The subconscious mind is like a hidden library in our brains, quietly influencing our thoughts and actions. When ideas are consistently reinforced, they sink into the subconscious, becoming automatic responses. Positive or negative, these beliefs influence our decisions and behaviors without our conscious awareness. Have you ever wondered how your subconscious beliefs might be guiding your choices without you even realizing it?
In this week’s episode, I have Austin Tani, Founder of Bringing Balance Back. Today, we discussed how negative beliefs are often formed in childhood based on experiences, and how those beliefs can then impact our lives unconsciously. He also shared transformative techniques for clearing subconscious beliefs, including breathwork and somatic therapies to release emotional charges from the body. Ready to transform your beliefs? Tune in now!
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The Power of the Subconscious Mind With Austin Tani
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. I am confident. I am competent. I am smart. I am good enough. I will make things happen. How many of you out there have said things like this to yourself in the mirror? How many of you wake up every day or have some sort of regular ritual around saying things like that? And what kind of results have you gotten from these affirmative messages that you said to yourself? Now, chances are, those results are kind of mixed. Maybe some of you start to notice a difference as you repeat these mantras to yourself, but maybe some of you did not get the results that you desired. Maybe some of you, for some reason, one reason or another, tried it for a while and still kept falling back into some of the same patterns and some of the same beliefs. My guest today, Austin Tani, of Bringing Balance Back, has a different approach to some of these instances in which this set of affirmations may not have particularly worked.
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Austin, welcome to the program.
Thanks. Thanks, Stephen.
Thank you. How are you doing today?
I’m doing good. Doing good. Had a slight headache this morning but it’s starting to go away.
Well, not bad. Now, Austin, have you ever initially before starting a business tried this set of affirmations, kind of those repeated mantras, whether they be in the mirror or meditation or anything like that?
Yeah, I’ve tried some affirmation stuff but it didn’t really help me too much, but, yeah, I’ve given them a try.
And what kind of experience that you have with these affirmations?
Kind of just scratching the surface, you’re using your conscious mind and you’re hoping that you impregnate the subconscious mind with that affirmation and it becomes your belief. But with what I’ve learned and what I’ve seen through experience, a lot of times when we’re trying to drop an affirmation in, that usually means we’re carrying the opposite belief in our subconscious mind. If you’re trying to say, “I’m worthy, I’m worthy, I’m worthy,” probably means you’re carrying the belief of unworthiness in your subconscious mind. That’s why you’re trying to drop that information in and that’s why that worthiness came up as an affirmation for yourself. So I’ll explain it like this. So if you’re trying to drop in, “I am worthy,” into your subconscious mind, which is actually your body, the body is your subconscious mind, so if you’re trying to drop in, “I’m worthy,” in your subconscious mind but you have a big bubble of unworthiness stuck in your body, it’s just going to bounce right off you and you’re going to still feel unworthy, until you remove that feeling of unworthiness out of your nervous system and then you can drop in, “I’m worthy.”
So let’s talk a bit about this feeling of unworthiness and talk about a little bit from the standpoint of a personal journey. A person you encounter that has this feeling of unworthiness in their subconscious mind, where does that generally originate from? Because I don’t think any children are really born thinking themselves they’re unworthy and I don’t see a lot of four-year-olds say, playing out there thinking, “I’m not worthy of playing this game or having these loving parents,” et cetera.
Yeah, that’s a great question. When we’re born, you’re right, we’ve got no beliefs about ourselves or the world, You’re the infinite being, as they say, and that’s what we’re trying to get back to as we’ve realized that we’ve picked up all these thoughts and feelings about ourselves in the world. So we have experiences, mostly a lot from our parents when we’re young, teachers, friends, whatever, other adults, whatever, and then it turns into, “I am this, I am that, I am good, I am bad, I am unworthy,” blah, blah, blah, but, of course, the negative stuff is definitely not you, kind of like viruses that you pick up, and positive stuff, it’s pretty good, it’s kind of like applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint where you can use here and there. So the negative stuff is definitely not you. The positive stuff, it’s nice to have, but it’s actually not you either. I’ll go deeper into it. So, the way these beliefs are formed in your subconscious mind is thoughts concentrated upon or feelings concentrated upon turn into concepts or beliefs in the subconscious mind. Let’s say you’re on a school, you’re in the third grade, you’re in PE, and everyone is a little bit faster than you, maybe you’re more towards the end of people when they’re doing races or different kind of physical activities and in your mind, you pick up an idea of, “Oh, I’m just not as fast as everybody,” or, “I’m just not there,” or, “I’m inadequate a little bit.”
That idea that you decided to pull down and you think about for a while will then get charged up into your nervous system and that’ll stay in your body.. Click To TweetSo, growing up, if you had a feeling for long enough, you’re going to think it’s a part of you but it’s actually not. It’s actually not a part of you. That’s just an idea that we charged up and now we believe it.
And do these beliefs happen typically based on one catastrophic event or is it more common, as you said, a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow, a little bit the next day, a repeated scenario where, day after day, you get rejected for something, you get, say, last to be picked for the basketball teams, et cetera, and then, over time, it starts to become, “I’m not good, people don’t like me,” et cetera?
Right, that’s a great question too. So, it could happen either way. it can happen either way. It can happen over a period of time. Let’s say a teacher kind of made the students kind of pick on you a little bit, and, over time, you’re going to be like, “Oh, I’m the bad kid,” you’re going to have that belief, “I’m the bad kid.” Or it could be like a single event. It could be a more stressful or more traumatic event that charges your nervous system immediately and you have that experience which created that belief. And I’ll give you a good example of how this works on a more traumatic way. So I had a client that had massive anxiety on planes and elevators, like every time, like on the plane, when you land, everyone stands up to get their bags and whatnot, and that’s when he would get this crazy anxiety, he’s like, where’s this coming from? So we found out when he was about three or four, he was on a boat with his dad, and this boat caught fire. And what did everybody do? They all stood up and they were trying to get off this boat.
Yep.
Well, that one incident created this whole thing in his head where if a lot of people stand up, it triggers that feeling with him. So that’s one way that one experience can create a whole domino effect in your whole life.
So he had mapped it to his subconscious the idea that when I see a whole bunch of people standing up, that means fire, and, of course, your subconscious mind is trying to create shortcuts so you don’t have to cognitively think through every single thing that ever happen and so now every time he sees he thinks fire, even though it’s just a routine, I’m getting off an airplane or getting off a train or something.
Right. Right. It’s actually just a safety mechanism for him that his body created, just like this was an emergency, this was a big thing, when people stand up, you gotta move.
So sometime in your life, you either have a catastrophic event or a series of events that creates a belief system in your subconscious mind, right? Now, do these belief systems in your subconscious mind, do they vary in the amount of strength and is that why we see such variable results in these affirmations? Because if it’s really strong, it’s more likely to bounce off, and if it’s relatively weaker, maybe it might have some effect.
Yeah, that’s a great way to put it. Some things are more deeply ingrained in certain people and some things aren’t. And the belief can be just a small, weak belief or it can be a more powerful, ingrained belief. And the thing about the more powerful, ingrained beliefs is, sometimes, people don’t feel safe to let that part of them go. So they need to feel that safety to let that part of them go so they can change into this new feeling. I’ve gone to a seminar and the guy doing the seminar, he stood up in front of the class and he brought up someone and he said, “Okay, I’m gonna send over a feeling to you. Let me know how it feels. Let me know how it feels to you.” So he said, “Okay, give me a second,” and then he did it and the person on stage is like, oh, just kind of basking, “Yeah, this is great. I feel like I’m gonna pick up a baby and hold it,” and he’s like, “No, no, no, don’t pick up the baby, put the baby down,” and then he did, “Okay, I’m gonna do a different one,” then he stood next to her and he said, “Wait a second,” and then he got into that feeling, how she felt and she was like, “This kind of makes me feel uncomfortable. A little, little disgusted. I don’t really like this. I don’t like this feeling.” So here’s the interesting thing. So the first feeling he sent her was actually hate. It was like, “You’re a piece of garbage. I don’t like you,” but the way her brain was wired was the way she grew up was such a harsh environment, she thought that was good. That’s why she was basking in it. She was like, “Yeah, I like this, I just want to pick up a baby.” She was wired backwards. And when the second one, guess what it was, it was love. He was sending her love and she didn’t like that. It felt weird, icky, because she wasn’t used to it. So, of course, he cleared that up for her and then wired things correctly but it just shows how our subconscious feelings affect our whole life and it’s very powerful.
And in most cases, people don’t even realize that it’s a subconscious and that it’s impacting their lives.
Yep.
So if you feel like you’re just not good enough, you’re going to look for things that make you feel that. How we work, it’s like, “Oh, yeah, see, I told you I’m not good enough,” “Oh, see? Yeah, I told you,” but you might not even be seeing things clearly. That’s why our eyes can deceive us.
And that’s a common concept that I like to maybe spell out for the audience a little bit, everybody listening, because there’s this kind of connection between preconceived thoughts and then the actual result of something. Explain a little bit about how that, some people have heard the phrase “thought creates form,” how that whole thing works.
The way I see subconscious beliefs is, let’s say you have really poor beliefs about the world and yourself. It’s kind of like wearing red goggles everywhere. Red goggles and ear muffs that are that are filtering things that you hear, filtering things that you see, and making you see and feel the world in a certain light, in that red light. And once you start shifting those beliefs in your subconscious mind, it’s maybe like wearing yellow goggles now. Now it’s like, “Oh, it’s not so bad. I can do some things out there, I’m feeling a little more confident, I can move, maybe learn something new, pick up a new skill,” got all these ideas and creativity come out, so it’s kind of like that victim mindset versus a creative mindset.
Well, it’s interesting and it reminds me of what’s happening right now here where I live in Denver, Colorado, because we’re having a colder week and for those who don’t know, Colorado, we have very variable winters. You can have a week that’s really nice out where you can still go out and ride your bike and walk around and stuff and then another week where it’s colder, and this happens to be a colder one, and I think there’s a previous version of myself where I would see this as, “Oh, my god, this week’s gonna be so dull, it’s gonna be terrible. I’m not gonna do anything but drink the whole time,” and stuff like that, and now, I’ll openly say this right before doing this podcast, I went downstairs and did a peloton ride. Now, I’m an avid cyclist and I would always prefer to do outdoor rides if I can but I am now looking at a week like this and saying, “Okay, not what I really want but maybe this is an opportunity to do the peloton instead of the outdoor ride and that’ll give me a different type of workout,” because the outdoor ride, your hill climbs tend to be slow, steady, and long, and the peloton gives you a chance to do some more kind of shorter term interval things which train your muscles in a different way.
Awesome. I love it. I love it. Yep, that’s really interesting. If you want to see the way that certain people perceive things with their belief systems is the word exercise.
Yeah.
Some people are like, “Exercise? No,” and they’re just disgusted, they want to run away, they don’t want to do it, and other people are like, “Exercise, yeah, let’s go, I wanna get that exercise in so I can feel great, so I can feel great today, tomorrow, and the next day,” and whatnot.
It’s a really interesting thing.
And so when people have these experiences that ingrain ideas into your subconscious mind, do these experiences have a different magnitude or a different impact depending on what age you’re at? Is there a certain age, like in your youth where it’s going to be more impactful or are, say, full-grown adults still ingraining things into the subconscious mind based on their experiences and based on what they’re seeing?
That’s a great question. So the way I see it for really young kids, one through seven, is basically when our subconscious mind is wide open. That’s when we get most of ideas about ourselves and the world during that time, usually from our parents or whoever works around us at that time. For that age group, that’s when they need an adult who lets them feel everything, feel all their feelings and feel safe about it.
Yep.
So that’s really important time for that. As you age a little bit more, I would say like maybe close to teenager, teenage years, that’s a good time to learn techniques about how to feel and process things. And then as an adult, that’s a good time to clear stuff that isn’t yours and learn about the subconscious mind and really kind of be able to shift and create who you want to be, like your being, who you want to be in this world and finding your purpose and such. Subconscious work is great for anybody. It’s really good to understand how you’re feeling in your body and getting connected to your body. A lot of people as adults now are very disconnected or dissociated from their body because of all those bad feelings they had growing up and what happens there is they don’t process their feelings completely and then that can turn into mental and physical issues in the future. And that’s a lot of mental and physical issues that adults have. Pain, discomfort in the body, that’s usually 95 percent of the time is from some kind of mental or emotional stress that they’ve picked up, some kind of belief about themselves or the world that’s been triggered over and over and over again in the same area which have locked that belief.
And so a lot of adults have this subconscious triggering but they’re not even aware of it. How big of an issue is the multitude of ways in which we distract ourselves, whether it be booze, constantly staying busy, the now more and more prevalent social media and technology addiction, how much does that get in the way of people being able to even realize and then do some work on changing those underlying beliefs?
Right, that’s a great question too. That is a huge issue right now. Everybody’s flipping through TikTok, flipping through Instagram, flipping through Facebook, and social media can be good, but at the same time, it can be very detrimental for human beings because we’re not connecting to anything. We’re connecting to this thing on our phone, we’re flipping our thumb, and a lot of times, what happens when you’re seeing everyone doing the best of their life is you get into this state of lack. You’re like, “I wish.” “Oh, I wish I was doing that, I wish I was doing that, I wish I was doing that.” You don’t feel that great because you’re not in a state of gratitude anymore. So a lot of times, a lot of my clients, I got to shift that part of them back to gratitude because their brain will filter what you feed it.
Keep feeding your brain gratitude, it’s going to start looking for gratitude. Click To TweetIf you’re feeding your brain Facebook or Instagram, it’s going to start looking for things that make you feel small, or that feeling of lack. People are actually doing these things or drinking or they’re just trying to get away from that feeling, they don’t want to feel that feeling, but, in reality, your emotions can only last about 90 seconds max, and it’s usually a lot less, so just breathe into it, feel it, experience it, let it pass, and once it passes, you’re going to be back to your baseline. But a lot of us have tucked so much stuff into our subconscious, all this pain, whatever, this and that, when it starts coming out, it can feel overwhelming so it’s good to have someone to kind of guide you through feeling it all out and getting it all out. So humans naturally are very confident, very peaceful, very joyful, and very loving, at our core. So if you’re not feeling that, you have stuff that you need to feel and let go from your past or a belief that you picked up or whatever it is.
And so when it comes to social media or anything else on the internet, you talk about these colored glasses, red-colored glasses, yellow-colored glasses as a proxy for whatever you’re doing to filter. In general, which comes first? Is it someone with a subconscious belief that then all of a sudden, “I am the victim” subconscious belief so now I’m on Twitter and Reddit finding these things that are confirming that? Or is it the Twitter, the Reddit, the TikTok, Facebook, everything else feeding your subconscious and creating those?
Right. It could be either way. It could be either way. If someone’s not very conscious about how they feel while they’re flipping through Facebook, they can switch that part of their brain. So there’s a part of our brain that’s called the reticular activating system. It’s basically what I just said. So whatever you feed your brain, it’ll filter for that. So if you wake up in the morning, you’re like, “Oh, today’s gonna be a wonderful day, something amazing is gonna happen,” you’re starting your day off feeding your brain this amazing juice, like, “Yes, something’s amazing’s gonna happen,” or if you wake up and you’re like, “Man, it’s raining outside, today is gonna suck,” that’s what you’re feeding your brain, it’s going to filter for suck. So it’s all about that filter too. You got to see how you’re perceiving the world, how you are perceiving people even, because we even create our own belief systems about people, especially people that are really close to us, in our own home. We might not even be seeing that person for who they really are anymore because you’ve created this filter, so you’re looking through that lens. We got to check in with ourselves, give ourselves that time and sit with ourselves and be like, “What kind of goggles am I wearing on myself and the world? How is my self-image? How is my image of the world? How do I feel about it?” And you’ll notice in the way you speak, like the words you choose on your subconscious beliefs, or you probably even felt it, you probably even know that biggest subconscious negative belief that you’ve been carrying, like imposter syndrome, it’s super, super common, that’s usually a feeling of inadequacy. Even though this person is a millionaire now, that feeling of inadequacy is like, “Why am I here? I don’t feel like I’m here,” because that’s that subconscious belief that is there that they picked up in third grade so now they have this mixed feeling of, “I am a millionaire but I don’t feel adequate so I’m gonna keep going until I’m a billionaire.” It’s never filled. The Void is never filled.
So if we come back to the personal journey, the story of someone at some point in their life, usually age one to seven, you said, they develop some sort of subconscious belief based on the surroundings, what generally happens during adulthood that makes this person become aware of this? What makes someone actually start thinking about it as opposed to just going about their lives and continuing to live by the script, as I often say?
It could be a couple of things, usually like health problems, that’s one, they’re like, “Man, I’ve tried everything, I have this health problem, my arm just hurts, I don’t even know where it’s from,” then they try different things and they meet some like hypnotist that clears something and their arm is just suddenly better and they’re like, “What the heck?” and then they’re like, “Oh, I wanna learn more about this.” Or could be like a mental thing. It’s like, “Man, I just don’t feel like even leaving the house anymore. Maybe I should go see a psychologist or psychiatrist,” and they’ve talked to their friends and they’re like, “I’ve seen one for three years and I haven’t noticed that much change and maybe you should look around, what else is out there.” I think there needs to be more awareness about this too.
So when we have these charged-up ideas in our body, it’s actually sending it upwards to our mind. So all these charges are coming upwards. Those negative feelings and negative thoughts are coming upwards. So once you clear that pattern out of your body, then you feel more clear. It’s like, “Oh, I can’t believe I believed that about myself,” and I have that all the time. People even laugh. I’m like, “All right, say I’m just not good enough.” No, they’re like, “I can’t even say it. It sounds so ridiculous,” and I’m like, “Yeah, there you go. See? It’s not a part of you. Never was.”
I actually do know what it’s like to go from hearing something and getting triggered to hearing that exact same thing and just laughing at the idea of it because it’s so preposterous. And so when people come to that realization, whether it comes from your mind, your body, spirit, for some people, that’s where you come in.
Yeah. A lot of people come to me actually when they’re not ready. I find a lot of people who have like, “I’ve tried everything, I’ve tried psychology, psychiatry, but this depression, I don’t wanna go on pills. Can you help me?” I’m like, “Yeah, of course, of course, let’s go.” What I try to tell people is there’s a few people that do this work and you just got to find someone that you’re comfortable with. Just find somebody you’re comfortable with. It doesn’t need to be me, just search, search for subconscious clearing, somatic work, anything with a body where breathing and you’re connecting to the body. So breath work is great. Breath work is breath work but once you start using breath work and you connect to the body, then it becomes subconscious work and you’re clearing patterns out of your subconscious. My suggestion is find someone you’re really comfortable with. Doesn’t even need to be me, but if you want to work with me, feel free to contact me, bringingbalanceback.com. Again, bringingbalanceback.com. I think there’s a phone number, an email, just shoot me a text or an email and be like, “Hey, I’m interested in learning a little bit more,” we can talk on the phone and we can get you started on clearing some of these issues.
What’s generally the process? Is it like a six-month affair, a one-year affair? How long or how much work does it take for someone to clear something out of their subconscious?
Yeah, so this is the interesting thing, it doesn’t take long at all. It doesn’t take long at all. I’ve seen someone go from depressed to normal in one session. I mean, I’m not saying everybody but you can get a lot of work done in one hour. You can get a lot of work done. If you’re clearing for that whole hour. Even my new clients, when they work with me, I tell them for that first session make sure your next day is off or you’re off or it’s a really light day because I’ve had a lot of people tell me, “Man, Austin, I was so wiped out the next day, I just drank water, ate, and slept.” I was like, “Perfect, the body’s doing exactly what it needs to,” because when you’re clearing stuff out of your nervous system that has been charging your body for so long and then your body can finally relax and heal, sometimes, it takes a little while to get back to normal because you’ve been so rigid and tense. Once you realize and once you felt all that stuff from years and years of stuff coming out, it can wipe you out a little bit. I’ve even had clients experience a little bit of grief the next couple days because you’re letting go of big parts of yourself that you’ve had for years. Everyone processes different. Some people, of course, get kind of emotional, but that’s why it’s good to have someone there to kind of walk you through what to do when that happens.
And is that the danger of doing it, say, I don’t know, over Insight Timer, or some kind of one of those apps where you don’t actually have a real person, whether it be over Zoom, like we’re doing this recording now, or whether it be actually in person, because it’s just like kind of a recording?
It really depends on the person. I mean, you want someone there if you’re going to pull out something really traumatic, but if you’re just maybe clearing a belief or whatnot, you can do it from a video or someone just teaching you how to do it. But the part about having someone there is really important, especially when — has a part of them that they don’t feel safe letting go of so that’s something that you probably couldn’t do yourself, you need someone there to make you feel safe to let that part of you go. So I’ve seen that over and over and over again where we had to stop because, whatever we’re working on, they didn’t feel safe to let it go so we had to figure out a way to get them to feel safe again, to feel finally letting that piece go.
And does anyone ever bring, say, a really good friend with them, someone that kind of makes them feel safe or make them feel supported?
I haven’t really seen that too much, unless I have a younger client then their parent will be there, of course. Even with the younger clients, sometimes it’s better not to have the parent there because there might be some emotional imbalances with the parent. I would say it could help though. It could help, for sure. If there’s someone that you really trust and really feel safe around, yeah, bring them to your session.
Now, people create a lot of the subconscious beliefs you said between the age of one and seven but let’s say someone does some of the subconscious work and, say, they’re 30 years old, and they’re still going to go out in the world and maybe even have some ridiculous experiences. I was recently reading once again the latest Gallup poll says that only 33 percent of American workforce are actually engaged, so 67 percent either don’t care or actively dislike their job and there are plenty other places people go and find drama, disappointment, and stuff like that. So, is there a danger in even if the subconscious belief is cleared out but then you go back out into the world kind of redeveloping a subconscious belief or developing another completely different negative subconscious belief based on the experience of someone, as I said, say you’re 30 and you’re just going to work and, I don’t know, just doing your stuff with your social circle, your relationships and everything?
Yeah, that’s a great question. So, yeah, your subconscious mind never stops recording so you’re always going to be picking up different ideas and thoughts and feelings and whatnot. You come to the place after you’ve done this work for a while where you realize that the good and the bad in life, you can enjoy both sides. You can enjoy both sides, and we need both sides to have that balance. It’s like you can’t get rid of pain in your life but you can get rid of the suffering part. So what I mean is you stub your toe and it hurts, then you’re like, “Oh, I was so stupid. Why did I do that?” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, so then that’s the second part, so when we create these ideas about what happened, that’s when we create that suffering side. But pain is inevitable. In our life, we’re going to experience pain in some way, shape, or form. We’re going to lose parents, we’re going to maybe get into a verbal confrontation or whatever, or a physical confrontation so it’s going to happen. It’s how you view it, how you see it. It’s like, “Oh, this happened and I can learn from it, I’m not gonna create this idea around it about myself or the world. It’s just like, alright, so that hurt. I don’t really want that feeling again, maybe I’m gonna take this route,” or whatever it is.
Yeah. Well, it’s kind of like the dichotomy between pleasure and pain even. If you numb yourself from emotions, you’re numbing yourself from both the negative and the positive emotions and, therefore, you’re missing out on a lot, even though you think you’re helping yourself avoid something.
Right, right. So feel and experience all your emotions, good, bad, the ugly, and that is the human experience and that is where all the joy comes from. So it’s kind of like when your child is learning how to walk, they don’t fall down, they’re like, “Oh, man, that’s it. I’m done. Walking’s not for me, I’m just gonna be crawling.” No, they just get back up and do it again. Get back up, do it again until they got it. And that’s how humans are naturally. When we want to do something, we just go, we just go and do it. Once we have an idea, it’s like, “I wanna learn this,” yeah, go ahead, fail a million times, don’t even care about it, just keep going. When you come to that space and you’re okay with failing, it’s a great feeling.
Yeah, and I think about that analogy about the child learning to walk all the time when I think about kind of the natural way that human beings learn and educate themselves. We try something out, see if it works, maybe you hear a little bit something from someone that’s already tried it, but it’s like kind of significantly different than the way it’s often practiced in schools today.
Today’s schooling system does things one way but maybe you like to learn another way. I found that a lot of people don’t realize that we have five senses and some of them more than the other ones. Some people like to hear more so they do really well in school. Some people like more visual and they did pretty well in school. Some people like to touch things and get in there. You got to find out how you like to learn and just learn like that. So if you want to do whatever it is, figure out where you can learn how to do that skill with your way that you like to learn.
And so one other thing I want to cover is your story, how you came to Bringing Balance Back. Did you have subconscious belief systems that you had to clear out before you were able to start this business?
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. 100 percent. My dad passed away when I was 30 years old and he had lung cancer but he never smoked a day in his life. He kind of slowly got thinner and thinner and, eventually, it metastasized and he passed away and just kind of watching that, I didn’t really understand what I was feeling, I just kind of pushed it away, and then when he passed away, that kind of hit me even harder and then I went into a depression and that was what I was experiencing and that kind of started the whole journey, and I tried everything Western medicine had to offer, psychology, psychiatry, antidepressants, all that stuff, and none of that stuff really helped me and, of course, tried self-medicating, that didn’t help, that made things worse and eventually I started searching on my own, and I found a couple of amazing healers and I felt better and that was the start of it. And then, eventually, I was like, you know what, I want to try and do a business and help other people with these issues and what happened was I was a respiratory therapist for about 10 years and I decided one day I’m just going to quit my respiratory job and start a business. And I definitely didn’t know what I was getting to.
Yeah, yeah.
Now I understand starting a business is like jumping off a cliff with a blueprint of building a plane and trying to build the plane on the way down and that’s how this is so far. And so I failed over and over and over again and I had a child at the time too and all this stuff started coming up for me, I’m like, holy smokes, I don’t know if I can do this, I started crushing myself out, I’m not making enough money, all this stuff started coming up and so I had to really kind of sit down and just clear and keep going, clear and keep going, clear and keep going until I got to a place where the business was self-sufficient and I was like, “Oh, this is wonderful.” Working by the hour, getting paid by an employer is completely different from the business world where you’re everything. And, afterwards I was thinking I better do something on the side just to keep that fixed income because now I have three children so it’s good to have a stable income on the side and grow the business on the side and let it grow and grow and grow and now I’m in a place where I feel pretty good about the business and what I’m doing and I’m so happy that I did it because I’ve seen so many lives change.
As you mentioned before, find your site, if they want to work with you, but just find anyone, find someone you’re comfortable with. Is this something that’s expanding that more and more people are becoming aware of over time, both from the customer standpoint as well as people starting practices to help others with it?
Yeah, yeah. I think people are searching now. Just we have a lot of our phones, the internet, videos of all the different things in the world, it’s starting to catch some attention, like there are many ways that we can heal ourselves where we don’t need any medication or surgeries. I think it’s a beautiful thing. I think there’s a shift going on right now where we’re trying to get away from pills and surgeries because Western medicine, it seems like that’s where they want to do it, a lot of pills and surgeries, pharmaceuticals and whatnot, and I think there’s a place, of course, for Western medicine, I think emergencies, great, you get hit by a car, you break an arm, go to the ER, get that stuff set. They’re really good with premature babies, taking care of that until they’re old enough to go home and that’s a beautiful thing too. But I think for like chronic things, like chronic pain, anxiety, depression, that kind of stuff, I think subconscious work is key for all that stuff. Any kind of chronic thing that you got going on and/or something that you feel like is coming on. That’s usually an emotional thing, like I noticed the western medicine likes to umbrella certain emotional imbalances with term like autoimmune, and they like to use all these diagnoses now but that’s good and bad to have diagnosis, I think certain things it’s great, like if you’re really low on certain enzyme or whatever it is then you can go and take that enzyme and, boom, you’re okay. It’s not so great for certain things like fibromyalgia, because now, the patient has this idea of what they have and they make it their own. It’s like, “Oh, I have fibromyalgia.” Some people, it’s almost like, “I am a fibromyalgia warrior,” and it’s like, no, you’re not. It’s not part of you. It’s just an imbalance. You have an emotional imbalance that you can clear out and you can feel better, your body can function better, you don’t need to be in pain.
That whole “I am this…” spans so many different ideas, so many different challenges, even identity stuff and I feel like when someone starts saying in any respect, “I am this…,” it’s when we start to run into some trouble, because that’s when it becomes harder to push that belief system out. Even with good beliefs, people will often say, instead of saying, “I’m trying to lose weight,” say, “I am a healthy person.” Or if someone says, “I am constantly targeted and mistreated by other people,” I want you to say, “I am…,” as opposed to, “I had this incident, I had this experience,” then it becomes deeper in there.
Yep, exactly. Even like, “I’m tired.”
Yeah.
“I’m exhausted.”
Don’t keep saying those things to yourself because what you’re doing is called auto-suggestion, you’re self-hypnotizing yourself to the idea, so you’re going to start feeling tired all the time if you keep telling yourself, “I’m tired.” Click To TweetSo you actually have to pull that belief out. I’ve had to do this with people where like they’re moms and they’ve always been telling themselves that, “I’m tired. I’m exhausted. I’m tired. I’m exhausted,” and we have to pull that belief out and they’re like, “Oh, it’s not so bad.”
Yeah. “I am a tired working mom,” it’s such a common trope that people say and I think, obviously, you said it enough that it becomes, like you said, the process of thought creating form, you’re going to look for evidence to support whatever you assigned to yourself.
A good thing to practice is when you achieve something or you do something good, say, “Oh, this is like me.”
Yeah, exactly.
“This is like me.” And when something that you don’t want in your life, “Oh, this is not like me.” So then you’re kind of ingraining what you want to pull in.
And so as more people become aware of kind of the many different ways that we can heal ourselves as well as the many different ways that we can operate our lives, one of the things I often say is we’re moving from what used to be kind of more of a one size fits all world, everyone works at the same time, everyone works the same way, everyone conducts themselves the same way, to one more people kind of look at the plethora of options out there and see what works for them, do you see any kind of secondary impacts of how people who heal themselves are then going to kind of project that out to the world and impact other people and impact society as a whole?
Yes, yes, yes. There’s that ripple effect. If you want to look this up, they did a study, I think it’s called the hundredth monkey theory, I’m not sure exactly what it was but I think it was like Japanese and they got monkeys on an island. There was monkeys on like multiple islands in this area or whatever. So they taught them how to wash, I think it was a fruit or whatever they’re eating over there in the ocean before they eat and I guess it tastes a little better because it was salty, and so the monkeys, they caught on pretty quickly and they started teaching each other. And the interesting thing that happened, once there was a hundred monkeys on that island that learned how to do this process, monkeys on the next island started doing it. We have this conscious within us, once things start picking up for certain ideas, it transfers through, I don’t know, the universe or whatever it is, we’re all connected in some way, shape, or form and we start shifting the whole conscious. So the more of us that start healing and start believe in healing, we’re going to see a lot of interesting miracles happen because that belief is going to just grow and grow and grow. It’s going to get even more and more powerful, I think, what’s possible with healing.
Yeah, I believe the word some people use is collective consciousness or whatever kind of connects us all and I think most people don’t necessarily have a description of it or even a clear map as to how it goes from that one from one island to the next with the monkeys or how it goes from there but I personally have noticed in some cases in life where once I shift that colored glasses, all of a sudden, I’m seeing things in some of the most unexpected places, people I don’t expect to all of a sudden be hearing about certain topics from and I’m there.
That’s interesting. Once you start working from within, amazing things happen. Amazing things happen.
Well, that is such a wonderful thing. It’s such a wonderful story. Once again, for everyone listening, that’s bringingbalanceback.com, right?
Yep.
Bringingbalanceback.com, if anyone’s interested in working with Austin or finding out about anything in your local area, any of the other ideas behind how we can all work around our subconscious. Austin, I’d like to thank you so much for joining us today on Action’s Antidotes, telling us about all the ways that our subconscious gets mapped, unmapped, how we can be aware, be present, understand what’s going on with the subconscious and then consciously try to work on what we actually want our belief system to be.
Yep, just keep looking at yourself. Who am I being? Who am I being? Who am I being? Every moment, who am I being?
And I’d also like to thank everybody out there for listening today, everyone tuning in to Action’s Antidotes. Hopefully, you got inspired by the story. Hopefully, you’re going to go out there, be more observant, and be the best version of yourself.
That’s all we can do.
That’s all we can do.
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About Austin Tani
Austin is a resident of the Hawaiian Islands, specifically Oahu, where he shares his life with his lovely wife Kai and their three wonderful children. Born on Oahu, Austin spent his formative years on the enchanting Garden Island of Kauai until he turned 18.
Afterwards, he moved to Oahu for schooling, and soon, his family joined him there. For a solid decade, Austin worked as a Registered Respiratory Therapist. His job involved helping people of all ages, from tiny premature babies to wise centenarians, breathe better. He was often called to respond to emergencies, connecting people to vital machines like ventilators and high-flow devices.
Yet, Austin felt a deeper calling. He believed in healing people on a more profound level, beyond just treating symptoms with medicines or surgeries. In 2018, he began studying healing and metaphysics.
Finally, in 2021, Austin left his job at the hospital to start his own business, dedicated to helping people heal deeply. With his newfound knowledge, he witnessed amazing results and aimed to help others avoid surgeries and medications, enabling them to lead happier, healthier lives.
Austin drew inspiration from experts like Dr. Peter Goldman, the founder of www.zoneschoolofhealing.com, and Christopher P. Scott, an expert in emotional clearing and the subconscious. Their teachings guided him on his journey.
In Austin’s story, healing wasn’t just a job; it was his mission, a way to make people feel better and function better, without the need for surgeries or pills. If you’re reading this and facing physical or mental challenges, Austin extends an invitation to explore a path to lasting improvement. Your health and well-being matter, and he’s here to help you find a permanent solution.