The Subconscious Mind

Come join us on today's episode as we dive into the power of the subconscious mind and how what we think & feel creates our reality We will end the chat today with a meditation to bring this feeling to your life. Enjoy!

Transcript

[00:15] Taylor Wilhelm: It. Is everything alright? Alright, here we go. You ready? Ready. Okay. Put my hair. Hey guys. Welcome back to Cosmic Connections. This is episode three. We are so excited and grateful you're here. Thank you for following along with us so far. We're just amazed at the amount of downloads we've had and we appreciate the support so much. So today we are going to be diving into the subconscious mind. First, I want to provide a quick recap of last week. So some things we talked about were that our feelings are not facts and that we can rewrite our story. So remembering that the words that we speak are energy, everything around us is energy. And that there's nothing to do, change or fix to find happiness. You are exactly where you're meant to be. And today's, talk with the subconscious mind is going to help us dive into how to actually create that happiness for ourselves.

[01:31] Justin Grava: Amazing. And yeah, so excited to have everybody back. And it was kind of funny. Me and Taylor like to meet a little bit before this, just talk, catch up. And I was talking about my weekend and some different things that are happening and it was crazy how Taylor listened and then she started laughing. She's like, that is exactly what we're going to talk about today. And she started to talk a little and took a posh. You know what, why don't you come listen to the podcast a little bit today because this is basically what Taylor does and this is what she has a program she takes people through. And so I'm going to do a lot more listening today and be here with all of your listeners as well. And I'm very excited to see what Taylor has to do. So Taylor, I'm going to pass it on over to you and kind of listen.

[02:19] Taylor Wilhelm: Thank you. So yes, I have been working specifically with the subconscious mind for probably the past ten years. And I just recently finished my Hypnotherapy certification, which is all about working with the subconscious mind too. So it is crazy how the subconscious mind is something that we have so much ability to impress upon it and work with it, but it's not something we're really taught about. The more I learned about it, I was frustrated because I couldn't believe this isn't what I was taught in school and nobody had highlighted these things to me yet. I've seen what a profound impact it can have when you truly understand what's going on. So when we talk about the conscious and the subconscious mind, less than 10% of our mind is conscious. So that means that of our brain is subconscious, yet we are not given the direct tools to work with that 90%. Does that just blow your mind?

[03:30] Justin Grava: That's insane. Everyone always heard you don't use all of your brain, you only use 10% of your brain. So that's what they're talking about there, right? Kind of and maybe not even knowing it, but that hidden secret powers of your mind.

[03:45] Taylor Wilhelm: Yes. So the conscious mind is that part that's less than 10%. That is what you're currently thinking about. That is the objective mind. So it's our shortterm memory. We can only really have one thought at a time in that space. And this is the part of our mind that you can think about, is always observing and categorizing the information coming in. So a thought comes in and it categorizes and observes it. And then we process the next thought because it can only hold space for one thought at a time. While the subconscious mind is going to be our patterns, our beliefs, our memories, our skills, it's our internal guidance system. It's that feeling that you might have about something that ping, but you're like, I don't know why I'm feeling called to this, or I don't know why I like this or want this. Anything here that's seen or done in your life is stored here. And that's why in a later episode, we're going to talk about traumas. But this is a great way to start understanding why traumas stay with us, because anything we see or do is stored in this area, whether or not we're actively thinking about it. Okay. By the time someone is 35 years old, their brain is pretty much programmed unless they are actively working on working with the mind. Does that make sense?

[05:23] Justin Grava: Right. So if they're just letting it go into their life, if they're not actively focusing on training aspects of natural programming from their environment and being like their parents and friends and where they live and all those things kind of have impressed themselves into the subconscious, whether they.

[05:40] Taylor Wilhelm: Know it or not. Exactly. So it's like the concept of what you're saying is don't let your environment create how you think and feel. And usually by the time someone's 35, their environment is creating how they think and feel. And I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this because last week we talked about this. This is that feedback loop of people waking up. Feet hit the ground, they look in the mirror, they brush their teeth, they think about their boss that they hate, they go to work and they feel those same exact feelings. So that's what we're talking about when we say, don't let the environment create how you think and feel. We must be like, defined by a vision of our future. And I believe we can do all of that through working with our subconscious mind.

[06:29] Justin Grava: Wow. Yeah. I just believe in one thing. I remember hearing from some class during school, and I think it was psychology class, they were talking about how the way your brain works. Like you said, with the conscious mind, the 10% is all those things are getting stored in your unconscious, your memories, what you see, what you experience, all these things and so it's basically like a big database in your conscious mind. When you run into a situation, it basically goes and does a quick pull of here's the different things that we know, here's our base belief system. And then it just quickly tries to come up with solutions and answers or thoughts for that problem. But what I found is when it starts to get backtracked is it doesn't know what's right or wrong and it doesn't even understand most of like it doesn't see the full picture. It sees like a little narrow lens of that database and it just makes assumptions for you, which is why, quote unquote, they're not always true. So going in and diving in, like, what is your subconscious mind telling your conscious mind to do? What are you trying to do?

[07:38] Taylor Wilhelm: Listening. Right? And that's where the tools we've been talking about to listen and to hear that internal guidance system, we have to do those self care activities such as walking, meditations, meditating, moving our body with intention, anything that brings us back into the body so we can feel the internal guidance system. And this next sentence changed my life. And it's that it's kind of what Justin was just saying and the fact that our subconscious mind cannot take a joke, so anything it hears is an absolute. And this was game changer to me to bring awareness to what I was speaking, thinking and feeling because all of that is energy and vibration. So it's always in that cycle of attraction, you know, putting out the energy we want to receive in this circle. And so when we think about the fact if our subconscious mind cannot take a joke, this is going to kind of lead me into my talk today. And that's that say that Justin and I are on a walk and he says to me, Taylor, let's go to Hawaii. And I turn to him and say, Justin, I can't afford to go to Hawaii right then and there, my subconscious mind said, okay, yep, can't afford it, check. But if I reframe it and I say, oh, my gosh, Justin, I love Hawaii. I can't afford it this month, but I think in two months we should be good to go, my subconscious says, alright, boom. And whether or not I want to acknowledge it, that agreement to say in a few months it started generating wealth, just because I put that thought out there of I'm going to be able to do this, is that helpful to think about? Like it cannot take a joke, so be careful as we speak, right?

[09:25] Justin Grava: No. And I think even I noticed that as I started to do my own little journey and reflecting on the book. One of the things that I always did was in any situation. Even if I played really well. But I had three bad plays or one little small thing bad happened. I would tell myself. Wow. I'm so bad or wow. I can't do this. Or things of that nature. And it would just make it worse and worse. Or a big reason when I was playing football that I found if I knew who I was going against as an opponent. Somebody specific. I would be thinking about. Man. Can I do it? Am I better than them? Can I beat them? I don't know if I'm able to do that. And then I would play slow play timid. But in games where I didn't know somebody and I went in as that feeling, I'm going to win, like, nobody can stop me. Nobody can do this. Right? I played at such a better level and I did so much better. And it was almost like that selftalk of I was setting basically the end goal just by the way I was talking to myself.

[10:26] Taylor Wilhelm: Whether it was that internal energy that you were cultivating.

[10:30] Justin Grava: Correct. Oh, wow. Okay. So I never heard it from an energy perspective. It made sense to me when I looked back. But to hear it from this energy terms and how that actually affects everything that you do and around you.

[10:45] Taylor Wilhelm: This literally is exactly what we're talking about next. This is so crazy. Okay, so what I want to explain is that we cannot wait for that thing to change how we feel. We have to create the feeling. So when I'm going to talk about something I'm in it called the known zone and the unknown zone. But I have learned through studying a lot of just neural pathways and studying some physicians that talk about neural pathways constantly, it makes so much sense. So basically, whenever our body in our mind, we have to think of these like two separate entities. So even though we are one person, but basically, if I want to make an actual change, right, if I've been in that feedback loop and I'm used to doing something, what a lot of people don't realize is that our body gets addicted to the things and the hormones that we have. So, for example, if I'm in that feedback loop and say that, I tell myself I really want to make a change in my job. Yet every morning when I wake up at 08:00 in the morning, the first thing I do is grab my cell phone. And when I grab my cell phone and I get on Instagram, I start comparing myself to everyone else and I start scrolling. And the energy of my day starts right there. But it's the day that you wake up at 08:00 a.m. And you say, bobby, you're going to sit today and you're going to meditate for ten minutes instead of grab that phone and look at Instagram. Because the second that you grab the phone and use Instagram, our body is addicted to the stress hormones of whatever it is we're doing that stresses us out. Maybe for you, it isn't getting on social media. I'm just using that as an example. But our body craves that maybe for you at 10:00 A.m., you know, you hop on your work page and you look at everybody's comments, whatever it is, you do that's in that feedback loop for your neural pathway at that time each day, your body is going to start knocking and say, it's time for instagram, it's time to get your dose of those hormones that get released. When I look at this. And so, believe it or not, the body gets addicted to our stress patterns, to these negative things because the subconscious doesn't know the difference between right wrong. I mean, we have a moral conscious, but like if I'm doing that every day, the body's just going to say, the body is going to control you, not the subconscious mind. You're going to be like, oop, it's time for me. You pick it up and you do it. So it's the day that you rip that neural pathway, you shake it up and you sit and you meditate and maybe your mind is going all over the place. That's normal. But still you have the control with your mind to say, nobody, you're not creating the future today. You're gonna sit here and create a new neural pathway so that I can break out of this. And that's only going to be one day. So, you know, if you've been doing that for 35 years, it's going to take a while to break it. But each day that you force the body to sit down and do it, you are creating imagine like nerves, right? We've all seen a brain. You're creating a little bit more of that climbing nerve system that's moving in a different direction. But over each day it's going to grow a little bit more. And to overcome that old network, it's going to take a lot of mental strength. And so your body can either be a condition of the past, taking you exactly back to where you were, or you can use the present moment to go and create the future you want. And by taking that simple step right, there no body today. You're going to sit, you just started climbing that staircase to your future. So I know that's a lot, but that's kind of how I think of like, changing habits and moving into this pattern of using the subconscious mind to our advantage, right?

[14:33] Justin Grava: Wow, it's really cool to hear it from this different perspective, different, you know, seen it from an energy and almost like that frequency step away. I almost when I was working on my stuff that I big thing for me, same idea. There was certain I'm going to call them like habits that I would do, whereas I would wake up in the morning and come in and play Xbox for 30 minutes before I start the day. Or I would come in and like you said, read those social media for 30 minutes. And so it was, like, dictating how the rest of my day went, if I'm feeling all great and ready for the day. And then I read something in social media, and that makes me doubt myself the whole day. I'm doubting stuff of that nature, but I think the simple sentence kind of sums it up. It's almost like, shift your habits. Like, change your habits to shift your.

[15:22] Taylor Wilhelm: Behaviors and sit through that painful part of just like we said, when you sit down and meditate, your body and your mind are going to be like, I hate this. I want to grab my phone. This is awful. But it's the power to say, no. I'm creating that neural pathway. I'm going to sit here until that timer goes off. Then you've overcame your body.

[15:42] Justin Grava: Yeah, it's a small little like a goal. It's a win. You're showing not only yourself, but also your subconsciously. You are in control. You're not controlled by certain emotions or I just do whatever I'm feeling at that moment. Like, you're not just being dragged around. You know, you're in active control, and you're like, I'm going to wake up and do this. I'm going to start with this. I'm going to wait for ten minutes until I get up. You're setting that in stone and doing it, and it's proving to yourself, like, oh, my gosh, I can do this. I am in control. I don't need that thing.

[16:18] Taylor Wilhelm: You're causing an effect instead of living as the victim. So with these stress hormones that we're all addicted to, it's normal. Nothing is wrong with you. If you're like, I feel this. We all do. It's part of the human experience. But start to notice how you speak, because most people, if you ask them, hey, what made you this way? They'll say, oh, when I was seven, this thing happened to me and X-Y-Z. And I'm not saying that that thing didn't happen, but each time we tell that story to someone new, we recreate it in our mind. We relive those stress hormones, and it gets even harder to change because we're not rewriting the story. We're confirming an old story over and over and over. So I say, you know, switch to the creator. Switch to that person. That my thinking and my feeling is changing an outcome. And remember, that the way that I think and feel predicts my future. So let's cause and effect. So, for example, like I said earlier, if you start to feel wealth by saying, yes, I can go to Hawaii in two months, you start to generate it. So when you feel it, that is the cause, and the effect is that you will now begin to generate that.

[17:44] Justin Grava: When you say generate wealth, right. And when you think it causes this, because I think this was something that was confusing to me in the beginning. So what exactly do you mean by causing wealth? How will sinking it kind of lead into that occurring.

[18:02] Taylor Wilhelm: Okay, so great question. Basically, like we were saying, the speaking in absolutes, if you ask me to go to Hawaii and I say, I can't afford that, my subconscious, who does not take a joke, it says, yes, never going. Because I just said that. It doesn't know that that's a negative thing. It just knows that as a fact, right? It takes everything as a fact. And so if you say to me, Hawaii, and I say, oh my gosh, in two months, I think I'll be able to afford it. The second that I even put that out to the universe, that energy, that belief, that feeling of in two months, that's the cause right there, the energy went out that, OOH, I can afford this. So the effect would be that somewhere in my life, I don't get to necessarily know wealth is being generated because I'm starting to work with that flow state of what I want, which puts me in a high desire, high vibration, I want to go to Hawaii. So then if I can stay in that high vibration, and that's going to be generating the wealth that's going to come for me to go to Hawaii.

[19:13] Justin Grava: And so I think one of the things that I've been kind of experiencing is when you say, like, the wealth will be generated for you, it doesn't always mean someone just going to walk up and give you $10,000 to get you to Hawaii. It leads to opportunities and new ways for you to use that new willpower of, I'm going to do this, and start to actively become, like you said, the creator. You're creating things to generate this new wealth with the opportunities that are being presented instead of just consuming. And this is what is the way it is. This is what's going to happen. I am a product of my environment.

[19:52] Taylor Wilhelm: Yeah. So, like, be greater than your environment and stop being addicted to the stress that people and things cause you. And when you choose the things that you want, you're going to be in a higher vibration, therefore, you're going to be able to attract that. And it's that whole idea that I was talking to you before about releasing. So say to the universe, I want to go to Hawaii, and then release it. Don't obsess over how you're going to get there. Don't wonder where the money is going to come from. Just have faith that it will come. And then you'll be amazed. Maybe somebody gets you a gift, or maybe you get a raise at work, or maybe you get a cash back you didn't know you were getting. That's happened to me all the time. I'll get, like, a return check from something that I'm like, oh, I didn't even know. And I'm always like, wow, like, you know, it's after I've asked for something. And so release attachment to the way it comes. Just know the second you truly say it and believe it. Yeah. In two months, I think we'll be able to go then. Just know it's going to come to you, but you just have to accept whatever form that is. We don't get to know the process and the why. Right. That's the faith piece.

[21:00] Justin Grava: Right, okay. And I think that's something I'm definitely having to struggle sometimes. I believe it, and I think it's going to happen, and then I try to plan out every single step, and here's, I'm going to do this, and then I'm going to do this, and then I'm going to make this button. I'm going to start here and go I mean, what do I always do?

[21:16] Taylor Wilhelm: I'm always like, hey, let's just back this up. Let's remember we're going to get there when we're supposed to. I kind of just help you remember. Like, there's no rush or pressure. We've just been created to think that there's these deadlines and these rigid things that and what's so sad about that is that causes the anxiety that we continue to live in the subconscious mind. And so even though anxiety is something that I struggle with anxiety a lot, I mean, I think it's a normal emotion to experience, but to settle it down is remembering that the body is no longer the mind. So we're getting rid of that old programming by saying, I am a little anxious to sit here for ten minutes, but I'm going to breathe. I'm going to put my hand on my heart and remember that it's okay to sit here and feel anxious for ten minutes. And over time, the more we sit and we train the body, we get rid of that old programming, the anxiety slowly starts to subside. And I don't believe that the anxiety of sitting is actually anxiety sometimes for people. I think it's just in society, we are so busy and so stimulated that I think it's just the minds like, whoa, what is this? What is this stillness? I'm always so alerted. This is so weird to just be here. It's like a space that we don't visit 100%.

[22:40] Justin Grava: And I can't remember where I saw this what video, but someone described it as basically social media and TV and ads and everything going the human evolution. You had the fight or flight response, which is if a lion's chasing you or you're whipping down a river, because, like, from the olden days, it was all about living and surviving. But now, today, with all the different notifications and different things constantly blaring at you, humans spend almost 90% of their time awake in a fight or flight response. And what that does, and that gives endorphins, helps you go faster, do these things, but constantly, it just wears on your inside of you, on different organs, like you're shaking, you're constantly overwhelmed. Causes stress. Yeah, exactly. And your body is like, oh, my gosh, I can't handle this. And that's why at the end of the day, you're so exhausted. And so, like, as Ted was saying, I think and I've really started to do it, is like waking up and not opening, getting your phone and taking those ten minutes to sit with yourself and your thoughts. I don't think it's anxiety or feeling. I think it's the as Taylor told me, think about things you were struggling with the last day or the day before. Think about them, be with them, understand them, and then let them go. And it's almost like that energy that was like a negative, like whatever, it's just kind of like releasing and you just feel yourself relaxing down. I'm not getting goosebumps talking about this.

[24:08] Taylor Wilhelm: Yes, you literally arrive. Seriously, like, you arrive and you're like, oh. And over time you're like, wow, I'm in my authentic nature right now. My pure essence of just being a soul here who deserves good things. And it's like you strip away those roles, ego, attachments, things that these agreements we make, and you just arrive and you soften into your own soul. And it's like you go into the day with so much more kindness, such a better energy, and maybe next week we could even tell everyone. Kind of that little morning routine that I love. Do you find that it's been helpful? Have you tried it yet?

[24:51] Justin Grava: Yes, and I think that's a brilliant I think that morning routine, that first start is everything. Because if you lay in bed for two more hours and sit there and wallow in your thoughts. Checking social media. By the time you get up and get to know if you're working from home to my computer. I mean. I'm already like. I'm behind. I need to get this done. I need to get this done. I need to get this I'm overwhelmed from work so that I don't do anything well. And I'm just sitting there like all stressed out. But those days when I do the routine and I clear my thoughts and I feel calm and I get out of the shower, drink my water, and then when I sit down, it's just like, all right, well, what can we get done today? And it's just this mellow, like you said, flow to just kind of flowing. And I just start getting things done and random little notes will pop up that help me with this. And it's just it sets everything's tone. I feel like a lot of people, when they wake up, there like I'm not a morning person and they're in a fog and they feel low energy. Right? That's not how you feel in the morning. For me, I love mornings because it feels like someone on the Energizer Bunny. For those 1st 4 hours, I could knock out everything for my whole day and the next day and just like roll and just get in this state and it takes so much pressure off you and it gets you out of being stuck. That's really an idea.

[26:10] Taylor Wilhelm: And I like that. The morning routine I've created, I spent years trying to figure out one because I honestly have to try to be a morning person. I like the benefits of morning, but it doesn't come naturally for me. And so I've created this routine that can take you anywhere from ten minutes to an hour. My favorite mornings are when I have an hour, but I know if I'm in a rush or if I woke up late or if I need a little more sleep, I can do it in ten minutes and still get that energetic reset for the day. And I know that it can be challenging at first to understand this, but meditation is such a great tool because you disconnect from the outer environment. You disconnect from all those things going on, and you have a time to go within and teach the body to feel emotionally what you want the future to feel like. And I want you to just really hear this. This changed my life. During meditation, teach the body to feel emotionally what you want the future to be like, because this is the key. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between an experience actually happening and cultivating that feeling like it happened in the body. So every morning you can cultivate the energy of I'm going to use you. For example, justin. Justin and I are we're doing this cool project. He's starting a really cool community that will be announced at some point. But if he wakes up every day and in meditation, he can create the feeling that he's already created it. He's already quit his corporate job, and he is just living his life that he's designing right now every day. If he just creates that feeling like he already has it, that will come into his life so much faster. And so it's already teach the body to feel emotionally what you want your future to feel like, cultivate that feeling within. Does that make sense?

[28:14] Justin Grava: Yeah, no, I think it absolutely makes sense, and you're right. I feel like for a long time with me, I wanted it really bad to happen. And then I would try to plan everything out. And some days I would wake up, see a thing from social media, and it would trigger a thought, and then I would go change a bunch of stuff, and I would get all overwhelmed. And it was like, I have to have this perfect thing, process, perfect time, and right. I was trying so hard to force things and putting, like, massive amounts of stress on myself every day, and then you can't even live. And then I was almost, like, blocking anything from happening, and I would see a message or see something. It's like, wow, if I emailed this person like this, something really cool could happen. But then I'd be like, well, no, wait, I. Need to finish this first. I'm not ready. I need to get right. And I was just like the universe was like, hey, here's what you want. Let's make it happen. Okay? You want to sit and do the same thing you've always done for the past two years? Okay? Sounds good.

[29:12] Taylor Wilhelm: Always listening.

[29:14] Justin Grava: Sounds good.

[29:17] Taylor Wilhelm: The last thing I want to talk about today is going to kind of just sum up everything with this analogy. So think about a circle, and it's a small circle, and this is called the known zone. And then a circle outside of that is the unknown zone. And then a circle outside of that would be the overwhelm zone. So I'm going to use that same example I've been using. So for me, this is true. I don't know why. My subconscious mind has always told me that I am supposed to live in Hawaii. And every time I feel this call, like a vacation, there probably seven times. And each time I'm there, I just feel this feeling in my bones like I'm supposed to live here. And each time I get back to where I live and I go through this sadness phase of breaking up with this idea because something in my subconscious is pulling me to Hawaii. But inside my known circle would be North Carolina, and then in the unknown circle would be the idea of Hawaii. And the overwhelming circle would be me just jumping and moving to Hawaii with no plan. And so something inside is knocking, right? Imagine I have this little thing knocking, and it says, Hawaii. You are meant to be in Hawaii. Listen to this call, check it out, explore it. And when I get that call, I either do one or two things. I suppress it or I listen to it. And suppressing it would be my grain and my conditioning saying to me, how are you going to make money in Hawaii? Where are you going to live in Hawaii? What is your family going to think when you move to Hawaii? That's crazy. You're crazy. And I either make a choice when my brain starts telling me these things, what do you think my body does? It starts feeling anxious. The second that I'm like, how would you do this? What would that look like? You're almost attacked. The body goes into that stress response, and it stays exactly where it is because the body is a condition of the past. So then I stay here in North Carolina, and I never go because my body puts me in a state of stress and reminds me, no, no, that's too scary. Stay here. But if I use the present moment to sit down for a moment and meditate and say, okay, what are my baby steps to move into the unknown zone without coming into the overwhelmed warming zone? Oh, okay. Well, right now in the present moment, I could maybe just get online and look for some apartments. Maybe I could see what CrossFit gyms are there, what yoga studios are there. And just by looking at that stuff and exploring it, I'm inviting the idea into my subconscious, right? And maybe I start to feel excited. So I'm using the present moment to cultivate excitement. OOH, maybe oh, there are gyms. Okay, maybe I could live here. Okay, there are yoga studios. Oh my gosh, there's so many apartments. So I just gently tip my toe out of the known zone and I'm saying and then I start to feel that excitement. So then the next time I meditate, maybe for five breaths, I think about what would it feel like to live in Hawaii and be doing that. And the more that I feel that, the more I'm going to call that into my life. And so using this as a way to just think, you don't have to dive into the overwhelmed zone, but listen to those internal calls. They're telling you something. I don't know why I'm supposed to live in Hawaii, but that being said, the way life works is insane. Because I have a friend in Hawaii and they invited me this year to I hadn't told them any of this. They were like, hey, you should choose a month and come visit in Hawaii. And I'm like, alright. And this is the first year that I already have my ticket. I'm going to be in Hawaii for 31 days in September and I'm so excited. But it's been a process, a strategy. And I hope if you take anything away today, it's just that we are the creators. So you seriously, if you can feel it, you can generate it and you can cause it. Listen, listen to that internal voice. Because the more that you suppress it, the more that becomes your programming and the more you're going to live in that space of always feeling like you were supposed to be doing something else. And it just that's not a way to raise the vibration, right?

[33:54] Justin Grava: And as you said, I think it keeps saying meditation. And it's been the biggest thing for me as I've been kind of going through this and growing. And the big reasoning is you're learning to control your thoughts and to say like, I'm here, I'm in the moment, I'm not just letting my brain fly away in 100 different times. You're like, I'm right here. And so you quiet those thoughts and you just walk around in a state of calm and quiet. And then when those little nudges from yourself or certain little thought comes up that aligns with something perfect, right? It's not one of a thousand things going through your mind. You're like, Whoa, what is that? I don't know why I thought about that. And then those are the little steps that lead to you getting to Hawaii, right? But if you're having social media tell you why you can't do it and all this stuff bad going on and all your thoughts are racing constantly throughout the day. You're never going to hear them, or if you do, you're just going to shake and you're like, oh, that's a cool idea. And then two minutes later, 2 seconds later, you're onto something else, right? And it's just you just sit in that wheel, that hamster wheel, just running in circles, doing the same thing, hoping to get to a different destination.

[35:03] Taylor Wilhelm: Yes, I would love today. I know we're a little bit over a 30 minutes mark, but if you have time, I would love to guide us through, like, just a quick little meditation to try to explain how to cultivate that energy. What do you think?

[35:20] Justin Grava: I think it's great. And if people are available, they can definitely do it. Or if not, I took some good stuff with them today. So let's do it. I'm ready to join.

[35:29] Taylor Wilhelm: All right, so wherever you're at, try to extend if you're driving, please pull over. Try to extend the crown of your head towards the sky so we have a nice straight spine to get some air flow through the body. And let's take a nice huge breath in through the nose, exhale through the mouth. All right, we're going to start to bring the breath in and out the nostrils. So I invite you to bring both hands to the heart and start to take the air in, sending it all the way down to the root, to the base of where you're sitting, and then slowly through the nose, start to exhale, feeling the chest rise and fall. So often we are asked to come into the moment during meditation. But first today, I want to invite you to let those thoughts pour in. Don't resist anything that's coming to you. Just watch them. Maybe you're thinking about your day. What are you doing in your day? Can you maybe walk yourself through a play by play of what you're going to do the rest of the day? What are you feeling? What are you wearing? Who are you talking to? Where are you driving to? And start to notice how quickly the mind can create this play by play of your day. Noticing the hands on the heart, I would love you to pause and ask yourself, what feeling do you need to have today to have the most incredible day? Maybe take the first two words that come to your mind. What feeling do you want to have today so that you have the most amazing day? What would it feel like to have this incredible day? And now, as you think about yourself, not just your day to day, right now we're having our incredible day. Think about what do you look like while you're having this incredible day? What emotion are you embodying? How are you coming off to others as you interact with them? What energy do they feel from you when you imagine yourself having an incredible day? Are you jamming out in your car? You just have good vibes? Are you eating healthy? How does it feel to be living that best version of self? Maybe you're smiling a little bit because you're just seeing that future. You crushing it. And on the next inhale, I want you to inhale this feeling for yourself and then exhale feed the ceiling to everyone else that you come in contact with today. When you open your eyes, I invite you to bring this feeling with you into the day. What feeling did you cultivate, Justin?

[39:25] Justin Grava: It was like the calm and happy feeling of like, feeling. It was the feeling that I'm where I need to be and then also excitement about, I got a few things done and now I'm here and just like, laughing, listening to music, it was this calm, I'm not worried about the future feeling, while also excited about what I'm working on for my future.

[39:50] Taylor Wilhelm: Did you bring the feeling with you when you opened your eyes?

[39:54] Justin Grava: Yeah, I'm still smiling. Honestly, it's cool to watch a video here this, but to actually experience it and then as I'm listening, feeling that just happiness. And felt myself shifting and opened my eyes and I was smiling. Wow.

[40:14] Taylor Wilhelm: Yes. So guys, you can do this anywhere, anytime, even if, you know, just ask yourself, can I generate that feeling of my future self? And by doing that, you're on the right track. I'm going to try to release the meditation on this topic on my Insight timer. So I will put that on the to do list and I hope that everyone learn something about the subconscious mind today. And then I guess next week we'll dive in with that morning routine and how to start generating your day so that you can create the life you desire.

[40:48] Justin Grava: Amazing. Well, it's been incredible and I'm so excited to get going on this morning routine. It's truly amazing and I can't wait to see how everybody starts to take what you've been teaching us and really start to take those steps towards building that life you want and living that life you want today.

[41:09] Taylor Wilhelm: Yes, do it today. Let us know what you try. And we're just so grateful for you guys. So have an amazing, amazing day today.

[41:17] Justin Grava: All right? We'll talk to you guys next week and be like, check in at like two weeks or three weeks with a Taylor on her program.

[41:28] Taylor Wilhelm: Yay.

[41:29] Justin Grava: We're already looking like a different person, so it's going to be yeah.

[41:33] Taylor Wilhelm: Thank you so much.

[41:34] Justin Grava: Yeah, 100%. Alright, sounds good.

[41:39] Taylor Wilhelm: Bye bye for me.