Success University 02 (Nov 08 - Jan 09)

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"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of
our evolving beingness.

Excerpted from a workshop in St. Louis, MO on Tuesday, July 18th, 2000

All Is Well

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Dattatreya looks so different in a western suit compared to when he is in his orange robes...

Please see my earlier posts in this thread on his teachings. He is the guru of Wayne Dyer.

Interview on Channelnewsasia on Sept 2008 when he was in Singapore.

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Just compare his clothes above and below

The Cause of your Failure or Success:-

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You have sole ownership of your vision. And the Universe will give you what you want within your vision. What happens with most people is that they muddy their vision with "reality". Their vision becomes full of not only what they want but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too.

Your work is to clarify and purify your vision so that the vibration that you are offering can then be answered.

Excerpted from a workshop in Boston, MA on Sunday, October 11th, 1998

All Is Well

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Physical pain is just an extension of emotion. It's all the same thing.

There are two emotions. One feels good and one feels bad. Which means, you're connected to your Energy Stream or you're not allowing your Energy Stream.

Excerpted from a workshop in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday, April 5th, 1998

All Is Well

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There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before it's manifestation, and then joyously watch the unfolding, as piece
by piece, by piece it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

Excerpted from a workshop in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, August 18th, 2001

All Is Well

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Watch For Potholes, But Keep Your Goal In Focus by Mike Brescia

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Today's Empowering Quote
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Hannah More

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Today's Empowering Question
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"What have I been paying attention to for the last hour?"

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It is absolute genius to be aware of the obstacles in front of you whenever you start any kind of undertaking.
If you don't, then you will be surprised when things go wrong. After a wreck, you'll likely be overheard to say
things like, "It was a total shock. There's nothing I could've done about it."

And the other comical thing is that most people focus ONLY on the obstacles. They never get where they want to be because after they get started, hurdles appear. And suddenly the entire focus becomes the hurdles. The goal gets fuzzier and harder to see. "What are we doing this for?" is a common thought.

This might seem obvious as you read this, but as I've watched people for many years, I suggest that a main reason most people don't get where they originally steer their ship is that they have no clue where the rocks are... and once they see those rocks, they throw their compass away. They get so focused on the obstacles and turned around that it often is impossible to reach their original objective.

Last week, we were watching our seven-year-old Goddaughter, Mary Kate, for the day. In our back yard, is
a big wooden slide/swing set. At the top of the slide, there's a large wooden brace that helps reinforce the
structure. Well, MK kept hitting her head on it before she slid down the slide. She must've hit her head 15 out of 20 times.

After a while, she'd smack her head and always follow it up with, "Ouch! I always hit my head on this!"

I suggested to her that she might try saying, "I keep my head away from the wood," and "My head feels good."

Notice I DIDN'T say, "I don't hit my head on the wood." That would force her mind to focus only on the obstacle, and not what she wanted, which was to keep her head away from it.

Now, I only mentioned this to her once.

Well, she started chanting it... over and over!

And in the next 40 or 50 trips up and down, she did not hit her head once.

That's the power of focus... and affirmation to help you keep your focus on the right actions and on the benefit.

Experience tells me that you can apply this in every area of life to get rapid results.

If you want to lose weight, create a few affirmations to help give you direction... and help you stay focused on
your outcome and benefits. Repeat them over and over. A few times a day.

Remember, this is how your brain works...

It's not possible for you to hear something once and have it change your actions permanently... unless it's an
incredibly emotional or traumatic experience.

You could repeat phrases like these...

"I love the texture and taste of vegetables." "I stay away from processed non-foods." "My body is becoming perfect in its proportions."

Of course there are many others...

Since every area of life has its high peaks and its low valleys, you can most certainly elevate your chances of
achieving your outcomes in any or all of them by applying this simple little "secret."

Go back to any time in your life when you reached your outcome, even if that outcome was just peace... relaxation.

You probably knew what the obstacles were and you planned to overcome them. So you focused on your goal and when you were nearing a potential delay or "pothole," you saw it, navigated around it and moved on... without commotion.

You've no doubt done this thousands of times...

If you want to reach your outcomes in life and do so with little stress...

One of the keys to being successful at a skill set and enjoying the process of accomplishment in it is being able
to get to the point where you can become unconsciously aware, without effort, of the obstacles to success and
happily move around them without concern... again, without apparent effort.

That takes practice. So practice!

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Your Inner Being is always guiding you toward what you are wanting. It is never protecting you from something else.

Excerpted from a workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, April 14th, 1998

All Is Well

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What Am I Waiting For? by Mike Brescia

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"When you are feeling fear of some project or idea or dream, ask yourself, 'What am I still curious enough about to override my fear?' Follow your curiosity like a delicious scent leading you to a kitchen. Let your curiosity peel back the dry, bitter skin of drudgery to find the sweet fruit of fun at the core. Focus on what you love rather than fixating on the feelings of discomfort that sometimes accompany desire." - Carol Lloyd

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Today's Empowering Question
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"What the heck am I waiting for?"

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I remember them all too well.

Sunday evenings...

I was eighteen. And for as long as I could remember, I dreaded Sunday evenings.

That was the time when I thought about all the homework and studying I hadn't done. I dreaded not being prepared.

But I still didn't prepare.

It would have only taken 1-3 hours.

But it just sat there. Untouched.

Man, I HAD to go out and party. It WAS the weekend after all.

And the chores. Well, no. I had tried like hell to avoid those, too. That's what the typical fights then were usually about.

What was wrong with me?

The laziest kid my 12th grade English teacher had EVER seen in his 20 years of teaching.

Nice label.

That didn't change for quite some time.

After I began to learn about self-image things got clearer.

Giving myself a reason for being alive melted a lot of fear.

Noticing how little actions can quickly lead to large accomplishments was exciting.

But that wasn't my focus for nearly 25 years.

MY focus was pleasure at all costs. Even if the cost was mental anguish at putting off the things that everyone else told me were important.

If only I had been conditioned to feel extraordinary joy at accomplishment - to shrink down the size of big jobs - to have some great role models that could have taught me what was truly important.

When I think now about all the accomplishments I've stacked up over the last 16 years, the joys I've felt, the inner peace I feel from knowing that I am becoming who I've dreamed about being, there is no effort too big and no job too demanding that it is not worth what it would take... if the only rewards were those.

You know, three to four minutes isn't enough to completely change a life. But stacked up, a lot of the right "few minutes" can be enough to change course and have a life of distinction.

It doesn't matter what your aim, there is nothing you can't do if you just begin.

Over the years, I've watched my sister in-law create some of the most beautiful quilts right before my eyes - even while a party is going on around her. She'll be talking, laughing, listening, telling stories, having a good time. And all the while, she's "multi-tasking" making her art.

To do great things, you've got to let go of the small things. If you want to be more, then look at what you're hanging
on to. Don't turn your head. Look at it. It will probably be painful.

Don't be afraid to look in the mirror.

To get out of whatever your current situation is, you have to know where you are. If you don't, you can't possibly know where to turn.

Honesty, especially with yourself, is one of the greatest virtues you can possess.

And if you are completely honest with yourself - if you have your eyes open - I know you'll see that no matter how large the goal or task or "problem," no matter how impossible you believe it to be, it's almost impossible to fail if you will just get started doing something...

It's the hardest thing to do.

But lean.

Roll.

Crawl.

Call for help.

Whatever you have to do.

Look at that task.

Shrink it.

Make it tiny.

Itsy bitsy.

It's definitely not going to hurt you.

Pay attention to the reward. Write down what you will get, and what you will start to become if you get this "horrible" thing done.

You WILL get something. THAT is what you must focus on. You WILL become different IF you hang onto that image.
Feel it ahead of time. Over and over. Breathe deep. In and out.

And get started.

Soon it will be over, and you get to feel for real what you had just imagined.

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Top 10 Ways to Kick Depression
by Rachel Fleischman MSW, LCSW

"My mind is like a bad neighborhood. I try never to go there alone."
~Ann Lamont; author

Depression sucks.

No doubt about it.

Having treated dozens of individuals with depression over the years, while reading countless books on the treatment of this "noonday demon", I still believe that the number one factor that really enables me to get to the heart of this malady is my firsthand experience with it. That's right. Not only am I a psychotherapist, I am also a bonafide client as well.

Depression started tugging at my heels by the time I was 8 years old. By 16, the dean of my high-school would call me each morning to make sure I got out of bed and showed up at school, instead of sleeping all day. By 30, I had two boyfriends; Ben and Jerry. Today, I still have low moments, but they are far less often, and last far less long. When my clients tell me that they are surprised that I really "get them", I often share that I have had my personal struggles with depression.

"The mind is a terrible thing to watch." ~Ann Lamont

I agree. Imagine if we had a scribe in our heads, even for a day.
I know I would be ashamed to think of what mine might write.

Having done a great deal of research on depression, I have heard many expert opinions regarding its etymology, hypothesizing everything from environmental, historical, genetic, energetic, past-lives, DNA-related, trauma-based, kharmic law. One thing is for sure; when we got it, we got it, and it can be crippling.

What folks may not know is that there are very useful tricks we can use to alleviate a sour mood. The brain is plastic. It is the last part of our body to really know something. When we tell our brain that life is awful and we are doomed, our brain tends to agree. In fact, I have noticed that when we when I experience a bout of depression, it is often triggered by events where I feel exposed as a "failure". My way out usually begins with a decision. A decision to feel better.
So, I decided to compile my "Top 10 Tricks to Kick Depression out of Bed, and Snuggle up with Joy Instead."

Write these down, stick em on your wall, and put them in motion.

First trick:
Get out of your head and into your feet
The body craves movement. Exercise really works. Let's not think of it as exercise though. Nothing is gnarlier to the depressed person than imagining him/herself at the gym in ill fitting sweats, panting on the stair master while svelte athletes are bopping around in all directions.

As Woody Allen says, 90% of success is showing up. Once we've got our walking shoes on, once we get endorphins cooking, the doldrums have less power to penetrate .

Second trick:
Turn on music! Now!
I recommend that my clients have an arsenal of inspiring and fun music at their fingertips.
I have even been known to make CD's for my clients. When we're depressed, the smallest task feels overwhelming. If I can kick-start someone's joy, then I am thrilled.

Third trick:
Turn on the light and sit in the sun.
Many of us work in windowless cubicles or offices, and wonder why we feel blue.

This time of year, when the sun sets earlier, we must 's dark out in autumn and winter, get a light, get some sun, get some more sun. And if there is no sun in your world, then buy a full-spectrum light. Get one cheap on E-bay.

Fourth trick:
Hang out with 4-leggeds. (Unless of course, you're allergic)
Having an animal companion near can instantly relaease oxytocin, that magical hormone that we secrete when we fall in love, give birth, or are nursing. It releases a feeling of goodwill, or trust in the world.
OK, so not all of all are blessed to be in love all the time, or be breast feeding, so I recommend my clients find other ways to bring on the joy chemical. Read on.

Fifth trick:
Change your thoughts. Right now.
We have around 60,000.00 thoughts per day. 87% of them are negative and are the same thoughts we had yesterday.

Experiencing joy is a deliberate choice. Joy takes practice. Joy is hardcore.
I use realistic affirmations, which, at times are posted all over my room. Notice I said realistic.

We must remember that affirmations don't make something happen, they make something welcome.
People tell me, "I put an affirmation up on my bedroom wall, saying:"I am ready to meet a gorgeous, successful, charming man who will adore and worship me." It's been 3 months. Where is he?" I tell them; "You have made yourself more open to meeting this human. Finding him is another story. Sorry."

Sixth Trick:
Follow a joyous lifestyle. Choose joyous entertainment.
find a class, a workout, anything that gets you in your body, preferably sweating a bit.

Seventh Trick:
Affirm joy with words.
Rudyard Kipling said "I am by calling a dealer in words. And words are by far the most powerful drug in the world". It may seem trite, but changing the way we speak can be extremely influential in changing our moods.

Eighth Trick:
Grab hold of a goal.
Make it a do-able one. Happiness and joy come from goals. We mustn't put off our lives.

Ninth Trick:
Cultivate a relationship with the divine.
We are whom our higher self wanted to experience.
There is some truth to the pithy phrase: There's no aetheists in foxholes.
Have a smidgens of faith and the world can be a gentler space.

Tenth Trick:
Choose joyous companions.
When we are depressed, we take our bored, sluggish selves wherever we go. We need distractions. We need company. We need intimacy. It is very important to be around authentic people. We need someone who believes in us. No nay-sayers!