Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body and how you think and how you feel creates a state of being. So most people have experiences in their life that brand them emotionally. They feel fear, they feel anger, they feel a bitterness, they feel frustration, they feel insecurity and those emotions then become part of their identity.
So once they think certain thoughts that turn on certain circuits in their brain that are equal to their insecurities and then they feel insecure. The moment they feel insecure, they think more insecure thoughts which makes more chemicals for them to feel insecure. And the repetition of that cycle over time conditions the body to subconsciously become the mind of insecurity.
So then the person says I am insecure. And whenever you say I am anything, you're commanding your mind and body towards a destiny. So then most people's biology is for the most part their past.
And so if you're not being defined by the vision of the future, some new possibility in your life, you're only left with the old circuitry in your brain and the old emotions of the past. So the question then is, can you believe in a future that you can't see or experience with your senses yet, but you've thought about enough times in your mind that your brain is literally changed to look like the experience has already occurred. Now the latest research in neuroscience says you can change your brain just by thinking.
So then as you begin to think about a new possibility and your brain begins to fire and new sequences and new patterns and new combinations and you begin to plan your behaviors and you begin to review in your mind, mentally rehearse who you're going to be in your life, the mere action of mental rehearsal begins to install the neurological circuits in your brain, the hardware to look like the event has already occurred. If you keep revisiting that same thought in that same sequence, the hardware becomes a software program. Now your brain is no longer a record of the past.
Now it's in fact a map to the future. And if you were then to begin to emotionally embrace your future before it's made manifest. In other words, you're not waiting for your healing to feel wholeness.
You're not waiting for your new relationship to feel love. You're not waiting for the mystical moment to feel awe. You're not waiting for your success to feel empowered.
That's the old model of reality of cause and effect. Waiting for something outside of us to change how we feel inside of us. And then when we feel differently inside of us, we pay attention to whoever whatever caused that.
That's a memory. That's how we create associative memories. But this model is about causing an effect, which means you have to feel awe for the mystical moment to occur.
You have to become empowered in order to create your success. You have to feel wholeness in order for your healing to occur. We have to feel love for ourselves and love for life in order for us to have love in our life.
And so then to instruct people how to teach their body emotionally how that future could feel like before it's made manifest if they do it properly, their body as the unconscious mind begins to believe it's living in that future reality in the present moment and they're beginning to signal new genes and new ways that begins to change their body to look like the event has already occurred. So can you then select a new potential in the quantum field, infinite potentials in the quantum field, and begin to emotionally embrace that future reality before it's made manifest to such a degree that your body as the unconscious mind is believing it's living in that future reality in the present moment. And you're changing your body by thought alone.
Now, if there's physical evidence, physical evidence neurologically, biologically, chemically, genetically in your brain and body to look like the experience has already occurred, then relax because the experience is going to find you and it's going to come in a way that you least expect. Now, this is the significance of that. It has to come in a way that we least expect because if we can expect it, it's nothing new.
It's more of the known. It has to catch us off guard. It has to surprise us.
And it has to leave no doubt that what we've done inside of us produces some effect outside of us. And when we can correlate the changes we've made inside of us, what the effects we've produced outside of us, we pay attention to what we've done and we do it again. And that's called human empowerment.
And I don't think there's a person in the world that's so special to be excluded from this phenomenon. So common people around the world right now are doing the uncommon because I think this is a time in history where it's not enough to know this is a time in history to know how and if you can combine the latest research in quantum physics with narrow science and neuroplasticity and there are endocrinology and psychonuromimanology and epigenetics. All of those sciences point the finger at possibility and so learning it is one thing that's philosophy.
It's theory, it's knowledge, it's analytical I information. But when you take that information and you apply it, you personalize it, you demonstrate it, it means you're going to have to initiate some actions. And when you begin to change your behaviors and you can get your behaviors to match your intentions, you are going to have a new experience.
Now, philosophy, learning information creates new synaptic connections in the brain. That's what learning is. Learning is forging new circuits.
Remembering is maintaining them. But when you take that philosophical information and you begin to apply it to your life, if you do it properly, you should have a new experience. And the new experience then through all of the sensory feedback from your environment begins to enrich the circuits in your brain.
And when those circuits string into place, the brain makes a chemical. And that chemical is called a feeling or an emotion. The moment you feel the emotion from the experience, now you're teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind is intellectually understood.
So we could say that knowledge is for the mind and experience is for the body. And in that moment, you're embodying that philosophy. You're embodying the truth of that knowledge.
And that's when you begin to upregulate new genes and downregulated old genes and you begin to rewrite the program. Which means the book on compassion is no longer theory. You're feeling compassionate.
The book on leadership is no longer philosophical information. You're becoming a leader. The book on a patient parents is no longer just about some conversation about how you're going to be more patient.
You actually feel like you're overcoming your impatience. So if you're able to do that once, then you should be able to uh reproduce it. And if you can reproduce it over and over again the same experience, you will begin to neurochemically condition your body to know how to do it as well as your mind.
And when your body knows as well as your mind or the mind and body merge as one, now it's innate in you. It's who you are. It's second nature.
You've done it so many times that you no longer have to consciously think about it. It's become a subconscious program and now you're memorizing a internal neurochemical order that's greater than any condition in your external environment. And that's when you begin to master that philosophy.
So our job I think is to go from philosopher to initiate to master, from knowledge to experience to wisdom, from mind to body to soul and from thinking to doing to being. and we have all the biological and neurological machinery to do this. I think the biggest problem that stands in the way for us doing this over and over again and doing it really well, it's pretty much the hormones of stress.
And stress is when your body is knocked out of homeostasis. The stress response is what your body innately does to return itself back to order. And we have three basic stresses.
We have physical stress like accidents, injuries, false traumas. We have chemical stress like bacteria and viruses and hormones and foods and heavy metals and hangovers and blood sugar levels. And then we have emotional stress and that's family tragedies, loss, you know, job finances and all of those things knock our brain and body out of balance.
All organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress pack of coyotes chases a deer. If the deer runs the coyotes, 15 minutes later, she turns back into grazing. She goes back into Fora.
Jing and grazing and the stress response is over. But human beings, you know, we're so unique because we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. We could think about something that's happened in our past or we can worry about something that's going to happen in the future.
And by thought alone, we turn on those same chemicals. And when you turn on the stress response and you can't turn it off now, you're headed for some type of disease because no organism in kin nature can live in emergency mode for an extended period of time. So to answer your question, if you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, and it's a scientific fact that the hormones of stress down regulate genes to create disease, then it means that your thoughts can literally make you.
So the fundamental question is if your thoughts can make you sick, is it possible that your thoughts can make you well can you explain what happens in the mind? Sure. So the word meditation literally means to become familiar with.
So here's the old self and here's the new self. And it's not like we just waltz over to the new self in a matter of days. We have to go through this transformation that takes place.
And if 95% of who we are by the time we're 35 years old, it's a set of subconscious behaviors, automatic habits, emotional reactions, and beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes that function like a computer program. That's 95% of who we are, where the body has been programmed to become the mind. That's what a habit is.
And we're going to begin to change with the 5% of our conscious mind. You can imagine that you can think positively all you want, but if you feel negatively because you've been feeling that way, for the last 30 years, mind and body are in opposition. You could create the most fabulous dream board in the world with all the things you want in your life.
But if you feel unworthy, that's mind and body in opposition. The idea then is to recondition the body to a new mind. So here's the old self and here's the new self and you're going to embark on change the moment you decide to no longer think a certain way to act a certain way or to feel a certain way.
You are going to step into this river of change because the hardest part about change is not making the same choice as you did the day before. So we think 60 to 70,000 thoughts in one day. Out of those 60 to 70,000 thoughts that we think in one day, 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before.
Now, the same thoughts always lead to the same choices. Same choices always lead to the same behaviors. The same behaviors create the same experiences.
And the same experiences produce the same emotions. And those emotions drive our very same thoughts and our biology, our neural circuitry, our neurochemistry, our neural hormones, and even our genetic expression stays exactly the same. So now there's a principle in neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together if you keep thinking the same way, keep making the same choices, keep demonstrating the same behaviors, keep reproducing the same experiences that stamp the same networks of neurons into the same patterns all for the familiar feeling that you've grown accustomed to called you.
Then you begin to hardwired your brain into a very finite signature. And that finite signature becomes our identity. Almost like a box in the brain.
There's no lit a box in the brain. But it's the most commonly fired neurologically wired set of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that's acquired through frequent repetition. So how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality.
And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it. So then if you wanted to create a new personal reality, a new life, you'd have to change your personality, which means you'd have to start thinking about what you've been thinking about and change it.
You'd have to become aware of your unconscious habits and behaviors and even what you say and modify them. And then you'd have to look at those emotions that keep you anchored to the past and decide if those emotions belong in your future. So most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work.
We literally have to become someone else. So the word meditation then means to become familiar with. So if you're sitting in a meditation and you're observing the thoughts that have been going on behind the scenes of your awareness because you've been too distracted by your external environment and now you're becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts and they're becoming familiar to you.
Now you're in a meditation to know thyself. If you're becoming aware of your propensity and your urges and the body wanting to get up and do things and you're making it sit there and stay and you are telling it, it's no longer the mind that you are the mind and you're becoming conscious of those unconscious behaviors and they're becoming familiar to you. Well, now you're in a meditation to know thyself.
And if you can look at the emotions that bring you to a lower denominator and n entice them and not begin to experience them but to observe them. The very act of observation means that you are no longer the program. You're the consciousness now observing the program and you're beginning to objectify or subjective self.
You are looking at yourself through the eyes of someone else. Which means now you're no longer the old self. your pure consciousness observing the old self.
That's the first step in the meditative process. We have to light a match in a dark place and become so aware of how unaware we've been that we don't to let any thought, any behavior, any emotion slip by our awareness unchecked. So then if you're sitting in a meditation and you say, "What is compassion?
What is a better way to be in my life? How can I turn my life around? How can I feel better about myself?
" and you begin to think about what thoughts you do want to fire and wire in your brain. You begin to review the behaviors of how you are going to live in this new life. The act of rehearsing them mentally begins to change the brain from living in the past to living in the future.
In other words, mental rehearsal is going to cause the brain to look like that experience has already occurred. So now your brain has new installation of hardware that's priming the brain for the future. If you do that enough times over and over again, nerve cells that fire together, wire together, it'll begin to become familiar to you.
And if you can cultivate the elevated emotion before the experience, in other words, the materialist, the person who's waiting for their wealth to come to feel abundance, they're living by that model of cause and effect. But the quantum model is about causing and effect. Which means you begin to experience you our own worthiness and your abundance before it occurs.
If you can begin to reproduce that elevated emotion or even healing or wholeness when you reach that point, we were able to cultivate that emotion over and over again. It'll begin to become familiar to you. So the process of change in the meditative model requires unlearning and relearning requires breaking the habit of the old self in reinventing a new self.
What we say in neuroscience pruning synaptic connections and sprouting new connections unfired and unwire a fire and rewiring unmemorable and ishin in the body to a new mind into a new emotion. No longer signaling the same genes in the same way but signaling new genes in new ways. beginning to pull your energy out of the past and beginning to invest your energy into the future.
So, we use the model of meditation because it's important for people to disconnect from their external environment. If you close your eyes and you eliminate all the distractions from your outer world, the people and things and places, all of a sudden, your brain waves are going to begin to change and you're going to have less attention on your outer world. And if you're seamless in your hearing less and we play soft music in the background, you'll begin to pay attention to more of what you were thinking and less about what's going on in your life.
If you sit your body down and you train it to be in one place without doing anything and experiencing the same events that create the same emotions, you're telling your your body that it's no longer the mind that you are the mind. And if you are no longer thinking about the predictable future or the familiar past and you are present in the moment, that's the moment your inner world starts to become more real than the outer world. And that's the moment you can begin to make substantial changes in your own personal physiology.
So the research that we've done and we've measured over 30,500 brains in meditation and I can tell you that without a doubt that you're at your absolute best when you forget about yourself. When you get beyond yourself, when you become nobody, no one, no thing, nowhere and no time. That's the moment you become pure consciousness.
And that's the moment you're no longer living as a body in the environment in time. And consciousness is what actually executes. and has the ability to change the brain body in very unique ways.
Now, we already know how to do this. It's just making it a skill. So then people spend the majority of their lives hoping and wishing and wanting and praying that there'll be some type of change within them.
But what we're teaching people how to do is not to pray to have their prayers answered, but to get up from their meditations as if their prayers are already answered. Because when they're combining that clear intention of their future with that elevated emotion, they're literally changing their energy. They're changing their brain chemistry.
They're changing the way their brain works. They're changing their genetic expression. They're changing their chemistry.
They're literally becoming somebody else. And over and over again, when people do this, it may take them months to turn their disease around, but over and over again, we've seen this. They come back to a certain level of awareness and the disease is no longer there and it's almost like the disease existed in the old personality and they're literally s oh me one else.
And we've seen it enough times now to know that people reach a certain point with themselves where they feel so whole. They feel so satisfied with who they are. They feel so happy with themselves in their lives that they could care less if they have the disease.
And that's the moment it goes away over and over again. So the other thing about meditation that's so important is that the purpose of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind. Now what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind.
When we're driven by the hormones of stress, the very cocktail of chemicals that are created from those stress responses begin to cause our brains to become overly analytical. So the problem that most people have is that the moment they're in an emotional reaction, they tend to analyze their life within that emotion. Since that emotion is a record of the past and the stress hormones are causing you to believe that your outer world is more real than your inner world, it drives the brain further out of balance.
And so when you're on stress, you're focusing on objects. You're narrowing your focus on things, on people, on your environment because that's where the danger is. You're preoccupied with your body because you believe that you're your body when you're under stress because in antiquity you had to survive by taking care of your body and you're preoccupied with time.
So living by the hormones of stress causes us to focus on three things. The environment, our body and time and we begin to become materialists and we define reality with our senses. So, as we narrow our focus on things and objects and we begin to believe the outer world is more real than the inner world and we're trying to predict the future based on the past, we get in trouble because the brain gets more and more out of balance.
So, when the brain is receiving all these chemicals, it moves into a superaroused state. And that superaroused state then becomes common for most people. But it's like driving their sports car in first gear on the freeway.
they stay in the state for extended periods of time. So then when your focus is narrowed and objects and things and people the danger is is that the brain gets locked into this high state super aroused state and begins to become very conditioned into believing that what's in front of it is the real world. So why would you take your attention off of your external environment if there a predator around the corner?
Why would you open your heart and trust if you knew that there was danger there? Why would you want to learn when you should be running or fighting or hiding? And more than 70% of the time in the Western world, people spend the majority of their time living in stress.
So, it's the redundancy of that process that causes different networks of neurons to begin to compartmentalize. They begin to subdivide. And as the brain begins to become incoherent and begins to become out of balance, when our brain is incoherent, we're incoherent.
And when our brain isn't working right, we're not working right. At the same time, the heart which has its own little brain in it and its own little intelligence begins to function incoherently as well. And the effect of that is it begins to send very aberrant signals to the body.
So then in meditation when you disconnect from your environment when you get beyond your body and you trance end linear time and the inner world starts becoming more real than your outer world. The moment you forget that you're a name, that you're a gender, that you're a wardrobe, that you're a social security number, that you re a profession, that you're married, that you're single, that you're a vegetarian. The moment that you forget about who you are, your identity, your body, the things you own, the place you live, the place you're sitting, and you forget about time, all of a sudden, it's almost like the ego, the personality is vacant.
And when that occurs, all of a sudden, different compartments of the brain that were once subdivided begin to synchronize. We've measured this over and over again. And what sinks in the brain begins to link in the brain.
So, as different compartments and in communities of neurons and neighborhoods of neurons begin to organize into coherence, into orderliness, you start feeling more whole and more like yourself. At the same exact time that we've seen this occur, all the energy that's sitting in the survival centers begins to move right up into the heart and the person begins to fall in love with the moment they feel connected to something greater. When we live by the hormones of stress and we're determining our reality with our senses, as materialists, we experience separation from possibility.
We think we're separate from everything. We're living in a realm where we're defining reality with our senses. And if we can't see it or smell or taste or feel it, it doesn't exist.
That is what those chemicals do. But when the energy moves into the heart, it begins to produce a profound magnetic field when you're living by the chemicals of stress you're drawing from this vital field around you. Your body and it's turning into chemistry and the field around your body begins to shrink.
We've measured this and now you become more matter and less energy, more particle and less wave. Now this is the problem. When people are matter trying to change matter in their life and it takes a certain amount of time to get what they want because they have to drag their body through space over and over again to finally reach their goals.
They try to force the outcome. They try to predict the outcome. They try to control the outcome because instinctively they're matter trying to produce an effect.
And matter when that energy moves into the center and the field around your body begins to expand, you're no longer taking from the field. You are now contributing to the field. When that heart starts to get coherent and starts getting rhythmic and starts getting organized, it's like dropping a pebble in water.
It's producing a wave. And if you can sustain the state, you're dropping pebble after pebble after pebble and it's creating waves that keep going out. You're sending a signal out into the field.
If you can feel profoundly and deeply, you can feel richly. You're dropping bigger stones in the water and they're producing bigger waves. Now, all energy is frequency and all frequency carries information.
And if you have the intent of whatever it is that you wanted to be carried on that wave of energy, that elevated emotion, you would begin to broadcast a new signature into the field. And whatever you broadcast into the field is your experiment with destiny. And the longer your consciousness can linger in that energy, now you are calling your future to you, you are collapsing time and space is moving towards you, Beck.
You're creating from a realm beyond matter. you're more energy than in this realm. And when that occurs, when the brain is coherent and the heart is coherent, as the heart gets more organized and feels more coherent, it sends a profound signal to the brain.
We analyze less. We trust more. We would never try to force the outcome or control the outcome.
We trust the outcome because we feel connected to something greater. That state of being can be taught and it can be sustained and it can become a skill. And if you're able to regulate those states every single day and able to get your brain and body working right before you present yourself out into the world, you'll be less likely to react to the people and conditions in your life.
You'll less likely have your old habits and emotional reactions who run who you are. And you're less likely be thinking about the same predictable future or the familiar past because you'll be present in the moment. And that is when that elegant state is when the miraculous and the uncommon begins to occur.
And we've seen this in our workshops around the world where we've measured people's brains during meditation and their hearts. It is one of the most magical things you'll ever see. We can be looking at a monitor of a person's brain in real time during a meditation.
And we're getting so good at this now because we can predict when it's going to happen. We'll see these little downloads from the field. Boom.
Boom. and we start seeing them, we know something amazing is going to happen. And if we can look at a three-dimensional picture of the brain, all of a sudden we see the front of the brain talking to the back of the brain.
We see the right side of the brain talking to the left side of the brain. We see different compartments of the brain beginning to synchronize when we start seeing that we know that person is about ready to move into a whole brain state. The union of polarities is love.
the two hemispheres coming together, the the polarities, the duality of the two hemispheres uniting as one is love. That's when we start having that energy land right here at the center of oneness, the center of wholeness. The brain gets organized, the heart gets organized.
And when we see that occurring, we can walk around and look at that person and there are tears of joy running down their face because they are connected to something greater in that intelligence that's giving us life that's keeping your heart beating and digesting our food that runs through the autonomic nervous system. It is the greatest healer in the world. All we have to do is get out of the way.
And when we get out of the way, the operator, the tormentor, the personality who's instructing the body to stay in its limited states, once you're nobody, no one, no thing, nowhere in no time. And the operator's gone, the autonomic nervous system begins to create order where there's disorder, it begins to do what it can do so well, which is create homeostasis and balance. It can begin to change chemistry.
It can begin to change genes. It could begin to change neurological patterns. It could begin to move energy in the body and the person always says the same thing.
I didn't do any of the healing. It was the power within me that did the healing all along. All I had to do was just get out of the way.
And so I think that we could only talk around these things that you have to have the experience. But I think my passion really aged has been in the last few years and demystifying it. And so that if you see someone with a very serious health condition stand up in front of an audience of 550 people and tell their story about how they had overtime created by mismanaging their emotions and their energy created a disease and became conscious of how it happened and then it took them 2 years to turn that battleship around.
And every day, every single day, they made the choice to not get up from their meditation till they were somebody else. You're talking about greatness now because this is no longer a philosophical concept. This is a person who is embodied every single day and they understand their their own genetic engineer.
When they can get up in an elevated state, they understand when they do something differently or think differently or act differently, they're unfired and done wiring and they're selecting new networks of neurons and signaling new genes. They they're assigning meaning to what they're doing. And if people can understand the what and the why, the how gets easier.
So if you see somebody stand up in front of an audience of 500 people and explain their journey, it's no different than you watching somebody hit a tennis ball like Serena Williams and you play tennis if you keep watching you work only a hit a tennis ball better. And we have people in our workshops stand up in front of audiences and tell their story. And it begins to give people permission to understand that it's possible for them to do the same.
And just like an infection creates a disease amongst the community, I believe that health and wellness can be as infectious as disease once you get a group of people together that understand what they're doing and why You.
