Matt's Audio Letter of the Week

Hey everyone, welcome to this edition of the Feel Better Letter, the FBL.

This is Matt.

And today I want to talk about fear's promise for a better tomorrow and how it really manipulates us through this promise.

Before that, I want to tell you all that I have recently, you know, this week, we've made public the new Restored Minds app.

Now, this is not available in the App Store currently.

It's available through our website only.

And I want to kind of tell you about it because I couldn't be more excited about it, you know, when it comes to everything that we have in it.

So, you know, we do a daily check-in, tracking one's resistance, which is, you know, really unique to us, because most things track anxiety and thoughts, things that are outside of your control.

So by teaching you to track your resistance daily, you're actually beginning to change the resistance just by the tracking.

And that variable is what allows this loop to dissolve.

Now, on top of that, it creates a custom Triple-A Response based on your specific theme, the thoughts, and the feelings you're experiencing.

So it gives you a specific plan for the day, along with emotional releases to really drain the fear out, a daily meditation, as well as all these on-demand resources.

And every month, I do a live training on a certain topic with everyone in the community.

This month is going to be resistance, and that training is going to be happening on Monday.

And so, if you want to be a part of that, make sure to claim your spot and enroll before Monday so that, you know, you can participate.

So with that, I'll link everything down below, and you can read more about it.

But really excited about it. I want to make sure you know about it.

So, let's go ahead and talk about fear's promise for a better tomorrow.

See, fear.

One of the things about it is, it's a feeling, and what that feeling does is it hijacks the mind, and the mind tries to justify and explain why that feeling's here.

And so the mind projects the presence of fear into potential threat.

Meaning, the mind goes, "Oh, hey, you know, like, what if this happens? What if this happens? What if this happens? What if this happens?" Right?

And it creates some kind of catastrophic scenario in the future.

Now, fear makes a deal with you.

It says, "Hey, if you ruminate, worry, and solve this right now in your mind, or do any compulsion, research, whatever, you'll have a better tomorrow."

And what it's asking you to sacrifice is right now.

The present.

Today.

And it makes me think of a famous tale, and I know I've seen these in bars that I've been to and stuff like this, where it says, "Free beer tomorrow," right?

"Free beer tomorrow."

And that sign, so a patron comes in, sees it, and says, "Oh, wow, free beer tomorrow," and they come back, and they say, "Hey, well, where's my free beer? I was here yesterday."

And, "Oh, yeah, that free beer's tomorrow."

So they come into the bar, and they still have to pay today.

Right?

And the promise of free beer tomorrow is always there because tomorrow just never comes.

And this is really the trap of fear.

This is why I passionately try to, you know, help people understand the importance of learning how to confront and release fear, because fear will endlessly promise you safety tomorrow at the expense of today.

The bill you pay for fear is today.

It's the present moment.

Now, the problem is, is what you will realize with time is that the more you sacrifice today in the pursuit of a better tomorrow, that tomorrow never comes.

The same way that free beer never comes.

Because all life is, is a series of nows.

There is no such thing as tomorrow.

It's a mirage. It's an illusion of the mind.

And everything the mind can come up with that's catastrophic about tomorrow, there are also 10 billion other things that it's not thinking of.

And if you really ask yourself, how many times has your mind actually been correct, most of you will admit that it's a flat-out zero.

And even if something did happen, it wasn't as bad as you thought, and you were able to handle it in that moment.

And this is why the illusion of fear is this idea of safety and control and responsibility, and it's just that. It's a complete illusion.

It's not real.

And it's just something going on in the mind.

So the more you analyze, ruminate, fight the thoughts, right, you know, try to control, and get reassurance from people and all this stuff, the only thing that you are really sacrificing is today.

You're sacrificing your presence, your full engagement with the day.

And that can show up, obviously, as time with loved ones, what you're doing with your work, what you're pursuing in your life, you know, the way you're showing up for yourself, in whatever it is you're doing.

This is the bill.

And I paid this bill for a long time.

And it never got me anywhere.

And so this is not out of a judgment statement.

It's much more as, like, a... just someone who did this for a long time imploring you to not do the same.

Because I can tell you that whatever it's promising, it's never gonna deliver.

Whatever you resolve in your mind, it'll always come up with the next thing.

And that's the trap.

And so, in order to confront fear, you have to understand fear as a present experience, not a futuristic threat.

And to confront fear, you have to learn to confront it internally by learning how to become non-resistant to the inner experience itself and actually allow the fear to release.

As you do that, you shift your state of consciousness.

As your state of consciousness moves up into higher fields, like trust, like acceptance, like peace, like love, you bring that state into now.

And that is the real work of transformation right there.

That's what the Restored Minds app is all about, actually.

And so, if this message was helpful, I'm really glad. Please share it with someone else if you believe they would find it helpful as well.

And also, if, you know, if you feel like you want to work together in some capacity, this new app that we have is the most seamless and easiest way that I can bring what I know to you.

And it's also, you know, at a low monthly cost.

And I wanted to make it that way and make it available.

And again, we still are gonna be doing live Q&A's once a month, as well as an in-depth workshop on certain topics, and Monday, we are going to be diving into resistance.

And if you align with what I'm saying, it's one of those workshops that you won't want to miss.

So with that, we'll have the links down in the notes.

Feel free to email any questions, support@restoredminds.com.

And with that, wishing you all a great weekend.