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Placebo Effect !

Placebo Effect

By Lawyer Asad

Human mind is divided into an uneven portion. The conscious mind is consisting of the 15% of our mind and the subconscious mind is whooping 85% of our mind.
Conscious mind controls our motor fuctions and has a very short memory. Its rational and analyse matters before accepting those. On the other hand the subconscious mind is like a Super Computer. Storing data from even our pre-natal period. It can even record matters about which we are not conscious.
Under a hypnotic condition the subconscious mind can recall every memory registered on it. The unique phenomenon of the subconscious mind is that it can't logic or argue. It just carries out the programme which is fed into it.
The most important factor of the subconscious is that it can be re-programmed. A negative programming can be re-programmed to be a positive one.
Persons who're dealing with human mind know it.
William James, the father of American psychologist has rightfully declared that the best discovery of the 20th Century is that we can change our circumstances by the power of our mind.
Now back to the programming of the mind.
Subconscious mind is receptive of suggestions, good, bad, indifferent, every kind. When it receives a suggestion, it just carries it out without any reasoning, logic, analysis or judgment.
From our childhood we're programmed by our parents, neighbours, teachers, classmates, peers, colleagues and many other persons. Those programmings come to us in the form of criticisms, appraisals, a pat on the back. In gross those are either negative or positive. These are called suggestions. Our life is moulded by these suggestions.
A mother, disgusted by the conduct of her husband, may often remark to her son that he'd end up in the shoes of his father. The tender mind of the son receives these suggestions and mould his life accordingly.
But it is very hopeful that we can reprogramme our mind by feeding it with positive and constructive suggestions only in three weeks.
The suggestions we give to ourselves are called as auto-suggestions.
As our conscious mind is rational and originating from the left hemisphere of our brain it restricts the entry of suggestions which are seemingly irrational to it.
For example, if a person in a wretched financial conditions try to feed his mind with the thoughts of rich, abundance and wealth then his conscious mind would simply reject it as an irrational thought or lie.
Thats why we need to put ourselves in a trance where the subconscious mind becomes dormant to feed the subconscious mind. The best period for practising auto-suggestion is just before sleeping and after waking up from sleep but not leaving the bed.

Placebo effect:

Emil Coue, a French Chemist, had discovered this unique phenomenon accidentally. Once while he was in his store then one of his friends approached and asked for a drug which required prescription. But he had none. Naturally Emil Coue refused to serve him the medicine. But his friend was very perisistent and nagged for giving him the medicine as he was suffering from excruciating pain. Emil Coue had an idea. He told his friend that there's a new medicine which is as effective as the prescription drug but it doesn't require any prescription. His friend agreed to try it.
Emil Coue went inside the store packed some sugar pills and gave it to him. His friend returned after few days to report that the "new drug" acted like a magic and all his ailments are cured.
Emil Coue was stunned. Placebo was born.
He was invited by people to demonstrate the power of placebo. As the popularity started growing so it was not possible for him to appear personally to all his patients. So he invented a novel method by which any one became capable of giving him/her auto-suggestion.

"Every day and in every way things are getting better and better and I am prospering in all areas of my life."

It was the sentence which was to be recited to oneself as much time as possible. The interesting thing about this auto-suggestion is that one doesn't have to be believe in it or concentrate on it all the time while reciting. A mere mechanical recital would do the effect. And the change in circumstances would be noticable in a week or so.

Now doctors all around the world are using the placebo to cure people from ailments.
Here comes the functionality of our subconscious mind. Our mind receives the suggestions and act upon it. Even mock surgeries are being performed on patients to lead them believe that their ailments are cured by the surgery. Patients are getting cured.
Here is in a link supplied by Laura Silva, daughter of Jose Silva. In this PDF file there're testimonials of people who has been cured by the placebo.
Download it and you'll know the functionality of the placebo effect more better.

To your perpetual health and success.

Lawyer Asad

http://www.silvamindbodyhealing.com/blog/healers-diary-self-healers-and-the-ones-who-healed-others/

Futurology: The Tricky Art of Knowing What Will Happen Next

Futurology: The Tricky Art of Knowing What Will Happen Next

By Finlo Rohrer / Source: BBC News

A 1972 book which predicts what life would be like in 2010 has been reprinted after attracting a cult following, but how hard is it to tell the future?

Geoffrey Hoyle is often asked why he predicted everybody would be wearing jumpsuits by 2010. He envisioned a world where everybody worked a three-day week and had their electric cars delivered in tubes of liquid.

These colourful ideas from his 1972 children's book, 2010: Living in the Future, helped prompt a Facebook campaign to track him down. His work has now been reprinted with the year in the title amended to 2011.

"I've been criticised because I said people [would] wear jumpsuits," explains Hoyle, the son of noted astronomer and science fiction author Fred Hoyle. "We don't wear jumpsuits but to a certain extent the idea of the jumpsuit is the restriction of liberties."

Hoyle's book is a product of its time. The move towards a planned society with an emphasis on communal living colour it.

"Most of it is based on the evolution of a political system," Hoyle notes.

The author also predicted widespread use of "vision phones" and doing your grocery shopping online.

He is one of a long line of science fiction authors to have tried their hand at futurology, the discipline of mapping out the future.

"If you go back over the years in terms of science fiction and fantasy you find many very brilliant simulations of futures that have occurred," says Richard Rhodes, author of Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines, Systems, and the Human World.

Perhaps one of the most celebrated pieces of futurology by a science fiction author was Arthur C Clarke's prediction of a network of satellites in geostationary orbits [effectively remaining at the same spot in relation to a fixed point back on earth].

The idea of satellites in geostationary orbit had been floated before but Clarke was the first to see the possibilities for their use as relays for broadcasting and communications.

And HG Wells was years ahead of his time, predicting nuclear weapons in 1914, and later inspiring physicist Leo Szilard.

In more recent times, author David Brin, in the 1989 novel Earth and in his other works, predicted citizen reporters, personalised web interfaces, and the decline of privacy.

"The top method is simply to stay keenly attuned to trends in the laboratories and research centres around the world, taking note of even things that seem impractical or useless," says Brin.

"You then ask yourself: 'What if they found a way to do that thing ten thousand times as quickly/powerfully/well? What if someone weaponised it? Monopolised it? Or commercialised it, enabling millions of people to do this new thing, routinely? What would society look like, if everybody took this new thing for granted?'"

Conscious efforts at futurology go back a long way. In 1931, to celebrate its 80th anniversary, the New York Times went to several prominent men for their predictions of what life would be like in 2011.

There were "hits". William Mayo predicted a 70-plus-year lifespan. Other predictions about an ageing population and less importance for national boundaries were promising.

But there were bad misses - certainly for Michael Pupin, the physicist - who predicted the equitable distribution of wealth.

A similar exercise had been undertaken in 1893 - looking forward to 1993 - for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Florida as a major tourist destination and fast trains are among the hits, but there are many misses.

Politician John J Ingalls was one of the most prescient when he wrote about travelling from New York to London in less than a day.

Predictions, failed or successful, tell us as much about the time they were made as they do about the future.

Go back to the early years of the Cold War and predictions of catastrophic nuclear war were widespread.

"It is the dog that didn't bark," says Rhodes, also author of The Twilight of the Bomb. "In the nuclear community in the years after World War II, they were pretty clear if we didn't eliminate nuclear weapons, if they didn't get it under control, there would inevitably be a nuclear war.

"They didn't see the deep existential fear those weapons induced in leaders of the various countries."

And it's easy to get things wrong or to miss a potential development, because an insurmountable obstacle seems to stand in the way.

One common wrong prediction, made by utopian socialists in the 19th Century, and cropping up in 1893 and 1931 and many times since, is the idea that mechanisation just has to go a bit further to earn us all a life of leisure.

Hoyle's three day week for 2010 has failed to materialise. "People are going to have to work very hard. It's gone the other way. People are working seven days a week. I'm very pessimistic now," he says.

But Hoyle got it right when predicting the role of the vision phone. And the vision desk sounds rather familiar too. "The glass on top of the screen is made in a special way so that when you write on it the camera photographs what you write."

If you predicted today that within a few years time key electronic devices like phones, GPS and media players would be embedded in the human body, you would hardly be saying anything daring.

"It's fairly straightforward to extrapolate from existing technology - that tends to be what people do," says Rhodes. "But the really important changes are almost inevitably complete surprises."

The proliferation of the computer and the microchip comes into this category, says Tim Mack, president of the World Future Society.

"Computers were all looked at as big data crunchers," says Mack. "People missed that - the embedding of chips in just about everything."

Futurology is big business now. The defence industry picked it up a long time ago, but now it's used in everything from consumer technology to food firms.

And it will still prove delightful to read 2010's predictions in a century's time.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Read Their Mind !

Read their Mind...
Know What They Will Decide
By Kevin Hogan, Author of Covert Hypnosis
(This is not Influence for Dummies!!)
Reading minds...the stuff of "psychics"......but it's a lot more real than I would have ever thought, even 10 years ago.

Did you know there are strong predispositions in your behavior and mine that make us surprisingly predictable...

You already do this well in some instances. Maybe you and a close friend can "finish each others sentences." You know each other so well, it seems reasonable.

But what about people you don't know?

Turns out you probably can't finish their sentences but you can predict what they will do and what they will think about you, and others. You can also come up with a pretty reliable guess at how they see themselves.

I was at a convention a few years ago and a woman gave me a psychic reading. She was remarkably accurate of course.

I told her that I had been studying a lot about it and asked her if I could give HER a psychic reading. She grinned and said "yes."

Within 10 minutes she was in tears.

I told her about the person she loved who had died. Her father. His name was James. I knew that. (Well, I really didn't...I figured it out based on questions that sounded like statements.) I told her how he died, what kind of a man he was...I told her about their relationship. "Weathered and strained at times but you really loved him."

I told her about her financial situation. I told her about her love life and her unachieved life ambitions.

She was shocked.

She told me what a gift I had.

I had no such thing.

How did I do it?
I simply understand that:

a) experiences are remarkably similar in specific contexts

b) body language shouts at observers though most are unaware as to what body language is saying.

c) people's attire speaks volumes about their income, beliefs, and life attitude

d) a bunch of other things that will make this article too long!

Today I want to show you what people are inclined to DO. ....I want to show you how you are inclined to act. Behavior. Different than thoughts. We think we want X but we buy Y. I want to show you not only what people are thinking but also what they do...

An example. If I say, pick a number from 1-10, you are inclined to say "7." The majority of people do in the English speaking culture.

If I ask you to think of a shape and say it out loud you are inclined to say "triangle." The majority of people do in the English speaking culture.

But knowing what someone is going to say or think is matched in importance by knowing what people are likely to DO. If you see what people do in given situations you can predict their behavior in future situations.

For decades each nation's military has typically been afforded the most current information about human behavior... it's helpful to know what your opponent will do, how they will respond and react...and what their next move will be.

The same is true in sales and marketing.

Some decisions to buy something are made under great "pressure." Others are decided in the absence of "pressure." Knowing what will cause someone to decide X can be pretty helpful information! Knowing WHY they decide X can change how you communicate with people forever. Knowing HOW people perceive you and the rest of the world... is downright invaluable.

Research into how people make decisions while under pressure could help the U.S. military improve training for its leaders and lead to better decision-support systems. Studies have shown that when people process information, they develop unconscious strategies – or biases – that simplify their decisions. Now, research at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is revealing how these biases affect people when they're dealing with lots of information – and little time to form conclusions.

The same research applies to all of us in all decision making situations. Watch and see what I mean as I check the "biases" that GTRI has listed as being the most "important." The examples I give are not those from GTRI but those I am giving YOU to optimize influencing others.

These are the biases (unconscious strategies) GTRI has revealed are important in decision making:
a) Absence of evidence. Missing, relevant information is not properly considered. People don't think of the part of the story you don't tell them. They only think about what is put "out there".

b) Availability. Recent events or well-known conjecture provide convenient explanations. If I read it in the paper today it's got more impact than something I read last month... If it is in THIS month's issue of the magazine or TODAY's edition of the newspaper, it means A LOT. If it's in yesterday's, the value is GREATLY diminished.

c) Oversensitivity to consistency. People give more weight to multiple reports of information, even if the data came from the same source. Repetition is VERY powerful. If people start to hear the same thing over and over again, it makes little difference where they hear it...it simply becomes... true.

d) Persistence of discredited information. Information once deemed relevant continues to influence even after it has been discredited. Someone can tell you they lied to you about where they were on a given night... but a few weeks from now, you will continue to believe they were there. Once you tell someone something, it's what they will remember, if anything. Saying later that you might have been wrong or that someone else was wrong...or that it "might not be right," simply doesn't matter.

e) Randomness. People perceive a causal relationship when two or more events share some similarity, although the events aren't related. People will believe anything. I had a guy take my seat at the blackjack table because I won $5000. You think that stool knows what cards are coming out next??? People will mistake what causes what... almost all the time.

f) Sample size. Evidence from small samples is seen as having the same significance as larger samples. People just don't have a clue as to how unimportant their own personal experience is...or the experience of a friend or a relative. The fact is that a single well-told story will convince with far greater magnitude than a computer filled with statistical PROOF of the opposite.

g) Vividness. When people perceive information directly, it has greater impact than information they receive secondhand -- even if the secondhand information has more substance. You can read it in a comic book and it has more weight than what a scientist tells you he learned at the neuroscience convention....

To test the affects of these biases, Folds had experiment subjects view an inbox on a computer screen containing a variety of text messages, maps, photographs and video and audio recordings. Subjects (the majority being Georgia Tech ROTC students) were instructed to report certain military situations, such as incidents of sniper fire or acts of suspected sabotage. They were not to report other events, such as normal accidents in an urban area unrelated to enemy activity.

To decide whether or not an event should be reported, subjects reviewed a series of messages that contained both bona fide evidence as well as information created to trigger the biases that cause poor decisions. In each trial, subjects were allowed enough time to spend an average of 20 seconds per element data plus one additional minute for reporting; they were also asked to attach information that supported their decision.

In the first experiment, all seven biases appeared with the greatest number of errors caused by vividness and over sensitivity to consistency.

In addition, Folds discovered two new biases that can hinder the quality of rapid decisions.

These are two newly discovered biases (unconscious strategies):
h) Superficial Similarity. Evidence is considered relevant because of some superficial attribute, such as a key word in a message title. For example, a hostage situation might have been reported earlier, and then another message shows up in the inbox with the word "hostage" in its header, although the message's actual content has nothing to do with hostages.

i) Sensationalist Appeal. Items containing exaggerated claims or threats influence a decision-maker even when there is no substance to the content.

Folds was surprised at how well subjects could perform the task while under pressure, he said. Although he expected an accuracy rate of about 50 percent, subjects correctly reported 70 percent of incidents.

In a second experiment, researchers divided subjects into two groups, using one as a control group while training the other group how to spot conditions that spark decision-making biases.

Subjects who received training were able to detect about twice as many "false-alarm opportunities" as the control group.

The biggest difference between the two groups involved "persistence of discredited information" and "small sample" biases. Forty-eight percent of trained subjects were able to recognize when a "persistence" bias existed compared to 18 percent of the control group. Fifty percent of trained subjects caught the "sample-size" traps versus 11 percent of the control group.

Although training helped participants recognize when traps existed, it didn't help them identify the specific bias. "When subjects were under pressure to make decisions rapidly, the distinctiveness of the categories fell apart," Folds explained. "That's significant, because it helps us tailor training efforts."

The experiments also revealed what kind of information is meaningful to decision-makers, Folds noted. Software designed especially for the trials tracks when subjects open a document for the first time and when they go back for a second time or third look. The amount of time that subjects spend reviewing data – along with the data they attach to reports showed a decided preference for text messages over other formats.

Folds' team is conducting more research: Two new sets of trials are examining how decision-making errors occur in groups, while another experiment is trying to pinpoint how rapidly individuals can make good decisions.

About the Author:
Kevin Hogan is the author of Covert Hypnosis, a guidebook that Dr. Joe Vitale (star of "The Secret" movie) has said to be "the most powerful stuff I've EVER seen for selling, persuading, and motivating." Kevin is the nation's leading body language expert. He is a dynamic, well-known international motivational and inspirational keynote speaker, consultant and corporate trainer.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Can you motivate them to change?

Can You Motivate Them to Change?
Become A Person of Influence
Copyright 2008 By Kevin Hogan, Author of Covert Hypnosis
People love doing it to me:

"Kevin, what is 'selling' - in two words?" Jeffrey Gitomer

"Kevin, is marketing the true face of magic?" Ben Mack

"Kevin, what is the single most important factor in persuasion?" Mark Joyner

All in the same lifetime…!

People love asking me questions for which they have an answer in the
moment and then blow me away with it…

(I'll share with you the answers to the questions Jeffrey, Ben and
Mark posed me later in this article.)

And it was Mark's question that got me going for this article.

You can know all the techniques, strategies and mental linguistics on
the planet...but...if you aren't a person of influence, you haven't
got a chance. Similarly, you can be a person of influence but your client quite simply might not be motivated to change. (at least not yet!)

Let's look at both of the people in the process and find out what kind
of a person a person of influence is...then find out what your client
must feel about you to best be motivated by you....

First: What is influence?
Influence is a process where one person motivates another person to
change something.

In the teleseminar I did for Mark, he answered... "framing." I could
hardly disagree that, that is, the single most important implementable tactic or strategy in influence.

It is.

But there is something more IMPORTANT in long-term successful
influence BY you or me, than framing.

Something more important than the context, the environment as well…

Let's look at just what it takes to motivate that person and who the
person of influence needs to be to accomplish persuasion.

Just Who is the Person of Influence?
Who is the great salesman, the great therapist, the great lover, the
great President, the great...you get the idea....

There are a number of qualities and characteristics that are crucial
to success in persuasion and influence...in every usage from therapy to selling. Above all else is one characteristic that dwarfs all of
the rest... Empathy.

Nothing is more important than empathy for someone who wants to
motivate others to change.

What is Empathy?
It's the ability to feel...to understand...to walk a mile in their
shoes...Empathy means that you can feel and see life from the
perspective of the other person. If and when you can do that...you can
be influential. If you can't you will only be able to "close a percentage" or get lucky now and then. You can know all the techniques on the planet, but if you can't feel their pain, you will never truly be a great salesman, a great communicator, a powerful person of influence.

You walk into the hospital, see your loved one with the I V in their arm. You paste a smile on your face, but they know it hurts you as much as it does them.

That's empathy.

Your child is home sick from school. You feel as bad for them as they
feel. You see the result of their bad decisions and the pain of the
future they now face. You feel it too.

When I think of empathy, I think of people like former President
Clinton. He has far more empathy than most people in the public eye.
Politics aside, when you watched Clinton with people, you sensed he
could really be in that person's shoes...and he was. That means he has the capacity to identify and feel what others are feeling at this
moment. People of great empathy have three common traits.

* They have experienced pain first hand.

* They have a wide range of experiences with all kinds of other people.

* They are validated and feel good based upon the approval of others.

I saw a book on the shelf today at Barnes & Noble. It was called
"Disease to Please." I didn't pick it up. Why? The person doesn't get
it. (Just like the guy who wrote "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. It's All Small Stuff.") The book might be helpful, but the title spreads a
very bad idea virus.

In a broad sense, the ideal life is about two things. Giving and
receiving pleasure. (Pleasure broadly means anything that is good.)
Take away one of the two (giving or receiving) from the person, and
you have a half of a person...

Take away the giving part, and in the vernacular, you have a jerk....

I'll bet a nickel the author of "Disease to Please" will tell the
reader that the reason people are unhappy and unsatisfied is that they
are trying to please other people at their own expense. (And that
might be a fact.) The possible solution might be proposed to stop
trying to please others, and start doing what the reader has never
done perhaps...please themselves.

Problem.

As soon as the person stops being helpful, kind, loving, supportive,
nurturing to others, they lose the other half of who they were. The
half of them that IS powerful and useful.

The real solution, obviously, is to always be supportive, kind and
helpful. And then to be supportive, kind and helpful to yourself as
well. (It requires no more time or effort. A simple set of choices.)
Then instead of becoming a jerk they become a complete person...and...a person capable of powerful influence...which means they are only one step away from success at any level they choose.

The influential person has a strong desire to please... and if they are going to be influential, that extends to the desire to help (for both altruistic and selfish purposes) others be happy, feel better,
and be useful as a human. This desire to help, to create value, to
love will often be paired with some kind of pain and no one should
tell this person to try and squelch the feelings of being rebuffed,
rejected or hurt. That IS the healthy and normal response. These are
the feelings that generate the empathic response.

When people see these characteristics in you, they judge you as a person who cares, is interested and wants to help others. Kindness.
The person of influence is typically a kind person. There are plenty
of exceptions in history, but in general if a person is empathic and
kind, they have the potential to help others create change.

Why?

Because you won't listen to a jerk. They don't care. All they have is
their self-interest and that means you can NOT trust them as they
attempt to persuade. It's as simple as that.

The Cornerstone of Motivation
Question: Can a person of influence, someone with great empathy, also
be intense, tough-as-nails, focused, able to self-satisfy at many
levels? Of course. People are allowed to have as many characteristics
as they can...empathy is simply the cornerstone of motivating others.

Fact: If you are empathetic, you will have the instant reservoir to
tap into to create change in other people's lives. This doesn't mean
you will successfully utilize your reservoir, it just means that you
don't have to work on building it!

So what is the big deal with something as touchy feely as empathy?
Well, if you're truly wondering, then it would be useful to begin
working on empathy.

We all want to be understood and liked by others. People who are
empathetic make it a point to understand others and to look out for the interests of everyone.

Salespeople, take a lesson from the great therapist (who truly is a
great salesperson). Numerous studies reveal that 50% of the results they achieve with a client at the one year point of demarcation is due to the therapist's personal qualities, of which the most crucial is
empathy. The remaining causes of success in therapy are spread out
among the approach, the client's motivation, their environment, etc.

When I say that people don't buy the product or service and that they
are buying YOU, I'm not kidding.

In the most simple terms: Your client is buying the empathy they feel in you.

There is little or no resistance toward the salesperson (or therapist) that has the complete best interest of the client in their heart and mind.

What About the Client?
We can talk more about the salesperson (therapist!) in a bit. For now let's switch to the other side of the table. The client.

The client, whether a prospect in a sales context, or a person needing
therapy...the elements are identical. In order for you to motivate your client, your client will need to meet several criteria.

Your client must be capable to change or take action. This simply
means that they can literally do something if they chose it. You can
try selling an airplane to a guy who can't afford a matchbox car but
he won't be able to take action.

Your client must be ready to change or take action. Remember that most
people are mired in the status quo. The client who smokes or drinks
too much who doesn't have an interest in changing isn't likely to be
motivated to change. Similarly the prospect who really believes that
he doesn't need to invest his money or buy a car that will get his
family safely from point to point will need to be motivated to get to
the "ready" stage. A person is ready when it is the most important
thing to them and whatever they were holding onto previously becomes secondary.

People don't like giving up anything. Attitudes, beliefs, feelings, emotions, thoughts, ANYTHING. People want to hang onto what they are familiar with.

People say they want to quit smoking...and "part of them" probably does...but it isn't as important as what they are getting from the experience itself. The person is ready to make a change when they have shifted their priorities.

The client must be willing to change. Do they want "it" at all? If it
doesn't hit their radar, then you haven't experienced a client that
even wants to make a change. They see no reason. They feel nothing.
And...nothing will happen as a result.

Your client will need to be approached in a fashion that will trigger change. The "approach" will vary from person to person. Over the
years, salespeople have learned that high pressure simply created
enemies and can destroy the relationship. 30 years ago various
therapeutic styles fell into the category of being confrontational.
(Direct challenges to the client.) These styles might work with a
specific individual but overall, they were a miserable failure. For the most part confrontation failed.

Similarly, extremely high pressure challenges fail in other
influential settings. Tell someone that if they don't buy the car
today that they lose out...well everyone knows the car will still be
there tomorrow and it is NOT going UP in value as it sits on the lot.
(The new home might, though!)

As a rule the vast majority of people DO need to feel some discomfort
to take action but they normally don't have to feel the fires of Hades
to make a good decision.

Think of it this way: Your client will not respond to high pressure if
it makes no sense to be pressured. A successful person of influence
simply doesn't need one person's "sale" that badly. And it will all show in the approach.

Observe:

"If you don't buy this today you will have wasted my time and it cost
me a lot of money to be here for you and if you did this the way it is
you'd get rich and what are you thinking?!?!!?"

That said, if the salesperson is in poverty, and if they don't make
the sale then they (the salesperson) loses. This means the salesperson
is selling the wrong product for the client and salesperson.

However...

"Whether you participate or not is fine with me. I'm happy to help you
here today. I'm busy. I might have a chance to help you in the future,
but you must make a decision that is best for you."

If you use the Science of Influence, you don't have to even think about "closing the sale" any more. It happens because it has to
happen. You might need to respond to questions or even natural
hesitation and fears of the unknown but there is no more need for
story-telling "closes" or emotional torture of people who could choose
to become clients. It didn't work in the therapist's office, and it won't work for most clients. (And if it did, is that *who* you want to be!??!!?)

The successful person of influence is the person who has great empathy
for the other person. They are inherently kind. They certainly can be
disciplined in approach. They can be tough as nails or as soft as a kitten. One thing is certain: They can feel the other person's pain....and... they want to help them feel better.

As for the client, make sure you are speaking to the person who is
capable of changing. The person who is ready to change and the person is willing to change. You can influence the willingness to come closer to ready (as in NOW) but you can't motivate actual ability. If they
can't buy the million dollar house, don't try and sell it to them.
What would the point be?

Empathy and kindness.

Who would have thought it?

Oh!!

The answer to Jeffrey's question was... "Ask Questions."

And Ben Mack certainly believes... that marketing is the face of
magick, but I'm just not sure how to counterpropose thoughts in that
one….so I simply agreed with him…which I knew would make him believe that I, too, am a genius…

About the Author:
Kevin Hogan is the author of Covert Hypnosis, a guidebook that Dr. Joe
Vitale (star of "The Secret" movie) has said to be "the most powerful
stuff I've EVER seen for selling, persuading, and motivating." Kevin
is the nation's leading body language expert. He is a dynamic,
well-known international motivational and inspirational keynote speaker, consultant and corporate trainer. He has trained persuasion, sales and marketing skills to leaders in the government of Poland, employees from Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Meespierson, Auntie Anne's, Cargill, Pillsbury, Carlson Companies, Fortis, Great Clips,
the State of Minnesota, 3M, The United States Postal Service and
numerous other Fortune 500 companies. He recently spoke to The Inner Circle and at the Million Dollar Roundtable (MDRT) convention.

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Are Orgasms All In the Mind?

Are Orgasms All In the Mind?

Source: Whole Science

Is orgasm through mental imagery alone possible? Research into the science of the orgasm has uncovered that it is possible to have orgasms without physical touch. Indeed, they have even found that it is possible to orgasm through non erogenous parts of the body, including the knee and nose!

It is a common experience to have orgasms through dreams, hinting at the possibility that our mind may be the vehicle for orgasms, not the body.

Furthermore, researchers have discovered that it is possible for paralysed people to have orgasms. But how? Are orgasms all in the mind?

This formerly taboo subject in science was explored by Rutgers University when Rutgers University's Komisaruk and retired Rutgers professor Beverly Whipple decided to test out this theory.

Carrying out studies of spinal-cord-injured women, they've found evidence of what they believe to be a new orgasmic pathway, one that bypasses the spine completely.

They found that the same brain areas were activated during orgasms experienced by imagery alone- there was no difference between those and actual genital orgasms.

Known commonly as the 'extragenital' orgasm, their studies found that pleasure can be obtained through any part of the body or from no physical contact at all.

Komisaruk states "Although it sounds strange, the reports are believable. Now, people can show our book to someone who doubts it (The Science of Orgasm), and it can serve as a validation. Time will tell how prevalent non-genital orgasms are."

From their investigation into paralysed woman's orgasms, it is showing that perhaps what we thought was the cause of orgasms (physical stimulation), may not be the cause at all. Indeed, it could be that harnessing the power of our minds through mental imagery alone may be enough to produce full physical orgasms in both men and women.

They conclude: "The increases in the self-induced imagery orgasm condition were comparable in magnitude to those in the genital self-stimulation-produced orgasm condition. On this basis we state that physical genital stimulation is evidently not necessary to produce a state that is reported to be an orgasm and that a reassessment of the nature of orgasm is warranted."

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Subliminal suggestions work!

10 Scientific Studies That Prove Subliminals Work

Source: RealSubliminal.com

We often get asked for further evidence of subliminal messaging, and a lot of skeptical questions from people who have yet to experience subliminal messaging for themselves, so here is a page we have complied with multiple studies which have been conducted on subliminal messaging using audio based messages over the last 30+ years:

Improves Math Skills

Ariam, S. and Siller, J. "Effects of Subliminal Oneness Stimuli in Hebrew on Academic Performance of Israeli High School Students. " Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1982):

* 10th grade students were shown subliminal messages in Hebrew saying; "Mommy and I are one", "My teacher and I are one" and "People are walking in the street" (a neutral statement). The Students received the messages four times per week for 6 weeks.

* 6 weeks later, the students exposed to the subliminal statement "Mommy and I are one" scored higher in a maths exam than the other groups.

Psychologists claimed the messages such as "Mommy and I are one" would boost the students self esteem and have an effect to help them learn. Also interestingly when the messages were revealed so the students were aware of what they were receiving the effect failed, giving support to the effectiveness of sending a subliminal message rather than an overt one.

Helps to Quit Smoking

Palmatier, J.R., and Bornstein, P.H. "Effects of Subliminal Stimulation of Symbiotic Merging Fantasies on Behavioral Treatment of Smokers." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1980):

* Thirty-four people underwent a 3-week, group-oriented smoking cessation therapy package.

* Results showed that the subliminal messages affected post-treatment smoking behavior of the group. i.e. the people who received subliminal messages after their regular therapy had a lower rate of relapse into smoking again.

A follow up study by Palmatier and Bornstein found that "subliminal messaging noticeably improved the progress of subjects attempting to quit smoking", when compared to the group not exposed to subliminal messages.

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The Mind Can "Hear" Audio Subliminal Messages

Kaser, V.A. "The Effects of an Auditory Subliminal Perception Message Upon the Production of Images and Dreams". Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1986).

* Subjects listened to an audio subliminal message. The message was mixed with a regular music recording. Another group of subjects simply listened to the regular music recording without the subliminals.

* Both groups were asked to create a pre-test drawing before and immediately after the music was played as well as a drawing of any dreams they had the previous night.

* When the drawings were examined, the effects of the subliminal message could be seen.The drawings of the people who listened to the music with subliminal hidden content contained images relating to the suggestions they were listening to, whereas no correlation could be found with the control group.

* Kaser concluded that "the unconscious/subconscious mind is able to perceive a recorded verbal message that cannot be consciously heard", proving the existence of subliminal perception.

In another study conducted by Dr. Becker experimental and control groups were asked to guess a three-digit number. The experimental group was exposed to the number subliminally embedded in behind a pink noise (similar to white noise) based audio track.

In three different trials an average of 77% of people exposed to the subliminal numbers guessed correctly, in comparison to only 10% of people in the control groups who weren't exposed subliminally to the numbers. This again confirms that subliminal messages are perceived at a non-conscious level.

Losing Weight & Healthy Eating

Silverman, L.H., Martin, A., Ungaro, R., and Mendelsohn, E. "Effect of Subliminal Stimulation of Symbiotic Fantasies on Behavior Modification Treatment of Obesity." Clinical Psychology (1978):

* Silverman et al conducted two experiments on subliminal perception with groups of 26 and 30 women. The women were at least 15% overweight. There were 2 groups, a 'subliminal group' and a 'control group'. Both groups were given some education on weight loss and healthy eating i.e. how to record calories accurately, eating at regular meal times, and how to reward themselves for eating healthily.

* At the start and end of all the sessions, everyone was asked to image a situation in which they would be tempted to over eat. At this point they were exposed to a subliminal message for 4 milliseconds. Either a weight loss based subliminal message for the subliminal group or a neutral subliminal message for the control group.

* In both cases the 'subliminal group' lost more weight than the control group, with the subliminal group losing significantly more by the end of the follow up period. It was concluded that the use of subliminal messaging was able to help people reduce their over eating habits.

Another study conducted by Dr. Becker et al showed that the use of subliminal messages can have astounding results:

* In Metairie, Louisiana, at Dr. Becker's weight loss clinic his patients heard both cassette tape subliminal messages and videotapes containing subliminals.

* One woman lost 100 pounds within one year. In a follow up Dr. Becker found 50% of the patients maintained over half their weight loss for up to two years following the subliminal program. Even more impressively 23% maintained between 75% and 100% of their total weight loss. These figures were significantly better than diet programs in which he did not use subliminal messaging. subliminal messages.

We have had a lot of success stories from our weight loss series. You can use subliminal messaging to gain a higher level of success from your weight loss efforts too! Do you want to develop healthy eating habits? Try our most popular subliminal weight loss album.

Improve Study Skills

Parker, K.A. "Effects of Subliminal Symbiotic Stimulation on Academic Performance: Further Evidence on the Adaptation-Enhancing Effects of Oneness Fantasies." Journal of Counseling Psychology (1982):

* 60 college students on a summer law course for 6 weeks received subliminal messages before 3 of their 5 lectures per week, as also before and after a brief minute counseling session.

* The subjects exposed to subliminal messaging achieved significantly higher grades than the others, which were consistent with other earlier studies.

Subliminal Enhancements Boost Learning Capacity

Cook, H., Ph.D. "Effects of Subliminal Symbiotic Gratification and the Magic of Believing on Achievement." Psychoanalytic Psychology (1985):

* University students were split into groups and exposed to either to a subliminal message, or a control message immediately after class over a period of 12 sessions of 4 millisecond duration messages.

* Students who had received the subliminal messages ended up performing better in their end of year exams than students who received the control message.

* The researchers concluded that subliminally stimulating students to feel better about themselves enabled them to learn more efficiently.

Cure Agoraphobia

Lee, I., Tyrer, P. and Horn, S., "A comparison of Subliminal, Supraliminal and Faded Phobic Cine-Films in the Treatment of Agoraphobia. " British Journal of Psychiatry (1983):

* 32 patients were treated by being exposed to videos twice per week for a period of three weeks. Three of the groups saw the same movie - a selection of agoraphobic scenes, while the control group saw a potter working on his wheel. The three test groups included one group who viewed it at a level below the visual threshold (the subliminal group), one seeing it under normal conditions (the regular group), and the third was exposed to both subliminal and regular viewing as the study progressed (the faded group).

* The faded group showed the greatest improvement out of all of the groups. The improvement was maintained over a twelve week review period.

* These findings findings indicate that both subliminal and regular presentation of messages can be effective in reducing agoraphobic behavior, but when combining subliminal messaging with regular viewing there is an even greater effect.

Darts Accuracy

Plumbo, R. and Gillman, I. "Effects of Subliminal Activation of Oedipal Fantasies on Competitive Performance." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1984):

* Subjects tested for their darts accuracy. They were exposed to the following subliminal messages; "Beating him is OK", "Beating him is wrong", and a neutral control message of "People are walking".

* Results showed that people exposed to the message "Beating him is OK" showed greater dart-throwing accuracy than people listening to any other messages.

This study shows that even a simple positive message played while throwing darts can induce a greater level of accuracy.

Strong Reactions To Subconscious Messages

Bornstein, R.F, Leone, D.R. and Galley, D.J. "The Generalizability of Subliminal Mere Exposure Effects: Influence of Stimuli Perceived Without Awareness on Social Behavior." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1987):

* Spoken statements hidden by white noise at increasing volume levels were played to test subjects.

* Stronger physiological reactions were observed in subjects exposed to the messages which masked by loud white noise and inaudible, than when the volume was actually lower and the messages were somewhat audible.

* Research concluded that completely inaudible messages were capable of reaching the human mind, and of having a physiological effect.

Subliminal Messages Reduce Shoplifting

* TIME Magazine reported in 1979 that nearly 50 department stores in the U.S. and Canada had been using subliminal messages over their music systems which had resulted in a significant reduction in both customer based shoplifting and employee theft.

* One East Coast chain amounted savings of $600,000 over a nine-month period!

* Another story in the Wall Street Journal in 1980 stated that subliminal messaging a New Orleans supermarket resulted in an all time low within 6 months of use - from $50,000 per six month period to a figure of $13,000! Furthermore cashier shortages dropped from $125 per week to below $10 per week.

The Power of Subliminal Stimulus

Shevrin, H. "Does the Averaged Evoked Response Encode Subliminal Perception? Yes." (1975):

* Research showed that peoples responses to a given stimulus were statistically lower when subjects were consciously aware, but when the stimuli was presented in a subliminal fashion the response rate was significantly higher.

* Despite people being unaware of the stimuli, measurements suggest that our minds do still become aware. This suggests that while the mind is not consciously aware of any messages, the subconscious mind can pick up on the subliminal information and respond in the same way as if it was received under regular conditions.

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New Mind Blowing Influence Research Revealed

New Mind Blowing Influence Research Revealed

Want Someone to Comply with Your Every Desire?
By Kevin Hogan, Author of Covert Hypnosis

Want someone to comply with your every desire?

Consider the The Instant Drama Resolution Persuasion Technique.

What? Never heard of it?

That's because pretty much no one, would have ever thought of it. This is one of those shake your head, "man that is cool" strategies that can also make your head spin....it's so utterly cool.

Dariusz Dolinski, Poland's leading persuasion researcher did. What did his research show?

Let's see how fast I can build this in your brain for you....

Imagine a bunch of people jaywalking. A lot of people in America don't even know what that means...It means crossing the street anywhere there is NOT a crosswalk. Some people don't know it's illegal.

You're crossing a street but NOT at the crosswalk at the intersection.

All of a sudden a whistle blows! It must be the policeman.

Much like the experience you get in any country when you see the red flashing lights behind you and your heart pounds wondering what you did wrong and how much trouble you are in...these kinds of experiences immediately change your state from goal-oriented behavior (driving somewhere or crossing the street) to one of a state of fear.

So, you're crossing the street "in the middle" and all of a sudden you hear a LOUD WHISTLE.

In Poland this kind of experience is even more intense. In a country that had only been communist government-free for 2 decades, there's a lot of intense feelings around "law enforcement." Before 1989, you might have gone to jail if you didn't pony up 20 zloty's for such an offense. (You might be surprised that officers of the law sometimes still "collect fines" on the streets in Poland...today...but all that for another day.)

So the whistle sounds. You look around, see no police and continue across the street.

You are immediately stopped by someone.

You think you could be in trouble. FEAR pulsates through your body.

He says, "Excuse me, I need 10 minutes of your time to answer a few questions for me. It's the Self Description Inventory..."

A bunch of other people were randomly stopped after hearing the whistle on this cold day in Poland. Another bunch of people were stopped as well, but they crossed WITHOUT hearing the whistle.

Finally a third group of people were stopped as well as they walked along the sidewalk. They didn't jaywalk with or without whistle. They were just... walking along.

What happened?

59% of the people who heard the whistle while jaywalking agreed to fill out the survey.
46% of the jaywalkers who heard no whistle agreed as well.
41% of those on an evening stroll on the cold day agreed to answer questions.
OK, quick mental note: People were WAY MORE compliant when they were doing something wrong, albeit very small, and they heard a whistle.

Got it?

That's building block number one....

A second experiment was performed later.

The Second Building Block of getting them to comply with your every desire?

Just like in the United States, when you illegally park, you get a ticket under your windshield wiper. Some things are culturally consistent around the world...

Experimenters found illegally parked cars and placed leaflets that LOOKED LIKE tickets on the windshield under the wiper.

They were actually either requests for blood donation or hair restoring shampoo promotions!

In yet another experiment the experimenters taped the leaflets to the door handle. (Not indicative of a ticket, something you would FEEL much different about, right?)

Finally, there was a group of cars that were illegally parked and nothing was done.

As each person returned to their car and was about to leave, an experimenter approached and asked the driver to give them a few minutes for a quick survey for his Master's thesis on efficient traffic.

Who complied with the request for a quick survey?

57% Leaflet Under Wiper, Initial Thought: Ticket - But it was a Shampoo ad
68% Leaflet Under the Wiper: Initial Thought: Ticket - Appeal for blood donation - Do something nice you almost got a ticket and another person wanted BLOOD!
34% Leaflet taped to the Car door - it was the Shampoo ad
40% Leaflet taped to the Car door - it was the blood donation
36% Only illegally parked, no leaflet.
Starting to catch on? Go back and check out those numbers again. That is AMAZING.

Building Block Number Three for Compliance to Your Every Desire

OK

Here's the next experiment to find out whether this is all about people complying because of FEAR ONLY or if the reason people are complying is because they experienced FEAR and the RELIEF of fear.

Students were divided into three rooms.

Room 1 Anxiety-provoking
Room 2 Anxiety-provoking, then reduction
Room 3 Nothing (Control)
(The anxiety was caused by the discovery of an electric shock that would be applied when they mis-spelled words.)

In ROOM THREE, the students were informed they'd be throwing darts from various distances.

The experimenter enters ROOM TWO and tells the students to go into the hallway that they will NOT be participating in the electric shock experiment but a dart throwing experiment. WHEW!

A female student approached students in the hall one by one asking for participation in a charity event for an orphanage. Students were asked how much time they would be willing to give to the event.

Now, who complies and to what degrees?!!!?:

Room 1 Fear - 37% Complied, .625 # Days Promised
Room 2 Fear, then Reduction - 75% Complied, 1.15 Days Promised
Room 3 (Control) - 52% Complied, 1.02 Days Promised
KEYPOINT: The induction and then reduction of fear causes compliance in requests immediately following the emotional seesaw drama!

AHHHH but does the see saw drama work in reverse? Do we really have it figured out?

We think it's Fear Induction, Then Reduction....or is it....

Good question.

I mean it is fairly common strategy in copywriting, for example, to find the pain, rub it and then heal it. It's a proven method of getting people to take action.

But what about the OPPOSITE?

Is it just the notion of being scared THEN feeling better?

Clearly the fear alone didn't cause compliance at all.

HAPPINESS THEN DISAPPOINTMENT

The first experiment that Narwat and Dolinski did to test this was on the streets of Wroclaw, Poland. (as I recall, that is pronounced roughly: Frahtswahf!)

People would see what looked like a 50 zloty ($15) bill on the sidewalk and pick it up.

It wasn't.

It only looked like money. It was an ad for a new car wash.

Most people threw the ad in the garbage. (I was IMPRESSED!)

Soon thereafter, a female confederate appeared with a suitcase that needed to be watched.

"I urgently have to see my friend who is on the fifth floor in the building here and my bag is too heavy!"

Key Result: People who had PICKED UP the "MONEY" (really the car wash ad) were TWICE AS LIKELY to watch the bag for the girl as those people who found nothing on the street!

What?!

Wait just a minute.

Someone is super excited to find what looks like money, they find out it's just a stupid car wash ad. Then they are asked to watch a piece of heavy luggage for a girl and these people are TWICE as likely to do so than people who found nothing?!??!

Something peculiar is going on...

It's Building Block #4...

In a related experiment, German students were told they received an "A" on a test then were told they truly received a "C". The professor had made a mistake.

Another group: The students were told they received a "C" on the test and then it was corrected, they actually received an "A".

Another group: The students were given the accurate grade they received on the test.

Students were then informed that there would be a street party next quarter and the school was looking for volunteers to have an information booth and help prepare cake and coffee.

Students were asked to commit to a number of hours they would work on that Sunday and write it down.

Negative Feelings (C) then Positive (A) - 3 hours
Positive then Negative - 2 hours
Positive (correct score) - 1.1 hours
Control (no info) - 1.2 hours
So basically the two non-drama situations...the student writes down, the mimimum ONE HOUR of volunteering. Whether they were given the correct score or there was no info.

BUT, when there is emotional drama, things change fast...and significantly.

"...the withdrawal of emotions is an effective instrument of social influence that works no matter whether the participants first experienced disappointment and dissatisfaction then happiness and the sense of well-being, or whether the sequence is reversed....THE FAST CHANGE IN THE EMOTIONAL QUALITY LEADS TO INCREASED COMPLIANCE."

Cool, Kevin, but what happens outside of the laboratory (or off the sidewalk!)? Does this work in real life?

What follows is from an email I received from a Coffee with Kevin Hogan reader who got an advanced look at this article.

"Kevin,

Just read your article on inducing fear, then reducing it for compliance.

Just did something similar -( SkillPath). I tried something new that doubled my sales the two days that I used it; I think it might have utilized this principle.

Knowing that many who come to the seminars are "prisoner's" and didn't necessarily choose to be there, and, that they cringe when they see the product table and worry about being "pitched" later, I decided to do this:

I created a much higher-priced package than what anyone normally buys, and created a flyer for it. It is a very solid package, with great materials - but a bit high ($300) for the typical SkillPath setting.

Then, after showing them the package that has been put together just for this seminar, I say "Now, go ahead and breathe easy - I'm not going to ask you to buy this package. Before you ever decide to purchase a package as comprehensive as this, there's one product that..."

I then present the $100 product.

When I presented them as you suggested at Bootcamp 2007, (High price, Middle price, low price) it did drive a fair amount of people to the middle price. However, by coming on a little strong with the high-priced package at first, like I was really going to push it, and then suddenly backing off, telling them to breathe easy, because I was not going to ask them to buy it, twice as many people bought the middle product than when presented the other way.

I know you are busy, but I just wanted to share that with you.

I will continue to experiment with this, thanks for the article, it explained a great deal!"

Vince Harris, www.vinceharris.com

Think about the ways that you can utilize this information in your presentation - and double or triple your sales, as well!

You've basically now got the building blocks of a strategy that will get them to comply with your every desire...

This article was adapted from Narwat, R and Dolinski, D. "See Saw of Emotions and Compliance, 2008. Journal of Social Psychology

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How to think like a millionaire.

How to Think Like a Millionaire

By T. Harv Eker

Rich people have a way of thinking that is different from poor and middle class people. They think differently about money, wealth, themselves, other people, and life. Let's examine six crucial differences between how rich people think and how poor or middle class people think.

By doing so, you will have some alternative beliefs in the files of your mind from which to choose. In this way, you can catch yourself thinking as poor people do and quickly switch over to how rich people think.

Remember, beliefs are not right, wrong, true or false, they're just past opinions which can be changed on your command. The fact is, you can CHOOSE to think in ways that will support you instead of ways that don't.

1. Rich People Believe "I Create My Life"

Poor people believe "Life happens to me."

If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of your life; that you create every moment of your life, especially your financial life. If you don't believe this, then you must believe you have little control over your life and that financial success has nothing to do with you. That is not a very rich attitude.

Instead of taking responsibility for what's going on in their lives, poor people choose to play the role of victim. Of course, any "victim's" predominant thought process is "poor me." And presto, through the law of intention that's literally what they get; "poor," as in money, me.

Here's some homework I promise will change your life. For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all. Not just out loud, but in your head too. I've given this little challenge to thousands of people and several hundred have personally told me that this exercise completely transformed their lives. I invite you to email me with the results of this experiment. I guarantee you'll be astonished as to how amazing your life will become when you stop focusing on the "crap."

It's time to decide. You can be a victim OR you can be rich, but you can't be both. It's time to take back your power and acknowledge the fact that you create every moment of your life. That you create everything that is in your life and everything that is not in it. That you create your wealth and you create your non-wealth and everything in between.

2. Rich People Play the Money Game to Win

Poor people play the money game not to lose.

Poor people play the money game on defense rather than offense. Let me ask you, if you were to play any sport or any game strictly on defense, what are the chances of you winning that game? Most people agree; slim and none.

Yet, that's exactly how most people play the money game. Their primary concern is survival and security, not wealth and abundance. So, what is your goal? What is your real objective? What is your true intention?

Rich people's big goal is to have massive wealth and abundance. Poor people's big goal is to have "enough to pay the bills..." on time would be a miracle! Again, let me remind you of the power of intention. When your objective is to have enough to pay the bills, that's exactly how much you'll get; just enough to pay the bills and usually not a cent more. You get what you truly intend to get. If you want to get rich, your goal has to be "rich." Not just enough to pay the bills and not just enough to be comfortable. Rich, darn it, rich!

3. Rich People Are Committed to Being Rich

Poor people are uncommitted to being rich.

Most of us have good reasons as to why it would be wonderful to be rich, but what about the other side of the coin? Are there reasons why it might not be so great to be rich or go through the process of trying to get rich?

Each of us has a file on wealth in our mind. This file contains our personal beliefs that include why being wealthy would be great. But for many people, their file also includes information as to why being rich might not be so great. These people have mixed internal messages around money and especially wealth.

One part of them says, "Having more money will make life a lot more fun." But then another part screams, "Yeah, but "I'm going to have to work like a dog! What kind of fun is that?" One part says, "I'll be able to travel the world." then the other part responds, "Yeah, and everyone in the world will want something from me." These mixed messages are one of the biggest reasons that most people never become rich.

In fact, the #1 reason most people don't get what they want is they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. They will do "whatever it takes" to have wealth as long as it's moral, legal and ethical. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.

I hate to break the news to you, but getting rich is not a "stroll in the park." It's takes focus, expertise, 100% effort, and "never say die" perseverance. You have to really commit to it, both consciously and subconsciously. You have to believe in your heart you can do it and you deserve it. If you are not fully committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't.

4. Rich People Think Big

Poor people think small.

We once had a trainer teaching at one of our seminars who went from a net worth of $250 thousand to over $600 million in only 3 years. When asked his secret he said, "Everything changed the day I began to think big." In my book, SpeedWealth, I discuss the "Law of Income" which states that "you will be paid in direct proportion to the value you deliver according to the market place."
Another way of understanding this is to answer the following question: How many people do you actually serve or affect?

For instance in my business, some trainers enjoy speaking to groups of 20, others are comfortable with 100, others like an audience of 500, still others want 5000 people or more in attendance. Is there is a difference in income between these trainers? You bet there is.

Who are you? How do you want to live your life? How do you want to play the game?

Do you want to play in the big leagues or in little league, in the majors or the minors?

Will you play big or play small? It's your choice.

But hear this. It's not about you. It's about living your mission. It's about living true to your purpose. It's about adding your piece of the puzzle to the world. It's about serving others.

Most of us are so stuck in our egos that everything revolves around "me, me and more me." But again, it's not about you, it's about adding value to other people's lives. It's your choice. One road leads to being broke and miserable, the other leads to money, meaning, and fulfillment.

It's time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It's time to stop needing and start leading. It's time to start being the star that you are. It's time to share your gifts and value in a BIG way. There could be thousands or even millions of people counting on you. Are you up to the challenge for our society and our children's sake? Let's hope so.

5. Rich People Are Bigger Than Their Problems

Poor people are smaller than their problems.

Getting rich is not a stroll in the park. It's a journey that is full of obstacles, twists, and detours. The simple fact is, success is messy. The road is fraught with pitfalls and that's why most people don't take it. They don't want the hassles, the headaches and the responsibilities. In short, they don't want the problems.

Therein lies one of the biggest differences between rich people and poor people. Rich and successful people are bigger than their problems while poor and unsuccessful people are smaller than their problems.

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid anything that looks like it could be a problem. They back away from challenges. The irony is that in their quest to make sure they don't have problems, they have the biggest problem of all... they're broke and miserable.

The secret to success is not to try to avoid or shrink your problems; it's to grow yourself so you're bigger than any problem.

Imagine a "level 2" character person looking at a "level 5" problem. Would this problem appear to be big or small? The answer is that from a "level 2" perspective, a "level 5" problem would seem BIG.

Now imagine a "level 8" person looking at the same "level 5" problem. From this person's perspective, is this problem big or small? Magically the identical problem is now a SMALL problem.

And for a "level 10" person, it's NO problem at all. It's just an everyday occurrence, like getting dressed or brushing your teeth. Whether you are rich or poor, playing big or playing small, problems do not go away. If you're breathing, you will always have so-called "problems."

What's important to realize is that the size of the problem is never the real issue. What matters is the size of you!
Remember, your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do! The idea is to grow yourself to a place where you can overcome any problems that get in your way of creating wealth and keeping it once you have it.

Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors and when a warrior is confronted with a challenge they shout: BRING IT ON!

6. Rich People Focus on Opportunities

Poor people focus on problems.

Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss.

Rich people focus on the rewards. Poor people focus on the risks.

It's the age-old question, is the glass half empty or half full? We're not merely talking about "positive thinking" here, we're talking about a habitual way of seeing the world. Poor people come from fear. Their minds are constantly scanning for what's wrong or what could go wrong in any situation. Their primary mindset is "What if it doesn't work?" or, more bluntly, "It won't work." Rich people, as we discussed earlier, take responsibility for creating their life and come from the mindset, "It will work because I'll make it work."

In the financial world, as in most other arenas, risk is directly proportionate to reward; generally, the higher the reward, the higher the risk. People with rich mentalities are willing to take that risk.

Rich people expect to succeed. They have confidence in their abilities, they have confidence in their creativity and they believe that should the "doo-doo hit the fan", they can always make their money back or succeed in another way.

On the other hand, poor people expect to fail. They lack confidence in themselves and in their abilities, and should things not work out, they believe it would be catastrophic.

You have to do something, buy something, or start something in order to succeed financially. You have to see opportunities for profit all around you instead of focusing on ways of losing money.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

Where is my mind? Want to find it?

Want to Find Your Mind? Learn to Direct Your Dreams

By Jessica Hamzelou / Source: New Scientist

"Am I awake or am I dreaming?"

I ask myself for probably the hundredth time. I am fully awake, just like all the other times I asked, and to be honest I am beginning to feel a bit silly. All week I have been performing this "reality check" in the hope that it will become so ingrained in my mind that I will start asking it in my dreams too.

If I succeed, I will have a lucid dream - a thrilling state of consciousness somewhere between waking and sleeping in which, unlike conventional dreams, you are aware that you are dreaming and able to control your actions.

Once you have figured this out, the dream world is theoretically your oyster, and you can act out your fantasies to your heart's content.

Journalistic interest notwithstanding, I am pursuing lucid dreaming for entertainment. To some neuroscientists, however, the phenomenon is of profound interest, and they are using lucid dreamers to explore some of the weirder aspects of the brain's behaviour during the dream state. Their results are even shedding light on the way our brains produce our rich and complex conscious experience.

It's a central issue in the study of consciousness. In 1992, Gerald Edelman at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, proposed that there are two possible states of consciousness, which he called primary and secondary consciousness.

Primary consciousness is the simple subjective experience of sensory perception and emotions, which could be applied to most animals. It's a state of "just being, feeling, floating", according to Ursula Voss at the University of Frankfurt in Germany.

The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot more complicated. That's because we are "aware of being aware". This allows us to reflect upon ourselves and our feelings and, in an ideal world, make insightful decisions and judgements. This state, dubbed secondary consciousness, is thought to be unique to humans.

"When you're awake, you have both primary and secondary consciousness. Secondary consciousness is that reflective awareness that determines a great part of waking consciousness," says Voss.

Pinning down how our brain produces these two, subjective, states of consciousness is a tough challenge, because it's difficult to isolate the different aspects of consciousness in fully awake subjects from other neural processes unrelated to awareness.

Which is where dreams come in. When we dream, we experience events (albeit imagined) and emotions but, crucially, we lack certain aspects of self-awareness that we normally feel when we are awake, particularly those involved in the rational reflection on what we are experiencing. You could easily see an outrageous event - a fluorescent pink kitten flying past on golden wings, to name but one - without batting a dream eyelid.

"If we can accept really weird and bizarre events as perfectly normal happenings, that means there's something wrong with our reflective, rational consciousness," says Patrick McNamara of Boston University.

For this reason, some researchers, like Allan Hobson at Harvard Medical School, believe that dreams are akin to Edelman's definition of primary consciousness. Comparing the dream state with the waking state could let us explore the way the brain generates the self-awareness of secondary consciousness.

Some headway had already been made in this direction by the late 1990s. In 1997, Eric Nofzinger and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, compared the brain activity of awake individuals with dreamers using PET scans, which reveal how much energy parts of the brain are using.

The team identified three main regions that showed more activity during dream sleep, which is characterised by rapid eye movement (REM). The areas were along the midline of the brain, the insula and the left amygdala. Together, these regions are thought to be involved in motivation and reward mechanisms, and processing emotions, which Nofzinger reckons might explain why dreams are often so emotional.

Surprisingly, given the irrationality of the dream experience, many of the frontal areas of the brain involved in advanced cognition such as reasoning and forward planning were also active in the dreamers. But there was one notable exception: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) was remarkably subdued in REM sleep, compared with during wakefulness. To Hobson, that strongly suggests that this particular area, above other frontal regions, is crucial for the critical reflective awareness present in waking, and therefore secondary, consciousness.

Could this one brain region alone explain our secondary consciousness? It's here that lucid dreams enter the picture. With their increased self-awareness, lucid dreams share certain aspects of secondary consciousness, so researchers are now vying to observe what happens in the brain when someone "wakes up" within their dream, and whether they exhibit any further signatures of consciousness. "It's a very interesting leap because it can show you exactly what occurs if you jump from limited consciousness to very high consciousness," says Victor Spoormaker of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. "This should be one of the main themes of lucid dream research."

Lucidity on demand

Voss and her colleagues made tentative steps towards using lucid dreams to study consciousness in 2009. She trained a group of students to become lucid dreamers using a number of tips and tricks.

Once they had "woken up" within their dream, the subjects were then asked to signal to Voss that they were lucid by moving their eyes in a previously agreed pattern, which was measured with an electro-oculograph. "We have no other way of knowing they're really in a lucid dream," says Voss. "It's a great effort to make these eye movements because normally you're in that dream and you're busy with other things; you don't want to communicate with the outside world." At the same time, Voss used EEG - a cap of electrodes placed on the scalp - to record their brain activity.

Unfortunately, the team only managed to capture three lucid dreams, an indication of just how tricky they are to study. But it was enough to reveal a couple of intriguing differences between the lucid and non-lucid dreaming brain that may contribute to the secondary state of consciousness.

Firstly, the team observed an increase in a specific brainwave - oscillating at 40 hertz - in the frontal regions during the lucid dreams compared to the non-lucid dreams, which tended to have slower brain waves. They also found greater synchronised activity between the frontal and parietal regions of the brain than in normal REM sleep, though less than would be expected in a fully awake subject. Importantly, the overall brain activity was still significantly different to the waking state, meaning the subjects couldn't have been awake and simply pretending to lucid dream.

What was the DLPFC up to? If it really were key to the self-awareness of secondary consciousness, you would expect it to "light up" during the lucid dreaming state. Unfortunately, EEG is not sensitive enough to measure the neural activity in such a small, specific area.

However, preliminary work by Michael Czisch at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, hints at the answer. He used high-resolution fMRI scans to investigate the brain state of lucid dreamers. Although the results are currently being peer-reviewed, so many of the details are still under wraps, Czisch has hinted that the scans again reveal highly coordinated activity in the frontal regions of the brain, and also in the parietal and temporal zones, once the dreamers became lucid. The DLPFC was also more active than in a usual REM dream - providing tantalising evidence that it really is a crucial ingredient of secondary consciousness.

The million dollar question, of course, is how these specific patterns of electrical activity could give rise to our conscious experience. The DLPFC's role certainly makes sense, given laboratory studies that have shown it retrieves and analyses information in our working memory, and that it plays a key part in decision making.
What of the other signatures of lucidity?

The coordinated neural activity may help the various brain regions communicate more effectively, "binding" together all the different thoughts and feelings being processed separately across the brain into a single unified experience, which we perceive as "the present". One might expect more binding - and therefore greater synchrony - in secondary consciousness compared with primary consciousness, simply because the experience is so much richer, combining analytical thoughts as well as sensory perceptions and emotions.

The specific frequency of much of the neural activity in the frontal areas - 40 hertz - is also significant. Slower frequency brain waves usually dominate in sleep, whereas 40 hertz waves are more characteristic of the waking state, suggesting secondary consciousness will only emerge if the relevant neurons are communicating at a fast enough rate. Hobson likens it to "turning up the volume" in the brain.

These experiments in lucid dreaming, few though they currently are, may have wide-reaching implications in clinical situations, particularly in the study of mental illness. "When you're a schizophrenic, you're in primary consciousness really," Voss claims. "What you're lacking is reflective awareness; you cannot distinguish between reality and your hallucinations."

On this basis, Voss wonders whether it might be possible to stimulate the necessary regions in schizophrenic patients to help them achieve greater lucidity in their waking life. The work might even suggest ways for healthy people to enjoy lucid dreams. "Wouldn't it be nice if you could get somebody in REM sleep to become a lucid dreamer just by stimulating his brain?" says Voss. "No one's tried this before."

Luckily for me, I have been able to make my first foray into this strange state of consciousness without any artificial stimulation. I'm happy to report that on a sunny morning over the Easter weekend, I had my first lucid dream. It lasted all of a few seconds, and I was merely able to consciously twirl on the spot, but I woke up excited and happy. With the whole dream world now open to me, let's just hope this is only the start of my lucid life.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad

How to Direct the Power of Your Magnetic Thoughts

How to Direct the Power of Your Magnetic Thoughts

By Asara Lovejoy / Excerpt from The One Command

If you have meditated or practiced regular prayer, or any kind of contemplation, then you know that you have the capacity to quiet your ordinary, rapid beta mind to a lower cycle, such as theta. If you have never formally thought to quiet your mind, realize that when you daydream or are in deep thought, you are accomplishing the same thing.

We generate an electro-magnetic field of attraction or repulsion with our thoughts through the release, from our endocrine system, of hormones and chemicals known as peptides. We generate electro-magnetic charges with our thoughts that either attract to us or repel from us our experiences.

Our thoughts travel through positive/negative receptors in every cell of our body and fire sequences in the neuro-net passages of our brain. These micro-electrical charges formed by our thinking are real. They influence our reality by magnetically attracting experiences of like kind to us in either a positive or negative manner, or by repelling experiences from us. Our unconscious thoughts that operate below our conscious awareness hold great power over our lives as they are firing the peptide messengers that unconsciously drive our choices.

When we desire to be masters and we haven't achieved it yet, there is a separation between the unconscious thoughts that are driving our choices, and the conscious thoughts of our desire.

When we understand that every thought we think operates within us, below our awareness every moment, expressing out into the world and attracting information of like kind through the energy of our electromagnetic thinking, then we understand how we are creating our lives.

Ordinary Thinking

It is important to note that we go in and out of many combinations of brain waves moment by moment, yet we can become more focused in one brain wave than another at will, even as we unconsciously operate in many frequencies daily.

The most frequently accessed brain wave, beta, that we use when we are talking and thinking, is where we also run endless programs of fear and doubt and limitation.

In the slower brain frequency of theta, we can control our thoughts, and access that great capacity of who we are. When we are in this state, we can manifest all of our good instantly. It is often unfamiliar when you connect to that wonderful part of you that is allowing, loving, supportive, and has only your best interests at heart, yet you can become easily addicted to accomplishing what you want and realizing your dreams by learning this state of you.

Your mind cannot hold two thoughts at the same time. As you begin to concentrate in another way on manifesting money, prosperity, compassion, and joy, your old way of thinking simply dissolves through lack of use. If you relax and train yourself to be open, with grace and ease, to another possibility of prosperity, then that is what you will create.

Extraordinary Thinking

As our wants and desires regulate our thinking through our feelings (micro-electrical charges), our emotional thinking can Command information from the Source of who we are in theta to manifest that in our human experience.

What you are learning now is conscious access to your theta state of extraordinary thinking. You are embarking on a journey to attain other levels of consciousness within you by consciously slowing your mind to theta. This process can become as easy and automatic as waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night.

The theta brain wave is the vessel of change from your ordinary, beta-thinking, worried state to your peaceful, theta, God Mind, and the path to your immeasurable good.

By going into theta consciously, you become the master of wealth you desire to become. It is that simple.

When we talk about the four brain waves -- beta, alpha, theta, and delta -- it is important to note that all brain waves are active in some capacity at all times. With very little practice in lowering your brain wave to the theta state and going to Source, you can investigate the many dimensions of who you are. Your greater capacity exists in such subtle energy of self that you can only know it in this relaxed theta state.

A great benefit of thinking in theta connected to Source is that you de-link from the limiting and fearful thoughts held in your subconscious mind and attract a greater, richly abundant truth without resistance, seemingly by magic.

Success Story

A wealthy businessman started to practice The One Command to reduce his anxiety and stress. His wealth had not brought him peace of mind or a sense of satisfaction. He had to be active all the time, going from one project to another to even like himself. Soon after he began lowering his brain to theta and issuing The One Command, he called me with good news.

"I am having the best sleep I have ever had in my life, he exclaimed, and my family is much happier with me. We are going on a family vacation -- an unusual event -- and I am actually looking forward to taking the time off."

In addition, he reported that through the use of The One Command, a very difficult business transaction worth over $10 million dollars had closed. "I don't think anyone would believe me," he said, "if I told them I had Commanded this deal to come through."

Edited by: Lawyer Asad