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Hello Spiritual Warriors! & welcome to another issue of The Source – where we transcend our illusions & elevate our strengths.

In this issue, we transcend the illusion of Fear. F.E.A.R. False. Evidence. Appearing. Real. – a projection of what the future may hold. A guess. A wish. A moment where we believe we are clairvoyant.

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And yet we hold our fears to be as real as the reality of this moment. They freeze us. They frighten us. They hold us back from moving forward. They hold us in this fantasy world where we believe that what we’ve made up will indeed come to pass. They are as real to us as anything that’s actually happened.

But they are the darkest pieces of our imagination. They are the inventions of the part of us that does not trust. And so we repeat them like affirmations over and over in our mind until they harden like concrete. And even though they may never come to pass, we hold onto them with deep faith, so that if they do happen, we prove ourselves right and if they don’t come true, we have become so fixed on them that we are blind to the beauty that does unfold.

“destressifying is a fountain of resources for attaining mastery over your emotions & your life!” – Frank Elaridi, Emmy Award-winning journalist & author of The Enlightened Barista
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Fear obscures the opportunity that sits right before us. Fear colors every thought that has the potential to sprout into magnificence. As the Buddha said, “All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we create our world.”

And when we convince ourselves that what we want to happen won’t and what we don’t want to happen will, then we become a victim of our fantasies.

But we are better than that. We are stronger than that. We are more capable and blessed than we give ourselves credit for – and when we surrender to fear it is because we don’t trust. We don’t trust in the divine…we don’t trust our choices…and we don’t trust ourselves to make right decisions. There is a struggle within each of us where the worst possible scenario battles the best possible scenario for attention in a given moment. But we must remind ourselves that we have a choice in each moment…that we can choose the best outcome or the most painful outcome. And whatever we end up choosing, will become the seed for the next moment, hour, or rest of our day – and ultimately the rest of our life!!!

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Through the daily practice where we use the tools of destressifying – meditating, choosing positivity, connecting with our true needs, mastering our emotions, communicating consciously, & living with purpose – we can align with our own innate pure, perfect, wholeness where we can make choices without the conditioned negativity of our past. We can make choices from an abundance mentality rather than a poverty consciousness. We can direct our thoughts to the land of pure potentiality instead of the place of limiting beliefs.

And so when we find ourselves questioning our judgment. When we hear the voice in our head telling us we are less than or not worthy, we need to know that the word TRUST can be re-configured into STRUT! And that’s how we step into our Power…by giving yourself permission to strut, to believe again, to open our heart to the possibility that whatever negativity you can dream up is False. Evidence. Appearing. Real. and can easily be offset by a positive internal conversation.

Simply use the mantra, “When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be” and you will find yourself trusting more, dying to the past, and STEPPING into your power. How about we try it just for the week. Send me an email with a fear you are working on right now and let’s see if we can replace it with your new vision, your new dream. A new you that is ready to STRUT and create your new world.

In the mean time, order your copy of destressifying & let’s do it together!!!

Peace. -davidji

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The many stages of life, jobs, careers, or relationships, can create vulnerability to FEAR and anxiety. These transitional times bring on levels of uncertainty. We’re not the person we once were nor are we the one we’re about to become. So we need to establish a life of living in a GROUNDED state. YOU are and should be your own ROCK. Grounding practices will assist in maintaining focus, clarity, grace, & ease during life’s many transitions.

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Hello spiritual warriors, and welcome to another edition of the Source!!

We do the best we can with what we know and when we know better, we do better. –Maya Angelou

This week, we connect to our inner voice & awaken into Peace. Our inner voice cannot be found in the advice or opinions of friends and family – that comes from our true self. Awakening to that self-wisdom is what guides us through life’s twists and turns and that’s really what we’re all here to do.

The highest aim of any spiritual path is surrender,  not defeat or weakness. Surrender is simply trusting that your God, or the Universe, or a divine creator can accomplish anything, even when you can’t foresee the outcome of a situation.

Everything is always unfolding perfectly at the level of spirit, and the universe will flow exactly as it plans – you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your mind containing your ego that believes you are this persona trying to navigate thru the treacherous waters of life. The reality is that you are not a human being having occasional spiritual experiences; you are a spiritual being having these occasional human experiences. By surrendering to the divine nature of the universe, you end the struggle, you become liberated from fear and doubt and you transcend the limits your ego has created.

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Each time we show up with grace, or we meditate, or we practice present moment awareness, we get one baby-step closer to spirit slowly peeling away our automatic reactions so we awaken the peace that already resides inside of you.

It all starts with our thoughts – as the Buddha said. “All that we are arises with our thoughts – with our thoughts we create the world.”
Meditation is the key – it doesn’t stop thoughts as much as make us aware of them as they come into stillness and silence. As you read, your thoughts are focused, but if we stop here for a moment and just listen to our thoughts … just listen … then they begin to pour in.

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We can guide them, and that happens by getting clear on our intentions.

Remember the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Book 4; Chapter 4: You are your deepest driving desires; as are your desires so is your will; as is your will so is your deed; as is your deed, so is your destiny.

Each day, have the intention to let go a little bit more. As well as the false intentions we have about others, such as – I hope this doesn’t work out for them – I want someone else to fail, I want to get even, I want to take something that’s not my own. There’s actually a term for this in German called schadenfreude, which means joy in the suffering of others.

What is the driving vibration of schadenfreude? Anger, fear, greed, rage, hopelessness and weakness. When you find yourself in schadenfreude ask yourself, “Why do I feel this way?” “What inner feeling am I hoping to solve?” And breathe into it and release it, reminding yourself it’s a constricted feeling and it doesn’t serve you.

Then choose the most magnificent intentions! Why not big fat grand ones that elevate you? Not ones that have anything to do with someone else. Intentions that raise your vibration. Allowing you to love more, flow more, forgive more, help more, nourish more. Not something like, “I wish I wasn’t in this much pain” – but, instead,  “I WANT TO FEEL GREAT!” See the miracles around you, and that will make it easier for greater miracles to grow.

When we feel less-than we become greedy for something to fill our emptiness. Money, power, alcohol, drugs, winning, being liked, sex, and pleasure are supposed to fill up the emptiness, but they never do. An easier and more authentic way for you to transcend the illusion of emptiness is to recognize the divine that rests within.

In this process, you will start to feel the divine in yourself and SEE the divine in others. Your vibration will elevate; your sadness will dissipate; and you will receive the unfolding of the desires & intentions you planted in the stillness & silence of your heart.

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Mantra: Bodhicitta Moksha

Emotions run through us every minute of every day. Some are constructive and healing emotions (compassion, love, empathy) and some are destructive (anger, fear, depression, shame, blame and envy). So what may just start out as a natural feeling in the body — what we do with, how we process it and deal with the emotion makes it constructive or destructive.

All of our emotions are valid, but how we respond to them becomes a mosaic for how we interact with the world.

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Hello Spiritual Warrior! And welcome to the
150th edition of The Source!!

Every week, for the past 3 years, it has been my honor & pleasure to share real-world expressions of timeless wisdom with you through articles, videos & free, guided meditations. This week, we explore Destructive Emotions.

I’ve just returned from an amazing week in the Netherlands where I had a truly blessed opportunity to commune with more than 5,000 spiritual seekers in the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague & Utrecht. I spent each Way teaching at Master Classes, the Happinez Festival, & at book signings for “Zonder stress” – the hot, new Dutch translation of “destressifying.” I connected with so many students & certified teachers from around the world – our like-minded community is growing in leaps & bounds. We are truly transforming the world by transforming ourselves – and you can keep raising the vibration by sharing this post with someone.

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“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.” –Howard Thurman

We live each moment of our life through the ebb and flow of emotions. It’s almost as if each beat of our heart, and every breath we take, move us in one direction or another. The phone rings – a feeling sparks, and a thought pours in; someone says something to us – suddenly our mood shifts and our face follows; we feel the sun on our cheek and the wind in our hair – and as memories awaken, a sensation ripples through us. We are a bundle of conditioned emotions that are primed to respond to the momentary assessment of whether our needs have been met or not.

Simply put, emotions are subjective, conscious experiences that link our interpretation of a given moment to a biological reaction creating a particular mental state. Have you ever yelled at someone — after having a tough time or a difficult encounter — over something that had nothing to do with them? Psychologists refer to this mis-direction as “emotional leakage.” When you suppress emotions, you’re likely to express them inadvertently in other avenues by being snide, sarcastic, snarky, retaliatory, biting, harsh, or downright mean to people who had nothing to do with your initial frustration. Suppressing our feelings is now scientifically proven to lead to poor memory, relationship challenges, and deeper health issues as our body is influenced so strongly by our subjective conscious experiences.

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We can rise above the constriction by heightening our emotional intelligence, known as EI in many leadership, psychology and philosophy circles. EI is essentially our ability to “own” these four capabilities:

  1. Correctly perceive emotions
  2. Retrieve and produce emotions to assist thought
  3. Comprehend emotions and understand them, and
  4. Effectively adjust emotions to promote personal development and growth

If you don’t know how you feel or why you feel a certain way, you will experience emotional overwhelm or confusion and won’t be able to communicate effectively, meet your needs, or resolve disagreements. But if we master our emotional intelligence, we will flow with less stress and make better decisions. And, the more successful we are at heightening these core skill sets, the happier and more fulfilled we will be.

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Before I ever shared these teachings with others, I studied emotional healing for a decade under Dr. David Simon, & attended the Hoffman Institute, where I was taught to deconstruct my emotional blue print. I then spent five years, reconstructing it. I began integrating these powerful teachings into my workshops, immersions, retreats, and Teacher Trainings where thousands have experienced emotional breakthroughs & stepped into their power.

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I encourage you to join me this January at the 3rd Set Your Course Life-change Immersion where I will teach you these powerful techniques to release the emotional baggage that has often derailed our best plans. In this gentle, yet potent & proven process, together we will ensure that this year truly unfolds as the most fulfilling year of your life!

The beauty of EI is that it’s not a function of simply being born with a high EQ; our personal emotional intelligence can be learned, cultivated and mastered. Although daily intelligence is important to succeeding in life, emotional intelligence is key to achieving your goals. In this process, you will learn to meet more of your own needs!

Right now read the following list of emotions, select one & spend a minute on it. Place your hand on your heart or your solar plexus. Take a deep breath in & just watch how it makes you feel:
Affection Anger Annoyance Apathy Arousal Awe Boredom Confidence Contempt Contentment Courage Desire Despair Disappointment Disgust Distrust Dread Ecstasy Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement Fear Frustration Gratitude Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hope Horror Hostility Hurt Hysteria Indifference Interest Jealousy Joy Loathing Loneliness Love Lust Outrage Panic Passion Pity Pleasure Pride Rage Regret Relief Remorse Sadness Satisfaction Schadenfreude Self-confidence Shame Shock Sorrow Suffering Surprise Trust

Just pick one & more deeply conjure the emotion in your mind’s eye. How does it make you feel? See if you can sit with it for a few moments and give names to the various ways it makes you feel. Take your time. Feel free to close your eyes & truly witness your emotions as they ripple through you. What does it feel like? How does you body respond?

If we are able to give names to our emotions, we will better understand them. Can you imagine all the chemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters that are surging through you each time your needs are not met? Or when you recollect an experience?

When we notice that we are feeling a “destructive” emotion – an emotion that can actually hurt us or another person – such as shame, guilt, bitterness, hate, contempt, envy, rage, or schadenfreude (taking glee in someone else’s misfortune)… it is helpful to breathe in and name it… dive in a bit deeper into where you feel it, why you feel it, and what else is going on inside you to make you feel it. Just naming it will begin an internal conversation of the cause, relevance, need or true validity of this feeling. What sparked it… why we hold on to it… what is it revealing, etc?

It rarely is about the other person or the situation of the moment!!! It is usually more tied to our feelings of our own self worth or another issue.

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So consider joining me as we Set Our Course together to make 2016 the most amazing year of our life! In the meantime, start to meditate with me each week and together we will transcend the emotional turbulence in our lives.

I’ll see you on the gap!! Peace. -davidji

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healing from the inside

Mantra: Ananda

What emotions are inside you? Anger, greed, jealousy, fear, resentment? Or love, hope, understanding, empathy, kindness, compassion? Which set of emotions do you put your attention on? Which ones do you feed?

The more important question is which emotions do you WANT to feed, cultivate and put your attention on? We have that power — to choose the aspects of our life that we want to blossom and grow.

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Hello Spiritual Warriors! & welcome to another week of The Source – where we dive deep into timeless wisdom & integrate it into our real world, modern day lives!

This week we explore Meeting our Needs. It’s a powerful category that we explore & learn to transcend in destressifying. I’m traveling the world right now on my “destressifying” book tour & if the teachings of destressifying move you, you can support me by sharing this email or this link with a friend.

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If you haven’t yet ordered your copy, I suggest you check it out HERE & begin to integrate these life-affirming practices into your daily flow – but while your waiting for your book to arrive, let’s explore a huge stressor in your life & a key area of suffering on the planet – acceptance.

When it comes to acceptance… Einstein & Shakespeare were on the same page! Our natural inclination is to feel accepted. Why not? Aren’t we all part of one big global posse? Don’t we all feel the same things and live the same challenges and triumphs? Or to quote Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice, “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”

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Even if we are thinner, fatter, lighter, heavier, older, younger, quieter, louder, more gentle, more abrasive, more violent, more peaceful, vengeful, forgiving, dark, light, familiar or unconventional… aren’t we all just a singular reflection of the totality of humanity?

Albert Einstein summed up the challenge of this category of needs when he wrote, “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

What’s Your Trigger?

So when we don’t receive the attention, affection, appreciation or acceptance that is our birthright…we feel shame, anger, jealousy, schadenfreude, even vengeance. All of these trigger stress responses that will prevail as long as the unmet need prevails. That’s putting a lot of power in the hands of others – depending on them to validate us. This is why the core need in the category of social needs is self-acceptance, rather than relying on someone else to “approve” you.

Yes. Acceptance starts with you! Are you accepting of how you act, speak, and show up? Are you accepting of all you’ve done in your life or only the “good” things? Do you hold yourself to a higher standard regarding acceptance? Do you expect others to accept you for who you are – or are you wearing a mask in certain situations that makes you more acceptable? We all do this…showing our best side to those we are trying to impress – hoping they will accept us.

Biting Your Tongue? Or Shouting from the Mountain Top?

An under-the-radar social need is that of being heard. Some of us walk on egg-shells; others are waiting for the right time (some of us are still waiting!); some of us are listened to but don’t feel heard; some of us wont shut up. Others express themselves through their hair, make-up, clothes, and demeanor. And others do it in professional ways – wanting you to hear.. see… feel… agree with what they are all about.

Expressing ourselves physically, emotionally, verbally and intimately are very important needs that require a receptive listener, receiver or audience. Each of us desperately needs to be heard in some way. Many of us really feel the need to compel, convince, persuade or convert others. It’s in our DNA – it completes our sense of self-worth – and better defines the relationship we have with another person. Internally, we see it as a win – and chemically we are rewarded with ripples of feel good hormones.

When It Comes to Our Needs All the World is a Stage

But not everyone needs a win. Some of us fulfill our social need of expression simply by putting ourselves out there to be observed, “heard,” by releasing what has become bottled up inside. We want someone to know how we feel or what something means to us. We want people to see the “real” us at our best. We want someone to understand us, know us, and connect with us on our own terms.

Sometimes we simply need to share, release, vent, commune – even regurgitate – whatever is resting inside. But it doesn’t always need to be a purging of toxicity. We can share and express ourselves with love, creativity, and nourishment – in the form of encouragement, intimate encounters, and works of art. All are forms of letting your voice be heard. We all have the need to purr and roar – choosing your moment makes all the difference; but holding back what needs to come out can lead to extreme chronic stress that gets reinforced over a lifetime. Speak and your life will change forever!

How do I Meet My Need of Acceptance?

How do you treat yourself? How’s your sense of worthiness? Are you arrogant, condescending and mean to yourself? Or, loving, forgiving, nurturing, and compassionate?

As you expand the circle beyond yourself, ask, “Who’s in my front row?” – essentially, who are your die-hard supporters, your cheerleaders, and your champions? Those are the relationships you should be paying attention to. When you stumble or fall down, who is rooting for you to get back up? Who is not rooting for you? Are there people in your front row who don’t belong there? (those not rooting for you?) Are they just taking up space in your head…in your life… blocking new champions from taking their seats in the front row?

Keep widening the circle until you’ve included everyone you can think of in your life. Now… rather than put any attention on those who are not accepting you, place ALL of your attention on those in your front row… those rooting for you to get up when you stumble. If you commit for one whole week on showering those in your front row with attention, affection, & appreciation, you will truly feel life-affirming acceptance surging into you. From that space of unconditional communing, your life will effortlessly expand… your stress will dissipate… your heart will fill with love & happiness. And the beauty of this practice will take you to places you never imagined!!

Just for one week, place all of it on your front row – when you find yourself thinking about someone in your front row – worrying whether they accept you… STOP… and reach out to someone in your front row. Even if just to tell them you love them!!! Send me an email with your results at info@davidji.com

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Have you considered attending one of my retreats, but still not sure if you should attend? Here’s why…

I’m often asked, what’s the difference between a davidji event or teacher training & the hundreds of retreats being offered everywhere else.

As you probably know from reading Secrets of Meditation, for most of the last decade, I was fortunate enough to plan, host & teach at hundreds of events around the world – meditation retreats, Ayurveda workshops, weekly healing programs, teacher trainings, weekend spiritual seminars, and leading daily meditations – sometimes on stage in front of hundreds of students & the next day, on a cushion teaching a class to a room of five – and every kind of experience in between.

I had Drs. Deepak Chopra & David Simon as my daily teachers & they infused me with the commitment to honor all those on this planet looking to balance, heal, & transform. Every day I am in gratitude for the gifts they so lovingly shared with me.

An amazing personal experience!

My training in cultivating the ideal guest experience runs deep – and after teaching hundreds of thousands of students, and certifying more than a thousand teachers, I’ve seen, heard, studied, & learned what it takes to create an amazing attendee experience – and one that has long-lasting traction once you return back to your world.

In the 3 years since I founded the davidji SweetSpot Community, starting with the very first davidji Healing Immersion in 2012, I have designed workshops, immersions, retreats & teacher trainings that are intimate, heart-based, practical, transformational, and include real-world action steps to take your life to the next level.

Although I speak around the world each week to thousands of people – (next week I’ll be connecting with more than 10,000 people at the Happinez Festival in Holland & a few days later with 3000+ spiritual seekers at the I Can Do It Conference in Orlando, Florida) – the greatest joy I have is to sit in the cozy living room at the Meditation Nest on the San Diego coast & commune with the students, teachers, and attendees at my SweetSpot events & Teacher Trainings.

What’s the Meditation Nest?

All of my events take place at my Meditation Nest. To maintain an intimate & relaxed environment, we limit attendance to 25 people. Within a few hours, we all know each other’s names & why we are here. As a tightly-woven community, we share from the heart before, during, and after the experience. Together, like a spiritual hunting party, we rise with the sun, we nestle into the sand with the ocean as our backdrop, and we meditate to the first light of day. When we say Namaste to each other, we “know” the eyes of the souls we are connecting with. We recognize each other’s voices & we comfort each other as we breathe ocean air & watch whales & dolphins pop out of the waves. The sound we hear most is the gentle rhythm of the Pacific Ocean. And each evening, we get to commune in nature as we watch another dazzling SweetSpot sunset.

Throughout our experience, every face we see is a member of our tribe. (Even when we take our annual pilgrimage to Maya Tulum to explore the Five Realms in Mexico, we take over the whole resort, so everyone you see & meet is a like-minded soul) We’re communing on a very high frequency – We’ve meditated together, practiced yoga together, eaten breakfast together…

I’m with you every step of the way!

To ensure continuity, I am with you every day of the process – in every moment – from sunrise… through our morning & afternoon sessions… into our evening activities… right up to our final moment together where I lead the closing ceremony.

What happens each day?

Each day during my events is infused with timeless wisdom, practical teachings, powerful healing, real-world take-aways, interactive exercises, personal time to reflect & journal, heart-opening, breathwork, meditation instruction, yoga, & musical entertainment. I know of no other program, process, or teacher-training that maintains this intimacy, continuity, and building of community – not just during the event, but long after we’ve all returned home.

We have private Facebook groups that continue the process every day & group webinars where we can all see each other’s faces and listen to each other’s process. Just as the SweetSpot Community is a movement; not a mailing list – my SweetSpot events aren’t impersonal workshops; but rather, they are intimate, transformational experiences where we all take our lives to the next level.

You will transform… guaranteed!

Because I am the thread that weaves through every moment of the immersion, my life is also being transformed – and the community we create online & in-person has a powerful impact on the world long after we leave the Nest.

In 2016, I invite you to join me for one of these life-changing events. My 15-years of creating these experiences has taught me that transactions are fleeting; but relationships are timeless. And while I am grateful for the chance to touch thousands of people at large conferences & seminars, speaking in lecture halls & at festivals; I am most deeply fulfilled in an intimate gathering where we all awaken together – where we can deeply connect at the soul level and act as a balm for each other’s healing & as a catalyst for each other’s transformation.

Precious Moments

I only hold five intimate immersions a year, two teacher trainings, & our annual retreat to the Mexican Riviera. I encourage you to live boldly & take a powerful step in the direction of your dreams. I’d like you to join me for one of my four-day transformation immersions, or at our 16-week Masters of Wisdom & Meditation Teacher Training (15 weeks on line & one week together in the SweetSpot).

Because these experiences are intimate, they sell out very quickly – click here to find out more – and remember that you transform the world by transforming yourself! I look forward to spending some time with you in the SweetSpot of the Universe in 2016!

davidji & peachesIn the meantime, I’ll see you in the gap! Peace. -davidji

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If we can connect and know at our core level that we are indeed worthy, and brilliant, and intuitive, and deserving of love & happiness, then we can connect to the part of us that can soothe, nourish, and heal our wounds – our emotional ones and then our physical ones. Deep gratitude to Luke Mitrani who composed the music for this weekend’s meditation. You can learn more about Luke here.

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“Don’t die with your music still inside you.” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer

I first became aware of Wayne Dyer after my mother brought home a copy of the book “Your Erroneous Zones.” I didn’t read it and I wasn’t really paying attention, as it became one of the top selling books of all time – selling almost 40 million copies & leading the best-seller list for two whole years. No book in my lifetime has made that kind of impact on the planet, and yet I truly paid no mind to it until my mother passed away and I was going through her personal items.

She had folded the corners of the pages, underlined sentences in three different colors, and written in the margin next to certain passages. I never knew until then that she had been guided by Dr. Dyer’s teachings.

This was the very first self-help book written by Wayne Dyer. And years after he had established himself as the #1 selling author of self-help & spirituality books on the planet, there he was sitting in my office chatting with me. I told him the story of how my mother had loved “Your Erroneous Zones.” I revealed that I had never read the book but that I was in love with his “new” book “The Power of Intention,” which I had read three times and then I showed him my highlighted and marked up copy.

He was gracious. He was graceful. He laughed as if the story had tickled him. He told me he also had a copy of “Your Erroneous Zones” that was dog-eared and written in. He asked me for my copy of “The Power of Intention,” he thumbed through it smiling as he saw what had captured my attention & then he autographed it for me. He made me feel so at home with his authenticity & humility.

In 2010, when I confessed to him that I was struggling with my best friend being diagnosed with cancer, he replied, “Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” Then he stared so deeply into my eyes, it cracked me open & changed the way I see the world forever.

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Over the years, we kindled a friendship that blossomed at my first Hay House I Can Do It! conference where he introduced me to his magnificently talented daughter – the gifted vocalist Skye Dyer, whom he described as “the personification of divine love.” The two of them could weave an evening of deep profound transformation with Wayne quoting life-changing passages from the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Vashista, and the Tao Te Ching, and Skye’s angelic healing voice transporting us to higher states of consciousness with her versions of “Amazing Grace” & “I Am Light.” That night he said, “When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist.”

Consistently over the years, Wayne acknowledged the gifts of those around him; so many in his position choose smugness, arrogance, or aloofness. Not Wayne Dyer – clearly embedded in pure compassion, he selflessly flowed compliments to those around him, gave credit to all the people in his presence, and led with love… consistently taking time to stop, hug, and say a kind word.

He was the true fusion of authenticity, wisdom, and love — transforming millions every day!!!!

When I asked him if he would write a testimonial for #destressifying, he graciously agreed. But after a month, he hadn’t responded, so I reached out to him to see if he was still okay endorsing the book. He said he hadn’t finished it yet and he wanted to drink every page in fully so he could endorse it whole-heartedly. I was deeply touched and honored that he would take the time to read every page & go through every exercise. When he was finished, he wrote a heart-felt endorsement and told me he loved the book. That was just last month – our last interaction… bittersweet.

That simple response exemplified Wayne Dyer. He lived the life that Henry David Thoreau espoused in Walden, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”

So many talk it… Wayne Dyer lived it. And that should inspire us to live our most authentic lives right now. Please join me in honoring one of the greatest teachers of our lifetime by living our life with rededicated passion.

With his passing, another brilliant BEing of light has returned to the Source so it can burn even brighter. He joins the eternal flame of love, compassion & wisdom. He is the lesson we all need to live. The lesson that your life is bigger than you are and that if we dedicate each moment to the awareness of our divine nature, we will flow our best version. Thank you Dr. Wayne Dyer – your light shines so brightly from every corner of the universe – we are forever humbled by your love. And hopefully, over time, as your wisdom settles in more deeply to our innocent hearts & starts to ripple through us with each word, with each thought, with each action… we will shift from missing you… to flowing you. We are your legacy!

Namaste. -davidji

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