John Assaraf discusses the concept of how our brain is programmed with limiting beliefs and the potential for change through understanding neuroplasticity. He explains that beliefs are nothing more than reinforced patterns in the brain, which can be deactivated and replaced with empowering ones through deliberate repetition and action.Β John delves deeply into the science of sympathetic resonance, highlighting the importance of aligning thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and actions to manifest desired outcomes. He emphasizes the significance of setting clear vision and goals, accompanied by a detailed plan and the execution of the "Law of GOYA" (Get Off Your Ass), to foster personal development and achieve success.Β Ryan Hanley adds to the conversation by sharing his personal experiences with negative financial conditioning and the role of mindset in overcoming such challenges. π― Takeaways: Destroy limiting beliefs Align thoughts, emotions, and actions to manifest outcomes Foster personal development and achieve success π¬ Sound Bites: βThis habitual belief creates what you do. But more importantly, it deletes and distorts anything and almost everything that doesn't match with that belief." "If I have a belief that is limiting me, can I deactivate that pattern?β "If I could wave a magic wand, I could design the life of my dreams, what would it look like?" π Connect and Discover: Book: https://amzn.to/3CBYtN9Β Website: https://www.johnassaraf.com/Β Website: https://www.myneurogym.com π ππ’πππ’πͺ π π π’π‘: Website: https://go.ryanhanley.com/ Course Page: https://masteroftheclose.com/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ryan-hanley-show/id1480262657 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5AZFuTiQsgS9hMQDDdtlOr?si=98432b7806534486 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryan_hanley
Chapter 1: What are limiting beliefs and how do they affect us?
Like when you're working with someone and maybe breaking down what's going on with them, How do we start to become aware of the things that we tell ourselves that keep us from where we want to go?
I mean, it's a great place to start. And here's like some frames for us to at least use while we're chatting. There's been about 108 billion humans since the time we started, you know, walking on earth, 300,000 or so years. And my question I always like to ask people is, was any one of them born with any belief? Forget about limiting beliefs. What about empowering beliefs?
Was any baby ever born with a belief at all? I don't know.
I actually don't know the answer to that. Probably not.
You weren't born with self-confidence. You weren't born with self-esteem or self-image. You weren't born with one fear. You weren't born with any patterns in your brain. And from a neuroanatomy perspective, a belief in the brain is nothing more than, and for use of a term everybody will know, is like software that was coded, developed.
And so the question is, if I developed beliefs that are limiting me right now, The question is, what is a belief in the human brain? And the answer is it's nothing more than a reinforced pattern that we heard, learned, discovered, or we gave something a meaning that created the belief about it. And what happens with our brain is initially we don't have any beliefs.
So these brain cells or neurons, they fire as we're learning stuff or hearing stuff or being told stuff, right? And those neurons that fire together, brain cells, create electrical activity, release neurochemicals that create a reinforced pattern or coding.
Any pattern that's reinforced, good pattern, bad pattern, negative pattern, positive pattern, constructive, build you up, destructive, tear you down, goes from the conscious part of the brain in an area called the hippocampus, which is where short-term memory of a belief is, and through spaced repetition, it goes into long-term memory in another part of the brain called the cerebellum.
Now, why am I starting off with this technical explanation? The answer is anything that is programmed, conditioned, wired in the cerebellum is considered a habit. Now, this habit creates what you see. This habit creates what you feel. This habitual belief creates what you do. But more importantly, it deletes and distorts anything and almost everything that doesn't match with that belief.
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Chapter 2: Can we rewire our brains to create new empowering beliefs?
So we know, through something known as the science of neuroplasticity, is even as you're learning right now, brain cells are firing in your head, they're wiring in your head, but it's at the surface level of, let's say, knowledge or skill or belief, right?
And what happens is if we kept reinforcing this one day, seven days, 14 days, 21 days a month, you would start to develop this new belief of, wow, my brain is powerful. Wow, I can let go of beliefs and create beliefs and I can empower myself from the inside out.
And if you did that, I call that, by the way, inner size, then you'd be able to deactivate old, disempowering, limiting beliefs and recreate, reinforce empowering new ones. And so there are techniques we can talk about on how to do that. But that's really what a belief is, but that's what a self-image is.
And for some people, I say, hey, I want you to imagine being offered to hop in a plane right now, and you're going to learn how to do a skydive. Some people go, oh my God, that's great, let's go. And other people are going, are you out of your freaking mind? Now, how could the same thing of skydiving create fear in some people and exhilaration in another person?
And the answer is they have been conditioned to believe something about skydiving.
One, I think that's an amazing way of breaking it down. I've never heard it kind of put quite so clearly. I was opened up to this topic around manifesting. For a long time, and I read The Secret, I didn't really connect with that book, and I always kind of felt like this idea of manifesting was like this kind of woo-woo, you know, whatever.
And then I heard a guy by the name of Andy Fursella talk about it, and I was like, here's this kind of hardcore dude. He's into like, he's, you know, he's got the supplement program, you know, he's, and I, and I love him, but like when I heard him talk about the impact of it and he broke it down, it's what you just said. He was like, he's like, yeah, I get that a lot of people dismiss it.
Cause it feels like this. ethereal concept, right? Oh, you know, if I just put it out into the world, it comes back and it's like, that's not how it's actually happening. And again, push back on me where I'm, where I'm missing this, but essentially what it's doing is like pro it's programming our brain to see things that maybe it wasn't seen before, right? Just like what you said, right?
Like, it's like when you get the new car, all of a sudden, all you see is that car or that color everywhere on the road, right? You're, you're kind of reprogramming your brain. Is that, is that the proper way of thinking about it?
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Chapter 3: What is sympathetic resonance and why is it important?
Now, sympathetic resonance works almost identically, if not identically, as a band, right? Think of your favorite band. If they're not in sympathetic resonance, it sounds like shit. Right, and a band that sounds like shit actually has what's known as destructive interference. Now I know I'm getting technical on the science of this, but that's my domain of play.
So when I have a belief that does not match what I want to achieve, I have destructive interference going on. So I may hope and think and pray positive, but if my belief is negative, that's destructive interference. So the real, and by the way, I'll give you a visual of this. Ready? Let's say you're in the ocean. This is based on wave theory. So let's say you're in the ocean.
And let's say a five foot wave is chumming along in the ocean. And let's say it intersects with another five foot wave just perfectly. That's sympathetic coherence. And it becomes a 10 foot wave. Now let's say there's a five foot wave and a two foot wave that intersect. It ends up being like a one and a half foot wave. It's destructive interference versus sympathetic coherence. Now,
When we're looking at manifestation, we have to align all the members of the band, the orchestra, to create in concert, right? Coherence. So it sounds good, it feels good. And when we hear our favorite band, it's like, oh my God, this is like magic. So there is no such thing as manifesting out of thin air. It's like bullshit.
Now, I've had things happen in my life that's like, oh my God, how did this happen? Like, it just made no sense. So there's this intelligent universe that we live in. We have this insanely brilliant genius brain that's worth $100 billion. Every brain, unbeknownst to most people, works the same. Like, every car, electric or gas, fundamentally works the same. Right?
Four wheels, a chassis, you know, you've got your engine, you've got all the components. Functionally, it works the same. Do you know what the problem is? We have varying levels of driving ability. So you own, you know, whatever you want to call your brain. You own a Mercedes, a Rolls Royce, a Bugatti, you know, you own that. You have a Formula One car. How well do you know how to drive it?
How well do you understand that you are a atomic structure and beliefs drive perspective, beliefs create a vibrational frequency, a state, that state emits a wave in this field I'm in, and that wave that you and I release or emanate, It doesn't like attract like a magnet. It's not how it works. It resonates, vibrates and becomes known like a tuning fork instead of a magnet.
So I don't know if you've ever seen tuning forks, right? You take the A440 key on a piano and you have a tuning fork that is tuned to the A440 frequency and you hit the piano, the tuning fork moves. If you hit the right key on the piano, hit the wrong key on the piano, tuning fork doesn't move. So our job, starting with your beliefs, is to create at least one of the keys, right?
My beliefs need to be in alignment with what I want to achieve. I can do that deliberately. That's part one of the equation. Yeah. And we want to get into sympathetic resonance, coherence, versus destructive interference. And there are four things that cause destructive interference for us humans who want to make more money, be healthy, have a great relationship, enjoy life to the fullest.
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Chapter 4: How do beliefs influence our actions and outcomes?
So we could say, three kids, oh my God, it's creating so much stress and anxiety for me. And this couple who may have come from a home of eight kids go, three kids, that's nothing. So let's understand. that our brain is made up of three core, these networks. We don't need to get into those, but we have circuits. Easy to understand is motivational circuit. Fear circuit, stress circuit.
Now, what causes your fear circuit to activate depends on your training and conditioning and the meaning in your bio-computer, your brain, at the subconscious level. The wars that are going on in the world, the political situation, the interest rates, the uncertainty in your town, all that stuff. For some people, it's too much for them to handle because they have not been trained to handle it.
The only time the stress circuit, which anxiety falls into it, is when the demand exceeds your current capacity. So let's talk about capacity. Isn't capacity... our ability to walk up one or two or ten flights of stairs? Isn't our capacity our ability to lift a five-pound weight or 25-pound weight one time, five times, ten times? And anything more than the capacity is like straight, right?
So we can use physical fitness as an example. We can use money as an example. You're running out of money. and you're like, oh my God, I'm running out of money. You know, I'm not making enough money to pay the mortgage or the rent. My sales are behind, my productivity's behind. Oh my God, stress, stress, stress, stress, stress.
Now most people, right, will feel that stress and it'll do one of two things for them. It'll either fuel them, right, or it'll shut them down and they'll procrastinate, self-sabotage, and they'll freeze or run away. Three things. So we know that there are neuromechanics that get triggered, and we always, always, always will revert, right?
We'll revert to our training that has been imprinted, impressed in the subconscious mind, not the knowledge or information we have.
So I want to give you a personal case study on this. I spent a lot of time thinking about, you know, trying to developing my mindset where I mean, this conversation is this is like ecstasy to me. I like it. I could literally listen. You talk about these topics all day and I love how nerdy you're getting. It's amazing. And I know the audience and they love it, too.
So never feel like going deep on these topics is wrong.
I always like to know, like, here's why, right? Here's some frames to understand because I like to know.
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Chapter 5: What is the relationship between anxiety and our conditioned beliefs?
And 300,000 years of resiliency, grit, overcoming, you know, famine, lack of resources, lack of food, lack of water, shelter, everything, we've overcome all of it. It's in your DNA. It's in my DNA. And you think you can't come up with how to make $10,000 a month? Are you kidding yourself? You think you can't build a company when we know every how-to? You want to stop drinking alcohol?
You can do that. You want to stop eating sugar? You want to have a better diet? You want to have a better relationship? All the how-tos available. We're lacking some fundamental frameworks that I believe everybody should be taught. And when we understand these frameworks, and it starts with having a real understanding of, and a humble understanding, right?
Like, oh my God, our creator put that much brilliance in me? That much ability in me? Yeah, that's why you're dreaming. That's why you're trying to figure out how to fulfill more of your potential. How you're finding out, why am I stuck? What's causing this tension within me to want more, to be more, experience more, have more, give more? There's this tension within you
And that spirit, okay, I call spirit not religious, this intelligence that is begging to express itself more through you. But there are obstacles for specifically that create, you know, this destructive interference between your fullest potential and what you are displaying right now.
Yeah.
And my job, for me, like this is for me, to discover more of how to do that. And that's what I've been studying for 40, literally 40, 45 years now. That's what's taken me deep into the neuromechanics of understanding how does my brain work so that I could use it better.
See, I love how deep you go into the neuromechanics of it and the neuroscience because I think like probably everyone listening, probably like yourself at a certain time, right? We've lived that shallow version of personal development, right?
Where we're just looking at the tactics of things that successful people do and trying to mimic them without an understanding of why we're doing these things, the impact of them, why our brain... or body tells us to not do that thing that we ultimately know could be good for us, right? And a book that opened me up, my personal development journey really began in 2017. I'm going to tell the story.
I had a health moment. It opened my eyes to the fact that I was basically living on a whim, you know, just things happened to me or didn't happen to me. And I was like, well, I'm a hard worker, so everything will be okay. And Obviously, that's not always the case. And a book that opened me to this was Michael Singer's The Untethered Soul. Great book.
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Chapter 6: How can we overcome negative financial conditioning?
With all that being said, unless you have any comments on that, I would love for you to start to break down at least a couple of these frameworks and then maybe let everyone know where they can get more of them, as I'm sure you have a resource on it as well.
It really is the reason I started, you know, all my body of work. You know, when I was a kid, I used to, you know, like lift a lot of weights to get myself stronger, right? So I'd have muscles and be faster and stronger and more attractive.
But as I had many challenges when I was younger in life, between 13 and 19, where I was involved in street gangs, robberies, drugs, selling them, using them, alcohol. I mean, you name it. You know, I did it as a kid. I started to learn around getting my mindset right from a mentor who was very, very well read. His name was Alan Brown, and he showed me how to refocus, reuse this brain of mine.
Because of him, I was able to build my first company with 1,200 salespeople, 85 offices, and $4.5 billion in real estate sales a year because of that, from a kid who left high school grade 11 and failed English and math. So I get the shift. The first part... of this, and I'm so happy you realized you're not your thoughts. We have thoughts.
6,200.
Not 50 or 25,000 or something like that. 6,200 is the new scientific fact for now. Unfortunately, most people have 80% of their thoughts are negative. That's 5,000 negative thoughts a day. Most people have 5,000 negative thoughts a day. Focus on the negative thoughts and they reinforce those. And they don't refocus on, you know, let's say the 1,200 positive ones.
They focus on the negative ones and they reinforce more negative ones. And as a result, 90% of their thoughts this week will be the same next week because they're reinforced thoughts. But let's see if we can wipe the slate clean. And we can say, okay, I'm not my thoughts, I'm not my brain, I'm not my heart, I'm not my liver, my lungs, my body, or anything like that.
Well, let's say, you know, I have a soul. I call it, you know, I am spiritual, this intelligence in me. And I have other faculties like emotions. I have a mindset that I could focus. Right? And I have this physical body that moves into action or procrastinates or self-centered, whatever it does, right? I can say to my body, you know, right now, jump, Tom, and I could jump.
I can say, move your arms right and left, and I could do that deliberately. But that's not how our bodies work. Our bodies work based on the conditioned, subconscious programming that we've had since birth. But let's see us wiping the slate clean. We say, okay, If I was committed to a new level of success, a new level of me, is it possible? Let's start with, is it possible if I was committed?
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Chapter 7: What are practical techniques to foster personal development?
Like we're looking at an x-ray, no emotion, but the x-ray will reveal It will reveal, am I on the right track or not? Right? So here's where I am. Here's where I want to get to. And we say, okay, if I want... better results, different results in health, wealth, relationships, career, business, finance.
And I say 90 days from now, 90 days from now, what would an ultimate result be that if I achieve that result, I would like feel proud. I would feel like I'm having impact and influence in my life or my kids or my wife or my neighborhood or the people that follow my work at church, wherever. What would be like a result? I'd go, yeah, that's so good.
And so we start setting some goals for 90 days from now. They say, okay, that would be great. What about 60 days from now? What about 30 days from now? What about just one week from today? I mean, okay, so I'm going to set some goals and I don't have to know how to achieve it yet. I'm just setting the goals.
Then I come back and I go, okay, to achieve my goal for this week, what would I need to believe in order to make that a reality? Would I need to believe I'm smart enough, I'm good enough, I could do it or I could learn how to do it? Would I need to believe that I need help and I could find the help online, offline, a friend, a family member, a coach, a consultant, something?
Would I need to believe about the possibility of it being done and about me doing it? Write it down. Write down what you would need to believe. So we start off with the beliefs. What would I need to feel in order to be motivated? What do my state, right? My physical state need to be? Well, I have to be confident.
I'd have to be, you know, certain, even though maybe I'm trepidatious and I don't know, I'd have to feel this. So I'm going to have the vision, the goals. I'm going to have the beliefs, the emotions. And then here's the magic in manifestation. If you ever heard of the law of attraction, there's also a law nobody has ever talked about in great detail. And it's the law of Goya. It's G-O-Y-A.
And nobody is teaching this law except me as far as I know. And it is like if there was like a magic dust to achieving a goal, It's the law of Goya. You ready? Get off your and take action and do the right thing in the right order at the right time. So not any action. I don't want you being busy because you'd be busy doing the wrong things or you could be highly inefficient.
What should I do today at eight o'clock till nine? To move me towards that goal. What should I do from 9 to 10.30? To move towards that one or two or three goals. What should I do at 10.30? Break? Great. Put a 30-minute break on your calendar. 11 o'clock? Get back at it. What should I do for lunch? What should I do at 1 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock? What should I do tonight?
Give me a perfect freaking day that when you finish that day, you're like, yeah, holy mackerel, I'm moving towards that. Celebrate. Reinforce that pattern. Do you know what most people cannot tell me when I ask them? I've taught over a million people. They can tell me some of their goals. Show me the plan. Show me the plan. Show me your flight plan. Like, show me details.
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