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The Blame Game EP 223
Episode 22323rd February 2024 • The Demartini Show • Dr John Demartini
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Dr Demartini reveals why we can be quick to blame others, and the valuable feedback that the “blame game” can offer you on your journey to master your life.

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So, is there a karmic

wheel? Well, yes and no,

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because our perceptions that are

imbalanced are not the actual truth,

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they're our misperceptions about reality.

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You've probably heard of the term

from the eastern mysticism, karma.

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And today I'd like to talk

about karma and the idea,

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is there a cosmic boomerang, ?

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Is there some sort of a feedback to us

about our behaviors and our actions?

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A causality, a cause

and effect relationship?

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So if you have something to write

with and write on, it would be great.

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But every time you perceive

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somebody else in a way that

you put them up on a pedestal,

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and minimize yourself relative

to them, by the law of contrast,

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you exaggerate them, you minimize you,

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and you feel ashamed or less

than compared to something you

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admire, that you think is more than,

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that diminished self is stored

in your subconscious mind.

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Because you're actually

creating a valency,

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a judgment on yourself

and negating yourself.

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You're putting a negative charge on it

and you're putting a positive charge on

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them.

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So you're assuming that they caused you

more pleasure than pain in the sense of

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you're admiring them,

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but at the same time you're comparing

yourself to them and so you're causing

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yourself more pain than pleasure

and minimizing yourself.

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You can also see somebody and look

down on them, and put them in the pit,

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not on the pedestal. And now you

are exaggerating their negatives.

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And now you puff yourself up

and exaggerate your positives,

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and you think they're causing you your

pain and you think that they're the cause

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of your pain. And you think that

you're now the cause of your pleasure.

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So anytime you exaggerate somebody

else and minimize yourself,

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or minimize somebody else and exaggerate

yourself, you have an imbalance.

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And whenever you are too humble to admit

what you see in these people you admire

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inside yourself, you

have a deflected part.

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And whenever you're too proud to

admit what you see in them inside you,

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you have a deflected part. So

every time you judge somebody,

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you have deflected parts, you

have deflective awareness.

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That means you're conscious

of the positives and

unconscious of the negatives in

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them, and conscious of the negatives

and unconscious of the positives in you.

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Or conscious of the negatives in them,

and unconscious of the positives in them.

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And conscious of the positives and

unconscious of the negatives in you.

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So anytime you judge, you split your

full consciousness, mindfulness,

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into conscious and unconscious halves.

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You also disown part of what you see

and therefore you have deflective

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awareness. When you have deflective

awareness and those disowned parts,

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those are emptiness. That's why

whenever you judge somebody,

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you have an emptiness inside.

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Now when all of a sudden you see

that whatever you perceive in them,

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you have in you, and you're not

putting them up and minimizing you,

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but leveling the playing field and have

reflective awareness, where the seer,

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you, the seeing, the process,

and the seen, them, are the same.

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This reflective wa awareness

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has a level playing field and you

have equanimity within yourself,

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you're balanced in yourself, and you

have equity between you and them,

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they're equal and there's an equilibrium.

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And now you don't have an emptiness,

you don't have a void there,

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you have fulfillment. So when you

actually have a balanced orientation,

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have reflective awareness and get to

love the part of them and get to love the

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part of you, and are not

exaggerating or minimizing you,

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which is inauthenticity, or exaggerating

minimizing them, which is inauthentic,

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you now have a balanced orientation.

This balanced and loving orientation,

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reflective awareness is the dharma path in

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the Eastern mysticism. And every

time we judge is the karmic wheel.

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Because anything we infatuate with

or resent we keep dealing with.

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You probably tried to sleep at night

somewhere in your life and you had

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something that was really,

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really resentful on your mind that you

really resented, somebody resented,

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and you really put them down and

thought, oh, I would never do that,

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and you're too proud to admit

it. And then you can't sleep,

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'cause it's regurgitating in your brain,

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it's intrusive with thoughts

and you basically constantly

going through the mind

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and has difficulty sleeping.

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And if you infatuate with

somebody and minimize yourself,

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the same thing can occur.

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Anytime you polarize the mind and

exaggerate or minimize others and then

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yourself, minimize and

exaggerate yourself, you have

that deflective awareness.

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It's stored in the subconscious mind.

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It becomes intrusive

thoughts or brain noise,

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static in the receiving system. And when

you do, it just keeps reverberating.

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It reverberating, it's stored

in the subconscious mind.

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The subconscious mind stores all lopsided

perceptions until you bring them into

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balance. And when they go into

balance, you have a transcendent state,

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a superconscious mind,

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and you have love and appreciation and

inspiration and enthusiasm and certainty

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and presence. You're not wavering

with uncertainties, you're present.

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So that's the dharmic path in

the Eastern Buddhist tradition.

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And the karmic wheel is

all of those judgments.

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So anytime you judge others

or judge yourself and

exaggerate or minimize them or

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you, you automatically have

this idea of a false causality.

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'Cause When you exaggerate yourself,

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you'll feel proud and you assume that

you did something more positive than

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negative. When you're ashamed,

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you think you did more negative than

positive to someone. When you admire,

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infatuate with them, you think they did

more positive than negative to somebody,

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you. And when you resent somebody,

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you think that they did more

negative than positives to you.

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Anytime you have a judgment and you have

an imbalanced ratio of perceptions and

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you have a polarization and you have a

valency, as they call it in chemistry,

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and it's charged,

positively or negatively,

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and you're judging and you think you're

too good or too bad relative to somebody

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else, or they're too bad or too good

relative to you and deflective awareness,

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that's the so-called karmic

wheel. And that does run your,

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impact your life.

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It just keeps regurgitating in the

brain until you finally bring it back to

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balance. The brain stores,

the amygdala inside the brain,

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the subcortical part of the brain assigns

the valency, assigns the judgment,

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the hippocampus then stores

that in the memory process.

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And we sit there and they're stored

until we bring it to balance.

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That's why I tell people to come

to the Breakthrough Experience,

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the seminar I do on how to

dissolve that and teach them the

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breakthrough, the Demartini Method.

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The Demartini Method is a series of

specific questions on how to dissolve all

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those judgments and to liberate

yourself from all those regurgitating,

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that brain noise and the noise in the

brain that's basically holding you back

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and distracting you.

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Because anything that you infatuate with

or resent is an impulse or an instinct

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that distracts you from being present

and being certain in life and being

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empowered in life. So is there a

karmic wheel? Well, yes and no,

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because our perceptions that are

imbalanced are not the actual truth.

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They're our misperceptions about reality.

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You've met people before where you were

infatuated with them and you thought,

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wow, they were, you've got them up on

a pedestal. And then a day, a week,

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a month, a year, or five years

later, you look back and go, wow,

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now that I really get to know them,

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I find out they've got just

as many downsides as upsides.

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And the thing you think was terrible

in your life, a day, a week, a month,

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a year, five years later,

you look back and go, well,

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now it's a turning point in my

life, I'm glad that happened.

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So you can have the wisdom of the ages

without the aging process by looking now

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and asking the right questions by doing

the Demartini Method I explain in the

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Breakthrough Experience.

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Or you can have the wisdom of the ages

with the aging process and age .

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The karmic wheel when you judge and

you don't neutralize it is the aging

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process. And the dharmic path, which

is the path of purpose in life,

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which realizes that no

matter what's going on,

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it's actually part of a balanced act

and is trying to get you back into

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equilibrium. See our intuition, which

is a homeostatic mechanism in our brain,

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it's trying to point out the downsides

to the thing you think is up and to the

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upsides to when you think you're

down. So if you're resenting somebody,

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it's trying to whisper you the

upsides to calm down the resentment.

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And if you're infatuated it's

trying to show you the downsides.

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So if you meet this really guy

that you're really infatuated with,

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your brain says, too good to be

true, keep your eyes open, watch out,

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your intuition's trying to show you

the downside so you're not gullible.

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You have enough skepticism

to balance the gullibility.

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Then if you're resentful and you have

something that happened and your brain

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says, well, there's got to be a

purpose to this, a meaning to this,

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there's got to be some reason for this.

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It's trying to bring them into balance

so you can see that no matter what

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happens, it's actually got a balanced act.

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So anytime you have an

imbalanced ratio of perceptions,

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you've got emotions and

emotions are causal,

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and they basically keep you in this

regurgitating and static in the brain and

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this noise in the brain,

and you're trapped.

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You're embondaged to whatever

you infatuate or resent.

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It occupies space and time in

your mind. And so therefore,

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the embondagement of this so-called

karmic wheel is simply our

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inability to ask the right questions

to balance out the equation,

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to have reflective

awareness over deflections.

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When we actually ask the right question,

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which is I developed in

the Demartini Method.

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It's very precise questions on how to

take whatever you're perceiving in an

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imbalanced way that's running your

life, that's holding you back,

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which is limited beliefs,

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basically if you ask those questions

and neutralize it and hold yourself

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accountable, which means to bring

your balance sheet in balance,

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you hold yourself accountable and you

liberate yourself from all the baggage,

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and you're out of your karmic

path and on your dharmic path,

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your karmic wheel

to the dharmic path.

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Instead of going around in circles,

you actually get focused Again.

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That's why I tell people to come to the

Breakthrough Experience and learn the

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method and use the method,

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because you can weigh yourself down with

baggage and be gravitationally weighed

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down, or you can be lightened up and

inspired by balancing out the equation.

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It's not what happens to you in

life, it's how you perceive it.

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And if you choose to perceive it in

a way that's leaving you empty with

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judgment, then you're

trapped. You trapped yourself.

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You chose to be caught

in that moral hypocrisy.

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The things you think are terrible

actually have terrific in it.

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It's like a yin and yang symbol.

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And the things you think are

terrific have terribles in it.

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Don't be fooled by facades, don't

be fooled by one-sided perspectives.

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They're not the whole. The

whole is a balance of opposites.

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You could say that the synchronicity and

the synthesis of all opposites is what

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I call love.

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And when you have an imbalance and

you've got your conscious and unconscious

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mind split, you've got

judgments and strife. That

was made stated by Empedocles,

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literally 2,500 years ago, he

said there's love and strife.

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When you put the elements together and

integrate and balance the equation,

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you have love. When you have an

imbalanced equation, you have strife.

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So if you have a balanced perspective,

you have a balanced physiology,

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a balanced psychology,

and you're governed,

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and you see the hidden order in life.

When you don't, you're in chaos.

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And so that karmic wheel, if

you will, that's been described,

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that keeps regurgitating

in whatever we experience,

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judging ourselves or others just

keeps recycling in our life,

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is not because it has to be there,

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it's not because there's some sort of

punishment and reward system really.

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It's that we haven't loved it,

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and it's giving us a reminder and it's

giving us feedback to let us know what we

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haven't loved so it gives

an opportunity to love it.

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And the quality of our life's based on

the quality of the questions we ask.

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If we ask questions that help equilibrate

the mind and balance out the mind and

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transform the so-called karmic wheel

into the dharmic path, we're freed,

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we're liberated. We have moksha

in a sense, satori .

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We have a rejuvenation of our being,

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and we're actually in the essence of our

being instead of the existence of our

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becoming.

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We're not in a personal personas and

masks that we are wearing where we're

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exaggerating and minimizing

with imposter syndrome,

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but we're actually in the state of grace

and love and inspiration and enthusiasm

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and certainty and presence,

the transcendental state,

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which is the super conscious mind.

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So we can either live in the subconscious

mind and run around in the wheel of

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the boomerang effect in the, that they've

called it in the Eastern mysticism.

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Or you can actually get in the

superconscious mind and be on the path.

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I'd much rather tell people on the path.

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That's been my mission

for 51 years teaching,

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that why each of these

classes I present each week,

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and that's basically a design to do that.

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So you have the capacity to ask

quality questions to equilibrate to

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mind and bring yourself back

into equanimity within yourself,

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so you're authentic and equity between

yourself and others where you have

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reflective awareness. When you do,

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you liberate yourself from the things

that preoccupy your mind and recycle

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around in your life and

keep running your life.

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And the so-called karmic

boomerang, if you will,

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and you liberate yourself and

get on with your mission in life.

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An inspired mission is not the same

as a regurgitating and recycling

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passions.

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The animal passions are all the judgments

and all the emotions that are trapping

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in us. And the inspired mission is the

path that's clear and consciously full,

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we have mindfulness, if you will.

And that's what meditation was for.

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That's what the Demartini Method's

for in the Breakthrough Experience.

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That's what I tell people to come

to the Breakthrough Experience.

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If they come there, I can show them a

methodical, scientific, duplicatable,

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transcribable, translatable,

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literally methodical system to help

them dissolve the baggage that's

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holding back and running them

down and distracting them.

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So I just wanted to take

a few moments to describe

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this so-called karmic boomerang,

if you will, in the world.

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And just know that you have the capacity

with the quality of the questions you

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ask to liberate it. So in the Demartini

Method at the Breakthrough Experience,

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I show you exactly what the

questions are, how to do them,

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I let you experience it, and

we do it. We dissolve stuff.

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You see the difference,

feel the difference,

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experience the difference

right there on the spot.

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And you learn how to use that

for the rest of your life.

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And that's worth the

learning. I promise you.

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I've been studying

human behavior 51 years,

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and I'm certain you have the

capacity to transform your life.

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You don't have to be caught, you don't

have to sit there and blame well,

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it's because of some past life karma that

I've got this thing trapping me in my

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life. No. Even in

multi-generational epigenetics,

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we know that we have the capacity to

change the epigenetics at any moment.

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We have the capacity to

change the so-called karma.

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And that is simply by asking quality

questions that equilibrate the mind and

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liberate us from the, the misinformation

that we're giving ourselves.

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Just like out there in the mass media,

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there's misinformation

campaigns going on in the media,

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there's also misinformation

that we give ourselves.

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And then we want to be

able to use objective.

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That's why I tell people

to live by priority.

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When you're living by your highest

priorities and living by what's most

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important to you, you increase the

probability of having an objective view,

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a balanced view, and you

have less of the karma.

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If you prioritize your life and prioritize

what you're doing and what you're

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eating and what you're spending

your money on and everything,

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prioritize your life,

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you decrease the probability of the karmic

wheel and increase the probability of

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the dharmic path. Because your highest

value is an expression of your highest,

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your path in life, your

teleological purpose if you call it.

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So give yourself permission

to prioritize your life.

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Give yourself permission

to ask quality questions.

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Give yourself permission to live

objectively, not subjectively,

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prioritize your life. Come to

the Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me show you how to break through the

limitations that you may be imposing on

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yourself and being trapped by in these

impulsive and instinctual cycles that you

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get caught in and show you

how to liberate your life.

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The path of inspiration is

what's possible for all of us.

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So I just wanted to

take a moment like that.

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I look forward to seeing you at the

Breakthrough Experience and have an

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absolutely amazing week.

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