Ashok Gupta explains why people may lack motivation to follow the retraining program, distinguishing intuition (pre-thought heartfelt sense) from emotions (reactive, thought-linked responses). He attributes negative thoughts and low motivation to altered brain chemistry (lower serotonin, dopamine, endorphins) and advises building the program into daily habits rather than depending on fluctuating feelings. He warns against perfectionism and information-overwhelm, recommends compassionate self-practice ("do your best, leave the rest"), suggests adapting the program to personal circumstances, and asks participants to commit at least 30 minutes a day (one sitting of breathing/meditation plus techniques integrated across the day).
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At least 30 minutes a day (breathing and meditation in one sitting, plus practising techniques throughout the day).
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And I think that's an ongoing theme in the work that we'll be doing over the next few months, which is that sometimes we rely on our feelings, or shall I say, more accurately emotions, to navigate life. And certainly in New Age programs, we hear about, oh, just follow your heart, follow your feelings, follow your emotions. And there's often confusion as to what that means. We're differentiating intuition from. From emotions. Intuition is a more heartfelt feeling that comes before we think about something. Whereas emotions are often reactions. They're thought reactions that have emotions attached to them, to our situation or things around us. And especially because we have a lot of brain activity going on, brain fog. We have lower levels of serotonin, which is the feel good chemical, dopamine, which is the motivation and reward chemical endorphins, which are your natural painkillers, as it were, the things that reduce your reaction to pain and other brain chemicals, because they are lower, we will find ourselves experiencing perhaps more negative moods. And we sometimes think, I'm a positive person. But why are these thoughts coming up? It's simply due to the brain chemistry and obviously these underlying patterns that we're going to be addressing. And therefore, we don't want to navigate our motivation to do the program from how we're feeling on a particular day. We simply put these things into place during the day, like good habits. Like we brush our teeth, have a shower each day. We don't question that. We don't think, do I feel like brushing my teeth today? Oh, I'm not sure. I don't really feel like it. Right. We just brush our teeth because we know it's good for us and we don't want other people to suffer the effects of us not brushing our teeth. So we brush our teeth right in the same way with these tools and techniques. They become good habits that we install into our day. And finally, some other pitfalls that we want to become aware of is one of the big ones in this condition is perfectionism. I must do the program perfectly or else, which can create a huge amount of stress and a huge amount of pressure on ourselves to do it perfectly. In fact, you can't do the program perfectly. I don't want you to do the program perfectly. I want you to do the program appropriate to what's right for you and what's working for you. So you learn the whole program and do it in the way that's intended, and then you adapt it according to your own personality and what motivates you or feeling that there's too much information and I can't absorb all of it. And this is often, sometimes what achiever personalities or perfectionists can do. They can feel overwhelmed with the amount of information because inadvertently, they've expected themselves to learn all of it perfectly. And I need to know all of it like the back of my hand. And especially when we're dealing with brain fog or other symptoms, this can be a little tricky. So you be compassionate with yourself. Just do your best, leave the rest. And that's a mantra you're going to be hearing time and time again on these webinar series. And finally, sometimes we can have a lot of external stress in our lives. There can be people around us, our family situation that can make it tricky to find the time to do the program. Or we may be perhaps a busy mother or father, a busy household, and thinking, how am I going to find time to do this? Or I've got a lot of stress around me even in those situations. I believe that we can employ the Gupta program because what I ask you to do is simply focus on at least 30 minutes a day. So that's the breathing and meditation in one sitting and then practicing some techniques throughout the day which can fit around your normal lifestyle. So we have people who work in full time office jobs who are still able to put the program into practice in their own way, adapting it in their own way. So once again, as we go through the program, let's become more and more aware of those little patterns that come up, those little thought patterns that indicate to us that something's wrong. We can't do the program. It's too much, it's overwhelming. I can't do this. And we don't try to fight it, we just write them down. Just become aware of it for the moment and we'll obviously, for those of you who've already done it, you know how to retrain those patterns. But for everybody else, as we go along with the program, we'll teach you how to deal with those. But for the moment, the most important factor is simple awareness and not taking it too seriously, right? How often do we have these thoughts and these emotions? And we take it so seriously, we attach so much importance to it. We take it as gospel. Instead, it's just saying, Ashok said that right now, in this state of being, my mind is going to throw up all kinds of negative thoughts, fearful thoughts, angry thoughts, unusual thoughts, illogical thoughts. And that's okay. I don't buy into them. I simply observe them and write them down and not.
