From Jim Huntzicker:
Happiness is an inside game, a mindset.
No person, money, or material item can give you happiness.
True, lasting change doesn’t come from inspiration or motivation. As you have likely experienced, those feelings fade pretty quickly. Real transformation comes from a fundamental and intentional restructuring of the neuro pathways in your brain, and that is exactly what I show people how to do.
The name of the game is to identify and remove the resistance holding you back. It’s not about working as hard as possible, getting up at 4am, or having this perfect plan.
Once you remove the resistance, everything will change. You will start elevating your performance in all areas of your life.
When you change the way you look at something, what you are looking at changes.
You don’t need to know the ‘how’. Making a new decision about what you believe is so powerful it will activate the ‘how’. You will start to get new thoughts and ideas.
“The plan” you’ve been looking for will just come to you in a thought or vision, or new ideas will just start coming to you. You will no longer need alcohol, drugs, or other compulsions to manage life. When you have this level of clarity, you will feel “limitless” all day, every day.
Beliefs are decisions.
This is an extremely important distinction, so I will repeat it: Beliefs are decisions.
Usually, these beliefs are decisions you made before you were eight based on what you heard from your parents and the other people who influenced you.
Since beliefs are just decisions you made at some point in your life, you can make new decisions about what you now believe and know to be true.
A belief is a habit of thought.
Of course, when you make new decisions about what you believe, you will start to process information differently from that point forward. You will see the world differently.
Everything you want starts with a crystal-clear vision, then identifying and removing the resistance hiding in your subconscious that is holding you back from getting it.
Identifying and removing resistance is the key to allowing prosperity and abundance in your life. In fact, the only reason you don’t have what you want right now is because of the resistance you have to it.
Almost like magic, once you identify and remove the resistance, you will start to uncover strategies that have been right in front of you all along or the strategies you are currently trying to implement will start working.
Here is the formula for everything you want in life:
Desire + Non-Resistance = Desired Result
Here are the four layers of resistance everyone experiences:
- Belief Transformation – Limiting Beliefs
- Resentments – Let go of them all or you will never be free
- Core Program – Super Deep Rooted Limiting Belief, causing the biggest issues in your life
- Letting go of not being enough – Loving yourself
Desire is the most powerful tool we have.
In life, there are only two states of being: Powerful and Primal. You are in one of these two states at all times, but you can never be in both at the same time.
Powerful States are associated with positive feelings like gratitude, certainty, clarity, peace, joy, creativity, excitement, and resourcefulness.
Primal States are associated with negative feelings that don’t feel good, like fear, stress, self- doubt, anxiety, depression, frustration, and anger.
Once you realize that every thought you have that brings you into a Primal state is untrue, your life will begin to radically change. You and only you choose the meaning that you give to things.
Nothing has any meaning except for the meaning you give it. Read that again…
What someone else says or does should never send you into a fit of rage or anger. Why are you giving them so much power over you?
Neuroscience tells us that about 88% of what’s going on around us is filtered out of our conscious perception. So when you get angry at what another person says, you can be sure that you have a limiting belief or resentment buried in there that you need to let go of.
So, what this means is that most of the time, you are not seeing objective reality. How crazy is that?
You were seeing a filtered version shaped by your past experiences and subconscious programming.
This is why two people who experienced the same thing can view it differently.
The moment you see something differently than the way that you’ve been seeing it is the moment your brain updates the filter and allows new possibilities in. This is an epiphany, and you will know it when it happens. All of a sudden, you will “see” things differently, and your life will never be the same.
For example, if someone loses a job, one person will be excited that this is an opportunity for a fresh start, while another will think that they will never find a job again.
You need to be very conscious of your thoughts because neuroscience also tells us that you get what you think about most.
It is the meaning you’re assigning to it that is controlling your state.
Don’t act weak and powerless by asking yourself, “What does this mean?”
You decide, “What is this going to mean?” What meaning are you going to assign to it?
It’s not what happens to you. It’s how you respond. Create a meaning that serves you. Life is not about what happens to you. It’s about how you decide to respond and use what happens to you.
One of the keys to life is to recognize when you are in a Primal state and learn how to shift back to a Powerful state. Become an expert at this, and you will be unstoppable.
This is where I come in; I teach people the tools they need to make this shift. This is not a one- and-done kind of thing. Even when you are winning in every area of your life, you will still regularly find yourself in Primal states. There is no way around this; humans are hardwired for survival, and this is our survival instinct trying to protect us.
Recognizing that you are in a Primal state and teaching your subconscious to shift back to a Powerful state automatically is the name of the game.
Finding resistance is not difficult: identify an area of your life where you regularly experience stress, discomfort, fear, or anxiety.
Ask yourself what areas of your life do you regularly…
- have negative thinking patterns?
- procrastinate?
- make excuses?
- react unfavorably?
- make judgments or assumptions?
- complain?
- get annoyed?
- feel stressed?
Wherever these behavior patterns appear in your life, you can be sure there is a limiting belief buried in there that’s holding you back.
Holding on to resentment is like eating poison and expecting the other person to die. The only person it hurts is you. And it is significantly more detrimental to how your life plays out than you could possibly imagine (or you would’ve let them go a long time ago).
So why do we all hold on to them?
We get addicted to negative thoughts and emotions. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true.
We can literally turn on our body’s stress response just by thought alone, and we do it daily.
The hormones of stress are very addictive. Incredibly so. The body gets a rush of adrenaline and energy, and then the brain becomes stimulated.
People become addicted to these emotions of stress: anger, aggression, hatred, fear, anxiety, worry, guilt, shame, suffering, and unworthiness to name a few.
So then, people begin to use the conditions and problems in their lives to reaffirm their addiction to these emotions. This is the vicious cycle that most are consumed by. They need to struggle financially, be in a bad relationship, be overweight, or whatever their struggle is because it makes them feel something familiar. Something comfortable, even if the comfortable thing is something they don’t want.
(Sidebar: Comfort is the enemy of growth. So much so that it would greatly benefit you to force yourself to do something uncomfortable every morning. For example, you could do what I do, a 3-minute workout within 5 minutes of waking and then go directly into a cold shower. It is invigorating, and you are showing your body who is in charge. YOU!
Plus, this gets the blood flowing, and your brain firing, and the cold shower reduces inflammation. This is a win, win, win way to start your day, and you feel amazing after every single time.)
It is in this way that people become addicted to the life they don’t even like or want.
Why? As I said, our brains are designed to ensure survival. The brain does this by alerting us to potential threats and helping us respond. You know, just in case a Saber Tooth tiger starts chasing us when we are out looking for food. That is the kind of thing our stress response was originally built for.
So then, what do we do? We select the worst-case scenario for everything while we are living in survival mode. When you think about the future, you select the worst-case scenario (aka the negative emotion you’re addicted to but DON’T actually want). Now, your body believes it is living in the future, and this becomes an endless cycle because your subconscious chooses this automatically based on your current thought patterns.
Then, you are knocking your body out of psychological balance by thought alone. And you do this over and over again every day, usually expecting a different result. This is why even when you have goals and desires, you don’t reach them because you are caught in this destructive thought loop pattern.
Your [subconscious] mind gives you what you think about most, even though, in this situation, it is the very thing you are trying to get away from. You need to consciously override the negative thought patterns with positive ones that serve you.
Performing a cost-benefit analysis can be extremely helpful – If there is zero benefit and 100% cost, let it go!
For good or bad, this is why you are where you are in life. We get what we think about most.
Here’s how it works. The 5 Primary Drivers of Human Behavior. This is basic behavioral sociology that you can find in any medical journal.
The decisions you have made about what you believe lead to the thoughts you have. The thoughts you have produce feelings or emotions that lead to the actions you take (or don’t take because inaction is a decision not to act). The action you take leads to a result, and that result will reinforce your existing beliefs.
When living in scarcity, you are almost always thinking about what you don’t want, and that is exactly what you get more of.
Does any of this sound familiar? I wish I believed in myself. I wish I weren’t overweight. I wish I weren’t broke. I wish I weren’t single. When you keep thinking about what you don’t want, you are actually reinforcing it in your subconscious.
Your Subconscious Mind is your “emotional mind,” and it cannot reject the information that is presented to it. It accepts what you think about most as what you want. Your subconscious cannot determine the difference between what is real and what is imagined, good or bad. It relies on the conscious mind for that.
As a result, whatever you think about most (positive or negative), your subconscious accepts as what you want more of and processes accordingly. This is why you continue to get more of what you don’t actually want, and the cycle will go on and on like this until you consciously change it.
The Conscious Mind is the “thinking mind,” and its function is to accept, reject, or originate information. Once you accept the information as something you believe, it gets stored in your subconscious as fact forever or until, if ever, you get new information and decide to change that belief. But here’s the thing…most people never do this or even realize you can.
Poor thinkers are always coming from a place of lack. They are not thinking in terms of growth, opportunity, and expansion.
This is the same reason so many people have addiction or compulsion issues. They are trying to drown out and forget about the negative emotions they are addicted to. But here is where most get it wrong: you need to feel that pain to grow. The pain is a gift. This is why using prescription drugs to manage emotions is so dangerous and usually never-ending.
For example, I have never heard of a person taking antidepressants that wasn’t still depressed. Think about that for a minute. If you are popping pills every day and telling yourself that you are depressed, it is going to be impossible to not be depressed. When you keep telling yourself that you are!
No pain, no growth.
People drink and do drugs to get out of their minds (past and future) and become present. The way to not have pain in the future is to embrace it in the moment. It will be gone forever once you embrace it right when it happens and let it pass through. The key is learning to let it pass through.
Once you learn to do this, your life will radically change. Then, when you let go of the resentment you are holding on to, you will be unstoppable. No person, event, or situation will be able to knock you off course.
“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” – Bob Marley
This is also why you will see financially successful people who are a disaster in relationships, cheat on their spouse, are overweight, have addiction or compulsion issues, or end up losing all of their money. Somewhere, they have an unresolved resistance buried in their subconscious that is sabotaging their life. This is often resentment from their childhood that, on the surface, they are not aware of.
Learning to forgive is the most powerful new habit you can give yourself.
The good news is once you go through this process, the addiction and compulsion issues tend to right themselves.
People with “self-esteem” that is based on wealth, status, or position mean nothing. These people are empty inside. Self-esteem based on wealth isn’t real. It is why so many financially wealthy people are unhappy.
Remember, happiness is an inside game. No material item can give it to you.
I’m not on social media much, and you shouldn’t be either.
Unless you use social media as a source of income, you shouldn’t be on it more than once or twice a week for like 20 minutes tops!
Multiple studies show that excessive SM use (1+ hour per day) is linked to mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and stress, affecting a significant portion of the people using it.
About 30% of Americans consider themselves addicted to SM. 30%! And those are just the ones willing to admit it!
Look, there’s no question that SM is a major, major problem, especially as it relates to these specific issues. If you’re regularly experiencing depression, anxiety, or stress and you aren’t dramatically limiting or completely eliminating your SM use before you try another option, especially pharmaceuticals, then you are doing yourself and those closest to you a great injustice.
If you can’t switch to SM use at the very least every other day, you’re addicted, and it will serve you and your family very well to quit for 30 days just to do an internal reset. It is good to do this with anything you do on a regular basis, like coffee/caffeine, sugar, or alcohol, to name a few.
I know that at some point, to broaden my reach, I will be on SM more, but I am going to get as far as I can without it.
Since 2010, I’ve been exploring the insights of many extraordinary thought leaders in personal development, transformation, metaphysics, and spirituality.
Here’s my all-star list of mentors and the source of a lot of my knowledge and information: Tony Robbins (the GOAT), Dr. Joe Dispenza, Michael Singer, David Bayer, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Paul Martinelli, and Les Brown (Love Les! You got to be HUNGRY!).
I’ve also drawn inspiration from icons and all-stars of recent decades like Neville Goddard, Earl Nightingale, Wayne Dyer, Abraham Hicks, Raymond Charles Barker, Zig Ziglar, and Bob Proctor.
And, finally, the OG all-stars who revolutionized my journey—true pioneers from the turn of the 19th century, long before “personal development” was even a term: Charles Haanel, Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, Elsie Lincoln Benedict, and George Clason. I highly recommend checking these OG’s out; they had the greatest impact on my life.
I know this is a lot to digest, especially if you’ve never been exposed to these concepts, but if you want change, here is a great place to start:
In an area of your life where you are unhappy, consciously make different choices today than you did yesterday.
To Limitless Growth,
JH
“Don’t pray for an easier life; pray for the wisdom, strength, and courage to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee