Your wish may arrive through channels that seem routine or ordinary, so much so that you’re apt to overlook them,

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Not only must you watch carefully, but also say yes to promising things when they reach you.

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Anxiety can be a friend because it helps you prepare for difficult circumstances.

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Everything is possible at once but nothing is experienced without an observer.

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“believe in yourself,” be confident, throw back your shoulders and stick out your chest and go through life with a sense of self-possession.

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Are you dressing as you wish? When you get up in the morning, whether it’s a weekday, workday, weekend, vacation, or whatever, are you comporting yourself in such a way that feels natural

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Are you dressing as you wish? When you get up in the morning, whether it’s a weekday, workday, weekend, vacation, or whatever, are you comporting yourself in such a way that feels natural? How exactly do you want to dress in the world? How do you want to wear your hair?

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Some of our most deep-seated emotions and thoughts possess an innate quality, which we call temperament or character.

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Coué believed—and Claude Bristol echoes—that you enter a natural hypnotic state twice a day. It is during the few moments of deep relaxation that you feel just before drifting off to sleep at night and just again when coming to wakefulness in the morning. Sleep researchers call this hypnagogia. During hypnagogia you experience very deep bodily relaxation while your mind floats in a non-logical, free-associative state where things seem surreal, and you may experience dream imagery or even hallucinations. But you retain control over your attention. Because of this, you have the ability to introduce suggestions to yourself.

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when we’re in the hypnagogic state we’re very emotionally vulnerable.

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when we’re in the hypnagogic state we’re very emotionally vulnerable. Our sense of analysis, proportion, and logic is lowered. But if you use hypnagogia productively you can bypass the logical faculty

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when we’re in the hypnagogic state we’re very emotionally vulnerable. Our sense of analysis, proportion, and logic is lowered. But if you use hypnagogia productively you can bypass the logical faculty for good and positive reasons of reconditioning.

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self-suggestive method called the mirror technique. He prescribes using affirmations while you gaze into your own eyes in front of a mirror.

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The act of writing with pencil or pen on paper is a first step, however small, toward the actualization of what you want to realize. It is a nascent act of creation.

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writing down a sum of money and the date by which you wish to receive it, even if incrementally, and the tasks that you’re going to perform in exchange for this money.

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writing down that sum, although I may have consciously forgotten the act, did create a touchstone, a beacon, so to speak, within my subconscious, and I think it helped me focus on where I was going, what I wanted, and it may have heightened potentials, both physical and extra-physical, that we have been exploring.

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we are not honest with ourselves; that we are deeply inhibited in terms of acknowledging internally what we really want.

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we are not honest with ourselves; that we are deeply inhibited in terms of acknowledging internally what we really want. We think we know what we want.

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we are not honest with ourselves; that we are deeply inhibited in terms of acknowledging internally what we really want. We think we know what we want. But the act of making a special effort to be truly transparent can net surprising results. Clarification can move us, consciously and otherwise, in surprising directions. I do believe there is an ESP of daily life. It may be inconsistent, but it is there. I do believe that we are conveying our attitudes, wants, and needs to other people in extrasensory ways, even if intermittently. When you encounter somebody who’s sympathetic, who may be capable of meeting you halfway or lending a hand, I think those faculties may be at play. They are also at play when people bully us, which suggests the importance of having a positive self-image and a clear sense of boundaries. Those traits, in the positive or negative, are communicated too. As explored earlier, I believe that we may be constantly and at all times selecting different outcomes, actualities, and episodes of past, present, future from the infinitude of events and occurrences within which we live; we make these selections through our perspective, assumptions, mental pictures, and emotionalized thoughts. Do you begin to see why I place so

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we are not honest with ourselves; that we are deeply inhibited in terms of acknowledging internally what we really want. We think we know what we want. But the act of making a special effort to be truly transparent can net surprising results. Clarification can move us, consciously and otherwise, in surprising directions.

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