Shadowing Practice: This will DELETE your OLD Self. Watch This Everyday (2026) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I have read hundreds of books on habits, motivation, discipline, manifestation.
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They're all trash because you see, unless you focus on this one thing that 99 % of these books don't even mention,
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you will never upgrade your life because in the next 30 minutes,
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I'm going to show you how to brainwash yourself and permanently clear your subconscious blocks.
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What do you mean, Prince?
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Brainwash myself.
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I don't want to be brainwashed.
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Yes, you need to be brainwashed You need to deep clean the gunk
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that the world has put in your head They call it information, but it's noise See, you keep listening to podcasts,
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watching YouTube videos Hoping
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that just one bit of information is going to change your
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life Riding the wave of hopium Injecting motivational dopamine into your system,
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into your veins But it never actually sticks I know this because I'm like this.
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I'm a seeker I would search for the master key thinking
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that once I found it my whole life was gonna change
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But then I realized it's not the key you should focus on
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It's the lock itself
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and therefore you need to realize one simple thing a man actually won a Nobel Prize for this
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If you put a frog on a bed of dead flies What will happen?
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Now most people will say, oh, it'll be in heaven.
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It'll go into a food coma But the truth is
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It will starve to death
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Why you ask it's
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because it's nervous system is wired to only go after what it sees in its visual field and you say Oh,
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that's a what a stupid frog but you are just like that frog.
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See we all share the same primal reptilian brain as the frog.
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The truth is you are not in control of what you do.
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You just think you are.
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You have this feeling that you are this this doer
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and you can do anything but the truth is you're a frog who can't see the opportunities.
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Eyes shut to the potential around you because you are blinded by the limitations of your nervous system.
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And if you don't wake up to the abundance around you, then like that frog, you will die.
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You will starve.
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And it's not your fault.
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See, that's the thing.
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It's not your fault.
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You are a victim of a dysregulated nervous system.
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Let me break it down a little bit more.
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Think of your brain as your home computer.
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Your nervous system is the firewall.
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Your beliefs are the programs or the apps that you want to download into your computer.
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And the firewall sits in between the apps and your computer, blocking out or letting in certain programs.
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Your nervous system sits between new programs and your brain, blocking out or letting in certain beliefs.
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It's there to protect you.
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And every experience you've ever had, mainly the ones when you were two feet tall at the age of zero to seven, has shaped, has constructed this firewall,
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a process known as imprinting.
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So in other words, your nervous system is the filter that determines what your reality looks like.
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See, there is not one reality.
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Every second, there are billions of data, information coming at us, right? the chair we're sitting on the the wind the light the sounds you couldn't be conscious of
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that many signals all at once
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so your nervous system is doing this without your conscious effort deciding what to let in
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and what to block out
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if we tried to be conscious of all of those signals we couldn't do it
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if we did we would only perceive chaos
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which is actually the first reaction to taking psychedelics feldenkrais said
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the purpose of the nervous system is to organize chaos
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so since we can't handle all of
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that information our nervous system it it throws out all of
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the information that's unimportant information is threatening to our belief systems
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information that's not consistent with the way we see ourselves our self -image
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and then our brain constructs a model and this is what we call reality
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but that is not reality it's our reality
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tunnel see there is one earth
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but there are billions of worlds each person you your your
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friend your family everybody's living in their own world in their
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own unique reality tunnel most of us never question our reality tunnel
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because to question it would make us feel unsafe And the nervous system, remember, it wants you to feel safe.
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It wants to protect you from dissonance.
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See, this is why you've never seen a child of a Catholic become a Muslim.
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This is why most children of Democrats do not vote Republican.
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We usually stay in the same reality tunnel as our parents because this is what was imprinted on our nervous system.
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This is a world that makes sense, but it is not necessarily true or in our best interest.
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As one of my favorite modern -day philosophers, rest in peace Robert Anton Wilson once said you don't experience
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reality you experience the reality your nervous system is capable of receiving see two people can experience the same event
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and have two totally different reactions you have seen this throughout your entire life the reason why is
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because two different nervous systems so to allow new empowering beliefs
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or software to be download it
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and take hold you have to upgrade your firewall right now
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your nervous system firewall is is way too strong your lock is too rusted
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and you can't let anything in even though you desperately want to you you want
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that key you want to change your life but you can't get through
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but in this video i'm going to show you how to free
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and re -imprint your nervous system so that it works for you and not against you.
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Before Tony Robbins, before all of the self -help gurus of today,
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there was a plastic surgeon who discovered one revolutionary idea that you need to know.
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He later wrote a book called Psycho -Cybernetics.
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Maxwell Moss was a plastic surgeon and he would perform surgery on his patients,
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fixing their scars, their noses, their deformities.
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But then he noticed something after he was done many of
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his patients still thought of themselves as ugly there was one woman who had a severe facial deformity
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and so malts worked on her
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and the surgery was a complete success i mean she looked incredible model worthy
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and yet for months after the surgery she avoided mirrors
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because she still believed she was ugly and so malts realized that the brain does not respond to objective reality.
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It responds to the self -image of that person's reality tunnel.
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Maltz started to do things like tap into the subconscious.
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For example, after the surgical tape was removed, he instructed his patients to repeat the phrase, I am beautiful for 21 days.
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Because if they didn't, they would still think of themselves as unattractive.
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And Maltz helped and healed a lot of people.
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But today I'm going to show you some new techniques that Maltz didn't know.
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See, I'm going to show you some modern neuroscience and nervous system entrainment that will recreate your self -image and your reality.
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Because listen, no matter what you read, no matter what you do, you will never be able to outperform the fossilized self -image
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that was created when you were two feet tall
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and like a rubber band you will spend your life only going so far and then snap back.
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See that's the reason why so many people lose weight and then they always find it.
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I got a friend who has lost thousands of pounds
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if you know what I mean because you see
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if your achievements exceed your own self -image you will unconsciously engage in self -destructive behavior.
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I'm going to repeat that.
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If your achievements exceed your self -image, you will unconsciously engage in self -destructive behavior.
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Let that sink in and write this down.
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The strongest part of the human mind is the need to maintain consistency with our identity.
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In other words, the me I see is the me I will be.
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See, it's the difference between somebody who was offered a cigarette
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and one person says no thanks i'm trying to quit
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if you're trying to quit don't say that
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because you still identify as a smoker and you hope your behavior will change
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but you're carrying around the same belief the same identity there's the other person who gets offered a cigarette
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and they say no thank you i'm not a smoker this
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is somebody who no longer identifies as someone who smokes and someone whose behavior is likely to last.
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There's a book called Start With Why by Simon Sinek and I don't agree.
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You don't start with why, you start with who.
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Now why is important, but why is a doing.
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You want to get to being so that doing is effortless.
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This is why Dr. Maltz's patients couldn't feel beautiful even though they were physically perfect.
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See, remember this, you have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
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It starts with being.
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These scientists have concluded that 98 % of your brain activity is unconscious.
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Not 80%, not 70%.
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98 % of your brain activity is unconscious, meaning that the majority of your decisions that you make, the actions that you take,
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the 60 ,000 thoughts that you have every day, that everybody has every day, depends on the 98 % of the brain activity that we aren't even aware of.
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See, what you think determines what you're doing, but what you don't think determines where you're going.
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One of my favorite people, Napoleon Hill, he wrote a book called Think and Grow Rich.
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Napoleon Hill said the greatest sin of all of mankind is to neglect to use their greatest asset
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because he said if they use that asset, they will have everything in abundance, everything that you could ever want.
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He didn't say within reason he said everything that you want in abundance
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and napoleon hill said
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that greatest asset is your subconscious mind see this is why
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all the books you can throw away in the garbage they don't matter unless you get to the subconscious
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and the subconscious doesn't matter unless you walk through the doorway
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of your nervous system now here's what most people miss the
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subconscious it doesn't respond to logic it doesn't respond to spreadsheets to five -year plans
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because scientists have found
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that the subconscious is stuck at the age of four to seven it's a permanent child
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so if you want to motivate a child what do you do first you have to allow
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that child to feel safe once you allow it to feel safe then you can contact the nervous system
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and start to re -imprint.
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Now, you may have heard people say, maybe you said this yourself, oh, I can't change, that's just the way I am, that's just who I am.
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Maybe you've said this yourself.
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Well, how do you think you got to who you are?
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Your nervous system was imprinted at certain moments by events that you watched, that you heard, or you experienced.
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Again, Feldenkrais says the purpose of your nervous system is to organize chaos.
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So, it formed in a certain way in order to make sense of the chaos
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that was around you at that time ultimately to protect you
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but sometimes it screws up it gives us these irrational fears right the negative thinking it is imprinted on us
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so deeply and it becomes very difficult to come out of these protective reality tunnels
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and most of us were imprinted by accident you know what
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i'm talking about i'm talking about our parents right unconscious imprinting
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this is parenting our parents did the best they could at their level of consciousness But let's face it.
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Most of them screwed up.
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Therefore, we have to re -imprint ourselves.
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Now What is imprinting?
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There's a story of a baby giraffe whose mother was shot by hunters right after it was born.
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The baby giraffe imprinted on the first object that fit the giraffe archetype, the Jeep.
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The Jeep has four wheels like the four legs of a giraffe.
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It followed the Jeep around.
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It attempted to nurse from it and
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when it became an adult tried to mate with it the
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baby giraffe instead of imprinting on his mother imprinted on the
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jeep there's another story of a man who was in a
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car with his girlfriend this is the first time they were
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about to get get it on right as marvin gay would say well as soon as he was about to
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finish a policeman pulls up to his car flashes his light inside of the car says what are you two doing?
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That man became impotent for 20 years because of that one imprint.
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It created shame and embarrassment until some doctors at Masters and Johnson worked with him and cured him through re -imprinting.
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Now, these examples are important because they show during situations where the brain is vulnerable under intense emotion,
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it creates these long -term imprints.
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Most of your limiting imprints were created the same way by trauma, right?
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Which created some type of fear, a lack of self -belief, timidity, perfectionism, people -pleasing.
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So to re -imprint, what do we need?
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We need intense emotion.
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Intense emotion is the key and feeling is the secret.
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Now here's how to re -imprint dedicate your time to these practices
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and they will change your life
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but understand this the heart I know this is hard to believe growing up in this school system
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that we all had to go through
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but the harder you're gonna try this the more difficult it
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will be relaxation is the secret you should do these practices
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when you wake up and before you go to sleep because this is when the brain is most vulnerable to suggestion.
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Now let's talk about brain states.
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your brain is normally in beta right as you watch this
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video you're in beta beta is the normal activities the thinking the stress now as you're breathing slows and you get calmer
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you go from beta to alpha alpha is the calm relaxed state and then finally when your alarm systems really shut off,
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you go into what's called theta.
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Theta is where you want to be.
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Theta is the state of meditation, the state of hypnosis.
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It's the state of light sleep.
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And see, as you fall asleep, your brain enters this theta state.
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And this theta state is highly receptive to suggestion.
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So listening to affirmations during this period, especially the 20 minutes before sleep can help to reprogram the
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subconscious mind making positive beliefs bypass the nervous system firewall and begin to re -imprint you.
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In other words this is how you brainwash yourself.
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See Salvador Dali the artist Salvador Dali this is really cool
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he would take a nap in a chair holding a metal key or a metal ball over a plate.
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As he drifted off to sleep his muscles would relax
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and the object would fall to the ground clang
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and wake him up right he'd snap awake and
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when he was awake he would be right at
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that edge of sleep and wakefulness and
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that in -between state is where brilliant dream -like ideas come up
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and dolly would immediately start to sketch and note them before they vanished
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and he wasn't the only one who did this technique Thomas Edison used a similar trick using steel balls for problem solving.
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They were both using the theta brain state.
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Okay, enough talk.
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This is what you're going to do.
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This is how you brainwash yourself.
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Okay, step number one.
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You're going to record a hypnotic induction on your phone.
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And you're going to lay that induction onto a theta brainwave track behind it.
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And you're going to listen to this every night.
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Now, don't worry about going to search for this.
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I've got everything in the description box below.
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I've got a script and I've even got my own audio recordings that you can use if you like.
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Step number two, after you've got them recorded, this is what you're going to do.
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You're going to sit or lay down in the bed and totally relax, totally soften.
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This is the key.
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See, relaxation allows the nervous system to feel safe, which will allow for the re -imprinting to happen.
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Again, the harder you try, the further you're going to get away from it.
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It's like trying to go to sleep.
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You can't try to go to sleep.
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You've got to let go.
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One of my favorite relaxation techniques is the calm body, calm mind technique.
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After doing this for one week, you will be able to bring your body into a state of relaxation on command.
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Step number one, you lay down or sit in a comfortable chair
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and you imagine your body is made up of balloons and there are two valves on your feet.
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They open and the air escapes from your legs.
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Your legs collapse until they are empty on the bed and then the valve opens in your chest and your whole body,
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right, go from every part of your body until it collapses limply against the bed or the chair.
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Your arms, your neck, your shoulders allow the air to escape
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and envision your worries fizzing away with it after you finish the entire body
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pay attention to your breath on each out breath on each exhale say calm body to yourself
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and on the next out breath say calm mind calm body calm mind and when thoughts try to take you away.
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Don't judge them.
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Just gently bring your attention back to the outbreath and repeat calm body, calm mind.
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Do this for about 10 minutes.
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Step two, you're going to play the hypnotic induction.
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When you listen to these tracks fully relax, you want to feel intensely, vividly, colorfully with all of your senses.
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Touch, taste, hear, feel.
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Feel the feeling of it already being done.
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Drench yourself in that feeling.
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Now you don't want the feeling of desiring something, of wanting something, craving something.
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You have to feel as though it's already done.
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This comes from Neville Goddard who said, Assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled and continue therein
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and the universe has no choice but to harden your assumption into present fact.
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Again, you're not craving it you have it.
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You have to meet the vibration evenly.
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Goddard also said, he said, if as you prepare for sleep,
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you do not consciously feel yourself into the state of the answered wish that wish fulfilled,
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then you will take the sum total of the reactions and feelings of your waking day and while asleep,
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you'll be instructed in a manner in which they'll be expressed tomorrow.
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Step number three, you sleep.
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Step number four, after you awaken, right?
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You need to do this practice as well.
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Remember, as you wake up, your brain is highly vulnerable to suggestions.
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So Now, you may be asking yourself, okay, Prince, I know what to do in the morning.
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I know what to do at night.
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Great.
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How can I brainwash myself during the eight hours of my day?
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That's a good question.
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Well, during the day is very important because you're either reinforcing the old you or molding the new you.
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And so there's two things that you must focus on during the day, your input and your output it.
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Let's talk about input.
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Every piece of information that's coming into your brain, you have to audit it.
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Is it in alignment with the old you or the new you?
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Remember, your input determines your outlook.
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You're not going to heal your nervous system listening to dysregulated music,
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being around dysregulated people, or conceptualizing dysregulated ideas.
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Instead flood your system with the good the clean the pure
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the powerful the positive your downtime Should be spent listening to things
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that help you move up in life Your recreation should be used listening to things
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that recreate you Affirmations are key to this now.
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Some people say affirmations don't work, but that's nonsense You've been practicing affirmations your whole life every
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word you speak every thought you think is an affirmation You're either affirming a negative
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or positive future for yourself You must speak affirmations out loud
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because then they are born into the world Keeping them inside of your head is okay, but not nearly as powerful It's better than nothing,
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but it ain't better than speaking them aloud, right?
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Scripture says let the weak say I'm strong When you say I am blessed, blessings start to look for you, right?
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So for affirmations to work, they must be spoken and spoken aloud and spoken in the present tense, not the future tense.
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You need to be saying I am, not I will be.
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Visualize the end point, the desired result and feel deeply the gratitude of already achieving it throughout your day.
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And here's a bonus tip on the note of affirmations.
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Do some mirror work, right?
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Every time you see a mirror look into your eyes
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and say an affirmation
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or something positive about yourself this is powerful right you may
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be the only one to say something positive to you
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that whole day this matters number two let's talk about output
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when it comes to output you have to embrace the power
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of questions see the brain is incapable of turning down a question it loves questions
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and nobody knows why right
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but we don't need to know why you don't need to
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know how to build a car you just got to know how to drive one now since we know
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that the brain can't turn down a question
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be careful of the questions you ask yourself
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because the quality of your life is based on the quality of your questions
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if you ask questions like oh why am I such an
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idiot your brain will find an answer it'll say well
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when you were six years old you you flunked
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that test your mom called you stupid and your dog bit you now don't ask disempowering questions ask power questions
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now what are power questions here's some examples what would my highest
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and most developed self do right now i love this one
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i've got this one posted all over my house here's another one
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what would a healed nervous system feel like right now here's another one what can i be grateful for right now.
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Here's another one.
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Who do I love and who loves me?
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These questions can change your entire day.
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Ask them throughout your day and watch your life change.
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Now guys, I can't give you too much.
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Again, I'm not trying to overwhelm you with information.
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I've got a summary of everything that I just taught you in this video in the link below in the description box.
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And join my community on school if you want to connect with me directly.
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I'll see you there.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “This will DELETE your OLD Self. Watch This Everyday”. This video has 322 sentences and 3881 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:18. The speaker talks at a natural 153 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| tunnel noun | /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ | An underground or underwater passage. |
| relax verb | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | To make something loose. |
| chaos noun | /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ | The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. |
| beta noun | /ˈbeɪtə/ | The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental… |
| relaxation noun | /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/ | The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities. |
| mirror noun | /ˈmiɹɚ/ | A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it. |
| output noun | /ˈaʊtpʊt/ | Production; quantity produced, created, or completed. |
| intense adjective | /ɪnˈtɛns/ | Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering. |
| input noun | /ˈɪnpʊt/ | The act or process of putting in; infusion. |
| asset noun | /ˈæsɛt/ | A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. |
| suggestion noun | /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/ | Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for) |
| vulnerable adjective | /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/ | More or most likely to be exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. |
| 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. |
| conscious adjective | /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/ | Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| turn down verb | To refuse, decline, or deny. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| lie down verb | To assume a horizontal position. | |
| shut off verb | To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve. | |
| throw out verb | /ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/ | To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I don't want to be brainwashed.
- It's there to protect you.
- I'm going to repeat that.
- You don't start with why, you start with who.
- Who do I love and who loves me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if we did we would only · if they didn't, they would still · if they use that asset, they will have |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be brainwashed · is wired · are blinded |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have read · has put · has shaped |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | woman who had · friend who has · somebody who was |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 91 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, breathe /bɹiːð/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, theta /ˈθiːtə/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
- Long words — get the stress right: napoleon /nəˈpoʊli.ən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, revolutionary /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/, permanently /ˈpɜː.mə.nənt.li/
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 belief, tunnel, relax.
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.