The book I mention is Self-Talk Your Way to Success - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026RIJHQ

What if I told you, you don’t actually exist and are just a figment of your brain’s imagination. Welcome back to the Internal Journey, I’m your host Kam Knight, author of nearly a dozen books in the area of mental and human performance.

We humans like to think of ourselves as these walking, talking, and thinking entities with a brain inside of us. Like your are the entity and the brain is simply one piece of you. That is, you are the main character in the movie, and the brain is just another organ, like all the other organs in the body. 

The reality is, you are merely a figment of your brain’s imagination! You are not this person with a brain inside you, but you - John, Jane, Ravi, or whatever your name is - are a personality the brain conjured up. That’s right. The brain created you. It created you to help it navigate and survive in this world. This might sound farfetched, but hear me out.

Since you were growing up, the brain was forming your personality. Based on experiences, it was deciding what you can or cannot do. What you’re good or not good at. Who to feel comfortable or not to feel comfortable around. How to talk, act, react, and behave. You became this personality that the brain can use to interact with the outside world.

Think about conditions such as multiple personalities or dissociative identity. Such conditions are characterized by the presence of at least two distinct personality states, though it can be as many as dozens. Each personality or state operates independent of each other and has its own behaviors, traits, manners, as well as likes and dislikes. In fact, each personality will have memories distinct from others, and may even have distinct illnesses, for example, one personality might be diabetic, but the other not. All within the same brain and body.

These conditions show up in response to some sort of abuse and trauma, usually from childhood. These alternate personalities arise to help the individual cope with situations and environments, that it cannot. Sometimes the brain will cycle through the different personalities to see which one is the best for the situation or problem at hand. So, what one personality can’t or is too afraid to handle, another can.

In many ways, you operate this way on a day-to-day basis. Conditions such as multiple personalities are on a spectrum. They are on a more extreme end of the spectrum. Though on a considerably less extreme, it’s not too far from your daily mode of operation.

That’s because you cycle through numerous traits and  states regularly. When around friends you talk, act, and behave a certain way. Around parents, you talk, act, and behave a different way. In front of a boss, even more different. Around an attractive woman or man, completely different. In an unknown situation or environment, you’ll cycle through to see which one is the best at hand.

These shifts happen so fast, you don’t notice them. When a boss enters a room, you literally become a different person. When someone attractive walks by, same thing. You don’t realize when you’ve shifted or that you are acting differently, but others can tell. 

So if the brain can create a dozen personalities that are a figment of its imagination, doesn’t it reason that you might be one of them? I know, it’s a hard pill to swallow.  It’s like whoa…my entire existence is some organ’s imagination All this pain, struggle, strife is something the brain is creating. In many ways, yes. But there is good news!

If you are a product of the minds imagination, you can change and be changed. You are not this person stuck in that body. You can decide the person you want to become. You can choose the personality the mind projects to the outside world. You can change how the brain imagines you. It’s not easy, but it is possible.

So how does one go about doing this?

1. Start by describing the person you want to become. Have you ever thought about who you want to be? Not like The  who you want to be from grade school of I want to be police man, a firefighter, or a nurse. But on a deeper more expansive level, like the qualities and traits you desire - I want to be strong and confident - your actions and behaviors - I want to be active and disciplined - how you communicate - I want to communicate my thoughts, ideas, feelings, and needs - how you are around others - I want to be at ease and popular around people.

Really think about the specific qualities you wish and desire. Describe in detail the person you want to become. Think about the people you admire and the characteristics they have that you wish you had. What are they doing that you wish you were doing, and how are they doing those things. Write them down..

2. Next, turn these wants into affirmations. If you said, you want to be strong and confident, the affirmation becomes, I am strong and confident. If you want to be active and disciplined, your affirmation is, I am active and disciplined. If you want to be caring and loving, the affirmation for that is, I am a caring and loving person. If you want to be at ease and popular, I am at ease and popular around people.

These are just some examples, but you can go in many directions. In fact, I have created over 50 statements that describe who I want to become and how I want to show up - from I am happy, healthy, sexy, strong, and organized to I don’t judge, make assumptions, get jealous or seek approval.

3. Repeat the affirmations everyday. Every single day. The more you do, the more your mind’s imagination begins to change. It doesn’t happen over night, but it starts to happen. The more and longer you repeat the statements, the more and longer you begin to change.

You don’t notice the change happening, because remember, you’re simply an imagination the brain conjured up. The imagination doesn’t realize what came before, but acts out what is here now. So you simply begin showing up as a different person. You almost forget how you use to be and the struggles you had. Though it doesn’t happen without doing this exercise.

Alright so get started, take out a sheet of paper and begin describing the person you want to become, turn them into affirmations, and then repeat them daily. If you want more detail about the science behind this and step by step instructions on how to write and repeat the 
statements, check out my book – Self-Talk Your Way to Success – It was one of the first books I wrote and it’s really transformed me! Links in the description.

Until next time...