A woman called the other day and said, “Nothing is working and I don’t understand it. Why is everything in my life so difficult?”

This is a being, I thought to myself, who has lost her source perspective. Metaphorically, she built her house, locked herself in it, and then lost the key. I call that ‘being trapped in your own creation.’

Many people have lost their source perspective. They perceive themselves as trapped in circumstances that they’re unable to change.

Avatar is a return to source. It’s a return to the viewpoint of source…source of the conditions and circumstances we find ourselves in.

This awakening of a ‘source perspective’ occurs on the Avatar Course. Finding one’s way back to source is a journey that every being can take to recover control of their life.

To begin, join a ReSurfacing Workshop, and start taking your life back. Visit https://www.planetavatar.com/schedule/ and select a course date that works for you!

Do you have a “junk drawer”? Most people do. You know, the place where you put stuff when you don’t know where to put it. Could be a box, could be a shelf in your closet, could be a drawer, it doesn’t matter. It’s that place where, when you don’t know where to put something, but you don’t want to throw it away, and you don’t want to give it too much significance – that’s right, into the junk drawer!

For a short while you’re able to keep track of things in the drawer, but as life goes on you find more things that you don’t know where to put – so you put them in your junk drawer, and suddenly you can’t find anything.

Has it happened to you?

When the drawer gets too full and unmanageable then you have to deal with it – which isn’t easy at that point….

Many people have turned their minds, inadvertently, into a “junk drawer.” They’ve stuffed and stored away many things that they don’t want to deal with. Unanswered questions, mistakes, regrets, even resentments and actions they’d rather not admit. So many un-owned creations that are just too confronting to deal with. Stored away in the dark recesses of the mind.

The misunderstanding is that if they are out of sight, they are out of mind. But are they? No, not at all. They remain there, taking up precious space and consuming creative energy. They deplete our attention supply and keep us from creating what we want. All tied up.

Are you wanting to evolve and make changes in your life, but don’t know where to begin? Are you searching for a self-improvement course, but have questions about what will work?

Why I did Avatar…

Okay, so, truth is, I did Avatar because my husband did it. Not very original, right? But it’s true. He was always the spiritual leader in our family of 2, and whatever he did, I tagged along. But, this was different.

Something really magical happened when Rich came home from the Avatar Course 28 years ago. He’d been away for a week doing Avatar and strangely, I felt different. Isn’t that curious? He had been off in Vermont for 8 days doing ‘I didn’t know what,’ and when he came home, I noticed that I felt different around him. There was this “space” where I could just be myself. It was amazing, and wonderful, and startlingly palpable. So, of course, I wanted to know why.

A month later, I found myself in an Avatar Course in NYC, doing my best to catch up to the awakening and transformation I witnessed in him. Something that not only he was over-the-moon inspired by, but that I was benefiting from, as well.

Are you in a relationship that could use a tune up? Do you find it challenging to be ‘source’ in your life, and in connection with others who think and feel differently than you do, with their own ideas about life?

Are you looking for a way to make positive changes in your life – a personal growth course that feels right for you? Have you heard of Avatar?

Many people ask us, “What is Avatar?” and I always find it challenging to answer. Everyone experiences Avatar differently… because the course is about YOU. And, all YOU’s are unique.

But, I’ve discovered an answer that speaks to everyone. It’s right from the horse’s mouth. Do you want to hear it?

Listen to the “West Coast Tour” audiotape. The speaker is Harry Palmer… yes, the founder of Avatar. He recorded this live in 1987, speaking to a group of Avatar prospects in a living room in Southern California.

What I love, love, love! about this tape is that Harry describes all of the tools you learn in the Avatar Course. He walks you through the course, day by day, and tells you what the tools are, and what they can do. And, since he invented them, he would know! Right? Isn’t that cool?

He even takes you back to the very beginning days of Avatar and describes how the course was developed. It’s fascinating.

To listen on-line to this amazingly inspiring talk about the Avatar Course, click here:

https://avatarepcmedia.com/Audio/1987-west-coast-tour.html

Shakespeare has a line in his play, “Taming of the Shrew”, about “killing with kindness”, meaning to be overly kind to the point of being obnoxious. It’s a funny juxtaposition, isn’t it? It’s quite an oxymoron, to be so kind to someone that you might kill them…

Now don’t get me wrong, kindness is a powerful energy in consciousness, it’s a catalyst for our caring and connected actions.

But “killing with kindness” seems a little extreme to me. So how about if we update the phrase; maybe “hassle with kindness” – or “aggravate with kindness”? Maybe…

So let’s definitely be kind. Let’s be overly kind, let’s be overwhelmingly kind. Kindness matters…

There are so very many ways to be kind, and every single one makes an enormous difference. Let’s just leave out the ‘killing’ part…

For more information about Avatar, or to explore your own consciousness with a Free Introduction, call Lori at 858-518-7978.

Is it possible…

“The Avatar Course is nothing more or less than an escape from a mind trap, which you’ve been caught in for so long that you have forgotten what freedom feels like.”

Harry Palmer, The Avatar Path: The Way We Came

Is that possible? Really? Is it possible that your mind has totally trapped you — and you don’t know it? Hmm…what do you think?

Is it possible that you’ve been dreaming through this lifetime, and you haven’t even known you’re asleep?

Is it possible that there’s something more than just the world of physical objects and words and thinking, is it possible that there’s a powerful, expanded consciousness that’s available to all of us, a way to create peace and harmony in the world, but we just haven’t known where to look?

Well, what if there is?

Are you ready to wake up and move beyond what you already know? To observe and feel what’s really there?

The Avatar Course has been called magical and miraculous. Those are good words to describe it, but they can’t convey the experience.

Just imagine for a moment – really imagine – if you’d been trapped in your mind your whole life and you suddenly broke free? What would that feel like…?

What Is Compassion?

According to the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, compassion is “a sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress, together with a desire to alleviate it.”

That’s interesting, but true compassion runs much broader and deeper than a dictionary can convey. Here are some quotes about compassion from people you may have heard of:

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” -Dalai Lama

“Compassion is the ultimate expression of your highest self.” – Russell Simmons

“Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.” – Cheryl Strayed.

“When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.” – Henepola Gunaratana

“Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.” – Debbie Ford

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -Dalai Lama

Ready to learn more? Got 5 minutes?

The most effective way of transmitting compassion to others, as well as feeling the results for yourself, is Harry Palmer’s “Compassion Exercise”. It’s from the ReSurfacing® Workshop, and only takes 5 minutes to do.

Are you interested in improving the world?

The Avatar® Course puts you in the driver’s seat in life.

That may seem an unusual way to express it, but many of us (most of us), have been letting someone else drive.

We buy certain clothes because our friends wear them. We buy certain cars because our parents did. We enjoy certain music, we like certain types of people, we think certain kinds of thoughts, because…we’re copying someone else.

The copy may be interesting or fun or entertaining — but it’s still a copy.

It’s not YOU…

The Avatar Course teaches powerful and confidential procedures that show YOU how to create the life YOU prefer; a life of personal responsibility, compassion, and service to others. These are the transcendent values in life, these are the values that will help you improve your life, and help you improve the world.

Our next Avatar Course starts March 11, 2017 in Orlando.

If you’re ready to register, give a call or send an email.

If you’d like to experience a Free Introduction, give a call or send an email.

858-794-9480

Have you ever noticed how two people can follow the same set of instructions but get different outcomes? One is extremely successful, while the other is failing. How can that be? Shouldn’t a good strategy work no matter what? Do this and you are sure to succeed; do something else and won’t?

What’s going on here?

If your actions aren’t producing the results you intended to create, you may need a software update. That’s right, a software update for your consciousness.

You are the hardware. Your consciousness (meaning your mind and your beliefs) is the software. Beliefs can be assistive at one time in your life, but then became antiquated as time and circumstances change and evolve. If you’re not running the latest operating system, life can get very confusing.

Are there beliefs in your consciousness that aren’t working any longer? They need to be discovered and discarded before you can move forward. For example, the belief, “I’m cute and helpless,” may have worked for you when you were a kid, but it’s not so helpful now when you’re interviewing for a big new promotion.

Are you ready for a system-wide consciousness update? Avatar will help you get the job done. The tools you will learn and acquire on the Avatar Course will enable you to update your beliefs in alignment with the goals you want to achieve. Creating and discreating beliefs becomes an art – the art of living deliberately. Happy creating!

Are you ready to create a more peaceful planet?

Are you ready for compassion and loving kindness?

If you’re ready, and the whole world hopes you are, the next step is to create a plan and move into action. The Avatar® Course will show you exactly how to do that.

Avatar is the purest, most powerful, self-evolvement course available anywhere. In the Avatar Course, you will learn the tools you need to create powerfully and effectively.

Is there a way to get a sense of Avatar and experience how it works? Yes, with a Free Introduction.

The Free Introduction to Avatar is something you can do in person, by phone or by Skype. It takes about 90 minutes, and you’ll get to feel and experience some of the Avatar exercises.

At the end, you’ll know if Avatar is right for you.

AND — until New Year’s Day — we’re having a “Free Introduction Bonanza.”

Let us know when you’d like to schedule your Free session, and we’ll get you going.

The next International Avatar Course begins December 31st in Orlando.

What an awesome way to start the New Year!

Best wishes –

Richard and Lori Brenckman

858.794.9480 (ofc)

Many of us are interested in changing, evolving, helping others, improving our lives and improving the world. The question most people ask is, “How can I do that?” The answer is don’t wait for things to change on their own, YOU must take action steps to effect the change you want.

The next question is, “How can I do that?”

The answer is The Avatar Course.

Avatar teaches the behind-the-scenes secrets of consciousness; it shows you how to use the untapped potential you already possess to create the kind of life you want, to contribute to others, to be a force for good. Avatar teaches you powerful tools that will allow you to achieve a mastery of life that few people can claim.

If you’d like to learn more, we have a Free Introduction that can be done in person, by phone or Skype. We’ll schedule it with you at a mutually convenient time so that you can have an experience of your own.

Then you can decide if Avatar is right for you.

You can make the world better by improving yourself.

Our next Avatar Course starts December 31st in Orlando. FL.

Don’t miss it!

Best wishes –

Lori and Richard Brenckman

Click here to sign-up online: https://www.planetavatar.com/contact-us

Don’t get me wrong, resolutions are okay things.

It’s always good to take stock, clarify your goals and get focused.

But clarifying your goals is only the first step.

If you don’t get your thinking straight and have a plan of action, you won’t get very far.

Why? Because there’s a secret to creating effectively — both in consciousness and in the physical universe.

And the Avatar Course will teach you all the tools you’ll need to create powerfully and effectively.

What’s the best way to get a sense of Avatar, and how it works? With our Free Introduction.

We’re offering a Free Introduction to Avatar that you can do in person, by phone, or by Skype.

It takes about 90 minutes, and you’ll get to feel and experience some of the Avatar exercises.

At the end, you’ll know if Avatar is right for you.

AND — for the next seven days we’re having a “Free Introduction Bonanza.”

Let us know when you’d like to schedule your Free Intro, and we’ll get you going.

The next International Avatar Course begins December 31st in Orlando. What an awesome way to start the New Year!

Best wishes –

Richard and Lori Brenckman

I work out of my home. I’ve turned one of my spare bedrooms into a home office. It’s very convenient. I waste no time commuting to work each day. Or so you’d think.

In actuality, when I walk from my office to the kitchen, I pass through the living room. And, every time I do, which can be 50-100 times a day, I notice my decorative zen water garden that needs more water. I notice the handle on my front door that’s slightly tilted and needs tightening. If I made a mental note and then handled it before bed, I would have a different experience on my commute to the kitchen the next morning, but I don’t, and, a little bit of my attention gets stuck on those things and is not available to me to create with.

I lose just a little bit of my attention on each incomplete item, and that’s just a fraction of the lost attention in my house. I have 10 rooms, not to mention the garage, and there are at least three things in each room that require some fixing, moving, replacing or tossing. That’s a lot of fixed (stuck) attention!

My advice to you and to myself is, “Don’t allow your attention to remain stuck and unusable.” Free it up with Action #6 of the Ten Actions You Can Do Today To Start Taking Back Your Life.

Who Controls Your Mind?

Do you control it?

I mean, it is your mind. If you don’t control it, who does?

Learning to live deliberately means recovering your ability to control your own mind. From there, you’ll learn to manage your consciousness and create the life you desire.

How can you learn to live deliberately?

What does it take to change your beliefs?

What does it take to change the world?

The answer to these and many other questions is The Avatar® Course. Avatar is the purest, most powerful, personal growth course available today.

Are you ready to change?

Ready for more information or a Free Information Hour?

Give a call or send an email, and we’ll schedule a session specifically for you.

The next International Avatar Course begins October 29th in Orlando, FL.

Best wishes –

Richard and Lori Brenckman

858.794.9480 (ofc)

858.518.9480 (mobile + text)

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Click here to sign-up online: http://www.planetavatar.com/contact-us/

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Reading about Avatar® is good.

Experiencing Avatar in person is amazing.

There are three good reasons why a personal experience of Avatar is like nothing else you’ve ever tried to change your life.

First – the exercises are experiential. You only get results by doing the exercises, and Avatar exercises have been tested and proven by over 100,000 people around the world for years.

Second – Avatar Masters are experts at coaching people on how to do Avatar exercises. They provide a safe, supportive environment with clear feedback and instructions on the exercises. It’s a one-on-one exploration and they make sure it’s lots of fun.

Third – you decide what you want to change. The exercises are delivered in a specific series that is proven to bring people to being source over their lives. You decide what you want to work on and what’s most important to you.

It’s up to you to take the next step

and experience Avatar for yourself.

Here are two ways you can experience Avatar:

• Experience Avatar Now

Sign up for a free experiential Avatar Introduction by phone, skype, or in-person. Explore how Avatar works and experience some Avatar tools. It’s a great way to get a feel for Avatar, as well as discover some things about yourself. https://www.planetavatar.com/class-form/free-introductions/

If your dog was causing trouble with the neighbors, damaging things of value, and otherwise running amok — you’d get him trained, wouldn’t you? Well, your mind is probably creating more trouble in your life than a dog ever could. That’s why we highly recommend the Avatar® Course and the incredible benefits this consciousness training offers.

Here are just a few of the benefits students regularly report:

1. Get rid of the roadblocks and self-sabotaging beliefs that are causing you to fail.
2. Take control of your own thinking and eliminate useless worries.
3. Reduce stress and become more alive and aware in every moment.
4. Free up attention that is trapped in the past.
5. Know what you want and how to achieve it.

The Avatar course is the most powerful and purest personal growth course available today at any price. The results are profound and lasting. Avatar works.

You’re invited to a Free Avatar Introduction to have your own experience of the benefits that our Avatar workshop can have in your life.

Free Avatar Introductions (Solana Beach, CA):

Schedule your personal introduction in-person or by phone Sept 26 – Sept 30, 2016, 1-2 hours, day or evening.

This talk is called “How to Make Sense Out of Life.”

That’s what a lot of people are trying to do, to make sense out of life. If you’re one of those people, I have only one thing to say —- “Good Luck!”

Really, because life doesn’t make sense. It’s not logical; it’s not linear; it’s not supposed to make sense. And if you keep trying to make sense of it, you’ll just make yourself crazy. Trust me on that.

Life isn’t meant to make sense, life is meant to be experienced.

When you “make sense” of something, you end up in your head. But if you’re “experiencing” something, that’s another story.

And that’s where the Avatar course comes in, because what you experience in life, and the quality of those experiences comes from you.

It doesn’t come from outside circumstances, it comes from you, your consciousness, your judgments and your beliefs. So in order to successfully manage your life, you need to successfully manage your beliefs.

The tools you learn in Avatar training show you exactly how to do that. But remember, it’s always your choice, your decision.

Avatar training will teach you how to just “experience,” without thinking. Being able to just purely experience, now that’s magic. So let’s change the title of the talk to “How To Create Magic In Your Life!”

The last Avatar® Course of the year is coming sooner than you think.

Time is precious. Every moment of every day, each of us has the opportunity to create something amazing, to contribute something life-changing, to become someone extraordinary.

But, how? How do we set a new course, overcome obstacles, tap into our greatest potential? How do we overcome inertia, inspire ourselves (and others) into action, and leave the world in a better place?

The Avatar Course can help you find the answers.

The Avatar Course is a set of tools that will empower you to live up to your fullest potential and create reality deliberately. And yes, Avatar training will also help you make the world better.

Join us for the last Avatar Course of 2016 in Orlando, FL on October 29th through November 6th.

If you’re ready to get started now, join us for The ReSurfacing® Workshop (Section 1 of the Avatar Course) on September 24th and 25th in Solana Beach, CA.

For questions, more information, and to register, call us at Planet Avatar 858.794.7978.

Today, I want to introduce you to Avatar® Mini-Course #2 entitled, “Insight: Belief Management.” (See a previous blog called “Mini Course #1” for more information about Harry Palmer’s Avatar Mini Courses).

Beliefs are the thought forms through which we interpret, interact with, and create reality. Each of us has our own unique set of beliefs that you could call a “blueprint.” This blueprint is the subject of the “Belief Management” mini-course. The exercises and readings in this mini-course will help you make the connection between your beliefs and your experiences. The expected results include new insights and an increase in personal responsibility for the conditions and circumstances of your life.

To obtain a copy of the “Insight: Belief Management” mini-course, please contact us at Planet Avatar at 858-794-9480. We will send you the mini-course and arrange for a time to assist you in getting started in your exploration.

Does your creating ability need a little tune–up? Are there areas of your life that you don’t feel source over? Could your will power use a boost? Are you unsure of your direction in life?

These are some of the topics addressed in Harry Palmer’s Avatar® Mini-Courses. The Avatar Mini-Courses contain ideas and exercises that will teach you new things about life and how to get the most from it.

There are seven Avatar Mini-Courses available to the general public. Each Mini-Course focuses on a different aspect of consciousness, e.g. Attention, Will, Beliefs, and Goals. The exercises contained in the Mini-Courses are experiential and self-instructive, though it is also highly effective and pleasurable to be guided through them by an experienced Avatar Master. Whichever way you choose to do them, you can find all seven Mini-Courses online, or you can also obtain a hard copy from an Avatar Master.

Today, I want to introduce you to Mini-Course #1. It’s called, “Awareness: Basic Attention Management.” In this Mini-Course, you will learn about the most valuable of all commodities: human attention. What is it, how does it behave, how can we have more of it, or make better use of what we have?

Avatar is a self-evolvement course that teaches the art of living deliberately. It’s based on the simple truth that thoughts create beliefs and beliefs create reality. So, the easiest and most effective way for a person to change their reality is to get control of their thoughts and deliberately examine their beliefs. And that’s what the Avatar course is about – It’s a set of tools for exploring and changing consciousness – in order to change reality.

The aim of the course is to bring a person to an experiential awareness that they are the creator of their life experience, and teach them tools so they can create things differently if they decide to.

The Avatar Course takes place over 9 days. It’s divided into 3 sections.

Section 1 is called ReSurfacing. It’s about disentangling oneself from old creations and rising back into awareness.

Section 1 contains 30 exercises and techniques that help a person make the connection between the experiences they’re having in life, and the beliefs that are creating those experiences.

These techniques help a person direct their attention, strengthen their will, explore how they came to be the way they are, and uncover hidden beliefs. The exercises are easy to do, but profound in the insights and changes they can produce.

What you believe has consequences in your life. Pretty much everybody gets a sense of that — seems like it could be a useful idea.

Let’s explore some specific examples, and compare and contrast a few differing beliefs, and see what we can learn.

For instance: what if you discovered you held the belief, “life is hard”. If you have that belief, that’s the experience you’ll create in life; things really would be hard. Can you feel that?

What if instead you had the belief, “things always work out for me”. How would that feel? Interesting…

What if you had the “life is hard” belief, but you’d rather have the “things always work out for me” belief? Are you stuck with the beliefs you already have? Not if you have the Avatar tools to use. The tools are designed to help you discover the beliefs you have, and if you want to change them, the tools show you how to do that, too.

Or how about this: what if you’re a Sales and Marketing Professional, and you have the belief “it’s not easy to meet people”? That may not be a helpful belief for you to have…

Is there a belief you’d rather have, one that could help you succeed? How about “I easily connect with people”? How does that one feel?

Most people who think about the deeper things agree that the purpose of life is to open up to a broader perspective. This is often called a “spiritual awakening”, or just “waking up”. Waking up implies that a person has moved beyond their current understanding of how life works to a bigger picture they previously weren’t aware of. So they’re “waking up” to a new level of consciousness and the possibility of new realities.

One of the most amazing results of the Avatar Course is that students actually learn how to do this; they learn a set of tools that allows them to wake up to a level of awareness beyond what they’re currently experiencing. Avatar students quickly see that their own beliefs and judgments create what they’re experiencing, that there’s not an outside unchanging reality they’re stuck with.

Truth is, there’s almost no experience that can’t be changed or modified with the Avatar tools. Avatar graduates learn this first-hand, because the Avatar Course is experiential. It’s a consciousness training; a series of exercises and processes that are a catalyst for spiritual awakening. And it is something you have to experience; you can’t get there just by thinking about it.

We’ve become a culture that’s obsessed with locks, of all sorts. Safety, privacy, cyber-security; all have become a focus of attention — have you noticed? And yet, the better our locks get, the better the burglars get. The better our email security gets, the better the hackers get. The more we try to protect our personal information online, the better the cyber-thieves get. Curious…

Trying to prevent bad things from happening may be a good model in some areas of life, but not for your consciousness. Many people have the idea that they need to keep things locked away, not share anything, hold tight to their feelings and thoughts, not be real. And when they do that they appear to be frozen. Actually — they are frozen…

Your consciousness is incredibly powerful. The thing is, that power can only be unleashed when it’s unlocked. You see the dilemma? Locking things securely may be a good model for your house or your car or your email, but NOT for your consciousness.

If you insist on a single viewpoint, you’ll miss every other viewpoint. (Yes, there are many viewpoints.) And in that case, you (literally) won’t know what you’re missing.

Here’s what Harry Palmer says in The Avatar Path: “Protecting or defending a single viewpoint is a refusal to see something in another way. When you lock yourself into certain viewpoints, you also lock yourself out of other viewpoints.”

If you’d like to learn more about Avatar and how it can help change your life for the better, we’re offering a Free Introductory session. This takes approximately 90 minutes, and we can work with you in person, on the phone, or on Skype.

OR — if you prefer — you can schedule a 15 minute phone call to connect and get started.

Avatar is the purest, most powerful personal growth course available anywhere.

It’s well worth your time and attention to explore what’s possible…

Give us a call at 858-794-9480 and schedule yourself now.

The Power of Will.

Happiness is an inside job.

Do you ever find yourself wishing things were different so that you could be happy? Only a fool waits for the world to make them happy. What if you could create and experience happiness no matter what is happening? Would that interest you? Abraham Lincoln said, “Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

In our previous blog, we went over Action Four of the Ten Actions You Can Do Today To Start Taking Back Your Life, and today, we’re introducing Action Five which demonstrates and develops the ability to “make up your mind” deliberately.

Instructions: Deliberately smile until you feel happy

Time: 2+ minutes

Expected results: Sense of wellbeing

By exercising your will, you have the power to direct your mind and experience anything you choose. What experience would you like to create next? So, deliberately smile until you feel happy — and then sign up for a Free Introduction, or the full Avatar Course today.

It’s easy to get stuck in a pattern of worries and thoughts, but our Avatar workshop can help you break out.

Life is full of worries. While you can play a part in addressing some of these worries, many of them are simply out of your control, and nothing good can come out of dwelling on these kinds of worries. If you give too much weight to your thoughts and worries, you may find yourself stuck in a pattern that consumes your mind and your attention. Don’t let your worries and thoughts consume you; learn how to overcome them with the Ten Actions You Can Do Today To Start Taking Back Your Life.

How do you move past these worries?

Action 4 of the Ten Actions You Can Do Today To Start Taking Back Your Life is to outline the sequence of your thoughts that led up to your worry. Then, take five minutes to deliberately think about each thought in this sequence until your worry starts to fade away. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed by your worries at times, but when you are able to break them down into this kind of sequence, they feel a lot more manageable and, soon, they’ll be nothing but distant memories.

Now that you know how to break the cycle of worry, it’s time to learn about the other nine actions you can do to take back your life. Check out our previous blogs to learn about Action 1, Action 2 and Action 3, and please stay tuned for our next blog to learn about Action 5!

Chances Are, You Do Many Things Out Of Habit Or Unconsciously.

Whether your habits are a part of your morning routine, like driving to work, making your daily cup of coffee or brushing your teeth, or you have nervous habits, like tapping your fingers, biting your nails or playing with your hair, there are probably many things that you do in life that you don’t even give a second thought to. While these unconscious behaviors aren’t always unhealthy or negative, making them deliberate instead of unconscious can help you gain insight into your life and improve your self-control.

What can you do to make these actions deliberate?

In the Ten Actions You Can Do Today to Start Taking Back Your Life, the third action is to choose an automatic gesture you make and repeat it deliberately until it comes off automatic. This will only take around five minutes of your time, but it can help to increase your self-determinism and free up your creative energy.

We would all love to change the world and make an impact, but before you can do that, you have to take control of your own life, starting with your actions and behaviors. You can learn about action one and two of the Ten Actions You Can Do Today to Start Taking Back Your Life by checking out our previous blogs, and you can learn more about gaining control over your life and your destiny by signing up for the Avatar® Course today!

You have magical powers.

Did you know that? I’m not kidding…

All of you – all of us – every being on the planet… magical powers.

Have you ever had a situation where you decided to really go for something and you set out to accomplish it and it happened? Didn’t that feel amazing?

I had times like that, when everything happened magically; I accomplished my goal – and I thought, now I can always create whatever I want.

Sadly, the next 3 times I tried to create the magic there was no magic — only my mind trying to find excuses for not succeeding…

What this told me was that I didn’t have the skill or knowledge to create consistently. So I set out in search of that skill and knowledge – and discovered the Avatar Course.

I searched through many different modalities and belief systems; too many to review in 8 minutes. They were all valuable in their own way, but not quite “it”.

Avatar was it.

Avatar was the owner’s manual for operating my mind, the missing instructions for how to deliberately create the results in life I wanted.

The Avatar Course was pure magic; and the study materials were the contents of my own consciousness; my beliefs, my judgments, my indoctrination, my limitations.

Focus Is Rare, But It Is Incredibly Important.

This day and age, focus is a rare thing. Many of us are so busy multitasking and trying to keep up with our busy schedules that we almost never have time to really focus on anything. At Planet Avatar®, we believe that focus is incredibly important, and that’s why we’ve included it in the Ten Actions You Can Do to Take Back Your Life. If you haven’t already, check out our last blog to learn about the first action, which is getting to know the world around you. Today, we will discuss the importance of focus.

Why is focus so important?

Believe it or not, your attention is one of the most valuable commodities you have. When you are able to focus your full attention on something specific, it will actually become more real to you. The opposite is also true. When you don’t focus on something, it becomes background noise, and it is all too easy to forget it about it altogether. Gaining more focus will help in almost every area of your life, from your family life to your work life. Focus is a skill, and like any skill, you have to practice in order to master it. Take a couple of minutes every day to concentrate on a single object. This exercise will help to strengthen and stabilize your ability to focus.

Take The First Step To Taking Back Your Life.

If you can gain control of your mind, you can gain control of your life, and the Avatar Course teaches you how to do just that. The founder of Avatar, Harry Palmer, has a booklet called, “Ten Actions You Can Do Today to Start Taking Back Your Life,” and the first action is: “Take a walk, notice something and decide how you would describe it.”

The human will is an incredible tool.

When successfully employed, the will makes us victorious in our endeavors. But, from lack of use, it can get rusty and fall into a stupor. When the will is asleep, we allow (or in some cases, ask) the world around us to tell us what to do. Awakening and exercising your own will is the first step in taking back your life. Every decision you make awakens the will a little more and leads to increased awareness, calming, and insights as to how you operate in the world.

Taking back your life doesn’t have to be hard. You’d be surprised at how something simple, like deciding how you would describe something, can change your perspective and your life. Learn more lessons for taking back your life by reading Harry Palmer’s booklet or signing up for our Avatar course! Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

It’s not just “what” you believe, it’s “how” you believe that makes the difference.

What does that mean?

What you believe, what you REALLY believe, has consequences in your life. This is sometimes obvious, sometimes not; but it’s true. Your beliefs, expectations, and judgments – the ones you know about, and even the ones you don’t know about, create the experiences you have in life.

Your beliefs create a filter through which you view and interpret what’s happening. Some beliefs are helpful, meaning you like the experience they create; some beliefs are not helpful.

For instance: feel the difference between believing “life is hard” versus “everything always works out for me”.

In the ReSurfacing Workshop, the first 2 days of the Avatar Course, you will explore and discover what you really believe. Not the beliefs you pretend to have or wish you had, but the actual beliefs that are in your consciousness and creating your experience. Finding your real beliefs is liberating. It’s the first step in living deliberately.

But, the real magic is the mechanics of believing, the “how to” of “how” you believe. No one teaches the “how to” except Avatar; literally, no one.

Are you ready to change your life?

Then you’re ready for ReSurfacing®…

ReSurfacing is a 2-day stand alone workshop by Harry Palmer that will introduce you to the Avatar® tools, and show you how to start exploring your own consciousness. It will begin to answer your questions about why you make certain “unusual” or self-sabotaging decisions, why certain situations in your life keep repeating themselves (positive and negative) and teach you how to move forward in your self-evolvement.

It’s non-confrontational, very insightful, and more fun than you can imagine. There are 2 opportunities coming very soon — and you’re invited.

1. March 19-20 in Orlando FL.

2. March 26-27 in San Diego CA.

If you’d like more information, or have questions, or you’re ready to just register and attend, you can call or email or sign up on our website. Just follow the link: http://www.planetavatar.com/contact-us/

Avatar is the purest, most powerful self-development course available anywhere.

And it all starts with ReSurfacing…

Please join us.

Beliefs ~

Finding them, feeling them, keeping them, changing them.

What you believe has consequences in your life. What does that mean? Your beliefs, ideas, and judgments – the ones you know about, and even the ones you don’t know about, create the experience you have of life.

They also create the filter through which you view and interpret your experiences. Some beliefs are helpful, meaning you like the experience they create; some beliefs are not helpful.

But who decides which ones are helpful, and which ones are not? YOU do. The Avatar Course is about YOU…

Let’s explore some beliefs a person might have, and then let’s feel whether they’re helpful or not.

A person might believe:

– I am confident and strong / OR

– I doubt I can do it.

Can you feel the difference? Which belief feels more empowering and effective? Which one would you like to have?

Or a person might believe:

– Things are moving forward / OR

– I don’t know what’s happening / OR

– I can’t make it, I can’t do it…

Which belief will lead to success? Which ones go nowhere?

What about you? What’s your favorite limiting belief…?

Avatar is a belief management course. It teaches a unique, proprietary technology for how to create, modify, and eliminate beliefs. And using these tools, you can be self-determined about the experiences you create. You will learn to deliberately create with a power and grace that are rarely seen in our world today.

Avatar is a self-empowerment course that awakens in people a higher level of awareness, and from that place, teaches people a set of tools for creating and dis-creating beliefs. You could call it a belief-management technology. And it’s all based on the simple truth that what you believe is what you will experience.

Since 1987, the course has been taught in 70 countries and translated into 20 languages.

I came across Avatar 25 years ago, at a time in my life when I was looking for answers. I’d been divorced, remarried, and afraid that my second marriage was going in the same direction, and I didn’t know why, or what to do about it.

So, when my husband decided to take the Avatar Course and said he’d be away a week, all my fingers and toes crossed in the hope that this would be the answer because I was sure it was him, not me, that was the problem. (smile)

Well, something very unexpected happened. When he came I home, I felt different around him. There was a space around him where I could just be myself –I’d never felt that before. And it felt so good, I just had to know – what happened?

So, I took the next course and, fast forward, we’ve been happily married for 31 years.

Have you heard of Avatar?

Here’s some background: in 1987 an Educational Psychologist named Harry Palmer outlined an intriguing set of mental procedures that could be easily taught to just about anyone. The amazing thing is that when these procedures are done in a specific order, they become a combination that unlocks the secrets of human consciousness.

In the 9-day Avatar Course, you will discover the unique combination to unlock your consciousness, and you’ll learn how to use Avatar to reach your highest potential in life.

Then you’ll take the Avatar tools home with you so that you can continue to deliberately create experiences that align with your goals and life purpose – unless for some reason you don’t want to do that… (smile)

I could tell you about people who’ve used Avatar to be happier and healthier in their lives and relationships. But I won’t talk about that today.

I could tell you how people have used Avatar to grow their business, to empower and support their employees and customers, and to be a catalyst for incredibly positive change. But that’s not for today, either.

I do want to tell you how many, many people around the world are using Avatar to create more kindness, more care, and more compassion; how they’re taking personal responsibility not just for their own lives, but for the planetary consciousness, as well.

The Avatar Courses offer the opportunity for you to change your life and change the world by teaching you to live deliberately.

What does it take…?

What does it take to create harmony, rather than conflict?

To create cooperation in the world instead of competition?

What does it take to learn to live deliberately?

To manage your consciousness and create the life you desire?

What does it take to change your beliefs?

What does it take to change the world?

The answer to these and other questions is: The Avatar® Course.

Avatar is the world’s purest, most powerful personal growth course available today.

Are you ready to change?

Ready for more information, or a Free Information Hour?

Give a call or send an email and we’ll schedule a session specifically for you.

The next International Avatar Course begins March 12 in Orlando, FL.

Best wishes,

Rich and Lori Brenckman

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In 1986, a teacher named Harry Palmer created The Avatar Course. That same year he founded Star’s Edge International, the seminar management corporation that supervises the delivery of the Avatar Materials. Harry’s writings are a profound contribution to the growing body of knowledge, exercises, and processes directed to self-improvement. Many individuals and companies in the personal-development industry have adopted his ideas.

Harry Palmer dresses simply, lives simply, and remembers to open the door for the ladies. He looks at you steadily when you talk, and you get the feeling that he is interested in what you have to say; he is. In sharp contrast, he is also the CEO of a rapidly growing international corporation and the unexpected inheritor of a prestige that once belonged only to prominent spiritual leaders. This simple man’s writings are creating a movement that is sweeping the planet.

His bestselling book, LIVING DELIBERATELY (currently available in 20 languages) describes his personal path to enlightenment, and the subsequent insights that were to become the foundation of the three-section, nine-day Avatar Course. (A prominent liberal arts professor described the Avatar Course as: “… an elegant blend of oriental philosophy and western cognitive psychology that provides a fast, experiential route to restoring self-determinism.”)

A belief is a filter. It’s a tuning mechanism in consciousness. And when you observe or interact with life through a particular belief filter, only certain information gets through to you — the information that’s aligned with the belief you’re looking through.

Here’s a good analogy: when you have your TV tuned to NBC, you’re just not going to observe any shows on CBS. No matter how hard you try…

You can go to therapy; you can join a support group; you can take assertiveness training; you can even buy a high-tech multi-channel satellite disk. But no matter what you do, if you don’t change the channel, you”ll still be watching NBC. No matter how frustrated or sad or angry you feel, CBS will not manifest in your universe.

The tuning and filtering mechanism in your TV won’t allow any other information onto the screen than the channel you’re tuned to. The only way you’ll ever get to see anything else is if you change the channel. Pretty obvious with TV, but what about the rest of life?

Well, if your belief filter is tuned to a certain frequency, say the belief “Life is hard”, you’re just not going to have much fun in life — no matter how hard you try. Because your filtering mechanism won’t let many enjoyable experiences onto the screen of your consciousness.

My childhood memories include several instances in which I was scolded for a certain “willful” attitude that I displayed. The scoldings usually included the comment, “You did that deliberately, didn’t you?” The consequences for being willful and deliberate were not pleasant. I came to learn that deliberateness was not good in a “good boy”.

Of course, I didn’t stop doing the “deliberate” things. It’s just that, when questioned, I denied them. And afterwards, even though I generally enjoyed these creations, I felt bad and guilty, and took no responsibility for them.

So, as childhood continued, a trend developed. I became more analytical and thinking oriented, and began to experience less. (I spent more time in my head, and less in my heart.) I’m not saying my parents set out to “deliberately” inhibit my abilities to feel and create. But since I did adopt some of their beliefs at an early age, my creating abilities did suffer. Lots.

As an adult, my experiences in life were ultimately dissatisfying — whether or not I produced the results that I set out to. If I didn’t succeed, I felt like a failure. When I did succeed, my adopted beliefs about willfulness and deliberateness made success feel unfulfilling. So even my wins, which were not uncommon, didn’t feel like wins to me. That’s what I mean by suffering.

Okay, it’s time to let it out. Time to finally reveal the truth that I’ve kept hidden, locked away inside me. The truth is — the Avatar Course ruined my life. That’s right, you read correctly. It’s not a typo. Avatar ruined it all.

There I was, 39 years old, with a whole set of belief systems that had me so tightly in their grip that I couldn’t even see them — and a long, dramatic story about why life wasn’t working that I just loved to tell.

Don’t get me wrong, I was doing pretty well. I had my own company that was respected in its field; I was making lots of money; I looked pretty good, was married, owned property and other “stuff”; set and attained goals; was in touch with my spiritual nature, etc.

Most people judged me a success…maybe even a role model. But I didn’t feel like a success. I wasn’t fulfilled or satisfied. In fact, I suffered a lot — meaning things happened to me that I didn’t like, and I thought they were caused by outside factors that I had no control over.

I tried a lot of things in order to escape the suffering — marijuana, sex, rock ‘n roll, est, meditation, all of it.

Those things provided some taste of the expanded experience that I wanted, but ultimately they all proved disappointing. I was looking for a way to be fully alive, energetic, peaceful, and satisfied — and as yet, hadn’t found it.

Enlightenment is a word with a lot of buzz around it. My dictionary lists the synonyms for enlighten as “to educate, inspire, perfect (v), etc.”

But for those of us who’ve walked a spiritual path, enlightenment goes beyond that. That definition isn’t in the dictionary; but for me it included an intuitive knowing and speaking of the truth, and being free from ignorance and illusion. Something like that. But it went even further.

Enlightenment seemed like something that someone else bestowed upon you. You somehow meet some being who’s enlightened already, who then looks into your eyes in a certain way or whacks you with a stick or laughs in just the right way at just the moment that you’re ready! And then what? Some transcendent state of awareness occurs that catapults you into expanded levels of consciousness from which you never emerge. (I never knew exactly what to expect after the stick-whacking, but I think it would have been something like I just described. I was pretty sure that I’d know it when it happened.)

So, let’s summarize: to be enlightened you need to find someone who has it, and hope that they’re willing to give it, at just the moment you’re ready to receive it, and that you’ll recognize it when it’s happened.

I often forget how miserable I was before I did Avatar. No matter where I looked, things looked pretty bleak. That was in 1990. Don’t get me wrong; just because I was miserable doesn’t mean I was a failure. I was pretty successful according to worldly standards; my wife and I owned a business, made good money, had some real estate, went on trips and all that. But I felt very separate and alone, and I didn’t appreciate how good my life was. You know how some people notice a glass and see it as half-full and others see the same glass as half-empty? I’d notice that the glass was dirty or cracked, and I’d want to know who was responsible. Yes, I was quite skilled at seeing what was wrong, and very quick to point it out.

I wanted to make major changes in my life, and right from the start Avatar didn’t disappoint me. The attention exercises on the first day were amazing. I saw that whatever my attention was on dominated my thoughts. I also noticed that my attention was drawn (by default) to problems — things that “weren’t right”. And I didn’t think I’d ever be able to change that. But I found that by doing the exercises I could learn to place my attention where I wanted. That was my first glimpse of the power of Avatar…seeing that just doing the exercises had an immediate positive impact.

If you use email or go online with your computer, you’re probably aware of the damage a computer virus can do. There are thousands of viruses, and a whole industry that’s dedicated to fighting them. Just in case you don’t know what I’m referring to, a computer virus is a ‘rogue’ program that’s covertly introduced into unsuspecting computers — and then it infects and sabotages them in some way. The damage could be anywhere from a “prank” (like a flashing joke or a strange message on your screen), to a very serious consequence (like totally crashing your system and erasing all your data). More sophisticated virus programs can even take over your email Address Book and self-replicate and send copies of themselves to all of your contacts in an email message that appears to be from you.

I sometimes feel angry with people who send these viruses; it seems strange that someone would measure their success by the number of people they harm. I also think it’s a waste of creative potential; all that inventiveness and energy that’s going into destroying things could be channeled into creating something new and exciting and empowering to others. What kind of person would focus on destruction like this??

The Associated Press recently released a survey showing that we are less patient this year than last year. In fact, our tolerance level has been steadily declining year after year since the early 1980’s. The most current data shows that 5 minutes waiting on “hold” on the phone, or 10 minutes spent waiting in a line stretches us to the limits of our patience.

Those are the survey results, but what about you? How do you feel when you’re kept waiting? Most people don’t like it. Yet ironically, at the same time that we’re becoming less patient, we’re encountering more situations than ever that call for patience.

Lines at the gas station are getting longer, traffic is moving slower, delivery times are increasingly unreliable, and repairmen no longer even give you a time, they just say, “Sometime between 8 and 5…”

So if you want to make sure that whatever is broken gets fixed, you’ll be at home between 8 and 5 — waiting. And let’s not even talk about the difference between the time your Doctor’s appointment is scheduled for and the time it actually happens. We really do spend a lot of our time just waiting.

I know what you’re thinking right now; “Come on — get to the point! I don’t have all day to read this.” Ok, ok…

Before you take on the world, you need to master your own mind. The Avatar® Course will teach you how to do that. Avatar is a set of practical, effective, and powerful tools that will allow you, in a very short time, to identify and change the conclusions, decisions, and agreements that are shaping your life.

It’s not what you think, it’s how you think.

• The Avatar Course reawakens your own natural ability to manage your consciousness by managing your beliefs. We’ll send you a Free Info Pack that will show you how to:
• Achieve conscious awareness and gain control of your mind, and your life.
• Experience a quiet mind, clarity of will, and focus.
• See your beliefs for what they are, and how they are creating your current life circumstances.
• Use the power of your beliefs to create the life you desire.

In Avatar you’ll learn to create new beliefs and discard unwanted beliefs. The amazing thing is that as you restructure your mind, the experiences you attract into your life change, as well! With Avatar each person

discovers their own unique way of using the tools to reach their highest potential.

Avatar Will Accelerate Your Evolvement

By: Lori Brenckman –

“Avatar teaches the use of proven navigational tools that can be used, in harmony with your own integrity, to pass safely across the uncharted turbulence of the mind into the region of the soul.”

Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials

If you’re ready to make changes in your life, you need to look inward. Change starts with exploring your consciousness, and Avatar will show you how to do that.

The Avatar Course is the purest, most powerful personal growth course available in the world today – at any price. In Avatar you’ll learn powerful techniques for how to create what you want in life by changing the beliefs and judgments in your own consciousness. You’ll learn to create new beliefs and discard unwanted beliefs. The amazing thing is that as you restructure your mind, the experiences you attract into your life change, as well! With Avatar each person discovers their own unique way of using the tools to reach their highest potential.

Avatar Works.

Next Steps:

1. Come to an Avatar Discussion Group and explore one of Harry Palmer’s books
2. Come to the ReSurfacing Workshop in Orlando November 7th & 8th
3. Come to the last International Avatar Course of 2015, starting November 21st in Orlando FL

By: Richard Brenckman –

The Associated Press recently released a survey showing that we are less patient this year than last year. In fact, our tolerance level has been steadily declining year after year since the early 1980’s. The most current data shows that 5 minutes waiting on “hold” on the phone, or 10 minutes spent waiting in a line stretches us to the limits of our patience.

Those are the survey results, but what about you? How do you feel when you’re kept waiting? Most people don’t like it. Yet ironically, at the same time that we’re becoming less patient, we’re encountering more situations than ever that call for patience.

Lines at the gas station are getting longer, traffic is moving slower, delivery times are increasingly unreliable, and repairmen no longer even give you a time, they just say, “Sometime between 8 and 5…”

So if you want to make sure that whatever is broken gets fixed, you’ll be at home between 8 and 5 — waiting. And let’s not even talk about the difference between the time your Doctor’s appointment is scheduled for and the time it actually happens. We really do spend a lot of our time just waiting.

I know what you’re thinking right now; “Come on — get to the point! I don’t have all day to read this.” Ok, ok…

Before you take on the world, you need to master your own mind. The Avatar® Course will teach you how to do that. Avatar is a set of practical, effective, and powerful tools that will allow you, in a very short time, to identify and change the conclusions, decisions, and agreements that are shaping your life.

It’s not what you think, it’s how you think.

• The Avatar Course reawakens your own natural ability to manage your consciousness by managing your beliefs. We’ll send you a Free Info Pack that will show you how to:
• Achieve conscious awareness and gain control of your mind, and your life.
• Experience a quiet mind, clarity of will, and focus.
• See your beliefs for what they are, and how they are creating your current life circumstances.
• Use the power of your beliefs to create the life you desire.

In Avatar you’ll learn to create new beliefs and discard unwanted beliefs. The amazing thing is that as you restructure your mind, the experiences you attract into your life change, as well! With Avatar each person

discovers their own unique way of using the tools to reach their highest potential.

Avatar Will Accelerate Your Evolvement

“Avatar teaches the use of proven navigational tools that can be used, in harmony with your own integrity, to pass safely across the uncharted turbulence of the mind into the region of the soul.”

Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials

If you’re ready to make changes in your life, you need to look inward. Change starts with exploring your consciousness, and Avatar will show you how to do that.

The Avatar Course is the purest, most powerful personal growth course available in the world today – at any price. In Avatar you’ll learn powerful techniques for how to create what you want in life by changing the beliefs and judgments in your own consciousness. You’ll learn to create new beliefs and discard unwanted beliefs. The amazing thing is that as you restructure your mind, the experiences you attract into your life change, as well! With Avatar each person discovers their own unique way of using the tools to reach their highest potential.

Avatar Works.

Next Steps:

1. Come to an Avatar Discussion Group and explore one of Harry Palmer’s books
2. Come to the ReSurfacing Workshop in Orlando November 7th & 8th
3. Come to the last International Avatar Course of 2015, starting November 21st in Orlando FL

The Associated Press recently released a survey showing that we are less patient this year than last year. In fact, our tolerance level has been steadily declining year after year since the early 1980’s. The most current data shows that 5 minutes waiting on “hold” on the phone, or 10 minutes spent waiting in a line stretches us to the limits of our patience.

Those are the survey results, but what about you? How do you feel when you’re kept waiting? Most people don’t like it. Yet ironically, at the same time that we’re becoming less patient, we’re encountering more situations than ever that call for patience.

Lines at the gas station are getting longer, traffic is moving slower, delivery times are increasingly unreliable, and repairmen no longer even give you a time, they just say, “Sometime between 8 and 5…”

So if you want to make sure that whatever is broken gets fixed, you’ll be at home between 8 and 5 — waiting. And let’s not even talk about the difference between the time your Doctor’s appointment is scheduled for and the time it actually happens. We really do spend a lot of our time just waiting.

I know what you’re thinking right now; “Come on — get to the point! I don’t have all day to read this.” Ok, ok…

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