To Create a New Life, You Must Become Someone New

So, how many of you actually woke up this morning and consciously created a future? You know why you don't do it? You don't do it because you you don't believe it's true. You actually don't believe it's true. If you knew it was true, if you knew it was the truth that your thoughts had something to do with your life, you would never miss a day in creating the life that you wanted. Yes or no? And that means you would never let any thought slip by your awareness unnoticed by you. Yes or no? >> So you said that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny. And 90% of your thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before. So if you're not being defined by a vision of the future and 90% of your thoughts are the same, your life should be the same because the same thoughts lead to the same choices. The same choices lead to the same behaviors and the same behaviors create the same experiences and the same experiences produce the very same feelings and same emotions. And those same emotions influence our very same thoughts and our biology, our neurosircuitry, our neurochemistry, our hormones, and even our gene expression stays the same because we're staying the same. Yes or no? There's a principle in neuroscience that says nerve cells that fire together >> think the same way, make the same choices, do the same things, create the same experiences that stamp the same networks of neurons into the same patterns, all for the familiar feeling called you. And I don't know, let's take a chance. Do that for 10 years. Wouldn't you agree that you would hardwire your brain into a very fixed pattern of thoughts called attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions? Yes or no? That if you complained and blamed and made excuses and feel sorry for yourself and you did it so many times that became natural for you, you would have to agree with me that would be a habit or an unconscious behavior. Yes or no? And if you just can't get beyond the emotion of your past and your emotional responses are automatic and unconscious, you would have to agree with me that you would be the same person every single day because how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it. That's it. So the present personality that's sitting here today called you has created the present personal reality called your life. So reason this with me. You would do this with your kids. If you wanted to create a new personal reality, you would have to change your personality. If you wanted to create a new life, you would actually have to change because nothing changes in our life until we change. Come on, you with me still? >> So think the same way, act the same way, feel the same way. Your personality stays the same. And most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work. You literally have to become someone else. Are you with me still? >> Okay. So then your brain is a record of the past. It's an artifact of everything you've learned and experienced to this moment. It's the reflection of your environment. It's the autobiographical self. Are you with me still? So if you wake up in the morning, your brain's a record of the past. Yes. If you wake up in the morning and you start thinking about your problems and those problems are memories that are etched in the brain that are connected to certain people, certain problems and certain things at certain times in certain places. If you were remembering your problems, are you thinking in the future or are you thinking in the past? You just told me that you said that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny. And every one of those problems, every one of those conditions has an emotion associated with it. And the moment you feel unhappy, the moment you feel suffering, the moment you feel unworthy, now your body's in the past. Because thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. Are you with me still? And some people wake up in the morning and their entire state of being is in the familiar past and that's the known. And the body is so objective 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 thought alone. The body's believing it's living in that environment. And it only takes a thought and a feeling, an image or a memory and an emotion, a stimulus and a response. And you can condition your body to become the mind of that emotion. And now the body's literally in the past. And you can't create a new future holding on to the emotions of the past. Come on. Are you with me still?