Vishen Lakhiani shares two methods to reach goals faster: use meditation to lower your brainwave frequency to alpha (7-14 Hz) and visualize what you want, and adopt a service-first intention in life. He draws on the Silva Method and Neale Donald Walsch's teaching that your life is about the lives of everyone you touch.
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My job is to aggregate all of personal growth through all of these multiple incredible individuals and wisdom teachers and present them to our mindvalley community with no bias for just my own work. So I want to start with the first teacher. Now, this is Jose Silva. How many of you here have heard of Jose Silva? Amazing. That's really great. Jose was born in Laredo, Texas. He was a Mexican. American psychologists worked for the US army and created what back then in the 60s was known as the Silva Method. The Silva Method was one of the first great personal growth programs. I studied. I studied it when I was 14 years old. Now, the first clue in terms of how do we move towards our goals was an important idea from the Silva Method. And that idea was to visualize your goals and to make positive statements about your goals when you are able to go into what is called the alpha level of mind. Now, the alpha level of mind is a rested brain frequency. If regular brains are beating at 14 to 21 cycles per second, Alpha is slower. It's 7 to 14 cycles per second. Jose Silva started to show here in America that this vague concept that we often call meditation is not just for resting your body, but it is an altered state that you can use to spark coincidences, synchronicities, and all manner of movement towards your goals. So this is the first clue, accessing altered states. So the first question is, do you have a practice that allows you to access an altered state? Meditation, of course, is the number one form of altered states that where when you're in that altered state, you are reflecting on the outcomes that you want. Okay, ask yourself this question. Are you doing this? Yes or no? Because this is the first step. Now, in today's world, altered states have become a trillion dollar industry. Steven Kotler, the mindvalley author, wrote a book about this called Stealing Fire. Everyone From Silicon Valley CEOs to Marines are using altered states states right now for everything from biohacking to intuition and so on. It's a trillion dollar industry. Jose Silva was simply one of the first people who turned it into a methodology for visualizing and moving towards your goals. He never used words such as the law of attraction. He rarely used words such as meditation. It was about the scientific concept of lowering brainwave frequency to the alpha level. But that is essentially what you're doing when you have a meditation practice. That was clue number one. Now, clue number two came to me in 1998 when I stumbled upon a book called Conversations with God by this man, Neale Donald Walsh. Anyone recognize that work? Neale Donald Walsh is currently a Mindvalley author. His program is called Awaken the Species. Now I learned something really interesting from Neil. The universe wants allies and the universe is fundamentally good. The universe, the universe is a big frickin deal. So we were in a seminar in Barcelona, this was part of Mindvalley University. And Neil was teaching a three day seminar at Mindvalley University in Barcelona based on his newest work, Awaken the Species. And there was a woman in the audience, I was sitting at the back near the AV and there was a woman in the audience who stood up and said, Neil, all of this stuff you speak about, about how we are particles of God and so on is great and. But I still wake up every morning sometimes feeling depressed and sad and worried and I just feel bad. What do I do in those scenarios? And Neil said, it's really simple. Remember this. Your life is not about you. Rather, your life is about the lives of everyone you touch. When you make your life about the lives of everyone you touch, you will never wake up feeling anxiety or worry or stress again. He went on to say, you must adopt this philosophy so powerfully that when you walk into a room, your intention should be to heal the room. This is the second clue. You should pretend as if you are chosen by the universe to fix the world, to heal the world, to enhance the world. When you walk into this room, even though there are nine hundred and fifty other incredible individuals here, your job, your intention should not be, what will I learn? What will I get from other people? But how am I going to serve? I want you to make that intention. Now, when you walk into the room, your intention should be to heal the room. Ask yourself a question about serving. Close your eyes. Right now, a question could be, how will I light up someone's day today? An intention might be, I'd love to make three friends today. Because friendship is a form of serving too. Okay, so back to the stage. Clue number two, to get to your goals. First one is altered states. Think about reflect your goals when you're in an altered state. Practice such as meditation. Number two, Operate from life with an aim of serving. I call this Neil's law. Operate from life with an aim of serving. Not, I want to create a company so I can exit at a million dollars, but I want to create a company because this company has the potential to serve the world in this following way. That's rule number two.
