Back to The Future: Part 1 - Change Your Perspective, Change Your Future

Imagine being able to travel back in time to a life-altering event and rewrite your perception of the event, positively changing your future. Hey, but who wants to go back to a life-altering event, right? Well, most of us, if we know, we can change our future.


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Transcript

Craig Walker (00:07)
Imagine being able to travel back in time to a life -altering event and rewrite your perception of the event, positively changing your future. Hey, but who wants to go back to a life -altering event, right? Well, most of us, if we know we can change our future. Hi, welcome back to the Trudy at Masterpiece podcast. Hey, I'm stoked to be with you today.

I've got incredible news for you. I'm going to show you how to rewrite your past and to positively change your future. This is Fantastic Stuff. My name is Craig Walker and I am your host. If you're new to the podcast, let me give you a quick tour. New episodes are published on a second Tuesday of each month with an occasional bonus episode published periodically. Good news is this month I've got a bonus podcast for you.

In about two weeks, I'll put the talk out, which is the second part of this talk. And you'll get that. So make sure that you subscribe to the show and you'll be notified each time a new episode is published. All right, let's get on with the talk. If you're not at least 40 years old, you've probably not seen the hit science fiction comedy, Back to the Future. The movie, it follows teenager Marty McFly, who's actually

accidentally sent back in time to 1955 and his scientist friend Emmett or Doc Brown's time traveling DeLorean automobile. McFly, inadvertently back in time, back in 55, prevents his future parents from falling in love, threatening his future existence. Now Marty is forced to reconcile the couple before going back to the future. The movie is hilariously entertaining, but

The possibility of going back into the past to change your future. That's soberingly mind blowing. Imagine being able to travel back in time to a life altering event and to be able to rewrite your perception of the event, positively changing your future. Hey, but who wants to go back to a life altering event? Right? Well, most of us, if we know we can change our future. Now,

There's one important stipulation. You can't change the event. You can only change your perception of the event. You can only change how you interpret the event. How would that change in perception alter your future?

Immediately, immediately, I think of my five year old experience in the first grade. My parents, they were trying to figure out what to do with me. Uh, now that my mom is taking a job on the outside, outside the home, they knew our neighbor. They liked her, Mrs. Turnbull. She's a first grade teacher. So they asked Mrs. Turnbull what she thought about me starting school in the first grade. Mrs. Turnbull, she counseled strongly against me starting school in the first grade because

I didn't have the foundation of learning laid in kindergarten. And at five, she said, I didn't have the maturity. Well, against Mrs. Turnbo's wishes, my parents put me in first grade. I'm sitting in first grade. Mrs. Turnbo, she decided not to teach me. As my teacher, she's placed me at the chalkboard where I draw all day long. I'm sitting there and I perceive as she teaches the class, she's teaching the smart kids while I, the not so smart kid, draw on the chalkboard.

At the end of the school year, when my mom met with Mrs. Turnbull, Mrs. Turnbull explained why I wasn't going to be promoted to second grade. I stood there and I saw my mom nodding in agreement. And I thought, you know, I'm not smart enough to go to the second grade. And my mom, she believes that too. Well, when my dad got the news, he decided that he would teach me at home and prove that everybody was wrong. There was nothing wrong with me. But when he tried to teach me, he became angry and frustrated.

when I failed to perform as he had expected. And I thought, man, if, if he only knew I'm just not capable of learning and he wouldn't have to get angry, he wouldn't be so frustrated and he wouldn't keep trying to make me learn. You know, I carried this not smart enough belief about myself into adulthood. I wasn't wholly set free from that not smart enough perception until I was

58 years old. Now just suppose that I could return to that event. Would I? You bet I would. In a heartbeat. For a guy who graduated from high school, not knowing the difference between a verb and a noun, and was functionally illiterate, reading and having the vocabulary of a sixth grader, I'd jump at the chance. Imagine the difference that this change in perspective would make.

and my future. Holy cow, what a difference it did make because I did make the trip and I changed my perspective. And here's the good news. You can too. You can change your future and I can show you how. How? How can, this is a great question. How can you change your memory of an actual event that happened in the past? Well, before I can explain how to change your perception, you must understand what a memory is and why change is possible.

I'll share my simplified understanding of Dr. Caroline Leafs, her geodesic information processing theory, which she says explains the science of thought. Now she puts this out in her incredibly enlightening book, Switch On Your Brain. I'll leave a note or actually a link for the book in my notes down below. Thoughts and memories, what are they? Well, if something stimulates our mind,

causing an awareness, then a thought immediately is created. Now for this conversation, when I talk about stimulating the mind, I'm only talking about the five senses, sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. A thought, it's a physical particle made up of biochemical substances. That's why Dr. Leve says a thought matters because a thought is matter. It's a real thing.

Almost immediately though, when a thought is formed, emotions begin attaching themselves to this thought as it moves forward towards a decision. Now it's important to recognize the influence emotions begin exerting over that thought. All conscious thought moves towards a decision. Being made in the image of God as humans, we're sensing, thinking, and choosing beings. Now once a decision is made,

the thought is complete. It's called, it's automatized. The automatized thought now is a memory. It's what it's called. It's a memory and it moves from your conscious cognitive mind into your non -conscious mind or your non -conscious metacognitive mind, which controls your behavior. Here's some interesting facts. Your conscious cognitive mind, it's only active when you're alert. That's all.

Your non -conscious mind, it's active 24 hours a day. The non -conscious or excuse me, the conscious mind, it operates at about 2000 actions per second. But listen to this, the non -conscious mind, it operates at about 400 billion seconds, uh, actions per second. The conscious mind, um, it's responsible, get this, for only about 10 % of our actions. In other words, while you're thinking, you're alert, you're, you're processing a thought.

You only make about 10 % of your decisions or actions. The non -conscious mind. Did you know that once a decision is made, that thought is stored as a memory and it's responsible. The non -conscious mind is responsible for 90 to 99 % of every single thing you say and do. It's amazing. Now look at, look at thinking and the importance of memory like this. Okay. Here's a story. When you are an example.

When you first rode your bicycle or first learned to ride a bicycle, you had to process each action, right? Your mind is thinking about balancing, watching where you're going, simultaneously pedaling. And the thought of breaking never entered your mind because that scared you to death. And you weren't very good at any of this. Like most people, you crashed and you probably crashed a lot while you were learning, but you kept riding the bicycle and thoughts of balancing, looking, propulsion and braking, they become individual memories.

and they began to be managed by your non -conscious mind. And riding a bicycle became easy, so easy, you don't even have to think about it. I like to look at thinking and memory also this way. Have you ever driven to work or to home or anywhere that you've driven repeatedly only to arrive and think, gosh, I don't even remember the trip. I wasn't even thinking. The realization kind of scared you to death.

And you were thinking, where was my mind? What was I thinking? I could have killed someone. Hey, relax. You can relax. Your mind was elsewhere. It really was. But your non -conscious brain was active, watching over every turn, paying attention to lights, traffic, and pedestrians. It was doing what you taught it to do. One automatized thought at a time, like riding a bicycle. Guys, here's a real key concept.

Your mind and your brain are different. Your mind instructs the brain. It perceives what comes in from the outside and then turns it into a thought, saves it as a memory in your brain, and then that automatized thought controls everything you say and do. By the way, let me just interject this. I think this part of our thinking is what the Bible calls the heart. You know why I think that? Because...

This part of your thinking controls as much as 99 % of your actions. And the Bible says, as a person thinks within his heart, so is he. The Bible says, guard your heart, guard your heart for out of it flows everything that you do, everything you do. Guard your heart. Wow. I think this is incredible. Well, with that information, I think you're ready to understand how to travel back in time.

and to change your perspective. Dr. Leaf explains in what she calls her multiple perspective advantage or the MPA for short. The MPA means, and I'm quoting, you can stand outside of yourself and observe your thinking. And from this advantage, you can change a negative toxic thought or grow a healthy positive thought.

Standing outside of your thinking, pulling the memory into consciousness, traveling back in time in your mind, you cause the thought, the memory to become unstable. In this conscious state, it's malleable. It's plastic. It's what scientists call, this is what scientists call neuroplasticity. This is the current rage, the topic of so many great books and for good reason.

The thought or the memory in your conscious mind, it's now in a position where you can rebuild it, adding new and accurate information, transforming your brain and your behavior. Okay, this is the setup for how. How can I change a thought? How can I change a memory? And this is the topic of our bonus talk, which I plan to publish in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned.

I'll be back to you soon. Now, before we leave this though, I want you to take an action. What is that one thing about yourself that you would change? If you could travel back in time to a life altering event, where would you go? And what's the perception that you would change? How would you think differently? I went back to my first grade experience. I changed my perspective. I rewrote my future. What about you? What would you change?

to rewrite your future. Share it with me. You can reach me at craig at craigwalkercoaching .com. Oh, hey, I hope you find this teaching helpful. If you do, please don't hesitate to share it with others and to help me expand my reach. If you want to stay informed about my book that I'm writing on this on on this whole topic of self image and you want to know about the developments, click the link that's in the notes down below. Give me your email address.

and I'll keep you posted. Also, if you sign up, I'll give you a free ebook. This is seven insights about you. What you don't know may hurt you. If you could benefit, here's another note, if you could benefit from self -image coaching, let me know. I'd love to talk with you. The cost of coaching, it's negligible compared to living with a fractured identity. Well, thanks again for joining me and I hope to see you back in a couple of weeks.