John Wood (aka. John McIntyre from Drop Dead Copy) is the founder of Rageheart, a new online school that teaches people how to silence their mind like never before – without meditation, gratitude lists or $49 Moleskine journals.
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3 Value Bombs
1) Anytime we set out to do something in life, we’re going to have some thoughts about it. Some of those thoughts are helpful, but a lot of them are not helpful.
2) When we treat the mind, we go and journal and we analyze our thoughts, we try and figure out thoughts out. We might try and be grateful. We try and take a negative thought and push it away by replacing it with a positive thought.
3) Cultivate and build a map of safety, learning to recognize what safety looks like, knowing what it feels like, because then as we start to get a grip on that, then our system don’t need to be so stressed all the time.
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Show Notes
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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: How To Silence Your Mind Like Never Before Without Meditation or Gratitude Lists
[1:18] – John shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.
- Learning to work with the nervous system, learning to get into the body, because that’s a big part of what it is, learning to create safety, learning to release stress and emotion from the past can change your life.
- Learning to work with the nervous system, get into the body, work with stress from the past is a huge key to the puzzle of success. A lot of people focus on money, but fulfillment, meaning, purpose and feeling home is the success that everyone seeking.
[3:37] – Silence is golden. Why should entrepreneurs learn how to silence their mind?
- Anytime we set out to do something in life, we’re going to have some thoughts about it. Some of those thoughts are helpful, but a lot of them are not helpful.
- Most people in the modern world have a mind that never shuts up. We have these rare moments when things quiet down and that’s when the joy comes in, that’s when we feel alive.
[4:47] – What is wrong with the traditional approach of meditation, of gratitude.
- Everything’s trying to work on our baggage in different ways, all these different tools that we do.
- It all goes down to the basic idea that the root problem is in the nervous system. The problem is not really the mind.
- The mind is more like a reflection of what’s happening at a deeper level. It’s a reflection of what’s happening in the nervous system.
- When we treat the mind, we go and journal and we analyze our thoughts, we try and figure out thoughts out. We might try and be grateful. We try and take a negative thought and push it away by replacing it with a positive thought.
[7:39]– A timeout to thank our sponsors!
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[10:45] – The root issue with a busy mind.
- The root issue is Nervous system dysregulation.
- When we get stressed, we might try and attack the threat. When we get shut down, we start to disconnect. We can’t feel anything. We feel numb.
- There’s another response called the form response, which is when we’re feeling stressed, we might go into people pleasing mode.
- Nervous system dysregulation is when we’re getting stuck instead of being able to flow between all these different states as the situation demands.
[14:22] – Fixing the nervous system dysregulation.
- We’re trying to lay out the map of the area that we’re trying to cover. The map is so much more detailed and just so much more effective than a lot of the other maps that people throw around, like the gratitude list and meditation.
- Learn to be in the body, learn to be present and not just silent like we might in meditation.
- Learn to recognize what safety is. It’s not about saying I’m safe, it’s about looking around and orienting to the safety and the environment.
- Cultivate and build a map of safety, learning to recognize what safety looks like, knowing what it feels like, because then as we start to get a grip on that, then our system don’t need to be so stressed all the time.
- Look around, feel the ground and notice your breath.
[19:52] – John’s key take away and call to action.
- Rage Heart – Get a manifesto of John’s approach on the nervous system.
[21:12]– Thank you to our Sponsor!
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