They tweet something. They do Instagram. They check the news. They feel really connected to everything that's known in their life, and then they go through a series of routine behaviors.

They get out of bed on the same side. They go to the toilet. They get a cup of coffee. They take a shower. They get dressed. They drive to work the same way. They do the same things. They see the same people.

They push the same emotional buttons, and that becomes the routine. It becomes like a program. Now, they've lost their free will to a program and there's no unseen hand doing it to them.

When it comes time to change, the redundancy of that cycle becomes a subconscious program. Ninety-five percent of who we are by the time we're 35 years old is a memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions, unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions that function like a computer program.

A person can say with their 5% of their conscious mind: "I want to be healthy. "I want to be happy."  "I want to be free" - but the body's on a whole different program. How do you begin to make those changes?

You have to get beyond the analytical mind because what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind.

That's where meditation comes in because you can teach people through practice, how to change their brainwaves; slow them down. When they do that properly, they do enter the operating system where they can begin to make some important changes.

Most people wait for crisis, trauma, disease or diagnosis. They wait for loss, some tragedy to make up their mind to change. My message is, why wait? You can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration.

I think right now, the cool thing is that people are waking up. The stronger the emotional reaction you have to some experience in your life, the higher the emotional quotient; the more you pay attention to the cause.

The moment the brain puts all of its attention on the cause, it takes a snapshot, and that's called a memory. Longterm memories are created from highly emotional experiences.

What happens then is that people think neurologically within the circuitry of that experience, and they feel chemically within the boundaries of those emotions. When you have an emotional reaction to someone or something, most people think that they can't control their emotional reaction.

Well, it turns out a few allow that emotional reaction - it's called a refractory period. If it lasts for hours or days, that's called the mood.

Say to someone, "Hey, what's up?"  And he says, "I'm in a mood." "Well, why are you in a mood?"

"Well, I had this thing happen to me five days ago, and I'm having one long emotional reaction." If you keep that same emotional reaction going on for weeks or months, that's called temperament.

"Why is he so bitter?" "I don't know. Let's ask him, why is he so bitter?" "Why are you bitter?" "Well, I had this thing happened to me nine months ago." And if you keep that same emotional reaction going on for years on end, that's called a personality trait.

Learning how to shorten your refractory period of emotional reactions is really where the work starts. So then people, when they have an event, what they do is they keep recalling the event because the emotions of stress hormones; the survival emotions, are saying pay attention to what happened because you want to be prepared

If it happens again. It turns out most people spend 70% of their life living in survival and living in stress. They're always anticipating the worst case scenario based on a past experience.

They're literally, out of the infinite potentials in the quantum field, selecting the worst possible outcome and they're beginning to emotionally embrace it with fear.

They're conditioning their body into a state of fear. Do that enough times - body has a panic attack without you. You can't even predict it because it's programmed subconsciously. So then, you say to the person, "why are you this way?" And they'll say, "I am this way because of this event that happened to me 15 or 20 years ago."

What that means from a biological standpoint is that they haven't been able to change since that event. The emotions from the experience tend to give the body and the brain a rush of energy.

People become addicted to the rush of those emotions and they use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their limitation. At least they can feel something.

Now when it comes time to change, you say to the person, "Why are you this way?" Well, every time they recall the event, they're producing the same chemistry in their brain and body as if the event is occurring; firing and wiring the same circuits and sending the same emotional signature to the body.

What's the relevance behind that? Well, your body is the unconscious mind. It doesn't know the difference between the experience that's creating the emotion and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone.

The body's believing that it's living in the same past experience, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. When those emotions influence certain thoughts, and they do, and then those thoughts create the same emotions and those same emotions influence the same thoughts.

Now, the entire person's state of being is in the past.

The hardest part about change is not making the same choices you did the day before, period. The moment you decide to make a different choice, get ready because it's going to feel uncomfortable.

Your body is your unconscious mind. In a sense, if you're sitting down and you start thinking about some future worst case scenario that you're conjuring up in your mind, and you begin to feel the emotion of that event, your body doesn't know the difference between the event that's taking place in your world, outer world, and what you're creating by emotion or thought alone.

So most people then, they're constantly reaffirming their emotional states. When it comes time to give up that emotion, they can say, "I really want to do it," but the body is stronger than the mind because it's been conditioned that way.

The servant now has become the master and the person, all of a sudden, once they step into that unknown, they'd rather feel guilt and suffering because at least they can predict it. Being in the unknown is a scary place for most people, because the unknown is uncertain.

People say to me, "Well, I can't predict my future. I'm in the unknown." And I always say, the best way to predict your future is to create it.

Not from the known, but from the unknown. What thoughts do you want to fire and wire in your brain? What behaviors do you want to demonstrate in one day - the act of rehearsing, mentally closing your eyes, and rehearsing the action.