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0:00You can grind in your behavior for 30
0:01years, but if the code underneath is
0:03running something different, the code
0:06always wins. That's why nothing has
0:08worked. You bought the course, you made
0:10the vision board, you downloaded the
0:11app, you wrote the goal, you
0:13white-knuckled the new habit for about 3
0:15weeks, and then quietly you slipped back
0:18into being [music] exactly who you were.
0:19So, I want to take something off your
0:20shoulders right now.
0:22That was not laziness. That [music] was
0:24not a discipline problem. You were
0:26editing the wrong layer of yourself.
0:28[music] You were working on behavior,
0:31the surface, when the thing actually
0:33running your life sits one level deeper.
0:37Your beliefs, your inner code. So, this
0:40video is not motivation. Motivation is
0:42what fails you on day 22.
0:44This is an operating manual. Seven steps
0:46in order to get underneath your behavior
0:48and rewrite the code itself. And I'm
0:50going to prove every single piece of it.
0:55My name is Vishen Lakhiani. I wrote a
0:57book called The Code of the
0:58Extraordinary Mind. That book went on to
0:59become the number one book in the world
1:02on Amazon. Why? Because that book was
1:04compelling. It changed lives. And it was
1:08all about the codes in which we run our
1:11lives that we are absolutely unconscious
1:14about. In this video, I'm going to
1:15reveal some of those codes. I'll show
1:17you a Harvard study about housekeepers
1:19and how they started changing their
1:20biology and even their weight with a
1:22simple singular realization. I'll tell
1:25you about a refugee kid who ended up
1:26speaking at Google at the Oslo [music]
1:29Freedom Forum after he changed his code.
1:32The seven steps in this video are
1:33designed to help you understand a
1:36concept called consciousness
1:38engineering, which is a framework to
1:41help you change your beliefs, change
1:44your day-to-day operating system, your
1:46habits, your practices,
1:47>> [music]
1:47>> and make it easy for you to go on a
1:50spiral of upward growth. At Mindvalley,
1:53the company I founded, which runs these
1:55tools to over 20 million students in 190
1:58countries.
1:59I'll share with you what we discovered
2:01about this underlying code. Now, stay
2:03till the end.
2:04>> [music]
2:04>> Step seven is the one that makes the
2:06other six permanent. Let's begin. The
2:09first step is to see the code. Here's
2:11the first hard truth.
2:13Almost every rule you're living by, you
2:16never actually selected. From the moment
2:19you were born, your brain was being
2:21programmed by your parents, your
2:22teachers, your cultures, the media, your
2:24religion. I call this whole invisible
2:27system the culturescape. And the rules
2:29that installs in you, I call brools or
2:31rules. Because you absorbed
2:34them before you were old enough to think
2:35for yourself, you don't experience them
2:38as opinions, you experience them as
2:40reality. Just the way things are. So,
2:44now let me ask you a question. What's a
2:46rule you've been living by right now
2:47that you never actually sat down and
2:49chose? Let me give you mine. It's almost
2:52absurd. It ran my life from the basement
2:56for 30 years. For years as my business
2:58grew, I kept myself broke,
3:00undercharging, self-sabotaging. I had no
3:02idea why. Then under hypnotherapy, a
3:05memory surfaced for me. A teacher I'd
3:07had as a boy, a kind, lonely man. He was
3:11my English literature teacher.
3:12Loved him.
3:14And some of the things about him though
3:16installed in me a belief.
3:18You see, he was perpetually depressed.
3:21We know he had gone through a divorce
3:22while he was one of our teachers. He
3:24used to be a happy man and all of a
3:25sudden he became sad.
3:27He was broke. He had an alcohol problem.
3:30I knew this because, well, it was very
3:33obvious. But he was such a great teacher
3:36and everyone in the class appreciated
3:38him. We just felt sorry for him. But
3:39because of that teacher,
3:41I installed a belief in myself.
3:44To be a great teacher, you have to
3:47suffer. So, when I became a teacher that
3:49I longed to be, teaching online, my
3:52subconscious installed that belief. I
3:54went through a a ridiculously hot time.
3:56It was completely irrational that the
3:58belief was installed by a confused
4:00child, and that belief affected my bank
4:03account. You see, our subconscious minds
4:06install beliefs while we are kids, and
4:09these beliefs are designed to keep us
4:10safe. Every child in their head has a
4:12meaning-making machine, beliefs which
4:15are installed to help the child make
4:17meaning of the world. Why did this
4:19teacher we love suffer? Well, because to
4:21be a great teacher, one must go through
4:23suffering.
4:25But those beliefs stay with you at the
4:27subconscious level, even as you get
4:29older.
4:30And that belief forms a little voice.
4:33You have these voices, too. These voices
4:35might say, "Don't be too much. Play it
4:38safe. Finish what you started. People
4:40like us don't do things like that." Or,
4:42"Money is hard to come by." These are
4:44truths about the universe. It's
4:46inherited code.
4:48And there are five doors in which it
4:50comes through. Watch yourself in these.
4:53Childhood conditioning, authority
4:55figures, the need to belong, social
4:58proof, and your own insecurities.
5:01Step one is simply this, catch the code,
5:04because you cannot rewrite a code you
5:06can't see running.
5:08Now, here's where this turns from
5:09depressing to thrilling, because I can
5:11prove to you how much of your physical
5:13reality that code is secretly
5:14controlling, and the proof is genuinely
5:16strange. And the next step is to prove
5:19the code. Most people assume your
5:21beliefs only change how you feel. But it
5:24turns out beliefs do something stranger
5:26than that. They reach out and shape
5:29physical reality you actually live in.
5:32Now, here's the study I promised. Two
5:34Harvard researchers, Ellen Langer and
5:36Alia Crum, went into seven hotels and
5:38studied 84 housekeepers, women on their
5:42feet during hard physical labor all day.
5:45Now, again, these housekeepers they were
5:46like making beds, hauling vacuum
5:49cleaners up and down flights of stairs.
5:51They were, you know, moving objects
5:53around the room. And these researchers
5:56decided to observe them and try to
5:58understand how much beliefs affected
6:01their bodies way of showing up, of being
6:05healthy. So, they split the group into
6:06two. They told the first group, "The
6:08work you do is all excellent exercise.
6:11You are already exceeding the surgeon
6:13general's guidelines point active
6:15lifestyle." They told the second group
6:16nothing. Same woman, same job, same
6:19hours, same everything. Now, 4 weeks
6:22later, they measured both groups. The
6:24women who had simply been told their
6:26work counted as exercise had lost
6:28weight, their blood pressure had
6:30dropped, their body fat had gone down.
6:32Nothing changed except the sentence in
6:35their head. Now, this isn't woo-woo.
6:37This is Harvard psychology, published
6:40and peer-reviewed. And I know it from
6:42the inside because it's how I got here.
6:45Hypnotherapists have shown that you can
6:47hypnotize someone, tell them that they
6:49are sitting under a hot sun, and their
6:51skin can tan on command. You see, your
6:54beliefs are the layer underneath. I call
6:57them your models of reality. Now, on top
7:01of your models of reality are your
7:02habits and routines. They sit on top. I
7:05call these your systems for of living.
7:07Consciousness engineering is made up of
7:09your models of reality or your beliefs,
7:12and your systems of living. The systems
7:14and processes, the habits, the
7:16techniques, the routines you use in your
7:19life. Now, here's the most liberating
7:21sentence I can give you. Your beliefs
7:24made you, but your beliefs are not you.
7:27They were installed, which means they
7:31can be swapped. And once you genuinely
7:34upgrade a belief, you do not slide back.
7:36An iPhone is a computing device.
7:38Computing devices like an iPhone are
7:39made up of two things, hardware and
7:41software. Your models of reality are
7:43like your hardware.
7:45It is the make of the iPhone. And just
7:48like a phone upgrade, you can upgrade
7:50your beliefs.
7:52The maids in that study upgraded a
7:54belief they had, a belief that said, "I
7:56don't have time to exercise." to a
7:58belief that said, "Wow, my work is
8:00actually exercise." Now, your systems
8:02for living are what you do with these
8:05beliefs. It's waking up in the morning
8:07and starting your day with a glass of
8:09water and Himalayan salt. It's your
8:11exercise routine. It's your 7:00 a.m.
8:13yoga practice. It's your gratitude list
8:16before going to bed. These are all
8:17systems for living.
8:19Likewise, smoking is a system for
8:21living, a bad one.
8:23Eating chocolate at 5:00 p.m. for an
8:25energy boost, that's a system for
8:26living, but not an optimized one.
8:28Systems for livings are apps, and apps
8:31can be good or apps can be bad. You can
8:34install useful apps, productivity tools,
8:36apps that that help you stay connected
8:39to your child, apps that help you learn,
8:41or you can install apps that keep you
8:43addicted on dopamine hits. Those apps
8:46are like installing sugar intake as a
8:49system for living. The hardware of your
8:51iPhone
8:52are your beliefs.
8:54The apps are your systems for living,
8:55and your body is one sophisticated
8:58computing device, and you can upgrade
9:01it. This is what we mean by
9:03consciousness engineering. But before
9:06you start swapping, you need to
9:07understand how growth actually happens
9:09because there are two roads, and most
9:11people are on the painful one without
9:13ever realizing they chose it. Step three
9:15is to choose your road. My friend, the
9:18great author Michael Beckwith, taught me
9:20two words, kensho, growth through pain,
9:23and satori, growth through insight.
9:26Kensho is when life forces you to grow.
9:29The relationship ends and your heart
9:31gets wiser. The business fails and you
9:33find out what you're really made of as
9:35an entrepreneur, what to do and what not
9:37to do. Satori is the opposite. While
9:39Kensho is growth through pain, Satori is
9:42insight.
9:44It's the sudden realization during
9:45meditation. It's the book that
9:47rearranges your mind.
9:48That one line changes everything.
9:51No suffering required.
9:53Here is the path that should change how
9:55you live.
9:56You get a say in which road you grow on.
9:59And if you're actually engaged in your
10:01own growth, learning, reflecting,
10:03journaling, meditating, doing the inner
10:05work, attending classes, going to
10:07seminars, watching courses,
10:10the lessons tend to arrive gently
10:12through Satori insight, aha moments.
10:16But if you've fallen asleep at the wheel
10:18of your own life, you don't stop
10:20growing. Life is forced to grow you.
10:23It's like the universe has to suck a
10:24bunch of you in the gut to get you to
10:26wake up. The book that I discovered, the
10:28Silva Method, led to me getting deep
10:31into it, later becoming a Silva Method
10:32instructor. That led to me building an
10:34app called Mindvalley to put out the
10:36Silva Method to the world. So, step
10:38three is a decision. And I want you to
10:40actually make it this week. Look at the
10:42last 2 years, honestly. Was your growth
10:45chosen or was it forced? And then put
10:48something on the calendar, a book to
10:51read, a course, 20 minutes every
10:53morning, anything deliberate, because
10:55you are going to grow either way. The
10:57only question is whether you pick the
10:59curriculum
11:01or life picks the curriculum for you.
11:04Now,
11:05when you can see the coal, you know it's
11:06swappable.
11:07You've chosen the road.
11:09Now, what do you point all of that to?
11:12Because this is where most people aim at
11:14completely the wrong target and spend
11:17decades doing it. Now, step four is to
11:20aim it. There are two kinds of goals,
11:22and confusing them will cost you your
11:24life. I'm not exaggerating. Most people
11:27choose either end goals or means goal.
11:30The means goal is something you chase
11:32because you think it'll get you
11:33something else. Get the degree, make the
11:36money, hit the title, buy the house. The
11:39end goal is the actual destination, the
11:42experiences you want to have, the way
11:45you want to grow, the contribution you
11:47want to make. Here's how lethal the
11:49mix-up is. I once met a man who had done
11:53everything right. Harvard degree,
11:55successful lawyer, the whole ladder.
11:58The key was miserable. He worked so hard
12:01at his law firm, his wife had left left
12:03him. He had made tons of money. He got
12:05the gorgeous apartment, but he was
12:08lonely. Never became the father he
12:10wanted to be. He'd spent his entire life
12:12climbing a ladder of means goals and
12:15never once asked what was at the top of
12:18the ladder. But each goal had a so that
12:22next to it. Do great in the LSAT and
12:24work hard so that you get into law
12:27school. Get into law school so that you
12:29get the law degree. Get the law degree
12:31so that you actually become a lawyer.
12:33Become a lawyer so that you can afford a
12:35great apartment. And one day I sat with
12:36my friend and I said, "Look, what was
12:38the point of it all because you're
12:39miserable. What were you chasing?" And
12:41he goes, "Listen, what I wanted
12:44was to be able to live a life where I
12:45can make a contribution to the world.
12:47To be able to live in a gorgeous home.
12:50To have a family. And I just assumed
12:52that being a lawyer was the only way to
12:54get there. And it turned out my friend
12:55was not alone. If you actually look at
12:57studies in Australia and the United
12:59States, 50% 50% of people who practice
13:02law, 50% of lawyers are clinically
13:04depressed
13:05because they chased a means goal. So,
13:09when it comes to goals, you have to ask
13:11yourself this, is the goal a stepping
13:13stone to something you've never actually
13:15named? I built a tool to stop this
13:18happening. I call it the three most
13:20important questions. You sit down with a
13:22blank page and you ask three things.
13:25One, what experience do I truly want in
13:28this one lifetime? Two, how do I need to
13:30grow to have them? Three,
13:33assuming I was the man or woman who had
13:35those experiences and had grown in this
13:37way, how do I want to contribute? What
13:40do I want to give back to the world?
13:41Experience, grow, contribution. Now,
13:45the rule is, if you're doing this
13:46exercise, write down what makes your
13:48soul light up. No shoulds and no means
13:50goals in disguise. Nothing you only want
13:53because your parents or your culture
13:55wanted it for you. Asian folks like me,
13:58this means stop trying to fit into your
14:01parents' idea of who you should be. You
14:04do not have to be a doctor, engineer, or
14:05lawyer. To go deeper into the full
14:08exercise for the three most important
14:09questions, and it takes under 20
14:11minutes,
14:12I've released a separate video just on
14:14this methodology. You will find it
14:16directly on this channel. The full
14:19procedure is also in my best-selling
14:21book, The Code of the Extraordinary
14:22Mind. Now, here is the part that looks
14:25like magic, but isn't. There's a
14:27structure at the base of your brain
14:29called the reticular activating system.
14:31You are surrounded by millions of bits
14:33of information every second, and this
14:36part of your brain decides what actually
14:38reaches you. It's why the moment you
14:40decide to buy a red car, you start
14:42seeing red cars everywhere. The cars
14:44didn't multiply. Your filter changed.
14:47Your noticing got amplified. Clarity
14:50works exactly the same way. When you
14:52name what you genuinely want, your brain
14:53starts flagging the opportunities, the
14:56people, the doors that were always there
14:59and that you were filtering out. That's
15:02not mysticism. That's neuroscience. And
15:05it's why writing this down does
15:07something that thinking about never
15:10will. Let me show you what that looks
15:12like. I had a young Internet mind valley
15:14once. He was a refugee working at our
15:16office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On his
15:18three most important questions, he wrote
15:19that he wanted to become a published
15:21author, to stand up for human rights,
15:24and to speak at great institutions of
15:25the world. Now, back then, he had a
15:28blog. This was in the era when blogging
15:30was still a big thing.
15:33His blog got incredibly popular.
15:35And one day, he was given the
15:37opportunity to write a book because of
15:39his blog. His book got incredibly
15:41popular. And not only did he get that
15:43book deal, he got invited to speak at
15:46Google. He got invited to speak at the
15:48Oslo Freedom Forum.
15:50Almost word for word what he'd written
15:53on his three most important questions.
15:55He didn't wish it into existence. He got
15:57clear, and then he said yes to the doors
16:00he could finally see. Everyone who joins
16:03my company, and I employ hundreds of
16:04people, they write down their three most
16:06important questions and stick it on a
16:08giant board in the office as a
16:10declaration of who they intend to be.
16:12But also, it's a really cool way for my
16:14team to understand each other. And to
16:17find allies and and collaborators as
16:20they go on their goals. See, clarity is
16:22not a passive thing, but it cannot help
16:24you hit a target you've never honestly
16:27named. So now you know what to aim for.
16:29Step five is how you become the person
16:31who actually gets there. And it's the
16:34strangest tool I own. The next step is
16:37to rewrite it, and I need you to be
16:38clear about something first. This is not
16:42affirmations. Here's why affirmations
16:44fail. You stand in the mirror and you
16:46say, "I am wealthy." And that little
16:48voice in the back of your head
16:50immediately says, "No, you're not. Have
16:52you seen your bank account?
16:55You couldn't afford pizza last night."
16:57You've started an argument with
16:58yourself, and the old belief wins
17:00because the old belief has evidence.
17:03So instead, I use the technique called
17:05lofty questions.
17:07Instead of declaring, "I am healthy,"
17:09you ask, "Why is it so easy for me to be
17:12healthy, lean, and full of energy?"
17:15You ask, "Why am I building a passive
17:17income stream for me to live the type of
17:19life I want?" You ask, "Why is so easy
17:22for me to write pages of my book every
17:25single day?" You ask, "Why is my skin so
17:29healthy, clear, and resilient?" You ask,
17:31"Why does my body burn fat so easily?"
17:34Now, this is the weird thing, okay?
17:36Rather than making affirmation, you
17:38actually ask a question. Lofty questions
17:40start with why, if you haven't noticed.
17:43Why?
17:44Your brain cannot argue with a question.
17:47It's built to hunt for answers. So,
17:49instead of resisting, by changing an
17:51affirmation to a lofty question, you are
17:53summoning your brain to start seeking.
17:56Well,
17:57I do enjoy moving my body.
17:59I did like that meal. It is a powerful
18:01technique. And let me prove it with my
18:04own body. January 2016, I turned 40.
18:08And I remember on my birthday, I got in
18:10front of the mirror and I took off my
18:12shirt and I looked at my body and I was
18:14seriously disappointed. I'd missed all
18:16my health goals. I was chubby. I'd
18:18failed my health goal to run a marathon.
18:21I'd failed my health goal to lose
18:22weight, even though
18:24over the past decade, I'd been on
18:26multiple diets. I'd hired the fitness
18:28trainer. I'd even like starved myself
18:31for 3 days on some stupid water and
18:33juice diet that had no results on me and
18:36just made me sick.
18:37But instead of beating myself up,
18:40I decided But it was around then that I
18:42learned the lofty question technique.
18:44I'd learned it before, but I just never
18:46applied it. But at my 40th birthday,
18:48looking at myself in the mirror, I
18:50decided, "Okay, I'm I'm going to try
18:51this then."
18:53And so, I started repeating the
18:54following lofty question to myself. "Why
18:57do I have the fit muscular body of an
18:58athlete?"
18:59I didn't declare, "I have the fit
19:01muscular body of my of an athlete." That
19:03would have created resistance. I asked,
19:05"Why?"
19:06And somehow, it seemed to sink into my
19:08subconscious.
19:10About 6 weeks later, almost accident, I
19:14was at a conference in Costa Rica and I
19:17meet this guy, Eric Edmeades, who had
19:19started a nutrition program called
19:21WildFit and he hadn't actually published
19:22it to the world. It was just for himself
19:26and, you know, his close friends. So,
19:28I'm at this mastermind in Costa Rica and
19:30Eric was receiving an award because many
19:33authors and experts who were in this
19:35mastermind had lost weight on WildFit.
19:37And after receiving his award, he
19:39announced that he was going to do a
19:4090-day guidance for anyone who was
19:42interested, completely free.
19:44I had nothing to pay and nothing to
19:45lose, I decided to sign up. In 90 days,
19:50my body transformed. I went from 22%
19:52body fat to 14% body fat and I finally
19:55hit my health goal.
19:57Now, that was 2016, that was 10 years
19:59ago. Today, I still sit at 14% body fat.
20:04In 10 years, my body has stayed healthy
20:07and based on my longevity markers, I'm
20:09proud to say I have the body of someone
20:1020 years younger. A simple, lofty
20:13question locked in an identity.
20:17That identity
20:18caused my body to actually adapt. It
20:22also caused me to find the right
20:23teachers, find the right trainers, find
20:25the right protocols, helped me step into
20:27that identity.
20:29Behavior followed that identity.
20:31Consciousness engineering happens when
20:34you restructure your model of reality.
20:36My model became, I have to fit healthy
20:38body of an athlete.
20:40That causes my systems of living to
20:42upgrade itself. When you update your
20:44phone, you can take on more advanced
20:46apps and I could just take on more
20:48advanced eating pro choices, more
20:51advanced exercise choices, but it all
20:53starts with upgrading your model of
20:56reality. The identity followed and the
20:59behavior followed the identity. That's
21:01the sequence and almost everybody runs
21:03it backwards. There's a quick test for
21:05whether your question will work. I use
21:08the word lofty. Does it lift your
21:10energy?
21:11Does it put you in ownership of your
21:14reality? In other words, is it something
21:16that you can control? Does it focus on
21:18your future self?
21:20T, does it ring true to your values?
21:23And Y, does it make you say yes to life?
21:27If it does, it will work for you.
21:29Now, there's a video I created just on
21:32this one technique, lofty questions. And
21:34to be very fair, I learned this
21:36technique from a mystic in Chicago. And
21:40I know that sounds weird. We don't think
21:41of Chicago as a place where mystics
21:43live, but I swear this is true. Her name
21:45is Christie Marie Sheldon. I've not been
21:48able to trace her since, but if you want
21:51to go deeper in this technique and craft
21:52your lofty questions, follow this
21:54channel and watch my dedicated video on
21:59the lofty questions technique. Now, I
22:01have to say the hard thing because it's
22:03the only thing that creates real
22:05urgency.
22:07More than 7,000 people die every hour,
22:11and most of them never become who they
22:14could have been. Not because they didn't
22:16have the capacity, but because they kept
22:19filing it under someday.
22:22Your time is the one currency you cannot
22:24earn back. So, the last two steps are
22:26not optional extras. The difference
22:28between watching a video about your life
22:30and actually changing it. The next step
22:33is to fuel it. Here's the biggest
22:36mistake in how you've been bought to
22:37chase a better life.
22:39You've been told
22:40that happiness is the reward you get
22:42when you finally arrive. This is exactly
22:44backwards. Happiness is the fuel that
22:46gets you there. Most people live in
22:49what's called the forward gap. You stare
22:51at the distance between where you are
22:53and where you want to be. This is where
22:56you are now.
22:57This is a fantasy of the future, the
22:59happy future where you've gotten the
23:01love, the money, the apartment, the
23:03body, but this is the problem. Most
23:06people live in this forward gap. You tie
23:09all your happiness to a future outcome.
23:12But chasing the future is like chasing
23:13the horizon. The closer you get to it,
23:15the further it goes.
23:17It's a horizon problem. You hit the
23:19goal, the horizon moves, and you're
23:21still not happy.
23:22You just set a further goal. You can
23:24spend an entire life one achievement
23:26away from being allowed to feel good.
23:28The fix is what we call the reverse gap.
23:31You turn around and you measure how far
23:33you have already come. You think about
23:35where you were 1 year ago, 2 years ago,
23:38and you look at how much has changed.
23:41And this isn't soft, it's measurable.
23:44Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough ran
23:46a study where one group wrote down five
23:48things that they were grateful for from
23:50the past week, okay? And gratitude, that
23:53is reverse gapping. It's thinking about
23:55how far you have come. Now, this is what
23:58they found. The gratitude group came out
24:01roughly 25% happier. 25% from writing
24:06what they were grateful for in a
24:07notebook. Not 25% happier from 25% more
24:11money, or 25% more weight loss, or 25%
24:14more sex, just from reflecting how far
24:16they had come. I call the discipline of
24:18being happy now on purpose daily. Now,
24:21to give credit where this is due, this
24:23particular technique I learned from an
24:26entrepreneurial coach called Dan
24:27Sullivan, okay? Amazing guy, amazing
24:30writer. You can look this up in his
24:32books. In my books, I call the
24:34discipline of being happy now on purpose
24:38daily blisscipline. And here's why it
24:42isn't an indulgent.
24:44Happiness in the present is the single
24:46greatest performance enhancer there is.
24:48Happy people are more creative, more
24:51resilient, better at solving problems,
24:53and they make better decisions.
24:56Now, combine the two. Genuine happiness
24:58in the present plus a bold vision of
25:00your future. That combination is where
25:04you move into a stage where it feels as
25:06if you're bending reality. And it is the
25:08most productive state a human being can
25:11be in.
25:12So, step six, stop positioning your
25:14happiness until you've changed your
25:16life. Use it as the thing that changes
25:19it, which leaves one problem.
25:21Everything I've given you so far is an
25:24insight. And insights you don't practice
25:27are gone by Thursday. So, step seven is
25:30how you make all of it stick. The final
25:33step is to install it.
25:35You need a daily practice. Mine takes 15
25:38to 20 minutes and it's built into
25:40something I call the six-phase
25:42meditation. It's not about emptying your
25:44mind or sitting in pain for an hour.
25:46It's six specific things in a deliberate
25:49order. And you can do it in the chair
25:52you're sitting in right now. I wrote a
25:53best-selling book about the topic, and
25:55the six-phase meditation has been used
25:57by everyone from world-class athletes to
26:00R&B stars to famous actors because this
26:04technique works. And it's used by
26:06approximately a million people. You can
26:08get the full six-phase meditation for
26:10free by following this channel. I'm
26:12about to launch a video where I'm going
26:14to teach the technique and give you the
26:16guided meditation. So, follow this
26:18channel and stay tuned. The six-phase
26:20meditation goes through six unique
26:23scientific methodologies to in study and
26:26actually have an impact on your
26:27happiness levels and your well-being.
26:30Phase one, compassion. You generate a
26:32feeling of connection and goodwill
26:34towards other living beings because
26:36connection is it's a biological need,
26:39not a luxury. Phase two, gratitude. We
26:41spoke about that. Gratitude is living in
26:45the reverse gap. Okay?
26:47Phase three is forgiveness. You to peace
26:50with someone you're holding a charge
26:52against. Resentment's like a stone in
26:54the shoe. It slows every single step you
26:56take. The first three phases are all
26:58about present state emotions.
27:00The next space, four, five, and six are
27:02about future emotions. So, phase four is
27:05where you visualize a vision for your
27:07future. You see the life you've been
27:09building 3 years out in color. Phase
27:12five is mastering your day. You practice
27:15a unique technique where you walk
27:17through the day ahead and watch it
27:19unfold perfectly. This primes your brain
27:21to actually create it. And phase six is
27:24a blessing. You end feeling supported
27:26and held however you personally
27:28understand that. So, you step into your
27:30day from strength instead of anxiety.
27:32Now, what I'm actually going to do right
27:34now is give you the first space for free
27:36just to give you a taste of this. And
27:38this first space, which is expansion of
27:40compassion, is rooted in lessons from
27:42Zen Roshi Buddhism.
27:44Here's what I want you to do.
27:46Put your attention on your heart. Close
27:48your eyes.
27:49Now, picture someone you love. See them
27:51clearly.
27:53See their face in front of your mind.
27:57As if they're right there.
27:59Notice their eyes. Notice their nose.
28:00Notice their their jawline. Their hair.
28:04In your mind.
28:06And feel the love you feel for them.
28:09You don't need them to be in the same
28:10room. They could be across an ocean.
28:12But just seeing them and feeling that
28:14love changes your resilience.
28:17Enhances your health.
28:19Now, take a deep breath. And as you
28:21exhale, expand that love to fill the
28:23entire room you're in.
28:26And see that same level of love
28:28expanding to everyone in this room.
28:30If you're at home, too.
28:31Every member of your household,
28:32including pets, plants.
28:35If you're in an office, too. Everyone in
28:36your office. Even the annoying ones.
28:39Now, take another deep breath.
28:41And as you exhale, feel that love expand
28:44to fill the entire city street or block
28:46you're in. And everyone on that street?
28:49The man trimming the hedges.
28:51The angry driver tooting [music] his
28:53horn. Now, take another deep breath.
28:56And as you exhale, expand that love to
28:57fill the entire city and everyone in the
29:00city, all life.
29:03Even the annoying drunk on the street
29:05corner.
29:08The grocer whom you buy
29:10your groceries from.
29:14The bartender
29:15that serves you drinks. Anyone in your
29:18city, just pick a few random faces.
29:20Now, take a deep breath.
29:22And as you exhale, expand this love to
29:24fill everyone in your country. Yes, even
29:26people who [music] vote differently from
29:28you or have different opinions. Just
29:30feel that love.
29:33And now, the final phase.
29:34Take a deep breath.
29:36And feel your love expand to fill the
29:38entire planet Earth, all countries, all
29:39people, all life, all plants, all
29:41animals.
29:42See the Earth in front of you.
29:46Filled with the light of your [music]
29:48love.
29:51And for many of you, this light might
29:53have a unique color, light blue, pink,
29:54whatever it is, just see that light. See
29:56planet Earth.
30:00That's it. Open your eyes. That's just
30:01phase one. Takes a few minutes, but
30:03studies show it actually calms you down.
30:07And this effect of calming you down can
30:09be measured in terms of HRV. Your aura
30:11ring measures that. And you should see
30:13an HRV boost that lasts the entire day.
30:17This is what the HeartMath Institute
30:18has proven. Now, that was just a few
30:20seconds.
30:21But notice how powerful it felt.
30:24Now, imagine what happens when you do
30:25phase two, three, four, five, and six
30:27stacked on top of that.
30:30It installs everything we've talked
30:31about, gratitude, vision, forgiveness,
30:33identity, into your nervous system
30:36before the world gets its hands on you.
30:38Because most people wake up and
30:40immediately hand their mind to their
30:42phone, their inbox, the news, and let
30:45the culturescape reprogram them all over
30:47again, every single morning. This
30:50practice is how you reprogram
30:52and stand firm in yourself first.
30:56And when you run this long enough, you
30:58end up somewhere most people don't even
31:01know exist. So, here's your sequence
31:03clean. One, see the code, find the
31:06rules of rules too. Prove it to
31:08yourself. Believe success software.
31:11Three, choose your road, grow on
31:13purpose. Four, aim it, your real end
31:16goals using the three questions. Five,
31:20rewrite it. Lofty questions, not
31:22affirmations. Six, feel it. Happiness
31:25first, not last. And seven, install it,
31:28a daily practice. So, none of this
31:30depends on how you feel on a given
31:32Tuesday.
31:33This is not motivation.
31:35That is a method, and a methods work
31:38whether or not you feel inspired. So,
31:40start with step seven. It's the one that
31:42installs the other six. I've made the
31:44full guide at Mindvalley to the six
31:46phase. I'll take you through all six,
31:47start to finish. It's on your screen
31:50right now. I'm going to release a mini
31:53course on the six phase completely free
31:57in the next two months. You can also get
31:59this mini course when it comes out with
32:02the link below this channel where you
32:03can subscribe to my newsletter. I write
32:06to you one to two times a week, and I
32:08update you on new videos like this, plus
32:11new incredible techniques or ideas that
32:13I've discovered through the Mindvalley
32:15ecosystem. Okay, and when we announce
32:17this new course, you will be one of the
32:18first to know, and it's completely free.
32:21I made it free because the six phase
32:23meditation is just something I want to
32:25get out to as many people as possible.
32:27Scroll down below to get the link to
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