Language = Positive Affirmations Imagination = Visualization of success This is what we do in coaching and self development sessions. My guess is that if you waited 7 seconds or more then your emotions will shift in the direction of your imagination or affirmations. Step one: Calm down and keep silent for 10 or 15 seconds. Step two: Start imagining the outcome you want in the situation at hand Step three: Go ahead and do what you have to do. meeting, speech, etc... I personally use and coach people to wait 20 seconds before reacting to an angry or agitated partner's threats. This proved successful over and over again.
This is one of the best talks! Most people are so out of touch with themselves they assume they’re acting in the now when they’re really reacting from the past. We need to become more Present and Mindful in the Moment so we can fully witness ourselves! 💜 Thank You 😊
***** I'm afraid you would be incorrect in your assumption. I provided a detailed and free 'how to video' a week after the talk. Ted is about spreading an idea and starting a discussion. I believe how the conscious/unconscious divide as represented did just this. Thanks Alistair
Alistair Horscroft I've heard a bit about you. My friend has mentioned you a few times before linking me to this talk. Ahem. Mr. Horscroft, you have a lot of crucial knowledge that I am extremely passionate to have a wholesome understanding of. What would you recommend as the first step in achieving such a feat?
NSLM Hi, thanks for your interest. I would start with these books: Free Will by Sam Harris Monsters and Magical Sticks by Steven Heller Tranceformations by Bandler and Grinder The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy by Louis Cozolino this would at least give you a sense of similar thinking to myself and they are all enjoyable reads in themselves ! all the best Alistair
Alistair Horscroft oh man...zzz couldn't get through them all, but the fist one taught me that it wasn't my fault. (like vise this comment is without a point, it just is.)
The conclusion is very clear, as clear as you can vividly remember the spaces you were just put in as he 'hypnotized' you with unholy amount of film references for the seven second lead your sub-conscious has to choose the opposite decision. He was providing the conclusion with the explanation of it as you bounced from defining the space and demonstrating it by taking you there which controls the phobic( the thing he takes for seven second to 'space'' ). He told you he it can't be accepted by just telling you 'stop it' was put in our brain, he put it there when you were in the space. Your brain now has that tool. When Bill Hicks pointed out if your phobia was really true to you you woudn't be doing it in the erratic ways your conscience is running up buildings to prove it. Wow, this is why he had to do it like this. You cannot just tell the person but you must use functional programming. Bravo.
A great video. I remember that six years ago I started watching TED Talks because I wanted to improve my English. But over time I have fallen in love with them. I can easily say that I have learnt a lot from these videos than I have learnt from my parent or even teacher. I am not saying that I am a successful man but a huge portion of all I have owes its presence to these TED Talks
TED is lately abundant on the "happiness" topic. Depression, why people are unhappy, how to believe in yourself, etc. It's actually very simple: the peer pressure is making you a competitive animal to achieve and achieve non stop. Go simple, minimalist, and never aim higher. You will find your peace.
Omg, brilliant, where has this video been. Why isn’t this a widespread practice- because it would actual solve problems , issues, behavior change. Amazing , simply amazing
Alistor, I appreciate your talk and I am surprised by the people that have expressed negative comments but I shouldn't be, and this why: I spend a lot of time on TH-cam looking for content to help me navigate life. like a lot of people I find myself feeling extremely empty after decades of work and difficult relationships. I went to a doctor for help and he suggested some types of therapy. I googled the suggestions and I was surprised to find a lot of negative comments about his suggestions. I went back to the doctor and told him of my findings. He chuckled and said that is typical in the internet self diagnosis culture. He explained that so many people today will go to professional for help, then go to the internet to find additional information and attempt to supersede the professional advice. People do this in everything from medical to spiritual advice trying to make themselves the ultimate expert on the universe. But the most important point he made was I failed to see the millions of people that were helped by the suggested therapy because the people that were better rarely take the time to acknowledge it since they were now busy with their lives due to the healing. Conversely, the people that complained about the therapy were the minority that for a number of reasons didn't get any better and probably never will. I was also looking for more solution out of what you talked about but the simple math is you gave way more than you were paid. Thank you and blessings! ps. I wrote this one my pillow with one eye peering out of my glasses so please excuse any typos or grammar errors all of you that are so hell bent on criticism that you have to pick on language skills over content:-)
+Michael Work Hi Michael, thanks for your comments, feedback and support. I was told that negative comments out do positive ones on the internet around the 3 to 1 mark, so this is to be expected. Unfortunately there isn't one solution, there are many. The take away I was hoping people would connect with was simply that attempting to make change without taking into account the reality of unconscious processing maybe a significant factor in lack of progress. I will be starting a blog in the coming weeks and will have the time and space to provide more solution orientated information. Thanks again. All the very best, Alistair
What knowledge wasn't shared? You were introduced to very valuable research (unless you already knew it), you were given a few cool metaphors for how to understand the issue. The talk met the title and subtitle 'Change your life, but is it really that easy?". There is a free follow up video for those wanting the 'how'. I think that people are so used to getting 'answers for free' that the don't seek conversations. Ted asked me to start a conversation, not give the answers to life, the universe and everything in 15 minutes. In spite of this, the conclusion to the talk could have been better, I agree, so all good.
Where is the Video to the How Alistair? I am very interrested. I thought it was a great ted talk. I loved how you explained the different speeds. Its a great metaphor for explaining the importance and power of the unconcious vs the concious.
I appreciated your talk and great info shared, and the energy you put in as well, unfortunately and as a result of reading your responses so far, it gives a feeling (even if it's not true) that you are not even sure of the solution yourself (which I would like to doubt), that is the last impression I am having (or was it a management/organisation problem with TED, or you didn't have time to adapt your talk on time?,) but I feel like this was made purposefully like this, but if that is the case by a part of TED talks, if it's a design decision or market testing, I find it's a very very bad model, the final learner's experience is very bad, and you can only feel it in the comments: from what I remember (my impression) is that about 75% of TED talks I watched on TH-cam, give precise, very constructed solutions, which completes my learner's experience in a very pleasant way (AND the lasting memory about that expert is only excellent), and, unfortunately 2: this is not the same when those 25% remaining ones (again just my experience) gave no solution at all: we obviously can look for solutions ourselves, as learners, yet there's always a big advantage in learning what an expert actually thinks, we can still disagree (even if we're not experts ourselves), we can find other complementary, or maybe better solutions, who knows, but each expert has his approach, believes in particular solutions more than others and explains why he/she does so, that's exactly why they're an expert... so, as I said I appreciated your talk and energy, but cutting out the solution feels like a huge waste...
Reading comments lower, Alistair said the video is caled "7 seconds continuing the conversation," I found the video and the current title is "7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation" Link: /watch?v=hBe30uFBZ3c
You refer to a second video many times. I have not searched for it but I will. I have just started my degree classes and I am majoring in psychology with a focus on behavior changes. I love to learn and discover new behaviors based on my hidden mind. I can't wait to learn more. It would be helpful if maybe you could post where to find your second video. But for now, the search is on. I think it is great that you comment on all your comments. It shows great dedication.
This starts off ok, I was glad to see a Bill Hicks reference, loved the bit about how we need to create a space using our imagination to conquer and preceed our unconscious dread and then it ended.
People are trying to find out the gist of this speech. So, let me say. The speaker mainly wanted to say we're much more driven by our unconscious mind than we think. He said whenever you're about to take a decision in our conscious mind the decision is already made by our unconscious mind 7 second earlier. That's why the speaker urged to give value on that unconscious mind if anyone want to change his life from one state to another. And, all sorts of professionals who work with human psychology should also emphasize on that unconscious mind of their patient. Thank you.
Nice talk. Well presented. Yes, thats what I initally thought too: 'wheres the solution?' Actually it dawned upom me later that its the lazy side of the brain that seeks immediate solutions without having to make any exertion. The talk stimulates the active side of the brain which has now, for me at least, begun to seriously seek some solutions to the problems. Thanks a ton!!
That was a great talk. I liked your presence and giving clear examples. As to people who are dissatisfied because they didn't get the answer to solving their problems for free - or were somehow taken advantage of by this - come on. Really ask yourselves when have you given away the essence of your profession for free? Or could you even do so in 20 minutes even if you wanted to? Get real. This guy gave good info and you can follow up on it with him or a book or whatever. If this was a waste of your time then that result is on you.
Hey guys, so just before the thirteenth minute he mentions his solution which is a new term he has coined ''functional awareness... neutralising the amygdala bypassing association of the critical faculty so that we can think about what we need to think about.'' I think he is talking about activating Gamma brainwave frequencies in the mind? as this frequency becomes present through meditation and hypnosis. Great talk!
HE never actually comes to a conclusion?! He says "how do we do this" and then doesn't actually say how to do it. I would guess that he wanted to say more but then ran out of time and had to cut out the actual solution! As it happens the solution is exactly what I talk about in my workshops and simply put it's to get someone else to ask you questions about why you have the belief you have that is influencing your subconscious mind to generate these thoughts and feelings so fast that your conscious brain has no chance to step in and frankly say "stop it". A good NLP practitioner can ask you questions to elicit the subconscious beliefs and so that your conscious brain can understand what's going on and start to rewire your brain, so that we can get the subconscious brain to start working FOR us rather than AGAINST us. A really basic way to do this is to get someone else to ask you "why do you think that" until you have dug down to the real answer, sometimes you will find young children are the best at this and they just say "why"... and if you start saying "just because" then you have not yet dug far enough down to understand the problem.... and/or you are unwilling to change your beliefs
Hi John, thanks for your input. The reality is that we have to present our talks twice to the organisers before they green light it. I had a conclusion that was more solution focused, but they requested this was deleted and I kept with the Ted idea of starting a conversation. Cheers, Alistair (oh and I do think that a good NLP practitioner will focus more on how that why ! The irony)
+John V Denley the problem is that the talk us titled "7 seconds to change your life" but there is no "how to do this" at the end of your talk. You just say "if the other professions can understand that the unconscious mind is running 7 seconds ahead of the conscious mind then we will be more successful at helping people" but the talk title suggests that the individual can do something to change their own lives, but gives no clue as to how they can do this!! As a brief example I was helping someone yesterday and they had a fear of having a blood test... Sure enough the unconscious mind was kicking in 7 seconds before the conscious mind (actually it seemed to be more like about 10 minutes but anyway...) the conclusion was that if they knew they had an appointment, they could actively prepare for the appointment by making changes to their behaviour (this changing state) about 5 minutes before the fear started to kick in and thus minimise the effects of the fear without having to do any other therapy... Now of course there are more effective phobia removal techniques we can use, but that was a strategy to help that she could do herself straight away
Hi, no there was not a solution as many have said. My brief from Ted was to start a conversation. I did that. The full title was '7 seconds to change your life, is it really that easy'. The aim of the talk providing the research in a fun way that the reason change is hard is because of the conscious delay to the unconscious processing. I understand many peoples expectations were not met, and I can understand they feel this way, but at the end of the day, that was neither the purpose or the intent of the 14 minute talk. If people could be bothered they would find a lot of fee 'solutions' and 'how to' provided free by me. Best, Alistair
Believe that you can overcome, latch on to it, and focus on it. He said it in a round a bout way, but that is the overarching message I saw. I will have to re watch it with the sound on at some point.
Thanks for watching and commenting. As mentioned, 'belief without evidence' can lead to some tricky situations. I was presenting more an 'idea' than a message. The idea being that change requires an understanding of how the conscious / unconscious relationship works.
I would from that guess understanding how it works will help you overcome. Belief would be implicit from the proof you uncover. Time for more research... I appreciate the critical feedback, and the talk. Thank you so much!
It's a pleasure, TED and TEDx are about presenting an idea and then opening a discussion up... You are absolutely right, most of the time a new belief can be formed through the proof you uncover, but not always. Even in the face of 'evidence' and 'proof' people can still not change their beliefs. Faith is a good example of this. I am working on a few follow up videos to open up the discussion further. Thanks again for your interest and insight.
The 5 second rule is best so far. As soon as you want something or think of something or anything you would like, you have 5 seconds to act. I started using this method and now my unconscious mind automatically counts down 5sec, as soon as I get a thought. In these 5 secons I have 3 choises. -Do it! -HandBRAKE! (and put in on the future shelf, where most people have alot of stuff) -Or just decide that its a bad idea, eg hurting someone else or it's just simply stupid. The trick of this is to FORCE yourself off your ass and actually do what you love. Still using it for small actions, but I'm working on getting this done for bigger decitions as well, guess some handbraks are still used.
+Robin Johansson Never heard about the "5 seconds rule" but it sounds like exactly what I need. Thanks man! If you have an specific video link or site about it I would really appreciate, I've got the feeling it will make a huge change on me
Behavioural therapists are like Magicians, they do not give out their secrets. This guy just increased his hourly rate and client numbers with this show. Interesting, but a bit mean.
The "hidden gem" behind this video is that patience, perseverance and determination are all important and relative in making progress towards changing your life in the ways that you want to. I honestly expected to hear a 3 step system of some sort from the speaker, but I guess that's what many of us were expecting based on the other comments that I've read. Is it because that's what we're used to? It seems that we've been spoon fed a lot of the answers over the course of our lives, so much so that we cannot sit through a 14 minute video and accept that sometimes, people just don't make any sense. Good thing I've been meditating more or I wouldn't have been able to make it through.
I'll save you 15 min and summarize this brilliant talk "Practice!". Yep, fear is your brain doing what it did the last time this (whatever you are afraid of) happened - which for most people quite often is never!
I thought it was a great insight and explanation into how the mind processes thoughts in certain situations. What to do with it or how to change it is up to you to figure out and find a method that works best for you! Thank you Alistair , i really enjoyed it !
The best thing about TED talks is that there are so many good ones which when your combine them with background reading makes up for the gaps in knowledge. Alistair provided an interesting potted alternative to Daniel Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 brain theory. The problem that still exists and which still remains a bit of a mystery is whether sustained present moment awareness is sufficient. Can we observe our 'experiencing brain' making the same mistakes or do we need to anticipate situations with a learned pre-cognition 'Do'. At the moment I am inclined to fall in favour of Brian Fletcher's and Karen Pine's 'Do Something Different' approach. Eckhart Tolle's certainly seems to have taken this route though his default position seems to rely on the 'observing' self. B.J. Fogg behavioural change approach gives us a clue at what Alistair is intimating but it would have been better had he illustrated this more clearly.
+Tim Rickard Hi Tim, thanks for your considered response. A blog is soon to arrive where discussion can continue and more clarity given. For now I will re-post this: The idea of functional awareness is not just hypnosis or mediation, even though they are both functional states. For example if you look at the brain (through eeg kit) in mediation while doing a 'mantra based' mediation as opposed to a 'being aware of the breath' mediation they have different effects. Hypnosis as a functional state is good for certain outcomes (often more so than meditation) yet meditation can teach us that we are not our thoughts (a useful skill). Training too much alpha, or too much beta or exclusive training in one functional state I believe does not create the plasticity that most people are looking for. Although the experiences of people like Eckhart Tolle provide some interest, I feel that for many they set up spirituality or 'living in the now' as 'an achievement' 'bestowed' as opposed to trained... thanks for your thoughts and interest. All the best Alistair
Psycho-cybernetics is one of my favourite books....literally falling apart at the seams as I read and re-read it......when my signal gets better will watch the video too.
Lots of people on here talking about a follow-up video. I searched 7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation and it just brings me back to this video what's going on man?
This was an infomercial for this man's services. How do you stop this? You punish TED (or TEDx, because TED is normally very solid). Do it. TED does not stand for "Teasers Eliciting Dollars."
Wutzthedeal TED is about starting a conversation not providing a solution to life, the universe and everything. There is a stringent process that we have to go through where we deliver our talk twice to the organisers, so that the talk follows TED guidelines. As for informercial, yes and no. Yes, because of of course all speakers are there to hopefully get interest from viewers. No, as the information provided opens up plenty of avenues for inquiry that don't cost a thing. It free remember.
+Nahellenia Salt I think engaging with the people who watched the video is what TEDx is about. It's a shame that I have to clarify assumptions as opposed to engaging in more useful inquiry, but I will do so when those assumptions are simply incorrect.
Alistair Horscroft Which is, sadly, my point. The room left for incorrect/unfortunate assumptions is so wide that it leaves few opportunities to understand what you intended and have those worthwhile conversations. I'm sure it is as upsetting for you as it is for us to have put time and effort into this only to come away feeling wasted, ill-used, misled and discouraged.
+Nahellenia Salt Wow ! You really do seem to have taken your response to a 14 minute video that actually does provide some quality info quite far. Why not ask a question? request more info? pursue the research presented? In life not all the work is always done for us, sometimes we need to engage in a conversation, and seek more. If this topic really does interest you why not engage with me in an intelligent manner? Or perhaps the comments section is just a place you enjoy expressing discontent at free information for your own reasons...?
Inspiring speech and insightful creation of the terminology, "functional awareness". Liked the metaphor of the two buttons on the game show as the conscious and unconscious mind. It is great that through neuroscience we are understanding much more about how the brain processes our experiences and how this evidence shows us that real change will only come by changing our unconscious minds.
All these people complaining page after page. I too, was a bit confused at the end but I took the time to read a comment or two. Guess what I found Mr Horscroft answering some comments. He actually gives an explanation.
+TheCandyoung, the following methods will help you do what he talks about: Sedona Methods, EFT, TIR, NLP's Swish technique, etc. These are great for neutralizing unneeded reflexes. They are *essentially* the same approaches and differ from each other on the surface.
Alistair Horscroft, I suggest that you read carefully the comments to your video. Then, if they move something inside you, try and create a different video, same subject, but remade after your listners critiques. I'm sure many listeners will be very grateful.
He is to the point but its subtle. He's saying: Understand subconscious dominance, use language and imagination for 7 minutes, accept and understand changes imagined and felt in our brains are more likely cause the desired change.
Alistair it is important to share your ideas. Keep exploring the human psyche. The subconscious mind is a powerful tool. I know that for a lot of people in first world countries, space can be hard to find. Maybe because crazy phat cats are pushing them to buy useless shit all day. Human beings are complicated beautiful machines. Love ya man. Keep up the good work.
I see that I need to take a look at the comments before I listen to a TED talk twice--yeah, twice. I thought I had missed the point the first time around. I get the dumbo of the day award for that.
Space/Functional Awareness is... Making change you need to soothe the amygdala. So it has a neutral emotional response and then give information and suggestions in such a way that it is not critiqued - it is just accepted as the new behavior. He compares this to hypnosis and meditative where the mind is the passive observer. Basically, use your seven seconds to accept a new suggestion without judgment or criticism, then act in a way that accepts the neutral suggestion.
Totally agree. Seems his sole reason for speaking is to push his name out there to boost his book sales (-_-) I'd rather hear a talk from the "people far smarter than me" that he alludes to..
Thanks for your feedback. Upon watching it, I can see that there could be an expectation for a 'solution'. The talk was less aimed at explaining how to overcome issues, more as to why it can be hard to overcome issue. With a focus on explaining clearly the relationship between the conscious and unconscious in a grounded, understandable way. I will put a video up as to the 'how' soon...
Alistair Horscroft To be fair, you go over some very interesting points that I'd not heard elsewhere, and cite important names specifically, which is great. In fact, just had a quick read of John-Dylan Haynes' 2008 paper, and found that (as with this video) very little in the way of implications were discussed. Its a shame, since the implications of research are usually the most interesting bit, even if the answer is "we just don't know" (so long as it is followed by a "but this is what we/they're doing to find out!").
I felt frustrated at the end of the talk. Reading the comments confirmed that it was a feeling shared by many. Other comments confirmed that indeed, there were useful information given in this talk. At the end, it is our task to keep digging and reflecting (reading the comments and exchanging points of view are good examples) to get the most of it. I will be eternally grateful to TED and the community to create the space for that. What I will remember from this talk is : The power of meditation, language and imagination ... and this sneaky unconscious imAGiin
+Samir Hamidi Hi Samir, thanks for your interest. Yes, there does seem to be dissapointment that I didn't give enough of a 'how to' at the end. So I responded with a follow up video. You can find it by just putting in '7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation (you tube wont let me share the direct link anymore). More than happy to answer your questions under that video. All the best, Alistair
I think that the real problem is that people want everything told to them and can’t take the tools that were talked about and figure it out for themselves. It was very interesting.
He's talking about the trance state that hypnosis and meditation can produce, where we lose awareness of our physical body and our environment and we become pure consciousness, from that state we can literally change our feelings very quickly and effectively, it's actually quite shocking how effective it is.
I had to listen to it again to really grasp the solution the speaker was attempting to convey. I'm still unsure of what that was. I wish the focus was more on methods of achieving the peace required to make changes than continually talking about the problems. Thank you though!
Hi Paula, thanks for feedback, Ted is about starting a conversation. That's the brief we are given, not really about providing solutions (although some do). There is follow up called '7 seconds continuing the conversation' if that is of interest.
it was actually 14 minutes and absolutely no info on what actually " change your life in 7 seconds" meant. sounds like a comedian and entertaining and thats it.
Mimi von der Ostee Title: 7 Seconds to Change Your Life Synopsis: Just 'change your life'... but is it really that easy? Find out why 7 seconds can make all the difference. Reading the Synopsis might help with not wasting time. Thanks !
Mimi von der Ostee The 5 second rule is best so far. As soon as you want something or think of something or anything you would like, you have 5 seconds to act. I started using this method and now my unconscious mind automatically counts down 5sec, as soon as I get a thought. In these 5 secons I have 3 choises. -Do it! -HandBRAKE! (and put in on the future shelf, where most people have alot of stuff) -Or just decide that its a bad idea, eg hurting someone else or it's just simply stupid. The trick of this is to FORCE yourself off your ass and actually do what you love. Still using it for small actions, but I'm working on getting this done for bigger decitions as well, guess some handbraks are still used.
It is hard to change the channel. What we have to do first is to interrupt it by turning off the TV channel that is on the Basil Ganglia, the channel in you brain for routine behaviours or “habits” and turn your brain back on with the Prefrontal Cortex channels running.
It's just too simple for most people to get because we have been conditioned to believe it's complicated. 1. Language 2. Imagination. 1st, become aware of what you are saying. 2nd, imagine the life you want and what you have to say in order to have the life you want. 3rd, Change your language, your self-talk. That's it. Stop trying to make it complicated. It's very simple.
This ted talks comes with an interesting observation, decision of the conscious mind are first made in the unconscious or sub conscious mind. So if you clear the cuttler or work on improving your sub consciousn beliefs, it will automatically translate into better decisions taken conciously.
@@Heddlo2005 Agreed. Visualization of healing does help the subconscious mind body connection though. There is a lot of science to support this. Scientific support for God's existence. Zilch.
Guys... Oh my god. The conclusion is that once you are AWARE and understand how your subconscious tricks you, it is far easier to tackle this problems.
I thought the solution was to create spaces in your mind where you actually start making change subconsciously, he may not himself fully be aware of them but he did urge people who are in the position to do so and look at it from the subconscious perspective. He mentioned meditating and hypnosis as being somewhat capable , share knowledge doesn’t mean having the answer but even if his provided 20% it’s still progress in better understanding our behavior
12:13 hypnosis, meditation 12:54 functional awareness , think about what we want to think about 13:06 how do we do it? --- tips are here , use the power of language and imagination to create space , but how exactly??? by finishing his the Government-accredited vocational Diploma of Modern Psychology ?????
+thunder lei Not at all. You can continue the conversation by searching for '7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation'. I can't put the link in any more times because you-tube won't accept the link anymore. The idea of functional awareness is not just hypnosis or mediation, even though they are both functional states. For example if you look at the brain (through eeg kit) in mediation while doing a 'mantra based' mediation as opposed to a 'being aware of the breath' mediation they have different effects. Hypnosis as a functional state is good for certain outcomes (often more so than meditation) yet meditation can teach us that we are not our thoughts (a useful skill). Training too much alpha, or too much beta or exclusive training in one functional state I believe does not create the plasticity that most people are looking for. Thanks for your interest.
This was good knowledge. However, I felt that he never got to the punchline! I was waiting for a success story or a practical example of his technique. Oh well, I will now go back to observing my unconscious mind make decisions 7 seconds before I am aware of it.
This was a very good talk but I was expecting something more specific at the end... Use your mind and imagination and language? Is he referring to NLP to create "functional awareness" or is he still working on how to implement functional awareness. Abrupt ending but still very good. Thanks to Mr Horsceoft. :)
What I learned here is that almost all our behavior, is made on felling emotion, we need learn and practice SELF CONTROL 😕 THINK BEFORE talk or do something, and try very hard to do it.
Stop trying to change your life and go change someone else's. Our problem is we are consumer whores. Its not so complicated. Go connect. Go play. Go learn. Go share. Go Give your time to a community that doesn't just work to make a few people rich. Create art. Destroy it. Don't get attached. Attachment is suffering. Love and remember who you are. Human.
Hello Mr horsecroft. I have very much enjoyed your talk . I need to ask you a question to deep my understanding toward your theory. So, do we activate or use your tactic of functional awareness? thanks.
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Language = Positive Affirmations
Imagination = Visualization of success
This is what we do in coaching and self development sessions. My guess is that if you waited 7 seconds or more then your emotions will shift in the direction of your imagination or affirmations.
Step one: Calm down and keep silent for 10 or 15 seconds.
Step two: Start imagining the outcome you want in the situation at hand
Step three: Go ahead and do what you have to do. meeting, speech, etc...
I personally use and coach people to wait 20 seconds before reacting to an angry or agitated partner's threats. This proved successful over and over again.
This is one of the best talks! Most people are so out of touch with themselves they assume they’re acting in the now when they’re really reacting from the past. We need to become more Present and Mindful in the Moment so we can fully witness ourselves! 💜 Thank You 😊
Eagerly watched this video and it made a lot of sense right up until the end when there was no real explanation as to how to us the "space".
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I'm afraid you would be incorrect in your assumption. I provided a detailed and free 'how to video' a week after the talk. Ted is about spreading an idea and starting a discussion. I believe how the conscious/unconscious divide as represented did just this. Thanks Alistair
Alistair Horscroft I've heard a bit about you. My friend has mentioned you a few times before linking me to this talk.
Ahem. Mr. Horscroft, you have a lot of crucial knowledge that I am extremely passionate to have a wholesome understanding of.
What would you recommend as the first step in achieving such a feat?
NSLM
Hi, thanks for your interest. I would start with these books:
Free Will by Sam Harris
Monsters and Magical Sticks by Steven Heller
Tranceformations by Bandler and Grinder
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy by Louis Cozolino
this would at least give you a sense of similar thinking to myself and they are all enjoyable reads in themselves !
all the best
Alistair
Alistair Horscroft oh man...zzz couldn't get through them all, but the fist one taught me that it wasn't my fault.
(like vise this comment is without a point, it just is.)
Who Knows Exactly. This guy is a small minded person trying to keep his "knowledge" a secret. So much against what TED stands for...
The conclusion is very clear, as clear as you can vividly remember the spaces you were just put in as he 'hypnotized' you with unholy amount of film references for the seven second lead your sub-conscious has to choose the opposite decision. He was providing the conclusion with the explanation of it as you bounced from defining the space and demonstrating it by taking you there which controls the phobic( the thing he takes for seven second to 'space'' ). He told you he it can't be accepted by just telling you 'stop it' was put in our brain, he put it there when you were in the space. Your brain now has that tool. When Bill Hicks pointed out if your phobia was really true to you you woudn't be doing it in the erratic ways your conscience is running up buildings to prove it. Wow, this is why he had to do it like this. You cannot just tell the person but you must use functional programming. Bravo.
"Surely, surely if you really believed that you could fly, you would try taking off from the ground first!"
+Makes REALLY good sense!
A great video. I remember that six years ago I started watching TED Talks because I wanted to improve my English. But over time I have fallen in love with them. I can easily say that I have learnt a lot from these videos than I have learnt from my parent or even teacher. I am not saying that I am a successful man but a huge portion of all I have owes its presence to these TED Talks
Ok. I Wana too learning English how you can help me
I had to watch it three times - I thought that I was missing the explanation. There isn't one!
Wish I'd read this comment before I wasted 7 minutes and 36 seconds of my life.
Came to look in comments for the same reason!
youre right
nothing explained
Well I’m a stop 10 seconds in since I see these comments
thanks mate
you saved my time
time is valuable
...the longest 7 seconds I've ever spent.
+Man Hattan hah
youre right
nothing explained
TED is lately abundant on the "happiness" topic. Depression, why people are unhappy, how to believe in yourself, etc. It's actually very simple: the peer pressure is making you a competitive animal to achieve and achieve non stop. Go simple, minimalist, and never aim higher. You will find your peace.
Awareness is everything!
Omg, brilliant, where has this video been. Why isn’t this a widespread practice- because it would actual solve problems , issues, behavior change. Amazing , simply amazing
very nice explanation , thank you very much,Mitiku from Ethiopia
Alistor, I appreciate your talk and I am surprised by the people that have expressed negative comments but I shouldn't be, and this why: I spend a lot of time on TH-cam looking for content to help me navigate life. like a lot of people I find myself feeling extremely empty after decades of work and difficult relationships. I went to a doctor for help and he suggested some types of therapy. I googled the suggestions and I was surprised to find a lot of negative comments about his suggestions. I went back to the doctor and told him of my findings. He chuckled and said that is typical in the internet self diagnosis culture. He explained that so many people today will go to professional for help, then go to the internet to find additional information and attempt to supersede the professional advice. People do this in everything from medical to spiritual advice trying to make themselves the ultimate expert on the universe. But the most important point he made was I failed to see the millions of people that were helped by the suggested therapy because the people that were better rarely take the time to acknowledge it since they were now busy with their lives due to the healing. Conversely, the people that complained about the therapy were the minority that for a number of reasons didn't get any better and probably never will. I was also looking for more solution out of what you talked about but the simple math is you gave way more than you were paid.
Thank you and blessings!
ps. I wrote this one my pillow with one eye peering out of my glasses so please excuse any typos or grammar errors all of you that are so hell bent on criticism that you have to pick on language skills over content:-)
+Michael Work Hi Michael, thanks for your comments, feedback and support. I was told that negative comments out do positive ones on the internet around the 3 to 1 mark, so this is to be expected. Unfortunately there isn't one solution, there are many. The take away I was hoping people would connect with was simply that attempting to make change without taking into account the reality of unconscious processing maybe a significant factor in lack of progress. I will be starting a blog in the coming weeks and will have the time and space to provide more solution orientated information. Thanks again. All the very best, Alistair
After listening to 100s of TED talks, this is the first talk I felt in which the speaker actually did not want to share his knowledge. Weird indeed!
What knowledge wasn't shared? You were introduced to very valuable research (unless you already knew it), you were given a few cool metaphors for how to understand the issue. The talk met the title and subtitle 'Change your life, but is it really that easy?". There is a free follow up video for those wanting the 'how'. I think that people are so used to getting 'answers for free' that the don't seek conversations. Ted asked me to start a conversation, not give the answers to life, the universe and everything in 15 minutes. In spite of this, the conclusion to the talk could have been better, I agree, so all good.
Where is the Video to the How Alistair?
I am very interrested. I thought it was a great ted talk. I loved how you explained the different speeds. Its a great metaphor for explaining the importance and power of the unconcious vs the concious.
I appreciated your talk and great info shared, and the energy you put in as well, unfortunately and as a result of reading your responses so far, it gives a feeling (even if it's not true) that you are not even sure of the solution yourself (which I would like to doubt), that is the last impression I am having (or was it a management/organisation problem with TED, or you didn't have time to adapt your talk on time?,) but I feel like this was made purposefully like this, but if that is the case by a part of TED talks, if it's a design decision or market testing, I find it's a very very bad model, the final learner's experience is very bad, and you can only feel it in the comments: from what I remember (my impression) is that about 75% of TED talks I watched on TH-cam, give precise, very constructed solutions, which completes my learner's experience in a very pleasant way (AND the lasting memory about that expert is only excellent), and, unfortunately 2: this is not the same when those 25% remaining ones (again just my experience) gave no solution at all: we obviously can look for solutions ourselves, as learners, yet there's always a big advantage in learning what an expert actually thinks, we can still disagree (even if we're not experts ourselves), we can find other complementary, or maybe better solutions, who knows, but each expert has his approach, believes in particular solutions more than others and explains why he/she does so, that's exactly why they're an expert... so, as I said I appreciated your talk and energy, but cutting out the solution feels like a huge waste...
Reading comments lower, Alistair said the video is caled "7 seconds continuing the conversation," I found the video and the current title is "7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation"
Link: /watch?v=hBe30uFBZ3c
UltiminiumX
This is one of the most insightful TH-cam videos I have ever watched. It is really a great work! Thank you very much for your efforts.
This is a great talk to help you understand how your brain works and how you can utilize it to make CHANGE
You refer to a second video many times. I have not searched for it but I will. I have just started my degree classes and I am majoring in psychology with a focus on behavior changes. I love to learn and discover new behaviors based on my hidden mind. I can't wait to learn more. It would be helpful if maybe you could post where to find your second video. But for now, the search is on. I think it is great that you comment on all your comments. It shows great dedication.
I did not comprehend anything from this speech
+Ozzy H I totally agree with you
+Ozzy H Perhaps, cartoons are more your thing.
+humanyoda and so what, if cartoon was my thing
+Ozzy H Maybe you mommy will explain that to you.
+humanyoda "you mommy?" Go learn how to spell first
This starts off ok, I was glad to see a Bill Hicks reference, loved the bit about how we need to create a space using our imagination to conquer and preceed our unconscious dread and then it ended.
As a life coach, I love learning more about how our brains work. I focus on helping people create change so this is very interesting.
Do you mind if you can tell me what is life coach is? What qualification we need to be one?
I took time out of my busy day to watch this. Very good.
haha
TEDx Talks LOL
***** lol
TEDx Talks lol
+TEDx Talks LMAO
Read the comments first and saved my time.
People are trying to find out the gist of this speech. So, let me say. The speaker mainly wanted to say we're much more driven by our unconscious mind than we think. He said whenever you're about to take a decision in our conscious mind the decision is already made by our unconscious mind 7 second earlier. That's why the speaker urged to give value on that unconscious mind if anyone want to change his life from one state to another. And, all sorts of professionals who work with human psychology should also emphasize on that unconscious mind of their patient. Thank you.
Yours speech excellent conversation
Nice talk. Well presented. Yes, thats what I initally thought too: 'wheres the solution?' Actually it dawned upom me later that its the lazy side of the brain that seeks immediate solutions without having to make any exertion. The talk stimulates the active side of the brain which has now, for me at least, begun to seriously seek some solutions to the problems. Thanks a ton!!
That was a great talk. I liked your presence and giving clear examples. As to people who are dissatisfied because they didn't get the answer to solving their problems for free - or were somehow taken advantage of by this - come on. Really ask yourselves when have you given away the essence of your profession for free? Or could you even do so in 20 minutes even if you wanted to? Get real. This guy gave good info and you can follow up on it with him or a book or whatever. If this was a waste of your time then that result is on you.
+David Wicker Thanks David, I appreciate your feedback and glad you enjoyed it. All the best, Alistair
Brilliant talk
Hey guys, so just before the thirteenth minute he mentions his solution which is a new term he has coined ''functional awareness... neutralising the amygdala bypassing association of the critical faculty so that we can think about what we need to think about.'' I think he is talking about activating Gamma brainwave frequencies in the mind? as this frequency becomes present through meditation and hypnosis. Great talk!
HE never actually comes to a conclusion?!
He says "how do we do this" and then doesn't actually say how to do it.
I would guess that he wanted to say more but then ran out of time and had to cut out the actual solution!
As it happens the solution is exactly what I talk about in my workshops and simply put it's to get someone else to ask you questions about why you have the belief you have that is influencing your subconscious mind to generate these thoughts and feelings so fast that your conscious brain has no chance to step in and frankly say "stop it". A good NLP practitioner can ask you questions to elicit the subconscious beliefs and so that your conscious brain can understand what's going on and start to rewire your brain, so that we can get the subconscious brain to start working FOR us rather than AGAINST us.
A really basic way to do this is to get someone else to ask you "why do you think that" until you have dug down to the real answer, sometimes you will find young children are the best at this and they just say "why"... and if you start saying "just because" then you have not yet dug far enough down to understand the problem.... and/or you are unwilling to change your beliefs
Hi John, thanks for your input. The reality is that we have to present our talks twice to the organisers before they green light it. I had a conclusion that was more solution focused, but they requested this was deleted and I kept with the Ted idea of starting a conversation. Cheers, Alistair (oh and I do think that a good NLP practitioner will focus more on how that why ! The irony)
+Alistair Horscroft
Yes, in practice as a practitioner, you would indeed ask how, more than why, I agree!
+John V Denley the problem is that the talk us titled "7 seconds to change your life" but there is no "how to do this" at the end of your talk. You just say "if the other professions can understand that the unconscious mind is running 7 seconds ahead of the conscious mind then we will be more successful at helping people" but the talk title suggests that the individual can do something to change their own lives, but gives no clue as to how they can do this!!
As a brief example I was helping someone yesterday and they had a fear of having a blood test... Sure enough the unconscious mind was kicking in 7 seconds before the conscious mind (actually it seemed to be more like about 10 minutes but anyway...) the conclusion was that if they knew they had an appointment, they could actively prepare for the appointment by making changes to their behaviour (this changing state) about 5 minutes before the fear started to kick in and thus minimise the effects of the fear without having to do any other therapy... Now of course there are more effective phobia removal techniques we can use, but that was a strategy to help that she could do herself straight away
Hi, no there was not a solution as many have said. My brief from Ted was to start a conversation. I did that. The full title was '7 seconds to change your life, is it really that easy'. The aim of the talk providing the research in a fun way that the reason change is hard is because of the conscious delay to the unconscious processing.
I understand many peoples expectations were not met, and I can understand they feel this way, but at the end of the day, that was neither the purpose or the intent of the 14 minute talk.
If people could be bothered they would find a lot of fee 'solutions' and 'how to' provided free by me.
Best, Alistair
+Alistair Horscroft thank u
very good speech...
Step one : Accept your reality
Step two : Feed you brain
step three : Functional awareness
I GUESS IM CLOSE ENOUGH
Believe that you can overcome, latch on to it, and focus on it.
He said it in a round a bout way, but that is the overarching message I saw.
I will have to re watch it with the sound on at some point.
Thanks for watching and commenting. As mentioned, 'belief without evidence' can lead to some tricky situations. I was presenting more an 'idea' than a message. The idea being that change requires an understanding of how the conscious / unconscious relationship works.
I would from that guess understanding how it works will help you overcome. Belief would be implicit from the proof you uncover. Time for more research...
I appreciate the critical feedback, and the talk. Thank you so much!
It's a pleasure, TED and TEDx are about presenting an idea and then opening a discussion up...
You are absolutely right, most of the time a new belief can be formed through the proof you uncover, but not always. Even in the face of 'evidence' and 'proof' people can still not change their beliefs. Faith is a good example of this.
I am working on a few follow up videos to open up the discussion further.
Thanks again for your interest and insight.
Alistair Horscroft have you been trained in NLP they got the fast fobia cure. Or what is your educational background ??
Thank you very much indeed.
The Tibetan book of living and dying has helped me a lot.
The 5 second rule is best so far. As soon as you want something or think of something or anything you would like, you have 5 seconds to act. I started using this method and now my unconscious mind automatically counts down 5sec, as soon as I get a thought. In these 5 secons I have 3 choises.
-Do it!
-HandBRAKE! (and put in on the future shelf, where most people have alot of stuff)
-Or just decide that its a bad idea, eg hurting someone else or it's just simply stupid.
The trick of this is to FORCE yourself off your ass and actually do what you love. Still using it for small actions, but I'm working on getting this done for bigger decitions as well, guess some handbraks are still used.
+Robin Johansson Never heard about the "5 seconds rule" but it sounds like exactly what I need. Thanks man! If you have an specific video link or site about it I would really appreciate, I've got the feeling it will make a huge change on me
+Bryant Art How to stop screwing yourself over | Mel Robbins | TEDxSF
The rule came from Mel Robbinson, she's one of the best imo that I've heard about
+Mortar Clark Correct, I saw her TH-cam video yesterday.
+Mortar Clark Mel Robbins.
Behavioural therapists are like Magicians, they do not give out their secrets. This guy just increased his hourly rate and client numbers with this show. Interesting, but a bit mean.
This is something about my profession that I do not like.
The "hidden gem" behind this video is that patience, perseverance and determination are all important and relative in making progress towards changing your life in the ways that you want to. I honestly expected to hear a 3 step system of some sort from the speaker, but I guess that's what many of us were expecting based on the other comments that I've read. Is it because that's what we're used to? It seems that we've been spoon fed a lot of the answers over the course of our lives, so much so that we cannot sit through a 14 minute video and accept that sometimes, people just don't make any sense. Good thing I've been meditating more or I wouldn't have been able to make it through.
I'll save you 15 min and summarize this brilliant talk "Practice!". Yep, fear is your brain doing what it did the last time this (whatever you are afraid of) happened - which for most people quite often is never!
Anogoya Dagaati Best Comment Ever
Very enjoyable and valuable, indeed very very thank you
So useful information
Excellent commentary on functional awareness and self-control
12 minutes in he finally finally gets to the damn point....
I thought it was a great insight and explanation into how the mind processes thoughts in certain situations. What to do with it or how to change it is up to you to figure out and find a method that works best for you! Thank you Alistair , i really enjoyed it !
Looking forward to part 2 obviously.
Interesting with a touch of an entertainment factor .... well done
I didn't understand this talk perfectly and that's the point!
Thank you. good work
Brillaint
Alister u made great point on d end, so true.
The best thing about TED talks is that there are so many good ones which when your combine them with background reading makes up for the gaps in knowledge. Alistair provided an interesting potted alternative to Daniel Kahneman's system 1 and system 2 brain theory. The problem that still exists and which still remains a bit of a mystery is whether sustained present moment awareness is sufficient. Can we observe our 'experiencing brain' making the same mistakes or do we need to anticipate situations with a learned pre-cognition 'Do'. At the moment I am inclined to fall in favour of Brian Fletcher's and Karen Pine's 'Do Something Different' approach. Eckhart Tolle's certainly seems to have taken this route though his default position seems to rely on the 'observing' self. B.J. Fogg behavioural change approach gives us a clue at what Alistair is intimating but it would have been better had he illustrated this more clearly.
+Tim Rickard Hi Tim, thanks for your considered response. A blog is soon to arrive where discussion can continue and more clarity given.
For now I will re-post this: The idea of functional awareness is not just hypnosis or mediation, even though they are both functional states. For example if you look at the brain (through eeg kit) in mediation while doing a 'mantra based'
mediation as opposed to a 'being aware of the breath' mediation they
have different effects. Hypnosis as a functional state is good for
certain outcomes (often more so than meditation) yet meditation can
teach us that we are not our thoughts (a useful skill). Training too
much alpha, or too much beta or exclusive training in one functional
state I believe does not create the plasticity that most people are
looking for.
Although the experiences of people like Eckhart Tolle provide some interest, I feel that for many they set up spirituality or 'living in the now' as 'an achievement' 'bestowed' as opposed to trained...
thanks for your thoughts and interest.
All the best
Alistair
Psycho-cybernetics is one of my favourite books....literally falling apart at the seams as I read and re-read it......when my signal gets better will watch the video too.
Lots of people on here talking about a follow-up video. I searched 7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation and it just brings me back to this video what's going on man?
I played this around 5 times thinking I missed the point, but then I read the comments.
This was an infomercial for this man's services. How do you stop this? You punish TED (or TEDx, because TED is normally very solid). Do it. TED does not stand for "Teasers Eliciting Dollars."
Wutzthedeal TED is about starting a conversation not providing a solution to life, the universe and everything. There is a stringent process that we have to go through where we deliver our talk twice to the organisers, so that the talk follows TED guidelines. As for informercial, yes and no. Yes, because of of course all speakers are there to hopefully get interest from viewers. No, as the information provided opens up plenty of avenues for inquiry that don't cost a thing. It free remember.
Alistair Horscroft Seems to me if you have to spend this much time explaining yourself, something is missing in the first place.
+Nahellenia Salt I think engaging with the people who watched the video is what TEDx is about. It's a shame that I have to clarify assumptions as opposed to engaging in more useful inquiry, but I will do so when those assumptions are simply incorrect.
Alistair Horscroft
Which is, sadly, my point. The room left for incorrect/unfortunate assumptions is so wide that it leaves few opportunities to understand what you intended and have those worthwhile conversations. I'm sure it is as upsetting for you as it is for us to have put time and effort into this only to come away feeling wasted, ill-used, misled and discouraged.
+Nahellenia Salt Wow ! You really do seem to have taken your response to a 14 minute video that actually does provide some quality info quite far. Why not ask a question? request more info? pursue the research presented? In life not all the work is always done for us, sometimes we need to engage in a conversation, and seek more. If this topic really does interest you why not engage with me in an intelligent manner? Or perhaps the comments section is just a place you enjoy expressing discontent at free information for your own reasons...?
Inspiring speech and insightful creation of the terminology, "functional awareness". Liked the metaphor of the two buttons on the game show as the conscious and unconscious mind. It is great that through neuroscience we are understanding much more about how the brain processes our experiences and how this evidence shows us that real change will only come by changing our unconscious minds.
Real knowledge is experience.
All these people complaining page after page. I too, was a bit confused at the end but I took the time to read a comment or two. Guess what I found Mr Horscroft answering some comments. He actually gives an explanation.
wtf.. all that talking about it, and it just ends? HELLO!!!!
+TheCandyoung My thoughts exactly. He left us hanging!
+TheCandyoung All 'what' and no 'how'. Usually means the guy is selling a $4000 program somewhere and this is a sales pitch leading you into it.
+TheCandyoung put 2 and 2 together lol
+TheCandyoung What he said was meditation and hypnosis allows you to sooth the amygdala so that you can allow your frontal lobes to take control.
+TheCandyoung, the following methods will help you do what he talks about: Sedona Methods, EFT, TIR, NLP's Swish technique, etc. These are great for neutralizing unneeded reflexes. They are *essentially* the same approaches and differ from each other on the surface.
Alistair Horscroft, I suggest that you read carefully the comments to your video. Then, if they move something inside you, try and create a different video, same subject, but remade after your listners critiques. I'm sure many listeners will be very grateful.
Mindfulness
Well that was great! I've learn't something from watching this video - read the comments first.
Thank you sir! I appreciate you for doing this ted Talk.
God bless everyone everbody be safe be blessed let jesus be with u everywhere you go
He is to the point but its subtle. He's saying: Understand subconscious dominance, use language and imagination for 7 minutes, accept and understand changes imagined and felt in our brains are more likely cause the desired change.
Alistair it is important to share your ideas. Keep exploring the human psyche. The subconscious mind is a powerful tool. I know that for a lot of people in first world countries, space can be hard to find. Maybe because crazy phat cats are pushing them to buy useless shit all day. Human beings are complicated beautiful machines. Love ya man. Keep up the good work.
+MR ROBOTMAN Thanks !
I see that I need to take a look at the comments before I listen to a TED talk twice--yeah, twice. I thought I had missed the point the first time around. I get the dumbo of the day award for that.
YES!
Space/Functional Awareness is...
Making change you need to soothe the amygdala. So it has a neutral emotional response and then give information and suggestions in such a way that it is not critiqued - it is just accepted as the new behavior. He compares this to hypnosis and meditative where the mind is the passive observer.
Basically, use your seven seconds to accept a new suggestion without judgment or criticism, then act in a way that accepts the neutral suggestion.
After all this blurb there was no solid explanation on how to overcome the anxiety.
Totally agree. Seems his sole reason for speaking is to push his name out there to boost his book sales (-_-) I'd rather hear a talk from the "people far smarter than me" that he alludes to..
Thanks for your feedback. Upon watching it, I can see that there could be an expectation for a 'solution'. The talk was less aimed at explaining how to overcome issues, more as to why it can be hard to overcome issue. With a focus on explaining clearly the relationship between the conscious and unconscious in a grounded, understandable way. I will put a video up as to the 'how' soon...
Alistair Horscroft
To be fair, you go over some very interesting points that I'd not heard elsewhere, and cite important names specifically, which is great. In fact, just had a quick read of John-Dylan Haynes' 2008 paper, and found that (as with this video) very little in the way of implications were discussed. Its a shame, since the implications of research are usually the most interesting bit, even if the answer is "we just don't know" (so long as it is followed by a "but this is what we/they're doing to find out!").
Alistair Horscroft Thank you Alistair! As you can see many of us are really interested in your second part for this video. Keep it up :)
@@MrAlistairhorscroft did you change your mind and decide not to upload a 'how' video?
I felt frustrated at the end of the talk. Reading the comments confirmed that it was a feeling shared by many. Other comments confirmed that indeed, there were useful information given in this talk. At the end, it is our task to keep digging and reflecting (reading the comments and exchanging points of view are good examples) to get the most of it. I will be eternally grateful to TED and the community to create the space for that.
What I will remember from this talk is : The power of meditation, language and imagination ... and this sneaky unconscious
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+Samir Hamidi Hi Samir, thanks for your interest. Yes, there does seem to be dissapointment that I didn't give enough of a 'how to' at the end. So I responded with a follow up video. You can find it by just putting in '7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation (you tube wont let me share the direct link anymore). More than happy to answer your questions under that video. All the best, Alistair
I think that the real problem is that people want everything told to them and can’t take the tools that were talked about and figure it out for themselves. It was very interesting.
Change work and hypnosis as part of it.
Great energy but, like others have said, the conclusion was lacking... It was like a tease.
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"So, how do we do it? We use language and imagination. Thanks a lot, you've been great!"
He's talking about the trance state that hypnosis and meditation can produce, where we lose awareness of our physical body and our environment and we become pure consciousness, from that state we can literally change our feelings very quickly and effectively, it's actually quite shocking how effective it is.
I had to listen to it again to really grasp the solution the speaker was attempting to convey. I'm still unsure of what that was.
I wish the focus was more on methods of achieving the peace required to make changes than continually talking about the problems.
Thank you though!
Hi Paula, thanks for feedback, Ted is about starting a conversation. That's the brief we are given, not really about providing solutions (although some do). There is follow up called '7 seconds continuing the conversation' if that is of interest.
Thank you! Sounds good!
@@MrAlistairhorscroft not able to find that video in TH-cam or Google by searching for the phrase you have given. Could you please help
it was actually 14 minutes and absolutely no info on what actually " change your life in 7 seconds" meant. sounds like a comedian and entertaining and thats it.
I will never click on sth that has "will change your life" in the title again.
Just a stupid waste of time
***** nope... yours?
Mimi von der Ostee Title: 7 Seconds to Change Your Life
Synopsis: Just 'change your life'... but is it really that easy? Find out why 7 seconds can make all the difference.
Reading the Synopsis might help with not wasting time. Thanks !
Mimi von der Ostee thx man. I've saved my 13 min. now I'm going sleep
Mimi von der Ostee Same here :/
Mimi von der Ostee The 5 second rule is best so far. As soon as you want something or think of something or anything you would like, you have 5 seconds to act. I started using this method and now my unconscious mind automatically counts down 5sec, as soon as I get a thought. In these 5 secons I have 3 choises.
-Do it!
-HandBRAKE! (and put in on the future shelf, where most people have alot of stuff)
-Or just decide that its a bad idea, eg hurting someone else or it's just simply stupid.
The trick of this is to FORCE yourself off your ass and actually do what you love. Still using it for small actions, but I'm working on getting this done for bigger decitions as well, guess some handbraks are still used.
It is hard to change the channel. What we
have to do first is to interrupt it by turning
off the TV channel that is on the Basil Ganglia,
the channel in you brain for routine behaviours
or “habits” and turn your brain back on with the
Prefrontal Cortex channels running.
It's just too simple for most people to get because we have been conditioned to believe it's complicated. 1. Language 2. Imagination. 1st, become aware of what you are saying. 2nd, imagine the life you want and what you have to say in order to have the life you want. 3rd, Change your language, your self-talk. That's it. Stop trying to make it complicated. It's very simple.
Thank you for sharing this video!:)
wow i didnt learn anything about it , thanks a lot
This ted talks comes with an interesting observation, decision of the conscious mind are first made in the unconscious or sub conscious mind. So if you clear the cuttler or work on improving your sub consciousn beliefs, it will automatically translate into better decisions taken conciously.
When healing patients, I help them to expect and to visualize their healing. In the end, God is the healer.
God is only real for the believers. Unlike me. So that wouldn't work for me, the marvel of medicine and science would.
@@Heddlo2005 Agreed. Visualization of healing does help the subconscious mind body connection though. There is a lot of science to support this. Scientific support for God's existence. Zilch.
Amen
Guys... Oh my god. The conclusion is that once you are AWARE and understand how your subconscious tricks you, it is far easier to tackle this problems.
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I thought the solution was to create spaces in your mind where you actually start making change subconsciously, he may not himself fully be aware of them but he did urge people who are in the position to do so and look at it from the subconscious perspective. He mentioned meditating and hypnosis as being somewhat capable , share knowledge doesn’t mean having the answer but even if his provided 20% it’s still progress in better understanding our behavior
The origin of spidie sense!
12:13 hypnosis, meditation
12:54 functional awareness , think about what we want to think about
13:06 how do we do it? --- tips are here , use the power of language and imagination to create space , but how exactly??? by finishing his the Government-accredited vocational Diploma of Modern Psychology ?????
+thunder lei Not at all. You can continue the conversation by searching for '7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation'. I can't put the link in any more times because you-tube won't accept the link anymore. The idea of functional awareness is not just hypnosis or mediation, even though they are both functional states. For example if you look at the brain (through eeg kit) in mediation while doing a 'mantra based' mediation as opposed to a 'being aware of the breath' mediation they have different effects. Hypnosis as a functional state is good for certain outcomes (often more so than meditation) yet meditation can teach us that we are not our thoughts (a useful skill). Training too much alpha, or too much beta or exclusive training in one functional state I believe does not create the plasticity that most people are looking for. Thanks for your interest.
Thanks very much for your time and attention.
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It like the 5 second rule by Mel Robin so if you want to understand check out her explanation of 5 second rule
This was good knowledge. However, I felt that he never got to the punchline! I was waiting for a success story or a practical example of his technique. Oh well, I will now go back to observing my unconscious mind make decisions 7 seconds before I am aware of it.
Thanks for the comment and feedback... as mentioned above there is a follow up video that details the 'how to'
Thanks, this seam a NLP technique. Where is the follow up video? I don't find any link.
This was a very good talk but I was expecting something more specific at the end... Use your mind and imagination and language? Is he referring to NLP to create "functional awareness" or is he still working on how to implement functional awareness. Abrupt ending but still very good. Thanks to Mr Horsceoft. :)
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What I learned here is that almost all our behavior, is made on felling emotion, we need learn and practice SELF CONTROL 😕 THINK BEFORE talk or do something, and try very hard to do it.
Stop trying to change your life and go change someone else's. Our problem is we are consumer whores. Its not so complicated. Go connect. Go play. Go learn. Go share. Go Give your time to a community that doesn't just work to make a few people rich. Create art. Destroy it. Don't get attached. Attachment is suffering. Love and remember who you are. Human.
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Hello Mr horsecroft. I have very much enjoyed your talk . I need to ask you a question to deep my understanding toward your theory. So, do we activate or use your tactic of functional awareness? thanks.
+Miura Daisuke Hi Miura, please search for "7 seconds to change your life - continuing the conversation' it will answer these questions. Thanks
Want the conclusion Tedtalk Mel Robbins 5 second rule. She is awesome willing to share and engaging throughout.
I didn't quite understand how to use this space, but the information was nonetheless interesting!
so how do I do it or where can I find more information? Thanks
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Sir, that was amazingly well done. Transitionless, flowed like a stream.
To me, the number one talk on TED would be "How to Defuse FEAR!" or "Take the FEAR out of FEAR and Replace It With.....??????"