Tony Robbins is impressive in so many ways. He’s tall and full of energy. One thing that everyone who attended his seminars consistently tell me is how impressed they are that he just keeps going from early morning till midnight 2-3 days in a row, almost without breaks. Wow, an amazing display of energy.
He also does tons of good for tons of people, I’m sure. I was through some of his books and tapes on my path, and they definitely got me started down a path that was good for me.
The problem is that he keeps you in a state of being wrong or not quite good enough, and needing to be fixed. Conveniently, he has the cure.
You see, most, if not all of us, are raised to believe that there’s something wrong with us, raised to hate certain parts of ourselves. This is because parents typically scold their kids when they misbehave (message: you’re not okay, not worth loving, when you do this), or they use fear (dad will get really angry if you do this again) or guilt (mommy will be sad if you do this). So we learn that part of us is bad, and when that part is in control, we’re not okay, not worth loving.
Tony hatches on to that belief and promises the fix. Want to lose weight? Tony has the cure. Want to be stronger? Tony has the recipe. Want to be more successful, have more money? Tony can help.
So you need to buy the next tape, the next book, the next seminar. And of course most of his products ends with getting you to connected with everything you hate about yourself before he starts the infomercial to get you to buy the next product.
One several of the tapes he says “I don’t want to be anybody’s guru. I don’t want to create a dependency.” Those exact words.
But trust me, he does. And his CPA does, too.
He wants you to stay in the mindset that there’s something wrong with you, and only if you live up to the standards that your ego has settled on for you, will you ever obtain freedom and happiness. But have you noticed that happiness is always just around the corner? It’s never here, now, is it? When you try to obtain freedom and happiness through external means such as your body or your bank account, you will never succeed. All you will succeed in is the transfer of large sums of money from your bank account to Tony’s as you buy product after product in futile attempts to get there.
The truth is that happiness and peace and freedom is yours. Now. It’s always there, it’s just that your mind is so busy telling you you need to do this and get that and there’s all these reasons you’re not quite there yet.
Ignore those voices. They’re lying.
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1 messels // Feb 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM
2 Strider // Mar 04, 2008 at 01:40 AM