 Today's video Today's question it might not even be a question today. All right, I think I think we should talk about affirmations and sort of mantras because these are things that I've put like a person who used this stuff to drastically change my life in very small ways So it's often the very small things that you can do right and guys I know it sounds it sounds pretty cliche. You know, this is just like another motivational video But it's not it's not quite the same. So an affirmation is Where you constantly tell yourself the story that you want to believe So subconsciously we always believe things about ourselves that may or may not be true based on our experiences What people have told us and our memories? But you can you can actually change those Stories you can change what you tell yourself about yourself Meaning you can change your beliefs and your confidence and anything else that you might want to change All you need to do is tell yourself a different story. So for example with lucid dreaming You've got into this community. You've read an article. Maybe you want to learn how to control your dreams and You've probably told yourself at some point that it's difficult You've told yourself that you can't do it or that you never remember your dreams, right? I get loads of emails and comments from you guys saying like I never remember my dreams I can never I never have any dreams even Now firstly you should never say the word never because it's an absolute you should never speak in absolutes because when you when you speak in absolutes You're telling your subconscious mind that it should always be this way Meaning there's no scope for change if you tell yourself something like I'm always late Your subconscious mind will act in a way that is Congruent with that belief meaning your subconscious mind will make your actions Match what you're saying about yourself because you don't want to have that cognitive dissonance in your head You your brain doesn't want to be confused and conflicted. So if you if you tell yourself something like I'm always late Your brain you'll subconsciously make yourself always late so that that statement is true And this is a huge thing like this is a huge they use this a lot in our neurolinguistic programming and various self-help programs and courses This is a huge tip which would normally cost, you know a lot of therapy to drill into people, right? You need to start telling yourself a different story, but not only that you need to tell yourself a positive absolute Right or a temporary negative statement So let's say if you're and I will relate this back to lucid dreaming in a minute I just need to go off on this little tangent so that it makes sense later Let's say if you're if you miss the bus one day, right? And you're gonna you're gonna be late for work instead of telling yourself in your mind or even telling yourself to your boss or whatever I'm always late. I always seem to miss my bus Tell yourself this is really weird Tell yourself something like this is strange for some reason today. I've missed my bus But normally I am on time and just by shifting the way you freeze it your subconscious mind suddenly thinks Oh, okay. Well, he's saying that he's normally on time So next time let's try and make it so that he is on time so that that statement becomes true and so that there is no Cognitive dissonance between what you're doing and what you're saying you're doing now The way this relates to lucid dreaming is if you tell yourself a negative absolute If you tell yourself something like I'm I can never lose a dream. I never remember my dreams. I I went when I have a lucid dream I can never control it because you're using the absolute word of I can never do this Your brain and your subconscious mind will act in a way to make that true So you're hot your physically and literally holding yourself back with your words and you might not believe this Like I didn't believe this when I first came across this but then I just I did an experiment Right, which is what I'm gonna propose to you now is a little test. Okay You might just think I'm a crazy guy sitting on in cypher spouting nonsense And that's fair enough But if you research this yourself, you'll find out what I'm saying is true But if you more importantly Test it yourself You will find it to be absolutely true. Okay, if you do this test for the next 30 days I promise you you will make a huge difference in your life and also in your lucid dreams Start telling yourself a Different story. Okay picture the person you want to be let's say you always want to be on time You want to be confident you want to have lots of money Tell yourself and think about yourself in in the best possible way So don't think I'm always in debt. I never have any money I always seem to spend all my money tell yourself things like money seems to just come to me naturally Even if you don't even if it doesn't happen right now Tell yourself it as if it were true And it literally what it will happen like it will become true because you will act in tiny imperceptible ways To make that statement true so that you're telling yourself the truth about yourself even if it's not true now and You can and like I said use this with lucid dreaming as well Tell yourself things like I always lucid dream or normally I remember my dreams I almost always remember my dreams in vivid detail, right? I can when I am lucid. I'm very clearly lucid. It's vivid I'm intensely in control Now tell yourself these things every single time you think about what what the subject is right safe So if someone asks you about this dreaming say, oh, yeah, I find lucid dreaming really easy I can always remember my dreams even if you Maybe can't do that. Even if it's not completely true Tell yourself that story and your subconscious mind will over time make it true now The next step of this and this is the the thing that I've integrated into most of my life is to use these affirmations As a blanket sort of coverage all the time, right? If some any negative comment that you hear Let's say if you're trying to be a certain type of path Let's say if you're trying to become rich or successful or you're trying to achieve a particular goal get to a certain Muscular definition or you know, you're trying to achieve something Every time someone tells you you can't do that or that's not possible or you're not that sort of person You really need to immediately counter that with a statement that contradicts them, right? You need to say. Oh, no, I am of course. I'll be successful. Of course. I'll be rich, you know Of course, I will achieve this goal. Of course. I will Quit smoking or do whatever the goal is you're trying to do you need to make sure your subconscious mind Which is you know, really what's what's running the whole show here You need to make sure your subconscious understands and believes your intention And using smoking as a good example if you want to quit smoking What what a lot of people do is they'll try and quit and then their friends will say Oh, I knew you wouldn't quit like here you are again having a cigarette you you always come back to it in the end That will seep into your subconscious mind and become a self-fulfilling prophecy You will tell yourself the same story and you will act in a way that makes it true You'll be much more likely to slip up at a party and say, oh, yeah Well, I do end up going back to smoking all the time anyway, because it's hard to give up, right? It's an addiction and it is an addiction And I'm just using this as a random example by the way But instead if you were to tell yourself a story like this is a small slip up But I am going to quit it's it's a certain fact that I'm going to quit That makes it much more likely to have an effect on you and actually get your results And uh It's true You know So that's it guys try this out for just even just 30 days Tell yourself a different story whether it's about lucid dreaming Or any goal you're trying to achieve just tell yourself The absolute version of the positive version of what you're trying to do Instead of thinking I'm always late. I'm never going to be successful Tell yourself a genuinely positive absolute. Of course, I'm going to be successful But there's no way it won't happen. Of course. I'm going to be rich. Of course It's it's a fact that I'm going to achieve this goal or whatever that goal is And you'll you'll act in a way that will make that statement true It might not be instant. It might not even be in a year or even 10 years Depending on the size of your goal, okay But for most of us for small goals for achievable realistic goals like giving up smoking or lucid dreaming earning or saving a certain amount of money Going to a certain country or even just finding a certain job. It's very achievable and it's very within your reach All you need to do is just change the story you're telling yourself Thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers Who are updated in the description of every video at the time of uploading Please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel Or just click the links in the description you'll find links to various lucid dreaming products articles techniques and tutorials If you did enjoy this video, please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time Why are you still watching that you should have clicked one of my related videos by now, right or subscribed or gone on to my website or something like that