:you know, that that's what you're going for. And I would
Unknown:have to say the other thing is make sure that you put it
Unknown:somewhere where you're going to see it all the time, all the
Unknown:time, even if it's not completed. And if you come
Unknown:across a picture, or a saying, You have no idea why you're
Unknown:cutting out that picture, you just like it, right? To yet,
Unknown:like to give you an example, I have the cutest little picture
Unknown:of these two dogs and two cats that I found in a magazine, and
Unknown:I just loved this picture. I'm allergic to cats. I have two
Unknown:dogs, I had no idea why I wanted to cut this out and put it on my
Unknown:vision board. And it turned out that as soon as I did that, and
Unknown:I put it on my one vision board for the year and annual vision
Unknown:board. It turned out that Betty White had passed away. And that
Unknown:week, they were celebrating Betty White and she was very
Unknown:much into shelters. So it came to me that I wanted to donate to
Unknown:a shelter. Because of the Betty White. They had something on
Unknown:Facebook a challenge or something. And so I said, Well,
Unknown:that's the reason why I picked out that picture. I had no idea
Unknown:at the time. And the next day was really interesting, because
Unknown:this is how powerful vision boards are. The next day, when I
Unknown:walked into the pet store to buy my two dogs, some pet food,
Unknown:there was actually a lady there from the shelter, the pet
Unknown:shelter the local pet shelter. And they have, they were talking
Unknown:about their program that they have at this pet shelter. It's
Unknown:called the Blue leash program. And what it is, is it's a
Unknown:program where they will take animals who come from violent
Unknown:homes like domestic violence, and they will take the dog in so
Unknown:that the spouse or the person who is the victim can get away
Unknown:from the home. Because it's a proven fact that a lot of people
Unknown:will not leave a violent situation, because they're
Unknown:afraid of what will happen with their pet.
Unknown:And a lot of them can't take their pets with them. But this
Unknown:pro or this project, what they'll do is they will take in
Unknown:the pet, and they will feed it and take care of it. And they
Unknown:will, you know, make sure that it's safe so that when you are
Unknown:out of the home, if you can come back and pick up your dog
Unknown:because you're in a place that safe and will accept the dog or
Unknown:the cat, then they can come and retrieve their animal. And I
Unknown:just thought that was just amazing that they have a program
Unknown:like that. And although I can't adopt a pet because I have two
Unknown:dogs already, I said I definitely want to support that
Unknown:program because it's such a great program. So that's just an
Unknown:example of when you see a picture and you have no idea.
Unknown:You have no idea why you're cutting it out. Or why you love
Unknown:it. What's drawn you to that picture. Just put it on your
Unknown:vision board. Sure. Number one, it's going to make you have the
Unknown:every time you see it. And it's not going to hurt anything,
Unknown:that's for sure. And so these are some of the tips, and then
Unknown:you arrange everything on your vision Word and along with some
Unknown:great messages that you pick out, such as you know, feeling
Unknown:good, loving, well manifesting, I am enough, these things will
Unknown:happen, anything is possible, just words like that, that will
Unknown:just make it that much more powerful. Put them on that
Unknown:vision board. And don't be afraid to share it, show it to
Unknown:people. So that's what I have to say about vision boards.
Alan Carroll:Well, that's wonderful. I get the idea that
Alan Carroll:there's a there's another part of ourselves, we'll call it
Alan Carroll:unconscious, that is below the surface, that's the seat that
Alan Carroll:seems to know everything that's connected to mindfulness, it's
Alan Carroll:connected to the space. And if you can sort of get out of your
Alan Carroll:head and get it in and get in touch with through the vision
Alan Carroll:board, for example. It allows you to access a dimension of
Alan Carroll:consciousness that actually can transform your your experience,
Alan Carroll:and it's a little hard to explain, because it's, it's, it
Alan Carroll:is beyond consciousness is something that's underneath,
Alan Carroll:under underneath the surface. All right, well, thank you,
Alan Carroll:thank you for sharing about the about the vision about the
Alan Carroll:vision boards, because I believe that that is that is a valuable,
Alan Carroll:valuable tool that gives you some alignment of your rather
Alan Carroll:than your thoughts being like a shotgun going all over the place
Alan Carroll:like scattering, you focus your attention, your power on on a
Alan Carroll:particular target, and then you create the collage around that
Alan Carroll:target. And so you get power or energy from from the from the
Alan Carroll:vision board. Wonderful. Well, thank you for sharing that. I
Alan Carroll:noticed also Luann in the back you have a Jax, Jax Canfield a
Alan Carroll:book, it looks like the success principles. And yes, I wanted
Alan Carroll:you to share with our audience a little bit about about who Jack
Alan Carroll:Canfield is, what your training was that you went through. And
Alan Carroll:some of the mindfulness experiences that you have,
Alan Carroll:muscles that you've developed or techniques or practices that you
Alan Carroll:have learned from Jack are in your own journey with our
Alan Carroll:audience so that we can build our mindfulness muscles also. So
Alan Carroll:please share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax wisdom and
Alan Carroll:the things that you've gleaned from being a certified trainer
Alan Carroll:for him.
Unknown:I first met Jack in June 2019. And what happened
Unknown:was, it was my birthday month. And so as a birthday gift, I
Unknown:asked my husband if he would drive to Chicago, because it's
Unknown:about six hours from where I live. Because I heard that Jack
Unknown:Canfield was going to be speaking in Chicago. And the
Unknown:name of his seminar was one day to greatness. So we signed up
Unknown:for it. And then we had an opportunity to upgrade to VIP
Unknown:seats and we would actually get to meet Jack. So I was all for
Unknown:that. So we we made the trek down to Chicago, and we spent a
Unknown:couple of days in Chicago. And when I went into Jack's seminar,
Unknown:I honestly didn't know what to expect. I heard of Jack Canfield
Unknown:he was in the movie, The Secret and I knew that he was the
Unknown:author of Chicken Soup for the Soul books, but I didn't really
Unknown:know a lot about the success principles. So we sat down and
Unknown:we were in our VIP seats. And Jack started his training
Unknown:through the book. And I honestly with every little lesson that
Unknown:Jack gave us, I was honestly blown away. I really was I was
Unknown:blown away. And I said to my husband, I said everybody should
Unknown:know what Jack has to say everybody should know this. It
Unknown:just gives you a different way to to face the world to look at
Unknown:yourself. And the first lesson that he gave us was take 100%
Unknown:responsibility for yourself. And that right there blew me away
Unknown:and how much your life can change just by taking 100%
Unknown:responsibility for yourself. And at the time and still to this
Unknown:day. I was teaching business courses I am teaching business
Unknown:courses at to the local college. And I said, this should be in
Unknown:the curriculum, this should be, of course, everybody should know
Unknown:this, especially if you have a business. You can't go without
Unknown:this, the mindset, it's an unbelievable, it seriously blew
Unknown:me away. And that's the reason why I decided at that moment to
Unknown:get certified because Jack said, you know, will certify you in
Unknown:the success principles, you'll learn all of the success
Unknown:principles, you'll have access to everything I'm training you
Unknown:with today. And you'll have access to basically everything.
Unknown:And I said, I need this, I need this for college, I need it.
Unknown:Plain and simple. So I signed up for it. And it's just amazing
Unknown:how my life has completely changed. Because it was sat on a
Unknown:shelf. And for you know, a few months, because life happens
Unknown:when you're making plans, and I called it my jack in the box on
Unknown:the shelf. And, and then out of the blue, you know, the pandemic
Unknown:struck, and I had foot surgery. So here I am, I got my foot and
Unknown:cast, and it's up. And then the pandemic struck, so I couldn't
Unknown:go anywhere anyway. And I thought about that Jack in the
Unknown:Box, sitting on my shelf. And it's funny because I thought
Unknown:about it. And then I got an email from Jack. It's almost
Unknown:like Jack read my mind. And Jack said, you know that in this
Unknown:email that he was doing online stuff now and that he was doing
Unknown:reignite your life. And I was like, wow, I, I need that right
Unknown:now. I just need it. And I think so many people needed it after
Unknown:being shut down for so long. And so I started taking that course.
Unknown:And that led to another course. And that led to another course,
Unknown:this is all jacked. And then I ended up writing my
Unknown:certification exams. And I became certified. So it's just
Unknown:amazing how all of that work. So it was perfect timing, because
Unknown:it was during the pandemic. And I was actually, I was teaching
Unknown:classes online, believe it or not. And so what I did was I
Unknown:took the lessons that we learned from Jack, some of the lessons
Unknown:and I actually taught them online, just to kind of figure
Unknown:them out to see how they would go over to see if everybody felt
Unknown:the same way I did that type of thing. So the first lesson for
Unknown:sure was take 100% responsibility for yourself. And
Unknown:then I did another lesson with them on unleash the the power of
Unknown:goal setting, which is really important. And it during that
Unknown:goal setting, that's when I came across the vision board. The
Unknown:vision board exercises, what you see is what you get. That's the
Unknown:name of that chapter. And I also did one with them. And I still
Unknown:do it with them called Face your fears and do it anyway. So that
Unknown:one is a perfect chapter to talk about. And because fear, and I'm
Unknown:sure you know this, but fear really stands for false evidence
Unknown:appearing real. There's no such thing as fear. And fear is a
Unknown:lie. So it's interesting. So when I explain it to my
Unknown:students, how they can get past that fear. And do it anyway,
Unknown:because it's holding you back from whatever it might be.
Unknown:Everything just seemed to just start happening once I got
Unknown:certified and started doing those lessons and bringing them
Unknown:into effect. And when we weren't locked down anymore. I went back
Unknown:to the college, and I started doing all of these lessons. And
Unknown:these exercises, right in the classroom. And the students were
Unknown:interacting with each other and they just they loved it. They
Unknown:loved it. So I knew it was the right thing to do. And I myself
Unknown:have learned so much and so much has happened such as writing in
Unknown:these these chapters writing in these two books that I wrote in
Unknown:and setting up the mindset playground. I got an email from
Unknown:bold, brave TV asking me if I would be interested in hosting,
Unknown:you know, and I certainly never in a million years thought that
Unknown:I would be hosting my own podcasts and TV show. And now
Unknown:it's gone even beyond that. And now I actually have the mindset
Unknown:playground channel that's coming out on a TV station, transform
Unknown:your life network TV, that's going to be all over, you know,
Unknown:the internet. So I'm really excited about that, too.
Alan Carroll:Oh, boy, a lot of a lot of energy, a lot of
Alan Carroll:wonderful things that are happening. I like the idea of
Alan Carroll:take responsibility. Because the opposite to that is, well, I'll
Alan Carroll:take responsibility for this. But I'm not going to take
Alan Carroll:responsibility for that. No, no, that was done to me. I, I'm not
Alan Carroll:responsible for that. So what's the benefit of, of telling
Alan Carroll:yourself that even though it doesn't appear that I'm
Alan Carroll:responsible, if I come from that I'm responsible, somehow it will
Alan Carroll:allow me to sail through that storm in a more in a, in a
Alan Carroll:stronger in a stronger position. With with if I if I assume
Alan Carroll:responsibility? So take a take us on a little journey on that
Alan Carroll:responsibility piece.
Unknown:Well, there is a formula that helps you
Unknown:understand taking 100% responsibility for yourself. And
Unknown:that formula is E plus r equals O,
Alan Carroll:I'm gonna go slow. There's your E as an echo.
Unknown:Yes, plus plus r,
Alan Carroll:r as an RA r
Unknown:equals O. Okay, and what that stands for, yeah, what
Unknown:that stands for is events.
Unknown:Plus, response equals outcome. So you can't change the event.
Unknown:The event happens, and life doesn't happen to us. It happens
Unknown:for us.
Unknown:Plus, your response equals your outcome. And let me give you a
Unknown:great example. So if you don't do well, on a test, that's the
Unknown:event, the test, your response to that equals your outcome. So
Unknown:if you walk into your test, and I tell all my students this
Unknown:knowing or saying, Oh,
Unknown:I hate this subject, oh, there's no way I'm gonna pass this test.
Unknown:There's no way I'm gonna pass it. Oh, I just, this is just
Unknown:terrible. I suck at this. I just know, it's, it's, it's going to
Unknown:be terrible. I'm going to forget everything I study, what's your
Unknown:outcome? Your outcome is you will probably know, I'm not
Unknown:saying in all cases, but you will probably receive the work
Unknown:that you were looking for. Right? So now if you change that
Unknown:response, if you change your response, and tell you yourself
Unknown:something positive, like, Okay, I've done the best I can, I've
Unknown:studied the best I can, this is going to be okay. It's going to
Unknown:be a test I'm prepared. I know I'm prepared. I might not get
Unknown:the a plus I'm looking for, but I'm going to shoot for it. And
Unknown:even if I get a B, that is great. Start doing it that way.
Unknown:And then walk into that test, feeling confident and feeling
Unknown:good. You will probably change your outcome. So that's the best
Unknown:way to say it. Because Oh,
Alan Carroll:what, what I see or hear from what you're saying
Alan Carroll:with with the formula, the the events is in the mindfulness
Alan Carroll:terms, the event is what is it that's the way it is. It has no
Alan Carroll:meaning. It's just that's the way the event is. Then the next
Alan Carroll:thing is I look at how I am going to respond to to that
Alan Carroll:event. And the way that I look at it Luann is that I can choose
Alan Carroll:to respond to the events or I react to the events and when you
Alan Carroll:react to the event you Take a choice out, you no longer have a
Alan Carroll:choice. It's like an automatic automatic reaction based in my
Alan Carroll:understanding, based on your conditioning, based on how you
Alan Carroll:are programmed from your past, for example, GE, you're wearing
Alan Carroll:a blue shirt. And when I was five years old, my father was
Alan Carroll:wearing a blue shirt. And he yelled at me or something. So
Alan Carroll:I'm associating blue shirts with yelling, and father and upset.
Alan Carroll:So here we are 50 years later, blue shirt, and I and I react to
Alan Carroll:it. And so being able to respond means that you have created an
Alan Carroll:empty space between the events and your reaction to the event.
Alan Carroll:That's like a buffer zone. Is that in my in the ballpark with
Alan Carroll:what you're talking about?
Unknown:Absolutely. You see a baby, if you take a baby, for
Unknown:example, and baby doesn't know. I can't. So everybody is born
Unknown:with an I Can bucket. That's what I like to call it the I can
Alan Carroll:like it. I can see a n ca n i can bucket. Okay, I
Alan Carroll:cannot bucket it's I can bucket. Okay?
Unknown:I can block it. That's what I call it, the I Can
Unknown:bucket. And the thing is, is that as we grow up all of these
Unknown:I can't. I can't, I can't they end up going into that bucket.
Unknown:So your I can bucket turns into an I can't bucket. And it's
Unknown:really hard to get out of that. But if you think about a child,
Unknown:for example, who gets up on a chair? Think about that. I don't
Unknown:know if you have children or if anybody in the audience does.
Unknown:But if you have children, I'm sure or nieces or nephews, I'm
Unknown:sure you can relate to a child getting up on a chair. And you
Unknown:know, they're there and they're having fun. And they're dancing.
Unknown:And what's the first thing we say? Get down? Get down? You're
Unknown:gonna fall you're gonna get hurt. The child doesn't know
Unknown:that. Get down. One to write. That's what we do. Yeah, we're
Unknown:putting more messages into that I can't bucket. Now. Yes, if
Unknown:they fall and they hurt themselves, then yes, you were
Unknown:probably right. But the child has to learn that because they
Unknown:don't know. They don't know. So basically, it's the same thing
Unknown:when they're sitting in the classroom, or they're sitting
Unknown:wherever and they're off looking off at the stars. And they're,
Unknown:you know, they're thinking about, they're going to be an
Unknown:astronaut, or they're going to be a teacher or whatever. And
Unknown:the teacher right away said, pay attention. They take them away
Unknown:from that dreaming. That whole dreaming state, pay attention.
Unknown:You can't be doing that you can't be looking off into the
Unknown:distance. So believe it or not, it's a learned thing. And we
Unknown:learned that through our entire life. You can't do that. So as
Unknown:soon as you say, you know if I say, Well, I want to be an
Unknown:astronaut. You can't do that. You can
Alan Carroll:never be an astronaut. Come on. You got to
Alan Carroll:know physics got to know math guy you forget to piano Yeah.
Unknown:You gotta you gotta be on a special diet. your butt's
Unknown:too big, whatever. Right. And so this is what we grew up with.
Unknown:These are the tapes that are in our head, that are constantly
Unknown:playing, you know, you can't do that. Who do you think you are?
Unknown:No. And so that's what I'm saying by the I can't bucket it
Unknown:becomes an I can't bucket because everything you think of
Unknown:they take that one I can either that bucket that everybody is
Unknown:born with, and they replace it with a cat. And did you know
Unknown:that children hear the word no 5000 times in their first three
Unknown:years 5000 times. So by the time they go to school isn't that
Unknown:interesting?
Alan Carroll:I'm writing it down. So I have it in 5000
Alan Carroll:times. That's like the programming you pretty soon you
Alan Carroll:you live in a psychological prison and you don't know you're
Alan Carroll:in a psychological prison created by your own mind about I
Alan Carroll:can't go beyond that because I can't go beyond that. Even
Alan Carroll:though you could go beyond that your your your voice inside your
Alan Carroll:head says no, I can't do Go beyond that, and guess what's
Alan Carroll:the outcome? The outcome is? Yeah, don't go beyond that. By
Alan Carroll:by your own force inside your head. Absolutely, absolutely. So
Unknown:if you want to change the Oh, which is your outcome,
Unknown:you need to change your response, you bet.
Alan Carroll:And in order to change your response, you have
Alan Carroll:to be awake enough to know that you are not going to
Alan Carroll:automatically react, you're going to be able to stop going
Alan Carroll:to be able to become mindful. Or that Gee, my button just got
Alan Carroll:pressed, there's motions going on inside myself, attack
Alan Carroll:thoughts, I'm thinking about I gotta get back I gotta get best
Alan Carroll:person is doing and be able to calm that energy down. Take a
Alan Carroll:breath, get your body relaxed, regroup, regroup, you just
Alan Carroll:capsized, you got to right size the boat up again. Take that
Alan Carroll:breath and take a look at what's what what the event is again,
Alan Carroll:and and see what's what would be the healthy choice. The physical
Alan Carroll:healthy choice, the mentally healthy choice, the emotional
Alan Carroll:healthy choice. And usually, and my reality is you got to you got
Alan Carroll:to figure out a way to shift the the negative. And to what you
Alan Carroll:talked about earlier. Gratitude. Yes, I like to complete our
Alan Carroll:podcast, because I know gratitude is something that is
Alan Carroll:an important ingredient in that Springboarding yourself from
Alan Carroll:that I can't and not responsible and world's doing it to me, I'll
Alan Carroll:never be able to be able to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Alan Carroll:Most people are I find stingy with gratitude. And but I also
Alan Carroll:find that gratitude is the one of the fastest ways that in
Alan Carroll:forgiveness, forgiveness and gratitude to me, you're dealing
Alan Carroll:with two things, forgiving that person that offended you,
Alan Carroll:gratitude and appreciation of all the things that you have
Alan Carroll:sort of pops you out of that, that negative space and put you
Alan Carroll:into a more positive mental attitude. And you celebrate,
Unknown:prove that, oh, yes, the reason for that is because
Unknown:it is medical, it is a medically known fact that you cannot think
Unknown:of two things at the same time. That's not how the brain is
Unknown:wired. And women think it's just men, but it's us as well. So
Unknown:what I mean by that is when you're in a bad mood, or you're
Unknown:going to react in a negative way, or you're going to do
Unknown:something that might not be the way that you should do it. You
Unknown:need to like you said, either go into forgiveness or go into
Unknown:gratitude. Because your brain cannot focus on those two, the
Unknown:negativity and the gratitude, the negativity and the
Unknown:forgiveness, it can I focus on both at the same time. That is
Unknown:the quickest and the easiest way to rewire your brain. And that's
Unknown:why one of the things I talked about is creating a joy list.
Unknown:Write down the things that really bring you joy, and carry
Unknown:that list with you. And the next time you're having any negative
Unknown:thoughts whatsoever, or before you go into a job interview, or
Unknown:before you do anything. Maybe go on your first date, I don't
Unknown:know, whatever it may be be. Read your joy list. And you will
Unknown:have a mind shift automatically, without even trying.
Alan Carroll:What a fountain of knowledge put in a fountain of
Alan Carroll:information, wisdom Luann that you've given us today.
Alan Carroll:Everything from the the E plus r equals O the gratitude, the
Alan Carroll:forgiveness, the vision board, all these are wonderful tools
Alan Carroll:that allows us to become more present, less of a victim of our
Alan Carroll:conditioning, more of a mindful presence, relaxed, still not
Alan Carroll:agitated. Take that breath. Very, very present very, very
Alan Carroll:mindful. So I want to thank you for all the wisdom that you have
Alan Carroll:been pardoned today. And also if people wanted to connect with
Alan Carroll:you, they wanted to find out more about you and the mindset
Alan Carroll:playground, what would be the best way to connect with you in
Alan Carroll:addition to the show notes that are accompanied the podcast
Unknown:everything is on my website, which is super simple.
Unknown:It's Luanne hunt, just like it shows in the window there. LEWIN
Unknown:hunt.ca Everything is on my website. So how to connect with
Unknown:me what I talk about the books that I've written in, and of
Unknown:course, the mindset playground.
Alan Carroll:Wonderful. Well, thank you Luann been a wonderful
Alan Carroll:guest. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom with the audience.
Alan Carroll:And just have a wonderful mindful stillness, joyful day.
Alan Carroll:Thank you very much.
Unknown:Namaste