January 30, 2025 • 55 mins
In a world where high-pressure corporate roles often overshadow personal identity, Matt Cooke, an internationally acclaimed manifestation coach, shares his fascinating journey of self-discovery and transformation. Imagine being asked a simple yet profound question during a reflexology session—"Who are you?"—and feeling the entire trajectory of your life begin to shift. Matt recounts how this moment catalyzed his quest to understand himself beyond the confines of his career, culminating in a deeply moving experience of seemingly communicating with his late mother. His story is a testament to the transformative power of awareness and offers a compelling narrative on how embracing such experiences can lead to profound personal growth and fulfillment.
Get ready to challenge your understanding of manifestation as we unravel its true essence—not as a skill to be honed, but as an intrinsic state of being. Join us as we explore the pivotal distinction between the ego and consciousness, helping you realize how often we mistakenly identify with our thoughts. With insights from quantum mechanics, we delve into how our observations and subconscious programming shape our reality. By practicing self-observation, you can begin to align your present state with your desired outcomes, harnessing the power of metacognition to consciously manifest the changes you wish to see in your life.
We also journey through practical techniques like meditation, visualization, and gratitude journaling, which Matt and his clients have used to rewrite limiting beliefs and achieve incredible success. Learn how aligning intentions with true desires can lead to unexpected triumphs, from Instagram growth to purchasing a dream home. Through personal stories and real-life examples, discover the importance of surrendering to divine timing and how the universe often guides us toward more harmonious outcomes. Whether you're seeking personal transformation or simply curious about the power of manifestation, this episode offers a treasure trove of insights to inspire your own journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Have you ever wondered about how you can
improve the quality of your lifeusing manifestation principles,
but perhaps you're stuck insome areas?
Well, if that's the case,you're in for a treat, because
this week I have a returningguest, matt Cook, back on the
show, and Matt is aworld-renowned thought leader,
manifestation coach to a globalaudience, and his take on things
(00:24):
will be incredibly clarifying.
Enjoy this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But I think where people go wrong, james, is that
they're thinking sorry, mate,it's okay.
God, we're not going to have agood start here, are we?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll tell you what we're going to do.
We're going to have a fewbloopers here and we're going to
enjoy this.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We've got to put some love in there.
I need to get back into thestate mate.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You turn the radio off.
You're over here, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And then you have to repeat the question.
You don't want the thing thatyou think you want.
You don't.
What you want is the version ofyourself that exists in your
imagination when you have thething you want.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hello and welcome to the James Granstrom podcast,
super Soul Model Series.
This week we are blessed tohave Matt Cook rejoin us on the
Super Soul Model Series.
Matt is an internationalmanifestation coach and he's
helping millions of people allover the world by helping them
manifest their best lives.
So I'd just like to re-welcomeback to the show my good friend,
(01:30):
matt cook james, thank you, sogood to be back oh, matt, it's
been a while since we'veconnected.
Uh, we've been toing and froingon message prior to meeting up,
but it's been a while sinceyou're back on the show.
When was it last that we were?
I had a look it was october2022, so a lot of time since
2022 yes so let's just for thepurpose of the audience, just
(01:55):
remind people of your personaljourney, if we've made so if
anyone's um listening for thefirst time, great.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A lot of people have already have heard this story,
but it actually starts inSeptember of 2018.
And at the time then I wasabout 10 years into my corporate
job in real estate managing afirm here in the UK, youngest
manager in the company and justvery unfulfilled, highly
stressed and just trying to finda way to create a little bit
(02:23):
more freedom for myself andCoris and my wife and um uh,
just going through a period oflike high stress and actually
struggling to, to, to breathereally tight chest.
And you know, by that pointit's just worth noting I wasn't
spiritual at all and my wife'suh grandmother recommended some
(02:43):
reflexology, so I had no ideawhat that was, but she said it
will help, so I just went alongwith it.
I sat down at the therapist'shouse, down the couch, and the
first question he asked me andhe didn't know who it was he
just said so, matt, tell me whoyou are.
And I said well, I'm 26 yearsold, I'm an estate agent, and he
(03:03):
stopped me in my tracks.
He said no, I didn't ask whatyou did for a living.
I asked who you are and Ididn't know who I was.
He said I'm not interested inthe title who are you?
So I had this like.
This was my first likerealization that, oh, there is
someone that exists behind thiscorporate shop.
Who is it, this corporate shop?
Who is it?
I didn't know what that wasthen, but I had this realization
(03:25):
.
It almost as if my awarenesscompletely separated, my whole
identity was built on thiscorporate facade and um carried
on with the reflexology Um, andactually that question lingered
for months, like who am I?
And that awareness and thosequestions led me to various
resources online and, long storyshort, tried to find a word of
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you know, the corporate world,really trying to figure out who
I am, though, in all of this,you know the awareness, but I
didn't.
I didn't label it as awarenessor consciousness.
Then I just knew I wasn't thiscorporate label and I was asking
these bigger questions, tryingto figure it out.
Wasn't this corporate label?
And I was asking these biggerquestions, trying to figure it
out.
(04:12):
And then one evening fastforward now to February 2019,
typical evening, lying in bedwith my wife Corisande, we're
watching something on our laptop, and as I rolled over to try
and go to sleep, she was stillawake.
I'm still awake, I'm stillaware of the world around me,
the laptop still playing, andjust this very strange sensation
came over me.
This, this vibration, is whatit felt like uh, head to toe,
and it felt didn't feel horrible, it didn't hurt, I just allowed
(04:34):
it to continue because it was.
I was curious.
It felt like I was hoveringabove the bed and then I just
heard this uh voice and itsounded like it was from the
opposite end of a sports halland it got closer and closer and
it said Matt, can you hear me?
It's mum.
Now, for context, my mum passedaway 18 months before that and
(04:55):
we had a brief conversationbefore Coruscant nudged me and
she said you know, matt, who areyou talking to?
And I turned to Coruscant totell her turn back.
Mum had gone.
So, as a lot of people know,that story that there really
triggered this exploration ofreality.
I've just had a conversationwith my mum, who's not in this
physical world anymore.
I'm awake.
(05:16):
I'm not spiritual.
I've never really spoken to amedium.
I'm the super sceptic here.
I need to figure this out.
And that's where it started.
And you know, the one thing Inoticed straight away with that
encounter was that I didn't tryto connect with my mom.
I didn't want to connect with mymom, it just happened.
(05:36):
And I, looking back now andreflecting back, actually I was
becoming so aware of, like myown consciousness, in a sense,
because of that reflexologysession those months before I
think I was more in tune,unconsciously, right, you know
it didn't just happen randomlyLike one minute.
I'm in like the corporate worldand I'm not spiritual or even
(05:57):
asking these questions and thenconnect.
There was a slow sort of buildup, unconsciously, and you know,
I knew I didn't want to be amedium, but I started to realize
there's more to thisthree-dimensional reality than
meets the eye and start askingthe bigger questions and just
start going down the rabbitholes of quantum mechanics, um,
and, and long story short, I endup figuring out that you know
(06:20):
this reality that we live in isjust energy, um vibration
frequency.
Then you start hearing thewords manifest and law of
attraction and you know thisreality that we live in is just
energy, um vibration frequency.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Then you start hearing the words manifest and
law of attraction and you knowthat's where it started
fascinating story must haveblown your mind to even try and
come around to thinking to thepoint that nothing else going on
than just what's in front of myeyes.
I remember, looking at my ownexperience as well.
I had, uh, I was looking at thenews one day.
(06:47):
I was like, if this is allthere is, I'm not interested
anymore, and um, and so, yeah,the?
I think the first question ifone is conscious to to improve
the quality of their life is toreally ask that first question
who am I like?
That doctor says you, who am Iand why am I here and what's my
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purpose?
Because unless you ask thatquestion, you're always going to
be stuck in a funk, in what Icall the loop of lunacy.
Um, I know I was, and thatquestion has obviously propelled
you into a new life, a newcareer and a new perspective.
So, if we last connected in 2022, a lot's happened since then.
(07:32):
Yeah, what's happened in yourlife since then?
That has actually demonstratedthat what you're talking about,
what you've investigated, whatyou've researched, actually
works.
When we're talking about whatyou've investigated, what you've
researched actually works.
When we're talking aboutmanifestation, what things have
been like, oh my golly, this,this really works for me and I
really want to help people withthat, because you are a massive
(07:55):
advocate for helping people andit really shows across your
social media content yeah, Ithink proof first in my own
ability to manifest.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you know, um, since 2022 I was I wasn't really
doing this full-time, I wasstill half in digital marketing,
which, to fill the gaps there,was how I got out of real estate
, but I knew it wasn't me um, soit was more of a sort of a side
passion manifestation.
It's what helped me get out ofthe corporate world.
But since 2022, I mean, youknow, taking this on full time
(08:29):
as a, as a serious I don't liketo call it correct it doesn't
feel like work at all.
You know, uh, mission I think isthat what I realized then and
I'll go into this is that Ithink so many people think
manifestation is a techniquethat we sort of have to learn,
or it's secret, and you know youhave to read certain books.
Actually, it's your naturalstate.
You know everyone, every singleperson listening to this, is in
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a state of manifestation,whether they know that
consciously or not.
I don't think I quite realizedthat even then, in 2022.
You know, the observation inquantum mechanics turns energy
into physical matter, and youknow there is the two sides to
us, right, there is the program,the ego, the avatar, and then
(09:16):
there is the awareness, theconsciousness, the soul, and so
many people are not aware of theseparation between the two.
A metaphor that I like isimagine an astronaut.
You know, you look at anastronaut in space.
They're in this suit, you know.
I like to imagine that that'sthe avatar, the physical
construct, the human body, theprograms, and then there's the
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person inside the suit, and thatperson inside the suit is the
awareness, the consciousness.
So many people think they'rethe suit, and that person inside
the suit is the awareness, theconsciousness.
So many people think they'rethe suit, not the person behind
it.
Um, and you know, we always mostpeople think that they are
their thoughts, but they're not.
(09:59):
Thoughts are just the space.
You know, we're always separatefrom our thoughts and if we're
not aware of the separation,then our observation of reality
is is, that is the identity ofthe spacesuit, the thoughts.
And you know, if you're awareof the negative self-talk every
day, then who's the onelistening?
So it was that big realizationfor me that, oh my God, I get
(10:22):
this now that, um, well, if 95%of who we are, on average by the
age of 35, is subconsciouslyprogrammed, then most people's
observation of reality issubconsciously programmed.
So therefore, their dominantobservation is what they know to
be true, based on their pastand their traumas and what they
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believe about themselves.
And that is manifesting,because observation collapses,
the wave in quantum mechanics.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So only when you become aware is when you can
consciously manifest, and that'sthe real difference okay, right
, so if you're still with usaudience, uh, I think that
matt's put it very, very uhshrewdly and simply for us to
really understand thatmanifestation is happening,
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whether you like it or not.
Number one the simple rule andcorrect me if I'm wrong here,
matt, because I'm just sort ofregurgitating what you said, but
hopefully making it clear, justso that we get past this step,
because we're going to go intothe next question, which is
going to take us even furtheryou are not your thoughts, you
are merely the thinker of yourthoughts, true or false.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well, you're on top of them really.
Metacognition.
The word meta means on top ofMetacognition is awareness of
thought.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So, if you are not your thoughts, but your thoughts
are creative, who's doing thethinking?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, not the awareness, the program, the
avatar.
How it tends to work is well,think about it.
We might be triggeredexternally by something and that
then tends to slip by ourawareness, create a feeling and
that feeling then createsthoughts.
Right, and we can't thinkgreater than how we feel.
(12:13):
So you know, thoughts are themakeup of, like, the brain, but
we're not the awareness, like.
It's always separate from that.
It sits on top of but it couldbe like.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Thoughts are like paints, but your awareness is
the canvas correct, it's a goodway to look at it, yeah and I'm
looking at that painting behindyou.
So I was just thinking, oh, thatcanvas there and then all our
thoughts are creating on it.
Yeah, it's on it.
So the images you wish to youin our life with beauty or with
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victimhood or whatever, whereveryou're at, you have the ability
, with your paints and yourthoughts, to create on the
canvas of your life on aday-to-day basis.
But I really like yourastronaut analogy.
Yeah, so if someone's new tomanifestation, what would you
say?
That is a great starting pointfor them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Understand what manifestation is.
You know, consciousmanifestation is the deliberate
act of bringing something thatyou desire into the physical
world.
But before you do that anddon't get me wrong the first
place that everyone starts withis what they want.
I want a new career, I want anew career, I want a new
relationship, I want a newbusiness, I want more money.
(13:29):
Great Start in lack, start withwhat's missing in your life.
But understand this that, like Isaid earlier, we're always in a
state of manifestation, so wedon't attract into our life what
we want.
We attract into our life whowe're being.
That's a fundamental twist thatyou've got to understand
straight away that most peopleare living in wanting mode.
(13:52):
And if you continuously say, Iwant more money, I want more
love, that is what you manifestmore of the wanting.
The universe always says yes.
So it will say yes to the want.
So what you need to do first ispractice what I call
self-observation.
If I've just spoken about howobservation has this amazing
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ability and we can dive deepinto that in quantum mechanics
to turn energy into physicalreality, then don't focus first
on what you want, first getclear on it, but then move away
from that and actually focus onwho you're being in the present
moment.
So what I like to do with allmy clients is just practice that
awareness of self.
Observe yourself day to day.
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What thoughts are you thinkingday to day?
How are you acting day to day?
How does the day make you feel?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Become like a scientist, a detective in a way,
for the first couple of weeksat least, even in a meditation,
when you slow down your brainwaves, just become aware of what
comes up, because if you don'ttake a grip over that and become
aware of it, that is, that isyour observation of reality and
that's what's manifesting sowhen you first started, uh, uh,
(15:04):
going into this new career ofyours, from having gone from the
corporate world into the worldof teaching people about
manifestation and the science ofdrawing what you want into your
experience, actuallyconsciously showed up
(15:25):
differently, to change yourfrequency or to change your
vibration so that you'd begin toattract new into your
experience, because a lot ofpeople find themselves on the
cusp of that.
But then that next bit is Idon't know how to be any
different than what I'm beingyeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So I think first I understood pretty much all of
that that I've just explained.
But how do you do that?
Then you know if you have adream.
I think actually, james, wherepeople go wrong with
manifestation is they'rethinking too big.
Paradox, because in the sort ofself-help world, if you like,
and it's always dream big, butactually this is a game of
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alignment, vibration.
So what I like to do isactually think no more than 12
months out, for example, andthen even reverse engineer that
12-month goal down as well tosmaller manifestations,
manifestations that I believeare true in the next three
months, for example.
Why?
(16:26):
Because that's still keeping mein alignment with the 12-month
vision.
It's still keeping me inalignment with an even bigger
vision, maybe five years out.
I can give a tangible exampleyou know around about.
When we did our podcast last, Ihad a dream of becoming an
author and this whole experiencethat I had putting this into a
book.
I had no idea, in fact, I had alimiting belief who's going to
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read my book?
I've got no audience, really.
I just sort of started out onsocial media.
By that point.
I remember my English teachertelling me that I wasn't that
great at English.
So I have this desire, I havethis goal manifestation to one
day write a book.
Now let me reverse, engineer itall the way down to I need an
audience.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So I start, in fact, our last interview I don't even
think I was on instagram by thatpoint I really started to to
take instagram seriously Iremember, because I actually
found you on tiktok and I wasspeaking and I was thinking and
I, when we contacted each other,I was like I felt like I've
known matt for ages and you know, I feel like I've known him for
ages as well and I could justtell that the energy was just
(17:30):
such a match to what I've beensharing and what I talk about
and what you were talking about,and I thought, oh god, this is
so easy, yeah, and you'veexploded by giving that much
attention and so you actuallyhave been using your own tools
to reach more people, which hasbeen amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, thank you, so exactly.
So with that in mind, you know,I, like I'd say to everyone,
once you figured it out, getreally clear, like specificity,
but be clear in your intent andfor me that was very clear.
Instagram I need to takeseriously.
So I start posting contentaround December and I have one
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manifestation in 2023.
This is 100,000 lives by theend of the year.
Now, that felt true.
There was a limiting belief in away about the fact that
Instagram felt very mature.
I already had 100,000 over onTikTok, but that was sort of
easy to grow because it was arelatively newer platform there,
Whereas Instagram limitingbelief about putting it off.
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But it felt true.
I just still knew a couple ofvideos could explode if I play
this right and I visualize itand I reverse engineered it down
again.
So I remember, I rememberthinking 10,000 followers by the
end of March and what happenedwas when I started that around
the beginning of 2023, by Iremember this the 6th of
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February, I hit 100,000followers and I still say to
this day the reason thathappened is because I wasn't
trying to manifest 100,000followers by the 6th of February
.
It felt true, the end of theyear, so I was in alignment with
it, so it happened a lot sooner, and that's what I've seen in
my journey.
It's all about truth, it'sabout alignment, it's about
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vibration, and when you reallyfeel it and you surrender the
how like I had no idea, a coupleof videos would pop.
It happens, and then we cantalk about what happened after
that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I think what's really great is that that's your
experience.
But also you're saying that istrue for me, but if someone
feels as though that thatcouldn't be true for them, so
how, then?
How do you get them to believeagain?
Because that's important foreverybody who's listening,
because there's certain goalsthat people may have had for
years, but they're not drawingthem into their lives.
(19:47):
So what would you say there?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I think this is such a beautiful question because I
can answer it in two ways.
Firstly, you've got tounderstand why it doesn't feel
true to you.
What is that block and wheredoes it?
Where's it derived from?
It's part of your programming.
So spend a lot of time tryingto uncover that truth.
Firstly, about why it is yourtruth, because if you don't
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understand why it's your truth,it will continuously manifest
for you.
And secondly, this because weall have that.
We all have those moments aboutcan I do this, though that
person might be able to, but canI?
Is that on a quantum level, ifwe really think about what we're
manifesting from?
If you break down every singleelement of physical reality down
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to its purest form, you get toatoms.
Below that, you get tosubatomic particles photons,
electrons quarks, bosons, allthe rest of it exactly string
theory.
You go all the way down, youarrive at unifying fields of
energy, quantum fields, andthose quantum fields are
infinite.
There's an infinite amount ofenergy there, and if there's an
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infinite amount of energy and,as you know, james, energy is
always in a state of movement,that movement's vibration, and
vibration carries frequency, andfrequency is rich in
information then then verysimply, like analytically, I can
understand that it alreadyexists.
Right, it already exists.
So, even if I don't think it'strue, it already exists.
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So, whether it is and I'll talkabout this whether it's the
observer effect in quantummechanics or the many worlds
interpretation, whatever Ithink's not true actually
already exists.
So how do I bring that into myreality?
Then it's the question, becauseI can look at it two ways.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I can understand I have this block, but I can and I
can also understand that itexists I think, if you wanted to
put it in another terminology,if we're looking at it from
perhaps a spiritual aspect, youcould say that when you ask, it
is given.
When you've asked for something, it's already existing in some
reality.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You just yes the question is, though how does it
spill over into the your reality, because it might exist in a
parallel version.
How does it?
And and this is where we couldgo a little bit deep here, if I
may, that I've mentioned acouple of times here you, if you
look at the double slitexperiment or the observer
effect in quantum mechanics,that energy exists in
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superposition right.
It exists, every singlepossible state exists in that
field.
Only when it's observed does itturn from that unifying field,
that infinite field, into theparticle right, the first
element of our physical reality.
So then, coming back to you,there's two sides to you.
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There is the ego, there's theavatar, there's the programming,
and then there is theobservation.
So you can ask, dream about moremoney or a better relationship
or a better job, but you've gotto be consistent with that
vision and you've got to reallyalign everything.
So you've got to work on thatprogram, because if you ask, but
then you allow that programmingto take over, I'm not worthy,
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it's not going to happen to me.
That becomes, that is yourdominant observation of reality,
and and it overspills thatobservation is what manifests.
Hopefully I'm making sense.
So what I've really foundmyself is that I've got to
really focus on that programming.
I've got to really try andrewrite programs to make sure
that that observation is aligned.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So let's go to the next question how do you rewrite
a program to where you may havea limiting belief?
For instance, if someone'slistening and they're thinking,
god, I've wanted more money forages, or I've wanted a career
change for ages, or I've wantedthis or that and it's not come
about, limiting belief, perhaps,is in the way.
What, would matt say, issomething that you could do to
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begin to change that, becausethat reality already exists for
you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You just need to meet it, as we've spoken about again
two ways I can answer this thatI do myself.
First become aware of what theyare.
What is that voice telling youabout yourself?
Become the scientist.
Look at it, have it out youknow in journals and pieces of
paper, see it.
And then, okay, let's figureout how we can reprogram it.
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Firstly, the one I loveconsistency, frequent repetition
.
On average it takes 66 days.
There's a huge study done forsomething that you do every
single day to become programmedhabitually.
So if you believe that you'renot worthy, or if you believe
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money's hard, if you rewrite thereframe of that as an
affirmation, for example, andyou commit to it every single
day, on average by 66 days, youshould start to rewrite that
program and replace it.
Okay, so that's firstly.
That's firstly, secondly,slowing down brainwaves, and how
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I like to do that is going frombeta brainwaves being the
analytical part of the braindown to alpha, down to theta and
down in theta with highlysuggestible the.
You know the body doesn't knowthe difference between what's a
dream and what's real.
To give everyone a an examplewe've all experienced having a
nightmare.
You wake up in the middle ofthe night.
You believe that that nightmareis real.
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You start reacting emotionally.
In fact, I've got a greatexample of that myself.
Only a couple of months ago, mynew born son, now Humphrey, is
three and a half months old.
When he was about a month and ahalf old, I woke up blind panic
about 3am, for five secondsprobably, I believe that he was
somewhere under the duvet, lostunder the duvet, you know, and I
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panicked, and and I woke mywife and she panicked, and then
we realized that no, he'sperfectly safe in his crib, but
in Theta, you, you believe whatyou're seeing.
So then take this as an example.
What if we do that in reverse?
What if we take what you'reseeing?
So then take this as an example.
What if we do that in reverse?
What if we take what you'reseeking to manifest, dream it up
as if it's already a reality,and then take that into a
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meditation.
And when we're down in theta,brainwaves, we can then hold
that vision in our mind and thebody will react emotionally as
if it's already real.
And if we do that over and overagain, again, that starts to
rewrite the program.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So the magic of this, james, is that if we do it with
enough consistency, we rewritethe programs and those programs
become your dominant observationof reality and manifestation
becomes so much easier becauseyour dominant vibration, better
said, is aligned with what youseek I want to share with you a
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story that happened to me 2023,okay and it's to do with
consistency, and what matt issaying is that consistency
really is the key to being ableto rewrite a new story for what
you're wanting to draw into yourlife and in 2023,.
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At the beginning of the year, Iwrote on my phone, in the notes
section, what I wanted, as ifit was already done.
I wanted to.
At the time, I was lookingafter my mom, after my father
had died, and we wanted to sellsome land and sell the villa,
and I'd written that as if itwas done.
I wanted to make more money andI wrote that as if it was done.
(27:23):
I wrote something in the wordsof my income has increased so
significantly.
Um, what else does I write?
I wrote about a new partner andI wrote about, and I wrote
about someone very close to mewho had an illness.
I wanted them to be healed, andI read that every night and
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every morning, in that dreamystate when you first wake up and
just before I went to bed and Iwas like closing my eyes and
trying to feel that feeling asif it was already done, maybe
one or two minutes first thingin the morning, first thing in
the night.
But what's happening which isreferring to what Matt was
saying was that at that time,when you're just waking up or
you're just going to sleep,you're in the theta brainwave.
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So that's a free time for youto actually access that powerful
brainwave of where things canbe created.
And about seven months later,one of where things can be
created.
And about seven months later,one of those things happened.
And then, about eight monthslater, another thing happened.
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And then, about nine monthslater, it was as if everything
I'd written had absolutely 100%come true on everything I'd
written, and I didn't know thetime that it was all going to
happen, but everything on thatlist had absolutely come true.
And now I swear by that.
I can't go to sleep or wake upin the morning without something
, without writing somethingwithout having written something
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and then, maybe after 30 daysor 50 days, I'll discard it and
write something new.
Yeah, because I constantly wantmy mind to feel as though it's
in the process of absorbing whatit is that I want.
So I'm not being sloppy,because I would like to say I
think most people are verysloppy thinkers, which is why
they keep getting what they keepgetting.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, I love that, but that's exactly how you
manifested it there.
It became your observation ofreality because you programmed
it into yourself.
That's what you did.
You know, and there's the magicwhether you do it in that way,
whether you journal, whether youpractice, it's the same thing.
Yeah, there's different toolsto use it so what is if
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someone's starting out?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
what would you say that is a go-to tool for from
Matt that you'd say look guys,this is where I started and it
really works.
Yeah, is it visualization?
Is it meditation?
Is it, you know, setting a fewminutes aside to just dream it
up a day For you that's reallyworked and has helped your
clients.
(29:54):
And I'm sure you've got somefascinating stories of your
clients of things that happenedon your tuition there's various,
to be honest, that I do and Istill do it to this day, every
day.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't miss a day.
Um, I can tell you what theyare and it's so simple for
everyone to do.
The first is be defined by thefuture as if it's already a
reality.
You know, if you're listeningto this and you believe that
your thoughts have some form ofan impact on your reality, then
did you wake up this morning andmentally rehearse your future?
Most people don't.
So if you do believe yourthoughts create your reality,
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then make sure every singlemorning you are in a that dreamy
state where you rehearse.
Now, I didn't understand howmeditation fitted into
manifestation.
As you know, there's so manydifferent ways to meditate,
whether that's transcendentalmeditation, banara, beats,
silence, breath.
I do all of that.
But I also like the guided, andI have my own guided
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meditations that my clients use,and my guided meditations range
from 50 minutes to half an hourand they first slow you down to
that theta state and then Iguide you to visualize your
future, and the goal there isthat you're starting your day
visualizing what you're seekingto manifest as if it's already a
reality, and I've justexplained why that's powerful
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from the point of view of thebody, why that's powerful from
the point of view of the body.
And then, honestly, what I thenrecommend is journaling.
So either prompts where you're,you know, asking a question like
how can I take inspired actionthis week?
Or what, what thoughts have Ibeen aware of about myself this
week that are out of alignmentwith that vision?
Really powerful stuff.
You know, like I said aboutbeing that sort of curious
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scientist, gratitude is mysecret weapon.
But you know I said about beingthat sort of curious scientist,
gratitude is my secret weapon.
But you know it's not beinggrateful for what's already in
your life.
That should be a prerequisite.
It's saying thank you for thethings you seek now, ahead of
the event that's collapsing thewave in quantum mechanics you
need that gratitude in advanceto some phenomenal effect
(31:55):
everything I've manifested,everything has come from
gratitude as like a primary tooland in what way have you
structured that up?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
if someone was listening to go?
Do you know what?
I am grateful for the things Ihave, but I didn't realize I
could be grateful in advance forthings as if they were already
done.
So is there like a formula thatyou've used?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
yeah, there is apply so the way I manifest, like I've
said at the beginning of thispodcast, is I take down the big
goal and I break it down.
And I'm going to give atangible example, because we
recently manifested our dreamhouse in cornwall.
Um, and you know, there'sdifferent ways to purchase a
house depending on where you arein the world, but here in the
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UK it's quite laborious andlong-winded and there's various
processes.
And so what I do is when Iwrite down my gratitude every
day, I write down five thingsI'm grateful for.
By all means, write a couple ofthings that are already in your
life, like the health of my sonand my wife.
But, for example, let's imagineI was still in the process of
buying this house, and let'simagine I'm waiting now for the
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bank to approve my mortgageapplication, which is one of the
processes.
I'm not going to stay in a fearstate or an anxious state.
What I'm going to do is I'mgoing to collapse the waves.
How I'm going to do that is I'mgoing to say I am so grateful
and blessed now that themortgage company have approved
our application intent.
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Here's the big one, because weare now buying and then enter
house in cornwall.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So that's the real power intent, which is what you're grateful
for because is why you'regrateful for it and but it's the
next step, so then the thatmanifests and then, and then we
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move to the next part in thatbuying process.
And that's just an example ofhow I'm using gratitude just in
my normal life, you know, andthat will just take up one
statement, and then anotherstatement might be to do with
the book I've just written, andthen something else, and, yeah,
I've been doing gratitude everysingle day like that since about
2020, 21.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Amazing, amazing.
I've had so much fun beingthankful in advance for stuff,
even when I felt like I'd beenon the edge.
I might have shared it on areel or a podcast recently, but
I was away skiing recently for aweek and my flight that I was
due to catch was delayed, whichwas going to prevent me catching
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another flight, and then thatcollapsed.
The window of amount of time Iremember looking, going, oh what
, what meant?
What previously meant that Ihad a significant amount of time
to get from one flight to thenext flight because I was
traveling between severaldifferent countries was now five
minutes.
(34:46):
I had five minutes to catch,get off one plane and get on the
next one.
So, as Matt is saying, you knowhe was right.
He was saying be thankful as ifit's done.
So I'm sat at an airport.
I'm going to be specific here.
I was sat in geneva airportwriting thank you, thank you,
thank you on my phone here, uh.
(35:08):
Thank you for all the helpfulpeople, thank you for my bags
somehow finding their way topick up.
Thank you that you know all theair stewards and all the
helpful people.
Thank you that I had enoughtime, not five minutes, thinking
that's not enough time.
But, thank you, I had enoughtime.
And I must have gone on and onand on, because by the time I
actually boarded that flight,which was heavily delayed, um,
(35:31):
they said I don't think you'regonna be able to to catch your
connecting flight.
But in my heart I was like,thank you, thank you, thank you
that I've made it, thank you,thank you that I've made it,
just thank you, thank you, I'vemade it, and thank you that I've
made it.
Now, I didn't think my bagswere essentially going to make
it as well, because to get offone plane with five minutes to
get on another plane, I thought,oh, with five minutes to get on
(35:54):
another plane, I thought, oh,and the bags, yeah.
But I thought, thank you for thebags, you know.
And I really went off on one.
So I sat on that plane betweenGeneva and Zurich, which was
about a 40-minute flight,writing thank you the whole time
and I had five minutes to catchthe plane.
And I caught the plane and Iwas like I'm number one, I've
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actually made this plane.
This is just.
I'm like wow.
And when I arrived at my finaldestination in Spain, I got off
the plane and I thought I'lljust go to the luggage hall,
just in case.
You know, yeah, I thoughtthere's not really much chance,
but I had written this down andI had felt thankful and I just
felt so blessed already I was atthe airport or even managed to
(36:39):
catch that plane, becauseotherwise I wouldn't be
traveling for another 24 hours.
So this is just the power ofgratitude.
But I walked off.
I went to the carousel wherethey dropped the luggage off.
First bag off was mine thereyou go and I was like how about
that?
and I walked away.
And I was like how about that?
And I walked away and I waslike, oh my God, that could have
been a very costly experience,of both time and money, sure,
(37:01):
but gratitude was the currencythat I used that afforded me so
much time, so much good feeling,and I use it for literally
everything, and I just love theway Matt had described that he'd
used it for, you know, evenwriting his book that he's done.
And the other thing that youwere mentioning about being
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grateful in advance for themortgage on the property, the
universe doesn't matter aboutthe size, it just really matters
that you're focused on emittingthat good feeling frequency
it's a receivership frequency,that's gratitude, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's when when some, when we give something to
someone else, they say thank you.
You know it's a thank you isthe secret word.
I think it's important though,here, james, to to mention
something.
Someone might be listening tothis and saying, yeah, but I've
done that and that didn't work.
But a lot of people try andmanifest things and it doesn't
(38:01):
work, and you know I'veexplained the observation thing
and that would be worthreflecting on.
But but even myself, you know,there was another house that I
initially had my eyes on that Itried my hardest to manifest,
you know I, I know all the tools.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah, rejected and when that happened, when you
were rejected excited you wereexcited that it was rejected let
me tell you why okay years ago,of course, no, it's the ego,
though, that's bruised, and thisis too deep to go.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
But let me explain that there's a, from years of of
experiencing this with otherthings and working with clients,
that sometimes you can do allthe work, all the visualizing,
all the gratitude, all thejournaling, all the theta, all
the banara beats, everythingrejection and you have to, in
(38:59):
that moment, realize that thatis protection and redirection.
Rejection is protection andredirection and every single
time and I really do mean thisas long as you're willing to
step back and trust and notallow the ego to take over,
(39:21):
you'll be redirected tosomething absolutely beautiful
that blows you away.
Okay, so in the case of thehouse that I wanted to buy
initially, the house that I'mnow in is in the same village,
five farmer's fields away.
It was 20% less in value, abetter house.
The other one, in hindsight,needed a new roof.
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It had issues that I didn't see, but my ego really, really
wanted it, because this onedidn't exist.
Now, when that rejection comesup, this is where most people
struggle.
They say manifestation doesn'twork, doesn't work.
The ego takes over and theyeither give up.
(40:05):
Up and what they do by givingup is they block the redirection
and the flow because they get,they push themselves out of
alignment back into, likeresistance, or they try and
really push through and ignorethat, that, that rejection.
Now there's two ways tomanifest surrendered
manifestation or manufacturedmanifestation.
And, like with the example ofmy house, it was was the
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surrendered approach, where I'mset, set the intention for the
type of house rejected but thenredirected five farmers fields
away.
Now I could have manufacturedthat outcome.
I could have got on the phoneto a couple of wealthy clients
and said, hey, could you spot me?
You know, uh, and and act asthe bank and do all this and try
and ignore the rejection.
You have to really understandthat that larger consciousness
(40:48):
system, that intelligence thatwe're co-creating with, knows,
it really does know whether thatmanifestation is right for you
or not, because it has one goalin mind and that is there's a
term here called loweringentropy, which in another sense
is like raising consciousness,creating more order, and because
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it exists beyond thelimitations of physical reality,
it knows the path, it knows.
So you can say I want thisintention, but if it can see
that it will create a highentropy, which is chaos and
disorder, it will do its best tocommunicate that with you
through rejection, and I didn'tknow that on our last podcast,
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really even, and it's taken meyears to fully understand that
as well.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's why some people's careers may not go in a
way that they want them to,because it's not going to lead
them down a path.
I started in banking before Igot into modelling, before I got
into talking and helping peoplewith wellness.
What was the timing betweenbeing rejected with that first
property and then the next oneshowing up?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
That's six months.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, so six months of preparing your energy to
receive a better property.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
I can actually tell you the story, if you like,
about how the rejection happened.
Very interesting, I thinkpeople will enjoy hearing this.
So doing all the work to tryand manifest this out.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
You're working extremely hard.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Yeah, understanding the paradox at the same time,
that wanting equals lack, andI've got to really try not to
get too involved here.
So I do what I do when I findmyself struggling a little bit,
if you like, which is askinggiving it up to higher
intelligence for a sign.
So, uh, this was october 23 andI, I wrote down um, you know,
(42:38):
higher, higher intelligence, I'mopen and ready to receive a
sign about this, purchase thisparticular house.
At time I was living inShropshire in temporary
accommodation with Corazon'sparents, our whole house in
storage, and um went to bed, hadthis really vivid dream I'm a
very vivid dreamer, um, and Ihad a dream that I was walking
(42:59):
around this farmhouse and therewere beams and lovely carpets
and beautiful, like thisgorgeous house in Cornwall.
And I said to the agent great,you know how much is it.
And she said it's to rent.
And I woke up from the dreamand I was so confused because
I'd asked for a sign about howto purchase this particular
(43:21):
house, because I had a fewissues right, you'll see where
I'm going with this and I have avery vivid dream about a house
to rent.
So that day, corisande and Iwent to Vista Village shopping
here in the UK and we're talkingover breakfast and I told her
about this dream and she saidthere's no way.
I'm renting Like.
I just don't want to rent Likewe've you know, we've been
(43:42):
renting temporarily for a coupleof years.
I want to buy like I just don'twant to rent Like we've you
know, we've been rentingtemporarily for a couple of
years.
I want to buy.
The bill came and it was 44pounds, 44 pence.
And I said well, I know thefours in numerology mean support
, trust and foundations.
This is a sign.
And she said no, it's not.
We crossed over the road into ashop and the lady that was
helping Coruscant had a necklaceand as itung, the necklace read
(44:04):
444 this is James.
15 minutes after seeing um thatsign and I said to the woman I
said what does that mean?
She said it's an angel number.
It means foundations andsupport to trust in your vision
it also means all as well right,okay, yeah.
So get on to right move, whichis the property app here in the
uk.
And I mean this the exactproperty, the exact property
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that was in my dream, wasavailable on right move.
This was a saturday afternoon,the estate agents had closed the
next day.
We get in the car, we drivefour hours down to cornwall,
stay in a hotel.
Um, on the monday morning Iphoned the agent and she says
I'm so sorry, the house is, it'sbeen gone, it's not available,
okay.
So I was like what?
(44:51):
I was so confused by this point.
I had this dream.
You know, I've seen the dreamliterally now your wife with you
, you know actually convincedthat maybe renting is what the
universe, sort of like really istelling us to try and do.
Massive rejection a hard one tounderstand is protection.
Drive back four hours trying toregroup and on the Wednesday I
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have a phone call from theestate agent.
She said Matt, you know youinquired about that property on
Monday.
She said well, the lady who wasdue to pick up the keys on
Thursday she's just pulled outand there's a lot of other
people I can't remember how manyon the wait list before you
that also inquired.
I can't get hold of any of them.
If you want it, it's yours.
So the day after Coruscantdrove all the way down to
Cornwall without me because Ihad calls viewed it and we moved
(45:37):
in.
Two weeks later the exact house.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
On the rental the rental.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
The rental, the rental.
So we moved in November, the10th 2023.
That house that we tried to buysimultaneously sold.
So I'm like okay, but we sortof like put it on the backbone
and fell in love with Cornwalland in fact our life just went
to another level, just sort ofbeing in Cornwall, a level that
you know is well beyond where wewere before.
And then, in that falling inlove and just like being really
(46:07):
present and happy, in the Aprilthis house came up.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
So the house that you're in you mean as in it
became available from renting topurchase or no.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
So I'm renting this farmhouse in Cornwall, take it
on in the November and then inthe April of 2024, so about six
months later.
Five months later, a house inthe same village as the other
house I wanted to buy comesavailable 20% less in value, and
that was the house that wesubsequently bought, which I'm
(46:42):
in now.
So we rented for about 10months.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
We took a year's term um can I just say what I love
about this story is that theuniverse doesn't give you a
straight road.
No, it was great.
And also, what I really like isthat you talked about the
falling in love with cornwalland the falling in love feeling
that we have yeah the audienceis a magnet.
(47:08):
It's a massive, massive magnet,and often you cannot move from a
place until you find love withwhere you're at or make peace
with where you're at, andsomething I found that when I
lived in London.
I lived in London for a longtime and initially I was just
just needed to move to New York.
(47:29):
It's just like London, I gottamove to New York.
And, and I remember once Ilooked in a newspaper and it
said the bridge has been madebetween London and New York and
I was like, wow, that's the sign, that's what I needed.
Um, but my work wasn't done andI went to a seminar and they
said you've got to find a way tomake peace with where you're at
(47:50):
, and and I was like, right,that really rings a bell.
And so I went around Londontrying to find the best places,
the best hotels, the best placesto eat.
Now, I don't drink, but I loveto eat good food and good meals
and and enjoy great andbeautiful things.
So I just went to go and visitall the top hotels and have a
(48:11):
cup of tea in them.
I went to go, yeah, and I wentto visit some of the nicest
restaurants and just, you know,have a meal there.
And when they had the specialoffers and I was just like, oh
my golly, I found so manybeautiful things about this
country.
And eventually, when I did go toNew York, I went on a holiday
and I went there and I was likethis place is not for me and I'm
(48:32):
not saying that New York isn'tgreat because it's a great city
but I recognized that there wassomething else that I didn't
know and you know, and if I fastforward, where I am now in
Spain, I've been coming hereaccidentally without ever
recognizing here for the last 20years.
Yeah, I've been here for a stag.
Do I've been here for a family?
(48:54):
When we hired a villa for mymom's 65th surprise that my
sister booked it, I never didand then eventually fast forward
, my cousin moved here until myparents bought a place and then,
when my father passed away andmy mother wanted to move back to
the UK, I found myself beinghere and I thought what?
All this time I've been pulled,without me recognizing, to a
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certain place because it's formy highest good.
Anyone who's listening, likeMatt, has said that he's been
been receiving the ideas for thedreams, receiving the ideas for
the property.
The universe won't necessarilygive you a clear route.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
It will just give you the next step you've just got
to follow I call it thebreadcrumbs, you know.
You've got to follow the, thesigns, the synchronicity, the
dreams, the intuition, um, andyou've also got to take inspired
action, like an element.
You've told, you've said twothings there which are really
important.
Where we lived previously inshropshire it's a very sleepy
area, you know, about 10 milesfrom the welsh border, beautiful
(49:56):
, but just not our vibe and, um,we wanted to previously try and
manifest cornwall, a coupleyears before that, and we were
on the wrong vibration.
We had to fall in love withwhere we lived in order to
manifest Cornwall.
And that's what you've justsaid.
And here's why you don't wantthe thing that you think you
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want.
You don't.
What you want is the version ofyourself that exists in your
imagination when you have thething you want.
Right, think about that.
And that's the same with, like,manifesting a specific person
is one of the hottest topics inmanifestation.
But again, people are offendedby this.
You don't want the person.
You want the version ofyourself that exists in your
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imagination when you're withthat person, because they make
you feel a certain way.
So are you in lack of thatfeeling now?
And that realization for me waslike I need to embody Cornwall
in Shropshire.
And then, you know, I was socertain in that belief, even
though I had no idea how itwould manifest.
You know, when a sign came up,we put our name down for a
storage unit in Cornwall becausewe'd sold our house in
(51:03):
Shropshire and it was in storage.
And this lady phoned and sixmonths previously I put my name
down and she said oh, storageunit's free, do you want it?
Most people would wait untilthey'd find a house in Cornwall.
No, coruscant and I, we movedour whole house to Cornwall and
we were living out of a backpack, pretty much at her parents'
house four hours away, andpeople thought we were crazy.
(51:25):
But I took the inspired actionand for me it felt like there
was a huge chunk of our energyin Cornwall already, before the
rental even came.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Can I just say something?
This is massive intention.
By putting all your stuff instorage in Cornwall, your
intention was already laid andthat takes some guts to be able
to do that.
That's why you felt like partof you was already there,
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because your energy is yourstuff.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
It's an extension of you.
You've got to see it like the,the probability distributor, if
you like, before it renderedinto physical reality.
If you do a big, bold act likethat and you put your energy and
your intent there, almost hasto collapse in that favor yeah,
it's like digging, you know,digging the earth ready to put
the flowers in.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
You know, are you gonna?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
yeah, don't wait, don't wait, you know um just not
raised like that, thougheveryone like people.
People thought we were crazy.
You know what is your house incornwall?
Speaker 1 (52:22):
you haven't got a house I've asked forward a
couple of years.
It's not I told you so, it'sjust I'm living my own truth and
this is the circle that we'vehad today, which is what's your
truth.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Does that exist, does that probability exist?
Speaker 2 (52:37):
And the answer is yes , but it just might not be a
straight road and that's, butthat's fun.
You know, if we think of anyfilm, any story we read, it's
the twists and the turns thatmake the story and you know, the
only reason that this podcastis interesting, if it is, is
because of the stories that youand I've shared about our twists
and turns, and people canhopefully resonate with that.
(52:59):
It's not one, it's not astraight line, don't get me
wrong.
Some things do manifest veryquickly and it feels too easy,
but a lot of the time itrequires a bit of work and and
and the journey of the twistsand turns.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
You know matt you're.
It's been an absolute joy toreconnect and and speak and
share stories, because thestories are the bits that
actually make this reallyvisceral for people so they can
have their own.
I'd always say to people youknow can share the tools, but
ultimately you have to get yourown experience and the stories
are a way that we can livevicariously.
(53:31):
To go oh, actually, that couldbe for me like exactly, I agree
it's real, you know, that's whathappened, or that's what
happened to james, and they justseem like everyday types of
things normal guys.
Yeah, exactly you know justeveryone is extraordinary in the
everyday, and these everydaythings and tools that you share
(53:52):
and that we've spoken abouttoday are very transformative
and do make life a lot more fun.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
Have fun you know, I always say, like you know, if
people are struggling right now,just I always say, like you
know, if people are strugglingright now, just I always use the
analogy of if you've everplayed a game and that game
becomes really hard, it's funbecause it's hard.
You know, when a game's likeeasy, it's like I'm sick of this
game, like it's too easy.
You know, the games that Iremember as a kid are the ones
that I got stuck on.
You know, and like, have funwith this, like, and that
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straight away makes it lighter.
You know.
But just realize that thatanything you seek firstly
already exists.
But have fun with the twistsand the turns in the journey and
have fun in understanding howlong it takes and where you
might be redirected to andunderstand.
It's not your job to control.
Your job is to get clear andwork with it and see what
happens.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Well, matt, thank you so much for coming on the show.
It's been great to have youback on the Super Soul Model
series.
Thank you, james.
(55:06):
This people's lives as well asyour own.
This is what this community andthis podcast is all about.
Now, until the next episode, Iwish you a wonderful week ahead
and green lights all the way.
Have you ever wondered about how you can
improve the quality of your lifeusing manifestation principles,
but perhaps you're stuck insome areas?
Well, if that's the case,you're in for a treat, because
this week I have a returningguest, matt Cook, back on the
show, and Matt is aworld-renowned thought leader,
manifestation coach to a globalaudience, and his take on things
(00:24):
will be incredibly clarifying.
Enjoy this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But I think where people go wrong, james, is that
they're thinking sorry, mate,it's okay.
God, we're not going to have agood start here, are we?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll tell you what we're going to do.
We're going to have a fewbloopers here and we're going to
enjoy this.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We've got to put some love in there.
I need to get back into thestate mate.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You turn the radio off.
You're over here, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And then you have to repeat the question.
You don't want the thing thatyou think you want.
You don't.
What you want is the version ofyourself that exists in your
imagination when you have thething you want.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hello and welcome to the James Granstrom podcast,
super Soul Model Series.
This week we are blessed tohave Matt Cook rejoin us on the
Super Soul Model Series.
Matt is an internationalmanifestation coach and he's
helping millions of people allover the world by helping them
manifest their best lives.
So I'd just like to re-welcomeback to the show my good friend,
(01:30):
matt cook james, thank you, sogood to be back oh, matt, it's
been a while since we'veconnected.
Uh, we've been toing and froingon message prior to meeting up,
but it's been a while sinceyou're back on the show.
When was it last that we were?
I had a look it was october2022, so a lot of time since
2022 yes so let's just for thepurpose of the audience, just
(01:55):
remind people of your personaljourney, if we've made so if
anyone's um listening for thefirst time, great.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A lot of people have already have heard this story,
but it actually starts inSeptember of 2018.
And at the time then I wasabout 10 years into my corporate
job in real estate managing afirm here in the UK, youngest
manager in the company and justvery unfulfilled, highly
stressed and just trying to finda way to create a little bit
(02:23):
more freedom for myself andCoris and my wife and um uh,
just going through a period oflike high stress and actually
struggling to, to, to breathereally tight chest.
And you know, by that pointit's just worth noting I wasn't
spiritual at all and my wife'suh grandmother recommended some
(02:43):
reflexology, so I had no ideawhat that was, but she said it
will help, so I just went alongwith it.
I sat down at the therapist'shouse, down the couch, and the
first question he asked me andhe didn't know who it was he
just said so, matt, tell me whoyou are.
And I said well, I'm 26 yearsold, I'm an estate agent, and he
(03:03):
stopped me in my tracks.
He said no, I didn't ask whatyou did for a living.
I asked who you are and Ididn't know who I was.
He said I'm not interested inthe title who are you?
So I had this like.
This was my first likerealization that, oh, there is
someone that exists behind thiscorporate shop.
Who is it, this corporate shop?
Who is it?
I didn't know what that wasthen, but I had this realization
(03:25):
.
It almost as if my awarenesscompletely separated, my whole
identity was built on thiscorporate facade and um carried
on with the reflexology Um, andactually that question lingered
for months, like who am I?
And that awareness and thosequestions led me to various
resources online and, long storyshort, tried to find a word of
(03:48):
you know, the corporate world,really trying to figure out who
I am, though, in all of this,you know the awareness, but I
didn't.
I didn't label it as awarenessor consciousness.
Then I just knew I wasn't thiscorporate label and I was asking
these bigger questions, tryingto figure it out.
Wasn't this corporate label?
And I was asking these biggerquestions, trying to figure it
out.
(04:12):
And then one evening fastforward now to February 2019,
typical evening, lying in bedwith my wife Corisande, we're
watching something on our laptop, and as I rolled over to try
and go to sleep, she was stillawake.
I'm still awake, I'm stillaware of the world around me,
the laptop still playing, andjust this very strange sensation
came over me.
This, this vibration, is whatit felt like uh, head to toe,
and it felt didn't feel horrible, it didn't hurt, I just allowed
(04:34):
it to continue because it was.
I was curious.
It felt like I was hoveringabove the bed and then I just
heard this uh voice and itsounded like it was from the
opposite end of a sports halland it got closer and closer and
it said Matt, can you hear me?
It's mum.
Now, for context, my mum passedaway 18 months before that and
(04:55):
we had a brief conversationbefore Coruscant nudged me and
she said you know, matt, who areyou talking to?
And I turned to Coruscant totell her turn back.
Mum had gone.
So, as a lot of people know,that story that there really
triggered this exploration ofreality.
I've just had a conversationwith my mum, who's not in this
physical world anymore.
I'm awake.
(05:16):
I'm not spiritual.
I've never really spoken to amedium.
I'm the super sceptic here.
I need to figure this out.
And that's where it started.
And you know, the one thing Inoticed straight away with that
encounter was that I didn't tryto connect with my mom.
I didn't want to connect with mymom, it just happened.
(05:36):
And I, looking back now andreflecting back, actually I was
becoming so aware of, like myown consciousness, in a sense,
because of that reflexologysession those months before I
think I was more in tune,unconsciously, right, you know
it didn't just happen randomlyLike one minute.
I'm in like the corporate worldand I'm not spiritual or even
(05:57):
asking these questions and thenconnect.
There was a slow sort of buildup, unconsciously, and you know,
I knew I didn't want to be amedium, but I started to realize
there's more to thisthree-dimensional reality than
meets the eye and start askingthe bigger questions and just
start going down the rabbitholes of quantum mechanics, um,
and, and long story short, I endup figuring out that you know
(06:20):
this reality that we live in isjust energy, um vibration
frequency.
Then you start hearing thewords manifest and law of
attraction and you know thisreality that we live in is just
energy, um vibration frequency.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Then you start hearing the words manifest and
law of attraction and you knowthat's where it started
fascinating story must haveblown your mind to even try and
come around to thinking to thepoint that nothing else going on
than just what's in front of myeyes.
I remember, looking at my ownexperience as well.
I had, uh, I was looking at thenews one day.
(06:47):
I was like, if this is allthere is, I'm not interested
anymore, and um, and so, yeah,the?
I think the first question ifone is conscious to to improve
the quality of their life is toreally ask that first question
who am I like?
That doctor says you, who am Iand why am I here and what's my
(07:07):
purpose?
Because unless you ask thatquestion, you're always going to
be stuck in a funk, in what Icall the loop of lunacy.
Um, I know I was, and thatquestion has obviously propelled
you into a new life, a newcareer and a new perspective.
So, if we last connected in 2022, a lot's happened since then.
(07:32):
Yeah, what's happened in yourlife since then?
That has actually demonstratedthat what you're talking about,
what you've investigated, whatyou've researched, actually
works.
When we're talking about whatyou've investigated, what you've
researched actually works.
When we're talking aboutmanifestation, what things have
been like, oh my golly, this,this really works for me and I
really want to help people withthat, because you are a massive
(07:55):
advocate for helping people andit really shows across your
social media content yeah, Ithink proof first in my own
ability to manifest.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you know, um, since 2022 I was I wasn't really
doing this full-time, I wasstill half in digital marketing,
which, to fill the gaps there,was how I got out of real estate
, but I knew it wasn't me um, soit was more of a sort of a side
passion manifestation.
It's what helped me get out ofthe corporate world.
But since 2022, I mean, youknow, taking this on full time
(08:29):
as a, as a serious I don't liketo call it correct it doesn't
feel like work at all.
You know, uh, mission I think isthat what I realized then and
I'll go into this is that Ithink so many people think
manifestation is a techniquethat we sort of have to learn,
or it's secret, and you know youhave to read certain books.
Actually, it's your naturalstate.
You know everyone, every singleperson listening to this, is in
(08:53):
a state of manifestation,whether they know that
consciously or not.
I don't think I quite realizedthat even then, in 2022.
You know, the observation inquantum mechanics turns energy
into physical matter, and youknow there is the two sides to
us, right, there is the program,the ego, the avatar, and then
(09:16):
there is the awareness, theconsciousness, the soul, and so
many people are not aware of theseparation between the two.
A metaphor that I like isimagine an astronaut.
You know, you look at anastronaut in space.
They're in this suit, you know.
I like to imagine that that'sthe avatar, the physical
construct, the human body, theprograms, and then there's the
(09:39):
person inside the suit, and thatperson inside the suit is the
awareness, the consciousness.
So many people think they'rethe suit, and that person inside
the suit is the awareness, theconsciousness.
So many people think they'rethe suit, not the person behind
it.
Um, and you know, we always mostpeople think that they are
their thoughts, but they're not.
(09:59):
Thoughts are just the space.
You know, we're always separatefrom our thoughts and if we're
not aware of the separation,then our observation of reality
is is, that is the identity ofthe spacesuit, the thoughts.
And you know, if you're awareof the negative self-talk every
day, then who's the onelistening?
So it was that big realizationfor me that, oh my God, I get
(10:22):
this now that, um, well, if 95%of who we are, on average by the
age of 35, is subconsciouslyprogrammed, then most people's
observation of reality issubconsciously programmed.
So therefore, their dominantobservation is what they know to
be true, based on their pastand their traumas and what they
(10:42):
believe about themselves.
And that is manifesting,because observation collapses,
the wave in quantum mechanics.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So only when you become aware is when you can
consciously manifest, and that'sthe real difference okay, right
, so if you're still with usaudience, uh, I think that
matt's put it very, very uhshrewdly and simply for us to
really understand thatmanifestation is happening,
(11:11):
whether you like it or not.
Number one the simple rule andcorrect me if I'm wrong here,
matt, because I'm just sort ofregurgitating what you said, but
hopefully making it clear, justso that we get past this step,
because we're going to go intothe next question, which is
going to take us even furtheryou are not your thoughts, you
are merely the thinker of yourthoughts, true or false.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well, you're on top of them really.
Metacognition.
The word meta means on top ofMetacognition is awareness of
thought.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
So, if you are not your thoughts, but your thoughts
are creative, who's doing thethinking?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, not the awareness, the program, the
avatar.
How it tends to work is well,think about it.
We might be triggeredexternally by something and that
then tends to slip by ourawareness, create a feeling and
that feeling then createsthoughts.
Right, and we can't thinkgreater than how we feel.
(12:13):
So you know, thoughts are themakeup of, like, the brain, but
we're not the awareness, like.
It's always separate from that.
It sits on top of but it couldbe like.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Thoughts are like paints, but your awareness is
the canvas correct, it's a goodway to look at it, yeah and I'm
looking at that painting behindyou.
So I was just thinking, oh, thatcanvas there and then all our
thoughts are creating on it.
Yeah, it's on it.
So the images you wish to youin our life with beauty or with
(12:46):
victimhood or whatever, whereveryou're at, you have the ability
, with your paints and yourthoughts, to create on the
canvas of your life on aday-to-day basis.
But I really like yourastronaut analogy.
Yeah, so if someone's new tomanifestation, what would you
say?
That is a great starting pointfor them.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Understand what manifestation is.
You know, consciousmanifestation is the deliberate
act of bringing something thatyou desire into the physical
world.
But before you do that anddon't get me wrong the first
place that everyone starts withis what they want.
I want a new career, I want anew career, I want a new
relationship, I want a newbusiness, I want more money.
(13:29):
Great Start in lack, start withwhat's missing in your life.
But understand this that, like Isaid earlier, we're always in a
state of manifestation, so wedon't attract into our life what
we want.
We attract into our life whowe're being.
That's a fundamental twist thatyou've got to understand
straight away that most peopleare living in wanting mode.
(13:52):
And if you continuously say, Iwant more money, I want more
love, that is what you manifestmore of the wanting.
The universe always says yes.
So it will say yes to the want.
So what you need to do first ispractice what I call
self-observation.
If I've just spoken about howobservation has this amazing
(14:12):
ability and we can dive deepinto that in quantum mechanics
to turn energy into physicalreality, then don't focus first
on what you want, first getclear on it, but then move away
from that and actually focus onwho you're being in the present
moment.
So what I like to do with allmy clients is just practice that
awareness of self.
Observe yourself day to day.
(14:33):
What thoughts are you thinkingday to day?
How are you acting day to day?
How does the day make you feel?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Become like a scientist, a detective in a way,
for the first couple of weeksat least, even in a meditation,
when you slow down your brainwaves, just become aware of what
comes up, because if you don'ttake a grip over that and become
aware of it, that is, that isyour observation of reality and
that's what's manifesting sowhen you first started, uh, uh,
(15:04):
going into this new career ofyours, from having gone from the
corporate world into the worldof teaching people about
manifestation and the science ofdrawing what you want into your
experience, actuallyconsciously showed up
(15:25):
differently, to change yourfrequency or to change your
vibration so that you'd begin toattract new into your
experience, because a lot ofpeople find themselves on the
cusp of that.
But then that next bit is Idon't know how to be any
different than what I'm beingyeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So I think first I understood pretty much all of
that that I've just explained.
But how do you do that?
Then you know if you have adream.
I think actually, james, wherepeople go wrong with
manifestation is they'rethinking too big.
Paradox, because in the sort ofself-help world, if you like,
and it's always dream big, butactually this is a game of
(16:05):
alignment, vibration.
So what I like to do isactually think no more than 12
months out, for example, andthen even reverse engineer that
12-month goal down as well tosmaller manifestations,
manifestations that I believeare true in the next three
months, for example.
Why?
(16:26):
Because that's still keeping mein alignment with the 12-month
vision.
It's still keeping me inalignment with an even bigger
vision, maybe five years out.
I can give a tangible exampleyou know around about.
When we did our podcast last, Ihad a dream of becoming an
author and this whole experiencethat I had putting this into a
book.
I had no idea, in fact, I had alimiting belief who's going to
(16:47):
read my book?
I've got no audience, really.
I just sort of started out onsocial media.
By that point.
I remember my English teachertelling me that I wasn't that
great at English.
So I have this desire, I havethis goal manifestation to one
day write a book.
Now let me reverse, engineer itall the way down to I need an
audience.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
So I start, in fact, our last interview I don't even
think I was on instagram by thatpoint I really started to to
take instagram seriously Iremember, because I actually
found you on tiktok and I wasspeaking and I was thinking and
I, when we contacted each other,I was like I felt like I've
known matt for ages and you know, I feel like I've known him for
ages as well and I could justtell that the energy was just
(17:30):
such a match to what I've beensharing and what I talk about
and what you were talking about,and I thought, oh god, this is
so easy, yeah, and you'veexploded by giving that much
attention and so you actuallyhave been using your own tools
to reach more people, which hasbeen amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, thank you, so exactly.
So with that in mind, you know,I, like I'd say to everyone,
once you figured it out, getreally clear, like specificity,
but be clear in your intent andfor me that was very clear.
Instagram I need to takeseriously.
So I start posting contentaround December and I have one
(18:09):
manifestation in 2023.
This is 100,000 lives by theend of the year.
Now, that felt true.
There was a limiting belief in away about the fact that
Instagram felt very mature.
I already had 100,000 over onTikTok, but that was sort of
easy to grow because it was arelatively newer platform there,
Whereas Instagram limitingbelief about putting it off.
(18:31):
But it felt true.
I just still knew a couple ofvideos could explode if I play
this right and I visualize itand I reverse engineered it down
again.
So I remember, I rememberthinking 10,000 followers by the
end of March and what happenedwas when I started that around
the beginning of 2023, by Iremember this the 6th of
(18:51):
February, I hit 100,000followers and I still say to
this day the reason thathappened is because I wasn't
trying to manifest 100,000followers by the 6th of February
.
It felt true, the end of theyear, so I was in alignment with
it, so it happened a lot sooner, and that's what I've seen in
my journey.
It's all about truth, it'sabout alignment, it's about
(19:14):
vibration, and when you reallyfeel it and you surrender the
how like I had no idea, a coupleof videos would pop.
It happens, and then we cantalk about what happened after
that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I think what's really great is that that's your
experience.
But also you're saying that istrue for me, but if someone
feels as though that thatcouldn't be true for them, so
how, then?
How do you get them to believeagain?
Because that's important foreverybody who's listening,
because there's certain goalsthat people may have had for
years, but they're not drawingthem into their lives.
(19:47):
So what would you say there?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I think this is such a beautiful question because I
can answer it in two ways.
Firstly, you've got tounderstand why it doesn't feel
true to you.
What is that block and wheredoes it?
Where's it derived from?
It's part of your programming.
So spend a lot of time tryingto uncover that truth.
Firstly, about why it is yourtruth, because if you don't
(20:11):
understand why it's your truth,it will continuously manifest
for you.
And secondly, this because weall have that.
We all have those moments aboutcan I do this, though that
person might be able to, but canI?
Is that on a quantum level, ifwe really think about what we're
manifesting from?
If you break down every singleelement of physical reality down
(20:34):
to its purest form, you get toatoms.
Below that, you get tosubatomic particles photons,
electrons quarks, bosons, allthe rest of it exactly string
theory.
You go all the way down, youarrive at unifying fields of
energy, quantum fields, andthose quantum fields are
infinite.
There's an infinite amount ofenergy there, and if there's an
(20:54):
infinite amount of energy and,as you know, james, energy is
always in a state of movement,that movement's vibration, and
vibration carries frequency, andfrequency is rich in
information then then verysimply, like analytically, I can
understand that it alreadyexists.
Right, it already exists.
So, even if I don't think it'strue, it already exists.
(21:16):
So, whether it is and I'll talkabout this whether it's the
observer effect in quantummechanics or the many worlds
interpretation, whatever Ithink's not true actually
already exists.
So how do I bring that into myreality?
Then it's the question, becauseI can look at it two ways.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I can understand I have this block, but I can and I
can also understand that itexists I think, if you wanted to
put it in another terminology,if we're looking at it from
perhaps a spiritual aspect, youcould say that when you ask, it
is given.
When you've asked for something, it's already existing in some
reality.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You just yes the question is, though how does it
spill over into the your reality, because it might exist in a
parallel version.
How does it?
And and this is where we couldgo a little bit deep here, if I
may, that I've mentioned acouple of times here you, if you
look at the double slitexperiment or the observer
effect in quantum mechanics,that energy exists in
(22:19):
superposition right.
It exists, every singlepossible state exists in that
field.
Only when it's observed does itturn from that unifying field,
that infinite field, into theparticle right, the first
element of our physical reality.
So then, coming back to you,there's two sides to you.
(22:40):
There is the ego, there's theavatar, there's the programming,
and then there is theobservation.
So you can ask, dream about moremoney or a better relationship
or a better job, but you've gotto be consistent with that
vision and you've got to reallyalign everything.
So you've got to work on thatprogram, because if you ask, but
then you allow that programmingto take over, I'm not worthy,
(23:03):
it's not going to happen to me.
That becomes, that is yourdominant observation of reality,
and and it overspills thatobservation is what manifests.
Hopefully I'm making sense.
So what I've really foundmyself is that I've got to
really focus on that programming.
I've got to really try andrewrite programs to make sure
that that observation is aligned.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So let's go to the next question how do you rewrite
a program to where you may havea limiting belief?
For instance, if someone'slistening and they're thinking,
god, I've wanted more money forages, or I've wanted a career
change for ages, or I've wantedthis or that and it's not come
about, limiting belief, perhaps,is in the way.
What, would matt say, issomething that you could do to
(23:47):
begin to change that, becausethat reality already exists for
you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You just need to meet it, as we've spoken about again
two ways I can answer this thatI do myself.
First become aware of what theyare.
What is that voice telling youabout yourself?
Become the scientist.
Look at it, have it out youknow in journals and pieces of
paper, see it.
And then, okay, let's figureout how we can reprogram it.
(24:13):
Firstly, the one I loveconsistency, frequent repetition
.
On average it takes 66 days.
There's a huge study done forsomething that you do every
single day to become programmedhabitually.
So if you believe that you'renot worthy, or if you believe
(24:35):
money's hard, if you rewrite thereframe of that as an
affirmation, for example, andyou commit to it every single
day, on average by 66 days, youshould start to rewrite that
program and replace it.
Okay, so that's firstly.
That's firstly, secondly,slowing down brainwaves, and how
(25:01):
I like to do that is going frombeta brainwaves being the
analytical part of the braindown to alpha, down to theta and
down in theta with highlysuggestible the.
You know the body doesn't knowthe difference between what's a
dream and what's real.
To give everyone a an examplewe've all experienced having a
nightmare.
You wake up in the middle ofthe night.
You believe that that nightmareis real.
(25:21):
You start reacting emotionally.
In fact, I've got a greatexample of that myself.
Only a couple of months ago, mynew born son, now Humphrey, is
three and a half months old.
When he was about a month and ahalf old, I woke up blind panic
about 3am, for five secondsprobably, I believe that he was
somewhere under the duvet, lostunder the duvet, you know, and I
(25:42):
panicked, and and I woke mywife and she panicked, and then
we realized that no, he'sperfectly safe in his crib, but
in Theta, you, you believe whatyou're seeing.
So then take this as an example.
What if we do that in reverse?
What if we take what you'reseeing?
So then take this as an example.
What if we do that in reverse?
What if we take what you'reseeking to manifest, dream it up
as if it's already a reality,and then take that into a
(26:04):
meditation.
And when we're down in theta,brainwaves, we can then hold
that vision in our mind and thebody will react emotionally as
if it's already real.
And if we do that over and overagain, again, that starts to
rewrite the program.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So the magic of this, james, is that if we do it with
enough consistency, we rewritethe programs and those programs
become your dominant observationof reality and manifestation
becomes so much easier becauseyour dominant vibration, better
said, is aligned with what youseek I want to share with you a
(26:40):
story that happened to me 2023,okay and it's to do with
consistency, and what matt issaying is that consistency
really is the key to being ableto rewrite a new story for what
you're wanting to draw into yourlife and in 2023,.
(27:01):
At the beginning of the year, Iwrote on my phone, in the notes
section, what I wanted, as ifit was already done.
I wanted to.
At the time, I was lookingafter my mom, after my father
had died, and we wanted to sellsome land and sell the villa,
and I'd written that as if itwas done.
I wanted to make more money andI wrote that as if it was done.
(27:23):
I wrote something in the wordsof my income has increased so
significantly.
Um, what else does I write?
I wrote about a new partner andI wrote about, and I wrote
about someone very close to mewho had an illness.
I wanted them to be healed, andI read that every night and
(27:43):
every morning, in that dreamystate when you first wake up and
just before I went to bed and Iwas like closing my eyes and
trying to feel that feeling asif it was already done, maybe
one or two minutes first thingin the morning, first thing in
the night.
But what's happening which isreferring to what Matt was
saying was that at that time,when you're just waking up or
you're just going to sleep,you're in the theta brainwave.
(28:06):
So that's a free time for youto actually access that powerful
brainwave of where things canbe created.
And about seven months later,one of where things can be
created.
And about seven months later,one of those things happened.
And then, about eight monthslater, another thing happened.
(28:27):
And then, about nine monthslater, it was as if everything
I'd written had absolutely 100%come true on everything I'd
written, and I didn't know thetime that it was all going to
happen, but everything on thatlist had absolutely come true.
And now I swear by that.
I can't go to sleep or wake upin the morning without something
, without writing somethingwithout having written something
(28:51):
and then, maybe after 30 daysor 50 days, I'll discard it and
write something new.
Yeah, because I constantly wantmy mind to feel as though it's
in the process of absorbing whatit is that I want.
So I'm not being sloppy,because I would like to say I
think most people are verysloppy thinkers, which is why
they keep getting what they keepgetting.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, I love that, but that's exactly how you
manifested it there.
It became your observation ofreality because you programmed
it into yourself.
That's what you did.
You know, and there's the magicwhether you do it in that way,
whether you journal, whether youpractice, it's the same thing.
Yeah, there's different toolsto use it so what is if
(29:32):
someone's starting out?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
what would you say that is a go-to tool for from
Matt that you'd say look guys,this is where I started and it
really works.
Yeah, is it visualization?
Is it meditation?
Is it, you know, setting a fewminutes aside to just dream it
up a day For you that's reallyworked and has helped your
clients.
(29:54):
And I'm sure you've got somefascinating stories of your
clients of things that happenedon your tuition there's various,
to be honest, that I do and Istill do it to this day, every
day.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I don't miss a day.
Um, I can tell you what theyare and it's so simple for
everyone to do.
The first is be defined by thefuture as if it's already a
reality.
You know, if you're listeningto this and you believe that
your thoughts have some form ofan impact on your reality, then
did you wake up this morning andmentally rehearse your future?
Most people don't.
So if you do believe yourthoughts create your reality,
(30:28):
then make sure every singlemorning you are in a that dreamy
state where you rehearse.
Now, I didn't understand howmeditation fitted into
manifestation.
As you know, there's so manydifferent ways to meditate,
whether that's transcendentalmeditation, banara, beats,
silence, breath.
I do all of that.
But I also like the guided, andI have my own guided
(30:49):
meditations that my clients use,and my guided meditations range
from 50 minutes to half an hourand they first slow you down to
that theta state and then Iguide you to visualize your
future, and the goal there isthat you're starting your day
visualizing what you're seekingto manifest as if it's already a
reality, and I've justexplained why that's powerful
(31:11):
from the point of view of thebody, why that's powerful from
the point of view of the body.
And then, honestly, what I thenrecommend is journaling.
So either prompts where you're,you know, asking a question like
how can I take inspired actionthis week?
Or what, what thoughts have Ibeen aware of about myself this
week that are out of alignmentwith that vision?
Really powerful stuff.
You know, like I said aboutbeing that sort of curious
(31:32):
scientist, gratitude is mysecret weapon.
But you know I said about beingthat sort of curious scientist,
gratitude is my secret weapon.
But you know it's not beinggrateful for what's already in
your life.
That should be a prerequisite.
It's saying thank you for thethings you seek now, ahead of
the event that's collapsing thewave in quantum mechanics you
need that gratitude in advanceto some phenomenal effect
(31:55):
everything I've manifested,everything has come from
gratitude as like a primary tooland in what way have you
structured that up?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
if someone was listening to go?
Do you know what?
I am grateful for the things Ihave, but I didn't realize I
could be grateful in advance forthings as if they were already
done.
So is there like a formula thatyou've used?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
yeah, there is apply so the way I manifest, like I've
said at the beginning of thispodcast, is I take down the big
goal and I break it down.
And I'm going to give atangible example, because we
recently manifested our dreamhouse in cornwall.
Um, and you know, there'sdifferent ways to purchase a
house depending on where you arein the world, but here in the
(32:36):
UK it's quite laborious andlong-winded and there's various
processes.
And so what I do is when Iwrite down my gratitude every
day, I write down five thingsI'm grateful for.
By all means, write a couple ofthings that are already in your
life, like the health of my sonand my wife.
But, for example, let's imagineI was still in the process of
buying this house, and let'simagine I'm waiting now for the
(33:01):
bank to approve my mortgageapplication, which is one of the
processes.
I'm not going to stay in a fearstate or an anxious state.
What I'm going to do is I'mgoing to collapse the waves.
How I'm going to do that is I'mgoing to say I am so grateful
and blessed now that themortgage company have approved
our application intent.
(33:21):
Here's the big one, because weare now buying and then enter
house in cornwall.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
So that's the real power intent, which is what you're grateful
for because is why you'regrateful for it and but it's the
next step, so then the thatmanifests and then, and then we
(33:46):
move to the next part in thatbuying process.
And that's just an example ofhow I'm using gratitude just in
my normal life, you know, andthat will just take up one
statement, and then anotherstatement might be to do with
the book I've just written, andthen something else, and, yeah,
I've been doing gratitude everysingle day like that since about
2020, 21.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Amazing, amazing.
I've had so much fun beingthankful in advance for stuff,
even when I felt like I'd beenon the edge.
I might have shared it on areel or a podcast recently, but
I was away skiing recently for aweek and my flight that I was
due to catch was delayed, whichwas going to prevent me catching
(34:26):
another flight, and then thatcollapsed.
The window of amount of time Iremember looking, going, oh what
, what meant?
What previously meant that Ihad a significant amount of time
to get from one flight to thenext flight because I was
traveling between severaldifferent countries was now five
minutes.
(34:46):
I had five minutes to catch,get off one plane and get on the
next one.
So, as Matt is saying, you knowhe was right.
He was saying be thankful as ifit's done.
So I'm sat at an airport.
I'm going to be specific here.
I was sat in geneva airportwriting thank you, thank you,
thank you on my phone here, uh.
(35:08):
Thank you for all the helpfulpeople, thank you for my bags
somehow finding their way topick up.
Thank you that you know all theair stewards and all the
helpful people.
Thank you that I had enoughtime, not five minutes, thinking
that's not enough time.
But, thank you, I had enoughtime.
And I must have gone on and onand on, because by the time I
actually boarded that flight,which was heavily delayed, um,
(35:31):
they said I don't think you'regonna be able to to catch your
connecting flight.
But in my heart I was like,thank you, thank you, thank you
that I've made it, thank you,thank you that I've made it,
just thank you, thank you, I'vemade it, and thank you that I've
made it.
Now, I didn't think my bagswere essentially going to make
it as well, because to get offone plane with five minutes to
get on another plane, I thought,oh, with five minutes to get on
(35:54):
another plane, I thought, oh,and the bags, yeah.
But I thought, thank you for thebags, you know.
And I really went off on one.
So I sat on that plane betweenGeneva and Zurich, which was
about a 40-minute flight,writing thank you the whole time
and I had five minutes to catchthe plane.
And I caught the plane and Iwas like I'm number one, I've
(36:15):
actually made this plane.
This is just.
I'm like wow.
And when I arrived at my finaldestination in Spain, I got off
the plane and I thought I'lljust go to the luggage hall,
just in case.
You know, yeah, I thoughtthere's not really much chance,
but I had written this down andI had felt thankful and I just
felt so blessed already I was atthe airport or even managed to
(36:39):
catch that plane, becauseotherwise I wouldn't be
traveling for another 24 hours.
So this is just the power ofgratitude.
But I walked off.
I went to the carousel wherethey dropped the luggage off.
First bag off was mine thereyou go and I was like how about
that?
and I walked away.
And I was like how about that?
And I walked away and I waslike, oh my God, that could have
been a very costly experience,of both time and money, sure,
(37:01):
but gratitude was the currencythat I used that afforded me so
much time, so much good feeling,and I use it for literally
everything, and I just love theway Matt had described that he'd
used it for, you know, evenwriting his book that he's done.
And the other thing that youwere mentioning about being
(37:23):
grateful in advance for themortgage on the property, the
universe doesn't matter aboutthe size, it just really matters
that you're focused on emittingthat good feeling frequency
it's a receivership frequency,that's gratitude, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It's when when some, when we give something to
someone else, they say thank you.
You know it's a thank you isthe secret word.
I think it's important though,here, james, to to mention
something.
Someone might be listening tothis and saying, yeah, but I've
done that and that didn't work.
But a lot of people try andmanifest things and it doesn't
(38:01):
work, and you know I'veexplained the observation thing
and that would be worthreflecting on.
But but even myself, you know,there was another house that I
initially had my eyes on that Itried my hardest to manifest,
you know I, I know all the tools.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah, rejected and when that happened, when you
were rejected excited you wereexcited that it was rejected let
me tell you why okay years ago,of course, no, it's the ego,
though, that's bruised, and thisis too deep to go.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
But let me explain that there's a, from years of of
experiencing this with otherthings and working with clients,
that sometimes you can do allthe work, all the visualizing,
all the gratitude, all thejournaling, all the theta, all
the banara beats, everythingrejection and you have to, in
(38:59):
that moment, realize that thatis protection and redirection.
Rejection is protection andredirection and every single
time and I really do mean thisas long as you're willing to
step back and trust and notallow the ego to take over,
(39:21):
you'll be redirected tosomething absolutely beautiful
that blows you away.
Okay, so in the case of thehouse that I wanted to buy
initially, the house that I'mnow in is in the same village,
five farmer's fields away.
It was 20% less in value, abetter house.
The other one, in hindsight,needed a new roof.
(39:44):
It had issues that I didn't see, but my ego really, really
wanted it, because this onedidn't exist.
Now, when that rejection comesup, this is where most people
struggle.
They say manifestation doesn'twork, doesn't work.
The ego takes over and theyeither give up.
(40:05):
Up and what they do by givingup is they block the redirection
and the flow because they get,they push themselves out of
alignment back into, likeresistance, or they try and
really push through and ignorethat, that, that rejection.
Now there's two ways tomanifest surrendered
manifestation or manufacturedmanifestation.
And, like with the example ofmy house, it was was the
(40:26):
surrendered approach, where I'mset, set the intention for the
type of house rejected but thenredirected five farmers fields
away.
Now I could have manufacturedthat outcome.
I could have got on the phoneto a couple of wealthy clients
and said, hey, could you spot me?
You know, uh, and and act asthe bank and do all this and try
and ignore the rejection.
You have to really understandthat that larger consciousness
(40:48):
system, that intelligence thatwe're co-creating with, knows,
it really does know whether thatmanifestation is right for you
or not, because it has one goalin mind and that is there's a
term here called loweringentropy, which in another sense
is like raising consciousness,creating more order, and because
(41:09):
it exists beyond thelimitations of physical reality,
it knows the path, it knows.
So you can say I want thisintention, but if it can see
that it will create a highentropy, which is chaos and
disorder, it will do its best tocommunicate that with you
through rejection, and I didn'tknow that on our last podcast,
(41:31):
really even, and it's taken meyears to fully understand that
as well.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
That's why some people's careers may not go in a
way that they want them to,because it's not going to lead
them down a path.
I started in banking before Igot into modelling, before I got
into talking and helping peoplewith wellness.
What was the timing betweenbeing rejected with that first
property and then the next oneshowing up?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
That's six months.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, so six months of preparing your energy to
receive a better property.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
I can actually tell you the story, if you like,
about how the rejection happened.
Very interesting, I thinkpeople will enjoy hearing this.
So doing all the work to tryand manifest this out.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
You're working extremely hard.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Yeah, understanding the paradox at the same time,
that wanting equals lack, andI've got to really try not to
get too involved here.
So I do what I do when I findmyself struggling a little bit,
if you like, which is askinggiving it up to higher
intelligence for a sign.
So, uh, this was october 23 andI, I wrote down um, you know,
(42:38):
higher, higher intelligence, I'mopen and ready to receive a
sign about this, purchase thisparticular house.
At time I was living inShropshire in temporary
accommodation with Corazon'sparents, our whole house in
storage, and um went to bed, hadthis really vivid dream I'm a
very vivid dreamer, um, and Ihad a dream that I was walking
(42:59):
around this farmhouse and therewere beams and lovely carpets
and beautiful, like thisgorgeous house in Cornwall.
And I said to the agent great,you know how much is it.
And she said it's to rent.
And I woke up from the dreamand I was so confused because
I'd asked for a sign about howto purchase this particular
(43:21):
house, because I had a fewissues right, you'll see where
I'm going with this and I have avery vivid dream about a house
to rent.
So that day, corisande and Iwent to Vista Village shopping
here in the UK and we're talkingover breakfast and I told her
about this dream and she saidthere's no way.
I'm renting Like.
I just don't want to rent Likewe've you know, we've been
(43:42):
renting temporarily for a coupleof years.
I want to buy like I just don'twant to rent Like we've you
know, we've been rentingtemporarily for a couple of
years.
I want to buy.
The bill came and it was 44pounds, 44 pence.
And I said well, I know thefours in numerology mean support
, trust and foundations.
This is a sign.
And she said no, it's not.
We crossed over the road into ashop and the lady that was
helping Coruscant had a necklaceand as itung, the necklace read
(44:04):
444 this is James.
15 minutes after seeing um thatsign and I said to the woman I
said what does that mean?
She said it's an angel number.
It means foundations andsupport to trust in your vision
it also means all as well right,okay, yeah.
So get on to right move, whichis the property app here in the
uk.
And I mean this the exactproperty, the exact property
(44:30):
that was in my dream, wasavailable on right move.
This was a saturday afternoon,the estate agents had closed the
next day.
We get in the car, we drivefour hours down to cornwall,
stay in a hotel.
Um, on the monday morning Iphoned the agent and she says
I'm so sorry, the house is, it'sbeen gone, it's not available,
okay.
So I was like what?
(44:51):
I was so confused by this point.
I had this dream.
You know, I've seen the dreamliterally now your wife with you
, you know actually convincedthat maybe renting is what the
universe, sort of like really istelling us to try and do.
Massive rejection a hard one tounderstand is protection.
Drive back four hours trying toregroup and on the Wednesday I
(45:14):
have a phone call from theestate agent.
She said Matt, you know youinquired about that property on
Monday.
She said well, the lady who wasdue to pick up the keys on
Thursday she's just pulled outand there's a lot of other
people I can't remember how manyon the wait list before you
that also inquired.
I can't get hold of any of them.
If you want it, it's yours.
So the day after Coruscantdrove all the way down to
Cornwall without me because Ihad calls viewed it and we moved
(45:37):
in.
Two weeks later the exact house.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
On the rental the rental.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
The rental, the rental.
So we moved in November, the10th 2023.
That house that we tried to buysimultaneously sold.
So I'm like okay, but we sortof like put it on the backbone
and fell in love with Cornwalland in fact our life just went
to another level, just sort ofbeing in Cornwall, a level that
you know is well beyond where wewere before.
And then, in that falling inlove and just like being really
(46:07):
present and happy, in the Aprilthis house came up.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
So the house that you're in you mean as in it
became available from renting topurchase or no.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
So I'm renting this farmhouse in Cornwall, take it
on in the November and then inthe April of 2024, so about six
months later.
Five months later, a house inthe same village as the other
house I wanted to buy comesavailable 20% less in value, and
that was the house that wesubsequently bought, which I'm
(46:42):
in now.
So we rented for about 10months.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
We took a year's term um can I just say what I love
about this story is that theuniverse doesn't give you a
straight road.
No, it was great.
And also, what I really like isthat you talked about the
falling in love with cornwalland the falling in love feeling
that we have yeah the audienceis a magnet.
(47:08):
It's a massive, massive magnet,and often you cannot move from a
place until you find love withwhere you're at or make peace
with where you're at, andsomething I found that when I
lived in London.
I lived in London for a longtime and initially I was just
just needed to move to New York.
(47:29):
It's just like London, I gottamove to New York.
And, and I remember once Ilooked in a newspaper and it
said the bridge has been madebetween London and New York and
I was like, wow, that's the sign, that's what I needed.
Um, but my work wasn't done andI went to a seminar and they
said you've got to find a way tomake peace with where you're at
(47:50):
, and and I was like, right,that really rings a bell.
And so I went around Londontrying to find the best places,
the best hotels, the best placesto eat.
Now, I don't drink, but I loveto eat good food and good meals
and and enjoy great andbeautiful things.
So I just went to go and visitall the top hotels and have a
(48:11):
cup of tea in them.
I went to go, yeah, and I wentto visit some of the nicest
restaurants and just, you know,have a meal there.
And when they had the specialoffers and I was just like, oh
my golly, I found so manybeautiful things about this
country.
And eventually, when I did go toNew York, I went on a holiday
and I went there and I was likethis place is not for me and I'm
(48:32):
not saying that New York isn'tgreat because it's a great city
but I recognized that there wassomething else that I didn't
know and you know, and if I fastforward, where I am now in
Spain, I've been coming hereaccidentally without ever
recognizing here for the last 20years.
Yeah, I've been here for a stag.
Do I've been here for a family?
(48:54):
When we hired a villa for mymom's 65th surprise that my
sister booked it, I never didand then eventually fast forward
, my cousin moved here until myparents bought a place and then,
when my father passed away andmy mother wanted to move back to
the UK, I found myself beinghere and I thought what?
All this time I've been pulled,without me recognizing, to a
(49:18):
certain place because it's formy highest good.
Anyone who's listening, likeMatt, has said that he's been
been receiving the ideas for thedreams, receiving the ideas for
the property.
The universe won't necessarilygive you a clear route.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
It will just give you the next step you've just got
to follow I call it thebreadcrumbs, you know.
You've got to follow the, thesigns, the synchronicity, the
dreams, the intuition, um, andyou've also got to take inspired
action, like an element.
You've told, you've said twothings there which are really
important.
Where we lived previously inshropshire it's a very sleepy
area, you know, about 10 milesfrom the welsh border, beautiful
(49:56):
, but just not our vibe and, um,we wanted to previously try and
manifest cornwall, a coupleyears before that, and we were
on the wrong vibration.
We had to fall in love withwhere we lived in order to
manifest Cornwall.
And that's what you've justsaid.
And here's why you don't wantthe thing that you think you
(50:19):
want.
You don't.
What you want is the version ofyourself that exists in your
imagination when you have thething you want.
Right, think about that.
And that's the same with, like,manifesting a specific person
is one of the hottest topics inmanifestation.
But again, people are offendedby this.
You don't want the person.
You want the version ofyourself that exists in your
(50:42):
imagination when you're withthat person, because they make
you feel a certain way.
So are you in lack of thatfeeling now?
And that realization for me waslike I need to embody Cornwall
in Shropshire.
And then, you know, I was socertain in that belief, even
though I had no idea how itwould manifest.
You know, when a sign came up,we put our name down for a
storage unit in Cornwall becausewe'd sold our house in
(51:03):
Shropshire and it was in storage.
And this lady phoned and sixmonths previously I put my name
down and she said oh, storageunit's free, do you want it?
Most people would wait untilthey'd find a house in Cornwall.
No, coruscant and I, we movedour whole house to Cornwall and
we were living out of a backpack, pretty much at her parents'
house four hours away, andpeople thought we were crazy.
(51:25):
But I took the inspired actionand for me it felt like there
was a huge chunk of our energyin Cornwall already, before the
rental even came.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Can I just say something?
This is massive intention.
By putting all your stuff instorage in Cornwall, your
intention was already laid andthat takes some guts to be able
to do that.
That's why you felt like partof you was already there,
(51:52):
because your energy is yourstuff.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
It's an extension of you.
You've got to see it like the,the probability distributor, if
you like, before it renderedinto physical reality.
If you do a big, bold act likethat and you put your energy and
your intent there, almost hasto collapse in that favor yeah,
it's like digging, you know,digging the earth ready to put
the flowers in.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
You know, are you gonna?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
yeah, don't wait, don't wait, you know um just not
raised like that, thougheveryone like people.
People thought we were crazy.
You know what is your house incornwall?
Speaker 1 (52:22):
you haven't got a house I've asked forward a
couple of years.
It's not I told you so, it'sjust I'm living my own truth and
this is the circle that we'vehad today, which is what's your
truth.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Does that exist, does that probability exist?
Speaker 2 (52:37):
And the answer is yes , but it just might not be a
straight road and that's, butthat's fun.
You know, if we think of anyfilm, any story we read, it's
the twists and the turns thatmake the story and you know, the
only reason that this podcastis interesting, if it is, is
because of the stories that youand I've shared about our twists
and turns, and people canhopefully resonate with that.
(52:59):
It's not one, it's not astraight line, don't get me
wrong.
Some things do manifest veryquickly and it feels too easy,
but a lot of the time itrequires a bit of work and and
and the journey of the twistsand turns.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
You know matt you're.
It's been an absolute joy toreconnect and and speak and
share stories, because thestories are the bits that
actually make this reallyvisceral for people so they can
have their own.
I'd always say to people youknow can share the tools, but
ultimately you have to get yourown experience and the stories
are a way that we can livevicariously.
(53:31):
To go oh, actually, that couldbe for me like exactly, I agree
it's real, you know, that's whathappened, or that's what
happened to james, and they justseem like everyday types of
things normal guys.
Yeah, exactly you know justeveryone is extraordinary in the
everyday, and these everydaythings and tools that you share
(53:52):
and that we've spoken abouttoday are very transformative
and do make life a lot more fun.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
Have fun you know, I always say, like you know, if
people are struggling right now,just I always say, like you
know, if people are strugglingright now, just I always use the
analogy of if you've everplayed a game and that game
becomes really hard, it's funbecause it's hard.
You know, when a game's likeeasy, it's like I'm sick of this
game, like it's too easy.
You know, the games that Iremember as a kid are the ones
that I got stuck on.
You know, and like, have funwith this, like, and that
(54:22):
straight away makes it lighter.
You know.
But just realize that thatanything you seek firstly
already exists.
But have fun with the twistsand the turns in the journey and
have fun in understanding howlong it takes and where you
might be redirected to andunderstand.
It's not your job to control.
Your job is to get clear andwork with it and see what
happens.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
Well, matt, thank you so much for coming on the show.
It's been great to have youback on the Super Soul Model
series.
Thank you, james.
(55:06):
This people's lives as well asyour own.
This is what this community andthis podcast is all about.
Now, until the next episode, Iwish you a wonderful week ahead
and green lights all the way.
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