Speaker 1: In nineteen twenty, Sigmund Freud published one of the most
Speaker 1: enigmatic and revolutionary texts of his entire work, Beyond the
Speaker 1: Pleasure Principle. In this study, he dared to challenge the
Speaker 1: central notion of psychoanalysis that human beings primarily seek to
Speaker 1: avoid pain and pursue pleasure. Freud realized that there was
Speaker 1: something darker at play in the human mind, a force
Speaker 1: that led his patients to repeatedly relive traumatic experiences even
Speaker 1: when it clearly caused them suffering. He called this phenomenon
Speaker 1: the compulsion to repeat? But what does this mean? In practice?
Speaker 1: People who were emotionally betrayed in childhood by important figures
Speaker 1: such as neglectful or distant parents end up unconsciously gravitating
Speaker 1: towards partners who recreate the same type of wound. Someone
Speaker 1: who grew up trying to please others to feel accepted
Speaker 1: may become, in a adulthood an eternal pleaser, always seeking
Speaker 1: external validation and paralyzed by a fear of rejection. Even
Speaker 1: when these individuals change their environment, jobs, or relationships, the
Speaker 1: pattern returns the same plot with new characters, the same
Speaker 1: pain with new masks. Freud realized that These repetitions were
Speaker 1: not conscious or voluntary. They came from a deep place
Speaker 1: in the psyche, from the unconscious. It was as if
Speaker 1: there were an unresolved part within the person that demanded
Speaker 1: to be revisited through real life as a failed attempt
Speaker 1: to repair something from the past. The wounded child within
Speaker 1: us does not disappear over time. It waits silently for
Speaker 1: a new chance to experience the same situation, but this
Speaker 1: time with a different outcome. The problem is that this
Speaker 1: almost never happens. What repeats is not just the setup,
Speaker 1: but also the script, and thus the trauma perpetuates. The
Speaker 1: compulsion to repeat is therefore one of the first signs
Speaker 1: that the external world is reflecting internal chaos. It is
Speaker 1: not a conscious choice, but an emotional programming shaped by
Speaker 1: past experiences. It is the unconscious trying to complete an
Speaker 1: unfinished story, only to end up condemning the subject to
Speaker 1: indefinitely relive the same suffering. Have you ever wondered why
Speaker 1: certain types of people always seem to appear in your life,
Speaker 1: or why certain situations, even when avoided, keep happening. Perhaps
Speaker 1: you thought it was bad luck or coincidence, But from
Speaker 1: Freud's perspective, this is not chance, it is structure, and
Speaker 1: as long as this psychic structure remains unchanged, the pattern
Speaker 1: will continue to manifest in the external world like an
Speaker 1: insistent mirror reflecting the same unresolved pains. This is the
Speaker 1: first level of what we call the mirror principle. The
Speaker 1: reality you live in, no matter how unfair or painful
Speaker 1: it seems, may just be mirroring the unconscious programs you carry.
Speaker 1: And the most dangerous part is that while this remains
Speaker 1: in the dark, your mind will keep creating experiences that
Speaker 1: confirm the same narrative because that is what it understands
Speaker 1: as familiar, as safe as you. In the next part,
Speaker 1: we will reveal how the mental schemes created by your
Speaker 1: mind function as lenses that distort everything you see, and
Speaker 1: why changing your external reality is futile if these schemes
Speaker 1: remain intact. If you want to understand why your life
Speaker 1: seems stuck in an invisible loop, you need to understand
Speaker 1: how your mind is programmed to keep you exactly where
Speaker 1: you are. If this content is making sense to you,
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Speaker 1: you for your support. The human mind is a powerful machine,
Speaker 1: but it is also a predictable machine. It seeks patterns,
Speaker 1: interprets signals, anticipates threats, and tries at all costs to
Speaker 1: maintain internal coherence. And this is exactly what often makes
Speaker 1: you see life not as it is, but as you
Speaker 1: believe it to be. Aaron Beck, one of the most
Speaker 1: influential names in modern psychology, dedicated decades of his life
Speaker 1: to studying how our thoughts shape our emotions, behaviours, and,
Speaker 1: above all, our perception of reality. While observing patience with depression,
Speaker 1: Beck noticed something profoundly revealing. These people were not just sad.
Speaker 1: They lived in an alternative mental universe governed by negative, distorted,
Speaker 1: and automatic thought patterns, what he called cognitive schemers. But
Speaker 1: what are the schemas? Imagine that your mind works like software,
Speaker 1: with an operating system that filters everything you see, hear,
Speaker 1: and feel. This system was built over a lifetime, especially
Speaker 1: in childhood, based on significant emotional experiences, rejections, abuse, constant criticism,
Speaker 1: emotional neglect. All of this forms internal structures that function
Speaker 1: as invisible lenses. These lenses shape your interpretation of events,
Speaker 1: creating a type of subjective reality that can be radically
Speaker 1: different from objective reality. For example, someone with an activated
Speaker 1: rejection schema tends to interpret a simple silence as a
Speaker 1: sign of abandonment. An unanswered message becomes confirmation that no
Speaker 1: one cares. Constructive criticism is seen as humiliation. These filters
Speaker 1: operate without your awareness, distorting the way you interpret the
Speaker 1: world around you, and worse still, they directly influence your
Speaker 1: actions and decisions, feeding the same cycles of pain and frustration.
Speaker 1: Beck showed that these schemers not only influence what we feel,
Speaker 1: but also create a kind of self fulfilling prophecy. If
Speaker 1: you believe you are unworthy of love, your mind will seek,
Speaker 1: consciously or unconsciously ways to confirm that belief. You may
Speaker 1: reject affection when it appears, distrust those who try to
Speaker 1: get close, sabotage relationships, or cling to people who treat
Speaker 1: you exactly as you believe you deserve to be treated.
Speaker 1: The result more pain, more confirmation that your belief is right.
Speaker 1: Another closed cycle, and this is where the mirror principle
Speaker 1: becomes even clearer. The external reality you perceive is being
Speaker 1: shaped by these internal lenses. If your mental schemers say
Speaker 1: that the world is hostile, unfair, dangerous, or or lonely,
Speaker 1: that is exactly what you will find. Because the human
Speaker 1: brain has a natural tendency called conformation bias. It seeks, selects,
Speaker 1: and interprets information that confirms what you already believe. The
Speaker 1: rest it simply ignores. But there is something even more frightening.
Speaker 1: These schemers, no matter how destructive they are, offer the
Speaker 1: mind a sense of familiarity and security. Changing these patterns
Speaker 1: requires effort, awareness, and above all, discomfort. That is why
Speaker 1: even with all the self help books, motivational videos, and
Speaker 1: external changes, many people's lives remain exactly in the same place,
Speaker 1: because they are trying to change the world without first
Speaker 1: changing the mind that perceives that world. You may even
Speaker 1: want a new reality, but as long as you carry
Speaker 1: the same schemers, you will distort, reject, or sabotage everything
Speaker 1: that does not fit your internal programming. This is the
Speaker 1: silent mental prison, in which millions of people live a
Speaker 1: cage without walls, whose bars are made of automatic thoughts,
Speaker 1: distorted beliefs, and unresolved emotional patterns. Now, if all of
Speaker 1: this is so unconscious, the inevitable question is is it
Speaker 1: possible to change? The answer is yes, but not in
Speaker 1: the way you might imagine. The key to escaping this
Speaker 1: cycle is not in fleeing from pain, but in reprogramming
Speaker 1: the brain. And this is exactly what the science of
Speaker 1: neuroplasticity shows us, that the brain can change as long
Speaker 1: as you change your way of operating. At this point,
Speaker 1: you may have already started to notice a pattern. Your
Speaker 1: mind is not a neutral observer of reality. It is
Speaker 1: an active creator of your life experience. The world you see, feel,
Speaker 1: and interpret is not the world as it is, but
Speaker 1: as your mental structure allows it to be perceived. And
Speaker 1: this is exactly where the core of this video comes
Speaker 1: in the mirror principle. This principle states that your external
Speaker 1: reality is almost always a direct reflection of your internal setup.
Speaker 1: In other words, the world around you, the relationships you attract,
Speaker 1: the situations you face, the patterns that repeat are mirrors
Speaker 1: reflecting the deep contents of your psychic world. It is
Speaker 1: not about magic, spirituality, or superficial positive thinking. It is
Speaker 1: about psychological structure, neuroscience, and unconscious patterns. If you often
Speaker 1: feel rejected, diminished, or invisible, it is not just because
Speaker 1: the world is like that with you. It is because
Speaker 1: there is something inside you that expects this kind of response,
Speaker 1: and as your mind has been programmed to confirm what
Speaker 1: it believes, it finds ways to turn even the most
Speaker 1: neutral experiences into confirmations of your internal narrative. You see
Speaker 1: what you believe you will see. Imagine two people walking
Speaker 1: down the same street. One feels secure, confident, alert to opportunities,
Speaker 1: open to connections. The other feels anxious, cornered, seeing threats
Speaker 1: in every glance, expecting to be rejected or ignored. The
Speaker 1: environment is the same, but the experience is completely different,
Speaker 1: because the mirror that each one carries within shapes what
Speaker 1: they see outside of themselves. This is the point where
Speaker 1: psychic suffering becomes chronic, when a person starts to believe
Speaker 1: that the problem is out there, not realizing that they
Speaker 1: are projecting their own internal contents outward. The anger that
Speaker 1: was not acknowledged, the pain that was not processed, the
Speaker 1: fear that was repressed, the guilt that was never worked through.
Speaker 1: All of this manifests in relationships, failures, and friction with
Speaker 1: the world. And here's an uncomfortable truth. Nothing changes out
Speaker 1: there until you change in here. You can change cities, partners, jobs, friends,
Speaker 1: You can start from scratch, cut ties, run away from
Speaker 1: everything that reminds you of the past. But if your
Speaker 1: mental structure remains the same, sooner or later, the same
Speaker 1: pattern will reorganize before your eyes. Because the mirror that
Speaker 1: is shaping your reality is not in the world. It
Speaker 1: is in your mind. And the most dangerous part is
Speaker 1: that this reflection presents itself so convincingly, so realistically, that
Speaker 1: you don't even realize you are trapped within a narrative.
Speaker 1: Reality adapts to your belief system like an actor molds
Speaker 1: itself to the script. Life bends to your most unconscious expectations,
Speaker 1: not because the universe conspires against you, but because you
Speaker 1: are holding the mirror wrong way, hoping the image will
Speaker 1: change before you change yourself. But here's the good news.
Speaker 1: If the mind has the power to shape reality, it
Speaker 1: also has the power to transform it. And this transformation
Speaker 1: begins when you understand that it is possible to reprogram
Speaker 1: the brain, alter the neural pathways that sustain your automatic patterns,
Speaker 1: and create new mental models that reflect the reality you
Speaker 1: wish to live. This is not a magical or quick process,
Speaker 1: but it is absolutely possible, and science has already shown
Speaker 1: us how through neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to change its
Speaker 1: structure and function based on new experiences, new behaviors, and
Speaker 1: above all, new interpretations. In the next part, we will
Speaker 1: explore exactly how neuroplasticity can be used to break the
Speaker 1: repetitive cycles of pain and build from the inside out
Speaker 1: a new mental configuration and with it, a new external reality.
Speaker 1: Because if your mind is the mirror that shapes the world,
Speaker 1: it is time to learn to polish that mirror and
Speaker 1: consciously decide what it should reflect. For a long time,
Speaker 1: it was believed that the human brain was a fixed structure,
Speaker 1: unchangeable after childhood. The prevailing idea was that once neural
Speaker 1: circuits were formed, our emotions, behaviors, and mental patterns would
Speaker 1: be doomed to indefinite repetition. But modern science has proven
Speaker 1: that this is a dangerous lie. Today we know that
Speaker 1: the brain is plastic, and this may be one of
Speaker 1: the most powerful discoveries in psychology and neuroscience. Neuroplasticity is
Speaker 1: the brain's ability to structurally and functionally modify itself throughout life.
Speaker 1: This means that, contrary to what many believe, you can
Speaker 1: change not just superficially, but at deep, automatic, instinctive levels.
Speaker 1: What once seemed to be part of your personality may
Speaker 1: actually just be a set of neural connections repeated for
Speaker 1: so long that they have become dominant, and like any
Speaker 1: repeated structure, it can be reconfigured, but be careful. Neuroplasticity
Speaker 1: is not a magic trick. It does not respond to
Speaker 1: vague wishes or good intentions. It responds to constant practice,
Speaker 1: to significant emotional experiences, and to new patterns of thought
Speaker 1: and behavior consciously cultivated. In other words, for the internal
Speaker 1: mirror to be reprogrammed, you need to act intentionally, even
Speaker 1: when your mind tries to pull you back to old patterns.
Speaker 1: Imagine that your mind is a forest. Each repeated thought
Speaker 1: is a path taken over time, these paths become trails,
Speaker 1: then roads, and eventually true neural highways. They become the
Speaker 1: automatic roots your mind follows, even without realizing it. Thoughts
Speaker 1: like no one values me, everything goes wrong for me,
Speaker 1: I am not enough. Become these easy, comfortable, familiar routes,
Speaker 1: no matter how destructive they may be. Now, imagine trying
Speaker 1: to create a new path in the middle of this forest.
Speaker 1: At first, it is difficult. You need to cut branches,
Speaker 1: dodge obstacles, clear space where there was no trail before.
Speaker 1: It is uncomfortable, it takes time, but if you persist,
Speaker 1: if you return to this new path regularly, it begins
Speaker 1: to solidify. The underbrush stops growing there, the ground settles,
Speaker 1: and the old path, which once seemed so strong, begins
Speaker 1: to disappear from lack of use. This is the process
Speaker 1: of mental reprogramming. This is how you change the automatic
Speaker 1: reflexes of your mind. And for this there are concrete
Speaker 1: practices questioning distorted thoughts, cognitive restructuring, mindfulness techniques, self observation exercises,
Speaker 1: therapeutic writing, visualizations, gradual exposure to new emotional experiences. Each
Speaker 1: of these practices activates new connections, stimulates dormant brain regions,
Speaker 1: and above all, weakens the old circuits responsible for patterns
Speaker 1: of suffering. But perhaps the most important aspect of neuroplasticity
Speaker 1: is this the brain does not distinguish between reality and
Speaker 1: vivid imagination. Neuroimaging studies have shown that when imagining an
Speaker 1: experience with emotional intensity, the same areas of the brain
Speaker 1: activate as if that experience were actually happening. This means
Speaker 1: that visualizing a new behaviour, a new emotional response, a
Speaker 1: new version of yourself frequently in detail with emotion can
Speaker 1: literally sculpt new neural pathways in your brain. The problem
Speaker 1: is that if you do not use this capacity consciously,
Speaker 1: it will be used against you. Neuroplasticity also strengthens negative
Speaker 1: patterns when you feed them daily with toxic thoughts, constant
Speaker 1: self criticism, ruminations about the past, or exposure to destructive
Speaker 1: environments and relationships. The brain does not judge. It simply
Speaker 1: repeats what you feed it. Therefore, the great challenge is
Speaker 1: not just to understand that the internal mirror can be altered,
Speaker 1: but to take responsibility for this process. Changing requires stepping
Speaker 1: out of autopilot. It requires awareness, discipline, discomfort, but the
Speaker 1: result is non negotiable, a new internal structure that inevitably
Speaker 1: begins to reflect in the external world because sooner or
Speaker 1: later the reality out there begins to bend to the
Speaker 1: new frequency you are emitting from within. But there is
Speaker 1: still a subtle trap on this path, a common mistake
Speaker 1: that almost everyone makes trying to change the external life
Speaker 1: before changing the mind, changing homes, cities, partners, careers. All
Speaker 1: of this may seem transformative, but if the internal structure
Speaker 1: remains the same, the pattern returns the pain comes back,
Speaker 1: the mirror reorganizes itself. It's like changing the scenery without
Speaker 1: changing the plot. And this is what we will talk
Speaker 1: about in the next part, because now that you understand
Speaker 1: that it is possible to reprogram the mirror, we need
Speaker 1: to discuss why changing the scenery does not change the protagonist,
Speaker 1: and how you can stop fleeing outward and finally begin
Speaker 1: the transformation where it truly matters within you. If what
Speaker 1: you're hearing resonates with you, you'll find real value. In
Speaker 1: my ebooks, Beyond the Shadow breaks down Jung's core ideas,
Speaker 1: while Dialogues with the Conscious gives you a thirty day
Speaker 1: path to apply them in your life. Both are linked
Speaker 1: in the pinned comment changing countries, changing partners, changing jobs, lifestyles,
Speaker 1: social circles. How many times do people place their hopes
Speaker 1: in external changes, believing that this will bring relief to
Speaker 1: the internal conflicts they carry. How many times have you
Speaker 1: thought to yourself, when I leave this place, everything will
Speaker 1: get better, or when I find the right person, I
Speaker 1: will be truly happy. The truth is that this expectation
Speaker 1: is an illusion and one of the most dangerous kinds.
Speaker 1: Clinical psychology has repeatedly shown that external changes do not
Speaker 1: have the power to provoke lasting internal transformation. They can
Speaker 1: indeed generate temporary relief the novelty deceives, distracting the mind
Speaker 1: from for a while, But sooner or later, the same
Speaker 1: conflicts emerge now in a different setting, with different people,
Speaker 1: in different situations. Why because, as we have seen so far,
Speaker 1: external reality acts as a mirror, and this mirror does
Speaker 1: not reflect what you desire. It reflects who you are internally.
Speaker 1: If within you resides the fear of rejection, you will
Speaker 1: interpret signs of abandonment in any new relationship. If you
Speaker 1: carry the belief that you are not enough, you will
Speaker 1: feel inferior in any new job, even if you are promoted.
Speaker 1: If you hold an unconscious pattern of sabotage, it will
Speaker 1: find ways to emerge no matter where you are. This
Speaker 1: is the blind spot of most fresh start journeys. The
Speaker 1: person changes everything on the outside, but carries the same
Speaker 1: ghosts within, and as the mind seeks coherence with its
Speaker 1: internal programming, it will shape the new reality to resemble
Speaker 1: them the old one. Unconsciously, you will connect with similar people,
Speaker 1: attract family dynamics, interpret situations in a distorted way, react
Speaker 1: with the same automatic impulses, and in the end, you
Speaker 1: will repeat the same pain, only on a new stage.
Speaker 1: It's as if your psyche is writing the same script,
Speaker 1: but with new costumes and settings. The central story doesn't
Speaker 1: change because the protagonist remains the same. The main character
Speaker 1: is still wounded, confused, unaware of their own internal motivations,
Speaker 1: and as long as this protagonist does not evolve, the
Speaker 1: script will remain predictable, tragic, repetitive. Aaron Beck demonstrated in
Speaker 1: his studies that people with cognitive distortions carry filters so
Speaker 1: powerful that even in the face of positive or neutral situations,
Speaker 1: they can extract negative meanings. A compliment can be interpreted
Speaker 1: as sarcasm, a gesture of affection can be seen as manipulation,
Speaker 1: an opportunity can be avoided for fear of failure. In
Speaker 1: other words, even when the world changes, the mind distorts
Speaker 1: to keep the pain alive. Freud also warned that unconscious
Speaker 1: impulses tend to repeat until they are integrated. It's as
Speaker 1: if the psyche is constantly trying to force consciousness to
Speaker 1: look at something that has been repressed, and for that
Speaker 1: reason it creates new scenarios not to punish, but to repeat.
Speaker 1: Until the individual sees. And this is where the true
Speaker 1: power of the mirror principle lies. Life is not punishing you,
Speaker 1: It is trying to show you, to show what you
Speaker 1: need to transform within yourself, to show the blind spots
Speaker 1: you refuse to face, to show that the problem is
Speaker 1: not the place, the person, or the situation. The problem
Speaker 1: and the solution lie in how you respond internally to
Speaker 1: all of this. True transformation does not happen when you
Speaker 1: flee from a reality that hurts you. It happens when
Speaker 1: you face that reality as a reflection of what needs
Speaker 1: to be healed, when you stop fighting against the mirror
Speaker 1: and start observing what is being reflected, because only then
Speaker 1: do you begin to alter the image from the inside out.
Speaker 1: But what now, what to do with this perception? How
Speaker 1: to use this knowledge to truly break the cycle? The
Speaker 1: answer lies in the practice of conscious self responsibility. It
Speaker 1: is when you stop projecting blame onto the world and
Speaker 1: start taking control over your internal patterns, not as a
Speaker 1: form of self criticism, but as an essential step towards freedom.
Speaker 1: And this is what we will talk about in the
Speaker 1: next and final part of this script. Now that you
Speaker 1: understand the cycle of repetition, mental schemes, the mirror principle,
Speaker 1: and neuroplasticity. It's time to go beyond theory. It's time
Speaker 1: to discover how to apply this in practice and finally
Speaker 1: transform your mind to transform your life. We have reached
Speaker 1: the point where there is no more room for illusions.
Speaker 1: If you want a different life, you will need to
Speaker 1: become a different person. And this transformation does not start
Speaker 1: with motivational phrases, positive thoughts, or empty promises. It begins
Speaker 1: with a brutal act of courage, looking within and taking
Speaker 1: radical responsibility for everything that repeats in your story. Psychology
Speaker 1: shows us that as long as we are unconscious of
Speaker 1: our own mental patterns, we will remain enslaved by them.
Speaker 1: Suffering does not come only from the world. It comes
Speaker 1: from the way you interpret the world. It comes from
Speaker 1: the filters your mind uses to organize reality. It comes
Speaker 1: from the unconscious scripts you repeat, even swearing that this
Speaker 1: time it would be different. But here is the key.
Speaker 1: If these patterns were learned, they can also be unlearned.
Speaker 1: If your mind has been programmed to self sabotage, it
Speaker 1: can also be reprogrammed to set you free. And this
Speaker 1: process is not theoretical. It is practical, daily real It
Speaker 1: begins when you stop running away from yourself and start
Speaker 1: listening to the messages behind the pain. It starts when
Speaker 1: you understand that each emotional trigger is a teacher, each
Speaker 1: repetition a mirror, each frustration an invitation to awareness. True
Speaker 1: change begins when you decide to stop waiting for the
Speaker 1: world to change, when you accept that it is pointless
Speaker 1: to change the scenery if the protagonist of the story
Speaker 1: continues to carry the same wounds, when you understand that
Speaker 1: the only way to transform your reality is to transform
Speaker 1: yourself in thoughts, emotions, actions, not just in moments of crisis,
Speaker 1: but as a continuous practice of self responsibility. This means
Speaker 1: observing your own mental schemes and questioning them firmly. It
Speaker 1: means identifying automatic thought patterns and interrupting them consciously. It
Speaker 1: means facing your most primitive fears and, instead of repressing them,
Speaker 1: integrating them. Above all, it means recognizing that your life
Speaker 1: is the most honest mirror of what is happening inside
Speaker 1: your mind. Nothing changes until you change, and when you change,
Speaker 1: everything changes. Relationships change because you no longer accept toxic dynamics.
Speaker 1: Your decisions change because now They arise from clarity and
Speaker 1: not from lack. Your reactions change because you are no
Speaker 1: longer reacting based on past pains. Your presence changes because
Speaker 1: you no longer carry the emotional baggage that once suffocated you.
Speaker 1: The world changes not because it transformed magically, but because
Speaker 1: now you have become a new lens through which reality manifests.
Speaker 1: But be careful. This is not a destination. It is
Speaker 1: a practice, a choice that needs to be made every day.
Speaker 1: You need to observe yourself, question, reflect, reprogram, fail, start over.
Speaker 1: There is no true transformation without confronting your own shadow,
Speaker 1: without mental and emotional discipline, without conscious and repeated action,
Speaker 1: And this starts now.