How to Change a Paradigm | Bob Proctor

Summary

In this insightful script, Bob Proctor delves into the power of the mind and its impact on our lives. He explains how our subconscious mind, influenced by our environment and programming, shapes our reality through the vibration of our thoughts and feelings. Proctor emphasizes that by understanding and changing our paradigms, we can alter our habits and behaviors, leading to a transformed life. He advocates for the use of affirmations and the repetition of positive ideas to reprogram our subconscious, unlocking our potential for success and abundance.

Takeaways

• 🧠 The mind is composed of the conscious and subconscious, with the body being an expression of the mind's state.
• 🌀 The body is a molecular structure of energy vibrating at high speeds, and our feelings are our conscious awareness of this vibration.
• 🔄 Impression of ideas on the subconscious mind can alter our vibrational state, affecting our physical and emotional well-being.
• 🤔 We have control over our feelings and can train ourselves to respond positively to external stimuli rather than react negatively.
• 🌐 The subconscious mind is open to programming from both genetic and environmental factors, shaping our behaviors and perceptions.
• 📚 Early life experiences and repetitive exposure to certain ideas and languages program the subconscious mind, influencing our later life choices.
• 💡 Desire is the trigger that allows energy to flow, and it's crucial to understand the relationship between mind and body to achieve desired results.
• 💰 The concept of energy and desire is central to wealth creation; everyone has the potential to generate wealth, not just through labor but through various means.
• 🛠 The paradigm, a set of deeply ingrained beliefs and habits, controls our actions and results, and changing it is essential for personal growth.
• 🔑 Praxis, the integration of belief with behavior, is key to aligning our actions with our conscious beliefs and achieving our goals.
• 🔄 Changing the paradigm involves the repetition of new, positive information to overwrite old, limiting beliefs in the subconscious mind.
• 📈 Affirmations and consistent exposure to transformative ideas can reprogram the subconscious, leading to changes in financial and personal success.

Q & A

How does the speaker describe the relationship between the mind and the body?

The speaker describes the body as an expression of the mind, suggesting that the mind's state, particularly through the subconscious, influences the body's molecular structure and energy vibration.

What is the significance of the word 'feeling' in the context of the script?

In the script, 'feeling' is used to describe our conscious awareness of our vibration. It is how we express our emotional state, which is directly influenced by the ideas impressed upon our subconscious mind.

How can we change our feelings according to the speaker?

The speaker suggests that by becoming aware that we are not feeling too good, we can change it through a process that involves training and understanding that we are in charge of our feelings.

What does the speaker mean by 'paradigm'?

The 'paradigm' refers to a set of fixed concepts or beliefs in the subconscious mind that control behavior and dictate our logic, perception, and effectiveness in various aspects of life.

How does the speaker explain the programming of the subconscious mind?

The speaker explains that the subconscious mind is programmed both genetically, as seen in familial traits, and environmentally, through the language and behaviors we are exposed to during our early life.

What role does repetition play in shaping our paradigm according to the script?

Repetition plays a crucial role in shaping our paradigm by reinforcing ideas and beliefs in our subconscious mind, which in turn control our behavior and the results we achieve in life.

How does the speaker define 'desire' in the context of energy and action?

The speaker defines 'desire' as the triggering mechanism that allows the flow of energy, suggesting that it is the driving force behind taking action and achieving results.

What is the speaker's view on the traditional approach to earning money?

The speaker believes that working solely for money is the worst way to earn it. Instead, one should work for satisfaction and provide service, with the potential to earn money even while sleeping.

How does the speaker suggest changing one's financial situation?

The speaker suggests changing one's financial situation by altering the concept of money through the repetition of positive affirmations, which can reprogram the subconscious mind over time.

What is the purpose of the company mentioned by the speaker?

The purpose of the company is to teach people how to change their paradigms, which in turn can lead to changes in their lives, including financial success and personal satisfaction.

How does the speaker emphasize the importance of understanding the mind-body connection?

The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the mind-body connection by explaining how our mental state, particularly our subconscious beliefs, directly affects our physical reality and well-being.

Outlines

00:00

🧠 Understanding the Mind-Body Connection

This paragraph delves into the concept of how our conscious and subconscious minds interact with our physical body. The speaker explains that our body is essentially a molecular structure of high-speed vibrating energy and that our feelings are a manifestation of our vibrational state. The paragraph emphasizes the idea that we have control over our feelings and can change negative states by understanding this connection. It also touches on the subconscious mind's inability to differentiate between reality and imagination, and how early life experiences and environmental factors shape our subconscious programming, affecting our habits, language, and even our financial beliefs.

05:02

💡 Paradigms and Their Impact on Life Outcomes

The second paragraph explores the idea of paradigms, which are deeply ingrained sets of beliefs and habits that dictate our actions and results in life. The speaker argues that working for money is not the best approach and suggests that one should work for satisfaction instead, with money being a byproduct of service. The paragraph discusses the power of paradigms to control our logic, time management, perception, effectiveness, and even our financial status. It stresses the importance of changing one's paradigm to achieve different results in life, using the example of a person who won a gold medal in the Olympics, attributing his success to a changed paradigm without fully understanding how it happened.

10:05

🔄 The Power of Repetition in Changing Paradigms

In the final paragraph, the focus is on the process of changing paradigms through the repetition of new ideas and affirmations. The speaker shares his personal experience of using a record player to repeatedly listen to motivational content, which helped him change his financial paradigm. The paragraph highlights the significance of consistent repetition for ingraining new beliefs into the subconscious mind, leading to a change in one's concept of money and potentially increasing one's income. The speaker encourages sharing this knowledge with others and emphasizes the transformative power of understanding and altering one's paradigm.

Keywords

💡Conscious Mind

The conscious mind is the part of the human psyche that is aware of the external environment and is responsible for conscious thought and decision making. In the video, it is described as having the ability to choose thoughts, which then influence the subconscious mind. The script emphasizes the importance of being aware of the thoughts we choose because they shape our reality and how we feel.

💡Subconscious Mind

The subconscious mind is the part of our mind that operates without our conscious awareness and is responsible for our habits and automatic responses. The video explains that it cannot differentiate between real and imagined experiences, and it is open to programming from both genetic and environmental factors. This concept is central to the video's theme of how our internal programming affects our actions and results.

💡Vibration

In the context of the video, vibration refers to the energetic frequency at which our bodies operate. The script suggests that our thoughts and feelings can alter this vibration, which in turn affects our physical reality. The concept is used to illustrate the mind-body connection and how our mental state can influence our physical health and well-being.

💡Feeling

Feeling, as discussed in the video, is our conscious awareness of our emotional state or vibration. It is a word we use to describe our internal state, such as feeling fine or not feeling that good. The video emphasizes that our feelings are a direct result of the ideas we hold in our conscious and subconscious minds.

💡Mind-Body Connection

The mind-body connection is the idea that our mental state has a direct impact on our physical health. The video script discusses this concept by explaining how our thoughts and feelings can alter our physical state, and how understanding this connection can empower us to change our physical reality.

💡Programming

Programming, in the context of the video, refers to the process by which our subconscious mind is influenced by our environment and genetics, shaping our beliefs, habits, and behaviors. The script uses the term to explain how we are conditioned from a young age and how this programming can be changed to alter our outcomes in life.

💡Paradigm

A paradigm, as mentioned in the video, is a set of beliefs or concepts that act as a framework for understanding and interpreting the world. The video emphasizes that our paradigm controls our behavior and results, and changing it is essential for achieving different outcomes in life.

💡Desire

Desire is described in the video as the triggering mechanism that allows energy to flow. It is the driving force behind action and is linked to the idea that we can release energy through our intentions and desires, which can lead to the manifestation of our goals.

💡Affirmations

Affirmations are positive statements used to change one's mindset and beliefs. The video script provides an example of an affirmation related to money and suggests that repeating these affirmations can help change one's financial paradigm and attract wealth.

💡Praxis

Praxis, as defined in the video, is the integration of belief with behavior. It is the alignment of what we consciously believe with how we act. The script uses this term to illustrate the importance of not just having a new belief but also embodying it through our actions.

💡Repetition

Repetition is a key concept in the video, referring to the process of repeating ideas or information to change one's paradigm or beliefs. The script explains that both the formation and the change of our paradigms are achieved through the repetition of certain ideas or information.

Highlights

The conscious mind, subconscious mind, and body are interconnected, with the body being an expression of the mind.

Impress an idea on the subconscious mind alters the body's vibration, which is a molecular structure of high-speed energy.

The word 'feeling' describes our conscious awareness of our vibration, which is influenced by our thoughts and emotions.

We have control over our feelings and can change them through awareness and training.

We can choose to respond rather than react to others, maintaining our own idea of ourselves.

Understanding the mind-body relationship is crucial for changing our results, such as physical health or energy levels.

Energy is omnipresent, and desire is the mechanism that triggers energy flow.

The conscious mind can choose thoughts, which are then transformed into pictures and actions by the subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind lacks the ability to reject or differentiate between real and imagined experiences.

Early life programming through genetics and environment shapes our subconscious mind and behaviors.

Language and cultural norms are examples of environmental programming that influence our subconscious mind.

Repetition is key to programming the subconscious mind, whether through positive or negative influences.

Our paradigm, a set of beliefs and habits, controls our vibration, actions, and results.

Changing our paradigm is essential for altering our life outcomes and behaviors.

Praxis is the integration of belief with behavior, which is crucial for true change.

Bob Proctor's personal story illustrates the power of changing one's paradigm to achieve success.

The process of changing a paradigm involves repetition of new, positive information to overwrite old beliefs.

Affirmations, when repeated consistently, can change one's concept and relationship with money.

Bob Proctor's method of using a record player to repeat affirmations demonstrates the effectiveness of repetition.

The story of Milt Campbell, an Olympic gold medalist, highlights the subconscious power of paradigms in achieving success.

Most accomplished individuals have changed their paradigms without fully understanding how they did it.

Bob Proctor's company focuses on teaching people how to change their paradigms for personal growth.

Encouragement to share the knowledge of paradigms with others for collective understanding and growth.

Transcripts

You know, I went through how the conscious mind works,

how the subconscious and how the body is an expression

of the mind.

And as you go through that, if you go through it

a few times, you're going to see that's exactly

what happens.

Now, I want you to think of this for a moment,

when you impress an idea upon your subconscious mind,

that alters the vibration of this instrument

we call our body.

You see, our body is a molecular structure,

really what it is.

It's a mass of energy in a very high speed of vibration.

Now, we invented a word to describe our conscious

awareness of our vibration and that word is feeling.

If you ask a person, "How are you today?"

They'll say, "Oh, I'm feeling fine," or,

"I don't feel that good," "I feel great."

You never hear a person say, "I'm consciously aware of

"being emotionally involved with a negative idea

"so therefore I've moved into a negative vibration."

But that's exactly what happens.

So, you see, as we start to understand this and we

become aware that we're not feeling too good,

we can change it.

It takes a little training, but you can do it.

We are really in charge of how we feel.

Now, we let other people upset us, but we don't have to

let other people upset us.

We don't need to react to them, we can respond,

we can listen to what they're saying and then say,

"Well, you're entitled to your opinion,

"but that's just not what I'm like."

And we can hold our own idea of ourself.

You see, it's important that we grasp how the mind works

and that we understand the relationship of the body

to the mind and the mind to the body.

Now it's our results that we want to change.

Now our results could be in our physical body, it may want to be,

you may want to cast off a few pounds,

you may want to put on a couple of pounds.

You may want to have a little higher energy.

See, all the energy there ever was or ever will be is

100% evenly present in all places at the same time.

Everything's energy.

Do you know, you'll hear people say,

"Where does he get all the energy?" Or,

"where does she get all the--"

Nobody gets energy, everybody releases energy.

Desire is the triggering mechanism that woo,

let's the energy flow.

Now, let's go back and have a quick review.

Here you've got the little stick person here.

There you've got the conscious mind and remember,

you have the sensory factors hooked up to the

conscious mind.

And then you have the subconscious mind and then

you have the body.

Now, the conscious mind has the ability to choose thoughts.

Those thoughts turn into pictures.

We turn the pictures over to the subconscious mind

and then the subconscious mind expresses the action.

Now, what is the problem?

Remember we said the subconscious mind had no

ability to reject?

We said the subconscious mind cannot differentiate

between what's real and what's imagine.

How did we arrive on the scene?

I'll tell you, when you arrived on the scene,

you did not have any conscious facilities developed.

The sensory factors weren't even developed.

This is how you arrived.

That's called the little life, that's the baby.

No conscious mind.

So there's the subconscious mind, it's wide open,

you can put anything in it.

Do you see, your subconscious mind is programmed

genetically, that's why we look like our relatives,

it's built right into the genes at birth,

but then we're programmed environmentally.

Carl Menninger from the Menninger Foundation in Topeka

one time said, "Environment is more important than

"heredity."

Why do you think you speak the language you speak?

You speak that language because you were surrounded

by people that speak that language in your little life.

And the language just went right into the subconscious mind.

If you grew up in a home that was bilingual,

you learned both languages.

I had an associate over in (mumbles), had a little boy,

he spoke four languages at four years of age.

And you'd look at that and you'd think, "My gosh"

No no, the baby was programmed.

Why do you like the food you like?

It's programming, that's right.

Now, let's stop and think about the environment

we were raised in.

Here's the baby and look it, the ideas and the thoughts

and the concepts that are going on around that baby

are going right in to that baby's subconscious mind.

Now, through repetition, over and over and over again.

And remember, the baby's getting it all day every day

all week, every week, all month, every month,

all year and this goes on for four or five years.

And the baby reaches the age of four or five where

they can start to think that baby's programmed.

That baby is programmed to think like the people it

had been surrounded by.

If the people that surrounded that baby had gone

right through school, that baby will probably grow up

and go right through school.

If the people that were surrounding that baby always

lived in hard times, never had any money,

always in debt, that's probably how that baby's going

to grow up.

Now, this is bizarre, but this is how it happens.

It's how it happened for me.

I was raised during a depression.

We didn't have any money.

There was always talk about no money,

you should be satisfied with what you've got.

Well that's not true, you should never be satisfied

with what you've got.

You should be happy with what you've got,

dissatisfaction is actually a creative state.

So here we have, now, a baby that has been programmed.

Now, let's take and think for a moment.

What happens when that baby starts to think for itself?

Now think of this, the paradigm controls the vibration,

the vibration controls the action which produces

the result.

Now here we go, here you've got the baby with the paradigm

and the conscious facilities have developed.

They have the ability to think, there's a power flowing

into them, what are they going to think?

They're going to think thoughts that are in harmony

with that paradigm.

That's right.

We've been raised to believe we go to work to earn money.

Do you know that working is the very worst way

to earn money?

That's right.

You should go to work for satisfaction, not for money.

You provide service for money.

You can earn money while you're sleeping.

In fact, we have programs where we teach people to

actually earn more money while they're sleeping than

they'll ever need to use while they're awake.

You say, "Well that's a pipe dream."

No, no, that's a paradigm that causes you to think

that's a pipe dream.

There's people doing that that are no where near

as bright as you.

But here we are now, we've got the person,

they've been programmed in their little life genetically,

and environmentally.

That paradigm is nothing but a multitude of habits.

A habit is an idea that's been programmed into the

subconscious mind over and over and over again.

Now the paradigm is literally controlling the behavior.

Consciously you can think of one thing,

but subconsciously the other idea'll be controlling you.

See, we can sit down and we can read these self-help

books, we can listen to the recordings, we say

"Yeah, I can do that, that makes sense, that's logical."

But then we can't do it. Why?

Now, think of this for a moment, I want you to imagine that

you're going to accept an idea right now to turn your

annual income to a monthly income.

You say, "Well I'd like that," but will you do it?

Probably not.

Your paradigm will stop you.

See, your paradigm literally controls the results.

Now, let's think of how the paradigm was formed.

The paradigm was formed through repetition.

The ideas being planted in your subconscious mind.

Now understand your paradigm dictates your logic.

Your paradigm controls how you utilize your time.

Your paradigm controls your perception of situations.

Your paradigm controls your effectiveness.

Your paradigm controls the amount of money you earn.

If you want to change your life,

you must change your paradigm.

Do you see, to most people it's illogical that they

could take and turn their annual income to a

monthly income.

But if you follow our teachings we'll show you exactly

how to do that.

We'll show you how to accomplish anything you want to

accomplish because what we're focused on is showing you

how to change the paradigm.

When the paradigm is changed, your life changes.

It's a beautiful concept.

It's an absolutely phenomenal concept.

Now you know why you're getting the results you're getting.

It has nothing not do with your intellect.

Your intellect, you can figure out how to do things.

That doesn't mean you're going to do them.

You'll hear people say, "I believe that,"

but their behavior would indicate they've never even

heard of it, why?

We believe something on a conscious level,

on a subconscious level the paradigm believes

something else.

There's a word called praxis.

Praxis is the integration of belief with behavior.

We've got to take the beliefs that we have consciously,

that we determine by thinking and plant them in the place

of the old belief.

See, I used to believe that I couldn't do anything

better than what I was doing.

I felt fortunate that I was on the fire department.

The idea of building a company that operated all

around the world - furthest thing from my mind.

But you know something?

As I changed my paradigm, my whole world changed.

That's what we do, that's what it's all about.

You've got change your paradigm if you want to change

your life.

You can study all you want, if you don't gain an

understanding how to alter that program,

and that's what the paradigm is, it's a program,

it's a multitude of concepts that are fixed in your

subconscious mind that literally control your behavior.

It's a beautiful concept to understand.

It's a terrible one if you don't understand it.

Because it literally controls your life.

Why do you think most people go right through their

life and keep getting the same results year after year

after year?

Well, it's just the way it is.

And they don't know.

We should be taught this in school, but we're not.

How is the paradigm formed?

Through the repetition of information.

How is the paradigm changed?

Repetition of information.

Now let's suppose you're having a difficult time

with money.

You find that you've got more going out than coming in.

You've got to change your concept about money.

How do you do that?

Through the repetition of an idea.

That's where affirmations comes in.

I'll give you one I've been using for years.

I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me

in increasing quantities through multiple sources

on a continuous basis.

I am so happy and grateful now that money comes to me

in increasing quantities through multiple sources

on a continuous basis.

You don't just say that once or twice,

you've got to repeat that maybe 1,000 times a day

every day for maybe 90 days.

And you'll start to change your whole concept about money.

Wealthy people all have multiple sources of income.

Now I'm going to tell you what happened to me.

I drove around with a battery operated record player

and a long playing record and I played it over and over

again every day for probably a couple of years.

This was so totally illogical, it was behavior

everybody thought I was losing it.

And I'm reading the same book every day,

Think And Grow Rich.

As a matter of fact, I'm still reading the same book.

And it was the repetition of Earl Nightengale's information

and the book that changed the paradigm.

I didn't know what I was doing,

I didn't understand what I was doing, but I did it.

Do you know I had a man come up to me in the Waldorf

Hotel in New York, Waldorf Astoria.

At the end of a three day program and he said,

"Bob, I really want to thank you for what you've

"just given to me."

He said, "For the first time in my life I've understood

how I accomplished what I did."

I said, "What did you do?"

He said, "I won the gold medal in the decathlon

in the Olympics in Melbourne Australia in 1957."

That's right.

Milt Campbell.

And he said, "I never understood how I did it."

He said, "The next time you run a seminar I want to

bring my boys," and he did.

Milt and I became great friends.

In fact, Milt has a key to our house,

he can come stay there anytime he wants.

I live in Toronto, he's in New Jersey.

But here was the top athlete in the world,

very best athlete in the world, he didn't understood

how he got there.

Most people that are very accomplished cannot tell you

why they are.

That's why they are.

They've rewritten the program, they've changed the paradigm.

They might not have understood how they did it,

but they did it.

That's what our company is all about.

We teach people how to change paradigms.

I want to thank you for watching this.

But I'm going to ask you to share it with other people.

Share it with them.

Say, "Come and watch this."

Start a rapport, build a rapport with people.

It's a great way to live.

And this is great information to understand.

Thanks for listening, it's Bob Proctor,

I enjoy sharing it with you.