Dr, Tracy Thomas 2: Episode 1160

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[0:00:36] HA: Patterns rule everything around us but we are often unaware of our most prevalent ones. When we are conscious of our patterns, we usually feel incapable of changing them even when we know they aren’t helping us. We want to upgrade our lives to have more success, wealth, purpose, and happiness but something is holding us back. Welcome to the Author Hour Podcast. I’m your host Hussein Al-Baiaty and I’m joined by third-time author and number-one bestseller, Dr. Tracy Thomas, who is here to talk about her new book called, The Pattern Shift: Transform Your Reality through Intentionality. Let’s flip through it. Hello everyone and welcome back to Author Hour. I am here with the special Dr. T. Thomas. That’s Tracy Thomas for those of you who don’t know. She’s here celebrating her new book launch, The Pattern Shift. I’m super excited. Dr. T, welcome to the show.

[0:01:32] TT: Hello everyone, great to be here.

[0:01:34] HA: Yeah, I’m super excited to have you because flipping through your book, so many of your stories deeply resonated with me and the way you spoke and the way you kind of pulled me into these stories was fascinating so I appreciate that and I can’t wait to get into the book, however before we get into that, I really like to give our audience a little bit of personal background. You know, who you were growing up, what was it like, and maybe who’s a person or an event that kind of led you on the path that you’re on today?

[0:02:01] TT: Okay. Well, let’s see, who have I always been is somebody that is very scientific, somebody just really observing and seeing how things work, really analyzing things. You know, no shock that I became a psychologist because I also felt like in the business world, you’re a psychologist. It was like, I was in the business world but knew I really wanted to help people with their whole reality and so I went into being a psychologist. Because as I talk about in my TED Talk actually, from the first memories, I can really remember being in my family and just observing and kind of going, “What’s going on here?” and thinking, quite honestly, life was a little weird and I didn’t always understand what was going on and why people were quite honestly, freaking out a lot of the times and so I just began to really look at what is actually occurring. I don’t know if I had this exact language when I was younger but later on I started to realize that back when I was little and I see things, I would think to myself, “Somebody’s in a program, somebody’s in a pattern” but I don’t think I had the exact words until later but I could see like the same conversation. If you’ve ever been in an argument and you have the same one and it’s like a pattern, right? It’s a series of things that are going to go back and forth and so I just began to see that there were patterns everywhere and I could also see that when people were in some sort of a struggle, Hussein, and then they finally decided to make a shift and go forward and start to focus on what it was that was going to be better, what they were going to do with their intentions, that’s when everything started to get easier. Although we all know that, I really could see that, this is what I see all the time in people. When somebody would go to what I refer to as a lower pattern that is not working for them and when they start to make a shift and get into a better state, a better set of intentionality and so I also, because I didn’t like all that intensity that I experienced when I was younger and I still don’t by the way. So I just would find myself offering this simple phrase even as a young one like, “Well, what’s your intention?” and right away I would start to like, move the person forward and start to have them focus because when you speak about your intentions, you actually start to be in a higher frequency and now you start a momentum in the other direction and so this really became a way of life for me. It’s really being able to do a pattern shift, which is what the book’s named after, is something that was about shifting into a higher level of purpose but it was also a survival mechanism for me because I was a really sensitive being. So I really picked up on everything and people now call this being HSP, highly sensitive person or being an empath and so I just had to also figure out ways that if I felt something really uncomfortable that I could make that shift and know that I have control over my circumstances and over my reality. So there’s that. So what was the other part of the question?

[0:05:23] HA: Right, you know, someone or an event that sort of helped you make this shift, I guess, or made you realize something within you that made you make that shift with your life.

[0:05:35] TT: Ah, okay, it’s a pretty important thing in my life and I actually – I don’t think I’ve really shared this to the extent that it was very impactful to me before, so this is a scoop. When I was 12, I started to develop an eating disorder and I know people think they kind of know what that is and I just want to let everybody know, this is a kind of a living hell where you are in a pattern. You have difficult feelings and then, there are all these ways you’re trying to cope and just like whether it’s alcohol or any other thing that somebody does to cope with feelings that are difficult and just in your environment by the way, this was really a living hell. It went on for years and no matter what I did, you know, I was just a young person, so if I went down a lot of weight, nobody seemed to pay attention or notice. And if I then went any other direction and started to gain weight, nobody seemed to notice that I was really struggling and I actually reached out to my – I wrote this letter to my mom, which was to, really, for all four of my parents, my stepdad and my dad and my stepmom as well and I wrote in this letter. It was like a really courageous thing that I did about how much I was struggling and that I needed help. I needed, I don’t know if I called it treatment or just something saying, “I really need professional help” and I wrote in it that I don’t I don’t know how to commit suicide but I don’t want to be here, right? Because remember, I’m a teenager. So by the time I write this letter, I’m 16 years old. My dad picked up the ball even though I didn’t live with him full-time and he took me to a therapist and in a couple of sessions, the therapist said, “This is a family issue. There is too much intensity or too much chaos going on in her environment and we really need to have the family make changes,” which is by the way Hussein and everybody, it’s often the case that the young person is experiencing something really stressful, it’s because it’s manifesting through them and the environment and so unfortunately, when this doctor said that, he triggered something in my dad that made him never want to go back. Because so many people can not want to deal with certain issues. So that was a really bad moment because my dad said, “If you actually tell anybody any more stuff about us, I’m not going to be there for you” and that’s the first time I’ve actually said this out loud to someone outside of therapy and then my mom and my stepdad — I wanted them to pick up the ball and do something with it. But I basically got the message that it was not okay to have a difficulty and that people were uncomfortable with that and also what I know too, is that people can be over their heads and that’s what I generally felt about emotional issues in my family. So what happened, this long story boiled down into this important piece is that I knew that I was basically on my own with figuring this out, and while that sounds like a very sad story and it is to some degree, it also was the birthplace of me understanding that I needed to become a person who could elevate my own reality. Who could shift my mood, elevate my emotions and I began like, more as a scientist again like to go into what were the ways that I could make myself feel better and get out of that situation. That’s why I’m even talking to you all here today because I do this and all my books are about giving people techniques that help them elevate themselves because a lot of people have people around them that are not capable of giving them the support that they need.

[0:09:27] HA: That’s very powerful. I think, thank you so much for just opening up and sharing, you know, with vulnerability about such a young intimate time with yourself and obviously, your family. I’m very grateful that you shared that because your book again, is really about this idea of making the shift and how one really starts to make this transformation. And you go through a variety of this idea of like negative to positive, fictional to factual. I love these pattern shifts that you talk about. Is there one pattern that you find sort of particularly challenging or maybe rewarding to work on?

[0:10:05] TT: Hussein, I’m really glad to be opening up and sharing more with everybody and the good news is when we all do this, then we’re contributing to a more healthy society and then also, these things that we think are difficult, everyone these are it’s like the solution that you need is the solution that you're here to bring to the world. That’s really the cool thing about it. So in all the pattern shifts, I would say my favorite one is shifting from backward to forward and so I’m going to give that one first, which is because when you go forward and you are in your intentions, that’s the easiest way, really, to elevate your emotional state and to get the momentum and to gain mastery and capacity over yourself and your reality and this is also one of the most important ones that I utilize in my life that makes it so — Instead of going backward, and ultimately what’s happening everyone when we go backward is we’re really having flashbacks, and some flashbacks can be the worst kinds of things that people experience and sometimes it’s just flashing back because our culture tends to speak about things in that backward fashion rather than speaking entirely about intentions and what you’re doing going forward. So my favorite thing is to speak, even though I just told you the story, to speak in intentionality and that’s what the book is about because it’s the pattern shift, which is all about transforming your reality through intentionality and the issue everyone, is that if you hang out going backward too much, which if you’ll all start to pay attention, you’ll notice that there are some people in your lives that that’s all they do. That everything they talk about is going backward and then you’ll find that the people that are the most successful in this world are the people that know how to use all of that same energy but put it going forwards and the good news is and I do believe this really saved my life is that, I am much more of a forwards person dispositionally and the good news everyone, is that if you’re not or you’ve been conditioned to go backwards a lot, this is what we do at my company, The Empire Company, we train people and program them in a forward reality. So everything they think and feel and speak is taking them forward because then you’re creating a reality in the future rather than when you are constantly, as some people do, speaking in the backward, in the past, all you’re doing is literally recreating it. So that one’s probably my favorite because there’s so much that can be created when you shift gears that way.

[0:13:02] HA: That’s so powerful. When I was like, just fresh out of college, I had a little T-shirt printing company, like tiny, tiny little thing and someone told me to read The Power of Intention, which was by Dr. Wayne Dyer. Oh my God, that utterly and I was – I’ve always been like, optimistic thinking forward, all those good things and I was always eager to learn. Hell, like, you know, I was a refugee and I got to grow up in America. So all the opportunities were at my fingertips, at least that’s how my dad framed it, right? Or my mom and it was just like, “What do you do every day to take advantage of all these opportunities?” and you know, that could be a bad thing too because I felt like at one point, trying too hard at too many different types of things but that’s because I was just really excited and I feel like a part of that was if you were to take my DNA and unfold it, it’s just these aren’t just my dreams. These are [the] dreams of my ancestors and my heritage and I feel like, I just had this hurt now that I’m in a position and in a place where I can practice writing, practice painting, I could literally do whatever I want. It felt that way, right? But what do you do? So it’s like, “All right, well, I’m going to study architecture, I’m going to throw events here, I’m going to try this T-shirt printing thing” and you know as a creative, you’re trying different things. I failed at, oh my God, so many things but then I realized, “But that’s where I was learning the most was through failing” — I didn’t speak English, that didn’t come natural to me. So just speaking in front of people was fear. It was just utter fear but you know, you shaved that off, you know? But when I read that book, man, it made me feel like I’ve always been on that path but it gave me the language to now understand myself a little bit more and understand the world around me a little bit more and I can tune it further and be more intentional. So I love the book because it really reminded me of literally, one of my favorite books of all time because it helped me so much with just who I am and how I am, but really, more – get it more focused, more refined and more intentional, right? So I just wanted to share that with you. That’s what your book reminds me of and I love how much it resonated with me just from those points of perspective.

[0:15:16] TT: I love this Hussein because Dr. Dwyer, he really brought intentionality to the forefront in this blast, or this big era of transformation and the booming of the transformation industry. So number one, I think of him as a family member and as like being related because same thing, somewhere along the line, I saw him I think on TV, maybe on PBS or something and it just stuck with me because I was like, “Oh wait, I already do that” and also kind of answer to the other part of the question you asked. Even though this has been a lifelong practice for me still sometimes one of the hardest pattern shifts to do is to go from a reaction to an intention. So even though that is a lifestyle for me, what happens is the more you rise up into more of your purpose, the stakes get bigger and so you could then have these old kind of reactions. So what I was able to see all along the way in my life and thanks to Dr. Dwyer as well is that at some point in whatever it is that somebody’s struggling with, there comes a moment just like I said about what I learned when I was younger is that, you finally go, “Okay, what are we going to do about it? Okay, let’s go forward.” And I just remember thinking, “I wish my family would just cut the rest of it out” and go right from whatever the difficulty is — go right to what’s my intention because then you’re creating more intention in your life to what you said and when you do that, you’re just going to get to live a life of more of the things that you actually want to do because you’re spending your life in intention and the minutes are ticking by anyway and so you might as well do that. And yet, I wrote the pattern shift because this is still one of the most challenging things for people to do because it’s like flipping the switch in life because when you really do these kinds of shifts, you can actually go from living a life in one direction to living a life of intention. You know, that’s a bigger deal than I could probably even describe and everybody would have to just contemplate what that would be like if you could live out your entire intentions from the beginning of your life all the way through.

[0:17:37] HA: That’s so powerful. I love all the connections and I love that you just called Dr. Wayne Dwyer family because I have always felt that way. That’s so awesome. So your book again highlights so many – this idea of the negative and the positive like I said earlier but I really like this idea of your 7th pattern, which is the fictional to factual and I love that it emphasizes the importance of making decisions based on facts rather than assumptions. Oh my god, do I make assumptions and don’t we all? I feel like everyone is assuming things about us of course, right? And it goes around and round. Can you share a time when you made a decision based on an assumption and how you learned from that experience?

[0:18:22] TT: Very interesting. Oh my gosh, there are so many to your point Hussein. Yeah, this is a big one everyone, because this is all running on energy, of that everybody is creating stories and then there are stories that are just running on automation or what I refer to as they’re programs that are running. So it’s a lot of fiction in the world and because we have so much entertainment and content, we are really saturated. I mean, when I look at Netflix and Amazon Prime and the way too many channels and streaming services that I have, there is so much story and there’s the drama and oh my god, the Criminal Minds and all of this stuff. So our airwaves, our reality field that we are all immersed in is full of story and the way physics works, it doesn’t know “Is that a Netflix story?” or is it something else, right? Is it, do you mean it? So just to give everybody an idea, even when I’m watching a program that is dramatic, I’m enjoying some part of it, I am also realizing that I’m like programming myself to be in more drama just by watching it. So it is kind of an entertaining thing to be able to be like, “That’s them and I’m sitting here just being entertained.” So to answer this question, while I am talking I am trying to think of a specific time about assumptions and I don’t know, but let me think for a second. So being able to be factual and tell yourselves the facts of something, is the way to essentially pull all of the drama out of something and ultimately make sure that you are not operating on the entire field of what is very dramatic, right? Being a person is kind of a dramatic situation. So when you just tell yourself the truth about something, it really stabilizes your reality, right? It just kind of contains you into what it is that is the only reality that you can really know and then making assumptions on that or making determinations. So I don’t know why Hussein, I’m going to let myself off the hook. I am not thinking of a particular time, it’s not coming up. What I want to finalize this part with is say, however, if I start to feel it, which happens regularly everyone because I am not sitting here being a hermit, right? I’m interacting with new stimuli and people and this stuff all the time but when I start to feel fiction come up, I absolutely start to go, “What are the things that I am aware of, what are the facts? What is the situation?” And most importantly everyone, I start to go, this takes only seconds for me at this point but I’ll start to just ask myself, “Tracy, what is your intention?” that is what matters most of all in this situation anyway and then that begins the story that you want to tell anyway.

[0:21:19] HA: That’s so powerful because again, just bringing it back to that grounding, that anchor and the intention is, “What is the intention here?” and like in movies when everything just zooms back into place. It pulls back the curtain so you can kind of see the bigger picture in a way, more focused, but the bigger picture and you just realize like at this moment, “Does this thing dictate my intention or my intention dictate this circumstance of my life?” or whatever it is. It is such a powerful as you said, you know it is a switch and it is a hard one to be aware of, to learn how to actually click on and off and all those kinds of things but it is a practice. It is a yearlong – not yearlong, forgive me, lifelong practice.

[0:22:04] TT: Lifelong.

[0:22:05] HA: So yeah, absolutely.

[0:22:07] TT: Well Hussein, let me – I just thought of one that I think is really important — is that here’s one that I knew it would show up because I put the intention there, right? So it’s going to actually start to come into my mind. So one of them for me is a situation where I needed help with something and I begin to do what a lot of times humans do but people in my position who are the doctor and the helper and the leader and the transformer. I didn’t want to ask for help because I thought I would be burdening somebody because that’s a pattern in my family. That’s a pattern in a lot of people feeling like if they asked for help it’s a burden, right? Then I just said to myself, “What is true about that? What is real about that,” and when I looked at it, I just went, “Okay, people asking for help is a burden” and I just had to laugh almost immediately because my favorite thing to do is help people when they ask for help. So even just going into the facts, which is when you ask for support on something, we’re collaborating now and everybody now has a chance to be purposeful and so just that kind of thing of going, “What’s the pattern that’s running? What’s really actually factual about that?” and again, it starts to shift you into what is real and then it’s funny because you can’t really argue with that. So I like to set things up that make it difficult for people to deny what it that I am teaching them.

[0:23:37] HA: No, it’s very powerful and with the utilization of just like not only your perception, your wisdom, your value but also, these are scientific methods if you will in a way that, just the mind is so powerful but it’s like understanding our own thoughts, understanding just that level of awareness. I feel like for me was that it – I feel like within a week because now I was aware, I just saw things just a little bit differently. It almost feels like we put on a new pair of glasses, you know? Things just become a little more clear and that is a beautiful ground to then lay out more intention now and more future perspective in how you want things to kind of transform. I think that’s so powerful. Finally, in your book, I mean you emphasize the importance of moving from scarcity to luxury. What advice do you have for readers who may be struggling with financial scarcity and how can they shift their mindset towards abundance and prosperity?

[0:24:38] TT: Okay. So one of the things I’m going to first say is I want to speak to what you just shared Hussein and then I’ll add onto that, which is this is what’s exciting everyone about the pattern shift and about coming into a process of transforming your reality through intentionality, through these shifts and this is the most powerful thing you can do because Hussein what you’re saying is you do it and then your reality alters. Now, you’re aware of something else. That’s what I really want everyone to know is that by doing these shifts, you are programming your reality with intention different than the one that was just programmed when we grew up when we didn’t even really know that we were being programmed or different than whatever is just coming into our field of awareness because the whole universe is programming us. This is a way that you are selecting the programs that are going to run in you, so as you do that, you alter the reality field. So you start to make one of these shifts, you start to make two a day or anything like that, your reality is now different and now your field of perception is now different. If you can imagine that you really get yourself into pattern shifting and all the fuller aspects of the technique that’s in the book here, you are ultimately altering your reality so much that it will then keep feeding to you the things that you want it to. Which, people call this the law of attraction, it’s just physics. The more you have an intention and an awareness of that, the more the reality will feed you more of that and it starts to create an intentional or positive feedback loop instead of a negative feedback loop. So that’s what I’m really inviting people to get that. So that goes into any one of these shifts and if we take something like shifting, a pattern of scarcity, everyone, this is basically the pattern that makes financial difficulty because it is seeing life or experiencing life in the negative, in the backward, in the opposite pattern than you want to. So when people have financial issues, it means they have scarcity programming and that’s understandable because I am going to be really generous here, 10% of the population in the world is living in luxury and 90% of it is living in let’s just say material scarcity but in reality, so much of programming that’s going on and all the humans in our world is scarcity, which is why we see so many, excuse my language, f’ed-up things going on in our world because it’s a perception of lack. So this is why if people see things through what isn’t happening, what somebody is not doing and everybody is constantly complaining to each other, you’ll find scarcity all the time. “This isn’t good enough, that’s not good enough.” If that’s happening, it will impact you materially and very much your bank account. When you are in scarcity, this is the difference between — there are people that are multimillionaires, billionaires, et cetera, and people who spend their whole life and they’re 70 years old and they’re still having the same issues, okay? So when you can break down that a money issue is not a money issue, it’s an emotional programming scarcity issue, now you can start to shift it and why I like to do these shifts everyone is because your psyche will take a shift when it’s even easier when it sounds similar. It’s like a little trick where scarcity and luxury sound pretty similar but these are two entirely different realities. So when we take something that is already there rather than trying to – like a lot of times Hussein, people do abundance, abundance, abundance, right? Even though the pattern is scarcity. So when you start to put luxury or wealth because these things sound very similar, you are now tricking the psyche. It will take this upgrade in and now, it will be easier because it’s already working with that sound that’s very similar. But you can make a night and day shift in your whole reality by starting every time you have a feeling of scarcity and you just start saying, “Oh, my intention is luxury, my intention is luxury” and you start to make that shift and you keep doing it and doing it until such a point that all of your programming it starts to extinguish the old one because this new one is set enough times, which they say habits only take about 28 days to change. But you can then utilize something that is two opposite ends of the spectrum to start to shift it where now, when your programming is for luxury, just like you said Hussein, now you’ll start to see luxury showing up in your life and now you keep leaning more and more into that.

[0:29:52] HA: Yeah, mind shift man, it’s everything. I love the title of your book. It breaks down quite literally the world and I love that because it’s just – it is all in that, how we see things and I think for me coming from a different place of the planet, having lived in the middle of the desert and then growing up in the northwest, right? Where it’s just green and lush and you know, it just expanded what I thought was possible for me and what is in my world. It just made my imagination explode in a way. That’s what I’ve leaned into since I was a kid but as I said, it’s books like yours like the amazing Wayne Dyer and remarkable people who just reminded us, that come on earth and just reminded us of how important it is to think about what we want in our future and to be positive and to think in a way that is, you know, constantly elevating our reality. I just love that so much. I love that that’s been a part of your life and really your life’s mission to help so many because this is not your first, or second, this is your third book. Congratulations Dr. T, this is amazing. So I want to just say, what has that been like for you? What’s the third book been like for you? What was that journey? What was your favorite part about pulling this book together?

[0:31:11] TT: You know what’s fun everyone? Is that doing books for me, my team always says this like when we’re – when I am doing an upgrade that’s going to take me to another echelon of consciousness and therefore, another level of life, it’s like going into the studio and an artist recording something and they always talk about — like time to go do a book because they know there’s something big that I want to grow through. So each of the books has been really amazing because you know, came to understand that something that was naturally easier for me was harder for other people, which I think is what everybody’s purpose is, right? Whatever is easy for you, this is what you are bringing to the world or the thing that you feel you’re making it easier. So intentionality was so awesome to me that I was like, “Oh, I need to explain it in more depth to people and help them.” All my clients and all their realities and everything we’ve ever upgraded put more awareness to the things that people needed to understand. So each book is about a set of techniques. People refer to these as steps or we call them protocols for making your reality and by the time, you know, the third one came about and was so much more fun because we’ve been doing this pattern shift process with our clients. They tell us how valuable it is and then it’s like, “I’ve got to get this out to the world.” So I feel like it’s becoming easier and easier and book number four and five are already basically almost written out because I have so much fun doing this everyone, so stay tuned for more.

[0:32:52] HA: I love that so much. Dr. T, thank you for sharing your stories and your experiences with me and the audience as well today. The book is called, The Pattern Shift: Transform Your Reality through Intentionality. So besides checking out the book, where could people find you, Dr. T?

[0:33:09] TT: Yeah, everyone check out my website, theempirecompany.com, just like it sounds and you can follow me on Instagram. The handle is The Mogul Maker Dr. T, so @themogulmakerdrt because just to give you an idea, when you really get great at pattern shifting you get to become that top creator in your reality and then Facebook, you could follow me at the – and go and check out The Empire Company and/or Dr. Tracy Thomas. You can look me up either way.

[0:33:44] HA: I love that so much. Dr. T, it’s been an absolute pleasure having you on the show today. Thank you so much, congrats on your book. This is going to be amazing and I know it’s going to make a huge ripple in our lives, so thank you.

[0:33:55] TT: Thanks, everyone.

[0:33:57] HA: Thank you all so much for joining us for this episode of Author Hour. You can find the book, The Pattern Shift: Transform Your Reality through Intentionality, right now on Amazon. For more Author Hour episodes, subscribe to this podcast on your favorite subscription service. Thanks for joining us, we’ll see you next time. Same place, different author.