I always say the moral hypocrisies are incomplete awarenesses of a narrow mind
Speaker:instead of a broad minded awareness to see the whole.
Speaker:And when you see the whole, there's something to be thankful for.
Speaker:When you don't, there's something to be judging.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:Today's topic is about forgiveness.
Speaker:And I'm sure most of your life you've heard of the term,
Speaker:you probably thrown it around and probably told somebody to 'forgive this
Speaker:person', or 'I want you to forgive me', or 'I forgive you',
Speaker:these kind of languages,
Speaker:but I'd like to elaborate on some things that I've observed over the many years
Speaker:that might be eye opening about the illusions of forgiveness.
Speaker:I was speaking in Tennessee at a particular church and the
Speaker:minister before I began to speak,
Speaker:did a sermon on the importance of forgiveness.
Speaker:And I came back and did a two hour presentation that night at the church
Speaker:on the illusion of forgiveness,
Speaker:which made the minister stand up and listen.
Speaker:And the minister actually attended the program I was doing that weekend there
Speaker:and broke through that,
Speaker:and as a result of it at the particular church headquarters,
Speaker:where they do the training for the ministers,
Speaker:they decided to take some of the ideas that I'm about to share with you and
Speaker:incorporate into their teaching. So here we go,
Speaker:let's go down and explore some things. I'd like you to write this down,
Speaker:that when you are wanting to forgive somebody,
Speaker:you're making some presumptions and assumptions; one,
Speaker:that they're doing an act,
Speaker:some specific action that you assume
Speaker:you don't do.
Speaker:So there's sort of a self-righteous projection onto them,
Speaker:that what they're doing, you don't do.
Speaker:And that you have some sort of superiority of the idea that they did this and
Speaker:they need to you know, you need to, you need to forgive them,
Speaker:they need to apologize or something for that.
Speaker:And that's based on a kind of an artificial morality,
Speaker:a moral hypocrisy that what they did somehow has got drawbacks
Speaker:without benefits, which is not true.
Speaker:And that what they did that they've done, but you haven't done.
Speaker:Because it's easy to point your finger at somebody else and say, 'well,
Speaker:you did this to me' and blame somebody. Epictetus, the Greek philosopher said,
Speaker:you know, first you blame others, then you blame yourself,
Speaker:and then you finally to realize there's nothing to blame in the first place,
Speaker:when you're fully aware. But what happens is you have this event,
Speaker:you think it is terrible, they did this to you, in your mind,
Speaker:you now self-righteously assume that what they've done, you haven't done.
Speaker:Now, what I've done, I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:my signature program for many years, 32 years plus,
Speaker:and I've yet to find a behavior
Speaker:that we judge in other people that we haven't done.
Speaker:And at first you may not believe that, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker:I've taken a hundred thousand people through this process
Speaker:case,
Speaker:and I've got many facilitators that's taken millions of people through this and
Speaker:found this to be true.
Speaker:So you only judge things and other people that represent a part
Speaker:of you that you're internally judging.
Speaker:If you resent something on the outside it's reminding you of something you feel
Speaker:ashamed of on the inside. If you admire something on the outside,
Speaker:it's reminding you of something you're proud of.
Speaker:And when you're shamed or proud, you're not being yourself.
Speaker:So the first question you want to ask if somebody does something to you that you
Speaker:want to say, 'oh, I forgive you' for,
Speaker:is go to a moment where,
Speaker:and when you perceived yourself displaying or demonstrating this specific
Speaker:trait, action or inaction, that they've displayed, that you despised,
Speaker:disliked and go find out where you've done it, and identify where you did it,
Speaker:when you did it, who'd you do it to and who perceived you doing it?
Speaker:And that's called reflective awareness.
Speaker:Because once you own and see where you've done your behavior,
Speaker:and first you're going to swear you've never done it,
Speaker:but I'm absolutely certain I've been doing this a long time, you have,
Speaker:you only react to things that remind you of something about yourself.
Speaker:And so if you go and look, you'll find that you have the trait.
Speaker:I remember going to an Oxford dictionary and went through 4,628 traits,
Speaker:and I found every human behavioral trait in that dictionary that I could find.
Speaker:And I found out I had done them all. I lived, I've done every one of them. Nice,
Speaker:mean kind, cruel, pleasant, unpleasant, peaceful warful, positive,
Speaker:negative, you know, honest, dishonest. I had done every one of those in my life.
Speaker:So it's not a matter of if you've done it,
Speaker:it's a matter of just going and identifying where you've done it,
Speaker:when you've done it, who you've done it to and who perceives you doing it.
Speaker:And if you will stack up the memories of the moments where you
Speaker:have done this until it's quantitatively and qualitatively equal to what they've
Speaker:done, you'll find yourself going 'well, who am I to judge them?
Speaker:Why do I need to say,
Speaker:'I forgive you' when I'm doing the same thing?' It's sort of a moral hypocrisy.
Speaker:It's going around and saying, well, you know,
Speaker:it's almost like a denial of yourself and an exaggeration of projection onto
Speaker:them. So I don't find that productive,
Speaker:because I find that whatever you swear that you say, I forgive you for,
Speaker:you keep attracting because it's your button still.
Speaker:You've still got a button on that behavior because it's still something you're
Speaker:festering inside a judgment on yourself. And so,
Speaker:I'm not interested in going around saying,
Speaker:'I forgive you' and then having it come back again. And 'I forgive you',
Speaker:and to have it come back again and draw into your life things that are trying to
Speaker:teach you how to love the parts of you that you haven't been loving. So
Speaker:I don't find that productive. It's sort of superficial.
Speaker:It's like telling your kid after he beat up on your brother,
Speaker:the two brothers 'now say you're sorry'. Or say 'I forgive you'. And it's just,
Speaker:it's just a cliche. So I don't,
Speaker:the only time I use the word forgiveness is 'thank you for-giving me this
Speaker:experience'. That's it. So, what I found is, by going in and owning the trait,
Speaker:that softens the need for it. And then I go this way,
Speaker:I go one step further. I say, go to the moment where,
Speaker:and when I perceived them doing the behavior that I think I needed to forgive
Speaker:and go find out when they did it at that moment and from that moment till now,
Speaker:how did it serve you?
Speaker:Because sometimes we're blind to the benefits and upsides of behaviors.
Speaker:And we think something is terrible. And then a day, a week, a month,
Speaker:a year or five years later, we look back and go, 'wow, thank you that occurred.
Speaker:And I didn't see it at the time.
Speaker:And there I judge that individual only because I didn't see how it served me and
Speaker:didn't see my role in why that happened and the blessings that it offered.
Speaker:So instead of jumping to the conclusion with a narrow-mindedness and a highly
Speaker:moral hypocrisy,
Speaker:that it's a bad thing because somebody told you it's bad and
Speaker:automatically because it challenged you and may have humbled you from your
Speaker:pride,
Speaker:why don't you go in there and find out how it serves you so you're no longer
Speaker:reacting to it? When you see that it serves you,
Speaker:there's no button on it and you're liberated.
Speaker:It also helps you look back at yourself and find out maybe when you've done it,
Speaker:how it might've served too, to clear the shame and guilt over it,
Speaker:and to clear the resentment over it.
Speaker:When you're done you may not even have a need to say,
Speaker:'I forgive you.' You may be able to say, 'thank you.' I'd much rather say,
Speaker:thank you than I forgive you.
Speaker:I'd rather find the hidden order in it and assume that there's a message to it,
Speaker:to me, than it is to just assume that it's not an,
Speaker:I'm an innocent victim and they're the perpetrator.
Speaker:I don't find that model productive. A blame model doesn't accomplish anything.
Speaker:Now you could even go one step further.
Speaker:Go to the moment when they did display this trait,
Speaker:if they had displayed the opposite trait,
Speaker:the way you wished they had done in that moment,
Speaker:what would have been the drawback?
Speaker:And if you crack the fantasy about how they're 'supposed to have been',
Speaker:so you can appreciate what actually they did,
Speaker:you might find out that you're holding onto a fantasy,
Speaker:and that's the reason you're judge in the first place,
Speaker:it has nothing to do with their action.
Speaker:It has something to do with your fantasy about how they're supposed to be.
Speaker:Because if we're addicted to praise we get hurt by criticism.
Speaker:We get addicted to support, we get challenge, we get hurt by it.
Speaker:Then we are angry about it.
Speaker:And sometimes we're immature and we're holding onto a fantasy of a one-sided
Speaker:world and not embracing the two sides of life, which we need to grow.
Speaker:Maximum growth and development occurs at the boarder of support and challenge.
Speaker:So if we're addicted to support, challenge hurts.
Speaker:But if we understand that we need both support and challenge to grow,
Speaker:then the challenge doesn't hurt. There's nothing there, except 'thank you'.
Speaker:I find that whenever I'm getting criticized is because I'm some up above
Speaker:equilibrium and I need a little humbleness. Then when I'm getting lifted,
Speaker:it's because I'm below equilibrium, I'm being lifted.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that whatever's going on in your life,
Speaker:is trying to get you authentic. If you see life that way,
Speaker:you may find and yourself being grateful for the events in your life,
Speaker:instead of actually assuming that there's a mistake in the universe.
Speaker:Maybe there's not a mistake.
Speaker:Maybe when you project your values onto people and expect them to live in your
Speaker:values, you think there's mistakes. But they're not here to live in your values.
Speaker:And you're not here to hold onto fantasies.
Speaker:They're here to break those fantasies and those prides and humble it,
Speaker:and get you back into authenticity. If you're proud or shamed,
Speaker:those are two facades and personas that are covering up the real you,
Speaker:but the real you is an authentic state of grace and love.
Speaker:So if you're in that state, there's nothing there to forgive.
Speaker:There's just something to be thankful for. Now,
Speaker:if you go a step further and you find out at that moment,
Speaker:where has this individual done the opposite in their life? Look at a moment,
Speaker:go to a moment where,
Speaker:and when you perceive this same individual displaying the opposite trait than
Speaker:what you judged. And you'll find out that at times they're the opposite,
Speaker:and then you can't label them that way and then you realize that there's,
Speaker:when I'm doing things that support their values, they're one way,
Speaker:when I'm doing things that challenge their values, they're another way.
Speaker:And they're just a human being, an individual, with both sides like I am.
Speaker:And then I, when I go in there and I dig for that,
Speaker:I find out that they're just human beings. And who am I to judge them?
Speaker:Who am I to judge them and forgive them?
Speaker:Or who are they to have to apologize to you?
Speaker:We can easily cliche things and say, 'oh, I'm sorry.' 'Okay.
Speaker:I forgive you.' But whatever you say, you forgive,
Speaker:you typically keep attracting. It's like the husband that comes home late.
Speaker:He's got a value on building his business and sustaining his income.
Speaker:And she has a value on making sure that the food is on the table,
Speaker:or maybe it's the other way around,
Speaker:maybe the man's doing that at home and the woman's working,
Speaker:today you never know, with gender it could be a complete spectrum,
Speaker:but whatever it is,
Speaker:somebody may have a value on being home and cooking and another person may be at
Speaker:a home working there and working and making income, whatever it may be, if
Speaker:the person has a value in business and they come home late because they're
Speaker:trying to solve their business and they come home and this person's upset with
Speaker:them and says you know, 'Apologize to me. You're late.' And 'Okay,
Speaker:I forgive you.' It's just, what it is, is it's immaturity in my opinion.
Speaker:Because it's basically saying that,
Speaker:that you're supposed to be living in my values, which is the cooking.
Speaker:And you're not supposed to be living in your values, which is the working,
Speaker:and that's a superiority inferiority. And if he says, I'm apologizing,
Speaker:he's subordinating to your values. If you say, I forgive you,
Speaker:that means you're projecting your values onto him. I don't find that productive.
Speaker:I don't promote that. I think it's antiquated.
Speaker:I'd rather respect each other and level the playing field and understand that
Speaker:that individual made the decisions based on their values and they're not here to
Speaker:live in your values, and you're not here to live in their values,
Speaker:and you're not here to project your values onto them cause that undermines the
Speaker:relationship.
Speaker:Anytime you project your values onto them and expect them to live in your
Speaker:values, or they inject the values of you into them,
Speaker:and they try to live in your values, it's a matter of resentment coming.
Speaker:And so I don't find that productive.
Speaker:I find that respecting somebody for their own individual values as much wiser.
Speaker:So I'm not a promoter of that. I don't go around, you know,
Speaker:forgiving people for things.
Speaker:I'd rather be accountable for my perceptions and realize I'm drawing these
Speaker:things into my life for a reason as a lesson and it's my stuff,
Speaker:they're not responsible how I feel, they're responsible for what they did,
Speaker:but not how I feel.
Speaker:And how I feel about it is my perception and my accountability. So,
Speaker:if I go and find out what is it that they've done,
Speaker:where I've done it and own it 100% and realize I'm not any different than them,
Speaker:find out how it served me until I'm grateful,
Speaker:find out if they had done the opposite and break the fantasy of how they 'should
Speaker:have been', find out where they've done the opposite,
Speaker:where I don't put a label on them,
Speaker:and then find out at the exact moment they did what they did,
Speaker:who is doing the opposite, cause there's always a pair of opposites in life.
Speaker:When you do, you realize there's nothing there, except thank you.
Speaker:And I'd much rather go through life and being thankful to somebody than to say,
Speaker:I forgive you and have it keep showing up again.
Speaker:Because anything you say you forgive is stored in your subconscious mind and
Speaker:you're wounded by, and it's basically assumed that there's some sort of,
Speaker:you know, down without an up, and you're storing that. And if it happens again,
Speaker:you're angry again, and you're going,
Speaker:'why are you doing it again?' And I don't find that very productive.
Speaker:Now when some people say, 'well forgiveness means to release it',
Speaker:but anything you judge that you still store morally as a good or bad or
Speaker:right or wrong or whatever, doesn't go away from your mind.
Speaker:I've been doing this, studying human behavior a long time,
Speaker:you don't let that go. You only let it go if it's balanced.
Speaker:Anything that you infatuate with,
Speaker:that you're conscious of the upsides and unconscious of the downsides to occupy
Speaker:space and time in your mind as long as you have that perception,
Speaker:and it will stay in your mind for days, weeks, months, years, decades.
Speaker:I've seen people upset or pleased with a fantasy for decades.
Speaker:And anything you resent that you're conscious of the downsides and unconscious
Speaker:of the upsides that you see all the negatives on,
Speaker:you're going to store that in your psyche too.
Speaker:That's going to be stored in your space and time in your mind and run you.
Speaker:And therefore you're going to be frightened about it.
Speaker:You create an instinct away from things that you see downsides more,
Speaker:and you have an impulse towards, and you're like an automaton reacting,
Speaker:avoiding and seeking. And you're basically reacting.
Speaker:And that's why forgiveness is based on a moral construct,
Speaker:that what they did is morally bad and there's no benefits in it.
Speaker:If you're saying apologize,
Speaker:that means you did something you think has got no upsides,
Speaker:and they've never done it. And I just find that that's not complete awareness.
Speaker:And why would I want to promote something that's not complete awareness,
Speaker:just because of a moral hypocrisy that people are trapped in about how people
Speaker:are supposed to be? When my observation is human beings have every trait,
Speaker:my observation is that if you look really carefully, if I said to you,
Speaker:'Sometimes you're nice, sometimes you mean, sometimes you're kind,
Speaker:sometimes you're cruel.' You'd immediately go, 'Yeah.' But if I said,
Speaker:you're always nice and never mean, always kind, never cruel, you'd go, 'Nope'.
Speaker:So why promote a fantasy about how people are supposed to be?
Speaker:I don't think that's productive.
Speaker:I know that that's exactly what Christians and Judaism and Islamic followers and
Speaker:various religious people like to promote but, I don't find it to be true.
Speaker:So I'm just going to be able to share that right now with you so,
Speaker:so I've been doing the Breakthrough Experience for you know, 32 years plus,
Speaker:and I've had people come into the programs with a lot of resentment about
Speaker:certain things in their life. And when they come in, they're,
Speaker:they're so raged and upset sometimes it's like crazy. And then when they go out,
Speaker:they realize there's nothing there, except thank you.
Speaker:All I did is asked them a series of questions.
Speaker:The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask,
Speaker:if you ask some amazing questions to equilibrate the mind,
Speaker:you liberate your mind from a lot of emotional baggage. So I don't,
Speaker:I don't find it productive to say, 'I forgive you', or 'I'm sorry'.
Speaker:Cause I found out that whenever I do, I just keep repeating it.
Speaker:I keep doing the things I'm sorry about.
Speaker:And I keep attracting the things that I forgive.
Speaker:And I find that that's just a frustration to try to do that.
Speaker:So let's reiterate again, let's take a look at it.
Speaker:Whatever you see in other people that you think they did,
Speaker:that has more drawbacks and benefits, you can sit there and say,
Speaker:I forgive you and hope they don't do it again and live in fear and anxiousness
Speaker:about them doing it,
Speaker:and then be an automaton reacting to whatever goes around you and then
Speaker:facing that situation again and say, I forgive you again if they do it again,
Speaker:or you can actually go and own the trait 100%
Speaker:and humble yourself and then go find out how it served you
Speaker:until you're grateful. And then go find out how if they had been the opposite,
Speaker:what were the drawback to crack the fantasy about how life's supposed to be,
Speaker:because most of the problems that we face in life are the comparison of our
Speaker:current reality to a fantasy we're addicted to.
Speaker:We're addicted to the idea that everybody's supposed
Speaker:not cruel. I remember my grandmother used to say, 'Be nice. Don't be mean.
Speaker:Be kind, don't be cruel. Be positive. Don't be negative. Be generous.
Speaker:Don't be stingy. Be peaceful. Don't be wrathful.' And then five seconds later,
Speaker:she'd go and yell and scream and bitch and demand from grandpa.
Speaker:And we were like going, wait a minute now,
Speaker:we're told one thing and it's hypocrisy.
Speaker:I have no interest in a moral hypocrisies.
Speaker:I find the people who are most adamant about it are usually the people that live
Speaker:in a complete hypocrisy. So I'm not going to promote that.
Speaker:I don't find that productive. I'd rather go and be accountable.
Speaker:That way the world doesn't run you and you're not waiting to make the world fit
Speaker:into the way it 'should be'. You're able to embrace the world as it is.
Speaker:The magnificence of the way it is is far greater than any fantasies you'll
Speaker:impose on the world. And living by how it's 'supposed to' be and 'should be',
Speaker:to me is not as powerful as honoring the way it is.
Speaker:And when you can honor it the way it is, it's a lot more liberating.
Speaker:And so I basically tell people, I said, 'listen,
Speaker:go to the point and find out where and when you've done it. Again,
Speaker:go to a moment where,
Speaker:and when you perceived yourself displaying or demonstrating the specific trait,
Speaker:action or inaction. Where are you, when are you, who you're doing it to,
Speaker:and who sees it? Then go to a moment when they've displayed it,
Speaker:the behavior that you dislike and find out at that moment,
Speaker:from that moment til now, how did it benefit you?
Speaker:How to help you fulfill your highest values? Because see, you know,
Speaker:you can be victims of history or master of destiny.
Speaker:If you take whatever's happened in your life and you ask yourself,
Speaker:how's it serving you? It's now on the way, not in the way.
Speaker:And then there's nothing there, except thank you.
Speaker:Why would I want to go and run around forgiveness and then want to avoid this
Speaker:person, then be frightened of them doing it again,
Speaker:and then having a false expectation and expect them to supposed to live in my
Speaker:little values, my little, my little safety box,
Speaker:and instead of it being resilient and adaptable and take whatever happens to me
Speaker:and turn it into opportunity? Then I want to ask this question, what am I doing
Speaker:that's initiating that reaction from them? That's a real good one.
Speaker:I remember this one woman came to me and she says,
Speaker:'I can't get my daughter to stop lying to me.' And I said,
Speaker:'Really?' I said, 'Well, maybe there's some reason why she's lying to you.
Speaker:Cause is she lying to your husband?' 'No, she goes and tells him the truth,
Speaker:but she won't tell me the truth.' I said, 'That's because of your reaction,
Speaker:probably.' you know,
Speaker:people do things based on what they think will give them the greatest advantage
Speaker:over disadvantage, so if they think that telling you the truth,
Speaker:you can't handle it and there's going to be some really challenging
Speaker:circumstances if they tell you the truth,
Speaker:they're not going to tell you the truth and you're training them not to be
Speaker:truthful, because of your emotional reactions. So going through and going,
Speaker:you know, 'Now say you're sorry that you lied to me' or whatever,
Speaker:and get all in caught in that moral game
Speaker:instead of getting awareness of why you're triggering that in your child. Much
Speaker:wiser to,
Speaker:if you have a reasonable response to what they do when they're doing a behavior,
Speaker:they're more likely to be open about it and tell you this is what they did.
Speaker:But if they think the consequences are going to be dire,
Speaker:they're probably not going to open up.
Speaker:They're going to want to lie to you because the odds
Speaker:50, 50 chance you might not catch it.
Speaker:So it's to their advantage to try to do it and you training them into lying.
Speaker:So going in there and finding out how it serves you,
Speaker:finding how if they did the opposite, what would be the drawback?
Speaker:And the most important one is finding out who's doing the opposite whatever
Speaker:they're doing. That's a mindblower. If you've never done that,
Speaker:in the Breakthrough Experience, I actually have people go in there and say,
Speaker:okay, when somebody verbally criticized you, who is verbally praising you,
Speaker:in reality or virtual reality in your head?
Speaker:And you'll find out that you were puffed up,
Speaker:you don't attract criticism unless you're puffed up in some way,
Speaker:elevated above the norm. For instance,
Speaker:if I walked in a room and you said, 'Oh, Dr. Demartini, you know,
Speaker:you're this and this.' And you praise me in some form.
Speaker:And I walked in and I humbled myself below what you imagined me to be,
Speaker:you'd keep lifting me up.
Speaker:But if I walked in and you were praising me in and I walked in, I go,
Speaker:'I'm more amazing than you can imagine.
Speaker:You have no idea how amazing I am.' And I puffed myself above what you perceive
Speaker:me to be, you'll immediately criticize me.
Speaker:Because people praise or reprimand people when they perceive them above or below
Speaker:what they perceive them to be normally. And so that's a normal response.
Speaker:Criticism is not a bad thing. It's a response to perceptions.
Speaker:And people are going to do it and you've no matter how hard you try,
Speaker:you're not gonna avoid that in life.
Speaker:You might as well be resilient and you know,
Speaker:discover how it can serve you and use it to your advantage.
Speaker:It may be waking you up. It may be humbling you.
Speaker:It may be taking you down from pride. It may be putting you into authenticity.
Speaker:It may be making you insightful. It may be help you refine skills of some form.
Speaker:It may help you go and study more. If you go in and find out how it serves you,
Speaker:there's nothing there to forgive. You have something to thank.
Speaker:And I always say that anything you can't say thank you for is baggage,
Speaker:anything you can say thank you for is fuel.
Speaker:So I'd much rather go in through and dig deep and find out what that
Speaker:blessing is. So if you go in there and you do that,
Speaker:you'll find out that there's 'thank you'. In the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:like I say, we have people from all different walks of life,
Speaker:all different ages that have some sort of a major infatuation with somebody or
Speaker:major resentment with somebody, and we show them how to neutralize that,
Speaker:so it's not running their life. Cause fantasies of people you infatuate with,
Speaker:you can minimize yourself to and lose your identity and lose your authenticity,
Speaker:or people you resent and you go into pride and put on a persona and live in
Speaker:anxiety about them being around and go around and think they need forgiveness.
Speaker:And think they need to apologize and get trapped in all that emotional drama.
Speaker:I have no interest in that drama. If you want to live in drama,
Speaker:you want to live in compassion for people that are suffering and all that other
Speaker:stuff, that's just, that's not mastery of life. That's for the masses.
Speaker:That's the people that don't want to be accountable for their life and don't
Speaker:want to master their perceptions. I have no interest in that.
Speaker:If you want to go that route, that's fine. But if you want to master your life,
Speaker:it's about owning accountable perceptions and realize that it
Speaker:has nothing to do out there with what's happening with your life.
Speaker:It's everything to do with how you perceive it. How you perceive,
Speaker:what you decide to do and how you act upon is where you have control over.
Speaker:You only have control over perceptions, decisions, and actions.
Speaker:And so if you go and balance out your perceptions,
Speaker:you'll have a loving decision and action and you'll be grateful.
Speaker:And when you do, you don't have a bunch of baggage. Actually,
Speaker:every time you're in a state of gratitude,
Speaker:you store that experience in your superconscious mind,
Speaker:which is more light and more expanding.
Speaker:And every time you judge something and you're in this idea of blame game and
Speaker:shame game or whatever,
Speaker:you store that in your subconscious mind and you weigh yourself down and those
Speaker:things will keep running your life until you finally liberate yourself by loving
Speaker:them. So why have the wisdom of the ages with the aging process,
Speaker:when you can have it without it? Why not go and dig and ask questions?
Speaker:The quality of your life's based on the quality of the questions you ask.
Speaker:And if you ask questions that help you balance your perception,
Speaker:there's nothing there to forgive. There's nothing to say you're sorry about.
Speaker:I remember Jampolsky many years ago wrote a book,
Speaker:Love is not having to say you're sorry kind of thing, at first I was, 'Oh,
Speaker:that's interesting'. But now I understand it fully.
Speaker:When you actually get to a point where you see the whole picture,
Speaker:not just the moral,
Speaker:I always say the moral hypocrisies are incomplete awarenesses of a narrow mind
Speaker:instead of a broad-minded awareness to see the whole.
Speaker:And when you see the whole, there's something to be thankful for.
Speaker:When you don't, there's something to be judging. Remember,
Speaker:when you're infatuated with some of your conscious of the upsides,
Speaker:unconscious of the downside, that's a judgment.
Speaker:When you're resentful to something you're conscious of the downside,
Speaker:unconscious of the upsides. But when you're conscious of both sides,
Speaker:you're thankful and you feel love,
Speaker:then there's nothing to forgive and nothing to say you're sorry about.
Speaker:There's just something to be appreciative of. And then you appreciate in value.
Speaker:You help them appreciate in value and you move forward in life.
Speaker:Anything that you can't say thank you for is baggage,
Speaker:you tell me how you want to live. So that was my special little message today,
Speaker:is to understand that maybe there's an alternative to the idea of forgiveness,
Speaker:unless you say, thank you for-giving me this experience.
Speaker:That's the only time I use the word forgiveness.
Speaker:I don't go around and forgive people. And I don't find that productive.
Speaker:I think it's childish. And I don't go, 'I'm sorry.
Speaker:I'm sorry.' I've see sometimes parents do that,
Speaker:'Now say to your brother you're sorry.
Speaker:And say you forgive him.' And they're both going,
Speaker:'We're just having a normal fight mom. This is not a big deal.
Speaker:This is your stuff.' And yeah, it's nice.
Speaker:It's a nice social cliches. It's nice to,
Speaker:it makes people think that that's somehow resolved,
Speaker:but I find that the people that say, 'I forgive you',
Speaker:they still harbor the idea that there was something there to forgive in the
Speaker:first place.
Speaker:When people come to the Breakthrough Experience and I ask them to pick out
Speaker:something that they might resent in their life to work on to clear they go, 'No,
Speaker:I don't have any resentment. I forgave them for all that stuff.' 'Okay.
Speaker:What did you forgive them for?' 'Well that they, you know,
Speaker:verbally criticized me when I was a child.' 'Okay.
Speaker:Well obviously if they did it again right now, what would that be like?' 'Well,
Speaker:I wouldn't want that.' I said, 'Well, then you're still resenting it.' 'Hmm.
Speaker:Good point.' Forgiveness is superficial.
Speaker:It's just a cover up for what's really still stored inside.
Speaker:So I'm not going to promote that.
Speaker:True love and appreciation doesn't require those terminologies.
Speaker:And I'm certain about that.
Speaker:I've been doing this a long time and if you would like to learn how to do that,
Speaker:come to the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I'll make you go through the process and see for yourself how true this
Speaker:principle is and get to a point where there's nothing there, except thank you,
Speaker:I love you. To me anything less than 'thank you, I love you' is not complete.
Speaker:No therapy is ever complete until cause equals effect in space-time.
Speaker:As long as you separate cause,
Speaker:'they did this to me and I'm the effect' and never realize that,
Speaker:the cause of it is your own perception of it, not what they did,
Speaker:but your perception of it.
Speaker:And you change your perception of it then what they did doesn't really matter.
Speaker:William James the father of modern psychology said the
Speaker:generation is human beings can alter their lives by altering their perceptions
Speaker:and attitudes and mind. And that's so true. So, no,
Speaker:I'm not going to promote the idea of forgiveness and apologies and all that
Speaker:stuff. And I know that goes against everything you've probably been taught,
Speaker:but doesn't matter,
Speaker:I'm just going to share it that way and you can do what you want with it.
Speaker:And if you'd like to learn what I mean by that and how profound it is to
Speaker:actually get to a point of 'thank you, I love you' for events in your life,
Speaker:so you're not carrying baggage around and running your life as a wounded victim
Speaker:of history and want to be a master of destiny,
Speaker:come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:let me actually make you do it and hold you accountable and let you experience
Speaker:it firsthand. I guarantee your life will never be the same,
Speaker:because you won't see life through the same eyes anymore. It's over with.
Speaker:The victim thinking, you know, that's all that's taught on television,
Speaker:the victim mentality, the perpetrator innocent victim mentality.
Speaker:No that's not complete. I'm not going to promote that in psychology.
Speaker:It's antiquated.
Speaker:It's there for the masses that want to blame and keeps the psychologists in
Speaker:business. But it's not the truth about life.
Speaker:And it's not the thing that empowers people to do something extraordinary with
Speaker:their life. So I'm not going to promote it,
Speaker:so you can do what you want with that.
Speaker:I just wanted to share that just in case that was an eye-opener. And also,
Speaker:if you'd like to balance those emotions for greater achievement,
Speaker:because if you're infatuated with somebody and then they let you down,
Speaker:you're going to resent it.
Speaker:And if you're resentful to somebody and you going to forgive them,
Speaker:all that is imbalanced emotional states.
Speaker:So I have a special masterclass on how to Balance the Emotions for Greater
Speaker:Achievement,
Speaker:because you're going to be weighed down by all those emotions and they're going
Speaker:to keep haunting you,
Speaker:and you can liberate yourself by transcending them by seeing both sides.
Speaker:Just by asking questions you don't do,
Speaker:your intuition's constantly trying to do it,
Speaker:but you shut it down with your impulses and instincts, your animal nature,
Speaker:instead of your angelic nature, your real executive function.
Speaker:And if you want to get this master class on how to balance your emotions right
Speaker:now, there's a free gift, Awakening Your Astronomical Vision,
Speaker:which is a very powerful audio program that I did in a planetarium in
Speaker:South Africa that I bet you'll watch more than once. It's a mindblower,
Speaker:it's about how to expand your vision to do something extraordinary with your
Speaker:life and the bigger, the broader the vision and the less narrow-minded you are,
Speaker:the less probable you'll be sitting there in 'I forgive you' and 'I'm sorry',
Speaker:because you got too much,
Speaker:why get caught in trivia when you got something massive to go do, you know,
Speaker:if you're inspired by a vision, you don't have time for trivia.
Speaker:You got too much going on.
Speaker:So if you want to go and play a bigger game and want to have a balanced your
Speaker:emotions and have greater achievement,
Speaker:take advantage of this masterclass and get the free gift.
Speaker:Might as well take advantage of it.
Speaker:And contemplate what I said about forgiveness and apologies.
Speaker:You might surprise yourself and come to the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:I promise it'll be a mindblower to all of a sudden finally realize what I just
Speaker:said has got some deep merit and it'll change your life.