Module 1: Your Declaration of Independence

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1 Module 1: Your Declaration of Independence Finally break free (forever!) from all the baggage that has kept you safe, stuck, and small. This tool is magic! It works, and it works fast! 1

2 Declaration of Independence Process In the beginning was the word. Words do things. Use language to create, like the Declaration of Independence, who you are as an organizing principle for your life that tells you what to do with no evidence. Create a life committed to fulfilling the loveliest, most inspiring version of you. Begin here. Declare: I am who I say I am. Not my thoughts, feelings, judgments, points of view, experiences, bodily sensations, body, failures, accomplishments, circumstances, or my past. Repeat the following in the mirror 50 times and write them down 50 times (yes, I am serious): I am not my thoughts I have thoughts. I am not my feelings I have feelings. I am not my judgments I have judgments. I am not my points of view I have points of view. I am not my experiences I have experiences. I am not my bodily sensations I have bodily sensations. I am not my body I have a body. I am not my accomplishments I have accomplishments. I am not my failures I have failures. I am not my circumstances I have circumstances. I am not my past I have a past. Now flip it so you can hear and see yourself in an affirmation. I have thoughts I am not my thoughts. I have feelings I am not my feelings. I have judgments I am not my judgments. I have points of view I am not my points of view. I have experiences I am not my experiences. I have bodily sensations I am not my bodily sensations. I have a body I am not my body. I have failures I am not my failures. I have accomplishments I am not my accomplishments. I have circumstances I am not my circumstances. I have a past I am not my past. 2

3 Once you really comprehend and own that you are not your thoughts, feelings, judgments, points of view, experiences, bodily sensations, body, failures, accomplishments, circumstances, or past, and truly embrace that you have those things but are not those things, the natural question becomes: Well, who am I? This is where the power of declaration comes in. You are who you say you are as a matter of declaration. But before you can declare who you are, you have to put in one more precious piece: you have to give you something that is sacred and rare. And that something is a vow. A pledge. A promise. Your word. You give your sacred honor to you to be who you say you are and to act consistent with that saying. So, before you can declare your independence from the tyranny of your thoughts, feelings, the past, etc., you must first deal with you. And that is private. No one but you can say whether you are going to live your life out of what you say or out of how you feel or think or experience. It is a choice, and the choice is the difference between the circumstances telling you what you can or cannot do or you telling yourself what you can or cannot do. And it all starts here. Right now. So you say to yourself, SELF (in the mirror), I declare my independence from the tyranny of: my thoughts my feelings my judgments my points of view my experiences my bodily sensations my body my failures my accomplishments my circumstances my past. No more will my: thoughts feelings judgments points of view experiences bodily sensations 3

4 body failures accomplishments circumstances past dominate me and serve as my addictions to keeping me small, miserable, and ineffective. 4

5 I hereby declare that who I am is who I say I am, and I give my word, my sacred honor, my promise to myself to be who I say I am. Now craft your own Declaration of Independence from the tyranny and the strongholds that have kept you prisoner. Here are the steps: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the survival ties which have connected them with negativity, that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 1. Write out all of the things that have you in bondage thoughts, family, broken heart, betrayals, disappointments, money, deaths, grief, stress, aging, etc. 5

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7 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...That whenever any form of invalidation, negativity, or circumstance becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a New Reality, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety, Fulfillment, and Happiness. 2. Where have you sold out on you? Where are you performing silent acts of violence on yourself? What are you punishing yourself for? 7

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10 ...experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 3. List all the things you have suffered over, are putting up with, dealing with, or tolerating. 10

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12 The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. 4. List all of the injuries, insults, unfulfilled entitlements and blocked commitments you have that still sting you in your family, relationships, at work, and with yourself. Begin with one area and go to the next until you get it all written down. Be specific and don t try to be fair or humble. Tell your truth and let it set you free. 12

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15 Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here...they too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. 5. Write down the people you tried to save, justify, or help, and who then turned a deaf ear. Be very specific about how you tried to do good by them and how they betrayed you. Say it how it is for you. You don t have to be fair here. You are in the process of declaring your independence from all the weight you have been carrying for hours, days, months, years, and decades. Leave it on the page. Tell your truth. 15

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19 We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Use the Declaration of Independence to declare and display your declaration and have your Circle of Trust sign it. Your pledge then becomes their pledge. What did you notice as you freed yourself? NOTES: 19