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When somebody says, 'I will always do this', 'I would never stop doing that',

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or 'I would never do that', 'I'll always this way',

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you can guarantee that's an illusion. Nobody's one sided.

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I want to start out by saying that, imagine

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you have in front of you a magnet,

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which has according to physics,

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a positive pole and a negative pole.

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And you're given that magnet and somebody offered you a billion dollars if

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you can cut that magnet in half and give them only the one pole back,

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not both poles, but a one poled magnet, a mono pole,

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not a dipole or bipole.

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And if you're not aware of Maxwell's, James Clerk Maxwell's, you know,

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laws of electromagnetism or magnetism, you'll actually think, 'Well,

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I'll cut that thing in half and grab that positive one and hand it to them and

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get my billion dollars.' But that's not how it works.

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If you cut the magnet in half, you end up with two magnets,

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because the arrangement of the atoms,

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they are dipole moments and they have one side is positive, one side negative.

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So arrange them all they're organized in a magnetic form.

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They've been magnetized.

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So what happens is you end up with a positive and negative and a positive and

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negative, two of them. And you think, 'Oh,

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I didn't do it fast enough.' So you grab that small half,

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that positive negative pole and try it faster to get that positive without the

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negative. And then you do is you end up with positive and negative.

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And so no matter how many times you break that down,

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you keep getting a positive and negative.

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And trying to get a one sided magnet is futile.

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And so you don't end up with the money. You get enticed by it. And life,

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people in life are telling you, you know, 'Be positive, don't be negative.

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Be kind, don't be cruel. Be nice, don't be mean. Be giving, don't be taking.

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Be generous, don't be stingy. Be peaceful,

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don't be wrathful.' They're always telling you to be one sided.

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But like a magnet, you tend up to have both sides.

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And no matter how hard you try to get rid of half of yourself,

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how you going to love yourself if you're trying to get rid of half yourself?

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You want to be loved for the whole, not just one side of the magnet,

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you might say. And so many people go around and say,

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'I want to be loved and appreciated for who I am.

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And I want to improve by getting rid of half of me and getting only one side.'

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And the pursuit for one sidedness is futile.

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The Buddha says the desire for that which is unobtainable (the one side) and the

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desire to avoid that which is unavoidable (the other side) is the source of

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human suffering. Which is interesting.

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And yet we're taught in society,

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mass solutions of trying to be one-sided.

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I call it the moral hypocrisies that we're inundated by,

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trying to be always one sided. We go around and say,

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because we're trying to get one side, or nobody's perfect,

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because they're trying to be one side,

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instead of actually realizing the real perfection of the whole of who you are

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and embrace both sides. And what's interesting is,

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people go around and say,

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'I would never do that.' 'I'm always this way.'

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But that's not real. If I went to you and I said, 'You're always positive.

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You're never negative. Always kind, never cruel. Always giving, never taking.

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Always generous, never stingy. Always peaceful, never wrathful.

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Always considerate,

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never inconsiderate.' Your own intuition inside you would go and shoot off a

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BS meter and say, 'No,

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not really.' You can never have certainty you're one side.

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You'll always have a little uncertainty in the whispering in your head.

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And you'd be thinking the moment I said that about you,

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you'd be thinking about the times you've been mean and cruel and stingy and

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wrathful.

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Your intuition will bring it out because your intuition is attempting to make

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you fully conscious of both sides and love both sides of yourself.

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You want to be loved for both sides.

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Your intuition is trying to help you get there. And if I said to you,

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'You're always mean, you're never nice. You're always cruel, you're never kind.

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You're always negative, never positive. Always wrathful, never peaceful.

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Always taking, never giving. Always inconsiderate,

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never considerate.' You would immediately go, 'No,

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no that's not true either.' Your intuition would pop up and start thinking of

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the nice things you're done.

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It would immediately show you the upsides to what you were being labeled as a

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downside. And you would never have certainty being one side. But if I said,

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

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sometimes you're cruel. Sometimes you're positive, sometimes you're negative.

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Sometimes peaceful, sometimes wrathful.' You'd immediately go,

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'That's true.' You can only have certainty when you're authentically

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embracing both sides of your own being.

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So trying to get rid of half of yourself and only be one sided is futile.

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Trying to expect somebody else to be one sided and not both sided is futile.

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Expecting the world to be one sided and not both sided is also futile.

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And anytime you have an expectation of a one-sided event and you have a fantasy,

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unrealistic expectation and delusion you're going to get a one-sided magnet,

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depression, frustration, aggravation,

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futility is a symptom you're going to experience,

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to try to wake you up and associate that pain with that fantasy pleasure.

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And as long as you're looking to try to get a one sided world,

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the other side's going to smack you. The more you try to avoid it,

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the more it pops you.

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I even say that the more you're addicted to one side and try to be subdicted

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from the other side, the more the other side follows you. It's like a shadow.

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Jung called it the shadow following you around after what you think you're going

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towards the light, the one side, you keep getting banged by the other side.

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As an old proverb that says what you resist persists,

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what you try to run away from you run into, what you try to avoid shadows you,

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follows you.

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So to say 'I would never do that' is almost inevitably, it's just a matter of,

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and the more emphasis, the more you would say, 'I would never do that',

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the faster it comes upon you.

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And the more you attract event in your life to force you to get that repression

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to the surface.

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How are you going to love yourself if you're trying to get rid of half of

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yourself? So I'm interested in helping you love both sides of yourself.

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I went to an Oxford dictionary 37 plus years ago,

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and I realized that when I was pointing my finger at people,

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I had three fingers pointing back at me.

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Every time I was judging somebody both admired or despised, looking up or down,

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they were me. And I noticed that, I observed it in myself,

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and many times what I was emphasizing to them I was talking to me.

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Chomsky even says that much of the language is internal

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you can hear what you say to others to help yourself.

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And so in the process of doing that,

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I went through the Oxford dictionary and I actually went through page

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by page by page and underlined every possible human behavioral trait that a

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human being could have.

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It's a big dictionary with very tiny print and very fine paper.

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And I went through and I found out that I had literally

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4,628 traits listed and underlined when I got through.

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And then I went out to the side and I thought,

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who do I know that exaggerates and lives that trait out the most?

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And I wrote the initial out. And then I looked in myself and I went okay,

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where and when do I display and demonstrate that? Where do I do that?

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When do I do that? And I found out that every single trait, nice, mean, kind,

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cruel, honest, dishonest, you know, playful serious,

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every possible trait that you can find in a dictionary about human behavior,

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I found it. And sometimes I didn't want to face it.

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And some of the traits that I looked at,

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I thought were negative or some of them I thought were positive,

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and it was easier to own the positive, but I didn't want to own the negative,

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I wanted to avoid that part. But when I looked honestly, I discovered by God,

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I had that trait too. I found out I had both sides.

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And no matter how hard I tried to deny that I could find places in my life where

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I was playing out these traits. So after going through 4,628 traits,

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I discovered I had all of them, nothing was missing in me.

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Nothing in human behavior was missing.

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And going and studying back classical writings,

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back all the way to Sumerians and Egyptians and Greeks and stuff,

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I found it in the writings there that the same behaviors were going on there.

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And if you're trying to get rid of some part of yourself,

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it hasn't gotten rid of in all these 2005, 3000 years.

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And if it was really not serving you, it would go extinct. But it must serve,

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it has to have some other side. So the traits I thought were terrible,

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I looked for the upsides to. And the traits I thought I admired,

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I looked for the downsides to, and I leveled the playing field.

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And then what happened is instead of me running into people and having my

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buttons pushed, I didn't react to them as much because I go, I do that too.

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Who am I to judge them?

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I plucked the mote out of my own eye before I plucked it out of theirs.

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It was really helpful to me not reacting to people,

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not judging people and jumping impulsively to a conclusion and label people

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one sided, because that's not the truth about human behavior.

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So when I finally owned all those traits and realized I had them and I took the

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traits I admired and I found some of the downs,

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and I look at the traits I looked down on and found the upsides,

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which is what I do in the,

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what I call the Demartini Method today that I teach in the Breakthrough

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Experience, it leveled the playing field.

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And I noticed instead of that individual hooking me with an admiration,

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an infatuation where I'm conscious of their upsides and unconscious of the

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downside. And hooking by the resentment where I'm conscious of the downside and

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unconscious of the upsides.

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And now I'm run because everything I was infatuated with and resentful to

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occupied my mind and created noise in my brain and distracted me and ran my life

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extrinsically.

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But the moment I leveled that and found that I had that and owned it and leveled

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it and found the downsides to what was up and upsides to what was down,

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and balanced it, neutralized it, I ran me.

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I didn't have the external world dictating my reactions.

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And instead of me trying to get rid of half of myself and be only one sided,

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I started embracing both sides of my life. You know,

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if you want to be loved for who you are, how are you going to do it

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if you keep trying to get rid of half of yourself?

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How are you going to love the spouse, your kids, your friends,

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people in society,

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if you immediately look at them and having a moral hypocrisy that you're

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supposed to be on one side and then judge them because of these injected

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hypocrisies and then end up resenting them because they're not this perfect

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person. You know, the real perfection is both sides.

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And when we finally wake up to the perfection of that,

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we can love and feel grateful for all the people,

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including the one we see in the mirror.

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So I'm not interested in trying to get rid of some part of yourselves.

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I'm interested in loving all parts of yourself.

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That's why I teach the Breakthrough Experience program and teach the Demartini

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Method, which is a science of how to love all parts of you.

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How to love all parts of the people you care about, your spouse,

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because a lot of times you end up sitting there self-righteously judging and

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putting them down and they're doing the same thing back and you're both

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expecting each other to live in each other's values instead of being honest

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about who they are and they're honestly living according to their own,

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and trying to fix them and change them, instead of love them for who they are.

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When you love them for who they are, they turn into who you love.

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And that's what's something amazing. And what's interesting about the brain.

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I rarely go through a talk without talking about the brain as you would expect,

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but everybody has a set of priorities in life, a set of values in life.

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And whenever you're living by your highest values, the executive center,

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the medial prefrontal cortex particularly, that center is about objectivity,

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about seeing both sides,

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about being neutral by mitigating the risks and calming down the

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fantasies and centering yourself and not reacting and having more

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equanimity within yourself and equity between you and other people.

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And there you learn to love, you're a master of your destiny,

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you're not reacting. But if you live by lower values,

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attempt to live in injected values,

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ideals from others and be part of the herd instead of being heard,

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and inject the values of these people you've given power to that you've put on

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pedestals because you haven't seen both sides to,

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and then try to be somebody you're not, inauthentic, the blood, glucose,

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and oxygen goes into the amygdala, down in the limbic brain,

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which is a subcortical nucleus,

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in that area we're dealing with avoiding pain and seeking pleasure.

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And we're in survival mode, not thrival mode like the executive center.

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We're now in mass consciousness.

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And mass consciousness is basically avoiding predator, seeking prey,

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avoiding challenge, seeking, ease, avoiding, you know,

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the negatives and seeking the positives, and the entire movement,

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the false movement of trying to be always positive

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all the time comes out of that amygdala,

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it doesn't come out of the executive center where objectivity.

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Comes out of the subjective bias world of the amygdala.

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This subjective bias world of the amygdala is an amazing area because what it

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does in order to survive, we have to have what they call false positives.

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When you're out in nature as an animal and you've got a camouflage prey and a

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camouflage predator,

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you've got to be able to discern through that camouflage a pattern and see if

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that's actually food or see if that's actually something that's going to eat

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you. And as a result of that survival mentality,

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it's automatically going to accentuate that with a false positive,

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to get your adrenaline kicking into gear,

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to make sure that you actually get to run faster,

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to capture the prey and to avoid that predator.

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And so it accentuates things and makes them absolute in order to make sure

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that you survive. Instead of having a poised and present objectivity,

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you have now a subjective bias that's highly polarized into all positive and no

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negative, which is the prey, or all negative, no positive,

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which is the predator. That whole polarization process,

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that whole subjective bias system,

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makes us try to get rid of half of ourself and gain only one side,

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get rid of half of people and gain only one side, and that is not possible.

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So if you want to go and make sure that you're being more objective,

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it's important to live by priority.

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It's important to make sure you know how to dissolve the emotional baggage that

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accumulates when you're seeing life as a prey and predator,

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which is distracting you from being present. As a result of that,

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one of the reasons I teach the Breakthrough Experience

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and the Value applications and the Demartini Method in

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Breakthrough Experience,

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is to make sure that you learn how to identify what you really value,

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make sure that you identify what's highest on your values,

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make sure you're prioritizing your life accordingly,

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and make sure you're delegating lower priority things and make sure you're not

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subordinating to outer authorities and making sure that you're planning and

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strategizing your life, because if you don't, other people will.

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And if you don't fill your day with high priority actions,

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it's going to fill up low priority distractions.

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And if you don't empower your life, other people are going to overpower you,

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and you're going to end up in the amygdala if they do.

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And when you're down in the amygdala, you're going to be polarized,

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you're going to put false labels on things,

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you're going to exaggerate yourself or others,

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you're going to end up trying to get rid of half of yourself or other people's

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halves.

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And you're going to be searching for that which is unobtainable and trying to

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avoid that which is unavoidable. And this is the source of your suffering.

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So to say I never, you know, I would never do that. I'm amazed.

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Sometimes people in my Breakthrough Experience come

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oh, I would never do that,

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my father was never there for me or my mother was never there for me or they

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were never nice to me, they're always mean to me.

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And they're really black and white.

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In the Breakthrough Experience I have in the Demartini Method a question of

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asking where were they doing the opposite behavior to break these exaggerated

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labels you have on people.

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Because as long as you have a false label on people and false label on yourself,

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you can't be authentic.

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How are people going to love you for who you are if you're not being who you

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are? If you're not actually centered and able to be yourself and be authentic.

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I'm a firm believer that everything that's going on in your physiology,

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all your symptoms of your body, is trying to get you authentic and whole.

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Everything's going on in your psychology and your psychological soundness and

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wellness, is trying to get you whole.

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All the symptoms in your sociology and your friends and enemies and things,

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supporters and challengers, are feedback systems to get you whole.

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When you get cocky, you attract criticism to bring you down., when you get down,

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you get lifted by people who support you,

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to try to get you back into equilibrium where you embrace both sides of

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yourself. And also, even tragic events and comical events are really mechanisms,

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feedback mechanisms to get you authentic to where you can embrace

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the whole of yourself.

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The second you get cocky and exaggerate yourself and try to deny one half,

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you get humbling circumstances, hubris. And the second you minimize yourself,

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you get people lifting you up,

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to try to get you back into the center where both sides are embraced and

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honored. So I'm not here to teach you how to get rid of half of yourself.

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I'm not here to try to make you one sided.

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I'm not here to teach you positive thinking.

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You need positive thinking if you're down,

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you need negative thinking if you're up,

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you need balanced thinking if you want to master your life.

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How you going to have a balanced physiology if you

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How are you going to have a balanced bank account if you don't have a balanced

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mind? You know, it's interesting,

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the banks will loan you money with a credit card.

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You'll go out and shop and you'll have the pleasure of shopping, retail therapy.

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Then 30 days later, you'll have the pain of paying the bill.

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They've separated pleasure from pain.

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And anytime you separate pleasure from pain, you think you can get this,

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without this.

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When you go out and shop and you actually don't have a credit card,

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but you actually have cash and you buy it immediately,

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you immediately feel the pain of that going out of your pocket,

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as you pleasure is of buying.

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And then what happens is you immediately start and think more rationally about

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your purchase instead of impulsively. So the second you separate the pairs,

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you immediately go into impulsive amygdala behavior and you immediately think

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you can get a pleasure without a pain with immediate gratification.

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But the second you put the pain and the pleasure together and put the pairs of

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opposite together,

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you're more rational and objective and you go into the forebrain and then you

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stop and go,

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'Is this really a priority?' And then you buy by priority instead of buy by

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impulse. So anytime we separate these inseparable's, divide the indivisible's,

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label the unlableble's polarize the unpolarizable's, and name the ineffable's,

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we have a crazy aspect of life.

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And we end up saying 'always' and 'nevers'. When somebody says,

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'I will always do this, I would never stop doing that.'

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Or 'I would never do that.

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I'll always this way.' You can guarantee that's an illusion. Nobody's one sided,

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no event's one-sided there's certain laws in the universe that may show that,

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you're always going to fall if you jump off a building,

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you're always going to probably react if you put your hand on fire,

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but not when it comes to the general principles of human behavior,

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you're a two-sided individual. Every pair of opposites come together.

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Heraclitus 2,600 years ago wrote about this and said,

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there's a unity of opposites and anytime you separate them you eventually get

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humbled to find out that they're actually comes a pair. And quantum physics,

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particles and antiparticles are entangled.

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They appear to be separated by a de-coherent measurement,

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but in actuality they're always paired with an opposite side.

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And the moment you see both sides and become present with both sides,

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you go back into your executive center, you get objective in life,

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you get appreciation, love, inspiration, gratitude,

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you end up having a whole nother state. You end up having mastery.

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So I'm not here to try to get rid of you, half of you,

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I'm here to help you understand and love all parts of you.

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That's one of the reasons I teach the Breakthrough Experience,

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and one of the reasons I'm teaching the Demartini Method,

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to try to help people who have basically been dividing themselves up. You know,

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they say it in biblical writings that you divide your house,

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the house doesn't stand. And any time you divide yourself up, you can't,

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you'll fall. So you're not here to be one sided.

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You're here to embrace two sides of life.

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So I'm a firm believer that if you embrace both sides of your life,

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you're going to have more gratitude, love, inspiration, enthusiasm, certainty,

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and presence, more mastery, more leadership skills.

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And I've been demonstrating that and proving that in

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and with this method for many years now, decades, in fact,

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so I'm not here to say, get rid of something, I'm here to embrace all parts.

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So if you say never say never,

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you now understand that term and where it comes from,

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because it's not about a one sided world. It's about embracing both sides.

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So now,

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our brain is automatically designed to help us fulfill our authenticity.

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Everything that's going on in our life is actually trying to get us authentic,

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everything that's going on in our physiology, psychology, sociology,

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and even theology is trying to help us become authentic self, our whole,

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both sided being. So beware. If somebody says to you,

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'You're a mean person.' I immediately go, 'Yep.

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At times.' I definitely have demonstrated things that other people have

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perceived as mean. If they say, 'You're a nice person.' 'Yep.

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At times.' I've been honest. 'Yep. At times.' Been dishonest. 'Yep.

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At times.' When I look at my life, there's nothing missing.

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At the level of the essence of the soul, which is the authentic you,

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the state of unconditional love, nothing's missing in you.

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At the level of the existence of your senses,

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where you judge things and be biased and subjective biased in the amygdala's

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response, you automatically think there's things missing.

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You're too proud or too humble to admit what you see in others inside you,

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and you end up judging people. And whenever you judge people, you feel empty.

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And whenever you love people, you feel full. If you want fulfillment in life,

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it's owning both sides, seeing both sides,

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honoring both sides and not living in a moral hypocrisy of trying to

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be a one-sided individual. It's not going to happen. You can try,

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you can lie to yourself. I have people that come to me and said, 'I never lie.

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I'm always honest.' And I just go,

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'Aren't you lying right now?' <Laugh> I'm a firm believer that if you perceive

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more advantage than disadvantage about something, you'll do it.

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If you perceive more disadvantage, you won't.

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And we are both honest and dishonest at different times in our life,

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if we're really honest with ourself.

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We skew things and exaggerate things. In the Breakthrough Experience,

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when people come to me, I ask them to pick somebody that they resent.

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And each time they come in there with something they resent about an individual,

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I have them go through a series of questions. Okay.

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Where and when do you display and demonstrate that

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They first they define what they resent, the specific action that they resent,

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where do you do it? And then they find out my God,

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I've done it to the same degree they have, quantitatively, qualitatively,

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I've done the same thing. To their dismay, there it was.

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And I make them look and accountable and I don't make them make things up,

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I make them hold them accountable until they really look and they go, wow,

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I've been denying it and have been exaggerating me and minimizing them,

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I've been too proud to admit what I see in them inside me.

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And then I go and find out, how did it serve you? If a trait is on this planet,

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it must serve or it would've gone extinct.

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What's the benefit of that behavior that they did? How did it help you?

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Is it helping you realize what you're judging in yourself?

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Is it making you wake up? Is it helping you become more humble?

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Is it helping you to communicate more effectively?

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Is it helping you get off your high horse and pedestal? Is it making you real?

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Is it making you learn how to communicate more effectively? As I said.

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All those things, there's a benefit to it. And the thing you think is down,

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what's the upside, if you balance it, find out where you've done it,

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where you've done it and how did it benefit the people you've done it to.

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Where has that individual done the opposite behavior? At that moment,

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when that was occurring,

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where were you infatuated with the opposite behavior

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magnet? Because anything you infatuate with a trait,

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the opposite comes in to balance it. If you're addicted to protection,

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you'll attract aggression. If you're addicted to peace, you'll get the warrior.

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You're addicted to order, you'll get chaos.

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If you're addicted to somebody that's free, you'll attract constraint.

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Nature always has pairs of opposites.

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And anytime you try to get a one sided world,

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you're automatically going to get feedback, it doesn't exist.

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So I went through that in the Demartini Method and I helped the people who come

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there with this resentment, and when they're done,

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they just actually have gratitude, they have love for this person.

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I even ask them;

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if this individual were exactly the opposite of what they resented,

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what would be the drawback? And I cracked the fantasy.

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Many people have a fantasy of trying to get a nice without a mean,

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and then the thing that they do that they perceive is now mean because they're

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comparing it to some fantasy they have. As long as you're addicted to fantasy,

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your life will be a nightmare. As long as you're addicted to elation,

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you'll feel depressed. Depression is a

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comparison of your current reality to a fantasy you're addicted to.

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Anytime we're addicted to one side,

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the other side smacks us because the magnet is whole. And if we are, you know,

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distress,

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the distress response is actually a result of being addicted to one side and

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being smacked by the other. That's called distress. When you embrace both sides,

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simultaneously, you have eustress, and distress is illness promoting.

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So embracing both sides of life is basically an empowerment,

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but trying to get rid of one side of life is futile. And I mean, futile.

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It will be futile trying to get a one side life.

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If you're in a marriage and you expect nice without mean, not going to happen.

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Kind without cruel, peace without war. If you look carefully,

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I've asked thousands of families, 'How many have you had peace and war,

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nice and mean, kind and cruel?' All the hands go up.

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'How many have had only peace?' No hand goes up.

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I'm talking about thousands and thousands of people. So don't live in a fantasy.

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The magnificence of the way life truly is,

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is far greater than the fantasies you'll impose on it. So beware.

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When you say 'I would never do something like that',

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take a look at where you're already doing it.

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Because you're already pointing your finger back at yourself,

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and own the traits. I always say, when you own all your traits,

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the world outside you doesn't run your life.

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When you embrace all parts of yourself and love all parts,

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it's easy for other people to do that.

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And when you realize that they have both sides,

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it's more realistic about your expectations on them.

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I don't have an expectation somebody's always going to be nice to me.

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That's completely delusional. If I want them to be nice

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I have to learn what they value and communicate in those values.

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And if I want them to be mean,

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I communicate in a way that doesn't meet their values.

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I can be nice as a pussycat, mean as a tiger. And so can they.

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So learning about human values,

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which is what I teach in the Breakthrough Experience,

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learning how to communicate in people's values respectfully,

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learning what your own values are,

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so you can communicate what's important to you in terms of what's important to

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them, changes the game. And embrace both sides of your existence.

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The world around you has two sides. You have both sides.

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The people around you have both sides. Even an objective has two sides.

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A fantasy is one side, and fantasies aren't going to get you anywhere.

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You don't have a fantasy to go to Mars,

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you have an objective and you mitigate the risks and you prepare for both sides,

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the challenges and the opportunities that are there,

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and the opportunities and the threats as they call it in business development.

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So embrace both sides and your life changes.

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So I just wanted take the time to understand that, never say never,

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because if you swear you would never do something, it's coming upon you.

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Or you always, the same thing, don't always say always, because if they say,

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I would always be that way, I would never do that,

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you can guarantee that it's just around the bend that you wake up and be humbled

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by this illusion. Embrace both sides of yourself.

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In the Breakthrough Experience that's what I'm teaching people to do.

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The person that comes to Breakthrough, they come in with a resentment,

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they go out with love. They come in there with an illusion,

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they go out with an understanding.

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Now they're prepared for an objective world and they can now not live in this

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fantasy of trying to get a one-sided world. Remember what the Buddha says,

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the desire for that which is unobtainable, one side of the magnet,

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

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is the source of human suffering.

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So I just wanted to take the time to address that, this this little webinar,

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hope you got a few notes out of it.

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And I'd just like to share with you something that I know will help you.

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And that is <laugh> I hope it comes up here, the Breakthrough Experience.

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If you want to master your mind and your life and you want to have personal

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tools that can actually transform your life,

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I guarantee you that this program is a powerful tool.

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I've been doing it 33 years. 33 years plus now, it's over 33 years.

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I've done it 1,146 times in many,

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many countries around the world,

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a hundred thousand people more have been to this program.

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And I am absolutely certain if a person comes to this program,

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will open their mind, open their eyes, help them be more appreciative of life,

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more grateful for life. They're going to end up having more love, inspiration,

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enthusiasm, certainty, and presence.

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I'm going to show them how to dissolve baggage.

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I'm going to show them how to empower each of the seven areas of life,

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because any of your life you don't empower, people are going to overpower.

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I'm going to show you how to not subordinate to people,

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which injects values and distracts you,

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disempowers you and clouds the clarity of a mission.

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Show you how to define what a mission is,

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what's really important and how to have meaning in life,

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to extract that meaning out of whatever happens in your life.

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I'm going to show you how to basically a manifestation formula,

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how to take what it is you dream about and put it into reality.

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I'm going to show you how to wake up your natural born leader inside,

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so you can lead the way instead of being a follower of the herd,

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so you can get heard. I'm going to show you basically how to master your life.

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It's a very powerful two day experience. It's about 24 hours with me.

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You've got 30 minutes with me right now,

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but if you can imagine 24 hours of intense stuff and practicals,

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things you can actually take home with a manual that you can use the rest of

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your life. In addition to that, I also want to make sure you know,

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that you can also get,

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be part of a community from around the world of people that have been through

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that program that understand that and be able to use that and have a network of

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people that are more on the path of mastery.

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And so you're not surrounded by people that always want to keep you in,

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the crabs in the bucket syndrome. So if you want to grow from that,

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come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience.

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One of the things I love doing is transforming people's lives.

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Just like I love doing these presentations. I love transform life.

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I'd love to help you transform your life.

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I'd love to show you how to master it and do something extraordinary with it.

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So come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience.

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I know it'll make a difference and thank you for joining me for this little

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webinar. I know that each of these days,

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we wake up a little bit of an idea and stimulates you,

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but I look forward to seeing you next week,

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but come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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the people's lives that I've seen and the transformation,

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the letters I've received are tear jerking,

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mind blowing and amazing people out in the world are a result of that

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Breakthrough Experience of doing extraordinary things.

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I'll see you at the Breakthrough Experience.