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free. That's

1:01

heyhouse.com/summit. I

1:05

want to talk about change, change

1:07

and transition. And

1:09

of course, change, that's what we want everybody

1:12

else to do, isn't it? You know, we

1:14

don't want to do it, but we want everybody else

1:17

to change so that our life will be different. And

1:21

yet, of course, you know, any changes

1:23

that we're going to do at all

1:25

have to come from within ourselves. They

1:27

absolutely must. And change to

1:29

me means that you change

1:32

from a feeling of separation

1:35

and isolation and loneliness

1:38

and anger and fear and pain

1:41

and into a state of

1:43

peacefulness, wonderful peacefulness, where

1:46

you can relax and really enjoy

1:48

life as it comes to you,

1:51

knowing that everything will be all right. You

1:54

know, I run into that premise that

1:56

life is wonderful and that everything

1:58

is perfect in my world. world, and I

2:01

move into my greater good always. And

2:03

that way, it doesn't really matter to

2:05

me which direction my life takes, because

2:07

I know it's going to be wonderful.

2:09

So I can enjoy all sorts of

2:11

things. Gerald Jampolsky

2:13

says that love is letting go of

2:15

fear. And there is either fear or

2:18

there's love. And if you're not in

2:20

a love space, if

2:22

you're not coming from the loving

2:25

space of the heart, then

2:27

you're in fear and all those

2:30

other things like isolation and separation and

2:32

things like that, and loneliness and anger.

2:35

They're all part of the fear

2:37

syndrome. And that's really

2:39

what we want to change from. We

2:42

want to move from fear into

2:44

love and to make that as

2:47

more or less a permanent state for us.

2:51

Even the planet itself these days

2:53

is very much in this period

2:55

of change and transition. We see

2:57

it all around us. We're going from an

3:00

old order into a new

3:02

order. And some people

3:04

say it began with the Aquarian age.

3:06

And at least the astrologers like to

3:09

describe it that way. But you know,

3:11

to me, astrology and numerology and palmistry

3:13

and all those other various

3:16

methodologies are just ways of

3:18

describing life. They explain life

3:20

in a slightly different way.

3:22

And people use different language

3:24

to do this. But

3:28

the astrologers say that we're moving out

3:30

of the Piscean age and into the

3:32

Aquarian age now. And in the Piscean

3:34

age, we reached outside of us and

3:37

looked to other people to save us.

3:39

We looked for other people to do

3:41

it for us. But in the Aquarian

3:43

age, which we're entering now, people are

3:46

beginning to go within and

3:48

find that they have the

3:50

power to save themselves. And

3:53

this is a wonderful liberating thing

3:55

for us. Now some people get

3:57

very frightened because it seems

3:59

to be respectful. responsibility, but

4:02

actually we're discovering our ability

4:04

to respond to life, not

4:06

in a victim way, but

4:09

in a way that gives us power,

4:13

in a way that gives us power. We're

4:18

finding that we're getting a connection to

4:20

what the AA people call the

4:22

higher power and what I call

4:24

our higher self, so

4:26

that we can contribute to

4:28

saving ourselves. And it's

4:31

a wonderful feeling when you don't

4:33

really have to be dependent on

4:36

an outside person, but to know

4:38

that you have within you tremendous

4:40

abilities to make positive changes in

4:43

your life. You see, if

4:45

we're victims, then we feel isolated, we

4:47

feel in pain and fear, and we're

4:49

always looking for someone else to do

4:51

it for us. But

4:54

now we're taking, as I said, responsibility

4:56

for own lives, and we're beginning

4:58

to understand how we can contribute

5:00

to the experiences that we have

5:02

and how we can change those

5:04

experiences if we don't really care for them.

5:09

And of course, you know, from the

5:11

moment you decide to make a change

5:13

until you get your demonstration, as we

5:15

call it, or when you get what

5:18

you want, we have this transitional period.

5:21

And that's when we're moving

5:23

between the old order and the

5:25

new order. It's a time of

5:27

releasing old beliefs and old habits,

5:31

and of learning and practicing and

5:33

then living the things that we're

5:35

working on. The new beliefs

5:38

or the new feelings or the new methods

5:40

or the new behaviors. And

5:42

while you're getting those in place so that

5:44

they are a natural part of your life,

5:47

you're going to have a lot of vacillating

5:49

in that period between the old and the

5:51

new. And you go back and forth

5:53

between what you, what was and

5:56

what you would like to be or what

5:58

you would like to have. And

6:00

if you decide that you're going to release

6:02

an old belief and that you're going to

6:04

create a new one, during that transitional period,

6:07

you're going to go back and forth. And

6:09

this is a time when we often get

6:11

very angry at ourselves, because it's like, well,

6:13

I know all about the new, why aren't

6:16

I doing it? I must not be good

6:18

enough, or I must be a bad person.

6:20

But that's silly, because anything that we're learning

6:23

takes time, and you go back and forth

6:25

and back and forth until you're really strong

6:28

in the new belief, until you've gone to

6:30

the complete shift. You know, you may begin

6:32

to do an affirmation for something, and you're

6:34

doing well, and then something happens, and you

6:36

say, oh, I can't do that, and you

6:38

go back to your old worry habit again.

6:41

Well, that's just a period of vacillating.

6:43

It doesn't mean that you haven't learned

6:45

anything, and it doesn't mean that you're

6:47

back where you started. It's just part of

6:50

that back and forth thing. You're not

6:52

settled in your new habit yet, and

6:54

that takes a little time and a

6:56

little practice and a little patience. And

7:00

you want to be patient with yourself.

7:02

Be patient with yourself. You know,

7:05

you want to build yourself up

7:08

instead of beating yourself up. There's

7:10

a tremendously different image, if you just

7:12

think of it. Do your thoughts build

7:15

you up, or do they beat you

7:17

up? When

7:19

you beat yourself up, you know, that's not

7:21

being very loving to yourself. Sometimes,

7:24

we don't need to make outward

7:26

changes so much as to go

7:28

within and just sort of take

7:30

what we already do and

7:32

alter it just a little bit. Somebody

7:35

was saying to me tonight that they

7:37

were thinking about a new apartment, and

7:39

they were worrying that there wouldn't be

7:41

enough money. And I said,

7:43

well, why don't you start affirming there will

7:45

be lots of money? And,

7:48

you know, it's just like a tiny little thing,

7:50

and you almost change two words, but

7:52

it's a small way of changing the

7:54

way you look at a particular situation.

7:57

Somebody was asking me, saying

7:59

that... they were in a lot of pain. And

8:02

they kept using the word pain so

8:05

much. And they said, is there another

8:07

word that I could use? And I

8:09

thought of the time that I smashed

8:11

my finger with a window. And

8:14

I realized that if I

8:16

really gave into it, I was going to

8:19

go through a very difficult period. So the

8:21

minute it happened, I started to do some mental work

8:23

right away. But then I remember I

8:25

was referring to my finger as having

8:27

a lot of sensation. And

8:34

it did. It had a lot of sensation.

8:39

And by insisting upon viewing

8:41

it in that particular way,

8:45

to me, I think helped it heal

8:47

much quicker and helped me handle what

8:49

could have been an incredibly painful thing.

8:52

Because I knew that if I could alter

8:54

my mind, it would be better if

8:57

we can just alter the way we think just

8:59

a little bit. So

9:02

those of us who want to change, we're moving

9:04

from an old order to a new

9:06

order. And lots and lots

9:08

of things are happening on this planet. I

9:11

don't think things on the planet are so very different

9:13

than they used to be. But

9:16

we seem to be more aware of things.

9:19

I've seen things in the paper all the

9:21

time. And I think, oh my goodness, are

9:23

we really doing that? And then as I

9:25

continue to read, it seems like we've been

9:27

doing it for a long time. But it's

9:29

coming to the surface. We seem to see

9:31

more negativity. But if you

9:33

want to clean your own mental

9:35

house, if you decide to work

9:37

on yourself and you're going to go inside,

9:40

you have to look and see what is

9:42

there. You have to look and see

9:44

what your beliefs are so you know what to

9:46

change. You can't clean out the negativity

9:48

if you don't see it. If

9:50

you're going to clean your own house, it's

9:52

the same thing. You have to look around

9:54

and see where the dirt is. You

9:57

have to pick things up and dust them and look around

9:59

and palm. or throw them out or replace them. But

10:02

you have to see what's there. And

10:05

if we're going to make a big

10:07

transitional phase on this planet and really

10:09

help to heal this planet, we're

10:11

going to have to look and see what's occurring here.

10:14

We're going to have to see what's happening

10:16

and to uncover the negativity. And

10:19

the things that have been hidden for a long time are

10:21

going to come to the surface. You know,

10:24

I really want to help create a

10:26

world where it's safe for us to

10:28

love each other. That's all. Just to

10:30

love each other. A world

10:32

where we can be loved and accepted

10:34

exactly as we are. That's

10:36

what you wanted when you were a little child. When

10:40

you were little, you wanted to be loved just

10:43

as you were. Even if you were too skinny

10:45

or too heavy or if you weren't smart

10:47

enough or you weren't like the person across

10:49

the street. Or maybe you were

10:51

scared. But you still wanted to

10:53

be loved. And it's

10:55

the same thing we're all looking for now.

10:58

Only we're not going to get this love

11:00

and acceptance from other people unless

11:03

we can give it to ourselves. When

11:06

we feel good enough to be loved, then

11:09

others will love and accept

11:11

us too. It's really that

11:13

simple. I think

11:15

that we come to this planet

11:17

to learn and to practice unconditional

11:20

love. And it's

11:22

not always an easy thing to do, but

11:24

I think that's what we've come here for. To

11:28

have unconditional love first of all

11:30

for ourselves. No matter

11:32

what they said or what they did

11:34

to us in the past. And

11:36

also to give that same unconditional

11:39

love to other people. To

11:41

just allow them to be who they are

11:44

and to get rid of this them and us.

11:47

Because it's not them and us. It's

11:49

all us. And we

11:51

need to know that. And

11:54

if we're going to heal this planet, we

11:56

have to know it's all us. And

11:58

there are no groups that are excited. expendable

12:01

and there are no groups that are less

12:03

than. There

12:05

may be many people who are in

12:07

so much pain that they're being harmful

12:10

to other people. But

12:12

you know, if we can understand

12:14

that acts of violence come from

12:16

a person who is a traumatized

12:18

child. Now, this is not

12:21

to condone people who do

12:23

violent things, but to understand that if

12:25

we want to change them, if you

12:27

want people to become loving and peaceful,

12:29

then you have to teach them to

12:32

come from a loving space of the

12:34

heart. And you're not going to teach

12:36

them that if you don't know how to do it yourself.

12:39

You don't create wars and kill people.

12:42

You don't beat people. You don't throw

12:44

people into prisons or torture them or

12:46

do things like that. You

12:48

teach them to forgive and

12:51

to love themselves. So

12:53

they'll never do those violent things again because

12:56

you realize that people who

12:58

love themselves cannot

13:00

hurt themselves and

13:03

they cannot hurt another person. And

13:06

to me, that's the answer to world

13:08

peace and harmony and all sorts

13:10

of wonderful things. So to

13:13

help as many people as possible learn to

13:15

love who they are, it's

13:17

very simple. That's my work

13:19

in this world is to help

13:21

people love themselves. To love ourselves

13:23

so that we can get to

13:25

this new order of what I

13:27

see as unconditional love and peace

13:30

and plenty for everyone. And

13:33

I know that it's possible if we can

13:35

just get the nonsense out of the way.

13:39

I believe that when we leave the

13:41

planet, the only thing

13:43

we take with us is our

13:45

capacity to love. We

13:47

take our capacity to love with us.

13:49

And that's all. We don't take our

13:52

relationships. We don't take our

13:54

automobiles or our bank accounts or our jobs.

13:57

We take our capacity to

13:59

love. And we have

14:01

many, many opportunities to open our

14:03

hearts on a much deeper level

14:05

than we have. To

14:07

me, love is the answer. I

14:10

really believe that love is the

14:12

answer. It's powerful, it helps us,

14:15

it helps other people. How

14:18

do you give love to

14:20

the world? What

14:22

are you doing to create

14:25

your own inner harmony? What

14:28

do you do on a daily

14:30

basis to make yourself feel good

14:32

inside? Or do you just sit

14:35

and bitch about what you don't have? Well,

14:39

it's one way of handling it, but it

14:42

doesn't change the situation. You

14:47

know, you're not going to do it by being mad

14:49

at yourself or being mad at other people. And you're

14:52

not going to do it by blaming people, and you're

14:54

not going to do it by being a victim. So

14:56

what is it you do? How

14:59

do you express unconditional

15:01

love in your life?

15:04

Even a little bit. Is there a

15:06

small area of your life where you're

15:08

willing to give unconditional love? How

15:12

are you experiencing peace within

15:14

you and around you? And

15:17

if you're not doing it now, are

15:20

you willing to begin? Are you

15:23

willing to start creating inner harmony

15:25

and peace? Another

15:28

question to ask yourself is, do you

15:30

really want to change? Do

15:33

you want to change, or do you want to just

15:35

sit there and complain about what you don't have? Or

15:38

do you want to be a person who really

15:40

has and creates a much more wonderful life than

15:42

you have now? And

15:44

if you're willing to change, you can.

15:46

If you're willing to do the work

15:49

involved, which means changing the way you're

15:51

thinking, then you can change your

15:53

life for the better. People

15:56

come up to me a lot and say,

15:58

oh Louise, you've changed my life. Well,

16:01

I don't change anybody's life. I

16:03

don't do that. I'm not a healer.

16:05

I don't heal anybody. I don't change

16:07

anybody. I don't have that kind of

16:09

power. Only you

16:11

can change yourself. And

16:14

only you can clean out the pain

16:16

within you. I can't do that

16:18

for you. I can stand up

16:20

here all evening and say wonderful things and

16:22

give lots of good advice. But you're the

16:24

only thinker in your mind. And

16:27

you're going to make the decision of what you

16:29

want to do with the information that you're being

16:31

given. I have no

16:33

power over you. You have the

16:35

power and you need to know that. We

16:38

think so often that we are helpless. But

16:40

we're not helpless because we have

16:43

our minds. We have our

16:45

minds. And you shape and

16:47

mold your life from moment to moment

16:49

by your thoughts and your beliefs

16:51

and your attitudes. And

16:56

you also want to know that you really

16:58

are important to this world. You

17:00

might say, well, I really don't do anything. But

17:03

you are just the fact that you're

17:05

alive is important and your

17:07

life has meaning. It

17:09

really does. And you can

17:12

contribute to the peace and the harmony

17:14

of this planet just by using your

17:16

mind. Thank

17:23

you.