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MyPowerfulMind.com Newsletter
April 17, 2005
Welcome to the MyPowerfulMind.com newsletter.
To visit the website go to www.mypowerfulmind.com
In this edition you will find the following:
An Introduction to the newsletter and the
MyPowerfulMind.com web site.
What is coming up in the next few weeks.
Article - The Thought Force and our Feelings.
Article - Your Reason Why.
And don't miss some great quotes at the end.
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INTRODUCTION:
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it, no matter what email software they are using. It may
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WHAT IS COMING UP:
The next 'The Power of the Mind' training will start in
Helsinki on Saturday 23rd of April. There will be a free
introduction to this training at the Harmoniahuone office
on Tuesday 19th April, at 5pm. I suggest that you be there.
To find out more about this incredible training program go
to
http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm It is
a life changing program, don't miss it.
This training will also be run in Oulu starting Saturday
11th June, with a free introduction on Friday 10th June.
More information is available at
http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm
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THE THOUGHT FORCE AND OUR FEELINGS
People have discussed what a thought is for thousands of
years. I'm going to talk about a characteristic of a
thought. I want to consider the idea of a thought as a
force.
Science has taught us that everything is energy, and
Einstein came up with the equation Energy equals Mass times
the Speed of Light squared. This is great until someone
asks 'But what is Energy?' In the end our scientist can
describe all sorts of characteristics of energy, and how it
can behave in different situations, but has to say that it
just is, when pressed for a solid definition of it.
If we accept that everything is energy, and energy just is,
we can say that a thought is energy, but that is not very
useful.
With force we have a slightly more useful definition. To a
physics student, force is the ability to move something.
The question becomes 'Can we consider a thought to be a
force?'
Let's see. Let's look at a couple of
characteristics of thought.
Firstly, a thought can only exist in our mind if we put it
there, and allow it to stay there. The only place that a
thought can exist is in someone's mind. If a thought is in
someone's mind, it is there because that someone, either
consciously or subconsciously, put it there, and allowed it
to stay there.
Secondly we can only think one thought at a time. If we are
thinking about the bus that we will go home in tonight, we
have a picture in our mind of a bus. If we now think about
what we must buy in the supermarket before we get home, the
picture of the bus disappears and another picture replaces
it.
It is common to hear people say things like, 'He made me so
angry', or 'It made me so happy', or 'That made me sick'.
The reality is that none of these things actually happened.
The person made themselves angry, happy or sick, no one
else did it for them.
How did they do that? In these cases the examples I have
chosen are all feelings or emotions. We know that thoughts
come before feelings. We think of something, either
consciously or subconsciously, and then sometimes we
experience a feeling as a result of that thought. We never
experience a feeling without having a thought first.
So the person in our example, made themselves angry, happy
or sick, by simply thinking that they would be angry, happy
or sick. The thinking was probably completely subconscious,
and was also probably completely habitual. The last time
the person was in a similar situation, they thought that
they would get angry also. In fact they have probably
thought that they would get angry in similar situations
ever since they were a child. With that much practice at
getting angry it has become a habit to get angry in
situations like that.
Is it useful, positive or empowering to always get angry in
a situation like that? Probably not, but the thought force
has the strength to move us from the state we were in, to
an angry state, almost instantly.
If in a particular situation we can produce thoughts that
make us angry, and in another situation we can produce
thoughts that make us happy, it is not too hard to consider
that we could also produce those thoughts in different
situations. In fact we can choose to produce thoughts that
make us feel any way at all, at any time we choose. Also as
we can only think one thought at a time, the new thought we
produce, replaces the old thought.
So next time you feel an emotion, try to identify the
thought that led to the emotion. Try thinking a different
thought and note how the emotion you feel changes.
Interrupt yourself several times a day and ask yourself
'What am I feeling, and what am I thinking?'
Soon you will start to see patterns, and then when you feel
an emotion, you will be able to consider if that is the
emotion that suits you best in the situation that you are
in. If it is that is fine, but you now have the choice of
deciding that a different emotion would be more empowering,
and changing your thoughts and using the thought force to
change your feelings.
The 'Power of the Mind' training gives a deeper
understanding of how we can use our thoughts to help us
achieve our goals. Go to
http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm to find
out more.
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YOUR REASON WHY
A number of years ago I attending a 4 day seminar on Real
Estate investing. At first I was surprised that the first
subject of the seminar, taking nearly half a day, was 'Your
Reason Why'. Now I understand why, and suggest that it is a
good place to start when looking at anything worth doing in
your life.
By 'Your Reason Why', I mean the real deep down reason or
reasons, not the superficial ones that immediately spring
to mind. At that investing seminar a number of people
volunteered their reasons why. They were things like
wanting to make money, wanting to be able to quit working
for someone else, wanting to be independent and wanting to
prove that they could do it. These are all superficial
reasons.
What do I mean by the real deep down reason or reasons?
There are two types of reasons that people have for doing
something, or wanting something. There are logical reasons
and there are emotional reasons.
Logical reasons are the reasons we use to rationalise
(rationalising is rationing lies) why we want to do things.
For example we want to buy a car because it will be more
convenient for travelling to work than using public
transport, of we want to have a promotion at work because
we will get a pay rise.
Emotional reasons are usually the real reasons for doing or
wanting something. We want to buy the car because of the
way it will make us feel to own a car, or we want the
promotion because of the respect we will get, or the boost
it will give to our self esteem, or because it will enable
us to put some money aside for a loved ones education.
An early mentor of mine when I was involved in the
corporate world was a talented salesman and sales manager.
He told me that if I had logical reasons or goals, I would
have skinny kids.
When I say the real deep down reason or reasons for wanting
something, I mean the emotional reasons. Emotional reasons
have power and energy in them. Emotional reasons will drive
you to keep doing something in spite of what might happen,
in spite of what obstacles come up, in spite of what other
people might say, in spite of anything.
A person with emotional reasons for doing something finds
the energy to make progress towards his goal, even when he
is tired, even when he is ill, even when - no matter what.
If you take the time to know and understand your real
reasons why, you will become a person that does whatever it
takes to get where you want to go. You become unstoppable.
More information on how your emotional reasons (emotions
live in your subconscious mind) drive you to get the
results you get in your life, is included in 'The Power of
the Mind' training program. This program also shows you how
to identify emotional reasons that may be limiting the
results you are getting, and how to replace them with more
positive reasons which will remove those limits. Go to
http://www.mypowerfulmind.com/page/page/1819535.htm to find
out more.
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QUOTES
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be
miserable - Anon.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he
can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed
by him. - Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving
up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant 1946 -
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That is all for this newsletter. Until next time I wish you
all the best.
To your Success.
Tony McGlinn
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