The Four Agreements

Book by Don Miguel Ruiz

Presentation by Nicole A. Hamilton Assistant Director of Student Life & Leadership

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Introduction to Toltec Wisdom• Exercises• Domestication & the Dream of the Planet• The First Agreement• The Second Agreement• The Third Agreement• The Fourth Agreement• The Toltec Path to Freedom• Questions, Discussion, Thoughts

INTRODUCTION TO TOLTEC WISDOM

• It’s thousands of years old• “Woman & Men of Knowledge.”• A society to conserve the spiritual knowledge and practices • The Naguals (Master’s) were forced to conceal the wisdom.• Misuse of the wisdom for personal gain• Though it remained veiled in secrecy for hundreds of years,

ancient prophecies foretold the coming of an age when it would be necessary to return the wisdom to the people.

• NOT a religion, but honors all the spiritual masters• It is most accurately described as a way of life

How many F’s are there in the following sentence? ______________

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF MANY YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED

WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF SEVERAL YEARS.

What do you see?

What do you see?

DOMESTICATION & THE DREAM OF THE PLANET

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream!

What do you think this means?

DOMESTICATION & THE DREAM OF THE PLANET – CONT.

How do you choose the clothes you wear?How do you view others and the clothes they wear?Do you try to compare yourself to actors/models?Do you say negative things about yourself and/or

others?Do you judge yourself and others?

That is why we need a great deal of COURAGE TO CHALLENGE our own beliefs.

IMAGE OF PERFECTION

We form an Image of what Perfection is in order to try to be good enough.

What is your image of perfection?

If we can see that it is our agreements that rule our own life, and we don’t like

the dream of our life, we need to change the agreements!“The definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over again, but expecting a different

result.” ~Albert Einstein

AGREEMENT #1 BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD

What do you think this agreement means and how can we integrate this into our lives?

If we adopt the first agreement, and become impeccable with our word, any emotional poison will eventually be cleaned from

our mind and from our communication in our personal relationships.

How much LOVE you have for yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity

of your “Word”

AGREEMENT #2DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

Why do you think this is agreement #2?How do we take things personally?

Why?

With this agreement you avoid self-judgment, rejection, fear, sadness, jealousy, and guilt therefore

bringing you peace and happiness.

AGREEMENT #3DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS

How do we make assumptions in our daily lives?

What steps can we take to stop making assumptions?

Don’t be afraid to ask clarifying questions!

AGREEMENT #4ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

Do you work for a paycheck or do you work because you love the job? How does our attitude and outlook change between these two scenarios?

This agreement helps you to allow the other three agreements to become deeply engrained habits!

Always doing your best, you take action; and you do it because you love it, NOT because you are expecting a reward.

AGREEMENT #4ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST – CONT.

• When you Do Your Best, you learn to accept yourself, but you have to be aware and learn from your mistakes.

• This increases your awareness.• ACTION IS ABOUT LIVING FULLY. • INACTION IS THE WAY WE DENY LIFE; It is

sitting in front of the TV everyday for years because your afraid to be alive and to take the RISK of expressing what you ARE.

• PRACTICE makes the Master!

TOLTEC PATH TO FREEDOM

• Breaking Old Agreements:• What is Freedom?• Are we really free? Are you free to be who you really are?• Who stops us from being free?• When you watch a child play, what do you notice about them? How has

that changed going into adulthood?

In order to break old agreements, you have to know what they are. You need to MASTER AWARENESS.

As we grew into adulthood our freedom was lost with the Book of Law, the Big Judge, and the Victim who rule over us. We NEED to be aware that we are NOT FREE, in order to be FREE.

Any Questions or discussion?

Thoughts?

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