You're listening to the Transform your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled Stop Believing in Yourself and Start Knowing Yourself. Now that might not make a lot of sense to a lot of people, because it has been hammered in our heads. And we have been indoctrinated since we were little kids from society, the motivational speakers. We've been indoctrinated that you've got to believe you've got to believe. And you watch any movie about any triumph of an athlete or anything else, and it's always about believing in yourself. St. Germain said if humans knew how the universe worked they would seize to believe in miracles. People believe in miracles because they don't know how the universe works. And they don't know how the universe works because they don't know themself. I've mentioned it at other places in the podcast, but I want to talk about knowing yourself in this episode. So if you'd like to explore that. And getting to know yourself and perhaps seeing yourself in a different way, even though I've already talked about it. I won't frame it in a different way. Keep listening.

Hi, I'm Jim Fortin, and you're about to start Transforming your Life from the Inside Out with this podcast. I'm widely considered the leader in Subconscious Transformation, and I've coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here you're going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of Brain Science, Transformational Psychology, and Ancient Wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you've never thought possible. If you're wanting a lot more in life to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you're going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I'm glad you're here. 

Okay, so believing in self. You know, I think back to when I was a kid playing sports and everything else, and we've always heard and it applies to most of us, you've got to believe in yourself. And that's hammered into our heads all the time by our teachers, our coaches . You know, in school or parents, whoever it might be. Then you look at all the motivational speakers talking about, you gotta believe in yourself, blah, blah, blah. And you see all these personalities aligned, talking about, you've got to believe in yourself. And you have books like the magic of believing by Claude Bristol. Which is in my opinion, a pretty, a pretty good book. But it's not about believing in yourself and the way that you have learned to believe in yourself. And the way that pretty much most of the world has led you to believe. Because, believing in yourself, many people listened to the podcast. They will say they are first a spiritual being and then a physical being. But they don't live that way. They live first as the physical being, thinking they're spiritual beings, not recognizing that they're living the reverse of what they think that they are. Because when we talk about believing in yourself, Most people haven't recognized that, but that is all a 3D, meaning a third dimensional construct. And believing in yourself, plain and simple is limited to our past experiences and we're living in the past. Because you can only believe in yourself to the extent of your past history. Based upon what you have learned to believe in yourself. So today you may not be creating what you want. And then you'll say, and then you've heard, I've got to believe in myself, but you haven't believed in yourself in the past. 

Why? Because you are literally subscribing to your past history. Your past history tells you, you can't do it. Therefore you don't believe in yourself either then or now. You know, speaking of then, and now. Most people think their past is in the past, their past is not in the past. Everything is always now. All of your future will be created from your now. All of your past will be created from your now. And we look at it as human beings, many things linear. And we think, well, the past is not that now, therefore it's in the past, but you created the past and the now and then now is right now. And then now that we just had is gone. And then now I just talked about when I started, the sentence is gone. Everything is now. And the only place we create is the now, but many of us actually live from our past trying to create a now. So, as I said, when I opened it, The St.Germain quote is if humans understood how the universe works. They would seize to believe in miracles. I read that maybe 30 years ago. And I've thought about it and pondered and lived into it for 30 years. And then my mentor criticized me on YouTube. For mentioning my brother-in-law as shaman Don Xavier. Let me share something here. The reason that I mentioned that is because we had people coming into the podcast all the time and they could be a first time listener this week that heard me on another podcast somewhere. So if you've been here for a while, you already know that, but they don't know that. So I've got quite a balance, the act of basically giving people context that is brand new, but shifting not an over context contextualizing the people that have been here. But there's another reason that, and the person had a valid point and I appreciate it saying, well, what if you just own the content? That's a lack of integrity from where I work from. And that I have learned the ancient wisdom and the spirituality and the ways of being from this particular shaman. And for me to claim it as my own, I'm claiming someone else's energy as my own. And I am not going to do that. I'm going to give the proper respect and reference to where the energy came from. 

So Don Juan said to me many years ago, he's the mentor to my brother-in-law Don Xavier. They're both shamans and sorcerers and Don Juan said back in the early 2000s. And I didn't really understand it back then. But I do now, I think, and he said, beliefs are archaic. There are human constructs. Think about that. Everything you believe as I've already alluded to is the past history of yourself or either of humanity. You've learned to believe it. So if you're stuck on the concept of, I got to believe in myself, I've got to believe in myself. I've got to believe in myself. You're literally again, stuck in your past history. But to the point of this episode, You don't know yourself. See to know yourself is to know St.Germain's quote. The one that I've said twice now of humans knew how the universe worked. They would seize to believe in miracles. So do you have to believe in yourself? Let me ask you this food for thought. Do you have to believe in yourself? To know that you can be. And you can do, and you can have anything you want in this human experience. Even being able to think about it demonstrates that it is in your consciousness and everything comes from consciousness. I often giggle a little bit and am not sure why I chose that choice of words. But I look at George Lucas. And George Lucas is the creator of the Star Wars franchise. And he started, you know, those movies came out and I think in 1977, He had to get the ideas. The energy, the concepts for those movies from somewhere, and he got it from consciousness. Everything is divine, energetic, physics consciousness. And that's what we have to know that we are consciousness. We'll talk some more about that. 

Okay. I want to segue from the episode for just one moment. And I want to ask you, where were you most stuck in 2023? What things held you back the most? When I ask people, you know, why they're not getting what they want in life, people often say, well, I was stuck with X, Y, Z, or, and this may resonate with you, I feel stuck. If you're feeling stuck, one question I want you to ask yourself is, what is it costing me? What is it costing me to not resolve this and to battle being stuck? And when you add that up, whether it's money and especially in business, but in your health and your relationships, when you add that up, it's extremely costly to be stuck in life. Now, all that's being said, I created a new challenge. I created that last year, many thousands of people have gone through it and it's called the Get Unstuck Challenge. Interesting, the name's all about getting unstuck. Now in this challenge, it's a nine day challenge and I walk you through at a very profound At a very spiritual level, and even at a cosmic level, I walk you through who and how you're being as a being, meaning your presence on the planet. And when you understand that, when you understand the nature of you at a very deep level, now you might've heard me say, Be Do Have before, and that's more about 3d reality.Who do you have to be so you can do so you can have, but I'm talking, you know, what does it mean to be? And then what is that power associated with that? When you understand that you automatically get unstuck in life. This program never offered it before to you guys. We're offering it now. I don't think we've offered it to the podcast and an ad. Maybe we have, maybe we have, I don't remember anyway. It doesn't matter because we haven't offered it as much as we have, but we're offering to get unstuck challenge again. It's only $97. Thousands of people have been through it and they rave about the results they're getting. And I know that you will do the same thing.

So again, ponder the question. What does it cost me? What am I giving up? What peace of mind? What happiness? What money? What relationships am I giving up in life because I am stuck in my own crap. Now, as you're thinking about that, click the link. Go to tcp.jimfortin.com/unstuck. Again, and we'll drop the link in the show notes tcp.jimfortin.com/unstuck. Download the program. You get started right away and your life will start changing dramatically. When you apply what you're learning in that program, your life will start changing in very dramatic ways, very, very quickly. And as a matter of fact, in the next nine days. Okay, back to the episode.

But being noticed pretty much everything tied to believing has a counterpart of doing. Do I believe I can run the four minute mile? That is tied to the doing of running the four minute mile. Now I'm 59. Could I run a four minute mile? Right now no, and even if I believed that I could. My body's not conditioned for it. And number one, it's not an objective of mine. I just pull something out of thin air, but I do know, listen very carefully. I know that anything I want to create is within me, as long as they work from the right sequences of behavior so it's not about believing I can do it. It's knowing that I can do it. And the fact that you were universal consciousness. When you come to know that. Basically anything and everything that you want to be and do and have become possible for you. I think about this for a moment. 

Think about something that, you know, you can do. It doesn't matter what it is, you know, you can do it. When, you know, you can do it. It doesn't require belief in yourself. Why? Because you already know that you can do it. So many times what we do is we say here's where I am and there's where I want to go. And then we get into reading the motivational things and listening to the speakers and everything else. And saying, okay I'm here. But I want to go there. But I don't believe that I can go there because I'm living from my past history. Okay. I have to believe in myself. Then what many people do and I've been there as well before many years ago. Notice what most of us do. Okay I'm at this point and I'm want to go to that point. And I'm working for my past history, not even knowing that I'm doing it. My past history hasn't been created there for me because of my past history before my past history. So, I don't know that I can do it, but I want to believe that I can do it. So now here's the obstacle that most people set themselves up for. If they set themselves up for the obstacle of then overcoming the obstacle of not believing in themself. So, what they've done is they've set up an obstacle between where they are and where they want to go. And that obstacle is the one that all the motivational speakers and the coaches and all these people are screaming about. Belief, belief, belief. But think about how many things you've done in your life. That you maybe didn't believe you could do it. But you did it, but you didn't believe that you could do it, but you did it. And you did it because of some knowing or you did it long enough and you created the experience that created the knowing. 

So the reality is, you are living in the consciousness of the universe. And any and everything you want is right in front of you. Anything. And I've used this metaphor probably two or three times on the podcast. But let's say we went to a really nice buffet. Like the best one in a big city like the four seasons I've mentioned before. And I say, Hey guys, knock yourself out. You know, it's the buffet, the Sunday buffet, the best one. At the four seasons, knock yourself out. And you go to the buffet and you come back to the table and you've got a plate with a couple of crackers on it and maybe a piece of cheese and maybe like a couple of grapes. But that's it. And people literally live that way because you may be listening and saying, well, that's not me. I'd pig out. Well, you'd pig out based upon the example that I'm giving you. But look at the metaphor. Anything and everything that you want. Let's slow down here. Anything and everything that you want, for the most part, there may be a few exceptions physical limitations. You may have no legs. So if I'm telling you, you could win the Boston marathon. Hey, who says that you can't. You just wouldn't be able to do it by the ways that we've learned that you can do it. I've never seen anyone do it, but it doesn't mean it can't be done. It just means it's there, there are very few, but certain physical limitations. 

And where I worked from is like a buffet. The buffet of the human experience is right in front of you. And you don't see it. Because you don't believe in yourself. I want to go back to an example here, back in 1996. I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and Don Xavier called me one day. And we were talking about something. I do not recall what it was. But I said, I'm hoping to do X, Y, Z. And he stopped me at that moment. And he said, don't hope. Life is an opportunity every single day that you wake up. Ponder that listening now. Life is an opportunity every single day that you wake up. And Don Xavier said, absorb, absorb the opportunity. And many of us don't absorb the opportunity we, we don't absorb the buffet. Because we don't believe because of our past history. We don't believe we deserve it, or we don't believe we are worth it. 

Maybe maybe five years ago, he's a big podcaster. I was on the John Lee Dumas podcast. And John Lee Dumas said he has a list of just laundry list questions. And John Lee, John Lee Dumas, ask me, what are you most excited about? And most people give their stock answers. They're excited about this new project that I'm working on. This new company. My new family, the new baby, my new business, whatever it might be. And the answer that if I recall correctly, it's been a lot of years. But I said, I most excited that I can wake up every day and every day is an opportunity. As I think back, I think I caught him off card. And he pauses for a bit. Because I didn't give him the standard stock answer. So when I work for me. It doesn't matter how air quote good or bad life is every day is an opportunity to create a new experience. And what I worked from and know myself as an episode, I did probably three or four episodes ago. Knowing yourself is the ultimate power in the universe. If you knew. That you were the ultimate power in the universe. You are as pure consciousness. If you knew. You were the ultimate power in the universe. Would you have to believe in miracles? Would you have to believe in believing in yourself? No. Because the ultimate power knows. 

And you may be wondering, well, how come we don't think this way? Jim and the reason why is because we learn from our parents and socialization and church and religion and well church and religion, same thing for the most part for most people. But we learn. We learn that we are 3d functioning beings. Meaning we learn we are predominant physical beings. And you are a physical being, but you're simply a container which houses the energy of your soul and your consciousness and the container, which is your 3d, physical being. But what most of us do. And I've said it before and I'll use a metaphor. I probably haven't done it in 5, 6, 3, 4 years. Is, if you look at your hand, And then you look at this one little part of your pinky finger from this little joint right here, the last joint on the hand. And you'll look from here to here from the last. From the last one of the pinky finger to the end of the pinky finger. Most people live right there. That is their awareness of their reality, right there. When this right here. Is attached, connected to the totality of all of this physical container. But we live right here. And when we live in the 3d, if you're listening and not watching, I'm just using my fingers to delineate the tip of my pinky finger. 

When we live in our 3d ego. The world, the emotions, the distractions, the homes, the cars, all these kinds of things. When we live in these kinds of things. We're living right here tip of the finger. That's not knowing that totality of the full self. You know the person who made the comment and I appreciate the comment. I really do. I'm very grateful for it. Also made a comment is that I talk about money. The more money you have, the more opportunity you have to serve people. It's very challenging to serve people without money, money doesn't define the identity. It does for most people, but money is a resource and 80% of people listening to this podcast struggle with money because they don't know themself. They don't know their power. They're too busy working in the 3d ego, trying to create from 3d function, which by the way, we're in the fifth dimension. Now that's all third dimension. They're trying to create and the, and the fifth dimension from the third dimension, they're trying to create where the 3d, which is like walking through molasses. That's why it's not been clear before I do talk about money because the more money you have it doesn't define your being because you ain't taking it with you when you leave the planet. But it is a resource. It is a tool that you can use to reach more people. 

You know, even this podcast. I have a team of eight people with salaries. And trust me when I tell you it takes money to bring these things to you. So it's a resource. So just use money as a resource in that way. But the point of this episode is when you know that you're the ultimate power in the universe and that is knowing yourself because that is your energy. That is your soul. You are a part of the divine mind. You are a part of the quantum field. You are a part of the totality of all that is. When you get out of a little pinky into the pinky finger and you step into the knowing of the totality of you, the physical body as a metaphor. That's when you start getting the power. And that's when St.Germain's quote. That you seize to believe in miracles when you understand how the universe works starts to come alive for you. 

But you might wonder, well, Jim, how do we do this? How do we, how do we start to know ourself? Well, I'm going to give you a couple of approaches here. Number one is stop wasting your life in your emotions and your fears. That is wasting your life from your past history. I had a kid with you, not a friend of mine tonight. I said, Hey, what are you doing? He goes, I'm in a funk today. I said what's that about? And they said, well, I'm looking for a job. And I don't like where I live and this and that. And by the way, what's interesting. I find that very interesting about life and I understand it is people that I love and care about in my life that I can assist. They're the last people to ask me for help. Literally they're the last ones to say, Hey Jim, can you help me figure this out? Can you help me with this? And I don't push it on them. Why? Because they're not asking when they ask I'll assist and if I assist and they don't take it and execute on it, I stop assisting. I'm not going to waste my energy. If they're going to waste my energy, asking for my energy and not executing on it. 

So I talked to a friend of mine last night. Somebody that I love a friend I've been friends with for a lot of years. And, you know, I mentioned before that my dog of 13 years, we had to put the sleep recently. And it was challenging. I mean, he was a big personality in the house and he was an amazing dog and other people say that. But everyone who knew this dog even said he wouldn't be a normal dog. And I knew that because I had the pleasure and the blessing of having him. And I talked to a friend of mine last night. And his dog also had to leave the planet the same week. And this was two months ago. Now, mind you, I still love my dog. He's not on the planet right now. He's just in another dimension. Physically, he's not on this planet. I love that boy. And he will be one of the hallmarks of my life having that boy in my life. But he's not here. And my friend last night said, I'm in a funk. I'm like, what are you going to funk about? He goes, I miss my dog. And I'm like, I get that. I get that. I understand that I can relate to that. I felt that, and I was being more compassionate talking to him. But the reality is we're living in what doesn't exist anymore. That is a sure fire way to cut yourself off from higher knowing because you're stuck in 3d emotion. 

Right now we are running ads for various different programs. And in one of the ads, we ask people where they are stuck. And the comments in there where I say this with compassion are not surprising. But the comments in there, somebody said they, their husband left 10 years ago. And they are still in a funk still. But their partner hadn't been on the planet for 10 freaking years. And they're still so attached in the 3d emotions, they don't know themself and they don't know that they can have, and they can do when they can be anything, when they let go of the attachments, when they let go of the past history. And they let go of all the negative emotions. A little tip for you here. People have often asked, well, Jim, how do I know when I'm living in my past? Well, when you are in your emotions and your fears and your negativities, and of course, positive things, it goes both ways. The yin and the yang. But mainly for the purposes of our conversation, when you are in your fears about anything. Providing it's not survival fear. You were living from your past because your past was learned in a particular now, but that now doesn't exist anymore. And the past doesn't, it's not here anymore, but you're living in it still when it's not even in front of you anymore. 

And you're living in your past and the now, which you created your past before. And then now back then, But you're still living in the past. I know that's a big mouthful. But here's a couple of takeaways. Stop chasing things in life. Stop chasing the cars and the homes. And the money. And the boyfriends. And the girlfriends. And the health and whatever it might be and start being it from consciousness start being it from the knowing that you are part of the whole you are energy. You are a life force. You are consciousness. That in itself makes you part of the whole. Stop chasing what you don't need to chase because you're a dog chasing your tail. And many people. Want me to do the work for them? I can't do your work for you. Like you can't do mine for me. And in fairness to you working with a shaman for years, I've had a shit ton of very painful lessons. And Don Xavier, has never learned the lessons for me. He has, he's never taught me anything either. He has shared opportunities to learn and it's up to me to absorb, to learn, to integrate the lesson. So, let me give you a bit of an esoteric takeaway here. Your transformational takeaway is this your work is yourself discovery. And people will say many of you, probably 80% of you will say, okay, Jim, But I need more instruction. 

Where do I start? Ask. Ask the divine mind. Ask your subconscious mind, which is also divine mind. Ask consciousness. So write down, you can even write something down like this. Is the subconscious mind or universe. God. Buddha. Muhammad. Quantum field. Yak Fey. Emmanuelle, whatever it might be for you. Please bring me clarity on what it means to know myself. How do I know myself at a deeper level? And that's literally what you can write down and keep that in your consciousness. Ask. Ask. Is how universe. Please bring me clarity. On what it means to know myself. How do I know myself at a deeper level? You can shift it. How do I know myself at a whole universal level? How do I know myself at a divine level? How do I know myself as divine mind? How do I know myself as energy? How do I know myself as the ultimate power in the universe? And you will find the answers that are the answers for you. And the answers will come in ways you might not expect, and they will come. And maybe not at a time that you want, but they will come, but don't ask me. Don't ask other people, don't ask motivational speakers. Ask. Ask the essence of what you are and the essence of what you are is consciousness, ask consciousness, and you could even write it down with three by five cards. Read it in the morning first thing, when you get up, maybe read it at lunch and read it that night before you go to bed. But the main thing. Stop setting up the obstacles of trying to believe in yourself. When you come to know yourself, as the ultimate power in the universe. There's no need any longer to believe in yourself. And that's why beliefs are archaic. And when you know how the universe works as the ultimate power in the universe. You're also seized to believe in miracles. Thanks for listening. And I will catch you over on another episode. Bye-bye.