Happy Thankgiving friends.

Like I mentioned last week, Eisenhower Medical Center with my daughter's service dog velvet visiting a few lonely shut ins, and the rest of Thanksgiving with the family. Had a wonderful, loving day. I do hope that you did as well.

On Thanksgiving, the family and I wrote down 10 things were grateful for, it was fun and I highly recommend it for you too.

Go ahead, write yourself a list of the things that you're grateful for and appreciate in life. You might even surprise yourself!

This week, I've decided to speak about relationships. These can be any relationship, between family and friends, collegues and business relationships.

Any relationship is primarily based on needs. And you enhance an improve your relationships when yo talk about these needs that you have. A need can be anything from "I ned you to wash the dishes" to "I need you to pay attention to my feelings"

Watch my video here:

I'm hoping to get a lot more of your question and comments next week.

Learn more about relationship and needs from The American Monk Youtube Channel

To Enlightenment,

Burt.

P.S : Please send in any questions you've had lately and I'll try answering them for  your through my unique experiences

Hi friends,

Most of you already know this, I'm 83 now. But what you don't know is that I definitely don't feel like it. In fact I don't even feel 70!

Many of you seem to be interested in knowing "my secret".

Why are you so active? Why is your hair black? What kind of product do you use?

What's your secret Burt? Most people want to know.

Well if you want to know my honest answer, it boils down to attitude, as far as I'm concerned. And attitude comes from your opinion of yourself. When you are able to control your attitude, you have the secret to life

Watch my video on attitude:

I hope you've enjoyed our schmoozing this week

To Enlightenment,
Burt

P.S - Do you think your attitude affects your age? How old (or I should say young) do you feel?

Hi friends,

I have to tell you  this. I made a whole video and even had a tune in there which lasted almost 15 minutes as I understood that was the limit now.

Unfortunately I could not upload that video successfully, I got a pop-up that said 10 minutes is the limit. LOL!

So what you're watching today is my second video. Don't worry, the content is still the same.

Here's my video:

Watch my video and I'll tell you about the 3 words that can repair any broken relationship, why meditation and relaxing is almost the same thing. And remember the spiritual plane I wanted to further discuss in the past week, well let's continue our chat on that topic too.

To Enlightenment,

Burt

P.S: Rosh Hashanah and Eid Mubarak my friends.

P.S.S: Join me on my Facebook fan page, apparently all you have to do is click on the LIKE button below I still have a lot to learn!

Hi Friends,

Sorry for being two days late, I was a little busy with the family.

But better late than never, right? Watch my Independence Day message below...

And look out for a few more nuggets of info on that surprise I was telling you about

All will be revealed tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Independently Yours,

Burt

Hi Friends,

I thought I would devote this Dear Burt edition on a more important subject about using your mind and gaining more control in your life.

I wanted to teach you something you have probably never read or heard of before but it’s a very effective technique to control your emotions.

Speaking of which, in the video below, you will see one of my latest paintings behind me. It is an abstract piece I did a few weeks ago and I designed it to elicit emotions from you. This actually goes in line with the topic I am about to speak of. When you look at the painting, I want you to be honest about what you see. Not everyone sees the same thing and there are no right answers. Most importantly, I want to know what emotions emerge from you when you look at the painting. I’d really like your feedback on this.

Back to my definition of emotion. An emotion is any thought with a like or dislike attached to it. The more you like or dislike something, the more emotional you become.

From the moment we were born, we've been a slave to our emotions. Emotions have always played a big role in our life. They are active and alive 24 hours a day, even in our dreams. Emotions literally tell us what to do with our marriage, family, job, career, self, and how we love others.

However, there are times when we need to rein these feelings in and learn how to control emotions especially if they are not healthy for us.

Are you allowing emotions to control your life? If the answer is yes, then I may have the solution for you.

A while ago, I developed a technique related to the location of emotion and how shifting that location can help us control our emotions better.

Listen to this video and do the exercise that I’m about to teach you.

You can do this while thinking about anything. Once you get used to using this location technique, you can have better control on the emotions in your life. You can start with something simple, like altering your emotion attached to a particular food.

As you know by now, I really value your feedback. Let me know the results you got from this special technique. Please leave your comments.

And depending on how you feel about this technique, I just might do a second one next week so stay tuned!

Sincerely,

Burt

I’m back with my 36th edition of Dear Burt

Things are starting to slow down a bit, which means we’ll be back to sharing a cup of coffee and our weekly friday routines in no time

Hello Friends,

I’m back with my 36th edition of Dear Burt

It’s been far too long since we’ve last seen each other. I have to apologize about the last couple of weeks. As I mentioned, I’ve been very busy working on my new program, the Prosperity Blueprint.

Things are starting to slow down a bit, which means we’ll be back to sharing a cup of coffee and our weekly friday routines in no time

Before I get started, let me give a you a brief introduction. The story I’m going to share with you in this video is one that I’ve been telling others for decades. It’s a metaphor to explain just how powerful the concept of “thinking outside the box” truly is.

Lets take a moment to think about something... How many events or activities have you chosen to do in your life just because you were influenced by someone else? How many times have you been influenced to do something only because friends, parents, or your peers had convinced you it was "the way the world works." That’s exactly what happens in our lives. We repeatedly do the same things in the same way and get stuck in the same old rut. Yet we keep asking ourselves: How can I get out of this box I am stuck in?  How can I live a better and more interesting life?

Albert Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” My friends, the answer lies behind this famous quotation:  “Be different and make a difference.”

If you are stuck in a rut and not happy about your life situation, you have to leave your comfort zone and explore other solutions in the unknown world. The secret to having a fulfilling and interesting life lies in seeing the world differently.

Before I get to the video, here are a few questions that I have decided to answer this week:

Dear Burt

You are so right Burt!?It is shocking to consider that most of us spend so long working and not have much to show for it.?Please enlighten the masses with love and gratitude!

Stella

Dear Burt

Thanks Burt, I have followed your Dear Burt since the start and every one of them make so much sense and are so easy to follow. My problem is keeping up the momentum after the first few days. How can I keep the momentum? ?Thanks again.

Ken

Dear Burt

Your coffee talk I am sure did a lot to set people free. I needed to hear it is the intention, not necessarily the technique. People assume when they don't get the results they want it is because they didn't do the technique...thanks for clearing that up.

Dear Burt

Enjoyed your Dear Burt, Thank you! You are mentioning hypnosis. Can you give us so of the basic hypnosis techniques you have and some of the foundations it is based on?

Take care and see you soon.

Rosie

Dear Burt

I looked at the mind box and it looks a lot like the Silva Supermind program that I attended in Austin, TX. What are the differences and why is this one better?

Susan

Here is my video response:

That's it for today. I'll see you next week for our next edition of Dear Burt Don't forget to leave your comments and questions below.

Hello Friends,

The internet never ceases to amaze me... The ability to connect with you from all over the world, at any given time, is just incredible! Far too easy to take it for granted, that’s for sure.

Let’s start out with what seems to be a routine: one of my paintings. This is “Forest Creek 2”, which I just finished yesterday. I plan to have it up on my website soon but in the meantime I’d love to hear your thoughts here.

Last week, we were talking about tapping and vibration.

Apparently, many of you have been using tapping to heal yourself... I’m thrilled to see that my teachings can be of benefit to some of you in these important areas of your life.

Today, let me move on to another principle; "The Principle of Polarity". This principle embodies the truth that all manifested things have two sides, two aspects or two poles. The principle dictates that all things happen opposite and in fact, a pair of opposites are the same, only differing by a single degree.

While this theory explains a lot of physical manifestations, the same principle operates on the mental plane.

So let’s take one of the most common and radical concepts that we have, LOVE.

Before we can polarize love, we must understand what Love is. Love is, after all, a positive viewpoint. Once we’ve established that Love is a viewpoint, we can then polarize it.

i.e. The unconditional love from a mother for her child would be 100% positive on the scale of polarity; where the mother can see no negatives. While the complete opposite, or the polar opposite, would be hate- where one can see no positives.

There are degrees of love and hate, and there is a middle point where we tend to use terms such as 'Like or Dislike,' which shade into each other so gradually that sometimes we are at a loss to know whether we 'like' or 'dislike' something or someone.

So how all of this can help you in life?

Being aware of the existence of this great principle will enable you to better understand your own mental states, and those of other people. You can see that these states are all just matters of degree.
And to add to that, it’s even possible to change the vibrations of things.

Therefore,  you can raise or lower your vibration at will to change your mental states.

I sincerely hope you got something from this week’s lesson and would love to hear how successful you were with these concepts; love and polarity.

See you next week and please comment below to tell me what it is that you would like me to talk about next week.

Sincerely,

Burt

P.S: Don’t forget to leave your questions for next week!

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Hello Friends,

Here we are with “Dear Burt” number 28!

Let me tell you a little about the painting behind me. It is a forest scene and is kind of my representation of The Daisy Pond. Let me know what you think.

In this video, I will talk about the subject of dealing with change.

Before going any further, I would just share a couple quotes with you:

“If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.”  - anonymous

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” - Alan Cohen

If you want to deal effectively with change, you cannot fear it or let it frustrate you. You cannot attempt to minimize or avoid change. Instead, you have to learn how to deal with change, and use it to your advantage.

In life, we all have our own “security blanket” - something that’s comfortable for us. But, remember, without change, there is no growth and growth is the only evidence of life there is.

So, how can you accept change? Develop the habit of welcoming and working with change instead of resisting to it. Go to a meditative state and view the changes in your life as positive events. See yourself incredibly happy with these changes and trust me, you will get over your fear.

Now, here are the questions I will get to this week:

Dear Burt,

I always look forward to Friday! Your videos are very helpful and I am planning to purchase the Healing Triangle next month when I get paid. I have a question. We hear so much about hormones and additives in the food and there are people who have the destructive habit of drinking soda, if we take a minute to bless what we are eating and have the intention that it feed our body, can that prevent the harm that usually is associated with the chemicals we are ingesting?
- Jane

Dear Burt,

This blog is one of the high points of my week, just about every week! Today you addressed one of the questions I have, yet in my case there seems to be a different kind of twist on it–procrastination. Sometimes, I’ll be so excited about a project that for some reason, I think I need to put the brakes on it. Alas, it then stalls, and momentum is hard to re-establish. As a result, all too often I’m surrounded by too many unfinished projects. How would you deal with this kind of self-sabotage? It seems like a sort of procrastination, but also different.
- Jeanne

Dear Burt,

Thank you so much for your wonderful advice and awesome videos. I love the barn picture! Can you tell me how to get the courage (or how to change my thinking) to move from a safe and secure job that I have had for 20 years (as a teacher) to a better paying and more exciting job (as a school administrator). I am highly qualified for the job and I think I could help a lot more people as an administrator, however, I am afraid to change. I know I could do the job very well and everyone wants me to move up but I just don’t want to make a mistake and regret it later. I feel stuck. The problem is that I am scared to change and leave my comfort zone. Do you have any suggestions on how to get out of the comfort zone? Thanks so much and GOD bless you Burt!!
You are AWESOME!
- Misty

Dear Burt,

You mentioned unconditional love for children — what about conditions for adult relationships? For example I can “love” someone but not want to continue a relationship at the same depth unless they meet a few ‘reasonable’ conditions — such as; no drug use, monogamy, willingness and ability to pay their share of the bills, etc — is that out of line? This subject confuses me as much as forgiveness used to confuse me. What’s your view point?
Your biggest “fan”
- Marilyn

Dear Burt,

Thank you so much for all the wonderful information and techniques you share! I am always comforted and reassured of my wonderful life when I watch your videos and listen to your audios. My dog, the beautiful golden retriever Teddy, had several lumps in his skin which have been examined and removed, tests showed negative to cancer but might be kidney disease of some sort. My question is: What methods/techniques can I implement to Heal him and bring him to his most BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY SELF? What is needed of me and my family to ensure his magnificent health and well being? I would appreciate your advice so much! I am a reiki/yoga practitioner are there any tips where I could utilize these things for his optimal and perfect health?
Thank you Burt! I love you.
- Hannah

Here is my video response:

Please let me know how you liked this edition of “Dear Burt.” I always enjoy hearing your thoughts. Also, make sure to leave questions for next week!

Sincerely,

Burt