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Thank you for purchasing this course. Many people would like very much to create a better life filled with better relationships, better finances, and better health, but many people don't make much of an effort. This may sound harsh, but if you think about the people you interact with on a daily basis, you'll see evidence of this everywhere. Because you are reading this now, you know that taking action is necessary if you want to create anything. The bigger dreams you have, the more action you'll need to take. For that, I congratulate you. It takes very little effort to complain about one’s condition, but it takes effort, risk, and the ability to hold a certain level of uncertainty in mind when taking any action with hopes of creating something better. In this course we'll be going over a lot of ancient ideas, and reframing some common ways of looking at things. We'll dig into the basics of creation, and we'll understand that being a creator is part of who you are, on a fundamental level. Then we'll understand that the path to greatness, riches, rewarding relationships, and anything else you want lies not in becoming a creator, but becoming a conscious 3
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creator. Humans are actors. We act. Every moment, every breath, every thought is geared to transforming our future into one that is better than our present. Simply sitting there, reading these words, your subconscious is calculating all the energy expenditures of all your muscles keeping you in your current state. It won't take long before you decide to "shift" in your seat. This is thought, turned into action, turned into creation. This happens as you sleep. This happens as you eat. This happens when you are on the toilet. The goal is not to become a creator, as you already are a creator. Your life and everything around you is a direct result of your past thinking and action. The goal is to become a better creator. To create consciously and consistently with what you want. To embrace the natural feedback system that is always there. This feedback system is either supporting you or holding you back. In this course, we'll first go through the basics of creating. Thinking, acting and creating, all within the framework of consistent feedback between your actions and in the environment. Then we'll go through and dig into each process in detail, so you can awaken the unconscious creator that already exists within you, and bring it to the conscious level. 4
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This is the main difference between those who succeed, and those who fail. Those who succeed think and act consciously, and achieve greatness. Everybody else thinks and acts as if sleepwalking through life, and consequently creates a life of mediocrity, or lack. The difference is how you think, how you act, and how you embrace the natural feedback loop. By the time you finish this manual, you will have a solid understanding of how to change your thinking and behavior so you'll naturally get the outcome you desire. You'll learn a set of daily reviews, and have access to some powerful mental programming that will help clear out blockages and obstacles to your inevitable success. Let me be clear. This course is not magic. This course requires your participation. This course requires that you take a conscious look at what you've received in the past and that you take responsibility for your actions and the outcomes those actions create. We do not live in a random world. We do not live in a universe that is ruled by gods who whimsically give some people good stuff, and other people bad stuff. The universe is highly complicated, and will never be understood by the human mind. But it is not random. It does follow a set of rules, laws and principles which simply cannot be violated any more than the law of gravity can be 5
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violated. By taking the right action, and being accepting of ALL feedback (not just the feedback you want) you will open yourself to greatness. Thoughts lead to actions, which lead to outcomes. This natural law of human existence cannot be broken. It cannot be circumvented, and it cannot be cheated. The quality of the outcomes you create is directly dependent on your thoughts and your actions. This may seem obvious, but many people act as if it is not. Many behave as if action is not required. While it may seem self-evident that action is necessary, there is no shortage of courses, programs, books and expensive seminars promising results without effort or gains without risk. Despite how obvious it seems that we need to take action to get results, many people easily fall prey to the idea of getting the goods without taking any risks. There are fewer places where this is truer that in "new age" thinking, or ideas about manifesting, or anything to do with the Law of Attraction. However, as you may well know, any program that promises results without any action, without risk is simply not possible. Yet if you take a look on Amazon or any bookstore in the 6
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weight loss section, you'll see plenty of books that promise weight loss without effort. If you read any financial blogs or read any investment newsletters, you'll see plenty of advertisements for robots and software that seemingly guarantee instant riches and rewards without risk of failure. Why are people so willing to buy products that promise reward without risk? Why are people so willing to part with their money in hopes of getting results without effort? Are people hopelessly lazy? Or are people hopelessly afraid? In this course, you'll learn precisely why those two concerns will not be an issue. You'll learn why taking action, right action towards goals you choose, is the most invigorating thing you can ever do. You'll never feel more alive than when taking action toward an end that you've chosen, and seeing the feedback along the way which tells you you are getting closer and closer. You'll also learn why there's no reason to be afraid, since any feedback is great feedback. You'll learn that those two motivating factors, fear and laziness, are false ideas that keep people searching for magical solutions. Understanding that, on a deep level, will open up the most powerful magic ever created. 7
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The true miracle of human life is creation. And in this course, you'll learn how Right Thinking and right action, guided by feedback, WILL lead you to anything you want. And NOTHING is more magical than that.
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This course concerns the process of creation. The method by which you can take an idea, a thought, a desire, and turn it into something you have. Something you can physically hold in your hand, or experience in some other way. Once upon a time, there was nothing on planet Earth but raw materials. Animals, plants, and people. Then people learned to take from their environment, and combine the raw materials together in a new and unique way. They necessarily created things that had never been created before. They had a thought, they took action, and their thoughts became things. This is the crucial process that exists before all wealth. Thoughts lead to actions, actions leads to things. The ancients always spoke of magical ways to turn lead into gold. This process of alchemy, the metaphysical precursor to modern chemistry, had at its driving force of creating something from nothing. This course is nothing like that. And everything like that. The Law of Attraction is at the same time the most promising idea ever created, and the greatest scam ever conjured up by snake oil salesmen and carnival hucksters. Let's explore two sides of that coin. 9
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When humans are born into this world, we are helpless. Over the course of evolution, our brains kept getting bigger and bigger. Pretty soon our heads were so big, that a fully formed human, with a fully formed human head could simply not be birthed by a normal woman. For a woman to birth a fully functioning human, she would have hips too big and wide to be able to walk. So Mother Nature, being the clever girl she is, had us borne much, much earlier than other mammals. Compared to other mammals, the percent of time we are dependent on adults for our survival is much, much longer. Birds can fly in a few days, or weeks. Baby horses can walk, and even trot, hours after birth. Fish can swim right away. All we can do is lay there, poop our pants, and cry. For a long time. We can walk in several months, talk a little bit later, and then use the toilet on our own even later than that. But it's a long, long time before we could survive completely on our own. In the days of hunters and gatherers, for which our bodies and minds were designed, we didn't participate in the hunt until our mid teen years. The average life span was 40 years or so, and we couldn't really function as adults in our communities until we were 14 or 15. That means for fully 35% of our lives, we were dependent on others for our survival. 10
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Naturally, this creates a very strong frame through which we saw the world. In hunter gatherer societies, they recognized that going out hunting with a "childhood" mindset was dangerous. So they literally forced boys to become men through various initiation ceremonies and customs. Females were forced from girlhood to womanhood when they bore children. Today, however, we have no ceremonies. We have no initiations. Which means it's very easy to carry that childhood mindset with us in our adult lives. Why is this important? Let's look at the “thoughts into things” process as a child. A child is hungry. This first arises as a feeling of need. An instinct that needs to be fulfilled. The child cries out. Sure enough, that need is fulfilled. A child is lonely. This first arises as a feeling of need. An instinct to be held, to be comforted. The child cries out. Sure enough, that need is fulfilled. The model of thoughts into things as a child is this: Thought leads to action, which leads to fulfillment. Thoughts to actions to things. Let's look at the thoughts into things process as an adult. 11
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A man is hungry. He's sitting on his couch, watching TV. He sees a commercial for a steak. He drives to the store, buys a steak, drives home, and cooks it. He was hungry. He took action. He fulfilled his want. A woman is lonely. She imagines having a boyfriend. She calls two of her friends, they go to a club. They talk to several people, and exchange numbers with some attractive men. Eventually, she has a boyfriend. She was lonely. She took action. She fulfilled her want.
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The process is the same. Thoughts lead to actions, which lead to things. Only in children, the action is simple. A "crying out" for a want to be fulfilled. And that fulfillment is based on "receiving" from a higher power. A parent or other adult who's responsible for taking care of them. Unfortunately, a lot of us still carry that model with us today. We feel all we need to do is "cry out," and some kind of "higher power" will fulfill our need. We speak of being open to "receive" from this "higher power" and all will be well. The problem is that few people will act as your "higher power." Few will spontaneously and magically give you what you want. You and your parents (or the adults that took care of you) had a special relationship. To complicate things, everything you could want, as a child, you got. As children, all we know is about food, affection, sleep and other similar things. There were rarely any instances in the first one or two years in our lives where we didn't get every single thing we wanted. This sets a bad precedent if you can't differentiate between the adult model of the world, and the childhood model of the world. If you act as if all you need to do is cry out, and wait for a 13
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higher power to deliver, you may be waiting a long time. As adults, we are in need of much more things that are much more complicated. And there is little chance anybody will be volunteer to be our "higher power." Now, before you get angry and ask for a refund, let's consider the adult model of the world. An adult does the very same thing. She has a desire. She takes action, and she eventually receives the desire. As a child, all you needed to do was to cry out long enough, and got your desire fulfilled. As an adult, all you need to do is take action long enough, and you WILL get your desire fulfilled. When you were a child, your desire was fulfilled by your "higher power" or the adults responsible for taking care of you. But as an adult, when you consistently take action, who fulfills your desire? It has to come from somewhere, it has to be made by somebody, it has to srcinate from some location, and it has to be made from raw materials that were taken from the Earth in raw form at some point in time. In a sense, this is a much, higher, "higher power." You might consider this the "collective unconscious" or the "super-conscious" of the planet. The vast network of 14
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BILLIONS of people all interacting to get their desires met. Progress of Humanity When humans started out on this planet, there weren't that many of us, and there wasn't that much stuff. Now there are BILLIONS of us, and we have too much wealth to even comprehend. Not too long ago, compared to the time humans have been alive, money didn't even exist. Now there's TRILLIONS of dollars’ worth of currencies being traded on a daily basis on the currency exchange markets, or FOREX. Where did it all come from? Thoughts turned into actions, which turned into things. This is hard wired into your DNA. It is part of who you are. In fact, it is hard to NOT turn thoughts into things. But instead of using your natural Mental Alchemy process of turning thoughts into things in a haphazard and random way, as most people do, you are going to learn to RESONATE with your environment, the vast collective, the REAL higher power, to make your own Mental Alchemy process much more efficient, and much more powerful. The secret is combing the natural processes of your subconscious, your conscious and the super conscious all together in a powerfully symbiotic way that will consistently deliver to you exactly what you want. 15
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This requires, trust, action, risk and belief in yourself. The good news is that these are qualities you already possess. You wouldn't be reading this now if it wasn't true. The truth about human action, any human action, requires all three of these. Since we can never predict the future with a hundred percent accuracy, everything we do will require a little bit of risk. No matter what action we take, it all follows the same process. We have an idea in our minds of what we'd like to create. We imagine that idea in our minds, and we imagine what it would take to get it. Then we estimate the benefit of that outcome, and compare that to what it will take to get there. If we think we'll be better off by a larger amount than the action required, we'll take action. Every single action you've ever taken requires three things. Trust in your abilities, a belief that you will achieve the desired outcome, and the risk that is necessary in all action. So if you already possess the qualities, what's the problem? Why aren't you already filthy rich surrounded by gorgeous people in your dream home by the beach? 16
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The truth is that very few things that exist are really what we think they are. The very structure of matter is still not completely understood by scientists. The world is filled with complex systems and interdependent variables that are always changing. In order to take action, you've got to have an understanding of your reality. Imagine that you were at a house of a friend of a friend, whom you haven’t met yet. For some reason, you were left alone in the house for a while. Maybe there was an emergency or something. The house was very nice, very expensive, and filled with priceless antiques. You haven't met the owner yet, and there you are. Suddenly, you need to use the restroom. You've got an idea of what you want, you've got an idea of how to satisfy that want, but you might not take action. You are in a strange house, of somebody you've never met. Part of you knows there's GOT to be a bathroom somewhere, but the nature of the house, and the nature of the owner keeps you stuck right there on the couch until you get more information. Because of your unfamiliarity with the situation, and your own response to that unfamiliarity, you don't take action. Now, consider another situation. You are also in a new house, one you've never been in before, but instead of a stranger's house, this belongs to your friend. Not just any friend, your best friend. 17
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And for some reason, you are alone. He or she had to leave abruptly before you had the tour, or even before they said, "Make yourself at home." So what do you do? In this situation, you'd hunt around for the bathroom. You'd still have the same level of uncertainty about your reality, but your response to that uncertainty is completely different in this case. In the first case, you decided that looking around in a strange house was a bad idea, so you didn't do it. In the second case, you decided that looking around in a strange house was a good idea, so you did do it.
Correctly understanding and interpreting your reality is crucial to being able to take right action that WILL get you what you want.
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Even something as simple as a weather system is hard to predict with repeatability and accuracy. Performing a simple act of walking down the street, we are bombarded by hundreds of thousands of interactions between matter, energy, people, emotions and various forms of communication, verbal and nonverbal, conscious and unconscious. What we think is going on around us is only a tiny sliver within a tiny sliver of what's really happening. Not only that, but we are perceiving everything through our own filters, biases, and expectations. If somebody were walking right next to us, at the same speed, and looking at the same things at the same time, they would have a completely different representation of what was really going on. When we say we need to "open up to receive" what that really means is we need to more fully understand what is going on around us. Understanding the depth of the reality that is around us at every single second of our lives is the first step. The three stages of manifesting, as described above, is thinking, acting and creating. Some schools of thought hold that there are really four stage of creation, including 19
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the addition of feedback, however since feedback is inextricably tied in to action as well as thinking, it's difficult to imagine feedback without any of the other steps. In fact, feedback is a crucial element in all three steps, and it will be addressed in detail within each section. For example, when we think, it's impossible to think without taking our previous results into consideration. Even deeper, we can't think at all unless we first act and get a result. Otherwise, we wouldn't have any idea what to think about. When we act, we are always comparing our imagined outcome vs. what we are actually experiencing, which is the ever present feedback. We see somebody across the room, we imagine going and talking to them, and getting a positive outcome. We stand up and start walking, and simply the process of walking over there is feedback. They notice us walking toward them, and then they shift in their own thinking to include us and our potential interactions. Creation, the outcome itself, is merely a feedback from our environment which we intended in the first place. One might consider that all feedback is in actuality creation, or manifesting, as no matter how we act upon our environment, we will always be creating some kind of outcome. As we'll soon see, while we can separate the stages of creation into three separate categories, they are forever 20
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intertwined and interdependent. Talking about them separately does not indicate that they exist separately. Rather it will help us to understand them by looking at them separately. Thinking Thinking is preparation. Lower animals rely on instincts which don't allow for imaginations about the future. Humans, on the other hand, can create fantastic ideas and thoughts and then apply them to the real world. We do have instincts, and these instincts are very powerful. If you've ever tried to go on a diet and failed, or tried to resist certain sexual urges and came up short, this was simply a contest of your conscious, rational mind vs. your powerful instincts. Thinking allows us to respond thoughtfully to our environment, and even to imagine separate responses based on several different situations. Imagine an advanced chess player who ponders three or four moves, and then three or four counter moves to those moves. This is action taking place in the mind, before it takes place. Thinking is the place in the mind when we "practice" doing what we'd like to do, imagine an outcome, and then see how that expected outcome compares to our expectation. Acting Action is when the thought moves us to motion. We move in the direction of our outcome. Based on the feedback we 21
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are getting we either continue doing what we were doing, or we change course. Sometimes we get feedback that is completely opposite of what we were hoping for. Sometimes the feedback is unnoticeable. Sometimes the feedback is better than we expected.
Manifesting Manifesting, or creating, is simply when our continued feedback morphs into our desired outcome. Sometimes there is a clear path between our actions, the feedback, and our outcome. Losing weight, exercising, saving up money in the bank, these are actions that are clearly measurable throughout time, and we can see ourselves getting closer and closer. Other times the outcome, our creation of our intention, comes completely unexpected. We have an outcome, we take action, we get sidetracked, but the actions we've taken lead to consequences. These consequences lead to other consequences out in the "collective unconscious." While we were sidetracked, maybe having given up, maybe trying something else, our actions and the feedback our actions have spawned have taken on a life of their own. This is when it seems like magic. When it seems like our outcome has come straight of the blue. But if we were look back at all the events that "receiving" our to outcome, it would be clear that it led wasto us initiated by our own action in some way. 22
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There are two very crucial things to understand at this point. One is that we will very rarely be in complete understanding and awareness of the path between our initial desire, and its first action, and the final product, or our creation. We take action, and even something simple like losing weight will require many complicated actions of biology, metabolism, sleep, water intake, etc. This how hypnosis for weight loss can seem magical. Let's say you have a certain craving for certain foods that put on the pounds. You go through your hypnosis sessions, and remove those cravings. But after the hypnosis sessions, you still feel "normal." That's how hypnosis works. You rearrange your "procedures" at an unconscious level, so the "new" you feels normal, just like the "old" you. So you carry on, only now you have lost the cravings for those foods. You naturally eat much healthier foods, without really knowing it or consciously trying. A few months have passed, and you are a ten or twenty pounds lighter, as if by magic! The first understanding is that the path between where you are, and where you want to be, will most likely not be understood completely. But since we live in a physical world with physical laws, there HAS to be a chain (albeit too long to comprehend) of cause and effect relationships. 23
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The second major thing to understand is that our conscious minds are very limited in understanding and calculating the options around us. We may look out into the world, and see nothing that can seemingly help us move toward our goals. Yet our unconscious sees many opportunities. And when our unconscious "decides" to act toward those opportunities, we'll just get a "feeling" that we are doing something for a reason we don't really understand. Since our unconscious can only communicate to us in "feelings" and since most of these "feelings" or intuitions are fairly vague, it will rarely feel as if we are operating in a clear direction. For example, you may go out with your friends with the specific intention of meeting members of the opposite sex. You get dressed up, meet in a "pre-game" bar in the neighborhood, and then go to a larger place where people go to meet. You try consciously for an hour, and then you "decide" to "give up." Since you've given up, you relax, and start enjoying the companionship of your friends. You decide to go somewhere else, where people aren't "trying so hard" to meet each other. So you go somewhere else, with no expectations, and you surprisingly meet somebody. Was this a "chance" meeting? Or was your subconscious continuing on the quest to fulfill your intention, only to do so it had to get your conscious mind out of the way? 24
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Did you "decide" to go to that particular place on your own, or did you get a certain "feeling" that it would be a "good idea" to check it out? Let's review the two things to always keep in mind when endeavoring to create anything. One is that the path between initial action, and the final creation, will rarely be completely understood by you. Two is that your subconscious will play a large part in the process, and often times you may very well be doing something toward your goal, driven by your subconscious, while your conscious mind may think you have "given up." The difference between a life of consistent creation and one of lack is how well you set your goals in the first place, and how well you allow your subconscious to keep after them. We'll discuss each of these steps, and more, in the next section.
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Why do we think? As mentioned previously, thinking gives us the ability to mentally practice our actions before we do them, so we can "try on" the potential outcomes. One thing about being human is we are never satisfied. Our entire lives are spent trying to improve ourselves, even if it's just slightly. Even as you're reading this, your body is going through a process of conscious and unconscious action, all of which to achieve a specific goal. As soon as you inhale, the transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide is complete, and you exhale. But then your build up more carbon dioxide, and need more oxygen, so you inhale. You also are constantly shifting andThen moving, changing positions to increase your comfort. there are the actions that are more conscious, like opening a medicine bottle with a child safety proof lid, or writing out a letter long hand. If left to its own devices, our brains will drift toward negative thinking. This was crucial for our survival when we lived in small bands in a very harsh environment. It's hard to imagine what life was like back then, as modern society affords a variety of comforts that can easily lull us into a sense of security. Imagine having to hunt for or otherwise find your food on a 26
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daily basis. Imagine always being on the lookout for predators or competing tribes of other humans. If somebody back in those days always was thinking positive as their natural state, they wouldn't have lasted very long, and wouldn't have passed on that "think positive" gene to any offspring. But the structure of thinking is the same. They thought negative thoughts regularly because it helped them to avoid danger. As modern humans we have developed more conscious or aware thinking, but are instincts are still there, and are still very powerful. All of our intended creations will have to involve in some way our basic instincts for survival, or our ego. Many have been taught that our ego can be ignored, or removed, or "released," but as we'll soon see, this is not as easy as it may seem. Deep Thinking - The Ego Our ego represents that part of our instincts dealing with social safety, and our social status. This is going to be there regardless of whether we like it or not. Long ago, before societies were larger than a few hundred nomadic people, our social status was very closely linked to our survival. This tendency goes back even further than humans existed, as the same behavior is seen in primates, and other animals. 27
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The simple truth is that those higher the social ladder had more access to food, and more access to sexual relationships. You can think of each generation of each species like a contest, to see who could gain the most social status. Those that "won," those that were able to achieve high levels of social status in any particular generation passed on their particular genes to the next generation. Each generation was largely populated by the "social status winners" from the previous generation, and the process continued. Our ego is simply a collection of instincts that make us very susceptible to social opinions and our social status, either real or perceived. Consider another instinct, one that we are all familiar with. The desire to eat food, or overeat food as the case may be. If you've ever gone on a diet only to give up after a week or two, you know how hard it is to ignore your desire for hunger. It's just as difficult to ignore your ego. It's always there, just like your hunger will always be there. You can no more "release" your ego than you can "release" your hunger. One way that many people find helpful to lose weight is to accept and manage their hunger. There are many strategies and tricks that make it easier. 28
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One is to give yourself one "cheating day" per week. Another is to be very careful when and where you go shopping. Another is to make sure you always drink plenty of water and fill up on low calorie, fibrous food before going parties or other social gatherings. Similarly, there are plenty of ways to "manage" your ego, which we'll go over in the next section. At this point, it's simply important to accept your ego for what it is. A collection of instincts, just like hunger, that were helpful in the days of hunters and gatherers, but not so helpful any more. Mid-Level Thinking - Subconscious Programming Long ago, Mother Nature had a choice to make. Humans were evolving faster and faster, and our brains were rapidly growing in size. Our heads were getting so big that it was becoming impossible for us to be borne as developed as other mammals when they are born. Compared to other mammas, humans spend a great deal of our lives in our youth. Think of a baby calf or any other four legged mammal. They can walk within a few days or even hours. Humans, on the other hand, can't walk for a year or so. Even then we are clumsy, bump into things, and don't really become proficient in simple walking and running until we are three or so. Our brains are thelike same way. When we are our brains are almost open books. On top ofborn, our massive amounts of instincts, we also have massive amounts of 29
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learning capacity. Not just conscious learning, but unconscious learning as well. For example, anybody who grows up in a poor household will likely have a belief that money is difficult, or money is evil, or something similar. If you are intending to create money, then this belief can get into the way, just as much as your instincts to eat can get in the way of your desire to create a slim and healthy body. Other subconscious level thinking can be picked up as adults. If your first girlfriend or boyfriend had red hair, for example, and was particularly cruel to you when you broke up, then you might get a deep, negative feeling in your gut whenever you see an attractive red head. I remember in school I was terrified of public speaking. Whenever I had a book report or some other presentation coming up, I would always get a deep, vague feeling of dread in my gut whenever I would see somebody giving a speech on TV. These two levels, deep, instinctive thinking and subconscious thinking that is programmed in from our childhood can be very powerful when combined together, in both directions. In Newport Beach, California, there is a beach called "The Wedge." The waves come in at about a 45 degree angle, and bounce off the jetty next to the beach. Then the waves that have "bounced off" the jetty combine with the fresh "un-bounced" waves that are coming in, and swell up twice as fast, and twice as high as normal waves in other areas. 30
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They also crash twice as fast, and twice as hard. Because they swell up twice as high, they absorb almost all the water, so when they do crash, it's very shallow. It's not uncommon for people to suffer serious injuries because they aren't familiar with the area. Similarly, if our instincts combine with our subconscious programming in a negative way, it can be devastating. One of the deepest fears on an ego level is being kicked out of the tribe completely. Meaning your social status drops so low that you are rejected completely by your peers, and must fend for yourself. This fear kept people from acting out against other tribe members in the past, and actually supported cohesion amongst tribal members. But getting "kicked out" today doesn't hold nearly as much potential damage. People get fired from jobs all the time and still live full and productive lives. When this is combined by a subconsciously programmed fear of rejection, which often develops in childhood, this double-whammy can make it exceedingly difficult to take the risks necessary to create a life of abundance. Often times it is this wicked combination of instinctive fear of rejection and a subconsciously programmed fear of rejection that gets people involved in various money making scams that "require no selling," or anything that sounds like you can make money without even trying. 31
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Often misunderstood is the "make money while you sleep" desire that usually goes with Internet Marketing. It's not that people are lazy; it's that if people were making money as they slept, they never need to face any kind of rejection. Unless these two levels of thinking are understood, addressed, and "managed," it will be very difficult to move forward with creation. Surface Structure Thinking The last level of thinking is our conscious minds. That which we know we are thinking. Even this type of thinking is largely like an iceberg. For most thoughts that seem to be conscious, there's a whole lot more going on beneath the surface at the same time. The more closely our conscious is connected to "social" ideas, like relationships and sex, or "survival" ideas, like money, income, dwellings, etc., the more stuff they'll be below the surface. The more "cerebral" our conscious thinking is, or the more abstract it is, the less unconscious involvement there will be. Higher mathematics, scientific subjects or abstract concepts like philosophy tend to trigger less subconscious or instinctive involvement. This is also why stereotypical "scientists" are also believed to be "socially awkward." Consider a typical case where all three levels of thinking 32
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are incongruent. You see a very interesting, and very attractive person across the room. Your sexual instincts are screaming for you to go walk over and talk to them. At the same time, your social safety instincts are screaming for you to stay right where you are. Your subconscious programming is remembering several times where you had pleasant interactions with the opposite sex, and begins screaming for you to go over and talk to him or her. At the same time, your subconscious recalls all the times where you were rejected, either by your father or your mother (depending on the sex of your "target") and screams for you to stay put. Your conscious mind is busy thinking of a reason, or something to say that would make rejection less likely. You might be trying to remember what that perfect "pick up line" was that you read on the Internet. If you DO walk over and talk to them, you'll feel nervous. If you DON'T walk over and talk to them, you'll likely feel another negative feeling. As you can see, all three levels of thinking can pull you in six different directions at once. This is why creation is often times so difficult. Unless we are completely congruent, on all levels, we are likely to fall short. Now let's consider a situation when EVERY part of you is congruent and on board. 33
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You're at home, and you're hungry. Your instincts are fully screaming at you to eat something. Your subconscious programming is remembering all the times you ate, and you felt good, so it's also screaming at you to eat something. You happen to be on one of those diets where you allow one day a week of cheating. You've been on the diet for a few months, and have lost a few pounds. You feel good about your progress, and you head to the fridge, fully prepared to eat something delicious. You’re conscious mind is congruent, because it's a cheating day. Your subconscious is congruent, because it remembers all the "reward" eating you've done in the past, and also feels good. Your instincts are also congruent and on board. Consequently, when you open the fridge and see the food, you are one hundred percent congruent. No part of you is screaming to stop, and all parts of you are screaming, "Full Speed Ahead!" In situations where you are incongruent, you’ll feel a whole range of conflicting emotions, and no matter WHAT you do, part of you is going to feel resistance. But when you are fully congruent, you can enjoy taking action, and enjoy what you are creating.
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Thinking is the internal world. The world of practice, review, formulation, and comparison. Creation is the final process, the receiving of that which was desired. The intermediary step is action. Without action there can be no creation. Without action, all thinking is only hoping and dreaming. (Like Captain Pike from the srcinal Star Trek.) Without action, we are doomed to receive only what others deem appropriate. Speaking is acting. Expressing your desires is acting. Remember, this three part process is built into our brains, our DNA, and is how we created everything since the day we were born. We were lonely; we had a bad feeling in our mind, so we cried out. Our mothers hopefully came and picked us up. The internal feeling lead to an action, which led to us to getting what we wanted. Whether you want to know the time from a stranger on the street, or whether you are creating a massive fortune to eclipse all previous fortunes, the structure is the same. Thinking leads to action, action leads to outcome. In this section, we'll be talking about the general aspects and understandings of all action. Now, as we've mentioned before and as we'll continually refer to, this "three part process" is merely a metaphor. It is very difficult to think without acting, and act without 35
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thinking or act without creating some kind of outcome. Even if you are laying there in a coma, you are acting. Your cells are processing energy, you are breathing (aided or not) and merely being alive, your body is going through certain processes. As a conscious adult, your actions are always spurred by thinking at any of the three levels we talked about earlier, instincts, subconscious and conscious. Acting Is For a Purpose Whenever we act, it's to fulfill a purpose. We want something, on some level, and we think, on some level, that our action is going to move us closer to our goal. It will help us to look at each category of action in the same categories of thinking. Namely, instinctive, subconscious, and conscious. Instinctive Acts Instinctive acts are those we have very little control over. Jumping back from fear when we see a tiger or a snake. Pulling our hands away from a hot or sharp object. Our pupils dilating when we see an attractive member of the opposite sex. Our heart rates increasing when we are nervous. These are mainly to fulfill our most basic human needs. Safety and survival. As these instinctive actions are based on our long evolutionary history, many of them are 36
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common with other mammals and predate our "human-ness." We don't need to think, and we don't need to learn. Instinctive based actions are built into our brains from the start. Mostly negative, there are some positives. It's been theorized that one of the reasons we like flowers so much is that the bright colors were an indication of fruit, and water, two things that were necessary for our early survival. Imagine walking across a desolate landscape, coming over one hill after another and seeing nothing. Then off in the distance, we see some plants with bright red and orange flowers. This was generally a good sign, as water or other sources of nutrition were nearby. Consequently, our brains had these "filters" built in to help us always scan the environment, and see brightly colored flowers or other bright colors. If a baby were to be born in a very drab environment, they would still be drawn to bright flowers; even they have never seen them before. It is not something that would need to be learned. As we'll learn later on, becoming congruent with your predisposed, instinctive actions, either positive, or negative, will make things much easier. When I was younger, my friend and I decided to go on a bicycle ride. After a few miles, my friend was exhausted, 37
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but I felt pretty good. Both of us were perplexed, as we were both very active, and our health and fitness was about the same level. When we checked his bike, we discovered his rear brakes were always on, meaning that he was having a much harder time pedaling. Once we released his brakes, he said it felt like he was suddenly riding downhill. This is what happens when you are acting incongruently with your instinctive nature. (Also with your subconsciously programmed tendencies). You'll be moving forward, but you'll feel as if something is holding you back. Once you release the brakes, you'll feel like you're coasting downhill. Subconscious Actions Subconscious acts are much more subtle, but just as powerful. If your first love was a red head, you might turn your head unconsciously when an attractive red head walks past, while your friends scarcely notice her. As with our thinking, our subconscious actions, unless specifically programmed, will usually be protective in nature. If you had a very bad experience in school, for example, you may get a strong feeling of anxiety in your stomach when watching a TV program involving a scary teacher. If you have deep negative beliefs about money, you may avoid going to the ATM, or you may avoid opening up 38
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letters that come unexpectedly from your bank. If you happen to have had a particularly bad experience with a certain type of alcohol, merely the name may cause you to feel queasy. When I was in college, my friends and I went to Mexico for spring break. We drank quite a bit of tequila, and to this day if I smell tequila, or even see people doing tequila shots on TV, I have to turn my head, otherwise I feel like I might vomit! (Even writing this is making me gag!) Notice that subconscious actions, which were automatically programmed to keep us safe, usually KEEP US from doing things, rather than propel us to do certain things. As we'll learn later on, the hallmark of consistent and effortless creation is to program your subconscious to MOVE TOWARD that which you want, rather than AWAY FROM that which you don't want. Again, the difference will be subtle. When I see somebody drinking tequila, I suddenly get a queasy feeling in my stomach, and I immediately think of something else. I usually don't consciously remember my university days, nor do I consciously associate that queasy feeling with the tequila. The problem comes when we expect our subconscious to give us a clear and linear set of steps or actions to get what we want. 39
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Consider the chess analogy. The chess player imagines every move, and then every counter move for that particular move, and then every potential move to that counter move. Pretty soon he or she's looking at several hundred potential moves. Our subconscious minds are much, much more powerful than the conscious mind of the very best chess player. We may get a feeling to "move toward" something, but if we expect it to be obvious why we are moving toward that, we may not take action. This is why negative subconscious programming is much, much more powerful and effective than positive subconscious programming. That negative feeling doesn't require us to understand, or argue, it just spurs us to move away. We don't wonder WHY we feel scared about that letter from the bank; we just stick the letter where we won't see it. We won't wonder WHY we feel uneasy when we see that teacher on TV, we just change the channel. On the other hand, if you've been programming your subconscious to look for opportunities to make money, you may feel a subtle, "positive feeling" to walk inside a particular shop. If you stop and question why, or try and understand why, you won't likely take action, which means you'll miss out on whatever is inside that your subconscious wants you to see. 40
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We'll be going over some specific strategies and self programming techniques later on, but at this point, it's important to understand that action which is spurred by subconscious programming, rather than instinctive programming, is very subtle, and requires faith if it's in a positive direction. It's very important to understand as much of your subconscious programming as you can, as achieving subconscious congruence will really make things seem as if they are happening by magic. Whenever somebody uses some kind of Law of Attraction procedure, and they report miraculous results, it is simply because their subconscious programming was completely congruent with their conscious wishes. When this happens, things will happen without any seeming effort on your part. Often times, we'll have "those days" when everything just "clicks." All the lights are green, everybody says yes, and all the parking spaces are close to the front. When your subconscious is fully congruent with what you're creating, everything will seem like that. However, most of us are always acting incongruently. Part of us wants to move forward, while another part of us wants to stay back. Part of us is excited, which is pushing us forward, while other parts of us are nervous, and trying to keep us back. 41
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We'll learn a very powerful technique in the Appendix on how to get all of your subconscious parts in congruence, so acting toward your goals will be much easier and much more natural. Conscious Action
In the story of human history, conscious action is a very recent development. Up until about 50,000 years ago, (compared to about two million years ago when pre-historic humans and chimpanzees split from our common ancestors) we were driven largely by instincts. As our brains grew more and more, and required learning, we became driven by instincts and subconscious programming. Once language was invented, that all changed. We could now think of something consciously, and then plan the actions required to make it happen. As societies became larger and larger, we began to copy ideas from each other. We saw a tribe member tie a rock to the end of a stick. We thought about that for a couple days, and then we happened across a rock that was a lot slimmer, and had a much sharper point. We took that rock, that we saw on the ground, and substituted it, in our minds, within the memory of seeing our tribe member create the spear with the rock tip. We created a new spear, with a new tip. Something nobody had ever seen before. Somebody saw us do that, and then the same process repeated itself. 42
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Pretty soon, the whole tribe was equipped with much more efficient spears that could more safely kill much larger game. Ideas mixed with imagination mixed with observable elements in the world around us. The same process continued for hunting methods, making of clothing, even discussions and storytelling. Once humans acquired the ability to create imaginary ideas based on what they'd seen, and then try out those imaginary ideas, the amount of creation exploded. Conscious thought spurred conscious action which created real things in the real world. These real things then led to even more complicated thoughts, which lead to actions, which lead to more complicated process. At the same time, this process seems mundane, normal, and obvious. But is also incredibly magical and awe inspiring. Once upon a time, there was nothing on Earth. No life. Just raw elements. Then somehow, life was created. Then this life evolved, and started interacting with each other, to create even more complicated life. Soon this life was capable of thought, of imagination, and creation. This self-fulfilling loop is the source of all wealth on Earth. All stories, all medicine, all restaurants, all love and compassion. 43
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The third part of the process is the outcome. Things. The physical. However, unlike thinking and acting, things, or physical elements, are not necessarily part of the process. It's difficult to think without involving action of some sort. At the very least you'll affect your heart rate, breathing rate, perspiration rate when thinking. When acting, it will necessarily impact your thinking. As you move through your environment, your sensing organs are always collecting data, and this feedback loop will necessarily change your thinking on some level. But the outcome, the thing which you create, can exist all on its own. In fact, everything that we create in our lifetimes, everything that humans will create and have created during our time on Earth, is made from things, raw materials, elements that were here before we were. Before any life was. And chances are, anything that we create in our life, any physical element will be here long after we're gone, either in the form we've created, or in some other form it will take. The ability to interact with our world and create things that we can later use is something very uniquely human. Lower animals do use basic tools to some extent, and some animals take things from their environment and create things, but humans have the unique ability to imagine 45
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something completely different than what's right in front of us. A memory from our childhood may pop up when we least expect it, and suddenly with a flash of insight, we've got a great idea for a product, service, piece of art, or otherwise useful concept. As in the previous two sections, the things we create are on three different levels. Instinctive, subconscious and conscious. Instinctive Creation The genes we have within us, the recipe for our physical bodies, is referred to as our genotype. Our physical representation is an outward manifestation of our inner genotype. Our genotype is also responsible for the makeup of our brains, which of course, represents our thinking. In order to create our physical presence, our genotype directs our behavior on an instinctive level, to eat and stay safe. Then it operates on the material, or food we take in, and transforms it into ourselves. On a very deep level, we are a self-sustaining creation that is continuously re-created by itself. The genes that create our bodies, that drive our instinctive behaviors to eat and transform that food into muscles, bones, blood, and brain matter, are always driving us. The genotype is the collection of the genes which produce our outward behavior. The genes responsible for our eye 46
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color, our height, sounds of our voice, etc., are our genotype. Closely related is our phenotype. The genotype is the collection of genes, and the phenotype is the outcome. The genotype, for example, contains the genes that are responsible for our eye color. The phenotype is our actual eye color. The outward expression of our genes. Our physical bodies are an outcome of creation that we have programmed within us. We are the creators, and we are also the created. We are the instinctive thought, and we are the instinctive creation of ourselves. There's a theory in biology called the "Extended Phenotype," and was proposed by Richard Dawkins in the book of the same name. This theory suggests that some genes, in some organisms lead to the creation of not the organism itself, but the tools that it creates and uses. For example, all beavers build dams. They are instinctively programmed to do so. Now, who is responsible for the dams? Clearly the beavers are. But do they know what they are doing? Do they need to learn how to create a dam, or do they come preprogrammed with the skills and behaviors to do so?
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Dawkins explained it this way: "An animal's behavior tends to maximize the survival of the genes for that behavior, whether or not the genes happen to be in the body of the animal performing it." Without getting too complicated, there are some genes, often times in parasites, which create certain behaviors of the host animal that benefits the parasite, rather than the host animal. Malaria is a good example. Mosquitos carry malaria, but the mosquitos that are carrying the malaria parasite are much more attracted to human odor, which is beneficial for the malaria parasite, but usually not for the mosquito, as mosquitos tend to have a higher chance of being squished if they bite somebody. The crucial thing to understand is that there is a genetic and instinctive level to creation, just as there is instinctive thinking, and instinctive acting. Subconscious Creation Anything that we create that is not instinctive, but is not quite at the conscious level is subconsciously generated creations. However, often times there's not an easy boundary between subconscious creation, and instinctive creation. For example, many people are overweight. Eating is instinctive, but overeating is usually driven by 48
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subconscious feelings of some sort. The creation, the extra spare tire is definitely a physical creation, but was it instinctively created? Or was it subconscious? Sitting in front of the TV, hypnotized and not paying attention to the amount of ice cream you've already eaten? The truth is that much of our lives are filled with outcomes that are subconsciously created. The clothes we wear, the friends we hang out with, the jobs we have, the income levels we enjoy (or don't enjoy) are largely an outcome of unconscious processes. Truth about Conscious Thinking Before we describe the top level, or conscious creation, we need to understand a bit more about conscious thinking, and the role our conscious minds play in our lives. For a long time, neuroscientists believed the conscious or logical mind was the driving force in our lives. But recently, through some unique experiments, it's starting to look like our conscious minds are more often an "after the fact" story teller, which we later believe was a cause, when in reality it was an effect. For example, it's widely known that social proof is a very powerful force in human behavior. When we choose to do something, making the choice to take action is a lot easier if we feel that there have been many others that have taken the same action with positive results. We are much more likely to go to a restaurant that is often crowded than one where there are rarely any people. 49
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(Unless you happen to be Yogi Berra: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded!”) If we are thinking about buying a certain item of clothing, it's usually a much easier choice if that article of clothing is fairly popular. Often times, the presence of social proof drives us to action, and THEN we come up with a conscious reason why we did what we did. But at the same time, most of us fiercely believe that we are in control, and our lives are completely under our own jurisdiction, not some ancient programming from tens of thousands of years ago. Once I went to a local restaurant / bar with a couple of friends. As we walked into the bar section, I noticed plenty of signs and flags and adverts for Corona Beer on the walls. We sat down, ordered, and my friend ordered a Corona. But what was funny was that he looked at the menu, and actually took some time to think, at least a couple of seconds, and his facial expressions clearly showed he was thinking "consciously" about what to get. When his Corona arrived, I asked him why he decided on a Corona. He told me he'd always liked them, and that he hadn't had one for a while, and that drove his choice. But then I asked him to look around, and he was flabbergasted! 50
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The truth is that this is the way most of us behave, most of the time. We are almost always driven unconsciously to act, and then after the fact we come up with some conscious "story" that helps us "feel good" about our decision. In this particular situation, that which my friend created, his Corona, was a subconsciously driven creation, but he'd convinced himself it was a conscious creation. If we aren't careful, we can never get out of the trap of living in a subconsciously created world that we think is our conscious choice. This is very dangerous, because if we think it's our conscious creation, we likely accept it, as well as any excuses for not getting what we really want. One of the more popular analogies for this is "Sour Grapes." We look at something we wish we could get, but then instead of changing our thinking or behaving on any level, we simply tell ourselves an excuse why we REALLY don't want that anyway. In the example, a gardener who has been unsuccessfully trying to grow grapes looks into his neighbor's yard to see some juicy, perfectly purple grapes. Now, if he were consciously trying to create grapes, he would maybe go and ask his neighbor how he grew them, what kinds of seeds he used, how and when he watered them, etc. But this would require admitting that he'd failed in his 51
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latest attempt. This would require that his neighbor is better than him at doing what he wants to do. This would require swallowing his pride, and approaching his neighbor with a humble, open mindset. It's much easier to play a quick "mind trick" and just say that those grapes are probably "sour." If they are sour, then there's no reason to feel envious, or bad about our own failures. Conscious Creation Conscious creation is the most difficult kind of creation there is. It's also the easiest, when done correctly. There are two ways it can become difficult.
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Humans are born learners. But we learn most naturally through trial and error. We learn via our built in feedback mechanism, which is the underlying thread of all of our thinking, all of our acting, and all of our creation. This is much easier when our thinking, acting, and creating is all done on an unconscious level. A child learning to walk is a perfect example. The ever present feedback helps the child get better and better with each try. As adults, sports are a good example. Once you've decided upon a goal, like a certain performance level, conscious thought is not required. You try something, notice what happened, and then try again, based on this new information. If you take wereittofor practice serving a tennis for example, you’d granted that you'd needball, to "practice" hitting hundreds if not thousands of balls before you got pretty good. You accept that "failure" is built in to the process. It can take years before you become fully proficient in a sport. Take golf for example. Many people play golf, as a part time hobby, for their entire adult lives. Never once do they consider themselves a "failure" if they don't get the ball in the hole every single time. Every time they go to the course, they fully accept that 53
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some shots will be good, and some shots will be not so good. They spend their entire lives playing, and enjoying, while never getting close to perfection. Now, consider something other than sports. Something like relationships or business. When we try these things, we tend to expect it to go perfectly or we hope it goes perfectly the first time. If we see an attractive member of the opposite sex, for example, we think of success or failure as if it's a life or death situation. But if you talk to them, and they aren’t interested in you for whatever reason, are you a failure? Did you even fail? Or did you just get valuable feedback that will help you next time? Or think of starting your own business. If you lose money for the first year, are you a failure? Or did you just get valuable feedback that will help you next time? When creating something magnificent, it's crucial to understand that you must learn to not only accept failure, but to expect it, and embrace it. Failure is as crucial to the creation process as thinking, acting and the eventual outcome. Since the feedback loop is always present, you will always have failure. After all, what is a feedback loop other than a mix of small successes and small failures on the road to your outcome? 54
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The second crucial mistake that most of us make is to not trust the unconscious process. Our conscious minds are incredibly limited, and unless we can see something spelled out in front of us in easy to understand terms, we won't understand what's going on. To make matters worse, all of us are control freaks on some level. It's very hard for us to simply let go and let things take their natural course. For one thing, even though we've kicked off a chain of events that our unconscious has full confidence will come back with what we've asked for, because our conscious minds can't begin to comprehend what's going on, we think the process has stopped. The creation process has often been compared to growing a flower, or baking a cake. You mix the ingredients, or plant the seed, stand back and wait. But then we get anxious, worried, and don't think our outcome is happening fast enough. So we dig up the seed, or take the cake out of the oven to see what the problem is. Well, the problem is that our control freak minds are impatient, and it's our impatience that is halting or even destroying the process. It might be fun to be a kid in science class digging up a 56
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recently planted seed to check the roots, but if it's a beautiful flower we're after, digging up the seed every five minutes is going to delay or stop the process. But this metaphor is over simplistic to real creation. It is true that our desire for the outcome to "hurry up and come" will impede or halt the process, but it's much more complicated. Which means there are much more opportunities for us and our control freak minds to mess things up. Consider baking a cake. We all have experience from a very young age seeing stuff go into the oven, and then seeing it come out transformed. We also likely have a lot of experience seeing stuff mixed in a big bowl, and then put in the oven, and then transformed. We see eggs, flour, milk, sugar, etc., going in, and cake or cookies coming out. We understand the entire process. We've seen it plenty of times, perhaps even done ourselves. So in the above metaphor, where the impatient control freak keeps opening up the oven, and messing up the process, the ONLY thing that is causing a problem is that it isn't happening fast enough. The person KNOWS on a conscious level that there's going to be some cookies eventually. The person KNOWS on a conscious level that sugar plus flour plus milk plus eggs plus heat plus time equals cookies. 57
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The entire process is consciously understood. But in the real world, where thoughts become things, the entire process is almost NEVER understood completely. Which means faith, trust, and patience is absolutely required. That's why trying to micro-manage or even understand the process will naturally halt or significantly delay the process. If you've ever had a job where you were micro managed by an ever present boss, you know how much this can stifle productivity. I remember once I used to work in a research and development lab at a huge, fortune 500 company. The particular division I worked for developed "sterile disposables" which meant they were the kind of medical product that came in a special, sterilized wrapper, was used once, and then thrown out. The lab was always a mess, with junk and parts and products laying everywhere. But one day the big wigs from headquarters were coming to take a look. The whole company pretty much shut down to prepare for the visit. We spent days cleaning the lab. It was spotless. We prepared a special set up for the big shot to come and take a look. He came in with his entourage, listened to me give about a two minute demonstration, and then asked me a very silly question: 58
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"You didn't clean all this up for me, did you?" And he was completely serious. "Oh, no, of course not," I said, absolutely incredulous. This is what happens when we put the spotlight of our conscious mind on the creation process, which is largely unconscious. Production stops. Creativity stops. All forward momentum stops, and then needs to be restarted. Similar to playing a piece on a musical instrument, or playing any kind of sports, you've just got to relax, and trust your unconscious to carry you through. Your unconscious mind is a powerful computer with more computational resources than anything ever created. When you relax and step out of the picture, miracles will happen. Now that we know how the process works, how thoughts become things, we'll get more specific on Right Thinking and right action, so you can create anything you want with unconscious ease.
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The creation process is part of your genetic, emotional and physical make up. No matter what you are doing, you are carrying out the three step creation process. Thoughts turn into action, and action turns into results. It is impossible to be alive and not be going through this process on a daily basis. But you didn't buy this course to keep doing the same thing. You bought this course so you could create better things. Wonderful things. Magnificent things. That's what we'll learn in this section. How to practice Right Thinking, which will naturally lead to right behavior, which will naturally lead to the outcomes you want. The term, "Right Thinking" is not meant as a moral or ethical term. Right Thinking or Right Acting is only meant to be thoughts or actions that are congruent with your intended outcome. The moral or ethical nature of your thinking and acting will depend on the outcome you create, either consciously or inadvertently along the way. This in no way supports the idea that "the ends justify the means." This is only a prescription of thinking and acting to help you more effectively get what you want. What you specifically want, and how that adheres to any moral, religious or ethical standards is your responsibility. That being said, Right Thinking WILL lead to right behavior, which WILL lead to right outcome. 60
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However, remember the last section. The biggest killer of creation is needing to be in conscious control of the whole process, from start to finish. So if we need to "let go" and trust our unconscious, how do we know if we're on the right path? How do we know that our thoughts or actions are right? This will become clear as we go through the process. As mentioned before, the three stages of creation, thinking, acting and receiving, are all part of the same process. So when you are using this creative process, you will be experiencing all three at once. But for the purposes of understanding, we'll get going through each process as if were unto itself. What is Right Thinking? Any thinking that leads to right behavior and right outcome. As an example, we'll use something simple, like a 10% increase in salary. What kind of thinking will lead to this outcome? To begin, simply imagine that you've got a 10% increase in salary. How does that feel? What does it look like? What do people say to you? How do you notice? What is a different way you would notice? What does this allow you to do? What kinds of achievements in your past does this remind you of? How did you know when you received them? These questions are just the beginning. It's important to 61
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mediate on this and let your mind wander. This is initial desire as the seed or energy that powers the wandering. When creating, it's important to spend at least a few minutes on a daily basis meditating on your desire, and having a playful and open mind. Avoid thinking in terms of dates. Avoid any references to the future. Feel everything, and think of everything, in the present moment. Feel that very special and very powerful, "now" feeling. Remember, the purpose is not to consciously control the process, or come up with any kind of "to do" list once you finish the visualization meditation. It's also crucial to dispel any magical thinking. The purpose of Right Thinking is to give your subconscious a direction, and then to trust your unconscious to turn that direction into action. Now, this action could very well be the way you present yourself, the way you carry yourself, your facial expressions, the increased confidence in your voice. Your boss may notice the "new you" and start to take an interest in your work. She might realize that you are more valuable than previously thought, and then give you a raise because of that new understanding. But don't mistake this for magic. This is pure science. You gave your subconscious a clear direction you wanted to go. Your subconscious simply altered your behavior, unconsciously, to make that happen. 62
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Thinking lead to action, action leads to outcome. The whole process wrapped in the ever present feedback loop. If you sat at your desk every day trying to come up with conscious ideas on how to get a ten percent raise, you may have had the opposite effect. When taking time to think about your desire, realize just what you are doing. You are planting seeds in your mind that will lead to action. If you keep digging up the seeds, by questioning your action, you will halt or otherwise impede the process. Plant the seed with trust. When you plant a seed, or put some cake batter in the oven, you fully trust that the process will work. You don't wonder if the cake will bake, or the seed will grow. When meditating on your desires, generate a feeling of trust. This is why it's important to let your mind travel through your memories to anything else you've achieved. Doing a mental "Swish" pattern will help. A Swish Pattern is one of the more popular patterns from NLP. It was designed to take unhelpful feelings and replace them with helpful feelings. For example, let's imagine you were scared of driving over a bridge. That feeling of fear would show up as soon as you saw the bridge. In order to do the Swish pattern, you'd need a resource 63
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state. An emotional state you'd rather feel than fear. So let's say you choose "happiness" as your resource state. And let's say you feel happiest when you see your children or other loved ones. Then you create a picture, in your mind of your children, and make sure that picture generates the happiness. The "Swish" is when you practice replacing the picture of the bridge, with a picture of your children. You imagine a very small picture of a bridge far off in the distance (the picture itself is far off in the distance.) As the picture gets larger, and starts to generate that "fear" feeling, you immediately replace that bridge picture with a big, bright, up-close picture of your children. The idea is that as you practice replacing the bridge picture with your children's picture, the feeling of fear you feel when you see the bridge will be replaced by a feeling of happiness. It's called the "Swish" pattern because it can help to imagine a real "swish" sound as you swap pictures. How do you do this when visualizing? Simply recall anything that you've done in the past, preferably something you've created. Something that you've created so many times, that every time you begin anew, you have complete confidence you will be successful. The content is not important, but the feeling of confidence is. Let's say you are a very good painter. And you have a very good feeling when you see an empty canvas, 64
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absolutely positive that you'll be creating something wonderful. As you look at the blank canvas, you get that positive feeling of expectation, based on experience, that you will like your new picture, and so will all you show it to. In this example, you'd mediate on your uncreated desire, and oscillate between your uncreated desire (in this case the 10% raise) with that feeling of positive expectation you get when beginning a new painting. The more you fill your thinking with the true, deep knowing of expectation, the quicker your creation will happen. The more diverse experiences of creation you can draw from, the better. A deep knowing of success, and a complete lack of impatience, worry, or anxiety. A great way to practice this "feeling of certainty" is by doing very simple tasks like throwing a wadded up ball of paper at the wastebasket. Stand a couple yards away, get that feeling of "I can do this," based on previous experiences, and just practice taking "free throws" at the trash can. This is a great way to practice the border between thinking and unconscious action. The more you build up that feeling of trust of your own actions, driven by your unconscious, the more powerful of a creator you'll become.
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Right Thinking - Congruence There's an old saying that goes, "The easiest way to ride a horse is to ride it in the direction it's already going." Which means if you are congruent with the world around you, it will be easier to operate within that world to get whatever you want. Humans come preprogrammed with several desires. So long as you are congruent with these basic desires, you'll have a much higher chance of manifesting what you want. Similarly, if you take your desire, and express it congruently with any of these base desires, you'll have a much easier time. However, if you are intending to manifest something which is contradictory to your basic human nature, it will be difficult. For example, food is obviously crucial to our survival. When we start to get low blood sugar, or we get that pit of hunger in our stomach, suddenly everything takes a back seat to our eating. Nothing is more important than finding and eating food. Similarly, the desire to eat is significantly turned on simply by eating. Our ancestors lived in a world of significant lack, so when they did find food, only those that had the genetic predisposition to eat as much as the physically could lasted through the lean times. So if you are manifesting a sleek, attractive body, there 66
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ARE going to be times where your intention is going to be directly opposed to your nature. Understanding this is the first step. The next step is to fully acknowledge, accept, and appreciate your nature, and express it in terms of your desire. Instead of trying to avoid eating altogether with pure willpower (which NEVER works) instead substitute certain foods. While you are eating those foods, take the time to really visualize your perfect body, and ALL the good things that will come with it. Similar to the Swish Pattern, you'll slowly associate those strong, positive emotional feelings that naturally come with a healthier and slim body, with your new healthier eating patterns. As you're likely starting to realize, Right Thinking is NOT automatic. It's not like flipping a switch and suddenly sitting back while your brain is flooded with the perfect thoughts that will lead you effortlessly to your rewards. Right Thinking does take effort, and it does take time. But the rewards will be enormous. Continuing with the weight loss example, another way to train in Right Thinking is to substitute future gratification for present gratification. One of the hallmarks of success in any area is delayed gratification. Being able to put off receiving a good now, in 67
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the present, for an even greater good in the future. The trick is to build up the positive expectation for that future good, so that the positive emotions of thinking about it become larger than good feelings in the present. When you do this in a way where your desire AND your nature are congruent, and at the same time putting the gratification out in the future, it will have a powerful result. Here's an example, with the weight loss example. Let's say it's Tuesday night. You've spent plenty of time building up a big, emotionally powerful visualization of your future self. You visualize that while eating healthy food, so the positive emotions from visualizing your future are starting to become associated with your healthy eating. But sometimes you like to cheat. It's nice to have a couple days a month that you can look forward to. So here you are on Tuesday night, eating something healthy. You are visualizing your perfect body, and all the emotional, romantic, and social success that will bring. Those good feelings are being associated with the food you are eating. At the same time, you are imagining next Saturday, when you'll be going to your favorite restaurant with your friends, where you'll have your wonderful day of cheating. So now you're associating TWO future goods: Your perfect body, AND the cheating day, out in the future, and associating those with your current experience of eating 68
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healthy food. Now, this may sound like a lot of work, but it only takes a few minutes, and pretty soon you'll actually prefer those good feelings out in the future, as you imagine them in the present. Humans are very optimistic. We love to imagine a better future. When you take the time to construct a great future, and get some powerful emotions imagining your great future, it WILL become bigger and better than anything you can experience in the present. The Road Is Better Than the Inn In truth, humans are forward looking creatures. We are not lower animals, that only think and act in the present. We are designed to move toward a brighter future than the one we have. Have you ever planned a perfect vacation? And then when you were on the vacation, it didn't seem quite as fantastic as the planning stages? Or maybe you spent a lot of time preparing an exquisite meal for your close friends. The planning, research, and shopping are great fun. The cooking is exciting. Then when everybody dives in, and starts to experience the actual meal, it's common to feel a bit of "let down." It's been said that Alexander the Great wept after he conquered the entire known world. Without a huge goal out in the future, it's easy for us to become lost. To feel listless. 69
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To feel as if we have no purpose. Take the time to create a powerful desire. Express it in terms of your nature. Put it out in the future. When you do things similar to your nature, in the present, associate those things with your ideal future. You'll be creating a massive attractive force for yourself in the future that will pull you relentlessly forward to success. This may seem like a lot of work. It may be complicated to conjure up all kinds of mental pictures and associations. But consider this. The more strongly you put your dream out in the future, the more powerful you make it, emotionally, romantically, socially, and even sexually, the more you'll be programming your subconscious. This is where the real magic comes in. The more time you take in the present, to put your goal strongly out in the future, and associate it with your day to day tasks in the present, the more clear your subconscious will be regarding what you want. And when your subconscious is sufficiently programmed, any action required will happen on a subconscious level. They'll be little or no willpower required; there won't even be any conscious thinking required. You'll just be going through your regular day to day activities, not even noticing that you are doing anything different. 70
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But your actions will be on purpose, and they WILL create your outcome. And when it shows up, it WILL seem like magic. The Pitfalls of Proof and Magic The path to creation is not easy. It's not automatic, and it's not our normal way of thinking as humans. If it were, then everybody would always be creating massive riches, beautiful bodies, and fantastic, emotionally and sexually fulfilling relationships. The area of Right Thinking requires constant vigilance, as it's not our natural state. To achieve an awakened, conscious state of creation requires effort to get there, and effort to stay there. Similar to exercise, or saving money, you need effort to achieve your goal, as well as effort to maintain it. There are two telltale modes of thinking that keep us out of the Right Thinking state of creation. They are very common, very easy to fall into, and luckily, very easy to spot. Magical Thinking The first area of thinking to avoid is magical thinking. While Right Thinking will lead to seemingly magical results, it's important to understand that these only seem like magic, as our actions that lead us to what we want are 71
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unconscious, and out of our awareness. They still must adhere to the laws of science. If you've got children, you know how hard it is to keep up with them. They've got tons of energy. Imagine what it would be like if we had that much energy. If we saw somebody a couple hundred meters away, and immediately sprinted to see them. Imagine if we spent our free time running around and playing. We wouldn't have any problems losing weight and keeping slim, and we wouldn't really think about it one way or the other. Our unconscious actions (running around and playing) would naturally lead to our desired result. It would only seem like magic, but it would be rooted in the laws of chemistry, physics and biology. Any time we are trying to create something, without fully embracing the need for action, on our part, either consciously or unconsciously, we are engaging in magical thinking. If we are trying to create the perfect relationship, but we never leave the house or never show up when friends invite us to social gatherings, we aren't doing our part, and we are engaged in magical thinking. If put up pictures of things that we want, cars, homes, other evidence of wealth, but we don't spend time meditating on our goals on a daily basis, to generate subconscious action in the direction of our goals, we are engaged in magical thinking. 72
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Some of the language used in Law of Attraction techniques and methods can lend itself to magical thinking. We say things like, "Be open to receive," which sounds like we are going to get a gift, like a birthday present, without needing to give anything in return. As adults, even Christmas presents require a "give and take." Think of it this way. Every single thing you could ever want has to be something that involves somebody else, in some way. Even if you want nothing more than a pound of gold, somebody is going to need to dig that gold out of the Earth. Somebody is going to need to spend the time, effort, and investment to refine that gold, and separate out the impurities. Somebody is going to need to form that gold into a brick. Somebody is going to have to transport that brick of gold, which would require insurance, security and other precautions, to a location near you so that can go and get it. It's necessary to understand that all of these people aren't doing that just so you can get your gold. They all have their own reasons for doing so. They are all getting compensated, in some way, for you to receive that gold. A more appropriate way to think of "being open to receive" might be “being open to exchange.” 73
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The world is filled with people, all who want something from somebody. The great promise of human nature is that by getting out into the world, and interacting with others, consciously or unconsciously, you will get what you want, so long as you are open to participating in helping others get what they want. Being "open to receive,” may be being open to giving first. Interacting with the world with a genuine attitude of "how can I help," you will be creating a kind of potential energy among the vast unconscious collective that will dramatically accelerate your progress. Skeptical Thinking On the other side of the coin of magical thinking is skeptical thinking. This is somebody who needs to know everything, see everything, and be certain of all the processes and procedures involved. This is the person whose "go to" statement is, "Do you have any evidence?" This is that little voice that pops up whenever you get an intuition to try something new. You've done plenty of visualizing; you've charged your future with a powerfully attractive force pulling you to your outcome. Your subconscious is busily scanning the environment looking for opportunities to help you get closer to your goal. Perhaps your outcome is to meet and somebody. Perhaps your outcome is to find a better paying more enjoyable career. Perhaps your outcome is to finally lose those extra 74
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pounds and feel sexy in your body. So you get an intuition to go into a nearby restaurant that you've never been in before. Perhaps in your peripheral vision, your unconscious has noticed somebody going in that is exhibiting the body language and facial expressions of somebody that may lead to you getting your outcome. You stop, turn and look at that restaurant. Then that voice starts up. "Why on Earth would you go in there? That's an Italian restaurant; you don't even like Italian food? Why would going into an Italian restaurant help you get a job? That's stupid? What if people knew you were going into an Italian restaurant to try and find a job as a school teacher? What would they think?" You get cold feet, you feel stupid, and you don't go in. This is one reason why it's very important to keep your desires very secret. Other people have a dramatic impact on our own thought process, especially their reactions to our stated dreams. So when you voice your desires, the slightest twitch or even a slight tone of voice that is anything other than congruent can stop us dead in our tracks. The Skeptic part of us needs proof because part of us is terrified of taking risks. If we ONLY took actions that were guaranteed to work, we would never fail. But we would rarely act. 75
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How to Quiet the Inner Skeptic When practicing Right Thinking, it's important that your thoughts lead to action, preferably on an unconscious level. Everything in life requires a bit of uncertainty, and sometimes that can be scary. If you are expecting to understand everything that's going on, it will be much more difficult, as you'll be much less likely to take action. It's much easier to take action when you don't have an expectation of immediate or understandable results. In the previous example, we imagined you had an intention, and your subconscious was pushing you to go into an Italian restaurant, because it noticed there was somebody who may help you achieve your desires. Expecting to know exactly why you're going into the restaurant, and having some kind of idea consciously of what you might expect can set up a feeling of potential failure. From a conscious standpoint this makes perfect sense. If you see somebody consciously, and you have a conscious idea of what kind of outcome you want based on an interaction with them, it's easy to imagine getting it, but it's also easy to imagine not getting it. This can createachieve feelingsaof anxiety. Any time we are to consciously goal, we will experience thistrying anxiety. Part of us is excited about the possible success, 76
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but part of us is afraid of what will happen if we fail. Part of us is pushing us forward; another part of us is holding us back. This is exacerbated when the part of us that is pushing us forward is based on "magical thinking" meaning we're expecting something for nothing, and the part that's holding us back is based on "skeptical thinking" meaning we are terrified of moving forward unless we are absolutely certain we will succeed. How do we avoid these common oscillations? Ideally, we want to proceed completely on an unconscious level. Without having any kind of expectation what may or may not happen. When children learn to walk, they don't have a specific idea in mind of what they want. They don't imagine each step, and calculate how much weight to put on each foot and at each angle. They just move forward with their intention, and see what happens. Our natural learner, that part of us that fully embraces all feedback as valid, and is absolutely necessary to growth and achievement, doesn't think in terms of success or failure. As a natural learner, we simply move forward, with an end goal in mind. We don't see the next step as a linear progression towards that goal. We see it as merely a collection of information, as well as actions that will move us closer. 77
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The secret is to purposely hold that "what if" frame of mind. To be open for any outcome and trust that it WILL lead us closer to our outcomes, regardless of what happens. Anything we do will give us positive feedback. The only thing that will keep us from getting our outcome is a lack of action.
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Right Thinking naturally leads to right action. Being open starts in the mind, and then naturally folds into the world around us, through our actions. Right action must necessarily be uncertain. It must be driven by intuition, and it must be interactive. We are but one small part in the larger, collective unconscious. We are interacting with the collective unconscious to create outcomes for ourselves, as well as help others create their outcomes. We need not know how we are creating our outcome. We need not know who we are interacting with, and how we are helping others create their outcomes. All we need to know is that by getting out into the world, and WILLinteracting succeed. with others, spurred on by our intuition, we If we want to lose weight, we know it's a good idea to exercise, and to eat certain foods, and to avoid other foods. But it’s also commonly taught that weighing yourself on the scale every day might not be such a good idea. If you don't lose as much as you think, or you may have gained a pound or two, it can kill your momentum. Similar to the need for checking to see if the cake is finished baking, or the seed has started sprouting, it's tempting to check on our progress. 79
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One of Hemingway’s characters once remarked that you go bankrupt slowly, and then all at once. Creating an outcome works the same way. You may be making very and sometimes imperceptible progress, but then all of a sudden, things all start happening at once. One big thing happens, and then that leads to something else completely unexpected, and before you know it, you've created something much better than you ever thought possible. If you think of all the great things you've accomplished and experienced in the past, you likely didn't see them coming. Or at least your conscious didn't see them coming. Maybe you met somebody, and that led to an activity that you wouldn't have otherwise done. Or maybe something bad happened unexpectedly. But then when you looked that seemingly terrible situation a second or third time, you found that it really was an opportunity. Many of the greatest discoveries of all time happened because there were problems that needed to be solved. Nobody likes problems. In fact, when anything resembling a problem comes up, we tend to run in the opposite direction. However, if you take a look at some of the biggest problems you've dealt with over the course of your life, you may discover that you ended up much better off. 80
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This doesn't mean you should consciously go out and create trouble. This just is an example that by being open to everything that happens, you will see much more flexibility in your behavior. Right Thinking and Right Action go hand in hand. If you goal or desire is sufficiently charged with strong emotions, it will color all your actions on a daily basis. Leverage Your Filters We come into the world with filters. Filters are windows through which we parse and sort the massive amount of data that we are constantly being hit with. All animals come with filters. They are associated with the instincts of the particular creature. For example, any animal that has a natural predator has filters to sort any indication of the predator as it comes near. Zebras have brains that are fine tuned to pick out lions, but not other animals. Fish have sensors that are tuned to get out of the area in a hurry if any sharks or other predators come close. As humans we also have filters, but they are much more flexible. Consider that every human suddenly goes on high alert when they hear their name. None of us were born with our names pre-wired into our brains. But we were pre-wired with a sense of ourselves. With an 81
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understanding that we, as ourselves were a unique entity surrounded by other unique entities. So we took something that was given to us, and associated that with what we already had. After we made the connection, we become on high alert whenever our names our called. Consider money. We come hard wired to have an unquenchable desire for many different resources. Food, shelter, tools, etc. We learn very early on that money represents anything that we want. So we develop a keen filter to sort our peripheral vision for money. If you are walking down the street, for example, and a bill or a coin appears in your peripheral vision, you will immediately turn and focus on that. Now, we are often taught that learning only happens when we are children. But consider this. Suppose you went to another country, where the money was different than what you're used to. I think you’d agree that it wouldn't take you very lon g to be super-attuned to the new form of money. This is proof that you have within you the ability to take you very raw desires, and translate them so that your subconscious can sort and filter everything around you, on a constant basis, in light of what you want. Everybody would like more money. Everybody likes the sound of their own name. These things are easy to pick out 82
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from the noise around us. The way to manifest your desires, whatever they may be, is to simply follow your instincts. It's easy to be drawn to your name. It's easy and automatic to be drawn to the money you suddenly see on the ground. Take a moment to imagine how that feels. You are walking down the street, maybe thinking about something nice, maybe not. Maybe you are excited about where you are going, maybe you're not. But then suddenly your subconscious catches something out of the corner of your eye. Your head whips around and you see the money laying there. You double check, and sure enough, it's money. This happens very quickly, but when you see something that will lead you to your desires, the process is the same. You notice something, and your subconscious gives you a signal to go and check it out. That signal comes across as an intuition, or a vague feeling of desire or interest. The difference is that you know consciously and immediately what that money is, and what it represents. There's no "battle" between the magical thinker and the skeptical thinker. There's simply no time. How do you feel compelled to take action, when you aren't sure what will happen? There are two ways. 83
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One is to practice visualizing your goal on a regular basis. But visualize it with a feeling that it will lead you to action, rather than some kind of magical expectation that it will simply show up. Visualize it and imagine that it's out there in the world, and your job is to go and find it. Visualize it like you are a treasure hunter, and your job is to find it through interactions with others. Law of Attraction is a Misnomer The name, "Law of Attraction," is an unfortunate metaphor. It says that what you want also wants you. It says that when you vibrate at a certain frequency, you'll "attract" things to you. But this is only a metaphor. It does not mean that all you have to do is sit at home, and the things you want will physically move through time and space to where you are. In fact, the opposite is true. When you visualize, and start to vibrate at a certain frequency, that means when YOU go out and move through the world, YOU will notice all those other things that are also vibrating at that same frequency. It's your job to move towards them. Remember the metaphor of the large, collective unconscious. other people. Also remember that everything involves
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If EVERYBODY on Earth decided to practice the Law of Attraction, with the expectation that things would move toward them, then NOBODY would take any action. Nobody would get out in the world. And nobody would receive anything. There would be no traffic on the freeways, nobody working in any shops, nobody showing up to work at the water or power stations. Life would quickly take a dramatic turn for the worse. A common teaching from various religions is the Lord helps those who help themselves. This is absolutely true whether you are deeply religious, or you are a devout atheist. This means that when you do your visualizations, imagine that you are placing your outcome "out there." Imagine yourself taking action and achieving the outcome. It's not necessary to actually visualize the specific steps to achieve your outcome. Just get a feeling of moving through the world, and interacting with people. Remember the Swish Pattern. Visualize your desire, and oscillate with pictures of smiling people who are happy to see you. Imagine groups of people who are all chattering away and enjoying each other's company. Expand your consciousness to include the entire world. The entire universe. Become the Law of Attraction that encompasses all of reality. 85
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End of the Day Review Visualizing from this perspective will give you a strong push forward. This will prime your subconscious to have a forward looking, outward perspective. It will help reduce the dependence on magical thinking. It will generate a positive expectation and curiosity about any potential action. To significantly increase your trust in your day to day actions to remove as much of your skeptical thinking as possible, it's also helpful to do an "end of the day" review. To be sure, it's hard to fully remove that "is it done yet" thinking when creating. While having an infinite amount of patience will yield instantaneous results, this can be extremely difficult. Humans are natural entrepreneurs. We often take action with high hopes, only to have the outcome be less than we'd expected. Meaning you might get a strong impulse to do something, only to find it didn't give you ALL of your desires wrapped in a nice golden package. To counter this tendency, it will help to develop an appreciation for both the road AND the inn. Meaning you will learn to appreciate the path to your outcome, as well as the outcome itself. A daily review is the perfect to do it that. some time and imagine your goal.way Imagine withJust thattake "Now" feeling. 86
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Then, similar to the Swish Pattern, where you juxtapose your desire and taking action in the future, juxtapose your desire, and your day to day activities that you've just finished that particular day. You may have done plenty on the way to your outcome with realizing it. Just look at your daily activities, especially those that were spontaneous and unplanned, and you'll see that you really did make lots of progress without realizing it. One way that can help journaling. Free Noting is a great way to explore your recent past and gain insights into the subconscious reasons behind your actions. Bring to mind some positive feelings associated with what you're creating. Then just start Free Noting, or writing down whatever comes to mind, about your recent day or week. You'll find this activity (when combined with the rest of the recommended activities in this section) will literally light up your mind with ideas, insights and inspirations to create your desire, or something even better.
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It can be difficult to remember all of these, so in this section we'll review the crucial elements that will dramatically accelerate the completion of your desires. Visual Image Create a powerful, compelling, visual image if your final outcome. Visualize it in as many situations as possible, and in as many senses as possible. What will you hear, see, taste, feel and experience when it is complete? What will people say to you? Imagine close friends are asking you how you created something so magnificent, and imagine you are telling them. Imagine you are giving a speech at a local community group, or other association related to your outcome, and explaining to them how it was created. Visual Image - Forward Leaning Create a Swish Pattern with your image. First imagine your desire. Then visualize you going out into the world and interacting with people. It doesn't need to make any logical sense. Imagine your image, and then imagine a time in the future when you are with strangers, talking and laughing. Imagine you are with friends, sharing something completely unrelated to your goal. Imagine that you are in a very crowded place, maybe a train station or city center, and just appreciate the vastness of humanity. Swish these two images back and forth until one naturally leads to the other. Visual Image - Backward Looking 88
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Create another Swish Pattern. One image with your desire and one image of something you did in the past that you were happy with. Anything you could call a success. Don't worry about what images to bring up, as your subconscious is aware of what you need to see. Swish them back and forth until your desire automatically calls to mind past successes. Free Noting Consider free noting for ten or twenty minutes at the end of your day. Just journal without any logical direction or reason, and see what you write. It may seem strange at first, but once you start writing, (and give yourself permission to "play") the floodgates of your mind will burst open. You'll start writing faster and faster. Don't worry about grammar or spelling. Simply put down whatever comes to mind. Allow yourself to feel appreciation for any spontaneous action you did that day or week. Feel appreciation for any ideas you imagine about your future. Daily Action - Listen to Intuition As you go about your day, simply listen for impulses or feelings that compel you do things that you don't normally do. Depending on your personality, this may be very difficult, or this may be very easy. Behaving "outside of the box" may mean taking a different route to work, or starting up a conversation with a stranger at the post office. It could be something as easy as you skipping lunch. Avoid any kind of skeptical thinking, where feel you need to know specifically why you are doing any particular think. Enjoy 89
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the process. Enjoy exploring the world around you. Allow yourself the pleasure of discovery. Give yourself a pat on the back whenever you do something out of character, or beyond what you normally do, regardless of the outcome. Metaphor for Understanding
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a long time, and we'll continue to suffer from drought. When there is no water coming from the sky, the best things humans can do are hope and pray. Despite our massive advances in science and technology, we can't make it rain consistently. Now, consider you and your outcome. That which you desire. Remember as we discussed previously, your desire is necessarily dependent upon others. Others who have their own desires, wishes and intentions. Others who have complicated emotions, beliefs and behaviors as you do. At last count, there were seven BILLION people on Earth. The point of all this is that by now you can see how utterly impossible it can be to try and predict exactly what to do, exactly what steps to take, in order to achieve your outcome. That's why acting with openness, curiosity and positive expectation is absolutely necessary. The moment you demand from the world to deliver, into your lap, that which you desire, the process will shut off. It's also important to understand that it may seem like nothing is happening, and then all of a sudden the flows or riches burst forth from the most unexpected place possible. Consider the story of the straw that broke the camel's back. Piles after piles were put upon the poor camel, with no discernable outcome. Then one single straw was put on, 91
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and this created a cascading effect. The opposite happens when we are acting on the world to create our desires. We may spend days, weeks, months even, interacting with others, visualizing and being open, curious and explorative. It may seem like nothing is happening, but then one day, out of the blue, several events that were started long ago, somehow coincide and your outcome is deliver to you, seemingly like magic. Only it won't REALLY be magic. But then again, it really will be. Certainly, your friends and other observers will wonder why you are so lucky. They will wonder why fantastic things seem to "happen" to you. And you will wonder yourself. You may have even give up hope, only to find sudden riches where you least expect them.
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your intuition, and that you take action. Often times this action will be uncertain, and may even make you feel silly or foolish. But by opening yourself up to the vast collective unconscious, you will continue in the right direction. One common question is to ask the question, "How do I know I'm on the right path? How do I know that I'm doing the right things?" One way to make sure you are on the right path is if you do something at least once a day based on your intuition, and NOT because you have a clear idea of what's going to happen. One way to do your daily review would simply be to call to mind the things you did that particular day that adhere to the following guidelines: 1) It is not planned 2) You did it because you had a "feeling" 3) There is a degree of uncertainty; you aren’t sure what will happen 4) You allowed yourself to enjoy the experience independent of the outcome Think of the part of yourself that takes action based on intuition as a muscle. The more you strengthen this muscle, the more flexible you'll become.
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One Caveat It can be easy to fall into a trap of doing things “just because,” when in reality we are avoiding taking action. If you are doing things where you are “escaping,” then you’re not moving forward. You’ll know you’re escaping if you are honest with yourself. When you are an explorer of the world around you, you’ll know it. But when you are escaping, you’ll know this as well.
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Think of your subconscious mind as a master chess player, who could easily play 1000 of the world's greatest masters at once. Your subconscious can quickly scan your environment and compare it to what you want to accomplish. Having a strong and clear desire is much better than having a vague desire. Imagine if you just wanted to "not feel lonely." There are plenty of ways your subconscious can make that happen. But few of them will really be what you want. If you don't take the time to understand what you really want, you aren't likely to appreciate fully what you get. This is one constraint of your massively powerful subconscious. Not having a clear direction or desire. Another constraint is your ability to take action. If you have a clear idea of whatrelationship you want, say and sexually rewarding withananemotionally intelligent and caring person, that's great. Your subconscious will read body language, listen to tones of voice, scan social situations and give you a "feeling" of going into a particular area instead of going into another particular area. However, you can severely constrain your subconscious if you fail to take action. If you demonstrate unwillingness to take action, again and again, you'll stop feeling those intuitions. Even if you spend an hour a day doing visualizations, repeating affirmations, and doing daily reviews, but you unwilling to take action when the outcome 95
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is uncertain, you won't achieve anything. But when you DO make it a habit to take action on hunch, without needing to know why, without needing to justify the action after the fact, you'll be able to achieve so much more. In fact, if you were to practice taking action, when the outcome is uncertain on a daily basis, this will get you in good "mental" shape. Here's a metaphor to help you understand. Let's say you live in an ancient, hunter gatherer environment, and your job is to go after food for the tribe. You never know WHAT kind of physical activity you might need. So you practice doing everything you can to strengthen your muscles, increase your running speed, and increase the accuracy of your spear throwing. Now, when you are actually practicing, do you consciously imagine what specific animal you'll hunt for that particular exercise you're doing? Not likely. You just know that someday, your skills WILL come in handy. The stronger you are, the faster you can run the more endurance you have when you run, and the more accurately you can throw your spear, the more likely catch dinner when the time comes. The more diverse your exercise regime is the wider variety of game you'll be able to hunt WHEN YOU SEE IT. In your real life, doing things when you don't know what's 96
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going to happen is the same thing. You may meet somebody in that particular location that may either help you directly, or will lead you to meet somebody that will help you directly. Or, it could just be an exercise in increasing your behavioral flexibility. Think of it this way. Let's say you can measure your behavior flexibility on a scale of one to ten, where one is when you are absolutely petrified to leave the house, and ten is feeling comfortable in any situation. It’s perfectly natural for you to walk up and start a friendly, relaxed conversation with anybody, anywhere, any time. Can you understand that having a higher "flexibility score" will give your unconscious MUCH MORE to work with when it is scanning your environment? If your subconscious knows that you are too terrified to walk into an unfamiliar social environment, it won't likely give you the push to do so, even if it KNOWS that you'll find what you are looking for inside. This all goes back to the advice of NOT needing to know why you are doing you are feeling intuitive about, and NOT looking at it after the fact with any kind of conscious understanding of whether or not the outcome is helping you or not. You will significantly accelerate your progress by simply getting into the habit of doing new things, where the outcome is uncertain, just to give your subconscious more 97
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flexibility. The more you do this, the quicker your outcome will manifest.
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The truth is that Right Outcome is a natural result of Right Thinking and Right Acting. Even though you may never fully understand the process, by visualizing and acting correctly, your action WILL come forth. However, it's crucial to understand that all events that happen must adhere to science. We are not breaking any laws of physics, or the necessary cause and effect laws that govern our universe. Imagine that a being of vastly superior intelligence was watching everybody on Earth at every single moment. And let's say somebody somewhere manifests one million dollars. It's absolutely necessary for that super human being, with super human intelligence and knowledge, to be able to explain in precise terms how and way that person manifested one million dollars. However, that person, and all the people around that person would likely think they got lucky, or a miracle occurred. We are NOT creating magic here. We are following the laws of science, physics, chemistry and biology. It’s just that it’s very rare for us humans to be in situations where we fully understanding everything that’s going on around us, or all of the events that led us to wherever we 99
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are. The good news is that we don't have to understand anything. We don't even have to pretend to understand anything. Similar to a well performed magic trick. To those who don't know the secret it certainly appears to be magic. It is also important to understand that things take time to manifest. Some things will necessarily take more time than others. Consider something easy to manifest, like a peanut butter sandwich. Since we know consciously everything we need to do, it's easy to understand how it works and it doesn't appear to be magic. And it will happen very quickly. Now consider finding a job, in your field, making 50% more income than you are now. Since you likely have a fairly good idea how that will take place, it also won't seem like magic after the fact. You'll be able to look back on your creation, and see how you could have consciously planned the entire thing. It's when we intend to create truly magnificent things, that only SEEM to beyond our reach, will they seem like magic, both to us and to all those around us. And it's also clear that these can take time, sometimes a lot. 100
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For example, if you have never made more than minimum wage, and you’re intending to manifest a million dollars, it WILL happen, just not overnight. If your income is already more than $100K per year, and your intention is to manifest the perfect car, then it will likely happen sooner rather than later. There are two aspects of manifesting to understand. One can be considered creation, and one can be considered finding, or sorting. Finding or sorting is when you have a good idea of how to put together what we want, and it’s just a matter of sorting through our reality to find the right elements. However, when we have no idea what we need, then we’ve got to create as well as sort. In the first case, where a minimum wage worker is manifesting a million dollars, this will require a good deal of creating AND sorting. Creating skills, creating opportunities, creating value. And then sorting for matches between skills, opportunities and elements that will further the plan. On the other hand, consider the person who makes $100K, and is manifesting a certain type of sports car. In this case, the person already has the income, or the means to acquire his or her goals, only it's a matter of "finding" rather than "creating." 101
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They may set the intention of a red sports car. They visualize that sports car every night. They see their future, and their interactions with others in light of getting that sports car. Every night they visualize their previous day’s activities in light of that sports car, and feel gratitude for taking action. Then one day, they are in a business meeting, and they see somebody that looks interesting. They go and start up a conversation, and they mention the person's unique key right. As it turns out, that person knows somebody who deals in unique imports, specifically sports cars. Through this "random" interaction, this particular person "finds" his sports car. Now, let’s consider a minimum wage worker who manifests a million dollars. It's not likely (but certainly not impossible) for this person to simply "find somebody" who will give them a million dollars. While it shouldn't be discounted, it also shouldn't be the main strategy. This particular person visualizes the future, the past, and the present. After listening to their intuition, this person meets somebody at a networking meeting. Through this encounter, they learn about a skill they might be good at. They practice this skill, and later, through several other meetings and visualizations, get a high paying job using these skills. One or two years later, they have an idea, based on their skills, and their work experience, as well as the relationships they've made. This idea turns into a business, which is later sold for a million dollars. 102
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Now, could this person have planned this out from the very beginning, step by step? Not likely. But by continuously visualizing and being open to new ideas and situations, this person both created the skills, the relationships and the opportunity, and found how to best use them on their path to millions.
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Creating a life filled with abundance, positive relationships and increasing amounts of wealth and income is why you are here. You weren't put on Earth merely to receive what others deemed appropriate, but to create. You are a creator. And as a creator, your job is to move through life with the mind of an explorer. The path to success is simple, but not easy. Simple in that all you've got do to get whatever you want is to first choose what you want. Then try something. If that something gets you closer, do more. If that something doesn't get you any closer, do something else. All the while being open to feedback, and fully participating within the collective unconscious. It's not easy because we rarely will have everything laid out for us in simple, step by step linear actions. Most of the time, you'll need to act without any degree of certainty. Therein lays the crucial difference between those that succeed consistently and those who merely wish to succeed. Creators are always eager to take action, learn from the feedback, and then take more action based on that feedback. Creators know the path to creations will be filled with unexpected twists, turns and discoveries.
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Because you are reading this now, you are a creator. You know that you have a purpose. Your purpose is to create. With Right Thinking, Right Acting, and openness for all feedback, you will succeed.
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