Your Body Is Listening: How To Rewire Your Reality With Words | Jim Curtis

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Dec 22, 2025

Jim Curtis, an author and speaker on personal transformation, joins the discussion to explore how words influence our identity and reality. He reveals how he overcame his own physical neglect despite financial success by utilizing the Ho'oponopono prayer—a powerful Hawaiian mantra of forgiveness. Jim shares the emotional release he experienced and highlights a study showing it can reduce violence. Together with host Lewis Howes, they encourage listeners to shift their language and mindset for better health and relationships, promoting daily practices like affirmations and the prayer.

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INSIGHT

Language Shapes Identity And Reality

Words we say shape our identity and create our reality.
Jim Curtis says the body literally listens to every word we speak.

ANECDOTE

Success Paired With Self-Justifying Lies

Jim Curtis admitted he told himself he'd always make money while avoiding fitness and physical care.
Those self-narratives let him justify staying in pain and victimhood until he changed his story.

ADVICE

Dictate Your Identity With 'I Am' Statements

Consciously dictate identity phrases starting with 'I am' to expand into who you want to be.
Use repeating statements like 'I am love' to reprogram self-perception and behavior.

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"Our body is listening. Our body is listening to every word that we say. Every word that we say is creating our reality because it creates our identity." - Jim Curtis

Jim Curtis used to tell himself he'd always know how to make money, and he did. But he also told himself he didn't have time for the gym. That physical therapists in New York City were scams. These weren't just thoughts passing through his mind. They were lies he used to justify staying broken, to bypass the work his body desperately needed. He was caught in unconscious patterns, financially successful but physically deteriorating, stuck in victimhood of his own making. Then he discovered something that changed everything. A four-part Hawaiian prayer: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." The first time he said it in repetition, he started to weep. Something in him, past or present or future, recognized those words and released. There's even a study where a man prayed this prayer over photographs of violent prison inmates, and the violent crime in that prison dropped by 50 percent. Just from someone praying remotely over pictures.

Lewis knows this power intimately. When he was sixteen, he had eight teeth removed from his mouth but refused to get braces. Twenty years of stubbornness later, his jaw had formed so incorrectly that his back teeth never touched. He couldn't chew. He just swallowed his food whole for years. When he finally got implants, one of them wouldn't heal. For a month, he lived with seven-out-of-ten pain shooting through the side of his head, needing medication constantly just to function. His wife, Martha, asked him a simple question: "Have you forgiven yourself yet?" She told him to go look in the mirror, stare into his own eyes, and repeat, "I'm sorry. I forgive you. I love you" until the pain disappeared. Thirty minutes later, standing in that bathroom, the pain vanished. Completely. From seven to zero. This isn't theory or wishful thinking. This is your body listening to every single word you say, responding to the reality you're creating with your language. Try it. Look yourself in the eyes and speak those simple words until something shifts. Your body is waiting to hear it.

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