Posts Tagged ‘Belief That’
Influencing the subconscious
What an inspiring night! To me, what made a huge impact were all the possibilities in terms of personal development that were expressed in Sanjay’s talk. The networking was great, but this profound understanding of the human mind by Sanjay and Billy was very impressive. I took a lot of lessons home, and I’ve decided to start applying them right now! :o) Marie Luccetta www.e-translationservices.com
Look below the surface – you’ll be amazed at what you find!
Napoleon Hill suggested that one of the things that successful people do is use their imagination to create a belief that they can have what they desire and to communicate between the conscious the subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is protected – which is usually a good thing as it contains all the things we have ever learned and we wouldn’t want to have to re-learn most of them. However, it also contains less useful things that may stop us from achieving all that we might otherwise be capable of. Fear of failure, of taking risks, of criticism, of losing, of being thought pushy or arrogant or proud are all stored there along with beliefs about whether we are entitled to expect, or deserve, more than we already have.
Anything that comes to us through our five senses is unlikely to affect the subconscious so how do we reach and change those things that are not useful to us?
Hill suggests (long before NLP was invented) that in order to create the belief that we can have something we must imbue it with emotion, imagine that we already have it and create the experience of already having it.
Vividly imagine having whatever it is you desire and experience how that will feel and what you will see, hear, taste and smell. The emotions and physical reactions caused by these thoughts are generated internally rather than coming to us externally through our senses (and could be described as non-sense) and so are more likely to escape the gatekeeper of the subconscious mind.
The subconscious has no critical faculty. It doesn’t decide whether a thought is good or bad, useful or destructive and so once the thought is lodged there it can be useful as a new belief enabling us to do things we previously thought impossible.
There has been vigorous research into how emotions cause physical reactions, how physical sensations trigger emotions and how both emotions and physical reactions can be produced by thought alone. Belief may not move mountains but it can remove limitations and control physical experiences.
Our speaker on the third part of Napoleon Hill’s Steps to Success was Sanjay Shah. Sanjay offers a quick route to change by employing NLP, firewalking, Enneagram analysis and emotional freedom techniques, all of which are based on this psychology.
One of the most popular sayings arising from these theories is that “Thoughts Become Things” and while it is undoubtedly true that this can be the case, it can also be too simplistic. I have seen already distressed people puzzled and hurt at the implication that they have brought misfortune on themselves because their thoughts are not positive enough. Moreover, if we all got what we focused on most of the time, teenage boys would live in a constant state of bliss!
However, that doesn’t change the fact that we are still discovering amazing things about the power of the mind and by using it to create useful thoughts and emotions there is no doubt that we can make life easier and more satisfying.
For more information on Sanjay’s work see www.pslifecanbeeasy.com
Our next speaker, on July 15th is Dr Michael Sanderson, CEO of 1Spatial.com http://annhawkins.com/inspirational-events/
Here are the pictures from the June event: http://tinyurl.com/m49cxr
WONDERFUL evening.Very much enjoyed, and learned/cemented a lot of useful practical information. Great motivation. Also networked bringing me contacts not only for the Lady Florence River Cruise Restaurant, but also giving me contacts for computer systems, possible franchising etc. Compliments to the chef also.An evening that had so much to offer and well worth the three hour drive from the coast. MANY THANKS. John Haresnapewww.lady-florence.co.uk
If you weren’t afraid of failure
Michael Markham is a remarkable man. Abandoned by his mother and brought up in Barnardo’s home, he was fostered by a family he didn’t like and became disruptive, ending up in Borstal and finally given the option of joining the army or going to prison.
Some years later when he was faced with accepting that he would be out of work because the company he worked for was bankrupt, he alone of all the employees decided to save the business. When I asked him what made him think he could buy and run a company he told me that it wasn’t so much a belief that he could do it as a lack of fear about what would happen if he didn’t. He has experienced having nothing and survived.
So, as he wasn’t afraid of failing, he just went ahead and did it. He turned Stanair Industrial Doors into a multi-million pound enterprise and along the way, learned what he needed to learn to make it work at each stage of development.
Henry Ford famously said “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you’re right” This is because the sub-conscious mind accepts what it is told whether those beliefs are useful to us or not.
Why do so many people wait until they face ruin before they decide to become successful? Maybe it’s because when they have nothing to lose, as in Michael’s case, the fear of failure is no longer significant. “I can’t” becomes “I will” and the belief is strong enough.
What would you attempt if you absolutely knew you couldn’t fail?
Next Inspired Networking event, June 17th Master the Principles of Success with Sanjay Shah, details here.
Just wanted to thank you for a great evening on Wednesday, I really enjoyed it and have got the other dates in my diary ready! Julia Brooks www.contacts4business.com
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Belief in yourself
I’ve been verbed! At a recent meeting, Nigel Wathen of
www.sjpp.co.uk told the assembled gathering that he’d been
“Anned” (thank goodnes my name isn’t Roger 
). Becoming
a verb isn’t something I set out to do but I’m not
complaining!
If the first action in achieving success is deciding what you want (your major definite purpose and all consuming goal) and creating a plan to get it, this also involves ‘starting with the end in mind’.
Victoria Beckham famously said that she wanted to be “more famous than Persil” and she got her desire. Lots of people have become more famous than Persil but that was a side product of what they really wanted.
If you can’t decide on your major definite purpose or all consuming goal then starting with the end in mind may help.
I recently spoke to Richard McCormack of www.rjmltd.com who told me that when he started his business it was with the idea of selling it. He has a definite end in mind and is working towards it. Do you?
What comes after that is your belief that you can get it. The old saying “whether you think you can or you think you can’t – you’ll prove yourself right” is absolutely true. Our thoughts are so powerful that they influence everything we do.
You can read below (March 17th) about the number of people who achieved success against all the odds, just because they believed they could do it.
Do you believe you can get what you want? If not, what are the thoughts that are holding you back? The first step to working on a lack of self belief or self confidence is to acknowledge that you have them. The good news is that self-confidence really can be learned and built on. All other things being equal, self-confidence is often the single ingredient that distinguishes a successful person from someone less successful.
Action Plans:
1. Decide on your definite major purpose or all consuming goal. What is the end result going to be?
2. Write down your goal and read it aloud twice a day. Imagine that you have already achieved it. (See post below from March 16th)
3. Do you believe you can get what you want? If not, find out what is stopping you and work on it.
Come to our event on 22nd April to do some practical work towards achieving success.
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