discovery - a young person's guide to growing up today - isabelle sennery

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DISCOVERY

A Young Persons Guide To Growing Up Today

By Isabelle Sennery

http://www.sennery.com


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To All the Children of the WorldMay Growing Up be a Fulfilling and Joyous Adventure


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Copyright Notice

Text @Isabelle C. Sennery 2000

First Published January 2000

ISBN 0 64639 096 1Odyssey Mind Institute Publications

Australia

This e-book format is also available with illustrations or in audio CD format from

www.sennery.com.au


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TESTIMONIALS

This program offers delightful access to children of all ages into the magical world of the human

mind. I happily endorse Discovery!" Louise L. Hay, Author of "You Can Heal Your Life"

and "Empowering Women"

I am a young person who wishes that I had read Discovery while I was still at school. It would

have turned my life around and made it easier to reach my goals. It is a huge short cut to

information that I have since learned the hard way. Within this book are new ways of looking at

the world, and each person's important role in it. Whether you are an adult or a child it is a

Discovery that will change you life - Graham Squires Actor Home & Away- Sydney

"Over the past six years I've marketed a wide range of personal growth products and have

thousands of customers Australia-wide. Over that time I've tested and reviewed dozens of

programs but I had always thought it a shame that I had never found any good program that were

designed specifically for children and teenagers. That was until I was introduced to Discovery.As I went though the program I became more and more excited by the potential this amazing

program has to make a huge difference in the lives of young people and the massive positive

effect this could have on the future of this planet. This step-by-step program with beautiful

illustrations and practical application exercises is a powerful tool that every teacher and parent

needs to have to ensure that the young people in their care have the opportunity to live full and

happy lives..."Alan & Lesley Hewitt - Managing Director, Earthstar Publishing - Perth WA

"Discovery is a powerful tool even in the hand of the most inexperienced enquirer who ventures

on its exciting journey. Isabelle Sennery has woven a masterful journey for adolescents and

emerging adults, a trove of treasures to enhance and resource the journey of all children who

travel with you. I have every confidence in commending Discovery. Terry Parsons - SchoolPrincipal / BSc Dip Ed Grad Dip RE/Author

"I believe Discovery would be a great resource for the kids of today. With so many pressures that

they find themselves dealing with, Discovery will give many children/teenagers a way of not

only dealing with those pressures, but show them how to get the most out of life, making choices

that support them in the growing up process."Benita Collings TV Presenter - Director,

PlaySkills Pty Ltd

"What impressed me the most about Discovery is that it reaches beyond any and all social

conditioning and reinforces the beauty and importance of the self. Most exciting to me is how

the gentle and beautiful manner of the presentation enhances the adventure of self discovery andstimulates abstract thought processing."Rose Konda - Director, Lightseed Connections,

Montana USA .

"Wow! What a delightfully gentle yet powerful presentation Discovery is. I believe it is a

message that the children of our world need now. This program will provide a key for children to

escape the left brain prison our formal schooling has locked them into. It will give them tools to


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build LOVE and FREEDOM into their life and ultimately all our lives."Robyn Hanlon (Home

Educator) - Dip. T. Grad Dip Except.Child B.Ed (early childhood)

"I love Discovery and congratulate Isabelle Sennery on producing this magnificent journey of

self-realisation. Here is an opportunity for children to appreciate their true purpose in life. The

language is simple, easy and fun. It will enable children everywhere to benefit, by finding out

about themselves as they are invited to participate in this adventure of personal understanding.

John Mulvey - Business Consultant, Presenter and Author

Discovery: "...the course content and presentation are excellent. Discovery makes complex

information clear and simple but powerful, and is a very good combination of information and

experiential exercises. Above all, it will give children an understanding of , and access to, their

own inner self and its astonishing power, and a positive tool for creating a great life."Elizabeth O'Brien - Business Development Manager, Global Walkabout


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INDEX

Foreword Why this book?

Introduction Brain, Mind & Thought

Chapter 1 Your Control Centre

Chapter 2 An overview of your brain

Chapter 3 The Gate Keeper

Chapter 4 What Is The Mind?

Chapter 5 Your Conscious Mind

Chapter 6 Your Subconscious Mind

Chapter 7 Measuring Your Brains Activity

Chapter 8 Use the Alpha State Winners Do!

Chapter 9 Lets Talk About Thinking

Chapter 10 Everything Vibrates; Nothing Rests!

Chapter 11 Thoughts Can Be Measured Too!

Chapter 12 What Happens When You Think?

Chapter 13 The Power Of Your Spoken Words

Chapter 14 Deciding Who You Want To Be

Chapter 15 How to Imagine & Visualize

Chapter 16 The Power Of What You See And Hear

Chapter 17 How To Write Powerful Affirmations

Chapter 18 What Do You Really Want?

Chapter 19 Your Self-made Enemy

Chapter 20 And How To Get Rid Of It

Chapter 21 You And Other People

Chapter 22 The Law Of Growth

Chapter 23 Abundance For All

Chapter 24 Higher Wisdom & The Universal Mind

Chapter 25 Evolution & Change

Chapter 26 Walking Into The Future


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Foreword

WHY THIS BOOK

One day when I was about 9 years old, I read somewhere that we human beings use less than

10% of our brain.

Less than 10%? How could this be possible? It did not make any sense to me.

Specifically what did not make sense was the purpose of having an obviously extremely vital

organ in our body while not using it fully. Why would we have it in the first place then?

And, if we only use less than 10%, think of the potential we would have if we knew how to use

the rest!

I wondered ...did anybody know? Has anybody ever figured it out?

At about the same time, I was also asking myself a lot of questions about life.

What is it?

Where do we come from? (If we do come from somewhere)

Where do we go to afterwards? (If we are to go somewhere)

Was I just my body, or something more than my body?

If I was, what and who was I?

The funny thing is that I was not that kind of a serious kid! I had many friends, had a lot of fun

and I was often behind as a student. Mind you, I once had two prizes for excellence in one year!You'd never guess what they were for though!

Best Chatterbox and Best Daydreamer! I am serious and this is a true story. I let you imagine

how embarrassing that was to receive these prizes in front of all the teachers, all the parents and

much worst in front of all my friends!

But that was me. I had questions about everything. I guess all children have.

Answers however, came from all sorts of places. Some came from quite unexpected directions.

Others came from friends, parents, teachers, books and some just never surfaced.

One of those that didn't surface was my question about how I could utilize the other 90% of my

brain. Another was who am I? With both of these I really got stuck.

Nobody seemed to know. Those adult who did have some clue, kept on telling me that I was too

young to ask those questions, or failing that, too young to understand the answers.

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Years went by.

As a matter of fact, more than 30 years went by, accompanied by lots of books on the subject,

classes, workshops, seminars, you name it!

I still do not know the answers to every one of these questions. No one person knows all the

answers. The subject area is just too large. But, together with many other people around the

world, I found some really, really interesting answers that since discovering them have changed

my life forever. For the better!

When my own children started to ask me similar questions, I found that I could actually give

them some answers that they could understand and use!

So this is how the writing of the book you are right now holding in your hands came to pass.

Because I was seeking to provide answers for my own children, I decided to write it. Maybe you

are also asking yourself what life is all about, what the future holds and how to make sense of allthat is happening in the world today.

I later on found that sometimes it is hard to find the motivation to read stuff that is not

necessarily our first choice of reading material. You can be forgiven for wanting to choose Harry

Potters or Alex Riders latest adventures rather than a course teaching you how to access and

develop your very own power. To make it easier for you to learn and practice what you are about

to discover, I made an audio version which is now available on CD from www.sennery.com.

You may wish to have a look at them someday. You can also if you wish make your own audio

version. This would work very well and would be very easy to do and the magic of it of course is

that you would HAVE to read through the material as you are recording your voice reading it. So

in fact, I recommend you do just that

Whichever way you choose to explore this program, my deepest wish is that it guides you in the

right direction, so that it does not take you 30 years to understand the world of possibilities and

the power that lies right there, right now, within you.

Isabelle


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Introduction

BRAIN, MIND & THOUGHT

Are Brain, Mind and Thought your favorite subjects? I'll take a guess... and say they arenot!

This is quite understandable. The Brain is so complex, so amazingly intricate, that anybody in

their right mind would rather choose to leave the daunting task of under-standing it to the

experts, the neuroscientists and the neurophysiologists, right?

Who? Yes, you are right. Even the names given to the people researching and studying the brain

are complex!

What about the Mind?

Phew! Now that is even more wondrous and complex! It remains a mystery! It is not even

physical! Exploring the Mind is like space travel. Going deeper and deeper, further and further,

never ending, discovering along the way things that we did not even know existed!

What about Thinking?

Surely you know that you think. You do this all day long. And I suspect that you know what you

think. But, and there is always a but, do you know how you think? Did you ever try to work out

what actually happens between your ears when you think?

What could be so fascinating about the Brain, the Mind and Thinking, that the race to discovertheir mystery is as frantic as the race to the stars?

And what's in it, for you?

Well, as you might already know, your Brain and your Mind are the greatest, most amazing,

most beautiful and most powerful parts of who you are.

What you might not realize just yet though, is that your thinking holds a secret. That secret is

that your thoughts, what you think and how you think are the keys to unlocking the power of

your brain and mind, or in other words, the keys to unlocking your personal power.

Imagine a super computer. The most powerful computer, loaded with all the programs that can

possibly exist. Most of them, you haven't even heard of! The best software, an internet

connection, the lot!

That is what you have in your head! All for free, and in there for the rest of your life!

If you had such a computer at home you would learn how to use it, wouldn't you?


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You'd want to know how to turn it on, how to access the programs that you need, how to open

them and work or play with them, how to connect to the internet; surf around web sites...

Well, this is the purpose of this program..

To help you understand what your Brain is all about, what the Mind is all about and how to use

them together.

To help with the understanding of the Mind we must consider the physical things that can affect

the way our mind works. I have included stretching, breathing and relaxation exercises in the

chapters which will help you achieve a state of harmony that in turn will allow you to reach a

physical and emotional state known as the Alpha State, the most beneficial way to absorb the

information before you.

There are fun pages between the chapters to do with as you please. You can draw on them, write

notes, stick collage, or attach your favorite movie or concert tickets. Let your imagination takeover!

In other words, Ill show you how to have a great time in the Game of Life.

True!


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YOUR CONTROL CENTRE

Imagine yourself at an airport. Look around you. What is the tallest building? Usually it isthe control tower.

Just like an airport has a control tower to check on planes taking off and landing, your brain is

your body's control box. It receives messages about what is going on around you, and inside you,

telling your body what to do.

All this information received through your ears and eyes and other organs, travels to your brain

as signals to be sort-ed out and analyzed. These signals tell your brain about conditions outside

your body. It is cold or hot; you are inside or outside; there is music playing in the back-ground,

there is silence; the food you are eating is hot; the water is cold; the apple is sweet; your book isblue; your hair is soft etc.

Your brain decides what to do, then send signals back through the Nervous System to the

muscles that control body movements - telling your body what to do.

The brain is also the place where you think, remember, work out problems, have feelings,

imagine and daydream.

People studying the brain and how the brain works are called Neuroscientists. The study of the

brain is a subject that has fascinated many people for many centuries. As we enter the 21st

century, the understanding of the brain is accelerating at an incredible pace. New discoveries aremade every day!

There are more than 100,000,000 (one hundred million) connections between the various parts of

the brain.

Imagine a very large city, like Sydney, London, Paris, New York or Los Angeles, with all the

lights on at night. Every single light is on in the whole city, in each building, on each floor, in

each house and on every street. Imagine also, in this city you have chosen, that there are

headlights from thousands of cars driving up and down the many streets.

This network of still, blinking and shining lights, is very much how your brain looks when it is

operating.

The human brain leaves even the most advanced computers (super computers) far behind in its

capacity to process information. Just imagine. It has been estimated that the brain is able to

process more bits of information than there are atoms in the entire universe! This is huge!

In order to do something similar, a modern computer would have to be at least 10,000 times

larger than the aver-age brain!


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What is even more surprising is that much of this enormous capacity goes unused. It is very hard

for scientists to say exactly how much of the brain we use, but it is generally accepted today that

it is still less than 10%. Quite a bit less in fact, but let's be kind to ourselves...

Why do we have such a brain, with such a potential, if we don't fully use it? And what could wepossibly do if we knew how to access more of our brain?

It is like having a super computer, with an awesome game ready to play. You have a finger on

the start button, you press start but you only use a couple of the twenty or so buttons and special

function commands.

Surely that if you had such computer, you would try to figure out what would happen when you

start playing with other buttons and functions, or even smarter, you would ask somebody that

does know to show you how!

It is very much the same with your brain. What you are about to learn through this book is someof the other functions that are available and how to access and use them!

For this, it is important that you understand the various parts involved. The same as for a

computer, you have to learn how to use the keyboard and the mouse before you move on to a

game!


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YOU ARE THE SEED

A Relaxation Exercise

Relaxation is the first step in learning how to access and use more of your brain. Here is a

simple process to relax your body, and slow down your inner chatter.

Before you start, get some drawing paper and colored pencils and place them on the floor, or on

a table next to you.

Now, sit or lie on the floor, and close your eyes.

Imagine you are the seed of a tree lying in the earth, warmed by the sun.

Gradually, be aware that this seed has started to shoot - a little sprout breaks out of the seedshell, moving up in search of the warm sunlight.

Very gradually, this little shoot begins to grow into a special tree. Just let your body move in the

way it feels best for this to happen.

In your imagination, allow your tree to grow slowly and steadily in its very own way.

See and feel the trunk growing.

See and feel the branches growing.

Now see and feel the leaves growing.

And finally, your tree produces beautiful flowers.

Hold this position and notice what it feels like to be this very special tree.

Now gradually bring your attention back to the present, into this room.

Without speaking or looking at anything, take your drawing paper and colored pencils and draw

your tree. Be sure that this is a picture of the tree your seed grew into.

Keep drawing until your tree is complete.

When finished, date and sign your work.


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Chapter 2 - A Brief Overview of Your Brain

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF YOUR BRAIN

Look at the drawing that is here to help you.

The Cortex is mostly described has having two sides, the left and the right. These are called

hemispheres, sitting side-by-side in your head.

Your brain is divided into various parts and for the purpose of this book, we are going to

see howsome of these parts function and interact with each other.

You might find this a bit technical at first. However, it is really important that you understand

how they work.

Every thought and movement we make is controlled by the brain. The brain is made of billions

of living units called nerve cells, just like the lights in the city you just imagined.

These nerve cells carry millions of messages to the brain along the spinal column which runs all

the way down your back. The spinal column and the spinal cord within, links your brain to the

rest of your body.

The top of the spinal column is called the brain stem. This is where the spinal column meets the

brain.

Surrounding the brain stem is the Limbic system. The Limbic system is in continuous contact

with all the different organs in your body, checking how they feel.

Surrounding the Limbic system is the Cortex. This is what people usually draw when they are

asked to draw the human brain. It looks a bit like a bicycle helmet with a split down the middle.

Are you still with me?

Look at the drawing that is here to help you.

The Cortex is mostly described has having two sides, the left and the right. These are called

hemispheres, sitting side-by-side in your head.

The left hemisphere, also called the left brain, is the part of you that deals with arithmetic,language, judgment and speech. It is logical, concerned with details, always describing things,

making decisions. These are all left brain activities.

The right hemisphere, also called the right brain, is the part of you that looks more at the big

picture. It is quite happy when things do not seem to make too much sense. It is creative and is

the part of you that is good at drawing, painting, singing, story telling, imagining and music.


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The left and right brains are always communicating with each other, and they do so through a

thick bundle of nerves called the Corpus Callosum. This bundle of nerve fibers forms a bridge

between the left and right brain. This bridge allows information to be transmitted from one side

to the other. In this way the two hemispheres talk to each other.

Let's go back to the brain stem again and I'll tell you about one of life's best kept secrets.

There is another part of your brain that is very interesting.

Near the top of your brain stem, where it joins the left and right brain, there is a small part of

your brain (no more than 1 % of your total brain) that is made of a very thin web of nerves called

the Reticular Formation.

Right at the center of this formation, is an even smaller part that works like a filter. A filter

usually decides what can and cannot pass through.

This filter is called the Reticular Activating System, orRAS.

This is a major key to unlock the secrets of your brain.

The RAS is the Gatekeeper to a very important and special part of your brain. It is the gate to

the functions of your brain that work at subconscious levels. (You are not aware of these

functions however they certainly exist and are very powerful). It is also the gatekeeper to your

mind, the non- physical energy that works through your physical brain.

The subconscious andconscious aspects of your mind are explained in the following chapters.

To understand how to work with your Gatekeeper and to discover what is behind the gates toyour subconscious and your conscious mind is one of life's great secrets!


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Chapter 2 A Brief Overview Of Your Brain

THE QUICK BODY SCAN


Remember that relaxation is the first step in setting up a communication link between the

various parts of your brain. There are many ways to relax the body. Here is another

exercise for you to practice. Once you are familiar with different techniques, keep using the

one that works best for you.

Let's start...Sit down comfortably, leaning into and against the back of your chair. Close your

eyes. Begin to relax your whole body.

Think about your toes - think about the bones and muscles inside them, feel their weight. Now

tense up your toes as tight a possible. Hold that tense feeling in your toes to the count of five.

Now relax your toes, relax them completely and feel the difference.

Now, feel the lower part of your legs, and repeat the same process. Think about the bones and

muscles inside your legs, tense up the muscles as tight as possible. Hold to the count of five...

and let go.

Lets move up your body. Think and feel about the upper part of your legs. Tense up the

muscles, hold to the count of five and let go.

Now, tense up your buttocks, hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and relax.

Tense up the lower back, hold and let go.

Tense up the upper part of your torso, hold and let go.

Tense up your jaw, hold 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and relax.

Tense up your face, squeeze up all the muscles of your face. Hold and relax.

Now tense up your whole body. All the muscles tensed together, as tight as you can, hold1, 2,

3, 4, 5 and relax.

Remain in this relaxed state for a while.Once you get familiar with this method of relaxation and become a master at doing it really fast,

it is a great one to do just before you start a class.


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Chapter 3 - The Gate Keeper

THE GATE KEEPER

One of life's great secrets is to discover some extraordinary functions of your brain that

you are not aware of.

These are Functions that you are not conscious of; functions that control your body and your life

whether you are awake or asleep; functions that happen at a subconscious level.

These functions that you are about to discover, are so powerful that they totally control who you

are, and everything in your life, despite the fact that you are not aware of them existing within

your very own brain!

It is like having two selves. One that you know and one that you do not even know exists!

And the one that you do not know about is wiser and more powerful than the one that you do

know. Wouldn't it be great to learn how to get to know that other self?

Opening the door to this other self, is precisely what working with this filter calledRAS, is all

about.

RAS is also the gatekeeper to your mind, which is the non-physical energy that works through

your physical brain.

There is a whole new world out there, and the most amazing thing is that out there is nowhereelse to be found but within your own brain!

The easiest way to understand what RAS is all about is to think of it as a little helper. Imagine a

tiny little person sit-ting at a desk, kind of between your left and right brain; a little person

forever standing by the gate to your subconscious.

You might not know just yet very much about this filter, however you use it all the time and this

is an example of how you do that.


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Remember a time, at school and it is recess. The playground is very noisy. Voices everywhere!

In the background, you can hear laughter, noisy games, cars and trucks passing by, planes flying

overhead. You are talking with a friend, and you are so involved in your conversation that you

do not even notice the noise around you. But all of a sudden, you think you heard something.

Did you hear your name? Is somebody calling you? You hear it again. This time you hear it!

Someone is indeed calling you!

Now, did you really hear it the first time? Really hear it? No, because you were completely

absorbed in your conversation with your friend. But out of all the agitation and background

noises, yourlittle keeper at the desk heard it. It pulled a little string to get your attention, (this

string is a nerve fiber) andring-ring, you are now fully aware that somebody is calling you.

That's one of the many ways how RAS works. By getting your attention about what is necessary

for you to be aware of.

When you were deeply focused on your discussion, it was still there, working for you, filtering

what was important for you to hear, from what was not important.

Its function is to analyze incoming information.

It can accept it and let it pass through the bridge of nerves (Corpus Collosum) from the left side

of your brain to the other side (your right brain); or it can reject it and not let it pass through to

the other side.

The ability to accept or reject information is the responsibility of this filter.

The part of your brain that functions at subconscious level (your right brain) does not have theability to make this choice. It can only accept whatever comes across the bridge, then act upon it.

In other words, this part of your brain only obeys orders!

This filter is very important. Wouldn't it be great for you to learn how to use it?


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Chapter 3 The Gate Keeper

IMAGINE YOUR OTHER SELF


Close your eyes, and consciously start by slowing down your breathing. To do that, count

from 10 to 1. Each count is one inhale and one exhale.

Inhale, exhale... that's 10.

Inhale, exhale... that's 9

Keep going until you reach the count of 1.

Simply let your imagination wander. If you do have a secret self, another self that is really wise,

really powerful in the sense that it could do anything you would ask it to do, what would it look

like? Would it be a child, an adult, an older person? Would it look like you as you are right now,

or would it be older, taller, and bigger? Or smaller like Tinkerbell in the Peter Pan's story?

Let your imagination do the work for you. That is one of your right brain's best abilities. It loves

day dreaming, so let it bring you a sense or images of what this other self might look like. Know

and trust that whatever comes to you is perfect.

Once you have an idea of what your other self might look like, take a piece of paper and write

down what you have found.

Describe the special skills that this other self might have to make it so special! Can it sing? Can

it play music? Can it beat anybody else at Math? Does it know answers instantly? Can it

rollerblades like a champion? Can it swim faster than an Olympic Athlete? Does it have many

friends? Can it receive and give love to all? Does it talk to animals?

Remember, this other self is very knowledgeable (it's a know it all!), very friendly and very

likeable.


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Chapter 4 - What is the Mind?

WHAT IS THE MIND?

In recent years, research in physics, biochemistry and psychology (those names again!) has

shown that the brain works with a non-physical energy, called the mind.

Many people still confuse the mind with the brain.

Simply said, your mind is the intelligence that controls your life, and your brain is the tool that

your mind uses for its activities.

One of the things to understand here is that these two systems, the brain and the mind, work

together but belong to two different dimensions. Your mind is a process that runs in parallel to

physical processes of your brain.

You can touch, weigh and measure the brain. One can measure its activity as you will soon learnbut you cannot do this with the mind!

The Mind is something that you cannot touch. No surgeon in the world would be able to cut a

piece of it and put it into a glass jar so it could be analyzed. However, because it is like

electricity, it can be measured and that is how we know it exists.

It is invisible. It is energy and it is creative.

Another thing that is rather special about the mind is that it does not seem to have a precise

location within the brain. We could say that it is everywhere, multi-dimension-al and multi-

gifted.

The Mind works much faster than the most powerful super computer.

The Mind moves faster than the speed of light. Now that is pretty fast!

Right now, we still know very little about its power and all the things that it can do.

Research has also shown that the Mind is a bit like an iceberg! There is a part that we perceive

and a part that is kind of invisible.

And as with an iceberg, the part that you understand the most so far, seems only to be the tip ofwhat lays dormant; that part that we are unaware of.

Let's try to explain this in terms ofthinking.

You could say that your mind is made up of three different levels of thinking. Let's briefly look

at these three levels. We will explore them one by one as we progress through the chapters.


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The first level is what is usually known as the Conscious Mind, which you think with all day

long. It is called conscious mind because it's activities take place mostly within the left side of

your brain, your conscious brain. It is the place where you make your conscious choices, where

you make your decisions about things. It is your willpower.

The second level is yourSubconscious Mind which stores all your memories; all of yourmemories since the time you were born. It is like a computer databank and never sleeps. It is

called subconscious because you are not aware of its activities. These activities or processes

mostly take place in the right hand side of your brain; usually called the right brain.

The third level of your mind is yoursuper-conscious mind, which is so powerful we do not

even know much about it yet.

Mind is not in the physical dimension; however there seems to be a door, literally inside your

physical brain, accessing it. I wonder if you can guess what this door is called? Not many people

know about it. You could almost say it is a secret!

If you guessedRAS or the Reticular Activating System well done! It is that bit of your brain

with an impossible name, the Reticular Activating System! Your personal assistant! Your little

helper!

The gatekeeper!

Can you start to understand why it is so important?

It filters communication between your left and right brain, and also opens the door to your mind

when given the ability to do so.

How? That is precisely what you are about to discover...


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Chapter 4 What is the Mind

FIGURE OF EIGHT

Relaxation Exercise

Here is another way to relax, and connect with your mind.

Find a chair in which you can sit comfortably, or sit on your bed, -or on the floor. It is better not

to lie down as you might fall asleep! Close your eyes. Quickly relax your body by tensing all the

muscles ...and let go. Breathe deeply and slowly for a few minutes. Feel your body gently

slowing down as it relaxes more deeply.

Breathe in, and start counting l, 2, 3. Hold for a second... and breathe out, 4, 5, 6.

Breathe in, l, 2, 3, hold... and out 4, 5, 6.

Do this a few times until you are really relaxed.

Now, imagine that there are two circles floating above your body, forming a large figure of

eight.

As you breathe in, 1, 2, 3, imagine your breath going around the top part of the figure 8.

And as you breathe out, 4, 5, 6 imagine your breath going around the bottom part of the figure 8.

If you wish, you can let your body move slowly with your breath, making a figure 8, a little bit

like a snake would move.

Keep breathing, until you feel comfortable with the rhythm.

Feel the sense of calm that is beginning to wash all over you. You are feeling more and more

relaxed. You are now starting to tune into yourself.

After a while, and when you feel up to it, gently bring your attention back to the room around

you and when you are ready, open your eyes.


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Chapter 5 - Your Conscious Mind

YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND

The conscious mind is the part of your mind that works mostly through your left brain's

functions. It thinks and reasons and tells you what is right or wrong. This is where you

make your decisions about everything.

Everyday, things happen to you and around you. Each moment, you must make a decision about

things. Are car-rots good for you, or not? Is this right or wrong? Is this white or black?

Your conscious mind can accept an idea or choose not to accept it and thus reject it. Let's

explain this:

Suppose that when homework or study time comes around, you choose to watch televisioninstead. You will tell yourself all the good reasons in the world why you need to watch television

at that time. However, another little voice in your head will tell you: Really! What you need to

do is your homework. Otherwise you will be in big trouble at school tomorrow!"

It is then your choice, to choose to do your homework and turn off the television!

Nobody and nothing can force you to think thoughts or ideas that you do not choose.

The thoughts that you choose result in what you do and at the end of the day will determine the

results or success in your life.

In the same way, (and you might find this idea a bit hard to swallow), nothing and nobody can

make you feel any-thing you do not want to feel. Nobody can make you feel good or bad. You

feel no matter what, simply because you are alive. You feel all the time!

It is your conscious choice that makes you feel about how to react to what is happening.

The feelings are there, but what you choose to do with them, is your choice alone. It is a

conscious choice.

Let's say that somebody is upsetting you. They are succeeding because right now you feel upset.

Well, what's next?

Option No 1: You can choose to accept that you are upset, and stay upset for as long as you like

being upset.

Option No 2: You can accept that you are upset and choose that you are not going to spend more

time than necessary being upset, and let go of being upset!


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Chapter 5 Your Conscious Mind

WHAT DO I WANT?

Application Exercise

There are times when I might want something that may not be good for me or others

around me. When this happens, it would be a great idea to double check with your other

self, the wise one that resides below your conscious awareness.

Again, count from 10 to one, slowing down your breathing, and ask yourself:

Is what I want good for me?

Why is it good for me?

Would it be a good example or a benefit to those around me?

If I know or have a gut feeling that it is not good for me, why isnt it good?

If it is not good for me, could it also affect others in my life and how would it affectthem?

What would my wise self choose right now?

What would I gain by trusting my wise self and following its advice?


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Chapter 6 - Your Subconscious Mind

YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

The subconscious mind is a magnificent part of you.

It is yourpower centre.

It is the part of you that contains all the memories of all the things that have ever happened to

you since the time that you were conceived, even though you consciously do not recall them.

Every single thing that you have done, everything that has been done to you, every single picture

that you ever saw and every single person that you ever met is recorded in there.

Your subconscious is your memory keeper. It stores and files and keeps all of the information

received by it through your conscious mind.

Your conscious mind makes decisions based on information given to it by your subconscious

mind.

So, once you have made a choice (right or wrong, it does not matter) your conscious mind sends

it back to your subconscious for information and for storage.

Your choice becomes another piece of information in your memory bank.

It would be totally confusing if every single piece of information stored in your subconscious

was fully available to you all at one time, every single moment of your life. It would drive you

crazy as maybe only one or two would actually be appropriate right at this moment. Yourlearning to ride a bike memories are not really appropriate while you are deciding how to wrap

your Christmas presents!

However, it is also really important to understand that because your subconscious is a data bank,

used by your conscious mind to make decisions each and every time that you make a choice

about something, it would be good to know that only good stuff is in there. This would make

sure that only good choices are made by your conscious mind when time to make a choice comes

around!

It is still very much like a computer: some programs are good, some quite disastrous! Which

ones would you rather use?

The good news is that you are able to get rid of the pro-grams that are not helping you make the

right decisions as you journey through life.

By changing the things in your subconscious mind that are not helping you, you will be able to

change what happens to you in your life, because you will be able to make better choices!


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This is much easier to do than you think! As we move along in this book, you will learn some

easy and fun ways

to change how you do the things you do.

Now that you know of the huge storage capabilities of your subconscious, and that you can

change some of the pro-grams for better programs, there is something else that you should know.

The subconscious minddoes not have the ability to reject or select the thoughts, ideas, words

and images you choose through your conscious mind.

The subconscious communicates through thoughts, feelings and emotions, which belong to the

world ofenergies and vibrations.

What does this mean? It means that:

Your subconscious mind is extremely creative. It has no limitation. It cannot say to itself that

something is not possible. To your subconscious mind, everything is possible, and whether itmakes sense really does not matter.

Your subconscious mind can attract the people, circum-stances and events into your life that will

allow you to create the life that you want.

How?

Let's find out...


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Chapter 6 Your Subconscious Mind

THE MAGIC MIRROR


Close your eyes, and take a deep breath. Inhale... 1, 2, 3, hold it for a second, exhale... 4,5,6.

Repeat a few times until your body feels deeply relaxed.

Imagine standing in front of a mirror. A beautiful mirror that is so clear the more you look at it,

the more you feel that if you were to touch it, your hand would go through it.

Look straight ahead in the eyes of the person you see reflected in the mirror. At first, what you

see is yourself in the way you see yourself every day.

But look again and this time, very carefully, look at the eyes that are looking back at you. These

eyes reflect the part of yourself that you are less familiar with.

Look at yourself again, through these eyes, and take notice of what you feel, what you think,

what you see. Who are you?

When you feel ready, take a piece of paper and write down the person that you saw, the real you.


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Chapter - 7 Measuring Your Brain's Activity

MEASURING YOUR BRAINS ACTIVITY

A machine called a P.E.T. scanner can measure your brain's activity. In case you want to

know what P.E.T. stands for, it means Positron Emission Tomography. Let's stick with

PET!

Thanks to this P.E.T. machine, scientists can see what is happening in the brain while we do

certain activities.

They can also see which part of the brain responds to these particular activities.

The energy in your brain is like electricity and this electrical activity is also called Brain Waves.

These brain waves are measured by another machine called the electro-encephalograph, also

known as E.E.G.

Scientists have found that there are seven types of brain waves. They have named them Super

High Beta, K-complex, High Beta, Beta, Alpha, Theta, andDelta, from the fastest to the

slowest.

When your brain is in a particular brain wave activity, it is calleda state.

The brain states that are best understood to date are the Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta states.

Let's look at what happens when your brain is working in each of these states, from the slowest

to the fastest.

The Delta state:

This is when you sleep. You are sleeping so soundly that you do not even have dreams. You are

not aware of your physical body. A very, very deep sleep.

If you want to know, the speed at which the Delta waves work is 0.5 to 3.5 cycles per second.

Notice how low the numbers are? This means that the speed (cycle) at which these waves are

moving, is very slow. Not much activity here!

The Theta state:

With this state you are usually still asleep, but mostly you are dreaming. Being in the Theta state

is what makes our dreams seem so real.

The Theta state cycle is 3.5 to 7 cycles per second. Notice the numbers. They are getting

bigger... increasing. These Theta waves are moving faster than the Delta waves.


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When you are in a Theta state you are very relaxed. Some people can be in the Theta state and

not be asleep. They are so relaxed that it looks like they are asleep, but actually they're not.

People who do that are also very still and they call what they are doing meditation.

The Alpha state:This is when you are awake but relatively quiet. It is when you are concentrating on only one

thing at a time. You can be totally engrossed, watching your favorite program on television. You

can imagine being in some other place when you're not actually there. Some people call it day-

dreaming. You are awake and aware but not thinking, just absorbing.

The Alpha state cycle is 7 to 13 cycles per second. Way faster!

This state isvery important. Remember your little gate keeper, the little helper that stands

guard between your left and right brain? Well, the Alpha state is where you need to be for this

little helper to do his work.

He is there when you are in the Alpha state, not filtering, just opening the doors between your

left brain and your right brain. He is opening up both doors so that the information in both sides

of your brain can mix and mingle.

Opening these doors allows your whole brain to function, to operate, to work together, all at the

one time. There is no filtering going on.

Information and knowledge is just flowing between the two. And you're not really thinking about

anything. You're just relaxing and absorbing. Your senses are finely tuned and you feel great.

Your two - sided brain is working as one!

The Alpha state helps you to understand better, to remember more, to learn faster and to have

more ideas because you are using your whole brain. All at once!

The Alpha state is used by a lot of people. Since 1988, every country on our planet Earth

has been training their Olympic Athletes in the Alpha state so that they can run, swim and

perform much, much better.

People who need to learn a foreign language quickly can do this faster than ever possible, by

learning in the Alpha state.

Sport champions train in the same way, by imagining their successes in their mind, in the Alpha

State; well before they actually compete!

The Beta state:

The Beta state is the wide-awake state where you can think of many things at the same time. You

can be doing your homework and watching television while keeping an eye on your little brother

or sister, all at the same time. Mums, dads and teachers are great at this!


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Research has shown that people have their own unique brain state profile, like people have their

own unique fingerprints.

In other words, no two people are exactly alike in how their brains process brain wave patterns.

No two people have exactly the same finger prints.

This research is calledneuro-mapping orbrain mapping.

You are unique. There are not two of you - anywhere. Here is what I would like you to do

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Chapter 7 Measuring Your Brains Activity

A TOP SECRET PAGE ABOUT MYSELF

An Application Exercise

Again, count from 10 to 1, slowing down your breathing with each count. As you are

counting down, tense up your body, and relax.

Take a piece of paper and get ready to write some really top secret, great things about yourself.

This is not about telling the world that you're wonderful. It is about telling yourselfthat you are

wonderful.

And if you have any doubt about that, consider for a moment your magnificent brain, your wiser

self, your little helper working for you... all of these wonderful and extraordinary aspects of youthat ARE you.

Write a list or short story about the person you know you are:

Remember, this is top secret, so don't be bashful or shy. This is for your eyes only. Put it in an

envelope and hide it in a secret place.

When you feel a bit down or forget about who you truly are, take it out of its hiding spot and

read it again.

OK. Who are you?

Here are some ideas to guide you along the way:

The best thing about me is:

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The best thing I can do is

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I am great because

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I am really good at

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Chapter 8 - Use the Alpha State - Winners Do!

USE THE ALPHA STATE - WINNERS DO!

In the same way as there is a connection between your physical brain and your mind,between your physical brain and your body, there is a connection between your mind and

your body.

Can you guess how?

Yes! You've got it!

Through that bit of your brain, with the funny name, the Reticular Activating System! RAS

again!

Your own personal assistant, your little helper!

You could say that, like your brain, your physical body is an instrument for your mind.

It is the physical vehicle that your mind needs to operate through.

Your body is also very much like a super computer. Your physical body is the frame (the hard

drive tower, the monitor, the keyboard and the speaker). Your brain is the data storage disk.

Your conscious mind is the software program and your subconscious mind is the internet.

To surf the many web sites that are available, you first need to connect to the internet. Right?

In the same way, to surf the many abilities of your subconscious you first need to connect the

two sides of your brain, allowing your whole brain to work as one. For this you need to be in the

Alpha state.

So, the trick to get there as quickly and easily as possible is in using your very own body

functions as the tools that they are intended to be, to enable you to enjoy and benefit from whole

brain thinking.

As brain wave activity slows down, something happens to your respiration.

Your breathing slows down as well and gets more relaxed!

As you get more relaxed and as your muscles let go of tension, your breathing becomes even

more relaxed.

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Consciously slowing down your breathing will relax your body and slow down the activity in

your brain. From the fully awake Beta state, your brain will enter the Alpha state.

To learn better and faster, as well as to do all the great things that you will hear about as we

move along in this book, you need to be in the Alpha state. Like the Champions! And all you

need to do really to be in that state, is to slow down your breathing and relax your body!

That's easy, isn't it?

You have a brain that can work magic once it is working as a whole, which happens as soon as

the door, between the left and the right brain is open, when information can be transferred from

one part of the brain to the other.

You can access the storehouse of your subconscious by opening this door. Once the RAS is

open, you can then add and remove stuff from your subconscious in the same way as you add or

delete programs that you no longer use from your computers memory.

This is best done in the Alpha state and slowing down your breathing will get you there!

The following exercise will show you a very easy way to slow down your breathing and relax

your body. It would be a great idea to learn how to do it by hart. Do it again and again until you

can do it easily and quickly.

Next time you want to learn something, at school or at home, do this just before you are about to

start listening, or start reading. You will learn much faster and everything will be so much easier

to recall!

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Chapter 8 Use The Alpha State Winners Do!

ACCESSING THE ALPHA STATE

A relaxation exercise

Sit in a comfortable position, with your back straight and your hands resting palms up on your

knees. Now close your eyes.

Take a few moments to notice your breath. Is it entering and leaving from both nostrils? Or is it

from one nostril only? Is it your right? Is it your left? Or is it both after all?

Take a deep breath and direct it down to the area where you sit allowing your tummy to fill in

like a balloon.

Hold it.

Now allow this breath to flow out through your nostrils.

Repeat this process one more time.

This time, on your third breath, imagine keeping all your breath inside your body and more it up

to the very top of your head.

Now take your breath down from the top of your head, slowly allowing it to move down, just

like the water moves down the side of the bath when you remove the plug.

Slowly allow your breath to move down past your eyes, nose, mouth, neck, shoulders, chest,

arms.

Let it do down past your tummy, the tips of your fingers to the top of your legs.

Past your knees, ankles, feet and finally out each of your toes into the earth.

Take a deep breath and repeat.

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Chapter 9 ~ Now, Let's Talk About Thinking

NOW, LET 'S TALK ABOUT THINKING

Thinking is the same as talking to yourself, or making pictures about your five senses

(sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) - all inside your head.

Here are some fun facts about thinking.

Did you know that you think about 60,000 thoughts each and every day?

It has been shown that an individual can pay attention to about seven bits of information at the

same time. Why? In most developed countries where the telephone is used all the time, the

number of digits in a telephone number is usually 6 or 7. This has become the average minimum

bit of information that we can learn at a time. This is what is calledconditioned learning!

This is why a lot of people have trouble remembering telephone numbers when they are changed

from 7 digits, to 8 digits! After a while, they are re-conditioned and do remember the 8 digits.

An interesting study was done with children in Bulgaria where they were taught to remember 99

numbers in a row.

Not one after another, but actually 99 numbers at once! Can you imagine what this number looks

like!

45678091283497586198375492176348209745216973197576935197645282957612398056827563810284658713286745 9?

Guess what? They did, and by doing so their school marks climbed out of sight!

Now, let's go back to thinking, and how you think:

There are different methods ofhow to think. Not what you are thinking about, but how you are

thinking.

Some people think in pictures or in words or in feelings or even through physical sensations.

People who think in pictures can move them around, change them, add colors, add more colors

to the pictures or put two pictures together to make a new one. They are using theirmind's eye.

Also known as imagination.

Try it: Can you see (imagine) your bedroom the way you left it this morning? Is the bed made? Is

the blind up? Is it light or dark?


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People who think in feelings know something rather than seeing it in their mind's eye.

Try it. Think of taking a shower. Can you sense how you feel when the water runs down all over

you? Do you feel relaxed?

People who think through physical sensations actually experience through their body, thesensations associated with the image that is in their mind.

Try it. Again, think of taking a shower. Can you feel the water running down all over you? Is it

warm? Is it chilly? Can you catch that slippery soap?

People who think in sounds or noises imagine these sounds in their mind's ears rather than seeing

in their mind's eye.

Try it. Imagine you can hear the sounds in the playground. Can you hear the school bell? Can

you hear your teacher speaking to you?

All methods and different ways of thinking are good. You need to use the way that is most

familiar and easiest for you. It is your perception and it is right for you.

What someone else sees, hears or feels is right for them. It does not have to be the same for

everybody.

Learn to trust your gut feeling (your intuition) , and your perception. That is the part of you

which knows what is right for you. Listen, or tune into it. It is like an internal radar system,

guiding you towards what is true for you. It helps you think clearly.

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Chapter 9 Now, Lets Talk About Thinking

IMAGINE YOURSELF AS SOMEBODY ELSE

An application exercise

Your own view of the world and the way things should be can be very different from

somebody else's view of the world!

Notice that people around you have widely different opinions and think differently about almost

everything!

That is great! There is choice for everyone!

Think of something that can create a good discussion, something on which most people will have

different ideas.

It could be something like:

What do you think the world will look like at the end of next year?

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What do you think the world will look like at the dawn of the year 2100?

______________________________________________________________________________

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If you ruled the world, what laws would you pass?

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How parents should raise children in todays world?


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How could you become educated if school did not exist?

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How could society eradicate hunger and poverty in the world?

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EVERYTHING VIBRATES; NOTHING RESTS!

How does this work?

There is a natural law that is called the Law of Vibration. It is a natural law because it is

something that happens in nature, without a need for machines or people to make it work. It

simply exists on this planet and throughout our whole universe.

The law of vibration explains the difference between the physical and the non-physical.

It explains the difference between the things that you can see and the things that you cannot see.

It also explains the difference between mind and matter.

The law of Vibration explains that everything vibrates and nothing rests.

Just think about when you're asleep or sitting very still. Not only are you breathing and not only

is your heart pumping, every cell in your body, every molecule, the tiniest part of you is

vibrating, which means moving very quickly.

Everything is always moving. When you are asleep and you think that everything is motionless

around you, the Earth, the Sun and the Galaxy are all spinning at fantastic speeds.

Everything is always moving at different speeds.

Rates or speeds of vibration are called frequencies.

The stronger the frequency the more powerful it becomes.

Thought is one of the strongest forms of vibration and therefore very powerful.

Everything is energy.

Everything vibrates.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It simply vibrates at different frequencies. Thingsbecome a reality, come into being, within the frequency level at which they vibrate.

The next example will help you to understand this concept a whole lot better.

Imagine a snowfield. It is winter. The nights are very cold although during the day, the

temperature warms up considerably. Let's see what happens to the snow...


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When the sun comes up, it heats up the atmosphere and the temperature of the air rises. The

snow melts and becomes water. The temperature keeps rising and the water turns into steam.

From steam, it then becomes what seems to be air, vapor, nothing. But when nightfall comes and

the temperature goes down again, down below freezing, what had disappeared into thin air

becomes snow flakes again, tiny water vapor crystals.

Now, at all times, water was there! But the frequency of its vibration changed and it seemed at

the time, that you could not see it anymore. It seemed to disappear! It had gone! But it was there

all the time.

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DAY DREAMING


Once again, sit down comfortably, tense up your whole body and relax. Take a deep

breath, hold it for a moment, and breathe out. Do this a few times until you feel that your

body is totally relaxed.

Imagine being a drop of water, floating and dancing amongst millions of other drops in a huge,

vast, deep ocean.

Imagine what it would feel like to be floating and dancing in this ocean. Feel the warmth of the

sun hitting the ocean, increasing the temperature around you.

Now imagine that from water, the warmth of the sun slowly transforms you into a light fogdroplet. You feel yourself rising from above the water, now part of the air around you.

Feel a gentle breeze carrying you away, higher and higher. Feel yourself becoming lighter, and

lighter again.

All of a sudden, you meet with a whole group of fog droplets that, because they are together,

now form what looks like a cloud. Join them, blend with them and become part of a beautiful

white fluffy cloud.

Again, imagine feeling a gentle breeze pushing you away, floating well above the deep blue

ocean. You are now reaching the shore.

Look below you, and see the green pastures, the tiny houses, the tiny roads. To help you with

this, imagine that perhaps you are a bird flying high above the ground.

Look around you.

By now, you are so high above the ground that the air is getting cooler. Many more droplets have

joined you, and your cloud is getting larger and thicker by the minute. It is now also much

heavier. So heavy that all of a sudden, it breaks down and you feel free to float down toward the

earth. It is getting closer and you safely land on a flower, nourishing its petal with the water that

you are.

Imagine now becoming this flower, feel your petals opening, full of moisture.

Feel yourself going down its stem, down its roots, down inside the earth around. And from the

earth, again feel the warmth of the sun that is shining again in the blue sky high above, and feel

your-self getting ready for another adventure.


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Gently bring your awareness back to the room around you, and when you feel ready, open your

eyes.

On a piece of paper, write what it felt like to be a droplet of water. Write what you felt, what you

saw, what state was the most pleasurable, or the least pleasurable.

Realize that in the same way that you imagined being a droplet of water, you can imagine being

the person that you want to be, doing the things that you want to do.


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Chapter 11 ~ Thoughts Can be Measured Too!

THOUGHTS CAN BE MEASURED TOO!

Your mind is like a stereo system, playing music all day long. If you play a piece of disco

music, you hear a song, right? But listen carefully for a moment, and really listen... can you

hear different sounds, some high, some even higher, some low and even lower?

Have you ever tried to catch one of your thoughts with your hands? Have you ever tried to hold

it so that you could look at it? It's a bit hard isn't it? Thoughts are non-physical. They are like the

air that surrounds you. Invisible.

Your thoughts being similar to the air that is around you travel through the air at different

speeds. And just like music or sound waves travel through the air from a stereo system, your

thoughts travel too!

The different speeds that our thought energy travels at are calledvibrations.

Did you know that if someone is sending out a thought on the same level of vibration that your

mind is thinking, you can catch their thoughts with your mind?

Have you ever thought of someone, only to bump into them a few moments later?

Have you ever felt that your class teacher was just about to ask you a question and a few minutes

later she did? You knew it, right! In fact, you thought so much about it that your teacher's mind

picked up on the vibration of the thought coming out of your mind!

You've heard somebody say it or maybe you've said it yourself... "Are you reading my mind?"

That's someone tuning into your thoughts at the same vibration as you're thinking them.

Your thoughts like, or attract, the same vibrations. They are familiar to each other, they know

each other.

It's much like your friends at school. You hang out together because you have something in

common.

There is something that you are attracted to about the other person. You are sending out the same

vibrations. Sending out the same vibes!

Through your own vibes, you attract into your life the people and things that you need to create

the experiences that you want to bring into your life.


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Sometimes, you might think positive things, but as much as you can think and think again,

nothing seems to be happening.

Do you know why?

It might be because your subconscious mind keeps sending you a program that conflicts withwhat you want!

There are ways to make sure that your subconscious sends you back a program that matches, so

that things turn out the way you want them to turn out.


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Chapter 11 Thoughts Can Be Measured Too!

TRUST YOUR GUT FEELING

Application Exercise

How often have you heard a question and when you heard someone else answer, realized

you had thought of it but did not dare say that because you thought you might be wrong?

Often, the answer that flashes across your mind is right!

Trust your gut feeling!

Next time that you are reading a book, see if you can imagine what happens in the chapter

following the one that you are reading;

When you go grocery shopping with your parents, imagine the amount that will appear on the

cash register at the check out;

Imagine the color of the clothes that your teacher will wear when next he or she walks into the

classroom.

A word of caution.

For all these guessing games, expect a few misses before you get good at it. As with all games,

you need first to get the hang of them, which means in this particular case, you first need to trust

your gut feeling! After a few misses, youll get it right. Once you get it right a few times, youwill know for sure that you can trust your intuition.

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Chapter 12 - What Happens When You Think?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU THINK?

The energies that move around and out from your body are vibrations.

All living creatures have vibrations coming from their bodies. In the same way as we cannot see

music waves travel through the air, we usually cannot see the vibrations moving around people

or animals. Many times though, we can feel them.

Doctors have measured and quantified this energy field and found that this energy field is more

responsible to stimulation than the brain itself. If for instance someone were to enter the room

where you are right now, your energy field would sense this person's presence before your brain

would.

These vibrations always match a person's mood (state of mind). If a person is calm and happy

their vibrations will be coming out slow and smooth. Your feelings about a per-son often tell you

what they are like, because you are sensing the vibrations they are sending out.

In the same way, if a person is very nervous or angry, the vibrations coming from that person

will be fast and irregular. We feel uncomfortable, tense and sometimes even fearful when we are

around such a person. That is when the hair on the back of your neck goes up!

Many people are very good at sensing vibrations from others too! You, in particular, are doing it

all the time! You choose your best friends, and get along so well with them, because you sensethat you like each other. This knowing, this sense, is your vibrations being in tune with theirs,

being almost the same!

Animals are very good at sensing your vibrations. A dog can tell if you fear that he might jump

at you as much as he can tell if you want to pat him. A horse can tell if you are afraid to ride it,

or comfortable doing so. Animals sense vibrations coming from people by sensing love or fear

which shows through the calm and loving vibrations or tense and nervous vibrations you are

sending out.

Let's look now at how all the above fits with what happens when you think:

The mind holds a very large amount of energy. This energy is very strong.

Your whole body is filled with great amounts of energy too. When you try to gather all of the

energy of your body into your mind, you can make your mind very strong.


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This energy is like electricity and it radiates out from your body. Your thoughts have great

energy and they can be very, very strong. Scientists are now finding out about this special power

of our thoughts.

When you think, your thoughts become real thing that can move around through the air. Most of

the time, we cannot see these thoughts moving around us and we do not even realize that theyare there.

These thoughts which are things are calledthought forms.

Thought forms float all around us.


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Chapter 13 - The Power of Your Spoken Words

THE POWER OF YOUR SPOKEN WORDS

You express your thoughts with the words that you speak. These words also travel throughthe air around you and they, just like thoughts and everything else for that matter have

vibrations.

You can use these spoken words and their vibrations to change the thoughts that you may have

in your subconscious mind.

It is like taping over an old tape, with new songs, or over an old video tape, with a new movie.

This can be done by repeating what is called an affirmation.

An affirmation is a group of words, repeated again and again until such time as your little helpergets it and recognizes that it is obviously something that needs to be stored in your subconscious

and lets it enter for permanent storage.

Everything that is repetitive in such a way is an affirmation, whether the message contained in

the words is positive, or not.

Advertising is a great example of the power of affirmations in influencing people's behavior.

You might recall a time when you saw something advertised on TV that initially did not appeal

to you very much. However, after a while, you might have caught yourself wanting that thing. It

could have been a toy, food, or a drink.

To affirm something to yourself, you choose a set of words that represents the new person that

you want to be; the new attitude that you want to have or the new belief that you want to create.

Once you have chosen this set of words you have an affirmation. By repeating this affirmation

over and over again it will be accepted by your subconscious mind without question.

Often, when you are first starting to do this, it will seem silly, because you may not consciously

or logically agree with what you are telling yourself.

For instance, if you think you cannot draw a beautiful picture and tell yourself (affirm) that you

draw the best picture in the whole class, the little voice in your head (your conscious mind) will

tell you that this is not so! Well, guess what! You can change this...

Keep repeating the affirmation, again and again, even if for a while you do not feel or see that

change is indeed happening.

When you do this, RAS will understand that you really mean business.


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It will then allow the instructions to pass from your left brain to your right brain, through the

bridge of nerves (the Corpus Collosum).

RAS will open the door for the new belief (you draw the best picture) to travel all the way inside

your right brain, and replace the old idea that you had that you could not draw!

Do you know what the most difficult thing is in all of this?

It is to keep saying the good words to yourself, over and over and over. Even when it looks like

it is not working.

This is when you must keep on doing it.

Think it. Write it down. Read it. Speak it!


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Chapter 13 The Power Of Your Spoken Words

CREATE A SUCCESS FOLDER

An Application Exercise

Start a folder.

On the cover, write I Am Successful Now.

Decorate it in any way you like that means success for you.

Write down everything that you have done successfully today.

Each day, write something that someone else in your environment (a friend at school, a brother

or sister, a parent) has done that you think was a success.


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Chapter 14- Decide Who You Want to Be

DECIDE WHO YOU WANT TO BE

By far the greatest discovery throughout the centuries has been the power of thought.

The importance of this discovery has been a little slow in reaching the general consciousness

(the general public), but it has arrived!

It is really important that you understand that, because we are going to explain it and explain it

again:

Quantum physics suggests that we are part of a great and vibrating universe. Everything in

physical existence, from the stars in the sky to the book you hold in your hands and to your

hands themselves, is vibration.

Thought is vibration. The waves of energy created through our brain when we think, is the

language of the universe, the language of creation. We create our lives through this power.

We are, all of us without exception, continually creating and re-creating our reality, our world,

through the power of our very own thoughts. Through the power of our very own spoken words.

For better or for worse, we use this power whenever we speak, whenever we think and whenever

our feelings set in motion waves of energy, through our brain and mind.

Thought is the most extraordinary source of personal and spiritual creative power.

You use this power every day.

Because of this discovery, there is a change happening on the planet. There was nothing else

ever before like it in the history of the world. The whole human race is now learning what

thought is all about and how to think.

This massive change is happening because of the recognition that thought is the invisible bridge

of communication between the world that we see and the world that we cannot see.

Thought is the invisible link that enables each person, including you, to communicate with theuniverse.

Thought is the energy that another law, the Law of Attraction uses to bring things into your

reality, into your real world. From the Law of Attraction we learn that the words you think, the

thoughts you have in your mind, all create vibrations and attract circumstances, things and

people that fit into these vibration patterns.


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It is now time to accept responsibility for who you are. Being responsible means your ability to

respond to the world around you.

You have the choice.

You can be whatever you choose to be.

You can be whoever you chose to be.

If you can think it, you can be it.


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Chapter 14- Decide Who You Want to Be

CREATE YOUR OWN DREAMS POSTER

An application exercise

This is a powerful tool to keep you focused on the person that you want to become the

things that you want to do, to have.

Ask an adult for some magazines in which you can cut out bits and pieces that represent the

types of things, people and circumstances that you want to have in your life. These could be

friends, animals, a special holiday, a new bicycle; whatever. As long as it is something that you

truly want to have.

Stick these bits and pieces on a large piece of forest green cardboard that you can get from astationary store.

Write the words that you associate with these pictures and stick them on the poster next to, under

or on the picture.

Add anything you like, such as fancy and shiny stickers, your own drawing, photographs.

Hang the finished poster on your wall, so that you can look at it often.

You can also ask mum or dad to take a photograph of it, so that you can have it with you at all

times. If it happens that things get tough at school, at home or anywhere, just look at it andremember that you have the power to choose how you think about your difficulties. You are to

focus on what you have learned from it, then move on to more positive thoughts!

You can also glue this photograph inside your schoolbook!


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Chapter 15 How To Visualize

HOW TO VISUALISE

Your mind can be used as a camera. You can take pictures and then zoom them on thescreen in your mind. You could say that you can use your brain, through your eyes, to

imagine (image-in) the pictures that support the life you want to create.

This is commonly calledVisualization.

Pictures are important because that is one of the main ways the brain works. The brain makes

pictures of things in your mind. The brain also records sounds, feelings, sensations, tastes and

smells.

Try it by yourself! Remember your bedroom as you left it this morning. Clean, spotless, all your

things properly tucked away, your bed done (are you sure that this is what your bedroom lookedlike when you left home? You sure have lucky parents!).

Can you imagine your bed in another corner?

Can you imagine your name spelt in large colored letters on the wall above your bed?

Visualization is like day dreaming, but you get to choose what to dream about.

Visualization is concentrated, focused image creation.

Everybody visualizes, although not everybody visualizes in the same way! Research has shownthat even people who do not see can visualize, in their own ways.

As an example, let's take your family car, or your neighbor's. What color is it?

Some of you will "see" th

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