Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee - #139 BITESIZE | Free Your Subconscious Mind and Reach Your Full Potential | Peter Crone

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Starting point is 00:00:51 10. And these packs are perfect for keeping in your backpack, office, or car. If you want to take advantage of this limited time offer, all you have to do is go to drinkag1.com forward slash live more. Welcome to Feel Better Live More, bite-sized your weekly dose of optimism and positivity to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 82 of the podcast with Peter Krohn, also known as the Mind Architect. Now in this clip, he explains that our behaviours and thoughts are a result of our subconscious programming. And if we free ourselves from our limiting beliefs, we can experience true liberation and create the life that we were born to live.

Starting point is 00:01:48 You can't create the life of someone you don't yet believe yourself to be. I'll use a sports analogy because I think, you know, I work with a lot of professional athletes and it's a beautiful metaphor for life. So I was hired by a very successful basketball player here. And he was struggling from the free throw. Like when one of the players gets fouled, you go to the free throw, you know, it's a relatively easy shot. The league average is 75%. So when a guy is fouled, he goes to the free throw line, usually makes the one point, you know, seven, eight times out of 10. This guy's average was 35%. So, you know, it wasn't even close to average, it was half the average. And you can imagine, he was, you know, losing sleep, it was affecting his personal relationships at home because of the stress, crowds were starting to boo, and here's somebody who's getting paid millions of dollars.

Starting point is 00:02:32 There's literally millions of fans, you know, they're fanatical here in the States about their sports. And it was costing him a lot, you know, he was really, really struggling. So the point about addiction, and why I'm using this sports metaphor as a comparison is he had become addicted to the fact that he had a problem. So when I met him, I said, you're probably speaking to everyone you can from players, coaches, even sports psychologists. He's like, I'm doing everything I can to fix the problem. I said, and therein lies one of your biggest obstacles because you keep reinforcing the belief that you've got a problem do you remember the movie men in black with bill smith and they waved the black wand after they'd seen the aliens to wipe their memory so i said to the

Starting point is 00:03:14 guy i said if you had no memory where's your problem just to start to give him an indicator that what he's fighting is his history so now he goes up to the free throw line. He isn't even focused on what he's trying to accomplish, which is make the basket. He is trying to avoid his history of hurt, trauma, not a big fan of the word trauma, but past failings or disappointments where we got upset. And now he's standing there literally trying to fix his history. But that only impossible so you know I mean I played with a guy as you can probably imagine I'm coming from a lot of love and compassion he's doing the best he can it's affecting him dramatically but I said once he got to see it I said I use the metaphor you're like driving a car but the way you're driving the car is you're looking in the

Starting point is 00:04:00 rearview mirror so all you're seeing is what's behind you and then you wonder why you keep running into shit yeah right so anyway so then I said to him what if i told you that for the rest of the season you shot league average let's just be you know we'll be conservative you shot 75 instead of 35 37 his shoulders dropped he had the biggest smile on his face this guy's huge he's like you know seven foot something and he's like that would feel amazing i said what i just presented to you is a future that is as real as the one you're concerned about the difference is i recognize that as a possibility whereas you're so busy trying to avoid your history that you're actually standing in the line in a state of anxiety which is self-perpetuating it's self-fulfilling both the futures you're worried about one mine is phenomenal or at

Starting point is 00:04:51 least better they're both made up why because we're still sitting in your house we haven't gone anywhere but mine elicits joy freedom relaxation if you're an athlete coming from freedom joy and relaxation i don't care what sport you're doing you're going to do it better than if you're an athlete coming from freedom, joy, and relaxation, I don't care what sport you're doing. You're going to do it better than if you're coming from tension, anxiety, and worry. That night he had a game. He shot six out of eight, you know, so that was 75%. And for the rest of the week, he shot 68%. Way better than previous. Almost double if you're into that kind of stuff, right? So what happened is going back to the addiction is most people are completely addicted to their history and then spending the rest of their life trying to compensate for it

Starting point is 00:05:31 versus what are you committed to what's the future you're stepping into out of pure creation versus reaction and it's a distinction i make most people are reactive versus creative let's wake up and find so much more joy and freedom for ourselves and come from a place where we're creating an extraordinary future that we're working towards versus trying to fix the history behind us, which we can't do anything about anyway. Yeah. Two totally different worlds to live in. I love to leave the listeners with some hopefully simple ideas and tips that they can think about applying into their own lives immediately to start transforming the way that they feel slow down just for everybody to slow

Starting point is 00:06:12 down the world is moving at a million miles an hour you know metaphorically and people are just rushing around and invariably it's for this idealized future that everyone's chasing we're under the impression that this one day phenomenon is when I'm going to have the perfect body, the right relationship, enough money, yada, yada, yada. And what we're doing is we're sort of perpetually pushing away our feeling better. Because I'm saying, well, that's where it's all going to work out. But right now, it's not so good. So I would say embrace life for what it is, embrace yourself for who you are and embrace others for who they are. I use the expression,

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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee - #139 BITESIZE | Free Your Subconscious Mind and Reach Your Full Potential | Peter Crone

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