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In this episode of "A Changed Mind", our host, David Bayer, explores how beliefs, identity, and consciousness shape the reality we experience. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, spirituality, personal development, and ancient wisdom traditions, David challenges conventional ideas about success, society, and personal limitations.

David explains how subconscious patterns, emotional states, and deeply held beliefs influence our relationships, finances, health, and overall life trajectory. Through concepts such as the “echo effect,” the law of attraction, non-resistance, and personal responsibility, he provides a framework for creating meaningful change from the inside out.

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What We Explored This Episode

06:15 Society Is an Agreement, Not Truth

12:30 Why Most People Feel Trapped by Invisible Rules

25:10 Separating Identity from Job Titles and Roles

37:45 Primal States vs. Powerful States

50:30 Why Decisions Reshape Reality

56:40 Escaping the Matrix Without Fighting It

1:02:15 The Shoal of Fish and Collective Intelligence

1:08:40 Strengthening Your Personal Signal

1:15:05 Focus, Intention, and Human Entrainment

1:27:50 The Shoaling Practice Explained

1:34:15 Building Focus Through Connection and Visualization

1:47:20 How Beliefs Shape Health, Wealth, and Relationships

2:00:15 Understanding the Echo Effect

2:06:30 Trauma as the Curriculum of the Soul

2:12:50 The Future as a Frequency, Not a Destination

2:19:10 Three Tools for Changing Your Reality

2:25:20 Becoming the Dominant Frequency in Your Life

2:31:40 The Law of Divine Oneness

2:57:20 The Law of Non-Resistance

3:03:15 The Law of Timing and Alignment

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"Society isn’t truth—it’s an agreement you were born into. The moment you see that, you stop assuming this is how life works and start creating your own path."

"Reality isn’t testing you; it’s reflecting you. What you believe becomes real, and your life mirrors the thoughts and emotions you consistently hold."

"You don’t have to fight society or escape it. You just have to stop letting it define who you are, and everything begins to change."

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Principle number one, society isn't truth, it's an agreement you were born into.

See, society isn't something you choose, it's something you woke up inside of.

And this is what's challenging for so many people.

We've been inside this box called society since the day we were born.

It's like a fish in water.

All of its life probably doesn't know that it's in water.

And most people assume society is reality, but it's not.

It's just a shared agreement that's been repeated long enough to feel really solid.

I want you to think about this.

Money only works because we agree it does.

I mean, the paper itself is worthless if you even use paper anymore.

Otherwise, it's just zeros and ones in a bank account

where the money isn't even actually there

because the bank has loaned out your money to other people.

But everybody agrees money has value,

and so you can walk into a dealership and trade your fundamentally worthless zeros and ones

for a brand new BMW.

And think about status for a minute.

We put people on pedestals, athletes, musicians, rich people, successful people.

Why?

Because that's what we do.

That's what we've always done.

And you look around, and everyone else is doing it too.

But why would you pedestal someone because they run fast

or because they put a ball in a hoop

as opposed to elevating someone because they're just a good person?

Well, because that's what we've always done.

It's really distorted.

It is a distorted model when you think about it.

None of this actually exists in nature.

I love looking at nature and using it to get a fundamental understanding

of how our reality should work.

Animals, trees, rivers, mountains, they don't apply for approval.

Nothing in nature waits to be validated.

But because of the rules that we were born into,

we live in a prison of permission

and are afraid to step outside of the lines and do something different.

And this is where people get trapped

because they mistake repetition for reality.

They mistake agreement for truth

because once something is reinforced long enough,

it just stops being questioned.

And questioning it starts to feel dangerous

even when questioning it is really logical

because emotionally it feels terrifying to step outside the system.

So much so that people will actually defend systems that drain them.

You're going to start a business.

That's pretty risky.

You shouldn't do that.

Just keep your job, says person miserable with their job.

You shouldn't live with such excesses.

You know, there are other people out there going without, says broke person.

So here's the thing.

You don't actually feel trapped because the rules are powerful.

You feel trapped because they're invisible.

So the moment you see that society is in agreement,

not a mandatory set of rules,

you can step out of the matrix and start creating within it.

I mean, think about this.

What an advantage it is when you stop buying into all the structures and rules

that everybody else is buying into

and you create psychological and emotional freedom

knowing that you can follow your own path,

your own gut, your own instinct.

In fact, that's actually the secret of the top 0.01%.

They stopped playing by the rules

and they stepped outside the structure

and started creating their own game that we all now live in.

And so when you realize this,

you stop assuming this is how life works

and you start thinking outside the box.

This was a huge shift for me.

You know, I was 20 years old when I graduated from college.

I got an internship working for a big television station

and I hated my job.

All I was doing was like filing folders all day long.

I saw everyone else really not enjoying their job,

spending eight to 10 hours a day in cubicles.

And so I decided to start my own business.

And people said, hey, this is risky.

And it's like, well, looking back on it, I was 20 years old.

Like, what did I have to lose?

Your 20s are when you're supposed to take

quote unquote risks.

But they aren't really risks

when you understand what they are.

You know, I started my own business.

I learned a lot.

I leveraged that to get an amazing opportunity

to move to Italy.

I started up the internet business

for an Italian motorcycle company

called Ducati Motorcycles.

I spent two years there.

I had a performance-based compensation.

I was making like a quarter of a million dollars a year.

And then because I kept thinking outside of the box,

I came back to the US and I raised $4 million

for another idea I had.

Because I realized I didn't want

and I didn't need to follow

what everyone else was doing.

So when you see that these are just agreements

and that you don't have to agree,

something very powerful comes back online,

which is choice.

And you get your freedom back.

Not because you had to resist the system

or the rules themselves,

but because you saw them for what they were

in that awareness.

And in that awareness,

it opened up a new world of possibility.

Principle number two,

school, work, and success were not designed for you.

They were designed for predictability.

So most people think the system failed them

and it actually didn't.

It did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Modern education and work systems

are intentionally built

to create an efficient, predictable,

and scalable workforce.

It was never designed

for financial prosperity or fulfillment.

And so school in many ways

effectively trains obedience

to external authority

before it ever trains self-trust.

You're rewarded

for staying in the structure.

And work is the same thing.

Work rewards reliability

rather than originality or creativity.

Success is defined really narrowly.

So it can be measured,

it can be ranked,

it can be controlled.

And within that system,

you're just looking to advance in the ranks.

But the ranks are controlled.

And if you get out of line,

then you risk being removed.

And so people are shaped to fit roles

before they even understand who they are.

And over time,

identity literally collapses

into job titles,

income levels,

and a bunch of other useless labels.

And so without realizing it,

people stop asking,

what do I actually want?

And you'll notice

that the more intuitive,

creative, or independent someone is,

the more friction they feel

in the workplace.

The more out of place they are.

And usually these people

either step back in line

and end up feeling really suppressed

and oppressed by it,

or they end up doing what I did,

leaving the system entirely

and bettering themselves for it.

But the shift happens

when you separate who you are

from what you do.

Because the moment your identity

isn't sourced from a role,

you no longer fear losing it.

And you start to align yourself with

and attract opportunities

that are in alignment

with what you're passionate about

and who you truly are.

This is identity-first transformation.

And the cool thing is,

as results,

follow who you're being,

not the other way around.

And in that,

your work or your job

stops being a cage

that you crawl into

for 40 hours a week

and it starts being an expression

of who you are.

And from that,

the money,

and most importantly,

the joy has to follow.

Principle number three,

hustle culture isn't about success,

it's about control.

So effort is glorified for a reason.

Not because it works,

but because it keeps people busy

and because it keeps a few people

who can hustle hard enough

at the top.

So you just look around today,

we've got a Navy SEAL,

hyper-masculine,

male hustle culture,

both in work and on YouTube

and on social media.

It's this idea that

if you're not working hard

every second of the day,

someone somewhere is

and when you meet them,

they will win, right?

It's pretty nuts.

But we've been so indoctrinated

into the fact

that you have to work really hard

and burn yourself out

to be successful

that we've created

another set of rules

that says,

if you don't do that,

whatever you're doing

isn't meaningful.

I mean, think about

how crazy that is.

And so effort and hustle

and grinding

becomes an identity.

I'm a hard worker.

Instead of,

I'm someone who enjoys my life

or I'm someone who knows who I am,

I say yes and no to the rules

to stay in integrity

with who I am

and what I believe.

The system benefits

when people try harder

instead of living authentically.

And a lot of these rules

around working hard

or sacrificing yourself

or doing it all

is really about something

that people never look at,

which is your emotional state.

See, humans don't make decisions.

They make decisions

from emotional states.

And different states

produce completely different realities.

So what I would describe

as primal states

are survival-based states.

And they create urgency,

scarcity,

comparison,

fear,

shame.

And powerful states,

they're abundance-based.

They create clarity.

They create presence,

trust,

wealth,

decisiveness,

and hustle culture

keeps people locked

into primal states

by constantly activating

the nervous system.

Pressure around money,

pressure around time,

pressure around performance

and status.

It keeps us in survival mode.

And a nervous system

in survival mode

does not create.

It complies.

And so from that state,

effort feels necessary

because safety feels uncertain.

And this is why

over-effort is rewarded

because it plays off

of a fear

that we are all falling behind.

But the moment you believe

you're behind

or running out of time

or you need to catch up,

you've entered the game.

And outsmarting society

doesn't start with more effort.

It starts with a shift

in perspective,

a shift in values

and a shift

in your emotional state.

And when alignment

starts to replace force,

you step into

a different reality.

Timelines collapse,

there's less intensity,

there's more momentum,

and always better results.

Principle number four,

the real trap

isn't rules,

it's permission.

So the deepest conditioning

isn't actually obedience,

it's conditioning someone

to wait.

So it's conditioning someone

to have to ask

for permission to rest

or permission to pivot

or permission to want more,

permission to want

something unconventional.

Most people aren't stopped

by force,

they're stopped

by imagined consequences

if they don't get permission.

And that comes out

of fear of judgment,

it shapes the decisions

more than logic ever could.

And so hesitation

gets framed

as being responsible.

But most of the time,

it's just a fear

of standing alone.

You know,

I met a woman years ago

who wanted to leave her job.

She was working in the hospital

to do what she was

really passionate about.

It was her artwork,

she wanted to open up

a retail store,

but she was super afraid

to do it.

And she told me

she has a teenage son

and it would be,

quote,

irresponsible of her

to do that.

And so I asked her,

I said,

hey,

what's more important

in terms of what you model

for your son?

How much money you make

and financial security

or following your dreams

and pursuing your passion?

So she paused for a moment

and she said,

100% modeling independence

and pursuing her dreams

was the most important thing

to model for her son.

And so I asked her again,

what is responsible then?

Staying with your job

or following your passion?

See,

most people get it

completely backwards.

And here's the thing,

the system doesn't need

to stop you,

it just needs you

to doubt yourself.

The people who make the moves,

they aren't smarter or faster,

they're just not divided internally.

The moment someone stops

waiting for permission,

momentum shifts immediately.

You start noticing

how often hesitation

has nothing to do

with readiness

and everything to do

with getting approval

or permission.

And what every person

who has escaped the matrix

will tell you

is that all you need to do

is decide.

A decision is not reckless,

a decision is a command.

And when you decide,

your reality begins

to reorganize.

That's why in scripture

it says,

thou shalt decree a thing

and it shall be established

unto thee

and the light shall shine

upon thy way.

That's why in the very beginning

of the Bible,

there's the first command.

God said,

let there be light

and there was.

When you decide,

life responds differently.

When you start deciding

and stop asking to be allowed,

your entire reality can change.

Principle number five,

you don't win the game

by escaping it,

you win by no longer

being ruled by it.

Now,

outsmarting society

doesn't mean rejecting it

and it definitely doesn't

mean fighting it.

Fighting the system

keeps it central in your mind.

It keeps your energy

entangled with it.

What you pay attention to

just gets more prominent

in your reality.

And that's why so many people

who realize they're trapped

in the system

stay stuck

because they spend

the rest of their lives

trying to fight it.

But real leverage

comes from seeing the rules

without emotional attachment.

You can participate in systems

without letting them define you.

You can still play the game

but according to your rules.

And because everyone else

is playing according to the system,

you literally start to look

supernatural inside of it.

Remember Neo in the Matrix.

Like whenever he logged

back into society,

he had capabilities

beyond his wildest imagination.

And that's what happens

when you red pill yourself.

When your identity

is no longer locked

into the old rules of the game

and society loses its grip

when it stops being

your reference point.

You stop reacting

and you start engaging strategically.

And this is what the powerful people

in the world are doing right now.

They're manipulating the system

because they sit outside of it.

And what's beautiful

is that it's not just

powerful people anymore

who are opting out

of society's rules.

It's people like you and me.

That's why I believe

in the certainty

of the goodness of the future.

That's why this mindset work

and identity work

is so important

because as your identity

restabilizes internally

and you let go of the fear

of being different,

the external world

loses power over you.

You don't need to escape the game.

You just need to stop mistaking it

for the only reality.

So if there's one thing

I want you to take

from today's conversation,

it's this.

You're not broken.

You're not behind.

You're not stuck.

You've just been playing a game

that you didn't consciously choose.

And the moment you see that,

a new possibility unlocks.

Your clarity comes back online

and you stop trying to earn

a place you already belong in.

You don't have to fight society.

You don't have to escape it.

You just have to stop

letting it define who you are.

And when that happens,

everything changes.

Your decisions get cleaner.

Your energy stops leaking.

Your work starts reflecting truth

instead of fear.

And just watch

how differently life responds

when you start playing

the game consciously.

So in nature,

a shoal of fish,

which is one of those

big bundles of sometimes

hundreds of thousands

of individual fish,

it moves in perfect unity

as if it shares one mind.

And here's the interesting thing.

There's no head fish.

There's no communication.

There's no planning.

Yet every single fish

turns simultaneously

and swims in perfect harmony

with all the other fish.

The biologist discovered

something shocking.

The shoal always follows the fish

with the strongest

and clearest directional impulse

in the group.

It's not the biggest fish.

It's not the fastest fish.

But the one fish

with the strongest

internal intention acts

and the whole shoal

locks onto it.

The fish with the clearest intention

literally becomes

the super intelligence

for the entire group.

And this is the same

with flocks of birds,

swarms of bees,

crowds of people,

even large scale

social movements.

There is a collective

super intelligence

that emerges

when many units

synchronize

to a dominant signal.

So what does this mean for you?

Well, humans

have the capacity

to synchronize

and influence each other

in exactly the same way

that fish do.

We synchronize

based on the strength

of our vibration,

which is a byproduct

of our intention,

our emotions,

and our thoughts.

In other words,

you're like a broadcast tower

and your signal

becomes stronger

the more you're focused

and intentional

about whatever it is

that you're thinking

and feeling

and what you're wanting

to create.

Now, the challenge

is that most people

have a really weak signal.

You know,

one moment we're broadcasting

that we want more money,

the next moment

we're scrolling

through social media,

the next moment

we're worried

that we don't have enough time

or that we're not good enough.

And so for the most part,

human beings

are really weak

in terms of our ability

to focus our intention

and attention

on something.

So most of us

are really living

scattered lives.

And I know you feel that.

I feel that too.

Even being in this work,

there's a tremendous opportunity

for me to hone

and focus my attention.

And it's important.

If you go back

to the number one

best-selling book

on success and wealth

in the history of the world,

Napoleon Hill's

Think and Grow Rich,

Hill talks about

the importance

of this focus

and the ability

to influence others

when he talks about

having a burning desire.

So he talks about

a burning desire

at great length.

He says,

you got to find something

that you're so passionate about

that you can't stop

thinking about it,

that you obsess about it,

that you can't let go of it.

Because that's how

you increase your signal

and strengthen your broadcast.

But what most of us

can't let go of is fear.

What most of us

can't let go of is scarcity.

And so that becomes

the predominant broadcast.

And not only are we

unintentional,

we're attracting

and creating

circumstances

and situations

that will make

that fear a reality.

But when you're able

to raise your signal

and focus it,

your broadcast

is actually received

by other people.

And they unconsciously

start to align

their actions

and their behaviors

to line up

with your intended outcome

just like the shoal does.

There was an experiment

with multiple grandfather clocks

all swinging

in a room together,

but all swinging

out of sync.

They were all doing

their own thing.

And within hours,

they all synchronize.

Hours later,

what happens?

How did they get

into perfect unison?

Well, the clock

with the strongest,

most consistent pendulum

pulls every other clock

into its rhythm.

Now, I might be

outdating myself.

I'm not talking

about digital clocks,

by the way.

I'm talking about

those big grandfather clocks.

But this is an incredible

example of entrainment.

Right?

The weak rhythm

collapses

into the strong ones

and human beings

do exactly the same thing.

So if your frequency

is scattered,

you get pulled

into someone else's agenda.

If your frequency

is coherent,

people start assisting

you unconsciously.

So I just want you

to check in with yourself

right now.

Do you think

that your predominant

vibration and frequency

is scattered or unscattered?

Do you find yourself

in your head a lot

and not being present

to what's actually going on,

jumping from topic

to topic to topic?

Well, then there's an opportunity

for you to improve this

because odds are

you're being influenced

by external forces

and you're having

very little internal influence

on the things around you.

But this is why

when you're focused

and aligned,

people seem

to help you magically.

Like you ever set a goal

and then suddenly

the right people appear

to help you achieve it?

It's not coincidence.

It's not luck.

That's what's called

entanglement.

When you're able

to focus your thoughts

and your emotions

towards your intention

for an extended period

of time,

your vibration

becomes the dominant field

and people with weaker

or unfocused fields

synchronize to you.

Think about how powerful

it is.

They help you

without even realizing it

as your inner reality

starts to bend

their outer one.

As you build this capacity

in your nervous system,

you become the field

that they entrain to.

You literally become

the field

that they lock into.

And what's even more shocking,

this ability to bend reality

by learning how to create

consistent and powerful coherence

in your inner state of being,

it transcends

the limitations

of time and space.

That means you influence people

no matter where they are

on the planet

and even outside

of this present moment.

So in physics,

there's a phenomenon

called quantum entanglement.

And that's when two particles,

they become connected.

Doesn't matter if they're

inches apart

or on opposite sides

of the universe.

The moment you change one,

the other responds

in the same way instantly.

And Einstein called this

spooky action at a distance.

And even though he had

the theory for it,

he thought it was impossible.

three physicists won

the Nobel Prize,

proving that the universe

is connected

by invisible fields.

Not space,

not time,

but fields.

I want you to think about it

as if there was a big blanket

laid out across the universe.

And then two objects

are set on it.

And by making an adjustment

or movement to one,

immediately the other one

feels it

because they're connected

by this fabric

and makes the same shift.

Now in a moment,

I'm going to share with you

a powerful technique

for honing your attention

so that you immediately

become the field

that influence others around you.

But it's also important to note

that you are also

a fish in the shoal.

That means you can be influenced

when your mind is scattered.

And so my question to you is,

how focused is your mind?

And have you noticed

how many distractions

are being put in front of you

from social media

to pandemics

to financial crisis

to the always on

24-7 cycle

of fear shock news?

That is not by accident.

The more scattered

your mind is,

the easier it is

to entrain you

to someone else's agenda.

So we're not just talking

about how to create influence

over others,

but developing

the capacity

to focus your energy

and attention

because this is the way

that you protect yourself

from outside influence,

from forces

that don't share

the vision and intention

you have for your own life.

So the question is,

how do we build

this powerful force field

from within

which you can use

to broadcast

your noble desires

into the world?

And it's a powerful technique

that I call,

appropriately,

shoaling.

And this has become

one of my recent practices.

I think it's the most

powerful practice

that I've ever engaged in

and it works like this.

You notice when you're scattered.

You notice when you move

into stress or anxiety

or overwhelm

or feeling like you're a victim

of the environment around you.

You notice when your thoughts

are jumping from one to the other,

feeling like you're not enough,

to not having enough time,

to not being able

to get all the things done,

to not being as far along

as you should be.

And you notice this

because what's happened here

is you become scattered.

And the intention here

is to bring yourself

back to an image

of the shoal.

And so if you need

to get on Google Images

and take a look

at a picture

of a shoal of fish,

do that, right?

We've got a couple

we've shown you

if you're following along

on YouTube.

I want you to imagine

the shoal around you.

So you close your eyes

and you imagine yourself

being connected

to the shoal,

connected to all the fish

around you.

And then expand that

to acknowledging

that you are connected

to all things,

that all of life is energy,

that we are vibrational,

that there's a quantum reality here,

that there's a fabric

that permeates everything,

that you're in the grid

and you're connected

to all of it.

You're connected to nature,

you're connected to people,

you're connected to time

and space and the earth

and the galaxy

and the universe,

that you are connected

to this matrix.

And in that,

I want you to appreciate

the life around you,

appreciate the nature

around you,

bring to mind

the beautiful people

and circumstances

around you.

I want you to recognize

your shoal

because that's what

you're doing right now.

You have attracted

people,

circumstances,

situations,

reality

around you

that is your shoal.

And now what we want to do

is strengthen it.

But again,

I want you to imagine

all the fish,

all the people,

all the circumstances

realizing

that they're synchronizing

to you.

Bring yourself back

into the shoal.

This could be a two

or three minute practice.

And then I want you

to notice as well

that things show up

in the shoal

that don't belong.

You could call them problems,

that could be certain people,

certain circumstances,

a crisis going on

in your life.

But because you're in the shoal,

as long as you stay connected

and feel that connection

in your nervous system

to the shoal,

that so many things

are working

for your greatest growth,

your greatest prosperity,

your greatest evolution,

that thing that came

into the shoal

will leave the shoal.

It'll be ejected

from the shoal.

That's exactly

what happens in nature.

A fish that doesn't belong

comes bumping along

into a shoal

that is coherent

and organized

and boom,

it gets ejected.

It doesn't stay

within the flow

or the frequency

of the shoal.

I want you to

take a moment

to breathe in

this feeling of connectivity.

All of reality

around you

feeding into you,

right,

through wires,

through connections,

through networks.

I want you to breathe

in the connectivity

that exists.

And then I want you

to breathe out

the broadcast.

What is it you're

broadcasting out?

Are you broadcasting

out more financial abundance?

Are you broadcasting

out peace?

Are you broadcasting

out help?

Are you broadcasting

out confidence?

You can do this

open-eyed.

You can do this

closed-eyed.

My practice,

I did it this morning.

I live on three acres

on a lake.

I walked down

to my gazebo.

It's on the lake.

I sat there

open-eyed

and just looked

at the lake,

looked at the mountains,

listened to the birds,

heard the sounds,

heard the gardeners

next door

and realized

this is my shoal.

This is my reality

that I've created

and I am safe

in my shoal.

I notice throughout my day

when I'm in my head

and I'm working on

something on my computer

or an email comes through

of something I didn't expect

and I get disconnected

from my shoal.

I get scattered

and I stop

and I look out my window

and I see the reality

of nature

around me

and I reconnect

to my shoal.

I connect back

into the shoal.

And by the way,

this is not just

a visualization.

Two really important

things happen

when you get into

this shoaling practice.

Number one,

it's a neurological

habit break

meaning

you're removing yourself

from the scattering

and you're bringing yourself

back into a focus.

In this case,

it's a focus

on the shoal.

And so this is the practice

because what we're doing

is retraining ourselves

from scatter

to focus

to being able

to focus your attention

on the things

that you desire

so that you can

broadcast that out

to the rest

of humanity

and entrain people

into your field.

That's number one.

This is a real,

actual,

proven,

scientific practice

that will benefit you

in the development

of your ability

to focus your attention.

Number two,

your brain

does not know

the difference

between imagination

and reality.

All kinds of studies

show this.

I referenced one

they brought in

piano players

to play the piano

and then they just

had them come back

and imagine

playing the piano

while their brains

were under brain scan

and the same parts

of the brain lit up

whether they were

playing the piano

or imagining it.

Athletes use this

for fast twitch

muscle fiber development.

You can actually

imagine training

and you start to build

new muscle fiber

without even working out.

Well, your brain

doesn't know the difference

between imagination

and reality.

And so as you are shoaling,

you are actually organizing

and entraining

your nervous system.

You're building

the antenna

and the dome.

So as you imagine

and feel

all of the information

and the field

flowing into you

and broadcasting back out,

you're actually building

that capacity inside of you.

You're actually doing it.

You're actually building

the antenna.

And if you do this

just a few minutes,

a few times a day,

man,

watch how your reality

starts to reorganize

and watch how your emotional

experience of life

is different

and watch how your capacity

to focus your attention

on those things

that are burning desires

for you develops

at an extraordinary pace.

Guys, you know,

for so long,

I thought that reality

was judging me.

It was punishing me.

It was ignoring me.

Sometimes it was rewarding me.

But the truth is

that reality

isn't testing you.

It's reflecting you.

Reality

is a feedback loop

of consciousness.

It is 100% true

that you create

your own reality,

that what you believe

becomes real.

If you believe

that money is scarce,

you will experience

financial insecurity

100% guaranteed.

You believe you are worthy,

then abundance

and relationships

will become very easy

for you.

If you believe

you have to work

really hard

to be successful,

you'll achieve success.

But man,

will it be hard.

You know,

as the Buddha said,

the mind is everything

what you think

you become.

And I want you

to think about

how brilliant

this system

actually is.

this idea

that we create

our own reality.

Because it is a way

that you can use

the experiences

of your life

to grow

and to change

and to evolve.

Because the world

that you experience

every day

is not actually

an experience

of the world,

it's an experience

of yourself.

You know,

in scripture,

it says that man

is made in the image

of God

or the creator.

And if everything

is God

and we believe

that there was a moment

when everything started,

right,

in science

we call it

the Big Bang,

then what we can assume

is that in the beginning

God wanted to know

more of himself.

You know,

you think about it,

if you're God

and you're all that is

and you're sitting

in the middle of a void,

there's nothing

to reflect back to you

who you are,

what you are,

and inherent in each

and every one of us

is this desire

to know more of ourselves,

this desire to grow,

to expand,

to have a venture.

So if that's inside of us,

we can assume

it's also inside of God.

And so then we can assume

that in that moment

in the beginning,

God wanted to know

more of himself

and boom,

there was this moment.

And over the last

13 billion years,

God has come

to know himself

by what he or she

has created

in reality.

So God knows himself

through the evidence

of what he has created.

And if we're made

in the image of God,

then it must also be true

that we come

to know ourselves

through the reality

that we create.

So this is a holographic

generational type

of experience

from father to child,

from God to us.

Your life

is a reflection

of who you have been

up until this point.

The good news

is that you can change

this,

but your current reality

is a reflection

of who you have been.

So who are you?

Well,

you are the sum total

of what you think,

what you believe,

what you feel,

which is a frequency

that you put out

into reality,

and reality mirrors

this back to you

through your personal reality.

Dr. Joe Dispenza says,

your personality,

meaning who you are,

becomes your personal reality.

So most people think

their reality

is causing them

to feel a certain way.

My bank account

is causing me

to feel financially insecure.

This person

or this situation

is causing me

to feel angry.

But when you think

about it,

if everything we're saying

is true,

which it is,

mirrors don't cause anything.

They only reflect back

what is already

happening inside of you.

And this is where

your ability

to influence reality comes.

When you realize

that reality

is a mirror

and you take responsibility

for what you've created,

you can change

your reality.

I love the word

responsibility

because if you break

that down,

it's a response

ability.

If you don't like

what you see

in the mirror,

you have a response

ability

and that is also

a responsibility.

You say,

you know what,

I know that what

I'm experiencing

is just a byproduct

of what is inside of me.

If I want to change

the experience,

I have to change myself

because if you change

your thinking,

then you can change

what gets reflected

back to you.

You know,

this podcast

I've been doing

for about two years

and for the first,

I don't know,

nine months,

I recorded an episode

every single week.

Not that many people

listened.

I had about 5,000

listeners on a monthly

basis to this show.

Now we're at about

1.3 million a month.

What that reflected

back to me,

this experience,

I noticed that I was

thinking that I was

doing it wrong.

Man,

look at all these

other people with

these big shows

and big viewership

and here I am

consistently recording

every single week

for nine months.

Eventually I moved

to two episodes a week

but I'm not growing.

I must be doing it wrong.

But that reaction

that I had

to my podcast performance,

that's a belief

that I've had

since I was a kid.

Ever since I was a kid,

I believed there was

something wrong with me.

That is what I

got reflected back to me

when I was single

for 10 years

before I met

my wife,

Carol.

I was going out

on all these dates.

I wasn't finding anybody.

I thought I'd be alone

for the rest of my life.

The conclusion I had

was there's something

wrong with me.

Right?

It reflected in my body

and my health challenges.

I've shared before,

I was diagnosed

with super high levels

of mercury

in my system

from an all-fish diet

that I went through

this crazy seven years

of chronic health challenges.

What was my reaction

to my physical experience

and my body

and my health?

There's something wrong

with me.

Everywhere I went,

there David Baer was.

But when I identified

and I shifted this belief,

when I used the tools

that I teach on this show

and I went back

and looked at where

I learned this

and I realized

it was never true

in the first place,

I shifted the belief.

What happened?

My whole life changed.

I met my wife.

My health got better.

My podcast took off.

Because those areas

of my life

were just reflecting

back to me

what it was inside of me

that I was holding

to be true

about myself.

So,

when we

take responsibility

for our reality,

recognizing it's just a mirror

and we begin to do the work

and we shift our beliefs,

I want to explain

why sometimes

it feels like

nothing is changing externally

even when we've done

the inner work.

So,

it's very important

to understand.

I like to frame it this way.

There are two realities

happening simultaneously.

So,

the moment you shift

a belief,

a limiting belief,

you're still living

in the reality

that was produced

by your old thinking.

And that will sustain

itself for a little while.

People,

oftentimes,

they change their thinking

and then they go,

why isn't my reality

responding?

Well,

because there's a delay.

And that's a good thing

because you can imagine

if we instantly

manifested anything,

there's a lot of negative

thinking we have.

We'd be creating

a lot of chaos

in the world.

You know,

the other important thing

to understand is

what we're talking about

is a neurological shift.

As you start to change

your beliefs,

you're deactivating

old networks

in your brain

and you're activating

new ones

and that takes

a little bit of time.

So,

it takes a little bit

of time

for your reality

to change too.

And what happens

is as you decide

that life doesn't

have to be hard

or money isn't scarce

or that there's

nothing wrong with you,

you're still going

to experience

for a little while

evidence of your

old thinking.

And the mistake

most people make

is that they buy

into their current

reality rather than,

as Neville Goddard,

the great mystical teacher,

would say,

staying loyal

to the new belief.

What's happening

is what I call

the echo effect.

It's important

that you understand this

because if you don't

understand this,

you'll go,

see,

you know,

this shift in my thinking

didn't actually change

my reality.

My reality is fixed.

It's not a reflection.

And you'll go back

into your old limiting beliefs.

So,

reality will continue

to reflect your old state

until the new thinking,

the new feeling,

the new nervous system

or the new vibration

becomes stable.

So,

you have to stay faithful

to the new belief

in order to create

the sustainable change.

What we experienced

as a child,

right,

trauma,

our limiting beliefs,

the things that happen

to us that we would not

wish upon other people

but that happen to us

are all part of

our unique growth journey.

Right?

So,

a child with a core belief

of I'm not safe

will see life reflect

that back to them

as abandonment,

for example.

Or a child

who adopts this program

that there's something

wrong with them

will,

like I did,

experience sickness

as an adult.

And everyone is on their own

assigned or chosen

journey of evolution.

I believe that

we all decided

to come here

to learn something different

and in order to learn

that thing

that we came here

to learn,

the expansive part of it,

the growth part of it,

the evolutionary part of it,

we were born into an environment

where just the opposite occurs.

It's resistance training.

And not only does this happen

in this life

but it happens from life

after life

after life

after life.

So,

you can see very easily

in this life

you've had this journey

of experiencing something

that you don't like

but that has helped you

catalyze and crystallize

what it is that you want.

So,

the challenges

and the problems

in our life

are actually the seeds

for the desires

and the goals

and the dreams

and the expansion.

And that happens

not only in this life

but it happens

from life

after life

after life

after life

as your soul

goes through

all the different incarnations

in a process

of returning

to the wholeness

or returning

to God

or all that is.

So,

we are in this process

of expansion,

contraction,

expansion,

contraction,

expansion,

contraction.

That's how creation works.

That's how you become

more vast.

You even look at

the process

a woman goes through

in this miracle

of birth,

contraction,

expansion,

contraction,

expansion,

right?

Problem,

desire,

problem,

desire,

problem,

desire

and then boom

a miracle occurs.

So,

you are a miracle maker

and the traumas

and challenges

you experience

aren't here to hold you back.

They're here to catalyze

your momentum forward

but you have to understand

that reality is a mirror

and it's revealing

the programs

that are still there

so that they can be cleared.

This is really powerful

because many of us

view our trauma

or our inefficiencies

or insufficiencies

or inadequacies

as the reason

why we can't

accomplish something.

They're actually

the reason

why you are here

to accomplish

and become that thing

because your trauma

is the curriculum

of your soul.

It is not a punishment.

How does this change

our reality?

As we start to take

personal responsibility,

as we start to look

at the mirror

and we start to change

the inner world

and give it time

to evolve externally,

right?

we change our reality

and so we go from

what we would call

our now moment

into the future

but I want you

to understand

that what we call

the future,

what we're wanting

to arrive to

is actually just

a frequency.

See, it's important

to understand

that time

is actually

a measurement

of change.

So a day

is how long

it takes

for the earth

to change,

more specifically

to rotate one time.

A year

measures the change

or the time

it takes

for the earth

to orbit

around the sun.

A second

measures change.

The change

it measures

is nine billion

vibrations

of a cesium atom.

So time

is a measurement

of change

and so

your present moment

will change

into the future

when your frequency

changes.

So we experience

that change

in frequency

as what we would

call time

but it's really

a measurement

of vibrational

change.

And so

when your thoughts

and your emotions

or what we would

call your consciousness

changes

or evolves

then the physical

mirror

or your three-dimensional

reality

will change

to reflect it.

So this is important

to understand

because your future

is not something

that you move towards

it's something

that starts reflecting

the moment

you match it.

So I want to make

this practical

for you.

I want to give you

a couple of tools

three tools

that you can use

in relationship

to the mirror principle.

Number one

when you are experiencing

your reality

and it is a reality

that you don't like

ask yourself

this question

what am I thinking

about this reality

or this experience?

The reason why

that's important

is people often say

well Dave

if I'm creating

my reality

and I'm creating

it through what

I believe

how do I become

aware of those

things that

I'm not aware of

so I can change

the belief

and my answer is

pay attention

to your reaction

to the reality

that you don't like.

Pay attention

to how you react

to your problems

because the thinking

that you have

in relationship

to the problem

is not created

by the problem.

The thinking

is actually

what created

the problem

in the first place.

You just forgot

the time

when you started

thinking this way.

So you become

aware of your reaction

the reaction

is the belief

or the program

that created

the situation

in the first place

and now you can

begin to question

the thinking

you can work

with the belief

you can use

all the other tools

that I teach

on this channel

or in my book

to change the belief.

So this is how

you become aware

of what's creating

your reality.

Pay attention

to your reaction

to it.

Number two

another tool

is what I would

call the one

question method.

The question

is really simple.

This thing

that I don't prefer

this problem

this experience

what is this

teaching me

about myself?

If that's a reflection

of me

what is this

teaching me

about me?

And if I'm having

a challenge

with someone

or I've been

betrayed

what this might

be teaching

me about me

is that I

don't trust

people

and therefore

life is reflecting

that back to me.

Right?

Everything is a

teaching and a learning

because it's encouraging

you into self-reflection

and personal growth

and your return

to wholeness.

It's designed

by this loving

omniscient

omnipotent

loving

system

or structure.

So what is this

teaching me

about myself?

One more tool

which is what I would

call the future mirror.

And the question

is this

how would the future

me interpret this?

In other words

if I were already

living with all of my

goals and my dreams

accomplished

as a wholly healed

human being

how would I

interpret this

experience?

What would this

mean for me?

So for example

I have challenges

in business

all the time

and I ask myself

how would the future

me interpret this?

And often times

the future me

would not be

worrying about the

thing.

And when I

start to be

my future self

now by choosing

not to worry

about this

my future me

would be able

to see that

this is a teaching

it's a training

that it's part

of the process

of helping me

become who I

must become

in order to

accomplish my

vision.

I relax

and the irony

is it's in

that down

regulated state

I have proper

perception

and I'm able

to see solutions

around the problems

as they show up.

How would the future

me interpret this?

Remember it's

super important

you shift first

then your reality

shifts

but you also

have to be patient

and stay loyal

during the shift

between realities.

Over time

as you do this

you start to

build your frequency

and you become

the dominant

frequency

in your reality.

In other words

most of us

start out living

in someone else's

reality.

A lot of us

describe it

as like the

powerful people

in the world

right?

The people

who are creating

the systems

that we live in.

Well they're

creating the systems

that we live in

because up until

now they've had

the dominant

frequency

but as you

start to reclaim

sovereignty

over your own

frequency

other people

will start to

entrain to it.

I've talked

about this

in other episodes

they can take

a bunch of

different grandfather

clocks

and the pendulums

will all be

swinging at a

different cadence

but given enough

time

they will all

entrain

to the

dominant

grandfather

clock.

We see this

biologically

with women.

Women live

together in

dorm rooms

or houses

or whatever

it is.

Their menstruation

cycles all

start to

entrain to

each other.

Over time

as you build

your new

frequency

others will

entrain to

you.

It literally

you start to

expand your

reality and

others become

a part of

it.

It's like a

force field

that broadcasts

influence and

protects you

from external

influence.

This is energetic

mastery.

This is how

you become

untouchable

unshakable

the strongest

signal in

any room

and ultimately

a sovereign

creator.

So law

number one

is the law

of divine

oneness

and the

core idea

here is

that there

is only one

field expressing

itself as

many and this

is the law

of divine

oneness.

It's the

foundation

beneath all

the other

laws and

before we

talk about

the other

laws we

have to

understand

the structure

of reality

itself.

And the

structure is

this.

There is one

field expressing

itself as

many.

Separation is

actually an

illusion and

a core part

of the

architecture is

connectedness.

And in every

ancient civilization

despite being

separated by

geography and

time they

all arrived at

the same

version of

this realization

in the

Upanishads

they said

tat vam

asi you

are that

out there

not connected

to it not

influenced by

it you

actually are

everything that

you perceive.

And the

Stoics described

a living

intelligence that's

permeating all

things.

They referred

to it as

the Logos.

In Hermetic

philosophy they

taught something

very similar.

They taught

that reality

is a single

mental organism

expressing in

layers.

And even

modern physics

suggests that

what we call

matter is

excitation within

one unified

field.

So different

languages but

same structure.

There is one

vibrational

continuum.

And what we

experience as

individuated life

or individual

life is really

differentiation

creation within

the continuum.

And sacred

geometry

expresses or

explains this

and it encodes

it visually.

There's a symbol

called the

vesica Pisces.

It's two circles

that are

intersecting and

they actually

represent the

moment of

creation.

It's when one

outward energy

meets an

inward energy.

An outward

expression and

an inward

expression.

Two energies

that intersect

that create spin

or torque in

the universe.

Because if you

look at it

everything that's

in the material

world spins.

And from that

spin, from that

structure, emerges

the material world.

So you can sort of

imagine it as this

fabric of energy

that the material

world is emerging

out of.

And in ancient

symbols all across

the world they

express this.

You have the yin

and the yang, two

equal and opposite

symbols crossing

each other.

You have the star

of David, right?

So this idea of

as is above so

is below with the

intersecting triangles.

Even in

Christianity, while

the cross

represents Jesus

laying himself

upon the suffering

of humanity

and sacrificing

himself, it's

literally a cross.

And so all

these symbols

have these

opposites that

are interfacing

inside one

underlying unity.

And so the

world emerges

from interaction

with a single

organism.

It's literally

one super

organism interacting

with itself.

And if that's

true, then

separation is

just perceptual.

It's not

actually structural.

So you're

not a

disconnected

fragment that's

navigating an

external universe.

You're actually

a localized

expression of a

larger intelligence.

You can think

of it as like

a wave on the

ocean or a

leaf on a

tree or like

a finger on a

hand, right?

And if you're

a finger on a

hand, you would

never attack

another finger

on the same

hand, right?

If you did, we

call that autoimmune

dysfunction.

And so when we

harm others, we're

actually participating

in this fragmentation

within the same

system.

We're harming

ourselves.

And the good

news is that when

we elevate

ourselves and we

do good in the

world, we actually

do good to

ourselves and we

stabilize the

overall field.

And this starts to

reframe the concept

of responsibility

completely, right?

Because your

emotional state is

not something that's

just unique to your

own experience.

Your identity is

not some sort of

isolated phenomenon,

but you're actually

sharing it with

everything else.

And that's why

one person's

anxiety can

literally destabilize

an entire room and

why one person's

grounded presence can

regulate it.

So in a unified

system, these internal

shifts that we make,

they ripple outward and

we see that mirrored back

to us and everything that

we experience.

And so once you

understand that reality

is one connected

organism, you stop

trying to control

external circumstances

as if they exist

independently from you

and you start to

recognize that what

appears outside is

interacting with what

actually exists inside

of you, right?

You want to create an

external change, you have

to change something

within, which is the

foundation of so many

episodes here on this

channel.

So this law changes

how you interpret

conflict, right?

It changes how you

interpret opportunity,

it changes how you

interpret other people,

it changes how you

interpret yourself.

Because if there's

only one field

expressing itself

through many forms,

right?

One individual

intelligence expressing

itself through many,

then what you're

looking at out there

is not separate from

you.

It's part of the same

organism and that

realization starts to

shift everything.

Because if everything

is one field, then

what you experience

must be related to

your relationship with

the field, right?

And that actually

brings us to the

second law.

The second law is the

law of recurrence or

what I call the echo

effect.

The core idea here is

that your present

moment is delayed

feedback from past

consciousness, meaning

thoughts and emotions

that you had before.

And so the law of

recurrence is really

simple, but if you

really understand it,

it changes everything

because your present

moment is not actually

a predictor of your

future.

A lot of people kind

of look at what's

going on in their

lives right now and

they say, well, based

on what's happening

right now, this is

what is or is not

possible for me moving

forward.

But actually, your

present moment is an

echo of your past

consciousness.

What you're experiencing

right now is delayed

feedback from prior

states of thinking and

believing and imagining

and emotionally

stabilizing, right?

So the visible world is

actually not the cause,

it's the effect.

And most people look at

their current

circumstances and they

use them as evidence.

They say, hey, this is

my reality, so this

must be what I can or

can't do.

But that's like watching

a movie and assuming

you can't change the

script because you're

already in the third

act, right?

What you're seeing on

the screen was written

before you walked into

the theater.

And so your present is

yesterday's broadcast.

I like how Abraham Hicks

described this.

She says, stop paying so

much attention to the

present moment because

it's old news.

And there's this lag

between the thoughts and

emotions you have and what

materializes in your

life.

So essentially, the

thoughts and emotions

you're having right now

are seeds that you are

planting that will take

root and evolve into

experiences into your

future.

But this is actually

really, really good news,

right?

Because that means that

whatever's happening right

now will pass as long as

in the midst of it, you're

willing to think and feel

differently.

Neville Goddard used to

say something that I

really love where he said

creation is finished.

And what he meant was not

that nothing can change,

but what you're seeing

now has already been set

in motion by prior acts

of imagination, right?

That the physical world is,

as he would say, out

picturing of your

consciousness.

It is an out picturing.

It is, in his language,

dead, the present moment,

meaning it's already been

determined by your former

thoughts and emotions.

And that's why he taught

what he called revision.

So you can change the way

that you're perceiving the

present moment and that'll

change your future.

And hermetic philosophy

articulated this thousands

of years ago with this

idea of as above, so

below, right?

The idea is the mental

plane or your imagination

precedes the material

plane.

And Buddhism described it

similarly as a dependent

origination, right?

In other words, experience

arising from prior causes.

And they say that we live

in this thing called

samsara, which is the

cycle of repetition,

because we continue to pay

too much attention to our

present moment and use

that as a reason to

continue to believe the

same things, which creates

this cycle of repetition.

And it continues until

that awareness that you

have finally interrupts

it.

The awareness of what?

The awareness that what

you're actually perceiving

right here, right now is

just past news.

One of the great spiritual

frameworks was developed

by the Rosicrucians.

And one of the most

public Rosicrucians was a

guy by the name of

Rudolf Steiner.

And he described this as

karma.

And he said karma is not

punishment, but it's the

recurring patterns that are

generated by unresolved

consciousness.

And he says you live that

not only in this life,

but you live this life

after life, after life,

after life.

Until you realize that you

are not constrained by your

present moment and you

start to think differently,

you will relive the same

patterns over and over and

over and over again.

And right, that's that

idea in scripture, which is

you know, whatever a man

sows, that so shall he

also reap.

The seeds of your mind

will give rise to the

reality that you

experience.

And so different

traditions, same

principle, right?

Reality will repeat until

your awareness changes.

And here's where most

people miss it.

They treat the echo effect

as authority, as if the

echo is real.

They look at the visible

world and they let it define

what's possible.

But the visible world is a

memory.

It is crystallized thought.

It is yesterday's identity

playing out in physical form.

And so what are we to do?

Well, we are to ignore it.

You know, there's the story

of Orpheus and he has his

beautiful wife, Persephone,

and she's stolen by Hades

and he takes her down to

the underworld.

And in order to get her

back, Hades makes him a

deal and basically says,

hey, you can take

Persephone out into the

upper worlds as long as

you don't look back as

you're heading back up to

the upper worlds.

And he says, well, this is

a piece of cake.

Of course I can do that.

And so he starts to leave

with Persephone, his

beloved behind him.

And he hears all these

screams and hears her

screaming and monster

noises and gnashing and

terrible, terrible sounds.

And he's about to get up

to the upper world with

his beloved and he can't

take it any longer.

And he looks backwards

and he sees Persephone

following behind him.

And then she disappears

because he looked

backwards and she spends

the rest of eternity

with Hades.

And so what we're living

in in the present moment

is what I would call an

Orphean illusion.

You have to ignore the

financial insecurity.

You have to ignore the

health challenges.

You have to ignore the

doom and gloom of the

media and all the things

that are going on in your

life because if you pay

too much attention to

them, you'll continue to

plant those seeds which

will take sprout into

your future.

But if you can ignore

those things, if you can

just allow the old to

exist without entertaining

it, it will pass and the

new will be born.

Law number three, the law

of attraction.

Right?

We've all heard this law

before, but it's been

trivialized into something

almost childish.

Like people think that it

means if you think about

something long enough,

then the universe is going

to deliver it to your

doorstep and that's not

what this law is about.

So attraction is not

wishful thinking.

Right?

It's not just wanting

something.

Attraction is based on

your consistent habit of

thought and the

resonance or frequency

of your nervous system.

So if everything that

we've talked about so

far is true, right, if

there is one unified

field expressing itself

as many, then attraction

is not something

happening between

separate objects.

It's actually coherence

forming within a single

living system.

The universe is not a

collection of isolated

parts negotiating with

each other.

It's one vibrational

continuum.

And when a frequency

stabilizes within that

continuum, it begins to

organize all of the

surrounding variables

around it.

And this isn't mystical

fluff.

It's entrainment.

Like in physics, we have

oscillating systems that

synchronize with each

other.

In biology, heart cells

placed next to each other

begin beating in unison.

Two tuning forks tuned to

the same key will resonate

together even if only one

is struck.

Right?

So we see this entanglement

or coherence or alignment

across the field.

And so you don't attract

what you want.

You actually attract who

you're being.

And what is who you're

being?

It's your consistent habit

of thought and your

consistent habit of

emotion.

And so most people think

if they just want

something that they'll

attract it.

But that's not true.

You have to actually

become the thing desired.

Desire alone has no

organizing power.

It's the stability of your

inner state that does.

And so if your

imagination says abundance

but your nervous system is

broadcasting fear or

scarcity or doubt, then

that's the dominant

frequency.

Then that's what you're

going to get.

The field has no choice

but to respond to that

deeper emotional language.

And that's why

affirmations without

emotional coherence with

the affirmations don't

really work.

Right?

Attraction isn't about

repeating words.

It's about having what I

would call vibrational

integrity.

And hermetic philosophy

hinted at this when it

said that all is mind.

Right?

The mental plane precedes

the material plane.

And the new thought

movement, guys who were

like Napoleon Hill or

women like Florence

Govelshin, they tried to

articulate it in the

language of mental

causation.

And so we see again

across so many different

cultures and systems this

idea that who you're

being will literally shape

reality around you.

And this is the idea of

law of attraction.

So if you're constantly

worried about financial

insecurity, then you're

going to be attracting

circumstances and

situations that are going

to show you, yeah, you

don't have that much money

in your bank account.

But if you believe that

you don't know how, you

don't know when, but

you're going to find the

person of your dreams,

that's going to drive

subconscious behavior and

it's going to drive the

subconscious behavior of

other people that create

coincidences and

synchronicities where you

get to tell that story

about how you met your

husband or your wife.

Right?

And so this idea of the

law of attraction is the

bridge between the law of

echo and the law of

correspondence, right?

The echo explains why

your present reflects your

past.

And attraction explains how

being aligned now here in

the present moment seeds the

next echo.

So this is how these laws

start to weave together into

a cohesive system where you

can actually no longer be a

victim of your reality but

understand how to actually

drive it.

So law number four is the

law of correspondence, which

you could also call like the

self-adjusting universe.

And I really, really like

this law.

It's helped reduce a lot of

anxiety and worry and

overwhelm for me.

And the idea is that reality

will actually adjust and

recalibrate around your

choices and decisions.

And so I don't know about

you, but I always worry about

like, am I making the right

decision or the wrong

decision?

You know, am I going to make

a decision that's actually

going to produce the result

that I want?

But this law of

correspondence is basically

saying that every time you

make a decision, life will

reorganize.

Almost imagine you're trying

to get across a chess

board.

All of the squares will

reorganize in order to

accommodate you.

In other words, you really

can't make a bad decision.

And I think about this in

relationship to my drug and

alcohol addiction because a

lot of people, when they say,

wait a minute, life is just

going to reorganize to support

you and it doesn't matter

what decision you make.

That sounds a little, you

know, Pollyanna-ish.

But I think about this idea

that you came here to learn

something and become

something.

There's like a destiny that

you decided, that you

agreed upon.

And so you're heading

towards that destiny, which

is the top of the mountain.

And there's many, many, many

roads to the top of that

mountain.

And what happens over time

is that every time you make

a decision because you have

free will, higher power or

the greater intelligence or

God or Jesus or Allah or

however you relate to it,

will stack up the next piece

in front of you that is the

best path to get you to the

top of the mountain.

You can think about it as well

as like if you're trying to

cross a river, right, and

there's these lily pads and

you're trying to like jump

across the lily pads, you may

only see one.

But if you jump on the first

lily pad, a second one will

appear.

And if you jump to the

second one, then a third one

will appear.

And so life is always

reorganizing to support you in

making the journey that you

came here to make.

There's a great scene.

I think it's Indiana Jones and

the Last Crusade at the very,

very end.

Indiana Jones, right, has to

escape across this chasm and

he actually can't see.

It looks like there's just a

big cliff, but there's a

riddle.

And he takes the first step

listening to the riddle and he

realizes that the bridge that

goes across this chasm looks

exactly like the stones along

the side of the cliff.

And so it creates this

illusion that actually there's

a cliff, but there's a

walkway.

And he grabs some sand and he

throws it across the walkway.

And so this is similar to how

life functions.

Like, you know, the path may

not appear or you may make a

decision that seems like the

wrong decision, but life will

consistently reorganize in order

to support your greatest

growth, your greatest prosperity

and your greatest evolution.

That's correspondence.

That correspondence is always

available to us.

And this really reframes

everything because failure is

just a readjustment or

recalibration, right?

A delay is just a

repositioning.

A disappointment is just what

I guess I would call

directional feedback.

So the universe is not

random.

It's actually educative.

It's adaptive.

It's reorganizing around who

you're becoming and the

decisions you're making to

continue to guide you along

these various paths in order

for you to become the full

expression of who you came

here to become.

And this is a serious

metaphysical claim because if

it's true, right, then the

only real obstacle is

hesitation.

But there's one thing that

can slow down the entire

process more than anything

else and that's resistance,

right?

Resistance can prevent life

from corresponding in the

most optimal way and that

takes us to law number five.

Which is the law of

non-resistance.

One of the core tenets that

I teach is that desire plus

non-resistance equals desired

result.

If there's anything that you

want to create in your life,

you will 100% of the time

consistently and predictably

create that outcome as long

as you can become non-resistant

to the desire.

But the challenge is that the

moment that we want something,

we start to notice the

absence of it, right?

You want to have better health

because your body's in pain

and then you start to just

notice the pain even more

and wonder where the health

is.

You want to grow your

business but you start to

notice all of the challenges

that you're having to that

type of growth.

And so what we must learn how

to do is reclaim control over

our attention to create

attention sovereignty and

attention freedom so that we

don't react in that primal way.

So that we no longer pay

attention to the problem but

that we know that if we can be

non-resistant to the thing that

we want, we will have the

thoughts and ideas, we will

take the inspired action,

we'll create the coincidences

and the synchronicities that

over time will consistently

produce the result.

And it doesn't matter what it

is.

And this is based in

behavioral psychology, right?

This idea that your brain is

a goal-achieving machine.

What you believe you think,

what you think you feel,

what you feel you do, what

you do produces results.

And your results 100% of the

time will be in alignment with

what you believe.

And so this is when Jesus said

my yoke is easy.

It's like hey, your work is

not to hustle and grind the

result.

Your work is not to have more

time or more resources.

Your work is not to be more

intelligent or to do things

perfectly or control your

external circumstances.

Your work is non-resistance.

Taoism called this wu wei,

right?

Like effortless action.

Not inaction, and that's where

a lot of law of attraction

people get this wrong.

Not inaction, but aligned

action.

Abraham Hicks refers to it as

the path of least resistance,

right?

So different language, same

principle.

But when you resist or when

you try to solve a problem

or when you believe that you

need to do certain things in

order to produce a result, you

start to fragment your

frequency.

And when you fragment your

frequency, you become less

coherent.

And when you become less

coherent, everything starts to

slow down.

You create a drag on the

system that is always trying

to work for you.

So it's important to

understand that the key to

creating whatever it is that

you want is non-resistance.

And non-resistance does not

mean you approve of

everything.

It just means you stop

fighting what already is,

what's already showed up in

your reality.

It means you allow reality to

be information instead of

conflict.

And when you do that,

reality starts to

reorganize for you.

Let's get to law number six,

which is the law of timing.

And this is very important to

understand.

Timing is the byproduct of

alignment.

So people are obsessed with

time.

And they think that time

creates outcomes.

They think that if enough

time passes, something will

happen.

Or that if they can just get

more time, they can produce

an outcome.

But time doesn't create

outcomes.

Right?

Time merely measures the

unfolding of change.

And this is important to

understand.

Time measures change.

That's all it is.

So if you feel like you don't

have enough time in your

life, what you're saying is

things are not changing fast

enough.

We measure time in the form of

24 hours, which is the

amount of time it takes for

the earth to rotate once.

That's the change of the

earth's rotation.

A year is a rotation around

the sun.

That's the change.

A second is nine billion

vibrations of a cesium atom.

The mistake that most people

make is they are wanting to

have more time.

But the law of timing says

disregard time and instead

focus on timing.

Timing is when circumstances

and situations align in such a

way that time becomes

irrelevant.

And if you think about it,

there are things that you

want to do.

But what if someone else

could, for example, pick your

kids up from school?

Or what if someone was able

to help you out and do

something that you thought

you needed to do at work

and do it for you?

Now all of a sudden time

becomes manipulated.

And time is manipulated by

timing.

So the question is, what

allows us to maximize

timing?

And again, it goes back to

all these ancient

encouragements, which is

coherence and frequency.

If you can align yourself,

meaning be non-resistant,

meaning do not get frustrated

with your present reality as

if it's a fixed reality,

understand that it's an echo,

meaning understand that you

can attract to you whatever it

is that you need, then you

down-regulate your nervous

system and you become more

available for timing.

You allow life to work around

you.

Well, how does life work around

you?

Well, you have thoughts and

ideas.

Other people have thoughts and

ideas.

You line up synchronicities and

coincidences.

And now all of a sudden, what

might have taken you six months

to do can be accomplished in a

week.

What might have taken a decade

can be accomplished in a year.

Now, here's how timing

integrates with all the other

principles, right?

So, who you're being and how

you're thinking emits a

frequency and that frequency

attracts people, ideas, and

circumstances.

And these external variables

begin to reorganize and

mobilize.

And when enough internal and

external variables align, then

creation occurs.

And the moment that that

creation occurs is what we

call timing, right?

This is what Carl Jung called

synchronicity.

It's when internal readiness

meets external opportunity.

And that's when everything

external starts to shift.

And so, it's important to

understand that timing is the

thing that should be desired,

not time.

Most people suffer around time

because they say they don't

have enough of it.

And what they're really saying

is change is not happening

fast enough.

And so, when you stop playing

the time game and you start

moving into the timing game,

then everything can actually

change.

And timing accelerates when

you're living in gratitude,

joy, abundance,

abundance.

You have a strong signal that

starts to reorganize time

faster, starts to reorganize

your external circumstances

at a speed that time could

never actually outwork.

They stack into an overall

system and a framework that

goes beyond theory and

actually allows you to create

what you want.

All right, guys.

One of my top 25 favorite

books is a book called Your

Word is Your Wand by

Florence Scovel Shin.

Shin was a powerful

metaphysical teacher in the

And in her book, she wrote,

Man's word is his wand

filled with magic and power.

So, she taught that you must

avoid negative speech because

it is the act of self-cursing.

Super powerful, right?

She said, man is punished by

his own words.

Do not speak of lack or

limitation.

Speak success into existence.

So, how often do we predict

our future through complaining

or through worry?

We say, you know, it's not

going to work out for me.

What's the point?

You know, look at everything

going on out there.

Times are tough.

Nobody ever appreciates me.

Well, these are spells.

See, we learn spelling as

children.

How to construct words.

But spelling is literally

spellcasting.

And when you speak ill of

yourself or others, you curse

yourself and others.

You create the very conditions

that you complain about.

But Florence Govel-Shinn also

said that spoken blessings is

the highest form of spiritual

magic.

So, she taught that when you

bless your money, it blesses

you.

When you bless your enemy, you

rob him of ammunition, right?

These are some of the

teachings of Christ.

Blessing changes the

vibrational field and opens the

possibility for miracles, for

synchronicities, for new

opportunities and divine

alignments.

So, in the space of proper

speech, God can perform

miracles.

This is the power as well of

affirmations, right?

You bless a situation before

it's changed and you compel it

to change.

And that's why affirmations

were such an important part of

Florence Govel-Shinn's work.

She would have powerful

affirmations like, new doors of

activity open for me now.

You see, this is a command.

Another affirmation she uses is

endless good now comes to me in

endless ways, right?

This is you dictating how

reality will work for you.

And whether you believe in

affirmations or not, at the

very least, you're no longer

speaking curses over yourself

when you are affirming, right?

Think about the inner dialogue

running behind the scenes all

day long, right?

A lot of negative self-talk.

When you affirm, you silence the

self-cursing.

And your inner dialogue and

spoken word very soon

becomes your outer reality.

Now, I want to talk to you a

little bit about the creative

sequence, how thoughts become

emotions, how emotions become

speech and speech becomes

action.

Because what you'll see is that

speech is very, very powerful.

If you speak negatively about

yourself all day, can you create

opportunities?

Is that the mindset of success?

If you're always talking about

how hard it is to make money and

what little money you have, do

you think you're going to become a

wealthy person?

So just on a practical level,

clearly the answer is no.

What's also important to

understand, however, is that

speech is one of the first forms

of action.

So what motivates your action?

What comes before action?

Well, it's emotions.

Emotions and the way you feel

determine what you do or do not

do.

And your emotions determine what

you say.

And before emotions comes thought,

right?

We think something, then we feel

something, then we do something.

So if we look backwards, thought is

the most subtle vibration.

It's the weakest vibration.

Emotion is a step stronger.

Now your whole nervous system is

resonating with that frequency of

the thought.

And now you start to take action.

Action is the strongest expression

of frequency.

And the most common action we take

on a moment-by-moment basis

throughout our day, think about it,

you do this more than anything else,

is to speak.

So if you believe your thoughts create

your reality, imagine what your words

are doing.

It's like a strong stroke within the

matrix of reality that puts off a

powerful frequency and vibration

that catalyzes your reality.

Now, this isn't just something that

metaphysical teachers talked about

or the ancients.

A personal development teacher who I

really liked before he passed was

Trevor Moad.

And he talked about the power of

external language.

So Trevor was on Impact Theory about

the same time that I was on Tom

Bilyeu's show.

And I loved his interview because he

talks about how he uses the power of

language to train elite athletes.

And so he trained professional and

collegiate athletes to peak performance.

And the single most important tool,

according to him, that he taught was this.

Change the words you use.

What he said was it's a lot harder to

kind of catch your thoughts, but it's

very easy to catch your speech.

And he found that external language is

exponentially more powerful than

internal thought.

So his research showed that when you

say something, it has 10 times the

influence over you compared to when you

think it.

And saying something negative actually

has a 40 to 70 times greater impact on

you than saying something positive.

So really he's saying the same thing that

Shin said.

You bless or curse yourself with your

words.

I don't know if you're familiar with

Bill Buckner.

Most people know Bill Buckner,

especially in American sports.

Series, the Boston Red Sox versus the

New York Mets.

Mookie Wilson hits a routine ground

ball.

Buckner bends over, misses the ball

between his legs.

The Mets go on to win the World Series

after that game.

What most people don't know is this.

19 days before that game in an

interview, Buckner was asked about the

pressure of winning the World Series.

This is what he said.

Quote, the dreams are that you're going

to have a great series and win.

The nightmare is that you're going to

let the winning run score on a ground

ball through your legs.

Exactly what happened.

Your word is your wand.

The words you speak influence your

subconscious mind and they influence

your reality.

I don't know if you've ever heard of

Masaru Emoto and his water experiments.

So Emoto placed water into different

containers and then he labeled each

bottle with a specific word or phrase.

Some of the bottles were labeled with

love or thank you.

Others with negative words or emotions

like you disgust me or I hate you.

And he left the labels on there for

several hours and then he froze the

water.

So after he froze the water, he

photographed the crystals of the water

and according to his photos, positive

words produced beautiful, symmetrical,

snowflake-like crystals.

While negative words produced distorted,

fragmented, or chaotic formations.

So he claimed that written words, spoken

words, and even the emotional energy

projected toward the water influenced how

the crystals formed.

And that spoken words had an even stronger

effect than written words.

Now Emoto's work was criticized by

mainstream science for lacking rigorous

controls, but whether you view the

experiments as literal or metaphorical,

they illustrate something undeniable.

Words carry vibration and vibration

influences form.

So think about this.

Your body is made mostly of water.

So the way that you speak to yourself and

about yourself shapes your inner environment

emotionally, neurologically, and

physiologically.

Even if you dismiss the photography

of Emoto, the metaphor remains powerful.

Positive language expands you.

Negative language contracts you.

And in every moment, your words are

imprinting the chemistry of your life.

Now, most people struggle with limiting

beliefs.

It's a testament to why this show has

become so popular.

And I know that from my own experience.

We understand that we're creating our

reality, that our thoughts, our beliefs

are creating our reality.

Now we're talking about monitoring and

managing and transforming the way that we

think through speech.

We have these limiting beliefs like money's

hard to make or I can't trust people or

if I want to get it done right, I have to

do it myself.

But I want you to think for a moment about

where these beliefs come from.

They were spoken to you.

They were literally spells that were cast

upon you.

They became reality because they became

your words.

So people spend years trying to reprogram

their limiting beliefs.

And if you want a really strong and

effective hack around this, here's what I

suggest.

Stop speaking them.

Every time you repeat the belief, you

relive the moment it was spoken to you.

But here's the thing.

Every time you have the urge, every time

you feel compelled to say it and you

don't, you actually choke off its oxygen.

You starve it of sunlight.

And eventually the weed of that limiting

belief shrivels up and dies.

And this isn't just philosophy, it's

neuroscience.

Again, this is what Trevor Moad found to

be so successful in training.

Peak performance athletes stop saying the

negative program.

And this is based in neuroscience because

when you catch yourself before speaking a

negative pattern, you actually interrupt the

neural networks of your brain.

You cut off the pathway of that psychological

and emotional habit from your mind to your

mouth.

It's like a circuit break.

And practice consistently.

You literally re-sculpt your neural

pathways until the limiting belief

dissolves.

And the same way you can kill old beliefs,

you can actually speak new beliefs into

existence.

So this is the power of what so many great

teachers suggested like Luis Hay, whose

entire work around healing your body and

healing your life is based around

affirmations.

You can use affirmations or incantations.

You can practice hearing yourself speak a

new identity.

And that's the true power of incantations.

You know, the word incantation itself

actually means a series of words spoken or

chanted as a magical or ritual formula

intended to produce a specific effect.

This is spellcasting, right?

This is the real magic.

It's in the power of your words.

And scripture has been teaching this for

over a thousand years, right?

Over and over again, we are warned to be

careful with our speech.

In Ephesians, it says, let no corrupting

talk come out of your mouths.

It could not be any clearer.

Proverbs, death and life are in the power

of the tongue.

In Psalms, keep your tongue from evil and

your lips from speaking deceit.

Also in James, the tongue is a small member,

yet it boasts of great things.

It sets on fire the entire course of one's

life, right?

So scripture treats words as forces,

creative forces, destructive forces,

consequential forces.

So it's important to understand we have the

ability to transform our reality,

to change the way we actually think

by watching what we speak.

And of course, new habits are not born

overnight, but becoming aware of the power

of your speech invites you to be more

intentional with the words you use.

And so here's my invitation to you.

Notice the next 24 hours.

Notice what words do you speak?

What spells are you casting, right?

What incantations are you ritualizing on a

daily basis?

And take inventory.

Because what you will find is that there

are certain spells that don't serve the

reality you're trying to create that you are

incanting day in and day out.

And so you can do a quick inventory at the

end of your day or jot down notes as you

go along.

And then practice the power of your words.

And watch how your reality shifts as you

begin speaking a different reality over

your life.

In this episode, I wanted to give you

something that you could listen to that

would have a profound and practical impact

on the way that you're thinking, that

would support you in letting go of your

limiting beliefs, no matter what they are,

and support you in creating whatever it is

that you're wanting to create in your life

right now.

And so for this episode, my encouragement is

just to listen to my words.

And this may be a different type of

meditation than you've listened to or

participated in in the past.

And the point of this meditation, and I

believe the point of all meditation, is to

simply take your attention off of the

habitual, continual, patterned thinking

that is creating resistance for you.

In fact, already this meditation has

started.

The reason why is because you're no

longer thinking about the fact that you

feel like there's not enough time or you

don't have enough money or complaining

about the way your physical body feels or

the absence of the kind of relationship that

you want in your life or the lack of

clarity that you have, you're listening to

my voice.

And as you listen to my voice, you're

actually doing the one thing that's

really, really important.

You're creating some space to let go of

the resistance.

Because the resistance is just an

automatic mechanism.

It's just a psychological and emotional

momentum that you've built up throughout the

course of your life.

And transformation is really quite simple.

transformation is not engaging in the old

ways anymore, but allowing space for new

ways to emerge.

Right now, as you listen to this

meditation, whether you're listening with

closed eyes in a quiet room, whether you're

listening on the car ride into work, whether

you're listening while you're walking or running

on the treadmill, you're changing your habit of

thought.

You're simply listening to my words.

And as you do that, the natural power within you

begins to rise.

Everything that you're wanting to be more

courageous, more faithful, more compassionate, more

curious, more intuitive, more innovative, more

disciplined, more in alignment with the vision you

have for yourself.

All of those things, all of those qualities, all of

those character traits, they already exist inside of you.

They're simply being covered up by the old ways, by old habits that

you know, no longer serve you.

And that right here, right now, as you're listening to my

voice, you are no longer engaging.

Simply by willing to listen to something different, something that

makes you feel good, something that brings relaxation, you're

actually changing the way that you think.

The calm or the relaxation that you're beginning to feel right

now is not a result of anything that I'm actually saying.

It's simply a result of you not thinking the thoughts that you

normally think.

That's how easy this process can be for you.

Everything that you're wanting is available right now, inside of

you and around you.

The world is a wash with more money than ever before.

The world is submerged in more wellbeing, more health, more

feeling good than it ever has been in the history of this world.

There are more beautiful relationships out there coming

towards you right now than ever before in history, more people,

more connection.

And as you simply relax, listening to my words, taking a little bit

longer of an inhale, perhaps a little bit longer of an exhale,

everything that you already are, all of those noble qualities, all of

those character traits that you desire to be, they move their way to the surface

of who you are.

And all of the orchestrated and organized coincidences and synchronicities that

infinite intelligence is organizing in order to support you in creating whatever it is you

want to create in your life.

Simply by listening to my voice and no longer engaging in the resistance, you allow those

things to more easily come to you.

This is such a beautiful life.

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This is such a beautiful life.

And all you need to do is relax.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

This is such a beautiful life.

And it's doing all of the heavy lifting right now.

All that you need to do is relax.

As you relax, which you're doing by simply listening to this short meditation, you begin

to tune your vibration.

You begin to adjust and align the electrical activity of your brain and your nervous system

towards all of the information that is trying to make its way to you.

The thoughts, the ideas that you need in order to bring into materialization and manifestation

the desires that you have.

All of creation already exists.

The dream, the vision you have, the amount of money in your bank account, the healthy body,

the connected, compassionate and passionate relationships, the clarity of what your purpose

is, the successful business, the kind employer, all of that already exists right here, right

now.

In order for you to actually experience it through your five senses, the important thing is to

tune yourself to that experience, to experience the emotions that you would experience as that

becomes your reality right here, right now.

The good news is you don't have to make an effort or push or figure out how to feel that

way.

You're trying to feel that way right now simply by not engaging with the old thoughts and the

old habits that have created a momentum in your mind and your body and in your nervous system.

If you're wanting to create something extraordinary today, your best plan for doing that might be

to go for a walk.

Your best plan for that might be to play with your furry friend or to spend more time with

your family or to listen to this meditation one more time.

Because the key to you creating everything you want isn't about figuring it out.

It's not about hustle and grind.

It's not about having enough time.

It's not about having enough money.

It doesn't matter what your current circumstance or situation is and it doesn't matter how long

you've been in that circumstance or situation or how far back your family has experienced

that circumstance or situation.

None of that matters.

The key to you moving forward is simply about you being a non-resistance.

When you're in non-resistance, everything that you've been asking for begins to materialize,

through you and around you.

That's how much love there is for you.

You're not being asked to work hard.

You're not being asked to do the impossible.

What life is asking you to do is to enjoy it, to enjoy your life.

When you live in your joy and when you live in your curiosity and when you live in the anticipation

of a beautiful future, your present moment quickly transforms into that future that you desire.

How do we live in our joy?

How do we live in our curiosity?

Again, those qualities naturally exist in you and will emerge when you give up the old ways.

The Father tells us that in order to have new good wine, we have to put it in new good caskets.

We can't get good wine out of the old caskets.

You can't get the life that you want out of the old ways.

But that doesn't mean we have to figure out the new ways.

We just simply have to stop doing what we've been doing.

It's led to the limitation we're currently experiencing in our life.

And you can achieve that in a multitude of ways.

You've achieved that over the last 10 minutes as we've been sitting here enjoying this time

together.

And you've been doing nothing other than listening, other than bringing your attention to the truth.

Bringing your attention to the truth does the one thing that can help you materialize and

manifest the dreams you have even faster.

It pulls your attention away from the old stories.

You don't have to change the old stories.

You don't have to go way back and figure it out when it first started.

All you need to do is bring your attention to something else.

Bring your attention to something that feels good.

Because when you bring your attention to something that feels good, you're living in the truth.

You're aligning yourself with everything that life represents.

The love, the joy, the compassion, the curiosity, the courage, the inspiration.

All of that resides inside of you.

All of that has been making its way to the surface through your asking.

There's no coincidence that you're listening to this meditation right now.

You've been asking for it.

And when you ask for something, it is given.

The time within which you will receive it is dependent upon your ability to relax, to

simply be non-resistant.

From there, you will receive inspiration.

You will take inspired action and you will meet the alignment that life has been organizing

the people, the circumstances, the situations in order to bring whatever your desire is into

your reality.

There are no limitations.

So take a moment to acknowledge yourself.

To congratulate yourself.

For doing the only work that really needs to be done.

For taking 10 to 15 minutes today.

To allow your attention to move from the old ways to the new ways.

As you do that, you open up space inside of you.

And as you've created this space, watch today and beyond to see what shows up.

That's the power of this meditative practice.

From the space that you create inside of you, something new can emerge.

New thoughts, new ideas, new hunches.

And from the space that opens up inside of you, as you engage in the new ways, and give

up the old ways simply by bringing your attention to something that feels good.

You become more available.

To the miracles that are making their way to you.

Each and every day.

Thank you for being here.

You are a critical part of this equation.

The desires that you have are an essential part of us moving forward and creating a world

that we all love.

Where we're living in harmony together.

And your willingness to take time.

To use time wisely.

As you've done today.

Is the most important practice you can be engaging in.

For yourself.

And for those you love.

Now if you know my story, I've been struggling with my health challenges for close to eight

years.

Nothing that doctors could really put their finger on.

And the symptoms were literally destroying my quality of life.

I was having brain fog that made me feel like I was literally living in a two dimensional

reality.

I was trying to go to Costco and get overwhelmed by the amount of things on the shelf.

Because I just could not cognitively process things fast enough.

I had intense anxiety despite all the personal development work that I've done.

All the mindset and spiritual growth work that I've done.

And I just could not seem to shake it.

I had trouble sleeping.

I had an insomnia that left me exhausted.

But still feeling really amped up and wired.

Physical aches and pains throughout my body.

With neuropathy and nerve irritation.

And a cluster of mysterious symptoms like skipped heartbeats and heart palpitations.

And the challenge was overwhelming.

The frustration of looking healthy on the outside but not feeling well on the inside.

And just struggling to get through day to day was really wearing me down.

And I had literally gone from doctor to doctor who would look at my symptoms.

Each one had their own theory.

Looking at it through their own lens.

Some doctors said it was mold.

Some said metals.

Other viruses.

Others parasites.

Others it was nutrition.

And frankly I was seeing some of the best people literally in the world.

I had cabinets full of supplements.

But I was on this doctor to doctor merry-go-round.

And nobody could figure out what was wrong with me.

And I'd gotten to a point where I just thought I guess this is how it's going to be.

And honestly if this is how I feel now.

I'm really not sure how long I'm going to live.

Or how long I can keep this up with my mission.

My impact.

The work that I'm doing in the world.

Having a three-year-old.

That alone can take you down.

And every day was a grind.

And even though I was doing what I love.

I literally just could not wait each day to crash.

Because I was so tired.

And that's when I decided at one point to take control of my own health.

I have another episode recently I recorded about this.

I started working with chat GPT.

I shared with it my symptoms.

And it told me what tests I needed to run.

So I went and ran all those tests.

And when I got the results.

I uploaded them all in a chat GPT.

And I started cross-referencing all the data.

And the diagnosis was really shocking.

It basically said that I was in burnout.

I didn't have anything serious going on.

Which was great news.

At least not yet.

But I had signs of mitochondrial dysfunction.

Gut dysfunction.

My body was just really showing wear and tear.

And then the whole picture emerged.

I had some neurotransmitter dysfunction.

I had some accumulation of toxins and microorganisms that needed to be addressed.

My hormones were off by a little bit.

And it basically said hey these are the signs of a high performer in burnout.

And what was most profound was how it tied all the symptoms together into a picture.

Because it wasn't just one thing.

And there was no elephant in the room.

It was actually lots of little things that had stacked up over the course of my life.

Probably some remnants of when I was in my drug addiction and my alcoholism.

And it asked me.

It said hey do you want a plan?

Do you want me to put together a protocol in order for you to get well?

And I said yeah of course.

And so it put together initially a 6 month, 12 month, and 18 month plan.

And then I went on to actually build a 1 year, 3 year, 10 year, and 20 year plan.

And it built this recovery plan for me.

And one of the central things that it suggested would be a game changer were stem cells.

I want to take a moment to explain or talk about stem cells.

And the difference most people don't understand about stem cell treatments.

So in the U.S. you can get stem cell treatments.

And what they do is they basically extract your own stem cells.

And they re-inject those stem cells into you.

Which can be helpful.

But if you're already 50 years old, you're putting 50 year old stem cells back into your body.

What's also available are called mesenchymal or Wharton jelly stem cells.

And these are day zero stem cells.

Which are available internationally.

And so they're available in places like Colombia or Panama or Costa Rica or Mexico.

mesenchymal stem cells stating that they couldn't be approved because there was no clinically

proven efficacy.

Now you can have the conversation with yourself.

How many other medications are there out there when you actually look at the clinical data

and see that they aren't effective but they're on the market.

But they effectively disallowed mesenchymal stem cells.

The question is why are people flocking to other countries and paying big dollars to actually get them?

Well, I'll tell you what my experience was.

I was at about 50 to 60 percent function in the major systems of my body.

Now these were really the fringe systems that most people don't really pay attention to.

I mean not everybody's checking out their mitochondrial function or their neurotransmitter function

or their hormonal function.

If you go into your standard general practitioner, they aren't running any of these kinds of tests.

They're running your standard CBC blood panel.

Maybe looking a little deeper beyond that.

But my cardiovascular health was good.

My standard blood tests were perfect.

But in these systems that sort of go undetected unless you're doing some deep work with alternative

or functional medicine doctors, I was at about 50 to 60 percent.

And what ChatGP indicated was that with just one round of IV stem cells, it predicted I would

get back into the 90 percent to 130 percent range.

So not only recovering where I had lost ground and experiencing wear and tear, but actually getting

out ahead of where my body could even get naturally at my age, right?

I turned 50 in the next couple of weeks.

And out ahead of 99 percent of people in terms of my overall health.

And I asked ChatGPT, hey, why do I feel so terrible if other people are even more dysfunctional than I am?

And the answer was shocking.

It said that's because most people are on an average of four to six pharmaceutical medications

to mask their symptoms.

And they're so checked out on social media and drugs and alcohol that they don't even

know how bad they feel.

But because you're sensitive and aware, which is a great thing, you're feeling it more than

most people and you aren't masking the symptoms.

And think about how crazy that is, how sick our society is right now, that we're so checked

out of the relationship with our body and how we feel and then numbed out as a result of

the medications we use to mask the symptoms rather than get to the root cause.

Most people don't even understand how sick they are.

I could barely get through a day without having to do some meditation or breath work or a cold

plunge or something to stabilize and try to reset my nervous system.

And most people are actually much more dysfunctional than I am, but don't even know it.

So this was really simple and straightforward for me.

I did some research.

I found a place called BioAccelerator in Medellin, Colombia.

There are a lot of places out there that you can go to.

This is where I chose to go.

A lot of professional athletes, UFC fighters go there for repair of their joints, their

back, their neck.

I actually not only wanted the systemic IVs, but I wanted to get some IVs in my shoulder.

actually healed my left shoulder without having to have a shoulder repair surgery for a second

time.

But I was still having some pain.

And so I wanted to get some orthopedic injections as well.

And while I was there, I saw miracles.

I met three spinal cord injury victims.

Two of them were firefighters who had injuries on the job.

They couldn't walk.

They were bound to a wheelchair.

They were told by some of the best doctors in the States that they would never walk again.

And all three of them were walking.

It was actually unbelievable.

And they were walking after their second treatment of mesenchymal stem cells along their spine.

And so this place was more advanced than any doctor's office I've ever been to.

They had hyperbaric chambers, ozone therapy, cryotherapy.

A lot of what allows the stem cells to work optimally is reducing inflammation in your body

before you go into the treatment and after the treatment.

Because most of us are so inflamed and the stem cells, I'm going to tell you about how they

work here in a moment, will actually go after the inflammation and start repairing areas that

are inflamed.

But you don't want to waste your stem cells on areas that are inflamed that you can actually

control.

So they've got a lot of anti-inflammatory therapies there.

They recommend you eat an anti-inflammatory diet.

You quit smoking.

You give up coffee.

Anything that will create an inflammatory reaction.

I know you're saying like, give up coffee.

What are you talking about?

I'd rather just keep my illness and drudge through every day than give up my coffee is

what allows me to get through the day.

No.

You give up the things that are creating inflammation so that your stem cells can actually find

the really root cause areas in your body that need support.

They also had a laboratory on site.

I'd never seen this before where they actually source the stem cells from the cord blood during

the birth process of mothers in Columbia.

They test them all, screening out any type of drug use, screening out any type of diseases.

And then they actually use the stem cells before they go into your body and make sure that those

stem cells can replicate across all the major tissue, bone, and organ cell structures.

Make sure these things actually work in your body.

So pretty amazing to see their laboratory.

And insane personal attention.

You ever go to a doctor's office and you're waiting like two hours for the doctor?

Like, first of all, I don't know how you could ever run a business like that.

I could never run a business like that.

Could you imagine me showing up two hours late for a coaching session or showing up two hours

late for one of my seminars?

Now, for those of you who've been to my seminars, you probably know I don't always run on time.

But you get my point.

Like, the fact that that business called medicine is allowed to function that way is unbelievable.

But not here.

Here, you've got a full schedule, a full agenda.

Everybody's on time.

Personal concierge.

Everything that you need.

So I want to explain to you for a moment about what stem cells do in your body.

So there's a three-phase process.

And really, in the first three weeks, there's an inflammatory response.

So in the first three weeks, the stem cells are actually going into your body and they're

finding areas of dysfunction and they're creating an inflammatory response.

Why?

Because your body actually responds to the inflammatory response.

So it activates your immune healing and systems processes in these areas that need repair.

So in the first three weeks, you actually feel a little bit worse than before you went in.

I had body aches and pains.

My brain fog was a little bit more intense.

I felt like I had kind of a cold or a flu.

But after those three weeks, I started to feel better.

It goes into a remodeling response.

These cells can literally remodel based off of any type of cell in your body.

So if you're having gut issues, they go into your gut, they create inflammation.

And then they start to actually become cells with optimal function that you need and actually

restore your gut.

Same thing in your nervous system, your mitochondrial function.

Everywhere in your body, your brain, they essentially go through and clean up all kinds

of dysfunction and inflammation.

And as I mentioned, in addition to systemic IVs, I also got it orthopedically in my shoulders

so they could rebuild my shoulder tissue and my cartilage and even bone.

And then as it starts to improve all the systems of your body, your immune system,

your mitochondrial function, you're able to then address more easily some of the other

things that might be sitting on top of it, like viruses, bacteria, parasites, microorganisms.

And so in weeks four through 10, it begins to remodel.

And in weeks 10 to 26, it starts to rebuild.

So most people experience the greatest benefit between months three and months six.

But I can tell you, we're only about six weeks in right now.

And my wife's hip pain is completely gone.

My wife has been struggling with hip pain for the last five years, could barely walk,

was walking with a limp, gone, completely gone.

I would say my shoulder discomfort is probably 70% improved already.

There are motions and movements that I couldn't make six weeks ago that I can make now without

any pain.

And it's just going to continue to get better and better because it overhauls the entire

system at the root level.

And so my experience in the first six weeks is my sleep is dramatically improved.

My brain fog is about 90% gone.

Most of the aches and pains that I had in my body are completely gone.

And then there were some unexpected like physical changes, like in some of the areas where I

was starting to lose hair on my head in the front here, if you're watching on YouTube,

it's actually growing back.

And not only that, it's no longer white, but it's turning dark again, which is pretty crazy.

We discovered that because my wife noticed that she came and she started rubbing my face

because I always have like a three-day shadow on my face, like a mini beard.

And she thought it was dirt.

And we realized, no, it's actually black hair that hadn't been on my face for a couple of

years.

But the biggest thing was the psychological impact in knowing that I'm actually getting

better instead of the old story that I don't know what's wrong with me and nobody can figure

it out.

You know, I actually believe I'm on my way to becoming in the best shape of my life right

now.

And that's a very different story than like, I don't know how much longer I'm going to live.

To me, this is the most exciting thing about what we're learning about health, that nearly

everything is fixable and without medication or surgery, whether it's neurodegenerative diseases,

mitochondrial breakdown, gut issues, hormonal imbalances.

You don't have to live with the problem forever.

And I'm not saying that stem cells fix all this, but there's a lot of really amazing emerging

technologies coming out there that are very exciting because they address the root cause

at the systemic level.

And so many of these problems get resolved once your body's functioning optimally again.

Stem cells themselves are fairly unpredictive.

If you do an IV, you don't really know where they're going to go, but they're phenomenal at

prioritizing.

You're injecting intelligence at the original level.

If you think about it right, the intelligence of your body is in the cells of your body because

that's what you're made of.

And you're getting brand new day zero cells.

My wife jokes.

She said, well, you're officially Colombian now.

Because my wife is Colombian and I had a stem cell donor who was Colombian.

But they're great at prioritizing where the repair needs to happen.

And so what we're learning is we're not meant to decline with age.

I asked ChatGPT, I said, hey, if I go execute on this 20-year longevity plan that you've developed

for me, I want you to give me an estimate as to how long you think I'm going to live.

And the response was shocking.

The average estimate that it gave me, it gave me low, medium, and high.

The medium was 125 years old.

And it said, but you know what?

You're going to be able to potentially live longer than that because if you do these things

now, if you take care of yourself, if you eat right, if you work out, if you supplement

properly, if you understand how your body's functioning, if you run annual tests to continue

to check in and make adjustments and you're taking advantage of the best technologies out

there, you're going to escape what it called age velocity.

So you're not going to die of aging.

So you could live a lot longer.

And I think that that actually changes the game on how we view our own lives.

Imagine living 100, 125, 150 years vibrantly and how that would change your perspective on

your life right now.

I know a lot of people are like, well, I'm already 50.

I'm already 60.

I'm already.

Somebody said to me, well, you're turning 50.

You're halfway through your life.

I said, no, I'm not.

I'm a third.

I'm a third of the way through my life.

I mean, 50 really is the new 30 when you understand that healing is possible.

And that completely changes the way that you think about your mission, your impact, your

business, what's possible, your bank account, your relationships.

I think it's one of the most exciting things right now.

And I think that it's something that you have to take seriously if you're wanting to achieve

your full potential.

Now, a lot, you know, stem cells cost $20,000 to $30,000 on average.

If you go to somewhere like BioAccelerator, you can get it for cheaper.

If you go to other places, I think you need to do the research because you don't want

to find, you know, Dr. Juan with a bag of sugar water that's not actually stem cells in Panama.

And that's a lot of money for a lot of people.

But you know what?

Just decide that you're going to take advantage of this emerging health optimization space

and the money will flow to you.

You know, talk about this in other episodes.

It's like money doesn't flow to you to get you out of financials insecurity.

Money flows to you for a vision.

Allow a vision for an optimized health to draw the resources to you so that you can take advantage

of these types of technologies too, right?

And maybe you start with intervention in the beginning because you're feeling sick, but

then go to prevention and optimization.

I'm actually going back to BioAccelerator in six months.

This is going to be a part of my regular longevity program.

Of course, do the research, find legitimate clinics.

But this is the best investment that you can make.

It's an investment in your health.

All right, guys.

What does it mean to become untouchable, to become un-effable with, to be able to be

unperturbed, unbothered by your external circumstances?

Wouldn't that be an amazing thing if no matter what happened in your day, in your life, you

were unshaken?

Now, this isn't about being the tough guy in the room.

This is not some sort of Navy SEAL mentality.

This is actually a spiritual possibility.

One of my favorite quotes is from an Indian saint named Paramahansa Yogananda.

He wrote a book that really impacted my life called Autobiography of a Yogi.

And in it, he says, the true yogi stands unshaken amidst the crashing of breaking worlds.

Now, that's a pretty powerful thing, right?

Imagine two planets coming together and you're on one of them and you're completely unbothered

by the fact that these planets are being destroyed, right?

That's an emotional resiliency that we all aspire to, but it's actually something that

we can achieve.

And we can achieve it as a byproduct of the fear that we are experiencing out there in

the world today.

We're actually being called to a higher level of unshakability, of spiritual awareness as

a result of the friction in today's world.

Everything from the fear of inflation to the fear of this political party or that political

party or the fear of financial insecurity or the fear of AI, that AI is going to kill us

or the fear that we're not good enough or the fear that we're going to be abandoned.

All of these external fears are designed to build our spiritual muscles so that we too can

stand unshaken like the yogi.

There's lots of opportunity to be afraid right now.

But what's important to understand is that the enemy isn't on the outside, it's on the inside.

Because these things outside of us that are creating fear on a day-to-day basis within

our own individual lives and when we turn on the news and we see what's going on in the

world, the enemy is not on the outside.

The enemy is on the inside.

The enemy is the subconscious mind, is the unmetabolized fear that you still hold in your

nervous system that was something that you learned at a very early age.

It was passed to you from your parents.

It was these belief systems, these traumas that came down through generations of your family

that have come down through generations of civilization.

But this same fear, if we understand how to work with it, is the same mechanism that allows

us to stand unshaken amidst the crashing of breaking worlds.

Don't you want that?

Don't you want to become imperturbable, unshakable?

And as I mentioned, this isn't something about being strong or being the tough guy in the room.

It's about being resolute, being resolved, being committed.

Committed to what?

Well, it's committed to knowing the truth, the truth that life is loving and that life

or reality as it expresses itself around you is always working for your greatest growth,

your greatest prosperity, and your greatest evolution.

No matter what's showing up in the moment, the chronic health condition, the bank account

that doesn't have enough money in it, the argument with your spouse, getting the pink slip.

I don't know if they do that anymore, but getting fired from work.

These are all ways that life is working to shepherd you into your full potential.

And we can learn to manage this fear in a way that allows us to be immovable amongst what

feels like the day-to-day chaos of our lives.

And when we do that, we become the dominant vibration in our reality and we start to create

the reality that we desire around us.

So life is always working for you.

The truth is that life is loving.

But you say, Dave, I can see reality.

I can see the risk and the threats out there.

I can see that there are people who are homeless on the street.

I might end up like one of them.

I was one of them at one other point in time.

I can feel in my body that there's a condition that I'm experiencing.

The doctors say it's very serious.

I can see the absence of the financial prosperity in my bank account.

I can see that there are people who are losing their lives out there in the world and war-torn

parts of the world.

How can you say that I can be unshakable, immovable, imperturbable?

And I would say two things there.

Number one, you cannot see someone else's mindset.

You don't know what is happening inside someone else.

And remember, the enemy is not external.

The enemy is internal.

The enemy is the fear, the limiting beliefs, the doubts that have not been properly processed

and integrated.

And most people are living in fear.

Most people have fear of financial insecurity.

So most people are not living in financial abundance.

You can't see what someone's mindset is.

So you have to understand that what you see people experiencing out there is not a byproduct

of what might get you out there.

It's a byproduct of their thinking.

So you can't read someone else's inner world and they're experiencing an external reality

that is a byproduct of their inner belief system.

We can pray for them.

We can have compassion for them.

We can even commit ourselves in our reality to supporting those who are struggling in

their own lives as a result of one thing.

Make no mistake what's going on inside of their head.

So that's not to say that we're not loving and we're not compassionate.

But understand that, and the Bible says this in a lot of different ways, to each his own

as it is due based on your mindset.

Your life shall be according to what it is that you believe and what you think.

This is not some sort of new age metaphysical cliche.

These are fundamental just laws that govern the universe and govern reality.

You get exactly in your life the balance of what you think.

And then you say, but Dave, what about whole nations of people?

Like, look at what happened in the Holocaust.

Look at what's happening today in Gaza.

You're telling me everybody believed a particular way.

And so they're now susceptible to experiencing the enemy in their external world as a result

of allowing it in to their subconscious mind.

And my answer would be, and you may not like this, that's their reality, not yours.

If that is your reality, then we can talk about it.

Then we can take a look at it.

And we can see what it is that you believe.

And we can see how your external reality might be a byproduct or a materialization of your inner world.

And by the way, this is tricky because it's not just your beliefs from this life,

but it's beliefs you carry from past lives.

That's what people talk about karma.

And yes, there's cultural karma.

And we don't wish that upon anyone.

But the process of evolution and the process of incarnation is the process of clearing ourselves

of individual and cultural karma and belief systems.

But what I would say is don't worry about what other people are experiencing

as it relates to the potential threat that you would take upon yourself.

If that's not your reality, stop using what you see someone else suffering or struggling with

as a reason to justify it for yourself.

If you're not homeless, don't use the fact that other people are homeless to justify the potential

of you being homeless.

That's not your reality.

So yes, we create our own realities.

And if you are not creating something that you're seeing someone else experiencing,

stop worrying it upon yourself.

Again, that doesn't mean that we're not loving.

We don't hold compassion.

We don't have whatever it is, Christian, Islamic, Judaic values that allow you

to be compassionate for someone else's experience

and try to support them in the best way that you can

and to care for your fellow brothers and sisters, other human beings on this planet.

But don't take it upon yourself.

It's amazing to me as I work with entrepreneurs

and I'm teaching them how to become unshakable,

how to become imperturbable, unbotherable.

And they'll say, yeah, but look what other people are experiencing.

Yeah, but is that your experience?

If it's not your experience, don't take it upon yourself right now.

There's this story that I love in mythology of Orpheus and Eurydice.

And the story is that Eurydice was beautiful and Hades, who rules the underworld,

falls in love with Eurydice and steals her into the underworld.

So Orpheus, being the Greek hero that he is, goes down into the underworld

and attempts to rescue Eurydice.

So Hades makes him a deal.

Hades says, look, you can go back up to the living worlds,

but you're going to lead, Eurydice is going to follow you,

and you cannot look back on Eurydice.

If you look back on Eurydice, the deal is,

she'll stay here in the underworld for eternity with me.

Orpheus is like, no problem.

So he and Eurydice head out, he's leading, she's following.

And as he's heading back up to the living worlds,

he hears all these screams and horrible sounds and monsters

and Eurydice yelling and gnashing of teeth.

It sounds like she's just being eaten alive.

So he's almost back up to the living world and he cannot help himself.

He turns around to make sure his beloved Eurydice is okay.

And she's right behind him.

No monsters, no threats.

But because he turned around, poof, she disappears

and she spends eternity with Hades in the underworld.

There's all kinds of illusions of monsters and gnashing of teeth

and threats that are out there in the world.

The Orphean illusion, do not pay attention to them.

That is not your reality.

Again, it doesn't mean that you're not loving and you're not compassionate,

but that is not your reality.

You must ignore the sounds and the threats and the fears that you see in the external world.

You cannot pay attention to the illusions.

You have to manage your mind.

So how do we do that?

I have a very simple three-step process.

As I go through my day,

I notice whether I'm in what I would call a powerful state or a primal state.

Powerful state means I feel good.

Primal state means I don't.

And whenever I don't feel good, it's some form of fear.

Very simple.

Very binary.

Very useful.

Because it's not always easy to catch your thoughts,

but you can notice how you feel.

Do I feel good or do I feel bad?

If you feel bad, you are in fear.

100% of the time.

And so if I'm in fear,

I realize that the enemy is not outside of me.

The enemy is inside of me.

I take a look at what is it I'm thinking.

I'm engaging with the enemy right now.

The old programs of my subconscious mind.

The familial trauma that's been passed down from generation to generation.

So what is it that I'm thinking?

And I know it's an illusion.

It's an Orphean illusion.

Now my job is to see through it.

So I identify what it is that I'm thinking.

I'm thinking I don't have enough time.

I'm thinking that, oh my God, there's going to be a financial collapse.

I'm thinking that I'm not good enough.

I'm thinking that I should or shouldn't have said something.

I'm judging someone else.

Whatever it is that I'm thinking that's moving me into a primal state,

some form of fear, I identify it.

Step two, really simple.

What is it you're thinking?

Because it is not the external circumstances that are causing you to be afraid.

It is your inner world.

What is it that you're thinking?

Step one, am I afraid?

Step two, what is it I'm thinking?

And then I know it's an illusion and I have to see through it.

So I ask myself a very simple question.

If this is not true, what is some form of the opposite that could be true?

If I'm afraid that I'm not going to have enough money, what's some form of the opposite?

That I live in a time where there's more financial prosperity and abundance than ever before.

That there's more forms of money and forms of currency than ever before.

Shit, my government is printing more dollars.

It's like living in one of those booths on those old game shows where there's dollars flying around in a booth and you get to grab as many of them as possible.

That's what's real right now.

It's not that I don't have enough money or there isn't enough money out there.

It's just that I've been living in so much fear that I haven't been grabbing the dollars that are in the booth.

So what evidence do I have for the fact that this is true?

That I'm not good enough.

That's my fear.

That's why I'm moving into a primal state.

That's the enemy.

What's true?

That I'm perfect just the way that I am.

I mean, look, man.

Everybody's on their own journey.

I came here to learn some stuff.

And I learned it through my addiction, through my recovery.

I learned it through my two homes and foreclosure.

I learned it by having way too much credit card debt, not enough money in my bank account.

I learned that I wanted money and that I was going to have money and that money was my birthright.

That's what I learned.

What evidence do I have for the fact that this is true?

It's not that I'm not good enough.

I'm perfect just the way I am.

And I'm on my journey according to my own timing.

So I have to notice when I move into fear, I need to look at the cause of the fear, which is internal, not external.

And I have to see through the illusion.

I have to say, hey, if this is the illusion, then some form of the opposite must be true.

What evidence can I find in my reality that this new decision is true?

Shift my reality.

Exercise the demons.

This is the way that we become spiritually stronger.

The inner demons are there to make you stronger, to help you build emotional, psychological, spiritual resilience.

It's like going to the gym.

You go and you lift the weights.

It's resistance.

But the more reps you do, the stronger you become.

So there's nothing wrong with you if you're having negative fear-based thoughts.

There's nothing wrong with you if they're materializing into the experiences of your life.

You can transform your reality by changing the way that you think.

And the way that we do that is we get into the spiritual gym.

That's what this external reality is doing for us right now.

There's a beautiful quote in Scripture.

It's in Romans.

Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

You don't have to stick with the fear-based reality that you've created.

You can transform your own personal reality by changing the way that you think, building spiritual muscle.

I love the passage in the Bible where the shepherd boy David stands up against Goliath.

If you go back and read that passage, he stands with such conviction, and I'm going to paraphrase it,

but he's standing against the mightiest warrior in the Philistine army, right?

This massive warrior with armor, and he's this shepherd boy with a loincloth and a sling.

But he knows what good is.

He knows that good is his only reality.

He knows that God is his only reality, and he knows who he is.

He knows that the external is not the enemy.

The internal doubt is the enemy, and he has no doubt.

He says, today, all of the world will know that there is a good, that there is God here in Israel.

And he slays the Goliath.

You have the opportunity to slay all of the Goliaths in your life right now.

But in order to do that, you have to train your mind to stand unshaken amidst the crashing of breaking worlds.

You have to start treating mindset like your life depends on it because it does.

Because when you can stand against the Goliaths of your life unafraid because you know that they are an Orphean illusion

and that the only problem is the doubt that exists inside of you,

when you learn to overcome that doubt through this resistance training, the kingdom becomes yours.

You create your own personal kingdom.

But you have to elevate yourself into someone who can manage the kingdom,

someone who can hold the kingdom, right?

The king or the queen that can rule over your personal kingdom.

And this is the king and queen making process.

You treat your mindset like your life depends upon it because it does.

You don't escape the world by withdrawing from it.

You transcend it by becoming the one who cannot be moved.

This is the opportunity.

And man, I don't think there's any better game to play.

I don't think there's any better game to play.

And we now know how to play it.

The crazy thing is it's this thing called personal growth.

Who would have ever thought that personal growth or mindset was actually the key to unlocking everything that you want in your life,

to dissolving your problems, to stepping into your full potential,

and as we do it individually changing our lives and as we do it collectively transforming the world?

I mean, the first personal development seminar I went to, I never thought,

oh, this is the technology that's going to change the world.

Guess what?

It's not AI.

It's not artificial intelligence.

It's actual intelligence.

And so this is the game that we're invited to play.

All the chaos you see out there is just reflective of the chaos we hold inside of ourselves.

As we learn to manage ourselves more effectively, the chaos must organize into order.

It must organize into order.

And you have the opportunity to do that.

Not by trying to manipulate your external circumstances, but by managing your inner world.

So the universe doesn't respond to what you say once.

It responds to what you consistently mean through attention and emotional energy.

And this is why patterns repeat themselves even when you start to want things to change.

Because the signal hasn't actually changed.

Only the words have.

And so the first shift is awareness.

Because you can't change what you're sending out until you notice what's actually going on inside of you.

And I want to introduce you to this concept that I only share with my private clients,

which is the idea of vibrational fluency.

See, most of us have learned how to speak a particular language, maybe two,

but we never learned how to speak the language of the universe.

Speaking to the universe isn't metaphorical.

It's literal.

But it's not in the way that people usually think.

Reality is not responding to your words alone.

It's responding to vibration.

And vibration has a language.

Just like you become fluent in French or Spanish,

you don't become fluent by memorizing words.

You become fluent by understanding the meaning, the tone, and how expression all work together.

That's how you master a language.

And the universe really operates the same way.

It doesn't listen for what you want, what you ask for out of desperation.

It's responding to what you're consistently broadcasting.

And so I want to talk to you about these three layers of vibrational fluency.

Because when you understand this, you can develop an internal communication mechanism

that allows you to effectively build a relationship with the reality around you.

And so the first level of vibrational fluency, the first layer, is thoughts.

You know, thoughts are the very, very beginning.

They are a representation of the early stages of manifestation or materialization.

A thought is actually a manifestation.

It's a very subtle vibration.

It is a quiet signal that starts to shape your perception before there's any emotion

or before any action ever happens.

And this is why thinkers like Napoleon Hill pointed out that thoughts create your reality.

Not because thoughts are powerful on their own, but because they start the transmission.

But they're the weakest signal, right?

They're the most subtle signal.

And that's why you can think negatively a lot and still actually succeed.

And that's the good news, right?

Because a thought is only the first layer.

And as spiritual traditions point out, it doesn't take perfect thinking to move reality.

Jesus said, you know, all you need is faith the size of a mustard seed to tell the mountain

to move from here to there.

So thoughts are the first manifestation.

And your thoughts, the habit of your thoughts, whether it's worry, whether it's excitement,

whether it's gratitude, whether it's anxiety, whether it's resentment or comparing yourself

to other people, they actually begin to represent your relationship with the field.

You know, the thoughts don't occur in your head.

Thoughts are something that you tune into and attract from the field.

You know, all ideas that have ever existed, all thoughts that have ever existed, exist

in this field around us, referred to as the Akasha or the Ether or the fourth dimension

or the unified field.

So over time, what you're actually doing is you're building a relationship with the field.

So this is the first part of manifestation.

It actually begins to shape your brain.

And we could look at your brain and we could map out all your neural networks.

And I'm sure with AI in the future, we'll be able to read your belief systems represented

by your memories and the meanings that you gave the experiences of your life.

So this is your entanglement with your reality.

It's the very beginning.

It's the most subtle.

And then the second layer is emotions because thoughts naturally turn into feelings.

You know, if I have a thought that someone shouldn't have done something, it might make

me angry.

If I have a thought that I might run out of money, it might create worry inside of me.

And so this is a really interesting way that the human being operating system works is thoughts

are this electrical activity in your brain.

So that's a vibration, right?

This is part of the vibrational fluency.

It's an electromagnetic phenomenon that you're able to control inside of you.

And then those thoughts transmit through your nervous system.

And it's not just in your brain now, but your whole nervous system lights up with this

vibration, and we would call that an emotion.

That's the second layer of vibrational communication or vibrational fluency.

So how you feel regularly is actually a much clearer signal than what you think occasionally.

Your thoughts are, as I mentioned before, they're subtle.

They go from this thought to that thought to another thought, right?

That's an irregular part of the broadcast system.

But your emotions, where you start to emotionally live, that's what starts to send out a more

consistent signal to the universe.

That's how the universe understands, because now your entire body is vibrating according

to this frequency.

And from a behavioral psychology standpoint, repeated thoughts begin to train your nervous

system.

They condition emotional states.

And emotional states begin to predict the types of actions that you'll take, the things

that you'll start to do consistently.

If you're consistently stressed or frustrated or resentful, by the way, it's not that you're

a bad person or you're stupid or you're not very good at this game of personal growth.

It's just that you're requesting more experiences that are going to create that same emotional

reaction.

This isn't good or bad.

It's just understanding how the system works.

And this is why mystics emphasized emotion over thought, right?

Neville Goddard, one of the really phenomenal mystical teachers, taught that emotion imprints

itself into reality.

He said that feeling is the secret.

You have to feel your way through it.

Now, one of the things that a lot of my clients ask me is, well, but Dave, if I want an outcome,

like if I want to feel healthier, but I'm in chronic pain, how do I feel healthy when that's

not my reality?

You know, if I want to feel abundant and prosperous, but I look at my bank account and there's not

enough and I look at my credit cards and there's a lot of them, there's a lot of debt,

how do I feel abundant?

And so I get it.

That can be tricky.

What I would suggest is don't worry so much about feeling what you want.

Just stop feeling the old habit of what you don't want.

Just stop broadcasting the primary signal of unwellness or financial insecurity and your

reality will start to change.

Okay?

But feeling is that next level of vibrational fluency.

It's one step greater in terms of vibrational impact or communication than thoughts.

The third and the strongest layer of vibrational communication is what you speak.

Because if you think about it, speech is now a thought that has then evolved into an emotion

and it is now turning into the first step of action, what you say.

You're now bringing it into reality.

It is a more material, more powerful broadcast to the universe.

And the good news is it's indicative of your emotions and your thoughts.

So you can start to track it back.

And so when you speak, you're no longer operating internally.

You're now transmitting outward.

And you're reinforcing this broadcast, this vibration into the physical world.

That's why complaining, labeling things as bad, being casually negative, they have a real

impact in your life.

Not just on the people around you, right?

But you're not just describing life now.

You're amplifying a frequency.

And the universe is neutral.

It's loving, right?

It's designed to support us in growing and evolving.

That's why it gives us what we ask for.

And we learn about ourselves through the experiences that we create.

And we have the opportunity to go, oh, you know, I don't like that.

So there must be something inside of me that I need to shift.

But it's not evaluating you positively or negatively.

It's simply responding to what's being transmitted.

It's a beautiful, loving part of the mechanics of this system.

And so this is what people miss when they say, you know, the universe doesn't give you what

you want, right?

It's like, no, it gives you what you're vibrationally fluent in.

And so for most people, thoughts and emotions are hard to catch in real time.

But speech is obvious, right?

It's audible.

It's repeatable.

It's easy to clean up.

And so sometimes when you're doing mindset work, the easiest way to change your reality

is to watch what you speak and stop speaking negatively.

And if you actually do that, you'll start to backtrack and feel those habits of emotion

less and actually start to transform the thoughts that are creating that speech.

This is sometimes the fastest way to actually shift your signal.

They've done some studies with professional athletes and college athletes where they went

in and they just had them start changing the way that they speak.

And they significantly improve their performance.

Now, I'm not talking about suppressing reality here.

What I'm talking about is stop reinforcing the version of reality that you don't want.

Become vibrationally fluent.

It doesn't mean that you're being fake or positive all the time.

It means being precise and intentional and aware of what you're broadcasting.

In many ways, it's about learning how to develop an inner attitude of being unbothered by what's

happening around you, knowing that if you do not reinforce the reality that you do not want,

it will pass, right?

Problems do not come to stay.

They come to pass.

But we can keep these problems or challenges in our life by matching their frequency and

continuing to broadcast that to the universe.

And so this isn't mystical, right?

This is just observable.

This is really why the simplest takeaway of this episode matters.

Watch what you say because you're always being heard.

Every thought that enters your mind is neutral at first, okay?

It has no power until you actually entangle with it, until you give it attention.

You're going to have thoughts that are consistently occurring just like your heart is consistently

beating.

But attention is what activates the thought.

So attention isn't passive awareness.

Attention is agreement with the thought, right?

Or what Neville Goddard refers to as assumption.

You assume that money is hard to make.

You assume things don't work out for you.

You assume that you will or won't be healthy.

And then what you stay loyal to in terms of your assumptions, you consistently energize.

And this is why unwanted patterns persist even when people don't want them or even when they

start doing affirmations or incantations because internally that vibrational fluency has not been

developed.

And you're still broadcasting what you don't want, right?

People keep revisiting the same thoughts emotionally over and over.

And then emotion locks that attention in place.

And in both neuroscience and spirituality, attention is understood as the currency of consciousness,

right?

This is where you spend your spirit or your soul or your energy.

And where attention goes, your neural pathways strengthen.

And so you start to deepen those belief systems.

You start to entrain those emotional habits.

And then your perception starts to organize around them, right?

So you actually start to see reality and create reality according to what it is that you're

holding inside of you.

As Eckhart Tolle, one of the great spiritual teachers of our time said, you know, whatever

you fight, you strengthen.

And whatever you resist persists.

And so even when you're trying to solve a problem or change your external reality, you're actually

feeding that same vibrational frequency.

So most people believe like they're the victims of their thoughts.

And in reality, they're unconsciously consenting to them by engaging and analyzing and replaying

them.

You know, I can't tell you how many times I've noticed that I have some argument with someone

or something happens in my life that disturbs me, right?

It disrupts my inner world.

And then I like, I get in the car and I'm carrying that situation with me, even though

it's no longer there.

You know, there was an old parable of two monks who were traveling across the countryside and

they came upon a stream and there was a woman who couldn't get across the stream.

And she said, oh, can you help me?

I need to get to the other side.

I have to get home to my family.

And in the order of these monks, they were prohibited from touching women.

And one of the monks without hesitating grabs the woman, picks her up, takes her across

the stream, puts her down on the other side so she can go back to her family.

And the second monk can't believe that the first monk just did this.

And anyway, they continue on for, you know, another day.

And the second monk is still cannot believe that the first monk touched this woman.

It's like the one thing they can't do according to their order.

They spend the night, they wake up the next morning, they travel for another day.

Finally, they're setting a fire on the second night and the second monk still can't believe

it.

And he says to the first monk, I cannot believe that you picked that woman up.

And the first monk says, I picked that woman up and I dropped her off right on the other

side of the stream.

He said, you've been carrying her for the last two days.

And that's what we do.

And your attention doesn't care, by the way, if your thoughts are positive or your thoughts

are negative.

It just simply amplifies whatever you're bringing your attention to.

And so this is why trying to get rid of a thought often backfires, right?

Because struggling with a thought or saying, I don't want to think this or I need to be thinking

something different.

It's still giving that same thought attention.

And attention keeps the pattern alive.

And that's why my suggestion is, you know, a lot of different personal growth teachings

out there say like, oh, you need to like really visualize the change that you want.

You have to feel the change that you want.

That can actually create even more resistance.

What I would suggest is when you notice that your inner world is disturbed and that you're

not putting out a broadcast that's congruent with what you want to create, just go do something

else.

Just stop the broadcast.

Don't worry about broadcasting exactly what you want.

Just stop the broadcast that's creating what you don't want.

Because as the Buddha said, where your attention goes, energy flows.

Saying yes to a thought doesn't always look like agreement.

Sometimes it looks like, you know, worrying about something or ruminating about something

or rehearsing it in your mind.

And so saying no just simply means you refuse to feed the thought with energy.

You do something else.

You go for a walk with the dog.

You go get a cup of coffee.

You do something that you enjoy.

You phone a friend.

You just stop the broadcast because in that way you become unbothered by the situation.

Right?

You notice it and then you let it pass.

Knowing that as you manage your inner state, as you master your vibrational fluency, your

outer reality has to change to match your inner calm.

So this is the quiet power that most people never learn.

You don't control which thoughts appear.

They're going to appear.

But you do control which ones get reinforced.

And over time, when you consistently ignore those thoughts, they lose momentum.

Right?

And this is neurological.

We start to see the myelin around the synaptic connections begins to deteriorate.

The electrical signal is not as strong.

You can actually withdraw a belief system from your brain by no longer giving those thoughts

and the emotions associated with them attention and certainly not speaking what you don't want

into reality.

So what you consistently attend to starts to become your lived reality, whether you want

it or not.

And this is one of the most direct ways you speak to the universe, not through words alone,

but through sustained attention.

So when attention becomes intentional, the patterns begin to dissolve in your life without

you having to force your way through them.

And reality starts responding to a clear, more coherent signal.

And once you give attention to a thought, interpretation follows automatically.

So in other words, attention decides what gets processed and interpretation decides what

it means.

So interpretation is the story that you attach to what you're noticing.

So it's the difference between this is happening to me, right?

Or this is happening through me, right?

Am I a victim of life or am I creating life through my attention?

So that story immediately directs your energy.

The body responds oftentimes before logic ever has a chance to step in.

So if you interpret a situation as a threat, your energy is going to contract and that's okay.

You notice that and then you can release it.

If you interpret the same situation as information or feedback, right?

You stay grounded.

Your energy stabilizes.

Your attention widens.

And your choices return.

And this is why attention alone isn't enough, right?

You can notice a thought, but if you interpret it unconsciously, it still drains you.

And most people think they're exhausted because life is hard.

But in reality, they're exhausted because they're struggling with the reality as it's showing up,

right?

It's the meaning that they're assigning to everything that is draining their energy.

And energy doesn't move towards what you want.

It moves towards what you consistently interpret as important or dangerous or defining.

And this is why positive thinking often fails.

So people try to change their intention without actually changing the meaning of their reality.

But when your interpretation shifts, your effort drops.

And the same actions suddenly require less force.

And this is what alignment actually looks like, right?

This isn't hustle or grind or excitement.

This is alignment.

And when attention and your interpretation line up, meaning you focus on what serves you

and you give it a meaning that's aligned with what you want to create, energy stops leaking

and starts working for you instead of against you.

So speaking to the universe isn't about asking for things out loud.

It's about how you consistently relate to what's happening through your language, through your

thoughts, through the meaning that you're giving the experience of your life.

And it's happening all day long, every single day.

And this work is simply about making that process conscious instead of automatic.

And you don't have to do it perfectly.

If you just bring a little bit of consciousness and you make some small shifts, you'll change

your reality dramatically.

And most people make the mistake of thinking they're communicating through what they want.

But in reality, they're communicating through their habit of thoughts, their habit of emotions,

in their habit of speech.

The same thoughts, the same meanings, the same emotional responses on a loop.

And the universe doesn't respond to what you want.

Once, it responds to what you reinforce consistently, what you're consistently transmitting.

And this is why awareness is so powerful and more powerful than effort.

Because the moment you notice how you're framing an experience, you regain choice.

And instead of saying like, hey, how do I change this out there?

A more powerful question is, how am I reacting to this inside of here?

Right?

When something unexpected happens, that's the moment communication is happening most clearly.

And so your reaction starts to set the tone for everything that follows.

You can get to a point where you feel that you're reacting.

And then remember, that's what's happening out there.

And it's just a projection.

And you can change the projection if you relax through the experience.

Very much working with your reality is very much like being in yoga.

It's like you get in an uncomfortable posture.

There are circumstances or situations that are going to show up.

And you have to breathe through it.

And so if you can relax through the experience, you can allow the experience to transform.

Right?

You don't even need to come up with a better story about the situation.

You can simply say, hey, this is passing.

Something better is coming.

I know that my reality is already changing because my reaction to my reality is different.

As Marcus Aurelius wrote, he said, if you're distressed by anything external, the pain is

not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Over time, these small little internal decisions, they start to compound.

And so your patterns start to lose momentum.

Your reactions start to soften.

Your options start to expand.

And this is how people begin to experience greater levels of synchronicity or things suddenly

working out.

Not because reality changed overnight, but because the signal became aligned.

When language is precise and your attention is intentional and your interpretation is clean,

you stop fighting life and you start moving with it.

That's what it actually means to speak to the universe.

So if there's one thing I want you to take from this, it's this.

You're not disconnected from the universe.

You've been communicating the entire time through the thoughts that you have, the emotions you feel,

the words that you speak.

Nothing changes all at once, but the moment you become more precise with how you speak

internally, life has no choice but to respond differently.

And not because you start forcing it, but because you've stopped sending mixed signals.

So if you love this episode and it helped you see your patterns more clearly, I want you

to just sit with it.

Like pay attention this week to how you describe things, how you speak about your reality, especially

when something unexpected happens, because that's where the real shift can begin.

Guys, if it's not clear to you by now, you probably haven't been paying attention, but we are living

in a consistent psychological operations campaign.

This is not a conspiracy theory anymore.

This is the reality of the conspiracy.

Between media manipulation and central intelligence manipulation and corporate manipulation,

it's all being exposed.

And we've been lied to literally by an organized crime ring of power and influence from pandemic

narratives that we were lied about to the Epstein narrative that we're being lied about to intelligence

agency coverups and misdirections that seem to be happening on a daily basis right now.

These are not isolated events.

They are coordinated psychological operations designed to shape perception.

Now, make no mistake, this episode is not about doom and gloom.

I've said over and over and over again, I believe in the certainty of the goodness of the future.

But if you're going to overcome your opponent and create a victory, you have to know the opponent

that is in front of you.

And right now, this is the opponent.

It is a hijacking of your attention through very sophisticated means.

So we have been living inside a psychological prison for most of human history.

But as a result of the internet and social media and this digital connectivity that's taking

place, the veil is being lifted and we're finally seeing the operating system.

We're seeing the serpent or the snake as it is emerging.

So I want to explain for a moment how this psychological operation works.

It works through repetition.

It works through fear.

It works through identity division and emotional triggers.

So when your attention is directed towards fear or conflict, you are highly controllable and

unable to intentionally create what you want.

So let's break down exactly how they hijack your intention, biochemically, neurologically

and psychologically.

The first one is through dopamine.

So dopamine is the pleasure chemical.

It's the anticipation chemical.

It fires not when you get the reward, but when you anticipate it.

And this is why sometimes, I don't know if you're like me, I'm sitting next to my phone

and my hand like automatically moves to my phone to check something, even though consciously

I don't need to check my phone.

That's the addictive reward mechanism actually taking place.

It's literally controlling your neurophysiology.

This is why slot machines are so addictive.

You don't know when the reward is coming, right?

It's the unpredictability, the variable reward that creates the strongest dopamine spike of

all.

So it might be a new message that you're getting or a DM on your social media.

It might be an email.

It might be checking some statistic or report, or it might be just the novelty of being able

to swipe, right?

And to be able to scroll and see something new that feels good.

I was describing to my wife the other day that the relationship that I feel with my phone

is very much like the oral fixation and using my hands that I had way back in the day when

I was smoking cigarettes.

This is literally the digital cigarette.

And so intermittent reinforcement is the most powerful form of conditioning known to psychology.

In other words, if this can be placed into your daily routine, it becomes addictive.

And so think about your phone.

Notifications, likes, comments, messages, scroll, scroll, scroll.

Your device is literally a digital slot machine in your pocket 24-7.

Every swipe is maybe there's something exciting that's taking place here.

Every refresh, maybe there's something shocking.

And your brain goes, don't look away.

There might be something important next.

This is dopamine-driven attention hijacking.

Now combine that with fear.

When the brain detects threat, the amygdala activates.

And so cortisol and adrenaline, very powerful hormones and chemicals are released.

And the body goes into fight or flight or freeze.

Now here's the key.

When fear activates the prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for logic and long-term thinking

and creativity, it shuts down.

So fear makes you less intelligent, way more reactive, and easier to control.

It literally creates a tunnel vision.

You stop seeing the full picture and you narrow in on the threat.

And that is exactly what media does.

They keep feeding us threats to trigger constant amygdala activation using tools and mechanisms

that are naturally hyper-addictive.

And so we get headline after headline, crisis outrage, collapse, enemy, danger.

So dopamine keeps you coming back and fear keeps you frozen.

Now these two alone are powerful enough, but combine that with what all of us hold inside

of our nervous system, which is trauma.

So if you have unprocessed trauma, which we all do, or limiting beliefs, a fear of not being

good enough, a fear of not mattering, a fear that you can't trust people, a fear that you're

not safe, your nervous system is already primed for fear.

And so that means the external fear messaging has a place to land inside of you.

Trauma literally makes you hyper-vigilant, always scanning for danger.

You feel me?

I don't know if you're feeling it, but I always am like waiting for the next shoe to drop is

the way that I would describe it.

Always bracing for impact.

And so when the media feeds you fear, your brain bonds with it.

It actually feels safer to keep focusing on the fear than to let go.

Because the brain thinks if I keep paying attention to the danger, I can protect myself.

And so now fear becomes addictive within this entire addictive trilogy.

Now add in technology.

The platforms you use that are engineered by neuroscientists to exploit these exact mechanisms,

infinite scrolling with no stopping cues, notifications that give you dopamine triggers,

all this outrage content that triggers your fear, personalized feeds that start to psychologically

profile you, and then algorithmic amplification, which creates insane emotional manipulation.

That's the trap.

And people say, well, that's just business.

They want our attention.

But it actually goes a lot deeper than that.

This is not about advertising, right?

Because these platforms don't just respond to your behavior.

They actually shape it.

They promote what fits certain agendas.

And then they suppress what doesn't.

And this is why you see certain narratives everywhere and others never appear at all.

So this is behavioral modification at scale.

And when they censor voices, they're not just silencing opinions.

They're controlling the information that your brain has access to.

So from a neurological perspective, censorship literally limits your mind's ability to construct

alternate realities.

It limits your possibility and it locks you into the possibility that they want you to believe in.

So this is psychological warfare disguised as social media.

And that's why we're finding every social media organization is actually coordinating

or literally has within its organization a division that is connected to central intelligence,

to intelligence agencies.

So if you don't understand the biological and biochemical game being played on you,

you're actually going to think that your thoughts are your own.

When in reality, they're not.

Your nervous system has been hijacked.

Now, I didn't start out really trying to expose any of this.

I just wanted to heal myself.

I just wanted my life back.

And I got into personal growth.

And then I got into mindset.

And I hired a bunch of young guys who would have been considered conspiracy theorists.

And so they started talking about how there was a global structure of organized crime that was manipulating finance and controlling the media.

And it all just sounded like a bunch of bullshit to me.

But over the last 20 years, we've actually seen how that is actually the case.

And so not only was I exposed to these ideas early on, but then as I started to heal myself and really look at how to create my own reality,

and looking at it from a root cause level, which was alleviating myself of my trauma,

and understanding these creative metaphysical principles of how you create your own reality,

like that are talked about in Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, or Neville Goddard's, you know,

Collected Works, or Florence Goldblushin's The Game of Life and How to Play It,

and then ultimately the Bible and a lot of the teachings of Jesus,

because he was the greatest metaphysical teacher in the history of the world, from my perspective,

eventually I stumbled into the truth, which is self-help or mindset is not some soft skill.

It's actually the key to understanding global power.

It's the key to understanding how we're going to create a new reality,

because whoever controls your mind controls your reality.

And when you reclaim your mind, you become ungovernable.

So you become the king of your own kingdom or the queen of your own queendom.

And most people are very easily controlled because every human being carries limiting beliefs and unmetabolized trauma.

And trauma acts like a magnet for fear.

So when fear propaganda is pushed, people take the bait.

Right?

When there's an enemy that's presented, people believe in it.

They become angry.

They become divided.

They become distracted.

Whether the enemy is a group of terrorists far off in another country,

or whether the enemy is the political group that doesn't agree with what you agree with.

Right?

This is how we become divided and distracted.

We become positioned against each other.

And if you haven't cleared your trauma, you're susceptible to psychological manipulation.

When you get into healing work, like all of the conversations that we have on this show,

fear no longer sticks to you.

So you start to build a nervous system that is downregulated and that is not as susceptible or triggered by these fear cues.

And so you stop reacting.

And when you stop reacting, you can start choosing.

That's sovereignty.

That's personal freedom.

You start to become impervious to the psychological operations and the campaign and the media.

You become impervious to the programming.

So when you're susceptible to it because you have a lot of anger or resentments or limiting beliefs,

and then these messages play off of that fear, your attention gets hijacked.

And you start creating within their agenda versus creating what you want out of your own life.

And when you have psychological and emotional resiliency and freedom and sovereignty,

you can start to self-direct your attention towards your dreams, towards your vision.

Whether that's just having financial prosperity versus the financial insecurity that they're perpetrating upon you.

Or whether or not that's health within your body, regardless of the doom and gloom and all the viruses and bacterias that are coming to get you.

Or whether that is love and compassion and connection because you no longer feel angry or divisive against people who might have a different opinion than you.

You're starting to create your own reality.

You're pulling away from or disintegrating what you've been enslaved into.

And you're essentially taking the red pill, right?

You're red pilling yourself and waking up out of the matrix.

So what's fundamental to understand and why I spend so much time teaching this on this channel

is that in order to create, you have to be able to direct your attention.

All creation requires directed attention.

Attention is soul.

If you think about what attention is, I want you to just notice right now that there's this life that is living through your body right now.

It's expressing itself.

And you're using your body to be able to hear and potentially see this episode.

But there's a presence inside of you that is receiving this information, that is experiencing this conversation.

That is your soul.

That's your consciousness.

And so you can direct your attention into different places, which is essentially directing your soul towards different experiences.

And as you are able to direct intentionally your soul somewhere, creative force follows.

Attention or spirit or soul is literally the creative force of the universe.

So if you focus on fear, you manifest more fear.

That's how humanity became trapped in totalitarian control.

And even the Bible says over 300 times, fear not.

It's like the number one most written recommendation in the Bible, fear not.

Why?

Because fear equals the surrender of your attention.

It equals the surrender of your soul.

And whatever you direct your attention towards actually grows and becomes stronger, even if you think you're fighting something.

So a lot of what's happening right now in people becoming angry, even about this system of control or this global organized crime ring or this psychological operations campaign, as I would describe it.

But as you start to become angry about it and you start to resist it, you only make it stronger.

And this is where I want to present the solution to you because it is actually hidden in one of the most powerful teachings in the Bible.

This is not a religious thing.

This is a metaphysical thing.

If you want to create something new in your own life or we want to create something new as a brotherhood and a sisterhood of human beings, we cannot continue to fight the old.

So we create the new if we liberate our consciousness, we heal our trauma, and we become immune to fear.

That's the formula.

Liberate our consciousness, heal our trauma, and become immune to fear.

We can then direct our attention towards what we want instead of what we fear.

Because if our attention is directed towards what we fear, we just get more of what we fear.

And this is actually the true meaning of the quote from Jesus from Sermon on the Mount when Jesus said, turn the other cheek.

When you're confronted by evil, do not resist, but turn the other cheek.

So this is not about weakness or placating evil or power and allowing someone to hit you on the other side once they've already hit you on one side.

This is actually a spiritual technology that Jesus is recommending.

So rather than continuing to resist evil, we notice evil.

And what happens when you turn your cheek?

Let's say, for example, you notice evil to the right.

When you turn your cheek, you direct your head towards the left.

And that is actually representative of shifting your attention.

You are pulling your attention away from evil and you are turning the cheek and you are directing it.

Into a new space of possibility.

Having acknowledged evil, but understanding the metaphysical principles and having healed and no longer allowing your attention to become hijacked by those things that upset you.

You use what upsets you as a catalyst for getting clear on what it is you want to create.

I do not like censorship.

I am going to create freedom of speech.

I do not like the forever wars.

I am going to create peace and harmony.

I do not like financial insecurity or financial fear.

I am going to create prosperity and abundance for myself.

Notice evil and then turn the cheek and direct your consciousness and attention towards the equal and opposite of that which evil represents.

And this is the most powerful technique in the world for transforming your reality.

And as we do this together, transforming the world.

You do not feed the old paradigm.

You start to build a new one.

You know, I remember when I first got into this business that I have.

And there were a lot of other people with a lot of partnerships.

And I was like, oh, I do not really know that many people.

But rather than continue to say, well, I do not know that many people and I do not have that many friends and I do not have that many colleagues and I do not have that many partners, I turned my cheek.

And I made a decision that I did not know how, I did not know when, but I was going to build amazing relationships with other incredible people doing amazing things in the world.

I was going to support them in their mission.

They were going to support me in mine.

Literally within months, my network started expanding through coincidences and synchronicities.

I was single for 10 years.

I turned the cheek.

I made a new decision, which was I did not know how, I did not know when, but I was going to meet a beautiful, intelligent woman.

And make her my wife.

Two weeks later, I met the woman who is now my wife through a series of coincidences and synchronicities.

So you don't feed the old paradigm, whether it's in your life or whether we're looking at the world together.

You direct your attention towards what you want to create.

Now, individually, this changes our lives, but at scale, this changes civilization.

And so that's what's happening right now.

And why I believe in the certainty of the goodness of the future is that more and more and more of us are healing.

More and more and more of us are seeing the structure of the serpent of control that exists in the world, and we're no longer buying into it.

But what's important here is we no longer entangle with it.

We are confronted by evil.

We turn the cheek.

We direct our attention towards that which we want to create.

It's important to understand the old fear-based control system is breaking.

That's why we're seeing so much chaos right now.

That's why we're seeing the insane acquisition of social media companies so that more censorship and control can be put on top of those platforms.

But it's not going to work because more and more people are waking up and healing and reclaiming their attention.

And so what we're seeing right now, even though it's got some significant speed bumps along the way because change is challenging, a new humanity is emerging.

And not by force, but by consciousness.

So this is like Dr. Strange level shit.

We're able to manipulate reality, but in order to do that, we have to liberate our own consciousness.

In order to do that, we have to heal so that our attention cannot be hijacked.

But what's so exciting right now is that we are witnessing literally the dawn of the attention sovereign human being.

And so it's important to understand that mindset isn't just personal development.

It's the number one survival tool and thriving tool that exists today.

You have to treat your mindset like your life depends on it because it does.

And you got to get emotionally stronger, psychologically stronger.

Heal your trauma.

Forgive your resentments so that you can no longer be entangled by them.

And do the inner work.

You know, we've got so many incredible programs.

You can jump on over to davidbear.com.

You can download my free e-book.

You can subscribe to one of our online courses, the Mind Hack Program or the Whole Human Framework.

Buy my book, A Changed Mind.

Show up at our annual event, The Powerful Living Experience Live.

There's so many resources around you.

All the links are in the show notes so that you can get to the root cause of what allows your attention to be hijacked, which is the healing that is required to take place inside of you.

So do the inner work.

Number two, set some digital boundaries because these things, as helpful as they are, are equally dangerous if not intentionally used.

Do a digital detox, right?

Take a few days off.

Allow your nervous system to rest, especially during connection times, dinners, meals, conversations.

Don't bring your phone into sacred spaces, right?

When you're being creative, when you're being intimate, give yourself some momentum.

Break the habit of the digital addiction.

Minimize the news.

Stay informed, right?

But not addicted.

Pay attention so you can see what's going on in the world.

Notice evil and turn the cheek.

But spend the vast majority of your time not complaining about what's going on or fearing what's going on, but putting your energy and attention towards what you want to create.

And disconnect several hours before bed, you know, end the day in gratitude, not watching fear.

It sets the intention for the next day.

And most importantly, what I've found is surround yourself with other people who are like-minded, you know?

Be in the conversation with others, whether that's face-to-face, whether that's listening to podcasts like this one.

Feed yourself emotionally and psychologically.

It's nutrition, right?

Because attention is life.

And whoever owns your attention owns your future.

So I would recommend you make a priority of owning your own attention because your attention is the most valuable resource you possess.

It is more valuable than money.

It is more powerful than technology.

It is more sacred than time because where your attention goes, reality manifests.

And for generations, people have kept us distracted, divided, addicted, outraged, and afraid.

And not by accident, on purpose.

Because if they can control your attention, they can control your reality.

But there is a revolution happening right now.

And it is not a revolution of violence.

It is not a revolution of politics.

It is a revolution of consciousness.

People are waking up.

And people are healing.

They are doing the work so that they can no longer be hooked by the system.

People are reclaiming their minds and their nervous systems and their personal power.

And when you reclaim attention sovereignty, you no longer create from fear.

You create from vision.

You create from love.

You create from purpose.

And you create from that deep inner place in you that already knows who you are and why you are here.

This is what Jesus was pointing to when he said, turn the other cheek.

He was saying, stop feeding darkness with your energy.

Stop entangling with lies.

Stop pouring your soul into fear.

And lift your attention to a higher reality.

And create from there.

Live from there.

Lead from there.

Because the kingdom of heaven is not a place.

It's a state of consciousness.

That's why he said it's inside of you.

And the moment you reclaim your attention, you step into it.

And so right now, decide.

Will I continue giving my attention to fear and conflict and manipulation?

Or will I become one of the awakened ones who consciously designs the next era of humanity?

Because make no mistake, a new world is emerging and we're all coming together to create it together.

At all different stages, no matter where you are in your journey right now, you can make a decision to contribute to a more loving, a more free, a more intelligent, a more abundant world.

And that's where I'm going.

I'm 100% committed to it.

And I'm walking toward that promised land.

Not someday, but now.

One day at a time.

And in this episode, I'm extending my hand to you.

Because I want to walk there together.

Right?

Let's reclaim our attention.

Let's reclaim our power.

Let's reclaim our destiny.

And let's build the new reality.

One step at a time.

Alright guys, I want to start by talking about why life often feels unfair.

And why that feeling is real.

You are not imagining this.

Life often rewards the ruthless first.

I mean, you can just look around the world today.

You can look at the corruption, the games that the wealthy are playing, the artificial inflation of the stock market.

You know, all of the things that we see going on in our government today where congressmen and congresswomen, no matter what country you live in,

whoever runs your government are getting wealthy through insider information.

It's clear that the world does not run on morality.

It runs on power.

It runs on coherence.

And it runs on action.

So I want to break this down for you today.

Good people feel betrayed because, frankly, we were taught the wrong rules.

There's this idea that if I'm a good person, then life's going to reward me.

And that's not true.

Sort of.

That's not how the laws of reality function.

You know, fairness is a comforting story, but it's not a law of reality.

And when you understand this, you stop swirling in the confusion of why are all these bad people, the people who are cheating the system,

the people who are actually doing what we would look at and say evil things in the world, getting rich and getting powerful and feeling like there's something wrong with you.

Instead, you can align yourself with wealth, prosperity and power that is actually sustainable.

And you can use your vibration for good rather than evil.

So let's first talk about why, quote unquote, bad people seem to rise faster.

Well, the reason that bad people are able to align themselves with the laws of creation and manifestation so easily is, number one, they act without hesitation.

Part of that has to do with not having a moral compass, not really caring about what other people think,

not really being concerned about whether or not what you're going to be doing is hurting other people.

It is a truly ego-driven, selfish desire.

But those types of behaviors and that type of thinking is not an internal division.

So bad people don't outsource their identity and approval to other people.

They don't care what other people think.

They operate with certainty even when wrong.

And reality rewards certainty because when you are undivided, when you are non-resistant inside of you,

and you have what Napoleon Hill would talk about is a burning desire with non-resistance,

you can create results very, very quickly.

In other episodes, I talk about what I consider to be the master equation for creating success, wealth, health, prosperity, everything that you want.

And that is desire plus non-resistance equals desired result.

So that non-resistance or that alignment or what we could call coherence, it beats morality in competitive environments.

I want you to think about this environment that we all live in as a competition for the purposes of this conversation.

Now, in other episodes, I talk about how there really is no such thing as competition.

But you can think about the public markets, the reality that we live in,

the wanting to achieve business success or achieve some sort of wealth is a vibrational competition.

And the vibration of certainty and non-resistance will outperform and out-compete morality every single day.

So you can think about this as the survival of the strongest vibration,

not survival of the just or survival of the moral.

Now, in a moment, I'm going to talk about the value of morality in terms of a long-term creation.

But a lack of guilt means uninterrupted, consistent action.

You know, when you don't stop on a daily basis questioning what you did or feeling guilty about it or feeling ashamed of it,

you're not wasting time and wasting energy on those types of emotional and psychological behaviors.

And so you tend to be in a more consistent type of action.

And some of the people who we see who are the wealthiest people in the world today,

they're in consistent action because they're not stopping to be considerate of others.

They're not questioning what they did or second-guessing themselves.

But good people often live with this internal contradiction.

Good people struggle more with things like indecision, procrastination, self-sabotage, shame.

And this is a helpful habit for self-reflection, right?

Hey, how am I functioning or operating in a way that doesn't feel congruent with who I want to be?

This is an important part of self-improvement.

But then when the ego inserts itself into that process of self-reflection and self-awareness,

and we feel shame and we self-blame, that drains our energy.

That then lowers our vibration.

And in a vibrational competition, in a vibrational ecosystem where it's a survival of the greatest vibration,

evil will win out over good every single time.

It's important to understand that the universe, in a sense, when we talk about manifestation or creating,

is in many ways neutral.

The geometry or the laws of creation are neutral.

Now, we're going to talk about the consideration for being noble, for being humble, for being good here in a moment.

There's a huge consideration for that.

But just purely in terms of manifesting, in terms of getting rich and creating a business or being successful or influencing others

or having control or power in the world, power is fundamentally neutral.

And this is most often misunderstood.

So the opportunity, if we're interested in it, is to not only be powerful but also to be good,

to be self-aware and self-reflective but not self-loathing.

But the laws of the universe, if you want to call it the laws of attraction,

they're not particularly considerate of you being good or bad.

Again, that's why we often see that the people who accumulate the most wealth, most power in the world

are not necessarily good but they're undivided within themselves.

They're not wasting a lot of time and energy considering what other people think

or questioning whether the thing they did was the right thing for them to do.

They're just in consistent action and consistent, uninterrupted, high vibration

from a certainty and confidence standpoint.

But again, the opportunity is for us to,

and I think this is really where the emergent human being is stepping forward,

the loving, noble, powerful creator.

I think this is a change that's taking place in humanity today

where we're going from thousands of years of those who are confident

and those who are certain also being those who may be more morally corruptible

and therefore having a reality that benefits the few rather than the many.

There's this emergence now of what some may refer to as a Christ consciousness,

which is being in alignment with these creative principles and creative laws,

being connected and guided by the God of your own understanding or higher power

while also being good.

So to be self-aware and self-reflective but not self-loathing.

And this is something, if I look back on my life,

in terms of when I feel like I became a better person,

and also I can see a direct correlation with the amount of money in my bank account,

clarity on my purpose, my connection to a higher power,

my attracting an amazing relationship to my life,

being more successful in business, all the things.

I learned this in my 12-step recovery,

my alcohol, drug, and sex addiction recovery.

To say, okay, look, I made a mistake.

I did something that is not a reflection of who I want to be.

I hurt another person.

I will make an amends for that.

Hey, I'm sorry that I did this or said this.

But I won't dwell on it.

This was one of the gifts of my addiction recovery

and something my sponsor and the other people in my program,

my recovery program, really helped me understand was,

if I stay in the shame, I'll end up in a shame spiral

and I'm more likely to go out and drink or drug or sex again

because the shame spiral is so uncomfortable.

So it was very important to acknowledge my wrongdoing

but not to judge or blame myself.

And the way that I did this was to fundamentally understand

that at any given moment, I'm doing the best that I'm capable of.

Based on my programs, my traumas, their circumstances in the moment,

my emotional urges, the temptations or situations or circumstances around me.

And I'm not always going to choose what optimally I would choose

if I could look back and make a different decision.

In the moment, I'm always making the best decision that I can,

even when it's a decision that's not congruent with who I really want to be.

So when I reflect upon it, I give myself permission

to have done it while also holding myself accountable

to others around me who I may have harmed and making amends.

You know, recently I had a client that did some things he wasn't proud of.

He made some decisions in his business out of ego that are having consequences.

He was moving too fast.

He wasn't being thoughtful.

He was being driven by a need for speed.

And he did some things that hurt other people.

And so on our call, he was super down.

He was having what looked like to me a pity party.

And, you know, I let him have the party for a minute.

And then I said, look, bro, get over yourself.

Like stop the pity party.

Go make amends to the people that you've hurt.

And now let's just do the next thing and let's go.

That's real power.

My buddy Paco, who's in my recovery program in my AA meetings,

he said to me, you know, people come in and they feel so guilty about their life.

They're like, look at my life.

Look what I did.

Look how I've ruined it.

And Paco's like, get over yourself, man.

Like move on.

You know, that's all we can do is learn from the past,

become better and do our best moving forward.

That's real power.

The people who are rising now are not perfect people.

They're broken people who are putting the pieces back together to become even stronger.

That's what's so incredible at about this point in time right now.

Why I believe in the certainty of the goodness of the future.

And why I love that you're here and I love the community that we're building

because we're not showing up like we're perfect.

We're just showing up humble and learning from the mistakes that we make to become better people

and aligning ourselves with certainty and confidence and power

so that we can create good things in the world out of good people.

Because good is a high vibration.

It is a higher vibration than evil.

But you must combine good with confidence and with certainty and with faith.

You know, evil is ego, right?

Some people describe the ego as an acronym edging God out.

Evil is ego without God.

And you can create from there.

It's almost like black magic.

But you can only get so far on that.

You know, when you are good, but self-loving, not self-loathing,

and you believe in a God of your own understanding,

you believe that there is a higher power that is governing the system,

then whatever's out there that seems to be evil, it can't touch you.

You know, I love the story of David and Goliath.

I love that there is this little shepherd boy who has a sling and a stone.

And he's face to face with the mightiest warrior in the Philistine army.

And he goes out on the battlefield.

You can imagine two armies watching this little boy and a giant,

a giant terrifying warrior.

And the little boy says, I know who I am.

I know who I stand for.

I know that there is a God in my life.

And I know that God and good triumph over evil.

That is an example of the level of confidence and certainty that evil people have,

but aligned with good.

And what happens in that day on that battlefield is good or God wins out over evil

in an impossible, miraculous way.

But that is the story of what can happen in our lives with the Goliaths

that we face on a day-to-day basis.

Whether your Goliath is your chronic health condition or autoimmune disease,

whether your Goliath is your addiction,

whether your Goliath is the financial insecurity that you've been experiencing,

not just for years, but perhaps for generations.

It doesn't matter what the Goliath is in your life.

You can slay it.

And we together can slay the Goliaths that are out there in the world,

the corrupt financial systems, the corrupt governments.

We can create a new promised land when we align ourselves with the goodness inside of us,

with that confidence and with that faith.

Faithful, powerful, faithful, confident, and humble.

You know, the Bible says that the meek shall inherit the earth.

And it's like, well, what does that mean?

Like the weak shall inherit the earth?

No, the meek were not the weak.

The meek were those who aligned themselves with faith and with confidence

and with good and with God.

And they were able to accomplish miracles.

You look at Abraham's humility to almost sacrifice his child until the last minute.

God says, hey, just kidding.

Just wanted to see how meek you were, how humble you were,

how much you were going to allow me to direct your life so that you could become

the father of new nations.

Who is meek in the boat?

We say meek is Moses.

Was Moses meek?

No, Moses was a battle warrior.

I mean, this was a guy that went to Pharaoh and said,

you will free the Hebrews, the slaves.

And through his energy and vibration, he allowed the plagues that God brought upon the Egyptians.

Then he leads the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt into the promised land of the unknown.

And when Pharaoh and his armies were in pursuit, outstretched his hand because he heard what God

said and being humble to God, parted the red seeds.

I mean, the dude was like a Gandalf on steroids.

You look at what David accomplished and then you look at Jesus as the full embodiment of these

principles and the miracles that he was able to perform.

That's meekness.

That's humility.

But it's certainty and it's faith.

And that's what real power is.

That's why good will always win out over evil.

But for thousands of years, evil has understood this.

And goodness has been plagued by this lack of self-esteem, this self-judgment,

this indecision, this procrastination.

But as you start to understand the laws of the universe, you set those things aside.

You become no longer subservient to the ego, but a king or queen of your own inner kingdom.

And now you can perform miracles in the world on behalf of a power greater than yourself.

That's part of the meekness and the humility.

I'm not doing it.

I'm facilitating it on behalf of the one power that there is.

On earth right now, we are in a transition from artificial power to real power.

From the power of egoic vibration to the power of being plugged in to the main source.

And so if you really truly want to be successful and wealthy, you don't need to become ruthless.

In fact, you can't be.

You want to become whole.

You want to become undivided in your identity because that creates certainty.

I know who I am.

I know what I'm connected to.

I know who I serve.

And that certainty creates a presence and that presence commands reality.

And this is the difference between force, which is what we've been seeing in the world, and authority.

Delegating authority in the world.

It's important to understand that evil, as we view it in the world today, while it may temporarily have power, it's not sustainable.

It may even be sustainable in the course of one's life.

But what you carry to the next life is really the quality of your soul.

And so whether you learn the lesson in this life or the next one, the lesson will be learned.

And so if you truly want to create value for yourself on both the material plane and the soul plane, it's about learning how to balance confidence and certainty and faith.

And a connection to a higher power.

With what you create here now and what you bring with you in terms of who you've become later on.

Because the ruthless rise and then they fall.

Right?

Power built on fear catalyzes and gives birth to God-driven power.

What I mean by that is we have all been subjugated to hundreds if not thousands of years of fear-based power.

And that has compressed us and now we are the seeds of this emergent God-driven power.

So evil has served its purpose in catalyzing and inspiring the emergence of real power through us.

That's what's happening right now.

Even though it may seem like bad people have power, it doesn't last.

And like I said, the real game is not what we do here but what we carry into the next life.

Because the soul is eternal.

So there are consequences for those who gain earthly riches from an immoral place.

Real success is achieved through the game that you and I are actually playing.

The way you level the playing field is to find certainty and confidence in knowing who you are.

Where you came from.

Not from your ability to control people or manipulate reality.

But by knowing you are perfect and humbling yourself to something greater than you.

You know, I try to wake up every single day.

I don't do it every day but I try my best.

Aligned with a better vision for myself and for the world.

And accepting of the challenges that come.

Knowing they are shaping me into an unstoppable force for good.

Try to wake up and say, reporting for duty sir.

Reporting for duty ma'am.

And this is the lesser worn path.

Most people are not walking this path.

This is the path through the brambles and the branches and the bushes.

But that's what makes you stronger.

That's why we consider ourselves spiritual warriors.

If you want more money, if you want more power, you can have it.

But the real treasure is who you become in the process.

It's the long game of life.

But it's worth it.

There are a lot of shortcuts out there.

And you can say yes to them.

But every time you do, you're cheating yourself.

From becoming more courageous.

From becoming stronger.

From becoming more resilient.

If you're willing to take the lesser worn path,

it will give you more that you could ever imagine in this life.

And the beautiful thing is you get to carry it to the next.

So many things I could have done to make more money.

Do things faster.

Lots of opportunities I could have pursued.

Lots of things I did do before I got clean and sober.

And we see others doing it.

But that's their journey.

It's not ours.

Right?

Our journey is the slower, harder path.

But it's worth it.

So if you take anything from this, let it be this.

The world doesn't reward good or bad.

It responds to alignment.

The reason ruthless people rise faster isn't because they're right.

It's because they're undivided.

And the invitation for you isn't to lose your values.

It's to stop losing yourself.

It's to stop losing your relationship with the higher power of your own understanding.

Because when goodness is paired with certainty and humility and confidence and faith and action,

that's real power.

That's the kind of power that lasts.

That's the kind that can't be taken from you.

So you don't need to win fast.

Because you're playing the long game of character, of soul, and of legacy.

Viva Voya says,

Just going to keep it very real here.

His first videos were great, but recently sounds like he keeps repeating himself and recycling his own info.

I've watched all of his videos.

David, come on, man.

You're deeper than that.

You have plateaued.

So what Viva Voya just shared is literally the number one reason people never achieve mastery of their mindset

and why they therefore do not change their lives.

I have a very good friend who's also a client who was telling me a story once.

He's a Taekwondo practitioner.

And he was working with his teacher who was a master at Taekwondo.

And at one point in their training, my friend said,

Hey, I want to learn some new moves.

And his teacher said,

You don't need to learn any new moves.

He said,

What do you mean?

How am I going to get better?

And his teacher said to him,

Look, I don't fear the man that can throw 10,000 different punches.

I fear the man who's thrown one punch 10,000 times.

So most people go from thing to thing to thing rather than focusing on mastery around the few things that are actually going to move the needle.

And so let me distill all of personal growth down to one thing for you.

Here it is.

Notice any negative thoughts that don't feel good and stop thinking them.

That's it.

You never have to watch another video again.

You never have to take another course again.

You never have to go to another event again.

You're done.

Congratulations.

Now, what's the problem?

The problem is doing it.

It's really simple.

You want to get sober?

Stop drinking.

But how does that work out for most people?

Stop looking at porn.

Want to be healthier?

Lose weight.

Don't eat sugar.

Go to the gym.

Imagine you go to the doctor.

Doctor says you have diabetes.

Hey, don't eat sugar.

You come back to the doctor.

Your labs haven't gone down.

It's a year later.

He says the same thing.

And you're like, come on, doc.

You can do better than that.

You just keep saying, don't eat sugar.

You've plateaued.

I'm saying, notice any negative thoughts that don't feel good and stop thinking them.

That's it.

Now, mastery.

Mastery takes that concept and goes deeper.

It takes that concept and it looks at all the nuances.

Okay.

How can I train myself to notice any negative thoughts and stop thinking them?

And this is where you go deeper.

It's in the integration and the implementation.

For example, you come to me and you say, hey, I get it.

All I have to do is stop thinking negative thoughts.

But I keep trying to not think negative thoughts and I can't.

And I say, well, that's because you can't actually stop thinking negative thoughts because

you can't stop thinking thoughts.

Just like you can't stop beating your heart because your brain is thinking all the time.

And you say, well, what do I do?

And I say, well, you have to direct your thoughts or your attention to different, better feeling

thoughts.

And you say, oh, wow.

Okay.

That's helpful.

I was trying to not think.

Now I know or I understand that I can't not think.

So you've given me a different play to run.

I'll focus my attention on other thoughts.

You go away.

You come back the next day.

You go, David, I'm stuck.

I say, well, what's the problem?

You say, well, I have this thing that I want.

I have this desire.

I want to make more money, but I don't know how.

And so I'm frustrated.

I don't understand how other people are able to make money.

And so I keep thinking that there's something wrong with me.

And I'm aware now that these are negative thoughts, but they seem true.

And so I'm not able to focus my attention on other thoughts because I really want to make

more money.

How does this work?

And I say, oh, okay.

You think you need to know how to make more money in order to materialize that desire.

No, no, no, no.

That's not actually how it works.

So the process here is first you just have to become clear on the desire and now hold the

desire to make more money.

How much money do you want to make?

You say, well, I'd like to make $10,000 a month.

I say, well, why do you want to make it?

You're like, well, because I could pay down my credit card debt.

I could be able to go out for some nice dinners, you know, take a nice vacation, maybe get

a new home, put a cold plunge in my backyard.

Okay, got it.

Got it.

So now just hold that vision.

Imagine what it would be like to have $10,000 more a month.

And then over time, as you hold that vision, the how becomes clear.

In other words, you'll start having thoughts.

You'll start having ideas and you go, well, that doesn't make any sense.

I say, yes, it does.

There was a study done at Harvard.

I've mentioned this probably six times across the last 110 episodes.

So they did a study.

They brought in piano players to play the piano.

And as they were playing a piano, they studied what parts of their brain lit up.

Then they had the pianists just come back in and imagine playing the piano and the same

parts of their brain lit up.

And so what we realized was your brain doesn't know the difference between imagination and

reality.

And as you're experiencing life, every time you have an experience, you're actually recording

that experience as a memory.

And so through the power of imagination, you can actually install memories of a future that

hasn't happened yet.

So you can install a memory of that $10,000 a month version of you.

And when you install that memory, that's where you start to have different thoughts,

different ideas.

You start to create a different resonance.

You start to perceive life differently.

You therefore start to create coincidences and synchronicities.

And the how will actually unfold.

But you're getting it backwards.

You're putting the cart in front of the horse.

You're putting the how in front of just holding the desire.

That's mastery.

There was a great teacher named Neville Goddard.

He taught about the fourth dimension.

He said, hey, all ideas, all of the hows exist in this thing called the fourth dimension.

It's the field of consciousness.

Hold your attention there and you will activate ideas in consciousness.

You say consciousness?

Field?

What's that?

And I go, well, look, there are great traditions all throughout time that have talked about a

unifying field.

Aristotle and Plato were talking about it.

They referred to it as the ether.

They said it was the one element that bound all the other elements together.

The Hindus referred to it as the Akasha.

It keeps a record of all experiences of all time, past, present, and future.

Some people refer to this as the Holy Spirit with a quantum or unified field.

You say, okay, okay.

I'll hold the desire and then wait for the how.

This is mastery.

You come back the next day and you say, look, Dave, I held the desire and the how didn't

happen.

And now I'm worried again about not making money.

I don't understand.

Am I going crazy?

Why can't I just let this worry go and focus my attention on better feeling thoughts?

And I say, oh, that's because your nervous system has become habituated.

You've trained your nervous system over time.

And really, one way to look at this conversation is about retraining and downregulating your

nervous system.

And you say, well, what's upregulating my nervous system?

Why is my nervous system trained this way?

And I say, well, because when you were younger, you experienced something called trauma.

So these were heavy imprints, experiences that had a lot of emotional charge or happened

over and over again.

And so I say to you, hey, answer this question.

You know, when I was growing up, money was blank.

And you think there for a moment and you go, well, when I was growing up, money was scarce.

And I go, oh, okay.

Well, what's happened is what money was then is how money is now for you.

And so you are waking up each morning with this feeling of scarcity, like you're not going

to have enough.

And it's activating your sympathetic nervous system.

You're moving into fight or flight.

Don't worry.

It's just a habit.

It's just a pattern.

We've got to retrain it.

And it's going to take a little time.

There's nothing wrong with you.

So when you experience this fear, just become aware of the fact that, oh, this is an old

habit.

Notice it and then let it go.

And you say, oh, okay, good.

Good.

Because that was another negative thought I was having that there was something wrong with

me.

But it seems so true.

And now that makes sense.

So thank you for that.

And you leave.

This is mastery.

You come back the next day.

You say, hey, I remember you said to know what I want, but I don't know what I want.

I'm just tired of my career and living a life I'm not passionate about, but I don't know what

I want.

So I've been stressing out this morning because you also said I don't need to figure out the

how, but I don't even know what I want.

I don't even know what my desire is.

And I say, all right, I hear you.

But if you know what you don't want, then you know what you do want.

That's actually the beautiful thing about experiencing the contrast of our life or the problems is

that they give us a moment of clarity because we don't want those things.

And so we must therefore want the opposite of whatever that thing is.

You don't want to have a chronic health condition or pain in your body.

You want to feel good and safe in your body.

You don't want to be alone for the rest of your life.

You want to find a soulmate.

You don't want to be experiencing financial insecurity.

You want prosperity and abundance.

You don't want frustration and hustle and grind in your business.

You want ease and flow.

So know that these problems are not there to curse you for the rest of your life.

They're there to help inform you of what you want.

And now we get back into the practice.

Focus your attention on the desire and let the how unfold.

So what you want is more clarity around your purpose and what you're meant to do.

So you have that desire.

Don't worry about how.

How you're going to figure it out.

What the perfect plan is.

Hold that intention.

And over time, you'll get the clarity and the path will unfold.

You leave.

That's mastery.

You come back the next day.

You say, David, you keep telling me the same thing.

Tell me something new.

And I say, what's the problem?

You say, well, I'm feeling anxiety this morning and I don't want to feel the anxiety anymore.

And there must be something more than what you're telling me.

Otherwise, I wouldn't still be feeling this anxiety.

And I say, look, you feel the anxiety because you've trained your nervous system that way.

What are you thinking when you're feeling the anxiety and you say, I'm thinking there's something wrong with me.

And what if this anxiety doesn't go away?

And what if it debilitates me and I'm not able to live a normal life?

And I say, okay, stop thinking those negative thoughts.

That's what's perpetuating your anxiety.

Put your attention on other thoughts.

And have a desire for less anxiety and more peace.

And give it some time.

And how it will unfold.

And the result must materialize.

And you yell at me.

And you say, but you just keep telling me the same thing.

Tell me something different.

Mastery.

When I realized that I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an alcoholic.

And I started working a 12-step program.

There's a tradition within the 12-step program.

You go to meetings and they celebrate sobriety.

So, if you haven't drank for a year, you get a one-year chip.

If you haven't done drugs for five years, you get a five-year chip.

If you haven't acted out sexually in 10 years, you get a 10-year medallion.

But they also have this chip called the white chip.

And it's a 24-hour chip.

And you pick up the white chip when you've actually violated your sobriety.

When you've picked up the drink.

Or you've picked up the drug.

Or you've picked up the porn.

And it's a recommitment to your program of sobriety.

And so, when I first got into my recovery program, I was going to Sex Addiction Anonymous meetings.

And I had developed a program with my therapist and my sponsor where I defined what it would look like for me to be sober in my sexual addiction.

And for the most part, I was struggling with pornography.

I mean, I was doing a lot of other things like hiring hookers and having one-night stands.

But really, pornography was the thing that was the most challenging for me.

And so, you know, I started going to 12-step meetings.

I showed up on the first day.

I picked up a white chip because it had been less than 24 hours since I had been sober.

And then I came back the next day.

And I picked up another white chip because I went home that night and looked at pornography.

And it was literally months that I could not get through 24 hours without picking up a white chip.

But my sponsor and I worked together to take a look at what is it that you were thinking or what was stressing you out that caused you to then act out again.

Because ultimately, whether you're drinking or drugging or sexing, what you're doing is you're trying to soothe yourself because there are underlying unresolved emotions that are triggers that are creating discomfort for you.

And you use the substance to soothe yourself.

And so each time we would look at my thought process, we would look at the pain that I was experiencing or the anxiety that I was experiencing, and we'd come up with a game plan.

But what was so fascinating was that for the first six months, my mind would come up with a different way to sabotage me.

So, for example, the first time that I broke my 24-hour sobriety, it might have been because I was stressed out about something at work.

And then my mind told me that if I just looked at a little bit of pornography, I would feel better.

And so my sponsor would say, okay, the next time you feel uncomfortable about something with work, you make a phone call instead of looking at pornography.

Got. Okay, great.

But 24 hours later, my mind would run a different play on me.

I'd actually have a fantastic day.

And so I think I would celebrate by looking at some pornography.

But each time we took a look at the bad plays that my mind was running, which was driving me back into my addiction.

And we'd come up with better plays, and I'd practice those plays.

And it was small, incremental changes on a day-to-day basis where eventually I was able to stack up some sobriety.

I was able to learn so many better plays and get good at running them that as I strung those days together, it started adding up into weeks and months and six months.

And 12 months later, I picked up my one-year medallion.

And two years later, I picked up my two-year medallion.

And five years later, I picked up my five-year medallion.

This is the process of mastery.

And it's the same thing with business.

Business is really, really simple.

It's a handful of good plays that you need to run as an entrepreneur that we're just not very good at running at first.

It's the same thing with strength training or yoga.

You go into the yoga studio, and it's really simple postures that are very difficult to execute on.

And you make incremental progress on a day-to-day basis.

And everybody wants the hack.

So here's the hack.

Do the simple same things over and over again until they become an unconscious competency.

Until you literally retrain your nervous system to be a different person, to think a different way.

Most people never achieve mastery because they want something more rather than to go deeper on the few things that matter most.

There was a professional major league baseball player.

He was the Golden Glove winner for three years in a row.

And that basically means he was the best fielder on the field.

And he wins the Golden Glove Award.

And the next day, he's out fielding 10,000 ground balls.

And there's a reporter on the field who comes up to him and says,

Hey, you just won the Golden Glove Award.

Don't you think you deserve a day off?

Why are you out here fielding 10,000 ground balls?

And he said to the reporter,

How do you think I became the Golden Glove winner?

So if you want more, go watch someone else's channel.

But if you want to go deeper and you're interested in mastery, then let's go deep together.

All right, guys.

Today, I'm going to walk you through the entire framework for controlling your reality.

For literally creating whatever it is that you want.

And this is not some sort of woo-woo new age conversation.

This is a fundamental understanding of how reality works and how you interface with it.

Using your thoughts and emotions.

We've had over 200 episodes on this show, over 20 million listens over the last 18 months.

If there was one episode I recommend you listen to, it is this one.

What I'm going to walk you through is the exact framework that I take over 1,000 entrepreneurs through

on just day one of my three-day annual live event, The Powerful Living Experience.

So if by the end of this episode, you like what you hear and you want to actually experience it live,

you can check out the event below in my YouTube store on this page

or if you're listening on audio in the show notes.

So the first thing that we have to establish is you absolutely create your own reality.

That little old book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Napoleon knew what he was talking about.

He identified 13 things the most successful and powerful and wealthy people in the world did.

But the central concept was that you create your reality and you create them,

your reality through what you think.

Just as birds were born to fly and fish were born to swim,

human beings, you were born to create something out of nothing,

to take an idea and create it into reality.

And so the first thing that we have to start with, and Napoleon talks about this,

he describes it as a burning desire, is number one, start with clarity on what you want.

What is it that you want?

Now during my event, I take attendees through what I call your perfect day visualization.

If you could, despite time and despite space and despite any limitations,

just snap your fingers and create a reality, a life, a business, relationships, a health that you would want,

what do you want?

That's the most important thing to define first.

Desire is the starting point because desire is the catalyst for all change.

In other words, we were given this capacity to want or to desire because it's what motivates us to move out into the world

and to start working with the friction of our life,

to start working with the material of our current reality that represents our current consciousness

or our current way of thinking so that we can learn more about what it is that we believe

and who we are through our interaction with our reality.

In other words, if you want to get to the next level of your life,

it's about removing some sort of resistance that's inside of you that will unlock that capacity of your new reality.

You want to make more money, you have to look at what's inside of you that's preventing you from making more money,

the fears, the doubts, the limitations.

And so desire is the starting point for your creator's journey.

So what is it that you want?

I remember when I first got into this work and I understood the importance of getting clear on what I want

and I had a hard time with it.

You know, I grew up in a family where I was kind of told what I wanted.

I don't know if you can relate to this, but it was like I would say I want this

and my mom or my dad would go, you don't want that, you want this instead.

Like the decisions for what I desired were made for me

and I find that this is very, very common with a lot of people.

The years ago when I first started coaching, I was coaching a professional major league baseball player.

He had been in the league for 11 years, extraordinary success that's really almost unheard of.

And he was moving into his final year and so I was helping him transition out of his lifestyle and career

and identity as a major league baseball player into whatever was going to come next.

I said, hey, Jamie, what is it that you want?

And he paused for a moment.

He thought for a moment.

And then he started getting emotional.

And then he started crying.

I mean, this was a man in his late 30s who was in tears simply because I asked him a question,

which is, what do you want?

And he said, you know what, I realized like I've built up this identity where kind of baseball was an obligation

and when you ask me what I want, I don't know what it is that I want and that makes me feel so broken.

He's not broken.

I was not broken.

You're not broken.

It's just that our parents, our social surroundings, our career, our vocation, sort of the world, the system that we're in,

it neuters us.

It removes us from our capacity to claim what it is that we want.

And so many of us in our 30s, our 40s, our 50s, our 60s, we're learning how to redevelop that muscle to get clear on what we want.

But one of the beautiful things is that life will give you the clues to what you want because you're very clear on what you don't want.

If what you don't want is financial insecurity, then what you want is financial abundance.

If what you don't want is to continue to be alone, then what you want is to find a soulmate.

If what you don't want is the aches and pains and the chronic inflammation or the autoimmune disease,

then what you want is a healthy and vibrant body.

If you've been feeling disconnected and lonely and wanting to have a spiritual connection, right,

that feeling of loneliness is what drives you towards a relationship with the higher power of your own understanding.

So don't lament if you don't know what you want because I'm pretty sure you know what you don't want.

And whatever the opposite of that is, is what you desire.

So step one is you've got to get clear on what you want.

Why is this important?

Because step two is to ask yourself this question, okay, if that's what I want, what's the problem?

What's the problem?

What I want is to grow my business.

The problem is I'm not very technically oriented.

The problem is I'm not an internet marketer.

The problem is I can't get my team to do what they're supposed to do.

The problem is I don't have enough money and I have to do marketing in order to make money,

but I don't have money to do the marketing.

What's the problem?

What I want is to be in a relationship with someone.

The problem is there are no good ones left out there.

What I want is to restore the intimacy in the relationship I have.

The problem is he doesn't understand or she doesn't understand or it's been this way for so long.

What's the problem?

What's the problem is such a powerful question because the answer that you have to what's the problem

starts to reveal to you this root cause thing called what you believe.

It's not necessarily true that there are no good men or women out there and all the good ones are taken,

but if that's what you believe, that will become your reality

because your thoughts are things that create your reality.

It's not necessarily true that you can't be successful in your business because you don't have money.

There are plenty of marketing strategies that you can implement that don't require any money

or a lot of time or even a big team or technology,

but if you actually believe that you need money, then that becomes your reality.

We're going to talk about that here in a moment, how you actually create your reality,

but step two is to identify the problem.

What's the problem?

I want you to think right now.

You can even, if you're following along on YouTube, post it into the comments.

What's one thing you want?

What's the problem, right?

The problem is there's not enough money.

The problem is there's not enough time.

The problem is I can't trust people.

The problem is I'm not good enough.

The problem is I've never done it before.

Was that really the problem that you've never done it before?

See, we're starting to realize you're limiting beliefs

because just think about it.

If the problem is that you've never done it before,

well, before we've ever done anything, we've never done it before.

So is that really a problem?

I mean, aren't we capable of learning how to do new things?

I mean, at one point in time, you were crawling around on the ground, right?

At eight months old, did you ever learn to walk?

Did you ever learn how to do something you'd never done before?

So what you'll see in this really simple question,

this sort of binary model, what do you want?

What's the problem?

Is number one, you're declaring and getting clarity on your desires.

And number two, you're starting to understand what is it that you believe

around the thing that you want?

Because the belief is actually the thing blocking you from creating what you want.

And that takes us to step three.

Step three, I would say, is you have to understand your brain is a goal-achieving machine.

So your brain will produce any outcome,

but it's going to be based off of what you believe.

So again, if you believe that money is scarce,

even though you want to be a millionaire,

your brain is going to achieve that financial scarcity.

See, your brain is a goal-achieving machine and it's programmed by what you believe.

Your brain is the most extraordinary creative technology in the history of the universe.

Like it allows you to create something from nothing, right?

This is like magic.

We are magical creatures that are able to materialize

and literally sculpt and shape reality according to our will.

But the question is, what's your will?

What is it that you believe?

You know, this is not, again, woo-woo.

On one level, the idea that your beliefs create your reality is established by behavioral psychology.

Behavioral psychology basically says that what you believe

determines what you think on a moment-by-moment basis.

And so if what you believe or learned when you were a child was that you can't trust people,

you'll constantly be evaluating life through thoughts of mistrust, right?

Of betrayal, right?

You'll be actually looking for evidence for the fact that people cannot be trusted

and you'll ignore all evidence that supports the idea that people can be trusted.

What you believe, you think.

And what you think, you feel.

That's really what emotions are.

There's some exceptions and I won't go too deep into it right now,

but your thoughts create emotions.

So when you're thinking to yourself, I don't have enough time,

the emotion you feel is overwhelmed.

When you think to yourself, you know, I might make a mistake,

the emotion that you feel would be hesitation or timidness.

So every time you have a thought, you experience an emotion.

Your beliefs create your thoughts, your thoughts create your emotions,

your emotions determine your action, what you do or what you do not do.

And your actions over time determine your results.

And so this is a very simple cause and effect.

Beliefs produce thoughts, thoughts produce emotions, emotions produce actions, actions produce results.

If there's a result that you want,

all we need to do is make sure the belief is aligned with the outcome.

And 100% of the time you will produce the result.

I love one of the stories that Napoleon Hill talks about.

It's not in Think and Grow Rich.

I think it's in maybe Outwitting the Devil or another book where we find out that his son was actually born without,

I guess it was eardrums.

Like his son's ears weren't fully formed so he couldn't hear.

But Napoleon and his wife instilled into his son the belief that he would hear someday.

And so when he was like 11 years old,

they found him, they had a record player in the corner of their room and the music was playing.

Of course, the son couldn't hear it.

But one day they found their son biting on the table where the record player was because he could then feel the vibration.

He could hear the music.

And his life continued to evolve.

And at some point in his early 20s,

he actually got a job as a salesperson for one of the earlier cochlear implant technology companies as one of the first people who ever had a hearing aid.

So no matter how impossible it may seem, whatever you believe you can create,

but we have to be conscious of what you believe.

Is what you believe in alignment with what you want?

So again, it's this idea that your brain is a goal-achieving machine.

And whatever the input is, which is the belief, the output will become your reality through the mechanism of the human being operating system.

How beliefs become thoughts.

Thoughts create emotions.

Emotions determine or drive action.

And action over time produces results.

And what's so interesting about this is the results will always reinforce 100% of the time the belief.

So if you believe in prosperity and abundance, you'll make money and you'll go,

see, the world is prosperous and abundant.

If you believe that money is hard to make, you might make money,

but you'll actually look at the journey of your making money.

The result, man, I worked really hard.

I was able to make some money, but that almost killed me.

And the conclusion you'll come to is I had to work really hard to make money.

So it's always a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is what's called a psycho-cybernetic loop.

So the challenge that we have is that we get stuck with the same results.

And then we try to change the action.

But the action is a byproduct of our emotions, which is a byproduct of our thoughts,

which is a byproduct of our beliefs.

So if we actually want to change the result,

we have to change the belief that created the result in the first place.

Another way of looking at this is like if we could just program your brain like a billionaire,

100% you'd become a billionaire.

Like if we could just install thoughts,

remove all of the thoughts or the beliefs that you have

that are not in alignment with how a billionaire would think or believe,

and install all billionaire beliefs into your brain,

100% guaranteed you'd become a billionaire.

If we program your brain like a sick person,

100%, you'll become a sick person.

I was programmed to believe that there was something wrong with me.

And so that became my reality.

I would work on my business and not produce the results that I wanted.

And the conclusion that I would come to

as I was observing the results that I produced was,

there's something wrong with me.

As I got into my 30s and 40s,

I've shared this on other episodes,

I got really, really sick.

And you know what my reaction to my experience of unwellness was?

I would say this to myself in my own head,

there's something wrong with me.

No matter what doctors I saw,

what protocols are applied,

I could never get well,

even though I was seeing the best people in the world

because at a root cause level,

I fundamentally believed there was something wrong with me.

And so my reality had to reflect that back to me.

In this case,

it was reflecting it back to me in the form of my physical body.

Now, I'm much healthier than I was,

even a year ago,

certainly two years,

three years ago.

And the reason for that is I shifted my beliefs.

Now, you'd look at how I got well,

and you'd say,

but Dave, you changed your supplementation.

But Dave,

you discovered this specific coach

or wellness practitioner that helped you.

Yes,

but all those things were a byproduct

of me shifting my beliefs

because my brain is a goal-achieving machine.

That's what caused me,

once I shifted my beliefs,

to have different thoughts,

to look up different people.

It created coincidences and synchronicities

where I was able to actually connect with life,

and life helped me produce these results.

And that actually takes us to step number four.

Step number four is you emit a frequency.

So just like inside of you,

your beliefs become thoughts,

your thoughts become emotions,

your emotions become actions,

and your actions produce results.

Outside of you,

there's this ripple effect of coordination in your reality

to produce the results.

The result,

which results?

Well,

not necessarily the results that you want,

but the results that you believe.

So you emit a frequency.

You're broadcasting.

Think about it for a moment.

You are an electrical,

magnetic,

biological being.

And so every time you have a thought,

there's an electrical activity in your brain.

That's what a thought is.

It's this lighting up of these neural networks.

And then that thought is transmitted

through your nervous system.

That's what the emotion is.

Your whole nervous system,

you start to feel throughout your entire body

this thought.

That's what a feeling is.

But this is all electrical activity.

And so it's almost like a light bulb.

You're starting to broadcast,

or a radio receiver.

You're broadcasting out

this vibrational information.

And all of life around you

is influenced by this vibrational information.

It's like everybody can hear the soft song

that you're playing,

no matter where they are in the world.

And so they're all unconsciously reacting to it.

You're creating coincidences

and synchronicities in your life.

So on one level,

you're being influenced by your beliefs.

You know, what time you get on Facebook,

what ads you see,

how many blueberries you scoop into your shake,

which determines when you have to go to

the grocery store to get some more blueberries,

which then determines the timing of your life.

It determines all the coincidences and synchronicities.

So there's this massive intelligence

that is functioning at a subconscious level,

but it's also influencing everybody else.

That's why when you think about your friend,

you run into them at the grocery store.

That's why when you believe that bad things happen to you,

someone slams on their brakes in front of you

and you get into a fender bender

and you're late for work for the third time

after you've already gotten a warning

and you get terminated.

Bad things happen to good people.

So if you look at the interactions

that we're having with other people in our life,

it's really a matching, right, of belief systems.

That's a frequency.

And we're attracting other people

who will fulfill on what we believe

and we are fulfilling on what they believe.

And that's why Einstein said,

reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

It's like a holographic experience.

Ford said, the man who thinks he can

and the man who thinks he can't are both right.

Because through this internal mechanism

of how a belief becomes your reality

and through this external frequency

of how you coordinate reality around you,

you're creating your reality.

And so if you believe that you can't do something,

that'll become your reality.

If you believe you can,

that'll become your reality too.

And the good news is there's no restriction

or limitation on this.

That's why in Romans,

it said, be not conformed to this world.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

It says, hey, your reality is not fixed.

Your reality is flexible.

You're not stuck, conformed to this reality.

But if you want to change it,

you have to change the way that you think.

And this takes us to step five,

which is the beliefs or decisions.

I was doing beliefs work for a long, long time,

trying to figure out how to change my beliefs,

using a lot of great tools

from a lot of great teachers.

And I had this burning desire to understand,

like, how can I more easily shift my beliefs?

And when I was going for a walk with my wife

one day on the beach,

like, it hit me.

The beliefs are just decisions.

I always thought beliefs

were like these complicated programs,

and I had to be an engineer

to learn how to uninstall them

and reinstall new beliefs.

But what I realized was

the beliefs are just decisions.

Like, that belief I have

that there's something wrong with me,

that was just an unconscious decision.

You know, I adopted it from my parents,

or it was a conclusion that I had

based on some experience as a child.

And in that moment,

I decided that there was something wrong with me,

and it formed a belief.

But what's been happening,

because no one ever taught me

how the human being operating system works,

no one ever really taught me

this framework that I'm sharing with you,

is that I thought I was stuck with my beliefs.

But the belief was just a decision.

I had just decided

there was something wrong with me,

and I was continuing to decide that.

You know, when I was in my 20s,

and I was making sales calls,

and I wasn't very good at it,

the conclusion I came to,

or the decision I made was,

there's something wrong with me.

When I was in my early 30s,

and I was in a relationship,

it was the first girlfriend

who ever cheated on me.

The reaction I had to it was,

there's something wrong with me.

These were unconscious decisions.

And when I realized, like,

oh my gosh, beliefs are just decisions,

I was like, well, wait a minute,

I can just make a new decision.

I don't have to continue to live this reality,

I can just make a new decision.

I can just decide that I am worthy of success.

I can just decide that life is working for me.

I can just decide that I have enough time

for the things that must get done.

I can just make new decisions

that were the opposite

of the limiting beliefs that I had.

And I wanted these new decisions to stick.

So I asked myself this really simple question.

Right now, what I'm teaching you

is a tool called the decision matrix.

I asked myself this really important question,

which is,

what evidence do I have for the fact

that this new decision is true?

That there isn't anything wrong with me

and that I'm perfectly whole?

And I sat with it for a while

and I started finding evidence for it.

What evidence do I have for the fact

that money is easy to make?

And I started remembering these instances in my life

where either money was easy to make for me

or I saw that it was easy to make for other people.

And when I went and researched this,

I realized that neuroscience tells us

that close to 88% of the evidence

that we've collected in life,

we ignore.

And we only pay attention to the evidence

that supports our belief systems.

So if you've got a belief that money is scarce,

even though you have evidence in your life that it's not,

I mean, just think about it for a moment.

There's more money in circulation

than any time in the history of the world.

There are more assets that exist

than any time in the history of the world,

from Bitcoin to cryptocurrency to real estate

to businesses to stocks and bonds, right?

It's like we're living at this time,

which is like one of those old money booths.

I'm probably outdating myself for our younger audience,

but like they used to throw people into a booth

with a bunch of floating dollars

and you'd grab as many dollars as you can.

That's basically planet Earth right now.

There's so much money flowing around planet Earth.

How can we possibly say that money is scarce?

But I had been pre-programmed

to only pay attention to that.

But when I made a new decision

that life is abundant and life is prosperous

and that I am abundant and I am prosperous,

and I said, what evidence do I have

for the fact that this new decision is true?

I started activating dormant memories.

I started literally activating the part of my brain

that is the brain of a rich person.

Think about that for a minute, how cool that is.

Like the brain you have consists of all kinds of evidence

that you've collected over the course of your life,

but the brain that's active

is dependent upon what you believe.

By becoming aware of my limiting belief

and making a new decision,

which was the opposite of my limiting belief

and saying, what evidence do I have

for the fact that this new decision is true?

I started finding the evidence.

At first it was a little challenging,

but I was willing to sit with it.

And then as I got better and better

at using this tool, the decision matrix,

I would just sit down every single morning

and I'd pay attention to all the negative voice

in my head and I'd write it down in column one.

And then in column two, I'd write down the opposite.

And in column three, I'd write down,

hey, this is the evidence I have for this new decision.

So this was huge for me.

This was how I radically transformed who I was

over the course of a couple short years.

I mean, I went from broke with two homes in foreclosure,

a bunch of credit card debt, no money in my bank account

to now I have as much money as I ever need to make.

Would I like to make more?

Sure, because it allows me to forward my mission

in the world, but I'm good.

I was single for 10 years,

going out with a bunch of different women

that were not the right women for me to be going out with.

I made a decision I was gonna meet my soulmate.

And two weeks later, I met Carol.

It was a very specific decision.

I'm gonna meet a beautiful, intelligent Colombian woman

and make her my wife.

Two weeks later, I met my wife,

beautiful, intelligent Colombian woman.

So again, step five is that beliefs are decisions

and the power of decision

and how we can actually make new decisions

and reinforce it with evidence from our own life.

This is the brain change.

This is how you transform your neurophysiology

and you activate the parts of you that are there

that are in alignment with wealth, health,

relationship, success, spiritual connection.

It's all there inside of you,

but we have to start building the case

against our limiting beliefs with some new decisions.

Step six, resentments are the source

of all long-held beliefs.

I got this question a lot when I started doing coaching.

Yeah, but Dave, how come some of my beliefs are shifting

but others seem harder to let go of?

And this is why towards the end of day one

of the Powerful Living Experience,

we do a resentments inventory.

I take everybody through a very powerful forgiveness process.

What happens is that our beliefs were formed

in relationship with other people.

It was the relationship with my mom and dad

that influenced my belief

that there was something wrong with me.

And I had been trying to work on transforming

there's something wrong with me for a long, long time,

but I still held resentments towards my dad.

I was angry at my dad for not loving me

the way I wanted to be loved

and not being present for me

the way I expected him to be present for me.

We all want unconditional love of our parents,

but guess what?

Our parents are not unconditional beings.

They're very conditional.

The condition is their job.

Their condition is their own trauma, right?

Their condition is they're trying to figure out

how to make ends meet to provide for their families.

Lots of conditions.

As children, we expect them to be unconditional.

And of course, some of us were born into families

where there was physical abuse or sexual abuse.

But ultimately, we had an expectation

of what should have been with our parents.

And when it wasn't that way, resentments are formed.

Resentment is the emotional coping mechanism

that protects us from the reality that,

hey, you know, our parents were not who we wanted them to be.

But think about this for a moment.

I can't let go of a limiting belief

that was formed in relationship with my father

if I continue to have this cord connected to my dad

called resentment.

So I had to really learn how to forgive my dad,

forgive my mom, forgive lots of people,

forgive my government, forgive my friends,

forgive God, forgive my body

in order to let go of a lot of my limiting beliefs.

And so resentments,

if you've had some limiting beliefs

that like, man, Dave, I've done the work

and I'm just still holding on to them,

you're probably still holding on to the person

that you originally formed that belief with.

So it's important that if you want to really be complete

and you want to really be whole

and you want to be able to uninstall all those programs

or those weeds and reinstall the person you came here to be,

resentments into forgiveness

is the mechanism that allows you to do that.

Now, ultimately, this takes us to the big idea,

which is step seven,

and that is desire plus non-resistance

equals desired result.

So if you're tracking what I've been saying

throughout this entire episode,

what I want to give you is

what I think is the most powerful, simple equation.

If I was going to distill all of personal growth

down into one equation,

or if I was going to make it as simple as possible for you,

it would be this.

Any desire that you have,

as long as you're non-resistant to the desire,

100% of the time you will produce the desired result.

Desire plus non-resistance equals desired result.

This is the way that you create anything in your life.

A lot of us have been taught bad equations,

like desire plus have enough money

or have enough time equals desired result.

That's not true.

It's just something that was sold to us.

Desire plus hustle and grind

or work really hard equals desired result.

It's not true.

If you look at all the great spiritual teachings,

if you understand neuroscience,

if you understand behavioral psychology,

if you understand consciousness theory,

central to this idea is that

everything that you want will become yours

if you can be non-resistant

to the thing that you want.

That takes us back to what we talked about

in the very beginning.

What do you want?

What's the problem?

Because the problem will reveal your limiting beliefs

and if we can transform the limiting beliefs,

we remove the resistance.

Now desire plus non-resistance equals desired result.

100% of the time, no matter what it is,

you want to become rich,

you want to become healthy,

you want to have an amazing relationship,

you want to be connected to God,

you want to change the world,

you want to become the president of a country,

whatever it is,

I don't care what it is.

You want to invent some new technology into the world.

Everything you desire can be accomplished

and it is accomplished

through the mechanism of non-resistance.

This is the beautiful system

that our creator set up for us

because we have desires.

That's what propels us forward,

but we meet ourselves

in the reality that we've created.

And if we want to continue to expand

and achieve our desires,

we must heal ourselves.

We must identify the resistance

or the misunderstandings

that were passed on

through generation to generation

and become whole human beings.

And the effect of becoming a whole human being

is not only do you create

what it is that you desire

because you're now non-resistant,

but you also are living in your joy.

It's the beautiful thing, right?

Like we all want to create more in our lives,

but you also get to enjoy your life.

So this is the process

and I want to just emphasize one more thing,

which is the biggest piece

and that is understanding

what I just taught you is not enough.

If you want to create change,

you have to change your brain.

The good news is that this is a skill.

Anybody can learn how to do this

no matter how long it's been,

no matter how big your trauma is,

no matter what it is that you want.

If you can really master this skill of mindset

and treat it like your life depends on it,

then you can change your life.

All right, guys,

if you've been doing personal growth for a while,

you've focused on your limiting beliefs

and limiting beliefs are what get all of the talk time

in self-help.

And there's a reason for that.

And we're going to spend a moment here

on limiting beliefs,

taking you a little bit deeper

than you've ever gone before.

But I want to make sure

we identify what most people aren't aware of,

which is the three other resistances

that are creating gaps.

Gaps between where you are

and what you want to create in your life,

whether it's more money,

better health,

better relationships,

a better business,

a better career,

but also gaps in your emotional experience of life.

Because if you're like me,

you've probably spent years

working really hard on your personal growth.

And the point is to actually get to a place

where your new nervous system

and that peace and calm

is an unconscious competency,

not something you have to be doing all the time.

And like I said,

limiting beliefs are where the focus are in self-help.

So I want to spend a moment

really talking about what limiting beliefs are

and how they shape our reality.

And so a little bit of neuroscience 101.

When you're born,

you're born with about 100 billion neurons.

These are these special,

unique, electrically excitable cells in your brain.

And you're born with 25 billion,

what are called synaptic connections.

So connections of those neurons.

And so what you'll notice is like

the whole brain is not yet wired up.

You have more neurons than connections.

So what is wired?

Well, it's all of the features and functions

that you need in order to survive.

The eating, the sleeping, the breathing, the pooping,

the systems of your body,

the heart beating, the lungs breathing,

all of those pieces come built in.

But there's also this massive blank space

that allows you to become uniquely you.

And that blank space gets filled in in great degree

over the first seven years of your life.

So how does this happen?

Because you go from 25 billion connections

to over a quadrillion connections

by the time you're seven years old.

And what happens is actually life.

And your system is recording every single experience

that you're having moment by moment by moment.

You're ingesting this information

through your five senses.

You're sensing life.

And so what you see, what you smell,

what you taste, what you touch, what you feel,

that sensory information is being sent

through your nervous system

and the brain is recording every experience.

And we can see that what you're building are memories.

This is part of the learning process.

And it's really, really useful

because every time you have a new experience,

because your system is focused on helping you survive,

it automatically looks in the database of your memories

to go, have we experienced this before?

And what did we believe about this the first time around?

Because obviously it worked because we're still alive.

But the other thing that gets stored within every memory,

right, not just the five sensory data,

is a sixth piece, which is the meaning

that you gave the experience at that time.

And so let's say, you know, you were in first grade,

you're supposed to meet your buddy

by the drinking fountain, they didn't show up.

And the meaning you gave that experience

was I can't trust people, right?

So that becomes a program that gets installed on your system.

So some of the programs or beliefs that we have

were just meanings we gave the experience.

And sometimes it's what we adopted from other people, right?

Or what we observed with other people.

So I want you to finish this sentence.

When I was growing up, money was blank.

Don't overthink it.

Just when I was growing up, money was blank.

Now, about 50% of people will use exactly the word scarce.

And 30%, more people, we use a word

that's almost identical to scarce, right?

Limited, hard to come by.

And so we saw that oftentimes of our parents.

And so that became a program that's installed on the system.

These are beliefs.

Beliefs and beliefs aren't a problem, right?

Beliefs are just a hack for the brain in the present moment

to say, what is this thing?

And what do we believe about it?

What meaning did I attribute to this thing from before?

So that you can rapidly assess the new situation.

The challenge is when your beliefs are not congruent

or conducive to the things that you want to create in your life.

Like you want to create financial abundance and prosperity,

but you believe money is hard to make.

You want to find your soulmate, but you believe

that there's no good ones left out there.

Or that it's not safe to be intimate because you might be betrayed.

Or you're trying to grow your business, but you believe,

well, in order to get things done right, you have to do it yourself.

Because your beliefs become your reality.

There's a concept in behavioral psychology

that we call the five primary drivers.

And it basically says, like, as an adult now,

you're experiencing life,

but you're experiencing it through the lens of those beliefs

that were formed when you were a child.

So for example, one of my original limiting beliefs,

one of my core beliefs was that I don't know how to do things right.

And so as an adult, you know, when I was in my 30s

trying to work a job and be successful,

every time I was about to make sales calls,

I had this thought occurred,

which was like, I'm not going to do it right.

I'm going to bother somebody.

I'm not going to be successful in the sale.

Because what happens is these original beliefs

or these programs,

they create a lens through which you experience life.

And so you think in alignment with your beliefs

and you feel in alignment with your beliefs.

And therefore you act in alignment with your beliefs.

And therefore the results that you produce

are always in alignment with what you believe.

They become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So I believe that I didn't know how to do things right.

And so I ended up not being successful in sales

because I would feel like I was going to bother someone.

I'd experience anxiety or failure

even before I made a sales call.

I therefore wouldn't perform the sales call very well

or I'd avoid making sales call.

And so the byproduct of that was

I didn't have any sales results.

So this is what's called a psycho-cybernetic loop.

It basically means what you believe becomes your reality

and then your reality reinforces what you believe.

So all of us are living in just one

of many possible dimensions of reality.

But the dimension that we live in is structured

and informed by what we believe.

And the good news is, is that you can change your beliefs, right?

The brain is what's called neuroplastic.

There's neuroplasticity.

That means when you do personal growth work

and you start applying tools to change your beliefs,

it actually changes your brain.

It changes the wiring of your brain.

You can reorganize all those synaptic connections.

You can actually rewrite old memories

and install new memories that then change your reality

because thoughts are things and they create your reality, right?

Your beliefs become crystallized into your reality

as a result of how the human being operating system works.

And so a lot of personal growth

is around transforming limiting beliefs.

And that's great.

You know, if you've been in PD or self-help for a while,

the progress that you've made

is because you've changed your beliefs.

But have you ever experienced

that there's a certain set of beliefs,

limiting beliefs that you're aware of?

It's not that you're not aware of it.

We all have beliefs that we're not aware of.

And I'll talk about how we can become more aware of those beliefs.

But there's beliefs that you're aware of

and you've been like using the tools for a while

and they haven't transformed.

Like you still feel like you can't trust people.

You still feel like you have to control things.

You still feel like you have to work really hard to be successful.

You still feel like you're not good enough.

So that's where these other three layers of resistance come into play.

And where most of personal growth doesn't understand,

which is why it's hard to unlock the promise of personal growth

and really to feel transformed without all the effort.

So I want to talk about the second resistance here, right?

The first is limiting beliefs.

But the second, certain beliefs that we have

were formed in relationship with other people.

So I mentioned to you that I had a deep belief

that there was something wrong with me.

That actually came out of the environment that I grew up in.

There were specific experiences that I had,

mostly with my dad, who's not a bad person, right?

My dad was not abusive in any traditional sense.

Neither of my parents were.

I know that some people, you may have grown up in an abusive environment.

And so that also informed your programming and your beliefs.

But I experienced with my dad this feeling that I wasn't good enough, right?

My dad was, you know, very forthcoming with his criticisms.

Always had an opinion on how to do something better.

Really smart guy.

Was an attorney by vocation.

You know, by today's standards,

we would say he wasn't particularly emotionally intelligent or empathetic or sensitive.

So he just was what he was.

But as a child, I felt in that environment that there was something wrong with me.

And so as I became an adult and eventually a veteran of personal growth,

a seasoned veteran of personal growth,

I was aware that I had this belief that there's something wrong with me.

But using the tools that had seemed to work well with my limiting beliefs

didn't seem to work well with this belief.

And I had a whole set of these beliefs, these harder to get rid of beliefs.

So one of the things that I realized,

and this actually came out of the work that I did in my 12-step recovery,

was that because that belief was formed in relationship with my dad,

there was a reaction to it that I had at a subconscious or unconscious level,

which was I had a resentment towards my dad.

I had a resentment.

It was if I blamed him for me feeling this way.

And I spent a lot of time and energy throughout my life trying to get my dad's approval.

I don't know if you can relate to something like this or not.

I don't think I'm the only one.

And so I was always trying to get my dad's approval

because I always felt like I wasn't enough, especially in the eyes of my dad.

What I realized was that I had a resentment.

I was angry at him for what he, quote unquote, did to me.

And the love that I felt like I should have received but did not receive from him.

So this formed a resentment.

And a resentment is like scar tissue.

You can do all the work that you want trying to get rid of a limiting belief.

But if you're still holding on to the person

who you experienced the formation of that belief with,

you can never get rid of the limiting belief.

You can think about it as a resentment is like a cord

that's binding you to the person and the limiting belief.

And so in order to liberate yourself of the limiting belief,

you have to free yourself of the person.

There are a variety of tools that we teach.

In fact, I'm going to be doing a live webinar coming up very soon.

There's a link in the description of this episode.

If you want to join me, it's absolutely free.

I'm going to be going deeper on all four of these resentments

and really getting into the tools to transform them.

Again, it's 100% free.

You can just check a link in the show notes, click on it,

go over to the registration page, get registered.

It's coming up in the next few days.

It's one of the rare live webinars that I'm doing with our community.

I'm also going to be doing a Q&A.

On that webinar, I'm going to be talking about the forgiveness framework.

It's one of the tools that we use to transform the resentment

into something that is more expansive, more liberative,

and that allows you to also let go of the limiting belief.

It's important for us to find forgiveness where we hold resentments.

There's a really beautiful framework and a way to do that, a step-by-step process.

Because what you'll find is when you're working your limiting beliefs,

as you transform your limiting beliefs, you look back on them,

and the limiting belief doesn't even really make sense anymore.

You've probably experienced that.

It's the same thing with resentments.

When we can actually have right perspective on what was happening back then,

and we can soften up some of that scar tissue,

we actually see that what happened to us, no matter how traumatic,

no matter how dramatic, that we are holding a resentment around.

It was actually a gift and a blessing.

It was at the root of who we've become today and the potential that is ahead of us.

So again, if you want to join me on that live webinar,

either now or once we're done with this episode,

just click the link in the description, check out the details, and register.

It's completely free.

So the second level of resistance is resentment.

The third is something that's called the core program.

So each and every one of us has a somewhat unique core limiting belief,

or what some people might refer to as core trauma.

In fact, this belief came out of the trauma in your childhood.

If you're aware of a dramatic event or something that happened to you,

the core program was born out of that original trauma.

And I want you to think about it this way.

Think about a bullseye, right?

Like a target that you'd shoot a bow and arrow at.

There's the outer ring, the middle ring, and then the inner bullseye.

The outer ring is where you and I and everyone else,

we share a lot of limiting beliefs, right?

Like when I was growing up, money was scarce, right?

Many people share that limiting belief.

The middle circle starts to become a little bit more uniquely you.

There's still quite a bit of overlap,

but it's a little bit more unique to you and your experience.

It's not a universal limiting belief.

That's, by the way, where we find a lot of the resentment sitting.

Then there's the bullseye in the middle.

So the core program is the bullseye in the middle.

It is what I believe you came here to learn.

In fact, I believe you asked to come and learn the teaching of your core program.

In fact, I believe you chose your parents.

You knew that you were going to experience the trauma,

no matter how dramatic or traumatic it may have been.

Because as a compensation for that trauma when you were a kid,

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven years old,

what emerged from that trauma and this compensation or reaction that you had

is a thing called your personality.

So your personality is a byproduct.

It is a reaction in great part to the original trauma that you experienced.

So you basically said, hey, I'm not going to ever let that happen again.

So I'm going to become this type of person.

So out of your core trauma are your gifts, your unique talents,

your unique perspective on the world, how you think about things,

what you pay attention to, what's important, what feels safe,

what you're drawn to, what repels you.

All of those things were defined by your core trauma.

And so what happens is by the time you're in your mid-30s to late 40s,

the personality that has developed as a reaction to your core trauma,

which is really represented in your nervous system, it's a neurology, right?

Like your personality is a neurology, is a nervous system.

And so what seems to work well gets used more.

And therefore, what seems not to be useful gets used less.

And so your personality builds up a neurological momentum over the course of your life.

And by the time you get into your late 30s, this is the way that people best describe it.

They say, the things that I always thought made me me that I was really good at are starting to suffocate me.

It's kind of like the person who built this identity of like,

I can handle chaotic situations, but now chaos follows them everywhere.

It's like the person who kind of took pride in being able to please other people, the people pleaser,

like now has no space for themselves.

All their energy is being siphoned off to the needs of other people.

So this is actually a beautiful thing, even though it's really challenging if you don't know what's going on.

And many people get stuck in this core program and never actually heal it in their lifetime.

But if you know that this is what's happening and you have the right tools,

which is a whole different set of tools than we use to deal with limiting beliefs

or we use to deal with resentments, right?

In fact, at the core of navigating your core program is the concept of surrender, surrendering your core program.

Your core program actually becomes the seed for your next level expansion.

So for many people, it will bring them to their knees.

It's like, I can't do my business anymore.

It's crushing me.

I can't do my relationship anymore.

It's crushing me.

This health problem is crushing me.

This anxiety is crushing me.

So it crushes you.

It's a contraction that forces you into a deeper relationship with the higher power of your own understanding.

I think Paul talks about this in scripture.

He talks about the thorn that God puts in your side,

God, divine, the creator, Jesus, Allah, whoever it is for you, right?

Puts this thorn in your side that you have to come back to your relationship with your higher power to have the thorn removed.

That's a way I would describe surrender.

And so it brings you into a deeper relationship with your higher power.

And it transitions you into this great chapter of your life, which is living in faith versus hustle and grind and effort.

And that's the only way that you can actually achieve the next level of what's ahead for you and ultimately achieve your full potential.

And the beautiful thing is, even though it's super, super challenging to do the core program work,

it brings you into a life of peace, joy, and faith, and more abundance and impact.

So that's the core program.

It's the third resistance.

Again, if you want to join me to go deeper into talking about the actual tools to transform it,

check out the link in the show notes.

Get registered for that free masterclass that's coming up here in a couple of days.

The fourth resistance.

And by the way, these resistances predominantly get dealt with in order.

You can think about it as a garden.

And so you have to pull the weeds out of the garden before you can plant new seeds.

You can't just throw new seeds into a garden with a bunch of weeds and a bunch of rocks and unfertile soil.

And so you start working through your limiting beliefs.

Then you get to your resentments.

You transform them into forgiveness.

You start working with your core program.

And you build a deeper relationship with your higher power.

And you develop the capacity to live in a day-to-day surrender.

The fourth resistance is a belief that all human beings share the feeling of not being enough.

So it's not enoughedness.

And not enough is also an indication of the absence of self-love.

So what we're really talking about in this fourth resistance is the restoration of self-love.

And that restoration of self-love comes as you begin to restore your relationship with your higher power,

as you restore your relationships with other people by transforming your resentments into forgivenesses,

as you restore your relationship with reality by transforming your limiting beliefs.

So this is a restoration process or what we would call becoming a whole human, wholly healed.

That's why this is holy work.

Everything about this is holy.

It's about a return to completeness.

And the capstone of this structure is a returning to loving yourself.

Because for each and every one of us, when we were born, we as children believed that our parents should unconditionally love us.

That's an expectation we had.

And the reality is that our parents were conditional beings.

So as much as your parent may have loved you, they had other conditions, right?

They weren't unconditional.

They had the condition of their job, the condition of their relationship, the condition of their own limiting beliefs,

the condition of their unmetabolized or unprocessed trauma, the condition of money.

They had all these conditions.

And so those conditions pulled them away from the presence and the love that we expected of them.

And we interpreted that, misinterpreted that as there being something wrong with us.

That's actually the root cause of not enough of this.

No matter how well your parents did or how well-meaning they were, there's no way they could live up to your expectation of unconditionality.

And that's why it's important in step three, the third resistance around the core program,

that we begin to restore and strengthen our relationship with the only being, thing, individual,

however you want to describe your higher power or creator or God.

We restore that relationship because that relationship is the only relationship that's unconditional.

God has no conditions that God has to accommodate.

Because the creator is omnipotent, omniscient, all-knowing, always has been, always will be, eternal.

There's no time constraints.

There's no money constraints.

So we begin to restore that unconditional love that we were only meant to receive from our higher power.

And then that enables us in this fourth step or fourth resistance to begin to restore love for ourselves.

To begin to rewrite this idea that we weren't enough because of the conditional relationship we experienced with our parents,

we course-correct that misunderstanding, establish the unconditional love with our higher power,

and no longer feel like we are not enough because it wasn't true that we weren't enough before.

The other aspect of this that is really important to understand is that when we don't love ourselves,

when we feel unwhole as a byproduct of feeling like we're not enough,

all of the relationships we have with others are conditional.

So all of the relationships we have with other people are transactional

because we've outsourced our self-approval to other people.

And so whether we're aware of it or not, there's this, I call it horse trading,

where we say, hey, I will do this and be this for you,

and you therefore will do this and be this for me.

And so often those expectations are not met,

which is the root of all of our relationship conflict, our frustration, our anger, our resentments.

And so we end up getting stuck in this sort of resistance flywheel

because over the course of our lives, we accumulate even more resentments

because more of our relationships are not meeting our expectations,

and it's reinforcing this feeling that we're not enough.

And so it just builds up more and more momentum.

The good news is that as you get into this work, at least this work,

I can't speak for all personal development work,

but as you get into this work, you can start to unwind all of that.

And then there's an opportunity for you to actually achieve the goals that you want to achieve,

to feel better, to have a more peaceful emotional experience of life,

to have a deeper spiritual connection with yourself, with others, and with your higher power,

and to have what we would call powerful living experience.

So those are the four resistances.

Limiting beliefs, resentments, the core program, not enough in this.

Now, most people live in an over-mentalized experience of life.

And I want you to just stop and check in with yourself for a moment.

How often have you noticed that you're driving from point A to point B in your car,

and you have not noticed anything on the road, anything to your periphery?

You've been in your head having a conversation, worrying about something,

thinking about an argument that you had,

and trying to win the argument in your head even though the person is no longer there.

Or walking through the mall, or through your own home,

not actually noticing the material surroundings,

but living in this mentalized space, right, that lives somewhere up above your head,

having a conversation about the past, having a conversation about the future,

thinking about what should have happened or shouldn't have happened,

all the different ways that we've become entangled with that inner dialogue.

Most of us have developed an extraordinary capacity to live in the mind.

And what we've seen, now having had over 10,000 coaching conversations

conversations with high performers, entrepreneurs, people just like you,

is that by the age of 40, our mental-based neurology has built up such a momentum

that it is overexpressing itself.

And the things that got you to where you are, your natural gifts and talents,

your ability to thrive through challenges,

your ability to influence your external circumstances,

your ability to handle anything that shows up,

well, more is showing up than you can handle,

your external circumstances are out of control,

and really everything that you thought you could handle is overburdened

because you're calling forth into your reality more and more and more

of what your initial nervous system had been developed to handle,

but now your neurology has overdeveloped itself.

And we see this, we call it the core program.

We've actually identified that within this mental dynamic,

this living in the headspace is a lot of fear,

a lot of unprocessed trauma, a lot of limiting beliefs,

and it's an over-evolution of your identity or your personality.

Now, let me define identity for you.

An identity is the energetic position from which you experience reality.

So it is the perception with which you experience your external circumstances,

and it is an energetic position.

What does that mean?

It is an emotional position.

So you're experiencing reality,

and what is core to your personality are concepts like,

I don't matter,

or if I want to approve of myself and be worthy,

I have to work hard,

or money is scarce,

or it comes but it doesn't stay very long.

These are all concepts.

These are all energetic positions

that develop as a conglomeration

into your identity or your personality,

and reality begins to reflect itself back to you

in the form of what you believe.

This position is vibrational.

It is a frequency,

and it's held in your nervous system.

So as you are thinking limited thoughts

around time,

around money,

around yourself,

around what's possible,

as you experience frustration,

or overwhelm,

or stress,

that's a vibration in your nervous system.

So too are emotions like joy,

and curiosity,

and excitement.

You're resonating at a higher vibrational frequency,

but if you're not creating

what you want to be creating in your life,

the only reason for that

is you have not developed the practice

of a vibrational position,

or an identity that feels good,

and is in alignment with what you want to create.

Because your nervous system

is creating your reality.

Really,

you are impressing

your consistent habit of vibration,

which are your thoughts and your emotions,

against the quantum field.

And reality is forming

based on that consistent vibration.

It's a communication that you have

with a greater intelligence,

the unified field,

God,

Jesus,

Allah,

however you refer to a higher intelligence

or a higher power.

It is responding according to your habit of vibration,

or your habit of identity.

And stress,

when you're experiencing it,

is an indication

that you're creating more

of what you don't want.

Because,

as you're experiencing stress,

that frequency

is building within your nervous system,

and you are expressing that frequency

against the field,

and the field has no choice

but to respond

through the formation of circumstances

and situations

that will invoke

that same emotion from you.

This is the idea

of the law of attraction.

So,

in any moment in time,

whatever you're feeling

is predicting

an experience in the future

that will invoke

that same feeling from you.

You are literally creating your reality.

And so,

the challenge here

is for us to begin

to disassociate

our day-to-day experiences

because they're reflective

of a previous habit of thought

or emotion

or our current identity

and to start to really living

into the version

of our future self,

the type of reality

that we want to create.

Experiencing gratitude

when you feel like

there's nothing to be grateful for.

Experiencing prosperity

when there's not that much

in your bank account.

Experience the feeling of safety

when actually

your external environment

feels very threatening.

This is the work to do.

So,

stress is an indicator

of creating more

of what you don't want.

Joy or calm or peace

or what we would call

powerful states of being

are indicators

that you are creating

a future that you do want.

And so,

one way to look at

the game of personal growth

and the game of creating

your own reality,

the game of achieving goals,

the game of

creating success

is to look at life

through the lens

of a single practice

which is down-regulating

your nervous system.

So,

learning how to train

your nervous system

away from fight or flight

or the sympathetic expression

of the nervous system

into parasympathetic

or rest or relaxation.

Because in the parasympathetic expression

of your nervous system,

that's where you're creating

a joyful,

abundant,

prosperous,

healthy,

connected

experience of life.

And in the sympathetic expression

of your nervous system,

the fight or flight expression

of your nervous system,

you're creating a future

that will invoke

more fight or flight,

stress,

anxiety,

overwhelm,

financial insecurity,

indecision,

procrastination,

and self-sabotage.

Now,

if we get honest

with ourselves,

most of us,

if not all of us,

at a meaningful level,

feel unsafe.

Just check in with yourself

for a moment.

If you're joining me on YouTube,

you can let me know

if this resonates with you or not.

I know throughout most of my life,

I felt tremendously unsafe.

Even now as an adult,

being in this work

and being a teacher of this work,

there are many moments

throughout my days,

throughout my weeks,

throughout my months,

where I feel unsafe.

I feel unsafe

because something shows up

in my business

that I didn't expect,

that isn't in alignment

with the growth

of the business

that I envision.

I feel unsafe

because I have aches

and pains in my body

and my mind interprets

those aches and pains

as what if this is serious?

What if it never goes away?

I feel unsafe

when my wife and I

have friction

in our relationship.

She gets upset

about something

and because of

old childhood programs,

I feel like

I did something wrong

and in response to that,

in order to justify

my worthiness,

I need to make her wrong

and so we end up off

in this stalemate.

But I could give

example after example

after example

of how on a daily basis

I move into unsafety

and that unsafety

is an indication

that I'm moving

into fight or flight.

I'm moving into

the up regulation

of my nervous system

and moving into sympathetic

or fight or flight

is not a bad thing.

It's a very useful tool

for survival.

It was meant to signal

to us that we were

in need of food,

in need of shelter,

that we were under

a direct threat,

something that was

threatening our survival.

But the challenge

is that over the last

few thousand years

it's been left unchecked

and it has

encroached upon

the natural balance

of the nervous system.

I've shared the story

before that when my wife

and I were first dating

I didn't have a lot of money,

I had two homes

in foreclosure,

I really wanted to impress

my wife.

We went out to dinner

one time and I'm looking

at the menu literally

moving into fight or flight

because I'm looking

at the prices

and hoping she's not

going to order

the filet mignon

or a glass of wine

because I couldn't afford it.

So the mind

is correlated

to this habit

we've developed

in our nervous system

of fight or flight

and so we start

to interpret life

as threatening.

Most of us feel unsafe

most of the time

and we develop

all these coping mechanisms

to feel safe,

controlling our

external environment,

trying to be perfectionists,

trying to make

the right decisions,

striving for success

because we believe

success will produce safety,

and when we feel unsafe

we also have

other behaviors

we engage in

like depression,

anxiety,

overwhelm,

hopelessness.

So what I'm wanting

to communicate

in this episode

is that a very beneficial

practice for down-regulating

your nervous system

which is the portal

for creating miracles

and what you want

in your life

is the practice

of safety.

Get into a practice

of feeling safe

and that's why

practices like meditation

which are very beneficial

in terms of stilling

the mind

or visualization

which are really useful

in terms of starting

to build a memory

of your future

because your brain

is a goal-achieving machine

and it can start

to operate

in order to materialize

that future visualization

that you have

or that vision board

but they're only so useful

and most high vibrational

practices fail

without tethering them

or connecting them

to nervous system regulation.

So this is very,

very important.

In fact,

right now

in my own personal practice

this is the most

important practice

and I'm going to be sharing

with you what one

of my core practices is

but feeling safe

allows you to allow,

right?

When you feel safe

you are open.

Your nervous system

is open.

It's available.

You're able to receive

from life

rather than defend

against it

and in that

you become more connected

and one with the field

of intelligence

and the flow

of life itself.

So I want you

to think about it.

When you feel unsafe

you're in a contracted energy

you experience emotions

like stress,

anxiety and overwhelm

and you're cutting yourself

off from the field

and because you're

cutting yourself off

from the field

or from God

or from life itself

that's why disease

starts to set in.

That's why financial insecurity

and lack of prosperity

exist.

Isolation,

challenges in work

or career,

challenges in relationship,

not having a relationship

because you're cutting yourself

off from life itself

as you move into

this feeling of unsafety.

As you move into safety

you start to allow,

you open up

and you literally

plug back in

to the matrix of life.

So you allow yourself now

an inflow of information,

thoughts, ideas,

inspiration,

health, vitality,

vibrancy, abundance

and an outflow of desire.

So you're a better receiver

transmitter mechanism

plugged into the field itself.

You're able to receive

from the field

and transmit out to the field

in a more coherent,

productive and aligned way.

Those three things

are all aligned.

When you're living in your joy,

which you really can only do

when you feel safe.

And when you feel safe,

you're able to live in your joy.

And when you're living in your joy

and experiencing safety,

you're actually without much effort

drawing forth

all of the components necessary

to materialize whatever desires

that you've accumulated over time.

Because you have

a whole portfolio of desires

that you've accumulated

over time, right?

Like there are lots of things

that you want.

You want more money.

Maybe you want more fame.

Maybe you want better relationships.

Maybe you want more clarity

on your purpose.

You have all these desires

and the field already knows

what you want.

You've placed your order.

The question is whether or not

you can align with the field

and you do that

through a safety practice

and the downregulation

of your nervous system.

So what I want to do

is I want to share with you

a three-part meditation

and breathing practice

to downregulate your nervous system

and to also install feelings

of openness,

meaning availability to the field

and openness to life

rather than feeling defensive

against it and unsafe

and safety, right?

Openness, safety

and connection with the field.

And so this practice

is something that I got

from HeartMath.

I saw some YouTube video

a long time ago

and there was a facilitator

moving people through this practice.

You could do this for five minutes,

10 minutes, 15 minutes.

It doesn't really matter.

In fact, I think it's even better

if you break it up

into like five minutes a day

to reset your nervous system

and reconnect it

to safety and joy

and the ability to receive

and the field.

And all you need to do

is get into a quiet place

and you close your eyes.

And there's two parts

of this practice.

The first part

is heart coherent breathing.

And so what that looks like

is you breathe in

and you breathe out

but you focus your energy

and attention

as if you are breathing

in through your heart

and out through your heart.

Why is that important?

Well, because there are

energetic centers

around the heart

where it's at the core

of who you are.

Like really,

you are materialized energy

and so you see yourself

as a physical body

but if we go into

more ancient teachings,

right,

there are seven chakras

that represent

the energy centers

all the way

from your root chakra

which is near your tailbone

up through

your third eye chakra

and your forehead

and your crown chakra.

And according to

Eastern tradition,

these are energy centers

that materialize

your physical body.

So behind your physical body

are these energy centers

and it's even further

broken down

into the meridian system

that's used in acupuncture,

these energetic centers

throughout your body

and what we're wanting to do

is move behind the body

like let's get to

an earlier root cause.

Let's go towards

the real cause

of the experience

of your life

and the experience

or materialization

of your physical body

and let's work

with the energetic centers

and we want to

bring our awareness

or attention

to that heart center

because your awareness

is energy

and when you bring

your awareness

or your energy

to certain parts

of your body

it activates

and stimulates

those parts

of your body

and so we're going

to breathe in

through the heart

and we're going

to breathe out

through the heart.

That's the consistent

part of the practice

and then what you're going

to do is you're going

to have three types

of breaths

that you do.

The first breath

is you breathe in

through your heart,