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The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation

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The amount of text I highlight, star and underline tells me the importance of the book I'm reading. There isn't a page in this book I haven't marked and highlighted at least one or two lines or paragraphs. Lot's of insights. The bottom line insight is him pointing out the balance in all things. As soon as I read that I started seeing it in everything and everyone around me: of two children, one is rebellious, the other is not - they balance each other. Just as your business takes off, there's a crisis - they balance each other. One thief cursed Christ, the other blessed him. One on each side of him - a perfect balance.

Look at all the 5 star reviews for this book, so there must be a one-star review to compensate and balance all the 5 star reviews. Again perfect balance. An listen to Demartini's explaination of this on page 157:

"If you're infatuated with your dream, you'll also attract resentful, disowned parts to balance the infatuation. The difference is that if while they riducule you, you embrace the challenge with clear vision and no emotional reaction, it's a sign that you're present with your dream. If while theyu ridicule you, you feel hurt or become emotionally defensive, then you're infatuated with your overexaggerated dream and require humbleness to moderate it and more effectively fulfill it. In either case you grow.

I had the oppurtunity of hearing Dr. Demartini speak at a chiropractic seminar. However, his inspirational speaking took me far beyond the scope of chiropractic. That was three years ago and his inspirational & convictional speaking still moves me to this day. I purchased the book at the seminar and enjoyed it. The exercises are quite detailed and even the parts I did of the exercises brought great memorable, needed emotional releases in my life. Very inspiring man!!!

In his book, Dr. Demartini begins by saying, "Every single one of us has greatness and immortal genius inside. Everything that happens is directed toward waking us up to that gift and potential. We may have positive and negative opinions about the various people and events in our lives, but in truth, they all play a perfect role in unfolding our destiny and making us who we are." What he is saying consistently is that in every person or event, there is always and inevitably both positive and negative.

Dr. Demartini is not even saying that we should discount the negative and embrace the positive. What he is saying is that we need to come to appreciate the balanced experience and know that each is necessary for us and is as it should be. He tells us that "all phenomena are universally full-quantum. . .there must be no such thing as happiness without sadness, or sadness without happiness."

He speaks about gratitude being the key to "growth and fulfillment" and that those who learn to be grateful for what they have are quickly rewarded with more. He defines true gratitude as "a quiet state of poise and inner calm where you're truly thankful, where you sense the divine order and wouldn't want anything to change."

He then acknowledges how it's difficult to experience this sense of gratitude until we learn how to find the hidden benefit in what may at first seem to be a negative event. Everything that happens in our lives is a gift and a blessing.

Dr. Demartini talks about how we must come to welcome the balance between positive and negative. He says, "When you know that bad things aren't so terrible and good things aren't so terrific, you can be quietly grateful for whatever occurs. Balance is neither pessimism nor optimism. . . It is `gratefulism,' and that is both wisdom and true power."

His book tells us that in any given moment we have everything available to us that we need.

One of his concepts that profoundly affected me is that love is not merely unconditional support of another, but it also includes challenge. When we merely support another, we are only creating dependency. When we truly love, we also challenge. Conversely, love is not merely challenge but we also must support.

This book encourages us to "understand and embrace everything that comes our way. . .knowing that it is not an attack, but an opportunity to refine and expand ourselves, we can turn our lives into the same masterful dance."

I found this book to be very applicable to my life in many ways, particlarly with the affirmations. Dr. Demartini is an interesting author with a viewpoint that is refreshing and different than the cookbook approach repeated over and over in most personal development books. Well worth the time and investment.

I have had the pleasure of personally meeting Dr Demartini on two occasions. He has personally told some of these stories to me himself. Do I believe everything he said happened exactly as told? No. But any good storyteller must embellish every story. No matter if the stories are absolute truth or total fabrication, it does not change the passion of the message. This man has devoted his life to helping himself and humankind raise above our normal lives and find and attain our destiny. This is a great man and a great book. Dr Demartini is has inspired me to be a better man, husband, Chiropractic healer, and human. I will be forever gracious to him for inspiring me.

Sometimes we are our own captor and the prisoner of our own making. The DeMartini Method is a series of questions that help you access your own best friend - your mind. Asian philosophers call mental chatter the source of much inner hell. It's great to question your limiting belief and release yourself from a problem of your own making.

Here is an case example:

Who is someone that pushes my buttons: Brenda

What is it that pushes my buttons about this person? Their behavior seems hurtful to themself and others.

Who is it that sees me that way with that trait? My best friend Caroline sometimes sees me as a tad too adventurous in a different way. (Keep writing down a list of the people who do until the list is complete and until you can own that trait as much as your own as the person that is pushing your buttons)

How does their behavior serve me? I commit to acting in integrity because I want to demonstrate my love to those who I love through being in integrity and honoring their feelings.

How can you perceive it so it doesn't run your life? The person who pushes my buttons is teaching me how not to destroy love between myself and those who matter alot to me. I am being taught how to nurture love and see all the red flags that help me choose friends who are aligned with my values.

How has me doing that served them? By being in integrity as much as I can (even though I am not perfect)and being love in action, I create emotionally healthy mutually beneficial relationships in the world. That person is part of the world and experiences the world. (This dissolves guilt)

Where does this person have the opposite for that trait? Brenda has a job and is able to support herself. In having a job she is supporting people and helping herself through earning an income. Or Brenda being occupied by her shenanigans helps her learn something while being an example to others. The example is a lesson for others on how to choose better friends in life and thus Brenda is helping others help themselves. (This breaks the label)

At the very moment they were doing that who was doing the opposite? A person who went into a store and robbed the owner.

If they had not been that way what are the drawbacks? I would not appreciate my friends of the jewels they are. And therefore, not be committed to nurturing them the way I do. I realize how precious people I love are to me every moment. I experience what unconditional love is because my friends need not do anything but be to be loved by me.

This breaks the fantasy that any other way than how it was or is would have been a perfect paradise. A negative trait label is the fantasy of the opposite that doesn't exist and didn't serve a positive purpose.

Stop and look at how the positive can be a drawback. Keep looking and dig until you find the answer. Had Brenda not done hurtful things I would not have become better adept at recognizing the warning signs fast enough of people who do not share my values. Although there is no right and wrong, I am aware that I am happier and better off choosing friends who share my values and so are my friends for this. I only attract people who share my values and therefore experience love from these amazing friendships.

Now link this to my values: I link this to my high value of giving and receiving love and respect. Brenda's behavior benefits people who learn to attract happiness by choosing friends who share their values.

But the breakthrrough is much more than that.

This book is awsome!!! This is one of the greatest books you'll ever read. And that's not an exageration. It guides you on how to overcome your fears, issues, your limitation, self-esteem. It unconvers the true you and you realise the genius that lies within you. This book truelly is magnificent, and it changed my life. This book was much more effective than years with shrink appointments!!! It took me maybe 3 days to finish it - I couldn't let it go, so I just kept reading. I always read it everytime I need to refresh the brain and the emotion of the soul. You really shoud read it over and over again til you change the neurons in your brain and the chemicals of your body. It is engaging, energizing, very systematic, funny, empowering, inspiring, real, well-written and very digestable. And there is no downside to this whatsoever. And I've read some of these kind of books, but this totally works, and there is a reason for it. This guys couldn't read untill he turned 18 years old, now he's one of the very few geniuses and multi millionairs in the world. He used to live on the street from the time he was 14 till he turned 18. He did everything by himself thanks to an inspritional meeting with a Yoga instructor and nutrional guide Paul Bragg. If you want an inspiring life and fulfill your life purposes, or find out what your life mission is then this is a book to read. If you're sick, sad,etc - this book is also for you - because this guy will help you collaps all those negative emotions and transform them to something new and refreshing beauty and grace. That is what Breaktrhough is all about. It is about the real thing, the real deal!The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation

I have to admit, when I first started reading this, I put it down after a couple of chapters. I also have to admit, the reason that I did it was because I knew it was the truth and I was afraid to face it. For the 24 hours following I had a voice in the back of my head telling me to pick it back up again. I did. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

Everything in this book resonated with me. Going back through my life I realized the truth behind this. It also agrees with a lot of what I have been reading for the last couple of years. Within these pages are not only very wise words, but this book actually has real techniques that you can put to use right now to change your life. The key is to be completely honest with yourself. Don't lie to yourself and say that you're being honest, actually be honest. If you do, the effect will be phenomenal.

If you really want to make a difference in your life, get this book. Without a doubt, it's the best one out there. Dr. John DeMartini is brilliant and the book is easy to use.

This is an insightful and very thought out book. As you read each chapter you are supprised to find that the pennies just keep dropping as what Dr Demartini has to say about our perseptions with life, love, friendships and relationships of all aspects. Very interesting and I would recommend this book to most people with an open mind.