Dr. John Demartini
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Podcast Appearances
I'm gonna mask this thing called teaching, healing, and philosophy. And I'm gonna do whatever it takes. I'm gonna travel whatever distance. I'm gonna pay whatever price to give my service of love across the planet. I'm not gonna let any human being on the face of the earth stop me.
I'm gonna mask this thing called teaching, healing, and philosophy. And I'm gonna do whatever it takes. I'm gonna travel whatever distance. I'm gonna pay whatever price to give my service of love across the planet. I'm not gonna let any human being on the face of the earth stop me.
I got up, I hugged my mom, I went to my room, I got a dictionary out, a Funk and Wagnalls dictionary, and I started memorizing 30 words a day. And I would read it, write out the word, write out the definition, pronounce it, put it in a sentence, 20 times each for each of the 30 words, 600 of those repetitions. And at the end of two years, I had 20,000 words new in my head.
I got up, I hugged my mom, I went to my room, I got a dictionary out, a Funk and Wagnalls dictionary, and I started memorizing 30 words a day. And I would read it, write out the word, write out the definition, pronounce it, put it in a sentence, 20 times each for each of the 30 words, 600 of those repetitions. And at the end of two years, I had 20,000 words new in my head.
And I was reading dictionaries and reading encyclopedias. And now it's just under the 31,000 books now. And I just never put the books down. And I grew my vocabulary. I learned on how to resolve some of the dyslexia.
And I was reading dictionaries and reading encyclopedias. And now it's just under the 31,000 books now. And I just never put the books down. And I grew my vocabulary. I learned on how to resolve some of the dyslexia.
I learned that if I take people that I really look up to, that I really admire, that I really do extraordinary things, instead of living in their shadow, but to stand on their shoulder by identifying where I already have what I see in them. Instead of thinking, well, I don't have this. I want to someday get it. I would just go, where do I display and demonstrate the traits that I admire in them?
I learned that if I take people that I really look up to, that I really admire, that I really do extraordinary things, instead of living in their shadow, but to stand on their shoulder by identifying where I already have what I see in them. Instead of thinking, well, I don't have this. I want to someday get it. I would just go, where do I display and demonstrate the traits that I admire in them?
And I documented where and when until the quantity and quality matched in my mind. And then instead of living in the shadows, I was able to play in the playing field of opportunity. And I didn't subordinate and try to be somebody I was, and I was able to be me. And all of a sudden, little by little, you could see on the audio recordings that I was doing, the dyslexia was dissolving away.
And I documented where and when until the quantity and quality matched in my mind. And then instead of living in the shadows, I was able to play in the playing field of opportunity. And I didn't subordinate and try to be somebody I was, and I was able to be me. And all of a sudden, little by little, you could see on the audio recordings that I was doing, the dyslexia was dissolving away.
Today, people don't even believe I did have that now hardly. But if I let you listen to some recordings back in my 20s and 30s, you'd go, whoa, that's obvious what's happening here.
Today, people don't even believe I did have that now hardly. But if I let you listen to some recordings back in my 20s and 30s, you'd go, whoa, that's obvious what's happening here.
The very first book I picked up when I was 18, this is right at 18, right at my birthday. I got a book called Chico's Organic Gardening and Natural Living. I saw this at a little health food store, because once I went to that health food store, I went back there. And I saw this at a health food store on this little swivel thing.
The very first book I picked up when I was 18, this is right at 18, right at my birthday. I got a book called Chico's Organic Gardening and Natural Living. I saw this at a little health food store, because once I went to that health food store, I went back there. And I saw this at a health food store on this little swivel thing.
And it was a long-haired hippie guy with this other farmer named Chico. And the guy looked like me. And I thought, if that sucker can write it, I bet I can read it. So I picked up that book and that was the first book I ever went through the entire book page by page. I can't say I read every part of it, but I actually went through the book and looked at pictures and read what I could of it.
And it was a long-haired hippie guy with this other farmer named Chico. And the guy looked like me. And I thought, if that sucker can write it, I bet I can read it. So I picked up that book and that was the first book I ever went through the entire book page by page. I can't say I read every part of it, but I actually went through the book and looked at pictures and read what I could of it.
And that inspired me to eventually get into organic gardening also, which was interesting. But that was the very first book I ever tried to read. I got another book by Adele Davis on nutrition. And I finally put that down. It was too much. But I just started to go to that dictionary and read. And now I've got a pretty good vocabulary and I can speak nonstop.
And that inspired me to eventually get into organic gardening also, which was interesting. But that was the very first book I ever tried to read. I got another book by Adele Davis on nutrition. And I finally put that down. It was too much. But I just started to go to that dictionary and read. And now I've got a pretty good vocabulary and I can speak nonstop.
The very first student I had was a 375-pound Afro-American woman She was this really lovely, inspired lady that asked me to teach her yoga. Okay, because I was studying yoga. When I met Paul Bragg, I figured I'm going to study this thing called yoga. And, you know, I had a yoga instructor. So that was my first student. I was 18 years old. She came up to me and asked me to do it.
The very first student I had was a 375-pound Afro-American woman She was this really lovely, inspired lady that asked me to teach her yoga. Okay, because I was studying yoga. When I met Paul Bragg, I figured I'm going to study this thing called yoga. And, you know, I had a yoga instructor. So that was my first student. I was 18 years old. She came up to me and asked me to do it.