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Unleash the Power Within - Seminar Review

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This is a review of the “Unleash the Power Within” (UPW in short) seminar by Anthony Robbins that took place on 22-25th February 2008 in London. I will explain here what happened from before the beginning, how it was on the seminar in details and how it is several months after the seminar. You will also get a list of values extracted from my notes.

How I got there? In the year 2007 I started to attend live seminars, workshops and classes but going to such a big event as UPW was outside my mind. One day I ordered a free book by Anthony Robbins, that was from a very popular ad on the internet. It was a real paper book, very short that I even read it quickly long time ago but it turn out to be a very valuable book that I still review from time to time. After ordering it I received a call from recruiters and I understood that the free book was a just a catch to get potential clients for the seminar. I didn’t want to go there in the first place, after a long discussion I put down the sales person and was proud :) my reasons were that I could spend time and money in better ways, I could evolve faster on my own, I was also too overwhelmed with other events, had no time to process the material and gather thoughts. But after few weeks and Christmas holidays I had time to contemplate and I thought if I want to be great I had to act like a great, rich person and this seminar was an opportunity to do that, so I decided to go. I called the same salesperson and bought the ticket. The cost ranged between 600 - 1500 USD and more. I bought a ticket in the middle of the audience. Before the seminar I did a simple visualization to be close to the stage, I also set the intention what I want to get from it. I wrote it down and I was prepared. As it showed up on the place since I was there on my own each day I could find a single vacant seat near the stage. Sitting far is also not bad because you have a magnificent view on all big screens and the sea of heads.
It was a four day seminar. The morning first day was a registration, you could arrive early or late, there was a lot of waiting anyway and even a delay afterwards. But when the seminar started everything got into an outrageous motion, the whole afternoon until late night Tony Robbins was preparing us to walk on fire. To read about the firewalk see my previous firewalk article. All four days were about techniques to literally unleash the power within. There were three basic things physiology, focus and language. It was shown that even a change of 2mm can be the difference between being average or outstanding. The seminar was very well organized, probably because it is repeated many times each year in many places on the Earth for many years. There could just be some more toilets. I heard before that possibly there could be some ads promoting Tony’s products, but it was clean with a one huge exception. On the third day when all the crowd was already conditioned, in a peak state, excited, virtually furious Tony introduced his Mastery University which is a bundle of three very expensive seminars. At that time it was very hard to resist the temptation.

Tony has a great charisma although he can’t write clearly on the board. It is either done on purpose or a big shame. But don’t worry there was almost no writing at all. Tony doesn’t drink water on the stage and he takes breaks when the audience is busy, so it is unnoticeable. There is an impression that he is on the stage all the time constantly and in a peak state. The fourth day was about health and Tony was only on videos. That day the main person was the second speaker: Joseph McClendon III. He is an older, very entertaining, black, smart guy but for the money he gets he could show more wisdom.

During the seminar I took plenty of notes. Below are the extracted values:

  • See things as they are, but not worse.
  • Change is automatic, progress not.
  • People don’t know who they are.
  • People are adapting to be like other people.
  • Be spontaneous and not judgmental like a little kid who while walking can jump occasionally without a reason.
  • Charisma = Energy
  • The more you give the more you receive.
  • You cannot conserve energy by being still. The more energy you give the more energy you receive. Use your energy when you are tired
  • Celebrate first in the area you want to improve.
  • Fear stops.
  • Stress do not exist, it is fear.
  • You go inside when you think you are not good enough.
  • Two major human fears are: “I am not good enough” and “I won’t be loved”.
  • Do not fight with fear because it will cause more pain. Instead align with it and free up. There was an example from martial art how to release your wrist when attacker grabs it.
  • The story we are telling ourselves why we don’t have something is blocking us from having it.
  • Emotion is your life.
  • Do you think about the future to look for what you can control and what you can’t control?
  • How do you feel when you are proud / grateful / excited ?
  • What you focus on you feel.
  • Habitual language gives meaning to your life, so be careful.
  • Replace bad feeling phrases with a funny ones like replace “everything is broken here” say “this is slightly inconvenient”.
  • You have 65000 thoughts per day, 95% are same as yesterday.
  • Think about something you want to achieve but you always put it away. Would you do it today if that was the requirement for Tony Robbins to transfer 30 million dollars to your bank account by tomorrow?
  • When you are depressed you focus on yourself, to break depression focus on someone else.
  • Human beings are not they behavior.
  • Success formula: Define your outcome, clarity is the power. Know your reason why.
  • The strongest force that controls you is behaving consistent with your beliefs. When did you get those beliefs?
  • Expand the sense of who you are! Move outside your comfort zone.
  • All progress comes from breaking the pattern.
  • People can do more for others than for themselves.
  • The story of a kind act never ends. There was a real example of a good waiter that treated restaurant guests like a family, Tony liked that restaurant especially because of this waiter. There was a chain of events.
  • People lives are a direct reflection of the expectation of their peer group.
  • Proximity is power.
  • Rapport is power.
  • 70% of all information available for humanity is on the internet.
  • People like people like themselves or who are like they want to be.
  • Style is more important than a substance initially.
  • 2 millimeters in golf is a huge difference, 2 millimeters on a face can decide of it’s beauty, if you raise your chest by 2 millimeters it can decide if you became a successful millionaire.
  • We learn because we associate new things with things that we know.
  • In electricity a resistor can be explained as a gauge in a pipe of water.
  • something good gives poor results,
    something excellent gives good results,
    something OUTSTANDING gives all…

  • The whole life is controlled by values and beliefs.
  • Disappointment gives best results.
  • A way to master something is to model someone outstanding.
  • A business is when you have free time, a job is when you must work all the time.
  • Health equals energy.
  • Energy comes from cells.
  • The quality of your life comes from the quality of your cells.
  • All cells needs oxygen, water and ability to eliminate waste.
  • A cell can live forever.
  • Killers of cells are: lack of oxygen, disturbance to the electric field, physical rapture.
  • Blood is the river of life.
  • You have 3 times more lymph than blood.
  • Source of disease is accumulation of toxins.
  • Disease is due to deficiency of force.
  • Disease is the cure. It’s the way of eliminating toxins.
  • It is easier to sell to an existing customer than to a new one.
  • The cause of the pain is rarely the source.
     

    During the seminar there were plenty of games we were played, some of them:

  • Introduce yourself to as many people from the audience as you can, but do it in a few different ways. First with a hesitation, acting like being scared, afraid of rejection . Secondly greet a stranger like your good friend that you haven’t seen for a long time. Then introduce yourself like to a person from whom everything depends: your finances, job, family, put everything you can like in a life and death situation.
  • Mirror other people dancing
  • Get into someone else’s feelings by mirroring their entire physiology.
  • Give a quick massage to other
  • Explain your goals and your fears to a total stranger.
     

    After the seminar the buzz stays for many days but the motivation can easily fade in few weeks. This fact is used by recruiters and you can expect a call from a salesperson offering you another seminar during those days or even months afterwards. That’s how I bought a ticket for a different seminar “The Next Step” with Joseph McClendon III, it will be few months from now and I will certainly write a review about it.

    There are several techniques from the UPW that I use nowadays, that seminar showed me a greater view on life and first of all it gave me more power which it was all about - unleashing it :) .
    If you have a chance to go to one of the Tony Robbins’ UPW seminars it is absolutely a good investment, people remember it for years and some go multiple times. This flat article can’t explain that multidimensional event but at least you got the glimpse from how it started up until now.

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