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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Mastering Your Mind Power: Habits And Your Self Image

By Harold L Lowe

Your self image, you may recall, is the mental blueprint or mental picture you carry around. It is the self image that must be changed to gain or re-gain control of the power of your subconscious mind.

The self image consists of all thoughts, fears, phobias, actions, feelings, and behavior that you have accumulated and have been securely stored in your subconscious mind during your lifetime. From these various elements, your beliefs about yourself have unconsciously been formed. Your past experiences, including your successes, failures, humiliations, so-called constructive criticisms, and the way people have responded to us have all made contributions.

Much of what is stored in your subconscious mind was placed there in your early childhood, at a time when the frontal, reasoning part of your brain was not sufficiently developed to allow you to make decisions based on reason. By the time your brain was fully developed, you had formed many, many beliefs. It was from this sizable pool of beliefs that your self image (a picture or blueprint) was constructed. Over time belief after belief was added to this picture.

Remember, any idea, thought or image that is passed on to the subconscious mind becomes a belief, and any belief so formed, becomes your truth and is no longer open to question. Whether the belief is true or not, you simply act or re-act to your beliefs as if they were true!

Some of your beliefs grew out your personal experiences and include answers to questions like: Am I intelligent? Am I likable? Am I stupid? Am I a failure? Am I weak? Most beliefs, however, are internalizations of the judgments of other people, especially family, friends, and authority figures in institutions like schools and churches.

When you reached adulthood, there were hundreds or even thousands of infantile beliefs (truths) that had been added to your self image. During those early years, you were not encouraged nor allowed, in some cases, to use conscious reasoning as you negotiated your way through life. As a result, the self image took on more and more control of your thinking about and reactions to life.

Your self image had a reservoir of subconscious beliefs (truths) to draw upon in response to your life situations without your conscious involvement. It could simply repeat past responses to similar situations. These infantile beliefs are the truths that the self image used to control nearly every aspect of your life in adulthood. Its repetitive control gradually became deeply ingrained habit. Is it any wonder that life is such a struggle for you and most people?

As I have stated before, I believe the lack of a basic understanding of how the self image is formed and the control it exercises over our lives is the single greatest barrier to mastering your mind power and living more of the lives we desire. The self image, however, can be changed. New habits can be formed. You can change.

You are the most miraculous of all living beings on earth. You are the owner of a mind that is so stupendous, that as you truly begin mastering your mind power and consciously using it, there is no dream that you can dream that you cannot achieve.


Harold L Lowe retired at age 62 when his six-figure income position was eliminated. He now wishes to share some of what he has learned since then and some of his experiences as well through articles. He is now studying The New Think And Grow Rich with the author, Ted Ciuba, a founding member of the World Internet Summit. To Claim A FREE Copy Of The Book That Inspired The Movie/DVD/Book, The Secret, Go To: http://www.MasteringYourMindPower.com

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Develop Your Subconscious Mind Power

By Dale Odeyemi

Whatever we see, hear, smell, taste, touch or feel passes through the conscious mind and reaches the subconscious mind where it is then stored.

Once you have learned how best to deal with a situation, you will generally find it much easier the next time around. This is because you are using information which is already stored.

For instance, once you have learned to ride a bike, you don’t have to consciously think about it anymore. This is because the stored information will come to you automatically, the next time you get on your bike to ride it.

Just as if you were to learn where each letter on your keyboard is, you can now type without looking because you have formed a mental picture in your subconscious mind of what the keyboard actually looks like.

The above are just two instances of how the subconscious mind stores up relations of learned behaviour. We are sure you would be able to find many more examples of this in your everyday life!

Information from the conscious mind gets past into the subconscious mind, and there is a very strong link between the two. It is said that everything you have ever seen, heard or experienced is perceived by your conscious mind, and then stored away into your subconscious mind as a memory.

Not only is this memory stored as the incident itself, but also any feelings that went with it at the time are also stored.

Your subconscious mind does not only store your memories and feelings. It is the maker of all the great ideas you have ever had, and is also the seat of your intuition and creativity. When you do begin to control your conscious thought processes, you will find that you can apply the powers of your subconscious mind towards any problem or difficulty you may come across.

Most of the great artists, poets, writers, scientists, inventors and discovers have had or have a deep understanding of how their conscious and subconscious mind work. The ones that do not unknowingly set their genius to work for them when they tapped into their subconscious mind power by instinct.

You see, the Einsteins and Edisons were not that much smarter that the average person, writes psychology professor Dean Simonton.

After conducting many studies of intelligence and creativity, Professor Simonton has found that there is no real relationship between our IQ and creativity. Most of the celebrated minds of history, Simonton believes, simply made better use of their subconscious mind power.

Just by having a basic knowledge and understanding of how your conscious and subconscious mind work, and also how they interact with each other, you will be able to work wonders in your life. The possibilities truly are endless!

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Exploring The Anatomy Of The Mind For Success

By Greg Frost

Exploring the anatomy of the mind for success is something every individual should consider investing time in. Often likened to that of a super computer, the human mind is a very powerful device, allowing us to go far in life, be successful and realize whatever dreams which we may have. Thus, it is important for any individual to explore the anatomy of the mind in order to open up any possible paths to success in life.

At the very outset, it is important to recognize that the human mind is essentially made up of two main parts - the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. These two parts of the human mind function in conjunction with one another and are by no means separate entities. Achieving success would be a factor dependent on how well these two parts of the brain are used with one another.

To start off, we begin with the conscious mind. This part of the mind is what we use often in our day-to-day functions in places such as in school or at the office. This part of the mind controls cognitive functions such as our thought process, decision making process and analysis of problems. This is also the part which school tends to train, by enhancing our mental framework in more sophisticated ways. This part of the mind is able to reason and differentiate between things that are good or bad as well as being true or false. While this part of the mind is necessary in allowing us to go about daily lives, it is insufficient merely to rely completely on this part of the human mind to achieve success in life.

Subsequently, we move on to the subconscious mind. This part of the mind does not rest, unlike our conscious mind, even working while we are asleep. The subconscious mind covers many functions which we often take for granted, such as when we are breathing during sleep, the way we speak and the way we eat. This part of the mind is unable to differentiate various occurrences that it might come into contact with. Such occurrences include truth from falsity, as well as reality and the imaginary. Whatever information that the subconscious brain comes into contact with is not filtered or analyzed and gets programmed into our conscious mind, which determines the action ultimately carried out by us. This transmission of information form the subconscious to the conscious mind is carried out after a process of repetitions and a series of affirmations.

Given that, our subconscious mind is extremely vulnerable to negative affirmations. Negative messages can often work their way unnoticed into our subconscious where it enters our conscious mind and manifests itself as the result which we do not want to see. Thus, it is important for us to develop positive affirmations. This could take the forming of using positively charged words that appeal to our self-esteem and inner needs. It could also entail surrounding ourselves with positive like-minded people who never consider failure as an option.

Success or failure all rests upon how well we make use of our subconscious minds. What's stopping you from making the change for the better?

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

How to Make Your Mind Work For You

By Ralston Heath

So you have finally decided that there is something to this manifesting thing, and you now know that your subconscious mind has a lot to do with it. The next logical step is to learn how to direct and control this phenomenon to your benefit. So what to do next? Today's discussion we will talk about how one goes about making the universe work for them.

Let us start with an example: If you wanted an errand accomplished for you, you would give that person proper instructions as to what task needs accomplished and what you expect to be done. Let us say that you needed a letter taken to the post office and mailed. You would tell that person to take this letter, go to the post office and put the envelope in the proper mail slot so it will be processed promptly and will get to where it needs to go; and with a certainty that the person you asked to do this errand will do just that, you dismiss it from your mind and think no more about it. You wouldn't doubt their ability to do so; nor would you doubt their willingness. You would instinctively know that the errand would be done.

Well in a similar manner you can give your subconscious mind instructions with the same certainty of accomplishment. Suppose you needed a sum of money for some project, or to pay a bill. You instruct your subconscious mind with words to the effect of; "I will be guided in thought and action toward the solution of my problem." You can add a few conditions such as "It will be easy, and fun, to get the amount of money needed."

When you do this you may need to repeat it a few times until you "feel" that it is done. Then when you have taken this action and affirmed it to your comfort level two things happen, (and it will happen quickly) First; you would lose the feeling of doubt as to the ability to obtain the money. There will be a feeling of assurance that by the deadline, the needed money would be available. Then secondly thoughts would begin flowing into your conscious mind not just telling you what to do, but actually inspiring you to take steps necessary to obtain the money.

Here again we must reiterate a conversation from before; your subconscious works best when your conscious mind is pleasantly occupied. So issue the instructions, and then be comforted in the knowledge that your will is being done. Go about your other duties and tasks of the day and do not forget to do something entertaining and relaxing, such as a puzzle, or your hobby. Within a short time you will begin to see results of your instructions beginning to come to fruition.

Whenever you have to make a decision, and the thought will not come to you, give your subconscious the instruction to come up with the right choice and then put the problem entirely out of your mind, you can get a deck of cards and play solitaire for an hour, work on your model airplane, or wash the dishes. After a short while the right decision to make will be crystal clear in your mind. While your conscious is distracted, your subconscious will consider the problem, calmly working out the logical solution.

From this moment on, and for the rest of your life you should begin forming the habit of putting the subconscious to work for you. This creative power is on the job twenty-four hours every day. As you learn to use that great force, you will find that you have more happiness, satisfaction, and enjoyment of life.

Let us crystallize the dominant idea of this conversation: The subconscious does its best work while the conscious mind is either distracted or pleasantly occupied. This gives you the happy news that with this skill you will be more successful in all you do. You now realize that it is essential that you take time for enjoyable diversion. You can work smarter, or you can be working harder and longer. By allowing your subconscious to do your constructive thinking and planning, while your conscious mind does something else, you will receive many good ideas and suggestions. Then simply put into action the results you receive, and soon you will be outrageously successful. People will see the change in you and this may give you the opportunity to teach them this little secret.

Now some of you may ask: "If I work my subconscious twenty four hours every day, won't I be mentally tired?" The answer is a resounding: No! You must understand that right now your subconscious is already working twenty four hours each day and will be working twenty four hours a day until the time you leave this existence. If it is not being directed into positive, constructive use through positive and constructive thinking, it will be working against you by obeying your negative thoughts. Either way your subconscious will obey your commands, so it is time to begin using it to your advantage.

So let us review the important points of this conversation: First off your subconscious, if permitted to, will direct you in your work, making it better, easier, and far more pleasant. Then second you can, at will, direct your subconscious to assist you in the solving of problems, making the right decisions, and to discover ways and means of great achievement for you. In a previous conversation we discussed how you do not become proficient in anything unless you practice, so start today, and for the rest of your life, never stop using your own subconscious mind.

Now a quick discussion of how you can help your subconscious to help you.
Remember that your subconscious is working every hour of the day; and that it is working either for or against you. So with that in mind here is the first step: Be specific in the instructions you give; know that your subconscious will direct you to take the steps necessary and rest assured that your subconscious, with its reasoning faculties, will provide a practical solution for you. Then free your mind from worry, seek distraction, enjoy your hobby, play a board game, do a crossword puzzle. Then expect and have faith that the solution will be presented to you shortly. Make sure you do not worry; worry prevents you from doing the things which would provide the means to prevent the worry. To worry is to doubt the intelligence and power of your subconscious and worrying will not help the problem in the least, it will make it worse. Instead of worrying; take the time which you might use for worry and devote it to constructively working out ways and means of overcoming the problem.

Well I hope you can sense the feeling of self mastery which comes when you fully understand the effect that the conscious mind is the master of the subconscious, and that the subconscious is a true and faithful servant bringing about that which you command. This may seem too good to be true; but with what we have just discussed, the results obtained are only normal and to be expected, by those of us who make use of the subconscious mind.

Be Blessed

Ralston Heath recently retired from 25+ years of active duty. Now that his life is his own again, he is working to share with the world all he knows. Check him out on his blog True Happiness.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Use Your Mind Power To Achieve Greater Things In Life

By Greg Frost

The mind is a very powerful tool. It moulds your identity, thoughts, feelings and opinions. That is just how powerful your mind is. As such, it is not a wonder that people are now turning to self-hypnosis techniques to allow them to reprogram the mind to help you achieve greater things in life.

First things first, mind power would largely refer to anything your subconscious mind has got to offer you. The subconscious mind is the part of the brain that controls your actions and reactions and even feelings. As such, if you are exposed to too much of violence, there are chances that you might inherited a tiny bit of the quality.

Similar rules applies to those who want to achieve greater things in life. While we know that success does not come with a snap of a finger, there are techniques that you can use to make your road to success are smooth sailing one.

This calls for some help from self-hypnosis.

Self-hypnosis can really help you do the trick. Self-hypnosis is used to reprogram your part of the brain with regards to the subconscious mind. By doing so, you are able to attain the desired results out of life and grasp on the lifestyle that you have been dreaming of. As you do so, you will be able to discover more about yourself and your personal development. This self-hypnosis will also change the way you view certain things and eliminate unwanted barriers that has been barricading you from any opportunities of success.

The D-I-Y hypnosis process involves 2 main steps. Firstly, you will need to relax and focus. Next, speak and write in a positive and present tense affirmation. The first few tries will seem tough at the start; however, you will feel like it is second nature to you once you get the hang of it.

Alternatively, you could purchase a CD or download programs that are available off the Internet. These hypnosis CDs are also popularly known as subliminal CDs. They are not your average CDs. They contain tracks with sounds of nature, binaural beats and music and beneath these songs, there are special messages embedded in it. These messages however cannot be detected to you consciously. Only your subconscious mind can detect it and these positive affirmations or messages that are embedded within them will their way around the subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind will process these messages and that is how you will get to "trick" your mind to do the things that you never thought of before, in order to achieve the desired goal.

Your mind power determines how successful you will be. You can be successful but there are also others who are extremely successful. How do you think that they can make it to the top? It takes loads of will power, mind power and determination.

Everyone can achieve the success that they have always dreamed of. But of course, mind power is just one of the trick. The other secrets to success are not really secrets. They are right under your nose, actually. Figure them out and it makes a perfect concoction to go with your mind power.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

The Subconscious Mind and the Law of Attraction

By Yvonne Ellis

Since Oprah aired her programs on "The Secret" and the Law of Attraction, most people have at least heard of the Law of Attraction and have some understanding of what it means. Simply put, the law of attraction means energy attracts like energy. You may also have heard it expressed as "like attracts like', "that which is like unto itself is drawn" and even "thoughts become things".

The law of attraction, like all the universal laws, operates whether you are aware of it or not, or believe it or not. The often-used terms "what you focus on grows", "careful what you wish for (cause you just might get it)", "birds of a feather flock together" and "you can't get enough of what you don't want" are all examples of ways that we describe the law of attraction in action.

Every minute of every day, your thoughts and feelings are creating vibrations which are constantly broadcast to, and received, by the universe. This activates the law of attraction which then matches your vibrations and attracts to you similar vibrations in the form of people, things and situations in your life. In other words you are always creating your life through your thoughts and feelings. The conditions in your life, whether they are what you want or not, are always a match to your dominant vibrations.

So, the question becomes - if your life is not how you would wish it to be, how do you change it? And the answer most often given by law of attraction and personal development teachers is a simple one - change your thoughts.

Simple - yes, but not easy. Here's why.

Somewhere between 94 - 98% of all thoughts are subconscious, that is, below or out of conscious awareness which means that only 2 - 6% of your thoughts are ever conscious. We're so used to not paying attention to our thoughts that most of the time we're not even aware that we have any.

However, if you stop and pay attention, you will probably notice that there is an almost constant chatter going on in your head. If you've ever tried to meditate you've probably experienced just how inane and irrelevant much of that chatter is and just how difficult it can be to still the mind enough to silence it. Meditators often call this phenomenon "monkey mind" as thoughts seem to jump around from subject to subject like a monkey.

The law of attraction responds to ALL of your thoughts, those you are aware of, and those you are not. The mind is absolutely amazing. The subconscious mind is like a faithful servant, looking after all the automatic processes in the body that you are not consciously aware of like breathing, digestion, heat regulation, elimination, contracting and relaxing muscles to produce movement and so on. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to learn to walk if we consciously had to contract and relax each muscle at exactly the right time? Impossible.

The subconscious also contains all your beliefs, values and old programming that may or may not be relevant to your life today. When you are not consciously directing your thoughts, which is 94 - 98% of the time, the subconscious takes over and replays all the old stuff in its files. Its job is to maintain the status quo. Scientists have shown that upwards of 90% of the thoughts that you think today will be the same as the thoughts you had yesterday, and the day before, and the day before. Which most likely means that the life you are creating tomorrow will be exactly the same as today.

So, if you want to change your life, you must change not only your conscious thoughts, but also any subconscious programming that may be in conflict with your desire. For example, if you want to lose weight and affirm to yourself "I am slim and sexy", but your subconscious is running an old program that says "I'm fat and always will be" or something similar then the law of attraction will bring you more of being fat since the subconscious is running its program far more often and with more emotional intensity than your conscious affirmations or visualization (and that's assuming your feelings are even congruent with your affirmation).

Old subconscious programming can be changed and in our next article & newsletter we will explore some of the tools available to help you change and/or disable old, disempowering programs and replace them with more empowering alternatives.

Yvonne Ellis has been studying personal and spiritual development for over 20 years. She teaches and coaches in these areas and is co-author of the website AttractLikeMagic where you'll find loads of information about the Law of Attraction and the Universal Laws including free eBooks to start off or enhance your Law of Attraction library. To subscribe to the Attract Like Magic newsletter and make sure you don't miss out on our subconscious follow-up click here

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Making Sense of the Conscious & Subconscious Mind

By Avinoam Lerner

As a Hypnotherapist I am often asked by my clients about the mind and the mechanics of Hypnosis. Perhaps the most common question is "how come I can't do it by myself?

The truth is that you can do a good amount of work and bring about much positive change with self-hypnosis.

Many of my clients who listen to my self-hypnosis programs report about the positive changes that they experience in their lives. Be it weight loss, body image or overcoming fears, you can certainly train your mind and enjoy the benefits.

However, there are many conditions or symptoms where the aid of a professional Hypnotherapist is necessary. In my office I see people every day who struggle with self-limiting beliefs, destructive behaviors, chronic illness, anxiety & panic attacks and other conditions where the symptoms are debilitating and seem beyond the client control.

With cautious I will say that the root for many of these conditions, if not organic, will reside in the Subconscious Mind, and this is why.

The mind model of Conscious and Subconscious-mind works best to explain why changing some of our habits is more difficult than others. In short these two agencies have a different job title.

Your conscious-mind, also called the critical-mind is working right now as you are reading these lines. Your conscious-mind is logical, analytical and its basic functions are to gather information, evaluate and decide appropriate respond or behavior based on the information stored in the subconscious-mind. The conscious-mind is responsible for short-term memory and will-power, both necessary for optimum daily performance.

The subconscious-mind can be compared to vast library of data or the hard disc of your computer. Every statement, image, concept or idea that you became aware of throughout your life was recorded and stored in your subconscious mind. It's hard to imagine, and yet, each and every day you draw from this library, measure, compare, evaluate and decide your behavior based on your knowledge.

For example, when you walk by the neighborhood bakery, the smell of bread may bring back some wonderful memories that were not available a minute ago. These memories surfaced into consciousness upon demand from the conscious mind to understand a new element in your immediate environment (just doing its job).

The knowledge of what fresh bread smells like, reside in the Subconscious-Mind and therefore the Conscious-Mind could evaluate the new found smell with the one already in place. The same is true for weather or not you find the smell of bread attractive or not.

Based on these "original" perceptions you will decide to act or not, or in this case decide to eat it or not.

If weight loss is your goal, then you want to change your relationship with food. Will power may work for a short while but not for long (which is why diets fail so often). Lasting result can be attained when you change the way you perceive food to be, at the source of perception, which is the Subconscious-Mind.

In a state of hypnosis such change is possible because we are bypassing the critical factor of the Conscious-Mind. Then and only then you will be able to override, replace or change your perception and therefore your life.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Use Your Subconscious Mind to Your Advantage

By Liza Othman

Talking to the Subconscious Mind

Intelligent affirmation (suggestion) - thinking intelligently and strongly of the thing desired, soon becomes the predominant thought in the subconscious mind. This predominant thought becomes the pattern or blueprint which in time is materialized - inwardly and objectively - into the reality of the picture or blueprint of the predominating thought. In other words, whatever we think of oftenest and most strongly, we get. To have health and keep it, health must become a predominating thought. The way to put the subconscious mind to work, is to work on a predominant thought, and thus materialize the thing desired by affirmations, either silently or orally by one's self or in the company of others.

People who do not understand the law of the subconscious mind sometimes get but slight results from affirmations because they think that positive thoughts for health, such as "I am well, whole and complete" are a lie. But, as I say, one does not always understand, the law of the subconscious. It does not reason. It does not argue. It hangs tenaciously to the thought suggested to it and when you give a positive formula for health, you are giving the most direct command to the subconscious mind to get busy on your blueprint of health. You thus become your own health architect to build strength, life, vitality and health into every cell of your being.

Webster's dictionary says that a lie is "a criminal falsehood, an intentional violation of the truth." When you take a positive suggestion or formula for health, you are suggesting that the spirit within the great, "I am", is well, whole and complete, which is absolutely correct. The spirit of man does not become sick. It is his body. We, therefore, talk directly, forcibly and positively to this well spirit (the subconscious mind) which in turn communicates the health thought to every cell of the body. This is itself intelligence which reacts and is made by the thought which the subconscious mind sends to it.

Changing the Complex

The very act of bringing to the light of consciousness the repressed ideas or the implanted obsession, when the patient's mind is unkinked, gives him an insight into the meaning of his trouble. We let him see new points of view, we introduce fresh ideas and feelings into his complexes. In short, we reimpregnate and thus reeducate the subconscious mind. This in itself has wonderful therapeutic value as will be remembered if you recall how the mind is inextricably interwoven with the conscious and the subconscious and how the subconscious mind controls the functionings of all of the organs and senses of the body.

It is apparent on the face of the matter that the mental attitude of patients suffering from any kind of disease which has been produced by wrong thinking, must be changed, new groups of complexes must be formed and this is done almost automatically when we once discover what caused the sickness.

The patient then sees life from another plane; he regards his condition in a new light and his sickness from another angle and by taking counter suggestions - opposite thoughts - new associations and groups of complexes are called into play and the process of rehabilitation and health restoration is a simple, scientific and workable hypothesis.

Bear in mind that the subconscious mind will do anything it is given to do. It will recharge the body with health, vigor, strength - make one all over - as well as alter one's attitude toward life entirely. The subconscious mind will change failure into success, despondency into joy, depression into happiness, futility into achievement; hence the injunction Paul gives us in Philippians 4:8 is truly psychological.

Finally, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

This, in a word, is psychology. To think only of good things until the subconscious mind is obsessed with the good and so crowds out the bad.

Think of those things until the habit of thought has been changed.

"Suggestion controls the world, and 'All things are ready, if our minds be so.' "

Thought and Brain Formation

Professor Elmer Gates of Washington has demonstrated this physiologically in his studies of brain formation. He tells us that every thought produces a slight molecular change in the substance of the brain, and the repetition of the same sort of thought causes a repetition of the same molecular action until at last a veritable channel is formed in the brain substance, which can only be eradicated by a reverse process of thought.

In this way "grooves of thought" are very literal things, and when once established the vibrations of the cosmic currents flow automatically through them and thus react upon the mind by a process the reverse of that by which our voluntary and intentional indrawing from the invisible is affected. In this way are formed what we call "habits," and hence the importance of controlling our thinking and guarding it against undesirable ideas.

But on the other hand this reactionary process may be used to confirm good and life-giving modes of thought as Paul pointed out above so that by a knowledge of its laws we may enlist even the physical body itself in the building up of that perfectly whole personality, the attainment of which is the aim and object of our studies.

So by taking a thought the opposite to the one or more which has caused our sickness we not only supercede the old with the new (open the "little trap door" to let out the old thought) and by affirmations (suggestions) but we by these affirmations make new grooves of thought, forming new thought habits, thought habits of health, and then health we have.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

How Does Hypnosis Work ?

By Ravi Oza

Hypnosis is a trance like state where subject becomes complete unaware of current environment. So how does actually hypnosis work? Every time a subject is hypnotized, he or she become more suggestible to a hypnotist. How this happens? Why a person in hypnotic state is always willing to do what ever being said.

Milton Erickson, the hypnosis expert of 20th century, who discovered the conversational hypnosis, stated that a people hypnotize themselves on their daily basis without realizing. Either they are watching movie or just day dreaming, they become so much associated that, they become unaware of the real surroundings. Hypnosis can be defined as a mental state between your sleep and wakeful state.

To understand the process of how does hypnosis work, you need to understand the basic working of your conscious and subconscious mind. When subject goes to hypnotic state, her or his subconscious mind is accessed directly by hypnotist.

If you are in conscious state, you know what you are thinking. You might think about the problems in your life, you might think what to speak and what not to speak while in conversation. You might think where to put things like where to remove your shoes. All these kind of thoughts are handled by conscious mind.

Subconscious mind stores vast information. Conscious mind get the orders from subconscious mind and then execute it. All these information are used to produce new ideas. Any new idea comes from out of box thinking, is actually comes from subconscious mind. Many of the tasks that you do regularly are automatically handled by subconscious mind. Many things you are not thinking about while breathing or driving. You just automatically do it. In short your subconscious mind hold the real power behind all operations.

In a hypnotic state, subject's subconscious mind becomes active and conscious mind becomes less active. So hypnotist is directly works with subconscious mind. Since subconscious mind has all information stored, hypnotist can go to in the past of subject. Hypnotist also can change that information. That's why hypnosis therapy is used to break many bad habits.

So in hypnosis process, subject becomes relax and goes in to subconscious state. In subconscious state, conscious mind becomes less active and hypnotist takes a control of subconscious mind. This is how hypnosis works.

Do you know you can hypnotize someone just talking with them? Milton Erickson was the father of morder hypnosis. He discovered Conversational Hypnosis using which a person can hypnotize subject using just natural ability to speak. To know more about how does conversation hypnosis work, visit http://www.conversaitonal-hypnosis.com/

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Monday, June 30, 2008

How Our Subconscious Works

By Greg Frost

Exploring how our subconscious works is the necessary first step behind realizing the various goals in our lives. Contrary to what most people believe, success in life does not so much depend on how smart we are or on whatever academic qualifications which we may have achieved. Certainly, these are important contributing factors to success in our lives. However, the key here is developing a winning mentality which would enable us to bring out the best of what we may have.

Essentially, the human mind can be divided into two broad categories - the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Essentially these two parts of the human mind co-exist with one another.

The conscious mind is the more familiar of the two, and we use it on a daily basis where we carry out cognitive functions such as making decisions or putting forward arguments. This part of the human mind constitutes what most people would make use to get about life. In order to achieve success, it is necessary to move beyond this.

On the other hand, the subconscious mind plays a key factor in our lives, in a comparatively unnoticeable fashion. This part of the human mind functions to regulate our bodily functions such as our heartbeat, our breathing, as well as the way in which we breathe. These are functions in life which we take for granted and barely notice.

How our subconscious works in our day-to-day lives is that it takes instructions from our conscious mind without questioning. Such instructions go through a process of repetition and affirmations. These are then realized as actions after such instructions are transmitted over to the conscious mind. Without such instructions brought forward over to the subconscious, no action would be taken and the subconscious would, as a result remain in a dormant state. Unlike the conscious mind, the subconscious has no ability to discern truth from falsity, as well as the reality from the imaginary.

Given such, it is important to surround our subconscious minds with positive affirmations. Negative affirmations would often be manifested as negative results as the subconscious mind transmits the undesired results over to the conscious mind, which then takes action, resulting in the undesirable effect being manifested in reality. Given then, we should take the effort each day to place positive affirmations in our lives. Start off by thinking positive thoughts each day while rooting out negative ones. After all, changes all start from somewhere. Instead of telling yourself that "It is my entire fault" when something fails, make the break by choosing positive statements such as "What can I learn from this experience". These may be trying at the very start. However, over time, you would be able to surround yourself with thoughts, words and actions that are positive in nature.

In a nutshell, our subconscious mind is a powerful tool that can affect us in many ways, be it the good or the bad. In any case, it is necessary for one to be able to master his or her subconscious through means of positive affirmations. Doing so will guarantee you happiness and allow you to achieve more out of your life.

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Train Your Subconscious Mind With Subliminal Messages

By Dan Bainbridge

Your mind is like an iceberg: Your conscious mind is only a small proportion of your minds total functioning, with 90% of processing done by your subconscious mind "under the surface". We are all constantly taking in new information, processing it, and storing it in our minds. This is how we learn, and develop patterns of behavior.

Our normal way of learning is through conscious, purposeful acts; for example, we study, read books, and take classes. However our subconscious minds absorb all kinds of information every day that we are not aware of, which also gets processed.

The theory behind subliminal messages is to take control of the information you send to your subconscious mind - to enhance your learning capabilities by targeting your subconscious mind with specific messages.

So instead of randomly absorbing information from our surroundings we can send positive messages to ourselves to aid learning specifically in areas we want to develop, and harness the power of the 90% of our minds we otherwise do not get to be in control of. Many people never truly take control of their minds and try to develop to their full potential. It is only a small percentage of society which excels past the norm, and these individuals often are the ones who have learned to focus their minds and developed positive patterns of behavior to guarantee their success.

Subliminal messages can be used to accelerate learning, build confidence, increase motivation, relieve fears and phobias, resolve addictions, and much more. In fact whatever area you are looking to develop, or personal problem you are looking to overcome you can use the power of subliminal messages to help achieve your goal.

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Mind Power Seduction Techniques

By Greg Frost

Mind power seduction involves the use of the mind's inherent powers to generate attraction between people. Unknown to most people, the human mind consists of both the conscious and subconscious mind. At any point in time, it is said that a human being uses no more than ten percent of his total mental capacity. Mind power seduction techniques stem from utilizing the forgotten ninety percent of the human mind, often referred to as the subconscious mind. Mastering the technique of mind power seduction involves utilizing different methods to align this part of your mind towards your success. Eliminate all fears of not being able to get hitched!

One of the best techniques to effective mind power seduction would be achieving perfect inner peace within yourself when interacting with someone you're interested in. Often, the primary factor behind ruining things is nervousness. Most women do not find men who are uptight and frigid to be attractive. You do not need to change yourself to be relaxed. Just work on your subconscious by telling yourself that this person whom you are meeting is just a normal person. Subsequently, your subconscious mind will condition itself accordingly and you will be relaxed when your conscious mind receives this message from your subconscious and puts it into action. Most women would prefer men to behave naturally when interacting with them as it exudes a sense of confidence. Achieving that with your mind power will in turn increase your seduction abilities.

Additionally, you have to be focused on what you want to achieve by the end of the interaction session. Make such goals specific and detailed. This would allow you to condition your subconscious mind towards your success. Remember your subconscious mind does not have the ability to differentiate between what makes sense and what does not. However, it does affect your conscious mind, which would in turn determine the ultimate course of action taken by yourself at the end of the day. Better still write down such goals in case you may lose focus of yourself from time to time. Remember, you have to be focused on who and what you want in order for you to better grasp the art of seduction.

Lastly, have a correct attitude. Possessing an outwardly strong self, but in actual fact, having self-defeatist thoughts from the start, will only be a recipe for failure. Never doubt your own abilities. Instead of telling yourself that "I might be able to do it", tell yourself that "I must do it". In terms of outlook, the key is to portray a fearless self, not an arrogant or shy self. In most cases, it is the dash and daring fearless nature of a man that tends to captivate the hearts of women.

Rounding off, your subconscious mind can be a wonderful ally for you. When used properly, mind power seduction techniques can be used to dramatically increase your appeal towards the person whom you desire. Thus, if you one of those swinging singles out there, its time to give mind power seduction techniques a try.

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Friday, June 27, 2008

How to Overcome Bulimia by Eliminating Subconscious Blockages

By Irina Webster

I know you are thinking right now "Why do I have bulimia? How can I overcome it? And why isn't anything I tried before stopping it and has failed to help?"

You understand that bulimia is slowly killing you and ruining your life but you can't stop. It seems like something inside you is stronger that your own will.

Do you want to know what this "something else" is?

Well! It is another part of your brain called the subconscious mind that not only is responsible for your feelings, emotions and non-conscious actions that keep you alive, but it can also work against your own free will.

It is the part of the mind that is responsible for our actions when we do something but we don't know why we did it. Like when we get angry and explode, then we don't know why we did it (when there is no conscious explanation for it).

The subconscious mind operates on feelings and senses. And very often people can't even describe it logically. They just do what the subconscious mind wants.

So, the reason you have bulimia lies in your subconscious mind and to overcome bulimia you need to get rid off your subconscious blockages that always keep you being a bulimic against you will.

This is a major reason why conventional therapy doesn't work in most cases, because they try to affect the conscious mind of the person only. They don't change a person's subconscious. That's why when bulimics come back home from the clinic or doctor's room they continue their distractive eating behavior unabated again and again.

One of the common subconscious blockages bulimics have is the "broken eye syndrome". This is when bulimics see themselves fatter then they are and see their entire environment and other people in a different (wrong) way.

So, in order to overcome bulimia you should really find a way to change your subconscious mind and overcome these subconscious blockages that cause your bulimia.

Without working on your subconscious you will always come back to the same spot when you first started your bulimia and recovery becomes impossible, it is a never ending circle.

To conclude, if you have been unable to stop you bulimia it more that likely is a result of a subconscious emotional blockage. For example, the most common blockage is the "broken eye syndrome".

If you have a subconscious emotional blockage preventing you from stopping the bulimia, you are unlikely to realize it. An example of this is a bulimic who doesn't realize that they have "broken eye syndrome" - they see in a mirror a different picture from everyone else: basically their own mind is lying to them.

You are almost certainly not consciously aware of what the blockage is. For example again the "broken eye syndrome" - people are not aware of it, they truly believe that what they see in a mirror is the truth.

Subconscious self-beliefs cannot be identified and changed at the rational thinking level. For example, the "broken eye syndrome" gets worse and worse the longer you have bulimia, because the bulimic brain is constantly working on false information.

Identifying and eliminating your subconscious blockages is the best and really the only way you will ever overcome bulimia. More information http://www.bulimia-cure.com

Dr Irina Webster MD is the Director of Women Health Issues Program which covers different areas of Women Health. She is a recognised authority in the eating disorders area. She is an author of many books and a public speaker. http://www.bulimia-cure.com

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

How To Move Things With Your Mind

By Greg Frost

How to move things with your mind? This may seem like a question which many may tend to associate, to the likes of great magicians such as David Copperfield. However, the truth is that we too can be able to move things with just the power of our minds. Of course, some clarification must be made here as what is being referred to in this case is the ability to create success in our lives with the power of our minds. Unknown to most people out there is the power of the human mind, which can be in fact, instrumental to shaping success in our lives.

Essentially, the human mind can be divided into both the conscious and subconscious mind. The ability to move things with our minds essentially stems from training the subconscious mind and aligning it towards our success.

The first way for us to train our minds to move things would be make every day of our lives count. To do that, it is necessary for us to live each day with objectives in mind. Make a list of things you want to achieve by the end of each day everyday when you wake up. This would allow you to have greater purpose in your life each day. This list can comprise of tasks of any nature around you. These can include your work, family or personal leisure goals. The trick here is not to assess how much work you complete by the end of each day, but to keep you focused on the task at hand, and for you to be sure of what you would like to achieve by the end of each day.

Subsequently, start to introduce positive affirmations into your life. Perhaps, you might have been one of the most infamous whiners of the 20th century, complaining about everything that goes wrong and filling the air full of negativity. It is time to make the break from this. Develop positive affirmations by adopting a positive "can-do" attitude in anything you do. Affirm that you have the capability to get a tough job done. Affirm that you have the ability to get a promotion and a pay rise. Affirm that you have the ability to be successful in life. But don't stop there. Should things not go your way, respond with positive affirmations too. Adopt a forward looking approach by thinking about what you can learn from a failure, rather than lament about the failure itself. This is important to success as when your subconscious mind is aligned towards success, your conscious mind and subsequently your actions will be aligned towards success.

Lastly, create appositive work environment. An ideal work environment should have as little distractions as possible and should consist of positive-minded people working together. Our subconscious mind is easily affected by the environment. A cluttered work environment staffed with negative-minded people would often tend to confuse our subconscious and condition it for the worse. This would in turn lead to actions causing failure and an inability to make things move smoothly.

To conclude, our ability to move things with our mind is closely linked to our subconscious and the environment we are in. Given such, it is important for both of these to be healthy in order for us to achieve greater success in whatever we do in life.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

7 Mind Power Secrets to Unleash Your Creative Potential

By Andrew Winthorp

Mind power is not something that is easy to learn about. There are many courses conducted at educational institutions that position you to work in a certain career field but no real courses that help you to better utilize your own inherent creative powers. Sure there are books about the power of positive thinking and using affirmations to attract what you want but these approaches are somewhat shallow and limited. To have the highest and best chance for creating your personal reality you need knowledge and practical exercises that can help you to better understand and put your mind power to use. The following tips provide some practical guidelines for using your mind for constructive use.

Tip #1: The subconscious mind thinks in terms of images. When speaking to your subconscious mind is important to use clear imagery. You should avoid using words that are difficult to understand or could create confusion. Your subconscious self is like a naïve, innocent child that will believe what it images and serves to cause things to occur according to the way you image them.

Tip #2: You are your own source of creative action when it comes to creating your desired reality. Inaction, laziness or blind acceptance of adverse conditions set you up to operate within the confines of an environment created by others. Your desire for something better requires a conscious awareness to do something about it. Desire creates the drive to begin to take charge of your life and to work persistently and consistently towards that which is desired.

Tip #3: Don't live in the past. If you focus and attach your expectations to past age energies and beliefs having lower vibration rates than those of today and tomorrow, your spiritual evolution may be adversely retarded because the vibration rate of past age beliefs are out of sync with the present day higher vibration rate of the earth and its biosphere of beliefs and consciousness. Always look positively to the future and don't dwell on negative past events.

Tip #4: A central core belief and knowledge are different things. Belief is not knowledge and knowledge is not belief. They are closely associated, but not one and the same. Be very careful to always discern the difference between each.

Tip #5: Thought and mind have an intricate relationship. Thought is the blue printer and mind is the builder. Intensive thought creates the blueprint that mind the builder employs to design, structure and engineer the reality desired for manifestation. It is essential that one's thoughts, one's thinking be pure, clear, healthy and wholesome living experience realities. It is important to carefully observe and control the nature of one's inner thoughts. One's inner talk becomes an automatic blueprint for the manifestation of one's outer walk of living experience.

Tip #6: Keep a journal for your goals and record the action that you take towards manifesting those goals. This should also include details for any necessary training, equipment or steps that need to be taken to realize that goal. Visualization of your goals is also an important exercise that should comprise your creative action of working towards that desired.

Tip#7: Engage in a regular exercise program. Exercise helps to keep off weight, helps you to sleep better and raises your energy levels. You'll be more alert and productive during your day to day routine. The endorphins released during exercise assist you to feel better and definitely helps to maintain a positive attitude towards life.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Law of Attraction - Clear the Fear Between You and Your Dreams

By Pete Koerner

Many people don't realize that the only thing standing between them and their dream is fear. At first glance, this doesn't seem like it could possibly be true - at least not in every case. But it is true in practically every case; fear is the thing that stops us from reaching our goals and realizing our dreams. But how can we get rid of the fear?

The first step in clearing away fear is to acknowledge that it is there. It seems crazy to think that the reason you aren't successful is because you are afraid of success; but it's really not crazy at all. When you are successful, many things will change for you; and, your subconscious mind is afraid of some of those things - what you may see as frustration and self-sabotage is actually a very clever protective mechanism at work.

Imagine this: You are from a big family with lots of siblings; you love your family very much and, even though they've never made a lot of money, they support you and your new ideas and plans. Now imagine that you became fabulously successful and the rest of your family feels uncomfortable because you are now "different." You drive up to a family get-together in your new convertible sports car and a family member calls you, "spoiled," or "stuck-up." Of course, they may be teasing you, but your subconscious detects a threat to your status within the "tribe."

Or, imagine you start a company doing something you truly love to do; only now that you have turned it into a job, you are busy all the time and have bills and business concerns worrying you 7-days a week. Success, it seems, can have many aspects that are frightening to our protective, subconscious mind. If we succeed, we could be cast-out of our tribe, disliked, we could fail and lose it all, or simply find ourselves working more - and harder - than before! Somebody stop this train!

Of course, while our subconscious is going through this turmoil, we are consciously wondering why it is taking so long to manifest our dream of success; so we start worrying and second-guessing. "Have we done the right thing?" "What if I was wrong? What if I fail?" If you've started talking to yourself like this, you are absolutely on your way to what you call, "Failure." This negative, "what-if," self-talk is all a part of your master plan to keep things the way they are - to maintain the status quo.

We are all afraid of change in one way or another, and to one degree or another. Success is change; failure is change. And either one of them could lead to disaster; so why move - why change anything at all? I'll tell you why: Because change is guaranteed; it's going to happen. In fact, it's happening right now. Are you taking part in deciding the direction and nature of that change, or are you paralyzed with fear, doubt, worry, and uncertainty?

You can be, do, or have anything you want as long as you know what it is, and remove any reasons you may have for not experiencing it. Those reasons are always fear-based; so, clear the fear and you are on your way to any kind of success you can imagine. Health, happiness, prosperity, and rewarding relationships are all yours when you overcome your fear and move forward - consciously and boldly - into a new future.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Self Hypnosis, IQ and Genius

By Albert Cristaldo

YOUR KEY TO GENIUS, HEALTH, MONEY, WEALTH, RICHES AND HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS.
(Maybe a better title could be "How to become a Genius")

Most people fail to achieve a 'state' of genius because they do not have the right tool to imprint into their Subconscious minds all those useful, supportive beliefs and values that will allow them to easily and quickly access the 'genius' that is inside everyone alive.

Most people fail to achieve a 'state' of great and permanent health because they do not have the right tool to imprint into their Subconscious minds all those useful, supportive beliefs and values that will make their bodies respond with radiant, youthful health.

Most people cannot learn "How to Think like a Millionaire" because they do not have the RIGHT tool to imprint into their Subconscious minds the Millionaire Mind Secrets of the millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires!

Most people cannot develop wonderful, fulfilling relationships because they do not have the right tool to imprint into their Subconscious minds those useful, supportive beliefs and values that will attract those relationships into their lives.

And YOUR GREATEST tool to help you accomplish all of the above and more is "SELF-HYPNOSIS, your ability to place yourself into a deep altered (trance) states and have your Subconscious mind totally open and ready to receive and accept your instructions and commands.

Do you want to become an inventive and creative genius? Is your goal to make money, lots of money? Do you want to Become healthier? Do you want to Improve your relationships?

Whatever your goal, YOUR Subconscious mind is the key to the achievement of those goals and the BEST and fastest tool to use is Self-hypnosis.

Being able to function at will at the deepest alpha and theta levels, where YOU have quick and easy access to your Subconscious mind, is the MOST valuable tool you will ever learn.

Are you ready to learn the method used by the world's greatest geniuses, YOUR FASTEST way to financial success, money, wealth, riches, health and happy relationships?

1. WHY MOST MIND REPROGRAMMING METHODS FAIL!

They FAIL because they do NOT teach you HOW TO use the deep altered (hypnotic) states to access and reprogram the contents of your Subconscious mind.

Instead, they LIMIT you to use ONLY your Conscious mind, the same mind telling you that you are a failure, that it is hard to make money, that you will never be rich. Changes are superficial and temporary.

And they seldom teach you HOW to identify and eliminate all the conflicting beliefs, values, rules, attitudes and behaviors blocking your financial goals -- without your conscious knowledge.

You can set all the creative, financial, health and relationship goals you want with your Conscious mind. But, if your Subconscious does NOT ACCEPT them (because of conflicting beliefs, values and rules), you will NEVER achieve them.

2. SELF-HYPNOSIS: YOUR KEY TO GENIUS,MONEY, WEALTH, HEALTH AND SUCCESS.

Self-hypnosis is your fastest way to health, financial success and is definitely the KEY to genius.

Many are familiar with the famous Napoleon Hill and his nightly 'reunions' with his Invisible Counselors, nine departed geniuses. In his imagination, he would hold conversations with these geniuses asking them for their help and inspiration in changing and reprogramming his personality weaknesses and pitfalls. Read the Chapter on "The Sixth Sense" in his best-selling book "Think and Grow Rich".

When performing this task, Napoleon Hill was in a deep trance (hypnotic) state - even though he did not call it that way most likely because 'hypnosis' had such a undeservedly bad reputation during those days. And even today, many people are still too superstitious to use self-hypnosis to achieve their goals.

In what state was Albert Einstein when he was traveling on a beam of light while trying to formulate his "Theory of Relativity"? You guessed it. In a light or deep trance state.

Nikola Tesla, one of the world's greatest inventive geniuses, would go into that 'twilight' state known as deep hypnosis and would start all his electromechanical inventions working IN HIS MIND. He would come back to them days or weeks later and be able to see the wear and tear and whatever improvements were needed, ALL IN HIS HEAD.

Leonardo Da Vinci used to concentrate on the wall until going into trance in order to connect with the Universal Source where supposedly all answers are stored.

Thomas Edison was famous for his "catnaps" during which his Subconscious MIND would provide answers to his questions. He trained himself to operate in deep trance without falling asleep by holding a can, yes, a metal can.

Mozart was not only great at putting himself in a trance state, he was also a great 'channeler'. During trance, he would receive his music as if someone were dictating to him, and he was just taking notes.

The great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff lost his touch. He underwent hypnosis sessions. Following post-hypnotic suggestions, he wrote his Concerto #2, his most famous work, which he dedicated to his hypnotist.

Frederick Chopin, Goethe and Metternich were serious students of Hypnosis at the University of Strausbourg, France.

Many people are familiar with "The Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde", works of Robert Louis Stevenson. What you and they do not know is that every night at bedtime he would go into trance and instruct the little "brownies" inside his head to come up with stories that would make money for him.

The famous financier J. P. Morgan had a special table in his yacht. Whenever confronted with a financial decision, he would get a deck of cards and play 'solitaire' games for about an hour. After that, the answer would be clear in his mind. During all that time, he was in a state of trance, totally concentrated on the card game, and his Subconscious was able to find the solution without the interference of the Conscious part of his mind.

Famous financier Henry Kaiser would go into a deep trance state each night before going to sleep and would give ASSIGNMENTS for his Subconscious mind to carry out. No wonder he was so successful. He was using the method of the geniuses. Read about him.

3. HYPNOTIC TRANCE STATES: THE KEY TO YOUR SUCCESS

Hypnotic trance (deep altered states) is the KEY to genius, health, wealth, love, you name it.

Once you develop the ability to hypnotize yourself AT WILL, you may reprogram your mind in any way, shape or form you so desire.

I am talking about "going into a deep hypnotic trance". I am talking not only about functioning at the alpha level, but also at deep theta levels with FULL CONSCIOUS AWARENESS -- any time, anywhere, at WILL!

Sure, there are techniques like visualization, affirmations, NLP, others that you may use to make changes in your subconscious computer. ALL these techniques are TREMENDOUSLY AMPLIFIED when in the hypnotic trance state.

And there are many, many things that NONE of those techniques will allow you to achieve. Only DEEP trance states will allow you to achieve them -- it is all a matter of habit and practice. Once you master Self-hypnosis, YOU will be using the FASTEST method known to men to deliberately bypass your Conscious mind and implant new beliefs, values, rules directly into the Subconscious part of your mind, make the changes you desire quickly and easily, and set and achieve your goals, ANY goals in ANY area, much FASTER than before -- with the HELP of your Subconscious mind.

By using deep altered states, you will be able to reach the deepest levels of your Subconscious mind, change your Self-Image, TRAIN your Subconscious minds to GUIDE YOU in achieving all your goals, and REJECT all the negative thoughts and beliefs coming daily from many external sources.

4. EXAMPLE OF A FEW THINGS YOU CAN ACHIEVE USING SELF-HYPNOSIS

Here are a few examples of some of the things you could accomplish using self-hypnosis - a lot faster and easier that using any other method.

4.1. CHANGING YOUR PAST AND CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY

As you think about all those painful, hurtful memories of past failures, rejections and setbacks, a past filled with memories of frustrations and disappointments, how do you feel right now about yourself, about what you can or cannot do, about your current attitude to tackle new problems and face new challenges?

I bet that every time you go over those memories of failures and disappointments, you again feel the pain or humiliation. Those painful memories make you feel like a failure, a loser, hopeless, right?

You feel as though you are carrying this heavy load. And you most likely do NOT have either the enthusiasm or the courage needed to go forward and tackle head on anything that comes your way.

There is no question that all those memories of past failures and setbacks and limitations have molded your Self-Image to make you the person you are today. And they are preventing you from having all your energy available in PRESENT time.

What would happen if ALL DAY long you had in your conscious awareness the old memories of failure and disasters with money or in any other area? You would be overwhelmed. And you would not be able to think about anything else. And you would not be able to function at all in ANY area of your life.

To avoid this paralyzing situation, the Subconscious minds suppresses those memories so that they are not in your conscious awareness all day long. Your Subconscious is using lost of precious energy trying to protect you by KEEPING those memories OUT OF your conscious awareness most of the time.

That amount of energy should ideally be available to you in order to deal with your present and/or your future. But it is not. Some or most of your energy is being unproductively used to suppress the painful memories of your past. Therefore, you are like a Lamborghini or a Ferrari functioning only on 4 or 5 cylinders instead of 12.

Your Self-Image is composed of all those negative, painful, limiting recordings about yourself AND your capabilities, based on your evaluation of those negative past events.

If you could, almost by magic, neutralize or even eliminate all those painful memories of setbacks, do you believe that you would feel and behave differently?

If you could employ some technique so that every time you thought about your past you could ONLY remember wonderful memories of so many victories and great accomplishments, would you feel maybe unstoppable, even invincible?

You most definitely would. You would feel and behave like a Lamborghini or a Ferrari cruising on 12 cylinders at speeds over 200 miles per hour. And you could accomplish just about anything you wanted.

Why? Because by changing the memories of your past you will be changing your Self-Image. You will be creating new neuron connections. You will be creating a totally different past, a past filled with success and great victories.

How would feel right now if you could only remember ALWAYS being successful, if you could not remember failing at anything EVER? You would always think in terms of success, and never in terms of failure. You would not even think that you could possibly fail. You would have an incredible confidence in yourself and your ability to achieve anything you want.

In their book "Trance-formations", pg. 169, Richard Bandler and John Grinder stated that "one very nice thing about hypnosis is it gives you the ability to create alternative history".

Then, on pg.197, they stated that if a past experience created in your life some limiting beliefs with its corresponding attitudes and behaviors, reliving that experience EXACTLY THE WAY IT HAPPENED over and over will only keep REINFORCING those same limitations.

They also tell us that therapists Virginia Satir and the famous Milton Erickson, MD, the greatest medical hypno-therapist, would make people regress in time, using deep trance states, and then relive these past experiences but in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT way.

These people were having their past REARRANGED AND REWIRED in a different way. So, when they came out of trance, they essentially had a different past, one that supported them instead of limiting them.

Can you see the tremendous implications? You could go back to those old memories of having money problems, or all those old memories where you made the wrong moves and got the wrong results, or when you lost money or had a hard time making money.

And then, you would replay those memories over and over again. But now, you always succeed, you always make the right move, you always make lots of money easily, you always succeed in all your financial investments. You have changed your past. You created an alternative reality. And your mind will accept it as being true.

Can you imagine what you would be like, how you would feel and how you would behave if you ONLY REMEMBER being ALWAYS financially successful in your past? And if you could do it in a real deep hypnotic trance, when your RAS (Reticular Activating System) is shut-off, it will be as real to you as if it had actually happened exactly this NEW way.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every time you think about your past experiences with MONEY (or in any other area) you could only remember being always successful? Just imagine for a moment if you could only remember success after success. Do you think much of your energy would be wasted in suppressing all those memories of past failures, and pain and disappointments? Of course not. You would feel invincible. And you would be invincible in the financial area (or any other area). And you would act that way because your Self-Image would be phenomenal.

Done under deep, deep hypnosis, people can be given an alternative history. One can create totally new memories in the person's mind. It does not matter that those things never happened. To your mind they will be just as real. YOU ARE CREATING A NEW PAST. JUST AS YOU ARE CREATING YOUR FUTURE WHEN YOU VISUALIZE FUTURE EVENTS AND VISUALIZE AND IMAGINE THEM HAPPENING EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANT TO MAKE THEM HAPPEN.

Reprogramming the past may require for you to be at a very deep hypnotic trance. By using light trance states, it may take longer to make the changes desired.

4.2. USING IMAGINARY COUNSELORS

Many of you have most likely heard about Napoleon Hill and his book "Think and Grow Rich", famous all over the world. It is among the top bestsellers of all times.

In Ch.14 of his book, "The Sixth Sense", he described a powerful technique that he used for many years to reprogram his Self-Image and model himself after the fashion of some great people that he admired, and who had those traits that he wanted to acquire.

Mr. Hill himself declared that he used this method in order to overcome the handicap of being born in an environment filled with limitations, superstition and ignorance.

First, he selected nine great men he admired: Edison, Emerson, Burbank, Napoleon, Paine, Darwin, Lincoln, Carnegie and Ford. And he read everything about their lives. He also had personally interviewed some of them, so he was quite familiar with their thinking and working habits.

Then, he used the weapon of auto-suggestion (looks familiar?) in order to imprint the specific characteristics he wanted to acquire from each one.

Every night, at bedtime, he would picture in his imagination this big conference table and sitting at these table he saw all these great men. He was the Chairman of the Board at these meetings.

He would address each one of these nine great men and would ask this individual to imprint in his mind the traits that he, Napoleon Hill, desired from him. He did that for many months.

In another of his many books, he added that several times during his normal working hours, he would pause for a minute or two, close his eyes, see in his imagination all these great men sitting at the table and he would REMIND himself that he was becoming like these men.

Later on, he would call on these "Invisible Counselors" for GUIDANCE regarding many of his personal problems, as well as those of his clients. And the guidance he got was always astonishing.

You should realize by now that Napoleon Hill was in a "deep trance" state while imagining all these great men talking with him and giving him advise as well as imprinting in his Subconscious computer those new beliefs, attitudes and behaviors he wanted to acquire from these famous men. Of course, he did not want to mention that word "hypnosis" - which was and still is TABOO for some many people whose minds are still RULED BY heavy and totally erroneous religious beliefs - more accurately religious superstitions and nonsense.

You can use this same technique to receive help and guidance to carry out your financial goals.

Just see or imagine hat you see every night, as you go to bed, that you assemble around your imaginary table characters like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Paul Getty, Aristotle Onassis, even Donald Trump or a Bill Gates, or anyone else you admire when it comes to money and wealth. They can be dead or alive, or fictional characters. It works the same
.

To your mind they are all real, the reason being that your Subconscious cannot tell the difference within a "REAL" picture and an "IMAGINARY" picture, if imagined VIVIDLY enough or with enough feelings/emotions. You can even ask advice on what you are not doing correctly or how to improve your "batting" success with investments from these "imaginary" characters.

You must understand that these are imaginary meetings with imaginary characters that you create in your imagination - and has nothing to do with other methods that will allow you to tune to the disembodied "personalities" of geniuses of the past or other human beings who have lived on this planet before in order to receive their help and guidance.

4.3. BECOMING A GENIUS OF THE PAST

Scientists in the former Soviet Union, known as Parapsychologists, developed techniques way ahead of anything that the U.S scientist had in this area. And the soviet scientists did it with soviet government grants. One of these techniques was known as "Artificial" Reincarnation.

As documented in the book titled "Psychic discoveries behind the Iron Curtain" by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, the man mainly responsible for this technique was Dr. Vladimir L. Rainkov, psychiatrist and master hypnotist. You may also read about it in a book titled "The Einstein Factor" by Win Winger and Richard Poe, Ch. 8, pg 160-182.

Dr. Rainkov stated the following: "I am able to evoke this phenomenon of reincarnation only when the subject is in exceedingly deep trance".

In "Trance-formations", Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their book pg. 185-189, talk about Deep-Trance Identification, "a state of consciousness in which the subject assumes the identity of someone else.... one of the hardest hypnotic phenomena of all". Therefore, the subject MUST be put in an extremely deep trance in order to be able to implant these new past into the subject's mind without crashing against his previous belief system, which includes his current identity.

After selecting the genius most appropriate to the area in which the subject wants to excel, he/she would read and learn as much as possible about this genius. Then, Dr. Rainkov would hypnotize him/her, not only once but many, many times during a period of weeks, using many "reincarnation" sessions.

While in a VERY deep trance state, he would give him/her instructions to the effect that he/she is that genius, that he/she thinks, sees, acts, produces like and has all the talents and abilities of that genius. After a few of these sessions the subject started to incorporate to his/her own personality, and in varying degrees, those talents and abilities that supposedly belonged to that particular genius. There was no substitution of personality.

Even though when under hypnosis the subject thought that he/she was that genius, he/she did not forget who he/she was when returned to full awakening consciousness. But his/her new talents and abilities started to explode.

Notice that the subject must FIRST learn everything possible about the personality he/she wants to reincarnate, so that his/her Subconscious mind stores enough information on how that personality used to think, see and act.

It would be totally useless to put you in the deepest possible trance state and tell you that you think, see and act like Einstein and that you are Einstein. And then I bring you out of trance only to find out that you do not have the slightest idea who this Einstein person was and you never heard of him in your entire life. And how can your Subconscious mind make you think, see and act like somebody IT has no previous history about?

In Win Wenger's "The Einstein Factor", he presents a couple of methods that do not go through a FORMAL hypnotic induction. Winger's method is a more sophisticated version of the one used by Napoleon Hill.

And contrary to what W. Wenger claims, the person using this method still goes into a self-induced trance state, make no mistakes about it. The subject does not go through a FORMAL induction. Still, by the very nature of the procedure, a light and maybe even deep trance state will be achieved. Results will be much faster when using very deep trance states.

5. FEW PEOPLE FUNCTION CONSCIOUSLY AT ALPHA AND THETA

Due to lack of training, most people are not capable of functioning consciously EVEN at the alpha level. They fall asleep. On the other hand, geniuses operate at much lower frequencies than most people, predominantly at the deepest alpha and theta levels.

When you start practicing self-hypnosis you TRAIN yourself to LOWER your brainwave frequencies so that you begin to operate at a level at which your mind will absorb new information much quicker and more readily. And you will have access to talents, abilities and capabilities that you did not even know you could have.

Your goal should be to keep practicing every day until you are able to function at the deepest alpha and even theta levels WITHOUT FALLING ASLEEP. The more you practice, the deeper you will be able to go WITHOUT FALLING ASLEEP. And with a lot of practice, you should be able to function in a deep hypnotic trance even while talking to people and walking and moving around with your eyes "wide" open. And then, you will be able to accomplish quire amazing things.

6. BEWARE OF SYMPTOM SUBSTITUTION

I want to warn you that once you get proficient at using self-hypnosis, you will be very tempted when faced with an unwanted habit or behavior to quickly hypnotize yourself and give yourself new instructions to 'program' or imprint in your mind a new habit or behavior. Refrain from doing it.

First, use what you already learned to identify what limiting belief is responsible for that habit or behavior. And then, proceed to eliminate that useless belief BEFORE reprogramming the new data.

Otherwise, you are opening yourself to the dangers of "Symptom Substitution", which means that, in the presence of stored limiting beliefs/values that are opposing the new instructions and goals you are new 'programming' into your Subconscious, one of the following can happen:

(1) you new instructions are totally rejected

(2) your new instructions are only temporarily accepted and in a certain amount of time you go back the previous belief/behavior/situation

(3) your new instructions are permanently accepted -- BUT the old limiting beliefs and values, which MUST be expressed, find a destructive outlet in a completely different area of your life and you do not have the slightest clue as to what or why this is happening.

7. CONCLUSION

In a not very distant future, genius will be regarded with a lot LESS admiration than today because using the tools of self-hypnosis, it will become normal to operate at the genius level.

But at least, let me tell you that you can use self-hypnosis very easily to change your Self-Image, improve your financial talents, abilities and capabilities and help you make more money, improve your health dramatically, skyrocket your inventive/creative genius and develop wonderful relationships. That should be enough to get you excited about the possibilities of self-hypnosis.

Albert Cristaldo has been always interested in using deep altered (hypnotic) states to develop genius and to achieve goals, ANY goals in ANY area quickly, easily, as effortlessly as possible, and having fun in the process.

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Bulimia in Men

By Irina Webster

It was with great interest that I read in the UK Telegraph about the ex deputy prime minister of the UK John Prescott and his battle with bulimia. It is good that man in such a high powered position has finally come out and said he was a sufferer of this insidious disorder.

It was also with interest that the headline in the Times online said "How could a big man like John Prescott have a girl's illness"?

This has always been a huge misconception that only women and girls get eating disorders and of course this could not be further from the truth. Although there are more women with the disease than men, it does not mean there are not many more male sufferers out there who have hidden the disorder like Mr. John Prescott has.

Statistics say that there are many more women with the disease than men but this could be because men will not come forward and seek help. It boils down to the fact that men will not tell anyone because of the stigma attached to people with eating disorders, especially males with this problem: this in turn can easily skew the statistics.

Mr. Prescott put his bulimia down to the fact he was under enormous stress associated with his job as a parliamentarian, working long hours and deriving his only pleasures from eating large amounts of food. He stated himself that he ate huge amounts of food and no one ever suspected he was a bulimic because he was not thin.

This is another misconception; you do not have to be really thin to have bulimia: Mr. Prescott is certainly no stick figure. I have been asked the same question many times by family members of a sufferer who say, but he does not look really thin. My answer back is you don't have to be to be thin to be bulimic.

So why do men contract a disorder like bulimia? Like Mr. Prescott says his was due to stress and this is certainly one of the keys. But it can also be for job reasons and many male sufferers start of being bulimic because of their occupation. We have come across many male sufferers who are dancers, gymnasts, jockeys, airline stewards, male models and many more industries where being a certain size is a must for the job.

Most people, who know little about a disease like bulimia and this includes many journalists, say why can't they just stop: I wish it was as simple as that but it is not. Like Mr. Prescott said he got some weird satisfaction from binging and then purging and all bulimics get the same thing.

When a bulimic purges they get a release of a pleasure hormone not unlike the endorphins an athlete gets after exercising. This feel good hormone is one of the reasons a bulimic continues on with his erratic eating behavior. The problem is the rush they get is very short lived, so they have to binge and purge even more. So asking a bulimic to simply stop is like asking a non-sufferer to give up breathing air: it is not going to happen.

Most non-sufferers and many others think that you can beat bulimia with logic and by pointing out the errors of their ways they will stop. But again this is an impossibility and simply cannot happen. Mr. Prescott and his wife knew for years it was wrong and that he was in danger of serious medical problems, but he could not stop. If bulimia was a logical disease then he should have been able to stop when he realized he was doing harm to himself, but he couldn't.

This is because bulimia lives in the subconscious mind of the sufferer and the subconscious mind does not work on logic, it works on feelings and emotions and these are certainly not logical. The longer the bulimic has the disorder the more ingrained it becomes in the subconscious mind of the sufferer.

There is a way you can see how the subconscious mind works for yourself. The next time you explode at one of the kids or go off for no apparent reason, just ask yourself if it was logical. I bet you do not have the slightest idea why it happened; it is because it came from your subconscious mind and not your logical mind.

There is only one way you can really stop bulimia and that is through the subconscious mind where the bulimia lives. It lives there because it was programmed by the sufferer to be there over months or even years as was the case with Mr. Prescott.

Dr Irina Webster MD is the Director of Women Health Issues Program which covers different areas of Women Health. She is a recognised authority in the eating disorders area. She is an author of many books and a public speaker. http://www.bulimia-cure.com

If you are a bulimic or if you are a family member of a bulimic, the best place to find out more about how the subconscious mind works is at http://www.bulimia-cure.com where it explains all about the connection with the subconscious mind and bulimia.

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