Nov. 30, 2024

Beyond the Mind: How Thought Shapes Reality with David Key | Ep 187

Beyond the Mind: How Thought Shapes Reality with David Key | Ep 187

In this inspiring episode, David Key shares his journey from IT sales to becoming a globally recognized coach and mentor. Guided by impactful teachers at pivotal moments, David discovered profound truths about the mind, thought, and mental wellness. He now teaches the transformative "Three Principles" approach, founded on the teachings of Sydney Banks, which reveals that mental health is our natural state—we simply need to reconnect with it by letting go of unhelpful thoughts.

Ready to explore how your thoughts shape your experience? Don’t miss David’s wisdom in this episode, and learn how to access the clarity that’s always within you. Listen now and let David’s journey inspire your own path! 🎙️✨

 

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Key Takeaways:

  • David Key's journey from IT to becoming a coach, hypnotist, and teacher of the three principles approach
  • The power of thought in shaping our experience and mental health
  • The importance of getting present and allowing thoughts to pass rather than engaging with negative ones
  • The three principles: Mind (universal energy), Thought, and Consciousness work together to create our experience

About the Guest:

David Key is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, Award Winning Coach, Principles Teacher, NLP Trainer and Master Trainer of Hypnosis dedicated to helping people realise their goals both personally and professionally. A more satisfying life.

Over the last 48 months some 130,000 people from over 40 countries have invested in one of David's award-winning, dynamic and innovative online and in-room coaching programs. 

Now David is teaching a new understanding in psychology - The Three Principles. Through coaches like David Key it has the power to transform the world.

A leading teacher and practitioner of the revolutionary new paradigm known as The Three Principles, David was one of a select group of coaches to be personally mentored by Doctor George Pransky, the man who was famously described by English philosopher and writer Colin Wilson as "the greatest psychological mind of our time". 

The Principles - in David's own words - have 'turned conventional Freudian analysis on its head, sweeping away a century of misunderstandings about the way in which we human beings experience and process reality'. 

The insights he has gained have transformed David's life, both personally and professionally, and he now spends all his time taking the message to other trainers and coaches, to businesses and private individuals. 

David was also Ambassador for A Slice of Happiness - This is a pro bono program specifically designed to transform the mental health and well-being of the homeless population. (This is a pilot research project funded by 3GPRC) 2017-2020


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Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy® and Hypnotherarpy, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022 for Whistler. 

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more!  She has also guested on over 60 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

 

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Transcript
Melissa Deally:

Music. Imagine getting up every day full of energy, as if you were in your 20s again. What would that be like? What would that be worth to you? What is your health worth to you? Think about it. Your health isn't everything, but without it, everything else is nothing. And yet, too many of us are taking it for granted until something goes wrong. No one wakes up hoping to be diagnosed with a disease or chronic illness. And yet, we've never been taught how to be proactive in our health through our school system or public health as a registered health coach and integrative health practitioner, I believe it is time this information is made available to everyone, combining new knowledge around your health and the ability to do my functional medicine lab tests in the comfort of your own home will allow you to optimize your Health for today and all your tomorrows, don't wait for your wake up call. Welcome back to another episode of The don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I am here with David key and so excited to have you on the show. Welcome to the show, David, thank



David Key:

you, and I'm honored that you've invited me here. Melissa, I'm so looking forward to our conversation. I really am, honestly me



Melissa Deally:

too. And before we dive in, I just want to read a little bit of your bio here and introduce you to the audience, and then I'm going to have you share your story. And of course, we only met in person recently, like less than two months ago, and you as Billy's and my mentor in our work, and so of course, we want to share our learnings from you with my audience, because they are so powerful, and our thoughts literally create our life. So David key is the best selling author, and he's an award winning coach, principals teacher, NLP trainer, master trainer of hypnosis, and is dedicated to helping people realize their goals, both personally and professionally and lead a more satisfying life. So over the last 48 months, 130,000 people from over 40 countries have invested in David's award winning, dynamic and innovative online and in room coaching programs, and yes, I am one of them, and you are teaching the three principles, and that's what you've been working with us, Billy and myself, in teaching, and that's the conversation that I want to dive into today with you. However, before we dive into that, I'd love for you to share your story, your journey as how you got to where you're at today, so the audience can get to



David Key:

know you Sure. Well, bearing in mind, we have, well, around 30 minutes, we'll have a short version, yeah. Okay, so I got fascinated with personal development in my 20s. I bought a book called Grow Rich while you sleep, by Ben Sweetland. Ben wrote that book in the 1960s and I think I was attracted to title because I was in my 20s, I was in sales, and the term Grow Rich while you sleep. I thought that would be a cool idea. And then I got the book, and I started to read it, and it was about the unconscious mind, that's what jumped out of me. And I was like, I didn't even know what the unconscious mind was. Never heard of it. And I became fascinated. And I went on this my journey started. And in the 19 early 1990s I got fascinated with hypnosis, and I looked in the local Yellow Pages. Would you believe that before we had the internet, I'm looking for the Yellow Pages for hypnotists. And I found this guy in Harley Street in London, which is sort of the place you would go and see an expert oncologist or a hypnotist to help you overcome a problem. And I phoned him up, and he said, Look, I can teach you. So I actually hired a hypnotist to train me one one on one in Harley Street, and it was a six week program. I'd see him every weekend. And that was the start of my journey. So absolutely fascinated with that. And then I carried on with my work. And then a few, few years later, after training in hypnosis, I went through a sort of a personal midlife crisis, and I left the IT industry. I wanted to become a coach, and I started that journey, but I was really struggling, and I needed some coaching myself. So I reached out to a local chat, and he said, Why don't we meet, actually, at the hotel where we met, where we worked together. His name was Paul, a fascinating guy. He was a master coach, master trainer of hypnosis and master train of NLP, and he took me under his wing for five years. And because he said, Look, I know you're struggling, but why don't you come to one of my NLP events? And I said, Well, okay, well, I'll come along. And I went there the following week. And at the end of those it was a diploma. Back then we had diplomas four days. Then we had the practitioners were 20 days. Master practitioners with 20 days, it was the old school, long form version, and the anti said you should consider train and become a trainer of NLP and working with people, I was like, I'm not sure I really want to do that. I just want to sort out the challenges that I that I'm going through. But he saw something in me that I hadn't seen in myself. And that was the start of my journey. And I did that for quite a number of years, five years with him. And then one morning he phoned me up. He said, I don't want you to work with me anymore. I said, why? He said, You need to go out on your own. You need to go out into the world and do it. It's like a he was like a mother hen that kicked the chick out the nest, you know? And I was like, I don't want to go. I'm a bit scared about that.



Melissa Deally:

However, how beautiful, because it wasn't creating a co dependency. That's right, already. Again, he saw something in you that you hadn't yet seen in yourself. And yeah, I love that point, and I want to highlight it, because that is the value of a coach. And I do believe everybody needs a coach. No matter where you're at in your life, what stage you're at, you need a coach. And those coaches will change from time to time as you evolve, however they get to see what you don't see in yourself. And it's actually what Doctor Bruce Lipton said on when he was on my podcast. And he was saying that our programming has us in this tunnel vision, so we only see what we see based on our programming. Yeah. He was like, everybody else can see what we don't yet see. So that's beautiful to get you out of the nest. Yeah.



David Key:

He was like a mirror right for me, right reflecting back. And I got to see things about myself that I, as you rightly say, I hadn't, hadn't seen at the time, and he was able to reflect that back for me. And so I went on the journey, set up my own practice, and then Dr Tad, James is PA, reached out to me about 10 years later, and she said, Oh, Dr, James has been watching you. I'm like, I've never spoken to the guy, and I was really curious. He said he'd love you to come over to Las Vegas and train as a master trainer in hypnosis. Now, I loved hypnosis. I love NLP, but I loved hypnosis more, okay, if I had to choose, right? So I got on a plane, then traveled over to Las Vegas, and he was sort of saying to a small group, I think there were eight of us, and he'd only trained since the 1990s about seven master trainers in hypnosis. And I got to spend time with him, and I sat next to him on day one, it was in a boardroom, and he was right next to me, and he looked at me, said, You're a healer. I went, What? No, I'm not a healer and



Unknown:

an IT guy, what? Yeah, I'm



David Key:

an IT guy, just learning about hypnosis. But it was at that point that something resonated inside and maybe, just maybe, all these coincidences and these teachers appearing just at the right moment to take me on the journey like a hero's journey. You know, when Luke Skywalker walks off into the desert after that trauma of his family is being killed, and Obi Wan Kenobi appears and takes him under the wing, and that's effectively how I see my journey. I've had these moments that these teachers have appeared, and it was to sort of conclude how I got into the principles I'd studied, NLP and hypnosis. I was helping 1000s of people around the world, and then I experienced a marital crisis, and I remember looking on my bookshelf, thinking, I need to get a book on relationships, because my marriage was going off a cliff, okay? And I noticed I didn't have any. So I phoned one of my students with you, Luke, because a lot of my friends were saying, well, you should just, you know, quit the marriage, and then, you know, just start again. And I needed to speak to a woman. I just had this calling. And so I phoned this lady called Nicholas. She was amazing song. She said, You really want to read this book called the relationship Handbook by Dr George pransky. And so I bought the book. I read it, and I and she phoned me a week later, and she said, How'd you get on? I went, Yeah, I'm not sure it made any sense to me. To be honest with you, she said, Well, he's doing an online course, and he is the greatest psychological mind alive, as quoted by Colin Wilson, the philosopher crossed between Albert Einstein and William James who wrote the book The Principles of Psychology. I was like, well. Blah, buy the course, because divorce is expensive, right,



Melissa Deally:

right? Of course, it's cheaper, and the



David Key:

course was only a few 100 bucks. So I bought this course, and my wife came in and she said, What are you doing? I said, Well, I'm watching this guy talking about how the mind works. Because I had a lot of concepts and theories, but I hadn't, I hadn't heard about these three principles that this psychologist was teaching Dr pransky, and she sat down, said, Can I watch it with you? And we were on the second week of the training. Was only an hour a week, right? And he was using a metaphor about how our eyes on a camera, how we experience life is through a projection, a projector inside her mind, and she was watching it, and she had a profound insight. To this day. We don't know what it was, but she just, literally just woke up, and the feeling in the room changed instantly. I looked at her, and she softened. She looked younger. Her voice changed, and she turned to me. She said, we're going to be just fine. And my conscious mind, my ego, yeah, I was going, I'm not sure I understand what's going here. And anyway, I'm not even sure if I've decided whether we're going to be fine yet, but I couldn't deny the fact that the feeling in the room was just awesome. So she said, Look, I'm tired. I'm gonna go to bed. And I went, Okay, and I stayed up. And being an NLP modeler, I wanted to find out, did he hypnotize my wife on this video? So I'm rewinding the video over and over about 20 times. I couldn't find a technique, I couldn't find a strategy. I couldn't find a language pattern. I didn't know what had happened, you see, because I was looking in the wrong direction. I was looking at him. But what had happened? It was a shift on the inside for her, and it can't be described. Apart from that, she just had a feeling and something shifted. So I thought, right, I need to learn about this. But it was three months later, after she had that shift, and I was still frustrated, and I was watching these videos, and I couldn't get it, and I was very conscious and trying to work things out, and I'm in my kitchen, and all of a sudden I'm making a cup of tea, and there's steam coming out of the kettle, and I'm pouring the water on the tea bag, and I'm just there in thought, and all of a sudden I felt really cross. It's like angry inside. I was like, Oh, I can't believe this is going on in my relationship. And I had a voice in my head. It came in and it went, David, your wife can't possibly be making you angry. She's not even in the house. She's out shopping with the children. And in that moment, I had this amazing feeling, the anger just went gone, and then tears of joy, laughter, the feeling came through, and I was like, it's true, 100% of the human experience is created on the inside via the principle of thought. The power of thought is so underrated. And it was at that point I was like, I need to go and find this Dr pransky and go on one of his programs. So I got on a plane, went to Seattle. He was running a professional retreat, just like Billy was on your business partner the other week. And he, he was looking for volunteers to coach. And I put my hand up, and he eventually, he chose me to come up to the front of the room, and we had a conversation. And during that conversation, all I can remember about it is he started talking about Muhammad Ali. I'm not sure what he was saying about Muhammad Ali, how we got there, but I had an out of body experience in that moment. It literally, it's like my mind switched off just for a nanosecond, and in that moment, I had another profound shift. And the only way I can describe it, because it's very difficult to use words to describe a transformation and insight. But the metaphor that I would use, and I have used, is that I realized that I've been living in a feeling of stress since I was eight years old in that instant, in a nanosecond, with sharks, the crazy people they they don't go in a cage, but they wear this chain mail suit in case the shark bites them and they can't get hurt. It felt like in that second, the chain mail suit had been removed from my body, and I just felt amazing. Stress just fell away in that moment. People were coming up to me in the break, going, Oh my God, you look amazing. Look like 20 years younger. I was like, I just feel so good. And I hadn't realized that I'd been living in the feeling of. Stress, and it became, it become my homeostasis, bit like people listening to this podcast might be wearing a pair of shoes right now and not realize they're wearing them until I mentioned it. And you know, you go walking all day and you get home, you take your shoes off, and it's like, oh, that's better. But until that moment, you don't even know you have them on your feet. And I didn't know I had this feeling of stress. It had been normalized. So when it was removed, or when I had this insight, I was free. And then George said to me, this is the third teacher that appeared, so Paul, Dr James, and then Dr pransky said, I'd like to mentor you. And I was like, why? Well, you know, you're a bit of a maverick, and the world of psychology, unfortunately, innocently, are looking in the wrong direction. They're very much labels and and pigeonholing and boxing. Oh, you behave this way, so you've got this condition. And I was now on a journey with Dr Pran skin. I have been, he's in his 80s now, amazing soul being mentored by like, 12 years. And I'm nearly, I'll be, I'm a couple away, couple years away from 60, so still having a teacher. And I say, I think everybody should have a coach, no matter even if you're a master trainer, there's always somebody that can support you and guide you and help you. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.



Melissa Deally:

I love that story. It is such a powerful story of learning and transformation and the power of thought, because in each of those cases, even though he was talking about Muhammad Ali and you had no idea how we got there, it was still triggering thoughts in you that resulted in this insight and the stress being released from your body through the metaphor that he was sharing with you. And I also want to all share that as you talked about the world of psychology, putting people in boxes and labeling and giving diagnoses, etc, that that was George's world too. He was known as greatest psychological minds on the planet, until he learned this, and then he shifted his practice, and that's when his practice took off as well, because he was able to help people in such deeply, profound ways. And then he had a mentor who you've introduced Billy and I to, and so I'd love you to share that yes,



David Key:

yes. So I was fascinated, because when George shared his story, it really woke me up to the potential of this understanding. It was so simple, instead of intervening and trying to fix people, it was very much coming from a place of, oh, nobody's broken. And Sydney Banks was a normal guy with a ninth grade education who worked in the mill. He'd traveled to Canada from Scotland as a child, and in his 40s, he was struggling in his relationship, and he went to this conference on relationships in the 1970s and he bumped into a psychologist who was also there because he was having problems, and they had this conversation, And the psychologist said to Sid again, I wasn't there, so I'm just this is how I remember. It said, Why are you here? Sid, he went, Oh, you know, I'm very insecure. I'm very insecure, so I'm here to to work on that. And the psychologist said, Well, me too. And then the following day, Sid bumped into this psychologist, and he was thinking of leaving the event because he didn't like the way that they were getting people to talk about their past and bring all their anger up and argue with your partner. Of some sort of modality that they were they were teaching the participants. And he said to his wife, I want to go. But unfortunately, the the ferry wasn't going to be for another 24 hours, so they had to stay and he bumped into this psychologist, and who said to him, said, it's you again. I was thinking about what you said to me yesterday, that you were insecure. You're not insecure. Sid, you just think you are. And in that moment, Sid described it like a bomb going off in his mind, and all these beautiful feelings were coming into his world, and he didn't know what was happening. And he said to the psychologist, do you realize what you just said to me? And the psychologist responded, of course, I do. I don't make small chatter and Sid then describes it as he clearly didn't realize what he'd said, because he had said that he was insecure as well. Yes, so Sid, went home, left the island, went back to Salt Spring Island, I believe, and for three days he had all these beautiful feelings. He said he couldn't sleep. Just beautiful loving feelings were. Coming in from everywhere and and then on the third day, he was standing in his living room looking out the bay window across the lake, and he said this his he heard his mother in law and wife hang out a conversation, and he started laughing. And he thought, well, I'm going to get into trouble. Because the the mother said, What are you laughing at? And he thought, Oh, I better not respond to this, because I'm going to get into trouble. And he looked out his bay window, and all of a sudden, he described how he was surrounded in white light. Nobody else could see it. No one could see it. But it maybe only lasted a couple of seconds. And then he turned to his wife, and his eyes were streaming, crying, and he turned his wife and his mother in law, said, I've discovered the true meaning of mind, Universal Mind, and people are going to be coming from all over the world to listen to what I'm get, what I've discovered. And some people said he discovered the true meaning of God, okay, and it's not what you think it is. And his wife and his mother in law thought he'd had a break with reality and wanted to call the doctor, because how could a ninth grade educated welder who worked in a mill for 14 years, suddenly proclaimed that he's going to teach psychologists and humanity about the nature of experience, the human experience. He had had an enlightenment experience, and then George got to hear about it. Dr pransky, who was running a gestalt therapy and had a full practice where that he would take people back into the past. He got to meet Sid because he heard about him. He went up to find out what's this guy doing. Because people were going with troubles and struggles, Sid would just talk to them for free. You know about his discovery and people would heal. People would transcend their suffering. They would find their mental health, which Sid said, everybody is sitting in the middle of mental health. They just don't know it, right? So George went to meet him, and at the end of the talk, George went up to Sid, and Sid said, Oh, what do you do, George? He said, I'm a psychologist. And said, Well, I've never met a psychologist. Come back to my house for a cup of tea with a few of the people here tonight. And they went back to his home, and at one point, Sid lent in and said, George, what are the principles behind your work? And he described, well, we take people back into their childhood, into the past, and we look for the reasons why they're suffering with their stress and their anxiety and their depression in the moment. And I, you know, this is how I remember the conversation. But so if you're watching this, George, forgive me if I've got it slightly wrong. But you said, Oh, George, so it's like based on what he said, Well, taking people back into the past, and he starts laughing. And George, I think, was a little bit irritated by this, so what are you laughing at? He said, Well, maybe your training doesn't work, George, because the past doesn't exist. How can you take someone back into the past? Well, what's who taught you this? Well, it's based on Freudian analysis, the work of sigma Freud. And it was like, well, it clearly doesn't know what he was doing. Then, in the context of the past doesn't exist. So we only have the now. We only have this moment, and everything we experience in this moment is coming from the principle and the power of thought flowing into your mind is, it's an impossibility that their suffering is caused from their childhood. It's caused because they're misusing the power of thought against themselves. Innocently, they're not aware that they're doing it. So going from NLP and techniques and hypnosis, which was really helpful for people to just educating clients to say, you know, if you could just see that you're sitting in the middle of perfect mental health, and you just have to wake up, and you have to wake up to the power of and the gift of thought that you've been given at birth, and start using your thinking in a way that's healthy as opposed to unhealthy. So, you know, I heard about this. I went to meet George, and you know, here I am teaching 1000s and 1000s of students this understanding and that the stories of transformation are just it's miraculous. It really, really is. It's so simple. Wake up, realize that you're perfect, and all your suffering is created via the misuse of the power of thought. That's it, and it's not intellectual.



Melissa Deally:

And I love that, because it is so simple, and yet. But a you know, we're not taught this in school, etc, just like we're not taught the power of hypnosis and the unconscious mind or anything about that in school, either. And so we go through life with our childhood programming, doing the best we can with the resources we have, yes and living life as it happens to us in many cases, rather than how is it happening for us, and recognizing that our thoughts impact the life that we create. And that's the power of this. And yes, it is so simple, and people think it needs to be complicated in order to heal, or it needs to be hard in order to heal. And the reality is, is it can literally be this simple, yeah, and I love that. And the power of thought is part of a trinity. It's the 3p that you talk about. So I'd love you just to share that connection of the three P's, knowing that the foundation really is in the universal mind. It's in thought, yeah,



David Key:

I mean, Sid would talk about one principle, but that was so simple, you get really complicated for people to get their head around so they came up with three principles, I believe it was George and Sid, and broke it down to make it easier, they called the Trinity. So mind, universal, mind universal thought, or you could say Divine Mind, divine thought and divine consciousness, which are the same. But let's try and make it simple for people, okay, by complicating it so we have consciousness. The real simple way of describing that for me, are the senses. So we have the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, we have our senses. And the senses are neutral. They have no agenda. They're just there neutrality. And what that that consciousness or the sense, is when a thought comes into our mind, whether it be a memory from, you know, our database of memories, or a new thought comes out of the blue into mind, we wouldn't have any awareness of that without consciousness. The sense is bring thought alive, giving us our emotions, giving us our feeling experience. And so consciousness brings thought alive, but without divine mind. Another way to describe that would be energy without life force energy, we wouldn't have an experience. So we need the three working as a Trinity together to have a human experience. So if we took a doctor, for example, and the we went into a morgue and I went, Hey, Doctor, what's the difference between me as a human being alive and that person's dead? Well, the person physiology that's lying in the morgue is exactly the same as you David, apart from they don't have any life force energy, right? You cannot have a bad day if you don't have any life force energy. It's what's causing your heart to beat right now without you even thinking about it. Okay? It's just, it's we're not plugged into the mains, and yet we're here living and breathing. So we need life force energy. If we had no thought, if we took thought away from a human being, they wouldn't have an experience. They wouldn't know it's a good day or a bad day, because the senses wouldn't be able to bring anything alive for you. So we need the senses, we need thought, and we need life force, energy. That's the Trinity. And when you educate your clients, when you point this out to your clients, in collegial conversations with them, and go, all you're experiencing and all you're suffering is just thought. It's not anything other than that. And if you could just learn to not be afraid of what you're experiencing in terms of your feeling state, and to see that the nature of thought is really what we need to understand. The nature of thought is just like transient, like a cloud, it comes and it goes. But what we innocently or miss with a misunderstanding when we're living without the awareness of how the system works, when a dark cloud comes in really powerful thought with misery attached to it, the feeling of sadness overwhelms us, and we try and think our way out of it, we need to just step back and recognize that, oh, nature will just take its course. It'll leave in a minute. You might have another one and another one, but offend if you, if you step back from your thinking and thoughts, you will.



David Key:

Of people get down on their hands and knees and pick up the emoji poops and smell them and go, Oh my god, this is a terrible experience I'm having. If we can just educate our clients that there's like, don't get down on your hands and knees and pick up those thoughts. Just let them float on by. When they float on by, you don't get wrapped up in the negative experience, even if you're feeling bummed out for the day, that's only the thoughts flowing through your mind. You don't have to do anything. If you just step back for a moment and let them do take their course nature. We'll just take them away from you. You don't control what comes into your mind. You can't control thought. It has its own nature. Comes and it goes. That's why, when someone comes, I'm depressed all the time, I say it's an impossibility, or I'm anxious all the time, it's an impossibility, because the nature of thought is that it changes well, on this own, it's like we are living in our own weather system, and some of us are living in a rainy weather system, like in the UK, most of the time, but we know that the clouds will part at some point in the day, and the Sun will come through. Yes, we don't need to stand outside and take a deep breath and try and blow the clouds away.



Melissa Deally:

We just allow them to flow. And I love



David Key:

they'll just leave on their own. Yeah, nothing needs fixing. You're working perfectly, okay, and it's just that you're not enjoying it, right? And if you stop thinking about it and trying to manage it, nature will take its course, and you'll find peace of mind at some point, a lucid moment where you feel peace. And that's the evidence to say, Oh, my mental health is there, even if it's temporary, even if it's for a second, because once that gives hope to people, then



Melissa Deally:

exactly there's hope. And that you know that you can extend that second into a minute, into an hour, etc, by choosing to get present and live in the now and allow for thoughts to pass on by instead of bending down and picking up those nasty, negative, poopy thoughts that's camping in them,



David Key:

yeah, and you know, when you get present, those thoughts don't bother you. It's like you might still have your challenges in life. But instead of them being in your face, those thoughts right in front of you, it's almost like they move into the background. They're still coming through, like I'm a human being. I've been around this understanding. I still wake up some days ago, oh my God, I feel terrible today, you know. And I know what's going on, but so many people don't understand what's going on. So they go, oh, there's something wrong with me. I need to go and fix it. When I wake up, I'm having a moment. I've lost clarity. Maybe I've drifted out of my lane like the average bear, you know, it's like hit the rumble strips on the freeway. Oh, my God. Life's falling apart. And then I remember, oh, oh, I've just had a drop in my mood. I'm in a low mood. And the quality of our thinking in a lone mood is not as healthy as the quality of our thinking where we're in a good mood and and everybody on planet Earth can relate to a moment when they've had a bad day and they've gone to bed, woken up in the morning, and they feel better again, and they didn't do anything Exactly.



Melissa Deally:

The mind just changed on its own, and it's a new day.



David Key:

It's a new day.



Melissa Deally:

Yeah, I love this conversation, David, it is so powerful. And for people that are just hearing this for the first time, you might be thinking, it can't be that easy, and we are both here to tell you that it literally can be that easy if you allow it, if you choose to get present and you choose to allow those thoughts to move on by So David, I love to ask all of my podcast guests a question, and that question is, what does don't wait for your wake Up Call mean to you?



David Key:

You know what comes to mind is a metaphor that was shared with me on my journey with Dr pransky and then many other teachers in this community who were mentored by Sid. And it's this, we are the leaf being blown in the wind thinking we're in control of where we're going, and if someone's listening to this podcast, this was your moment to not wait to look into perhaps to look in a different direction, instead of looking outside of yourself for. Solutions to personal challenges and negative experiences. Look in a different direction. What if you could right now? Maybe go and search the YouTube and look for an interview with Sid banks. Just look in a different direction. Look inside. Look to the nature of your experience now, because this was your opportunity, you don't need to wait. There's nothing to work out. You've actually already got this understanding inside you just forgot.



Melissa Deally:

I love that. Thank you. And if somebody would like to work with you, reach out and find out more about your work. If you can let the audience know how they can get hold of you, your website, etc, that would be wonderful.



David Key:

Hey, you know they just need to go to go to the website. David key, as in dorky, k, e, y. David key, one word.com, and on there, there's a Contact Us, and you can go in, and you can submit a question or reach out to me. It'll go to my support team, and they'll just let me know and leave your details, and I'll reach out to you.



Melissa Deally:

Beautiful, very easy. So simply, David key.com, and any last word of wisdom for the audience as we wrap up this show.



David Key:

Yes, everybody listening to this right now, I want you to please remember you're sitting in the middle of perfect mental health. You just forgot you came into the world perfect, uncontaminated, and then you had life experience, and they're just memories. They can't hurt you, even if you've had trauma and you're suffering from them, if you allow yourself to step back and allow nature to take its course, bit like if you cut your hand, you don't need to do any work. Your physiology will heal that up. Hold on its own. The pain will eventually subside, and then you'll just have a scar. Or you could take the opposite approach, which wouldn't be wise. You could pick up the scab day in day out. That will that the healing process, psychologically speaking, it's designed into your DNA, your psychological healing will take place if you stop picking at the scabs, if you stop thinking about the past and all those challenges, and allow the thoughts to flow in and flow out when they flow out a negative thought, even if You don't know what it is, it will heal. Now you may have another one, and that will heal if you just leave them alone and trust that you've got that innate wisdom inside there's nothing wrong with you.



Melissa Deally:

I love that so profound and quite ironic too, because I was on a call earlier this morning where one of my colleagues picked a card, and the card for today literally said, You are not broken. Wow, you don't need to be fixed, which is what you've said here today. So clearly, that's an important message for the world today, and I want to thank you so much for your time, David, for coming here on the show, for sharing your wisdom and for all of the support that you've shown to Billy and myself. We love you and love working with you. And I just want to say, thank you so much. Oh, I



David Key:

love you too, Melissa and Billy too. I mean, I'm just honored that you decided to come on a journey with me, and yeah, I can't wait to see what you create in the world and how you make an impact and change people's lives with this understanding and all the other work that you do in NLP and hypnosis and coaching and timeline therapy, it's, it's just what the world needs right now.



Melissa Deally:

It is, and it is our honor to be able to offer it and to be able to do it with your guidance. So thank you, and I want to thank thank you the listener for tuning in today, and hopefully you've experienced some profound insights and learning just from listening to what David has had to share. And I encourage you to reach out to him if you would like to learn more, and to also share this episode with others who in your life that you know need to hear this message today. So thank you for being here and come right on back next week for our next episode. Thank you for investing this time with me on the don't wait for your wake up call Podcast. I'm so glad you joined in. If you can take two minutes to share this episode with someone you think can benefit and have a positive impact on their life, that would be wonderful. Please leave a review by going to your favorite podcast listening app and let me know what you enjoy or would like to hear more of. It will support me in my effort to bring the possibility of natural healing to a wider audience and help disrupt the sick care system we have today and make human health a global priority. Health is your true wealth. You.