ICRAVE Defining My Future, But Not By My Past

The way we think affects our life, and most of us think the same thoughts every day.  

• 90% of most people think the same thoughts as they did yesterday.

If you’re not waking up every morning being defined by some vision of your future, then you are going to be living by the memories of your past; and you will be predictable in your life

• The brain is a record of the past, so if you’re not creating a new future, you believe in your past more than you believe in your future.

Many people don’t want to create a new future because they’re more in love with their past then they are with their future.

• In fact, they romance their past every single day.
• That person in the same brain circuitry and the same emotions of the past, are viewing their life through the lens of the past.
  • They’re not seeing things how they are in reality, but instead are actually perceiving and seeing things how they themselves are.
  • And they’re telling a story in their mind that’s actually causing them to perceive life equal to that story.
• So then you ask that person, “Why are you this way?, and they say, “I’m so glad you asked because I get to talk about my past.”
• As they talk about the incidence in their past, they’re saying “That was the event that changed me, and I haven’t actually been able to change since that event.”
  • “That event has defined me as the person I am today.”
• The research on memory says after a period of time that story that they tell of their past is only 50% true.
  • so they’re making stuff up.
• They are reliving a miserable life they never even had, just to reaffirm and recreate the emotions to excuse themselves from changing.

Most people may say with the five percent of their conscious mind, “I want a new life, I want a new relationship, I want a new career, and/or I am healthy.”

• But if 95% of who they are is subconsciously programmed into the past, then that thought of their health or their wealth is never going to make it to the body, because the body is programmed into the past.

Re-source: Redefine

to define again : reformulate : to reexamine or reevaluate especially with a view to change : transform

So for a person to be defined by a vision of the future instead of the memories of the past, they would have to really start thinking differently.

• They would have to start making different choices than the choices that they always make.
• They’re going to have to start doing different things and breaking certain habits.
  • That’s going be uncomfortable, because the body is going say…
    • “Why are we doing this?” 
    • “It’s so much more fun suffering than going out for a walk into joy.”
    • “I don’t know if I believe in joy, I believe in suffering.”
• That person would have to stop talking certain ways.
• They would have to start staying away from certain experiences with certain people.
• They would have to examine their emotional state every single day.
• They have to stay conscious of their emotional state, because the moment they started feeling suffering, they just disconnected from the energy of their future.
  • they’re back to the energy and the emotions of their past.

To be defined by a vision of the future every single day, means you’re going to be uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and there’s going to be some uncertainty.

• And you may not be able to predict the next moment because you’re no longer feeling like you that’s the moment.
  • you just left the known and you stepped into the unknown.

If your body has been conditioned into the familiar past or the predictable future, then you body has become the mind of the past or the predictable future.

• Then the body would say, “What are you doing?”
• The body will start influencing the mind and you will start hearing the chatter in your head.
• And if you respond to just one of those same thoughts (“I’ll start tomorrow, You’ll never change, It’s your ex’s fault, your mother’s fault”),  those same thoughts lead to those same choices, which lead to the same behaviors, and create the same experiences, and produce the same emotions.
  • you will say, “Oh this feels right, this feels better to me.”
• Now they’re back to the same comfortable self, and this is why change is so hard.

New thoughts should lead to new choices, and the choices should lead to new behaviors. New behaviors should create new experiences, and new experiences create new emotions.

• Research shows that people who do that in four days change their gene expression.
  • In the first day they don’t want to do it. They want to go back to lying down, and they want to quit.

Your personality creates your personal reality.

• If your personality is made of how you think, act, and feel, then the present personality called “you” has created the present life, called your “personal reality.”

Begin to become conscious of your unconscious thoughts, and become aware of your automatic behaviors (how you speak and how you act).

• The more conscious you become of those unconscious states of mind and body, the less unconscious you’ll go during your waking day.

Most people try to create a new personal reality; a new life as the same person (as the same personality).

• That doesn’t work.  You literally have to become someone else.

95 percent of who you are by the time you’re 35 years old is a set of memorized behaviors.

• Unconscious habits, automatic emotional reactions, hardwired beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes are functioning automatically like a subconscious computer program.
• In order for you to change, you got to get into the operating system where those automatic programs exist, and become familiar with them.
• As you begin to observe those thoughts, become aware of those actions, and notice those feelings; you’re no longer unconscious.
  • you’re conscious and aware, and you begin to objectify your subjective self.

Meditation means to become “familiar with.”  The more familiar you become with “I can’t, I want to quit this, it’s too hard”, the more aware that that is a thought standing in the way between you and something that you truly want.

• You’ll listen less to that voice in your head in your waking day.

If you became conscious, then that would be a victory in your day and those victories add up.

• If you know you associate with suffering, and you catch yourself starting complain, that’s a victory too.

craving and resource from “How To Visualize Your Future & Manipulate Reality” by Dr. Joe Dispenza – Rewired For Success