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Hi angels!
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I've seen so many people try to manifest their dream reality
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but then nothing changes for them which is heartbreaking to me
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because I've also seen many people even within my community be successful at it including myself.
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I mean look I'm living a completely different life than I was two to three years ago.
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I didn't believe it was possible and there was a time
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when the concept of manifesting didn't even make sense to me like it just didn't work out for me
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so I just thought it didn't work.
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But now I know exactly why it hasn't worked out for me and it's such a simple fix.
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This is something that you already do every day so you might as well make it count.
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I realize that somewhere deep down the people who fail don't actually believe they can have it.
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On the surface level, they want it so bad.
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They think about it all day long.
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They will journal, script, affirm it every day.
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But underneath all of that, there might be a very quiet voice in their head that says something like this just doesn't happen for people like me.
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And that voice in their head remembers every single time when something doesn't work out and it will decide, so it shall be.
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Failure continues to happen and you might even hear this voice consciously and it's buried way deeper than that, like it's running in your subconscious.
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And your subconscious mind only cares about what you believe, actually believe deep down.
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So the logical conclusion is we need to change this voice.
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There is a certain time during your day when you can access your subconscious mind way better than any other time.
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So today, I'm going to show you the method that changed everything for me.
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If you're new here, my name is Mei.
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My podcast and community are called Stoic Angels, where we explore the possibilities of human potential and transformation with practical research-backed tools.
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I'm not really interested in making things out of thin air, and everything that I mention on my channel has also been part of my personal experience.
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I mean, I would not have been able to believe that I'm sitting here today.
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But you know what?
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Old Me also wouldn't have believed that two to three years ago, I would start a channel that will hit like 500,000 subscribers.
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So if you're actually ready to do the work and change your life, I talk about things like this every week from leveling up your face, your body, and your mind.
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Subscribe if you haven't already.
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But with many of my videos, I also make companion guides.
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These are PDFs accompanying this video that you can download in my video description, and it is completely free for you because I love my angels.
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So go download that and then let's get into it.
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The science behind your subconscious mind.
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To really understand why this technique works and not just do it blindly,
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you need to understand what your subconscious mind does and why it has so much power and control over your life.
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Sigmund Freud was the godfather of psychoanalysis and he gave us one of the most important frameworks for understanding the human mind.
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So consciousness is an iceberg.
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So the tip above the water is your active thoughts, your decisions, your awareness and underneath the surface, making up about 90 to 95% of your total mental capacity,
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is your subconscious and unconscious mind.
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That's where your beliefs live, which includes your self-concept, what you truly think you deserve deep down, what's possible for you, and what kind of person you really are.
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Freud studied dreams extensively.
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He called it the royal road to the unconscious, and he even wrote a book about it called The Interpretation of Dreams.
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He understood that when we sleep, the conscious mind also goes to sleep, and our subconscious mind comes forward.
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In modern neuroscience, during the transition to sleep and during REM cycles, your brain's prefrontal cortex, which is the part responsible for your critical thinking and logic, becomes much less active.
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Your inner critic basically shuts down during your REM sleep, and that's actually one of the key things about your dreaming and your dream state.
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This is where it gets really exciting.
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So Carl Jung took Freud's work and pushed it even further by introducing the concept of the shadow, which is the part of yourself that you have pushed deep down,
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rejected, suppressed, and you hide it away because you didn't think that it was acceptable.
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This is where you're limiting beliefs about what you can have live.
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Your shadow will believe I don't deserve this, this makes me very greedy, I think that wanting to have this or that makes people evil
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and if I fail I will only prove what I believe about myself.
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Your shadow runs your life from behind the scenes, I mean that's why for the longest time I didn't think that I was an outdoorsy person, I didn't think that I could go hiking,
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now I'm in Switzerland and I've been hiking every day doing some pretty moderately dangerous hikes I mean, I'm bringing very safe of course, but truly there was a time I didn't really think
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that I could have what I have today
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and I have to be really really honest about
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that with myself The reason why I also encourage dream journaling
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so much even on my discord server I have a channel
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specifically for us to recall our dreams This helps us to try
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and integrate whatever is denied or missing from your regular day-to-day life Dreams in a way helps us process our reality.
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If you desire abundance during your waking life but then unconsciously you're living in a scarcity mindset,
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then your psyche is in conflict and that conflict will play out in your dreams as you sleep.
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That is when your subconscious mind is processing and reinforcing whatever is the strongest to you.
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Sometimes our dreams are actually telling us the truth and we seldom even get to choose those beliefs.
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Some of these beliefs are basically reinforced into our psyches
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and into our heads since early childhood and then being reinforced over
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and over again by life experiences
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and ever since then they keep running in your head whether you like it
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or not so we're in the psychological phenomenon where your dream state mind rejects your new beliefs
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because it doesn't match up with what it already knows
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so the only way to overwrite this is to directly access your subconscious mind
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which brings us to the question right like when is this the most accessible?
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The portal.
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Every night when you go to bed you pass through this neurological doorway and it's called a hypnagogic state.
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You're not fully awake but you're also not fully asleep yet and that's when you're beginning to drift and fall asleep.
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So what is happening in your brain at this time is pretty special.
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Your brainwave frequency drops from beta waves, which is your alert and conscious mode, down through alpha and into theta waves.
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Theta is basically the frequency range associated with deep meditation and hypnosis.
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One of my degrees is in psychology, and this is also how therapists access subconscious material during clinical sessions.
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There was research from Harvard published in 2000
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that demonstrated the content of your thoughts during sleep directly influences this dream incorporation and memory consolidation.
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That means the thoughts that you have right before you go to bed are the ones
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that you will probably end up dreaming about.
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Your mind spends the next six to eight hours, however long you're asleep for, rearranging all of these thoughts and neural pathways, trying to integrate them into your beliefs.
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So Carl Jung himself practiced what he called the active imagination.
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To some of you who also believe in manifestation, this may sound super familiar.
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So this is a technique where he would intentionally enter in semi-conscious state, relaxed and imagined feelings and images that came up.
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The Godfather of Manifestation, Neville Goddard, also practiced this as well and they both believe
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that this is one of the most powerful tools for integrating our thoughts into reality and for Carl Young, he believed that this is for integrating this shadow specifically.
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So he was deliberately using this as a portal to transform his own mind and his life.
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This was happening way before any kind of modern-day neuroscience research even entered the picture
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and this psychologist basically figured out how to use the specific window to manifest his reality.
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So if Freud mapped out the subconscious, Jung taught us how to explore it.
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So I mentioned Neville Goddard
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and he's the man who figured out how to program your thoughts specifically for manifestation
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and every manifestation technique that you have seen traces back to what he was teaching back in the 50s and 60s.
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His core teaching is that the state
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that you occupy as you fall asleep is the state
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that your subconscious will process and rehearse
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and ultimately this projects into your waking life and he says
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that as you prepare for sleep
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if you do not consciously fill yourself with a state of
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the answered wish then you will take the sum total of the reactions
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and the feelings of the waking day
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while asleep you will also be instructed in the manner in
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which they will be expressed tomorrow this means that
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if you don't intentionally choose your own thoughts
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and what you're feeding to your subconscious right before you go to sleep and if you're thinking about something negatively, obsessively, sending late night tags and emails,
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freaking out over something that hasn't even happened yet, you will take this into your next day.
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As long as you keep this up, you will take this into your life.
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It becomes your life actually.
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Stress, self-doubt, thinking that you're behind, nothing's working out for you.
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Your subconscious will collect all of that and process it and set you up for your next morning.
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So if you want to wake up starting fresh, you have to start the night before.
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Neville also said that you arise believing you are a free agent, but then every action of your day is quietly shaped by
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what you felt about yourself in your life as you drift off to sleep this is how important
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that state is and this is also what freud was saying about the subconscious
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and unconscious running the show and what young says about shadow beliefs operating beneath our awareness
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so neville basically took this a step further
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and said let's deliberately choose what we decide to think about i want to say
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so far we've been talking about your sleeping mind and subconscious programming but a lot of what manifestation also skips, it's your waking mind as well which also matters.
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We are what we constantly reinforce.
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So before I walk you through exactly how to do this experiment, I want to talk about something that's become part of my own daily routine because when I started taking this practice seriously,
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I needed my body to feel as intentional and healthy as my mind.
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This video is sponsored by Amra Colostrum and at first I was skeptical about colostrum at first, right?
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Like I've seen people talking about it online quite a bit
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but I started using Amra Colostrum for a while now and the first thing I noticed personally was my skin.
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If it wasn't glowing before, now I'm actually glowing.
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And then my digestion just started feeling smoother and more consistent
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and I feel more energetic too because like I said I've been hiking in Switzerland for the last few days, I've been exploring the city and I brought this with me even as I'm sightseeing and as I'm hiking.
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So when my body feels good and nothing's bothering me physically, my mind also settles faster and easier,
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which matters when you're about to do an active visualization practice every single night for the next 21 days.
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Our body and our mind has to be aligned.
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So I keep the Armour Colostrum Health Revival around in my bag when I'm outside and while I'm traveling.
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And if I want to live my dream life doing what Dream Me does, I better live off to that hype and do what Dream Me does, which is to obviously take good care of my body.
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Now I'm about to give you not one but two methods
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because maybe one of these is going to feel more natural to you than the other
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so try both and keep the one
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that you like method one is called the scene loop this is Neville Goldar's signature technique
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so as you're lying in bed
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and you feel yourself drifting off to sleep you create one short scene in your imagination like a mind movie
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that scene must imply
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that your wish has already been fulfilled you are at the
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end you're not visualizing yourself working towards the goal in your process
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or thinking about the level of effort
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that it takes you're going to place yourself at the ending of
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that movie after you have already have everything
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that you wanted not even the moment that you have it
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but after that let's say for example you're manifesting a new apartment and you don't visualize apartment hunting.
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You're actually visualizing yourself standing at your kitchen counter on a Tuesday, holding onto your coffee mug and hearing the sounds of a new neighborhood.
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Maybe it's a day just like this one.
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The birds are chirping and it's raining and you feel the fresh air on your skin.
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You're looking outside at the view and you feel the texture of your floor
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and how the daylight starts to hit your face.
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You play that scene on a loop over
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and over again as you drift off to sleep and
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if your mind wanders off that's okay just bring it back
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but the point is you have to imagine the most mundane
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and normal part of your day
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which is you know naturally going to be part of your dream life
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and it has to feel so normal for you but
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that scene should also be the last thing
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that your subconscious remembers before it takes
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that scene to work for the next six to eight hours
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this is also what young would recognize as active imagination with
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a specific directive you're not passively waiting to see what your subconscious mind does
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because you've been doing
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that your whole life you're basically giving it directions like a
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blueprint in your theta state without your gatekeeping self-aware conscious mind telling you
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that it's unrealistic your subconscious accepts it as an experience rather
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than something made up it is like a practical real outcome
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for you remember how your brain doesn't actually distinguish between a vivid imagination
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and a real one so you're not actually pretending anything
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but you're pre-living your wishes as already fulfilled done the second method is called the sensory shift.
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So this is for everyone who tells me, May, I literally cannot visualize anything.
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My mind is just blank and I'm having a lot of trouble doing this.
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So I hear you.
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This one doesn't actually require you to see anything.
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So you're actually already lying in bed.
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You feel a mattress beneath you, a pillow on your head.
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You feel heavy.
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So now you don't actually need to generate any kind of new information.
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Just reframe whatever you're already feeling and decide that this bed that I'm in is the bed of my desired reality.
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I've already reached my destination.
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So the mattress for example is the mattress in your new apartment
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and the pillow is on the head of someone who already has what they want.
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You sense the room around you and you decide this room
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that I'm in right now is my dream room
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and you will imagine that you feel the presence of whatever you want to represent.
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So Neville Goddard used this method
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when he was stationed at a military training camp during the war and he really wanted to go home.
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Every night he laid on that camp bed
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and he felt the mattress beneath him and he decided this is my bed at home.
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He imagined his wife sleeping next to him, he felt the shape of his bedroom and he also felt the presence of his sleeping child.
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He did this for nine days.
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On the 10th day he was called into the office and they handed him the discharge papers.
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You can go home now Neville.
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So it only took 10 days for him and what makes this technique
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or method more powerful from a psychological perspective is that it works with what Freud would call the reality principle.
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In some ways, this may actually be more practical for you.
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Basically, your senses are already active and engaged.
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You're not fighting your brain to create something out of nothing.
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So there's nothing for your active mind to fight against.
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You are gently redirecting what's already there because you're already there in bed.
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And because these sensations are real for you, in that the mattress is real, the pillow's real, your subconscious mind is more than ready to actually accept this reframe.
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You're narrowing that gap between the real and the imagination.
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So if you want to try out both methods at the same time, you can do that too.
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Integrating your beliefs.
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I want to also circle back to where we started because it really does actually make or break the whole practice.
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So remember when I said that the reason why most manifestations fail is
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because deep down you don't believe you can have it?
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You can loop these scenes and do sensory shifting all you want.
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You can practice for a month, a couple of months, or a few days.
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But if underneath all of that, your shadow is still saying this will never actually happen, then your subconscious mind still has that complex.
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So Carl Jung will call this a complex, an emotionally charged cluster of associations that basically operate on its own automatically in the background.
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So these associations that you have are basically the constant fighting
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and resistance between I don't deserve abundance and I do deserve abundance.
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Basically that will override your conscious intention unless it's brought into awareness and integrated.
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So how do you integrate this?
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Remember all of these thoughts that you have that are in conflict are part of your shadow.
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So try this step one before you do anything tonight like either technique, sit with yourself for 60 seconds
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and just ask yourself do I actually believe this is possible for me and be really honest about it.
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Don't say something like yeah of course I should think like
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that and actually be really honest with yourself
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if the answer is not fully that that is the awareness of what you're fighting against.
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In In order for us to integrate it, we have to first acknowledge it.
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That's why it's step one.
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Now step two, if you notice resistance, don't fight it and name it.
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Say it to yourself quietly or in your mind, I notice a part of me that doesn't believe that this is possible.
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I'm not going to argue with myself, but very gently, I'm going to show myself a new perspective.
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This is shadow work in its most simple and rudimentary form.
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You're not killing your doubts.
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You're not fighting yourself.
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Basically, you're acknowledging all of these thoughts that you have that's fighting against you
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and you're feeding it and integrating it into a new possibility despite what you may think otherwise.
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Step 3, start with something your nervous system can actually accept.
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If manifesting a billion dollars feels like a joke to you, it will reject the programming.
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So you have to start with something that creates a slight stretch
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but not a full snap just to convince your mind that it's absolutely possible.
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Something that makes you think, okay maybe that's more realistic and that's fine.
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That is the gateway.
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It's like the portal as your subconscious experiences and small alignments and synchronicities come together.
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I always try to connect the dots as much as I
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can in my reality just to prove like all of these synchronicities and coincidences are not just coincidences.
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Because literally your mind goes where your focus goes
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and it's the threshold for what it believes is possible and that will continue to stretch and expand.
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So try this tonight.
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Realistically speaking, maybe half an hour before bedtime, put your phone on airplane mode, put it in another room, make it silent and focused.
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You are protecting your hypnagogic window because we do not want the last thing
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that your subconscious mind to absorb someone else's Instagram story.
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So let's be super conscious about this.
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Go to bed, take five slow deep breaths
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and exhale longer than you inhale which shifts you from a beta state into an alpha state.
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You feel your body start to sink and this is also how you fall asleep more easily.
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So choose one desire, one thing to work on
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and create your scene out of that one thing or set your sensory shift.
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Try one of the two methods either the mind movie or shifting your senses and after you do that check your beliefs.
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Do you feel any resistance?
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It's okay if you do so name that resistance acknowledge it,
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don't fight it, and then continue to keep looping gently just like someone singing a gentle lullaby to you.
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You're not meant to go really hard on this, it's like a whisper.
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If you lose it then just come right back into it.
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Even though it took Neville Goddard nine nights, I'd like you to commit to 21 nights
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because scientifically speaking there's research done on forming habits
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that show new behavioral patterns begin to emerge and create significant shifts around three weeks.
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So give your subconscious mind
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that courtesy of adjusting to one of these methods before you even decide whether this works or not.
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I know some of you guys are gonna try this tonight
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and wake up next morning and maybe nothing changes so your mind thinks, see I told you this wouldn't work.
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Instead of jumping into conclusions like what I've done for years and years and wasting my time,
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watch out for all of these subtle shifts and how you feel when you wake up for the next 21 days.
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And notice all of these little subtle things, whether it's something that happens to you or random thought that comes into your head that you wouldn't otherwise think about.
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Notice when you respond to something differently than you otherwise would and you're not even sure why that is.
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Neville Goddard calls this the bridge of incidents between where you are now and where your desire lives.
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There is a series of very small and seemingly unrelated events that your subconscious mind will orchestrate to bridge this gap.
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It's almost like the hurdles or the tasks or the steps that you have to take in order to get there.
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That's your bridge.
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Carl Jung will call these synchronicities or sympathetic meaningful coincidences
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that the rational mind dismisses but your psyche will recognize that this is the evidence that I am aligned.
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So when you start noticing these thoughts don't brush it off even
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if it comes up or feels like a challenge
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or a test to you don't resist it but acknowledge it take note of it.
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Now drop a comment below and tell me what you're falling asleep feeling like tonight
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and tell me as if it's already done it's more powerful i feel
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if you just write it out and declare it
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and let the rest of our community in the comments witness it
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and let me witness it too because i read your comments
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and i will affirm this with you
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if you don't know what to say you can say i
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am manifesting my dream reality it's also a pretty significant change actually
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when you allow
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that wish of yours to move into a space where other people can also see it
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but not like in the tell your friends
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and family kind of way i don't actually believe that
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but online people don't really know who you are like you're anonymous right except for me
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but basically nobody else in your life can ruin it for you this is a safe space
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if you want more guidance throughout this process
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or you do better with someone walking you through relaxation
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and change and transformation i am working on an extensive collection of meditations
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and subliminals affirmations library as well as courses and programs
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that i'm creating around magnetism manifestation and body transformation as well as mind and life transformation.
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All of this is going to be part of my Stoic Angels 2.0 platform.
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Essentially it is a manifestation platform and you can sign up for the waitlist and my video description is linked below.
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So before that, try this out tonight because no matter what you're going to be falling asleep anyway.
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That's already going to be happening.
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The only question is what are you giving your mind to work with?
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It causes you nothing and it doesn't take any extra time.
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You're already going to lie in your bed tonight falling asleep.
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Might as well fall asleep believing that all these things are possible for you.
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And if you don't believe in yourself yet, I believe in you, angels.
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I love you.
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And nobody else told you that today.
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I did.
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And I will see you in the next video.
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What You'll Practice in This Lesson
Ready to boost your English speaking practice while learning a powerful life skill? In this lesson, you'll shadow the video's dialogue to improve pronunciation, rhythm, and fluency. You'll also absorb natural phrases used in casual, encouraging speech—perfect for everyday conversations. Plus, you'll explore ideas about the subconscious mind, making this practice both language-focused and personally meaningful!
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Manifest: To make something real or happen (e.g., "She manifested her dream job").
- Subconscious: The part of the mind that influences behavior without being noticed (e.g., "His subconscious fears held him back").
- Limiting beliefs: Thoughts that stop you from achieving goals (e.g., "I can't do that" is a limiting belief).
- REM cycles: Stages of sleep where dreams happen (e.g., "Your brain is active during REM cycles").
- Shadow (psychology): Hidden parts of yourself you reject (e.g., "Her shadow included feelings of insecurity").
- Script (verb): To write down goals as if they've already happened (e.g., "She scripts her ideal day daily").
Practice Tips: Master the Shadowing Technique
The video's tone is warm and conversational, with a moderate speed—perfect for shadowing! Here's how to make the most of it:
- Start slow: Pause after each sentence, repeat it aloud, and mimic the speaker's intonation. Focus on matching her friendly, encouraging tone.
- Focus on connected speech: Notice how words like "didn't believe" or "it's a simple fix" flow together. Shadowing helps you learn natural rhythm, not just individual words.
- Repeat tricky phrases: Words like "subconscious" or "neuroscience" might feel challenging. Say them 5-10 times until they roll off your tongue.
- Record yourself: Compare your shadowing to the video. This helps you spot areas to improve—like stress on key words or pauses between ideas.
Remember, shadow speak isn't just about copying—it's about training your brain to think and speak English naturally. Stick with it, and you'll see progress in both your language skills and your confidence. Happy practicing!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been hiking · we've been talking · you've been doing |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've seen · I've also seen · hasn't worked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are called · is denied · being reinforced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | them which is · people who fail · cortex, which is |
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.