The Jerry Banfield Show

Hear inside of a challenging day for me today filled with depression, self-pity, anger, hurt feelings, and frustration which motivated me to do extra work helping others today! What I hope to share is that the purpose of inconvenient and uncomfortable emotions seems to be to bring each of us closer to each other for learning unconditional love and acceptance. Today I am grateful for so many experiences of that and for a chance to share here with you again! My exercise is to reflect on what I have learned this day that I may use it to do better in the future and continue serving you as well as others!

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How would you feel each day without the fear of death threatening to take away everything you have worked so hard for? I remember in third grade when I started believing in dying after my grandfather passed away. Before that I only knew life! The idea of death did not exist for me and I was much happier without it. From the day I started placing my faith in a world of fear with death's shadow loomed over me just waiting for the right moment to end my life, the world and everything in it started to less alive and more dark. Twenty years into believing in the Grim Reaper, I could not take it anymore. Either I must leave this earth and find out what was next or stay here and remember the eternal life I had forgotten as a child. After listening to The Miracle of Mindfulness on Audible by Thich Nhat Hanh, I was ready to face death completely and investigate my belief in it. As I stepped into the shower, I started to focus intensely on exactly what my body's death might be like. The corpse laying dead somewhere. Morticians looking over the body to confirm how it died. Funeral home staff loading the body into the crematorium. Everything being burned away. To make it even worse, I threw in my loved ones after my body. Through crying and sobbing and pleading I was asking "Why Me" and "IT IS NOT FAIR!" Then the most amazing thing happened. My mind stopped. Thoughts of dying repeatedly were so torturous that my mind finally threw up its hands and said ENOUGH I GIVE UP! With no thoughts at all, I looked around. My body was sitting in the shower because it had been crying so hard that was best for safety. Water was pouring down from the shower head all over it. Suddenly being alive seemed like the most amazing gift. Next to the fullness of life the little idea of death seemed to be ridiculous. Life was going on everywhere and I was in the middle of it. Where was the monster of death? Unseen and unimportant. Suddenly I experienced what might be called a laughing fit or laughing revelation. All of the love in the universe was obviously given to me. It always had been and always would be. Crying in sorrow switched to crying in joy because in experiencing what it was like to "die" I now felt explosive gratitude like a second chance at life. In that shower I felt like everything was brand new like the entire universe just popped into existence. Water running down my face felt hilarious. How luxurious to have running water inside! Bathroom tiles looked alive and each unique. If you have seen Bad Boys II and remember the part where Martin Lawrence was on drugs and said "Do you ever just RUB YOUR LEATHER", it might have looked a bit like that. Out of the shower I emerged feeling reborn as if I had just been unplugged from the matrix and given a second life. With seeing through the illusion of death, I was truly free again. Fortunately I was able to make a video immediately afterwards sharing my experience which I will watch with you live at the end of the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254MAU42iak.

Absent of a fear of dying, life leaves little else to be afraid of because of the peace in knowing that any pain will fade and be forgotten while all the love and joy in life are forever. I even managed to make a video right after this experience which was over two years ago that you might enjoy watching. My exercise is to remember this today because just as I learned to believe in dying in third grade and unlearned it two years ago, I work today to not take on the fear of death again as something I believe in. Thank you very much for experiencing this with me and I hope you have a magical day today!

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In listening to Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander on Audible at http://amzn.to/2kEC7B4 I loved hearing how consciousness is not simply a product of our brains but is actually a phenomenon that occurs independently of the body. It appears that our soul bonds with our body during this life. While Dr. Eben Alexander as a Neurosurgeon originally believed that being conscious occurs completely in the human brain, his own near death experience or NDE left him with memories that from a scientific point of view were impossible because technically he was brain-dead when he had them. I loved listening to him actually tell his story in this audio version of this and share my experience with you today with the hope that you have the opportunity for the same experience! Reading this book is great proof of reincarnation and offers a gateway into freedom from death. If you buy the book on Amazon using my link I will be grateful to receive a few cents from Amazon as a thank you at http://amzn.to/2kEC7B4.

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Writing a Love Letter to Heal Feelings and Return to Happiness is really helpful for getting out of feelings I do not like and getting back into the joy of living! I learned this from Dr. John Gray the author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and What You Feel You Can Heal both of which are books I listened to on Audible. Dr. John Gray as also written Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress which I have purchased on Audible and will be reading soon. I hope in explaining the love letter technique for experiencing, healing, and transcending fear, anger, hurt, depression, rejection, anxiety, regret, and any other painful emotion that you are able to use it in your life to get the same results I do. If you are in recovery, the love letter method is similar to doing a fourth step fearless moral inventory where you look at everything and then find a way to move forward with the whole truth in mind. My exercise for today is to continue to practice the love letter in real time in my mind to quickly process, feel, and pass through each learning opportunity I receive in my life in the form of what looks like negative feelings. Thank you for reading this description of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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See the top 10 ways professional YouTubers make videos versus what amateurs do that before they turn pro! Watch this video to learn how to build your YouTube channel, create videos faster, produce higher quality content, get more subscribers, and get people to engage with your videos!

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Would you like to hear my life goals and vision for the future during day 75 of Happier People podcast? Hear how I dream of a world where all people are aware of our position in the galaxy and where each person feels connected to the collective! Experience my idealism having resurfaced as I remember why I came to be here with you today and know that what you hear in me is the same song available in your heart!

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What are the top 5 lessons I learned reading the The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss? This is Day 74 of Happier People podcast live!

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See the top 5 diet, health, eating, and nutrition facts I learned in Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell and Howard Jacobson which I listened to on Audible! You might be shocked by number two about animal protein and number three what the science shows about pills, vitamins, calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, and supplements! Thank you very much for listening to this episode of Happier People podcast live and I hope you enjoy it!

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What did I LEARN and DO as a result of listening to MONEY Master The Game by Tony Robbins? Watch this video to hear me review and explain the best of what I enjoyed in the book and most essentially what steps I actually took while reading the book. First, I discovered a toxic disempowering belief I had about my own finances because of losing my job in 2016 teaching on Udemy. After they banned me from teaching and removed 95% of my income in June 2016, I created a new belief that my business was going to make less money in 2017 because of this loss EVEN WITH NO DATA to support this belief. It was while listening to MONEY Master The Game on Audible that Tony Robbins challenged me in the book to investigate and questions my beliefs about money that I realized what I was doing. For my 2017 business planning, I was clearly making way for scarcity. As soon as I noticed not only did I believe my financial situation was going to get worse BUT I WAS ACTING ON THAT BELIEF TO MAKE IT TRUE, I immediately asked “What belief would I like to have when it comes to my wealth? To replace my last belief, I decided that what I would like to believe is that 2017 will be EVEN BETTER than 2016 because of what I learned and the actions I am taking now. Given this new belief, I started to take more actions of generosity and start planning for even more growth in my business by helping more people than I already had been. After all, if I help more people in my business than I was before, I will continue to make more money as well.

MONEY Master The Game also helped me make my first serious investment in buying a Dash masternode as explained in my online course at http://skl.sh/2iVPefr. This cost around $10,000 and required me to drop all of my playing around with cryptocurrencies and focus everything into one investment that would help me help others the most and give me the best chance at a guaranteed return both if the price of dash goes up AND in weekly dividends that are paid to all masternodes. I am currently making around $40 A WEEK back from my investment and my around $10,000 initially invested is currently worth $14,000+ today.

In addition to getting started with a unique investment opportunity available to me, I also opened an account with Vanguard because they are a not for profit mutual fund with extremely low fees allowing me to make conservative and diverse investments both before tax and after tax with a ROTH 401K solo. I put $2,500 into my ROTH 401K solo which is great for being self-employed into a stock and bond index fund.

What did I learn from the interviews with billionaires mentioned in MONEY Master The Game? I learned that they consistently do not see themselves smarter than others or better at playing the game. They see how they are apt to be wrong and they look carefully into the risk as well as make their own opportunities. Diverse portfolios were a consistent recommendation along with minimizing the impacts of taxes and fees.

Today I am very grateful Anthony Robbins took the time to write and dictate MONEY Master The Game for my benefit and for yours today. If you google the book, he has an offer to ship you the book for free if you pay shipping or if you get it on Audible like I did you can get it for one credit which is around $10 on the platinum plan I have.

My exercise for today is to continue to investigate and question my financial beliefs to see where they are helping me to reinforce them and to see where they might be hurting me in places where I will then make changes.

Thank you very much for reading this and I hope you have a magnificent day! Would you please leave like on this video if you enjoyed it to help others benefit from it as you did? Will you leave a comment if you would like me to do more book summaries and reviews like this for future episodes of Happier People podcast?

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