I am honored to be on your “A list” of teachers.

You are a blessing to the world, and I’m so glad you’re sharing your light with all of us.

Here’s to an amazing 2010!

Very best,
~Noah
http://iAfform.com

There is a form of architecture called Vaastu or Sthapatya Veda. When these structures are built to certain measurements, lengths of walls, height of ceilings, how light enters the building, where the front door is situated, where the rooms are placed, and making sure the building is alighned with the equator so it points true north and not magnetic north, you can produce an energy within that structure that supports you in life. Happiness, prosperity, and health are increased by living and working in these sacred spaces.

I have been to the USA 4 times to study and build these ‘living’ structures and went to India in 2006 to study under the only living authority, (I believe) with 14 other people, majority were women. Many of the women had a similar experience to you. They wept spontaniously. There was a full life size statue of the dancing Nataraja in one of these temples, 1800 years old that had an incredible energy that emanated from it, that many of the students were fixated with it and found it difficult to leave the statue because the energy was so blissful.

I have been studying Vaastu for a few years now and 2010 will be the year to launch my Vaastu business. I may need your help. I’m in the process of building a website.

Interestingly, the first Vaastu house I went in was in Sarnia, Ontario.

Hope you find this informative.

By the way i went to Toronto to see your friend Sonia Ricotti a couple of weeks ago with Bob Doyle. They were very good and we had a lot of fun.

Happy holidays. Brian Dolan

I will tell you that I didn’t feel very wealthy living a life I loved, in a fulfilling, purposeful career, and meanwhile having my gas shut off. I was giving, I was living authentically and purposefully, but something was messed up inside. Your program is so great in helping people discover what needs to shift in a case like that.

Looking forward to the DeMartini interview very much! My friend went to his Breakthrough Experience weekend recently and learned an awful lot about true happiness.

Thank you for the information about our event. Its not about money or ‘making’ money. It is truly about finding your purpose and giving your gifts to the world. If you have that then you have in our opinion wealth. We got this from one of our students today:

“Darius,

This new wealth experience has been amazing and life changing and it is the first week. The future is brighter because of your vision.

I want to be specific as to what has been transformational for me. When I listened to the introduction from you I was sold. Your message of giving and contributing was so heart felt that I could sense your warmth and desire to help others. It felt like it was coming from a place of sincerity and not greed.

When I heard your story of being left back in kindergarten and how it shaped you I realized I had a similar experience. Mine was I was told I had a high IQ and it made me feel so much was expected of me. I skipped 8th grade math and was in algebra in 8th grade with all the smart kids. I felt like I had to keep up with them or I would have no identity. I was not athletic and this gave me a peer group. I paid a great price to belong. Where other kids were having fun I was always studying to get my straight A’s. When I was in college I could not wait to graduate because I hated the pressure of having to get A’s. I love to learn but learning was painful because of the pressure. I did not take chemistry in high school because I did not think I could get an A. My grades were my money and my way to become wealthy. I had to struggle to get an A and I have had to struggle to make money think I see a pattern. I have no love for what I do and it is not me.

I internalized I had to be smart even though in my body I was in pain. This is the first thing I learned that when you allow other people to define you, you give your power away, thus not being true to who you really are. I remember getting one of my first B’s in grad school and I felt so happy that I got a B and it did not effect how I felt about myself. The power and control of the need for an A was gone. I realized the A’s did not buy be a great career, love or friends. They bought me loneliness and a lost childhood and not spending time with friends and family. I paid to high a price for an false identity.

The second thing I learned was with the interview with Dr. Simon when he talked about the way we take in the pain of an experience and it becomes our identity. When we have an experience and we react in a way that we try to numb the pain or react in a way which changes how we see the world we give our power away to the experience and we generalize it and we become our pain. We actually relive it as it becomes who we are. He put it much better but once I heard that I knew I had the power to change my reality if I could change what I felt inside and how I react.

The short version is

You body wants to be happy and full of joy. If what you are experiencing is something other than that, you need to align your life with love and forgive the people who caused you to feel the pain so you do not have to relive it.

I am so grateful to you and Jen.”

I was about thirty three years old, my son’s 3rd birthday was approaching and I was busy with cakes, food, tents for our guests, etc. I was alone with Chandler (my son) when I felt slightly odd, then dizzy and tingly. I crawled to the phone, which destination, I barley made. Chandler thought I was playing pony and kept trying to climb on my back.

Long story short, I had had a transient ischemeic attack. One step under a stroke. I eventually had carotid by-pass surgery, however, subsequent to this event I would suddenly become completely paralyzed on my right side. I would become completely numb on my right side from the top of my head to the tips of my toes, but only on the right side. Luckily, I am left handed. I would remain paralyzed for 1-2 minutes, and then it would just “go away”. The catch was I never knew when it would occur.

Because of this condition I would not drive much, only the 6 or 7 blocks to take my child to preschool. Every excursion was an act of faith. I was terrified to be alone and my mother, bless her heart, would stay with me all day until my husband returned from work. I had one test after another to try and figure out what was causing my condition.

Nothing, some doctors wanted to prescribe certain medicines or perform certain tests which I refused. Being a guinea pig to figure out my condition was not for me.

It was not until I met with the head of neurology at Scripps Hospital in Layolla, Ca. that I was given a flame of hope. The man simply said, (after having me smell cloves and touch cotton with my eyes closed), your brain has short circuited (due to loss of oxygen from the original event), but it will eventually re-wire itself.

I believed. Four years later I stopped going paralyzed on the right side of my body.

Today it has been some 20 years ago, but the fear of suffering this event again occasionally surfaces. When I panic I think I cannot breath and I have to tell myself “you are breathing”. I have never been the same since that time so long ago, a new self was born. A self aware of her mortality and how fleeting life on this earth is. Fear is such a debilitating emotion!

I appreciate you sharing your experience. I will try to center the next time I have any troubles…..

I recently learned a new breathing technique in a meditation class, where the outbreath is longer than the in-breath, as a way to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system and help bring calmness. I know you teach this technique as well.

The other thing I’ve started doing, is to hold the energy of the panic like a ball on my lap. I feel the panic in my stomach, and keeping it on my lap is a way of not only acknowledging it, staying present to it, but also of not letting it into my body in a metaphorical way.

It’s such a relief to hear that others suffer from this debilitating disturbance, too, and to be able to share ways to handle it. I haven’t yet had an experience of the panic turning to love or joy, and I seldom have 5 minutes to handle it, as it can often suddenly explode just before a solo. So I thank you for the post and the opportunity to learn how others are dealing with similar situations. I liked the idea of pressing on the forehead above the eyebrows, too, that someone posted.

Very inspiring, all of this, and comforting, too. Thank you!