How to have more possibilities and opportunities than most people
Last week I reminded you that dissolving the meaning we give events all day long will virtually stop your negative feelings and stress. Then I gave you a link to a web App that would allow you to do just that whenever you noticed a negative feeling. If you have a hard time believing that merely dissolving meaning will totally eliminate stress, read what Rob Shapiro, an emergency room doctor, wrote me just a couple of weeks ago about his experience of dissolving meaning: … all stress experienced by my body and mind at my job had been completely eliminated. [...]
Get rid of your upsets in three minutes
It’s finally ready and it’s yours at no charge. For the past few years I’ve been telling you how to dissolve the automatic and unconscious meaning you give events all day long. I’ve explained how doing that will enable you to virtually get rid of your negative emotions, which will stop your stress and emotional suffering. It will take less than three minutes Although I have taught hundreds of people in our Lefkoe Freedom Course how to reduce the frequency of the meaning they attribute to moment-to-moment events from 50+ a day to just several a week, I didn’t have [...]
What’s possible for a human being?
This week I’m about to undertake one of the most exciting experiments I’ve ever conducted. I’ve accepted six participants into my new program, a Year With Morty, which starts this week. The purpose of this program is for me to see how far I can help each one of them stretch the limits of what’s possible for a human being during 50 weekly one-on-one sessions and two three-day retreats. It starts this week. (I had planned to only accept five applicants; the sixth person was someone I was so excited about working with that I could not say, no.) A [...]
What do you really want out of life?
Every time we send our mailing list a survey asking what you want from the Lefkoe Institute, what you want out of life, or what you would like to change in your life, the most frequent answer we get is overcoming fear in order to take action. Other answers include: Eliminating other negative feelings and wanting to be more successful. On a recent questionnaire many of you mentioned wanting to make some type of contribution to others. Is that all there is to life? These are certainly worthwhile goals. I suspect that they are representative of what most people in [...]
Would you like to spend a year with me?
Last week two different personal development leaders who are friends of mine told me about yearlong coaching programs they had started offering. I had never thought of offering such a course myself, but when they told me about their programs I immediately thought about how much value I could deliver in a year using all the different Lefkoe Method Processes. And when I did, I got so excited that I decided to create such a program immediately. I started thinking about all the benefits people get from sessions with our Certified Lefkoe Method Facilitators, from our digital programs, from our [...]
Use your mind to affect your physical state
Two weeks ago I wrote the following in a post entitled, “Another major breakthrough is on the horizon”: I now think there is something very important that will come from integrating the ability to stop giving meaning, the almost total absence of stress (which has been implicated in almost every minor and major health problem), experiencing unconditional love for people, the fact that our language and the words we use to objectively describe reality already contain meaning that produces significant changes in the body, being able to access the WAIR? altered state of consciousness at will, and the placebo effect [...]
Can Childhood Trauma Shorten Your Life?
I recently read an article that could save your life. Over the past 18 years, Dr. Vincent Felitti and his professional partner, Dr. Robert Anda, have been researching the effects of adverse childhood experience (ACE) on long-term physical health. Childhood trauma leads to serious illnesses as adults Here are some of their conclusions: “People with ACE scores of four or higher [meaning, there were four or more adverse childhood experiences] were twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer, twice as likely to have heart disease, four times as likely to suffer from emphysema or chronic bronchitis, and twelve times [...]
You won’t look for something that you don’t think exists
If you know what you are looking for, Google and the Internet have made it possible to find information about it—whatever it is—in a matter of seconds. If you want to improve your life you can search for help in dealing with any problem you could possibly have and find thousands of sites offering help in less than a second. Because that is possible, people who offer solutions to common problems put the words and phrases that people are likely to search for (such as “improve self-esteem,” “end procrastination,” “overcome fear of public speaking,” and “how to improve relationships”) in [...]
Events are neither advantageous nor disadvantageous
In his recent best selling book, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell makes the point that often advantages turn out to be disadvantages, and vice versa. I disagree with Gladwell’s proposition. “Advantageous” events can’t turn out to be “disadvantageous” and vice versa because events never have an inherent meaning to begin with. It’s not that what is true turns out not to be true; what we think is true is only a meaning that exists only in our minds; it never was inherently true to begin with. Why are so many people confused about this issue? The misconception Gladwell makes in [...]
