The Weird Benefits of Negative Visualization

Source: MrMoneyMustache.com 

A few weeks ago, I got a really interesting email from a guy in Norway that said something like, “Hey Mr. MM.. What you are preaching is Pure Stoicism, with a great twist and perception on today’s world … I love it!!”

“Stoicism?” I asked, “You mean like the Stoics in Shakespearean plays that show no emotion of any sort? That doesn’t sound quite right to me.

But it turns out I had fallen into a common misconception. The Clever Norwegian pointed me to a book on the topic, which I immediately checked out of the library and read completely. It was called “A Guide to the Good Life, The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy”.

From reading the book, I learned that Stoicism was actually a shockingly advanced old philosophy that found many followers in ancient Rome. Although it has fallen widely out of favor in modern life, people in today’s society would probably identify the central ideas as “Hardcore Mustachianism”.

Stoicism, in short, is a series of mental techniques and ways of life that allow you to decrease and then virtually eliminate all negative emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, and dissatisfaction, while simultaneously building up a tide of pure Joy inside you that eventually starts to make you jump around and boogie at unexpected moments, and occasionally shout out “AHH YEAH!!” as discreetly as possible to yourself when the Joy overflows.

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Source: NLP Hero

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Prosperity Secrets of the Universe

By Brad Jensen, Author of Prosperity Step-by-Step

This is the response to an email message sent to me 'by accident':

I'd like to know if anyone on this forum has gotten rich yet, using his ideas? Let us know. I'm a sales and marketing manager and the only way I can prove my effectiveness is by RESULTS. The best advice in the world won't work unless we put it to work and carry it through. It's one thing to SAY it works, but it's another to DO it and have results to prove it. Any millionares reading this?

It so happens that I am a millionaire, in that I own a company that I created that is worth at least seven million dollars, and I earn an income of over half a million a year.

And I started 22 years ago with a degree in Philosophy/Religion and a borrowed pencil.

I have been diligently exploring prosperity ideas, learning and teaching them for most of the last 20 years.

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Being Born Poor Is Bad For Your Brain

Source: The Wealth Factor

Please don't take this the wrong way, but...

What kind of childhood did you have?

I'm not talking about having to put up with bullies, or waking up early to catch Saturday morning cartoons.

I meant more along the lines of...

Did you have your own yacht by the time you turned 5, or were you considered the luckiest kid in town if you had a dishwasher box to play with?

You see...

If you were born "poor", then you're probably missing what researchers are dubbing the "Wealth Factor".

(Click here for your FREE report that explains what this is, if you'd rather skip the rest of this email)

A recent study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed that growing up poor can actually have a devastating effect throughout your entire life.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis studied a group of 105 young children over a period of 12 years...

And found that the preschoolers from poorer backgrounds were shown to have weaker than normal connections in certain regions of the brain.

Specifically regions responsible for mood, memory, learning, and emotion... among others.

What this means is not only will they grow up into adults who lack the advantage of "whole brain thinking" ...

(Which is really the secret behind the successes of big names like Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos... read more about it in this FREE report)

These kids were also considerably more likely to suffer from depression later in life.

That's why I asked about your childhood.

How you grew up pretty much determines how the rest of your life turns out.

So does that mean if you grew up poor, then you're destined to die poor AND miserable?

Not necessarily.

You can actually "reprogram" your brain to strengthen the connections between regions responsible for wealth...

Because of something called "brain plasticity".

Learn how this is crucial to your missing "wealth factor" in this FREE report.

How To Be Awesome - A Guide To Powering Up Your Brain

You're already awesome, but sometimes you're tired, busy, or for some other reason can't be at your best 100% of the time. When you need to be, however, you can manipulate your brain and body to rise to the challenge. Here's how to fool yourself into living up to your full potential in a moment's notice.

Wouldn't it be great if you could absorb a power star or some sort of video-game-style power-up when you needed to overcome an obstacle that you just don't have the energy for? It's an alluring idea, and in ways, it's more possible than you might think.

Look at it this way: your reasons for avoiding everything from work to exercise to social activity are all self-inflicted. We're subconsciously playing tricks on our brains to avoid doing work. In this article, we're going to look at how reverse the behaviors that cause common problems to solve them instead.

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Why Doesn't God Answer My Prayers?

There are a couple of things you've probably heard said over and over. The first is, "Why doesn't God answer my prayers?". What you'll generally hear next is the response which goes something like, "God DOES answer your prayers. Sometimes he just says 'No'".

The fact is, it's not God who says "No". In fact, God - the infinite source of "All that Is", ONLY says "Yes"! God is the ultimate "creation" mechanism. God responds PRECISELY to YOUR creative catalyst.

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How to Fail at Meditation

I’m not usually one to get publicly excited about my calendar, but as we went around the room on the first day of a weeklong meditation retreat in Northern California, I found myself explaining my obsession with controlling every aspect of my day.

I held out my iPhone and opened my iCal app: a slew of perfectly organized, multi-colored cells, stretching on for months. I should have been embarrassed, but when someone gasped, I was quietly satisfied.

Not long ago, I decided to get into the meditation game. I went into my calendar and blocked off a chunk of time for it each morning. The further into the future I scrolled, the more time I scheduled for it, confident that by a year out, I’d be meditating for an hour every day.

I downloaded a few meditation apps, settling on one called Headspace, and got to work improving my happiness. But while I didn’t know it, the experts would say I’d run into a problem before I’d even started.

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Prayer is Ultimate Way to Solve All Problems

By Enoch Tan,
Creator of Secrets of Mind and Reality

The first thing you need to believe is in the power of God. Enlisting the help of divinity is the whole basis of prayer. When you pray, you must be conscious of the power of God, otherwise you are speaking empty words to empty space.

The secret of power is consciousness of power. One who prays with consciousness of God’s power, prays a powerful prayer indeed.

The second thing you need to believe is that you have received what you pray for. What you ask is given but you can only receive it by your faith.

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How to Hitchhike Across America

Artist, inveterate gambler, and lifelong “rider of the rails” David Choe hitchhikes his way across these United States by (other people’s) trains, cars, and boats.

http://www.mindbendingvideos.com/how-to-hitchhike-across-america/

How to See the Future with Meditation

By Owen Waters / Author of The Shift

One of the great advantages of regular meditation is that it enhances your sense of intuition. The more you practice meditation, the more you gain insight into every aspect of your life. Insights can relate to present or past events, leading to a greater understanding of your life's path, or they can relate to future events.

Insights into future events can be challenging in four ways:

1. The future is not fixed. Until you experience it, the future remains as an array of possibilities with a "most likely" scenario based on what holds the greatest energy.

2. Viewing the future can change the outcome. Even a 100% accurate view of the most likely scenario will trigger questions about whether you want that scenario to manifest, and that change can influence the outcome. This can give the illusion of inaccuracy in the original prediction.

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The Science of Plant Intelligence

For centuries, Western philosophy has viewed animals and plants as unthinking automatons. The famous 17th scientist and philosopher, Rene Descartes, maintained that non-human organisms cannot reason or feel pain; they are robotic machines that purely act on impulse.

While science has recently proven that animals are intelligent creatures, capable of logical thinking and emotional experience, the notion that plants possess a similar kind of intelligence is largely disregarded by the scientific community. It is assumed that because plants do not possess a brain, they have no conscious experience.

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How to Manipulate Your Friends

Manipulation is generally a bad skill to use to get what you want, but sometimes it's justifiable when you have a noble cause. Perhaps you're trying to get someone to live a healthier lifestyle or enjoy an activity with you.

When other tactics fail you and it's time to resort to a little manipulative behavior, here are some tricks you can use to get what you want without being completely abandoning your ethics.

Nobody enjoys being tricked, so you don't want to use anything you learn in this post for evil purposes. Most of what we're going to discuss is simply a matter of creating a scenario where it's more likely that whoever you're trying to manipulate will be happier and enjoy themselves more.

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The Simplest Cure for Insomnia

Source: Sleep Salon

Do you suffer from sleeping problems?

Whether it's occasional sleeplessness, being wired from too much caffeine, or chronic insomnia -- we all suffer from a lack of sleep from time to time.

Sleep deprivation causes irritability, reduced mental functioning, impaired judgement, a weaker immune system, increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, obesity, growth suppression and more.

On the other side of the coin, consider how you feel after a deep and restful night of sleep!

You're more mentally alert, you enjoy better health with a stronger immune system, you feel generally happier and less stressed, you enjoy a marked improvement in memory, you experience greater energy levels -- and that's just the start.

You spend one-third of your life trying to sleep.

Do YOU put enough effort into ensuring you're getting the BEST possible sleep? It's amazing when you think about it, however by changing your sleeping patterns, you can literally change your life -- overnight.

And the Sleep Salon is the SIMPLEST way to get started.

The Sleep Salon is a collection of powerful MP3 audio sessions, which use special sounds to influence your brainwave patterns -- helping to lull you into an ultra-deep sleep in minutes. All you have to do is listen!

Just slip on your headphones, play the right session, and get ready to enjoy the best night's sleep of your life -- guaranteed!

I've personally used the Sleep Salon now for two months, and started experiencing awesome results from day one. It's changed the quality of my waking life incredibly, and I've recommended it to many of my closest friends. Now I'd like to share this very special recommendation with you.

I urge you to check out the Sleep Salon. Try it out for yourself today, and prepare to be amazed!

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Ancient Aliens Debunked

Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 3 hour refutation of the theories proposed on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. It is essentially a point by point critique of the “ancient astronaut theory” which has been proposed by people like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin as well as many others.

The film covers topics like: Ancient building sites: Puma Punku, The Pyramids, Baalbek, Incan sites, And Easter Island. Ancient artifacts: Pacal’s rocket, the Nazca lines, the Tolima “fighter jets”, the Egyptian “light bulb”, Ufo’s in ancient art, and the crystal skulls. Ancient text issues: Ezekiel’s wheel, Ancient nuclear warfare, Vimana’s, the Anunnaki, and the Nephilim.

http://www.mindbendingvideos.com/ancient-aliens-debunked/

Supercharge Your Day with this Simple Morning Ritual

Here's a really cool technique you can use in the morning, to infuse a little magic into your day...

This technique uses the power of the Sun as a type of energetic- amplifier for the body and mind.

No, you don't need to believe that you are actually drawing energy from the Sun for this to work.

In fact, the Sun you think you are seeing in the sky such a long distance away, isn't actually "out there."

So your mental focus on the Sun is enough to get a physical reaction from your brain, chemically.

Your mental and psychological associations to the Sun are all you need to make this work.

Read the full technique here...

Hypnosis or Meditation -- Which Works Better?

Quite often I am asked, “What’s the difference between meditation and hypnosis?” While meditation and hypnosis can be similar in terms of the process utilized to achieve a relaxed state of mind and body, they differ in terms of the outcome.

Meditation is used to quiet the mind while hypnosis is used to program the mind.

Meditation seeks to quiet the mind and helps create a blank slate where you can release all of your cares and concerns. Meditation helps you recharge and rejuvenate, and it helps you ease stress. Hypnosis does all of those things and it has an even greater purpose: To reprogram the subconscious mind.

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Out of Body Experience Guaranteed: The Alarm Clock Technique

By Steve G. Jones, Creator of
The Art of Astral Projection

This technique needs to be done after a full six hours of sleep, ideally in the wee hours of the morning. Start by setting your alarm clock for exactly six hours from the time you lay down to sleep.

So if you lay down at 8:15pm, set your alarm for 2:15am and the go to sleep. When the alarm rings, get up and out of bed. Plan to stay fully awake for an hour.

If you need to, splash your face with cold water, walk around or do something to fully waken yourself.

After an hour, lay back down. Follow these five steps and get ready for an Out of Body Experience.

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Plants Can't Feel Your Love, Grumpy Scientists Declare

A tree falls in the woods; but whether or not anyone hears it, the tree has no regrets. Nor does it experience fear, anger, relief or sadness as it topples to the ground. Trees — and all plants, for that matter — feel nothing at all, because consciousness, emotions and cognition are hallmarks of animals alone, scientists recently reported in an opinion article.

The idea that plants have some degree of consciousness first took root in the early 2000s; the term "plant neurobiology" was coined around the notion that some aspects of plant behavior could be compared to intelligence in animals. Though plants lack brains, the firing of electrical signals in their stems and leaves nonetheless triggered responses that hinted at consciousness, researchers previously reported.

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There could be more than 30 Alien Civilizations in our Galaxy

There could be more than 30 alien civilisations in our galaxy, researchers have found in a major study.

A new paper looked to understand how many planets in our neighbourhood could be home to alien life, by assuming that life develops on other planets in a similar way to how it develops on Earth, and matching that to planets that could be home to similar evolution.

It found that there could be dozens of active civilisations waiting to be found in our Milky Way. But it could also shed light on our own fate, and suggest our prospects for long-term survival are lower than we may have thought.

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Nazis Tried to Create Talking Super Dogs

The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows.

Hitler hoped the clever creatures would learn to communicate with their SS masters - and he even had a special dog school set up to teach them to talk.

The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to speak and tap out signals using their paws.

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