Teachings I learned from Don Miguel Ruiz What I learned from don Miguel Ruiz is more than can be fit into the internet. (Unconditional Love gets lost in the digital translation) Before meeting Miguel, life…
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Change Your Mind In Teotihuacan Mexico
How To Change What Is In Your Mind Every year I go on a kind of pilgrimage. My pilgrimage doesn’t involve praying to, or worshiping a deity. It’s a personal one of letting go of…
The McGurk Effect: How Conditioning Affects Perception
How does our conditioning affect our perception. Watch this video and you will see how you HEAR sounds that are not there. Our visual cue is that we should hear a certain sound, and so…
#12: Don’t take anything personally
In the book, The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz outlines a code of conduct for creating love and happiness in your life. One of his Four Agreements is “Don’t Take Anything Personally”. In this episode I describe some of the hidden assumptions that cause us to take things personally.
#11: The ego mind and consciousness
Understanding the ego mind and consciousness means becoming aware of the way our mind dreams. The ego mind has more than just thoughts and beliefs; it has emotions, memories, visual images and a life of its own. When we believe what our imagination dreams we can get lost in a world of illusions.
Struggling with the Exercises
Dear Gary, I recently came upon your site while doing a Google search for overcoming jealousy. It has been thus far a good tool for me. I see the material as excellent – as close…
#03: Emotional reactions
When it comes to stopping or changing emotional reactions people often approach the problem like they are fixing a car. The assumption seems to be that if we change one thing the whole problem will go away.
#02: The Four Agreements and hidden assumptions
In this episode I cover some places that assumptions hide. I do a little poking around to show you what they look like. I also show how they lead us down dark alleys chasing illusions in our mind. Becoming aware of those dark alleys of mental illusions will make it easier to get out.