On this journey, you will begin to understand the hindrances and limitations of your Monkey Mind. The more you understand the Drunk Monkey, the faster you’ll experience peace and contentment in the moment. The quicker you get there, the quicker everything you want to manifest will fall in your lap. That’s what you want, right? Good, then let’s check out the erratic behavior of The Drunk Monkey. First, think about the metaphor of a Drunk Monkey. What if we let a Drunk Monkey loose in your house? What would happen? It would be chaos…right? The Drunk Monkey would wreck everything,…
Author: Matthew Ferry
Matthew Ferry
Matthew Ferry is a spiritual teacher, master coach, and best-selling author. Since 1993, he has helped thousands of high-performing professionals, entrepreneurs, and executives transcend fear, quiet their minds, and create what he calls Enlightened Prosperity™—success without stress. His signature methodology, The Rapid Enlightenment Process™, has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal for Advanced Social Sciences. He is the author of Quiet Mind Epic Life, creator of the Mental Journey To Millions, a 2x TEDx speaker and best-selling author.
The Drunk Monkey is that non-stop talking, running commentary in your head that is constantly judging, assessing and keeping you safe from things that aren’t dangerous. It’s constant need to think, review, consider, evaluate and comment blocks your ability to experience peace of mind, and to achieve your biggest goals. Ultimately, The Drunk Monkey is the underlying cause of worry, stress and frustration. He looks harmless enough. But once you really start to pay attention, you’ll see this sucker is robbing your happiness, blocking you from getting the things that you truly desire, and even keeping the people that you…
When The Drunk Monkey is playing the role of The Protector it identifies potential threats and avoids them or protects you against them. The Protector spends its time scouting out potential danger. It keeps you ready for anything and never allows you to be fully relaxed. The Protector assumes that most everything is a threat. The guy who took your parking spot, your kids not getting good grades, your boss being in a bad mood, clients not taking your advice, losing money, the list goes on and on. Yet, when we really examine it, there really is no need to…
When The Drunk Monkey is playing the role of the Superhero it thinks it is better than others. It is one to save the world, the day, the situation. The Superhero is convinced it knows what is best for every thing, every person and every situation it encounters, and can’t help but insert itself. The hero-complex plagues The Superhero when it’s sure what it’s doing is “right” – even though it runs over people in the process.
When the Drunk Monkey is playing the role of The Victim it tells you that you are powerless. The Victim sees the world as a dangerous place filled with scary people who will take advantage of you. It is skeptical of others for no reason. It assumes it is powerless and acts accordingly. The Victim steals your power by making you believe that you have no control over your life.
When The Drunk Monkey is playing the role of The Enlightened it has become the self-appointed spiritually elite. No one knows more about the “right way” to be spiritual than the Enlightened Drunk Monkey. From its lofty perch, it decides who is worth helping, who is good, and who is bad, all while it is convinced that other people just don’t get it. And if the world only knew how wise it is, they would hang on every word and behave according to its doctrine. This is just the assassin in disguise killing anyone who doesn’t believe what it deems…
When The Drunk Monkey is playing the role of The Distractor it pulls your attention away from what you really desire. No matter what you want to work on, it finds a way to shift your focus, and invest energy into thoughts, ideas and actions into things that aren’t really important to you. Have you ever felt like you never get to do the things you want to do? This is The Distractor at work. It is a master at making you think that you need to do all the little actions in your business and your life. It…
When The Drunk Monkey is playing the role of The Assassin, it drives you to go on the attack. This might be in the form of mentally fantasizing about revenge. It is often played out in your conversations as you build a case as to why other people are wrong or should be stopped. In the extreme, it gets you to use negative political force against people, take revenge, and it attacks what it doesn’t agree with.
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When the Drunk Monkey playing the role of the Psychic it believes that it can predict the future. It wastes its time pretending it knows what’s going to happen, and then acts accordingly. (Most often the future it imagines is negative so it starts being upset, agitated and mad for no reason.) The Psychic is constantly frustrated because the reality of today almost never matches what it predicted. And, it arrogantly believes that the world “should be” the way it has predicted then gets upset when its predictions don’t come true.