How to Break OUT of the Prison of Your Mind Once and for All
In this self‑help video Aaron Doughty argues that the mind functions like a prison built from the identity beliefs and labels we accept about ourselves. He explains that external influences—media, upbringing, and relationships—impose limiting rules that keep us stuck. By becoming aware of these identity beliefs and deliberately challenging them through a specific type of meditation, we can rewrite our self‑image, shift the chain of belief → feeling → action, and experience freedom. Doughty illustrates the concept with personal stories of a controlling step‑mother, ADHD diagnosis, low self‑esteem, and a low‑status retail job, showing how changing his self‑identity transformed his grades, sales performance, and relationships. He then promotes a five‑part “Mind Shift Meditations” program, offering bonuses and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee, positioning the meditations as a step‑by‑step method to release identity beliefs and create life on one’s own terms.
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How to escape your mind. Many people may feel stuck or may feel like there's so many walls, they feel constricted and they don't know exactly what to do. Well, the key— there's a key to this, and the key will unlock you from the prison of your mind. And in this video, I'm gonna show you exactly what that key is and exactly how to lose it, to use it, or to lose it, to lose being inside your mind so that you finally become free. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron. I help people expand their consciousness. Now on this video, I'm gonna show you how to escape the prison of your mind, and this has to do with understanding first off that you're in a prison. Your mind is a prison, and when you're stuck in your mind, when you're inside of your head, you will feel constricted. You will feel stuck. You will feel like these blocks keep coming up, like you want to make progress, but these things keep happening. And that's because when we're inside of our own mind and the rules and the beliefs we set up, they keep us imprisoned. And the key is for us to first off know that we're in it. So this isn't something that it's like, uh, this, this is something that the more awareness we have, the better. In reality in general, something I believe that happens in the world is in a way there is an intention for people to influence your own mind. Part of that could be the media that you watch because when you watch certain media, it keeps you in a fear and anger mentality, which means that then you're so busy doing this, all this other stuff that you may not question and wonder, why am I, what's my purpose here? Why am I really here? What's really going on in the world? To question and for us to think for ourselves is something where we're told what to think. And what happens is when we're kept within a certain belief system, we feel imprisoned. We don't actually reach our full potential. And any person that you've seen that's acquired a certain amount of success, anybody that is, that has really accomplished something that you admire, what they've had to do, what they had done is go beyond their belief system. They've had to break out of the shell of the way people assume them to be. And they'd have to, they had to break out of their own identity, the way that they saw themselves. Now, this is what happened to me. The key— and first off, you know, I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to keep the video going all the way to the end and say, by the way, the key is meditation. But it's a certain type of meditation. It's meditation that changes your identity, core beliefs about who you are. I actually stumbled across this when I was back in the day. Maybe you've heard part of my story. I'm going to share a little bit of it right now so that you can see what I mean. But what happened back in the day, and this is the IB, this is the key, it's the labels that I had that defined me. I, as many of you know, between 7 and 15 years old, Aaron's telling the story again, between 7 and 15 years old, I had that of an ex-stepmom that was in my life that was very controlling. My brother and I had no freedom whatsoever. Many times we were just working outside. We weren't allowed to have friends. We weren't allowed to go to school. We'd get school activities taken away from us. We'd get books taken away from us. I think maybe that's why I like Harry Potter so much. That was my escape. That was my escape. But what happened is that made me, that ended up making me feel unworthy. After my dad divorced her when I was 15, my brother and I have a whole new world. We're able to have friends, we're able to watch TV, we're able to eat enough food because we were very malnutritioned before that. We were only given a bowl of cereal in the morning, TV dinner at night, both very, very skinny. And then what happened is 15 years old comes around, we have all this freedom. Yay. However, we both still felt unworthy. Then what happened is I had all this energy because now I'm allowed to be myself. And then people would tell me that I had ADHD. So I go to a doctor, they give me Adderall, the prescription drug for it. So I had trouble focusing and I started to label myself and I started to think of myself as somebody that had trouble focusing. So I worked at Nordstrom's in women's shoes. Uh, there was like a lot of jokes about how, just how much energy I had and stuff. And it was a point to where I felt, uh, unworthy. I felt lonely. I felt like I couldn't necessarily, you know, I kept attracting women into my life that were very controlling. Now listen to this as well. Our mind will play patterns on us. Where's that word? Patterns. So even though my ex-stepmom was no longer in my life, here, listen to how weird this is. This is how the prison of the mind works. When my dad divorced my ex-stepmom when I was 15 years old, I remember that I had all this freedom all of a sudden. And you want to know what went through my mind? This is scary. This is scary to have this much freedom because I wasn't used— I was used to having to like sneak food. I was used to having like put in this little box of not able to like sneak watching TV and stuff. And all of a sudden I had all this freedom and it felt weird. It felt like there was like, I think what I craved was certainty. So I see how some people may get out of abusive relationships and want to go back to it because it's what they know. It's what feels safe even though it's not safe. And it sounds crazy, but I remember feeling it at that place. Well, guess what happened? No worries. I ended up attracting women. It was always women came into my life that would try to control me. It was an ex-girlfriend, right? When I got out of that relationship with, uh, or when I got out of, like, I didn't have to see my ex-stepmom anymore. I then had a girlfriend that was trying to control me, that didn't like how loud I was. She just did. There were so many things that I had to be a certain way. And then I broke up with her, and then I got transferred to another department in women's shoes at Nordstrom's. And I went from one woman woman's shoe to a better woman's shoe department with a more expensive price point because it was sales commission. But the manager of that department was exactly like my ex-stepmom. It was crazy how similar she was. And then I became aware of this. I started to let go of these labels and to unroot them. And once I learned meditation and I learned how to let go of those identity beliefs, guess what happened? That manager got fired within 2 weeks. I've never had to deal with someone in my life again, any woman or man, that tries to control me. And it's because now I have dropped that from my sense of identity. Even just— I realize, even looking back in high school, in freshman year, I felt and saw myself as dumb. Not dumb, an average student. I saw myself as an average student. I just didn't think I was smart. I was getting C's. Then one time, there was this one situation where I did good on this test, and these, these, these people were talking about it, said, well, you smart, you did good in this one test. And I started to, in the moment, see myself as smart. From that At that point going forward, I went from C's to getting B's and A's consistently. I had a 3.8 GPA in high school and I took like honors classes and stuff. Not trying to brag or anything, but that is— I just changed my identity. I changed my identity beliefs. When we change our identity beliefs, we become free. These little beliefs, these little labels imprison us. When I learned meditation, I used to tell myself a story. I can't meditate. I have ADHD. But I said, you know what, I'm gonna learn how to observe my thoughts. I'm gonna do this no matter what. And guess what happened after about 3 or 4 days of doing it? It completely changed the way that I felt. I then redefined myself. I became aware of all these beliefs I had about myself and started to let them go. I realized I just agreed to them at a certain point in my life. So if somebody calls you shy, you can challenge that belief. You can be honest yourself. Yeah, maybe I'm a little bit of introvert, but I'm not afraid to talk to people. But at the same time, maybe it's somebody told you something about, you know, your— just your body or something like that, or how you look, and you just agreed to it. What if you were to challenge it? And then you would start to feel different about yourself, and that's when you start to become free. The key to being free is realizing that these labels are not you. You may think that's— you may, you may have these labels, but they're not who you are. So that's the key to this. Now, the IB, the identity beliefs, are what keep you trapped within the prison of your own mind. The key to being free is learning to observe them and to challenge them and to get to a level of letting them go and realizing who you really are. That's the key. And these— there's many rules we'll have. We'll have rules that are kind of like beliefs, and that say, I will feel happy when XYZ. I will feel happy when I have this. The thing is, is if we play according to those rules, we're siphoning our own happiness. Why can't we be happy in the present moment? I will know someone loves me when they text me every day and they tell me how amazing I am. You see what I mean? What happens is these, these rules make it so we don't feel love as often. And a lot of times those rules are based on external things. Which means you're trying to control the outside. If the rules were based on just things like, I choose to feel love when I focus on something I'm grateful for. Oh my goodness, I could do that all day long. I choose to feel worthy when I am just recognizing something within myself. Oh, that's internal. I can do that all the time. It's easy to do, but we make a lot of things very hard because we make them and we make rules that are very detailed and specific. I will know I am loved when this person texts me Hey, hey, Gucci Goo Goo, how are you? Like we want to be talked like a kid or something. So the key to this is breaking out of those walls, becoming aware of your self-image. I realized, and I learned this when I learned this meditation stuff, I was working that 9-to-5 job. When I learned that, guess what happened? I was working that 9-to-5 job, I saw myself as just an average employee. I was— we go in every day and it was sales commission selling women's shoes, you know, slinging those shoes. And then Every day you go in, you see the top salespeople from the day before. You see like the list of the people that were top salespeople, the people that, that didn't do so well. And then it was like a comparison factor every day. But I realized I just see myself as the kind of person that comes in and is always in the middle. And I was always in the middle. Guess what I did? And then I saw myself as a top salesperson. I changed my self-image. I then went in and I started acting that way. And guess what happened from that point going forward? I was at the top. All I did was change my self-image because our self-image, the way we see ourselves, is what we project out and it's what we act in according to. So if you see yourself as a top salesperson, you begin to act according to it. You begin to model it. Your thoughts, your feelings, and your emotions begin to link up to it. So the key to this is understanding that when you change your beliefs, you change your whole life. Your beliefs cause your feelings. Your whatever you believe to be true then causes a feeling. A belief is like a meaning, and a belief is like a thought a patterned thought in a way that then caused you to feel a certain way. So you say, oh, this, like if you were to break up with someone or someone to break up with you, the meaning you gave that would be the feeling you felt. If you felt good about that, you're like, hey, I got freedom now. Then you'd feel great. If you felt like, no, this was my one chance at love. I don't care what happens. I don't feel so good. It's because the belief is causing that. But if you change the meaning, the belief, it changes how you feel. That's the cool thing. And then you got the feeling. It's like the idea of a rainy day is a neutral idea, but your meaning you give it, whether you give it a positive thing with it or not. So it's your meaning. It's up to you. You choose it. It's just that many times we've chosen these meanings based on agreeing with society or agreeing to something someone told us growing up, watching 100 Disney movies. Oh, this is my one chance for Prince Charming. But the truth is, you can free yourself from that belief system. And then the feelings. And when you're in a certain state, then you have thoughts that are equal to it. That's why Tony Robbins teaches change your state, change your life, because when you change your state, you then change how you think. That's why feelings comes before thoughts, even though people must be like, no, thoughts come before that. If feelings, then thoughts, then actions, then you take actions, then you get the results, which fuels the belief. If you change your beliefs, and more specifically your identity beliefs, you will change and transform your life, and you will become free to create life on your terms. Stop giving away your power. It's not for everyone, it's for you to use to then also add value out into the world. So it's about changing your identity beliefs. This is how I became free. You might, I mean, I meditate every day. I no longer have ADHD. I still have a lot of energy as you can probably tell. I feel completely worthy. I love my life. I love who I am. I don't feel unworthy. I don't feel dumb. I feel like I'm a smart person. I'm able to share these ideas. That's all changed and I feel empowered because I've let go of my identity beliefs. Now I'm gonna make and have this video go out. There is something that I have that will help you to change your identity beliefs. They are the most powerful meditations that I've ever made. There's 5 meditations, there's 5-step process to this, to doing this and to releasing your identity beliefs. And I believe it will completely transform your life. They're called Mind Shift Meditations. You will see them in the top of the description box below. And if you join right now, let me first off say I guarantee it works. If it doesn't, you get your money back. Unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee. You'll see in the top of the description box below as well, there's a really cool bonus in there. What I did is it's called the Epiphany Notes. I went through my iPad and I have all of these screenshot notes with like notes that I handwrote in there of my personal notes, over 200 screenshots. Of different books where I circled certain sections in some of them and then I, I wrote little notes down. You get all of those, you get like over 200 of those plus all the documentaries, um, I, I link to that have changed my life. All the kind of like behind the scenes of like the things I actually study myself. I share those. There's also a Behind the Mind series where I interview and show you the belief system of Lior Alexandra, Victor Oddo, Aaron Doughty and Ryan Cropper. This is something that, that shows you inside the belief system of different people so you can see what made the shift. But this is for you if you're ready to take your power back, if you're ready to get rid of those identity beliefs and to become free to create life on your terms. If you feel stuck, you feel like blocks keep coming up, if you feel like you love the content that I create but you just don't know exactly how to apply it, well, this is a step-by-step process that helps you to take your power back. To become free and to start creating life on your terms. These rules are not meant to be walls. You're meant to let go of those to create life on your terms so that you feel empowered. And these meditations get you into that subconscious mind. They get you into that to completely transform it from the inside out. And like I said, if you click the link below, you will get those bonuses as well. So you go ahead and click there. Look forward to seeing you on the inside. And I think 5 meditations can transform your life. Like I said, I guarantee it or your money back. So anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video and as always, I'll see you later. Peace, much love, and namaste.
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