When you journal, you are imprinting the information to a much greater degree. And what I mean by that is you're spending more time on each word, each sentence, each thought, which deepens its imprint on two different things.

Number one, the brain, and number two, the field. And so when we write, we're actually creating memories. We're creating memories of either things in the past that we're writing down, that we're reinforcing. We're creating memories of a future that hasn't happened yet as we write down what we desire into the future. And we're doing it at a pace where the grooves are very deep. Welcome to a changed mind, a journey into the topics that matter to you most. From the neuroscience and spirituality of mindset and personal growth, to groundbreaking strategies for health, wealth, and relationships. To open and honest conversations about pressing global issues such as the environment, censorship, corporate capture, and democracy. Each and every episode reminds us of the certainty of the goodness of the future and provides the teachings, tools, and timeless wisdom inspiring you to create real, lasting change in your life and in the world. If you've been desiring a sanctuary for your spirit, a place to go to tune out the distraction, negativity, and doom and gloom so that you can tap into the deep power, the vibrancy, and the potential you have inside, you're in the right place. Welcome to a changed mind. Hey, it's David Baer. Welcome to a changed mind. A sanctuary for your spirit. A place where each and every episode I remind you of the certainty of the goodness of the future. I am your friend, your host, your guide. In today's episode, I'm going to share with you one of the, if not the most powerful tools in my arsenal for personal growth. This isn't something that I started out doing, but as I feel like I've transformed so many of my limiting beliefs, and my life has just grown with abundance and prosperity and purpose and clarity. And as I've strengthened my emotional resiliency and spiritual connection, this has become one of the most important daily practices for me. And that is the practice of journaling. Now, there's a ton out there on journaling, but what I'm going to share with you is really nothing like what you may have already heard. And I wish I had realized this sooner, because it would have made my journey of spiritual growth and business and life so much easier. But you know what they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. And so, over the last several months, I've been getting this stronger and stronger intuition that I needed to begin my day with journaling, and I put it off for a few months until I finally listened to my inner voice. And, man, this has been an absolute, 100% game changer for me. So here we go. I did not realize how powerful journaling was, even though I've done it all throughout my life. You know, I thought it was about just getting my thoughts down on paper and giving myself

Some time to process or emotional release. But journaling, for me, has been more powerful than any other morning routine I've ever had ever engaged in. More powerful than cold plunges, more than a hard workout in the morning, more than meditating or visualizing, especially in the specific ways that I've been doing it. And there are three specific things I've designed into this practice. I call it communion journaling. And if you've ever been told that you need to write out your gratitudes, and you do, but you just don't feel that grateful while you're doing it, I totally get it. Right. Or there's this idea that you should write out the things you want and really feel as if they've already been accomplished, but you have a hard time doing that. I have to my entire life. Or you've been wanting to feel a very close connection to God or your higher power in the process of prayer or meditation, but it just feels like you're speaking out into some void in the universe, and the connection is just so far away. You are absolutely going to love the communion process. Before I share these three steps of the process with you, let's talk about why journaling is so powerfully, unbelievably powerful. Let's get to a root cause conversation around journaling. The first thing is when you journal, and I don't mean when you're typing on your laptop, journaling. There's a big difference. When you write, when you journal, you are imprinting the information to a much greater degree. And what I mean by that is you're spending more time on each word, each sentence, each thought, which deepens its imprint on two different things. Number one, the brain, and number two, the field. As we experience life, we're recording every experience. This is why when we're born, we're born with about 100 billion neurons and about 25 billion synaptic connections. The whole neuronal structure of the brain is not even wired up yet, but by the time we're seven years old, we still have 100 billion neurons and a quadrillion synaptic connections. And a lot of the growth of the brain is really just that it's become a storehouse for memories. Every experience that you had, you ingested the information of that experience, what it looked like, what it sounded like, what it tasted like, what it smelled like, what it felt like. And all that sensory data gets put through the nervous system up into the brain, and the brain starts to build new neural networks that compiles that information and also stores with it the meaning that you gave the experience, and that becomes a memory. And so when we write, we're actually creating memories. We're creating memories of either things in the past that we're writing down, that we're reinforcing. We're creating memories of a future that hasn't happened yet as we write down what we desire into the future. And we're doing it at a pace where the grooves are very deep. It doesn't mean that it's not going on throughout the course of your day. As you're thinking things, you're reinforcing the grooves of your brain. As you're feeling things, you're reinforcing the grooves of your brain. As you're remembering the past or worrying about or anticipating the future, you're grooving your brain, but you're doing it at a very light touch way. You can think about a record player, right? It's a very light groove on the record. When you write things out and you slow things down, you're spending so much more time on each piece of the concept, on each idea. And so not only is it becoming recorded, and we'll talk about what I recommend you record more deeply inside of you, you're also experiencing whatever it is that you're writing down in a very intentional, meaningful way. And your nervous system is a receiver transmitter. So as you're experiencing this, you're also transmitting that information out. Out where? Out to consciousness, out to the field, out to God or Jesus or Allah or higher power, whatever you want to call it. The information is being communicated, and it's being communicated in a very clear way because of the intentionality of the writing. When you're ripping through typing something on a computer, if you think about it, the same amount of words that you could write, you could probably type three times faster. Well, that means that the typing process is three times less impactful or imprintful than the writing process, because you're spending less time and less attention, less awareness with each word of. Even if you think about speaking, we can speak so much faster than when we write. So when we write, there's a magic to it. My wife double clicked on this the other day. And she said, you realize that when we write, we're writing on paper. We're literally imprinting or codifying our thoughts on the living fabric of the planet, right? It's almost as if we're chiseling what we believe, what our hopes, what our dreams are, what our concerns are, what our worries are, the things that we'd like to let go of. It's like we're imprinting them onto the planet because we use trees as paper. At least we used to. Who knows what half this stuff is printed on today? But that's an important thing to understand about journaling is like, when you slow it down, you're imprinting it at a much deeper level. And again, we'll talk about what I recommend you imprint and why this process has completely blown away, blown me away over the last month. But the second thing is, as you're engaging in writing or journaling, you're slowing down your thought process. And so, as you write, not only is it a deeper groove and a greater imprint on your brain and on the field, but because you're writing more slowly, you're able to receive the next word, then the next thought in the space of the writing.

I can't tell you how amazing it's been writing in the way I've been writing over the last month, because a sentence will start out with a word that comes to mind, and by the time I finish it, it is a sentence I did not expect, and it's information I absolutely needed, or it's a communication I definitely wanted to express. See, there's this automatic habit of the mind. Oftentimes, you'll start a sentence throughout the course of your day, almost every sentence that you start, and you already know where it's going to end before you even finish the sentence. Because we've been habitual, automatic creatures, programmed by our belief systems, our empowered beliefs, our limiting beliefs. Neuroscience tells us something like, we think 60,000 thoughts a day, but it's like 99% the same thoughts, we say 99% the same sentences. And so when you write, the slowing down of the writing process breaks the automatic habit of the mind that usually just skips from thought to thought, to thought, to thought, to thought, to thought. Same thing with typing on a computer. I know a lot of people are using their laptops, or they do their journaling on a digital device. They're missing out on a big piece of this technology, because as you write it, create a. You think about it. If you want to write the word something like supernatural which comes up a lot in my writing. And I'm going to read you from my journal at the end of this episode. Supernatural takes time to write. Well, in the time that you're writing supernatural, the next thought or idea is loading up a new thought or idea, something that exists in the field that spirit or higher power has been wanting to communicate to you, that you can commune, you can have this relationship, you can connect with spirit while you're in the writing process. So I'm getting all kinds of new thoughts and ideas. Prayers are coming out of me, asks are coming out of me, gratitudes are coming out of me that I had never imagined. I could never speak it or type it because that process is too fast. But as I'm willing to just allow the space, that space gets filled with the intelligence of spirit both within me and coming to me. Third, this is super, super important. Let's talk about what you're doing when you're journaling. When you're writing. When you write it is the replication of very ancient movements. It's like writing out if you've ever seen those movies like Indiana Jones or egyptian esotericism or even Lord of the Rings, right? It's like you're writing these ancient symbols that represent language, that represent idea. Language emerged in 3200 bc in an area of the world called Mesopotamia, which is now around modern Iraq. The first writing came out. And if you think about it, writing is the next level of materialization. We had language where we could speak, and once you speak, the words seem to be gone. But now when writing emerged, there was documentation for eternity. We had the ability to take an idea or a concept and to actually put it into the physical world in a way that it could exist and be shared by others even if you were no longer there. This is pretty amazing stuff. This is the ability to record what you decide, what you declare, and to contribute it literally materially into the physical form of the world. To take your thoughts and ideas and imprint them in this way. It's very powerful. And we just think of it as, oh, I'm just writing. But no, you're combining movement with thought. While language has transformed over the history of time, 3200 was cuneiform language. And then even before that, we egyptian esotericism and symbology. And then you move into Greek and the latin languages and you have this continued evolution of languages. I write in English, whether it's cursive or printing, what you're doing is you're mimicking a downstream evolution of ancient, ancient technology. And I'm a big fan of sort of the medieval series the wizards warriors fantasy Avengers, one of my favorite series of all time. You look at what Doctor Strange does, and he's mastered the ancient arts. Through the movement of his hands, he is able to open up portals and literally manipulate the material world. Writing is the mastery of the ancient arts. It is the movement of your hands, just like you move your body in ancient tai chi. So whether you are printing or writing cursive, and no matter what language you're writing in, realize that what you're doing is you're casting spells. You're spell casting. It's wizard type shit. That's why we call it spelling. And so this process is really, really powerful, especially when you combine it with these three areas that I'm going to share with you right now. And again, I call this communion journaling because what I felt in this process was such a deep connection with myself, such a deep connection with spirit, and such a deep connection with others like I've never felt before. I've been seeking it and seeking it and seeking it, and that urge just kept coming to me. Wake up early and sit down and write. And I was like, no, I'm an 08:00 in the morning person. And everything changed about 30 days ago when I committed to this journaling process. So here's what I do now in my communion writing or communion journaling process. I get up at dawn. So I really. I get up about 20 minutes before the sun comes up. And to be clear, this has been just the last 30 days. All of my life, I had been a 730 to 08:00 in the morning wake up person. I had always made fun of the 05:00 a.m. club people. There are some people who have built their whole business off of, like, you can be a high performer if you just get up early. It's like, okay, but you could get up early and still go into the day with your traumas. And so I am not into hustle. I'm not into grind. I am into alignment so that I can be inspired and take appropriate action when God calls me forth to take action, and whether that's 18 hours in a day or whether that's 18 days off. And so I had always made fun of this 05:00 a.m. as sort of a hustle and grind type of think. But waking up at 05:00 a.m. alone has been a game changer. I've shared on some other episodes that I struggle with insomnia. I've had some of the best improvement of my sleep over the last 30 days by counterintuitively getting up even earlier, even though I was tired, not sleeping in when I tend to fall asleep. But getting up early has started to condense my sleep. Great teachers said this was the time when the fabric was most thin. This was the time where the communication with higher power, with other spirits, with your guides, with a power greater than yourself, with nature, with yourself, was most available. And the reason for that is because there's not a lot of thought energy taking place in your local region at that time. When I wake up at 545 and the sun hasn't come up yet, most people are sleeping. The field is pure and the ether is the most available, and the field is undistorted by the thoughts and emotions of others. So there's a greater subtlety both in the ability to communicate and in the ability to receive. There's also something about the light spectrum at this time. A lot of people have talked about healing their bodies by being able to get up at this time and to be in the sun at this time. And so I'll talk to you about what I do as soon as I finish this writing process. But I start with the first step, which is writing in prayer. I write in prayer and I write as if I'm writing a love letter to my lover, which is God, because I have wanted to have a more personal relationship with God. And when I've tried to pray in my head, it never comes out right. But I've been listening to these beautiful prayers by CS Lewis on YouTube. He wrote the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe. He was known for creating the world of Narnia. And then he found Christianity. And some of his prayers are just so powerful, but when I try to repeat them, like, as I'm just waking up and sitting in my bed or as I try to meditate or as I go to bed, I can never really replicate them as powerfully. But I started writing and writing these prayers. The prayers just started pouring out of me. I'm going to read them to you. But, you know, dear Lord, thank you for this and thank you for that. So I spend just maybe five minutes in gratitude. Right? Step one is ingratitude. I call it prayer, but it's really ingratitude for all the incredible things that God has given me for this life, for this day, for the oxygen that I have to do nothing to be able to breathe, for the working of the cells of my body, for bringing me my beautiful son, my beautiful wife, the inspiration that I share on these podcasts, Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And what's so amazing is as I'm writing this, because I do believe that these are not my things. These are gifts that were given to me by a power greater than myself. And because I'm writing, I actually feel so grateful. It's the first time I've ever done a gratitude list where I was like smiling while I did it, almost getting emotional for some of the things that I'm grateful for. Step two, I start asking for stuff. I want stuff just like my son is asking me for things all the time. I'm asking my divine father, or divine mother or universe or whatever it is for you, Jesus, Allah, nature, mathematics, the quantum field. I'm asking for stuff. I ask for strength. I ask for protection. I ask for supernatural abundance and influence. I ask God to open the minds of others to receive my work. And you know what's interesting is this is the first time that I've ever asked for something or decided something or wrote down a goal, let's call it. But because of the format of asking God and feeling like I'm in communion with God as a result of writing and slowing and having just thanked God for all of the things in my life and feeling that connection with God at this time, early in the morning, when I'm asking God for these things I want, I literally feel like they're already done because how could they not be? It's God. Scripture tells us, God gives you everything that you ask for. He hears it before we even ask. He responds before we can even hear, right. So it's like, I believe that all the things I'm writing down the moment I ask are in the process of materializing for me. And this is something that we teach as part of our teachings and a practice to engage in. But this communion journaling has allowed me to actually feel it. All the things that I've asked for, everything from liberation of my mind, protection from my family, private jets, so I can travel around the world with ease and rapidly and spreading the word of God through the way he speaks through me. 2000 people at my next event, becoming president of the United States in 2032. It's done as far as I'm concerned, as I'm in this communion journaling process. And so I write until there isn't anything else I need right now. I know that I'm going to write tomorrow, too. I don't have to cram it all in. There's not a lot of resistance or doing it perfectly. Then the third thing is, I pray for others. Others and do it all in the name of God. I'm like, God, Jesus, I know that you have the capacity to create or accomplish anything. So I pray for this person who lost their child, that they can navigate through it and return to emotional stability and still feel that amazing connection with the son that she lost and give her some understanding of why this happened so that she can grow and learn from it and the knowingness that she's going to see him again in eternity. I pray for my friends who are struggling financially, that they find financial prosperity and abundance and heal what is inside of them that needs to be healed, that is preventing them from experiencing what is natural in terms of prosperity and abundance. I pray for the world. I pray for the people in Gaza. I pray for the Israelis. I started praying for people that I wanted to help. And I started praying for the people who I felt were persecuting them, praying for the softening of their hearts. So I moved into prayer, and then naturally I moved into Lord's prayer. I concluded my prayers for others, knowing that they will be fulfilled. Because I'm asking who? I'm asking God. I'm asking my higher power. I'm asking infinite intelligence. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. And in this way, if I write every day, which I love doing right now, it juices me up, like I said, more than anything else that I could get started in the day. I do three prayers a day. I'm praying a thousand prayers for maybe a thousand people over the course of a year. How amazing is that? We know how prayer technology works. When you pray for others, that vibration is active in you, and so you receive all the benefits that you're praying for others for. So not only is it an amazing thing for me to ask my God to help those people who I care about in an intentional way, but I get that back. It's a thousands of thanksgivings that I do on an annual basis. It's thousands of decisions and declarations of what God shall give me. And so I'll read you a little bit from today's journaling just so you can get a feel for it. I say, I ask you, father, for continued lifting of my emotional and psychological burdens. Take from me my worries. I can barely read what I write, but alleviate my impatience. Give me even more trust and faith in you, in your ways, in the body that you have given me, in the judgment of others, and trust that I don't need to figure it out or manage it all. Give me spiritual, physical, emotional, psychological strength. Free my mind of the turbulence and the monkey mind, that I may be present to the beauty of each moment, that I may find silence inside and see you and hear you in that secret place. Beautiful stuff, right? I'm like, where is this language coming from? It's coming from the fact that I'm just slowing down and allowing it to work through my body and work into the pen. Give me supernatural wealth and influence. Lead me to those who would help me do your will and your work in the world. Bring me those who I can help transform, that they may become powerful evangelists of our work in the world. Set free the millions who have been waiting for your word, that they may finally feel peace in the messages I deliver on your behalf. Right. Allow the portals to open and set forth your armies of light, that they may orchestrate the greatest transition and preparation and way for me and my place in the highest office of the land. I ask, o Lord, for your guidance this day and every day. What is it you ask me to do? I am exhilarated to do your work. Give me a more responsibility and bring me even more opportunity. I'm ready to do the work. So, again, that was an example of what I'm asking for.

But there's three parts to the communion journaling process. Number one, what you're grateful for. Thank you. Higher power. Number two, what you want, I declare and ask for this higher power. And here's why. It's in the name of you. It's in the service of humanity. It's to do your work in the world. This is how you remove the ego from it. It's fine to have a dream home. I think that's amazing. Ask for it. It's fine for a plane. But notice as I was riding, I'm like, I'd like a private jet so that I can travel the world with ease and bring your work to every country in the world and travel with my family, because it's all for you. It's all for this work. It's all for my mission in this world. And then the third thing is, pray for other people. This is the most powerful vibration raising exercise I have ever been in in my entire life. And after I finish writing, I meditate for ten to 20 minutes just to still my mind and stay in the space of my prayers and my gratitudes and my declarations. And then after that, I go walk out the door of my studio, out onto the grass I stand in the beautiful sun of the early morning sunrise. I ground my feet for about five minutes. I take some deep breaths and then I walk upstairs and I start my day. So there's no right way or wrong way to do this, but just an encouragement to use this great power of journaling to deepen your relationship with yourself, to deepen your relationship with the higher power of your own understanding, and to get your day started on the right vibration and with right thinking. So if you love this episode, let me know. I'm also thinking of creating a communion journal to actually offer to you where you can go through this process. It'll incorporate things from my mind hack program so you can wake up and set some intentions, work through some limiting beliefs, go through the communion journaling process. If that's of interest to you, just comment in the comments. It's a lot of work to build something like that. But if that's something that would excite you guys to have a structure and a process to connect more deeply with your higher power in the morning, to be in prayer, to be in gratitude, and to shed some of the limiting beliefs every single morning, it would be a pleasure for me to create something like that. And if you love this episode or you have any questions, comment below. Let me know if you're following on YouTube, of course. Subscribe hit that bell icon so you get reminders, because that's really the only way you get reminders these days. And share this episode with a friend who may need to hear it if you're listening on the audio platforms. Thank you so much. Leave me a rating or a review that is like I literally checked two times a day. I'm like, did we get any more ratings or reviews? You will light my day up. That is the best way to pay it forward. Subscribe rate Review Share this work and let's stay in this community together. I will continue to bring you tools, distinctions, my personal process, what's working so that we can continue to grow, involve as a community and really create a new world out of creating new versions of ourselves. I love you so much and I will see you in the next episode. Hey, it's David. One more thing. If you want to go even deeper on everything we've talked about on today's episode, don't forget to jump over to www.davidbear.com. you can find the link in the show notes and subscribe to our newsletter. A couple of times a week I'm going to be sending you the latest episodes that we've released along with additional free trainings, you'll get immediate access to my free mindhack ebook and go even deeper into all the tools, the technologies and the frameworks that have helped tens of thousands of people established a changed mind. Don't forget to jump on over to the site and I will see you in the next episode.