What's Your True Potential?

Have you ever just thought of somebody and the phone rings and it’s the same person?

Or perhaps you say something at exactly the same time as a friend says it or thinks it!

This is your own natural ESP at work. Now you can easily develop your own ESP and learn to project your mind and detect information to help you make better decisions about health, relationships, business, personal development, and even your purpose in life.
Find Your Purpose in Life

Have you ever felt like there was something more you should be doing with your life?

Maybe you felt that there is a hidden talent just ready to burst into success. Or a special mission, a soul purpose, you are ready to achieve?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have guidance from higher intelligence as to how to achieve all this?

What’s Your True Potential?

Welcome to this Blog on understanding and using the power of your mind to create a better, happier, more fulfilling life.

Let’s begin with a question.

Imagine how you would feel if you had it all…

Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

Look at your life, do you have what you really, really want?

Or are you settling, have you given up on creating the ideal life you once dreamed of?

Nobody has to live a life that is ordinary, yet most people do.

By doing so they miss out on their true potential.

A Road Map to Success

Different people have different definitions of success.

For you success could be:

• starting a profitable business
• starting a loving family
• writing a book
• owning a beautiful 3-bedroom home in the country
• running a marathon
• spending 2 years abroad with the Red Cross
• earning your first million
• recovering from a life-threatening illness

No matter what your definition is, it’s important to dream big and set a goal of what you’re seeking to accomplish.

Once you know what you want, the next step is to manifest it into your life. This is what this Blog is all about.

What You’ll Learn

This blog will take you through nine guided steps

Here’s some of what you will learn over the next few days:

• How to reach deep levels of meditation with supreme ease.
• How to use affirmations to create immediate attitude shifts.
• How to accelerate healing and achieve vibrant health.
• How to develop your intuition.
• The art of creative visualization to manifest dreams .
• How to create a life plan.
• The art of goal setting and thinking big.

These blogs were developed with the purpose of reminding you of the latent powers that lie within you; and inspiring you to begin to use them.

I use the word remind because you’re probably aware of these abilities. But like most people, you have waited – procrastinated in learning to use them.

I’m writing nine Blogs over the next few weeks. A new blog will be posted every few days. Each blog will explain a new technique.

The Multi-Purpose Mind

Here is a glimpse at what the mind is really capable of accomplishing.

A well known figure once said:

The greatest discovery of the 19th century was noting the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.

 William James

These words were said not by a guru on a mountaintop, nor a self-improvement writer, but by William James, the Harvard psychologist known as the Father of American Psychology.

To the untrained mind, William James’s statement may seem far-fetched, but modern discoveries are finding his words to be true.

Let’s look at some examples of what happens when this “eternal reservoir of power” is harnessed properly.

Case 1 – Using the Mind in Sports

Dr. Charles Garfield, former NASA researcher and current president of The Performance-Science Institute in Berkeley, California, talks about a startling experiment conducted by Soviet sports scientists.

The study examined the effect of mental training, including visualization, on four groups of world-class athletes just prior to the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. The four groups of elite athletes were divided as follows:

• Group 1: did 100% physical training.
• Group 2: did 75% physical training, 25% mental training.
• Group 3: did 50% physical training, 50% mental training.
• Group 4: did 25% physical training, 75% mental training.

What the researchers found was that group 4 – the group with the most mental training – had shown significantly greater improvement than group 3.

Likewise, group 3 showed more improvement than group 2, and group 2 showed more improvement than group 1.

The results were astonishing. Who would expect that athletes training mentally would be able to advance further than their counterparts who were training physically?

Garfield said, “During mental rehearsal, athletes create mental images of the exact movements they want to emulate in their sport. Use of this skill substantially increases the effectiveness of goal-setting, which up until then had been little more than a dull listing procedure.”

If mental exercises and visualization could
have such a profound impact on athletes, what kind of impact could it have on you?

Can you use the same principle to improve your attitudes, confidence and skills? Could it impact your learning ability; your golf swing; your ability to shed weight and stick to a diet?

The answer is yes.

We will explore these topics in a later chapter and show you visualization techniques you can use to improve the quality of your life.

Case 2 – Creating Positive Coincidences

It is an undisputed fact that the mind can influence the physical body but can the mind influence the world beyond your body?

In other words, can the mind create coincidences and influence reality?

People all around the world have experienced this in their own lives and will say that the answer is yes – your world can be shaped by your thoughts and beliefs.

The following story describes one such incident – how one man discovered the power of his mind in creating coincidences. He went on to use this ability to become so successful that his work is almost a household name in America.

For the purpose of this story, let’s call this man Scott. His full name will not be revealed until the end to make this story more intriguing. This story was told in a book Scott wrote in 1998.

In the early 1980s, Scott had heard of a process called affirmations from a friend. The process he learned was simple.

Visualize what you want and write it down fifteen times in a row, once a day, until you obtain it.

Scott was told that the process did not require any faith or positive thinking for it to work. Even more interesting was the suggestion that the technique would influence the environment directly and not just make you more focused on your goals. In other words, it would spawn amazing coincidences to move you toward your goals. The coincidences could be things that were seemingly unconnected to you and beyond your control.

Scott was very left-brained and logical in his thinking. He had his doubts about the process but figured that there was no harm in trying.

“Within a few weeks, coincidences started to happen to me.” wrote Scott.

“Amazing coincidences, strings of them. I won’t mention the specific goal I was working on, as it was a private matter, but within a few months the goal was accomplished exactly as I had written it.”

But Scott was not yet convinced that affirmations helped. Coincidences do happen on their own and Scott considered the test inconclusive.

So Scott picked another goal – to make some gains in the stock market. He wrote his affirmation down every day and waited for some inspiration. It came to him in a dream. He woke up one night with the words “Buy Chrysler & quot” repeating in his head.

He bought shares in the inspired company during one of its most bleak periods yet it began to rise soon after and he made some good returns on it. He repeated the experiment again and managed to pick another successful company, with stock symbol “Ask”.

Armed with this confidence in the power of affirmations Scott decided to apply it to a more challenging goal – getting into the highly competitive University of California at Berkeley MBA program.

The problem was that he had already taken the entrance exam, the G.M.A.T, and only hit the 77th percentile score. He knew he needed to be above the 90th percentile to at least have a chance of being accepted.

Scott picked the outlandish target of 94 as his goal and again applied the affirmation technique.

Despite not being able to go much higher than the 77th percentile in the practice exams Scott was surprised to learn that he did indeed hit the 94th percentile for the G.M.A.T – just as he had written in his affirmations. He graduated with his Berkeley MBA in 1986.

A few years later he tried pursuing a more serious goal, that of being a syndicated cartoonist. He knew the odds of his cartoon submission being accepted by a major newspaper were roughly 1 in 10,000.

He beat those odds and his cartoon was accepted. He was soon earning a decent living with his cartoon strip but he wanted to achieve something bigger.

He decided he wanted the most successful comic strip on the planet. Scott felt that the best measure of “most successful”; would be number of books sold.

In June 1996 his book The Dilbert Principle hit the number-one spot on the hardcover nonfiction list of the New York Times. It stayed in the top three all summer. In November his second book, Dogbert’s Top Secret Management Handbook, also made the bestseller list, giving Scott the number-one and number-two positions simultaneously for one week. For that brief period of time, Scott indeed had the "most successful" comic strip on the planet.

As you may have guessed, the person I’m talking about is Scott Adams, the creator of the highly successful Dilbert comic strip. Scott writes about these experiences with affirmations in his book The Dilbert Future. He does not profess to know why it works but leaves the conclusion to the reader. You can buy Scott Adams’ hilarious Dilbert books at any bookstore.

Reporters often ask me if I am surprised at the success of the Dilbert comic strip. I definitely would be so, if not for my bizarre experience with affirmations. As it was, I expected it.

 Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

Scott Adams’ experience with affirmations makes one wonder is luck within our control?

I will explore the process of affirmations in this blog and we will look at some basic techniques you can use to manifest your goals.

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