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0:00the idea that whatever you believe about
0:02the world becomes true for the world it
0:05is about what are your fundamental ideas
0:07about the world that you believe and are
0:10convinced are true if you change that
0:13that is the most important trigger for
0:16transformation what you believe about
0:18someone else
0:19will affect how they show up to you if
0:22you believe your partner is lazy he or
0:25she is more likely to be lazy if you
0:27believe something about your child they
0:29are more likely to reflect that
0:30[Music]
0:39yesterday there were two really big
0:41topics that I covered with you guys and
0:43the one of those topics was the idea of
0:45growth mindset the idea of living with a
0:49deliberate intention to continuously
0:51grow and I mentioned of all the things
0:54that we cover in growth mindset
0:56The Fifth Element is the most important
0:58and that is crafting your identity this
1:02is something that I wish people would
1:04teach our children in schools the idea
1:07that whatever you believe about the
1:09world becomes true for the world
1:11do you remember that story with Sarah
1:13madani yesterday Sarah spoke about how a
1:17eating disorder that she had was healed
1:20in a one hour hypnotherapy session with
1:24Marissa up here now what's going on in a
1:26situation like that is that hypnotherapy
1:29is going into your subconscious and
1:31making you believe something new about
1:33the world what you believe about the
1:35world often becomes what is true for the
1:37world in my book the Buddha and the
1:38badass I call this the act of identity
1:41shifting
1:42so what we're going to do here is I'm
1:45going to teach you how to self-hypnotize
1:47yourself you're going to learn a
1:49protocol in this presentation to craft
1:52new identities for yourself related to
1:54health or Wellness or experiencing life
1:57with ease and then you're going to learn
1:58how to implant those identities in your
2:01mind and the implantation process is so
2:04fast so quick so easy even though it
2:07sounds so disturbing when I say
2:09implantation process that you are going
2:11to see results really fast we're going
2:13to show you essentially how to master
2:15your mind now to understand this the
2:17first thing you got to understand is
2:18this concept
2:20so in my book The Code the Buddha and
2:22the badass I wrote this quote down the
2:25universe acts as a mirror it reflects
2:28back to you what you are the miracle of
2:30this is that you can shift your identity
2:32and the world will obey the universe
2:34will not give you what you want but will
2:37reflect back to you who you are now let
2:40me explain further this idea came
2:42because around 2019 in may we were
2:45hosting a big mind Valley event in
2:47Portugal it's called afest and one of
2:49the speakers who was on stage then was
2:51this amazing man Reverend Michael
2:53Beckwith so we were having breakfast one
2:55morning just discussing how the day was
2:56going to unfold and Michael Beckwith is
2:59the individual who has been in more
3:00documentary films than any other teacher
3:03of wisdom he was also in the movie The
3:05Secret so I said Michael it's been 20
3:08years since that movie that secret given
3:10everything you've learned right now
3:12would you teach anything differently and
3:15he said absolutely Vision I would teach
3:17that the law of attraction is incomplete
3:20fact the law of attraction is actually
3:23probably not going to work for most
3:26people and backward went on to say this
3:28the more important thing is the law of
3:31resonance the universe will not give you
3:33what you want it will reflect back to
3:36you who you are
3:38what this means is that what you believe
3:40to be true about yourself will be
3:44reflected back to you by the universe
3:46now we're going to put this aside for a
3:48second and I'm going to go into how we
3:51grow and then we're going to come back
3:52to the law of resonance and you're going
3:53to see how this connects so we grow in
3:57terms of transformational theory through
3:58two things we grow by shifting our
4:00models of reality so our models are what
4:02we believe about the world so somebody
4:04who believes that the world is painful
4:07and tough will experience a world that's
4:09painful in top you believe in a world of
4:10abundance you will experience abundance
4:13now
4:15if you think about your mind as a
4:17computer computers have hardware and
4:19software so this is one of the early
4:21Macintosh computers hardware and
4:24software
4:25your models of reality are like your
4:28Hardware
4:29your systems for living are like your
4:31software so what are systems for living
4:33it's your diet it's what you eat it's
4:36maybe your sleep ritual it is what you
4:39learn culturally in terms of raising
4:41your child it's the exercise routine
4:43that you do it's your procedure for
4:46kickstarting your day when you get to
4:47work these are all systems that you
4:50learn
4:51many people focus on systems so we go to
4:53a gym we take yoga classes all of these
4:55are systems the systems however are the
4:58software of your being we forget to look
5:02at the hardware the hardware is what
5:06actually causes the change so let me
5:08give you an example this is Jim quick so
5:10when Jim quick gets on stage and he
5:12gives you a new model of reality when
5:15Jim quick says creativity is something
5:17you is not something you have it's
5:19something you do he's working on your
5:21Hardware he's giving you a new belief
5:23about creativity
5:25that is a model of reality when Marissa
5:28appear hypnotizes someone she's
5:30implanting in them a new belief that is
5:32a hardware shift so just like in all
5:35computers you can take out a hard drive
5:37that maybe is too small and put in a
5:40more powerful hard drive you can take
5:42out beliefs that don't serve you and put
5:44in healthier beliefs now let's talk
5:47about systems when Jim quick does his
5:49quoting thing that's a system it's a
5:51practice when you study yoga when you do
5:5410x when you take up wildfit all of
5:57these are systems systems are habits but
6:00models of reality are beliefs so going
6:04back to the analogy of the computer what
6:06we are seeking to do is to continually
6:08upgrade your computer to go from an
6:10early Mac to a modern Mac but to do this
6:13it's not just about the software it's
6:15not about the apps you install the yoga
6:19class that you do or the the
6:22um the diet that you take on it is about
6:24what are your fundamental ideas
6:27about the world that you believe and are
6:30convinced are true if you change that
6:33that is the most important trigger for
6:36transformation
6:37and if you want and if you guys heard of
6:39this book psycho cybernetics by Maxwell
6:41mounts this book was written in the 80s
6:44and uh my dad's in the audience this was
6:46one of the books that I found on my
6:48dad's bookshelf that completely changed
6:50my life so Maxwell miles was a plastic
6:52surgeon and he found that when he gave
6:54someone a nose job he changed even the
6:57slightest thing about their appearance
6:58that their friends didn't notice so he
7:01would adjust something about a person's
7:03nose even their friends or their mother
7:05wouldn't notice
7:06but they would feel different and all of
7:09a sudden they would start getting
7:10promotions in their career all of a
7:12sudden they would start dating the
7:13person of their dreams what exactly was
7:15going on so Maxwell miles went on to say
7:17it's no exaggeration to say that every
7:20human being is hypnotized to some extent
7:22either by ideas he has uncritically
7:25accepted from others or ideas he has
7:27repeated to himself and convinced
7:29himself to be true we all are hypnotized
7:32but we don't know we're hypnotized
7:35so here's another really fascinating
7:36study now this one was really intriguing
7:38how many of you here slap on cologne or
7:41perfume when you go out okay great
7:45the people who raise their hands those
7:46of you who are not raising their hands
7:48sniff them see how good they smell like
7:50learn from them
7:53so the the rest of you smelly buggers
7:55might want to consider learning a new
7:58system spraying on cologne okay so
8:00spraying on cologne is a system
8:02but there's an interesting belief
8:04associated with that as well and it
8:07turns out that the belief is more
8:08powerful than the system so in this
8:09study they took men and they had men
8:12walk into a room and stand in front of a
8:16camera and just introduce themselves now
8:20these cap these men who were introducing
8:22themselves in the camera they were being
8:24shown on video to women and women had to
8:27rate the men in order of attractiveness
8:29now they did one little twist there were
8:32certain Men Who as they walked into the
8:34room they were asked they were given a
8:37really expensive cologne and they are
8:39saying spray this on this is so good
8:41look at this brand just pray this
8:43cologne on it'll make you feel good now
8:45it turns out that the man who had
8:47sprayed on the cologne on camera was
8:51shown were deemed to be more attractive
8:53by women it's as if spraying on the
8:55cologne gave them a new identity of
8:58attractiveness the women were watching
9:00this on on a screen they could not smell
9:02the men but the men felt different when
9:05they sprayed on cologne how many of you
9:07here feel different when you spray on
9:09cologne or perfume
9:10how many of you here feel different when
9:12you wear a suit
9:14this is why I wear suits I just found
9:16that I performed better when I'm
9:18training or in a business setting when I
9:20wear suits these little things change
9:22our beliefs even though someone may not
9:25be able to smell your cologne they are
9:27subtle things that you're doing
9:28differently that cause them to deem you
9:31as more attractive the belief however
9:33the model of reality is more powerful
9:35than the actual system which is the act
9:37of spraying on so if any one of you read
9:40the book sapiens by yuwal Hariri
9:43you while says the difference between us
9:45and animals is that human babies are
9:48like molten glass they can be molded and
9:50shaped into anything this is why a child
9:54can grow up to be a peacemaker or a
9:57warmonger a Buddhist or Christian or a
9:59Muslim rich or poor we shape our little
10:03baby humans with beliefs from the time
10:06they are young and many of you are
10:08carrying the beliefs that were implanted
10:10in you by your parents from as early as
10:13being in the womb so here's another
10:15crazy study fit Hotel mates so in this
10:19study
10:20the researchers were wondering why is it
10:22that so many hotel maids in the United
10:24States are clinically obese and have
10:27really bad Health even though if you
10:29actually look at their job they are
10:30running up and down stairs they are
10:32flipping over mattresses they are
10:34vacuuming they're actually taking 10 000
10:36steps a day so they credit this fake
10:38research project they interviewed the
10:39maids and they were just the the
10:42hypothesis of the project is that as far
10:44as the maids thought is that these
10:45researchers wanted to measure their
10:47health and well-being for insurance but
10:50at the end of asking these Maids
10:51questions the researcher said this wow
10:55Matilda did you know that based on what
10:57you're telling me you are walking 10 000
11:00steps a day and doctors say that is
11:02really good you must feel so healthy you
11:06are doing such great things for your
11:07body that's it
11:09now one month later they go back a day
11:12check the maids and their help
11:14biomarkers all the maids who were given
11:17that statement were suddenly healthier
11:20you see these maids in their mind never
11:22saw vacuuming or walking upstairs or
11:26hurling or making a bed as exercise but
11:29when the researcher told them to see it
11:30as exercise all of a sudden their bodies
11:33responded so it turns out it's not even
11:35the exercise you do it's do you perceive
11:38what you do as exercise now this is not
11:41an excuse to say I'm gonna eat peanut
11:43butter and jelly sandwiches every day
11:44and the act of chewing that sandwich is
11:46exercise there are limitations right but
11:49if you tell yourself that as I walk as I
11:53Pace I I take calls from home as I pace
11:56and I'm on on my airports in a meeting I
11:59am giving my body the exercise that
12:01needs your body will respond now it
12:04turns out that it doesn't your beliefs
12:06don't just affect you they will affect
12:08everyone around you remember that story
12:11of how men became more attractive even
12:13on camera when they spray on cologne
12:15same thing is true for a woman when she
12:17does her hair or when she puts something
12:19on but it your beliefs affect other
12:22people what you believe about someone
12:23else
12:25will affect how they show up to you if
12:28you believe your partner is lazy he is
12:31he or she is more likely to be lazy if
12:33you believe something about your child
12:35they are more likely to reflect that
12:37this is really weird 1968 pygmillion
12:41effect experiment so what happened is
12:43they lied to teachers they told teachers
12:46that Tom Ali and Sarah in their class
12:49were gifted students that they had aced
12:52this incredible exam on IQ and they told
12:55the teachers you are not allowed to
12:57teach to treat them any differently
12:58you're not allowed to tell them that
13:00they are gifted just know that they are
13:02gifted at the end of the Academic Year
13:05Tom Ali and Sarah scored grades way
13:08higher than all of the other students
13:09something about the teacher's
13:11expectation of the child actually
13:13influenced the child what does this tell
13:15you about how you see your kids even how
13:18you see your boyfriend and girlfriend
13:20how you expect someone to respond what
13:23you expect of people literally
13:25creates them your mind is creating
13:29everything about the world around you
13:31every relationship around you is also
13:34being created around by your mind in
13:36fact the people around you can be
13:38elevated by your mind or they can be
13:41pulled down that is how powerful your
13:43mind is so in the book Atomic habits the
13:46author James Clear shares another really
13:49fascinating psychological experiment how
13:52many of you here have trouble going to
13:53the gym raise your hand it's okay no
13:55one's judging we all have trouble
13:57including me right I was so busy this
13:59past weekend I missed two gym sessions
14:02but that's unusual usually I love going
14:05to the gym because I adopted this mental
14:08trick from James clear so James said
14:10this
14:11there are three ways to create a desire
14:14a habit a movement the first is outcome
14:17outcome means you tell yourself I want
14:20to lose five kilograms and he says
14:23that's okay some people are going to be
14:24motivated by that to go to the gym but
14:27outcome based desires not very effective
14:31there will be mornings when you will
14:32wake up and you'll go oh man it's so so
14:34cold outside and I didn't sleep well and
14:37Christina says I need to practice
14:39self-love so I'm gonna love myself in
14:41bed and keep myself warm that's outcome
14:44right
14:46not very effective then there's process
14:48processes you tell yourself I'm gonna go
14:51to the gym two times a week practice the
14:5310x protocol for precisely 20 minutes
14:55each it's better you're more likely to
14:58go to the gym but it's not the most
15:00effective the most effective is an
15:02identity
15:03an identity says James Clare is you tell
15:05yourself I have the body of an athlete
15:09and my body loves to work out
15:13if you Embrace that identity to the
15:15point where you stop believing it you
15:17will never miss a gym session you just
15:19can't because when you wake up in the
15:21morning as tired as you are you will
15:23feel this impulse that your body loves
15:25to work out it turns out identity
15:28hacking is the best way to install a
15:30habit
15:32so back to Michael baquit the universe
15:34will not give you what you want rather
15:36it will reflect back to you what you are
15:38this is not just spiritual beliefs this
15:41is now proven in science
15:44as James Clear mentioned identity
15:46hacking is the best way to create any
15:48type of behavior so
15:50I want to share with you seven
15:52identities that I believe we need to
15:54take on seven enhanced models of reality
15:57that if you walk out of this door today
16:00your entire life will change are you
16:02guys ready
16:03so the first one is this glycipline
16:07discipline is the idea that you do
16:10better when you're happy so if you're
16:12having a stressful day and you are
16:13feeling a little bit sad don't pour
16:15yourself back into work do something to
16:18elevate happiness there's a lot of
16:20research right now that says that
16:22happiness fuels productivity
16:24sales people sell 55 better when they're
16:27happy doctors are 19 better at diagnosis
16:30when they're happy that's a remarkable a
16:32remarkable book on this called The
16:33Happiness Advantage discipline is the
16:35discipline that your bliss is the most
16:38important thing and I want to share with
16:40you a really interesting series of
16:42lessons on discipline
16:44let me read you this poem one of my
16:45favorite poems ever I was early thought
16:48to work as well as play my life has been
16:51one long happy holiday full of work full
16:53of play I dropped the worry on the way
16:56and God was good to me every day
16:59this poem sounds like it was written by
17:00a 19 year old it's super simplistic
17:02seems very innocent right life was being
17:05one long happy holiday really really
17:09your life has always been a happy
17:11holiday full of work and full of play
17:13this guy sounds like he's just not the
17:16most productive person you want to hire
17:17in your company
17:18never worried drop the warrior along the
17:21way God was good to me every day
17:22seriously believing in God that's like
17:24so like 19th century
17:26but it turns out this poem was actually
17:29written by John D Rockefeller the
17:31richest man who ever lived in the last
17:33150 years richer even than Elon Musk he
17:37wrote this poem at 86. you see we think
17:40that hard work that hustle that the
17:43grind Is What It Takes successful John
17:46Rockefeller didn't look at his words he
17:49had the right beliefs about reality work
17:52and play equally important drop the
17:55worry because God has your back the
17:58theory of the benevolent universe so
18:00what you believe about the world is
18:01going to give to you now this is a
18:03lesson I learned recently when I was
18:05interviewing Mustafa salamer who lives
18:07here in Dubai so he is one of only 20
18:09people in the world who has skied to the
18:11North and South Pole and climb all seven
18:14of the tallest mountains in the seven
18:16continents right Maria came very close
18:19that Muhammad salomar is one of 20 who
18:21did that and I asked him you know when
18:24you are he's almost died so many times
18:26and I said when you're pushing yourself
18:27in these uncomfortable situations in the
18:30sure cold and the agony of a blizzard
18:32what keeps you going and he said
18:35Bliss
18:37but I I look at where I am I look at the
18:40pain the the the
18:42fierceness of Nature and I just feel
18:45happiness in there I learned that from
18:48my Sufi training see happiness in
18:50everything you do and that's how I
18:52became one of only 20 people to
18:55accomplish this and by the way this man
18:57grew up in a refugee camp
19:00he worked five years washing dishes he's
19:02basically a dishwasher a Palestinian
19:05refugee dishwasher who got a job at a
19:07restaurant in London washing dishes for
19:09five years couldn't speak any English
19:11and today he's one of the world's
19:13greatest explorers
19:14discipline now let's go on to the second
19:18idea immunity to overwhelm how many of
19:21you here experience stress or overwhelm
19:23how many of you here understand that
19:25stress is bad for you and can kill you
19:27raise your hand
19:29okay so stress can kill you and stress
19:31is bad for you what if that belief is
19:33simply not true
19:35there's a TED Talk by Kelly McGonagall
19:38where she shares a really interesting
19:41set of research it turns out if you
19:44believe stress is going to kill you your
19:47body will experience negative health
19:50effects of stress but if you believe
19:52stress is not going to hurt your body
19:55you do not experience any negative
19:57health effects of stress
19:59stress is a complete mental construct
20:03that you are making up
20:06you can be trained
20:08[Applause]
20:11you can be trained to completely be
20:15immune to overwhelm you can be trained
20:18to elevate your stress response it's
20:20literally easier than you think someone
20:23like Elon Musk is the CEO of five
20:25companies and you think your job is
20:28tough
20:29it turns out that how you talk to
20:32yourself will determine your body's
20:33response to stress I had a manager at
20:35Mindvalley and she every time somebody
20:37asked her asked her if she they could
20:38arrange a meeting or something she would
20:39say you know guys I'm so busy she
20:42changed her self-talk whether she'd say
20:43hey I'm fully optimized today look at my
20:46calendar I'm fully optimized but I can
20:48meet with you next week that simple
20:50change she told me changed her reaction
20:52to stress
20:53Kelly McGonagall goes deeper in her Ted
20:55Talk watch the Ted Talk it is
20:57fascinating and if you want to train
20:59your brain to become immune to stress
21:01there is a really powerful meditation on
21:03Mindvalley if you open up the Mindvalley
21:05app click on meditations type in
21:07hypnotic trans Bliss by Paul Mckenna
21:10this meditation has transformed the
21:12lives of so many people in my team Paul
21:14McKenna you got to listen to it five
21:16days in a row it's 23 minutes Paul
21:18McKenna rewires your brain stress
21:20response and uh it will change you
21:23hypnotic transplus okay now the third
21:26one is win-win relationships we've been
21:28trained to believe that the world
21:30requires competitive competitiveness
21:32we've been trained to believe that if
21:34you break up with someone you have to
21:36hate them because love is meant to be
21:39happily ever after and how dare they
21:42break that illusion
21:43so so much of our life is trained to be
21:45a battle between two people I don't
21:47believe that I have no competitors that
21:49I dread I have no relationships
21:53um ex-relationship that I am not really
21:55good friends with
21:57because I only believe in win-win
21:59relationships but this is a belief that
22:01you can take on as well I train with a
22:03really brilliant Chinese master and one
22:06of the beliefs he says is the most
22:07important beliefs that human beings can
22:09take on is the idea that all human
22:11connections are to be win-win you create
22:14Positive Vibes and generate great energy
22:16with everyone in your life
22:19now the fourth one is inspiration on
22:21demand
22:22any of you here study the Silva method
22:25on mind Valley
22:26that is one of the most effective ways
22:28to be able to generate inspiration on
22:31demand you can also take Sonia shocket's
22:33new course Sixth Sense superpower but
22:36intuition is real and studies show that
22:39it correlates with your business
22:40performance CEOs who score well on
22:42intuition tests according to the Newark
22:44College of Engineering actually have a
22:46higher rate of profitability in their
22:48companies all of us can tap into
22:50intuition but it's something that you
22:52can train your mind to do why not
22:54believe that you can Channel wisdom and
22:57inspiration on demand
22:59the fifth is abundance oh this is the
23:01one that we have the most Hang-Ups with
23:03because we constantly hear that rich
23:06people are manipulated billionaires
23:08don't pay their taxes that to be rich
23:11means you're going to be an ass a a-hole
23:14sorry I forgot I'm in Dubai
23:16so we hear this all the time right and
23:19this actually keeps you poor there's
23:22nothing glorious about being poor you
23:24can be born in the slums of DACA then
23:26you still aspire to want to become a
23:28doctor or an engineer or a social media
23:31influencer
23:33nobody wants to be poor and there's
23:36nothing wrong with being gloriously
23:37fabulously incredibly rich either
23:41pay your taxes though
23:43so abundance really powerful belief
23:46sixth flow and ease
23:49what if life was just meant to flow in
23:52your favor professor srika marao in his
23:55mind Valley program
23:57the Quest for Personal Mastery says that
23:59the most important belief is that the
24:02Universe has my back it's called the
24:04belief of the benevolent Universe
24:06remember that poem by Rockefeller and
24:09God was good to me every day that
24:12relates to this life flows as almost as
24:15if it's blessed by luck and
24:16synchronicity it almost feels as if you
24:18are held by a benevolent universe now
24:21all of these beliefs I can tell you
24:23may be true for you or not true for you
24:26but the decision of it being true or not
24:28is not me it's not the world it's not
24:30your parents it is what you have taken
24:32on to believe so you can literally flip
24:35the switch in your brain immediately
24:37but
24:39I'm going to teach you a way to make
24:40that switch more flip with greater ease
24:44that's coming up soon
24:46one of the things I learned from one of
24:47the spiritual teachers I I I work with
24:50is this
24:51to tell myself every day I solve any
24:54problem that comes to me in a fun easy
24:57way I solve any problem that comes to me
24:59in a fun easy way rather than
25:02associating problem with stress I've
25:06started to associate problem with wow
25:09how can I solve this in a fun easy way
25:12now the final belief is bending reality
25:16your true ones seem to come to you with
25:18ease life seems easier as you are
25:21supported by benevolent universe
25:25in Sanskrit there's a word called Maya
25:28which means the illusion of reality I
25:30believe we can shift that illusion I
25:32believe reality is a construct of our
25:33minds you don't have to take that on but
25:35know that many of the most brilliant
25:38people in the world believe that because
25:40they witnessed that this is an abstract
25:43from the book Steve Jobs by Walter
25:45Isaacson Isaacson was jobs biographer
25:48and this is what Isaacson wrote about
25:50Steve at the root of his reality
25:52Distortion was job's belief that the
25:55rules didn't apply to him he had some
25:57evidence for this in his childhood he
25:59had often been able to bend reality to
26:01his desires rebelliousness and
26:03willfulness were ingrained in his
26:05character he had the sense that he was
26:07special a Chosen One an enlightened one
26:10he thinks there are few people who are
26:12special people like Einstein and Gandhi
26:14and the gurus he met in India and that
26:16he's one of them
26:17I believe Steve Jobs
26:19beliefs about himself and his ideas of
26:23reality were one of the reasons he was
26:26able to create such magical leaps in
26:28terms of inventions
26:29the iPhone that many of you carry in
26:31your pocket came from this man's beliefs
26:36and
26:37there were arguments with Steve and
26:38other people in this company in one
26:40situation Steve's former boss
26:43said that they had a debate so Steve
26:45worked for Bushnell who was the founder
26:47of Atari and they had a debate on
26:49whether things in the world were
26:51determined or programmed if we had
26:52perfect information we could predict
26:54people's actions but Steve felt the
26:56opposite that Outlook with his fate and
26:59his power of the will that Outlook
27:01accorded with his faith in the power of
27:04the will to bend reality from an early
27:06age Steve Jobs who had studied in India
27:08whose favorite book in the world was
27:10paramahansa yogananda's autobiography
27:12Yogi believed that reality was an
27:14Illusion by the way do you know that
27:17when Steve died there was only one book
27:19on his iPad according to Isaacson it was
27:21Audubon Yogi at his funeral everybody
27:24got a gift bag with that book Bill Gates
27:26walked out with autobiography of a yogi
27:28if you read that book that book is about
27:31the idea that the yogic mind can bend
27:35reality and everything we think is true
27:37in the world is nothing more than an
27:38illusion read that and maybe you'll
27:41start to understand how Steve
27:43probably the greatest inventor CEO of
27:46the last 100 years so remember this
27:49outside the rules of physics all other
27:51rules are illusions that you have chosen
27:54to believe you can smash the ones that
27:56no longer serve you
27:58are you guys ready to now start smashing
28:00them
28:02so here's how to hypnotize yourself it
28:04has to do with the power of questions
28:06now this technique comes from this
28:08Mindvalley teacher called Christy Marie
28:11Sheldon Christie Marie Sheldon is a
28:13Mystic she she goes into
28:17um her own spaces and she doesn't want
28:19to be reached on email or WhatsApp so
28:21it's harder for us to get us on stage
28:22but in 2015 I got her on stage in her
28:24program unlimited abundance is available
28:26for all of you on Mindvalley membership
28:28it is a remarkable program that removes
28:31all your beliefs that hold you back from
28:33wealth so
28:35I recorded this video with Christy one
28:37day and I forgot about it this was
28:39around January 2015. but I want you to
28:42pay attention to what she's saying
28:43because there's so much wisdom in this
28:45video it's just two minutes 50 seconds
28:49hey there this is Christy Marie Sheldon
28:51thank you so much for joining this
28:53community and bringing your positivity
28:56enjoy helping others and today I thought
28:58I would share a quick tip that I use and
29:01I teach my clients and friends the same
29:03technique so let me ask you this
29:06question
29:07how many of you have ever thought any of
29:10these questions
29:11have you ever thought how come I'm
29:13always broke or how can my life stink so
29:17much today or how did I get so many
29:20bills or how come I'm the only one that
29:23does anything around here or on a
29:25personal level maybe you've asked inside
29:27yourself how come my friends or my maid
29:29or my family isn't around for me when I
29:31need them
29:33well can I share with you a secret
29:36those type of questions are stopping you
29:39from getting what you desire they are
29:41blocks to your personal and Financial
29:43Freedom they are stripping away just
29:46literally deleting your manifestation
29:49powers
29:51how well let me give you an example
29:55I want you to think for a moment of a
29:57pink elephant
29:59okay
30:01what did you think when I asked that
30:03question you know obviously I told you
30:06to think of a pink elephant what popped
30:07into your head was pink elephant
30:10so when you ask the type of questions
30:13that I mentioned before like why am I
30:15broke or why does my life stink so much
30:18today you're basically sticking your
30:20head into negative no-win unhealthy
30:24lower vibration energy
30:26and the universe will only answer you
30:29back with all the reasons why you're
30:31broke or why you're stuck
30:33it will say to you hey here you go
30:36Stephanie or here you go don I will keep
30:38showing you all the reasons why your
30:40life stinks today and why you have so
30:43many bills so you're probably thinking
30:45why in the heck would the universe
30:46torture me like that well it's because
30:49you asked you asked for all the reasons
30:52why and the universe loved you so much
30:55it responded to your request and it
30:57showed you so my tip for the day is to
31:01ask a lofty question
31:03what's a lofty question you're probably
31:06thinking well a lofty question is a
31:08question that skyrockets you and lifts
31:11you and it skyrockers the universe into
31:13positively manifesting your dream it's
31:16an action-oriented question Ponder this
31:19type of questions from it why do I have
31:22more money than I need or why do I have
31:24more than enough money to pay my bills
31:26save money and have some left over to
31:29have some fun with that's a cool
31:32question
31:33can you see what would happen to your
31:35focus if you're thinking of ideas that
31:37generate more money then you need
31:39abundance and more than enough and that
31:42kind of energy is what's going to fall
31:43in your lap you see the universe loves
31:46you so much it will support you and
31:48answer your questions ask and it is good
31:52so try asking some lofty questions today
31:55and see what type of things you start to
31:56focus on
31:58try this lofty question on Versailles
32:00why is my life so amazing it exceeds All
32:04my expectations
32:06or how about this lofty question what's
32:08the million dollar idea that I can
32:10manifest into my life today or how about
32:13this lofty question how can the universe
32:15give me more than enough help than I
32:17ever thought possible
32:19or how about this one what kind of
32:22person can I become that will Amaze the
32:26world okay that's my tip for the day
32:29have some fun share your lofty questions
32:32and what happened for you on this
32:34website and uh let us know what happened
32:37many blessings to you and thanks for
32:39sharing in this community so that video
32:41was posted on the Mind Valley YouTube
32:43channel in January 2015 right and and I
32:47I basically filmed that with my iPhone
32:49and I was visiting Christy but it didn't
32:51sink in it didn't register about one
32:54year later I remember
32:56I turned 40 and I woke up that day I
33:00looked in the mirror and I realized I'd
33:01failed all of my health goals so this
33:03was January 2016. and somehow on that
33:07particular day I was just analyzing our
33:09YouTube channel and I see this video and
33:10I click play and I go wow this this is
33:13kind of interesting let me try this so I
33:15composed these three lofty questions and
33:18in the morning when I was doing my six
33:19face in phase four I would repeat these
33:22three lofty questions to myself why do I
33:25have to fit muscular body of an athlete
33:26what is my body healing rejuvenate
33:28itself as I sleep why is my body getting
33:30younger and younger every year
33:33now I've been going to the gym I'd hired
33:36a personal trainer I'd been on diets for
33:38the last decade from 30 to 40 but I
33:40couldn't lose the excess belly fat I
33:43couldn't like stop myself from getting a
33:46dad board
33:47I tried all of these different things
33:49nothing was working
33:51what I'm going to share next blew me
33:53away and this is why I'm so excited
33:54about lofty questions
33:56within three weeks of repeating these
33:58questions to myself I met an event in
34:00Costa Rica and I bumped into Eric edmids
34:02who offers to put me on his program
34:04called wildfit back then while fit was
34:06just something he did for his friends in
34:0890 days my body transformed two months
34:10later I bump into Lorenzo Delano who is
34:13the researcher in mind Valley who
34:14developed 10x
34:16and I had no idea that Lorenzo had this
34:19whole like bodybuilding philosophy and
34:22he ended up training me and six months
34:24from then my body changes again for a
34:27decade I was trying to just get healthy
34:29with no results when I started them
34:31planting these lofty questions not only
34:33did my body respond better but I started
34:36bumping into the right people in the
34:38right circumstance this is why I believe
34:40that our mind is not just affecting our
34:43body these questions are not just
34:44letting your body know that it needs to
34:47heal I believe these questions were
34:49literally also influence the people who
34:51come into your life the conversations
34:53you have the books you discover now I
34:56don't know if this is the brain's
34:57reticular activating system so it's
34:59making our brain more aware of pattern
35:00recognition so I'm more alert when I see
35:02Eric at needs or it's manifesting we
35:06don't have to worry about that we don't
35:08have to understand how an iPhone Works
35:10to be able to use that iPhone this is
35:12what happened to my body in a relatively
35:14short amount of time my body physically
35:16transformed I just did an age test
35:19called glycan age I'm 47 years old I
35:23have the body health of a 20 year old I
35:25have no illnesses no allergies no
35:28prescription medicine
35:32and all of you can do this as well
35:35Marissa demonstrated yesterday like we
35:37did not know that Sarah healed her
35:39eating disorder until just before going
35:41on stage Sarah told me Vision the most
35:42amazing thing happened today I ate
35:44potatoes and carbs for the first time
35:46and nothing happened I didn't have to
35:48bomb it
35:50your bodies can respond dramatically to
35:53the identity that you have chosen to
35:54take on
35:55diets don't work one percent of diets
35:58work
35:5999 do not work because diets do not work
36:02on identity while fit does while fit is
36:04based on behavioral change Dynamics it's
36:05shifting your identity 10x is based on
36:08behavioral change Dynamics but these are
36:10examples of lofty questions you can
36:13create for yourself feel free to take a
36:14picture of that okay
36:16now let's go on further let's craft a
36:20lofty question for all of those seven
36:22fundamental identity beliefs are you
36:25guys ready
36:26now before we do this let me explain why
36:29lofty questions work in the early 80s
36:31Jose Silva as he was developing the
36:33silver method already found that
36:35affirmations do not work if you tell
36:38yourself
36:39I only eat healthy foods
36:43there's a voice at the back of your head
36:45that's going to go no you don't you ate
36:47that pizza one week ago fatso we always
36:50doubt ourselves right and if you're
36:53thinking I don't have that voice that's
36:55the voice
36:57now lofty questions overwrites that
36:59voice because this humbleness that we
37:01have within us this this stubbornness
37:03this clinging to our own identity we're
37:05not disrupting that
37:07rather than say I only eat healthy food
37:09we are asking a question why do I only
37:11eat healthy food why do I only eat
37:14healthy foods why do I only eat the
37:16foods which are nurturing and nourishing
37:18for my body
37:20and for some weird reason this causes it
37:22to sink into your subconscious more your
37:25subconscious goes
37:27the big boss is asking a question
37:29let me sort this out and then your
37:31subconscious somehow responds with that
37:33new identity so these are this is how
37:36you want to do it first you want to
37:37choose your identity
37:38so I gave you seven different identity
37:40models but there's many other models you
37:42can use remember this process from James
37:44Clear
37:46second prove it to yourself with small
37:48wins so you're not just going to create
37:49a lofty question why do I only eat
37:51healthy foods the next time you go to
37:53the buffet at the Dubai hotel you're
37:55staying at just add a tiny bit more
37:57vegetables to your plate
37:59right
38:01step three when you meditate you program
38:05your identity with lofty questions so
38:07here are some of the lofty questions for
38:09Bliss why am I surrounded by Bliss and
38:11happiness no matter what you can write
38:13this down and you can repeat this to
38:15yourself the word no matter what is
38:17Elisa Nichols phraseology you'll hear
38:19from Lisa Nichols today why am I
38:21surrounded by Bliss and happiness no
38:22matter what why am I able to do so much
38:25in so little time this lofty question
38:27probably added hours to my day
38:31why am I always surrounded by love and
38:33amazing people whom I'm deeply connected
38:35to
38:37why am I so brilliant so genius and so
38:40able to tap into source for instant
38:42inspiration you can replace the word
38:44source with God or universe or whatever
38:46you resonate with abundance I love this
38:49one this came from Tony Robbins and his
38:52documentary I am not a guru I saw Tony
38:55stating this to himself in a mirror not
38:57as a lofty question but I rephrased it
38:59as a lofty question why am I so good at
39:01making keeping and multiplying money
39:03Tony's exact phrase was why do I have
39:06Avalanches of abundance falling down on
39:08me for all my dreams desires and
39:10intentions
39:12flow why does the universe always have
39:15my back or why do I solve all problems
39:18in a fun and easy way
39:20and bending reality
39:22why do my dreams and goals come to me
39:24with such ease and speed
39:27the world will reflect back to you what
39:29you truly deeply believe you are your
39:32identity will create resonance with the
39:35world okay now what we're going to do
39:37is I want to feel free to take uh
39:40pictures of this
39:42okay so these are example of the
39:44questions I want you're going to make a
39:46list of around seven or eight lofty
39:49questions I actually read 40 lofty
39:51questions to myself every single day if
39:53I forget them I have them on like my
39:55iPhone but I try to memorize them but
39:57you don't have to memorize 40. you can
39:59memorize five or six or seven here are
40:01some example of the questions for
40:02well-being okay take a picture
40:04and if you want these are example
40:06questions for creativity and inspiration
40:08again take a picture
40:12for abundance and Power
40:16and keep your cameras up this is for
40:18love and connection
40:20so all of these are useful lofty
40:23questions that you can try okay now
40:25let's actually program this into you
40:27we're going to do this in two to three
40:29minutes okay so I want you to relax so
40:32you want to repeat the lofty question to
40:34yourself in a state of meditation when
40:37you're at the alpha or relaxed level of
40:40mind you are able to better program your
40:43subconscious now yes you can repeat this
40:45to yourself anytime but it's better when
40:48you're relaxed notice a hypnotist
40:50relaxes you so where are you relaxed
40:53maybe when you're sitting in front of a
40:55warm fire when you're meditating when
40:57you're in prayer to God when you are
40:59taking a shower all of these moments are
41:02Great Moments to repeat lofty questions
41:04for now we're going to do it in a short
41:07meditative State close your eyes
41:11beautiful meditation music please
41:15I'm going to count from ten to one on
41:17each descending number you're gonna feel
41:19yourself relax and sink deeper and
41:22deeper into a level of meditation
41:2510.
41:279
41:288 deeper and deeper seven
41:34six deeper and deeper five
41:38four
41:39three
41:41two
41:43one now in a deep relaxed State of Mind
41:46deeper than before I'm gonna repeat
41:48seven lofty questions for yourself
41:52you don't have to do anything or
41:54visualize anything
41:55as you hear my voice say these questions
41:57repeat it in your voice for your mind
42:02why am I surrounded by Bliss and
42:05happiness no matter what
42:07[Music]
42:14why am I able to do so much in so little
42:18time
42:20[Music]
42:27why am I always surrounded by love and
42:31amazing people whom I'm deeply connected
42:33to
42:35[Music]
42:42why am I so brilliant thank you
42:45so genius and so able to tap into source
42:50for instant inspiration
42:51[Music]
42:59why am I so good at making keeping and
43:03multiplying money
43:08[Music]
43:13why does the universe always have my
43:16back
43:22why do my dreams and goals come to me
43:25with such ease and speed
43:29[Music]
43:32and you may now open your eyes
43:36okay so those are just seven lofty
43:38questions that I love and I use
43:41can choose to adopt those you can write
43:43your own
43:45you can literally program your body to
43:47heal and rejuvenate itself and reverse
43:49aging as you sleep you can program your
43:52body to lose weight you can program that
43:54only loving people enter your life
43:56whatever you believe about the world
43:58will literally influence the world
44:01around you and everything you
44:03experienced about the world in the past
44:04was in alignment with your past beliefs
44:07can you see how simple this technique is
44:10it takes just a few minutes and you can
44:13embed this in your meditation if you do
44:16the face six face meditation it's in
44:18phase four so thank you guys I hope you
44:21enjoyed this session
44:35[Music]

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