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 We're imperfect beings trying to make the best we can of a crazy world as we learn and as we grow.
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And all of us will go through moments of doubt.
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Self-doubt isn't a bad thing.
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Self-doubt keeps us humble.
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Self-doubt keeps us vulnerable.
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And so it's important to understand
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 Welcome to the School of Greatness.
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My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.
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And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
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Thanks for spending some time with me today.
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Now let the class begin.
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 Can humans influence each other with thoughts alone and with their mind?
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Can they get them to make decisions, act, buy something, date them with just thinking, without talking?
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 Yes and no.
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So no, you cannot get someone to buy something.
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You cannot get someone to date you just by thinking about it.
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There's no evidence for that.
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We can think about law of attraction, visualization, but the evidence is a bit sketchy.
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But this is what fascinates me.
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 I'm fascinated by the idea that animals of the same species can seem to connect with each other across distance.
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There are studies that have started emerging right now.
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 showing that animals sometimes that move in herds can be deeply connected to each other.
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One study which was really interesting was the study of monkeys in a particular island in Japan.
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So in a particular island, one monkey learned to use a tool in a unique way, say a piece of rock to open a shellfish.
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Very soon, all of the other monkeys imitate and learn that, and that's cool.
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 But then, when about 100 monkeys on that island have learned that particular method, the same species of monkey on a neighboring island, far away, like way beyond what an average monkey can swim, starts deploying the same tool.
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No way.
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And so...
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 scientists were wondering, is there a form of knowledge or consciousness transfer across similar species?
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Now, again, there's a whole new field of quantum biology that's emerging.
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It might help us understand it.
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We don't understand it, but we seem to see this.
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And we see this not just in science, but in spirituality.
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One of my favorite quotes on love by the Rumi is this, I can close my eyes and talk to you in a thousand silent ways.
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 And this quote means a lot to me, because right now on this trip, this is the longest I've been away from my eight-year-old daughter.
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And I felt guilty about it as a parent, because I've been on this crazy book tour.
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I've never been separated from my children for four and a half weeks, never.
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But I know they are good, and I know they know I love them, and that I haven't forgotten them, because every morning when I kick off my meditation,
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 I kick off my six-phase meditation process by seeing my daughter's face and just beaming love to her.
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Now, the question is, we know that when you do that, okay, when you see the face of someone you love and you beam love to them, we know that there's a physiological difference in your body.
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In your body, but what about their body?
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So first, let's talk about the science for your body, right?
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So what I just described, this idea of seeing the face of someone you love and beaming love to them, is actually how you kick off the six-phase meditation, which is the protocol I designed.
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 And the evidence comes from the HeartMath Institute of Los Gatos.
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So there they measure something called heart resonance, which is a biomarker of health.
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And they found that your heart resonance shows a healthier pattern almost instantaneously when you see the face of someone you love and you just feel that love for them.
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Really?
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 Crazy, right?
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And this is what you call the circle of love and compassion.
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Circle of love, and then you, and then face one of the six faces.
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It's not sitting around in a circle and singing kumbaya to people.
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It's not kumbaya, no, no, no, no.
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But it's having love and compassion for people in your life, or maybe people you don't know.
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Beaming love, yeah.
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It could be your lover, it could be your pet, it could be your child.
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 So when you do that, you relax.
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We know that.
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We know you relax.
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Not only do you relax, but you feel more compassion.
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So the way you learn it in the six phases, you learn a particular practice.
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We start with a heart-mat protocol, then we expand to a protocol from Zen, Roshi, Buddhism, where you expand that compassion
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 across the room, your home, then your city, your state, your country, then the entire world.
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And it actually puts you in a really beautiful state of open-heartedness and kindness.
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And evidence shows that when you do this, there are certain beneficial effects to your body and your mind.
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Anxiety, for example, reduces.
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You feel more socially connected to the people around you.
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 you get less triggered.
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If somebody says something that doesn't agree with you politically, if someone cuts you off in traffic, you're less likely to react.
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You have compassion.
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You have compassion.
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There are multiple books, multiple studies right now on compassion as a healing force.
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And that's why we start the sixth phase with it.
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But your question, back to your question.
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When I see my daughter, is my daughter feeling something and can we measure it?
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 There was a study on this, and this is really, really, really interesting.
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It was done by Dr. William Broad at the San Antonio Mind Science Institute several decades ago.
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So, they took two people.
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So, well, they took hundreds of people, literally hundreds of people.
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I believe it was in that study between 500 and 700 people.
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One group were senders, one group were receivers.
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Now, if you were a receiver, you were put in a room and you were hooked up to 19 different machines measuring your body.
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 So they might measure your heart rate, your skin resistance.
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When you get more relaxed, your skin resistance goes up.
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Why?
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Because micro-sweating, okay?
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When you're feeling a little bit of anxiety, when you're a little bit nervous, there are micro-sweat particles appearing on your skin.
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But when you're relaxed, that isn't happening.
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Sweat transfers electricity better, so skin resistance goes up when you are relaxed.
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 So you can measure all of these things, brainwave activity, skin resistance, heart rate, and then you can deduce, okay, this person is relaxed, this person is feeling calm, this person is feeling peaceful.
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Now, at exactly a specific minute, they would ask to send this beam of love and positivity to the receivers.
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 say at 1.53 p.m., at precisely that time, these 19 machines that William Broad had set up would show a difference.
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And so they found that just thinking about someone creates a physiological
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 impact on their body.
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Now can one person do it or does it need to be a group?
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You hear about, you know, monks doing this for individuals, trying to heal them as a group and being there and kind of like having their hands close to the individual.
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You hear about, you know, shared prayer groups and meditation groups.
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So the thing that interests me is, so Lynne McTaggart, she's a British journalist and she wrote a book called The Field.
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 And she set out to investigate all of these things and to see, are they real?
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Like Rumi's field?
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No, I think the field, she means the field of consciousness between us, right?
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And so she went as an investigative journalist.
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And in the book, The Field, she wrote everything she discovered and the overwhelming science
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 that we are more than just meat and bone bodies.
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But Lynn went on, deepened her research, and she wrote a book called The Power of Eight.
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And what she found is that, yes, you can influence healing in another person.
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I'm not saying you can heal everything, and this should always be done with your doctor, right?
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Alternative therapies with a doctor, but she found that the magic number is eight.
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 If eight people are focused on an intention, it is more likely that an intention comes true.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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So the first part is having love and compassion because that helps you relax, but it also potentially could influence the person you are sending that signal to.
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And maybe it all depends on factors.
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Maybe it's on how clear your energy is and if they're open to receiving these things, who knows?
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Exactly.
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We don't know.
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There's more studies that need to be done, but there's enough
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 evidence that this is happening.
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There's enough evidence that when you... And it's not just the scientific evidence, right?
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Because millions of people report this.
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Millions of people, women especially.
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I've seen this with mothers.
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I've seen this with the mother of my children.
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She knows when something is off.
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She knows when something is off with her child.
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And so many moms report this.
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So many people who have a close connection with someone else.
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 There's an intuition and they send a text or they send a phone call and say, hey, are you okay?
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Are you okay?
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I was feeling something that was off for you.
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Is everything all right?
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And a lot of times you hear people saying like, how did you know?
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Right.
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That's interesting.
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 Is that the quantum field?
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Is this quantum physics?
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Is this consciousness?
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I don't think we should.
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I don't like it when people say, oh, it's quantum physics, because we don't know.
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You can't just add the word quantum and then say that it explains things, right?
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It sounds cooler, yeah.
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Let's not do that.
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It pisses off all my scientist friends.
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But we should accept that there are certain things in science that we cannot yet explain.
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Now, keep this in mind.
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Our knowledge of physics doubles every seven years.
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It doubles.
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 Which means that 14 years from now, we're going to know like four times as much more as we know now.
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Maybe we'll figure it out.
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Nassim Haramin, the physicist, spiritualist, says, spirituality is nothing more than physics we have yet to find an equation for.
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 That's interesting.
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It's true though.
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Yeah.
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One day we will probably.
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Perhaps, but right now it doesn't stop us from using it.
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Look, I bet you most people here have no idea how a mobile phone works, right?
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I'm a computer engineer by training.
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I know a little bit, but most people don't.
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But you can still use a mobile phone.
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We don't have to understand
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 how it works to use these subtle qualities of the human mind.
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I mean, I've been saying this a lot lately to my girlfriend, Martha.
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I was like, over 100 years ago, if you imagined this tin thing flying through the air, you'd have been like, what is this?
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This is like some god is flying through the sky.
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If you would have seen these airplanes before, never seen it, you'd be like, how is this even possible?
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I mean, that much weight in the air flying across the world.
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Cell phone, I mean, 20 years ago, we weren't doing FaceTime.
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 For me, it's mind-blowing.
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If we can go back and think, okay, you can just pick up a device and see your best friend or your partner or your family member from around the world in real time and actually speak to them for hours.
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It's kind of mind-blowing how these signals all connect and work.
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And I have no idea how that's even possible, but it is.
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Yeah, was it Carl Sagan or Isaac Asimov who said, any technology sufficiently advanced will be seen as magic?
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 Yeah, it all seems magic to me.
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But once we're used to it, it's kind of like, oh, this is just, it's here, okay.
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Yeah, we're just so used to it.
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 You know, gratitude is something that I practice on a daily basis.
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In the morning and at night, I feel like it's the basis for me feeling peace and having appreciation.
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That's the second thing for you, happiness and gratitude.
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Why is gratitude so important and integral scientifically in a meditation process to have abundance in your life?
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Perfect.
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Great question.
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So first, let's do a quick basis.
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So the six-phase meditation.
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 is six unique human qualities that you can hack within yourself in two minutes each.
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I'm a computer engineer, former hacker, and I used to play computer games.
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And sometimes I'd get really bored by the computer games when I was like 12 or 13 years old because computers back then were flat, flat green screen, tiny pixelated people moving.
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And I would just hack the computer game and give myself ultimate gold and ultimate endurance, then go to the end of the game, kill the big boss, celebrate with a chocolate milkshake.
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 But as I grew up, it occurred to me that you can hack life.
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Life is like a computer game.
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We have a quest we are on.
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We have a mission.
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You can hack the qualities you need to attain that mission.
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And as I built up Mindvalley, where I've interviewed thousands of people and we have the world's biggest personal growth platform, I started looking at what were the qualities of humanness that were most hackable.
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 because I wanted to build a 15-minute practice every single day to put me in optimal states.
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So the six qualities are compassion and loving kindness, gratitude.
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The third one is the quality of forgiveness.
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The fourth one is future dreaming.
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The fifth one is commanding your day.
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And the sixth one is feeling blessed.
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 Okay, so we're going from compassion, which we spoke about, to gratitude.
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And I gotta say, Lewis, one of the things I notice about you is you are perpetually grateful.
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When I look at your Instagram, you're constantly celebrating life.
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Like I know some personal growth people on their Instagram, all they do is they teach something and they teach something and nothing wrong there, but you share your gratitude.
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Today, I saw you put up a post about Maui and how grateful you were to be in Maui and seeing that,
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 elevates other people, right?
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And so I saw your post on Maui and it uplifted me because I saw a man who was truly appreciating the world.
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And I believe one of the reasons you're successful is because of your gratitude, wouldn't you say?
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Absolutely, yeah.
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So scientists say that gratitude is the human characteristic most associated with overall well-being.
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Really?
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In other words, if you have one human characteristic
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 studiousness, confidence, all of these human characteristics.
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Gratitude is the one that gives you the highest correlation with personal well-being.
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And this is why there's a lot of different professors who've done the research on gratitude as well for decreasing depression and just creating more joy in your life.
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And I just think doing it in the morning, finding a time in the afternoon, and then doing it at night, if you can consistently do it throughout the day,
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 Frequently as possible.
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You're going to feel much more calm and relaxed You're gonna feel more love toward yourself and for others and it's gonna give you more peace Yeah, I think that's the currency that at least I want in my life The most is peace because from a peaceful place then I can get into flow and I know you talk about flow a lot But you can't get in a flow when you're stressed.
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Yeah
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 Gratitude unlocks that key in my mind.
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And not only that, but gratitude also increases your levels of happiness.
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And we know today from numerous signs that happiness fuels productivity.
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There's a whole series of books on this by Sean Aker, the Harvard psychologist.
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His book is called The Happiness Advantage.
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Shahjad Shamim wrote a book called PQ, Positivity Quotient.
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 In that book, he shows scientifically a meta-analysis of all happiness studies.
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And one of the craziest things he said is that if you're running a company, the one thing that is most correlated with the success of your team is the overall positive state of the team.
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And gratitude is that hack to get you there.
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But can I share with you something really freaking crazy?
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We did this little experiment in our office, and all of you watching can do this experiment.
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We took three little Petri dishes, and you can use a simple plate, and we put seeds on this, like some cotton bud,
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 with water and seeds.
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So A, B, and C. So in one, it was basically the control group.
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We didn't do anything different.
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We just left it by a window.
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The second one was the negative.
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 test where my team would look at the seed.
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Like, I hate you.
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Yeah, I hate you.
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You're an ugly little plant.
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You're an ugly seed.
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I bet when you sprout, your leaves will be upside down.
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You'll be tiny.
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The other plants won't like you.
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You're a puny little pathetic plant and I hate you.
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Okay?
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Now, the third one, or as nasty as you can get when you're talking to a plant.
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Now, the third one,
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 You could just praise it with compliments.
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You are going to have the most beautiful green leaves.
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You are going to be so beautiful.
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You're going to light up a room.
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I'm so proud of you.
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You're going to grow so tall and healthy.
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Okay, now look at the picture.
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This is the picture.
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And you can see the control group is mid-size.
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The one that we insulted, the negative plant, the leaves are literally upside down.
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No way.
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And it's tiny and short.
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Now look at the tall one.
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That's the one that we express gratitude and appreciation to.
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 So anybody can do this.
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In fact, in some schools in the United States, they are using this as an exercise to teach people the horrors of bullying.
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Because when you see how your words can affect a plant, which is a different species, you understand that your words can affect your body.
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Your words can affect other people.
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And by the way, all of these plants have the same amount of sunlight, the same amount of water.
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 The only thing different was the emotion that was being passed to the plant.
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So when I said there is evidence that we can send love across time and distance, when I quoted Rumi, I can close my eyes and talk to you in a thousand silent ways.
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This is one of the most interesting experiments you can do on your own.
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But this experiment shows two things.
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It shows phase one, compassion.
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 works.
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If we can influence the biology of plant life, imagine what this can do for human life.
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And phase two, gratitude, same thing is happening over here.
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We're expressing gratitude for that plant as it's blooming.
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But it also shows you how negative energy can really mess things up.
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The next time you think a negative thought about someone, what if
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 And I don't know if there's any studies on this, but what if, just like you were hurting the plant, you were physically hurting another person?
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And when you understand that, you start really watching your thoughts.
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But let's go deeper.
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That plant is distant from you.
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It's practically a different species.
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What about the cells in your body?
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Your body is not purely human.
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Your body is roughly 96% human, 4% microbiome.
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 So your gut, your throat is filled with microbiome.
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There are more bacteria cells in your body than human cells.
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And this microbiome, they work with your body, they create emotions, they keep you well.
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When your gut is off, not only is your digestion off, but your brain chemistry is off.
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Serotonin, today we know 90% of serotonin, which is the happiness chemical, is produced in the gut and goes through the vagus nerve to the brain.
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 Wow.
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If we can influence plants, we can influence bacteria, and this bacteria is literally part of us.
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So what are we doing to our bodies when we think a negative thought, when we blame ourselves, when we say, gosh, I don't know how someone could date me, or God, why did I make this mistake again?
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 Gratitude is the opposite of that.
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You're saying, I freaking love my life.
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This is so incredible.
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And so when we do the six phase, we express gratitude in a three by three matrix, three things that you're grateful for in your work life, three things about your personal life, which would be, you know, your love, your children, your home, and then three things about yourself.
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 your body, your gut microbiome, the fact that you have great skin and hair, the fact that you're a generous tipper.
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In our world, we are told, don't do that.
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It makes you a narcissist.
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Bad advice.
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More people lack self-love than they have too much love, right?
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And if you start with the basis of compassion, you can't be a narcissist because you start by giving compassion to everyone.
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Then you give yourself compassion.
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 And I want to encourage everyone out there to try this plant experiment, because once you see how your words and your thoughts can influence plant life, you start understanding just how powerful it is on your own biology and the people you love.
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 I love this analogy and I think there was a documentary called What the Bleep that did the water experiment with the words on the water and I don't know if you saw this documentary back in the day where it's like you put hate or love and it had turned into beautiful crystals or like dark, moldy crystals in the water when you put it in the freezer.
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And I think that's an interesting concept about the intention of words and energy on something, water, plants.
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 food, people, and on yourself.
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And imagine if you're constantly saying horrible things about yourself internally or saying it publicly, why would good things happen to you if you have this victim mentality?
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So I'm a true believer of what you appreciate appreciates in value.
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 And what you discount continues to discount in value as well, especially with yourself, the self-love.
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Do you feel like you always loved yourself and said good things to yourself?
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Or when did you learn to fully love yourself?
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So one of the things is when I was growing up, so what our mind's belief creates our reality.
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 Now, I discovered this when I was approximately 13 years old.
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So I grew up in Malaysia, a developing country.
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And, you know, back then, I probably turned 13 in 1989 or something.
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And back then, we didn't know that much about the mind.
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Personal growth wasn't a thing.
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And what happened was I remember my first pimple.
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 I looked in the mirror, and I saw my pimple.
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I was 13 years old.
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And an aunt, right?
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And back then, I also, you know, like many kids, I also had dandruff, like I had itchy scalp.
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You've got great hair and skin now, man.
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You're real clear.
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I do now.
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I do now.
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But here's what happened.
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A well-meaning aunt came to me, put her hands on my shoulder, and said, oh, don't worry.
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This is so normal.
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You're now a teenager.
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 And because you have dandruff, your dandruff is gonna fall off your scalp, it's gonna land on your face, and it's gonna cause even more pimples, and you'll just have pimples.
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And that's okay, all teenagers have it.
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She was trying to be nice, but she programmed me.
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 And she programmed me with bad signs.
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I mean, dandruff doesn't fall on your face and cause wrinkles.
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But as a result, from 13 to 17, I had the most horrible acne breakouts.
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I remember my mom taking me to a dermatologist, like injections sometimes on my skin, all of these creams.
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And I felt ugly.
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 And the kids in school didn't help.
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I was the smart kid.
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I was the nerd with the glasses.
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And the acne.
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All the other kids hate you.
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And so I remember being in the lunch line and a big bully behind me singing.
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 Pimple face is here, pimple.
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And so it just wrecked my ego.
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I didn't have many friends.
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I felt I was unattractive.
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I remember as puberty kicked in, I would have a crush on a girl, but I couldn't even talk to her.
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I never went on a date with anyone until I was 22 years old.
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Like pretty much senior of college.
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But this is what happened.
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 My dad helped me discover a book called The Silver Method.
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Today, The Silver Method, and it's now called Silver Ultramine as part of Mindvalley, and I'm the face of Silver Ultramine.
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It's one of the meditation approaches I espouse.
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But back then, my dad helped me discover that book.
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And in that book, I read that your skin is the organ most susceptible to the human mind.
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And that was the first clue.
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Was I manifesting bad skin?
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 So in the book, Jose Silva thought a protocol called creative visualization at the alpha level.
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Now, that is phase four of the sixth phase, right?
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So we bring creative visualization into phase four.
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And we use phase four of the sixth phase to manifest an ideal future.
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You can manifest a goal, but you can also manifest help.
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And the skin is the easiest one.
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So this is what you learn to do.
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And again, I talk about it in my book.
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You see
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 Imagine like a giant movie screen in front of you, and you use symbolism to talk to your subconscious.
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So just like my well-meaning aunt said, you're going to have pimples throughout your teenage years.
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You're going to reverse that command to your subconscious.
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So you see your skin, and then your subconscious speaks in symbolism.
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 You tell it a new story using symbolism.
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It doesn't have to be scientific.
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You don't have to understand that the skin has 60-something layers and sebaceous glands and all of that.
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You simply speak to your subconscious with symbolism and you see your skin heal.
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Now, this is the symbolism I used.
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 I imagined that I was sitting in a peaceful location and around me were trees.
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And I imagined as if I can reach my arms out and grab a green cream from these trees, put this green cream all over my face, then like Iron Man, I can blast a healing laser.
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And as I put this green cream over my face, it absorbs all the oil and all the dead skin and all the pimples, and I pull it off.
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 then I toss it away and now I have a nice healthy layer of skin.
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Then I reach up to the sky and I grab a blue cream from the sky and I put this blue cream on my face.
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And then again, like Iron Man, I shoot out this laser and as I blend over the blue cream, it blends in and forms a new layer of smooth, healthy skin.
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Now, Jose Silva said, if you're attempting to do healing of this sort,
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 It's a three-minute approach.
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You're literally visualizing this for three minutes, but three times a day.
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And that's what I did.
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Three minutes, three times a day, while at a relaxed level of mind, commonly called the alpha level.
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You're lowering your brainwave frequencies, and I talk about how to get there in the book.
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 In five weeks, Louis, I healed my skin.
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I had skin disease for five years, right?
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Not just acne, horrible acute acne.
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I healed it in five weeks.
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And my skin today is so... It's young.
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It's youthful.
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Given my age, I'm going to be 47, right?
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So I've used the same thing to reverse graying.
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I was graying maybe six, seven years ago, and then I reversed graying on my hair.
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I actually like graying of my beard, so I like that, right?
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 Wow, you reversed it by doing that practice.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so you can command your body.
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You can command your body.
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And, you know, I've seen this in other ways.
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In October 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I was going through a lot of anxiety and stress because I was moving countries and my eyesight went up to 2040.
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 The doctor told me I needed glasses, and I simply commanded my eyes to heal.
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And in about a week or two, I went back to 20-20, right?
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So you have, we all have command over our bodies.
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Our mind influences our bodies.
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And there's evidence for this.
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People with multiple personality disorder show different health symptoms when different personalities take over.
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You can Google this.
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This is crazy.
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So when a different personality sets in,
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 There are eyesight changes.
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They can go from needing glasses to having perfect 20-20 vision.
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What is going on?
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How much of our body is our mind manifesting this illness?
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And when we can learn to talk to our bodies and command our bodies to heal,
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 Amazing things can happen.
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How old are you when you do this acne?
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I was 17.
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Yeah, it's interesting You say this because I believe in all this because I've done this myself many times when I was 18 I was playing college football and I actually think I've told this on the podcast.
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I've told friends this but
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 Since you went there and talked about it, I was like, well, okay, I can share it now.
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I had a, I was 18, I was playing football in Minnesota my freshman year of college.
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And I'm the only freshman playing on the offensive side of the team.
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Most of the freshmen red shirt, which doesn't mean they practice, but they don't play.
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So you get an extra fifth year when you're a senior.
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 But I was like, I want to play.
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I want to play.
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I was a freshman.
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And so I'm playing, but it's, it's so grueling and demanding, right?
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It's a learning a new system.
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There's a playbook that I have to learn.
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You're, you're going against upperclassmen.
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It's, it's demanding for whatever reason I start getting these.
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I mean, it's pretty nasty.
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I have like,
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 Probably 50 to 60 little black warts on the bottom of my feet.
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The little planter warts on the bottom of my feet.
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Probably athlete's foot, just like being in the locker room, walking around like, you know, with a bunch of 100 sweaty guys and just not showering right afterwards, whatever it was.
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So I had these like little, they were so painful to walk.
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Just to touch on it was extremely painful.
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It felt like it was a little needle sticking up, but 50 to 60 of them in each foot.
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 I would just kind of like grunt it out, but then it got so painful.
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I couldn't play so the the nurses on the team They like tried to scalpel them out right with a scalpel No numbing, you know, nothing just like trying to pick these like little warts out.
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It was so painful.
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I had to stop I was like I can't do this and Every time I was in you know on football cleats the cleat would kind of stick out