I was 12 years old, and I found myself, with another kid, in the middle of a storm, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, at midnight, in serious trouble...

I lived in a small city in southern Chile. The youngest of 5 siblings, the object of their ridicule and indifference, with a father who loved me but was never at home. With a mother who did not express affection for me. In my family the economic scarcity was felt. And I was not in good health. I had been experiencing severe anemia with frequent fainting seizures.

Those who knew me considered me to be very smart, even though in my town, there was not even a library.

My classmates had loving parents who protected them, they had comfortable homes, and they had good financial situations. They told me about trips, visits to museums, cultural centers, and they learned interesting things. But for me, that possibility did not exist.

I wanted my mother to love me, improvement in the financial situation of my family, I wanted my father to be at home; that my brothers take me into account, and that my unhealthy condition ended. To put an end to my loneliness, and feel loved, accompanied, and happy. I was very sad; love did not exist for me. I wanted to have access to museums, libraries, centers of knowledge in big cities. But everything was against me. I didn't see how that could change.

I had tried to earn my mother's love by being a good son, approaching and hugging her, having her help with my homework, but to no avail. I had asked my father not to travel so much but he was trapped and had no choice. I had accepted the ridicule of my brothers so as not to feel ignored by them, but they still excluded me from their activities. I listened to my classmates’ stories about travels, museums, and huge libraries, but only if they were in a good mood. I was taking all my medicine for anemia, but I still felt bad. And anemia was still with me.

Nothing changed no matter how hard I tried!

I felt that everything was going to continue the same. My future was dark and uncertain. What I felt most was deep sadness, loneliness, lack of love, frustration and hopelessness.

A couple of times I thought I would end my life, but something stopped me, and I abstained.

I would go to sleep at night with those feelings. And when I woke up, they were there waiting for me.

I entered the scout movement looking for company and consolation in nature to get away from my pain at home.

But I still felt trapped, finished, and wanted to weep every day.

What does this hard, frustrating and sad story of that 12-year-old boy have to do with that terrible storm at midnight, in the heart of the Andes, near that small town where he lived?

I will continue explaining below (Part two). It's worth knowing.!

Perhaps, by trying to escape the emotions of sadness, frustration, and hopelessness, I had turned into a daring boy scout. With a friend, we decided to travel, on foot, up a mountain 20 miles away.

Now we were caught in the middle of a storm, at midnight, up in the Chilean Andes expecting the worst.

Suddenly we heard a voice shouting at us, and we saw far away, a dim light from a lantern that came from a house in the middle of that forest, telling us to go up to seek shelter.

That experience was a date with destiny for me. It allowed me to meet someone who would completely transform my life.

He lived with his wife in the high mountains, and he was our savior by giving us lodging before we continued our trek into the high mountains.

There was something about him that made him trustworthy and conveyed a peace that I have not found since then. He had deep eyes that glowed with love and intelligence.

I think he could read my heart and understand the reason that led me to the mountains.

I remember how he calmly absorbed the calabash mate (tea) that he drank, and his figure was outlined on the wall of the room, and the fire in the fireplace gently lit and warmed the room. Then, with deep thought, he began to tell me...

"Everything that we live is the outcome of our thoughts. Creations and materializations of our minds. Everything that happens in our lives is materialized information from our minds."

And then he placed some logs on the fire in the fireplace and added... 

"It is useless to try to change things by physical means, what ails us, and hurts, in love, money, human relationships or our health because everything is created only from our mind".

And, returning to his comfortable chair, he firmly added...

"If our physical reality is created from our mind, then from there, what we do not want will also dissolve. It's that simple."

He was silent for a moment, then looked me straight in the eye and said:

"We are gardeners of our lives, and we can make beautiful flowers bloom in our gardens, or grow weeds and poisonous plants."

These are words I still hear in my mind today. They resounded in me, like thunder, and stayed there, never to be erased.

At that moment my life went from one level to another. It was as if a veil had fallen from my eyes. I had one of those rare increases in my level of consciousness.

In those same moments, I began to feel relief, peace, and hope, that I did not have before. I felt that he had put the keys of life in my hands.

All sadness, loneliness, lack of love, frustration, and discouragement, like unreal ghosts, began to dissolve. At that moment the light from that fireplace not only illuminated the room but also my heart and my life. I started to feel hope. We savored that exquisite drink and those delicious hot pieces of bread, next to that fireplace that warmed us. We listened while it rained terribly outside and howled with the frightful and icy wind from the Andes mountains. I felt a warmth in my heart.

Suddenly I realized that my friend had fallen fast asleep and had not heard anything. It was as if those words should only be heard by me.

I realized the enormous wisdom of this extraordinary man. From that moment I made it a point to stay close to him and learn everything, he could teach me, if he agreed to do so. Why did I need the museums or libraries of the big cities now, if the enormous wisdom he had was so great, would it not fit in any of them?

This was my first contact with what I would later know as the "8 Codes of Life" something that very few on the planet have heard of. Only the wisest.

These "8 Codes of Life" are kind of like a new brain software that awakens dormant mental abilities. And they lead a person to an existence of success, health, love, happiness, and enlightenment.

I made up my mind to learn what he knew to solve my problems. Could that be possible?

That's what I intend to share with you below in Part 3.

Why did I need museums, or libraries, if the wisdom of that man from the mountains had been so great that it would not fit in any of them?

After the storm, during breakfast, he told me that in the Andes, the most important teachings for a better life and development of people were known as the "8 Codes of Life". They were preserved, for thousands of years, for the future of humanity”.

That was the first time I heard those wonderful words "8 Codes of Life", which would be the theme of my life.

Later I would learn that he was the last guardian of the "8 Codes of Life" in the Chilean Andes. He was the wisest of all the guardians in the Andes Mountain range.

These "8 Codes of Life" are kind of like a new brain software that awakens dormant mental capacities.

For  they remove the illusions and limitations of our eyes and ears, the illusion that the world we observe and hear is solid and static. And not a vacuum (of energy) and constantly moving and changing.

They also take away our ideas and beliefs, imposed by society. That only the material is real, a one-dimensional physical world. And the ideas of what is "possible and impossible", and all the implications that this offers.

They free us from all that mesh of ideas, judgments, prejudices, likes, dislikes, values and criteria, implanted by the culture and limited society in which we live, that trap, imprison and completely limit the faculties of our wonderful universal mind, (they are true traps set in our minds), which limit, alter, impoverish our personal and collective reality.

By freeing ourselves from them, through the 8 Codes, which were bequeathed to us by those who freed their minds long time ago, we can access an extraordinary life. and, therefore they lead us  to an existence of success, health, love, happiness, and enlightenment.

And, freeing ourselves from the "logic" of our society, recruit a greater number of neurons used by our wonderful and gigantic human brain.

I will detail and expand more these ideas of “mind traps” in the future. In a second part of these experiences of my life.

Without me being aware, the night before he had taught me the Code of Life called "WISDOM" (IACHAY in the Quechua language) that changed my life. Those words made a veil come off my eyes and gave me relief, peace, and hope, which I did not have before.

Seeing me so interested and perhaps because he knew my bravery, he offered to teach me the 8 codes. It would take time, and so I began to visit him frequently.

My plan was to learn the Codes, visiting him once a month, staying at his house for the weekend, for 5 years. My plan was to take notes on them (nobody had ever done it before), learn the “8 Codes of Life", and apply them to myself to overcome the problems that awaited me at home.

Just knowing the existence of the 8 codes, had made my desire to visit museums, libraries in big cities, become irrelevant. The circumstance of meeting that man of wisdom, so close to my little town, made that completely unnecessary.

Weeks and months passed, following this plan, studying and practicing the "8 Codes of Life".

When I stopped thinking, complaining, and focusing on my problems, of loneliness, lack of love, and such, as I did before, those problems stopped feeding and having a life. And by concentrating my mind only on the study of the "8 Codes of Life", and on my personal goals, I stopped feeling miserable. All my emotional discomforts faded, day after day, and were gone forever.

My health began to improve remarkably, day by day. The anemia ended forever, and I became physically strong and very healthy.

For a while, my brothers remained indifferent to me, but I no longer cared. Funny, when they noticed something different inside of me, they began to ask me to join their activities, but they stopped being appealing to me. Now they begged me to participate with them, to which I agreed a few times.

But my other problems remained: My father was still traveling for work. The shortage was still felt in my family. But I no longer felt insecure, and my father being away did not affect me as before.

My mother was still distant from me. But that no longer affected me as well. I didn't feel lacking in love now. I had begun to feel a constant inner happiness every day and I realized that I could generate love even if I lived surrounded by people who did not love me in return. It didn´t bother me.

But, the study and practice of the "8 Codes of Life", brought some completely unexpected conflicts and challenges for me that I will share with you below...(Part 4th)

After several months of following my "8 Codes of Life" study plan, many of my problems were solved. Or they no longer affected me. My view of the world had taken a 180-degree turn. Every day I felt more and more happy and joyful, and my physical health was more and more extraordinary.

But conflicts and problems appeared that I did not expect, they filled me with fear at first, and almost made me return to my old life of sadness, loneliness, and frustration. They however were the best thing that could happen to me for my growth and awareness.

My physical dad, who was always in financial trouble, began to give me advice, unnecessary, totally opposed to what I received from my "spiritual dad."

Those who have read my book "Spiritual Dad, Poor Dad" know about these conflicts, because the book is about them.

My physical father wanted to teach me the kind of life he led because he knew no other.

During a family lunch, I hinted at a couple of "8 Codes" ideas. He was so enraged that he punished me all afternoon.

There I understood that this was the cause of all the ills of my dad and the spider web that trapped him. The reason why he had not been able to shake off his travels, hard life, and being away from us. I understood that these problems were his creation. That is why the shortage still ran in my family. He created scarcity and problems with his mind.

These conflicts helped me become a MASTER of the "8 Codes".

They helped me realize that I could not interfere with the creations of others. Family scarcity no longer mattered to me. It was not my creation. It was my father's.

These conflicts verified the truths of the 8 Codes for me. It was the universe that responded to my experience of the 8 codes teaching me even more. I was not to fight or oppose the conflict. But to thank them and learn from them.

Just like a baby, he is attracted by the force of gravity that makes him fall to the ground and makes it difficult for him to walk. Such an "obstacle" allows him to develop his muscles and strength. Such conflicts are to help us grow. But some may be scared and run away.

Just as a molar needs an opposing molar to be able to grind food. If that antagonist molar is lost, the first will not be able to have a healthy life. That molar will get sick and fall out too. It requires the opposing force to be well and for its health and that of the bone that surrounds it.

Similar conflicts, to the one I lived with my father, I encountered later at the university, with my classmates. And then as a dental surgeon, with my colleagues, who had the mentality of my poor dad.

And then it happened to me with those who trained me in the areas of NLP, Hypnotherapy, and Coaching. All with the same ideas of struggle, scarcity, pain, as my physical dad. Ignoring the 8 codes, and sowing failures, believing that they were following the right path.

Some of my desires and previous goals were irrelevant, like museums and libraries. Others were not my problem or creation. The shortage problems in my family and my father´s absences were created by him. Other previous desires of mine no longer mattered to me, like my mother's lack of affection. I felt more and more full of joy and love, day after day.

These conflicts made me grow in the levels of my consciousness and throw a roaring NO to my prior life of ignorance, which materializes evils and hopelessness. Since then, the "8 Codes of Life" have made me succeed in all areas of my life.

There were many more results due to them that I will go on  sharing (Part 5)...

I have already pointed out that the "8 Codes of Life" are kind of like a new brain software that awakens dormant mental abilities. They lead a person to the existence of success, health, love, and happiness.

I encountered conflicts in a surprising way, living under the 8 Codes of Life, that helped me grow and give a roaring NO to the old life of ignorance, which at such an early age, materialized for me, evils, and hopelessness.

Living under this new mental software,  or “mind set” of the “8 Codes of Life”,  has made me reap, from the early age of 12, successes in all areas of my life. Starting with extraordinary health, and then ending forever the feeling of sadness and loneliness that I had before. I began to experience the feeling of constant happiness and joy more and more, and my physical health became extraordinary.

One of the things that surprised me was that after several months of following my plan and practicing the "8 Codes of Life" many of the problems I had were solved. Or they just no longer affected me.

I realized that some of the goals or desires I had were completely irrelevant, like going to museums and libraries in the big cities, it just didn't interest me. Others were not my creation, like the scarcity problems that my father created and his absence from home. Others no longer mattered to me, like my mother's indifference. I felt more and more filled with joy and love, day after day, whether I was loved in return or not. That discovery was incredible and another quantum jump in my life.

Since then, the codes have only made me successful in every area of my life.

But there were many more things, like the following ...

At 21 years of age, I became the successor of my "spiritual father" and was the most enlightened individual in the "8 Codes of Life" of the Andes mountains range. All the love that I did not receive from my mother was given to me in greater amounts by whom became my wife at 25 years of age. And then I received more from my two children.

At 32 years of age, I became one of the wealthiest people in the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile.

At this stage in my life, my mother became very close to me and she began to show me affection that she had never given me before. Now I had the love of two women, my wife and my mother. She apologized, pointing out that she had always loved me but did not know how to express her affection. She was raised by her grandparents, and not her parents, she had a very difficult childhood. I received her with open arms, and until her last days, we had a relationship of love and great closeness.

From that age I traveled around the world, several times, I met some of the brightest minds in personal development. I visited the great museums and libraries of the world.

Years after that stormy night in the Andes, many would consider me the leading authority on NLP, Hypnotherapy, and "Deep Coaching" in Hispanic America. One of the great connoisseurs of the subconscious and the first Master Hypnotist (doctor in Hypnosis) in Spanish countries. And trainer of thousands of people globally.

I came to help thousands of people to solve their mental and emotional problems, and I trained more than 20 thousand people in workshops, I wrote - and I continue to write books to help others - and I came to represent several international organizations in Life Coaching and personal and human development.

I tell you this to offer a testimony of what the "8 Codes of Life" have done for me. In the next email, I will tell you other interesting experiences with people who have applied them. Even without even being aware of doing so. And also, how these codes have been a compass that allows me to differentiate the false from the real in the disciplines of human development and therapy.

I  will share those experiences below (Part 6).

The legends surrounding the "8 Codes of Life" indicate that they come from a very advanced civilization that existed off the coasts of Chile and Peru, some 15,000 - 25,000 years ago, before sinking in the Pacific Ocean.

After my "spiritual father" passed and relayed on to me his knowledge and named me "Guardian of the 8 Codes of Life", I graduated from the University of Chile as a dental surgeon.

At a meeting in the Bahamas, I was asked to speak to a group of people who came desiring to know about my experiences in the Andean mountains and their mysticism.

In that meeting, I met people, with whom since then I have kept constant ties up to date. I learned a lot from them. Especially by observing them.

I realized that just like a fish that cannot see the water around it, many of them lived applying some of the "8 Codes of Life" without ever having heard of them.

They simply had extraordinary mindsets and habits of mind.

They were part of an elite, influential people with great personal and professional achievements.

Some of them were advanced in age, but had extraordinary health and youth, with stable marital relationships and extraordinary financial and love relationships.

My observations trying to figure out what they did to get such results, motivated me to develop what I call today, the "12 Laws of the Mind" that I began to glimpse when I related to these people. They are "12 mental laws" that are closely related to the "8 Codes of Life". They work in coordination with each other.

These insights are the core of my current life, and they helped me develop a method that goes far beyond therapy, aimed at achieving a life of extraordinary success and abundance. And also to well-being, personal and spiritual development (Enlightenment). That is, towards the evolution of a human being.

I will explain this further in the next writting entitled "In Front of My Own Eyes!".

If you are interested in taking a “quantum jump” in your life, read it.

Our lives are similar to gardens that we must care for and tend. Our thoughts and words are like the seeds we plant. If they are of good quality, beautiful flowers will grow and bloom. But if they are the wrong seeds we will harvest horrible weeds and poisonous plants.

Some of my new friends that I met in the Bahamas did NOT create problems, but success and well-being! And the reason was that they took a LOT of care of their daily thoughts and words. Intuitively they understood that they were seeds that must be carefully chosen before sowing.

I could observe it by listening to how they spoke and the words they used. It was a remarkable difference with people who had physical, financial, or relationship problems.

It became clear to me that money, health, and relationship shortage, and scarcity of the latter originated from the misuse of the power of their mind and words.  Only as a result of an empoverished or “survival” state of the mind.  They sowed seeds of weeds and brambles with their thoughts. It was not some kind of "weakness" or "disease" or "limitation" they had. It was an artificial of an empoverished or “survival” state of the mind  condition created by their own daily thoughts.

I saw the "8 Codes of Life" working there IN FRONT OF MY OWN EYES. Depressions, anxiety, discouragement, fears, problems, that people present, are creations of the mind of the person who suffers them. Their thoughts of devaluation, negativity, criticism, and daily complaints are like poisonous herb seeds that will later sprout in our gardens. Materializing many evils. Their thoughst are of poverty and limitation. Therefore as “they sow they reap”

The natural state of a person is a state of power and well-being. If you take care of the quality of the seeds you plant in your garden - your life - and transform it into a new habit, you will reap the fruits of a healthy, abundant and happy life.

Mental and emotional dysfunctions, health problems, and "unhappiness" are artificial creations, caused by sowing poisonous seeds with constant thoughts and words of devaluation, negativity, and complaints, that give life and  sustains such conditions.

Sick people, mentally or physically, do not need to acquire health, but to stop creating and sustaining disease. They must stop seeding weeds and poisonous plants with their thoughts. Those who have financial problems do not need to acquire prosperity, but to stop holding thoughts that attract and materialize poverty. And those who are lonely do not need to attract a partner, but to stop repelling those who approach and stop creating loneliness.

As you stop sowing weeds and start sowing good seeds, health, prosperity, and love will appear with very little extra effort.

Those who desire to have an extraordinary life must begin to use their mental power in the right way. Healing and abundance will come effortlessly as a natural consequence. It is about good mental sowing and an extraordinary material harvest.

I developed the "12 Laws of Mind" by observing my friends in the Bahamas and troubled people. And I learned the "8 Codes of Life" in the Chilean Andes. Both things coordinate in an extraordinary way and are what I teach today. The core of my teachings is for everyone, children and adults. They open the door wide for us to health and all kinds of abundance and happiness. And they solve therapeutic problems, which are very difficult for NLP, Hypnotherapy or Life Coaching, and counseling, which completely ignore these concepts and principles.

How did I get involved in NLP, Hypnotherapy, and Life Coaching? And what do I deduce from them after decades of studying and practicing them in-depth? I'll share it with you below (Part 8)...

Some of those people I met in the Bahamas were acquainted with the famous Dr. Richard Bandler, Hypnotist, and co-creator of NLP.

Contacts were made, and I trained with Dr. Bandler in the NLP training levels until I reached the highest level, one of those international trainers. Then I worked, for a decade, certifying students. He suggested me to  study with Hypno-analysts - the most advanced - in New York City, and later in England. Everyone was in Dr. Bandler's network.

I became one of the most profound researchers, connoisseurs, and practitioners of these two disciplines. I wanted it to complement my medical career.

They are Western disciplines good for personal change. But being a guardian of the "8 Codes of Life" and having discovered the "12 Laws of the Mind", conflicts arose with these disciplines and their creators and practitioners, similar to those I encountered with my physical father when I was just learning the "8 Codes of Life". And also with my colleagues in college, and then with my colleagues as a dental surgeon, they all had the same mentality.

The same ideas of struggle, scarcity, pain, of my physical dad, my college classmates, and my dental colleagues. Despite being good disciplines, it was not possible to reap the successes they promised.

Because NLP, Hypnotherapy, and Coaching were created, taught, and practiced from limited, incomplete, and impoverished visions and paradigms of the human being, it is impossible to get the definitive and stable results that their creators and followers so enthusiastically promised.

The techniques are good but their approach is wrong. This can be detected - at first glance - by anyone who studies the "8 Codes of Life" and the "12 Laws of the Mind."

The human being is "multidimensional". Like those Russian dolls that contain 3 dolls inside the first one. And each layer is made up of different materials, from the denser to the subtlest. Those from the innermost influence those from the outermost. The outermost ones receive the effect of what happens to the innermost ones.

The physical body is like the outermost doll in the human being. But when you open it, the others appear inside. They are not seen, but they are there influencing the outer ones. The innermost of all is the Spirit (or Soul). The next outer one is that of the mind (and thoughts). Above that is what we may call the subconscious, and finally, the outermost is like the physical body (what is seen before opening the Russian doll).

The subconscious is the ground where the seeds of thoughts will be planted and take root, which will then sprout and grow as physical realities. They will be beautiful flowers or horrible weeds in our physical and real world.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques only seek a change in body chemistry and neurology (hence its name "NEURO-linguistics"). It works on the outermost layer of the human being alone and nothing else.

Hypnotherapy operates a little deeper, on the subconscious, but not on the innermost layer, our daily thoughts. Thus, both NLP and Hypnotherapy practice at a superficial level, and have an erroneous Western approach of "lack and weakness" of a human being and not of "strength and power."

Aware of these limitations, from the ideas and visualization practices of NLP and also hypnosis  I developed the "Twilight States of the mind" (TSM) and combined them with the "12 Laws of the Mind" and the "8 Codes of Life" and formed a new discipline that I called the "ME-SHINE Method". It far exceeds the old NLP and Hypnotherapy, because it does not have its limitations, and allows to open the doors to an adventure in the development, personal growth, and evolution of the human being, which had never existed before in such an open way.

Why?

Because our mind is in a impoverish, limited, and altered state. The medicine for this  “disease” are the 8 Codes of Life and the “twilight (un-logical) states of the mind”

The deliver us from those mental  traps, that imprison and completely limit the faculties of our wonderful universal mind,

How to free people from their physical, mental, and emotional illnesses?

The answer was given by the psychiatrist and hypnotherapist Dr. Milton Erickson many years ago:

"I hypnotize people to dehypnotize them from the negative hypnosis they have done with themselves."

Dr. Erickson called the "sowing" of the seeds of thoughts, in the subconscious, as "negative hypnosis." His job was to free people from them. Because those seeds sprout in the present as mental, emotional, and physical dysfunctions. Brambles and poisonous plants planted in the past that sprout today as problems and evils.

He suggested using Hypnosis. I suggest something much better. The "ME-SHINE Method" with "Transformational Twilight States", because they go deeper, have the right focus, are faster and more stable than the slow Erickson procedures and traditional Hypnotherapy. And we also educate the individual in some "Laws of Mind" and some "Codes of Life" to prevent relapses.

This will be the way to free people from the sowing of "bad seeds" of the past, on the ground of their subconscious.

Hypnotherapy has flaws. First, there is a very negative connotation suggested by the name "hypnosis", linked to hypnosis performed on a stage.

Second, Hypnotherapy treatments  have a wrong approach of "weakness" of the person, and not of "power" of our universal mind as it really is.

Through " Transformational Twilight States of the Mind" we uninstall the "poisonous seeds" (or negative thoughts and information) sown in the garden of the subconscious during a person's past.

We remove those brambles and weeds before installing new positive seeds (ideas or positive information). Most of the time it is not even necessary to do that after removing those weeds.

Our approach is one of "excess" (removing the sowing of negative seeds) and not of "deficiency".

It is a mistake to deliver positive instructions as many hypnotheraposts do without having UNINSTALLED the prior weeds in the subconscious. Because it is not possible to add new liquid into a cup that is already full.

Before installing the idea of wealth, the abundant idea of poverty must be uninstalled. And before trying to install health, we must remove the abundant idea of disease. And before installing ideas of abundant love, we must remove the accumulation of seeds of contempt and loneliness installed there as well.

Before planting roses you have to remove the weeds or debris that is in a field. It is common sense.

We can also see the subconscious as a "personal atmosphere" - or "bubble of energy that surrounds the body." From there, the positive or negative information, sown in the past, materializes, second by second, subatomically, in our physical realities in all areas.

I'll expand these ideas further. In a second Part of “My Life Experiences”...

May your garden bloom!

Rod Fuentes