"Look Inside to Create What it is That You Want Outside." ~ Soulspeak With Jon Gabriel (The Gabriel Method)

Well, I have been dieting for 10 years and the whole time I was dieting I was gaining weight. Maybe I’d lose 10 lbs, and gain 20 lbs over and over again until I gained over 200 lbs. I tried everything. I worked face to face with the late Dr. Atkins and the end all he could do was yell at me for being so fat. I went to the Pritikin Institute, I had fitness trainers, I had naturopaths and used herb medicines, had acupuncture and traditional medicine and it would always follow the same pattern: I lose all the weight, I gain all the weight. I finally got to a place where I decided I was never gonna diet again and rather than diet I was going to try to understand what my body wanted me fat in the first place, and that’s when everything changed, where my focus changed from trying to force myself to lose weight to understanding what my body was the way it was. I went on a quest in every different direction. I studied Biochemistry, Neurobiology, Stress Management, Consciousness, Meditation, Thought Field Therapy, the relationship between the mind and body, and also how to nourish my body better. Slowly, by making the focus about what my body needs, why it needs fat, and how to get it to no longer have that need and to satisfy it some other way, I then started to lose weight.

The hard part was really that point when I was on my knees, in desperation and saying “I give up. I’m never gonna diet again. I’m not gonna go down this road ever again” This road of willpower and forcing my body and good days and bad days…It’s like your whole life is a battle against what your body wants you to eat and what you’re trying to eat. I let all that go. I stopped having good days and bad days. I ate what I wanted but I kept the focus on understanding why my body wanted to be fat. That was a huge paradigm shift for me and once that happened the weight went down automatically.

I love being physical now. I love being at the beach especially on days like now, when it’s 30 degrees. We have such beautiful beaches. I love the feeling of being physical. Having a dip in the ocean, or a feel of that cold water on me and moving my muscles… I love that feeling. I love connecting with people in my life. I love being a father too. Those are big passions for me.

Our understanding of how the world works. If we all changed our focus to understand that the solution to every challenge that we have is inside of us,  and can come through us and we looked inside we would have a massive shift in consciousness in this planet that would change us forever. There would be no more blame, no more wars, no more greed, no more fear, no more fighting and no more conflict. There’d be no more  limitations. We would all know that everything we need is inside us and we only need to connect with it and we would have that instant shift in consciousness. All that comes with some education and some understanding of how the world really works, and where creativity and abundance really comes from.

No… I have zero regrets. I’ve made horrible mistakes in my life but I have no regrets.  Everything that I have done brought me to this place and moment, and I’m standing here and talking to you and I’m feeling tremendous energy coming through me, so I have no regrets.

Love is who you really are. It’s your true essence. It’s what we’re all looking for but that’s what we really are.

My understanding of the world, which is probably different from the general understanding is that we’re different phases of consciousness. And we don’t see this consciousness – just like fish don’t know that they’re in water, we don’t know that we’re in an ocean of consciousness. One drop of this ocean is more energy and passion and motivation that you can ever need in 20 lifetimes, just one drop. And we are in this ocean. This ocean of energy comes through these energy channels that we have in our bodies.

I have a meditation that I do in the morning to open up my energy channels. Once my energy channels are open, I let this energy run through me and I connect with it. Once it starts running through me then I don’t have to worry about motivation or passion. We have passion. The essence of passion is this energy running through you and creating in the world. I let it go create and move where it wants to go.

I feel tremendously inspired…Literally inspired, because inspired means “in-spirit” … It’s means spirit coming in to you. Spirit or consciousness is coming into me in a very mechanical way, and coming through me so I feel inspired. Then I watch what’s happening in the world, do movies like “Hungry for Change” and other documentaries we’re working on with some incredibly great people, the seminars that we’re doing, the books that we’re putting out, the courses that we’re putting out, the way we connect with people, our support group, the contact that I’m having with people. It’s all coming from this connection and that motivates me, that inspires me, that excites me like I can’t possibly imagine like when I meet somebody and they tell me they’ve lost 200 lbs. 

I met a lady in  at a TV show in Brisbane last week (Channel 9). One of the ladies that lost weight at The Gabriel Method was there giving her story. She looks totally fit. She lost all her weight. She looked like she’s about 42. She could be a fitness trainer. It turns out  that not only is she a grandmother, she has 11 kids too.  I’ve got one daughter who’s absolutely gorgeous – I know how much effort it can be and she’s got 11 kids! And in the process of raising all her kids she lost 100 lbs, she’s gotten tremendous energy! She’s got the energy to go camping again…Se’s telling her story to the world…  I’m listening to this and I was just feeling awe. I’m humbled by this experience, knowing that in some way I’ve contributed to this incredible turnaround. When I hear stories like that I just feel tremendously energized and inspired. 

YOUR DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS AT THIS POINT
I have a vision in the morning when I do my meditation where I imagine this energy coming through me and then spreading out all over the world. As I imagine this, in a sense, it’s me “connecting”. — with you in Manila, with the Intuitive Warrior Seminar I’m doing in Los Angeles, with the show I’m doing next week. It’s me connecting with that energy that comes through me and that energy is the seed of transformation throughout the world. My vision is that growing. It’s getting bigger and brighter, helping to change the world in a positive way, all over the world, millions of people in every country. From a day to day standpoint it’s just a matter of living it and watching how it unfolds.

WHAT DOES THE REST OF 2012 LOOK LIKE FOR YOU?
This year is really busy. I’m going to Los Angeles to do a seminar and then to New York to do a couple shows and then back to San Diego to start filming for a movie that we’re making. It’s a documentary. Then I’m coming back to do my 3 day retreat in Kiama, New South Wales. It’s the highlight of the year to me when I spend 3 days with a few hundred people and we go really really deep in our visualizations, our meditations, learning how to nourish our bodies, transform our lives and our bodies. It’s a really exciting experience. I have that and then I’m going to spend the Summer in Asia. I’m working with a very high profile person that I’m training. We’re going to spend a couple of months together. At the end of the year we’re going to start doing our online courses again. There’s going to be a lot of traveling over the next 6 months and a lot of communicating. The last online course we did which I’m going to start doing again on September had 800 people in 60 countries. We’re all working together at the same time. It’s a very powerful experience. And the rest of the year… We’ll see what happens.

YOU ARE FACE TO FACE WITH YOURSELF AS AN 8 YEAR OLD CHILD, WHAT WOULD YOU TELL YOU?
Life is an adventure. Everything is happening in your life at some level as something that you have chosen, wanted to have and are having because someday you will work through it and be much stronger, more powerful, more excited, and a happier being. Just enjoy the journey and know that that’s exactly what it is — It’s an exciting journey.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR WORK ON THE MOVIE “HUNGRY FOR CHANGE”.
I was contacted by the makers of that movie and they interviewed me in Sydney last year. We spent a day together. I guess they must have done that with 15 other people and they pieced together a  story. I think they did a brilliant job of piecing  the story because  many other people said so many similar things it’s almost like we’re in the same room together, agreeing with each other. I think that was really cool.

WHAT’S THE BIGGEST RISK YOU HAD TO TAKE LATELY?
It’s hard to say because these days usually when I’m faced with a risk, I just surrender to it and have faith, but there was a time 10 years ago when I was faced with a really really big risk. I had to leave the life that I knew, I had to leave all the ‘known’, all my comfort zones, because it wasn’t working for me. I did this in order to pursue my dream and follow my heart to living a much simpler life and a more beautiful place — physically beautiful , in Nature. I left my life in New York. I was working as a successful financial person on Wall St. I left all of that.  I didn’t know what I was going to do for the rest of  my life. I was 400 lbs. I had a baby on the way. I just had to take that chance that maybe I’d survive if I follow my heart. I started living a very simple life. I started getting rid of the stressors and the fears. I started doing a lot of visualization, praying and  a lot of studying. Transformed my body and in many other ways, transformed. That was the BIG risk that I had to take in my life. The rewards of that are still developing. 

WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT BEING A FATHER?
I just love the connection. It’s such a special relationship. There’s no other relationship that’s as pure as that, where all you want is someone else’s happiness and nothing else. She’s at an age now where we’re able to communicate at the same level. We have similar humor. She can occupy herself with her projects. She says things that always amaze me. She has incredible insights. She hasn’t gotten into that age yet where she becomes a teenager and doesn’t want anything to do with her daddy. It’s just a perfect sweet spot. To me there’s nothing that compares to it.

YOUR MAJOR INFLUENCES, MENTORS & TEACHERS.
When I was in New York, I did a lot of meditation with an Indian guru named Paramahamsa Hariharananda. I also learned some Taoist work from a Vietnamese man who lived in Philadelphia. They were really big inspirations for me and taught me the foundations and tools that I needed to develop myself internally. As far as famous figures, Anthony Robbins is a huge influence.  I think Deepak Chopra is great. And I really like Dr. Christiane Northrup. She was also in “Hungry for Change”. I think she’s a really special person.

IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE RIGHT NOW WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO?
I’m exactly where I want to be… There is nowhere else I could see myself going.

YOUR ONE MESSAGE TO THE WORLD.
Everything, absolutely everything that you need is inside of you. All you have to do is connect with it. The ability to transform your body, to transform your life, and be fearless, totally supported, totally loved, totally connected. And the more you go inside to connect with the source of all your wealth, fitness and abundance…the more you will see it in the outside world. So look inside to create what it is that you want outside.