Shadowing Practice: Watch This Before You Visualize Again (18 Minutes That Change Everything) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Wow, so your brain doesn't really know the difference between, say that again?
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Between something that happened in real life or something that you strongly visualize.
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Wow, it's the same reason why when we watch a movie or something, we're able to get lost in it.
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Yeah.
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We're able to believe in it because it, wow, so you could create enough of a visualization for yourself
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if you really were to powerfully start to focus on it and do that and build that ability to visualize something
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that your brain at one point would have to think it's
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so true that the world would meet you and put it into your life.
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I love the way you put that.
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Wow.
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What do you want to do in your life?
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Where do you want to go?
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What do you want to make happen?
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What do you want to make happen for between now and the end of the year?
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Think about it for a moment.
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Don't think of why you can't.
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Doesn't matter how much money you've got.
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Doesn't matter how much help you've got.
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Build a vision of what you would like to accomplish between now and the end of the year.
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And then make a written description of that vision.
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Paint the picture with words.
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Vision.
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Vision is going to direct your life if you let it.
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Visualization activates your superconscious capabilities and releases your mental potential.
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You'll actually begin to receive a steady flow of ideas and energy for goal attainment.
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The clearer the picture is in your mind, the more rapidly your subconscious and super conscious go to work to bring it into your reality.
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I'm a huge visualizer and a manifester.
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So I literally spent, you know,
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every night of my life for about four years on Mulholland Drive after I do the comedy clubs manifesting my life.
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So I've made a check to myself for ten million dollars for acting services rendered
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Paid to the order of Jim Carrey post dated
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Thanksgiving 1995 stuck it in my wallet and six months before I
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That due date came due I was I was making ten million dollars for a movie
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Be very clear on what it is that you want spend five minutes sitting down and
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visualizing those things being true and
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and then give gratitude for that like see it feel it in your body taste it in your mouth
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hear it in your ears completely immerse yourself in that five minutes longer if you can
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and then just be so grateful for all of
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that essentially what you're doing is moving your brain from a fear state to a trusted state and
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that is the gateway to making these changes
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you don't attract what you want you attract what you are now think about that
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if you want to attract what you want you've got to see yourself already with it you've got to understand
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that you've already got it start to see yourself mentally you've been given the faculties to do
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that use your imagination see yourself already in possession of the good you desire
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that will flip your mind onto a specific frequency
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and you do think on frequencies it's on that frequency
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that good you desire is going to start coming toward you
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and you will start moving toward it
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if you want to attract what you actually want you've got to see yourself now already with it
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and know it's only a period of time until you're moving toward it
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and then moving toward you
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and you become one with it you don't get what you want
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you get what you are you've got to become what you want you've to realize
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that the minute you hold your mind in harmony with the good
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you want then you've already got it it's only a period of time till
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it manifests in physical form anything you say with the words i am your subconscious will then take
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that as a command
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if you say i am sick you're actually creating sick in the future a lot of people think
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when they're describing the present
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they're just well i'm sick you know
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but the fact is you're prescribing the future by describing the present as it is
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and most people never get that so
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when you're saying negative things to yourself you're affecting yourself in a physiological way
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so this is why the people
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that live the most effective lives are always acting as
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if they're in the future and the future is perfect
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if i can even just have the courage to go into the ring they're going to respect me
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but when i said it at 14 years old dancing in the mirror and really you know what yeah, I'm going to be a world champion.
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I said it.
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Your spirit is listening to you.
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Ten years later, I was world champion.
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When I said it, I was feeling.
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I felt it.
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Now that goes into your superconscious.
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And your superconscious mind is the universe.
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So this is the law of attraction in process.
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You see, what it is in life, you don't get what you want.
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And If you say you want something, you don't get it.
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You get it if you feel it.
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Now the first aspect of visualization is called frequency.
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This refers to the number of times that you visualize a particular goal as achieved,
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or of yourself performing in an excellent way in a particular event or circumstance.
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The second element of visualization is the duration of the mental image the length of time
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that you can hold the picture in your mind each time you replay it
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when you deeply relax you can often hold a mental picture of yourself performing at your best for several seconds
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and then longer for several minutes the longer
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you can hold your mental picture the more deeply it will be impressed into your subconscious mind
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and the more rapidly it will express itself in your subsequent performance
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and the act of rehearsing mentally in your mind who you
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want to be the act of just closing your eyes
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and mentally rehearsing
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that scene literally causes the brain to look like you already did it keep doing it over
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and over again the hardware becomes more automatic like a software program
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you naturally get your behaviors to match your intentions and
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because you installed the circuitry if you feel that emotion
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and you say when i feel this emotion i can believe in
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that future then let me just keep remembering to feel
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this way in every part of my day just let me
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i'm just not this is not about positive thinking this is about conditioning my body emotionally into the future
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so i gotta keep my energy up yeah the entire day
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and i can't default back to the old person as long as i'm feeling this emotion i'm gonna behave
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that way as long as i'm feeling this emotion i'm going to believe in that future if i maintain
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this modified state of mind
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and body my entire day as an experiment should there be
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some evidence in my life as a result of my change in state of being a synchronicity a coincidence
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and if there is then i'm going to do it again i'm going to actually do it again
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and i think that's and how we start stepping into that future.
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But what this tells us is simply by visualizing your goal is already completed, by seeing it nothing but net every time,
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the body starts to respond and adjust itself to create the result.
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So one of the great success techniques is people that are super successful are often called visionaries,
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and the reason is they close their eyes and they see the future.
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You create your future by envisioning it.
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When you visualize what it is you want, it opens up your perceptual filter to let in more information.
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You'll only see enough to match your vision.
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If you think you're a $100 ,000 a year person, you're going to see just enough to make you $100 ,000 a year.
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If you think you're a $300 ,000 a year person, you're going to see just enough to do that.
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Your perception is controlled by your beliefs and your goals.
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The third element of visualization is vividness.
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There seems to be a direct relationship between how clearly you can see your desired goal
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or result in your mind and how quickly it comes into your reality.
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This element of visualization is what explains the powers of the law of attraction and the law of correspondence.
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The vividness of your desire directly determines how quickly it materializes in the world around you.
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Here's an interesting point.
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When you set a new goal for yourself, your image or picture of this goal will usually be vague and fuzzy.
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But the more often you write it and review it and repeat it mentally,
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the clearer it becomes for you eventually it becomes crystal clear at
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that point the goal will suddenly appear in your world exactly as you imagined it i made
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that happen and this is through this like manifesting subconsciously as well just years of something just manifesting manifesting
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and boom it's right there i'm just like i really made
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that happen it's scary man it's scary for me to even think about
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when you when you really when you have the vision and you're able to manifest
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And you also put the work in.
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Magic happens, man.
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Magic.
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That's where the magic is.
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But a lot of people never get there.
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Unfortunately, a lot of people...
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We're blessed that we can dream.
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What we know from quantum physics is that like attracts like, which is the law of attraction.
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Everything in the universe is made up of atoms, right?
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Me, you, the sky, everything.
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But what differentiates us from, say, the sky above us is the density and the vibrational frequency of the atoms.
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High vibrational frequencies attract high vibrational frequencies back to it because like attracts like and vice versa.
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Low vibrational frequencies attract low vibe back to it.
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Thoughts and feelings have different vibrational frequencies.
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So if we're constantly in this state of anger,
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shame, regret, guilt, fear, we're operating at a low vibrational frequency and then that's what we attract back to us, this kind of low vibe life.
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Whereas if we're constantly putting ourselves in a state of appreciation,
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gratitude, love, compassion, we're operating at a whole different frequency and so what we attract back to us is abundance.
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I mean the biggest thing I think that really separated me through my career was my mental game.
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Everything
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that was in between my years like for me it's just
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i i eventually got to the point where i was competing against myself
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because i was so hard on myself
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and you know for me to improve i had to get stronger mentally
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and i had to find a way to do it
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and i think my coach helped me get through that process
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and learn more so for me like when i
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when i would visualize i visualize every single
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i mean getting up to a meet i would visualize probably a month
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or so in advance just of what could happen what i want to happen
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and what I don't want to happen because
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when it happened I was prepared for it sometimes you lay down in bed
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you visualize things you just kind of just
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that's how that's at least how I would go to sleep I lay down I'd imagine playing for the Lakers
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and I would imagine what the uniforms look like I'd imagine where we'd be playing
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you know the smell of the arena and all some stuff
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and I would see myself you know getting hot you know let's go to 10 straight points
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and then but in a dream like so you just keep dreaming
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and dreaming and dreaming and before I go to sleep I'm like at a hundred
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and twenty points you know it's oh and so
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when you grow up downloading that into your brain over
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and over and over and then you know
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that summer I made a thousand shots a day a thousand right that's on top of weight training
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and my conditioning I made a thousand shots
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and it weren't just shots it were shots that you saw in
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that game there were specific shots so when you download
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that into your system and you're on in the court
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and you're executing things that you've done thousands of times before
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and you have that dream then
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that becomes possible one of the fastest ways to create something
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in your physical reality is to reverse the normal process by
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which we create things usually we create things first by thinking about it I think I'll go to
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that party and then we say something about it as in Matilda I'm coming to your party tonight
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and then we do something about it as in showing up the party
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that's generally how we produce things in our reality in fact
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everything in this room was once a thought in someone's mind there is nothing
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that was not once a thought in someone's mind somewhere but
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if you want to really play tricks with the universe
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and create magic with the stuff of life itself reverse the thought word deed paradigm turn it upside down
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and start with the deed that is to say act as
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if if you want to experience abundance be abundant
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and do as abundance does therefore
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if you have only five dollars left to your name go to a store
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and get them transferred made into singles take five singles
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and walk down the street
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and give a single to each of five people who have even less than you do
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and by the way
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you will find those people very easily people always ask me like how do i create
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you know the person of my dreams that i want in my life
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and i always say take out a piece of paper write down everything you want in that person
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and then become it most people don't use their imagination constructively most people use their imagination destructively
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they imagine what they don't want we've got to consciously
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and deliberately imagine what we do want if we will take
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and sit down with a pen
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and ask ourselves what do i really want what do i really want and write it down and then
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make a written description of it in the present tense writing causes thinking thinking creates an image
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and you get these images going you're building a vision in your mind
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it's the visionaries that's changed the world the fact
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that i can sit and look into this camera
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and you can sit and look at me on your phone
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or on your tv or on your laptop that was the result of somebody's vision
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do you know everything you've got the clothes you wear the house you live in
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this microphone that's in front of me
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it was all the result of somebody's vision what i've learned over the years is
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that no new information can enter the nervous system
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that's not equal to the person's emotional state you can give them the answer the right answer to the problem
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and they won't hear it because it's not relevant equal to the emotion that they're experiencing
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what we've learned is
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that you take people in just say seven days just cross
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the river of change go from the old self to the
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new self immerse yourself fully into it break free from the chains of those emotions
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that keep you anchored to the past overcome those habits and behaviors that keep you programmed into a predictable future
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overcome all those aspects of your beliefs
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that keep you stuck in a certain state in terms of how you're thinking those hardwired perceptions
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and normally the person has the answer to their own question I think that's
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when it becomes really relevant when you have your own insight your own epiphany
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when it's your own truth
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because you've you've worked to get beyond it now the fourth element of visualization is intensity the amount of emotion
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that you attach to your visual image in reality this is the most important and powerful part of the visualization process
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sometimes if your emotion is intense enough
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and your visual image is clear enough your goal will immediately
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come true of course the elements of frequency duration vividness
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and intensity can help you
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or hurt you like nature the power of visualization is neutral like a two -edged sword
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you can cut in either direction it can either make you a success
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or make you a failure visualization brings you whatever you vividly and intensely imagine
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whether good or bad so every night there's a period just after you fall asleep
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where you are capable of doing self -hypnosis
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and the moment you close your eyes and you're drifting off you've disconnected consciousness
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but the brain is still functioning
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but it's now functioning at the next vibration below consciousness
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which is theta so the brain is in a state of record after you're you're falling asleep
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so if you put earbuds in or earphones on
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and play a program
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but the moment you fall asleep the program is playing directly into the subconscious via hypnosis
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it's called self -hypnosis you fall asleep programs playing goes into the subconscious
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and whatever is playing through those earphones earbuds is going straight
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into the subconscious programming straight in you can have do
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or be anything you want we can have whatever it is
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that we choose don't care how big it is what kind of a host
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you want to live in do you want to be a
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millionaire what kind of a business do you want to have do you want more success what do you really want
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Watch This Before You Visualize Again”. This video has 253 sentences and 3025 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:13. The speaker talks at a natural 176 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 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 |
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| frequency noun | /ˈfɹiːkwənsi/ | The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. |
| attract verb | /əˈtɹækt/ | To pull toward without touching. |
| 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. |
| manifest noun | /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst/ | A list or invoice of the passengers or goods being carried by a commercial vehicle or ship. |
| mentally adverb | /ˈmɛntəli/ | In a mental manner; an idea thought out in one's mind, as opposed to an idea spoken orally. |
| element noun | /ˈɛləmənt/ | One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
| asleep adjective | /əˈsliːp/ | In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. |
| imagination noun | /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ | The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images. |
| attraction noun | /əˈtɹækʃn̩/ | The tendency to attract. |
| abundance noun | /əˈbʌn.dn̩s/ | A large quantity; many. |
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| deeply adverb | /ˈdi(ː)pli/ | To a deep extent or degree; very greatly. |
| reverse noun | /ɹɪˈvɝs/ | The opposite of something. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| rapidly adverb | /ˈɹæpɪdli/ | With speed; in a rapid manner. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| drift off verb | To fall asleep slowly. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| get up to verb | To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| lie down verb | To assume a horizontal position. | |
| open up verb | To open. | |
| play through verb | To overtake a slower group of players ahead of one's own group, rather than waiting for them to finish the hole before proceeding. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What do you want to do in your life?
- Where do you want to go?
- What do you want to make happen?
- Don't think of why you can't.
- Doesn't matter how much money you've got.
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 | I've made · you've been given · you've done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | you've been given · is called · will be impressed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | people that are · like, which is · people who have |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 86 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, you've, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thanksgiving /ˌθæŋksˈɡɪv.ɪŋ/, theta /ˈθiːtə/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, attraction /əˈtɹækʃn̩/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, duration /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, intensity /ɪnˈtɛnsɪti/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
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 frequency, attract, emotion.
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.