Okay, welcome to lesson number seven. And today what we're going to be talking about is birth to age 10. Or we're going to call this the epic journey and we are going to exit at the critical filter. So let's just go ahead and continue our discussion on how you became you. As we left off in the last lesson, we'll see how that we can crush anxiety. So let's go ahead and talk about how do we label experiences.

And let's go ahead and start with this stick figure. As you go through life in these early stages, as I said, you begin to have experience in some of these experiences You labeled as either positive or negative. And some of them are good. Some of them are bad, some of them you like and some of them you dislike, but all of them are experiences. And let's go ahead and call these experiences choice. Now as a baby and a child, you really didn't have much choice, right?

Your parents or your caregivers made most of the choices for you, but right or wrong, doesn't matter. The point is that as little children, you had an open mind and so far, we're going to call this open mind, unconscious mind. So what were you programmed to be or to do or to feel? Do you think it's possible that maybe you are programmed to feel anxiety? Did you want that program installed? We'll go ahead and mark in your workbook yes or no or circle it.

You are the sum total of all of your experiences and your reactions and your responses as choice has a baby and Your choices were limited. But as you aged, you had more and more choice. These decisions and experiences were recorded in your book of life. And that book of life, I'm calling your unconscious mind. Now, instead of the word choice, maybe you can use other terms to describe your responses or your reactions to experience as maybe your nature, your disposition, your persona, your identity, your psyche, or, of course, the common personality. They are all more or less meaning the exact same thing.

So I'm going to present to you, you, this is your character of who you have become in this game or experience that we're going to call life. Now, every experience that you have ever had every single one of them when there have been billions of them, every second is an experience is the sum total of all the positive experiences in the negative experience. That you've had so far in your life. So your behaviors, your thoughts, your emotional patterns, all have either a positive or negative coding. So let's go ahead and put that in there. So your internal GPS, the driving force in you.

Now we know that from your birth to about the ages of eight to 10, the experiences that you've gone through during this short timeframe during your life so far, is going to determine about almost a 90% of how you handle the rest of the events in your life. Now, I'm going to call this coding so far, your internal guidance positioning system or internal GPS, in other words, how you view and interpret the world or how you choose to react negative or respond positive to people, places and events. Do you go left or right? Do you choose this or that? Is it good or bad? Do you accept or reject the thought the Are the idea.

Do you react or respond to your experience? how you handle life today has been based upon your past experiences. The coding or programming in your unconscious mind is your internal coding or guidance system. It is your standard, your norm, if you will, it is the core or the essence of you. Remember from our previous lessons, every experience in life is recorded in your book of life. So let's go ahead and bring up the stick figure in this now with the primal mind and the unconscious mind.

And now let's go ahead and add the GPS to the image. Now remember, just because you can't remember every moment or every experience in life doesn't mean it didn't happen. And we have billions of neural connections. Every experience is either a new connection or a reinforced connection. So let me give you the image for a second. So let that sink in.

All right. Now let's go ahead and add the image with positive and negative experiences. Now hopefully you've had a lot more positives than negatives. But you know, we're here dealing with anxiety. So obviously, anxiety isn't negative experience. And there are certain things that have happened to us that bring this about.

So, in fact, in my field of psychology, we know that the average person has about 50,000 thoughts a day, 90% of them are exactly the same as you thought yesterday, and the day before that, the day before that, and the month before that, and so on. Now, approximately 90% of future experiences, decisions and the choices that you will make, shall we say, are going to be measured up against this internal GPS and it has become our core processor. Now, our GPS isn't just how we interpret the world through our perspective lenses. It really is our essence. Now side note, I believe that God has given each one of us the ability or the innate ability to know the heart of who we truly have the innate ability to know truth. But that is an entirely different course.

Now, if you don't like the internal GPS, because this program for example, with anxiety, you're taking the right course right now, because now that we are starting to understand how we've been programmed, we can start to process the recoding of our GPS to crushing eliminated. Now our GPS is not only how we make decisions in the present, or about future experiences, it really is our essence. So the thoughts the images and the ideas are either accepted as yes or no right or wrong or truth or falsehood. It is how we make decisions. It is how we think, and remember how we think, we think in pictures. So it is how we view ourselves.

World, how we relate and interact with the world. When we're exposed to certain thoughts or images or events or ideas, what do you think happens to the essence of who we are? Well, we either accept more of the same or rejected and make a change. So let me ask you a question. Are people born as bullies, or bigots or racist? Or are they exposed to it to the point where their programming or their view is coded and installed?

Now once it's installed, as part of the program, it stays there running perfectly unless that program is defragmented, decoded and reprogrammed with something different that individuals ideas, thoughts and behaviors which is controlled by their internal GPS programming is running And it is running perfectly exactly the way that the GPS is supposed to run. Now, we may not approve of the behavior. But that's not the point right here right now. The point is that coding as a programming is working, are people born with their personalities? Or is that slowly developed over time? Were you born with anxiety?

Or did it develop over time and through our experiences. So if you look at a GPS on your phone or your car, if it's programmed with only the maps of the United States, and you go to Europe, it'd be silly to get mad at the phone in the GPS. The GPS is working fine. It's just coded or programmed for the wrong experience and with the wrong map. So if you want to change the program, and you know how to do it, you lovingly and patiently install the right map for Europe, and then you're good. Now I just give you a clue to a good lesson in that last phrase for patience and kindness, compassion.

And forgiveness for others. Now think of all the programming that goes into a child, up until the ages of eight to 10 wasn't entirely their choice was it? Up until this point, pretty much all of our decisions were being made for us, what we were where we live, what we saw on, but then we hit this critical timeframe in our life. You see, pretty much all our decisions when we're babies and toddlers and very young children have been made for us, even as babies that whenever we're intelligent enough to know like and dislike, we certainly know hot and cold mine in yours, pain and comfort, right? But then we begin to question things. We want to make our own decisions more and more.

We experience a little more freedom for choice and it feels good. Even from the ages of five to eight or so. We want to know everything we hear why, why this why that's why why why. And if you're a parent with a child, if not Each group, well, you know exactly what I mean. After all, we came to the world for a purpose. And I think part of that purpose is to experience choice.

But as human children we need to be cared for, right? So between the ages of eight to 10, we begin to develop our own way of thinking, we are making our own choices, but choices based upon what? Now this newfound freedom of thought makes this question even our parents. Now, we think that we know everything in this questioning and this idea that we know more than everybody else can last for years. And this is the filter or the critical glasses in which we view the world in which we judge people, places, events and things. And it is our sum total of all of the coding and all of the experiences that we've ever received in our life up until this point, but we begin to have More and more preferences.

But even those preferences at this age, are still based upon our previous coding through our experiences. So as we look at this stick figure here, I want you to notice that I've created some lines above our positive and negative experiences in life. This is going to represent our critical filter. This critical filters basically formed between the ages of eight to twin, or at least it matures at about the ages of eight to 10. And even though we are to the point in our lives, where we're making more and more of our own decisions, we are still basing those decisions upon our life's experiences. This critical filter also could be referred to as the way that we see the world or through our own personalized perspective or our own lenses our own point of view, our own opinion, how we interpret our world, how we see things anyway.

Go on and on, but I think that you're getting the idea. So complete your workbook and I will see you