Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

1. Quantum Physics Reveals the Power of Your Mind to Shape Reality

Your thoughts can actually make you sick. If our thoughts can make us sick, might they also make us well?

Mind-matter connection. Quantum physics has revolutionized our understanding of reality, revealing that our thoughts and observations directly influence the physical world. This principle extends beyond subatomic particles to our everyday lives. Our minds are not separate from our reality but are active participants in shaping it.

Conscious creation. By harnessing this understanding, we can consciously create our desired experiences. This involves aligning our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs with our intentions. When we do this, we send coherent signals into the quantum field, collapsing waves of possibility into tangible outcomes. This process is not mystical but grounded in scientific principles of how our consciousness interacts with the fundamental fabric of reality.

2. Break Free from Your Environment, Body, and Time to Transform Your Life

To change, then, is to think and act greater than our present circumstances, greater than our environment.

Transcending limitations. Most people are unconsciously controlled by their environment, bodily sensations, and perception of time. These factors create a feedback loop that reinforces old patterns and limits personal growth. To truly change, we must learn to think and operate beyond these constraints.

Conscious awareness. The key to breaking free is developing heightened self-awareness. This involves:

• Recognizing how your environment triggers automatic responses
• Observing your bodily reactions without being controlled by them
• Expanding your perspective beyond linear time
  By cultivating this awareness, you can interrupt habitual patterns and create space for new possibilities to emerge.

3. Overcome Survival-Based Emotions to Access Your Creative Potential

When you live in survival, you're trying to control or force an outcome; that's what the ego does. When you're living in the elevated emotion of creation, you feel so lifted that you would never try to analyze how or when a chosen destiny will arrive.

Emotional evolution. Many people are trapped in a cycle of survival-based emotions like fear, anger, and anxiety. These emotions keep us focused on immediate threats and problems, limiting our ability to envision and create a better future. By consciously shifting to elevated emotions like joy, gratitude, and love, we access our creative potential.

From survival to creation. The transition involves:

• Recognizing and releasing emotional addictions
• Cultivating elevated emotions through mindfulness and gratitude practices
• Focusing on possibilities rather than problems
• Trusting in the process of creation rather than forcing outcomes
  As we make this shift, we align ourselves with the creative forces of the universe, opening up new pathways for personal growth and transformation.

4. Harness the Three Brains: Thinking, Doing, and Being

Change all begins with thinking: we can immediately form new neurological connections and circuits that reflect our new thoughts.

Integrated transformation. True change involves aligning our thoughts (neocortex), actions (limbic brain), and state of being (cerebellum). This process creates a powerful synergy that rewires our neural pathways and establishes new patterns of behavior and experience.

The process unfolds in stages:

1. Thinking: Consciously cultivating new thoughts and beliefs
2. Doing: Taking actions aligned with these new thoughts
3. Being: Embodying the new state until it becomes automatic

By engaging all three brains, we create lasting change that permeates every aspect of our lives. This holistic approach ensures that our transformation is not just intellectual but becomes an integral part of who we are.

5. Meditation: The Key to Accessing Your Subconscious and Rewiring Your Brain

Meditation opens the door between the conscious and subconscious minds. We meditate to enter the operating system of the subconscious, where all of those unwanted habits and behaviors reside, and change them to more productive modes to support us in our lives.

Conscious reprogramming. Meditation is a powerful tool for accessing and rewiring the subconscious mind. By regularly practicing meditation, we can:

• Quiet the analytical mind and enter deeper brain wave states
• Access and modify subconscious patterns and beliefs
• Create new neural pathways aligned with our desired reality

Brain wave mastery. Different brain wave states correspond to different levels of consciousness:

• Beta: Normal waking state
• Alpha: Relaxed, creative state
• Theta: Deep meditation, access to subconscious
• Delta: Deep sleep, healing

By learning to navigate these states through meditation, we gain greater control over our mental and emotional processes, facilitating profound personal transformation.

6. Recognize and Redirect Your Limiting Thoughts and Behaviors

When you can stop a knee-jerk emotional reaction to some thing or person in your life, you are choosing to save yourself from returning to the old you that thinks and acts in such limited ways.

Self-observation. Developing the ability to recognize our habitual thoughts and behaviors is crucial for change. This involves:

• Identifying recurring emotional patterns
• Noticing automatic thoughts and reactions
• Becoming aware of unconscious behaviors

Conscious redirection. Once we recognize these patterns, we can consciously redirect them:

• Interrupting negative thought loops
• Choosing different emotional responses
• Implementing new behaviors aligned with our goals

This process of recognition and redirection gradually weakens old neural pathways while strengthening new, more empowering ones. With practice, we develop greater self-mastery and the ability to consciously shape our experiences.

7. Create and Rehearse Your New Self to Manifest Your Desired Reality

Your goal in this final step is to master a new mind in the brain as well as the body. Thus, it becomes so familiar to you that you are able to reproduce that same level of being at will and make it look natural and easy.

Mental rehearsal. Visualizing and emotionally experiencing your desired reality is a powerful tool for transformation. This process involves:

• Clearly defining your ideal self and desired outcomes
• Vividly imagining yourself embodying these qualities and experiences
• Generating the emotions associated with this new reality

Embodied practice. To make lasting change, we must move beyond mental rehearsal to embodied practice:

• Acting "as if" you are already your ideal self
• Making choices aligned with your new identity
• Consistently demonstrating your new behaviors and attitudes

By repeatedly creating and rehearsing our new self, we gradually shift our neurological and biological systems to support this new reality. This process of embodied transformation allows us to manifest our desires and live as the person we aspire to be.

Last updated: July 21, 2024