Jake Burhans explains how chronic negative thoughts like fear and anxiety act as chemical signals that condition your body into a low-level emotional state. Over months and years, your body learns to feel anxious or angry without an obvious cause, which then generates more negative thoughts. Breaking the cycle requires deliberately shifting your attention to positive thoughts like love and peace to recondition your body's chemistry.
Did you know you're actually chemically addicted to your lower level states of being? Your body's addicted to it like a drug addict. Because what happens is, as you begin to think these thoughts of fear, anxiety, and worry over the course of months and years, those thoughts are sending chemical signatures to your body, to the hormonal centers on your body, and your body is beginning to become conditioned to the chemical signature of those thoughts of fear, guilt, worry, anxiety. So over time, your body becomes the mind and you just wake up feeling fearful, feeling worry, feeling doubt, feeling anger, and you don't even know why. And that feeling obviously leads to more thoughts and it's this vicious cycle. Reprogramming the body and doing the inner work is about consciously understanding your awareness and consciously choosing the new thoughts that you want— abundance, love, peace, joy— and starting to recondition the body to a new mind.
