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If you are a reader of my weekly blog, you probably are interested primarily in
- personal/spiritual growth, by which I mean improving the quality of your life and/or becoming more spiritual,
- achieving more success, by which I mean earning more money or having an abundance of wealth in your life.
Negative, limiting beliefs are a barrier to both goals, but I usually tend to write more about the first goal. Today I want to focus more on the second one.
Over the weekend I read a book by Joe Vitale, a friend of mine and one of the people I love spending time with at our twice-a-year Transformational Leadership Council meetings. Because he has written a lot about the Law of Attraction and was one of the teachers in The Secret, I expected his book, Attract Money Now, to focus mainly on how to attract money merely by having positive emotions about abundance.
As I’ve written before, I think there is something to the Law of Attraction, but I don’t think that merely focusing on something, with emotion, is enough to have it show up in your life.
So I was pleasantly surprised. I not only enjoyed reading the short (160 pages) book, I think it just might be the best book I’ve ever read on exactly what you need to do to create abundance in your life.
The first step is getting rid of negative, limiting beliefs
As you might imagine, if I liked the book so much Joe must talk of the importance of beliefs, which he does. The first of the seven steps to financial abundance that he describes is “Alter How You Think.” He writes, “Limiting beliefs are like thieves in the night. The first step to attracting money is to change your thoughts and address these underlying limiting beliefs.” (Emphasis added.) Although he doesn’t mention the Lefkoe Belief Process in that chapter, he does list my work as a reference in the back of the book.
By the way, one of the reasons we no longer promote a package of abundance beliefs is that getting rid of limiting beliefs is necessary, but not sufficient, to achieving abundance in your life. We like to guarantee results and we couldn’t guarantee that you would increase your wealth merely by eliminating the five beliefs in the package, so we withdrew it. We now provide it only on request and after explaining that it doesn’t carry a guarantee like our other automated programs.
Joe also recognizes that eliminating beliefs is not enough, so he presents six other crucial steps.
One of these other steps explains that one way to change your mindset about money is to give without any expectation of return. Such action implies a mindset of abundance. Being afraid to give implies a mindset of scarcity. And your mindset is crucial to achieving financial abundance.
In Step 4 Joe points out the importance of asking for help, both from the universe and from specific people. He urges people to form or join a Mastermind Group, which is a group of several people with varying backgrounds who meet regularly to support each other. In fact, he was so convincing that I decided that I would either join one or form one of my own by the end of this month.
Why “adding” emotion to your images of the future is important
The way he described another one of the steps gave me an insight I had never had before. He, like so many others, talks about the importance of imagining the desired result and making it as emotionally real as possible. When others have told me this before, it sounded a little “airy fairy” and I couldn’t see why adding emotion to a vision would help make it come true.
But Joe makes the point that “You are telling your mind to pay attention to the avenues and opportunities that will help you meet these goals. Does this mean these opportunities don’t exist. No. It just means your mind filters them out because you haven’t told it these opportunities are important. … You’re telling yourself that these opportunities are important so it
In other words, by getting emotionally excited about a future state of affairs, you are telling the mind to notice any opportunities for achieving that future state. It then seems as if new opportunities are being created by your emotional state, when, in fact, they aren’t being created, but noticed.
The importance of action
I especially like the fact that Joe emphasizes the importance of action: “You can’t just sit there thinking positive thoughts without DOING anything to turn around your finances. You must take immediate inspired action, and come up with a new plan and work it. … This isn’t a magic formula; it’s practical advice with no nonsense.”
If you aren’t familiar with Joe’s work, he is a spiritual teacher and Internet marketer extraordinaire who really is committed to help people reach their goals.
Joe’s book is available free at http://attractmoneynow.com. If you are interested in more financial abundance in your life, there is no better place to start. But be prepared to take action and follow each step in Joe’s seven-step program. Merely reading the book will accomplish nothing.
If you haven’t yet eliminated at least one of your limiting self-esteem beliefs using the Lefkoe Belief Process, go to http://www.recreateyourlife.com/free where you can eliminate one negative belief free.
For information about our package of five beliefs that can serve as barriers to financial abundance, please call us at (415) 506-4472.
For information about eliminating 23 of the most common limiting beliefs and conditionings, which cause eight of the most common problems in our lives, and get a separate video of the WAIR? Process please check out: http://recreateyourlife.com/naturalconfidence.
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Thanks for sharing your info. I really appreciate your
efforts and I will be waiting for your further post thanks once
again.
Good way of telling, and pleasant post to obtain information on the topic of my
presentation subject, which i am going to deliver in university.
Stobie, you should buy snake oil after reading warnings, like mine above and elsewhere on Morty’s snake oil site. Remember: if it’s too good to be true, it is!
It’s a smart caveat to say this stuff doesn’t work on everybody and that a small percentage is not susceptible.
The whole cabal of snake oil salesman are thriving due to bloody fools who are ever ready to part with their little cash for promise of pie in the sky.
Bah! Humbug!
Just testing the system.
Hi Ian,
I’m sorry to hear that our processes did not work for you. They seem to work for over 90% of the population, but not everyone. That is why our Natural Confidence program has a one year unconditional guarantee: if you are dissatisfied for any reason, return it and get a full refund.
If we hired people to write comments we’d have to hire a lot: we now have well over a thousand: http://blog.recreateyourlife.com
Love, Morty
the whole lefkoe thing is a con. like every other self help piece of junk. it does NOT work. i know i have tried it. although i was not stupid enough to line the pockets of morty. which a lot of people will do because they get sucked in to his positive reviews ???. too many positive reviews in my opinion. written for morty by a team of professional bloggers ?. steve palvina ?. joe vitale ? steven aitchison ?. etc etc etc. if his method worked there would be no work left for the doctors to do !!!. morty lefkoe is NOT out to help you. he is out to MAKE MONEY!!!! if you are stupid enough to fall for this rubbish more the fool you.
If another proclaims to me that I am foolish in their eyes the intention is to belittle or they reveal their own foolishness. Those who belittle are not interested in teaching or reaching out to others as a voice of warning with any effectiveness. Does a strong heart and mind need to belittle others to reach them? Does belittling others lead towards a better world or a worse one? Do the means justify the ends? It is said that we shall not take anything with us when we leave the earth but I disagree. If there is a world to come at all there is one thing that we will take with us. We will take with us that which we have become. Would you now still believe that the means justify the end? Consider this, when one persons fervent “desires” become another persons “necessary requirements” will this lead to a better place for all or a worse place for all?
Those who wish to make others appear foolish harbor within them the belief that they are a fool. It is a weakness that needs attention and nurturing back to health within them. When the avatar ego is at work trying to protect its world-view it will deploy many tactics that appear to others as strength (a decoy).
I implore you, please do not build upon the weaknesses of others or you will find your endeavors resting on shaky ground and the consequences could be unpleasant or at the very least unproductive. I know because I’ve been there and done it myself many times, so I can empathize with the struggle.
Brandon,
Let’s not mix apples and oranges. If your read my contributions (which also spilled over to another thread), you would think twice before accusing me of illogical thinking. So I suggest you do. Then you won’t be tempted to extract a post or two and think you can read the whole elephant.
As for my skyjump, I admitted that it was a bit extreme and I didn’t do it purely to overcome my altophobia; that was a side benefit.
As for Buddhism, I did not claim it has specific methods to overcome public speaking, etc, but that it does have tested methods to overcome limiting beliefs in general. BTW, I have also made it clear that I’m not a practicing Buddhist.
After a lot of debate (in which Morty also participated), I conceded that his methods might be effective and wished him well. Looks like you missed all that.
Hi Morty,
You wrote ” We like to guarantee results and we couldn’t guarantee that you would increase your wealth merely by eliminating the five beliefs in the package, so we withdrew it.”
I went through the five beliefs in the package but I think there’s still some underlying beliefs/conditioning’s holding me back from financial success. Should I choose to purchase some sessions with one of your facilitators, do you offer any type of guarantee?
-Brandon
Hi Brandon,
If there are additional beliefs you would like to eliminate, you can get them eliminate by working with one of our certified LM facilitators.
No, there is no guarantee for the reason you quoted.
Love,Morty
Sam,
Your arguments are flawed and illogical.
You claim a person ought to be able to eliminate their negative beliefs by studying Buddhism. Buddhism is a religion and a philosophy that encompasses MANY ideas.
If you know of a specific process for eliminating negative beliefs permanently (rather than just implying there is one) within that philosophy (that rivals or is better than Morty’s), please share it with us rather than just saying “go study Buddhism” or “look for a book on Amazon.”
The other question I have for you is why you didn’t take the same approach for overcoming your fear of heights?
You mention you couldn’t afford flight school so you went skydiving. I’m sure there’s something contained with “Buddhism” to help you with your fear of heights. If not, I’m sure there are some books on Amazon to help you with that.
You know as well as anybody, when someone has a specific problem; they need a specific solution. I’m sure Buddhism as a philosophy is great – but when it comes to eradicating a problem – such as “fear of heights” a more specialized approach is needed.
Then, you have the audacity to claim Morty and Vitale are “thick as thieves.” Would you say the same thing about the sky diving instructor or the pilot who helped you with your jump? I bet you paid them over $1000 to solve that problem permanently. Again, why not just go to the library and study how to overcome altophobia with (in your own words) “the repository of mankind’s perennial wisdom?”
Lastly, you haven’t even tried Morty’s method but you’re content to sit on the sidelines and claim its’ just a repackaged version of “perennial wisdom.”
Hopefully you’ll come back with a well-thought-out argument rather than just fluffing up your post with fancy metaphors and vague references that have nothing to do with the topic.
You are all a bunch of retards
You’re not into insults? Who called whom a Troll, Ms Goody Twofeet? All self-righteous now, are we?
Sam,
I’m done. I’m not into insults. Have a good day.
Deanna the Dreamer,
I won’t make this a forum to boast about my education. Maybe I only went to the university of Hard Knocks. But I think I have gained from that far more than what you got from your Ivy League education!
Did you read all my comments or are you basing your take on one or two of them? After all,you are a woman who asks me to cite the source of what you yourself posted, without bothering to read it fully. Had you done so, you would realize that I extracted a relevant portion from your own source!
You don’t seem level-headed, more muddle-headed! Exactly the type that’s a good target for Morty’s merchandise. :-)
Sam,
You’re on the attack now.
I have gone to school. Have you? To what level. I have a Masters. Perhaps you have a Phd? However, I am skeptical because anyone I know at that level is well, generally level-headed.
At my school we did debate ideas and we listened and appreciated what was offered back to us in the form of ideas. But we did not insult and attack people even if we challenged their ideas. Critiques are welcome when accompanied by compelling ideas supporting them. You are criticizing. And, I don’t think Morty intended his comments section to be the forum for off-topic debates. Again you are doing what Trolls do. You must have a lot of extra time on your hands for a topic you don’t believe in.
And, that’s all the time I’m spending on this because it is again off the topic of this thread. Sorry Morty and others.
Seems like none of you have gone to a good university. Otherwise, you would know better than to silence critics and you would welcome debate. I am pretty mild here, compared to the raging debates in academia. In such places, your ilk and Morty would be shred verbally, in papers or in book length attacks that would leave you in tears! You would all be tested in the crucible of rigorous debate. No comfort cocoons among the believers .
Hi Sam,
You posted this thread in response to my question on another thread and here I see similar posts from you as on the other one. I’m going to be blunt and just ask you: Are you a Troll? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
Because you sure sound like one. You’re wasting a lot of people’s energy. You’re distracting the conversation away from the purpose of this thread.
I had wondered if you were Buddhist by your posts but not your online demeanour. My instinct was correct as I see your response to someone above. It’s just a convenient way to through off conversation.
I have learned a lot from not only blog postings I have read here and by other people AND from the comments of other readers who comment on those blog posts. My personal thought: contribute productive conversation, observations or suggestions OR stay silent. Thanks.
Agreed.
You are a good sport, Lauren.
I wish I had a time machine to be with you this instant, shoot the breeze face to face, look into your eyes and be surprised to see they are as lovely as Lauren Bacall’s.
At this stage of my life, I don’t know what my limiting beliefs are. I don’t feel that hampered. But I’m aware of my limitations, which is a mature take on reality, I think. In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood: “A man’s gotta know his limits!”
But it won’t be that easy in the real world getting to America from Asia, my home turf. Have to take a flying machine for that. Was last there for a little holiday when the Twin Towers were still standing. Then got my kicks on Route 66.
Thanks for the love — and the light. (although, as I said before, have no fear of darkness, nor shun it, because life is a play of light and shadow. Embrace them both, be attuned to the real.)
Be happy, Lauren!
P.S. Why not drop me a line at sesha747@yahoo.com
Nothing at all. Perhaps you need a few hundred sessions to find out what your “limiting beliefs” are in this area because you are bristling with them. And every time someone praises this method and yes, this person, you go into this weird “I believe……” spiel and ascribe it to people who don’t agree with your assessment. I have a lot of compassion for you and your moebius strip reasoning. Ever watch Star Trek: The Next Generation? One episode was about the Enterprise getting trapped in a time loop and only after hundreds of times living the same time, did they figure out what was going on. Take note, Sam.
Love and Light on your Journey,
Lauren
Ah Lauren … what can I say?
I believe, I believe, oh lord, I believe in Messiah Morty!
Hosannah!
You use lots of metaphors and pretend you are are looking out for people’s best interests. Yes, there are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” And we can be fooled; however, the tools I’ve learned through Morty Lefkoe’s programs have educated me about the reality of situations. El Dorado? Wasn’t that an imaginary place? If looking for scammers is also your passion, more power to you. You’ve just arrived at a dead end here.
Love and Light on your Journey,
Lauren
One thing you ought to beware of is this. The best minds have been taken for a ride by canny foxes. We might think we are well-read and discerning, but we can be fooled. It happens everyday. So beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing! They infest the internet.
In fact, the mission of two of my friends, a public-spirited couple, is to alert people about scammers on the hunt on the net. It’s El Dorado for some of them.
Hello again Lauren,
I don’t know if you are as beautiful as your namesake. But then if you just absolutely, positively BELIEVE you are, then you would be, right?
I’m truly sorry about the loss of your child. You may believe that Morty was the savior who healed your depression. You may believe that you had no other options. People lose loved ones, grieve about it for a while and go on. Most people have in-built mechanism to handle such life tragedies, get up and go on. I believe you would have, too, in time, with or without Method Morty.
I know skydiving to get rid of the fear of heights is not everybody’s cup of tea. The message is: just do what you fear, one baby step at a time or take a deep a breath and jump. In the same way, retreat from what you don’t want to do cold turkey or one baby step at a time.
I’m here and in other similar corners of cyberspace, dear Lauren, because one of my missions is to try to prevent people like you from being fooled. Did you see Glenda’s revelation above, her 20,000-dollar lesson in avoiding suckerdom?
I didn’t use “Method Morty” as you’re clearly assuming to get through my depression. It was a therapist. And it was twenty years ago. And I reiterate: I do not feel fooled, I feel enlightened and it is up to me what I choose for my own enlightenment. Yes, I did see Glenda’s lesson in “suckerdom”. Then, again, I study too, but I don’t need to “save people from themselves.” Questioning is my passion; I don’t just jump from the airplane without a parachute. Yes, you have the right to tell people what you want, but I find most of the people who come to this blog are for the most part intelligent, well-read, and discerning. But, no, you dismiss that as well; you alone are the authority on who are the fooled and the ones who fool. You may flush out a few people who don’t know their own minds and will listen to you; but guess what: I know my own mind and my own heart as well and whatever tools I choose to use and learn with is up to me.
Lauren
Sam,
I don’t understand why you’re here. Are you here to enlighten us on the “bridge salesman” mentality or what? It seems everytime someone comes up with an answer about why they trust the Lefkoe Method and how it has worked for them you have a “Yes, but….” reply. He has helped thousands of people to find the way out of the prison of their limiting beliefs in a method that, yes, he charges for. If the method he employs, whether it is based on ancient wisdom or not, doesn’t work then I would agree with what you’re espousing and recommending here. Your method for losing the fear of heights did work for you; it is something everyone wouldn’t use. Just like this method isn’t for whatever reason. No one who has used this method feels suckered; in reality it has helped them in their own lives. You say, “you are, indeed, judged by the company you keep.” What does that make you? It’s apparent to me(though I cannot know for sure)that you think we’re a bunch of fools and you’re here to tell us. My daughter died when she was three years old; would reading a library book of ancient wisdom have helped better than the counsel that I paid for in the form of a live person when I went into a deep depression?Why don’t you write your own blog and educate us with your wise counsel instead of coming here and disrespecting other’s experiences and choices?
Lauren
(btw, my parents did name me after Lauren Bacall, one of their favorite actresses.)
Good day, Glenda!
Good that a real victim of these con artists appeared here to tell it like it is. I have been warning people here, but apart from a few, I have been preaching in the wilderness — to a bunch of sheep!
Beware of people also who sign off with love to every stranger, especially posters who sing hosannahs of these flaky ‘systems’.
You are, indeed, judged by the company you keep. What the Lefkoes and Vitales et al have going is a mutual support club, channeling suckers to each other to be fleeced by all of them.
But there’s no law against suckers being suckered.
At least you got wiser after having paid $20K for the life lesson. Caveat emptor!
You are judged by the company you keep. Joe Vitale and Prosper Inc. scammed me out of $20,000. Vitale allows Prosper to use his web site mailing list to troll for victims., Admirers of Joe Vitale don’t want to believe he would be involved with anything underhanded. By then it is too late and you have been fleeced.
What would you say I believe if: I can’t relax while trying to do anything. I feel I must “try hard” to get what I want. If I don’t try hard I won’t.
BUT… Whenever I just relax and don’t try hard or really “try to get what I want at all” I know I learn more and do better and do well… and when I realize it I “try hard” to maintain it and fail.
If I don’t try hard which brings me success, I feel I’m taking a big chance that I won’t succeed because succeeding requires trying hard…
It’s specifically “trying”. I “try”, I struggle, fail and just feel farther and farther away from what I want.
I “give up” or “casually attempt” something and I usually end up having success flow to me…
What the hell!
I might add: I don’t “not try” really… it’s more like… I WANT what I want to get, but if I approach without “trying” to get it, I get it.
But here’s the thing: If I notice I’m succeeding I start trying and then struggle and lose it. (the thought, the momentum, the good thing I was doing)… I get off track!
Please get back to me Morty! Thanks!
Hi Janeen,
I’m still thinking about your shocking revelation about your brother’s murder and how you see that as the most inspirational event in your family history!
Humans have strange ways of coping. In the case of your family, equating your brother to Jesus, a lamb who sacrificed himself for the benefit of the family. Still, I wonder whether that’s how your brother feels, or whether he is a restless spirit rather upset about your take on his death, angry at being murdered, regretting the loss of his life.
Could you be projecting for your own solace, to cope with your unbearable grief, to carry on?
Best wishes.
sesha747@yahoo.comif you would like to correspond with me in private.
Hi, Sam!
Hi, John!
I knew there would be discussion about that! (Holocaust).
Nothing in anything written about how the energy inside brings about our experiences suggests “fault”; “Credit” maybe, but not “fault”. Their collective consciousness accepted over ions of time that they would be persecuted, so they did create it. Not in the conscious awareness, but in their energy fields, and perhaps as a result of tribal energy, not their own. The sooner we all understand this, the sooner we can help people elevate themselves from continuing the cycle Sam writes about; Hate, Wars, etc. I think what’s going on here is that perhaps neither of you gentlemen are having the eternal perspective. If you only believe we live here and now, then it is much more of a tragedy! But having the eternal perspective, we can be free from victimhood and go on to our next life experience with joy! (There is being a victim; then there’s being in “victimhood! Not to be confused!)
When my brother was murdered, I didn’t understand all this about energy, and I didn’t understand how “God” could allow it! That caused me to raise questions, and think. And you know what? It has been the most inspirational event in our family history! I don’t know what energy he was transforming, but it sure did work! There was a massive shift in our family consciousness, and I know our ancestors felt it and so will our progenitors! He came here to be a hero, of sorts, just like Jesus! To transmute what had been negative energy into something beneficial. And that’s the way I see all the amazing people who choose to come here into this world to be a part of transforming the energy of hate and racism, force, control, and manipulation and everything evil that Hitler represents; They righteously chose to perform that heroic feat and be sacrificial lambs to purge the energy! They are to be lauded! Just one question; Isn’t religion of old (not so much these days!! Let’s all shout “Hallelujah”!) all about force, control and manipulation?
Transforming that energy has lifted society! Societal consciousness is a true principle!
Oh, btw; If you keep looking back, with energy, at how history repeats itself, you will continue to re-create it! That will never solve the problem.
Thank you for listening; This has been fun, Gentlemen!
Janeen, you have no idea how offensive it is to hear you suggest that six million Jews in WWII brought about their own annihilation because the ancient scriptures of their religion “talked incessantly about how they will be persecuted!” So it’s their fault, huh? Why give Hitler such a bad rap, then, for orchestrating it? Sounds like he didn’t do anything wrong, for as you say, “Nothing bad ever happens! It all works for good!”
I’m sure all the victims of violence around the world – including women who get raped, people who get beheaded for following a different religion, innocent civilians killed in the crossfire of civil war, etc. – would really appreciate your simplistic analysis that 1) They brought it upon themselves by thinking too negatively and 2) It’s good what happened to them; if their misery isn’t helping them it’s certainly benefiting someone else. So cheer up, Victims – “It all works for good!”
I’m not disputing the overall value of believing in the Law of Attraction, but I think it’s sad and dangerous to use it to blame the victims of tragedy, as you do, or cheerfully suggest that “nothing bad ever happens!” in the face of daily, worldwide human brutality. I can only hope that you never become a victim yourself. If you do – and survive – please come back and tell us how it’s your fault, how your own thoughts made it happen, and especially how it’s a good thing that it happened.
And I sure hope I didn’t make any woman in Nigeria or elsewhere suffer a miscarriage. But then again, if they did, they asked for it, they somehow attracted it, huh Janeen?
sesha747@yahoo.com
Well, Janeen, you seem to be a bit more evolved than some of the hoi polloi here and I’m mot saying that because of the compliment, for which my thanks.
I have read up a bit on human evolution. One thing that experts agree on and squash your high hopes: violence, inter-group conflict are hard-wired into the species. As long as there are humans, there will be conflict and violence. No Buddha, no messiah, no angels have the power to reprogram us; it’s embedded too deep in our ancient reptilian brain segment. If the conditions are ripe, then we will act accordingly. If the conditions arise for group (tribal) conflict, then there will be conflict. People who study conflict will endorse that. In fact, there has never been a time over the past 6,000 years when the world was entirely at peace; there has always been a conflict, a war, somewhere on this planet of ours. If your child was attacked, you too will kill and kill with a violence that will shock you.
You make a sweeping statement which cannot be proved when you basically say that the unfortunates on whom shite befalls get what they asked for. That’s a fallacious cop out. Unfair to boot. It’s not only the Jews nursing a guilt/punishment complex. So do Catholics. The followers of a camel driver’s mad ramblings after a probable heatstroke in the Arabian dessert also nurse a similar complex. (Sometimes i hope all these Jihadists and crusaders fight each other to death and leave the rest of us in peace!)
I don’t believe in pie in the sky cos I’m no Polyanna. I’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. I’m resigned to the fact that good and evil are integral elements of human reality.
I’m not a big believer in grandiosity either. If i can help feed one hungry mouth at a time, that would suffice. One small solution within my capacity.
So don’t get me wrong. I don’t curse the darkness. I light a small candle if I can. (And darkness is not all the negatives its made out to be. Seeds germinate in the darkness of the soil. I grew in the pitch blackness of my mother’s womb. Men seek comfort in the dark tunnel of a yoni. Light and shadow. Embrace them both. For such is life.
And now, let’s all hold hands (around the campfire) and sing “kumbayah my lord, kumbayah”. Join in Morty, you old coot!
Oh yeah!
One of the things that initially attracted me to the Lefkoe Method (back before it was even called the Lefkoe Method!) was that it’s totally and completely available for free, to anyone who wishes it. Morty’s book is available from your local library, if they don’t have it, they can get it (that’s what libraries do).
Morty’s method was demonstrated to me, and then on me, by another dear friend (not a Lefkoe). It was so amazing I was entirely willing to buy the book (at that time, never imagining I’d have access to the creator of such a magical thing) and rushed right over to another friend’s house and demonstrated on her. No training, no elegance, no money, just the lovely, useful process. And you know, she had a great result. Personally, I figure something that works when it can be done with no training and for free is pretty darn good stuff.
Morty, I love that you don’t promote everyone who wishes you would promote them. You promote what you believe in, and what works for you. I have unsubscribed to many ‘guru’s’ email lists because I can’t tolerate the crap they spam. I’m glad that Joe’s word pictures were able to show you a different meaning.
thanks!
Love and Light to you on your Journey?! Throw a few more New Age cliches at me, Lauren. You seem to be as goggle-eyed as Lauren Becall by all this hoopla!
I never claimed to be a Buddhist, btw. I simply said what Morty is repackaging can be found there.
Sorry, maybe your messiah loves all and sundry, especially his groupies.
As for giving, maybe you missed my message to Dale:
Dale, matey, I don’t really want to blow my own trumpet, but I’m all right, dude! Have been for some time. I made good and made it the right way.
And believe it when I say, i give, i give a hell of a lot, to the people who really need it. You have no idea about the misery of many people in this world of ours. I do, And i care. And what they need is not a new car but a bowl of rice to get through the day!
Sam,
I am actually a happy and fulfilled person now that I’ve rid myself of a bunch of beliefs. Like Grace below says you can use it for free and if you choose you can purchase his program that defines many beliefs. I was attracted by its simplicity and elegance as well. And dumped all the self-help programs I purchased through the years. Morty’s is the only one that gets to the heart of problems that people have lived with for years. I am neither goggle eyed or a “new-ager” just someone who recognizes what works for me, as an individual.
Love and Light on your Journey,
Lauren
Sam,
If you’ve learned so much from “authentic” Buddhism, as you call it, why are your posts so cynical and mean-spirited? Morty’s programs have made a huge difference in the posters lives and I don’t read where anyone has answered the same way you have. And why do you have a problem with Morty using the word “love”? Didn’t the Buddha speak of love? And we live in a far different world than he did, too. Money is a means of exchange in this country as well in most of the world; if you don’t feel like spending your “hard-earned(a limiting belief, btw) money, don’t. If Buddhism works for you, fine. It’s a beautiful thing when something awakens something inspirational and life-changing inside your heart. And we did this of our own free will; we have the brains to know when someone is a charlatan and Morty is not. That he makes money from it? Good for him!
Love and Light to you on your Journey,
Lauren
Janeen, I’m discriminating in my reverence. Otherwise, I’d have to revere George Bush and Osama bi Laden and Osho, along with Lefkoe and Vitale, et al.
As for nothing bad ever happens, tell that to the innocents being bombed as we speak and the Jews who were gassed and the 4 million ‘gooks’ who were murdered in Vietnam.
BTW, I don’t make a fetish out of Buddhism. If anyone sticks strictly to its ahimsa doctrine, many would be gonners. The only thing I revere is critical thinking. It must be my skepticism that you read as hostility.
Grow up, you highly intelligent, supremely evolved female specimen. For your own good, if nothing else.
Since you understand what Buddhism teaches, then you know that most sects of Buddhism teach that the energy we know as ourselves evolves over many lifetimes of experiences. We can never assess what energy within them (the people you see as suffering) caused them to desire to be in such circumstances, but they did choose it! Some very highly evolved people choose to be present in horrible situations so they can lift others who are there. Sometimes they have chosen to be present so they can draw attention to the atrocities, and thereby elevate societal consciousness. Sometimes it’s a karmic debt they pay, and not necessarily their own, but that of their ancestral lineage. Their response determines what happens to the energy: Does it transform the energy into one that will be free from that particular negative vibration in the future, or does their response simply indicate that they will need more time to try it again? If the energy of a negative response still lives within them, they will definitely attract that type of dilemma again! We are all in this together, also: Maybe YOUR responses right now are causing a woman in Nigeria to have a miscarriage! It’s all about energy…..
God help me to do my part to make things easier on us all as we grow!
Pushing against the “bad” things is not what works; Responding lovingly and teaching loving responses is what works!
Actually, the example you cite regarding the Jews is an excellent example of the Law of Attraction! Their own scriptures talk incessantly about how they will be persecuted! It’s no less horrible, of course, but as we honestly examine the repercussions of our energetic transmissions, then we can improve our circumstances through awareness.
The more we push against war; The more wars there are! The more we push against drugs; The more drug use societies encounter. And on, and on, and on.
I hope the awakened thought leaders can educate people about these principles until there is enough awareness about it that my great -grand-kids will live in a loving society where hate AND WAR AND PEOPLE FEELING THE NEED TO ESCAPE THROUGH DRUG USE is totally obsolete! Have you heard of the hundred monkey syndrome? Science has shown that when one monkey gets an idea, he teaches it to another monkey, then after 99 monkeys know how to do the new thing, the 100th monkey will be born knowing! This is how instinct evolves! And the intelligence of it all is carried in the energy field. So, there is hope, Sam, that all the evils of society will one day dissipate, just like you are so sincerely concerned about.
I would only encourage you to consider if your current methods can ever accomplish it. Make sense?
Sam, do you know what a great writer you are? If you focused on solutions to the problems you consider to plague society, and wrote a book about it, it would no doubt be hysterically funny and your message would be carried on the wings of laughter! You really are good!
I can only imagine that right now, you are thinking that we should close by singing six verses of “Kum By Ah!” Oh, and around a blazing camp fire!
Sorry, Morty, about that link, I subscribed earlier and I’ve been getting your free stuff for some time now. That’s how I know! Anyway these are just teasers aimed at getting folks to part with hard cash for your pricier merchandise, right?
Good try, Morty! But you won’t be converting me into a paying customer any time soon. I’ll be happy, however, to critically evaluate your stuff if you let me try it for free.
And if you need me to tell you where to find time-tested methods of eliminating negative beliefs, maybe you need to dip deeper into mankind’s collective wisdom. Try authentic Buddhism for starters, not the repackaged versions now being promoted in the West by Tibetans in red robes.
Dale, matey, I don’t really want to blow my own trumpet, but I’m all right, dude! Have been for some time. I made good and made it the right way.
And believe it when I say, i give, i give a hell of a lot, to the people who really need it. You have no idea about the misery of many people in this world of ours. I do, And i care. And what they need is not a new car but a bowl of rice to get through the day!
Janeen, you seem like a classic target for gurus like Osho who took hundreds and thousands of your kind for a right royal ride! If you know his real story … ah what the heck … Go gurus, dumb bimbos are just waiting in tremulous anticipation.
Love,
Sam (Hey, i picked up something from old Morty; he loves everybody, just like Jesus!)
Cindy, you are preaching to the converted. What you are saying is what I have been saying and doing. And it has paid dividends for me, thanks very much.
As for the con artistes Vitale and clique, did any of you get seduced by the ra ra they created about something they were peddlingcalled The Secret, with the whole bunch of talking heads going on about abundance, the universe is just waiting to give you all you need and all that baloney?
Do you know how Vitale himself failed his own heavily peddled weight reduction program? The universe has a way of exposing con artistes, to themselves and others.
But, hey, as they say, a sucker is born every minute. So jump the bandwagon and get suckered!
Don’t you raving fans realize that the Mortys and the Tonys are all flakes and just peddlers of repackaged (and often dangerously distorted) perennial wisdom available for free, especially in authentic Buddhism and, if you are looking for life success advise, in a good book of quotations or the books of wise men of old like Marcus Aurelius?
Existential questions and the desire for a good and successful life have been perennial human pursuits and the methods and philosophies (perennial wisdom) can be found for free within covers in a library. No need to be suckered by repackagers of perennial wisdom.
Get wise, you chasers after the next miracle capsule! You can find wisdom, peace, negative belief elimination and all the rest you are looking for not by parting with your hard-earned cash in exchange for the pricey, useless merchandise sold my the Mortys and the Tonys (Morty disparages his ”stuff”, maybe because Tony is a rival or not in Morty’s mutual benefit club) and Vitales and similar vendors, but in a good public library for free. All you need is some time, the ability to read and an average intelligence to understand.
Get wise! Don’t expect fast-food fixes to existential problems. They are not healthy. That’s my free advise!
Hi Sam,
I have no problem with people not liking my material, but it’s strange to hear people criticize something they never tried.
Try eliminating one belief for free and then tell me if you can find a process like that in the perennial wisdom. If so, please give me the reference. http://recreateyourlife.com.
Regards, Morty
Morty,
Thanks so much for the post! It always felt a little fakey when I tried thinking and visualizing about what I wanted in the future. And the clarification on how getting excited about a future state of affairs helps us to notice opportunities that potentially could lead us there is what I needed. I am definitely going to check out Joe Vitale’s website.
Love and Light,
Lauren
I am going to read Joe’s e-book with interest. This is my first exposure to him and I will reserve judgement until finished with the book.
One thing I can tell you is Shelly and Morty Lefkoe are 100% genuine and I think pioneers in the belief elimination field. I know Morty and Shelly have been shouting their methods from the mountaintops for over 20 years. Their methods are starting to spread like wildfire and really do work. I mean REALLY! I have tried almost all of the positive thinking, manifest your destiny, meditation, NLP, etc.. programs out there. They simply are a band-aid to your real problems. The real problems are the beliefs you formed as a child that you will continue to “default” to every time you face a challenging situation. Once you eliminate negative beliefs from your core, you “default” to your innate beliefs of courage, love, enthusiasm for life, curiosity, high self-worth, etc… It is a very free-ing process. I was a doubter when I first looked at the material but the Lefkoe Process is REAL. Also, I had a one-on-one call with Shelly about two weeks ago. She is so genuine and professional. It helped me so much and I can’t wait to do the next one. Trust me, if you don’t try the Lefkoe method, you are cheating yourself! I love the Lefkoes!!!!!!!!!
Hi Gunasekhar,
I don’t think the purpose is to try to fool ourselves. WHat I got from Joe’s book is doing that makes us more aware of possibilities and opportunities that we might have been otherwise. That is the value.
And Joe’s book has little on the Law of Attraction. That’s why I liked it so much. It is very practical.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Love,Morty
Hi folks,
my 2 cents. I do like Joe Vitale works. But it never worked for me. I suppose rather than tricking our own minds into manifesting things for us, I believe we should transcend mind. Have a thought – does it make any sense to visualize and feel that things already happened. Just think about it. Isn’t there a part of us that knows we are just trying to fool ourselves. We have to reclaim our minds and find our own solutions.
Just remember, while keeping an open mind, that these guys are trying to sell you something. Always. Even with “free” books, there’s always a sell in there, what they call an “upsell.”
Studied the Law of Attraction long before “The Secret,” bought the books, listened to tapes galore, followed every step, looked inside myself, expressed undying gratitude (which I still do), “felt” wonderful as if I had things that I wanted … none of it ever worked.
Hi Ana,
Joe’s book is not about the Law of Attraction. It consist of 7 very practical steps to achieve abundance, which is why I liked it and reviewed it.
Thanks for your post.
Love, Morty
The self help genre is replete with networking that is true. The ideas presented here are good, but nothing new. They may be presented in a new light or more interesting way.(I believe Joe Vitale is one of the most if not most successful copywriters out there). My suggestion to Sam or anyone dissatisfied with buying self help books is to study Science of Mind. All these principles and more are taught and it won’t cost you a dime. Dr. Henry Lee Bates has a radio program and often talks about this very topic-Again for free. There is no magic outside of us in any book etc. that will create abundance for us. We each must look within to our own consciousness and what may be limiting our beliefs. Start within yourself because if you are resentful purchasing a book I doubt it will help you.
In any case, Morty did a great job of summing it all up. Thanks
Here’s my 2 cents, Sam:
I was studying the Law of Attraction even before the Secret came out (which is sooo incomplete IMHO) and I would manifest some things, but not others, especially when it came to money. In fact, I was really good at visualizing with emotion and taking inspired action, but was still struggling with money.
I tried the Natural Confidence program and that gave me enough confidence to start a new business (yes, in this so-called crappy economy). I also used EFT to help me with some of my limiting beliefs, but it only got me so far.
A couple of months ago I decided to bite the bullet and pay for a few one-on-one sessions with Morty specifically about my limiting beliefs on money. Since I had already done a lot of work on own, we didn’t need to eliminate too many beliefs before my attitude shifted.
Now my business is going REALLY well and I’m sure it will continue because I don’t have any contradictory beliefs about it.
If you have doubts, don’t be a hater. Why not be open and try something before you bash it, especially if it has worked for others. Just sayin’…
Morty,
I have had experiences of giving money to others or “doing” something for them without any expectation in return. This does work.
Also it is easier to attract when our physical body is well rested. Many of us are so jaded by life that we don’t have the capacity to manifest our desires.
Emotional energy will help speed up the process much faster. Think about what we want to manifest, feel the energy, align with it and the most important step is to allow.
Yes, I think you are right Sam! Morty knows the hustle. Hustle is all about moving fast, taking action, staying alert and focusing on the main chance. But more than that, Hustle is truly and sincerely working on becoming more successful every day. Morty and his friends know how to ‘think money’ and ‘think success’ so they say and do things that attract money and success. He openly admits that he is part of a support network that helps each other become successful. So why wouldn’t friends who share things in common, like being successful and wealthy stop them from helping each other? There is nothing dishonest in what he is doing here. Wouldn’t you help your friends?
But don’t you get the point of what he is saying? To be successful in whatever you wish to do, you have to think in a manner that brings you success and opens you to watch for those ‘lucky breaks’. You have to become emotionally involved in the process and work for it every day.
Abandon any attitude that unintentionally would limit your ability to become successful. Attitudes like mistrusting those who are successful or assuming the worse of them ie. they are a ‘rat pack’, they ‘hustle’ others, they are ‘thieves’. This only reinforces the negative stereotypes and connotations in one’s mind about successful and wealthy people. These ideas create a silent and deadly barrier that does not stop their success, but only limits yours because it turns you away from the opportunity to find success or true wealth for yourself.
Why not turn over a new leaf and open your mind to the possibility that your dreams could come true. So you and all those you love could be better off and lead a higher quality of life. It is in the giving that you also receive. So why not give it a go and realise that by you becoming more successful, everyone around you, you included is going to be better off. And maybe someday soon no one will have to buy a used car, you can afford to give one to your friends!
Sam, this guys is not one of them “make money Gurus”, who conspire with eachothers and launch a blitz massive promotion with “rare and amazing guarantee package make money frome home 1-2-3 click”.
Good for you, Ben! You obviously “get” that our responses indicate the energy inside us, which will or will not attract money to us!
I hope all gurus everywhere are getting RICH!!!!!!!! Go, Gurus!
Go, Everybody!
Hi, Sam!
You know, the fact that some people who are swindlers meet up with people who for whatever reason NEED, on a deep unconscious lever, to be swindled, is proof that the law of attraction is true! If I am a dumb bimbo and I need an infusion of challenge to wake me up, then the very best thing that could happen to me is that some swindler swindles me!
Nothing bad ever happens! It all works for good!
And you know what? We know what’s inside us by our responses. I love the way the Morty is responding to you! It proves what a class act he is! ( I’ll bet you’ll have fun with the word “act”! ) In picking my friends, I’ll pick people like the Lefkoe’s and the Vitale’s every time! While reading Joe’s book that Morty mentions above, check out page 86: My name is in it!
I would be delighted to help you release the hostility that you are exuding, Sam. It is probable that you had been taken advantage of at some point, and hadn’t then known how to utilize the experience to further your evolution and enjoyment of this life. I wonder if the spiritual masters of old that you revere, and rightly so, would encourage the tone of your responses? Does Buddhism teach such hostility and absence of reverence for other people?
And like everyone in this rat pack, they hustle for each other – for a slice of the action. Thick as thieves the Vitales and the Lefkoes.
Hi, Sam!
You are likely examining your response, so you can purge yourself of such judgement, aren’t you? When I grow up, I want to be a female Morty Lefkoe! And I hope my friends are just like the Vitale’s!!
This guy is trying hard to attract your money. Would you buy a used car from this man?
Yes, I would buy a used car from Morty Lefkoe. His ideas have changed my life profoundly. I was initially suspicious of his claims of being able to eliminate my fear of public speaking, but his ideas work. What’s amazing is the principles apply to all aspects of how I perceive and react to life, not just public speaking. What Morty has figured out could be compared to the guy who discovered that ulcers are caused by h. pylori bacteria–nobody believed him because it all seemed too easy and no one could believe such a simple solution could have gone unnoticed for so long. My only regret is I didn’t find Morty sooner. It’s the best money I’ve ever spent and what I learned is worth more to me than my 4 year university degree. At some point in the future no child will leave high school without understanding his ideas.
Sean
Good for you. What I’ve been saying, if you care to read through this conversation, is that everything Morty is repackaging and selling in available for free in the repository of mankind’s perennial wisdom, for example, in Buddhism. If you prefer to pay Morty for it, you should go back to school and take a course in critical thinking. Maybe that might cure your gullibility.
Sam,
OK, for the sake of argument let’s assume that somewhere in Buddhism there is a simple defined method on how to get rid of the fear of public speaking (are you sure?). I couldn’t find it. Morty did. I regularly pay lawyers and accountants much more for information that’s also out in the public domain but I don’t have the time to figure out. $200? It’s not gullibility, it’s efficiency.
Hello?! The Buddha didn’t specifically talk about how to get rid of the fear of public speaking! But he gave many teachings on how to eliminate negative beliefs. Superb, elegant systems.
As for getting rid of the fear of public speaking, you could have bought a good book on the subject (there are many) from Amazon.com for 10 bucks, second-hand. Paying $200 is not efficiency, it is being suckered by con talk.
Getting rid of any fear is not the all-time breakthrough some make it out to be, as if they invented how to eliminate fears. Nike gives you a simple but effective technique: Just do it!
I had a fear of heights since I was a kid. I couldn’t climb a tree or walk close to any edge without freezing and shivering and breaking out in a cold sweat. You know how I got rid of it? By sky diving. I know that’s a bit extreme, but that’s me. Fear of heights gone for good.
Sam,
please give me the SPECIFIC title of the book that actually removes the fear of public speaking. At this point I’m curious about their approach. I’d love to compare it to the system I finally found that actually worked. I acquired a library of those non-working books in my 45+ years. They were nothing but bogus claims and wasted money. THAT was wasted money.
Going skydiving to remove your fear of heights seems to be at least as expensive in money and time as a $200 DVD?
I find it insulting if you think “just do it” suffices for a valid approach. I’ve been doing that all my life! That’s as fraudulent as anything you accuse Morty of.
As I said, skydiving was a rather extreme way to overcome my altophobia. I couldn’t afford flying school. Heh
Just do it does sound pat, but isn’t that what you eventually did? Think about it, really.
Sean, it should be easy to find good books. Just read the reviews.
Sam,
“Just do it” is not at all what I did. “Just do it” doesn’t work at all, for me. I suspect by your answer that you have not been able to get rid of any beliefs using the “just go to the library” approach. I got rid of 20+ beliefs and 4 fears. I have to admit it took me six months rather than Morty’s advertised 30 minutes (the beliefs kept coming back because I kept finding new events where they originated), but I stuck with it because I sensed on an intuitive level that the method was right. By the end I had memorized the method and have used it sort of like a hobby getting rid of beliefs I recognize when I feel apprehensive about something but don’t understand why. Now, all sorts of aspects of public speaking that used to bother me simply don’t anymore. I am a different person.
I admit it all seems silly and unbelievable and Morty’s marketing makes him sound like PT Barnum, but the stuff works. Even if it is repackaged Buddhism, who cares?
You give the advice that there are books on Amazon that teach these techniques but then you are unable to cite a single one. “It should be easy”? It is easy. There aren’t any. I already bought them, they don’t work. They don’t eliminate the problem: beliefs.
Your criticisms and advice are all unsubstantiated generalities for which you seem to have no first-hand knowledge, except in one case. The only successful method you cite experience with, skydiving, cost as much if not more than the methods you criticize for being too expensive.
What would you say I believe if: I can’t relax while trying to do anything. I feel I must “try hard” to get what I want. If I don’t try hard I won’t.
BUT… Whenever I just relax and don’t try hard or really “try to get what I want at all” I know I learn more and do better and do well… and when I realize it I “try hard” to maintain it and fail.
If I don’t try hard which brings me success, I feel I’m taking a big chance that I won’t succeed because succeeding requires trying hard…
It’s specifically “trying”. I “try”, I struggle, fail and just feel farther and farther away from what I want.
I “give up” or “casually attempt” something and I usually end up having success flow to me…
What the hell!
Please get back to me Morty! Thanks!
Hi Ryan,
It sounds as if you have a couple of beliefs in the way. I’m not sure what they are. We probably could figure out what they are and help you eliminate them in a one-on-one session.
For more information please call us at (415) 506-4472.
Love, Morty
Sam, you obviously have the beliefs of a poor person. You believe it is evil to charge a fair price. You probably believe luxury stores are evil as well. Do you know why people pay more (gladly) to shop at a luxury store?
For several reasons: 1. Exclusivity 2. A great experience 3. Personal attention from the sales people 4. I could go on and on.
The fact is that people WANT to pay more for something if it is truly worth it to them for many reasons. Morty spends his time and money to market (bring attention and awareness to) life changing and life enhancing products that he has created.
Very few people know about books about buddha teaching how to change your life in the way you described. No one is investing money to bring attention to buddha specifically teaching you these things that you described.
Why are you even on this page in the first place? What did you go for? Why did you search for “attracting money”. Your limiting beliefs about money are in stark contrast to what would allow you to prosper.
Morty’s DVD changed my life profoundly — it was worth more to me than my car. His method is in my opinion, one of the greatest discoveries in the history of psychology. The ability to overcome the things that hold you back (that you arent even aware of) to achieve greater happiness in your life is a god send.
Please go hate on Mother Theresa and Jesus and Ghandi and spread your socialist beliefs somewhere else.