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“We know that if you have an emotion, it shows on your face. Now we’ve seen it goes the other way too. You become what you put on your face. ... If you laugh at suffering, you don’t feel suffering inside. If your face shows sorrow, you do feel it inside.”
Congruent states are what we all want to move toward, and the biggest step you can take is to be sure you’re in a firm, decisive, congruent physiology.
the oxygenation of the cells. It also controls the flow of lymph fluid, which contains white blood cells to protect the body.
What is the lymph system? Some people think of it as the body’s sewage system. Every cell in your body is surrounded by lymph. You have four times as much lymph fluid in your body as you do blood. Here’s how the lymph system works. Blood is pumped from your heart through your arteries to the thin, porous capillaries. The blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the capillaries, where they are then diffused into this fluid around the cells called lymph. The cells, having an intelligence or affinity for what they need, take oxygen and nutrients necessary for their health and then excrete toxins,
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But dead cells, blood proteins, and other toxic material must be removed by the lymph system. And the lymph syste...
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bloodstream has a pump, your heart. But the lymph system doesn’t have one. The only way lymph moves is through deep breathing and muscular movement. So if you want to have a healthy bloodstream with effective lymph and immune systems, you need to breathe deeply and produce the movements that will stimulate them.
inhale one count, hold four counts, exhale two counts. If you inhaled for four seconds, you would hold for sixteen and exhale for eight. Why exhale for twice as long as you inhale? That’s when you eliminate toxins via your lymphatic system. Why hold four times as long? That’s how you can fully oxygenate the blood and activate your lymphatic system. When you breathe, you should start from deep in your abdomen, like a vacuum cleaner that’s getting rid of all toxins in the blood system.
There are many books on trampolining and how it strengthens every organ in the body. Please take the time to pursue this life-enhancing form of exercise. You’ll be glad you did.
If you look to nature and you see the biggest and most powerful animals, you’ll discover they’re herbivores. Gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses, and so on all eat only water-rich foods. Herbivores live longer than carnivores. Think of a vulture. Why do you think it looks that way? It doesn’t eat water-rich foods. If you eat something that’s dried and dead, guess what you’re going to look like?
For example, do you eat meat and potatoes together? How about cheese and bread, or milk and cereal, or fish and rice? What if I were to tell you that those combinations are totally destructive to your internal system and rob you of energy?
Don’t have those meat and potatoes together.
Dr. Herbert Shelton’s Food Combining Made Easy.
Fit for Life. It’s filled with great properly combined recipes. For immediate information, see the food-combining chart, and simply follow these principles in your eating.
Mother’s milk is 2.38 percent protein at birth and reduces to 1.2-1.6 percent protein in six months. That’s all. So where do we get the idea that humans need massive amounts of protein?
average piece of meat has fourteen grains of uric acid. Your body can only eliminate about 8 grains of uric acid in a day.
bacteria in meats are identical in character with those of manure and more numerous in some meats than in fresh manure. All meats become infected with manure germs in the process of slaughtering and the number increases the longer the meat is kept in storage.”
Whether you believe you can do something or you believe you can’t, you’re right.
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difference in people’s abilities to fully tap their personal resources is directly affected by their goals. A study of the 1953 graduates of Yale University clearly demonstrates this point. The graduates interviewed were asked if they had a clear, specific set of goals written down with a plan for achieving those goals. Only 3 percent had such written goals. Twenty years later, in 1973, the researchers went back and interviewed the surviving members of the 1953 graduating class. They discovered that the 3 percent with written specific goals were worth more in financial terms that the entire
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State your outcome in positive terms. Say what you want to happen. Too often, people state what they don’t want to happen as their goals. 2. Be as specific as possible. How does your outcome look, sound, feel, smell? Engage all of your senses in describing the results you want. The more sensory rich your description, the more you will empower your brain to create your desire. Also be certain to set a specific completion date and/or term. 3. Have an evidence procedure. Know how you will look, how you will feel, and what you will see and hear in your external world after you have achieved your
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Now I want you to try something else: Pick out the four most important goals for you for this year. Pick the things you’re most committed to, most excited about, things that would give you the most satisfaction. Write them down. Now I want you to write down why you absolutely will achieve them. Be clear and concise and positive. Tell yourself why you’re sure you can reach those outcomes, and why it’s important that you do.
Our purpose for doing something is a much stronger motivator than the object that we pursue.
Jim Rohn, my first personal-development teacher,
Reasons are the difference between being interested versus being committed to accomplishing something. There are many things in life we say we want, but really we’re only interested in them for a time.
any time you have to do something not fun, give yourawlf multiple reasons as to why it would be fu and why you shlould do it
Now that you have a list of your key goals, review them against the five rules for formulating outcomes. Are your goals stated in the positive? Are they sensory specific? Do they have an evidence procedure? Describe what you will experience when you achieve them. In even clearer sensory terms, what will you see, hear, feel, and smell? Also note if the goals are maintainable by you. Are they ecological and desirable for you and others? If they violate any of these conditions, change them to fit.
After you’ve done all that, describe the kind of person you would have to be to attain your goals. Will it take a great deal of discipline, a great deal of education? Would you have to manage your time well?
It’s critical that you continue to work back until you find something you could do today to support the achievement of that goal.
By working backward, step by step, for outcomes in everything from business to personal life, you can map out the precise path to follow from your ultimate goal down to what you can do today.
If you’re not sure what your plan should be, just ask yourself what prevents you from having what you want now.
Remember to start with the goal and ask yourself, What would I have to do first to accomplish
specify in a few words the qualities and behaviors that made them successful. After you’ve done this, close your eyes and imagine for a moment that each of these people is going to give you some advice about how to best go about accomplishing your goals.
make a list of influenriAl people and their behavviors
Write down one main idea that each would give you if he or she were speaking to you personally. Maybe it’s how to avoid a roadblock or break through a limitation or what to pay attention to or look for. Just imagine they’re talking to you and jot down under each of their names the first idea that comes to you about what you think each would say. Even though you may not know them personally, through this process they can become excellent advisers on your future.
Remember, the road to success is always under construction.
Finally, design your perfect environment. I want you to accentuate the sense of place. Let your mind go. No limitations. Whatever you want is what you should put in. Remember to think like a king.
ideal environment.
silicon valley
Learn to ask in a way that helps you both define and achieve your outcome.
Ask specifically.
Create value for the person you’re asking.
Ask until you get what you want.
When you say to yourself, “I can’t do that,” the thing to do next is ask yourself, “What would happen if I could?”
“What prevents me from doing this now?” and thereby become clear about what specifically you need to change.
When you get him to be more specific, you often must move from one part of the precision model to another. So if you ask the person to be more specific, he may say, “I’m depressed because I always mess up on the job.” What’s the next question? Is the universal true? It’s not likely. So you would ask, “You always mess up on your job?” Most likely, the answer will be, “Well, no, not always, I guess.”
when peole are in a depressed state they tend to convince themselves of untrue generalizations
vague realm where “they” don’t understand, you need to find a way to deal with the real-world person making the real-world decisions. Using an unspecified, nameless “they” can be the worst sort of copout. If you don’t know who “they” are, you feel helpless and unable to change your situation. But if you focus on specifics, you can regain control.
they is a general term and givvs the perception that you hqve little control
For example, occasionally someone tells me, “Your seminar is too expensive.” When I respond, “Compared to what?” he might say, “Well, compared to other seminars I’ve gone to.”
When you hear phrases like “That’s a bad idea” or “It’s good to eat everything on your plate,” you can respond with “According to whom?” or “How do you know that?” Sometimes people will make statements linking cause and effect. They might say, “His comments made me mad,” or “Your observations made me think.” Now, when you hear those you’ll know to ask, “How specifically does X cause Y?”
people tend to link cauae and effect without a goodd validtion for that link
If someone says, “I want to change my experience,” the way to redirect it is to say, “What do you want to experience?” If he says, “I want love,” you would respond with, “How do you want to be loved?” or “What is it to be loving?” Is there a difference in specificity in the two forms? There sure
great example of general to specific
Here’s another important frame? Choose “how” questions over “why” questions. “Why” questions can get you reasons and explanations and justifications and excuses. But they usually don’t come up with useful information. Don’t ask your kid why he is having trouble with his algebra. Ask him what he needs to do to perform better.
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.“ —Abraham Lincoln
if we are just trying to create rapport merely by the content of our conversation, we’re missing out on the largest ways we could be communicating commonality to the brain of another person. One of the best ways to achieve rapport is through mirroring or creating a common physiology with that person. That’s what the great hypnotherapist Dr. Milton Erickson did. He learned to mirror the breathing patterns, posture, tonality, and gestures of other people. And by doing that, he achieved a totally binding
how do you mirror another person’s physiology? What kinds of physical traits can you mirror? Start with his voice. Mirror his tonality and phrasing, his pitch, how fast he talks, what sort of pauses he makes, his volume. Mirror favorite words or phrases. How about posture and breathing patterns, or eye contact, body language, facial expressions, hand gestures, or other distinctive movements? Any aspect of physiology, from the way a person plants his feet to the way he tilts his head, is something you can mirror. Now, this may sound absurd at first.
