THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Become Limitless and Create Your New Reality with Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: June 8, 2024

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This is the Ed Myler Show. Let's talk about some basic stuff today first lay the foundation nothing with you is basic but what is the power of thought because we talk about this all the time this in personal development today everyone's talking about you know you got to control your thoughts and control your habits and all these things, and there's a baseline message about that, but you're the best in the world at explaining exactly why this is so important. So give us some background there.

Yeah, I think if everything starts with a thought, I mean, everything that you do in your life, you have to have a thought before you initiate an action. So if you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny, like any great leader in history understands that, the first thing you have to do is you have to decide are you gonna be defined by a vision of the future or are you gonna live

by the memories of the past? So, give you an example. Most people wake up in the morning and your brain is a record of the past. It's an artifact of everything you've learned and experienced to this moment, right? It's a memory bank. So most people wake up in the morning

and they start thinking about their problems and those problems are connected to certain people and things at certain times and places. And the moment they start turning on those circuits, those memories are actually causing them to think in the past. Every those circuits, those memories are actually causing them to think in the past. Every single one of those memories has an emotion associated with them, and emotions are the end product of past experiences. So then the moment they recall the event or they

recall some problem in their life, they start feeling unhappy, they start feeling discouraged, they start feeling anxious. Now thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. So we could say then, most people's entire state of being when they start their day is in the familiar past. Well, if you live in the familiar past, then it makes sense you're going to create the predictable future.

So what happens for most people is they get stuck in their biology. So think about this. Your body is your unconscious mind. It doesn't know the difference between an experience in your life that creates an emotion, and an emotion that you can create by thought alone. So if you're living by the same emotion every single day, and those emotions are influencing your thoughts,

and you can't think greater than how you feel, or feelings have become the means of thinking, you're thinking in the past. Your lens of the future is going to be colored by the past so you can't see possibilities So most people like to wait for a crisis or disease or diagnosis before they wake up Yes enough to see well the challenge is is that biology tends to be redundant? So if you keep thinking the same thoughts and those thoughts begin to fire certain circuits in your brain, the nerve cells that fire together, wire together, so all of a sudden you start getting hardwired and

those are the thoughts that you can think the easiest. At the same time those thoughts produce chemicals called emotions and the next thing you know your body gets accustomed to living by the same emotions and it could be guilt It could be unhappiness. It could be pain, but at least it's familiar to you At least you can predict it. So some people would rather cling to the familiar than take a chance and possibility so for most people then they say well, I Don't really see how my thoughts have anything to do with my destiny. Well, that's because 95% of those thoughts are subconscious programs, right? So you're not even conscious that you think those

thoughts. So the first step to change is starting to think about what you've been thinking about and change it. And then when you begin to observe those thoughts, you're no longer the program, you're the consciousness observing the program. Just simply by being an observer of your thoughts. Right, so most people though, when you do that, when you decide to really take a look it's like lighting a match in a dark place so you feel uncomfortable so it's easier to turn on your TV it's easier to play with your cell phone to distract yourself from those feelings well when you understand that change really requires becoming uncomfortable to a

certain degree and that's normal that you're leaving the known and you're stepping into the unknown then it begs the question what thoughts do you want to fire and wire in your brain because your attention on those thoughts begins to reorganize circuitry, remold the brain. So I love this by the way how do you flip that to your advantage? So meditation is really really means to become familiar with, correct? So we're gonna talk a little bit about meditation as we go forward here in a second,

but if it is true that your body is your unconscious mind, which I didn't know that, and it is true that it does not know the difference between a real event or an imagined event, can't you really use that to your advantage though? Of course, okay, so let's talk about that, because you do this really well, because most people are waiting for their life to change. So they can feel gratitude, to feel abundance, to feel whole. You know, that's the old model

of cause and effect, you know. So if you're living with emptiness, you're living with lack, you're living with pain, most people have been conditioned that something out there has to take away this emptiness or feeling inside of them. But if you believe that you're creating your life and you're living by lack, well, lack is going to create abundance, right? So then it makes sense then that you don't really actually create wealth. You generate wealth.

You generate abundance. So the moment you start teaching your body emotionally what that future is going to feel like before it's made manifest Well, your body is the unconscious mind believes it's living in that future in the present moment Now it's the scientific fact that it's the environment that signals the gene. Okay The end product from an experience in the environment is an emotion The end product from an experience in the environment is an emotion. So when you begin to embrace an elevated emotion, you're beginning to signal the gene ahead of the environment. What's the importance of that?

Well, genes make proteins, and proteins are responsible for the structure and the function of your body. And the expression of proteins is the expression of life. So by you creating an elevated emotion and teaching your body what that future will feel like before it's made manifest, your body's starting to live in that future reality in the present moment. Now here's the key. If you were able to become familiar with gratitude, become familiar with wholeness, become familiar

with abundance, become familiar with freedom, and you're able to generate those chemicals every single day, more than likely, you would be walking around feeling like your future has already happened, and you would no longer be looking for it to happen. You would already feel like it has happened. Now, what is the importance of that? Well, you're literally becoming somebody else.

So, you're leaving your lack, you're leaving your guilt, you're leaving your emptiness behind. Oh my gosh, that's so good. So, you talk about, I wanna stay in in here for a minute because I know people right now are going, oh my gosh, and I'm doing that right now too. So now we get into stuff that just benefits me. One of my favorite things you say is that, and it's a general thing, but I want to move into how you become this. So you say often that in order to change your personal reality, you must change your

personality. But I think also that people maybe aren't aware of how that personality was formed, and we've started to go down that road, but I want to keep going for a minute. Sure. And so you talk often about how a mood over time can end up turning into a personality of sorts. So could you talk about that a little bit? Sure. Let's talk about it in two ways, okay? So your personality, literally, Ed, is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel

is your personality, and your personality is intimately connected to your personal reality, your life. So then if you wanna change your life, your personal reality, you gotta change your personality. And here we go again. You gotta start becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts. You gotta start noticing how you act, how you speak.

You gotta pay attention to how you're feeling. Some people would live in guilt their whole entire life and don't even know it's guilt because at least it feels like them. So then when you start doing that, you begin to objectify your subjective self. So then when you begin to make small changes back to thought, a new thought should lead to a new choice.

A new choice should lead to a new behavior. A new behavior should create a new experience, and a new experience should create a new emotion. And that new emotion is teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood. Now your body is embodying the truth, right? So then the new emotion should inspire new thoughts, and that's called evolution.

So how do we get stuck? It's really simple. The stronger the emotion you feel from some event in your life, be it a betrayal or a trauma or whatever, the more altered you feel inside of you, the more you pay attention to the cause outside of you. So the brain takes a snapshot.

It freezes an image and embosses that pattern neurologically in the brain, that's called a memory. So we create long-term memories from strong emotional events. Okay. So is that true that I just want to understand though maybe the larger the event in terms of its emotion to you the stronger of a hold it has over you? Yeah well the more it's embossed in your biology. So some certain people have a strong experience in their life, and it catches all of the brain's attention. So, now they think neurologically within the circuits of the past experience, and they

feel chemically within the boundaries of those emotions. And so, how you think and how you feel creates a state of being. Now, here's the problem, that if you don't know how to mediate or control your emotional reaction to that event, and you keep that refractory period of chemicals going on for extended periods of time so that the event produces a chemical change and the body needs to return back to homeostasis or balance. But if it can't, then the elongation of that emotional reaction for weeks, say, for days or weeks is called the mood. So you say, Ed, what's wrong with you?

I'm in a mood, why are you in a mood? Well, this thing happened to me five days ago and I'm having one long emotional reaction. So then what you do is you keep telling the story about it, keep firing and wiring the same circuits and you keep conditioning the body into the past. So then you wake up in the morning, you look for the emotion.

So then now all of a sudden you keep it lingering for weeks or months. That's called the temperament. Well, why is he so angry? I don't know. Let's ask him. Why are you so angry? Well, this thing happened to me eight months ago. I'm having one long emotional reaction.

I'm memorizing my emotions. You keep it going on for years on end. That's called a personality trait. So then a person then is memorizing themselves by living in the past. And so then you say to them, well, tell me the story. Now the latest research on memory says that 50% of what we talk about in our past isn't even the truth. So we make stuff up about the past.

In other words, people are reliving a life that they didn't even have just to reaffirm that they can't change, right? Wow. So then what's the significance of this? Where you place your attention is where you place your energy, period. So then the stronger the emotion that you have that some problem or condition or person in your life, the more you're paying attention to them. So they captured your attention. So you're giving your power away to that person, right? Because they're capturing your attention. So then there's an energetic connection to every person,

everything in your past, present reality has your energy connected to it. So now, this is the significance. When a person really decides to be defined by a vision of the future, instead of the memory of the past, the hardest part about it is all of a sudden becoming conscious and not making the same unconscious choice. by a vision of the future instead of the memory of the past, the hardest part about it is all of a sudden

becoming conscious and not making the same unconscious choice. So then if you lower the volume to your frustration, to your hatred, to your anger, if you truly knew how to do that, if you lowered the volume to that emotion, you would take your attention off that person, which means you would begin to break those energetic bonds

and now you're taking your power back. You're calling energy back to you. We've measured this and all of a sudden it builds this bigger electromagnetic field around the person's body. That's energy to heal. That's energy to create a new future with, right? And then if you didn't want to lower the volume to the emotion, then just take your attention off the person.

And every time you take your attention off the person if you became conscious of that you Wouldn't feel the emotion now the body though It's been addicted to that emotion because you're using that person to reaffirm your addiction to hatred or frustration And if that person died you find another one. So then here you go now, so Now you're in a position now where you begin to lower the volume to that emotion and the body's going, wait a second, you've been doing this for the last 20 years and all of a sudden you're just going to stop hating? And the body says, well, I've been conditioned this way and conditioning is based on the past. So when the body feels the lack

of that emotion, just like a drug addict, it says, hey, you're off schedule here, so now the body starts influencing the mind to think about experiences that are embossed in the brain that are based on that emotion. So the emotion now is causing you to think in the past. If we teach a person then how to trade that frustration or that hatred for an elevated emotion, and they'll say, yeah, but you know, it was my ex's fault, or I got betrayed by my partner in business. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we know that

Okay, so let's take your partner in business or take your ex Let's duct tape them put them in a cannon and shoot them to the moon. Now, what are you gonna do? Sooner or later, you got to reckon with yourself and change right? So then teach a person then how to trade that emotion for an elevated emotion now trade the emotion for an elevated emotion, right? So you're gonna give that up and you're gonna practice feeling gratitude as an example. Yes. And the person says, well I can't feel gratitude and I say, absolutely you can

because you don't practice feeling it. You practice spending most of your time feeling hatred and frustration. So now it's gonna take a little time to cause that heart of yours to bloom. Once they're able to feel even the smallest measure of gratitude, where they start feeling appreciation, thankfulness, gratitude, it's emotional signature.

When you get something, when you're receiving something, when something has happened to you, or when something is happening to you, you say thank you because you're receiving something. So the emotional signature of gratitude means the event has already happened where it's happening to you. So the moment you open your heart and you feel gratitude,

well, that emotion then is telling the body that the experience has already occurred and the thought then can make it into the body because it's consistent with the thought. So now you're beginning to program the autonomic nervous system into a very specific destiny. You got to maintain that modified state of mind and body your entire day, independent of the conditions in your outer environment, independent of your body's cravings of

those emotions and habituations, and independent from time. And if you can, get ready. Because something weird or unusual, some synchronicity, some coincidence, some opportunity is gonna land in your lap. And you didn't have to go and get it. It came to you. Now you're the vortex of creation.

So if you say to me, well I was feeling gratitude, but then there was traffic or my coworker sent me a nasty email, then I would say, oh my God. You mean you're allowing your environment, your outer environment to control how you feel and think? You're back to the unconscious program that you're the victim to your life.

You got it. But when you start producing those outcomes in your life, you're gonna pay attention to what you did inside of you and you're gonna believe more that you're the creator of your life and less're the creator of your life Unless of the victim of your life that is so unbelievable the way that I've never heard anybody ever say it like that But we're because I I've watched people who's you know There are this person's caused this insecurity in their life and even they remove the person what they'll do is okay now

I'm gonna feel gratitude what you just said But they're sort of their body is still addicted to that emotion and they go seek other references to get them that emotion again. So the first thing you said that I love, that I've not heard before is one, is acknowledge when that addiction rears its head again, just by acknowledging it. The second thing that really nobody talks about is, it's wonderful to meditate and to get into that space,

but then you must get up and be active towards that goal. That's what most people don't ever talk about. We're changing our brain and body to live in that future present reality so that you feel connected to a future instead of the past. And when you're connected to the past, you're looking for it. And if you're looking for it, you're separate from it. If you're being it, then there's a complete change in energy. And nobody changes until they change their energy. And when you change your energy, you change your life.

After 8,500 brain scans, I can tell you that you and I are at our absolute best when we get beyond ourselves. That is the elegant moment where we're free enough to create without any encumbrances. So this has been measured too. So there's these different energy centers in the body. Is it true that if you're holding onto these other emotions, I just want a basic answer for this for the group

too. If you're holding on to these negative emotions and you're not moving towards this more empowering emotion, what happens to these energy centers in the body? Can you describe that to some extent? The majority of our thoughts and feelings are connected to our sexuality, to our victimization, our guilt, our suffering, our shame, our unworthiness, our self-doubt, or our importance, our control, our fear, our anger, our frustration, our hatred, our judgment.

Those are the first three hormonal centers in the body, and those first three centers have everything to do with survival. And those centers are energy consumers. Orgasm, digestion, stress is a lot of energy that we're drawing from our very vital life force, our resource of light and information, and we're turning it into chemistry,

and we're literally robbing the body's energy, right? So then living like that for the short term is okay because the body can move back to homeostasis and can restore itself, but when we're overdoing that consistently, then there's no energy for growth and repair because you're living constantly in survival. So again, you can eat all the right food,

you can do all the right things, but if you're living in anxiety and fear and you're viewing your world from the worst case scenario that could possibly happen, because that's what you do in survival, there's no energy for growth and repair. There's no energy for healing. So the majority of our thoughts are signaling certain circuits in the brain that signal another part of the brain, limbic brain, to make what's called a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides are chemical messengers that signal hormonal centers.

So now you're taking thought and you're storing it as energy in these energy centers. And if you're living in survival, why would you open your heart? I mean, it's just not a time to open your heart. I mean, if you're getting chased by T-Rex, it's not a time to meditate. It's not a time to learn.

It's not a time to connect. It's not a time to communicate. It's not a time to sit down and go within. It's not a time to learn, it's not a time to connect, it's not a time to communicate, it's not a time to sit down and go within, it's not a time to be vulnerable, it's time to run, fight or hide. Is that why we're this way? I've never asked you this before. I don't think you believe this but I just want to understand, is this some sort of genetic disposition that's been passed down to us since we've been chased by T-Rex? I think so. I think survival has been very adaptive. Yeah.

Because if you're being chased by T-Rex, you don't run up to T-Rex and say, oh, cute little dinosaur. Let me pet you. That's not adaptive. If fear is adaptive, you run from the unknown. You run from challenges, right? Yes. So if you're living in survival, there's

better chances of surviving if you run from the unknown. And by the way, when you're living in survival at the infinite potentials in the quantum field, you'll select the worst case scenario in your mind and you'll begin to emotionally prepare yourself for the worst case scenario because you have better chances of surviving if you prepare for the worst, right?

So people spend their whole life thinking about the worst thing and emotionally embracing it Well, you take a thought and emotion or an image in an emotion your branding or conditioning your body into what anxiety? my fear so then you keep doing that over and over again over and over again your the body becomes the mind of fear and Whether you think you can control it or not You're gonna have a panic attack and the panic attack is the body saying, you've conditioned me this way, try as you may with your conscious mind to control it.

You programmed it subconsciously. Then you start worrying about the next panic attack and it's that very anticipation that keeps the person on the hamster wheel. And robs them of all of this energy as well. Absolutely, so they don't believe in possibility when they're living in that state because in survival, it's not a time to create.

All the blood flow is going to the hind brain and away from the forebrain. There's no physiology really for a person to begin to create a new future. So then, so think about it. So then 70% of the time, people in the world are living, anticipating the next moment based on their past moment. And so they're laying reality down moment by moment

with the next known, the next predictable moment. And so the hormones of stress endorse the senses. Our senses become heightened when we're under stress and we become materialists. We narrow our focus on the danger. So then you're focusing on matter. You're focusing on the materialists. We narrow our focus on the danger. So then you're focusing on matter. You're focusing on the material world. And when you do that, you put all your attention,

the arousal of the stress hormones, puts all your attention on your body. If you're being chased by T-Rex, you better be paying attention to your body. When people start reaching this moment, my goodness, they're overcoming themselves. And now they're at that perfect place to create. And my definition of creation is when I forget about myself.

That's when you're free. So some people can do it because they've practiced it. Other people can't get beyond the addiction of a certain emotion. That means their body is still their mind. So then if you're sitting in a meditation and your body's throwing the kitchen sink at you and saying, Ed, you're a loser. You're never going to change. This is too hard. Why don't you quit? And you're aware that that's your body's throwing the kitchen sink at you and saying, Ed, you're a loser, you're never gonna change, this is too hard, why don't you quit? And you're aware that that's your body doing that

and you say to your body, we're gonna sit here and we're gonna sit in this fire and I'm gonna keep applying the formula and your brain starts running to all the emails you have to do and you become aware of that and you return back to the present moment and you tell the body it's no longer the mind that you're the mind,

now your will is getting greater than that program and there's a liberation of energy. And every time you do that, that's a victory. And you teach people. Every time you do that, that's a victory. That's a victory. When your mind tells the body, I'm in charge. When you say, you want to get up and you want to quit and you go, oh, now that's my body,

bring it back. Okay. And now you're taming the animal. The body is the animal. And you're like a dog, you sit. And if you keep doing this, keep doing this, you're climbing on top and the body finally acquiesces. It finally says, I'm not going anywhere.

And then boom, there's this liberation of energy. What's the side effect? Joy. Person's heart just automatically opens up and every time they do that, those victories add up. There's no such thing as a bad meditation. There's only overcoming yourself. And when you sit in the fire and you work with that,

people say to me, why do you meditate every morning? I say, because if I can overcome myself in the morning, the rest of my day is easy. It's easy. Because that's what it's about. You master yourself, you master your life. And so then all the chatter in your head that you listen to all day long that it's called the default mode network in the brain Our research shows that shuts off not just shuts off during the meditation

It stays shut off for the rest of the day. So the critic in your head that's telling you this will never happen You don't have enough time That there's no voice there. So you just have a clear flow on where you're going and you trust yourself more. So then when you start practicing, creating that brain and heart coherence, you can believe in a future that you can't see or experience with your senses yet,

but you've thought about enough times in your mind that it's actually, there's physical evidence in your brain to look like it's already happened. And you can begin to understand You can select a new potential in the quantum field and every day Emotionally embrace that future reality to such a degree that your body begins to believe it's living in that future reality in the present Moment and you're signaling new genes and new ways to change your body to look like it's already happened now think about this If there's physical evidence by thought alone in your brain and body to look like your wealth or your future has already happened. Now think about this. If there's physical evidence by thought alone in your brain and body to look like your wealth or your future has

already happened, it's already happened. And you're already it. So it's not about your wealth. It's not about your health. It's not about your freedom. It's who you become. So then as you overcome, overcome, overcome, overcome, you become someone else. And so most people don't understand that the truth is, is that every time you overcome yourself a little bit more, the side effect is that you love yourself a little bit more. And so self-love is no longer about pleasure or having a car. It's something that you're cultivating within you.

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of who they think they are as a personality. They separate themselves from the people they know and the places they go and the things that they do at a certain amount of time in their routine, mundane life. So we'll bridge a little quantum physics a little neuroscience a little Endocrinology a little epigenetics psychoneurotinology. Those are all sciences about possibility And I now know that if you can give people sound scientific information and you know For me, that's the language

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So then if I can set up the conditions and the environment and give them the proper instructions and push the envelope a little bit. And people who get their behaviors to match their intentions and their actions equal to their thoughts, they get their mind and body working together, they're going to have a new experience. And the experience then is not only going to enrich the philosophical circuits in their brain because experience does that, but it's going to produce produce an emotion So they're going to start feeling more unlimited They're going to start feeling more free another teaching their body chemically to understand what their mind is intellectually understood

So we've done it once To be able to do it again. You have the recipe of the form So if you can repeat it you will neurochemically condition your mind and body to begin to work as one in other words The body will start to learn how to do it as well as the mind, and you won't have to consciously think about it any longer. So it gets easier, right? So we follow that format, and the first couple days is that getting beyond your life,

getting beyond your emotions, everybody's gotta do it, but if you just keep applying the formula, keep going, I keep reminding you and keep building the model, I give them numerous opportunities to connect, and numerous opportunities to connect and numerous opportunities to overcome themselves. Sooner or later, you're just gonna figure it out. It doesn't matter, you're just gonna figure it out.

And when you do, then we start seeing now these incredible transformations and changes. And it's like a four minute mile. Because I really think now, Ed, that evidence is the loudest voice. It is the loudest voice. And so we've got all the brain scans, we've got all the heart rate measurements,

we've got great measurements on immune regulation, how you can strengthen your immune system by thought alone, we have great measurements on that you could actually change your genes in four days, lengthen your telomeres, lengthen your life within 60 days, change your neurotransmitters, change the energy around your body, the energy centers of your life within 60 days, change your neurotransmitters,

change the energy around your body, the energy centers of your body, and change all this stuff. And so that's the scientific evidence, but the evidence of people now is really the laboratory. So then what's the side effect of a person then who begins to make significant changes in just mastering that

formula. Well, the side effect is a remission from a health condition. So we have seen not once, not twice, more than twice, blind people. Like that one lady had a stroke on the optic nerve, a nurse from London. Very smart lady. And the lesion was on the optic nerve, and it created a blind spot in her visual field from six o'clock to nine o'clock. So she can't see anything there.

And so she lost her license. She has her own company, she couldn't read emails, and sooner or later your brain accommodates a little bit, but not fully. And so the typical prognosis with a stroke when there's neurological damage is that if your brain doesn't recover within two weeks, it's gonna stay the same and slowly get worse.

So she has great relationships with all the physicians and they all said, yeah, you're gonna have to learn to live with it. And believe it or not, one doctor said, hey, why don't you try going to this event and this nurse, nurses are practical people. I mean, they're super practical people and you wanna get a good doctor, ask a nurse, right?

Right, sure. And they're just very, very practical. So she she did all to do the online course. She did both the courses She read all the books. She did all the meditations and she came to the event With the intention of learning how to live with her condition Didn't occur to her fully that she could heal it and she went because she wanted to start a nonprofit to help people well, so she went because she wanted to start a non-profit to help people. Wow. So she went with a doctor that recommended the work. And just certain point in the middle of the event,

she was doing a walking meditation on the beach with a thousand other people there. And it occurred to her that maybe she should think about healing her eyes, you know so that she went into the meditation and the the same day and She laid down after we finished the meditation and she said it was like Someone taking cellophane correct pull, you know crackling it in her head She felt something going on inside her brain, and she was crying because she knew something

spectacular was happening. And she didn't want to open her eyes, and then the meditation ended, and she said, when I opened my eyes, it was like I was seeing so much brighter. Wow. And she said, I could see, no blind spot, and the doctor was laying right next to her,

and she was sobbing or hugging each other and that's what so she went on the Monday morning to get her eyes the visual fields measured and hopefully we'll get the image for you but you can see on the pre-measurement just a black quarter of the sphere of the circle was just all black, in other words, blindness. You see the post-measurement on the Monday morning after the event, there isn't a black spot. Unbelievable. Complete restoration of sight.

Now, if you asked me if that was possible, you know, two years ago, I would say, yeah, it's possible theoretically. But now, like, this is the four minute mile. Then we have another lady that was blind from birth. 5% vision, and again, you know, she had an amazing experience with our coherence healing. We teach people how to heal.

When she opened her eyes, she could see faces for the first time. And in fact, they had these two big bouquets on the stage, really big, beautiful flowers. And she had 5% vision, so she could just see a little bit of light. And she thought they were two guards, two body guards on the stage guarding me the whole event.

When she sat up, she could see flowers. Or you see the nurse tell her story, or the lady who's allergic to everything at the same event who's wearing a mask with the filters and the whole bit that had anaphylactic shock every day of her life. By the second day, she's on the floor with her mask off dancing around.

The person sits down after they witness that. When they close their eyes and they do their next meditation, their acceptance, their belief, and their ability to surrender and trust that it could happen to them becomes greater. What I want our community to do is say what is standing in the way between me and my ability to connect to that field? Because I want to eliminate every belief, every emotion, every past, you know whatever. I want to remove all of those ve emotion, every past, you know, whatever.

I want to remove all of those veils. Why am I doing this? Because I want to get so good at this. We have some MIT researchers that are gonna organize all the data. 50%. I want to get to 50% and then we are gonna walk into children's hospitals

and we're gonna say, what kids, just give us your kids. We won't touch them, we don't want any money, all we wanna do is help. And I think that is, That's amazing. That's a living organism called the human beings, that living organism, the human being, the age of selfish individuality has to end right now.

The living organism has to take care of one another, they have to heal one another, they have to teach one another. They have to exchange important information amongst one another. They have to shine for one another, not to be outstanding and competitive, but to show others that they can shine. That's the only way we're going to make our way out of this mess. Oh my gosh. My favorite things that I've ever had said here, just so you know, because the application of this is beyond just someone going from 5% vision to 95% vision. The application of this in humanity and consciousness,

as you've just described there at the end, is what really I'm hearing and seeing all of that. That's what fascinates me. And I must say to you that we all agree that certainly our thoughts can make us unhealthy. So if that is true, there's gotta be a way that the mind and the heart can be able to heal the body as well. And I'm fascinated by the study of epigenetics and what you've

just covered here is it's a whole new level. I love what you said we've poked a hole. It's the four-minute mile and but I do... But the reason it's the four-minute mile is because once the four-minute mile was broken, two weeks later everybody was breaking it because it was a new belief, a new level of consciousness. So then, so the evidence of all these amazing healings, not only just healings, people are creating new jobs, new opportunities, new relationships, new mystical experiences that transcend language where you just can't be ed anymore, you know too much after that. That's the unknown, right? So in order for you to really begin to explore

the unknown aspect of yourself, you gotta learn how to get beyond the known aspect of yourself. And if you keep coming back to the known, you're gonna miss out on the unknown. So you would say, well, I don't know anything in the unknown. Of course it's the unknown.

And if you try to control it there, you're back to the known. If you try to predict it, you're back to the known. So you gotta go through this trial and error of just kind of refining your attention, refining your ability. And it's just gotta be something like playing tennis or playing golf or doing martial arts or working out or crocheting or dancing the salsa.

You just gotta keep going, man. In the beginning, it's tedious. And then when you start finding your groove, like our community, they don't miss their morning meditations. You know why? Because the magic is happening and they know if they miss it,

they're gonna cut off from the magic. So whether they're tired, whether they're hung over, whether they're in. You know, and if you wake up in the morning and you can't get your butt out of bed, you know what that means? It just means you can predict the feeling

of everything that's gonna happen in your life. Your body's resigned. So then, you know, when you went on a school trip when you were a kid, you know, you woke up before your parents, you knew something new was gonna happen. That's the body going, wake up, something unexpected's gonna happen.

What happened to us, right? So why not, you know, put in your, That's the body going wake up wake up is something unexpected is gonna happen. What happened to us right Christmas Day? Yeah So yeah, so why not? Yeah, you know put in your put in your time Mm-hmm and then and then measure the effects of you would cause I mean become a scientist in your life and really start to Experiment with it. Okay, let me change my energy. Let me just write down four thoughts That like I can it's too hard. I'll start tomorrow. four thoughts that like I can, it's too hard, I'll start tomorrow, this doesn't feel right, whatever it is, it's this

person's fault. Just write those down and say these thoughts like Gandalf on the bridge, you may not pass today, this is the end. So then if you become conscious of those thoughts, now you're the governor of your thoughts. What actions, what behaviors do you wanna change? Do you complain, do you blame, do you judge, do you make excuses, how do you talk? Do you speak limited? Just pick four things that you're not gonna do any longer.

What emotions get you in trouble? What are the emotions? That you're addicted to too, right? That you're addicted to, that keep you returning back to your past. If you don't know, close your eyes for about 30 minutes and just watch where your mind goes and watch your feelings and just say,

okay, it's frustration, it's unworthiness, it's self-doubt, it's guilt, it's frustration, it's shame. Just become conscious of those and just review them in your mind so that you don't go unconscious when you're waking day. It's so powerful because by the way, everyone that's listening to this is so awesome

because if you've been listening to my content for the last three or four months, we've been laying this foundation and now I just bring you this master that takes it to a master class level and explains to you the scientific reasons that these things work. But I wanna jump back in with you here on something

because I just wanna do a couple basic application things for everyone here. These emotions that our body gets addicted to. There's a power everyone, because I've experienced this in my own life. Everything that Joe's explaining here, other than healing my own body, I've watched them happen in my life

from the standpoint of becoming something, and then these things are in my life, rather than me sort of forcing them to happen. I mean, most people that have had any great things happen in life can define at least moments of their life where this is just a known truth. Dr. Joe talks so eloquently about the fact that you know about this epigenetics concept is fascinating me but at the same time you talk eloquently about only about 1% of us are predisposed to most of these negative ailments in our lives in the first place anyways. This is a misnomer.

But I want to talk about meditation for a second because there's people listening to this that have never done it before. So I just want them to start at a, because the thing that you say that, just as a base level thing, by writing these emotions down, you either don't want to experience or do, or the thoughts that do or don't serve you.

The power in just that, everybody, okay, I wanna go back to what Joe said earlier, I just wanna give you my two cents on this, is you become aware of them when they reveal themselves to you. Just the awareness gives you a power over them you didn't have before. And remember what Dr. Joe said before, every time you sort of make progress on something like this, you are remaking yourself. So give yourself credit for these small wins.

But the cool thing about meditation for me is it strips me of the distractions. It strips me of what I see, of the kinesthetic, of the auditory. Can you talk about just that basic concept for a second? Again, I mean this is brilliant. This is because you're a practical guy and so am I. So, all right, so if the word meditation means become familiar with, right?

Then people say, oh well you shouldn't focus on the negative. Well, really? That's 95% of who you are. And you gotta begin to dismantle or denature that old personality. And that means you're gonna have to come up against the cravings that the body has emotionally.

You know, like it's eight o'clock in the morning and you're doing your meditation, you're normally in traffic. And you wanna get angry and your body's going, hey, you're off schedule, so let me just find something that's mapped in the brain that I, I'm putting up a past experience so you can feel a little anger.

Well, now once you become aware of that, now the game is on, right? Because now you're working to become conscious of that and not go unconscious again, and it takes an incredible amount of awareness. It takes a great amount of consciousness and you can't have consciousness without energy. So you gotta raise your energy in order to get to it.

Otherwise, you're gonna be consumed. You're gonna return back, right? So if you start becoming familiar, so conscious of those unconscious thoughts, they would never slip by your mind unchecked by you. Now, that is when you really catch yourself, right? And the research shows that you can get better at this. You can actually sense the thought before it comes.

So then you start firing and wiring new thoughts. You start thinking to yourself, who am I gonna be when I open my eyes? How am I gonna make a difference in the world today? Who am I gonna be? How am I gonna love? How am I gonna give? How am I gonna serve? How am I gonna make a difference in the world today? Who am I gonna be? How am I gonna love? How am I gonna give? How am I gonna serve?

How am I gonna contribute? What things do I wanna really do today? And the act of closing your eyes and just thinking about and rehearsing what you're gonna do. Your brain doesn't know the difference and if you get caught up in it, you begin to install the neurological hardware

in your brain to look like you've already done it. Now the brain's no longer a record of the past. Now it's a map to the future. You are priming your brain and if you keep doing it, the hardware will become a software program. You know what that means? You just might start acting like a happy person. Well, there's no surprise there.

You install the circuits. Stress hormones arouse the body so you have your attention on your body. Stress hormones alert the brain so you're aware of everything in your environment, like an octopus with tentacles in all different directions. You got to control and predict everything in your life. And if you're living by the hormones of stress, you're always investing your attention and energy into the known future based on the past. So you're on a line of time here, on a timeline. So then, let's think about it.

How are you gonna make thought more real than anything else? How are you gonna create from thought? Well, let's close our eyes. Let's disconnect from the environment. Less sensory information coming into the brain. Less distraction, as you said. Let's play some soft music in the background.

Let's stick some earplugs in our ear. What do we wanna do? Diminish sensory, but now you're sitting down, you're not eating, you're not tasting, you're sitting down, you're not eating, you're not tasting, you're not smelling, you're not feeling, so there's more, less sensory input coming to your body, so then now your brain waves begin to change.

They start slowing down, and you move from this beta brain wave pattern where you're aware that you have a body in space and time, or your attention is on the outer world, or your senses are giving you information. Less sensory information, now your inner world starts becoming more real than the outer world and you're not, the voice in your head

that's always talking to you, as your brain waves change, you start seeing images and pictures and symbols and less in that vocalization, that subvocalization. So your brain waves start changing the alpha. You're gonna start creating, start dreaming, pretending, right? So then if you say to your body, you're gonna sit down for an hour,

and I know you're on a program because you wake up every morning and do the exact same thing, and now I'm gonna make you sit, just like to an animal. You sit, you stay, and your body's gonna say, I'm gonna die, my bladder's gonna say, I'm gonna die, my bladder's gonna explode, I need a coffee,

I got a lot of emails to do, that's the program. And you say to your body, today we do battle, today this is it, and you sit through that and you make your way, even though your body's trying to get up and you keep settling it back down, I'm telling you, when you start your day that day, you will be more kind, more loving, less judgmental, more patient, more present,

because you're mastering the present moment. That means you're not in the predictable future. You're not in the familiar past, you're mastering time. And so then if where you place your attention is where you place your energy, and all of your attention is in the present moment You've got a lot of energy to do amazing things and you know when someone's present with you in your life because they're paying Attention to you and you know when they're not present because they're not paying attention to you So so the act of getting more present means you're putting a lot of energy in the present moment

And you're taking your power back from all these things and people in your life. So We teach people this As they start breaking through and they start being able to unfold into this field as an awareness And they're not putting their attention on their boss or their ex or their wife or their kids or their cell phone or their whatsapp or their facebook They're they're they're they're not thinking at all. So then as they're sensing the space, they can't think. And if you can't think, you can't analyze. And if you can't analyze, the analytical mind

is what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious, which is open the door. And so now you can reprogram in there, right? So then it's so important then that of the infinite places you can put your attention, let's put it on your heart. Now, where you place your attention is where you place your energy. Why?

Because we want this center to bloom. 1,400, 1,300 different chemicals that restore and regenerate the body. Let's breathe, let's open this up, let's practice this. Let's start learning how to lead with our heart, a different consciousness. Yeah, in the beginning, it's a little difficult, but you stay with it and you practice it,

pedal by pedal by pedal, placing your attention there, you're putting your own life force back into your heart. You're turning your love inward, and the body will start responding. And in a week's time, if we're doing that three times a day or over and over again, sooner or later that thing's going to start blooming. And just like when your sexual organs are aroused and they're engorged with blood,

this center, when you start feeling love, you make a chemical called oxytocin. Oxytocin signals nitric oxide. Nitric oxide signals a chemical called derived endothelial relaxing factor. You know what that is? It causes the arteries in your heart to literally open up. So your heart is gonna be filled with blood and oxygen and nutrients.

It's physiological, it's going to feel full. You're gonna have a heart on, in a sense. Your heart is gonna fill, right? And when that happens, you experience a level of love that passes all understanding. Your cup runneth over. I mean, it is, and people are in, they're sobbing because they realize that this center finally, like a child.

So then, back to your question, let's demystify meditation because it has so many stigmas around it. Close your eyes, retreat from your life, disconnect from your body, disconnect from your environment, disconnect from your schedule, and just give yourself an hour or 45 minutes or 20 minutes

because when you invest in yourself, you invest in your 20 minutes because when you invest in yourself, you invest in your future. And when you believe in yourself, you believe in possibilities. And when you believe in possibilities, you believe in yourself. And if you don't believe in possibilities, then you don't believe in yourself.

And you don't believe in yourself, you don't believe in possibilities. So then, but if you have a community, a living organism, where it's becoming the new normal, you wanna join that living organism, and you wanna be a part of that, and every stride you make feeds the living organism. Every stride, every effort you make to connect is amazing

because that which we are seeking is seeking us. It's not like, it is, it matches our efforts. And so then when people have that uncompromising will, the same way that they go shopping for a dress or a pair of earrings or go to the gym and work out, with the same intensity, with the same passion, come up against themselves and just say, when the body's going, given everything it has, it's when you say,

that's all you got, that's it, that's all you're gonna put out to, I'm ready. And so then, when you start overcoming that, the side effect of it is that all of a sudden you're happy for no reason, and you're less seduced in believing that you need something outside of you to make you feel better. All of a sudden, you're feeling better every day

without anything outside of you. And now all of a sudden, you start showing up unpredictable in your life. You're saying, that Ed guy, he's different. He's on a different medication. He's going on with it. But in actuality, you're just freer, right? And so then as we begin to remove these layers

that stop the flow of the divine in us, that an essence in us, the side effect is we become more willful, we become more mindful, we become more conscious, we become more loving. It's its nature, you know? It just becomes who we are. I love how you

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From pork belly bites full of barbecue flavor to skewer sensations that will keep the grill going for dessert. Make this your best summer yet with PC. I think you gotta pick an area and laser in on it to use your terminology. Why? It's connected to the second thing we're gonna talk about,

which is energy. When you're focused on a lot of different things, you've depleted the energy, right? And you say in the book, you say, or one of the talks too is that Einstein says, everything is energy. Not some things, everything is energy. Drive in here to do the interview today.

I've had a little bit of rest lately. And I knew today was gonna be awesome because I was coming in, I'm like, I'm vibrating at a the interview today. I've had a little bit of rest lately. And I knew today was gonna be awesome because I was coming in, I'm like, I'm vibrating at a high frequency today. I know what it feels like to be vibrating at a high enough frequency where I'm gonna produce a great result. And I know what it feels like oftentimes where I am not.

The different things I've had in my life, in my new book, all this other stuff, I've just not been vibrating at quite the energy level that I know is the success level that I need to be at. So talk a little bit about this. You said something in this, I've never heard someone say about cells and volts of energy and like,

you can actually prove almost with neuroscience or chemistry or math, why this is actually true. So let's go to the energy thing for a second and how one might direct it. Yeah, so everything is energy and not just us, right? You know, the cells and atoms in our body, but everything, like this table that we're, it's just condensed energy,

this table right in front of us here, everything's energy, and everything's created twice, first inside, then outside, right? This table was an idea in somebody's head at one point in time. And then they, you know, through work, they formed energy, and now we've got a table that we can put our hands on

and microphones and everything. So everything's energy. And Einstein also, he was a big believer in the imagination and that energy follows thought. And so when we think of thought, energy follows that. When the president of the Ukraine was thinking, hey, we need help here, like energy was behind that thought and that thought came to you, you heard it,

and I heard it, and all of a sudden, we're rooting for them, right? We're rallying for them. So when you understand, the challenge I think most people have at is they live so firmly planted in this physical world of the only thing that exists is what I can touch what I can see what I can feel but everything's created twice. So there's things you can't touch see and feel that are being created now they're not in physical reality yet. They're in the non-physical, but that's where all the greatness starts. And when someone's struggling, all they can see is what is already there for them, and they get stuck and then they conform. What I think we as human beings ideally should

do, and this is hard, because it's fun to live in the physical world. You've got all these great houses, you know, I have different toys and fun things, and it's fun, and that's why we're here. So I like doing that, but we also have to have, ideally, a foot in the non-physical, where there are no boundaries, where energy is waiting. It's just literally saying, what do you want, Ed? What do you want? Like, everything you have, you're telling me about

your beautiful homes, those all came from, first, you directing energy inside you to go out and make those opportunities real. Okay brother, no one's ever said that on the show before and it's so true. One, I talk a lot about I think 99% of people operate out of a pattern of thinking that is history and memory. 1% of humans have worked to the extent that they operate of imagination and vision. They actually have that as their operating platform. The people that I naturally enjoy their energy, to quote you, are people who operate out of imagination.

And by the way, you can just take an inventory of yourself and the people around you. How many of your conversations, your thoughts, are about imagining and visioning, and how many of them are about history and memory? And in my life, I've just sort of, as I've gotten older, gravitated. But I'm telling you,

almost everything I accomplish or that I do, I consciously begin to think about it. So out of the physical. I've never heard someone phrase it that way before. It's exactly what I do. I'm working on a few things right now. My process, unconsciously, now that I'm 51 years old and has repeated it over 30 years,

my process is to actually sit, get in a quiet meditative state to some extent. And I'm not talking about holding my hands and praying. I'm talking about just getting alone almost for me is that state. And it is to have a thought, and then I am actually literally intentionally pouring energy into the thought. I'm trying to pour more and more and more energy

into the thought, and then I actually separate from it, and I get away from it for a while. And I let it just sit with its energy. And then I pour more and more and more energy into that vision and that imagination. And I let it just sit with its energy. And then I pour more and more and more energy into that vision and that imagination. And it amazes me how the world begins to conspire to help me make it true.

Whether it's that running on the street or a conversation today or something I then read. And I'm like, what in the, why does this pop up? So this is the process of creativity. It's thinking and then flooding it with energy. And the more successful you become, the more you have some wins, the more you begin to understand what that feels like when you're actually doing it. And it's liberating because now you know there's nothing that can stop you.

Right. Yeah. And that's what most people don't have. They literally think there's lots of things out there that can stop them. And they're not willing to take that leap of faith. And you've got to take the leap of faith in the beginning. Like people that are listening to this that haven't, that are not at Ed's level yet, just know at one point he was at your level, right?

But he just outgrew that. And it wasn't because he or me or anyone else is better than anybody else. It's just we're using the tools that everyone's using. As a matter of fact, people that are struggling, the reason they're struggling is because their subconscious is so powerful that it's taking all this information that they've put in that life's a struggle, life's hard,

you can never get ahead. And it's making it absolutely true for them. Yeah, so I so know that it's not that I'm different, which is why I'm in this space I know humans can change. I know the reality can change because I'm so aware of my own limitations I'm so aware of how many things I am either average at or Subaverage at that if I can produce certain things in my life because I this is not even humility I just realize my own limitations in terms of my intellect or my strength or my upbringing or my experiences that if I can produce these things in my life, I absolutely 1 million percent sure know

you listening to this or watching this can as well. And there is a process. It is both art and science. The art part you're going to figure out as you go. The science part, which is what we're talking about today, is absolutely a replicatable process that you can start with. So let's start with a few of what those things are.

I wanna go back one thing, because you just use a term I've not heard before, which is use your own electricity. And so I wanna just, what does that mean to you? Because people say energy. I think a lot of people have heard the term energy before and they're like, look, I just don't get it. But electricity, I don't think most people look at themselves as electric.

And they are. And it's almost like, use the example of a light, everyone. God bless you, but if you really are an electrical being, it's so sad to dim your light over time. Great analogy, I like that. Me too, and just reading your work work and you've reduced your electrical charge and the external evidence of that is the lights dimming in your life. The cool part is that at any given time you can start to take control and charge of your electricity. I just like

that term better than energy. So are we electric actually as human beings and maybe like one thought or concept about how one begins to up their amp level? So to speak. Yeah, so Bruce Lipton who you probably familiar with biology belief He's the one that that I got the data from on each cell Has a certain charge and we've got I can't even remember since I wrote it, but we have you know, like has a certain charge and we've got, I can't even remember since I wrote it, but we have billions or trillions of cells in our body. So yeah, we got a lot of electricity. We could light up a city if we used it effectively.

I really love what you just said though, because I've never thought of it like someone dimming their light, because I think that really is what's happening or what's happened to a lot of people. It's not like they don't have the charge available, but they've got it on the dimmer right and they're and they're just so used to having it dimmed out that they think that's all there is. You and I the reason we do this and I've been doing this a long time and and you

know don't necessarily have to do it anymore but I really feel like my purpose and I know your purpose, is to help people understand they can do so much more. And it's not about doing more, it's about really expressing themselves and living their purpose and do the work that they came here to do. And I think a lot of people have lost sight of that,

or they're not even clear what that is. What if you had never pushed yourself to an extreme? I'm just curious, you burned your legs in your feet. And by the way, he's in this hospital, it's unsanitary, his cat walking over his body like, and again, his mom comes and what if after that, because he decides by the way, he's going to give this away to everybody, it blows my mind. He's like, his mom says, what's your Everest basically?

Well, he's laying there. He's like, I don't know, I'm never gonna get out of here, I'm never gonna walk again. And I'll just speak it for Colin, Colin says, I'll your Everest? Basically, while he's laying there, he's like, I don't know, I'm never gonna get out of here, never gonna walk again. And I'll just speak it for calling, calling says, um, I'll do a triathlon. 18 months later, this dude does a triathlon after he was told he could never walk again. And he freaking wins it. He freaking wins the triathlon. It's insane. And then you've gone on.

What if you had never pushed yourself? Never known what you were capable of because there's a lot of people calling to go through this whole life and the five six range. Never knowing what they're capable of. What if you had never done that in your life? How much different do you think you would be? Your marriage would be you as a person would be just I mean, I don't know if you ever sit back and think about that. What if I'd have never seen what I was capable of? It's such a powerful and important question. And I'm smiling because it just strikes at the heart of what I'm passionate about sharing, what I've shared about those ones and tens. People have asked me, and it's a different question,

but it's come from the same place of I was 22 years old. The reason I got burned this fire was I was, I jumped a flaming jump rope. I was on a beach in Thailand, 22 years old, clearly not a fully formed prefrontal cortex. And I saw a couple of guys with a kerosene soaked jump rope. And I was like, gee, that looks like fun. What could possibly go wrong here? Right. And I wrapped that rope around my body, lit my fire completely on, blit my body on fire to my neck. And I thankfully was near the ocean, jumped in the ocean, saved my life, but not before about 25% of my body was burned, as you mentioned, predominate my legs and feet. And doctors

thought I would never walk again. And I spent months in rural Thai hospitals, I was in a wheelchair, all these things, right. People have asked me, well, if you could go back in a time machine and whisper to your 22 year old self, would you tell him not to jump the jump rope? And it's an interesting question because the knee jerk responses, of course, don't jump the jump rope. Don't don't light your body on fire. And I wouldn't wish the physical pain of that injury on my worst enemy. And I'll tell you what was worse than the physical pain was the emotional trauma.

Not only that I suffered my mom, God, she saved me from that mess, but she also had to stare and see her child severely burned in a place where no one spoke the language in the middle of nowhere that she couldn't move and the hurt that that caused her and my family. So on one hand, I wouldn't want to cause that hurt to anyone in my family. But here's the thing. I learned some of life's most valuable lessons from the resilience gained to recover from that, from having that specific goal, at least for me, which was a triathlon. And so that's all to say, I sit here with 10 world records. And we're not talking about the 10 world records that I set before I stupidly burned myself in a fire and screwed up my entire life. I set those records after that burn. And I only could have walked across Antarctica if I had burned

myself in the fire. And forget about the external achievement. I love that you brought up marriage into this. I show up for my wife with love and compassion and grace. And I don't always get it right. I'm not perfect. But I am a better person because I have sought out what what, what the limitations and the challenges and I've suffered some. And so it's a weird thing. I know. I know you were, I was just listening to your most recent episode with Eric, the hip hop preacher. Love that dude. What a guy. And you're saying, you're saying to him, he's like, you know, he's been homeless and he's been in the four seasons, you know?

You know, he's been illiterate and he's got a PhD. There is something about pushing the edges of what we're capable of in any given moment that teaches us so much about life. And that's why people ask me, even after I share a story about five of my friends dying, five of my friends died. There's not a day that goes by. I tear up often still 18 months later thinking about the tragedy of that moment that I share.

And people sometimes ask me, they say, Hey, Colin, aren't you afraid of dying? I think about it. Yeah, I'm afraid of dying. I'm super afraid of dying. This life is such a gift. I am afraid of dying. But you know what I'm more afraid of? I'm afraid of not living. I'm afraid of not living. And just sitting there in that five day after day after day, and never seeing what you're capable of, and

never seeing what you can create and never feeling into your full potential, even if to feel into that hurts a little bit for a moment in time, those ones, those twos, those threes. That is the juice of life. That's the spice. And the 12 hour walk, even the walk itself is a metaphor for this experience. Guess what? If you walk for 12 hours, even if you take a ton of breaks,

your feet are gonna get tired at some point. You might be a little bit out of your comfort zone in terms of bring some food with you, bring some water. You might be a little dehydrated. You might get a blister on your foot. You might be tired. You might think to yourself, I hate being alone. This is uncomfortable. Yes, you are likely going to experience some ones and twos and threes on that day. But how many five days over the last 365 can you not even remember? What did you do last Tuesday? What did you do a month ago? What did you do two months ago?

There are so many days in our life that don't even imprint and register in our memory because they're just because you're not alive. You're not fully living. You take this 12 hour walk, you're going to seek some discomfort. It is going to be challenging at times. But I guess, guess you what, if I asked you a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now, have you ever walked very far? You know what, 10 years ago, I did walk by myself alone in silence.

It's not going to be a five day. You're going to feel some ones, some twos, some threes. But every person I know to get back to their front door, every person I know that wakes up in their bed the following day of the few sore muscles. This is a seven. It's an eight more often than not a nine, a ten. Thank you. I felt alive. I am not afraid of as afraid of dying as I am afraid of not living.

Oh my gosh, Colin. Again, I just have to tell you, I'm so grateful. I'm sharing this time with you, brother. You like, I feel the exact same man. When you're talking, I think about this thing I say often, which is extremity expands capacity. When you do something to what you think is an extreme, you expand your capacity to do extreme things, even if they don't seem very significant to you. And then I think about this might be an ironic thing I just wanted to tell you when I was prepping, but take this the right way. And I know that I just say it the way I mean it, I don't know grain of salt. This is a dude who struggled to jump rope with some fire, right? I know you were a college swimmer, but he's junk and the same dude who couldn't jump rope with some fire that almost ended his life is now doing world records across Antarctica, climbing peaks, doing the grand slam.

So it's amazing. I think oftentimes we think, well, I'm not very good at something now. So I'll like never be good at it. Well, this is a dude that didn't even jump rope correctly when he was 22 years old. I know there was fire with it and all that but then to think that same dude is now the dude shattering all these records that literally no physical living human being has ever done before is a dude who couldn't get the jump rope thing right when he's 22 in Thailand. Do you ever think about that? Like that proves extremity expands capacity. Right. I'll go one step further which is after the Antarctic crossing I had a lot of doors open to me ever think about that? Like, that proves extremity expands capacity, right?

I'll go one step further, which is after the Antarctic could crossing, I had a lot of doors open to me. There was so much press media, 2 billion media impressions was most widely viewed expedition in modern history. And of course, that's going to open some doors, right? And it was a beautiful experience, a beautiful moment in time that I'm deeply humbled and grateful for was able to build a very successful and lucrative series of businesses on the back of that, etc, etc. But I decide that person's what's your next expedition. And I get this idea to row a boat across Drake passage so a rowboat tiny little rowboat for people who don't know Drake passes most treacherous stretch of ocean in the entire world. So from the southern tip of South America, all the way to Antarctica, 750 miles is where the Atlantic Pacific and Southern Ocean all converge. And that convergence of those ocean currents creates like 40 foot waves and there's icebergs, it's freezing cold. I mean, it's insane. There's been a laundry list of thousands of boats that have shipwrecked

in Drake Passage, but not just like a hundred years ago, 10 years ago, a cruise ship sunk in the middle of Drake Passage. Like that's how crazy, ago, 10 years ago, a cruise ship sunk in the middle of Drake passage. Like that's how crazy, like it is a modern time cruise ship still sunk in Drake passage. And I'm thinking I'm going to get a couple of buddies and we're going to row a boat, no motor, no sail, 28 foot long, three foot wide, two feet off the water's edge and open hole. So we're getting crashed the entire time. So I go to discuss discovery channels.

Like, I want to film your next thing, whatever it is, tell me what it is. And so I go to them and I say, well, next thing is a rowboat crossing of Drake Passage. No one's ever done it. And they say, great, great, great. They sign this big, you know, seven figure check to produce the whole thing and paint, you know, whatever. Great, great, great. It's going to be awesome. I'm leaving in three months. This is a pretty quick turnaround. And I finally, I fill all the paperwork, sign everything's down, ready to go. I turn to the producers, my family knows this, but most people don't realize this.

I'm rowing a boat across St. Patrick's. That's great. And I said, but I got some one thing I got to tell you. I've actually never rowed a boat anywhere. Come on, man. Anywhere, literally. Not at summer camp, not at- Oh my gosh, come on, dude. not at, you know, not in college, not at,

not like ever. I've never, I mean, I've also not spent, you know, it's like I'm a sailor. So I don't know like everything about ocean and seafaring. This is a 100% fully unfamiliar thing. That's the thing that's not unfamiliar is pushing my body or pushing my mind or taking on big goals or things of that nature. But I have literally never row anywhere ever. And so I reach out to a buddy of mine who's a rowing coach in Portland, Oregon, where I grew up. And I said, I need you to come meet me down at this dock and teach me a little bit about rowing.

And so he's like, Yeah, sure. And I can't explained the whole thing. He thinks you're out of your freaking mind, maybe five years from now. When are you doing this? I said, well, I'm leaving in three months. And so he gets me on this one man's single rowing school. You maybe have seen people do that or pictures of it or whatever. And I get in there, I'm in six inches of water on the dock.

I try to take my first stroke and I fall flat on my face. I literally fall out of the boat and I'm like flailing around in six inches of water and I stand up soaking wet. And this is that moment where you go like either I am an idiot and of course this is an extreme example. I'm never going to be a rower. But here's the thing. I said to him, I look at him and I go, Well, I guess I'm not a rower.

But one word changes that. I guess I'm not a rower. Yet. Yet. I'm not a rower yet. We've got three months for that. And that is everything, right? We talk about God. That is it. I'm not whatever you are right now, no matter what age you are, listening to this podcast wherever you are your hopes your dreams your Mount Everest what's your Everest, you haven't reached the summit of your Mount Everest yet. Here's the thing, Kobe Bryant had to shoot his first hoop at some point, Stephen King had to sit down and write the first paragraph of his first novel before he could write 65 of the best selling books of all time Meryl Streep had to try out for her school play. All of these people were not at the top of their game when they came out of the womb, but at some point they chose to say in their identity, in

their own confidence, in their own strength, in the story that they are writing about themselves, I am not this yet, but I can be and become anything I set my mind to. And three months later, I became the first person in history to row a boat successfully across the most stretchers ocean in the world. You can see the documentary Discovery Plus as it's called The Impossible Row. If you want to see me get bashed around in some crazy ass situation in the middle of the ocean. But we can be and become anything we set our minds to and that's the truth. That's just unbelievable and the way you tell a story and weave in the point it's just so freaking good. I really do believe this too the people that I know that are the most happy and successful or just one or the other have a lower threshold of how good or how prepared they

think they have to be before they actually start something. And the people that aren't very happy or that aren't very successful have this massive threshold of what they think they have to know to just begin. And so they don't begin to your point. Now that is rather mind blowing. It's like Rob O'Neill was on my show Kill Ben Laden. He couldn't even he didn't know how to swim weeks before becoming a Navy SEAL. Then I have you on and you're telling me, I've never rode a boat and you're doing something that freaking bananas. Just, it just, it just blows my mind, bro. I've reached the same conclusions you have,

yet I have this vast toolbox of tools that I still use because God's put those people in my life that have given me those tools. But ultimately for me, those aren't the final answer. They're steps that may get me in a position where I'm more ready to receive something, but the final answer is,

I've come to the same answer you have. I'm gonna ask you some hard stuff now, though. I'm gonna push you. Not that we haven't already covered this hard, but I'm gonna push you on it. The slideshow, does that mean it never comes back again, or does that mean that you've got some peace and comfort when stress, guilt, shame does repeat itself?

Because for me, you and I just share the same belief system, so I'm just gonna say it in our language. Everybody can do whatever they want. But like, the adversary still attacks. The adversary still is trying to get you. So for me, my peace and comfort comes from there as well. But I haven't escaped it entirely, meaning in my own case, the slideshows of my life

have reappeared in my case, but that I know where I go for comfort and peace when it does reappear. Does that mean for you that at that day, you've never had another slideshow, you've never had another feeling of guilt or shame, or does it still resurface from time to time? Yeah, I can answer that.

That day wasn't the end of the slideshow. But I wasn't ready yet. That was the beginning of the journey of who is this guy, Jesus? The guy that I called out to just instinctively, because that's what kids in America do. But who was he really? That began that journey.

And so I still had the slideshow, but things really changed for me March 1st, 2020. That's when the slideshow drastically changed. And so to answer your question, I do still see the slideshow, even today, but it has lost its sting. Lost its power over you. It does not have its power over me.

Yeah, what happened on March of 2020? During that journey from December to March, the first thing I thought was, I need a preacher. I don't really know. See, I'm a country music guy traveling on the weekends. I didn't really go to church. Besides, as a kid, I didn't have any consistency in church ever, so I thought, well, I need a preacher.

First one I thought of was Billy Graham. That's the first name that came to my mind. I don't really know him personally at all, but hey, I've heard of this guy. Looked him up, found out YouTube has a plethora of Billy Graham videos. Started just watching it. And it had an effect on me.

It's like, I dig this. I dig this guy. I like what he's saying. He was pouring the gospel all over these stadiums worldwide for decades and it was having an effect on me so much that I started replacing some of the self-help audio books I was listening to in my truck. I was like, now instead of finishing that book, I'll trade it in for another Billy Graham classic sermon.

People thought I was crazy. Really? They were like, what are you doing, man? I've got to finish in that book, I'll trade it in for another Billy Graham classic sermon. People thought I was crazy. Really? They were like, what are you doing, man? You're driving in your pickup truck in Texas, windows down with a Billy Graham sermon playing? That's bizarre, man. One day, one of my friends goes, hey, I got some more stuff for you. There's some deeper stuff.

Like, there's this pastor named John Piper. He's deeper, but he's super intense, very passionate. It's like my wife is at a conference with him right now as we speak. Is that as we're sitting here? Yeah. She loves him because his words saved her husband, you know? So that's why she has an attachment to him.

But I liked this guy, John. I liked his rhythm. I liked his intensity and his passion and his articulation of the gospel specifically. What's going on? What's the mechanics of what's changing within a man when he hears these words? John was good at articulating that.

And it goes down to this one sermon randomly popped up on my algorithm on March 1st, 2020, driving to my truck, County Road in Texas. I remember everything about that morning, my hands on the steering wheel, the feel of the accelerator in my foot. I mean, I felt, I knew, I know what that moment was like when he was reading out of John 14. And he said this, he said, Piper's reading, right? And the disciple asked Jesus, Lord, why is it that you manifest yourself to us,

the disciples, but not to the rest of the world? Jesus answered him, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. There's a pause. Pastor Piper comes in and he says, that's not unconditional love. That is profoundly conditional. Boom, it hit me. He reads it again. If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my father will love him in a way that he doesn't love everybody. I thought, oh man, it hit me

like a ton of bricks. Not that I needed, he wasn't saying if you want me to love you, then you keep my word and earn it. He wasn't saying that. He was saying there's people that I love, that I will save, redeem, restore, forgive. And you could tell those people because those are the ones that keep my word. And I thought, what's his word? I don't know it. I don't know all of it.

So I went home, like all in that moment, I knew, I knew in that bus in Boise, Idaho, that I was redeemed, that I was saved, I was restored, I was adopted as a son. And yet, as a gratitude and humility in response to that, I wasn't doing what he asked me to do. So I went home and I told Amber I said we're gonna read the Bible not not a devotional not something that that commentates it but we're just gonna go to the word itself we'll start I don't know where's a good place to start maybe the birth of Christ Matthew 1 let's

just start there and she goes okay I'm in I mean we literally you read the whole Bible too didn't you yeah I mean, we literally. You read the whole Bible too, didn't you? Yeah, I mean, we literally knocked the dust off of these Bibles that we hadn't really touched. Calling ourselves Christians, boy, I got in there. And seeing, reading the Bible in its entirety and truly digesting it is how we learn who God is. In the same way that you know your son

because you spend a lot of time with him. So much so that if you go to a restaurant tomorrow and your son's not with you, you'll go, I know what my son would like, I know what he would order, I know what he would not like, I know what girl he'd think would be cute, I know what kind of car he likes. You know him, you've spent so much time with him.

So as we read the Bible, we start to learn who God is. When we learn who God is, as the sovereign, providential king, then we go, oh, I could surrender to that? Not in a weakness type of way, not in a passive way, but I'm going, God, all my strength that you have given me, I hand it to you and I trust you, I follow you. And there is power in a man when he learns that kind of surrender.

There is confidence. The shame, the guilt, the slideshow, lost its sting. Yeah. Brother, I gotta just tell you something. Having known you before this and seeing you now, by the way, it's not like this is like a 30-year journey for this man. Like this is the last few years. Like the Holy Spirit's all over you. The way you... These aren't your words. These are... Like it's so awesome to be like... For me, it's so awesome to see God's greatness pouring through you. Like

there's evidence right in front of me. This is a dude who was playing beautiful music three or four years ago. And the truth is, really, like, most of these thoughts and words weren't within this man at that time, and now they're just coming out of you. I think so many people use guilt and shame as a weapon against themselves over and over again, and they're trying to somehow grab some strategy or tool

to somehow rectify this pattern that they've repeated millions of times over and over and over again, whether that be the slideshow or the way they speak to themselves or all these other things. And a lot of the things we teach here, by the way, in this space, when I say here,

as if I own it and I don't, are incredibly valuable things. It'd be like saying that you shouldn't eat the food and the plants that God's planted in our lives. You're supposed to consume these good things. It'd be like saying that you shouldn't eat the food and the plants that God's planted in our lives. You're supposed to consume these good things. But if you don't understand the source of where they come from, the real source,

when you really need an answer, there's gonna be a time where you reach that place in your life where you're just like, it's not enough, it just doesn't work. I can't go to that thing again, that trigger, that anchor, it just, it doesn't do. I can't go to that thing again, that trigger, that anchor. It doesn't do what I need it to do. And I'm loving the way that also that you phrase this because it's interesting.

You actually take away many of the objections most people have probably unknowingly about these things. Like for me, we'll just both plug different things. Like for me, I'm a little bit cerebral. My surround, surprise people since my IQ is not that high. But I needed to see some like evidentiary stuff. So like Lee Strobel's work, The Case for Christ had a big profound effect on me, right? And I've also tried to surround myself in my life with people that are more knowledgeable about God's word than I am as I work on it to help me answer questions when I read something or when I navigate a situation.

And God's put those people in my life also, but those people aren't my answer. Those tools aren't my answer. Men will eventually probably let you down, and things of this world will probably eventually let you down. But in my case, Jesus never has, ever. And he can take purpose through your pain.

You talk about this in the book, which we might as well get into a little bit right now. You say there's really, you reference two things about pain, one is that it's temporary, I believe. You say that in the book. By the way, the book made such an impact on me. I can picture the pages right now as I'm reading it. I want you to talk a little bit about that.

We found where your answers are. By the way, I wanna go here first. You're so committed to what you've just discussed. Most people may not know this yet, but he's completely devoted his life to do this. So tell them what you're kind of really not doing anymore. Because it's not like a little thing, right? Like you've made a massive commitment.

So if you're wondering like, this is really interesting words this guy's got. Wow, really cool. I just felt really motivated and I'm gonna pick my Bible up. Mm, it's a lot more than that. So tell him what you've decided to do with your life as a commitment towards what you just described.

This is, this may maybe a surprise for some people that have been paying attention. In the book of Matthew, chapter 13 verse 44. Look at you right now. My gosh, go ahead. Hey, I got to ground myself in the truth first. Jesus is talking a parable, and he says, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covers up.

Then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. So this is where I'm living right now. I'm living in a moment where I found this treasure, the ultimate value. And I'm going, man, I found this treasure. And I want to own this treasure so much so that I want to show everyone else this treasure. Now there's a word that we can't miss in that parable and it's joy.

Then in his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Because if you don't feel that joy, you're not feeling it right.