Inspired!

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