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Table of Contents:
Warm up
Review of key ideas from the last issue
Use your subconscious mind
Designing personalized affirmations
Review of key ideas
Two challenges
Warm up
Hello! This is your friend Victory Crayne back again.
By this, the fourth issue of our sharing, you should be
gaining some good results and good feelings from what we have
discussed so far.
I'm sure you are looking forward to hearing what other
powerful motivational tools await you in the rest of this
newsletter series. I promise you there will lots more.
We are continually learning about our world, our environment,
how to fight more diseases, how to build great computers and
intelligent machines, how to make new crops, and how to
design materials for a specific purpose. We are even learning
how to overcome many human physical limitations, like how to
use computer chips planted in the retina of the eye to help
previously blind people see.
We are coming to the day when we will not have to surgically
open up bodies in order to fix what is inside.
But the one area of learning I am most excited about is the
science of how our minds work and how we can use our minds
to achieve even more than before. This arena of the 'mental
sciences' is in its infancy, comparable to the early days
of the biological sciences when Pasteur learned of bacteria.
Over the next twenty years, we can expect some surprising and
useful results from the studies of the human brain and mind.
For example, we are on our way to finding cures for criminal
behavior as well as the kind of blind thinking that leads to
war.
Some powerful discoveries in the mental sciences have already
been made and will appear right here in issues of this
newsletter.
Review of last issue
We discussed how wonderful your human brain is and how it
forms pathways between neurons from your experiences.
Even though you could not control how many of the physical
pathways in your brain were made from negative experiences,
we saw how using affirmations can have a marvelous effect on
building new and improved pathways.
We learned how the deliberate daily morning programming of
your brain and moods can help you lead a very motivated life.
I even gave you some examples of my personally designed
affirmations.
Next came an interesting story from ancient Greece on the
value of motivation in achieving success. The old man just
smiled and replied "When you want success as much as you
wanted that gulp of air, THEN you will be successful!"
In this issue, I will show how to tap the tremendous power of
your subconscious mind, how to design personalized
affirmations, and lastly, I will challenge you to do two
things for yourself.
Use your subconscious mind
It is through your subconscious mind that you contact and tap
into the power of your own private 'Infinite Intelligence.'
Your subconscious mind never sleeps like your conscious mind
does. As you experience events and ideas all day, your brain
cells store those experiences and your reactions to them.
These become part of what I call your personal 'Infinite
Intelligence'. This part of you acts like a computer that has
stored all that you've learned or experienced since your
birth. This is not just your memory, but your total sense of
identity, self awareness, self confidence, wisdom, etc.
You can tap into that great Infinite Intelligence of yours at
any time. Let me explain a little of how your subconscious
mind works and how you can use it to get what you want.
Using your subconscious mind, you have a wonderful chance to
communicate directly with your body and tell it what you want
it to do. This can be helpful in encouraging your body to
heal quickly, gain energy, lose fat, etc.
But one of the truly most powerful tools you have at your
disposal through your subconscious mind is your own private
source of 'Infinite Intelligence'.
Some people perceive this as their private avenue to the god
they believe in. Even though your spiritual strength is
something you need to explore to your own satisfaction, I will
not discuss the spiritual aspects of your own Infinite
Intelligence here. For our purposes here, I am not talking
about spirituality. I'm talking about you.
There are several ways to tap into your subconscious mind for
intellectual and creative greatness, but the three easiest
ways are through:
1. Meditation
2. Commands you give to your subconscious mind just
before going to sleep
3. Affirmations.
Meditation:
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There are many ways to use meditation, too many to cover
here. But all of them start with these steps. Find a quiet
and private place, relax your body so you are not distracted,
empty your mind of daily cares, and then focus on a train of
thought.
I personally select a quiet place and time and go into a
semi-trance state by 'defocusing' my conscious mind. By that
I mean I rid my mind of any thoughts of the day and just turn
'down the volume' of my active thinking. I try to envision a
foggy white cloud all around me with nothing going on. No
thoughts. No analytical, critical thinking. No worries.
I then start a dialogue with myself. For example, I start
asking myself some simple questions, like:
"What do I really want here?"
"What is holding me back?"
"What is really bothering me?"
"What am I afraid of?"
"What self limiting belief is holding me back?"
I relax and listen to whatever answers come to my mind. If I
have really relaxed my mind, the answers will come bouncing
back to me immediately. They come straight from my own
private feelings and understanding.
I have used this technique many times in my life, when I
wished greater strength and more ideas for solving some
particularly difficult problems. It has never failed me.
While sleeping:
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The second way of tapping into your Infinite Intelligence can
be done while you are sleeping.
A word of caution: in order to use this technique, it is
important to avoid stressful thoughts and experiences just
before going to sleep, like watching TV programs, or the
horrible TV news programs, or having an argument with
someone. Such thoughts will bounce around inside your head
and prevent you from relaxing enough.
After you slip under the covers, if you wish your
subconscious mind to work on your goals, then review them
briefly. Or if you have some problem you wish to have solved,
review all you know about that problem. Be careful here to
not start a worry session! Just review the highlights of what
you know about it.
Then give yourself some instructions. Perhaps something like
I can solve any problem I want
as I just create enough options!
I want my Subconscious Mind
to create more options for me
and have the solutions ready for me
when I wake.
Then put your mind to rest and try to get to sleep. Don't be
surprised if you have your answers upon waking!
Tapping into their subconscious minds in this manner has
helped many artists, scientists, and business people solve
thorny problems whose solutions have eluded them during the
busy times of their day.
I have a clipboard beside my bed so I can write down the
answers as they come to me in the middle of the night. My
subconscious mind passes the problem to my Infinite
Intelligence and it in turn provides some truly marvelous
answers that I could not find during the day.
Affirmations:
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The third way of using your subconscious mind can also be
done during normal waking and alert hours. It involves using
personalized affirmations.
Designing personalized affirmations
I want you to read these lines to yourself very slowly.
Repeat each one a second time before going on to the next.
I am a wonderful person in my own right.
There is Greatness in me!
I win every day!
It's not over...till I get what I want!
If you are like most people, you will experience an uplifting
effect when you talk to yourself that way. What you are doing
is talking to not only your conscious mind but to your
subconscious mind as well.
Your subconscious mind is like a child and believes whatever
you tell it. You can tell your subconscious mind what you
want to feel and it will cooperate.
I will give you some of my favorite affirmations in a few
minutes. Right now I want to teach you how to make your own
so you learn how to motivate yourself. That's important in
achieving permanent motivation.
Start by writing down your goals. While you are at it, pay
some attention to your beliefs and your feelings.
We can use affirmations as one very powerful way to 'program'
some beliefs into us -- beliefs that will create strong faith
in ourselves.
Next, identify the three most important weaknesses you suffer
from that may be preventing you from reaching your goals.
Then you can custom design an affirmation for each one to
personalize your new way of thinking each day.
The key to the power of affirmations is that through them we
are actually talking to our subconscious mind. Our
subconscious will believe anything we tell it. But we have to
be careful to tell it in the right way or it will get the
wrong message.
Twelve steps to designing an affirmation:
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Step No. 1: Use the personal pronoun "I". This is more
effective than stating a general idea in philosophical terms,
or using "people who...", or "you", or 'we', or 'one', or
"Those who", etc. You want your subconscious mind to realize
this is personal. You mean yourself, not someone else.
Step No. 2: Use the present tense, not the future tense. Your
subconscious mind doesn't operate in the future. It only has
'now'. If you use the words "I will...." then your
subconscious interprets this as something it can ignore,
since the word "will" is for the future. Try using "I am, I
can", etc.
Step No. 3: Do not use the word 'try'. 'Try' is not complete
enough. If you say something like "I will try to get to work
on time.", your subconscious mind will interpret that as
saying "It's okay to make a feeble attempt and then quit, but
don't go so far as to actually DO IT. The boss (that's your
conscious mind) only said 'try'. The boss did not say to
actually do it now!" and of course, if you fail in your
trying, you are off the hook. You've given yourself an excuse
for failure.
Step No. 4: Put some feeling words in your affirmations. Try
to put some emotional and sensory rich language into your
statement. Your subconscious mind really understands and
loves feelings. Your affirmation should be spoken with as
much conviction as you can give it.
I have found that writing the feeling words in all capital
letters helps me remember to shout those words to myself.
This is an excellent way to remember to put feeling into
them.
Step No. 5: Do not use the negative of an idea, for example
"I am NOT lazy today." Your subconscious mind works in
strange ways. It cannot recognize a negative, so it only
hears: "I am lazy today."
Be sure to avoid alternate forms of negatives too, like
'rather than...', 'instead of...', 'avoid...', etc.
This is the single greatest rule you must follow: do not use
any negative words!
If being lazy is a problem for you, you might try something
like this: "I am VERY PRODUCTIVE in my work today!"
Step No. 6: For correcting negative or counterproductive
beliefs or behaviors, identify the opposite belief or
behavior and use that concept in your affirmation.
For example, the opposite of lazy is very productive. The
opposite of procrastination is 'start my tasks right away'.
Step No. 7: Make sure your affirmation creates a 'win/win'
situation for everybody involved. If you are trying to gain
something at someone's loss, you are actually trying to make
a negative event happen. Instead of trying to get a bigger
piece of the same sized pie, try to do or create something
that will make the pie bigger for you and for everyone. That
will make you feel good and will help empower you.
Step No. 8: Keep the sentences short, so they are easily
understood by your subconscious. Try to keep them under
thirty words or three lines, if possible.
Step No. 9: Write it in such a way that it will SELL YOU on
YOU! The more specific you make it, the stronger result you
will have.
Step No. 10: Write it down! Put those powerful words into a
sentence you can find and use again. You don't think that you
need to say it to yourself just once do you?!
Step No. 11: Post a copy of your affirmations on or near your
desk, or carry them in your pocket or purse, and look at them
several times during the day. You may know them by heart, but
taking a few seconds to read them again will provide a
powerful boost to your subconscious mind.
Step No. 12: Practice saying each affirmation over and over
again. Drill it into your subconscious mind. Practice saying
it with more and more conviction, until you can feel yourself
BELIEVING it.
An example:
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Let me take an example of a weakness I have suffered from and
show you, step by step, how I created a very effective
affirmation for it.
I found I was spending too much time organizing my desk, or
organizing files on my computer, or straightening up my
general work area. I was actually practicing avoidance
behavior and procrastinating, instead of getting right to
work on what needed to be done.
Has this ever happened to you? I'll bet it has.
So, how did I create an affirmation to correct my
procrastinating behavior?
I started with the word "I". I chose a present tense word
"do".
Since 'overorganizing' was the negative I wished to avoid, I
chose a positive phrase that was an opposite. I asked myself
"What should I be focusing on instead of overorganizing?" I
chose the phrase "The Most Important Thing".
I added a clause to tell me to postpone organizing and state
it in a positive way -- "and leave organizing for later."
I added an emotional word to increase the affirmation's
effect on me. I added in the word 'enjoy'.
So, imagine, I have been suffering from wasting time
organizing. Here is my new affirmation to help me fix that.
I ENJOY doing the Most Important Thing and am leaving
organizing for later!
And then I practiced saying it over and over to myself. I
practiced saying it with more conviction, until I could feel
myself believing it.
If that is one of your weaknesses, try saying this
affirmation to yourself four times with great conviction:
I ENJOY doing the Most Important Thing and leave
organizing for later!
Can you feel how effective that becomes?
Your turn:
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I want you to take a moment or two to write down a few of
your weaknesses. Or a few goals you would like to encourage
yourself to believe in more. Or any very positive belief or
feeling you would like to have.
Go ahead. Stop reading this for a couple minutes and write a
couple down. I'll wait.
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Great! Welcome back. I knew you could do it.
Creating your own affirmations is one of the most powerful
tools you can learn from this newsletter.
My favorite affirmations:
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Let me give you some examples of my favorite affirmations, as
food for thought for your own use. If you wish to copy one
for your own -- be my guest.
Write it down though. Don't trust your memory. Remember the
ancient Chinese proverb: "The weakest ink is stronger than
the strongest memory."
I have included caps to show those words which I pay
particular attention to and say with lots of feeling.
Whatever I POSITIVELY program my mind with in the first 2
minutes of the day always leads to GREAT POWER all day!
I have the most Positive, Powerful, and Productive
attitude today!
I create my own Reality. I MAKE the kind of reality I
WANT to come true!
The most powerful force I have is what I say to myself
and believe. That's how I create my reality. I am careful
to say ONLY GREAT and POSITIVE IDEAS to myself, all day.
I always have options. I create and choose options as I
need them to make my life beautiful and productive.
I ENJOY doing the Most Important Thing and leave
organizing for later!
My attitude today is EXTREMELY GOOD!
I have TONS of SELF CONFIDENCE!
Attention is all there is. What I pay attention to is
what I do.
Business is Great!
People are Wonderful!
Life is Terrific!
Write your own now:
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Well, you can only learn so much by reading. Now is the time
to write an affirmation of your own. Following the above
twelve steps, design one personal affirmation right now, to
help you with the goal, weakness, belief, or feeling you
wrote down above.
Write it in the space below or on a separate piece of paper
before reading on.
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I will return to the subject of your affirmations at the end
of this newsletter, but for now, let's look at another power
mental tool you can use to motivate yourself.
Two challenges
It is now time for me to place two challenges in front of
you.
The first is for you to create the words for three personal
affirmations that concentrate on some strengths or mental
focus you wish to have.
For your second challenge, tonight, when you go to bed, try
asking your subconscious mind to work on solutions to one or
two problems you face tomorrow and have the solutions ready
for you when you wake. Give yourself permission to create the
solutions. Expect the solutions when you wake. You'll have
them!
It's time for me to go now, my friend. Good-bye for now.
And have a truly INCREDIBLE day!
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