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Tollie Schmidt "The Dreamer"

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15 Secret Abilities of Chi Power & ESP

Posted by Dreamer On March - 4 - 2010 Comments

15 Secret Abilities of Chi Power & ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)
By A. Thomas Perhacs, Creator of Chi Power Training

When one thinks of Chi Power Training or Qigong, the concept of developing Extra Sensory Perception or ESP becomes a very real possibility. How does a physical exercise like Chi Power Training or Qigong relate to the development of Psychic abilities or ESP?

The one key factor that one must realize is that physical “Internal” training can have a direct result on mental capabilities as it relates to ESP.

The reason is that when you combine certain physical exercises with mental exercises, you create a way to tap into the inner resources of the Mind, Body connection.

Many have searched far and wide to learn these supposed secret abilities. These “secrets” are really returning the body back to the way it was when we were younger and had perception. As we get older, we come to dismiss the abilities we had as children.

The key to doing this is learning how to sensitize the body after it has been desensitized after all the years of growing older and allowing your mind and body to conform to what is “normal” and or “abnormal”.

The only “normal” you have is whatever your concept of normal is. It may take a while for you to begin to realize and understand the true capabilities that you truly have and how you can use them, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is what it is.

The simple way to get this to work is to allow yourself to get into a meditative state and get your body to relax, while you instruct the mind and condition the body to “re-sensitize” itself to all available stimuli available. Sounds easy and simple, but is it really?

Well, it is if you know how to do it. When you have a blueprint that enables you to guide yourself step by step into a new reality, it gives you a power to become more than you could ever have imagined.

The nice thing about this training is that you can go at any pace you want to. Some train hours every day, while others have a less aggressive routine, one that will assist them to get the results they want in the time frame they want, need and desire.

The question is, will you take the next step to allow yourself the chance to get the most out of your mind, body & spirit, and the full potential that is inside of you?

15 Powers You Can Easily Develop

Here is a short list of some of the abilities you can experience:

  • Crossing of the senses (“seeing” sounds), in which a numinous beauty is revealed or an extrasensory perception is dramatized.
  • Feeling” people in a house though you cannot see or hear them.
  • Feeling that someone is watching you, after which you turn to meet his or her gaze.
  • Feeling a basic compatibility (or incompatibility) with people before you meet them.
  • Correctly guessing the location of water or other materials by extrasensory processes.
  • Spontaneous, unexpected perceptions of distant events.
  • Hearing music or other sounds, for which there is no discoverable physical source, which enlivens particular thoughts or emotions.
  • Correctly sensing the location of lost objects without the help of sensory cues.
  • Opening books to the exact passage you are searching for.
  • Watching someone’s face reveal-as if in slow motion-unsuspected feeling, traits, or possibilities for development.
  • Sensing a numinous presence during meditation, intimate conversation, or other circumstances.
  • Seeing lights around people or inanimate objects for which there are no apparent sources.
  • Looking at something familiar and seeing it as if for the first time.
  • Spontaneously apprehending the presence of someone physically distant or dead, by direct and vivid contact.

These are skills or abilities one can achieve through the right discipline of meditation and advanced chi training (building up the nerve fibers).

The question is not whether you can achieve these results, but rather, do you have the courage and instinct to continue expanding your mind and body?

A. Thomas Perhacs has created many
unique and esoteric courses on meditation, chi power, qigong, healing methods,
and other topics. Learn more at
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The Quest to Read the Human Mind

Posted by Dreamer On February - 14 - 2010 Comments

The Quest to Read the Human Mind

If a few very smart neuroscientists are right, with enough number crunching and a powerful brain scanner, science can pluck pictures — and maybe one day even thoughts — directly from your brain

By Lisa Katayama / Source: Popular Science

It’s after dark on a warm Monday night in April, and I’m lying face-up in a 13-ton tube at the Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center at the University of California at Berkeley. The room is dimly lit, and I am alone. A white plastic cage covers my face, and a blue computer screen shines brightly into my eyes.

I’m here because a neuroscientist named Jack Gallant is about to read my mind. He has given me strict instructions not to move; even the slightest twitch could affect the accuracy of what he’s about to do. As I stare straight up, I notice an itch on my thigh. Don’t scratch it, I tell myself. I try to keep my thoughts blank as the beeping gets faster and the fMRI machine — the scanner that will detect changes in blood flow in my brain — powers up.

Gallant assures me that the random thoughts in my head will not affect his results. Today he’s just concerned with what I see and how that registers in the visual cortex, a region at the back of the brain that processes what my eyes take in. It doesn’t matter that I’m thinking about what to eat for dinner, or that I’m worried about getting a parking ticket on Oxford Street. The only important thing, he says, is for me to keep as still as possible, and soon he’ll have enough information to re-create the pictures I’ve been staring at without ever having seen the images himself.

For the past 10 years, Gallant has been running a neuroscience and psychology lab at Berkeley dedicated to brain imaging and vision research. He’s one of a few neuroscientists in the world on the verge of unlocking the key to mind reading through brain-pattern analysis using magnetic resonance scans and algorithms. By showing me a series of random photographs and evaluating fMRI readings from my primary visual cortex, Gallant says his technique can reconstruct imagery stored in my brain. His current method takes hours of analysis, but his objective is to hone the technology to the point where it can deduce what people are seeing in real time.

If successful, it could influence the way we do just about everything. Mind-reading machines could help doctors understand the inner worlds of people with hallucinations, cognitive disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder and other impairments. Judges could use them to sneak a look into suspects’ brains by having them reenact the experience and reading their visions.

Such machines could also determine whether someone using the insanity defense is faking it, or whether someone claiming self-defense truly feared for his life. On the flip side, the technology raises serious ethical concerns, with critics worrying that it could one day make our private thoughts vulnerable to snoops and hackers.

I ponder all this as I lie motionless in the brain scanner, staring straight ahead while Gallant and two of his lab researchers flash several dozen photographs in front of my eyes, a few seconds at a time. I see sheep grazing in a meadow, a rock formation, a pond and a profile of a guy who looks like Einstein. I’m not actually supposed to be looking at these pictures — my job is to stare at the white dot in the middle of the screen. “Seeing” doesn’t happen entirely in the conscious realm, Gallant explains. The visual cortex works like a camera, automatically absorbing information through the retina and registering the imagery in the brain.

Ten minutes feels like an eternity, but finally the fMRI announces the conclusion of its program with another loud beep. The researchers remove me from my bind and escort me to the control room, where a giant monitor is displaying 30 scanned images of my brain from different angles. I see bunches of white squiggly lines and light gray V shapes inside rows of gray circles. “That’s it? That’s my brain?” I ask, my head foggy from having tried so hard to stay still. It surprises me that all the goings-on in my mind can be reduced to a bunch of geometric shapes. Gallant tells me that brain activity is basically just a bunch of neurons firing — an estimated 300 million in the primary visual cortex alone, according to the latest research.

To help make sense of the shapes, the brain scanner divides them up into a grid of three-dimensional cube-like structures called volume pixels, or voxels. To me, each voxel looks like a random mix of whites, grays and blacks. But to Gallant’s computer model, which can see more-precise data in those shades, the voxels are a meaningful matrix of zeroes and ones. By crunching this matrix, it can transform the shapes back into a remarkably accurate rendering of the Einstein Guy or the grazing sheep. Gallant and his team didn’t have time to generate enough scans of my brain to make their algorithm work, but they showed me some convincing results from other volunteers. “It’s not perfect,” says Shinji Nishimoto, one of Gallant’s postdocs, “but we’re getting pretty close.”

As I leave the lab, my thoughts secure in my head, I feel a bit uneasy knowing that they may not stay that way for long. Gallant’s “neural decoding” — a term he prefers to “mind reading” — is getting faster and more sophisticated all the time. In fact, last October, his lab managed to re-create entire video clips just by analyzing the brain patterns of people watching them. In one example, a reconstructed video of an elephant walking through the desert shows a blotchy Dumbo-shaped mass plodding across the screen. The fine details are lost, but the rendering is nonetheless impressive for having been pulled from someone’s brain. And it’s not just Gallant who’s making progress. Using similar technology, other researchers are unlocking memories and dreams.

Beyond the fuzzy realm of the paranormal, mind reading could simply be a question of having the right tools. “As long as we have good measurements of brain activity and good computational models of the brain,” Gallant wrote in a supplement to a paper he published in Nature in 2008, “it should be possible in principle to decode the visual content of mental processes like dreams, memory, and imagery.”

What’s on your Mind?

Remarkably, scientists can predict with near-perfect accuracy the last thing you saw just by analyzing your brain activity. The technique is called neural decoding. To do it, scientists must first scan your brain while you look at thousands of pictures. A computer then analyzes how your brain responds to each image, matching brain activity to various details like shape and color. Over time, the computer establishes a sort of master decoding key that it can later use to identify and reconstruct almost any object you see without the need to analyze the image beforehand.

The Magic of the MRI

Gallant is a slight, wiry man with a horseshoe mustache and a Willy Wonka–esque energy about him. He tends to use friendly, vivid analogies when he talks. “The brain is a Thanksgiving turkey,” he said to me last summer during a visit to his bare-bones office at Berkeley. He was drawing furiously on the chalkboard, attempting to explain in simple terms the inner workings of the visual cortex. “The outside of the turkey is the skin, or the brain’s cortex. All the giblets inside are subcortical nuclei. This” — he tapped his chalk on the giant balloon-like cavity at the rear of his “turkey” diagram — “is the primary visual cortex,” the center of our vision system.

The brain employs a complex assembly line to construct the world around us. The primary visual cortex, or V1, connects to a maze of other regions known as V2, V3, and so on. (“Nobody knows exactly how many areas there are up there,” Gallant says, a finger to his head.) Each region performs specific vision-related functions, like distinguishing colors, discerning shapes, gauging depth, or sensing motion. When I look at a dog, for instance, I don’t just see the shape of a four-legged animal; I recognize that it’s the brown-and-white dog I owned as a child, romping in a familiar way in the backyard I grew up in. It might even trigger a memory of playing with him. Each of these aspects of “seeing” would be represented by different patterns in the visual cortex.

The key function of V1 relevant to Gallant’s research — registering visual stimuli — was discovered in the early 20th century, when soldiers with bullet wounds to the back of the head, presumably to their visual cortex, experienced partial blindness despite having healthy eyes. Experiments on rodents affirmed that the location and shape of things we see are replicated in V1. If I were to look at a tree, for instance, the back of the eye would register a representation of an upside-down tree onto V1. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s, when neuroscientists used a process called multi-voxel pattern recognition, that scientists were able to pinpoint these representations non-invasively in humans. The technique uses fMRIs to map the visual cortex into tiny structures — voxels — that correspond to patterns of blood flow. One pattern in the area responsible for shape, for instance, might suggest that a person is looking at a dog, while another pattern in the area responsible for color could suggest that the dog is brown.

Gallant’s project takes the technique to a new level, using a computer model to not only identify images but also reconstruct them. On the night of my fMRI session, I met five members of Gallant’s lab who, for the past three years, have been wrestling with probability theory to come up with the best algorithms to power the model. When I asked them how exactly they devised the code, Thomas Naselaris, a tall, curly-haired postdoc, put a long equation on the blackboard called Bayes’ theorem. It’s a fundamental tenet of probability theory that calculates how odds change in response to new information, he explained, and it’s the key to their technique.

To calculate the probability that someone’s brain patterns represent a particular image, the researchers must first prime their special equation with a sizable sampling of data, plugging in 1,750 of the subject’s fMRI scans. “For every possible image a person could be looking at, Bayes’ theorem tells you the probability that the image is correct,” Naselaris says. It’s a bit like trying to predict the make of a car concealed beneath a tarp: To come up with an accurate guess, you must first analyze all the available clues — the shape of the tarp, its size, maybe the type of person who owns the car, possibly the sound of the engine. The more information you have, the better your guess. Likewise, the more data you plug into the equation, the more accurate its predictions.

Dancing Bears

The ability to pluck a picture from someone’s brain is an impressive feat, but the far bigger challenge is figuring out the actual thoughts associated with that picture. Gallant would have no way to know, for instance, what I was thinking while I was lying in the scanner. That’s because thoughts, unlike pictures, are not neatly recorded at the back of the brain.

So where are they recorded? Tom Mitchell, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, along with his colleague Marcel Just, is using fMRI and multi-voxel pattern recognition to answer that question. By mapping the brain’s response to images, words and emotions, Mitchell believes his lab could be decoding thoughts, not just pictures, within the decade.

To pinpoint where thoughts live in the brain, during a recent study he put volunteers in an fMRI machine, showed them two objects — a hammer and a house, for example — and used software to analyze voxel patterns triggered in multiple parts of the brain, ultimately determining which object the subject was thinking about. Like Gallant, Mitchell can do this with 90 percent accuracy. “When you think about a hammer, you think about all aspects of it. You might think about swinging it, which would fire neurons in your motor cortex,” he says. “You might think about what it looks like, which activates the visual cortex.” His team also gathered fMRI data from the amygdala and the anterior cingulate cortex — areas that correlate with emotions like anger and love — to map out brain patterns that form when people hear words such as “love,” “justice” and “anxiety.”

Yukiyasu Kamitani, a computational neuroscientist at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan, believes he can take the technology even further and decode dreams. This summer, he plans to put sleeping people in the fMRI to read their brain signals and, like Gallant, reconstruct them.

Meanwhile, Gallant and Nishimoto are attempting to reproduce movies stored in the brain. After I finish my fMRI scans, Gallant showed me a video clip on his computer featuring psychedelic bears floating in front of mountains. Every few seconds, a new bear zoomed into the foreground and then floated away like a beach ball tossed in the air. Occasionally a colorful cube flew past the bears. Just looking at it made me dizzy. “This is a motion-enhanced movie,” Gallant says excitedly. “It makes your visual system go absolutely crazy, so you get lots of blood flow and signals.”

Nishimoto, the lab’s resident “motion guy,” is able to reconstruct from brain scans the colors, location and movement of these bears, generating reproductions of the original video footage. In a similar experiment, he asked a volunteer to watch two hours of movie trailers inside an fMRI machine. A computer then matched the subject’s brain patterns to colors and moving shapes in the movie. To build up the computer model’s reference library of associations — to prime it — the researchers fed it thousands of hours of YouTube videos and asked it to predict how the person’s brain would respond to watching them. Then, when the subject watched a new set of videos, the computer was able to match the new brain patterns to images in its library to piece together a reproduction of the original video clip. The reconstructed video captured the general flow of motion, as well as shapes and colors, although it missed fine details such as facial features. The resolution will improve, the researchers say, as more data is added to the computer model. “Whenever I tell anyone we can do this,” Gallant says, “they say there’s no way.”

Thinking back to the rat’s nest of lines from my own fMRI readings — all that from looking at a simple black-and-white photo — it’s a little creepy to think that our mental processes can be reduced to binary code in this fashion. But then again, so is the notion of a mysterious black box of neurons controlling everything we do and think. “It’s all numbers,” Gallant says. “The trick is to do good bookkeeping.”

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What Is The Most Powerful Force In The World?

Posted by Dreamer On February - 9 - 2010 Comments

The Most Powerful Force in the Universe

By Tollie Schmidt

Albert Einstein said that imagination is the greatest creative force in the universe. Why would such a great man say something that sounds so silly and trivial? Look at those words again: ‘greatest creative force’. Imagination? Not education? Nor money? Nor luck?

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said that imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known. Before you pass him away as a crackpot, know that Mr. Hill was an advisor to two U.S. presidents, was commissioned by the great and wealthy Andrew Carnegie to teach people about making their dreams come true, and has been thanked by many of the greatest people around the world for the success he helped them achieve. People like F. W. Woolworth (founder of Woolworth’s), Woodrow Wilson (former U.S. President), George Eastman (founder of Kodak), W. M. Wrigley, JR. (Wrigley’s), and many others have used his teachings to manifest their dreams.

Imagination is the force that takes you to places you have never been.

Henry Ford relied on imagination and belief. Walt Disney said that had he not seen Disneyland in his mind, the rest of the world would not have seen it on earth. Bill Gates first imagines his products before they become actual software that we rely on. And it would serve you well to remember that many of the world’s greatest people started with nothing and built empires. They had a dream. And the universe conspired, as it always does, to let them experience their imagination.

The universe always lets you experience your imagination, whatever it may be.

The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so shall he become’. It also says ‘Without vision we perish’.

Your mind’s images are literally the blueprint from which your world is built.

Your mind is infinite. What are your limits? What are limits, except those that you say are so? Why else would two different people have different ‘limits’?

Life is images of the mind, expressed. What this means is that Life, The Source, uses your thoughts, your mental images, as the instructions by which to create your reality in the material world. Life expresses your mental images into physical reality.

To express is to make known, to state, articulate, communicate, convey. The force of Life makes known your thoughts to yourself and everyone else by forming them into experiences and objects that can be experienced, here in the physical world.

You experience your own thoughts first hand, your images of your mind, so that you may know which ones are suitable and which ones are not. That is how you know yourself, that is how you experience your self, and that is how you grow.

This is the supreme purpose of this physical world that we are now in. It is designed to enable you to experience your Self. It is designed to enable you to experience an idea and its effects and consequences.

Life does not select which ones of your images to express and which ones not to. How would it choose for you? It therefore expresses all of them to the extent that you have them and believe them. You have true free will. This free will is truly free because of the fact that all of it is acted upon without filtering or favoring. Free will is truly free because of the fact that it actually gets results all the time, not just some of the time, and it gets them exactly.


Your ideas, visions and dreams, whatever they may be, are the prophecies of what you shall one day become and achieve. You can predict your outer life tomorrow by looking at your inner self today. You can change your tomorrow by changing your inner self today.

As you think, there do you find yourself. You attract the people that have something to teach you in line with your thoughts, people who have something to learn from you in line with your thoughts, and you repel those who have nothing more to learn from you and give you in line with your thoughts. The same goes for places and conditions, situations and environments.

Many things influence your imagination – past fears, desires, poor mental training, lack of awareness, sub-personalities, lack of goals – any much more. But anything that influences your imagination is under your control. You can stop it simply by becoming aware of it and releasing it. And this is where awareness, consciousness, comes in as the key to clearing your mind of the debris that brings suffering to you and sabotages your success. If you would like to know more about these things, see The Forgotten Laws.

Inspire Greatness A Warriors Wisdom

Posted by Dreamer On January - 12 - 2010 Comments

What is the warrior lifestyle? The true warrior is a rare person in today’s world. He lives life with a different set of values compared with the rest of society. Even those who do share the same values, rarely live a lifestyle which adheres to those values to the extent that the warrior does. To most people, ethics are situational. They make decisions according to what is best for them, instead of what is right. This is not the case with the warrior. The warrior values honor, integrity, justice, and his sense of what is right, above all else. His ethics are not situational; they are his way of life.

The warrior lifestyle revolves around a code of ethics which is non-negotiable. The warrior’s code of ethics, or code of honor, is taken very seriously. To the warrior, distinguishing between right and wrong is of the utmost importance. He sees right and wrong in terms of black and white. He knows that an action is either honorable or dishonorable. This is not meant to imply that honor is black and white; honor is not that simple.

Those who live the lifestyle of the warrior know that whether or not an action is honorable, is determined by both one’s intentions and the situation at hand. This is not to be confused with situational ethics. The warrior’s ethics do not change according to the situation. His actions will change as needed, but his ethics remain set in stone. There is a big difference between ethics and actions. Ethics determine actions; actions do not determine ethics.

The warrior lifestyle is concerned with what is right and what is honorable. A warrior’s ethics revolve around these two issues. Justice and honor are foremost on his mind. His thoughts are centered on “what is right,” not on other people’s opinions of what is right. He realizes that many people profess a belief in absolutes which they neither live by, nor truly believe in, when push comes to shove.

The only absolute that the warrior lives by is that of what is right and wrong. If it is not right, he doesn’t do it. He determines what is right and wrong by his strict code of ethics, not some arbitrary laws or the politically correct standards of the day. The warrior doesn’t appear to be honorable; he is honorable. Sincerity is ingrained in this lifestyle. This is a lifestyle that is meant to be lived, not fantasized about or merely discussed.

This lifestyle consist of much more than being trained in the art of war or the art of self-defense, although these are an important part of the life of the warrior. It also consists of the challenge to perfect one’s character. This is a process much like the Japanese concept of kaizen. Kaizen can be translated as constant, never-ending improvement. True warriors try to apply this concept to every area of their life. They seek to balance and improve each area – spirit, mind and body, on a daily basis.

Each area of your life is important and should be kept in balance. Training men in the art of war or in the art of martial arts, without regard to character, only produces a dangerous man; it does not produce a warrior. In years past, the martial arts masters would not train someone fully until they felt assured of that person’s character. Today most schools will train anyone who can pay, regardless of their character or lack of character. This is dangerous information to give to just any and everyone who comes along. In my opinion, character should be a prerequisite, not only for martial arts training, but for many of the privileges which we enjoy in this country.

I am asked often whether or not I believe that the term “warrior” should apply only to military men and women who have been in war or to trained and experienced fighters. Although I realize this is the literal definition of a warrior, I do not believe that this is the correct definition, not according to the many accounts from past warriors anyway. This literal definition of a warrior is not the definition that is used for our discussion of the warrior lifestyle in Warrior Wisdom. An ape can be trained to throw punches and kick, a dog can be trained to fight, but that doesn’t make either of them warriors. Being a warrior involves more than being trained to fight or being in the military; it involves character training as well. Character training is the true goal of Bushido, the way of the warrior.

Please don’t misunderstand me; I have great respect for our military men and women. But I believe that anyone who has ever served in the military will agree that not every soldier lives by the character traits which are necessary for the warrior lifestyle, anymore than every martial artist or every person in general lives by these standards. I’m not taking anything away from those who serve our country. Every person who serves our country deserves our respect and gratitude, but service doesn’t necessarily indicate that a person is concerned with perfecting his or her character. It is rare to find people who take their ethics seriously today. It is common to find people who claim to take their ethics seriously, but I am referring to people who walk to the walk, not just “talk the talk.”

Yes, the warrior is concerned with physical training and the martial arts, but he also knows that character training is the cornerstone of the warrior lifestyle. The true warrior should be trained in martial arts. His ethics require that he be ready to defend his family, friends, or himself in certain situations. In today’s world, you never know when you may have to use your martial arts skills. It is essential that you have this training to be as self-reliant and as safe as possible, but without a code of ethics, which is based on a deep understanding of right and wrong, there is no warrior; there is only someone trained to fight. There is a difference. Without the character traits of honor, integrity and justice, there is no warrior lifestyle.

In short, the warrior lifestyle is for anyone who want to live a life of excellence; a life which adheres to a strict code of ethics. You must be willing to live your life based on honor, preparedness and what is right. This lifestyle requires that you put your ethics before your comfort, and that you put what is right before what is profitable. It requires filial duty, dedication to family and friends, and a willingness to help those in need. It requires independence in thought and action. This lifestyle is a decision, not a profession.

This is just a brief introduction to the lifestyle of the warrior. Each of these points can be greatly expanded and I understand that not everyone will agree with my assessment. Even if you disagree with my definition of a warrior or the characteristics of the warrior lifestyle, you will still find the wisdom in this book to be very useful. Warrior Wisdom seeks to provide the reader with wisdom from throughout the ages that will help him live the warrior lifestyle. This lifestyle is not a goal to be achieved, but rather a road to be traveled. May you travel this road with honor.

“Take a deep breath of life and consider how it should be lived.” Don Quixote’s Creed

The Power of Your Words

Posted by Dreamer On January - 11 - 2010 Comments

The Power of your words:

By Tollie Schmidt

Act with faith. Prepare the way for your inevitable success. To the degree you can, behave as if your dreams have already come true, as if you already owned a Love, as if later today you were going to Be on Oprah. And you shall see the power you wield as the floodgates begin to tremble, the elements begin to conspire, people in your life begin to change, insights are summoned, comprehensions soar, and clarity is born.

Not to mention fierce, wild animals laying down when you pass by -
Tollie…

Growing up, I of course was the fat kid. Words, teasing, name calling and down right torment was a daily theme. It actually consumed me enough I changed schools. Then I realized how much control I was allowing others to have on me. Basically, at that moment excuse my reference, “I grew a set”! I don’t have a insecurity issue, and I know I wouldn’t be where I am today or have been able to help all the people I have if any of these words or labels were true. Besides, it’s fun to see their faces as I continue to move forward and walls fall, and they see how wrong they were. So, I hope the following article might help you.

Most of us underestimate the power of our words. We sometimes miss how our words set a tone. A few words can make someone’s day, or shatter it. Words can inspire someone to buy, or to go away without buying. Our words can move someone to do their best work, or to work against us. Your spoken words serve either to build up or to tear down. They serve to empower and inspire, or to disempower and hurt. Words are either life affirming or destructive. For this reason we should choose our words carefully. “The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human…like a sword it has two edges, your word can create the most beautiful dream, or your word can destroy everything around you.” (The Four Agreements, Don Miquel Ruiz)

When you are talking to someone ask yourself this question: “Who am I being and what is the impact of my words on the people around me?” The power of your words lies in the intention behind them. Is it your intention to create a resolution or to be right? Do you intend to help the organization accomplish its mission or to satisfy the need to take someone down? We communicate best when we are clear about who we are and what we intend. This kind of clarity prevents us from saying words that are harmful to ourselves and others. It may prevent us from engaging in harmful gossip and complaining.

Gossip is usually destructive. It is often a careless use of our words. We just aren’t thinking about how we are affecting others. Sometimes gossip is mean spirited and intended to cause hurt. Whether gossip is careless or intentional, it causes pain. We may be hoping for a little humor or self justification, but the results of gossip are anger, suspicion, embarrassment, and fear. These creations of gossip negatively affect morale, service, and productivity. You cannot both care about someone and gossip about them. If you think back to the last time you either heard or offered gossip, it probably didn’t make you feel good. Gossip disempowers us.

Similar to gossip is chronic complaining. Complaining about people and situations makes us feel and look powerless. Managers who complain in front of their employees lose credibility as leaders. Chronic complaining leads us into a dead end street where there is nothing to be done. We become victims who are powerless to change anything. While venting frustrations to a trusted friend can be helpful in releasing negative feelings, complaining to everyone tends to reinforce negative feelings. Like gossip, chronic complaining disempowers us.

Our power to do harm is exceeded only by our power to do good. A simple, sincere apology (given without expectation of return) can heal a relationship. An uplifting word at the right moment can change a life, launch a career, or convince someone to go beyond perceived limitations. By consciously looking for evidence of greatness in others, and by using our words to tell them, we help others to build confidence. When we sincerely speak well of others we uplift ourselves.

There is great power in making the commitment to keeping our words as positive and life affirming as we are able. As an affirming presence our influence grows. We feel better about ourselves. Constant negative speech imprisons us and prevents us from finding joy and success. Developing the habit of speaking well of self and others frees us to enjoy life more. We become a blessing to ourselves and to others.

Our spoken words originate from our thoughts. The best way to increase the positive power of our spoken words is to clean up our thinking. We must become willing to think well of ourselves. Constant self criticism needs to become unacceptable. We free ourselves to think and speak well of others by thinking well of ourselves.

Consider practicing the following:

• Affirm life in your thoughts and your words. (To affirm life is to build up, to nurture, to support, and to bless)

• Refuse to gossip. Commit to saying only words that are uplifting or helpful to others.

• Refuse to listen to gossip. Compassionately tell others it is beneath them to gossip.

• Refuse to indulge in complaining about another person.

• Refuse to dwell on self critical thoughts. Learn from mistakes and move on.

• Intentionally look for positive qualities to think about yourself. Make a list often.

• Intentionally look for positive qualities in others. Tell them.

• Don’t take the words of others personally. Their words are more about them than about you. Let go of your grudges and your hurts and wish others well. This practice will make you happier.

• Do not allow negative emotion to control you. Accept it. Be willing to let it go. Stop feeding it with negative words. Choose words that will refocus you on who you are and what you really want.

Gossip and complaining are distractions and a misuse of your energy. Decide what you really want and apply your energy to it. As you become more life affirming in your thoughts and words you will experience more joy and success, and your sense of well-being will affect others. More people will trust you and want to help you. Your life will change. Affirm life with your thoughts and words and you will find that your organization, your family, your community, and you will benefit greatly.

Remember, you’ve literally been performing miracles your entire life.

Consciously, deliberately, and with calculated precision.
You get that from the mojo!,
Tollie

What Hypnosis Is NOT!

Posted by Dreamer On January - 10 - 2010 Comments

We live in a world today that is full of perceptions, deceptions and misconceptions; it is often hard to tell one from the other when learning about new things.

Hypnosis is no stranger to an incredible amount of misconceptions, which is why it is important to really understand what those misconceptions are before assuming you can or cannot accomplish an objective through hypnosis.  To really understand what hypnosis, or anything for that matter, is you must first understand all that it is not.

Once you know what hypnosis is not, everything you are left with is what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis has been given many false pretenses through the media, movies and just plain rumor.  Hypnosis is not the ability to have complete domination over one’s mind, nor is it domination over another human being.

Another thing hypnosis is not is the ability to dominate another’s will.  In a nutshell there is nothing about hypnosis that will lead you to complete domination of the world or human kind, so if this is your intention you should stop here and embark on a new path.

The misconceptions that surround hypnosis can seem almost endless, which can often be the case when you consider any type of work that is associated with power over ones mind, thoughts, ideas and actions.

There are all kinds of associations and false ideas that are created when society acknowledges that power accompanies any way of life, this include hypnosis.  For example money carries the connotation of power, however unless you are knowledgeable about how to be powerful with money you will fail.

The misconceptions about hypnosis must be wiped from the slate if you are serious about becoming an eloquent and masterful hypnotist.

The most common misconception in the field of hypnosis is that associated with power.  Yes it is true that you will own a sort of power over the mind of your subjects, however this is not to say you will be able to control them completely.

Quite the opposite, part of hypnosis that few are aware of is that hypnosis is actually a type of negotiation with the unconscious mind.  The unconscious mind is where you store your base of morals and ethics, and while you can as a hypnotist negotiate with the unconscious, you will never be able to change or control one’s morals and ethics.

The ethical code stored in the unconscious is unbreakable, these are the ideas, beliefs and moral standards that every person chooses to live their life by.

Among the common myths of hypnosis is the idea that one can completely control another, this is a myth simply because a person, whether in hypnotic trance or not, will only do what they want to do.

A good example of this is the common entertainment of stage hypnotists.  Stage hypnotists will ask for volunteers from their audience, volunteers know on some level that they will be asked while in a hypnotic state to do things that they may not be aware that they are doing, they may even be embarrassing.

However on some level in their minds they are volunteering because they crave the attention that comes from being exhibitionists.  The volunteers know they will be controlled by the hypnotist and they are consciously okay with that because it does not cause conflict with their moral code.

Another common myth about the art of hypnosis is that you can create a person so controlled that they will do your evil bidding, or acts that a hypnotist may not want to be personally responsible for.  This again is untrue on the level that this will most often conflict with the moral standing and ethics of most people, therefore is not possible.

All this leaves us with what is left, which is what hypnosis really is.  Conversational hypnosis is a way of healing and helping people to live better, healthier and happier lives through the art of language and suggestion.  Hypnosis is used to its full potential when all parties are prospering from it; the ‘hypnotic messenger’ is a prime example of this.

The ‘hypnotic messenger’ was created when two hypnotists who were seeing the same subject and exchanged messages through the subject.

The messages were placed in the subconscious while the person was in a hypnotic state.  As the subject visited each hypnotist and relayed the messages back and forth the hypnotists gave him free treatments as they felt a little shame in the amusing yet harmless game they were playing.

The subject continued to deliver the messages and everyone learned from the situation.  The subject was receiving free therapy, and the hypnotists were not only amusing themselves but learning in the process.

This process worked because there was no moral rule being broken or violated in the process of message relay, subconsciously the subject was in agreement or had not conflict with the messages the hypnotists were sending back and forth.

On the other hand a client that is given the subconscious message to do harm to another will not carry out the suggestion because it will often conflict with their morals.

A subject that is asked to commit an act that is forbidden by their religion will not do so even if it is something that may seem harmless to many people, such as dancing.  All suggestions and whether they are carried out or not depends on the moral code of the subject and whether or not they truly, ethically believe it is an acceptable behavior.

As a hypnotist it is important to focus on the fact that your goal is to help the mind fulfill what is important to that person, find and fulfill it’s purpose, in this the unconscious mind will do all that is necessary and possible to reach that goal and work with the hypnotist for complete success.

For more information please visit http://www.conversational-hypnosis.com

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Book Review

Posted by Dreamer On January - 8 - 2010 Comments

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
(review)

Author: Daniel H. Pink
Published: Riverhead Books, December 2009
Genre: Psychology, non-fiction.

A note: This book has just been released. It is well worth reading, and I hope you make a note to look it up this month.

Ever since 1949, when Harry Harlow found that monkeys worked harder at solving puzzles when they weren’t rewarded, we have known that that our common sense understanding of motivation is not really adequate to explain animal behavior. As time went on, it became apparent that the same was true of human behavior. Over the decades evidence has slowly mounted, showing that sometimes rewards don’t make us work better, and sometimes they make us work worse. People take longer to solve problems when they are paid to do so than when they volunteer, artists paint less critically acclaimed paintings when they are paid commissions, and parents are less likely to pick up their children on time when they are fined for picking them up late — among many other examples.

In Drive Daniel H. Pink collects these bits of evidence and presents them in an easily accessible manner. He does not have any original research to present, but that’s hardly uncommon in science books written for the common man. It is easily as interesting as books like Freakonomics and the The Tipping Point, although it is not as wide-ranging in its subject matter or as well written. Honestly, a better comparison would be Nudge, in that it has lots of great information, and twice as much redundant application and speculation in the second part of the book. I would consider this absolutely necessary reading for any parent or anyone who works with children. It would also be useful for any business owner or manager.

The essence of the book is looking at situations when monetary rewards cause people to under-perform, or perform in undesirable ways. It also talks about mastery and flow, but those are covered better in other books. The last 60 pages are a self-styled self-help manual, with a quick review, guides to applying lessons learned to yourself, your business, and parenting, a ’suggested reading’ list, and various random odds and ends.

The writing is somewhat less than perfect. While the explanations are clear and easy to follow, occasionally Mr. Pink gets over-attached to a label, and tries to apply it inappropriately. He also is trying to stretch the content further than it will go; while the material is well worth reading, it just doesn’t take 200 pages to cover it. Some of Mr. Pink’s interpretation of the research is a bit iffy, but he is always clear on what comes from scientific studies and what is his own interpretation. As always, use your critical thinking skills when reading material intended for a general audience.

As I said before, this book is well worth reading. There may be another book out there that contains this information in a more integrated manner, but I have not yet found it. I also rather enjoyed reading a book that is interesting, covers important ideas, and does not jump all over the universe in an attempt to tie EVERYTHING together. Sometimes a concept needs to allowed to stand on its own. I highly recommend reading this book. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

12 Famous Dreams of Creativity and Inventions

Posted by Dreamer On January - 4 - 2010 Comments

Throughout history, artists, inventors, writers and scientists have solved problems in their dreams. Brilliant Dreams has compiled a list of twelve famous discoveries and creativity in literature, science, music and even sports attributed to dreams.

1. Paul McCartney Finds “Yesterday” In a Dream

Paul McCartney is one of the most famous singer/ songwriters of all time. According to the Guinness Book of Records, his Beatles song “Yesterday” (1965) has the most cover versions of any song ever written and, according to record label BMI, was performed over seven million times in the 20th century.

The tune for “Yesterday” came to Paul McCartney in a dream…

The Beatles were in London in 1965 filming Help! and McCartney was staying in a small attic room of his family’s house on Wimpole Street. One morning, in a dream he heard a classical string ensemble playing, and, as McCartney tells it:

“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th — and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but because I’d dreamed it, I couldn’t believe I’d written it. I thought, ‘No, I’ve never written anything like this before.’ But I had the tune, which was the most magic thing!”

2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Inspired By a Dream

In the summer of 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover, the poet Percy Shelley (whom she married later that year), visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron’s other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to each write one themselves.

Mary’s story, inspired by a dream, became Frankenstein.

“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous Creator of the world.

…I opened mine in terror. The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. …I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom; still it haunted me. I must try to think of something else. I recurred to my ghost story — my tiresome, unlucky ghost story! O! if I could only contrive one which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened that night!

Swift as light and as cheering was the idea that broke upon me. ‘I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted me my midnight pillow.’ On the morrow I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, ‘It was on a dreary night of November’, making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream.”

3. Dream Leads to Nobel Prize

Otto Loewi (1873-1961), a German born physiologist, won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1936 for his work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses. In 1903, Loewi had the idea that there might be a chemical transmission of the nervous impulse rather than an electrical one, which was the common held belief, but he was at a loss on how to prove it. He let the idea slip to the back of his mind until 17 years later he had the following dream. According to Loewi:

“The night before Easter Sunday of that year I awoke, turned on the light, and jotted down a few notes on a tiny slip of paper. Then I fell asleep again. It occurred to me at 6 o’clock in the morning that during the night I had written down something most important, but I was unable to decipher the scrawl. The next night, at 3 o’clock, the idea returned. It was the design of an experiment to determine whether or not the hypothesis of chemical transmission that I had uttered 17 years ago was correct. I got up immediately, went to the laboratory, and performed a single experiment on a frog’s heart according to the nocturnal design.”

It took Loewi a decade to carry out a decisive series of tests to satisfy his critics, but ultimately the result of his initial dream induced experiment became the foundation for the theory of chemical transmission of the nervous impulse and led to a Nobel Prize!

Dr. Loewi noted: “Most so called ‘intuitive’ discoveries are such associations made in the subconscious.”


4. Abraham Lincoln Dreamt of His Assassination

President Abraham Lincoln recounted the following dream to his wife just a few days prior to his assassination:

“About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream.

There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. It was light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break?

I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully.

‘Who is dead in the White House?’ I demanded of one of the soldiers “The President” was his answer; “he was killed by an assassin!” Then came a loud burst of grief form the crowd, which awoke me from my dream.”

Lincoln ascribed powerful meanings to his dreams. One of his recurring dreams in particular he considered foretelling and a sign of major events soon to occur. He had this dream the night before his assassination. On the morning of that lamentable day, President Lincoln was discussing matters of the war with General Grant during a cabinet meeting and believed that big news from General Sherman on the front would soon arrive. When Grant asked why he thought so, Lincoln responded:

“I had a dream last night; and ever since this war began I have had the same dream just before every event of great national importance. It portends some important event that will happen very soon.”

His friend and law partner, Ward Hill Lamon, noted that Byron’s “The Dream” was one of Lincoln’s favorite poems and he often heard him repeat the following lines:

Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed
Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
And a wide realm of wild reality,
And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off waking toils,
They do divide our being;

5. Kekulé – Dreams of Molecules & Benzene Structure

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz is a remarkable figure in the history of chemistry, specifically organic chemistry.

Twice Kekulé had dreams that led to major discoveries!

Kekulé discovered the tetravalent nature of carbon, the formation of chemical/ organic “Structure Theory”, but he did not make this breakthrough by experimentation alone. He had a dream! As he described in a speech given at the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft (German Chemical Society):
Kekule Dreams and Discovery – Benzene Dream

“I fell into a reverie, and lo, the atoms were gamboling before my eyes! Whenever, hitherto, these diminutive beings had appeared to me, they had always been in motion; but up to that time, I had never been able to discern the nature of their motion. Now, however, I saw how, frequently, two smaller atoms united to form a pair; how a larger one embraced the two smaller ones; how still larger ones kept hold of three or even four of the smaller; whilst the whole kept whirling in a giddy dance. I saw how the larger ones formed a chain, dragging the smaller ones after them, but only at the ends of the chain. . . The cry of the conductor: “Clapham Road,” awakened me from my dreaming; but I spent part of the night in putting on paper at least sketches of these dream forms. This was the origin of the Structural Theory.”

Later, he had a dream that helped him discover that the Benzene molecule, unlike other known organic compounds, had a circular structure rather than a linear one… solving a problem that had been confounding chemists:

“…I was sitting writing on my textbook, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by the repeated visions of the kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformation; long rows sometimes more closely fitted together all twining and twisting in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I awoke; and this time also I spent the rest of the night in working out the consequences of the hypothesis.”

The snake seizing it’s own tail gave Kekulé the circular structure idea he needed to solve the Benzene problem!

Said an excited Kekulé to his colleagues, “Let us learn to dream!”

6. Madame C.J. Walker – From Dream to Millionaire

Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919) is cited by the Guinness Book of Records as the first female American self-made millionaire. She was also the first member of her family born free.

Madame Walker founded and built a highly successful African-American cosmetic company that made her a millionaire many times over. Walker was suffering from a scalp infection that caused her to loose most of her hair in the 1890’s. She began experimenting with patented medicines and hair-care products.

Then, she had a dream that solved her problems:

“He answered my prayer, for one night I had a dream, and in that dream a big, black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up in my hair. Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, but I sent for it, mixed it, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had ever fallen out. I tried it on my friends; it helped them. I made up my mind to begin to sell it.”

Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist. She best sums up her rise from a childhood in the poor south to being the head of an international, multi-million dollar corporation in the following quote:

“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations….I have built my own factory on my own ground.”

7. The Sewing Machine

Elias Howe invented the sewing machine in 1845. He had the idea of a machine with a needle which would go through a piece of cloth but he couldn’t figure out exactly how it would work. He first tried using a needle that was pointed at both ends, with an eye in the middle, but it was a failure. Then one night he dreamt he was taken prisoner by a group of natives. They were dancing around him with spears. As he saw them move around him, he noticed that their spears all had holes near their tips.

When he woke up he realized that the dream had brought the solution to his problem. By locating a hole at the tip of the needle, the thread could be caught after it went through cloth thus making his machine operable.

He changed his design to incorporate the dream idea and found it worked!

8. The Strange Dream of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) described dreams as occurring in “that small theater of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long.”

Stevenson said of his now classic novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it was “conceived, written, re-written, re-re-written, and printed inside ten weeks” in 1886. And was conceived in a dream as he describes:

“For two days I went about racking my brains for a plot of any sort; and on the second night I dreamed the scene at the window, and a scene afterward split in two, in which Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and underwent the change in the presence of his pursuers.”

Mrs. Stevenson has related picturesquely how one night Louis cried out horror-stricken, how she woke him up and he protested, “Why did you waken me? I was dreaming a fine bogy-tale!” She also related how he appeared the next morning excitedly exclaiming, “I have got my schilling-shocker — I have got my schilling-shocker!”

Stevenson wrote extensively about how his passion for writing interacted with his remarkable dreams and said that, from an early age, his dreams were so vivid and moving that they were more entertaining to him personally than any literature. He learned early in his life that he could dream complete stories and that he could even go back to the same dreams on succeeding nights to give them a different ending. Later he trained himself to remember his dreams and to dream plots for his books.

9. Jack Nicklaus Finds a New Golf Swing in a Dream

Golfer Jack Nicklaus found a new way to hold his golf club in a dream, which he credits to improving his golf game. In 1964, Nicklaus was having a bad slump and routinely shooting in the high seventies. After suddenly regaining top scores he reported:

“Wednesday night I had a dream and it was about my golf swing. I was hitting them pretty good in the dream and all at once I realized I wasn’t holding the club the way I’ve actually been holding it lately. I’ve been having trouble collapsing my right arm taking the club head away from the ball, but I was doing it perfectly in my sleep. So when I came to the course yesterday morning I tried it the way I did in my dream and it worked. I shot a sixty-eight yesterday and a sixty-five today.”

10. Mathematical Genius & Dreamer- Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made substantial contributions to analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptical functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. In 1914, he was invited in to Cambridge University by the English mathematician GH Hardy who recognized his unconventional genius. He worked there for five years producing startling results and proved over 3,000 theorems in his lifetime.

According to Ramanujan, inspiration and insight for his work many times came to him in his dreams…

A Hindu goddess, named Namakkal, would appear and present mathematical formulae which he would verify after waking. Such dreams often repeated themselves and the connection with the dream world as a source for his work was constant throughout his life.

Ramanujan describes one of his dreams of mathematical discovery:

“While asleep I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of results in elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing…”

11. Dreams and The King of Horror

Novelist Stephen King describes how dreams affect his writings in an interview with UK reporter Stan Nicholls:

Nicholls: “If the inspiration for Misery didn’t come from a real-life incident, where did it come from?”

King: “Like the ideas for some of my other novels, that came to me in a dream. In fact, it happened when I was on Concord, flying over here, to Brown’s. I fell asleep on the plane, and dreamt about a woman who held a writer prisoner and killed him, skinned him, fed the remains to her pig and bound his novel in human skin. His skin, the writer’s skin. I said to myself, ‘I have to write this story.’ Of course, the plot changed quite a bit in the telling. But I wrote the first forty or fifty pages right on the landing here, between the ground floor and the first floor of the hotel.”

“Another time, when I got road-blocked in my novel It, I had a dream about leeches inside discarded refrigerators. I immediately woke up and thought, ‘That is where this is supposed to go.’ Dreams are just another part of life. To me, it’s like seeing something on the street you can use in your fiction. You take it and plug it right in. Writers are scavengers by nature.”

During an interview with Naomi Epel for her book Writers Dreaming, King described his use of dreams this way:

“I’ve always used dreams the way you’d use mirrors to look at something you couldn’t see head-on, the way that you use a mirror to look at your hair in the back. To me that’s what dreams are supposed to do. I think that dreams are a way that people’s minds illustrate the nature of their problems. Or maybe even illustrate the answers to their problems in symbolic language.”

[Anne Rice, another leading horror writer, also noted she uses dreams -- both fortuitous ones and those more intentionally provided for her books.]

12. Subliminal Clues From Fossil Perceived In Dream

Louis Agassiz (1807-1883) was a Swiss born naturalist, zoologist, geologist, and teacher who emigrated to the US in 1846. He trained and influenced a generation of American zoologists and paleontologists and is one of the founding fathers of the modern American scientific tradition

While Agassiz was working on his vast work “Poissons Fossiles” a list of all know fossil fish, he came across a specimen in a stone slab which he was, at first, unable to figure out. He hesitated to classify it and extract it since an incorrect approach could ruin the specimen. At that time, Agassiz reports having a dream three nights in a row in which he saw the fish in perfect original condition. The first two nights — being unprepared — he did not record his image.

By the third night he was ready with pen and paper, and when the fish appeared again in the dream he drew it in the dark, still half asleep. The next day he looked at his drawing which had remarkably different features from the ones he had been working out, hastened to his laboratory and extracting the fossil realized it corresponded exactly to his dream.

Agassiz’ creative dream of the fossilized fish may have been induced by having perceived unconsciously a clue in the stone slab which he had ignored while awake.

His dream may have emphasized and drawn his attention to stimuli he had perceived subliminally while he was awake!

What Discoveries are Locked Away in YOUR Dreams?

These 12 Famous Dreams are just a small sample of those that have been recorded. There are hundreds of examples of famous creativity, ideas and discoveries that have been induced or materialized from dreams and the dreaming subconscious. Untold numbers of great writers, poets, musicians, scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs have had such amazing dreams throughout history.

Happy New Year 2010 The Year of Dreams

Posted by Dreamer On December - 30 - 2009 Comments

Im getting ready to head off to the airport to head out for the New Years, and wanted to just leave everyone with a reminder. 2010 is a New Year, actually every day is a NEW day. To me this is the year of the big dreams. I get to ring in the New Year in the beautiful mountains with the beautiful Anna, and sit by a fire while sharing stories of our future. In March my new book and program is being released Worldwide, yes; finally! And there is quite a bit more, but those details will be coming soon enough. I want you to dream for yourself, and most importantly.

Oh yeah, regarding your ancient spiritual contracts, that outlined every facet of the life you now lead? Well, just wanted to remind you that they’re all re-written every dawn, and perpetually updated as each day unfolds.
Proving yet again that nothing is meant to be, that you are truly unlimited, and that anything can happen next, if you choose it.

Whooohooooo!

Let the Mojo, Floowww…

Happy New Year and a dream-infused 2010!

See ya next year!
Tollie

More Than a Beauty Contest Cities of America Pageant 2009

Posted by Dreamer On December - 20 - 2009 Comments

A little over a week ago I had the opportunity to experience first hand the Cities of America Pageant National contest. I was asked to judge this competition along side some incredible judges across the Nation. More importantly I had the chance to take part of a competition I had pre-conceived notions and biased views.

To Contact Cities of America Pageant or to learn about local pageants please call Nationals at: 1-800-454-3420

Like many people out there who have never been around pageants my mind wondered to a pretty girl standing on stage asking for world peace, and that’s about it. When I was asked to judge this competition I had to consider it, then decided that I was being very unfair with my pre-conceived ideas without ever seeing first hand. Basically, I was doing what I tell others not to do, judging without knowing anything, you know the saying, “ignorance is bliss”, and I was ignorant. So, I live my life by the actions I speak of and challenge others to live by. I went into the competition with a open mind, and ready to be impressed.

The Cities of America Pageant is a truly unique pageant. You never hear the staff or directors of the pageant refer to the competition as a “beauty pageant”. There is no swim suit competition, these girls are judged based on their personality, character, confidence, and grace and beauty as they take their stage. I was amazed at the girls, their accomplishments, their dreams and desires. Their actions they take everyday to achieve a personal level of greatness and service to others. Beautiful young ladies of all sizes, nationalities, backgrounds, and circumstances. I met dreamers, kind & charming confident women.

I heard many different reasons for their participation in the pageants and ultimately the National competition they were at. It was more than the chance at over $25,000 in prizes, cruises, cars, and more. Many of the girls before the city competitions never competed before. They were shy, reserved, never spoke in front of a crowd. They walked away with confidence, they learned the importance of a strong confident walk, and how these seemingly small attributes changes their whole physiology and creates a self power from within. I heard from parents, who started as very skeptical, and say after the local competitions, “I never knew she had that in her”!

The Cities of America Pageant was something, that I now strongly support, I also see a value for girls who want to achieve greatness in their lives. Today, men and women are faced with different challenges they are not prepared for. In my life and career, I have had to play many roles, be a different character depending on the environment and country. I had to learn to become sophisticated, charming, and learn the “small” skills not taught in school. These small skills which make the largest impact I am talking about used to be taught through a finishing school, some fraternities, and sororities. How to walk, sit, eat, manners, personal communication skills with a few, or in front of many. How to adjust your speech and answer questions completely and without all the “ums”, “you know’s”. These are important, very important life skills. The Cities of America Pageant teaches these skills, and does a tremendous job at it.

The hardest part I was faced with was judging and trying to narrow a sea of amazing girls down to only 10. I grew attached to these girls, I new their dreams, family, their life. It was hard, very hard and then being asked to pick One from the top 10, when you wanted them all to win. These pageant girls as the are referred to, are the future leaders, they are brilliant, and special, and they care for others with a true compassion for others. I am proud of all them and very proud to have been involved.

To Contact Cities of America Pageant or to learn about local pageants please call Nationals at: 1-800-454-3420

To see more photo’s from the pageant visit the Cities of America Pageant 2009 Photo Gallery Here.

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Excuses Are Tools Of The Ignorant: The Adonis Effect

Posted by Dreamer On November - 18 - 2009 Comments

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By: Tollie Schmidt

Why do some people generate fabulous results, while others just scrape by? Why aren’t we all empowered, happy, wealthy, healthy, and successful?

The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our “dream life” now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word “power” is “the ability to act.”

What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication. What we picture and say to ourselves, how we move and use the muscles of our bodies and our facial expressions will determine how much of what we know we will use.

Often we get caught in the mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action. It’s a “gift” that any of us can develop within ourselves. After all, other people had the same knowledge Steve Jobs did. People other than Ted Turner could have figured out that cable had enormous economic potential. But Turner and Jobs were able to take action, and by doing so, they changed the way many of us experience the world.

We all produce two forms of communication from which the experience of our lives is fashioned. First, we conduct internal communications: those things we picture, say, and feel within ourselves. Second, we experience external communications: words, tonalities, facial expressions, body postures, and physical actions to communicate with the world. Every communication we make is an action, a cause set in motion. And all communication we make is an action, a cause set in motion. And all communications have some kind of effect on ourselves and on others.

The Adonis Effect Subconcious Physical Attraction

Communication is power. Those who have mastered its effective use can change their own experience of the world and the world’s experience of them. All behavior and feelings find their original roots in some form of communication. Those who affect the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the majority of us are those who know how to use this tool of power. Think of the people who have changed the world – John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi. In a much grimmer vein, think of Hitler. What these men all had in common was that they were master communicators. They were able to take their vision, whether it was to transport people into space or to create a hate-filled Third Reich, and communicate it to others with such congruency that they influenced the way the masses thought and acted. Through their communication power, they changed the world.

Remember, all experiences in your life and how they effect your present and future are all determined by how you personal perceived them. Powerful men and women dream, envision and create. They do not blame, play victim, or make excuses. Take this challenge, if you truly want to make a powerful change in your life I urge you to challenge yourself with the following quote as I have personally been applying in my own life.

“Excuses are tools of the Ignorant, I will NOT use them!”

Lately, I have been asked to speak and work with alot of guys and some girls on their confidence. Honestly, help them communicate with girls, attract others, their entire physiology. I have been working with a new program which has not been out on the market long at all, called The Adonis Effect. This program is geared for guys, and honestly it is powerful for all the guys out there. It’s more than confidence, Weight Loss, Fitness, or even how to attract girls, it is TRUTH! I’m not gonna keep talking about it because a International Launch of the program is coming soon.

Here’s my promise, if you really want to feel absolute power, vitality and physical strength, create attraction for all those around you then this is 100% the program for you. The price is an amazing pre-sale price for the next couple weeks. Also, you don’t like it, don’t even try it, or make excuses, then no questions asked, you’ll receive a full refund for 90 days. So, it’s up to you, excuses? or GREATNESS? Learn about the Adonis Effect NOW!

Powerful As a King

Posted by Dreamer On November - 15 - 2009 Comments

The_Kings_Masquerade_Ball_By_TollieSchmidtBy: Tollie Schmidt

Power is a very emotional word. People’s responses to it are varied. For some people people, power has a negative connotation. Some people after power. Others feel tainted by it, as if it were something venal or suspect. How much power do you want? How much power do you think is right for you to obtain or develop? What does power really mean to you?

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The Power Of Appreciation

Posted by Dreamer On November - 13 - 2009 Comments

Appreciation_by_EricForFriendsThere is a powerful force within each one of us that you
can use to overcome any obstacles, no matter how bad the
situation is. Once you know how powerful this force is and
how it works, you will never have to worry about anything
in your life, no fears, no worries, and no anxieties. Life
becomes an easy and fulfilling process. You start to enjoy
your life; you start to enjoy every moment of your
existence.

Are you getting excited about knowing what this power is?
The powerful force that I am making reference to is “The
power of appreciation.”

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Losing 300+ pounds…his passion for no child to live as he did! Tollie, who lived his life as “the fat kid” and dealt with his self-inflicted circumstances in a self-destructive way, ballooned to over 500 pounds by the age of 24. The pothole-ridden first few chapters of Tollie’s life are viewed by most people as nothing short of inspiring, as seen in various national publications. More about Tollie

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