everything that you really want your
life comes down to one thing you want
some kind of change in how you feel or
what I call a change of state the state
of mind or body you're in at that moment
in time we all want to change how we
feel think about it the only reason you
want more money you don't want little
pieces of paper with pictures of
deceased notables on it do you of course
not
you want money because of what you think
it'll give you you think it'll give you
more freedom more fun or the ability
give to other people you believe it's
gonna lead to some kind of pleasure if
you want it say I want a business listen
I know a lot of people in business who
don't want their business anymore the
bottom line is it's not the business you
want it's what you think a business will
give you the feeling changes you think
it'll give you somebody says I want to
get married they want to get married
because of what they think that will
give them or I want a relationship they
think that's gonna give them a certain
kind of feeling that's what drives all
of our behaviors challenge me on this
see if you can find an exception is
there anything in your life that you
really really want that the reason you
want it doesn't come down to eventually
some feeling you're gonna get if this
thing happens in your life I'll tell you
over and over again no matter what
exception someone has tried to fall in
it if I keep asking him why do you want
that but why do you want that but why do
you want that eventually to get to a
point where they go well because it
makes me feel good and so that's what we
really want we want to feel good we want
to have those special feelings inside in
other words we just want to be able to
manage our emotions manager States and
create what we really want emotionally
analyze everything we do we've already
said is to create pleasure that's an
emotion and to avoid pain that's an
emotion too and if we want to change our
behavior the quickest way to do that is
change how we feel I mean think about it
haven't you had a situation in your life
where you did something and after you
did it you say to yourself I can't
believe I said that I can't believe I
did that that was so stupid
have you ever in a situation like that I
mean an area you're normally pretty
smart in you just did something really
dumb I know I have plenty of times
haven't you also had the opposite
experience though where you want a role
where things were just flowing it was
like you were unstoppable you don't even
know how you were doing it you were just
like flowing you know where after you
did it you know somebody said you do
that you know yeah that was me okay and
you don't know how you pulled it off you
were rather proud of it though having
had those kind of times
done a roll so I got a question for you
what's the difference in your behavior
why is it in one situation you perform
brilliantly in another situation you
perform well should we say brutally the
difference is not your ability what we
do at any moment in time in that moment
is based on the state that our mind and
body is in at that moment in time in
other words what people can do is
absolutely incredible what they will do
is usually disappointing and the
difference is not their capability but
rather what stay to the end right now if
every time they think about public
speaking they associate fear or pain
that's going to change their state and
also they're gonna feel tighten their
body the whole emotional state will
change they're not gonna get the most of
themselves but if whenever they think of
public speaking they think of absolute
pleasure they're gonna be in a great
state of mind and they're gonna get more
out of themselves I mean think about it
when you're feeling really frustrated do
you behave the same ways and you're
feeling like you're on a roll when
things are flowing obviously not you
have the same ability but things act and
behave differently coming out of you you
speak differently you communicate
differently everything changes I'll give
you another example have you ever
forgotten something simple like your own
home telephone number or address or how
to spell the words uh I've had my most
enlightening experiences now you know
how to spell the word how come you
couldn't remember the answer is because
you're and what I call a stupid state
right you were in a state of mind where
your brain wasn't able to get all the
answers the answers are there but you
couldn't get there so I believe one of
the most important things probably the
most important thing that you and I can
do in our lives to create the power and
joy and passion that we really want is
to learn to manage our own states of
mind in fact think of the cost of not
managing them if you don't manage your
emotional state it'll cost you virtually
everything you want your life friends
family success and just the joy that
every one of us wants to experience on a
daily basis and let me ask you a
question is what happens in your life
the thing that determines how you feel
at any moment in time yes or no in other
words it doesn't matter whether or not
for example the economy is doing really
strong as to whether or not you feel
good
most people say no some people say will
you
that now does it matter how your
relationships are going does that
determine how you feel is how you feel
determined by the weather by how much
Sun or rain there is is it determined by
how other people treat you I'm here to
tell you the answer that is no I'm not
saying that doesn't compliment or
support you feeling one way or another
I'm saying how you feel at any moment in
time is purely designed and the result
of how you are directing your own mind
and body at that moment what I'm saying
to you is no matter what has happened in
your life you are in control of your own
States and once you understand that
number one and number two you use that
ability you now have control over your
life at a whole new level and you have
more fun and joy and passion you ever
dreamed of once you take that
responsibility and take that control now
for some people when they say well that
seems like a heavy responsibility or
look at the opposite what's the price of
not managing your states well I asked
you a question
what is John Belushi Elvis Presley
Freddie Prinze Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin
and Marilyn Monroe what they all have in
common they're all people never learned
how to manage your state that's what
they all were people that had every
reason in the world to be happy by
anybody else's standards but who
destroyed themselves little two killed
themselves in the end I mean blue she's
one of my favorite examples why cuz I
like this guy didn't you wasn't this a
fun guy I mean if you were to think of
somebody didn't he feel like this guy
that you could connect with I don't know
about you but I really enjoyed him and
millions of other people did as well he
had what most people would think would
make them happy he had all these people
that loved him and preciate his work he
got to be creative he was in movies he
was in television he was on Broadway I
mean here was a guy that was spontaneous
he had a great family at totally loved
em he had all the money and fame that
most people think that they could
possibly want to need and yet he's not
here how come he's dead why not because
of old age you'll recall but because
this man did not know how to control his
own emotions within himself and he tried
to change the way he was feeling by
using drugs use drugs as a way to change
his state and he's no longer here and
neither the other people I mentioned on
this list think about
there's a major price at now managing
your state and in managing your state
there's major rewards now let's contrast
Belushi with a friend of mine his name
is W Mitchell one of the people in the
world that I only love most but also
have the most respect for 30 min shows a
unique guy 15 years ago he had a unique
experience one that most people would
never forget he was driving his
motorcycle 65 miles an hour down freeway
when something caught his attention when
he looked over while he continued to
drive forward
he got fixed on something I don't have
you ever done that he got stuck there a
little too long well when he looked up
he was traveling 65 miles an hour right
into the back of a Mack truck that had
stopped in front of him in a last-minute
split-second decision to try and save
his own life he slammed himself on the
ground and he slid 65 miles an hour
underneath this truck across the
pavement then the worst thing happened
the gas cap popped off fuel spilled out
all over the place and then from this
friction exploded and ignited
three-quarters of his skin was burned
off his entire face is mutilated his
fingers burned all the way down to the
knuckles he woke up two weeks later in a
hospital bed in searing pain fearing to
even breathe now for most people at this
point they say hey I'm out of here why
stick around in this body I'd rather
just die but not only did he not die
please become an example of true
possibility for people all over the
country and this gentleman could not
even take drugs because his body was in
such bad shape but when people met him
they thought he must be on drugs because
he seemed so up you know they go in and
talk and they feel bad and goes hey it's
over we just got to move on his mother
said we just must not realize how bad it
is well the reality is he just made a
decision he decided that he was going to
manage a state why because he saw the
alternative is much more painful he said
look I got one or two choices I can feel
bad emotionally about everything I've
lost and just make my total life a mess
emotionally have more pain to add to my
physical pain or I can focus on what I'm
gonna do which means I can at least
focus on something that could bring me
some pleasure and get rid of my focus on
the physical pain that's what he did
his life has become such an example
because he kept managing his emotions
now not only did he do that but within
three years he managed himself so well
they got back into business even though
it didn't look too terribly attractive
but he ended up going into business and
becoming extremely successful the new
company developed after his accident
became the number one employer of its
type in the state of Vermont it became a
millionaire he even learned to fly
airplanes now that's not the end of the
story about eight years later he's
flying his airplane with three of the
friends in Colorado and he made himself
a rather big mistake he didn't go
through his checklist and he didn't
notice that there was frost that had
developed on the wing and when he took
off he crashed three people walked away
he was not one of them he was paralyzed
from the waist down for life so they cut
off his toes since he didn't need them
anymore and sewed them on his hand so
he'd have something to be able to grasp
things with he's stuck in a wheelchair
now for life of course he doesn't look
at his stuck in a wheelchair
in fact you say at this point he must
have given up right no even after his
wife left him he said look I don't want
to be around a fried cripple even after
all that he still didn't give up he
turned around and the city he was living
in in Colorado had some major problems
he decided to become the mayor of that
town after that he decided to run for
lieutenant governor of the state of
Colorado he placed third in a group of
six and he ran on the issues not on a
sympathy vote any campaign door-to-door
now remember this guy didn't look too
terribly good factor used to wear a
button that said send me to the
governor's mansion and I won't just be
another pretty face that have a nice way
to interrupt people's patterns and make
them associate something new to you now
I didn't win the lieutenant governor's
place he's still the giver he now has
his own radio show in Colorado and he
has found the woman of his dreams and
remarried so I've got to tell you that
if you start to tell me well gosh Tony I
call these problems it's hard to manage
my state just think about W Mitchell but
I look at somebody like Belushi and see
all that he had and I look at something
like Mitchell it seems to have all these
challenges but it's so happy so
successful such a sense of possibility
it becomes clear to me that I have no
excuse to
not manage my state on a consistent
basis no matter how big the problems may
seem you're much better than anybody
like that might ever hope to be
so how do we manage our state's well one
remember I believe virtually everything
a life comes down to why to first then
how to I believe if you want to succeed
you got to have 80% of success it's
figuring out why to succeed why to
manage your state for example 20% is how
here's the howl let's do it quickly and
let's just get right to doing it and
doing some exercises there are two
primary ways to control your state of
mind and body they are number one
controlling the way you use your
physical body what we call your
physiology and number two controlling
your mental focus that is what you pay
attention to what you think about what
you picture what you say to yourself
today we're going to focus on how to use
our physical bodies to create the
emotions that we want in any moment in
time and then on your next tape we're
going to work on how to control our
focus how to control the mental imagery
and pictures and things that we think
about in a way that immediately changes
our state as well let's start and focus
again today on physical movement not
only you think about something in order
to feel anything in your life you feel
it through your nervous system through
your physical body now if I told you I
know someone who is totally depressed I
bet you could tell me about the way they
move or even their posture and you would
probably have an accurate representation
in other words if I told you about
someone I know that's totally depressed
and let's say they're outside your door
right now and I said to you for $100,000
describe for me what is this person like
what's their posture like for example
what would you say most people say
slumped over where is this person's head
most people say down where their eyes
again most people say down where is this
person's breathing is it full or shallow
again most people say shallow and where
is this person's facial expressions are
their muscles in her face pulled up and
tight or they down and slack again most
people say slack how did you match up
with these descriptions again if you're
like most people most of those
descriptions match the picture you have
in your mind why is it that when we
think of a depressed person we think of
somebody just physically hunched over a
little bit looking down
talking a little bit more slowly their
eyes down and a breathing shallow and
their facial muscles slack the answer is
in order to get depressed you got to
work at it it's not easy you have to use
your body in a certain specific way I
mean try something ridiculous with me
for a moment won't you sit up right now
in your transfect if you're not driving
stand up if you're driving that would be
difficult but if you're sitting stand up
for a second if you would and if you're
sitting and you're in a car then sit up
but I want you to stand up ideally stand
tall breathing fully really strong
breathe fully and I want you to look up
towards your stealing magic standing or
breathing tall looking at your ceiling
why don't we do something really
ridiculous really dumb put a huge silly
grin on your face go ahead try it oh
come on
nobody's noticing you're by yourself and
if there are another thing then you'll
get their attention anyway put a big
grin on your face look at the ceiling
listen to me now what I want you to do
while you stay standing tall your
shoulders back breathing fully with this
big grin on your face I want you to get
depressed without changing any aspect of
your body don't change your facial
expression oh come on you can do it hang
in there get the breast no no you know
so you're cheating I can tell I'm in the
room you drop those shoulders if you
drop your head if you stop breathing or
if you stop smiling it doesn't count
stand tall breathing big big smile
looking at the ceiling that's right and
get depressed without changing all right
well if you can't change and just stay
happy and sit down here's my point you
might say what does this got to do with
state management are you saying every
time I don't feel good I should stand up
tall stare and grin at the ceiling yes
no there are many ways to do this but
this is one my point is this how come
when you stand tall and you're breathing
of the big grin on your face how come
you don't feel depressed the answer is
because it's pretty difficult because
you're sending a totally different
message to your brain see the way we
move our facial muscles the way we
gesture the way we physically walk the
pace at which we talk all of these
things determine how we feel in any
given moment if you don't like the way
you're feeling rather than try and pump
yourself up intellectually going on I
feel good I feel good I feel good or
doing too much affirmation grab feel
good I feel good I feel good I feel good
your brain goes B s that's not enough
what you've got to do is change the way
you're moving I mean think about it and
you were growing
didn't you have a parent that told you
hey look if you're depressed go do
something why did that work because when
you go do something you change the way
you move you change the way you breathe
you change what you're focusing on or
what you're paying attention to and
wham-o you have an emotional change a
state change if you will so I want you
to realize the power of your own
physical body when I was struggling I
had no idea the power my body I was at
the effect but you know what I still use
these tools I just used them in the
wrong way hey listen you already know
the power of your body when you don't
like the way you feel what I usually do
I'd say what most Americans do they do
something to change the way they feel by
changing their body by changing their
biochemistry what do they do they do
things like drink alcohol why because
the minute you drink alcohol does it
change your state for you bet you behave
differently when you're in a different
feeling state you better believe it it
goes yeah man I sure do the bottom line
is you changed your biochemistry soon as
you do that that was changing physiology
and your emotions and feelings and
behaviors change instantly now a lot of
people aren't society and they don't
like how they feel they change their
body and change the way they feel by
using cigarettes a smoke and therefore
they breathe differently and they
breathe differently they feel
differently when they feel differently
they behave differently so they don't
like kind of feeling they feel a little
tight to feel frustrated feel a little
stressed they smoke a cigarette and I
think the cigarette makes them feel
better what makes them feel better is
the fact that they're taking nice deep
slow breaths why not try it without the
cigarette what a concept amazing
bottom line is you can change just by
changing your breathing alone now what
else do we do well a lot of people they
don't like to let it feel what do they
do they eat there we go I don't feel
good they eat and then they get that
they look in the mirror they don't like
how they look that makes them feel worse
so they don't like the way they feel so
to eat some more
all right then they're caught up in that
loop again have you ever been there so
food is another way we try and change
our physical body in order do it some
people just go to sleep and some people
do things like go shopping or watch TV
but we're going to talk about that in
your next tape there those are people
that are changing what they're focusing
on but the primary way most of us try
and change how I feel is by changing the
way we use our physical body drugs is
the most obvious example we've already
talked about that
cocaine why because it changes their
state rapidly that's why people still
purchase it even though
Roy's their life simultaneously they
don't focus on that the point is any
change in your physical body makes an
immediate radical change and the way
that you feel so what you've got to
learn to do is use this to your
advantage instead of being at the
effective things immediately change your
emotion so right now let me give you a
frame of reference about what I'm saying
I learned a long time ago that if I
really wanted to succeed on an ongoing
basis I probably needed to measure my
level of emotion my level of intensity I
got a lot of this by working with
professional athletes I noticed that
most athletes are really conscious of
and pay attention and managing their
emotions in their state you watch a
tennis player every time before he hits
the ball he bounces the ball the exact
same way the exact same rhythm kind of
anchors himself if you will it triggers
himself back in the state football
players do it differently and they grab
their other buddies heading a lamb lamb
and smack heads with him and they feel
good now baseball players they spit you
know grab their legs and they'll scratch
the ground but they do certain things
every time to get themself in state and
as I started work with professional
athletes people like the Los Angeles
Dodgers or the United States Army or
individual Olympic athletes every one of
them focused on are they ready or not
kind of check in their state but you see
in life I think life is not
black-and-white I look at life as having
many hues and colors and shades so one
day I pull one these guys aside and I
said look it's not are you ready or
you're not let's try a stupid game okay
let's pretend we're going to measure
your level of power and readiness on a
scale from zero to ten zero is you're
dead ten is you're absolutely
unstoppable I said where are you on that
scale I think I said well I'm about
level seven six and a half seven I said
well you're about to bat right now
against Dwight Gooden tell me if you
stay at level seven what's going to
happen you know what's amazing
instantly he could tell me when he
realized where he was he said I'll
either ground out or I'll pop up or I'm
gonna be in a situation where I'm gonna
strike out I said what level do you need
to be out on a scale from zero to ten
to be successful Dwight Gooden he's a
level 12 okay that gives me a frame of
reference so you also need to know where
you need to be to be successful now with
an athlete it's pretty clear if for peak
performance they got to be at level 10
or
if you will on a scale from zero to ten
but is it your life just as important as
an athlete's if you're going to go in
right now and you're going to influence
your son or daughter to do something
like get excited about their schoolwork
how are you going to do that if you're
at level three it's not going to happen
too often I see parents of God just
can't motivate my children I just don't
understand why I taught them about all
the reasons why I should really go for
it but it just doesn't seem to work do
you have any suggestions miss drum I'll
say yeah try talking a little faster for
your children see the way we use our
voice will affect our states they have a
lot here I want to share with you in a
short period of time so I speed up a
little bit how would you feel if I said
well ladies and gentlemen this is day
five and today what we're going to learn
to do is manage our states of mind and
emotion and over the next thirty days of
this program I want you for hours at a
time to listen to my voice
well after you came out of a deep trance
and turned off the tape I doubt very
seriously if we create very much change
I'm not saying it's not appropriate to
talk in a more relaxed way than I am in
this frenzy base that I'm sharing with
you to try and get everything in but
what I am saying is make sure that
you're an appropriate state for what it
is you're trying to accomplish does that
make sense on a scale from zero to ten
where do you need to be to be effective
at a given task if you want somebody
feel loved by you you probably don't
like one thing okay that probably won't
work either so everything is context
related but I'm asking you today to
commit yourself for the next four or
five days even though we're doing other
exercises - looking at what state are
you living in in your life if you want
to look at the state of your life look
at the level of intensity and joy and
passion you're creating where are you
today on a scale from zero to ten
or better yet before you started this
30-day program where were you do you
remember that first day before you got
the tape program or anything else where
were you on a scale from zero to ten you
remember where you were first of all
think about it for a moment
if you would where were you what was
your state like where were you on a
scale from zero to ten now I want you to
think of something where were you after
you finished that first tape on a scale
from zero to ten most people that we
followed up with an interviewed with are
usually at level 8 or above and when
they started out they were in level 6 or
5 or 4 or 3 and so what I want you to do
is do it without me you don't need me to
change your state you need you you need
to move your body differently and need
to pay attention to where you are use
the state that's most appropriate for
where you need to be for the given
situation so let me give you first of
all some specifics about how you could
change your body
I've mentioned a lot of them but let's
be really precise the number one way
that you can change the way you feel at
any moment of time is to change the way
you move the reason is this in fact you
might want to remember this phrase
emotion is created by motion the way you
move your physical body is the fastest
way of changing your motion so for
example if I'm not feeling passionate
and I want to instead of pumping myself
up all I have to do is clap my hands or
move my hands rapidly I make a rapid
gesture not a little minor one where I
just push my hands up a little bit and
then bring it back at a slow pace but I
mean speed acceleration if you will if
you speed up the quality of your
movements you will instantly change your
emotional state and your intensity so
try it right now even while you listen
to me here's what I want you to do take
your hands and put them together this so
that you're touching them almost like in
a praying motion and what I want you to
do when I say now is at the pace I say I
want you to pull them apart and just
gradually pull them out to your sides at
the base that I can't like one two three
four okay and by timing it for you
should be level with your shoulders okay
let's try it your hands are together and
just notice happens how you feel ready 1
2 3 4 having hands back together 1 2 3 4
again 1 2 3 4 again 1 2 3 4 this is
known as a state of absolute boredom
right so let's try something new let's
try moving more rapidly this time so 1 2
3 4
say now I want you to pull your hands
apart and don't limit them to the length
of your shoulders I want you to
literally pull them apart and pull them
out as far as you can like extending
your entire wingspan now be careful on
this look around you before you do this
to make sure you don't hit anything and
let's have some fun do something silly I
know it seems ridiculous but just try it
now if you're driving this is not useful
keep one hand at least find the wheel
and try it with the other one okay here
we go hands are together when I say now
I want you to literally bring them out
explode them out to your sides and
extend your fingers and everything out
as far as and go little what you're
gonna take your hands and make them go
as fast as they can apart all the way
out extend them ready one two three go
hmm and just feel it and bring down
together again enjoy clap okay and then
do it again out as fast you can go hmm
faster you can bring them in and again
out of fast again hmm
again in again out fast move now if you
do this about ten times you will feel
what we call a state change do you feel
it now
now I know this may sound weird a
Mazzara okay Tony what am I supposed to
do create this wings man every time I
need to change state no what I'm saying
is you must learn to develop what I call
power moves what a power move is to me
is finding a certain type of gesture or
a couple of them that no matter how bad
I was feeling or frustrated or tired or
whatever the case may be that I can make
this movement and instantly instantly I
feel strong instantly I feel resourceful
instantly I feel like I could turn
things around you need to develop what
those are and you already have them
because you have times in your life and
you felt great
how are you moving at that time that's
the first clue in fact what I often do
with people's give them a stand up and
walk around the room and notice how
would they walk that they felt totally
successful
I mean unstoppable try it right now oh
you're going while I'm in the car great
you're in the car and you can try this
later on but if you're actually
listening me and you're not in the car
stand up right now and try something
come on come on don't no don't just
listen to me stand up come on come on
come on I'm watching you I'm there you
can know this I want to like to do is
stand up and walk around the room and
what I want you to do is first of all
walk the way you normally walk just you
know walk around in a circle or walk
straight back and forth notice how that
feels come on
you can do it there you go now what I'm
going to do now is make a state change
and I want you to if you would imagine
that you feel absolutely strong and
unstoppable I mean in your power what I
want you to do is just walk around the
room as if you felt unstoppable and
powerful and move your body the way you
would be if you were unstoppable and
powerful go ahead and try it right now
go ahead walk around the room and
actually strut the way you would strut
if you felt unstoppable and powerful
make a gesture to the way you would if
you felt unstoppable and then try go
back the opposite again go to feeling
not confident not sure and walk around
I'm not sure about whether you succeed
making gestures like you're not sure
feel the difference in your body I want
you to get an example of that then back
to confident again make it strong they
say what if I'm listening in the car
I'll be listening in the car all the way
do a sit right now or even if you're
sitting down come back with me right now
sit down what I want you to do is just
notice how you can change your state
from being bored and tired of feeling
energized just by changing your body so
try this first of all sit the way you be
sitting right now if you have five times
more energy than any other time you can
remember come on go for it don't just
listen if you're just gonna listen this
tape and not follow through turn it off
but if you're gonna go for it make
changes then play with me okay sit up in
your chair right now come on sit up the
way you'll be sitting if you have five
times more energy than any other time
breathe right now the way you be
breathing a few puffs strong and excited
and energized put a facial expression on
your face right now I can have a few
felt totally passionate and excited no
it doesn't look like this come on but a
big grin on your face or a big feeling
of energy there you go good and make
sure you gesture that way notice how
this feels now if you don't feel any
change it's because you've not made a
radical enough body change that has
changed your body really major create
more tension more excitement whatever it
takes now go from this state to being in
a state of boredom okay sit the way
you're sitting if you're bored and tired
hatsan just notice how that feels
go ahead really bored and tired you know
then you're sitting there bored and
tired I got a question for you did you
change your body to do it you bet you
did what did you change to get bored and
tired
well did you notice anything happened to
your head did it go down on did you
relaxing the muscles what happened to
your breathing did it change about your
facial expression does your muscles go
slumping or slack now try this get back
to energized as fast you can
oh come on play with me what I want you
to do just for a moment is practice
snapping yourself from being a state of
being bored and tired into a state of
energy it's gonna be very valuable for
you let's try it back to my energized
state come on it's energized you can get
come on sit up in your chair bring with
some energy feeling strong come on even
more energizing before now go to bored
and tired back to energized come on as
fast as you can't snap yourself I know
this looks weird if you're driving in
your car and somebody's looking at the
window but hey it'll make their day
you'll change their state come on
somebody else in the family is watching
they don't have to know what's going on
just go for it here we go total energy
lots of energy and excitement feeling
your body move your body sit the way
you're sitting event even more energy
born and tired energized is faster you
can come on snap back in that state more
than time energized faster again come on
even more even more anymore bored and
tired energized back in that state again
feel and just stay there stay in the
energized state now you might so this
sounds weird finish your question how
valuable is it for you to be able to go
in life in business and your job and
your personal relationships for being
bored and tired and wiped out to being
in a peak State how important would that
be to increasing the quality of your
life say on a scale from zero to ten
I'll tell you I think it's a level 9 or
10 or above I think you'd probably will
too so developing new ways new habits of
moving your body is the single most
powerful way to change state here's
another quick way change your breathing
as I said earlier one of the reasons
people smoke cigarettes is because in
order to smoke a cigarette you change
your breathing pattern rather radically
when people eat food oftentimes they
feel better afterwards because they feel
their stomach up and it changes the way
they feel and the way they breathe
without that food in there things slow
down they feel less stressed
almost every yogic practice that I've
ever studied or noticed
teach us some kind of breathing pattern
as part of how to change your emotions
and the way you can grow spiritually if
you will so changing your breath try
different breaths breathing faster
breathing slower and discover what
breathing
patterns work best for you to create the
changes that you want thirdly learn to
manipulate your face I teach people in
seminars how to do what I call facial
aerobics what that means is is doing
many different expressions as you
possibly can in a short period of time
so that what happens is you really have
access to different emotional states do
you know you have over 80 different
muscles in your face and a slight change
in your facial muscle instantly changes
the way you think in the way you feel
there was a study done at the University
of California at San Francisco when they
took manic depressives and all they did
was change their facial expressions made
them smile an ongoing basis these were
people who were manic-depressives
maramon people normally need drugs that
change the way they feel not one of
those persons while they were able to
keep smiling was able to feel depressed
in fact some of them began to manage
themselves by smiling for 20 minutes at
a time for no reason and pretty soon
they began to feel great and they began
to develop a new habit
do you have habitual facial expressions
of grimacing or frustration will you
crinkle up your nose or your eyelids or
your forehead or something else that you
do in line going basis I'm here to tell
you that those habits create those
negative emotions in your body on the
regular basis you need to develop some
new habits of using your face and
finally one of the ways you can manage
your state best is to control your diet
and I'm not going to teach you a health
seminar here although I do those across
the United States I do want to say this
to you that most of us in life do not
pay attention to what we're putting in
our body and what you're putting in
affects deeply how you feel emotionally
blood sugar for example alone makes a
radical shift in how you feel
emotionally so if you aren't paying
attention to how you're eating and
you're throwing anything you possibly
can in that body without looking at the
consequences you're going to pay an
emotional price many times hyperactive
children or people that are having major
ups and downs in our life it just comes
from some basic simple dietary
approaches if they made a few simple
changes they'd live a much more balanced
emotional life so my challenge to you is
to study health to find out not how to
throw your pendulum and go off on the
deep end on some bizarre diet but how
can you make sure that the way you're
breathing the way you're moving in the
way you're
things is giving you as much as possible
to your life and not taking away not
throwing your life into a pendulum make
sure that you have that physical energy
and drive it comes from having an asleep
and eating well for now though I'm going
to have you focus on one emotional state
because I'd like you to be able to
trigger a state change anytime you want
and that emotion is the one I noticed
passion as you may have picked up I'm a
fairly passionate person and I talked
about that the end of each tape because
I think out of a state of passion you
can create almost anything you want in
your life I think most people life want
passion they want that drive that
attraction to life they want that juice
in their relationships in their business
and their ability to learn but most
people aren't barely making it through
the day you know I mean hey you got to
watch TV fight the traffic home get a
bite to eat
go to bed so you can get up tomorrow and
start the same vicious circle all over
again I mean after all guys gotta work
gotta make your way and stuff after all
I work hard for living can't expect me
to be passionate end of the day easy for
you but come on I work for a living let
me just tell you something I used to
believe that kind of stuff and I used to
feel that way too
am I saying you can't talk slowly and be
passionate absolutely not I can talk
quietly and still have passion coming
through my voice and the way I'm
speaking to you and the way I feel
inside but that's passion this is not
fashion if you want passion you got to
talk like you're passionate you can't
talk like you're bored and feel
passionate it won't work your body will
lead your mind take care of it how can
we use this knowledge simple answer I
want you to do it by doing the following
in a moment at the end of this tape your
only exercise today is to do this I want
you to absolutely whip yourself into a
passionate state and if there's somebody
there I want you to talk to somebody
about something and I want you to do it
two different ways
talk to them about something you believe
in something you're really usually
pretty excited about but do it in a dis
passionate way in other words talked to
a friend and by the way let me just say
this if you're in your car or there's
nobody there
talk to the wall okay talk to the road
it doesn't matter if you're talking
yourself and people driving by
they'll again be entertained so this is
very useful now here's what I want you
to do if while you're doing this I want
you to talk about something and you can
just talk out loud to no one or talk to
someone after their talk about something
you're normally inspired about but talk
and a non inspired way a dispassionate
way what's like you really don't believe
what you're saying that you're just
trying to convince somebody is something
so you say gosh you know what's really
important to me in life is learning to
change people's conditioning and help
them to succeed and I really think that
if you were to study it it would really
change your life too and I want you to
notice what you do when you're
dispassionate notice for example how
you're standing
are you wavering back and forth are you
standing still are you back on your
heels how do you gesture or do you even
gesture when you're dispassionate how to
use your voice what's the volume what's
the tempo what's the tone of your voice
what do you do with your facial
expressions when you're passionate
versus dispassionate pay close attention
and then what I want you to do is and
really go for it for two or three
minutes be totally dispassionate notice
how it feels to be dispassionate and
doubt if you like it too terribly much
then what I want you to do is change
your state completely and I want you to
go the other extreme I want you to talk
to yourself or the wall or your radio or
the crowd or the traffic or your friend
in a totally passionate way where you're
more inspired more excited more
passionate you can ever remember being
an entire life I mean I want you to go
forward a thousand percent and while
you're talking it to whatever it is I
mean go for a hundred cent don't go on
this is stupid no I'll try it halfway do
it all the way or don't do it at all
maybe I can do it at all give this caper
gun to somebody who will follow through
but if you're one of those people then
go for it okay be outrageous push
yourself and then notice how are you
moving differently what are some of the
specific gestures that you give when
you're passionate and where are they now
what's the difference of the quality of
them what's the difference in how you
use your voice what's your volume like
what's your tempo what's your facial
expressions like
again notice the difference when you're
done here's your assignment your
assignments pull out your success
journal and record the difference in
other words what I want you to do is
leave this session today having
knowledge of the buttons in your brain
in other words if I notice that if I
take my right hand and I actually snap
it out in front of me very very fast
that when I'm passionate I tend to do
that making a point and when I'm
dispassionate my hands are below my
waist we're just kind of hanging out
there then the next time I want to be
passionate even if I'm not feeling
passionate I'm gonna snap my hand out
there and immediately it's there if I
notice that when I'm dispassionate I
talk kind of quiet and tired and stuff
but when I'm passionate I speak a little
more rapidly than if I want to get
passionate I just start speaking more
rapidly immediately and pretty soon I
merely feel passionate as well if I
noticed that when I'm dispassionate I'm
back on my heels or leaning away from
somebody but when I'm passionate I'm
leaning into them talking and gesturing
then I start leaning into somebody in
order to feel passionate towards them in
other words find out how your brain
works you are different than me or
anyone else you're going to meet find
exactly what triggers passion within you
in terms of movements and experiment
what will be a kind of move you could
make that immediately would make you
feel strong even if you are afraid a few
moments ago so let me be clear
here's your exercise one talk to
something or someone in a dispassionate
way about something you're normally
inspired about dispassionate or you
don't really believe in a feeling to
change your state and get absolutely
passionate will you feel more excited
more energized more passionate ever
before three dissecting your mind the
difference and how you moved how you
breathe I use your face and I use your
voice and record that in your success
journal and finally today experiment at
some point in the day you don't feel
very inspired or you don't feel anything
in particular snap yourself into a
powerful state or ask yourself where I'm
on a scale from zero to ten if you find
you at level four or five or six to me
that's a pretty boring way to live life
maybe you want to amp yourself up crank
yourself up to level eight or nine just
by changing your movement or maybe you
want to be able to go from being totally
excited to relaxed just by changing your
or your tempo or your gestures because
being able to relax quickly and easily
sometimes and oftentimes as important as
your ability get yourself excited the
only reason I push in the other
direction is I think most people have
the ability get in this state they may
not have the ability given the other one
whatever you're already good at make it
better whatever state you're not good at
getting in practice getting into it
until you can absolutely make the change
you want as fast as you can think it
remember any emotion you're feeling is
based on how you're moving little
movements like breathing in big
movements like gestures and facial
expressions take control today and
experiment and explore how the adventure
of discovering how you can use your body
to immediately direct your mind and your
emotions
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