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The following points are the insights that a friend of mine and I have learned from this book.

Our intention is to share this to increase your awareness and hopefully improve your life. However, please be critical and aware that some of these insights may or may not be practical for our lives, please use your professional judgement when thinking of implementing the ideas talked about here:

1. Focus In The Moment!

• Present Moment: Be here in the present, focus on what is here now
• LOOK FORWARD TO THE PRESENT Instead of always having your eyes set to the future, Dyer states that we should enjoy the present. There is a saying “that the present is a gift.” I think Dyer would agree with this. He makes the point that people who are overly-focused with accomplishing goals in the future do so out of feelings of inadequacy or lack of accomplishment. While it is good to have goals for the future, it is not good if you believe accomplishing those goals will lead to greater happiness, especially when most goals are based on achieving more status. Dyer coyly asks the reader if they can remember achieving a goal from the past, that the reader thought would improve their life, or make them happier. He then says that in most cases he assumes the reader would answer no when Dyer asks if accomplishing that goal made them any happier. The point in all of this is that we need to happy about our present lives. We need to find happiness within ourselves, and not base happiness on materialistic possessions, or the achievement of titles based on status. As Dyer states, “there is not a way to happiness, but rather happiness is the way.”

2.  Inner stillness is key

• By being quiet, you force yourself to observe more. Silence is a virtue. Silence is associated with wisdom. Wayne Dyer makes this point many times throughout book.
• Here’s a bit about Dyer’s habits to create inner stillness. He rises at 4am and does yoga and meditates, he keeps talking about a line by a famous poet that says that the morning breeze has secrets to tell you, don’t go back to sleep, meaning that when you meditate in the morning early hours, you access higher frequencies, thoughts and ideas.

3.  Love & Give

• Be service oriented: Ask “How may I serve?”(p.15) and work on helping others become stronger and grow. See life as being opportunities to help with each thought and action. Do actions that will make people better off and say words that will awaken the person to make good choices.
• Love: When someone is giving you negativity, Dyer suggests that it would be amazing if we could return and give love in response, and cooperate and listen when in conflict.
• Give: Dyer mentions the benefits of giving and enlightens us about walking the path of giving: Start giving, that includes what you have and money, slowly try to incorporate giving in your life. When you are generous, you get wealth. Start by giving one thing away. Be a giver instead of a collector. Teach about higher principles. Give and do things that will help enrich and make their lives better. Instead of telling people to do something, you can ask them for their suggestions.

4.  Be Spontaneous

• Spontaneity – trust your inner self and act spontaneously more than your plans. Instead of putting in so much effort and force, allow your actions and words to come. Go where the pull from within tells you, instead of following your own rigid plan when going on for example a trip.

5. Have faith & Surrender

(Please note that the following points are controversial, please be critical when deciding to implement this, the main intention is to share with you the teachings of the Tao from Dr. Wayne Dyer)

• We learned that one of the Tao principles is to let people and situations be.  Here are the teachings we’ve learned about surrender and acceptance. DO NOT INTERVENE Let people be. Let people learn on their own. Instead of interefering and trying to influence people’s lives and decisions, just let them be and let them make the decisions for themselves. Let people come to learn through their own life experiences and decisions. Trust in their own skills, judgements, and abilities to allow themselves to make good choices and decisions.
• Surrender, let people and situations be as they are. Don’t try to force your way to get a certain result, know that in the end God’s way will end up happening and that will be right eventually. Instead of striving to achieve certain results, be a witness and let things come and flow in life. Avoid the rush to ripen quickly. “You are unfloding in Divine Nature” (p.70)) Avoid your need to control anyone or anything. Believe that I don’t have to be more better than anyone else or do I have to do something, instead just BE and neither do i have to be successful or win or be first. Your need to control others, let go! Idea – Dedicate a week to not controlling and making things happen and notice instances of things working out. Nature lets things grow at its own pace. Let yourself be guided by God. Let your life come about in natural timing, forget about rushing to quickly ripen. Things are happening in God’s schedule and will work out. Let people do what they came here for without intruding.
• DO NOT START FIGHTS/ARGUMENTS If someone around you says something that upsets you, or that you strongly disagree with, just remember that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Therefore, just hold your tongue, and try to be quiet. If you do say something, make sure it is not a statement that will provoke a disagreement, argument or fight. Instead of starting fights, listen and let them be right, witness what’s happening
• Have faith – use affirmations like All that I need will come at the right time with no rushing. Trust that God will make everything turn out right, be grateful. Let your life unfold and know that your desires will be fulfilled at their own time, let it be instead of feverishly chasing after your desires.

6.  Unity & Oneness is everywhere.

• THERE IS ONENESS IN ALL OF US Rather than focus on the things that make people different from us, we should focus on the things that make us similar. That will encourage people to be more peaceful and friendly with one another, and decrease the likelihood of feelings of hatred if we all practiced this.

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