September 2, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Season 3 Episode 3 Terrible things Women do to Each other

  • “If it’s not your story to tell, don’t tell it.
  • As women we are conditioned to believe that if they get theirs, there wont be enough for me. (this is what is taught to oppressed people.
  • Men don’t think like that, if they get theirs they don’t care who else got what.
Four ways women hurt eachother:
  1. Betrayal (we betray each other’s trust and confidence)
  2. Gossip
  3. Lies
  4. Competition with each other.

Why do women Betray each other:

  1. Self hatred. (I see in you what I refuse to see in me)
  2. We don’t honor our relationship.
  3. We seek external validation.
  4. We don’t honor ourselves.
  5. We mimic what we’ve seen.
  6. We hold non realistic demands.
  • Truly successful, powerful people want other people to be empowered and successful because they want you to feel the light they are feeling.
  • Best way to achieve is to help someone else get it first, it takes nothing away from you.
  • Self Hatred- I see in you what I refuse to see in myself.
  • Betrayal is a drive by shooting, because it just knocks you off your feet.
Trust yourself to know who you can and Can NOT trust.

Why women gossip:

  1. To get power
  2. It’s an acceptable practice among women.
  3. We don’t recognize the power of the spoken word.
  4. It diverts attention from our own self.
  • Gossip is when you have malice of intent or mindless third party conversations to someone about someone about something you haven’t said to that someone.
  • If you don’t want anybody to know, then don’t tell nobody.
  • When you gossip you hex yourself.
  • Anybody that will bring gossip to you will also take it back. So stay away from gossip.
  • When you gossip it is self hearing because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If its in your mind and comes out of your mouth it will be created.
  • Men gossip but it’s not malicious. They just want to talk and forget it.
  • Men think in headlines, women think in fine print.
  • If you are doing your own life work, you don’t have  time to worry about anyone else.

Five Reasons Women Lie:

  1. Fear of losing love and respect.
  2. Fear of hurting, upsetting or disappointing.
  3. To cover up issues of self-worth.
  4. When we feel threatened.
  5. To be polite.
  • An insecure man will lie about who he is to make himself look better, an insecure woman will lie to make herself look better then you.
  • Comparison is an act of violence of self.
  • “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” - Joseph Campbell Believe your worthy.
  • People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
  • Begin within, if it shows up in your life, it’s coming to tell you something about you that you’re acting like you don’t know. Something about yourself, or yourself with God.
  • If you continue to live in the past you will miss the present and won’t have a future.
  • Trust yourself enough to know who you can trust.
  • If you are doing your own life work, you don’t have time to worry about anyone else.
  • Life is a class, some teachers you like, some teachers you don’t like.
  • Anything that follows I am, will come looking for you.
  • Everything you have done to me you have already done to you.
  • Not being a victim, just being a good student.
  • Don’t make permanent decisions off of temporary feelings.

August 5, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Season 3 Episode 2 Hard Conversations

  • Hard conversations are defined as the communication you do not want to have it has to be an important relationship.
  • We should think of confrontation as CAREfrontation, I care enough about you to want this relationship healed.
  • Enhance, heal, grow, advance the relationship these are reasons why hard conversations take place.
  • Tough conversations happen when clarity needs to be gained something that is going to enhance or grow the relationship.
  • One of the things about having a hard conversation is that we often assume things about the other person that aren’t true.

Seven Steps to a hard conversation

  1. Acknowledge
  2. Clarify why having it (heal, grow, expand)
  3. Extend an invitation
  4. Set ground rules (ie. No yelling)
  5. Listen
  6. Be willing to be wrong
  7. Agree on your next steps.

Be okay to not get a resolution.

  • We avoid hard conversations because there is an important relationship that needs to grow or enhance, and its hard because we do not know how the message is going to be received.
  • Acknowledging a conversation is needed and why.
  • Speak from YOUR experience, don’t make things up.
  • Don’t try to fight your position when you do that you miss a lot being said in the conversation, listen, hear what the other person is saying.
  • Take ownership - Key word is I 
  • Listen and hear don’t analyse and think.
  • You don’t get a vote in someone else life.
  • Remove the expectations
  • Stress means that you want the situation to be different then it is.
  • We all have perceptual filters, We hear based on our life experiences.
  • Resolution often evades hard conversations.

August 5, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Season 3 Episode 1 Growing Beyond Guilt

  • Guilt can hold us hostage.
  • If we are guilty we betray ourselves, we turn our back on ourselves.
  • Letting go of guilt allows healing to begin.
  • Shame is something wrong with who I am
  • Guilt says there is something wrong with what I have done.
  • Guilt is a wasted emotion, what does it serve, the EGO and keeps you in a state of unworthiness and separation from God.

Three reasons We are guilty:

  1. You Knew Better
  2. You caused harm, hurt, or injury
  3. You caused disappointment to someone
  • Substitute guilt with what is real and act to what is needed to move on.
  • Go for the joy.
  • You have not forgiven yourself, because you have not told the truth and you cannot forgive a lie
  • If guilt moves you to correction then act/ learn/ release. If it moves you to depression then forgive and forget. Its not worth you holding on to.
  • Give yourself permission to be okay.
  • Guilt is ungodly, make conscious choices, replace guilt with taking responsibility, own it.
  • Good or bad everything you do serves you. Consciously or unconsciously.
  • “If you argue against reality, you will suffer.” Byron Katie
  • If the reality is that you are not happy where you are, take responsibility or leave. Don’t stay and be miserable.
  • Take responsibility on how you respond.
  • Own your stuff, Don’t place things on others, turn the spotlight on you.
  • For many people guilt is a hustle and racket, oh I am so guilty, they stay in the story.
  • Oftentimes, what we learn with life class, is that your are not even guilty about what you think you are guilty about.
  • There’s an underbelly, we don’t investigate the root and the cause.
  • You can acknowledge that you caused hurt or harm to someone but that doesn’t mean you feel guilt.
  • Guilt is a wasted emotion.
  • Guilt can hold you down from growth.
  • Don’t look back, you’re not going that way. Look ahead, drop your baggage and move ahead.
  • The ego always requires punishment.
  • The reason you deserve a second chance is because you are here and you have it.
  • You have not forgiven yourself because you have not told the truth and you cannot forgive a lie.
  • Understand the difference between what happened and your / the story.
  • There is an intention in every statement we make.
  • Replace ego with the truth. The truth always has love and God.
  • Replace guilt with responsibility and with conscious choice.
  • Go to a place where you were not nurtured and Heal.
  • Why do we identify so strongly with our cultural stories? We stay addicted to our ancestors stories and stay stuck.
  • Give yourself permission to be okay! Guilt doesn’t serve you.
  • Take responsibility for your truth, make a new truth, and make amends.
  • Whenever you argue against reality, you suffer (you don’t have to be okay with it or like it, you have to accept it)
  • I am human and I make mistakes and I give myself permission to forgive myself.

July 29, 2012
Lifeclass Tonight on OWN!

Lifeclass Tonight on OWN!

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 6 Mastering the Art of Gratitude

  • If you concentrate on what you have, you will always have more.
  • If you go through the day looking for those 5 things, you will notice more what is going right, it will align you!
  • Gratitude helps us see our life as a gift
  • Look for the blessings
  • Gratitude can help heal heartache and pain.
  • Gratitude can change your world, where there is appreciation there will be duplication.
  • Prayer is not your bargaining chip with God, Prayer is to align yourself with  the divine.
  • People are addicted to problems, problems are gifts that make us dig deeper and figure out who we are made for and what we are responsible to give back.
  • Life happens not to me but life happens for me.
  • Change your expectation for appreciation and your world champs instantly.
  • Whatever I feed will grow.
  • Your inner vision makes you special
  • Taking the time to list things you are grateful for increases the gratitude.
  • If you focus on what you don’t have what you don’t have you will never have enough!
  • If the only prayer you say is thank you, that will be enough.
  • If you are thankful for what you have, you will always have more.
  • The past is gone, the future is not here and now is what you have!
  • Gratitude- reconnecting to the divine
  • Be grateful for every life stop.
  • Where there is appreciation, there will be duplication.
  • Gratitude opens the door to abundance consciousness.
  • Prayer is not your bargaining chip with God.
  • Say to yourself: Thank you God for making me just as I am.
  • Growth requires learning from painful experiences by recognizing the role we have played.
  • God loves us through people.
  • Fear is why we don’t take action Anger is why we get stuck.
  • We define ourselves by only one aspect, it’s a mistake you are more than what happens to you.
  • Stop focusing on what you lost and concentrate on what you can give.
  • Transcendence is the ability to move passed labels, limitations or the facts and be the fullness of yourself, beyond all those.
  • When you’re giver, you don’t have to worry about receiving.
  • Life happens not to me but for me.
  • When your heart opens, you will see abundance around you, no matter your circumstances.
  • Change your expectation to appreciation and your world changes instantly.
  • If you argue for your limitations you will have more of them.
  • Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed into the future.
  • Whatever you’re struggling with is a reminder for you to find true purpose in your lifetime.
  • How can you free other unless you free yourself gratitude is a state of being.
  • Be mindful that who you are matters and what you do matters.
  • Tell the truth to yourself about yourself.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 5 Spiritual Solutions

  • If you are living in the space of an open heart, you have a blessed life.
  • You are a spiritual being having a human experience.
  • Live in the now.
  • Death reminds us you are not going to be here forever, we need to use our time on earth wisely.
  • Spirituality is an on going practice.
  • Problems are keeping you living in fear.
  • Spirituality is a journey into self awareness, finding out who you really are, your true self beyond your ego.
  • Control the thoughts that come in and out of your head.
  • We are not prisoners of our thoughts. We can let anything go.
  • Karma- Everything you try to do to me you have already done to yourself.
  • Karma creates memories which creates desire and imagination which then creates karma again, a continuum.
  • You are not your thoughts, you are the one in control
  • STOP - S- Stop T- Take three breaths O- Observe P- Proceed now with kindness and Compassion.
  • Change your thought, think the opposite.
  • Karma means you have to live with the consequences of your past actions.
  • Life is an echo, what you put out in the world comes back. Good or Bad.
  • Now is the moment that never ends.
  • Take ownership of your thoughts and actions.
  • The worst you say about another is a small truth about yourself.
  • You can never feel good about yourself by bringing somebody else down.
  • How am I looking at myself in this moment?
  • We turn our worst experiences into rules of life.
  • Have empathy without being condescending by judging him we judge ourselves.
  • Everybody does the best they can in the stage of awareness they are in.
  • Every sinner has a future, every saint has a past.
  • The highest form of intelligence is to observe yourself, without judging yourself.
  • The best way to prepare for the future is to be present now.
  • Other people’s observations and opinions of you are theirs don’t get that confused with who you are.
  • In God I move and breathe and have my being. ACTS 17:28
  • You can believe the diagnosis but never believe the prognosis.
  • The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both.
  • I use memories, but I will not allow memories to use me.
  • Nobody has power over your thoughts unless you give it to them
  • Will it make me happy, but will it make other people happy as well?
  • What most people call their biography is actually their ego profile.
  • Who am I? The answer shouldn’t involve what you do.
  • Be what you seek. Good luck is a state of grace.
  • Whatever you’re struggling with is a reminder for you to find true purpose in your lifetime.
  • Soul Profile = Meaningful Questions
  • Who am I? (Not what you do)
  • What do I want in this life?
  • What is my purpose?
  • What are my unique skills and talents?
  • What do I expect in a meaningful relationship?
  • In your personal transformation is the future transformation of the world.
  • The only true belief you need to have is in your infinite potential.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 4 The Power of Forgiveness

  • Everything happens just as it needs to be, forgiveness opens your eyes so you can see the opportunities.
  • Resenting another person is like drinking poison and expecting the other person die.
  • 4 Levels of Love:
  1.  Baby Love- give me what I want and I’ll love you, (demand Love)
  2. Horse hook love- do things to get what you want, horse traded level of love.
  3. Real Love- Because its who you are, pure
  4. Pure, Spirit Love- Love even though it hurts you, you don’t stay but you love.
  • Speak the way you want to be spoken to.
  • Forgiveness is not for the other person, it’s for you.
  • Holding on to resentment is like holding your breath- you suffocate
  • Thank him for helping you to create a conscious.
  • The only way you can influence the past is by doing something meaningful present.
  • What other people think of you is not your business.
  • Everything happened in your past in a leverage that propelled you forward, to where you are now.
  • You are not what’s happening to you. You are the spirit through which the happening come and go.
  • Unforgiveness poisons us instead of protecting us.
  • Unforgiveness unchecked becomes a cancer in your soul.
  • Not going to let what you did to me affect me here and now.
  • Sometimes the intention of wanting to forgive people will help you learn how to forgive others.
  • Understand and a just your expectation.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 3 Live Your Life on Purpose

  • Your passion will lead you into your purpose.
  • You face your greatest opposition when your closes to your biggest miracle.
  • I want to fulfill the highest, truest expression of myself as a human being.
  • No one is an accident. Everyone was placed here to fulfill a purpose.
  • You don’t know how much you’ve frown, until trouble comes back for an encore.
  • The importance of getting where your going doesn’t matter how you get there.
  • When all of life responds to that inner wooing, that’s your purpose, passion, and purpose are partners.
  • People will often need you to be something you were not created to be.
  • Don’t stop at where you are as if it were the destination. May be  its the transportation that brings you to your purpose.
  • Even if your in the middle of a disaster, you can use that disaster for direction,
  • Your world may be broader than your situation. Don’t allow your situation to become your world.
  • When you find your purpose you don’t have to chase provision.
  • What you think is actually working for you.
  • When your strategy in life no longer fits the space you are in. You alone define that space.
  • When yo know your purpose in life you don’t need anyone for validation.
  • Be around people who make deposits, not just withdrawals from your destiny.
  • Overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for higher goals. Don’t let them pull you down. Pull them up.
  • You cannot embrace your future if you’re holding on to your history, forgive.
  • Make your feelings obey you rather then you obey your feelings.
  • When you haven’t had the conversation with the right person you’ll take it out on the wrong person, always have your say.
  • People will define you how they met you. Don’t let people put a period where God put a comma.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 2 Live Fearlessly

  • Change the story you are telling yourself.
  • Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
  • You can’t be courageous without being afraid, You feel the fear and do it anyway.
  • Everybody has the fear that we are not enough.
  • The story that dis-empowers you is your enemy, divorce your story.
  • 3 things that effect your outcome: 
  1. Strategies- “a how to”
  2. Right Story
  3. Quality State of Mind
  • Your state changes your biochemistry, your biochemistry changes your story.
  • Meditate, visualize, affirmations, to change your state.
  • When you change your state you have to change your story, otherwise you will end up in the same story.
  • In a new state, there is a window a time to break through. It is then that you have to make a new story or you will fall into old habits.
  • If there is something you are doing yourself, you will only go so far. If other people are on the line, your willing to do more.
  • You are not your difficulties they are a passing moment.
  • Fear from the past don’t  come back unless you live there.
  • If your not facing fears everyday you are getting weaker  rather then stronger.
  • The fastest way to get out of your comfort zone is to be around people who you are uncomfortable with.
  • We kill so many relationships projecting something on to someone else that has happened in our past.
  • You need people that wont affirm you. If people continue to affirm you, you won’t have a breakthrough.
  • The only solution to fear is massive action.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 2 Episode 1 Stop the Pain

  • Feel 
  • Deal
  • Heal
  • P.A.I.N- Pay Attention Inward Now
  • All paint is the same we all just do different things
  • “We’re all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.”
  • How you treat yourself is how you treat God. You are the representation of God in your life.
  • You need to be around people who make deposits and not just withdrawals. These individuals are anomalies.
  • Don’t be addicted to your story.
  • Don’t tell the story tell the experience.
  • Speak the truth- Just the facts.
  • Ask for what you want.
  • Get a Vision.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 1 Episode 25 You’ve always had the power.

  • You’ve always had the power to change your life and make it better.
  • Only you have the power to make the changes you want in life.
  • Your life is a reflection of what you think.
  • It’s never too late to become everything you dream.
  • Start exactly where you are, don’t wait for what you think are the right circumstances.
  • There is a process for success and we must each figure out our particular direction to get there.
  • The only failure in pursuing your dreams is The Failure, to do it, the pursuit of a dream is a success in itself.
  • You deserve the best life possible.
  • Write down goals its a tangible representation of your beliefs.
  • Only you have the power to make the change in your life.
  • Prosper where you’re planted. Be trusted with what you have and you’ll be blessed with much more.
  • If you believe it you can achieve it, anything is possible.
  • The world is ordered for you, not against you.
  • In every cloud there is a rainbow / silver lining.

July 15, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 1 Episode 24 Field Trip

  • For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
  • The energy you are putting out is coming back.
  • Every action we take creates a reaction in our world.
  • The energy you generate creates your life.
  • Love is about truth, if your truth is ” this doesn’t feel right” then you have to speak up about it because that is love.
  • When you do something with good intentions, good will be returned to you.
  • Clarify your intentions before you act.
  • If you are an angry person, then you are going to draw angry people to your life.
  • If you are surrounded by negative people its because a part of you is willing to tolerate it.
  • Who do you want to BE in this world?
  • You can divorce family and friends, “I will not allow you to treat me like this, contact me when you get some sense.”
  • Intention is a soul goal, not a need/ want goal.
  • If this is in the highest and best interest for me and those around me then God please allow it to happen.
  • There is a difference between positive energy and “nice” energy, positive energy is based on truth and the truth isn’t always nice.
  • Problems are opportunities to learn.
  • People are not living in awareness, just live re-actively.
  • When you pray for something for example, courage, life / God gives you the opportunity to be more courageous. Be careful what you ask for. You may get it.
  • Everything you think, act or say comes back to you in your life.
  • Its up to us to teach others how to treat us through the energy we put out.
  • Before you take any action, stop to clarify your intentions. Make sure your intentions are good and good will be returned to you.
  • What words do you want to be said when your Eulogy is read?

July 14, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 1 Episode 23 Slow Down

  • Slow down - be present in your life focus on what is going on now.
  • This very second you become more conscious and change your life.
  • The only time you ever live this life is in this moment.
  • Relax, Relate, Release. Just Breathe Slow Down
  • Appreciate the sacred in the ordinary.
  • We are not our scars.
  • When we are truly present we recognize the ordinary moments are truly life’s gifts.
  • The gift from death is to appreciate life.
  • Let focusing on your mortality be what motivates you to live in the now.
  • If you don’t give yourself time to restore you just run out.

July 14, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 1 Episode 22 Living a Financial Lie

  • If you are living a financial lie you will never realize your full potential.
  • Spending money you don’t have is about filling a void.
  • Your desire to improve creates the energetic path that allows you to do better.
  • Your the CEO of your family.
  • When you say no and know it is the right answer it is a powerful thing.
  • Respect your money, teach your children to respect their money.
  • Help your children make smart money decisions.
  • Lying to your spouse or partner is always a recipe for disaster.

July 14, 2012
Oprah’s Life Class Notes from Season 1 Episode 21 Love doesn’t hurt.

  • Love doesn’t hurt.
  • People who love you don’t treat you badly.
  • Your anger changes your child, their self identity, self worth and value.
  • If you are hyper critical of someone else out of love you need to reexamine what your definition of love is.
  • Abuse is not always physical, don’t allow yourself to be battered emotionally.
  • If  you allow yourself and children to be in harms way it means you have no love for yourself.
  • The damage to your children doesn’t even begin to compare to whatever your mental / physical damage is because you can’t undo it.
  • Witnessing abuse causes tremendous damage to children.
  • Open some heart space to let some love in for yourself.
  • When you fight in front of your children you change them.
  • The real problem is our perception of what love is.
  • Trust is knowing you can handle what they may do. - trust yourself, trust that you will not tolerate xyz.
  • If you learn to trust yourself enough you can cope with whatever others do, and their imperfections.
  • The obsession for / of love can sometimes blind you and can prevent you from seeing things for what they really are.
  • Love is truth, grace and joy.