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Why You Keep Getting in Your Own Way | Kelli Russell | The IgnitedNeurons Podcast

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Utkarsh Narang, a psychologist with 25 years of experience, explains why affirmations fail: your nervous system doesn't believe them. The subconscious controls 95% of your behavior. The episode includes a guided visualization to rewire your nervous system and actually make change stick.

You don't have to do what you hate to get what you want.
90 days of telling yourself you're worthy, and the nervous system thinks, no, you're not. Half an hour of affirmations, 5 days a week, 90 days straight. I am smart. I am worthy. I am beautiful.
With each one of them, it tested weak, which means her body does not believe her when she says it.
But if every cell of your body does not believe in the affirmations that you repeat, Then repeating those affirmations is a waste of time.
We're in our subconscious mind for 95% of the time, and there are different things running the show than we're aware of.
25 years in psychology, counseling, and subconscious programming. But the line that changed her life landed in the middle of nowhere during a hike in Colorado, just past the dandelions. And within 24 hours of listening to that, she quit her job.
Have more fun. Everything doesn't have to be so serious.
We end the podcast today with a guided visualization and meditation breathing practice. And so today you'll not just listen to it, but you'll actually experience it live and have it affect your own life right now. Let's dive into it and see what meditation and breathing can do for each one of us.
I find 2 things almost always, like 98% of the time, it's feeling unlovable or