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Friday, December 19, 2008
The Mind of Money
How to Use Your Inner Resources to Weather Hard Times and Win Financial Freedom.
Over the course of 20 years I have helped dozens of people to make money doing what they love.
Some became successful small business owners, others transformed into leaders in their chosen fields and a few grew to be multimillionaires.
Interestingly, they all shared one trait in common.
Each of these individuals knew that the path to their goals and dreams wound through the mind. In other words, these folks realized that to create external success they had to harness their internal resources.
That is where I came in. They came to me because they knew that the things they needed to succeed were waiting inside of them and that I could help bring them out.
Over the next few blogs I am going to share with you the tools and techniques I taught these highly successful individuals. If you follow my simple instructions nothing in the world can stop you from reaching your goals and reaping the financial rewards you deserve.
The Rule of Five The difference between the dreamers and the doers often starts with "The Plan."
Dreamers all have "big plans." They say, "I am going to drive a big car, live in a big house and take big vacations!"
However if you ask them what they are going to do to create this they say, "I don't know but it is going to be big!"
Even if they know what they are going to do to achieve this goal of largeness, dreamers rarely know the single most important ingredient for getting there.
Doers also have big dreams. And like their dreamer counterparts they spend a good deal of time fantasizing about how they will spend all that money once they make it.
The real difference between those who do and those who dream is that the doers know where to begin.
Doers know that the most important part of The Plan is not where to end but where to start.
To transform from a dreamer to a doer I recommend you use the Rule of Five.
Once you know the goal, the most important question to ask yourself is this, "What are the First Five things I must do in order to reach my objective?"
Now if you are having trouble with this step it is time to study history.
Somewhere, someone has done something along the lines of what you doing. Find out how they got started.
While what they did might not work for you, it will open your mind to options and possibilities. The First Step might very well be- "Study History".
Once you have determined the correct First Five Steps focus all of your efforts and energy on them until they are complete. Work on nothing else until they are accomplished.
Once you have completed the First Five, replace them with the Next Five things and start the process over again.
Of course you must assess the effectiveness of your strategy and make adjustments as you go along but if you are devoted to the Rule of Five you will find momentum building and the gap between where you are and where you want to be quickly closing.
Today, people think in sound bites. The best sound bites create mental images. When President Bush was justifying his reasons for attacking Iraq on the grounds that that country possessed weapons of mass destruction, he conjured up a powerful image by saying, "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
The powerful image of a mushroom cloud hanging over New York City or perhaps the city in which you live was powerful enough to set this country marching to war. The intermediary between your brain and your body is the imagination. Before emotions can drive us to action they must first be created in the physical body- and nothing activates the body faster then a potent mental image.
Aristotle told us that "the mind thinks in images." When ideas and concepts reach critical mass in the mind they activate your inner cinema and the procession of pictures that are produced will dictate to the nervous system exactly what needs to be done. Emotions flow and actions are initiated.
Watch the President candidates Barack Obama and John McCain as they come down the final stretch. From images of "Joe the Plummer' to "struggling single mothers with sick children" sound bites filled with mental pictures will abound.
Hypnotists use imagery frequently to move their clients to action. So do President candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and with great success.
Come train with me and I will teach you how to put imagery to work helping others change, motivating a team, increasing sales, negotiating with skill and much more.
Hypnosis and Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race
Part Two of Five
Attention Control
In the Oscar winning film, Fog of War, former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara provides a peek into the mind control many politicians practice. When McNamara is asked, "How did you handle questions from the press that you did not want to answer?" McNamara candid response was, "When you are asked a question that you don't want to answer, answer the question you wanted to be asked." In other words when faced with a difficult question, change the subject.
To hypnotize you I need to "control" your attention. I need to capture your attention, focus it on what is most important and keep you involved. So do presidential candidates who want your vote.
Watch the Presidential debates and you will see this attention redirecting technique in action. When one of the candidate's is asked a question they don't want to answer, they usually will begin their response with a "truism" such as, "Well that is a very good question" or "That is a question on the minds of all American's today." The statement is true and we nod in agreement (more on why this is important in my next blog).
Right after we buy into the truism the politician will pull the direction change by saying something such as, "but more importantly..." or "but first let me respond to what my opponent just said..." Notice the word "but?" It is a cancelling conjunction. That means that "But" cancels out everything that came before it, which is why you get exasperated when someone says to you, "that is a good idea BUT I think..."
But allows you to cancel out the last thought, highjack the conversation and control the other person's attention. Using truisms and buts, the political then guides your attention back to the subject they want to you focus on and allows them to answer the question they wanted to be asked.
Controlling your attention is the device of magicians, card sharks, politicians and, yes, hypnotists. The difference is that where the hypnotist is trying to help you grow and change, the politician just wants your vote. Watch for the truism-but-attention redirection game in the next Presidential debate or press briefing. It won't be hard to spot if you control your attention and not get caught up in the Fog of Politics.
Hypnosis and Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race
Hypnosis and Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race
Part One of Five
You are being manipulated. You mind is being twisted and turned to do the bidding of others. Like it or not John McCain and Barack Obama have you hypnotized.
Without resorting to swinging pocket watches or swirling spirals, the McCain and Obama campaigns are using the same tools hypnotists use to change your mind and, in the candidate's case, secure your vote. Let's look at some of the startling comparisons between hypnosis and the campaign for president of the United States.
Hot Button Politics
Perhaps you have noticed- just about the time we are going to the voting booth subjects like flag burning, gay marriage, abortion and threats to national safety start making their way into the headlines and making the rounds on talk radio and television. This is not an accident. Hypnotists and politicians know that most people spend their lives doing what they feel like doing and that in our society feeling drives behavior. If I want to get you to take action I must make you feel and to do that I need to find the ideas that stoke your feelings.
The above mentioned topics are known to create strong emotions. Powerful feelings bypass the logic centers of your brain so that you act without really thinking about it. Your argument may not have a leg to stand on but you feel strongly that your side is in the right. Just listen when people talk about these issues. Lots of feeling but very little logic.
Hypnotists know that the subconscious mind is the feeling mind and that to help you change they must find and touch the personal hot button that gets you to move. Politicians use the media to target your hot spots for the very same purpose.
Once electeded, the politician puts the hot topics back on the shelf until the next election when they trundle them out to work your emotions and get you to vote for them.
Another great 201 class graduated last weekend. One of the hallmarks of our training is that Marc and I expose the students to live demonstrations. These are real people facing real challenges. These challenges that pertain to the course subject matter. This weekend we were working with fear. One of the students complained of a fear of heights. Holly told the class a funny story about having to clutch on to a friend’s arm in order to walk out on the balcony of one of the high-rise apartments here in Las Vegas. We were all laughing but the fear was real.
Using a technique that I learned from Dr. John Kappas called, Circle Therapy, I hypnotized Holly and walked her through the process. It took less then 5 minutes. That night, Holly and some of the other students went down to the Las Vegas Strip. Holly, confidently leaning on a balcony rail, faced her fear and found it had vanished. Attached is the evidence from a photo taken by a camera phone.
Today is the last day of our hypnotherapy training. We are going to be covering how to deal with fears and phobias. Yesterday, we demonstrated ideomotor responses and pendulum hypnosis and their associated therapies. John Zulli demonstrated how to use ideomotor responses to help with a hives condition that one of the students had.
I had the oppertunity to work transformational hypnosis with one of the students in front of the entire class. She was a young, bright inividual who felt that others perceived her to be insignificant. During the pre-induction interview, I asked our client some questions to begin to uncover what her underlying issues were. Once we knew what she wanted to work on, I hypnotized her using a rapid induction. I began to intensify the emotion, and once that was completed, I used age regression to move back in time to help her uncover the initial sensitizing event. Once we arrived to the sensitizing event, I moved her into Gestalt dialoging. She began the process of finding a resolution, then I began to take her through the re-education process of her sub-conscious mind. After the awakening procedure, she opened her eyes and began to speak of her experience. It was such an intimate experience that the entire class shared together.
I believe that one of the most valuable parts of the hypnotherapy training at the International Institute of Hypnosis is the live demonstrations and excercises that we perform with the students. Not only do they become certified hypnotherapist, they change completely as human being for the better. It is impossible to be exposed to this information and not change. :-)
I have been teaching hypnosis and hypnotherapy since about 1990, so I speak from experience when I say that the students enrolled in our current 201 class are no less then amazing.
Like ducks to water, this class has rapidly grasped the intricacies of the hypnotic process and are readily putting them into play. Not only are they hypnotizing each other with ease, they are already adding their own creative spin on the inductions and techniques. They are a credit to this 5000 year old art.
And speaking of credit, while I would like to take the credit for their brisk development, the reality is that their gains come from the fact that their imaginations are on fire.
Learning the concepts of hypnosis is liberating. Experiencing trance is an exercise in self-mastery and power. This 201 class is accelerating their understanding and their experience by making this information their own and putting it to use straight away.
I am having a great time teaching them.
Best,
John Zulli
"Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them." Albert Einstein
