Simple Steps to Reprogram Your Mind with Sam Kabert

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Today on the show we have Sam Kabert. Sam is the master and the explorer of creating a soul-life balance. He is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and one of Silicon Valley’s 40 under 40. He has a ton of tools both big and small to create more balance in life and we get to talk about some of those incredible tools with Sam today on the podcast.

One of my favorite tools that I am going to share ahead with you is his simple steps to start reprogramming your own thoughts and your own emotions when they arise. It is not just about thinking happy thoughts until bad feelings go away. There is a really interesting and precise process Sam lays out for us today on the podcast with tons of other really useful tips and tricks.

We discuss:

[02:21] Sam shares his defining moment when he was in college and got a DUI.
[09:57] He had done everything that he was told he was supposed to do and he thought he was supposed to do but he was still unhappy.
[11:12] Shadow work is bringing the unconscious to conscious awareness.
[12:31] Emotions are energy in motion so when we feel something that we don’t want to feel and we do anything we can to not feel that emotion then that energy that is in motion gets stuck in our body. When we can breathe into how we feel, that is those little wins throughout the day.
[15:10] When you can catch yourself feeling an emotion, that awareness is the first step. Step one: Slow down, close your eyes, and feel it.
[17:45] Step two: Slow down, close your eyes, and just a few rounds of the cyclic sigh to settle you.
[18:50] Step three: Then you do a body scan and repeat the mantra or negative belief. To process this we have to accept it fully. Then use timeline therapy and repeat the mantra as you exhale and slowly imagine that matra shifting to the left until it gets behind you and disappears.
[20:36] Step four: Identifying the opposite of this negative narrative. Then go back to the body scan and scan that through your whole body as you accept it as true.
[21:12] Experience is nothing if you don’t integrate it into your everyday life.
[27:30] We go to these conferences, events, or summits and we have profound new ideas that we want to implement when we go back to our daily lives. Most people make no changes.
[31:04] It is all about the integration and carrying it out into our normal lives.
[32:28] If you are feeling called to the medicine, put that intention out there and see if it responds. Use discernment to find a facilitator.
[37:35] In any given moment we have the opportunity to choose this or that and all we need to do to really achieve and feel our highest excitement is to follow our bliss. Ask yourself, How can I follow my bliss, my passion, and feed my soul? All of these questions from moment to moment really help to feel more fulfilled on a day-to-day basis.