Pod Insights The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks Bob Proctor: "Faith Based on Understanding is The Key to Success." About this episode Bob Proctor shares a powerful lesson on mindset, awareness, and the power of choice. By understanding how your mind works and consciously choosing positive, knowledge-based thinking over fear and doubt, you can transform your life. True success comes from developing faith through understanding and disciplined focus. Want Ad-Free Episodes? Join QOD Club and hear zero ads inside our Circle community. Plus, book clubs, mentorship calls, weekly business trainings, and new likeminded friends. Get started for only $9. Source: Paradigm Shift Bob Proctor - Breaking Free from Negativity - Ep. 7Hosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript 0:00 Speaker 00 When we understand how our mind functions, when we understand what the paradigm's doing, when we understand that the paradigm is conditioning, it's in every cell of our being, and it flips us right over onto the negative, you know, we're sunk if we don't understand that. But when you do understand it, it's the key to freedom. It really is the key to freedom.
0:35 Speaker 01 Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show. I am your host, Shawn Croxton, at seancroxton.com. Let me tell you, it feels really good to be back on the microphone. It feels really good to be back on the show. It feels really good to be back with you. It's been a while. If you hadn't heard, what was this? Four Mondays ago, I woke up 2:00, 3:00 a.m. in the morning with the world's worst spasm in my upper back. It was terrible. And ever since then, I've been in bed. I've been in bed for four straight weeks. Standing up and walking around hurts. Sitting in this chair hurts. It's been a ride. It's been an interesting last four weeks. It's been really hard to sleep, but everything's getting better, getting better every single day. I was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome,
1:19 Speaker 01 which means that my clavicle and my first ribs, my first rib, they're squeezing on a nerve, a bundle of nerves. And so I get pain in my upper back. I get pain down my arm, and it's just 24/7, to be honest. But it's getting better. And even though it kind of sucks, like Bob Proctor is going to talk about today, like we have the power of choice. Like I can choose to focus on the negative, or I can choose to shift my attention and focus on the positive, which is the fact that I'm learning patience. My mom always says, like, in the assembly line that was putting me together, they skipped the patience station. And so I'm just, I'm the most impatient person you will ever know. And so this is definitely teaching me patience. It's teaching me how to ask for help.
2:03 Speaker 01 It's giving me time to study and to develop skills. And so looking at the positive and, you know, in any adversity, there's lessons, there's blessings. And if we have the, the right mindset, the right attitude, we'll come out the other side better than we were before. And so Bob Proctor is going to talk about the power of choice. He's going to talk about understanding how when we're looking to create something new in our lives and we feel that propensity to sabotage ourselves, when we feel like we're not deserving, when we feel like we're working against ourselves, like we need to understand what is going on. And so he's going to talk about that because when you understand it, it helps you move forward within the turmoil and the negative self-talk and the limiting beliefs that were holding you back before. Bob Proctor is coming up.
2:50 Speaker 00 Now, you see, we have a choice. We really have a choice. The choice rests in our own consciousness and we can choose what we're going to plug into. We can choose and plug into what's wrong, or we can choose to plug into what's right. I'll tell you how I want, I want you to look at this. You've got the drawing of the mind and the body, the circle. The top half is the conscious mind. I want you to visualize a plus sign on one side of your mind and a negative sign on the other side. That's the negative and the positive. The positive and the negative, the yin and the yang, the inside, the outside, the up, the down, the hot, cold. It's the opposite side of the same thing.
3:32 Speaker 00 Now you have a choice to which side you're going to plug into. If you are living in an ignorant state, I can guarantee you, when this power flows into your consciousness, the paradigm will take over and you'll start to worry and doubt. Now above the negative sign, I want you to put the word ignorance. Above the positive sign, put the word knowledge. See, it's knowledge that's going to get you to where you want to go. And the only way to get to the knowledge is to study. There's no other way. But if a person is into the negative, if they're starting to worry and doubt, understand when you're worrying and you're doubting, that is your choice. You have chosen to look at the downside of a situation. It's like the front and the back of something. Both sides are there.
4:16 Speaker 00 You can say, "But it's real, it's there, look at it." And you're right, it is real. You can justify why you should look at it. But that isn't going to do you any good. It's going to take you in the wrong direction. When you consciously get involved in a negative idea and you internalize that idea, you add emotion to it. You set up the only emotion you can, which is fear. Now, fear must be expressed through the only instrument. It can be expressed through your physical body. You see, the body is the instrument of the mind. And that fear is expressed on a physical level as anxiety. Now, most people, when they experience anxiety, they go to a doctor and they get loaded up on Valium. What they should do is understand what's causing the anxiety. But we don't do that.
5:00 Speaker 00 Do you know what the average individual does when they get that negative vibration? They suppress it. They hold it inside. They tell no one about it. They suppress it. And you know what happens when you suppress anxiety? You turn it into depression. Now, stop and think what I'm saying here. You go from an ignorant state. You start worrying. You're looking at all the things that could go wrong. What you should be looking at is all the things that could go right. But we get looking at what could go wrong and we start to worry and we start to doubt. And that's what happens when you hit that terror barrier. It knocks you right over onto the negative side. The doubt and the worry instantly turn into fear, instantly turn into anxiety. I mean, it just happens like that. You're dealing with the central nervous system. It's the most complex electrical system in the universe.
5:47 Speaker 00 Now, I don't think you want to live that way. I don't want to live that way. I used to live that way because I didn't understand what I was doing, what was happening to me. But now I understand what's happening. And instead of suppressing the anxiety, I get rid of it. I expel it. I tell it to get out. Go for a walk. It's not welcome. But a person that suppresses the anxiety, it turns into depression. Depression turns into dis-ease. Now, dis-ease is exactly what it says. It's a body not at ease. And that person's body starts to disintegrate. Now, that is a very, very negative track a person's on. It's important that you understand this. Now, what's the answer? Faith based on understanding is the key to success.
6:32 Speaker 00 Faith based on understanding. Now, blind faith isn't worth much. People say, "Oh, blind faith." No, no, blind faith isn't worth much. First time you hit a terror barrier, the faith is gone. You know? There's a cute little story about the guy that's gonna walk across the gorge in Niagara. I live real close to Niagara, so I'm very familiar with this. But the rapids are treacherous. I mean, they're just terrible. Well, he put a wire right across the gorge, and he's gonna walk across a high wire. So he's up there on his stick, and there's people all over the place, and they're watching. They're saying, "Go for it, go for it." You know? This guy's walking on a wire. He's got a big balancing beam. And then he puts that down, he puts a wheelbarrow up on it, and he looks at this guy, says, "You think I can make it?"
7:16 Speaker 00 The guy says, "Sure, you can make it." He said, "Get in the barrel." See? He didn't really believe it at all. You know? Blind faith. Faith based on understanding. When we understand how our mind functions, when we understand what the paradigm's doing, when we understand that the paradigm is conditioning, it's in every cell of our being, and it flips us right over onto the negative, you know, we're sunk if we don't understand that. But when you do understand it, it's the key to freedom. It really is the key to freedom. Now think, I keep talking about this, there's a power flowing to and through. I want you to visualize an enormous funnel coming right into the top of your head. And there's an energy flowing right into your consciousness.
8:01 Speaker 00 And it has no form, it's pure, unadulterated, creative power. And you can take and you can build any idea you want. You're wondering, I wonder if this will work, I wonder if that works. It doesn't work, we work. That's our focus. It's our focus that determines whether we're going to make something happen or not. We wonder, we think it's something outside, I wonder if the economy will handle it. The economy's got nothing to do with it. I wonder if the marketplace, no, no, no, no, it's not the marketplace. It's ourself, it's our own understanding. When that power flows in, we don't just think, we ask ourself, what do I really want? And then we understand, the paradigm is gonna try and stop me.
8:44 Speaker 00 I'm gonna overrule that paradigm, I'm not gonna let it stop me. So what do I do? I look at the positive side, how do I do that? It's through understanding. I understand what's going on, I understand the paradigm's trying to stop me from following my dream. Now, there's only one way to develop understanding, there is no other way, just one way. And that's through study. And if you will make a commitment to a lifetime of study, you'll just change one paradigm after another, you'll keep breaking them. And they're gonna have to keep being broken, you're gonna have to continually have paradigm shifts. Now, I've been working at it consciously and deliberately for 45 years. And I know if I go for another 45 years, and I certainly hope I do,
9:29 Speaker 00 I'm gonna continue to break the paradigms, I'm not gonna let them control me. I absolutely refuse to. You see, we wanna look at how it's gonna happen. We wanna understand there's laws, we wanna understand that God gave us the ability to make choices. We wanna know that we can consciously and deliberately choose to move in harmony with the law. And when we do, our whole world begins to change.
9:53 Speaker 00 See, understanding leads to something that everybody needs and very few people have. Understanding leads to faith. Now, faith based on understanding is what moves mountains. And it will move any mountain. It'll change your life, it'll make your life be everything it's supposed to be. Now, when the faith is expressed... Remember we said that doubt and worry causes fear and the fear causes anxiety? The anxiety is the fear being expressed. Whatever's impressed must be expressed. Well, when you impress understanding upon the subconscious, you develop an emotional state called faith. There's a feeling of strength inside you. You know that you're working with an infinite power that operates in an orderly manner.
10:39 Speaker 00 And so you move into a state of vibration called well-being. Well-being. Now, remember we said the anxiety, its polar opposite was suppressed? Well-being's not suppressed. Well-being's expressed. Have you ever gone up to anybody and said, "Hi, how are you?" And they look around and say, "I'm really excited." People don't do that. When they're in a good vibration, you see it. You see it in their actions. You see it the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they meet and greet people. There's something about them that you're attracted to. See, well-being's expressed. And that expression leads to acceleration. It picks up speed. Good things start to happen. It starts to get better.
11:23 Speaker 00 It starts to pick up speed. And you know what else happens? You start to attract things to you. You attract good things to you. And you know why? Because you're at ease. You are at ease. Now, think about this for a moment. You're at ease. You have consciously and deliberately put every cell in your body into a relaxed state.
11:48 Speaker 00 I'll give you a good exercise. I have a friend of mine that was, he was pretty uptight a little while ago. And I said, you want to know what you should do? You should get the book As a Man Thinketh. I mentioned on another series, if you go to AsAManThinketh.net, you can download it. It won't cost you a dime. It's a phenomenal book. It's probably one of the best books I have ever read. And the last chapter is on serenity. Let me tell you how it starts. It says, calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. See, that's what we're doing. Self-control. What's the polar opposite? Paradigm control. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
12:33 Speaker 00 It's the result of long and patient effort in self-control. You know, there was an old ball guy, Branch Rickey. He was with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now, I'm going back 100 years. But he was, he was really one of the ball guys of his day. He said he didn't care how far a guy could throw a ball, or how accurate. He didn't care how far he could hit it. He didn't care how fast he could run. He didn't care how well he could catch it. If he wasn't as loose as ashes, he wouldn't hire him. Totally relaxed. Have you ever watched the runners?
13:14 Speaker 00 When they're getting down to, you know, getting ready to run, they loosen their body? Totally relaxed. You know, when you're relaxed, all the chakras are open, the energy's flowing freely through you, you are in the vibration that you should be in to really make things happen in a big way.
13:33 Speaker 01 That was the late, great Bob Proctor. His website is ProctorGallagherInstitute.com. You can watch today's entire talk on YouTube. It's called Paradigm Shift: Bob Proctor, Breaking Free From Negativity, Episode Number Seven. All right, that's it for me. Hey, you know, almost forgot, late notice, I know, but it's going to be worth it. This week, we are starting two brand-new books in QOD Club. So Wednesday is our Growth Club. We're going to be... Discussing the first 39 pages of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. You've probably heard of this book before. It's a classic, just like Bob was talking about today. If you're looking to change something in your life, if you're looking to become more, you're going to deal with what Pressfield calls the resistance.
14:15 Speaker 01 You know, that inner resistance, that that thing that makes you want to stop and go back to who you were before. So this book is going to help you to understand the resistance and also be able to navigate the resistance. So again, we're discussing the first 39 pages inside Q O D Club. Get signed up at Q O D club.com. Also, Personal Finance Book Club, that's on Thursday afternoons. We just got done reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, phenomenal book. We're moving on to a book called Tax Free Wealth, How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes. So tax day just passed, you might've paid more than you really needed to pay. And so when you read this book, that will no longer happen because you'll be able to
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