If I complain and I blame and I make excuses and I feel sorry for myself and I judge everyone,

that's not the new person you want to become. You've got to leave that person behind.

The overcoming process is the becoming process. Look, I react. The question is, how long are you

going to react? Justified, valid or not, the only person that that's hurting is ourselves.

It's like drinking poison and hoping someone

else dies. Shorten the refractory period of your emotional responses and you'll keep your body and

brain out of the past. This is where your thoughts can literally make you sick because the long-term

effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease. And my response

to traffic, my response to my X is actually weakening my organism

because my body can't live in emergency mode for an extended period of time.

And the response causes the brain to fire incoherently, causes the heart to fire incoherently, and now the

autonomic nervous system is out of order.

You just came from a retreat, which is, you know, for anyone that hasn't been to one,

they're so spectacular.

How are the retreats going?

What's new?

The seven-day retreats are our laboratory.

It's really interesting when you can get a group of people

that are on the same schedule, that are waking up at the same time, basically doing the same

things, eating similar food. It's a great lab to measure transformation and change. And so the

seven-day events are a great way for people to retreat from their lives, you know,

and to remove the constant stimulation in their external environment that reminds them of who they

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