12 Mind Obstacles, Myths & Traps

The Goal:

• In this module, my goal is to cover a number of mind myths, obstacles & traps so that you don't fall into them.
• As with everything so far, what's true for you is true - my goal is just to give you a workable understanding of the mind.

The Myths, Obstacles & Traps

1. Myth: "I can't change"

I was just born this way - "it's just the "way I am, I've always been this way"

False, you were born an extremely powerful, focused, confident decision making machine - for this example, think of yourself (in your natural, purest, most powerful state) as a perfect calculator.

A perfect calculator takes the data it's given and spits out an answer.

So, a calculator would take 7 X 1 and naturally spit out "7".

Now, multiply 6 X 1... but continue to hold down the "7"

6 X 1 is 6... but the answer you will get is 42

If you continue to hold down the 7 and put other equations into the calculator... they are incorrect - not as equations, but as answers.

If you permanently placed the 7 in a "held down" position and then tried to give away the calculator - nobody would want it - because it's spitting out "crazy answers" - it says 10 X 10 is 700!

But is the calculating ability of the calculator wrong? or is it just being fed the wrong information?

In the same way, when you attempt to solve problems and you're wearing these lenses, you get unsupportive thoughts, feelings and make decisions that aren't the most helpful to you, your family, your friends, career, finances and life.

You're just wearing these negatively charged lenses that have been put there from past experiences. It has nothing to do with your genetics or any part of your body - these are in your mind.

These negatively charged items in the mind that keep these lenses on act as an additional piece of data - or a "held down 7"

So, when we get to the tools, we're going to find and remove all of your "held down 7's" so you can get back to the clear thinking, focused, confident, consistent, powerful, natural you!

2. Trap: Believing Your Own Thoughts

If you're here right now, you most likely have a significant amount of charges in your mind - thus, putting these lenses on.

So, don't fall into the trap of believing every thought you have. In fact, the majority of what you "think" are "thoughts" are merely the words, phrases and pictures of these lenses that are flying around your awareness.

So if you're feeling depressed, angry, frustrated, fearful, doubtful, sad... realize that those thoughts aren't yours. They're projections of these past charged events stored in the mind. That's all.

Truth is balanced, centered, poised and confident. Anything other than that is not you.

So don't believe everything your mind tells you.

3. Myth: Fake it 'Til You Make It

If I just affirm or "condition" myself long enough or "fake it till I make it" I'll become it

If you affirm something long enough, you surely will create a change... unfortunately, it's not the change you're desiring.

Let's go back to the calculator example: Let's say you don't remove the held down 7... and you decide to start aggressively affirming something to yourself (another added piece of data)... you're now essentially not just holding down a 7... but you're holding down a 9... meanwhile still trying to make the calculation of 6 X 1.. and you're getting 378 (6 X 7 X 9)

So you're getting a different answer... but it's still incorrect.

Another way of saying this is - let's say you have an old rickety barn. It's got all kinds of rot and mold in it. Affirming things to yourself over and over that you feel aren't true today is like taking a fresh coat of paint to that old rickety barn. It might appear "better" on the outside, but on the inside, it's crumbling, breaking down.

You don't get rid of rot by painting over it. No matter how many coats of paint you use. It's still rotting at its core - and it's only a matter of time before it crumbles - then you're left with a whole new set of past charged memories - it's a slippery slope.

4. Obstacle: Massive Action Cures All

This is true. Action = Power. But if you're here, you're probably having a tough time remaining consistent or getting yourself to take the massive action you desire.

there are many programs out there that just tell you to "fight forward" and do it. That will "work" in a sense - but in my personal experience, it is almost impossible to grab yourself by the scruff of the neck and slam yourself forward day in and day out. The mind has a sneaky way of stopping you. Then, when you stop yourself, you feel like you let yourself down, storing yet another negatively charged event, making the lens thicker - "holding down another 7"

It is much easier to take massive action when you don't have any thoughts stopping you - when you don't have any "held down 7's" anymore.

In the tools, we're going to release your held down 7's

5. Trap: The Positivity Trap

If I think positive, I'll become positive and my life will be awesome

Truth be told, positivity is a trap.

Yes, if you think positive, you'll become positive...

(show polarity board) But positivity is a polar extreme - and is just as dangerous as extreme negative charge.

Remember, truth, clarity and power is the balance between positive and negative.

If you try to force yourself to "think positive" you will:

• A) have a hard time doing so, because you know you're lying - truth, power, confidence, clarity & poise are balanced
• B) You're putting a super thick coat of paint over the old rickety barn or aggressively forcing yourself to hold down a "9" on the calculator in the hopes that somehow the correct answer pops out.

This is where you get the people that are delusional, lie to you about their success level, you feel weird around them, they always seem to be "weirdly 'up'" - you can't quite put your finger on it, but you just feel something isn't right.

This is where you get the aggressive "YOU MUST THINK POSITIVE" people trying to enforce their beliefs on you - they literally can't confront anything negative and are terrified to be around anyone "negative" because they know they're extremely susceptible to swinging back in that direction. That is not power. That is not confidence. That is another form of fear and self doubt expressed on the opposite side of the spectrum. and it's just as harmful - in fact, it's more harmful because now you're no longer confronting reality - you're lying to yourself - and you know it. So if you're dealing with a fear, anger or self doubt right now, you're much further along in getting rid of it by admitting you have it.

The Danger of Infatuation:

Infatuation: the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion.

Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion.

When someone has an infatuation with "I must be positive" - they can swing super far to that end of the spectrum.

This is the source of compulsion: an irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one's conscious wishes.

If you can't get yourself to stop doing something; drinking, drugs, porn, gambling, harming yourself, harming others, being rude, self sabotage, etc. - there is an infatuation or a fantasy that your mind has stored with a "positive" unbalanced charge.

This is also the source of "rose colored glasses": An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is.

This is a dangerous perception as you can be blinded from the truth about people, situations, circumstances and events - only seeing one side is dangerous.

This is the cause of getting "blind sided" in a relationship that you were so enamored with... you were literally blind to the other side - and when that happens, it doesn't usually go well.

The good news, is there's a tool for balancing out that perception, removing that lens and bringing your awareness back to truth, confidence, poise and focus.

6. Myth: It Takes a Long Time to Make Changes:

it takes years of therapy or conditioning to make lasting changes

No it doesn't, it takes a decision to make lasting changes.

People get sucked into thinking they "need to meditate, go to therapy, recondition themselves over and over and over to think or be a certain way - simply because they didn't make a decision - or "get a clear answer".

The reason they haven't made a clear decision is the "held down 7's" or the "lenses" or the "unbalanced - negatively or positively charged" items in the mind.

The Pooping Example:

For example, for the first 3-4 years of your life, you pooped in your pants. You had data that told you it was the easiest way to get it done.

You had these unconscious ideas of how simple and positive this experience was - and it got "positively" reinforced. Your parents cleaned you up, told you how cute you were, put a new diaper on you and waited until you did it again.

But around the age of 3-4, you were introduced with new data... a toilet. Your parents presented you with new data: it's time to take responsibility and poop in a toilet.

So, they presented you with the drawbacks to pooping in your pants -

• "big boys and girls don't poop their pants"
• "If you want to go to school, you can't poop in your pants"
• "If you want to make mommy proud, you can't poop in your pants"
• "it's messy"
• "it stinks"

and so on...

There was a moment when you were around 3 or 4 that the drawbacks and benefits equaled each other out and you were able to see the clear, logical decision that the toilet was the way to go.

since that moment, you've never gone back - because it's the most logical path.

You haven't had to use affirmations, go to therapy, read books about it, meditate on it, take drugs for it, suppress the urge to do it, pray about it or write goals about it... not once since that decision.

it has been a true, lasting change.

And while that example may seem obvious, it's the exact structure of any lasting, balanced, logical, focused and confident decision.

The tools in this program will walk you through step by step how to balance out the illogical decisions and experiences in your mind with the same truth and clarity as the pooping your pants example.

7. Trap: "That's Not What I Believe"

I can understand that through your current perspective, this new information might cause a contradiction.

This way of thinking is certainly not for everyone.

As I've mentioned, what's true for you is true. Take what works and keep doing it.

If your existing belief system is bringing you the results you want in your life, keep with it - if it's not, and you desire a change, the first thing to change is your mind, your beliefs, your thoughts and how you view the world. That's what this program will do for you.

8. Trap: Thinking You Already Know it All

Knowing a lot is one thing. Getting on your high horse and needing to prove how much you know is another. If you feel as though you "already know all this" and there's nothing more to learn - that belief right there is an imbalanced infatuation with yourself. And... as we've learned, is a dangerous place to be.

Nobody knows everything, definitely including me!

And keep in mind in this program I'm only sharing with you the beliefs and working model that has worked for me in the simplest, most concise form possible.

9. Myth - It's not my mind, its "X"

if I just got my finances, relationship, career or body in order, that's really what I need to be happier - it's not my mind

There are depressed billionaires and joyous fulfilled peasants.

While your finances, relationships, body, career, etc. are important, ultimately, what you're after is the feeling that those conditions will bring you.

The quick answer is, once your mind is in a place of balance, clarity, confidence and power, you will be able to confidently create any conditions you wish for your life.

10. Trap - My situation is different

I get everything you're saying, but this special situation isn't my fault (it's them!)

To the degree you give up responsibility to someone else is the degree which you give up your power.

If you're blaming someone else for your perceived challenges, don't worry - I realize it seems totally logical - and you're not wrong for doing it.

In the next section, there is a tool to neutralize that resentment, remove that lens, remove the "held down 7" and perhaps you'll see it different.

In truth, problems are only solved by taking responsibility for them - and unfortunately, holding beliefs that your situation or circumstance somehow does not conform to the universal laws of truth will only keep you from resolving it.

11. Trap - Unethical Behavior

Bottom line, you can do all the tools, processes, meditations, affirmations, prayers, books and seminars in the world, but nothing will help if you are taking actions in your life that do not serve you or others.

While "right" and "wrong" are only opposite poles of a spectrum of "things", there are optimal conditions for survival.

Basically, if you're doing anything that isn't the greatest good for you, your family, your friends, your associates, humanity and the planet - it's going to come back to bite you.

You may have heard this as "karma"

But what's really happening is - if you KNOW in the core of your being - as much as you might try to suppress it or justify it or "explain it" away... if you're doing something you know you shouldn't be doing, you will find a way to sabotage yourself.

If you're not doing something that you know you should be doing, you'll sabotage yourself.

How you know is - how did you feel after doing that?

If you're honest and this is the big key - IF YOU'RE HONEST, is that activity (or lack of activity) really the greatest good?

If you can honestly answer "yes", great.

If you're questioning it, making excuses for it, and justifying it - explaining it away - most likely, a change should be made.

More importantly, you can go through all the tools and process in this or any other program, but as long as you continue the destructive actions or inactions, it won't matter.

Even if nobody else finds out... you'll know. And, fortunately or unfortunately, that's all it takes for your mind to have a grip on you, keep those lenses on and keep those "7's held down"

So, be honest with yourself - and stop doing the things you know you should stop - and start the things you know you should start.

12. Trap: Two Ways to Get a Result

Keep in mind, there is nothing wrong with meditating, reading, affirming, routines, etc. - there is nothing wrong with taking any kind of action... but there are two ways to do anything... reactively and consciously.

Reactively: driven by the mind...

see, you can go through other mental processes to "condition" yourself to associate so much pain with being poor that you become a billionaire. This is essentially deliberately installing charged events in your mind. And while it might "work" to make money, it's probably going to cause problems in other areas of your life. This is where you get the billionaire who is unhappy and unfulfilled.

You can meditate because you're terrified of what happens if you don't

Consciously: driven by you.

You can build wealth by creating a mission-driven greatest-good-enhancing product or service from a place of purpose, truth, confidence and focus. and if it happens, great, if it doesn't, great.

You can meditate because you're intentionally focusing on an outcome

The truth is, you can get any result by installing charges in your mind to hopefully counterbalance the others... or you can free your charges and restore your own self-determinism, power, confidence and knowingness.

Another way of looking at it is...

if you get drunk (a downer)... you can either

Take cocaine (an upper) to balance it out - you'll need to keep taking it and hope you take the right dose - and cross your fingers...

Remove the alcohol and cocaine altogether (more sustainable)

Clearing charges rather than adding additional charges will always result in more desirable results in your life, more than that, you'll feel good about them. That is the source of truth, power, confidence & the real, powerful you!