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Module One: The Subconscious Mind Welcome to the program that's going to teach you about something very powerful, something very important: habits of enhancing your mind power. And I'm going to share eight of them with you. Eight habits of enhancing your mind power, and let's just jump right in. This is module one, as you know, and it's about the subconscious mind -- probably my favorite topic in the entire world, the subconscious mind, because that's where you can get access to your true power, and as a hypnotherapist I'm always interested in ways of helping people enhance their lives by learning more about the power of their subconscious minds and by harnessing that power. So first of all: what is the subconscious mind? Well, according to psychologist Pierre Janet, the subconscious mind is a powerful awareness that lies under layers of critical thought, functions. So it's not a person's current focal awareness, and there is a limit to what can be stored in an individual's conscious focal awareness. So the brain stores that knowledge and previous experiences in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind holds details that the conscious mind forgot long ago. So the subconscious mind or the subconscious -- same thing -- is a repository for everything a person sees, hears, and any other information the mind collects but is not able to consciously process into something meaningful. The subconscious mind is like the bottom of the iceberg. You know we always say, "Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg." Well, the subconscious mind is the bottom of the iceberg. It's like the part below the surface of the water. The bigger part, the majority of the iceberg that you don't see when you look at it from the surface. The surface part that you see would be the conscious mind. If we're looking at an analogy, we would say that the iceberg is an analogy for the mind. The tip of it is the conscious mind -- a very small part of it, but it's very obvious. The bottom of the iceberg, the bigger part of it, the part that's affected by the current, the part that's actually allowing it to move around, is the subconscious mind. Now, there are four classic ways to retrieve information from the subconscious mind. First, auto-suggestion. Auto-suggestion is the practice of giving your subconscious mind information to help you develop specific beliefs, and this includes speaking or writing acclimations and using hypnosis to suggest thoughts and beliefs.

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Module One: The Subconscious Mind

Welcome to the program that's going to teach you about something very powerful, something

very important: habits of enhancing your mind power. And I'm going to share eight of them

with you. Eight habits of enhancing your mind power, and let's just jump right in.

This is module one, as you know, and it's about the subconscious mind -- probably my favorite

topic in the entire world, the subconscious mind, because that's where you can get access to

your true power, and as a hypnotherapist I'm always interested in ways of helping people

enhance their lives by learning more about the power of their subconscious minds and by

harnessing that power.

So first of all: what is the subconscious mind? Well, according to psychologist Pierre Janet, the

subconscious mind is a powerful awareness that lies under layers of critical thought, functions.

So it's not a person's current focal awareness, and there is a limit to what can be stored in an

individual's conscious focal awareness.

So the brain stores that knowledge and previous experiences in the subconscious mind. The

subconscious mind holds details that the conscious mind forgot long ago. So the subconscious

mind or the subconscious -- same thing -- is a repository for everything a person sees, hears,

and any other information the mind collects but is not able to consciously process into

something meaningful.

The subconscious mind is like the bottom of the iceberg. You know we always say, "Well,

that's just the tip of the iceberg." Well, the subconscious mind is the bottom of the iceberg.

It's like the part below the surface of the water. The bigger part, the majority of the iceberg

that you don't see when you look at it from the surface. The surface part that you see would

be the conscious mind.

If we're looking at an analogy, we would say that the iceberg is an analogy for the mind. The

tip of it is the conscious mind -- a very small part of it, but it's very obvious. The bottom of the

iceberg, the bigger part of it, the part that's affected by the current, the part that's actually

allowing it to move around, is the subconscious mind.

Now, there are four classic ways to retrieve information from the subconscious mind. First,

auto-suggestion. Auto-suggestion is the practice of giving your subconscious mind information

to help you develop specific beliefs, and this includes speaking or writing acclimations and

using hypnosis to suggest thoughts and beliefs.

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However, the primary reason auto-suggestion fails for people who practice it is lack of

emotion. In order for the suggestion to override previous programming, it must be strong. I

say strong. I mean, very direct and full of emotion. So use your conscious mind to decide what

your goals are and then choose emotionally-powerful affirmations. In other words, not

something that you're not really excited about.

Choose something that you want to work on. Why would you want an affirmation that you're

not excited about? Why would you want to move towards something that doesn't get you

really into it? So sit in a comfortable chair or just a place that's comfortable and meditate until

you're in a trance-like state. If you've listened to my programs before you understand how to

meditate, or perhaps you have your own way to meditate.

From that trance-like state you can repeat your affirmations several times. Now, don't do this

now. Do this some other time when you have time available and you're not listening to a

program. I want you to take this information and use it later when you have time and you're

not paying careful attention, because that's what you should be doing right now: paying

careful attention to what I'm saying. Over time, your subconscious mind will absorb the

affirmations as true, and it's going to work to make your reality match your belief.

You see, the subconscious mind at the conscious mind don't want to have a disconnect. So if

you hold something as true, if your conscious mind is saying, "It's true, it's true, it's true," your

subconscious mind is going to find a way to make it true. Keep saying, "I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm

rich," and your subconscious mind is going to find a way to make you rich because it doesn't

want that disconnect.

Now, this step is what many consider an important part of manifesting. However, it often

takes time to overcome limiting beliefs, negative thoughts, years of self-doubt. So don't

expect things to just change overnight. You've got to keep working on it.

I told you there are four classic ways to retrieve information from your subconscious mind.

The next is auto-inquisition. Auto-inquisition is similar to auto-suggestion, except that you use

your subconscious mind to give it questions, rather than giving it information.

So, the best way to use this technique is during the hypnagogia state, or the state between

awareness and sleep. Now, during this state, lucid dreaming, astral projection, and hypnotic

suggestions are possible. However, some people have used this state to access information in

their subconscious minds.

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These are all uses of that state. I'm simply talking about the time between the time you're

awake and the time you're asleep. These are coming or going; either you're falling asleep or

just waking up and you're in that in-between zone. You're not quite awake, not quite asleep.

It's all I'm taking about with that big word, "hypnagogia". Some people have used this state to

access information from their subconscious minds. Now, notable people who have used this

technique include, of course, Napoleon Hill.

When I said "auto-suggestion", if you've read his book Think and Grow Rich, that may have

rung a bell for you because he talks a lot about the power of auto-suggestion. Also, Deepak

Chopra, Beethoven, Bach, Thomas Edison, and a lot of people have used this technique.

In order to keep himself in this state, Edison sat in his favorite chair holding a brass ball over a

brass bowl, and as he started to doze off, his hand would relax and drop the ball into the bowl.

The sound would wake him up, but he wouldn't be fully conscious. In that state that he was in,

he could ask him subconscious brain questions about his current situation and the

subconscious mind could reveal information to him.

So whatever he was working on, he could sit with a brass ball in a chair and he would start to

doze off and it would slip out of his hand because his hand would open a little bit. It would fall

into the brass bowl and he would wake up just enough to realize, "Hey, I'm conscious, but I've

also got access to my subconscious mind." That was very resourceful for him. He was able to

then work on things that he wanted to work on -- we all know how successful Thomas Edison

was.

Now, the next way to retrieve information from your subconscious mind is visualization.

Visualization is the process of seeing images in your conscious mind in order to influence your

subconscious mind. In that sense it's like auto-suggestion, except that you're using images

rather than words. Visualization is more complex because than auto-suggestion because in

order for it to be effective, you have to hold the image in your mind rather than repeating a

litany of words.

The images also have to be as detailed as possible. Over time you're going to want to imagine

a full experience, including sights, sounds, smells, sensations, colors, everything down to the

smallest detail. Just like auto-suggestion, though, visualization does not work overnight

usually. I like to say nothing's impossible, so it can happen, but it usually doesn't. It usually

gets practiced over time, and the visualization should become richer with detail at each

session.

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Your visualization should also be attached to a strong emotion. Remember that -- it's a key

element in all of this. Now, if you have difficulty with visualization, start small and work your

way up. First start with shapes, then add letters, then words, then colors, and finally moving

into a full synthetic experience.

So I'm going to go ahead and walk you through a visualization so you can get the gist of this.

Now, if you were doing anything, such as operating a motor vehicle or running, biking,

anything like that, listen to this later. This is not something you want to listen to now because

it can cause you to get very relaxed.

Only continue with this module right now if you're sitting or lying down in a comfortable

position or you're stable. In other words, if you were to lean to the left or the right, you

wouldn't fall out of anything.

You're not doing anything; you're just sitting or lying down with nothing else to do. If you're

doing something else, then listen to the rest of this recording later, because I'm going to guide

you through a visualization before we go on with the rest of this module. Be sure to only be

sitting or lying down when you listen to the rest of this module.

So, if you still listening, my understanding is that you're sitting or lying down and we are ready

to continue. I'd like you to just close your eyes and relax and just focus on something that you

want to focus on. It doesn't have to be anything. It doesn't even have to be goal-oriented. I

just want you to get used to visualizing.

I want you to imagine something. Now, some people have difficulty seeing images in their

mind, and that's okay, because if you're one of those people then perhaps you can hear them,

or even taste something related to them, or smell something related to them. However you

related to your universe, I want you to use that right now. Perhaps you can hear the sounds.

Perhaps it's just a feeling, a physical sensation or an emotional feeling about what it is that

you want to visualize.

When I say "visualize", realize that you can use any of your senses or a combination of your

senses. Some people get really caught up when they hear "visualization". They think, "Oh my

goodness, I'm not seeing a picture. I'm not doing it right." That's not correct

What is correct is the way that you're doing it right that's fine for you. So just letting it clear.

It's going to be a short exercise. I just want you to get used to this. Just prime the pump.

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If it has been a while since you've visualized then use this time to get re-introduced to it. If you

do it regularly, use this opportunity to take it up a notch, make it clearer, brighter, more crisp.

Make the sounds, smells, the tastes, whatever it is associated with it, make all that more clear

in your mind. Really enhance it right now.

If you're seeing something, make the colors crisp and sharp. If you're hearing something, make

it louder. If it's a taste or a smell or feeling on your body, or emotional feeling, enhance that

right now.

When I say a full synthetic experience, I mean that you're really not experiencing that right

now, are you? You're just imagining it. But make it full. Make this experience as close to reality

as possible.

Again, you don't have to imagine anything in particular. It doesn't have to be a new car, a new

house. We're just priming the pump. You can use this later for anything you want to use it for.

Imagining that new car or new house, that relationship, your life working better, whatever you

want to imagine.

Right now, at this moment, you're just using this technique to refine it, or, if it's your first time,

to get introduced to it. Just take a few moments to relax as I talk. Over time you're going to

want to get better at this, meaning you make it clearer, you make things more distinct, and

you also start focusing on things that you want to manifest in life. Things that you're working

on, goals that you have.

All right now, let's end this brief session. On the count of three you'll go back to full awakening

consciousness, remembering everything you've experienced in this visualization session. One -

- coming up, feeling very good. Two -- beginning to move now, beginning to stir, becoming

very aware of your surroundings and where you are. When I count to the next number, you'll

be wide awake, full of natural energy and ready for the rest of this module. All right now --

three.

Eyes open and wide awake. Take at least a half hour before doing anything, like driving a car

or jogging or riding a bike, or anything that involves you having to pay attention to what you're

doing. Let's continue with the module, because we've got more ground to cover.

The forth and final way to retrieve information from your subconscious mind is listening to

classical music. Now, I know. That's off the beaten path, isn't it? Classical music -- how could

that possibly be a technique? But it works for some people.

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I'm giving you four possibilities here. Auto-suggestion was the first one, then auto-inquisition,

and then visualization -- we just finished that. Now, listening to classical music. There's

something about classical music. I was in a cab the other day and the cab driver had classical

music on, which is very unusual, but it reminded me of this technique that I discovered years

ago.

Music therapists have shown that listening to artists such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, awaken

higher brain functions, and they can also boost an individual's capacity for intelligent thought,

and increase creativity and intuition. This phenomenon is referred to as the Mozart effect.

Further studies found that listening to classical music increased children's scores on IQ tests.

Agriculturalists also found that classical music correlated with plants growing more quickly and

bearing more fruit.

So don't underestimate your ability to use classical music to enhance your ability to retrieve

information from your subconscious mind, and start that dialogue, open that door, so you can

get information from your subconscious minds. You can communicate with your subconscious

mind. Not just getting information, but also putting information in there. Positive information

that you want to have in there.

All right, so I don't need to give an example of classical music. I've named a few artists -- Bach,

Beethoven, Mozart -- and you can look into them, look into their music, and give it a shot. Play

classical music and focus on retrieving information from your subconscious mind and/or

putting information there.

Now, also realize that you can enhance your subconscious mind power by exercising it. A

morning session, for example, would consist of fifteen to twenty minutes of solo piano music,

such as Mozart or Beethoven, while visualizing your goal.

You can trade as much detail in the visualization as you want, and the music should not be too

loud, because this can distract your mind from the visualization. It should be just the right

volume. You'll learn this by experience, by what works for you.

Also, here's a suggested afternoon session that I think you might find very beneficial. As you

begin the process of enhancing your mind power, you may have to work in several sessions a

day. I know, I know, the whole "work" idea, but believe me: it pays off. As you become more

advanced, you may able to reduce the number of sessions and just increase the duration of

each one.

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A fifteen- to twenty-minute string music session -- you're listening to string music such as Bach

or Handel, for example -- while you work with auto-inquisition. You're going to want to listen

to this module again to review what auto-inquisition is, but that can be very powerful.

With each auto-inquisition session, choose only one question that you want answered at the

time. Working with too many questions can overload the subconscious mind, causing it to

retreat and your conscious mind to come forward. That's not what you want during these

sessions.

Here's a suggested evening session: write two to three affirmations that you want to work on

and write them down or speak them out loud while looking in the mirror. Repeat those two,

three affirmations several times to help commit them to memory, and fall asleep repeating

those affirmations as you listen to soft classical music. Keep working with those affirmations

until you fully believe them, or until you've achieved your goal and you're ready to move on to

the next set of affirmations.

Speaking of moving on, the next module is conscious mind. We've covered the subconscious

mind. Next we're going to address the conscious mind, because so many programs like this

overlook the conscious minds. I mean the subconscious minds are the bottom of the iceberg,

isn't it? It's where all the action is. It's where everything's happening.

The conscious mind is very important too. You've got to get both in line with what you're

working on. So get ready to join me in module two as we talk about the conscious mind. I'm

Dr. Steve G. Jones, hoping you have an outstanding day.

Module Two: The Conscious Mind

Welcome back. Welcome to the module that’s going to teach you about the conscious mind, a

subject that is overlooked so much in programs like this because we usually focus on the

subconscious mind, but let’s take a look at the conscious mind because it’s a very valuable tool

once you understand how to harness its power.

So, first of all, what is the conscious mind? Well, the conscious mind is the part of the brain

that receives and interprets data received from the five senses. The conscious mind analyzes

the received data to form perceptions and beliefs. T

he conscious mind is responsible for the transportation of information from the conscious

mind itself to the subconscious mind or the unconscious mind, and there’s a disagreement,

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I’ve got to tell you about this, there’s a disagreement among experts as to whether the

conscious mind allows the information to pass or not, and although some believe that the

conscious mind is the gatekeeper to stored information whether we remember it or not, there

are others who believe it is merely a filter for our perceptions.

Now, the conscious mind has the ability to train and control the subconscious mind to react in

a precise and controlled way. The conscious mind is also a tool for focused and effective mind

development. Combined with the subconscious mind, the conscious mind creates a force

known as mind power that is unlimited and can bring any circumstances or events into your

life. Now, the only force that limits your mind power would be your beliefs.

Now, when I work with someone hypnotically, I’m focusing on their subconscious mind. I’m

getting their conscious mind out of the way by putting them into hypnosis so I can just focus

on the subconscious mind, but hypnosis also affects the conscious mind/

Because after someone’s out of hypnosis then they start acting on things that come from their

subconscious mind and their conscious mind thinks that it’s just coming up with those ideas

right then and there, but actually it’s being fed from the subconscious mind, and that’s really

the way we do things anyway.

Whether they’re habits that help us like saving money or habits that hurt us like binge eating,

these usually come from the subconscious mind. They’re fed to the conscious mind. So that’s

how the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are both affected by hypnosis. The

subconscious mind or unconscious mind feeds information to conscious minds.

Now, how to you enhance your consciousness. The average person thinks 60,000 thoughts per

day. That’s a lot. You might think well, I just had five thoughts yesterday, but actually you had

about 60,000 thoughts. Most people have difficulty recalling 95% or more of what they think.

Could you imagine if you could remember every one of those 60,000 thoughts? It would be

overload and highly inefficient and also highly unnecessary.

So, this means that people who are not conscious of their consciousness are fine. They’re

normal. It’s okay. The majority of those 60,000 thoughts are mindless babble or internal self-

talk or just your mind doing things that take care of things, some housekeeping stuff that you

don’t really need to worry about. This is how information is transmitted from the conscious

mind to the subconscious mind and how empowering or limiting beliefs are formed.

Now, let’s talk about truth. The truth raises your consciousness while lies lower your

consciousness. Isn’t that interesting. Whatever you’re afraid to know lowers your

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consciousness as well. Step on a scale to know how much you weigh or have a long talk with

your significant other about whether the relationship is working or not. Knowing exactly

where you stand makes it real and raises your consciousness.

You get to the truth of the matter. Also, how about connecting with nature. Now, I’m talking

about this under the idea of how you enhance your consciousness. One is getting to the truth.

That’s always good. Another is connecting to nature.

The first one I mentioned was understanding all these thoughts you have, these 60,000

thoughts you have, most of them being highly insignificant, or at least for your purposes they

are, but let’s get back to where we were, connecting with nature.

Go for a walk in the woods or on the beach. Connect with the elements. This brings awareness

to the moment. You may fall into a deep sense of peace and oneness with nature and if you

do that embrace it. It is your consciousness. How about meditation? When we talk about how

to enhance your consciousness, meditation is a great way.

Meditation is one of the best ways to enhance your conscious mind. Meditation teaches you

to stay in the moment by focusing on your breath and when you first begin it might be difficult

and that’s okay. Reigning in 60,000 or more thoughts is a large undertaking, after all, and as

your conscious awareness develops you’re going to feel more focused, disciplined and feelings

of joy.

Now, let’s go ahead and do a short guided mediation to enhance your conscious mind. Now,

you know that I don’t want you doing this if you’re operating a motor vehicle or jogging or

riding a bike or doing dishes or anything that requires you to focus on something.

I want you lying down or sitting down in a char that’s so safe that if you were to lean one way

or the other you wouldn’t fall out of it or lie down on the floor or on a bed or on a couch, but

never listen to any kind of meditation or hypnosis recordings while doing something that

requires your attention.

So, guess what, for the rest of this module once again, just like in the last module, if you are

doing something, listen to this module later when you’re not doing anything and you’re sitting

or lying down.

Okay, so my understanding is that if you’re still listening to me talking right now, you’re not

doing anything. You’re sitting or lying down because if you are doing something, you shouldn’t

be listening to this module right now. You should listen to it later.

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So we’re going to do a short, guided meditation to enhance your conscious mind and then I’m

going to share with you the rest of this module, the rest of the information that I have to share

with you about the conscious mind, but first I’d like to help you enhance your conscious mind.

So sitting or lying down right now close your eyes and as you relax and unwind just take in a

deep breath. That’s right, just breathe in deeply through your nose, exhale through your,

another deep breath in through your nose.

Open your mouth slightly, exhale through your mouth, and then one more deep breath in

through your nose. Open your mouth slightly and when you’re ready exhale slowly and then

continue breathing easily, effortlessly and comfortably, and when you do these breathing

exercises it’s okay if you’re doing them at a different pace than I am.

Maybe you want to do them more slowly or more quickly and that’s fine, but right now you

should be breathing at your own normal pace, breathing in and you normal, automatically,

relaxing and as you relax I want you to focus on that idea of the iceberg.

The tip of the iceberg is above the water, the rest of it is below the water, below the surface of

the water and as you focus on this iceberg, realize that this represents your subconscious

mind, the bottom part does, and it also represents our conscious mind. That’s represented by

the top part. The part that you can see and you’re aware of all the time.

The bigger part is the subconscious mind, below the surface of your perception most of the

time. The smaller part that you’re always aware of when you’re awake is the conscious mind

and I’d like you to focus now on that top part of the iceberg, the part you can see. Just imagine

it, and if you don’t usually visualize, then perhaps you can just sense that it’s there. Focus on it

now and I want you to see both.

You’re able now to see below the water and see the entire iceberg and see above the water at

the same time, see the top of it, and I want you to see it all as one color. It’s your mind, it’s

your imagination, so choose a color. Any color you choose, but imagine it all one color. This

represents the oneness. This is all you. This is your mind. Together they make up you.

Your mind, conscious mind and subconscious mind, and I want you now to imagine that your

subconscious mind, the bottom of the iceberg is feeding energy up toward the top, toward the

conscious mind to enhance it, to make it more powerful, to give it more information, to

increase your memory, your ability to both recall information and to store it in the first place,

because this all has to do with retrieval. Your conscious mind retrieves information from your

subconscious mind.

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So imagine the bottom of the iceberg sending up energy toward the top now to help it, to

enhance it, to improve it. That’s right, and as you continue relaxing, just imagine this process

continuing, your conscious mind being enhanced by your subconscious mind and realize the

connections between the two becoming more powerful so you’re able to retrieve information

more easily from your subconscious mind.

You’re also able to program your subconscious mind more easily with your conscious mind

cause they’re connected and the connection’s becoming more powerful now, much more

powerful with every word I speak that connection becomes more powerful and it stays that

way.

It stays that powerful and every day it becomes more powerful, and in just a few moments

you’re going to return from this brief meditation designed to enhance your conscious mind

and when you do you’ll be wide awake and full of natural energy, so coming up now to the

count of three, so that by the time I reach that final number you’ll be wide awake and full of

natural energy, ready to enjoy your day, the rest of your day.

It’s the end of your day, and you’re ready to unwind and relax, but either way you have a

renewed sense that you are a very powerful person and that your mind is very powerful and

works with itself to help you achieve your goals. You work with yourself. Alright, now coming

up very slowly so that by the time I reach the final number you’ll be wide awake and full of

natural energy.

One, coming up, feeling good. Full of natural energy. Feeling refreshed and rested. Two,

becoming more aware now. More aware of where you are, more aware of your surroundings,

beginning to move now, beginning to stir. At the count of the next number, you’ll be wide

awake, full of a natural energy, remembering everything that happened during this brief

session. Alright, now three, eyes open, wide awake.

Alright, now take about a half an hour before you do anything, before you drive a car, go for a

run or anything like that. Just relax for about a half an hour and as you do I’ve got some

information to share with you. We’re going to continue on now, module two, because I want

you to find and live your purpose.

That’s one of the things that’s really going to help enhancing your mind power pay off. When

you find your purpose and work toward it, you increase your happiness and as your happiness

increases, so does your consciousness. So I want you to realize that expressing gratitude is

very powerful. Expressing gratitude on a daily basis is a positive, fulfilling exercise and

practicing gratitude daily requires you to look at the things you’re grateful for.

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We all have them, and after you state the obvious things, food, shelter, car, job, health,

whatever you have, then you have to think a little more about the things that you’re grateful

for, and these might include flowers, sunny days, the smell of freshly cut grass or the smile of

the stranger.

As you continue to practice gratitude you become more aware of things which you can be

grateful, things that are already happening that you can be grateful for, and the more aware

you are the more conscious you are, and this is why it’s important to enhance your

consciousness.

Now, realize that also along the lines of why it’s important to enhance your consciousness is

because you’ll have increased self-awareness. Enhancing your consciousness is a big step

toward enhancing your mind overall, and to enhance your mind you must become more self-

aware.

Your senses become more attuned and your intuition becomes sharper and human behavior,

yours included, tends to make more sense. Also, being aware of your own blind spots is

important to a personal growth.

The more self-aware you are the easier it is for you to manifest your goals and dreams

because your conscious mind and your subconscious mind start working together. So

enhanced mental clarity is also something that is important when it comes to enhancing your

consciousness.

That’s why it’s important because you can also get enhanced mental clarity. Everything in your

life starts to make sense on a whole new level. It’s almost as if someone turned a dial and

sharpened the focus on your life. Problem solving, or challenge resolution as I like to call it,

becomes easier, and the challenges you faced before seem trivial and easy to overcome.

Now, interestingly, as you continue to practice consciousness you may notice periods of

confusion followed by bouts of clarity and that’s okay. This is because each time you shift your

beliefs, there’s a period of confusion where the mind catches up to this new leap in reality and

the more conscious you become the less often this happens.

What else happens? Why else is it important to enhance your consciousness? Well, emotional

mastery. Consciousness and emotional intelligence are closely related and the more conscious

you become, the more you begin to understand why you feel the way you feel.

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As you begin to understand your emotions, you find that you can control them and you start

to realize that with practice you can keep your mind focused on positive, happy thoughts and

as you focus you remain with positive and happiness and the thoughts that are positive and

the thoughts that are happy and the negative ones just slip away and your beliefs begin to

change, and as your limiting beliefs and negative beliefs fall away you make room for good

things and for joy to enter your life.

Starting to sound good, isn’t it? That’s right. That’s what you get when you start to work on

yourself. You also develop the ability to understand the emotions of others and you’re going

to develop a deep inner peace.

You’re going to feel centered, rooted, grounded, comfortable with yourself, comfortable with

others, comfortable with who you are, comfortable with who other people are, and although

meditation helps you feel this at first, without the practice of consciousness, the state is only

temporary. So consciousness and meditation work together to help you find this permanent

inner peace. Now there are other reasons also.

There are several more reasons to practice consciousness including improving your discipline,

improving your relationships, improving your health and fitness and determining your heart

centered powers such as courage and determination, also enhancing your consciousness helps

you manifest your dreams, so keep moving forward with this.

Now, in the next module, in module three, I’m going to share with you the idea that I have

about self awareness. This is something that’s become so powerful for me and I used to go to

meditation workshops and talk to yogis and gurus and so forth, and they would always talk

about self-awareness.

So I started to think, hmm, this must be really important if all of these spiritual people are

talking about self-awareness it must be really important. This was in the 1980s that IO really

go into this and it was.

It was tremendously important and it really paid off for me, so the next module I’m going to

share with you the ideas that I gathered since the 80s about self-awareness and how powerful

it can be for you in helping you design your life and gain mastery and enhance your mind

power.

So, join me in the next module as we talk about self-awareness, as you and I come to an

understanding together about how self-awareness, being aware of self-awareness can help

you. I’m Dr. Steve G. Jones, hoping you have an outstanding day.

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Module Three: Self Awareness

Welcome back, welcome to the module that's going to teach you about self awareness,

something that I learned so long ago. It's been so powerful for me that I want to share with

you right now.

So, first of all, what does it mean to be self aware? Self awareness means that you have an

understanding of who you are and how you relate to the world, you understand your

emotions and why you feel the way you do, and you understand other people's emotions and

how your actions influence their emotions and you develop empathy.

Self awareness requires you to be mentally and emotionally present in all situations and with

conscious self awareness comes the ability to control your emotions. You can choose to

respond to outside stimuli or you can choose to keep your emotions in check.

You understand what you like and what you don't like, an aspect that greatly improves your

relationships being mentally and emotionally present in all situations means that you are

conscious of not only yourself, and what you want or need at that moment, but you're

conscious of how your circumstances affect the world around you.

So, what are some of the things that affect our ability to be self aware? First of all, our

upbringing, this is one of the most influential pieces to our self awareness and almost anything

else. Let's take a moment to look at it.

We are taught to behave in certain ways, we're giving an understanding of what is right and

wrong. Our beliefs about money, for example, stem from how we were raised. If your parents

believed that money was short and constantly told you that you couldn't do something

because there wasn't enough money in the budget, then you might develop limiting beliefs

and stop yourself from rising above what you know.

On the other hand, if you grew up with money, as they say, your perception may be that

money is always available and there's no need to stress or focus on lack. In either case the

emotional focus of your conscious mind feeds information to your subconscious mind, and

belief is developed.

Now, the belief that there is never enough money is constantly met by the consciousness and

subconscious mind because the subconscious mind works to make your reality match your

beliefs. It doesn't distinguish between positive and negative.

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However, if you hold the belief in financial abundance, then you find it easier to come by

money than someone who constantly focuses on lack. You know my good friend Joe Vitale has

really helped me quite a bit with this and helped me clean up a lot of the language I use with

myself and a lot of the focus that I have in life.

You know you can always focus on this or that, on the "good", "bad", on how some things are

going to work out of how something's not going to work out and Joe has really helped shape

the way I talk to myself about what might happen or the future or what I look at or what I

don't look at because really, we don't know what's going to happen but we can create, in

some cases, what happens by focusing on it.

If you keep focusing on the gloom and doom, that can happen. If you keep focusing on what

might happen that's great, well that could happen. You can influence your environment

because the way you think is going to guide your actions in many cases. So becoming more

self aware in this regard has really helped me a lot.

Now I also want you to realize the media effects our self awareness. This one is perhaps one of

the most dangerous because we often tie our self worth to those images the media provides.

So, some of the things that effect our ability to be self aware, we've got to add in the media.

The media tells us what we should look like, what we should wear and what we either live up

to or don't live up to. How well we are doing in terms of looking like, what we're supposed to

look like and acting like what we are supposed to act like, whether we are attractive or not

and young people develop body issues because self esteem issues are tied into what the

media puts out there.

They lose their ability, young people lose their ability to fully understand their place in the

world because of these images they're seeing of how they should look, what they should be

like and lack of self awareness leads to low self esteem and often depression.

So how do you know if you have self awareness issue? Well, one of the best ways to tell if you

have an issue with this, yourself awareness, is to notice if others are always to blame for your

misfortunes. For example, do you blame your parents for a lack of money skills?

Do you blame your boss for passing you over for that promotion? Do you blame your spouse

when things go wrong at home or your significant other. Another trait those with self

awareness issues have is the inability to give and receive apologies.

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Now, this isn't a permanent condition. If you notice this in yourself, realize that you can

change it in an instant just by desiring to change and doing things differently. Now, a person

who is unable to accept apologies will often believe the person apologizing isn't sincere and

they will expect that that person that continues apologizing and they will bring it up again and

again.

This person doesn't understand what is meant by accepting an apology and moving on. As a

result they damage relationships because of their need to rehash old arguments and these

individuals rarely apologize themselves, even when they should. If they do apologize, it's not a

real apology because they don't believe they have done anything wrong.

Now I'm talking about "them" as if it's "those" people, well, from time to time we can all fall

into that category. So if you find yourself in this category, the key to this module - the key to

life, is becoming self aware, realizing what's going on and taking steps to change it. So, how do

you become more self aware? "Hey Dr. Steve, the self awareness stuff sounds great, how do I

get more of it?"Let's go ahead and talk more about that. Well, self reflection is the first step to

becoming self aware.

You have to stop and really examine each situation for what it is, your behavior, their

behavior, what happened, you have to be willing to admit that you might have been wrong.

Some activities help with reflection, include meditation, yoga, qigong, or walking in nature.

Ask your friends to share their frustrations with you, you can learn a lot by just listening to

your friends and do your best to not interrupt while they are talking. Listen and take in

everything they say and then go back later and reflect on their comments. Over time you're

going to see how your behavior makes other people feel. Also, practice consciousness,

become more self aware.

The most effective way to become self aware is to practice consciousness because these two

go together hand in hand. There are many ways to practice consciousness, including

meditation, practicing gratitude, and connecting with nature. So, keep this in kind.

Now, how does being self aware help you enhance your mind power? Getting back to what

this program's all about. The more aware you are of what you want the more your mind

power can help you achieve it and one of the biggest reasons people struggle to manifest their

dreams is because they don't know what they want.

Let's face it, if you're looking for a house or a car or a significant other you don't really know

what you want. Well how is the universe supposed to provide anything? How is a Realtor, or a

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car sales person, or your social groups supposed to provide anything if you're not clear about

what you want?

If you have a vague notion but not a specific enough emotion to know what you really want

then that's not really going to help you much. Through conscious self awareness you can

determine what you want so your subconscious has a clear goal to work toward. Realize that

self awareness helps you overcome limiting beliefs that hold you back.

Most people have had or still have a limiting belief in their life. Hey, they come up from time-

to-time, even for me, of course I'm not above any of this. From time-to-time that happens for

me, limiting beliefs are those beliefs that really aren't true but we still believe them despite

the fact that they are holding us back from our dreams.

Fear that there's not enough money to go around is a limiting belief, fear of success is a

limiting belief. The idea that people always cheat is a limiting belief. The idea that somehow

you aren't good enough is a limiting belief. None of these are true. You can make them true in

your mind, but they're not true in and of themselves. Once you are self aware enough to

figure out what your limiting beliefs are, well then you can start to overcome them.

So what I'd like to do right now is a meditation session with you just designed to make sure

you are on board with everything so far. We've talked about a lot of information so far. We've

talked about the subconscious mind, the conscious mind, and self awareness. I want to make

sure these ideas and concepts, that you really own them deep down inside. I'm talking about

in your subconscious mind.

So, let's go ahead and do a meditation session. You know the drill, if you're driving or

operating a bicycle or anything that requires you to be fully aware and doing things, don't

listen to the rest of this module now, listen to it later and move on to the next module for

now, because this is not something you listen to while you are doing things, for the rest of this

module.

The rest of this module is something you can listen to when you're relaxed, when you're

sitting in a chair where you're stable so if you were to lean to the left or the right you'd stay in

the chair or you're lying down on a bed or the floor or on the sofa, somewhere where you are

stable and no one's going to bother you.

So, this time we're going to do a little bit of a longer session. We've been doing about five

minutes or so, this one is going to be about ten minutes. So I want you to make sure you have

time to do this also.

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So, my understanding is if you are still listening to this you are not doing anything else, except

sitting or lying down and listening to my voice, you have about ten minutes to do this where

no one is going to bother you. If you are doing anything else than please stop listening to this

recording, go on to the next module and come back to this one when you are sitting or lying

down.

There's not going to be any additional information at the end of this so you're not going to

miss anything if you skip to the next module, but it's just a meditation session designed to

really help you own the information so far about the conscious mind, the subconscious mind,

and self awareness.

All right, so what I'd like you to do is close your eyes if you're still listening, and just focus

inward. That's right, just relax your mind, focus inward, and as you do this I'm going to be

silent and every now and then I'm going to come back in and give you some words that are

going to guide you in this meditation. Guide you along the process of meditation on the

concepts you have learned so far.

So I want you now to focus on the information you've learned about the subconscious mind,

what your subconscious mind is. Remember auto suggestion? The idea of giving your subs

conscious mind information to help you develop specific beliefs. Remember auto inquisition?

Similar to auto-suggestion except that you ask your subconscious mind questions rather than

giving it information.

Visualization, the process of seeing images in your conscious mind. Remember the idea of

listening to classical music, that's right you can do this to enhance your ability to tap into the

power of your mind. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart.

Remember the idea of the morning session 15-20 minutes of listening to solo piano music

such as Mozart or Beethoven while visualizing your goal? Remember the idea of the suggested

afternoon session, 15-20 minutes of string music such as Bach or Handel while you work on

auto-inquisition.

Remember the idea of suggested evening sessions? Writing two to three affirmations that you

were to work on, write them down or speak them out loud while looking in a mirror and

repeating those two to three affirmations several times to help you commit them to memory.

Remember the idea of working on your conscious mind, the conscious mind analyzes the

received data from the perceptions and beliefs it has, the average person remember thinks

about 60 thousand thoughts per day.

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Think about that, how powerful your mind is and remember you can enhance your

consciousness by focusing on truth, connecting with nature and meditating. Remember all the

things that you are working on developing, increased self awareness, increased mental clarity,

increased emotional mastery, inner-peace. Think about these things now and then remember

what we talked about self awareness, what it means to be self aware.

Self awareness means that you have an understanding about who you are and how you relate

to the world. Remember the things that affect your ability to be aware, things that you are

taught, things that you hold as beliefs. But all of these things can be changed, they're just

perceptions you received. Remember how important it is to understand what you have taken

into your mind, how the media can affect you. You need to be aware of what's going into your

mind.

Remember self reflection? It's the first step to becoming self aware. Remember you need to

start talking with your friends, practice consciousness, become self aware. Remember how

important it is to know what you want. Focus on that now. Remember to let go of limiting

beliefs.

That's right, focus on some limiting beliefs that you can let go of right now. You are going to

remember all of this information, all of this information will be readily available for you. You're

going to have access, full access to all of this information, all of this information is yours.

All right now, at the count of three you will come out of this meditation session and when you

do you'll be wide awake and full of natural energy, remembering everything that you have

absorbed during this program and everything you absorb during this meditation session.

Coming up very slowly to the count of three, so that by the time I reach that final number you

will be wide awake and full of natural energy.

One, coming up feeling very good, full of natural energy. Two, coming up even more now,

beginning to move, beginning to stir, becoming very aware of where you are, very aware of

your surroundings. When I count to the next number you'll be wide awake, completely out of

meditation and feeling wonderful. All right now and three, eyes open, wide awake and before

you do anything I want you to take about half an hour to just relax.

This would be a great time to write down some notes, we've covered so much material so far.

The subconscious mind, the conscious mind, and being self aware I want you to capture some

ideas. There must be some powerful ideas at this point that have come to your mind. Ways

that you can change your life and enhance it. I want you to write them down now.

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So take this opportunity to either write them out long hand or type them or use voice

dictation, however you can capture them, get those ideas down because those ideas are very

precious.

They're golden, they're going to yield some very powerful results for you, emotionally,

spiritually, financially, every aspect of your life. So capture those ideas, those are ideas coming

from you, that you generated, based on the ideas that I gave you, but they are your ideas so

capture them.

In the next module we're going to talk about concentration. This has been very valuable for

me in separating myself from a lot of other people and I want you to have this skill, this

power. If you can concentrate you can get a lot done. By concentration I've created thousands

of hypnosis recordings.

By concentration, I've gotten through graduate school, by concentration I've built a business

that helps people by providing them with tools such as this program that enhance their lives.

So concentration has been very powerful for me and I want you to understand this so that's

what we'll talk about in the next module. I'm Doctor Steve G. Jones, hoping you have an

outstanding day.

Module Four: Concentration

Welcome back, welcome to the module that's going to teach you about something that has

been so powerful for me in so many areas of my life, concentration. So, let's jump right in with

a definition of what is concentration. Well, concentration refers to taking your mind off of

many things, focusing it on one thing.

So think about how children learn to use a magnifying glass to light up a piece of paper on fire,

the sun is powerful and on a hot, sunny day we can feel the warmth. But, if you concentrate

the sun's rays you can light a piece of paper, that's what concentration in our minds is like.

We pick one goal and we focus on it with precision. It is a skill that allows you to be able to

focus on one thing at a time, it teaches you to exclude everything else from your awareness.

Like all skills, concentration must be practiced.

So, how does concentration help you enhance your mind power? Well, when you focus your

mind you conserve your energy and you don't spread it around to things that don't matter. If

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your goal is to earn an extra five thousand dollars per month, for example, you should focus

on things that will help you get there.

You should focus on gaining new clients, for example, if you are in business. Or updating your

website, if you have a web-based business or attending networking events if you want to get

more clients from people you're introduced to, or including advertising in your budget. You

shouldn't be thinking about the new car that you want to buy because that decreases your

income each month.

So, thinking about a car to buy is great but when you are focusing on that one thing of

increasing your monthly income without decreasing it you need to get focused. So pick one

goal to work on at a time so you can conserve your energy and manifest your goals more

quickly. So, let's get you clear right now.

We're not going to do a visualization for this. I'm just going to get you really clear or I should

say I'm going to assist you as you get yourself really clear. So, what are your goals? What are

your goals? Think about it right now, while you are doing something, as you listen to me, just

think about your goals. What are your goals? What do you want to work on?

Think about your top three goals. If you don't have any, just make some up right now. Make

some up. They can be short term or long term, maybe your goal is to walk across the street.

Maybe your goal is to graduate from college, maybe your goal is to start a business, they can

be anything, anything you want. Maybe your goal is just to get up tomorrow morning and get

dressed, it doesn't matter. We're just using this as an exercise.

So, think of three goals right now. Now I want you to let go of two of them, two of them

certainly are not as important as the other one, there's got to be one that really stands out,

one that gets you excited. One that you really want to work on, one that stands out at least

above the other two.

So think about that one right now. I want you to just think about the things related to it. Why

do you even want that goal? What is it about that goal that gets you excited? Is it because

somebody else wants you to do it? Well, that's really not compelling.

Hopefully it's because you want to do it or if it's because somebody else wants you to do it at

least hopefully you see the benefits of it. Think about that right now, what about that goal

gets you excited? Maybe just getting it over with gets you excited, and that's fine. What about

it really gets you excited, think about that.

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All right, now as you're doing that, what are you doing? You're focusing, you're blocking out

things and this may seem like a very straight forward way to do things, but that's really what

concentration is all about. That has made the difference for me, that ability to pair down to

something I want to focus on right now.

Now, when you really do this, not just with little examples you are thinking of, maybe you

thought about getting up and getting dressed tomorrow, or getting across the street, just

picking little goals so you can go through the exercise.

When you really think about this, when you really think about your goals and the things you

are working on, picking one and focusing on that, well that can be challenging at first.

Because, let's face it, this is life, you can get all kinds of things done. You can make all kinds of

things happen. You have the freedom and the ability in your mind and in your actions to do

things, to get things done.

So, picking one of those things can be a bit challenging, but I want you to work on this, and the

best way to work on this is by picking little examples like I've shown you, just picking little

goals and you pick the best one, the one you want to focus on, the best one, meaning the one

you really like the most.

What you are going to find is that by doing this, by doing this, by doing this, you exercise,

exercise, exercise that muscle of focus and when you do that enough, then when it comes to

the big things that really matter you are able to focus.

This is what allows you to do things like pick a house or pick a car or pick a major in college, or

pick the type of person you want to be with. You are able to do this because of that power of

concentration.

Now, I want you to realize that focusing your energies makes you more efficient, it allows you

to be proactive rather than reactive. Or worse, inactive. Now, if your energies are scattered

around several goals or even several challenges then you are constantly reacting to the latest

thing that's happening. You're not in control of your life or your goals in that situation.

You're also not handling things efficiently because you're jumping around from one

emergency to the next rather than focusing on the most efficient way to handle each

situation. So take one goal or challenge at a time, and focus your energy on that first.

Now, I'm not saying make the challenges in your life all disappear except for one because I

realize that you may be facing a few things that are really important, I understand that. What

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I'm talking about is taking a few moments to focus on just one, getting some kind of action

plan together or taking some action toward resolving it or pushing it further along before you

focus on something else.

So even if you've got a few things going on simultaneously, which most of us do, you can still

use this, because if you take a few moments and focus on just one thing and work out a plan

to get it to the next level and then focus on the next thing, you become far more efficient.

Now you are using your energy in a productive way.

Now I want you to realize that concentration has many positive benefits which also attribute

to enhancing your mind power. First of all your ability to comprehend things increases. Your

memory can significantly improve.

Your listening skills can improve and when these skills are strong, these concentration skills

you are developing, your mind obeys you more readily. So enhancing your mind power

requires over-coming limiting beliefs and when the conscious and the subconscious mind are

on the same page the mind power increases. Y

ou see how important it is that we talk about the conscious mind and the subconscious mind

already so we've laid some groundwork for you to do this and when you can fully concentrate

on one thing at a time with no outside thoughts intruding in then you are in control of your

mind, and when you're in control of your mind it's easier to get your conscious mind and your

subconscious mind on the same page.

So, how do you improve your concentration? Well, meditation is one of the best ways for

improving concentration and fortunately I've been taking you through several meditation

exercises so you know how it's done. You know how easy and straight forward it is. Proper

meditation requires you to focus on your breathing.

So when you do it yourself I want you to focus on your breathing. When you're really getting

into meditation I want you to focus on your breathing. Now when you're just starting out

random thoughts are going to pop into your mind. Perhaps in the meditation exercises if you

did them in the previous modules, perhaps random thoughts were popping in your mind and

that's okay, that's normal.

Because when you're first starting out with meditation, especially if you're doing it yourself

and you don't have a guide like myself guiding you through it, random thoughts can pop into

your mind and that's okay, that's going to happen.

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When I sit down to meditate random thoughts pop in my mind because I'm going from living

my life to sitting down and meditating, so I've got some random thoughts, some residual

thoughts, things that I was working on, it takes a while for those to calm down.

It just takes a few moments for me, when you first start meditation it may take a little longer,

and that's okay. You simply acknowledge the thoughts and gently pull your focus back to your

breath and over time the random thoughts stop coming. They will stop come in the beginning

but they will taper off more quickly, stop coming more quickly and then you can be in full

control of your mind.

So rather than walking you through a meditation session where you clear your mind I want

you to do that for your homework. I want you to do that all by yourself. Remember, focus on

your breathing. It can be something as simple as what I taught you. Breathing in through your

nose, holding it, opening your mouth slightly and exhaling slowly. Or you can get into rhythmic

breathing.

For example, breathing in to the count of three, hold to the count of three, and exhaling to the

count of three, using your own number that works there. Maybe you breathe in more slowly

so you want to increase that number. Maybe you breathe in more quickly so you want to

decrease that number. It's okay however you do it.

Just make sure you're allowing yourself enough oxygen and not rushing yourself and not

holding it too long. Doing something that's natural for you and then once you're in the that

focused state, once those thoughts, those random thoughts that play out, and you're relaxed,

then you can work on whatever it is that you want to work on.

But in this homework I want you to work on is getting to that point where you've cleared your

mind out. How do you do that? By forcing thoughts out? No. By thinking, "When are these

thoughts going to calm down?" No, but by just letting them play out. It's that simple. So again,

sitting down, eyes closed, make sure you're not doing anything else at the time.

Sitting or lying down in a safe, comfortable position, breathing in either rhythmically or just

deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth without any counting if you

want. Then allowing those thoughts to play out in your mind, whatever they may be.

Whatever thought may be going though your head, "

Oh I should do this, I didn't do that I wish I hadn't said that, I wish I had said this.", whatever

thoughts you have in your mind, let them play out and then you're going to find yourself in a

clear space in your mind, that's where I want you to get and that's all the homework is.

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Then, if you want to focus on something while you're there, go ahead. That would be extra

credit if you want to do that. Feel free. But I want you to avoid distractions while you are

concentrating.

Constant sensory input is one of the top reasons people struggle with concentration. Cell

phones, televisions, music, anything that can pull your focus away from your goal is

considered distracting sensory input. So minimize these distractions to improve your

concentration. Now at the same time I want to tell you some people really thrive on that, they

really like that. They like having the TV on and the music on, and doing a few things at once.

If that's what helps you, that's fine. This isn't the 1950s, I'm not going to sit there with a ruler

and hit your hand every time you do things the "wrong way". We're far more advanced now,

we realize now that some people have a way of concentrating and relaxing that's unique and

that's okay.

So if you're one of those people it's fine, embrace yourself, embrace your uniqueness. If you're

able to concentrate by having a lot of things going on, now if you can block them out and

focus on that one thing, even though they are playing in the background, then by all means,

do that. But the majority of people would really benefit from turning off the TV, turning off

the music, and just focusing on what's going on in their minds.

So, whatever works for you, do it. Also, taking breaks is very powerful. You know, corporate

America is inadvertently frying the attention spans, if you will, of people with productivity

goals that often keep employees chained to their desks.

But, studies show that when you take a break and move around a little you improve your

productivity after 20 minutes of sitting still your brain actually doesn't really shut off, but it

really starts to not focus the way it should, the way you want it to.

So, with that in mind, move around every 20 minutes or so. Work for 60 minutes for example,

and then take about 20 to 30 minutes break, if you can. Now if you can just get away for a

little while, it's fine. Any little break is better than nothing and if you're required to sit in a

chair, just looking around, spacing out a little bit can be very beneficial, believe it or not.

Now, I'm not encouraging you to do anything that's against any employee manual, you should

always follow the rules if you're working somewhere. But if you have the flexibility to do this,

then by all means do it. Because you are actually benefiting your employer as well and during

your break, however long it may be, go for a walk, if you have time to do that. Take deep

breaths.

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Drink some water. Do something other than focusing, focusing, focusing. Because we are not

machines, we're human and humans require a break every now and then. We require sleep,

computers don't require that, they can focus, focus, focus. They don't have to take breaks.

I heard about a computer recently that can process about two billion sets of information every

second which is more than any human has processed ever up to this point, couldn't process in

their entire lives and the realm in which this computer operates is poker playing actually.

So this computer is analyzing poker playing and can analyze two billion possible scenarios

every second which is more scenarios than a poker player encounters in their entire life. So,

we are not computers and that's okay. We're not attempting to be computers. If you push,

push, push, push, push yourself, you're not going to get up to the speed of a computer.

What you're going to do is burn yourself out and that's not what you want, so take breaks. Get

away, go for a walk, take deep breaths, drink some water, that actually improves your

concentration and when you take breaks you're going to feel recharged and more productive.

Also, learn techniques to increase your energy. While there are a few techniques, probably

countless techniques in fact, one that is easy for most people and very effective is double

breathing. Now if this doesn't work for you, that's fine, but I want to present it to you so you

can at least have a shot at it.

This technique was developed by Paramhansa Yogananda. Now you inhale a short, sharp

breath through your nose followed by a longer inhale through your nose that completely fills

your lungs. You notice that at first I took a short breath and then a longer breathe, filled my

lungs. Then, you exhale a short sharp breath through your mouth followed by a longer exhale

through your mouth, that releases the breath completely so it's like this.

Now this is designed to help oxygenate the blood to increase your energy. But, if you're new

to it take it slowly so you don't get dizzy and I want you to discuss this with your doctor before

doing this at all by the way.

All right so now you have my techniques for enhancing your concentration, use them, put

them to use. Make them work for you. Now in the next module we're going to talk about goal

setting because think about it, what good is concentration if you're not setting goals?

You've got to keep moving forward, you've got to keep thinking about the future, what's next,

what's next, what's next, so you can keep pulling yourself in the direction of success and this is

especially important after you have an initial success in something and you want to use the

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momentum to keep moving forward. So join me in the next module as we talk about the all

important idea of goal setting. I'm Doctor Steve G. Jones, hoping you have an outstanding day.

Module Five: Goal Setting

Welcome back. Welcome to the module that is going to teach you about goal setting. Hey, if

you don't have goals where are you going, and when are you going to get there? A goal is just

a really good idea of something you want to achieve, but it's got a deadline on it. It's got some

kind of time stamp on it so you know when you're supposed to finish it.

I'll tell you what. I've motivated many people who have worked for me just by coming up with

when it's due, or when the deadline is, because oftentimes there is no deadline. It doesn't

really matter when it's done. But if you want to get something done you've got to put a

deadline on it.

I do that for myself too. I create sometimes arbitrary deadlines because let's face it when

you're self-employed a lot of projects really don't ever have to get done. You can just do them

if you want to, or not do them. It's up to you.

So you really have to get very clear when you become self-employed about deadlines and goal

setting. So this module is not just for those who are self-employed. It's for everyone like

yourself who wants to get things done. Goal setting. Let's jump in.

Why is goal setting important? Well goals are what you use to move forward in life. They give

you purpose when all else seems meaningless. What are we doing in this situation? Why are

we doing it? Why are we putting up with this? Because we've got a goal. We've got some sort

of deadline. We've got some kind of reward we're working toward. Goals give you hope.

Setting goals provides you with focus also. We talked about concentration, same thing.

Goals give you concentration and focus when you set them. So in order to enhance your mind

power you have to develop your focus. One of the best ways to develop focus is to set goals.

You learn to focus on one goal at a time until you complete it, and then you can move onto

the next one.

Now as I've said before, that doesn't hold true for everyone. Some people like to have a lot of

things going on. So if you're a variation of what I'm saying and you know that, and you know

how to get things done a different way, by all means do that.

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I say do what works. But for most people it's really helpful to focus on one thing, get it done,

and then move on. This focus of one thing at a time strengthens your concentration, which is

an important part of enhancing your mind power.

Goals also allow you to measure your progress. Measuring your progress is necessary to keep

you motivated. Most people give up when they're not able to see results. It's one of the

biggest reasons people trying, I don't like that word, trying to lose weight get hung up on the

scale. The falling numbers represent progress.

So you're trying to do something [inaudible 2:37] of trying to do it for goodness sake. Just do

it. Let go of the idea of trying. If you're trying to do something you're kind of setting yourself

up for failure, aren't you? You know I could do it. Maybe I'll do it. Maybe I won't do it.

Maybe it will work out. Maybe it won't. But I'm just trying. No, that's an excuse word. You're

either doing something, or you're not doing something. But that's why people who are in the

process of losing weight get into the scale, because it's a number. That's why people who are

saving money get caught up in looking at numbers.

Now this is not a bad thing. When I say hung up and caught up, in these cases these are not

negative things. These are helpful things because they help you mark off little goals. I've lost X

amount of weight. Or I've gained X amount of money. But it is important that you look at

progress as a whole rather than just as bite size chunks. And we call this chunking down and

chunking up.

If you have a goal for the day, let's say your goal for the day is going to the mall. That's fine,

maybe there's something going on there. Well you can chunk it down by saying I've got to

wake up. I've got to put on clothes. I've got to eat breakfast. I've got to get in my car. I've got

to drive. I've got to find a parking spot. I've got to get out of my car. I've got to go into the

mall. That's chunking down into those bite size chunks.

Chunking up would be, perhaps I've got to prepare myself and I've got to go to the mall. So

we've chunked up. Now we've got two steps. So we can look at it any way we want. Whatever

works for us. But it's important that you look at the progress as a whole rather than just those

small chunks of each individual step.

Because what happens is if you're just looking at each individual step, and there happens to be

a step that you don't really like, that you find distasteful, maybe for example, you're going to

law school and you look at the step of preparing for a certain exam as a real pain, well if you

get caught up in looking at that and zooming in on it, what happens?

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Well you lose sight of the whole thing. The whole thing is you're going to law school. You're

going to graduate. You're going to have a career as a lawyer. Perhaps go into politics. Who

knows what will happen. Maybe you'll work for some very powerful wonderful corporations

that create wonderful amazing things.

But if you get hung up in thinking, oh I've got to do this thing right now, well that can take you

right out of the game. Right out of the big picture. So really both are important, but my advise

to you is when you find yourself down in the minute details and you're not really liking them,

which is going to happen from time to time, remember what's really going on. Remember how

this fits into a much bigger picture.

That's what really going to keep you motivated overall. So in the weight loss example, a

person relying on the scale to show a weekly decrease in weight, and hopefully there is overall

a decrease, they get frustrated when they hit a plateau for a couple weeks. What you have to

look at is the overall trend.

Same thing with investments. If you look at the stock market well any given week, or any given

day, or any given second, the stock market may be down. Maybe the stocks that you bought

are down. But overall if you look at time, overall you look at ten years, twenty years, thirty

years, overall the stock market does pretty well. So if you get caught up in oh my goodness

what's going on right this second, or right this week, you can lose track of the goal.

The overall goal in that sense being to outpace inflation. To make money overall so your

money retains its value and actually stays more valuable than it would be if it just sat

somewhere in a bank. Same thing goes for the highs. You know we're looking at the stock

market, or housing values, or anything like that, there are going to be spikes.

There are going to be times in your career when you're doing really well. There are going to be

times when your investments are doing well. There are going to be times when your weight

loss is doing well, really well. And there are going to be times when it's not.

But you have to look at overall trends. So let go of getting caught up in the highs and lows, and

look at what's really going on. What's the overall trend? That's what looking at goals in the big

picture way, chunking up, that's what that's all about. So I've learned this over the years, that

when I set my goals I really need to pay attention to what's going on. You know if you just look

at what's going on day to day, or week to week, you really lose track.

You can really get caught up in thinking you know I do really well financially, when really I've

only looked at December sales. Well December sales are usually pretty good unless you're

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selling houses. December sales are usually pretty good in retail, and that's usually where I find

myself looking when I'm talking about selling things.

When I'm talking about my programs, and my hypnosis CDs, and so forth. So usually we're

analyzing a retail type market. So if I just looked at December I'd think, oh my goodness I'm

doing really well. But if just looked at January for example, where sales are not so high, I might

think, oh I'm not doing so well. You have to look at an overall picture. Not only that, but you

have to look at how the trend is going over time, overall.

Are you making more money? In my case am I helping more people? Because the money I

make is a direct reflection of how many people I'm helping. So realize that goals hold you

accountable, even if only to yourself. They force you to take action, which is an important part

of enhancing your mind power. Also they force you to make choices, which test how much you

really want to achieve your goal.

So when given a choice between a healthy salad, or a piece of fried chicken, a clear goal to

lose weight will remind you why you should choose the salad. So although your goals make

you accountable only to yourself sometimes, you might find it helpful to tell your friends and

family and ask them to help hold you accountable. Hey if you have a goal and you state it to

yourself that's nice, but isn't that the easy way out? I mean if it doesn't work out, aren't you

really just trying?

But if you announce it to a few friends they might check on you in a few weeks. Hey how's that

goal going? You were going to buy that house. How's that going? You were going to get into

that school. How's that going? You were going to quit smoking. How's that going? They're

going to check in because they care about you. Not because they want to harp on you, but

because they care about you. So you can use that as leverage.

Take the risk, tell some people what you're working on. Unless it's a big secret, tell them what

you're working on. Allow them to do their job as friends and hold you accountable just as you

would do for them. You know think of it this way, when someone else is watching the clock for

you it creates a sense of urgency and need to make sure you get it done.

So you know that time is running out on your goal. You don't have forever. You have X amount

of time to do your goal, whatever it is. Even if you don't set an arbitrary goal, you have a

certain amount of time during which you can achieve that goal.

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Afterwards it's not going to be appropriate. It's not going to count. For example, if you were

going to go to a certain school, well you have your lifetime in which to do that. But that's still a

finite amount of time.

Usually goals are much shorter than that in the duration in which they have to be achieved. So

if you have someone helping you watch that clock, and say hey time is running out here, how's

that goal going? That creates the urgency that you need to drive yourself forward.

Subconsciously you don't want to let them down so you work hard to make sure you meet

that goal.

Now how can goal setting help enhance your mind power? That's what this program is about,

mind power. Well goals have a way of giving you a measure way to get your conscious mind,

and your subconscious mind, on the same page. They help reveal any limiting beliefs holding

you back. This helps you better understand your subconscious mind. So goals provide

motivation when you feel like giving up, which is going to happen from time to time.

You're going to wake up and say, well I just don't know. Well, you've got a goal. You do know.

It's time to get up and make it happen because you've got this overall goal. And enhancing

your mind power isn't always easy. Especially when you have years of limiting beliefs to

overcome.

So having goals that mean something to you, really mean something to you, is going to ensure

that you keep going and you stay focused. So setting positive goals and working toward them

is going to increase your conscious. Since mind power is the conscious mind and the

subconscious mind working together as you've already learned in this program, being aware of

your consciousness is part of enhancing your mind power.

Now to help develop your conscious you must be present in the moment, every moment. So

setting goals keeps you focused on the moment and it heightens your self awareness. So what

are the best ways to set goals?

Well first of all, how about making a linear list. Grab a paper and pen if you are able to right

now. If not then do this later. Now nobody uses a typewriter anymore, but you can use one if

you have one. Actually I heard Woody Allen used one well into his career.

You can get a computer and start typing in. You can dictate into something. It doesn't really

matter what you do, but they way I like to do it is grab a paper and pen, because for me that's

the most real. I know it's old school, but it's also the most real for me. It also gets all of my

senses moving.

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Because I've got kinesthetic, actually moving, my hand is moving. I can feel the paper and the

pen. I've got sight. I can see the words being written. I've got sound. I can say the words in my

mind and hear them back. So it really drills them in for me.

But however you want to record things, go ahead and do that if you're able to now. If not,

then do this later. And decide what you want your goals to be. Achievable goals are those that

are specific, simple, and easily measureable. So write those down.

What are some specific, simple, and easily measurable goals that you have? Once you've got

them written down, don't take too long on this just write down what comes to mind, you can

always do this later, you can always be more elaborate with your goals, once they're written

how about prioritizing them?

Deciding which one you want to work on first? That's easy. I want you to just give a first one a

number one next to it. The other ones get other numbers. So again, you're not deliberating

over this. You're just getting down some goals. Certainly you've got some things you want to

work on.

Write them down. Put the number one next to the top priority, and then they go downward in

priority from there. The second priority gets a two next to it, the third one in priority gets a

three next to it, and so forth.

Then what I want you to do, now if you can, later if you're busy now, if you're doing something

else that's fine, but I want you to mind map your goals. You know setting goals activate areas

of the brain associated with positive thinking and action. Mind mapping taps into your

creativity, gives you a visual of your goals.

So mind maps allow you to break your goals down into manageable goals and that stands as a

constant reminder. So, the center circle of a mind map is the goal that you're working toward.

For example, how about earning $5,000 per month. That would be in the center circle of your

mind map. So if you're drawing now, which hopefully you are or you will, you'd draw a circle

and put earning $5,000 a month. If that's your goal is.

Whatever your goal is. Your top goal. The outside circles are all the steps that you need to take

in order to reach that goal. But we're just dealing with your top goal right now. We can treat

each of them individually by going through a mind map for each. So the outside circles are the

steps that you'll need to take in order to reach the goal. Get more clients, advertise, update

your website if you're a freelancer.

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Whatever you do, whatever your goal is, these things matter because they're going to

determine your steps when you put those in the rings, in the circles, around that center circle.

So as you go out, they go backwards in time. For example, the furthest one out is going to be

the one you do first, and as you get closer to the goal those are going to be the ones you do

later. So closer to the center means they happen later on, they happen closer to achieving the

goal.

You can also have subcategories for each of those if you like. So for example, perhaps your

steps along the way have sub-steps in them. So they can each get their own mind map, each

of those steps. For example, if your goal is to make $5,000 a month and one of your steps

along the way is to get more advertisers, well maybe if you need more people advertising for

you, you've got to go out and find them, and you've got to talk to them about advertising for

you.

Then you've got to make sure that they're doing that. So that becomes a mind map of its own.

That's a sub-mind map, and you do it the same way. The center becomes getting more

advertisers. The steps away from it, the circles going out from it, are going backwards in time.

Where as they get closer to the center they're going forward in time as you get closer to that

goal of getting them on board and getting them to do what they need to do.

So the key is to put in color once you've got this. Break them down into images and words.

Then you can put it where you can see it. So the reason I say the key is to do that is because

you can see the progress. If you're visual at least, you can see the progress.

So you put in color and break them down with images and words. In other words, you can

make this as elaborate as you want. You can put in different colors, for example maybe the

outside ring is purple, and the next ring is green, and so forth. Put in colors. You can also use

those colors to link certain parts of the mind map that are related in a certain way.

You can use these colors however you want. You can also put in images and words in the

circles. Perhaps getting advertisers is a billboard, a picture of a billboard you found it in a

magazine. You cut it out and put it on there.

In this case you of course you need the rings to be wide enough to put that on there, and you

would need to put it on some kind of paper that's big enough, or a poster board that's big

enough, so that you can actually paste things to it. So you can elaborate with it if you want. Or

if you want to be concise you can just use the words themselves, or the sentences.

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You can do it however you want. Now for me the key is the colors. I like the colors because

you can go from one to the other, and you can feel like you graduated. Sort of like going

through karate for example, or any other martial arts.

You graduate by going through different belts. You work your way up a graduated scale, and

as you do that you feel good about yourself. So that's why I say that's the key because for me

that is the key. The different colors represent moving forward. But for you it may be

something different.

Maybe pictures, or maybe just the words, and that's fine. The key is you want to get these

down, and you want to start using the mind map. A lot of people make it very difficult to use a

mind map when they're actually very easy and you can customize them. So go ahead and

create your own, and enjoy it, and use it, and use them over and over.

When I say over and over I mean once you achieve that goal move onto the next goal. Keep

using mind maps. Not that you're continuing to achieve the same goal, but that you're

continuing to use mind maps to achieve all of your goals.

Because what happens after you achieve goal number one on your list? Well you move on to

goal number two and keep moving forward. Hey, some of them are going to take longer to

achieve than others and that's fine. You give them the time they now.

All right. So now you understand goals. In the next module we're going to talk about enhanced

creativity. Something that's very powerful, but again often overlooked. Because if you're

getting into all this goal setting and conscious mind working together, subconscious mind

working together, and you're getting into moving forward and tapping at your mind power,

something that's going to be very powerful for you is enhancing your creativity.

So we're going to talk about that in the next module. So get excited and get ready to join me

in that module. I'm Dr. Steve G. Jones. Hoping you have an outstanding day.

Module Six: Enhanced Creativity

Welcome back, welcome to the module that’s going to teach you how to enhance your

creativity. Let’s jump right in! First of all, what is creativity? Well creativity is characterized by

an individual’s ability to perceive the world in new ways!

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Some definitions of the world insists that only individuals with original ideas are creative. Truly

not true. Everyone is creative. Even people who take existing ideas and make them different!

Creativity sprints far and wide in this artistic community world that we live in. Artist and

writers create images and stories from their imaginations. They look at the world in different

ways and they ask “what if we present the world with options?”

But creativity is not limited to just the artistic world. Creativity is important in all areas!

Businesses uses creativity to find new ways of drawing an audience in. Truck drivers use

creativity to keep themselves entertained on the road. Children use creativity to play with one

another. Creativity can happen at anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

I use creativity in my business. We've always got to find new ways to help people. You know

it’s interesting. When I was a kid the educational system was a certain way. Now it’s different.

When I was a kid the workforce was a certain way. When I was a young kid, say my early teens

and just starting to work. The workforce was one way, now it’s different.

Now we have people who are going into work spaces that are open. No more cubicles,

everything’s open. Sometimes flexible hours. People can work at home. Back in my day when I

first started working.

Working at home didn't really work unless you had a telemarketing job because there was no

internet vastly available to everyone. Now there is. People can work from home. They can

work remotely. They can work from just about anywhere.

So things have changed quite a bit. That brings up the idea of marketing. You know

marketing’s changed quite a bit. The way we have to creative in getting our ideas out there.

Also the way we have to be creative in delivering information to people.

When I started hypnotherapy there were just cassette tapes. You made a cassette tape and

you can deliver your information on a cassette tape. A hypnosis recording on a cassette tape.

Then came CDs and then Mp3s and who knows what’s next. Always changing. So that requires

us to be creative.

My sound engineers have to be creative in keeping up with technology because not only is it

that you had cassette and CDs and Mp3s and so forth but you also have different ways that

those are played by people.

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Different ways that people get that information. Mp3 can be played in a variety of different

ways on different devices so there has to be some creativity in creating the recording so that

they look right on every possible player. For example the artwork that’s on them.

If it looks strange because it’s on a device we’re not aware of, that’s not good. We have to

step up, we have to be creative. We have to figure out how it’s going to look right on this new

device. So this is constantly changing which is actually very wonderful but I also have to use

this in my business life and my personal life as well. Think about entertainment.

Things that you do in your personal life, playing video games. Going to the movies. You know,

these things have changed over time. You have to understand the creativity even if you’re not

involved in producing it you have to understand it you have to understand there are ways to

play movies now that don’t involve going to the movie theater or getting a VHS tape or even a

DVD. You can play them on a computer, you can play them on smart phones. You can play

them any number of ways.

Keeping up with things is part of what having a creative mind is all about not only innovating

but also keeping up with what the world is doing and embracing that rather than shying away

from it. Rather than sticking to owning a cassette player and stepping up and owning what’s

the latest and greatest and most interesting.

That’s one of the things that I've noticed is that as I get older I have a tendency to think hmm

do I need that next thing. Do I need that new thing? Well guess what happens if I don’t get it. I

lose touch a little bit. I lose touch with consumers I lose touch with people in the world who

are using those things so I do my best to stay up to date with the latest technology to make

sure I’m getting the latest phone and the latest car and so forth.

That really helps me stay in touch with people and the way they’re thinking. The current

thinking of the day. That creative cutting edge really keeps me sharp because I’m in touch with

what’s going on and if you’re in touch with what’s going on, then you can apply that to your

life. I’m not saying always get the newest car or the newest phone, I’m not saying that.

I get a lease on a car every two years so I stay relatively up to date on that. So what I am

saying is that if you make an effort to understand the world around you and the way

technology is changing over time especially over time as you get older. Let’s face it. No matter

how old you are, you’re getting older. We all are and that’s okay. We’re all in this journey

together.

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We’re all in this train together and that’s fine. But as we progress down the tracks we need to

realize that it really helps to stay up to date with what’s going on. So let’s talk about staying in

that zone and let’s talk about what people call staying in flow.

So what is flow and how does it relate to creativity? Well according to positive psychology

flow is an optimal state of consciousness in which you feel your best and perform at your best.

Typically occurs when you’re doing something you love and you’re in the zone.

So during flow ego and to an extent self-awareness melt away. You become focused on the

activity for its own sake. Flow has been linked to enhanced activity and performance across a

wide range of activities. So ego is a primary block of creativity. Many people second guess

themselves or second edit themselves or self-edit ideas.

They really get into this idea of oh I wrote that but I don’t know if that’s really what I want to

say. I could be pushing it a little bit. I don’t know if the world is ready for that. You know,

thoughts like that or I could have said that better or no I should redo that.

You can get caught up in that paralysis by analysis but when people go with the flow. When

they stay in that zone. You know, taking on creative ideas, staying up to date with things and

getting into things that they really enjoy, well inhibitions fall away and the ego dissolves itself

to the creative side that rises up from within.

I don’t want to get too carried away here, creatively if you will, but these are the kinds of

thoughts I get when I think about this. That ego just melting away and the creative spirit

coming, shining through, coming up from within.

You know you tend to bury that, don’t you? Sometimes in your day to day life? Well if you let

it shine through, that’s where flow really is. This is why artists sometimes seem so unfocused.

They can actually be very focused but seem unfocused because they’re focused on their own

work.

They may not be focused on what you’re saying or what the rest of the world is doing in that

moment but they get focused right then and there on what they’re doing. So flow has a

physical effect on people as well.

It causes a person to brainwaves that are brainwaves can shift from the rapid beta waves of

the waking consciousness to the slower alpha waves and then in some cases to theta waves

and this relaxed state opens up creativity and taps into the subconscious.

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It’s in this state which lucid dreaming is possible and it’s where the conscious mind and

subconscious mind can meet! During that state of flow the prefrontal cortex becomes

deactivated. This is the area of the brain responsible for higher level cognition including

cognition that cultivates the ego. Shutting this part of the brain down temporarily allows

creativity to flow freely without the ego stepping in.

So flow states trigger the release of certain things in the body, they also trigger the release of

some chemicals. Some of which you may be interested in.

Flow state triggers the release of dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, and endorphins,

things that make you feel good. Flow helps you enhance your mind power by engaging both

the conscious and subconscious mind flow actually allows the two to meet and work together.

When both parts of the mind are on the same page so to speak well your mind power

increases and that’s what this program is all about.

As your mind power increases, manifesting your goals becomes much easier so how do you

enhance a state of flow. Do something that interests you. Maybe your things isn’t keeping up

with latest technology. That’s okay.

Flow comes naturally out of things that you are intrinsically interested in. Naturally interested

in, things you gravitate towards, things that get you pumped up. If the task is work-related and

not really part of your passion than how about finding elements of the work that excites you.

In other words you can get into the flow state even doing something that you don’t

necessarily think you enjoy.

Achieving a state of flow requires an interest in the topic at some level. At some point there

has to be some interest. So set aside time when it’s quiet where you can be productive. Some

people prefer peace and quiet so that they can get into their own minds.

Some people prefer music while working. We’ve discussed this in previous modules, that’s

fine. Either is fine. As long as you’re not distracted by what’s going on and choose a time

when you’re most productive. Perhaps in the morning or late at night when everyone’s asleep.

Whenever it is for you. And schedule your flow time around your most productive time.

Whatever time that happens to be for you.

Avoid interruptions and distractions. Turn off your phone, your television and any other

electronic equipment you don’t need. You know humans are creatures of habit and you

condition your mind to start thinking creatively the minute you step into your space so set up

a space that’s used only for your creative work and over time just entering that space is going

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to trigger your brain and get it ready to move in to the flow state and when you’re doing this

focus as long as you can.

Getting in to a state of flow requires losing yourself into the world. So in order to get lost you

have to focus. Isn’t that interesting? Just like the artist. When you’re focusing starting out

focusing you may only be able to focus for five or ten minutes.

Its fine, Keep practicing. Keep moving forward. Remember that finding the flow is about the

process not the outcome and although the flow does lead to creativity you can block yourself

if you focus on that alone so flow is about feeling good in the process.

Focus on the moment and not on what you hope to accomplish from it. Don’t get all caught up

in oh I’m working on this I’ve got to do this, I’ve got to do that. Kind of like meditation people

think I’ve got to meditate to try and relax. Got to relax. Got to relax. What happens? They get

themselves out of relaxation when they do that.

Flow is about the feeling. Feeling good in the process. Focus on the moment. Not on your

goals in that moment. The process of unlocking your creativity is all tied up in enhancing your

mind power so tap into that and as they say, go with the flow.

Alright now that we’ve talked about creativity and mind power lets really understand and I

want to make sure you understand how important creativity is. Think about people like

Einstein using his creativity.

He was the first to admit that he is a creative person he’s tapping into his creativity. He’s the

type of person who would use his creativity to bring forth his ideas rather than getting caught

up in the nuts and bolts of things, he understood the importance of his creative side.

Look at all the great artist who ever existed and ever will exist there are clearly creative but it’s

interesting when we compare the sciences to the art. Those who really stand head and

shoulders above their peers are the ones who use their creativity such as Einstein.

Not just the ones who showed up and did what they were supposed to do which is always

wonderful, but the ones who stood above that. The ones who are outstanding. The ones who

moved beyond that. The ones who stepped out of the box. I know that’s cliché but they really

did they moved out of the confinements of the day.

That’s what allows us to be discovered. That’s what allowed relativity special relativity and

after the work of Einstein came the quantum theory and who knows what will be next as we

continue to move forward but these required people who would think about the next step

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Einstein didn’t like quantum theory because as he said god doesn’t play dice with the

universe.

Nowadays we really need to accept the idea that quantum theory, as random as it seems

really helps to get things done it really explains a lot of the universe. A lot of the things that we

think are set may actually be random and the numbers work out.

This all required people to think outside of their normal thinking the way that everyone is

thinking. They stepped outside of that so I really encourage you as you look into enhancing

your mind power that you look into other program’s products, activities, groups, etc. that will

help you enhance your creativity.

Creativity is one of the most essential components, the most powerful components of

enhancing your mind power. With it you can move mountains. Without it, well you have kind

of become stuck where you are and that’s not what I want for you. What I want for you is for

you to move forward to move mountains and do what you want to do and share your gifts

with the world so really look into that. I really want you to work on enhancing your creativity.

Alright, well you have been a trooper. You are moving forward. I’m very proud of you. You just

finished module 6 and you've got seven and eight to go. So guess that that means? That

means you’re three quarters of the way through this program. So keep moving forward.

In the next module, module seven, I’m going to talk about the power of your thoughts. Your

thoughts are so powerful. They’re something you can take control of. They’re not something

that you have to wait for, something you have to hope someone else will do for you, or give to

you or find you worthy of doing for you or any of that.

Thoughts are within your control no matter who you are, you have control of your thoughts.

That’s great news. I’m going to share with you in the next module how you can enhance your

mind power through the power of your own thought. Something you already have. A tool that

you have that perhaps you didn't even know you have that you can use.

I’m going to teach you how to use them in the next module so join me for module seven that

will talk about the power of your thoughts. I’m Doctor Steve G Jones, hoping you have an

outstanding day.

Module Seven: The Power of Your Thoughts

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Welcome back. Welcome to the module that's going to teach you about something you

already have though you may not know it: the power of your thoughts. That's right, your very

own thoughts. Take the thoughts you're already thinking and learn how to harness that

power.

Mind power is one of the strongest, most useful powers that you possess and this power

consists of your thoughts, actions, and words. Your thoughts become words, words become

actions, and your actions become habits. Positive thoughts become positive habits while

negative thoughts become negative habits, so your predominant thoughts control the

outcome of your life.

These thoughts influence your behavior and attitude. They control your actions and your

reactions. They develop and shape your belief system. Your thoughts pass from your conscious

mind to your subconscious mind. You can either enhance your mind power with positive

thoughts, or you can limit your power with negative thoughts.

Thoughts are like seeds; they're going to grow and manifest in your life if you feed them with

attention, interest, and enthusiasm. Of course, you choose whether you want to grow flowers

or weeds. Let's talk about how negative thoughts increase your mind power.

You've got to realize that thoughts have power over your moods, your body, and your

emotions. Doctors now acknowledge this. If you wake up in a bad mood, take stock of how

you feel because you'll probably -- because of tiredness and grogginess -- notice aches and

pains, or you may just feel angry for no reason at all.

By the way, negative emotions and positive emotions are all part of life, so don't get down on

yourself for having negative thoughts every now and then. That's just part of the deal.

Negative emotions over time -- if you focus on them and they're your predominant thoughts --

can set your conscious mind and your subconscious mind against one another, which

decreases your mind power and that's not what this program is about.

Negative thoughts decrease your self-awareness. If all you focus on is how bad things are,

then you're missing out on the good things that happen to you. Your self-awareness goes

down. As it goes down, so does your confidence. When your confidence dwindles, you may fall

into being very sad or develop self-esteem issues.

All of these lower your mind power and that's not what you want! Negative thoughts decrease

your concentration. One of the most important aspects of enhancing your mind power is the

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ability to concentrate and to focus. That single-minded focus is necessary to advance your

goals and expand both your conscious and your subconscious mind.

But when you focus on negative thoughts, your mind wanders to all the instances in which you

had been wronged, for example. Your energy scatters and you become less effective. As you

realize a decrease in your concentration, your mind power can decrease, too. Negative

thoughts can inhibit you in a number of ways.

One of the things they can do is inhibit your creativity. Creativity, as I've said, is very important

and very powerful. It can set you apart from other people, but negative thoughts are centered

on your ego and your ego likes to censor creativity. When you spend all your time focusing on

the negative, you don't give yourself a chance to brainstorm new ideas. When you focus on

the outcome instead of the process, you're not going to be able to get into the creative flow.

As your creativity decreases, so does your mind power. That's certainly not what this program

is about, so how can we counter that? Well, to help you understand how to do that, I want to

share with you a time when I had negative thoughts and a negative thought pattern and I

turned it around.

It was back in the year 2000 and I was in hypnotherapy. I had been in hypnotherapy for a

number of years, having gotten into it in high school in the 1980s. Having followed up with

that and jumping into helping people with hypnotherapy, at around the year 2000 I was

thinking, well, I don't know.

That was right when the Internet was kicking in. I didn't have much going on on the Internet

yet, but now I do. Now it's my primary source of revenue, but back then I didn't. I was starting

to get a little burnt out from office sessions.

I had my office in Beverly Hills back then and seeing a lot of high-powered clients, but they

were burning me out. To be honest, they were just really tapping me because I was dealing

with their situations and taking those things on. It was really a lot for me to deal with and I

was really getting bogged down with all of that. I was thinking, well, maybe I need to go into a

different profession.

Thank goodness the Internet kicked in! It allowed me to lighten my patient load and allowed

me to create more programs like this that reach thousands of people, making my life so much

better and so much easier and reaching more people and offering them the help that they

need and want.

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But, back then, I was thinking very negatively and thinking I should probably get out of this. I

hired a coach -- someone who had worked for Tony Robbins -- and the coach was sharing with

me an idea about a person selling water and how he was selling bottles of water. Everyone

else quit selling bottles of water, but this guy kept selling bottles of water and then bottles of

water became popular. They kind of "kicked in" and people started buying them.

This person became wealthy because he stuck with it. He had the "stick-to-it-iveness", as we

call it, to stay with it and so he became wealthy. He shared this with me and I thought that's

kind of the way I'm thinking about hypnosis. A lot of my friends are actually getting out of it.

They're getting burnt out, too.

Maybe if I just stick with it a little bit longer it will turn out to be something that I really like.

Well, that's when the Internet was becoming popular. I got a website and the rest is history. I

developed that into the ability to sell a lot of products online and help a lot of people, and pull

myself out of that patient load and that burnt out state that I was in back then. Seeing

patients for eight hours a day and taking on all their challenges was really weighing me down.

That was a time when I realized I had a negative thought pattern. Thanks to the coaching I

received, now you are receiving that same coaching. Thanks to that coaching, I was able to

turn it around. A little positive thinking goes a long way and sticking with things also goes a

long way.

By the way, it's one of the things I've noticed that separates the people who are successful

from those who are not. People who are successful stick to things. They don't care how rainy

or stormy it gets. They just stick to it and keep moving forward toward the goal. I want you to

realize that.

Part of that is having a positive attitude and realizing that things are going to turn around, this

really is your passion, and this really is something you want to do. Let's talk about changing

your thoughts. I want you to, first of all, practice positive affirmations.

If your mind is full of negative thoughts, how about changing them? How about replacing

them? How about writing out powerful, positive affirmations that you can easily replay over

and over in your mind? These affirmations need to be things that your mind can grasp onto

and believe. Otherwise, they may not work as well.

Repeat them for at least five minutes twice a day until you feel a shift in your thoughts.

They're just like seeds. Plants take time to grow. It's not like a seed just becomes a plant

overnight. It takes time.

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Also, how about learning how to stop? It's very easy to get wrapped up in your misfortunes,

but it's not as easy to stop talking about them. Whenever you feel yourself thinking about the

"bad things that have happened" or you catch yourself really complaining, just stop. It doesn't

mean you don't learn from your mistakes, it just means you stop going over and over what

you're really not going to change. Use your mistakes as steppingstones to the next lesson.

Also, practice gratitude. One of the best ways to change your thoughts is to focus on what you

have to be grateful for, even if it's just the little things. Keeping a daily gratitude journal gives

you a reason to look for good things in the world. The more you practice, the more natural it

becomes. At first, it may seem forced, but over time as you learn to be more grateful, more

often it's going to feel genuine and you're going to feel happy.

Let's take a moment and examine this idea of gratitude and being grateful. It's so easy to just

say, "Oh, yeah. I've got this and I've got that," and to really start feeling like you just should

have it. By all means, you probably should have whatever it is that you do have. But, if you feel

that sense of entitlement without being grateful for it, that's where you run into a little bit of a

situation with the law of attraction.

You see, being grateful for what you have allows you to get more of that. If you really want

more of that -- whatever it is -- you've got to learn this idea of gratitude. That's why it's so

popular. That's why you hear people talking about gratitude and gratitude meditation, being

grateful, being thankful, allowing the law of attraction to continue working, and allowing the

cycle to continue. Let's talk about this idea of gratitude.

Well, first of all, what are some things you're thankful for? You can just think as you're doing

whatever you're doing now. What are some things you're grateful for? The air that you

breathe, for example? Your job, if you have a job?

Gravity? That's always a good one, the fact that we're not floating around. You may think

that's ridiculous, but without gravity... think about it! Would there be life as we know it? No, it

would be different.

Even if it's just something simple like that: air, gravity, water, shelter, and the basics. Maslow's

hierarchy of needs talks about needing to check off the basics -- you need to have food,

shelter, water, and so forth -- before you can move up all the way to self-actualization. Those

basics are very important because they form the foundation of what we need as humans, so

don't over look them.

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That's the essence of gratitude. Maybe you've been looking at things that you want that are

out there but you don't yet have, so you're thinking, "This universe hasn't given me anything.

What have I got to show for my effort?" When, really, you've a lot.

You're alive. You're breathing air. You're drinking water, water that's clean. You're eating food.

You've got things to show for your life. You've got things that you can be grateful for. We all

do. You can easily get caught up in this next level idea. "I'm not at the next level yet, so I'm not

thankful!"

"I'm working toward that next level, but I'm not there yet so I'm not grateful for what I do

have." You need to be grateful for what you do have right now if you want to see that next

level and if you want to get up to that next level, because that's the way the law of attraction

works.

Being thankful for it, accepting it, and acknowledging it. Wanting more not in a greedy way,

but just in a "I like that" type of way. "I like that and I'd like some more of that. I'd like to go in

that direction."

"I like warm water. I'd like to go in that pool of warm water." There's nothing wrong with that,

but when you accept it and you're grateful for it, that's when you open up the law of

attraction of working for you and giving you more of that. Think about those things you like.

Think about them right now.

Things that you have that you're thankful for that maybe you've been taking for granted. I'm

sure there are five things right now that you can think of, like maybe your family. Things even

beyond the air that you breathe and the food that you eat. Family, friends, or perhaps a job.

Perhaps there's a nice park by where you live. Perhaps you have a bicycle or perhaps your

have a car, or maybe you have an airplane. Who knows! These are things that you can be

thankful for. That's all it is: being grateful and being thankful.

It comes down to thinking like a child. Children believe that they will get everything they want

just because they ask for it. That's why they get so upset when you tell them no. But, you can

learn a thing or two from children.

Believe it, but don't force it. Don't hold on to that which doesn't serve you. Understand that

whatever you ask for is on its way, so there's no use in wasting energy worrying about it. If

action is required, take action and move on!

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You can home for things all you want, but if there's something you can do to get it, how about

doing that? How about taking that action? Also, let go of getting caught up in the idea of

holding grudges. Forgive and move on.

I want you to master self-awareness and learn to control your moods. Once you understand

your emotions and why you feel them, then you can learn to control them and you realize that

happiness is a choice. You choose to be happy or unhappy. It's your choice. How about

choosing to be happy?

You can either make the best of a tough situation and laugh along the way, or you can be a

grouch about everything and be miserable. It's your choice. I'd rather see you laugh, though.

Let go of letting other people or circumstances steel your happiness. If those circumstances or

those people have that much power over you, is that something you want?

Remember that you, with your own thoughts, have the power. That's what this module is

about, so how about meditating on a daily basis to get the full benefits of this. Changing your

thoughts can be challenging and I understand that. But, with the right tools, it can be done

easily.

Meditation can flood your system with inner peace and endorphins. These things make you

feel better and happier. Meditation is a practice of consciousness, which moves your mind

from problems to the present moment. From focusing on those challenges you have that

people call problems to the here and now. The present moment.

When you work meditation and consciousness together, then you can sustain a feeling of

inner peace as a permanent state rather than a temporary one. All right, you've got one more

module to go! You can do it! Module eight is just around the corner. Stick with it!

In module eight, we're going to talk about the universal mind. The universal mind refers to the

fact that you have the power to create anything, so not only do you have power of creativity

and not only do you have the power of your own mind in general, but now you're going to

learn that you have access to the universal mind.

With that, your power increases exponentially. I want you to have that knowledge and I want

you to have that power, because it's really going to help you enhance your mind power. I save

the best for last.

In the next module -- the final module, module eight -- we're going to talk about the universal

mind and how you can use it to your advantage in a good way, in a powerful way, in a

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wonderful way, and in a beneficial way to help yourself and others. I'm Dr. Steve G. Jones,

hoping you have an outstanding day.

Module Eight: The Universal Mind

Welcome, welcome back. You made it, you made it to the final module, to module eight, The

Eight Habits of Enhancing Your Mind's Power. This is the ultimate habit. Understanding and

using methods in this module concerning the universal mind. What does the universal mind

refer to? The universal mind refers to the fact that you have the power to create anything. You

can create any form of self expression that you want.

You are in flow with energy and you have the answers you need within yourself. When you

realize that, your mind power increases exponentially. The thought, “whatever you can

conceive you can achieve” is true. Whatever exists in your thoughts can manifest in the

physical realm. You have to be open to receiving it and you have to get out of your own way.

Through the universal mind, you have access to the limitless creativity of the one.

Everyone has access to all knowledge known. This information is empowered and stored in the

subconscious mind – in your subconscious mind, in my subconscious mind, in everyone's

subconscious mind where it can be accessed at any time.

How can we use the universal mind to enhance our mind power? Accessing the universal

mind, wiretapping into your subconscious, tapping into your subconscious brings your

conscious and subconscious mind in close proximity and when worked toward a common goal,

the two parts of the mind together make a mind power.

When I say in proximity, I don't mean they're going to move. They are going to work together

and what you do with your mind power is limited only by your beliefs. In order to tap into your

unlimited power which you're already a part of, by the way, you have to have an open mind

and be willing to look deeply inside yourself. Self awareness is there for an important part of

the universal mind. To access the universal mind you must be aware of the difference

between that higher connection and your ego.

In general, connection with your true higher self causes peace, clarity and mindfulness. Your

ego will leave you with feelings of anxiety and lack, on the other hand. For me personally, as a

hypnotherapist, I like to use hypnosis to tap into the universal mind.

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This helps me enhance my mind power, but you can use any method that you'd like, but first

of all you must recognize abundance and the idea of the universal mind is that there is an

abundance of everything, whether it's financial abundance, spiritual abundance or any other

type of abundance there's enough to go around.

Focusing on lack can cut you off from the universal mind so you have to open yourself to

receiving that which you have asked. Understand, we're not physical beings but spiritual ones.

We're like drivers in a car. The driver is the spirit, the car is the body. We are spiritual beings.

The universe was created from consciousness and it's an expression of thought. Through the

course of history we have come to identify with ourselves separately from the universal mind.

We consider ourselves solo players rather than part of the universal dance of life. Every

thought that brought us into the universal mind is heard and it does affect the whole. Doubt

can lead to a feeling of separation but if you're on that right path you're going to feel that

oneness in thought and action.

How do you manifest using the universal mind? First of all, manifestation is based on principle

of belief and an important step to manifesting your desires is to understand you are not

separate from the universe.

The ability to achieve your goals has been in you the whole time. By accepting this is truth you

open yourself and your consciousness to the idea that you are the creator of your life and your

desires. Keep in mind that all thought exists within the universal mind.

If there's doubt or negativity, you'll not manifest your desires. You can use meditation and

small requests to build your confidence. Practice meditation every day to connect with higher

self and the universal mind.

That connection is going to reinforce your belief and your openness to receive more from the

universal mind. As with any form of meditation, make your initial requests and build your

confidence. In this way your testing your power and it increases over time. I want to share

with you the three step process to manifesting. Step one is to request what you want. When

you do this make sure you're specific and clear about what you want.

Although the universal mind has access to all thoughts, if those thoughts are contradictory

your not going to manifest what you want, so write it down if it helps. You gather your

thoughts in detail when you do this so write it down if that's what is going to help you focus.

Step two is to believe, which we've talked about in detail before. Step three is to take inspired

action. Action for the sake of action is not going to get you where you want to be.

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Inspired action from the knowledge of the universal mind is going to lead you directly to your

goal. Realize that connecting with the universal mind not only enhances your own mind

power, it is the driving force behind manifestation and you are provided with the knowledge

necessary to manifest your desires. This idea of tapping into the universal mind and using it in

a good way to enhance your life and your mind power is something that can really be helped a

lot with meditation and hypnosis.

For the rest of this module I want to share with you a hypnosis session that's designed to help

you enhance your mental power by tapping into the universal mind. The rest of this module is

a hypnosis session.

If you have anything you're doing now such as riding a bike, jogging, driving a car, doing

housework, doing anything other than sitting or laying down in a comfortable position and a

safe position I want you to listen to this later because the hypnosis session I'm about to share

with you is going to be so powerful it's going to cause you to relax.

I only want you to do that when you're sitting or laying down in a comfortable position so if

you were to lean to the left or the right you wouldn't fall out of anything. Laying down on a

floor or a bed or a sofa so that you're safe and comfortable and making sure no one is going to

disturb you during the duration of this hypnosis session because this hypnosis session is going

to allow you to tap into the idea of the universal mind.

That's where I want you to be. That's where I want you to focus as you take in this

information. I'm going to share that session with you. What I suggest you do is listen to the

rest of this module when you're about to go to sleep because I'm not going to come back on at

the end of the module and say anything. I'm just going to allow you to drift into a gentle sleep

at the end of the module. The rest of this module is very special.

It's going to program you to tap into the universal mind. It's also going to tell you to drift off

into a peaceful sleep at the end of the module. I'm going to say goodbye for now. I'm going to

wrap up the program for now because the rest of the module is going to be a hypnosis

session. I'm not going to come back on and say I hope you enjoyed that session because I'm

hoping you use this, you go to sleep with it.

If you want to listen to this during the daytime, fine. You never use hypnosis while operating a

motor vehicle, you realize that, or doing anything. You only use it when sitting or laying down.

This hypnosis session is going to be fairly lengthy. You can look at the length of this recording

and realize how long this hypnosis session is going to be and you can set an alarm for the end

of the session if you need to wake up after the hypnosis session.

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If you want to listen to it during the day while you're sitting or laying down and you need to

get up to do something afterward, set an alarm for yourself for the end of this module or you

could just listen to at night as you go to bed, which is what I recommend.

Play the rest of this module as you're going to sleep. Let it just put you into a soft, gentle

sleep. You'll still get all the programming even if you slip into a sleep because the stages of

hypnosis are not different than the stages of sleep.

There's not a different scale. You go to sleep, you're just going to hypnosis and that's ok

because they're one and the same. You're still able to take in the information. Alright, my

understanding is if you're still listening to this you're only sitting or laying down, preferably at

bed time but if not, you've set an alarm if you need to get up at the end of this and you're

never listening to this while operating a motor vehicle or doing anything other than sitting or

laying down.

I'm going to say goodbye to you now for this program because our time together, me teaching

you has come to an end. The rest of the program is going to be at a subconscious level. The

rest of this program is just going to be a hypnosis session so I'm going to say goodbye. I've

enjoyed working with you. I've enjoyed helping you.

Congratulations for sticking with it to the end of this module. After you finish this I encourage

you to go through this program again because the second time you go through something, just

like the second time you watch that movie, you pick up on a lot more because you know what

to look for.

You've seen the movie. You know what you've learned and you also know what you missed.

You're thinking I didn't really pay attention during that part. That's OK because that's what

watching it again is for and that's what listening to this program is for also.

Learn quite a bit and there may be also be some things you missed or some things you weren't

clear on. Go back and listen to them. I encourage you to do that. Alright so the rest of this

module is just hypnosis. I'm Doctor Steve G. Jones, hoping you have an outstanding life.

As you now continue to relax, you imagine yourself walking into a room, and this is a very

special room. You are alone and protected and safe. The floors of this room are wooden and

there is a very large comfortable cushion in the center of the room. You walk over to this

cushion now and you sit down on the cushion. You realize now this room is decorated with

objects which you have chosen, objects which relax you and allow you to focus.

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You sit in a meditative position with your legs folded, your wrists resting gently on your knees,

your palms facing upward, your back upright, your chin parallel to the floor, your eyes closed

and you're making the ok sign with each hand so the tip of your right thumb touches the tip of

your right index finger and the tip of your left thumb touches the tip of your left index finger.

You now imagine that directly over your head is a very powerful, cleansing, healing light.

You bring a ray of this light down, down, down to the top of your head where it illuminates

your crown chakra. Your crown chakra gives off a purple light, relaxing you, opening your mind

to the possibility of relaxing even more and the light moves down, down, down through your

body, just a little lower now down to the level of your eyebrows where it illuminates your

brow chakra, giving off a blue light, allowing you to drift and float even deeper now.

Light continues to move down through your body. The healing and powerful cleansing light

moves down to the level of your throat where it illuminates your throat chakra, giving off a

silvery blue light. The light continues to move down now, down, down, down to the level of

your heart, illuminating your heart chakra, opening your heart to the idea of giving and

receiving love and your heart chakra gives off a golden glow and the light moves down, down

just a little lower now.

Down to the level of your solar plexus, where it illuminates your solar plexus chakra, giving off

a red glow, relaxing you even more. As the light continues to move down now, down to the

level of your spleen where it illuminates your spleen chakra, giving off a rainbow of colors. The

light moves down a little lower now, down, down to the base of your spine where it

illuminates your root chakra, giving off a red and orange glow, relaxing you even more as now

all the colors swirl together, allowing you to drift and float and relax.

You now imagine that in your private meditation room there is a stairway leading down. You

very slowly walk over to the stairway and you begin to walk down the steps and as I count

backwards from ten to one you will take each step down, one step for each number. Ten,

taking the first safe and gentle and easy step down. Nine, relaxing ten times more deeply with

each step. Eight, seven, down, down, six, five, down, down.

Four, three, way down now, two. You are relaxed as you go and at the count of the next

number, you will be completely relaxed. Your mind will be completely open and you will be at

the bottom of the stairs.

One. You are safe and protected, protected by the light that is inside you as you drift and float

deeper and deeper. You find it is easy to harness the power of the universal mind to enhance

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your mind power and you are becoming more and more relaxed day by day and able to relax

and focus.

You are open to receiving that for which you have asked, and you are very powerful. You are a

very powerful person when you work toward a goal and your conscious and subconscious

mind work together and you are able to relax through meditation, whether listening to this

recording or meditating on your own. You are one with the flow of energy and you have all the

answers that you need within yourself. You are able to relax through meditation.

Relax and focus now and let go of your concerns. Let them go, clearing your mind, letting go of

those things which have happened to you recently, things you need to let go of. Let them go

now, feeling them drift from you, you realize that your mind power increases exponentially

day by day.

Letting go of negativity, letting go of envy, letting go of stress. Breathing in relaxation.

Breathing in abundance. Letting to of negativity and stress. Whatever exists in your thoughts

can manifest in the physical realm through the universal mind breathing in possibility.

Breathing in positive change, positive change. Exhaling stress, just let it go, let it go. You have

access to unlimited creativity and day by day, as you become more relaxed you realize you are

becoming a more and more confident person and you are able to drift and relax easily. You

understand that you are a spiritual being and meditation is easy for you. You keep your

thoughts positive. You can if you choose.

Use the meditation exercise you have done on this recording in your everyday life. You

practice meditation regularly to connect with yourself and the universal mind. Perhaps you

can develop an exercise routine in which you devote a certain amount of your time during the

day to meditation. Connecting with the universal mind enhances your own mind power. For

right now, just relax and realize how powerful you are.

You are provided with the knowledge necessary to manifest your desires and as you continue

to relax every breath you take is soothing, soothing you. Focus now on your breathing. I

wonder how much attention you have paid to the many different thoughts floating through

your mind. Your mind is so active, even while it relaxes.

Then you can become aware of how difficult it is to remember what I was talking about

exactly seven minutes ago and you can try to remember what I was saying nine minutes ago or

what you were thinking four minutes ago.

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Doesn't it seem like too much work to try to remember all of that. It takes more effort than it's

worth, so relax. Relax comfortably and understand that you don't have to remember what I

was saying when it's too much work to do. You can choose to remember to forget what I said

or to forget to remember what I said. The choice is yours.

Alright now, if you should be listening to this recording at night, you will fall into a very deep

and peaceful sleep and while you're asleep and dreaming understand that your subconscious

mind will be processing every word I have said and each time you hear these words, these

suggestions become more and more powerful for you. Each and every time you listen to these

words, these suggestions become more and more a part of your being.

Each and every time you listen to this recording, you become more and more the person of

your choosing – a relaxed, comfortable, confident person and that feels wonderful. When you

awaken in the morning you will be well rested, refreshed, revitalized and ready for a new day

and that feels wonderful.