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If you ask the question thatallows you to be really present,
in the moment and synthesizeand syncretize the opposite,
pairs of opposites in themind, we end up in presence.
In all probability you've heardpeople talking about, now be present,
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get into the now, don't live inthe past and future, be present.
I'd like to address that topic today.
So if you have something to writewith and write on, you might grab it.
But for centuries, if not millennia,
there has been discussions inphilosophers minds on, what
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exactly is the present?Is it an infinitesimal,
so tiny you can't even get into it?
Is it some increment of timethat we're called present?
And is the present something weonce had as we go into the future,
or will have ? Ifwe're living in the past.
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Where exactly is the present? Howdo we get into it? The power of now,
Eckhart Tolle talked about.Well, how do we do it?
I've been fascinated with thattopic for many decades. So
let's just address that topic fora second. Now, my observation,
if you are meeting people and you meetsomebody that you're infatuated with,
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and you look up to them andyou're conscious of the upside,
unconscious of the downside,and you anticipate,
you start to create animagination of what could happen,
engaging with thisindividual into the future.
And if you ran into somebody inthe past that you were infatuated
with in the past, and liked, youmight recall that into the past,
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as long as you have imaginationinto the future and you have memory,
you're adding the arrowof time into your mind,
which is what is called entropic,
it tends to make us disordered andit tends to make us wobble and not
be present. But we're thinking aboutthe future, thinking about the past,
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and we're having intrusive thoughts aboutthings we're infatuated with or things
we were once infatuated within the memory of the past.
The same thing if we resent somebody.
If we're highly resentful andconscious of the downsides,
unconscious of the upsides, we canactually now have intrusive thoughts.
I'm sure you've had infatuationsor resentments to people
and tried to sleep at
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night and you couldn't sleep,
because you had all this ruminatingin your mind and your imagination was
running wild and the memory of whathas happened is now in your mind.
So you're oscillating backand forth. And when you do,
you have time in the mind.And anytime you do that,
you're in the existential world whereyou've extended time and space into
past and future, and over there, not here.
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But being present is very powerful.
It's a one word that actuallyintegrates space and time. Present here,
present now.
And what's interesting is when you extractout space and time from the mind and
become present, you also empower the mind.
Your intuition is attempting to do that,
but the impulses and instincts of youramygdala and your subcortical area of
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your brain and your subconsciousmind is keeping it in time.
That's why philosophers saidthere was Kairos and Chronos.
Chronos was time and Kairos waspresent. So the question is,
how do we actually goto the present? Well,
I've been interested in thatfor a long time. And in fact,
my Demartini Method that I present inthe Breakthrough Experience is designed
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for that objective. It actually says,
now go to a moment where andwhen you perceive a particular
event that you were infatuatedwith or resentful to,
that you admire or despise,that you look up to or down on.
And in that moment you find the opposite.
If you're finding it positive,you find the negative to it.
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If you find it negative,you find the positive to it.
And once you bring them into perfectsymmetry, perfect synchronicity,
simultaneous opposites,
you take out memory and imaginationand infatuation resentment,
and you bring somebody to the present.
Now I've been doing thatfor 35, 38 years now,
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35 in the Breakthrough Experience plus,
38 years clinically withpeople with my method,
and when people are actually present,they have tears of gratitude,
they feel love, they're inspired,
they feel really enthusedabout what's happening,
they see the hiddenorder in the chaos, they
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really are in a state of gratitudeand love, and they really,
they maximize their potential and theirservice and utility into the world.
So the second we see both sidesof an event simultaneously,
and we don't get infatuated or resentful,
where we see the downside to the thingwe look up to and the upsides to the
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thing we look down on, the secondwe do that, we become present.
The present is the synthesisand synchronicity of
complementary opposites in
time or space or in emotional charge,
or things that matterto us. So I ask people,
what specific trait,
action or inaction do you perceive thisindividual displaying or demonstrating
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that you admire most,or despise most? Great,
at that moment I askthem now, at that moment,
what's the downside to it,or what's the upside to it?
And when the downsides and upsidescome into perfect equilibrium,
where it's not positive nor negative,it's neither positive or negative,
the memory and imaginationcome into the present.
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And instead of sitting there andholding onto a memory of the past or
imagination of the future,
we automatically extract out space andtime in the mind and get present. Now,
meditation is sort of doingthis with our intuition,
and we can get to the presentby a meditation, but it's
kind of a hit and miss,
it may take minutes.
But the method that I've developed isdesigned to take you into the present.
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It's designed to extract out space andtime from the mind and become present.
And it's the space and time in the mindthat causes all the disorder and chaos
and emotional vicissitudesand volatilities and
uncertainties we have in our
life. The moment we bring ourselvesinto the present, we transcend those.
And again, we have the transcendentalfeelings of gratitude, love, inspiration,
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enthusiasm, certainty and presence. Andthat's where we have the most power.
That's where we're most objective. See,
we have subjective biaseswhen we judge things.
And we have objective truthand we actually love things,
we see both sides of things. Now, I'mnot defining love as an infatuation,
which many people think is love,
but love is the synthesis andsynchronicity of opposites.
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And what I mean by synchronicity,
that means there's no timeseparating things causally.
It's not this happened and then afterthat this happened. They're simultaneous.
When you have simultaneity and youhave synchronicity and you have a
perfect synthesis in space andtime, you now become present.
Now, this was done by the dialectic byGreek philosophers attempting at least,
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but I've developed a method that thinkgoes beyond that and allows you to ask
questions. I have a sectionin my Demartini Method,
which I present in the BreakthroughExperience called Column 6 and 13 of a
series of columns thatwe ask questions on.
And in this question we go to a momentwhere and when we perceive an individual
displaying or demonstratinga trait, action,
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or an action that weadmire or despise most,
and in that moment we identifywhere it happened, when it happened,
and we become present inthe moment of perception.
The more present we are inthe moment of perception,
the less we have space and time,
and the less we have emotionsand less the uncertainties.
And in that moment ourintuition will pop out,
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once we're clear on the where the whenand what the content was and exactly
what and who they did thisto, if they did it to you,
the action that you're judging,if you get really present with it,
your intuition revealsthe complete antiparticle,
the opposite experience,
because all perceptions aremade out of pairs of opposites.
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And the moment you see bothof them simultaneously, you
enter into the presence.
And the moment you do, you're not inbeta waves, you're not in delta waves,
you're in alpha theta waves,
and then you synchronize into gammawaves and you get a gamma synchronicity,
an aha, eureka moment,
where you're inspired and you gettears in the eyes and you know,
a state of knowing, there's nouncertainty, a state of certainty.
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And in that moment, you have the momentof presence. And it's awe-inspiring.
There's a very powerfulstate called presence.
And in that moment there's kindof a timeless mind, ageless body,
as Deepak used to say. And in that moment,we don't age, we don't have entropy,
we have negentropy, theopposite of entropy.
And this is the physics oflife, not the physics of death.
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Entropy is the tendencyto go to randomness and
disorder and which is part of
the death process, the deathphysics. But this is life physics.
This is discovering the hidden order inthe apparent chaos and seeing things.
It's when you reclaim the informationthat you were unconscious of and become
fully conscious and you see both sidessimultaneously that you become present.
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And this state is not only profoundas far as wellness quotient,
but it's also profound in the sense ofloving and appreciating life and yourself
and the people around you.
So I just wanted to make a few momentson this idea of being present. Again,
if you ask the question that allows youto be really present in the moment and
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in synthesize and syncretize the opposite,
pairs of opposites in the mind, we endup in presence. What's interesting,
in quantum physics there'sa thing called entanglement,
where you have a positive chargedparticle, like a positron,
and a negatively chargedparticle like electron,
and they originate out of aphoton, and what happens they go,
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no matter where they are in spaceand time, they work as a team.
And so this is a quantumentanglement. Well,
the same kind of thingoccurs sort of in the mind.
The mind has never a memorywithout an imagination.
The hippocampus that stores the memoryalso has the details for the imagination.
And in the process, when you get reallypresent, at the moment of perception,
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these things that separatenormally, reunite.
And in that moment you have a temporalentanglement, time is synchronized,
a spatial entanglement, nomatter where it is in space time,
they synchronize their oppositebehaviors. And in that moment,
you have presence. And this isthe key, as I said, to wellness.
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This is the key to stability. It'sthe key to self-actualization.
And I'm a firm believer that if youfollow the process that I teach in the
Breakthrough Experience and actually gothrough and do that and enter into that
state, which we make sure everybody does,
you can't have anythingexcept a tear of gratitude.
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You spontaneously see the hiddenorder in the apparent chaos,
and you realize there was nothingto fix, nothing to change.
It's like a perfectionthat occurs. You know,
Leibniz, the German philosopher talkedabout that the more people probe into the
mysteries of life, the more perfectit becomes. And I think this is it.
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We we have this assumption there's amistake in the universe or some sort of
disordered thing that's going on,
and then we look and ask a new set ofquestions that equilibrate our mind and we
enter into a state wherethere's nothing but grace,
a state where we realizethat there's nothing to fix.
Every very week in the BreakthroughExperience I have people coming there and
they come up with the idea that, you know,
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my father didn't do this ormy mother didn't do that,
or my brother didn't do this,or sister didn't do that,
or my husband does thisor, and they got judgments.
And every time you judge, you'readding space and time to the mind,
weighing yourself down withgravitational pull, emotional baggage.
And you store it in your hippocampusand the subconscious mind,
this drama that's in your life andthese uncertainties and vicissitudes.
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But the second you go through there andask the right question to see both sides
simultaneous and synchronize your mind,
and extract out space and timebetween pairs of opposites,
and literally enter into the worldof the entangled pairs of opposites,
like in quantum physics,
you'll open up a doorway of opportunityfor your life to be actually fulfilled.
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And that's why I took the moment to sharethis because I've developed a science,
since I was 18 years old I've beenworking on it 50, almost two years.
And you can access this stateand it's duplicatable and
reproducible and transcribableand translatable,
and I can take anybody from almost anyculture and have them go through it.
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If they can translatewhat my instructions are,
they can actually go and enter into thisstate, and actually in that mind state,
that mental state, you're actually notaging. You're actually having no entropy.
You're actually just present. There'sa stillness there in the mind.
There's no noise in the mind,there's no distractions.
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There's no impulses and instincts to seekor avoid because of pleasure or pain.
You synthesized it.
I define love as a synthesisand synchronous of all
complementary opposites.
And you enter into a state oflove. And there's grace, as I said,
and then you're present.
And this present is the perfectstate of where you sit in awe
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and you're in silence, goldensilence. You've hit the,
what Aristotle called thegolden mean, the highest virtue.
And this is something that literallystops some of the aging. See,
as long as we're in the existential worldwhere we're in memory and imagination
and we've stored some sort ofemotional charge of polarity,
we're going to fearthat which we think is,
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fear the loss of thingsthat we think are positive,
we're going to fear the gain ofthings that we think are negative.
If we completely neutralize them andsynchronize them, we don't have fear,
we don't have fantasy. No philias,no phobias, just presence.
And that state is a very profound state.
And one of the things I absolutely loveabout the Breakthrough Experience is
teaching people how to do that, makingthem go through that, experience that,
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and have an awe,
and they're literallysilent and speechless almost
when they have it because
they don't even know how to putit in words. And that's profound.
I've seen people heal fromit that had health issues.
I've seen people resolveconflicts and issues with people.
I've seen them love andappreciate themselves.
So I think the journey into the presentis something worthy of every human
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being.
I don't know of any human being thatcan't benefit by extracting out space and
time from their mind andgetting into the present.
And that's why the quality of your life'sbased on the quality of the questions
you ask. If you ask questions thatallow you to see both sides of an event
simultaneously, instead of labeling itpositive or negative or good or bad,
or judging it with moral hypocrisies,
but to actually just honor it and seeits wholeness. When you're objective,
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you see both sides simultaneous.When you're subjective,
you bias your opinionand you perceive things,
you have false positivesand false negatives,
you see things that aren't there and youdon't see things that are there and you
distort your reality.
And then you end up having theaging process and a bunch of time,
and you then store that in memories andimaginations for fear of loss of things
or fear of gain of things, prey,predator mentality, animal behavior,
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instead of actually humannature, at its finest.
So the journey into presenceis asking quality questions,
which I've described and outlined inthe Breakthrough Experience with the
Demartini Method, to assist you in havingthe timeless mind and ageless body,
the the state of presence.And I believe that anybody,
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I've seen young kids go through it andapply the method and see the results,
I've seen people in their nineties do it,
so time has nothing to do withit as far as the aging process.
Who's the one that can do this? We canall do it. But learning how to do it,
I'm certain can reduce thestress levels, empower your life,
help you communicate more effectively,help you appreciate and love your life,
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and allow you to just nothave the aging, you know,
and stressful dynamicsthat most people live in.
So just wanted to take a few moments totalk about the journey into presence and
the journey about being present,
and to let you know that inthe Breakthrough Experience
I show you how to do
that and teach you the Demartini Methodso you've got that the rest of your
life.
And I think it does stop and slow downthe aging process and allows you to
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actually have more gratitude and loveand inspiration and enthusiasm and
certainty and presence, which Icall the transcendentals of life.
So if you're interested in that,
please join me at theBreakthrough Experience and
come and learn this method on
how to become present.