You see, what happens is this then: that an individual who all his life long has played the social game then says: "Well, now I've done that, I have assumed this role, I have become identified with tinker, tailer, soldier, sailer, whatever it was . . .
. . .
but now: 'Who am I? ' . .
. really! In order to find that out I have to go off by myself.
Why? Because . .
. you have a role conception, a mask conception of yourself . .
. because other people tell you who you are! If belief is a construct than like any other construct, it can be manipulated and changed And at any moment, you can choose to believe something new about yourself.
Now, the weird thing about belief is as soon as you change that belief it becomes true. Why that is? I will never quite understand what weird quirk of human evolution has left us in a space where simply believing it makes it true If you think you're dumb, guess what?
You're dumb. And you will act in accordance with that belief and that should scare the sh*t out of you. So if you think about it, people wake up in the morning.
They begin to think about their problems. Those problems are circuits memories in the brain. Each one of those memories are connected to people and things at certain times and places.
And if the brain is a record of the past, the moment they start their day, they're already thinking in the past each one of those memories has emotions Emotions are the end product of past experiences. So the moment they recall those memories of their problems, they all of a sudden feel unhappy. They feel sad, they feel pain.
Now how you think and how you feel creates your state of being so the person's entire state of being when they start their days in the past. So what does that mean? The familiar past will sooner or later be predictable future.
So if you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny. And you can't think greater than how you feel or feelings have become the means of thinking by very definition of emotions, you're thinking in the past, and for the most part, you're going to keep creating the same life. So then people grab their cell phone, they check their WhatsApp, they check their texts, they check their emails, they check Facebook, they take a picture They post it on Facebook.
They tweet something, they do Instagram, they check the news and now they feel really connected to everything that's known in their life. And then they go through a series of routine behaviors. They get out of bed on the same side, they go to the toilet, they get a cup of coffee, they take a shower, they get dressed, they drive to work the same way.
They do the same things. They see the same people that push the same emotional buttons, and that becomes the routine and it becomes like a program. So now they've lost their free will to a program and there's no unseen hand doing it to them.
So when it comes time to change, the redundancy of that cycle becomes a subconscious program. So now 95% of who we are by the time we're 35 years old is a memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions, unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes, beliefs and perceptions that function like a computer program. The mind is the matrix in and of itself Right now, today in this moment, I promise you The matrix has you If you guys know David Foster Wallace's concept of “this is water,” to a fish, water is so ubiquitous it ceases to exist.
Now, we all have that same thing, and it’s playing on us and it’s keeping us from becoming who we want to become. That thing is our mindset. It’s our belief system.
It is so ever-present, it is so ingrained into the fabric of who you are and the way that you process data, you don’t even notice it. You don’t even know that it’s real. This is the thing that impacts your life.
It is your inability to see that your mindset controls everything, that it is water in and of itself. When I heard this from Shakespeare, I realized that once you become aware of the water, you can change everything. So then a person can say with their 5% of their conscious mind, I want to be healthy, I want to be happy, I want to be free but the body's on a whole different program.
So then how do you begin to make those changes? Well, you have to get beyond the analytical mind because what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind. And that's where meditation comes in because you can teach people through practice, how to change their brainwaves, slow them down.
And when they do that properly, they do enter the operating system where they can begin to make some really important changes. So, most people then wait for crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis. They wait for loss, some tragedy to make up their mind to change.
And my message is why wait? and you can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration. I think right now the cool thing is that people are waking up.
