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Hello my friends and welcome back to Planet M.

This episode is going to be amazing.

It is all about the three types of visualization

that I personally use that I have found are best for rewiring your brain, for shifting your mindset, for getting into the right energy state,

and also for shifting your identity, which is my analogy.

That type of visualization is one of my sort of techniques

that I like to compare to quantum leaping I always say identity shifting is the neuroscience backed quantum leaping it's

so powerful and I've had people in my community in Minecraft absolutely change their lives change lifelong behaviors

and bad habits after doing an identity shifting visualization I personally guide them through them of my own

but there are plenty out there you can also do them by yourself

and I'm going to tell you exactly how to do the visualizations

that I explained to you in this episode

and they are all optimized of course for rewiring different areas of your brain

which I will also be explaining and describing in this episode.

So lock in, get ready to take some notes

and write some stuff down because this one's going to be really good

and you're going to use these three types of visualizations for all sorts of situations.

Now before we dive into the three different types of visualization and what they do, how to do them, and step by step break it down.

I want to explain to you a little bit about why visualization is

so powerful and why you would even want to do it to begin with.

The first reason why it is so, so, so powerful is because, and I'm sure you've heard this before,

the brain does not know the difference between what is real and what you are imagining.

Now, I'm sure you have experienced this in your day -to -day life.

If you, you know, are overthinking something or thinking about something

that may or may not happen

and all of a sudden you start to feel anxious

and your heart starts racing this is your brain

and your body reacting you're having a physiological reaction to something

that your brain is making up so

if you can have a physical reaction to something

that your brain is making up then you might as well make up something inside of your brain

and allow yourself to have that physical reaction too okay

and of course visualization also activates neuroplasticity and

if you don't know what neuroplasticity is it is basically your brain's ability to rewire

and what does that even mean you have pathways in your brain brain cells neurons

that connect in pathways all throughout your brain okay we call them neural circuits

but you can just think of them as pathways the same way

that this microphone has a cord right now

that is connecting the microphone to the interface

and then my laptop you have like cords

or pathways circuits neural circuits running through your brain and body

and so neuroplasticity is the ability to strengthen circuits in your brain pathways in your brain

or weaken them or rewire them and shift how they're wired right it's pretty incredible

and why would you want to do that because the pathways

that are dominant the ones that are most active in your brain those are the ones

that fire when you know you always have the same belief

or the same mindset or these same thoughts right those are the dominant pathways in your brain and so

when you start to visualize something different

you start to strengthen different pathways in your brain now your default mode will be different okay

and that's the goal visualization is a practice it is a tool to help you rewire your brain

and i always say you don't get what you want in life you get what your brain is wired for and

so of course you should use visualization as often as possible as often as you want as you please

i've been asked that many times so i'll answer that question right now.

How many times should I visualize?

Should I be doing it every day?

How often?

As often as you please.

As long as it brings you joy. Do it.

And now in the beginning you might be like oh it's a chore I don't want to go do it.

Just do it and watch how good it makes you feel.

It's so easy to forget and it's so easy to bypass

and just kind of brush over but start practicing these visualizations

that I'm going to talk about because they will change your life.

So the first type of visualization that you're going to want to start practicing is the emotion activation visualization.

Something that I always say to my students in Minecraft

that I say to my clients that I coach is that you do not want the thing that you want.

What you really want is the feeling that you believe the thing that you want is going to bring you.

You don't really want the money.

You don't really want the relationship.

You don't really want the house.

You don't really want a million followers.

You want the feeling that you believe a million followers or a house or a soulmate is going to bring you.

You want the feeling.

This is so powerful.

So the first step to doing this visualization is to identify what those feelings are.

You need to do that before you even sit down to start the visualization.

Okay, this is going to happen in your journal in your notes what are the feelings

that my brain has associated with this item object person place thing that I'm wanting

and we'll just use me as a personal example, right?

Because I actually did this exact practice whenever I was wanting to manifest a million followers.

I hosted a manifestation workshop in Minecraft, my coaching program and community.

And I personally used my example of a million followers.

I had not hit a million yet.

And I sat down, I was live on this workshop that I was hosting.

I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to walk you guys through this.

I'm going to use my example of 1 million followers.

I sat there and I thought to myself, what are the feelings that I believe 1 million followers is going to bring me?

1 million followers is going to make me feel more official and accomplished.

That's the feeling that I was really after, feeling more official and accomplished.

You have to identify those feelings going into it.

Now, you don't really have to.

You can do it during the visualization.

It is, in my opinion, easier to identify them, but also the visualization in itself can help you identify them oftentimes i get questions of what

if i don't know what the feelings are

that i'm after the visualization practice in itself can help you know what the feelings are

and this is an extremely important practice

because again you need to become a match for whatever it is

that you want and so visualizing and putting your brain

and submerging it into a visual experience of you feeling how you actually want to be feeling,

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that is an amazing practice.

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Why?

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Let's talk a little bit about the neuroscience.

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Well, you are going to be activating the emotion centers of the brain, the limbic system, all right?

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And you are activating these centers in such a way

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that they are activating to mirror or match the emotions that you're wanting to feel.

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You're going to strengthen those pathways and over time those pathways can become more dominant

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and be your more default state of being it's a beautiful thing again the emotion activation visualization

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and visualizing achieving the thing that you want

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and feeling how it's gonna feel

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that also primes your reticular activating system it primes other areas in the brain as well to then go

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and scan and filter your reality for things that match up

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that align with what it is that you want

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that will bring you closer to what it is

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that you want right and so for example

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if i'm in my manifestation workshop talking about doing this exact thing for hitting a million followers

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and i'm visualizing me hitting a million followers and feeling official

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and accomplished well now i'm priming of course

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i'm strengthening those emotion centers of practicing the feeling practicing the feeling is so important

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And that doesn't mean that you just do it when you're visualizing.

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You need to do it in other areas of your life as well.

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And then when I'm doing this visualization and I'm feeling the feelings of hitting a million followers,

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right, I'm also priming my brain to now scan my reality outside of visualization for more ways to feel that way.

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Priming my brain to filter my reality for more things that will get me closer to a million.

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So it works wonders in many different ways but I will say

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and just to give a you know personal example of how this type of visualization really changed my life

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because the million followers practice was more identifying the feelings

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that I wanted and then just embodying them and living them now

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but I remember years ago when I was about to graduate early from the PhD program

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and I was consulting for a hypnotherapist i was teaching her the neuroscience behind what she does

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and i went to one of her classes

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because she said em come to one of my classes you can see how i hold these workshops

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and i came i went to her class

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and she guided her clients through a visualization

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and i did it i went along with it

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and i remember visualizing and i'm sitting in my apartment in arizona still in the phd

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and i'm visualizing myself living on the beach, like, you know, visualize, like visualize you achieving what you want and like living your desires and,

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and, and, you know, looking around, like, where are you engaging your senses?

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Right.

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And so the emotion activation visualization, this first visualization, it's, it's about emotion, right?

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And so how do you activate the emotion?

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Well, you have to engage your senses.

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So I would, I visualize myself, you know, I'm living on the beach

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and I am going to the ocean all the time I'm hanging out with my friends I'm surrounded by people

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that I love I feel I feel full of purpose I feel purposeful

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and fulfilled and I and my surroundings are beautiful of course I'm on the beach

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and so I'm I'm imagining right

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or I'm visualizing where I am who I'm with what does

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it look like what does it smell like who am I

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surrounded by all of these things are great to be visualizing

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when you're trying to activate the emotion because the more

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that you can engage your senses the more present you'll be and the more emotion that you will feel

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and so in this specific story I visualized all of that

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and a year later I remember thinking to myself oh my god

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I am living the it was less than a year later I'm living the exact reality

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that I visualized that one day during

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that class for the woman I was consulting for the exact life I I graduated early,

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moved across the country to live on the beach in Miami,

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and I was surrounded by friends and I had an amazing social life and I was living my dream come true.

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I was creating content.

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I was coaching.

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I felt so fulfilled.

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And I just remember this is the exact thing

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that I was visualizing that one day in my apartment back in Arizona

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when I was at the class for the woman

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that I consulted for and

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so this is a very powerful practice I'm going to walk you guys through it step by step

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and then we'll move on to visualization number two okay

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so the first step is to

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when you're sitting down to visualize you guys know I love to start out with a few physiological sighs

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that is one deep inhale through your nose all the way

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to the top followed by a second inhale through your nose one last sip of air

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and then an exhale through your mouth a sigh all the way out do a few of those

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and you're ready to visualize okay helps you relax it also opens

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you up you can learn better your brain will rewire more right you can absorb more

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when your nervous system is in a state of rest

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and digest and you feel safe and a physiological sigh does

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that so i highly recommend it for that reason but again do

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that and then visualize yourself achieving or receiving whatever it is

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that you want visualize yourself achieving or receiving that

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and in this visualization ask yourself what do my surroundings look

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like who am I with how does it feel what can

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I see hear feel smell touch all the senses go through them all

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you can even tap into what you're wearing there's

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so many different ways you can do it

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but just be as present as possible

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and try to engage all of your senses

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and feel what it would feel like and I have a little bonus tip for feeling the feeling, all right?

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And it is making the sound that you would make when you achieve or receive the thing.

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It's so powerful, all right?

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Sound is super primal, the sounds that we make, and they are really great at activating the emotion of how we want to feel, right?

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So for example, I'm going to give you a little personal example.

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You might not resonate with this, but I personally am the excited type.

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So when I'm visualizing myself hitting 1 million followers, I'm like, Oh my God, like screaming, right?

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Um, sorry if I just blasted your eardrums off.

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That is the sound that I would make.

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And I'm not going to lie to you.

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As I just made that sound, I feel excited and, and for whatever's about to come, whatever blessings on this way to me.

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Okay.

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So making the sound that you would make upon achieving

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or receiving whatever it is that you want is an amazing way for activating the emotion that you want to feel.

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Do it in your visualization.

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I used to really struggle with feeling the feeling in my visualizations and the moment that I started making the sound, game changer.

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So start doing it.

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And if you are a different type where you're more of a relaxed type of person

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and maybe it's just like a sigh of relief, you know, like a, ah, I did that.

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It's here.

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Whatever it is, you do you.

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Let's move on to visualization number two.

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Visualization number two is a little bit more slept on and I never hear anybody talk about it.

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And it is the resilience practice visualization.

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Nobody ever talks about this type of visualization.

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I don't hear people promoting it or talking about it or sharing it.

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And I think it's extremely powerful for so many different situations in life.

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And I want to tell you about it because you can use it to overcome so many different things.

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Okay.

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It is the resilience practice visualization.

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Okay.

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It basically is a visualization to help you practice resilience, to help you practice going through the hard things, to help you practice going through,

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you know, a challenge or something that you're nervous about or something that, you know, you're maybe a little scared about.

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And I'll give you just a quick example from my life.

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You know, back in the day, the hater comments would affect me and they would make me feel some sort of way.

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Not all the time, but every once in a while.

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And with my coach back in the day, something that I practiced was actually visualizing myself,

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my best self, and then going on Instagram, right?

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In this visualization, I'm going on social media and I am allowing myself to visualize looking at the hater comments,

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visualizing the challenge, visualizing the tough experience that's making me feel emotional.

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I would visualize it

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and visualize it as the highest version of me my best

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self how would my best self feel how would my best self move through this situation

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and you visualize that and what happens when you do

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that well you're actually training the pre -motor areas of your brain and

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so this type of visualization is used by professional athletes

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it's used by people at nasa it's used by all sorts of high performing people

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and it's because it is so powerful all right everybody wants to visualize achieving their dreams

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and getting what they want but it nobody really hypes up visualizing doing the hard things

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and it's so powerful doing the hard things facing the challenge doing the thing

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that you're nervous about

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or facing the thing that's making you triggered right it's sort of like exposure therapy

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but in your mind and there's all sorts of different ways

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that you can do this for all sorts of different situations

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i have personally done this with interviews i remember the first time

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that i did this sort of visualization was

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when i was applying for phd programs in neuroscience

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and i was going into interviews and i was nervous

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and i remember one morning you know

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i was getting into all of this this was the very beginning of my journey

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and I remember one morning sitting down before my first interviews

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and I visualized my interview

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and how I wanted it to go I visualized the entire process how it would feel how me

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and the interviewer would interact

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and how exactly how it would go I remember visualizing like me

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and the woman interviewing me laughing and having an amazing conversation

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and it just flowing and feeling like a really good time

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and I remember sitting on the interview and we were laughing

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and the conversation was flowing

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and we were both just having a really good time

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i remember thinking to myself whoa this visualization stuff is some crazy powerful stuff

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and that was the very beginning of my journey

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and it showed me very early on yeah visualization is some crazy powerful stuff

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that's just one way to do it you and

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so you can visualize things like for example going

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and giving a big speech someone in minecraft um he shared

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that he had a big speech coming up in front of tons of people

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and he visualized how he wanted it to go

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he visualized himself like the routine leading up the going out

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on stage how he was going to be how he was going to feel

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he even gave himself the opportunity to visualize okay like what

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if people aren't you know having the reaction

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that I want to have to my speech how am I

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going to feel what am I going to do this is resilience training.

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This is training your brain to overcome obstacles and be more resilient.

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And when I said this strength, this trains the pre -motor area of your brain, the pre -motor area is the area of your brain

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that kind of sends signals to the motor area for you to go and take action, right?

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So when I'm thinking to myself, I want to pick up a cup and take a drink of it,

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the pre -motor area actually plans the movement before it's sent to the motor area,

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which then executes the movement and so you're training the area of your brain

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that plans what you do

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so powerful it helps you feel more confident in tough situations it helps to desensitize the fear response right

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because it's normal to go out and and do things

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that make you feel uncomfortable and feel fear but

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when you visualize the things that scare you you visualize doing the things

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that scare you when you take it all the way to the end you actually help to desensitize

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that fear response and it's so powerful and that student in minecraft

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that did this visualization he shared on a community call

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that his speech went great and it went better than expected

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and it went it was amazing and so it's so powerful

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and one more example of just another way

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that i use this type of visualization i have done

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this to help myself focus i you know

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i in the past back in the super ADHD not able to focus easily distracted days

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this I found this super super helpful

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and a lot of us might think to ourselves oh

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but I don't have you know five minutes before I get to work yes you do you have five minutes

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and that five minute visualization is going to help you get way more done in way less time

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so I highly recommend that you do it but something

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that I would do is I would visualize myself going through the work day

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or visualize myself for the next two hours doing the work

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that I need to do and doing it in flow

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and feeling good and it made such a huge difference right

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because again I'm priming my brain I'm telling it hey this is the state

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that we want to be in right before I go

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and do it so powerful

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so let's talk about how to do this visualization step by step

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so the first step in this visualization is to embody your highest self or your favorite self,

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your best self, whatever terminology you want to use, embody the highest version of you.

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The version of you who has achieved everything, who is so incredible, so badass, can do anything they set their mind to, that version of you.

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The version of you who was on their A -game at the top.

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Visualize, embody that version of you.

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Okay, that's the first step.

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All right, you are them.

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That is you.

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Then bring up a past, present, or future challenge.

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It can be something that you're expecting to happen in the future, or it can be something

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that you've been a challenge you've been facing in the past right something

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that triggered you recently and maybe you didn't like the way

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that you reacted well now you can practice a new reaction right

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so i always say you're always practicing something

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because you're always activating some sort of circuits

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or pathways in your brain with every decision action thought and

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so practicing is so important like you wouldn't expect to be good at basketball

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if you didn't if you never played

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so why are you expecting to have a different reaction

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or feel more confident or feel more calm

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if you don't practice it it just doesn't make any sense

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so bring up a past present or future challenge whatever it is

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that you want to bring up it can be something

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that like i said whatever it is i could name a thousand examples

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but i think you get it so bring up a challenge and then

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visualize or as that embodied highest best version of you visualize

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that version of you facing that challenge watch how they move through

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that situation calmly confidently securely sure of themselves however it is

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that you think the highest version of you would move through

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that situation visualize that observe how this version of you moves how this version of you thinks

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and feels how they react how they respond to the situation

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all of it this is how you train your brain to overcome anything

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i remember i was whenever

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i was working on filming some course material maybe 10 months ago now i had done a visualization

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that morning of facing challenges basically and overcoming them and

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and later that day when i was filming the course material the camera kept overheating

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and I was like oh my god

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but then for some reason I was just like no I can overcome this

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and rather than getting stressed I felt just more centered and grounded

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and I was like no

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we just got to keep going keep pushing through it is very powerful highly recommend

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this visualization I'm calling it the resilience practice visualization you can go whatever you want challenge training whatever it is

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that you want but that's visualization number two.

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All right, so without further ado, let's talk about visualization number three, which is the identity shifting visualization.

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And oh, this one is so good.

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I've watched people's entire lives change.

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I have changed my entire life.

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I've made huge financial moves in the span of 24 hours.

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I have leveled up my financial income through using this exact visualization that I'm about to share with you.

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I have watched people go from lifelong bad habits and cycles

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and patterns to breaking out of those patterns within a week of doing this visualization.

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Someone else in the Minecraft community did this visualization and he had the best week in his company,

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the highest performing week in his company of the year after doing this visualization.

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He's so, so, so, so powerful.

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And I'm going to tell you a little bit why identity shifting visualization is so powerful.

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It is powerful because it helps to shift your default mode.

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It shifts you.

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It shifts everything about you.

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So the default mode network in the brain, it is responsible for your default mode of behavior, right?

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The behavior, the thoughts, the emotions that you feel when you're not consciously trying to direct your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, okay?

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So it's just kind of a default mode, right?

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How you feel

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when you're not really trying to feel any sort of way this network also holds your sense of identity

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or your ego it's responsible for constructing the story of who you are your sense of self

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and so the same network that is responsible for holding who you are

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and your story and your sense of self is also responsible for your default mode of thinking feeling

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and being and so

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if you shift the sense of who you are then you immediately shift your default mode of thinking feeling

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and being and when you shift your default mode of thinking feeling

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and being you shift your entire life

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because you completely shift your energy you shift your behavior

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you shift your habits your emotions your entire life is different boom quantum leaped

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and this is sort of my neuroscience behind quantum leaping uh practice because identity shifting is so crazy powerful

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When you shift your identity, your entire reality has no choice but to shift.

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If you go on YouTube and you look up quantum leaping visualizations or hypnosis tracks, most of them will be self -concept shifting tracks.

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Because when you shift your self -concept and who you believe that you are, you shift your entire life.

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And now you know the neuroscience behind why.

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So let me tell you exactly how to do it.

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All right.

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This is one of my favorite visualizations ever.

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And I love guiding my community through this

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so I'm kind of just going to go in the zone and just do a little mini condensed version.

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So of course I always start with my physiological size and then I have people visualize.

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You can visualize and maybe we just walk through this right now.

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We'll do a little quick version so you can close your eyes or just remember this is what you need to do.

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So do your Three, physiological sighs.

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Really center yourself in ground.

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Feel the support beneath you.

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Feel how supported you are.

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The chair underneath you, the ground beneath your feet.

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Feel how supported you are in this moment.

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And know that you are exactly where you are meant to be right now.

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There's nowhere else but here, now, in this present moment.

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And then visualize yourself at some point in the future

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when you have

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and are doing everything you've ever wanted everything

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you ever wanted is yours every single goal is achieved

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you did it you made

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it now the next step is to tune in to you

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who is this version of you who has it all what

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do you look like what is your mindset like what do

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you believe what do you believe about yourself what do you

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believe about the world how do you feel how do you

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move how does this version of you move how does this

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version of you behave what are their habits like what is

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their energy like this version of you in the future

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that has it all who are they tune in to their confidence

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and their certainty in themselves really tune in to like visualize

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that like that version of you that is in the future

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that has everything that you want they're so confident they have it all they're

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so certain in their ability to create their dream reality

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and after you've done that and

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if you're still going you can pause for a second keep visualizing

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but after you've done

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that after you've visualized the thoughts emotions beliefs the mindset the

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energy the confidence the habits surroundings what is their environment like what are they wearing

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when you visualize all of that about that future version of you

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that has it all the next step is to realize

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that the only thing stopping you from being

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that version of you is you you don't need to wait until some point in the future to be

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that to think feel act behave believe as

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that version of you the only thing that is keeping you from being

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that version of you is the decision to step into it now

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and so in this visualization step into this version of yourself walk over to this version of yourself

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and and emerge with them

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and imagine your dna locking in imagine

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you merging with this version of you you now have these habits these beliefs

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this mindset these thoughts this energy this confidence this certainty and

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when you're done with the visualization open your eyes

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and step into the world as that version of you you are

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that now obviously my guided visualization version is a little bit longer

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and more more detail but that is the gist and

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when you do that you will have shifted into

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that version of you that has it all and I after all

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and after all the reason that you want the things

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that you want right is to feel how you want to feel

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and also for how the reason you want to achieve any goal

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that you want to achieve is

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because it's going to make you something it's you want

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it for what this goal is going to make

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you who this goal is going to allow you to become

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it's all about the becoming it's all about the personal transformation right in a movie with the hero

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when a hero is going on a journey there's always two journeys

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there's the journey to the external reward the external goal

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or achievement and there

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and there's always the internal journey right

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they always go through this internal journey where they grow into this version of themselves

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that they were not before as they worked toward this external goal

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that's you you are on this hero's journey where yeah

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that external goal that's not materialistic that's not it's not bad to have material desires like have material desires

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because going after those material desires is exactly what is going to help you grow internally to become

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that version of you your goals are calling you to become a higher version of yourself

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and the faster that you can become that higher version of yourself the faster you'll achieve that goal.

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And this visualization will help you get there.

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Something that I recommend for this specific visualization that I find really helpful is to write down what you visualized.

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In my notebook, I have a page where I wrote down, you know, like what was the mindset, the beliefs, what were the beliefs,

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the behaviors, the habits, the surroundings, like what are all these, like who is that version in the future that achieved everything, right?

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Like get clear on who that version of you is and then see,

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huh, where am I out of alignment with who this version of me is

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and then get to work on closing the gap because when you've closed the gap, your goals just start reigning in like achievements, opportunities, blessings.

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They just start reigning in.

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It's incredible.

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I am so excited to hear what you do with these visualizations and how they help you.

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I actually read a DM just before I started recording this from someone that said

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that my last podcast episode on well one of my previous

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episodes on how to play the game of life changed something in her

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and I love hearing you guys's feedback it's

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so incredible like I love I love help watching it help you transform your own life

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and you using this information to transform your own life

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because at the end of the day knowledge is not power applied knowledge is power

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and it is up to you to go and apply this information

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and use these tools right like your brain is your superpower

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and you have the power to use it like you have

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so much power within

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you each of these visualizations serves a different purpose okay one of them is for activating the emotion

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and getting clear on what the emotions even are

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if you're not sure that visualization can really help you

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but also helping to train your brain to feel more of the emotions

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that you're wanting to feel

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and really becoming a match energetically to what you want also

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priming your brain right to filter your reality for more opportunities to feel

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that way in the now which is

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so unpowerful the second visualization is really great for helping you practice and train for challenges.

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And we're always facing challenges, right?

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Like that's just life.

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Things are going to happen.

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And the more equipped you are, the more trained you are to overcome challenges,

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to face them, and to be your best self in the face of a challenge, that is when you become unstoppable.

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So that visualization number two is really helpful for that

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and then of course visualization number three is to help you shift your identity to become the version of you

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that has it all and when you become you no longer need it's

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so helpful for detachment

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and we're going to need to talk about detachment in a whole other video

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but each of these visualizations serves a different purpose

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and again you can use them all you can use one it's totally up to you

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and whenever you want how often you want and again

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if you try these and you use them

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and you experience shifts please do leave a comment

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or something i love seeing you guys's reactions

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and just hearing about your like what what happens in your life

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and hearing about your transformations it's so cool it's genuinely

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so motivating and it helps keep me going because

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that is what i'm doing it for right and so with all

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that being said guys if you want to learn more

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if you want to come to one of my live classes

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i host a live i haven't talked about this yet on this episode

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but if you want to learn more about minecraft my coaching program

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and community if you want to get on a live free class with me

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and hear me talk listen to me talk about the 10 -step process

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that i personally use to completely change my life um come to one of my very free very live masterclasses

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they're virtual so you can attend them from anywhere in the world i currently host them at two times

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that way all different time zones can join

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we have people from all over the world join like thousands of people from all over the world join it's

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so cool all different countries continents and it's

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so awesome it's super fun the energy is super high

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and at the end i answer people's questions so it's super fun

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and also at the end is when i kind of explain more about minecraft

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and the process and what it looks like to join

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and how to join and that is

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when we open the doors to minecraft as well

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it's currently the only time we open the doors to minecraft um just

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because we like to bring in cohorts and let it be a very inclusive

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and exclusive experience for the people that do join it's a process

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and so we want to give you the best experience possible

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and so if you are interested in any of that

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or you just want to come and be live on a class with me

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and hang out and vibe and have and get super motivated because everybody's always super motivated at the end of my classes, then sign up.

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It's completely free.

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at least it is right now I can't promise

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if you're listening to this like six months from now I don't know

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but for right now get on this class because it's free

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and it's really fun all right guys um I hope

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that you enjoyed this episode and I hope

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that you got a lot out of it

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and I can't wait to hear about your experiences with these

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visualizations until next time have an amazing day an amazing week I'm sending you

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so much love you got this you are amazing and you can do anything that you set your mind to.

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So go be great.

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And I'll see you next time.

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Bye, everyone.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “The Visualization That Makes Your Brain Obey You”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: visualization, brain, version, visualize, feeling. This video has 543 sentences and 6418 words to shadow. The speech runs for 35:37. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
emotion noun	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
follower noun	/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/	One who follows, comes after another.
pathway noun	/ˈpæθˌweɪ/	A footpath or other path or track.
activate verb	/ˈæktɪˌveɪt/	To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
minecraft noun	/ˈmaɪnˌkɹæft/	A warship which lays naval mines.
default noun	/dɪˈfɔlt/	The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
habit noun	/ˈhæb.ɪt/	An action performed on a regular basis.
overcome verb	/ˌəʊ.vəˈkʌm/	To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
mindset noun	/ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/	A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
circuit noun	/ˈsɝ.kɪt/	The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
belief noun	/bɪˈliːf/	Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
quantum noun	/ˈkwɑntəm/	The total amount of something; quantity.
sigh verb	/saɪ/	To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary…
resilience noun	/ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/	The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
physiological adjective	/ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/	Of, or relating to physiology.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
bring up verb		To mention.
make up verb	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	To constitute, to compose.
go out verb		To leave, especially a building.
sit down verb		To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
write down verb		To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something.
brush over verb		To barely cover a topic; to skim through or lightly touch on (something).
go along with verb		To acquiesce to or comply with a proposal, despite lacking a desire or value for it.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

How many times should I visualize?
Should I be doing it every day?
You don't really want the money.
You don't really want the relationship.
You don't really want the house.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have found · I've had · you've heard
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is wired · i've been asked · was surrounded
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	identity, which is · ones that are · three, which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 118 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, activation /ˌæktəˈveɪʃən/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/
Long words — get the stress right: resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, physiological /ˌfɪz.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, activation /ˌæktəˈveɪʃən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like emotion, follower, pathway.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?