#1 Habit For Happiness (The Banana Method)

What can we do to feel 2-10X happier? What are we doing that sabotages our happiness? To understand this fascinating topic we can learn a fun simple method: The Banana Method.

The Banana Method is a way to overcome the #1 reason for unhappiness and start changing our attitude so we can feel happier. Once you 'get' this, your life and relationships will never be the same To be honest, it's taken me many years to deeply accept and realize these things!

Transcript

Lots of love and blessings,

And welcome to this beautiful session where we're going to talk about the number one habit for happiness,

And the banana method,

Which you'll discover what that means as you listen.

We're going to be diving deep into what is this number one habit for happiness,

And what is the number one habit for unhappiness,

Because they are flip sides of each other.

And you're going to learn the practice that you can do that will genuinely,

Truly,

And in a practical way,

Change your life and how you feel.

And this is not something that is a theory,

This is something you can really apply,

And it's very easy,

And you're going to learn this beautiful practice today.

So make sure you listen all the way to the end carefully,

Because all these things are connected,

And then you can try it out for yourself as an experiment and see what happens.

And I can tell you from my own experience that this practice has completely changed my life.

It's taken me out of negativity,

It's taken me away from negative feelings and getting upset and getting stressed out and worrying about things,

All that is cleaned out.

In fact it's impossible to have negative feelings while you're doing these practices.

So would you like to be happier?

Would you like to be more joyful?

Would you like to be more liberated from unnecessary negative feelings?

And if you want to stay stressed out or you want to be unhappy or you want to be miserable,

Then you don't want to listen to this,

Because you're going to learn how to get out of it.

And of course,

You know,

It's a process,

We all have days where things can come up for us.

But when we know these things and we use them,

Everything gets so much better.

So let's jump into the opposite of happiness to begin with,

Because if we already had figured this out,

If we already were doing these things I'm about to share,

Then we wouldn't need to learn it.

So we're doing something else.

What are we doing that sabotages our happiness?

What is causing our unhappiness?

What is causing our stress?

Now normally we would just blame it on the world.

We would say,

Well the reason I'm stressed out and unhappy is because of this,

This and that.

Sometimes we have health problems,

Sometimes we have relationship problems,

Challenges,

Sometimes we have financial challenges,

Sometimes we have living environment challenges.

So there's all these different things.

And we can quite easily blame it all on that.

Or we could say,

Oh it's because of climate change,

It's because of the economy,

It's because of politics,

It's because of whatever it is,

Right?

Because of the polar bears.

There's a huge list of reasons to be unhappy right now.

We could all write a list.

If we were to say,

Okay let's write down everything wrong with the world and let's write down every reason I have to be miserable,

We could easily write a book about it right now.

And then you could give it to someone and they could say,

Well you've missed all these other things and they could write another book and then another person could write another book and we could have a whole library of reasons to be unhappy.

So there's no lack of those things.

The question we have to ask ourselves fundamentally is,

Do I want to be happy or not?

Because it's not,

Do I want to be happy if everything is aligned exactly the way I want it to be.

The question is,

Do I want to feel happier and more content,

More at peace?

That's a very deep question.

So before we go on,

Really tune into this,

Would you love to feel happier and have more good vibrations?

And if you said yes and you're still here,

Then that's a very good sign.

And we're gonna go deeper into this.

So the number one reason for unhappiness is.

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What do you think it is?

You could have a whole list like we said.

The real thing underneath all of these other things,

The deeper reason is,

We are wanting the world to be different than it is.

And we do this unconsciously,

We're not even aware that this has happened.

So we might be going for a walk and we realise it's a bit cold or it's a bit hot,

Or someone is wearing something you don't like,

Or someone doesn't smile at you,

Or you appreciate a nice smile and they didn't give it to you.

Or it could be that you wanted it to be sunny the whole time and then the clouds came.

Or you could be driving a car and someone cuts you off.

Right there's a million reasons,

Right?

And we say,

Why did so and so not get back to me?

I sent them this message,

They still haven't got back to me,

It's upsetting.

Why is it that people do this?

Why is it people do that?

When so and so sorts themself out,

Then I'll be happy.

I'll change when they change.

How could I possibly be happy under these circumstances?

So we've got this list that's going on in the back of our head.

List of grudges,

List of resentments,

List of reasons.

And underneath it is,

I'm not accepting the world the way that it is.

And what happens when we don't accept the world as it is?

When we have a story,

Everyone should be wearing a banana suit.

They're not all wearing a banana suit,

In fact I haven't seen anyone wear a banana suit the whole day.

No one's wearing a banana hat or a banana suit,

I can't see any banana cars,

There's no banana shoes.

I expect all these banana shoes and costumes and there aren't any at all and I'm very very very very upset about it.

How dare them?

Everyone's so rude because they should all be wearing a banana suit.

Can you imagine,

Imagine if literally I was thinking that.

I expect everyone in the world to always have a banana suit,

To be dressed up like a giant banana and have a banana hat on top of their banana suit and have banana shoes and drive a car that looks like a banana.

And they should only say the word banana and nothing else.

And they should only eat bananas,

Right?

So they should only eat bananas,

They should look like a banana and they should only say bananas.

Imagine that was my consciousness.

What would you think about that?

You'd think I've gone bananas,

You'd think there's something horribly wrong with Michael McIntosh.

He always thinks everyone should be wearing banana suits for some reason.

And he's always miserable because no one wears them,

They're out of fashion,

There's no reason to wear one.

And he's constantly upset about it.

It seems completely ridiculous,

Doesn't it?

Seems completely ridiculous.

But is it that different from me expecting that people treat me a certain way and they say certain things to me?

Or the weather is a certain way?

Is it really that different?

If I think back to my life,

I can trace back all of my sorrow,

Especially in relationships,

Is expecting someone to be different.

I remember when I was in England years ago,

I'd just returned from India and I had all these wonderful ideas about all these cool things I wanted to do when I got back.

And what happened is I came home and I realized that my best friend who I lived with was now going out with my ex-girlfriend.

She wasn't really a girlfriend,

But she was someone who I was very dear to and very attached to.

And I felt all alone because he wasn't there for me because he was now into this relationship.

She wasn't there for me either,

Right?

So I kind of lost all my friends all of a sudden,

My main friends.

And I was experiencing jealousy and loneliness and heartbreak and I would literally lie on the floor in terrible,

Terrible agony.

And why was I experiencing such pain and sorrow?

I was experiencing such pain and sorrow because I was not accepting reality.

I was in denial and resistance of what is.

Instead of accepting that that is what is happening and how can I be happy anyway and get on with my life,

I was spinning out,

Trying to change the world.

I tried to sort of have conversations and say how this was upsetting me and I tried to get them back the way it was before.

It was a complete disaster.

Everything I did made it worse.

And it was like expecting the world to be wearing special banana suits with banana hats and banana shoes and banana cars and wanting everyone to be exactly the way I wanted them to be.

But the world wasn't the way I wanted it to be.

It was different.

The world was the way it was and my reaction to that was deep distress because try as I might to change things,

It only got worse.

So I'd like you to just think about this for a moment.

Can you imagine a time in your life where you have resisted reality?

Where you have wanted it to be one way when in fact it was a different way?

I'm sure you could probably write a whole list but we do this every day on some level.

In a small way.

I often open the fridge and stand there looking at the fridge going hmm,

What I want isn't in this fridge.

I'm not sure what I want but it doesn't seem to be in the fridge so I'm on some level resisting reality rather than saying oh I could make this,

I could make this,

I could do this.

I'm thinking hmm,

Something's missing.

But it's not really missing.

I'm just not fully engaged with what is there at that time.

So whether it's looking at the bank account or looking in the fridge or looking at our relationships or even looking at ourselves and saying something wrong about this,

It's not the way I want it to be,

Or looking on the news,

Oh my god,

Look at the latest madness that's happening or the politics or whatever it is,

Right?

Anytime we look at life and we are in resistance to what is,

What we're doing is we are having an expectation that what we expect in our head should be happening in our physical life and what is happening shouldn't be happening.

So this is the number one reason for unhappiness,

Right?

We're talking about the habits for happiness and the habits for unhappiness.

The habit for unhappiness is to have unreasonable expectations that everyone wears a banana suit and drives a banana car and has banana bread and says banana all the time,

Right,

And has banana shoes.

And then when they don't,

We get emotionally disturbed because of that.

That's the habit for unhappiness,

Wanting the world to be different,

Not expecting things to be the way they are,

Expecting them to be different to suit us.

Basically we're saying when the world changes,

Then I'll change.

When the world changes,

Then I'll be alright.

I'll be okay when everything else changes.

When so and so is different,

Then I'll be alright.

When so and so is better,

Then I'll feel better.

When there's no more carbon being used at all anywhere,

Then I'll be fine and until then I'm going to be very upset the whole time.

Whatever it is,

Right,

We have this long list of things and it's just wrecking our life basically.

So this is the number one habit for unhappiness and if we're doing this,

Then we actually can't be happy.

And the question we have to ask ourselves is,

Does all of this unhappiness and resistance and expecting things that aren't reasonable,

Is all of that actually making the world a better place?

I'll read you a quote,

Even if you take one year and do not change yourself but try to transform others,

The time will change but neither you will change nor the other will change.

We could spend ten years trying to force people to change,

Trying to change the world,

Trying to force all these things to happen and nothing's going to happen.

We'll feel more miserable and the world will actually just get worse.

So there's two quotes,

One is when I change the world will change and then the backwards,

The kind of like dark side,

The reverse of that is when the world changes then I'll change.

Which is more empowering,

When I change the world changes or when the world changes then I'll change.

Next time you go online,

Go on Twitter,

Look at stuff and see which slogan people are acting from,

Don't worry about trying to change anyone but it's just a curious thing to observe.

So if you want to be unhappy,

If you want to be miserable and bitter and stressed out and anxious then try and change the world the whole time and don't bother trying to change yourself.

It's a guaranteed opportunity for unhappiness.

So what is the number one habit to be happy?

What's the number one happy habit?

If you want to feel happy in your beautiful heart then you make this flip,

This shift that the whole world is in me,

Is in you.

That you're experiencing your own version of the world.

You're experiencing the own version,

Your own version of the world and that means that you might as well send your love,

Send your blessings,

Send your good wishes to yourself first of all and then to all expressions around you because it's all your projection.

On a physical level we actually genuinely don't see the world as it is,

We interpret the world through our senses,

Through our belief system,

In our consciousness.

So what you're actually experiencing isn't the world itself,

It's an interpretation of the world that is filtered through the five senses and other filters.

In fact most of what is going on in the real world outside,

If there even is such a thing,

Is different.

We've edited it out nearly all of it.

So we're only seeing like this tiny sliver of an interpretation that's been edited inside.

So when we point outside we're actually inside pointing outside.

It's a very deep thing when you really tune into it.

If I'm looking at these trees or these clouds out the window here,

What they are is one thing but my experience of the trees and the clouds is something quite different.

And your experience of the same thing,

If you're sitting right next to me looking out the window here,

You would see something else.

You wouldn't have exactly the same experience of the colours and the temperature and what these things mean to you.

So if we want to be happier all the time then we need to make this beautiful change.

We're invited,

You're invited to make this shift if you want from having unreasonable expectations of the outside world and saying when the world changes then I'll change.

So flipping it around saying I am the author and creator of my own experience and everything is in some way a reflection of myself.

It's my own experience of that which is.

And therefore why not send love and blessings to all of it?

Why not actually be the most inspiring person I know?

Why not be the happiest person I know?

You can be the happiest person you know,

The most inspiring person you know.

And then what kind of world would that be?

Where you are an inspiring beautiful soul,

Which you are.

So we can give our energy outside and get stressed out about everything we don't like which doesn't help the world,

Doesn't help anyone else,

Doesn't help us.

Or we can say what can I do myself?

Where can I bring the power back to me?

How can I shift that focus back home?

And then from that seed of the soul,

From that beautiful place,

I am a shining light,

I am an embodiment of peace,

Sending so much love,

So much light and giving blessings,

Giving blessings,

Giving blessings and receiving blessings.

So what does that mean in a real way?

How can you actually practice this?

So let's say you go outside,

Let's say you go to the store to buy some food.

So you get in the car and you're driving down the road and there are all these other cars and as you're driving you can think,

May everyone be happy,

May all this,

May that person be happy,

May everyone in that car be happy.

You're just wishing them well,

You're saying these are all in some way part of my experience of life,

May everyone be happy,

May everyone have a beautiful day,

May they be wealthy.

Well you're sending love and you're sending good wishes.

So you're driving down the street giving everyone blessings,

May nature be happy,

May nature be cool,

May the planet be healed.

So you're sending that loving light out.

And then you get to the store and you park and you walk in and you look around and you say,

I'm grateful for all these people and I'm grateful for everyone who is involved in making this food available,

May everyone be happy,

May this food be blessed.

And instead of expecting people to be a certain way,

Why is this person eating this,

Why are they doing that,

Instead of any of those things,

We just completely accept that it is what it is and if they haven't got your favourite type of thing,

It's happened to me before where I go to the store for these,

Like sometimes in the summer I go for cherries,

I'm like yay cherry season,

Hooray,

You know,

Go all the way there and there's no cherries,

They're all sold out,

They haven't got any cherries.

It's no big deal,

You just give blessings.

I'm giving these little examples because a lot of life is these little things that we encounter.

Let's say you text somebody and they don't get back to you,

You can either feel bad about it and give them curses or you can accept that it is what it is and give them blessings which will make you feel better.

So giving blessings is easy,

You can give blessings to nature,

To the people,

To the food,

To the animals,

It's very easy to give blessings.

How can you receive blessings from others?

This is the habit for happiness,

The habit for happiness is give blessings and receive blessings.

So how can you receive blessings?

Let's say someone is angry and treats you poorly.

You have good wishes for them and they get really annoyed and they say bad things that you don't like.

How can you receive blessings when they're not giving you blessings?

The answer to that is very deep and basically what it means is that,

Let's say someone's angry with me,

I can take that anger as a reminder that my job is to stay peaceful and give blessings and to go deeper into my peace.

So their anger is a blessing to help me transform myself,

Overcome my own anger and have a higher level of practice in giving blessings.

If I send someone a message and they don't get back to me,

It's an opportunity for me to develop patience and trust.

Their blessing is they didn't get back to me and as a result of that I'm receiving the blessing from them that I'm going to become more patient and trusting in life.

I remember when I had financial problems,

At the time it seemed like that wasn't a blessing,

Oh my god,

How am I going to pay my bills?

I was distressed about it.

But the blessing I received from that is I need to learn how to be more financially stable and more responsible.

So I received the blessing,

I had to receive it,

I didn't even want the blessing really,

But that's what came up.

So this is the shift,

If you want to be happier and more in your original state of consciousness and in a good space,

Then realise that your job is to give blessings to others all the time because when you do that your mind is full of good thoughts and that means you're going to feel great,

You can't have negative feelings and negative thoughts while you're simultaneously giving blessings.

So giving blessings is the easiest way to clear out negativity.

And then how do you receive blessings?

Some people will actually genuinely give you blessings because when you help people they'll send you love and you can receive that.

Other people won't give you love and sometimes they're going to give you something else,

But even that can be received as a blessing.

It's just like having a hard shell and when you crack it open it's got a special fortune,

It's like a fortune cookie,

Right?

Or like a nut,

You have to crack it open to get the goodies from the inside.

So someone might throw you a stone,

But inside the stone is the golden nugget.

Happy people realise there's a golden nugget there,

They find the golden nugget.

I was sick a few weeks ago,

I got sick and I did a session and a video on seven benefits of illness because I wanted to receive the blessing from the illness.

I came up with seven reasons that it was good for me.

Not theoretical,

But I actually came out the other end better off than I was before I got sick.

I don't like being sick,

I don't want to be sick,

But if it does happen then what's the benefit in it for us?

Right,

These are very deep things.

I've got a question here,

Or a comment from Brenda.

I'm not making the world a better place when I'm out of alignment with who I am.

My consciousness or persona is focused on the world or others to change.

It's looking at my creation of myself,

A feeling stuck from survival,

To pay the home and food and how to step into my dharma,

My creative talents in creating the life that is in alignment with who I am as a soul.

The sadness is that I missed the mark of my dharma.

That's exactly right,

That's exactly right.

And then she says,

Giving blessings and gratitude is extremely easy and natural,

However there is an out of balance with blessings,

Compassion,

Understanding and love towards myself.

This is the intense duality I am challenged with.

So this is true,

We have to give blessings to ourselves.

It's really important to put your hand on your heart and say,

May I be happy?

You can say it to yourself,

You can say may you be happy even to yourself.

Just take a moment now to give yourself blessings that may you be happy,

May you be healthy,

May you be wealthy,

May you attain higher levels of consciousness.

Just tune into the difference,

Right?

One is thinking about what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with everyone else and what's wrong with ourselves,

Right?

I'm not good enough,

The world's not good enough,

The money's not good enough,

The government's not good,

It goes on and on.

What does that do to us?

It makes us feel terrible,

Right?

Whereas what happens when you say,

I'm sending love and light to myself,

To the world,

To nature,

It puts us in a shift in consciousness where we actually feel better and what's the other thing that happens?

We can actually do good things then.

The reason activism typically goes horribly wrong,

There's so many activists around and they typically don't get what they want and they typically are miserable people,

I mean I'm not speaking for everyone,

There's always exceptions and everything,

But force,

Force,

Force,

Force,

Force,

The world is wrong,

Everyone's wrong,

These people are all evil,

Right?

It causes a negative feeling in the those doing that sort of thing and it doesn't typically get any better.

Normally it gets worse because it's about self-change,

Self-change leads to the change in the world.

Because what is the world?

The world is made up of individual beings living in the world,

Right?

So how can you change the world if the people who are living in the world,

Doing things to the world,

Are in a negative state,

Doing negative things?

How is that going to work?

It just doesn't make any sense at all.

But the ego likes to think,

Well it's all these other people's fault and it has nothing to do with me at all,

Whereas in fact we are the world.

So it's a ridiculous thing to think when the world changes,

Then somehow everything will be alright,

Because we are the world.

This is extremely deep things to tune into.

So the number one happiness habit,

Happiness habit is,

Realise you are powerful and have the attitude everyone is in your world,

Your version of the world.

Give blessings to yourself,

The soul,

The spirit.

Give blessings to your physical body,

Love and good wishes.

Give blessings to your friends and family.

Give blessings to nature.

Love and light and blessings to all the people you don't actually know personally who are in your life,

All the people who you see driving cars or on the street or on the internet.

There's way more people we have never met in person or have no connection with than the people we know,

There's so many.

It's an almost unfathomable mind blowing number of souls,

Number of human beings on the planet.

It's hard to even grasp billions and billions and billions,

It's hard to even get your head around it.

If you put everyone together on one big field somewhere,

How big would that have to be to fit everyone standing next to each other?

It's almost impossible to imagine that number of people.

You've ever been to a stadium,

Like a baseball stadium or something,

You get a feel of loads and loads of people,

It's quite an intense experience with everyone there.

But if you had a whole world,

It's beyond belief.

So there's all these people you don't know,

You can send them all love and blessings.

And you're coming back into your power,

Coming back into your heart,

Coming back to your higher self,

Your dharma.

So just,

Let's just take a moment now to send blessings,

Send more blessings out that you are giving your blessings and your love to your body.

May all the happy cells,

Imagine you have,

I don't know how many trillion cells,

There's an enormous number of them,

Imagine they all have smiling faces,

They're all smiling little cells with happy faces,

And they're all yay,

Send them blessings and they all say yay,

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you.

So send blessings to the cells in your body and all the organs in the body.

Send blessings to your friends and family,

Good wishes,

And seeing someone in your mind as happy and healthy is a blessing.

So if you can imagine people you know being happy and successful and blissful,

It will light you up.

And then love and blessings to these billions of people and the animals and all the trees and the various elements of nature all need your love and light.

Seeing it is a shining happy place in your heart.

Ahh,

Yeah,

And you can literally do this almost the entire day.

Of course sometimes we have to focus on work and other things,

But when you have a moment you can just give everyone blessings,

Give yourself blessings,

Give everyone blessings,

It cleans the mind,

It cleans the mind out.

When you're in that mode of consciousness,

That shift in consciousness,

There's nothing else there at that time.

Other thoughts can come in afterwards but then you can replace it with blessings.

And then when things happen in life,

Which they will,

We can say how can I receive blessings from this?

Let's say you're trying to get something done online and it's not working out and the thing's breaking and this and that and someone's whatever,

Whatever,

Whatever,

Right?

How can you receive a blessing from that in some way?

Recently for example I noticed one of my teeth hurting a little bit.

Right?

You can say well how can that be good?

Your tooth was hurting,

That's bad.

Well actually it was good because then I have upgraded my toothpaste and stopped having so much coconut water and things like that and now my teeth are better.

So it was a blessing,

It was trying to tell me something,

I'm glad that that happened.

So how can we receive the blessing?

If someone screws you over in some way,

How can you learn from that?

How can you take the blessing from that situation?

It could be literally anything at all.

And then this allows us to be in an energetic state of consciousness from where we can act in a much more positive way.

So quick recap of what we've talked about today.

The number one habit,

The number one habit for happiness is to give love and good wishes continuously no matter what to everyone and yourself.

And receive blessings from everyone.

Be willing to receive.

Whether it's love and blessings or whether it's something else,

You can still take the blessing.

The number one habit for unhappiness is to waste your life trying to force other people in the world to change and say when the world changes then I'll change,

When so and so changes then I'll be different.

Happiness is a very desperate and dark way of living that leads to terrible terrible pain and all sorts of atrocities.

For example in these communist countries,

If you study this,

They have the attitude when we get rid of all the intellectuals,

When we get rid of all the religions and we kill all these people off and put them all in camps then the world will be better.

So they literally killed off tons of people,

Their own people.

Same thing with the Nazis,

When we get rid of all the Jews then we'll be better off.

Look what happened.

Do you see how dark this way of thinking is?

When other people change then we'll all be better off.

Look what the Nazis did,

Look what the communists did.

Everyone killed 100 million people with this idea,

When others change then everything will be better.

Absolutely evil.

So the slogan is when we change,

When I change then the world changes.

And you can see this just for your own amusement,

Go online and see how many people have flipped it around to when the world changes then I'll change.

We're not laughing at anyone,

It's just funny to witness the ego in action and see what devastation it's causing.

We can of course send blessings to everyone and the benefit if I see someone doing that,

The benefit for me,

The blessing is I need to remind myself,

Am I doing that or how can I come back to focusing on when I change the world will change.

So this is a wonderful blessing day in day out,

So many opportunities to make this shift.

So I invite you,

This is your invitation,

Would you like to practice giving blessings the whole day for one day?

Are you willing to give up expecting the world to be different?

Expecting everyone to be wearing a banana suit?

For me it's just an easy way to think about this,

Anytime I'm expecting everything to be different than it is,

I'm basically wanting everyone to wear a banana costume and look like a banana and wear a banana and drive a banana car.

It seems ridiculous to expect everyone to drive a banana car and wear banana shoes and eat banana bread,

But that's actually what we're doing.

So when you think of it that way,

You can ask yourself the question,

Am I expecting everyone to be wearing a banana costume right now?

Probably I am,

So how can I give that up and come back to myself and what I can do,

Come back to the locus of control,

The spiritual seat of the soul.

Such a relief.

So the practice is,

Stop expecting anyone to wear banana suits and instead realise that your job,

Your dharma,

Is to give blessings,

Give blessings and receive blessings and try it out so that you become an embodiment of experience,

So that you actually experience this for yourself and you notice yourself at the end of the day,

Write down how much happier do I feel today because of doing this practice compared to when I don't do it.

Try it out yourself,

Would you like to try it out yourself?

If you'd like to try it out then really try it,

Do it,

Experience it and see for yourself,

See for yourself from your own personal experience what happens.

And you can even draw a picture of a banana,

Someone wearing a banana suit,

Just to remind you.

And are we expecting ourselves to wear banana suits all the time?

If we go on a scale or look in the mirror and expect it to be different,

Is it the same thing we're doing with ourselves?

So can we accept our body,

Can we accept ourselves,

Can we accept the world and then come back to our higher consciousness and give everyone blessings.

So sending you so much love,

Wishing you a beautiful,

Beautiful week,

Enjoy,

Enjoy,

Enjoy and talk to you soon.

Aloha.

Reviews

This was exceptional and a great reminder to accept everything as it is even if I don’t like it, but I find a reason to send blessings and love it for now! I deserve to be happy and so does the world!

Oh my goodness! I really Love this! Your wisdom, your humor, your energy so inspiring! I will treasure this recording and listen often! So very Grateful!!!🙏🏻♥️

Enlightening. Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m in to give it a go. So Love is the answer after all
Namaste 🙏

1/2/25 Happy New Year 🎆 wonderful talk just reminding me what I needed to remember.Acceptance and not having expectations is so important.Liked your humor as well. In these times of string political tension and division,it’s so important to pivot and send blessings . My cells are smiling 🙂 and I send blessings back to you ! Thus reminds me very much of a favorite teacher Wayne Dwyer who said “ when you change the way you look at things ,the things you look at change” 💜 I’m going to practice sending blessings 🙏thanks!

Fantastic, insightful talk and guidance. Really loved this and am excited to incorporate more blessings of self and others into my day. Thank you 😊

Wonderful talk. So the most hilarious synchronicity happened the day I listened to this… it’s Halloween and the first tricker treater was wearing a banana suit. I also happen to have a cat named bananas! So I’m all in. I already embody the concept as much as I can but the clarity here is really a blessing 😊Got started immediately. Going to try this out all day tomorrow on my birthday.

That was very interesting perspective playing with the idea of banana suit !Thank you for sharing this wisdom that if you want to change the world start with yourself . Much love and gratitude 💝💝💝🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️

Felt a bit weird at the beginning, a bit slow and repetitive (banana stuff) but wow than it picked up. Great teachings

If I'm honest when I first heard you I thought you sounded a little strained, like you are giving a lecture. I nearly turned it off.
You are very factual and explain information well. You are bang on.
I spent a lot of years with an abusive father, a couple dependent mother, and then if that wasn't enough I ventured out into the world looking for that exact thing in a partner, 3 partners to be exact.
I've learnt...the hard way!
My point is I spent a lot of my number years being gas lighted, and all the other magical things that go with these types of people.
So confused doesn't quite describe me. Fearful, scared of my own shadow, and doubting everything and everyone.
A few of the things that still remain are the flight or fight, waiting for something or someone, to act or react, sometimes I find myself on the edge of my seat acutely waiting for it... I have to wake myself up. Another is being very indecisive, because everything I said or did was in their eyes very wrong. I also have this acute need, like if I don't then I may have to sit and feel myself and my feelings, to quickly change things. Can be big things, furniture, or furnishings, decor, my hair, my clothes, and with the clothes it's not even change them for that day, it can be sell them, and then buy some new ones.
I know I do this to always have something to do. So I can avoid it.
I've meditated for years. I was deluded that I'd fixed it...
Until I awaken from yet another mission to change something or someone, and never holding a relationship down for very long. I'll drop out before they can either get close or pull the wool over my eyes.
Always practicing, to stay awakened, to stay unstuck. Not easy sometimes.
Your talk has really opened things up. It really has struck a new cord. I thank you.

Was having one of my worst days, grieving the loss of my mom amid a myriad of other struggles but this really helped to shift my perspective. I went from feeling awful to being at peace. You are truly a blessing. Thank you 🙏🏽

Thank you for sharing this. Blessings to you

Wonderful inspiring talk. Thank you, Michael for this beautiful reminder♥️

Fun 🤩 thank you.

Michael is my favorite!

This is profound. Thank you Michael. It’s been exactly what I needed to hear on several occasions. This one, as well as your “divine timing” talk. Thank you very much 🙏

Thanks so much for this recording I totally related to the concept of the banana suit, its something I will try to embrace. Your way of explaining is truly amazing. Thank you.

Blessings

thank you so very much and I’ll be trying to integrate this method more into my life again as I might have understood this method but understanding is always a different thing than applying it, so thanks again for that great reminder 🤍

Wonderful perspective!!! Great reminder of how to enjoy the present moment through acceptance ❤️🥰😍