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Lewis HowesHow To REPROGRAM Your Subconscious Mind To MANIFEST Your Dream Future! | Bruce Lipton
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Bruce Lipton Explains How Subconscious Programs Shape Life and How to Rewrite Them
- Bruce Lipton argues that the brain works like a computer whose subconscious hard drive is programmed by observation during the first seven years of life, when the child is in a theta, hypnosis-like state with no filter for good or bad.
- He says the conscious mind is the creative, wish-setting part but is engaged only about 5% of the day, so roughly 95% of behavior runs on inherited programs, about 60% of which he calls disempowering, and people like 'Bill' cannot see their own.
- Lipton describes three reprogramming routes: self-hypnosis with earphones during sleep, repetition and practice, and energy psychology, which he says works in minutes and which he supports with a neuroscientist's EEG demonstrations, along with muscle testing to detect conflicts between the two minds.
- He shares personal stories, including failed relationships until about age 45, a book that stalled until he reprogrammed it as fast, fun and easy, and ending depression by noticing negative self-talk, and he urges self-love, present-tense affirmations and action.
- Lipton also makes sweeping claims that genes don't cause disease, that matter is an illusion of energy fields, and that people are spiritual broadcasts received by the body, and he closes with three truths about empowerment, spirit and manifesting heaven on Earth.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasMost of life runs on programs absorbed in childhood
Lipton says children in theta download behaviors from family and community without filtering, so about 95% of adult life comes from those programs, with roughly 60% being limiting or self-sabotaging.
People can't see their own programs while thinking
Using the story of Bill, who behaves like his dad yet denies it, Lipton argues that thinking turns attention inward, so the subconscious runs behavior unobserved and everyone is 'Bill'.
Affirmations must be present tense and believed by the subconscious
Lipton says the subconscious sees only the moment, so statements like 'I will be wealthy' keep you in wanting; he recommends 'I am' and 'I deserve' statements and uses muscle testing to check agreement.
Self-love is the foundation for everything else
He claims 80-90% of audiences don't test positive for 'I love myself', linking this to poor self-care, failed relationships and marriages, and a parent's harsh words recorded as truth by a young child.
There are three ways to rewrite a program
Lipton lists self-hypnosis with sleep recordings, repetition and practice after age seven, and energy psychology, which he says can change a belief in minutes by restoring whole-brain function.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesLack of knowledge is a lack of power.
— Bruce Lipton
All of us every day are Bill. We're playing the same programs.
— Bruce Lipton
People think you die and go to heaven. I go, "No, you were born into heaven."
— Bruce Lipton
You can think all you want, but the problem is while you're thinking, you're actually playing the negative program.
— Bruce Lipton
We didn't come here to struggle, to fight, to try and, you know, scratch out an existence.
— Bruce Lipton
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SPEAKERS
Bruce Lipton
guestStem cell biologist and author known for work on epigenetics and mind-body/spirituality topics.
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness podcast and interviewer.
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