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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Vox Novus, the New Voice, Vox Novus, the New Dimension,
Vox Novus thought and movement leaders who will share from
their experience and offer tools to help us navigate our
rapidly changing world. My name is Victor Furman. Welcome to
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Vox Novus, the New Voice. Is it possible to transmute
our consciousness to infinite potential? Using consciousness first instead of
mindset first? My guest this week on Box Novus. Howard
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Falco is a renowned mindset and empowerment expert turned consciousness
expert whose work has impacted thousands. Author of three books,
His most recent book Invincible, The Mindset of Infinite Potential
and the Secret to Inevitable Success is changing the game
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on how we can all reach our infinite potential by
connecting to our higher consciousness first. What was a moment
in time when he questioned his very existence? He incidentally
connected to his own higher consciousness himself, and he spelled
out his steps of mastering the state so that you
can overcome anything and have the life you love. He
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has worked as a mental strength coach and performance specialist
with college and professional athletes, teams and coaches to help
them achieve breakthroughs and championships, CEOs and people from all
walks of life. His website is Howardfalco dot com and
he joins me this week to share his amazing path.
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Please join me in welcoming to Vox Novis Howard Falco.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Welcome, Howard, Thank you for having me. Nice to meet you, Victor.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Nice to meet you too, Sir Howard, Please share with
us your upbringing and what happened when you were fourteen
that planted the seeds for your later discoveries.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, I was brought up in the suburbs of Chicago
to two wonderful parents who were great people, but couldn't
get along, couldn't stay married, so they ultimately ended up divorcing,
which kind of had an impact on me as far
as what I wanted for my life and started the
questioning I had about existence and happiness and the things
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we asked when we experienced things that we don't like
in the world. And then I had a profound moment
at fourteen, the first time I was taken on a
camping trip away from the Chicago city lights. My aunt
and uncle and cousin took me on a trip up
to northern Minnesota. We were less than one hundred miles
from the Canadian border. It was about a ten hour
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car ride. And when we got there, we had this
beautiful wooden cabin on a lake with a creaky old dock,
a boat dock with a small boat, and it was
something like almost out of a novel that you would imagine.
And everybody went into the cabin kind of put their
clothes away for the night and unpacked and kind of
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settled in. And at fourteen, I wanted to explore, and
so I went out the cabin door and went down
to the dock and just peered into the darkness, and
that's when it started. The first thing that hit me
was the oxymoron of the sound of silence. I had
never in my life experienced any lack of sound like
that in nature that far away. And the second thing
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that happened was, as I'm looking out at this very
still and placid lake, I saw what looked like light
shining up from one area of the lake. And then
I looked and they were in another area. And as
I scanned the entire lake, I noticed that these lights
were shining up from every single part of it. And
for a split second, I did not know what was
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going on. And then I tilted my chin and my
eyes to the sky, and in that moment everything changed
for me. It was a breath taking moment. The breath
left my lungs. I was awe struck. Actually I was starstruck,
excuse the pun. And I looked up and couldn't believe
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what I was seeing. And I just laid down on
the dock for what seemed like hours and just put
my hands behind my head and simply marveled. And in
that moment, hundreds of existential questions filled my mind about
the nature of life, existence, meaning, and purpose. And it
set me on this path at that age to discover
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these answers to these deeper questions I had about what
we're doing here, what the purpose of life is, what
where meaning comes from, where happiness comes from, etc. Etc.
And that started me on the journey.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
And from that point forward, did you find yourself start
gazing all the time.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I never passed up a moment to look up at
the night sky, so I would often look up and wonder,
and it would sort of reignite those questions that I
had about existence. But it was more I was on
this incredible path to find out or to achieve this
state of happiness. The divorce of my parents sort of
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shook me where I was like, I don't want to
I want to experience something better than that sort of chaos.
Not that they weren't great parents, It's just I wanted
to experience love. I wanted to experience life, and I
had a list in mind of what it would take
that I thought to achieve happiness, and so I started
to check things off the list. The problem was I
wasn't getting any closer to that sense of peace, and
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that's what really scared me as I went forward.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Now we jump ahead to when you were thirty five,
living what most would see as the American dream. What
happened that changed your life?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I guess I thought, Okay, I fell in love, I
got married, I had two kids. I'm in I grad
to put myself through college, I got a degree, I
got in the business I wanted to. I started to
make money. I bought a home that was keeping me going.
And then as I started to look at the list,
there were less things to check off, and yet there
was this still un there was this unease that was
still there. And one of the last things on the
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list was millions of dollars, because that's what the American
dream says will make you happy. And then one day
what happened Victor was I was walking through my home
and all of a sudden it hit me. I'm working
with people that have more money than they're going to
know what to do with for the rest of their life.
And many of these people are not happy at all.
They're miserable. And I realized that the last thing I
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had on my list as far as happiness goes, was
not an answer. And when that happened, I was out
of answers, and that shook me to my core because
I did for the first time in my life, I didn't,
And so I got on my knees and I reached
up to this guy and I just said, Universe, God, Life, Source,
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whatever it is that is part of all this creation,
I need to understand more. I need to have answers.
At this point, I don't know how I'm going to
go on, and I can see where this all leads.
This wheel leads to It's a never ending wheel that
leads to pain and suffering. So I need to know
the answer to these bigger questions. And I asked it
with a deep and guttural yearning, and then I let
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it go. And two weeks later I was in this
seminar for I'd read a book on the psychology at
trading markets thought it was interesting angle and the instructor
there was about twenty people in the class, and he
was talking about the nature of making a trade in
the financial markets, and how you decide when you get in,
when you get out, how much, what vehicle you get into,
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what vehicle you get out of. You're creating the whole experience,
and something upon those words hit me where I realized
that I wasn't doing this just in the financial markets,
but this is the way that I was creating my
entire life. And in that moment, for the first time,
I realized that the control on the experience that I
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was looking for was on the inside, not on things
on the outside. And that gave me this great sense
of relief. I felt like I had found a door
or a window in what was formerly a doorless or
windowless room, and it allowed me to take a collective breath.
I didn't know how I was going to do it yet,
but I knew I could. And the second thing that
hit me that really accelerated the process was I had
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realized that I had asked these deep questions a couple
weeks ago, and I connected the dots and I thought, Wow,
this is in a coincidence. This is life bringing me
the right information at the right time to begin the
process of these answers. And I saw that this was happening.
This is what existence is here for. It's here to
help us expand our awareness. And that sent me into
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a state of joy and awe again and mindfulness that
I went into each day with like a little child,
almost like where's my insight going to come from today?
Where's my information? My understanding? And I was wide eyed
every day until six months later when I had the
grand experience when time sort of collapsed. But that's that's
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what kicked it off at thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
From my personal experience, I look back at my mid
to late thirties and call that time Chapter two. Is
there something about that time in life that opens us
us to new discoveries?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh? Absolutely, I think. You know, when we're before we
turn sixteen seventeen, we're still under the sort of control
and guidance of our parents' belief systems, our personal experiences.
Maybe some genetic implications of how we think and feel,
and we start to around seventeen eighteen, we start to
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have our own thoughts and our own ideas and open
our mind up questions and start to find our own
individual identity. That's why college is such an exploratory time,
or post high school is such an exploratory time. And
then when it gets to thirty five, I think that's
a tipping point where your beliefs either settle in or
your mind stays open. And so it's a very ripe
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period right before either you go into sort of accepting
what you've believed, or you hit the questioning reaches a crescendo.
And that's why I think the thirties are a very
ripe time for a greater spiritual experience. Or before that,
somewhere between seventeen and mid to late thirties.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Tell us about that made you opening, that took place
for you.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I for six months I had been asking questions, and
then like a few days later, a song would come
on the radio that I'd heard hundreds of times before,
and for the first time I heard a new layer
and a new message in the same song that's been
played to me, or a conversation, a random conversation with
a stranger at a grocery store would bring up this
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beautiful synchronicity and create an insight and understanding. So the
window between question and answer was starting to close. In
December of two thousand and two, I was sitting in
my office and all of a sudden, it was like
I got tapped on the very center of the top
of my forehead with a great insight, and I wrote
it down and I just knew it to be true.
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And before I could even get the pen to the
end of the sentence, another one hit. And the way
I explained it in the book is like when it
rains and you had the first rain drop hitch your head.
You don't know whether what's going on. You think it's
maybe a bird. You know, you're not sure what's happening yet,
And before you know it, you're like, oh, it's raining,
And another drop hits, and another drop. So I'm writing
these notes down and they started coming in faster and faster,
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and finally I just put the pen down. I couldn't
write that fast. I had no idea what was going on.
I just got up until my partner I have to leave.
I got in my car. I ended up at the
public library where I lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, and go
out and just followed my feet victor to the spirituality, philosophy, psychology,
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and religious sections of the library and just started to
pull whatever book looked like it was sticking out to me.
And I took a stack of about ten of them
to a backcubby. I'll never forget this, and I put
them down. I opened the first book was the complete
works of Freud, something I'd never read before, or maybe
in my freshman year psychology class did a little reading
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on Freud, opened it up, put my finger down, and
it was as if I had read this for years,
understood it, could teach it. It was crazy. I shut
the book. I opened another book on Confucius Top ten
things like two or three, was the one that i'd
written out earlier in my office. And then I'm really
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starting to wonder what's going on. And then there was
a new Testament. I opened it to a parable. I
saw the parable, I saw how it's been taught for years,
and then I saw a little bit of a deeper
meaning in it. And at that point I hit the
ground in a complaint of a state of complete and
utter humility that still brings up emotion to this day
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and thought to myself, well, my life has changed. Well first, actually,
that first question was who the heck am I some
guy in the middle of you know, a suburban phoenix
with this type of insight, and was like going crazy? Anyway,
I finally realized that I was going to just be
a good servant of this for the rest of my life.
It took me about a year to get my arms
around the magnitude and to put it out into something
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that was structured, that could be taught or people could
read in a way that would be digestible in terms
of an understanding of how of these insights for the
you know hopefully help them answer some of their questions
in life. And that's how my first book I Am
was born. I left my work in the financial business,
and I've been teaching and speaking and writing since May.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I ask what was the song that you heard that
you heard in a different way that opened you.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
There were several songs, but the biggest one, the one
that still shakes me to my core in the best
of ways, was Stairway to Heaven by led Zeppelin. Ah
because it's a song about awakening, it's a song about enlightenment,
and even down to a verse where the exact thing
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happened to me. I mean to a t. If there's
a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, it's
just a spring clean for the May Queen. And a
bustle in the hedgerow is a funny feeling in the head.
And I had this feeling in my forehead that I
couldn't I'd never experienced before this happened, and it was
very strange. Don't be alarmed now, it's a spring clean
for the May Queen. The May Queen is a day
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of rebirth in England and it was certainly the precursor
to my rebirth.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Beautiful, I had a similar experience. I am a bit
older than you. I had a similar experience with the
song Questioned by the Moody Blues, which I first heard
when I was seventeen years old in nineteen seventy, and
the lyrics to that were life changing for me and
perhaps planted my seeds on my future path. Where it says,
and when you stop and think about it, you won't
believe it's true that all the love you've been giving,
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has all been meant for you. I'm looking for someone
to change my life. I'm looking for a miracle in
my life. And if you could see what it's done
to me to lose the love I knew could safely
lead me to a land that I once knew to
learn as we grow old the secrets of our soul.
It was engraved in my heart when I heard it.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Absolutely beautiful. Yeah, identical, identical experience. Wow, beautiful, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Many of the events and changes that we mutually experienced
are called synchronicity, which is meaningful coincidences without causal connection.
What do you attribute this to?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Intention? Timing? Divine timing with intention readiness. The universe is
very exact, and so when you intend something and you're
willing to move closer and closer and keep putting the
conditions together and keep demonstrating that intent, eventually you cross
path with enough of the conditions. And that's what I believe.
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A coincidence is too, angles that are coinciding in an
exact form at an exact time.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And in my experience, every time a coincidence a synchronicity
presented itself to me, I had three choices I could
dismiss it out of hand. I could say yes, but
perhaps later, Or I could say yes with the capital why.
And every time I use that capital why, the next
one would come and the next one would come, and
it set the pattern for my life.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Beautiful.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I think when we open to and we're ready to receive,
when we have that space, when we say I don't
know and humble ourselves, the universe acts like a vacuum,
and you know it hates a vacuum and immediately seeks
to fill that space. Bind acts like a vacuum, I
should say, absorbing wisdom that's been here or is waiting
for us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Absolutely. How did this experience open you to working with
professional athletes and teams?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well that's a great question. So when this happened to me,
the first thought was, Okay, is this it? Do I
just shave my head? But a robot disappear on the mountain,
disconnect from everything. And while I had a thought of that,
I thought, you know, I love my family, I'm my marriage,
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et cetera. I'm enjoying, I'm coaching club baseball. Why can't
this be brought into mainstream? So when I wrote I am,
I wrote it as openly as I could. I tried
to be careful with a lot of deeply esoteric language
so that it couldn't be boxed or categorized. It would
just simply approach the ego in the most powerful way
possible for the person reading it. And I thought, I'd
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love to be able to expand mainstreams appetite and interest
in this works in summer, everyday sort of guy and
the wave life responded, which kind of surprised me because
I was already working with people in relationships, spiritual quest, depression,
anxiety was I started getting calls from professional athletes who said,
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I read your book, I am, and this is what
happened in my performance. Do you work with athletes? And
growing up I had played every sport I was. I
have intimate knowledge of the sports. I know how to
speak to athletes, and so it was a very easy transition,
and I started working with them in almost every collegiate
sport and several professional sports. So it was it was
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interesting to take this work into those areas.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Before we discuss your latest book, Invincible, The Mindset of
Infinite Potential and the Secret to Inevitable Success, let's talk
about that first book, I Am, the power of discovering
who you really are. What inspired that book and what
did you share with readers?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So what inspired the book was that moment back in
two thousand and two where not all the answers, because
I'll never say I have them all. I am constantly
a student and open to more insight and understanding. But
that moment answered many, many of ninety nine percent of
the deep questions I had about life in the universe,
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and so I wanted to put it in a structure
that could be absorbed in a way that would help
people transform and expand their consciousness. And that's how I
wrote I Am What you are, how you are, why
you are, and who you can be. So that's what
inspired me to write the book. The understanding of energy
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and matter, how it comes together, the understanding of our
psychology and how we develop an identity, and how identity
is so important to what we attract into our life,
to how we respond to how we perceive the world,
and really all the main ingredients that shape our reality.
For the effort of people to gain control over that
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narrative of I Am. So that's what really prompted me
to write the book. And you know, I just put
my head down and just started writing and didn't stop
for about a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And the concept of i am obviously comes from the
biblical concept when Moses is receiving the Ten Commandments from
the burning bush and he asks the name of who
we are speaking to, and he's told I am, that
I am is that the reference.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Here from a universal perspective or from what your definition
of of divinity or good is? Yes, what is not God?
You know, the good, the bad, the ugly. It's all
part of the contrast that we need to create reality
and to help us on our journey and our evolution
of understanding and consciousness on an individual basis. That I
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am is for each piece of matter and existence to
decide what we or it wants to be right. So
a rock has a certain molecules and atoms that are
spinning at a certain frequency and rate that keeps it
as the rock. And the reason you know it has
a will or an i amness to it is because
when you try and pick up the rock and break
it in half, it will have a certain amount of
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resistance to stay as it is an animal another level
of it, and as certainly a human as us as
human beings with the ability to self reflect and change
that narrative at any time, as we continue to evolve
and develop in who we want to be in the
world in this form. So yes, each thing has its
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own I am neus to it, and I would say
a human being is the pinnacle in terms of the
ability to self reflect and take control of that narrative,
because the world is always putting its narrative out, or
other people are always putting their narrative out, and I
think that's what creates a lot of suffering, is that
people get affected and drawn into other people's energy, other
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people's identities of who they are want to be. But
realizing that you have control of your own experience is
so incredibly liberating, and so to know that you have
control over how you're going to define, declare, and demonstrate
who you want to be is an incredible point of awakening.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
On the journey, my guest is Howard Falco. We're going
to be talking about his new book Invincible, The Mindset
of Infinite Potential and the Secret to Inevitable Success. Howard,
please share with our listeners where they can get all
of your books and find out more about you. And
your wonderful work.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Sure, all the books can be found. You can go
to my website Howardfalco dot com. They're available on Amazon,
Barnes and Noble and anywhere books are sold. And of
course my Instagram you can see what I post on
a daily basis or any other of my social media.
And then my foundation, the Eight Wisdom Foundation, which is
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eight Wisdom dot org. You can see what I'm doing
there with this work.
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Speaker 1 (24:08):
Welcome back to Vox Novis. My guest this week is
Howard Falco. We're talking about his new book Invincible, The
Mindset of Infinite Potential and the Secret to Inevitable Success.
Congratulations on your new book. What inspired this and how
does it differ from your previous books?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, thank you very much for that. So after putting
out my first book, I Am, and then the publisher
asked me to write a second book, which I wrote
on the nature of how time works in our life
a few years later. I'd been in the field working
for about the last ten to twelve years since those
books were published, and had some amazing experiences, some incredible
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experiences with athletes having career seasons, miracle plays, winning championships,
and some incredible work with individuals that I'm very blessed
to have done to help them transcend and transform their
life into a better place. And so I thought, if
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this is happening with the formula and a step by
step process of how they gain a greater sense of
awareness and empowerment over their mind, why not put it
in a step by step process in a new book.
Put all the examples in there, and put it out
so people can go step by step how the world
loves to do it today to understand how to embrace
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each part of this process of self awareness, self empowerment,
and self understanding. And so that's how Invincible was born.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
We both share a poet's soul, and I love how
you open each part Invincible with a poem. Part one
begins with the light. Would you share that with us?
I'd be honored to thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
The light. I want the light, the light that liberates
my soul. I don't care what it reveals, as long
as it makes me whole. I want the light, the
light that sets me free from the pain I've long carried,
finally relieved to be me. I want the light, the
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light that dissolves my fear, leading me into every moment
open to more love than I can bear. I want
the light, the light that unveils my power. I'm ready
for a new destiny, for this is my true hour.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Beautiful, thank you so much for sharing that.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Part one is about the realization that we are connected
to the universe or source and have infinite potential. How
do we recognize this connection and is this dependent on
a faith foundation?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I think it leads to a faith and it leads
to a foundation of faith. But how we recognize it
is I give the very straightforward and powerful example of
looking up at the stars at night and even going
a step further and looking at some of these images
that the Hubble, which launched in the late nineties and
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the James T Web telescope have brought back to us
after going deeper and deeper into mind boggling distances to
bring back these unbelievable images of creation and expansion in
a universe that doesn't end. And so the idea is,
if we can't find an end to the universe, then
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there is no beginning. And that's one where the mind
has a big problem with Because the mind is geared
towards boundary, it wants to know where there's a beginning
and an end. But I see a universe without beginning
and without end, and if we're part of this universe,
this infinitely creative universe, then that means we're endowed with
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that same infinite creative ability. And that's what I'm offering
the reader in step one is to realize that you
have infinite potential within you to create what you want.
Many people, when you ask them what do you believe
is possible in the world, that will say well, anything.
But the minute you say, well, what do you think
is possible for you, that's where the boundary comes in.
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That's where the limitation comes in. And so the offering
in step one is to see the expanse of that
that you are no different from the universe that you're
in in terms of your potential and the possibility that's
here for you. And that's where we start this book
on invincibility.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
So this manifests in our self awareness and change of
our understanding of who we truly are.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Correct, that's exactly right, and that's why step two goes
into understanding your identity. You know, how genetics and environment
formed who you were, but not who you are. So
the idea is to be able to look back and
see how the construction of your life came together, and
to do this without any guilt or shame or regret,
but just as an observer looking at how your personal experiences,
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the way that you are nurtured and conditioned as a
young child, or when you were born, how long you
cried in the crib when you got fed, and just
how it's created a set point for the way that
you look at the world. The sneaky part of identity
is genetics, because I don't believe that it's just hair
color and eye color that gets passed on, but the
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way that we associate, perceive, and react to our world
is also a part of our genetics, and it's important
to understand that so that when you have behaviors that
sort of surprise your instincts and you wonder where that
came from, you can know that it's something that's been
passed on. But the first step to changing the genetic
expression is the field of epigenetics, is awareness. You have
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to know what the instinct is in order to catch
it and reroute it until it becomes the new normal,
until you've changed that expression. So understanding your eye identity
is a huge part of step two. And then that
leads you into step three, which is how you direct
your moment by moment reality your ego which is designed
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to do that so that you can begin to send
out a different frequency of energy, different responses, and you
can see the ground in front of you with a
different intention or different actions that help to germinate a
new reality, or push that needle of probability, as I say,
towards the germination and the creation of what you intend.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You know, it's interesting my childhood relationship with my father
engendered the sense that if you take care of others,
you will be loved. I never really felt loved by
my father until I started becoming part of his caretaking
team when he turned ill when I was eight years old.
I became a people pleaser. Following this ultimately resulting in
my own health issues being neglected, and this led to
(30:56):
an awakening in my fifties and the creation of healthy
bound I understood that it was okay to say no
when my energy was being usurped, and to only say
yes when appropriate and if you'll allow me, this inspired
a poem I'd like to share it with you. It's
called the Healing Power of No. A time comes for
choosing rather than losing the essence that makes us so,
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and in the bestowing. There's power in knowing the freedom
that comes with no. When said with compassion, not angry
in fashion, and letting the self love flow, there's a
sense of renewing and deep soul imbuing the awareness that
comes with no. So with gentle voice and the power
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of choice and the courage to make it so. I'm
still here, my friends. There's no means in this end,
just the healing that comes with no.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Wonderful, very very nice. Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It's awesome. Yeah, it's beautiful. That's the idea, is to
get to a place of self honor and self respect
and self love where you realize that you've given yourself
enough of your own love that you don't need to
fear that you won't get it in the world unless
you submit yourself to simple service. You know, in lieu
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of your own health, in lieu of your own state
of mind.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Is it possible for anyone to break away from limiting
thought and make the transition moving from I can't to
who I am?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Absolutely, that's the whole point, and millions have done it,
Millions that didn't believe they could do something change their
attitude persisted, you know, kept going and kept putting the
conditions together until there was a final breakthrough. I think
a lot of times in science we see this. I
think it was Jonah Salk who said that, who found
the vaccine for polio and said, you know, this was
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simply a matter of continuing to try different formulas, a
matter of person distance and the accretion of insight and
understanding until there was a breakthrough. So any breakthrough in
science or medicine or sports business comes from that process
of turning I can't into I can. Reminds me of
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the childhood book by Wattie Piper, The Little Engine that Could,
where you know, I think I can, I think I can.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
I know.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I actually use that example and I am of that
beautiful book. So yeah, that's the power of it. But
that's the faith, right, That's where faith comes from in
an infinitely creative universe. But it has to be combined
with the awareness and most importantly, the worth. The individual
has to feel the worth to overcome the fear of change,
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to feel worthy of putting the conditions together and all
the joy it's going to bring and that's been an
interesting one as I've been out on the journey for
the last twenty five years, is how many have not
felt worthy.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And how may we navigate past setbacks with peace of
mind and trust in the process.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
The trust is that nothing in the universe happens without
a reason, and that can be difficult for people that
have gone through suffering and grief, myself included. But when
you have a kind of the faith in the universe
that has birthed you into existence through the cosmos, how
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do you not trust in the process and each moment,
in each experience. And so it helps to reduce resistance
and suffering and open up the mind to see what
can be learned from these experiences. Let's say there's a
terrible breakup in a relationship. There's insight and understanding about connection, intimacy,
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the ability to nurture a relationship so that it can
be everything you want it to be, that is in
that breakup that is there, or maybe it was the
wrong person that you tried to force into a situation
that just wasn't going to serve your needs but maybe
served loneliness at the time, but not what you really needed.
And so there's this growth in this evolution. Just to
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take relationships as one example, But I see this with
my athletes all the time. When things don't happen, I
know there's information in there that's going to make them
better the next time they put themselves in that vulnerable
situation on the field. So that's what I would say
to when we have a setback, when things don't go
our way, is that we can look at it like
a scientist putting together an experiment or a formula trying
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to get it right. It can change the whole experience
of life.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I had a wonderful spiritual teacher who used to share
that everything is unfolding in divine order and that we
may see this with what we call spiritual eyes. Is
this one Does this view one of the keys to
empowerment and invincibility?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Absolutely? Absolutely, because resistance creates pressure, and pressure creates time.
If you're resisting what is, you can't learn from what is.
You can't see the benefit to you on some level
for what is happening. And that doesn't mean you accept
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or you condone things that are happening that are not
aligned with your value system, but you're no longer resisting
the truth that for the moment it exists, and that
is what gives you the energy and the focus to
be able to focus on the creation in the next moment.
That can lead to changing it. But when you're in denial,
you're stuck in time.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Your process unifies teachings from psychology, quantum physics, and spirituality.
Please tell us a little about each of these components
and how they relate.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Well. The quantum physics we can look at obviously, the
famous double slit experiment is the one where it showed
how and when the formless wave of infinite potential or
energy collapses into a particle, and it requires an observer.
Why does it require an observer Because an observer represents consciousness, attention,
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and intention, and it is intention that causes creativity in
the world. Mind has to become matter. The thought of
the Great Pyramids turned it into the Great Pyramids over
centuries of time, or the Great Wall of China, or
any medical breakthrough or heart transplant. It's consistent intention that
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puts the conditions together that causes creation. So mind has
to become matter. Thought has to turn into reality. Eye
for identity has to become am. So that's the quantum
physics sort of bridging over it into the spiritual aspect.
And then there's psychological components in turn of our emotions
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and the energy that flows through us and how it
works in terms of our awareness, because when we're in
an emotional state, we're not in a balanced state, and
anytime we're out of balance, the window of perception, the
width of it closes in because the energy of emotion
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causes us to focus only on what we feel will
validate what's causing the emotion. So if we feel angry,
we're going to look at the world in a way
that validates our anger. If we feel joyful and happy,
we're going to look at the world only in a
way that validates our joy. And so the widest perception
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comes at complete balance. That's why meditation, self reflection, anything
to silence the mind opens up that window of perception
and awareness. So that's how psychology plays a role in
all this.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
You say, and I quote, the intent of the energy
behind all matter is to persist and continue to express
itself for as long as possible. Please share how we
may embrace this concept and grow with it.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
So the idea behind that statement is that if there
is no beginning at no end, then life is infinite.
If life is infinite, then we are trying to express
that infinity for as long as we possibly can in
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a single identity. But ultimately entropy has to take over
and show us that we're not limited or finite in
this form, but infinite as well. So it's the heartbeat
of going back to the infinite and then the finite,
The infinite and the finite, the ocean and the drop,
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the ocean and the drop. The idea behind that statement
is that life is continually trying to persist for as
long as it possibly can until that ultimate truth takes
over for each individual and each piece of matter, and
then again and again and again, and it keeps evolving
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and expanding on each rotation of this incredibly infinite spiral.
That's my experience of it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
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of Infinite Potential and the Secret to Inevitable Success. Will
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Speaker 1 (42:47):
Back on box Nobus. My guest this week is Howard
Falco his book Invincible, The Mindset of Infinite Potential and
the Secret to Inevitable Success. Can you share that in
the society bent on delivering bad news almost daily, we
must live with relentless optimism. What are some of the
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ways in which we may achieve this well?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
I think to curate information sources and how they affect
your mind. Getting information or news or understanding without it
being produced to you through a certain intention of any
particular media source is one way to really take back control,
so you get the insight and the information, but you
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get to decide more of the meaning, rather than having
the energy coming at you with a certain meaning and
intent already attached to it on what it means. It's
also people that are around you have certain narratives. They
want you to get drawn in, sometimes to their dramas
and to their side of the story and to what
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makes sense to them, even though their intent may be
still on a subconscious level to be in drama, to
distracted with pain and suffering. So you really have to
be mindful of who you are and what you want
to achieve in life. That doesn't make you lack empathy,
but it helps guard your energy and your state of
mind from being pulled in to a negative narrative. And
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when you stay in a more joyous and positive state
of mind, you can be more powerful as a creator
in helping shape life the way you want it to go.
You still know everything that's going on in life, but
you're not going to allow life to take your power
away and to take your energy away through putting you
in a negative state of mind. That's the idea behind.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
That, and that leads us to an old expression. What
you think of me is none of my business. In
this new paradigm that you offer us, how should we
relate to the energy of others in terms of their
opinion of us?
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Well, again, unless it is a close family member or
your partner in life who you've decided to take the
journey through, where you have to have communication and understanding
on how someone feels in order to keep that relationship
at its finest, at its highest level, Really, nobody else's
opinion should matter at all. And if you have trust
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and faith in who you are, that you're being a
good person, you're putting out love every day, you're going
into the world with an open mind, then stand in
that power. Let them be who they're going to be.
And when negativity approaches you do not let yourself be
drawn in. Let the silence speak for itself, and they
will either tune to the new energy of you and
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actually you'll transform them, or they will remove themselves from
your reality. Either way, you're shaping your experience in a
way that's more enriching for what you want to create
every day, and this takes a daily practice and work.
But the more loving, the more accepting you are of
yourself the more empowered you feel to direct life the
way you want it to go, which so many people have.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
What is the imp importance of forgiveness both for self
and others and gratitude in this path?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Oh, those are two big ones. So let me take
the forgiveness one first. When you do not forgive yourself,
you feel shameful, guilty, or regretful, and those turn into
I am statements. I am shameful, I am guilty, I
am regretful. And when there I am statements, your ego
has no choice but define the conditions and the experiences
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that will allow you to validate that truth. That's how
the tail whips you. So the idea is to see
that you are not who you were. You are who
you decide to be right now, and that version of
yourself in the past was the best you had at
the time. There is no other truth than that. And
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if you believe you would have, could ever should have,
you're in denial and denial creates time, and time creates suffering.
So you see the form of verse, you decide who
you want to be today. You forgive yourself in this
moment and see the perfection of who you are by
doing the work, doing the self awareness work, reading good material,
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whether it's mine or anybody else's in the space that's
created this type of work on deep self awareness, and
you let the love flow. And as the love flows
more now the bubble of possibility for you in this
infinite universe expands because life cannot give you anything you
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do not believe you'reself worthy of. That's how key it
is for you to forgive yourself. Gratitude is helpful any
time you get into a state of mind that's not
conducive to creation. Let's say you don't realize it and
two days later from now, you're in a negative state
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of mind. You don't know why. Maybe the world got
to you, maybe someone said something, and all of a
sudden you're feeling down. What gratitude does, It's the great reset.
It allows you to look at things that you're grateful
for in this moment and see the perspective of how
much worse it could be that it isn't, and start
to be thankful even it's for your own breath and
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your own life. And once you start on that, you
can get yourself back to balance. Gratitude and the state
of mind that's going to turn things around for you
and start to create more positive things in your life.
It's when our perspective gets out of whack. That gratitude
is very important.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
And you had talked about self forgiveness, what about forgiveness
for others.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Well, you can't forgive other people if you haven't forgiven
your own self. If you judge your own self, you're
going to judge others. That's the way you're going to
approach the world. So once you forgive your own self
and you see the perfection of your own actions up
to this point because you understand how your identity has
been constructed, then when you look at other people, you
don't judge them anymore. You just see that they're operating
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out of their own narrative and story, and forgive them
for they know not what they do. They know they're
doing the best that they can. That doesn't mean you
have to be affected by them. You can set boundaries,
you can change the way you interact with them, you
can reroute in some way. But from a standpoint of
the way you set eyes upon them, you no longer
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judge them as people that are not good enough. They're
just misunderstood. They've misunderstood their own selves. They've misunderstood the world,
they misunderstood their own power and their own love, and
they're acting out of the best of their survival instincts.
One of the keys I've given people that have come
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to see me and counseling and helping them to look
at people with more forgivenesses, especially in couples counseling, is
I tell them look at your wife or look at
your husband, like looking into the eyes of a five
year of a scared five year old child. And when
you do that, it softens your judgment and you can
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see that they're just looking to survive in some way,
or they're scared, or they need connection in some way,
and so it helps take that judgment off.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
You offer many wonderful and meaningful exchanges with clients in
your book. What may we learn from those exchanges.
Speaker 2 (50:19):
Well, I think the idea of putting a conversation in
the book that flows through each step is so the reader,
the client, the so called client, which is an amalgamation
of hundreds of clients, can sort of ask the question
that the reader might have to challenge some of the
material that they just read, and then there's a response
to it. So they can see it in a conversational
format that can help them gain an even more enriched
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understanding of the contents and the formula that was presented
to them for acceptance in advancement in the book. So,
I think the conversation. I loved writing that because it
really flowed from so many questions I've gotten over the
years from people in relationship to why they should let
go of something, or how they take control of the
power of I am, or how they feel better about
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themselves or let love into their life. These are big
things for people in terms of change, and so it
helps to see it in a conversational format.
Speaker 1 (51:10):
How may visualizing our goals as already achieved move us
forward on the path?
Speaker 2 (51:17):
I think the more you can put a vision around
what you want and feel it as something you're comfortable with,
the more it slips into your identity as who you are.
There's no longer a foreign feeling when it comes to
holding up a trophy, like I can see myself reading
the trophy, holding it up and knowing that I'm worthy
of achieving this. I can see myself in the arms
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of another being so connected and so in touch and
so trusting and loving with someone and I can feel
that coming. That sends out an energy of who you
are and what you want. And again, it's not just
what you put out that attracts what you want back.
But the universe knows what you believe is true, and
it's going to try and help you because it's all
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about creation and it wants you to create, and so
it's going to send you back the truth of what
you believe. So the more you visualize, the more you
really harness that and absorb that truth into every fiber
of who you are, the more it helps you when
you go out in the world to bring in those
conditions that can give that a greater chance of happening.
And I've experienced this so many times in my own life.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Absolutely, what is the connection between our heart and this work?
And does the heart mind connection move us forward?
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Oh, that's the biggest What the longest journey they say
is from the head to the heart, is right? I
think so? So that is such a great question and
one of the biggest points of transformation for an individual.
So many people read information from the head only. I
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did everything I could in invincible to put love and
energy into the flow of this work that helps people
feel better about who they are. The more you feel better,
the more you let what may have been an uncomfortable
feeling of warmth and love flow into your mind. And
then as you read the material, it's like this beautiful
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like like baking a beautiful cake. It's just all the
ingredients come together and you start to feel the truth
of this more in terms of not only your understanding
in your head, but your worthiness is a big part
of Invincible, And there's actually a section where you write
down what you feel worthy of or a number representing it,
and then you go through a process where you learn
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more of the truth of your infinite worth. If you know,
there's a quote I have and I am that says,
if you're in matter, you matter. You're born into matter,
you matter like it's not a question of if you
matter in this world. It's only a question of how
you're going to choose to matter, not if you matter.
And when people realize that that everything they do has
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an impact on this world and they're here for a reason,
they can help them find a greater purpose to continue
to go down in this path to shine a greater
light in the world. And going back to one point
you made earlier about this idea of infinity, which can
be a really heady topic. When we see the truth
of infinity, we're no longer bound by the pressure of time,
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and time can create fear because we feel we need
to get somewhere, we need to do something, or we
need to know before time runs out. And when you
know that the only true thing about life is that
it's that it continues, that it doesn't end, you can
take a collective breath, be more present, and because of that,
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be an even more powerful creator in the moment, because
you're coming from this place of faith and trust and
gratitude about your eternal existence. So it's a really big
point to make as it relates to understand infinity.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
The wisdom of Howard Falco his book Invincible, The Mindset
of Infinite Potential and the Secret to Inevitable Success. Howard,
one more time, please share with our listeners where they
can get all of your books and find that more
about you and your wonderful work.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
So Howardfalco dot com is where all my books can
be found Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, any independent bookstore. Total
Mind Sports is the website that I show where I've
done what I've done in the world of sports, and
then of course my Instagram and any other social media,
and then I have a foundation called the Eight Wisdom Foundation.
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The eight represents not a number but a symbol for infinity,
so the Infinite Wisdom Foundation, which is Eightwisdom dot org.
And you can see what I'm working on to help
young people and educate them on self understanding and self discovery.
Before they truly go out in the world, they have
an understanding how powerful their mind is. So those are
really where all my work is.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
Howard, thank you so much for joining us and sharing
this wonderful wisdom and this very positive outlook on life.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
Thank you so much for having me, Victor, I truly
enjoyed this conversation and thanks for everything that you.
Speaker 1 (56:11):
Do, and thank you for joining us on Box Novus.
I'm Victor the Voice Firman. Have a wonderful week.