FOCUS ON YOU – Motivational Speech to Reclaim Your Power
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You know you want to make changes, you've got a lot you want to do in your life, but then you start thinking about those changes and you immediately start catastrophizing. You start worrying, you start thinking about all the reasons why it's not going to happen. This is so common and the reason why it's common is because somebody in your past either trained you to think this way,

or you've had so many bad things happen that you've trained yourself to assume and predict that bad things are always going to happen to you. The conscious mind with your creativity has your wishes and your desires.

The subconscious mind was programmed by other people. Your mother, your father, your siblings and your community. So what is the difference? You wake up with a wish and a desire of what you want

Then the rest of the day you play the programs that you got from other people That don't answer your wishes and don't support your desires and all you see is the consequence of it and go. Oh my god Why is it not working? The answer is because you don't see because remember the name is subconscious below conscious

So when that behavior is playing, psychologists will tell us 70% or more of the programs in the subconscious are disempowering, self-sabotaging and limiting behaviors.

But again, the powerhouse is the unconscious mind. That's the next step. That's where we have to go because all of our beliefs, all of our memories, all of our data, all of our negativity, all of it is in the unconscious mind. When we clean up the unconscious mind, then you can consciously ask for something and more often than not, you'll get it and you'll get it very fast because you won't have any interference.

The interference comes from your own unconscious mind. If you're holding on to something that does not serve you, you are making a terrible error. It's going to cause all kinds of problems. You may blame other people or other things. You may blame the situation. It's you are the cause of the problem. The man that told me to pick up this book and read it, Ray Stanford, he had a saying. He used to say to me, Bob, you're the only problem you'll ever have and you're the only solution.

I think it might have taken me five years to understand that. But I do understand it. And you know something? I am the only problem I'll ever have and I am the only solution. Don't hold on to anything that is not serving you. Reject it. You know the beautiful part about having an inductive reasoning factor? That's the part that chooses thoughts. You can accept or reject. The beautiful part of your mind, you can accept or reject anything that comes into your world. Accept or reject it. It's a choice.

Don't hold on to anything that is not serving you. Invest your energy into things that either enhance your vitality or the vitality of the world in which we're living.

Because those are places to build a better world. To invest your energy in the negative things and all that kind of stuff like that, you're building a bad world with that. And you're using your own energy. Your life gets shortened. And so the reality is consciousness is real. It's a currency. And if you use it and spend it appropriately, you can have a much better life.

Where your life is right now is not you. That's just what it is right now. But the possibilities for you are unlimited if you're in a rebuilding process. The number one thing that is going to stop you is the way that you think. Because if you can change how you think, you will, in fact, change your life.

I believe the way that you think is a choice. I believe that you are either going to repeat the thinking patterns that you've always had this year, or you can evolve them. Because when you change how you think, you will change your life.

The chemistry released by the brain and fear shuts down the growth mechanism of the body, shuts down the maintenance of the body to conserve energy. And the biggest thing is there's only one consequence and that is disease and illness. And it turns out 1% of disease on this planet is connected to genetics and 90% of disease or more is lifestyle and the psychology of love and fear. 90% and says be in love.

and your body will be maintained and your immune system will be at peak performance. Be in fear and the game is over. So most people then wait for crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis, you know, they wait for loss.

some tragedy to make up their mind to change. And my message is why wait? And you can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration. I think right now, the cool thing is that people are waking up. We've got to unlearn and relearn. We've got to break the habit of the old self, reinvent the new self. We've got to unfire and unwire and refire and rewire. We have to prune synaptic connections and sprout new connections.

unmemorized emotions stored in the body and then we have to recondition the body to a new mind and to a new emotion to stop signaling the same genes in the same way and begin to signal new genes in new ways to pull our attention and our energy out of the familiar past and begin to invest our attention and energy into a new future to go from the known to the unknown. It's necessary as you look at your goals and your dreams, it's necessary that you have a strategy and a game plan

to change the story that you believe about yourself. And that's an ongoing process. I've discovered, and many people have, that what we do, what we accomplish, what we produce is a result of the story we believe about ourselves. My favorite book says, Be ye not conformed to this world, be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

And so as I began to work on myself, I realized that I'm getting out of one story and stepping into another story. As I become aware of some things, there's still some things I'm not aware of. So I still, I'm still growing, I'm still developing. But I realized that you have to work on yourself on a regular basis, and write this down, for mental mindset. For mental mindset and stamina.

Ask yourself, what beliefs and perceptions about you and your life have you been unconsciously agreeing to that you'd have to change in order to create this new state of being? This is a question that requires some thought because as I said, with many of these beliefs, we aren't even aware that we believe them. Often, we accept certain cues from our environment that then prime us to accept certain beliefs which may or may not be true.

Either way, the moment we accept the belief, it has an effect not only on our performance but also on the choices we make. In the study about the women taking the math test who first read fake research reports about men being better than women in math, those who'd read that the advantage was due to genetics scored lower than those who'd read that the advantage was due to stereotyping. Although both reports were false, men are no better at math than women.

The women in the group who'd read that they had a genetic disadvantage believed what they'd read and then scored lower. It was the same with the white men who were told that Asians score slightly better than whites on a test they were about to take. In both cases, when the students were primed to unconsciously believe they wouldn't score as well, they in fact didn't, even though what they were told was totally false.

With this in mind, take a look at this list of some common limiting beliefs and see which ones you may be harboring without being fully aware that you're doing so. I'm not good at math. I'm shy. I'm short-tempered. I'm not smart or creative. I'm a lot like my parents. Men shouldn't cry or be vulnerable. I can't find a partner. Women are lesser than men. My race or culture is superior. Life is serious. Life is difficult and no one cares.

I'm never going to be a success. I have to work hard to make it in life. Nothing good ever happens to me. I'm not a lucky person. Things never go my way. I never have enough time. It's someone else's responsibility to make me happy. When I own this particular thing, then I'll be happy. It's hard to change reality. Reality is a linear process.

Germs make me sick. I gain weight easily. I need eight hours of sleep. My pain is normal and it'll never go away. My biological clock is ticking. Beauty looks like this. Having fun is frivolous. God is outside of me. I'm a bad person, so God doesn't love me.

I could go on forever, but you get the idea. Since beliefs and perceptions are based on past experiences, then any of these beliefs that you happen to hold about yourself came from your past. So are they true or did you just make them up? Even if they were true at some point in time, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're true now. We don't look at it that way, of course, because we're addicted to our beliefs. We're addicted to the emotions of our past.

We see our beliefs as truths, not ideas that we can change. If we have very strong beliefs about something, evidence to the contrary could be sitting right in front of us. But we may not see it because what we perceive is entirely different. We've in fact conditioned ourselves to believe all sorts of things that aren't necessarily true. And many of these things are having a negative impact on our health and happiness.

Changing beliefs may be difficult, but it's not impossible. Just think what would happen if you were able to successfully challenge your unconscious beliefs. Instead of thinking and feeling, I never have enough time to get everything done. What if you instead thought and felt, I live in no time and I accomplish everything. What if instead of believing the universe is conspiring against me, you believed.

the universe is friendly and works in my favor. What a great belief! How would you think? How would you live? And how would you walk down the street if you believe the universe works in your favor? How do you think that would change your life?

When you change a belief, you have to start by first accepting that it's possible, then change your level of energy with a heightened emotion, and finally allow your biology to reorganize itself. It's not necessary to think about how that biological reorganization will happen or when it's going to happen.

That's the analytical mind at work which pulls you back into a beta brain wave state and makes you less suggestible. Instead, you just have to make a decision that has finality and once the amplitude or energy of that decision becomes greater than the hardwired programs in your brain and the emotional addiction in your body, then you are greater than your past. Your body will respond to a new mind and you can affect real change. You already know how to do this.

Think about a time in your past when you made up your mind to change something about yourself or your life. If you recall, a moment came when you probably said to yourself, "I don't care how I feel. It doesn't matter what's going on in my life and I'm not concerned how long it will take. I'm gonna do this." Instantly, you got goosebumps. That's because you moved into an altered state of being. The moment you felt that energy, you were sending your body new information.

You felt inspired and you came out of your familiar resting state. That's because by thought alone, your body moved from living in the same past to living a new future. In reality, your body was no longer the mind. You were the mind. You were changing a belief.

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