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Ever wondered why you keep getting stuck in the same mental patterns despite all your personal growth work? Your brain's hardwiring might be the culprit.

In this powerful episode, I share the deceptively simple practice that radically transformed my life when I was trapped in frustrating thought loops. After experiencing a spiritual awakening in my teens, followed by a period of disconnection from my authentic self, I discovered a method that not only broke my mental patterns but completely revolutionized my energy, income, and ability to attract opportunity.

The practice? Intentional gratitude—but not in the way you've likely heard before. This isn't about forcing positive feelings or denying challenges. Instead, it's a deliberate experiment in shifting your reticular activation system (the part of your brain that determines what you notice) through genuine curiosity and appreciation. When implemented correctly, this approach doesn't just momentarily lift your mood—it fundamentally rewires neural pathways and breaks the efficiency programming that keeps you stuck.

What makes this approach uniquely effective is how it creates an upward spiral. As you train your focus on what you can genuinely appreciate, you become increasingly magnetic to experiences worth appreciating. I witnessed this firsthand during a year of intensive practice, when extraordinary opportunities seemed to find me effortlessly. The reason wasn't mystical—it was neurological. By consistently interrupting my mental loops with moments of true appreciation, I changed my point of reference and, consequently, what my brain was programmed to notice and attract.

Ready to try this experiment yourself? Join me for a week-long gratitude challenge! Send me a DM on Instagram if you're participating, or book a consultation through my website if you're ready to go deeper with this work in the Magnetic Leadership Accelerator or one-on-one coaching.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome to the show leaders.
This is probably going to beone of the fastest podcasts I've
ever done.
I wanted to share a very potentmethod to help get you out of
any mental loops, and I have tosay that a lot of people, a lot

(00:54):
of my clients, a lot of peoplein my groups they've already
done a lot of healing work,they've already listened to a
lot of podcasts, they've read alot of books, they've gone to a
therapist, they've done deeperwork, but they get stuck in
mental loops.

(01:15):
The mind is one of the slowestthings that can change when
we're in transformation, becauseits job, its literal job is to
be efficient.
So if you have certain ways ofbeing, certain ways of thinking,

(01:35):
certain habits and they haveserved you well at some point in
your life, that's why you havethem in the first place, or they
just you just simply learn themright.
That's why you have them in thefirst place, or you just simply
learn them right.
Sometimes it's not about themserving us, we just learn them.
And now it's time to change.
Now you're ready fortransformation.
In fact, you're already on thetransformation path, which you

(02:00):
are, because you're listening tothis, which is a podcast, and
nobody that's not on thetransformation path is going to
be listening to this, which is apodcast.
And anyone nobody that's not onthe transformation path is
going to be listening to apodcast, unless they just want
entertainment.
But this isn't an entertainmentpodcast.
You're already on this road andwhat happens is the brain's job

(02:20):
is to be efficient, so itcrystallizes all these neural
pathways, all these ways ofbeing to help you be efficient
with what is programmed.
So, unprogramming all the loopsand boops and all that stuff,
it can be the last one to reallyshift your body and your mind

(02:45):
right, your energetic.
We can clean up our energeticfield, we can clean up our
wounding in our energetics, butthe slower ones to go is the
body and the mind.
And this is a really simplepractice you can start
implementing.
If you have found yourself in aloop, you're kind of like why do

(03:07):
I keep waking up and feelinglike it's Groundhog Day?
I know where I want to go, Iknow what's not working, but I
feel like I'm just trapped inthis loop.
When I first started using thispractice, it was literally life
changing.
One because I had neverutilized it before and two

(03:28):
because I was coming out of a.
I'm going to call it a slumber.
I had my first real spiritualawakening which just blew my
mind open, around 17, 18, 19, 20, somewhere around there, I
think it was around 17.
Around 17, 18, 19, 20,somewhere around there, I think
it was around 17.
And it just completely shiftedmy reality, shifted my

(03:50):
perspective.
But then I went to sleep again.
I got involved in drugs, wentdown that path and it wasn't
until a big shift around 30, 31,somewhere around there, where I
literally just woke up one dayand said to myself you know what
I want?
To get back into my spiritualroots.

(04:14):
I was raised by a mom who wasvery much into spirituality and
that was just a very naturalpart of who I was.
From a very young age I hadpsychic realizations very young,
so it wasn't anything that wasabnormal.
But at 31, I realized you knowwhat I'm feeling like.

(04:37):
I have lost my true authenticself a little bit, gone to sleep
a little bit.
My true authentic self a littlebit Gone to sleep a little bit
Gotten.
Lost in the patterns, got lostin the doing, got lost in the
achieving, and I had thisepiphany that I wanna get back
into it.
And I remember taking a coursethat this was after I had worked

(05:00):
with my first coach and shereally helped me to shift my
mindset, my perspective.
A lot of the quote, unquotenegative thoughts I don't really
like to use the word negativebecause they're just thoughts.
It's a meaning that gives it.
It's whatever we see as beingpositive or negative, but they
were lower vibrational thoughtsbecause they were very

(05:21):
self-critical.
However, I don't know, this wasthe practice that really took
me from like just chugging alongto insane amount of joy and
bliss and just on levels thatwere out of this world, and it

(05:44):
really was the catalyst where myincome just shot up, where I
started attracting so manyamazing people into my business.
This was right at the cusp ofme starting my business and it
is just a really powerfulpractice to do anytime you feel
like you're in a loop.

(06:05):
I haven't been saying what thename of the practice is because
I know as soon as I say it,you're going to be like I tried
that already.
I've already tried that.
Ah, you know what it's,whatever, and I want you to
listen to how I'm going toexplain it, because there's a
lot of stuff that just reallydoesn't help you truly embody

(06:27):
this practice, and there's a wayof doing it that I know is
supportive of people.
That can be in their head a lot.
They can overanalyze, they canover, try to figure things out,
and for me, this was a reallypowerful way to do it.
So the practice that I'mtalking about is a gratitude

(06:50):
practice.
Now, I know I'm getting somepeople rolling their eyes
already, but I want you to do itin this way.
Again, this is for, specifically, if you're feeling like you're
in loops.
To break up the loops, we haveto.
We cannot, we cannot break aloop without doing something

(07:11):
differently, and we also need toreplace the loop with something
.
So this is how I did it atfirst.
This is how it was taught to mein this group program, or I
don't even know if it was taughtexactly like this, but this is
how I understood it and how Istarted implementing it.
So, having a goal, a almostlike a scientific test for

(07:37):
yourself, I'm going to practicethis for a week.
I'm just going to test it outfor a week.
See how this works.
No expectations, no, nothingdoesn't have to look a certain
way, doesn't have to look likethe people on YouTube channels
are doing it, or how this booktold you to do it, or how this
journal told you to do it,nothing like that.
Keep it really easy.
So, everything in your day today, right, we're doing this for

(08:03):
a week.
I want you to acknowledge yourgratitude for it in a way where
you're not forcing yourself tofeel a amount of gratitude for
something, because that's whereI think a lot of people go.
It just goes wonky.

(08:24):
Right, they're trying to forcethemselves to feel gratitude.
Right, they're trying to forcethemselves to feel gratitude.
They're in a funk or they're ina loop, and it's.
We don't want to be forcinganything.
It's a curiosity and a test foryourself, and when I say test,

(08:44):
I mean you're practicing.
It's just a practice.
Let me see if I can really tuneinto the gratitude of something
.
So when I first started doingthis, I would set the intention
that I'm just going to feelgratitude for everything.
So I would go about my day inmy normal loops and then, let's
say, I saw a text message comeup on my phone.
I would stop myself and say howcan I, what would it feel like

(09:06):
to feel real gratitude for thisperson that just reached out to
me through text message?
They didn't have to, even ifyou know, their text message
might be asking for something orsharing something.
How can I cultivate gratitudefor it in the moment?
And then I would sit and Iwould just feel into it, nothing

(09:30):
intense, and then I'd be goingabout my day and maybe I come
across.
I remember having realgratitude for a plant and I was
just like, how can I havegratitude for this plant?
And I would just stare at thebeauty of the plant and the real
magnificent nature of thisplant that just grows and

(09:53):
continues to grow, even thoughit's not watered all the time,
or we have a funky lighting inthe house, it doesn't get all
the light it needs, but you knowwhat?
It keeps chugging on, it keepsgrowing.
How can I have gratitude forthat right now?
And then going about your day,going to bed, waking up the next

(10:14):
morning, even when your alarmclock goes off a little bit
earlier.
How can I have gratitude forgetting up early?
What would that look like forme?
And it's a practice of bringingyour attention to gratitude, to
have gratitude and to try tocultivate this incredible

(10:37):
feeling of gratitude, but apractice where you're shifting
your mind.
So, instead of going about theday in a loop, which is really
just like a groundhog dayexperience, where your brain is
just on autopilot.
You are shifting it to trulysee what can you appreciate in
that moment.

(10:57):
It to truly see what can youappreciate in that moment, what
can I appreciate in this moment,and allowing those feelings of
appreciation to expand into yourthought patterns.
Because once you set thatintention and you ask that
question, the part of your brain, the RAS, the reticular

(11:17):
activation system is going tostart to seek out the things to
be grateful for.
And then it expands.
This expands throughout yourday, it expands throughout your
week and you're shifting yourpoint of reference.
You're shifting your point ofreference.
You're shifting your point ofview and the autopilot thoughts

(11:41):
that are keeping you in thisloop.
So I, my challenge for you thisweek is to test this out for
yourself Again, not in a stateof pressure, not in the state of
, oh God, I'm not feeling green,I have gratitude for everything
right now.
No, this is a shift ofconsciousness, a practice where

(12:05):
you're practicing shifting yourawareness, your point of view,
what you're deciding to focus inon.
There's always duality toeverything.
There was always the good ofsomething and the not so good of
something.
Again, we are putting labels onit.
There really is no good or notgood right.

(12:28):
Everything is neutral.
It's our point of view thatmakes it good or not good.
It's our perspective.
But we are intentionallyshifting to what is going to
serve us, what we can appreciateabout something, because truly
everything is a gift.
Now I'm not talking abouthardships and real traumatic

(12:51):
events.
Okay, that's always a point ofconcern.
When we have these conversations, someone will bring up how am I
going to have gratitude forthis?
You don't have to go down thatroad right now.
That's a different conversation, different levels of
consciousness, different pointof view that we can talk about
in another time.
But I'm talking about your dayto day.

(13:11):
But even if it does includethings that may be challenging,
such as bills that are coming inand you don't have the money
for them right now, how can youshift into a state of gratitude
for having the?
At some point you had the moneyto pay that bill?
How can we have theappreciation that we received

(13:37):
something from that bill, stillKnowing that appreciation and
gratitude opens the door toreceiving?
We cannot be in a state ofabundance and receiving when we
are focused in on lack andscarcity.

(13:57):
Okay, so this is really aboutshifting our focus throughout
the week.
Let me know, send me a DM ifyou're up for the challenge.
I love this practice.
I love it.
Every time I do itintentionally, it skyrockets my

(14:17):
energy.
It skyrockets my energy.
It skyrockets my existence.
I remember one time I was doingit for about a year, very
intentional, very intentionalabout it, and I started becoming
just this magnet to things, allthings amazing.
I remember I even won thiscontest.
I never beforehand was one ofthose people that typically win

(14:42):
things and I remember I won.
Was it a grand prize?
I don't know, I can't remember.
It might have been the grandprize and I was just so happy
and excited.
But also I was in the state ofof course I won.
Of course I won Because I'mjust in this energy of

(15:04):
appreciation and gratitude.
So all these things kept cominginto my life that were a sign
of things to be more appreciatedand grateful for.
That's the kind of the coolthing about this is at the
beginning, if you're in a loop,it can be very frustrating,
because every day frustrated,your focus is on the things that

(15:26):
aren't working or that aren'tthe here yet, and the more you
can really challenge yourself tobe intentional.
Right, get out of the loop, getinto your heart space, be
intentional, focus on.
You have to be very considerateof your point of focus

(15:52):
throughout the day.
I don't want this to sound likeit's hard or it has to be
challenging, because it's reallynot about being hard or
challenging.
The most challenging thing isjust bringing your focus back,
because it's so easy to get lostin the day to day.
But when you do that, then youjust start attracting so much
more to be appreciative for, tobe thankful for, and then you're

(16:17):
just in this like amazing spaceof receiving.
So that's my challenge for you.
Okay, send me a message onInstagram If you're up for the
challenge.
Okay, keep yourself accountable.
If you would like some morespecific podcasts on these type

(16:40):
of what am I calling it?
More of the energy, more of themanifestation.
I know I don't talk a lot aboutthis on the podcast.
It's intertwined betweeneverything.
It is a huge part of the workthat I do in the Magnetic
Leadership Accelerator and partof my one-on-one.

(17:00):
If you work with me one-on-one,these are aspects that I always
talk about, because everythingis energy, whether you believe
it or not, whether youunderstand it or not, it doesn't
matter, it is what it is andit's affecting your life.
So if you're curious about thisor you like this topic, let me

(17:20):
know, send me a DM or send me atext message about a specific
question and I'll answer it onthe podcast, as always.
If you want to go deeper intothis work right now, my current
offerings are the MagneticLeadership Accelerator, which is

(17:41):
again still in the beta soon tobe out of the beta, so the beta
bonuses are leaving or DeepOne-on-One, and then One-on-One
is always limited because of thetime that goes into it.
So if you're interested ineither of those, send me a DM or
you can book a test driveconsole on my website,

(18:04):
lisajeffscom.
I love you, leader, I appreciateyou.
I thank you for your time.
Thank you so much for joiningme.
I've had so many more listenerson the podcast and it makes my
heart so happy because that'swhy I do this work to help, to
inspire, to guide, and when Iknow people are enjoying it and

(18:26):
people keep coming back andthey're listening, it inspires
me to continue to do morebecause I know you're enjoying
it.
So I love you, I appreciate youand, as always, let's stay
connected.
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