Hi Friends,

It’s time for another Dear Burt.

I hope you didn’t miss my edi­tion last week, but I had some­thing some­thing spe­cial I wanted to share with you instead. I’m glad to hear that you liked my affir­ma­tion toolkit. I hope you have already started recit­ing them daily. Thanks for again for your pos­i­tive com­ments and feedback.

Today, I wanted to share another one of my mon­tages with you. I call it “Street in Paris.” You may have seen it before but I must say, It’s one of my favorites. I would love to hear what you think.

Also, today I have a spe­cial guest with me…

Some of you have been ask­ing for a while “when can we see your bark­ing dog?”  Well, today is the day.

Meet, Baby.

Ok, now onto the ques­tions for this week. Today, I’m address­ing two very inter­est­ing topics:

1. The power of words
2. How to learn a new lan­guage quickly and easily

As I received some inter­est­ing com­ments last week about my affir­ma­tion video, I wanted to take some time to offer some words of wis­dom because it’s such an impor­tant topic.

Affir­ma­tions are won­der­ful things, but what makes them effec­tive is the ‘power words’ used in them.

You all know that your phys­i­ol­ogy affects your psy­chol­ogy… and vice versa. Affir­ma­tions are pow­er­ful tools to change your phys­i­cal AND men­tal state. If you con­stantly think “weak” in your mind and then shift to think­ing “strong,” you will see a change in your atti­tude and phys­i­ol­ogy  (body lan­guage). This is what affir­ma­tions do. They change your thoughts, which change your phys­i­ol­ogy, which then rein­forces the pos­i­tive thoughts. Try this exper­i­ment at home at let me know how you feel.

Some of you also asked me how to quickly learn a new lan­guage. Today, I will take some time to address how this is done. Here’s a quick hint: it’s all about men­tal vol­ume.

Here are the ques­tions I’m address­ing this week:

Dear Burt,

Thank you Burt! Affir­ma­tions changed my life — even though repeat­ing sim­ple words would seem to not make a dif­fer­ence, they really do!

After lis­ten­ing to myself talk (things my brain would repeat through­out the day), I real­ized how many other peo­ple were actu­ally con­trol­ling my thoughts! Chang­ing those neg­a­tives into pos­i­tives has cre­ated last­ing pos­i­tive change in my life. I’m still liv­ing through the stuff I called into exis­tence before I knew how pow­er­ful thoughts were, but know all this is temporary.

Two of the affir­ma­tions that I use are: I am grate­ful for help­ful peo­ple. I am grate­ful for free stuff. So, you are the result of two years of pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions and proof of the power of thought!

Have a fab­u­lous day,
Marilyn

Dear Burt,

How can I become a fast learner whether it is a new sub­ject mat­ter or a new language?

Thanks,
Ikisha

Dear Burt,

I´m so happy to met you and so glad to be your dis­ci­ple. I find a lot of love in your words, paints, pho­tos, and all that you rep­re­sent. I admire you, and def­i­nitely we need to be more and more enlight­ened in order to make a bet­ter world day by day, and work­ing on our­selves. Recently, I started to apply for a job. I have been passed on a lot of oppor­tu­ni­ties because I want to be hired by this par­tic­u­lar com­pany but, I didn´t pass the eng­lish or math tests. I know I should be bet­ter, but I won­der if there is a faster way to learn lan­guages through my Dop­pel­ganger. I try so hard to have good Eng­lish, but I don´t know what hap­pened to me. I always fail. Maybe it’s my fears, or because I do not believe in me. Same thing hap­pens with Math. This is strange because I am an Indus­trial Engi­neer, but dur­ing the tests I took with dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies, I got ner­vous and have had very bad results. That´s why I can not get the job that I want. What would you advise me to do? Thank you very much Burt. Have a won­der­ful week and I send you a lot of love, light and peace.
Liz

Dear Burt,

I love your work. I have been study­ing and fol­low­ing you for a few years now. This may be a “strange” ques­tion, and I hope you can clarify/guide/enlighten me. About Quan­tum Jump­ing… is it pos­si­ble that you are dif­fer­ent in a par­al­lel uni­verse? I mean look com­pletely dif­fer­ent, and every­thing else is the same/or almost the same — but you some­how know it is still you? What then??Thanks for you help. A friend and I have been debat­ing this for a while now and I would like your opin­ion (I thought about this before I heard about you or Quan­tum Jump­ing).
Greg

Here’s my video response:

I hope you enjoyed this week’s “Dear Burt.” I look for­ward to hear­ing from you!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hi Friends,

It’s time to stare down the third and final enemy of New Year Res­o­lu­tions.

Are you ready to put it down for good? Let’s begin…

This is the third enemy:

3. You don’t have the right tools to get you started

Stay­ing focused on your goals can some­times be chal­leng­ing. There are count­less dis­trac­tions and temp­ta­tions in life, all of which can put you on a detour, and leave you miles away from where you want to be.

Are you try­ing to lose weight?

“Hey that pecan pie in the fridge looks pretty tempting…”

Are you plan­ning to start a new hobby?

“My favorite show’s on tv, I’ll do i tomorrow…”

Are you deter­mined to give up drinking?

“It’s Happy Hour at the bar tonight, maybe I should treat myself one more time…”

*You need a set of tools or tech­niques to keep you focused, dis­ci­plined and determined.*

Some peo­ple use vision boards. Some write down their progress in jour­nals. Some form a pact with friends so they can check up on each other.

One of my favorite tools that I have now made into a daily rit­ual is affir­ma­tions.

Every morn­ing, with­out fail, I recite a list of affir­ma­tions out loud to myself.

It gives me a great start to my day, and it’s a con­stant reminder of the com­mit­ments I have made to myself.

Why don’t you give it a try?

I’ve put together a lit­tle affir­ma­tion toolkit for you. Below you’ll find a video and a PDF that I highly rec­om­mend you start using every day.

Watch the video first:

Now, save and print out this PDF document:

Down­load It Here

Once you’ve printed it out, add your own affir­ma­tions to it–the ones you com­mit­ted to doing yesterday.

Don’t for­get the com­mit­ment you made to yourself!

As long as you stay focused and deter­mined, you’ll be achiev­ing your goals in no time.

Remem­ber to start work­ing on your daily, weekly or monthly goals right away.

I’d love to hear from you. Send me a mes­sage in the com­ments sec­tion below, and tell me how you’re doing with your resolutions.

Remem­ber, just as you are com­mit­ted to your res­o­lu­tions, I’m com­mit­ted to help­ing you achieve them.

Lets take on 2010 together and make it the best year yet!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hi Friends,

After pub­lish­ing yesterday’s blog post, I’ve received quite a num­ber of New Year Res­o­lu­tion com­mit­ments from my dear readers…

Some of you want to lose weight. Some of you want to take your hob­bies to the next level. Some of you want to become bet­ter peo­ple. Some of you want to develop new good habits.

I’ve gone through all of your com­mit­ments, and I know that each and every one of them is 100% pos­si­ble — as long as you believe in your­self as much as I believe in you.

Now before we go even one step fur­ther, let me make this very clear:

I take these com­mit­ments very seri­ously, and I expect you to do no less than take mas­sive action towards your res­o­lu­tions. And since we have both made a com­mit­ment, we’re now in this together.

Remem­ber the 3 Ene­mies of New Year Res­o­lu­tions I talked about yesterday?

We’ve already dealt with the first, which was the commitment.

Today, we’re going to deal with the sec­ond enemy:

2. You don’t know where to start

Know­ing where to start may seem daunt­ing at first. Let me give you an example.

Weight loss is a very pop­u­lar New Year Res­o­lu­tion, so let’s use that as a case study.

Let’s say you want to lose 30 pounds in 2010. You know more or less how to get there — you’re going to have to lose weight, exer­cise more, and change your eat­ing habits.

But the fact is, none of this can hap­pen overnight. You’re not going to lose 30 pounds in a week, a month, or even 2 months. Try­ing to do so wouldn’t just be unre­al­is­tic — it may even be unhealthy!

And what hap­pens if you try to do it any­way? You get demo­ti­vated. You begin to think your goal is unre­al­is­tic. You lose hope, and slowly but surely move back to your com­fort zone.

Instead, you should start by mak­ing small and grad­ual lifestyle changes. The idea here is to move towards your goal in a sus­tain­able man­ner, so you remain moti­vated, and don’t get scared by how big and scary your goal may be.

How do you do this? You break down your one big res­o­lu­tion down into a col­lec­tion of mini res­o­lu­tions that give you small but con­stant reminders that you’re mov­ing towards your goal.

So if you want to lose 30 pounds, you could start in Jan­u­ary by cut­ting out snacks like potato chips, and mak­ing sure you take a brisk walk at least once a week.

Once you’ve spent a month or two get­ting used to this rou­tine, you could sign up at your local gym.

After that, you could com­mit to exer­cis­ing at least 3 times a week. You could buy your­self a bicy­cle and take up long dis­tance bik­ing. Maybe even take up mar­tial arts, or yoga.

…And because you com­mit­ted to a set grad­ual yet con­sis­tent steps, you’ll sud­denly real­ize you’ve lost that 30 pounds with­out ever hav­ing to stress about it!

My key mes­sage to you here is, big changes don’t hap­pen overnight — they hap­pen through small but con­sis­tent steps that add up over time to give you the results you want.

This doesn’t just apply to los­ing weight, it applies to any­thing you want to achieve in life.

Now, let’s apply this con­cept to your resolutions.

Take the res­o­lu­tions you com­mit­ted to yes­ter­day, and break them down into daily, weekly and monthly goals. You can choose your own pace, as long as you’re con­fi­dent that you can reach your goal by Dec 31st 2010.

Next, turn these mini goals into affir­ma­tions. For exam­ple, if you’re com­mit­ting to take a brisk walk at least once a week, write it down like this:

“I will take at least 1 brisk walk a week until Decem­ber 31st 2010″

This makes your big goal seem more man­age­able, doesn’t it?

The good news is, daily, weekly and monthly goals only get eas­ier the longer you stay com­mit­ted to them — which means after a while, you’ll actu­ally be look­ing for­ward to those weekly walks!

Tomor­row, we’re going to con­front the third and final Enemy of New Year Res­o­lu­tions. Stay tuned

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Dear Friends,

How’s this for an eye-opening statistic?

Stud­ies show that a whop­ping  88 per­cent of peo­ple who make New Year Res­o­lu­tions fail to accom­plish them. In fact, most peo­ple already give up on them before Valentine’s Day!

We’re almost at the end of Jan­u­ary, so I must ask you…

How are yours com­ing along?

Have you cut down on or stopped a bad habit like drink­ing, smok­ing or snack­ing?
Have you began to lose those extra pounds?
Have you started learn­ing that new hobby, or build­ing the foun­da­tions for that new business?

I hope you’re doing bet­ter than most peo­ple, because if there’s one thing many of us are good at, it’s mak­ing excuses!

How many times have you heard some­one — or even your­self — say­ing some­thing along the lines of…

“It’s still early in the year, I’ve got plenty time to catch up.“
“It’s too dif­fi­cult. Who am I try­ing to kid?“
“I’m not going to force it. If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.”

Even worse, some of us don’t even bother mak­ing an excuse! We just sweep them under the car­pet and try our best to for­get them.

But really, you’re not just sweep­ing your res­o­lu­tion under the car­pet — you’re also sweep­ing away any hopes of becom­ing a bet­ter per­son.

So why does this hap­pen to so many peo­ple?

Let me tell you the truth — every bro­ken New Year Res­o­lu­tion always boils down to at least one of the fol­low­ing reasons…

I call them ‘The 3 Ene­mies of New Year Resolutions’:

1. You are not 100% com­mit­ted to tak­ing mas­sive action

2. You don’t know where to start

3. You don’t have the right tools to get you started

Now I’m going to let you in on a lit­tle secret…

One of my New Year Res­o­lu­tions was to help you achieve yours

And that’s why over the next cou­ple of days, I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to do to take down these ‘Ene­mies’, and finally start achiev­ing your New Year Resolutions.

(And trust me, it’s a lot eas­ier than you might think!)

We’re going to start with the first step…

I need you to make a com­mit­ment.

In the com­ments sec­tion below, write down your list of New Year Res­o­lu­tions. They can be as big or as lit­tle as you want them to be — as long as you are 100% com­mit­ted to achiev­ing them.

Start your com­ment with the fol­low­ing line:

“Burt, I am 100% com­mit­ted to achiev­ing the fol­low­ing New Year Res­o­lu­tions by Decem­ber 31, 2010″

And then, just con­tinue writ­ing down your res­o­lu­tions in a num­bered list.

Can’t wait to hear from you

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hi Friends,

I sure hope you are doing great this Fri­day. Well, here we are for another edi­tion of “Dear Burt.”

FIrst things first, I would like to share my lat­est piece of work art­work with you. Last week, you saw the unfin­ished ver­sion of this paint­ing. I actu­ally took the pic­ture of this 1000 year-old light house in Greece quite a few years back. I would love to know what you think of the fin­ished piece.

Now, onto other things.

Today, I will talk about the act of “jump­ing” into a par­al­lel uni­verse to meet your Dop­pel­ganger, or twin self. This is some­thing I call Quan­tum Jump­ing (do let me know your expe­ri­ences if you are already one of my Quan­tum Jump­ing stu­dents — I love to hear from you!).

Before going any fur­ther, I would like to remind you of some­thing very important.

The whole pur­pose of jump­ing into another uni­verse to visit your Dop­pel­ganger is to har­ness their pos­i­tive vibra­tion and align their rhythm with your own.

Remem­ber: every­thing in life has a rhythm.

Every thing, every place in the world and every per­son has a dif­fer­ent rhythm. Some peo­ple vibrate at a higher rhythm than oth­ers. For exam­ple, peo­ple who are in a good health, have a par­tic­u­lar rhythm that is far dif­fer­ent from some­one who is ill. Quan­tum Jump­ing gives you the abil­ity to tap into the rhythm of whomever you choose and bring it back with you.

It is an extremely pow­er­ful skill to mas­ter — and any­one can do it.

Here are the ques­tions for this week.

Dear Burt
Thank you for shar­ing the wealth of infor­ma­tion that you have gath­ered over your life­time. This is all very fas­ci­nat­ing to me and does seem a lit­tle “out there” at times, but I am choos­ing to have an open mind and explore your find­ings fur­ther. I just have two ques­tions for you: If Dop­pel­gangers are twins of our­selves in par­al­lel uni­verses, why do you have to imag­ine them through inten­tion? To me that is sim­ply an imag­i­nary ‘friend,’ per­haps another ver­sion of our­selves, giv­ing some sort of direc­tion. Also, if I can visit my Dop­pel­gangers, why haven’t they ever come to con­sult me? I have wis­dom to share.Thanks!!Deborah

Dear Burt
Thank you for all the good things you share with us. I bought your Min­Box and Heal­ing Guide but I can’t visu­al­ize white or bright light. Please give me some  hints how can I get it or asso­ciate with some­thing. I tried ver­bal­iz­ing it, but it doesn’t work. Also if you can clar­ify, when we start med­i­ta­tion and exhale, should we do that through nose or through mouth, or it doesn’t mat­ter, what is the best way? I wish to learn more from you if it’s pos­si­ble in per­son as I think you’re the best so far, since we’ve been enlight­ened with “The Secret”.
Thank you a lot,
Rada

Dear Burt
I am really enjoy­ing the Heal­ing Tri­an­gle course. One ques­tion about ener­giz­ing water for heal­ing. If I don’t have a reg­u­lar glass on hand can I use a plas­tic glass? Also how can I use the glass of water tech­nique if i am work­ing with some­one using dis­tance heal­ing?
Thanks Burt I really enjoy all of your mate­ri­als.
Ron Daack

Dear Burt
I have just com­pleted read­ing April Moon, and I am still bask­ing in the “after­glow.” Thank you seems so inad­e­quate to express my appre­ci­a­tion to you for this most unusual and won­der­ful gift. You are truly a modern-day teacher of the high­est order. Con­tin­u­ing bless­ings to you.
Betty Lams

Dear Burt
I read the whole book of Good Bye April Moon and it was WONDERFUL!!! Now I want to read the other books — you are so gifted and tal­ented. I loved the char­ac­ters and the plot. Thank you for the gift. Much love and hugs. Janice

Dear Burt
Hi Burt, I love the pro­grams I have pur­chased, still not through them all yet.?I remem­ber I used to go and look at dif­fer­ent dimen­sions, rather feel as vision has always been a prob­lem, but some­how just know what is there. This was done purely as vis­it­ing and look­ing around. There is one dimen­sion that is just pure love and is a delight to veg out in. How­ever, some nights I found I was leav­ing through my feet and being taken to dif­fer­ent dimen­sions and one in par­tic­u­lar comes to mind, I was not allowed to come back to my body until I had com­pleted 3 dif­fer­ent heal­ings, one per dimen­sion I was in. The 3rd one was hav­ing to send energy to some­one who had passed away and they were being car­ried out of the house and down the cob­bled street. I sent this energy and the per­son came back to life, and instantly I re-entered my body. I know I have been long winded in this, but I was think­ing, if this can hap­pen, I won­der if one could dimen­sion jump to the healthy self and request the healthy self to align and inte­grate their vibra­tional match to our cur­rent self. Espe­cially as we are one any­way, just a dif­fer­ent dimen­sion. Your thoughts on this would be help­ful. Many Bless­ings to you
Robyn

Dear Burt,
Thanks again Burt. I have a ques­tion. I have been study­ing your mate­r­ial for 3 or 4 years and from another spir­i­tual teach­ers like Abra­ham Veron­ica… all very help­ful. Today I con­sider myself happy, peace­ful in the mid­dle of what soci­ety call prob­lems but why if I am more enlight­ened, more spir­i­tual things around my life it seems crum­bling. Thanks
Connie

Dear Burt
Thank you so much for the copy of your book! The book in its entirety is now acces­si­ble on your site (for those hav­ing prob­lems before). I can’t wait to read it. My ques­tion is this. Once an event has occurred in our lives is it pos­si­ble to reshape or erase that event through an inten­tion exer­cise? For exam­ple, I recently went on a job inter­view and am wait­ing to hear back. There are a few inter­ac­tions I would do over given the chance. Can I reshape them and pos­si­bly affect the deci­sion process through imple­men­ta­tion of a mind exer­cise? Or is this just wish­ful think­ing? Thanks Burt. Much love your way!

Here’s my video response:

I hope you found it helpful.

Don’t for­get to leave your com­ments and ques­tions for next week below.

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hello Friends,

Well, here we are with the 20th edi­tion of “Dear Burt”. Hard to believe it already sec­ond Fri­day of the year. I hope 2010 has found you well and that you have all started your New Year’s res­o­lu­tions.

First of all, thank you dearly for all the nice com­ments your left regard­ing my “Good Bye April Moon” excerpt. I’m so happy to know that most of you read it and loved it! A few of you asked where you could buy the entire book. Well, as I explain in my video below, that site of mine is not com­mer­cial (it’s purely a place where I can share my work with you) so there’s no pos­si­bil­ity for you to order the phys­i­cal book. But, today… I have a sur­prise for you. Watch my video below to find out what it is!

Today, I will be dis­cussing the sub­ject of sleep learn­ing and ener­giz­ing water for heal­ing. That seems to be a really pop­u­lar topic these days.

Before going any fur­ther, I wanted to share some­thing with you. One of the most com­mon prob­lems I hear from peo­ple who have recently started med­i­tat­ing is the ten­dency to fall asleep dur­ing a med­i­ta­tion. Well, for­tu­nately, this is hardly a prob­lem. In fact, when you fall asleep, you spend about 10 min­utes at the Alpha level. When lis­ten­ing to a med­i­ta­tion at the Alpha level, you are actu­ally get 10x more out of the med­i­ta­tion than some­one who is lis­ten­ing to it wide awake. So, the next time you start to drift off dur­ing a med­i­ta­tion, don’t worry. You might be ben­e­fit­ing more from it than you think.

Now, here are the ques­tions I will answer this week:

Dear Burt,

Loved the excerpt of “Good-Bye April Moon.” Would you do bet­ter by telling us how to order a copy from you? I read the excerpt, but didn’t see a way to put a copy in a shop­ping cart. XXX’s & Many Bless­ings!
Cindy

Dear Burt,

Thanks for the New Year’s gift. I imme­di­ately read the Good-Bye April Moon excerpt. Now, please, where can we get the book?
I have been a fan since Super­mind in New Orleans. I appre­ci­ate the classes I took and all the recent prod­ucts I have bought–incredibly help­ful and the weekly videos are such a treat. A most Happy New Year!
Kerry

Dear Burt,

Okay Burt, I give up… I went to your book site. I loved what I read but where do I place my order to buy your books? What are the prices? You are a fab­u­lous piece of work your­self! Hugs to you
Janice

Dear Burt,

I have just accessed your book “Good-Bye April Moon.” Much of what you say would be very use­ful if I could use it when I train peo­ple who care for vul­ner­a­ble adults (those with men­tal infir­mity, learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties, phys­i­cal dis­abil­i­ties etc). This would help them to see that they have power over those they care for, how­ever, benign and to think about this and reflect on and improve their work to empower the peo­ple they work with. What are the copy­right limits/rules on this work? Thank you.
Margaret

Dear Burt,

Always look for­ward to your Fri­day treat! I just pur­chased the Heal­ing Tri­an­gle and I have the same “prob­lem” with it as with some of your other talks. As I sit and lis­ten to head­phones or speak­ers, your sooth­ing voice relaxes me and actu­ally puts me to sleep. I wake at the end of the tape, some­what frus­trated that I missed 10 or so min­utes. Did my sub­con­scious mind still hear the com­plete lec­ture? Your thoughts please. Best wishes for 2010 and it will be bet­ter than before! Thanks.
Jean V.

Dear Burt,

Could you pos­si­ble share with us your tech­nique for clear­ing acne? My son suf­fers ter­ri­bly from it and I am quire sure the causes are not just phys­i­cal as I also used to have the same prob­lem (although his is much more severe). I would very much like to help him.
Milena

Dear Burt,

I do like your ques­tion you gave us to use. How about a sug­ges­tion for rephras­ing it for bet­ter results by say­ing: “how much bet­ter can you do?” Happy new year to YOU Burt … and friends!  CAN YOU DO ANY BETTER?

Dear Burt,

Thanks for the thoughts. I will read the chap­ter to see how it per­tains to me. My ques­tion is sort of weird. I don’t have much luck “visu­al­iz­ing” things. Is there a “work around” for this while I learn, some­how, to visu­al­ize? Is visu­al­iza­tion pos­si­ble?
Tom

Here’s my video response:

I hope you enjoyed this week’s “Dear Burt.” I look for­ward to hear­ing your com­ments and ques­tions for next week!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

Hello Friends,

Well, it’s finally here! 2010 has arrived.

I just can’t believe how fast this past year has gone. I want to take this oppor­tu­nity to thank you all from the bot­tom of my heart for stay­ing with me on my jour­ney. You have all been such loyal friends and I appre­ci­ate all the feed­back and encour­age­ment I have received from you over the past 12 months. I look for­ward to many more great things to come in the next year!

This week’s “Dear Burt” is a bit dif­fer­ent. Since there were no ques­tions last week, I decided to share with you some words of advice and offer a cou­ple of lit­tle gifts as my way of say­ing thanks for being my most loyal followers.

Here’s my video gift to you:

Here’s to a healthy, happy and pros­per­ous 2010!

Sin­cerely,

Burt