Nan Akasha
Month 4, Week 4
(Executive Coach,High Income Strategist, CHT)
MIND METAMORPHOSIS: DUMP THE BS IN YOUR BRAIN AND HARNESS YOUR POWER TO QUANTUM LEAP YOUR HEALTH, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS
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Robyn: Hello, everyone and welcome to month 4 of the Self-Care Revolution. My name is Robyn Benson. I’m a doctor of oriental medicine and the founder of Santa Fe Soul Health and HealingCenter.
Kevin: And I’m Kevin Snow, an intuitive counselor and desert shaman.
Robyn: We are so excited to share our 2nd speaker today, Nan Akasha. Nan, welcome!
Nan: Thank you! I’m really excited to be here. I love what you guys are up to.
Robyn: For many of you that are here for the first time, the Self-Care Revolution is a 12-month series. This month, month 4, is all about unleashing your brain power. We’re excited to see what Nan has to say. This is going to be a whole different perspective than what we’ve heard so far from our speakers this month. We want to memorize everything Nan has to say because this is all about prosperity. Nan Akasha is an executive coach and high income strategist for accelerating sales revenue, big money, peak performance, and high income hypnosis™, and number one best-selling author of Already Rich: Secrets to Master Your Money Mind.
An inspiring keynote speaker, Nan was chosen as We Magazine for Women's top woman in e-commerce for 2012. Nan has also been selected to be profiled on the national TV show America’s Premiere Experts in 2013 and is also co-creator and producer on a new book and documentary for the Napoleon Hill Foundation calledThink and Grow Rich: Offspring of Thought.
Today the title of her talk is "Mind Metamorphosis: stunt the B.S. in your brain and harness your power to quantum leap your health, wealth and happiness." I love that topic. And thank you also for your wonderful video. I actually captured you at a live event that we were at together recently and people were like, "Wow, I want to get to know who this Nan woman is." So thank you again for being with us here.
Nan: Absolutely! Like I said, I love what you’re doing. I love how you dove in and you’re creating this enormous movement. You’re gaining momentum and bringing in amazing people and making such an impact on the world. I’m really honored to be here. Thank you.
Robyn: Thank you! We have so many questions for you.
Kevin: Yes, definitely. Let’s start off with the title of your talk and maybe just explain a little bit about this mind metamorphosis that we’re going to experience.
Nan: One of the things is that I’ve been creating my own businesses for about twenty-nine years. I’ve had five different businesses, most of them six- and seven-figure businesses. They vary: fashion design, real-estate, and so on. What I’ve discovered is that, for me (I don’t know about other people), my upbringing gave me certain beliefs and programs about myself. So we all have our parents ringing around in our heads and we don’t know it. We don’t realize that we’re brain washed and we’re programmed and that the world that we’re experiencing is through our mind, through our programs in our mind.
Not many of us are told that. So I went out and did what I was told. I worked really hard. My parents told me to be a good person, pay your bills on time, and work really hard; the harder you work, the better person you are. So I did that. I was an overachiever and did my best in everything. I was this and that and everything. I went out and started my first company in fashion design and I put all my money and all my time and all of my effort into it, and three and half years later it closed, because at the end of the 80’s all of the department stores bought each other, and then went bankrupt and didn’t pay.
I had lots of money that people owed me and a lot of credit card debt, because my husband had quit his job and worked for me, too, and we put everything back into the company. That for me was the tipping point—the first deconstruction in life when I had to think differently than what I had been programmed and raised to believe. And it was the first time that I stepped outside of myself and said that there must be something more.
Of course, that was in the 80’s. Nowadays it’s so much easier to find information. I had no idea what to do or where to go, but it got me on a spiritual path and I decided that what I wanted to know was how do we create our reality? So, since then I’ve spent everything that I do, whether it’s my spiritual path, my business, or my personal relationships; I’m always seeking for a better understanding of how do we create our experience here? Who are we? Why are we here? All that crazy stuff right? And so year after year, through all of the different experiences in my life, what I began to understand was that we are not our mind. We are not our brain, but we are in a vehicle, this body, and we experience our reality here through our body and through our senses. And they are limited.
We know there are bugs that can see things we can’t see. We know there are dogs that can hear things we can’t hear. We know that this vehicle we’re in; our eyes don’t see, they shoot up into our brain and we see with cells of recognition in our brain. So how is it that we’re creating the reality around us, or do we have any control over that? And, it led me through spiritual searches.
I used to teach meditation. I learned every form of energy healing. I studied quantum physics. I used to go with groups and go into the pyramids in Egypt and meditate for four hours at a time. I did all this stuff. It was all phenomenal. It was all about discovering more about energy and who I was. Then I wanted to apply it to my life. I didn’t want to be like a lot of people I saw who kept their spiritual life or the life that they were passionate about separate from their job and, you know, their marriage and family and so on. I said, "Well, what’s the point in having and knowing this and understanding that energy is everything and that you can direct it and control it because you can master your mind?"
I actually had a real-estate investment company and I was so passionate about that business, completely left field. Seven nights in a row I saw this infomercial and laughed at it because I was raised to believe that you don’t buy infomercials. Finally went "Okay, there must be a message here," and I got into that business and it was phenomenal. I met some of the most amazing people. I had some of the biggest breakthroughs, personally and spiritually, building that business.
One of my mentors brought in a hypnotherapist. I sat there and he said “Look, I have given you everything you to do; how to talk to people, scripts to talk to people, contracts, where to find this, where to find that, but 96% of it you aren’t doing. You can’t get past your fears, your lack of self-confidence, your fear of rejection, all these things. So I’m going to bring someone in to help you with that.” That was the moment in my life that was so profound because it was like someone pulling back the curtain. That’s when I became a hypnotherapist and it’s been 16 years now that I’ve done that as well. I combine that with all the other things that I do to help people understand their relationship with money, what money is and their belief systems and their programs so you can create the results you want.
A metamorphosis to me is a perfect description of what we do naturally because we’re constantly seeking new life and we’re beings that are growing, like nature. We always want more experiences, more friends, more love, and more money. We’re always seeking something new. And we have to transform who we are to have a new result. So if you’re making $5,000 a month now and you’ve never really been able to make more than that for a sustained amount of time, then that’s where you know your belief system is. The inner part of you, the subconscious part of you that’s a million times bigger than your conscious mind, is in charge. It’s important to understand that. You know some of it and you don’t know most of it.
In order for you to now make $10,000 a month, you have to be a different person. You can’t just work harder doing the same things. Everybody does that, it doesn’t work. Oh, get a new website; it doesn’t work. It’s because you have to change who you’re being. And that means how you’re thinking, how you’re feeling, and how you’re acting.
One of the most fascinating things that I did once was I kept being drawn to cocoons, the transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly. We've all seen it and watched it and we see that cocoon and then these little legs start sticking out and they’re pushing and struggling and little antennas come out, and it’s this big, long struggle. And these scientists did studies and said, "Well let’s help them out." They put a slit in the cocoon so it was easier for them to come out, but they died. Then they tried just a small hole and they would come out easier, but they would still die. No matter what they did when they helped them, when they didn’t let them struggle to get out into their new life in the new world on their own with their new body, they died. They didn’t have the strength, the conviction, the intention, the passion that it took to exist at that level as a butterfly.
So the caterpillar that can crawl upside down, backwards, all over, an expert crawler, yay me. But there’s only so much you can do. So it actually had to let go of what it was good at. It had to let go of being the expert of crawling upside down and here and there and wherever and go through destabilizing who it was and then fight, literally, with that passion to completely change its’ entire form of how it looked, what it was able to do, what heights it was able to access, but it had to have that drive from within. That's what I’ve done is help people build businesses, turn their incomes around, gain confidence to be able to get on stage with more presence, whatever it is they have to transform drastically who they are being to step into what they want.
That’s why you have to dump the BS in your brain, because you’ve got all of these programs telling you this. You’ve got the doubt, the fear, the worry that you believe and give respect to, which are complete lies. In order for us to harness the power that’s all around us and within us, to literally tap into any amount of income we want or lifestyle or anything we want; know that it’s right there. It already exists. We wouldn’t be able to have the desire for it or even the concept of it, of something we want, if the supply wasn’t there already.
So the law of polarity tells you that if you have a problem then the solution is already there. It came before the problem, it preceded it. If you have a desire or you have a question or a challenge, the answer’s already there. You don’t have to be good enough to get it and you don’t have to hope for it; you just have to switch what you believe in your brain. Literally metamorphosize to a level of awareness where you literally see the solutions and the problems that are right there around you. So that is a really long answer.
Kevin: That’s awesome, no, I appreciate that.
Robyn: I love that whole approach of thinking about it because all I can do is think about all the cocoons in my life. I think I’m going through a metamorphosis of all sorts right now. I think many of us are. So can you talk a little bit about sustaining? There are so many tools. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but how do you find that people can really make the change? Part of being human is we go back to our doubting, we go back into the question mode. Sometimes we go back to the BS, but how can we stay away from the BS?
Nan: Well, the key here is to start with a couple of things:
1)Suspend your disbelief that it’s impossible.
2)Then decide that you’re going to be the master of your mind.
I had very spiritual teachers telling me this, decades ago. “You must master your emotional body. You must master your mental body. You must master your subtle bodies.” And it was coming through in a very esoteric kind of way, so it was a very nebulous concept and I started to tune into it. You literally have a mental body. You can’t see your mind; it’s not your brain. Your brain is just the tool it comes through. Your mind is in your cells, it’s around you, and it’s interacting.
There are only two things that I’ve discovered that I believe you have control over. One is our mind and one is free will, choice. So we have the ability to choose what we see, what we think, what we make things mean, how much time we spend with something. I mean, outside of being a child or a slave or other certain circumstances, but even in those circumstances, we still have a choice over how we feel about it and what we make it mean, but we’re not taught that. So you have to decide you’re going to take that on. And if you’ve tried, like most of us have, it’s the hardest work on the planet. It’s perceived to be the hardest work on the planet, because we literally feel like those voices and doubts are popping up and we don’t have any choice and they’re pulling us in.
One of the most common ones that I see, and the first thing I work with my clients on, is money and relationship with money. If they’re blocked making more money or consistent money, if they lost money, or they’re afraid to ask for money or whatever it is. We all have a very convoluted, emotional relationship with money, and it’s rippled out into our relationships with people and with ourselves. It’s intricately intertwined with our self-image and our self-esteem so I’ve found it’s the key. We have to unlock that and pull that out so the rest of those areas can come into place.
When we look at money, the most common thing that happens for people is they decide to up-level; they’re going to grow their business, they’regoing to make $100,000 or $500,000 or a million or two million, or whatever it is, and the minute that they make that decision this little voice pops in their head, and it’s usually their mom or their dad, and it says, “Who do you think you are? Oh, you’re getting pretty big for your britches aren’t you?” That kind of thing. When I began this journey of understanding beliefs and the power behind them, I understood that. We all know we have our parents in our head to some degree, right? But what happens is our adult conscious mind goes, “I know, but I know that’s not true right now so it’s no big deal.” Consciously I know that’s what my mom said.
One of my first clients in hypnosis said he tried to buy his mom a house. He was making very good money and he saved up. He was raised very, very poor, and his mom was one of these people who said that rich people are evil and so on. So, now he was doing well and it was his dream to buy the house. Three times he had raised almost enough for a down payment, but something would happen where he would have to use the money. This is how your subconscious mind works. Literally, that part of him created that reality. He couldn’t figure out why so we had to go in hypnosis.
What we found out was that his mother said that so much that he has an inner belief that if he shows up and he is wealthy and rich enough to help her buy a house then she will think he is one of those rich, evil, greedy people. He loved his mother more than anything , but that inner part of him thought it was safer and more important to not buy her the house and be able to stay in a space where he thought it was safe than to do that for her and say, “Oh, I know that she’ll get over it,” or, “It’s not true.”
I have clients who have been making millions of dollars for years.A lot of people think that once you’re doing that you don’t have problems. It’s not true. I don’t know Donald Trump personally, but I’m sure he goes through all kinds of problems, too, because we’re constantly up-leveling, and when we’re doing that we’re stepping out of our comfort zone. You have to decide you’re going master that mind and you have to become aware of it. And it means you’re going to have to track it.