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## Highlights
- Brain injuries can ruin people’s lives;
- Alcohol is not a health food and often shows significant damage on SPECT scans;
- A number of the medications people routinely take, such as some common anti-anxiety medications, are not good for the brain; and
- Diseases like Alzheimer’s actually start in the brain decades before people have any symptoms. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3revrcnm2mp9g0gwqakw50))
INTRODUCTION ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rgmsg04gej0m4pz6nzdmk))
We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was “outside the box,” and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rm2cr3dbt9361fvqdehbz))
We also know that to leave the familiar life that we have grown accustomed to and waltz into something new is like a salmon swimming upstream: it takes effort—and, frankly, it’s uncomfortable. And to top it off, ridicule, marginalization, opposition, and denigration from those who cling to what they think they know greet us along the way. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rsdcrbptzdet6banfm5az))
Who, with such an unconventional bent, is willing to meet such adversity in the name of some concept they cannot embrace with their senses, yet which is alive in their minds? How many times in history have individuals who were considered heretics and fools, and thus took the abuse of the unexceptional, emerged as geniuses, saints, or masters? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rsekm71xctzwaakskt55t))
Will _you_ dare to be an original? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rsffrtkz6b2a323sghsx9))
Is defining my present reality by what I perceive with my senses the biggest limitation I have? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3rw8zbrv0yvjgbxtpjpam5))
When you meditate and connect to something greater, you can create and then memorize such coherence between your thoughts and feelings that nothing in your outer reality—no thing, no person, no condition at any place or time—could move you from that level of energy. Now you are mastering your environment, your body, and time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3s3gjfgg4wy4d2c15pvqhz))
CHAPTER ONE ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3s9c1ty6evrss9wvwh33q6))
Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven’t committed yourself to living by the truth that _your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3sdbx4rrpt0xmtvyzjb01e))
By extension, the work of Descartes and Newton established a mind-set that if reality operated on mechanistic principles, then humanity had little influence on outcomes. All of reality was predetermined. Given that outlook, is it any wonder that human beings struggled with the idea that their actions mattered, let alone entertained the notion that their _thoughts_ mattered or that free will played any part in the grand scheme of things? Don’t many of us still labor today (subconsciously or consciously) under the assumption that we humans are often little more than victims? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3sj9mt62jqrhs1pskpvw4n))
Quantum physics calls this phenomenon “collapse of the wave function” or the “observer effect.” We now know that the moment the observer looks for an electron, there is a specific point in time and space when all probabilities of the electron collapse into a physical event. With this discovery, mind and matter can no longer be considered separate; they are intrinsically related, because subjective mind produces measurable changes on the objective, physical world. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3sq0306cqyfm384fhr8400))
Are you beginning to see why this chapter is titled “The Quantum You”? At the subatomic level, energy responds to your mindful attention and becomes matter. How would your life change if you learned to _direct_ the observer effect and to collapse infinite waves of probability into the reality that _you_ choose? Could you get better at observing the life you want? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3sqrj53v9azsgk7wavpqkh))
- đź’ We choose our realities through our thoughts
with willful attention, sincere application of new knowledge, and repeated daily efforts, you can use your mind, as the observer, to collapse quantum particles and organize a vast number of subatomic waves of probability into a desired physical event called an _experience_ in your life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3szpq2kaq49qngnvh7etmp))
Like clay, the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind. And if all matter is made of energy, it makes sense that consciousness (“mind,” in this case, as Newton and Descartes called it) and energy (“matter,” according to the quantum model) are so intimately related that they are one. Mind and matter are completely entangled. Your consciousness (mind) has effects on energy (matter) because your consciousness _is_ energy and energy _has_ consciousness. You are powerful enough to influence matter because at the most elementary level, you are energy with a consciousness. You are mindful matter. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3t06md6qcmbh5035d72dc0))
Essentially, once two particles can be initially linked in some way, they will always be bonded together beyond space and time. As a result, anything that is done to one will be done to the other even though they are spatially separated from one another. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3t2h1ref1jyae6dftewqan))
The quantum law says that all potentials exist simultaneously. Our thinking and our feelings affect all aspects of life, beyond both space and time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3t4ndxj081qtrek49873bs))
An intentional thought needs an energizer, a catalyst—and that energy is an elevated emotion. Heart and mind working together. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3t7x7v5cd14r5qsm6gx850))
- đź’ love as an elevated emotion
When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tc273xv4k0mjnmej8m396))
- đź’
outcomes that we attract to ourselves have to surprise, even astonish, us in the way in which they come about. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tf4aneky4tx0w7dhcyh69))
- đź’ a creative contact with quantum intelligence that inspires us
You just went from “cause and effect” to “causing an effect.”
Hold a clear intention of what you want, but leave the “how” details to the unpredictable quantum field ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3thpnnhxjcad77v3kne9b6))
Can you give thanks and feel the elevated emotions associated with a desired event before it occurs? Can you imagine that reality so completely that you begin to be _in_ that future life now? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tjxr29yez4313pdtd8vkw))
You have to feel as though whatever you want is in your reality at this very moment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tkjy65hdsqkbddpf5v3zx))
Our thoughts send the signal out (_I am suffering_), and our emotions (_I am suffering_) draw into our lives an event to match that emotional frequency—that is, a good reason to suffer. In a very real sense, we are asking for proof of the existence of universal intelligence at all times, and it sends us feedback in our external environment at all times. That is how powerful we are. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tpys3gvzjme11m17b0bp0))
The quantum is a multidimensional reality that exists beyond your senses, in a realm where there is no body, no thing, no time. Thus, to move into that domain and create from that paradigm, you’ll need to forget about your body for a little while. You’ll also have to temporarily shift your awareness away from your external environment—all those things that you identify with in your life. Your spouse, your kids, your possessions, and your problems are all part of your identity; through them, you identify with the outer world. And finally, you will have to lose track of linear time. That is, in the moment when you are intentionally observing a potential future experience, you will have to be so present that your mind no longer vacillates between memories of the past and expectations of a “same as usual” future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3ttbvjf9jpsb9wqjmc4220))
- đź’ Mental world over physical
when you live a life that is greater than your body, your environment, and time—all things are possible. The universal intelligence that animates the existence of all things will both surprise and delight you. It wants nothing more than to provide you with access to all you want. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3tys205cmtm78h760cbnzd))
- đź’ psychedelics effects
CHAPTER TWO ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3v62w7gw931esmpbw35b7n))
If you want to change, you must have in your thoughts an idealized self—a model that you can emulate, which is different from, and better than, the “you” that exists today in your particular environment, body, and time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3wxsvapq855x0gm4sfyhkg))
If your thoughts determine your reality, and you keep thinking the same thoughts (which are a product and reflection of the environment), then you will continue to produce the same reality day after day. Thus, your internal thoughts and feelings exactly match your external life ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x03m2se1z1ekcgm6qyvg4))
when you consider that your brain is a complete record of your past, and your mind is the product of your consciousness, in one sense you might _always be thinking in the past._ By responding with the same brain hardware that matches what you remember, you’re creating a level of mind that is identical to the past, because your brain is automatically firing existing circuits to reflect everything you already know, have experienced, and thus can predict. According to quantum law (which, by the way, is still working for you), your past is now becoming your future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x1p3zx422a0s3ecmn00vt))
Why are you secretly expecting something different to show up in your life, when you think the same thoughts, perform the same actions, and experience the same emotions every single day? Isn’t that the definition of insanity? All of us have fallen prey to this type of limited life, one time or another. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x3a94q49ae7nfm47qzxyt))
So if you keep thinking the same thoughts, doing the same things, and feeling the same emotions, you will begin to hardwire your brain into a finite pattern that is the direct reflection of your finite reality. Consequently, it will become easier and more natural for you to reproduce the same mind on a moment-to-moment basis. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x68qmbacee3mtb256x6qy))
You have formed the habit of being yourself by becoming, in a sense, enslaved to your environment ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x6xrbty56kw7ypwf8e03z))
You have allowed yourself to give up control of your destiny ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x788vw51cmcmerv5rz769))
To change, then, is to think and act greater than our present circumstances, greater than our environment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x7q2jk0gkt40wzy80dnhs))
As a common thread, they all had a dream, vision, or objective that was much larger than they were. They all believed in a future destiny that was so real in their minds that they began to live as if that dream were already happening. They couldn’t see, hear, taste, smell, or feel it, but they were so possessed by their dream that they acted in a way that corresponded to this potential reality ahead of time. In other words, they behaved as if what they envisioned was already a reality. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3x8663n7ff8zvxshnmrdkk))
the brain does not know the difference between the internal world of the mind and what we experience in the external environment. Our thoughts can become our experience ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xaypzbbqszye8f6a8y08s))
When we can change our minds independent of the environment and then steadfastly embrace an ideal with sustained concentration, the brain will be _ahead_ of the environment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xdw86brrffmzrcscez77c))
CHAPTER THREE ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xez1vbwd0yfa0mk7ra25w))
Neuropeptides and hormones are the chemicals responsible for our feelings. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xgbb8rmj961p20sgejn29))
neurotransmitters as chemical messengers primarily from the brain and mind, neuropeptides as chemical signalers that serve as a bridge between the brain and the body to make us feel the way we think, and hormones as the chemicals related to feelings primarily in the body. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xhep45pzzm7j14bn299n2))
You’ve made your fantasy thoughts so real in your mind that your body starts to get prepared for an actual sexual experience (ahead of the event). That’s how powerfully mind and body are related. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xjdkwbq3fkska3p3kgpkm))
When the body remembers better than the conscious mind—that is, when the body _is_ the mind—that’s called a _habit._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xs2qwgtxpdpf7nv31bk1q))
Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us. Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xsaw77nxwzfpv3bk30e5r))
a person may consciously want to be happy, healthy, or free, but the experience of hosting 20 years of suffering and the repeated cycling of those chemicals of pain and pity have subconsciously conditioned the body to be in a habitual state. We live by habit when we’re no longer aware of what we’re thinking, doing, or feeling; we become unconscious ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xtmygys0501tzerrg61j8))
when the 5 percent that is conscious is going against 95 percent that is running subconscious automatic programs, the 95 percent is so reflexive that it only takes one stray thought or a single stimulus from the environment to turn on the automatic program again. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3xwjkkherm4s49hfpvehcz))
Whether we’re addicted to cigarettes, chocolate, alcohol, shopping, gambling, or biting our nails, the moment we cease the habitual action, chaos rages between the body and the mind. The thoughts we embrace are intimately identified with the feelings of what it would be like to experience the indulgence. When we give in to the cravings, we will keep producing the same outcomes in our lives, because the mind and body are in opposition. Our thoughts and feelings are working against each other, and if the body has become the mind, we will always fall prey to how we feel. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3y46k587r4advyyyjy9z9k))
to change your personality, you need to change your state of being, which is intimately connected to feelings that you’ve memorized ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3y500kmkwhefsf87hahhze))
Because your body believes it is experiencing the same event again and again, you are conditioning it to live in the past. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3y8899k3r3k2njhha47gy7))
by quantum law, you create more of the past. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3y8tjdkwqvkq62agkbaap8))
We may not be able to control all the conditions in our external environment, but we certainly have a choice in controlling our _inner_ environment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3yc2tc6fp6472zbekd3cvs))
- đź’ Stoicism [[Discipline of Perception]]
The way most organisms adapt to conditions in their environment is through gradual genetic modifications. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3zpey80qncgx1dvj4w00hf))
Can you pick a potential from the quantum field (every potential already exists, by the way) and emotionally embrace a future event before the actual experience? Can you do this so many times that you emotionally condition the body to a new mind, thus signaling new genes in new ways? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm3zxx6f1c3fgz5752d8zg1k))
CHAPTER FOUR ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm400742pch7001365gyvfdv))
The thought produces a, memory, which creates an emotion. In time, the thought becomes the memory, and an emotion follows. If this process is repeated enough time, the thought is the memory, which is the emotion. We memorize the emotion. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm405w774pr5t64m27ratkb4))
It begins to make sense that although we “think” or “believe” we are living in the present, there is a good possibility that our bodies are in the past. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm407zaymrvhans7hch2p55r))
progression of different refractory periods. An experience creates an emotional reaction, which then can turn into a mood, then into a temperament, and finally into a personality trait. We, as personalities, memorize our emotional reaction and live in the past. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm40a1vfn7k3bbah6441bds4))
If you know that by staying present and severing or pruning your connections with the past, you can have access to all the possible outcomes in the quantum field, why would you choose to live in the past and keep creating the same future for yourself? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm40fnqdyxd85ytbrz2t4csw))
These moments when you transcend the Big Three are what some people call being “in the flow.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm40gp5qaxzdwh48ztsgdscp))
CHAPTER FIVE ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm40hk07qn5d3z91395q5ycp))
most of us are much more familiar with the addictive state of mind we’ll call “survival” than we are with living as creators. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm45pacpz7e0mtnncwaecnfj))
for a fuller explanation of this difference, you may want to read Chapters 8 through 11 in _Evolve Your Brain_ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm45pfw3jyvdkw8p7tf0e93b))
If you’re putting the bulk of your energy toward some issue in your external environment, there will be little left for your body’s internal environment. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm45s9qprzrev375f63dj8qm))
We are absorbed by the outer world because that is what those chemicals force us to pay attention to—things we own ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4jsrqdy4ppx0rvt2frv7qj))
If the quantum model of reality ultimately defines everything as energy, why do we experience ourselves more as physical beings than as beings of energy? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4jwgr5m2kq4b58b9kqsen4))
When our stress response is triggered, we focus on three things, and they are of highest importance:
- The body. (_It must be taken care of._)
- The environment. (_Where can I go to escape this threat?_)
- Time. (_How much of it do I have to use in order to evade this threat?_) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4g1y2ntp7b3c3y50vk8k97))
 ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4jxwj3pgq7cr25v9er5hnz))
As our emotions become more elevated, we will naturally ascend to a higher level of consciousness, closer to Source … and feel more connected to universal intelligence ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4jzydkyfstk4ef8y3vzf25))
most of us are addicted to the problems and conditions of our lives that produce stress. No matter whether we’re in a bad job or a bad relationship, we hold our troubles close to us because they help reinforce who we are as a somebody; they feed our addictions to low-frequency emotions. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4k9sc241sc2kgp505t77zp))
When our survival response is way out of proportion to what is happening in our outer world, that excess of stress-response hormones causes us to become fixated within the parameters of self. So we become overly selfish. We obsess about our bodies or a particular aspect of our environment, and we live enslaved to time. We’re trapped in this particular reality, and we feel powerless to change, to break the habit of being ourselves. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4khheyzg93zbk1m93f5fse))
Living in creation is living as a nobody. Ever notice that when you’re truly in the midst of creating anything, you forget about yourself ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm4kstvq50pc76x6h2tcjyh2))
When we set aside time and private space to think about a new way of being, that is when the frontal lobe engages in creation. We can imagine fresh possibilities and ask ourselves important questions about what we really want, how and who we want to be, and what we want to change about ourselves and our circumstances. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6n6wgzb1egf7s4w0g77dws))
fill your brain with knowledge on your chosen subject, so you have more building blocks to make a new model of the reality you want to embrace ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6nddwp9d0edns68bf3sfx9))
**Figure 5B.** When the frontal lobe is working in creative mode, it looks out over the landscape of the entire brain and gathers all of the brain’s information to create a new mind. If compassion is the new state of being that you want to create, then once you ask yourself what it would be like to be compassionate, the frontal lobe would naturally combine different neural networks together in new ways to create a new model or vision. It might take stored information from books you read, DVDs you saw, personal experiences, and so forth to make the brain work in new ways. Once the new mind is in place, you see a picture, hologram, or vision of what compassion means to you. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6ne88ayzrr93rgzaysyze2))
the frontal lobe’s third vital role is to make thought more real than anything else ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6nerq20qsc0q8h14sqphv3))
lowers the volume on the circuits in the rest of the brain so that little else is being processed but a single-minded thought ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6nezxvacxbnfy93am4h46j))
the more you overcome your ego, the more the physical evidence of the old personality is changed. The old you is gone. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6prsq1ds15p1nvrwa4h5cz))
We’ve covered a lot of possibilities: the concept that your subjective mind can affect your objective world; your potential to change your brain and body by becoming greater than your environment, your body, and time; and the prospect that you can move out of the reactive, stressful mode of living in survival, as though only the outer world is real, and enter the inner world of the creator. It is my hope that you can now view these possibilities as possible _realities._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6pt234d22kgnzpcbghvgsa))
- đź’ summary
CHAPTER SIX ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6pv2n4zr17b64y2gcfqtcx))
 ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qhj9p684az67y7emnnwvz))
The “first brain,” the neocortex or thinking brain (in white). The “second brain” is the limbic or emotional brain, responsible for creating, maintaining, and organizing chemicals in the body (in gray). The “third brain,” the cerebellum, is the seat of the subconscious mind (in charcoal). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qjnr4xgy49a43vtrte8e0))
If the neocortex had a motto, it might be: _Knowledge is for the mind._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qp5hdhjqea3csjr72gb2h))
knowledge is the _precursor_ to experience: Your neocortex is responsible forprocessing ideas that you have not yet experienced, which exist as a potential for you to embrace at some future time ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qm4n8nwj6h15jc9whyc4a))
As you entertain new thoughts, you begin to think about modifying your behavior so that you can do something differently when the opportunity presents itself, in order to have a new outcome. As you then alter your routine actions and typical behaviors, something different from the norm should happen, which will produce a new event for you to experience ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qme3h97b239zdab990afm))
If the limbic brain had a motto, it might be: _Experience is for the body._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qpeq5a3d9ty1fcbzyvtzd))
If knowledge is for the mind, and experience is for the body, then when you apply knowledge and create a new experience, you teach the body what the mind has intellectually learned. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qpwy3wkfjeteb1rqq5h7w))
Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qq53ymcem9z1g0xbxvbbm))
through conscious mental rehearsal, the thinking brain (neocortex) uses knowledge to activate new circuits in new ways to make a new mind. Then, our thought creates an experience, and via the emotional (limbic) brain, that produces a new emotion. Our thinking and feeling brains condition the body to a new mind. Finally, if we reach the point where mind and body are working as one, the cerebellum enables us to memorize a new neurochemical self, and our new state of being is now an innate program in our subconscious. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qsahkjerecddez63z1q7p))
A Real-Life Example of the Three Brains in Action ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qwsm5sj1bmdkcfxe34he2))
- đź’ expand
_My definition of mastery is that our internal chemical state is greater than anything in our external world._ You are a master when you’ve conditioned yourself with chosen thoughts and feelings, you’ve memorized desired emotional/chemical states, and nothing in your external life deters you from your aims. No person, no thing, and no experience at any time or place should disrupt your internal chemical coherence. You can think, act, and feel differently whenever you choose. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6qz4r0tpwj2xdw0cj3k7vg))
a new personality produces a new personal reality. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6rh96kdge89w2zrqwrcnp4))
By activating and coordinating your three brains, meditation allows you to move from thinking to being—and once you are in a new state of being, you are more prone to act and think equal to who you are being. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6rnrdqbey6kz7zeyt160jd))
CHAPTER SEVEN ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s3d9cz0hy9c3phfxpr88x))
[](#ch07) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s39xbymqb27rzs7k173j3))
On the day I recognized the core reason for my unhappiness, I also realized that I needed the external world to remember who I was. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s50p21ervda2bp8863xnc))
I then understood that I was totally addicted to my environment, and I was dependent on external cues to reinforce my emotional addiction. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s56g4wanb0ew78c63y7q2))
HOW WE APPEAR
- The identity I project to the outer environment
- Who I want you to think I am
- The facade
- Ideal for the world
WHO WE REALLY ARE
- How I feel
- Who I really am
- How I am an the inside
- Ideal for self ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s5enrvrw152ccd4z250hj))
the more they buy and then consume—the more noticeable the feeling of who they “really are” becomes ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6s9vz0sw0a0r0b8ymdp154))
We grow more dependent on something outside of us to change us internally ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sav23esj2f0he1y8dy132))
A relationship is then formed based on neurochemical states of being, because if you share the same experiences, you share the same emotions ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sf6w4ehnnxtv1hyrkrzmt))
you are bonded in an invisible field of energy to every thing, person, and place in your external life ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sfk7fm7j28ff7fkedjrsr))
When your life is over and you cannot rely on your external world to define you, you will be left with that feeling you never addressed. You would not have evolved as a soul in that lifetime. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6shgqgf9wph0vcrqfk11tx))
When the same people and things in our lives create the same emotions, and the feeling we are trying to make go away no longer changes, we look for new people and things, or try going to new places, in an attempt to change how we feel emotionally. If that doesn’t work, we go to the next level—addictions ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sjr4374nx94zz9q79zzab))
- đź’ college life, conforming
If we wait for anything outside us to make us happy, then we are not following the quantum law. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sn21883nx9ytnmr31w7hq))
We have to become happy _before_ our abundance shows up. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6sn79e36ftk3sejjt57r00))
We can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or we can do so in a state of joy and inspiration. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6srqr5gkr0mnch3w9cnwg6))
you know the funny thing about not wanting or lacking for anything? That’s when you can really begin to manifest things naturally ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6synygnq8p3k49jfw0mtrh))
how do you become more observant; break your emotional bonds with the body, the environment, and time; and close the gap?
The answer is simple: _meditation_ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6t5da86tyvyk0wmdbjcmav))
being able to access and enter the operating system of the subconscious mind so that you move away from simply _being_ yourself and your thoughts, beliefs, actions, and emotions, to _observing_ those things … and then once you’re there, to subconsciously reprogramming your brain and body to a new mind ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6t5tsdyqn0mwpw56np9xrj))
remind yourself who you no longer want to “be” until this becomes so familiar that you know your old self ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6t8fy0ndvvmmwj6ab6v16p))
Then, you repeatedly contemplate who you do want to “be.” As a result, you will fire and wire new levels of mind, to which you will emotionally condition the body until they become familiar and second nature to you ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6t8tjaa3d6378vy12w0ceg))
when you’ve heard enough or you particularly like something interesting that applies to you, you naturally pause and your brain slips into Alpha. You do this because that information is being consolidated in your gray matter. And as you stare into space, you are attending to your thoughts and making them more real than the external world ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6tff98jjtr7vsx66wr9jbk))
- đź’ thinking and learning
If done properly, meditation will shift your brain to a more coherent and orderly wave pattern. You will go from focusing on the Big Three to becoming _no body, no thing,_ and _no time._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6twwrewvqtk36es81azmw3))
CHAPTER NINE ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm6w16wyezwsj29xz5b5235j))
**Suggested Four-Week Program**
_Week One_ (Chapter 10):
Every day, do STEP 1: **Induction.**
_Week Two_ (Chapter 11):
Start every daily session by once again practicing the first step; then add **STEP 2: Recognizing, STEP 3: Admitting and Declaring,** and **STEP 4: Surrendering.**
_Week Three_ (Chapter 12):
Start every daily session by practicing STEPS 1 through 4, then add **STEP 5: Observing and Reminding** and **STEP 6: Redirecting.**
_Week Four_ (Chapter 13):
Start every daily session by practicing STEPS 1 through 6, then add **STEP 7: Creating and Rehearsing**. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wd8wddebnegc3n0cay81m))
do your mindfulness practices in a setting that represents growth, regeneration, and a new future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8whgr856x64v9e0t051dvk))
- đź’ not in established neural networks like bed
Although you are sitting upright, you may find your head nodding as though you are about to fall asleep. This is a good sign: you are moving into the Alpha and Theta brain-wave states. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wkmxn8s8k5md0kbt0d4me))
daily changes in brain chemistry result in easier access to the subconscious mind just after you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed at night ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wm0e4wmt5fw87x2kw32rk))
Take a few minutes before each day’s meditation session to review any writing you have done in connection with the steps you are about to practice ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wmemq8j4fm10h6zvefyh1))
your daily meditation (including induction) will generally take 40 to 50 minutes. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wn2wv9q5m4zv734hjnjd1))
[](#ch10) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8w9w5xqbga0hrrv2e8xmr6))
CHAPTER TEN ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wpywe82z4bmza3dcphn31))
All someone has to do in order to be hypnotized or to hypnotize him- or herself is to move down from high- or mid-range Beta waves into a more relaxed Alpha or Theta state ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wqgpd0dd6aq6eftm6gf4c))
**STEP 1: INDUCTION** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wspagj002wszb90chc6kk))
[](#sec01) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wsgm26xthz9ctsjyfm792))
take up the first 20 minutes of every meditation session ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wt6my9yfaz6pdww571an9))
Overview: Body-Part Induction ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wtxp265mn9k6yqww087ha))
you’ll focus attention on your body and environment ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wv85w5zzqjx8xzm2qeecb))
when we become acutely aware of the body and sensations related to it, we enter the subconscious mind ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8wvk2594eg1gv6kmwe0m5e))
as you place your consciousness on where your body is oriented in space, you access your sub-conscious mind and bypass your thinking brain. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8ww0c6c2df16y25cwx7hew))
forcing you into a sensing/feeling mode ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8x5g0aqe2z7aqtmpnz06ms))
move from that narrow-minded range of attention to an expanded focus on the body and the space around it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8x7s9q2vax61sjfbfnck5k))
Body-Part Induction:
The How-to[\*](#ft1a) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8x84tqjw5qe9m9p85de1qx))
focus on the location or orientation of your body in space. For example, think about the location of your head, starting at its top and gradually moving down ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xa7t1dckhjycxrtdes15x))
Next, become aware of the teardrop-shaped area surrounding your body, and the space it takes up. When you can sense that area of space around your body, your attention now is no longer _on_ your body. Now you are not your body, but something grander ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xaf6p98amgcrh9r4p8a6g))
Finally, become aware of the area that the room you are in occupies in space ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xakmfk30yya34d7cx5vay))
Water-Rising Induction[\*](#ft2a) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xaxce66tbwatbvshkw7cm))
Observe (sense) the space in which the room is situated, and the space that the water occupies ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xbbdaq5tgvvn2nmt5gw71))
until the water fills the entire room ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xbpkrn9gr2j8v82wmvwq0))
WEEK ONE
GUIDE TO MEDITATION ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xc1h2h2vpmd9n3t7bxxjb))
CHAPTER ELEVEN ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xd2n9dvkjkykvxhmr2jwt))
**STEP 2: RECOGNIZING** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xebxmtbm1fr56wffbveyn))
Many people who have had a near-death experience report that they underwent a “life review” in which they saw, as if watching a movie, all of their covert and overt actions, their expressed and suppressed sentiments, their public and private thoughts, and their conscious and unconscious attitudes. They saw who they were and how their thoughts, words, and deeds affected everyone and everything in their lives. Afterward, they typically describe having a greater understanding about themselves and a desire to do a better job of living from then on. And as a result, they perceive new possibilities and better ways “to be” in any opportunity. Having seen themselves from a truly objective point of view, they clearly know what they want to change. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xf65794rdcmsqsearfp1a))
- đź’ maybe that's what i had when i had covid
You no longer are the same mind, because you are now freeing yourself from the chains of the self-centered nature of the ego lost in itself. And when you see who you have been, by means of the observer’s watchful eye, you will crave life more, because you will truly desire to make a greater difference the next day ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xg1acfqrx39btemh19zm6))
Take some time to ask yourself questions such as these, or any others that occur to you, and write down your answers:
- What kind of person have I been?
- What type of person do I present to the world? (What is one side of my “gap” like?)
- What kind of person am I really like inside? (What is the other side of my “gap” like?)
- Is there a feeling that I experience—even struggle with—over and over again, every day?
- How would my closest friends and family describe me?
- Is there something about myself that I hide from others?
- What part of my personality do I need to work on
- improving?
- What is one thing I want to change about myself? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xgntfz12fxe2st4n4mdyq))
Choose an Emotion to Unmemorize ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xhfdwsdd4de5fyjyc7xqs))
Pick one emotion that is a big part of who you are (your chosen emotion may be one that’s not listed below) and that you want to unmemorize. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xj48abxkqmqp36j5kcgq2))
**Examples of survival emotions:**
Insecurity
Shame
Sadness
Hatred
Anxiety
Disgust
Judgment
Regret
Envy
Victimization
Suffering
Ager
Worry
Frustration
Resentment
Guilt
Fear
Unworthiness
Depression
Greed
Lack ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xj7sbtj2dcc39zzh344sp))
they are all linked together neurologically and chemically ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xmtfmg8v2swmx4wtvnxr2))
**Observe How the Unwanted Emotion
Feels in Your Body** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xn0qz6qxxwanh1vmqq4v3))
different sensations that correlate to different emotions ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xnbewcwgkb4fvj8bkyshy))
Now, become familiar with your body’s present state ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xnj7nzxky6fbn71d5evwh))
Allow yourself to feel that emotion without being distracted by anything or anyone ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xnx9wdt5bh3e7he2jjzcx))
It is one of the many masks of your personality that you have memorized ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xp9zkmk2s06kw565yt1rz))
**Define the State of Mind
Associated with the Emotion** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xsexwqnc4vdyjs849k6sv))
“How do I think when I feel this way?” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8xtg2f5wmpsem183rf3rrb))
**Examples of limiting states of mind:**
Competitive
Lacking
Controlling
Overwhelmed
Overly intellectual
Deceptive
Complaining
Self-important
Conceited
Blaming
Shy/timid/introverted
Dramatic
Confused
Needing recognition
Rushing
Distracted
Under-/overconfident
Needy
Self-pitying
Lazy
Self-involved
Desperate
Dishonest
Sensitive/insensitive ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8yppdamvkxatdfx6s70a4h))
**STEP 3: ADMITTING AND DECLARING** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8z9ng8hs166a3smvgrrxj9))
You develop a relationship with this greater intelligence, telling it who you have been and what you want to change about yourself, and admitting what you have been hiding ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zbc1tkt5bnv004emfx3qc))
when we admit to ourselves and to that universal power, there is:
No punishment ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zbq444tvtdgkqve2671tq))
see this energy as an unlimited source of power within you and around you, which you utilize and create from throughout your life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zc79ey64gnv225d68banc))
Develop a relationship with the greater consciousness that is giving you life, by honestly and inwardly talking to it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zmqxkg8ym7x94tvdn6q8n))
**Examples of what you might admit
to your higher power:**
- I am afraid of falling in love because it hurts too much.
- I pretend I am happy, but I am really suffering because I am lonely.
- I do not want anyone to know that I feel so guilty, so I lie about myself.
- I lie to people so that they like me and so I won’t feel so unloved and unworthy.
- I can’t stop feeling self-pity. I think, act, and feel this way all day long because I do not know how _else_ I can feel.
- I have felt like a failure most of my life, so I try extra hard to be a success. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zmw1mgzybvsa3q9fck8kn))
Declaring: Outwardly Acknowledge
Your Self-Limiting Emotion ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8znjr8jt9w3j7w0ka1dexr))
By declaring the truth about yourself out loud, you are breaking the emotional ties, agreements, dependencies, attachments, bonds, and addictions to all those external cues in your life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zntnptda7fh200aq8yhf1))
you are freeing the body from being the mind ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zqegn93mxhzck9wfdyc47))
you also liberate energy stored in your body ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zqnd6bz585xa43832gdqn))
STEP 4: SURRENDERING ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zrjddf55mntbqqpmw1z6b))
You can’t tell this unlimited grand essence how to go about anything. If you do, you are back to trying to do things your way, and naturally it will stop helping you so as to allow you your free will. Instead, can your free will be “Thy will be done”?
Just surrender ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm8zyzf6w5r1eyfqxvm7mkgt))
Review what you have written so that you can take your limitations to it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm90317t293zknz8r4hcs87r))
WEEK TWO
GUIDE TO MEDITATION ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm9050zyrxfmngwy7vpawhm0))
- **Step 1**: First, go through your induction technique and continue to become more and more used to this process to enter the subconscious mind.
- **Step 2**: Next, by becoming aware of what you want to change about yourself in mind and body, “recognize” your own limitations. That is, define a specific emotion that you want to unmemorize and look at the associated attitude that is driven by that feeling.
- **Step 3**: Continuing on, inwardly “admit” to a higher power within you who you have been, what you want to change about yourself, and what you have been hiding. Then, outwardly “declare” what emotion you are releasing so as to free the body from the mind and break the bonds to the elements in your environment.
- **Step 4**: Finally, “surrender” this self-limiting state to a greater mind and ask that it be resolved in a way that is right for you. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm9055pst2qhwrst8gfrnkrc))
CHAPTER TWELVE ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm905dez4xppn77wb5c7vy4f))
**STEP 5: OBSERVING AND REMINDING** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm966fssbggfx49yqa80b4vb))
become so familiar with your specific thoughts and actions derived from the old sensations that you can catch yourself while you live your life ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96dd8p8n71v3411qvmvqhf))
the more you are able to sense when the pangs and tugs of the body’s chemical addiction begin, the sooner you will be able to do battle against them ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96e04qc8gcmvt86ymxmkja))
**Opportunity to Write**
Think about the unwanted emotion you identified. How do you habitually act when you are feeling this way? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96f804smag3yzafrag3p12))
**Examples of limiting actions/behaviors
(your daily, unconscious physical rehearsal):**
- Sulking
- Feeling sorry for yourself by sitting alone
- Eating away depression
- Calling someone to complain about how you feel
- Playing obsessively on the computer
- Picking a fight with someone you love
- Drinking too much and making a fool out of yourself
- Shopping and spending more than you have
- Procrastinating
- Gossiping or spreading rumors
- Lying about yourself
- Throwing a temper tantrum
- Treating fellow employees with disrespect
- Flirting with other people when you are married
- Bragging
- Yelling at everyone
- Gambling too much
- Driving aggressively
- Trying to be the center of attention
- Sleeping in every day
- Talking too much about the past ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96fc6gjtm3hkr5swjtap00))
awareness is your goal. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96g511tg9x0efja13adatv))
STEP 6: REDIRECTING ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96gc6yf27jxzf2cqnz5ce4))
You prevent yourself from behaving unconsciously ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96gk83e87twng18659zxq8))
take some of the situations you came up with in the step just before, and as you picture them or observe yourself in your mind, tell yourself (out loud), “Change!” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96hahy2s9bp3nbjg6tq3ys))
your own voice will become the new voice in your head—and the _loudest_ one ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96hvvdc6kh807w1hvdzw7w))
**WEEK THREE
GUIDE TO MEDITATION**
During your Week Three meditations, your aim is to now add Step 5: Observing and Reminding, then Step 6: Redirecting ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96k6y5hzn7pb26yjm2yhhd))
Steps 5 and 6 will ultimately merge to become one step ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96ke9by2k2q37ss1x45479))
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96kttbmsb975w3ep2hm85s))
Now it’s time to sprout new ones, so that the new mind you create will become the platform of who you will be in your future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96mhfddn0h5beazvevgchs))
The more creative you are in reinventing a new identity, the more diverse the fruits you will experience in your future ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96myqy9nqhw375qre8jyaz))
asking yourself some open-ended questions. As you pose questions that cause you to speculate, to think in different ways than you typically think, and to entertain new possibilities, this turns on your frontal lobe ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96qq68z6s09rfdh2fspfkx))
Opportunity to Write ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96qw2gkvnjrwen8a8kegk2))
Questions to turn on your frontal lobe:
- What is the greatest ideal of myself?
- What would it be like to be **\_\_\_\_**?
- Who in history do I admire, and how did they act?
- Who in my life do I know who is/feels **\_\_\_\_**?
- What would it take to think like **\_\_\_\_**?
- Whom do I want to model?
- How would I be if I were **\_\_\_\_**?
- What would I say to myself if I were this person?
- How would I talk to others if I were changed?
- How or whom do I want to remind myself to be? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96qzm5m6k6dqay8wfpsvjj))
How Do I Want to Think?
- How would this new person (my ideal) think?
- What thoughts do I want to put my energy behind?
- What is my new attitude?
- What do I want to believe about _me?_
- How do I want to be perceived?
- What would I say to myself if I was this person?
How Do I Want to Act?
- How would this person act?
- What would he or she do?
- How do I see myself behaving?
- How would I speak as this new expression of self?
How Do I Want to Feel?
- How would this new self _be?_
- What would I feel?
- What would my energy be like as this new ideal? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96rpp5t76h626etrkgz9a0))
when you are being someone else, you naturally will have a different life ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm96zgvxwmw1extb5z5p97zy))
give up trying to figure out how or when or where or with whom. Leave those details to a mind that knows so much more than you do ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm972aebyg4cyenavej8adbm))
Now you are developing a two-way communication with this invisible consciousness. It shows you that it noticed you emulating it as a creator; it speaks to you directly; it demonstrates that it is responding to you. How does it do all this? It creates and organizes unusual events in your life; these signify direct messages from the quantum mind. Now you have a relationship with a supreme, loving consciousness. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm972pe6bq3fybp8r2w50ab3))
give thanks ahead of the actual experience so much so that you convince your body to believe that future event is unfolding now ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm976mqwq7znmne33zmrp968))
Pick a potential in the quantum field, and live it completely. It is time to change your energy from living in the emotions of the past to living in the emotions of a new future. You cannot get up as the same person you were when you sat down. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm976wwe2z72jt3ekydy441s))
see if you can do it repeatedly and consistently. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm977hpn8ckgvr2jraxaxvcj))
WEEK FOUR
GUIDE TO MEDITATION ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm979hdb8xs3rtkn8kmnvt6n))
CHAPTER FOURTEEN ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97dzmxnwa9jzyy711ht11p))
you must be in that same state of mind and body that you were in when you created your new ideal ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97f753hvfs1wfmb80b4zmj))
Remind yourself that during the day, you will keep your energy up as the new you. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97gvj7ffksa7tp5wbsv1hk))
These questions are a simple way to review your display of the new self when the day is over:
- How did I do today?
- When did I fall from grace, and why?
- Who was it I reacted to, and where?
- When did I “go unconscious”?
- How can I do better the next time that happens? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97h1e22c5263s7czxsn38r))
once you arrive at this space to create from, you no longer _need_ anything, because the lack and emptiness from which you desired those things has been eliminated, replaced by a feeling of wholeness. As a result, you just want to linger in the feeling of balance, love, and coherence ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97ktvg3ae93rxw6beex65v))
When you feel elevated and joyful, you will feel so wonderful that you will want to share the feeling of what you are experiencing with someone. And how do you share such great feelings? You give. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97ms0xb9c5k5ekmpyzycpk))
Our purpose, rather, is to remove the masks and the façades that block the flow of this intelligence and to express this greater mind _through_ us. To become empowered by our efforts of creativity and to ask greater questions that will inevitably lead us to a more enriched destiny. To expect the miraculous instead of the worst-case scenario and to live as if this power is in favor of us. To ponder the uncommon, to contemplate our achievements in utilizing this unseen power, and to open our minds to more expanded possibilities challenges us to evolve our being, to let more of this mind come through us. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97pbwx34z1zxwvf09z95cm))
How much further can we go? There is no end to this adventure. We are only limited by the questions we ask, the knowledge we embrace, and our ability to keep an open mind and heart. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97ppbx0dpymxmvssf63t1n))
So the greatest habit you will ever break is the habit of being yourself, and the greatest habit you will ever create is the habit of expressing the divine through you. That is when you inhabit your true nature and identity. It is to _inhabit self._ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gm97s590hfahm3hacfc4grht))
### New highlights added August 10, 2023 at 2:11 PM
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