Gregg Braden
speaker
2,876 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 1 Oct
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Well, one of the reasons I honor the left brain, everyone has a left brain to some degree. Everyone learns differently. Not everyone learns the same. Not everyone wants to hear everything that I just shared with you.
if someone is looking for the reason to think differently they're saying greg give me a reason to think differently about myself i'm sharing with you in the book a lot more detail but i'm sharing the science that that shows us that we are a soft technology we're not a frail uh biological flawed biological form of life subject to flaws we have very very few flaws our body performs
with what it's given to work with. Our body is a reflection. Candice Peart, the Harvard MD said this. The molecules of emotion. Molecules of motion. She actually said your body is your subconscious mind because what you believe about yourself is creating the chemicals in the body that your body is. Isn't that fascinating? Yeah, it really is.
So I, as a child, had to reconcile what I felt, what I would call my soul compass, because it wasn't supported in my community. People didn't talk like this when I was a kid. And it sent me on a journey to understand myself. And that led me on a journey to understand our past. And that led me on a journey to understand... I had two... I don't know how we're doing on time.
Can I share a couple of stories? Go ahead. Yeah. Two very powerful stories. An experience when I was 14. So now I've left home. I'm living with my band. And I go see my first rock concert. It was a group that was called Jefferson Airplane. And the lead singer was this stunningly beautiful woman named Grace Slick is her name. She's still alive today.
And I sat on the front row and yelled at Grace Slick and told her how much I loved her. And she completely blew me off. But I watched in that room, there were about 30,000 people.
And I watched them moved by what a couple of people did on that stage. But here's, here's the thing. The concert was over and we left. And everyone needed to have something to recreate that experience. At that time, there were eight-track tapes or albums. They needed something to recreate that. Now, a couple of weeks later, I have another experience.
And I'm not saying I'm aligned with the message. There was an evangelist named Billy Graham, a powerful, powerful speaker. He spoke to 70,000 people in the Kansas City Athletics Stadium, outdoor stadium. And here's the difference, when those people left, they felt differently about themselves.
They didn't need anything to recreate the feeling because his words had helped them to sense and to feel and to see themselves differently than they did before they went in to hear that. What I recognized as a kid, I don't know exactly how I'm going to do this, but I think there is a way our words, The words are so powerful.
I mean, when you think about what we do with words, we breathe the breath from outside of us. We invite it into our bodies. We begin to flutter our diaphragm. We push the air back.
over the direction it just came down from, and as it's moving back, we begin to flutter our vocal cords in just the right way, listen to this, to reflect the thoughts and the feelings that we're having as acoustic waveforms so they can leave our bodies and fall on the skin and onto the eardrums of another living being to convey our deepest, most intimate experiences.
Do you know how powerful that is? And nobody tells us that. Nobody tells us that.
Well, it begins with a thought. Nobody can see our thought. But we're converting the thought into acoustic waveforms through the air that we're forcing back. And the ability... to modulate our vocal cords in just the right way to create those acoustic patterns. And then they leave our bodies. My words have left my body. Now they're falling on you. They're touching your skin.
They're touching your eardrums. And you, your nervous system, is now interpreting my thoughts. And we are so good at it, we don't give it a second thought. That's how powerful we are.
It's the meaning that we give to the words. That's the key.
It's the significance that we give to the word that we either tell ourselves about ourselves and believe. have to believe them, or that other people instill within us before the age of seven.
That's the beauty of our humanness and our divinity. We have the ability to choose. We must accept the responsibility with that choice that we choose to not to be defined by our past. That was a choice. It was a conscious choice I made when I was young. I looked at my father's life. I looked at the destruction, the emotional destruction. I looked at what it was doing to me.
And I said, now my younger brother, and I love my brother. And if he's watching this, I haven't talked to you for a while, brother, but I love you. He carries that hurt. and allows that to define his life. And so all of the misfortune, and this isn't nothing new, you've heard this, all the misfortunes, the bad relationships, the bad jobs, whatever it is, it's somebody else's fault.
You know, you're looking around you for the reasons And that is a fundamental shift in understanding our relationship to the world. We must choose, consciously or subconsciously, I'm not saying it's always a conscious choice, but on some level we choose to be defined by the circumstances of the past, or we choose to free ourselves. Human divinity is what allows us to do that.
If we don't have our human divinity, the ability to innovate, to imagine, to create, to love, These are all facets of human divinity. You begin to see why it's so important for us to preserve, to claim and preserve our humanness, our bodies. I think perhaps the greatest task that we're given as humans is to honor, preserve, protect the gift of our bodies.
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