Train Your Brain To Bend Reality And Manifest Anything | Vishen Lakhiani

Hi, everyone. So what we're going to do over here is give you guys a couple of action steps to move into what Steven Kotler calls the polyphasic life. So if you think about the world today, we live in a monophasic world. The world tells us that there's one singular state of consciousness. But if you look at indigenous cultures, they lived and functioned in multi phases of consciousness. Polyphasic living, you could call it the Atchua tribe in the Amazon. They believe what they dream in the dream world is real and they use dreams to communicate. So a crazy story, but the Achua tribe, this is the tribe I wrote about in my book the Code of the Extraordinary Mind. And they were suffering because their rainforest was being cut down by logging companies. And they wanted help. They went into the dream state and they projected into the dream state the cry for help. My friend Lynn Twist, who's a famous, famous NGO leader, non government organization, she had started an organization that was feeding millions of people, and she had kind of completed that. And she was looking for new things to do. And she would wake up every day with dreams of these indigenous people with red paint on their face. She couldn't figure out what it was until she was telling a friend and he says, well, what you're describing says sounds like the Achuar. So he flew with her to visit the Achuar tribe. And it turned out that they had been calling for help. And here was that help. Lynn partnered with the Achuar tribe and went on to save and preserve close to 4 million, if I remember the numbers right. 4 million acres of Amazon land, Right? That's what we mean by being able to access altered states of consciousness. Now, it's not just indigenous tribes in the Amazon. Think about Sufis, the mystical element of Islam. They access altered states through dance. Think about the Buddhists who access altered states through meditations. My mom, who is a Hindu, she has a group of other women who are Buddhist and Hindu. And they come together in this community of maybe around 10 to 20 women. And they sit together and they chant and they pray for other members of their community who might be sick or who might need some help. And something really interesting happens. Within days, these people start experiencing healings or they start seeing elements of their health shift again. This is accessing those altered states. But the modern Western world tells us that this is not true. I was interviewing Steven Kotler. He says it started with the French Enlightenment. I mean, it was an amazing aspect of when we came out of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance emerged. But with that focus on science, somehow we forgot to remember that our ancestors had access to these consciousness technologies in really remarkable ways that we did not bring into the modern world. So the goal here, and the goal of aphas here is to teach you guys the idea, the model of reality, that you can live a far more limitless life when you get to access these altered states of consciousness. How many of you here would like to start bringing this into your life immediately? So what I'm going to talk about is the state that I'm most familiar with. See, one of the interesting things about states of consciousness is we all experience them in our own way, right? So what a Sufi is experiencing is different from what a Tibetan monk is different from what I might experience at 40 years of Zen or you might experience during your meditation. We still haven't figured out how to map and collaborate and label all of these states. So sometimes we talk about the same state, but we have different labels. Just the state of flow itself has been called by many different terms, from mojo to flow to state of limitless. Now, the state that I'm most obsessed with is this. I call it the state of limitless. And I've been talking about this for almost nine years now. Let me try to define it. It's a mental state of mind in which you are pulled forward by big goals, yet happy where you are now. It creates a feeling of growth and a feeling of being lucky. So let me define that again. Okay? The state of limitless is the state where you have crazy visions for yourself in the world. Crazy visions for how you want to grow, for how you want to improve the world, for how you want to leave the world better off for humanity. And they're not coming from the ego. These visions are not about, oh, you know, I want to get a million bucks saved in my bank account or buy a flashy car. Often the visions are about pushing humanity forward. It's less ego, it's more us, more we. But at the same time, your happiness isn't tied to that vision. Your happiness is untangled from the vision. You're happy in the now while still moving towards a vision. Now. There are some interesting things about this quality of the state of limitless, which I tried to map and label because I felt this, my students felt this. The first is a sense of connectedness, Tribe, community, connectedness become really, really, really important to you if you run a company. You care about your employees. The state of joy, the friendships within your company matter. You like events like a fest, because you get to Connect. Wim Hof said it at the pool today. He said something along the lines of it's no longer about individuality, it's about us. It's about us coming together. That's one thing that you start to feel in this state. Human connection is really, really, really important. It's less about the ego. But that level of connectedness also extends to all life. You start caring a about the environment. You care about the fact that you know 10 to 15 species are going extinct every week in the world today. And you want to do something about it. You sign up for gift back day. You're like Rebecca. Rebecca is one of those people who just has this huge sense of connectedness. Now the second thing is you're tapped into intuition. You feel an impulse, you feel a gut reaction. You sometimes wake up in the middle of the morning and you instantly have an idea. How many of you have experienced this? In the morning or while you're showering, These ideas flood your brain. That's intuition. Intuition can be a powerful thing. Our modern world sometimes tells us to shut it off. Or they, you know, 10 years ago you couldn't talk about psychic potential. You'd be considered a wacko. And there were indeed lots of psychics who were scam artists. Today I believe the idea that we all have psychic potential within us and that we can apply it to business is becoming more and more real. Newark College of Engineering did a study. The professor's name was John mihalasky. He put CEOs through ESP test test to test their psychic potential. They found a correlation. CEOs who had higher psychic potential on these tests were the same CEOs who were creating the biggest rises in profitability for their companies. So I believe this is going to be another big field of study. But when you're in that state of limitless, you have that potential. You are drawn to people or repulsed by some people. You are drawn to ideas and you instantly sometimes know what not to focus on. It's as if you have this inner guidance system. Now the third is this inspiration drives your intention. You sometimes have difficulty with traditional goal setting because you have start to awaken to the fact that that when you do traditional goal setting, you're sometimes chasing the goals that society has said you have to chase. But when you're listening to your heart and your intuition, you're chasing the goals that your soul or a greater power want you to chase. And therefore you tend to be more dead on. You don't go all the way to achieve something, only to Realize that you're still miserable because you were chasing something that your parents told you you had to do, or society told you you had to do. Here's a classic example. In America. America has 5% of the world's population, 70% of the world's lawyers. And the reason for that is because since the 80s, through shows like Ally McBeal and L A Law, law has been glamorized in the us Law right now is the highest starting salary. If you come out as a lawyer from graduate school, Highest starting salary, 75k in America. But here's where it gets crazy. Numerous Studies show that 50% of lawyers are clinically depressed. 50%. But why do people become lawyers anyway? They are chasing a goal embedded in them by media, by society. No baby, no child, no seven year old, goes mom and dad, I want to be a lawyer. It just doesn't happen. So people who are in the state of limitless, their intention, their goals are driven by inspiration. Now the final element is that they feel lucky. It's really bizarre. Luck seems to be on your side. You notice synchronicities, you notice coincidences. The right people tend to come into your life, okay, so these four things define this state, I repeat, connectedness with all life, with all people. You tend to have a kind heart, a good soul, intuition. You have this gut instinct on what you need to do. It's not always there. Don't feel like you know it's always turned on. But you are more right than wrong 55 or 60% of the time. And often that's enough to do really well in life. You take inspired action. Your goals come from within, not from what society tells you to do. And you just feel pretty damn lucky. You don't know what's going on, but stuff that you intend seems to come to you easily. So to get there, it's about two things, right? Like I said, you gotta have a vision for your future and you gotta have happiness in the now. So all human beings can exist. With these two as levers. You could have no happiness, no vision. In that case, you're depressed. Life is not going right. It's a miserable state of being. You should seek some help. But you also have people who are happy, but they have no vision. I call this the current reality trap. You're happy, but you don't really have any plans for your life or the world. Now some of you might say, well, that's fine. Isn't the point of life to be happy? Maybe. But you see, you can get happy from smoking A joint with Inam on the beach tonight or Steve Carter. They really know how to roll. But Tony Robbins says all of us have two great spiritual needs, the need to grow and the need to contribute. As souls, we're here to grow, we're here to contribute to other souls. There's that connection bit again. So if you're just happy, but you don't have a vision, you're never going to be fulfilled. And that's really the secret. You gotta be happy in the now, but you gotta have a vision right now. There are people, and this is the majority of entrepreneurs around the world, they have a vision, but they are not happy because they've fallen into the trap of deciding that they will be happy when they attain that vision, when they get that next round of investment, when they hit that next salary ratio, when they pull in that deal. That's bullshit too. Because if you are in that state of limitless, you find that luck is on your side, that you move so much faster. But you got to use happiness as a fuel and not happiness as the target. Your happiness must come while you're attaining your goal, not at the end of that attainment. Yes or yes. So you can map it out like that, right? Happiness in the now. Vision for the future. Negative spiral. Low on vision, low in happiness. Current reality trap. High on happiness, low on vision. Stress and anxiety, which is high vision, low happiness. Where you want to be is in that fourth box. And in that box, it almost feels as if you can bend reality. I'm sure you guys have seen people wearing that beautiful mindvalley T shirt. Bend reality. That's where that idea comes from. It feels, we joke about it, but it feels as if you can shift the very fabric of reality to close the gap between your vision and your life right now. Now, I coined the word bend reality around 10 years ago when I was giving a speech on this topic on stage in Calgary. But what is interesting is in 2011, Steve Jobs passed away and Walter Isaacson released Jobs bio. And in that bio three times, Walter Isaacson referred to what Jobs could do as bend reality. And I do believe that Jobs was in on this because in that bio, Isaacson wrote about the mystical aspects of Steve Jobs. How he believed that, that there were certain people who had unique abilities, the avatars and the sages from India. And he believed he was one of them. I'm sure many of you guys read about Steve Jobs obsession with Paramahansa Yogananda before he died. The only book on his iPad was Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda. And that book is about shifting the fabric of reality. Yogananda talks about how the Hindus call reality Maya. It means illusion and that you can shift Maya. So Steve Jobs, at his funeral, he gave a copy of that book to everyone who attended. Bill Gates got a copy. Everyone who was there got a copy. And I believe at some level Jobs was in on this. You can bend reality now. You can't talk about this now because, you know, movies like the Secret hyped it up without really giving a clue or really approaching it from a scientific perspective. But what if we could. What if we could actually approach this from a scientific perspective? That's what's happening now. You can read this in books such as the Power of Eight or the Field or Michael Schmicher's. Michael Schmicher's book. Dammit, I forgot the name. Anyway, Google Michael Schmicher if you can spell Schmicher. But it's becoming more and more and more commonplace to talk about this. Right now I only talk about this with an AFES audience when I'm giving a corporate speech. I still don't because regular corporations don't really buy into this yet. But this is how we run mindvalley. This is how I function in my life. Now I want to give you some tools to get you there. Okay? Now the first is called the Six Phase Meditation. So it's based on this idea. There are six human needs that we need to level up in. And if we can level up in these human needs, we need we move ourselves to the state of limitless. Now, the first need is a feeling of being loved and loving others. So if you think about a high functioning computer, the computer needs electricity, needs to be plugged in. It needs a good cpu, it needs ram, it needs a hard drive. Think of it like these. These are little components of your human consciousness that you need to level up so you can get to these states. The first is you must feel love for yourself. Marisa Peer talks about this so well. And you must feel love for others for whatever reason. This seems to magnify that ability. Number two, gratitude and happiness. You must be happy in the now. Number three, peace. Now, what we mean by peace is you have removed negative charges towards other people. So at 40 years of Zen, you know, Chris's institute, one of the things they do to raise your Alpha, right? They found so. So. So they found that one of the quickest ways to raise your Alpha is through forgiveness, exercise. So when you're on 40 years of Zen for five days three full days. You work on forgiveness. You work on having your brain strapped to machines. And you're applying forgiveness to remove every negative charge you have towards everyone in your life who has wronged you. You know, ex business partners, ex employees, school teachers, parents, spouses, even your kids. Every single thing. And the crazy thing is, scientists are now studying forgiveness and they're finding that it actually shifts your consciousness and it shifts your body. One study from a university in Holland found that forgiveness increases your vertical jump. Think about that vertical jump. After I spoke about this, an NBA star called me up and said, hey, can you get me into 40 years of Zen? I kid you not. And forgiveness improves your endurance. But forgiveness also seems to heal the heart. It seems to create less anxiety, more feelings of love. It makes you sleep better. So it's a very powerful attribute. Okay, so that's the first three. Now the next three is a vision for the future. Knowing where you want to be in the future. Self determination, meaning feeling that you have control over today you're here and you're not a victim of circumstance. You have control over your day, day to day. You're not working for an abusive boss who is pushing you around, or you're not in an abusive relationship where someone is telling you what to do and you're not also just a helpless human being complaining about being stuck in traffic in a job you don't like. Most people in the world today feel as victims of the world. They feel the world happens to them. To have a sense of control, to have self determination, means you feel that the world happens through you and not to you. Yes or yes. Now the final ingredient is a feeling of being supported. Now this doesn't just mean support from family and friends. It means support from a higher power. It's why in many of the protocols, even protocols scientists are developing, you end your intention, you end your forgiveness ritual with talking or seeking support from guides, from God, from Jesus, from whatever you believe in. Now if this was a computer game and we were characters in a computer game, it should look like this. You are high on all of these six qualities. But actually as you go through life, you deplete in these qualities. And so the trick is, how do you stay at top level on these qualities? So what I developed over the last couple of years is a meditation protocol, which is basically not a meditation protocol. I have to call it meditation, for lack of better words. You see, meditation has become a catch all phrase. But the problem with meditation is that most meditation thought today, I believe is woefully Inadequate and not very powerful. It's about breathing in, breathing out, clearing your mind, focusing on your breath. And yes, there are benefits to that, Right? Right. But it's not just that. We forget that when we go into these states of mind. You can do more than just be peaceful. You can use that mind to solve problems, to practice gratitude, to connect with the universe, to tap into psychic potential, to heal. So when you talk about that, you're talking about what you would call dynamic or active meditation. So I developed the six phase. As an active meditation, you do not have to clear your mind, you do not get bored. Rather, your mind is working on solving problems and leveling you up in all of these six phases. So again, okay, the six phases are feeling of being loved and loving others, Gratitude and happiness. Peace, a vision for the future, Self determination, feeling support. Now, in the six phase meditation, you actually go through very rapid fire, two minutes each. Leveling up protocol for each of these six phases, we call these protocols transcendent practices. A transcendent practice is any practice where you step out of the physical world, you go inside yourself and you work on something creative. Visualization is a transcendent practice. Healing energy, healing is a transcendent practice. Acupuncture, reiki, but also forgiveness, gratitude, these are all transcendent practices. So all we did is I looked at the six top ones and I put this in the sixth phase. Now remember earlier I spoke about how you need to be happy, yet have a vision for the future. This is actually what the six phase is doing. The first three in that yellow border actually level up feelings of happiness. See, happiness doesn't just mean you're joyful. That's what gratitude does. It means you're free of negative charges. It means you're feeling love. That's why there are three different dimensions to leveling up happiness. Now the next is leveling up your vision for the future. And that is vision for the future, which is three to ten years self determination. Today, which is today my day is gonna fucking rock. And it's finally feeling support. And this means that I know that I'm supported. Universe has my back and I can move throughout the day with luck on my side. Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna guide you through the six phase. If you guys haven't done it before. But since the six phase takes is a protocol that takes some development before you leave a fest, we're actually going to, for free, give you a program to train you up on this. How many of you here have Done the six phase before. Excellent. And how many of you here do it every day when you wake up? Awesome. So the more you do it, the better and better and better it gets. Okay, so that's one protocol that you will leave with. You will leave with a six phase training. It's an eight day training. Again, it's completely free. You'll get to take it on MindValley Quest app. I'll give you access to it in a moment. Now, let me tell you about the second protocol, right, that's 40 years of Zen. So six phase, you can learn it on your own. And it creates like, it creates buildup. Even though I take 40 years of Zen, I still do six phase every day. And now I combine them. So there's an advanced level six phase which combines what you learn from 40 years of Zen with the six phase. More on that in a bit. Now let me tell you about 40 years of Zen. So these are the brainwave frequencies. If you are having burnout, you will see that your beta wave is like super, super, super high. Beta is the waking state. Alpha is the state of creativity. Around 10% of the people function really well in waking Alpha. They tend to be artists, they tend to be creators, they tend to be people who often feel lucky. Waking Theta is the state that is often associated with sleep. So I've seen Dave Asprey train on waking Theta. He starts drifting off into sleep, but ideas come to you. Now, Delta is the most interesting 1. About 1% of the population, when we test them at 40 years of Zen, they have waking Delta. What they have found with waking Delta is, is that these people have a high ability to create coincidences or create luck. They tend to be crazy influential. They tend to be billionaires. One person I did 40 years of Zen with, she has waking Delta. Like they would see that in her brain waves. So most of us go into Delta when we're asleep. She could do it when she was awake. And what they found at 40 years of Zen is if you can do it when you're awake, it's high correlation. With luck, you tend to be pretty successful. This lady, insanely successful. She got like 2 million bucks as an advance for her next book, right? Amazingly successful. But she would find that her thoughts would become real. And as soon as the doctors told her that at 40 years of Zen, she's like, oh my God, oh my God, oh God, now I understand. And I'm like, what happened? What do you understand? She says, okay, so I was dating this guy and then he did something really nasty. And he. He cheated on me. And I was so upset and I broke up with him and I said, damn it, I hope he breaks his penis. And the next day he fell off a ladder and broke his penis. So men don't fuck with women who have high waking delta. They can. So I did 40 years of Zen right with Jeffrey, Jeffrey Perlman. Those are some other students. Some of them are a festers from MindValleyU. And that's Dr. Drew in the center. Now there are a couple of different exercises you do there. So one of the things is they use these 3D helmets. There are very few of these in the world, but they are 3D helmets. You plug them on your brain and you look at the screen and you basically see the deficiencies in your brain. So they map your brain. Dr. Drew maps the brain for about. He works with Chris for about 20 minutes. So that's my brain. I have three brain issues. Asperger's. I sometimes accidentally flip words. So I'll be talking to someone from my team and I'll call them by another person's name. But I don't realize that they realize that. And people know that happens. My brain sometimes split words and I have a third one, which I forgot right now. Anyway, it's good when you forget your problems. So they map your brain and then your brain actually is listening to sound. And just like your brain, your brain's awareness extends to every element of your body. Your fingers and so on. Your brain extends its awareness to that sound. And that sound gives your brain feedback. And you can see over time, what I'm trying to do over here is improve my ability to recognize non verbal communication. Communication. It's to basically fight Asperger's. Right? So you can see over the sessions, my score is going up and then it kind of stabilizes. Set between 63 and 65, but below that it was 55. Very rapidly, those parts of the brain start lighting up. So it's a really, really cool system. Now the next thing that happens is that you go for acupuncture. So again, we are finding that consciousness is not just in the brain, it's through our entire body. The, the ancient Chinese figured this out when they mapped meridian lines. So you go for acupuncture and they stick needles in you. So you go and map your brain and they stick needles in your head. Then just so the rest of your body doesn't feel left out, you go and stick needles in the rest of your body. Now the final thing, and this is the Biggest one, you sit in the chamber. There's kind of like a red light over there. You wear a helmet like that. And basically what's going on is that this is where they train you to access these states. If you have low Alpha, you get trained to improve your Alpha. And after you've done that, a couple of sessions, you can get trained to improve your Theta, you can get trained. And for a few special guests, you can get trained to work on your Delta. But before you get trained to work on your Delta, you got to do a heck of a lot of forgiveness, because here's what they found. With Delta training, you can walk the world for good or for bad. And this is something I never thought. I thought, you know, if you're spiritually developed, you can only do good. Turns out, no, you can walk the world for good or for that. So they want to make sure that all anger has been removed. Because one of the pioneers of this training, Dr. Jim Hart, he runs another institute which is similar to 40 years of Zen. It's called biocybernot. It's in Victoria. Now, I've done both. I've done both, and I honestly believe 40 years of Zen is significantly better. But Jim Hart found that. He told me, well, you could train people to be Luke Skywalker, or you could train people to be Darth Vader. And I've trained a few Darth Vaders, and I never want to do it again. So forgiveness is so, so, so important. All anger, all hate must disappear. So, again, that's a map of my brain. I have gifts in certain areas, deficiencies in certain areas. When I'm working, my beta can go through the roof, and then I feel stress, but I'm training myself now to detect it and then slow it down. So when my beta is going up, I actually feel this pain in my heart area right here. And as soon as I feel it now, I triggered that in my body. As soon as I feel it, I know my brain is going into less efficient functioning. And so I do protocols to lower that pain. Now, Theta, I fall asleep. But Delta, I really. Delta, like, fires me up. So I have really off the charts waking Delta. And so when I Learned that at 40 years of Zen, I started developing protocols where I could use that waking Delta to create coincidences. So now the way I meditate, the way I work is very different. Everything I do, I work. I go into Delta and I work on the energy of it. Now, when you're working in Delta, you cannot do creative visualization. Creative visualization slows Down Delta brings up Alpha. So when you're working in Delta, you go straight into emotions and feelings and energy. You feel energy, you tap into energy, you play with energy. For example, before giving a speech, I'll spend 20 seconds going into Delta and feeling the energy of the speech and the room. And I'll see little black spots where the energy is off. And then I patch it up with light. And that's how I function in my life right now. Everything I create, it starts by tapping into these access states, working with the energy. So I want to show you the. Just a little video I did of the two instructors waving to you guys. That sounds so cheesy. Okay. Just look at the camera. Just smile. So they're really friendly people. They are not like mad scientists. That's Dr. Drew. Brilliant guy. So that's 40 years of Zen. Now, how do you access these states? Because we want to make sure those of you who want to stop exploring, exploring these states have a next step. So the first step is the six phase. We're giving you the training completely free. You do not have to pay a dime. Now you can get it from mindvalley's Quest app. So the training is basically, I will guide you through the six phases. One phase a day for seven days. Sorry, for six days. Day one, you learn the first phase, which is compassion. Day two, we stack on the second phase, gratitude. Day three, we stack on the third phase, which is forgiveness. And you learn the protocols. It's 20 minutes a day and then a 10 minute meditation. It's on the Quest app. So you can download Quest right now on Android or iPad or iPhone, even on Apple tv. We are on all the platforms. You can even do it on the web. Download the Quest app and basically just click enroll. You'll find that there's no buy button or anything. And then start it when you're ready and do day one to day six and on day seven. Basically what happens on day seven is we put all the six phases together and we guide you through it. So here's just a quick one minute video of the Quest app. So you know what this tool is about and how fucking cool this is. This is probably the number one learning platform in the world right now in terms of really high quality education and high engagement rates. Check it out.

Yeah, I'm ready to play now Put me in the game now I came here to prove it I'm ready to do it I can't be afraid now Put me on the stage now I'm ready to rage now I feel like an animal stuck in a cage? And I'm ready to break out? My time, my time? None of you people can tell me to stop this time like the last time? You better get ready to race it? Ready to do this, show you what the truth is? I step on the field, it's time to get real? I'm feeling so ruthless? Lower the lights down? Hand over my crown? Hand over my heart? I do for my town? I do this for my crowd? So turn me up real loud? My time, my time? None of you people can tell me to stop?

Yeah, Cool. So. So you can take the six phase on Quest. And the reason we give it free is because we know once you get on this app, you're going to love it. And then maybe you'll take some of the other program.