It's not what happens to it's your perception of it.
Speaker:And you can change your perception. So instead of blaming somebody,
Speaker:why don't you use it as a catalyst to do something extraordinary with your life?
Speaker:Let's start by saying that I think everybody here has
Speaker:blamed people
Speaker:and maybe people didn't appreciate that,
Speaker:or we felt blamed by somebody else and
Speaker:sometimes we didn't appreciate that.
Speaker:But let's talk about what blame might be and take a look at what it
Speaker:could be in order to transform it, to live beyond it.
Speaker:I wrote a little book called Beyond Blame many, many years ago,
Speaker:nearly 30 years ago now, and
Speaker:little small little book that was appreciating life.
Speaker:There's a thing called a false attribution bias.
Speaker:There's actually about 200 biases that you might be living with or people live
Speaker:with in their life.
Speaker:And they're basically derivatives of a primary bias,
Speaker:which is called a confirmation bias and disconfirmation bias,
Speaker:a false positive and a false negative sometimes called.
Speaker:But a false attribution bias is where you have exaggerated the blame
Speaker:of somebody for something that happens in your life and minimized your
Speaker:role in what's happening.
Speaker:We've kind of disassociated from our own causality and blamed things on the
Speaker:outside and attributed something to somebody else that we assume that
Speaker:has more drawbacks than benefits. Of course, in our life,
Speaker:we've had moments in our life we had things that we thought were terrible that
Speaker:people had done. And then a day, a week, a month, a year, or five years later,
Speaker:we look back went, Hmm, if it wasn't for that event,
Speaker:I wouldn't have done this.
Speaker:And now we realize that it wasn't so terrible after all,
Speaker:it actually had some terrific sitting inside it and we end up catalyzing
Speaker:something pretty amazing as a result of it.
Speaker:And then we came back and instead of being blaming them for a period of time and
Speaker:have the wisdom of the ages with the aging process, we look back and we went,
Speaker:wow, I'd like to go thank them, if it wasn't for that,
Speaker:I wouldn't of had this turning point in my life.
Speaker:So sometimes we don't take the time to perceive the upsides to the
Speaker:things we blame and we don't see how it serves us and then we end up holding
Speaker:onto this blame and staying angry at this individual and blaming them and have
Speaker:these false causalities, false attribution biases we call them. False causality.
Speaker:They caused me this experience.
Speaker:I teach a program called the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I've been doing it 1,153 times.
Speaker:I'm about to do another one tomorrow and each week I have
Speaker:people coming in there and they are basically coming in with false attribution
Speaker:biases, they're blaming their mother for not being there for them.
Speaker:They're blaming them for maybe being too harsh or too soft or too, you know,
Speaker:smothering, or one thing or another. And they do it on their father.
Speaker:They do it on their brother and sister. They do it on their husband or wife.
Speaker:They got somebody that they want to blame.
Speaker:And they also blame themselves.
Speaker:They feel guilty for something they've done.
Speaker:Blame can go into other people or self.
Speaker:And these are false attribution biases in many cases.
Speaker:Our moral hypocrisies that we pick up from our mothers and fathers and preachers
Speaker:and teachers and conventions and traditions and mores
Speaker:to be one sided,
Speaker:tends to increase the probability of putting these dissociated blame
Speaker:mechanisms onto people and ourself. We're supposed to be,
Speaker:we have this assumption we're supposed to be nice, never mean, kind never cruel,
Speaker:positive never negative, then we're not,
Speaker:we blame ourselves for being less and this so-called perfect.
Speaker:And we also have these false expectations on them to be one sided and then we
Speaker:end up having these blaming mechanisms on them because they're not matching our
Speaker:model of reality, our fantasy about how reality's supposed to be.
Speaker:So a lot of them are false attribution bias. We falsely attribute them.
Speaker:We also find out if the economics go up and down during the market cycles and
Speaker:the credit cycles, we tend to think when the business is going up,
Speaker:we falsely attribute greatness to the CEO of a company and then if the market
Speaker:goes down and we then blame the CEO,
Speaker:we give false credit and false blame.
Speaker:And it may have really little to do with that,
Speaker:that individual's running the show. It's just a cycle in the market,
Speaker:but we do tend to have to scapegoat somebody or have to blame somebody for
Speaker:something. And this is where we put it.
Speaker:These are called false attribution biases.
Speaker:A false positive or false attribution bias is an assumption that something's
Speaker:there when it's not.
Speaker:And a false negative is just something that something's not there when it is.
Speaker:And we go through and we distort our reality with these things all the time.
Speaker:But in the Breakthrough Experience program that I've been teaching many years
Speaker:now, I see people every week coming in with these blames. I mean,
Speaker:it is standard, just a thing. They've got an accumulation,
Speaker:a narrative and story that they're running their life by,
Speaker:by an accumulation of things that didn't match their expectations,
Speaker:unmet expectations make us angry
Speaker:and we tend to blame people and project these things on.
Speaker:So we don't look at ourselves.
Speaker:We don't look at what role we might have played in them.
Speaker:I found out that when people are being criticized by somebody and they blame
Speaker:them for how they feel about it, they're not looking at what they're doing,
Speaker:they may be cocky and proud,
Speaker:and they may be doing something that challenges that individual's private value
Speaker:system, and then the person's retaliating with criticism.
Speaker:And then you're not actually looking at role you're playing in it.
Speaker:You're just blaming them for the cause of your feelings.
Speaker:Instead of looking at what piece of the puzzle you're playing.
Speaker:And I'm not saying to blame yourself. It was Epictetus, the
Speaker:Greek philosopher says in our journey of personal development,
Speaker:we start out blaming others and then we blame ourselves,
Speaker:then we find out there's nothing to blame ultimately.
Speaker:In the Breakthrough Experience, when people come in there,
Speaker:they got somebody to blame, either themselves or others, when they leave,
Speaker:there's nothing to blame.
Speaker:They realize a hidden order was there the whole time and they don't,
Speaker:they didn't take the time to look. I always say, if you're fully conscious,
Speaker:you see nothing to blame.
Speaker:When you're not conscious and you're having unconscious components with false
Speaker:positives, false negatives, false attribution biases,
Speaker:and unconscious conscious splits in the mind, you then blame, or give credit.
Speaker:It can go both ways, but today's topic is blame.
Speaker:So when I have somebody do something to me that,
Speaker:let's say they particularly verbally criticize me.
Speaker:I found it very useful to ask; what specific trait, action,
Speaker:or inaction do I perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that I
Speaker:dislike most? And I narrow it down. I don't do broad,
Speaker:vague, general labels.
Speaker:I don't use hearsays about how they were supposed to be or who,
Speaker:what somebody said about somebody behind the scenes.
Speaker:I look at where I actually perceive this event.
Speaker:I look at what exactly that they did,
Speaker:narrow it down to the actions that they took,
Speaker:because it's a motor action that they took. And what specific trait,
Speaker:action or inaction do they display or demonstrate that I despise,
Speaker:dislike or hate most that I'm blaming them for?
Speaker:And you can't use how you felt,
Speaker:you can't blame somebody else how you feel about things. If somebody says, well,
Speaker:they made me feel sad. No,
Speaker:what they did is they verbally said something and then your interpretation and
Speaker:perception of it made you feel sad. Can't blame them for the way you're feeling.
Speaker:But you can, you can look at what they did,
Speaker:but how you interpreted it is different. Let me give you an example.
Speaker:If I gave you a billion US dollars, but I said,
Speaker:I'm going to give you a billion US dollars,
Speaker:but I have to take a hammer and slam your thumb.
Speaker:And if I just slammed your thumb without giving you anything,
Speaker:you'd be angry and you'd say, Hey, you hurt me.
Speaker:But if I gave you a billion US dollars and said,
Speaker:I'm going to slam your thumb and in 10 days, it'll be perfectly normal again,
Speaker:but you're going to have a billion dollars on it.
Speaker:You'd probably put your thumb there and go slam away.
Speaker:You wouldn't blame me for it. You'd be thanking me for it.
Speaker:And you'd be thinking, wow, that's a, that's a easy thing and easy billion,
Speaker:just putting my thumb in there and I've slammed my thumb many times without even
Speaker:getting anything from it.
Speaker:So the associations you make with what people do is your own reality,
Speaker:not their action. Their action is they slammed your thumb,
Speaker:but that's not what caused your reactions.
Speaker:Those are your reactions based on your perceptions and how you associate with
Speaker:things and if you associate more advantages and disadvantages,
Speaker:you're now giving them credit. If you associate disadvantages than advantage,
Speaker:you give them blame.
Speaker:The blame is not what they did so much as how you interpreted what they did.
Speaker:But you want to identify what they actually did.
Speaker:And if you go and find out what they did, what specific trait,
Speaker:action or inaction did they display or demonstrate that you dislike or despise
Speaker:most, and stop and get freeze frame on that and look at that.
Speaker:Because look at the facts of what they did instead of the fictions of how you
Speaker:felt. Now on top of that, then you go another question,
Speaker:you ask go to a moment where and when you perceive yourself displaying or
Speaker:demonstrating the same behavior, the same trait, action,
Speaker:inaction you despise in them most. And I assure you,
Speaker:it's been shown for centuries, even in biblical writings they referred to it,
Speaker:that whatever you see in others, you got within you.
Speaker:When you point your finger you got three back.
Speaker:And you may be too proud to admit what you see in them inside you or too humble
Speaker:to admit what you see in them inside you but the truth is you have the trait.
Speaker:And I've been doing the Demartini Method,
Speaker:which is inside the Breakthrough Experience for a long time,
Speaker:37 years of the method and 33 and a half,
Speaker:almost 34 years inside the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I've yet to see somebody who is willing to be honest with themselves.
Speaker:I haven't been able to find anybody that can't own that
Speaker:trait,
Speaker:unless they're just choosing not to do it and they want to be proud and addicted
Speaker:to their pride,
Speaker:they can find out where they've done that same behavior or similar behavior in
Speaker:their own life.
Speaker:That's why pointing your finger at somebody doesn't really get you anywhere.
Speaker:It's basically,
Speaker:we only are reacting and judging people on the outside for things that are
Speaker:reminding us on the inside that we haven't loved in ourselves.
Speaker:If we feel ashamed of something and then we see something that we resent,
Speaker:they're reminding us what we're feeling ashamed about.
Speaker:And we're just too proud to admit we've done it. We're trying to hide it,
Speaker:to protect our, you know, facade and protecting ourself from feeling shame,
Speaker:so we end up going up and putting up a false pride and then defending it by
Speaker:projecting it onto them. It's a projection in psychology, they call it.
Speaker:So if we go actually over there and ask what specific trait, action,
Speaker:inaction do you perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that you
Speaker:despise most? Identify what the action is, then go inside, go to a moment, John,
Speaker:where,
Speaker:and when you perceive yourself displaying or demonstrating the same specific
Speaker:trait, action inaction in yourself. And where was it? And when was it?
Speaker:Who did you do it to? And who perceived you doing it?
Speaker:If you go and make yourself accountable,
Speaker:look at where you've done it to the same degree as you see in them,
Speaker:quantitatively and qualitatively,
Speaker:and really reflect and have true introspection and
Speaker:instead of projecting blame,
Speaker:you start to look at your own role in the dynamic and you're not blaming them or
Speaker:you, you're just looking at the dynamic, what it's trying to teach you,
Speaker:because you're designed to attract people in your life to remind you of the
Speaker:things you haven't loved in yourself, to give you an opportunity to love it.
Speaker:It's actually a teacher instead of an injurer out there.
Speaker:I always say injury on the outside comes from jury from within.
Speaker:You're judging yourself and you're attracting the injury to try to point out
Speaker:what you haven't loved in yourself. Now, if you go into another question,
Speaker:which is part of the Demartini Method,
Speaker:I introduce in the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Now go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual displaying or
Speaker:demonstrating that specific trait that you judge, that you resent most,
Speaker:that you despise most.
Speaker:And at that moment when they're displaying it, at that moment,
Speaker:how specifically is it a benefit to you? How is it serving you?
Speaker:How is it enriching your life? What's it teaching you?
Speaker:What are you learning from it? What are you getting to do because of it?
Speaker:Or what are you not having to do because of it? What is the gift it's offering?
Speaker:Because most people think there's a thing out there called an absolute judgment
Speaker:out there, 'that's a bad thing.' There is no such thing.
Speaker:When you study morals and ethics,
Speaker:I've gotten to read 400 books on this topic and study with some people that are
Speaker:specialists in this, there is no universal value system out there.
Speaker:Everybody likes to think there is, but there isn't.
Speaker:Around the world there's different values and different things and what's
Speaker:labeled good and bad in different places.
Speaker:In South Africa if you have nine wives, you're a president, in America,
Speaker:you go to prison. And at one time in the 60s, you had,
Speaker:you smoked pot you went to jail. Now it's legal.
Speaker:So we have in different times in different spaces, label very same things,
Speaker:good or bad according to our perceptions and needs of the society,
Speaker:the social contract that Locke has talked about in his writings.
Speaker:So there's no inherent system there that's good and bad until you make it so.
Speaker:And John Milton said,
Speaker:you can make a heaven out of a hell or a hell out of a heaven.
Speaker:And I've been doing that for years in the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I've been taking people that have been through traumatized, terrible events,
Speaker:torturous events, and found out the upsides to them. How did it serve them?
Speaker:What were the benefits to them and everything else,
Speaker:and completely neutralized it so it wasn't running their life.
Speaker:Because anything you resent in your life,
Speaker:occupies space and time in your mind and stored in the hippocampus,
Speaker:makes you a amygdala instinctfully want to avoid it,
Speaker:and you're running away looking for its opposite all your life, which is futile.
Speaker:And the same thing for the things you admire, the same thing in reverse.
Speaker:So we're going around and letting other people run our lives because of our
Speaker:judgements.
Speaker:Instead of taking on our accountability and see things from a balanced
Speaker:perspective. you know, we have control of our perceptions,
Speaker:decisions and actions in life, not just what happens to us on the outside,
Speaker:but how we perceive it, what we decide to do it and how we act upon it.
Speaker:If we take that and ask, how did it serve us? And we stack up the advantages,
Speaker:we can take that thing that's hell and turn it into heaven.
Speaker:I've had a situation where I had a woman that was basically disliking a guy that
Speaker:was sitting in a room. And I asked her,
Speaker:does she know the guy?' 'Well no.' But he was just gross to her. And I said,
Speaker:I told her some of the benefits of this guy, within 10 minutes,
Speaker:not even 10 minutes, she asked me, well, can you give me his contact details?
Speaker:I'd like to meet him, introduce me to him.
Speaker:She had a change in perspective on the same individual that she first disliked,
Speaker:her first impression. And she kind of blamed him as, as Ugh, I don't,
Speaker:I don't want to do that, don't get near me. And then I asked her some,
Speaker:I basically shared with her some of the upsides of this guy that were true
Speaker:information about the guy. And all of a sudden, she's now interested.
Speaker:The ratios of your perceptions determines how you perceive life.
Speaker:And the ratios of perception will make something either a blame or a credit
Speaker:game. And so if you sit there and stack up all the drawbacks of something,
Speaker:you'll end up being angry at them and be, you know, blame them.
Speaker:If you stack up more advantage, you'll give them credit. If you neutralize it,
Speaker:you'll feel love for them.
Speaker:I'm interested in neutralizing it so you can love people.
Speaker:And they're representing a part of you. You can love yourself.
Speaker:In the Breakthrough Experience when I do the Demartini Method,
Speaker:I have people do that, find out the benefits of it,
Speaker:all of a sudden they get a tear of gratitude for the
Speaker:terrible.
Speaker:Instead of having the wisdom of the ages with the aging process and taking years
Speaker:and having entropy and aging over it,
Speaker:you can go in there and find the blessings of it on the spot, within minutes.
Speaker:If you take the time to be accountable. And I love doing that.
Speaker:When I teach the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I love people who come in there with all these challenges and all of a sudden
Speaker:just dissolve them and melt them. You know,
Speaker:the problems they have in their life are basically because of incomplete
Speaker:awareness, unconscious data.
Speaker:Even Clause Shannon in his work on entropy,
Speaker:the tendency to go from order to disorder means missing information.
Speaker:And it's unconscious,
Speaker:we're unconscious of the upsides and we're blaming people and we're not seeing
Speaker:how it serves us. And we may find out that it's exactly what we needed. I mean,
Speaker:I was, I was almost died when I was 17 years old. If it wasn't for that,
Speaker:I wouldn't have gone to this little health food store.
Speaker:If wouldn't have done that I wouldn't have gone to this little yoga class.
Speaker:And if I hadn't have done that, I wouldn't have met Paul Bragg.
Speaker:And so that near death experience was exactly what's catalyzed me to be where I
Speaker:am today.
Speaker:I would not have gone on that journey if it hadn't have been for those events.
Speaker:And I'm a firm believer that if you look at life as in the way, not on the way,
Speaker:you'll be ungrateful instead of grateful and you'll weigh yourself down instead
Speaker:of lighten your life up. And it's not what happens to you,
Speaker:it's your perception of it. And you can change your perception.
Speaker:So instead of blaming somebody,
Speaker:why don't you use it as a catalyst to do something extraordinary with your life?
Speaker:So go to a moment where and when you perceive them displaying or demonstrating
Speaker:the trait, action, inaction you dislike most. And in that moment,
Speaker:how did it serve you? How did it help you spiritually?
Speaker:How did it help you intellectually? How did it help you in your career?
Speaker:Your financial wealth building? Your social life? Your family?
Speaker:Your health and fitness?
Speaker:How's it helping you fulfill what you value most in your life?
Speaker:Once you answer those questions and hold yourself accountable, and don't say,
Speaker:I don't know,
Speaker:I can't find it and stop and be righteous and hold onto your pride and
Speaker:blame. If you go in there and be accountable,
Speaker:you can actually turn into something you can say thank you for.
Speaker:And then when you do, you don't weigh yourself down. You lighten yourself up.
Speaker:And then you realize that the blame was just an illusion.
Speaker:The thing you blame is actually catalyst of great opportunity in your life.
Speaker:A great opportunity to learn and discover stuff that's buried inside that you're
Speaker:walking around with shame on. In the Breakthrough Experience
Speaker:after we identify the blessings of what somebody's done,
Speaker:then we go and look at where we did it.
Speaker:And then we go find out how it served other people when we've done it.
Speaker:Because we're carrying around our shame only because we didn't see how it
Speaker:blessed somebody else by the action. You know,
Speaker:I've had a situation where somebody came up to me me five years later after
Speaker:something,
Speaker:I was really tough on them in a seminar and I really gave them a hard time and
Speaker:pushed them. And they came,
Speaker:they were upset at the time and they wanted to blame me for being too tough on
Speaker:them, a tough love.
Speaker:Five years later they said that was the turning point in their life.
Speaker:And they came up to me and gave me a big hug and said,
Speaker:I brought my friend here to this seminar,
Speaker:because they didn't realize at that time they were holding onto a fantasy about
Speaker:how life's supposed to be, always be nice, never mean, kind, never cruel,
Speaker:positive, never negative,
Speaker:and all of a sudden I was firm with them about holding themselves accountable to
Speaker:find an answer to something they were blaming,
Speaker:they didn't want to look at themselves.
Speaker:But once they did and they walked outt of the program, upset,
Speaker:they went and looked, they self inspected, they discovered it.
Speaker:And then they end up catalyzing a transformation in their life and they came
Speaker:back and thanked.
Speaker:So sometimes you're carrying around shame and guilt over something that's not
Speaker:even real. You may be storing it for days, weeks, months,
Speaker:years over something that actually served people,
Speaker:and you're carrying it around because you haven't taken the time to find out how
Speaker:it's served.
Speaker:And when you don't find how the upsides to the things you're labeled downsides
Speaker:are, when other people do it, you blame them.
Speaker:When you don't find the upsides to when you've done something,
Speaker:you blame yourself. And when you blame yourself,
Speaker:you create autoimmune responses. You end up creating hetero immune responses.,
Speaker:you run your physiology down, it increases your aging process.
Speaker:It weighs you down.
Speaker:It makes you feel guilty and guilt makes you be more altruistic to sacrifice for
Speaker:other people to feel and compensate for it.
Speaker:All these things interfere with your mastery of life.
Speaker:So that's why I help people who come to the Breakthrough Experience to make sure
Speaker:that they go and clear all that stuff.
Speaker:There's no reason why they have to carry that around.
Speaker:They don't have to carry around their resentments to people or their blame of
Speaker:other people or their blame to themselves in shame.
Speaker:The blame and shame game is not really where you want to live your life at,
Speaker:better to go in and ask the right questions.
Speaker:The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask.
Speaker:If you ask questions that allow you to balance the state, you're freed.
Speaker:There's absolutely no reason. The same thing on the other side for credit,
Speaker:we some falsely give false attribution,
Speaker:biases and credit to people and minimize ourselves or do it with ourselves.
Speaker:And we go into pride. But anytime we're in pride or shame,
Speaker:anytime we get these false attribution bias on ourself or other people,
Speaker:we automatically are inauthentic. And we want to be love for who we are,
Speaker:but when we're not being who we are, how we going to be loved for who we are?
Speaker:It's really quite irony that we basically say we want to be love for who we are
Speaker:and then we're not willing to be that. We're going around with pride,
Speaker:which is an exaggeration of self, or shame, which is a minimization of self,
Speaker:or infatuation, which an exaggeration of them, or maybe resentment,
Speaker:which is a minimization of them. Neither one of those are the truth.
Speaker:They're biases, they're distortions. They're not reality.
Speaker:They're not actually there. They're just our perceptions of reality.
Speaker:And the second we do that, we undermine our power in life.
Speaker:Because when we're too proud to admit what we see in them is inside us,
Speaker:we have a disowned part and that's a disempowerment.
Speaker:And we're too humble to admit it, we got disempowerment again.
Speaker:But when we actually have reflective awareness and look inside ourselves and
Speaker:what we see in others inside ourselves, we have empowerment.
Speaker:Because then we put them in our heart. And anytime we are judging,
Speaker:we have emptiness. And anytime we love, we have more fulfillment life.
Speaker:And when we have more fulfillment life, we have more gratitude for life.
Speaker:We have more gratitude., we get more opportunities in our life.
Speaker:That's why blaming people is not really where its power is.
Speaker:I don't recommend taking, you know, and dramatizing it.
Speaker:I've seen people go to therapists. It's insane.
Speaker:They go in there and they blame somebody.
Speaker:I've seen people blame somebody for 35 years.
Speaker:They be going to therapy for 35 years telling people their story,
Speaker:and dramatizing it and getting it bigger. And it's as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker:telling people your story is probably the most foolish thing you'll ever do.
Speaker:Dissolving the story and turning it into something you'd be grateful for and
Speaker:releasing yourself from the baggage and the burden and getting on with what's
Speaker:fueled in life, then
Speaker:you change the story in the first place and you go and you say, thank you,
Speaker:I was unaware of what I was blaming myself for.
Speaker:You came into my life to help me see it, I'm realizing you're my teacher.
Speaker:Thank you. And you may be saying, well, what about somebody that really,
Speaker:really hurts you? What happens if something really devastating occurs?
Speaker:I've gotten to work with almost every imaginable thing that's out there.
Speaker:I mean major cases of beatings and rape and incest and you name it.
Speaker:There's nothing your mortal body can experience that your immortal soul can't
Speaker:love and transcend. And the question is,
Speaker:why would you want to blame them all your life and blame yourself for putting
Speaker:yourself in that situation and be trapped in that thing and run the story and
Speaker:drama all your life, when you can actually have the ability to transform it?
Speaker:You're not,
Speaker:you're not serving yourself by sitting there holding onto the story all your
Speaker:life.
Speaker:You're serving yourself by getting on and using it as opportunity and fuel.
Speaker:No matter what you've been through, no matter what you've done,
Speaker:I believe there's a way of finding out how to be grateful for that and move
Speaker:forward. And I'm not saying justifying it,
Speaker:people say well is that just justifying evil? No, it's not.
Speaker:It's transforming your awareness and seeing what you've been unconscious of.
Speaker:Because sometimes those things that you think are terrible in your life are
Speaker:actually gifts. And you just didn't take the time to look.
Speaker:And you just want to be right in your misinterpretation and stopped yourself
Speaker:from doing something extraordinary with your life.
Speaker:Anything you can't see on the way is going to be in the way in your life,
Speaker:and you're going to weigh yourself down with it.
Speaker:I've learned a long time ago if I take the time to go and ask it and reframe it,
Speaker:a cognitive reappraisal sometimes called, I just call it the Demartini Method.
Speaker:The Demartini Method is a series of questions that help you find the hidden
Speaker:order in the chaos you think you're storing in your life.
Speaker:And it turns out to be not.
Speaker:Every week in the Breakthrough Experience I have people who I said, how many,
Speaker:I want you to pick the most resented, most despised,
Speaker:most hated individual you can think of. Great, put their name there. Great.
Speaker:Who are they? Now go to a moment and identify what specific trait,
Speaker:action or inaction do you perceive them displaying or demonstrating that you
Speaker:despise and hate most. Great. Put it down. And I've done this thousands,
Speaker:over a hundred thousand times with people. And then go write that down. Great.
Speaker:And they're writing down what they think is upsetting, that they feel hurt them,
Speaker:and they're angry at it, and they're bitter at it, and it's all bad,
Speaker:in some cases, sometimes it's more moderate, but it's,
Speaker:I want the most extreme example. And then I ask them, good.
Speaker:Now go to a moment where,
Speaker:and when you perceive yourself displaying or demonstrating that trait.
Speaker:And at first their pride doesn't want them to look because it's going to make
Speaker:them feel the shame. And our amygdala doesn't want to feel shame.
Speaker:It wants to feel proud and gets addicted to its pride.
Speaker:And it then projects that onto other people.
Speaker:And we don't want to look at ourself.
Speaker:So they tend to dodge and avoid trying to get the answers.
Speaker:And I hold them accountable. Look again. I don't want them to make anything up.
Speaker:I don't want them to BS themselves. I want them to look. And when they look,
Speaker:they discover where they've done it. They've done it to their children,
Speaker:or they've done it to their spouse,
Speaker:or they've done it to some friends and they've done it to people at work,
Speaker:or they've done it to somebody in their life, in business or on the phone,
Speaker:when they stop and reflect and look at it,
Speaker:and I have them go through and look at all the moments.
Speaker:You only resent things in other people that remind you of what you're feeling
Speaker:ashamed of in your life. And this was in, I think in Romans 2.1,
Speaker:you see that written out in biblical writings. It's been around for centuries.
Speaker:It's not New here. Has been stated by great thinkers throughout the ages.
Speaker:What we see Is a reflection of us and a projection of our own stuff.
Speaker:So I make them go and identify it when they do, it humbles it a bit.
Speaker:Now all of a sudden they're realizing they're not too proud to admit what they
Speaker:see in others inside themselves.
Speaker:And now they're kind of bringing themselves back into
Speaker:and it's soften some of the judgment. They go, well,
Speaker:why would I be blaming them and judging them for something I'm doing in my life?
Speaker:But they're still thinking it's a bad thing. So then I ask, how did it serve?
Speaker:What's the advantages and benefits and the resourcefulness that came out of it?
Speaker:Because anything that's on this planet, If it's out there,
Speaker:it must be serving or it would gone extinct.
Speaker:So even those behaviors serve a purpose.
Speaker:Sometimes we get cocky and we get people that criticize us and bring us back
Speaker:down into authenticity. That serves a purpose.
Speaker:It calms us down from our arrogance.
Speaker:It calms us down to learning how to communicate more
Speaker:So if we go in there and find out how it serves and we get the benefits
Speaker:equalling the drawbacks, we all of a sudden have nothing to blame.
Speaker:And all of a sudden they go, Hmm, this thing that they did,
Speaker:I'm now grateful for.
Speaker:I can't believe I've been holding onto this anger for all these years.
Speaker:And then when you go and find out where you've done it and how it's served other
Speaker:people you've dissolved your shame.
Speaker:And the way I know the shame dissolving helps your blame game,
Speaker:is because I've gone in and taken people who've blamed something for somebody,
Speaker:looked at where they've done,
Speaker:didn't even look for the benefits in what the other individual did,
Speaker:just looked at the benefits of where they've done it.
Speaker:When they saw the benefits and dissolved their own shame,
Speaker:their anger at the other person and blaming disappeared.
Speaker:Because it's nothing but a projection.
Speaker:So then all of a sudden they're now realizing, wow,
Speaker:this is stuff that had nothing to do with them,
Speaker:this had everything to do with how I interpret this reality.
Speaker:And I want everybody to give themselves their power back.
Speaker:You're not going to give your power,
Speaker:get your power when you're blaming other people.
Speaker:Anytime you have false attribution biases and blaming people on the outside,
Speaker:or give credit to the outside, your hell or your heaven out there,
Speaker:as Milton says, you're going to disempower your life. Take it on.
Speaker:I always say that there's nothing missing in me.
Speaker:I'm a hero and a villain and a Saint and a sinner.
Speaker:I'm all the above and nothing's missing.
Speaker:I don't need to get rid of half of myself or try to gain something in myself.
Speaker:It's nothing missing.
Speaker:And when I come from that perspective and I realize that people are pushing my
Speaker:buttons, it's my buttons.
Speaker:I'm getting the lemon out of the lemonade inside or the lemonade out of the
Speaker:lemon that I have inside.
Speaker:Once I realize that I liberate myself from the dissociation and
Speaker:external sources of my thing,
Speaker:because anytime you externalize your source of your pleasures or pains,
Speaker:instead of internalize them, you just gave away your power.
Speaker:And people that are governed from within by their physiology and psychology go
Speaker:farther, are leaders, people that have to be governed from the outside,
Speaker:sociologically and theologically with all the moral hypocrisies,
Speaker:they're trapped.
Speaker:So give yourself permission to shine and let loose of the so-called
Speaker:blame game. You might find it's amazing. And also on the credit side,
Speaker:you can also put people on pedestals and minimize yourself.
Speaker:And that's just as in a sense,
Speaker:disorienting as the blame game and putting yourself up. Learn the art.
Speaker:That's why I tell people to come to the Breakthrough Experience and learn the
Speaker:Demartini Method,
Speaker:because that way you can master your mind and therefore help you master your
Speaker:life.
Speaker:And that's just one of the many tools that I give in that program to help people
Speaker:break through their stuff.
Speaker:So if you're interested in breaking through your stuff and not running around
Speaker:with blame for 10, 20, 30, 40 years and storing that, and by the way,
Speaker:when we store those blames, it affects our physiology,
Speaker:we create illness in our body to try to let us know, to teach us how to love
Speaker:again.
Speaker:I'd much rather help you have a story of love than to sit there and become a
Speaker:victim of your history. I want you to be a master of your destiny.
Speaker:Join me at the Breakthrough Experience that way I can spend 24 hours with you
Speaker:teaching you how to transform any of those perceptions,
Speaker:I'm going to give you a tool. It's going to be a powerful tool.
Speaker:You'll use it the rest of your life on how you can transform whatever happens to
Speaker:you and turn it on the way instead of in the way.
Speaker:And give yourself permission to more shine and radiate outward instead of
Speaker:contract and be living in phobias and fantasies all your life.
Speaker:So if you're ready to liberate yourself, come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:If you want to get past the blame game and the credit game,
Speaker:I was told by somebody many, many years ago, take no credit, take no blame,
Speaker:just keep focused on the chief aim, and the name of the game is thank you,
Speaker:I love you.
Speaker:So if you're interested for gratitude and love and wanting to transcend the
Speaker:blame game, I look forward to seeing you at the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:That way I can help you share in this new technology on how to transform your
Speaker:life. So this is my little presentation today on blame, living beyond blame.
Speaker:And I look forward to seeing you next week,
Speaker:but join me at the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I guarantee you'll have a transformation that you won't get any other way.