Monika and Jan welcome you to Mindset Academy! Today the session is all about "working," starting with a guided visualization and then a discussion. Guided visualization is to go inside yourself, where all the answers are, find your inner voice, and trust the process.

Follow Monika's directions to this guided visualization. You will find your inner voices: the ones that judge you and are critical; the ones that are loving and supporting. You will  discover what makes you unique.

Ask yourself: What do you want to accomplish? What is your goal? What would be the outcome of achieving this goal? What are three action steps that you could take towards achieving that goal?

The critical voices in your head are the ones that STOP you, in many aspects of your life. The loving voices are the ones that INSPIRE and MOTIVATE you, this represents the connection to your authentic self.

You are great and unique; discover your strength and potential to really unfold your "super-power," and share it with the world.

Resources:

Get the guided visualization at Monika Zands Facebook live.

Monika and Jan Zands lead Mindset Academy, a weekly meeting where you can raise your awareness, experience more joy, and spread more love on the planet.

This episode was recorded on Mother's Day; Monika talks about how every holiday is an opportunity to celebrate a spiritual cycle, the energy level in these special days allows to give back the love and share this energy with the ones you can reach.

To express to people around us who they are, under our perspective, is a great gift that can change a life. It costs nothing and gives the greatest feeling of appreciation and acknowledgement. We often don't know how other people see us, and hearing this is a transforming experience. Practice: Tell someone today how you see them; take this as a task to spread love.

There is also a powerful way to do this to yourself; using affirmations and self-acknowledgement is a way to achieve this, celebrating where you are right now!

Affirmations can be called different ways; the goal is to reach what you say to yourself on a daily basis, that calls you forward into being.

We are all connected, we relate to others with what we bring with us… can we leave our "backpacks of bricks," to connect with others and with our reality now? There is a lot of self-judgment and admission of guilt, this is something we pass along to others around us.

To be here now is a series of un-doings, letting go of things, opening to receive things, and being willing to be aware.

There is a difference between what you are and what you see you are; what you are is changing all the time, you experiencing the lesson, is what you are now.

What we are is how we defined ourselves; we are not our past, our frustrations, or anything we are carrying around in our backpack.

Design your own affirmation, the one that represents you and helps you transit difficult moments to go back to your true essence. Start by asking yourself, "How do I serve people the best?" From that place, design your affirmation, first, by serving you, and then bringing that out into others. Practice: Make a list of 25 "I am..." statements, after this statement is where you start to create. Choose three of each every day, and start to see which you resonate more with. Once you realize which represent you the most, write your affirmation, taking those under consideration.

Love yourself, love the opportunity to learn, and know that you are doing the best that you can.

In This Episode You Will Learn: Consider/Ask Yourself:

-        How many times have you taken others' "Luggage of problems," and made them your own?

-        Have you ever wondered how to let go of your own "backpack of bricks"?

-        What is your "backpack" made of?

-        How do you develop willingness?

Key Insights and Ahas:

-        Distinguishing between what I am and what I see I am.

Action Steps:

1. Who am I?
2. Who am I witnessing myself to be?
3. The "I" that I define myself as, what lesson is it learning? What am I doing with the lesson?
4. Create your own affirmation, "I am…" and create your reality, based in how you perceive yourself.
5. This is the powerful way to be here now.

Resources:

Check iTunes for Mindset Academy or Monika Zands to hear podcasts or try meditations.

Monika and Jan Zands lead you to a journey of self-help and awareness to set your mindset the right way, to get ready for what life will present to you.

This month it is all about being here now, connected with the present situation. Moment by moment we have an opportunity to create a new reality. Ask yourself: Who am I right now and what does that "me" need? Create the experience of the presence for you now, by not being in the present moment but looking into the moments of presence.

Anytime you declare that something is a certain way, you are creating in a fixed mindset. Leveling people, or even yourself, comes from a fixed mindset. Having a growth mindset creates a space to consider each moment an opportunity to make different choices.

As a species, we have a mentality where we are constantly wanting to progress. We have this need of growing, but the upset comes when we look at the present, wishing that it was different. Where do we get the idea that the present's supposed to be different than the way that it is? Culture, family, past experiences or even future projections, lead us to compare our "now," to another situation that is perceived as a better or more desirable one. If you are present, then you are not imagining it could be better.

We get to chose how we frame things. Usually the opportunity to reframe happens when we feel an upset. We can chose the words and how we want to define what we are experiencing. We can get to level ourselves everyday differently; this way we can create a different reality! Everything is changing all the time, and that includes you!

In This Episode You Will Learn: Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do I operate in my mind from a fixed mindset, or from a growth or flexible mindset?
• Can I be permanently gentle with myself?
• Where do I get the idea that the present's supposed to be different than the way that it is?
• As a child, you were shown the world through someone else's perspective, then you had to figure out what is your value, and what is important to you.

Key Insights and Ahas:

• You walk into Mindset Academy with one perspective, and you walk out with a new perspective that can create an entirely new reality.
• Step into the present moment, looking at what it's giving to you.
• Practice reframing — ask yourself: Is there a gift in what has been presented to me? Create a reality around the new perspective.
• If it doesn't serve you, you can change. You can't just help but change!

 Action Steps:

1. Who has defined your reality?
2. What do they sound like?
3. How can you reframe yourself in order to create a completely new reality?
4. Chose the work you want to do, and who will go with you along the journey.

Lesson of the episode: Choose your present!

Jan and Monika Zands introduce this month's topic, which is: You are here now! That  brings the question of Who are you? Which "You" is the one here today?

We usually get comfortable being whoever we have been being, and as everybody knows us, but we can get to create whoever we want to be every single time. What if everytime you start and do something you have the choice to decide who you want to be?

            The main source of human suffering is wishing things were different than what they actually are. Right now there is nothing you can do to change it, you can either chose it or suffer.  But how can you chose it? Often the reality we get is not what we are expecting, the upset comes when we suppose our reality should be different.

            Practice with Jan and Monika:

1. Write down 10 things that you wish were different in your life.
2. Pick the one that impacts you the most.
3. Close your eyes and look at your life. Imagine the movie theater of your life. You are in the movie, your feelings, your circumstances. Now roll the movie back, and go to a time before you felt that way. How was your life then?
4. Now imagine yourself before this upset existed, how do you feel?
5. Now give yourself a little care to prepare yourself for what was going to happen, and play it forward and get back, but tapping into the love you have given to yourself.
6. Create a new ending, chose a different end for the future, free yourself and perceive how do you feel when things turn out the exact way you wanted.

Ask yourself: How did this transform you?

Be present, be first, and then invite the world to who you are. The expectations have been made up by us, but things are already the way they should be. Own your present! Choose it! This way we remove suffering and add love!

Key Insights and Ahas:

• Ask the Universe what you are looking for, so it can be provided to you.
• The biggest source of human suffering is wishing that something was different than the way that it is.
• Most of the time upsets are the results of misunderstandings.

Resources:

MonikaZands.com

Monika and Jan Zands present today's session at Mindset Academy. How you perceive your reality is creating it for you, your Mindset is everything!

We usually make assumptions after others' behaviors, that cause feelings and thoughts, and afterwards we make choices in response to those assumptions. Become aware of the distance between what really happened to the assumptions we made. Our way is not the only way! Probably people's behavior do not match with our assumptions. Why don't you start with love?

People usually show up the way we need them to appear, in order to learn something from them. People change because you change; it depends on how you present yourself that others will come at you.

People change! We are continuously changing from a physical aspect to our perspective, the circumstances that we are in modify how we act.

Monika's signature phrase is: "See your greatness, be your greatness, and pay it forward."

Pay something forward from your life experiences and help others from what you learn. It might happen that what worked for your life can also work for the ones around you. Paying it forward its exponential — when you give to someone, that act reflects in every other person that connects to the person you helped. Sometimes you stop yourself in the middle, judging that you might not be good enough to give, or thinking you are giving too much.

Giving and receiving go hand in hand, they are the same thing, you are giving what you have received, so there is no way you are just a "giver," because you have to get first, in order to give.

You can only pay it forward unconditionally, when you see and be your greatness.

When you are trying to avoid being something that you are, you are not being great; be your authentic loving self! Be your truth!

In This Episode You Will Learn: Ask Yourself:

• Are you making assumptions?
• What defines your truth?
• Which path are you navigating? It is yours, or did you adopt somebody else's path in order to make this other significant person happy?
• Maybe you feel you are giving too much and not receiving, but, ask yourself: Are you numb to receiving? Are you rejecting what is being giving to you?

Monika and Jan Zands invite you to explore different perspectives over the experiences you are living, through Mindset Academy.

Sometimes you think you are not great yet. Feeling that you are almost there, but it feels like not enough. You are great! You don't need a reason to be great, the miracle of life is already stating that your essence is greatness.

Undo whatever you believed you need to achieve in order to be great, since the fact that you exist on this planet is the proof of your greatness.

Feeling great does not mean you are perfect, or that you don't need to learn anything, but that you are already ready.

In our world, we tend to think that we are either great or not great; realize that whether you have a good or a bad day you are still great, since your "not so good" days are necessary for you to become aware of what makes your "great days" what they are. Then "No Great" becomes a solution finder instead of a reason for procrastination.

We exist in different realms: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, sometimes you can feel great in one realm and not the others but, you are great all the time.

Let's practice: When you are feeling you are not great you can explore why you are feeling that way, are you comparing/judging yourself? First have the awareness of these thoughts and then get back to the affirmation that you are already great!

See your greatness, be your greatness and pay it forward.

In This Episode: Ask Yourself:

• What would happen in a world that everyone knows they are great and they help others feel that greatness in them too?
• Which is the best day of your week? The day when you feel you shine?

Key Insights and Ahas:

Practice as a silent mantra "I am great… I am great… I am great… "

Action steps:

1. When you are not feeling great, stop and explore why.
2. Become aware of the thought/criticism/comparison that is creating this feeling.
3. What is the conversation in your brain that is creating it?
4. Realize this is an irrational belief that has proven itself not to be true in the past.
5. Go back to realizing that you are great!

Monika and Jan Zands talk about what is stopping us from meeting our greatness. There are many thoughts that are "slaving" us, they prevent us from being our greater selves.

We are slaves of our own ideas, when something goes wrong, or just different from what we were expecting, we tend to sabotage our plans and wishes. We can't carry on if we do not question our "slavement," questioning the conceptions and beliefs that are behind this slavement.

It is our internal dialogue that is stopping us from finding the solutions. The very first step is awareness. Only by becoming aware something shifts. First become aware of the thought that is stopping you, and which feeling comes with that thought, going from mental plane to an emotional one. When were times in the past that you had those feelings? Can you find the pattern? These feelings will repeat over and over again until they are released.

Practice with Monika, Jan, and the audience; go through the journey to discover what is preventing you from reaching your greater self.

When you are not judging yourself you dare doing things you would not attempt in the past, regardless the result, your value and greatness are still intact. Give yourself permission to surrender, just letting feel and be yourself.

In This Episode You Will Learn: Ask Yourself: ⦁ What is stopping us along the way? How can we let those things go? ⦁ How am I slaved? To what I am slaved? And What does slavement mean to me? Key Insights and Ahas: ⦁ Many people fear being successful. When you fail no one has an expectation on you but when you are successful the world now counts on you! This is the reason why fear of success is so relevant. Fear of letting people down.

Action Steps: 1. You are great! 2. First step is awareness: What is the thought in my head that is preventing myself for being my greatest version? 3. What is the feeling? When did I have that feeling in the past? 4. How does this feeling show up in my life repeatedly? 5. What is the truth? 6. How can I anchor that truth? Bring the truth back every time those feelings come back. 7. Make it happen!

Resources:

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Monika and Jan Zands bring the topic of this month which is "You Are Great!" Connect with your own unique greatness!

Sometimes you can think and perceive yourself as not that likable, motivated, or you are just not loving yourself that much. How can you connect back to your greatness? Explore in this session the meaning of greatness itself.

The system we live in, tends to pay attention to weakness instead of greatness, and here in Mindset Academy the highlight is on GREATNESS.

Practice with Monika and Jan:

Let's follow a process to learn how to connect with your greatness:

1. What do people say is great about you?

2. Come up with a recent example.

3. Find that example throughout your life. Find AWARENESS of what it is you are GREAT at.

If you create the intention of connecting with your greatness and connecting with people, the rest of your day will be purpose-filled!

Comparing yourself with someone else won't help you find your greatness, it will make you busy finding what you don't have, instead of seeing what you really are!

Connect with your greatness everyday!

In This Episode You Will Learn: Consider/Ask Yourself:

How can you connect with your greatness?

Become aware of your greatness throughout your life.

How are you bringing your greatness to the world, to others?

Key Insights and Ahas:

We live in a system that pays more attention to people's weakness than to their strengths, trying to fix failures, and to make everyone reach the minimum acceptable common denominator — A system that doesn't pay attention to your greatness.

Resources:

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- Youtube Monika Zands with Brendon Burchard.

This episode Jan Zands guides us into the Topic of the month, which is "You are not alone," analyzing our perspectives and realizing that our way is not the only way.

Jan's purpose is to help us bust the myth of thinking that at the end of the day everything is on our shoulders, and we are all by ourselves. In reality, every breath we take is proof that we cannot do it all by ourselves — air is there, helping us survive each breath at a time.

There is a strange relationship that we have with "Asking for help" — prejudgements about considering it as a negative thing, "I should know," or "I am weak" — all this criticism comes to our minds. What is stopping you from asking for help is the same thought that is stopping you in other areas in your life. Where is that thought coming from?

Practice with Jan:

1. Think of an area in your life that is not giving you the result you expect.

2. Who would you ask for help? Is there any pattern in your behavior?

3. Ask for information, even when you fear the content is not what expect.

4. When we embrace our conditions as humans, a vulnerable being that needs help, we can feel free to just be ourselves, it is liberating!

The Universe wants to help you. You need to frame specifically what you want, because that is what you will get. What you seek is what you see. If you don't ask for it, you won't get it! Life loves you!

Ask Yourself:

1. Do you often feel that you are all alone?
2. How do you feel about asking for help?
3. Where do you look for new perspectives when you want to shift your life

Key Insights and Ahas:

The spots that hurt are opportunities to learn, grow and heal.

We go to life thinking that we are communicating, when in reality we tend to take the hardest struggles to ourselves.

Action Steps:

1. You are free to ask for help.

2. What is stopping you from asking for help?

3. Where is that preventing thought coming from?

4. Allow yourself to feel vulnerable as a result feeling free and authentic. You are not alone.

Jan and Monika Zands talk this month in Mindset Academy about the topic "You are not alone." Often in life we feel that we have all the weight on our shoulders and everything depends on us; but it is not true — you are not alone! Walk outside your door; you are surrounded by people, and our context is there with us all the time. We often get into ourselves, we don't communicate, we don't connect because there is so much in our minds, that we cannot see the others existing. We need to redefine the word "alone" like equal to abandoned, away, separated… that is not the truth! Are you doing anything not to do everything by yourself? ARE YOU ASKING FOR HELP? We usually have prejudgements about asking for help, we think we should know, as if being adult means not to need anybody to assist us. Jan and Monika are sharing their current purpose: How do Mindset Academy get their content in the world? How do they spread their word in the planet? Look into your own purpose and follow these steps:

1. Write down what is your primary request: I need help! 2. The secondary request is: What do you really want? Show the universe you are ready to receive! Be as specific as you can asking for what you need. Action must be taken! 3. Then decide Who or What can help you. Make a list of people or organizations. 4. Usually we talk down to ourselves, thinking that we would be ashamed, or not good enough to reach out to these people. Whatever it is that is stopping you, is what is in the way of your getting what you need. "No," could be an answer, but what is next, what other doors can open?

In This Episode You Will Learn: Consider/Ask Yourself: Are we being our greater selves? How do we let go of what is holding us back? Are you doing anything not to do everything by yourself? "I need help!" opens the door to receive.   Key Insights and Ahas: Are you ready to be vulnerable? Are you ready to receive the help you need?