John Assaraf

Now, what happens with a lot of people is when they get into, let's say, a negative emotional pattern or a negative thought pattern, they hold on to it and it hijacks them.

And then they reinforce it and they think about what they don't want and they feel what they don't want and they think about what they feel and they feel what they think about and they reinforce the pattern and now it becomes a habitual pattern.

Instead of saying,

Okay, I had a shitty childhood.

I was traumatized.

I was this, I was that.

She did this to me.

He did this to me.

I lost this.

I failed here.

Great, okay.

Welcome to life.

Now, how do I flip the switch?

How do I flip the switch?

Now, the control goes back to you.

And if we give the control to our thoughts, we're victims of it.

If we give our control to our emotions, we're victims of the emotions.

If we give our control to the past, we're victims of the past.

And all we have is the present moment.

And so now we can say, let me use my brain since I'm not my brain.