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Rediscovering The Great Discovery
An excerpt from
The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation
by John F. Demartini
Dear Friends and Students,
An essential part of The Breakthrough Experience is The Great Discovery. At any moment of your life, you will never be put down without being lifted up, nor lifted up without being put down; positive and negative, good and bad, support and challenge, peace and war – all come together in pairs. They are simultaneous and perfectly balanced, and that is what makes up the divine order.
At first that may seem somewhat less than startling, but when it sinks in, you’ll realize that it’s truly an amazing understanding. If you ever see one side without the other, you’re living in an illusion. Stop right now and think about you life. Find a moment where you were criticized, put down, or humiliated. Isolate the exact moment in space and time and the exact individual or group. Once you pinpoint this moment of humiliation, look again and you’ll find that at exactly the same time you were being put down, either you or somebody else was lifting you up and praising you. In addition, any time you were put up on a pedestal, that was the very moment somebody brought you down and put you the pit. Wisdom is the acknowledgement that both sides occur equally and simultaneously.
Each of us lives in duality; we are all bipolar people. We have a part that lifts us up and another that puts us down. We praise and criticize ourselves. Nobody will ever put us up or down as much as we do, because no one will ever think as much or as intensely about us as we think about ourselves. When somebody reacts to us, they’re merely reflecting a repressed part of us. No one ever victimizes us; they just reflect us.
I once consulted for a doctor in Los Angels who said, “I need some help, John. I’m running into a series of patients who say there’s no way they can possibly commit to the necessary care for that lo9ng.”
“So what are your responses?” I asked him.
“Well, that’s it. I don’t have responses, and I keep blowing it. I’m calling you to get some ideas.”
He was giving his patients a plan of action for their health care, which had worked fine for months, but all of sudden he was getting this objection over and over again. I know the world is a mirror, so I just asked him, “Where are you holding back from committing that long?”
He had just been talked into getting married. He loved the lady and a part of him definitely wanted to get married, but he was frightened of the commitment because he’d been through it before. The week he agreed to marry her, he started getting this objection from his patients. His fear was financial, so when I helped him work out a prenuptial agreement, his fear of marriage evaporated and his clients soon stopped refusing to commit. His financial “problem” helped him organize and break through his relationship fears and open his heart to the women he loved.
People treat you exactly the way you unconsciously treat yourself. Their outer mannerisms toward you reflect your inner mannerisms, so one of the powerful ways to transform your life is to become consciously aware of your beliefs and feelings about yourself. Most people go thorough life completely oblivious. They have high moments and low moments and swing through their emotions, but don’t see the love. My objective is to have you become aware that you’re surrounded by magnificent love every moment of your life.
Gratitude and Wisdom,
Dr. John F. Demartini.
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