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Lewis HowesHow To INSTANTLY IMPROVE Self-Esteem & MANIFEST ABUNDANCE | Marisa Peer
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Marisa Peer: Change Your Words, Thoughts and Childhood Roles to Heal
- Marisa Peer argues that events don't affect us, the meaning and words we attach to them do, so swapping words like 'stuck' for 'safe' or 'starving' for 'hungry' changes how we feel and act.
- She says the mind's job is to keep us alive rather than make us happy, so negative statements like 'this job is killing me' can lead it to produce illness, avoidance or self-protective behavior.
- Peer describes how children with unmet needs for love, significance and safety take on roles (sick, brilliant, carer or rebel) and carry those roles into adulthood, and she recommends parents apologize and say 'I love you because you're you.'
- She lays out her hypnotherapy process of investigate, imprint, interpret, interrupt and install, with a 12-15 minute audio heard for 21 days, and contrasts it with talk therapy that only discusses the pain.
- She promotes telling yourself a better lie, especially 'I am enough,' and closes with her three truths and the idea that unhealed wounds make us bleed on people who didn't cut us.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasMeaning, not events, drives our experience
Peer says people react differently to the same situation, such as lockdown, because of the interpretation they choose, and she points to Nelson Mandela's and Isaac Newton's confinement as examples.
The words you use give your mind commands
Peer says saying 'I'm starving' or 'this is killing me' pushes the mind to act, for example overeating, avoiding work or producing illness, because it takes words literally to keep you alive.
Children with unmet needs adopt roles that persist into adulthood
Peer says children who don't feel loved or significant become sick, brilliant, the carer or the rebel, and seeing the role can free adults from it, as with her client who stopped using drugs.
Parents can limit damage by owning mistakes and separating love from behavior
Peer advises apologizing when you lose it so children don't blame themselves, and telling them you love them for who they are while disliking certain behavior, which makes them feel safe enough to tell the truth.
Thoughts come first and drive feelings
Peer says thoughts dictate feelings, feelings dictate actions and actions dictate events, so changing the thought changes the feeling, while managing the feeling alone leaves the thought intact.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe meaning you attach to an event affects you. The interpretation you choose on an event is what affects you.
— Marisa Peer
Your mind's job is to keep you alive on the planet. It doesn't actually care if you're happy.
— Marisa Peer
You need to talk to yourself. That is the most important conversation you'll ever have, the one you have with yourself.
— Marisa Peer
Perfect is a race, and as you run towards it, they move the finishing line again and again and again.
— Marisa Peer
Lie to your mind, cheat fear, steal back the phenomenal confidence you were born with.
— Marisa Peer
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SPEAKERS
Marisa Peer
guestTherapist and hypnotherapy practitioner, creator of Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT).
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness podcast and interviewer.
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