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And I used to take their pain,

had them close their eyes and they were really "ow, pain", they couldn't move,

it just couldn't put any weight on it and everything else. And I would say,

"Describe the pain.

What do you perceive?" Because you cannot have a sensation or a feeling without

content in the mind.

I've been interested in this topic for a long time.

When I was in professional school,

I actually did a presentation on the origins of pain.

And that led me to studying all different topics.

John Bonica's work, classical work on the area of pain and neurology,

from New York, The Yellow Emperor's Classic,

Chinese acupuncture to you name it. Even back into the great philosophers.

What exactly is pain? What exactly is pleasure? Why are they there?

What's it about? So I'm going to start with a quote.

Well,

a paraphrased quote of a ancient Greek philosopher

named Anaxagoras,

he's the one that really had an influence on my thinking of pain,

since I was 23.

He said that pain and pleasure are lopsided perceptions.

Now,

most of us when we bang our shin on a table or something

and go "Ow"

we create a stimulus on little nerve endings called

nociceptors, which are pain nerve endings, C fibers they call them,

that go up into the spinal cord from the dorsal root of the spinal cord.

Go up the tracks of the spinal cord all the way up to the thalamus.

And there there's a gating mechanism based on our cortical perceptions

to allow us to either experience or not.

And with that cortex, the higher brain systems,

we have the capacity to take that stimulus and associate it with many

different things. For instance, if I,

let's take your thumb,

put your thumb on a table and I slammed it with a

sledgehammer and "Ow, ow,

whoa!" You're just, you feel like you broke your thumb and smashed it.

If you just take that out of, in that context, you'll probably think, "Wow,

that's painful." You're angry, you're resentful, et cetera.

But imagine if I was to take that thumb and put it there and I say, "Well,

here's the deal. I'm going to give you a billion dollars cash.

Tax-Free.

A week traveling with the most admired

celebrity you could imagine, or supermodel or superstar that you'd want to meet,

and they would be your escort for a week,

traveling around the world in private jets and going to all the villas and all

the luxury places in the world.

And you also had the opportunity to have a brand new mansion

or something." I mean,

I gave you and I stacked up all of the fantasies that you might've wanted in

your life. I'm just making those up, those aren't really important to me,

but just imagine all of those. Whatever you imagined and you associate it that

"When I slam my thumb, I get all that."

If you perceive more advantage than disadvantage to all those things,

which may not be real true, but if you imagined it that way,

you could actually go "Yes,

slam that sucker!" And if I told you that I would make sure that any damage to

your thumb would be repaired perfectly,

and in three weeks you'd never even know it had a bruise,

and a surgeon would take care of it.

And you would have just three weeks of a little bit of aggravation from that,

from that slamming. But you have,

you got that now freedom to do what you want to do, your own private jets,

your own this and that. I bet if you would do that,

I bet your perception of that pain would be different.

You'd be celebrating that pain instead of "ow".

When I was in practice years ago, this is nearly 40.

I had a patient with osteosarcoma,

which is a eroding clastic disease that basically eats the

femur heads on the femur,

which is down in the hips and it eats away the bone and eventually you

can't stand and it breaks.

And the pain is pretty enormous according to what most people describe.

And I used to take their pain, had them close their eyes. They were really "Ow,

pain". They couldn't move.

It just couldn't put any weight on it and everything else. And I would say,

"Describe the pain.

What do you perceive?" Because you cannot have a sensation or a feeling without

content in the mind. You can not have fear without content in the mind.

You can not have pain without content in the mind.

There's a representation and an association that's

the moment you're perceiving pain. So I would have them,

this lady go and describe her pain. Is it throbbing?

Is it stationary? Is it moving? Is it again, stationary? Is it burning?

What color is it? What smell does it bring? What sound does it have?

And I would go in there and have her close her eyes and go and describe every

detail and modality of sensation and submodality

distinctions that just broke it down into just components.

And whatever she would say, I would then take the opposite sensation,

so she said, it's red and black, I'd say, okay,

blue and white and say, it's you know,

it's awful, it's ugly. I'd say it's beautiful and it's

pretty. And what I would do is I would put her in her mind,

the complete complimentary opposite perception and

the box. And I would imagine her seeing this one,

that's "ow" pain and this other one that represented the opposite pleasure,

and whatever the modalities and distinctions she could

I would come up with the complete opposite. And then I would imagine her,

or she would have her imagine,

that these two boxes are being slammed together and exploding each other and

dissolving each other and birthing light,

like a particle and antiparticle merging and making light.

And I have her do this until there was nothing in her association she could find

associated with the pain side and the other one was gone.

They're just both just disappear, poof into energy.

And she would have 75%, sometimes 90% reduction in pain.

She could actually stand up and she goes, "Where's my pain?" I go,

"It was in your representation in your brain." Now,

if you've ever hit your shin, as I said earlier,

and banged it on a table or something, you immediately went down and rubbed.

It. "Ah, gosh.".

And you probably cussed. You probably didn't say, oh, mcgillicuddy,

you probably said some cuss words, something that you normally wouldn't say,

that you normally repress in society.

And the reason being is according to Melzack Wall,

which is an old gate theory back in the 70s, that if you, mechano receptors,

which are tactile receptors, that you touch your thing and rub it,

those are large diameter neurons that go up into the thalamus and close the

sensory perception of pain and shut it off where you can't perceive the

pain. And if you then say cuss words or whatever,

they release endorphins and enkephalins,

believe it or not cussing serves a biological value because it releases opium

opioids in the brain, enkephalins, endorphins, et cetera.

And so what does is it makes you feel pleasure and shuts down the

pain and modulates the pain. And all of a sudden you feel, "oh,

that's a lot easier." So you rub it,

you keep rubbing it like that and you keep going.

And then what happens is those are changing the ratios of the transmitters.

See every time you change your ratios of perception,

you change neurotransmitters, modulators, regulators, and hormones in the body,

all of the regulators, transmitters, hormones, et cetera,

are all based on ratios of perceptions, not just pain perception,

but any perception.

If I make you associate a pleasure with something in visual,

if you perceive it very visual, those transmitters of pleasure would go up.

And if you saw something painful and disgusting it

you'd have substances like p substance, which is substance P,

which is a pain polypeptide or a series of transmitters.

So your ratios of perception have a lot to do with the ratios of the hormones,

transmitters,

and regulators in the brain and the ratios of what nerves are activated.

See when you stimulate some nerve ending, there are nerve endings for pain.

There are no nerve endings for pleasure that so far they've found.

Isn't that interesting? We have pain sensitivities,

but we have modulators from the areas of the brain based on association to

determine whether or not that pain is going to be pleasure or pain. If say,

I can turn it in where if all of a sudden you found out that your husband was

late and he had stains on his collar and you thought,

"What the heck has he done?" And you immediately jump to the conclusion and

perceive that he's been having an affair or something.

And then you find out that the reason he's late, it's not because of affair,

is that there was a traffic fatality on the highway,

a crash. And he was trying to save people's lives.

He got out of his car and he went out and tried to help them. Now he's late.

And he's got marks holding the person who was nearly dying,

getting them to a place where he could get to the hospital.

Then you all of a sudden, you think, "well, this is terrible, this is pain".

And all of a sudden you find out new information and

hug the person.

The same particular stimulus now has a different association with it and now you

are attracted instead of repelled.

We have an area of the brain called the amygdala, which is a desire center.

It has a nucleus accumbens from pleasure, if it's stimulated,

and has another one, the pallidum for pain.

And this amygdala is kind of a desire center,

desire to avoid the pain and desire to seek the pleasure, avoid the predator,

which could eat you, which could chew you up and make you painful, or the prey,

which is food and makes you feel good.

That's why people get consumption and eat a lot, to feel good.

A lot of people who are in pain eat to try to feel better because it stimulates

the nucleus accumbens.

What's interesting is if you have perceptions of things that support your

values,

you can actually take the pain threshold and change it.

If you have perceptions that see more challenges that represent predator,

that pain can be heightened. You can take any stimulus and heighten it.

You've probably had little ulcers in your mouth, and

if all of a sudden you find something else that's stressing you,

aggravating you, the pain even more aggravated, like

But,

if all of a sudden you get focused on something that's not even bothering you

and it's actually invigorating, inspiring you and supporting you,

the pain levels can change.

Your pain and pleasure as Anaxagoras said are based on lopsided perceptions or

ratios of perception, better put. So you can change your perceptions.

When a pain stimulus comes in from the dorsal root of the spinal cord from some

injury, what's interesting is,

it has fibers that go immediately over to the other side of the body to avoid

and get your arms and legs on the opposite side of the body of the contralateral

side of the body to respond, to go out.

But it also sends fibers up into the middle of the brain, or into the,

up the spinal cord,

into the brain stem and different levels of the brain all the way up to the

cortex, all the way up to the thalamus and then the cortex, and also has,

so it has, because sometimes it has to turn your head, from the pain,

sometimes to blink, sometimes it has to respond and speak.

So various levels of the brain are activated to get

that you're perceiving.

And you also have all kinds of different layers of the brain that are actually

modulating and governing that response.

And so depending on the associations in the brain,

you can modulate that response and calm it down or accentuate it.

You can dramatize it if you polarize it further and you can completely

neutralize it and turn it into pleasure, if you stack up enough associations,

like I said, the billionaire and the private jet, everything else,

the slumber slamming of the thumb. And when I've asked people in seminars,

if I slammed their thumb,

but I gave him a billion dollars plus a private jet and a big home and

everything else, they'd say "slam it baby, slam it",

because the associations were more benefit than drawback and they'd endure it

and not even think about the pain as much because they think, "wow,

I've got these opportunities,

amount of the work I would have to do to have that lifestyle,

now I got I just to have a slam on the thing for a few weeks of discomfort."

And that wouldn't even be discomfort possibly because the brain would represent

it differently.

We have the capacity to transform our perceptions of pain and pleasure. And,

this is interesting. You have a thing called acute pain,

which is usually from some sort of destruction of a nerve ending,

or destruction of a cell that's causing, you know,

release of inflammatory responses and we cause pain,

but that's acute pain.

That's a real biological thing that we can trace it down a nerve to a place

where there's some sort of inflammatory response, heat, swelling, and pain,

et cetera. But you also have chronic pain,

there's no biological reason for the pain,

but we have pain that is because we have more associations and

advantages than disadvantages. It's called glial pain.

And glial pain are ten to one times the number of neurons in the brain,

they're there to modulate and regulate the nerves.

And they respond to our intentions and attentions.

And if we have an intention to actually get advantages over

disadvantage that prolong the pain, we will keep the pain going.

I had a lady in at the Miriam Hotel in Dublin, and this is so cool.

So she had, was referred to me by another doctor there and

she said that she's claimed that she's had pain her whole life. I'm went,

"Okay." Ever since she can remember. And I go,

"Okay." And all her life she's had pain. I said, "Okay.

So what's the benefit of your pain?" She goes, "Well,

there's no benefit to the pain." I go, "I know,

I know that's what your perception is, but let's,

what's the benefit of the pain? Cause nobody's going to chronically keep pain.

Nobody's going to do anything without an advantage, without over disadvantage.

So if there's no biologic, she'd been to specialists,

no biological reason for the pain, they've ruled it out.

They can't find any source of pain, but she's got pain. And I said,

"So no one is going to continue to do something unless they perceive more

advantage than disadvantage. Everything is strategic." So I said,

"So what's the advantage you're getting out of the pain?" She goes,

"I can't think of any." I said,

"Look again." "I don't know." "Look again." And after

prodding her for about probably 7, 8 minutes,

all of a sudden she came to a realization. She said, "Well, people listen to me.

They do things for me." "Okay, great. What else?"

"They feel sorry for me." "Good.

What else?" So if you tell people about your pain,

they're attentive to it? At least some of them,

some people are." "Yeah." And we just kept asking,

"What's another benefit of the pain?"

And all of a sudden she just got tears in her eyes. And she said, "Wow. I

just, all of a sudden thought about when I first had it,

I just remembered a moment when I first noticed the pain." She had a sister

who was really good-looking, very active in school and academic,

and sports wise, an exceptional girl.

And the parents gave her a lot of attention because

getting good grades and, you know,

winning things in sports and Ms. Popular, and she was like,

you can't do anything wrong kind of thing. Well, the girl, her sister,

person with pain, could never compete with that.

So the way she got attention was injury, pain,

stomach ache. And that way she would get the attention from the parents,

and she found out that she was doing,

and all of a sudden she remembered that and she looked at me and she said,

"Do you think it's really possible that I've been doing that all my life?"

And I go, "Yep. So what's the benefit of the pain?"

Huh, and all of a sudden she started crying and she goes,

"Wow, could I have actually done this?" I said, "Yeah." She says,

"Nobody's ever asked me this question, what's the benefit of my pain." I said,

"I know.

And what would be the drawback if you got out of pain?" I asked her that one

too. I said, if you got rid of all your pain, what's the, you'll have a fantasy.

People have a fantasy.

We've got to realize that many philosophers have

are like on a spectrum. Others believe they're isolated.

My observation is that they're pairs of opposites, kinda like Heraclitus said.

And these pairs of opposites, if you, the more, let's just imagine this.

Let's say you meet somebody that you're highly infatuated with.

And you've got this fantasy about who they're going to be.

You're conscious of the upside. You're unconscious of the downside.

And the pleasure of being with them,

imagine if all of a sudden they disappeared and

right? Some other male or female, took them away from you. The pain of,

you would feel pain of the loss.

You'd have grief and sensations of grief because of the infatuation.

But if you resented them and somebody took them away, you'd be relieved.

So when you resent somebody and you stack up associations that are more pain

than pleasure, and you see more drawbacks and benefits, if they leave you,

there's a relief. If they come near you, it's a pain.

Being around them is a pain.

But if all of a sudden you're infatuated with somebody,

if they leave you there's pain. And if they get around you, there's pleasure.

Because of associations you make in your brain.

And I've been teaching in the Breakthrough Experience, my signature program,

I've taught for 32 years plus,

that I can change any form, you can associate anything with anything.

You can change a heaven into a hell or a hell into heaven as John Milton said,

by asking quality questions to make you conscious of the unconscious

information that you're not aware of.

And when you actually bring it into balance, you transcend pain and pleasure.

You actually experience love. I know that sounds crazy,

but I've been doing it for years.

The second you bring your perceptions into perfect balance there's a feeling of

order, there's a feeling of appreciation and love there.

So I think what the brain does is actually tries to modulate and homeostate

the perceptions that are pain or pleasure,

and to try to bring it back into balance so you can be authentic because

otherwise when you're in pain, you can justify your aggression,

and if you're in pleasure, you can justify your passiveness.

And these are two expression repression.

Some philosophers thought that pain and pleasure are just expressions and

repressions of perception. And I really believe that's true.

So if I take and ask you,

what's the drawback to somebody you're infatuated with and calm it down,

the fear of loss of them goes down.

I've been doing that on 4,000 cases of death with grief,

with my Demartini Method, it's amazing watching it.

And if I take the thing that you resent and I showed you the upsides,

all of a sudden, the fear of them coming in your life is gone.

So the pain of them coming near you has disappeared.

And the pain of them leaving you has disappeared.

Which means that you can take and ask quality questions and ask these questions,

answer, make new associations in the brain, and change the transmitters,

because the ratios affect the transmitters, the

the physiology, and the response,

and literally fill in gaps where the normal stimuli

sets up reflexes and synaptic reflexes, and transmitters.

You fill in those gaps so that you can't sensate that pain.

It's really amazing.

So the reception of the pain in the brain itself can be overruled,

just like mechanoreceptors and saying cuss words can fill in with transmitters

or make that other transmitter from the stimulus not there and you can actually

neutralize the pain. So what I'm really leading to here,

is what Anaxagoras said, and even John Bonica from New York,

he said that pain is a private sensation of hurt, it has no, you might say,

objective data to support it other than you have nociceptors that show

inflammation. That doesn't mean that you have pain. Cause you've,

they have done studies where people have the same amount of inflammatory

response and tremendous differences in the gradation of pain.

Some don't even respond. I had a guy named Buddy,

Buddy Westinghouse, magnificent gentlemen. He was an ex rodeo star.

He had no fingers left, cause he yanked his fingers off.

He had a little bit of a thumb, that's about it.

He yanked all his fingers off from rodeo.

And he had broken ribs and he had skull fractures and he had, gosh,

all kinds of things. His wife, Lily,

was what they call a pusillanimous, and he was a stoic.

You could hit him with a sledgehammer and he wouldn't feel the pain.

He had minimized it. And you touch her, just touch her she goes, "Ooh",

she was exaggerating the pain. Very common people in marriage,

you'll find there's some people that are more exaggerated and more minimized in

pain. The stoic that minimize it. And the pusillanimous that bring it on,

the wussy's as they call them. And so it's,

what is we have different set points for these pains and thresholds based on

ratios of perceptions based on how we've seen life.

If we have a fantasy about how life is, and life's not matching it,

we can be depressed and in pain. And by the way, the same depression,

reflexes and pathways are similar to being injured.

So we're literally registering pain in our life because we're comparing our

current reality to a fantasy.

If we have a fantasy about how life's supposed to be and life doesn't match it,

that's pain. If we have a nightmare and we've exceeded it, that's pleasure.

Our thresholds are altered that way.

We have a hedonic pathway and anhedonic pathway,

pleasure and a pain pathway you might say,

and they're all based on ratios of perceptions.

So if I could take somebody that's got a chronic pain,

like an osteosarcoma and knock it down 70 plus percent,

90%, some cases.

And I trained her on how to do that so when she was in a situation cause pain

medications wasn't doing it.

Pain medications were not really getting the whole picture because sometimes we

have strategies.

I had two people that both had cancer,

and I worked with them in my office one time. And they were having,

one had osteosarcoma and one had lung cancer and the one could barely breathe

and the other one is in incredible pain, the other one's pain from breathing.

And we had a major blowout communication system because they hadn't been,

they'd been resenting each other for 52

years, 53 years, almost.

They hadn't made love in 53 years. Can you imagine that, being married?

They were together because of religious beliefs.

They didn't want to get divorced because they thought they're going to go to

eternal damnation or something, some crazy thing like that.

And they were still together,

but they were resenting each other and they're both in pain,

they both had cancer.

And we sat down and got all the stuff out and had a big hash out in my office.

Took few, took a while, and boy,

and their pain threshold and their symptoms just subsided right on the spot.

It was amazing.

And they were told they had about two to three weeks to live both of them.

And then they made it six more months. They did die,

but they had six more months of communication.

So our perceptions have an impact on, we have the capacity to alter it.

Remember, you can't have fear of the unknown,

you have fear of the content of your mind.

You can't have resentment of the unknown,

you have resentment of the perceptions and content of your mind.

And you're not going to have pain without representation in the brain.

And if you identify what that representation is and

perception associated with it, you change your threshold.

You may not completely eliminate the pain, of a physical, active pain,

a crushing bone, for instance, but you can absolutely make a change in it.

And that's been shown and demonstrated. I mean,

people used hypnosis for decades,

century where they go in there and change the representation of the brain and

all of a sudden they don't feel certain things or they do feel something.

So I just want you to know that you have the capacity. Now somebody might say,

well, what, okay, so what's the purpose of pain and pleasure?

This is a great question. I believe that pain and pleasure,

support and challenge, ease and difficulty, you know, cooperation,

competition, are both necessary for growth.

Imagine you had nothing but a prey, food, that was pleasurable to eat,

and there was no such thing as a predator,

you would have a hedonic path that would be excessive.

You could go into gluttony and fatness and gain weight and get obese,

and then have certain symptoms in the body that would eventually wake you up and

realize that's not the path, that's too much pleasure.

You could also have something that's predator without prey,

and you would end up having, you know,

emaciation starvation because you'd never get to eat.

But what's been shown in the food chain of biology is that you need pleasure and

pain. You need support and challenge. You need the hedonistic and anhedonistic,

you need to prey and the predator to keep you fit.

Maximum fitness, maximum productivity, maximum fulfillment,

the meaning,

the mean between the pairs of opposites is the center.

And I've defined love as being the synthesis and synchronicity of all

complimentary opposites,

because I've been doing the Breakthrough Experience for 32 years,

and I've shown people how to balance out their perception with my Demartini

Method. And the moment they balance it,

they come to a point where there's tears of gratitude and they feel, thank you,

I love you.

So I'm gonna make a statement here that I believe that the purpose of pain and

pleasure is to train us to be authentic and to

appreciate and to love and to make sure that we're moderated in our

behavior and have wisdom, the old Cardinal virtues of the Greeks,

to allow us to see things as they are, not as we subjectively biased them to be.

You know,

when we're out in the wild and we are seeing prey and we've got to eat it like

an animal, we accelerate with a subjective bias,

the adrenaline stimulation to run after that animal and catch it.

And if we see predator, we accelerate the adrenaline again to run away from it.

So in survival modes, in our amygdala,

we automatically skew things into pleasures and pains

and to avoid being eaten, pleasure and pain.

So we have the capacity with our executive function,

the medial prefrontal cortex,

that area sends fibers down and glutamate and GABA transmitters,

and goes down and moderates those and calms down those distractions,

cause the thing you infatuate with and seek, or the thing you avoid and resent,

occupy your mind as a survival mechanism.

But the second you're living by your highest values,

doing what's really meaningful doing what's inspiring to you,

those calm down and the degree of pleasure and pain,

calm down and center themselves. And what's interesting, the very center,

the amygdala, the very centers for pleasure and pain,

the pain center and the pleasure stimulus

they're there moderating the pain so we can literally neutralize it.

So if we're living by our highest values, doing what is most meaningful,

doing something, we love doing something that inspires us naturally,

something we can't wait to get up in the morning and do,

we will reduce the extremes of pleasure and pain,

the fantasies and nightmares of life. And remember the more the fantasy of life,

the more life compared to it, is miserable. So that's a pain.

So anytime you separate that, that's what Anaxagoras said,

it's the separation of the distinction of pain and pleasure that gives these

responses and the lopsided perceptions.

So if we moderate those and neutralize that, the executive center,

the forebrain,

the most advanced part of the brain modulates and moderates the polarities of

perception. That's why if you see, when you have pain and ask,

how specifically is this pain helping me fulfill what's most meaningful to me

and answer that question,

I guarantee you that pain will drop as you're sitting there answering that

question. And if you have pleasure, ask,

what's the downside of the pleasure? You can neutralize the pleasure.

Your intuition is constantly trying to make you conscious of the unconscious

information

that's trying to moderate and neutralize things so you can maximize your

fitness, maximize your fulfillment.

So I believe that pain and pleasure are feedback mechanisms guiding us to the

most authentic, inspired, purposeful life,

to do something we really love with the people we love.

It's acting as a mechanism to help us fulfill that.

It's not just survival oriented.

It's also survival scaled up to thrival. If we're living in survival,

we're going to be sitting there and having probably the pain and pleasure's run

us and be run by the outside world.

If we actually moderate it by doing something that's deeply meaningful and

connecting both pain and pleasure to meaning, that's the key,

the Stoics did that, they premeditated on the so-called evils,

the pains that could go wrong with an objective to prepare for and mitigate the

risks, to balance out the rewards, the rewards of pleasure, the risks for pain.

They brought them into balance,

and then they pursued their action and they got greater results.

People that are only looking at fantasies and then unprepared for the

nightmares,

get distressed and people that are prepared for both sides get eustress.

And eustress is wellness promoting and moderates the so-called pains and

pleasures. So our brain, our physiology,

our nervous system,

is set up in such a way that we have the capacity to transform our life.

And that's the beauty of this whole thing,

it's not what happens to us on the outside, it's how we perceive,

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

So if we go in there and take advantage of this information,

it just might transform your awareness of the pains and pleasures in your life.

The next time you're in pain, play with this, maybe watch this video a few times

so some of that sinks in and inculcate and experiment with it,

because I've seen people that have been,

I had a lady that was live at a seminar in my to 7 day program,

the Prophecy 1 Experience, where

I'm helping people become prophets of their destiny instead of victims of their

history. And in that program,

a lady literally started to get up from under a table,

she lifted her foot under a table and ripped the top of it,

about two and a half inches, about literally about three

It was a bloody mess and she screamed and they ran and got

ice and they got, you know, towels and all kinds of stuff.

And while she was doing that, they held the skin,

put the skin back on it and just kind of held it down and put pressure on it

because she didn't want to run and walk. Somebody else did it for her.

And we did I said,

this is the perfect opportunity right now to demonstrate this.

And at first people thought that was kind of cruel, but I actually took that,

identified what the pains were right there on the spot, found out the opposites,

did the exercise right there and calmed it down 35%,

literally in a matter of minutes.

And the lady was blown away and her husband was just blown away. She says,

I can't believe the pain's down.

And so by the time people got back with everything else we were already starting

to reduce the pain perceptions, because we stacked up new associations.

So don't let the outer world run your life,

let the voice and the vision on the inside.

Let the wisdom that you gain on the inside,

moderate the extremes on the outside, and then you're in command.

Otherwise the world around you is going to run you. And know this,

my observation is people that get cocky and manic and get elated and

get addicted to fantasies and get really elated,

'pride before the fall' is the old saying,

are more likely to injure themselves and have that.

And the pain is there to bring into their life,

to calm down their addiction to fantasies and pleasures.

Pain is actually your friend, it's not your enemy if you put it into context.

And so,

just wanted to give that feedback today and give you some insight on what pain

and pleasure is and the purpose of it.

I think it's trying to help you be authentic.

It's helping you do something you really love to do.

And if you want to get a book,

get a book called The Brilliant Function of Pain by Milton Ward.

He shows that without pain, your life isn't going to do too well.

Might read that.

I used to give all my patients that little book and give them a summary of it to

make sure they understood the importance of pain. Pain,

and pleasure are both necessary. That's why they're there,

to help you fulfill your mission in life. Now, just a little reminder here,

I have an upcoming program,

a masterclass called Discover The Hidden Order That Unites and Empowers Us

All. And this is going to be something that I know you're going to want to hear.

This is going to blow your mind because what I've been doing in the Breakthrough

Experience programs and other programs is showing people how things are that go

on in their life that they think are mistakes, how they're not,

and what's the hidden order of why they're manifesting their life. You know,

disorder is simply missing information, unconscious information.

If you answer the question and take the entropy and turn it back into negentropy

and find the hidden order of it, and the reasons why,

you transform your life from mystery to something even more

profoundly, where you're taking command of your life and living by design.

So this powerful program,

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I know you're going to love. So I look forward to seeing you, that's coming up.

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Please take advantage of this.

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If you got something out of today,

you're going to definitely get something out of this program, that I'm doing,

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take advantage of it. And thank you for being with me today.