[Applause]
if you
thank you Bob you’re going to die
the little tumor they took out of my
chest had spread from somewhere else in
my body and I had less than a year to
live what would you do if you found out
you had a year to live well I learned
something about gratitude I picked up my
camera and I stuttered filming I said
kids I just found out I’ve got a year to
live but I want you to know I’m grateful
for every day of life I have with you
and then I got practical I called the
dentist and canceled my dentist
appointment cuz I thought I’m not going
there anymore
and then my daughter was 14 years old
and she was dad I have to ask you a
question
14 years old I said sweetie what is it
dad do you have life insurance
I said yeah why is there any chance we
could get some money for some clothes I
mean not today but you know so
twenty-eight days later the doctor calls
and says Bob we made a mistake you’re
okay I was grateful and then I got
practical I called the dentist and got
my dentist appointment back and then I
took dolly shopping for clothes because
I didn’t want her to be disappointed
that I didn’t die but would that be a
tough 28 days somebody once said when
you’re in a hard place you might be in
the middle of your next inspirational
story there was a little girl in my
neighborhood 13 years old going through
chemotherapy for a brain tumor when she
heard about me she showed up at my door
with a plate of cookies and this little
girl changed my life when she said call
me anytime day or night I know what
you’re going through and I think I can
help and in that moment in that
connection with a 13 year old she
quieted my mind
is it possible the connection quiets the
mind hey you know that was 2009 over the
next two years boy did things get crazy
and cluttered in fact do you know
someone with a crazy and cluttered mind
do you know somebody with a crazy and
cluttered life so cluttered their
absent-minded they forget where they put
the keys park the car put the do you
know someone like that could it be you
this is my story from crazy and
cluttered to quiet and calm from a busy
brain to a quiet mind to panic
peace to a place where one day one of my
kids said dad we’re adults you’re
different I said what do you mean dad
you’ve been like a mosquito on cocain
our whole lives
you’ve been driven intense hard to be
around like we have to walk on eggs and
now you’re just fun to kind of hang out
with and you just talked to us for an
hour
dad are you on drugs if you are this is
a really good one for you well for 32
years I have traveled all over the world
speaking to over five million people and
you know when you look at that guy on
stage you go you know what it looks like
he’s got a lot of confidence it looks
like he’s a self assured he’s invincible
he’s bulletproof that guy on that stage
me I was hiding behind a mask for 25
years and behind the mask was sadness
insecurity and depression and it got so
bad in 2011 I had an event occur that
year that for whatever reason when I was
on stage I was okay but then I’d walk
off the stage and I’d go back into the
green room and I’d curl up into these
massive panic attacks I didn’t even know
what they were but I knew I had this
giant knot in my stomach I knew it was
really hard to breathe it was like fight
or flight like you’re running from a
bear but there was no bear and it got so
bad after four months of constant panic
that I got to a place where I went I
know why people and their life it’s not
to end their life it’s to end the pain
my medical doctor was really really
concerned with what was going on after
four months of this he says Bob your
body cannot handle this elevated
cortisol it will kill you we’ve got to
figure this out and I said I’ve already
spent $40,000 on psychiatrists
psychologists counselors therapists
books tapes
voodoo doctors and everything in between
I don’t know what else to do and he
introduced me to a gentleman named dr.
Mann off a psychologist a psychiatrist a
psychiatrist and he did something
different than anybody else
he got me connected with my repressed
emotions from my childhood
he got me to feel them when I was a
little boy 11 years old and Here I am
feeding a baby Robin when I was a senior
in high school I played football but
when spring came I snuck baby Robinson
to school and I’d feed him every 20
minutes back in 2011 when I was in
crisis I had 25 baby birds in my
backyard and I paid somebody between 50
to 100 dollars a day to take care of
them when I was out of town a little
obsessive I didn’t know what obsession
was but I found a memory I’m a little
boy I’m five years old and I got this
little baby Robin and I’m trying to
explain to it how it flies look at the
other birds okay and I throw it up and
he dropped and I pick him up and I go
you know your wings they got to go like
this I throw him up and he dropped and
then this rage welled up inside me and I
took the bird and I Tru him at the
ground and I killed him and the five
year old thought stupid bird the 54 year
old who had all that pent up emotion
inside all that shame and guilt and rage
it all started coming out in the form of
a cathartic sobbing that went on for
four hours last year my daughter said
hey Dad have you noticed that you
haven’t raised a baby bird in the last
six years and it occurred to me that we
could heal these compulsions we could
see compulsions if we could see these
obsessions fall away as we healed things
from the past I went through eight
months of this and it was really really
hard but I got over the panic it was
gone and I thought but I have massive
anxiety every single day and it wouldn’t
go away and I thought I’m a motivational
speaker I’m gonna figure this out and I
learned all about positivity and I got
good at positivity and I went from a
negative bias to a positive bias life
got better and I woke up one day gone
I’m the most positive anxious person
every single day
and then I learned about gratitude
gratitude is important and I had a
gratitude journal and I’d list things
that I was grateful for and I was
grateful in all things and by the way I
got really good at it you see a few
years ago three years ago I was down in
Mexico and we got in a car accident my
friend what got lost he we rolled twice
and I thought I had a broken neck and I
had a giant gash in the back of my head
but listen to what I say here we go
hello everyone I’m grateful I just want
you to know that just got my first car
accident we roll twice great fun I
didn’t have it actually have a broken
neck it was a broken clavicle the
seatbelt had saved my life and my phone
is bent a little bit so then I get to
the hospital and Inland Mexico they
don’t speak English
and I find out that the x-ray machine
doesn’t work so they put me on a gurney
and rolled me across the street to the
other hospital why go around the curb
when you can go over it and right here
they noticed that the Sun was in my eyes
so they put a blanket over my face I go
talk to that don’t think I’m dead and
right here I’m losing it I’m laughing
uncontrollably cuz I go guys look
there’s two vultures circling right over
my head this can’t be good was I
positive yes was i grateful yes and I
woke up going I’m the most positive
grateful anxious person every single day
and then I learned about happiness and I
learned there’s things like power of
poses and I learned there’s smiling and
I had a two-hour checklist of things I
would do every morning so I could feel
better and I became the most positive
grateful happy anxious person every
single day and then he learned about
service and affirmations and I became
the most positive grateful happy
service-oriented affirmative meditative
etc etc anxious person every single day
and after four years of this I just go
you know what maybe I just have to live
with this anxiety and then I met a guy
named James headlock and James showed me
something I hadn’t seen before he says
Bob let me explain something you’ve got
all this nervous energy inside let me
guess you thought if I stay busy I’ll
feel better he goes did you know bizzy’s
and addiction people use busy to hide
the pain you know I’ll bet you that
you’re terrified of boredom Archy I go
yeah he goes it didn’t work did it I go
huh
he said I’ll tell you did next you
thought i reaiiy
frame it it’ll feel better ago what do
you mean oh you catch that negative
thought made it positive the ungrateful
to a grateful life got better but it
took a lot of work but those are
band-aids Bob you know how you know
something’s a band-aid it doesn’t last
didn’t work did it
uh-huh I’ll tell you what you did next
I’ll bet you thought if I serve enough
people I’ll feel better in the words of
Michael Neil if you are serving others
to feel better you will burn out if you
haven’t already didn’t work did it
uh-huh so this is what I said so what do
you got coz I used to talk like that all
the time
he goes I’m gonna teach how to get
connected with yourself and with others
and everything will get better great how
do you do that and he smiled and said
let’s start with the power of the pause
have you ever noticed when you’re
driving down the freeway and a car cuts
you off or you feel that uh or you miss
a shot and golf or we all have our own
little triggers that make us go like
that it was what if we could practice
pausing Bob if you will pause you will
see things you haven’t seen before two
years ago I jumped into a cab with a
friend of mine who’s known me for 15
years and I told the guy where we were
going and he hit the gas like we were in
the Daytona 500 and ripped right out of
there and Eileen Ford and I said hey sir
I was in a rollover last year could you
go a little slower he slams on the
brakes he smacks his hand on the
steering wheel he looks at me goes hey
and I saw something I never saw before
in the pause in the silence I went oh
when people are angry they’re in pain Oh
in the silence the answer is going to
come up if we give a time and Eileen
Ford and I said you’re probably right
but my nerves are shot could you go a
little slower anyone oh okay and they
became my best friend all the way to the
hotel when we got out of the cab we
walked inside you know what my friend
said to me who’s known me for 15 years
he goes Bob what’s with you I go what
Bob two years ago you would have ripped
his head off and screamed right back at
him what is going on with you I go is it
possible the connection and then that
silence of the quieter mind oh there are
connection killers did you know that
judgment is a connection teller I
learned that because one of my kids told
me something they had never told me
before
and I said how come you’ve never told me
that before and he said the way you
judged other people for not being
spiritual enough or good enough or rich
enough he goes I didn’t trust to tell
you anything judgments a connection
killer
I found out another connection killers
electronics is electronics of connection
Keller
there are husbands ignoring their wives
wives that get mad because their
husbands are playing video games because
of that addictions I spoke to six
hundred eighth graders and I said hey
how many of you have parents that are
ignoring you because they’re always
looking at their smartphone and almost
all of them raise their hands we have a
whole generation of kids who seem to be
feeling like they’re abandoned in fact
electronics just over stimulates the
brain all the research is showing that
right now go check it out
electronics is a judgment killer oh let
me tell you another judgment killer the
way we listen have you ever noticed to
imagine somebody’s talking to you have
you ever noticed that when somebody’s
talking to you you’re already thinking
about what you’re going to say next and
you can’t wait till they shut up so you
can tell them what you want to tell them
that you’ve got a better judgment that
you’ve got something better to tell them
that you can one-up them if you are
holding something in your head of
thought while they’re talking to you
human connection has been severed what
if we could look into someone’s eyes and
just be there and listen for no other
reason than we were there for another
human being on the planet is it possible
we would see oh the most important
person in the world and that moment is
the one who’s right in front of me is it
possible we would see no one is more
than or less than us that were all made
of the same divinity that we’re all in
this together
is it possible that with that awareness
and connection it will change the world
is it possible connection can quiet the
mind and quiet the world ah and then
there was one more thing I had to get
connected to and that’s reality I was in
the lala land of the future in the lala
land of the past in fact does anybody
ever experience stress anxiety or worry
about the future anyone just two of you
okay that’s a start
how about everyone most taught most of
the time everyone in schools they all
raised their hands and there was a
one young lady at a high school she was
the superstar soccer player and she was
freaking out about her game on Saturday
I go why are you freaking out I am
afraid that we are going to lose I’m
afraid I’m gonna fall down I’m afraid
the coach is gonna yell at me I’m afraid
I said hold on a second you’re freaking
out over a soccer game on Saturday have
you ever gone to the theater you’re
there at the theater and you’re watching
a scary movie and then you remember that
it’s not real these are just actors and
actresses and you feel a little bit
better did you know that your thoughts
can freak you out your thoughts create
your emotions if you don’t believe me
just think about a spider or a snake
crawling across your face right now oh
you just felt that didn’t you there’s no
spiders or snakes you just freaked out
over something that’s not even real so
here’s what I said to the young lady are
you currently playing soccer on Saturday
let me remind you it’s Tuesday we’re
here in your living room she goes what
are you currently playing soccer on
Saturday she goes well no did you fall
down on Saturday well no did the coach
yell at you on Saturday did you lose
well no huh are you freaking out over
something that’s are you playing a movie
in your head you’re the only one who can
see it and it’s freaking you out and
it’s not even real it’s not real would
you all agree with me it’s not real
you’re with me okay so I said play the
movie again it’ll freak you out and
here’s the words that changed my life
James headlock asked me one day Bob what
would you experience right now without
that movie playing in your head that’s
not even real wake up
be right here what would you experience
without that movie that’s not even real
and that little girl said dad I could be
happy she goes it’s not real and I’m
thinking you got it just like that I had
to put post-its all over my house all
over my car for months before I got it I
said listen when you’re feeling that
anxiety in here or maybe some sadness
here and it’s coming from things in the
future or things in the past it’s coming
from a movie and it’s not oh it’s kind
of interesting
after I got connected to my inner
memories and I got connected to others
and connected to myself and I got
connected to reality something really
interesting happened I called one of my
son’s and I said hey I’m run
a lady said for what to pick up that
table because he said oh is that today I
go well maybe today maybe tomorrow and
he said don’t you ever get mad anymore I
think I’m gonna set a goal just to get
you mad doesn’t it matter and I said
it’s not that it doesn’t matter it’s
just that I’m okay either way would you
like to be okay either way not only was
i okay either way something else
interesting happened one day that doctor
who talked to me seven years ago who
said I would die if I didn’t settle down
inside I just had a physical from him at
the end of the physical here’s what he
said do you know how different you are
how calm you are I’m taking you to lunch
I need to know what you know I need to
learn what you’ve learned he said I
spent most of my day with people dealing
with the exploding panic anxiety and
depression that’s all around us I had
gone from panic to peace would you like
to go from panic to peace for yourself
or someone you know not only had I gone
Oh from panic to peace and being okay
either way then something very
fascinating happened I called James
Hadlock who helped me get together with
connection and I said what have you done
to me he said what I said all the
chattering all the talking in my head it
went quiet I used to have to meditate to
get to a quiet mind now it’s just always
quiet what what happened he goes I
showed you how to get connected to
yourself and to others is a possible
connection quiets the mind seven years
ago I was with my psychiatrist and that
crazy and cluttered place and you guys I
didn’t care if I lived a minute longer
he’s sitting across from me and he said
I know you won’t believe me but it’ll
get better one day I said you’re right I
don’t believe you and as my mind quieted
down I walked outside one day and I want
look at all the colors that have come
back on I can hear birds chirping and I
saw heaven here on earth if you’re in
that dark place it will get better one
thank you guys thank you [Applause]
if you
thank you Bob you’re going to die
the little tumor they took out of my
chest had spread from somewhere else in
my body and I had less than a year to
live what would you do if you found out
you had a year to live well I learned
something about gratitude I picked up my
camera and I stuttered filming I said
kids I just found out I’ve got a year to
live but I want you to know I’m grateful
for every day of life I have with you
and then I got practical I called the
dentist and canceled my dentist
appointment cuz I thought I’m not going
there anymore
and then my daughter was 14 years old
and she was dad I have to ask you a
question
14 years old I said sweetie what is it
dad do you have life insurance
I said yeah why is there any chance we
could get some money for some clothes I
mean not today but you know so
twenty-eight days later the doctor calls
and says Bob we made a mistake you’re
okay I was grateful and then I got
practical I called the dentist and got
my dentist appointment back and then I
took dolly shopping for clothes because
I didn’t want her to be disappointed
that I didn’t die but would that be a
tough 28 days somebody once said when
you’re in a hard place you might be in
the middle of your next inspirational
story there was a little girl in my
neighborhood 13 years old going through
chemotherapy for a brain tumor when she
heard about me she showed up at my door
with a plate of cookies and this little
girl changed my life when she said call
me anytime day or night I know what
you’re going through and I think I can
help and in that moment in that
connection with a 13 year old she
quieted my mind
is it possible the connection quiets the
mind hey you know that was 2009 over the
next two years boy did things get crazy
and cluttered in fact do you know
someone with a crazy and cluttered mind
do you know somebody with a crazy and
cluttered life so cluttered their
absent-minded they forget where they put
the keys park the car put the do you
know someone like that could it be you
this is my story from crazy and
cluttered to quiet and calm from a busy
brain to a quiet mind to panic
peace to a place where one day one of my
kids said dad we’re adults you’re
different I said what do you mean dad
you’ve been like a mosquito on cocain
our whole lives
you’ve been driven intense hard to be
around like we have to walk on eggs and
now you’re just fun to kind of hang out
with and you just talked to us for an
hour
dad are you on drugs if you are this is
a really good one for you well for 32
years I have traveled all over the world
speaking to over five million people and
you know when you look at that guy on
stage you go you know what it looks like
he’s got a lot of confidence it looks
like he’s a self assured he’s invincible
he’s bulletproof that guy on that stage
me I was hiding behind a mask for 25
years and behind the mask was sadness
insecurity and depression and it got so
bad in 2011 I had an event occur that
year that for whatever reason when I was
on stage I was okay but then I’d walk
off the stage and I’d go back into the
green room and I’d curl up into these
massive panic attacks I didn’t even know
what they were but I knew I had this
giant knot in my stomach I knew it was
really hard to breathe it was like fight
or flight like you’re running from a
bear but there was no bear and it got so
bad after four months of constant panic
that I got to a place where I went I
know why people and their life it’s not
to end their life it’s to end the pain
my medical doctor was really really
concerned with what was going on after
four months of this he says Bob your
body cannot handle this elevated
cortisol it will kill you we’ve got to
figure this out and I said I’ve already
spent $40,000 on psychiatrists
psychologists counselors therapists
books tapes
voodoo doctors and everything in between
I don’t know what else to do and he
introduced me to a gentleman named dr.
Mann off a psychologist a psychiatrist a
psychiatrist and he did something
different than anybody else
he got me connected with my repressed
emotions from my childhood
he got me to feel them when I was a
little boy 11 years old and Here I am
feeding a baby Robin when I was a senior
in high school I played football but
when spring came I snuck baby Robinson
to school and I’d feed him every 20
minutes back in 2011 when I was in
crisis I had 25 baby birds in my
backyard and I paid somebody between 50
to 100 dollars a day to take care of
them when I was out of town a little
obsessive I didn’t know what obsession
was but I found a memory I’m a little
boy I’m five years old and I got this
little baby Robin and I’m trying to
explain to it how it flies look at the
other birds okay and I throw it up and
he dropped and I pick him up and I go
you know your wings they got to go like
this I throw him up and he dropped and
then this rage welled up inside me and I
took the bird and I Tru him at the
ground and I killed him and the five
year old thought stupid bird the 54 year
old who had all that pent up emotion
inside all that shame and guilt and rage
it all started coming out in the form of
a cathartic sobbing that went on for
four hours last year my daughter said
hey Dad have you noticed that you
haven’t raised a baby bird in the last
six years and it occurred to me that we
could heal these compulsions we could
see compulsions if we could see these
obsessions fall away as we healed things
from the past I went through eight
months of this and it was really really
hard but I got over the panic it was
gone and I thought but I have massive
anxiety every single day and it wouldn’t
go away and I thought I’m a motivational
speaker I’m gonna figure this out and I
learned all about positivity and I got
good at positivity and I went from a
negative bias to a positive bias life
got better and I woke up one day gone
I’m the most positive anxious person
every single day
and then I learned about gratitude
gratitude is important and I had a
gratitude journal and I’d list things
that I was grateful for and I was
grateful in all things and by the way I
got really good at it you see a few
years ago three years ago I was down in
Mexico and we got in a car accident my
friend what got lost he we rolled twice
and I thought I had a broken neck and I
had a giant gash in the back of my head
but listen to what I say here we go
hello everyone I’m grateful I just want
you to know that just got my first car
accident we roll twice great fun I
didn’t have it actually have a broken
neck it was a broken clavicle the
seatbelt had saved my life and my phone
is bent a little bit so then I get to
the hospital and Inland Mexico they
don’t speak English
and I find out that the x-ray machine
doesn’t work so they put me on a gurney
and rolled me across the street to the
other hospital why go around the curb
when you can go over it and right here
they noticed that the Sun was in my eyes
so they put a blanket over my face I go
talk to that don’t think I’m dead and
right here I’m losing it I’m laughing
uncontrollably cuz I go guys look
there’s two vultures circling right over
my head this can’t be good was I
positive yes was i grateful yes and I
woke up going I’m the most positive
grateful anxious person every single day
and then I learned about happiness and I
learned there’s things like power of
poses and I learned there’s smiling and
I had a two-hour checklist of things I
would do every morning so I could feel
better and I became the most positive
grateful happy anxious person every
single day and then he learned about
service and affirmations and I became
the most positive grateful happy
service-oriented affirmative meditative
etc etc anxious person every single day
and after four years of this I just go
you know what maybe I just have to live
with this anxiety and then I met a guy
named James headlock and James showed me
something I hadn’t seen before he says
Bob let me explain something you’ve got
all this nervous energy inside let me
guess you thought if I stay busy I’ll
feel better he goes did you know bizzy’s
and addiction people use busy to hide
the pain you know I’ll bet you that
you’re terrified of boredom Archy I go
yeah he goes it didn’t work did it I go
huh
he said I’ll tell you did next you
thought i reaiiy
frame it it’ll feel better ago what do
you mean oh you catch that negative
thought made it positive the ungrateful
to a grateful life got better but it
took a lot of work but those are
band-aids Bob you know how you know
something’s a band-aid it doesn’t last
didn’t work did it
uh-huh I’ll tell you what you did next
I’ll bet you thought if I serve enough
people I’ll feel better in the words of
Michael Neil if you are serving others
to feel better you will burn out if you
haven’t already didn’t work did it
uh-huh so this is what I said so what do
you got coz I used to talk like that all
the time
he goes I’m gonna teach how to get
connected with yourself and with others
and everything will get better great how
do you do that and he smiled and said
let’s start with the power of the pause
have you ever noticed when you’re
driving down the freeway and a car cuts
you off or you feel that uh or you miss
a shot and golf or we all have our own
little triggers that make us go like
that it was what if we could practice
pausing Bob if you will pause you will
see things you haven’t seen before two
years ago I jumped into a cab with a
friend of mine who’s known me for 15
years and I told the guy where we were
going and he hit the gas like we were in
the Daytona 500 and ripped right out of
there and Eileen Ford and I said hey sir
I was in a rollover last year could you
go a little slower he slams on the
brakes he smacks his hand on the
steering wheel he looks at me goes hey
and I saw something I never saw before
in the pause in the silence I went oh
when people are angry they’re in pain Oh
in the silence the answer is going to
come up if we give a time and Eileen
Ford and I said you’re probably right
but my nerves are shot could you go a
little slower anyone oh okay and they
became my best friend all the way to the
hotel when we got out of the cab we
walked inside you know what my friend
said to me who’s known me for 15 years
he goes Bob what’s with you I go what
Bob two years ago you would have ripped
his head off and screamed right back at
him what is going on with you I go is it
possible the connection and then that
silence of the quieter mind oh there are
connection killers did you know that
judgment is a connection teller I
learned that because one of my kids told
me something they had never told me
before
and I said how come you’ve never told me
that before and he said the way you
judged other people for not being
spiritual enough or good enough or rich
enough he goes I didn’t trust to tell
you anything judgments a connection
killer
I found out another connection killers
electronics is electronics of connection
Keller
there are husbands ignoring their wives
wives that get mad because their
husbands are playing video games because
of that addictions I spoke to six
hundred eighth graders and I said hey
how many of you have parents that are
ignoring you because they’re always
looking at their smartphone and almost
all of them raise their hands we have a
whole generation of kids who seem to be
feeling like they’re abandoned in fact
electronics just over stimulates the
brain all the research is showing that
right now go check it out
electronics is a judgment killer oh let
me tell you another judgment killer the
way we listen have you ever noticed to
imagine somebody’s talking to you have
you ever noticed that when somebody’s
talking to you you’re already thinking
about what you’re going to say next and
you can’t wait till they shut up so you
can tell them what you want to tell them
that you’ve got a better judgment that
you’ve got something better to tell them
that you can one-up them if you are
holding something in your head of
thought while they’re talking to you
human connection has been severed what
if we could look into someone’s eyes and
just be there and listen for no other
reason than we were there for another
human being on the planet is it possible
we would see oh the most important
person in the world and that moment is
the one who’s right in front of me is it
possible we would see no one is more
than or less than us that were all made
of the same divinity that we’re all in
this together
is it possible that with that awareness
and connection it will change the world
is it possible connection can quiet the
mind and quiet the world ah and then
there was one more thing I had to get
connected to and that’s reality I was in
the lala land of the future in the lala
land of the past in fact does anybody
ever experience stress anxiety or worry
about the future anyone just two of you
okay that’s a start
how about everyone most taught most of
the time everyone in schools they all
raised their hands and there was a
one young lady at a high school she was
the superstar soccer player and she was
freaking out about her game on Saturday
I go why are you freaking out I am
afraid that we are going to lose I’m
afraid I’m gonna fall down I’m afraid
the coach is gonna yell at me I’m afraid
I said hold on a second you’re freaking
out over a soccer game on Saturday have
you ever gone to the theater you’re
there at the theater and you’re watching
a scary movie and then you remember that
it’s not real these are just actors and
actresses and you feel a little bit
better did you know that your thoughts
can freak you out your thoughts create
your emotions if you don’t believe me
just think about a spider or a snake
crawling across your face right now oh
you just felt that didn’t you there’s no
spiders or snakes you just freaked out
over something that’s not even real so
here’s what I said to the young lady are
you currently playing soccer on Saturday
let me remind you it’s Tuesday we’re
here in your living room she goes what
are you currently playing soccer on
Saturday she goes well no did you fall
down on Saturday well no did the coach
yell at you on Saturday did you lose
well no huh are you freaking out over
something that’s are you playing a movie
in your head you’re the only one who can
see it and it’s freaking you out and
it’s not even real it’s not real would
you all agree with me it’s not real
you’re with me okay so I said play the
movie again it’ll freak you out and
here’s the words that changed my life
James headlock asked me one day Bob what
would you experience right now without
that movie playing in your head that’s
not even real wake up
be right here what would you experience
without that movie that’s not even real
and that little girl said dad I could be
happy she goes it’s not real and I’m
thinking you got it just like that I had
to put post-its all over my house all
over my car for months before I got it I
said listen when you’re feeling that
anxiety in here or maybe some sadness
here and it’s coming from things in the
future or things in the past it’s coming
from a movie and it’s not oh it’s kind
of interesting
after I got connected to my inner
memories and I got connected to others
and connected to myself and I got
connected to reality something really
interesting happened I called one of my
son’s and I said hey I’m run
a lady said for what to pick up that
table because he said oh is that today I
go well maybe today maybe tomorrow and
he said don’t you ever get mad anymore I
think I’m gonna set a goal just to get
you mad doesn’t it matter and I said
it’s not that it doesn’t matter it’s
just that I’m okay either way would you
like to be okay either way not only was
i okay either way something else
interesting happened one day that doctor
who talked to me seven years ago who
said I would die if I didn’t settle down
inside I just had a physical from him at
the end of the physical here’s what he
said do you know how different you are
how calm you are I’m taking you to lunch
I need to know what you know I need to
learn what you’ve learned he said I
spent most of my day with people dealing
with the exploding panic anxiety and
depression that’s all around us I had
gone from panic to peace would you like
to go from panic to peace for yourself
or someone you know not only had I gone
Oh from panic to peace and being okay
either way then something very
fascinating happened I called James
Hadlock who helped me get together with
connection and I said what have you done
to me he said what I said all the
chattering all the talking in my head it
went quiet I used to have to meditate to
get to a quiet mind now it’s just always
quiet what what happened he goes I
showed you how to get connected to
yourself and to others is a possible
connection quiets the mind seven years
ago I was with my psychiatrist and that
crazy and cluttered place and you guys I
didn’t care if I lived a minute longer
he’s sitting across from me and he said
I know you won’t believe me but it’ll
get better one day I said you’re right I
don’t believe you and as my mind quieted
down I walked outside one day and I want
look at all the colors that have come
back on I can hear birds chirping and I
saw heaven here on earth if you’re in
that dark place it will get better one
thank you guys thank you [Applause]
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