Hey, everybody, welcome back, we got a great training here for you today, on the unconscious mind gotta be the coolest thing ever. Here's what I love is that it's a little known psychological fact that most of our processes are unconscious. I'm going to give you a stat that's going to blow your mind in the time that you can do one conscious unit of thought, let's call it a transaction, your unconscious mind can do 200,000 bam, Wow, that is so fast. And this shows you the percentage of how much you're controlling versus your unconscious mind. Now, how can this number even be possible? Think of it like you're in your car.

And there's like 2400 different parts in your car and you're driving the car and you're steering it off. All you're doing is steering. You don't even have to push the gas work the signals do the wipers doing that you're just gonna turn the wheel despite the fact that they're say 2400 different parts in that car. One part that wheel is what is directing the entire thing. So, what controls the vehicle, the 2400 parts or the steering wheel? It's kind of a philosophical argument.

But here's what you're gonna find. Remember when I said 99.99% of your thinking is repetitive. This is part of the reason why. Because your brain is repetitive and you're doing things unconsciously. So the smallest portion of what you're doing is conscious, and the rest is unconscious. Think about it.

Our best scientists, if you put them all in a room, and you gave him 20 years to do it, they couldn't make one living cell. Now you replace about a million blood cells every second You did it again. You did it again. Oh, it did it again. How'd you do that? Well, some it's partial and mechanical.

But a lot of it is your subconscious mind. It knows how to create the blood cells, it makes the blood cells and boom, and you don't even have to think about it. Your heart's been beating all day long, you've been breathing all day long, millions and millions of processes, that you don't have the slightest notion how they work. And they're going on all the time, unconsciously. Now, that's just in the structural part of your body. If you remember that old iceberg analysis of you know, here's your conscious mind at the tip of the iceberg, then you got this huge piece underneath.

That is true. You know, I used to always wonder, is that true? Isn't that true? It's true. Think about it. When you're walking.

That's a thought process. You guys say oh, I'm gonna walk from here to there. But literally what you do is you say, I'm gonna walk from here to there. You have the intent. You actually don't know how to walk from here to there. Now that may sound strange But why do you see all these like TV shows where somebody has a stroke, and then they got to learn how to walk again, you know, and they haven't do it in about three days.

But normally it takes them about, you know, six months. Why? Because there's thousands and thousands of calculations that you have to do just to stand up, right? There's hundreds of muscles that have to be perfectly balanced. That's why when they're trying to do stuff like bionics, and they're trying to do artificial limbs, and they're trying to artificial intelligence behind those computer limbs, it is so difficult, because it takes so many calculations, just to stand still not to tip over. And it takes even more to walk forward, delete, to jump to skip, to hop to dodge, to rebalance, when you're tipped, you know, all these types of things.

So you can think, Hey, I don't want to tip over and your body, your subconscious will make sure that you don't tip over. You can think I want to run from here to there and you think you're actually doing the running but your subconscious does all those millions of calculations. So you can run across that field. That's why it's 200,000 to one. Now, since then we've learned even scarier stuff, that basically a lot of times what happens is your subconscious makes the decision for you. And then you kind of go along with it.

They learn this when they were doing electro stimulation on people's arms, they said, you decide which arm you want to go up. Okay? Every time the clock turns to three, so it goes 123. That way I know when you're going to do it, and you know when you're going to do it. But what they would do periodically, is they would have these electro these little pads, if you ever done like tense therapy or any kind of electrotherapy, those little pads, he'll give just a little bit of low level electricity to that and your arm will twitch or whatever. What they would do is they would have one of those on each arm.

And when it was just about to hit the three and about two minutes, 2.4 or five seconds, they would hit that button on the arm. And whether that was the arm, you're going picker, not like nine out of 10 times. And statistically it should have been 5050. You would say, Yeah, I meant to put my arm up. As a matter of fact, I was kind of lift the other one. But at the last second, I decided to move that one.

It was the weirdest thing. You know what's actually happening? You really weren't going to move the left one, but I stimulated the right one, and you put it up to justify it. Afterwards, your brain went back and said, Oh, yeah, I totally meant to do that. So the weird thing is whether we choose something, or something is chosen for us, our brain will go back and say, Yeah, I totally meant to do that. I chose that.

We've proven that scientifically now. So how do we know when we choose they will say you're walking out the end of your driveway and you're gonna walk down the block, and you got two choices you can go left or right. How do you know that decision wasn't made for you? And then you just read decided what your subconscious wants you Anyways, still mind blowing this is, no matter which way you go, even if you like started going left and they turn around, right? How do you know, that wasn't already predetermined? There actually is no way to know.

So there's not a good scientific way to prove that we actually choose things and in what percentage and when it's unconscious and when it's not unconscious. I hope they nail this down. But it propose something really scary. That just like 99.9% of what you think about is repetitive 99.9% of what you decide, may be unconscious as opposed to conscious. So we know scientifically that we're basically like the steering wheel. We're able to turn that wheel and move this machine that we don't do all the other processes.

And most of the things that we do, look at your day, when you brush your teeth. Do you brush them a different way every single day? Do you brush in the exact same way every single day? I know when I brush my teeth, when I shower, when I drive to work, anything that I do on a regular basis, I make my coffee the same damn way I put like six different ingredients in it. So there's got to be, you know, at least, you know, 47 different ways that I could put those in different combinations. I always do the exact same thing and the exact same combination, unless I lose track of what the hell I'm doing.

We are amazingly repetitive in the thoughts that we think in the patterns that we follow. That's the next thing. This means that most of what you do is on complete autopilot. I just think that skews fear ever to throw that out there. I like bears. Okay.

So most of what you're doing in life is on autopilot. Now why is that? Well, I'm glad you asked. It's the Power of Habit. We said 99.9% of our thoughts are repetitive. Well, our habits are repetitive too.

We talked about the teeth brushing and the driving to work and all those types of things. I want to read a little poem for you called the habit pole. It says, I'm your constant companion. I'm your greatest helper or your heaviest burden. I will push you onward, or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command, half the things you do, you might just as well turn them over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed, you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done. And after a few lessons, I will do it automatically. I am a servant of all great men, and alas of all great failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great those who are failures. I have made failures.

I'm not a machine. Though I work with all the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a man. You may run me for profit or run me for real It makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me. And I will put the world at your feet. be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I? I am habit. Great little poem, right? It tells you how the rest of your life is going to go. Given the fact that most of what you do day in and day out with your unconscious and your repetitive thoughts, you're doing things on autopilot. Remember we said one of the great goals in life is to learn how to reprogram your brain.

Remember I said I had the CBT course rational emotive behavioral therapy, the science of how to deprogram and reprogram yourself. That's one of the major goals in life you need to be able to do that, or you will just run out of program. Here's the other one. habit, given the fact that you have a repetitive nature that you work A lot on autopilot. design the system to work fast and easy and effortlessly. Matter of fact, there will be resistance to change if you try.

So set up your habits the way you want them to. They will duplicate over and over and over again. And because they're habits that you set and they're repetitive, they will have huge consequences, positive consequences on your future. Say a simple thing like, you know, most people have some kind of vitamin or mineral deficiency, they just do our diets are terrible. So first thing I'm going to tell you is change your diet. Second thing I'm going to tell you is even before you do that, and even if you do that, take a multivitamin every day.

Once it becomes a habit, you are going to do that 365 times a year 303,600 and what 50 times Every 10 years, over 30 years, that's 10,000 times. Can you imagine if you were gonna be sick at age 70? And you'd already taken 10,000 Health tablets? Is there a chance that that thing might never happened to you? You might not get that Parkinson's, you might not get that Alzheimers, you might not get that diabetes. Okay?

You might not get that congestive heart failure. Why? Because 10 2030 years ago, you set a simple habit. You set it on autopilot. You spent all three cents a day. And it just went on autopilot.

And the wonders, wonders consequence is you get to live and you've been healthier ever since. That's great. Why not put something like that? on autopilot. But multiple Hamlet's on autopilot. read at least a half an hour every day.

Can you imagine what that Do over a year period, five year period 10 year 2030 amazing. You can be a national international expert in a relatively short period of time. Amazing. I became a top level therapist, how did I do it? I read about a half an hour every day. And I listen to CDs in my car.

Probably about hour, hour and a half every day. It was a half an hour, there'll be an hour because you got to go back and forth to work. Sometimes it was a 45 minute trip that was an hour and a half round trip, right? between the CDs in the reading, okay. And a little bit of reading and listening to CDs on the weekends. Oh my god, I was getting about a year's worth of college.

For every year I was alive. I did that for like 10 years that was like I did that for about a dozen years before I even slowed down just kind of cut down to the reading. I've listened to most of the CDs that are out there that are worth listening to. But that was the equivalent of a Another doctoral degree, basically in half an hour of reading, and the rest was downtime. I was gonna be bored my car anyways. That's amazing.

So use the Power of Habit and let it make you powerful. A simple thing like taking a walk every night after dinner. You know, my parents did that. My mom lived to be 84 years old, with cancer and with congestive heart failure. Okay, if she hadn't smoked a day much, she would live longer in that. Mostly because she took the multivitamin.

And she took a walk after after dinner every night with her husband was one of the relaxing things they like to do. My dad is 88 he ain't dead yet. He probably gonna die for quite a while. I keep taking to the doctor. We can't find anything wrong with simple basic healthy habits put on autopilot repeated over time will save you or kill you. The Power of Habit remember doesn't care how you use it.

Go ahead and look that poem up online. I would download I tacked it up on my wall. Absolutely love it. Now, another thing that I want to teach you and I learned this from a great book, it said, you can be happy no matter what, give my friend a copy of it too. Don't think you're don't take your thinking too seriously, a lot of times we get a little anxious, we get a little depressed. Remember, I said that snowballs on you?

He goes from being a little anxious and a little depressed to be in major depressive disorder and panic disorder. Okay, not a good way to go. In this book, The gentleman says that it's better to use your emotions as a gauge rather than reality. Because what we'll do is we'll do that emotional reasoning that I taught you in an earlier section, that when we start using emotion instead of logic, it does. Actually two things I taught you the first one the first one is it makes emotional decisions instead of logical decisions, which is horrible because it'll be a bad decision. But what this is talking about here is a second function of that.

When you start thinking emotionally and you take it to be the true state of being, it's like a reframing. It sets how you think the world is. And you make different decisions. When you're in an anxious state of mind than when you're in a depressed state of mind, than when you're in a happy state of mind. Then when you're in a competent state of mind, or a no state of mind, you're kind of feeling kind of flat. In each emotional situation, you're doing a form of emotional thinking, and you will make different decisions.

So what you should do is, don't take your own thoughts too serious if you're thinking anxious thoughts, you know what the problem is, is probably that you're thinking anxious thoughts. Were what a Professor Paul tell you do about that. Stop, or do a pattern interrupt and think about something else? Boom. So when you see yourself feeling anxious, don't say to yourself, oh, I feel anxious and think more anxious thoughts. Remember that focus management, whatever you focus on, you get more of, don't do that.

Use this as a gauge and say okay, I'm feeling anxious. That means I must be thinking anxious thoughts. I need to practice serenity, I probably need to let something go. I need to focus more on what's going right in my life and what's going wrong. Maybe I need to do something relaxing or restorative. I need to get my brain back on track.

And then take a look at everything. This is simply a barometer like like a barometer that checks the weather. That's telling me how my thinking is going. Remember your thoughts, create your feelings. We can use your feelings as a gauge of your thinking. If your feelings are getting off and your thinking is getting off, did you ever think of it that way.

So don't take your own thinking too serious when you start having these negative thoughts or whatever. Just let you know that your mind is getting off track. It's a warning signal, turn things around. Go ahead and do it. Next, and we'll wrap up with this for this section. Much of what we do has to do with strategies we've learned over time.

So, remember, we said, we're wondering why people do the things they do. It's based on strategies. And given the fact that only have X number of strategies, we will go back to favorites over and over and over. And theoretically, in big strokes, I call them global strategies. People have certain strategies that they use over and over. They're always going for wealth.

When there's a question of love or money, they always go for the money, you know, they always do the next right thing. That's a global thing. So I don't know exactly what they'll do. But if I know you'll do the next right thing, and there's only three right things that you can do, I got at least a one three chance of figuring out what you'll do. I can probably figure you know, 8020 rule. I know you normally do this one, I could be 80% accurate, a little more information.

I get up around 90 95% accurate, then I'll know why you do the things you do, and I'll know what you're going to do. And then because I know your strategy, I could even influence what you do see how cool this courses We're really learning a lot about educating yourself by yourself. Others how things work, being able to predict, which is a key skill in life, and being able to change the outcome, whether it's within us or within another person. So, here's what I'm gonna recommend. Notice the strategies you use, try to enhance the strategies you use, and always be adding new strategies. I had one college professor, I think it was maybe my third or fourth year, my bachelor's, and he said a great thing.

He said, If you want to do well in life, business, health, anything, here's what you do. Take what you're currently doing, and make it obsolete. Always be looking for a better way and a better way a better way. Most people find a good way to do things. They fall in love with it. They don't want to feel like they were stupid for doing it when they find something better and say, Oh, I should have been doing that all along.

Therefore I'm an idiot. No, no, no, no, no. You are constantly making things obsolete. You're excited to Make it obsolete. Matter of fact, when you find this new, great strategy, you can't wait to find something that kicks its butt. That's even better than that.

Love the growth, don't fall in love with your idea. Don't fall in love with your strategy. Don't be resistant to growth, like the average person, be extraordinary. Which means what? Do the extraordinary find something, find something better? Better than that?

Better than that? And even look at your strategies and attack them a little bit. Say, what could be better than that? What if I had to tweak that a 10% gain in this area? How could I do it? What if I had to double it in this area?

Sometimes you do a stretching technique, you might not figure out how to double it. But instead of getting 10% extra, you might get 50% extra and you say well, I failed because I didn't double it. That's a pretty damn good failure. I'd like to fail like that almost every day. So look at what you do. realize it's a strategy.

Realize other people using strategies understand their strategies, and you'll understand them. You'll also understand where they're going wrong and their strategies. I'm a therapist, my goal is to figure out how you decide to do something. And I do that by listening and garnering what's going on and playing a little bit of detective in asking clarifying questions to figure out why you're doing what you do. You can do that with other people, you can journal and do it with yourself. Then I'd say, if I wasn't in love with the site there if I was actually rationally, you know, I overeat intelligence over emotion, looking at this from the outside.

Would this make sense? Is this a good strategy? Or is it partly emotional? I do it because it makes me feel better, or it distracts me or it takes away some pain. Or I'm just too lazy to change my strategy. Let's be honest.

So those are all your ways to look at strategies, use strategies and having powerful tools. I'll see you in the next section of this training.