Episode 65 - Calm Brain, Powerful Mind with Aziz Velji

<p class="p1">Gary welcomed Aziz Velji, teacher of human potential and author of “CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND: Abolish Stress to Unleash Your True Potential”. CALM BRAIN, POWERFUL MIND is a comprehensive and seminal self-help book about how a person can eliminate stress from their lives in order to access the inherent power of their mind, and live a happy, healthy, and creative life. Gary and Aziz had a great chat about beliefs, thoughts, actions, mindfulness, meditation and the ability for change!</p> <p class="p1"><strong>What you'll learn:</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">We have two ways or mindsets to respond to events - fear, unhappiness, stress, OR happy, calm, alert, resilient mind.</li> <li class="li1">Why the first 7 years program our beliefs for the rest of our lives, by people who want the best for us, but are teaching us what they know</li> <li class="li1">70-75 of programming delivered to us is counterintuitive to our needs and is subconscious</li> <li class="li1">a child doesn’t know cause and effect, and this results in “I don’t deserve it mentality”</li> <li class="li1">After age 7 the conscious mind starts to evaluate our beliefs and our thoughts.</li> <li class="li1">Our beliefs become thoughts, which become our words, which become our actions, which become our habits, which become our values</li> <li class="li1">Do we have the ability to change our beliefs</li> <li class="li1">You face a crisis and you use the subconscious mind to solve the problem</li> <li class="li1">How do you approach changing your beliefs</li> <li class="li1">What is a Mental Diet?</li> <li class="li1">What is ‘mind chatter’?</li> <li class="li1">The brain has a negative bias and how that plays out for us</li> <li class="li1">Our mind is like velcro for negative thoughts, and teflon for positive ones</li> <li class="li1">What is observing your thoughts?</li> <li class="li1">Why you want to split yourself into two - watching and doing</li> <li class="li1">When we are present, there are no thoughts, we are fully