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It's not what happens to it's your perception of it.

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And you can change your perception. So instead of blaming somebody,

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why don't you use it as a catalyst to do something extraordinary with your life?

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Let's start by saying that I think everybody here has

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blamed people

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and maybe people didn't appreciate that,

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or we felt blamed by somebody else and

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sometimes we didn't appreciate that.

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But let's talk about what blame might be and take a look at what it

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could be in order to transform it, to live beyond it.

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I wrote a little book called Beyond Blame many, many years ago,

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nearly 30 years ago now, and

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little small little book that was appreciating life.

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There's a thing called a false attribution bias.

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There's actually about 200 biases that you might be living with or people live

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with in their life.

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And they're basically derivatives of a primary bias,

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which is called a confirmation bias and disconfirmation bias,

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a false positive and a false negative sometimes called.

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But a false attribution bias is where you have exaggerated the blame

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of somebody for something that happens in your life and minimized your

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role in what's happening.

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We've kind of disassociated from our own causality and blamed things on the

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outside and attributed something to somebody else that we assume that

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has more drawbacks than benefits. Of course, in our life,

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we've had moments in our life we had things that we thought were terrible that

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people had done. And then a day, a week, a month, a year, or five years later,

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we look back went, Hmm, if it wasn't for that event,

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I wouldn't have done this.

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And now we realize that it wasn't so terrible after all,

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it actually had some terrific sitting inside it and we end up catalyzing

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something pretty amazing as a result of it.

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And then we came back and instead of being blaming them for a period of time and

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have the wisdom of the ages with the aging process, we look back and we went,

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wow, I'd like to go thank them, if it wasn't for that,

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I wouldn't of had this turning point in my life.

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So sometimes we don't take the time to perceive the upsides to the

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things we blame and we don't see how it serves us and then we end up holding

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onto this blame and staying angry at this individual and blaming them and have

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these false causalities, false attribution biases we call them. False causality.

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They caused me this experience.

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I teach a program called the Breakthrough Experience.

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I've been doing it 1,153 times.

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I'm about to do another one tomorrow and each week I have

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people coming in there and they are basically coming in with false attribution

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biases, they're blaming their mother for not being there for them.

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They're blaming them for maybe being too harsh or too soft or too, you know,

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smothering, or one thing or another. And they do it on their father.

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They do it on their brother and sister. They do it on their husband or wife.

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They got somebody that they want to blame.

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And they also blame themselves.

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They feel guilty for something they've done.

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Blame can go into other people or self.

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And these are false attribution biases in many cases.

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Our moral hypocrisies that we pick up from our mothers and fathers and preachers

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and teachers and conventions and traditions and mores

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to be one sided,

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tends to increase the probability of putting these dissociated blame

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mechanisms onto people and ourself. We're supposed to be,

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we have this assumption we're supposed to be nice, never mean, kind never cruel,

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positive never negative, then we're not,

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we blame ourselves for being less and this so-called perfect.

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And we also have these false expectations on them to be one sided and then we

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end up having these blaming mechanisms on them because they're not matching our

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model of reality, our fantasy about how reality's supposed to be.

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So a lot of them are false attribution bias. We falsely attribute them.

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We also find out if the economics go up and down during the market cycles and

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the credit cycles, we tend to think when the business is going up,

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we falsely attribute greatness to the CEO of a company and then if the market

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goes down and we then blame the CEO,

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we give false credit and false blame.

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And it may have really little to do with that,

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that individual's running the show. It's just a cycle in the market,

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but we do tend to have to scapegoat somebody or have to blame somebody for

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something. And this is where we put it.

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These are called false attribution biases.

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A false positive or false attribution bias is an assumption that something's

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there when it's not.

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And a false negative is just something that something's not there when it is.

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And we go through and we distort our reality with these things all the time.

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But in the Breakthrough Experience program that I've been teaching many years

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now, I see people every week coming in with these blames. I mean,

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it is standard, just a thing. They've got an accumulation,

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a narrative and story that they're running their life by,

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by an accumulation of things that didn't match their expectations,

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unmet expectations make us angry

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and we tend to blame people and project these things on.

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So we don't look at ourselves.

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We don't look at what role we might have played in them.

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I found out that when people are being criticized by somebody and they blame

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them for how they feel about it, they're not looking at what they're doing,

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they may be cocky and proud,

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and they may be doing something that challenges that individual's private value

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system, and then the person's retaliating with criticism.

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And then you're not actually looking at role you're playing in it.

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You're just blaming them for the cause of your feelings.

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Instead of looking at what piece of the puzzle you're playing.

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And I'm not saying to blame yourself. It was Epictetus, the

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Greek philosopher says in our journey of personal development,

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we start out blaming others and then we blame ourselves,

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then we find out there's nothing to blame ultimately.

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In the Breakthrough Experience, when people come in there,

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they got somebody to blame, either themselves or others, when they leave,

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there's nothing to blame.

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They realize a hidden order was there the whole time and they don't,

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they didn't take the time to look. I always say, if you're fully conscious,

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you see nothing to blame.

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When you're not conscious and you're having unconscious components with false

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positives, false negatives, false attribution biases,

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and unconscious conscious splits in the mind, you then blame, or give credit.

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It can go both ways, but today's topic is blame.

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So when I have somebody do something to me that,

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let's say they particularly verbally criticize me.

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I found it very useful to ask; what specific trait, action,

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or inaction do I perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that I

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dislike most? And I narrow it down. I don't do broad,

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vague, general labels.

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I don't use hearsays about how they were supposed to be or who,

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what somebody said about somebody behind the scenes.

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I look at where I actually perceive this event.

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I look at what exactly that they did,

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narrow it down to the actions that they took,

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because it's a motor action that they took. And what specific trait,

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action or inaction do they display or demonstrate that I despise,

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dislike or hate most that I'm blaming them for?

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And you can't use how you felt,

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you can't blame somebody else how you feel about things. If somebody says, well,

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they made me feel sad. No,

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what they did is they verbally said something and then your interpretation and

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perception of it made you feel sad. Can't blame them for the way you're feeling.

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But you can, you can look at what they did,

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but how you interpreted it is different. Let me give you an example.

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If I gave you a billion US dollars, but I said,

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I'm going to give you a billion US dollars,

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but I have to take a hammer and slam your thumb.

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And if I just slammed your thumb without giving you anything,

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you'd be angry and you'd say, Hey, you hurt me.

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But if I gave you a billion US dollars and said,

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I'm going to slam your thumb and in 10 days, it'll be perfectly normal again,

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but you're going to have a billion dollars on it.

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You'd probably put your thumb there and go slam away.

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You wouldn't blame me for it. You'd be thanking me for it.

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And you'd be thinking, wow, that's a, that's a easy thing and easy billion,

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just putting my thumb in there and I've slammed my thumb many times without even

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getting anything from it.

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So the associations you make with what people do is your own reality,

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not their action. Their action is they slammed your thumb,

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but that's not what caused your reactions.

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Those are your reactions based on your perceptions and how you associate with

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things and if you associate more advantages and disadvantages,

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you're now giving them credit. If you associate disadvantages than advantage,

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you give them blame.

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The blame is not what they did so much as how you interpreted what they did.

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But you want to identify what they actually did.

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And if you go and find out what they did, what specific trait,

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action or inaction did they display or demonstrate that you dislike or despise

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most, and stop and get freeze frame on that and look at that.

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Because look at the facts of what they did instead of the fictions of how you

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felt. Now on top of that, then you go another question,

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you ask go to a moment where and when you perceive yourself displaying or

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demonstrating the same behavior, the same trait, action,

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inaction you despise in them most. And I assure you,

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it's been shown for centuries, even in biblical writings they referred to it,

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that whatever you see in others, you got within you.

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When you point your finger you got three back.

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And you may be too proud to admit what you see in them inside you or too humble

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to admit what you see in them inside you but the truth is you have the trait.

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And I've been doing the Demartini Method,

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which is inside the Breakthrough Experience for a long time,

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37 years of the method and 33 and a half,

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almost 34 years inside the Breakthrough Experience.

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I've yet to see somebody who is willing to be honest with themselves.

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I haven't been able to find anybody that can't own that

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trait,

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unless they're just choosing not to do it and they want to be proud and addicted

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to their pride,

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they can find out where they've done that same behavior or similar behavior in

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their own life.

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That's why pointing your finger at somebody doesn't really get you anywhere.

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It's basically,

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we only are reacting and judging people on the outside for things that are

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reminding us on the inside that we haven't loved in ourselves.

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If we feel ashamed of something and then we see something that we resent,

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they're reminding us what we're feeling ashamed about.

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And we're just too proud to admit we've done it. We're trying to hide it,

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to protect our, you know, facade and protecting ourself from feeling shame,

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so we end up going up and putting up a false pride and then defending it by

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projecting it onto them. It's a projection in psychology, they call it.

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So if we go actually over there and ask what specific trait, action,

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inaction do you perceive this individual displaying or demonstrating that you

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despise most? Identify what the action is, then go inside, go to a moment, John,

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where,

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and when you perceive yourself displaying or demonstrating the same specific

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trait, action inaction in yourself. And where was it? And when was it?

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Who did you do it to? And who perceived you doing it?

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If you go and make yourself accountable,

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look at where you've done it to the same degree as you see in them,

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quantitatively and qualitatively,

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and really reflect and have true introspection and

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instead of projecting blame,

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you start to look at your own role in the dynamic and you're not blaming them or

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you, you're just looking at the dynamic, what it's trying to teach you,

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because you're designed to attract people in your life to remind you of the

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things you haven't loved in yourself, to give you an opportunity to love it.

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It's actually a teacher instead of an injurer out there.

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I always say injury on the outside comes from jury from within.

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You're judging yourself and you're attracting the injury to try to point out

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what you haven't loved in yourself. Now, if you go into another question,

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which is part of the Demartini Method,

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I introduce in the Breakthrough Experience.

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Now go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual displaying or

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demonstrating that specific trait that you judge, that you resent most,

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that you despise most.

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And at that moment when they're displaying it, at that moment,

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how specifically is it a benefit to you? How is it serving you?

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How is it enriching your life? What's it teaching you?

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What are you learning from it? What are you getting to do because of it?

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Or what are you not having to do because of it? What is the gift it's offering?

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Because most people think there's a thing out there called an absolute judgment

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out there, 'that's a bad thing.' There is no such thing.

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When you study morals and ethics,

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I've gotten to read 400 books on this topic and study with some people that are

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specialists in this, there is no universal value system out there.

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Everybody likes to think there is, but there isn't.

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Around the world there's different values and different things and what's

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labeled good and bad in different places.

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In South Africa if you have nine wives, you're a president, in America,

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you go to prison. And at one time in the 60s, you had,

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you smoked pot you went to jail. Now it's legal.

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So we have in different times in different spaces, label very same things,

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good or bad according to our perceptions and needs of the society,

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the social contract that Locke has talked about in his writings.

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So there's no inherent system there that's good and bad until you make it so.

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And John Milton said,

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you can make a heaven out of a hell or a hell out of a heaven.

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And I've been doing that for years in the Breakthrough Experience.

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I've been taking people that have been through traumatized, terrible events,

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torturous events, and found out the upsides to them. How did it serve them?

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What were the benefits to them and everything else,

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and completely neutralized it so it wasn't running their life.

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Because anything you resent in your life,

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occupies space and time in your mind and stored in the hippocampus,

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makes you a amygdala instinctfully want to avoid it,

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and you're running away looking for its opposite all your life, which is futile.

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And the same thing for the things you admire, the same thing in reverse.

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So we're going around and letting other people run our lives because of our

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judgements.

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Instead of taking on our accountability and see things from a balanced

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perspective. you know, we have control of our perceptions,

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decisions and actions in life, not just what happens to us on the outside,

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but how we perceive it, what we decide to do it and how we act upon it.

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If we take that and ask, how did it serve us? And we stack up the advantages,

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we can take that thing that's hell and turn it into heaven.

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I've had a situation where I had a woman that was basically disliking a guy that

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was sitting in a room. And I asked her,

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does she know the guy?' 'Well no.' But he was just gross to her. And I said,

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I told her some of the benefits of this guy, within 10 minutes,

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not even 10 minutes, she asked me, well, can you give me his contact details?

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I'd like to meet him, introduce me to him.

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She had a change in perspective on the same individual that she first disliked,

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her first impression. And she kind of blamed him as, as Ugh, I don't,

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I don't want to do that, don't get near me. And then I asked her some,

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I basically shared with her some of the upsides of this guy that were true

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information about the guy. And all of a sudden, she's now interested.

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The ratios of your perceptions determines how you perceive life.

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And the ratios of perception will make something either a blame or a credit

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game. And so if you sit there and stack up all the drawbacks of something,

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you'll end up being angry at them and be, you know, blame them.

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If you stack up more advantage, you'll give them credit. If you neutralize it,

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you'll feel love for them.

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I'm interested in neutralizing it so you can love people.

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And they're representing a part of you. You can love yourself.

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In the Breakthrough Experience when I do the Demartini Method,

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I have people do that, find out the benefits of it,

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all of a sudden they get a tear of gratitude for the

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terrible.

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Instead of having the wisdom of the ages with the aging process and taking years

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and having entropy and aging over it,

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you can go in there and find the blessings of it on the spot, within minutes.

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If you take the time to be accountable. And I love doing that.

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When I teach the Breakthrough Experience,

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I love people who come in there with all these challenges and all of a sudden

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just dissolve them and melt them. You know,

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the problems they have in their life are basically because of incomplete

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awareness, unconscious data.

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Even Clause Shannon in his work on entropy,

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the tendency to go from order to disorder means missing information.

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And it's unconscious,

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we're unconscious of the upsides and we're blaming people and we're not seeing

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how it serves us. And we may find out that it's exactly what we needed. I mean,

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I was, I was almost died when I was 17 years old. If it wasn't for that,

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I wouldn't have gone to this little health food store.

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If wouldn't have done that I wouldn't have gone to this little yoga class.

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And if I hadn't have done that, I wouldn't have met Paul Bragg.

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And so that near death experience was exactly what's catalyzed me to be where I

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am today.

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I would not have gone on that journey if it hadn't have been for those events.

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And I'm a firm believer that if you look at life as in the way, not on the way,

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you'll be ungrateful instead of grateful and you'll weigh yourself down instead

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of lighten your life up. And it's not what happens to you,

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it's your perception of it. And you can change your perception.

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So instead of blaming somebody,

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why don't you use it as a catalyst to do something extraordinary with your life?

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So go to a moment where and when you perceive them displaying or demonstrating

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the trait, action, inaction you dislike most. And in that moment,

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how did it serve you? How did it help you spiritually?

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How did it help you intellectually? How did it help you in your career?

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Your financial wealth building? Your social life? Your family?

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Your health and fitness?

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How's it helping you fulfill what you value most in your life?

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Once you answer those questions and hold yourself accountable, and don't say,

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I don't know,

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I can't find it and stop and be righteous and hold onto your pride and

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blame. If you go in there and be accountable,

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you can actually turn into something you can say thank you for.

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And then when you do, you don't weigh yourself down. You lighten yourself up.

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And then you realize that the blame was just an illusion.

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The thing you blame is actually catalyst of great opportunity in your life.

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A great opportunity to learn and discover stuff that's buried inside that you're

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walking around with shame on. In the Breakthrough Experience

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after we identify the blessings of what somebody's done,

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then we go and look at where we did it.

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And then we go find out how it served other people when we've done it.

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Because we're carrying around our shame only because we didn't see how it

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blessed somebody else by the action. You know,

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I've had a situation where somebody came up to me me five years later after

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something,

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I was really tough on them in a seminar and I really gave them a hard time and

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pushed them. And they came,

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they were upset at the time and they wanted to blame me for being too tough on

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them, a tough love.

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Five years later they said that was the turning point in their life.

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And they came up to me and gave me a big hug and said,

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I brought my friend here to this seminar,

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because they didn't realize at that time they were holding onto a fantasy about

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how life's supposed to be, always be nice, never mean, kind, never cruel,

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positive, never negative,

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and all of a sudden I was firm with them about holding themselves accountable to

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find an answer to something they were blaming,

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they didn't want to look at themselves.

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But once they did and they walked outt of the program, upset,

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they went and looked, they self inspected, they discovered it.

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And then they end up catalyzing a transformation in their life and they came

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back and thanked.

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So sometimes you're carrying around shame and guilt over something that's not

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even real. You may be storing it for days, weeks, months,

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years over something that actually served people,

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and you're carrying it around because you haven't taken the time to find out how

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it's served.

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And when you don't find how the upsides to the things you're labeled downsides

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are, when other people do it, you blame them.

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When you don't find the upsides to when you've done something,

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you blame yourself. And when you blame yourself,

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you create autoimmune responses. You end up creating hetero immune responses.,

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you run your physiology down, it increases your aging process.

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It weighs you down.

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It makes you feel guilty and guilt makes you be more altruistic to sacrifice for

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other people to feel and compensate for it.

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All these things interfere with your mastery of life.

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So that's why I help people who come to the Breakthrough Experience to make sure

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that they go and clear all that stuff.

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There's no reason why they have to carry that around.

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They don't have to carry around their resentments to people or their blame of

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other people or their blame to themselves in shame.

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The blame and shame game is not really where you want to live your life at,

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better to go in and ask the right questions.

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The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask.

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If you ask questions that allow you to balance the state, you're freed.

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There's absolutely no reason. The same thing on the other side for credit,

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we some falsely give false attribution,

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biases and credit to people and minimize ourselves or do it with ourselves.

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And we go into pride. But anytime we're in pride or shame,

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anytime we get these false attribution bias on ourself or other people,

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we automatically are inauthentic. And we want to be love for who we are,

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but when we're not being who we are, how we going to be loved for who we are?

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It's really quite irony that we basically say we want to be love for who we are

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and then we're not willing to be that. We're going around with pride,

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which is an exaggeration of self, or shame, which is a minimization of self,

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or infatuation, which an exaggeration of them, or maybe resentment,

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which is a minimization of them. Neither one of those are the truth.

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They're biases, they're distortions. They're not reality.

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They're not actually there. They're just our perceptions of reality.

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And the second we do that, we undermine our power in life.

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Because when we're too proud to admit what we see in them is inside us,

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we have a disowned part and that's a disempowerment.

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And we're too humble to admit it, we got disempowerment again.

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But when we actually have reflective awareness and look inside ourselves and

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what we see in others inside ourselves, we have empowerment.

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Because then we put them in our heart. And anytime we are judging,

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we have emptiness. And anytime we love, we have more fulfillment life.

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And when we have more fulfillment life, we have more gratitude for life.

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We have more gratitude., we get more opportunities in our life.

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That's why blaming people is not really where its power is.

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I don't recommend taking, you know, and dramatizing it.

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I've seen people go to therapists. It's insane.

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They go in there and they blame somebody.

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I've seen people blame somebody for 35 years.

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They be going to therapy for 35 years telling people their story,

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and dramatizing it and getting it bigger. And it's as far as I'm concerned,

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telling people your story is probably the most foolish thing you'll ever do.

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Dissolving the story and turning it into something you'd be grateful for and

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releasing yourself from the baggage and the burden and getting on with what's

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fueled in life, then

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you change the story in the first place and you go and you say, thank you,

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I was unaware of what I was blaming myself for.

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You came into my life to help me see it, I'm realizing you're my teacher.

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Thank you. And you may be saying, well, what about somebody that really,

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really hurts you? What happens if something really devastating occurs?

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I've gotten to work with almost every imaginable thing that's out there.

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I mean major cases of beatings and rape and incest and you name it.

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There's nothing your mortal body can experience that your immortal soul can't

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love and transcend. And the question is,

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why would you want to blame them all your life and blame yourself for putting

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yourself in that situation and be trapped in that thing and run the story and

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drama all your life, when you can actually have the ability to transform it?

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You're not,

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you're not serving yourself by sitting there holding onto the story all your

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life.

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You're serving yourself by getting on and using it as opportunity and fuel.

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No matter what you've been through, no matter what you've done,

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I believe there's a way of finding out how to be grateful for that and move

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forward. And I'm not saying justifying it,

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people say well is that just justifying evil? No, it's not.

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It's transforming your awareness and seeing what you've been unconscious of.

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Because sometimes those things that you think are terrible in your life are

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actually gifts. And you just didn't take the time to look.

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And you just want to be right in your misinterpretation and stopped yourself

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from doing something extraordinary with your life.

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Anything you can't see on the way is going to be in the way in your life,

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and you're going to weigh yourself down with it.

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I've learned a long time ago if I take the time to go and ask it and reframe it,

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a cognitive reappraisal sometimes called, I just call it the Demartini Method.

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The Demartini Method is a series of questions that help you find the hidden

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order in the chaos you think you're storing in your life.

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And it turns out to be not.

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Every week in the Breakthrough Experience I have people who I said, how many,

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I want you to pick the most resented, most despised,

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most hated individual you can think of. Great, put their name there. Great.

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Who are they? Now go to a moment and identify what specific trait,

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action or inaction do you perceive them displaying or demonstrating that you

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despise and hate most. Great. Put it down. And I've done this thousands,

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over a hundred thousand times with people. And then go write that down. Great.

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And they're writing down what they think is upsetting, that they feel hurt them,

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and they're angry at it, and they're bitter at it, and it's all bad,

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in some cases, sometimes it's more moderate, but it's,

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I want the most extreme example. And then I ask them, good.

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Now go to a moment where,

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and when you perceive yourself displaying or demonstrating that trait.

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And at first their pride doesn't want them to look because it's going to make

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them feel the shame. And our amygdala doesn't want to feel shame.

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It wants to feel proud and gets addicted to its pride.

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And it then projects that onto other people.

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And we don't want to look at ourself.

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So they tend to dodge and avoid trying to get the answers.

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And I hold them accountable. Look again. I don't want them to make anything up.

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I don't want them to BS themselves. I want them to look. And when they look,

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they discover where they've done it. They've done it to their children,

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or they've done it to their spouse,

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or they've done it to some friends and they've done it to people at work,

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or they've done it to somebody in their life, in business or on the phone,

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when they stop and reflect and look at it,

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and I have them go through and look at all the moments.

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You only resent things in other people that remind you of what you're feeling

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ashamed of in your life. And this was in, I think in Romans 2.1,

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you see that written out in biblical writings. It's been around for centuries.

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It's not New here. Has been stated by great thinkers throughout the ages.

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What we see Is a reflection of us and a projection of our own stuff.

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So I make them go and identify it when they do, it humbles it a bit.

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Now all of a sudden they're realizing they're not too proud to admit what they

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see in others inside themselves.

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And now they're kind of bringing themselves back into

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and it's soften some of the judgment. They go, well,

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why would I be blaming them and judging them for something I'm doing in my life?

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But they're still thinking it's a bad thing. So then I ask, how did it serve?

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What's the advantages and benefits and the resourcefulness that came out of it?

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Because anything that's on this planet, If it's out there,

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it must be serving or it would gone extinct.

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So even those behaviors serve a purpose.

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Sometimes we get cocky and we get people that criticize us and bring us back

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down into authenticity. That serves a purpose.

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It calms us down from our arrogance.

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It calms us down to learning how to communicate more

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So if we go in there and find out how it serves and we get the benefits

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equalling the drawbacks, we all of a sudden have nothing to blame.

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And all of a sudden they go, Hmm, this thing that they did,

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I'm now grateful for.

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I can't believe I've been holding onto this anger for all these years.

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And then when you go and find out where you've done it and how it's served other

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people you've dissolved your shame.

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And the way I know the shame dissolving helps your blame game,

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is because I've gone in and taken people who've blamed something for somebody,

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looked at where they've done,

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didn't even look for the benefits in what the other individual did,

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just looked at the benefits of where they've done it.

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When they saw the benefits and dissolved their own shame,

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their anger at the other person and blaming disappeared.

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Because it's nothing but a projection.

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So then all of a sudden they're now realizing, wow,

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this is stuff that had nothing to do with them,

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this had everything to do with how I interpret this reality.

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And I want everybody to give themselves their power back.

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You're not going to give your power,

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get your power when you're blaming other people.

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Anytime you have false attribution biases and blaming people on the outside,

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or give credit to the outside, your hell or your heaven out there,

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as Milton says, you're going to disempower your life. Take it on.

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I always say that there's nothing missing in me.

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I'm a hero and a villain and a Saint and a sinner.

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I'm all the above and nothing's missing.

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I don't need to get rid of half of myself or try to gain something in myself.

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It's nothing missing.

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And when I come from that perspective and I realize that people are pushing my

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buttons, it's my buttons.

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I'm getting the lemon out of the lemonade inside or the lemonade out of the

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lemon that I have inside.

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Once I realize that I liberate myself from the dissociation and

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external sources of my thing,

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because anytime you externalize your source of your pleasures or pains,

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instead of internalize them, you just gave away your power.

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And people that are governed from within by their physiology and psychology go

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farther, are leaders, people that have to be governed from the outside,

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sociologically and theologically with all the moral hypocrisies,

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they're trapped.

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So give yourself permission to shine and let loose of the so-called

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blame game. You might find it's amazing. And also on the credit side,

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you can also put people on pedestals and minimize yourself.

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And that's just as in a sense,

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disorienting as the blame game and putting yourself up. Learn the art.

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That's why I tell people to come to the Breakthrough Experience and learn the

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Demartini Method,

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because that way you can master your mind and therefore help you master your

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life.

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And that's just one of the many tools that I give in that program to help people

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break through their stuff.

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So if you're interested in breaking through your stuff and not running around

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with blame for 10, 20, 30, 40 years and storing that, and by the way,

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when we store those blames, it affects our physiology,

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we create illness in our body to try to let us know, to teach us how to love

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again.

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I'd much rather help you have a story of love than to sit there and become a

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victim of your history. I want you to be a master of your destiny.

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Join me at the Breakthrough Experience that way I can spend 24 hours with you

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teaching you how to transform any of those perceptions,

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I'm going to give you a tool. It's going to be a powerful tool.

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You'll use it the rest of your life on how you can transform whatever happens to

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you and turn it on the way instead of in the way.

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And give yourself permission to more shine and radiate outward instead of

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contract and be living in phobias and fantasies all your life.

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So if you're ready to liberate yourself, come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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If you want to get past the blame game and the credit game,

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I was told by somebody many, many years ago, take no credit, take no blame,

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just keep focused on the chief aim, and the name of the game is thank you,

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I love you.

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So if you're interested for gratitude and love and wanting to transcend the

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blame game, I look forward to seeing you at the Breakthrough Experience.

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That way I can help you share in this new technology on how to transform your

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life. So this is my little presentation today on blame, living beyond blame.

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And I look forward to seeing you next week,

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but join me at the Breakthrough Experience.

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I guarantee you'll have a transformation that you won't get any other way.