Podcasts about Autosuggestion

Show Notes:Episode Summary:In this episode, we break down how autosuggestion for weight loss can help you reprogram the beliefs that silently sabotage your progress. If you've ever felt like your mindset is the thing holding you back—no matter how many diets or workouts you've tried—this is the missing piece. You'll learn how to rewrite your internal script so your habits finally align with your goals.Key Takeaways:Autosuggestion is how you rewire your subconscious beliefs for lasting weight loss. It's not hype—it's habit-based mental reprogramming that works beneath the surface.Your subconscious doesn't argue—it obeys repetition.Repeat what you want to believe until it becomes what you do believe.Use short or long-form scripts, but keep them emotionally charged and present-tense. Phrases like “I am becoming stronger every day” land better than vague or negative self-talk.Pair autosuggestion with visualization and feeling for maximum impact.See the version of yourself you're becoming—then speak as if you're already there.Identity-based autosuggestions have the most staying power.Shifting from “I want to lose weight” to “I'm the kind of person who honors their health” creates lasting change.Consistency, not perfection, is the magic.Build a daily autosuggestion habit, and give it 30 days before judging results.Pick one autosuggestion from today's episode and say it out loud tonight. Want to go deeper? Download the bonus long-form scripts and start a 30-day mental reset. And don't forget to subscribe—next episode, we'll dive into the difference between autosuggestion and affirmations, and when to use each.

Beim Positiven Denken geben wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit dem, was uns glücklich macht. Viele Menschen beschäftigen sich vorrangig mit Negativem: mit Krankheit, Katastrophen, Kriminalität, Streit und allem Schlechten in der Welt. Aber das ist ja nicht das, was wir uns in unserem Leben wünschen. Bei dieser geführten Entspannung bist Du eingeladen, Dich auf das zu konzentrieren, innerlich das zu erleben, was Du in Deinem Leben haben möchtest. Es ist eine klassische Yoga-Vidya-Entspannung, die mit An- und Entspannung der einzelnen Körperteile beginnt. Es folgen Körperwahrnehmung mit Autosuggestion und – im Zustand der tiefen Entspannung – kannst Du Dir ausmalen, wie Du Dir Der Beitrag Tiefenentspannung: Positives Denken erschien zuerst auf Yoga Vidya Blog - Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda.

Beim Positiven Denken geben wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit dem, was uns glücklich macht. Viele Menschen beschäftigen sich vorrangig mit Negativem: mit Krankheit, Katastrophen, Kriminalität, Streit und allem Schlechten in der Welt. Aber das ist ja nicht das, was wir uns in unserem Leben wünschen. Bei dieser geführten Entspannung bist Du eingeladen, Dich auf das zu konzentrieren, innerlich das zu erleben, was Du in Deinem Leben haben möchtest. Es ist eine klassische Yoga-Vidya-Entspannung, die mit An- und Entspannung der einzelnen Körperteile beginnt. Es folgen Körperwahrnehmung mit Autosuggestion und – im Zustand der tiefen Entspannung – kannst Du Dir ausmalen, wie Du Dir Der Beitrag Tiefenentspannung: Positives Denken erschien zuerst auf Yoga Vidya Blog - Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda.

Ich bekomme oft die Frage gestellt: Wie macht ihr das bloß immer alles? Mein Mann und ich setzen unsere Ideen oft in rasanter Geschwindigkeit um – und ehrlich gesagt, ich weiß manchmal selbst nicht genau, wie das alles so funktioniert. Was ich aber weiß: Es geht vor allem um das Warum und weniger um das genaue Wie. In dieser Folge spreche ich über die Kraft von Autosuggestion, den Mut, einfach loszugehen, und warum es nicht schlimm ist, wenn der Weg zum Ziel chaotisch aussieht. Ich teile meine Erfahrungen mit meiner ersten Ferienimmobilie, den Momenten der Unsicherheit und wie sich die Puzzleteile am Ende doch zusammenfügen.

We're back with solo episodes! In this episode, I dive into a technique and tool I have been personally using for years: Autosuggestion. I first discovered this tool while listening to a podcast with Bob Proctor where he shared how this practice that he learned from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill that powerfully changed his life. I started working with them after listening to that episode to shift my beliefs around money, career and finances and I couldn't believe the transformation that occurred. In this episode, we dive into how I discovered the science of Autosuggestions, how they work to transform the mind and change our beliefs and what we feel we deserve as well as how to use Autosuggestions to create new, empowering beliefs. We dive into the history of the practice and also how to use them in your life to create powerful and lasting change. This is a tool you can come back to again and again and forever keep in your toolbox and one that we use monthly over at BENSHEN in our memberships and workshops. Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or on your favorite podcast platform.Topics Covered:The three parts of the mind: conscious, subconscious, and superconsciousHow Desirée discovered the practice of using AutosuggestionsAutosuggestions as taught by Napoleon Hill and Émile CouéUsing Autosuggestions as a powerful tool for changing beliefsHow Desirée used Autosuggestions for finding love and creating financial success Episode Links:835 Bob Proctor: How to Manifest AbundanceBenshen Membership Get in Touch:Benshen.co WebsiteBenshen.co CourseBenshen.co Instagram

Die ganz klassische Yoga Vidya Tiefenentspannung, vermutlich die bei Yoga Vidya populärste Tiefenentspannungstechnik: Kombinierte Yoga Vidya Entspannung mit Anspannen – Loslassen, Autosuggestion, Visualisierung eines Sees in den Bergen mit Wald und blauem Himmel. Warum ist diese Tiefenentspannung so beliebt? Weil sie so effektiv ist und Menschen sehr zügig hilft, sich ganz zu entspannen, Zugang zu finden zu den Quellen ihrer Inspiration und Kraft. Lass dich von Sukadev Bretz, Gründer von Yoga Vidya, in die Tiefenentspannung führen. Mitschnitt aus einem Workshop bei Yoga Vidya Mainz. Der Beitrag Klassische Yoga Vidya Tiefenentspannung – Entspanne Körper, Geist und Seele erschien zuerst auf Yoga Vidya Blog - Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda.

Die ganz klassische Yoga Vidya Tiefenentspannung, vermutlich die bei Yoga Vidya populärste Tiefenentspannungstechnik: Kombinierte Yoga Vidya Entspannung mit Anspannen – Loslassen, Autosuggestion, Visualisierung eines Sees in den Bergen mit Wald und blauem Himmel. Warum ist diese Tiefenentspannung so beliebt? Weil sie so effektiv ist und Menschen sehr zügig hilft, sich ganz zu entspannen, Zugang zu finden zu den Quellen ihrer Inspiration und Kraft. Lass dich von Sukadev Bretz, Gründer von Yoga Vidya, in die Tiefenentspannung führen. Mitschnitt aus einem Workshop bei Yoga Vidya Mainz. Der Beitrag Klassische Yoga Vidya Tiefenentspannung – Entspanne Körper, Geist und Seele erschien zuerst auf Yoga Vidya Blog - Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda.

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:15:00 +0000 https://frauvollwert-derpodcast.podigee.io/22-new-episode 4b61ec5be1f50b101a3ec34077bbfad1 Manchmal liegt es nicht daran, dass sich der Stoffwechsel ab 40 verlangsamt, dass du nicht abnimmst. Manchmal stimmt einfach die Einstellung - und da besonders in der Feinjustierung - nicht. Das Mindset ist einfach nicht richtig ausgerichtet. Aber ich hab das was für dich: 8 Punkte, wie du dich grundlegend vorbereiten kannst, damit alle anderen Maßnahmen dann auch greifen. Um die geht es in der heutigen Podcastfolge. Wenn du bereit bist, einen der Punkte direkt umzusetzen, nämlich die Autosuggestion, lade ich dich zu meinem kostenlosen Workshop "Abnehmen ab 40 ohne Heisshungerattacken" ein, der am 12. Dezember 2024 um 19.00 Uhr stattfindet. Ja, ich will dabei sein und gleich loslegen! Neben der Visualisierung erstellst du deinen persönlichen 4-Schritte-Plan, mit dem du in Zukunft gewappnet bist vor Heisshungerattacken. Ich verrate dir außerdem mein größtes Geheimnis beim Abnehmen ab 40. Und die 3 häufigsten Fehler beim Abnehmen ab 40 machst du auch nicht mehr, wenn du in meinem Workshop warst. Hier klicken und kostenlos anmelden Ich freu mich auf dich. Bis dahin - sei freundlich zu dir! Deine Sabine full no Sabine Langner

Wann kommt die Vertrauensfrage und damit die Neuwahlen? Der Kanzler zeigt sich kompromissbereit und gleichzeitig angriffslustig. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie sich Scholz wieder in der “Phase der Autosuggestion” befindet und bespricht mit Chef-Korrespondent Rasmus Buchsteiner, wie es mit Regierung und Bundestag weitergeht.  Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion zu Gast. Er erklärt, welche Vorhaben von SPD und Grünen die Union noch mittragen würden und wieso er glaubt, dass Scholz sich und seine verbliebene Regierung zu wichtig nimmt. Außerdem: Jonathan Martin, POLITICO Senior Political Columnist in Washington, D.C., über Donald Trumps Vorbereitungen auf seine zweite Amtszeit und seine Absage an Mike Pompeo und Nikki Haley.  Und: Karneval im Bundestag ist gar nicht mal so lustig. Das Interview mit Mercedes Benz-CEO Ola Källenius und Johan Rockström, Direktor des Potsdamer Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung, ist hier nochmals zu hören. Das Berlin Playbook als Podcast gibt es morgens um 5 Uhr. Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team bringen euch jeden Morgen auf den neuesten Stand in Sachen Politik — kompakt, europäisch, hintergründig. Und für alle Hauptstadt-Profis: Unser Berlin Playbook-Newsletter liefert jeden Morgen die wichtigsten Themen und Einordnungen. Hier gibt es alle Informationen und das kostenlose Playbook-Abo. Mehr von Berlin Playbook-Host und Chefredakteur von POLITICO in Deutschland, Gordon Repinski, gibt es auch hier:  Instagram: @gordon.repinski | X: @GordonRepinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Powers Within, Chapter VI Faith, pg. 54 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/the-power-of-auto-suggestion-for-health-and-wellness/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are all available on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net  The US editions and links to e-book editions of Sri Aurobindo's writings can be found at Lotus Press www.lotuspress.com 

Découvrez l'histoire d'Émile Coué, le pharmacien qui a marqué son époque avec sa méthode d'autosuggestion.Dans ce roman biographique, Étienne Kern raconte la vie d'un homme dévoué à aider les autres à surmonter leurs problèmes de santé et de bien-être.Parti de rien, Émile Coué développe sa méthode basée sur le pouvoir des mots et de l'imagination. Malgré les doutes de son entourage, il persévère, convaincu de son efficacité.De sa pharmacie à Nancy aux salons parisiens, suivez ce personnage visionnaire et excentrique, dont les intuitions ont ouvert la voie à la psychologie moderne.Le roman explore aussi la figure du savant tourmenté, offrant un portrait nuancé d'un homme qui a voulu changer son époque et la société.Notre équipe a utilisé un outil d'Intelligence artificielle via les technologies d'Audiomeans© pour accompagner la création de ce contenu écrit.

Intellectuels, chefs d'entreprises, artistes, hommes et femmes politiques... Frédéric Taddeï reçoit des personnalités de tous horizons pour éclairer différemment et prendre du recul sur l'actualité de la semaine écoulée. Ce samedi, Etienne Kern pour son roman « La vie meilleure » chez Gallimard sur Emile Coué, l'inventeur de la méthode Coué.

Intellectuels, chefs d'entreprises, artistes, hommes et femmes politiques... Frédéric Taddeï reçoit des personnalités de tous horizons pour éclairer différemment et prendre du recul sur l'actualité de la semaine écoulée. Ce samedi, Etienne Kern pour son roman « La vie meilleure » chez Gallimard sur Emile Coué, l'inventeur de la méthode Coué.

Wenn du dein Ziel klar vor Augen hast, lass es los und vertraue darauf, dass dein Unterbewusstsein die richtigen Wege für dich ebnet. Unerwartete Chancen und Ideen werden dir helfen, ohne großen Aufwand deinen Traum zu verwirklichen. In dieser Folge erkläre ich, wie du mit Autosuggestion deine Traumimmobilie ohne Mühe zu dir ziehen kannst. Durch die Kraft des Unterbewusstseins und gezielte Visualisierung lenkst du deine Gedanken und Handlungen automatisch in Richtung deines Ziels. Wichtig dabei ist, dass der Wunsch authentisch ist und sich richtig anfühlt.

Dein Unterbewusstsein ist wie ein riesiger Speicher, der all deine Erfahrungen, Überzeugungen und Gewohnheiten beherbergt. Diese tief verankerten Muster steuern dein Verhalten und Entscheidungen meist unbewusst. Durch die Arbeit mit deinem Unterbewusstsein, kannst du alte, hinderliche Überzeugungen transformieren und dadurch neue und innovative Denkmuster etablieren, die dich dabei unterstützen, deine Ziele zu erreichen. In dieser Podcastfolge erwartet dich eine Autosuggestion zur Stärkung deiner Resilienz, deiner Widerstandsfähigkeit. Ein erfolgreiches Leben bedeutet nämlich nicht, dass immer alles glatt läuft. Es bedeutet, dass wir in der Lage sind, auch in schwierigen Zeiten stark zu bleiben und uns nicht entmutigen zu lassen. Resilienz ist das Immunsystem unseres Geistes. In dem du deine Resilienz mit Hilfe dieser Podcastfolge stärkst, kannst du den Widrigkeiten des Lebens trotzen und auf deinem selbstbestimmten Weg voranschreiten. +++ Hier kannst du dich auf die Warteliste für das Audioprogramm „Keys to Succes“ eintragen: Hier geht es zum Superpower Affirmations Kartenset: https://www.amazon.de/SUPERPOWER-Kartenset-Affirmationskarten-Erwachen-deiner-inneren/dp/B0BMVQ9ZTR Hier kannst du dir dein persönliches Kennenlerngespräch für die Mindful Masters Academy buchen: https://sarahdesai.de/mindfulmasters-academy Hier kannst du dich kostenfrei zur Mindful Minute anmelden: https://sarahdesai.de/mindful-minute Meine Ausbildung, Coachingkurse und Bücher findest du hier: https://sarahdesai.de Folge mir für weiteren Input und Inspiration gerne auf Social Media: Instagram: @sarah.desai TikTok: @sarahdesai

Join Joe and Tina for a special Fall Day Retreat! Find out more and register HERE In this episode of the Inspire Create Manifest podcast, Joe Longo explores the transformative power of auto-suggestion, a concept famously discussed by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich. Joe explains that auto-suggestion is more than just repeating positive statements—it's about consciously choosing thoughts that align with the reality you want to create. By intentionally focusing on positive and empowering beliefs, you can plant the seeds in the fertile soil of your subconscious mind and nurture them until they bloom into your desired reality. Joe emphasizes the importance of consistency in this practice, comparing it to taking a daily prescription. Just as you would take medicine regularly to heal your body, you must consistently practice positive auto-suggestion to heal and shape your mind. Joe provides practical steps for incorporating auto-suggestion into your daily routine, including the use of "I am" affirmations. He encourages you to be patient and persistent, reminding you that while change won't happen overnight, with consistency, you will begin to see a shift in your reality. Tune in to learn how to break free from negative thought patterns, harness the power of your subconscious mind, and start speaking your best life into existence. Music Let's Have a Good Time - by John Runefelt from Epidemic Sound Schedule Your Power of Simple Coaching Discovery Call - SCHEDULE NOW Join us in ICM SKOOL Instagram @inspirecreatemanifest --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inspirecreatemanifest/support

Das Unterbewusstsein ist der Teil deines Geistes, der deine Gewohnheiten, Emotionen und Verhaltensmuster steuert. Es arbeitet pausenlos und unentwegt.  Hast du allerdings keinen Zugang zu deinem Unterbewusstsein, dann entspringen deine Überzeugungen und Verhaltensweisen meist aus ungünstigen Konditionierungen und negativen Glaubenssätzen. Kurz und knapp: Arbeitest du nicht bewusst mit deinem Unterbewusstsein zusammen, arbeitest du unbewusst gegen dich. Denn dann wirst du geleitet von Überzeugungen wie „Ich bin nichts wert“ oder „Ich bin nicht gut genug“ und das wiederum lässt dich vor allem eins fühlen: unsicher oder anders gesagt: nicht in Sicherheit! Dies wiederum hat zur Folge, dass du in einen Überlebensmodus verfällst. Du tust alles, um dich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Du lebst einen ständigen Überlebenskampf, in dem kein Platz ist für Selbstverwirklichung, Erfüllung oder Gelassenheit. Stattdessen bist du gestresst, unter Druck und kämpfst dich durch. Der Weg raus aus dieser Abwärtsspirale, ist eigentlich ganz einfach: Lerne mit deinem Unterbewusstsein zu kommunizieren. Es geht in die Richtung, die du vorgibst. Und genau diese Richtung kannst du mit Hilfe von Autosuggestion vorgeben: - Durch Autosuggestion können wir gezielte Botschaften in unser Unterbewusstsein einpflanzen, um negative Denkmuster zu durchbrechen und neue, positive Gewohnheiten zu etablieren. - Durch die kontinuierliche Anwendung von Autosuggestion können tief verwurzelte Überzeugungen und Verhaltensmuster nachhaltig verändert werden. Dies führt zu langfristigen Verbesserungen in verschiedenen edenen Lebensbereichen, sei es in Bezug auf Gesundheit, Beziehungen, beruflichen Erfolg oder persönliches Wohlbefinden. - Wissenschaftliche Unterstützung: Zahlreiche Studien haben gezeigt, dass Autosuggestion tatsächlich die neuronalen Verbindungen in unserem Gehirn verändern kann. Dies unterstützt die Idee, dass wir durch gezielte Gedankenmuster unser Verhalten und unsere Emotionen positiv beeinflussen können.
 Ich nenne Autosuggestion auch gerne Selbsthypnose im wachen Zustand, denn wir können sie immer und überall anwenden und unserem Leben so jederzeit eine neue Richtung geben. Denn uns in Sicherheit zu fühlen und daraus resultierend, ein Leben im Wohlstand zu führen, also ein Leben in dem wir uns wohl fühlen, sollte unser normaler, wacher Zustand sein. In dieser Podcastfolge erfährst du wie Autosuggestion funktioniert und wir werden auch gemeinsam eine kurze Autosuggestion praktizieren. Hier kannst du dich noch bis zum 19.08.24 für den Audiokurs „Keys to Success“ anmelden: https://sarahdesai.de/keys-to-success Hier kannst du dir dein persönliches Kennenlerngespräch für die Mindful Masters Academy buchen: https://sarahdesai.de/mindfulmasters-academy Hier kannst du dich kostenfrei zur Mindful Minute anmelden: https://sarahdesai.de/mindful-minute Meine Ausbildung, Coachingkurse und Bücher findest du hier: https://sarahdesai.de Folge mir für weiteren Input und Inspiration gerne auf Social Media: Instagram: @sarah.desai TikTok: @sarahdesai

Der TikTok-Trend des «Manifestierens» ist in aller Munde – hier reden Manuel und Stephan über ein Buch, das dem Trend gewissermassen zu Grunde liegt… Diese Folge musste einfach in die Auswahl unseres Sommerprogramms – zum einen, weil es ein superspannendes und auch irgendwie witziges Gespräch geworden ist. Es stammt aus der Staffel, in der wir die grössten religiösen Bestseller unserer Zeit besprochen haben. Die Abmachung war eigentlich, dass wir die zentralen Thesen der Bücher zuerst möglichst urteilsfrei und neutral wiedergeben – hier ist uns das beiden nicht gelungen, weil wir das Buch einfach, mit Verlaub, gequirlte Kacke fanden. Rhonda Byrnes vertritt eine unsäglich plumpe und unverantwortliche Version des positiven Denkens. Und das ist der zweite Grund dafür, warum diese Folge hier nicht fehlen darf: So schlecht das Buch ist, so erfolgreich ist das dahinterstehende Denken gerade wieder geworden: Der Trend des «Manifestierens» hat in den letzten Monaten hohe Wellen geschlagen und Millionen junge Menschen begeistert – und er ist eine exakte Anwendung dessen, was «The Secret» uns auftischt. Wer also die Probleme und Abgründe besser verstehen will, die hinter dem aktuellen Trend stehen, ist mit dieser Folge gut bedient… Hier die ursprüngliche Kurzbeschreibung dazu – viel Spass und Inspiration beim Hören! Ausgeglaubt nimmt sich den weltweiten Bestseller der australischen Autorin Rhonda Byrne vor, die uns nichts weniger als das Geheimnis des Universums verrät! Manuel und Stephan geben sich alle Mühe, zuerst das Wahrheitsmoment des Buches zu würdigen, sie kommen um eine radikale Kritik aber nicht herum. Was hier als das «Gesetz der Anziehung» beschrieben wird, ist eigentlich eine Zuspitzung des klassischen Tun-Ergehen-Zusammenhangs, der schon in der Bibel durch die Geschichte Hiobs widerlegt und dann auch von Jesus selbst aufgesprengt wird. Warum aber übt gerade diese Form des gnadenlosen Erfolgsdenkens auf viele Christen eine derartige Faszination aus? Wie ist es zu erklären, dass breite Teile der pfingstlich-charismatischen Szene einer christlichen Version von «the Secret» nacheifern – und wie könnte eine Alternative dazu aussehen?

Diese Folge ist ein Best Of Special. Die 60 Affirmationen für ein erfülltes Leben, ist die bisher meist gehörte Podcastfolge und sie passt so wunderbar zu der kostenfreien Masterclass "Unlock your Power", die am 01.08. stattfindet. In dieser Podcastfolge begleite ich dich durch 60 Affirmationen, die dich dabei unterstützen Liebe, Glück und Erfüllung in dein Leben zu holen. Affirmationen sind wie kleine Zaubersprüche, nur mit dem Unterschied, dass sie tatsächlich funktionieren. Affirmationen arbeiten mit biologischen Prozessen im Gehirn. Sie sind keine Fantasie, sondern lenken den Fokus deines Geistes gezielt auf das, was du erreichen und erfahren möchtest, statt auf deine Ängste und Zweifel und helfen dir so deine Wahrnehmung umzuprogrammieren. Hier kannst du dich kostenfrei zur Unlock Your Power Masterclass anmelden: https://sarahdesai.de/unlock-your-power Hier kannst du dir dein persönliches Kennenlerngespräch für die Mindful Masters Academy buchen: https://sarahdesai.de/mindfulmasters-academy Hier kannst du dich kostenfrei zur Mindful Minute anmelden: https://sarahdesai.de/mindful-minute Meine Ausbildung, Coachingkurse und Bücher findest du hier: https://sarahdesai.de Folge mir für weiteren Input und Inspiration gerne auf Social Media: Instagram: @sarah.desai TikTok: @sarahdesai

This episode is sponsored by: In this thought-provoking episode, we explore the transformative power of Auto-Suggestion, a key concept from Napoleon Hill's legendary book "Think and Grow Rich." I share my personal journey from the streets to success, crediting the philosophies in Hill's book, particularly the technique of Auto-Suggestion, for bridging the gap between my dreams and reality. We dive into the definition of Auto-Suggestion, likening it to programming your subconscious mind to believe in your ability to generate success. The host emphasizes the importance of being deliberate about the thoughts you allow to take root, as they ultimately dictate your actions, habits, and results. The episode highlights the six steps to success outlined in a previous episode and stresses the importance of reading and embodying your statement of desire with emotion every single day. However, the host warns that merely saying the words is not enough; you must feel it in your bones and take massive action towards your goals. We explore the concept of visualization and how it differs from mere fantasy. The host encourages listeners to "see themselves" earning money through the service or value they provide. They also address the common question of what to do when you're unsure of how to proceed, emphasizing the importance of having faith that success is already yours and keeping your eyes open for the right plan. The host reminds listeners that plans may not always make sense to the rational mind, but it's essential to trust gut feelings and sudden inspirations. They conclude by emphasizing that Auto-Suggestion is not just a fancy term but a way of life—the golden key to unlocking the treasure chest of your mind. Throughout the episode, the host shares personal anecdotes and relatable examples to illustrate the power of Auto-Suggestion. They encourage listeners to plant the seeds of success, water them with faith and emotion, and watch as their dreams become reality. Key Takeaways: Auto-Suggestion is a method of programming your subconscious mind to believe in your ability to generate success. Be deliberate about the thoughts you allow to take root, as they dictate your actions, habits, and results. Read and embody your statement of desire with emotion every single day. Visualization is crucial; see yourself earning money through the service or value you provide. Trust your gut feelings and sudden inspirations, even if they don't make sense to your rational mind. Auto-Suggestion is a way of life, the golden key to unlocking the treasure chest of your mind. Resources Mentioned: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill The six steps to success (outlined in a previous episode) Connect with Sean Osborn at Thinking Big Coaching https://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com https://www.instagram.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ https://www.facebook.com/thinkingbigcoaching/ Be sure to check out your free 6 Human Needs Assessment https://www.thinkingbigcoaching.com/6needsassessment If you enjoyed listening then please take a second to rate the show on iTunes. Every podcaster will tell you that iTunes reviews drive listeners to our shows so please let me know what you thought and make sure you subscribe using your favorite podcast player. It means a lot to me and to the guests.

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We believe sustainable weight loss requires 2 sides of the same coin — a low insulin strategy, and the right mindset. You cannot master your physical state without also mastering your mental and emotional state. Your thoughts create your emotions, your emotions drive your actions, and your actions produce your results.We hear SO often from members that mindset work is the missing key from every other weight loss program they've tried.This sneak peek lesson does a great job explaining one aspect of the mindset side of the weight loss coin - Autosuggestion. This lesson is from one of our Mindset Modules.A member from our last cohort said she found this lesson so valuable that she watched it FOUR times!Leveraging autosuggestion is pivotal in habit transformation, as it harnesses the subconscious mind's power. By consistently implanting positive affirmations and beliefs, it reshapes ingrained behavior.Autosuggestion cultivates a mental environment conducive to change, and one that fosters resilience, motivation, and consistency. It paves the path toward lasting habit modification and personal growth.Subscribe & ReviewSubscribing and leaving a rating and review are important factors in helping the Reshape Your Health Podcast and the YouTube Channel reach more people. If you haven't already subscribed, please do that today.We would also be grateful if you left a rating and review, too. In your listening app, scroll to the “Ratings and Reviews” section, then click “Write a Review” and let us know what you enjoy about our show. We appreciate you taking the time to show your support. Thank you!Resources From This Episode>> Join Zivli>> Freebie: The Ultimate Food Guide>> Register for our FREE Training: 5 Big Mistakes That Sabotage Weight Loss After Menopause - https://www.zivli.com/training

“As the acceptance of expanded human potential gains mainstream momentum, the question has shifted from “What is possible in our lives?” to “How do we do it? How do we awaken our extraordinary potential in everyday life?” Welcome to PART 3 of our review of Dr. Joe Dispenza's work. On today's EPISODE #311 on "Decoding Our Thoughts: How to Build a Better Future with the Power of Our Mind" and PART 3 of our Review of Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, we will: Review Chapter 3 of Dr. Joe Dispenza's book,  Becoming Supernatural on Accessing The Quantum World for improved results in our personal, professional life, or with our health and wellness.  STEP 1: DROPPING INTO THE PRESENT MOMENT: OPENING THE DOORWAY TO THE QUANTUM WORLD STEP 2: SETTING A CLEAR INTENTION OF WHAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE STEP 3: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR ENERGY STEP 4: UNCOVERING WHAT YOU LEARN in THE QUANTUM WORLD STEP 5: RECORDING WHAT HAPPENS AND KEEP WORKING ✔ What science has to say about the Quantum World? ✔ Strategies on how to IMPLEMENT these 5 STEPS into our daily life for improved results (personally, professionally and with our health). Today we will continue our exploration of how exactly we live up to the full potential we all have within us, or like the name of Dr. Joe Dispenza's book, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon. Today as we cover PART 3 of this exploration we will identify clear strategies to awaken the extraordinary potential in each of us, and these will be evidence-based strategies, that are backed by science.  We will do this by looking at CH 3 of Becoming Supernatural, a book that is the first-of-its-kind manual that does precisely this: it leads us on a step-by-step journey to achieving our greatest potential in body, health, relationships, and our life purpose and allows us to make that journey at our own pace. This book study has taken me some time to think, and consolidate what I'm learning since we released PART 1 the end of September. I needed this time to put Dr. Dispenza's ideas and meditations into practice, and have spent the past month and a half, immersed in his teachings, filling in the gaps of understanding I've had since I first began studying human potential in the late 1990s. As mentioned in the first part of this study, this is a shallow dive, and it's just the beginning. I do hope that our review today helps us to ALL unlock more of the mysteries within the unseen world, as we learn to put these concepts into practice into our daily lives. I'm sure we will return to this episode in the future, but this is where we will start our journey today. We'll review what we learned in PART1 and PART 2, preparing us for this exciting journey of our mind, with PART 3 today, where we'll put it all into action, with something we want to achieve in our own life. Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain. For those tuning into this episode, and you've not listened to PART 1 EP 306[i] yet, or PART 2 EP 310[ii]  I do encourage you to begin there. You will learn the background of where I first learned about Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, and see how he fits into what we've been covering on the podcast the past 10 seasons. For today's episode #311 “Decoding Our Thoughts: How to Build a Better Future with the Power of Our Mind” and PART 3 of our review of Dr. Joe Dispenza's work we'll pick up where we left off with the importance of living in the present moment, mental rehearsal, and priming our brain AND body for a new future. We recall the importance of creating an elevated emotion that helps to develop a coherent heart, combined with a clear intention that develops a coherent brain, creating a magnetic field that projects beyond our body to be used for ourselves and others. And before you think I'm completely crazy, which I know is possible, as I'm reading what I'm writing, it does sound crazy, or a bit off the wall, but scientists like Dr. Konstantin Korotkov[iii] have been measuring these energy fields around the body with technology that can accurately pick up the physical health of our body and mind in an instant, pinpointing any areas of concern, and changing the way we approach our mental health and wellness in the future. Next we will take all of this deep back knowledge and move into Chapter 3 of Becoming Supernatural, that he calls “Tuning into New Potentials in the Quantum” and see how we can all use it in our daily lives. I know we've talked about this Quantum World through Dr. Dispenza's work that exists when “you take your attention off objects in your physical environment” and “take your attention off linear time (which has a past and a future) and “you are (now) in the present moment, in which all possibilities in the quantum field exist.” (Ch 3, Becoming Supernatural).  I hand drew what this looks like with the “Predictable Timeline” from Chapter 2 of Becoming Superhuman to show the importance of being in the present moment for accessing something NEW we want to create in our life. IMAGE CREDIT: Andrea hand drew the image from Chapter 2 Becoming Superhuman WHAT IS QUANTUM THEORY? Before I even start to explain this, I've got to say that explaining this concept has been on my mind since first launching this podcast back in 2019. Over the years I've heard of this idea in many different ways, so when interviewing certain speakers, my goal was always to connect the science to this concept of “another world” where ALL possibilities exit that just seems flat out crazy. But I heard it over and over again. The same idea, explained slightly differently in different books, through different people, in a slightly different way. Each person added to my understanding, but it's been a process for me to connect each person's definition, and put it into practice in my own life. What IS the Quantum World? 2018 Dr. Daniel Siegel Aware[iv]: The Science and Practice of Presence I went a very long time not completely understanding this idea of Quantum Theory or The Quantum World that Dr. Dispenza writes about beautifully in Chapter 3. Dr. Dispenza became well known with a movie he produced, explaining this concept in a unique way, in the early 2000s but the movie was labelled as pseudoscience because I don't think that the science had caught up to his level of thinking. I admire Dr. Dispenza for pushing past this time, as the science eventually caught up to him and then he met Dr. Korotkov and was finally able to measure what he knew to be true with GDV technology, and with other tools, that he talks about in his book. But over the years I wondered “What is this Quantum World and how can I access it to create these unforeseen events in my own life?” Then I heard it from someone who I knew had the scientific background to bring credibility to this idea! I was on a webinar with Dr. Dan Siegel in 2018, and I heard him explaining this concept I knew to be called The Quantum Field or Quantum Theory through his Wheel of Awareness Meditation[v].  Right then and there, I knew I had to interview Dr. Siegel and learn more about what he was saying. I'm beyond grateful he said yes as one of our early interviews, episode #28[vi]. He could have looked at our episode count and think we weren't a popular enough show (as we were in the beginning stages with this podcast) but not Dan Siegel. He's connected to this plane of consciousness and brings credibility to anyone who talks about it with his background, research and deep knowledge of looking at the world through a scientific lens. I think he knew on some level that his work would unlock something for more than just my level of thinking, (but for all those who would tune in over the years) as this is how this World (or Plane) of Possibility really works. He says…   Dr. Siegel says that “physics has demonstrated that we have 2 realms in the physical universe—and this is not commonly known” when he explains what happens to us at different parts of his Wheel of Awareness practice. We did a deep dive into this meditation practice, as it was the first time I saw something designed to help us to access and navigate into this 2nd world, using our mind on EP 60[vii] on “The Science Behind a Meditation Practice: A Deep Dive into Dr. Dan Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation” where I focused on some of the benefits I noticed personally from practicing his meditation daily, like an increased focused attention, a stronger interoceptive sense, an increased connection to people around the world, and then I said “there is more we can say on this topic and that I know with time, practice and as my own awareness increases, I will have a deeper understanding of the Wheel of Awareness.” I put an image of how Dr. Siegel would describe this State of Mind where we tap into this “other” plane of awareness, through meditation. I knew looking at this diagram in 2019 that Dr. Siegel was explaining something I was still trying to understand myself. During our interview, Dr. Siegel asked me “what have you noticed through practicing The Wheel of Awareness” and looking back now, I know what he was asking. He wrote his book Aware in 2018, a year before our interview. He wanted to know how aware I was. I answered from the point of view of someone who has been using his meditation, but with continued practice, this other world (a second world) opens up, and this is where the fun begins. My answer to him showed him I had not yet arrived at this new world of possibility. When I interviewed my mentor, and speaker Bob Proctor, on EP 66[viii], and asked him if he knew of Dr. Dan Siegel's work, I was trying to connect what I had heard Proctor say over and over again, to the world of science, but Proctor covered this answer by talking about how we all live in a physical body, and with the power of thought, we can “tap into” the spiritual world and create ideas (or beautiful castles) that he would almost pull from the sky. While watching Proctor speaking, I always wondered, where is his mind going? What is this “spiritual” world he is accessing, where anything we want is within our grasp? Proctor would ask you to tell him “what's the MOST money you've ever earned in a year” to see how aware we were. He would say that there was no difference in earning $50,000/year vs $50 million, just the awareness of how to do it. So since working with Proctor in the late 1990s, this question was always in the back of my mind. What is this world he's going to where all possibilities exist? I could see him pulling ideas from the sky when he was speaking, and I knew it mattered what thoughts I was thinking, the actions I was taking. We heard about the principles from Napoleon Hill's Classic Think and Grow Rich many times, especially this point that: “Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.” Andrew Carnegie I knew it was important what we think and especially that we always keep a positive mindset but I couldn't explain why this was true, scientifically to anyone, until I began to connect different people's explanation of “Quantum Theory”, or “The Plane of Possibility”, or “The Sea of Potential” all in one place.  WHAT IS THIS OTHER REALM? Every year, I like to pick a well-known, popular book, preferably one that I have studied for years, and have years of notes taken that I can share on the podcast, like we did with the popular Think and Grow Rich[ix] series, or the most popular Silva Method[x] series.  But I've held off covering the popular book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles which was a seminar I sold in the late 1990s, because I knew I would have to explain Wattles' version of Quantum Theory that's in EVERY chapter of his book.  Wattles' Science of Getting Rich book directly focused on using this space to earn money, and his work goes like this. He says: “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which in its original state, permeates, penetrates and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. A person can form things in their thought, and by impressing their thoughts upon the formless substance, can cause the thing they think about to be created.” (Wallace D. Wattles). I'm not kidding, we used to read this passage at seminars, out loud, and I would be thinking “what the heck is he talking about? What is this thinking stuff from which ALL things are made?” I sold this seminar, and had no idea what the main point of it was about. While picking books to cover, this one (with a whole briefcase of notes attached to it) was thrown back into the back of my closet. I thought “there is no way I was ever going to cover this concept on a podcast designed to connect the most current brain research to help us to all improve our lives, with evidence-based strategies” until I started to see this concept show up in the work of reputable scientists like we've seen with Dr. Siegel. I've always had these concepts in the back of my mind, (that I saw working over and over again the seminar industry) or over the years since this time, that I wanted to connect science to, (like Dr. Dispenza ended up doing so well) so that we could ALL advance ourselves forward personally and professionally. These were age-old principles that I knew to be true, (I saw them working over and over again) but I just couldn't explain WHY they were true. Until I read Chapter 3 of Dr. Dispenza's Becoming Supernatural. It was within these pages that I learned that the best way to understand this “quantum” world was to experience it. We must now put chapters 1 and 2 into practice, and this takes time. TUNING INTO NEW POTENTIALS IN THE QUANTUM Dr. Dispenza reminds us to go back to the first two chapters where we practiced opening up to this idea of Becoming Supernatural, then learning to access the present moment, elevating our emotions, using mental rehearsal to prime our mind and body…and now we are ready to step into this Quantum World, where all possibilities exit, to create something new. An unknown event. It's here that we stay on the surface with our dive. If you want to go deeper, read Chapter 3 in detail. I'm not a neuroscientist, or scientist, so explaining the science behind this is not my strength. I just need to know it's there. If you need more science before moving forward, it's there in Chapter 3 of Dr. Dispenza's book, as well, you can find it in Dr. Daniel Siegel's book Aware.  But if you are like me, and just want to practice this now, let's do it. PUTTING CH 3 INTO PRACTICE: ACCESSING THE QUANTUM WORLD Let's walk into the Quantum World together, and see HOW we can create an unknown event in our future.  Something that you might want personally or professionally. Or even something with your health. STEP 1: DROP INTO THE PRESENT MOMENT: AND OPEN THE DOORWAY TO THE QUANTUM WORLD Accessing the Quantum World begins the minute you STOP and get yourself into the present moment. You can do this sitting down, standing up, or any way you like, but just STOP. Accessing the present moment can occur from using Dr. Dan Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation, or ANY of Dr. Dispenza's. It's also the whole point of Jose Silva's Method, where he asks you to count backwards to access this world. Find what works best for you. I had to practice a few meditations over and over again in the early morning time before being able to access the present moment during the day when needed. STEP 2: SET A CLEAR INTENTION In order to use this Plane of Possibility to CREATE something NEW in your life, you first of all must know what it is that you want to create. If you aren't sure what you want to change in your life (this might be clear to you, or it might not be) then I suggest going back to PART 1[xi] of our Think and Grow Rich book review where we looked at how to uncover what you REALLY want in your life. I mentioned that when I was in my late 20s, and was asked “What do you REALLY want?” I didn't have it all figured out back then. It's taken me a lifetime to become crystal clear with what it is that I'm supposed to be doing with my time/work/career. Take the time to figure out what it is that YOU really want, since you will trade your life for it. STEP 3: CHANGE YOUR ENERGY: ELEVATING YOUR EMOTIONS WITH YOUR CLEAR INTENTION We went deep into this idea on our last episode, but this is important for being able to develop a coherent heart, and coherent brain. We know when our brain is working right, we work right. This is why we focus on health and wellness on this podcast. Everything ties in together. Dispenza now takes this idea to a new level. When we are under stress, we will not have a coherent brain. He explains this with a diagram in his book, but you'll get the idea. In order to line up your heart and brain, you can do this by elevating your emotions. This isn't the first time I've heard of this concept. Paul Martinelli[xii] covered it in his Think and Grow Rich study when he added what he thought were two missing chapters to the book (Love and Forgiveness). He said “when you feel love, happiness, energy and clarity, you will feel your vibration shifting” which is another way of saying you are access a new level of creation, on a higher vibration. We covered this concept in depth on EP 67.[xiii] Remember that we all have energy fields surrounding us, and this is one way to expand our energy field, helping us to “tune into” whatever it is that we want to create. The key to accessing whatever it is you want to create in this “World of Possibility” is to keep our energy level high throughout. During times of high stress, our energy field will start to shrink, so it's important to stay rested, nourish our body and mind, and keep our balance (coherent brain and heart). Dr. Korotkov's technology can measure this, and Dr. Dispenza has measured people's energy fields for years. The only way I can put this idea into something visual is to think about this concept. Have you ever seen a bicycle that you must peddle in order for it to generate some other energy type (a light or a television or something?) This is the idea. In order to generate what you want in this unseen world, you must keep pedaling, keeping this energy field strong, healthy, and level of vibration high. When I asked Bob Proctor about the quantum world that Dr. Dan Siegel talks about in our interview[xiv], where there is this plane of possibility where we can create anything, Bob answered with “I believe the physical realm that we live in and the spiritual world, are all connected, like the colors of the rainbow.” When we take an idea, it comes in from spirit, hits our intellectual mind, and it's up to us whether we move it into form.  Have you ever had an idea that you thought was brilliant, and you never did anything with it, and then suddenly you see someone else has created it? That's because there is only one mind, and that we can all tap into these ideas.   This is how ALL ideas happen. They start in the mind of the person who creates it, and then after dedicated work, they hit their target, and people watching might say “Oh wow, that person is so lucky” not realizing the work that went into the attainment of the goal. There are usually years of hard work, (pedaling the bicycle) with persistence, with failures, wrong turns, course corrections, but all starting with that clear vision or idea with an end goal or target. STEP 4: BE OPEN TO WHAT YOU SEE, LEARN and UNCOVER in THE QUANTUM WORLD This last step is where the magic happens. Just be open to what you could possibly create with this NEW energy. Be Patient. This Process Takes Time. ACCESS THE PLANE OF POSSIBILITY There is no right or wrong way to access this plane of possibility. Jose Silva's program walks us through a specific method to use our mind for improving our health (or solve any problem) through a specific technique where we create three scenes. You can see my notes walking through this process in the show notes. In the first scene, we think about the problem we want to solve, (I picked neck pain) the second, we take some sort of action towards solving the problem, (I picked using ice packs and a phrase I learned from hypnotherapy to help the pain to disappear, and then a symbol of the healing. For me all healing and progress takes place at a certain spot on this mountain I hike) and the with the third scene, we imagine our life with our problem solved. (I wrote how awesome it would feel to be free of this pain in my neck)! This is one example of using this Plane of Possibility to solve a problem you have. For you: What do YOU see when you access the plane of possibility? Do you need more help getting here? Try Dr. Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation, or ANY of Dr. Dispenza's meditations. Are you beginning to gain some clarity towards whatever it is that you want to solve? (a personal problem, something with your work, or something with your health?) FIND YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS: If you still need more help here, I highly suggest bringing a team together to help you. This is not a usual team, but a team you gather when you are in your Plane of Possibility. It can be anyone but they are the people you pick to help move your intention forward. This concept might sound strange, but even people like Greg Link[xv], who was the mastermind behind the late Dr. Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that sold over 40 million copies worldwide (surpassing the popular Think and Grow Rich book) in 40 languages used this particular strategy. A book doesn't sell 40 million copies without a unique strategy behind it, and I heard it loud and clear in our interview last Spring. Greg mentioned that he had a “board of directors” that he asked questions to. Now this is not your typical board of directors. These are brilliant minds that you bring into your Quantum World of Possibility, and ask for help when you become stuck, to give you ideas to move you forward somehow. STEP 5: TAKE NOTE OF WHAT HAPPENS AND KEEP WORKING Getting to the stage when you can at will, create something out of nothing, takes time, focus, practice and dedication. Until I saw Chapter 3 of Becoming Supernatural, I was doing these steps without really knowing what the Quantum World was. Sometimes I would create what I wanted, but I knew there was something I was missing. If I was missing something, and I've been studying this for almost 30 years now, I figured I might as well put this on the podcast, as others might also have questions around the creative process.   Sometimes you'll notice you'll be working, following these steps, and nothing happens and you might think “what a ridiculous idea this is” but when you get to this point, I suggest going back to the meditations (whether you pick Dr. Dispenza's or Dr. Siegel's, or someone else's) and go back to STEP 1, practicing dropping into the present moment. When I'm stuck, I know this is the beginning step to return to. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude episode #311 “Decoding Our Thoughts: How to Build a Better Future with the Power of Our Mind” and PART 3 of our review of Dr. Joe Dispenza's work, we covered Chapter 3 of his book, and reviewed 5 IMPORTANT STEPS TO TAKE WHEN ACCESSING THE QUANTUM WORLD. STEP 1: DROP INTO THE PRESENT MOMENT: AND OPEN THE DOORWAY TO THE QUANTUM WORLD: Remember to keep an open mind here as the strategies we are covering, of Becoming Supernatural, and experiencing exceptional results, are not commonly known. Dr. Dan Siegel connects to the science to this plane of possibility in his book, Aware (2018) and says “physics has demonstrated that we have 2 realms in our physical universe—and this is not commonly known.” STEP 2: SET A CLEAR INTENTION: Know what it is that you want to work on or solve. If you are not sure what this is, go back to PART 1 of our Think and Grow Rich book study where we cover this in depth. STEP 3: CHANGE YOUR ENERGY: ELEVATING YOUR EMOTIONS WITH YOUR CLEAR INTENTION: The key to accessing whatever it is you want to create in this “World of Possibility” is to keep our energy level high throughout. When we can feel love, joy, excitement or awe, we will be keeping our energy levels high. Remember the analogy of riding a bicycle that generates a television with the energy, signifying that in order to create something, we must keep our energy levels high. STEP 4: BE OPEN TO WHAT YOU SEE, LEARN and UNCOVER: What do you see in this Plane of Possibility? Do you need more help getting here? Take your time at this step. This is where you are using your mind to create whatever is that you want. If you need more time spent in daily meditation, take this time. If you need to journal or think about what you are learning here. Take this time. STEP 5: TAKE NOTE OF WHAT HAPPENS AND KEEP WORKING Once we can get to this place, (that Dan Siegel calls the Plane of Possibility, or Dr. Dispenza calls The Quantum World) from dropping into the present moment, we've mentally rehearsed the future we want to create, (or our intention) we've embraced emotions (like joy, peace, appreciation, awe and love) in our heart, and our heart and brain have now gained coherence, then we WATCH for it. This is where it happens. WHAT you create here is entirely up to you. We can ALL connect to this quantum field, where all possibility exists, where time and space collapses and we can literally BECOME our intention. Over time, and with practice, these steps become easier and easier, and we can work on ourselves to improve our personal lives, our health, our professional lives, and even expand our capacity to do this for others in the world. I don't know about you, but this is mind-boggling learning. I'll close with the quote I opened up our most downloaded episode with, The Silva Method, from Jose Silva who says that “once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva (August 11, 1914-February 7, 1999) author of The Silva Mind Control Method. I'll see you next week!  REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #306 “Decoding Our Thoughts: How to Build a Better Future with Power of Our Mind” PART 1  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/decoding-our-thoughts-how-to-build-a-better-future-with-the-power-of-our-mind/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #310 “Decoding Our Thoughts: How to Build a Better Future with Power of Our Mind” PART 2   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/decoding-our-thoughts-how-to-build-a-better-future-with-the-power-of-our-mind-part-2-review-of-dr-joe-dispenza-s-work/ [iii]Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #307 with Dr. Konstantin Korotkov https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dr-konstantinkorotkov-on-bridging-thespiritualworld-with-rigorousscientific-method-methodtappingintothe-powerof-our-thoughtsenergy-fieldsandlimitless/ [iv] Dr. Dan Siegel Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence August 21, 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Aware-Practice-Presence-Groundbreaking-Meditation/dp/1101993049 [v] https://www.drdansiegel.com/resources/wheel_of_awareness/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #28 with Dr. Dan Siegel on Mindsight: The Basis for Social and Emotional Intelligence  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/clinical-professor-of-psychiatry-at-the-ucla-school-of-medicine-dr-daniel-siegel-on-mindsight-the-basis-for-social-and-emotional-intelligence/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #60 on “The Science Behind a Meditation Practice: A Deep Dive into Dr. Dan Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-science-behind-a-meditation-practice-with-a-deep-dive-into-dr-dan-siegel-s-wheel-of-awareness/ [viii] Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast EPISODE #66 The Legendary Bob Proctor on “Social and Emotional Learning: Where it All Started” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-legendary-bob-proctor-on/ [ix] Think and Grow Rich Book Review: A 6 PART SERIES Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of the Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ [x] The Silva Method Book Review: A 4 PART SERIES Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 PART 1 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #262 PART 2 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-2/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #264 PART 3 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-speed-learning-and-creative-sleep-part-3/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #265 PART 4 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-silva-method-improving-creativity-and-innovation-in-our-schools-sports-and-modern-workplaces/ [xi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [xii] https://paulmartinelli.net/ [xiii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #67  on Expanding our Awareness https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/expanding-your-awareness-with-a-deep-dive-into-bob-proctors-most-powerful-seminars/ [xiv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #28 with Dr. Daniel Siegel on “Mindsight: The Basis for Social and Emotional Learning” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/clinical-professor-of-psychiatry-at-the-ucla-school-of-medicine-dr-daniel-siegel-on-mindsight-the-basis-for-social-and-emotional-intelligence/ [xv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #207 with Greg Link, on Unleashing Gretness with Neuroscience, SEL, Trust and the 7 Habits” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/co-founder-of-coveylink-greg-link-on-unleashing-greatness-with-neuroscience-sel-trust-and-the-7-habits/  

Get Your FREE Copy of Think and Grow Rich https://www.jeffheggie.com/blog/success Jeff Heggie Daily Success Strategies Episode 796: 12 Lessons on THINKING and Growing Rich Definiteness of Purpose"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."Get clear on your goals and know what you want in life. Clarity is the key to success! Mastermind Principle"No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind."Surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow and achieve your goals. Autosuggestion"Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession."Visualize your goals daily and use the power of repetition to make them a reality. Specialized Knowledge"Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end."Focus on learning and mastering the skills that will help you reach your goals. Imagination"The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man."Use your imagination to create innovative ideas and solutions to problems. Enthusiasm"Enthusiasm is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put action into the task at hand."Be passionate about what you're doing and keep your energy high to motivate yourself and others. Persistent Action"Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success."Don't give up when things get tough; keep pushing forward and learn from your mistakes.Decision"The majority of people who fail do not do so because they lack the ability, but because they procrastinate."Be decisive, take action, and don't let indecision hold you back. Personal Initiative"Initiative is the power which starts all action; it is the directing and controlling agency which makes the law of success work."Take charge of your life and be proactive in achieving your goals. Cooperation"Harmony is the key to cooperative effort."Build strong relationships and work together with others to achieve mutual success. Money ConsciousnessBoth poverty and riches are the offspring of thought."Develop a positive attitude towards money and recognize its importance as a tool for reaching your goals. The Subconscious Mind"The subconscious mind will not remain idle! If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect."Feed your subconscious mind with positive thoughts and beliefs to support your journey to success.Now go out there and apply these lessons! Get Your FREE Copy of Think and Grow Rich ⁠https://www.jeffheggie.com/blog/succe

If there was ever a book that started the movement of the Law of Attraction and the power of thought as we now know it, it was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill! This is a book that not everyone loves, BUT, almost everyone who becomes interested in the power of thought, the subconscious mind, and how to work with Infinite Intelligence has been affected and influenced by this book! It's influence is EVERYWHERE! Every teacher and mentor I've ever had has mentioned principles from this book, often without even knowing it. The teachings in it have been passed around so far and wide, many don't even realize that THIS is the source. For me, it was a book I read years ago. I found it interesting but wasn't that energized by it. It wasn't until recently, when my friend and I began going through it chapter by chapter and discussing it in our mastermind, that I really took in the power of the book. In this episode, I explain why I'm reading this particular chapter and what I hope sharing it will do for you. This book is in the public domain, and so anyone can read and share it any time. * If you're currently wanting to manifest something, or what you've been doing hasn't worked, come and play with energy in my course MANIFESTING MAGIC. It's empowering, high vibrational, playful, and EFFECTIVE. To learn more about this POWERFUL course go here: https://bit.ly/LOAcourse ** Are you ready for DEEP and POWERFUL healing? Then join me in The Healing Sanctuary Membership, were you'll have unlimited access to HUNDREDS of exclusive guided meditations and visualizations (many of which apply the principles of Think and Grow Rich!). It's only $7 / month to join, and you can cancel at anytime. Learn more: https://melissafield.gumroad.com/l/thehealingsanctuary ** Learn about ALL my courses for healing, manifesting, chakra balancing, and more: https://melissafield.gumroad.com ** Connect with on INSTAGRAM @meditate_with_melissa: https://www.instagram.com/meditate_with_melissa *** Thank you so much! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating! And if you know someone who would benefit from this, please share.

I first heard about the principle of auto suggestion comes through the legendary Napolean Hill. It is a form of self-induced suggestion in which individuals guide their own thoughts, feelings, or behavior. The technique is often used in self-hypnosis.Hill explains that our subconscious mind can be put to work for us as whatever we continuously auto-suggest, our mind will eventually be taking for a fact. You might be familiar with it through the Law of Attraction.In today's episode, we go over what it is, why we need it, and how to use it in your every day life!Would love to have you join the conversation on IG: instagram.com/jaim91Or come hang in my Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/teamjaim91

Welcome back to Season 10 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain learns best, taking us ALL to new, and often unimaginable heights.    For today's episode #294, we are going back to the basics, with the Fundamentals of Understanding How Our Mind Works, that started for me with Bob Proctor's Youth Mentor Program, that I was the Executive Director with, until the program dissolved with the Sept 11th, 2001 tragedy. This weekend I reviewed ALL of these cassette tapes, and when I got to the last one, the tape broke. I didn't want to miss anything that might be important that I could share with you here, so I watched a YouTube video on “how to fix a broken cassette tape” and what do you know, it worked! Times really are different than the days we used to carry these cassette tapes around, with our Sony Walkmans, but what came through loud and clear to me, was that the messages and lessons we were teaching those teens were timeless, and it all began with an understanding of our mind, how it works, and how to use it. The program consisted of 6 SERIES: SERIES 1, The Fundamentals (you can see these tapes in the image in the show notes).  SERIES 2 went into the importance of your attitude, SERIES 3, Your Self-Image, SERIES 4- How to Set and Achieve Goals, SERIES 5- The Laws of the Universe and how to use these laws for your health and relationships and SERIES 6 reviewed all lessons, with the goal that the teens would experience PRAXIS, or they integrated their beliefs with their behaviors. It was strange for me to hear some of these tapes that were recorded back in early 2001, using conference calls, but what was interesting to me, was hearing the teens explaining exactly HOW these timeless principles were helping them. Teens would call into a conference call line, from around the world, and meet with Bob Proctor monthly, to review these lessons, and how they were applying them. Nothing made him happier than to hear someone applying what he had dedicated his life teaching, and I know it surprised him that the teens seemed to pick these concepts up quickly. This makes sense to me now that we know how neuroplasticity works, as it's much easier for a young person to learn something new, because their brains are more plastic, and they also have less habits to overcome. I listened to one call, and there was a young guy named Greg who shared how he used visualization to go from the last place on his golf team to be the 3rd highest on his team. I wondered why he picked the 3rd highest, and not first on his team, but anyway, that was his goal, and he achieved it. We asked him “what exactly did you do when you were visualizing?” and he said “he put himself at the 5th hole on the golf course, then pictured himself hitting the club, feeling the wind on his face, and imagined where the ball would land.” His vision was clear and specific, and listening to him talking was something else. He was confidently telling the others how he achieved his goal. Greg had mastered TAPE 2 of the Fundamentals thinking in pictures, TAPE 3, using his conscious mind and his senses (to set his goal, he even showed us how he felt it), he used TAPE 4 when he threw his goal into his subconscious mind, and TAPE 6, Greg was able to review exactly what he had done, inspiring others on this call. No wonder these kids caught my attention. There's nothing like hearing how young people, from countries around the world, were helping each other to create exciting lives. If you look at the date on the cassette tape, it was just months before September 11th, 2001, and the program would dissolve before SERIES 4, 5 and 6 were even created, but I hope that sharing these ideas with you, will help someone, somewhere in the world, to implement these ideas in your own life. So for today's episode, #294, we will cover TAPE 5 and dive into “Going Beyond Our 5 Senses: Understanding and Using the 6 Faculties of Our Mind.”   We will cover: ✔What are the 6 Faculties of the Mind, and How Do They Relate to Going Beyond Our 5 Senses? ✔Where Napoleon Hill talks about these 6 Faculties in his best-selling Think and Grow Rich Book. ✔Where neuroscience fits into our understanding of these Faculties, to help us to understand our inside world, and how physicist Albert Einstein used these faculties. ✔A starting point for all of us to DEVELOP and PRACTICE using our own 6 Faculties of the Mind, giving us an edge as we are working on our 2023 goals. If I were to ask you, can you name the higher faculties in your mind, I'm pretty sure that maybe on 2/100 could list them off. This is something else that blows my mind, as I clearly remember being taught all about our 5 senses in school, tasting salt and sugar, and writing about these senses, what we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch, that allow us to make sense of our outside world. But what about our inside world? If we can learn to understand, fully develop and then use our higher faculties, we will experience life at higher levels, than just living through the 5 senses alone, that we saw on our last episode #293[i] with David Eagleman's work, there's much more than our human eyes can see. Napoleon Hill talks about these higher faculties in chapter 5 of his best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich when he says: Just as we have 5 senses that help us to experience the outside world, we also have non-physical, creative faculties that help us to experience our inner world. When I first learned about these faculties, I got really excited. Look how Napoleon Hill describes our imagination. He says: When you start to use your imagination, like Greg did with his golf game, changing your results, and entire future, with this skill, I can't imagine that you wouldn't get as excited as I do, and wonder how you can use this “marvelous, inconceivably powerful force” in YOUR life. When I started to see that science could explain some of these ideas that might seem kind of spiritual in nature, or my friend Greg Link[ii], who worked with Dr. Stephen Covey  would say “woo woo” it just helped me to have more confidence as I continue to develop and use these faculties. They started to become my superpower, and what's interesting that I was reminded of when I listened to those teens talking about how they used these faculties to improve their relationships, get better grades, or like Greg's story, where he used these ideas to improve his results in sports that helped get him into the College he wanted to attend, we ALL have the ability to use, and develop these faculties for outstanding results, or a razor's edge advantage in our own lives. Before diving into our 6 Higher Faculties (Our Reason, Intuition, Perception, Our Will, Memory and Imagination” let's see what science has to say about our higher faculties. What Does the Research Say About Our Higher Faculties? We know that many visionaries have used their intuition and dreams to create life-changing ideas, but Albert Einstein would say something profound about one of these faculties. He said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” I know that Stanford Professor Dr. Andrew Huberman has covered what happens in the brain during visualization on his podcast on “How to Learn Skills Faster”[iii] and he talks about 3 components of learning any new skill: Sensory Perception: Where you are perceiving what you are doing using your 5 senses. Movement: That involves our CPGS (central pattern generators) located in our spinal cord and generates repetitive movements like walking, and running etc. When we are really good at something, this part of the brain controls our movement. Proprioception: That he says is like a 6th sense, or knowing where your limbs are in relation to our body. I'm always looking to see if the research could possibly support the results I've seen working over and over again over the years, and while Dr. Huberman goes deep into the way our brain works while acquiring a new skill, and what part of the brain is active when we become really good at a new skill, to me, he also explains that when learning a new skill, we can use our 5 senses, and our outside world, (called sensory perception) and that we can also look outside of ourselves, with what he called proprioception. He also explains what part of the brain becomes active with visualization, and I think the key is that with practice, we move from using our upper motor neurons in our brain to a whole new area he called the Central Pattern Generators, when the skill becomes highly developed. I thought about Greg talking about his golf swing that he practiced using visualization, until he had mastered the skill enough to take his results to new heights, going from last place to 3rd from the top. Over time, he began using a different part of his brain for playing golf. This practice he was doing, would change his future, and put him in the College of his choice. I wish I had kept in touch with all of the teens from this program, I only follow the original 12, but I would bet that Greg continued to use this skill for the rest of his life for improved results in College and into his career. Then I looked at another episode that Dr. Huberman did with Rick Ruben, an American record executive, on “How to Access Creativity”[iv] and I did cover some of Dr. Huberman's research on PART 4 of The Silva Method[v], but I thought it was fitting that Rick Rubin, while discussing the creative process with Dr. Huberman, says that It's important to “pay attention to physical sensations in your body in your creative pursuits.”   And neuroscientist Antonio Damasio actually coined this term to be called “interoception.”   So, I know I'm not too far off from what the research says as we cover the 6 Faculties of our Mind, and how to develop them for a razor's edge advantage. REASON: We talked about our ability to think, and reason on our last episode #293[vi] which is a skill that can help us to understand things on a deeper level. We have the incredible ability to THINK, and then we can decide if we like an idea, and accept it, or we can reject an idea. We use this ability to put our thoughts together, and create ideas. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Have you ever participated in brainstorming sessions or Think Tanks with others? Mastermind sessions like this allows each person to use this faculty. You write down ideas on idea maps, and discuss the pros and cons of whatever ideas are thrown out. Meetings like this are highly creative, and new advancements in business often begin this way, when two or more minds get together, and the thinking/reasoning faculty is exercised. INTUITION: This faculty I could spend a year talking about. This is where we learn how to read the energy we feel around us. We can all do this—pick up the “vibe” of another person, just by feeling their energy. Remember Anotnio Damasio called this Interoception, or learning to listen to what we feel from within our body. With practice, we can learn to trust what we feel and become confident with using this tool. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: The best way I have seen is to ask for feedback when you think and feel something about someone. When you can see you are on the right track, you'll gain confidence with this skill, and keep learning to use it. PERCEPTION: David Eagleman talks about this faculty in his book, The Brain, and wow, can his work really bend your mind. Just search for the word “perception” in his book, and you'll see 26 times that he gives an example of how our brain tricks us in many different ways, and “our brains constantly pull information from the environment and use it to steer our behavior” (Page 86, The Brain) and reminds us of Freuds work that our mind works like an iceberg, “the majority of it is hidden from our awareness.” (Page 86, The Brain). With this in mind, when we perceive something, remember we are seeing it from our point of view, with our senses that we know are limited. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Try seeing things from someone else's point of view, and see if this changes your perception of a situation. We did talk about this strategy in depth on a recent interview #289[vii] with Dr. Maiysha Clairborne who reminded us to look at situations from 3 points of view. Our own, from the other person's shoes, and then look at the entire situation as if you were looking at all points of view from above. This will help you to see that your point of view, isn't the only possible route, and will help to develop and improve empathy with this practice. YOUR WILL: This is another of my favorite faculties. This one gives you the ability to concentrate. While sitting down to write this episode, I've gotten up from my desk a few times, but I'm determined to finish writing this, so I can record and release this today. That's the will at work. You can also use the will to hold a thought on the screen of your mind, or choose thoughts of success, over thoughts of failure. If you have a highly evolved will, you'll lock into doing something, block out all distractions, and accomplish what you set out to do. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Developing the will takes practice. Meditation can strengthen your will, but so can staring at a candle flame until you and the flame become one. I tried this activity in my late 20s, and remember it was a few hours of staring at this candle flame, before I was able to block out the distractions of the outside world, and the flame extended towards me.  This faculty, like the others, takes time and practice, but once you've developed this faculty, you'll know you have the ability to sit, focus, and do anything. MEMORY: We've covered memory on many episodes, but my favorite was with Chris Farrow, who is a two-time Guiness World Record Holder for most decks of playing cards memorized, from EP #149.[viii] This is another faculty that requires practice, and most of us don't practice this skill. A highly developed memory can be valuable in all types of work, and most people who have a highly developed memory share they use certain strategies to remember things, usually by association, and even by ridiculous association, to really make memories stick. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Chris Farrow had memory programs through his website www.FarrowMemory.com and when I was listening to those old youht mentoring tapes, Bob suggested a memory program through Nightingale Conant[ix].  Whatever method you use to improve your memory, it begins with a system or strategy. Names are sometimes difficult for me, especially on the hiking trails, when I meet someone I see often. I try to associate the person's name with someone I know already, who they might remind me of, to make their name stick. IMAGINATION: I've saved my favorite faculty to cover last. This faculty, when developed, gives you incredible creative power. Remember that Napoleon Hill said it to be “the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known” and Albert Einstein said imagination is “more important than knowledge.” This is where the power comes in, and honestly, if I hadn't have seen all the people, who over the years, used their imagination faculty to create what many would say to be impossible, and then go out and accomplish exactly what they had imagined, I'm not sure I'd believe it all myself.   HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: This is what the Think and Grow Rich[x] book study was all about, as well as learning to visualize with The Silva Method. The important thing to note here is that you must be careful what you wish for. Remember Greg, with the teens, he wished to be the 3rd best on his team, and that's exactly what he achieved. Why not go for the top, if I swear to you, I believe it to be possible? Here's how I did this recently. At the start of 2023, when setting my goals, I put them all in written form, and made sure they stretched me. Remember, if you listened to the interview with Brian Proctor, if your goal doesn't stretch you, there won't be any inspiration in it. The end of January, I was starting a new corporate position, going back to sales, and working for someone else, something I hadn't done in 10 years. Selling my own programs into schools, there was pressure, but if I didn't make a sale, I didn't have a sales manager asking me to explain my pipeline. It was a new experience, and I wrote down that I wanted to be a LEADER in sales, in my division. Then the work began. I would read that goal out loud every morning, and many mornings, it felt weird, especially when I saw I was LAST on my team. But like Greg proved, even someone who is last, can do things a certain way, and become FIRST. It took me 6 months, and a series of sales has now led me to be the leader of my division. I honestly didn't believe it to be possible until maybe the 4th or 5th month. It began when I took my imagination, and just started to dream. That was just one of the goals I wrote down at the start of the year. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get exactly what you dreamed of. There's no limits to our creative ability and I've just proved it. I always believed this to be possible, especially for others, but doing something yourself, gives you an incredible amount of belief. I hope whatever it is that YOU want, that you've imagined on the screen of your mind, that you GET IT, and then I hope that you'll show others the way forward. All great inventions are created in two places: the mind of the inventor, and then in the world, when they create their vision. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude this lesson, I hope that you'll go back and review EPISODE 291[xi] on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” then EPISODE #293 on “Our Conscious Mind and Five Senses” which will prepare you for this final episode on “Going Beyond Our 5 Senses: Understanding and Using the 6 Faculties of Our Mind.”   Reminder, today we covered: ✔What are the 6 Faculties of the Mind, and How Do They Relate to Going Beyond Our 5 Senses? (The 5 senses help us to see the outside world, and our 6 Faculties help us to strengthen our inner world).   ✔Where Napoleon Hill talks about these 6 Faculties in his best-selling Think and Grow Rich Book.   ✔Where neuroscience fits into our understanding of these Faculties, to help us to understand our inside world, and how physicist Albert Einstein used these faculties (he said that imagination was more important than knowledge)!   ✔A starting point for all of us to DEVELOP and PRACTICE using our own 6 Faculties of the Mind, giving us an edge as we are working on our 2023 goals.   I hope you have found the past few episodes to be helpful for using your mind to think, and create the goals that you'd like for yourself (and others) in 2023 and beyond. I've included a link to worksheets that I created for students on these 6 faculties in he resource section of the show notes. These are old lessons, but like I said with the cassette tapes, the content is still applicable over 20 years later. Feel free to download these lessons and use them as you would like. Coming up next: We have Mike Bordick, who had a 14 year MLB career and is now looking at neuroscience and youth! Futurist and Behavioral Scientist Chris Marshall who will prepare us for the uncertainty of tomorrow. A fascinating interview with Dr. Wallace J Nichols on his book and movement Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do.    I'll see you next weekend!   RESOURCES:   Worksheets on the 6 Faculties of the Mind https://bit.ly/3rke3qB    Think and Grow Rich Book Study with Andrea Samadi Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/   Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/   Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/   Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 [xxviii] on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of the Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/   The Silva Mind Control Method Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/   REFERENCES:   [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #293 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-our-conscious-mind-and-the-five-senses/   [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #207 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/co-founder-of-coveylink-greg-link-on-unleashing-greatness-with-neuroscience-sel-trust-and-the-7-habits/ (207)   [iii] How to Learn Skills Faster EPISODE #22 Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0IBzCjEPk   [iv] How to Access Your Creativity Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOBZZeVeAc   [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-silva-method-improving-creativity-and-innovation-in-our-schools-sports-and-modern-workplaces/  (261)   [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #293 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-our-conscious-mind-and-the-five-senses/   [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #289 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/maiysha-clairborne-md-on-what-holds-us-back-getting-to-the-root-of-our-doubts-fears-and-beliefs/   [viii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #149 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/2-time-guinness-world-record-holder-dave-farrow-on-focus-fatigue-and-memory-hacks-for-students-and-the-workplace/   [ix] https://www.nightingale.com/quantum-memory-power.html[xi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #291 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-unleashing-the-power-of-our-subconscious-mind/ (291)  

“Every day we are influenced in countless ways by the world around us, and most of this flies completely under the radar of our conscious awareness” From Neuroscientist and Stanford Professor, David Eagleman's, The Brain: The Story of You. On today's episode #291 on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” we will cover: ✔ A review of where our podcast began, and where we are going. ✔  The importance of understanding our subconscious mind as it relates to our results. ✔ A look back at the history of this understanding, that goes back to visionaries in science and the arts (Francis Bacon, Descartes, etc). ✔ The unusual results Andrea saw with 12 teenagers who studied this concept, catching her attention, in the late 1990s. ✔ 6 STEPS you can use today, to expand your awareness, and help you to tap into the power of your subconscious mind. Welcome back to Season 10 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain learns best, taking us ALL to new, and often unimaginable heights.    Welcome back! For those who tune in each week, you might have noticed this was the FIRST time we've taken a break with this podcast since we launched. It's always been important for me to produce content every week, but this past month, we travelled to some places where there wasn't always internet, so I decided it would be a good time to take a break, and think about where we began with this podcast, and where we are going, creating a clear vision moving forward, and putting our season theme of Part 2 of Going Back to the Basics into practice. If you look at the image in the show notes, you can see where the vision for this podcast began by making a connection with the six social and emotional learning competencies[i] that you'll be familiar with if you are in the field of education, or paying attention to the research.  These competencies include Growth Mindset, Responsible Decision-Making, Self-Awareness, Social-Awareness, Self-Regulation and Developing Relationships, and hundreds of research studies[ii] have confirmed positive outcomes for our next generation of students, adults and communities who implement these competencies.  Instead of covering social and emotional learning topics only for this podcast, (that I saw publishers begin to cover more thoroughly than I ever could on my own, using their research to prove efficacy), I decided to connect what I saw as “the missing link” for health, well-being, productivity and achievement on this podcast—an understanding of our brain, that I call Neuroscience 101. Reflecting back on almost 300 episodes written, recorded and produced from June 2019 to today, it's easy to notice the growth that has unfolded along the way, that I share on EPISODE #279[iii] on “Lessons Learned After Hitting the 300,000 Download Mile Marker,” or “The Top 10 ALL Time Most Listened to Episodes on Podcast.” I can't miss out on EPISODE #233[iv] where we covered the “Top 12 YouTube Interviews” as chosen by YOU! These are all good ones to review. In addition to the growth noticed over the years from feedback that YOU, the listener would send me, I also noticed a shift with the content in our interviews over the seasons. In our early interviews, we were introduced to books, ideas and strategies that would orient us to the understanding of the brain and help us to break down topics like improving student success with Dr. John Dunlosky's[v] research, or trauma in our schools, that we saw with EPISODE #168[vi] with Dr. Bruce Perry and his book What Happened to You, or EPISODE #60[vii] with Dr. Daniel Siegel on “The Benefits Behind a Meditation Practice.”  We moved through the research, season by season, covering the topics that I thought would help us to all gain a better understanding of the mind-brain-body connection. Then, the focus turned towards health and wellness in 2020, which was an unexpected turn for me, but one that made a huge impact on me personally, allowing me to test out certain products, like the Fisher Wallace Brain Stimulator[viii], the Whoop[ix] fitness tracker, take a visit Dr. Daniel Amen's Clinic[x] for a SPECT image brain scan, or even by learning how to improve Heart Rate Variability with the Lief Wearable HRV Device.[xi]  While producing these episodes, I was implementing the ideas myself, and often times along with my family members, for improved results. You can scan through the episode home page here or review the season descriptions below. Season 1: Provides you with the tools, resources and ideas to implement proven strategies backed by the most current neuroscience research to help you to achieve the long-term gains of implementing a social and emotional learning program in your school, or emotional intelligence program in your workplace. Season 2: Features high level guests who tie in social, emotional and cognitive strategies for high performance in schools, sports and the workplace. Season 3: Ties in some of the top motivational business books and guest with the most current brain research to take your results and productivity to the next level. Season 4: Brings in positive mental health and wellness strategies to help cope with the stresses of life, improving cognition, productivity and results. Season 5: Continues with the theme of mental health and well-being with strategies for implementing practical neuroscience to improve results for schools, sports and the workplace. Season 6: The Future of Educational Neuroscience and its impact on our next generation. Diving deeper into the Science of Learning. Season 7: Brain Health and Well-Being (Focused on Physical and Mental Health). Season 8: Brain Health and Learning (Focused on How An Understanding of Our Brain Can Improve Learning in Ourselves (adults, teachers, workers) as well as future generations of learners. Season 9: Strengthening Our Foundations:  Neuroscience 101: Back to the Basics PART 1  Season 10: Strengthening Our Foundations:  Neuroscience 101: Back to the Basics PART 2 You'll see that while our first nine seasons were focused on orienting ourselves to the basics of neuroscience, Season 10 and moving forward I'd like to narrow our focus to improved mental and physical health, (building on the Top Health Staples) to understanding our consciousness and our identity, and help us to become crystal clear about who we are, why we are here, and what legacy we want to leave for others. You'll see the guests we have coming up will drive our understanding of these topics forward, hopefully helping us to become better versions of ourselves, with the idea that when we arrive to where we want to go personally and professionally, that we next create a plan for the legacy that we'd like to leave behind to help others. For today's episode #291 we are going to pick up where we left off with our last episode where we dove into Stanford Professor and Neuroscientist, David Eagleman's work. Let's go back to where we left off the end of May with EPISODE #290[xii] and dive into today's episode on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind.”   In Chapter 1 of David Eagleman's The Brain: The Story of You, he explains how our identity is a moving target. He says: “Who you are depends on where you've been. Your brain is a relentless shape-shifter, constantly rewriting its own circuitry—and because your experiences are unique, so are the vast, detailed patterns in your neural networks. Because they continue to change your whole life, your identity is a moving target: it never reaches an endpoint.” David Eagleman's, The Brain: The Story of You. THE CONSCIOUS MIND: In our last episode, we uncovered from David Eagleman's work that the “conscious mind-the part you think of as you—is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain” making me take a look at the graphic on The Levels of Awareness, that I created after reading an article called “The Easy Problems of Consciousness”[xiii] from National Geographic. If we look (all the way to the right) at the FULLY aware column, that's like the 10% of the tip of the iceberg that we can see consisting of our ability to THINK. To truly discover WHO we ARE, we'll need to dive into the depths of our subconscious mind (under the surface of the water) to learn and explore more about the other 90% and peel back the layers, of who we truly are. FINDING ANSWERS BY DIVING INTO OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: You'll notice that we will be spending more time moving forward looking at ways we can improve our levels of awareness, so we can take this knowledge, to eventually help others, after improving ourselves. This will be the key to building a strong legacy that will exist long after you move from this physical plane, that we call earth. And if we want to improve our own results in this process, we've got to open up the keyhole to our levels of awareness. Imagine a tiny dot expanding as your mind expands. Or instead of peeking through the tiny keyhole of a doorway you want opened, blast open your mind and kick the whole door down instead. Or forget about the door, and break a window to gain entry into this new awareness that you'd like to achieve.  This all begins by understanding who we are, (we are not just our name) and we can expand ourselves even further as we learn how to use this marvelous power of our mind that J.B Rhine, from Duke University would say is “the greatest power of all creation.” As you are listening to this, doesn't it make you want to knock down some doors (blasting through some of YOUR subconscious blocks)? Things that you're aware have been holding you back from where you KNOW you're supposed to be? These are only your conscious blocks. Like I've heard people say “I want to stop self-sabotaging” with their health or relationships. There are some parts of us we are consciously aware of, but other blocks, might take some time to reveal themselves. It just blows my mind that something so powerful, (our sub-conscious mind- or all that exists below the water level with that iceberg photo) that controls so much of who we are, is not taught to us in school. It's here that I think some of the previous work and study I did in the seminar industry can help us to understand what David Eagleman was talking about in his book, The Brain when he said that the “conscious mind is the smallest part of what's happening in your brain.” This was at the heart of EVERY seminar I've ever attended. If we REALLY want to understand who we are, and be in control of where we are going, understanding the 90% of us, where our beliefs, creativity, emotions, habits, intuition and values all exist, is crucial if we want to be in control of the future that we want to create. GOING BACK TO THE BASICS: THE HISTORY If we go back to our Think and Grow Rich Book Study, that we covered at the start of 2022, Napoleon Hill wrote a whole chapter on the subconscious mind (Chapter 13) that we covered on EPISODE #195[xiv] and then he reminds us to re-read Chapter 4 on Auto-Suggestion, which is the medium that influences the subconscious mind.  This book was first written in 1937, showing us how far back this concept goes. Since this time, there are many others who cover this topic just as thoroughly as Napoleon Hill, like author Brian Tracey[xv], who explains why this understanding is important on his blog, in his books and all of the seminars he conducted. Tracey shares that “since your subconscious mind has such a great amount of control over your positive and negative behaviors, the key is to train your brain to produce more positive behaviors.” If you've ever read Brian Tracey's work, you'll know it's all centered around productivity and success. The subconscious mind and how to take control of it, runs at the heart of his message. In my early days of working in the seminar industry, and learning from the top speakers around the world, I saw that this concept wasn't new. I was even given a box full of material to study, joining many prominent people in the fields of science or the arts, who also studied the material I was given from an invitation only method. I read the same words that visionaries like Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Rene Decartes (1596-1650), Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), or Isaac Newton (1642-1727) read, and was told to keep this box of materials a secret. It's full of lessons that focused on using our mind to help us in all areas of our life, including our health, and is not far off from The Silva Mind Control Method[xvi] that we covered thoroughly this year. Understanding the levels of consciousness was taught in the introduction to this program, and as we progressed into month three of the course, autosuggestion and the subconscious mind were covered, showing again just how far back these concepts go. Moving forward, I'm hoping that science will reveal some answers to why certain practices from years past, yield noticeable results. I'd like to keep these practices less of a “secret” for anyone to use for themselves or for the benefit of others. Just keep an open mind here, and follow along with the images in the show notes that I'll use to explain the importance of understanding our conscious, and sub-conscious mind as it relates to WHO we are, and then how we can use this understanding to put our goals on auto-pilot, creating results that will truly boggle our minds. Sorry the notes I wrote are a bit messy, as I wrote them years ago, and didn't think I'd be sharing them years later. You'll get the idea. DO YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY? As we move forward, this understanding might be something you already know, or have heard of before, but until you can explain it to someone else, it warrants a review. If you stay with me here, I can guarantee that the application of this understanding has the potential to shift your life in ways you'll never believe. I've been working with these ideas since those early days of working in the seminar industry (25 years ago) when I first watched 12 teenagers skyrocket their results with this understanding, and I still pick up something new each time I look at this. When I first saw these concepts yielding results after a relatively short period of time with those teens, it literally knocked the breath out of me. Something I've come to notice happens when I can see someone achieving quantum leaps with their results—it's hard to look away from something this magical. YOUTH MENTOR INTERNATIONAL (1999-2002): The Fundamentals of Life. For those who don't know where I first learned this concept, it started back in the late 1990s when I worked with Bob Proctor on a program for teens called Youth Mentor International. This program that I helped Proctor to create and deliver, covered the understanding of our subconscious mind, and how to put our goals on auto-pilot.  The results of this program for these 12 teens was absolutely astounding. You can review the interview with Bob Proctor on EPISODE #66[xvii], where we reminisced about our time working together, shocked that it close to 25 years ago, revisiting the results we saw with those teens.  You can see an image of where this program began, with cassette tapes covering these foundational topics, years before we could stream content around the world via podcasting or video.  As I started to write this episode, I knew I had to go back to the Basics, and look at these tapes. Notice the title of the program: Youth Mentor International Fundamentals. This is what we taught ALL kids (ages 10 and up) around the world, each week.  The Fundamentals of Life. Tape 1: Building an Emotional Appeal of a Future Promise (where we helped the kids to see the power of visualization) and building their future on the screen on their minds. Tape 2: We Think in Pictures: which takes our visualization skills to that next step, honing in on a detailed picture of our goals and dreams. Tape 3: The Conscious Mind and the Senses: showing the kids that there was a world beyond their 5 senses, or the importance of being aware of the “unseen world.” Tape 4: The Subconscious Mind and the Body: that took students into the lesson I'll share with you here today, or diving into the 90% of that part of us that remains under water, in the iceberg photo. Tape 5: The Faculties of the Mind (that we will cover on our next episode). Tape 6: Review and Application of the Fundamentals. After watching the success of those teens all those years ago, I put my hat here, and decided to keep looking for what else could possibly take our understanding of who we are to greater heights. This program had such potential, but fell apart after Sept. 11th happened. I tried to carry the torch forward, and learned from educators along the way, like you see with can see when I re-connected with Jeff Kleck, from EPISODE #246[xviii] who changed the direction I would take with this material in the schools, leading me to focus less on the spiritual side, leaning more on science, or how the brain impacts our learning. I know connecting the science to these concepts is integral, so my focus has moved to watching and learning from the leading experts in science, to bring credibility to the ideas I saw working with those young students all those years ago. UNDERSTANDING AND USING THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND The key is to understand how our MIND works, and that it's separate from our BRAIN. When we figure this out, it's like all of the pieces of the puzzle start to fit.  Can you imagine putting a puzzle together without the lid, or the picture of the completed puzzle? That's almost like what we are doing when we are living life without a picture of our mind, and how we can use it. How do we better understand the part of us that exists under water in the iceberg image? I don't know about you, but I'd rather be in control of this ship called life, than to let it drift aimlessly at sea. REVIEW OF THINK AND GROW RICH: CHAPTER 13 THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND If you listened to our Think and Grow Rich Book Study, (EPISODE #195) you will remember when Napoleon Hill reminded us that “The subconscious mind works day and night” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) and that you “cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it, any plan, desire or purpose you wish to be transformed into concrete form.” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) He suggested that we go back to Chapter 4 on Autosuggestion and read this chapter again to become familiar with how to make use of this part of our mind that remains hidden to our eyes, but holds the power to move us to great heights. RAISING OUR LEVELS OF AWARENESS: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSCIOUS AND SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND IMAGE 1: This is a concept I wrote about with permission from Bob Proctor, in my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[xix]. The concept you see in this image of the mind and body originated with the late Dr. Thurman Fleet of San Antonio Texas, circa 1934. Dr. Fleet was the founder of Concept Theory. Bob Proctor was taught this concept from a child psychiatrist from Florida, Dr. John Mike, who transformed millions of others around the world with this understanding. It was this concept that also transformed the results of those teenagers all those years ago who learned how important it was to understand that we think in pictures, starting with this image. If you look at the image, imagine the conscious mind as the top part of your head, and the sub-conscious is the bottom part. Attached to the conscious part of our mind, is our 5 senses, or what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch. This idea teaches us to look BEYOND our 5 senses, (what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch) and begin to develop our higher faculties of our mind that go beyond our senses with (reason, intuition, perception, will, memory and imagination). While working with students with this material, I became very interested in helping them to expand their thinking and even created a video program that teaches these concepts to students, that you can find on the Udemy platform today, called The Secret for Teens Revealed: A 10-Step Blueprint.[xx] Another way to think about all of this, is that David Eagleman reminded us that our “conscious mind-the part you think of as you—is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain” so to develop the largest part of our brain, would be to learn what's happening in the depths of our subconscious. The conscious mind is important, as it will be this part of our mind that holds our willpower, and our ability to think. IMAGE 2: Shows us of the importance of autosuggestion that Napoleon Hill covered in Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich. My diagram here shows that we can change our results in life, by changing what we think about—see how I've written in the conscious mind “We can think.” What we think about will change our self-image, or the image I see of myself. You can do this by thinking or repeating something with emotion which explains why affirmations repeated over time can change your self-image, when they are repeated with emotion, but this process does take time. Since we can THINK with our conscious mind, we can use the power of our SUBCONSCIOUS MIND to work for us, rather than against us and build ourselves into a new and improved version of ourselves, which creates BELIEF. This part of our mind accepts WHATEVER we give it. We build pictures in our conscious mind, we impress them upon our subconscious mind, and the images we create are expressed in our body, that moves into action, and produces results. IMAGE 3: HELPS US TO BRING ORDER TO OUR MIND FOR GUARANTEED RESULTS IMAGE SOURCE: The Secret for Teens Revealed, Samadi, Page 71   THE CONSCIOUS/THINKING MIND: Once we can see how the 3 parts of our mind work together, we bring order to our mind with this image, for guaranteed results. With time, you can learn to use your CONSCIOUS MIND to THINK clearly and build the pictures of what you really want. And what you think about does show up on the outside. In this diagram, I'd written that if I am embarrassed, your body can respond to that thought physical, by blushing, and we've covered how reading the emotions in others is something we can easily learn to do. THE SUBCONSCIOUS/EMOTIONAL MIND: With practice, you'll see that whatever you turn over to your subconscious mind, with emotion added, over time can change your results with this idea of auto-suggestion. This is why Napoleon Hill says we've got to read our goals out loud daily, for this process to occur.   BUT WAIT: What if there's something I want, and I'm doing everything you are saying, but I still don't have this thing that I want? We will cover this more later, but it goes back to understanding our PARADIGMS that control who we are. There is lots to learn here, so just keep studying, revealing more and more about yourself along the way. If you see yourself with great results…and these results aren't happening…there's more work to be done. Remember, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU, but the layers of the subconscious mind just need more work. THE BODY: When you hold something on the screen of your mind, consistently over a period of time, you'll eventually see the results that change your conditions, circumstances and environment, which is the third part of the image. We've talked about this process often on the podcast, especially with people we've interviewed who have transformed their life over the years, like Ryan O'Neill from EPISODE #203.[xxi] Over time, we can train our subconscious mind to work for us, putting our results on auto-pilot, and these result change who we are over time. HOW DO YOU ACTIVATE YOUR SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND AND INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF AWARENESS? The first step in this process is to go back over the 3 parts of the mind and see if you can explain this picture of the mind, and how it operates to someone else. Once you can see how the conscious-mind, subconscious mind and the body, work together to achieve outstanding results, and you can share this understanding with someone else who can see what you see, then you're on the right track, and you should be able to use this concept in your own life. You've just got to do the work to strengthen your mind, and there's more we will cover more next week, but for now, begin with these 6 STEPS to INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF AWARENESS, UNLEASHING THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. LEARN TO THINK IN PICTURES: VISUALIZE: This was one of the first skills that we taught to the teens when they were beginning to set goals, and it's a skill I'm still working on improving. Jose Silva's program is the best I've ever seen for improving your ability to visualize. If you struggle with seeing an image on the screen of your mind, just start slowly, with pieces of fruit like an apple, or a lemon, and with time, you'll notice you'll begin to see more. START TO MEDITATE (and keep developing this practice): This one will always be at the top of the list as a daily meditation practice will help you to access parts of your mind that you might not be aware of. Jose Silva's program took this practice to the next level for me, and is what I work on daily now. I also love Dan Siegels Wheel of Awareness meditation. There's no right or wrong place to begin here. Just start with something you feel connected to, and stay open minded to trying something new to expand your awareness in still, quiet, thought. DREAM: Not everyone will say their dreams can open up their mind to new thoughts and ideas, but they do for me. If you want to improve this area, make sure you are getting enough REM sleep each night, and see if you can remember what you dreamt about. Write down your dreams, and see if there's anything you can learn from them. It might not happen overnight, but if you can be consistent here, you'll gain incredible insight from this time that your conscious mind goes to sleep, and your unconscious mind soars. SET GOALS: There was this activity I would do with the teens I worked with called the 101 goal list. I remember learning this from the Chicken Soup for Soul author, Mark Victor Hansen, and I think he learned it from a teenager. The idea is that you sit down, and write out 101 things that you want to BE/DO/HAVE. It doesn't have to be material things, but can also be experiences you'd like to have, or places  you'd like to visit. I remember doing this activity for the first time at an airport. After the first 25 things, I couldn't think of any more. The idea is that if you can keep going, you'll begin to tap into your subconscious mind, and begin writing things you might not be consciously aware of. I still have that original list that has somewhere around #50 that I'd like to swim with sharks. I have no idea where this came from, as it's not something I've consciously thought about. Try this activity and see what you discover about yourself. READ YOUR GOALS OUT LOUD: This one really works and might be why saying affirmations out loud works over time. There is a power that comes from reading what you want out loud. Try it. It will feel weird in the beginning, until you switch and begin to own what you are saying. Over time, you will start to believe what you read everyday, and when the belief is there, so will be your goal. BE OPEN TO LEARNING FROM OTHERS: This one goes without saying. Of course if you are listening to this podcast, you will be open to learning from others. But would you purchase a ticket to hear someone speak, or jump on a plane and fly somewhere to meet someone you know you could learn from? Proctor used to do this all the time. I loved his stories of when he would sit in the back of the room and listen to people speaking that he wanted to learn from. These were always life-changing connections and if you've ever experienced this, you'll agree with me that they are well worth the time and effort. If there's something you are working on, and you're stuck in some way, you'll be able to easily put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle into place with the power that comes from two or more minds working together. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude this EPISODE #291 on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” we reviewed our vision for this podcast, where we began and where we we'd like to go over the next 10 seasons. We picked up from where we left off the end of May, with Neuroscientist David Eagleman's work, urging us to look closer at the subconscious mind, since it controls 90% of who we truly are. We reviewed the history of the subconscious mind and why this concept is a foundational step for us in the process of learning who we are. We looked at 6 STEPS for expanding our level of consciousness by diving deeper into developing our SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. This is just the beginning. Next week we will look at the Faculties of the Mind vs the 5 Senses to Expand our level of awareness more, but until then, think about this quote from James Allen, who wrote the book, As a Man Thinketh. He said “Mind is the master power that molds and makes: And Man is Mind, And Evermore He Takes the Tool of Thought, And Shapes What He Wills, Brings Forth a Thousand Joys, A Thousand Ills, He Thinks is Secret and it Comes to Pass, Environment is But His Looking Glass.” The goal is to understand how our mind works, so we can get our thoughts, feelings and actions lined up. That's integrity and not everyone has it. When you can line up how you think, feel and act, the magic happens. What we THINK on a daily basis really matters for where we are going. If the AHA moments haven't happened yet, (or nothing outstanding seems to jump out at you) come back next week, and I'll add some more, with the goal of helping you to expand YOUR awareness, by “seeing” this marvelous power that's held within the depths of our subconscious minds.   See you next week. RESOURCES: How to Expand Your Level of Awareness with Bob Proctor https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/6083/how-to-expand-your-awareness REFERENCES: [i] Casel's 6 SEL Competencies https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/ [ii] What does the research say? 100s of research studies confirm SEL benefits students https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-does-the-research-say/ [iii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #279 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/lessons-learned-after-hitting-the-300000-unique-download-milestone-thank-you/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #233 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/top-12-neuroscience-meets-social-and-emotional-learning-podcast-interviews/ [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE  #37 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kent-states-dr-john-dunlosky-on-improving-student-success-some-principles-from-cognitive-science/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #168 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dr-bruce-perry-and-steve-graner-from-the-neurosequential-network-on-what-we-should-all-know-about-what-happened-to-you/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #60 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-science-behind-a-meditation-practice-with-a-deep-dive-into-dr-dan-siegel-s-wheel-of-awareness/ [viii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #120  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/personal-review-of-the-fisher-wallace-wearable-medical-device-for-anxiety-depression-and-sleepstress-management/ [ix] https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/kristen-holmes-from-whoopcom-on-unlocking-a-better-you-measuring-sleep-recovery-and-strain/ [x]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #134  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/how-a-spect-scan-can-change-your-life-part-3-with-andrea-samadi/ [xi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #228 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/rohan-dixit-founder-of-lief-therapeutics-on-measuring-hrv-in-real-time-for-stress-relief-from-the-inside-out/ [xii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #290   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-the-neuroscience-of-learning-unlocking-the-secret-to-our-identity/ [xiii] National Geographic Your Brain (Revised and Updated) https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Brain-Revised-Updated/dp/154784079X [xiv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ [xv] Brain Tracey on the Subconscious Mind https://www.briantracy.com/blog/personal-success/understanding-your-subconscious-mind/ [xvi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [xvii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #66  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-legendary-bob-proctor-on/ [xviii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #246  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/jeff-kleck-on-using-neuroscience-to-inspire-thinkers-in-schools-sport-and-the-workplace/ [xix] The Secret for Teens Revealed: How Parents, Teachers and Teenagers Can Inspire Leadership and Transform Lives by Andrea Samadi Published September 15, 2008  https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1604940336 [xx] The Secret for Teens Revealed Online Course: A 10-Step Blueprint https://www.udemy.com/course/the-secret-for-teens-revealed-a-10-step-success-blueprint/ [xxi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #203 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/case-study-with-paranormal-researcher-ryan-o-neill-on-making-your-vision-a-reality/  

Today I want to talk about the last 4 sections of Think & Grow Rich...   Transmutation Sub Conscious Mind The Brain 6th Sense   10. THE MYSTERY OF SEX TRANSMUTATION Controversial section of the book. Transmute is the changing or transferring of one element or form to another. We all have strong sexual energy within us that we can transform into other creative forms. Some of the most successful leaders in time have had strong sex drives... The sexual energy may be transformed into a kinda magnetism...great sales people Example of energy communicated through handshake, tone of voice, posture, vibrations of thought and body language... He also talks about the importance of a great partner and how the energy can be harnesses with intention when a great partner is behind you.   11 THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND The subconscious (sub) mind is the true master of our reality and everything we create. The subconscious mind is never at rest and will take in everything you experience...it does not determine what is real or not real.  This is why visualization is so important. I encourage you to thoroughly read this chapter but here are a couple important points.... You can influence sub through your conscious thoughts. The thoughts and images need to be vivid and mixed with emotion and faith. You should feed your sub with repetition and positivity. Hunches and inspiration are a direct result of your sub mind guiding you to your goals. You can control more of your sub mind by quieting your conscious mind through meditation and mindfulness. NOTE:  Be careful what you feed your mind with because sub picks everything up without filter.     12. THE BRAIN (Visualization) Not a very long chapter, but I love how he describes the brain...The broadcasting and receiving station for thought...definitely one of the most complex organs and truly one that will determine your results in life. Understanding the connection between the brain and Conscious/Subconscious thought is so important. You are not your brain or your thoughts, but you do control your thoughts and must maintain your brain. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but I want to add some personal comments for you to consider: Are you feeding your brain? Are you drinking plenty of water? Are you maintaining a clean, healthy, energetic brain? Start to use or think of your brain as the tool you can use to connect your conscious and subconscious thoughts. You must consider this organ as one of the most important assets you have...period.   13. THE 6th SENSE Your intuition, inspiration or "gut" feelings. This Sense comes when you are tuning into the frequencies of your subconscious mind. It is only understood by first applying and understanding the first 12 steps...much like meditation. This is most active when you are tapping into your subconscious mind and the universe, energy, etc.   So you can see how these steps all go together and build on each other.  Lets review:   1- Desire 2- Faith 3- Auto Suggestion 4- Specialized Knowledge 5- Imagination 6- Organized Planning 7- Decision 8- Persistence 9- Power of the Mastermind 10- Transmutation (Enthusiastic Support) 11- The Subconscious Mind 12- The Brain 13- The Sixth Sense   It is my hope and desire that this review we have done the last few days is going to inspire you to read or reread think and grow rich.  Remember, that success leaves clues and time has proven this guide to be one of the ultimate guides to accomplishing anything you want in life.      

Today I want to talk about the last 4 sections of Think & Grow Rich...   Transmutation Sub Conscious Mind The Brain 6th Sense   10. THE MYSTERY OF SEX TRANSMUTATION Controversial section of the book. Transmute is the changing or transferring of one element or form to another. We all have strong sexual energy within us that we can transform into other creative forms. Some of the most successful leaders in time have had strong sex drives... The sexual energy may be transformed into a kinda magnetism...great sales people Example of energy communicated through handshake, tone of voice, posture, vibrations of thought and body language... He also talks about the importance of a great partner and how the energy can be harnesses with intention when a great partner is behind you.   11 THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND The subconscious (sub) mind is the true master of our reality and everything we create. The subconscious mind is never at rest and will take in everything you experience...it does not determine what is real or not real.  This is why visualization is so important. I encourage you to thoroughly read this chapter but here are a couple important points.... You can influence sub through your conscious thoughts. The thoughts and images need to be vivid and mixed with emotion and faith. You should feed your sub with repetition and positivity. Hunches and inspiration are a direct result of your sub mind guiding you to your goals. You can control more of your sub mind by quieting your conscious mind through meditation and mindfulness. NOTE:  Be careful what you feed your mind with because sub picks everything up without filter.     12. THE BRAIN (Visualization) Not a very long chapter, but I love how he describes the brain...The broadcasting and receiving station for thought...definitely one of the most complex organs and truly one that will determine your results in life. Understanding the connection between the brain and Conscious/Subconscious thought is so important. You are not your brain or your thoughts, but you do control your thoughts and must maintain your brain. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but I want to add some personal comments for you to consider: Are you feeding your brain? Are you drinking plenty of water? Are you maintaining a clean, healthy, energetic brain? Start to use or think of your brain as the tool you can use to connect your conscious and subconscious thoughts. You must consider this organ as one of the most important assets you have...period.   13. THE 6th SENSE Your intuition, inspiration or "gut" feelings. This Sense comes when you are tuning into the frequencies of your subconscious mind. It is only understood by first applying and understanding the first 12 steps...much like meditation. This is most active when you are tapping into your subconscious mind and the universe, energy, etc.   So you can see how these steps all go together and build on each other.  Lets review:   1- Desire 2- Faith 3- Auto Suggestion 4- Specialized Knowledge 5- Imagination 6- Organized Planning 7- Decision 8- Persistence 9- Power of the Mastermind 10- Transmutation (Enthusiastic Support) 11- The Subconscious Mind 12- The Brain 13- The Sixth Sense   It is my hope and desire that this review we have done the last few days is going to inspire you to read or reread think and grow rich.  Remember, that success leaves clues and time has proven this guide to be one of the ultimate guides to accomplishing anything you want in life.      

Yesterday we talked about Desire, Faith and Autosuggestion or Affirmations.   Today I want to talk about the 3 more sections of Think & Grow Rich...   Specialized Knowledge Imagination Organized Planning   4. SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE   To be successful in anything you will need specialized knowledge. (Unique Talent is ultimate goal)   Knowledge is Power...Only if it is organized into a definite Plan of ACTION and directed to a specific GOAL/PATH.   Figure out what you need and go get the knowledge necessary...seasons for everything.   Setting aside time every day to find out more about what you do for a living Take whatever courses that are offered on your subject Associate with people who know your business well Get the help of your “Master Mind” group (see principle 9)   “The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and therefore when most was required of our imagination in order to build it all” Frank Lloyd Wright   Note: the key here is to remember that knowledge is not power...only application and action of knowlege. What are you doing right now to extend your knowledge?   5. IMAGINATION   Your imagination is one of your most powerful gifts and resources. You can create anything you desire or imagine...everything came from the mind of man first.   The only limitation you have in life is the limitations you put on your own mind and imagination.   As Napoleon Hill puts it “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve”.   We should constantly use our imagination to think of ways to do things better... ...look at what changes are inevitable and to ask ourselves can we make them now according to our desire.   In our current difficult times it is interesting to note that Napoleon Hill emphasizes that we should treat limitations as our best friend as this is when we require our imagination to rise above them...outside your comfort zone is a "good thing"...but only if you see it.   Note: Visualization is a critical process in using your imagination. What are you doing right now to practice this?   6. ORGANIZED PLANNING   This section/chapter is all about having a definite plan of action. A man without a plan is like a ship without a course...no place to go with a certainty of disaster.   Every person who has risen above the average has always had a plan to achieve their goals. When devising your plan get the assistance of the other members of your “Master Mind” group –(talked about tomorrow).   Take advantage of their knowledge skills and experience of other people in your field of interest when creating a plan.   Napolean Hill lists 11 characteristics of great leaders that are key elements of implementing a great plan. Lets review them:   1. Unwavering courage   2. Self control   3. Keen sense of justice   4. Definiteness of decision   5. Definiteness of plans   6. Habit of doing more than you are paid for   7. Pleasing personality   8. Sympathy and understanding   9. Mastery of detail   10. Willingness to assume full responsibility   11. Co-operation   I think these chapters really get into the strategy and tactics needed so I encourage you to dig deep into these sections of the book. Ultimately, this is where the rubber meets the road.   Now, lets take a quick review of what we have covered:   Desire Faith Autosuggestion Specialized Knowledge Imagination Organized Planning   I think you can see how this is absolutely a roadmap for accomplishing your best life and changing your reality.   But tomorrow we will get into a part I really love...Decision, Persistence & the Power of the Mastermind.   Looking forward to talking tomorrow. Have a great day and SHARE THE SHOW!! George Wright III

Yesterday we talked about Desire, Faith and Autosuggestion or Affirmations.   Today I want to talk about the 3 more sections of Think & Grow Rich...   Specialized Knowledge Imagination Organized Planning   4. SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE   To be successful in anything you will need specialized knowledge. (Unique Talent is ultimate goal)   Knowledge is Power...Only if it is organized into a definite Plan of ACTION and directed to a specific GOAL/PATH.   Figure out what you need and go get the knowledge necessary...seasons for everything.   Setting aside time every day to find out more about what you do for a living Take whatever courses that are offered on your subject Associate with people who know your business well Get the help of your “Master Mind” group (see principle 9)   “The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest and therefore when most was required of our imagination in order to build it all” Frank Lloyd Wright   Note: the key here is to remember that knowledge is not power...only application and action of knowlege. What are you doing right now to extend your knowledge?   5. IMAGINATION   Your imagination is one of your most powerful gifts and resources. You can create anything you desire or imagine...everything came from the mind of man first.   The only limitation you have in life is the limitations you put on your own mind and imagination.   As Napoleon Hill puts it “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve”.   We should constantly use our imagination to think of ways to do things better... ...look at what changes are inevitable and to ask ourselves can we make them now according to our desire.   In our current difficult times it is interesting to note that Napoleon Hill emphasizes that we should treat limitations as our best friend as this is when we require our imagination to rise above them...outside your comfort zone is a "good thing"...but only if you see it.   Note: Visualization is a critical process in using your imagination. What are you doing right now to practice this?   6. ORGANIZED PLANNING   This section/chapter is all about having a definite plan of action. A man without a plan is like a ship without a course...no place to go with a certainty of disaster.   Every person who has risen above the average has always had a plan to achieve their goals. When devising your plan get the assistance of the other members of your “Master Mind” group –(talked about tomorrow).   Take advantage of their knowledge skills and experience of other people in your field of interest when creating a plan.   Napolean Hill lists 11 characteristics of great leaders that are key elements of implementing a great plan. Lets review them:   1. Unwavering courage   2. Self control   3. Keen sense of justice   4. Definiteness of decision   5. Definiteness of plans   6. Habit of doing more than you are paid for   7. Pleasing personality   8. Sympathy and understanding   9. Mastery of detail   10. Willingness to assume full responsibility   11. Co-operation   I think these chapters really get into the strategy and tactics needed so I encourage you to dig deep into these sections of the book. Ultimately, this is where the rubber meets the road.   Now, lets take a quick review of what we have covered:   Desire Faith Autosuggestion Specialized Knowledge Imagination Organized Planning   I think you can see how this is absolutely a roadmap for accomplishing your best life and changing your reality.   But tomorrow we will get into a part I really love...Decision, Persistence & the Power of the Mastermind.   Looking forward to talking tomorrow. Have a great day and SHARE THE SHOW!! George Wright III

Suggestions are flying at us from every direction, infiltrating our subconscious minds. Today, we're delving into the widely slept-on concept of autosuggestion: suggestions from yourself to yourself. Suggestion is the most powerful force in the universe and we all have the capacity to harness that power and change the direction of our lives. In this episode, we talk about the value of autosuggestion, explaining how to guard yourself against unwanted suggestions and implement conscious autosuggestion. Conditioning your subconscious mind is far simpler than it sounds! Tune in to discover how best to make autosuggestion work for you and accelerate your desired results.Key Points From This Episode:What autosuggestion is and why it's so important.How to guard yourself against unwanted suggestions and implement conscious autosuggestion.A powerful way to use affirmation in autosuggestion.The power of accepting and conditioning your mind to accept an idea/suggestion.How to autosuggest.Why understanding your subconscious mind is crucial for autosuggestion. The relationship between action, attitude, and autosuggestion.The myth of overnight success.Three steps to quantifying your results at warp speed: meditate, visualize, and come from the end.Why winners love rejection.Recommendations for understanding and implementing autosuggestion.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Voss Coaching CoVoss Coaching Co on LinkedInVoss Coaching Co on InstagramVoss Coaching Co on FacebookMykie Stiller on LinkedInMykie Stiller on InstagramArash Vossoughi on LinkedInArash Vossoughi on YouTube

Welcome back to Episode 789 of the Daily Mastermind   This week we are talking about Changing Your Reality ...and Creating the Life You Were Meant to Live   Think and Grow Rich is the Ultimate Guide to taking control of your life and crafting a plan.   Proven Success...Clues and Strategies to make it all happen.   13 Chapters/Sections...leading you to a great plan, results and execution.   Today i want to talk about the first 3 sections...but you should read and go deep.   Desire Faith Autosuggestion   1. DESIRE   This is the starting point to success and is perhaps the most important principle.   Desire is a reflection of what you want (what you desire) as much as a verb or fuel you use to get it.   If you desire it...you an achieve it. You wouldn't have the desire if it wasn't possible.   But how to create a "burning desire"...it's all about the approach...How you do anything is how you do everything...   Are you "all in"...are you hedging, wondering, testing...etc.   In this chapter Napoleon Hill explains the 6 Steps to achieving your desire. (money example)   1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you want to have in your possession.   2. Decide what you are prepared to give in return (perhaps a service you will provide).   3. Select a definite date by which you will have acquired this money.   4. Prepare a definite plan and begin to implement it immediately.   5. Based on the first 4 steps write down a clear statement of the amount of money you will acquire, the time limit for its acquisition, what you will give in return and your plan for accumulating it.   6. Read your written statement aloud just before going to bed and once again first thing in the morning. As you read see yourself already in possession of the money.   Difference between Desire and Want.   2. FAITH   Faith is a key element to accomplishing what you desire.   Also remember that faith is a decision to believe you can attain your desire...different from belief.   Napoleon Hill says faith is a state of mind that can be induced by affirmations or repeated instructions to the sub-conscious mind (see principle 3).   Another method that can provide the faith required is to create a mental image of achieving your desire over and over again.   This chapter is filled with examples of how some great leaders in history accomplished the impossible through faith.   Quote- “In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith” Friedrich Schlegel   Remember...when you apply faith to a desire you have, you will begin to manifest or "create' that which you desire. It stems from what is deep inside you and also is created by talents you inately posses. But, all great things will require some form of faith, so take time to cultivate your faith.     3. AUTO-SUGGESTION   This is the way you can put the sub-conscious mind to work for you through repeated suggestion. (affirmations)   The idea here is that you concentrate your mind on what you desire repeatedly until you burn it into your subconscious mind.   Your subconscious mind is ultimately what will help you to create what you truly want in your life...this is sometimes viewed as inspiration or gut feelings or intuition.   The key here is that (obviously) it needs to be combined with effort and work.   When you combine this principle of repetition (autosuggestion) to a written statement like we talked bout in principle #1, it forms a great daily ritual and one that will TRAIN your mind to go to work for you.   NOTE; sometimes we simply don't accomplish things in life because we don't "believe" we are worthy or deserve them. I believe this is simply things we have learned over time from conditioning (brainwashing) from messages and people in our lives. Affirmations will us to program our own minds in a positive direction instead of them being programmed against our own desires.

Welcome back to Episode 789 of the Daily Mastermind   This week we are talking about Changing Your Reality ...and Creating the Life You Were Meant to Live   Think and Grow Rich is the Ultimate Guide to taking control of your life and crafting a plan.   Proven Success...Clues and Strategies to make it all happen.   13 Chapters/Sections...leading you to a great plan, results and execution.   Today i want to talk about the first 3 sections...but you should read and go deep.   Desire Faith Autosuggestion   1. DESIRE   This is the starting point to success and is perhaps the most important principle.   Desire is a reflection of what you want (what you desire) as much as a verb or fuel you use to get it.   If you desire it...you an achieve it. You wouldn't have the desire if it wasn't possible.   But how to create a "burning desire"...it's all about the approach...How you do anything is how you do everything...   Are you "all in"...are you hedging, wondering, testing...etc.   In this chapter Napoleon Hill explains the 6 Steps to achieving your desire. (money example)   1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you want to have in your possession.   2. Decide what you are prepared to give in return (perhaps a service you will provide).   3. Select a definite date by which you will have acquired this money.   4. Prepare a definite plan and begin to implement it immediately.   5. Based on the first 4 steps write down a clear statement of the amount of money you will acquire, the time limit for its acquisition, what you will give in return and your plan for accumulating it.   6. Read your written statement aloud just before going to bed and once again first thing in the morning. As you read see yourself already in possession of the money.   Difference between Desire and Want.   2. FAITH   Faith is a key element to accomplishing what you desire.   Also remember that faith is a decision to believe you can attain your desire...different from belief.   Napoleon Hill says faith is a state of mind that can be induced by affirmations or repeated instructions to the sub-conscious mind (see principle 3).   Another method that can provide the faith required is to create a mental image of achieving your desire over and over again.   This chapter is filled with examples of how some great leaders in history accomplished the impossible through faith.   Quote- “In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith” Friedrich Schlegel   Remember...when you apply faith to a desire you have, you will begin to manifest or "create' that which you desire. It stems from what is deep inside you and also is created by talents you inately posses. But, all great things will require some form of faith, so take time to cultivate your faith.     3. AUTO-SUGGESTION   This is the way you can put the sub-conscious mind to work for you through repeated suggestion. (affirmations)   The idea here is that you concentrate your mind on what you desire repeatedly until you burn it into your subconscious mind.   Your subconscious mind is ultimately what will help you to create what you truly want in your life...this is sometimes viewed as inspiration or gut feelings or intuition.   The key here is that (obviously) it needs to be combined with effort and work.   When you combine this principle of repetition (autosuggestion) to a written statement like we talked bout in principle #1, it forms a great daily ritual and one that will TRAIN your mind to go to work for you.   NOTE; sometimes we simply don't accomplish things in life because we don't "believe" we are worthy or deserve them. I believe this is simply things we have learned over time from conditioning (brainwashing) from messages and people in our lives. Affirmations will us to program our own minds in a positive direction instead of them being programmed against our own desires.

Are you living a Proactive or Reactive Life?  Do you feel that you have control over your destiny and the life you are creating?  Or do you feel that you are just at the whim of what ever is coming your way? Well today I want to talk with you about the fact that you definitely can control or influence the direction your life is going. I want to run through several things I feel you can do to craft the life of your dreams. I also plan to start diggin into a timeless classic that you may have already read...Think and Grow Rich...over the coming week. I want to review and discuss the topics of: 1- Desire 2- Faith 3- Auto Suggestion 4- Specialized Knowledge 5- Imagination 6- Organized Planning 7- Decision 8- Persistence 9- Power of the Mastermind 10- Transmutation (Enthusiastic Support) 11- The Subconscious Mind 12- The Brain 13- The Sixth Sense I hope you will enjoy and learn and become inspired this week to create a life that you were meant to live. Thanks for listening. George Wright III

Are you living a Proactive or Reactive Life?  Do you feel that you have control over your destiny and the life you are creating?  Or do you feel that you are just at the whim of what ever is coming your way? Well today I want to talk with you about the fact that you definitely can control or influence the direction your life is going. I want to run through several things I feel you can do to craft the life of your dreams. I also plan to start diggin into a timeless classic that you may have already read...Think and Grow Rich...over the coming week. I want to review and discuss the topics of: 1- Desire 2- Faith 3- Auto Suggestion 4- Specialized Knowledge 5- Imagination 6- Organized Planning 7- Decision 8- Persistence 9- Power of the Mastermind 10- Transmutation (Enthusiastic Support) 11- The Subconscious Mind 12- The Brain 13- The Sixth Sense I hope you will enjoy and learn and become inspired this week to create a life that you were meant to live. Thanks for listening. George Wright III

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: this is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” --Henry David Thoreau from Walden Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast where we bridge the gap between theory and practice, with strategies, tools and ideas we can all use immediately, applied to the most current brain research to heighten productivity in our schools, sports environments and modern workplaces. For returning guests, welcome back, and for those who are new listeners, I'm Andrea Samadi and launched this podcast almost 4 years ago, to share how important an understanding of our brain is for our everyday life and results. On today's Episode #272 we will cover ✔ An Introduction to Season 9: Going Back to the Basics by revisiting our past Brain Fact Fridays. ✔ A reminder: What is the Reticular Activating System and How Can It Help Us to Achieve Our Goals. ✔ A Review of The Creative Process or Turning a Fantasy into a Fact. ✔ Priming Our Brain to Set Worthy Goals  ✔ What the Most Current Brain Research Says to Help Us to Improve Our Goal-Setting Process ✔ Research-Based Tips to Prime Your Brain to Achieve Your Goals in 2023 This season (Season 9) we will be focused on Neuroscience: Going Back to the Basics as we revisit our past Brain Fact Fridays, narrowing in on how anything new from the field of neuroscience can be tied to improving our productivity, our results, mental and physical health. Why are we going back to the basics? When we are building something worthwhile, something that we want to last, going back to the foundations will help us to strengthen our understanding of our brain, and our mind, to our results, providing us with the extra strength we will need to overcome the obstacles and challenges that will come our way. My hopes are that this step backwards will help us to become better prepared to move forward, towards our goals, or whatever it is that we are working on this year, with this strong foundation in place. Today's EPISODE #272, we will go back to our very first Brain Fact Friday, that we released as a BONUS EPISODE on March 5, 2021[i], called “Using the Reticular Activating System to Set Your Intent and Achieve It” and we will dive a bit deeper into how this system in the brain (our RAS) can actually help us with whatever it is that we want in 2023. But before we get to the science behind our goals, I want to take you on a trip, that goes back to my early days of working in the seminar industry, with motivational speaker Bob Proctor, who taught me how to dream. You can watch our interview on EPISODE #66[ii] where he marvels at how he watched the dream I envisioned all those years ago reveal itself over the years, as I took his work, and created a book for teens to improve their grades, their results with sports, or sharpen their skills, that eventually was made into an online course. I remember talking with Bob about this first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[iii], (that was really just my notes that I'd gathered over the years listening to him in the seminars helping adults to achieve their goals, written so that a teenager could apply it), and I remember telling him that I thought there was something missing that was preventing kids from embracing the concepts written within the pages. We all know how learning works, and how important it is for a student to be engaged and motivated with whatever it is they are learning.  He picked up on what I was getting at, and affirmed that  “it is missing something very important” and went onto a lesson for me, standing in this hallway at this seminar he was speaking at, about the Creative Process. He said “you'll want to think about how the creative process works” and then he got on the phone and called someone and put me in contact with someone who would take the words in this book, and help them to come alive, visually, with video, he suggested. I never did end up working with the person Bob was putting me in contact with, I forget why, but he did open up my mind for how to take the words in the book (the vision I wanted those kids to see), and bring it to life. You can do this with images in a picture book, or other ideas I've talked about on recent episodes with innovative and creative ideas, but we did it with video. I worked with Ryan O'Neill, who we met on EPISODE #203[iv] on “Making Your Vision a Reality” and created The Secret for Teen Revealed Online Course[v] that you find today on the UDEMY Platform. It All Begins With The Creative Process Before we get to the science behind this idea of goal-achieving for 2023, I think it's important to go back to the basics here, and revisit what Bob was trying to get me to think about, standing in the hallway, when we were talking about “what was missing” from my book. He wanted me to revisit “The Creative Process” that I've been mesmerized by since those days I used to sell those seminars with him. I always wondered “how do people dream up big ideas and then achieve them?” Bob would say that it all begins with this process that starts when the “inventor” of the idea paints of picture of what they see. He would talk about the Creative Process in 3 Steps:  STEP 1 FANTASY: Paint the picture of what you really want in your mind. See it clearly on the screen of your mind first.  Dream it all first. We've talked in depth about the importance of being able to clearly see your goals on the screen of our mind on past episodes, but most recently with our Deep Dive of The Silva Method[vi]. STEP 2 THEORY:  Next you will need to go from the dream world, or your imagination faculty, to your reasoning faculty, where you will create the plans you will need for the attainment of this goal. If you look at the image in the show notes, you can see that he would say it's here you need to pass a test. Ask yourself “Am I Able to Do This?” You might look at whatever it is you've dreamed up and you think “I can't do that” as you think about the hundreds of reasons why you CAN'T achieve this goal that you really want. He would say “if you really want it, you'll find the way.” The second test you'll need to pass is with the question “Am I Willing” to do what it takes for this goal? Are you willing to pay the price, put in the extra effort needed? It's here that he would say that “goals are not meant for you to get them, they are meant for you to grow.” STEP 3 FACT: Now you'll use repetition, and a change in behavior to turn your fantasy into a fact. Whatever it is that you want, or that you've achieved, it wasn't something that just came to you overnight. It was something that you created, with your imagination, starting as a fantasy, then you turned it into a theory, putting your plans into place, until over time, until your dream became a reality, or a fact. “When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.” Bob Proctor Dreams and Worthy Goals: I'm hoping that whatever it is that you want, or that you are investing your time on, that it's something worthwhile. I hope that it's NOT something that you have achieved in the past, and you've just written haphazardly down while setting goals this year. I hope it's a goal that when you look at it, and have no idea how you will accomplish it.  This is a worthy goal that only comes from dreaming big, that will challenge you to grow and move beyond where you've been in the past. I hope whatever it is you are working on, that it's something that you look at and think “Now how on the Earth am I going to do that?!” This is truly something worth investing your time on as it will help you to grow. I find the creative process to be fascinating, or watching people achieve what appears to the untrained eye to be impossible, and I do believe there is a science to this process and think that a closer look at the Reticular Activating System is a first step towards unraveling the secrets to our future successes with goal-setting and achieving, with our brain in mind. The Reticular Activating System, Our Goals and The Research To bring the most current research in here, I'm going to go to the work of Stanford Professor and American Neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman's[vii] work, and I‘ve joined his Podcast's Premium Channel[viii], which I probably should join as a Founding Member for how much I quote him on this podcast. On our first episode on the RAS, we talked about the fact that in order to achieve our goals, or things that we want in our life, we must learn how to understand and use our Reticular Activating System[iv] which is a filter in our brain that helps us to focus on the things that are most important to us. If you have heard the idea that “energy flows where your attention goes” this explains why putting some focus on what we want to create in our life is so important. In our first episode we explained that Tobias van Schneider explains that the Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a “bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information, so the important stuff gets through.”[v] Van Schneider believes that the Reticular Activating System can be trained, and I agree, and it's here that I'll bring in Dr. Andrew Huberman's research to show you how we can use our RAS to move us towards certain things that we want, and away from others that we don't want. Dr. Huberman was interviewed on The Mindset Mentor Podcast[ix] where he went much deeper into this explanation, but said to “think of the RAS as a template for what you want, or what you are looking for” and it impacts your perception, helping you to notice what you are paying attention to (or like Van Schneider said, it filters out unnecessary information, so the important stuff gets through.” It Begins with our Perception or What We Are Paying Attention To: He gave an example of a car that you want, explaining how the brain first uses its perception ability and notices what I'm paying attention to (this new car that I really want). I used to really want the Audi R8, but am happy with the car I have now, so I can't say that I've been “looking” for R8s when I'm driving around, but if I was, you had better believe I would begin to see them everywhere. We talked about this on our first episode on the RAS with the man who invented the MAXON® Liftgate you see on the back of trucks. Once he brought my attention to this sign on the back of trucks that helps to load and unload a truck with contents, I started seeing this sign everywhere. This was my RAS at work. Next, Our Brain Gets Involved Based on the Neuromodulator That's High: Dr. Huberman says that once we know we are paying attention to, that one of the four neuromodulators (acetyl choline, dopamine, epinephrine or serotonin) come into play, depending on which one is high in your system. He gave an example with if serotonin is high, you're more likely to feel good about your environment around you, and there will be no seeking involved. You'll be focused on things in your immediate sphere (or your home life for example) and if your dopamine is high, there's a sense of ambition involved, where you begin to focus on things outside of your environment, or experience, and is involved in the seeking circuit. He says that “the dopamine system is all about want, desire, craving, motivation and getting more”[x]  and can tie into the goal-setting, achieving experience that Dr. Huberman says is all dopamine-driven. Our RAS Changes Our World View: Here's where the science bridges the gap between many of our past podcast episodes where we've talked about the importance of knowing what it is that you want, or even reading your goals out loud every day, that we talked about often with our Think and Grow Rich Book Review EPISODES [xi]last year. If you want to get fancy, listen to our Deep Dive on The Silva Method[xii] to visualize whatever it is that you want on the mental screen of your mind. We dove deep into this method the end of last year and it makes more sense to me now why this method is so effective.  Once you know what you want, the RAS in your brain begins to work FOR you, and it will “cue up the things near you “and “help you to access memory stores about your end goal.” (Dr. Huberman). Or, like Bob Proctor taught us with the Creative Process, it begins with painting the picture of your fantasy, clearly on the screen of your mind. Now that we understand the research behind the Creative Process, thanks to Dr. Huberman, it's easy to see how we go from Fantasy (with our perception or what we are paying attention to) to Theory (create the plans for what we want, based on the neuromodulator that's high in our brain) to Fact (where we've used an understanding of our brain to create something we wanted). PUT THIS INTO ACTION: Try this activity that Dr. Huberman suggests and let me know what happens in your case. Before you go to bed at night, place the intention of whatever it is that you want. Whatever it is that you are working on—maybe you are writing a novel, and you are looking for new ideas (this would be your intention), maybe you are looking for a promotion at work (this would be your intention), you're a student looking to improve your grades (this would be your intention) or improve your skills in a sport, or even earn more money, you get the picture, clearly visualize your intention before you go sleep at night, and Dr. Huberman says this activity will be “cueing up your brain to the things it should pay attention to” because like we said before, it acts like a filter “since it can't pay attention to everything.” (Dr. Huberman). Then the next few days, see what you notice. Did you have new ideas for the novel you are writing? Did you notice a new job opening that you could apply for that would be a promotion for you, and seems like a perfect fit for you? Did you notice something important you forgot to study that could have cost you some grades? Did you notice something new you could do with your sport to improve somehow? The funny thing I picked up from watching this interview with Dr. Huberman is that he made a joke about the movie, The Secret, while explaining how the RAS works in this interview. If I wasn't paying attention to everything he was saying, I would have missed it. He said that once you pay attention to what you've set your intention on, “you'll start to cue up all the things near you from your conscious and subconscious mind…the things you already possess in your mind  from your memory bank (to help you to attain whatever it is that you want to accomplish) and you'll start to see things in the world (to help you) and there's nothing secretive about this, no pun intended he says.”[xiii] I thought it was interesting that he was referring to the movie, The Secret, that my mentor, Bob Proctor starred in, that inspired me to write The Secret for Teens Revealed. I know that Bob didn't know the science behind goal-setting and achieving, or at least not as in depth that Dr. Andrew Huberman does, but he knew there was something happening that he saw over and over again with people who dreamed up an incredible fantasy, and then turned it into reality. I'm glad I didn't miss this detail and made me think of something I saw one of my early influencers mention this week, “Attention to Detail Does Matter” Review and Conclusion: To review and conclude this week's Brain Fact Friday and our FIRST Brain Fact Friday from March 2021, that I think we have more than covered in depth today, DID YOU KNOW that “your RAS is a powerful system in your brain that draws you towards certain things and away from others?” (Dr. Andrew Huberman) As we close out this episode and review of our FIRST Brain Fact Friday, I hope this understanding of our brain and this filter called the RAS has opened YOUR eyes (like it did mine) to something new, giving you an AHA Moment where you begin to draw that which you want closer to you, using the Creative Process with Science. TO CONCLUDE THIS EPISODE, THINK ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS: Has this understanding of our RAS connected to the goal-setting/achieving process in your life, helped you to refine what it is you are working on this year? Did it help you with the goals you've set that seem impossible to achieve, or helped you to dream bigger than you've been dreaming? If you look at the notes I took at one of my first seminars Bob taught on the Creative Process, (if you can read them) you will see where I point out that when others see you working on something that's much bigger than you, that people will come out of the woodwork who will want to help you. You just need to begin, or set the intention of what you want, in order for this to happen. Some other thoughts: Have you thought about what are YOU paying attention to day to day? Do you think about the creative process diagram, and what can you turn over to your imagination at the Fantasy Level? Do you even spend time dreaming? Have you started to use your Reasoning Faculty and then create the plans that will turn your Fantasy into a Fact? Are you a DOER, not just a DREAMER? Do you know the neuromodulators that are high in your brain? This will help you to understand which of the four neuromodulators are driving you (dopamine to look outside of your environment, or serotonin to keep you focused on things in your immediate sphere) that we spoke about, or acetyl choline (that keeps us focused) and epinephrine (for your alertness). Do you now think about your RAS, or your brain, and how it's working FOR you in the Creative Goal-Setting/Achieving Process? Did you try the activity and go to sleep with an intention of something that you want to create, or move towards the next day? Did your RAS help you in any other way that I haven't mentioned with what you want to create? I'll close with a quote that was inspired by someone who I know understands how the Creative Process Works: “The difference between something good and something great, is attention to detail” Charles Swindell, and I hope that we can all see that it's important to notice even the tiniest details. Where our focus goes, our energy flows, and this understanding of the RAS and our brain can help us to pay attention to what matters most to us, and help us to achieve something we've never achieved before in 2023, which will in turn, contribute to our growth personally and professionally. And with that, we will close out this episode, and we'll see you next week where we will take a closer look at our next brain fact Friday on regulating our thoughts and emotions. FINAL THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS This episode made me think deeply about my own creative process as I wrote this over a few days, in an early morning time slot where I have a quiet place to focus. But like my book discussion with Bob, I knew there was something missing so I woke up early, went to my office and took out some old notebooks from the seminar days to see what else I could add to make this episode to make it more than just “hey here's how we set goals, and cool, look how our brains help us.” I was looking for something else and a few things stood out to me from those old seminar notes. The Walden quote I opened up with was actually written on the back of one of the old seminar booklets, and I thought it was fitting for what I wanted to convey. I want us to build castles in the sky…I could almost see Bob shouting that out from the stage, using his hands to mold his castle in the sky…he'd look up and paint this image getting us to all look up and “imagine” our dream in the sky.  I wonder: What's your dream? Can't you see it painted visually?  Can you feel it with your heart and soul?  I highly recommend going back to our Think and Grow Rich Book Study[i] to start off every new year with. There's so much in those 6 episodes that will set us all up for success with whatever it is we are working on. The Creative Process is summed up nicely in the pages of this book. After I had recorded this episode I had it all cued up to go out this Friday, and then something weird happened. I woke up in the middle of the night, and was almost jolted out of sleep. I kept thinking “This episode isn't finished…” I went to my desk and thought “what else can I add?” not knowing why I had woken up with such a force almost pushing me back to my desk to take another look at this episode. Now this was around 1:30am and I was wide awake, looking for whatever it was that needed to be added-- and then I saw it.  This Friday when I was planning to release this episode marks the one year Anniversary of the day Bob passed away last year. I'm usually pretty good with dates, but the past month has been a whirlwind, I'm not even sure what time it is often, let alone the day.  I can't believe I almost missed it if it, and wrote this episode with many examples about my past mentor, without realizing it would go out on the exact one year anniversary of when he left us. If it wasn't for that jolt that pushed me back to my desk to take another look at it, I would have missed it. Details Matter. So this episode is for you Bob, one year after you moved over from the physical world to the nonphysical where you taught us we will all go someday…and that we are still here, just in different forms of energy, like the goals we bring from the unseen world (from our imagination) to the physical world (our reality).  This trip back down memory lane was so very special—remembering how he taught many of us to dream, and to honor all those early influencers (many who've come on this podcast over the years) who paved the pathway for where I personally ended up today. This is what I want for all our listeners—to get to the place where you've given it your all—you've stretched yourself, gone beyond your levels of comfort, sat at the edge of your seat, leaning in, accomplished that big dream you had, leading you to things you could never have imagined before. Then I hope that you'll teach this to others.  I'll end this episode with the quote that I ended The Think and Grow Rich Series[ii] with… “What story do you want to tell? What scenes do you want to shoot? How do you want the movie to end? Be the director of your life.” Bob Proctor Whatever it is you are going after, you'll do it when you believe it. And I'll see you next week. RESOURCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 Think and Grow Rich Book Review Deep Dive PART 1 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [ii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 Think and Grow Rich Book Review Deep Dive PART 6 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ The Secret https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne/dp/B00DDOWK5I/ref=atv_pr_sw_sc   FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI:  YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi   Website https://www.achieveit360.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com   Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697   Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/    RESOURCES TO REVIEW: Andrea and Bob's Interview Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #66 “The Legendary Bob Proctor on “Social and Emotional Learning, Where it All Began” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-legendary-bob-proctor-on/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 Think and Grow Rich Book Review Deep Dive PART 1 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 [xxviii] on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of the Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 Think and Grow Rich Book Review Deep Dive PART 6 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EPISODE on “Using The Reticular Activating System to Set Your Intent and Achieve It” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-using-the-reticular-activating-system-to-set-your-intent-and-achieve-it/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #66 “The Legendary Bob Proctor on “Social and Emotional Learning, Where it All Began” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-legendary-bob-proctor-on/ [iii] The Secret for Teens Revealed by Andrea Samadi https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1604940336 [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #203 with Paranormal Researcher Ryan O'Neill on “Making Your Vision a Reality”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/case-study-with-paranormal-researcher-ryan-o-neill-on-making-your-vision-a-reality/ [v] The Secret for Teens Revealed: A 10-Step Blueprint https://www.udemy.com/course/the-secret-for-teens-revealed-a-10-step-success-blueprint/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 A Deep Dive into Applying The Silva Method https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [vii] https://hubermanlab.com/ [viii] The Huberman Lab Premium Channel https://hubermanlab.supercast.com/new_landing? [ix] The Mindset Mentor Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBJYNKKKXY [x] The Mindset Mentor Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBJYNKKKXY (1:46) [xi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 Think and Grow Rich Book Review Deep Dive PART 1 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [xii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 A Deep Dive into Applying The Silva Method https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [xiii] The Mindset Mentor Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBJYNKKKXY (6:26)  

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Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast and PART 4, our FINAL part, of our Review of Jose Silva's Mind Control Program. I'm Andrea Samadi an author and an educator, who like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind ANY high-performance strategy proven to increase our results in our schools, sports, or modern workplaces. If there's something NEW that I come across that can help us in any way, I'll investigate it, connect it with the most current research, and then share what I learn with you here. My goal with this 4 PART review of the popular program from the 1980s and 1990s, The Silva Method[i], is to help all of us to learn something new to refine our current meditation practice whether we are working in our schools to improve learning, in our sports environments for improved results towards a specific goal, or in the corporate workplace to generate new ideas. I wouldn't have picked this book to review if it hadn't made such an impact on the world, like Napoleon Hills' Think and Grow Rich book that currently sits as our most downloaded episode of 2022 after we reviewed it last January to kick off our New Year. Before starting this review, that I hoped would give us a running start to 2023, I had no idea the concepts I would learn each week, would be so powerful, deep, and life-changing requiring more thought than usual while writing each episode. I began this 4 PART book review the end of November, around Thanksgiving in the United States, and shortly after releasing the first episode, I began receiving emails from around the world from people who were interested to learn more about The Silva Method. Some were remembering it from the 80s/90s when Jose Silva ran this program globally, and others were asking me where they could find a live seminar. It was Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram, EPISODE #260[ii] who held up an old copy of The Silva Mind Control Method book, sharing how it had impacted his life, jogging my memory of Jose Silva, who I had heard of years ago, while selling seminars in the motivational speaking industry. Then my good friend Hans Ajay from the UK, urged me to sign up for the full program through MindValley[iii], where the course sits today after Vishen Lakhiani (the founder) revised and improved it in this current version. Hans wrote “It'll be transformative” and little did I know just how transformative it would be. As I'm writing this episode now, and the final part of this review, I'm nearing the end of Vishen Lakhiani's Silva UltraMind Course[iv] through the MindValley website. I can now see that this is a program that you never really complete, like I noticed with Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich[v] book, for Hill intended the book to be read more than one time for the concepts to be mastered in one's lifetime.  Jose Silva's book is exactly the same way, and his online UltraMind Course, the experiential side of the program (that consists of the lessons from his book, mixed with meditations) bring the pages of The Silva Method to life in a way I never imagined just by reading the book. I've got to say, this course has really blown my mind, and expanded my thinking in a way I hadn't imagined at the start of this review. REMEMBER: “When a person learns to function mentally at this deeper level, creativity is enhanced. Memory is improved and a person is better able to solve problems.” (Jose Silva). Today I plan finish the review of The Silva Method, and while I won't be going into every chapter, I've picked the ones that I think are relevant to help all of us with “The Basics” of what Jose Silva intended us to learn. Then we will take these basic concepts that Jose Silva found to be transformative, (like my friend Hans Ajay noticed) and APPLY them to our daily life, connecting the science to our creativity and innovation, using Dr. Andrew Huberman's most recent podcast episode on “The Science of Creativity: How to Enhance Creative Innovation.”[vi] Finally, I will provide clear examples of innovation and creativity from three of our past guests; one in each of the sectors we study here, our schools, sports environments and corporate workplaces with the goal to inspire YOU to enhance your own creativity for improved results in 2023, using the Silva Method. I just wish Jose Silva could have seen the mounds of research that prove what he knew to be true with his Meditation Method, and that he wouldn't have to disguise it as “bio-feedback” in the corporate world today. DISCLAIMER: I want to mention that while I'm enjoying the Online UltraMind Course, I am not at all affiliated with Mind Valley, or the CEO Vishen Lakhiani, but I did hear my mentor Bob Proctor talking about his organization over the years, knowing he supported their work, but I had no idea that Jose Silva's program would end up there. While I'm only reviewing the book here, (and not what I'm learning in the online course-I might do this at a later date after implementing the concepts) I do think it's important to include some of the meditations I found online in PART 3 of this review, to show you what they consist of. I've listed them in the resource section below for you to use.  I've also put a snapshot of the topics covered over the 28 day online program, and while I'm currently at DAY 21/28, I can say that mastering the ideas in the book are a good place to start if you would like to improve your current meditation practice and then I will show you how this will enhance your creativity and ability for innovation.  I think this 4 PART review could be used to jumpstart us all on the right foot for 2023. If you would like to go deeper into The Silva Method, I do suggest taking the online Silva UltraMind System, but caution that to get the most out of the program, that daily practice will be required. This is a course that you would want to carve out some time for. PUTTING THE 4 PARTS of THE SILVA METHOD TOGETHER: TO REVIEW PART 1 of THE SILVA METHOD EPISODE #261: We covered: ✔ CH 1- Using More of Our Mind in Special Ways: An Introduction to the Silva Mind Control Method. If you have begun using your mind to create a mental screen for heightened visualization, you could end this book review here and still be miles ahead in 2023. Central to Jose's Silva Method of Mind Control is with the power of visualization, and he says “right from the beginning, from the very moment you reach your meditative level (what he calls accessing the Alpha State), you must learn to practice visualization. The better you learn to visualize, the more powerful will be your experience with Mind Control.” With time and practice, it will be this screen that you will learn how to help yourself and others. You begin with creating simple things, until you are ready to solve small problems in your daily life, from work, to health, and improve learning/creativity. As you progress through this program, you can learn to use the screen of your mind to for more advanced innovative and creative ideas. There is no limit to what you could create here. ✔ What this program has done for others. The late Dr. Wayne Dyer has said that anything with the name Jose Silva as the author has his vote before I open to page one. He said “Read it with a pen for underlining.” Jose Silva himself noted that: ✔A marketing company used it to create 18 new products. ✔14 Chicago White Socks players used it to boost their scores. ✔ Celebrities have used it and credit Jose Silva for improving their focus and creativity. ✔ Colleges and universities have used it to help students study less, but learn more. And during the Silva UltraMind course, (the online program I joined while doing this book review) I had the chance to participate on a training call one evening with all the new students who had recently come on board with MindValley, (that has over 10 million students worldwide, studying over 200 speakers and authors on the site), and the moderator asked what course people were studying, and people started chiming into the chat from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and remote countries around the world…that they were ALL here to study The Silva Method. I was floored! Mostly because I had thought this training call would have just a handful of people coming on board. I didn't expect so many participants globally, and ALL of them were there to study the same course I was there for. It took mind-boggling to a whole new level when I started to put together that this program was something that people are still very interested in learning about. ✔ Ch 2- Meet Jose Silva and learned about his passion for helping others to improve their ability to learn. He was a humble man who worked very hard to develop the ideas within his program, and was very careful about how he presented his ideas as visualization was not something that was widely accepted in the corporate world in the 80s and 90s. In his live events, he was smart to introduce his concepts as bio-feedback (that had more credibility at the time) and were more readily accepted, before introducing business executives to more advanced concepts of the mind (like using visualization) on the second day of the training. ✔ Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA,ALPHA,THETA,DELTA). He learned that we spend most of our waking time at the BETA brain state, where we can feel the stress and anxiousness of daily life, so finding ways to relax (that he calls going to the Alpha State) can be helpful. His online program does cover how to access the Theta level of mind for increased intuition, and offers a strategy for solving problems in your sleep at the Delta level. ✔ We were Introduced to Using A Mental Screen in Your Mind for Heightened Visualization. It Will Be This Screen That We Will Use to Help Yourself and Others in Future Chapters. *** I would say developing the use of this screen is the KEY to the entire program. It's where your goals will begin to form, or where you will work with NEW ideas that come into your mind. I've heard it be called “your workshop” or where you create something new in your mind, and with time and practice, what you put on this screen becomes clearer and clearer. TO REVIEW PART 2 of THE SILVA METHOD EPISODE #262: We covered: ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation (where we actually DO something while meditating, instead of it being a passive practice). We learn how to be more in control of our life using visualization.  Dr. Andrew Huberman's research does tie in the importance of using meditation to improve our creativity, and I will expand on this at the end of this episode. ✔ The 4 Laws that must be in place BEFORE we visualize a goal. (We must desire the event to take place that we want, we must believe the event we want will take place, we must EXPECT the event to take place, and we must ONLY be working with something that will benefit ourselves and others. ✔ I noticed How these 4 Laws mirror Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich book and wondered if Jose Silva did this intentionally. ✔ 3 STEPS to SOLVE ANY PROBLEM Using the Silva Method on the Screen that We Build in Our Mind. ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory ✔ Where Silva's Memory Hacks have been seen on previous episodes and in the motivational speaking industry. TO REVIEW PART 3 of THE SILVA METHOD EPISODE #263: We covered: ✔ Chapter 6 on Speed Learning: Using the mental screen paired with the 3-finger technique if you want to learn something quickly, using the Alpha Brain State. Silva also covered recording your voice, or creating what I knew of as the “loop tape” of whatever it is that you want to remember. You would record what you want to remember in the BETA State, and then listen to it in the Alpha state (using the 3 finger technique or counting backwards). ✔ Chapter 7 on Creative Dreams where we covered 4 strategies for remembering our dreams, and taking them seriously like Jose Silva himself did. For PART 4 and today's episode, of the SILVA METHOD, Episode #265 we will finish looking at the book, and will cover: ✔ Ch 8-Your Words Have Power ✔ Ch 9-The Power of Imagination ✔ Ch 10-Using Your Mind to Improve Your Health ✔  We will connect the most current neuroscience research to Jose Silva's program, using Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast on "The Science of Creativity" ✔  The 3 Parts to Your Creative Brain (Central Executive Network, Default Mode Network, Salience Network). ✔ 2 Types of Thinking Involved with Creativity (Divergent and Convergent) ✔ Putting Creativity to Practice with an example from our schools, sports and modern workplace environments.  with some clear examples and next steps for all of us to APPLY the Silva Method for improved Intuition, Creativity and Focus…right in time for a New Year. Chapter 8: Your Words Have Power I'm sure we've all heard of the importance of thinking and speaking positive words over negative ones, and Jose Silva would agree with this.  In this chapter, he talks about a nurse-anesthetist (and one of his eventual lecturers) from Oklahoma, Mrs. Jean Mabrey, who puts this knowledge of the mind to use to help her patients. As soon as they are “under”—in deep anesthesia—she would whisper in their ears instructions that would speed their recovery, and in some cases save their lives. Jose Silva would say “First, words have special power at deep levels of mind; second, the mind has much firmer command over the body than it is given credit for; and third, as I noted in Chapter 5, we are always conscious.” Here's another one if Silva's principles that I learned from the speaking industry. Bob Proctor used to tell a story on stage, of how he would whisper success secrets into the ears of his children when they were little. While they are grown now, this story stuck with me, as we want the best for our own kids. So when I had children, this is the first thing I did. I would drop into my child's room just before they were about to drift off to sleep and tell them something that would go deep into their subconscious mind. I'd say something like “you'll do whatever it is you want. Whatever you can dream you'll do it!” I did this almost every night with my first…and with my second, not as often. She needed it more…. Now to think about it, I even spoke to my girls before they were born, letting them know how excited we were to meet them and how much fun we would have when they arrived. Be very careful about the words we use and how they trigger our brains. We are always conscious. Since this concept was drilled into my head early on in the speaking industry, I learned early on to be careful of everything I say, and everything I think. If someone says “How are you?” and I'm not feeling 100%, the best way to answer this question is with a positive angle like “Getting better and better every day” to move myself in that direction. An answer like “not bad” would according to Silva, hit the brain in a negative way, as it would only hear “bad” instead of “good.” I can tie the research to this as well, with my mentor Mark Robert Waldman who wrote Words Can Change Your Brain with Andrew Newberg, MD[vii]. In this book, they explain that “the more you stay focused on negative words and thoughts, the more you can actually damage key structures that regulate your memory, feelings, and emotions.You may disrupt your sleep, your appetite, and the way your brain regulates happiness, longevity, and health. That's how powerful a single negative word or phrase can be. And if you vocalize your negativity, even more stress chemicals will be released, not only in your brain, but in the listener's brain as well. You'll both experience increased anxiety and irritability, and it will generate mutual distrust, thereby undermining the ability to build empathy and cooperation. The same thing happens in your brain when you listen to arguments on the radio or see a violent scene in a movie. The brain, it turns out, doesn't distinguish between fantasies and facts when it perceives a negative event. Instead it assumes that a real danger exists in the world.” Words Can Change Your Brain Jose Silva had it right when he said  “Words have special power at deep levels of mind, the mind has a firmer command over the body than it's given credit for, and third, we are always conscious.” Jose Silva Be careful with every word that you think, and speak. Words do have power. Chapter 9: The Power of Your Imagination We dove deep into this concept in part 3 of our review of Think and Grow Rich[viii] earlier this year that I can now see was of high interest to listeners as it had over 1400 downloads. On this episode, we looked at the fact that our lives reflect how well we use our imagination, because when we hit one plateau of success, it will be our imagination that will take us to what's next. Author Earl Nightingale said that “imagination is everything” and as we will see with the Silva Method, all great inventions are created in two separate places: the mind of the inventor, and the physical world when the inventor creates it. There is no doubt in my mind that Silva was influenced by Hill's Think and Grow Rich book. He says it himself in this chapter that “imagination seizes directly on the goal; it gets what it wants” and elaborates by saying this is why he “placed so much emphasis on your learning true-to-life visualization at the deep levels of mind. If you spur your imagination with belief, desire and expectancy, and train to visualize your goals so that you see, feel, hear, taste and touch them, you will get what you want.” (Ch9, The Silva Method). This is why mastering your mental screen for visualization is so important. If there is ONE part of the Silva Method that I think we could all benefit from, it's this one. Learning to use the mental screen on our mind. It's this mental screen where you will solve small and larger problems, and learn to help yourself and others in many different ways. It's the starting block that must be mastered over time, and not rushed. Chapter 10-Using Your Mind to Improve Your Health We've covered this topic in a few places on this podcast, on EPISODE #234[ix] with Ashok Gupta on “Health and Happiness: Getting to the Root of Chronic Pain and Illness” where Ashok Gupta showed us how chronic pain or illness occurs in the brain with a vicious loop of inflammation/irritation that he has successfully been treating with patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Long-Haul Covid, Fibromyalgia, Chemical or Mold Sensitivities, Gut Issues, Anxiety, Lyme Disease and many more, with a meditation program he designed called The Gupta Program that combines brain-training in conjunction with working with a medical doctor for healing. Then physician and neurologist Dr. Phillippe Douyon shared his story of overcoming illness on EPISODE #241[x] with positive thinking at the root of his recovery. Jose Silva was far ahead of his time with his understanding of using mind control for self-healing. This chapter is near the end of the book, and is mastered by students with time and practice, and I have to say that I had heard of using the mind for healing when my Mom was undergoing treatment for Cancer in the late 1990s. I told Dr. Douyon about her strategy for healing, and he said he had heard of many patients of his, successfully overcoming serious health challenges, and that positive thinking and visualizing health were at the very root of their healing, like Silva believed. In this chapter, Silva talks about cancer specialist, O. Carl Simonton, who Simonton who was trained by Silva and his Mind Control techniques was featured in Prevention Magazine in an article called “Mind Over Cancer” where he shared that the patients who recovered all had something in common. He said they were “often positive, optimistic, determined people.” (Ch 10, The Silva Method). In this chapter Silva talks about the idea of self-healing using your mental screen, but he also touches on something that goes a bit beyond our usual level of thinking, in Chapter 12 that Silva called “ESP” or Extra Sensory Perception that he believed we all had. He worked closely with J.B Rhine at Duke University to understand this subject, and bring his experiments into his understanding, but it's important to note that Silva believed this concept could be developed and strengthened over time to help his students improve self-healing, healing of others, improve their intuition, and strengthen their mental screen practice. He touches on this in the book, and his online program goes into great detail of how exactly this is done with activities using the screen of our mind, to psychometry, and is something I've been fascinated with since I first heard about this over 20 years ago. I'll be sure to cover this topic again in the future, as it one I'm still learning and exploring. I'm sure you can see now what Silva meant when he said “Once we learn to use our minds to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” This brings me to the end of PART 4 and our REVIEW of The Silva Method: To conclude this 4 PART REVIEW of The Silva Method, I want to look at how we can use what we've learned throughout this review of the Silva Method, to improve our Creativity in 2023 for Innovation in your specific line of work. This is where I'll take the research, and tie it to The Silva Method, showing us that we all have the ability to be creative, and how to improve this area of our life in the New Year. This is a deep topic, requiring some thought, that goes along with just how comprehensive Silva's Method is. To make this applicable for all of us, I'll be using concepts from Dr. Andrew Huberman's most recent podcast on “The Science of Creativity and How to Enhance Creative Innovation” tying in Jose Silva's Method to bring these 4 PARTS of our book review applicable to all of us, whether we are educators working in our classrooms, working in the sports industry, or in our modern workplaces. WE CONNECT DR. HUBERMAN'S RESEARCH TO THIS EPISODE FROM HIS EPISODE ON ENHANCING YOUR CREATIVITY. HOW CAN WE USE THE SILVA METHOD TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN 2023? To close out this episode, let go straight to the research. Did you know that according to American neuroscientist and associate professor at Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Huberman “the ability to be creative resides in everybody? We know that because the neural circuits that underlie creativity have been somewhat defined and the steps and processes in the brain that lead to creativity are well known.” What Makes Something Creative? Jose Silva would have loved this research, especially when Dr. Huberman ties many studies to meditation and the brain/creativity, but let's begin with the idea of defining creativity. What makes something creative? Dr. Huberman spent over 2 hours on his podcast diving thoroughly and deeply into this topic, that I will narrow down for this episode. He explains that “most people don't know how to access creativity” or “they do it in a limited manner” and I'll agree with him here. As you will see, coming up with an idea that's creative, and innovative takes time, effort and years of work, making connections, using your executive functions in your brain to cross off what's not relevant and then testing these connections, to see what's left over that you will keep, hoping they are creative and relevant to others. Dr. Huberman explains that “when we see something that's truly creative, it reveals something to us about the natural world and about how our brains work….It must reveal something that surprises us” for it to be truly creative. Then, “something pops out at us” he says, “we hear something in the words with music, or if we see something, feel, or experience something” “and something pops out to us as exciting….this reveals something about our brain/our auditory system, creating NEW meaning for us.” AND “when we see, hear, feel or experience something that's truly creative, the way our neural circuits function is changed. When our neural circuits are changed simply by what comes into our eyes, ears of the way we experience our feelings, there's a release of chemicals like dopamine that make us feel surprised, delighted or excited in anticipation that we will see it again.” (Dr. Huberman) So when I say that “the ability to be creative resides in everyone” it does, since we ALL have the same structures in our brain, but some people have learned to use certain parts of their brain to foster creativity in ways that others have not.  This is where practicing the Silva Method comes in. THE 3 NETWORKS TO YOUR CREATIVE BRAIN: Dr. Huberman went on to explain that there are 3 networks in the brain that are involved in coming up with a CREATIVE idea, and we've covered these 3 parts of the brain extensively on EPISODE #48[xi] on “Brain Network Theory.” It was here where we covered The Default Mode Network, The Central Executive Network, and the Salience Network that are all involved with coming up a truly creative idea. While I'm not going to dive into each part of the brain and what it's doing (you can review episode 48 where we show how these 3 parts of the brain must work together to improve our imagination and creativity), I just want to point out that coming up with a creative idea takes some brain power. When you are working with the screen of your mind in the Silva Method, you will be using all three of these parts of your brain to come up with new ideas. Your CEN (Central Executive Network) will help you to suppress ideas, actions or choices, your DMN (Default Mode Network) will help you to access your library of previous memories that you will be using to create your NOVEL idea, and your SN (Salience Network) will help you to make choices of what's most relevant to you. You will use your brain to create something NEW and USEFUL by rearranging existing elements (from your memory bank) into new combinations that reveals something fundamental about how we and the world works. 2 TYPES OF THINKING ARE INVOLVED: The final part of creating something CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE is that it's done by going back and forth between two types of thinking: Divergent Thinking: Where we take a known object in the world, and expand upon this idea, the more ideas the better, wandering through your ideas that you already know (from your memory bank) with the hopes that the connections you make reveals something new to others. Convergent Thinking: That's the opposite of divergent thinking, but it's where we use focus and persistence to narrow in on an idea that makes sense in the real world. If you want to dive deeper into Dr. Andrew Huberman's thorough explanation of Creativity and the Brain[xii], he takes things much deeper than I will here, in his recent episode that goes well over 2 hours. He doesn't miss anything and even goes on to show us the parts of the brain that light up when we are involved in divergent vs convergent thinking, and the 2 types of meditation that are proven to improve each of these ways of thinking. He says that “open monitored meditation” (like just closing your eyes and paying attention to your thoughts without judgement) is well documented to improve our divergent thinking capability, and focused attention meditation (like staring at a flame of light) is a way to improve our convergent thinking capabilities. PUTTING CREATIVITY INTO PRACTICE: When thinking about how to close out this 4 PART review, and make it applicable to all of us, I had to spend some time thinking hard about this one. I didn't want to just end this review without some solid research backing up the validity of The Silva Method, with some clear examples of those who have shown innovation and creativity who we've come across on this podcast. It wasn't difficult to find someone in each of the three sectors we cover, and now that I've tied the research to creative thinking, I'm sure you will agree with me that the examples I will share here all show true innovation and creativity, and that coming up with a creative idea like each of these, took years of experience, work and thought. It wasn't like I remember the commercial for the guy who invented peanut butter cups who just tripped and his chocolate bar fell into the jar of peanut butter and bam, he had a new invention. These are 3 examples that I hope will inspire you to put some of your own thought into how you can use the Silva Method, and come up creative and innovative ideas of your own. For Schools: I chose our guests from episode #215[xiii] who have shown innovation in the field of education by launching a podcast to elevate student and teacher voice. Remember, To Show Creativity—It must Reveal something new to us (entertaining, thrilling or useful) and it changes the way we access the world—acting as portals into the world and ourselves. I couldn't have found a clearer example that these two Canadian podcasters who published a book called The Magnificent Microphone[xiv] that when a student connected to it, it opened up a whole new world of confidence, creativity and success. These two leaders in education have discovered true creativity and innovation in the podcasting space, bringing student-led podcasts to the field of education. For Sports: I chose a forward-thinking coach from an early EPISODE #38[xv] who has shown innovation with his sports team when he redesigned their locker room and uniforms with a vision beyond what has typically been done before. Remember, To Show Creativity—It must Reveal something new to us (entertaining, thrilling or useful) and it changes the way we access the world—acting as portals into the world and ourselves. This one you'll see more if you watch the 30 second snapshot of their locker reveal[xvi] that takes the team on a journey from the minute they walk into the new room, where the players are taking in the many visual cues they see, making connections to past players, where they are today, and their future. For the Workplace: I chose our recent EPISODE #264[xvii] where our guest was able to look at ways to create breakthroughs in the workplace, bringing to light something that was left off the table in the past. He looked at EQ and IQ and found that experience was left off, and coined the term “XQ” for Experiential Intelligence. This guest also mentioned his love of “making connections” which is something he noticed I do intentionally on this podcast, and now after hearing Dr. Huberman's explanation, he talks about the fact that true creativity or innovation could not occur without let's say an architect coming up with incredible plans for buildings without a thorough understanding of how buildings are put together in the first place. Remember, To Show Creativity—It must Reveal something new to us (entertaining, thrilling or useful) and it changes the way we access the world—acting as portals into the world and ourselves. Once we know what novelty/creativity and innovation looks in the brain, you can only imagine what's happening at the brain level with each of these examples. Just like the complexity of the reading brain, with 4 parts of the brain working together as a student learns how to read, someone coming up with a creative, innovative idea, has specific (Dr. Huberman lists 3 networks in the brain) working together to create what the rest of the world will come to see as novel, or innovative. This is what makes some things go “viral” online. The NEW experience actually changes the circuits in the brain with whatever it is a person sees, feels, hears or experiences. Dopamine is released (with the surprise and delight) with whatever it is they make connections to, and there's the hope or anticipation that they will experience it again. I hope all 3 of these examples have given you a glance into the world of innovation that's possible for you, as a product of going through the simple steps in the Silva Method. To conclude this episode, and PART 4 of our Review of the Silva Method, we looked at ✔ A Review of all 3 PARTS of The Silva Method Review. ✔ Today, in PART 4, we looked at Ch 8-Your Words Have Power Ch 9-The Power of Imagination Ch 10-Using Your Mind to Improve Your Health ✔ We connected The Silva Method to the Dr. Andrew Huberman's Neuroscience Research on Creativity and Innovation. ✔ We gave an example of innovation from our past guests in the fields of education, sports and the modern workplace. The goal of this 4 PART review of Jose Silva's Program, was to encourage all of us to see if we could learn something new, to take our results to new heights in 2023. I had no idea just how deep the book and program would go, and I know I'll review the online course at a later time, but for now, this review has given me some new ideas for how to improve my visualization/mental screen method to help me with my short term and long term goals. I'd love to hear from you what you have thought of this episode, where we tied in the most current research to Jose Silva's work, reminding me that “once we learn to use our minds to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” I do want to add something before we close about the importance of honoring other people's creative and innovative ideas. Now that we've seen what's involved at the brain level with coming up with an idea that's truly novel, I'm sure you'll agree with me that while we all have this ability to create something new, that this comes naturally to some, and is more difficult for others. If you see someone else's creative or innovative idea, please never approach it as your own. PLAGIARISM CAUTION[xviii]: CAN WORDS OR IDEAS REALLY BE STOLEN? When you are the creator of an idea, I can tell you first hand, as someone who worked very hard on something, and then saw it pasted on a reputable company's website the day after I shared my “new ideas” with them. I was very disappointed, mostly as they had taken something I had permission to use from someone else who wasn't referenced, because they stole the quote from me! If you see something from someone else that you like, and want to use it somewhere, always credit the source where it originated from using the proper format with quotation marks. If it's something that's more than a quote, or it's an idea, I would contact the creator first hand, and see what they think about what you would like to do. I wanted to use an assessment based on American Psychologist Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligences in my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[xix], and emailed him directly at Harvard to ask him. He was shocked I even asked, and said that most people don't. He told me he didn't mind if I used it, but wanted me to be sure I portrayed the Intelligences in a way that showed that we can develop them all with effort, not that we are inclined for some and not others. I never forgot this. If you ask the creator directly, you can find out what they would prefer to keep original, and what they don't mind sharing, with their name attached to it as the originator. With this in mind now, I'd love to hear what you CREATE this year.  I've put the meditations that I found online, that are a good place for all of us to begin this process, in the show notes below, and I'll see you next week with our REVIEW of the TOP 10 EPISODES from 2022, and some surprise interviews that I had to squeeze in before the end of the year. RESOURCES: MEDITATION  1: How to Enter the Alpha Level of Mind, Step by Step Process, The Silva Method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMJWT6EsNs MEDITATION 2: Jose Silva Method Alpha Exercises by Sommer Leigh Published on YouTube June 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SY0kajVITA MEDITATION 3: 20 Minute Silva Centering Exercise with Vishen Lakhiani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_4GDXWBPCk   REFERENCES: [i] The Silva Mind Control Method https://silvamethod.com/ [ii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #260 with Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram on “Breaking Down the Mindset of the Million Dollar Monk” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/serial-entrepreneur-and-computer-scientist-hasan-ibne-akram-pd-d-on-breaking-down-the-mindset-of-the-million-dollar-monk/ [iii] www.mindvalley.com [iv] Mind Valley the Silva UltraMind System https://home.mindvalley.com/quests/en/ultramind [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [vi] Dr. Andrew Huberman, “The Science of Creativity: How to Enhance Creative Innovation.”   https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-creativity-and-how-to-enhance-creative-innovation/ [vii] Andrew Newberg, MD and Mark Robert Waldman Words Can Change Your Brain Published June 14, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Words-Can-Change-Your-Brain-ebook/dp/B0074VTHMA/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAiAnZCdBhBmEiwA8nDQxYXGNQeXA7fr8xVxnL3ns3s4ViPL46_aU6zL-rULfnX1cn9mSSD8ARoCENQQAvD_BwE&hvadid=281463219015&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9030068&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=5072060704672722834&hvtargid=kwd-337464396698&hydadcr=22593_10356183&keywords=words+can+change+your+brain+book&qid=1671724020&sr=8-1 [viii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination”    https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ [ix] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #234 with Ashok Gupta on “Health and Happiness: Getting to the Root of Chronic Pain and Illness” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/ashok-gupta-on-heath-and-happiness-getting-to-the-root-of-chronic-pain-and-illness-long-covid-fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-and-others/ [x]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #241 with Dr. Philippe Douyon on “How to Rewire Our Brain for Health and Happiness”  https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/physician-and-neurologist-philippe-douyon-md-on-how-to-rewire-our-brain-for-health-and-happiness/ [xi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #48 on Brain Network Theory “Using Neuroscience to Stay Productive During Times of Change and Chaos” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-network-theory-using-neuroscience-to-stay-productive-during-times-of-change-and-chaos/ [xii] Dr. Andrew Huberman, “The Science of Creativity: How to Enhance Creative Innovation.”   https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-creativity-and-how-to-enhance-creative-innovation/ [xiii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #215 on “Chey Cheney and Pav Wander from the Chey and Pav Show” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/chey-cheney-and-pav-wander-from-the-chey-and-pav-show-on-their-vision-to-identify-and-amplify-the-voices-often-left-behind/ [xiv] Chey and Pav Podcast https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FStaffPodcast%2Fstatus%2F1575644124396789760&widget=Tweet [xv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #38 with Todd Woodcroft on “The Daily Grind in the NHL”   https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/assistant-coach-to-the-winnipeg-jets-todd-woodcroft-on-the-daily-grind-in-the-nhl/ [xvi] UVM Men's Hockey New Locker Reveal   https://twitter.com/UVMmhockey/status/1564327008775151617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1564327008775151617%7Ctwgr%5E1a6ca076211cde6d14d4567e7c32bc7d54ac2002%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FUVMmhockey2Fstatus2F1564327008775151617widget%3DTweet [xvii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #264 with Soren Kaplan on “Experiential Intelligence: The Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/innovation-author-and-speaker-soren-kaplan-phd-on-experiential-intelligence-the-power-of-experience-for-personal-and-business-breakthroughs/ [xviii] What is Plagarism? https://healthsciences.nova.edu/studentaffairs/success/forms/apa-what-is-plagiarism.pdf [xix] The Secret for Teens Revealed by Andrea Samadi https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1604940336  

We've all seen the movies and recognize the tropes- Swinging Pocket Watch, eyes rolling back into the head, "You are Getting verrrrrryyyy Sleeeeeeepy..." And yet, Hypnosis is so much more than what most of us are lead to believe. From helping to deal with certain anxieties, breaking habits and even pain relief- Hypnosis seems to be a still little understood but extremely amazing condition. Taking us through the wonders of Hypnosis are two of my favourite former guests- Lance Baker and Devin Person!

How to Achieve a Mindset that Leads to Success in Business Why do some people achieve great success in business while others fail? The way they think about and approach their business is a big factor, and that's something that i was asked to talk about as a guest on a popular business podcast. In this podcast episode, I'm going to share with you the questions that I was asked and the outline that I used to respond to each question. To start us off, can you talk a bit about your background and how you've become an authority on podcasting and business? I started podcasting as a hobby, with my wife, about the television show LOST in 2005. We were in the first hundred or so podcasters in the world. By our 3rd episode, we had 27,000 subscribers. By the end of our first year in podcast, we launched several other shows and were reaching 100's of Thousands of listeners. Within 2 years, I made the decision to leave the family business to do podcasting full-time. Main source of income was Podcast Coaching - Teaching people how to podcast. Things really took off, professionally, as the result of a few influencers that had become coaching clients. We hosted a Disney Cruise for our community. Our story got the attention of the CEO and co-founder of BlogWorld, the industry leading conference in social media at the time. I was invited to come speak. Room was standing room only. I was invited to become the Director of Podcasting for the BlogWord, which eventually rebranded to New Media Expo. In 12 years, I helped more than 40,000 people successful launch their podcast, generating a few million dollars in revenue through the process. In a broad sense, what is a "business mindset"? What all does that term include and describe? I find it helpful to contrast the term “business mindset” with the term “employee mindset.” A business mindset includes the following beliefs. People pay for value or transformation, not for your time. You do not have to work hard for money, you simply need to provide value. How much you charge for your products and services are based upon how much value you bring to your client/customer. There is no such thing as failure, there is only education. Temporary setbacks allow you to learn new lessons that lead towards the perfect plan to get to your desired outcome. What doesn't get measured, doesn't improve. etc. What is the difference between a "growth mindset" and a "fixed mindset", and which one is better for an entrepreneur? A fixed mindset is the belief that you have to work with the amount of skills, abilities and talents that you were born with, or that you have attained by a certain age. There's a saying that goes… “You can't teach an old dog new tricks.” A growth mindset is one that believes that you never stop learning and growing. You can always learn a new skill. Abilities and talents can be acquired through passion and practice. A growth mindset is better for everyone, but it is certainly a required mindset for any entrepreneur who will need to pivot in business to keep up with the changing world we live in. Why is your mindset important as a business leader? What are the advantages of having the right mindset? Mindset boils down to “A set of beliefs that you hold in your mind.” What you believe is possible. What you believe is not possible. How you believe things SHOULD BE What you believe you SHOULD or SHOULD NOT do. The problem is that most of our beliefs were established during the first 7 years of our life, before we had a rational critical thinking mind. ALL BELIEFS HAVE CONSEQUENCES Our beliefs determine how we think and feel about any situation in life. How we think and feel determines what actions we take. The actions we take determines the results that we get. So every belief (or your mindset) about anything has either a Positive or Negative Consequence. The advantage of having a GROWTH MINDSET is that you can actually CHANGE what you believe. Is a "business mindset" the same thing as an "entrepreneurial mindset", and if not how do those differ? I suppose you could be a “senior leader” within a business and have a “business mindset” but not have what it takes (mindset wise) to actually own your own business. An entrepreneurial mindset requires the person to have certain beliefs around the idea of “risk taking” and realizing and fully accepting that the results of those risks are their responsibility. How can the wrong mindset negatively impact a business? What are the risks or downsides of failing to cultivate a business mindset? Half of all businesses are fail in their first year. 80% are fail within five years. 96% fail within the first 10 years. 4% of businesses last more than 10 years. However, that doesn't mean they succeed. That just means that they are “still standing,” even if they are not profitable. My belief is that “the wrong mindset” is a reason of nearly every business failure. Success in any area of life, including business is… 20% knowing what to do and how to do it. 80% Mindset The ability to consciously and rationally evaluate and change what you believe to be true. The ability to control how you think and feel about any given situation. The ability to control your “emotional state of mind.” The ability experience fear and move forward in spite of what could go wrong. The downside of failing to cultivate a business mindset is that your business will almost certainly fail. What are the key characteristics of a successful business mindset? People pay for value or transformation, not for your time. You do not have to work hard for money, you simply need to provide value. How much you charge for your products and services are based upon how much value you bring to your client/customer. There is no such thing as failure, there is only learning new lessons that lead towards the perfect plan to get to your desired outcome. What doesn't get measured, doesn't improved. etc. What are the main "red flags" that someone needs to shift their mindset? The two most common red flags are: They often experience stress and overwhelm when faced with any unexpected result or situation within their business. The business is not consistently profitable month to month. How are mindset and outlook related? I think of outlook as “having vision.” There is a saying that goes… “Without vision, the people will perish.” I believe that this also applies to business… “Without vision, the business will perish.” The quality of the vision that an entrepreneur will have for their business will be directly in proportion to their mindset. If they have limited beliefs about what is possible, they will have a limited vision of what they create. Is there one ideal business mindset that everyone should aspire to, or does the right mindset vary between people and industries? For the most part, I believe that the right mindset, once acquired, can be used to achieve success in not only any business or in any industry, but also in any other area of life. This is why you will sometimes see the CEO of a major corporation able to transition and experience success as the CEO of a different corporation in another industry. As for the one ideal mindset that everyone should aspire to, I'd say…. You know exactly what it is that you want. You absolutely believe that what you want is possible. You are fully convinced that what you want is something YOU MUST HAVE. You have DECIDED that you will get what you want. You are committed to creating an action plan to attain what you want. You are devoted to evaluating the results of your actions plan and changing your approach until you find the perfect plan of attaining what you want. You will have want you want. What is one thing about business mindsets that people often get wrong or misunderstand, and how should they approach it instead? Many people believe they can change their limited mindset (beliefs) simply by reciting “affirmations.” If I can just say it enough, eventually I'll start to believe it. I am a firm believer in affirmations. However, they don't work unless you discover the power of the “sub conscious mind” and how it works. I recommend two resources on this. Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz. Chapter 4 of the book Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill on the topic of “Autosuggestion.” What are the steps to identifying your current business mindset for someone who's never done this kind of self-reflection before? By simply asking a few questions. What is something that you would like to experience in your business that you are not currently experiencing? Do you believe it is possible for you to experience that in your business? How long do you think it would take to make this a reality in your business? What are 1, 2 or 3 actions that you could take within the next 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days that will get you closer to this desired outcome? Why haven't you already taken these actions? What is one or two things that you need to put an end to to make this a reality? Why have you not already put an end to theses things? All of these questions will reveal your current mindset and beliefs related to that Dream, Goal and/or Desired Outcome. Once you've identified where your mindset needs some adjustments, what next? What actionable steps can someone take to shift their mindset? Make a list of all the beliefs that are associated beliefs in that particular area. Determine the source of those beliefs. Evaluate the truth of those beliefs. Disassociate from beliefs that do not support the movement toward your desired outcome. Replace limiting beliefs with empowering, alternative beliefs. Condition these new beliefs through repetition and environment. Changing how you think isn't easy. What are some resources or tools that can help people make the right mindset adjustments effectively? "Changing how you think isn't easy" is a belief. However, I have found that it is incredibly easy to change how you think, in an instant, once you know how the sub-conscious mind works. Resources that I recommend: Book - Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz Book - Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Book - Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins What are some signs that someone could benefit from coaching or mentorship to help them shift their mindset? Top Three Signs That Come To My Mind: If you are easily stressed and overwhelmed when an unexpected situation shows up in your business. If you are not consistently experiencing profit, month to month, in your business. If you feel unfilled in your work. How should someone find and choose a mentor or coach if they don't have a big professional network to draw from? Find a Role Model Someone who is already experiencing what it is that you want to experience. Someone who has already read the books, taken the courses, gone to the seminars, created the plans, experienced the setbacks and used what they learned to create a system that produced the result that you desire. Find someone who's message resonates with you at your inner core. How should a business owner take high stake decisions? Any framework which aids in making decisions? Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisors they succeed. Fully investigate The Mastermind Principle and take your high stake decision to your personal mastermind group. Ultimately, follow your gut / intuition. What are some mindset tips for dealing with self-inflicted wounds when it comes to business? Read the book The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks and learn about the Upper Limit Challenge. Read the book Secrets of The Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker and discover the mindset about money that is causing your self-sabotage. Now at this stage of success what advice would you give to your teenage self? Discover how your sub-conscious mind works. Learn the Power fo Auto-Suggestion. Decide, CONSCIOUSLY, what you CHOOSE to believe. Learn how to control and master your emotional state of mind at all times. Can you tell us about your most bizarre business encounter? The day a check for $12,000 showed up in the mail. You can see the check and the letter that came with it at MindsetAnswerMan.com/check If you could sell your product/service to one celebrity, who would it be? Already accomplished Dan Miller, author of the book 48 Days To The Work You Love If there was a movie made about your journey, what would the title be? Free The Dream! A mindset is a very intangible thing. As you're making these adjustments, how can you evaluate if they're successful? What are some signs that your mindset is changing for the better? First, I believe that mindset is an incredibly tangible thing. I can determine a person's mindset on any topic within 3 to 5 minutes and I can predict what their experience of their life will be related to that topic in the same amount of time. As for signs that their mindset is changing for the better… Simply evaluate to see if they are getting better results related to the things they desire to accomplish in life. Are they dreaming bigger dreams? Are they pushing through their fears? Are they accomplishing more? Once someone's made those shifts, how can they prevent themselves from slipping back into bad habits? How do you make mindset changes stick? Repetition is the mother of skill. Don't stop doing what has worked to help you get where you are. Upgrade Your Peer Group The quality of your life will be determined by the expectations of your peer group. Get into a Mastermind Group of people who are living life according to the mindset you desire. What is your favorite "mindset hack"? Are there any quick and easy steps someone can take to make impactful change? The Mindset Principle: Go to a mastermind group of people who are already operating in life at the level you desire to operate. Tell them what it is that you desire and instantly gain insight from their education, experience, skills, talents and abilities. A single conversation with this group can shift your perception of what is possible. How does someone with a success-oriented mindset respond to setbacks and failures? Some do not actually understand the concept of “failure.” They simply evaluate what can be learned by the results of actions taken. They apply what they learn and change their changed approach until they get what they desire. They see setbacks as the opportunity to develop a more perfect plan to get to their desired outcome and to create safeguards for future similar setbacks. They expect the unexpected. Can you share an example of a business leader who has an ideal mindset? What does that look like in practice? Steve Jobs. He often had a vision for a product that he wanted to create. He often had the top engineers in the world tell him that want he wanted to create was not possible. He often fired those “experts” who had a fixed mindset about what was possible. He transferred his vision of what he wanted to create to those engineers who were able to dare to dream about the pushing the boundaries of what is believed to be possible. Today a few billion people benefit daily from many products that were, at one point, just a “thought” in the mind of Steve Jobs. On the other side, can you share an example of a poor mindset causing business problems or failure? The time I had a client schedule a one hour consulting call with me to help solve a technical issue with a piece of podcasting equipment. He knew that I charged $300 per hour with a minimum of one hour. We got on the call and I solved his problem within two minutes. He was incredibly pleased and requested that I send him the invoice for $300. I refused! Learn more about this story at MindsetAnswerMan.com/free How does having the right mindset make someone better at leading and motivating other people? A person with the right mindset can influence others. They can help shift the perceptions of those who they serve about what is possible. They can help those they serve see their circumstances from a different perspective. What are some day-to-day habits of people who have the right mindset for success? They read/study for INSIGHT - Not agreement or rejection! Journaling Meditation Rest / Power Napping Recreation Working Out What are some bad habits that could negatively affect someone's mindset without them even realizing it? Eating lots of processed foods, and consuming too much sugar. Watching too much NEWS MEDIA Watching movies and television shows with narratives that consistently show the business owner as the villain. How does helping others help improve your mindset? I don't want to run the risk of answering this in such a way that assumes that helping others will improve your mindset. There are many powerful books out there that talk about the concept of “When Helping Others Hurst You.” I don't have any particular book recommendation on this topic. However, I have many stories of experience. With that said, I believe that the best thing that you can do is to Help Yourself by Improving Your Mindset. It's only in having a healthy mindset that you can truly help others. This is why it was once said that the second greatest thing a person can do is to “Love others AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF.” If you've ever been on an airplane, you've likely been told that in case of emergency, you should put your secure your own source of oxygen before trying to help someone else attain their source of oxygen. Who are some thought leaders in the business world who have inspired you and been influential in developing your business mindset? Dan Miller, author of the book 48 Days The The Work You Love Michael Hyatt, New York Times Best-Selling Author and former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing Tony Robbins Napoleon Hill Every member of my Green Room Mastermind Group. Ray Edwards Pat Flynn Michael Stelzner Mark Mason Leslie Samuel I've met with these guys for one hour, every week, since October 2010 How do negative mindsets develop in the first place? Are there common root causes you see in your coaching and mentorship work? Typically most of our negative, limiting, beliefs were adopted during the first 7 years of our life. Things our parents said or did. Things our Teachers said or did. Things our religious leaders said or did. Things our peers said or did. Our Culture The News Media Etc. What are some common myths or misconceptions about business mindsets, and why are those wrong? That affirmations, alone, will work. That affirmations don't work. Affirmations do work. However, only after you do the work to become consciously aware of and then remove any competing belief. Most people don't have a “deep feeling” of belief that their new “affirmed statement” is actually true. Could you talk a bit about the Mastermind Principle? What is it, how did you learn about it, and how does it lead to business success? I have an entire podcast on this topic at UpgradeYourPeerGroup.com The mastermind principle is… When two or more people come together in a spirit of perfect harmony with the intention to focus on a desired outcome. That group can come up with insights and ideas that would be impossible for any member to come up with individually. I learned about the mastermind principle from Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. A person in a healthy mastermind group can accomplish more in a single year, with the aid of their mastermind group, than they could in a lifetime if they relied on their own effort. What is the relationship between business mindset and goal setting? How big a person is able to dream is determined by their mindset. The ability to achieve any goal is directly determined by their mindset. What is your favorite business book and why? Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill It is the most thorough and in-depth study in what a “successful business mindset” is that has ever been published in a single book. END OF OUTLINE Are you a business owner? Did anything from this episode resonate with you? Please shoot me an email today at Cliff@CliffRavenscraft.com and let me know the most powerful insight that you took away from this episode. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Cliff