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Question:

It makes sense when you say “In that moment” because that tells us that based on the choices we have made: this is possible.

 

Gary:

Yes, based on the choices that we have made collectively until this point, this is what is possible out in the future.

 

Question:

And if I choose to sit in a room for the next 3 years it would be different.

 

Gary:

Yes, based upon the course of actions we take from this point forward whatever we experience 10 years from now out on our future timeline could take a shift. So that is why I think, the choices we make in each moment happens to become like a really sacred experience, where we have to begin to look at, and I just wrote about this, that every moment in time we have is an opportunity to either solidify the programming that we have already received or to shift the course of action and to shift the course of response to the world in a way that is in alignment with our soul. And we have that choice moment to moment to moment and our relationships happens to be the place where we play that out the most. Like Robert and I when we walk around, we like to joke around a lot, we joke around all the time, so we would see someone and we would go ” hm, who coordinated that accessory.. and we won’t make some sort of comment like that and we are constantly reminding each other, it is like: walk nice-give nice! And we would pass by someone who is really damaged on the street and we would look at each other and we would go: “did you do a prayer for them, as we walked by them?” It is about using our focus on our consciousness in a way that is going to produce that kind of person I am choosing to evolve into. I am not always there. I am there moments of time and it is a choice. So it depends on what we are choosing to do in those moments of time. I could live as easily in fear and scaresity as I could in my knowingness that I can create my life as I choose by focusing on certain things and being relentless until I achieve them. I can either be in fear in smallness and in a sense of victimization as easily as I can do the other of empowerment of choosing to produce my world in a way that is aligned with higher values for me. I could do ether. How many of you know, that when you wake up in the middle of a day you can either lay in bed and eat bonbons and watch TV all day or you can get up and you can write a book. You can literally do either or. And how you experience those experiences is how what you are going to evolve into and what you are going to be more of. I know that there is plenty of days I could just stay in bed, watch movies all day, eat lots of really bad food. I could easily, and I refuse. It is being relentless.

 

Question:

Do you have any tips, tricks, hints for those of us who are striving for relentlessness?

 

Gary:

Yes. Run this phrase over and over in your head: “Time is more precious when there is less of it to waste”!

You see, when you watch people die and you know that you could be that person, and for some reason you are not and you know that there is no more time for them, that time is over and the tremendous amount of agony at the things that were not and could not now be experienced, is overwhelming.

So, what I know is that procrastination kills the soul. It just kills the soul. It stifles your dreams. It robs you of your life-purpose and it creates such an immeasurable fear at the time of your death, because you realized you did not want you came here to do and the regret could fill an ocean. And I refuse to die like that.

I mean, some people think I am absolutely nuts for moving to Australia. They go like: You are just nuts, buddy! You are going to be 52 and you take your career that you have built for 20 years and you have it be up in the air for a while and then go to a whole other continent to see what you can create out of scratch? That is nuts! I ought to be retiring. And at the end of the day, you know what I have? I have my stories about what   had the courage to do. I don’ t have anything more than that. So, I figure go do something extreme. And that is pretty extreme, wouldn’t you say? I am a really creative guy, and I figure I can create something fabulous. One day I had a really good gig in Sydney. That is great, I got a corporate training company that is Australia-wide to hire me for two days to come in and training their people. And, so all the big VIP’s are coming to watch me. That could be huge! That could be just huge. Things are just going to happen, and I just have complete faith. What I guess I am suggesting, what I am really doing is, I am following the life speak. I am following the metaphors of how life is opening up doors and closing other doors. And I am following it. And I am following also what I feel and I am listening to life. And life has sent me so many messages about being in Australia for years. Did I tell you guys, the story about that psychic surgeon that did some work on me in Australia? Very interesting woman. My sponsors down there scheduled an appointment with me with this little lady, in sort of the outback of Australia. She has this little house out there in the suburbs somewhere and they booked this appointment saying: You have to go and see her. I was like: Bloody hell, I am going to go, I am going to lay down on this table in the middle of pictures of angles everywhere, the room is going to be pink and she is going to do some little woowoo and cantation. and I am going to look at her, saying ‘yeah that was really great’ and act like I had a big shift and walk out! I will do it for you guys. So, I go there, sure enough the room was painted pink, it was lavender, pictures of little angels everywhere, and I am like ” I knew it”. She is like doing her thing, hands and left hand up and right hand down on my body and going through the centers of my body saying things about what the angels are saying. I am like:’yeah, yeah..”. I kind of looked at that wall clock on the wall, thinking: ok, I am going to have another half hour! I am going through all this. Suddenly she came over to my left side and she says: ‘they told me to do something that I have never done before, so don’t freak out!’. I am like: ‘Oh great!!’. So she comes over and literally it’s like I felt two hands enter through, like energetic hands, spread my ribcage and enter into my body, and then surround my heard like this. All of the sudden there was this starburst of light and went of inside of me. My eyes were closed, and I was like ‘ that feels really weird.’ And I felt like there was these hands around my heart and then this starburst just happened. I opened up my eyes and I said: ‘What the hell are they doing?” Then, I was a believer. She said: “They just replaced your broken heart, because they said: ‘you can no longer do the work you are destined to do with the heart you have had.

I guess, if I could say something about my personality, I am not a happy person. I am basically a depressed person – in the past. I am not one of these guys ‘hey, I am happy, life is great, everything is wonderful..’ I am like ‘life sucks!’ And I am in a lot of pain, and I am lonely and I don’t like it here and I would like to go home, I don’t have to be here and life sucks! That is kind of my disposition. And of course, when I came back from that she sat me down and she said:’ I look at the world and she says ‘the visions I have had is, in 10 years none of the continents look the same, except for Australia. All the continents are different.’

You know the poles are shifting? Science has proven it, NASA has proven it, the poles are shifting. It is in the process of shifting. The poles are, they just are. There is animals migrating north instead of south right now. The world is in a very interesting place. She said to me: “I see healers migrating to Australia”, and she said “you are one of the heavy guns, you have to be here.” And I went “no,no.”

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We have all grown into the identities we are, in the emotional pool of our ancestors.  Our parents within the environment of their parents and their parents within theirs, down through the generations until the family triumphs and tragedies come to a still point in our life expression.  The question is: do we continue the legacy of our ancestors through our actions, beliefs and valves or do we cull those inherited beliefs and values so we can turn our past into our greatest ally.  

This book is written to awaken the curiosity of the reader to a larger picture.  A spiritual perceptive of family, life purpose ,grace, order and share practical useable TOOLS to shift our personal tragedies to our greatest triumphs and create a life of personal fulfillment and contribution. 

Contained within these pages are TOOLS which work. 

As a man thinketh so he becomes”

 

Here is my journey of discovering the secret message of my family system and it’s spiritual significance for my the evolution of my heart and soul.

 My search for answers to the pain of how to emotional cope as a young adult and become a self responsible member of society was overwhelming to me as a young man.  I began the use of drugs at a young age of 14 and progressed from wine and marijuana to intervenes drug use by 16. 

Many people wonder why individuals fall into drug or alcohol addiction. I can only speak for myself.  It was the pain I carried about what had happened in my family.

The lack of, loss of and betrayal of love that I had witnessed. The insanity, drug and alcohol use I was subjected to and standing witness to what once was love between my parents turn into this dark expression of violence, hatred, attempted murder, suicide attempts and betrayal.

My mother grew more and more desperate, afraid and unbalanced as I matured.  She had built her identity on being a mother and wife.  As my father retired from the navy and began college my mother became more threatened by his distance and expansion and the drinking began.  Her role as a mother was simultaneously changing as my brother and myself were maturing. 

The damage her fear of the loss of love caused within the family was complete and devastating.

I spent many years of my youth in clinical shock from the behaviors of my mothers overwhelming fear she was losing the only thing that ever loved her, her family.

I witnessed how the lack of love and compassion can drive a person to madness.

The role I took was to become my mothers best friend and psychotherapist at the age of eleven.

My way of surviving the lack of love was to do my best to balance what I saw to missing. The conversation, the reassurance and time.  This dynamic continued in the house until I entered high-school and my parents divorced, and continued in my personal relationship with my mother until her death.

 

The purpose for my drug use was to break me free from the fear, anger and deep sadness. I felt everything I had become required to be left behind me.  My beliefs, who my friends were, what I did for recreation and give me any other experience than the ones I had been experiencing in my family.

My drugs of choice were crystal methamphetamine, LSD  and opium.  I moved to Hollywood as soon as I graduated from High school with two female friends.  We were going to make a life in L.A. One of my friends developed a very expensive heroin habit of a couple thousand dollars a day while I was heading for a emotional breakdown at the tender age of 17.  Through the drug use and fear, I eventually fell apart. 

My Father saved me.  He let me move back to San Diego to begin junior college.  He gave me a car and a very inexpensive place to live to begin my life new.  The depression at this part of my life was so severe that I would wake up in my furniture less apartment, walk down stairs, lay on the carpet and stare out the windows watching the clouds roll by until night fall.  When the sun set and I was laying in darkness, I would then get up, go back upstairs and fall asleep to begin the same cycle over again the next day.  I lived off food stamps and ate fruit from a orange tree and apricot tree in the back yard of the in-law apartment I was living in. My fear was overwhelming. People terrified me and I felt I did not have the ability to even hold a conversation. Basically I couldn’t think any longer.  Through the use of drugs, especially crystal, I had lost the ability to formulate a logical process of thought.  My greatest fear was, I had damaged myself to such a extent, that I would be unable to take care of myself and therefore how would I survive.  At this time I began to seek spirituality. 

It took another year of being lost in drugs before the night would come which would wake me up.  It was during this period I began to have spiritual experiences.  I have been given several throughout my life which have metamorphosed the way I view and experience my world.

The first such experience happened in a concert.  My girlfriend at the time had purchased front row tickets to a Donovan concert.  I was smoking three packs of Marlboro longs a day and still using intravenous drugs.  I was becoming very addicted to the ceremony of shooting-up drugs. If I was out of drugs I would shoot-up warm sugar water for a rush and the ritual of a needle in my arm. At the time I had access to a very fine grade of opium which was just one grade shy of heroin.  This had become my drug of choice.  I had chosen to be drug free for the concert because Donovan was more about spirituality and meditation than the most of the concerts I had attended. 

As I waited for the concert to begin I had no clue that this was the night I would make one of the greatest changes of my life.  When Donovan emerged from backstage he sat down in a sea of flowers and began turning up his Sitar.  Remember this was 1970.  As He was preparing to start the concert, He stopped and looked at me for a moment.  He then pointed to me and said “You are wasting time” A very simple phase , which hit me like a lightening bolt.  I knew what this meant to the very depths of my bones and through every cell of my body.  I knew my life was destined to do something beyond what I had seen demonstrated within my family.  I simple didn’t know how or what.  I had felt up to this point of my life that my life was immobile, stagnate and full of fear about all the things I wasn’t, a helpless victim of my past.

 In that moment I woke up to a degree.  I sat there transfixed upon his words, my body rushing with energy and knew it was time to change my life.

Have you ever felt something big coming?

Similar to a storm and you didn’t quite know who you would be after the storm of if you would survive.

As the anxiety began to fill my body I knew in that moment I could no longer continue smoking my three packs of cigarettes a day and shooting drugs into my veins, I would die following this course of behavior.  I knew I had the willingness to change my life but the anxiety would not lessen.

I realized the fear wasn’t so much about giving up my addictions as it was about who would I be after all the crutches were released. I had developed a certain persona with a group of friends that have become my identity.  Who would I become without all the props of my past, my story, my friends and the things we valued.

In that moment I felt all the aspects of my personality shifting within me in a hurricane of change.

As I continued my internal metamorphosis Donovan began his concert.  By the end of the concert I had thrown away my cigarettes and ended my drug use.

When I returned home that night my internal world continued the integration until the next morning.

As I entered my house I went to the secret place I hide my drugs and my outfit of needles and syringes and bandages and flushed the remaining opium down the toilet, broke all my needles and syringes and went for a walk.

It was one of those rare southern Californian nights where we were experiencing rain.  I placed a coat on my shoulders and walked and walked until I couldn’t walk any longer with this Donovan’s voice in my heart and head saying you are wasting time, you are wasting time.

 

Somewhere within my ancient memory resonated a knowingness, a urgency to begin the Path to potentialize whoever I could be into that man of possibility.

I spent the rest of the evening on a hillside in the rain sobbing into my hands from the release of my addictions and the overwhelming fear of HOW I would create the change I knew had to occur.

 My life began again that night on that rain soaked canyon hillside over looking Mission Bay in San Diego.

I knew my life would have to be spiritually focused and create a contribution to others.  The only road to fulfillment I knew was how can I extend myself to others in a meaningful way and make a difference.

I felt everything I had become required to be left behind me.  My beliefs, who my friends were, what I did for recreation, my story of what had happened to me, my false sense of self.  I abandoned ALL my friendships and my dog became my only companion.

I required to create structure in my life from the chaos of emotions and thoughts that pervade a drug induced mind and body.     

I began seeking for a spiritual path that resonated with me.  I sought in the Christian traditions although beautiful, felt off center for me in this crucial junction of my life.

I explored Buddhism and knew I required more structure.

The Transcendental Meditation movement was very strong at this point in history and I was attracted to the discipline of the path and began to pursue initiation.

One night a friend informed me he knew of a drummer who followed a Living Master and meditated in the yoga of the Sound Current and was playing in a group down at a bar in Mission Beach. 

I had never heard of this Path of meditation before and curious I went to the club late the next night.

Having just turned eighteen I was unable to get in but waited in the parking lot at the back door till 2:00pm in the morning waiting for the bar to close.

Willie was his name, a physically short, long haired man with a glit in his eye came through the door.  As the garbage fumes from the alley way drifted through the air I said:

 ”hello, my name is Gary and I’ve been waiting for you to talk to you about the Master”

 

Willie was very cautious at first to verify I wasn’t some drugged up kid who thought it was cool to pretend spirituality.

After we spoke for about ½ hour he committed to loan a book which I had three days to return to him.

The next night I returned to the parking lot behind the bar and waited for Willie to emerge from the backdoor.

Willie walked through the door into to the parking lot to meet me with the book in hand.

As he handed me the book entitled  “Path of the Masters” he said in a low serious tone. ” this will be the most important book you will ever read.”

I devoured the book and knew as soon as the book was placed in my hands that this was the Path that would offer me the structure and discipline I required.

 

I jumped in.  I began reading as many books on the Yoga of the Sound Current and began an uninitiated meditational practice, turned vegetarian and celibate and devoted myself to turning my life into more than it had been in my previous life of drugs and victimization.

 

I went to my first Satsang or meeting of disciplines with mixed feelings.  It felt a bit like church and there was no one my age and certainly not from my background.  I felt out of place and awkward but forced myself to keep going back because these strangers were my only social contact I would allow myself at this point.

After about three months of meetings it was announced that the Master was taking a rare trip out of India and coming to America and Canada.

I had the opportunity to travel and follow the Masters tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles and in time was initiated into the Yoga of the Sound Current.

(More tomorrow)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary De Rodriguez

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Everybody close your eyes.  My invitation to you is, think of a memory from your past and as you think of that memory just notice the pictures, sounds and feelings of that memory and notice the direction from which those pictures, sounds and feelings are coming to you and point to the direction please.  Just imagine your past in front of you now.  Ask your subconscious mind to take your past and move it directly behind you.  Ask your subconscious mind to swing around from in front of you, retaining all of the positive learning’s in front of you, and swing the past to behind you.  Place the past behind you now and imagine your subconscious mind moving your past from in front of you to behind you and locking it into place.  How does it feel to have the past behind you? 

 

Think of something very compelling for your future.  Notice the direction that future event is coming to you from and point to it please.  Make a picture of that internal representation of your future outcome that you’ve been going for, that one yesterday.  Make a picture of it.  Put sounds in it.  Put emotions in it.  Create it in your own mind because you are the architect of your future.  The best way to predict the future is to create it.  Now I’m going to ask you, just looking at that picture of your outcome, that picture of you being the you that you know you’re destined to be, I’m going to ask you now to step into it.  Imagine yourself now, you were looking at it before, now step into it.  Associate into it.  Feel what it feels like to be you already expressed, already expanded, already realized.  Step into it and feel it.  Breathe in.  Breathe in the color of that picture, the sensations, the fragrance, the tastes of that picture.  Just step into it and be it. 

 

Now imagine stepping out of it, putting that picture in a frame, looking at yourself feeling what it feels like to be that and have that picture before you.  You’re holding it with both hands, this picture of your outcome, of the power to know that you are now consciously creating with the tools you have now your destiny.  Imagine floating up above yourself at now, seeing your future timeline stretch out wherever it is and imagine your past time line stretching out wherever it is for you.  And imagine these two lines stretching out from your body representing your subconscious mind’s representation and allocation of all the events that have occurred or will occur in time for you in this lifetime.  And imagine yourself floating higher and higher and higher and higher above yourself at now, seeing your past, seeing your future, holding the picture of your outcome.  Now take a breath, big inhale and blow the color of your circle of excellence into the picture on your exhale.  Blow it in.  And colorize and accentuize and energize that picture even more.  Take another breath and blow that energy into your picture.  That’s right.  Blow it in.  Float back in time above your time line to the very beginning of your life.  Float back in time.  That’s right.  Now take your picture and float down on that time line and install the picture right in the middle of your past time line, as if your past time line could be running through that picture of your future outcome and your knowledge that now you know how to consciously create your future from this moment forward.  Good.  Now as if we had you in a time machine, I’m going to count to three.  On the count of three you’re going to take your picture and you’re going to shoot like you’ve been shot through a cannon, colorizing your past with all of the colors of your now knowledge that you are the master of how you create your reality.  You will color your entire past, every image, every event, every circumstance, every relationship with the knowledge of who you are and your power to co-create your universe with the colors of your outcome picture.  As we move toward now this picture will colorize all of your past events.  Are you ready?  On the count of three you will shoot like a missile into your future from birth up until now colorizing all the events and all the relationships with your new now knowledge of consciously creating your reality.  On the count of 3.  One, two and three.  All the way to now.  Very good.

 

Float up above your time line holding the picture, look back on your past and see the new colors of your past.  Float back in time again.  Go to the very beginning, just like you did the first time.  Float down to your birth and install the picture with all the emotions, all the knowledge, all the power, all the wisdom, all the will.  Install the picture.  Very good.  On the count of 3 we’re going to put another coat of the colors of your ability to co-create your world into your past.  On the count of three.  One, two and three. 

 

Influencing and generating new beliefs, new possibilities, new perceptions, from the point of conception till now, future pacing this out into future with the knowledge and understanding that your past now is completely influenced and impregnated with the knowledge and the knowhow of how to constantly create your future.  From above now with the same picture, even more powerful, take a breath, blow more of the emphasis of the color of your circle of power and oneness into this picture again, further enhancing it, further empowering it.  Take another breath, blow it in, and as you blow it in watch the colors get more magnificent, and the outcome become even richer and more realized.  Blow another breath in.  Now take this new empowered picture and float back in time for a third coat of this color and this power through your past.  Float back in time to the very beginning please.  Very good.  Install it into your birth, into your time line.  Install it into your time line with the colors even more emphasized and more empowering now.  Very good.  Now, on the count of three, the third coat.  One, two and three.  Very good.

 

Being at now, float down into now and install the picture into your future time line and I’m going to ask you now to move out into your future time line and simply, reverently and sacredly install this picture in your future in a place that feels the most comfortable for the manifestation of it.  It may be tomorrow, it may be next week, it may be next month or next year or five years from now.  Whichever feels ecologically comfortable to you.  Walk out in your mind on your future time line and install this outcome picture in the place where you are choosing to have it manifested.  Go do that now and lock it into place.  Take three deep breaths, class.  Another.  And another.  Very good.  Thank your subconscious mind for its willingness and when you’re ready begin to come back into the room. On the count of three you’ll open your eyes.  One, two, and three.

 

How do you feel?  Look at your past and what does it look like?  Pink, blue, green.  Good.  I could spend another hour talking to you about submodalities and modalities and the power of submodalities and why they work and how they work and what they do to the nervous system and go very in depth into what we’re doing here.  My highest choice is to just give you experiences and say, ‘Run with this.’  You’re choosing to know the in-depth intricacies of what, how and how to enhance even more.  The NLP practitioner training is really the place to learn that.  This is a training where I’m just grazing the surface of NLP and you can see how powerful it is.

{More tomorrow}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gary De Rodriguez

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