The Four Agreements: Domestication (Don Miguel Ruiz) - By Gonzalo Corts
Channel: Gonzalo Corts
Date: 2016-10-23

In the book “The 4 Agreements” Don Miguel Ruiz talks about the Domestication of Humans.

Don Miguel Ruiz mentions how day after day, at home, school, church, or on TV, we’re told how to live and what kind of behavior is OK or expected.

In “The 4 Agreements” he mentions how kids are domesticated the same way that we domesticate dogs and cats, with a system of punishment and reward.

We’re punished many times a day and rewarded many times a day so eventually we fear the punishment but we ALSO fear NOT getting the reward!

So we start pretending to be someone we are not so that we can meet their expectations.

Don Miguel Ruiz says how we eventually don’t even need someone else to domesticate us. We’re so well trained that we become what he calls an auto-domesticated animal! We simply do it to ourselves based on the beliefs we picked up.

And according to Don Miguel Ruiz, our judgments are based on these beliefs systems. The Inner Judge will judge what we do or don’t do, think or not think… everything!

And the part of us that receives that judgment is the Victim. That’s the part of us that carries the blame, guilt, and shame.

Then the Victim says things like “I’m not good enough” and the Judge agrees.

And this is a crazy cycle which I was stuck on for a long long very long time :-) 

Here in “The 4 Agreements” he does say that anything that goes against our belief systems can bring up fear. Things that challenge these belief systems will make us feel unsafe because, even if the belief system is not right for us, it makes us feel SAFE.

So it DOES take courage to challenge your BS! 

BS = Belief Systems :-)

But it’s a way that you can experience REAL change in your life.

Question your BS.

Question everything.

The Book “The 4 Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz is a great book which I recommend if you haven’t read it!

I hope this inspires you to challenge your BS and experience better and better results in life!

Please share if you liked it! 

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Osho
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Infinite Waters (Diving Deep)
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Sadhguru
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Preston Smiles
https://www.youtube.com/user/questionswithPreston

And many more! Check out the ones I recommend in my Channel if you liked this video!

And this video definitely does NOT reflect Don Miguel Ruiz ideas, messages, believes, or anything like that. This is just my interpretation and what I wanted to share based on what resonated from the book.

Hope you like it!

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