Are you driving the car, or is the car driving you?

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By the time you reach the ripe age of 35, the scientists tell us that 95% of who you are is a set of memorized behaviors, emotional reactions, and subconscious programs.

Ninety-five percent! That means only 5% of your conscious mind—the part of you that says, "I want to be wealthy," or "I want to be healthy," or "I want to learn to play the accordion"—is actually running the show. The other 95% is a robotic, automatic, subconscious computer program that is playing out a script written years ago.

You are like a high-end computer running Windows 95. You have incredible potential, but you are trying to load the "Abundance 2.0" software on an operating system that is still trying to dial up the internet.

Here is the kicker: Emotions are the end products of past experiences. When you feel an emotion, your body is chemically recording the past. If you wake up and immediately feel worry, lack, or insecurity, your body believes it is still living in whatever past event caused those feelings originally.

You might say, "But Bradley, I am worried about my bills now." Ah, but the habit of worry is an addiction. Your body has become addicted to the rush of stress hormones—the cortisol and adrenaline—just like a junkie needs a fix. You effectively become the mind. The servant has become the master.

Living in this stress response—what we call the "Survival State"—keeps your brain in high-beta waves. You become incoherent. You become selfish. You define reality only by what you can see, touch, and smell. You feel separate from everything and everyone. In this state, trying to create abundance is like trying to make a phone call with a banana. It is just not the right tool for the job.

You will find that the more you read my emails, the more success you will have in identifying when you are in this survival state. You will start to feel the difference between "creating" and "surviving." Creating feels like expansion; surviving feels like contraction.

To create freedom, you must break these energetic bonds. You have to take your energy back. When you stop reacting to the traffic, the rude waiter, or the bank statement with the same old emotion, you are liberating energy. You are breaking the chains of the past.

You are probably feeling grateful for having clicked the links in my email, because realizing you are 95% robot is actually good news. It means you don't have to fight the world; you just have to reprogram the robot.

You have to learn to think greater than how you feel. It is the hardest thing you will ever do, but it is also the only thing that matters. If you can stop the habitual thoughts and emotions that anchor you to your current conditions, you become free. You step out of the known and into the unknown. And the unknown, my friend, is where the magic happens.

But how do you actually communicate with this quantum field of possibility? How do you place an order with the Cosmic Chef?

Tomorrow, I am going to give you the specific formula—the Wi-Fi password to the Universe, if you will—that combines thought and feeling to pull your future toward you.

One Question: If your body is the chauffeur and you’ve been asleep in the back seat, where has it driven you lately that you definitely didn't order a ride to?

Bradley Woods

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