Mind Enhancement
Before I continue I’d like to quote what William James, The Father of American Psychology, had to say about the power of the subconscious mind.
“The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.”
Always be positive in the way that you think and feel and you’ll always get a positive reaction. I spent a life of “Hell” in the Gray World and by using the methods that I’m giving you from my heart, I was able to return to the Real World and now I’m living a happy and successful life.
Relaxation Exercises
(1) Go to a comfortable place where you won’t be disturbed, relax in any comfortable chair or lie down on your bed.
(2) Close your eyes and try to rid your mind of any hostile feelings. At first, you will find it difficult not to think. Thoughts and Ideas will keep intruding. When this happens, don't try to force the thoughts out. Observe them, and let them slowly fade away.
(3) Now let’s get rid of the tension in your body. Beginning with your toes, imagine the tension slowly falling away and vanishing. Imagine it freeing each body part one at a time starting with your toes and working its way up your body. Visualize each part of your body becoming lighter and lighter as the tension is removed. Relax your toes, then your feet. Continue with your calves, thighs, hips, stomach and so on, until you've relaxed each portion, including your face and head.
(4) Take slow, deep breaths. When you exhale, see the tension and negativity leaving in a dark cloud. As you inhale, see the air returning as a bright force filled with life and energy.
(5) Appreciate the fact that you are now extremely relaxed. Imagine you are at the top of a flight of 10 stairs. Picture every detail of this scene from the top to the bottom. Tell yourself that you are going to descend the stairs, counting each step down, starting at 10. Picture each number in your mind. Imagine that each number you count is further down and one step closer to the bottom. After each number, you will feel yourself drifting further and further into deep relaxation. As you take each step, imagine the feel of the step under your feet. Keep counting and stepping down until you reach the bottom. Once you reach the bottom imagine that you are happy and relaxed.
(6) At this point, you should begin to address the issue you're concerned about. Speak in the present tense. Your subconscious mind does not understand negatives in speech - avoid using statements with negative implications such as "I don't want to be a failure." Instead, say, "I am calm and relaxed and success isn‘t my problem." Examples of positive statements "I am strong and I won‘t surrender to weakness," "I am successful and positive," and, if you have pain, "I feel wonderful today in every way."
Repeat your statements to yourself as many times as you wish.
(7) When you are satisfied, say to yourself that you will now count upwards to 10 from 0, and when you reach the number 10, you will slowly rise back to normal consciousness and remain calm and relaxed. Proceed to count upwards, again picturing the numbers in detail.
You can make more precise impressions stimulating your mind to except positive suggestions easier and quicker using this next simple relaxation method. Using the first exercise up to and including step six will prepare you for this next exercise and most of the exercises that follow.
(1)Go to a comfortable place where you won’t be disturbed relax in any comfortable chair or lie down on your bed.
(2) Close your eyes and try to rid your mind of any hostile feelings. At first, you will find it difficult not to think. Thoughts and Ideas will keep intruding. When this happens, don't try to force the thoughts out. Observe them, and let them slowly fade away.
(3) Now let’s get rid of the tension in your body. Beginning with your toes, imagine the tension slowly falling away and vanishing. Imagine it freeing each body part one at a time starting with your toes and working its way up your body. Visualize each part of your body becoming lighter and lighter as the tension is removed. Relax your toes, then your feet. Continue with your calves, thighs, hips, stomach and so on, until you've relaxed each portion, including your face and head.
(4) Take slow, deep breaths. When you exhale, see the tension and negativity leaving in a dark cloud. As you inhale, see the air returning as a bright force filled with life and energy.
(5) Appreciate the fact that you are now extremely relaxed. Imagine you are at the top of a flight of 10 stairs. Picture every detail of this scene from the top to the bottom. Tell yourself that you are going to descend the stairs, counting each step down, starting at 10. Picture each number in your mind. Imagine that each number you count is further down and one step closer to the bottom. After each number, you will feel yourself drifting further and further into deep relaxation. As you take each step, imagine the feel of the step under your feet. Keep counting and stepping down until you reach the bottom. Once you reach the bottom imagine that you are happy and relaxed
This next exercise will help you commit to your goals, start the action to achieve your desires and help you change negative habits to positive habits.
(1) Make yourself completely aware of what you are trying to achieve and make it a definite goal. Picture your life as you want it to be. Paint that picture permanently in your mind.
(2) Keep in mind that you don’t get something for nothing. What are you willing to give in return for this gift?
(3) Establish a date, time and place that this will happen.
(4) Establish a definite goal and make a plan for carrying it out. Begin at once whether you are ready or not. Take action.
(5)Write out your plan and be concise. Describe every detail. What you will do to achieve it? What you will give in return? When will it happen?
(6) Read your written word aloud, twice daily, once in the morning and once at night. As you read, see, feel and believe that you are all ready there.
The affirmations you feed to your subconscious mind are called positive resources.
It is important that you follow these instructions. The object is to want this more than anything and become so determined that you will have it, that it becomes an obsession.
The subconscious mind makes no distinctions between thought impulses whether they are constructive or destructive. It works on whatever material it’s fed. It will translate thoughts driven by fear just as readily as it translates thoughts driven by courage and faith. Those who go down in defeat and end their lives in drunkenness, poverty, and distress do so because of a negative application of the principle of auto suggestion ( All Impulses of Thought Have a Tendency to Clothe Themselves in Their Physical Equivalent ). The law of auto suggestion allows a man to rise to heights that stagger the imagination and soar beyond the improbable dream.
Take a good look at your life; have circumstances numbed your brain and taken from you what you really wanted your life to become? Have you given up on creating the ideal life you once dreamed of having? Have daily problems caused your life nothing but misery and pain? I have been there and I know your answers to these questions. Thank God I found the solutions before it was too late. I found out that most people settle for the life they are living. Unfortunately most people accept what life dishes out. The solutions to success are the steps that I’m teaching. I know they work because they’ve worked for me and countless others. I want you to discover your purpose in life by using your own creative energies to attain that purpose.
All of the techniques and steps that I use in my book are powerful and easy to use. The more you practice the simple steps I teach the more your brain will streamline them, making them easier to do and re-enforce their effectiveness. In this exercise we will program a resource state into a future situation. Now use the steps that I have given you to but your mind in a relaxed state. The more relaxed you are the more powerful this exercise. Make sure you anchor and test anchor as explained.
(1) Think of what you want more of in a future situation (Ecstasy, Joy, Happiness, Creativity, Confidence, Compassion, etc.)
(2) Breath deep breaths and take yourself deeper into a trance. Deeper and deeper into the trance. (Each time you do this you’ll be able to go deeper)
(3) Imagine a time in the future that would allow you feel this resource. A time when you’ feel it the strongest. Put your body and mind right into this place or time. Take yourself deeper.
(4) Completely associate with this experience. See what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Make the colors brighter and brighter and make the sounds louder and louder. Anchor these feelings by squeezing your finger and thumb.
(5) Take note to where these feelings are in your body. What color would give you these feelings? Imagine spreading that color throughout your body slowly, up and down. When the feelings are amplified squeeze your finger and thumb to capture the feeling.
(6) Now snap out of it. (Break state of mind) Look around the room. Remember something important.
(7) Test Anchor: Squeeze your finger and thumb together. If you have done the above steps right you should feel those feelings coming back.
(8) Congratulate yourself, this is important because it re-enforces the thought in your mind that that you can do this exercise
This exercise is referred to as a supreme resource state. It can be used to empower personal changes. Resource states are states of mind that can be used to positively reprogram your past, present and future.
With timelines you can make positive changes to your way of thinking fast (almost instantly) and easy. We are going to use this step to process new information to your mind that will change your way of thinking and give your trip an “emotion explosion”. It can be a little difficult right a first to except this new concept but once learned it becomes easy. Visualize your mind as being a large incredible flexible bio-super computer that represents information in an infinite number of ways. The time line is a line that takes you from the past (childhood), to the present and into the future allowing you to move back and forth a few degrees (meters) at a time. So let us do this experiment. I think you’ll enjoy it! Once you get this concept down pat you will be on your way to massive benefits. Let’s get started;
(1) I want you to find a room that is actually big enough to allow you to walk a timeline.
(2) Stand in the middle, look directly in front of you, this represents the present.
(3) When you move slightly to the left visualize moving back a year, move a little bit further and go back 5 years, keep on moving to the left all the way back to where you were an infant. This will be the start of the line. Play with this until you are comfortable with it.
(4) Now return to the center (The Present). Moving to your right will place you in the future, imagine where you will be a year from now move a little more-2 years, a little more - 5 years etc.
(5) Notice that at any point on the timeline you can look backwards or forward, traveling from the past, to the present, to the future.
* Congratulate yourself. You have just created one of the most powerful change concepts in existence!
(6) Stand in the present, look to the left in your past, remember a time from a few years ago when you had a wonderful experience, remember its position on the timeline. You may see a vague picture or represent this time with a symbol. If you don’t see anything remember its place on the timeline. Trust it!
(7) Remember 3 more experiences from the past and position them. Remember where they are.
(8) Now imagine 2 future events and position them. Remember where they are.
Now you are ready to do an amazing “emotion explosion” (don’t you just love that phrase, it was introduced to me by a Russian pen pal.)
(9) Think of a negative emotion, that you think of often, that you would like to change. (Guilt, nervousness, resentment)
(10) Put yourself in the Present position on the timeline.
(11) Move slowly to the left until you get to the time you first felt that negative emotion.
(12) Keep moving to the left and stop every time you feel this emotion. Remember the positions on the timeline. Go back as far as you can to the first time you felt this emotion.
(13) Skip and make the next step 14 (not superstitious, just cautious)
(14) Now step back of the timeline and picture it in front of you. Notice the memories that you have positioned. Trust Them
(15) Out of all the times you’ve experienced this negative emotion what resource state would allow you to feel normal? Replace the negative emotion with a positive emotion. “Emotion explosion”
(16) Anchor (By pressing your thumb and finger together)
(17) Give the positive state a color and spread it through your body, slowly up and down. Now give the state a sound, remember the sound.
(18) Break State (Look around the room)
(19) Now step back on your timeline (in the middle at the Present). Step to the left and Re observe your negative states. Look for the symbols, the pictures, the colors and sound.
(20) Trigger your anchor by squeezing your thumb and finger together. Re- experience the pictures, the symbols, the colors the sound. Look for the symbols, the pictures, the colors and sound and remember them as a mist permeating the entire time line.
(21) Break State
This exercise works like magic. By using the time line you can make your negative thoughts become positive and more pleasant. You can change your way of thinking and you can program future events.
Never make important decisions when you are feeling down and out or when you simply feel bad. Most likely you will make bad decisions if you make them while you are in a negative state of mind. This is why most people make bad decisions. For instance, you had a fight with your boss, why not go out and get drunk, your wife is being a bitch, why not go out and commit adultery. If you are feeling good about yourself these are not the decisions you'll make. Of course you could have made decisions that were much worse; you're tired of your bosses crap so you're going to take him off the map, your wife bitches so much, why not shoot her. Feeling Bad, Bad Thinking, Bad Decisions! It is time to change your way of thinking from bad to good.
When you are feeling good it only stands to reason that you make good decisions. That makes sense, don‘t you think?! Feeling good more often has many more benefits such as, clear thinking, an optimistic outlook, more self esteem, better social interaction and you have more fun.
Now I'm going to teach you a technique that allows you to program good thoughts into your mind so that good feeling will come spontaneously.
In this technique we will use the timeline again and program good feelings into the future.
Go to your special room and put yourself in the present on the timeline.
Past________________ Present_______________Future
(1) Now I want you to pick a resource state that you want to experience in the future. Example; fun, joy, happiness, optimism, faith, pleasure, etc.
(2) Remember the special time you experienced this resource state. Relax and relive the memory. Get those special feelings back.
(3) Anchor your feelings with your thumb and your finger (If you wish you can go back to step two and stake another resource state. - Example; Faith + Pleasure
(4) Now give this state a color. Spread the color throughout your body. Give this state a sound. Amplify, louder and louder. Remember the sound.
(5) BREAK STATE
(6) Think of three events in the future where it would be appropriate to feel this state. ANCHOR
(7) Notice where they are on the time line. You may see pictures or symbols or just know that they are there on the timeline.
(8) Once you are there you can allow your subconscious to symbolize other appropriate events in the future. Trust your subconscious with this. GO a year beyond your third special event.
(9) Now turn around with the anchors still triggered and see the color as a magical mist permeating all of your time line. Make some wonderful positive changes.
(10) Walk up the time line to the year beyond the third special event,
(11) Now turn around with the anchors still triggered and see the color as a magical mist permeating all of your time line. Make some wonderful positive changes.
(12) Visualize a great future! BREAK STATE
You have just programmed a compelling future keep adding resource states to your timeline by repeating this exercise.
