The Four Agreements - Your Key to Personal Freedom
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Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the 4 agreements, describes this book as your key to personal freedom. In this workshop we will explore the 4 Agreements and reflect on how it works within your lives currently, and what you can be doing going forward to eliminate dark energy and build a more positive view of yourself and others. With these agreements integrated into your daily routine, you could completely transform your life and the lives of others around you.
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The Four Agreements - Your Key to Personal Freedom
- 2. • Introduction to Toltec Wisdom • Exercises • Domestication & the Dream of the Planet • The First Agreement • The Second Agreement • The Third Agreement • The Fourth Agreement • The Toltec Path to Freedom • Questions, Discussion, Thoughts
- 3. • It’s thousands of years old • “Woman & Men of Knowledge.” • A society to conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices • The Naguals (Master’s) were forced to conceal the wisdom. • Misuse of the wisdom for personal gain • Though it remained veiled in secrecy for hundreds of years, ancient prophecies foretold the coming of an age when it would be necessary to return the wisdom to the people. • NOT a religion, but honors all the spiritual masters • It is most accurately described as a way of life
- 4. HowmanyF’sare there inthefollowingsentence?______________ FINISHEDFILESARETHERESULT OFMANY YEARSOFSCIENTIFICSTUDYCOMBINED WITHTHEEXPERIENCEOFSEVERAL YEARS.
- 5. What do you see?
- 6. What do you see?
- 7. What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream! What do you think this means?
- 8. How do you choose the clothes you wear? How do you view others and the clothes they wear? Do you try to compare yourself to actors/models? Do you say negative things about yourself and/or others? Do you judge yourself and others? That is why we need a great deal of COURAGE TO CHALLENGE our own beliefs.
- 9. We form an Image of what Perfection is in order to try to be good enough. What is your image of perfection? If we can see that it is our agreements that rule our own life, and we don’t like the dream of our life, we need to change the agreements! “The definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over again, but expecting a different result.” ~Albert Einstein
- 10. What do you think this agreement means and how can we integrate this into our lives? If we adopt the first agreement, and become impeccable with our word, any emotional poison will eventually be cleaned from our mind and from our communication in our personal relationships. How much LOVE you have for yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your “Word”
- 11. Why do you think this is agreement #2? How do we take things personally? Why? With this agreement you avoid self-judgment, rejection, fear, sadness, jealousy, and guilt therefore bringing you peace and happiness.
- 12. How do we make assumptions in our daily lives? What steps can we take to stop making assumptions? Don’t be afraid to ask clarifying questions!
- 13. Do you work for a paycheck or do you work because you love the job? How does our attitude and outlook change between these two scenarios? This agreement helps you to allow the other three agreements to become deeply engrained habits! Always doing your best, you take action; and you do it because you love it, NOT because you are expecting a reward.
- 14. • When you Do Your Best, you learn to accept yourself, but you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes. • This increases your awareness. • ACTION IS ABOUT LIVING FULLY. • INACTION IS THE WAY WE DENY LIFE; It is sitting in front of the TV everyday for years because your afraid to be alive and to take the RISK of expressing what you ARE. • PRACTICE makes the Master!
- 15. • Breaking Old Agreements: • What is Freedom? • Are we really free? Are you free to be who you really are? • Who stops us from being free? • When you watch a child play, what do you notice about them? How has that changed going into adulthood? In order to break old agreements, you have to know what they are. You need to MASTER AWARENESS. As we grew into adulthood our freedom was lost with the Book of Law, the Big Judge, and the Victim who rule over us. We NEED to be aware that we are NOT FREE, in order to be FREE.
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Editor's Notes
- Disclaimer: This workshop offers you a lot of information and is a lot to take in. Please keep an open mind and ask contextual questions. You all have a journal, take notes and take it in. This workshop gives you a glimpse into a book that has the key’s to your personal freedom, it is what you do with those keys when you leave here. It will be your choices and actions that will allow you to continue or not from here. Challenge yourself to actively listen and see how this can transform your life.
- **PAUSE HERE**, THE PERCEPTION EXERCIES ARE ON THE NEXT SLIDE… MAKE SURE YOU PREPARE BEFORE YOU MOVE AHEAD…
- You have 30 seconds to tell me how many F’s there are in this sentence… Answer: There are 6 F’s in this sentence.
- In black is says “Good” In white is says “Evil”
- In brown it says: “Me” In Blue Sky it says: “You” Okay, after those perception exercises what did you notice about the group and their answers? Why do you suppose we did these exercises? “Every perception a person has is based upon their own personal experiences. People perceive the world differently because no two people have the same experiences. Experience makes us who we are. It shapes our minds and opinions, our likes and dislikes. Therefore, it is difficult to have one ideal definition of certain concepts, such as justice, virtue, and an ideal society. Our experiences color our opinions of people different than ourselves and even our opinion of the dark… By using these perception exercises, we can do our best to understand how others are experiencing the world and we can avoid misinterpreting their behavior.
- Dreaming is the main function of the mind and the mind is dreaming 24 hours a day. Society’s Dream or the Dream of the Planet or STATUS QUO The dream of the planet includes all of society’s rules, it’s beliefs, it’s laws, it’s religion, it’s different cultures and ways to be, it’s governments, schools, social events, and holiday’s. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. As children, we didn’t have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans. As soon as we agree and believe it = Domestication! Through reward and punishment, we seek to please others and in turn start pretending that we are something we are not.
- The belief system is like the “Book of Law” that rules our mind; and therefore is our “Truth” There is something in our mind that judges everybody and everything, including the weather, the dog, the cat – Everything! Every time we do something that goes against the “Book of Law”, the “Judge” says we are guilty, we need to be punished, and we should be ashamed. There is another part of us that receives the judgments, and this part is called the “Victim” The “Victim” carries the blame, the guilt, and the shame. If the “Book of Law” is your truth, anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe. Even if the “Book of Law” is wrong, it still makes you feel safe.
- BUT, this “Image of Perfection” is NOT real, and can never be attained. After a while you start to reject yourself. AND YOU JUDGE OTHERS based on this “Image of Perfection” that you can’t even attain. WE HAVE THE NEED TO BE ACCEPTED AND TO BE LOVED BY OTHERS, BUT WE CANNOT ACCPET OURSELVES. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse.
- Example: HITLER …. His word, based on fear-generated beliefs and agreements, will be remembered for centuries… Why? How? Story: A Girl with a beautiful voice was singing and happy, her Mom who was having a bad day yells at her and say’s she has an ugly voice. The girl never sings again and mom does not realize the spell she cast on her daughter that formed a new agreement of never singing again because her voice is ugly. Group Questions: Which side of the double edged sword does “gossip” belong? Why? Can you think of how you use the word against yourself, and from this moment on do you think you can form a new agreement? Explain… The “Word” is a FORCE! It is the Power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The “Word” is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is the tool of “Magic” BUT, like a double edged sword, your “Word” can create the most beautiful dream, or your “Word” can destroy everything around you. Its Freedom vs. Slavery Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – if you say: “I am stupid.” (if you think it, you say it, and then you will believe it.) Impeccability means: “Without Sin” - a sin is anything you do which goes against yourself or others.
- Group Question: What if a friend/acquaintance of yours calls you “stupid” ? Or “Fat”? What do you do? What emotion immediately comes to you? Personal importance, or Taking things personally is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumptions that everything is about “ME”! NOTHING OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU! Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the “black magicians”. They will dish you their emotional poison, and not taking things personally offers you immunity to that poison. Emotions linked with taking things personally: Fear, Anger, Hate, Jealousy, Sadness Emotions linked with NOT taking things personally: Happiness, Love, Content, Bliss Humans are addicted to suffering at different levels and to different degrees, and we support each other in maintaining these addictions. (Facebook…) You will find that you don’t need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices. You are never responsible for the actions of others, you are only responsible for you!
- Group Question: Say you are walking in the Mall and this person you know Smiles at you as they walk by … What assumptions come to mind from this interaction? Group Question… In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say what we want. We assume everyone see’s life the way we do. We assume everyone thinks the way we think, feels the way we feel, judges the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others; because we think everyone will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do to ourselves. With CLEAR COMMUNICATION, all of your relationships will change, not only with your partner, but with everyone else including yourself.
- Read Story!! (go to paper curriculum) Doing your best will change from moment to moment… Everything around you is alive and changing, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be so good. Regardless of the quality, keep doing your best. Doing your best you will live life intensely, you will be productive, you will be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything. Doing something primarily for it’s reward; in actuality you are putting yourselves through unnecessary suffering, and in the end you will not like yourselves. GROUP QUESTIONs: Raise your hand if you go to work for a payday? Raise your hand if you can’t wait for Friday or the weekend? Raise your hand if you work because you have to, NOT because you want to?
- THE FIRST THREE AGREEMENTS WILL ONLY WORK IF YOU DO YOUR BEST. Don’t expect you will always be impeccable with your word, but you can do your best. Don’t expect you will always not take anything personally, but you can do your best. Don’t expect you will never make another assumption, but you can do your best. Learning from your mistakes means you practice, look honestly at the results, and keep practicing.
- I have a workbook for you that will help you identify and become master’s of your lives. You will need to work through all of this to become AWARE, make necessary changes, and ultimately become FREE… Remember ACTION is the key to your personal freedom!