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I Am  (children’ s book with Kristina T racy)
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It’ s Not What Y ou’ve Got! (children’ s book with Kristina T racy)
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My Gr eatest T eacher  (with L ynn Lauber)
No Excuses! (children’ s book with Kristina T racy)
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A Pr omise Is a Pr omise
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Y ou Ar e What Y ou Think
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Hardcover ISBN:  978-1-4019-5608-0
E-book ISBN : 978-1-4019-5610-3CONTENTS
For ewor d by Br endon Bur char d
Intr oduction
Chapter 1:  Chart the Course Ahead
Chapter 2:  T ranscend Y our Form
Chapter 3:  Focus on the Big Picture
Chapter 4:  Be Authentically Free
Chapter 5:  Discover the Three Keys to Higher A wareness
Chapter 6:  T ame the Ego (the Fourth Key)
Chapter 7:  Know That W e’re All One
Chapter 8:  Surrender and Go with the Flow
Chapter 9:  Harness the Power of V isualization
Chapter 10:  Learn to Meditate and T rain Y our Mind
Chapter 11:  Live in the Light
Chapter 12:  Enjoy Heaven on Earth
About the Author
Continue Y our Journey with Hay HouseFOREWORD
All of a sudden you start seeing miracles happening, and it’ s
absolutely astounding to you. — D R.  W A YNE  W . D YER
Fear has taken hold. The world is in crisis. It’ s late  March 2020, and a global pandemic called coron avirus is
spreading. As I  type these words, my wife, Denise, and I are on orders no t to leave
our hom e. Y et we are not alone: Half  of all Americans have now been
issued some kind of stay-at-hom e order . More will come. Globa lly , billions
of people are facing and will continue to face government restrictions. By the time you  read this, perha ps you know how all this turns out. But it
is all new to us. Quarantines , social distancing , mass gathering cancellations , and
economic shutdowns  are words we are all just getting used to saying. First, th ere were the warnings. A mysterious virus emer ged in China. Then th e inevita ble confusion, avoidance, and denial. Then the contagion
spread quickly beyond borders. Then mass panic. Then, in just weeks, no
choice: travel restricted, schools closed, workers sent home, countries
locked down all over the globe. More ne ws com es every day th at shakes the foundation of our comforts
and certainties. Hoarding of basic supplies, overwhelmed hospitals,
increasing regulations, the vitrio l of blame, the worldwide economy on the
brink, and, every day in the  headlines, rising infections and death,
everywhere.For much of th e globe, there is this constant, grueling terror of the
unknown. The kind that leads us  to repeatedly ask why  and how  and who  to
blame and what  now—i mpossible questions that lead to sleepless nights,
endless speculation with friends, shifting social blame, political conspiracy ,
and the heart-wrenching realit y of watching the death rate climb with
exponential precision. The econ omy in the United States has collapsed into recession, leading to
a $ 2 trillion stim ulus package, which many acknowledge will m ake barely a
dent. Th ree million filed for u nemployment last week. T ens of millions
more are expected. Businesses, good ones, are shuttering everywhere. Countries contin ue to lock down . More restrictions are coming. There is no
vaccine in sight. And yet, mercifully , I type these words feeling deeply at peace . The
emotional contagions of fear and scarcity have not pierced my mind, body ,
or spirit. Somehow , I feel calm. Centered. Responsible for my emotions. Self-
reliant in  the face of infinite dan ger and spreading death. Removed from the
need of grasping in hopes of controlling it all. The shelves at my grocery store, before it closed, were empty of basic
needs—and yet I feel abundance. Like most of the world, I am likely to get infected at some point—and yet
I feel safe, whole, complete. I am locked in my house, but I am authentically and spiritually free. Thousands of people message me every day . They are scared, seeking
guidance and hope, and often de monstrating anger , terror , anxiety . And yet,
I’ve not been pulled into the abyss. I feel a confidence that is hard to
explain—ready to serve. Optimism and faith blanket me. I observe my worried thought s and the
instant reactions, sensing an egocentric concern for self, and yet most of my
day is asking, “How can I serve others now?”
I am finding appreciation and even moments of bliss in these seemingly
dark days and nights. For this perspective and ability , I have W a yne Dyer to
thank. Oh, beli eve me, I’m not perfect and I’m not always brave. But I  am here,
fully here, centered and positive, thanks to W ayne’ s wisdom and influence
throughout my life.W ayne w as, and  still is, a vital part of my own awakening. E specially
now . THE DIST ANT MENT OR
It’ s been 24 year s since I read my first W ayne Dyer book. Thoug h W ayne
passed a way five years ago, this book that you are holding is W ayne’ s 43rd. I can’ t think of a more important time for his message. What’ s t he prom ise of this book  amid these chaotic times? In my view ,
it’ s what W ayne often taught:
Ther e is a higher place that each of us can r each while we ar e
her e.
And when you awaken  to  that p otential, which is what this book is about,
“you live according to your high er self, which promotes peace, fulfillment,
integrity , and joy .”
Note that W ayne didn’ t referenc e circumstance. Y ou don’ t need a lucky
break—you simply choose to live acco r ding to your higher se lf , and  it just
happens . A w akening isn’ t contingent up on convenience or ease. It can just
happen, even now . Somehow , I find comfort in that. My entire adult life, I’ve fou nd solace
and freedom in W ayne’ s message. When I was 19 years old, I was suicidal. A breakup with my high school
sweetheart sent me over the edge. She had cheated, and since my entire
identity was wrapped up in our relationship, once the relationsh ip ended so
did my conception of self and purpose. Sometimes, when your relationship
falls apart, you fall apart. That’ s  what happened—I became unraveled , lost
and depr essed. I  planned on taking my life, and I planned how and when to
do it. But then, as it happens, life had other plans. One night, I was  in a car
accident where the car rolled several times of f a highway . I found myself
pulling my body through the windshield to escape and stand ing on the
crumpled hood of the car . Blood was running down my legs. Fear sur ged
through my entire body .And then, I felt faint. I thought I was going to die. I loo ked down a t all the blood spilling of f my feet and onto the hood of
the c ar . I thought this was it: Did I even matter? I fe lt my gaze pull to the
sky and there was this great big beautiful moon. And in that instant  I looked
up, I felt freed  of pain, sudde nly safe. I spontaneously awoke to life’ s
preciousness and magic. God had given me a second chance. That sad and heartbroken and suicidal kid didn’ t want to die anymore. I
wanted to live . I wanted to love again. I wanted to matter . That night began my commitment to learning how to change and improve
my life. Fast-forward a few weeks, and after recovering, I started browsing
bookstores for my existential questions. I found the self-improvement
section and was drawn to an audiobook by W ayne Dyer . In a serendipito us turn of event s that I know W ayne would have loved,
the first thing I consumed was his audio program The A wakened Life . (When Hay House asked me to write the foreword to this book, I
gleefully agreed without even knowing its title. I remember opening the
manuscript and seeing The Pow er of A wakening  and thought, Full cir cle,
my friend. W ell done. Thank you. ) W ayne’ s audio program How to Be a No-Limit Person  and his book Real
Magic  were next, and essential to opening my mind in my 20s. Y ears la ter , afte r the 9/11 terror ist attacks, I found comfort and  hope in
Ther e’ s a Spiritual Solution to Every Pr oblem . What was I learning from W ayne? That atti tude matters. Intention matters. Love matters. Faith matters. Ego,
control, materialism, and power  over others do not. Serve others and you
are serving a purpose. T ap into a higher consciousness and you access your
highest self. Y ou can be at peac e and feel joy even amid what seems like
chaos. Find stillness within. Lo ok for miracles. Surrender can be strength. Act in accor dance with love, with the Divine . By 2003, these lessons were paying of f. I was happy and in love. I felt
good mentally , emotionally , and spiritually . I had manifested a good job as a
leadership consultant. It was satisfying, challenging, and se rvice-driven
work. But I felt called for something else. I wanted to be a writer . I had visions of myself public speaking and talking about my books, like
a young but less skilled, and definitively less wise, W ayne Dyer . It’ s not thatI f elt I could be like W ayne—it’ s that he was an example of what I viewed
as a car eer choice . I didn’ t want to follow or mimic him; I wanted a career
like his, helping people. I felt called to that. W ayne t aught th at most of us don’ t allow ourselves the freedom  to listen
to th ose internal callings. I decided to listen to my dreams because, no
doubt, somewhere in the recesses of my mind, W ayne had influenced me to
do so. I w rote my firs t book, Life’ s Golden T icket , wi th great hop e. I poured
everything into it. It was the artistic achievement of my lifetime. I couldn’ t
wait to share it  with the world . Slowly , though, over many months, 19
publishers rejec ted it. I was crushed and ready to return to my safe
corporate job. I considered quitting on my dream. Then I read Y our Sacr ed Self . Months later , The Power of Intention . There was no going back now . W ayne’ s teachings helped crystallize my purpose and fuel my desire for
what he calls in this book authentic fr eedom . I w ent broke in my quest to f ind a publisher and become a speaker . Eventually , I found a publisher . W e launched the book, and it failed their
expectations. But I had intention—I was going to succeed at this career . So I decided to double down a nd do whatever it took to manifest my
dreams (someth ing W ayne teaches in this book). I surrendered  the need to
have others recognize my work, and I started learning to be a better writer;
to do marketing better; to start a business; to live a fuller , freer life. I learned not to force it, even though I had a lot of vision and hope and
intention. It’ s like W ayne often taught in his PBS specials, life is a dream
and you are blessed to row , row , row your  boat, gently down the stream . . . merrily . . . . W ithin a few sh ort years, I was  at ease in the stream of life and wrote
another book. It became a #1 New Y ork T imes  bestseller . Suddenly , I was
speaking all over the country and coaching influential people. Life was
becoming the dream . . . I had my dream career as a writer , s peaker , and
coach. It was as W ayne said it would b e—when you trust and set intentions and
seek your goals with flow and  faith, “all of a sudden you start seeing
miracles happening, and it’ s absolutely astounding to you.”In 2010, it came full circle. I had invited W ayne to speak at one of my
seminars, and he accepted. W e m et for the first time, backstage at my event,
just min utes before I went on stage and explained to my audience the
dif ference he had made in my life. I was so giddy . . . “all of a  sudden . . . miracles . . . it’ s absolutely astounding to you.”
I w atche d W ayn e awaken my a udience to miracles, to God, t o life, to
love. After he finished his talk, W ayne was so gracious to me and my team and
everyone backstage. Before he left, he gave me the impressio n we’d see
each other again soon. “HOW THINGS UNFOLD”
A ye ar l ater , Reid T racy , CEO of Hay House, invited me to join W ayne’ s
group tour to three sacred spiri tual sites in Europe. I said yes. It was an
honor to  be anywhere near W ayne, and, secretly , I was having a dif ficult
time in my life and wasn’ t aware of precisely why . The itinerary was to take W ayne’ s fans and family to Assisi in Italy ,
Lourdes in France, and Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. These were
locations of famous spiritual sightings and miracles. At each stop, W ayne
would share the location’ s histo ry with us and how we might fi nd our own
spiritual path and miracles in life. I h ave fond mem ories of W ayne on that trip, which I want to share here. I
think these little scenes into his life reveal a little about who he was. (I
won’ t re count the entire trip here, just three personal moments  that meant
something to me. Y ou can watch the trip on Hay House’ s pro gram called
Experiencing the Miraculous: A  Spiritual Journey to Assisi, Lour des, and
Medjugorje .) The first memory I have is from  the day we arrived in Italy together . I
remember going  to the airport baggage area and wait ing for my luggage to
appear . T here was W ayne, waiting for his bags with all of us. Keep in mind
there were 80-some people on this trip—fans—and W ayne was beyond
famous at this st age in his life. Usually , someone in his position would have
an assist ant get the bags while he snuck out of the airport wea ring shades
and headed to a private undisclosed hotel in a private car .But W ay ne lived  his message an d waited for his bags like everyone else;
he was humble and self-reliant. When we stepped outside and  he saw his
private car waiting, he asked to  ride on the bus with everyone else. These
might se em like small and insignificant details. But if you knew W ayne,
you know these things mattered. The sec ond thin g I remember i s from a breakfast. W ayne ate  with the
entire group and was kind eno ugh to let me sit with him. I was excited
because I wanted to find out how  I could give back to my ment or . I wanted
to ask how I could be of service to his mission. At that stage of  my life, I was only six years and three books  into my
“thought leader”  career . I was a newbie and had little to of fer W ayne. My
unique a bility , t hough, was that I had figured out the online s pace sooner
than mo st peopl e in our industry , leading to millions of online students and
fans in the span of a year . It h ad become a thing, and almost everyone I
talked to  would  ask me to promote something for them onlin e—it was a
new constant in my life. “So is there anything at all that I can do for you, W ayne? Something I can
share or promote for you? I’d like to give back and thank y ou in some
way .”
W ayne smiled and looked at me, then his plate of eggs. “I’m good,
Brendon. Let’ s just see how things unfold.”
That is likely the best thing I’v e learned from W ayne— trusting in how
things unfold. T o this day , W a yne is one of three people I’ve ever met in this  industry
who didn’ t ask me for something. I’ll never for get that. The third thing I remember from our European adventure is how W ayne
doted on his chi ldren. He was so transparent in his lectures, spoken in their
presence, about  his journey as a father , husband, and human . T o hear a
“guru” s hare with a paying crow d that he wasn’ t always a good dad, that he
was still evolving and exploring himself and the world, that he was still
discovering the power of love, that he wasn’ t in control, and that he was
actively and genuinely seeking to connect with his kids while he still had
time—this is rare. This is beautiful. This is the spirit of it all. I ha d only briefly met W ayne’ s kids on that trip, but on that same
morning, chattin g over eggs, I shared with him what I had ob served and
heard from them: they loved their father and they were proud of him. Sometimes, when W ayne heard something from you, his nod, th e sparkle inhis eyes, his sile nt knowing—w ithout a word, he imbued the moment with
soul. SOMETHING IS WRONG
Earlier , I shared with you that I was having a dif ficult time in my life
when I was invited on the trip w ith W ayne. I didn’ t know what  was wrong
exactly . I just felt of f.
As we visited sites known for s piritual miracles, I was struck by a sense
that something was truly wrong with me. I was trying to write my next book
on that trip, and the words were  not flowing. They weren’ t eve n coming to
mind. I was exh austed at all tim es. W e were on a trip of exploration, but I
just wanted to stay in bed. I didn’ t feel myself. I wish I could say that the trip had healed me, but it did not. However , it
did f orce me to figure out what was going on. Because, for goodness’ sake,
How can I be on a spiritual journey with W ayne Dyer a nd not feel
incr edible? It tu rned out that, during that trip, my brain was starting to swell. Months
prior , I had wre cked a four -wheeler . It was a spectacular crash at 40 miles
per hour . I thought I had gotten away pretty lucky—just a few broken
bones, a thrown-out hip, a dislocated shoulder , a broken rib, and a snapped
wrist that required full reconstruction. It was painful, but I felt lucky
because the A TV had not landed  on me, which would have likely killed or
paralyzed me. It was like a second  second chance. When I receive d medical help, the doctors tended to the obvious but
failed to ask if I had been knock ed unconscious. They scanned my bones to
see the breaks, b ut no one scan ned my brain. I didn’ t even know that was
needed. And so it was near the time of my trip with W ayne that my brain
apparently began swelling. I didn’ t know that—I just felt awful. Upon
returning home from Europe, I sought medical attention. A doctor listened
to m y de scriptions and asked if I had been knocked unconscious recently . I
told him no at first, but then he asked if I had any other injuries lately . I
remembered the  A TV accident. He said, “Oh. W ell, did anyone look at your
brain after the wreck?”After a brain scan, I was diagn osed with a traumatic brain in jury . The
doctor said I was experiencing post-concussion syndrome. It w ould take tw o years of heali ng to feel myself again. During that time,
I l earned  a lot a bout allowing and leaned into W ayne’ s teachings again. I
watched The Shift  four or five times. Now that you know about my accident, I’d like to share a final  memory
from that trip w ith W ayne. During the tour , I still had a brace on my wrist
from the  A TV accident. One ni ght, a bunch of us were hanging out in the
hotel lobby when Louise Hay came down to say hello. It was the first and
only time I met her . I was a huge fan of Louise’ s, and I knew of W ayne’ s
work because of what she and Reid had built. Louise w alked up to me, noticed  the brace on my wrist, and ask ed if she
could bless it. She placed her hand on the brace and directed me to close my
eyes. Then she said a silent prayer for me and did what Louise always did—
she sent loving ener gy . I felt a relief in my wrist and a breath of fresh air
enter my  being. Her presence, even just for a few minutes, w as healing. W ith that, she stood, wished me well, and walked away . Later I found out Louise probab ly didn’ t even know who I was when we
met. She just saw  someone in pa in and sought to heal. Like W ayne, she was
always of service. The two of them shaped so much of my life. Three years later , W ayne passed away in his sleep. T wo years after that, nearly to the day , Louise passed away . Like all  my mentors, I hope to  carry on the values of those w ho have
taught me and s hare their message with those I’m blessed to reach. I pray
for the wisdom to honor them and serve others with such humility and
humanity . I feel Louise whispering now , “Y ou really can heal your life.”
And I see W ayne’ s blue eyes g listen as he nods and his smile widens:
“There is a higher place that each of us can reach while we are here.”
WHA T WOULD W AYNE SA Y IN A CRISIS? Now I sit here t oday , in the pre sence of distant mentors and m emories,
having just read The Power of A wakening . Reading this book was like aconversation with an old friend and mentor , a reminder of what is important
and possible and beautiful in life. This is such a relevant message for this moment. Indeed, the world has
just been  upended in a matter of weeks because of coronavirus,  and with it
our very  notions  of who we are, what we mean to one another , and what the
future holds. W e are in the pro cess of the very redefining of our global
experience, and that is unsettling and scary . Whatever people had planned at
the begi nning of 2020, a lot has changed real fast. It brings to m ind what I
often heard W ayne share from the stage: “If you want to make God laugh,
tell him your plans.”
And yet this cris is is truly an opportunity to plan a new life, to a waken to
a h igher  vision and experience for ourselves. As W ayne says in the pages
ahead, “ What re ally happens here is that your personal identity changes. . . . Certain activitie s and events tha t formerly carried meaning and motivated
you are also no longer important.”
Could anything better describe this situation? There ar e so many gems in the pages ahead that might of fer a view into
what W a yne wo uld tell us in any time of hardship. So let’ s consider this
moment but also expand into future challenges and life. I fear being so
presumptuous, b ut I also feel that any book from W ayne can be applied to
today’ s w orld, c risis or not, goo d times and bad, when you’re youthful and
when you are wise. Perhaps during dif ficult times, W ayne would remind us that some people
will “allow the circumstances o f their lives to determine what  their inner
world is  like, so they find thems elves angry , hurt, depressed, sad, or fearful
because of external events.”
Others m ight aw aken and experience things dif ferently . They would not
“see problems, dif ficulties, or o bstacles in the same way . Instead, they are
now viewed as ener gy shifts. [They] think, I know that this pr oblem is going
to disperse, like pr oblems always do. This is an opportunity for me to see
what I’m made out of, if I can handle it. ”
W ayne m ight as k us to view the fears of the moment and af firm, “I am
more than what bothers me. I am more than my troubles.”
He might pose this:
“Can yo u learn to witness yo ur life rather than identify with it?”
Believe it or no t, that’ s wher e bliss r esides, wher e higher awa r enessr esides, wher e authentic fr eedom r esides. Maybe W ayne would consider the fact that so many of us are stuck at
home, and then suggest:
T ake time to appr eciate the beauty in your life. T ake time to be
contemplative. T ake time to see that this is a magnificent universe. Ther e is an inte lligence to this whole thing, and everything you come
acr oss has something that you can appr eciate in it. Rather than filling
your inner world with criticism , skepticism, doubt, anguish, or pain,
understand that you always have a choice. All your thoughts ar e things
that you  contr ol . Once you take to heart the idea that what you think
about is  what expands, you can put your attention and ener gy on that
which you appr eciate rather than that which you think is not working
well for you. T hen you will se e these heightened-awar eness things
manifesting for yourself. I’d like to think that W ayne would remind us that it’ s best not  to be up
worrying at all hours and trying to control everything. The ego says, “ Y ou must be concerned with everything.” The higher
self says , “If you surr ender , serve, go with the flow , have an overriding
spiritual objective, and know that you ar e her e for a purpose, ther e
will not be time for what offends you.”
What should we remember during dif ficult times? W ayne might begin by
reminding us to look at what is still good in this world:
When yo u allow  the higher par t of yourself to focus on what’ s right
with the world instead of what’ s wr ong, you become mor e pr oductive. Releasing negat ivity fr om your life, and not allowing the ego or your
self-absorption to get in the way , helps you feel mor e powerful, in
contr ol, and at peace. But how? What can I focus on specifically , W ayne? Maybe he’d answer that we should not just focus on the drama at hand,
or even what is good and what is here now , but also to look within andvisualize the future. T o have the courage to ask:
What do I want to expand in my life? Imagine that—e xpanding emotionally and spiritually now versus shutting
down. Next, he  might suggest we follow our bliss and help others, and that
when we do, it all gets so much easier:
The gr ea t ir ony is that when we get focused on following our bliss and
being in the service of others, all those things that we seek so
desperately—the success, the ac hievement, the performance—seem to
arrive in our life in gr eat amounts. But what happens when we get discouraged or feel alone? Perhaps W ayne would see us ho led up in our homes and suggest that it’ s
a blessi ng to be reminded how  much we need each other . Everyone is
connected and necessary . He’d sa y take care of others, because when “you are on tar ge t in your
life, in the service of others, you ’ll understand the serenity that I’m talking
about.”
Of cours e, and again, one cannot imagine what W ayne would say about
anything. W e can only imagine he would be on purpose with w hat he felt
was why he showed up on this planet and how he lived here:
That Go d for ce,  or love for ce, is what I am about, what I’m h er e for . The mor e I find myself acting in  accor dance with the Divine, th e mor e
wonderful things happen to me. All the things I do, fr om writin g and speaking to the appeara nces I
make in the media, ar e motivated by a genuine internal desir e to  bring
about mor e stability and peace and harmony in the world for people in
some way . Personally , it seems that the r eason I showed up on this plan et has
something to do with teaching self-r eliance.Y es, let  us first be self-reliant by finding our own emotional center ,
peace, and harmony . How can we begin? W ayne might suggest meditation:
Meditation has helped me gain peacefulness, ser enity , and ener gy . One
of the things I’ve discover ed in the pr ocess is that my purpose is to love
and to serve and to give, and I must evaluate every behavior , action,
and thought I have in those terms:  A m I loving, serving, or giving? I
believe that all of us ar e actually her e to give; we’r e not her e to get. Meditation helps  us tap into the Divine ener gy that shows us we  ar e all
her e to serve each other and be in harmony . And what might W ayne advise both during and after this scary moment,
months and years after this pandemic has passed, after the vaccine is found,
after we ’ve foun d our footing an d we enter the inevitable next uncertainties
of life? Maybe:
Y ou mus t allow yourself to tru st the Divine. Surr ender and become
unattached to how things com e out, even though this can be very
difficult. Y ou simply have to  be: Be at peace. Be at joy . Be at bliss. Who knows what W ayne would say to you, specifically? Y ou can always
pick up any of his books, whic h I hope you will continue to do, and find
your own answers. But don ’ t worry : Y ou don’ t nee d to have all the answers. Knowing the
answers isn’ t the game. Y ou simply need to awaken and be who you ar e . As W ayne would say with a wi nk, this isn’ t a matter of self-help but of
self- r ealization . In w riting these last paragraphs , I realize just how much I mis s W ayne. Though we only met a few bless ed times, I’ve known him every year of my
adult life through his writings and programs. And in writing this Foreword, I must share that I wanted to write
W ayne’ s entire biography and tell you the timeline and broad impact of his
life. Inst ead, kn owing that a pe rson’ s legacy is really carried on story by
story , person by person, I thoug ht I’d just share what he meant to me and
what I learned fr om him. It’ s my  small window into his world, but, oh, howI l ove these memories and how I appreciate the opportunity to d o my small
part in carrying his legacy forward. I cannot  wait for you to finish e ach and every page. I hope you’ll share
your own personal lessons and any experiences with W ayne to whomever
you reach. His voice will c arry on through your awakening and sharing. But, oh,
how I wish we could call him to gether now , to ha ve him exp lain to us, here
and now , just one more time, th at we can experience life more easily , that
we can awaken from the fear and ego and chaos of it all, that we can choose
to access the Divine rather than the discord, that we can, truly , faithfully ,
row , row , row our boats, gently , intentionally , merrily , down this blessed
stream. Life is a dream once you awaken. — Brendon Burchard,
author of Life’ s Golden T icket , The Motivation Manifesto , and High
Performance Habits
March 28, 2020
INTRODUCTION
W ayne D yer wa s always a teach er . Even when he became a therapist and
then a best-selli ng author , he lo ved to share things he learned with others. And he  had an extraordinary way of taking high-level concepts and
grounding them, making them seem relatable to everyone. W ayne w as con stantly open to new ideas, and he explored a v ariety of
topics th roughout his prolific speaking and writing career . As we combed
through hours upon hours of tap es from speeches and presentations he gave
to m any varied audiences over m any years, we wondered whether we could
find content for this book that modern audiences would be able to relate to. T o our delight,  we were struc k by the timelessness of his message. Certain passages  seemed so rele vant to current events, you migh t swear that
he wrote  them yesterday . W e laughed at his still singular sense of humor
and way with words. W e also realized that W ayne returned to a few themes
over and  over again, which still resonate today . W e thought it would be
helpful t o take those themes and weave them throughout this book: Ther e is
mor e than the p hysical world of form. Much of life is an illusion. All of us
have a higher self, which is who we truly ar e, and it is Divine. W e cr eate
everything we need; we can even manifest miracles. Ther e is no separation;
we ar e all one. Love, peace, and harmony ar e what makes life worthwhile,
not meaningless possessions that we can’ t ever actually have. In th ese pages, he will take you on a journey from awakening to higher
awareness, and then ultimately to enlightenment. He’ll of fer you spiritual
tools to transcend your current c ircumstances and old patterns, and instruct
you in mindfulness practices such as visualization and meditation,
ultimately helping you reach a higher consciousness and true fulfillment. In
the process, you’ll come to understand consciousness and the Divine plan in
ways you might never have considered before, so that changing your life for
the better seems natural—even inevitable.It w as s o comfo rting to feel W a yne reaching through the years with his
words, inspiring  and guiding us through the stress and challenges of these
tumultuous time s. W e hope this book helps you feel the same wa y , warming
your heart and filling you with hope. — the Hay House editorial staf f
CHAPTER 1
CHART THE COURSE AHEAD
Unmuddling the  metaphysical has long been a goal of mine—that is, to
take some of the concepts that seem so fuzzy to many peopl e and clear
them up and make them avai lable to everyone. Why should the most
important thing s that human beings need to learn be unexp lainable or
shrouded in mystery? Before we go an y further , I ask  that you commit to opening yourself up
to th e topics I’ll be discussing in this book. If you are someo ne who has
only bee n willing to experience that which you felt was safe an d don’ t like
to g o outside o f those limits—well, try not being that kind of person
anymore. Instea d, endeavor to be open to new experiences. Don’ t limit
yourself to only what you feel you can be comfortable with. Each on e of us has the phenomenal capacity to be able to exper ience the
entire range of human experience, and I want you to know tha t we can do
so with ease. All it takes is ge tting out of that one percent of living life
through our physical form, shifting our perspective to see each other
beyond the packages that encas e us. When we do so, we’ll d iscover that
there’ s something much grander available to us all. I on ce wrote a book called Y ou’ll See It W hen Y ou Believe It , and I
wholeheartedly agree with that concept. If you only believe what you see,
then you are lim ited to what is  on the surface. But if you understand that
you’ll see it when you believe it, then you know that there ’ s a special
intelligence in the universe behind everything that has life in it. When
you’re l ooking b eyond what everybody else sees, all of a sudden you start
seeing miracles happening. It’ s absolutely astounding to you! Y ou get to a
point wh ere you see that you are much more than the stuf f that you can get
hold of. Y ou’re more than this f orm and what it can detect with its physicalsenses. Y ou understand that who you are is much bigger , much greater ,
much more Divine  than that. When y ou see that special intelligence, or that special love, in all life,
you think in accepting, loving, and kind ways toward everything and
everyone. Before long you’re creating new kinds of relationships and new
kinds of  excitem ent out of that love, and you’re making things happen that
you nev er thought could happen before. And then you are expecting
miracles, instead  of being surprised by them. Y ou become truly awake, and
your whole life changes. I h ave noticed such an evolution  taking place in my own self. Things that
were onc e absol utely unavailabl e to me, based on the consciousness I had at
the time , are now readily there f or me. I can have them anytime I want. I’ve
tried to note some of the qualities or characteristics that happened to me,
which y ou can expect to see in yourself as well. This is the cou rse we will
chart thr oughout the pages to c ome. The power of that awaken ing is what
this book is about. THE A WAKENING PROCESS
What a wonderful concept it is to be awakened. It’ s like when you go to
sleep at night and you’re dreaming—the only way you know you’re
dreaming is to wake up. Then you’re in a completely dif ferent world, a
completely dif ferent experience. W e’re talking about a similar  thing here. During the awakening process, you’ll be looking back on the “dream”
you’ve been living so far . How do  you know that you’ re becoming awakened, and a higher
consciousness is  taking over in your life? W ell, it seems that the re are levels
you go through,  which have nothing to do with your age, your gender , your
occupation, or anything outside of yourself. First and  foremost, you perceive things dif ferently . Y ou clearly see the
foibles of human beings: Y ou see how restricted people are because of
ancient beliefs, all of these old rules that have been passed on from
generation to generation, which are no longer valid but still cl ung to. Y ou
even see it in yourself, how you conduct yourself based upon r ules that no
longer a pply , wh ich somebody else tried to impose on you. Y ou don’ t getangry about it, t hough. Y ou don’ t judge it or feel attached to it; you just see
it. It’ s the most a mazing thing, this new intelligence that you begin to
develop. For example, it gives you a dramatic freedom because you no
longer h ave to be right. Y ou’ll s ee other people having an opini on contrary
to yo urs, and in stead of trying t o fight with them or get them t o come into
your cam p, you tell yourself, W ell, thi s is wher e they ar e righ t now . Again,
there is no judgment; you simply see this. Y ou develop an unbelievable compassion for all life-forms, which can be
almost o verwhelming to you when you’re starting the awakening process. Y ou hav e a love for other beings akin to the love that you had for yourself
when you were most happy , when you were a youngster . Y ou even feel it
for p eople who are supposed to  be your enemies or competiti on—though
you no longer th ink in those ter ms. Y ou perceive a Divinity in every single
soul out  there, and you don’ t want anyone o r anything to get hurt. This new
compassion is a big part of the awakening process. One day when I was walking  on the beach, I noticed an older man
teaching a young boy how to fish. The man had caught a fish, but it was too
small. H e was going to throw it back into the ocean, but his line got tangled
in th e pr ocess. So this fish was flopping around there on the beach, gasping
for water , and the man was so p reoccupied with his line being tangled that
he completely for got about it. He was working on the line and talking to the
kid about it, and  I was standing  there wondering what he was going to do
about this fish. It seemed to me that if he beha ved as if all life were precious, then the
first thing he’d do would be to take the fish and remove the  hook very
gently , and throw the creature back in the water . But his preoccupation was
with his line being tangled, until he finally seemed to remember , and said,
“Okay , w e’ll thr ow this back.” He let the fish suf fer for about two minutes
until he threw it back, and then it got washed right back up on the beach. Again, the man didn’ t notice, so I went over and picked it up. I took the
little fish  out into the water , about 20 yards or so, because it wa s still alive. Eventually , it got whatever it needed and darted away . This kin d of behavior is common when you start to awaken: you have
compassion for everything, whe ther it’ s another human being or a fish. It
doesn’ t necessarily mean that you won’ t eat animals, for exam ple, but you
may loo k for a more humane way to conduct yourself on the food chain.Y our personal ethics change as you get into this awakening process, and
you begin to have standards that didn’ t apply before. One way  I’ve seen my own ethics change is that I’ve let go of my old
need to be right. My ur ge to let people know how they’re wron g and to put
them in their place has greatly d iminished; now it’ s easy for me  to bite my
tongue. In fact, it’ s b ecome very dif ficult for me  to have an encounter with
another human being in which they go away angry or upset. Another charact eristic or quality you’ll find in yourself is a decreased
attachment to people. In particu lar , you’re no longer attached to  those who
would control you in any way . Y es, you have this tremendous compassion
and new intelligence, where you begin to see things that were unclear to
you at one time in your life, but you don’ t have a preoccupation with
getting everybody on your side. If you have controlling relationships, you
understand that they aren’ t necessary anymore, and you start moving away
from the m. Y ou ’ll initially move away in your own mind, telling yourself,
No, I won’ t be contr olled. Y ou might find this uncomfortable at first, but
after a while you become very peaceful inside and just slide away from
those relationships altogether . One of the big keys to awakening is you now see yourself as  a person
with no labels. Y ou don’ t have to define yourself by your job  title, your
marital s tatus, or how much mo ney you have . . . you don’ t define yourself
at all. The old l abels that you a lways placed on yourself— I a m a college
graduate. I am a pr ofessional. I am a husband. I am a father . I am a man—
no longer apply . Instead, you recognize the formlessness that you are. Y ou also  do not see problems, d if ficulties, or obstacles in the s ame way . Instead, they are now viewed a s ener gy shifts. Y ou think, I know that this
pr oblem is going to disperse, like pr oblems always do. This is an
opportunity for me to see what I’m made out of, if I can handle it. During one trip, for instance, I couldn’ t find the key to my hotel room. There was a tim e I would have  gotten myself so worked up over that, but
now I see things like this as a test. I knew it would work out, and if I didn’ t
find the key , I could always get another one. I worked through that thought,
and it wasn’ t 20 seconds later that I found the key . It just showed up. While
this is a simple example, I’ve f ound that the more I practice these ener gy
shifts, the more things like this happen. The next thing you’ll notice about awakening is something I like to call
“in an instant.” That is, you n ow understand that which had once beenclouded and mysterious to you i n one instant. It’ s almost like now that you
are more open, that openness allows you to experience things that you never
experienced before. For example, I can remember reading a classic book from India a few
years ago and g etting nothing out of it. But then I picked it up again the
other day , and in  an instant it all made absolute, total, perfect se nse to me. I
also used to avoid the parts of bookstores devoted to phi losophy , or
anything that even smacked of spiritualism or metaphysics or the like. I’d
think, Come on! If you can’ t see or ge t hold of it, it doesn’ t exist. Tha t’ s all
ther e is to it. The n I began to  find myself in those very sections, buying four
or five books at a time, and unde rlining passages once I got them  home. It’ s
like in an instan t I came to understand the kinds of books that used to cause
me to think, Ah, wha t is this stuff? What is this guy talking about? Who
does he think he is? Who is he kidding? Now I read them, and I get it. I see
things in a totally dif ferent way . As y ou begin to awaken, you’ ll have all kinds of instantane ous new
approaches and ways of looking at things, because you’re eliminating the
rigidity that you previously had . The highest form of ignorance  is to reject
something you know nothing about. Y et some people go through their
whole li ves like  this, constantly blocking the new from comin g in, lest it
conflict with their firmly held beliefs. For the rest of us, the openness is
available in an instant. And th at “instant” can happen anywhere: It can
happen at a lect ure. It can happ en at a church service. It can happen in a
beautiful encounter between another human being, maybe even  a stranger . It can happen in any number of ways because you are now open. That
openness gives you the opportunity to understand things that were always
cloudy for you before. The bou ndaries between yourse lf and other people start to break down
because you realize that we’re all one. I recently got something really
beautiful in the mail: It was a picture of the planet, with writin g around it
that said, W HEN YOU UNDERST AND THA T THE WORLD IS ROUND, YOU CAN NEVER
CHOOSE UP SIDES . That is so true, as is the fact that we all live on this one
planet. But you’ve got to get back far enough to see the oneness that we
come fro m, the oneness that we are, the oneness that all human ity is—that
we are like one cell in this whole body called humanity . Y ou no longer notice the thin gs that once separated you fr om other
people. All of th ose boundaries have become dif fused, and you  view eachhuman b eing yo u meet not in terms of what separates you from them, but of
what co nnects you to them. Y ou only see that connectedness, which gives
you the motivati on to build brid ges instead of walls. Rather than  clinging to
your separateness, you now reach toward others. Y ou see everyone out there
as connected to you in some way . What really happens here is tha t your personal identity changes. Again,
labels no longer apply . Y ou are  no longer a writer , a husband, a father , or
whatever it is—you are now a higher consciousness, and othe r people are
with you . They may be on a dif ferent place along the path of life than you
are, but you don’ t have to separate yourself out from them. Certain a ctivities and events that formerly carried meaning and m otivated
you are also no longer important. Think back to some things that were so
crucial t o you at an earlier time  in your life, like whether you belonged to
the righ t club, whether your friends liked you, whether you had the right
dress or  the right suit on, whether you showed up at the right gatherings. What does it fe el like to cons ider these activities and events that once
carried a  lot of m eaning for you, now that they no longer do? W hat new joy
did you find to take its place? Maybe you’d rather be by yourself or with
one pers on who m you love, doi ng something as simple as read ing a poem
or going for a walk. Y ou don’ t feel t hat you have to  go through certain motions in order to
prove yo ur hum anity anymore. It’ s all okay now . Y ou don’ t have to have a
date every Friday and Saturday  night. Y ou don’ t have to be attached to a
mate at all. Y ou don’ t have to earn anything. Y ou don’ t have to concern
yourself with all of these things that take up so much of many people’ s time
and ener gy . Don’ t ge t me wrong—there’ s nothing wrong with nice clothes and fun
social ga therings. It’ s terrific and fine if that’ s what you’re doing right now
and you’re enjoying them. Hav e a wonderful time with them, please. Just
know that as yo u start awakening—and this can happen at any age, at any
time—more thi ngs will become less and less significant. Y ou’ll find
yourself getting to the point where you say , “No, I don’ t think I’m going to
do that. I want to read this.” Or , “I’m working on a project. I want to write
something that’ s really important to me.” Or , “I’ve got a painting that I’ve
been working on, and I want to see if I can get that finished.” Or , “There’ s
four or five of u s starting a new group that’ s trying to raise awareness about
addiction.” Or whatever your new passion may be.Y our priorities in life begin to sh ift radically away from events, activities,
things, or places that you used to try so hard to fit into. All of those things
that were once so important are gone now . Y ou will now find yourself
consulting what  I call your “inner signals.” That is, you’ll follow your own
guidance about what is right an d what you have to do at all times—you’ll
no longer look to other people or external factors to show you the way . I’ve seen this with my own life, dramatically . The most import ant times
that I have are with my children. When I can’ t be with them or I choose not
to, I find meaning when I’m al one. I increasingly find that the  moments I
can read, write, draw , or just co ntemplate my own thoughts are absolutely
perfect. The idea of having to go to a movie on Friday night a nd then out
for dinner , or any number of things that were a part of my life for a long
time, no  longer hold an appeal. Y et I look back on that time as necessary ,
for it all taught me how to get to here. As y ou awaken, your relationsh ips literally change. Some of t hem will
grow de eper , bu t the number you  have starts to shift dramatically . Y ou don’ t
feel like you ha ve to surround yourself with other people all the time, so
you reduce the number of acquaintances you have. Y ou relate to a select
few peo ple who don’ t have to agree with you all the time, but are with  you. Y ou ten d to have a smaller circ le, for you have less patience for a lot of
activities and people around you . Y ou might find yourself with only three or
four friends, or maybe even o ne or two, and this is because you are
solidifying the relationship wit h yourself and seeing yourself as part of
something much greater , much more perfect. T o that end, privacy becomes
something that you’re almost consumed with. The need to be by yourself
and not have other people around you all the time is vitally important. Y our dependency relationships sour completely , and you become less
tolerant of anybody determining anything about what your life is going to
be. T his is one of the most notic eable and dramatic shifts you’ll experience. No one is going to tell you what to do any longer . No one is going to dictate
to you how you should be; this goes for at home and on the job. Y ou know
yourself to be a person who has a great deal to contribute, and you do that. If ot her people try to control y ou, first you react with only love toward
them. Then, if that doesn’ t work, you unobtrusively move on. Another thing you’ll find is that the awakening process is something you
can’ t turn away from. Y ou might think that you can, but then it gets you. Y ou now  have an openness to  the Divineness, the grandness, and theperfection that you are, and because you’re acting in accordanc e with your
higher consciousness, you’re only letting the good in. It’ s like how an artery that is clogged with cholesterol cannot let in the
proper a mount o f blood. Think of your body being all clogged up inside,
with cho lesterol or disease or th e like—then health or nutrition can’ t get in. Consequently , you’ll gain weig ht, your ener gy levels will decrease, your
complexion will  look worse, an d so forth. But once you turn yo ur attention
to better choices in nutrition and exercise, being healthy takes over in you,
and you  don’ t want to stop it. O nce you start feeling better , yo u know that
you can’ t go back to old habits any longer . An e xperience I had on a plane a while ago reminds me of this. The meal
I was of fered lo oked like it was  made in about 1943. Somebody  opened up
their package, and it had that chemical smell from processed food. It looked
like uni dentifiable brown stuf f,  so I asked the flight attendant, “What is
that?”
She said, “Oh, that’ s chicken.”
I s aid, “I never saw a chicken th at looked like that.” I looked at all these
people a round me about to dig in, and I said, “Nah, I’ll pass on that. Thank
you.”
At one time, I used to live on greasy food that wasn’ t much b etter . The
food didn’ t change; I  change d. It’ s like I let something else in and
unclogged myself in the physical domain. The sam e conce pt applies in the  thinking domain. Y ou let in new ideas:
Ther e is a positi ve for ce in the universe, and I am a part of that  for ce. I can
make anything I want happen for myself. I am connected to all of humanity . I live in a perfect  universe, wher e ther e’ s a synchr onicity and no
coincidences. Ev erything that happens does so for a r eason, and I am her e
to learn  fr om it. For giveness is a way of life. All  these kinds  of higher -
consciousness qualities enter into your life, and you can’ t turn  away from
them. In fact, you get a little more into them. Now , you don’ t become a prose lytizer , and you’re not trying to convince
anybody else that they have to  be the way you want them to  be. That’ s
actually part of being awakened—you don’ t have to convince anybody else
of a nything. Y ou choose to love people for where they are, even if they’re
doing harm. Y ou focus on getting the earth back in harmony with its
perfection instea d of worrying a bout any tumult or disorder . Y o u try to get
enough people together who are full of love and peace, so they  can go outand pos itively af fect others—u ntil we ultimately have no more war or
hatred. Maybe y ou used  to have though ts only about yourself and at the expense
of every body else, such as, It doesn’ t make any differ ence. I’m going to get
mine befor e the other guy gets his. It doesn’ t matter if I cheat o r lie, or if I
have to  be dishonest with an ybody . None of those things make any
differ ence as long as I am getti ng what I’m entitled to. S uch notions will
diminish, as your values shift toward this concept of harmony . Y ou app reciate everything that you have, right here and right now . Y ou
don’ t think in terms of what’ s missing from your life. Y ou’re no t defined by
What can I get, and how do I get it? but by How can I be internally at
peace, a nd how can I help other people to do that too? How c an I serve? Y ou have only love, and when you start giving that away , you find that,
irony of ironies, everything you ever wanted is there in suf ficient numbers. That’ s because you know that you’re not going to get it all—you ar e  it all. Y ou are harmony . Y ou are peace. Y ou are love. Y ou are awake. As you can see, the process of becoming truly awake is very powerful
indeed. It will lead to a heightened spiritual awareness, a nd then to
enlightenment. S o now that you  know what to expect on the co urse ahead,
let’ s begin our wonderful journey . CHAPTER 2
TRANSCEND YOUR FORM
I’ve been looking at my hands a lot lately . I’ve got great h ands, but
they’re dif ferent  than they used to be. They’ve got a few new brown marks
that I’ve never s een before, for i nstance. I don’ t know what the hell they are
—beauty marks, I guess. When my kids were little, if I squeezed the skin on the back  of their
hands, it would kind of snap back like a rubber band. Mine use d to do that
too, only a little  while ago it seems. Now it sort of meanders back. I’ll time
it: “Four seconds, hmm. Last week it was three.”
Now , if I though t that my hands or any part of my body constitu ted who I
am, I’d freak out. Thank God I know that I am not the body I sh owed up in. Neither are you, even though I’ll bet you’ve been taught that y ou ar e  your
body . S o you’ve been watching it, and trying to lift the pa rts that are
sagging and falling. Y ou’ve been  watching the hairs fall out of it. I certainly
have. Bu t I discovered that thos e hairs on the top of your head don’ t really
fall out; they go  in. Y es, I just made this amazing discovery: the  hairs go in,
and then  they come out through  your nose and your ears. If my  kids hadn’ t
gotten me an electric nose-hair clipper , which you can also use in your ears,
I would have shoulder -length e ar hair today . And why? What do I need it
there for? In al l ser iousness, one of the motivations for this book is to teach  you this
very imp ortant t hing: Y ou ar e not your form. Y ou  are someth ing much more
magnificent and Divine than your packaging, and having your mind
stretched to this new dimension of understanding is cause for celebration. I believe  that we all have the ab ility to transcend or go beyond  our form
—that is, to transform  our selves. In f act, no human being is ever fully
formed; we’re always in the pro cess of transformation. Just when we think
we’re fo rmed, w e look in the mirror and notice a wrinkle that wasn’ t thereyesterday , an eyelid drooping a little more, a tooth with a hole in it, or what
have you. So there’ s no such thing as a fully formed person. Y ou now  occup y this particular body , but that’ s not who you are at all. It’ s akin to an astronaut’ s space suit—you have this shell that you occupy
for a certain amount of time. The problem is, a lot of people think they are
absolutely their  packaging. Imagine that you went to the frozen-food
section of the grocery store and saw something that had a nic e picture of
broccoli with almonds on it. Y ou brought it home, took the w rapping of f
and put it in your little pot of hot water , and started boiling the wrapping. . . . Of course, you’d never do t hat! Y ou know that the brocc oli and the
almonds are inside the package; they are not the wrapping itself. That’ s the same analogy I have for each one of us: W e think we are our
wrapping. W e get into this package, and we believe that it is more important
than wh at the package contains . What it contains, though, is our ability to
be anyth ing that  we want and to make almost anything happen that we want
to. IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND
The human mind has an incredible power to make things happen. I know
people w ho have literally performed miracles on themselves, for instance. I
also kno w people who have been at the depths of despair when some magic
happened somehow , and their lives changed. I have a fundamental belief that anybody  can turn their life around,
though. It never comes down to, Did I get the right body? Or Am I str ong? Or what ever yo u tell yourself needs to be dif ferent to achieve what you
want to happen. I really think that whatever form you find yourself in is part
of your life’ s curriculum. This i s what you got, so if you judge it, are upset
about it,  wish it were something  else or dif ferent, curse it, or fin d fault with
it in any way , then you’re kee ping yourself from finding God, the T ao,
nirvana . . . or whatever word you want to use. Such an attitude keeps you
from being truly awake. Lots of people, however , don’ t believe they have the power to change
things outside of themselves through the way they think. They don’ t want to
accept it; they think they’re formed, and that’ s that. They ge t up in themorning, they go of f and do things the way they think they’re supposed to
in “wor k formation,” and then they come home and they’re in “Daddy
formation,” and then they’re in “friend formation,” or whatever it is, all
through their whole life. They  don’ t understand that there’ s something
beyond that form. The awa kening process can seem complicated and dif ficult because we
can’ t see the perfect intellige nce that’ s behind all form. There’ s an
intelligence behind a fish in wa ter . There’ s an intelligence behind a plant
that gro ws in a certain kind of way . There’ s an intelligence behind every
living thing. W e miss that intell igence because we’re so preoccupied with,
What ca n I see? How can I get hold of it? Just because we  can’ t physically
grasp what’ s going on in our m inds doesn’ t mean that it doesn’ t exist, any
more than the wind doesn’ t exist because we can’ t get a handful of it. Y ou can’ t hold w ind, you can’ t smell wind, you can’ t touch wind . . . you
can only see the results of wind. That’ s all. Y ou know that wind  exists, but
nobody’ s ever seen it. How could you do that? It exists ind ependent of
whether you can touch it or not. As you become awakened, free from all the
stuf f that immobilizes most peo ple—all the anguish, all the dep ression, all
the having to g et ahead, all th e accumulation anxieties, all the type A
behavior that we suf fer from—that stuf f becomes something in the past that
is only thought, and you’ll never be knocked around by it again. What m akes you who you are has nothing to do with your body . Sure,
you can  do lots of stuf f with the pile of skin, bone, muscle, and gristle
you’re in, but you pr ocess  and experience  i t all thr ough yo ur mind. So when
you can see that  you’re much more than this form, you understand that the
thoughts you have are things, and they can be changed. Y ou can learn to
perceive life in a new way , realizing that how you process every thing is the
key , and it is always firmly in your control. THE RULES OF THOUGHT AND FORM
T ake a look at all of the things that are important to you, starting with
your loved ones. Can you understand that the only way you can ever
experience them  in the moment  is through your mind? Y ou can’ t do it anyother way . Y ou can’ t get behin d their eyeballs and be them. This is the
limitation of form. Any outer experience can only be done through thought. Now , tak e all of the things that  you want to accumulate. Y ou’ll see that
they jus t exist in thought as wel l. Y ou can’ t be  a diamond or a new house. Y ou can experience it, but you can’ t ever actually have it or own it. It is
only in your mind that you can do something with it. The only  boundaries that exist are in form. As long as you believe you
are f orm, you’re always going t o have boundaries and obstacles. Someone
once ask ed me, “What are the o bstacles to my achieving full ha ppiness?” I
replied, “The belief that you have to have obstacles.” That’ s all. In other words, anything that you can think, you can achieve. A thought
is something that if you get it properly in your mind and start liv ing with it,
then eventually what you are imaging for yourself has to come about. W e’ll
talk abo ut this more later in the book, but for now , understand that the
connection between thinking a nd creating something for yourself is not
some kind of mystical, hocus-pocus thing. Y ou can learn to optimize this
vibrational pattern that we call thought, which is instantaneous. Y ou can
literally make anything happen  that you want to through your ability to
think. Y ou get to this place where you understand Ther e ar e no limits on
me, because I can think anything I want. As you see it, there are new rul es. T ake cause and ef fect, which is very
important in form: Y ou do this, and it causes that. Physical form is altered
by this and that. W ell, in though t, you don’ t have to have cause and ef fect. If yo u’re doing something in thought, and you want to change the thought
to so mething else, you do. If you’re in the United States right n ow but you
want to be in Afghanistan, you just go there. Y ou don’ t have to fly , get on a
ship, or drive—you go there in thought. In th e pr ocess of  awakening, you begin to see everyone and ever ything in
the universe from this place of no limits.
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Excuses Begone. Getting in the Gap
Good-bye, Bumps. (children’ s book with Saje Dyer)
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Change Y our Thoughts Meditation
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How to Get What Y ou Really, Really, Really, Really W ant
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Meditations for Manifesting
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The author of the book "Life's Golden Ticker" is not mentioned in the passage.
Who is the author of the book "Life's Golden Ticker"?
The title of the book is not mentioned in the passage, but it is mentioned that it is W ayne Dyer's book.
What is the title of the book that Brendon Burchard was reading when he felt a sense of peace and calm during a difficult time?
Brendon Burchard wrote the foreword to this book.
Who wrote the foreword to this book?
The main theme of the book "The Power of Intention" is not mentioned in the passage, but it is mentioned that the book is about helping readers awaken and become enlightened.
What is the main theme of the book "The Power of Intention"?
The key to achieving enlightenment, according to Brendon Burchard, is not explicitly stated in the passage. However, he mentions that W ayne Dyer's teachings helped him and that the book he is writing the foreword for is about the process of awakening and becoming enlightened.
What is the key to achieving enlightenment, according to Brendon Burchard?