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What Reality Are You

Choosing To Create?

by Brian K. Wright

I had the honor of interviewing Dr. John Demartini leading up to the new movie How Thoughts Become

Things. Not only did we spent time discussing that, but we talked about a few other things as well, including

overcoming learning disabilities, programing our brains for what we want, choosing to create our destiny

instead of being a victim, and so much more.

Brian: Welcome, Dr. Demartini! Tell in surfi ng at age 17, I nearly died. Dr. John D: I think really when I

us a little bit about your background And that led me to a litt le health was living on the streets, I saw some
for people who aren’t familiar. food store, which led me to a yoga signs of it. But it wasn’t unti l I met
class, which led me to meet Paul Paul Bragg. He said that we have a
Dr. John D: I had learning Bragg, which in one night, one hour, body, mind, and soul. The body must
challenges when I was young. I one man with one message, inspired be directed by the mind, the mind

was told by my first grade teacher me to do what I’m doing today. must be guided by the soul, and the
I would never be able to read or soul being the state of unconditional

write, or amount to anything. He inspired me to think that I could love, is the real authenti c self.
overcome my learning problems and
I had speech problems. I had to go to someday I could become intelligent, He said that what we think about,
a speech pathologist as a child. I had learn how to speak properly, and what we visualize, what we affi rm,

learning difficulties and dyslexia. I learn how to read, and maybe what we feel about, and what
made it through school by asking actually teach. I wanted to be a we take acti ons on from within,
the smartest kids questions to get teacher and I wanted to be smart. becomes the things that become

through. And that worked until my without. That the inner most

parents went from Houston, Texas I had a dream to overcome those dominant thought becomes our
to Richmond, Texas. learning problems and become outermost tangible reality. That was
educated and teach, which was a the ti me when I realized that our
And when they moved to Richmond, slow, steady, gradual process. But thoughts become things. And that’s
I was living in a lower socioeconomic for the last 47 years, I’ve never when I started to realize that my life
area and I didn’t have anybody to ask stopped, and now I get to teach all changed.

questions to. I ended up failing and over the world.
dropping out of school, so I lived as The trajectory of my life changed
a street kid from 13 to about 18. Brian: When did you have the the moment I realized that I had

realization that thoughts actually do the power of my percepti ons, my
That led me to California from Texas, become things? decisions, and my actions. And with

and eventually Hawaii, because I those three things, I could change

was decent at surfing. When I was my reality.
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