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John Kehoe
The subconscious can do anything!

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John Kehoe

In 1975, John Kehoe went to live in the forests to study and understand the internal mechanisms of the human brain for three years away from civilization. Drawing from a wide variety of scientific and spiritual sources, as well as personal observations and experiences, Kehoe developed his first simple and highly successful brain power program. In 1978, based on the principles he developed, he began teaching people, and by 1980 his lectures were a huge success all over the world.

Kehoe has been teaching for the past twenty years. He and his wife currently live in the Pacific Northwest, continuing to publish books and give lectures.

Word of gratitude

I am grateful to Joyce Hamilton for helping me translate my oral lectures into writing; under his leadership this book was born. I am also grateful to Rick and Jennifer Bearsto for their advice and help in getting the book published, and to Soraya Othman, my business partner and friend, whose insistence that the book “must be done!” encouraged me to act, and finally to my wife Sylvia for her love, support and camaraderie. Thank you all.

John Kehoe

Introduction

Controlling the forces of the Universe and actively working towards achieving your goals is very tempting. My book will introduce you to all the techniques necessary for this - all you have to do is use them in your everyday life.

Over the course of twenty years, I have had the great pleasure of teaching more than one hundred thousand people using this system. Now, with the appearance of the book, millions more people around the world will be able to get acquainted with it. If this is your first time holding this book in your hands, welcome! I am sure that my discoveries will help you in many ways, and I personally am very pleased to introduce you to the “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything” system.

Chapter 1
A different view of reality

There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that our sages never dreamed of.

Shakespeare

The same is true with brain power - anyone can master the basics of this system and successfully apply it in practice in everyday life.

We'll start by exploring the nature of reality and especially the amazing discoveries made in science over the last twenty years that will help us better understand how the brain creates its own reality. They explain why visualization or mental imagery is not just unnecessary daydreaming, but a creative process that helps a person control and direct energy flows that can glue things together, turn liquid into steam, or cause seeds to swell and grow.

Once you understand the essence of these energy flows, you will come to understand the essence of the brain and see that inspiration, prayer and intuition are not something supernatural, but are subject to laws that can be discovered and applied by human will. Like everything known to man in the Universe, the powers of the brain are governed by laws that, if freed from scientific terminology and presented in an accessible form, everyone can understand.

Let me introduce you to the fascinating world of these discoveries.

Modern physics views the Universe as a limitless, indivisible network of dynamic activity. It not only lives and constantly changes, but all its components influence each other. At the primary level, the Universe appears to be whole, indivisible, a kind of bottomless sea of energy that permeates every object and every action - it is all one. In a word, today scientists confirm what mystics, clairvoyants and occultists have been saying for thousands of years - we are not separate elements, but part of one gigantic whole.

When a blade of grass is plucked, the whole Universe trembles.

Saying from the ancient Upanishads

Reality is fluid, nothing is permanent, everything is part of a pattern that is in continuous motion. Even a rock is the result of a frantic “dance” of energy. The Universe is alive and dynamic, and we ourselves, being in it and being part of it, are alive and dynamic.

THE UNIVERSE IS A GIANT HOLOGRAM

The theories that led to the discovery of the holographic effect were first developed in 1947 by Denis Garbor, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery. A hologram is a phenomenon in which the “whole” is contained in each of its components. For example, the starfish has a certain holographic effect. If you cut off any part of it, it will grow back. Moreover, a new starfish can grow from the cut off part: its genetic code is embedded in each of the parts.

Several years ago, at a hologram exhibition, I saw photographs taken using the holographic effect. One of them depicted a standing woman. Looking at the image on the right, you saw a different image: a woman lighting a cigarette. Looking to the left, the photo changed again: the woman playfully thrust her hip forward. If this photograph suddenly fell and broke into many fragments, then each of them would contain not what you expect to see - a piece of a woman's shoe or dress, or part of her face - but a whole image of a woman. Looking at any of the fragments from different sides, you will again see how the image changes: the woman either lights a cigarette, or freezes in a seductive pose. Each fragment contains a whole picture.

Now they are coming to the conclusion that reality, in its essence, is also a hologram and the work of the brain is also based on the holographic effect. Our thought processes have much in common with the lower level of development of the Universe and consist of the same “matter”. The brain is a hologram reflecting the holographic Universe.

The authors of this unusual idea are two outstanding world thinkers - University of London physicist David Bohm, a student of Einstein and one of the luminaries of world quantum physics, and Stanford University neurophysiologist Karl Pribram. By chance, they made their discoveries completely independently of each other, working in different fields of science. Bohm came to the conclusion about the holographic nature of the Universe after several years of unsuccessful attempts to explain all the processes and phenomena of quantum physics using traditional theories. Pribram, while studying the human brain, also became convinced of the inability of traditional theories to solve its many mysteries. For both scientists, the holographic model suddenly became meaningful and served as an answer to many previously unanswerable questions. They published their findings in the early 70s. Their work found a lively response in the scientific community, but, unfortunately, never gained wide popularity outside of it. Some were skeptical (what scientific theory has escaped such a fate?), but many of the world's leading scientists joined the ranks of their supporters.

Cambridge scientist and 1973 Nobel Prize winner in physics Brian Josephson called Bohm and Pribram's theory "a breakthrough in understanding the essence of reality." Dr. David Peat, a physicist at Queen's University of Canada and author of The Bridge Between Matter and Brain, agrees with this point of view, arguing that “our mental processes are much more closely connected to the physical world than many realize.”

In 1979, Robert J. Jahn, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton University, developed a program to study “the role of consciousness in revealing material reality.” After conducting thousands of experiments, Jan and his assistants published their findings, finding that there is every reason to assert that the brain can and does directly influence material reality. In 1994, the world's leading scientists and educators gathered at Princeton University to discuss how this amazing theory could be developed and applied to specific areas of science.

This discovery is truly unusual, so attempts to apply its results in practice are inevitably associated with numerous doubts and hesitations.

The interaction of consciousness and the material world no longer seems like something fantastic today: consciousness is energy in its subtlest and most dynamic form. This helps us understand why our fantasies, mental images, desires and fears influence real events, and explains how the image created by the brain materializes.

Such discoveries regarding the essence of reality can become the driving force for our further improvement and growth. By realizing that he is part of an open and dynamic universe and that his brain plays a critical role in creating reality, a person can develop a more active and creative approach to life. Now he does not need to stand on the sidelines, watching what is happening from the side - new discoveries make it possible to understand that there is no sideline and never has been. Everything is based on mutual influence. Wherever we go and whatever we do, our thoughts create the reality around us.

Einstein once said: “The discovery of a new theory is like climbing a mountain, when a new and wider panorama opens up to the eye.” This is exactly what happens to you when reading this book. Very soon, as you discover your true capabilities, your mental “ascent” will be rewarded.

Chapter 2
Consciousness

Think as if your every thought is written in huge fiery letters in the sky and is visible to everyone - that’s how it is.

Book of Mirdad

By perceiving your thoughts as a reality that exists alongside what we call “material reality,” you come closer to understanding the unique relationship between the two.

We live simultaneously in two worlds, two realities: the internal reality of our thoughts, feelings and views and the external reality where people, places, things and events exist. Unable to separate these Inner and Outer worlds, we allow the visible Outer world to dominate our lives, assigning the Inner only the role of a “mirror”, reflecting everything that happens to us. Our inner world is very sensitive, and only by reacting to external influences, we are not able to realize what power we have. By cruel irony, a person begins to change the reality in which he exists precisely on the day, hour and minute when he stops continuously reacting to it.

Inner consciousness is a powerful force whose influence is felt in every aspect of your life. It, by the way, is the main and most important part of your essence, and your successes and failures depend on it.

Everything is essentially energy, and when you think, you handle a huge amount of this energy in a fast, easy and moving form - in the form of thought. Thought constantly strives to take shape, gravitates towards external manifestation, trying to find its expression. The desire and ability to materialize in the form of its physical equivalent is inherent in its nature. Ordinary human thoughts are like sparks from a fire. Possessing the essence and potential of flame, they usually disappear quickly. Having existed for only a few seconds, they fly up and instantly burn out.

A single thought does not have much power, but by repeating it many times, it can be concentrated and directed, and its strength can be increased. The greater the number of repetitions, the greater the strength and ability to express the thought.

Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces.

Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces.

To understand this, imagine a magnifying glass through which the sun's rays pass. If you move it from side to side, the energy of the sun's rays dissipates and does not manifest itself. However, by fixing the glass at a certain height, you will concentrate the same rays of the sun, and this scattered light will suddenly acquire the power that can cause a fire.

The same thing happens with our thoughts. As you explore the power of the brain, you will learn to develop and focus your thoughts, thereby enhancing their potential. At this stage, you need to clearly understand that thoughts have their own power. Your deepest beliefs, fears, hopes, concerns, views, desires, and every thought you have have an impact on yourself, those around you, and the world around you.

Many people do not pay attention to their thoughts when waking up, not noticing how the brain works, what it desires, what it fears, what it tells itself, and what it dismisses as unnecessary. We usually eat, work, socialize, worry, hope, make plans, make love, shop, play, with minimal attention to how or what we think.

Imagine an accounting department keeping a record of every thought and noting which ones brought us profits and which ones brought us losses. Everyone would control and direct their thoughts in the most scrupulous manner, enthusiastically generating income-generating thoughts and carefully avoiding those entailing expenses.

By the way, this is exactly what is happening to us, only energy plays the role of dollars - there is a huge accounting system in place. It is called the Universe, and not a single thought remains unattended on its part.

The inner world of a person is not a lifeless pile of bricks or stones. Every thought you have is reflected in this system and affects it. Whether you like it or not, by thinking, you are constantly creating your own reality.

The first step to starting a new life is surprisingly simple: you just need to monitor the flow of your thoughts and direct them accordingly.

Each person creates his own life, so take a critical look at your lifestyle. You say that you strive for financial prosperity, but you constantly complain about the lack of money and the high cost. You obsess over what you don't have, you're frightened by incoming bills, you're anxious and agonizing over how to cope with the situation. You strive for financial wealth, but your consciousness is tuned to the lack of money and worries, and you will never achieve this wealth.

Perhaps you need to find a new job, something interesting and promising, where you could realize your creative potential and also earn good money. By constantly telling yourself that such a job simply does not exist, that you will never find it, you will truly never get it.

Perhaps you want to be more sociable, relaxed, self-confident, but you constantly think about how awkward you are and how unable to maintain company, reminding yourself again and again of your own problems and shortcomings. As a result, you are unlikely to become what you want. You may want to become strong, but if weakness is ingrained in your mind, you will only flatter yourself with the hope that one day you will acquire the desired strength.

In a word, wishing alone will not help matters. There is no point in hoping that something will change. It is not enough to just work hard, even twelve to fifteen hours a day.

In order to move forward, it is necessary - and this is a rather serious condition - to change your way of thinking.

To everyone who has it will be given,

and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

Gospel of Luke 19:26

When I first read this saying, it seemed very unfair to me. Is it right that the “have” will receive even more, and the “have-not” will lose even the little that he has? At first glance, this seems completely wrong: it would be much fairer if the “have-not” received more, but the Holy Scriptures say differently. The Bible says this is how the universe works. After much thought, I came to the conclusion that this saying is full of deep meaning. Indeed, what could be fairer than giving each person the freedom to choose his own thoughts, from which the reality around him will be created? In the end, everyone is free to determine the quality of their own life.

Do you want to change your circumstances? To do this, develop the necessary type of consciousness in yourself. A successful person always has a mind set up for success. A wealthy person develops a consciousness tuned to wealth; his thoughts are devoted to prosperity, success and material well-being. This is his way of thinking.

“Good for him,” you say. – When succeeding, it is easy to think about success; It’s not difficult for a rich person to think about wealth, but for me everything is different. I am a loser; I'm poor. Life circumstances are dragging me down.”

WRONG! Fundamentally wrong! It’s not life circumstances or the current situation that’s stopping you. The only thing that prevents you from achieving success is your thoughts. With a little effort and practice, you will learn to manage your thoughts and develop the desired type of consciousness. The surrounding reality can change only after you develop a new type of consciousness, but not before. A new consciousness must lead the way.

Have you already decided what you want from life? Health? Then develop health consciousness. Authorities? Develop a power consciousness. Material well-being? Develop a consciousness aimed at prosperity. Happiness? Develop a consciousness of happiness. Do you want to become more spiritual? Work on consciousness of spirituality. Everything exists as potential. All you need to do is provide the necessary energy charge, and then your goal will become a reality.

It is gratifying to know that regardless of life circumstances in the past and present, regardless of previous failures, your life will change if you feed your consciousness with energy! This amazing opportunity is given to everyone, and each of us has the right to either take advantage of it or miss it. You don't need to have a lot of money or any special talents to do this. All you need is the determination to spend some time and make the necessary effort to develop the appropriate type of consciousness. That's all! The rest will happen automatically.

Your brain is like a garden that can be tended to or nurtured. You are a gardener and you can nurture your garden or leave it neglected. But know: you will have to reap the fruits of either your labor or your own inaction!

It is the brain that creates the reality around you... You can agree or disagree with this. You can realize this and force your brain to work for you, or you can let everything take its course, allowing your brain to work in such a way that you will constantly be haunted by failures. But the reality you live in will always be created by your brain.

Chapter 3
Visualization or mental representation

My brain has no thoughts, but it has the power to bring to life a whole series of concepts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes a person a winner? How do successful people differ from unsuccessful people?

“It’s all in my head,” says Arnold Schwarzenegger. Multimillionaire, successful real estate tycoon, movie star, bodybuilder, five-time Mr. Universe—Arnold has done it all. But this was not always the case. Arnold remembers a time when he had nothing but the firm belief that the brain was the key to realizing all his plans.

“Even as a very little boy, I mentally imagined myself as I would like to be. In my thoughts, I never doubted that I would become exactly like this. The brain is truly unique. Even before I was awarded the first Mr. Universe title, I already imagined myself winning this tournament. The main prize was mine. I had mentally won it so many times that I no longer doubted that it would happen. The same thing happened with my film career. I imagined myself as a talented actor earning a lot of money. I literally felt success and tasted it. I just knew it would happen."

Chris Poline was a member of the world famous West German freestyle ski team that won the European Cup six times between 1976 and 1982.

“Part of our training included working with a psychologist to strengthen our brain power. After training on the slopes, we plunged into a state of meditation. The psychologist asked us to mentally go through every slope, every jump and turn. During this mental training we worked just as hard as during the real one. Excellence in sports, as in any other activity, directly depends on the ability to create a clear mental image of one’s actions.”

Chris knows what she's talking about: not only is she the winner of six medals, but she is also the head of a successful business and sports consulting company whose goal is to show people how to achieve success using such techniques.

Brian Edward, a resilient man with a great sense of humor, is in the life insurance business. I met him during one of his lecture tours and we became good friends. Every evening before going to bed, he mentally plays out scenes of visits to be made the next day. He mentally pictures the conversation with each client. He imagines that they are all friendly and willingly agree to insure their lives. Brian imagines a successful day in which he was able to conclude many insurance contracts. He does this for ten minutes before going to bed and ten minutes in the morning after waking up. That's a total of twenty minutes every day. Brian Edwards sells more insurance policies in one day than many insurance agents sell in six months and is consistently ranked in the top one percent of his profession.

Three different people with different goals and life prospects, but they all use the same technique that helps build reality and actively influence it - the technique of visualization, or mental representation.

Visualization is a mental representation, playing, seeing oneself in a situation that has not yet occurred. A person imagines himself doing or having what he strives for, and getting what he wants.

Let's say you want to develop self-confidence. Using your imagination, you imagine yourself as a confident person. Mentally, you do bold things and communicate freely with a wide variety of people. You imagine situations that usually cause you difficulty, and imagine yourself operating in them with ease, ease, and success. You can even imagine your friends and colleagues complimenting you on your newfound self-confidence. You feel proud and satisfied both from the fact that you have become a confident person and from the changes that have occurred as a result. You imagine what could and will happen to you, and you live as if it were happening in reality.

SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATION

Decide what you want to achieve: pass an exam, get promoted, meet someone, earn a lot of money, win at squash.

Relax. Take a break from your work for a few minutes and take a breath, resting your body and soul.

For five to ten minutes, mentally imagine the desired reality.

Think more about what you are doing or acquiring, rather than about what might be more or less likely to happen. Live in your thoughts as if this is already happening to you. Create a small internal video. Imagine yourself doing what you want most. On the one hand, you realize that in fact this is not happening to you yet and has not yet become a reality. But the mental pictures that we draw for ourselves, that we constantly think about, become a springboard for our goals, a form that is filled with energy. These paintings are a real force that will work for us.

When visualizing, give yourself any necessary qualities. If your mental image requires talent, courage, determination, and perseverance, be sure to include them. Sometimes you will clearly see that you are achieving your desired goal, as if you were watching a movie. In other cases, you will only have a broad picture of your goals. Both are good. You can alternate between precise and free visualization, doing each for five minutes, or concentrate on one thing that you like best.

Accurate visualization. Mentally create exact pictures and scenes of what you want to achieve. Follow the script you prepared in advance, mentally playing it out several times.

Free visualization. Allow images and thoughts to freely replace each other without directing them, but only until as long as they show a positive path to achieving your goal.

Use both methods, remembering that the key here is practice. Many people have difficulty in the initial stages of visualization. Their brains cannot create and draw the scenes they want. Don't worry if the same thing happens to you. The picture does not have to be complete and complete. By regularly practicing visualization, you will soon be surprised to notice that your brain learns to generate mental pictures at your request.

It should be noted that it is not enough to present something once or even twice. Results will appear if only the image is imprinted in the mind over and over again for weeks and even months until your goal is realized. Do not try to evaluate the results after one or two visualization attempts.

If you suddenly have doubts - and they will certainly arise - just ignore them. Don't try to resist them and fight them, let them arise and disappear unhindered in your consciousness. Keep visualizing and everything will fall into place.

TWO CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATION

Always imagine your goals as if they were all happening to you right now. In your mind, make it a reality. Create detailed images. Get into the role and play it mentally.

Visualize your goal at least once a day, without missing a day. Repetition is the mother of learning.

Any thought that arises in your brain and takes hold there will have an impact on your life.

I would like to talk about a well-known and documented experiment by psychologist Alan Richardson. The varsity basketball team was divided into three groups; In each of them, the performance of the players was determined and recorded. The players of the first group came to the gym every day, practicing their pitches. The basketball players of the second group did not train at all, while the representatives of the third group did very special training. They did not go to the gym, but stayed in their rooms, mentally imagining the process of training. For half an hour a day, they saw themselves scoring goals and winning with a crushing score. They continued to mentally “train” every day. A month later, all three groups were tested again.

The first group (those who trained in the gym every day) improved their results by 24 percent. There was no improvement in the second group (those who did nothing). And in the third group (players who trained mentally), the improvement was almost the same as those who actually trained in the gym!

So, creative visualization has great power, but there is nothing supernatural about it. It is based on the work of your internal mechanisms and energy, as well as the ability to creatively direct your internal resources.

When properly organized, imagination is one of the most dynamic human capabilities. Start using this gift correctly now. Don't worry or think about the specific aspects of this phenomenon, just trust the process. Demand follows supply, so you get the results you need at the right time. You can rest assured that you will find ways and means to achieve your goal: nature will always be able to fulfill the demand placed on it.

Often people want to know all the answers before they even take the first step. We want to anticipate and know in advance all the details of what will happen. But usually this fails, and often events develop in the most unexpected way.

Actress Carol Burnett was born in Los Angeles and raised by her grandmother. They barely made ends meet, living on welfare, and were so poor that her grandmother collected toilet paper from public toilets. Naturally, they did not have the money to send the talented girl to university, which she passionately dreamed of. However, she knew that someday she would go there. “I didn’t even think that I might not go to university. I imagined myself going to lectures, living on campus, and studying subjects that interested me. I thought about this every day. Although I didn’t have a single chance to enroll, I didn’t doubt for a second that I would be a student.”

How did she find the money?

“One day, when I was finishing school, I went to get the mail. Opening the mailbox, I found an envelope addressed to me. There was a stamp on it, but no postage stamp. This means that it was not sent by mail, but simply thrown into my mailbox. Having opened the envelope, I found there an amount exactly equal to the fee for the first year of study at the university. And no note with an explanation. Only money. I still don’t know who sent them.”

BY UNLOCKING YOUR THOUGHTS, YOU DISCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Of course, I am not saying that if you do visualization, you will definitely wait for a stranger to hand you an envelope with the desired amount, as happened with Carol Burnett. But I promise: circumstances will develop in such a way that you will be able to realize your goals - you can count on it. Your thoughts are much more powerful than you realize, and every mental image is a real force that can affect your life.

08.10.2017

5 best techniques from John Kehoe’s book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything”

Hello friends, I realized a long time ago that I need to carefully read and listen to John Kehoe.

As I said in one of my videos on my YouTube channel, I was at his performance in Moscow and it really inspired me.

In addition, after first reading his book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything,” I

But how?

And so, all because I performed his best techniques, which I am going to tell you about today.

In general, the book “The Subconscious Can Do Anything” occupies one of the most honorable places in my library and, of course, is on the list.

And you can listen to John Kehoe in the audio recordings of our group In contact with.

So, the first technique:

Technique 1: Mental imagery or visualization

Well, yes, you all know perfectly well what visualization is and you don’t need to explain what it is.

But let's listen to John Kehoe what he says about this:

Secrets of successful visualization

Decide what you want to achieve: pass an exam, get promoted, meet someone, earn a lot of money, win at squash.
Relax. Take a break from your work for a few minutes and take a breath, resting your body and soul.
For five to ten minutes, mentally imagine the desired reality.

Live in your thoughts as if this is already happening to you. Create a small internal video. Imagine yourself doing what you want most.

These paintings are a real force that will work for us.

Give yourself any necessary qualities. If your mental image requires talent, courage, determination, and perseverance, be sure to include them.

The key here is practice.

Here's an important note that many people miss:

It should be noted that it is not enough to present something once or even twice.

Results will appear if only the image is imprinted in the mind over and over again for weeks and even months until your goal is realized.

Do not try to evaluate the results after one or two visualization attempts.

If you suddenly have doubts - and they will definitely arise - just ignore them.

Don't try to resist them and fight them, let them arise and disappear unhindered in your consciousness. Keep visualizing and everything will fall into place.

Two conditions for successful visualization

Always imagine your goals as if they were all happening to you right now. In your mind, make it a reality. Create detailed images. Get into the role and play it mentally.
Visualize your goal at least once a day, without missing a day. Repetition is the mother of learning.

Participants in the Master Class on the fulfillment of desires are convinced of the last statement every time their desires move towards fulfillment precisely after daily visualizations.

I tell you how to visualize correctly in this video.

The next technique is

2 technique: Bookmarking thoughts

Unlike visualization, when bookmarking you first of all concentrate on the feeling of what is being presented.

This is where your imagination comes into play.

How do you imagine your feelings after you got what you wanted? What will you experience: excitement, inspiration, intense joy or calm, or maybe nervous trembling?

Whatever your reaction, mentally imagine your feelings, let them pass through you.

Live with the feeling of confidence that you have already achieved what you want.

Well, now let's move on to the third technique -

3 technique: Affirmation

An affirmation is a simple statement that a person repeats out loud or silently, depending on the circumstances.

You can do this anywhere: while driving a car, in a doctor's office, in bed before going to bed.

Simply choose a statement that expresses your desires at the moment and repeat it several times.

Let's say you find yourself in an uncomfortable situation, and you would like to relax and not worry about anything. Then it's time to apply the affirmation method.

Slowly repeat to yourself: “I am calm and relaxed. I'm calm and relaxed. I'm calm and relaxed."

Don't try to force yourself to calm down and relax, just keep affirming this for a few minutes.

By affirming, you influence the thoughts that arise in your brain.

The human brain can only hold one thought at a time, so the essence of the affirmation is to “fill” your brain with thoughts that support your goal at that moment.

Words tell the brain what thoughts it should generate. If you affirm to yourself, “The meeting will be a success,” your brain will naturally begin to generate thoughts associated with the thought of a successful meeting.

The brain, without any effort on your part, selects the hidden meaning and main content of your statement. Outwardly, everything seems too simple, but in reality this method can very effectively help you achieve your goal.

Formulate your desire into an affirmation and use it regularly.

Things to remember when claiming:

You don't have to believe what you claim! This mistake can negate the entire effect of the statement. Don't think about it, just repeat the affirmation. If you believe what you claim, well, great! If you don't believe it, there's nothing wrong with it. It does not matter. The brain itself will choose the content of your statement, and the thoughts necessary in the given situation will arise in the mind. You don't need to put in much effort.
The affirmation should always be positive. Frame it as an affirmative rather than a negative sentence. For example, if you want a meeting to go well, you shouldn't say, "I won't crash in a meeting." If you want not to worry, you should not say: “I won’t worry.” The brain somehow misses this “not” and as a result, you find yourself setting yourself up to “crash in a meeting” or “worry.” The brain will focus on these self-destructive images rather than what you intended.
The statement should be brief. It is akin to mantras: a short and simple statement that is easy to say and repeat. I usually come up with statements that are no more than ten words long. Sometimes even two words can have a stunning effect: “dizzying success” or “record sales.”

Technique 4: Awareness

If you listen to John Kehoe, he always says: nothing succeeds like success.

Many are more inclined to see their own failures and shortcomings than to recognize their achievements and successes...

Having achieved something, we experience joy for several days or weeks, and then we set new goals and guidelines for ourselves.

The feeling of satisfaction from what we have achieved leaves us too quickly; soon we completely forget that we got what we wanted.

All attention is concentrated on new goals and desires, and the feeling of joy from past achievements disappears. This is how a person wastes the most powerful energy of success.

A person can reuse the energy of success from his past achievements, achieving amazing results.

We focus on what we want to achieve, completely forgetting about our previous achievements.

Learn to reward yourself for present and past victories, no matter how small. Recognizing success is especially effective when you are trying to achieve new goals.

Look - I emphasize the word “look” - for moments that can be considered successful.

It is necessary to recognize not only the obvious, but everything in general. Don't think it's stupid or unnecessary.

Your positive qualities are no less real than your negative ones, so be proud of them.

Feel the success, let your brain enjoy the success you have already achieved for a few minutes.

People love me.

I work a lot.

I enjoy life.

I am a loving husband.

I am a caring parent.

I help my family and friends.

I just made a list of my positive qualities.

Make the most complete and long list: it should contain at least twenty items.

Get rid of false modesty, entrust everything to paper to visualize how many reasons you have to be proud. This is exactly the purpose of this exercise - to make you realize that you have a right to be proud of yourself. These positive feelings create a sense of success that will serve as the foundation for your future successes.

And the last and my favorite technique for making wishes come true: John Kehoe:

Technique 5: Concentration and reflection

It takes as much time to fully understand a majestic and beautiful thought as it does to generate it.

The ability to concentrate and focus your brain on a specific idea or thought is the key to successfully using your brain power.

Unfortunately, if you have never trained your brain, you will find that it is quite uncontrollable and constantly jumps from thought to thought.

Reflections

Reflection is the only technique that, in my opinion, is most suitable for developing concentration skills.

Not only will they help you sharpen your mind, but they will also allow you to gain a deeper understanding of any problem you are studying.

Reflection exercises are an integral part of our classes.

How to think?

Let's say you want to think about the claim that thoughts have real power.

Using a clock to monitor you (I recommend doing thought exercises for at least five and no more than ten minutes), begin to focus on the fact that “thoughts have real power.”

Become completely absorbed in this statement, deeply immersed in thoughts about it. Ask yourself questions like:

"What does it mean?",
"What does this mean?"
"How might this affect me?"
“Can I benefit from this?”

Reflect on this for the allotted time, without allowing your mind to wander away from the necessary thoughts.

If your thought constantly wanders during reflection, and it will definitely do so, gently but confidently return it to the subject of reflection.

During the initial phase of thinking exercises, your mind will wander away from the subject ten to twenty times in a five-minute period.

During the exercise, a completely abstract thought may come to your mind. Memories from the past, thoughts about undone things, as well as various desires, worries and fantasies will arise in your brain against your will, trying to distract your attention.

Don't let them distract you from your main task.

Once you realize that your mind is occupied with unnecessary thoughts, forget about them and continue thinking from the point where you left off.

Your brain is not yet disciplined and is not accustomed to this mode of operation.

It’s easier for him to think about random things and concentrate on what he likes best. Soon he will get bored, deciding that there is nothing more to think about; thoughts will become restless.

Ignore these feelings, but simply return him to the main topic of reflection, constantly reminding him of the set time limit. This is truly a great gymnastics for the mind. Now you can direct and control your brain, instead of it controlling you.

If you continue to do this exercise over several days and weeks, two things will happen.

Firstly By accustoming your brain to discipline and training it in this way, you will develop the ability to concentrate, become more active and creative.

Secondly, your hitherto limited, logical understanding of what you are thinking about will become much deeper. You will find that during meditation you will sometimes have a feeling of joyful excitement and enlightenment, as if the truth has been revealed to you.

When thinking, it's a good idea to always have a pencil and paper handy to jot down new thoughts and ideas that come to mind. You will find that you now perceive ideas on a sensory level, which is much more effective than simple logical comprehension.

How do I fulfill desires through reflection?

Have you ever thought about how to make your wishes come true using this technique?

And like this!

We listen to John Kehoe and hear that we need to think about our desired future!

I really love this way of working with thinking and I have fulfilled many of my desires just by thinking about them...

When you think about what you want, you concentrate your mental energy on it for a long time.

For example, a girl who wants to buy an apartment may be thinking about what kind of apartment layout would suit her best.

What furniture should you buy first when moving into a new home? How to arrange this furniture? Should I buy curtains or sew them myself?

All this needs to be thought through - thus visualizing and fulfilling your desire.

John KEHO

The subconscious can do anything!

Series "Live wisely"

Previous editions in Russian were published in 1999 - 2002.

The author of this book, in solitude among the forests of the Canadian province of British Columbia, spent three years concentrating on questions concerning the activity of the human brain. Ways to activate its limitless resources, developed and combined by John Kehoe into a specific program, can change your life for the better, fill it with success and happiness. For a wide range of readers.

In 1975, John Kehoe went to live in the forests to study and comprehend the internal mechanisms of the human brain for three years away from civilization. Drawing from a wide variety of scientific and spiritual sources, as well as personal observations and experiences, Kehoe developed his first simple and highly successful brain power program. In 1978, based on the principles he developed, he began teaching people, and by 1980 his lectures were a huge success all over the world.

Kehoe has been teaching for the past twenty years. He and his wife currently live in the Pacific Northwest, continuing to publish books and give lectures.

A WORD OF THANKS.

I am grateful to Joyce Hamilton for helping me translate my oral lectures into writing; under his leadership this book was born. I am also grateful to Rick and Jennifer Bearsto for their advice and help in getting the book published, and to Soraya Othman, my business partner and friend, whose insistence that the book "must be done!" encouraged me to act, and finally to my wife Sylvia for her love, support and camaraderie. Thank you all.

John Kehoe

INTRODUCTION

John Kehoe

Chapter 1. ANOTHER VIEW OF REALITY

There are many things in the world, friend Horatio, that our sages never dreamed of.

You don't need to know the laws of physics or understand the nature of reality to harness the power of your brain—you don't need to know how a carburetor or ignition system works to drive a car. Few people know anything about cars, but that doesn't stop most people from driving them. The same is true with brain power - anyone can master the basics of this system and successfully apply it in practice in everyday life.

We'll start by exploring the nature of reality and especially the amazing discoveries made in science over the last twenty years that will help us better understand how the brain creates its own reality. They explain how visualization or mental imagery is not just unnecessary daydreaming, but a creative process that helps a person control and direct energy currents that can glue things together, turn liquid into steam, or cause seeds to swell and grow.

Let me introduce you to the fascinating world of these discoveries.

Modern physics views the Universe as a limitless, indivisible network of dynamic activity. It not only lives and constantly changes; all its components influence each other. At the primary level, the Universe appears to be whole, indivisible, a kind of bottomless sea of energy that permeates every object and every action - it is all one. In a word, today scientists confirm what mystics, clairvoyants and occultists have been saying for thousands of years - we are not separate elements, but part of one gigantic whole.

“When a blade of grass is plucked, the whole Universe trembles,” a saying from the ancient Upanishads.

Modern physics has changed our views on the material world. Today, no one claims that particles consist of some basic “substance”: they are considered bundles of energy. They can make sudden movements, so-called "quantum jumps", in some cases acting as a single unit, in others as waves of pure energy. Reality is fluid, nothing is permanent, everything is part of a pattern that is in continuous motion. Even a rock is the result of a frantic “dance” of energy. The Universe is alive and dynamic, and we ourselves, being in it and being part of it, are alive and dynamic.

THE UNIVERSE IS A GIANT HOLOGRAM

This discovery is truly unusual, so attempts to apply its results in practice are inevitably associated with numerous doubts and hesitations.

Such discoveries regarding the essence of reality can become the driving force for our further improvement and growth. By realizing that he is part of an open and dynamic universe and that his brain plays a critical role in creating reality, a person can develop a more active and creative approach to life. Now he does not need to stand on the sidelines, watching what is happening from the side - new discoveries make it possible to understand that there is no roadside and never has been. Everything is based on mutual influence. Wherever we go and whatever we do, our thoughts create the reality around us.

Einstein once said: “The discovery of a new theory is like climbing a mountain when a new and wider panorama opens up to the eye.” This is exactly what happens to you when reading this book. Very soon, when you discover your true capabilities, your mental "ascent" will be rewarded.

Chapter 2. CONSCIOUSNESS

Think as if your every thought is written in huge fiery letters in the sky and is visible to everyone - that’s how it is.

Book of Mirdad

By perceiving your thoughts as a reality that exists alongside what we call “material reality,” you come closer to understanding the unique relationship between the two.

Inner consciousness is a powerful force whose influence is felt in every aspect of your life. IT, by the way, is the main and most important part of your essence, and your successes and failures depend on it.

Everything is essentially energy, and when you think, you operate with a huge amount of this energy in a fast, easy and moving form - in the form of thought. Thought constantly strives to take shape, gravitates towards external manifestation, trying to find its expression. The desire and ability to materialize in the form of its physical equivalent is inherent in its nature. Ordinary human thoughts are like sparks from a fire. Possessing the essence and potential of flame, they usually disappear quickly. Having existed for only a few seconds, they fly up and instantly burn out.

Weak and scattered thoughts are weak and scattered forces. Strong and concentrated thoughts are strong and concentrated forces.

Perhaps we would pay more attention to our mental processes if for each thought, depending on its nature, we had to receive or give a dollar. Considering that every day thousands of thoughts arise in our brains, this proposal seems quite tempting. Imagine an accounting department keeping a record of every thought and noting which ones brought us profits and which ones brought us losses. Everyone would control and direct their thoughts in the most scrupulous manner, enthusiastically generating income-generating thoughts and carefully avoiding those entailing expenses.

The first step to starting a new life is surprisingly simple: you just need to monitor the flow of your thoughts and direct them accordingly.

In a word, wishing alone will not help matters. There is no point in hoping that something will change. It is not enough to just work hard, even twelve to fifteen hours a day. In order to move forward, it is necessary - and this is a rather serious condition - to change your way of thinking.

“To everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”

Gospel of Luke 19:26

“It’s good for him,” you say. “When you succeed, it’s easy to think about success; it’s not difficult for a rich person to think about prosperity, but for me everything is different. I’m a loser; I’m poor. Life circumstances are dragging me down.”

Your brain is like a garden that can be tended to or nurtured. You are a gardener and can nurture your garden or leave it neglected. But know: you will have to reap the fruits of either your labor or your own inaction!

It is the brain that creates the reality around you...

You may or may not agree with this.

You can realize this and force your brain to work for you, or you can let everything take its course, allowing your brain to work in such a way that you will constantly be haunted by failures.

But the reality you live in will always be created by your brain.

Chapter 3. VISUALIZATION, OR MENTAL IMAGINATION

My brain has no thoughts, but it has the power to bring to life a whole series of concepts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes a person a winner? How do successful people differ from unsuccessful people?

"It's all in my head," says Arnold Schwarzenegger. Multimillionaire, successful real estate tycoon, movie star, bodybuilder, five-time Mr. Universe - Arnold has achieved it all. But this was not always the case. Arnold remembers a time when he had nothing but the firm belief that the brain was the key to realizing all his plans.

"Even as a very little boy, I mentally imagined myself as the person I would like to be. In my thoughts, I never doubted that I would become exactly that way. The brain is truly unique. Even before I was awarded the first title of Mr. Universe, I already imagined myself winning in this tournament. The main prize was mine. I had won it so many times in my mind that I no longer doubted that it would happen. The same thing happened with my film career. I imagined myself as a talented actor earning a lot of money. I literally felt success and tasted it. I just knew it was going to happen."

Chris Poline was a member of the world famous West German freestyle ski team that won the European Cup six times between 1976 and 1982.

"Part of our training was working with a psychologist to strengthen our brain power. After training on the slopes, we would go into a state of meditation. The psychologist asked us to mentally go through each slope, each jump and turn. During this mental training, we worked as hard as and during the present. Perfection in sports, as in any other activity, directly depends on the ability to create a clear mental image of one’s actions.”

Brian Edward, a resilient man with a great sense of humor, is in the life insurance business. I met him during one of his lecture tours and we became good friends. Every evening before going to bed, he mentally plays out scenes of visits to be made the next day. He mentally pictures the conversation with each client. He imagines that they are all friendly and willingly agree to insure their lives. Brian imagines a successful day in which he was able to conclude many insurance contracts. He does this for ten minutes before going to bed and ten minutes in the morning after waking up. That's a total of twenty minutes every day. Brian Edwards sells more insurance policies in one day than many insurance agents sell in six months, and is consistently ranked in the top one percent of his profession.

Visualization is a mental representation, playing, seeing oneself in a situation that has not yet occurred. A person imagines himself doing or having what he strives for, and getting what he wants.

Let's say you want to develop self-confidence. Using your imagination, you imagine yourself as a confident person. Mentally, you do bold things and communicate freely with a wide variety of people. You imagine situations that usually cause you difficulty, and imagine yourself operating in them with ease, ease, and success. You can even imagine your Friends and Colleagues complimenting you on your new self-confidence. You feel proud and satisfied both from the fact that you have become a confident person and from the changes that have occurred as a result. You imagine what could and will happen to you, and you live as if it were happening in reality.

SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATION

1. Decide what you want to achieve: pass an exam, get promoted, meet someone, earn a lot of money, win at squash.

2. Relax. Take a break from your work for a few minutes and take a breath, resting your body and soul.

3. For five to ten minutes, mentally imagine the desired reality.

Accurate Visualization: Mentally create exact pictures and scenes of what you want to achieve. Follow the script you prepared in advance, mentally playing it out several times.

Free Visualization: Allow images and thoughts to flow freely without directing them, as long as they show a positive path to achieving your goal.

If you suddenly have doubts - and they will definitely arise - just ignore them. Don't try to resist them and fight them, let them arise and disappear unhindered in your consciousness. Keep visualizing and everything will fall into place.

TWO CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL VISUALIZATION

1. Always imagine your goals as if they were all happening to you right now. In your mind, make it a reality. Create detailed images. Get into the role and play it mentally.

2. Visualize your goal at least once a day, without missing a day. Repetition is the mother of learning.

Any thought that arises in your brain and takes hold there will have an impact on your life.

I would like to talk about a well-known and documented experiment by psychologist Alan Richardson. The varsity basketball team was divided into three groups; In each of them, the performance of the players was determined and recorded. The players of the first group came to the gym every day, practicing their pitches. The basketball players of the second group did not train at all, while the representatives of the third group did very special training. They did not go to the gym, but stayed in their rooms, mentally imagining the process of training. For half an hour a day, they saw themselves scoring goals and winning with a crushing score. They continued to mentally "train" every day. A month later, all three groups were tested again.

The first group (those who trained in the gym every day) improved their results by 24 percent. There was no improvement in the second group (those who did nothing). And in the third group (players who trained mentally), the improvement was practically the same as that of those who actually trained in the gym!

Actress Carol Vernet was born in Los Angeles and raised by her grandmother. They barely made ends meet, living on welfare, and were so poor that her grandmother collected toilet paper from public toilets. Naturally, they did not have the money to send the talented girl to university, which she passionately dreamed of. However, she knew that someday she would go there. “I never even thought that I might not go to university. I imagined how I would go to lectures, live on campus and study subjects that interest me. I thought about it every day. Although I had no single chance to enroll, I didn’t doubt for a second that I would be a student.”

How did she find the money?

"One day, when I was finishing school, I went to get some mail. Having opened the mailbox, I found an envelope addressed to me. There was a stamp on it, but there was no postage stamp. This means that it was not sent by mail, but was simply thrown into my mailbox. Having opened envelope, I found there an amount exactly equal to the fee for the first year of study at the university. And no note with an explanation. Just money. I still don’t know who sent it."

BY UNLOCKING YOUR THOUGHTS, YOU DISCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Of course, I am not saying that if you do visualization, you will definitely wait for a stranger to hand you an envelope with the desired amount, as happened with Carol Vernet. But I promise: circumstances will develop in such a way that you will be able to realize your goals - you can count on it. Your thoughts are much more powerful than you realize, and every mental image is a real force that can affect your life.

The assertion that a person has such capabilities is not an invention of science fiction writers. They actually exist within us as a practical mechanism that we can use at will.

Chapter 4. BOOKMARKING THOUGHTS

When an object or goal already exists as a thought, it is only a matter of time before it is realized in a tangible and visible form. Vision always precedes execution.

Lillian Whiting

If visualization is like creating your own video, then bookmarking thoughts is akin to voicing, only instead of words you add corresponding feelings to the image. For example, you need to make a presentation for employees of your company, and managers and executives will be present. If you cope with this task, then there is a chance to get a promotion. This presentation is very important for your career. You decide to use the “thought planting” technique, for five to ten minutes, planting the thought and feeling that you have already given a presentation and it was a huge success. Your performance impressed everyone. It's all over now. You pulled it off - delivered a great presentation!

Unlike visualization, when bookmarking you first of all concentrate on the feeling of what is being presented. This is where your imagination comes into play. How do you imagine the feeling of a successful presentation? What will you experience: excitement, inspiration, intense joy or calm, or maybe nervous trembling? Whatever your reaction, mentally imagine your feelings, let them pass through you. Live with the feeling of confidence that you have already achieved what you want. Don't strive for everything to turn out well. Just fix it in your mind as a fait accompli. Replace the setting: “Everything should be successful” with “Everything should be successful.” It's all over, you've done it, so enjoy the victory of what you've achieved. Congratulate yourself. Shout and jump for joy. Tremble again and again with the feeling that you have achieved your goal.

At the same time, you should not pay special attention to mental pictures of how you carry out your plans, although such images will inevitably arise in your head. You should be more interested in the physical sensations of what you have achieved: blush on your cheeks, a racing heart, sweaty palms.

In the Bible, Christ's disciples ask him to teach them to pray. (You have the right to believe or not to believe what the Bible teaches. However, it contains a lot of useful information about the functioning of the brain.) Jesus answered: “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be done for you.” Notice that he says: you must believe that you have received - you will not receive, but you have already received - that is why you will receive. You don’t just hope or wish for something, but you declare what you want in a special inner world - the world of thoughts and creative energy. Anyone who understands the use of brain power will tell you that it is a powerful process.

I will tell you an incident that happened to two of my good friends Bill and Janet Henderson. The Hendersons moved from country to city. They wanted to buy a home that could accommodate their growing family. Naturally, houses in the city are much more expensive than village ones, but they have a rather large family, and they needed a big house. The Hendersons also had special requirements: they wanted not only a large house, but also a large, shady yard, all at an affordable price. Everyone unanimously insisted that they would never find him for the money they were going to pay, but the Hendersons did not listen to anyone. Bill had already used brain power at work and with his family and was convinced of its effectiveness. He connected Janet, and together they mentally imagined their future home.

Two months later they invited me to visit their new home. We wandered around the huge garden. When looking at these trees, bushes and flowers, one got the impression that they had brought a piece of the village wilderness with them to the city. Then I had a whole tour of the house. It was spacious enough for each of the children to have their own room; there was both an office and a lounge room - and all this for the price they were counting on!

“Just fabulous!” I said. “Don’t you think it’s just a miracle that you managed to find such a house?”

Bill's answer showed such insight into the power of the brain that I will never forget it. “No,” he said. “We weren’t even surprised. We mentally imagined ourselves as the owners of such a house two months ago.”

He said this with great confidence. After all, he was showing what he considered his own two months ago. Bill and Janet claimed the house in the inner world, where they already owned it. There they used decisive words and intonations and did not hesitate for a second. They didn't think about where or when they would find the home they wanted - they simply worked with the feeling that the house would belong to them. In their thoughts they already “owned” him. Not exactly this house that they showed me - then they had no idea about its existence. But they knew exactly what they wanted, and this is what they ingrained in their thoughts every day until what they wanted became a reality.

Today, the Hendersons not only use thought-stamping and other brain power techniques, but also teach them to their children so that they too can achieve prosperity and success in life. Can a parent leave their children a legacy richer than understanding the possibilities inherent in them by nature?

We all have that power. Thoughts create the reality around us, and the technique of laying down thoughts consists only of tuning the brain to the fact that you already have what you want.

As with visualization, it is repetition and persistence that distinguishes the thought process from useless daydreaming. At the same time, you do not live in illusions. You don't have your head in the clouds all day long, literally believing that you have something that you actually don't have. A bookmark is a mental exercise that takes about five minutes a day, a kind of five-minute burst of energy that you create for yourself regularly, without missing a day. The importance of repetition cannot be overstated. As with all other thinking techniques, occasional use of this method is ineffective. Set a specific program for yourself and strictly adhere to it. Constantly ingrain in yourself the feeling that you have what you want, regardless of the nature of what you want. It's yours. Live with it. Feel it. Rejoice and tremble. Consider it completely yours. Own it in your inner world.

TWO CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF THE THOUGHT BOOKING METHOD

1. Always use this technique with the idea that you have what you want or have achieved what you are striving for.

2. Do this regularly, literally every day, for at least five minutes. It is much better to do this technique for five minutes every day than for an hour once a week.

Chapter 5. APPROVAL

The possibilities of mental training are endless, and its results are eternal, but still very few people bother to direct their thoughts in the necessary direction that would bring them success; Usually everything just happens.

Brice Marden

Affirmation is perhaps the simplest mental technique I know of that can consciously influence the brain. It has been used for centuries in religion and magic in the form of prayers and mantras. Today it is used by a wide variety of people to conclude business contracts, cure various ailments, meet new people, win competitions, and many other activities.

An affirmation is a simple statement that a person repeats out loud or silently, depending on the circumstances. You can do this anywhere: while driving a car, in a doctor's office, in bed before going to bed. Simply choose a statement that expresses your desires at the moment and repeat it several times.

Let's say you find yourself in an uncomfortable situation, and you would like to relax and not worry about anything. Then it's time to apply the affirmation method. Repeat slowly to yourself: “I am calm and relaxed. I am calm and relaxed. I am calm and relaxed.” Don't try to force yourself to calm down and relax, just keep affirming this for a few minutes. Likewise, if you have to speak at a large meeting and you want everything to go well, start affirming it in advance by saying, "The meeting will go well. The meeting will go well."

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN APPROVAL?

By affirming, you influence the thoughts that arise in your brain. The human brain can only hold one thought at a time, so the essence of the affirmation is to “fill” your brain with thoughts that support your goal at that moment. Words tell the brain what thoughts it should generate. If you affirm to yourself, “The meeting will be a success,” your brain will naturally begin to generate thoughts associated with the thought of a successful meeting. The brain, without any effort on your part, selects the hidden meaning and main content of your statement. Outwardly, everything seems too simple, but in reality this method can very effectively help you achieve your goal.

Formulate your desire into an affirmation and use it regularly. One of my friends, a successful businessman, begins every day with the statement: “Many sales, many smiles.” He repeats this phrase several times in the morning and several times during the day.

THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN APPROVING

1. You don’t have to believe what you claim! Those for whom the affirmation method was ineffective must have done just that. This mistake can negate the entire effect of the statement. Don't think about it, just repeat the affirmation. If you believe what you claim, well, great! If you don't believe it, there's nothing wrong with it. It does not matter. The brain itself will choose the content of your statement, and the thoughts necessary in the given situation will arise in the mind. You don't need to put in much effort.

2. The affirmation should always be positive. Frame it as an affirmative rather than a negative sentence. For example, if you want a meeting to go well, you shouldn't say, "I won't crash in a meeting." If you want not to worry, you should not say: “I won’t worry.” The brain somehow misses this “not” and as a result, you find yourself setting yourself up to “crash in a meeting” or “worry.” The brain will focus on these self-destructive images rather than what you intended.

3. The statement should be brief. It is akin to mantras: a short and simple statement that is easy to say and repeat. I usually come up with statements that are no more than ten words long. Sometimes even two words can have a stunning effect: “dizzying success” or “record sales.”

I've seen statements that took up half a page. It is unlikely that you will be able to repeat such a phrase several times. Even two sentences is already a lot to approve. You repeat the statement to make it stick in your mind, so the shorter it is, the better. I repeat: the statement should be short, rhythmic and easy to repeat.

Beware of using statements that are unconsciously directed at yourself.

"I'll never achieve this."

"I will never do this."

"This is impossible".

"I'll fail."

"I don't know how to communicate with people."

"I know I'll make a mistake."

"I always lose."

People often use statements like these unconsciously. Avoid them at all costs.

I want to talk about what happened to me during a recent lecture trip. When half of the shows were already over, I looked at my schedule for the next months and couldn’t believe my eyes. Performances in different cities took place one after another, sometimes several in one day! I started thinking about how the next month was going to be absolutely exhausting. This is exactly what I began to tell myself: “I will be absolutely exhausted.” I was depressed for the next two or three days, anxiously awaiting the upcoming leg of my tour. I cursed the person who made such a terrible schedule.

Then I stopped and laughed at myself. While lecturing on brain power, I myself fell into the trap of incorrect statements. There is nothing to say, a pretty statement: “I will be absolutely exhausted.” So I immediately made up a new affirmation, focusing on three words: organization, calm, joy, which I repeated for several minutes. I started the next day with the same statement and repeated it every time, remembering my crazy schedule. After a few days, I began to think that if I was calm and organized, this “marathon race” could be very exciting. Why did he upset me so much?

Those three words changed everything. The schedule remained unchanged, my attitude changed. The tour, which I myself almost turned into torture, became an exciting adventure. I was collected, calm, and felt good about taking on this challenge by replacing a negative statement with a positive one.

You can also come up with your own affirmations that will help you achieve your goal. Because they are so simple, you can say them anywhere: standing in line at the bank, waiting at the doctor's office, stuck in a traffic jam. You don't have to believe in them. To repeat the statement, you should not literally “believe” that you actually have something that you actually don’t yet have. All you have to do is repeat your affirmations! I would recommend starting in the morning because the morning hours set the tone for the rest of the day. Just two to three minutes of exercise and you will soon notice results.

"Every day things change for the better."

Today, the name of Emile Coue is not as well known as at the beginning of the century, when this discoverer of the method of approval was treating patients and promoting his method in many clinics in Europe and North America. At one time, his works became a sensation, and conversations about them still do not subside, several decades after his death. Coue discovered that his patients recovered faster if they repeated a simple statement every morning upon waking and every evening before going to bed. The statement he taught them was: “Every day I feel better and better.” Two minutes in the morning and two minutes in the evening. That's all. The effect was so amazing that he wrote several books on self-hypnosis and began teaching people around the world the ability of the brain to cure disease if it is aimed at recovery. Coue's statement concentrated the patient's mind on the fact that every day he would get better and better. The Coue method has been documented to cure thousands of people.

Among our contemporaries, famous is the singer and composer John Lennon, who will always be remembered for his extraordinary music, humanistic views and amazing openness. Lennon made no secret of his interest in magic and the power of the brain, which was reflected in his songs. Think about the words of the song "Brain Game":

We play brain games

Creating the future from today...

Lennon knew and used techniques of visualization and affirmation. “My brain does all this,” he liked to repeat. And in the song “Beautiful Boy,” which he wrote for his son Sin, he sings: “Before you fall asleep, say the words of this short prayer: “Every day I feel better and better.” Like Coue and many other great men, he discovered his own path to knowledge of this eternal truth.

John Lennon's songs encourage us to believe in ourselves, in our strengths and capabilities. "Who do you think you are? A star? Well, you're right," he sings.

Chapter 6 AWARENESS

Nothing succeeds like success.

Many are more inclined to see their own failures and shortcomings than to realize their achievements and successes... Having achieved something, we experience joy for several days or weeks, and then we set new goals and guidelines for ourselves. The feeling of satisfaction from what we have achieved leaves us too quickly; soon we completely forget that we got what we wanted. All attention is concentrated on new goals and desires, and the feeling of joy from past achievements disappears. This is how a person wastes the most powerful energy of success. By concentrating on what has not yet been achieved, we unconsciously strengthen the idea of our own inadequacy in our brain. A person can reuse the energy of success from his past achievements, achieving amazing results. Unfortunately, he does this very rarely.

One day, after one of the lectures, a woman came up to me and asked: “John, do you think I will ever achieve my goals?” I asked her to tell me about them. Her first goal was to buy a good house, then she wanted to fly to England to see her parents and relatives, whom she had not seen for fourteen years, and thirdly, to establish a strong relationship with one person. Since she was a single mother with three children and lived very modestly, these goals seemed impossible at the time. However, by attending my seminars, the woman hoped to learn new ways to use brain power to improve the circumstances of her life.

I assured her that by using the power of her brain, she really had a chance to achieve her goals. I didn’t think about this woman again until suddenly, a year after our first meeting, she called me. “John,” she began excitedly, “you will never guess what happened! Now I live in a new house with a swimming pool and a wonderful garden with a magnificent view.” I said I was very happy for her, but she wasn't done yet. “That’s not all. I spent three weeks in England and saw my family. And...,” she saved the best news for last, “I’m incredibly happy. I’m in love, really in love!”

Naturally, I really wanted to see her again. This happened only a few months later. She met me at the airport, but, contrary to expectations, she did not look happy and satisfied with life. I just looked at her in surprise when I heard the sad question: “John, why doesn’t brain power help me?”

"Why doesn't brain power help me?" - she repeated. I couldn’t believe my ears: “Listen and correct me if I’m wrong. Aren’t you the woman who wanted to have a good house, go to England and find a friend? Aren’t you?”

She looked at me embarrassed: “Oh, I already forgot about that!”

I forgot about this! How can you forget this! Yes, it’s very simple - it happens to us all the time. She had achieved previous goals and was now working towards new ones. Having not yet really formulated them, she sincerely believed that brain power was no longer helping her. She completely forgot her previous achievements, taking them for granted. Her brain completely switched to new goals.

We focus on what we want to achieve, completely forgetting about our previous achievements. Why focus on what you don't have? We all fail at something. Learn to reward yourself for present and past victories, no matter how small. Look for moments that make you feel strong, lucky and proud of yourself. Enjoy even the smallest things and use them to feel successful now. This will help you achieve it in the future.

Recognizing success is especially effective when you are trying to achieve new goals. Let's say that you are a young director who is trying to break into the public by getting approval from one of the leading studios. Using the recognition method, you begin to look for moments that allow you to feel confident in your abilities as a director. These could be short films that you have made in the past and are proud of now. You can recall some reviews from critics, where your films are rated as interesting and promising works. Stop there and remind yourself that you are also good at noticing details. Think about how much effort you put into becoming a director. Think about all the praise and compliments various people have received about your films. Recognize all the skills you have acquired over the past years and your progress during this time.

Look - I emphasize the word "look" - for moments that can be considered successful. It is necessary to recognize not only the obvious, but everything in general. Don't think it's stupid or unnecessary. Your positive qualities are no less real than your negative ones, so be proud of them. Feel the success, let your brain enjoy the success you have already achieved for a few minutes.

This technique can be used not only to achieve a specific goal, but also to achieve success in general. Take ten minutes right now and write down on a piece of paper all your strengths in every aspect of your life, past and present.

I dress with taste.

I succeed at work.

I am a creative person.

I know a lot about...

I'm talkative.

I'm good at drawing.

I'm an optimist.

I drive the car carefully.

It's nice to talk to me.

Don't stop there - your positive qualities are limitless.

People love me. I work a lot. I enjoy life. I am a loving husband. I am a caring parent. I help my family and friends. I just made a list of my positive qualities.

Make the most complete and long list: it should contain at least twenty items. Get rid of false modesty, entrust everything to paper to visualize how many reasons you have to be proud. This is precisely the purpose of this exercise - to make you realize that you have a right to be proud of yourself. These positive feelings create a sense of success that will serve as the foundation for your future successes.

This technique can be used to achieve any goal. Make a list containing at least ten points that you recognize as your merits, which, in your opinion, will help you achieve your goal. For example, when trying to get a job as a sales agent, you can make a list of qualities that would be useful to you in this job and, therefore, set you apart from other candidates for this job.

Your list might look like this:

I am friendly.

I know how to communicate with people.

People love me.

I know how to work with people.

I'm a born salesman.

I did a great job at my previous job.

I know how to convince people.

I'm talented.

I dress tastefully and look good.

I'm organized.

I work a lot.

I achieve my goals.

If you don't make such a list, you may go into an interview just hoping to get that position. In this case, you need to be sure that you have sufficient training to get this place.

“Success begets more success,” and you have already succeeded in many areas. The more you feel the energy emanating from these previous victories, the more success you attract from the outside. So make lists like this. Nourish your brain. Work energetically. Live actively. Never belittle your merits. Never stop believing in yourself. Don't wait for manna from heaven - start creating, as John Lennon said, "the future from today."

Recognize, acknowledge and acknowledge your strengths again.

CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES REALITY, AND YOU CREATE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS

Chapter 7 SUBCONSCIOUS

Hidden in your subconscious is the power that can change the world.

William James

The human brain is two-faced. Everything I talked about earlier was about consciousness. Now it is time to introduce you to the second side of the brain - the mysterious and mystical subconscious. The power of the subconscious is simply amazing. It is known to control and manage all the vital functions of the human body, from blood circulation to breathing and digestion. It has also been established that everything that happens to a person is imprinted in the subconscious. Every event of our life, as well as thoughts and feelings associated with it, are recorded there.

It is the subconscious that often helps a person, guiding his activities. Through intuition, dreams, sensations and premonitions, it tells us the necessary ideas and solutions. Once having discovered this amazing ability, a person will no longer be helpless in any situation.

Finally, it is the subconscious that is the mechanism through which periodically repeated mental impulses - feelings and emotions - are accelerated and materialized in a physical equivalent. You can deliberately consolidate in your subconscious a plan, thought or feeling that you would like to materialize, and soon you will definitely receive the material equivalent of what you had planned. The subconscious mind is fruitful and always ready to serve you, but only a few know how to use its power.

To show how consciousness and subconsciousness work together to create the surrounding reality, I will again resort to analogies. The subconscious mind is like fertile soil that accepts any seed thrown into it. Your thoughts and views are seeds that are constantly being sown in this soil. From them grows what was sown, just as an ear develops from a grain of wheat. What goes around comes around, that's the law.

Remember that consciousness is the gardener, and your task is to understand and select what should go into our inner garden. But, unfortunately, most people are not aware of this role of the gardener - no one explained it to them. Without selecting, we allow different seeds, both good and bad, to penetrate into our inner garden, and they are the cause of everything that happens in our lives. If you want to understand why you are lucky or unlucky in life, you should look into this inner world.

The subconscious is illegible. It will reflect failure, illness or failure as readily as success and prosperity, reproducing in our lives what we ourselves have ingrained in it. The subconscious mind perceives what is presented to it with a ready-made positive or negative attitude towards it. It is not able to assess the situation, as consciousness does, and enter into an argument with you.

If you want to change your life, you should look for the reason - the way you use your consciousness: your way of thinking and visualization. You cannot think positively and negatively at the same time. At some point, one type of thinking always predominates. A mindset becomes a habit, so you must ensure that positive thoughts and emotions always prevail over negative ones.

To change external circumstances, you must first change internal ones. Most people try to change external circumstances. If you do not change your thoughts and beliefs, such attempts lead to nothing or give only a short-term effect.

Realize this, and a crystal clear path to a better life will open before you. Learn to think about success, happiness, health, well-being and banish anxiety and fear from your thoughts. Let your mind be occupied with expecting the best, while making sure that your habitual thoughts are occupied with what you want to get from life.

This is where the “law of habit” can come to your aid. Make it a habit to practice using the techniques described in this book every day. Don't just read chapter by chapter, but make the techniques described here part of your life.

Water takes the form of the vessel it is in, be it a glass, a vase, or a river bed. In the same way, your subconscious will create depending on what images you put into it in your daily thoughts. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands and you can make it whatever you want.

SYNCHRONICITY

It is worth understanding that the subconscious will always give you what you want, and mentally imagine it every day, how joyful changes will begin to happen in your life. Your powerful inner “partner” will connect you with people and push you into the circumstances necessary to achieve your goals. “A thousand invisible hands,” as Joseph Campbell calls them, will come to your aid. To the uninitiated, synchronicity may seem to be the result of mere coincidence or luck, but in reality it has nothing to do with either. This is a consequence of the functioning of natural laws that begin to act under the influence of your thoughts.

I will explain the principle of their operation. At the beginning of the book, I wrote that all material reality consists of particles of energy. We live in a giant energetic web. When you begin to instill a mindset of success into your subconscious mind, it causes a resonance of energy throughout the entire energy network. The subconscious continuously perceives fluctuations in the energy of success, attracting to you the people and circumstances necessary to achieve your goal. It should be added that the subconscious can just as well attract failure if negative thoughts predominate in you. It does not discriminate or select thoughts, but only works with those desires, hopes and fears that are present in your brain.

Fortunately, people are beginning to understand the laws of the material world and the laws that the human brain obeys. A few years ago, the idea that we could attract and create reality with the help of thoughts seemed impossible, but today the view on these problems has changed, and people understand how this process occurs. Being clots of energy, our thoughts (meaning only repeatedly repeated images, beliefs, visualizations, views and desires) influence reality. By the way, if you stop and think about it, you understand that it cannot be any other way - everything in the world is interconnected.

I want to repeat this very important idea once again. When you mentally associate yourself with the positive things you want to achieve in reality, your subconscious mind reacts accordingly. Your habitual way of thinking and the mental images that prevail in you create the reality around you, shaping your unique destiny.

The Universe miraculously helps us, but we accept only a tiny part of its help. But this situation can be changed. Once you understand the laws of your life and how they work for you, you will begin to use them with pleasure. Starting today, start putting thoughts into your subconscious about what you want. If nothing distracts you from this process, then after some time you will notice with surprise and delight how the doors of synchronicity open before you. The Himalayan explorer V. H. Murray says this about it: “Providence does not remain indifferent when a person really entrusts himself to it. Things happen to a person that would never have happened if he had not done this. A stream of events falls upon him, calling for help people, events and all kinds of material help that he did not count on."

If you comprehend this truth, the treasures of the Universe will be revealed to you. The powerful subconscious awaits your instructions.

Chapter 8 INTUITION

Why do my best ideas come to me while I'm in the shower?

Albert Einstein

Imagine how confident and safe you would feel if you had a partner who could provide you with everything you need, suggest solutions to all your problems, open up new exciting prospects for you and show you how to take advantage of them, who would always come to the rescue at your first call . In fact, such a satellite exists, it is inside you and is called intuition.

All great people, be they businessmen, athletes, artists or statesmen, always listen to their intuition. The ability to use intuitive decisions is one of the components of success and an indicator of how much a person has developed his inner self. One day life brought me together with one of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs in Australia. We were sitting in the hotel lobby, and there was still an hour left before my speech. I recognized him because I had seen his pictures in newspapers and magazines, so I walked up and introduced myself. Having read in one newspaper that he really believes in intuition, I decided to ask if this is really so. “Intuition is central to everything I do,” my interlocutor confirmed. “In my entire life, I have never taken a single important step without consulting my inner voice.”

He is not the only one who does this. Mozart claimed that he received inspiration from within. Socrates said that he obeyed his inner voice. Einstein, Edison, Marconi, Henry Ford, Luther Burbank, Madame Curie, this list can be continued with the names of many, many famous people who directly linked their successes with intuition.

Henry Mintzberg, a columnist for the Harvard Business Review, conducted a survey of high-ranking government officials and businessmen, which revealed that many of them "constantly solve problems too complex for rational thinking using intuition." From this he concludes: “The secret of success is not in straightforward thinking, called “rational,” but in the interrelation of clear logic and powerful intuition.” Billionaire and founder of CNN, one of the richest people in the world, Ted Turner, shares similar views: “Insight and intuition go hand in hand.”

Conrad Hilton says he once offered $165,000 for an item at auction. When he woke up the next morning, he thought about the number 180,000. “Connie” was known for always listening to his inner voice, so he changed his bet to $180,000. He received this lot (which, by the way, he later sold for more than $2 million), since the highest bid for it the next day rose to $179,000.

Ray Kross bought the McDonald's restaurant chain on the advice of his lawyers and accountants, because he "knew in his spine that it was reliable." Today, McDonald's restaurants are truly reliable, being the most prosperous business in the whole world, and Kross's decision to buy "several tents selling hamburgers" has already made him a multimillionaire several times over.

By listening to his inner voice, a person makes the most correct decisions, puts forward the most creative ideas and looks deeper at things, finding the shortest path from awareness of his desire to its realization. People who always find themselves in the right place at the right time and who are lucky with astonishing frequency in life are not just lucky people. They have developed an intuition that tells them what to do and when to do it. Intuition allows them to question what seems obvious, opening up new possibilities. From here they obtain the necessary knowledge, as well as instructions on when and how to use it.

Cognitive scientists who study how information passes through the brain say that only a small portion of what the brain receives (less than one percent) reaches our consciousness. It's scary to think how much we are losing. At the beginning of the book, I said that each person's brain is part of one large hologram, and each of these parts contains the whole. Your conscious mind can only contain your personal experience and knowledge, while the subconscious mind is connected to the entire system, having access to all the information stored in it. You also access it through intuition.

HOW TO GET AN ANSWER

Preparation

Arm yourself with all the facts and information available. Force your subconscious to work at full capacity. Look for any information on the issue that interests you. Take in everything that is in some way related to what you are currently working on. Your goal is to collect so much information that even the most incredible and disparate facts complement each other. Let your imagination run wild. Immerse yourself in this sea of information without trying to comprehend it logically - this is the work of the subconscious.

Maturation

Having thoroughly considered all the facts, you can relax a little. Preparation requires activity on your part, while maturation is a calmer stage. Now let your subconscious mind work. It works day and night trying to find a solution whether you think about it or not. By the way, practice proves that the subconscious mind works better if left alone. A person becomes more receptive to what the subconscious tells him if he is not thinking about something specific at the moment.

Moments when you can relax and dream are ideal for the creative process: a long trip, a bath, a walk in the forest. So, Nolan Tower, the founder of Atari, first imagined what would later become the most sold video game during a morning walk along a deserted beach. Steven Spielberg says his best ideas come when he's driving in a car with no specific goal in mind. And Albert Einstein once said to his colleague: “Why do all my best ideas come to me while I’m in the shower?”

Constantly thinking about how to find the right answer, you can get the opposite result. This is like the case of an athlete who only thinks about winning a competition. Athletes know that in order to win a competition, you need to be focused, but not tense, otherwise mistakes will immediately begin. For your intuition to help you, you need to relax and give it the opportunity to work.

AWAKENING INTUITION

Below are three steps that will help you naturally and effortlessly awaken your intuition and get answers to your questions:

Take a few minutes to think that you do have a powerful subconscious mind, that there are absolutely correct answers and solutions, and that your subconscious mind will find them for you. Try to move from logical awareness of these facts to their emotional perception. When this happens, you will feel joyful excitement. The consciousness should be constantly reminded of the existence of such a powerful assistant as the subconscious. You should feel confident, realizing the power hidden within you.

Clearly formulate what you want from your subconscious: what answers, solutions and views on the problem you want to receive from it. Repeat to yourself several times that at this very moment your subconscious is working for you. Don't stress yourself out trying to imagine possible answers. Talk to your subconscious mind confidently, constantly repeating what you want from it, but verbalize it as if it is already doing it for you. “Now my subconscious mind is telling me...” Repeat this to yourself at least ten times to feel that the process has begun.

Relax and fill your brain with confidence that the correct answer will be revealed to you. Remember that faith and confidence are not just sensations, but vibrations of energy. These vibrations will attract correct decisions and answers, just like a magnet attracts metal. The brain, in which there are fluctuations in the energy of confidence in the correct answer, will naturally find this answer. Imagine how you will feel when you find the correct answer: excitement, joy, relief. Feel it right now, but don't stress too much. You shouldn’t think day and night that your subconscious will soon tell you the correct answer.

Completing all three steps takes no more than five to ten minutes. They are best done every evening before bed. The transition from wakefulness to sleep is the most opportune time to reach the subconscious.

RECEIVING THE INFORMATION

Often the answer comes in the form of a hunch or a thought that pops into your mind when you least expect it. This can happen, like Steven Spielberg, while driving a car or while eating breakfast. Sometimes the answer may be prompted by a "little voice from within" that whispers to you: "Go there, try that, call that person, etc."

The ability to recognize these premonitions and listen to your inner voice does not come immediately, but over time you will master it. Don't be upset if you don't succeed at first. Most have never been taught how to use intuition, so it is not surprising that many have difficulty at first. This ability is like a muscle that grows and becomes stronger through exercise. You will develop your intuition by paying attention to it, calling upon it, trusting it, and acting on its promptings. But first you should believe in its existence and start listening to it.

Have you ever walked through the woods with someone who has a great knowledge of birds? He will notice ten birds, while you will see only one. His eye is already trained, and he knows what he is looking for. Through constant practice his hearing became sharper. The same thing happens with intuition. Pay close attention and listen to what is happening inside you. At first you may miss most of what your intuition tells you, but you will soon learn to hear it. It's much easier than you think. All you need is a little practice and faith.

Very often, intuitive ideas come to us in a dream. Dr. Frederick Banting, a brilliant Canadian physician, discovered the chemistry of insulin in a dream. He dreamed exactly all the steps that needed to be taken to discover the formula that had eluded him for so long. The inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Howe, had been working on his design for many years, but to complete his creation he was left with one small detail that he could not come up with. One night he dreamed that he was surrounded by savages who pointed strange spears at him - at the end of each spear there was a hole. Howe woke up with a firm decision - to make an eye on the end of the needle! This small detail became the key to the invention of the sewing machine.

The subconscious mind may suggest solutions differently each time, but you will always feel that you are receiving intuitive information based on the quality of the ideas, as well as the feeling that arises. Joy, confidence and an overwhelming feeling: “This is it!” - it is these sensations that distinguish intuitive ideas from other thoughts that arise in your brain.

OPEN TO INTUITION

Certain attitudes and behaviors will promote the development of intuition, so they are worth cultivating. There are many ways in which you can convey to the subconscious what is required of it and get what you want. By accepting the fact of the existence of intuition and believing in its power, you will create the prerequisites for its work. If you learn to think of intuition as a natural and useful part of everyday life, it will manifest itself. But thoughts such as “I will never solve this problem” or “I will never find the answer to this question” signal to the intuition that it is not worth worrying about. Positive thoughts and the belief that you deserve not just an answer, but the best answer, move your intuition into positive action.

Do not be shy. Feel free to tell your subconscious mind that its wisdom, knowledge and power guide and guide you. At night I talk to my subconscious mind the way I would talk to my friend. I tell it (while repeating it to myself) that it is omnipotent and has access to “absolute knowledge.” I confidently explain to him what it is supposed to do for me. Then I calmly fall asleep in full confidence that everything will be done. This is what always happens.

Here's a statement you should try too:

"My subconscious is my partner in achieving success."

Breaking this statement down into parts, you can see that it consists of three key elements:

1. “My subconscious...” By stating this, you acknowledge the fact of the existence of the subconscious. You recognize and accept your “invisible partner” as really existing. You remind yourself of its existence once again. Don't be afraid, you can't go overboard with these reminders.

2. “... my partner...” A partner is someone who works with you hand in hand to achieve a common goal, someone who shares with you all the hardships of this work, while each of you solves your own set of problems. Why not let your subconscious mind do what it does best, provide you with accurate information, ideas and answers? In any situation, you are not alone and not left to the mercy of fate, because you can always count on your subconscious. It supplies you with ideas and is a source of positive activity.

3. "...in achieving success." The word "success" is a powerful statement that expresses everything you would like to achieve in your work, relationships and life in general. Simply repeating this statement creates vibrations of energy that will help you achieve your goal.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU NEED TO MAKE A DECISION QUICKLY

Sometimes you have to make a decision quickly - you can’t wait a week, you need to decide something today. If you are forced to make an urgent decision, try this technique:

Relax your entire body by taking a few deep breaths or moving your shoulders in circles. Feel calm and relaxed. Quiet your brain and then confidently tell yourself ten times, “I always make the right decisions.” Feel the power of words. Speak confidently. After saying the phrase for the last time, immediately make a decision. This way you will avoid logical reasoning and get the answer from the subconscious. The first thing that comes to your mind will be your decision.

Sometimes it is useful to avoid logical reasoning. It is impossible to live obeying only the laws of logic: our life is full of paradoxes and secrets. This is why it is important to trust your subconscious, feelings and premonitions. By doing this, a person becomes closer to the truth than when he dogmatically tries to remain within the bounds of limited rational thinking.

Unfortunately, school does not teach you to listen to your intuition. Instead, children are taught to select and decipher piles of knowledge. However, it is easy to see that in real life, even after you have collected all the necessary information, there remains a gap that is not so easy to fill. Here intuition should come to the rescue, which will prompt the final decision.

The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. How many times have you tried in vain to find a solution or answer in your head, passing through the same information over and over again in the hope that you simply missed something? You could not find the answer, because by turning only to consciousness, you greatly limited the range of possible solutions. Trying old ideas, you spent years treading water, blindfolded and one hand tied behind your back. No wonder you couldn't achieve what you wanted. The subconscious is replete with new ideas, solutions and answers. Don't limit yourself. Open this treasure trove and take in everything that is new, dynamic, original and full of life. These ideas and solutions exist within you right now.

Once you realize the all-powerful power of the subconscious mind, you will never again be short of ideas. Your consciousness and intuition will be constantly aimed at finding the necessary information. As the Upanishads say: “Everything exists within.”

Chapter 9. Dreams

Dreams will show you where you are and where you are going. They will reveal your destiny to you.

Dreams have interested humanity since time immemorial. The oldest interpretations of dreams written on clay tablets can be found in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, dating back to 3000 BC. Today it is known that the ancient Greeks and Egyptians practiced "dream induction" in temples and shrines intended for healing. The Bible tells of many people who were guided in their lives by dreams. Joseph predicted seven years of prosperity for Pharaoh, followed by seven years of need, correctly interpreting his dream. Among the Aztecs, in the hierarchy of gods, the most important deity is the one who commands dreams. North American Indians have special dream rooms where tribal elders interpret the dreams they had during rituals and make various decisions accordingly.

Until recently, most people in modern society did not consider this aspect of the human psyche important, depriving themselves of connection with their own inner world. Fortunately, the situation is now changing, and more and more people are trying to master this source of understanding of their own Self. Dreams are most interesting because they mix the conscious and the unconscious, when images of everyday life collide with the hidden wisdom of the subconscious.

Many scientists first dreamed about the solutions to the problems they were working on, and only then consciously developed them. Einstein dreamed that he was riding a beam of light long before he discovered the theory of relativity. Many artists, businessmen, researchers, and people of various professions find creative solutions in their dreams. Today there is enough evidence to convince even the biggest skeptics that dreams are not just meaningless nonsense.

In the previous chapter, I talked about Dr. Banting and Elias Howe, who made their revolutionary discoveries using dreams. Let me give you another compelling example.

Nobel laureate Dr. James Watson discovered the mysterious properties of the DNA molecule through a dream he had one night. For years he tried unsuccessfully to unravel the molecular structure of DNA. One night he dreamed of two snakes entwined around each other. He instantly woke up and exclaimed: “Maybe this is what I'm looking for? Maybe DNA is a double helix wrapped around itself?” This form no longer exists in nature. He tested this hypothesis, thus unraveling the mystery of the genetic code, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Dreams are the forgotten language of the human race. The strange symbols and allegories they contain are full of hidden meaning, you just need to learn to understand them. Having been interpreting my own dreams for many years and having analyzed a huge number of dreams during this time, I can say with confidence that the higher mind speaks to us through dreams. Dreams show us where we are right and where we are wrong, pointing to the hidden cause of internal disharmony or emotional breakdown. They reveal the deepest meaning of human life, explaining many phenomena. Dreams show a person how to follow his destiny and realize the hidden potential of life in each of us.

We dream on average five to seven times a night. This will surprise some: there are people who seem to rarely dream. In fact, every person dreams every night, regardless of whether he remembers them later or not. This can be accurately determined because "rapid eye movements" occur during sleep. Having recorded this phenomenon, physiologists accurately determine how often a person dreams.

Babies dream 50 percent of the time they sleep; premature babies - 70 percent. We dream more often if the previous day was filled with experiences, active study, and new events. Consequently, dreams help a person adapt to changes in his life.

HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR BRAIN TO SLEEP

1. Tell your brain before going to bed: “Today I will have dreams, and I will remember them.” Repeat this to yourself about twenty times. You can even guess what you would like to see in a dream, what area to explore, but remember that dreams arise according to their own program. The body knows better what a person currently wants to understand.

2. Place a piece of paper and a pencil next to your bed. This is not only practical, but also symbolic. This will demonstrate your desire to understand the meaning of your dreams. Your attitude towards your dreams will determine their attitude towards you. When preparing to understand dreams, you must first respect and acknowledge them, then you will have dreams much more often.

3. When you wake up, do not jump out of bed at the moment when consciousness slowly returns to you. This intermediate time between sleep and wakefulness is very important. This is a chasm between two worlds. Maybe there is still a fragment of a dream floating around somewhere? If so, then watch him like a hunting dog watching his prey. Try to restore it bit by bit. Mentally replay the dream several times, each time adding a new detail, until you have reconstructed almost the entire dream. Now stand up and write down your dream, adding details that come to mind as you write. When a dream is written down, you can immediately begin to interpret it or postpone it until later.

INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

In the interpretation of dreams, deep interest plays a greater role than idle curiosity. Imagine that you are a pioneer or an archaeologist excavating an ancient settlement. The interpretation of dreams is in many ways akin to archaeological excavations. You need to not only find the relics, but also explain what they are and what they mean.

The dreams that were described in this and the previous chapters are interpreted very simply. I have given them to show how dreams can direct human activity. However, such dreams are an exception. Ninety percent of your dreams seem to make no sense at all, or are extremely difficult to explain. They seem like nonsense, a message in a foreign language you don't know. However, if you really want to understand your dreams and know some keys to their interpretation, they will open up a new unknown world for you.

Symbols and allegories are used to convey messages in dreams. Symbols tell our intuition what words to think about. The language of dreams belongs more to the field of poetry or art than linguistics. There is an interesting hypothesis that dreams use symbols rather than linguistic signs because this part of human consciousness arose earlier than language.

Dreams are messages that your subconscious sends you, so they carry information about your inner world. Dreams are always connected to a specific person, showing where he is experiencing difficulties, what he is trying to avoid, what he is missing, what he is not noticing and what he needs to do. 95 percent of the time you sleep, all the characters, monsters, and monsters in your dreams reflect certain aspects of real life. Before you start interpreting dreams, you should understand that all the characters in a dream are you (except for those cases when it is obvious that the dream character is your child, relative, work colleague, etc., but even then they are often just a reflection of you).

Consider, for example, a dream where a burglar sneaks into your house, intending to kidnap your children and harm them. You try to resist the robber, and as a result, a life-and-death struggle breaks out. You wake up.

Explaining this dream subjectively, first of all, we can say that in it you act as two persons - in the role of a robber and in the role of yourself. Ask yourself: What part of me is hurting children? Maybe you work too much and don't have time for them? Perhaps, by staying at work for a long time, you are robbing your children, depriving them of your company.

This dream can be interpreted in another way: perhaps children are the innocent and carefree part of your “I”, while you yourself in this dream symbolize everything serious and logical in you. Maybe the “adult” in you suppresses your naturalness and spontaneity? It is likely that this dream is telling you that by living this way, you are losing something. Got it?

Try to avoid interpreting dreams too literally. Let's say you dream that you are driving a racing car along a mountain road at ninety miles per hour. You lose control, crash and crash. Does this mean that you will soon die in a car accident? Very unlikely. Most likely, this dream is communicating something less literal about you. Maybe you are losing control of your life? Where do you need to slow down? Perhaps the dream warns that if you don’t slow down, you will “break”, i.e. get sick, lose something valuable, or become separated from someone you care about. Death in a dream often means change, a transition to another state, the end of one stage in your life and the beginning of a new one. Are they indicating changes to you? Perhaps they will happen too quickly. Does this explanation suit you?

Nightmares are your subconscious's attempt to shock you into paying attention to some aspect of your life. It’s as if the subconscious is telling you: “Look here. This is urgent.” Likewise, recurring dreams are messages trying to get through to you. If you interpret them correctly, they will disappear. They repeat themselves again and again because you interpret them incorrectly.

Here are some techniques to help you interpret your dreams:

Title your dream. The title may be completely meaningless, it is important that your intuition works. This title may serve as a clue to the interpretation of the dream.

To show how this technique works, I will give the following example. Many years ago I was going to invest money in a business that seemed very reliable. Shortly before we were about to close the deal, I had a dream that one of the participants was walking a skunk on a leash. I asked him, “Why are you walking a skunk?” He just shrugged his shoulders, as if he thought this was quite normal. When I woke up, I tried to grasp the meaning of this dream. I came up with a name for it - “Something Stinks.” As a result, I decided not to invest in that venture. From the outside it seemed that I had missed a truly unique opportunity, but two years later all participants in this transaction went bankrupt. By listening to my own dream, I saved my money.

Immediately after waking up, go back to the dream and talk to its characters. Find a secluded place where you will not be disturbed for five to ten minutes. Closing your eyes, mentally recall your dream. Try to reproduce everything exactly - imagine the same events and the same characters. Mentally transport yourself back to sleep. Let events unfold, only this time you can react to them the way you want. For example, in the case of a dream about a burglar breaking into your house to steal your children, reconstruct the events as you dreamed them, but do not fight the burglar, but try to talk to him. Ask him who he is, what he wants, why he does it. Now you can do this because you control your sleep. You can talk to your children - you may be very surprised by their answers. This technique is simply irreplaceable if you want to understand everything.

Imagine that your dream is a play and analyze it according to the following points:

1. Introduction. The artistic design of the dream and the meaning of the problem raised in it.

2. Plot. Action, the course of events in your dream.

3. Conclusion. How does your dream end? Has the problem been solved? What lies behind this ending?

When studying a dream in this way, you may wonder what its main symbols are. What could they mean? What associations with the past do they evoke in me? What are they telling me?

Also analyze your emotional state at each moment of sleep: it contains the key to unraveling the meanings of the symbols. Do you feel relief, horror, confidence, an extraordinary surge of strength? Perhaps you dreamed that you witnessed a murder, but instead of being scared, you felt joy and excitement. When you wake up, you feel embarrassed about your feelings. The key to solving the dream is your feelings at the time of the murder. What part of your life needs to be changed (killed)? Will you feel joy and excitement if such changes happen? What changes in your life could this dream indicate? Work through different versions.

Sometimes the meaning of a dream is revealed only after some time. It usually takes several days or weeks for the dream to make sense, and sometimes even this time is not enough. But even if you were not able to explain a dream (at first you will be able to explain only one dream out of four), the very fact of working with a dream will contribute to the growth and development of your subconscious. There is no effort that is not compensated at one level or another. In the same way, you cannot interpret dreams only from the point of view of rational thinking: intuition here is no less important than logic. Every dream, if remembered and interpreted correctly, will have a long-term effect. A person will be forever connected with him, and through him - with his inner world. When we find the correct explanation for a dream, it’s as if some kind of click occurs inside us. We say: “Yes, this is it.” We feel a surge of strength. A correct understanding of a dream is very beneficial, as a person experiences satisfaction and peace after receiving guidance from within. The interpretation of dreams is always a live dialogue with your own subconscious. By acquiring the skill of dream interpretation, a person begins to understand that he has a connection with something powerful and limitless within himself.

Chapter 10 REALITY

A person's future lies within himself; it lives in him at this very moment.

Abraham Maslow

What is happening in your life at the present moment is not just an accident, but the result of the work of your consciousness in the past. The roots of your “today” lie in the past.

Let's consider this analogy: when you look at the sky and see stars, you are actually seeing their past, since some of those stars no longer exist. The stars are hundreds or thousands of light years away, and light that travels at 186,000 miles per second takes hundreds or thousands of years to reach Earth. Thus, the light we observe from a distant star was emitted by it hundreds of years ago. This star could have exploded or died out twenty-five years ago, but we still see its light and will see it for another hundred years, although the star itself is long gone.

Using the power of your brain, always remember this analogy, because if you change your thoughts, you will not immediately notice the change in the reality in which you live. There will always be a period of time when you develop a new consciousness, while continuing to live in the old reality.

This period of "waiting for what will happen" is very important: your behavior during this time will either accelerate or slow down the onset of the new reality that you want to create. You may have doubts that change is happening. You may become frustrated, thinking that you are just wasting your time. Your brain will try to fool you, whispering that nothing will happen, that everything is useless. Such thoughts are quite natural and arise in each of us. Don't pay attention to them, just be patient and diligent and continue what you started. It should be remembered that reality is a process, and not something stable and unchanging.

Everything that exists is in a constant state of transformation into something else. The circumstances of your life also change all the time, turning into others, so if you constantly repeat thoughts to yourself, they simply cannot help but create a new reality. This is worth thinking about.

Relax and enjoy these exercises, ignoring any negative thoughts. Everything has its time, and gradually your life will begin to change naturally and painlessly. There is no need to force this process.

REMEMBER THESE NOTES

1. Always be aware of what you are thinking. Today's thoughts create your future.

2. Change your attitude towards any troubles in life. If you are not moving up the corporate ladder, your personal life is not going well, you are sick, unemployed, or all the circumstances are stacked against you, take it for granted. Don't try to convince yourself that this is not so. This is true. Don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself or resisting circumstances; fight them with the power of your brain.

3. Determine for yourself a daily “creation period”, free from everyday worries. This is the time when you will receive the necessary boost of energy.

One day I called a company and asked them to provide me with the information I needed for work. The woman I was talking to asked me to call back in half an hour, saying: "Sorry, but we can't get information from the computer right now, it's running a program." After hanging up, I thought: “This is how we use the power of the brain. By executing a mental program, we close our brain to all external stimuli and run the program over and over again.”

CHANGE IS THE PROCESS OF ACCUMULATION

Imagine an eyedropper filled with red paint. Every day you drop one drop into a large container of water. At first you will not notice any effect: the paint will quickly dissolve and be absorbed by water. However, as you continue to add a drop per day, you will see that the water will first turn pale pink, then pink, until it finally turns into a rich red solution.

When creating a new reality, the “dropper” is your daily “creation period”, when you disconnect from your daily worries, difficulties and the reality in which you live at the moment. This period can last from five to thirty minutes, depending on how you define it for yourself. By regularly applying the techniques you have learned, you will soon notice an ever-increasing effect. Those who do it half-heartedly will quickly fail, but for those who work diligently, nothing will be impossible.

Can you believe that you have the gift of foresight in the sense that you can be stronger and rise above your circumstances?

Are you ready every day, without missing a single day, to strengthen your thoughts about the reality that you would like to create for yourself?

Will you persevere in your daily activities and believe in their success, even if nothing outwardly changes in your life?

If yes, then you will get everything you want. You boldly step into this world, and it will fulfill your every request.

Chapter 11 CONCENTRATION AND REFLECTION

It takes as much time to fully understand a majestic and beautiful thought as it does to generate it.

Jean Hubert

Many people have a misconception about what concentration is. For them, it is associated with hard work and not always pleasant memories of school. So they convince themselves that it is difficult to concentrate. However, if you have ever experienced the joy of watching a movie or listening to a concert, you will agree that concentration comes quite naturally when you are immersed in an activity that brings you pleasure.

Concentration does not require superhuman effort, but practice. It is a skill that can be learned and developed. Like most skills, the more you use it, the better it becomes. By the way, as you develop concentration, you will notice that you not only become better at managing your thoughts, but also gain greater clarity of mind.

The ability to concentrate and focus your brain on a specific idea or thought is the key to successfully using your brain power. Unfortunately, if you have never trained your brain, you will find that it is quite uncontrollable and constantly jumps from thought to thought. This is the first thing a person notices when starting to train their brain. The human brain is more fickle than many realize. It takes a lot of effort to manage it. This is what you must master: force your brain to produce thoughts at will and discard thoughts that you do not need. As long as a person submits to his every thought, allowing it to carry him away in an unknown direction, he will remain captive of his fantasies, worries, and desires. Every thought has power over a person. By learning to concentrate, we gain control over our thoughts. Strengthening the brain through various concentration techniques disciplines it. This, in turn, allows us to be selective about our thoughts.

Developing concentration is akin to developing and strengthening muscles. If you stop working out in the gym, you will find that the first workout will be very tiring and unpleasant. But as you continue to practice every day or every other day according to a specific program, you will soon discover how pleasant and exciting it is. In addition, your well-being will improve, your stamina will increase and your overall physical condition will improve. The same thing happens when you work in the “gym” of your brain. Your brain is not accustomed to discipline, so your first attempts to concentrate will be met with resistance and, naturally, will not be nearly as productive as if you had been doing mental training for some time before. Keep this in mind and don't be disappointed if this happens to you the first few times. Be patient and give yourself time to learn this new skill. Only constant training will give positive results, and the results will definitely come, I assure you.

REFLECTIONS

Reflection is the only technique that, in my opinion, is most suitable for developing concentration skills. Not only will they help you sharpen your mind, but they will also allow you to gain a deeper understanding of any problem you are studying. Reflection exercises are an integral part of our classes.

Whatever the problem, when we think, we break through the ideas, truths and laws lying on the surface to comprehend the hidden deepest meaning. This is how the greatest artists, inventors, mystics and clairvoyants throughout human history have gained their knowledge. Without deep reflection, it is impossible to lift the veil of secrecy over many phenomena, so most people have only a superficial understanding of the reality around them. How often do we deceive ourselves into thinking that we know everything about a subject by providing facts and logical arguments!

We may know something, but that “something” may only be a small part of the whole picture, and, of course, we do not know everything.

Let me give you one example. What is the difference between a tomato, picked while still very small and green, and a fruit that has been allowed to ripen and fill with juice? Having eaten an unripe tomato, you can claim that you have learned the taste of tomatoes, and you will be partly right in saying that they are bitter and tasteless: this follows from your experience. But then you try a juicy ripe tomato and see that you were mistaken before. Your knowledge about tomatoes has expanded significantly since you have now tried both types and know the difference. The potential of the green tomato was initially hidden from you. Likewise, once you have read this book, you can claim that you now know how brain power works, and that is true: you have a basic understanding of the subject. But it is much more important not just to read the book, but to practically try the techniques described in it. Having learned this, you will have more opportunities to comprehend the secrets of the powers of the brain than a person armed only with theoretical knowledge. Only thinking about a problem allows you to comprehend it more deeply.

HOW TO THINK

When we think, we use our brains like a flashlight to find the information we need. Meditation is taking an idea, thought or truth and probing it deeply. This disciplines the brain, teaching it to constantly focus on the subject of thought, while you repeatedly review and think about the content of the problem, establishing hidden relationships and discovering previously unnoticed connections.

You can reflect on what inspires you or what you want to understand more deeply. Let's say you want to think about the claim that thoughts have real power. Using a watch to monitor you (I recommend doing thought exercises for at least five and no more than ten minutes), begin to focus on the fact that “thoughts have real power.” Become completely absorbed in this statement, deeply immersed in thoughts about it. Ask yourself questions like: “What does this mean?”, “What does this mean?”, “How can this affect me?”, “Can I benefit from this?” Reflect on this for the allotted time, without allowing your mind to wander away from the necessary thoughts.

If your thought constantly wanders during reflection, and it will definitely do so, gently but confidently return it to the subject of reflection. During the initial phase of thinking exercises, your mind will wander away from the subject ten to twenty times in a five-minute period. During the exercise, a completely abstract thought may come to your mind. Memories from the past, thoughts about undone things, as well as various desires, worries and fantasies will arise in your brain against your will, trying to distract your attention. Don't let them distract you from your main task. Once you realize that your mind is occupied with unnecessary thoughts, forget about them and continue thinking from the point where you left off. Your brain is not yet disciplined and is not accustomed to this mode of operation. It’s easier for him to think about random things and concentrate on what he likes best. Soon he will get bored, deciding that there is nothing more to think about; thoughts will become restless. Ignore these feelings, but simply return him to the main topic of reflection, constantly reminding him of the set time limit. This is truly a great gymnastics for the mind. Now you can direct and control your brain, instead of it controlling you.

If you continue to do this exercise over several days and weeks, two things will happen. First, by disciplining your brain and training it in this way, you will develop the ability to concentrate, become more active and creative. Secondly, your hitherto limited logical understanding of what you are thinking about will become much deeper. You will find that during meditation you will sometimes have a feeling of joyful excitement and enlightenment, as if the truth has been revealed to you. When thinking, it's a good idea to always have a pencil and paper handy to jot down new thoughts and ideas that come to mind. You will find that you now perceive ideas on a sensory level, which is much more effective than simple logical comprehension. This way you can look deeper into the problem.

Hidden brain power can be developed through exercise; the ability to think correctly and effectively comes with practice. Start today to develop your ability to concentrate through meditation. You can start by thinking about how powerful your subconscious mind is, or how your thoughts influence reality, or the many other life-changing principles contained in this book. But whatever the subject of your thoughts, you will be rewarded a hundredfold.

Chapter 12. VIEWS AND THEIR ROOTS

All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times, but for them to become truly yours, you need to honestly think about them again and again until they take root in your brain.

There is no area of our life regarding which a person would not have certain views and beliefs, many of which are developed in early childhood and carry through throughout life. We rarely question already formed views. Naturally, we consider them true, otherwise why do we need them at all? If we are sure that making money is not easy, it is only because money is actually not easy to make. A person considers himself worthless - this is how it really is. If it seems to us that life does not promise anything good, it really does not promise anything good. We can question almost any aspect of life, but the last thing a person will question is their own beliefs.

WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS WHAT YOU GET

Many people have repeatedly used their own beliefs against themselves. By carefully analyzing your problems, you may notice that many of them stem from incorrect or limited views. Therefore, when experiencing difficulties in relationships with people, analyze your views on human relationships. Reconsider all your views. Likewise, if you have health problems, take a closer look at your views on health; if you are experiencing financial difficulties, you should pay attention to your attitude towards money.

After one of the lectures, a man in his thirties came up to me and told me in a quiet voice that he didn’t make enough money. He could always provide for himself and his family, but he never managed to save anything. “I’ll never have enough money,” he shrugged. “It’s just impossible to get out into the world.”

Both of these negative beliefs: “I will never have enough money” and “It’s just impossible to get out into the world,” deeply rooted in the subconscious of this person, continuously acted, creating the reality around him. I suggested that these were not his only negative beliefs about money, because, as I knew from my own experience, most negative beliefs drag a tail of others like them with them.

I asked him to write down all his views on money and success. The resulting list clarified a lot. It included such common beliefs as: “If I borrow money from someone, that person will have to make ends meet because of me,” “All opportunities to make good money are already taken by others,” “It’s difficult to make money,” “Everyone successful people are selfish, and I don’t want to be selfish,” “To succeed, I will have to give up too, so much.” What a self-limiting and self-deprecating list!

It is not surprising that this man could not achieve financial success, because he was at war with his subconscious, fighting a horde of beliefs that he would become selfish, would step over others and would have to give up too much in order to make a good living.

During another lecture of mine, a woman who was constantly sick analyzed her views and found that she was constantly telling herself: “Everyone gets sick,” “There is so much infection around,” “I get infected with something all the time,” “My body is so fragile,” "Disease is much stronger than health." Fortunately, she managed to improve her health in time by adopting new, life-affirming views.

You must take care of the contents of your subconscious mind. If it receives any disturbing, negative or limited ideas, it will accept them as truth and begin to act according to them, causing corresponding circumstances in life. If you believe in poverty, failure and misfortune, then the subconscious will make every effort, using thousands of different ways to make these beliefs come true.

HAVE YOU EVER SWALLOWED A SNAKE?

There is an old story about a stupid peasant who was sent to visit his master's house. The owner took him into the office and offered him soup, but as soon as the peasant took the spoon, he noticed a small snake in his plate. In order not to offend the owner, he still ate the soup. A few days later he became so seriously ill that he was forced to return to the owner’s house again. He again took him into the office and prepared the medicine in a small cup, which he then handed over to the peasant. Just as he was about to take his first sip, the peasant again noticed a small snake in his cup. This time he decided not to remain silent and said loudly that it was for this reason that he got sick last time. Laughing, the owner pointed to the ceiling, where a large bow hung. “What you see in your cup is not a snake, but the reflection of an onion,” he said. “There is no snake.”

The peasant looked at his cup again and, of course, there was not a snake there, but a simple reflection. He left his master's house without taking the medicine, and was well within a day.

When we perceive limited views and beliefs about ourselves or the world around us, we swallow an imaginary snake. And it is always real... until we are convinced otherwise.

As soon as the subconscious mind perceives some belief or idea, regardless of whether it is true or not, it will begin to methodically develop thoughts that confirm this belief. Suppose you unconsciously believe that establishing a relationship with a person of the opposite sex is very difficult. Once ingrained, this belief will feed your brain with thoughts like: “I will never meet someone I like,” “It’s impossible to find a good partner,” “Relationships are always unstable,” etc. Once you meet an interesting person, your brain will begins: “He’s probably not that good at all,” “You shouldn’t even try. It won’t work anyway,” or “She’ll never be interested in me.” Moreover, your brain, which is ingrained with the belief that “it is very difficult to form lasting relationships,” will be like a magnet attracting situations that confirm this statement, and ignoring or even repelling situations that prove the opposite. The brain can distort the perception of reality to bring it into line with your views.

Do you consider yourself worthless? Or are you earning poorly? Do you believe that you attract illness? Your brain will find irrefutable evidence of these beliefs, and all its activity will be aimed at once again confirming this.

On the other hand, you should believe that you are a winner or that money can be made from everything, that you have excellent health, and real evidence of these beliefs will immediately appear around you.

CHOOSE YOUR BELIEFS WISELY

In almost any problem area of life, you yourself are both the problem and the solution. This may seem strange, but resistance does not come from outside, but from within yourself - from your own beliefs. When new beliefs arise in the subconscious, a completely new reality appears before you.

Let's say you believe that "it's hard to make friends." This is how you justify your reluctance to get acquainted. This is no longer your fault - it’s difficult! It logically follows that you avoid meeting new people. Your belief causes you to mistakenly believe that you are not to blame for your lack of friends.

If you change your belief to “meeting new people is easy,” your phone will certainly not be ringing off the hook with invitations to dinner. You may not even meet anyone, but you will change your attitude towards this problem. Suddenly you will realize that the problem does not exist as such: you created it yourself. Once you realize responsibility for the reality around you, you will be able to analyze what needs to be changed in yourself. Sometimes even a small change in outlook can open up new, unlimited possibilities.

Once you believe that meeting new people is easy, you will find plenty of evidence for this belief and will be able to make any changes necessary to make the most of this new reality.

PROVE YOUR GREATNESS!

Try to develop new, more positive beliefs, even if you don't really believe in them. Remind yourself that you can root any thought or idea in your subconscious, and the brain will perceive it, you just need to convey it through sensations, repeating it several times.

The brain operates out of habit. If you have allowed limited views to take root in your brain, you can expel them by developing new positive ideas and repeating them until they completely displace the old ones. So, you need to do a little mental cleaning: change the furniture and paint the walls. It is time to throw away all the old, negative and self-deprecating beliefs, even if they have been cultivated for so many years, and replace them with new ones.

Look carefully at the list below and tell me if your usual statements are there:

I can not do it.

I'll never achieve more.

Right now my options are limited.

I've tried a thousand times.

It doesn't matter what I do.

It's very difficult to get ahead of the rest.

Something always goes wrong.

This is temporary. Life is a difficult thing. To achieve something, you need to work hard.

Nothing comes for nothing. Now is not my time. I do not know what to do.

If any of the statements sound familiar to you, immediately begin to develop new, more positive views. To achieve success means to have the desire and will to throw away all the excuses, excuses and other “advantages” that failure gives us. Millions of people are satisfied with their current situation and make no attempt to change it. They are convinced that life is hopelessly difficult and surrender to the will of fate. Nothing can shake and encourage them. And you?

EXPLORE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES

Choose an area of your life that you are struggling with, be it: finances, relationships, sex, health, business, etc. Write down all your views on this matter. Don't regret your time and be honest. Don't write about how you think you should feel or what you think is right. Write only what you really feel. Once you've finished, look through the list carefully, looking for limited views. You shouldn't care now whether they are true or not. Your task is to find limited views. If done correctly, this process in itself can clarify a lot of things.

Next to each limited view, write a new positive statement. For example:

Limited Views New Beliefs

I don't see a way to make good money.

It's difficult to meet people.

It's hard to make friends.

I will never get out into people

I don't have time to work on this project

There are many ways to make good money.

It's easy to meet people.

It's easy to make friends.

I'm simply doomed to success.

I have plenty of time to do this project.

Using the belief-rooting technique below, anchor these beliefs in your subconscious mind. Develop one or two new beliefs every month; Don't try to do too much at once. Over time, you will notice that you have acquired many strong beliefs that are now working effectively for you.

ROOTING

The rooting technique is very simple. You've been using it almost since birth. First you used it to learn to speak, then to master the multiplication tables. You can immediately answer how much 6x6 or 8x7 is because the answers are firmly ingrained in your brain through repetition and reinforcement. Remember how many times you wrote and memorized examples from the multiplication table? You probably don't remember learning to read, but you did the same thing: constantly repeating words and phrases and correcting yourself, or being corrected when you mispronounced or used them. Now you speak your native language with absolutely no effort because it is firmly ingrained in your brain.

Like any new information, you can automatically apply ideas and beliefs only after they take root in your brain. The excitement of a new idea does not last long, because inspiration, no matter how strong it may be, soon fades and disappears. No matter how excited a person is about a new idea, if he cannot or does not want to go beyond this initial enthusiasm, he will inevitably return back to his previous state from which he started.

To help an idea take root in your brain, combine affirmations with reflections. Think about an idea by repeating it to yourself. Ignore all opposing ideas, let only this one idea become real to you. A new idea is like a tender sprout: it requires nourishment while it sprouts. Be carefull; If you don't take care, your uncontrollable old ideas, like mental seeds, will sprout and choke out the still weak new ideas.

Any new ideas or beliefs must first go through a germination stage before they take root in your mind. It takes time. Nothing will happen if you try once or twice, or maybe even twenty times to encourage a new belief. It takes one to three months for the effect of a new belief to take root in the brain. And this is from thirty to ninety daily classes of five to ten minutes each. Now do you understand why people who tried to absorb a new belief or idea after reading it once or twice failed? “I tried to believe it, but I just can’t,” they say in despair. Did they try that hard?

You are trying to develop new beliefs in your subconscious, and very often they contradict existing ones. Your brain simply cannot absorb any new beliefs unless you reinforce them daily for a month or two. Why waste your time and be disappointed by failures, working half-heartedly? Any new belief requires time and attention to take root and flourish, otherwise you will not be guaranteed success. Now repeat after me:

Any new belief takes time and attention to take root and flourish. Any new belief takes time and attention to take root and flourish. Any new belief takes time and attention to take root and flourish.

Chapter 13 SELF-ASSESSMENT

Something we hide will create insecurity in us until we admit that this something is ourselves.

Robert Frost

Almost everyone will agree that good, healthy self-esteem is very important, but few understand how to come to a sense of self-worth.

Our self-esteem consists of a mental representation of all the concepts formed over the years. In the end, this idea is so imprinted into the subconscious that it begins to live on its own, and we simply forget that we ourselves created it, and therefore we can change and redo it.

Let's take a closer look at how things are going

What if what we want is actually achievable? What if boundaries exist only in our heads? You just have to go beyond the usual boundaries, and life will sparkle in a new way. There are no difficulties here, unless we invent them for ourselves. A person's capabilities are much wider than he imagines. John Kehoe’s book “The Subconscious Can Do Anything” will help you touch your own.

about the author

John Kehoe was born in Toronto (Canada), and a little later moved to live in Vancouver. Some time ago, this man led an ordinary life and was no different from hundreds of thousands of his peers. Nothing is known about this stage of his biography.

The history of John Kehoe as a famous and successful writer, a master of public speaking, and a person with an active social position begins in 1978, when he began work on his book “The Subconscious Can Do Anything.” The author has worked through all the material described in his work from his own experience. This was preceded by a difficult stage in the writer’s life, which proved to him that the subconscious can do anything.

How was the book created?

Work on unlocking the powers of his own mind began in 1975, when John Kehoe decided to settle in the wooded desert of British Columbia, a small province in the north of his country. He planned to use the solitude to study the inner workings of the human mind. It took him three years.

Returning from his seclusion to the civilized world, Kehoe decided to make 100% use of the experience gained. He began to travel around the world, gather full houses of people, give lectures, and gained phenomenal success. His first books, “The Power of the Mind in the 21st Century”, “Money, Success and You”, “The Practice of Happiness” quickly took a leading place on bestseller lists in dozens of countries around the world and were translated into several languages. He created a simple and accessible program for developing the power of one’s own mind, which he successfully taught to people.

In 2005, based on more extensive experience, another book appeared, published by John Kehoe - “The Subconscious Can Do Anything.”

Positive psychology

The book is easy to read. Complex things are explained in it for a wide range of readers in simple and accessible language. Practical exercises are described that are also easy to reproduce. Such ease of presentation immediately sets you up for positive thinking - it turns out that changing your life is quite simple.

A positive attitude permeates the entire book from beginning to end. The author makes it clear that a person himself builds boundaries, isolating himself from the world around him, and forgets who he is. We are accustomed to dividing everything into pairs: bad-good, black-white, subject-object, etc. And at the same time we ourselves do not notice how this duality gives rise to internal conflicts in us, constant struggle. This is how people create problems for themselves and suffer from them. This is exactly what John Kehoe talks about in his book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything.”

Feedback from many people proves that understanding these mechanisms is inspiring and eliminates internal contradictions with oneself. Then the person begins to interact with the world in a positive way. And he answers him in kind.

Control your thoughts

“Opening your thoughts opens up new possibilities.”

John Kehoe "The subconscious mind can do anything"

The author talks about the relationship between our thoughts and all manifestations of the material world. It is very important to control your thoughts. They should not be wandering and disorderly. Concentrated thoughts have great power when they take form. And this happens sooner or later.

Thought is energy. First, the story of our success must be born in our heads and only then realized in reality. You need to know specifically what you want to achieve and mentally go through this scenario several times. After all, if the subconscious can do everything, then it is the force that can turn the whole world upside down. The book describes detailed instructions on how to work with your thoughts and direct them in the right direction.

John Kehoe pays great attention to the visualization method. It is necessary to mentally imagine the desired events and circumstances of life. It won’t take much time, just spend 5-10 minutes on visualization. Imagine becoming successful just by imagining your success!

What can the subconscious mind do?

According to John Kehoe, it was the subconscious that always helped a person in everyday reality, guiding him. This mysterious and mystical part of our brain is amazingly powerful. It is capable of controlling simple and complex physiological processes and capturing important events in our lives.

The author equips the reader with the idea that the subconscious works through our sensations, premonitions, intuition and dreams. By trusting this mechanism, we are able to gain a strong internal reference point. In addition, it is in the subconscious that our way of thinking is “fixed”. By changing it in a positive direction, we improve the external circumstances of our lives. This is exactly what John Kehoe’s book “The Subconscious Can Do Anything” is aimed at.

It does not at all mean idleness and carelessness, like in children. Most likely, it can be described as a state in which both success and failure are perceived as experiences. Realizing this, a person stops blaming fate for everything that happens to him, feeling sorry for himself and constantly complaining. Then life begins to play with completely different colors.

listen to your heart

In an interview, John Kehoe said that a person is able to move towards his destiny based on his own feelings. After all, he subconsciously knows what is right and proper. The rational mind, although it has great value, cannot lead a person to his destiny. He can only bring confusion into his life.

Therefore, you need to follow your passion, that is, what sparks genuine interest and sparks curiosity, be it playing music or cooking. This is the guiding thread that can lead to success.

Regular training is a real miracle!

“I would like you to remember that constant practice is absolutely necessary for continuous growth.”

"The subconscious can do anything" (John Kehoe)

27.01.2016

The subconscious can do anything: how I fulfilled my desire with the help of John Kehoe’s book

In this article I want to tell you a funny story about how I made a wish come true with the help of John Kehoe’s book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything!”

I put this book at the very top of my top list. And it is well deserved!

And here's my story:

It just so happened that one day, when I was quite a few years old, a crazy idea came into my head.

I wanted receive a cell phone as a gift from one specific man.

This idea was crazy because I had no relationship with this man, but only sympathy for him - we were just colleagues and nothing more.

This idea was even more crazy because I already had a good phone, and there was no need for a new one.

And how can this person give me a phone for absolutely no reason? Why did it happen?

A couple of days before these events I bought a bookJohn Kehoe “The subconscious can do anything!”, readwhich my friend recommended to me. And, of course, I was very inspired by the possibilities that the author opened up for readers.

So the first thing I did was:

I DECIDED that I will get what I want, no matter what.

Since John Kehoe wrote in his book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything” that “ you can get ANYTHING you want “I decided that my idea has a right to exist.

I will receive exactly the phone and from this person and as a gift. I set a deadline for myself - 1 month.

I admit, I was scared. I'm scared that I'll fail. But I went into this fear and “cut off” all the ends that allowed me to chicken out and turn back. My supporter was John Kehoe and “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything.”

How did I do that? I hid my existing phone at home and told everyone that I had lost my phone. It was complete madness!

But how else could I test the power of thought?!

And now I didn't have a phone. It turns out that it became simply necessary for me to achieve the fulfillment of my desire, because otherwise what could I do?

By the way, then I worked at a regular job in a small town, and even a simple telephone at that time cost half of my monthly salary. I couldn’t afford to buy a new phone, knowing that I had the same one hidden at home.

Now more about the process of wish fulfillment and my actions:

Visualization and bookmarking of thoughts

I came up with a movie:
in this film, lasting literally 3 minutes, I saw how HE, that particular man, came up to me and gave me a phone (it was a white Samsung flip phone - there were no smartphones then). This was the visual part. How I convinced John Kehoe - subconsciouswill do all the necessary work itself.

The second part was the “Bookmark” part, where I experienced emotions of joy and satisfaction from this situation.

I turned on the video and feelings at the same time.

For 1 month I did this visualization 2 times a day in the morning after waking up and in the evening before going to bed - WITHOUT SKIPS. Watching my film has always brought me a lot of positive emotions and joy.

Statements

John Kehoe in “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything” advises writing statements or affirmations for yourself and saying them as often as possible.

To reinforce my faith, I wrote the following statement for myself: “ Everything I want, I get easily and simply!».
To be honest, this phrase has simply become my mantra throughout this month.

After all, I did visualizations only in the morning and evening, and throughout the rest of the day thoughts came to me with doubts about whether I would succeed in this experiment.
And every time I became very scared that nothing would work out and I would have to justify myself to my loved ones, taking out a hidden old phone, I began, like a wind-up, to say the phrase “Everything I want, I get easily” 10-50 times and simple!”, “Everything I want, I get easily and simply!”, “Everything I want, I get easily and simply!” ….

Real action

You know, I am “for” real action, of course. But specifically in my example, I had no idea what I could do.

The only thing I could do was talk in front of HIM about how bad I felt without my phone.

By the way, by this I finally achieved that HE saw my problem. And then he invited me to take his old phone!

Refusal of substitutes

I will add this point on my own; it was not included in John Kehoe’s book “The Subconscious Mind Can Do Anything.” But I consider it an indispensable condition for achieving success.

This is a refusal of substitutes! That is, don’t agree to get what you don’t want, don’t agree to get less, refuse such offers, have the strength to move on and wait for the desire to come true exactly the way you want.

And so, I refused the “old” phones, telling everyone: “ Thanks, but I don't want to use my old phone. I'll wait for a new one to appear!»

This was my principled position.

And guess what? The world had to agree with me!

Resolution of the story

In the very last week the world began to change. As I have promised John Kehoe, the subconscious canreally everything! started to appear convenient situations and happy coincidences.

Firstly, I found out that HE received a large amount of money from his work deals.
This made me think that, most likely, he would be willing to spend a small part of this bonus on my gift.

Second The coincidence was that at work we had a situation where he urgently needed to find out some information from me, but he could not call me, because I did not have any means of communication. In response to his indignation at why I had no connection, I kindly reminded him that I don’t have a phone and there’s nothing I can do about it.

The next day after this incident was the last day of the month allotted to me. In the morning I was not myself. I understood: either today I would receive the phone or everything would be lost.

Of course, thanks to my visualizations, bookmarks and affirmations, the Universe was on my side: by a happy “chance”, our office was half empty that day. The only colleagues in the office were me and him.

We started a dialogue that usually happens between colleagues. We were talking about my phone. And suddenly he asked what phone I wanted.

Of course, I knew exactly what my phone would look like, because I had already seen it 59 times! And plus one time in the store, when I went to ask the price. I remembered the words Jonah Kehoe - the power of the subconscious works wonders!

I immediately answered his question.

After which HE did something that I did not expect at all - he took out the money, put several thousand rubles on the table and asked if this was enough?

I knew perfectly well how much my desired phone cost and calmly told him how many thousands he should add.

I didn’t expect such impudence from myself!

But the money was on the table - exactly as much as was needed for the phone.

TOWhen I got back into the car and was already holding in my hands my new phone, a gift from HIM, I couldn’t believe that this happened.