You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled, “Why Your Fear is Unnatural.” Now when I say unnatural, unnatural means, and basically it’s something that’s contrary to nature. It’s abnormal, artificial, and it’s contrary to expected behavior. Now what a lot of people don’t recognize is that their fear is also artificial. And I’ll explain what I mean in this episode about your fear being artificial.

And what we want to do in this episode is help you actually get beyond the fear, see beyond the fear, and operate from beyond the fear. Because you’re not broken. Simply the reason you get into your fear is because you have forgotten. You have forgotten who and what you are. And the moment you forget who and what you are, you start seeing yourself as a victim to the world around you. And then we start living in that victimization. And then life becomes very, very challenging. So in this episode, we’re going to set you free. 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 setting you free from your fear. You know, something I’ve told many people over the years is that we all are seeking expansion. You know, you look at a baby that’s crying. A baby’s crying because it wants to go to a higher emotional state. It wants expansion beyond its current emotional state. What we need to do is we need to start looking at the world and dismantling the illness of modern society. And that illness that we have that’s just globally spread is world and economic fear.

There are so many fears in the world about famine and water and food and hunger and politics and social unrest and all these kind of things. But these things are all an illusion. They’re all made up in the mind, which I will further explain in this episode. When you look at your health, your health, for example, so if you’re in great health right now, it’s not something that you have to go out and find. You know, consider this. Let’s say that you have a fever. When the fever breaks, you don’t have to go out and find the good health again and the feeling good again. And the reason you don’t have to go outside of you and find it is because, because of what? It’s because it’s already inside of you.

So what we have to start doing is seeing through the illusion, seeing through the illusion, and this is a word that I’ve used a lot, seeing through the illusion of your indoctrination, specifically your social and cultural indoctrination. Where most of us live from is what I call imaginary threats. And these imaginary threats to most of us are what we deem to be the circumstances of the world, meaning the imaginary threat that I might run out of money, the imaginary threat that people are going to judge me, the imaginary threat that I can be sick, the imaginary threat that people are going to take advantage of me, the imaginary threat that a lot of people are talking about. Even though the world is changing and it’s evolving and growing, a lot of people are talking about social collapse. Now, I talk about those things as well, but I talk about them as part of an evolutionary aspect of our being, not as, oh my God, I’m afraid that I’m living in a world that is going to collapse. But many people are into the fear of a world that they deem to be collapsing.

And then when we get into this place where many of us live from is what I call a beast of burden. You’ve heard me mention that before. And for many years of my life, I lived as what Machiavelli would have called a beast of burden. And really what that means is, and the way that I mean it here, is that we are living just grudging through life. We’re trying to make things happen. All the fear. And life is just very, very, very challenging and burdensome because we’re living from this aspect or a lack of awareness of ourself that makes life that way.

And the shift that we need to make is many of us go into, I’ve got all this fear, even though we recognize that we’re not consciously thinking about it, but we’re feeling it. And the fear might have a conscious tone to it, meaning, what if I don’t have enough money? What if I don’t have enough money? What if I don’t have enough money? Maybe you can relate to that. I could for many years. And then we go into, I don’t have enough money, enough health, enough love, whatever it might be. Then what we try to do, and I did for decades, we try to fix it. We try to fix the fear by fixing the outcomes and the circumstances that the fear is talking about.

Here’s the big leap in this episode. It’s not that we need to fix the fear. There is nothing to fix. Just like, for example, I’ve mentioned your health. When you have the fever, when the fever breaks, you automatically return back to good health again. And that’s what we need to do. We need to move back metaphorically to the good health of ourselves, but soulfully. And what we need to do is return to the natural state of trust and of knowing. It’s a big thing. Many people talk about trust. Trust and knowing.

It’s a bit of a reach, but I’m going to just share an example with you here. When you were in the womb, now I know that you don’t consciously remember that, but when you were in the womb, as a being, in terms of your divine consciousness, you were completely trusting. Now, of course, we’re not aware of that. We’re not consciously aware of that. But if you look at the process of birthing, and let’s say that we knew we were about to pop out of this little bitty birth tunnel, birth canal. Think about the fear that you might have gotten into if you were capable of getting into fear and anxiety at that point in your evolution and your existence. Your fear could have been, oh my God, how am I, this baby, going to pop out of this little bitty exit in this body, biting your little bitty baby fingernails and going, oh my gosh, the fear. What if I get stuck? What if I don’t like the world? What if the world is cold? What if they slap me on the ass when I am born? No, we don’t do any of that. So do you know where we learn that? We learn it from the world around us.

Now, in truth, there’s a phrase that I’ve said many, many times. And I was taught this by Don Juan Matus, a sorcerer and a shaman. And now that I say it this way, it may resonate differently with you. But Don Juan used to always say, the world always has been, is now, and will always be fine. And when I hear that, it takes me back to the very first time that I heard it. That was so powerful for me when I heard it that it just, boom, it stuck automatically. The world always has been, is now, and will always be fine. And when we operate internally, that’s where we live from that knowing.

But where most of us operate from is the externalized world, the culturalized self. And then we create all these beliefs from the external world of the world is dangerous, and it’s collapsing, and money, money, money, and it’s this and that, and people are bad, people are good. Whatever it might be, life is hard, life is a struggle. We learn all these beliefs as a small child. We internalize the beliefs, and then we don’t even know that we’re recognizing, we don’t even recognize that we’re living from the beliefs.

An example that I gave you one time, and this applies to you, what is your name? Now, ask yourself, did I pick my name? Now, there will be one out of a thousand people that will say, yeah, I changed my name later, you know, when I was a teenager or whatever. But your given name at birth, you didn’t pick it. It was just given to you. Well, all your indoctrination that literally has helped you, allowed you, and facilitated to forget who and what you are, all of this and all this indoctrination was given to you. And it becomes brainwashing. We don’t think about it that way, but that’s what it is, plain and simple. It is brainwashing.

And this is why, a little bit off the topic of this episode, I created my newest program, which I’m not going to put out for, I don’t know, a month, two months maybe. But it’s called Brainwashed. Exit the lie. And for many years, I’ve taught transformation and done transformational work. And now I’m moving into transcendence work. Transformation is about transforming the identity aspects of us, and things that we have to learn and become to transform beyond who we think we are. And the transcendence work, that’s literally even transcending the human identity and working from and in with spirit and soul and the operative thing is knowing ourself at that level.

So as I said, we have to start challenging the conditioned narrative. Now, I chose that word narrative because all day long, think about today. Think about what you had for breakfast today. Think about what you had for dinner last night, if you can remember. Think about something that stuck with you, something that happened a couple of days ago. Think about a trip maybe you took. Think about maybe the money in your bank as of today. Maybe your health. When you look at this, notice what happens. You are telling a narrative about what this means to you, but the narrative you’re telling is the narrative that you learned through the indoctrination as a child. And we learn this indoctrination, as I did, as all of us do, through media and socialization.

During the 90s, the 1990s, I did not own a TV for about 12 years, I think until 2002. But I remember being somewhere, in other words, an episode of Friends, the TV show Friends on, and one character was saying to another character that they were in some kind of fear or anxiety about something. And then the character said, well, that’s what people do. They get into the fear. Now, when I saw that, I thought, is that true? Is it true for everyone? Is it true for everyone all around the world? Is it true at all times? According to who? What makes this true? But what we do is we see that, we don’t question it, and we think, oh, okay, that’s normal. That’s how we become socialized with all these limitations, is that we’re born into it, and it becomes very, very normal for us.

And if you look at your own life, your own past history, I don’t know about you, but we are fed a diet, a huge diet, mentally of scarcity and competition, and danger and fears. Now, I learned a lot of that growing up. I’ll talk about this in a moment back in the 1980s. But this day and age, all you got to do, which I think it’s a toxic sewage place, is Twitter, X, whatever that’s called now. You know, I logged onto it one time and I’m like, oh my God, this is human thought sewage for the most part. All the fear, all the anxiety, all the apprehension, all of the anger, all of the us against them, all of this, I’m right, you’re wrong, all this stuff. Well, people are consuming that on a daily basis, which I’ll talk about in just a moment.

So, you know, I think back to what I just mentioned, social media. Back in 2009 and 10, when the economy came down, I remember, I’m laughing because I remember seeing this post on Facebook. I didn’t know who the guy was, just some guy that I was here, quote, friends with. And when the stock market one day dropped 1,000 points, next day it went up 1,000 points, next day it dropped like 1,200 points, and there was a whole lot of fear in the global economy. And this guy made a post, and he said, oh, my God, the economy is collapsing. Go to the bank now and take all of your money out of the bank. Obviously, the guy didn’t know anything about banking because when people do that, that would have created exactly, that’s what happened in 1929. So this, excuse me, this economic idiot on Facebook is telling people out of fear and from fear, go to your bank and take all the money out of your bank, which he doesn’t even recognize creates the very scenario that he is in fear about.

But the bigger point, we’re heavily, for the most part, influenced by media, culturalization, and by social media. This is why I rarely use anymore. We actually moved all of my programs over to an app called Mighty Pro Network, and I have a private app in private communities. For many years, I used Facebook groups. I’m not saying I wouldn’t do it again, because I’m looking to make some more changes again in the business, but rarely go to Facebook, maybe once every month, maybe for like 10 minutes. I just don’t do it anymore. And it’s such a relief when I don’t have to actually log on to Facebook, see the homepage before I go to my group, and look at the garbage that people are talking about socially.

So you, I’m requesting right now. Now, it might not apply so much when you were 5 and 10 years old, because that’s when you learned all of the fears that you have in your life now. It’s when you were that age. But you can recall consciously back when you were a teenager, what narratives, what narratives did you hear and did you see? So for me, back in high school, back in the early 80s, I remember this was when Reagan was just elected. And the narrative was we were leaving the 70s with double digit inflation. Like 9% or 10% unemployment. Interest rates were, I believe, at about 15% for a home. I mean, it was really, really dire. And this all started back in the early 70s with the OPEC, Egyptian and Israeli War, oil crisis and et cetera, some similar things we’re seeing now.

But anyway, so back in the early 80s when I was in high school, I constantly, and I mean daily, daily, daily, heard my father, my uncles, and my grandfather. My dad was an auto body repairman and part time farmer. My grandfather and uncles were farmers, small farms, which by the way, many of them are going under right now in the U.S., and that’s a very unfortunate thing for all of us and them long run. But all I ever heard about, and I heard it like just, my God, beat a dead horse, oil crisis, oil crisis, but mainly I heard inflation and prices, inflation and prices, inflation and prices, and the world’s in economic chaos, and we can’t afford anything.

Now, all these things that were talked about in my household and my family constantly, none of them were intended to create fear. But without doing it, that’s what my parents and my grandparents and my uncles were spreading was fear. And to me, an impressionable kid back when I was in high school and other family members, by constantly talking about these external things in the world. So then what I did is what you’ve done. We become attached to the narratives. And then what we do is we carry the narratives into the future.
Most of us aren’t living right now into the possibility of who we are and the truth of what we are when we are consciousness, and consciousness is all powerful. Most of us do not live from that truth. Where we live from is the lie of our past, our lie of the narratives 10, 15, 20, 30. And for me, even 40 years ago. Now, I don’t live in the lie of the money narrative like I did. I don’t live in a lie about health narratives. I don’t live in a lie about will I be a loner, will I not be a loner, any of that. I know, and I know that you can hear this a bazillion times. Until you get it, you’re just not going to get it. And you’ll get it in your own time whenever it’s right for you.

I’m a creator. You’re listening right now. Look at everything in your life. You’ve created it. And not through your action and behavior, which is how many people think they’ve created. They’ve created through the consciousness, which is mind and thought. But mainly consciousness, which is what moves the body. So for example, I used this a couple of weeks ago. If I said, hold your hand up, if you’re driving, do not do this. Hold your hand up and look at your hand. And if I said, move your hand, and you could wiggle your hand, if you’re watching video right now, I’m wiggling my hand. If you can move your hand, it’s not the hand moving the hand, it is the consciousness and the mind telling the hand to move the hand. Ponder that.

So what many of us do, we attach to the old narratives. And I remember one of my mentors, mentors, excuse me, his name is Don Juan Matus. Very famous stories have been written about him. He’s a shaman and a sorcerer. And he said to me one time, and when he said man, he meant person, but the common man is hooked to other men. The warrior is hooked to infinity. And then he looked at me, and he used to call me Jaimito, which means, you know, it’s Spanish for young James. He said, do you want to be hooked to other men, or do you want to be a warrior that is hooked to infinity? Basically, he said, do you want to be a common man, or do you want to be a spiritual warrior? And of course, in my mind, in him, I said, I want to be, I desire to be a spiritual warrior.

So what we have to understand, we’ve learned that the universe is not safe by the circumstances of our external life. Maybe it’s our political cultures, the country we live in. Maybe it’s the economy. Think about this, because we have people from all over the world listening. So look at where you grew up in the world. Yes, I’m talking to you listening right now. Look at where you grew up. And I know as I’m sharing these stories with you in this episode, you can see how this is matriculated in your own life. But you’ve learned the world to be what it is based upon also where you grew up in the world.

And many of us have learned the world is not a safe place. The physical world, by our interpretation, may not be a safe place. But you know what is a safe place is the universe. And the reason why, the universe, whatever you want to call it, God, divine mind, infinite intelligence, infinite wisdom, Source, universal mind, whatever you want to call it, source is greater than any obstacle. Think about that. Source is greater than any obstacle.

I said on the podcast once or twice, what your consciousness has created, your consciousness can uncreate and recreate, which means we think it’s the body doing the work, but it’s not the body. It is the consciousness, like I talked about the hand. It is the consciousness in the body. Now, when I say that source, which you are a reflection of source, is greater than any obstacle, what that means is that you are greater than any obstacle or fear. But what I do not mean is you, the body. What I mean when I say you is you. The soul. You, the reflection of source. You, as soul, are greater than any obstacle that your body could bring to you, which would create fear for you.

So, and you may want to go back and listen. A recent episode I did was titled something maybe about two or three months ago, titled, “You Are the Ultimate Power in the Universe.” And that’s exactly what I’m talking about here, but I’m talking about it here in a different way. To recognize you are that infinite, ultimate power, and you use that power to eliminate and never even, not even eliminate, never even get into fear. There’s no, excuse me, fucking reason to get into fear.

And the reason you get into fear, you don’t know yourself. Now, when you hear that, and I heard it for many years from Don Javier, I would think, well, okay, knowing myself, that means knowing myself as Jim, knowing more about my thoughts, my behaviors, my actions, my emotions. That’s what he means by knowing myself. No, he never meant that. That’s understanding the container of you. Knowing yourself is knowing yourself as source. Knowing yourself as God, which by the way is why I created Brainwashed, because I’m going to go way beyond the podcast and helping people better understand what it even means to be God and what it even means to be Source.

So recognize this. I heard a friend of mine was also a hypnotist many years ago, when he had somebody in a hypnosis session say that no habit, they wanted to stop smoking or whatever it was, and he said, which was a habit, smoking, no habit is stronger than the mind that created the habit. Ponder that. No habit is stronger than the mind that created the habit. Well, no fear or problem is stronger than source, divine mind, that created the problem. This is why we have to go back to source to eliminate any problem that we created through the container.

So a big realization for us here is this. It’s realizing that the scarcity in our life and scarcity creates fear in us. The scarcity is all made up. Matter of fact, one of my coaches for 20 years, Peggy Dean, she’s in her 80s now. She was an NLP trainer. And she used to often say to me, but anybody, it was just kind of a stock phrase for her, she would say, oh, that’s the hallucination you’re having today. And I giggle when I, you know, the hallucination, because I wasn’t thinking that I was hallucinating. But she would often say, well, that’s your hallucination today.

And when you look at scarcity, which is what creates the fear, it’s all a hallucination. Because if you really understood source, you would understand that you are not a beast of burden. You are not fighting for scraps from a limited pile. You are not fighting like lions when they only got one javelina they’re eating. You’re not fighting from scarcity. When you recognize yourself as source, you then recognize that you are a creator and you have access to unlimited source. Because when we live from scarcity, in that moment, without even recognizing it, I mean, boom, when we live from scarcity, in that moment, we automatically shift into competition mode.

Think about this. I learned many years ago, life is not about competition. It is literally about contribution. Because when I contribute and I contribute and contribute and contribute, I don’t have to compete because the more that I contribute, the more that comes back to me. But many of us get into competition. Why? Because we live in a universe that we think is very limited when the universe is not limited and we are not limited, but we have become brainwashed and conditioned to believe that we are limited.

Okay, so as I kind of alluded to a bit earlier, we have to create a distinction between managing fear, which I did for decades. And it’s like my fear back in my 20s about money was like a rabid badger. It would not quit. And I had a job. I always had money, but I was waiting tables for a few years. I remember when this really hit me. I would constantly be in fear of, am I going to make enough money this week? Now, when I look back, I laugh because I always made enough money, even the fact that I was in that fear. I always had enough money to pay my car payment, my student loans, my rent, everything that I needed. But I would get into the rabid fear of what if, what if, what if, what if, what if. So I would manage my fear.

But see, it’s not about managing fear. And that’s the whole foundation of this episode. It’s not about managing your fear. It’s about understanding and knowing yourself out of the fear. Because your fear is simply created by one thing. It’s not about the fear. It’s not about survival. It’s not about money. It’s about one thing. It’s about forgetting. Because when you forget and you have forgotten, I guarantee you, most of you have forgotten. And that’s why I’m here to be of service as best I can.

When you forget that you are one with whatever you call it, God, divine mind, universal mind, infinite intelligence. When you forget that you are one with source, where most of us automatically move into is a place of victim mentality. And when we go to that place, we are then trapped in our 3D.
Look around right now. Maybe this even applies to you. You’ll see it on Facebook. And I went into Facebook last night. That’s why I bring it up today. One of my old groups is in Facebook, and I just wanted to say hello to people, one of the TCP graduate groups, and I missed the people in TCP, and I just wanted to go say hi, so I logged into Facebook last night. But on my homepage, when I opened Facebook, there were posts about Trump, about fear, about money, about the economy, about gas prices, all these kind of things.

So when you look at the misery in the world, here in the U.S., it’s about the economy. When we get into that, in that moment, we are living in the external. And by the way, this podcast is titled Transform Your Life from the Inside Out, not live your life from the outside in. So when we get into all that shit, we are at the mercy of the external world because we have forgotten who and what we are.

And many people will say, oh, I’m not a human being. I’m a spiritual being. And they turn around and they get into worry, fear, worry, fear, worry, fear, worry, fear. Which means they like the idea of identifying as being a spiritual being. But yet, even while they think they’re identifying as being a spiritual being, they’re getting into all their human shit. So the realization that’s vital for us is that all the power, just like the Wizard of Oz, when the Wizard told Dorothy, the power was in you all along. The realization is that the power is within you now, and that power, which I said earlier, is greater than any problem in front of you. So what we want to do is not seek power. We want to start reconnecting to our power, and that is our soulfulness.

Okay, so how are we going to do that? So I have a little bit of what I call a seven day process for you, maybe an invitation, maybe a challenge, whatever you want to call it. Maybe even a seven day detox from the narrative. But you see, you can hear all this. How many times have you listened to a podcast episode of mine or someone else? You know, let me go to TCP for a moment. People will say things like, oh, Jim, thank you for reminding me of that. I forgot about that. And then when I go back to the shaman that I learned from, he taught me many years ago, that when you forget, forgetting is a choice.

So we make the choice to listen to a podcast episode, watch a video, read a book, whatever it might be. And then we make the choice to forget about it. And we want to start shifting that. So we forget about it and then we go right back into the old crap again. So what I’m telling you is you can hear every bit of this, but it’s not going to change a thing for you until you start changing.
Understanding what I’m saying this episode without doing what I’m going to share next is saying, oh, I’ve read all about food and I understand it, but I’m not going to eat. See, it’s kind of like that. You understand it, but you’re not going to eat. And you can read about food all day long. That’s not the same thing as knowing food by eating food.

So here’s your plan. A seven day total social media fast, negativity fast. And what that means for seven days. Now, I also know that I’ve taught, you know, a lot of brain things over the years and habits and et cetera. But let me give you the assignment first. Here it is. For seven days starting right now. And the reason we start right now is because if you don’t start right now, you won’t start. And this is going to be a bit of a test for you, a bit of an observation for you. We start right now. No news, no Fox, no CNN, no Reuters, no Twitter, no nothing on social media for seven days. No doom scrolling on Instagram. No doom scrolling on TikTok. No, the world is coming to an end YouTube videos. No, no, no, no, no. A seven day total media detox. A negativity detox.

Now, as I alluded to a second ago, notice how challenging this might be for you. And now right there is a big message to you. It means your brain has probably become conditioned and habituated to go back to these outlets again, which are toxicity. Zuckerberg knows it. So does Musk. They don’t care. They’re making their money from you. So as long as they’re making their money from you, they don’t care.

But that’s your assignment. Now, the reason that I asked you to do this, at the end of seven days, what you may and hopefully most likely start to discover is that you’re not anxious. What’s anxious is the inputs that you’re putting into you that prompt the anxiousness. So what we want to do is we want to actually start clearing the space for you and allow that thinking substance, meaning God, to finally flow through you again.

The reality is, whatever you want to call it, Wallace Wattles used to call it a thinking substance. Christianity and religion calls it God. Science would call it consciousness. But all of that consciousness doesn’t flow through you cleanly and clearly. Why? Because you have the garbage of the personality, the human ego container, that’s absorbing CNN and Fox and Reuters and YouTube videos and the world’s coming to an end and the preppers and all these kind of things. You can no longer hear the voice of God.

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So, your transformational takeaway is this. The question is not about whether a sufficient power exists outside of you. The only question is, are you going to stay connected to Source and Divine Mind and knowing universal consciousness and knowing yourself as God? Because when you go to the media, you disconnect yourself from source. Now, consciousness is coming through you, but look where the attention of consciousness is. And the reason we want to do this is because I’m asking you, I’m shaking you on the shoulders saying, wake up. Let’s wake up from the brainwashing. Because know this, the universe always wants for you what you want for you. And the world, the narratives, take away from you what you want from you.

So let’s take the narratives away. Thanks for listening, and I’ll catch you over on another episode. Bye bye.