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And the thing is, is we get addicted to the praise, the criticism hurts.

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If we're not addicted to the praise and we understand the purpose of criticism,

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we don't get hurt by it. We appreciate it because it helps us become authentic.

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The topic today is basically gonna be on the addiction

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to praise and how it keeps you playing small and how criticism

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actually can help you grow tall.

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So this is gonna be a different topic than you're probably used to.

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So if you have something to write with and write on, that would be fantastic,

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because I promise you something that'll make you think.

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And also something that'll make you go, wow, I can use that.

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So whether we or realize it or not,

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everybody has a set of priorities they live their life by.

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And whenever somebody comes along and supports what we value,

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we tend to open up to 'em and when somebody challenges what we have,

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we tend to close down on them. But I want you to think about this;

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it's an old proverb, spoil the child, right, spare the rod, spoil the child.

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If we don't challenge somebody,

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they can become juveniley dependent on the things that support them,

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become dependent on it. And when they challenge them,

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they can become precociously independent.

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So the first thing I'd like you to write is that when somebody challenges you or

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criticizes you, it can actually make you more precociously independent.

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That means mature a little quicker and take on more accountability and

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independence quicker. And when somebody supports you,

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it can actually slow down that process and make you more juveniley dependent.

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So challenge makes us precociously independent and

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dependent.

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One causes the estrogen ratio to go into testosterone and

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increase testosterone and the sympathetic response, fight or flight,

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which activates testosterone,

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and the other one is rest and digest and activates the estrogen and makes us the

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other one.

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And they found out testosterone speeds up and accelerates growth and height,

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and the estrogen tends to slow it down. And we find out in our life,

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sometimes we have a mother that's very supportive,

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which keeps us kind of dependent and a father that says, you know,

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get your butt in gear and figure it out yourself and plays tough ball.

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Sometimes that's reversed roles. And sometimes people play anywhere in between.

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But if it's a polarized, highly polarized, we can see this occurring.

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But if you give everybody whatever they want, when they want, make it easy,

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and there's no difficulties in life, too supported, too easy, too,

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you know, taken care of, you won't grow.

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I think everybody here knows somebody that was overprotected, over nurtured,

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over taken care of and everything else and they really didn't have an

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entrepreneurial spirit.

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They end up becoming more dependent and working for others, maybe.

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And the people that had some challenge and were given a lot of accountability,

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they become more precociously independent, more entrepreneurial like.

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So, most people don't realize this,

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but they have two areas of their brain.

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Whenever you're living by your highest value,

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the blood glucose and oxygen goes into the forebrain and activates the executive

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center, where you're more objective where you embrace support and challenge,

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you know, praise and criticism, more equally.

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That's why when you're doing something that's really high on your value,

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and you really knock it outta the ballpark about doing priority for the day,

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you can handle almost anything, you're highly resilient,

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and you actually have your heart rate variability go up and you're not

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lateralized and polarized in your autonomic responses,

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and you're more resilient and adaptable, and you grow most.

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It's been shown in biology and evolution that maximum growth and

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development occurs at the border of support and challenge, order and chaos,

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nice and mean, kind and cruel. That's why people have both sides; nice,

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mean, kind, cruel, positive, negative, support, challenge, you know, peace, war,

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praise, and reprimand, and things of this nature, punishment reward, et cetera.

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But if somebody gets only one side without the other, they don't grow as much.

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When they get both sides, they grow. Imagine this.

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Imagine if all of a sudden the thing that supported you represented prey,

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which in the brain it does. And the thing that challenges represented predator,

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which in the brain it does. If you get prey without predator,

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there's no predator, there's only prey, you'll tend to overeat,

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you'll be gluttonous and you'll lose fitness.

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If you get predator without prey, you'll tend to emaciate,

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not get to eat and be starved and lose fitness.

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But if you put a perfect balance of praise and reprimand,

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a perfect balance of support and challenge,

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a perfect balance of prey and predator,

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a perfect balance of similars and differences, as they call it in Greece,

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you get maximum growth. In fact,

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you get maximum growth at the border of that because that's the definition of

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love. Love is a growth factor in life.

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Love is a synthesis and synchronicity of complementary opposites.

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And we grow most when we realize both.

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Our brain automatically is designed to get both,

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and have both praise and reprimand, support and challenge,

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and we live in an ecosystem that gives us that.

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And if we get an overprotective mommy, we get a daddy that says,

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we'll go out and play in the streets.

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Or we get a kid or brother that beats us up or something.

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We get pairs of opposites. In fact,

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the people that are addicted to praise and addicted to support and addicted to

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protection,

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are usually the people that people pick on and they get targeted by bullies and

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targeted by that.

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I mentioned this in Huffington Post and many other articles around the world.

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But what happens is when you actually embrace both sides equally,

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you maximize your growth, because you're gonna get both.

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And when we live in our lower values, we tend to bring blood glucose,

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and oxygen into the amygdala.

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And the amygdala is trying to avoid predator and seek prey.

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And so we wanna avoid challenge and seek ease and support.

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And we wanna avoid criticism, seek praise.

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And people live in their amygdala when they're doing lower value systems and

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devalue themselves,

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they're vulnerable to be hurt by criticism and be addicted

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to praise. And the addiction to praise makes them juveniley dependent.

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And the people that are getting criticism is actually setting 'em free.

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And I've basically gone in there and I've taken thousands of people when I do my

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Breakthrough Experience program, my signature program,

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I go in there and shatter the myth around the idea of I want praise without

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reprimand. You need both. So what I do is I show you, I say,

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go to a moment where and when you perceive an individual criticizing you,

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and then I say, go to that moment, where are you? When are you?

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What exactly are they doing?

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What's the content and the context of that criticism?

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And who are they directing it? To you in this case.

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And then I have you get really present.

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And I have you realize that at that moment, in order to get criticism,

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you're doing two things.

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You're doing something that's challenging their values in their perception,

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not maybe your perception, but in their perception.

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And somehow you're above equilibrium and somehow cocky and above equilibrium

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needing to be brought down into authenticity.

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And that's usually because somehow somebody's praised you and you felt good

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about it and you get kind of puffed up and, you know, cocky, if you will.

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And whenever you're praised and built up and get puff up inflated,

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that's not who you are,

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that's not the authentic you and you attract the criticizer to bring you back

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into the authentic.

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So I'm gonna make this statement and it's gonna be shocking to you possibly,

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but criticism, believe it or not,

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is designed to teach you how to communicate respectfully in other people's

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values and to humble the cockiness that occurs when

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we're addicted to praise and puffed up and thinking we're entitled and juveniley

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dependent and become spoiled in a sense.

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And I've seen that in many people and I'm sure you have too.

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So the criticism is actually helping you, pride before the fall.

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If you're proud and cocky and up, because of all the praise and puffed up,

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you get a criticizer to bring you back into authenticity.

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But if all of a sudden you're being criticized and you're feeling shamed,

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and you're feeling down, you get supporters to lift you up.

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You get people that praise you to lighten you up. I always say tragedy,

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when you're cocky, you attract tragedy, and when you're humble,

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you attract comedy. One is to knock you down and bring you back as hubris,

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pride before the fall. And the other one is humbleness before the rise.

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And what's happening is everything that going on in your life is trying to get

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you authentic. It's a feedback mechanism.

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But the amygdala is wanting to avoid the predator and seek the prey.

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Avoid the challenge, seek the support. Avoid the criticism, and seek the praise.

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And as long as we're addicted to praise,

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we have to have criticism to break the addiction and to associate the two

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at the same time.

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And what's interesting is if we get support and we be puffed up and we get an

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exaggerated self, that's not our authentic self,

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that's a persona of puff up inflated self, the self righteous persona,

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the superior complex, the pseudo-elevated self-esteem state,

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inflated itself. And you need criticism to humble it. And the thing is,

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is we get addicted to the praise, the criticism hurts.

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If we're not addicted to the praise, and we understand the purpose of criticism,

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we don't get hurt by it. We appreciate it because it helps us become authentic.

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It gives us feedback about how to communicate effectively in other people's

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values, and when we're above equilibrium. If I walk in a room,

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if I walked into a room right now and you were there and you said, oh, Dr.

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Demartini, you know, you're amazing, you started to praise me and you said, oh,

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you do this and this and this and this.

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And I went in there and I humbled myself below where you perceived me,

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you will keep praising me. Guarantee it. I've done this hundreds of times.

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But if I walked in there and I said, when you said, oh,

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you're amazing or whatever and I said, well, frankly,

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I'm more amazing than you can comprehend. And I puff myself up and I thought,

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well, you know, your common is insignificant compared to how great I am.

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And I puff myself, anytime I would go above where you wanna put me,

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you'll immediately go, oh, and you put me down again. You criticize me.

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Because every human being has an image that they perceive of you.

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And anytime you exceed it, by being puffed up, they'll put you down.

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Anytime you go below it, they'll lift you up. And that's why,

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if you're humble and ask questions in the selling processes, you get more sales.

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But if you go in there and presume you know what they need,

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you get cut off and they want to walk away from you,

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because there's a natural tendency to want to have equanimity and equity.

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There's a built in homeostatic,

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intuitive system inside every human being to find fair,

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sustainable exchange and equanimity.

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So anytime you get praise and you get puffed up a bit, you attract a criticizer.

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In fact, there's simultaneous.

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And anytime you're actually down and somebody's criticized it,

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you attract a supporter.

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That's why the over protector attracts the bully and the overs supported

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attracts the challenger and the over praiser attracts the criticizer,

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and the over criticizer attracts the supporter, the rescuer.

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Nature is constantly trying to get people into authenticity and into the pair of

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opposites. And all we are doing is basically teaching us this great lesson.

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And know what's interesting is maximum growth, as I said,

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occurs at the border of support and challenge. Now,

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if you see challenge without support, you're gonna be in pain,

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you're gonna wanna avoid them, you're gonna see they're critical,

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you're gonna label them,

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you're gonna think it's negative and you're gonna

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arrogant and you're gonna get puffed up from the challenge of it.

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And what's gonna interesting is if all of a sudden you get to that point and you

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see one without the other,

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you store that in the subconscious mind and now anybody that reminds you of that

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you wanna avoid. So anything you haven't seen the balance to,

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and seen the balance of criticism with praise,

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or anytime you see a praise without criticism,

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your subconscious mind stores those,

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and it causes impulses for the addiction of praise and an instinct away from

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predator, the criticizer.

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But if you see them simultaneously and you ask the question,

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at the exact moment when somebody's criticizing me, who's praising me?

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And the exact moment who's praising me, who's criticizing me?

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And go inside and get present, where you were, when you were,

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what the content was, the context, and get really present,

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your intuition will pop out who it is.

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And the praise may not be somebody right there in the room, they may be distant,

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or they may be virtual in your mind, but your mind,

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if it's praise will make you cocky and attract criticism to bring you back into

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equilibrium.

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All praisers and criticizers are actually simultaneously paired.

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You're only conscious of one at a time typically,

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unless you ask the questions to see both. If you see both,

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you realize that everything is trying to keep you authentic,

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not puffed up or deflated, but authentic. And you're now grateful.

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And when you're grateful for that authenticity,

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how are you gonna be loved for who you are, unless you are who you are?

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If you get support and praise and you get puffed up and inflated and proud,

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you're not who you are. You've gotta per a persona,

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a mask that you're wearing that's puffed you up and it's over inflated.

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And then you attract a criticizer to put you down.

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The tall poppy syndrome sometimes called in Australia.

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But if you end up feeling like somebody's beat you down and shamed,

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and you're now minimizing yourself, you attract supporters.

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If you see them simultaneous,

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you will realize that there's nothing but a loving act going on.

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But when you're conscious of one and unconscious of the other,

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you're going to have emotional back and forths you might say,

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manic depressive states, highs and lows,

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we call that cyclothymia or possibly bipolar responses. So,

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the wisdom, which is what I do in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I have people go to a moment when they're being criticized. You're there.

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Where are you? When are you? What's the content? What's the context?

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Who's doing it? And what are they doing it about?

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And then you close your eyes and get present and ask

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role? If you're really present and you've got all four of those variables,

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five of those variables in your mind at the same time,

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your intuition will pop out who you're comparing your criticism to.

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Every perception is a pair of contrasts.

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And so if you are infatuated for instance with somebody that supports you,

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you'll resent somebody that criticizes you.

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If you're resentful to somebody criticize you,

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you'll infatuate with somebody that's praising you.

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And they're always a pair of opposites,

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but the mind won't see one without the other,

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it'll create a real or a virtual individual inside

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it,

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to maintain homeostasis and to maintain equilibrium and to maintain stability

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and homeostasis and authenticity in your life.

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So you won't get one without the other,

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but you will store the illusions that you have.

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And if you keep storing the criticism without the praise,

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you'll be wounded by it. If you store the praise without the criticisms,

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you'll be addicted to it.

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The addiction and subdiction keeps you from being present.

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So that's why I ask the question; at the moment they criticize,

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who's praising you? And at the moment somebody's praising you,

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who's criticizing you? And at first you go, well, I don't see anybody there.

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Close your eyes. Get present, ask where it was, when it was,

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who's criticizing you, what's the content, what's the context?

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Get really present and close your eyes and get present with it.

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And your intuition will pop out an answer who it is. It's not speculative.

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It's not analyzed. It's a synthesis that your intuition knows.

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Once you see both of 'em,

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it'll bring a tear of gratitude to your eyes and you realize, wow,

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I'm actually being led back into my authentic self. The

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criticizer is not an enemy. It's actually somebody helping you become authentic.

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And the praiser simultaneously is doing that.

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You're basically getting punishment and reward at the same time,

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challenge and support, criticism and praise, you know,

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the thing that causes an instinct and impulse at the same time,

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the predator and prey is always there because the food system needs both to

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maximum growth.

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maximum growth and development occurs the border of those two things.

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And you get both of 'em and you become aware of it, you get to maximumly grow.

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But if you get addicted to the praise, which keeps you juveniley dependent,

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you don't grow.

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So you end up attracting the criticizer to help you get back on track again.

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The criticizer is not the evil one.

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The criticizer is actually breaking your addiction to the praise,

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and helping you see both sides.

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Just like the praiser is breaking your subdiction from the criticizer,

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to help you see both sides. They're both there as a pair.

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And I've taken thousands of people through the Breakthrough Experience.

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And at first you're gonna say, well, I don't see anybody there,

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cuz you're looking physically there,

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instead of going inside and getting present with those variables.

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And then all of a sudden in your mind, the other person,

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the other individual playing the other side will be there. And then you go, Hmm,

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that's amazing. I never saw that before.

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And that's called being fully conscious. See,

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when you're resenting somebody that's criticizing you,

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you're conscious the downside, you're unconscious of the upside.

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If you're being praised and you're infatuated with them,

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you're conscious the upside without the downside.

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And as long as you're not seeing both sides, you're not mindful.

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You're not seeing both sides. You're not aware.

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You've got an incomplete awareness.

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You've got a split in your psyche between the conscious and unconscious.

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And that keeps you from being powered and present and authentic.

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So the moment somebody's criticizing you, do a number of things.

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Here's some action steps. Stop and ask;

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Where was it when it happened? When was it when it happened? What's the content?

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What are exactly are they saying? And what's the context? What's it about?

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Well they're verbally criticizing me about the way I'm dressed. Okay,

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the context is the way you're dressed. The criticism is the verbal comment.

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Now close your eyes and go to that moment. They're doing it to you.

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You're the one that they're directing it to. At that exact moment,

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close your eyes, and in your mind, in one individual or many,

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male or female, close or distant, they could be anywhere, at work, anywhere,

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they could be real or virtual, but there's somebody in your mind,

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intuitively or in reality, that's playing the other side.

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that's admiring what you're wearing, and praising you in that process. At first,

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you never believe that,

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but I've taken literally tens of thousands of people through that process and

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it's mind blowing when all of a sudden they see it and they see the pair of

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opposites and they balance it. Tears come outta their eyes.

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And then they realize, wow, there's nothing there to be frightened of or seek.

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There's nothing to avoid or seek. There's something to be present with.

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Nature is keeping you authentic.

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Look carefully next time somebody criticizes you and

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that's challenging their values and look at where you're puffed up and somehow

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above equilibrium.

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And you'll see that they're helping you become back into balance.

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But if you're addicted to praise, you're gonna be angry at them.

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You're gonna wanna avoid those people. And you can't avoid them.

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You've been trying to avoid criticism all your life,

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but you've been getting it all your life. You're not here to avoid it.

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You're here to understand it.

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And you use it wisely to be authentic and appreciate both sides of your life.

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See, I'm not a nice person. I'm not a mean person.

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I'm a human being and somebody supports my values I can be nice.

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Somebody can challenge my values I can be mean.

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I can be praising and I can be criticizing.

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And if I think I'm gonna get rid of half of myself, it's gonna be futile.

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I'm not gonna get rid of half of myself.

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I'm gonna have both sides throughout my life. The same thing for other people.

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So we're not gonna get rid of criticism in life. We're not gonna get,

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cuz it's there, It's essential. In fact, you know, the wise individual,

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the people I've seen who are going for gold medals in sports,

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excelling in music, or any field,

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they're actually hiring people to give them critique,

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to help them master their life.

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And people that are not mastering their life are trying to avoid the very thing

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that the people who are mastering their life seek.

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I always say that if you don't fill your day with challenges that inspire you,

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it's going to fill up with challenges that don't,

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if you fill your life with challenges that inspire you and go out and fill your

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day with the highest priority actions, you're more resilient and adaptable,

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you mitigate risk, you appreciate both sides,

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you embrace pain and pleasure in the pursuit of purpose.

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You appreciate the criticism and the praise equally,

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because they're both homing you in and guiding you to your authentic self.

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Your greatest achievement. Maximum growth occurs there.

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But if you're in your amygdala and you're not doing what's highest on your

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value, you're gonna want to avoid challenge and look for support,

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avoid criticism, search for praise. You'll be addicted to one,

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subdicted from the other. And then when it does happen,

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you're gonna be distressed by it. You're gonna be angry.

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You're gonna be resenting it.

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And you're gonna be then even more polarized trying to get a one sided world.

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And the more we polarize and try to get a one sided world,

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the more futile our life becomes. I'm not here to teach you how to be one sided.

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I'm not here to teach people to be only one sided. It's futile. You know,

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I tried in 19, oh gosh, I don't remember the year in 1983,

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I did an amazing experiment on trying to be positive all the time.

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And I basically documented,

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I took the 2000 most positive words that I was able to find,

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2000 words in 300 of the best selling books on positive thinking.

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And I took all the words that I found in there and underlined all the most

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positive words and extracted them and put 'em on index cards and then meditate

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on each index card, each word,

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and thought of a quote that was the most positive word and positive statement I

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could get.

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Then I divided those 2000 into 365 days and came up with five to six

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quotes per day. When I did that, then I created a form,

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called a day by day cycle forecasting form.

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And I started to monitor if I said those affirmations,

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those five to six quotes per day, every single day, 108 times.

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So I would put 600 statements a day with positive statements and I monitored

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it four times a day of what it did to my life, spiritually, mentally, career,

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financial, family, social and physical.

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And then I monitored it on a plus three to minus three level of monitoring.

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And then I followed that four times a day at 7,

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11 and 3 and 7 and monitored what impact positive statements were all

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day long, nothing but praise and positive.

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And then I monitored that for two freaking years, 24 months,

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to see what impact all that had on me being nothing but positive,

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only positive statements, only supportive things. And I found at the end of it,

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when I did all the tallying of all the numbers of all the ups and downs from it,

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I found out that I still had equilibrium,

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and I still had positive and negatives,

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I was praising and criticizing and I still, I was nice,

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I never got rid of half of myself.

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You don't need to get rid of half of yourself to love yourself.

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To love yourself is to embrace both sides.

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And that means you're going to be praising. You're going to be criticizing.

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And when you're criticizing, somebody's gonna be praising them to balance it.

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When you're praising somebody, somebody's gonna criticize them to balance it.

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And there'll be a matrix of love and a matrix,

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kinda like a feedback system in your sociology to try to make everybody

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authentic. It's amazing when you actually get aware of this,

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cuz then you realize you're not having to get rid of yourself to love yourself.

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People trying to get rid of half of themselves and trying to get on their and

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trying to get rid of half of the people around them and half the people in the

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world,

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are trying to get rid of all the negativities and

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this stuff in life, and it's not going to happen,

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because it's an absolutely essential feedback mechanism.

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We need both positive and negative, praise and reprimand, the kind and cruel,

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the nice, the mean, we need both polarities. That's why they're there.

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In fact, the more you end up promoting one idea and supports somebody's values,

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somebody else will challenge it. And it's designed that way.

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You need build and destroy.

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In your body you have the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system.

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Ones for fight or flight, ones for rest and digest. One's for destruction,

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catabolism. One's for building, an anabolism.

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One's for an oxidation. One's for reduction. One's for acidity.

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One's for alkalinity.

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Your body has both and is prepared and needs both to maximumly grow.

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And if those are in balance, you have wellness. If they're not in balance,

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you have illness.

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So we're not here to get rid of half of our physiology and half of our life and

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go through life and live in a fantasy that life's supposed to be one sided.

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You wanna love both sides of yourself,

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love both sides of other people and understand praise and reprimand is what

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builds respect. You're going to have it. When you get into a relationship,

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you're gonna be maybe looking for somebody that's similar,

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but you're gonna also attract somebody that's got differences.

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If you get too many similarities, you're get an infatuation,

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you become juveniley dependent and you'll sacrifice your life to be with them

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for fear of loss of them.

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When you get somebody that challenges you and has more differences and you

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resent them, you're gonna end up having the opposite occurring.

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You're gonna be trying to change them and try to get them to live in your

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values, which is futile.

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And anytime you sit there and expect to get a one sided world,

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you have futility. And anytime you embrace both sides of life, you get utility.

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And that's what I'm trying to share tonight,

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that you must embrace both sides of life,

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both praise and reprimand is what builds respect for yourself and for other

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people.

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And I know that there's moral hypocrisies out there that are going out there and

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promoting one sidedness. Be nice. Don't be me. Be kind. Don't be cruel.

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Be peaceful. Don't be wrathful. Be generous. Don't be stingy.

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But if you really are honest with yourself and I got really honest with myself,

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I found out after doing that and trying my best to do that,

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I had a balance both.

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I found out that I had every trait in the Oxford dictionary that a human being

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could have, nice, mean kind, cruel, honest, dishonest, positive, negative,

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peaceful, wrathful, generous, stingy. I had 'em all. And you know what?

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I don't need to get rid of any of it. All of those are part of my life.

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They all serve a purpose in life. If you can see how all of those serve you,

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you're not gonna be sitting there trying to get rid of half of life and trying

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to get a one sided life. Futility is the pursuit of a one sided polarity.

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It's like trying to get a one-sided magnet. The Buddha said it really nicely.

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The Buddha says the desire for that which is unobtainable, a one side,

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and the desire to avoid that, which is unavoidable, the other side,

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is the source of human suffering.

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And so when we go in there and we're caught in this animal passion of trying to

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avoid a predator and seek a prey,

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we're searching for that which is unavailable and trying to avoid that which

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unavoidable.

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When we go and live by our highest priorities and live by what's really most

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meaningful to us and live authentically according to our highest value,

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which is our identity,

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and we are more objective and neutral and resilient and adaptable and we embrace

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both sides of life, we see within the praise,

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the balance of reprimand and within the reprimand,

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the balance of praise and we see the balance of life and that's where we

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actually maximize our growth and development. And this is something,

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if you contemplate, maybe listen this again and again,

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and look carefully at your life. And the next time somebody criticize you,

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find the praiser and the next time somebody praises you, find the criticizer,

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and see how that's trying to get you to be authentic. You'll empower your life.

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

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Over support, pride, you're inauthentic. Over challenge, criticism,

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inauthentic. You put the two together, you get to be authentic.

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You wanna be loved and appreciated for who you are. Believe it or not.

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Both of those sides are what's keeping you who you are.

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You deserve to be loved that way.

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As a result of this little presentation tonight,

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I'd like to also offer you something that will help.

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It's called Balancing Your Emotions for Greater Achievement.

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It's a free on demand masterclass.

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And I just want you to know that this can help you in the very thing we just

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talked about. In the Breakthrough Experience the program that I teach,

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I teach people how to do this exercise and it's mind blowing. I mean,

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mind blowing when people get that they've never exposed themselves to that,

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they never thought about it. And all of a sudden, they go in there and they go,

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my God at the moment I was criticized, there was my praiser. When I was praised,

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there was my criticizer.

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And when I put that together and have 'em do the Demartini Method in the

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Breakthrough Experience, they just shed a tremendous amount of baggage,

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all the blaming that they say, well, my mother was this way,

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or my father was this way, which typically pairs of opposites. All of a sudden,

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now they see an understanding of love in their relationship in their family that

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they never saw before and in their spouse that they never saw before and in

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themselves,

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cuz no one will ever build you up and beat you up as much as yourself anyway.

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Learning how to love both sides of yourself and embrace

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and reprimand. You build yourself up, you put yourself down, you do it,

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give other people the permission to do that and watch us grow most.

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the, the bottom of it. There we go. Thank you

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Take advantage of this little masterclass it's free. And I guarantee it.

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It's gonna be eye opening to see how important these two pairs are.

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But stop and contemplate this,

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get really reflective and you have any challenge or difficulty,

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contact our office or get to the Breakthrough Experience. I promise you,

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what I teach you at the Breakthrough Experience is gold.

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And it'll help you not be a victim of your history.

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It'll help you be a master of your destiny.

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As long as you're addicted to praise, you're gonna play juveniley small.

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When you finally realize you don't need to be subdicted and avoid the criticism.

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That's what helps you grow up and strong.

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The testosterone makes you grow faster.

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The estrogen tends to make you grow slower, and it helps you,

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that's why there's a dimorphicness in between the masculine and feminine in

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height because of those hormones, and challenge makes the testosterone going up.

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Support makes the estrogen go up.

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You want a balance of both to make yourself balanced. And if you do,

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you get to love yourself.

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The authentic you is worth loving and you get to be appreciative of the people

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around you. So instead of running away and frighten yourself with this,

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go and ask the questions,

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neutralize the system and you won't have to fear anybody or fantasize about

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anybody, no philias, no phobias, just embrace the two sides of life.

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Life is magnificent the way it is, not the fantasies we keep imposing on it.

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I'll see you next week.

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Take advantage of this free masterclass and come to the Breakthrough Experience

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so I can teach you how to do this live and you get to see this.

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And it's an amazing, I promise you. I'll see you next week,

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go in there and find out exactly where these two sides are synchronously

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balanced and you'll have a beautiful awakening from that process.