In “The Four Agreements,” don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

This video from The Four Agreements Online Course is an invitation to live a better life — a life where you experience more happiness and less suffering — a life without conflict, without guilt, without shame — a life where you are free to express the real you without fear of being judged by others — a life where you love and accept yourself just the way you are. If there’s something in your life that’s making you unhappy, if you’re not living the life you want to live, you have all the power you need to change it. You can become whatever you dream of becoming; you can create whatever you dream of creating. The objective of this first lesson is to become aware that your true nature is unlimited, powerful, and free. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “Your true nature is a field of intelligence, and it’s inseparable from the field of intelligence that creates the entire cosmos. At the deepest level of our being, there is no difference between a human and a dog, or a human and a flea, or a fly, or a flower.” “What you really are is a force – and it’s the same force that creates the stars and manifests itself in infinite ways throughout the universe.” “The real you is unique, and it’s beyond everything that you know. What you believe about yourself is just a story. It’s not real, and it’s not important unless you want to create a better story for yourself.” QUESTIONS for you: Are you living your life the way you really want to live it? Are you feeling powerless, stuck, or undeserving of the life you want to live? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

In this video from The Four Agreements Online Course, the objective is to become aware that most emotional suffering is completely avoidable. The second lesson makes a distinction between unavoidable suffering and avoidable or “needless” suffering. Then you are introduced to four simple agreements that have the power to eliminate needless suffering from your life. If you can begin to live by these agreements, the transformation in your life will be amazing. 1) Be impeccable with your word 2) Don’t take anything personally 3) Don’t make assumptions 4) Always do your best The objective of this lesson is to become aware that most emotional suffering is completely avoidable, and The Four Agreements help you to avoid it! QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “The Four Agreements are most accurately described as a way of life or code of conduct, and they’re universal in their appeal. They speak to the heart of all human beings, from the young to the old. They speak to people of different cultures all around the world, people whose religious and philosophical beliefs are vastly different. The principles speak to everyone because they are pure common sense.” “If you look at your life, you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.” “If you practice The Four Agreements, you will master The Four Agreements. Eventually, after many repetitions, these agreements will become a habit, and you will see how your life is transformed.” QUESTIONS for you: Do you suffer from conflict with other people or conflict within yourself (negative inner chatter that leads to worry, anxiety, anger, guilt, regret, or shame)? Do you judge yourself for not being what you “should” be – for not being smart enough or talented enough, pretty or handsome enough, thin or fit enough, successful or rich enough? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

In this video from The Four Agreements Online Course, the objective is to become aware that human domestication is the beginning of needless suffering. Why? Because much of what we learn — especially about ourselves — isn’t the truth. Believing in lies leads us to limitations in our lives, to needless suffering and drama. The truth leads us to our authenticity, to happiness. When we are children, the humans who take care of us program us with knowledge, and that knowledge is contaminated with lies. The first lie we learn to believe is that we are not what we “should” be. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough, and we learn to live our lives trying to satisfy other people. Eventually, we become someone that we are not. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “In human domestication, you don’t have the opportunity to choose your beliefs. All the rules and values of your family and society are imposed on you. Just like a computer, all that information is downloaded into your head.” “Before domestication, we don’t care what we are or what we look like. We never pretend to be what we are not. After domestication, we try to be good enough for everybody else, but we are no longer good enough for ourselves because we can never live up to our ‘image’ of perfection.” “Needless suffering of all kinds is the result of misusing your word; it’s the result of believing in knowledge contaminated with lies. Some lies are innocent, and others are deadly – especially the lies you believe about yourself.” QUESTIONS for you: When you were a child, what did other people tell you about who you are, how you look, and how you “should” be? What did others tell you about what you could, or could not, do with your life? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

This video from The Four Agreements Online Course presents the first and most important of the agreements: “Be impeccable with your word.” The other three agreements are more support for the first agreement – they help you to unlearn the many habits and routines that cause you to suffer. But the ultimate goal is the first agreement because the word is your power of creation — it’s what you use to create your story. Everything you know, your entire virtual reality, is created with the word. The objective of the fourth lesson is to become aware that your word is the most powerful tool you have as a human, and that power can be used in more than one direction. Impeccability of your word leads to happiness, and misuse of your word leads to suffering. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “The first agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor. It is so important that with just this first agreement, you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth.” “When you’re impeccable with your word, you never use the word against yourself in the creation of your story. You never betray yourself; you never gossip about yourself. You take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or punish yourself for anything.” “The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of the force, which is your life. You know that you’re using the word against yourself when you’re suffering with guilt, sadness, anger, or fear. You know that you’re using the word impeccably when you’re happy.” QUESTIONS for you: Have you ever stopped to consider what a word is and what a word does? How are you using the power of your word when it comes to creating your life story? Do you gossip about yourself or gossip about other people?

This lesson from the Online Course presents the second of The Four Agreements: Don’t take anything personally. The key to this agreement is the awareness and understanding that each of us lives in our own world, our own movie, our own story. The way we see the world is according to the agreements we have made. Our opinions and points of view come from our own belief system, from all the knowledge we have stored in our memory, and it’s no one’s truth but ours. Immunity in the interaction we have with the secondary characters in our story is the gift of the second agreement. When we have the awareness that all people live in their own world, there’s nothing to prove to anyone. When other people are speaking, we respect whatever they say. We listen and we understand all the words, but the words no longer affect us. Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “Taking things personally is a set up for suffering. It makes you easy prey for other people’s emotional poison; they can hook your attention with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want.” “When we take things personally, we feel offended, and our reaction is to defend our beliefs and create a conflict. We make a big drama out of something so little.” “When you truly understand this and take nothing personally, it doesn’t matter who gossips about you, who blames you, who rejects you, who disagrees with your point of view. Whatever people say doesn’t affect you because you are immune to their opinions and their emotional poison.” QUESTIONS FOR YOU: Do you take things personally, feel deeply hurt or angry, and say things that you later regret? Do you lie awake at night reliving unpleasant conversations or situations in your life that make you feel angry, anxious, and upset? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

In this video from The Four Agreements Online Course, the objective is to become aware that every human is an artist, and our greatest art is the use of a language to create an entire virtual reality within our mind. Life creates what is real (truth), and humans use words to create stories about what is real (fiction). Using words and agreements, we build an edifice of knowledge — an entire belief system that tells us what we know about ourselves, about life, about everything. With all the knowledge we accumulate, we no longer perceive what really is; we only see our own knowledge. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “All humans are programmed to perceive the truth, and we don’t need a language to do this. But in order to express the truth, we need to use a language, and that expression is our art. It’s no longer the truth because words are symbols, and symbols can only represent or ‘symbolize’ the truth.” “Just being aware of the power of words and agreements will help you to create a better story. When you learn to use your word with awareness, you become a better artist. And when you learn to be impeccable with your word, your story becomes a masterpiece of art.” “During all the years we grow up, we make countless agreements with ourselves, with society, with everyone around us. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves.” QUESTIONS for you: Have you questioned the agreements you’ve made with yourself about your appearance, your health, or how you should (or should not) behave based on your religious or philosophical beliefs? Do these agreements you’ve made support you in living the life you want to live, or do they limit you? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements

This video from The Four Agreements Online Course presents the third agreement: “Don’t make assumptions.” The objective of this lesson is to become aware that most assumptions are nothing more than stories we tell ourselves when we don’t know the truth. Almost all of the needless suffering in our lives is rooted in making assumptions, taking things personally, and misusing our word. We listen to the voices talking in our heads. One assumption leads to another assumption. We jump to conclusions, take our story personally, and react by sending emotional poison with our word. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “Making assumptions is just looking for trouble because most assumptions are not the truth; they’re fiction.” “Most of our assumptions are made unconsciously because we have agreed to communicate this way. We have agreed that it is not safe to ask questions. If we just ask questions, we won’t have to make assumptions. It’s always better to ask and be clear.” “Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.” QUESTIONS for you: Are you aware that almost everything you tell yourself is an assumption? Are you in the habit of making assumptions, taking them personally, and creating a conflict for nothing? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

In this video from The Four Agreements Online Course, the objective is to become aware that during the process of domestication, you invest the power of your faith in everything you believe. Since then, everything you believe controls your life. Everything you agree to believe becomes part of an invisible structure called a “belief system.” The belief system becomes the “book of law” that rules your life. It becomes the big judge in your mind, and you become its victim because first, it judges you, then it punishes you. With every agreement you make, the belief system grows stronger and gains more power until it rules your life like a tyrant. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “When you are a child, you are innocent. You ingest every opinion without questioning if it’s the truth. And by the time you grow up with all the opinions that you hear, the power of your faith is already invested in lies. This is how you lose power over your own life.” “If you’re suffering, it’s because you’re telling yourself a story that isn’t true. The truth is that your story has become distorted. But you’re not the only one in that situation, and that’s the good news.” “Once we can see that we are the one who creates the structure of our beliefs, this helps us to recover faith in ourselves. When we have faith in ourselves instead of the belief system, we have no doubt where that power comes from, and we base every choice of our life on the truth.” QUESTIONS for you: Do you believe in superstitions about yourself? For example, do you tell yourself the story of what you “should” be, but you are not? “I should be thin, but I’m not. I should be smarter, but I’m not. I should be happy, but I’m not.” Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

This video from The Four Agreements Online Course explores the fourth and final agreement: “Always do your best.” The first three agreements are in the realm of the virtual reality, but the fourth agreement is in the realm of the physical. Do. Take action. “Always do your best” is the agreement that allows the other three agreements to become deeply ingrained habits because you take action and keep practicing until you master the action. The fourth agreement helps you to become a master artist. By taking action, you transform yourself; you transform your story. And by doing your best over and over again, you eventually transform your life. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “In your everyday moods, your best can change from one moment to another, from one hour to the next, from one day to another. Your best will also change over time, and as you form the habit of practicing The Four Agreements, your best will become better than it used to be.” “Always do your best, but don’t overdo. If you overdo, you spend more energy than is needed and go against yourself. If you do less than your best, you subject yourself to self-judgment, guilt, and regrets.” “By always doing your best to honor The Four Agreements, your love and self-respect will grow, and you will be amazed to see how your life is transformed.” QUESTIONS for you: Are you in the habit of doing your best, or do you try to get by with as little effort as possible? Are you in the habit of overdoing, depleting your energy, and going against yourself? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

In this final video from The Four Agreements Online Course, the objective is to become aware that you are here to enjoy life, to be happy. You are a manifestation of the Infinite, and the presence of the Infinite is everywhere. But when all your attention is on your story, you don’t see that reality. You only see your own story, your own knowledge, your own virtual reality. Practicing The Four Agreements is a process of unlearning the many ways you have learned to use the power of the word against yourself. You unlearn all the negative opinions you have about yourself and all the stories you learned from other humans that are nothing but superstition and lies. As you take your faith out of the lies and recover your faith in the truth, the result is that you become authentic. You recover the freedom to be the real you, and it’s the greatest gift that you can give yourself. QUOTES from don Miguel Ruiz: “Imagine living your life without pretending to be what you are not. Imagine being yourself and not trying to convince anybody of anything. Imagine that just by being yourself, you are happy. Imagine living with this kind of freedom!” “The moment will come when you realize that you are here just to be in this moment, and being has nothing to do with knowledge.” “You were born with the right to be happy. You were born with the right to love, to enjoy, and to share your love. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it.” QUESTIONS for you: Are you ready to unlearn the many ways you have learned to use the word against yourself? Would you like to recover the freedom to be the real you instead of the “image” you think you “should” be? Read the book, take the course, and unlock the power of these deceptively simple agreements.

Get access to my FREE resources 👉 https://drbrg.co/3wXZM5Y What is missing from addiction recovery? Watch this video to find out. Timestamps: 0:00 What is missing from addiction recovery 0:27 Problems with blood sugar 0:43 Symptoms of blood sugar issues 1:50 Why you should run on ketones 2:18 How to heal insulin resistance 3:35 How to replenish nutrients In this video, I want to talk to you about the biggest thing that is missing from addiction recovery. If you’re recovering from alcohol, for example, you have to realize that alcohol acts like a carbohydrate in the body. However, alcohol itself isn’t a carbohydrate, which means that you’ll have the fluctuations of blood sugar issues. The symptoms of these blood sugar highs and lows are: • Anxiety • Exhaustion • Moodiness • Cravings • Dizziness • Confusion When you are at something like alcoholics anonymous, for example, you are going to replace alcohol with carbs and sugars—think doughnuts, cookies, and sweetened coffee. What we’re really dealing with are nutrient deficiencies. Addictive substances pull nutrients out of your tissues. As your blood sugar fluctuates, you develop something called insulin resistance. When you have insulin resistance, you have a difficult time absorbing nutrients in the first place. So not only is the alcohol (or other substance) causing nutrient deficiencies directly, it also causes nutrient deficiencies by contributing to insulin resistance. The best things to help combat these problems are: • Keto • Intermittent fasting • MCT oil • Nutritional yeast • Trace minerals • Vitamin C Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, 56 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of The New Body Type Guide and other books published by KB Publishing. He has taught students nutrition as an adjunct professor at Howard University. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. Follow us on FACEBOOK: fb.me/DrEricBerg ABOUT DR. BERG: http://bit.ly/2SBJEAo Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Thanks for watching. I hope this video helps you have a better understanding of what you can do to help you or a loved one get through addiction recovery.