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I always say the moral hypocrisies are incomplete awarenesses of a narrow mind

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instead of a broad minded awareness to see the whole.

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And when you see the whole, there's something to be thankful for.

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When you don't, there's something to be judging.

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And.

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Today's topic is about forgiveness.

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And I'm sure most of your life you've heard of the term,

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you probably thrown it around and probably told somebody to 'forgive this

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person', or 'I want you to forgive me', or 'I forgive you',

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these kind of languages,

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but I'd like to elaborate on some things that I've observed over the many years

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that might be eye opening about the illusions of forgiveness.

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I was speaking in Tennessee at a particular church and the

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minister before I began to speak,

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did a sermon on the importance of forgiveness.

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And I came back and did a two hour presentation that night at the church

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on the illusion of forgiveness,

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which made the minister stand up and listen.

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And the minister actually attended the program I was doing that weekend there

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and broke through that,

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and as a result of it at the particular church headquarters,

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where they do the training for the ministers,

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they decided to take some of the ideas that I'm about to share with you and

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incorporate into their teaching. So here we go,

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let's go down and explore some things. I'd like you to write this down,

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that when you are wanting to forgive somebody,

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you're making some presumptions and assumptions; one,

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that they're doing an act,

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some specific action that you assume

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you don't do.

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So there's sort of a self-righteous projection onto them,

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that what they're doing, you don't do.

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And that you have some sort of superiority of the idea that they did this and

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they need to you know, you need to, you need to forgive them,

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they need to apologize or something for that.

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And that's based on a kind of an artificial morality,

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a moral hypocrisy that what they did somehow has got drawbacks

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without benefits, which is not true.

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And that what they did that they've done, but you haven't done.

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Because it's easy to point your finger at somebody else and say, 'well,

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you did this to me' and blame somebody. Epictetus, the Greek philosopher said,

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you know, first you blame others, then you blame yourself,

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and then you finally to realize there's nothing to blame in the first place,

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when you're fully aware. But what happens is you have this event,

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you think it is terrible, they did this to you, in your mind,

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you now self-righteously assume that what they've done, you haven't done.

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Now, what I've done, I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience,

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my signature program for many years, 32 years plus,

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and I've yet to find a behavior

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that we judge in other people that we haven't done.

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And at first you may not believe that, but it doesn't matter.

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I've taken a hundred thousand people through this process

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case,

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and I've got many facilitators that's taken millions of people through this and

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found this to be true.

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So you only judge things and other people that represent a part

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of you that you're internally judging.

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If you resent something on the outside it's reminding you of something you feel

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ashamed of on the inside. If you admire something on the outside,

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it's reminding you of something you're proud of.

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And when you're shamed or proud, you're not being yourself.

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So the first question you want to ask if somebody does something to you that you

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want to say, 'oh, I forgive you' for,

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is go to a moment where,

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and when you perceived yourself displaying or demonstrating this specific

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trait, action or inaction, that they've displayed, that you despised,

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disliked and go find out where you've done it, and identify where you did it,

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when you did it, who'd you do it to and who perceived you doing it?

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And that's called reflective awareness.

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Because once you own and see where you've done your behavior,

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and first you're going to swear you've never done it,

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but I'm absolutely certain I've been doing this a long time, you have,

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you only react to things that remind you of something about yourself.

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And so if you go and look, you'll find that you have the trait.

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I remember going to an Oxford dictionary and went through 4,628 traits,

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and I found every human behavioral trait in that dictionary that I could find.

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And I found out I had done them all. I lived, I've done every one of them. Nice,

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mean kind, cruel, pleasant, unpleasant, peaceful warful, positive,

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negative, you know, honest, dishonest. I had done every one of those in my life.

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So it's not a matter of if you've done it,

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it's a matter of just going and identifying where you've done it,

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when you've done it, who you've done it to and who perceives you doing it.

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And if you will stack up the memories of the moments where you

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have done this until it's quantitatively and qualitatively equal to what they've

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done, you'll find yourself going 'well, who am I to judge them?

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Why do I need to say,

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'I forgive you' when I'm doing the same thing?' It's sort of a moral hypocrisy.

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It's going around and saying, well, you know,

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it's almost like a denial of yourself and an exaggeration of projection onto

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them. So I don't find that productive,

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because I find that whatever you swear that you say, I forgive you for,

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you keep attracting because it's your button still.

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You've still got a button on that behavior because it's still something you're

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festering inside a judgment on yourself. And so,

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I'm not interested in going around saying,

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'I forgive you' and then having it come back again. And 'I forgive you',

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and to have it come back again and draw into your life things that are trying to

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teach you how to love the parts of you that you haven't been loving. So

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I don't find that productive. It's sort of superficial.

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It's like telling your kid after he beat up on your brother,

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the two brothers 'now say you're sorry'. Or say 'I forgive you'. And it's just,

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it's just a cliche. So I don't,

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the only time I use the word forgiveness is 'thank you for-giving me this

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experience'. That's it. So, what I found is, by going in and owning the trait,

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that softens the need for it. And then I go this way,

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I go one step further. I say, go to the moment where,

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and when I perceived them doing the behavior that I think I needed to forgive

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and go find out when they did it at that moment and from that moment till now,

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how did it serve you?

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Because sometimes we're blind to the benefits and upsides of behaviors.

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And we think something is terrible. And then a day, a week, a month,

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a year or five years later, we look back and go, 'wow, thank you that occurred.

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And I didn't see it at the time.

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And there I judge that individual only because I didn't see how it served me and

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didn't see my role in why that happened and the blessings that it offered.

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So instead of jumping to the conclusion with a narrow-mindedness and a highly

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moral hypocrisy,

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that it's a bad thing because somebody told you it's bad and

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automatically because it challenged you and may have humbled you from your

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pride,

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why don't you go in there and find out how it serves you so you're no longer

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reacting to it? When you see that it serves you,

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there's no button on it and you're liberated.

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It also helps you look back at yourself and find out maybe when you've done it,

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how it might've served too, to clear the shame and guilt over it,

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and to clear the resentment over it.

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When you're done you may not even have a need to say,

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'I forgive you.' You may be able to say, 'thank you.' I'd much rather say,

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thank you than I forgive you.

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I'd rather find the hidden order in it and assume that there's a message to it,

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to me, than it is to just assume that it's not an,

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I'm an innocent victim and they're the perpetrator.

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I don't find that model productive. A blame model doesn't accomplish anything.

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Now you could even go one step further.

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Go to the moment when they did display this trait,

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if they had displayed the opposite trait,

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the way you wished they had done in that moment,

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what would have been the drawback?

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And if you crack the fantasy about how they're 'supposed to have been',

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so you can appreciate what actually they did,

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you might find out that you're holding onto a fantasy,

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and that's the reason you're judge in the first place,

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it has nothing to do with their action.

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It has something to do with your fantasy about how they're supposed to be.

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Because if we're addicted to praise we get hurt by criticism.

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We get addicted to support, we get challenge, we get hurt by it.

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Then we are angry about it.

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And sometimes we're immature and we're holding onto a fantasy of a one-sided

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world and not embracing the two sides of life, which we need to grow.

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Maximum growth and development occurs at the boarder of support and challenge.

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So if we're addicted to support, challenge hurts.

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But if we understand that we need both support and challenge to grow,

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then the challenge doesn't hurt. There's nothing there, except 'thank you'.

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I find that whenever I'm getting criticized is because I'm some up above

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equilibrium and I need a little humbleness. Then when I'm getting lifted,

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it's because I'm below equilibrium, I'm being lifted.

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I'm a firm believer that whatever's going on in your life,

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is trying to get you authentic. If you see life that way,

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you may find and yourself being grateful for the events in your life,

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instead of actually assuming that there's a mistake in the universe.

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Maybe there's not a mistake.

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Maybe when you project your values onto people and expect them to live in your

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values, you think there's mistakes. But they're not here to live in your values.

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And you're not here to hold onto fantasies.

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They're here to break those fantasies and those prides and humble it,

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and get you back into authenticity. If you're proud or shamed,

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those are two facades and personas that are covering up the real you,

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but the real you is an authentic state of grace and love.

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So if you're in that state, there's nothing there to forgive.

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There's just something to be thankful for. Now,

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if you go a step further and you find out at that moment,

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where has this individual done the opposite in their life? Look at a moment,

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go to a moment where,

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and when you perceive this same individual displaying the opposite trait than

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what you judged. And you'll find out that at times they're the opposite,

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and then you can't label them that way and then you realize that there's,

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when I'm doing things that support their values, they're one way,

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when I'm doing things that challenge their values, they're another way.

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And they're just a human being, an individual, with both sides like I am.

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And then I, when I go in there and I dig for that,

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I find out that they're just human beings. And who am I to judge them?

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Who am I to judge them and forgive them?

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Or who are they to have to apologize to you?

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We can easily cliche things and say, 'oh, I'm sorry.' 'Okay.

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I forgive you.' But whatever you say, you forgive,

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you typically keep attracting. It's like the husband that comes home late.

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He's got a value on building his business and sustaining his income.

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And she has a value on making sure that the food is on the table,

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or maybe it's the other way around,

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maybe the man's doing that at home and the woman's working,

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today you never know, with gender it could be a complete spectrum,

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but whatever it is,

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somebody may have a value on being home and cooking and another person may be at

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a home working there and working and making income, whatever it may be, if

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the person has a value in business and they come home late because they're

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trying to solve their business and they come home and this person's upset with

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them and says you know, 'Apologize to me. You're late.' And 'Okay,

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I forgive you.' It's just, what it is, is it's immaturity in my opinion.

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Because it's basically saying that,

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that you're supposed to be living in my values, which is the cooking.

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And you're not supposed to be living in your values, which is the working,

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and that's a superiority inferiority. And if he says, I'm apologizing,

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he's subordinating to your values. If you say, I forgive you,

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that means you're projecting your values onto him. I don't find that productive.

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I don't promote that. I think it's antiquated.

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I'd rather respect each other and level the playing field and understand that

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that individual made the decisions based on their values and they're not here to

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live in your values, and you're not here to live in their values,

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and you're not here to project your values onto them cause that undermines the

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relationship.

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Anytime you project your values onto them and expect them to live in your

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values, or they inject the values of you into them,

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and they try to live in your values, it's a matter of resentment coming.

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And so I don't find that productive.

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I find that respecting somebody for their own individual values as much wiser.

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So I'm not a promoter of that. I don't go around, you know,

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forgiving people for things.

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I'd rather be accountable for my perceptions and realize I'm drawing these

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things into my life for a reason as a lesson and it's my stuff,

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they're not responsible how I feel, they're responsible for what they did,

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but not how I feel.

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And how I feel about it is my perception and my accountability. So,

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if I go and find out what is it that they've done,

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where I've done it and own it 100% and realize I'm not any different than them,

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find out how it served me until I'm grateful,

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find out if they had done the opposite and break the fantasy of how they 'should

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have been', find out where they've done the opposite,

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where I don't put a label on them,

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and then find out at the exact moment they did what they did,

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who is doing the opposite, cause there's always a pair of opposites in life.

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When you do, you realize there's nothing there, except thank you.

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And I'd much rather go through life and being thankful to somebody than to say,

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I forgive you and have it keep showing up again.

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Because anything you say you forgive is stored in your subconscious mind and

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you're wounded by, and it's basically assumed that there's some sort of,

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you know, down without an up, and you're storing that. And if it happens again,

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you're angry again, and you're going,

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'why are you doing it again?' And I don't find that very productive.

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Now when some people say, 'well forgiveness means to release it',

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but anything you judge that you still store morally as a good or bad or

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right or wrong or whatever, doesn't go away from your mind.

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I've been doing this, studying human behavior a long time,

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you don't let that go. You only let it go if it's balanced.

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Anything that you infatuate with,

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that you're conscious of the upsides and unconscious of the downsides to occupy

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space and time in your mind as long as you have that perception,

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and it will stay in your mind for days, weeks, months, years, decades.

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I've seen people upset or pleased with a fantasy for decades.

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And anything you resent that you're conscious of the downsides and unconscious

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of the upsides that you see all the negatives on,

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you're going to store that in your psyche too.

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That's going to be stored in your space and time in your mind and run you.

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And therefore you're going to be frightened about it.

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You create an instinct away from things that you see downsides more,

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and you have an impulse towards, and you're like an automaton reacting,

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avoiding and seeking. And you're basically reacting.

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And that's why forgiveness is based on a moral construct,

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that what they did is morally bad and there's no benefits in it.

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If you're saying apologize,

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that means you did something you think has got no upsides,

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and they've never done it. And I just find that that's not complete awareness.

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And why would I want to promote something that's not complete awareness,

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just because of a moral hypocrisy that people are trapped in about how people

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are supposed to be? When my observation is human beings have every trait,

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my observation is that if you look really carefully, if I said to you,

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'Sometimes you're nice, sometimes you mean, sometimes you're kind,

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sometimes you're cruel.' You'd immediately go, 'Yeah.' But if I said,

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you're always nice and never mean, always kind, never cruel, you'd go, 'Nope'.

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So why promote a fantasy about how people are supposed to be?

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I don't think that's productive.

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I know that that's exactly what Christians and Judaism and Islamic followers and

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various religious people like to promote but, I don't find it to be true.

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So I'm just going to be able to share that right now with you so,

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so I've been doing the Breakthrough Experience for you know, 32 years plus,

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and I've had people come into the programs with a lot of resentment about

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certain things in their life. And when they come in, they're,

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they're so raged and upset sometimes it's like crazy. And then when they go out,

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they realize there's nothing there, except thank you.

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All I did is asked them a series of 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 some amazing questions to equilibrate the mind,

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you liberate your mind from a lot of emotional baggage. So I don't,

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I don't find it productive to say, 'I forgive you', or 'I'm sorry'.

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Cause I found out that whenever I do, I just keep repeating it.

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I keep doing the things I'm sorry about.

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And I keep attracting the things that I forgive.

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And I find that that's just a frustration to try to do that.

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So let's reiterate again, let's take a look at it.

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Whatever you see in other people that you think they did,

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that has more drawbacks and benefits, you can sit there and say,

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I forgive you and hope they don't do it again and live in fear and anxiousness

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about them doing it,

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and then be an automaton reacting to whatever goes around you and then

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facing that situation again and say, I forgive you again if they do it again,

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or you can actually go and own the trait 100%

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and humble yourself and then go find out how it served you

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until you're grateful. And then go find out how if they had been the opposite,

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what were the drawback to crack the fantasy about how life's supposed to be,

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because most of the problems that we face in life are the comparison of our

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current reality to a fantasy we're addicted to.

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We're addicted to the idea that everybody's supposed

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not cruel. I remember my grandmother used to say, 'Be nice. Don't be mean.

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Be kind, don't be cruel. Be positive. Don't be negative. Be generous.

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Don't be stingy. Be peaceful. Don't be wrathful.' And then five seconds later,

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she'd go and yell and scream and bitch and demand from grandpa.

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And we were like going, wait a minute now,

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we're told one thing and it's hypocrisy.

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I have no interest in a moral hypocrisies.

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I find the people who are most adamant about it are usually the people that live

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in a complete hypocrisy. So I'm not going to promote that.

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I don't find that productive. I'd rather go and be accountable.

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That way the world doesn't run you and you're not waiting to make the world fit

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into the way it 'should be'. You're able to embrace the world as it is.

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The magnificence of the way it is is far greater than any fantasies you'll

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impose on the world. And living by how it's 'supposed to' be and 'should be',

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to me is not as powerful as honoring the way it is.

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And when you can honor it the way it is, it's a lot more liberating.

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And so I basically tell people, I said, 'listen,

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go to the point and find out where and when you've done it. Again,

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go to a moment where,

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and when you perceived yourself displaying or demonstrating the specific trait,

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action or inaction. Where are you, when are you, who you're doing it to,

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and who sees it? Then go to a moment when they've displayed it,

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the behavior that you dislike and find out at that moment,

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from that moment til now, how did it benefit you?

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How to help you fulfill your highest values? Because see, you know,

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you can be victims of history or master of destiny.

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If you take whatever's happened in your life and you ask yourself,

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how's it serving you? It's now on the way, not in the way.

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And then there's nothing there, except thank you.

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Why would I want to go and run around forgiveness and then want to avoid this

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person, then be frightened of them doing it again,

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and then having a false expectation and expect them to supposed to live in my

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little values, my little, my little safety box,

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and instead of it being resilient and adaptable and take whatever happens to me

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and turn it into opportunity? Then I want to ask this question, what am I doing

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that's initiating that reaction from them? That's a real good one.

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I remember this one woman came to me and she says,

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'I can't get my daughter to stop lying to me.' And I said,

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'Really?' I said, 'Well, maybe there's some reason why she's lying to you.

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Cause is she lying to your husband?' 'No, she goes and tells him the truth,

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but she won't tell me the truth.' I said, 'That's because of your reaction,

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probably.' you know,

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people do things based on what they think will give them the greatest advantage

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over disadvantage, so if they think that telling you the truth,

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you can't handle it and there's going to be some really challenging

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circumstances if they tell you the truth,

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they're not going to tell you the truth and you're training them not to be

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truthful, because of your emotional reactions. So going through and going,

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you know, 'Now say you're sorry that you lied to me' or whatever,

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and get all in caught in that moral game

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instead of getting awareness of why you're triggering that in your child. Much

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wiser to,

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if you have a reasonable response to what they do when they're doing a behavior,

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they're more likely to be open about it and tell you this is what they did.

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But if they think the consequences are going to be dire,

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they're probably not going to open up.

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They're going to want to lie to you because the odds

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50, 50 chance you might not catch it.

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So it's to their advantage to try to do it and you training them into lying.

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So going in there and finding out how it serves you,

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finding how if they did the opposite, what would be the drawback?

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And the most important one is finding out who's doing the opposite whatever

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they're doing. That's a mindblower. If you've never done that,

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in the Breakthrough Experience, I actually have people go in there and say,

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okay, when somebody verbally criticized you, who is verbally praising you,

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in reality or virtual reality in your head?

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And you'll find out that you were puffed up,

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you don't attract criticism unless you're puffed up in some way,

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elevated above the norm. For instance,

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if I walked in a room and you said, 'Oh, Dr. Demartini, you know,

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you're this and this.' And you praise me in some form.

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And I walked in and I humbled myself below what you imagined me to be,

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you'd keep lifting me up.

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But if I walked in and you were praising me in and I walked in, I go,

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'I'm more amazing than you can imagine.

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You have no idea how amazing I am.' And I puffed myself above what you perceive

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me to be, you'll immediately criticize me.

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Because people praise or reprimand people when they perceive them above or below

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what they perceive them to be normally. And so that's a normal response.

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Criticism is not a bad thing. It's a response to perceptions.

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And people are going to do it and you've no matter how hard you try,

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you're not gonna avoid that in life.

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You might as well be resilient and you know,

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discover how it can serve you and use it to your advantage.

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It may be waking you up. It may be humbling you.

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It may be taking you down from pride. It may be putting you into authenticity.

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It may be making you insightful. It may be help you refine skills of some form.

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It may help you go and study more. If you go in and find out how it serves you,

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there's nothing there to forgive. You have something to thank.

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And I always say that anything you can't say thank you for is baggage,

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anything you can say thank you for is fuel.

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So I'd much rather go in through and dig deep and find out what that

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blessing is. So if you go in there and you do that,

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you'll find out that there's 'thank you'. In the Breakthrough Experience,

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like I say, we have people from all different walks of life,

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all different ages that have some sort of a major infatuation with somebody or

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major resentment with somebody, and we show them how to neutralize that,

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so it's not running their life. Cause fantasies of people you infatuate with,

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you can minimize yourself to and lose your identity and lose your authenticity,

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or people you resent and you go into pride and put on a persona and live in

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anxiety about them being around and go around and think they need forgiveness.

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And think they need to apologize and get trapped in all that emotional drama.

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I have no interest in that drama. If you want to live in drama,

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you want to live in compassion for people that are suffering and all that other

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stuff, that's just, that's not mastery of life. That's for the masses.

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That's the people that don't want to be accountable for their life and don't

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want to master their perceptions. I have no interest in that.

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If you want to go that route, that's fine. But if you want to master your life,

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it's about owning accountable perceptions and realize that it

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has nothing to do out there with what's happening with your life.

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It's everything to do with how you perceive it. How you perceive,

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what you decide to do and how you act upon is where you have control over.

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You only have control over perceptions, decisions, and actions.

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And so if you go and balance out your perceptions,

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you'll have a loving decision and action and you'll be grateful.

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And when you do, you don't have a bunch of baggage. Actually,

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every time you're in a state of gratitude,

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you store that experience in your superconscious mind,

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which is more light and more expanding.

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And every time you judge something and you're in this idea of blame game and

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shame game or whatever,

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you store that in your subconscious mind and you weigh yourself down and those

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things will keep running your life until you finally liberate yourself by loving

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them. So why have the wisdom of the ages with the aging process,

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when you can have it without it? Why not go and dig and ask questions?

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

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And if you ask questions that help you balance your perception,

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there's nothing there to forgive. There's nothing to say you're sorry about.

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I remember Jampolsky many years ago wrote a book,

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Love is not having to say you're sorry kind of thing, at first I was, 'Oh,

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that's interesting'. But now I understand it fully.

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When you actually get to a point where you see the whole picture,

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not just the moral,

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I always say the moral hypocrisies are incomplete awarenesses of a narrow mind

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instead of a broad-minded awareness to see the whole.

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And when you see the whole, there's something to be thankful for.

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When you don't, there's something to be judging. Remember,

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when you're infatuated with some of your conscious of the upsides,

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unconscious of the downside, that's a judgment.

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When you're resentful to something you're conscious of the downside,

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unconscious of the upsides. But when you're conscious of both sides,

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you're thankful and you feel love,

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then there's nothing to forgive and nothing to say you're sorry about.

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There's just something to be appreciative of. And then you appreciate in value.

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You help them appreciate in value and you move forward in life.

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Anything that you can't say thank you for is baggage,

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you tell me how you want to live. So that was my special little message today,

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is to understand that maybe there's an alternative to the idea of forgiveness,

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unless you say, thank you for-giving me this experience.

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That's the only time I use the word forgiveness.

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I don't go around and forgive people. And I don't find that productive.

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I think it's childish. And I don't go, 'I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry.' I've see sometimes parents do that,

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'Now say to your brother you're sorry.

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And say you forgive him.' And they're both going,

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'We're just having a normal fight mom. This is not a big deal.

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This is your stuff.' And yeah, it's nice.

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It's a nice social cliches. It's nice to,

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it makes people think that that's somehow resolved,

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but I find that the people that say, 'I forgive you',

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they still harbor the idea that there was something there to forgive in the

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first place.

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When people come to the Breakthrough Experience and I ask them to pick out

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something that they might resent in their life to work on to clear they go, 'No,

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I don't have any resentment. I forgave them for all that stuff.' 'Okay.

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What did you forgive them for?' 'Well that they, you know,

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verbally criticized me when I was a child.' 'Okay.

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Well obviously if they did it again right now, what would that be like?' 'Well,

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I wouldn't want that.' I said, 'Well, then you're still resenting it.' 'Hmm.

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Good point.' Forgiveness is superficial.

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It's just a cover up for what's really still stored inside.

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So I'm not going to promote that.

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True love and appreciation doesn't require those terminologies.

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And I'm certain about that.

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I've been doing this a long time and if you would like to learn how to do that,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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I'll make you go through the process and see for yourself how true this

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principle is and get to a point where there's nothing there, except thank you,

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I love you. To me anything less than 'thank you, I love you' is not complete.

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No therapy is ever complete until cause equals effect in space-time.

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As long as you separate cause,

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'they did this to me and I'm the effect' and never realize that,

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the cause of it is your own perception of it, not what they did,

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but your perception of it.

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And you change your perception of it then what they did doesn't really matter.

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William James the father of modern psychology said the

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generation is human beings can alter their lives by altering their perceptions

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and attitudes and mind. And that's so true. So, no,

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I'm not going to promote the idea of forgiveness and apologies and all that

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stuff. And I know that goes against everything you've probably been taught,

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but doesn't matter,

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I'm just going to share it that way and you can do what you want with it.

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And if you'd like to learn what I mean by that and how profound it is to

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actually get to a point of 'thank you, I love you' for events in your life,

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so you're not carrying baggage around and running your life as a wounded victim

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of history and want to be a master of destiny,

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come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience,

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let me actually make you do it and hold you accountable and let you experience

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it firsthand. I guarantee your life will never be the same,

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because you won't see life through the same eyes anymore. It's over with.

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The victim thinking, you know, that's all that's taught on television,

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the victim mentality, the perpetrator innocent victim mentality.

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No that's not complete. I'm not going to promote that in psychology.

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It's antiquated.

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It's there for the masses that want to blame and keeps the psychologists in

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business. But it's not the truth about life.

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And it's not the thing that empowers people to do something extraordinary with

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their life. So I'm not going to promote it,

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so you can do what you want with that.

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I just wanted to share that just in case that was an eye-opener. And also,

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if you'd like to balance those emotions for greater achievement,

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because if you're infatuated with somebody and then they let you down,

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you're going to resent it.

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And if you're resentful to somebody and you going to forgive them,

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all that is imbalanced emotional states.

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So I have a special masterclass on how to Balance the Emotions for Greater

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Achievement,

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because you're going to be weighed down by all those emotions and they're going

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to keep haunting you,

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and you can liberate yourself by transcending them by seeing both sides.

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Just by asking questions you don't do,

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your intuition's constantly trying to do it,

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but you shut it down with your impulses and instincts, your animal nature,

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instead of your angelic nature, your real executive function.

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And if you want to get this master class on how to balance your emotions right

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now, there's a free gift, Awakening Your Astronomical Vision,

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which is a very powerful audio program that I did in a planetarium in

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South Africa that I bet you'll watch more than once. It's a mindblower,

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it's about how to expand your vision to do something extraordinary with your

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life and the bigger, the broader the vision and the less narrow-minded you are,

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the less probable you'll be sitting there in 'I forgive you' and 'I'm sorry',

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because you got too much,

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why get caught in trivia when you got something massive to go do, you know,

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if you're inspired by a vision, you don't have time for trivia.

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You got too much going on.

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So if you want to go and play a bigger game and want to have a balanced your

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emotions and have greater achievement,

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take advantage of this masterclass and get the free gift.

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Might as well take advantage of it.

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And contemplate what I said about forgiveness and apologies.

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You might surprise yourself and come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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I promise it'll be a mindblower to all of a sudden finally realize what I just

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said has got some deep merit and it'll change your life.