Hello. Jason Fladlien here from DailySeminar.com, and I got something that’s a little kind of out there. It’s a little bit theoretical, but I’m going to show you some practical applications. I took this theory and made it into a reality, and it’s totally changed my life and the way that I do business.
I call this the neuro chemical theory of human behavior. It’s really just different states that we access and what causes those states. Then when you figure out what causes your productive states, the states that make you feel really good, you have more control over them, and you can trigger them better. And if you get really good at this as a black belt, then you can do it pretty much whenever you want.
This is just amazing. This one idea that I had as a theory, I then turned into a practical system. I’ll give you the background first because, like I said, it’s kind of strange. But work with me here. Try this out for 7 days, and tell me that it doesn’t make a huge difference in your life.
Let’s talk emotional states for a second first, as kind of a precursor to really get into this so you better understand this. I want you to consider this: Do you gradually go into a blind rage, or does it happen all at once? Very rarely do people slowly build up over a period of time blind rage. In most cases, you build up what’s called intolerance, disgruntledness, agitation — but those are different states. I’m talking about blind rage.
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Blind rage usually happens all at once. That’s when people do stupid stuff like punch each other in the face, commit acts which they later go to jail for. It makes them think when they do that “Why the hell did I even do that? I normally don’t behave that way.” That’s what happens is something triggers you to immediately change your state from this state to a completely different state, and it happens instantly. That’s interesting.
Let’s consider another scenario here: Do you have a slow anxiety attack, or does it come out of nowhere? Now I’m a person who’s had a lot of anxiety attacks in their life, and I can tell you what. There’s things that build you up again — slight distress, uncomfortableness, an odd feeling here or there, but typically when an anxiety attack hits you — boom. It hits you all at once. It’s not something like “I’m feeling anxiety right now, and I’m feeling just a little bit more anxious. Okay, now I’m feeling just a little bit more anxious.”
It doesn’t happen that way. I can tell you from experience. I’ll walk into a store. I’ll walk into that store, like a grocery store, completely feeling okay; calm. Then all of a sudden something will just hit me out of nowhere. Just boom — triggered. Instant panic attack. I’ll feel like I got to get out of that store immediately. All the noises around me are just caving in on my skull, and I think I’m going to die when they’re really bad ones. That state happens almost instantaneously. Huh, interesting.
What causes those switches just to flip like that?
Well, before we get into that, let’s consider some more scenarios here. Have you ever heard something just snapped? Somebody was like “I was in this abusive relationship with this person for so long, but I put up with him for 8 years because I loved him. Then one day I woke up and something just snapped, and I decided then and there to leave him.” That’s interesting. Eight years they put up with the deadbeat, and then all of a sudden one day something changed, something in their emotional state that they accessed that they’d never previously accessed before that made them say “that’s it.”
You hear this in phrases, too, in speech — “It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.” So somebody might come up to you and say “Man, for so long I tried all this stuff online to make some money. This, that; nothing worked; nothing worked. What I really found out is I wasn’t taking action. Well then one day I woke up. I looked in the mirror, and I was so fed up with myself. That’s it. I’ve had enough of this. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back. And from that day forward, my life changed, and I started doing things and taking action and getting good results.” What triggered that change? Interesting.
That’s what we want to know. Once we figure out is there an underlying theme that causes these instantaneous changes in emotional states. If so, can we then manipulate it to actually have a conscious control over those emotional states, change them to get the ones we like, and avoid setting off the triggers that cause the emotional states which we do not like?
Well, it just so happens that there is, and this is the neuro chemical theory of human behavior. This is how it works.
Your brain basically works like this. Someone does something that within your model of reality causes you to become ________, causes you to have a certain emotional state. You know, “I felt an anger here.”
So let’s think about this. There’s a lot of key words here, but let me give you one typical scenario. You’re on a date with somebody for the first time. You’re sitting down at the restaurant. They’re supposed to meet you there at 6 o’clock. It’s now 6:10. You’re looking at your watch; they’re not there. 6:30 rolls around — they’re still not there. You interpret that sequence of events — you might become very angry. “They stood me up. They don’t like me. I can’t believe this. They don’t value my time. Who do they think they are?” And you get angry.
How you interpreted the reality around you — that they are not there; therefore, it’s a poor reflection on you as an individual because you thought they would be and they weren’t — caused you to be angry.
However, other people in that exact same scenario interpret reality like this. They’re at the table and they’re waiting for their date, and they say “Oh my God. I’m interpreting this event of them not showing up as they’re in danger right now. They got in a car crash, or something just dramatically devastating happened.” Then that interpretation of reality, their model of reality, how they process the world around them says “Oh my God. This person’s not here,” — boom. A trigger comes, and then they feel extremely frightened, scared, agitated. They’re just “Oh my God. This is terrible.” And they’re a nervous wreck.
So how they interpreted the reality around them caused them to come with the emotional state of just this anxiety or this frightenedness of “Oh my God. I hope this person is okay.” Just a lot of distress.
How you interpret somebody else’s action or the reality around you causes you to release different chemicals in the body. Here’s a simplistic view of how this works.
You survey the scene around you. You notice things through your eyes; you hear things through your ears; you feel things through your touch and your other senses; and you might smell and taste things, too, but those are secondary. You look around you and say “This is what I’m seeing going on around me.” Your brain processes that through how you look at reality around you through your senses and takes it in and how that makes you feel. Your brain says “He’s looking at it thinking ‘this sucks because the person hates me'; so therefore I am going to release this chemical.” Bing — and it drops a chemical in your body — the brain does. The brain tells it “Okay, guys. Send out all these chemicals to course throughout all the veins in the blood and everything in this person’s body.” Then that makes you feel physiologically angry.
Another person might look at the reality around them and say “This person’s not here. They’re probably in danger.” The brain says “Okay. You think that they’re hurt. I’m going to drop this other chemical on you, run that through your system.” And now your physiology goes into one of extreme stress.
Think about it this way: When you are extremely stressful, does your body feel different than when you’re relaxed? It feels more tense, doesn’t it? That’s a physiological reaction caused by certain chemicals that your brain is sending through the rest of your body.
Acid. People are very acidic who have a lot of stress. It releases acid inside the body due to certain chemicals that come through the body that the brain releases. “Okay, this is how you interpret the situation? Boom. This is the chemical I’m going to give you.”
However, person A might be angry because somebody showed up, but you know what? Monks, really self-realized monks — they don’t really release any anger chemicals. Their brain does not make those chemicals. Only those who are not equal posed make those chemicals. So a monk interprets the reality around them through their senses of “We are in this material world. There’s certain things that happen that are out of control. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m not going to interpret. I’m content with who I am and in myself, so I’m going to go inward and get my contentment.” Boom.
So the brain says “Okay.” So it releases those nice relaxation chemicals, and it does in every single situation because they have control over their senses. So their senses release certain chemicals that keep them equal posed.
Fear’s the same way. You see somebody running at you with a butcher knife. You say “Oh my God. This guy’s trying to kill me.” Boom. Your brain says “Alright. Trying to kill you?” Shoots just massive amounts of adrenaline into your body, and that allows you to be extremely alert for that short period of time so you can save your own life.
As I say, your brain sends chemicals out to your body to react according to how you interpret the event. However, if somebody was running at a kung fu master with a knife, they don’t release panic chemicals because they’re like “Hmm, all right. I’m interpreting the reality around me. This person’s coming at me with a butcher knife. However, I know that I’m equipped to handle the situation.” The brain instead releases different chemicals. These chemicals are preparedness and are an emotional state of complete alertness but still calmness, and they are able to defend themselves. Only people who aren’t prepared for somebody coming at them with a butcher knife are going to say, “Panic! Get out of here!” and their brain’s going to release other chemicals. That’s it in a nutshell.
So once you understand how this works, you say “Okay. What can we do about it?” So this is how you can control emotional states so you can get the ones that are conducive to your productivity and conducive to making money online.
Here is the premise. Here is the thought process. If all our emotional states are the result of interpreting reality around us, as I’ve described, which triggers our brain to release certain chemicals, then the conclusion is if we can control how we interpret those events, we can control our emotional states. And I’ve given you those examples. The kung fu master looks and he says “Hmm, butcher knife. I know 15 different ways to block that butcher knife and stop this person. I’m prepared for this situation. I just have to have the focus and the clarity to make sure I don’t make any mistakes and handle this properly.” The brain says “Okay, cool. You interpreted the reality in this certain way. I’m going to give you this set of chemicals to deal with that.”
Other people say “Oh my God!” The brain says “Okay. This is how you choose to react to the situation around you, so I’m going to give you these chemicals instead.”
Now this is an interesting thought because people will say to me “I can’t take action.” They’ll come to me and say that. I’ll say to them “Has there ever been a time in your life when you have taken action on something?” They’ll say “Yeah.” So I will tell them “You are neurologically capable of taking action. It’s not that you can’t take action. You can under the right circumstances.” And what’s great is if somebody’s neurologically capable of taking action, then that means that they can do that. You just have to engineer the situations that will trigger them to go into that action state. It’s that simple.
Some people say “I’m too shy. I’ll never be confident. I can’t be confident in a group of people.” I’ll say to them “Has there ever been a time when you have been confident in a group of people?” They’ll say “Yeah.” “Great. You’re neurologically capable of feeling confidence. We just have to figure out the right triggers to release those chemicals in your mind so you feel that way in any situation where there’s all these groups of people around you.” This is interesting.
Some people can’t feel pain. They neurologically do not have that chemical. For some reason their brain does not release it. I can’t remember the disease, but one out of every 10,000 people have it or something astronomical like that. These people actually live very sheltered lives because pain is a very good thing. Their brain says “Okay. Take your hand off that burning stove. You’re feeling pain right now.” Where a person who doesn’t have pain receptors — because it’s just kind of one of those genetic mutations — they don’t feel pain. So in that case, there’s nothing you can do for them to elicit an emotional state of pain — or a physical state of pain, to be more accurate. They are neurologically not capable of feeling that.
Sociopaths who never felt empathy in their life. You can’t say to them “Have you ever felt empathy in your life?” They’ll say, “No.” They’re not neurologically capable; so there’s nothing that you can do to elicit that response.
That’s the freaks of nature — the genetic freaks. That’s a derogatory term for people, but some people are programmed. 99.9 percent of people have the neurological capabilities to feel all the emotional states they need to be happy in life, to be successful in life, to be emotionally stable in life, and to get the things that they want out of life.
So if you ever felt confident at any point in time in your life — and this is what I like to tell people that say “I’m never confident. I’ve never felt confident” — I say “Really? So you’re pretty sure of yourself right now that you can’t feel confidence?” “I am absolutely sure that I’m not confident.” I’m like “So it sounds like you’re very confident about being unconfident.” So they are.
“I can never take action. I’m a procrastinator.” I say to them “Do you ever hesitate on procrastinating?” They’re like “No.” I’m like “So procrastination just kind of happens, doesn’t it?” They’re like “Yeah.” I’m like “So, in other words, you never procrastinate on procrastinating?” I’m like “Ah, so the neurological capability is there. You’re not procrastinating in this situation. We just have to figure out what causes you to be neurologically inclined to do this or this or this or this state.”
Have you ever felt unstoppable? Like nothing could stop you? Like you could achieve anything you want? I’m sure everybody has at some point in time, even if they were a little baby. They might not remember it now. That means you are neurologically capable of feeling that. We just have to figure out how to trigger it.
Have you ever been so happy you were quivering in ecstasy? Good. That means you can do it again. We just have to trigger the right neurological chemicals in your brain to release that into your body, which is going to physiologically make you feel like you’re quivering in ecstasy.
It means that when you have the neurological capability to experience whatever emotional state you want, you can. You just have to engineer the right situation or the right condition to make it happen.
So let’s talk about the right conditions.
Here is an exercise. And this is very instructive, first of all, how I do this. I took a theory, tried it out in the real world, got results, liked it, tried it again, got more results, liked that, said “Okay. Let’s put it into a system.” So this is the system that I designed to really take advantage of this information that I’m sharing with you today.
The first thing you want to do is pick three powerful states you’d love to experience daily in your life. So three powerful states that I absolutely love to have is confidence. If you know me, you know I’m a pretty confident person. That’s a quality nobody ever says to me in internet marketing that I lack because I want to have confidence every day, so I do that.
Focus — absolute focus on the task at hand. That is another quality that I like to have every single day of my life. And that works far beyond just in work. When I’m with my family, I love to have absolute focus with them. When I’m with somebody that I’m on a date with that I think is great — another of the opposite sex — I love to absolutely have focus on her. And confidence works in any situation.
The last thing is I just like to have the feeling that whatever happens, I can respond positively to it. That’s the third state. That’s just unconditional optimism, unbridled optimism. Those are the three powerful states that I just love to experience in my life. I’ve added to them, but when I started off, those were what I came up with because I was doing this as a business exercise.
Then after you figure out your three powerful states, whatever they may be, now we have to figure out the conditions which trigger your brain — not your brawn, your brain — to release the chemicals that bring those states in. That’s all we got to do.
How do you do that? Remember, you process the world around you and you interpret it in your own model of reality, and then your brain releases chemicals by how you interpret it.
So we just got to figure out how you interpreted the reality around you when you became whatever of those three powerful states.
So let me give you my example. Confidence — how do I interpret my reality around me when I’m extremely confident? Well, here’s a really good exercise I like to do that’s kind of fun. I say “I am absolutely confident that if you held me underwater for two hours without oxygen that I would die. I’m pretty freaking confident, about as sure as anything, as that.” So in my mind, let me think of that. How do I represent that in my mind? That reality, if that would happen. Because what happens outside and what happens inside of your mind — your brain does not distinguish between the two.
If I say “Think of sucking on a lemon right now,” your mouth probably salivated there, especially if you actually did it. You didn’t even eat the lemon. You just thought about eating the lemon — boom. Chemical reaction made you salivate.
So you can represent reality inside your own mind because the reality around you you represent in your own mind anyway. That’s how you process it.
So you say “I’m absolutely confident if you held me underwater I would drown.” So I say to myself “How do I look at that in my mind?” I think colorwise in my mind. I see these certain visuals. And I want to look at what they call the modalities here, but I just call them characteristics because that’s not a fancy $5 word.
So I notice in my mind there’s a location of me seeing somebody holding me drowning underwater. It’s at a certain location. It has a certain size, that image does. It’s a movie for me. It’s moving. It kind of has a shimmering reflection of it. I’m looking at the qualities of the picture more than the content of the pictures. I don’t really care about who’s in the picture or what’s going on. I’m more interested in “Is there a frame around this picture? No. It’s moving. It’s a movie quality. It’s kind of to the upper left. It’s kind of big in size, bigger than what I notice when I think of other things. It’s a little bit bigger. It’s got these weird green and blue colors to it, and it’s got a little bit of depth to it, this picture does. It’s kind of 3-D. It’s kind of three dimensional, and I’m hearing certain noises — a quality of noises I’m noticing. They’re kind of low pitched. They have a slow rhythm. They’re coming from the left-hand side, and they’re moving to the right spatially. And I notice in my body I have this feeling, this impulse, that’s moving around and rotating counterclockwise around my torso here.”
This energy’s pulsating because, when you have a feeling in your body, in order to actually feel it, it’s got to send impulses into that body that you can actually feel if you pay attention.
I’m like “That’s how I represent confidence.” In my mind, I hear and see these things, and then physiologically, too, my breathing changes. I notice when I’m thinking about confidence, my breathing slows down and becomes a little bit deeper than it does when I’m in a normal state; so that’s physiology. My body slightly changes. My shoulders slightly widen. I have more of a smile just naturally. My eyes are a little bit wider. Physiologically my body changes, and what I look at in the mind.
What are the outward stimuli that helps you induce those chemicals? I’ve gotten to the point that, when I look at my past accomplishments — trophies, pictures of me doing things in the paper and stuff, my PayPal account — those things automatically trigger confidence. Those are called anchors, but that’s not important.
The thing is I have these things that I can look at in my environment that trigger confidence. I match that with my physiology of how my body slightly changes when I think about those states, and then I see how I represent that inside my mind. Then I take whatever I have to do for that day right now — I say ” I got to do this next” — I’m going to change how I represent that in my mind, whatever I have to do next, so it closely matches the characteristics of the images in my mind, the sounds that I hear in my mind, the physiology of my body right now as I am when I’m confident, and create environments where I have those certain triggers, those outward stimuli that will also help me feel that way. And if I do that right, my brain says “Okay. This is how you’re interpreting the reality around you of what you have to do next. Boom — I’m going to give you these chemicals that will make you confident.” That’s it.
So this is your exercise. Do these three things. Put some practice into it. It won’t happen right away, but it will happen. And if you do this — I’m not even that good at this to be honest with you. I can only do this about 20 percent, but that 20 percent has made me so much more effective in my business than the average internet marketer. You could take this way deep, to the deepest level. Please try it out. I’m sure you’ll get great results with it, and I’ll see you on the blog. Thanks.