Gaileen Sutton

As the college fund commercials back in the 80s said, ‘the mind is a terrible thing to waste’. The commercial wasn’t really about what we’re going to be talking about here, but the idea is one which can be applied here as well. You definitely don’t want to waste the power of the mind, especially your own. You can tap into the power of your own mind to make positive changes in your life.

You’ve certainly heard about the law of attraction; the idea behind the book and film ‘The Secret’. Whatever you put your mental energy toward will come to you is the message of the work. Whether you do so consciously or not, the power of the mind is such that you can make whatever you focus on happen, whether for good or ill.

As an example, take the placebo effect – people who are receiving a placebo in clinical trials of medications often experience the effects caused by the actual medication since they believe that they are receiving the medication.

You’ve no doubt seen the effect in your own life as well. For instance, you’ve no doubt woken up thinking that a particular day isn’t going to be a good one. It shouldn’t really be too much of a surprise when these days turn out not to be among your favorites. It has to do with the power of your mind – when you think a day is going to be a bad (or a great one) then your subconscious has the ability to make this happen.

There is an ever growing amount of evidence for a scientific basis to the power of the mind, with one of the most intriguing ideas coming from the world of quantum physics. This is the possibility that matter either does not take shape until an observer is there to witness it. This suggests that the power of the mind may actually be what shapes the universe, not the other way around.

It is thought by some scientists that many of the phenomena we have always thought of as supernatural (such as remote viewing, telepathy and the like) are actually perfectly natural and explainable phenomena, though science may be a few years away from understanding the precise mechanisms behind them.

The power of the mind is something that you can train yourself to use for your own benefit. If you could use your own mental energy to bend the universe and make positive changes, wouldn’t you want to learn how? There are a couple of methods which can help you to learn to access your own latent mental powers.

One important thing to keep in mind is that it is far easier to focus your mind to achieve a specific goal rather than a general one. If you’d like to become financially well off, you need to focus on a specific dollar amount rather than trying to focus on being wealthy in general. This makes it far easier for your mind to focus on this objective.

Many people already know about the power of the mind and use it every day to make their goals a reality. They are able to decide on a specific goal and put all of their mind power towards this objective – and this is exactly how some of the world’s most successful people have managed to become who they are today. It’s not difficult to do, though learning to focus your mind on your goal does take a little metal training.

When you learn to control this power of the mind, you can use it to make changes in your world; in fact, you can make almost anything you can imagine a reality. Let’s say that you want to buy a particular house. You put all of your mental energy into it, imagining even the small details like the color you want to paint the rec room. You start expending effort into areas that will help you to achieve your goal (like working more so you can save up the down payment) and research how to get favorable mortgage terms.

After you’ve put your effort towards it, your dream starts coming true – the house goes up for sale, you are able to secure the mortgage, your offer is accepted and everything goes fine. It’s all because you’ve been putting your thoughts and your energy into achieving your goal; this is what makes it happen for you.

This is something that any of us has the ability to do. When you learn to tap into the power of the mind, you can use it to achieve nearly anything in life. The important thing is to start small and then work your way up to ever bigger and better things until you’ve accomplished everything you want to in life.

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Your mind is an incredibly powerful thing, and it’s actually a magnet to things that happen in your life. What you think and see is eventually what you’re going to attract. This is known as The Law of Attraction and is specifically the power of your own mind. Basically, the Law of Attraction says that, ‘As you think, so shall you be.’ In other words, if you think something is going to happen to you, eventually it probably will. You can make that work in your favor, because you can change your mind to the positive – but you have to think, envision, feel, literally embody it before it can happen. It’s going to take some practice to do this, likely, but that’s true of anything you’re going to get good at. Once you know how to use it, though, you’ll see that the power of your mind is just astonishing.

And by the way, this is something that we all have. We all have the ability to use our mind’s power to the best of our ability and outcomes. However, most of us don’t because we just don’t think we can. Yet, researchers have shown that we only use about 10% of our brainpower. Don’t you think that’s crazy? Most of us stick with the tried and true, things we only know, and that’s what we live with. And that may be why we feel like we’re having a lot of trouble. We may think negatively because we don’t believe that what we want to have can actually be ours. So what that means is that we continue to attract more negative things instead of more positive things. However, if you take a look at it honestly, you’ll know that the life you have in front of you is the one you’ve thought about and attracted to you.

The truth is, what happens in your ‘reality’ actually happens in your mind first. Whatever you’ve gotten in life so far has been as a result of the power of your mind. Many people say that absolutely everyone has psychic and extrasensory abilities, but that sounds pretty specialized and ‘out of this world.’ What it really shows is that those who have these abilities have learned how to tap into mind power at its fullest. If you want something, you first have to think about it and then it will eventually appear. And this is true whether you want the best or the worst. If you always think about the worst, in other words, that’s what’s going to happen.

I can hear you asking, ‘But what can I do to change things?’ And the fact is, you can begin to increase your mind’s power by doing several things. First of all, do something called visualization. This very powerful technique can help you focus and develop your current mind power state, so that you can literally ‘flip the switch’ and learn how to use it; and learn how to increase it, too.

When you visualize, what you do is to sit down and create pictures and images inside your mind’s eye. Doing so is going to bring these images to life in your own reality, but first, you have to start by thinking about it. You need to get your subconscious mind involved, too, because your subconscious mind is very powerful when it comes to creating your own real-life from the images you see. In fact, it can do this very powerfully. However, there’s a caveat with this, and that is that you only think about positive things so that only the positive comes to you. So before you start with this exercise, think about how you really want your life to be before you sit down and visualize.

One good way to start doing this is to write down everything you want on paper, as though you were telling a story (or if you can’t write, doing it as a checklist can be fine, too). Write down the goals you want to achieve, so that you have something to shoot for. Then, create the visions you have around those goals. When you write things down, they’re harder to simply dismiss later as so much fantasy and instead become more concrete. Do this several times a day until you begin to ‘live’ in the reality you are imagining.

You can also do this with affirmations. Affirmations are simply little statements of encouragement you give yourself throughout the day. It can be about anything. For example, if you want to lose a few pounds, you can say, ‘I’m going to successfully and easily lose 10 pounds by the end of the month.’ Keep reminding yourself that you are losing this weight effortlessly and easily, and recent, you’ll see the weight simply start to drop off. And it doesn’t matter if it feels strange to you do this at first; it’s going to become a habit, and like any habit, it’s going to take about 28 days to develop this habit, too.

There’s also another technique you can use to develop your mind’s power, called ‘entrainment.’ Entrainment is simply synchronization of brain waves using different frequencies through audio technology. Our brains are naturally attuned to doing several different things, one of which is to heal themselves. You can tap into this power even more by using this kind of advanced audio-based technology. You can also enhance your memory and bring into effect the psychic powers you have, which already exist. This is a pretty advanced procedure, but it does work.

Hypnosis can also help to increase your mind power by helping you relax and get into your subconscious mind directly. For example, hypnosis has been used successfully to help others quit smoking. These people simply go into a session with a trained hypnotist, relax, and listen to the trained hypnotist tell them again and again that smoking tastes very bad, that they don’t have the desire, that they’re repulsed by it, and that they’re ready to quit. And although this may take several sessions (just as any habit-training will), it does work. These hypnotists can help people believe for themselves that they can quit smoking. And all of that happens through the power of the subconscious mind – with a little help from the hypnotist.

Again, literally everyone has a powerful mind, and it’s just a matter of believing in your abilities and some practice. It’s probably not going to happen overnight (after all, it does require practice), but if you do this, you can change your circumstances and turn your luck around. You must be able to communicate to the universe what is that you want, and it will come back to you manifested in physical form. All of this, of course, starts with your subconscious mind. It’s very powerful; you just have to tap into it and see the power you possess.

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