You sometimes hear "the answer is inside you," but it's not. Because if it were, you wouldn't have to go to school to learn math. For example, my son is going to study math and those assignments don't tell me anything at all.
Find the answer within yourself works a little differently
So you actually have to learn to find the answer yourself. The answer is often in other people.
Now I sometimes say that everything is one and I am also the other. Then you can say the answer is within you, but that's a big detour. There is more nuance to it.
Me then split off into eight billion particles, so the answer is somewhat scattered. So you can say the answer is within you, but you have to see it that way.
It's in your essence, but not in your person. To get to that essence, it is more convenient to interact with other people who know the answer.
In my family, for example, there were no entrepreneurs. There was one and I worked for that too, which was in construction. But that was it.
When I went into the coaching business to help people, I didn't have an example. So I had to find the answer about how that worked. And this answer was not in me, but there were things in me that made me not see the answer.
That's kind of interesting, because you believe what you see and you see what you believe. So at one point when I was just starting out and still earning below welfare level I found that I was mostly working from the belief, "I'm not an entrepreneur." So I had to change that to: "I am an entrepreneur." The following year I got above 100,000 for the first time. Before this it was more around 30,000 euros, then the tax hadn't been taken out yet.
But by changing beliefs I already reached 100,000 euros, but to go from the 100,000 euros to a million euros, that was more difficult. Then I didn't know the answer to the question.
You won't get to the next level with the same mindset you always had.
Changing your mindset for your future
Imagine: I am very good at wooing women. Then I have a good skillset to get women to come home with me, but that same way of acting doesn't get me 20 years further with the same woman. So then I have to start doing something new again.
What that is then, that answer often lies outside yourself. Just as math, reading and running a business is also outside yourself if you didn't grow up with it. Most of the answers lie outside yourself, but also within yourself.
This is a bit of a mindfuck and that's interesting. Somewhere the answer is inside you, but then it's a question of who you mean by you. Your person or everything around you? The universe. Or you projecting the whole story around you, then the answer lies within you.
Your brain as the receiver for the answer
But most people go deep soul diving, and they won't get to the answer. You can also read a book or take a course, you do too. That is also within you. Or you go into a mastermind group, which is my favorite way to have answers come to you.
Your brain can be thought of as your receiver. You have a body and a brain. That is your mode of transportation and that is how you walk through life. Your brain receives information, which is a receiver. Your brain is tuned to a certain station. For example, many people's radios are tuned to Qmusic. Everyone hears the same things and gets the same news. You have your own Qmusic. Not just the national or global sound, but your personal nuance of Qmusic.
So how you grew up, where you grew up, what your parents thought of you, your teachers and your girlfriends, all those nuances are also in your personal station. In that radio station. That is completely tuned to you. In my case, Edwin FM. It's not really tuned to Qmusic. In the sense that I belong to the masses. Not with most things.
But most people have some kind of Qmusic, for example, Anja FM. Suppose I interact more with Anja now, then our brains start to connect and we become more the same. This can also be seen in scanning measurements.
People who interact a lot with the same people. Like your partner or friends or children, those brains become the same. You get on the same wavelength. You then become tuned in to the same thing as the other person. You then also hear their FMs through it.
Especially with romantic partners, this difference is very obvious when compared to strangers. At the moment of communication, brain activity then becomes much more the same than when communicating with a stranger[1].
But then again, if that stranger suddenly becomes much less of a stranger then?
You suddenly hear different things. You start thinking just a little bit differently. This is very nuanced.
What you deal with you get infected with
Imagine interacting with top athletes or top entrepreneurs. The more your brain then becomes the same as those people and the more you start thinking the same as those people.
In hypnosis, we call this a deep trance identification. Small children also do this because it is the fastest way for them to learn. They then "are" the person who can already do it. Small children have the same brain activity as someone who is in deep hypnosis.
So the answer is within you, provided you interact with people who are attuned to the answers you need. So I pay a lot of money a year for masterminds to deal with people who have answers to my questions and who may even ask questions that I don't even have yet. Those questions do matter to me. Because sometimes you just don't know yet, but those people already know. Super right?
I also don't need to hear the full range of radio stations. Because 95% is crap and I want to hear the 5% that I can do something with.
I don't need to hear 95% of what is broadcast, but 5% so I do. I know the people who are on the wavelength are attuned to the information I want. If I interact with that often, then I can tune into those people as well and I'm there.
So the answer is there. And when you say you are everything, it is within you. But not if you start defining "me" as person Edwin. Then it is only if Edwin deals with Harry long enough, Edwin starts to think and learn the same as Harry, and if he has the answers, then Edwin gets those answers to himself.
The question is inside me and I can get the answer
This is why it is important to think, "The answer is not in me, but the question is in me."
The question is an invitation to seek out the people who have the answer to the question. Then another new door opens. Then new questions can also come, and so the path continues to reveal itself to you.
This is an interesting tool for taking action. To stop looking for the answer inside yourself, so you start looking for the answer outside yourself. With the question: who has the answer to my question? How can I deal with those people who seem to have the answer to my question?
Then you often get more than just the answer to your question.
That is what is so interesting about masterminds as far as I am concerned. After a year, I noticed that I began to think and act differently. This may be of interest to you as well.
Also listen to this podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1hEoYPMk7YMPSgtsA4wmag?si=9529cf98d9f3442f
Help to find the answer
So if you do have to move that body of yours and that recipient for the answer to receive it, how do you do it? How do you go out there? How do you speak to those people from whom you do want to hear the answer?
If you find this exciting or something is blocking you from finding the answer, you can use hypnosis to explore what is causing it to fail in you (in which case the answer is within yourself for a while). A hypnotherapist can help you figure out and remove these kinds of unconscious blockages.
Then, you can go out into the world to find all the answers inside and outside yourself to walk your life's path with confidence.
Want to learn more about hypnosis and how it works? Then come to the free online master class on hypnosis.
Or enroll in one of Hypnosis Institute Netherlands' training courses. After attending the training you will know all the tricks and ways to find answers inside and outside yourself. Also ideal to help other people find their answers.
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