The School of Greatness
How To Heal The Pain From Your Past To Manifest Your Ideal Future
Fri, 6 Jun 2025
Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!The power of setback recovery isn't about avoiding failure - it's about transforming your relationship with the uncomfortable process of becoming who you're meant to be. Jay Shetty reveals how stress blocks our ability to love authentically, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares the science behind healing trauma through elevated emotions, and Mel Robbins breaks down the neuroscience of self-love and manifestation. Through vulnerable stories of overcoming brutal pasts, childhood trauma, and self-defeating patterns, these conversations illuminate a profound truth - your greatest setbacks often become the catalyst for your most meaningful breakthroughs. From Jay's revelation about asking for love in unloving ways to Dr. Joe's evidence of people stepping out of wheelchairs through coherence healing to Mel's discovery that high-fiving yourself rewires decades of self-criticism - these aren't just theories, they're proven pathways to reclaim your power when life knocks you down.Jay’s books:8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It GoThink Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every DayDr. Joe’s books:Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New OneBecoming SupernaturalYou Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind MatterMel’s books:The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking AboutThe 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday CourageThe High 5 Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple HabitIn this episode you will learn:The hidden connection between stress and your ability to show authentic love to othersHow people who've healed from stage 4 cancer and paralysis used meditation to literally reprogram their biologyThe neuroscience behind why most people manifest backwards and how to visualize the bridge to your dreamsWhy your brain's reticular activating system is either working for you or against you based on what you tell it mattersThe simple morning ritual that rewires your subconscious to support instead of sabotage your goalsFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1781For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Jay Shetty – greatness.lnk.to/1417SCDr. Joe Dispenza – greatness.lnk.to/1494SCMel Robbins – greatness.lnk.to/1170SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: How can I transform my relationship with money?
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You've been studying this for the last few years and teaching deeper insights on love, practicing it, writing about it, speaking about it on stage, in podcasts, things like that. Where do you see yourself growing in love with friends, family, your marriage, and with yourself moving forward after this work?
I think that when I started this journey in my life of trying to make wisdom go viral and to share ideas and help people train their mind for peace and purpose every day, there was a certain speed and pace that allowed me to figure out what I needed to do every 12 months.
And now I feel like I'm moving away from thinking about the next 12 months to thinking about the next 12 years and thinking about the next 20 years and thinking about the next 30 years. And so I feel like I'm at an evolution and growth in my own life where a change of pace will be what I'm looking for.
Because I found that up until now, I felt like I had to do lots of little things all the time to be able to establish what I'm doing today. And now I realize it's actually gonna take fewer, bigger things that you can only get to if you've done this step before. But now I realize that that's what it's gonna take. And so what I found was, as I was doing this work, I realized that
often the blocks to love are not because you don't have the deep intention to love people but it's that you are putting yourself under so much stress and pressure that you're too agitated and irritated to be present and actually share love so i saw this study that talked about how you think you don't wake up early the next morning even though you wanted to because you're bad at waking up early
But the truth is it's because you're actually experiencing stress. And when you're experiencing stress, you can't implement a new habit. And so reducing stress allows you to be the person you want to be. If you think about when you say something you don't want to say, it's because you're irritated. Reactive. Yeah, when you do something you don't want to do, it's because you're stressed.
When you react to someone in a way that you don't think is yourself, it's because you're agitated. So we act in unloving ways because we are putting ourselves under stress, irritation, agitation, or pressure.
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Chapter 2: What are the blocks to authentic love?
And they did the work because nothing else was working. And many of them came to the point where they did their meditation every single day. Every day, they never missed a day because nothing else was working. They believed that this could work, they just didn't believe it could work for them. Right. So, they were doing their meditations to actually believe, right?
They had to change their emotional state and they reached the point, and typically when they come to the weak lungs, because I stretch people a little further, they were already feeling a little better, they were already doing better, but they reached a point where they just thought, oh my God, this is the worst feeling I've ever had in my life. I don't think I'd go any further.
And then they think, oh my God, I've never missed a day in my meditations. I can't give up on me now. And they go one more time. And the words that we hear over and over again is always the same. It was like my heart blew wide open. It was like my heart exploded. It was like my heart opened up all the way. I felt something move through my heart and I felt more love than I felt my entire life.
And they look back at their entire past and they don't want to change one thing in their past because the feeling that they have, they realize that they had to go through all of that. to get to the present moment and that's the moment the past no longer exists.
And they look at their betrayers, they look at their molesters, they look at the tyrants and they have nothing but compassion and love for them. And the relationship changes with those people and the moment their heart blows open, the body literally comes out of the past because when energy makes it to the heart, it resets the baseline in the brain and the autonomic nervous system for trauma.
It says, it's over. and the body literally moves out of the past, and the side effect of that, there goes the depression, there goes the endometriosis, there goes the night terrors, and the person, they don't want to change anything in their past. They'll tell you, no, no, no, no, no, no. This all had to happen for me to change. So many people with diseases will say, I just didn't know it.
I would have never changed. I would have never changed. Unless I had this health condition, I would have never changed. This was the push for me to change. And they would say, I was too sick to do the meditation in the beginning. But you know what? There were days they felt really bad and they could have said, I don't feel like doing my meditation today. But guess what? They did it anyway.
And they overcame their body a little bit more that day. And there were days they had a lot of self-doubt because their condition was getting worse and their family was worried about them. And they could have said, oh, this is too much. I have too much doubt. I can't do this. Guess what? They did it anyway and they overcame their doubt a little bit more. Yeah.
And there were days where they had a lot of fear because they were given the voodoo curse that they had six months to live or a year to live. And they could have said, I have too much fear today. I can't do my meditation. But they did it anyway. Instead of surrendering to fear, they surrendered to love. And it was the overcoming process that was the becoming process.
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Chapter 3: How can I reduce stress to improve my relationships?
Keep bringing it up until I can't forget it. And don't get up. Do not get up until you feel that way. And if it takes you an hour, it'd be worth it. And when it's the hardest, it matters the most. Yes. So, that's a simple thing to do that anybody can do. But it's the experiment. The experiment isn't like I'm doing good or I did it right or I succeeded or God loves me or none of that.
It's doing it to see the experiment is if I change the way I think, if I change the way I act, if I change the way I feel, will my life change? The answer should be yes, because if you're choosing to evolve your experience, your life should change. And that personality is how you think, how you act and how you feel. And that personality is intimately connected to your personal reality. Oh, my gosh.
And if you're not going to change your personality, you're not going to change your personal reality. And most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality. It doesn't work. We've got to become somebody else. Simple, practical thing. People say this to me all the time. I have this health goal. I have this wealth goal.
And I say to them, that health goal and that wealth goal, you're going to have to go from this person to that person. You will never get to that goal until you change. You cannot. And when you make it about change, watch out. Because the hardest part about change is not making the typical choice you always make.
And that's the process of discomfort and you just got to get good at being uncomfortable. Yes. The world can't change without you. The world can't change without me. The world can't change without anybody. And if you get enough people to change, you could actually change the world because you got to be able to walk out into your life and show people what love does.
You got to show them what greatness looks like. You got to show them what nobility and character is. You got to have an uncompromising will. You got to be able to face adversity. And be able to be relaxed in your heart and awaken your brain and completely disagree and be unintimidated by it. I mean, that's the new consciousness. And so there is an energy of change.
And with that energy of change comes a new consciousness. You get enough people together moving into a new state of being and conscious of a change in the world. But I really feel like knowledge is the precursor to experience.
What is your thoughts on how to manifest? Yeah, everyone's doing it wrong, that's my thoughts. Okay, then how should we manifest the dreams that we have inside of us?
Okay.
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