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ULTIMATE YOU MINDFEST

COACHING TRANSCRIPTS

Make More Money ..........................................................................2

Sharpen Your Memory ..................................................................10

Attract What You Want .................................................................24

Be Free of Anxiety .........................................................................33

Kick Up Your Instincts ..................................................................40

Improve Your Health .....................................................................51

Get to Your Ideal Weight ...............................................................63

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MAKE MORE MONEY: CLEAR AWAY BLOCKS TO

HAVING PLENTY OF MONEY

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I’m your host, Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and this session is titled “Make More Money: Clear away blocks to having plenty of money.” And we will be featuring the Abundant Money Mindset Paraliminal for you to enjoy at the end of the coaching session.

You may already know that there are six sessions in this Ultimate You Mindfest. In addition to this session on how to make more money, the coaching sessions I will guide you through will give you the tools and techniques for other key areas of your personal development, which I’m sure you will welcome with open arms. The sessions include:

• Sharpen Your Memory • Attract What You Want • Be Free of Anxiety • Kick Up Your Instincts • Improve Your Health

And we’ve also included a special bonus session to help you reach and maintain your ideal weight.

Along with each of the sessions, you’ll get to enjoy access to a Paraliminal recording that will help wire in the principles and techniques that you learn so that you more fully embody the ideas. The Paraliminals really seal the results for you because they put you into direct contact with vast inner resources that help produce the outcomes you truly desire to create. These resources you already have. The Paraliminals will help bring them online for you.

The Paraliminals you’ll be hearing in addition to the Abundant Money Mindset include the Memory Supercharger, Living the Law of Attraction, Anxiety-Free Paraliminal, the Intuition Amplifier, Perfect Health, and Ideal Weight.

Now don’t worry if you miss a session; that’s fine. Come back and do what you can.

Each session is designed as a stand-alone workshop. In them I’ll be coaching you with the best techniques I’ve developed or encountered over the many decades I’ve been working with individuals like you.

And, when you use all these sessions together, there is a progression of benefits you can gain. Each incremental step you make during any one of the sessions you experience will have an additive effect. Taken together these can lead to a powerful shift in the results you produce in life.

As I mentioned earlier this session is “Make More Money: Clear away blocks to having plenty of money.”

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You know what it takes to earn money. Think about all the jobs that you've done throughout your life and all the different ways in which you've been paid. I worked at all kinds of odd jobs for cash as a kid, and I got my first formal paycheck at a big business when I was 16. And since that time I've worked at a number of jobs before starting my own businesses. By age 21, I was running my first business, and at age 26, I began Learning Strategies Corporation, which became ultimately a multi-million dollar company through the great work of a great team of people.

In the process of being in business, I learned a lot about what it takes to manifest a more financially abundant life. One is that you have a clear vision of the service that you can provide to others. Payment is an expression of appreciation for service given. So it's essential that you really have a big and over-arching vision of what it is that you bring into the world.

Secondly, you need a commitment. Essentially you need to go all in to bring your very best into the market place and to the people who really need what it is that you have to offer. That commitment will require that you show up fully whenever you go into that marketplace. This is true whether you have your own business or whether you work for another person. You need to be fully present. You need to be absolutely in your body and fully devoted during the time that you're there to providing the highest possible quality service that you can.

And the third thing that we need is to follow through. That means that we need to keep doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to succeed. Now I break this into two areas. First is that we need to be doing adaptive work all the time. Because in order to be able to do whatever it takes, to really follow through, means that we have to be able to adapt and shift according to the feedback that we're receiving from the efforts that we put out. So if we do some work and it doesn't get the end result we want, we need to be able to adapt either how we provided or what it is we're providing—the effectiveness by which we provide it. So we're constantly adapting and shifting based on the feedback that we receive. Keep in mind that money is one of the easiest ways to see the feedback of the value of the work that we're providing. So we get paid in accordance to the value that we offer.

Now the other dimension of this idea of following through is what I would call resilience, and that's the ability to weather any disruptive changes that may occur. As an entrepreneur, that means I have to be able to stay in business to survive myself long enough to get lucky. This was what was stated by an entrepreneur here in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul—a very famous, very successful, wealthy entrepreneur—he said, “Success in business is being able to stay in business long enough to get lucky.” In other words, to be able to take advantage of the opportunities when they show up, we have to be there in the marketplace for when they show up. And again, if you're working for another person, resilience is easily just as important because any business will go through cycles of change. And to be able to be resilient means that you are able to stay on staff even while others may be let go because of the value that you provide.

So again, the three major things are vision, commitment, and follow-through. And follow-through—we need to be able to do adaptive work, adapt to the changing situations, and secondly is be highly resilient. Now our focus for this session is to go deeper into something that's even more foundational than these three components. Underneath it all is an important function of the human mind, which in a way it acts like a subterranean river of energy that's either flowing or is drying up. If it's flowing, it's bringing amazing fertility and abundance.

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If it's dried up, it's producing limitation, struggle, even poverty. And the simplest way to describe this foundational function of mind is very simply the word "mindset." In my doctoral studies, I encountered a number of scholarly works that described mindset as kind of an attitude or an approach to life. But essentially—what a mindset is—it's part of what we would call your current developmental level or developmental model of the world.

So let me first describe developmental levels. In childhood and in our adolescent years, we move through what are called the first two levels of development, and once we pass through that into adulthood, essentially what we enter is what's called the socialized mind. And this is a result of our schooling, of our acculturation into our culture, our family system, and so on. Let me read a definition of the socialized mind from Robert Kegen: "We are shaped by the definitions and expectations of our personal environment. Our self is held together by its alignment with and loyalty to that which it identifies. This can express itself primarily in our relationships with people, with schools of thought—our beliefs or ideas—or with both."

So that's the socialized mind. That's what we get to as the end product of all of our growing up. Then there's a level beyond the socialized mind called the self-authoring mind—this is what we would call a fourth developmental level. Let me read the definition of that: "In the self-authoring mind, we're able to step back enough from the social environment to generate an internal seat of judgment or personal authority that evaluates and makes choices about external expectations. Our self is held together by its alignment with its own belief system, its own ideology, its own personal code, by its ability to self direct, take stands, set limits, and create and regulate its boundaries on behalf of its own voice. So that's the fourth developmental level—the self-authoring mind. And essentially that's what most of the products and services of Learning Strategies are all about. You would have had to have already recognized yourself as someone who could author a new future for yourself before signing onto this Ultimate You Mindfest.

The fifth developmental level is what's called the self-transforming mind. And let me read the definition of this from Robert Kegen:

Here at the self-transforming mind, we can step back from and reflect on the limits of our own ideology or personal authority. We can see that any one system or self-organization is in some way partial or incomplete. We can be friendlier toward contradiction or opposites. We can seek to hold onto multiple systems rather than projecting all but one on to the other. And in this self-transforming mind, our self is held together through its ability not to confuse internal consistency with wholeness or completion. And through its alignment with the dialectic, the opposing opposites rather than just one end of the continuum or one pole.

So now that we've defined developmental levels, I’d like you to think about developmental levels as essentially the way in which you make meaning about the world. Essentially it's your mental scheme or your perspectives that you use to describe and define your current reality, the world as you know it. In essence, it's what bounds your conscience, your mental model. It's what the edges of your map of reality are all about. It is the edges of your awareness which in turn describes the level of development of your own mental complexity. And mental complexity is what gives us the capacity to solve problems.

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You know, Einstein said, "We can never solve a problem at the level of thinking that put the problem there to begin with." So if we're going to solve very difficult problems that we face today, we have to increase our mental complexity or raise our own developmental levels.

So now let's come back to the idea of mindsets. Mindsets are essentially very crucial leverage points for making a shift in your developmental levels. So one of the things that's important about mindset—that really determines if you're going to make that transition from the socialized mind to the self-authoring mind, from the self-authoring mind to the self-transforming mind—is this crucial distinction, that you either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.

This comes from the work of a Dr. Carol Dweck who wrote a book by the title Mindset. She looked at kids in school, and she looked at two groups—a group that was really good at math and science and a group that wasn't very good at it at all. They asked the group that wasn't so hot at math and science, “What is it about that other group over there that makes them so good at math and science?” And that group said, "They're smart. They're just smart."

And then Dr. Dweck went over to the group that was very intelligent at math and science—very successful at it—and said, “What is it that makes you so successful at math and science?" And what they said was, "We work really hard at it." And so they were able to characterize that there were two different mindsets.

One mindset said, well, this is just a fixed characteristic—you're either good at this or you're not. And the other group was one that said, "You know, if I’m not so good at it, I can get better by working at it. And the more I work at it, the more I'll develop.” So think about this when it comes to being in charge of creating abundant wealth in your life. Do you see yourself as someone who has got this characteristic of always having a problem with money, or you never make enough, or you're always going to be limited to how much money you're going to be able to make? Or do you have a growth mindset that says, regardless of how much I've made in the past, I'm going to be able to create a financial future for myself and my family because of the efforts I've put in to making a difference at this. And so this growth mindset is crucial to what I call having the abundant money mindset. That's really what I want to focus our attention on right now.

Creating an abundant money mindset is a process of building the internal capacities for creating greater wealth and overall prosperity. Essentially, it determines the choices that you make and the habits that you create on your way to building wealth, and with it essentially comes, what I would call, a prosperity consciousness. So you can really build a prosperity consciousness, you can create an abundant money mindset—all of it really is determined by whether or not you're willing to have this growth mindset as part of your developmental process.

So creating an abundant money mindset really means growing in your financial strength and reinforcing an abundant money life. And essentially this is how it works. This is a process that I'm going to lead you through. I'm going to invite you to look at three categories of stories that you have. These stories represent your current mental model around financial abundance. These are stories that you hold, that you refer to, that you talk about regarding your past, your present, and your future with respect to money. So, for example, when you think about money and your relationship to finances and financial abundance just from the past—in terms of your past

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stories—what do you have a tendency to think about? Do you remember money that you wasted, that you invested badly, that you lost? Do you think about money that people owe you that haven't paid?

And if you think about those kinds of thoughts, what sort of emotions, reactions—internally—do they have a tendency to trigger? Resentment, embarrassment, anger, shame, apathy, frustration, confusion…? Well you can imagine if that's what you reference, what's that going to do to your capacity to make a change in your financial world? It's going to affect it negatively downwards. That’s essentially that subterranean river is all dried up, right? Or when you think about money in the past, do you remember bold actions that you took? Winning choices that you made? Learning that occurred—whether you succeeded or failed at it, but that you learned that you were able to apply to future choices?

Do you reflect on encouragement that you've received? Support that people have given you? Trust that you've developed? Now obviously what you habitually reference is going to make a huge difference. If you have a fixed mindset, bottom line is you're going to be stuck. But I know that you have a growth mindset. The fact that you're here listening to my voice right now and participating in the Ultimate You Mindfest means that you've got a growth mindset. You believe in your capacity to make a change—to author a new future no matter what you've been socialized into believing up until now.

So my invitation to you right now is to do an exercise that will help you release any of the old mindsets that you've been hanging on to that might not be serving you—areas of your life that you could make some important growth in the direction of creating the abundance that you like. The process for releasing follows the pattern developed by Hale Dwoskin called “The Sedona Method.” So what I'm going to invite you to do is close your eyes, if you can, and just focus within. Focus your conscience mind on some stories that you may have around money. First we're going to go to some of the old stories about money. Whatever limiting beliefs and mindsets that you grow up with that made you think that the outer world of money controlled your inner world of thoughts and feelings about yourself and what you could and could not do in life. So bring into mind any of the limiting ideas that you're ready to choose to move beyond.

Could you let them go? Would you let them go? When? And could you welcome positive memories from the past? Memories that remind you that you are capable, competent, prosperous…? That you have chosen ways to create wealth and have succeeded at doing so in the past, giving you confidence that you can survive and thrive in life? And could you let those go? And just feel the energy of possibility that is all around you and within you. Excellent.

So now, second, we're going to focus for a moment on your current stories about money. Think about what it is you're committed to creating and any of the competing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that may be preventing you from fully realizing the true abundance that is available for you to enjoy—any of your current stories about money that is not supporting you. And could you let those competing thoughts and behaviors go? Would you let them go? When?

And could you welcome the positive efforts that you have endeavored to make on behalf of your wealth building? Bring in positive examples of steps that you have made to prevent loss, ways in which you have produced a positive return for your work and service to others… Abundance that

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you now enjoy in any area of your life for which you are truly grateful… Beauty and riches and any aspect of your life that lets you smile and feel good… You just welcome all of that. And then could you let all of that go? And just feel the energy of possibility that is all around you and within you.

And now, third, focus for a moment on your new story, the story of your future about money. This is your life with an abundant money mindset. As you enjoy feeling, acting, and speaking, imagine the wealth that you choose to create, the products and service that you offer to benefit others and the abundance that you receive in return. What is the life you enjoy in this new money world future of yours? What do you look like? How do you feel? How do you behave and speak as you enjoy the freedom that your new relationship with money brings you? Would you just welcome these feelings and new ways of being? And could you just let all your stories go? And become aware of the energy and possibility all around you and within you? Excellent.

Now let's run through all three of these once again so that you can feel the pattern and set the energy more deeply into your mindset. So again we're going to focus your conscience mind on the stories that you have around money. First are the old stories. So whatever limiting beliefs—mindsets that you grew up with that made you think that the outer world of money controlled your inner world of thoughts and feelings about yourself and what you could or could not do in life—any of the limiting ideas that you have now chosen to move beyond. Could you let them go? Would you let them go? And could you welcome positive memories from the past? Memories that remind you that you're capable, competent, prosperous…? That you've chosen ways to create wealth and have succeeded in doing so, giving you confidence that you can survive and thrive in life...? And could you just let all of that go?

Simply feel the energy of possibility that is all around you and within you right now. Secondly, focus now on the moment on your current story about money and any of the competing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that may be preventing you from fully realizing the true abundance that's available for you to enjoy. Could you let those competing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors go? Would you let them go? And could you welcome the positive efforts that you've endeavored to make on behalf of your wealth building? Bring in positive examples of steps that you may have made to prevent loss; ways in which you've produced a positive return for your work and service to others; abundance that you now enjoy in any area of your life for which you're grateful; thoughts about the beauty and riches and any aspect of your life that lets you smile and feel good…

And could you let that go—all of those stories? And just feel the energy of possibility that is all around you and within you. And third, focus now for a moment on a new ideal money story. This is your life with an abundant money mindset—projecting out into the future as you enjoy feeling, acting, speaking. Imagine the wealth that you choose to create for yourself, for others, the products and services that you offer to the benefit of others, and the abundance that you receive in return. What is this life that you enjoy in this new world of yours? This new money world... This new abundant money mindset world that you've created… What do you look like? How do you feel? How do you behave and speak as you enjoy the freedom that your new relationship with money brings you.

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Could you welcome these feelings and new ways of being? Would you welcome these feelings and new ways of being into your whole experience right now? And could you just let all of it go for right now? And become aware of the energy of possibility right here and now—all around you and within you. Your abundant money mindset is a rich, flowing river of abundance supporting you, flowing like a subterranean river of energy that brings fertility and abundance to your ideas, your actions, to your words, your movement, and your work in the world. Every possibility for wealth creation that enters your consciousness springs from a fertile and emergent future, and with your greater discernment, you can pick and choose those that you focus your attention on. Now if you haven't opened your eyes yet, you may do so now, orienting yourself to the world around you, feeling great. How'd that feel?

Alright, so it's through your intention that the goal that you have for creating or manifesting more abundant wealth in your life becomes strengthened in your consciousness. So your intention allows the goal to become strengthened in your consciousness. Remember that everything flows from consciousness, right? So you have the intention, there is this goal, it strengthens your consciousness, and through your attention, your energy flows in that direction. Because energy flows where attention goes. And finally, because you've released and welcomed in the rich abundance of possibility through your abundant money mindset, you step into the future with no tension—but with confidence, power, and all of your internal resources fully available. So it's intention, attention, no tension. Good.

In just a few minutes you’ll be in for a treat. While the true power of the Ultimate You Mindfest comes from you, the advanced learning technology that helps tap the power within you comes from special recordings that we call Paraliminal. You will be able to use at least one Paraliminal for each of the sessions. The Paraliminal that goes with this session is the Abundant Money Mindset.

All you have to do is put on stereo headphones, push play, close your eyes, and relax. You’ll go into a world where music, words, and nature sounds create a 3-D sound environment, engaging your whole brain to make it easier for you to learn the new mental strategies from these sessions while removing barriers and blocks that may have been limiting you in the past.

Each Paraliminal includes special Holosync audio technology, created by Bill Harris at Centerpointe Research Institute. This technology helps to create brain wave patterns that increase creativity, focus, and concentration, and accelerate your learning. New neural pathways between the left and right hemispheres of the brain balance brain functioning and enhance mental and emotional equilibrium, increasing self-awareness and healing unresolved emotional problems.

So right now you are totally prepped for the Paraliminal recording that follows. You can use this around any aspect of your financial life that you would choose to experience a breakthrough. If you want to earn more money at your job, or create a financially fulfilling career, or do more with savings or investments, you name it… If you have stories about it, you can shift the stories and develop a higher level of mental complexity to become more successful as a problem solver, more innovative in your thinking, and more productive in everything you do.

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Thank you for being here with me today in this session. This is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies and I am with you in all of the sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest. It’s now time for you to listen to the Abundant Money Mindset Paraliminal. I’m sure you are going to love it.

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SHARPEN YOUR MEMORY: VAPORIZE UNCERTAINTY

AND FORGETFULNESS

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I'm your host Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and this session is "Sharpen Your Memory: Vaporize uncertainty and forgetfulness," and it features the Memory Supercharger Paraliminal.

I love this topic, because I know that it's perfectly natural to have lapse in memory and that windows happen. You've probably compounded the problem by making disparaging remarks about your ability to remember things. You've probably said something like, " I just can't ever remember that person's name," or "I've got such a lousy memory for book titles, movie titles, numbers, dates, names, places, you name it," or "I'll never be able to remember this tomorrow," or "I'll probably forget to feed the dog," and dozens of other negative statements.

Now as long as you or anyone else you know keeps accepting and reinforcing those kinds of affirmations, those suggestions or hypnotic commands will only ensure that you experience more of the same. Now you may know that I was once a clinical hypnotist back in the 1970s and 80s, and one of the most intriguing phenomenon in hypnosis is called hypnotic amnesia. During my first demonstration of hypnosis, I told someone that he couldn't remember his own name, and it was astounding to me when he became absolutely incapable of speaking his name. And when I witnessed that, I realized—oh my gosh—we’re doing this to ourselves every day. We're taking perfectly reasonable resources of mind and throwing them out the window because we accept the suggestion, “I cannot.” Then we keep reinforcing that kind of statement as a posthypnotic suggestion that only continues working for us long afterwards.

So what we're going to be doing in this session is we're going to set the record straight. We're going to bust some of these very bogus myths about your brain and memory and get an immediate improvement in how your memory works for you. Ready to play?

Alright, so I'm going to give you some kind of big picture overviews of how the brain and mind work, how memory works for you, so that you can start using it right away. So the first is that there is no really good computer analogy that applies to the way the human brain and memory work. For example, when we load something into our long term memory store, it's not written on to some hard drive, some disc—that there's a sector on that disc that it's written to and all we have to do in order to remember something is to queue up that sector of the disc. And it just doesn't work that way. In fact, memory is stored non-locally. There isn't one place in which memory is stored. It's stored literally all over the body and brain.

An interesting little factoid is that only about two percent of the brain's activity is actually electrical. Most of it occurs with neuropeptide transmissions. And these neurochemicals are actually secreted by the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the skeletal system. That's why if you've ever had a really profound experience of this whole body rush, it has to do with the

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fact that it's happening all over you simultaneously. And when you remember something, you're actually remembering it with your whole body as well as your brain. Try this for example: in the air, sign your name in script. Just, in the air, with your right or left hand—whichever you normally use—just sign your name. And now with the opposite elbow, try to sign your name. And now with your right knee, try to sign your name. And now imagine signing your name with your left hip. I mean, you can do it, and yet you've never attempted to do it before in your life. So why is it that even something you've never done before, your whole body remembers how to do it? That's because when we learn something, we often learn it holistically and our whole body and brain actually remember it. So we have to get away from this metaphor of the memory as being something like a computer file that gets stored somewhere.

In fact, when you're trying to remember something, what you're doing is you're actually constructing it like putting together little Lego block constructions. And then when you later want to remember it, your body reconstructs the original construction. And so if you construct something poorly your reconstruction is going to be poor. And when you can't effectively reconstruct something, very often what we're going to say is something like our negative affirmations—"Oh, I've just got a bad memory."

Well you don't have a bad memory; you actually have a great memory for your poor original construction. So we have to stop that—we have to stop that negative wave using the brain and start doing what we call intelligent gap management between your original construction and your reconstruction of it—in other words the original event and your memory of the event—then what we have to do is we have to do something that will actually improve the way in which we construct and reconstruct. And I'll be giving you a number of key ways to do this, so if you really can get this idea of construction and reconstruction, you're going to be way far ahead of most people in terms of understanding how the brain and mind work.

Let me help you understand a little bit about this, okay? When we try to remember something, it happens somewhere between 400 and 2,000 times faster than we can consciously notice that it occurs. So I'm going to give you a three-part exercise that will allow you to actually see your brain constructing and reconstructing.

So the first part of the exercise, when I say the word "now," as fast, as rapidly as you can, out loud, I want you to say the months of the year… Now.

Perfect. Okay. Pretty fast—just do it automatically. It's a rote memory, you don't have to think about it at all. The process by which that reconstruction of the months of the year happened was so fast you couldn't actually see your brain doing it. This is why it's actually taken so long for experts to see how memory works. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you the second part of the exercise. When I say the word "now," you have to do it as rapidly as you possibly can. Okay? Months of the year, in reverse, starting with July... Now.

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Okay, remember to go all the way past January. Good, because many people actually stop at January because that's when their mental calendar always began and stopped before, so you have to go all the way back all the way through the year. Now what had to happen, and many people—you can actually see this on their faces when they do this. You can try it with somebody else you know; what they'll do is they'll actually see the calendar in their mind and they'll start in the middle at the month July. And they'll actually look at each month from right to left as they go back through the months of the year. And when they get to the far end of the left with January, they have to zip back over to the right and read the months of the year from their mind from right to the left back to July.

So it's funny how that works, but hopefully you actually got to see your brain in the process of reconstructing. Now I'm going to give you the third task, and if you haven't seen it yet, you're going to see it now. As fast as you can, months of the year in alphabetical order… Now.

Remember December, February... Remember December and February.

Okay, well I'll pause you in this right now, because, first of all, here's what you're probably doing. You've got the months of the year over here on one side of you and then you have alphabeticity on the other side of you. So you've got these lists, and you're looking through the lists and comparing them against each other. And when you get that put together, then you're able to make the statement. And this is very much how the memory works.

There are something called convergence zones. Where everything converges, these disparate bits of information from all over your brain and body are coming together. So the certain episodic parts of your memory and the certain semantic parts of your memory actually have to work their way to a common zone in order for you to be able to remember and articulate what it is that you remember. So hopefully with this three-part exercise, you were able to see the way in which your brain constructs and reconstructs so you have to understand that you don't have a bad memory, you have a bad construction. And your capacity to reconstruct is absolutely dependent around the quality of your construction. So that's kind of the first big picture overview.

Now the second big picture that I want you to understand about how your memory works is that we can only construct a memory on to a prior part of your preexisting neural network. In other words, think about this net that is your neural network, this collection of brain cells. And what you're doing is you’re stitching onto this preexisting net the new information, and at first we use little temporary threads until these threads become bona fide neural connections that allow you then to walk the pathway—that neural pathway—over and over again.

So the things that you use quite a lot go from a thread to a rope, go to a path that goes to a road that goes to a highway that goes to a neural superhighway. And those things that we remember most, we travel it so often that it literally creates these immense neural pathways. If you were to walk through a grassy field, when you get to the far end of it and look back, what are you going to see? You're going to see those foot tracks that you laid in it. Now, tomorrow most of that will

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be gone. But if you can, then follow that same pathway. Eventually by walking it over and over and over again, you'll create quite a path. And if you pave that path, it's going to be a sidewalk and so on. You can imagine how this goes.

Well, the things that we remember in short term memory are things like the beginning and the ending of ideas, sort of the first and last things, the very novel things, and the very emotionally charged things. So that's going to be short term memory. And if we keep rehearsing that short term memory, eventually what it's going to become is a long term memory. It’s going to go into a long term memory store.

So if I give you the name of a city that is in Mexico in the state of Michoacán, a place that you've never heard of before, it's probably going to be very difficult for you to reproduce, even in short term memory, the name of this town. The name of the town is Parangaricutirimicuaro. Let me say it again. It’s Parangaricutirimicuaro. Now it's even hard for Spanish speakers to remember the name of this or reproduce it because it's in Nahuatl, it's in the Mayan language. So I'm going to say it once again: Parangaricutirimicuaro. Now I'm going to say, if you could, repeat it back to the best of your ability. Even if you think, "I can't do this," just go ahead and give it a try. And notice that it's usually the first and the last that you remember and maybe something odd in the middle of it, right? Just like short term memory.

But the likelihood of you being able to say the name of that tomorrow if you've never heard it before or memorized the name of it, it's probably pretty minimal, because there's nothing in our language that you can tie that to. So there's nothing in the preexisting neural net. So essentially, if you've seen somebody go, “Whew! It went right over my head,” well that's the idea couldn't stick. It just passed right through the neural net because there's nothing to tie it to.

So in order to be able to remember something, you have to at least create a temporary thread to link it to and this is why we use things like pneumonic and memory association games, things that will help at least put it into short term memory well enough that we can recall it or reconstruct it later. And it's by reconstructing it over and over again that we build it into that network as a permanent part of our neural net.

So when I was traveling in Mexico, a lizard ran by and I asked my host, “What's the name of that in Spanish?” And he said, "lagartija.” And actually it's feminine, so it's a la lagartija. You know, in Spanish they have feminine and masculine words, and for those of us who aren't native speakers, it's hard for us to tell where that comes from. So I really knew I was going to struggle with that one because lizard and lagartija don't really have anything in common. There isn't anything in my existing neural network that would link lizard to la lagartija—there wasn't anything there.

So I knew I'd have to build a temporary thread. So what I did is I thought, okay, what does it sound like? It sounds like lager. A lager is a type of a beer. Tea is a type of drink as well. “Ha” is like laughing. So I imagined, in a skirt, so feminine, a little lizard standing upright pouring a

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lager beer into a tea cup and it spilling all over the place and she's laughing—haha haha. So la lagartija.

And the next day, I'd tried to remember, okay now what was it again? The lizard, something teacup, she's pouring a lager, pouring a lager beer and laughing…lagartija. So now I could reconstruct it, a very careful construction, little Lego blocks, building a construction, having my brain reconstruct it, and then as they did that over the next couple days what happened is it built it in. So now I'll never forget what a lizard is in Spanish. I have that wired in as a permanent part of my neural network. Well, that's really what it's about, you see. And if it's not really vivid in your mind and if it's not emotionally charged, it's going to be charged even to recreate a simple construction like that.

So I had to make this lizard, you know, with the skirt—this pleated skirt that's really short—laughing, dumping beer everywhere, and laughing out loud. So I tried to make it vivid and wild and emotionally charged, and that's what I have to reproduce until it becomes a permanent part. And that's what I'm going to encourage you to do as well. I want you to understand that this is about building nerve pathways. It’s about building dendrites, little connections that come from one nerve to another. And then it's about firing off those dendritic connections between nerve cells following the path of that, not just with electricity but with neural peptides. And then those actually build it in. And in fact, what we know is that if you're going to remember something or become very skilled at something, each time you run the energy through these neural pathways, there's another thing that happens. The myelin which surrounds the nerves, which is actually kind of an insulator sheath around these nerves, becomes thicker. So people who have great skills are very heavily myelinated in these nerve pathways.

So think about how the brain actually does this. The brain is an amazing organ because what it does is it grows itself in response to the demand that's put on it, very much like a muscle working to lift something. And if you have to lift that day after day then what happens is the muscle actually grows itself. Well if you fire off these neural pathways day after day after day, essentially what you're doing is you're building your brain. And what research has shown us is that you have to work at this to the point of frustration—literally almost to the point of tears. And if you will do that, if you really focus on what it is that you're trying to learn, you're going to get very good at it.

Consider this. It's not “practice makes perfect.” That's not true. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. So the people who are most skilled at learning something focus on the most difficult part, and when they can't quite get it they'll really lean into it. They'll really question it, they'll really wonder about. And they'll start building additional connections into that thing that they're unable to do. In other words, they're really dialing into that exact space that they need to fill—that gap. And they often use strategies in order to do it.

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So for example, if you feel that you're not very good at remembering names, get a memory game where you have to remember names and when you go to a party, practice it. Be the one person in the room who remembers everyone else’s name in the room.

My wife has a fun time doing this. What she'll do is she'll give herself an opportunity to really focus on each person's name, by saying, "Tell me a story about how you got your name." You know, almost everybody has that. In my case, I was named after my uncle—my favorite uncle. Other people, well, it was a grandmother and this person came from that part of the country and they did this and they did that, and so there is almost always a story associated with a person being named. And it's very rare that a person doesn't want to talk about themselves, especially about their name, the thing that they like to hear most.

So it's a wonderful game, and the other advantage is that everybody remembers the one person in the room who remembered everybody's name even if they don't remember anyone else that was there. So it's fun. Make a fun game out of it. Another one is lists, like your grocery lists. Actually practice making associations that would help you remember a list of items. Numbers—like phone numbers, passport numbers, your driver’s license, your major credit card that you use all the time, the personal identification numbers. You know, rather than just having them written down which all of us can do… You know, that's so easy to put someone on speed dial in order to call them. Well, take the opportunity to actually remember that person's number. You know what it is. Practice actually just dialing it sometime. And that puts a little extra pressure on you to get it right.

Some other things that you could actually practice with are dance moves. For me, playing guitar. And what I do with the guitar, in fact, is I like to remember the chords and the lyrics to songs. And I play in a band occasionally, and so by actually rehearsing and working on these, I'm building my memory for these various chord patterns, these transitions, moving my hands from this way to that way. And actually, being able to play the guitar and sing and remember the lyrics and the chord progressions simultaneously can put a lot of demand on my brain. So I know that it's good for me because I'm building my neural network.

You know, we can play with this right now. If you want to just try, I'm going to give you a list of ten words, and see what you can do to right now just remember them in this sequence:

Head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, torso, legs, feet, toes.

Okay, those are ten words. Do you think you can repeat those in order? Absolutely. Why? Because you've actually anchored them to your body. Spatially and physically, you've actually placed them on you. So can you remember what came after fingers? Exactly, torso. And what came after torso? Legs. And after legs, feet. And after feet, toes. So it makes a lot of sense.

I'm going to give you ten more and see what you can do with these.

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Computer, floor tile, pine tree, honesty, taxes, turkey sandwich, drum set, street light, gasoline, puppy pile.

So try to remember as many of those as you can. You probably remember something from the beginning and something from the end and something from the middle that was a little bit odd, right?

So, you get the idea. You create a story with it, you link the association somehow, and this is a silly thing, but I used to play games like this with my kids. When we'd go on road trips, we'd actually remember a list of a hundred items. And you could give either the number or the word and the person would give you the other. So, if it was number 47, and it was a leaf rake, you could give them, okay, what number was leaf rake? And they could tell you 47. If you say, okay what word is 47? And they could tell you leaf rake.

Literally, for a list of a hundred items, this is using something called memory pegs. We're not going to go through that right now. It's just that it's possible for you to do that. Another way to do this—the memory peg system is an associative peg system. So another way to do this is let's take the list of ten places on your body—the head, the neck, the shoulders—we could take our list of items. So the computer is your head, so how would you associate computer with head? Then your neck is floor tiles. How would you associate floor tiles with your neck? Now maybe you've got the stiff neck with all these floor tiles around it... Whatever, it's got to be exaggerated, it's got to be emotional, it's got to be vivid as you can.

Then on your shoulders there's a pine tree, then on your arms there's honesty. And then on your hands, there are taxes, and on your fingers there are turkey sandwiches. So you make associations, then I could say, okay, what's on your shoulders? You could say pine tree, right? And the same thing is true with a list of ten digits, one through zero. If you assign a phonetic sound to each one of those, then you could build words. Then you can create a list of a hundred memory peg words, then you associate your random list of words to the peg words.

Anyway, it's a game. It's fun. It's a lot of ways of actually working your brain. Remember, it's like a muscle. You're actually learning to construct and reconstruct and every time you don't do a good job of reconstructing, you immediately get feedback that you can't do it. Now don't go to that place and think, ah, I just can't remember. No, stop it. It's, "I didn't adequately construct this. What else can I do to construct this association, this connection, into my neural network so that I can recall it or reconstruct it at a later time.

So a lot of these abilities, these amazing abilities of memory feeds that memory experts do, are actually playing games like this. But what I'm sharing with you also is how to actually improve your memory, not just your memorizing, but your memory. Most of the ways in which you can improve your memorizing is through strategies of some kind. So let me go to the third really big picture idea here in our session. And this is: how do we access deep memories when we're trying

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to recall or remember something that we know is already in there? It's already a part of your neural network because you did do the construction.

Think about what happens to you when you see somebody that you know and you don't remember their name. It doesn’t immediately come to you. You look at them and your jaw just drops, “Oh my gosh I know this person's name, it's not coming to me.” What do you do at that moment? Most of us kind of run to the other side of the street and hope that we don't see them. Or we say, "Hey buddy," or "Hey pal," or "Hey friend." Because if we kind of know them or we know that we know them, we just don't recall their name… What I do is I immediately walk up to somebody that I know that I know and I don't recall their name, and I hold out my hand and say, "Hi, I'm Paul Scheele." And then they'll repeat their name or sometimes they don't help me out. They just say, "Yes of course, I know." Then I'm stuck there trying to remember, okay, but what is your name?

Sometimes I'll just own up to it. I'll say, "Hi, I'm Paul Scheele. Please remind me of your name. For some reason, it's slipped my mind." And then they'll usually help me out. On occasion, I'll have an opportunity before I actually get to connect with them to try to remember the person's name. And what I do is I say to myself, "Okay, I know this person's name. Mind, please bring it to me." In other words, I make a request of my brain and mind, and then I wait for it to fulfill the request. You see, because the analogy is that our deep memory storage is like a memory bank. And just like a financial institution, a bank where you want to withdraw some funds, you have to write out a withdrawal slip, hand it to the bank teller, and allow the bank teller to bring you the funds from your account, right? They have to look it up. They have to find it, check the balance, give you the cash, count it out, and hand it to you. So all of those stops are similar to what the brain actually has to go through in order to bring up a memory.

Now if you know that you know—just like if you know you have money in the bank—you run into the bank and say, “Give me my money! I want my money right now!” You know, it starts to make people nervous, especially the security guards. And if you start brandishing a gun, saying, “It's my money, give it! Give it to me right now!” they’re probably going to throw you in jail. So think about this idea that demand and urgency only put the brain into a place of stress. And there are a number of negative effects that occur when cognitive stress is present in the body, brain, and mind. There is a narrowing of the attention, of the perception, of memory, of thinking, of decision making, all the way along the track of what the brain needs to be able to do. It's negatively disruptive. And so what we want to do is we want to give our brain the request and then relax. In other words, let it go as much as possible.

In fact, if you can completely dismiss it from your mind, turn your attention away from it completely, it's amazing. It will oftentimes trigger back. Sometimes what happens is as soon as we recognize that we don't remember something, we immediately hop in with all the negative suggestions and say, “I'm so bad at remembering names. I'm never going to remember this person's name.” Well, really, all that's going to do is create further problems. That puts more

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stress on the brain. A great example of this—I got into the car one day and realized that I didn't have my phone on me. I said to my wife, “Oh, I forgot my phone.” She looked at me and she said, “Actually, that's called remembering.”

That is funny. I said I forgot; the truth was I just remembered. So wouldn't it be better to have to affirm, “Oh, I just remembered my phone.” And then when I go to get the phone, I need to say to my brain—really, just go into a dialogue with your own brain—you need to say to it, “Now mind, next time I get ready to leave, be sure to have my phone with me before I leave the house and get into the car.” Then if I would visualize that, actually see myself engaging in that act, I'm doing a reprogramming of my own mental pathways, my own neural pathways, and installing it right there on the spot. It's going to take me a few minutes to walk in and grab my phone anyway, why not go ahead and do that?

So there's a lot of ways to actually facilitate and stimulate recall by a proper dialogue with your own internal resources. So here's an example of something that happened to me. It's a little bit embarrassing but I'm going to share it with you.

I was traveling in Japan with my wife, and it was during my doctoral dissertation time, I was very busy with a lot of components of it, and I was giving a number of very important presentations in Japan, traveling over there, kind of jetlagged for a while as well—it’s quite a time zone shift. And we were driving past a number of vending machines, and on these streets where the vending machines are, they vend hot coffee in cans. And one of the adverts for this was one of the guys from Men in Black, the MIB series of movies. And it was not Will Smith; it was the other guy. And I looked at him and I said, “Oh my gosh, that's the guy from the movie Men in Black. It's—oh weird, the name's not coming to me.” So when that happens with my wife and I, we like to make a game of it and say, okay well let's just watch to see how long it takes before it comes to you.

Well embarrassingly, it didn't come to me the entire time I was in Japan, which was close to ten days. And, you know, it would come in little bits. Oh, you know, it's... I think it's like three names, like Lee Harvey Oswald or... I think it's got a Lee in it... I think of Jimmy Jones.... Jimmy... I couldn't remember it. What would come to me, it was really an amazing indication of the level of cognitive stress that I was under at the time. And it was actually sometime after we'd gotten home, and we're watching a movie, and that guy was in it. And it popped in my brain—Tommy Lee Jones. My wife said, "Yes!" You know, it was really hard for her to not want to give me hints about it.

You know, I could have looked it up, right? There's a zillion ways in which I could've used the internet in order to find it. But what I was doing in the game, in the experimentation, was looking at how do we build access? And actually studying the work of my own mind as I was going through the process of attempting to remember. So this is the idea of intelligent gap management. When there's a gap between the construction and the reconstruction, this is your

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opportunity to build a better memory. I'll always remember Tommy Lee Jones from now on. It'll be super easy for me to do that. Well, why? Because now I've built this construction much better, so it's going to be there. I also have a stronger neural pathway because I ran it, right? I used it to the point of frustration, and I was actually pushing on building that connection. So for me, it's very much there.

It's the same sort of thing of trying to play guitar and remember chords and lyrics—it’s the same sort of thing. And as a scholar, I've worked to do this on remembering authors, titles of books, dates of publication, and even quotations from certain authors. And by actually working this, doing this, it helps to stimulate the nerve pathways in the brain that help strengthen my use of my capacity with my memory. Also, it brings this amazing level of trust inside of me. And I guess that's probably one of the first things that you have to do is you have to trust that you have an absolutely perfect memory. There's nothing wrong with your brain and memory.

So many people say, "Oh, I'm having a senior moment." What they're doing is they're saying, “Oh, I've decided to become a victim to aging. I'm not going to try to do anything about it. I'm just going to try to let it take over my life.” Why? Why would you compound suggestions, negative suggestions into your life so that you have to live out a future you don't want? It makes no sense whatsoever. You have a choice. If you're going to give yourself hypnotic suggestions and post-hypnotic suggestions, give yourself the good ones—not for amnesia—for memory.

So a good example of this intelligent gap management that I'm talking about shows up for students when they're taking a test. And a great way to practice this is on multiple choice exams. What I do is I help them understand that when they sit down for their exam and they grab their exam paper, the first thing that they should do is read all the questions through once. What this does for you is it actually puts the request in your mind for what it is you're asking for. So you're saying, “Hey brain, here are the questions I'm going to need to answer. Please queue them up for me so that when I get through all these and I come back to the first one, it's there and ready.”

So after reading all the questions, and you go to the first one, you read it and the answers—the multiple choice answers. And essentially you look up to the ceiling and see a semaphore, a traffic light. Red means nothing's there right now, you're going to have to wait for a while. Yellow means, you might have some of it—maybe not. The third thing is a green light means go. You've got it, write it down, fantastic.

Now let's say you read the first one. You sit down for the exam the first time. You read the first one and none of it makes any sense to you. Most people, upon reading an exam and seeing that the first question makes no sense to them, panic. They immediately go into this almost catatonic stress-like stage, completely stressed out, and think, oh my gosh, I studied the wrong material. I'm going to do terribly at this. Oh, what am I going to do? Don't go there.

You see, in the strategy that I'm offering, it really doesn't matter whether you know any of it. You read it the second time. If nothing's there again, don't worry about it. If it's there, great. You

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answered. If it's not, no worries because you just reinforced the request for the information. So you go through the exam answering all the green lights and many of the yellow lights and none of the red lights. Now let's say question number one was a red light and you get to question twenty and it's a green light, you answer it, and there's a little fragment of an idea in that answer that relates back to question one. So you answer all the ones you've got, you come back to question one, and now you're reading it for the third time, right?

Now that little hint of an idea from question twenty has opened up the pathway, it's queued up the information, and all of a sudden, you read it this time, you know exactly what the answer is. So you go ahead and answer all the yellow lights, and any other of the red lights that weren't coming to you before—much more of them—will be there for you. In fact, you're going to remember far more than you ever believed possible by doing this sort of thing. So this is a strategy. Hopefully you get that the strategy utilized a number of these big picture ideas that I've shared with you up until now.

Another fun strategy is spelling. You know, there are really good spellers and there are really bad spellers. The really bad spellers are actually phonetic spellers. I came to my father when I was in the fifth grade, and I said, “Dad, would you read over my paper here?” And he said sure. And he came to the word “Wednesday,” and he said, that's not how you spell Wednesday. I said, really? And I looked, and it looked correct. He said, “No. Sound it out.”

“I did—Wednesday.”

“Son, no—sound it out—Wed-nes-day.”

Wed-nes-day? I'd never sounded it out Wed-nes-day. I didn't know what he was talking about. But that was phonetically sounding it out so that later you could phonetically remember what it was like. But phonetic spelling strategies only handicaps you to those words that you already know how to spell. So if you're a phonetic speller and you get a word like "professional," does it have one "f" or two? One "s" or two? Phonetically, by sounding it out, you can't really know.

So an effective strategy for spelling is one that's visual. I remember when my first child came home from school one day, he said, "Hey dad. Guess what I can spell!" I said, "What's that?" He said, "I can spell the word 'people.'"

I said, "Great! Ben, spell it for me." He said, "P-E-O-P-E-L.” I said, "Wow! That is so great. That's almost exactly perfect. Can you see that in your mind?"

And he looked up to the ceiling, which is what our brain does when it accesses visual information, actually—it looks up. And he nodded his head. He said yeah. I said, "Spell it backwards."

And you could see him look from one word, one letter, to the other from right to left. He said, "E-L-P-O-E-P". And I said, "Exactly."

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I said, "Spell it forwards now." He said, "P-E-O-P-L-E". And he looked right up at the ceiling in order to spell it because the word was there.

So the best spelling strategies are visual with a kinesthetic check in them. In other words, you look at the picture and you check your feelings to know that that picture is correct. That's why if you ask someone how to spell something, if they're visual spellers, they'll say, "Well, let me write it out."

They'll write it out, look at it, and they'll say, "Ah, it doesn't look right." In other words, it feels like it doesn't look right. And so, by getting the picture correct, the feeling is correct. So if you say to someone who's a very good speller, how many "f"s in the word professional?—they’ll immediately know, one "f." I'll say, "Put two in there." And they'll suddenly cringe, like they feel bad putting two in there. You ask a phonetic speller to do that, they'll say okay. It doesn't bother them at all. Well, put three in there if you want—it's no big deal to me.

And what's funny about that is they literally don't have that check that a good speller has. So think about this. If you learn the correct strategy, it actually makes learning far easier. So you're not a bad speller, you just have a bad strategy. That's where the name of the company Learning Strategies actually came from. It's the idea that there are ways to learn to be successful... To learn to have good relationships... Learn to be healthy... Learn to grow and to develop your own spiritual life inside. There are strategies for doing all of this. And spelling is just a really fun one.

Now if you want to try this, especially if you've considered yourself not a very good speller in the past, play with your spelling strategy and spell the word Albuquerque. Now even a good speller has a hard time with this one. So what you do is you write out the first letters. A-L-B-U. You write those four letters out on a piece of paper, cover it up. See it in your mind, look at it. See it, close your eyes. See it in your mind. Don't sound it out, but just see those four letters. Then you take the next four which is the second chunk, small enough to hold in short term memory. Q-U-E-R. And so when you see that you can ask, okay, what's the third letter? And you can actually look up and see that letter in that string of four letters. It’s not about sounding it out. It's about seeing it in your mind. And then the last chunk, Q-U-E. So you can actually see all three chunks. You can see all the letters in each of the three chunks. And then cover it up and spell it backwards. E-U-Q-R-E-U-Q-U-B-L-A. The idea is by creating a visual picture of it, you can then recall or reconstruct the visual picture. Then spelling it correctly is easy.

My second son came home one day and said, "Hey dad, guess what word I learned to spell in school." I was all excited because I knew what I was going to do to him. He said, "Thanksgiving." I said, “Wonderful, John, spell it.”And he did; he spelled it great.

I said, "Can you see it in your mind?" And he looked up at the ceiling—sure enough he could see it. I said, "Start with the ‘s’ in the middle and then spell one letter out first to the left, then to the right of that 's' until you get to the end." And he alternated letters all the way out to the end.

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And so the word—amazing. All my kids, they were never handicapped as spellers. They were always kind of at the top of their class with it. And so the strategies, they can make a huge difference. And your job should be to collect really good strategies for remembering things, for building your memory. Hopefully I've given you a number of them here. But if someone does something really well, you should ask them how they do it.

You see, if you can't do something very well, the default is, "Oh, I just can't do that." Well, of course you can't. You've never learned how. So rather than saying, "I can't; I cannot; it's not possible for me to," say, "Oh, I've never done that before. Show me how. Let me see how I can do that. What is the strategy that you actually use to be able to do that?"

And then what you're demonstrating is that mindset that I referred to as the growth mindset. It's not a fixed mindset that says, “Oh, I wasn't pre-wired as a good speller so I'm incapable of learning how to spell.”

No— “I haven't learned to spell effectively. I can grow in my ability to learn how to do this. By learning how to learn, I can become effective at it.”

Now if you ask someone who's highly skilled at something, "How did you do that?"—most of the time they say, "I don't know, I just do it." That's not going to help. So what you have to do is say, "Great, well, I'd like to know how specifically you just do that.”

And break it down into the individual components like I did with spelling. You know, how specifically? What were the pictures that they used in their heads? The words that they spoke to themselves? The feelings in their body? The posture that they held when they were doing it? The beliefs that they have about themselves? And so on.

And what this will allow you to do is break down their unconscious competence into something that can be very conscience for you and actually reproduce for yourself. That's exactly how the course PhotoReading was created that Learning Strategies published. By looking at the world's fastest readers and figuring out, how do they do what they do? And this ability to model expertise is something called neuro-linguistic programming. I was one of the early people trained as a master practitioner back in the early 1980s. So, you know, what's the big message here about your memory? Hopefully you've gotten the idea that it's something that you can work at and work on. It's something that needs to be regarded with a positive set of internal dialogues that you might have and something that you can take a very strategic approach to in order to get better at the use of it. And also key is that you use it, you know? Make a game of it. Realize that your biggest challenges are:

1. Construction 2. Reconstruction 3. Intelligent gap management

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If at any time there seems to be a gap between your construction and reconstruction, you're going to need to reinforce the construction with some improved strategies.

So I want to thank you for being with me in this session. This is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies. I'm going to be with you in all of the sessions of this Ultimate You Mindfest. And now it's time for you to listen to a great Paraliminal that's going to put you in touch with that inner memory bank and show you how to work with your memory bank much more effectively. It's a Paraliminal called the Memory Supercharger. Enjoy.

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ATTRACT WHAT YOU WANT: TURN THE LAW OF ATTRACTION TOWARD YOUR SUCCESS

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I'm your host, Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies and this session is "Attract What You Want: Turn the Law of Attraction toward your success" And it features one of the Paraliminal recordings I made with Jack Canfield titled Living the Law of Attraction, and this one focuses on receiving.

The Law of Attraction states that we attract into our lives similar energy to the energy that we hold in our conscious attention and project into the world around us with our thinking, feeling, and acting. Energy attracts energy similar to itself. So another way of thinking of the Law of Attraction is that we become in life what we consistently and habitually think about. What we focus on expands. If you experience positive thoughts and feelings, you transmit positive energy through every nerve, cell, and fiber of your being. As a result, you tend to attract positive events, people, and things into your life. Now the opposite is also true. So if you want to create more positive success, it is essential to live congruently within this universal law, the Law of Attraction.

When I worked with my friend Jack Canfield to write about his remarkable success in Living the Law of Attraction, I spent several days interviewing and modeling his internal process, using a technology called neuro-linguistic programming. His espoused formula was “Ask, believe, receive.” And this is based on the biblical description of how the universe or source or God operates. It's the concept that, as you know, your prayer is granted. And things you desire when you pray, know you receive them and you shall have them. Now with everything that Jack Canfield talked about around the Law of Attraction I was very clear—clear with the formula, “Ask, believe, receive.” I used the principles myself for decades. I'd been teaching them to clients as well, but there was something else that was present in the way he was actually living the principles. And if you know Jack, you know that he has created an immense financial success using the Law of Attraction. He really does attribute his connection to source and his connection through the Law of Attraction to much of what he's been able to create in his life.

So when I was able to model how he actually lived it and show Jack what I had gleaned from my interviews, he agreed that there were some very important distinctions in what we found about how you actually go about living the Law of Attraction. And those distinctions became the basis for a course that we built together called Effortless Success: Living the Law of Attraction. As part of my doctoral research, I actually conducted a pilot study on 1,500 users of the home study course Effortless Success. I researched the critical incidence of transformative learning in that group of people. And it was very revealing. In fact, that pilot study paved the way for my doctoral dissertation research a couple of years later.

So in our session, I'm going to share with you the key distinctions in the Effortless Success course that Jack and I discovered. I'll also be sharing what my pilot study found that can help you right away. Also, I'll be sharing key findings from my doctoral dissertation research that can benefit you and steps that you can make every day to more fully live the Law of Attraction. Sound like a plan?

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Let's start out with the new distinctions in living the Law of Attraction that Jack Canfield's life so beautifully testifies. First and foremost is that there's a very deep spiritual trust and an openness that acts as something of a template upon which all other possibilities emerge. Think of this as a way of being in a state of perpetual expansion rather than contraction. If you can think about the big bang that started the universe, that big bang created an immense expansion. And who we are, as part of this evolutionary impulse, is also part of that expansion. And if ever we contract or recoil or pull away, we're actually fighting against this expansion that's naturally occurring.

Now we have a tendency to feel it in the midline of the body, so think about your body, think about the torso from the very bottom to the very top, and all through here is a set of nerve ganglion that the ancients called chakras, energy systems of the body. But if you actually dissect the physical body, you'll see this larger accumulation of nerves that occur in these places all the way up through the torso. You can imagine this place just behind your navel, your physical navel, about midway through the body, a place somewhere around the center of your sternum in the middle, and somewhere up further around your throat and neck area. And you can imagine that all through here is where we have a tendency to feel our emotional states. When we're in a state of expansion and openness, we'll have a tendency to feel that—almost like taking a deep breath in and throwing your shoulders back and kind of exposing this midline of your body to the sunshine and to the breeze of the cool, fresh air. That's a sense of expansion. If you happen to feel a chill in the air and a big blowing wind that hits you, you might pull your shoulders forward and cover the middle of your body. That's a sense of contraction.

Now think of, if I asked you to point to yourself right now, where would you point? You have a tendency to point somewhere around the middle of your chest, don't you? That's because this is where we refer to ourselves as being physically present. So think of an open, expansive state of being throughout this midline of our body and kind of going into the world, trusting that the universe is on your side, that the universe is actually conspiring to make sure that things work out for you. That's the kind of openness that starts out everything in this new distinction around living the Law of Attraction.

From this place of openness, you're going to be far more available to receive inspiration. And in my work and my doctoral studies, I came across the work of an MIT professor named C. Otto Scharmer, and he wrote about this in a book called Theory U. He talks about having an open mind, an open heart, and an open will. And think about the open mind—you could imagine your head. Think about the open heart—you imagine that place that you point to in the center of your chest. And think about the open will as being that place in your gut area, behind your navel center. And if you have an open mind and open heart and an open will, basically what you can do is you can let go of your historical perspectives on how to achieve your goals. You can let go and let come a higher wisdom of source that's constantly speaking to you regarding the best ways and means of succeeding at your goal.

So think about your job as being one of knowing what it is that you truly desire to create. But it's the job of the greater wisdom within you to guide you in how you're going to get it. That's counterintuitive to the way most of us were raised. Most of us were raised thinking that we have to figure it all out, we have to figure it out ourselves, or we can collaborate with others and figure it out, though I'm talking about another way of going about things. It's about receiving a very pure and inspired thought from a greater wisdom within you. Now at this point in the process,

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we're talking about “Ask, believe, receive.” You can see that this is where your asking becomes a lot more precise, because you're asking for inspired wisdom to guide you. And then what you're going to do is you're going to integrate that guidance that you receive and form clear intentions that you can act upon.

So in the Ultimate You Mindfest, you've been experiencing something called Paraliminal Technology. And the Paraliminal Technology actually came to me as I was thinking about another way to really help humanity. Rather than trying to stuff ideas into the heads of people, I wanted to help bring them to a place within them where that wisdom, that knowledge, that understanding already exists within. By contacting that place of wisdom, we can then translate it out into our outer world. And that's exactly what came to me while walking around the campus of the University of Minnesota back in the mid-1970s. I was actually given a very inspired thought that described the entire concept of Paraliminal Technology.

Now it took almost twelve years after that before the first commercially available reproduction of a Paraliminal was available, but once it was, wow! It's been a huge success story for Learning Strategies. And I do have to say that this technology isn't something that I think came from me as much as it came through me. So if you can visualize this, you have a goal that's on your heart and mind, and then you release it. You let go and you let come this higher wisdom that will show you how it's going to occur.

Your intentions essentially then become the next steps in the direction of your goal. You establish intentions, you focus on these, you visualize them, you affirm your choice to create your clear future. And these are techniques that actually help to empower your intention. This is where the "Believe" step of the three-part formula "Ask, believe, receive" really comes into play. Now that you've empowered your intention, then come your action steps. This is when you take purposeful action; you take the steps to actually realize your intention. In this step you're accessing the full power and potential of your will. And as you know, each step you take will produce concrete evidence of a result either in the direction of your success or not. But it's going to produce a result, and that feedback actually allows you to grow in your discernment. It helps you to grow in your capacities, and your capabilities, and your skills, and your attitudes, and your perspectives.

This period of growth that you're going to go through because you’re taking action on your intentions, this is the place where you're going to experience a lot of growth. This is where you're expanding yourself and realizing more of your full potential. Here, your belief is actually strengthening. And this is really the beginning of what we would call the "Receive" phase of this three part formula "Ask, believe, receive." This "Receive" stage is activated. Your beliefs are strengthening, your skills are strengthening, your openness is increasing. So you're actually more open to getting everything that it is that you established originally as a goal.

Now if you boil all this down to what you can do to fully live the Law of Attraction, there really are a great number of ideas here that I've just reviewed. But before I get into specifying some things that you might do, let me back up for a moment.

You may know that I'm actually a scientist. I received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota. I then spent my entire professional life as a practitioner, helping people

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realize the fullest potential of who they are. And during my career, I actually did a masters degree in adult learning and human development. And then I went back to do a doctorate degree after age 50. And at the end of all of my formal education, I was able to conduct an empirical study to research the internal process of change when someone transforms. I was actually able to use a scientific method to look at the shift of an internal subjective experience that indicates a person has made a transformational leap inside of themselves.

And I'm telling you all of this to say that there's a lot that I could tell you to do, lots of techniques, lots of strategies and ideas that I could share, but instead I believe that the best thing that I can do for you is to set up an experience that can change your life for the better. So my approach is less on advice and more on experience. And this is why I'm such a fan of this Ultimate You Mindfest that you're participating in. You see, all of these coaching sessions and even the Paraliminal recordings that you get to listen to are all preparation that let you experience it all for yourself while you're out living your life to the fullest. So essentially my way to get you prepared for all of this is to invite you into the mindset of expansion that I've been talking about, this feeling of openness that's so crucial for everything else, and then essentially everything else will follow from that. So let's get into the details of this openness that I'm talking about.

First of all, it's the idea of having an open mind. And an open mind is one that senses and observes rather than judges. Rather than downloading your life of historical perspectives and projecting them on to the world in order to decide where you're going next, I'd like you to just become aware of the fact that any moment in time you can observe more precisely anything that's going on. It's as if you could suspend your judgment, kind of put it on a hook next to you, while you look more authentically and more realistically at the sensory awareness that's coming to you. Pay attention to what you see, what you hear, and what you feel. And as you do that, you're going to discover far more information is available to you than you might have ever perceived before.

So think, Sense, sense, sense. Observe, observe, observe—less on the judgment, more on the present awareness and sensory perception of what's going on right around you and inside of you at this moment. The second thing about this openness is what I call the open heart, and to have an open heart you are basically allowing yourself to be filled with a sense of acceptance—acceptance that lets in love and forgiveness, and then expresses into the world gratitude and love. And that's really the key part to having an open heart. This is a heart that's not closed down by cynicism of having had your ideals broken in the past. It's a heart that's not holding onto the wounds of the past from those who may have tried to put you down or shut you down for ideas that you had. An open heart is a heart that's expansive, that rests in a sense of joy and peace, a sense of gratitude for life, and the experience of love for this present moment just the way it is.

And then the third part of this openness is the concept of an open will. And an open will is a will that's not closed down by fear, but a will that steps boldly into what I will call the fertile unknown. The future is an unknown—we could say it's unpredictable. And if you say it's a fertile unknown, that it's actually a place where all of the ideas and all of the future possibilities of your life are going to take route and grow, you can think about the unknown you're stepping into as a much more beautiful place, not quite so foreboding, wouldn't you agree? An open will is also a will that trusts each step that you choose to take, and it surrenders to the guidance of your higher wisdom. It trusts and surrenders. Can you kind of visualize what that's about?

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Imagine that feeling stepping forward and really having this sense that it's going to work out for you; it's going to be okay. Now there's a serenity prayer that you might know, and it really nicely captures the state of being, the state of openness that's characterized by this midline expansion and this open mind, open heart, and open will. The serenity prayer goes like this: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

If you think about these words, an open heart is serenity and acceptance, so grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. This open heart is key to this sense of peace and serenity that can envelop your body on a daily basis. And the second part is this concept of an open will which basically courageously trusts and surrenders, so the prayer goes, “the courage to change the things I can.” And so courageously or boldly stepping forward allows you to more fully entrust this higher wisdom that's available to you.

And then finally, “the wisdom to know the difference”—that’s the characteristic of an open mind, a mind that's discerning with wisdom rather than judging from past perspectives. So we've got open heart, open will, open mind. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Now what's beautiful about the serenity prayer is also beautifully captured in Paraliminal Technology because Paraliminals by design reinforce this capacity to enter and benefit from an open mind, an open heart, and an open will. And what's exciting is the one Paraliminal that we're going to listen to after this coaching session is especially suited to receiving all of those benefits. So let me boil all this down again to what you can do on a daily basis to more fully live the Law of Attraction.

The first is to be in this mindset of expansion that you are here to live to your fullest. And to maintain an open mind, an open heart, and an open will allows you to receive your inspired purpose and the goals that you're here to accomplish. The second thing is to really establish your goal clearly, to really know exactly what it is that you're going for. The third is to let your inner guidance show you the best ways and means to accomplish your goals. And then finally the fourth is to reinforce your intention and to take action in the direction of your intention on a daily basis.

Now given that those are general guidelines and principles, I would like to focus a bit now on what my research found. So let me tell you what my pilot study on the Effortless Success program actually showed. Essentially, I took this database of 1,500 people, and I determined from that group everyone that had been through the entire program—every one of the recordings and done the exercises at least once—and then had reported that they had experience a transformation of some kind. I was able to survey these people to find out more about that transformation and select a number of them to interview at greater depth. Now during the interviews, I kept waiting for them to say, "Oh, you know, it was during CD six when I was listening to that meditation… Oh my gosh, my life changed." I kept waiting for this one point, this one thing that people could point to that said, "It was that experience that changed my life."

But very interestingly, there wasn't a single cause that people could point to in order to refer to the transformation. What I found in my study was this ability of the participants as a result of

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going through the program to drop into a place of self-reflection in which everything could somehow come together. It was as if this place that they were entering was a template, a catalyst that allowed everything else to somehow fit together and click for them. Now this pilot study became a set-up for eventually what I would conduct as my dissertation research. And my dissertation research found something almost identical to the pilot study. It was a different group of over a hundred people. It was a different program that they went through—it was called the Awakening the Dreamer symposium that was put on by the Pachamama Alliance. It's a program that's equally provocative; it's equally transformative in nature.

And what I did is I endeavored to study the critical incidence in which transformation occurred—was reported and occurred—within a subpopulation of that hundred that went through the training. Basically what I was asking them for was, “Did anything meaningful and significant occur and what was it?” And then at the end of this study, at the end of the interviews, I asked them, “Would you consider that to be transformative?” So that became my population for interviewing at greater depth. I took all of what I found in my interviews, and I coated in a relational database—literally transcribed every word that was spoken and put it in a database that allowed me to compare what everyone was saying simultaneously. And I was able to notice themes that emerged from the data that explained what happened inside of this population.

So what I was looking at are basically three things. One was what was happening in your life before the symposium, what I would call your antecedent states. Then, what was this meaningful and significant thing that occurred for you during this symposium? And then, what were the resultant behaviors? And I'd like to read a couple of excerpts from the actual dissertation that I wrote. I wrote:

In the surveys, the subjects were asked if anything stood out in their minds about the symposium as being significant and/or meaningful. And what they wrote became the starting point for further inquiry during the interview. The data showed that the critical incident was not simply something that the subjects had experienced at the symposium. Instead, it was the inner work that they did during or soon after the symposium that made the event significant or meaningful. And it was a starting point for initial consequences or changes. For subjects, the event was significant or meaningful, but the critical incidents of transformative learning were the internal changes that they described, for example, initial changes in awareness or perspective, in connections, in decisions about future action and in emotions or sensory perception.

So hopefully this is making sense to you. Essentially, very similar to the pilot study, it's not the event itself, but it's the set of internal changes that occur because you're creating the space to rethink your own perspectives on life. So I've described this in something of an analogy here. Again, I'll read this from my dissertation:

Borrowing an analogy from Wilber, Engler, and Brown, 1986, imagine a person climbing a ladder. As the person moves up each rung, his or her perspective changes. Applying this analogy to the findings of the study, the rung represents the significant or meaningful experience that allows the individual to move up to a higher place. The act of stepping up, the perspective from the higher rung, and any decisions made from this new greater perspective are the initial consequences of the meaningful and significant experience.

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And extending the analogy, the resultant behavior is how the individual then acts because of the internal changes that have taken place.

So in applying all of this back to what you and I are doing during this session of the Ultimate You Mindfest, we're letting this awareness of the Law of Attraction guide us to a new way of thinking about our goals, thinking about our connection to a loving and supportive universal source that will allow us the guidance necessary to really accomplish what it is we truly desire to create.

And I'd like to share the final reflections and my conclusions from my dissertation research: “Inclusion, deep reflection, dialogue, and acknowledgement in support of community are potent ingredients in a recipe for individual change. It's my conclusion from the study that leaders and facilitators can help bring about transformational change when they work at the following…” And so I'm going to apply this to you during this Ultimate You Mindfest to think about your role in facilitating your own internal transformation during the time that we're together and certainly between sessions when you're applying what it is that you learn.

So here are the concepts:

1. Surfacing disruptive and disorienting dilemmas that are emerging. So to explain that, basically what we want to do is acknowledge any area of our lives where things aren't working out. Or we're doing the things that we think we're supposed to but for some reason we're not getting the results that we want. When you think about the information that you've been receiving in this session relative to that, you're essentially creating a place in your own thinking to reflect on and let come into your awareness those ways in which you're operating that may be constricting or shutting down your access to the full power and potential that's trying to expand and express itself in your life.

2. Creating a safe environment for critical reflection. That's exactly what these sessions are all about. We're creating a time out of your day that'll allow you to think about what is it that's really going on with me? And it's safe. It's safe to be vulnerable. It's safe to fail at things that are important to you. It's safe to give yourself a second chance and try something new.

3. Encouraging learners to actively challenge antecedent mental models or habits of expectation by giving them data that challenge current assumptions and provide opportunities for collaborative inquiry. So again I’m going to translate this to make sure that you're clear about it. Anything that you have going on with you prior to coming into these sessions—the information that I share with you is designed to really challenge any of your preexisting ways of thinking, your preceding mental models, your preexisting level of expecting the way things are supposed to be, and giving you, basically, ideas that help to challenge your assumptions about things and provide a way for you and I to inquire more deeply into other possibilities that could emerge for you.

4. The forth idea in the conclusion of my dissertation is helping learners express new awareness and perspectives through discourse and deep listening. Now while you and I can't necessarily go into a dialogue, and I can’t necessarily be here to listen deeply into what it is that you have to share, hopefully you're creating a supportive community around you going through this

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experience where you can collaborate with another. Share what it is that you're learning. Talk about what shows up for you. And it's in this process of collaborating and deep discourse that you actually become present to what's trying to show up for you. In other words, if two or more people are gathered together for a common purpose, what's important is not what's between their ears, but what's between their noses. What shows up in the dialogue and deep dialogue is a profound way to make a big shift in your learning and your personal transformation.

5. The fifth idea is illuminating innovative ideas, new ways of thinking, and perspectives that become apparent as you engage in your critical reflection of what's happening. So hopefully you're getting that as an experience of the work that you and I are doing together, this idea of here's an idea, here's an innovative way of thinking, here's a potential new perspective that you could consider. And start to examine how these could show up for you in your life, how you could actually put them into use and into practice.

6. And finally, the sixth conclusion is acknowledging bold and courageous plans to act by highlighting commitments, to take concrete steps no matter how small they contribute to a greater collective response. So if you could think about the Ultimate You Mindfest as being a community of people coming together, a community of practice where collectively we're making a shift, not only on behalf of our own lives, but on behalf of our spheres of influence—our associates, our friends, our family. And then collectively as humanity, we’re opening new doors for all that would come after us, opening these new possibilities of mind, new ways of feeling, acting, and creative and innovative ways to make the world really work, to create a more just, sustainable, and fulfilling human presence on the planet.

So when you think about these six ways in which my dissertation research showed that we can facilitate transformation within individuals and organizations, you can actually become that leader, you can become that facilitator for yourself, as you and I participate together in this work of the Ultimate You Mindfest.

So in summary, I'm going to come back to what are the very next steps that you can take:

1. Be in this mindset of expansion

2. Make sure you have established very clear goals

3. To let your inner guidance show you the best ways and means to accomplish them

4. To really reinforce your intention and take action every day, getting the feedback that those action steps give you that allow you to continue to learn, grow, and expand your strengths, your capabilities, your confidence and courage, to create what it is you truly desire

So with that, we're going to wrap it up. So thank you very much for being with me in this session. This is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and I'm with you in all of the sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest. It's now time to listen to the Paraliminal that I recorded with Jack Canfield called Living the Law of Attraction. Because this particular recording is focused on receiving, it will be essential that you determine what it is that you choose to receive in your life.

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So have fun with it, because I know you're going to absolutely love the miraculous results that can occur by your listening.


BE FREE OF ANXIETY: BE FEARLESS, STRONG, AND SUCCESSFUL

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I'm your host, Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and this session is “Be Free of Anxiety: Be fearless, strong, and successful.” And it features the Anxiety-Free Paralimininal.

This is a real fun session for me, because if you're going to succeed at anything—whatever it might be—you must know at some level that you can succeed. It doesn't matter if you're going on a trip, or if you're accepting a new job, or starting a new project, or asking someone to meet with you, or if you're attempting to start a new health plan to get well or lose weight or quit a negative habit of some kind. Whatever it may be, you must know on some level that you can succeed at it. And it doesn't matter if a thousand other people say to you, "Oh, you can do this." If at some level you don't think you can, it's not going to happen. It's like that old adage of Henry Ford, "Whether you think you can or you think you can't—either way, you're right."

So once you establish a goal or a destination that you're headed to, you must absolutely focus on the end result of that goal, not on the gap between here and there. You see, if you focus on the gap instead of the goal, you're sunk. You've seen it in the movies—somebody's walking across some chasm on a thin little rail of some kind and somebody in the movie says, "Don't look down. Whatever you do, don't look down." Well, why not? Because, if you look down, immediately what you do is you are focusing on the gap—the thing that triggers all the anxiety inside of you—because where your attention goes, your energy flows. And if you send your attention down into the chasm, basically you're sending your energy to exactly what you don't want to have happen.

Anxiety is a natural, physiological response to imagining yourself heading into a situation where you believe you don't have the resources you need to succeed. For example, if you've looked down the chasm, imagine falling and hitting the bottom of the chasm, you don't believe you have the resources to survive the fall. You don't think you're going to bounce back, basically, from that kind of fall, so as a result, that natural physiological response is going to kick in. The whole purpose of it is to get you to back up and don't go there, don't head into this thing that you might not succeed at. And so it doesn't help if you try to build up your confidence, because it's not an issue of self-confidence at this point, but there is a way around all of this. The techniques that I'm going to share with you not only will assist you in eliminating anxiety from your experience, but the process will also create a way for you to get greater feelings of confidence as well.

The important point is that you need to be competent—you need to have access to resources. So it doesn't make sense to try to falsely create a sense of confidence inside of you if it doesn't help you gain access to the resources you need. So let's go to a couple of fundamental principles on how the universe and how the mind actually works, and then I'll give you a step-by-step protocol that will let you use the mind and will let you use the resources of the universe most effectively.

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The first principle is that everything is energy. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. And you have to use or direct energy to create your life—to create your life's experience—but to create everything in your life as well.

So look around you. Basically everything you see is one energy. It's one energy that arises from what's called the quantum field. And it arises either as particles or waves. It's still one energy but manifests in these two particular ways. Particles appear as matter that has substance and solidity. Waves appear as light. Now understand it would be as if every clay pot in the world was made of one type of clay. Every form, every potential use of this clay, it all gets manifested in different ways, but it's still one substance. Literally everything that you see in the physical universe as you know it is formed from this one energy, this one substance, this one light, and it's all energy. It's all from the same one source. And it is your consciousness that ends up creating all that you see from this one source of energy.

Now, it's easy. You can pick any manmade object that you can see around you. Before it existed, it had to arise from someone's consciousness. It existed as a thought first before it came into some kind of physical form. And that leads us to the second principle. It's that thoughts are things. They are actually energetic forms. They have substance and are materialized in outer forms by the actions and interactions with other particles and other waves that may exist in the physical universe.

And there's another way to think about this as well. When you think a thought or hold an idea in your awareness, it has an energetic effect. Immediately it affects your brain, it affects your body, and it ripples outward as communication through your nervous systems and your physiology. You know, if you look at just the construction of your neurophysiology, your nervous system looks like a giant antenna array. And what it's designed for is to detect, to receive, and to transmit energy. And I talk more about this in the session, Living the Law of Attraction.

I'd like to move from this second principle to the third principle, which is that thoughts are creative. And there are really four ways to use your creative imagination that you absolutely need to know about. The first is called association and disassociation. The second is time distortion. The third is imagining that something exists, and the fourth is imagining that something doesn't exist.

So given that everything is energy, that thoughts are things, and thoughts are creative, it's through these four principles of the use of your creative imagination that everything comes into materialization or comes into existence in your experience. Now go through these again and explain them a bit—association, disassociation, time distortion, imagining something exists, and imagining something doesn't exist.

So let's start with association and disassociation. This is the ability to step into and out of any experience. So right now, wherever you are, you could imagine that rather than being where you are, you could be floating up in the corner of the room over there. You could be floating up there

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and looking back at you. And imagine actually going over there and looking back at the place where you are right now—sitting, lying down, walking around—whatever it might be.

And it's that ability to disassociate from your present experience where you are and associate to some other experience over there—that's a very important power of the creative imagination. And like all four of these that I'm going to be describing, you can use this to really help you or you can use this to really make a mess of things. For example, if you disassociate while somebody is trying to talk with you, they'll look at you, they'll know that the lights are on but nobody's home. You may be visualizing yourself on a vacation while they're trying to communicate to you. Not a good idea.

And if you have some kind of discomfort in your body and you really associate with it, that can be a problem as well. It's better, if you have some kind of pain that you disassociate from the pain, and when you need to be present to what's going on, you really associate and become fully present to what's happening at the moment. So this capacity of imagination allows you to move in and out of experience.

The second is called time distortion. And this is the idea that you can actually go backwards and forwards in time. You could remember something from the past or you could imagine something in the future that hasn't occurred yet. And this moves you beyond merely being in the present moment right here and now. The truth is that all of your power as a mature human being exists in the present moment here and now. It's the capacity of imagination to move backwards and forwards in time that allows you to reflect and compare and to make valued decisions, evaluations about what's going on, and to also determine next steps that you might be able to take.

So this is the idea of time distortion, and you can also slow time down and speed time up. You can actually go into the future and you can accelerate your ability to learn something. You could slow something way down and play it carefully, slowly in your mind in order to get all of the little bits of it. So an amazing capacity of mind is very important.

The third one is imagining that something exists that actually doesn't exist right now. And what's remarkable about this is that the moment that you imagine that something exists, it actually does. It produces an amazing set of changes in the quantum field. It actually sets the quantum field into motion and produces the effect that something actually already exists. This is the notion that once you have constructed it in your mind, the universe is actually going to work to produce it in reality. And what this does for you is it gives you tremendous access to resources that you might not otherwise be seeing in your ongoing experience. So of course, and like all four of these ideas, this really needs to be used with caution because you can actually use negative thinking to produce the stuff of fear.

If you imagine something negative exists that doesn't actually exist, your neurophysiology will produce the effect that it actually is in your experience right now. This is how phobias arise—it's

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like an extra level of anxiety. I've been talking about the idea that, if you focus on the thing that you fear, you focus on the gap between here and the accomplishment of your goal. You actually produce the physiological response of being without the resources that may actually exist inside of you. So it's quite important that you get this idea that your imagination is extremely powerful and your thoughts are actual things.

The fourth principle of creative imagination is imagining that something doesn't exist that actually does exist in reality. And this is especially crucial when you're trying to overcome some kind of obstacle. Rather than focusing on the obstacle and sending all of your energy into it, you send your energy around the obstacle to the end result that you're going to accomplish. So you can actually see pathways come into existence that might not otherwise be seen by you.

Also, this capacity of mind has to be recognized as extremely important, because it's actually how many people tend to vaporize some of their most valuable gifts and talents. We often negate some of our most precious qualities by imagining that we don't have them. And it's important to know that any beautiful quality, any personal talent, any gift that you have ever displayed in your life is actually still and always will be with you. It never went anywhere. You may have negated it and imagined that you didn't have access to it. You may have failed in something and then said, "Oh, I just can't do this anymore." But it was the reinforcement of "I can't do this" rather than the absence of a resource. The resource still exists, but you can use creative imagination to vaporize it and make it inaccessible to you.

So what we need to do is we need to put these four ways of using the creative imagination to work and actually activate the three principles of energy and thought that we've covered. So let me review these once again. The three principles are:

1. Everything is energy. 2. Thoughts are things. They are actually energetic forms. 3. Thoughts are creative.

And then these four ways of using the creative imagination:

1. Association and disassociation 2. Time distortion 3. Imagining that something exists and it does 4. Imaging something that doesn't exist, and it doesn't

Now with this kind of a set-up for the mind and thinking and the energy of the universe, you begin to realize just how potent a co-creative force in the universe your life actually is. And think about what it is that you're here to bring about in this world. What's your purpose in life? What's your calling? What is the goal that it is that you're here to really bring to fruition during your lifetime? If you focus on the gap instead of the goal, you eliminate your potential as well as your

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capacity to realize your goal. If you focus on the goal, and eliminate the anxiety, then what you do is you're actually gaining access to the resources necessary to make it so. And there's a famous philosopher who said that you couldn't have actually thought of the goal unless it was already within your capacity to realize it. And I can think back—how many times in my own life that an opportunity presented itself and I realized, “Oh my goodness, everything that's gone on in my life up until now has prepared me for this experience right here.” And so open up and really think about what it is that you're here to do in your life. Let yourself dream big. Remember that if you think you can, you have the power to do it. So when you think of your goal or an outcome, whatever it may be—we talked about it earlier—it could be getting a new job or going on a trip. It doesn't matter—anything at all. Look past the gap between here and there to the successful accomplishment of the results that you desire.

So let me show you how to actually use this. Right now, wherever you are, just take a moment to go within and consider what it would be to enjoy the accomplishment of a goal that you truly desire. And imagine stepping out of the present moment and stepping into that future as if you have already accomplished what it is that you desire.

It's as if you could go forward in your life's timeline just past the time when you've already realized the successful accomplishment of your goal, and live into that future experience as if it's happening right now—so living into that future now. And imagine right now, you are there. You're in the experience of having already accomplished the result that you desire. And take an inventory of all your resources right now. How do you feel? What does it feel like in your shoulders and your face, and how do you breathe? Is there a smile on your face? How do you walk? How do you talk with people? How do you look at them? How do you shake their hand? How do you greet them?

Look around you. What is it that you see that's in your experience that exists now, having already accomplished what it is you desire? Now what does it sound like? What do people say to you? What is it that you say to them? And imagine now brining all of these resources with you as you come back to this now moment in time, here and now. So you leave that future state and come back into the present, bringing with you all the resources that you experienced while you were there—that feeling of self-worth and self-accomplishment, self-confidence. When you do this, essentially you're instantly making all of your strengths fully available to you.

And because your body knows that the goal is accomplished, any fear that it wouldn't be accomplished gets replaced by a sense of confidence and trust. Now this is stunningly simple. And it is profoundly effective. So it's very important to understand that in order to truly be strong, to be successful, to be fearless, to live without anxiety, you need to be able to use your mind effectively to focus on the goal and be able to overcome any gap or chasm that may appear in your imagination to exist between here and there.

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So by focusing on the end result to actually be there in your imagination right now, you're positioning your thinking with the end result in mind. The word "P-O-S-I," which is the root of “position,” is also the root of the word "positive.” And so if you've heard the term “positive thinking versus negative thinking,” positive thinking positions your thinking with the end-result in mind. Negative thinking negates the existence of resources that are already available to you and that are made available to you when you have the thought of the end-result already existing. Why? Because thoughts are things, thoughts are creative, and they use the energy of the universe, move the energy of the universe, and materialize the energy of the universe into substance and light.

Now the simple technique of going forward into the future and living in that future experience uses all of the principles. It disassociates you from the present moment, and it associates you to the future moment. It uses time distortion to shift from the present to the future. It allows you to experience the resources existing that, up until now, you might not have had access to. And it negates the existence of any of the things that may have been obstacles to you.

And so it uses these four qualities of creative imagination to instantly, in one simple technique, produce all of the greatest benefits of the use of your mind. Then when you come back into the present moment, again you're using time distortion. You're disassociating from the future and associating into the present—creating the resources now that exist for you to operate from here and negating any of the obstacles that may possibly have stood in your way moments before. So it's a beautiful technique. It's simply called stepping into resource. Some people call it timeline therapy, because you can actually imagine yourself moving forward and backward along a timeline for yourself.

The other thing that it does is it gets at something that's so important for anyone to understand. It’s that anxiety is an emotion of the future. Anxiety is not possible right now. See, it doesn't matter what's going on in your life. The only way to experience anxiety of any kind is you have to distort time. You have to go into a future situation where you imagine not having the resources you need to handle it.

Now you could use time distortion to imagine past failures and project them forward. That would be a talent and a skill that wouldn't be very productive for you. A lot of people do it. The other thing is that if you just focus on right now—the breath that you're breathing right here—if you close your eyes right now, everything's okay. It's not possible to focus on the here and now and have any anxiety whatsoever. Because right now, everything's okay. And one second from now, everything's still okay. So the only way to experience anxiety is to leave the present and imagine a future in which you don't have resources. But my question is why would you do that? There's no point to it. It's using the greatest power of your creative imagination and all the energy of the universe to produce exactly what you don't want. So stop it. Don't do that.

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If you want to accomplish anything in life, whatever it might be, you have to believe that you can do it. And the way to believe that you can do it is to live into that future experience of having already accomplished it. Now I've put all of this together in a beautiful Paraliminal experience called Anxiety-Free. Trust me—I’ve used this a lot of times myself. Because when I'm ready to accomplish something that I've never accomplished before, when I'm stepping up to a higher level of self-expression that I've ever had in the past, it's easy for me to imagine, “Well, how is it possible for me to do this? I've never done it up until now.”

Well the past doesn't equal the future. I'm actually co-creating the future right now with whatever presence and power exists in the universe, so I get the opportunity to create it. And when I focus on the end result, I'm positioning my thinking with the end result in mind, I have everything that I need to be able to be a success. And you will to.

So thank you so much for being with me in this session, and this is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies. I'm with you in all of the sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest. And now it's time to listen to the Paraliminal called Anxiety-Free. Enjoy it.

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KICK UP YOUR INSTINCTS: USE YOUR INTUITION LIKE A PSYCHIC

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I’m your host Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies and this session is to “Kick Up Your Instincts: Use your intuition like a psychic.”

Try to remember an instance of one of the three following experiences: one is when you had a gut feeling or hunch. What did that sensation feel like inside of you and where in your body did you experience it? Number two is when an inner-voice spoke to you either in a whisper suggesting a direction in which you could head or in a shout as if to avoid a disaster of some kind, and if you could remember the quality of the voice when you heard it and how it was distinct to you. And the third is when an image came to you, a picture in mind that helped you see things more clearly. Think of how that picture emerged in your mind’s eye. Did it come in from the side, the front, on top? What was the quality of that image? How did it appear to you?

If you can remember any one of those, these are all basically intuitive signals. Somehow it crossed a threshold of perception for you from something more peripheral into your awareness, into your direct conscious awareness. Invariably these conscious intuitive sensations are preceded by something just outside of your awareness.

Now the question is did you trust that signal and act upon it or did you dismiss it or ignore it? As long as you chose to reflect on it afterwards in hindsight you would know that your intuition was useful to you. And if you can consciously connect to those sensations of inner-knowing and amplify them to the point that they can be readily identified and used by you, you’ll be bringing a tremendous power that we all have available to us into your everyday use, and you’ll gain the wonderful benefits that it can offer.

Intuition is a natural sensory ability. But it is subtle so that often times the noise and the busyness of our everyday lives have a tendency to kind of drown it out. For the most part, our modern culture insists on a very rational, conscious, and defensible explanation for the way that we experience and act in the world. So even if we’re quiet enough to perceive our intuitive signals, they’re often marginalized or discounted in favor of a more critical, reflective, rational kind of decision-making process.

Have you had some experience of knowing exactly what a person was going to say before they said it? Or, have you ever thought of someone moments before he or she called you on the phone? These kinds of experiences can often be brushed off as coincidence. But these abilities are not psychic or extra-sensory perceptions. These are all natural to our finely tuned sensory systems of the body and the mind. And we can receive this kind of information and communicate it in a purposeful way when we learn how. That’s exactly what we’re going to get at in this session.

To bring some perspective to this, imagine that the size of the database of your conscious mind is a circle about 12 inches across. Imagine you could set it on the floor and stand in it, okay? That’s your conscious mind’s database. Now imagine that that circle is set inside of a circle that’s 11

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miles across. This is the database of your other-than-conscious mind. Everything outside of your conscious database is essentially nonconscious or the other-than-conscious.

And it’s that larger database that you can have more conscious access to as you learn to use your intuition. One way to think about this is to imagine that your brain and its two hemispheres are broken into a very small area of the left brain called the temporal lobe and that’s where speech is formed. This is essentially the area of our brain that’s devoted to logical, rational functions—the left hemisphere.

And now imagine that the right hemisphere of the brain, which is the place where most of your creative imagination and holistic thinking occurs, is much more vast in terms of its access to what’s going on in the universe. And your intuition is the bridge between the conscious resources of your left hemisphere and the non-verbal, expansive, further resources of your nonconscious right hemisphere.

So if you can picture that you’re living inside of a body with a brain that has two very distinct hemispheres with two very distinct functions and your job as the owner of all of this is to be able to integrate those functions so that you have full access, full use to the full range of resources of your nonconscious or other-than-conscious mind.

Another way to think about this relationship between the conscious processing and the nonconscious processing of your brain and mind is to think of a pyramid where the very smallest top chunk of the pyramid is what we would call reflective consciousness. This is what gets trained into us when we go to school. It’s our ability to think of the past and the future, to think in terms of relationships; it’s how we do critical reflection and rational thought. Just below that small area of reflective consciousness is the area that we’ll call primary awareness. And this is the awareness that you have if you just become aware right now of your present sensory experiences. So if you’re sitting on a surface, you can feel that. You can feel your clothing, you can notice what you’re seeing when you look out through your eyes, you can notice what you’re hearing—in addition to the sound of my voice, any other sounds that may be in the room, any internal dialogue that you may be speaking to yourself—you can be aware of that.

So in addition to external kinesthetics, the experience of what’s going on with your physical body, you can also be aware of internal emotional states, feelings that are going on inside this midline section of your body. This is called primary awareness; it’s what’s going on with you right now. Now just below primary awareness is an area called peripheral awareness. This is right across the middle of the pyramid if you could imagine that. Peripheral awareness is information that’s coming to our sensory systems that isn't necessarily at a threshold where you can be consciously aware of it unless you’re very still, very quiet, and can attend to subtler things that are going on.

For example if you look out in front of you, you can see what’s in your direct field of vision in focus but in addition to that, at the very periphery or the edges of your awareness, things are going on in the outside edges that are outside of your central focus—that’s peripheral information. Most of the time, we’re not attending to this unless there is some kind of importance that forces it into our primary awareness.

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For example, if you’ve learned a new word, suddenly you’ll start to hear that word or read that word whereas a day ago you never would have even noticed it before. Or you learn about a new car while thinking about buying a car and all of a sudden you're seeing the car everywhere. Or you’re in a room in a party and there could be a hundred people in there and you don’t hear any of the other conversations going on other than the one you’re having in front of you, but someone speaks your name on the other side of the room—instantly you hear it. So it comes in from the peripheral awareness, the periphery of your awareness, into your primary awareness that allows you to then move it into critical reflection and make sense of it.

Imagine just below peripheral awareness in the center of this pyramid is a squiggly line, and that separates the lower half of the pyramid from the upper half of the pyramid. This is the distinction between what’s in your conscious awareness and what’s in your nonconscious resources. And the goal of our work together in this session is to make more of what’s happening below the squiggly line available to you. Now generally this information has less accessibility to you because it’s mostly outside of your awareness. If we’re to have access to the information of this nonconscious database, generally it’s because it comes up through our peripheral awareness and into our primary awareness.

So getting access to what’s happening below this squiggly line, as I like to say, is this idea of connecting into this much vaster 11-mile database, and this is literally everything that you have experienced in life but don’t necessarily remember. It’s subtler perceptions that you’ve had—that you’ve actually experienced but never made the grade of passing into your conscious awareness, so it was so below the threshold of your awareness that you didn't really even notice it. But it informed your brain in a way.

Now how you can make sense of this kind of information and be able to apply it in a positive way in your life is generally fairly personal. In other words, it’s unique to you. I talked about feelings; I talked about inner-voices and sounds. I talked about images, flashes of insight. You may have a favorite sense that your intuition comes to you. Perhaps those vague gut feelings are the things that you have a tendency to pay most attention to. Perhaps it’s an internal dialogue or inner voice that’s easiest for you to relate to or perhaps it’s this idea of a flash of insight, a picture that reveals information to you that you can relate to most. Whichever it is for you I’d like you to understand that that’s what’s in your primary awareness once it finally reaches your awareness. And what’s happening is in the periphery and below the squiggly line, there’s another set of sensory perceptions that are running all the time that are attempting to inform you and that’s the information that you can become more attuned to.

So the information that appears as an intuition to you is reaching a threshold where you can be consciously attending to it. And in reality this immense database, these 11 miles of information, is constantly flowing like a river. Dr. Win Winger calls it the image stream. There’s an immense amount of data that’s constantly being associated to and that information is literally billions of bits of information every second that’s being run through the processor of your brain and mind.

I’ll give you an example. The human eye and brain are picking up about 10,000,000 bits of information per second. Right where you’re sitting right now looking around you, 10,000,000 bits of information per second are being processed by your eye and your brain. You’re consciously aware of only 40 bits of that information, which doesn't seem like very much but

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that’s the information that’s relevant to you—that for whatever reason you’ve trained yourself to pay attention to.

Now if you think about what kind of calculation would need to be going on every second to sort through 10,000,000 bits of information to deliver to you at a conscious level 40 of those bits, well that’s an amazingly rapid processor that’s probably doing billions of bits of information per second. And all that power is yours. It’s what’s going on naturally for you. So let’s make more use of it, shall we?

Our session is really to make use of that vast inner-resource to really tap into what I would call the pure imaginable realm, because your nonconscious database isn't just what’s going on in your brain. It’s actually connected to the infinite, to all time and to all space. And although we don’t really have to get metaphysical about this right now, just realize that the information which is available to you is profound and it’s always attempting to reach you and inform you in a way that can serve your highest intention, the goals that you’re working on in your own life.

So the steps that we’re going to go through are first to be able to be more skilled at attending to what’s at the periphery of your awareness and what’s in your primary consciousness at any moment in time, your primary awareness. The second is to be able to distinguish these signals from other background noise that’s going on so that you can identify when a signal comes to you that’s intuitive, that’s attempting to assist you in some way—that it isn't just your ego driven worries and concerns and busyness from the day, but it’s legitimate information that can really assist you in the moment.

The third step is to be able to trust these inner-signals, this inner-wisdom, as valid information that can really serve and help you. And the fourth step is to be able to act upon it, to be able to respond in a way that moves you in the direction of what’s most important for you.

So let’s start with this first concept of being able to perceive signals that are going on. What I’d like to talk to about is this notion of quieting the mind enough to actually hear the signals that are happening. So I call it dropping into your genius. So let’s play with this right now if you would. Just take a moment to take a deep breath in. If you can, gently close your eyes. Hopefully you’re not operating a car right now. So don’t do this if you’re operating machinery or a car. Close your eyes and become aware of yourself in the space that your body is occupying. Become aware of the feeling in your face and let the muscles of your face relax. Become aware of your shoulders; let your shoulders drop a bit. Notice the rhythm and flow of your breath as you breathe in and out. And see if you can notice the feeling of the flow of your breath in your nostrils. Notice how it flows, notice the feeling of it, and see if you can eliminate any jerks or pauses between the inhale and the exhale.

See if you can have that breath flow without any pauses so that the inhale and the exhale are of equal length—so that your inhale and exhale flow as if they’re flowing as one continuous cycle. Now as you become aware of yourself in this way, aware of yourself from head to toe, you’re very much in the present moment in time. You’re not in the past and you're not in the future. You’re very present. It’s impossible to become aware of the feeling of the breath in your nostrils and be living in your imagination in the past or future. It automatically brings you into the here and now.

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In this moment in time right here and now, this is where all the vast resources of your nonconscious mind reside. And it’s in this stillness, this quiet, silent place within that you can more effectively interact with it. You can be more attuned to what’s going on in your heart and your gut. You can be more aware of the internal pictures in your mind. You can be more attuned to the sounds, especially of your own inner-voice—that still, small voice within that inner-spark of wisdom that’s here to guide you.

Now at a rate which is comfortable for you, maintaining an awareness of the flow of your breath, gently open your eyes. This process of quickly dropping into this place of genius within you is a very rapid, simple procedure that immediately puts you in touch with the vaster resources that are within you. That’s why I call it dropping into genius, because you’re really connecting in.

Now there’s another exercise I could lead you through that helps you distinguish between the outside and the inside a little bit more. So if you have a few more minutes where we can play with this, where you could just sit back, relax—I’ll guide you through this. It’s about an eight-minute exercise. So right now, where you are, look up and see some spot on the ceiling or wall that you could look at, so that every time you open your eyes you look at that spot. I’m going to have you close your eyes and go inside and become aware of internal perceptions and then I’m going to have you come out and look at that spot and become aware of external perceptions. We’re going to go through pictures, sounds, and feelings.

First we’re going to do three of each—first three sensations of what you see, and then you’ll close your eyes and become aware of three things you have seen at some point in your life. And we’re going to do that with what you hear and what you feel. And we’re going to do it two times and then we’re going to do it one time and then we’re going to stay inside and become aware of our awareness.

So I’ll guide you through the whole process. Right now if you can just sit back comfortably. Let your face and shoulders relax. Look up at that place where you can focus on some spot on the ceiling or wall and while looking at that spot become aware of three things you see. Now your gaze is on that spot but you can notice in your peripheral awareness three things. Now close your eyes and go inside and become aware of three things you have seen in your past—not the three things you just looked at but any three things, objects, events that you have seen any time in your personal history.

Good. Now open your eyes and look at the spot and become aware of three things you now hear. And close your eyes and go inside and become aware of three things you have heard in the past. It could be anything from the song of a bird to a train going by, the sound of an automobile—any three sounds you have heard in the past. Open your eyes; look at the spot. Become aware of three things you now feel—these could be temperatures, feelings, sensations. Close your eyes and go inside and become aware of three things you have felt in the past. It could be any three things—walking down a sidewalk, sitting in a warm tub of water—anything.

Good. Open your eyes. Look at that spot. Now become aware of two things you now see, two new things other than what you were looking at before. Close your eyes; go inside. Become aware of two things you have seen in the past, any two new things that you could imagine other than what you were paying attention to before. Open your eyes. Look at the spot.

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Become aware of two things you now hear. Close your eyes. Go inside. Become aware of two things you have heard in the past. Open your eyes. Look at the spot.

Become aware of two things you now feel—different things than before. Close your eyes. Go inside. Become aware of two things you have felt in the past. Open your eyes. Look at the spot.

Become aware of one thing you now see. Close your eyes. Go inside. Become aware of one thing you have seen. Open your eyes. Look at the spot.

Become aware of one thing you now hear. Close your eyes. Go inside. Become aware of one thing you have heard. Open your eyes. Look at the spot.

Become aware of one thing you now feel. Close your eyes. Go inside. Become aware of one thing you have felt. And now stay inside and become aware of your awareness.

Notice the unique experience of tuning-inward. And as you’ve heard on Paraliminal recordings, I talk about expanding your internal awareness, to become aware of inner-sights, inner-sounds, inner-feelings. It’s in this place that we have most access to that nonconscious database. We can actually perceive information coming in—into the periphery of our awareness, because we’ve quieted down enough to really sense it.

At a rate which is comfortable for you, now gently open your eyes and bring yourself back out—excellent.

Now, where you are sitting right now, try the experience of closing your eyes and going inside once again, dropping into that place of your genius, and notice how quickly and easily you can go there. Imagine in the center of your forehead there’s a beautiful indigo light that’s emanating—the shining out of from a space between your eyebrows on your forehead. Imagine an experience of spaciousness and expansion. You have increased perceptual abilities, a greater sensitivity to information coming in through your eyes, your ears, your skin. The entire world around you is made up of wave forms, lights, sounds, pressures, and our sensory systems are all lenses that are designed to objectify the world, to take those waves and turn them into objects. It’s in this interior place that you’re going to that part of your brain and mind that actually perceives wave forms before they’re translated into a world of objects. You’re actually going to that place within you that perceives wave forms directly before they’re translated by your mind into a world of objects.

So in this world of wave forms that you’re actually able to perceive there’s frequency and there’s amplitude. In other words, it’s how fast the wave form moves and then how strong the wave form is or how big it is.

Then by contacting this interior part of you, you can go into dialogue with your inner-wisdom and ask about the meaning of what it is you’re perceiving. So rather than automatically judging and interpreting the world, you get a clearer signal and then ask for a more accurate perception of what’s truly going on.

So now, once again, gently open your eyes and look around you in the world. Is there an additional level of clarity or richness or hue or saturation of the colors? It’s wonderful, isn't it?

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Now the second step after perceiving signals is to be able to distinguish intuitive messages from all of the rest of the noise and energy of what’s going on in our day. The first and most important step of this is what you’ve just been playing with which is that ability to enter a place of silence in which you can more accurately perceive it but now you’re beginning the process of interpreting what it is that you’re perceiving. And essentially the best way to do this is to play with it. And if you can play games—fantastic. So one of the games that’s a lot of fun to play is to ask someone to give you the name, age, and whereabouts of somebody that they know that you’ve never met. Then close your eyes, go inside, ask them to give you the name, age, and whereabouts, and then begin to describe whatever occurs to you in your conscious awareness. So you might actually imagine a person standing in front of you. What does their hair look like? Their face? What’s their body size? Their shape? Imagine how they walk. Imagine them going to their home. Imagine them stepping into their automobile. And describe those things. And find out how accurate you are.

It’s actually quite remarkable. Describe whatever you get. If you can stay with sensory-based descriptions—in other words, what you’re actually perceiving as opposed to some kind of interpretation—it’s really quite helpful. So for example, you might describe the size and shape of their body as appearing to be thick and you might imagine them as having a wide girth. You know, don’t say, “Well they’re really big and heavy.” Just describe what it is that you actually sense, because as you tune into it, you can imagine actually reaching out and touching this person’s hair and feeling the hair. It may have a different sensation or texture to it than when you were just looking at it as if you were imaging them at a distance in front of you. So the more senses you can enroll in this game-playing, the more information has the opportunity to reach you.

And then let your partner tell you the level of accuracy that you’re having. For example, you might describe somebody with a great deal of accuracy but it wasn’t the person they were thinking of; it was their sister or it was their brother. So you can tune in and refine by getting some—a little bit—of additional information.

Now I have led hundreds of people through this—what I call the sensing experience. It’s a game. And you can do this with inanimate objects; it’s fun to do it with people because there’s an additional level of energy with it. You could go inside of an automobile that’s broken and imagine the interior workings of it and describe what it is you sense. It’s tremendous the kind of information that you can come up with, and what I’ve noticed is that everyone can do this. Nobody can't do this, so you can as well.

There are a bunch of different kinds of games that I’ve invited people to do, you know, like guessing cards or imagining numbers, playing with the lottery and thinking of it, and if you can go with three numbers instead of six that’s cool too. If there’s a bank of elevators in front of you, if they don’t have numbers that indicate which is going to open first, go stand by the elevator you think is going to open. I’ve gone to some big hotels where there are six elevators and everybody is kind of hovering around a single elevator. And I’ll go to the one that I think is going to open. So it might be across the hall and down one or two elevators. I’ll go stand by it. And then when the elevator dings and it opens and it’s the one I picked, it’s really cool. Everybody suddenly turns and wonders how did he know which one was going to open?

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Now does it work a hundred percent of time? No. Even professional psychics are accurate about 80 percent of the time. So to go anything above chance means that as you play the game, you’re getting more skilled at distinguishing intuitive messages from messages that are just the busyness of your rational mind. So play with it as much as you can.

Now the third step—okay, we’ve talked about perceiving signals and then distinguishing intuitive signals from others—the next step is really trusting. And this is where you have the opportunity to notice what’s going on to the effect that you can act on it. So like I did with the bank of elevators, I noticed the signal, I trusted, I walked over to the elevator that I thought it might be. Now when it opens and it’s not the one I picked, I don’t have to feel bad about it. I just walk over to the one that opened—that’s fine.

But what I’m doing by noticing it and acting on it is I’m acting in good faith that I trust my intuition on this.

Another way to facilitate that trust is to go into dialogue with that part of you that is sending that signal. So for example, if I go to the elevator and it doesn’t open as I imagined it would I can say to myself, “Alright mind, whatever signals you’re paying attention to, notice that there were some other signals that you could have attended to so you can be more accurate next time.” So there’s no beating myself up; it’s just a matter of taking the opportunity to learn from it—to refine those distinctions that I’m attempting to make.

But because I’m acting in faith and I’m in dialogue, I’m actually enhancing that communication.

I did a pilot study of a group of people that went through the Effortless Success home study course that Jack Canfield and I created, and I did some interviews with people who were having this transformative experience that took place. And I’d like to read to you the transcript from one of the subjects, who got into dialogue with her intuitive self. This is what she said in the interview:

I began talking to myself because I realized my own mind was not allowing anything to come forward. I said, look, I’m tired of playing this game. It’s just wasting time and energy and I need answers. I’m tired of playing Russian roulette with every decision in my life. I have had gut instincts all of my life and I have always rejected them in favor of some conclusion I came to by so-called logical methods. And when I go against my instincts, it’s almost always wrong. I’ve known this for a long time, but usually don’t have the courage to follow my gut.

I’ve not given it any credibility. I said that I do not want to do this anymore. I want to learn to trust this gut feeling which I now know is my connection to source. But I cannot do this if I’m always battling with you. I know it’s you who is always putting up the roadblocks for me, and that does not make me happy. I truly do not want to play this game with you anymore. I would like you to be my friend and work with me on this, so I’m going to sit here—you and me, in this chair until you allow me access to the information which I know is being put forward to me. So let’s try this again and see what happens. The question is what is my next step to my personal growth?

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I waited for a few minutes sitting quietly and a teeny-tiny black line appeared but nothing else happened. So I thought I would try to communicate by asking some questions. “Should I be working on my spiritual growth at this time?” I asked. The black line became a very narrow purple path; I took that to mean yes. I asked if the Effortless Success program was the program I should be working on right now. The response was amazing. The narrow purple path began to rapidly grow and started coming toward me from the screen. Then everything I could see became deep purple and I even felt deep purple all around me, completely engulfing me. It was the most incredible feeling I have ever felt in my entire life. I’ve never felt such a feeling of love, complete ecstasy. I never knew such feelings existed—far beyond anything I have ever experienced.

Hopefully you enjoyed that. That’s an excerpt from an interview of somebody actually in dialogue communicating with that inner part of them that can sense and distinguish signals. Isn't that interesting? So the idea is that you can connect in with that source of information on your own. There are a number of ways to do this in addition to dialogue.

For example, you could do a yes/no response using something called muscle testing. If you put your index finger and your thumb of your non-dominant hand together, or your middle finger and your thumb, and squeeze those two together, and then with your dominant hand take your index finger and make it into a hook and put it right where the thumb and middle finger of the other hand are connected. And pull on it so that you actually pull them apart—this gives you kind of a baseline calibration. You’re pulling your thumb and finger apart, kind of breaking the bond between the two.

Now ask yourself to give you a yes response that’s very strong and notice how hard it is to pull your thumb and middle finger apart with your hooked finger. Try it. And now say, “Give me a no response where I turn weak.” And then pull them apart. And a weak response indicates a no, a negative, and a yes response indicates strong and that’s a positive. This is called muscle testing or kinesiology—applied kinesiology. And this is something you can do on your own to really have a dialogue, a yes/no response, on anything that you might be confronted with.

So ask to be in a state of being highly expanded and connected to your full power, and try to pull them apart. And now shift to a feeling of being very contracted and fearful of anything and now pull them apart and notice the difference. Now you can also do this sort of thing with a pendulum—it’s called dowsing. Marie Diamond—we publish her dowsing program through Learning Strategies. You get a couple of dowsing rods and you can use that to get this kind of information as well. So there are a number of ways in which you can come to learn to trust the signals that are coming in from the subtler parts of your awareness—those parts that are in touch with the vast nonconscious database of your mind.

And just living life sometimes, I’ll notice things coming to me in threes. For example somebody mentioned something and I’ll have just heard it the day before, and then the next time I hear a similar thing within a very short period of time, I’ll know that this is a signal that’s trying to get me to pay attention to this particular information.

So things that come to me in threes I’ll have a tendency to pay attention to. Maybe you’ve had that experience as well.

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What’s fun about it is if you relax, if you go to a place where there’s less worry and less of a sense of urgency, we’ll have a tendency to be able to get a little more accurate signal within us. That’s why I talk about going into that place where you drop into your genius, where you go inside, and what you’re doing is you’re divesting yourself of the worry and concern of your conscious mind and going to a place of stillness.

And that leads us to the fourth principle here that we’re talking about which is being able to take action or not take action based on the guidance that you’re given, because sometimes you know you might get the signal that you shouldn’t do something—that you should sit and wait it out rather than jumping up and taking some kind of bold action. Well that’s actually a kind of a boldness in and of itself, isn't it? Especially when everybody else is saying, “Come on. We got to do this. We got to do...” you might get the signal, “No. It’s time for me to sit this one out.”

So I’m encouraging you to be bold enough to act on the intuition—that signal that you’re receiving. And regardless of what happens, if you would reflect afterwards then you’re going to learn and you’re going to become more skilled at noticing which senses work for you, which signals are the ones that you should be paying attention to.

And the truth is you’re going to get better every time you run through this cycle, so pay attention to any “a-ha”s, any insights, any unusual sensations that occurred to you, and work to distinguish these from the other signals that are happening for you to see if this is a bona fide intuition that you ought to be paying attention to.

In the booklet that goes along with the Intuition Amplifier I talk about the idea of trusting and surrendering as an important quality of being able to make full use of your intuitive powers. And I quote something that Jeddah Mali talks about in her program called Seeds of Enlightenment. Jeddah explains how to build trust through five elements. The first is openness—to be expansive and open to all possibilities. The second is willingness—to take steps, to change your current thinking. The third is courage—to move beyond what you previously thought possible. The fourth is surety—the certainty that everything is okay even in the absence of proof. And the fifth is safety—which results only when you trust implicitly. And so she talks about this idea that sometimes working with these smaller steps can really help us trust and surrender enough to let our intuition work for us effectively.

And Jeddah also teaches about two key elements of surrender. One is called letting go and the other is called allowing—so letting go of imaginary boundaries and anything that may be holding you back and allowing in a greater flow, a greater clarity, and greater understanding. And combined these provide an unassailable access point to conscious awareness in this present moment and conscious awareness of the vast wisdom that’s within your nonconscious database.

So let’s quickly review and get you set for the Intuition Amplifier which is coming up in just a few moments. So the first is to really stay attuned to the signals in you. Often times they’re very subtle and peripheral, so it’s important that you drop into a place of relaxed awareness that allows you to notice these signals more clearly. Secondly is to distinguish what you perceive by exploring the sights, the sounds, and the feelings that come into your conscious awareness. Third is to be able to trust these signals, to be able to enter into a dialogue with your inner-self and test

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what occurs to you with your other senses. And finally is to take action and reflect on the results of having taken action.

Now the Intuition Amplifier is going to help out a lot with this. It’s especially helpful any time that you’re entering into any kind of important project, any time where you need to be able to connect effectively with others. As you listen to the Intuition Amplifier, it’s a good idea for you to set a goal, a situation in which having more accurate information from your intuitive self is going to be of a distinct advantage to you in helping you achieve what it is that’s important. And now as you’re getting ready to listen to the Intuition Amplifier, I want to thank you for being here with me in this session. This is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and I’m with you in all of these sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest.

It’s time now to head into the Intuition Amplifier. Have a wonderful time with it.

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IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH: REDUCE STRESS AND ERADICATE SICKNESS

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I’m your host Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies and this session is “Improve Your Health: Reduce stress and eradicate sickness.” In this session we’ll feature the Perfect Health Paraliminal recording right after the coaching session.

This session is super-important for everyone. At times in our lives we’re going to have to deal with common illness and the information that we’ll get into can make a big difference in your rate of recovery. If you’ve ever had to deal with a common sickness that faces children, as a parent or a grandparent, relative or friend, it’s nice to know that there are things that you can do that can actually help bring about greater comfort and assist in somebody’s healing process.

Or if you’re ever around someone facing a more threatening diagnosis of illness, you can have a positive influence on the prognosis. Why am I so certain of this? Because over the last several decades that I’ve been in the field of human development, I’ve seen some absolutely amazing healings take place and have participated in a number of remarkable processes that have shown me that the true power of the human mind and body are beyond anything that medical science can explain.

From my studies I’ve come to understand that the body has perfect integrity. If you eat a hamburger, your body doesn’t become a hamburger in contrast to the old adage that you are what you eat. The body changes the burger into useful energy. Every cell in the body has intelligence and when individual cells are in a living body they work together as a community, working on behalf of the good of the whole. And we have upwards of 50 trillion cells in the body and they respond to a central intelligence in the central nervous system. The communication protocols include genetic blueprints and instincts from our evolved nature; they also include acquired nonconscious programming of perceptions that are nurtured by our family system and culture. These are programs that have survival value, helping us to identify what’s harmful and what’s helpful. And then there’s a third type of communication that comes from our consciousness, our creative mind that can actually shift our nonconscious programming and even influence our genetic expressions.

The point is that there is a way to use the mind as a positive influence over the body, to influence our wellness and in the case of illness, to restore us to health. And that’s what this session is all about.

First I’d like to preface all this by saying that there are many philosophies about medicine. There’s the Western medical model that is based on a germ theory and there are Eastern traditions based on energy theories, and I’d like to explain the difference. There are many kinds of germs living in your body today. They do you no harm. In fact, there are a lot of bacteria that have important relationships to your overall health that live in your body. In the Eastern traditions, energy theory maintains that illness is not about germs; germs have a tendency to proliferate in areas where there are energy blockages.

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Think of a stream of water. If there’s a blockage in the flow there’s going to be too much water above the blockage and too little energy below the blockage. And there are illnesses associated with excess energy and illnesses associated with depleted energy. Western medicine looks at germs growing in each area and says the causes of the problems are the germs. Eastern traditions of medicine say it’s an energy imbalance. Natural seasonal cycles of energy flow create a need to cleanse and restore wholeness to our organ systems and the cells in the body. And for many years, I practiced internal cleansing according to the yoga traditions of Ayurvedic medicine.

One technique washes the lower gastrointestinal tract at the turn of the seasons from fall to winter and from winter to spring. The practice is called the full body wash and basically it’s to flush the digestive system so that the water coming out of you is as clear as the water going in. This cleanses all the sloughed off cells from the intestinal walls and allows the body to function more effectively. The flushes are accomplished with saline water to induce diarrhea and then there’s another wash for the upper gastrointestinal tract called the upper wash which is produced by inducing vomiting, so think of that—diarrhea and vomiting. Do these remind you of the flu season?

Well Western medical doctors saw symptoms, called it an illness, looked for causes, and noticed many germs and viruses there. In truth, it’s the body attempting to regulate itself by naturally cleansing and flushing as dictated by the energetic changes. The same concept applies to a cold and the practice of the sinus wash uses a small spouted pot called the neti pot, and to use it basically you pour warm saline solution into one nostril as you tilt your head sideways letting the water run through to the opposite nostril and out. So germs and mucus are flushed out of your sinus passages.

Now as you’re pouring saltwater through your sinuses, you also experience the watering of your eyes and the dripping of your nose. Same symptoms as a cold, right? So left to its own devices your body will naturally flush itself without any intervention. So consider using yogic wash practices to make the cleansing experience more gentle on your body and more effective in the result. So when I last got a cold I used the neti pot, and while I saw others around me spending many weeks with the cold symptoms, mine was gone within a week’s time. So consider there are ways to enhance what’s already having to take place naturally.

Sometimes and more frequently in recent years than ever before, the medical professions are seeing diseases that don’t seem to have any single point source as its origin. And these are described as syndromes—chronic fatigue syndrome for example is one of these. And there are numerous causes, perhaps too numerous really to list but they can be genetic predispositions, they could be environmental toxicity and sensitivities, they could be related to organ and endocrine fatigue, they could be lifestyle related due to unrelenting stresses, nutritional issues, sleep patterns and so on.

In these cases you need to learn as much as you can and you could find great benefit from working on this from a psychological perspective to look at mental and emotional stresses—looking at it from a lifestyle habit change that includes nutritional protocols and exercise routines like yoga, cardiovascular strengthening, and energetic approaches like Spring Forest Qigong or bodywork like applied kinesiology and chiropractic and massage therapy. You could be using aromatherapy, homeopathics, and lots of other sorts of things as well. Obviously I couldn’t

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possibly get into detailed descriptions of every one of these possibilities during our Ultimate You Mindfest, but I have personally been the beneficiary of every single one of these things I’ve just mentioned. And I’ve seen astounding benefits for clients of mine who have pursued these approaches.

Right now let’s get into the role that your mind can play in improving health. In this Ultimate You Mindfest, I’ve made a lot of references to the conscious and nonconscious resources of mind. But right now I’d like to make another distinction. I’d like to differentiate between two types of thinking modes—the kind of thinking performed by R2, our reactive robot, RR or R2, and I2, our infinite intelligence, II or I2. So let me describe these two.

R2, the reactive robot, basically represents a very limited type of processor that our conscious mind makes. It’s about one percent of the total mass of the human brain. It operates in a very cause/effect world. It operates using very short wavelength brain waves known as beta brain waves. It’s very oriented toward active, doing; it’s very precisely defined. It looks at very small dimensions. It’s very reductionist, fragmenting the world into tiny pieces. It’s concerned with the immediate situation that’s going on with you right now, and it’s very specialized and analytical.

I2, on the other hand, represents this much vaster 99 percent of the brain mass that I’ve referred to as the nonconscious mind. It operates in a quantum universe rather than a Newtonian mechanical universe, and it operates using long wavelength brainwaves. And as a result of that it has the ability to transcend or exceed the dimensions of the context in which it’s in—the limited space that we normally are looking at—and has a tendency to be able to cause anomalies, things that scientists and researchers would refer to as being miracles.

It has a tendency to be more passive, more oriented toward states of being rather than doing. It’s very receiving, it’s very free-flowing, and it has a tendency to be generalized instead of specialized. Rather than reductionists, it tends to be more global and holistic at seeing the big picture of things and is associated with, rather than an analytical way of looking at the world, a very aesthetic way of looking at the world, understanding things like beauty and love and gratitude.

So whereas the reactive robot is programmed to carry out beliefs, it’s very past and future-oriented—it has feelings of survival attached to it—the infinite intelligence I2 is an expanded consciousness. It’s oriented toward the present moment but it’s also got this feeling of relaxed spaciousness and breathing room. It has an acceptance of reality as being perfect just the way it is including this moment right now, whereas R2 is very oriented toward fear and protection—it’s based on worry, and doubt, and dread, and there’s kind of a tightening in the body, an insistence that you better listen to me and don’t tell anyone else about this. Whereas I2 is much more compassion oriented—it has appreciation for all with a generosity of spirit. It tends to be gentle and playful and has a sense of humor and is explorative and it gets the sense that everything is going to be okay and what I like to call EGBOK. E-G-B-O-K: Everything’s going to be okay.

And, whereas R2 projects power and control onto the external world, I2 feels an infinite source of power flowing in and through all. This belief that there really is no out there out there; it’s all generated in a co-creative way with source itself right now.

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And R2 has an attitude that life is short and then you die; and I2 has an understanding that life is a continuum.

Now when we’re looking at restoring ourselves to health and wholeness, obviously it’s the thinking mode of I2 that we need to really be plugging into. So consider that—what are ways in which you can more effectively focus in on the true power and presence that are available to you in the mind that you carry around with you, free of charge, on a daily basis? Rather than defaulting to the reactive robot, the survival mechanisms, look at this part of you that can create these anomalies—these miracles—and that’s I2.

So to highlight the amazing benefits of moving beyond R2 and living more from the perspective of I2, there’s a number of stories that I want to share with you in our session. The first is a story that came to me through a colleague named Fred Noah Gordon. He was a retired oral surgeon when I met him and he had been involved in studying the use of suggestion in hypnosis before and after dental surgery, oral surgery, to see if they could make a difference in how quickly a person recovered from the procedure and how the healing actually went afterwards.

And what the study was showing was that people had a tendency to recover much more rapidly. Instead of five days to a week to recover from most procedures, people were healing in three days. But there was an oddball in the study. There was a woman who after a week hadn't healed and after two weeks hadn't healed, and they were concerned that the tissue graft that they had done was going to be sloughed off. So Dr. Gordon invited her to go through hypnotic age regression to try to figure out what might have occurred.

And as he brought her back through the procedure, through hypnosis she recalled everything that had occurred during the operation—not only every procedure in its exact sequence, but every word spoken by everyone in the operatory. And during that time the anesthesiologist, who had a tendency to tell a lot of stories, told the story about his German shepherd and how odd it was that after surgery she wouldn’t heel, meaning she wouldn’t come alongside of him when he called to her. That’s what he had said; after surgery she wouldn’t heel.

Now Dr. Gordon, upon hearing this during the regression paused and said, “Now, did you take the word h-e-e-l and translate that into h-e-a-l?” And the patient said yes. “Did you then take that on and that story and suggestion and apply it to yourself?” She said yes. “Is that the reason that you haven't healed yet?” She said yes. “Could you remove that suggestion now and begin the healing process?” She said yes. So he brought her back three days later and she had perfectly healed.

And Dr. Gordon, in sharing this with the rest of the staff, so completely blew everybody away that they wanted to witness it for themselves. So he invited her in, did the age regression—same thing. And the anesthesiologist said, “Now I have a question for you. While she was speaking, who was doing the talking? I did the anesthesia on her. This woman was completely unconscious and yet she took this suggestion and actually put it into physical practice biologically in her body. Who was telling that story?”

And at that moment Dr. Gordon had his epiphany which really altered his life. I met him in the context of doing training for the Minnesota Dental Association where I had been hired to

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actually create coursework for them. And I was teaching suggestion at the time, helping people to heal better in normal procedures to eliminate pain, discomfort, increase malleability or attract ability on the patient and also to be able to eliminate bleeding and to facilitate healing processes.

So Dr. Gordon shared with me that he realized that the person who was talking in his story, in this woman, was this nonconscious resource he called the accelerated learner. If you know anything about the course I developed called PhotoReading, basically PhotoReading uses this accelerated learner; it’s this capacity that we have to receive information below the threshold of our conscious awareness and to actually put it into practice.

Now in this case, in the case of the surgery, here is this person who took this stimulus from the story, translated it, focused on it, put it into her body, and it shifted her biology and she never even knew and nobody else knew that she had done it. It had happened nonconsciously. And that’s the power of your nonconscious mind. So it’s so important that you learn to use it. That’s what this Ultimate You Mindfest is about—learn to use this power of the nonconscious, direct it for healthful reasons. You can use it to really create problems for you or you can use it to really create spectacular results—success, health, improved relationship, rapid growth. Whatever it is that you choose, you can use your mind to facilitate the accomplishment of it.

And I’d like to tell you another story in the context of the power of the human mind. Years ago I was teaching a small seminar on personal development, positive thinking. There were about a dozen of us that were sitting around a conference table talking about the derivation of the term positive thinking—that it comes from the root P-O-S-I which means to place firmly in position or to position our thinking. So positive thinking is positioning our thinking with the end result in mind.

Negative thinking comes from the root negate which means to invalidate. And it negates or limits our access to the abundant resources that are within us naturally. So in the seminars we’re talking about the semantics of this. One of the participants, Bob, held up his hand and said, “I want to tell you a story. This hand…” and he raised and waved his right hand, “…was ready to be amputated just nine months ago.”

And he held up his two hands to compare them, and as we looked at them there was practically no distinction between them except his right hand looked younger. There were no scars on it. There were no marks. But what was interesting is it kind of glowed, like new skin and the bottom of a baby, you know, just that smooth. It was—it was really remarkable.

And he told us that he had been doing some electrical work in his basement. He was doing some new construction, and he was installing a big cartridge-type fuse into the main circuit box, and as he put it into place, it exploded and it tore his hand completely open. All the bones, the nerves, the sinews, they were all exposed. Muscles were just hanging there. And he immediately had the thought my hand is going to be okay. And he plunged his hand into the nearest bucket of liquid which turned out to be dirty engine oil that he had drained from his car. And then he carried his raw open wound in this bucket of dirty engine oil over to the stairway. And his friend who was working with him came down the stairs and asked what’s going on?

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Bob said, “You got to get me to the emergency room.” His friend said, “Why?” Bob held out his hand and showed his friend and his friend fainted on the spot. So Bob decided he was going to have to drive himself to the emergency room. So when he arrived the doctors examined and cleaned the wound and they all agreed that his hand was a goner. There was basically nothing left of it; he was never going to have any nerve sensation in it ever again, and the mess from the oil and the risk from infection was so great they had the consensus they were going to amputate his hand. But Bob said, “No, my hand is going to be fine. Just clean the wound and wrap it up.”

So it was against their better judgment and their arguments but eventually the doctors finally agreed, and over the next several weeks all they did basically was change the bandages. And within a fairly short period of time his hand had completely restored itself. But he had absolutely no sensation in it. It was just completely numb as wood.

Well a few months went by and he and his wife were walking into a K-Mart store and suddenly his hand burned with excruciating pain and he had to sit down. He sort of felt faint and just broke out into a cold sweat. So his wife made sure he was okay and then she hurried on through the store to do her shopping. By the time she came back, all the sensation in his hand was completely restored.

And since all of this is really a medical impossibility, I mean we don’t grow nerve tissue back like that, I asked him if I could see his medical records. And he found them. He brought them to me to review them and there were diagrams of everything the doctors had seen and done and the recommendations that they had made and truly, if it wasn’t for Bob’s insistence—he was right—they would have amputated the hand.

So there I was teaching positive thinking and there Bob was as a perfect example of what positive thought can do. The moment that the accident happened, he immediately positioned his thinking with the end-result in mind. He said, “Everything is going to be fine.”

And if you’ve seen the movie The Secret you’ll know that there’s this fellow who is a miracle story. He was a pilot; he was in a terrible accident, burned all over his body, and was able to walk out of the hospital when everybody said it was impossible—pretty cool story and also pretty far out, right? Because we have our mindset, and when we see things like this happen, it has to challenge our mental models about what’s really possible.

Here’s another story. Again one of my favorites, this is from around the middle of the 1800s. There was a man named Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and he was a clock maker, a repairman in the Boston area. And he had a fascination with mesmerism which kind of predated what we now know of as hypnosis. And it involves doing what they called mesmeric passes, using magnets, kind of going over a person’s body. And it causes them to enter trance states as we understand them now. Because the effects were so pronounced, Quimby studied the phenomenon in an attempt to make a legitimate science out of mesmerism, and he just loved it.

So Quimby went on tour to demonstrate mesmerism, and he had this young man named Lucius that he exhibited as an amazing psychic when this young man was mesmerized. So during the presentations Quimby would place Lucius into a mesmeric state and then people in the audience would ask him questions and Lucius would mentally travel to remote locations and describe the

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happenings and answer questions. It’s what we know today as technical remote viewing. So there is a lot of science to it, but in the day it was amazing stuff. And the press was actually giving Quimby very favorable reviews of his performances.

Now at the time Quimby suffered from a very severe kidney disease, and according to the doctors, basically one of his kidneys was so significantly degenerated that a piece of it about three inches long was just hanging there by a couple of threads. Quimby was in constant and excruciating pain. His doctors actually felt that this disease was going to kill him within about ten years. So after one of the presentations Quimby asked Lucius if he could see what was going on with his back. So the young man closed his eyes and basically gave the exact same diagnosis that the medical doctors had given. His kidneys were degenerated; one kidney was so bad that the little section was about three inches long, separated, and just barely hanging on.

Now Quimby feared the worst having heard this but he decided to ask, “Is there anything that can be done?” And Lucius replied, “I’ll fix it right now.” So Lucius placed his hands on Quimby’s back and Quimby immediately felt this amazing heat right there where his hands were and the next day Quimby had absolutely no back pain whatsoever. And within three days he seemed to be restored to perfect health.

Now what’s interesting about it is he never had another problem with his back, and according to the testimony of every doctor that he went to, he had been completely healed. So Quimby began to explore what happened to cause his healing. And what he recognized was that the only thing that our senses can attest to is what they can perceive. So they could perceive the symptoms. Our senses can't determine causation, so causation seems to be at a level of energy or consciousness that even the medical community could not access. And because we can only perceive symptoms, we have a tendency to think of illness in terms of symptom groups. Quimby then began to research healing and he went to the Christian Bible to research what Jesus was doing with healing when he performed healings, and he determined that Jesus was a scientist who had figured out basically the science of healing.

And Quimby began codifying the patterns of how Jesus used the science of healing to bring people back to wholeness. And based on his research, Quimby wrote a manuscript about the Christ, Scientist, and the science of healing. And one of the many people that Quimby healed was a woman named Mary Baker Eddy who went on to establish a church in the Boston area called the Church of Christian Science. A descendent of Quimby’s years later published Phineas Parkhurst Quimby’s The Quimby Manuscript which to me is one of the best metaphysical texts on the science of healing and is currently available. I mean you can find it if you look online for it.

Now to me Phineas Parkhurst Quimby’s story really emphasizes the deep meaning of what healing is. If you think of healing as a return to wholeness then you’ve really captured it. You see when a person is ill, they’re in a state of disease—a state in which they are not at ease, so it’s dis-ease. And disease is an imbalance; healing is balance and wholeness. So when you think of it in this way, a diagnosis can change in your mind from a death sentence to an invitation to transform perhaps your lifestyle, perhaps your thinking, perhaps your relationships—whatever it is that may be causing the imbalance. So we’re looking at causation as being something that you actually have access to through the power of I2, your infinite intelligence.

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So let me explain a little bit more what I mean by this. Basically the philosophy that I maintain with anyone who comes to me for assistance on a healing issue is that every symptom is an outward manifestation of an energetic cause. So whatever part of consciousness is causing the symptom is still functioning for this person’s best interest, because every cell in the body is working for the purpose of keeping this person alive. So I have a tendency to explore what the individual’s consciousness is attempting to create and how that might be accomplished without all the physical symptoms that they may be suffering from.

So based on this philosophy one of the first things I do is I ask the person for a representation of what health would mean to him or her. I ask what will it look like, what will it sound like, what will it feel like when you’re living in a fully restored healed state?

Now it’s very common that people, when they hear that question, describe everything that’s wrong with them. They’ll say, “Well I’ve got this problem with my back,” so what I have to do is I have to keep bringing them back to answer the question. So I keep them focused by saying, “Don’t tell me what’s wrong. Give me the representation of what would be right. What would your back feel like if it was in full working order?”

And I had a woman that came to me and was a co-worker of my mother at the time. And she had been diagnosed with a degenerative arthritic condition. And she was a very active person by nature and the prognosis, that she was going to be confined to a wheelchair, was in her estimation equivalent to a death sentence—no more golf, no more tennis, no more dancing—all the things she loved to do in life. No more work; she loved her work. She was great with people.

Her medical doctor said that they had done everything that they could and that there was nothing more that they could do for her. So that’s when she met with me and she asked if there was anything I could do? So I asked her to sit back and close her eyes. I asked her to contact that part of her that was in charge of the degenerative illness. I basically attempted to reassure her that my intention was not to eradicate that part of her but to fully understand it, to really know what it is that it was attempting to do for her.

So entering into a dialogue with that part of her, I found out that the degenerative arthritis was an attempt to get her to slow down. She was doing everything for everyone else and basically not taking care of herself. Her body was basically being protected by this part of her mind and it responded to me. It said, “If I’m going to take care of her, I’ve got to get her to slow down.”

Now of all the possible alternatives to accomplish this outcome, it picked an illness that doctors labeled as degenerative arthritis. So we asked that part that was in charge of protecting her if there might be some new and creative ways to get her to slow down without compromising her physical wellbeing. And it actually came up with several alternatives and that included having her teenage daughters help her more with housekeeping and cutting back on some of her work and volunteer responsibilities. And sure enough the degenerative arthritis reversed and basically went away. And when she went back to visit the neurologist who had been working with her, he asked, “What are you doing?”

She said, “Well it’s kind of a meditation.” And he said, “Well keep doing it, because whatever you’re doing is working.”

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And I stayed in contact with her for probably another 15 or 20 years and she never had a recurrence of the problem.

So when people hear this story they say, “Well, you know, it was probably just psychosomatic,” kind of blowing off to something that’s just in your mind. But I want to emphasize the idea that probably every disease has both a mind and body component to it. And the reality of the physical symptoms are there—I mean they are real symptoms. So the fact that the causation might find its origin in the mind or thinking is actually turning out to be the case with virtually every disease that we know of. So the point is, when you’re not feeling well, we should work on multiple levels—on the physical, on the energetic, on the emotional, and any psychological issues that may be involved as well.

There’s a Dr. Stephen Parker who is a psychologist and an expert in psychosomatics. He’s also an expert meditator and has been in the yoga tradition for decades. He’s a Sanskrit scholar, and he suggests a four-step approach to healing any illness. The first is to relax the physical body, and feel free to do this right now if you’d like to. Relaxing the physical body is a way that we can lose the habit of being body-bound or thinking that we are the body. Rather we want to think about we are the consciousness that inhabits this physical being, this temple, this physical body, so we have a body. It’s not that we are the body.

Now when we relax to the point of feeling free of the body, the body is free to change. Develop awareness and relaxation of the energy body, the subtle body–this allows greater malleability of the mind and greater potential for positive change. So imagine your physical body and the space your body is occupying, and now imagine subtler energetic layers around you. The mental body is one layer, and then there’s the emotional body, and then there’s the etheric body, and these are like layers or shells around the most dense part of the physical.

And all of these energetic bodies have an energy form and color to them. When people see auras this is basically what they’re looking at. They’re looking at the emanations of the wavelengths of energy of these subtler bodies. So the third step is to then go into silence, quieting the mind itself. Just listen to that science, that quietness.

And from here the fourth step is begin to reshape how the mind works from within your mind. If you desire to become the change that you want to see in the world, follow the formula of intention, resolution, decision—that is feel that you must become the change, then that you have to become the change, and then that you are going to become the change, and lastly, become the change. So what is the perfect end-result of your full return to balance and wholeness, the perfect state of healing in your physical body?

And now at a rate which is comfortable, gently bring yourself back. So hopefully that four-step model makes sense to you. Relax the physical body, develop an awareness of the relaxation of the energetic bodies, subtle bodies, and then go into silence. And then reshape how the mind works from within the mind.

And I’d like to tell you one more story which I think is the most influential of any I’ve ever encountered in my years of being a human development expert. It’s about a woman named Andrea Fisher, who was driving a Honda Civic across country when she was hit head-on by a

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semi-truck. And three months later she woke up from her coma on a respirator. And when the doctors saw that she was awakening they explained to her what was going on—that her spinal column had been crushed. She was quadriplegic. She had no sensation from the neck down. She was living on a respirator and would probably remain on it for the rest of her life and that there was no likelihood of any recovery.

Because her spine had been pulverized, metal rods were placed in her back to basically brace her spinal area. At her bedside, her husband told her that he couldn’t take it any longer and that he was divorcing her. So basically her life was over. She had been a very successful executive in Los Angeles in the television industry but basically everything was yanked away from her in that moment, and she decided after she overcame her depression that she was going to beat all of it. And she was going to walk out of the hospital one day.

She spent all the money she had saved through the years and she brought in all the help that she could get. She changed to a whole foods diet which believe me is a difficult thing to do in a hospital setting. She had a Swami come in and work with her on meditation—every week he was there with her. And even though she could feel nothing in her physical body, she had massage therapy and regular chiropractic adjustments on a weekly basis. And interestingly within about a year she was off the respirator and breathing on her own, something that the medical profession believed would never happen. And almost three years to the date of the accident, any last vestige of doubt that she would recover was finally removed. She woke up in the night and realized she didn't doubt it anymore. She really knew that she was going to be alright. And she stood up next to her bed.

Now her muscles had atrophied for so long she really couldn’t support herself, so she collapsed on the floor but having recognized that she could do this she started physical therapy in earnest and got all the support of the medical profession to help her. And close to seven years after the accident she walked out of the extended care facility.

And basically, if you think about it, she had done a medical impossibility. She had regenerated all of the nerve connections in her spinal column. And there was no medical authority, and international neurology specialists from literally all over the world examined her—no one could explain what they witnessed. When they examined her, they said it was a miracle. There was no other explanation. In fact, her personal neurologist was so blown away by it that he left medicine to go study complementary and alternative medicine to try to find something that would explain what he had witnessed because there was nothing in medical science that could explain it.

Now she said that everything in life is a miracle—your breathing, your heart rate, all of it’s a miracle—so that’s not an explanation. She said, “I can explain to you every single thing that I did for my recovery.” In fact, I went to see her many years after I had met her, and I used to have her come and speak at company meetings when I was doing training and development inside of companies, and she would show off. She’d reach down and touch her toes and when she walked across the stage you couldn’t even tell that she had any kind of problem ever. It was really something spectacular.

But I went to see her some years later and she actually showed me the breathing process that she used. And in yogic science it’s called prana vayu and it’s a remarkable way of building an

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immense power and energy from the breath. It’s stunning. I mean her whole life illustrated the power of what single-minded determination and persistence can actually bring when we talk about healing outcomes.

So I think the other thing that’s important about what she did is she really took a multi-dimensional approach. She used everything. She brought it all in and that’s very much what I’m advocating here as well. Let your life be an experiment of possibilities. Isn't that what the Ultimate You Mindfest is about? I mean your participation in this, listening to this, is your recognition that you are a lifelong learner. You know that there’s power and potential within you that is waiting to be expressed. Well, name any dimension of your life. I’m telling you that you can find the resources within you to have the outcomes that you choose. If you can conceive of it and believe in it, you can have it.

So let’s wrap this up. I want to guide you through a brief meditation that can kind of summarize everything that we’ve been talking about so far and give you a little bit of a preparation for the Paraliminal recording that you’re going to be listening to. So if you can right now, just take a moment to take a deep breath in and as you exhale, close your eyes and go within yourself. Let your shoulders drop a little bit. Let the muscles of your face relax and notice the rhythm and flow of your breathing as your body breathes itself in and out. And feel the sensation of that breath in your nostrils. And allow the breath to follow without any pauses or jerks.

And let the inhale and exhale be of equal length, bringing balance to both the mind and the body. Beautiful—you’re developing a marvelous communication with the power and resources of your infinite intelligence, the nonconscious mind. You’re accessing more of your natural creativity and intuition, your imagination, much like when you were a child. Your body and mind remember times when you were very young and healthy and free. Your body remembers the expression of perfect health when you moved with ease and played joyfully. There’s a beautiful integrity to your body. And the energy within it always moves with intelligence to perform every function precisely as it is designed. Each cell knows exactly what to do, what to become, how to repair itself from damage, and how to restore itself to wholeness.

Again, be aware of your breathing. What a miracle that it continues whether you think about it or not… How beautiful that your heart continues to beat in its ideal rhythm all by itself… Feel the perfect working order of your body as it supports your existence in the world. Feeling refreshed and aware, gently open your eyes and maintain an awareness of the flow of your breath even with your eyes opened, and enjoy this calmness and clarity of mind that you just established so effortlessly.

Yup, that’s in you all the time. So I want to thank you for being with me today. This is Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies. I’m with you in all the sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest. And it’s time now for you to listen to the Paraliminal called Perfect Health. The protocol behind it is based on a book by Paul Pearsall called Super Immunity.

The concept is that if there’s any region of the body that’s compromised, it will tend to show up as a mental representation as either having too much energy, appearing hot, or not enough energy and appearing cold. So the Paraliminal teaches you how to scan the body to find any areas that need to be restored to balance. And then you use the technique of hands-on healing to imagine

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cooling down those hot zones to a more normal warm temperature and color or to warm up those cold zones to a more normal cool temperature and color. This signals the biology of the body to send the necessary chemistry that will restore the areas to wholeness, healing, and health. So have fun with it. It works beautifully.

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GET TO YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT: USE YOUR INNER MIND TO DROP THOSE POUNDS

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate You Mindfest. I’m your host Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies, and this session is a special bonus session on how to reach and maintain your ideal weight. And it features the Ideal Weight Paraliminal.

I was blessed to have a fairly high metabolism and live a really active lifestyle when I was younger. And I was fortunate that my mother was an early adopter of the concepts of eating right and staying fit and healthy. So she tended to provide good foods for me when I was growing up. And as an adult, I never really varied in my body weight for more than a couple of pounds for probably 20 years of my life.

But when I turned 40, my lifestyle had shifted to more work, more travel, less regular exercise and more eating out in restaurants that gave really huge portions of high-calorie foods. And, you know, biology took over. Suddenly I had put on ten extra pounds that were not coming off and every few years another five pounds went on until I was almost 40 pounds heavier than that non-fluctuating weight set-point that I had in my 20s and 30s. And with the changes in my musculature, my body was actually fine in a range from about 160 to 165 pounds, but at 180 pounds, nothing was right. The blood-chemistry numbers from my annual physicals were getting bad. And, you know, during the summer months with my activity level so much higher, I’d actually get a little bit closer to my ideal zone, but in the fall the weight would come back on, and it was as if my body was preparing for winter. It seemed that I was mired in a cycle that really was not working for me.

My wife and I decided that we really better get our act together in our 50s because our sense was that this was going to be the time of establishing the kind of body size and shape and lifestyle that we would choose to enjoy as we entered the second half of our lives.

And right now I’m delighted to say that I have achieved my ideal weight and I enjoy a healthy diet and regular exercise and my exercise includes cardiovascular fitness, strength training, yoga for flexibility and balance, Qigong for energy flow. I do a lot of walking, hiking, biking, and skiing for outdoor recreation. And at my last checkup my numbers were really excellent.

Without a very conscious choice to live in ways that are healthy for you, I think that many cultural norms around the world tend to lure people into overeating foods that have a very questionable nutritional value. When traveling in other countries I think that there are similar challenges, but I also think that in America we are especially at-risk. As one medical doctor put it, if the food is highly packaged, is highly advertised, and it goes by a brand name that’s recognized in multiple languages, it’s probably no good for you. Or, as my wife says, if you want to eat healthy foods, buy more of the foods that come from the perimeter of the grocery store, not from the aisles in the middle.

So think about it; what kinds of foods tend to be your biggest troublemakers? And are there times in your life where you tend to be more attracted to the kinds of foods that don’t work for you? Or are there times during the year where you tend to put on more weight? What’s

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wonderful to know is that the human body can develop a taste for junk or for quality and it will become used to it either way.

In this session what we’re going to do is explore some of the key factors that will help you live a healthy life at your ideal weight, and we’ll get into some easy ways to enjoy getting there if you’re not there yet. And what I’ll share is going to be equally applicable if you’re under-nourished or too thin or if you’re currently overweight. So let’s break it down for a moment.

The simplest equation is this: to consume only enough calories of the right nutritional value to match your energy expenditure. That way your body gets the right vitamins, minerals, fats, oils, proteins, and carbohydrates and has no need to store excess calories in the form of body fat. And it doesn’t need the fats in the body as a buffer against too much acid or toxicity. Sounds simple, right?

Eat right; stay fit. Well if you eat more than your body can metabolize with your present activity level, somehow you need to burn it off through more active exercise. And if we eat too little, we’ll tend to be thinner. If we eat too much, we’ll tend to be heavier. And you can be under-nourished at either end of that spectrum because nourishment has to do with the nutritional value or quality of the foods that you eat.

There are children and adults who are morbidly obese from over-eating and they’re actually dying of malnutrition because of the poor quality of foods that they’re consuming. Without the right balance of nutrition, the human body will suffer—maybe not right away, but eventually.

Biologically the human body is like most other animal organisms on the planet. We are a tube with a hole on each end. One end takes in food and the other end excretes the waste. The intake produces energy for the organism’s lifestyle and the size and shape of the animal are adapted to survive in whatever ecological niche it tends to fill.

Humans have appendages that let us move around and interact with the environment, and we have a highly evolved nervous system that lets us do the work of feeding ourselves and procreating to keep our species going and to do so with quite a bit of efficiency.

Now when it comes to living at our ideal weight we need to be exquisitely aware of what is going into that one end of the tube, into our mouths. It makes all the difference. That’s because who you are is a biological entity interacting in biological terms, biochemical terms, with whatever goes in.

Sure, you’re also a spiritual consciousness with immense influence in the physical world and that consciousness inhabits the physical anatomy of a biological animal, classified in terms of kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genes, species, and the species name is homosapiens.

So it really behooves us to be very conscious of what it is we’re taking in. First, it needs to be of the highest quality that you can afford. Think about how many times in a day you make the decision to move food into your mouth. Be conscious of that. Choose wisely. The more forethought that goes into the selection process, the more likely you will have the right foods on

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your plate when you begin eating. So look over your choices and choose wisely. It’s called eating awareness.

I had a client named Dan who was 75 pounds overweight and he was going on a trip with a friend of his who was always at his ideal weight. The guy never put on any excess weight. So he decided to do a little study. What he was going to do was eat only what his friend ate every single day that they were on this trip. And the first day Dan thought he was in heaven because they stopped at a place on the road for a pizza and they each ordered a pizza and a pitcher of beer each. So Dan thought this was going to be great.

Unfortunately, his friend the next day, the only thing the guy ate all day long was one can of green beans cold out of the can. Then Dan thought he was going to die. But the idea was he studied this and realized that what this man, his friend, would naturally do is if he overate one day he would under-eat the next—ultimately balance it.

And so Dan really began thinking about the choices he was making, and how could he begin to see a level of balance when he was overeating?

The next thing that’s really essential to know about all this is that we need to eat the right amount for our bodies. When my wife traveled and studied in France, she was amazed at the beautiful flavors and the presentations of the food that she was getting at restaurants, and she was also really stunned at how small the portions were compared to what was dished up for a typical American entrée. In France, she saw these small portions of exquisitely prepared, exquisitely flavorful, and beautifully presented foods. She absolutely loved it. And she heard a French commentator talking about how she eats, and she said she eats absolutely anything she wants. She doesn’t restrict; she doesn’t cut back; she doesn’t focus on one type of food. She really eats anything, but just not very much of it.

In fact, I had a client named Stacey who lost 60 pounds with virtually no effort whatsoever. And I had seen her a couple of months after a class that she and her husband had taken with me, and I couldn’t believe it was the same woman, really. So I asked her, “How did you do it?”

And Stacey said that basically she just took my advice and practiced two simple things at every meal that she sat down for. The first was to chew her food thoroughly. And this is the idea that in the mouth we have teeth that break food apart and a lot of chemicals that actually break down the food substance in the mouth—you know, our gastrointestinal tract and our stomach don’t have teeth. The teeth are actually pounding the food and making these big—let’s say a rounded dose of food—into a lot of tiny little doses of food. And what that means is that there’s more surface area. So once you swallow it, now the nutrition from the food can be absorbed by the body.

If you’re taking in big chunks and kind of bolting it down, the body doesn’t have a chance to break it down. So the idea is when you’re eating, what you can do is take a bite of food, put down your utensils, and then chew the food until it completely liquefies. Keep in mind that most of the physical digestion of the food happens in the mouth. The absorption of the nutrients happens all the rest of the way.

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The second thing that Stacey did is she pushed the plate away from her after four or five mouthfuls. She was always satisfied. You know how sometimes you’ll get up from a meal and you’ll be, “Oh, I’m so full?” Well it takes time for the body to register your level of fullness. So if you relax, if you focus, and if you take time with the food that you’re chewing, then not only are you going to have the pleasure of eating that comes from concentration, but you’re also going to be able to really savor the food and ensure that what you need is taken in and what you don’t need you can leave.

In Japan where I was teaching and traveling I saw very little obesity compared to most places in the US where I’ve traveled. And what was interesting is they have a wish for you kind of like the French say “bon appétit,” good appetite, they have a phrase that says, “I wish for you that you may be 80 percent full when you leave the table.” Isn't that an interesting idea that you’d be 80 percent full? Not stuffed, not excruciating and in agony holding your gut, but 80 percent full, which means you’re satisfied but not overly full? So the question is—how would you be able to detect that moment when you’re at 80 percent? You’re only going to be able to do that if you’re paying attention—again this idea of eating awareness.

And there’s another idea that I’d like to share with you before we get into the Ideal Weight Paraliminal and that has to do not with your relationship with food, which is what we’ve been talking about so far, but your relationship with yourself. Your emotional state that you’re in when you eat and your body image—what you think of yourself when you eat.

There was a woman who called my clinic one day to set up an appointment for weight loss and when she arrived the next week I looked at her and I wondered if I had gotten it mixed up somehow because she was actually tiny. In fact, she only weighed 105 pounds. Although she looked great, she said “Oh, I just feel obese if I’m anything over 98.” Okay, well that’s not a weight issue. That’s a self-esteem issue. That’s a self-image issue.

So I worked with her to improve her relationship with herself and what was interesting is not only did she feel great about herself but she quickly achieved and then was able to maintain her ideal weight for years. And on this point I’d like to tell another story that was quite dramatic.

There was a client of mine named Gina, who was 90 pounds overweight and when I inquired about how she ate, it was bizarre how little she ate. I mean she would have for lunch at the office three celery sticks and some nuts. And that was it. It was. And I really grilled her. I wanted to make sure that she wasn’t fibbing with me here. And honestly she hardly ate anything. For the amount of bodyweight that she had it was really unusual. And there weren't times where she would binge. I mean she just was always for years and years and years very overweight.

So when I did some hypnosis work with her I found out that most of this started at a time when she was in a very unhappy marriage relationship and her husband really insisted that she lose weight. So he forced her to go to the hospital and undergo a series of tests for her metabolism. And she was so angry about that whole ordeal. And what was interesting is she was in there for ten days, most of the time had no food by mouth, and was just receiving intravenous feeding. And what was so unusual is the doctors not only could not find anything wrong with her, but they were totally blown away that in the time when most people would have lost 20-plus pounds, she actually gained seven.

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And so I said to her, “What a perfect way to get even with the people that you were so angry with.”

And she was stunned when she heard that. She said, “You know, you’re right.” I mean being literally powerless over the situation she was in at the time, the way to get even with the doctor and her husband who she ultimately divorced was to put on this weight and not have it come off. And so what I asked her—had she continued to hang onto that anger and her body hold onto weight in the same way? And her inner-mind said yes. When I asked her if it was okay to give herself permission now that she was free and she was in charge of her own life and her own choices, could she let it go? And so, you know, I stayed in touch with her for many years. She lost all 90 pounds. It was spectacular.

And what was also fascinating about it, she did nothing to change her eating behaviors. For all these years she had maintained all that excess weight even though she ate very few calories. And now with the freedom internally, this kind of emotional and energetic freedom, she let it all go.

So I invite you to consider your relationship with yourself. When you go to sleep at night, when you stand in front of the mirror, when you prepare yourself to eat, what are the positive self-reinforcing ideas that you could give to yourself? What are the images that would support you? What is the feeling of relaxation and calm and peace that you could tap into that would allow you to be exquisitely aware, not only in the choices of the foods that you select, but also in what you consume and how you consume it when you do so?

Well this has been a lot of fun. And I want to thank you for being with me in this session. I’m Paul Scheele of Learning Strategies. It has really been my pleasure and my honor to be with you in all of these sessions of the Ultimate You Mindfest. And right now it’s time for you to be able to listen to the special bonus Paraliminal called Ideal Weight.

And whether you’re under or over the number that you would consider your ideal weight, you can benefit from this session. You’ll be able to improve your relationship with food and your relationship with yourself, your body, and your emotions. So have fun and live healthy.

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