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Chapter 1: What is the one habit to reset your mindset?
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And if you're listening to this podcast, you're here because you probably know, you have an idea that if you gain more control over your mindset, your life will be better in many different ways. You probably understand that everything comes from your mindset.
Chapter 2: Why is mindset crucial for personal growth?
What you think of yourself, what you think of the world, what you think of other people, what you think is possible for yourself, if you have some sort of fears, if you have limiting beliefs, all of those things come from your mindset.
And the better that your mindset is, the better your entire life will be, the better your relationships will be, the more happiness, joy, success, money you'll make, all of those things, right? Well, when I first started in self-development, it was all about how can I add more? How can I become better? How can I become smarter?
How can I learn the next tip or trick to get myself out of this place or to get better? And so I was like, I'm going to get better. I'm trying to get smarter. And it was like adding more all of the time. These tips and these tricks and these psychological things to master my mind. But there's one habit that I believe has the power to transform your life at its core.
Chapter 3: How can self-inquiry transform your life?
And it doesn't happen to be a productivity trick. It's not a morning routine. It's not a discipline hack. It's not a how to create habits in your life. It's this one small thought process that shifts your entire internal framework. And it is this habit of self-inquiry. It is the ability to turn inward and question yourself.
It's to look at yourself in the mirror, whether that's physically or just mentally, and to question yourself, to question your assumptions, to question your beliefs, and to dismantle all of the subconscious patterns that are shaping your reality. Because what it does is it shapes your perspective, and from that perspective, it creates your reality and what you see of reality.
It is this observation... of looking at what's going on in your mind and seeing what's going on in your mind, seeing what you're saying to yourself, seeing how you're labeling the world, how you're labeling certain people and labeling certain instances, and then questioning everything. Like what's actually going on here? What is the reason? Why do I really feel this way?
Is this truly what I believe? Or is this something I learned from somebody else? Is this my truth? Or did somebody teach this to me at some point in time in my childhood? It's this ability to really take a step back and observe yourself and question yourself without judgment, without guilt, without shame, but to just sit there and look at yourself with true curiosity more than anything else.
Now, why is self-inquiry the key to basically everything in this case? Because most people live their life just reacting.
We've all done it, where we basically come into this world with all of the hardware that we need, the brain, the body, and then all of this software is downloaded from people that we know, from our parents, from observing the world, from observing other people, all of this software. gets downloaded. And it's not on purpose. It just kind of gets downloaded from who we hang out with.
There's nature, there's nurture, all of that. And we just start reacting to the world based off of our software. And everybody else has different software than us. And what do we do? We just react to life based off of our software, based off of our old thoughts, based off of our old habits, based off of our old self-limiting beliefs or fears.
And a lot of times what we do until hopefully we wake up at some point in time is we live life without realizing that we've been running on autopilot. We've just been acting out a set of scripts that we never actually consciously wrote for ourselves. And you know, you've heard me talk about it before. All of these scripts that we're just playing out come from our childhood.
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Chapter 4: What role does childhood play in shaping our mindset?
All of the experiences that we've had along the way. Our cultural conditioning. Our unresolved emotions and traumas. Things that your parents said to you. Things that your teacher might have said to you in fourth grade after you messed up on something. And just millions of little teeny tiny moments. A lot of times people are like, well, I want to go back to the moment where all this started.
Sometimes you developed a habit, you developed a perspective, you developed a fear off of a moment that you don't even recall. It could have just been a little tiny moment that just shifted your life completely. And this affects everything in your life. And I mean everything in your life.
From the way that you respond to criticism, to the way that you handle relationships, to the way that you talk to people, the way that you think about people, the way you react to other people. It has to do with your fears. It has to do with your ambitions.
Why you react a certain way to something when another person could have the exact same thing happen to them and they react completely different. All of these come from this deeper subconscious context that people rarely explore. And that's what I want to talk about with you today.
Self-inquiry is the habit of stepping outside of yourself, outside of this automatic reactive way of being and asking yourself questions. What's really going on here? What belief is driving this reaction in me? When did I learn this? Do I want to continue with this? Do I want to continue to believe this? Or do I want to believe something different? And here's the key to it.
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Chapter 5: How can self-inquiry help dissolve limiting beliefs?
When you practice self-inquiry consistently, it dissolves your limiting beliefs. It dissolves your fears. It dissolves your reactions, your unconscious programs. And so many people are like, give me the tip or trick. What is the thing that I need to do when I'm in fear or when I'm overthinking or when I'm in my limiting beliefs? as if there's like a shortcut to doing it. There is no shortcut.
When you find yourself there, that's what you need to do is bring in self-inquiry and start getting curious. It is the first step to reclaiming your personal power. And so to develop this habit of self-inquiry, you must train yourself to pause before reacting. To pause before reacting. I was running a call yesterday on my year-long coaching group called Mindset University.
And one of the questions that was asked by a lady, and she was asking a question, and she was talking about how something happened in her life and how she was triggered by it and how she reacted. And all of her... words, I had to pause and say, hey, can I just give you just honest reflection?
All of the words that you're using are making it sound like you're a victim, as if you have no control over your reaction. Oh, well, I couldn't do anything about it. I can't control myself. And I was like, are you telling me 100% there is absolutely no way you can control yourself? And she's like, well, no, but it's really hard to. I'm like, okay, well, cool. Perfect.
First thing that we need to do is admit that it's not 100% impossible to control your reaction. Because if you're saying it's impossible, that's not making you a victim. And if you're a victim, you can't change anything. In order for you to change it, you have to take ownership and say, I am the person that's able to do it.
And so it was acting as if there was no moment for her to be able to pause and to take ownership of it. And as we started talking about it, she's like, yeah, well, there was a moment where I was feeling myself getting ramped up before I got triggered and then I blew up. And so it's this ability where we must train ourselves to pause before reacting instead of being like, I can't control it.
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Chapter 6: What are the steps to practice self-inquiry effectively?
Because if you say I can't control it, then there's nothing you can do about it. But we all know that if your entire family's life was on the line and you had to not react to something, you wouldn't react. Or if the person that you're idle, that you look up to the most was in the room with you, you probably wouldn't react the exact same way.
So instead of blindly following our first emotional response, we pause before reacting and we take a step back and we observe ourselves and we start asking questions and getting really curious, right? Don't shame yourself or guilt yourself or beat yourself up, but just take a step back and act like you're watching somebody that you don't know and just be like, huh, Why is that person doing that?
Why is that person acting this way? And so it involves basically three stages, okay? The first one is recognizing the trigger, the thing that triggers you. The first step is to notice when you're emotionally charged. Before you blow up or before you cry or before whatever it is, you can start to feel your body change. Triggers can appear in anger, in anxiety, in sadness, in defensiveness, in rage.
Any reaction or emotion, and this is good or bad too, like you can use this for good. You know, if you get really happy about something, what made me so happy? Why did it make me so happy? Can I bring more of that into my life? So any reaction, good or bad, anytime you feel an intense emotional response, it's an opportunity to notice it. And it's an opportunity to learn about yourself.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show. And so that's the first thing is to just notice the thing that's triggering you. The second thing is to just become curious. So instead of getting lost in your story and getting lost in habit, you want to ask yourself some questions to kind of distance yourself from the thoughts.
What's the belief that's being activated or what's the fear that's being activated? Have I ever felt this way before? Where did it come from? Is this thought or belief universally true? Like if someone feels like they're not good enough, is it absolute truth that I'm not good enough? It never is. What assumptions am I making about this whole situation?
Oh, well, she acted this way, so that must mean that this is what she was thinking. What assumptions am I making about a situation? What emotion is beneath all of this initial reaction? What's the opposite of what I believe to be true? Is it true that that opposite could also be true? Because if it is, then that makes my thing not 100% true.
You know, how would I respond if I wasn't attached to this belief? And you can go and just ask yourself questions. How do you ask yourself a question? It's very simple. Start a sentence with who, what, why, when, where, or how. So how does this pop up in my life? When has this happened before? What do I want to believe? Why do I think this way? Who could I have learned this from?
Where did this originate? Who, what, why, when, where, how? It could come from anywhere. And so it's just about really asking yourself questions. And what you'll realize is that if you ask yourself enough questions, you basically dissolve the belief. You dissolve the fear. You dissolve the limiting belief about yourself.
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