THE FOURTH STATEHow do I keep believing in a goal when results haven't shown up yet?
Bailey Guilloud guides a 72-hour practice for installing a new belief, such as “I'm a high performer and I'm also calm.” Write three specific beliefs, rate each from one to ten, then use titration to feel one at ten out of ten in the body. Finally, rehearse resilience: picture day three with no results yet and decide how you will hold the belief.
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Bailey Guilloud has you rehearse it in advance. Picture three days from now with no leads or feedback yet, and decide how you will hold the belief. She calls this honing your resilience factor, the mindset that whatever comes your way, you can handle it.
Write down the three beliefs you want, rate how much you believe each from one to ten, and return to the same recording every day for three days to re-rate them. Bailey says these three days set you up for years of powerful beliefs.
Specific ones that fit this period of your life, for example “I'm a high performer and I'm also calm,” “I open abundance in my lead generation and my client flow,” or “My health is better than ever.”
Bailey borrows the term from chronic pain therapy. You move back and forth between how the belief feels now and how it feels at ten out of ten, scanning from the top of the head down through the feet, until the body comes closer to full belief.
Bailey says picturing yourself at your best all the time is close to “mental masturbation.” True visualization views the whole journey, including the points where you will need resilience.
“If I 10 out of 10 believed this, how would I act, what would I think, where would my mind go?” and “This is the thing that will trip me up, and how I will handle it is…”
Identity, beliefs, and confidence, Nervous-system regulation and presence
An 11-minute guided practice meant to be replayed for three days. Bailey calls the day-one high a mini satori, a mini awakening, and builds the practice for what happens after it fades.
Transcript of The Fourth State Podcast episode “Shift Your Belief System in 72 Hours (Listen to this for 3 Days)” with host Bailey Guilloud, lightly edited for readability. Learn more about Bailey’s work at fourthstate.net.
I wanna invite you guys on a journey of shifting your beliefs. And we're going to practice this together for the next 3 days, the next 72 hours, practicing coming back to this video day by day and embodying this practice that we're about to do together. Let's begin by getting really clear on what beliefs you want to call in. If in 3 days, you could have completely different beliefs. What would they be? And I encourage you to be very specific with them and write them down right now. Perhaps it's, I'm a high performer and I'm also calm.
As in, I have plenty of energy, and I am also very gentle and relaxed in my body. Perhaps it's, I open abundance in my lead generation and my client flow. Perhaps it's, I open more love and friendship and heartness in my life. I open more playfulness and gentleness. I want you to write these down in journal for a moment. And figure out what specific beliefs work for you in this period of your life. Take a few breaths, write them down. Breathing in through your nose. Out through your mouth. It could be, I'm an abundant creator.
I'm so grateful to wake up every day and be alive. My health is better than ever. I'm glowing from the inside out. People can feel my energy everywhere. Right down the top 3 beliefs that you really wish to embody. And again, be specific if you can. And these beliefs, I want you to really commit to them for the next 3 days, every day come back to those beliefs, and see how you feel with them, right now, check in with each of those 3 beliefs and see if you believe them yet. Do you believe that you are opening leads and clients into your heart?
And maybe even write on a scale of one to 10, how much you believe? Every day that you come back to them, write down how much you truly believe that new set of beliefs, one through 10. And now we're to go through the body and physically feel what this belief feels like. And so now that you've written down on a scale of one to 10, what you feel about that belief, I want you to notice how that belief feels. If it's like, oh, I believe that, like, kind of, like, honestly, I kind of believe that 50%, like 5 out of 10, I kind of believe that I'm opening new leads and opportunities and clients into my hearts.
Okay? So what is that 5 or maybe it's even higher. Maybe it's like a nine. I'm a nine. What does that feel like? Notice if there's maybe like, okay, well, actually I said a 5 and not a 10 because I notice I literally have tension in my chest. Or, like, I feel like an anxious energy around it. I can just like feel the energy of the air around it. Like, what does that feel like? And I want you to check in with that. What is the difference in how you feel now versus I 10 out of 10 believe that? Okay? And so we're gonna do something called titration, which is used in a lot of chronic pain therapy, but it can also be used in subconscious belief setting.
And it's this idea that we're going to go back and forth from the level that you are at now and the full belief. Like, for example, in the titration with pain, you go from, okay, I feel the pain, but I also feel the neutrality of this other part of my body. And eventually feeling that difference brings you closer and closer into that 10 out of 10 belief, that complete healed body, no pain, experiencing that belief 100%. And so let's go with the first belief, we're only going to work on one belief and feel that in the body.
Okay, so we'll go from the top of our head and feel what it feels like to have a 10 out of 10 belief that that is true. Breathing in, starting at the top of the head, feeling what that 10 out of 10 belief feels like, moving down. Maybe you'll notice a more relaxed energy as you move down into the third eye. Down into the throat. Into the heart. Into the upper belly. Lower belly, pelvic floor, all the way down through your feet. Feel that belief completely filling up your body. Notice if there's a lightness, an energy about your body that's a little bit different now.
How does your posture shift? How does your energy shift? Maybe you feel more clarity in your heart, more clarity in your mind. Notice the difference. And take a deep breath in. Opening your eyes at the top. And take a moment to just fully think about what that belief feels like on a full body basis, with your heart open, your eyes open. What does it feel like to truly embody that thing that you've written down right in front of you? Would you be trusting of your experience more? Would you be worried about the thing that you were worried about today?
Would you be tripping out that you missed that discipline thing? Would you be showing up to the habits more intently? What would you be doing differently? How would you be feeling differently? Write this down, journal it. If you 10 out of 10 believed this, How would you act? What would you think? Where would your mind go? And the second part of this is going to be in honing your resilience factor, because everyone can say on day one, oh, yeah, I want to change my life. They call it a mini satori, mini awakening. You're like, oh, yes, I want to change my life.
And I'm willing to go. And start a start a new project or start something new. But then what happens on day three, when it's been several days, and you have it received the validation, the feedback, the change that you've been wanting. How do you act? And so, right now, I want you to imagine that. Three days from now, this belief that we've just set in stone in your body is being challenged. You are being asked to be resilient. It's not that there's a problem. It's just that you're facing a little bit of difficulty.
Like, say, for example, if one of your beliefs was, okay, I'm bringing in new leads and opportunities. And 3 days from now and you haven't seen leads or opportunities in, how do you hold resiliency? How do you hold yourself to be able to continuously believe in that. And I want you to think about that now and practice what resiliency looks like and visualize what resilience looks like. Because true visualization is not about picturing yourself at the best all the time. That is a good way of like mental masturbation almost.
What we want to do is really view ourselves in the whole journey, in the whole process, which includes bits of resiliency. Of course, there's gonna be bits of flow and bits of, of amazing, feminine goddess energy, and at the end, it's going to be so amazing too. But a lot of the time there's really big points of of needing resiliency. We need to check in here. We need to do this here. And so I want you to journal and to think about and to visualize where are those resilient moments and how are you going to hold yourself through that?
And if you've made it this far in the video, I would love to know what your top 3 beliefs are in the commons. And what your point of resiliency is. So maybe you can write down This is the thing that will trip me up and how I will handle it is. This is such a good journal prompt because it really gets us in this mindset that no matter what comes our way, we can handle it. We can hold our resilient factor through all of it. And this is the beginning of how to completely shift your brain. We're doing this over 3 days, but make known a mistake.
These 3 days are going to set you up for years of powerful beliefs. It starts with the beginning and being able to hold yourself in these really strong beginning part, this really strong start. So I would love to hear from you. Let me know what your beliefs are, like subscribe, all the things, and sending you guys love.