How We Unlearn Pain: Let's Hear It LIVE From Dr. Howard Schubiner

What do you think, Michael? Yeah.

Michael's a frustrated.

Michael's going to make an amazing neuroplastic coach.

When he gets tired of holding that camera, he's going to be an amazing, amazing health practitioner.

So go ahead, Michael.

I think that what you just brought up is really amazing.

And the idea of the facts, belief and faith.

And I think what happens is that people miss and I missed for a really long time is that oftentimes we think that our beliefs about ourselves are facts.

Yeah.

They're really just a story that we're telling ourselves about ourselves.

But oftentimes that story was formed before we were fully conscious of that process.

And so what happens is we think this is how I am.

I'm this nervous person or I'm just this is who I am rather than this is what my trauma created.

And once we reframe that out of this is who I am and this is who I am right now.

But when we go to the idea of neuroplasticity, we can actually change that underlying belief.

And I think the problem here is something that I struggle with.

Like, I think I realized that in high school at one point.

I was like, oh, if I just pretend I'm confident, people will see me as confident and then I will be more confident.

And that worked to a degree.

But behind that was the awareness that I was faking it till I made it, which meant that it felt false.

So it didn't feel solid.

It was built on sand.

It didn't mean it couldn't be true.

And so what I, instead of fake it till you make it, I work on rehearse it until I embody it.

Because you have to train your brain through repetition.