Alright, hello everybody, it's Dr. Ray Heinish and I've joined here in the studio, a virtual

studio with a live broadcast live. Hey, how's everybody doing tonight? Hope you guys are all having a great day. Yes, you know, as you can hear in our voice, we're extra excited about this show. I think we're always pumped up. Are you kidding me? Extra excited. Well, you know, extra excited because today's show is about motivation, like ways that we can get ourselves motivated and out there doing the things that we know we need to be doing, right? Yeah, you know what? I think deep down we all know what motivates us. It's being real with ourselves and maybe finding new

tactics to make those things work. Absolutely. And, you know, sometimes we do have to play tricks on ourselves, right? To kind of convince us or to trick ourselves into getting things moving. And, you know, some of the things we're going to talk about today might be a little bit on the tricky side, right? Yeah, they might be, but I think what we're going to be talking about today might be something that I start to implement. Right. So this is definitely a golden nuggets show, meaning that probably

not everything we talk about today is going to resonate with everybody who's listening. So you've got to kind of look at it as there's a golden nugget somewhere in the show for you. There may be two or three. But don't worry about the stuff that doesn't work. Don't worry about the stuff that may sound a little bit too airy fairy for you. And just use the stuff that you feel like you gravitate towards, right? That's right. Yeah. Exactly. Right. There might be some really valuable information in here. It might be something that just makes it click today. So if you're the type of person who wants to do it,

who likes to have a pen and paper handy, I would say get one now. That way you can write down the little golden nuggets that you hear throughout the podcast. Excellent. And as you know, this is recorded. So you can almost go back and relisten as a lot of our listeners do. Okay. Hey, that's a great idea. So I'd like to start. If you don't mind. Is that be cool? Yeah. Go for it. Okay. And I know you've got your own tips. And I'll start with with one of my own. Now, Blife, are you familiar with what's called affirmations? Yes. Use them before. Okay. Like an affirmation is where you

basically, okay, so you have something that you want to achieve, right? Yes. You have obviously have not achieved it yet. So you basically talk to yourself, right? You say things like, for example, if I have 10 pounds to lose, I've done this in the past. Everybody, I think out there has at some point done or attempted to use affirmations in their lifestyle, right? Yeah. And if you haven't, there are tons and tons of books out there. There's even websites on like how to how to write an affirmation.

Right. And so we've all done it to some extent. Some have done them well. Some probably not so well. But yeah, let's give an example. Okay. So, you know, there's been points where I'd say, okay, I want to be 10 pounds later. So an affirmation basically is where you, you say, okay, I want to be 10 pounds later. And instead of saying, I want you act like you've already achieved it. So you say to yourself, I am 10 pounds later. Right. Right. Yes. 10 pounds later. I've lost 10 pounds. So you basically are speaking in terms of present tense as though it is.

It is real today. Right. The problem is that, you know, I did this for quite some time. And I never really found that it worked. I was at your experience. I mean, I think there's a problem. The problem is, my brain didn't buy it. Like when, when I would say, I'm 10 pounds later, my brain knew that I was not 10 pounds later, that I wasn't, that I had not lost 10 pounds. And it basically rejected the statement as untrue. You know, if you've practiced affirmations, then you know, what I'm talking about.

Because when, when you say these things to yourself, there's like, like you get the overall concept. And it may even make sense to you. But as you're practicing it, you can tell, as you're saying it, that nothing's really happening inside. Right.

That you're kind of, like you, you're kind of faking yourself out. Like, do you just feel funny when you're doing it?

You feel like you're lying to yourself. And you know that you're lying to yourself. You know, OK. I never really found affirmations to be terribly helpful. Then I came across a technique. OK, from this book that was written by a gentleman by the name of Noah St. John. OK, the books called the secret code of success. OK.

Now, Noah basically confirmed in one of the chapters in the book that basically what I already knew. And that is that affirmations were basically a load of baloney.

OK, you know, he stated that basically what I already know, which was that affirmations are rejected by your brain. And so they don't really result in any significant change.

So then he introduced me to a whole new concept. OK, and the whole new way of thinking. And he called this instead of affirmations, he called them affirmations. OK, really the only difference is an O in there.

A F F O R M A T I O N rather than affirmations in a nutshell. OK, your brain can reject untrue statements. In this case, it's an affirmation is an untrue statement that you're acting or you're trying to pretend as though it were real.

When it perceives something is untrue, it basically just locks the door and then hangs a sign that says no vacancy. OK, there's no room for it in the brain because the brain does not like untrue statements.

That's why one of the worst things that a friend can do to you is lie to you about something significant, right? Your brain hates lies.

Now there what he talks about is that the brain has a back door and basically that back door is always open. It's always unlocked and it's always wide open.

If you can use that back door, then you can make these things work for you. OK, interesting. So here's how it goes. OK, your brain is basically a problem solving machine.

It has a very interesting characteristic. It can't help but answer every question posed to it. If I were to ask you Blithe, OK, if I were to ask you something like, what colors your hair?

And I would say before you answer that, I do not want you to think of the answer. OK, I don't want you, whatever you do, do not think of the answer to this question. What colors your hair?

The brain will basically answer the question and there's nothing that you can do to stop it, right? If I say don't think about the answer to this question, what colors your hair? Your brain automatically pops into the, you know, into the brain an answer in your case blonde.

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