The Yogi Book that Changed his Life

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0:18 i couldn't imagine living my life on addictive  medications with Harrington rods from the base  
0:24 of my neck to the base of my spine and it was a  full you know cuz six six compression fractures  
0:29 is a lot so I had bone fragments on the cord  and I had the neural arch broken so I was in  
0:35 a lot of trouble so I figured my mind might as  well see if my mind can influence my body and it  
0:40 worked it it really worked for me and when that  when when you go through that kind of initiation  
0:47 you can't go back to business as usual and it was  a dark night of the soul for me during that time  
0:52 because I couldn't get my mind to do what I wanted  it to do because I think when you're faced with   crisis like that we always focus on what we don't  want to have happen instead of what we do want to  
1:01 have happen so turning that battleship around  for me as a 24year-old kid uh was an enormous  
1:07 effort cuz I couldn't keep my mind on the task  um so when I finally was able to get back on my  
1:15 feet and return back to my life I wanted to  see if my mind could influence my body and I  
1:23 decided two things i thought God there's an innate  intelligence within us that that's giving us life  
1:28 it's keeping our heart beating digesting our food  all the way down to the cellular level organizing  
1:34 trillions of functions in a cell every second  you know correcting for mutations in the DNA  
1:40 so I had a respect for that innate intelligence  uh and I thought well it can heal to a certain  
1:47 point with six compression fractures i thought um  this has got to be next level now you know this  
1:53 has got to be next level this is this so I had to  weigh what I knew against what I didn't know and  
2:00 and and so for me I thought God if I could make  contact with this intelligence and give it a plan  
2:08 give it a directive give it some orders give it  a template and if I could do it really well once  
2:13 I've had that that vision my in my mind super  clear I know that I can't heal it I'm going to  
2:20 surrender that that that vision to a greater mind  and see if it could begin to to to work with me uh  
2:28 because I I what I wanted to do is I wanted to uh  influence it uh and and see if I could take it to  
2:35 the next level cuz I knew that uh well you know  the compression fractures could heal but I would  
2:42 lose bone height i still have fragments on my cord  i had motor function pro problems i had sensory   function problems i had an enormous amount of pain  so this was kind of next level for me and I think  
2:54 anytime you go against convention whether it's  social convention scientific convention religious  
2:59 convention anytime you go against the current  belief systems you're always considered foolhardy  
3:05 or insane right i mean you're nuts my the four  opinions I had from four surgeons they all thought  
3:10 I hit my head like they were like "What are you  you know what are you thinking here?" Yeah you   just didn't do that and and I just figured God um  if I have the Harrington rod surgery I'm not going  
3:21 to be the same guy i won't be able to do I won't  I won't be able to do anything like I I you know   I was doing and so I was willing to trust in in  that process i figured if it didn't work I'm going  
3:34 to wind up with surgery anyway so I might as well  roll the dice and so number one was make contact   with that intelligence i'm not going anywhere i'm  not doing anything i'm laying face down and the  
3:44 second thing was I'm not going to let any thought  slip by my awareness unnoticed by me so mystic  
3:50 mystical means unknown that's what the word means  so I was willing to trust if this could work now  
3:58 a little background i had I had studied hypnosis  a lot i I saw the power of the the subconscious  
4:06 mind i knew I saw you know amazing things and  then I did have this kind of crazy moment where  
4:16 I was leaving for graduate school and my best  friend's father gave me a book uh autobiography  
4:23 of a yogi and I was reading this book and I was I  was like God I if that is actually the truth and  
4:31 I am I'm unaware of a lot yeah and I read that  book and scrutinized it and threw it across the  
4:36 room and wrestled with it but I had kind of this  kind of idea that that that I I I was willing to  
4:46 take that risk because I had the time i went from  100 miles an hour in my life to laying face down  
4:53 so I knew enough about the spine i knew enough  about the body and and uh the first six and a  
4:58 half weeks was misery it was it was really really  a dark night of the soul because I could not I I  
5:06 was I was wrestling with my own belief uh and  my own self-doubt and my inability to be able  
5:13 to control my mind when you're out of balance so  the first six and a half weeks it took me three  
5:19 hours to go through that inward process and then  when I was done I wasn't satisfied but after that  
5:26 6 and 1/2 weeks what took me 3 hours three and  a half sometimes four hours to do cuz the moment  
5:33 I started thinking should I sell my practice  should I sell my home uh I'm going to be living  
5:39 in a wheelchair you know the moment the moment I  was my mind my mind left the present moment and  
5:44 I went off that I start all over again i'd start  so it was a very very deliberate but very very in  
5:51 uh difficult process because if you get frustrated  it's going to get worse so I had to like had to  
5:57 move through all this muck yeah and and six and  a half weeks all of a sudden something clicked it  
6:03 was like I hit a golf ball right in the sweet  spot i hit a tennis ball just right something   clicked for me uh and all of a sudden from that  point forward it got easier and and what took me  
6:18 three and a half hours three hours to do I was  doing in much less time and I didn't know it at  
6:23 the time but I was really mastering the ability to  pay attention and to be present because every time  
6:30 you you catch yourself defaulting and you're going  unconscious the only way you become conscious is   you catch yourself going unconscious that's and  most people say "Well I can't do it." and and I  
6:39 was doing that but really that's a victory because  that's the only way that you're actually going to   stop yourself from going out of conscious so I  had I was pruning connections and I was refiring  
6:50 rewiring new connections and I started developing  kind of a new mind and and at that moment Michael  
6:57 I noticed like the dramatic reduction in my pain  and I was getting sensory feeling back and motor  
7:06 motor feel and then my toes and I was just  like okay whatever you're doing is working so  
7:12 keep doing it and your belief at that point goes  from here to here right it just it just catapults  
7:18 because you're seeing the effect of you would  cause right so for me uh I was back on my feet in  
7:27 10 and a half weeks they wanted me put me in this  huge body cast i was I was better you know I was  
7:32 done so I couldn't go back to business as usual  because I was initiated i have a very scientific  
7:38 mind so I just kind of sold everything and left  and went to the Northwest and started over again  
7:45 and and I wanted to take some time for myself and  ask the big questions if that truly happened how  
7:54 did that happen and is there anybody else that  is is anybody has that happened to anybody else  
8:00 so I had to start studying epigenetics and  neuroplasticity and psychonurimmunology and   electromagnetism and quantum physics and it  just was this kind of exploration for me and  
8:11 and I started getting closer to the understanding  and then when I started interviewing people that  
8:16 had spontaneous remissions from diseases that  were treating conventionally or unconventionally   staying the same and all of a sudden got better  once I studied and found the commonalities amongst  
8:25 these people and it was really about the mind  it was really about breaking the habit of being  
8:31 the themselves their old self and reinventing a  new self the other thing was that they in their  
8:36 inward process of really deciding who they no  longer wanted to be like if I really could live  
8:43 my life again and live again how would I live  differently do I really want to be an attorney i  
8:49 hate my job i don't want to be an attorney i want  to be an artist right so you see these people make   the transition by choice to stop being one person  and start being another person and in their inward  
9:00 process of thinking about how they do want to  think how they do want to act how they do want to   feel in their new life they had long moments where  they lost track of space and time their inward  
9:11 experience became more real than their outer  experience and and it caused me to spend a lot   of time studying the frontal lobe which is kind  of the workshop of the brain that's where we focus  
9:20 where we have intention so we have attentions  where we have free will we restrain our behaviors   you know judgement we vent we speculate it's the  creative center right and so so and then and that  
9:30 fourth thing was that there they believe there  was an intelligence that was giving them life   that that that they would trust and and surrender  to whatever that consciousness is that's giving us  
9:41 life that's within us that's happening in kind  of in I'll say it scientifically the autonomic  
9:48 nervous system the limbic brain right is the  seat of the of all of those biological functions  
9:54 that keeps us in homeostasis and balance right the  neoortex the thinking brain is the analytical mind  
10:00 and a lot of times that's what kind of gets us in  trouble right so they had a belief and independent  
10:10 of religion that there was some intelligence  that was giving them life that could help them  
10:18 in their healing process now there was a spectrum  involved in that but the similarity was that there  
10:24 was it was within them so there came a period of  time I was in a documentary and the documentary  
10:31 became really popular and people started asking  well how do you do it like and I think this is   a time in history where it's not enough to know  I think it's a time in history to know how right  
10:39 so I thought okay I studied the all these went  back to school and went studied neuroscience   and just got really into it and and and then I  was like okay if it worked on these sick people  
10:50 uh let's see if we can reproduce an outcome and  so for the first couple years we didn't really see  
10:56 much i was doing these one-day courses and two-day  courses and people were feeling better at the end   of the weekend but no real big changes then all  of a sudden it just started happening we started  
11:08 seeing the most amazing changes in people's health  that that really challenged my belief and so when  
11:15 we started seeing people have remissions from  very serious stage 4 cancers and uh uh Parkinson's  
11:24 disease and MS and and um ALS and uh spinal cord  injuries and all kinds of crazy things that's  
11:33 that's when uh I knew it was time to measure and  so we organized and a group of scientists and now  
11:41 I work with University of California San Diego  and so when I started seeing the outcomes Michael  
11:47 and they were unbelievable they're literally  unbelievable to me like I was shaking my head   like I cannot believe what I'm seeing and I knew  that when a person has an inward experience where  
12:02 they're in a a certain health condition and  then after they're we use meditation as and  
12:09 I we'll talk about that demystifying meditation in  a way that allows a person to learn how to make an  
12:17 inward experience really really real and so I knew  that when a person got up out of a wheelchair with  
12:24 MS right right in front of me like something was  happening in there something was happening inside  
12:30 of them that like that was very profound and very  real right and it was an experience right so we  
12:39 organized we we've we've got over 20,000 brain  scans we have fMRI scans we have we've measured  
12:46 thousands and thousands of HRV measurements  we've measured gene expression we've measured  
12:52 microbiome we've measured 2,882 metabolites in  blood we've measured immune regulation we've  
13:00 we we've measured tears we've measured breast milk  we've measured everything you can possibly imagine  
13:07 and the idea is what happens when a person  completely immerses themselves in a community  
13:14 that's interested in change and transformation  and that's what we teach we teach the process   of change we use meditation not to heal we use  meditation to change and when you change you heal  
13:26 right so so the science has been so compelling  because you can't call it pseudocience anymore  
13:32 the data is so profound that it shows that as an  example uh the studies that we've done demonstrate  
13:44 that the human nervous system manufactures  a pharmacy of chemicals that works sometimes  
13:50 better than any drug and it's within you and is  it possible then to upregulate genes for health  
13:57 and downregulate the genes for disease and if you  teach people in a very simple way the philosophy  
14:04 the theory the information the knowledge and they  can learn that information learning is making new  
14:10 connections in the brain as you know but the  research also shows that if you don't review   it if you don't repeat it if you don't think about  it over and over again those circuits prune apart  
14:19 within hours or days so we set up these large  events with thousands of people from all over  
14:24 the world and the information is so tantamount  for them because it's what they're going to do  
14:31 with it they got to do something with it so when  they learn the information then they have to teach   it back to the person next to them they have to  be able to explain it and if they can't explain  
14:41 it it's not wired in their brain so as they remind  themselves what they learned they're reproducing  
14:46 that same level of mind that nerve cells that fire  together wire together and the more you understand  
14:52 what you're doing and the more you understand why  you're doing it the how gets easier because you  
14:57 can assign meaning to the task and when you  assign meaning to the task you turn on that   prefrontal cortex and it wants an outcome right  so they're installing the neurological hardware  
15:08 in their brain in preparation for the event so if  you can set up the conditions in the environment   and give people the proper instructions  and they can get their behaviors to match  
15:15 their intentions their actions equal to their  thoughts and get their mind and body working   together and initiate that knowledge they should  have an experience right and the experience then  
15:25 enriches the circuitry in the brain but the end  product of the experience is called an emotion  
15:30 and then when you feel unlimited or you feel  grateful or you feel empowered now you're teaching  
15:36 your body chemically to understand what your mind  is intellectually understood so the information is  
15:41 no longer in the brain now the information is in  the body right so the person's embodying the truth   of that philosophy so this is kind of the journey  what we do so then we're measuring we're measuring  
15:53 what's taking place inwardly now if you can go  for 7 days and keep reproducing the experience  
16:00 neur neurologically and chemically neurochemically  you're conditioning the mind and body to begin to   work as one and when the body now knows how to do  it better than the mind now it's you know implicit  
16:09 it's innate it's automatic it's easy it's familiar  we've become that knowledge right and so the  
16:15 person's in a different state of being so we have  to go from philosopher to initiate to master you  
16:20 know from from knowledge to experience to wisdom  from mind to body to soul from the thinking to   doing to being learning with your head applying  with your hands knowing it by heart and and we  
16:29 discovered that it's the overcoming process that  is the becoming process because 95% of who we are  
16:39 by the time we're in the middle of our life are  set of memorized hardwired attitudes beliefs and  
16:44 perceptions you know automatic and unconscious  habits and behaviors and reflexive emotional  
16:50 responses so it's that it's that unlearning  process that 95% of being unconscious getting  
16:57 conscious and if a person's able to do that  if they if they're able to reconstruct and  
17:03 and reinvent a new way of thinking a new way of  behaving a new way of feeling will it be reflected  
17:08 in their biology and we've discovered that the  majority of people that go through a week-long  
17:15 event it's not like a small percentage there's a  community effect that's taking place i think when  
17:21 we're brought to our lowest denominator whether  it's crisis disease diagnosis loss betrayal it  
17:29 doesn't matter you reach this lowest denominator  where nothing is making that feeling go away  
17:37 no vacation no TV show no friend where that  feeling is the alcohol the drugs the numbing  
17:45 drugs it's not working nothing is making that  feeling go away and this is I think this is a   really important moment for people because they  don't feel like themselves no nothing in their  
17:56 environment in their outer world is making this  feeling go away and this is where they start for  
18:03 the first time observing themselves that idea  of metacognition that they feel so so different  
18:11 than the way they normally feel that they can view  themselves through the eyes of someone else this  
18:17 is the moment where they can all of a sudden go  "Oh my god look at the way you've been thinking  
18:22 you've been saying "I can't it's too hard i hate  this person." Those thoughts have consequences  
18:28 you can say "Oh my god you've been complaining  blaming you've been a victim you've been in you   know you've been judging uh making excuses feeling  sorry for yourself oh my god look at you." Like  
18:37 it's the it's the lighting the match in the dark  place and then you can say "My god I I live the   majority of my life in hatred and anger and fear  oh my god that's not loving to me." But but no  
18:48 one is going to tell no one you're not going to  listen to anybody when they tell you that you're   going to bump them off right this is kind of when  the soul kind of go kind of I don't know give you  
18:57 a little nudge like this is your moment right and  so we see that the brain changes the most when you  
19:05 get beyond I can't I'm too tired I don't feel like  it I want to quit this is too hard I'll never make  
19:11 it when you get beyond like people who are curious  what's on the other side of that thought they're   stepping into the unknown the person who says oh  my god I want to be happy why am I spending the  
19:21 majority of my day complaining complaining is  not going to make me happy it's going to make   me unhappy and then oh my god this emotion that  I live by every day emotions are just a chemical  
19:32 record of the past right so um a person uh feels  frustration because of an experience that happens  
19:39 or has a series of experiences that happen in  their life the stronger the emotion that we have  
19:45 to some experience in our life the more altered  we are inside of us the the disruption in our  
19:50 chemical continuity causes the brain to freeze a  frame and take a snapshot or a series of snapshots  
19:57 and that's called the long-term memory so the the  memory is embossed in the brain right and then you  
20:04 then you review the event you keep remembering the  event um you're producing the same chemistry in  
20:10 the brain and body as if the event was occurring  and the body is so objective it's the unconscious  
20:17 mind that it does not know the difference between  the real life experience that's creating that   emotion and the emotion that person's fabricating  by memory alone to the body it's exactly the same  
20:26 so the body's reliving the trauma 50 to 100 times  a day so it's a thought and a feeling it's an  
20:33 image and an emotion or a memory and emotion it's  a stimulus and response and you're conditioning   the body become the mind of that emotion and so  now the body the servant is now the master so  
20:44 the body has learned it and it's automatic and so  you're you're sweeping your environment just to  
20:51 look for something to actually cause you to feel  frustrated so the hormones of stress become highly  
20:57 addictive and it's it's entirely possible that  people use the problems and conditions in their  
21:03 life to reaffirm their addiction to frustration  to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion so   they don't know they're doing that consciously  but they're becoming addicted to the life they  
21:11 don't even like the stress response is what the  body innately does to return itself back to order   okay well all biological organisms can tolerate  short-term stress the zebra gets chased by the  
21:22 lion it outruns the lion it goes back to grazing  and eating and it goes back into balance right   go so all organisms can do that you get cut off  on the freeway you jam on the brakes ah you know  
21:32 and then you're over it right for most people but  when you turn on the stress response and you can't  
21:39 turn it off now you're headed for disease because  no organism can live in emergency mode for that  
21:44 extended period of time now human beings because  of the size of the frontal lobe we can turn on the  
21:49 stress response just by thought alone if you're  forecasting some future worst case scenario based  
21:55 on the past and you're actually imagining that  future unfolding your body as as the objective  
22:03 mind begins to feel the emotion of that future  before it happens so now you're conditioning   your body to become the mind of anxiety the mind  of fear right and and again thought and feeling  
22:13 image emotion stimulus response the body is being  conditioned into fear okay so so now you say to  
22:20 that person why are you this way and they'll say  "I am this way because of these events that have   happened to me 10 years ago." What what they're  really saying is "I had an event that's changed  
22:30 me biologically and I have not been able to  change since." Okay so if you can turn on the  
22:36 stress response just by thought alone and and  those chemicals those hormones of stress are  
22:41 addictive the arousal you can become addicted  to your own thoughts and this is why it's hard   to change well if the long-term effects of the  the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons  
22:51 and create disease that's a fact and you can turn  on the stress response just by thought alone your   thoughts can make you sick all right no no that's  that's that's the ultimate mindbody connection so  
23:01 when you tell a person that and they go "Oh my god  if my this you ask them if your thoughts can make   you sick is it possible that your thoughts can  make you well?" And so we did a study where we  
23:11 just took people and we said "Trade frustration  trade impatience trade resentment for heart-c  
23:16 centered emotion let's hook you up to an HRV  and let's have you practice get really good   at feeling appreciation gratitude kindness care  let's get you in that state is it possible then  
23:28 that you can upregulate the proteins for your  immune system and down regulate the secretion of  
23:34 cortisol and the amount of immunoglobulin A which  is a really important you know natural flu shot  
23:43 for the body went up 50% in the participants so  the body actually is believing it's living in an  
23:48 environment that's nurturing right and so heart  center meditation yeah 15 minutes 15 minutes a   day twice a day for or three times a day for 3  days that's it and that's how fast it can happen  
23:58 now the caveat behind this is that uh just like  breaking any addiction you're going to go through  
24:08 a lot of withdrawals because the body's going to  be craving the chemical right so we've discovered  
24:14 again when the person is sitting in a meditation  and they're coming up against their frustration  
24:20 they're coming up against their resentment they're  coming up against their impatience instead of   saying "I can't meditate i'm too busy i'm get  on my cell phone i have too many things to do  
24:28 nobody else in the herd or the flock or the tribe  is everybody's sitting right so a person we're not  
24:34 we're not asking them to white knuckle it we're  giving them something to do we're teaching them   how to lower the volume to that emotion settle the  body back down as the mind and and teach them what  
24:46 to do with that so the act of doing that breaking  that inhib the inhibition process breaking the  
24:52 stimulus and response the body's craving 20  years or 10 years of frustration it starts  
24:58 to send images to the brain like think of the time  in your life that you know and it's it's trying to  
25:04 reproduce that chemical so this takes an enormous  amount of energy an enormous amount of awareness  
25:12 to be able to free the body from the chains of  the past and yet once you learn how to do it  
25:17 it's tedious in the beginning if the person truly  can get beyond its their addiction to that emotion  
25:25 the absence of that emotional addiction is called  joy the body's no longer tormented yeah the side  
25:31 effect of that is there's a complete change in the  body's physiology i think the majority of time um  
25:37 uh people are on alert they're in high beta brain  wave states they're they're vigilant they're ready  
25:42 you know they're uh when we're living in stress  and we're living in survival all of our attention   is on our environment that's where the danger is  all of our attention is on our body because we're  
25:51 getting the rush of chemistry and adrenaline and  all of our attention is on attention is on time  
25:56 how much time is we going to get make this go  away right and so so when you I think when you  
26:03 break free from the state of survival which pretty  much is about 70% of the time for most people yeah  
26:08 I for for the most part I feel like it's a safe  place i think when you're living in survival I  
26:14 think you'll always perceive it as a dangerous  place but I think the opposite side of that and  
26:20 this is kind of what we've discovered um I think  when you live in something other than survival you  
26:26 live in a state of creation and I think a state  of creation is when energy naturally moves into  
26:33 the heart and the heart is the creative center  when you're living in stress and you're living in   survival your brain is completely incoherent cuz  you're trying to control and predict everyone and  
26:42 everything in your life so stress is created by  by the the loss of control uh the the perception  
26:48 that something's going to get worse or something  that you can't predict right so the alarm system   switches on so the next thing you start doing is  you try to control and predict everything in your  
26:57 life every person every object everything every  place is mapped neurologically in your brain you   got a neurological network for your wife for your  husband for your kids for your dog for your where  
27:06 you live where you where you work your phone you  know so as we shift our attention to each one of  
27:12 these different elements like a lightning storm  in the clouds in that aroused high beta state  
27:18 the different compartments of the brain begin to  modulate and they begin to fire out of order if   you measure that on the brain it's waves that are  out of order and they they cancel each other out  
27:28 and the brain is incoherent we're incoherent same  thing happens in the heart you're stepping on the   gas and you're stepping on the brake you're on a  Zoom meeting someone's talking and you're thinking  
27:38 about oh my god I your your emotional response  is is not the best but you're not running you're  
27:44 not fighting you're not hiding you're sitting  there right so you're stepping on the gas and   the brake and the heart starts beating very very  much out of order becomes very incoherent same  
27:53 thing the energy in the heart goes down you can't  trust it's not a time to communicate you you know   the story so we we've discovered that where  you place your attention is where you place  
28:04 your energy we teach people then if you can place  your attention on your heart slow your breathing  
28:10 down you slow your brain waves down and teach them  how to work with their body and convert from the  
28:15 sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic  nervous system and get their body in that state   takes practice it takes a lot of work in  the beginning you're you're working with  
28:25 the animal and the animal's juiced up and it's  it's ready to go and you got to teach it that  
28:30 the the threat the danger is over and it's  not very trusting in the beginning so slow  
28:36 your breathing down slow your brain waves down  convert over put your attention on your heart   and let's practice feeling some heart-c centered  some elevated emotions if a person can sustain  
28:48 that state we'll see their heart get very coherent  when it gets coherent energy builds and if they  
28:55 can sustain it something really beautiful happens  it's almost like the heart informs the brain that  
29:02 the trauma is over and it resets the baseline for  the past event where the emotion is attached to  
29:09 and we've seen this numerous times it tells the  the the amydala it's over like the trauma's over  
29:15 and all of a sudden the the body re resets and  the brain resets and the person all of a sudden  
29:21 like grabbing a big sheet and going like this they  go right out of beta high beta and they go right   into alpha coherent alpha and the heart's  telling the brain get creative when you're  
29:31 pressed like that we tend to overfocus we tend  to narrow our focus on the cause of the problem  
29:38 like any of us who have been under stress know  that you know for the most part you're obsessing   you're ruminating you're overfocused uh on  something and we discover that when you do  
29:49 that you actually make your brain worse 100% of  the time like because you're analyzing your life  
29:55 within that disturbing emotion that emotion is  a record of the past and you're driving it into   higher and higher beta right so we thought oh my  god what if we do the opposite what if we go from  
30:06 this kind of narrow focus on everything physical  everything material everything known to broadening  
30:11 and opening our focus and putting it on nothing  and the act of sensing space we discovered when  
30:19 you're sensing you're not analyzing and you're  not thinking in the the cortex is the analytical  
30:27 mind so as you're sensing space and you're no  longer analyzing and thinking you're no longer  
30:32 activating those different neurological networks  in the brain and all of a sudden your brain goes  
30:37 from beta to alpha but not any kind of alpha those  different compartments of the brain that have been  
30:43 modulated and compartmentalized they begin to  unify they begin to synchronize so now the brain   starts getting more orderly and you start feeling  more like yourself so the breathing is a great  
30:53 way to get the body to convert uh from sympathetic  to parasympathetic but the open and the broadened  
30:59 focus and sensing nothing in space is actually  what allows us to get beyond our analytical mind  
31:05 and what separates our conscious mind from  our subconscious mind is our analytical mind   now you're opening the door and getting into the  operating system where you can actually rewrite  
31:13 a program and rehearse a new script just by  closing your eyes and focusing on nothing  
31:19 um uh you can slip past the analytical mind  and when you're an alpha you know this you tend  
31:25 to see more in images and pictures you're more  creative right and then you can train a person  
31:31 to actually know the different brain wave states  and my definition of theta is when your body's  
31:38 resting in a light sleep and you're awake and  that's when the door between the conscious mind   and the subconscious mind is wide open this  is the most suggestible state of the brain  
31:48 it's a hypnotic state if a person can sit um and  practice this we discovered that the formula is  
31:58 relaxed and awake relaxed the more relaxed you  get in your heart the more energy goes to the  
32:05 brain now so the the the sensors are picking up  electro electro electromagnetic signals the heart  
32:15 when it gets coherent produces a magnetic field  and that magnetic field can be up to 3 meters wide  
32:22 it it is like a drum it gets very coherent and  it produces a magnetic field a very measurable  
32:28 magnetic field so it informs the brain to be  creative and it causes a kind of an frequency  
32:36 or energy is carrying information so there's an  emission of energy that's released from the heart  
32:42 if a person can get re relaxed in their heart and  awaken their brain you can train a person to get  
32:48 really good at this it gets really crazy because  what's takes place from coherence is another phase  
32:54 called resonance in resonance is when the brain  is in delta and at the same time in theta and  
33:05 at the same time in alpha and the same time in  beta and high beta and all of a sudden you have   this very peak frequency called gamma and that's  super consciousness so now the person is really  
33:16 relaxed in their heart and instead of stressed out  unconscious and programmed somehow they they tend  
33:25 to be way more conscious so instead of the arousal  being pain instead of the arousal being aggression  
33:31 the arousal is kind of like what you said it's  kind of like an ecstasy it's kind of like a bliss   like a person is like "This feels so good i don't  want to leave the moment like I want to stay right  
33:42 here." And what we want to do is get people to  do that so well with their eyes closed that they  
33:48 can do it with their eyes open and that's why we  do walking meditations and things like that it's   like I'm looking at 2,000 people in an audience  and everybody's leaning in because that is the  
33:58 example of truth up there they're they're saying  I broke through a certain level of consciousness   or unconsciousness and the person in the audience  invariably that has that similar condition sees  
34:10 that person they don't look any more special  than them and their belief in possibility goes  
34:17 up and I think people do the best with what they  think is available so you get a co you got enough  
34:22 people together in in the spirit of that I think  people become conscious of other possibilities and  
34:30 and just like an infection can spread amongst  the community and create disease health and  
34:35 wellness can become as infectious as disease in  seven days so we did this study and we found out  
34:40 that we had all these people with everybody had  their own genotype right their own particular   gene expression based on their race their culture  their family whatever and genes make proteins and  
34:53 proteins are responsible for the structure and  function of your bodies the expression of proteins   is the expression of life at the end of seven days  all these different uh genotypes almost 80% of the  
35:05 of the collective were expressing the same genes  and making the same proteins like that's unheard  
35:11 of so like people changed people but there was an  emergent consciousness that was taking place that  
35:18 was being reflected in people's biology the herd  the flock the tribe you know the school of fish  
35:26 everybody's evolving together in seven days so  if you don't know that that's possible that you  
35:35 could actually use imagery to heal an an some type  of lesion then you you'll make the typical choice  
35:43 but the fact that you do know that you have a hand  in it you could actually do something you me I can  
35:50 do something to help my health and it may not be  in like a pill immediate you got to put in the  
35:57 work you got to put in the time and and you have  to really understand what you're doing and why  
36:03 you're doing it there can be no false hope when I  saw people like I I I saw that I was truly making  
36:10 a difference on some level in their life that was  the moment I didn't care like I really didn't care  
36:16 about the academic who was sitting there judging  me he's going to or he or she's going to judge   me anyway i really don't care like that's fine  i'm more interested in people who do want to  
36:25 learn those are the people that I'm after right so  they can have their judgments about me and say all   kinds of things but I really don't care anymore i  really don't care i know on some level between the  
36:35 evidence that's taking place in human testimony  and there there's enough we have hundreds if not  
36:41 thousands now of people who have healed themselves  and we have amazing evidence and scient empirical  
36:48 scientific studies evidence is the loudest voice  and so chronic health conditions in themselves  
36:54 just just say stay in the lane of convention  require a lifestyle change and chronic health  
37:00 conditions make up 95% of of all health conditions  because of lifestyle because of behaviors because  
37:08 of choices okay so a pharmaceutical may alleviate  and give you some chemical balance but if you're  
37:16 not physically balanced and you're not emotionally  balanced that's going to do very little so so  
37:21 teach a person then this the structure of what  it really means to change but people don't do  
37:29 the meditations in our work to heal they do  the meditations to change uh so that's just  
37:34 three things the way they think the way they act  and the way they feel and how you think how you  
37:40 act and how you feel is called your personality  and your personality is intimately connected to  
37:45 your personal reality so then let's unlearn the  old personality that's 95% hardwired conditioned  
37:52 and habituated and that's the that's the  hard work that's the overcoming process   and then let's fire and wire new thoughts in our  brain what do I want to believe a belief is just  
38:01 a thought I keep thinking over and over again so  let's with intention let's with attention begin to  
38:08 install that the hardware keep doing it it becomes  a software program that's the new voice in your  
38:14 head that's the new belief i can it's possible  that's my vision okay a person who's healing  
38:19 from a health condition may have a good meditation  in the morning 45 minutes hour half hour whatever  
38:25 but then spends the rest of their day the  rest of their day frustrated impatient angry  
38:34 uh suffering fearful let me mentally rehearse  how I'm going to be in those circumstances now  
38:42 you know this the act of mental rehearsal you  close your eyes and you rehearse doing something  
38:48 whether you're playing the piano or doing  a sport or whatever you know this extremely   well when you're truly present the brain cannot  distinguish between the actual event and what  
38:58 you're imagining so what you're imagining becomes  the experience and the brain looks like you've  
39:05 been playing the piano for 5 days it looks like  you've been hitting a golf ball for the last week   the brain looks like you've already done it  now the brain's no longer a record of the past  
39:14 now now you're priming it as a map to the future  you're installing the hardware keep doing it you  
39:20 behave differently around your coworker there's  no magic here you you be behave differently around  
39:25 your ex or whoever you're you're you're changing  right now you're the changes be greater than your  
39:31 environment to think act and feel differently  in the same environment okay now can I stay in  
39:37 my heart can I feel an elevated emotion today let  me just bring up the feeling I want to feel today  
39:43 and let me bring it up a hundred times so I I can  bring it up on my own right so the word meditation  
39:49 then means to become familiar with that's what  it means to become so familiar so conscious of  
39:56 your unconscious self that you don't default and  go unconscious in your waking day that's that is  
40:01 a great day and then okay how let me remind myself  how I am going to think let me remind myself how  
40:07 I'm going to act at the staff meeting how am I  going to act with my kids how am I going to act   when I'm here let me What would greatness look  like what would love do let me just let me just  
40:14 rehearse it in my mind so I can get my behaviors  to match my intention let me get really clear okay  
40:20 no person no circumstance no condition in my life  is going to move me from this elevated emotion now  
40:26 the game is on you're out of the bleachers you're  on the playing field now because the person who's   truly interested in healing says "The moment  I start feeling those familiar emotions I'm  
40:38 signaling the same genes." And genes make proteins  it's the environment that signals the gene   okay the end product from an experience in the  environment is an emotion so as long as I live by  
40:48 this emotion I'm signaling the same genes okay is  it possible then if I feel this elevated emotion  
40:54 and I'm able to sustain it that I could actually  my body would believe it's living in a different   environment and if the environment signals the  gene and the end product of an experience in  
41:03 the environment is an emotion by me feeling this  elevated emotion my entire day I can signal genes  
41:09 ahead of the environment what we discovered if you  have intention in that state 100% of the people  
41:17 actually signal the gene to make a protein 100%  that's a pretty good odds it's going to happen  
41:24 when when we discovered Mike that was really  crazy when we started when people started hitting  
41:30 these and I talk about it in the documentary  where they're hitting these high high states  
41:35 of gamma like three standard deviations outside  of normal when you're measuring anything is 2%  
41:42 of the population and that's very very good we're  getting high gamma coherent high gamma brain wave  
41:50 patterns 200 300 400 standard deviations outside  of three is an outlier so you imagine 197 more 297  
41:59 more of those little boxes this is a person who's  having a supernatural amount of order in their  
42:05 autonomic nervous system so if stress is autonomic  dysregulation then the person who's functioning in  
42:15 that coherent highly regulated very intense  gamma brainwave state that's producing some  
42:22 kind of ecstasy or bliss that's an enormous amount  of autonomic regulation and when people hit that  
42:29 moment somehow there's an immediate biological  upgrade in their body there there's the condition  
42:37 and now it's gone because the autonomic nervous  system is controlling and coordinating every other   system in the body right so now the information  that's traveling to the cell to the tissue to the  
42:48 organ to the system is very very coherent is  very clear and the frequency is very fast and  
42:55 so a person somehow gets this kind of upgrade you  know that's that's where we've gotten like that's  
43:01 like the instantaneous stuff where I'm shaking  my head and going musculardrophe i mean come on  
43:09 like there's no cure for musculardrophe the kid  came in in a wheelchair and he's walking out of   the event like I'm scratching my head like how  did that happen he he had that moment of arousal  
43:21 but the arousal was an enormous amount of gamma  and it wasn't happening in his thinking neoortex  
43:27 and it was happening in the lyic brain the seat of  the autonom nervous system on fire and that that's  
43:34 regulating enormous amounts of order right and  that and you should see the scientists because   these are you know guys that have published 200  300 papers are very empirical now we're working  
43:44 with uh Harvard scientists and some Stanford  people too and and they see the data the the  
43:51 first thing they fall out of their chair with is  seven days like a drug trial is you know 3 months  
43:57 6 months this is They're like "What 7 days?" And  it's not like it's not like 10% of the population  
44:03 it's 80% it's 70% of your population yeah of the  community right it's kind of insane they're like  
44:08 "What no drug no drug trial does that best drug  trial is 25% one out of four this is like three  
44:16 out of four." are like and and and I keep saying  to the scientists where are those chemicals coming  
44:23 from where are they coming from where are they  coming from the person's not ingesting anything  
44:30 they're not changing their diet how can a person's  microbiome in seven days be completely different  
44:37 completely different at least 15 probiotic really  powerful in in large communities changes in  
44:45 microbiome the only answer is they're not the same  person if they were the same person they'd have  
44:51 the same microbiome right a different different  person completely different microbiome um I I  
44:57 think that uh any methodology can work as long  as the person understands what they're doing and  
45:06 and why they're doing it i think that's important  and there's elements of mindfulness uh in the work  
45:12 that we do but there's a the scientists uh call  it WTFfulness like what like what is that like  
45:23 like what is that and I honestly believe that um  when you get in that right brain state like theta  
45:31 you're suggestible to information you're in a  hypnotic state right and you suggest Digestibility  
45:37 is your ability to accept information believe  information surrender to it without analyzing   it and somehow it it programs the subconscious  or affects the autonomic nervous system but if  
45:48 your eyes are closed and you're in meditation the  and the music's filling the space and you're not  
45:53 seeing anything you're not you know you're not  hearing ambient sounds you're not tasting you're   not smelling you're not feeling anything with  your physical body but you're still suggestible to  
46:01 information there's only one other place you can  get information from it's frequency right so get  
46:08 the get the nervous system tuned up to order and  there's an invisible field of energy that exists  
46:15 beyond our senses that we are immersed in that  somehow the brain can transduce that frequency  
46:23 into information in our biology because 25 hours  of focusing a lot of times on a good portion of  
46:31 that on nothing physical and material somehow  there's effects dramatic effects in people's  
46:41 biology to the extent that the end of seven days  their biology looks like they're living in a whole  
46:47 new life it looks like they're living in a whole  new environment and they're in a ballroom and   there's really nothing really spectacular in a  ballroom i've been to thousands of them they all  
46:57 look the same i'll tell you what we we know so far  um HRV levels after uh the 7-day event continued  
47:09 to improve for two to three weeks in other words  we do these healings on each other and you got  
47:15 to get into this super altered state and we see  the part go completely out of order like there's  
47:23 an arousal that's insane and you see it in the  collective that experience produces an emotion of  
47:31 love and joy that tends to linger for weeks if not  months after the event the person's just feeling a  
47:39 whole different feeling we see um brain coherence  uh sustained we see um certain people not all of  
47:47 them uh their microbiome stays changed uh we see  some people regress uh because they stop doing  
47:56 the work and they return back to their environment  and their environment is controlling how they're  
48:03 feeling and controlling how they're thinking  and controlling how they're acting they return   back to the same personality and so you see this  kind of encroachment slowly over time of disease  
48:14 starting to re reoccur um but I think really one  of the cool things that I'm proud about with our  
48:21 community is that people do the work and I I don't  think they do it because they have to i think they  
48:28 do it because there's magic happening in their  life with opportunities and synchronicities  
48:34 and coincidences and and um that inspires  them uh to want to keep the magic going so  
48:41 uh um yeah we've seen great changes uh and we've  seen great the people who have those high gamma  
48:49 moments where there's the Parkinson's and now  it's gone those tend to be very permanent like  
48:55 we very rarely see like the there's a regression  of the condition and and we we have a language  
49:02 expert you know that that at the University  of Central Oklahoma he's really studies the  
49:07 language of transformation and he he started off  studying like I think it was like 26 or 28 case  
49:15 histories of people that tell their testimonial  their their story of transformation and he's got  
49:21 a huge AI system and we were picking apart the  language of transformation so that I can actually  
49:28 teach it better and I know the words then that I  could use to help people get there easier and one  
49:35 of the main things that happens in people who who  really fully immerse themselves is that the word  
49:42 I felt it or feel it is the most common word and  it breaks down into two two uh venues one is it's  
49:50 very somatic like I don't know what that was like  my heart blew open the top of my head blew off  
49:58 there was lightning bolts coming out of my hand  i could feel every atom in my body vibrating to  
50:03 a certain level of order it's very somatic like  what the hell and the other component Mike is it's  
50:10 very emotional like I never felt love like that  before i never felt anything i don't even have the  
50:16 word to describe it but as a consequence of that  experience there's a temporality like I'm not I'm  
50:27 not that person any longer like that's not me that  used to be that's a different person i'm somebody  
50:32 else right and so the the the those high arousals  where the person moves into those states uh there  
50:42 there's an upgrade that takes biologically that  that's sustained for a good period of time um  
50:47 so I'm a morning person um I've always been a  morning person i I have a lot of things that I  
50:52 have to do in one day my belief is that if I can  get myself right if I if I can overcome myself  
50:59 at the beginning of the day it's everybody else  is easy so I I allow for two hours every morning  
51:06 doesn't doesn't mean I necessarily take two hours  but I like the morning where everybody's asleep  
51:11 i'm early riser i get in my think box it's really  important and I I I'm not a I pace I move around  
51:18 I get you know okay I think about the the obvious  things i look at my calendar I get all that taken  
51:24 care of okay this that the other thing i get  all that worked out and then then it is really  
51:29 uh me sitting down and and doing the work my my  goal is to be the example really of everything  
51:35 that I teach so I have to lead by example uh and  I think experience is the greatest professor so  
51:40 I'm going to I'm going to step into uh we we  interface with the world you know I have a lots  
51:47 of Zoom calls lots of meetings lots of things to  learn um but really my morning practice is getting  
51:54 myself ready for my day uh how am I going to  face uh unexpected things how long am I going to  
52:02 emotionally react for if I react i mean it's not  that you react question is how long you going to   keep that going right got it yeah so so then I'm  there's things I'm working on with myself you know  
52:12 that I always that I always want to unlearn and  relearn but then there's Joe Spend on the journey   right how do I want to be one day one lifetime let  me just see if I can let me see if I can embody  
52:23 this person let me see if I can keep my energy up  let me see if I can stay in my heart let me see if   I can really be present and considerate and kind  and then the rest of the day I'm serving you know  
52:33 the rest of the day I'm busy and my my my ambition  is to be able to to maintain that modified state  
52:39 of mind and body my entire day only for the simple  reason that I want the synchronicity i want the  
52:46 weird opportunity i want the unusual thing that  go me to go huh did I really create that am I am  
52:52 I and somehow in the creative process here instead  of being the victim in my life that person that   circumstance is actually controlling my feelings  and thoughts and ultimately my behaviors that's  
53:02 a program right so I want to switch from that  mo that mode into being the creator so I got  
53:09 to get in the state where I can create and that  means sometimes it takes me a little bit longer  
53:15 and sometimes it takes me like almost an hour  to get beyond myself but I'm not going to get   up until I'm that person and I don't care if it  if I run over it's just and in the light of all  
53:25 eternity that's worth it to me right so so I  allow for those two hours sometimes the whole   entire two hours I'm inward and other times I've  fallen into the fold and you know it's it's like  
53:36 you said you're you're there and you just want  to elongate the moment and don't do anything  
53:42 except I always say memorize this feeling dude  memorize this feeling memorize it bring it up  
53:47 keep remembering this is who you are right so  when I when I open my eyes and I do do that my  
53:54 day is differently than when I don't in and I like  the I like the synchronicities i like the unknown  
54:01 experiences because it proves to me that I am  the creator of my life at the end of my day it's  
54:06 always the same question how'd you do dude like  how did you do today like when'd you fall from   grace what what person what circumstance when when  did you lose it when'd you go unconscious then of  
54:16 course the next question is new day tomorrow how  are you going to think different how are you going  
54:21 to behave differently in that same circumstance  another shot at it joe dispenser what would you do  
54:26 and if you if I don't know the answer I'm going  to look it up and find out what what would some   somebody somewhere sometime must have faced this  and how did they do it so let me just learn that  
54:38 and then let me just let me integrate that  into my evolution right because I what I   want to do is I just want to make steady  strides in my own evolution and sometimes  
54:49 I work on things for months you know just just  but I know that that is the I know that when I  
54:55 change my life changes i mean I know that  and nothing changes in our life until we   change right so again if I could if I could work  with it if it takes me two months to get there  
55:07 uh it's always it's always worth the effort my  biggest challenge is time you know i I mean I do  
55:13 a lot of things and I think it's a commodity uh  but if I'm in the present moment uh and I'm not  
55:19 thinking about time somehow it magically works so  I I work a lot on that but one thing that really  
55:25 works well for me and I'm totally happy with this  is that I I need I just need time alone and I and  
55:31 I think that that helps me the most i really like  studying uh people who have near-death experiences  
55:39 is just really fascinating to me because when they  come back their brain's completely different for   sure and their world view is different there's  nothing greater than being a part of a human  
55:50 being's transformation there's nothing greater  when you can celebrate someone's personal change  
55:57 and transformation and I think the greatest form  of gratitude that we can ever experience is when   we receive gratitude from someone else i think  there's an empathy that's innate in us that we  
56:08 kind of go we feel what that person's feeling  when their life has changed right or they're  
56:15 they're appreciative and I think our our social  networks switch on i think we come together we  
56:22 commune we connect more and I think there's a  greater appreciation for life and so mission my  
56:30 missiondriven people are people who really really  want to make a difference in people's uh people's  
56:37 lives and I think I think it's the highest form  of motivation and I think people uh you know we  
56:43 see this in our work all the time like you know  they people come for wealth they come for health  
56:48 they come for relationships they come for mystical  experience doesn't matter to me it doesn't matter   to me it's just that's just one experience  like the people who actually heal themselves  
56:58 they they're not victimized by their their their  disease that they they tell me "I would have never  
57:03 changed would have never changed unless I had  this disease right?" And so then but what what  
57:10 people ultimately come for after they arrive at  whatever it is they they arrive at is wholeness  
57:15 they just want wholeness i mean imagine being so  whole you no longer want how could you want when  
57:20 you're whole and somehow the self-reported  questionnaires that we do around that that  
57:28 there's a direct correlation with the heart and  the brain you know coherence in the heart and the  
57:34 brain that's synchroniz synchronization that  takes place and that kind of explanation like  
57:40 I don't I'm I'm I don't want anything and and I  think when we're in that state everybody's okay  
57:46 i think there's three types of stress physical  chemical and emotional okay i think there's three   types of balance physical chemical and emotional  i work really hard in my life to be physically  
57:55 balanced chemically balanced and emotionally  balanced the hard one out of the three because  
58:01 you know 90 75 to 90% of every person that walks  into a healthare care facility walks in because  
58:06 of psychological and emotional stress so you  could be visualizing all you want seeing your  
58:11 arteries clear you could be an emotional basket  case and it's not going to work because the heart  
58:17 in survival and stress is out of balance right  so so there's a there's got to be the right I  
58:23 believe me personally I believe there's got to be  a right state that you have to be in to be able to  
58:30 have the visual process be the most effective  uh because otherwise it's trying it's forcing  
58:38 it's wishing it's hoping it's fighting it's  competing that's not that's lack that's like we  
58:44 cannot attract anything in our life that we feel  separate from so in order for the person to heal  
58:50 their heart their heart has to be open that their  heart has to be activated that center's got to be   awakened then the greatest effects that you can  see and we've seen this with people the greatest  
59:02 effects takes place beyond our comprehension  of how that little protrusion disappeared the  
59:08 prolone business the autonomic nervous system  can manufacture chemistry like that's insane  
59:17 we've proven it so like it's none of your business  all you have to do is when it happens and how it  
59:22 happens is none of our business but we got to be  in the right state right getting people in the   right state is the challenge then the rehearsal  the the the positive imagery all that stuff has  
59:34 the greatest outcome but that works better in  children we discovered than in adults what works  
59:40 better in adults is for them to change if I change  my heart should change if I change my life should  
59:47 change and and and people say um I don't know 80%  of the tumors went away i wasn't doing anything  
59:54 like I I was just doing my meditations well of  course you're in homeostasis uh and your body's  
1:00:00 back in balance because because stress is the lack  of homeostasis some people's goals when they have  
1:00:07 a diagnosis is not like I'm going to heal their  goal is like I've been out of homeostasis for  
1:00:14 the last 10 years my job is to get back into  homeostasis if I get back in the homeostasis  
1:00:20 there's a better shot of me healing now then with  that comes a lot of challenges like I said it's  
1:00:25 not that you react that's how long you react we  accept believe and surrender to thoughts equal to  
1:00:32 our emotional state so the bottom up is important  from the top down is the is the is the application  
1:00:39 is the technique right you got to set up you got  to set up the conditions and I I think I think  
1:00:45 I've I've done everything wrong i've made all  the wrong turns like I've I'll try this I'll try   that and and so I only go I don't do any type of  meditation that's traditional i I just look at the
1:00:57 data people come for all kinds of reasons  the baseline is that they understand on  
1:01:05 some level that that meditation can change  their body and change their life some people  
1:01:11 uh understand that there's a that they could have  mystical experiences without using any exogenous  
1:01:17 substances so we have people that come that come  that want to heal their body that want to have a  
1:01:23 new job or a new career or become abundant people  that want to have loving relationships some people  
1:01:29 want to have mystical experiences whatever that is  right but the person is coming with the intention  
1:01:34 of actually creating exactly what they want but  in time um what they're really coming for is to  
1:01:41 change uh and um even the people who heal from  all kinds of health conditions what I learned  
1:01:49 in the last couple years is they're not doing  their meditations to heal they're doing their   meditations to change and when they change they  heal and so what they begin to crave is the next  
1:02:02 unknown experience you know that that experience  that exists really beyond three-dimensional  
1:02:07 reality but but I would say that the majority  of people come for a particular reason and  
1:02:12 after a period of time they just want to get more  whole and I don't think there's an end to that   the stronger the emotion we feel from some event  in our life a trauma a betrayal a loss a shock  
1:02:26 um a diagnosis the the event produces an emotional  response and the high quotient of the emotional  
1:02:36 response changes our internal state and the moment  we feel altered inside of us the brain takes a  
1:02:43 snapshot freezes a frame or a series of frames  and takes snapshots and that's called a long-term  
1:02:49 memory so then from a biological perspective every  time the person remembers the problem they're  
1:02:58 producing the exact same chemistry in their brain  and body cortisol the adrenaline whatever the  
1:03:03 emotion is when they feel that emotion we could  say then that the body is reliving the event  
1:03:11 emotionally 50 to 100 times in a day so the the  trauma is no longer in the brain at that point now  
1:03:19 the trauma is also in the body because thoughts  are the language of the brain and feelings are  
1:03:25 the language of the body and it's that thought and  that feeling it's that image and that emotion that  
1:03:30 stimulus and response that's conditioning the body  subconsciously to become the mind of that emotion  
1:03:36 and now that person emotionally is a branded into  the past and you can say to them why are you this  
1:03:44 way why are you so angry why are you so bitter  why are you so mistrusting why are you so afraid  
1:03:50 and they'll say to you,"I am this way because of  these events or that event that happened to me  
1:03:57 in my life 20 or 30 years ago." Now this is kind  of an interesting thing because in a sense their  
1:04:04 identity is completely connected to their past  and they as long as they feel that emotion  
1:04:14 uh they'll always remember the past so now the  body is so objective when it feels that emotion  
1:04:22 it does not know the difference between the real  life experience that's creating the emotion and   the emotion that person is fabricating by thought  alone so now the body's believing it's living in  
1:04:32 the past event 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365  days a year but what the person is really saying  
1:04:37 is after that event I haven't been able to change  that's what they're saying and so that becomes the  
1:04:47 person's identity and there's nothing wrong with  this but you'll never hear me say uh in any of the  
1:04:53 work that we do uh go back and process the past um  uh we we've discovered that when a person analyzes  
1:05:04 uh their problems uh within the emotions of the  past they make their brain worse they actually  
1:05:10 drive it further out of balance they're they're  overarousing it we discovered is that if the  
1:05:17 person can get beyond the emotion truly get beyond  the emotion uh they'll free themselves from the  
1:05:25 past and what we discovered is that if you teach  a person to give up the fear the bitterness the  
1:05:34 resentment the frustration the impatience the  judgment you should stop feeling that emotion i  
1:05:39 know there's a reason why i'm sure everybody's got  a story right so but there's nothing that's going  
1:05:46 to change that story until you change right and so  we discovered that if you trade those emotions for  
1:05:54 an elevated emotion if you start feeling gratitude  and appreciation and love and kindness and care  
1:06:01 and you practice feeling that emotion we give you  some tools to to use to change your breathing to  
1:06:08 put your attention in a different place and to  work with your body what we discovered is when  
1:06:13 the person can truly begin to open their  heart and we have brain scans on this when  
1:06:19 the heart begins to open and it begins to become  coherent in other words when you're feel feeling  
1:06:24 uh frustration or impatience or judgment your  heart is beating very incoherently when you're  
1:06:30 feeling love and gratitude kindness and care  there's a rhythm there's a there's a cadence  
1:06:35 that the heart has that's very coherent when the  heart gets coherent we measure this it immediately  
1:06:43 informs the brain that the trauma is over the  heart tells the brain the past is over the event  
1:06:49 is over and it resets the baseline uh in the brain  and so now the person when they look back at their  
1:06:57 past they're no longer looking at it from the same  level of consciousness in fact many of them will  
1:07:03 say "Oh my god I needed to go through all of that  to get to this point right here." here they'll  
1:07:10 tell you they they'll they'll say "I wouldn't want  to change one thing in my past because it got me  
1:07:16 to the present moment." Okay so we work with Navy  Seals special ops prisoners we work with people  
1:07:25 uh that have had some very serious traumas really  serious abuses uh um uh just difficult childhoods  
1:07:35 uh these people are you know night terrors uh  suicidal um can't you know leave their homes  
1:07:43 socially uh having trouble panic attacks it's kind  of funny because the moment that person actually  
1:07:52 breaks through from the emotion and the words  they typically describe was they say was like  
1:07:58 my heart exploded it's like my heart blew wide  open the moment that happens they're bringing  
1:08:06 their body right out of the past right into the  present moment and lo and behold many times there  
1:08:13 goes the anxiety there goes the depression there  goes the cyclic mood patterns somehow the body  
1:08:18 uh gets recalibrated back into order back into  homeostasis so the point I'm making is is that  
1:08:25 the memory without the emotional charge is called  wisdom and now you're you're ready for the next  
1:08:31 adventure in your life the soul can't go to the  next adventure if it's holding on to the past so  
1:08:38 we don't really ever address the story because the  story is only firing and wiring the same circuits  
1:08:44 in the brain reaffirming the identity to the past  just to feel the same emotion and the research  
1:08:50 shows that 50% of the story we tell in our past  isn't even the truth that means that people are  
1:08:56 reliving a miserable life they never even had  just to excuse themselves from changing right  
1:09:01 i'm not taking shots at anybody but what I am  saying is you can't tell me that your past was  
1:09:07 so brutal that you can't change because we have  seen people with some really really horrible pasts  
1:09:13 um that literally literally are are completely  different people that have completely different   lives um when does the story end and I'm not  certain that insight changes behavior you could  
1:09:26 have a realization even from an exogenous drug you  can have a realization or an insight but if you  
1:09:32 still can't function in your life and you're still  you know you haven't connected with your wife   or you know you're still dealing with trauma it  hasn't served you at all like so the insight that  
1:09:41 your your father was overbearing or your mother  was a perfectionist or you were beaten as a kid  
1:09:48 uh and that's why you're this way it doesn't  change the behavior in order for us to change we  
1:09:54 have to become so conscious of those unconscious  beliefs and what's a belief thought you just keep  
1:10:00 thinking over and over again or how you've been  programmed right as a belief we have to become so  
1:10:05 aware of our automatic habits and behaviors and  we have to pay attention to our emotional states  
1:10:11 if we're going to change and staying conscious of  our unconscious self is is is really the the work  
1:10:16 that it takes to really overcome so you can become  another person that's 95% of a person by the the  
1:10:24 middle of their life their you know hardwired  attitudes beliefs and perceptions automatic  
1:10:30 habits and behaviors and unconscious emotional  responses 95% of us as programmed so as a child  
1:10:36 your brain waves are um very slow the door between  the conscious mind the subconscious mind is wide  
1:10:42 open your brain waves are an alpha and theta and  so you're very suggestible to to the information  
1:10:48 and so your exposure to that caused you to learn  that that you know your observation caused you  
1:10:54 to get programmed to that's the way life is by by  mirror neurons looking at behaviors that are being  
1:11:01 programmed in you so so but that's not who you  are right so the fact that you became conscious  
1:11:08 like oh my god I do this oh my god I see where  I got it from okay that doesn't mean that that  
1:11:14 I'm going to excuse myself and say I can't be  in relationships you could some people do that  
1:11:20 might be a different belief but they do that  but you said I really want to have a meaningful   relationship I really want to overcome this is  part of me that I want to change right so so you  
1:11:30 recognize that that's called metacognition right  the fact that you can objectify your subjective  
1:11:36 self and observe yourself that's consciousness  right and when you're conscious then that's when  
1:11:41 you're not unconscious and being unconscious  is being in the program so how many times do  
1:11:47 we have to forget until we stop forgetting and  start remembering that's the moment of change so   you said "Okay that's uncomfortable that must  mean something." And you actually went on a a  
1:11:58 personal exploration do something with the insight  with the provocation with the interest of actually  
1:12:05 wanting to change yourself in some way so that you  create a a greater experience of life that there  
1:12:13 is love in life and that you can have a committed  relationship and it could be different from your   parents and now you know what you're not going  to be right so I think all of that is valuable i  
1:12:23 think every experience that we have in our life  that programs us to be a certain way sooner or  
1:12:31 later if we're if we're interested in arriving  at the goals and dreams that we want we there's  
1:12:36 we have to leave that behind as sooner or later a  part of us must die uh as sooner or later we have  
1:12:42 to leave that so I think you I think that's that's  evolution consciousness is awareness and awareness  
1:12:48 is paying attention and noticing so I think that  I think the first step is to become conscious  
1:12:55 um that we're a certain way and sometimes it lands  as an insight or a download or a life experience  
1:13:02 that just kind of goes you go whoa like I you know  so I I I behaved this way or I did this thing so  
1:13:10 so I think I think when you don't have that you  don't have a conscience and you can just and you  
1:13:15 can just keep staying in that world and but but  sooner or later uh you have to become aware what  
1:13:20 we know is that that the the more you practice  being present the better you get at it okay and  
1:13:27 so how do you do that if you sit in a meditation  right and so there's a mode in the brain called  
1:13:34 default mode and it's just always busy it's  consuming enormous amounts of energy in the   brain and it's always trying to predict the future  based on what it knows in the past it's a kind of  
1:13:45 an anticipation machine it's always trying to um  fill in a known in reality so we feel safe so the  
1:13:56 default mode system in the brain when you close  your eyes in a meditation is going to immediately  
1:14:01 go into overdrive it's going to say "Oh my back  hurts a little bit i'm kind of thirsty how long   is this going to go i really don't want to do  this i don't like the music you know uh is it  
1:14:10 is it might be too long oh I'm starting to get a  little frustrated i want to lay down you know all   of this stuff comes up and then people have the  belief and they say I can't meditate that's that's  
1:14:19 their conclusion from the experience that's their  I'm not a good meditator that's their affirmation  
1:14:24 that's their belief right from that experience but  if you say to a person listen that's normal but  
1:14:30 every time you catch yourself going unconscious  catch yourself going unconscious and become  
1:14:37 conscious that's a victory and as tedious as  it may be in the beginning the more you catch  
1:14:47 yourself going unconscious and becoming conscious  the more conscious you become in your life and   and all of a sudden you begin to pay attention to  things that you weren't paying attention to before  
1:14:58 so in the work that we do we say that being in  the present moment truly in the present moment  
1:15:05 is being comfortable in the unknown right the  present moment is the unknown because there  
1:15:11 is the familiar past that we feel emotionally and  we have the predictable future which are both the  
1:15:17 knowns being in the present moment is being in the  unknown and that goes against thousands of years  
1:15:24 of programming because our biology is programmed  that if we are truly in the unknown we should  
1:15:31 be in survival because if you're in survival and  you're in the fight orflight system the unknown is  
1:15:37 a threat it's a danger so always try to predict  the future based on the past and you'll have  
1:15:43 better chances of survival predict the worst case  scenario be ready for that that anything less that  
1:15:49 happens you have better chance of surviving so  then to rest in the unknown goes against a lot of  
1:15:56 our biology and we discovered that when a person  keeps doing it over and over again the body gets  
1:16:01 agitated it gets frustrated it gets impatient  instead of the person saying "Ah I quit." Give  
1:16:08 them something to do and they can lower the volume  to the emotion and settle the animal down like  
1:16:14 training an animal setting settling the body back  down into the present moment we we teach people  
1:16:20 how to do that and that's the victory giving  them something to do yeah they have it they have   something to do when that comes up and if they  catch their mind going from a person to another  
1:16:29 person to another object to their cell phone to  their computer to a place they need to be and you   know it's a time and they're they catch themselves  with their brain firing in modulated compartments  
1:16:41 if they keep catching themselves doing that  if they keep doing that and they they catch   the circuit when it's firing and they settle  it down in time sooner or later they're going  
1:16:51 to stop firing those circuits in the brain and  the brain waves begin to change from an agitated  
1:16:58 aroused state into a more coherent and slower  brain wave state so when they do this enough  
1:17:05 times the brain begins to synchronize the brain  begins to fire in greater levels of wholeness  
1:17:11 or greater levels of order so when that occurs  then the nervous system gets very regulated gets  
1:17:18 very orderly the autonomic nervous system moves  into a state of regulation disregulation of the  
1:17:24 autonomic nervous system is called stress right so  to answer your question when people do this really  
1:17:32 well in just a few days they'll get really good  at it the side effect of that is they get very  
1:17:38 relaxed in their heart it's relaxed in the heart  and it's awake in the brain and the more relaxed  
1:17:44 you get in your heart we've discovered really  relaxing into your heart the more the heart   informs the brain to get creative and so now the  person has this kind of synchronization that's  
1:17:55 taking place between their heart and their brain  as well and they can rest in the present moment  
1:18:02 the way you do that is you define what it really  means to change and to change is to be greater  
1:18:10 than the conditions in your environment to be able  to think act and feel differently in your same  
1:18:18 environment that's what change is to change is to  be greater than your body to be greater than its  
1:18:24 drives in a meditation I'm speaking specifically  greater than its emotional responses its memories  
1:18:32 its emotional reactions greater than its habits  the habit is when you've done something so many  
1:18:37 times the body knows how to do it better than  the conscious mind there that's so so if you're   sitting in a meditation your body wants to get  up and wants to get going and got people to see  
1:18:45 things to do that's kind of like automatic right  and people get up and they say "I can't meditate."  
1:18:50 But if you tell them that when you notice that you  bring your body back into the present moment you  
1:18:58 settle it down and tell it it's no longer the  mind that you're the mind you're training the   animal sooner or later the body literally responds  to a new mind and there's literally a liberation  
1:19:08 of energy the body begins to liberate energy and  if the person's not thinking about time if you're  
1:19:15 not thinking about where you need to be where you  need to go where you were yesterday where you're  
1:19:20 sitting where you live you know if you're not  thinking about any place you can go from somewhere  
1:19:26 to nowhere and if you're not thinking about the  predictable future or the familiar past you can   go from sometime to no time and we discovered  when a person becomes nobody no one no thing  
1:19:38 nowhere and no time they literally become pure  consciousness and opening our awareness I know  
1:19:45 this is kind of difficult to explain because  we're materialists opening our awareness to  
1:19:51 nothing and sensing space tends to cause us to  move more into the eternal present moment and  
1:20:00 there's a change that takes place in the brain  so we teach that you'll become so conscious of  
1:20:06 those unconscious habits that more than likely  you won't want to do them again and that's what  
1:20:12 uh uh for the most part change is about so I  think people wait for crisis you know they wait  
1:20:19 for disease they wait for a betrayal something  to go wrong in their life and that's when they  
1:20:24 go okay I'm ready to change my message is why wait  dude like why wait for that you know we can learn  
1:20:31 and change in a state of pain and suffering we can  learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration  
1:20:36 so then you get a collective group of people  together that really may have all those bad habits  
1:20:42 they they they may even have bad habits that they  don't even know they have and then all of a sudden  
1:20:48 they become aware that they've been blaming and  complaining and making excuses and feeling sorry   for themselves and procrastinating and they  start to reason and if my personality creates  
1:20:58 my personal reality if I'm going to create a new  personal reality I got to change my personality  
1:21:03 cuz this guy that that that's this isn't the  guy that wants to be happy this is the guy  
1:21:10 who's committed to being unhappy okay let's break  it down let's get down the fundamentals and now we  
1:21:17 give them a road map of their thoughts behaviors  and emotions that they're that they have lived by  
1:21:24 you could say that step two is is becoming  conscious of your unconscious self and then   becoming conscious of a new self reinventing a new  self and so the person who's feeling really bad  
1:21:36 about themselves because they're not they're not  doing anything to change it's just because um when  
1:21:44 you're not changing you're still choosing uh but  what you're choosing is something that makes you  
1:21:50 feel familiar and comfortable because the moment  you decide to change truly get serious about  
1:21:56 change the moment you decide to make a different  choice and do something differently you are going  
1:22:04 to feel uncomfortable it's going to be immediate  and that's the moment you go from the known into   the unknown now if the body has been emotionally  conditioned to be the mind like we talked about  
1:22:14 earlier the servant is the master and so the  person who steps out into the unknown and it  
1:22:19 feels uncomfortable what is the body going to say  get back to suffering get back to feeling bad get  
1:22:26 back to feeling guilty at least that's familiar  that's known so tell a person there's going to be   a biological death of the old self neurologically  chemically hormonally genetically there's the  
1:22:36 old self's going to die just know that that's  going to happen but instead of white knuckling  
1:22:41 it across the river of change we're going to give  you something to do because that unknown place is   the perfect place to create and so let's get you  into the unknown but let's get you there where  
1:22:51 you're relaxed and awake you're not escaping and  if you do that really well you're you'll be in a  
1:22:57 creative state so you actually will be out of  survival and you'll be able to create because  
1:23:03 you could only be in survival or creation can't  be in both so let's get your body physiologically  
1:23:08 back in the balance let's get it there now who  do you want to be what do you want to believe   let's review that what's a belief a thought you  keep thinking over and over in your brain keep  
1:23:17 remembering to think this way in your meditation  how am I going to be with my ex or my boss let  
1:23:22 me close my eyes and think about what greatness  looks like what forgiveness would do what love  
1:23:28 would do let me just let me close my eyes and  mentally rehearse how I'm going to be in that  
1:23:33 circumstance i'm going to keep remembering to do  these things so I don't forget keep doing it over  
1:23:39 and over again he started installing the hardware  repeat it enough times it gets like a software  
1:23:44 program you start behaving that way automatically  and then my goodness is it possible to teach our  
1:23:50 body emotionally how we do want to feel before  it happens in other words don't wait for your   wealth to feel abundant or your your success to  feel empowered or your healing to feel wholeness  
1:24:01 that's waiting for something in your outer world  to change to take away the the emptiness or lack   that you're feeling in your inner world teach your  body emotionally what it feels like ahead of the  
1:24:11 actual experience and the moment you start feeling  abundant you're generating wealth the moment you  
1:24:16 can embody empowerment you're stepping towards  your your success the moment you feel grateful and  
1:24:23 whole be the healing begins right so now you're  starting to cause an effect in your life so have  
1:24:30 the person keep remembering to feel that way and  have them practice sooner or later they'll start   feeling that way more and the more they feel that  way the more they'll believe in their future and  
1:24:39 some people get so good at doing it that they walk  around feeling that emotion they feel like their  
1:24:45 future has already happened and when you feel  like the future has already happened you stop   looking for it and that's when the magic starts to  takes place in people's lives the synchronicities  
1:24:55 the coincidences the opportunities they start  coming to them in their life and and that's  
1:25:00 the reflection of their own personal change  uh sometimes uh being in such severe lack  
1:25:10 uh of and desperation desperation you know uh  creates a state where you can't hear anything  
1:25:18 um because you're you you don't you no new  information can enter the nervous system  
1:25:24 that is not equal to the emotion the person is  experiencing as an just as a broad understanding  
1:25:30 this is why we don't do questions at our events  because you can give the person the answer to the  
1:25:38 question that they're asking you and they will not  hear you they will not hear you in fact they will   argue against you but if you get that person out  of that emotional state and the only person that's  
1:25:48 going to do that is them by the way get that  person out of their emotional state they can hear  
1:25:54 that information so sometimes we're programmed  into such lack we're programmed right to wait for  
1:26:01 something out there to change to take away this  emptiness or lack you know when this happens I'll  
1:26:06 feel this you know and so when things are good  in our life we feel good and when things aren't   so good in our life we feel bad so we're kind of  victimized to the circumstances in our life it's  
1:26:16 our outer world is controlling our inner world  of thoughts and feelings so if a person has been  
1:26:24 programmed into saying um I I I I haven't healed  or why hasn't this happened in my life because  
1:26:34 the person who's saying why haven't I healed  is the old self the new self would never say  
1:26:39 that right the new self is too busy overcoming and  becoming right so I think people meet information  
1:26:48 uh at their own level but what I can tell you  that is so compelling and so exciting is that when  
1:26:56 we get people on the stage and it happens every  event it's it's really quite unbelievable to see a  
1:27:04 person stand on the stage in front of 2,300 people  you would walk right past her in the grocery store  
1:27:11 um she doesn't look vegan she doesn't look  ketogenic she doesn't look particularly fit  
1:27:16 or young or dressed well you know whatever  that is she just looks like a normal person  
1:27:22 and they stand on the stage and they tell their  story of how they were diagnosed with cancer or  
1:27:30 um whatever the condition is and what they did uh  in their life to change those health conditions  
1:27:37 and there's numerous health conditions when  I look out in the audience uh and I look at  
1:27:43 people uh there isn't a soul in the audience that  isn't leaning in everybody is leaning in because  
1:27:51 there's the example of truth on the stage and  there's nothing like a good story right so the  
1:27:58 change that we're seeing in our community is that  there's a greater acceptance a greater belief a  
1:28:06 greater understanding a greater awareness to the  idea that you could actually heal because people  
1:28:12 witness it and the person in the audience who's  seeing that person who healed themselves from  
1:28:17 whatever health condition it is relates to them  and they say "My God if if that person can do it  
1:28:24 I can do it as well." And just like an infection  spreads amongst the a culture and creates disease  
1:28:31 health and wellness can become as infectious as  disease right and so we have it's not uncommon  
1:28:38 like when that person stands on the stage and  they're the 4-minute mile if the person has   Renard syndrome we've had events where four other  people with Renard syndrome healed at the end of  
1:28:49 the event like no longer have any symptoms at all  or we've had five people in one event step out of  
1:28:55 a wheelchair now if you asked me if I ever thought  that was possible I would say no so I do think  
1:29:01 uh when a person sees that example of truth their  awareness of possibility begins to change and  
1:29:10 um the evidence then allows the person to  increase their own belief uh in in themselves and  
1:29:16 in possibility well look I mean I don't I think  we're all a work in progress right i think it's an  
1:29:22 uncovering process so I I always tell people you  can be anybody you want you can be any character  
1:29:30 you want to be in threedimensional reality in this  in this kind of virtual reality experience you get   to put on any character but when it comes time to  create when it comes time to connect you got to  
1:29:41 lay down that character you got to lay down the  identity you got to lay down that person right  
1:29:46 and some people are have become so uh uh idealized  to their identity that they can't be anything else  
1:29:55 and so uh I don't think the identity is bad i  think I think as only as long as we're able to  
1:30:01 lay it down uh when we create it's important and  by the same means if there are aspects of your  
1:30:07 personality or your identity that is undermining  um your life in some way uh and this happens to so  
1:30:16 many people we see even with you know when they're  when they're getting healings that they they their  
1:30:21 blood values get better and then they get back  into their life and they get blood values go   back up and then they get more healings and their  blood values go down and they go back into their  
1:30:30 life and sooner or later this goes on four or five  times they say is it me like do I have something  
1:30:37 to do with this and and the answer is always yes  if you if you want to take the sign you can't take  
1:30:42 you can't take one bite you got to actually eat  the whole thing so so the so then what aspect of  
1:30:50 your identity then is limiting you uh and what  is that story that you're saying to reaffirm  
1:30:56 it to be the truth and is it really the truth  and if it's not the truth then you got to make  
1:31:01 a decision and you got to make a decision with  such firm intention to change that belief that the  
1:31:08 amplitude of that choice carries a level of energy  that causes your body to respond to your mind  
1:31:15 that the choice that you're making in that moment  becomes a moment in time that you'll never forget  
1:31:20 in other words you have to say I know exactly  where I was what I was doing what time of day  
1:31:26 it was when I made up my mind to change right it  becomes a long-term memory and the stronger emot  
1:31:32 the stronger the emotion you feel when you make  that choice the more you remember the choice right  
1:31:38 and so you can't say "Oh well I think I'm going  to change this kind of part of my identity." And  
1:31:44 you're your body's going to say "He's lying." Like  he's not serious he's going to still make the same  
1:31:50 choice when you say "This is it i don't care how  long it takes time i don't care how I feel body i  
1:31:58 don't care what people think of me or what's going  on in my life environment i'm going to change and   you come out of your resting state and you make  that choice you're giving your body a taste of the  
1:32:08 future emotionally that's what you're doing and  so people who make up their mind to change they  
1:32:13 have to come out of their resting state and they  have to say that I'm doing this and and that is  
1:32:19 a a strong signal in the field like so it's so  important to assign meaning to the task or the  
1:32:26 act that we're engaging and one of the best way to  to do that is to hold that vision or the dream of  
1:32:34 why you're doing it i want to be healthier i want  to be more fit i want to be more wealthy i want to   be more free i want to be more in love whatever  it is the only thing that's stopping you from  
1:32:44 being any of those things is just a part of your  identity that has to change so that you get there   and it's nothing's mystical about this if you said  "I want to be wealthy." This is your goal this is  
1:32:54 your vision and here you are in lack the only way  you're going to get wealthy is this person's going  
1:33:01 to have to change a lot to find that wealth right  so there's nothing there's nothing mystical about  
1:33:06 this we've all done it at some point in our life  where we just made up our mind and in and what did  
1:33:13 we do when we when we did it we got very clear  like "Okay uh let me remind myself what that  
1:33:20 vision is i just got to remember why am I doing  this okay so I'm going to have to make a different   choice let me write down those choices I have to  make i'm going to have to start doing different  
1:33:29 things okay what am I going to do let me remind  myself what I need to do okay why am I doing it   i'm doing for this experience yeah I know it might  hurt my legs in the beginning or whatever it is  
1:33:38 i know it may be a little uncomfortable but I'm  going for this goal this is my goal and and and  
1:33:44 the more we fascinate about that experience the  more we start feeling the emotion of that future   that's when your body what we've discovered  is beginning to biologically change because  
1:33:54 it's starting to feel the emotion of the future  ahead of time right so that keeps a person on   the journey then we do something really great we  say "What what thoughts um do I want to stay away  
1:34:04 from?" Like I I can't say I there's no way I'm  going to say I can't feel like it i mean if you're   truly committed to being healthy and you're going  to exercise you can never say I'm too tired you  
1:34:16 can never say I don't feel like it that's going  to cause you to not make the choice right so it's   kind of this process where we're kind of doing  that exact thing we're actually looking at the old  
1:34:26 identity and we're we're reminding ourselves of  who we want to become right and and until you   become it and we discovered it's the overcoming  process that is the becoming process when the  
1:34:38 person overcomes some belief some behavior um some  emotion when they truly overcome it they naturally  
1:34:46 become somebody else it's it's just a side effect  their their work in doing that makes them love  
1:34:53 themselves more and many of these veterans  you know they they they cope to the best of  
1:35:01 their ability but they in the back of their mind  they have an exit plan they they have the drugs  
1:35:06 ready they're you know thinking about taking their  life many of them think this way and they've done  
1:35:13 uh so many different um uh types of things to help  themselves and even even a lot of them have done  
1:35:21 uh plant medicine and and mushrooms and you know  ketamine and all kinds of things to to help them  
1:35:28 but on some level their their PTSD u wouldn't  doesn't go away and and Joshua is a great example  
1:35:34 because he was at the very bottom of a point in  his life where he was ready to give up and you  
1:35:41 know the thing that I like to do with veterans is  to reason with them if you have a if you have a a  
1:35:48 Navy Seal right and these are elite individuals  if I tell them exactly what will happen if they  
1:35:55 practice opening their heart if if I say to them  it's going to reset the baseline for trauma in the  
1:36:01 brain they don't say "How do I do it?" They say  "Yes sir." Like "I'm going to do I'm going to do   it until it until it happens." And that's what  happens to all of these guys they're they get  
1:36:10 they're they there's so much trauma in their  brain and body there's so much incoherence   in their nervous system there's so many physical  problems that they're having that they that they  
1:36:20 they they're just really out of balance so if we  if we work with these people and give them all the  
1:36:28 information and give them numerous opportunities  to apply it so many of them break through and  
1:36:33 that's the moment um their brain and body  literally are no longer connected to the memory  
1:36:39 uh or or the emotion that keeps them in the past  and and they get recalibrated um again you know  
1:36:45 we interview a lot of these veterans you know we  did uh we interviewed this he didn't know anything  
1:36:50 about meditation this guy never meditated in  his life you know he he didn't know anything   about me he didn't know he didn't even know where  he was going this is how blind the study was and  
1:37:00 he got there and he was just like there's no way  like I'm going to hang out with all these people   you know he was really you know and and you know  always on guard and uh they asked him in front of  
1:37:10 the camera like my goodness like what happened and  he and like he got this is a guy that looks like a  
1:37:18 Navy Seal and he paused for like a minute and he  was got so emotional and he said I I got my life  
1:37:24 back i got my life back i got every my marriage  is great again i'm in love with my kids i can feel  
1:37:30 again i'm happy like I'm not faking it i really  feel a change you know so that's how the veter  
1:37:38 the vet program kind of grew because the veteran  program was just a few vets coming that were again  
1:37:44 injured in some way physically or emotionally  and completely different at the end of the event  
1:37:49 they're going to go tell their tribe like right  away like you got to do this this really helped   me so we have a strong veteran community and you  know we have our one of our nonprofits the Give  
1:37:59 to Give Foundation that works with veterans and  we create all kinds of programs for them to heal  
1:38:04 and and we're super proud of the results we're  getting forgiveness to me is just overcoming the  
1:38:11 emotion that's it and like if you overcome  the emotion the side effect of that is that  
1:38:18 your heart will open that's exactly what happens  and when en energy moves into the heart we start  
1:38:23 releasing different chemicals than we when we feel  angry or we feel victimized or when we feel sexual  
1:38:29 it's just a different chemical elixir and oxytocin  is released and oxytocin signals nitric oxide and  
1:38:38 nitric oxide signals another chemical that causes  the arteries in your heart to literally dilate the  
1:38:45 heart gets filled with energy it's engorged with  blood and when that occurs the oxytocin levels  
1:38:50 that you're feeling the love that you're feeling  um the studies show that when oxytocin levels are  
1:38:56 just elevated a little bit it's really hard to  hold a grudge you just can't right so if you're  
1:39:01 willing to forgive and you overcome the emotion  you'll take your attention off the person or the  
1:39:08 problem right because the stronger the emotion we  have the more we pay attention to our problems or   the person right overcome the emotion you no  longer have your attention on that person and  
1:39:17 in a sense you're taking energy and you're calling  it back to you right so you're building your own   field and so love is the elixir that allows us to  forgive in other words you can't say "I'm going to  
1:39:31 forgive you it's uh January 31st or February 1st  remember this day we got a thing i forgave you."  
1:39:39 That's not like forgiveness when people really  have that feeling of pure love where they've   actually gotten over the emotion they've already  forgiven they're like "I'm totally cool i'm great  
1:39:50 you great i'm great." Like so it's a side effect  of a change because if the stronger the emotion  
1:39:58 we feel the more we pay attention to that person  uh where we place our attention is where we place   our energy okay overcome the emotion you no longer  have your attention on that person you're calling  
1:40:07 energy back to you and you're building your own  field and there's energy now to heal there's   energy now to create there's energy now for the  mystical experience and so you can't do that if  
1:40:18 you're feeling frustrated or if you're feeling  anger if you're feeling resentment you'll always   hold the grudge you have to convert you have  to teach a person how to get into that elevated  
1:40:27 state and the side effect of that is forgiveness  it's not something that you have to do it's just  
1:40:32 something that automatically happens the only way  you're going to free yourself from that person  
1:40:37 uh or from that past experience is for you to  literally overcome the emotion so um God we've  
1:40:47 all had people do really horrible things and we've  probably done some horrible things to people as   well um but I don't think you can free yourself  or free them unless you decide that um you know  
1:40:59 love is going to be the thing that heals it and  and god so many people do it in our work and and   the side effect of it is that they they they have  wonderful effects in their lives many times just  
1:41:09 healing and you know so living in stress is living  in survival the problem with the stress hormones  
1:41:16 is that the arousal that's created from the stress  hormones causes us uh to move into these higher  
1:41:23 brain wave states called beta brainwave states are  aroused and the arousal causes us to pay attention  
1:41:29 primarily to all the things in our outer world the  arousal causes us to put our attention on our body  
1:41:35 it causes us to obsess and think about time and  so uh people get stuck in these uh high brain wave  
1:41:43 states and I think the big challenge is is if you  understand that stress is when you're knocked out  
1:41:49 of homeostasis when your brain and body are  knocked out of balance then your response or  
1:41:55 your reaction to people or circumstances in your  life that you're chronically feeling on a regular  
1:42:01 basis is actually weakening the organism because  when you turn on that emergency system the fight  
1:42:07 or-flight nervous system because of the hormones  of stress and you move your body out of balance   and it has no time to recover and turn back to  balance now you're headed for disease because  
1:42:18 no organism can live in emergency mode for that  extended period of time the arousal creates a  
1:42:24 rush of energy and people become addicted to the  stress hormones uh they become addicted to those  
1:42:30 emotions and so that now they need the people and  the conditions and the circumstances in their life  
1:42:36 to reaffirm their addiction to the emotion they  need the bad job they need the bad relationship  
1:42:41 they need the traffic they need the news uh just  so that they can stay uh in that emotional state  
1:42:48 so then 75 to 90% of every person that walks into  a healthcare facility in the western world walks  
1:42:55 in because of emotional or psychological stress  that's the number one thing so our emotional  
1:43:01 response uh to the conditions in our life then  becomes the important element so people think oh  
1:43:06 my god um when I'm emotional I I can't control my  emotions and turns out you can regulate it turns  
1:43:13 out you can uh shorten the response uh period  from from emotions and it takes practice right  
1:43:20 so uh you could take the you can have the most  ketogenic vegan organic uh peptide you know  
1:43:28 whatever intermittent fasting diet and you could  do yoga and you can do cardio and you can do hit  
1:43:34 training and you know foundation training and  whatever uh get massage you know acupuncture but  
1:43:42 if you're an emotional wreck and you can't you  know if there's three types of stress physical  
1:43:47 chemical and emotional then there's three types  of balance physical chemical and emotional if you  
1:43:52 if you got your body in physical balance and  chemical balance and you're not putting it in   emotional balance these these will never stay um  so then the important part the important element  
1:44:02 then is teaching people how to shorten the  refractory period of their emotional responses  
1:44:08 and catch themselves when they're feeling those  emotions and change it and not rely on anything  
1:44:14 outside of them to do it a video game or a drug or  whatever people do teach them that they have the  
1:44:19 tools to do it themselves and if they understand  that they're addicted to those emotions I've seen   this thousands of times there's always an aha  moment like I'm addicted to anger like really  
1:44:30 oh my god maybe I am now the moment you recognize  that oh my god I'm using that person to reaffirm  
1:44:38 my addiction to anger oh my god like I don't  want to I don't want to feel anger okay well  
1:44:44 an addiction is something that you think you  can't stop an addiction is uh doing something  
1:44:49 that you know isn't good for you and you're doing  it anyway right so these emotions are addictive  
1:44:54 then I'm going to probably go through withdrawals  i've probably overdosed a few times i've probably  
1:45:00 had a couple bad trips okay so let me get really  clear like how am I going to change this so if  
1:45:09 the change is to be greater than your body your  environment and time and when you live in stress   and you live in survival all your attention is on  your body your environment and time it means that  
1:45:18 when we're living in stress it's really hard to  change mhm because it's not a time to change it's   time to run fight and hide right so so teaching  people how to break those emotional addictions  
1:45:30 um is the side effect of that is called joy  a person is no longer tormenting their body  
1:45:36 and keeping it out of balance and many people who  heal in this work they don't say "I'm going to I'm  
1:45:41 going to heal this health condition." They'll  say "The first thing I'm going to do and this  
1:45:47 is the majority of them is I'm going to work on  getting my body back into homeostasis." Like I'm  
1:45:52 going to work on regulating my emotional states  i'm not going to react in this way i'm not going   to respond this way that's the work right there  is breaking those emotional addictions so that  
1:46:03 we can move out of survival uh and in survival  it's not a time to create in survival it's not  
1:46:09 a time to meditate it's not a time to close your  eyes and go within you'd be eaten it's not a time   to be vulnerable it's not a time to open your  heart right and yet we got to work with our  
1:46:18 bodies and be able to to recondition them to a  new mind and and so a lot of the work that we  
1:46:23 do especially during this time in history where  everybody's feeling the the um the pressure the  
1:46:29 environmental pressure of stress is to give  people the tools to be able to self-regulate  
1:46:36 and when I mean self-regulate that means move from  one emotional state to another emotional state and  
1:46:41 it's not bad that we react we all react i react  but the question is how long like how long are you  
1:46:49 going to react for because um if you keep doing  it uh for months or years it ultimately becomes  
1:46:57 your personality right we did a study where we  had people stop feeling survival emotions uh  
1:47:04 for 3 days and had them practice feeling elevated  emotions heart-c centered emotions we measured uh  
1:47:10 a chemical called IgA immunogloabbulin A it's your  body's natural flu shot it's actually better than  
1:47:16 a flu shot and uh and so we measured people's IGA  levels at the beginning of this time and then we  
1:47:23 measured them at the end at the end of 3 days by  trading those limited emotions for more elevated  
1:47:29 emotions their IG A levels went up 50% 50% so  so the when you're feeling an elevated emotion  
1:47:37 the body is so objective that it's believing it's  living and in a nurturing and loving environment  
1:47:42 if the environment signals the gene and it  does and the end product of an experience in   the environment is an emotion that person is  signaling genes ahead of the environment and  
1:47:51 that's and now the body is going to make globulins  which are proteins that are going to create more  
1:47:57 internal defense and uh uh uh and less and less uh  attention on external defense so the immune system  
1:48:03 then which is the internal protection system  begins to move back into order if you can set   aside a certain amount of time for yourself just  for yourself to be alone with yourself and for me  
1:48:16 um my routine is to have two hours in the morning  that's just my time like that's my time where I'm  
1:48:23 going to get my brain and body right it's the  time where I'm going to think about the things  
1:48:29 I have to do in the day and how I'm going to be  in my in my day i get that all clear then I do my   meditation and my meditation is really uh for me  to overcome myself uh and change and then create  
1:48:40 and I you know I don't care if you do it in the  morning or the evening i'm a morning person i've   always been a morning person i have friends that  are that are artists and musicians even my kids  
1:48:51 they're just more even evening people they just  they're creative so they like the evening doesn't  
1:48:56 matter to me just pick a time in your day where  you can think about who you want to be and who you  
1:49:02 no longer want to be and think about what you're  going to change and and you know always make a  
1:49:07 little room for the unknown which is the fun part  and and get creative yeah and so in our that's one  
1:49:14 of the things I'm proud of in in our community  i'm really proud of the fact that people do the   work like everybody does the work it's not like I  have to make them do it and when I ask them like  
1:49:23 why like why do you do it every day aside from  majority of saying it makes me feel better they  
1:49:30 typically say I don't want the magic to end like  there's too many good things too many good things   going on in my life like I want to keep doing this  it's working for me so it's kind of not like I  
1:49:39 have to it's a want to so we were so fascinated  this was uh February of 2020 i'll never forget  
1:49:46 it we we started in our when we were doing our  electro andphlograms you know our brain studies  
1:49:53 um we we put a a cardiac lead uh from the heart  uh uh to the machine and we started looking at  
1:50:01 HRV in comparison to brain waves and coherence  is rhythm right so when waves are kind of moving  
1:50:08 in rhythm like this you can you can see that on  the brain scan right they're they're very they're   rhythmic like that so so if you think of waves  that are coherent being very orderly and being  
1:50:20 very rhythmic um when they're when they're out of  order like choppy and they're different parts of  
1:50:27 the brain are in different rhythms that's when  the brain's incoherent right in and so when we  
1:50:33 started uh looking at um training people how to  broaden their awareness to sense space when you're  
1:50:39 sensing space the act of sensing and feeling  causes you to stop analyzing and thinking and  
1:50:45 if you're not analyzing and thinking you start  suppressing neoccortical activity your brain   waves start to slow down in beta you know you're  aware that you're a body local in space and time  
1:50:55 that's lowle beta like we're talking right now  we're in lowle beta if I said "Stephen I'm going  
1:51:01 to give you a quiz um and you're going to have  to take the quiz in front of your audience and  
1:51:06 you would kind of perk up a little bit your  brain would get a little bit more aroused and   the light bulb would get a little brighter and  you'd move into mid-range beta that's like when  
1:51:13 you're going to give a speech or you're you're  at a a dinner and you don't know people you're   kind of you kind of be a little bit more aware so  beta is conscious awareness." Now in beta the the  
1:51:24 brain is trying to create meaning between what's  going on in the outer world and what's going on   in the inner world and it's processing all the  sensory information so a lot of beta so beta is  
1:51:32 like conscious and awake and so there's low-level  beta there's mid-range beta it's not on this chart   but high level beta is when you're fearful when  you're anxious when you're angry when you're in  
1:51:40 pain when you're frustrated when you're jealous  whatever uh people get switched on in these high   levels of beta and that's when we get overfocused  that's because you're you're you're narrowing your  
1:51:50 focus and you're overfocusing and that's kind  of a brain state and so when you broaden your  
1:51:57 awareness and you instead of narrow your focus  on something physical or material that's what   the stress hormones do but if you broaden your  awareness and you sense space and you this act of  
1:52:06 sensing causes you to no longer analyze and think  and your brain waves start to move into alpha now  
1:52:13 when alpha which is this brain wave is a slower  brain wave state that's the creative state of  
1:52:18 the brain the brain sees more in pictures more in  images is more imaginary right in beta there's a  
1:52:25 voice talking to you in the back of your head all  the time saying this is right and this is wrong   you got this to do you got that to do that's the  critic kind of in our brain when you when you get  
1:52:34 beyond beta brain waves and you move into alpha  you start opening the door between the conscious   mind and the subconscious mind now we're not  just looking for any type of alpha but we're  
1:52:43 looking for coherent alpha so we want all those  compartments that were firing in different rhythms  
1:52:48 and different frequencies all of a sudden start  doing this so now the whole entire brain starts  
1:52:55 moving into what's called global coherence now  when the brain starts synchronizing like that what  
1:53:00 sinks in the brain starts to link in the brain and  the whole brain starts to fire as one neurological  
1:53:06 network and that's what our data shows now that's  not the end that's just when you're moving into an  
1:53:12 imaginary state and people do this but but a lot  of people move into alpha but it's not coherent so   we're looking for a coherent alpha now many of the  people that are meditating really well they can  
1:53:23 relax their body so well and they can feel so safe  that their body moves into a light rest or a light  
1:53:31 sleep while they're still awake so it's relaxed  and awake in that realm you're in a hypnotic state  
1:53:40 you're in theta brain waves and in theta now  lights are shut out in the thinking neo cortex  
1:53:46 that plugs us into threedimensional reality  the identity is gone the character is gone   there's no activity there now the door between the  conscious mind and the subconscious mind is wide  
1:53:56 open to information and now we're suggestible  to information and now we're in the operating   system we can get in the subconscious mind and  rewrite a program we could rehearse a new script  
1:54:07 we can tell a new story instead of the story  of the past we can tell the story of our future   and we can program our subconscious mind and our  autonomic nervous system to begin to change our  
1:54:17 biology now go too far past theta and you fall  into delta and now lights are out you're in a  
1:54:22 catatonic state and you're unconscious right and  so we kind of do this when we go to bed at night  
1:54:28 we go from beta to alpha to theta to delta and if  you're under stress and you're in high beta you  
1:54:34 can't sleep m and you can't sleep because you're  thinking right and you can't drop through brain   waves when you wake up in the morning you go from  delta to theta to alpha to beta right so there's  
1:54:44 two times that the door between the conscious mind  the subconscious mind opens up okay what does this  
1:54:49 have to do with brain and heart coherence well  in theta when a person is in that state where  
1:54:55 their attention is on their heart and energy is  in their heart it's natural for the heart to tell  
1:55:03 the brain to get creative it's time to imagine  it's time to fall in love with a future now the  
1:55:10 heart is the creative center right it's the it's  the part of the our biology that that allows the  
1:55:16 brain to begin the frontal lobe to begin to create  so you get the heart and the brain kind of working  
1:55:22 together the more relaxed you get in your heart  the more awake you get in the brain something   beautiful happens in the brain if the person can  sustain this and they're in that theta state theta  
1:55:34 becomes the carrier wave and right within the  brain you start to see alpha waves building on  
1:55:42 theta waves and then alpha waves and harmonics  into beta waves and harmonics into high beta and  
1:55:48 then high beta ultimately into gamma and now the  person is relaxed and very awake because gamma  
1:55:57 is super consciousness it is super awareness so  the the formula of being relaxed and awake and  
1:56:04 synchronizing your heart to your brain causes  the brain to move into a state of what's called   resonance and resonance is when you have waves  on top of waves harmonics and the brain starts  
1:56:15 functioning in a more resonant state sometimes  even people have delta as the base carrying  
1:56:20 theta and theta carrying alpha and alpha carrying  beta to high beta to gamma and they're all waves   within waves and as those waves come together  if they're if they're coherent they interfere  
1:56:30 and create a bigger wave and then those waves come  together and they interfere and they create bigger   waves and that's exactly how the energy in the  brain goes up so we have brain scans of people  
1:56:41 whose whose gamma brain waves are 200 300 400  standard deviations outside of normal i'm going  
1:56:49 give you an idea three standard deviations  outside of normal is 2% of the population  
1:56:55 so they're they're processing an enormous amount  of energy in their brain and it feels really good  
1:57:01 really good so we practice a lot synchronizing  the heart to the brain when you're conscious in  
1:57:08 your subconscious mind and you're trained to  imagine whatever it is that you want you're  
1:57:13 going to begin to signal your autonomic nervous  system to start manufacturing chemicals equal  
1:57:20 to your intention in other words the intention of  whatever you're thinking about acts as information  
1:57:26 that begins to change your biology so theta is a  great way to open up the door we also use theta  
1:57:36 um when we want to program people because  it's a hypnotic state to a mystical experience  
1:57:43 and if they're in that state remember when you're  suggestible you accept believe and surrender  
1:57:48 to information as if it's the truth without  analyzing it and that's what programs people's   biology right so you can program somebody into  believing they need a drug and you can program  
1:58:00 somebody into believing in just about anything  but you could also program them for a mystical   experience and that's what we do so we can do  that by giving them information when they're in  
1:58:09 that hypnotic state they're very suggestible but  we're only going to do it in a way that's going   to be beneficial to them and then the third way  is something that we really discovered that we  
1:58:19 weren't expecting let's see how I can say this  and make it simple um there's particle and wave  
1:58:28 there's matter and energy and so if you're all of  your attention is on this three-dimensional world  
1:58:35 um you're you're unaware of energy so have a  person close their eyes and take their attention  
1:58:41 off of everything physical everything material  everything known and go from a narrow focus to  
1:58:47 a broadened focus and as they sense the space  they're actually putting their attention on that  
1:58:53 invisible field of energy that exists beyond our  senses the quantum field right and that field is  
1:59:00 carrying an enormous amount of information so  when a person moves into theta and I ask them  
1:59:06 to open their awareness if they're in a certain  range of theta we can just about predict 100% of  
1:59:12 the time that that person is going to connect  to information now not information coming from  
1:59:19 their senses like a hypnotist could put you in  a trance and theta and give you suggestions and  
1:59:25 could program you but you're still in the same  state that hypnotic state but your eyes are closed  
1:59:31 there's music playing in the background you're  not eating you're not tasting you're not smelling   you're not feeling with your body but you're still  suggestible to information there's only one other  
1:59:40 place you can find information and that's  frequency and frequency carries information  
1:59:46 so when a person starts to connect to energy to  frequency and the thinking neoortex is dialed  
1:59:52 down the moment they connect to that energy and  frequency the brain goes into these very very  
1:59:59 high states of gamma brain wave patterns  they're connecting to a greater level of  
2:00:04 energy a greater level of order and the arousal  that's felt when they have this connection which  
2:00:11 is normally typically fear or anger or pain  the arousal is ecstasy the arousal is bliss  
2:00:18 that's the they say "I don't have the words to  describe the feeling that I just had." Right so  
2:00:24 they're dipping closer to source they're dipping  closer to a greater energy and frequency and it's  
2:00:29 being reflected in their biology when we see  people move into these elegant states of high   gamma it's primarily in their autonomic nervous  system it's very fast and it's very coherent now  
2:00:42 if stress is autonomic dysregulation and they're  functioning in a very very high energetic state in  
2:00:49 their autonomic nervous system coherent gamma  brain waves then there's an enormous amount   of autonomic regulation and the autonomic nervous  system controls and coordinates all other systems  
2:01:00 now watch out because now the tuning fork is  sending information to every cell and tissue  
2:01:07 and organ in the body and when people move into  these states many times when they come back they  
2:01:14 get a biological upgrade somehow energy starts  to inform matter and the whole body is lifted  
2:01:21 by light by lifted by frequency those people that  have those transcendental moments as I said 84%  
2:01:28 of them 84% of them have information in their  blood that causes the mitochondrial function and  
2:01:36 glycolytic function in cancer cells to shut off  there's information in the blood for neurogenesis  
2:01:42 uh for um the microbiome completely changed at the  end of seven days completely different microbiome  
2:01:50 uh without changing their diet at all they're  still eating the same food but they're not the  
2:01:55 same person right there's some kind of change  that creates a lot of probiotic microbes many  
2:02:02 people that come to our week-long retreats Stephen  they're they're noviceses they've never really   meditated before their spouse or their boyfriend  or girlfriend brought them or their co-orker or  
2:02:11 their friend or you know they're just kind of like  whatever you know I don't really know what I'm   getting myself into the novice meditator who just  kind of practices a little bit that goes through  
2:02:22 the immersive experience at the end of seven  days their brains look like advanced meditators  
2:02:28 at the end of seven days their biology their blood  values look like they've been meditating for years  
2:02:35 in other words at the end of seven days those  advanced med uh those meditators that were novice  
2:02:41 meditators that look like advanced meditators are  upregulating thousands of genes in their biology  
2:02:48 to suggest that they're living in a whole new life  a whole new environment and they're in a ballroom   and there's nothing very stimulating about a  ballroom so whatever they're doing inside of them  
2:02:58 inside of themselves somehow is causing dramatic  changes now we looked at we looked at a group of  
2:03:05 people we looked at their genotype and genes make  proteins and your gene expression is different   than mine different than every single person so  everybody has their own unique genotype which  
2:03:14 means they all make their own individual proteins  at the end of seven days when we looked at those  
2:03:19 meditators at the end of seven days almost 80%  of the population was making the same genes and  
2:03:27 the same proteins they were signaling the same  genes and making the same proteins what does that   mean that means when people behave in the same way  there's an emergent consciousness that comes forth  
2:03:40 that's reflected in people's biology the flock  the herd the tribe everybody's evolving together  
2:03:48 biologically well that I mean that's what I want  i want people to walk out into their life and not  
2:03:55 say "You need to shorten the refractory period  of your emotional responses you need to forgive  
2:04:01 you need to get your brain or heart coherent i  don't I don't want anybody in my work to do that   i want them to walk out into the world and be the  example so so much so that people go "What what's  
2:04:10 what's up with you you're different." Like I  you know you're you seem different you know  
2:04:15 what is it you know and that's when I think the  real conversation starts so that's a that's that  
2:04:21 it's instrumental when it becomes instrumental  and you apply it to your life and it's working   for you it's it's not a have to as I said it's  something that you really enjoy doing and uh wow  
2:04:31 what an what a crazy sovereign idea that you could  actually make yourself happy what a crazy idea  
2:04:39 when you when you hit those gamma moments where  you feel a level of love that you have never felt  
2:04:44 in your entire life by connecting to source which  is pure love and you stop looking for it outside  
2:04:50 of you you start realizing it's within you that's  a big moment right because then you won't you  
2:04:55 won't need anybody or anything that's that's  freedom that's unconditional love right like   we we've been trained to create based on lack  that's what we do in threedimensional reality  
2:05:05 in threedimensional reality you see someone that  you that has a sports car and you don't have one   and you like that sports car all of a sudden  you want that sports car your brain starts  
2:05:14 creating based on lack of of not having it you  see someone in a scarf and you like that scarf  
2:05:19 and next thing you know you're wearing that  scarf your brain imagines you having it right  
2:05:24 but the way we get it in threedimensional reality  is we have to do something this is the plane of   demonstration so then when we finally get the  scarf and we finally get the car the experience  
2:05:34 of getting the car produces the emotion that takes  away the lack or separation of not having it so  
2:05:40 some people spend their whole life in lack waiting  for the thing to come around to take away the the  
2:05:47 feeling of lack or separation right my message  is not that my message is actually to create in  
2:05:53 a different way in such a way that you feel like  it has already happened now the power behind all  
2:06:00 of that is that the person now who's who's who's  in that state where they're feeling like the  
2:06:06 event has already happened they no longer want it  because they're feeling the emotion but how could  
2:06:11 they they wouldn't be looking for it you only look  for it when you experience lack if you feel like   it's already happened you're no longer separate  from it and we cannot attract anything in our life  
2:06:20 we feel separate from and so feeling that emotion  somehow starts to draw things to us and now we're  
2:06:27 not having to do anything the things are starting  to come to us that's the synchronicities that's  
2:06:32 the coincidences that's the opportunities we're  not doing anything they're coming to us and that's  
2:06:37 so so you can't when you create from that quantum  field instead of from matter you can't create from  
2:06:46 lack because the thought of your wealth in the  quantum produces the feeling of abundance the  
2:06:52 thought of your wealth in three-dimensional  reality for many people produces the lack of   not having it so the in the quantum there's a  whole different set of rules and and it's not  
2:07:01 something that you know you learn right away it's  you learn from trial and error so so then when we  
2:07:07 create truly create in the act of creation and  we are creating from the field instead of from  
2:07:12 matter to shorten the distance between the thought  of what we want and experience of having it the  
2:07:18 only way that we can do that is we can't create  from lack so in the creative process we create  
2:07:23 from wholeness i I always tell people I don't  care what you want to create i just want you to   get really good at creating i don't care if it's  I don't care what it is well I don't care what it  
2:07:32 is cars you know whatever it is vacations houses  I don't care just get good at creating but sooner  
2:07:39 or later that the novelty will wear off on all  of that and you'll you'll want to know that on   some level there's more so so you we always desire  things we always want things but when we're in the  
2:07:51 creative process we cannot create from the lack of  not having it we have to create from the feeling  
2:07:57 of having it right and so in the quantum you  got to feel it to experience it the probability  
2:08:06 that we're perceiving the truth of reality is  zero that that there's more information in the  
2:08:17 immaterial than there'll ever be in the material  and that information that exists in the immaterial  
2:08:23 that the the senses cannot perceive the senses can  only perceive threedimensional reality objects and  
2:08:29 things and places and people and bodies there's  an invisible field of energy the the atom is both  
2:08:36 particle matter and wave or energy right but all  we see is the material element and the atom is
2:08:43 99.9999% information and energy and
2:08:48 0.1% matter so the brain has been shaped and  molded from generations untold in living in  
2:08:59 survival by narrowing our focus on the material  world the stress hormones heighten our senses  
2:09:05 and when we our senses are heightened we become  materialists so live in survival for thousands  
2:09:10 and thousands of years energy is not important  when you're being chased by T-Rex uh energy is  
2:09:16 not important when you're looking for food right  right you got to narrow your focus and and so the   brain cannot perceive energy or frequency so  what we're seeing is really symbols or just  
2:09:28 outpicturing of the most stable form of energy  called matter and our senses collapse it into  
2:09:35 what appears to be material but the quantum field  is that other field of energy and information that  
2:09:42 exists beyond our senses beyond this material  world whose signature is oneness whose signature  
2:09:50 is wholeness whose signature is connection whose  signature is love pure love and so if you spend  
2:09:57 your whole life with all of your attention  on your body your environment and time all of  
2:10:03 your attention is in this three-dimensional  reality then you got to play by the rules   and the rules are Newtonian physics you got to  predict everything it's going to take time and  
2:10:11 energy for you to get everything you want in your  life okay you can get really good at that you can   get really good you can get skilled you can get  trained you can get coached you can learn you can  
2:10:20 go to school you can learn from your mistakes you  can gather a lot of things and get really good at   that but is there another way to create okay well  Einstein said the field the wave the energy is the  
2:10:35 sole governing agency of the particle energy  controls matter he didn't say the particle  
2:10:40 controls the particle he said the field controls  the particle if you change the information in the  
2:10:47 field can you change the projection the particle  in threedimensional reality this is a holographic  
2:10:53 universe okay so if the if the quantum field is an  invisible field of energy that exists beyond our  
2:10:59 senses beyond our body our environment and time  then the only way we are going to connect to it   is to take all of our attention off our body all  of our attention off the environment what's the  
2:11:09 environment made of people objects things places  and take all of your attention off of linear time  
2:11:15 the predictable future and the familiar past and  find the sweet spot of the generous present moment   that's the unknown that's the door that's the  moment you become nobody no one no thing nowhere  
2:11:25 and no time that is the moment you are pure  consciousness and it's no different than me   saying to you stay alive i'm going to take away  your eyesight i'm going to take away your hearing  
2:11:35 i'm going to take away your smell i'm going to  take away your taste i'm going to take away you   feeling with your body and if I take away all  of your senses who are you your consciousness  
2:11:44 right your consciousness consciousness of what  nothing nothing but what you and the act of  
2:11:50 becoming conscious of nothing and becoming nobody  no one no thing nowhere and no time is the eye of  
2:11:57 the needle and that is the moment you're walking  through the door to the quantum field and when  
2:12:02 you walk through that door the game changes it's  all energy it's all frequency it's all vibration  
2:12:08 it's all connected it's all thought it's all  consciousness it's all information right and   so you got to train your brain like when you pass  through you're not you any longer you're not your  
2:12:19 body any longer you're your body here your pure  consciousness and that void or that vacuum or that  
2:12:25 nothing whatever you want to call that is rich  in frequency and energy so have people linger  
2:12:31 there without a name without a skin color without  a gender without a diet without a face without a  
2:12:36 past without a social security number without  a profession without being a mother or father   a kid linger there as pure consciousness lay the  character down and get comfortable in nothing in  
2:12:45 the unknown okay now that you're there if it's  all frequency and it's all energy then the next  
2:12:52 thing we have to do then is get our brain coherent  because thought is the electrical charge it's the  
2:12:58 impulse in the quantum field and the feeling  the elevated emotion is the magnetic charge  
2:13:04 if you take a thought and a feeling an image and  an emotion a vision of the future with a coherent  
2:13:09 brain and a coherent heart you got a whole  new Wi-Fi signal now you're broadcasting new   information into the field and you're connected  to this field keep changing the information in the  
2:13:19 field you're going to change the destiny of your  experience and matter and so we teach people how  
2:13:26 to get to that place get their brains and hearts  coherent and learn how to create by changing the  
2:13:32 information in the field to ultimately create the  experience they want in three-dimensional reality  
2:13:37 and when there's a vibrational match between their  energy and some potential in the quantum field and  
2:13:43 they're creating from the source of everything  physical why would they go anywhere to get it  
2:13:49 if you're the source you would draw to you so then  creating from the field instead of from matter can  
2:13:56 literally shorten the distance between the thought  of what you want and the experience of having it  
2:14:03 instead of going and having to do something to get  it it starts coming to you and that's another way  
2:14:08 to create the overcoming process the first couple  days is val is more valuable than all the gold in  
2:14:15 the world for people they they'll say "Oh my god  I had such a terrible story i had such a belief my  
2:14:22 god I just I was so addicted to those emotions."  They'll tell you and they just have you just have   to sit with yourself long enough to no longer  want to feel that way and we just give people  
2:14:32 the tools to get them from the old self to the  new self to cross that river well take the idea  
2:14:38 like this if you were angry right now or you were  feeling sad and I came up to you and I said "Hey  
2:14:45 Stephen listen i know you're really miffed right  now i know you're feeling really down whatever um  
2:14:51 but just stop just stop getting just stop being  there just stop if you can't stop that then on  
2:14:58 some level you must be addicted to it right if  you if you truly were not addicted to it you  
2:15:04 would be able to just turn it off right so So when  people start to see that they're like "Oh my god  
2:15:10 um yeah I could be addicted to that it's a  good moment for people." Well the long-term   effects of doing that I mean we can turn on  the stress response just by thought alone you  
2:15:19 could think about your problems and you could  produce the same chemistry as if it was real  
2:15:25 the long-term effects of the hormones of stress  downregulate genes and create disease and if you  
2:15:31 can turn on that stress response just by thought  alone that means your thoughts can make you sick   so again here we go trial and error you got to  catch yourself and you got to go cuz cuz when  
2:15:42 you're feeling sad as an example or you're  feeling angry or whatever for the most part  
2:15:49 uh you want to stay there many people like it's  just comfortable it's it's some people find a  
2:15:55 lot of comfort in being unhappy they're really  happy being unhappy so So if you want to evolve  
2:16:03 your experience in life you would say "I can  change this i literally can change it let me  
2:16:08 sit down and change my emotional state if this  emotion is causing me to me to view my reality  
2:16:15 through the lens of the past if this reality is  downregulating my genes and creating disease if  
2:16:21 this reality feeling this emotion is causing me  to behave as if I'm in a past reality if feeling  
2:16:27 this emotion causes me to believe in my past more  than my future h maybe it's not s such a good idea  
2:16:34 that I stay there so so justified or not valid or  not the only person that that emotion is affecting  
2:16:42 is you sooner or later I think when people start  realizing I can change my emotional state and they  
2:16:48 really sit down even though they don't want to do  it they do it that's when they start feeling a lot   of worth our data shows that the autonomic nervous  system can manufacture a pharmacy of chemicals  
2:16:59 that works better than any drug a drug trial is  about uh uh 25% effective one out of four people  
2:17:06 have a response and it's normally over a a length  of time 60 to 90 days what our data shows is that  
2:17:15 75 as I said 84 90 95 100% of the people that  are involved in a 7-day event have these effects  
2:17:26 so even if it's 75% that means it's working  three times better than any drug and yet your  
2:17:33 nervous system is manufacturing those chemicals  equal to the person's state of being equal to   their intention and and I keep telling I keep  asking the scientists where are those chemicals  
2:17:46 coming from the person's not eating a pill  they're not changing their diet they're not  
2:17:54 doing anything and yet what wasn't there before  the event somehow is there after the event it's  
2:18:01 coming from within us that's what I believe and  I think it's really important for people to make  
2:18:06 time for it to connect to it to fall in love  with it to stay aware of it to bring it into   their life by staying aware of it and connecting  to it and I think the more we interact with it  
2:18:17 I think the more it becomes us and the more we  become it and so removing the veils the blocks  
2:18:24 the emotions the habits the blind spots that stand  in our way between our connection to that unifying  
2:18:32 field or God or the absolute or the creator or  universal mind or source or singularity the zero  
2:18:39 point field the fertile void whatever you want to  call it the mother father principle making time to  
2:18:45 interact with it by removing things that stand in  the way between us and It allows us to get closer  
2:18:52 to love right and I think that's what God is so  the expression of the divine the expression of  
2:18:59 God through the human being would be a a person  that's more conscious more mindful more willful  
2:19:07 more loving uh um um more giving that's the  nature of the divine so its nature becomes  
2:19:13 our nature right so I do believe that um we're not  linear beings living a linear life i believe that  
2:19:20 we're dimensional beings living a dimensional  life and and I do believe in that universal  
2:19:26 uh mind that universal power and and making time  to use it and to interact with it and connect  
2:19:32 with it and to reach for it and to become it  um I think it's a worthy journey for people