Chapter 2: The Conscious Self: Becoming Aware
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The Holistic Psychologist
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🗓️ 2 May 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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In episode 3 of 14 of HOW TO DO THE WORK Masterclass, Dr. Nicole LePera and Co-Host Jenna Weakland introduce Dr. Nicole’s #1 New York Times Best Seller HOW TO DO THE WORK: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self. This is a chapter-by-chapter class in which we dive deep into each topic. In this episode, Dr. Nicole and Jenna speak about the Power of Belief. Dr. Nicole defines consciousness and considers conditioned patterns keeping us stuck. Together, they answer questions about living on autopilot, raising ourselves, and being grounded in the present.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard. |
| 0:08.5 | This is the How to Do the Work Master Class and today we'll be diving in to Chapter 2, |
| 0:13.6 | the Conscious Self Becoming Aware. |
| 0:16.4 | Those of you who joined us last week know that we began to explore the Mind Body Connection. |
| 0:21.6 | I even took us through a visualization where simply picturing a lemon for many of us |
| 0:27.9 | caused changes in our bodies and our mouths increased saliva. |
| 0:31.9 | We actually taste it that lemon. |
| 0:34.7 | In this chapter we're going to dive a bit deeper and we're going to begin to discover |
| 0:38.7 | the power of belief. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm going to read directly from the book if you are following along at home. |
| 0:47.6 | It's page 33, The Power of Belief. |
| 0:51.1 | In 1979 the Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer recruited two groups of elderly men from |
| 0:56.2 | nursing homes in the Boston area to live for a week in a monastery in New Hampshire and |
| 1:00.9 | take part in a groundbreaking study on the power of belief and its effects on aging. |
| 1:06.0 | The first group of men were told to live as if the clock turned back 20 years overnight. |
| 1:10.7 | They were asked to try to actually live as younger versions of themselves. |
| 1:14.9 | The second group would remain in the present time period but were urged to reminisce about |
| 1:18.6 | the past. |
| 1:19.6 | Everything in the first group's area of the monastery, which had been decorated for |
| 1:23.0 | the study, supported the participants' transformations back to their younger selves. |
| 1:27.5 | The furniture was mid-century modern. |
| 1:29.9 | Past issues of life magazine and Saturday evening post were scattered around the living quarters. |
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