Wisdom Learned From Dr
John Demartini
Dr John Demartini created and teaches the Demartini Method. A powerful way to resolve anxiety, trauma, sadness, grief, shame, guilt and any possible emotion that is holding you back from living an inspired, beautiful life.
In 2008 I first heard about Dr Demartini. It was a year after my second reading of The
Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford, a book which made a huge change to my understanding of why people feel bad about themselves and have low self-esteem.
A friend gave me a DVD of Dr John Demartini talking about his tough early life. He was from a loving family however he had learning and physical difficulties and drifted aimlessly once leaving school until he met an old man in a yoga class. This old man, Paul Bragg, guided him and the rest of the class through a meditation and from that night Dr Demartini’s passion for learning and understanding began.
When I looked into his work further I was quite astounded to read and hear that he too had realized the importance of doing shadow-work and had done a similar exercise to me, but a lot more intense.
I know I felt a persistent unease within all my life until I started this internal work on myself. I wanted to discover who I really was, what I am gifted at and what I can let go of worrying about. Would you like to live like that also?
Listen to a great explanation below from Dr John DeMartini of why this kind of work is powerful at improving your your self-esteem.
Whereas I had gone through books, learning materials and reference material to catalogue around 1,000 personality traits, and test myself for any reaction or resistance to owning them, he had apparently gone through the entire dictionary!!! I never thought of doing that!
He says there are about 4,600 traits he got from the dictionary and I assume he worked on each one.
His work was not only from the point of view of feeling better about himself but he also got copies of biographies of successful people and highlighted the traits that they displayed in achieving their greatness.
Dr John Demartini is passionate about all areas of human behaviour and achievement. Part of his study was into quantum physics and the realization that there really is nothing missing from our lives. It is our conscious mind that is unable to see everything and how it all relates and so knowing this he devised The DeMartini Method.
I lent a friend my copy of his book The Heart of Love and she said it made such a change to her life reading it and doing the exercises. I hope it does for you too.
Elsewhere I have talked about personality traits that we do not accept and love about ourselves show up for us as an illusion in other people. We really think they are that way, but in reality that person’s behaviour or personality provide us with a hook that shows us what we need to work on to love and accept about ourselves.
The more personality traits that you accept and love about yourself the more you will leave low self-esteem behind and you can get on with living a meaningful, inspired life. This is one aspect of the many great teachings Dr John Demartini provides.