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The Emotional Challenge

For just a moment, let’s slip back through history to the 5th Century BC, when the Greeks were hypothesizing and working at generating a new form of government. The Athenians rapidly realized that to succeed in a democracy, they had to be persuasive. Leaders used powerful strategies of persuasion, then called “rhetoric”, to gain agreement and win over support for their pet projects and ideals.

Daily, the Greek citizens used persuasive arguments before a new political body that analyzed the law and it was called a “jury.” Recognizing its importance, Greek scholars like Plato and Aristotle began to analyze the subtle and powerful forms of persuasion.

In 435 BC Aristotle defined three elements of the process of persuasion. He said they are, Logos, which appeal to a person’s logic, thinking ability and facts. Second is Pathos, which appeals to feelings and emotions. Last is Ethos, which appeals to a speaker’s confidence, credibility, identity and character.
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Hi, this is Dr. Larry Iverson. I want to acknowledge you for taking the time to be here and for gaining information that can absolutely improve your personal and professional lives. You are showing your proactiveness and desire to create a better life for yourself. I congratulate you for taking the time to learn strategies that can enhance the quality of your life.

Dr Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho Cybernetics said that it takes about three to six weeks to either break an old habit or to create a new one. What he went on to show is that it takes about 30 days to either add in a new skill set or to break an old one. So when you take in the information from this program, and you reinforce it by reading it, by hearing it, by thinking about it, by talking about it with other people, by perhaps writing something about it and sharing it with others, it makes it go deeper into your unconscious memory bank, which allows you to be able to use it more effectively.

Repetition is the key to any skill. To enhance your life and grow the kind of success you desire takes repetition. Use these PDFs as well as the audios to refresh the concepts. Share them with family, share them with associates, share them with your friends and really make the concepts your own. Listen to them again and again because, once more, repetition is the place where skill begins.
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Good Mental Hygiene

The sixth secret to having great mind-body connection is mental hygiene. It has many different components that correspond to it, but one of the biggest is making sure you’re taking care of your brain waves.

You have four primary brain waves – beta, alpha, theta and delta. Beta corresponds to your wide awake thinking processes. Alpha, theta and delta are all brain waves that correspond from mildly relaxed to the deepest levels of sleep. Read more »

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Clearing Past Programming

The fifth secret to enhancing the mind-body connection is clearing old programming or releasing old patterns.

I mentioned before about awareness, choice and control. You need to be aware of what’s going on around you. You need to be aware of what’s going on inside of you. Through your awareness outside and inside, you can make better choices about what you are going to do, how you’re going to respond, what you’re going to think, your approach, and through that you will gain better control of yourself and the interactions you have with the world around you.

This awareness—choice—control process is absolutely central to the releasing old patterns process. Dr. Herbert Benson, who was the head of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has created major inroads into change in the application of the mind-body connection. Read more »

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Building Conscious Dreams

A fourth aspect of applying the mind-body connection is creating dreams. Does that mean you have to spend more time sleeping? Not exactly, but it does mean you have to put your mind to work.

Dr. Bernie Siegel, who has spent much of his career working with psychosomatic medicine in dealing with illnesses like cancer, uses the power of the mind in healing.

During the workshops led by Dr. Siegel, he talked about the role of the physician and the role of the patient in healing during chemotherapy. Traditionally cancer specialists tell their patients to expect to have all kinds of negative side effects including nausea, vomiting and headaches, and to prepare by keeping a pail beside your bed just in case.

Dr. Siegel said that this may be helpful advice but it tends to generate an expectation that you’re going to have these negative side effects. Often patients will have these because they’re expecting to have them, not because they truly have to have them. Read more »

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Emotional Connection

A third aspect of the mind-body connection is emotional connection. You’ll perform at your best, you’ll have the most impact, you’ll feel better about things, when your emotions are connected in a positive way to what it is you’re doing. Whether what you are engaged in is work, athletic performance, healing your body, dealing with other human beings, communicating, speaking in public, whatever—you will do best when there’s an emotional connection.

We need to think about the pieces of self direction—awareness, choice and control.

I need to be ongoingly aware of what’s going on in the world around me and I need to be aware of what’s happening inside of myself, what I’m thinking and what I’m feeling.

Through the awareness of the world around me and how I’m feeling inside, I can make better choices about how I’m going to interact and think and perform in the world as I’m doing whatever it is that I’m doing. Whether what I’m doing is writing, or as I’m speaking, or doing sports. I will make better choices about what I’m going to be doing, because I’m aware of what’s going on around me. And through my choices, I can gain better control over what’s I’m doing and what I’m engaged in. Read more »

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Full Sensory System

Another aspect of mind-body connection strategies is full sensory systems.

Oxford University Athletic Department had been experimenting with various ways of applying the mind-body connection to improving athletic performance.

They put together a group of 150 student volunteers who had never before shot a rifle. They tested them all to see what their baseline performance in shooting was. They then split them up into three groups with approximately same level of performers in each.

One group was told to practice daily, 25 to 50 shots at a target. The second group was told not to practice at all, and to do no shooting between the initial test, and the re-test in 30 days. The third group practiced only 2 actual shots at targets per day, but they had them engage their mind with the process.

Group three, who practiced only 2 actual shots per day, mentally practiced successfully shooting for 10 minutes. They would imaging sighting the gun and hitting the bull’s-eye over and over. Read more »

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Secrets to Applying the Mind-Body Connection

1. Seed Thoughts
2. Full Sensory System Impact
3. Emotional Connection
4. Building Conscious Dreams
5. Clearing Past Programming
6. Good Mental Hygiene.

We’re now going to address each of these.

Seed Thought Power

Seed thoughts are a combination of your belief system and your internal dialog. You are what you believe about yourself. The belief-language is the invisible link between your physical body, your physical reality and the emotional reality and thoughts that you have and hold within you.

Emotions have both a mental and a physical expression. Read more »