I dare you to disappear go away for six months leave your familiar surroundings your familiar routine block out all the drama and negativity and just ghost make people say where did he go where did she go and then come back unrecognizable new and improved what I'm talking about is referred to today as ghost or monk mode you see a traditional Monk chooses to leave their comfortable life to live in solitude to connect with something deeper something greater you see they have chosen to go into Solitude because it is so difficult to connect to those deeper
parts of us when we're still stuck in the circus of the world and yes we do live in a circus a clown show a world of distraction where everybody wants your attention fun fact did you know it takes 23 minutes to regain Focus after a distraction it's no wonder why so many of us find it so hard to get things done today everybody wants to steal your attention but have you ever wondered why why does everybody want your attention because attention is currency and when you're focused inside it is impossible to be sold or controlled
cuz your power lies on the inside the center of the hurricane is totally peaceful and the center of you is total peace but we have gotten so distracted that we believe that the noise is our Natural State a shocking study done by the University of Virginia gave participants 15 minutes of Peace in a quiet room with no outside stimulation but gave them the distraction action of being able to administer a painful electric shock to themselves before the study all the participants were given the sample shock so that they knew what to expect and all said
after receiving it they would pay money not to be shocked again based on this study 67% of men prefer to get zapped over being quiet one man Zapped himself 190 times over the course of 15 minutes you could say the results came as a shock but not really because French philosopher blae Pascal wrote all the way back in the 1600s that all of Humanity's troubles stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone and yet there is so much evidence that suggests that success can only be achieved when you are alone which is
why the great psychologist Carl Young said he who looks outside dreams but he who looks inside awakens some of the most successful people in the world became that way because of solitude you see there's a rule of life that says people are rewarded in public for what they spent years doing in private beautiful photos are developed in what the dark room see problem is you've been spending so much time trying to be liked trying to fit in that you never spent that time alone in the dark room which is where your power and beauty lies
you see Solitude is the main way to create success Isaac Newton was known to retreat to his family's Farm to make significant discoveries the great Nicola Tesla would spend long periods of time in seclusion Einstein's contribution to physics came from daydreaming and Solitude Solitude is necessary for Success because when you're in the world and you're you're distracted by all the thieves of your attention you never get the time the bandwidth to tap into your gift this is why Lincoln said give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'm going to spend the first
four sharpening the axe see you need to spend time in solitude so that you can sharpen your own skills when you need a life-saving surgery done it's just you and the doctor they don't let Instagram in they don't let friends in they all can wait outside when you're in the operating room it's just you and the doctor and so if you want to operate on or save your life it's got to be done in solitude now what is monk mode monk mode is when you take time away from your normal routine to focus on your
growth some people recommend 6 months I say if you can't do 6 months then do 66 days why 66 days because studies show that it takes 18 to 254 days to rewire the neurop Pathways in our brain it said the average time was 66 days to develop a new default response or habit now listen you don't necessarily have to go to a mountain cave but you do need to disappear and create your own cave so that you can start doing the inner work the inner engineering to develop new habits and so here's the monk mode
protocol the first thing you need to do is ask yourself what does the highest most developed version of me look like what do they think like what is their level of emotional intelligence what is their physical health what is their mental health you need to build a crystal clear image of what this version of you looks like and put it on paper because if it's not on paper it's vapor now once you write it down now you have your Finish Line right your Target and you're already 10 steps ahead of what most people ever get
to now when you're on monk mode you need to be focusing on recreational activities no I'm not talking about partying smoking or drinking when I say recreational I mean Rec creational you are recreating the three pillars of your life the mind the body and the spirit you see the triangle is the most stable geometric structure in the universe and so if you want to stabilize your life then you need to focus on the mind the body and the spirit triangle so let's start with the mind the first thing that you have to understand is that
you are who you are because of what's gone into your mind and you can change who you are by changing what's going into your mind and so the first step in monk mode is to remove all of the junk that is going into your mind and since most of us are not retreating to A A Mountain Village we have to remove all of the toxic distractions in our environment I know I know you say prince all of it I say yes all of it because imagine if I was baking brownies and I put the best
ingredients in and I I put the the pasture raised eggs the organic flour the butter but I put a little bit of dog poop into the batter would you eat it probably not so the same thing happens with your mind do not allow any junk in it not even a little bit you don't want to be influenced by anything with a low vibration right now in monk mode so you must protect and deflect all the crap from going into your mind see this is why Betty Edy said if we understood the power of our thoughts
we would guard them more closely and that means friends especially you see anybody in your life that's a negative or neutral influence you need to say no to them this is a time for you to start standing on your own and grow going into that person you were meant to be you were now performing that inner surgery so leave them in the waiting room tell them hey hey I'm I'm not going to be accessible for a few weeks I'm working on a big project I want to let you know personally out of love so that
you don't have any expectations for me I know you want the best for me so I know you understand once you have created those filters and wiped your hard drive clean of all the spam that's coming in now we have to upgrade the operating system of our mind I believe for most people watching this CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy or as I like to call it crushing bad thoughts and it does just that it reveals how we are making ourselves miserable with our thinking patterns and it rewires and prevents us from doing that feeling good
the new mood therapy by David Burns is the best book that I've ever read or mental health I think it should be required reading for everybody on planet Earth when you see the world through right thinking everything gets better you don't even suffer anymore you see pain is mandatory but suffering is a choice suffering is optional okay so now that you've updated your operating system now you have to replace the programs the software with the good the clean the pure the powerful and the positive in other words we will replace the noise with the signal
and that means asking yourself what does the highest most developed version of myself read every day now you don't want any book you want books written by true experts read one book every month in that area and within 5 years you will be in the top 5% of experts in the world so just start by making a list of the top three books in the past passion area that you want to be an expert in this is absolutely what I did when I wasn't in the best circumstances in my life I knew that if I
only upgraded my information then I would upgrade my life so the next step in monk mode to focus on is the body how can you be truly successful if you don't like the body that you're in your body is designed to move it's not you but it's your vehicle but how you view yourself nine times out of 10 manifests as how your body looks and if you don't like what you see change it how do you change it with nutrition and exercise you see nutrition is Queen exercise is King and if you put them together
then you have a kingdom and here's how to build your kingdom number one you need a goal and be specific I I want you to get a clear photo of the ideal physique that you want to have now remember you're not the body but it is your vehicle and you can shape it you can change it in whichever way you want I want you to keep that picture in places that you will see every day put it in your bedroom in your bathroom put it on your refrigerator put it as the home screen in your
phone put it on the wall in your gym just make sure you are seeing that photo regularly throughout the day you see once your mind has a clear image it will begin to work hard to manifest that into a physical reality during monk mode you must treat your body like a temple would you bring alcohol into a temple no would you bring McDonald's uh soda into a temple no would you bring drugs into a temple no we stop bringing that into the Temple of your body during this period we are going to focus on three
basic but powerful nutrition principles number one eat real Whole Foods you are only going to put natural unprocessed food into your body no no chips no soda no packaged food see you're in monk mode so get rid of all the tempting food out of your house or just put it deep deep into the basement a way that I remember what to eat is is G bombs plus wild caught fish now what is g bombs dark leafy greens beans onions mushrooms berries seeds plus the wild caught fish G bombs is the best anti-cancer anti-inflammatory Health promoting
Foods on the planet number two hydration I want you to hydrate with spring water and electrolytes most people are chronically dehydrated you should drink between 0.5 and 1 oce of water per pound of body weight so if you weigh 156 lb you should be getting 78 to 156 oun of water per day carry around a bottle of water with you all day here's mine this I found is the only way that I can remember to drink water another way is you can put bottles in your car bottles basically at your office just so you get
the you see a trigger and it makes you want to drink more water this is the only way that I found that keeps me honest number three supplements billions of people on the planet maybe you are deficient in these big four supplements vitamin D vitamin K2 magnesium and zinc taking these supplements will greatly improve your well-being your Clarity your happiness your joy for Life take the RDA or recommended daily allowance on the bottle when it comes to movement and exercise you're going to number one walk 8 to 10,000 steps per day bonus points if you
walk some of those steps barefoot walking is the king of all exercises it is the only exercise proven to reverse heart disease and it lowers the risk of all cancers walking also raises your serotonin levels and fights depression in a way greater than taking an anti-depressant drug use meals as a trigger for walking so after every meal make sure you walk at least 10 minutes longer the better number two exercise you're going to exercise for 1 hour 3 to five times times a week what type of exercise well the type that you love to do
for me it's it's weight training it's resistance training because resistance training not only is a great form of exercise and improves your cardiovascular health it also shapes your body so you're going to start liking what you see in the mirror more and that confidence is going to apply to all areas of your life when it comes to Mental Health weight training the stress the resistance resistance that you use when you lift up the weights is going to build resistance in life so when you go up against a stressful situation your body has already adapted to
it and so you'll be able to transcend that stress much easier if you're training number three keep a journal or a record of everything you do in the gym I have been going to the gym for over a decade and I found the difference between the people who make progress and the people who don't is the people who make progress they Journal they write it down right they track progress you got to track it to crack it everybody else is just kind of they don't have a plan but when you have a plan you're going
to meet your goals much faster than those that don't you see when you Journal you take advantage of the most powerful principle of training progressive overload which basically means you lift more weight or more repetition the next next time you go to the gym this is how you improve the next pillar in monk mode is spiritual growth now whatever spiritual or religious tradition you connect to it could be Judaism Christianity Catholicism Islam dosm Buddhism Hinduism whatever it is whatever you connect to you need to be watching a sermon uh listening to a SAT song reading
some type of spiritual text for one hour every day because you see spirituality allows for the deepest most powerful grounding in life the book that Steve Jobs made sure that everybody who attended his funeral received was not a business book it was not a a personal growth book it was not a corporation or stocks or bonds it wasn't any of that it was a book called The Autobiography of a yogi it was a spiritual book book that he read every year of his life you see in life you don't just want to be materially successful
you also want to be spiritually successful because trust me there is no material experience in this world that can come close to touching your true spiritual nature as the old saying goes what use is is gaining the world if you lose your soul so in addition to the one hour of filling your mind with the pure sat songs and the sermons you should also be practicing for one minute to an hour a meditation practice or an awareness practice now what is awareness practice it is simply to observe your thoughts coming and going so find a
quiet place and just sit and observe your thoughts coming and going don't try to change them don't try to try to judge them if you find yourself getting caught into them just bring yourself back gently non-judgmentally back to your breath you see in only one week of doing this you will find so much peace and control over the things that happen in your life you will no longer be reactive you will be responsive things that used to bother you don't bother you anymore because you have come to a a presence a state of of peace
and solidity true spirituality is meant to be taken off of the yoga mat out of the meditation room and into the real world so one practice that I want you to do is so simple but so powerful it is to Simply take one conscious breath every day so no matter what you're doing no matter where you are just take one breath that you are aware of your breath coming in and coming out that's all that single practice can have Atomic effects on your Stillness on your joy and on your gratitude in life the final awareness
practice that you can integrate in monk mode is something that I know I used to do as a kid and many people still do today many people don't do it anymore but it's simply prayer or gratitude before you eat your meal so before you eat every meal simply bring yourself to this moment and give gratitude to the meal itself so thank the the farmer thank the animals thank the plants thank the soil if you're at a restaurant thank the chef thank the waiter just bring gratitude to that moment and I guarantee your meal will be
10 times better okay so to recap the monk mole protocol we started with the mind so we want to we want to remove all the junk the distractions the toxic friends get that out right wipe the system clean number two we want to upgrade our operating system with cognitive behavioral therapy or as I call it crushing bad thoughts and number three we install new programs new software we rebooks by experts on subjects we are passionate about that will help us become our highest best most developed version of ourselves now we talked about nutrition we want
to eat real foods the G bombs the dark leafy greens beans onions mushrooms berries seeds plus a little bit of wild caught fish we also want to hydrate with electrolytes and we want to supplement with vitamin D vitamin K2 magnesium and zinc now when it comes to our body we are walking 8 to 10,000 steps every day bonus points if you walk a few of those steps Barefoot next we're going to exercise one 1 Hour 3 to five times per week I recommend strength training so that you can shape your body into your ideal physique
and finally we're going to keep a journal right the difference between those people who achieve their goals and don't achieve their goals is the journal the next pillar was Spirit right so every day for one hour we're going to listen to a sermon or a SAT sang on something that really connects with us on a spiritual level the next thing we're going to do is focus on our awareness or our meditation practice so we're going to sit quietly just observing our thoughts coming and going very simple if we we get caught in the Trap of
our thoughts we just non-judgmentally bring our attention right back to this moment right back to our breath and finally we're going to implement in the world awareness practices right we're going to take one conscious breath every day and we're also going to give gratitude for our meal every time we eat so guys that is the monk mode protocol in a nutshell now if you want to take things to the next level and live the life that you truly deserve then join my identity engineering boot camp now it's not for everybody but if you really want
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