So where do I get off saying “Personal development is broken”? And why is that great news? After all, the fact that you’re exploring this site probably means that you’ve already experimented with some personal development technologies, and who knows… maybe you’ve had some great results.
But what you’re going to discover when you watch this video is that personal development (and all of psychology) has been built on a faulty foundation – a life-sapping superstition, a misunderstanding about how the mind works, and how life works. And as you start seeing through this misunderstanding for yourself, a whole new world of possibilities starts opening up for you…
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Thanks Jamie,
We need to be reminded all the time. We are so programmed, almost hard wired. When I listen to what you say about Inside-Out Thinking, and go Yah! Yah! that makes sense and then once again get caught up in the Outside-In thinking, Somehow my brain says ” Don’t listen to the man behind the curtain.” Inside-Out thinking does make a real difference in my perspective of life.
“You had the Power all along.”
Why do you say that all of psychology has been built on a faulty foundation ? Real professionals in psychology usually emphasize the inside-out perspective (I met more than 20)…..
The video idea resembles to Stephen Covey perspective. Maybe similar minds think alike 🙂
Hi Jamie
Some lovely words, and as always it leaves me feeling calm, and centered in the momen listening to yout. I always remember you saying to us that “We’re only feeling our thinking, and our feelings are a barometer of the qaulity of our thinking”…and that’s so true. With inside out thinking, we don’t need protocols, tools, processes, techniques, the latest fad etc. to create a better experience of life, we already have the greatest gift inside us to create that amazing experience of life…our own wisdom!
Umesh
How does the “inside-out” principle relate to the human physiology? I’m asking, because I find my feelings strongly connected with the condition of my body. For example I feel more like taking action when I’m healthy, well-rested etc. When I’m tired, sleepy or ill, I don’t feel a “drive” to take action. And next, the condition of my body seems to be connected with outside conditions (weather, place of residence, place of work, working hours etc.). For example: now I’m ill because the weather rapidly changed from rather hot to rather cold. But I’m certainly taking into consideration that maybe it doesn’t work this way. Then I’d like to know how.
Very good point, Jarek , as far as the mind is concerned everything on the inside out perspective definitly works. But dealing with physical distress is another thing. I have been in the hospital for long periods of time and dealt wiht physical pain ,but even then the mind can help ease some of the suffering physical and none physical . We are still at the begining of a new paradigm and im sure we are able to develop pain tolerance and I speak from experience ,After all all the signals and processes in the brain are electrochemical function that can be altered , For now I glad that this truth has come out and im trying first to satrt with the inside and see where it takes me . THank you Jamie and keep up with your teaching,
Hi Jamie,
What you say and where you seem to be heading is substantiated by my own academic research – namely my 2004 PhD, entitled,
Leadership by Subjectives, an emergent communications strategy for personal and organisational transformation. In 2007 I was awarded the Personell Today/ Henley Management School Leading for Sustainability Award – we’re getting there … even if it is painfully slow! I have a product in development that ‘grounds’ what you’re saying – Lets keep ‘talking’!
I get your concept of inside-out thinking and it is nice to know that we can really learn how to access that wich is already there for a more enriched and fulfilling experience of life.
thank you jamie awesome as usual
This is so true, somewhere all of us experience this sometime in our life
This video is an excellent piece Jamie
thanks hoe to share more such pieces
Good luck
Hi Jamie, I totally agree with what you say, I too always looked for something or someone to make me happy and fulfilled going round in a circle of blame. Since I read your book ‘effortless evolution’ everything makes sense, I have taken responsibilty for my own happiness and I am truly grateful to you aswell as finding my inner happiness. This has made a profound difference to my life and my goals; I am actively promoting this concept to my family. A book I’ve read since ‘est playing the game the new way’ Carl Frederick really confirms this inside out theory.
Thank you Jamie!
Hi Jamie,
Inside-out: does it come from the head as words & self-talk or is it the heart as feelings? Speaking from my perspective, for years as a scientist I was able to think, analyse thughts as a mathematical sequence, you know line after line of an equation to get to a point yet I was still missing something… recently I found my heart and feelings …. no endless lines of thoughts, just jumping straight in, finding a feeling … and that’s totally and only inside. “Ahhhh” … I love the sound of your breath at the beginning & end of your video … sums everything up – from the inside to the outside. I cant make that sound inhaling from the outside to the inside…. not the same sound, not the same feeling. “Ahhhh” sums up where its at… and it feels good!
Thanks to all of you who have posted on this video so far. I’ve written a personal response to each of you. Once you’ve had a chance to read the responses, I’d love it if you would stop & think about the person or people you know and care about, who could benefit from watching this video. Please share this video with them and continue exploring the site and posting your comments. Thanks! Big love, Jamie…
Thanks June – You’re not alone – I lose sight of the inside-out nature of life on a pretty regular basis. But the good news is we keep waking up to it again and again. There’s always more to learn from the profound realisation. Indeed – you have the power all along. Stay tuned & keep posting! J
Thanks Ileana – You must move in different circles than I do. Aside from a handful of colleagues, I’ve never met a “psychology professional” who emphasise the inside-out understanding. Just to be clear: by “inside-out” I mean the realisation that 100% of our felt experience of life is coming from innate thinking in the moment, & that 0% is coming from our circumstances. When you see the truth of this, you don’t need to do anything to “correct” your thinking – it’s a self-correcting system. The overwhelming majority of psychology professionals innocently overlook this fact. They place the locus of control in the client’s past, or in the form & structure of their thinking. They prescribe techniques, processes & rituals. When you see the inside-out nature of our experience of life, none of that is necessary. So that’s why I say psychology has been built on a faulty foundation. Check out the “Ultimate Leverage Point” audio if you’d like to hear more about this. You can get it free here: http://www.jamiesmart.com/effortless-a-new-paradigm-for-transformation/. Thanks again for posting, Ileana – keep ’em coming! J
Thanks Umesh – Glad you’re enjoying it, & that this understanding is impacting you. Thanks for posting – I’m looking forward to the conversation developing. J
Thanks Jarek – it’s a great question. Here’s how it looks to me. We’re always feeling our thinking. Your experience of your physiology comes to you via innate thinking. Your experience of the weather comes to you via innate thinking. Your level of motivation etc is a function of thought (you’re feeling your thinking). While exercise, healthy eating etc seem like a good idea to me, they can’t give you an experience in and of themselves. Your experience will come from thought. There are as many athletes with crazy thinking (and the feelings that go along with that) as there are seriously ill people who are clear-minded and peaceful. Hope this makes sense. Keep asking great questions. J
Thanks Jose – It’s an important point you make. The experience of physical distress is brought to a person via thought, but that’s not saying “It’s just your thinking”. Physical pain is part of an important signalling system that’s developed over millenia. What I’ve seen is that when a person understands the inside-out nature of our experience, it doesn’t stop physical pain. But it can alleviate the suffering a person has *about* the pain. I have one client who has a number of serious medical diagnoses. She used to be in pretty much constant discomfort. As she started to see the role that thought was playing in her experience, her physical distress diminished significantly. Thanks for raising this Jose – keep posting. J
Thanks Franciszka – good to hear from you. Can you pop me an email with your PhD attached (you can use the address you already have)? I’d love to have a look. Looking forward to the next stage in the conversation. Keep on posting & I’ll keep blogging. J
Thanks Nevada – glad you get it. I’m still learning about it on a daily basis, but I seem to be making progress 😉 Thanks for posting. J
Thanks Alaa – glad you like it. More to come. J
Thanks Hemlata – as far as I can tell, this is what’s creating all our experience, every minute of our lives. Good luck to you too. Stay tuned & keep posting. Ta J
Thanks Karen – so glad my work is making a difference to you & for you. The Carl Frederick book is making its way to my Kindle shortly. Stay tuned and thanks for posting. J
Thanks Graeme – Glad you’re finding what you’ve been looking for. As far as I can tell, our feelings are the “visible face” of 100% of our thinking (not just self-talk, but the entire shooting match). You can think of it like this; when you’re using a laptop, you see everything that’s on the screen, but there are millions of lines of code making that possible. What’s “on the screen” of life for us (our perceptual reality & the thinking we’re conscious of) is made possible by tons of thinking we’re not consciously aware of, moment to moment (like the millions of lines of code). Our feelings tell us what’s in the totality of our moment to moment thinking, letting us know when we’re off-track, & guiding us back to clarity. Hope this makes sense. Thanks for posting! J
@Jamie,
If you HAD INSIDE-OUT THINKING down, you wouldn’t need to use the hypnotic architecture employed in this video as you have, BECAUSE YOU’D BE HAPPY ENOUGH ALREADY that you wouldn’t need to affect people outside of you like this in order to feel good on the inside.
BUT INSTEAD, you disrespect peoples realities by blatantly suggesting a WHOLE FIELD is broken, and use this as a (marketing) ruse to (hypnotically) suggest, shrouded in confusion, that your website is the way out and to share it to “help people”.
So – I challenge you – why don’t you unpack all you are doing in this video and make it transparent and make explicit your underlying purpose, which SEEMS TO ME TO BE ABOUT MARKETING and affecting that which is OUTSIDE of you?
BTW, there are loads of personal development authors who strongly espouse INSIDE OUT thinking, from Napoleon Hill to Esther Hicks to Echart Tolle to Paul McKenna to arguably, Buddha and (many) spiritual teachers and original spiritual literatures. If your “inside-out” thinking works so well for you, how could you overlook this? If you goal is to actually help people, WHY DISTORT peoples realities instead of equip them with wisdom and awareness and remind them that their power lies within, instead of to promote your site?
What you do and what you demonstrate in this video and that you need to do this is WHAT IS BROKEN about “personal development”.
Hi Thomas
Thanks for your email – you raise a number of points so let me see if I can address them all:
1) Hypnotic architecture: The problem (as I’m framing it) is that our entire society is “hypnotised” by a misunderstanding – the idea that we’re (at least to some degree) feeling our circumstances. The “architecture” I’m using to help people break free from this includes all my communication skills (including the NLP & hypnotic communication skills which have long since been integrated into my communication style). My purpose is to “un-hypnotise” people from this life-damaging misunderstanding. I don’t think I “need” to do this in order to be happy – it’s my delight to be in a position to share this message with people. I have numerous clients who will attest to the massive increase in their quality of life they’ve experienced since “waking up” from the outside-in superstition.
2) Other Authors – I totally agree that this message is not new, and that it’s been a mainstay of Eastern philosophies, however I’d like to suggest that a number of the authors you mention patently do not teach an Inside-out understanding as I’m framing it. Specifically, Inside-out means no techniques, practices or rituals (all of which are “outside”). The leverage point for this understanding is just that – insightful understanding, rather than a doing.
3) Your challenge – I’ve been unpacking my “hypnotic architectures” for the last 10 years. Go to the http://www.Saladltd.co.uk website for a boatload of information about how that works. Been there, done that, so I’m not going to start doing it here. If that interests you, go check it out (my favourite unpacking example is the “Sleight of Mouth” demo with Jill, available on DVD, but there are many others too, including numerous free articles.
Thanks for posting, Thomas
Best
Jamie
hi,jammie,
Eastern thinking is full of this inside out stuff. You have realized it at last. J.Krishnamurthi was very emphatic about this.He was speaking about this for years.It was as new and fresh coming
from you good.
Thanks Saminath – Krishnamurti was very emphatic indeed. I particularly like his conversations with David Bohm, my fave physicist. Well worth a look. Thanks for posting! J
Thanks Jamie,
Spot on, right on target….
We keep forgetting this perspective today when so much is about what you achieve, not what you truly are.
I now have a lot to think about today…..:-)
Love
Maria in Örebro, Sweden