Sunstone Presentation

Carl Hammerschlag is a Harvard-trained Medical Doctor
Daughter – life sucks

Tale of Two Cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Spirituality: Why should you care about spirituality?
The end is closer than the beginning!
Sucker, not the suckee!
Not about death or life after death – it’s about getting more out of life
Personal life – enjoying relationship and family more
Professional life – enjoying and being more successful

Good News and Bad News
Bummer is – everyone has to die
The good news is – everyone has to die

Music – between birth and death
Your music is your LIFE

When life seems to suck – we feel miserable, angry, frustrated, blame others, etc
When bad things happen – I’m not saying to forget it, ignore it,
Change it – GIGO – what you put in is what you get out
What you practice becomes real
What you read, listen to, talk about

Life Should not Be a Repeat Performance
Habitual actions:
Doing the same thing – over and over
Change is more than knowledge – it is action
Diet
Exercise
Complaints – political, price of drugs, criminals,

The Creator and the Creation:
Is there a God?
Omnipotent – all-powerful
Omniscient – all-knowing
Omnipresent – everywhere, at all times – inside all of us
You are not in charge of everything, only yourself

Is the universe predestined? i.e. is time just another dimension (illusion)
We are all a part of God – we create our scenarios
Though thoughts, actions, habits, beliefs (including fears)
Most bad things are habitually created and justified

How do we know what God is like – kingdom is within
As part of God – observe how you react to situations
God (all) create the scenario, you get to choose your reaction (like kids)
You choose and are responsible for your reactions

What is death?
The body ends, the thinking stops, but we are a part of God
Something remains – our essence
Then what – review, learning (hopefully), next!
No time, no space, no logic, nothing (beyond understanding)
What you experience is based on your life – heaven or hell

What is life? or so what?
A series of events… One damn thing after another…
Just stuff happening
Opportunity to learn and share
You create your own experiences
No one owes you anything
Even the Constitution did not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of…
But God did… you are made of God stuff – love, joy, and peace of mind.

Guilt:
Do right things – nothing that makes you guilty (conscience is God-ness talking)
Universe maintains balance – guilt is always punished
Legally – ignorance of the law is no excuse
Learn not to do wrong things that make you guilty

Erase guilt – forgive others
Forgive as many times as possible
Everyone doing their best – although it does not seem so
Can’t forgive them, you can’t forgive yourself

Creating Change
Motivation – pain or pleasure
To stop – increase pain
To attract – increase pleasure

Creating your music:
How to live – sharing love, joy, and peace of mind
Give love – it returns multiplied
Not open season to bed-hop
Send love to people – understand (p/o God), compassion, and love
Give joy – it brings light into the lives of others, bring it to you
Fun to be with or a grouch
Do you praise and compliment, or bitch and complain
Understand the mechanism of silence
Peace of mind can be considered boring
Doing is a habit – busy to be busy, no peace of mind
Silencing the mind is a life amplifier
Thinking is a life supporter or drainer – does not amplify
It begins the healing process
You have a lifetime to be right, think right, do right
Doing your best – when find better, do that
With silence comes peace of mind

Mind, Thoughts, Chakras, Energy, and Power
Mind and the opening of the energy centers
Creating and sending energy

   Copyright © 2004 by Gary K. Yamamoto.

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