David Friedman - The Thought Exchange: Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a Sensational Life

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Practicing David Friedmans THOUGHT EXCHANGE ideas has been the most fundamentally life-changing, positive experience Ive ever had.

LUCIE ARNAZ

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Ive had the privilege of attending many inspirational and motivational presentations in my years in ministry. Few can parallel the excellence that David Friedman brings to the table. He is a natural and gifted educator and musician with an uncanny capacity to draw out from individuals their inherent gifts and talents. By applying the wisdom found in these pages, you will be able to turn desire into demonstration and realize your inherent magnificence.

REV. RUSSELL HEILAND

FIRST UNITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

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Davids book was like a miracle dropped in my lap at a time of great need. His concepts helped me to flip my thoughts about a situation and reach for different possibilities about the way I was seeing a painful circumstance. I am now living my dream life instead of the unhappy life that I thought was my future. Thank you, David, for giving us The Thought Exchange!

TANYA MURPHY

You brought a lot of class to our program and personally helped me with a road block I could not get around. I am better because I met you, and look forward to our paths crossing again.

ELIZABETH A. JOYNER

PRESIDENT OKLAHOMA WOMENS BAR ASSOCIATION

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Thanks for taking the time to address your own issues so that youre now able to explain these concepts so clearly that we can actually understand and use them.

JOHN LOCHNER

UNITY OF DALLAS

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It was as if something unlocked within me at The Thought Exchange Wednesday night. Ive read countless books, and all roads have lead to your door. What you give, share and teach with such clarity and simplicity all pulls together on a personal level and the professional, creative level. It is, for me, like a giant piece of a puzzle that kept eluding me, and now Ive found it.

DORA RUBIN

NEW YORK CITY

There isnt a way for me to express my gratitude for you or for your work. I have a renewed way of looking at the world since I began studying with you. I never truly believed that I could walk through my feelings. I have now done it, and I know that this new ability is a direct result of going to your classes. The moment when things clicked was just astonishing.

MELISSA GARNO

NEW YORK CITY

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Everyone was stunned by the emotional impact of the music and I believe forever changed by the experience.

Yesterday was superb... totally beyond my expectations!

Such talent and many of the songs had brilliant written all over them. So many tears in the audience.

WORKSHOP & CONCERT ATTENDEES

UNITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

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I cant think of any experience like this, where the level of heartfelt consciousness is so active and trusting, and inspiring for us to continue working on our most creative project, ourselves...and to have someone like you who really gets it all and makes it happen is a gift. I feel very lucky to have landed in this space. Its an incredible experience which requires work, hard work, in allowing feelings to take center stage.

ARJE SHAW

AUTHOR OF THE FIX

FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

If you are picking up this book, you are probably, like me, a person who is interested in taking the next step in your personal growth. You have most likely read many books, participated in many practices and gotten a lot out of them. But the fact that youre picking up this book means that you still have questions. (And who doesnt?)

Twelve years ago, I started the work that eventually became The Thought Exchange, because I noticed that although I was very committed to my personal and spiritual growth, there always seemed to be something missing in all the work I was doing. I would find a book, discover a method, get very excited about the possibility of achieving all my dreams, practice the method religiously, and after a while find myself right back where I started, frustrated and disappointed.

So I thought to myself, Im not stupid, Im not lazy, and neither are all the other people who are doing this work. There must be a good reason why this isnt working.

And in the course of the past 12 years of working on Thought Exchange, and especially in the past 3 years since the original release of this book, I have found those reasons and found a way to work with them.

Most of the Truths I discovered in doing this work paradoxically flew in the face of common wisdom.

We think were doing spiritual work so that we can be comfortable, but in fact, our ability to be uncomfortable is at the core of our being able to have what we REALLY want.

We think we want to be successful so that we can get away from the pain of our childhood, where, in Truth, success only leads us further INTO the pain of our childhood. And thats a GOOD thing, because we need to be with our Inner, historical child in a way that that Inner Child was never been with before. Only by experiencing the pain of the Inner Child in the holding presence of our present adult can we embrace our past and move into the future WITH our past, not leaving it behind.

We think that we live in the physical world, but in fact, our ENTIRE world of experience takes place in the INVISIBLE world inside of us, in the form of sensations and thoughts. No matter what happens outside, we are only looking at it and experiencing it inside.

We think that Spirituality is a tool to get what we want in the world, but actually, the world is a tool to get what we REALLY want where we REALLY live. INSIDE.

The world is nothing more than a mirror in which we see reflected whats going on inside ourselves. And like a mirror, the world, when used for what it REALLY is, can be used to see and change whats in front of it. Ourselves. INSIDE

When we know this, EVERYTHING changes. Why we do things, how we process information, what we strive for, and ultimately our ability to know that infinite possibility always exists (INSIDE) and that we are NEVER in any danger, no matter what happens.

In the past three years since the first publication of this book, I have been privileged to watch this work change thousands of lives. Whether in New Thought Churches, Fortune 500 Companies, Colleges, ever-growing Seminars or Private Sessions, I have had the pleasure of seeing the light bulb go off in people as they not only realized the Truth about how their lives work, but came to experience that all they ever REALLY wanted is right here inside of themselves.

Thought Exchange is hard work. A lot of uncomfortable sensations have to be felt and many illusions are shattered. But the ultimate result is that we move right into the Truth rather than trying to control it, run away from it, or get around it. And once we do this, we find not only a new inner strength and understanding, but we are free to apply Thought Exchange to all other methods of personal and spiritual growth without conflict. Hence the axiom, Always in addition to.Never instead of.

Were releasing this Second Edition of The Thought Exchange at this time because the work is moving forward in such leaps and bounds that we wanted to make sure that as many people as possible read this first book as a basis for the discoveries and innovations that lie ahead.

A second book, called The Healing Power of Negative Thoughts and Uncomfortable Sensations is going to press as I write this. In addition to the weekly courses I teach in New York and Norwalk, CT (you can go to www.TheThought Exchange.com to find out about them) several Thought Exchange study groups have sprung up around the country. Im currently at work on creating a video and workbook course so that New Thought institutions can study with me when Im not there. In response to many requests from around the country to learn how to teach Thought Exchange, I am also currently exploring ways to teach and certify Thought Exchange teachers. (If youre interested in doing this, or have any other questions about The Thought Exchange you can contact me through the website.) Larger seminars across the country are in the works, and a documentary about my work can be found on the Thought Exchange website.