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SPECIAL REPORT
Resilience!How to Explode Your Results in 2010
by Making One Critical Shift
ByDr. Symeon Rodger
2010 Rock Solid Life Systems and Warrior Coaching International
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MEET DR. SYMEON RODGER...
Dr. Symeon Rodger, The Warrior Coach, is arguablythe worlds top expert in the ancient worlds amazingsystems of personal development through spiritualpractice, health maintenance and martial arts.
Combining his vast knowledge of these ancient systemswith modern science and rigorous attention to historicalfact, Symeon specializes in creating liberating and life-transforming paradigm shifts in audiences of all kinds.
Symeon has distilled his 35 years of research and
experience into his new book, The 5 Pillars of Life:Reclaiming Ownership of Your Mind, Body and Future. Heis an internationally known author on mindset and co-creator of several multi-mediaprograms in the eld, includingThe Life Mastery Program and The Mindset Masters
Speak. He has done extensive work on corporate culture (the collective aspectof mindset) and is author of Convergence Power: Turning Your Corporate Cultureinto a Purpose-Driven Benet Machine that Runs Itself Without You and Leaves YourCompetition in the Dust.
Symeon is the founder of Rock Solid Life Systems and Warrior Coaching International,companies dedicated to researching all levels of human potential. He is a universityprofessor, a martial arts expert and used to run Top Secret intelligence operations
for the Canadian government. He is also a married priest in the Eastern OrthodoxChurch.
He has had his own radio show and been a guest on many others, being interviewedon the same programs as world famous authors such as Dr. M. Scott Peck.
As founder of the phenomenally successful Mindset Mastery Virtual Bootcamp, anongoing teleseminar series on various aspects of mindset and peak performance, hehas interviewed such notables as T. Harv Eker, Chris and Janet Attwood, Dr. Alex Loyd,Mark Joyner, Cynthia Kersey, Loral Langemeier, Jack Zufelt and others.
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Dr. Symeon Rodger was a wonderful surprise as a speaker. We felt compelled to havehim on our Quantum Clearing series, but we really didnt know why. It was just a feeling.
Wed never heard him speak before.
Only 30 showed up for the show, but Symeon was amazing. He was lots of fun andbrought a brand-new take on healing. I still use the breathing exercise he taught us to help keep me in
an Alpha state. Others apparently liked him too - he sold 75 books to those 30 people!Tom Pauley
CEO of Rich Dreams Inc. Author ofIm Rich Beyond My
Wildest Dreamsand Quantum Marketing
Dr. Symeon Rodger is one of the nest, most respected speakers and trainers I know. He
is brilliant and yet very genuine. He comes from the heart and when that is combined withhis knowledge he is able to bless the lives of everyone who hears him which explains why hehas such a large, extremely dedicated following. He is a delight to work with and Im very
pleased to have him as one of my strategic partners.Jack M. Zufelt
Mentor to Millions and Author of the #1 bestselling book,The DNA of Success, www.dnaofsuccess.com
Dr. Symeon Rodger brings a remarkable assemblage of talents, knowledge and expertise,
which made for a fascinating, educational and engaging experience for our entireaudience. A true professional and master communicator, Dr. Symeon delivered a powerful,content-rich presentation in a way that made it easy for our entire audience to comprehend
and benet from immediately. I would highly recommend Dr. Symeon Rodger as an extremely
well versed speaker and exceptional adult educator, and his kind, charismatic personality made hima complete joy to work with.
Kathy M. Gyimesy
Program Director, The Health Intensives Inc.
I truly enjoy listening to Dr. Symeon Rodger. Many of you may know him from an interviewthat Mark Joyner did with Symeon in December 2006. Mark is not an easy interviewer and he
takes his guests to task if they are not real masters of their discipline. It was on that teleseminarthat Symeon was able to shine a light of profound wisdom from his decades of learning andmastering martial arts skills and, far more important, his complete understanding of how to
teach a complex subject (HARA) in a very simple and straightforward manner. He teachesa system that is complete, authentic, proven, and reliable; all in a step by step method that is certain to
work for anyone that chooses a path of higher consciousness. Listen, learn and take action, now!
Irwin GlennBusiness Strategist, New York
Symeon Rodger is a scintillating and controversial speaker!
Mark JoynerMarketing legend and #1 Best-Selling Author of Simpleology
What His Colleagues and Clients Have to SayAbout Dr. Symeon Rodger...
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FROM ThE DESk OF DR. SYMEON RODGER:
January 6, 2010
The beginning of a new year is always a time of great promise, of hopes and
dreams, a time to imagine what life could be like and plan how youll get to
that alluring destination.
Realistically, of course, we all know that most New Years resolutions barely sur-
vive the month of January!
My personal quest of more than 35 years now has been to nd ways of reversing
that distressing trend. As a speaker, author and mentor, Ive spent an enormous
amount of time investigating and testing ancient and modern methods that
claim to be able to transform your life, and then telling people like you about
them.
This special report is different, though. Its not about any particular method
that will double your income or cut your waistline in half. Its about something
much more profound.
Its about two radically different approaches to transforming human life and
why the one youre subconsciously following is quite likely the one that never
works!
This special report is about the TRUTH the truth about why it often seems so
insanely difcult to make even small improvements in our lives and how to
reverse that situation.
I hope you enjoy it. Even more, I hope you take it to heart!
Best wishes for a wonderful year!
Dr. Symeon Rodger
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ThE SPaRTaN FacTOR
Ever had a day when you just wanted to throw in the towel?
I still have vivid memories of one such day several years ago Id just nished
a particularly difcult counseling session with a client lets call her Jennie. This
was our fourth or fth session together, as I recall.
Jennie was 30-ish, very bright, talented in many ways and quite attractive.
However, she had come to me with some signicant emotional issues related
to self-image and forgiveness that were playing havoc with her relationships
and her health.
As usual, I developed a strategy to help her take on these problems, a one
step at a time strategy that, I felt, was well within her capabilities. And each
time Jennie came back I would naturally ask her how things were going.
Well, I really havent had a minute to start putting your suggestions into action.
Ive just been so busy, she would say. Meanwhile, the walls of her little world
seemed to be closing in around her, and yet there was always an excuse for
doing little or nothing about it.
Because of my own inexperience at the time, my rst reaction was to blame
myself. Maybe my strategies were unworkable or too difcult
I knew that some people have so much invested in their own lifes calamities
and illnesses that they subconsciously dont want to get better. Yet I felt that
Jennie wasnt one of these people.
Only later, with the sage advice of a more experienced colleague did I real-
ize what was really happening. Jennie was, in a certain sense, notcapable of
changing her life. She had lots of problems and yet no personal power to x
them, no matter what strategies anyone would give her.
Observation eventually claries many things, like the difference between the
few - who run to put into action whatever you suggest, and who naturally get
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amazing results and the many who do nothing and get nowhere. Strategy
has comparatively little to do with it.
History can teach you an awful lot of things. Im stunned to encounter peoplewho think historys just a bunch of dry facts from an irrelevant past.
My youngest daughter recently
talked me into watching the movie
300 an admittedly Hollywood-ized
retelling of the Battle of Thermopy-
lae in 480 BC.
Basically, 300 Spartan warriors held
off an invading Persian army of
more than one million men for a pe-
riod of several critical days before nally succumbing. Its considered by many
historians as the greatest last stand in military history.
Sparta was certainly a warrior culture by any denition, and those blind to its
many virtues are quick to condemn it as militaristic or violent. In reality,
whatever its aws, Sparta was based on high ideals of honor and justice. The
Greek historian Xenophon writes about an incident he witnessed personally:
An elderly man was trying to nd a place to sit and observe the Olym-
pic Games. As he went to each section, all the other Greeks laughed
as he tried to make his way through. Some ignored him. Upon entering
the Spartan section all the Spartans stood and offered the elderly man
their seats. Suddenly the entire stadium applauded. All the Greeks
knew what was the right thing to do, but the Spartans were the only
ones who did it.
Sparta was widely known for its educational system for both boys and girls. The
system was very demanding physically and produced people who were ex-ceptionally tough and resilient in every way.
The purpose of this toughness and resilience, though, was to inculcate a strong
sense of self-identity, values and a virtuous character, as Xenophons story
illustrates.
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Without a strong sense of who you are, of what you stand for and the inner
strength to act on those values, you have no real chance of achieving real
happiness or a fullling life.
Theres a reason why the words describing virtue in so many languages con-
vey a sense of wholeness, stability and integration, while the words describing
vice give you the impression of someone whos like a rickety old building on the
verge of collapse!
People today want to get clear on what they really want and how to get it. Un-
fortunately, they dont even know who they are and what they stand for. They
have the order of things mixed up.
Tremendous clarity ensues when a person sets out to develop toughness, re-silience, a strong sense of identity and values in a systematic way. Everything
becomes crystal clear and most of lifes problems evaporate on their own.
The Spartans were trained from childhood to be strong and resilient. All their
human capacities had been tested to the limit. Their education let them taste
victory in so many hair-raising situations that they were incapable of doubting
their own abilities.
Jennies peers and educators, on the other hand, had systematically trained
her to feel weak, powerless and victimized. And she turned out just the way you
would expect.
Unfortunately, in our society, Jennie is perfectly normal
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DOES EvERY PRObLEM REaLLY NEED
iTS OwN SOLuTiON?
The Self-Help / Personal Development genre started out as an effort to pro-
vide information to help you overcome specic difculties in your life. And
most of the literature in the Self-Help eld still deals with single issues, like weight
loss, relationships, tness, etc. In other words, most Self-Help methods come
across as one-trick ponies.
However, more and more people are becoming fed up with trying to deal
with the endless array of unpleasant symptoms in their lives on a one-by-one
basis. Theyre tired of putting out res. People are asking, Isnt there a more
comprehensive solution? Isnt there an single approach I can use that willsolve all my problems?
This is a natural question because most people face
a bewildering matrix of problems in their own lives.
Theyre aware of them. They would like to do some-
thing about them. But the whole prospect seems
totally overwhelming.
The diagram on the Page 11 pretty well sums it up.
One look at that would paralyze almost anyone!
Lately you may have begun to notice the termself-
mastery more and more often. Thats an indication
of how deeply felt the need for a single, all-encom-
passing solution really is.
You cant underestimate the importance of this trend because it reveals a
fundamental shift in consciousness about how we think about ourselves, our
world and the challenges we face. Weve come to the point of realizing thatlogically, there must be an approach to life that would vaporize our symp-
toms without any need for us to address them all.
Fortunately, there is such an approach. And the trail of bread crumbs that has
led the Self-Help world in that direction comes from several sources
More and more
people are
becoming fed up
with trying to deal
with the endlessarray of unpleasant
symptoms in their
lives on a one-by-
one basis
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First, we have psychology, which deals with how we think and perceive. And
all psychological investigation eventually confronts one single question the
question What is human consciousness and how do you modify it?
Second theres quantum physics, which has demolished the myth of the ob-
jective observer by proving that the consciousness of the observer actually
changes physical reality on the sub-atomic level. So again, we come face to
face with the issue of consciousness.
Third, we have the eld of religion and spirituality, where there is the increasing
realization that holding a particular religious ideology is, in itself, powerless to
transform human life, and that real transformation takes place at the level of
consciousness.
So wherever we turn, were confronted by the overwhelming evidence that hu-
man consciousness is the key to transforming both our individual lives and the
world at large.
This discovery is nothing new its simply a rediscovery and a scientic valida-
tion of what ancient cultures have known for millennia.
What makes it so important here and now is that it supports the view that there
must be a single approach to xing all the things that are going wrong in your
life.
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Income too
low
Business
going
badly
YOU
Job is
precarious
Creditors
calling
Crushed by
debt
Doubt
ability to
succeed
Inability to
lose weight
Confused
about own
values
Unclear on
goals
Problems
with kids
Low
energy
Feeling of
approaching
breakdown
Low
immunity
Confused
about how
to change
Confused
about God
Feeling of
spiritual
emptiness
Unforeseen
expenses
Poor
relationship
with
spouse
Chronic
exhaustion
Chronic
health
challenges
Poor self
image
Severe
stress
Chronic
anxiety
Out of
shape
physically
Smoking Too much
to do and
no time
Poor
relationship
with boss
No time for
friends
Sudden
demands
by others
MissedopportunitiesPoor diet
Body full
of toxins
Poor
concentration
Feel
unloved
Grieving
for past
mistakes
Grieving
for lost
loved ones
REaLLY waNT TO TackLE YOuR PRObLEMS ONE-bY-ONE?
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ThE ThiNGS YOu waNT TO chaNGE
iN YOuR LiFE
Thats what things look like from thirty thousand feet, of course. When were
down at ground level during our everyday lives, we have the desire and
sometimes the pressing need to get better results in various areas of our lives.
In a recent study, the top 21 things to change in 2010 lined up like this:
Increase my income1.
Overcome self-limiting beliefs2.
Get in better physical shape3.Build excellent health and immunity4.
Get clear on what I really want5.
Acquire deep inner peace6.
Build a stronger spiritual life7.
Get more self-condence8.
Explode my existing business9.
Take back control of my energy10.
Eliminate stress and anxiety11.
Overcome fears12.
Detoxify my body13.
Network more effectively14.
Take back control of my time15.
Improve my diet16.
Improve my relationship with my spouse or partner17.
Become procient at meditation18.
Feel more loved19.
Master work-life balance20.Start a successful business21.
If you analyze these further, youll notice that the items listed here can be
grouped together on a continuum of sorts, ranging from the most concrete,
material and measurable to the least concrete, material and measurable.
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So, people want to change their:
Circumstances1. (e.g., income and nances, job and career, living ac-
commodations, motor vehicle, etc.)
Physical reality2. (e.g., health and immunity, tness, etc.)
Mental and emotional reality3. (e.g., self-limiting beliefs, stress and anxiety,
self-image issues, etc.)
Interpersonal reality4. (e.g., relationship with spouse, with children, with
other relatives, with boss and / or colleagues, with friends, etc.)
Spiritual reality5. (e.g., meditation, prayer, inner peace, spiritual connec-
tion to God / Source)
Please note that Im not implying any value judgment here. Its not that want-
ing to make more money makes you a lesser person and wanting to become
more spiritual makes you morally superior.
Any one person is likely to want to change things
in any or all categories. A person whos very
spiritually oriented may well have a very press-ing need to make more money. And a wealthy
business person may have a deep spiritual life.
Although the prevailing misconception in our
culture for much of the 20th century was that
only whats concrete and measurable is real, that misconception is rapidly
collapsing, partly under the weight of scientic advance itself.
We are now face to face with the fact that we need to establish a more holistic
view of life and act on that view in order to resolve our individual problems. This
is the only way that youll have a ghting chance to live a long, healthy and
fullling life.
Now well have a look at why getting better results in your life in any area of
your life is turning out to be such a challenge! The universally acknowledged
We are now face to
face with the fact that
we need to establish a
more holistic view of life
and act on that view
in order to resolve our
individual problems
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fact is that Self-Help / Personal Development isnt working all that well, if the
statistics are any indication. Although reliable data is hard to nd, its widely
accepted that 50-75% of the people attending any given seminar or workshop
will experience zero improvement over the following 12 months, 20-45% will ex-perience minimal benet and only 5% or less will see signicant change in their
lives.
Strangely enough, the evidence does NOT point the nger at the experts or
their methods. Much of the Self-Help material itself is of good quality.
The evidence points instead at you and me, the users of the material. Heres
why
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whY chaNGiNG YOuR LiFE iS haRDER
ThaN YOu ThOuGhT
Based on my years of counseling, coaching, mentoring and simply observing
both myself and others, Ive compiled a list of the most common factors that
appear to cause you to fail when you try to make changes in your life. Theyre
not in any particular order:
Not having a clear idea where they want to go1.
Fighting symptoms instead of causes2.
Lacking perseverance3.Confused about what action to take4.
Not having a mentor, teacher or coach5.
Acting on bad advice6.
Lack of emotional stability7.
Cultural blinders that lter out the best solutions8.
Having too much to do-overwhelmed by everything9.
Slavery to subconscious fears, self-limiting beliefs10.
Fear of effort and adversity11.
Trying to change too much at once12.
Being obsessed with nding the magic bullet and the quick x13.
Failure to act - analysis paralysis14.
Not having a plan of action15.
Stress and anxiety16.
Unwillingness to be different from the herd17.
Ignorance of the rules of inner growth18.
Failure to build a strong physical, emotional and noetic foundation19.
Sheer force of habit20.
The culture and educational system that systematically teach low21.
personal effectiveness
Lack of belief that something better is possible22.
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Taken as a whole, the factors above point to the one cause thats the true
root of your seeming inability to make dramatic changes in your quality of
life.
To understand this one key cause, we have to back up
for a moment and look at historys original Self-Help
/ Personal Development systems,the ancient worlds
most successful traditions of spiritual life, health main-
tenance and martial arts.
These are what Ive called Authentic Ancient Tra-
ditions in my book, The 5 Pillars of Life. Theyre
authentic because theyve proven their claims to
get results across cultures and over centuries. (And
not everything thats ancient is authentic not by a
long shot!)
Authentic traditions explain our problem for us like this:
Our current condition as individuals how we see ourselves and
the world is not normal. What we refer to as normal is actu-
ally distorted, deluded and in need of healing on a deep level.
The proof comes in two parts:
First, the fact that our normal approach to life leads to endlesso
suffering, and
Second, the demonstrated and proven existence of an ap-o
proach that has consistently yielded vastly superior results
The healing we require is a healing of our consciousness, our innermost
being. This healing is the key to true happiness, as opposed to the pseu-
do-happiness we often settle for (which is just a momentary reduction in
suffering)
This healing requires gaining freedom from the ego, a distorted form of
consciousness giving rise to the false personality that has been torment-
ing us and holding us prisoner
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The methods required to overthrow the ego and enter into true happi-
ness have all long since been rened and perfected. They work very well,
as long as you put them into practice.
So you would think that by using methods that have been carefully rened and
validated over many centuries and sometimes millennia, Authentic Ancient Tra-
ditions would be having a far higher success rate in our culture than the more
modern Self-Help / Personal Development methods.
Wrong. Theres no discernable difference between the
two in terms of concrete results in the Western world.
Authentic traditions are having just as difcult a time pro-
ducing concrete results even though their methods havelong since been perfected.
Why is this? Very simple The problem is notthe methods themselves, whether
ancient or modern. The problem is the soil into which the methods are being
planted. and were the soil!
TEchNiquE vS. GONG-Fu
ThE PERENNiaL cONFLicT OF huMaN LiFE
Im going to lay out before you two radically different approaches to xing your
life, so please pay close attention.
The rst one is what I call technique. Its the approach youre used to, the one
taught to you by your culture since you were knee-high to a grasshopper, and
the one thats responsible for your results in life so far.
Technique includes all the methods, systems, practices and gimmicks you ap-ply in an effort to improve your results in any area of your life. Some common
examples could be:
Time management methods
Reective listening to improve a relationship with someone
The problem is
not the methods
themselves
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Energy psychology strategies to deal with negative emotions (such as the
Emotional Freedom Technique EFT, Be Set Free Fast BSFF, the Sedona
Method, and lots of others)
Changing your diet to improve your health
Adopting a regime of nutritional supplements
Following a detoxication program
Assertiveness training
Networking strategies to build your business
Marketing strategies to build your business
Strategies to increase your income
Goal-setting or any method designed to help you get clear on what you
want and map the way to get thereAdopting an exercise program
The list is endless, but youre beginning to get the idea.
Clarication: Technique (singular) is different from techniques (plural). The
techniques or methods Ive mentioned may be excellent in themselves, and
some are, but thats not relevant. Technique (singular) is an approach to life,
a way of thinking, that looks for techniques (plural) or methods to address par-
ticular problems which, it assumes, are outside of the self. Technique wants to
improve the selfs perceived level of happiness by making it more successful or
removing a source of perceived unhappiness, but without changing the self
in any fundamental way.
Now heres the catch
In the past, youve probably heard me talk about the concept of Personal Pow-
er, which Ive dened as the measure of your ability to change any aspect of
your life at will. Well, heres the bad news:
NONE of the methods mentioned above, separately or in combination, nor any
other methods, will appreciably increase your Personal Power until you aban-
don the technique approach and its mentality.
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Personal Power consists of 3 particular dimensions or markers:
Noetic stability1.
Emotional stability2. Physical stability3.
Well explain the exact meaning of these markers shortly. For now, you need
to know that the 3 markers are interdependent and that theyre the basis for
true strength, power and resilience on every level and that no amount of apply-
ing various methods to your life will ever build them for you, until you abandon
technique mentality.
And without that Personal Power, your ability to modify your consciousness, get
better results in every area of your life and attain true happiness and fulllmentwill be close to zero.
However, there is a very different approach to xing your
life, one that will get you the 3 markers, with all the amazing
benets that go with them. I call this approach GONG-FU.
Gong-Fu, sometimes transliterated Kung-Fu, is usually misunderstood as a way
of ghting, as a Chinese martial art. Thats not what the term means, nor even
the way its used in Chinese martial arts circles.
Gong-Fu can be translated simply as skill. Strictly speaking, you can acquire
Gong-Fu in anything cooking, dancing, playing chess you name it. How-
ever, theres a deeper meaning I want you to grasp here, and this ones more
specic and more closely related to the way the term is used in martial arts.
Gong-Fu in this context means inner strength, power and resilience.
It signies a state where your entire psycho-physical structure has been op-
timized to a level approaching its full potential and where the resulting ener-gies are powerful, free-owing, aligned and available for you to direct as you
choose.
As a mentality, Gong-Fu is primarily interested in cultivating the innate poten-
tial of the self its inner strength, power and resilience in order to bring about
Gong-Fu can
be translated
simply as skill
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fundamental change within and to modify consciousness itself as a basis for
achieving non-delusional happiness.
Needless to say, this builds enormous Personal Power that wipes out the vast
majority of lifes problems all at once. And it increases innate ability so muchthat success in any area of life becomes nearly inevitable and comparatively
effortless.
To help you understand why the distinction between technique and Gong-Fu is
so critically important to your overall success and happiness in life, the following
analogies will help.
Analogy 1: The Martial Arts in North America TodayIn the martial arts here in North America, technique
is by far the dominant approach: everyone is busy
learning all the punching, kicking and throwing meth-
ods and little else. What they are not learning is the
power behind the methods, the Gong-Fu.
What happens when you learn lots of techniques but
dont learn the Gong-Fu behind them? Simple me-
diocre techniques that may look pretty but have noguts.
This explains why some martial arts people have fair-
ed poorly against street ghters and boxers the very
people they should defeat most easily.
As martial arts have been classically taught in the Far
East, Gong-Fu has always taken precedence over
techniques. Gong-Fu is either taught rst or simultane-
ously with techniques. And its always very clear that
Gong-Fu is vastly more important, even for combat.
In the words of 31st generation Shaolin grandmaster Shi
Deyang, To practice technique without a strong body
(Gong-Fu) will become a useless ailing of limbs.1
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Thats why people learning Tai Chi the comprehensive way would spend months
training a single stance or a single move before ever learning one of the com-
plex Tai Chi movement forms. Without Gong-Fu, the forms have no power.
Thats also why, at the famous Shaolin temple, students immediately start learn-
ing the 72 Arts the Gong-Fu behind the martial techniques.
So why does the technique mentality have such a hold over martial arts people
here? Heres why:
Its1. easier to learn techniques it keeps the restless and impatient mind
busy (which means youll have more customers paying to learn from you)
It looks impressive2.
Technique3. is our cultural mentality. Our culture can easily understand
learning various punching or kicking techniques. It goes in the same men-
tal box as learning how to dribble a basketball. Our culture has no mental
box for Gong-Fu, for mind-body methods that fundamentally transform
the self, and still less for mind-body methods that result in abilities beyond
the range of whats considered normal.
Unfortunately for all these martial artists who are obsessed with techniques, theycan neither dish out punishment, nor can they absorb it. And in real combat
thats all that counts. Everything else is irrelevant.
Analogy 2: The Hood and the Bismarck
Remember the story of HMS Hood? This British bat-
tlecruiser was the largest ship ever built when it was
launched in 1918. In 1941 it went head to head
against the German battleship Bismarck and got
blown to bits literally.
The Bismarck and the Hood were almost exactly the
same size at around 42,000 tons and they were both
armed with eight 15-inch guns. The catch was this:
hMS hood
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The Hood was a battle-CRUISER, not a battle-SHIP. Battlecruisers were built
on the infamous misconception that speed is armor, that you can outrun
anything you cant destroy and that being fast will keep you from getting hit. In
other words, the Hood had very limited armor protection.
The Bismarck was a battleship protected by
very thick armored belts. She could take a lot of
punishment. Moreover, her eight 15-inch guns
were newer than the Hoods, more accurate
and with better optics.
In other words, the Bismarck could both dish it
out and take it much better than the Hood. It
had the Gong-Fu in this situation. And Hoods ability to run away became
irrelevant once she received the order to engage the Bismarck.
In any engagement, the side with the most Gong-Fu wins. Thats pretty much
axiomatic. The Bismarck had the Gong-Fu advantage.
Analogy 3: Armored Warfare in the Middle East
Israel fought a good many armored engagementswith Egypt and Syria over the years and won every
one of them hands down. How?
Simple. The British and American tanks used by the Is-
raelis were better protected and more heavily armed
than the Soviet built T-55 and T-62 tanks used by Egypt
and Syria. On the desert terrain of the Middle East, where theres seldom any-
where to hide, the powerful 105mm gun of the Israeli tanks typically outranged
the Soviet tanks by nearly 500 meters. And the marginal speed advantage
enjoyed by the Arab tank crews was never enough to save them from getting
hit.
In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a similar thing happened. The American M1
Abrams tank was better protected and more powerfully armed than the So-
Te bsmark
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viet built T-72 used by Iraq. Whereas the M1 seemed nearly impervious to the
T-72s projectiles, the T-72s were so poorly protected that, in one case, a single
shell from an M1 sliced clear through two T-72s, one after the other, destroying
both.
Who had the Gong-Fu here?
Returning to the martial arts, the victor in any ght will be the one with the high-
est level of Gong-Fu, even if his opponent has better technique.
You may have heard me mention that the Samurai
would teach swordsmanship by sneaking up on their
students and whacking them with wooden practice
swords to help drive the students into a deeper level ofawareness. That deeper awareness is a type of Gong-
Fu. The masters would do this because they knew that
Gong-Fu, not techniques, saves people in combat.
Put in its most simple terms, if your blows can devastate your enemy, while his
blows cant harm you, you will win.
If your blows can
devastate your
enemy, while hisblows cant harm
you, you will win
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whaT DOES aLL ThiS havE TO DO
wiTh MY LiFE?
By now you may be wondering what these examples from the martial arts could
possibly have to do with your life. Just this the very same approach that pro-
duces Gong-Fu for the martial artist also produces the three markers of Personal
Power for you.
Lets have a look at those markers again
Noetic stability1. enables you to control your thoughts so that you
think when you decide to think. Otherwise, your mental continuum is
as calm and peaceful as the surface of a lake on a windless day. No-
etic stability also allows you to stay unremittingly focused on anything
you choose, no matter how busy you are with other things. Further, it
allows you to gather energy throughout the day instead of wasting it.
Emotional stability2. enables you to process the powerful emotions with-
in you in such a way that these emotional currents do not a) become
lodged in bodily tissues and produce the physical symptoms of stress, or
b) affect your behavior or c) disturb or take over your mental continuum.
Physical stability3. enables you to detoxify your bodily tissues and organs
and surround them with a cushioning shield of energy that protects them
against impact from the outside or pathogens on the inside. You op-
timize your physical structure to promote optimal circulation of blood,
lymph and energy, which also releases trapped emotions. You strength-
en your connective tissue and develop superior strength, resilience and
immunity.
Youll notice that each of the 3 markers reinforces the other two.
So You Have a Choice
Its a choice youre already making many times a day without knowing it. Its the
choice between trying to x your problems, incorrectly believing your problems
are outside of you, and xing your self the real source of the problems.
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There are only two alternatives for you. Either you choose to remain a power-
less person who continues to try applying technique to this or that area of your
life, hoping against hope for better results, or
You decide once and for all to become a powerful person who gets superior
results automatically, based on your Personal Power, and who gets exponen-
tially greater results from any particular techniques you do apply.
ThE PERENNiaL cONFLicT bETwEEN
TEchNiquE aND GONG-Fu
The conict between technique and Gong-Fu is perennial to the human condi-tion. You nd it everywhere. Once your eyes are open to it, youll notice this
yourself.
As you probably know, Im a priest of the Orthodox Church. The conict be-
tween technique and Gong-Fu is a constant in the life of
any spiritual body, Christian or otherwise.
Its easy to hold Church services, think profound thoughts,
write theological books, talk about church growth, and
hold choir rehearsals. These are all examples of a mental-
ity based on technique.
None of those activities in themselves get you any closer to the real goal of
spiritual life. Theyre easier. They give the impression youre doing something
meaningful. They keep lots of people busy. Unfortunately, without Personal
Power, theyre also totally irrelevant.
Real spiritual progress only comes from Personal Power. And, in spiritual life,
that Personal Power only comes from Gong-Fu, such as deliberately goingwithout food for a set period of time (fasting), praying or meditating for long pe-
riods, cutting down on sleep in order to do that, struggling with your own wrong
predispositions, eliminating unnecessary physical comforts, and disciplining the
mind and thoughts. These are the activities that produce the Gong-Fu of spiri-
tual power (an aspect of Personal Power), and all of them are more demand-
ing than the trivial, pious nonsense that people seem to automatically prefer.
Real spiritual
progress only
comes from
Personal Power
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The conict between technique and Gong-Fu is everywhere around you.
Theres something you need to know: your culture and its educational system
have given you a mentality that prevents you from seeing what you really need
in order to totally transform your life. Consequently, almost all of the approach-
es advocated in the Self-Help literature are limited to the realm of technique.
Worse still, even the few approaches that are inherently related to Gong-Fuare
automatically reinterpreted by your mentality as technique.
The Personal Development / Self-Help eld today is largely the story of people
trying to improve some area of their lives by applying some external techniques
without having acquired Gong-Fu. And thats why the success rate is extreme-ly low.
On the other hand, the worldsAuthentic Ancient Traditions, as Ive called them
in my book, The 5 Pillars of Life, put all their emphasis on Gong-Fu.
And, as The 5 Pillars of Life demonstrates, these ancient methods all of which
are still very much alive and kicking have gotten far better results far more of-
ten than any modern Self-Help method can yet claim. And the clinical data
of centuries is there to back that up.
Its important to realize that technique does not only mean methods that isolate
the mind or the body. Even methods that are time-tested and holistic become
technique when we approach them in a way that reduces them to that sta-
tus.
Take Indian Hatha Yoga, for example. The person who goes to a noon hour
yoga class a couple of times a week and seldom thinks about it otherwise is
functionally reducing yoga to technique. It has little measurable effect on his /
her life and wont train any of the 3 markers of Personal Power, despite the factthat Hatha Yoga was developed to train Gong-Fu!
The same could be said for meditation or any other body-mind practice you
can think of. For such a practice to deliver the Gong-Fu it was designed to, you
rst have to be sure youre being taught the whole practice. For example, since
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most martial arts schools dont train you in the internal aspects of their arts, most
of them cant help you learn Gong-Fu. Then, assuming youre getting the real
thing, you have to practice it correctly. Thats actually the easy part. Harder is
practicing with the proper end in mind knowing what the practice is really for
and doing it in that context.
Context is part of the problem. Since our cultural context has become so dis-
torted, none of the real practices that delivered Gong-Fu in the past have a
place to t in. We can only see them as discreet and separate techniques
somehow designed to enhance our lives.
And as long as we see them that way, they wont
deliver their benets, except in small doses.
Its as if the key in which we see everything is a few
musical notes off. The ancient worlds unspoken key
was built on some basic assumptions that our culture
hasnt shared for centuries:
Your mind and body are a single organism1.
Your mind-body organism is the instrument through which you come to2.
know yourself, your world and the universe
Your task in life is to rene that instrument in order to do that3.
Another typical misconception is that physical exercise will create Personal
Power. If only the truth were that simple!
At their best, conventional forms of exercise will deliver the three core benets
of exercise, all of which are indeed important factors in Personal Power:
Core body1.
strength
Soft tissue and joint2. exibility
Cardio-vascular3. endurance
Its as if the key
in which we seeeverything is a few
musical notes off
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One catch is that few exercise programs balance these three aspects well.
Runners, for example, seldom achieve core strength or exibility, since their fo-
cus is primarily on endurance.
The greater problem, though, is that conventional exercise simply cannot de-liver the 3 markers of Personal Power not even Physical Stability it wasnt
designed to.
It wont strengthen your connective tissues properly, detoxify your body ad-
equately and promote superior energy circulation or maximum organ health.
And some forms of exercise can be quite counter-productive in several ways. I
recently saw a TV ad for a home exercise machine. The guy advertising it said
he used to be a fat couch potato and now hes built like a body-builder. Sowhats really being sold is the idea that to be in shape, men have to look a lot
like the Hulk, minus the green skin.
The truth, though, is that body-building builds muscle bulk at the expense of
muscle function and tendon strength. It compromises speed and exibility,
doesnt get you to your real potential for physical strength and worse, by com-
promising your fascia structure, it tends to knock your posture out of alignment,
which impedes energy circulation and therefore health itself.
So the notion that any form of physical exercise will automatically build PersonalPower is very inaccurate. Yes, exercise is indispensable, but certain types of
exercise are much more efcient at building Personal Power orGong-Fu than
most conventional types of exercise.
whY SELF-hELP iSNT hELPiNG YOu
The reason why most of your efforts to apply what youve learned in the Per-
sonal Development / Self-Help eld have come to nought isnt such a mystery.
You may have been inclined to pin it on one of the 22 reasons listed in section 1.
And some of those may be part of it, yes. The real reason, though, is this:
Its the same old you trying to apply something new and different to your life.
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To apply anything new successfully, youve got to have the Personal Power, the
Gong-Fu to do so. Otherwise, youre just in a battle with your old habits. And
modern brain research can give you quantiable neurological data to show
you why habit isseveral thousand times stronger than desire. Who do you thinkwill win? Who has won in the past, habit or desire?
We all tend toward the habitual, no matter how bad the habitual is. Only Gong-
Fu can overcome habit and build new and more useful habits.
Ultimately, what youre looking for is High Personal Effectiveness (HPE)
in every area of your life and the results to show for it. Unfortunately,
youre stuck in a culture and educational background that, despite all
their bluster to the contrary, have taught you Low Personal Effective-
ness (LPE) in a surprisingly effective way
Think about James Bond. Sure, hes a ctional character. But if you
put aside for the moment his less productive life-style habits (smok-
ing, excessive drinking, womanizing), you have somebody you could
parachute into almost any situation and hed come out on top. He
can take on any persona or manifest any skill necessary to get the job done. In
other words, hes super-competent.
An even better ctional example ofHPE is Kwai Chang Caine, hero of the
movie Kung-Fu and its two offshoot
TV series. Caine always gets amazing
results, and not based on technique.
His results come directly from his enor-
mous inner strength, his Gong-Fu or
Personal Power.
High Personal Effectiveness and super-competence in every area of life is what
you desperately want. Theres only one way to get it start building PersonalPower now. And theres only one way to get Personal Power dump the tech-
nique mentality in favor of Gong-Fu.
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ThE FuTuRE ThE cuLTuRE OF TOTaL
haRMONY
As I write these words to you at the very beginning of 2010, there is no doubt
whatsoever that Western culture is in a profound state of transition.
In point of fact, its no exaggeration to say that were in the throes of a cultural
revolution of the most far reaching variety a revolution that will run so deep
as to exceed, quite possibly, any other in human history.
In the end, this inner revolution is going to produce a culture of HARMONY.
That may sound trite at rst sight, but bear with me and youll see theres more
to that concept than you can imagine.
The Four Failures
Through much of the 20th century we had pinned our hopes on several factors
that promised to give us paradise on earth. Yet, as time marched on, we have
become increasingly disillusioned with these factors, and for obvious reasons
theyve all failed to deliver.
And so here we are at the beginning of the new century - and the new millen-
nium for that matter - stuck in a cultural paradigm (a way of thinking, acting
and cognizing reality) thats left us more miserable than ever before.
As a society, were spiritually lost and confused, our emotional lives are a mess,
our health is poor, our relationships unfullling and at best, were barely coping
with life. The health care system, the mental health system and the prisons are
full to overowing. Where did we go wrong?
1. Classical LiberalismThe rst factor that has failed us is Classical Liberalism. I dont mean liberal
as opposed to conservative here, since classical liberalism in some measure
forms the underpinnings of both. Classical liberalism taught that once people
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are literate and educated, theyll make intelligent decisions and the quality of life
will improve immensely.
As attractive as it sounds and there is of course a grain of truth in it (no one will
get very far trying to persuade you that illiteracy and superstition are virtues!) history has demonstrated that this just isnt so.
The life of the average person is becoming more burdensome, not less, with each
passing generation. Using the indicators of physical health, emotional health,
subjective happiness and social cohesion, we would have to conclude that clas-
sical liberal doctrine contains an error.
What went wrong? If we use Authentic Ancient Traditions as a guide, the answer
can be summed up easily in two words false anthropology.
In other words, classical liberalism arose of the time of an unparalleled split be-
tween the mind and the body. And all its assumptions are based on the ideas
of rationalism that you are identical to your thoughts and your brain, that your
ability to reason logically sets you apart from the lower animals, and that your
physical body is of no intrinsic importance.
The clinical conclusions of Authentic Traditions, including the original Christian tra-
dition, on this approach to life are stark indeed this approach will turn you into
a neurotic. Its a recipe for all kinds of chronic physical and emotional problems,and, as if that werent bad enough, no genuine spiritual life capable of trans-
forming the human person can possibly be built where these assumptions exist.
2. Technology
The second failure is that of technology in general. The
belief of the 1950s and early 1960s was that technology
would replace all our dreary manual tasks and leave
us with much more free time. Technology was also
supposed to solve many of our health problems and
eliminate the diseases that threaten our survival.
Instead, were busier than ever before, almost run off our feet most of the time.
And all our gadgetry has, if anything, added to the sum total of the busy-ness,
in much the same way that the paperless ofce turned out to be a ridiculous
myth.
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Technology, though morally neutral in itself, has failed to deliver on the prom-
ises of its proponents. And through the premature introduction of many forms of
technology, usually for reasons of corporate greed, technology has often caused
huge health problems that have taken decades to unravel, while sending tens ofmillions of people to a premature end in the process.
3. Modern Medicine
The third factor thats failed is the health care system and the
medical science its built on. So-called allopathic medicine,
the mainstream medicine of the Western world dating from the
pharmaceutical revolution of the 1920s and 30s, has failed on
almost every count. My parents generation, brought up in the
Depression, was trained to accord this medicine a kind of god-
like status and to accept the word of the medical doctor as if he
were a combination prophet and savior.
This medical paradigm has proven incompetent in matters of both diagnosis and
cure. It operated for decades in total denial that things like nutrition or emotion
could have any effect on your health (as crazy as that sounds today!). It spent
decades insisting that your health was determined by your genes and that your
behavior had little inuence on it despite all the readily observable evidence to
the contrary. Under its reign, all the most serious chronic conditions that plagueour society have become bigger threats than they were before.
What went wrong? Simple again, according to the ancient worlds best medical
traditions wrong assumptions:
The assumption that the mind has no inuence on the body is wrong
The assumption you can do little to determine your state of health is wrong
The assumption that disease is best combated by carrying out chemical
warfare on pathogens or by cutting out and perhaps replacing diseased
body parts is wrong.
With huge numbers of people turning to alternative medicine and often having
far better results to show for it, the face of modern medicine is slowly and surely
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changing. Were witnessing a grass-roots enforced integration of allopathic
and alternative medicine that has much more to offer society as a whole.
Theres another aspect to this that will have enormous impact and already is.The ancient medical paradigms that underlie most of alternative medicine
are holistic paradigms that emphasize the need for balance and harmony on
all levels of life.
4. The Paradoxical Failure of Science
The 20th century will be remembered more than anything as
the century of science. Not only was it the century in which
modern science was idolized beyond measure - and, yes,
failed to deliver on a great many promises - but it was also
the century of unparalleled scientic achievement.
Science, more than any other single factor, is the cause of the coming Revolu-
tion of Harmony. You see, science didnt really fail it succeeded all too well.
Science, driven largely by shocking discoveries in quantum physics, has over-
thrown most of its previous fundamental conclusions about the nature of reality
itself.
The mechanistic, impersonal, hostile and ultimately dangerous universe por-
trayed by the physics of Sir Isaac Newton, the philosophy of Renee Descartes
and the theorizing of Charles Darwin has been progressively undermined by a
variety of startling discoveries over the past century.
Sr isaa Newton Rene Desartes carles Darwn
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The previous conclusions that:
The material world is solid and real
The universe is governed by impersonal laws
Rational thought is what denes humanity
Humans are separate from the natural world, which is hostile
and dangerous
Anything real can be objectively observed
have been replaced with these ndings:
Matter is an energy eld composed largely of empty space a1. holo-
graphic reality
There is no objective observer since observing changes the outcome2.
The universe is governed by3. consciousness
People and phenomena are linked to each other on a subatomic level4.
And all this means that:
The spiritual realm does in fact exist
Prayer and distance healing experiments can now be explained,
at least in part
The world is more like a living organism than a lump of clay
The universe is more like a thought than a machine
Emotional states affect material substance
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Science is slowly revealing a universe that is more magical than we would
have believed.
However, despite the fact that science disproved the basic assumptions of the
Western worldview decades ago, that worldview is so culturally ingrained that
to this very day, most people think, perceive and act as if the last one hundred
years of physics never happened...
Nevertheless, the crushing weight of evidence will even-
tually prevail. The question is not if the Western world-
view will implode but how fast. This implosion will dis-
credit not only Newton, Descartes and Darwin, but also
their predecessors
Anselm, Aquinas and nally Augustine.
Few people realize it, but the hostile and mechanistic universe of Newton,
Descartes and Darwin did not originate with them. It was in the air. It was the
product of a false, pseudo-Christian theology that goes back to Augustine of
Hippo (354-430) and was amplied by the teachings of his most important follow-
ers, Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) and Thomas Aquinas (1275-1274).
As I made clear in The 5 Pillars of Life, this version of the Christian worldview is vir-
tually the inverse of the worldview of the original Christian tradition, as preserved
in the Christian East. All of that is easily provable by any objective analysis of the
historical data.
So science is now at the forefront of the Revolution of Harmony and in so doing
it will not only validate the ndings of Authentic Ancient Traditions, it will also bury
the previous science of anti-harmony AND the theology it was based on.
Science is
slowly revealing
a universe that is
more magical
than we would
have believed
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ThERE MaY bE SOME DELaYS, OF cOuRSE
Several factors may conspire to slow down the inevitable progress of the
revolution.
As I mentioned, people are notoriously slow to assimilate new information, espe-
cially when the old information, however erroneous, is at the very basis of their
habitual ways of thinking, acting and perceiving.
Moreover, some people feel threatened by any challenge to the existing world-
view and will resist it tooth and nail on simple emotional grounds.
Others, including many entrenched interests with lots of money, power and inu-
ence, will resist it for their own self-serving reasons because their very existence
and prosperity depends on perpetuating lies and half-truths.
One feature of the coming culture of harmony thats very distressing to the am-
bitious and powerful is that it will inevitably produce a population that cant be
manipulated by any amount of media propaganda. So you can count on orga-
nized opposition to the revolution.
A nal delaying factor worth noting belongs, paradoxically, to the very people
who are the natural proponents of the revolution people who are interested inand practicing holistic methods of healing, authentic spiritual traditions and the
like. The fact that so many of them automatically approach what they do as
technique rather than Gong-Fu means that the real implications of all of this are
not assimilated as fast as they might be.
The catalyst will come in the form of whoever can demonstrate howthe revolution of harmony can be translated into a viable lifestyle on amass level.
By reading this, you are among the rst to learn how to do exactly that.
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ThE aNGER FacTOR
We often think of anger as a wholly negative emotion. Authentic traditions
dont agree and will tell you that the matter is a bit more complex.
You see, anger righteous anger with sane thinking behind it is playing an
increasing role in bringing on the Revolution of Harmony.
People are angry. And they should be. Theyre angry at a culture and lifestyle
thats making them miserable. Theyre angry at being continually manipulated
by politicians and the media. Theyre angry at putting up with lies that disguise
themselves as truth. Theyre angry at the continuing injustice and oppression
that characterize so much of the planet. Its a simple fact that as human be-ings we seldom embrace meaningful change until we hit rock bottom, until we
get so fed up that we stand up and say NO MORE!
And people are increasingly tired of being enslaved to the religious dogmas
of the past. The spiritual development of mankind is best served by combining
two things weve never been very good at:
1. Tolerance for any spiritual path that can prove its authenticity and results
2. Intellectual honesty that identies and tolerates genuinely incompatible
points of view, as well as the agony of not having a nice, neat and intellectu-
ally satisfying answer.
People today want results. They have fortunately less and less tolerance for
religious ideologies that promise a post-mortem salvation while leaving them
unchanged physically, mentally and emotionally. This is a very healthy sign.
The very existence of the New Age Movement, with all its positive and negative
aspects, is part of this refusal to become a prisoner of a useless ideology.
People want what works. They want the intellectual freedom to explore. They
want a comprehensive spiritual outlook that does not derive its energy from the
negative emotions of intolerance, hatred, anger and judgment.
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ThE REvOLuTiON OF haRMONY
The essence ofAuthentic Ancient Traditions, as Ive described them in The 5 Pil-
lars of Life, is an all-embracing search for Harmony. Harmony in this overarchingsense means:
Harmony of mind and body
Harmony of emotion
Harmony on the physical level within every organ and cell
Harmony of human relationships
Harmony with the surrounding environment
All of this hinges on you personally adopting the following points of view:
You can only access the deep mind through the body
Your mind-body organism is a single unied whole
Your mind-body organism is an instrument
Rening this instrument results in transformation
Transformation is the essence and meaning of life
Engaging the transformational process demands commitment and
rm resolve
Harmony is within. Although there are challenges to
entering within yourself, youll nd in time that the joyof living within yourself versus living in your head you
probably do now is far more satisfying than any form of
entertainment.
Harmony produces Gong-Fu and is the product of Gong-Fu. And thats why
Gong-Fu is critical.
Let me explain. Ive known lots of New Age folks who have practiced medita-
tion, sometimes for years, while having little to show for it. They had the same
neuroses, relationship problems, money problems and all other difculties as
before they started.
The problem was this. They were dabbling. Their meditation had only a mar-
ginal affect at best on their thought, emotion and behavior because there was
Harmonyis within
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no bridge to enable them to take their meditation with them in their daily
activities.
The bridge is not so much a technique as Gong-Fu itself. It is only by culti-
vating Gong-Fu, by amassing the Personal Power, that real gains happen.
This is more readily understandable if we use the Chi-
nese concepts of yin and yang. Cultivating harmony
within, which is one of the goals of most meditation
methods, is the yin activity. And as anyone who has
tried this knows from bitter experience, your little proj-
ect of cultivating harmony is continually surrounded
by all kinds of violent forces that will snuff it out, muchlike a small sapling is set upon by the elements.
Youll be attacked by ferocious emotional energies
from the inside. Youll be attacked by the demands
of other people on your time and energy. Youll be
attacked by health challenges. Youll be attacked
by a thousand and one things you dont control that
will surround your personal harmony project like a
swarm of bees.
How do you beat them? Simple. Theres only one way that has ever worked
in human history. Gong-Fu. Gong-Fu is the yang energy that protects the
yin energy of your inner work. The purpose of Gong-Fu is to make you im-
pervious to all of the energies that attack you.
And, Gong-Fu will return you to your natural state and create an incredibly
deep level of harmony within you, a harmony so great you can hardly
imagine it.
Gong-Fu will
return you to
your natural stateand create an
incredibly deep
level of harmony
within you
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YOuR GuiDE TO MaSTERiNG GONG-Fu
Have you ever seen Shaolin warrior monks practicing or performing? Whether or
not you have, I strongly suggest that after you nish reading this, you hightail it over
to YouTube and have a look: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHL2PSpecI.
Id like you to pay attention to two things:
Their ability to absorb fearsome blows with no effect and no pain
Their ability to deliver blows that can smash wood, brick and stone
Although I can teach you the exact methods for becoming so physically strong
that you can easily throw around a larger opponent like a rag doll, pulverizestone with your bare hands or get clobbered without feeling it
.I dont think you have the slightest interest in that. Who cares? youre prob-
ably asking. And I wouldnt blame you. Those are specialized martial arts abili-
ties that only martial arts geeks fantasize about. However
Heres what you should care about
Those specialized martial arts abilities are just external manifestations of a coher-
ent body of ancient knowledge that also knows how to:
Exponentially increase your physical strength and resilience1.
Clear your mind of negative thoughts and uncontrollable emotions2.
Send your health and immunity through the roof3.
Give you all the4. Gong-Fu, the Personal Power, you could possibly imag-
ine!
While martial arts skills like breaking bricks arent relevant to most people, these
four fundamental abilities are relevant to everyone.
This coherent body of ancient knowledge is still easily accessible today and it
is by far the fastest and most reliable way to achieve genuine Gong-Fu, true
Personal Power.
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After 35 years of exploring virtually all ancient and modern approaches to per-
sonal development, my conclusion is precisely this:
For the modern Western man or woman, the most vital need is for a powerful
energy management system that reunites mind and body, while returning the
mind-body organism to its natural state. This results in Gong-Fu. Gong-Fu will
take you from a life marred by poor results to a life of excellence.
So far, Self-Help has largely considered that excellence was something you get
simply by deciding to do so. Alas, life is not so simple. Yes, commitment and
determination are vital, but Personal Power is even more so.
And Gong-Fu is an absolute prerequisite for HARMONY
an entirely new-to-you and more satisfactory way of
life.
Harmony is what allows the energy-depleting cycle
that nearly everyone around you is locked into to be
transformed into the energy-building cycle that takes
you to endless progress in life.
Gong-Fu is
an absolute
prerequisite for
HARMONY
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hOw GONG-Fu wORkS
Any systematic approach to building you up physically, mentally, emotion-ally and spiritually in a balanced way can be called Gong-Fu, no matter
where it comes from.
Different civilizations cultivated Gong-Fu in different ways and sometimes for
different purposes. The Gong-Fu practices of the Eastern Christian ascetics
are not quite the same as those of their Shaolin counterparts because no
martial component is involved, yet they also get the necessary results
When I lived with some of them in Greece for a month several years ago, Ifound myself physically unable to keep up with the daily activities of men
over twice my age and I was in good shape (or so I thought)! Their practic-
es had led these men to master their inner world and I found them radiating
an unbelievable joy and peace. And their life spans are usually well above
average.
The Gong-Fu approach Im describing below is largely Taoist in inspiration. In
my opinion, its much more accessible to most people today than any other
approach.
Clarication: If youre about to ask whether this whole Special Report comes
down to Dr. Rodger says Self-Help doesnt work, so study Qi Gong, youve
missed the point.
This is about abandoning technique and embracing Gong-Fu.
Technique is a piece-meal approach that will prevent you from transforming
your life on a deep level, from experiencing true happiness and fulllment. It
will leave you forever powerless and searching for external solutions to your
multitude of problems. Technique is an endless search for bandaids.
Gong-Fu is a holistic approach that will eliminate most of these problems and
radically improve your experience of life.
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Gong-Fu uses an array of tools to accomplish its tasks:
Meditation
Breathing
Postural adjustment
Massage
Percussion
Visualization
Inner feeling / sensing
Methods for absorbing and expelling energy
Stretching
Soft tissue manipulation
Rhythmic / coordinated movement
Opening and closing joints
And it deals with every aspect of your being:
The brain mind (conscious, rational mind)
The heart mind (including the mental attention and the subconscious)
The internal organs
The nervous system
The 12 acupuncture meridians, the 8 Extraordinary Vessels and all other
energy pathways in the body
Muscles, tendons, ligaments
Bones and marrow
Blood
Glands
The mental continuum (consciousness)
Various levels of the energy body
The training syllabus for attaining true Gong-Fu looks something like this. There
are many variations on this, some more useful than others. This one is what I
believe to be the optimal sequence for most people in our culture. The word
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sequence needs to be used with caution though, since nearly all of these
activities overlap and complement each other:
Enter into mental stillness1.
Realign posture, strengthen the skeletal structure and optimize connec-2.
tive tissue
Master all aspects of the breathing process3.
Conserve, generate and circulate energy through the body4.
Pack energy into the fasciae, organs and bones structure5.
Process all previous emotional conditioning6.
Integrate all of these elements into a harmonious whole7.
Once youve gone through the syllabus, you will have built considerable Gong-
Fu. And your foundation of HARMONY will be complete.
People often ask, How long does it take to feel a difference? Well, as long asthis is competently taught, the answer issomewhere between seconds and
minutes.
That said, only consistent training with the right intention will
yield lasting results and the extraordinary Gong-Fu that ac-
companies your return to your NATURAL psycho-physical
state.
And that natural state is just the beginning, the necessary
foundation of a joyous journey youll be on for the rest of
your life.
Only
consistent
training with
the right
intention will
yield lastingresults
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NExT STaGES
After you acquire Gong-Fu, your task is to allow Harmony to expand into everysecond of your life, to suffuse itself through all your thoughts, actions and activi-
ties. You dont have to run off to the mountains and become a hermit. You
continue doing what you have always done, except that now your daily activi-
ties build you up instead of tearing you down.
From this stage, you can, if you choose, cultivate higher levels of consciousness
through such practices as prayer, meditation, unconditional love, thanksgiving,
and forgiveness. You may have had some experience with these already, but
after the acquisition of Gong-Fu, your experience with them will be immeasur-
ably more powerful.
A Daring Prediction
I will make a daring prediction: a century from now, Western culture will have
become a Harmony-centered culture, and every aspect of it will look very dif-
ferent because of that.
Over the next century, no matter how much technological advance changesthe face of our culture, my bet is that the change in inner orientation will be
even more signicant.
History has shown us clearly that technology, however useful, is not what will
solve our collective or individual problems. Gong-Fu will. It has enabled a total
transformation of human lives in the past and it can do so again.
And as the experience of Self-Help and Personal Development is beginning to
show, until the human person returns to their natural state through the acqui-
sition of Personal Power, all the techniques and gimmicks in the world wont
make much difference.
Do you want to transform your life? Do you want to succeed in every area of
life? Then practice and acquire Gong-Fu and you will.
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Gong-Fu should be part of the educational system. Its the rst and most vital
skill we can teach our children. Real education is about maximizing human
potential, about teaching people how they can live long, healthy, joyous and
fullling lives. Its not just about stufng the heads of the young with endlessconcepts and attaching some physical education as an after-thought, as we
do now.
In fact, Gong-Fu can be learned by anyone of any age. Its actually FUN and
it gives amazing results.
You Will Still Need Techniques (the plural, that is!)
That said, I dont want to leave you with the idea that applying particular tech-
niques is somehow bad, evil or ineffective. Techniques are simply tools. And
some of the tools out there for you today are denitely worth your time and ef-
fort.
The problem is that the effectiveness of a given technique will rarely exceed
the Gong-Fu level of the person trying to put it into practice. Its all about the
quality of the soil you plant the technique in and youre the soil! If your
Gong-Fu is at a high level, you can multiply the effectiveness of a technique
many times over.
For the next few minutes, Im going to ask you to forget all about Gong-Fu and
Personal Power. Im doing this so that I can make another point that you need
to understand in order to get superior results.
In your search for inner peace, control of your time and energy, better health,
fullling relationships and nancial security, I hope youre not falling into the
common trap everyone else is...
The Mindless Search for the Silver Bullet
People it from one thing to the next in search of the magic cure-all for whatev-
ers wrong in their life. So they dabble a bit with meditation, martial arts, yoga,
EFT, and lots of other things... most of which are good things in themselves.
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Yet they dont stick with any one thing long enough to see results.
Whether theyre looking for a technique or a technological gizmo or a pill or a
philosophy... theyre always disappointed.
A Different Approach
As I was off doing a speech last year about how large companies can improve
their nancial results, it occurred to me that successful people have always
used the same strategy in their lives that smart companies do.
Let me explain...
If a company improves just 5 of its key activities by a mere 10%, it will almost un-
avoidably improve its protability by about 50% (which is MASSIVE).
Thats the key to geometric business growth. Of course, companies do this by
doing specic things differently and then measuring the results.
Geometric Life Improvement
Do you think you could take just ONE action that would improve some area of
your life each week? Is there something you could do and MEASURE to improve
your life? Could you improve:
Your diet?
Your tness level?
Your use of time?
The amount of quiet time you have for yourself?
A relationship with someone?
Sure you could!
Wait a minute! you say, How can you measure a relationship?? Simple
Lets suppose youre having trouble communicating with your teenager. Sup-
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pose you were to deliberately plan two extra interactions with him/her each day
for a week... interactions where you have NO agenda - no nagging about this
or that, no do this or dont do that. interactions where your only objective
is to allow him/her to feel loved and needed.
That much you CAN measure. As for the improvement youll see in how your
teenager responds to you, that youll have to do subjectively on a scale of
1-10.
No Question About It
If you take this approach and strive to improve just ONE area of your life per
week by just 5-10%, youll have an INCREDIBLY better life a year from now. Heck,
you wont recognize your life 6 months from now!
In other words, while youre building Gong-Fu and Per-
sonal Power, you should not throw techniques out the
window. Youll still have a need from time to time for
specic methods to accomplish your specic goals.
And anyone who consistently uses techniques, apply-
ing one small method thoroughly with dedication andfollow-through each week or month, will experience
geometric growth. Its a mathematical certainty.
The key here is implementing ONLY one change at a time and doing it thor-
oughly.
Personal Development is a science. Its a science in the sense that its outcomes
are almost always measurable (if you know what to measure and how), AND
because improvement is mathematically predictable on a consistent basis.
The purpose of adopting the Gong-Fu approach as opposed to our standard
technique approach is simply to tilt the mathematical odds wildly in your favor.
The key here is
implementing
ONLY one
change at a
time and doing it
thoroughly
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