When you SHIFT your 'self image'...you change timelines.

Aaron Doughty explains how your self-image, formed subconsciously in childhood, controls what you attract and become. He shifted from a shoe-sales job to full-time YouTuber in six months by visualizing a new identity. Daily meditation to embody your desired self is the tool he recommends.
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What is your self-concept, your self-image? How do you view yourself? Because what a lot of people don't understand is that their self-image is what is controlling what they allow into their life and what they are blocking from their life. Their self-image is what determines how they are thinking, feeling, and acting, The self-image determines the kind of people you attract into your life, the kind of people you repel out of your life, the kind of synchronicities that come into your life, the kind of synchronicities and opportunities that they block from their life. And many people experience blocks because they're thinking affirmations, they're focusing on what they believe they want, but they wonder, why am I blocked? Even when you think of imposter syndrome or self-sabotage, what is happening is there's a self subconscious concept or self-image that is on autopilot that's getting antsy because you're starting to step into the unknown or you're thinking about it and your self-image is going, this isn't me, this isn't me. I'm this limited person over here. I'm this living person over here, which is interesting, right? Because we create our self-image subconsciously when we were young, when before we could even really understand what we were doing, we absorbed the energy of our parents, we absorbed the energy of our childhood dynamics, and we started to develop a sense of self. This is who I am. And that was primarily, by the way, when we were also in theta state, the deep level of hypnosis, up until we're about 7 or 8 years old. We're just absorbing the energy of our environment. And then years later, we're like, I'm experiencing blocks with abundance. I'm experiencing blocks in relationships. Why? Well, there is an attachment to a self-image, a self-concept, that only feels safe if it's enacted, if it's embodied. And one of the most powerful things to understand is that your reality will completely shift when you change your self-image, when you change your self-concept. This is honestly probably one of the fundamental cores of all self-help, Tony Robbins teachings, many of them are derived from a book called Psycho-Cybernetics, all about the psycho-cybernetic mechanism of our identity. You go to a Tony Robbins event, you're gonna look at your values that make up your identity. You're gonna look at when you got certain ideas of who you are, who you had to be so your mom or dad could love you. But it's all rooted in this idea of self-concept, of self-image. And this book, "Psycho-Cybernetics," is one of the founding books of like personal development, very well-known book. You look at one of the books that's one of literally the most popular books in all of self-help, it's called "Atomic Habits," which are all about little habits that you make that change your life over time, but it's all about identity. These little habits, you do this little thing every day, you're gonna begin changing your identity. That's what the whole point of the book is. It's one of the top-selling books. It's literally been like one of the top-selling books for like the last years, many years. There's a reason this resonates so deeply with people. And I think of even the transformation of my life, bring it back to 2017, selling women's shoes, feeling trapped, in a 9-to-5 job where things weren't fair, just like when I was a kid, things weren't fair. Go tell someone about it, get more trouble. Corporate politics at this job, tell someone about it, get more trouble. In an interesting way, maybe there was a part of me that felt safe and familiar and it was equal to my self-image, my self-concept. It wasn't until I changed my self-concept, I made a new choice about who I was, I literally within my quantum field started to embody the energy of a full-time YouTuber. I started thinking, feeling, and acting as a full-time YouTuber. I'd visualize it, I'd feel it, and I would be it. And within 6 months, my life transformed. I quit my 9-to-5 job and I was a full-time YouTuber, all from changing my sense of self-identity of how I viewed myself and aligning myself to a new version of me, By visualizing it, feeling it, being passionate about it, literally being almost obsessed with this new version of myself. You take it back to when I read the book Psycho-Cybernetics back in 2012, 2011. I read that book, was a mediocre sales employee that was right in the middle of a list of top salespeople from the day before. Every day we got that, it was always— sometimes you wanna know what your self-image is, by the way, look around. My life is equal to a 9-to-5 job I don't like, a relationship that's not healthy, or no relationship. Maybe that's been familiarized too, being alone. But nonetheless, I became aware of my self-image. I started to be a top-selling version of Aaron. I started, I realized that meant greeting every customer. That meant focusing on having fun and focus on showing my personality and connecting with people, adding value to them, Going above and beyond. These are things that shifted and very quickly from the middle of the list towards the top of the list, completely changed. Now, as much as I'm expressing to you right now, all of these shifts you can make by simply choosing to be a new you, I want you to become aware that this self-image, this self-concept is still a concept. You are an eternal spiritual being living a temporary human experience. Even if you say right now, you say, okay, my self-concept was I'm a 9-to-5 job goer. Now my self-concept is I love what I do and I'm passionate, I'm an artist. It's still a concept. You're an eternal spiritual being. Even now, as I'm making this video, I can tell My identity has been shifting. If I were just to be a YouTuber the rest of my life, I'd get bored. If I were to view myself as that, I could still make videos, but running live events, more passionate about that. Here's the thing, I could do that for 20 years and eventually that will become a self-limiting concept. So maybe what got me here isn't gonna get me there, but there's fear around changing. There's fear around sometimes me making less content. Because hard work has got me where I'm at. But what I've realized recently is my self-concept is shifting because I'm realizing it's more about aligned energy, enjoying life, tapping into the energy of the ideal version of me, the lifestyle, being it because it's who I choose to be. So one of the things I want you to start looking at is what is your self-concept? Maybe that self-concept was created in childhood when you were in a theta state. Up until 8 years old, you're primarily in a theta brainwave state. Then you're in an alpha state and a theta state. And then puberty, you get into an alpha, theta, and beta state, which is more conscious, aware, less impact over the subconscious mind as well. If you want to change your self-concept, the thing that I recommend that can change everything for you is meditation, is doing a meditation every single day of wiring in a new self-concept. But even when I say that, it's like you're an eternal spiritual being. The self-concept is kind of an illusion as well, but more so connect to the energy of a version of you that's in the quantum field that you choose to be. So for me, what I've realized is Creating content, but doing it in a way that is, I'm more passionate about, which means doing live events, doing lives even on Instagram and lives on social media because it puts, it brings me more to life. But also I'm in a higher frequency. That's how I enjoy making content. And that begins to change the energy of how I go about things and changes my self-concept. So one thing I want you to start to become aware of is what is your current old self-concept and what is the self-concept that you choose to be? Now, it's still a concept. However, the thing that I encourage you to look at is that as a symbol for connecting to the quantum field of the impact you wanna have in the world. Because part of my self-concept now is seeing the impact I wanna make in the world. Seeing the people that are transformed, focusing on being in live events and helping people transform. Like there's this new energy that's way more fulfilling for me that I can connect to as a symbol. And the key is every single day creating that energy in your life through meditation and through embodying it. But meditation allows you to connect to the energy in your field, to bring it into your field, which will bring new synchronicities and new opportunities into your life. So the point in this is to realize that the way outer reality changes is by you changing your inner reality. It's by you focusing on your field. Change your energy and then your life changes. Instead of trying to change from a current level of consciousness and a current self-concept, the outer reality, which takes a lot of work, I'm saying go the inside out. Focus on your energy. Question the current self-concept you created. I'm realizing for myself that I'm looking at myself like, okay, this next level I wanna go to, I've grown to a level of having millions of subscribers on YouTube, but there's this next level that I wanna tap into. What's blocking me? Part of it I realized was there's this belief around getting bigger means more problems, it means more criticism, more judgment, more drama. And that is like a subconscious block, but can I reframe that? I get to have more impact. I get to have more connections to other people. I can handle it. I can handle whatever the transformation is, whatever the tension is that comes in. You see the difference in the mindset there? Fear around, if I don't make constant content on Instagram and social media and YouTube, oh, my whole audience is gonna go away. Maybe if I make less content that's more aligned, people will resonate with a deeper aspect of me. Some people will fall away that maybe codependently need every single video that I make and just like lots and lots and lots of content, but maybe it attracts in a whole new audience of people that resonate with me and they're not attached or angry if I'm not making so many videos. You see the difference here? It's a different energy. So one thing I wanna encourage you to do is to begin connecting to the field. Just focus on your field for the next 30 days and watch how much your life changes. Focus on feeling it before it's here. Focus on aligning your energy to that version of you. It already exists in the quantum field. I think of the version of me in 2017 that literally connected to a future version of me that was already a full-time YouTuber, and the message was, make a video a day, your life will transform. It literally felt like in my timeline, it was like a divine intervention or message. I started to do it and my life changed. What I'm saying to you is the information is in your field. You just have to energetically tune to it. And meditation, I have found, is one of the most powerful ways to do so. So we can physically take action, we can do all of these things, we can have different habits. At the same time, change your energy, then watch how much your life begins to change. If you want a step-by-step process that will show you exactly how to transform your identity from the inside out and give you a meditation for doing so, I have a live training on YouTube that you can watch right now. Commit to the meditation for 30 days, watch how much your life changes. I'll put it right here. This video is a workshop that will show you how to create inside-out transformation.
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