Why The Same Problems Keep Happening In Your Life

Life is an Inside Job with Coach Mike Basevic

Coach Mike Basevic explores the root cause of recurring life challenges, revealing that internal state of being—how one thinks, feels, and acts—is

Key takeaways

• The cause of every problem in your life is your internal state of being, not external circumstances.
• Intrusive thoughts stem from emotional resistance and are not combatable through positive thinking alone.

Main topics

• Internal state of being as the root cause of life problems
• Intrusive thoughts vs. conscious thoughts

Notable quotes

Life is an inside job. Change your internal world and your external world will catch up.

Conclusion

To break free from recurring problems, individuals must stop resisting their current emotional

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) On this episode, I'm going to teach you the cause of everything, what the true cause of everything that you're experiencing in your life, right? And how what you're experiencing is all the effect. Okay, so it's cause and effect. And today you're going to know why. And more importantly, I'm going to teach the process today that I teach my private clients on how to go from an emotional state of resistance to acceptance. I'm Coach Mike Basvick, and this is the show for high performers. who tried everything else and still can't quiet their own minds. Speaker 1 (0:36) So first things first, who am I and why the hell should you listen to me? I'm Coach Mike Basfick. I'm the founder and creator of the Anxiety-Free Executive Program. Proud to say it's probably the best program in the world. I don't know any better programs, at least judging by the results we get, at helping high performers eliminate stress, anxiety, pressure, burnout, fatigue, imposter syndrome, overwhelm, and even depression. We don't distract it. We don't give them dangerous prescription drugs. We eliminate it. We eliminate it by bringing their mind to the healthiest place it's ever been. And that's what this podcast, these episodes are all about, man. It's about literally maximizing the power of your mind so you can have anything it is that you want in your life. And there's so many of my clients come in that have everything that they want in their life. They're just not enjoying it. Well, there's a reason for that. And the reason I'm going to teach you on this episode. Okay. So let's get to it, man. First things first. on past episodes, and I'll repeat it again because repetition is very important in the work we do and the teachings we do, but the cause of everything that you're experiencing in your mind and in your life is your state of being. Okay, the state of being you're in is essentially the mood you're in, right? Or, you know, just the way you're vibrating energetically every day, but, or in any subject, but it's shown to you through the thoughts you're having and the feelings you're feeling and what you're experiencing in your life. And so the state of being you're in. is essentially how you're thinking, how you're feeling, and how you're acting. Now, there's two types of thoughts, right? Like self-help, the gurus, they'll tell you to think positive, and that's what I used to try to do. My life was a shitstorm, and as I described in my book, The Broken Sage, thebrokensage.com, pick up a copy, it's epic, and it's a really good book. But as I described there, I was trying to solve the problems in my life, and I started to discover, like, hey, maybe it's internal, maybe it is the mind. And every guru out there was telling me to positive think, and every book, and every, you know, just think positive. And okay, well, when you were in the, I don't want to give away too much that's in the book, but when you were in the places that I was in back 20 years ago, a little less than that even, you can't think positive, you can't think your way out of this. And there's two types of thoughts. The first thought is a conscious thought. So if I say to you, think of your car, think of your spouse, think of your favorite family vacation, think of your favorite sports team, and spend 30 seconds thinking about that subject. You're going to be able to do that. That's a conscious, directed thought. We all have the ability to do that. And it's important that we focus on, that's our focus. We focus on the things that are our outcomes, our vision, things that we teach our clients to focus on. But then there's a second type of thought. And this is the intrusive thought if you're in emotional resistance. If you've got anxiety, if you've got pressure, if you've got whatever, that's where these thoughts come from. So when you wake up at 2 in the morning every night, 3 in the morning every night, and most people that come into my program, my private clients, they all... None of them sleep well. And within a few weeks, they're sleeping like a baby. Why? Because we changed the cause. But when you're waking up at two in the morning, stressed about your to-do list, stressed about the deadline, afraid that you're going to make a bad decision, lose everything, right? You've all been there to catastrophe. What is that? Where do those thoughts come from that wake you up? Right? You're not consciously, you know, directing those thoughts. They just happen. They come from your current state of being. The state of being, again, is how you think and feel and act. And your state of being in every area of your life could be different. Maybe your health and fitness is great. Maybe finances are great, but you always struggle in relationships. Or maybe you've got a lot of fear over work or deadlines or failing. So you're in a different state of being in every area in your life, but it's always reflected on how you're thinking, how you're feeling, what you're doing. So you want to pay attention to that stuff. So that's the second type of thought. And that's the thought that you can't combat. No positive thinking in the world is going to eliminate those thoughts. If you're in the state of being that's trained conditioned behavior, right? It's all learned conditioned behavior. If you're in that state of being, the state of being is going to extend you to thoughts, give you the emotion, give you the action and action. It's going to bring up a memory of belief, whatever that's reflective of the current state of being. So your job is to be aware of it. And as I spoke about in a previous episode, you're not your mind, you're using your mind to experience life. And you've trained your mind. So you're in the states of being because of the life you've lived so far. And if you saw things in your life, like if your parents struggled financially or they were always really frugal and panicked about money, there's a good chance you're going to be the same. Or if your parents had a tumultuous, combative relationship like mine did, you're going to probably look at relationships as difficult. or love is non-existent. Or if you always heard life is tough, you're going to believe that life is tough. You're always going to experience that. So the cause... is this internal state of being, but it's essentially the rate you're vibrating. If you've ever been in a good mood, right? You're in the zone and you're on fire that day. You're organized. You're getting shit done. Every song sounds better. All the food tastes better. You're just on fire. And then the next day you wake up and you're just, oh man, I'm flat today. I'm in a bad mood. Not a good day. And you wonder what the hell happened from Monday to Tuesday to get you there. Nothing in your life changed. Same spouse, same house, same bank account, same kids, whatever. What the hell changed? Why are you on fire yesterday and not today? It's because your state of being changed. And the state of being, you know, people love to analyze this shit. Like, why does it happen, coach? I don't know. I don't care. You don't remember. Maybe it was because you didn't get a bike on a Tuesday when you were six years old and it pissed you off, pushed you to a bad mood. Or maybe the example I use in my program recordings, and maybe I use it in my book too, is... You could be a five-year-old sitting at the kitchen table and coloring in a book. And mom and dad, dad walks in the door and mom and dad just start yelling and screaming. Knock down, drag out argument, right? And it gets to this blow up mode where they're screaming at each other. Well, the five-year-old is going to be scared. And maybe the five-year-old starts crying out of fear. Now they're in an intense emotional state of being of fear. And at the same time, there's cookies baking in the oven. It's a Monday, it's October, and it's raining outside. Well, the subconscious mind takes it all in now, especially the emotional, the traumatic emotional experience. So it remembers everything. And now you're 35 years old and you're walking in a mall. and you smell cookies baking from the cookie place at the mall, right? And all of a sudden, you go to this crippling fear. You have no idea it's the cookies. Or maybe every Monday, or maybe every October, you get a little down and depressed. You go, oh, winter's coming. And I have seasonal depressive disorder. No. It's all the conditioning. It's all the programming from when you were a kid, okay, or what you've experienced in your life, right? Anyone that's ever been through a