Rewire Your Brain in the Morning

Rob Dial (0:08)

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Today, I'm gonna give you five things to tell yourself every single morning to brainwash yourself to be who you want to be. Every morning, your brain gives you this rare window to rewire who you are. But most people waste it by scrolling or stressing out or hitting the snooze button on their potential. But these five different thoughts repeated every single morning could anchor your mindset, can shut down your self-doubt and can guide you kind of like a compass would through the chaos of your day. And what I'm gonna teach you isn't toxic positivity or woo woo fluff. What I'm gonna teach you is ancient stoic philosophy and wisdom backed by modern neuroscience. So if you've been feeling overwhelmed or lost or like you're just living on autopilot, this episode is designed to be your wake up call because the way that you start your morning is the way that you shape your entire life. Now, why do you wanna do this in the morning versus the afternoon or before you go to bed? Well, neurologically, the morning is the best time to access your subconscious because your brain is in a more suggestible state. Right after you wake up, your mind moves through alpha and theta brain waves. And this is the same relaxed receptive frequencies that are used in hypnosis and also deep meditation. So in this state, the critical analytical part of your brain, which is called the prefrontal cortex, hasn't even really fully kicked in yet. And so suggestions and affirmations, the way that you speak to yourself, bypass the resistance of your prefrontal cortex and go straight into your subconscious. Think of it like this. Your subconscious door is just slightly open a little bit more in the morning. So what you feed into your subconscious will sink deeper and stick longer, which is why repeating these phrases and repeating empowering beliefs and visualizing your goals and doing mindset priming, first thing can actually rewire your thought patterns much faster than doing it any other time of the day.

Also, the important part of this is that neurologically, your cortisol levels, which are your stress hormones, naturally spike in the morning, which sounds like it'd be a bad thing, but neurologically it's not. It makes it more natural of a window for your focus in neuroplasticity, and neuroplasticity is your brain actually changing itself. So combine all of that with intention and you're literally reprogramming your brain before you go out into the world every single day. The bottom line is if you want to shape your inner narrative, your morning is absolutely your golden hour. So make sure you use your morning to prime your brain into who you want to be and what you want to believe. Okay, so what we're going to take is stoic philosophy. And what is stoicism? What I'm going to teach you today is based in the, like I said, stoic philosophy, but also neurology. Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that teaches you how to stay grounded, how to stay calm and how to stay clear no matter what life throws at you. And it's not about suppressing emotions or pretending like everything's okay when your house is on fire. It's about mastering your inner world so that you can live and lead your life with purpose. Think of it as building your mental armor for a chaotic world. Okay, so these are the five different things you want to tell yourself. And this is the reason why each one of them is important. Okay, number one is today, I will meet resistance and that's not a problem, I welcome it. Today, I will meet resistance and that is not a problem, I welcome it. This came from Marcus Aurelius in his book Meditations, which is his actual personal journal to himself. And when he says, he says, when you wake up in the morning, tell yourself, I will meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest and jealous and that is okay.

What Marcus Aurelius was doing here, he wasn't trying to be a buzzkill and be like, no, I'm gonna meet shitty people all day. What he was doing was he was basically giving us a shield by expecting that today would be difficult in some sort of way. We don't need to spiral and life gets messy. I know that when I go out into my day, when I leave my bed, there will be some sort of resistance. Things will get hard. That's okay. I'm not going to fight it. I'm going to welcome it and I'm going to work through it. So the reason why this is important is because things are going to happen in your life. The rude email, it's going to come through. It's not a personal attack. It's just a part of the game.