Mental Magic Newsletter "How to Get What You Want"

Free " Master the Law of Attraction" course

2012-01-24T11:46:00.000-08:00

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Seven Rules for Peak Performance

2011-11-16T09:14:00.000-08:00

Here is Brian Tracey giving a great summary of the main attitudes and rules we can all adopt to improve our lives starting right where we are today.

Do Your Goals Move You Ahead or Hold You Back?

2011-07-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

The way you set your goals can either create problems and hold you back, or reduce problems and move you ahead. In this short video, Anthony tells you how to tell the difference and how to set goals that empower you.

Wade Davis on the Diversity of Cultures

2011-02-25T08:25:00.000-08:00

This is a wonderful talk by Wade Davis, Ethnobiologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-residence about the diversity of cultures in the "Ethnosphere" and why preserving other cultures ways of perceiving the world are important.

How Thinking Changes the Brain

2011-02-12T18:03:00.000-08:00

Here's a fascinating video which discusses brand new discoveries in neuroscience which show how it's possible to develop your brain in specific ways and develop specific states of mind by thinking in a certain way and engaging in certain behaviors.

Where Good Ideas Come From

2011-02-06T22:58:00.001-08:00

Here's a great talk about where good ideas come from.

Do you see in this talk why being on a mastermind team is a good idea?

How to Learn Anything with Tim Ferriss

2011-01-11T19:36:00.001-08:00

How we get confused... oh, and watch your wallet

2011-01-02T21:24:00.000-08:00

The Secret Powers of Time

2010-12-26T00:07:00.000-08:00

Here is an interesting presentation on how our consciousness of time affects us, the people around us and our societies.

The Top Five Regrets

2010-11-05T11:24:00.000-07:00

I received this in an email today and thought it was interesting and informative.

Anthony

This was written by Bronnie Ware.

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learned never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.

When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me

This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.
It is very important to try and honor at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they no longer have it.
2. I wish I didn’t work so hard

This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.

We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends

Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.

It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

Life is a choice. It is YOUR life.

Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly.

Choose happiness.

--
Certified 'Law of Attraction' Trainer
Author: 'Mind, Time and Power!'
Creator: 'Inner Game of Success' Training
Visit his site: www.anthonyhamilton.org

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"To your training program must go the credit for pulling my knowledge together to form a comprehensive and manageable method of making my life more dynamic and successful." David L., Lawyer and Writer

"The key ingredient for me was how to put positive thinking to work, practically." Barbara P., Sales – McLeod, Young, Weir

"Health, wealth and prosperity are now in my realm of reality, and you have helped me find the answer." Ruby S., Realtor – Park Georgia Realty

"Anthony not only tells you what the correct attitude is, he tells you exactly how to develop it." Harvey S., Sales Manager – Jimmy Pattison Group.

"I sold a property for three times my previous record two weeks after you gave me the right affirmation." Rosy H., Realtor - Royal LePage Real Estate

Your Consciousness Creates Your Reality

2010-09-02T08:56:00.000-07:00

Here is a very interesting video which says in a simple yet entertaining way some very profound thoughts.

Enjoy and apply.

The Five Levels of Manifesting

2010-06-20T20:40:00.000-07:00

This is a very interesting little presentation about what the presenter calls the five levels of manifesting. This is an easy to follow retelling of some profound things and the visuals are very well done. Enjoy.

Mindsight -- the new science of mental health

2010-05-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

Here is a wonderful lecture by brain scientist, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., on how mental training can change the brain and how even a short daily "mindfulness" training period can have powerful effects in healing our mental and emotional health and how that spills over into healing our relationships.

A Simple Technique for Getting Over Anxiety in Minutes

2010-03-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone, Here is a great video instruction in how to cancel anxiety. It is a simple technique but a very powerful one. There is actually a series of videos, but the total time is only about twenty minutes to watch them all. This technique is one that I use and teach to my own coaching clients and Mark Shepard does a great job teaching it. This is an example of a simple strategy that you can use to make your life better, starting today.

Doing the Impossible

2010-03-15T14:03:00.001-07:00

I once heard it said that, "Anyone can do what's possible. The real exciting thing is to do what's impossible."
During my training on February 14th, I touched upon the notion that the future consists of two fields: the field of the possible and the field of the impossible. The field of the possible is simply the events that are most likely to happen to you if you continue living your life the way you are currently living it. In order to escape this field and to enter the field of the impossible, you need to create a "quantum shift" in your awareness and in your personality, so that from this new place, different things become possible for you.
Let's squarely face this simple truth: what you consider to be impossible for you, another person considers to be possible or even to be very likely.
Pick any idea you choose - for example, being a star in a movie. For you, this might seem like an impossible dream. Yet for some other people, this idea makes perfect sense. If you were to speak to Mel Gibson for example, he'd say, "Of course. It's very possible for me." There are thousands of budding actors to whom this idea represents a very exciting possibility. This possibility keeps them attending acting classes every week and keeps them auditioning for movie roles.
The real "juice" in life comes from deciding to do the impossible - to break free of our self-imposed limitations - to do something that puts us so far out of our comfort zone that all of our senses go wild.
We get woken up at night by a new kind of dream; we find yourselves talking to different kinds of people; we accept different kinds of risks; we find ourselves doing things that previously we would have refused to try.
Here's a question for you to consider: what would you like to do that from your present perspective seems to be impossible? Here are some examples: doubling your annual income; finding the perfect life partner; losing fifty pounds; developing a 'six pack'; traveling around the world; taking a trip to a foreign country for free; learning a new profession; returning to school to get another degree in a subject that interests you; changing your present job for another one that would excite you.
For each of these examples, one person reading this will say, "That's impossible." another person will say, "I could do that." Still another person will say, "That would not be too hard."
Each of us is unique. Yet one thing is true for each of us -- We are all stuck inside our particular "bubble" of possibility. -- We are all caught inside the prison of our beliefs. -- We are all living a life which is less than it could be in some way. -- We are all living inside our particular frame of reference, as Einstein called it.
Here's my challenge to you: Take a sheet of paper and write down a list of your dreams. By this I mean simply make a list of things you would like to experience, no matter how out of reach or impossible it seems. Then, choose one of those dreams which you presently consider to be impossible. Next, begin making a list of any reasons you can think of which might make it possible.
What you will find is that this dream of yours -- which at first seemed so impossible -- begins to seems slightly more possible.
Next, ask yourself these questions: What kind of person would I have to be to make this possible? What beliefs would I have to have? -- What personality characteristics would I have to adopt? -- What fears would I have to let go of? -- What attitudes would I have to incorporate into my consciousness?
This process will cause your awareness to shift. It will stimulate a new set of ideas to flow through your mind. It will trigger your mind to dream a new kind of dream. It will make you more aware of just how many possibilities exist for you that you might not have been previously aware of.
It will stretch your mind in a way that might make it impossible for it to return to its former dimensions.

Advice on Success from a 14 Year-Old Self-Made Millionaire

2010-03-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

Farrah Gray started in business at age eight and became a self-made millionaire at age 14. Here's what he has to say about being successful. Enjoy... and take notes!

Here's a free on line "Life Planning Seminar" for you

2010-03-11T20:31:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone, I hope you are well and are moving ahead in your lives.

I have been busy since I conducted the the last "Inner Game of Success" training in Victoria, BC on February 14th and wanted to let you in on what I've been up to.

Some of you may already have my book. Some don't. If you would like a book, please contact me through my site: http://www.anthonyhamilton.org.

The "Mental Magic Life Planning Seminar" is an edited version of a weekend seminar that I conducted in thirteen North American cities. I have been giving this recorded seminar as a bonus to people who have purchased my book, "Mind, Time and Power!"

However, I have recently decided to give the seminar away for free, just because it is so valuable I want as many people as possible to have access to it. If you click on the link you will find four sets of recordings, A-B-C-D. In the "B" folder you will also find a workbook you can download and print.

Here is the link: http://www.box.net/shared/m8z39vvod0

The material in this seminar is simply the most valuable life changing information I have ever come across, and I have dedicated myself to sharing these ideas with as many people as possible.

Virtually all the information in any of the dozens of self-help books I have ever read and in the numerous personal growth seminars I have attended is reflected in this on-line seminar. The technique of simply filling in the worksheets that are included in the training will cause a shift in your thinking and in your personal power. This information has changed my life and the lives of many others as well, so I know it will work for you.

I once calculated that, over the years, I have conducted nearly ten thousand one-on-one personal coaching sessions, and the information in this "Mental Magic" workshop is the material that I used in coaching people in each of these sessions.

The bottom line is this: If you use this information and fill out the "Mental Magic" workbook, you will be more successful in creating the life you want. I believe the information you will learn in this series of six sessions will allow you to make a quantum leap in your clarity, in your confidence and in your effectiveness in creating and attracting more of what you want.

Sincerely,

Anthony

The Magic of Spaced Repetition

2010-03-07T14:16:00.000-08:00

Hello again,

On page 76 of his book 'The Aladdin Factor', author Jack Canfield tells the following story to illustrate the power of visualization and repetition in building your belief in your ability to achieve the goals you have set for yourself:
In 1983 the Australian sailing team won the America's Cup for the first time. When the coach of the team was interviewed about the victory, he explained that he had read the book, 'Jonathan Livingstone Seagull' and it had inspired him to make a cassette tape of the Australian team beating the American team. He had recorded a narration of the winning race over the sound effects of a sailboat cutting through the water.
He then gave a copy of this tape to each member of the team and asked them to listen to it twice a day for three years. That's 2,190 times! Before they ever set sail in San Diego harbor, they had beat the American team 2,190 times. The flame of belief had been deeply instilled in each member of the team.
The idea of 'spaced repetition' is one of the success principles I learned from Paul J. Meyer when I worked for his company, Success Motivation Institute. I used to listen to cassette recordings every evening as I was dropping off to sleep.
I found this habit so empowering that I have continued this habit right up to the present day. Of course, now we use MP3'a instead of cassette tapes, but the idea is the same.
It's truly amazing how much of a positive effect on your thinking and on your motivation and on your clarity of vision simply listening to a recording over and over and over again can have.
The "Mental Magic Life Planning Program" that you have access to, has had such a powerful influence on my thinking that I still listen to it over and over again now, even though I am the one that created the program years ago. I still listen to the recordings as I am driving my car, or in the evening at home. It surprises me even now that after all this time, I still find the information on the recordings giving me insights and inspiration. There truly is a magic in spaced repetition.
I highly recommend that you get the magic of spaced repetition working for you today.

Sincerely,

Anthony

Confidence on Demand

2010-03-02T11:56:00.000-08:00

Most of us understand the imagination to be like an inner television screen or perhaps a computer screen on which we can see images or movies of things we are thinking about. This is only partially true.

With your television, the information displayed on the screen is coming from some other place -- perhaps a television studio in a distant city.

If you are looking at a web page on your computer screen, the information on the screen is coming from a server in some other place -- maybe even a different country.

The greatest discovery I have ever made is that the imagination is a pipeline -- a connection -- through which information travels from some other region of time. This means the information displayed on the screen of my mind is coming from somewhere else too -- either from the past, the future, or some parallel present reality.

If it is coming from the past -- it is either a positive memory -- a past success -- causing me to feel good -- or a negative memory -- a past failure -- causing me to feel bad.

If the information is coming from the positive future -- perhaps a goal which I desire to achieve -- the image may make me feel excited or motivated. It it's coming from the negative future -- something that I hope won't happen -- we call it a fear or a worry, and this information makes me feel bad.

If the information comes from a parallel present reality -- something which might be happening right now but isn't -- it will make me feel relieved, if my present is better than the alternative, or make me feel angry or frustrated if what I am experiencing is less positive than what I was hoping for.

In every case, the information in my mind is coming from some other region of time, and the information is causing me to feel good or bad, depending on which area of the past or future I am focusing on.

The imagination is a pipeline. Information flows into my mind from somewhere else, through the pipeline of my imagination. Depending on where the information is coming from, my present experience will either be positive or negative; empowering or disempowering.

One key principle to understand is that the various regions of the past and the future are always available, meaning that the information is always available and the feelings and emotions I experience are always available too -- just as web pages or internet television channels are always available.

Understanding this means that we can have confidence on demand -- just as we have internet on demand; movies on demand; sports on demand; comedy on demand.
All you need to do is place your inner awareness in the region of the past or the future where good things have happened -- your past successes -- or where good things are expected to happen -- places where your dreams and goals are being fulfilled.
At any moment in time, you can be experiencing positive feelings and emotions, or you can be feeling negative emotions. It all depends on where your inner awareness is focused.

This is why you need to have a list of past successes -- sites where your positive energy resides. You also need to have a list of your dreams and goals. This is where the positive energy exists in the future.

At any moment, your present can be flooded with positive energy or negative energy. It is your choice. Do you choose to focus on the positive events in your past and future or the negative ones?

Whichever choice you make, your present will be instantly affected by your choice.
Just as your computer can connect instantly with any web site you choose, your mind can instantly connect with any memory or any future you choose. Your awareness of this ability and your skill in using it will be one of the most important skills you will ever develop.

You can read more about these ideas in Chapters Eleven and Twelve in my book, "Mind, Time and Power!"

Anthony

Here's what Jack Canfield says about "Creating Your Attitude"

2010-02-23T11:07:00.000-08:00

Here's a great little tip from America's number one success coach.

A Simple Formula for Success in Life

2010-02-16T03:16:00.000-08:00

Zig Ziglar is great. His formula for setting and achieving goals is the same formula I learned years ago and have been using ever since. Try it and see if it doesn't have a powerful effect in your life.

Parallel Universes

2010-02-11T21:28:00.001-08:00

This is a fascinating video -- the first of five -- that talks about the new view of the universe according to modern physics. Pretty interesting. This is an idea that I touch on in Chapters Nine and Ten of my book, "Mind, Time and Power!"

Chris Howard - The Forgiveness Process

2010-01-30T13:02:00.000-08:00

This is an interesting video about 'cutting the energetic ties' with people and events that are still affecting us. This video and the next one in the series explains the process, allowing you to do it yourself. I suggest that after you learn the process, you listen to your favorite meditation music and go through the process yourself.

Wonderful Video on the Power of Words

2010-01-28T08:09:00.000-08:00

This is a very powerful video on the power of words to create your destiny.

Will Smith Video on Being Who You Choose to Be

2010-01-24T14:12:00.000-08:00

This is a great statement by Will Smith on choosing who and what you want to be.

Will Smith on The Power of Positive Thinking

2010-01-22T17:23:00.000-08:00

Here's a powerful message from the actor Will Smith on the power of belief in making things happen in your life.

How to Feel More Confident Instantly

2010-01-09T08:54:00.000-08:00

Here's a wonderful little article by Paul McKenna about how to feel more confident.

It's a simple, yet very profound and powerful idea.

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Editor/Documents/Instant%20Confidence.pdf

"Walking in your Power" - by Trish Bishop

2010-01-09T08:20:00.000-08:00

What does your life look like when you walk in your POWER?

BEING POWERFUL!
How often do you feel powerful? I mean REALLY POWERFUL? Like you are completely and totally unstoppable? I'm sure you've had fleeting moments where you caught a glimpse of it or maybe there have been times in your life where you have been blessed enough to know that feeling for long periods of time and understood what it was.

YOU ROCK!
In general, while many of us can think back to a time where we totally ROCKED, we are not living that day to day. We are too often holding back, whether consciously or unconsciously. And, in my experience, we have not ever truly experienced the full strength of our own power.

STEPPING IN...
I call the process of waking up to your own power "Stepping In", because it is as if you are truly stepping into who you really are, stepping into your body as a cohesive, aligned unit of body, mind and spirit, with the intention of moving forward as one. One with yourself, one with your power and one with the world.

This article is by Trish Bishop, author of The Question Journey, through Your Healing Sanctuary, a members-only online community that explores different healing modalities each month.

The "Mental Magic" Seminar is now on line

2009-12-23T13:24:00.000-08:00

In my last message I offered a special discounted price for the online version of my book, "Mind, Time and Power!" and the "Mental Magic" seminar recordings.

Some people have been wondering what the "Mental Magic" seminar is all about.

To answer this, I have decided to put the first of four modules of the "Menal Magic" seminar on line so you can access it for free.

To explain: This seminar is one that I used to perform when I was actively travelling and training. I performed this seminar in thirteen North American cities over a period of years. It was recorded and edited into four modules: A; B; C; and D.

The purpose of the seminar was to provide you with a "toolkit" so you could design and create the life of your dreams. During the seminar, I describe a process for

Designing your ideal life;
Remaining continually motivated;
Using your imagination as a creative source of ideas and answers;
Installing positive attitudes and beliefs into your mind;
Deleting negative attitudes from your mind;
Using the "Law of Attraction" to attract what you have decided to experience;

I have listened to this recorded seminar perhaps fifty times in the past six months and I always find it inspiring and filled with tips and ideas to keep me on track to creating more of what I want.

By following this link: http://www.box.net/mma

you will be able to listen to the entire first module.

This is about 40 minutes of information for you.

If you want to know how to access the other three modules, you can contact me through my site: www.anthonyhamilton.org

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and that 2010 is a breakthrough year for you.

Sincerely,

Anthony

New edition of "Mind, Time and Power!" published

2009-12-02T10:10:00.000-08:00

Hi, Everyone…

I just wanted to let you know that the third edition of my book, "Mind, Time and Power! - Using the power of your mind to heal your past, transform your present, create your future" has just been published.

It is available through my site, www.anthonyhamilton.org.

The online version of my book is sold through the site for $29.95, but many people have emailed me to ask if it's possible to buy an actual, paper and ink book that they can hold in their hands as they are sitting in a coffee shop. So I'm happy to be able to say "YES". Now that I am back in Canada, after having lived in China for four years, I have been able to make some changes to the book and add some graphics and links to my various on-line videos so the book is much more user friendly.

FREE BONUS SEMINAR INCLUDED

As with the online e-book, the free bonus of nearly three hours of recordings of my "Mental Magic" seminar is included as well. This series of recordings is an edited version of a day long seminar that I do. In this seminar, I explain exactly how to use the ideas in the book to create the life of your choice. I guide you through a process of using twelve very specific worksheets, on which you write down your dreams and your goals and you develop step-by-step plans for creating them.

Simply by filling out these worksheets and placing them in a binder, you really do tap into the power of your subconscious mind to create your dreams as physical realities in your life. The act of writing things down in this journal that you create is the step that actually begins the process of transforming your dreams from simply being ideas in your head to being actual physical realities in your life.

The book sells for $19.95 plus shipping and handling, so depending on where you are located, you may actually save a couple of dollars by buying the physical book rather than the on-line version.

Since moving to Victoria, on the west coast of Canada, I've been busy getting established and setting my wife and stepson up in our new home. My son, Ian is in grade ten in the local high school, which I think is remarkable, given that he is from China and he was able to just slide right into the same grade that he was attending in China. His English is really coming along, and he's working hard and doing great.

My wife, Zhang Jing, is just about to launch her own business as a massage therapist. This is also pretty amazing, I think, since operating in English for her is something entirely new. She's never really studied English, whereas Ian has studied it for ten years. So she is doing great in her new home and is picking up the language in double quick time.

So it's a whole new beginning for the three of us. It's a very exciting time.
If you would like to get a physical copy of the book, rather than the E-book, please contact me through my site and I'll let you know what the mailing costs will be depending on where you are located.

If you have any questions, please contact me through the my site.

Sincerely,

Anthony

Did you Know?

2009-11-21T08:12:00.000-08:00

Here is a fascinating video you should know about.

Cultivating More Blessings

2009-10-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Here's a short video about a very powerful concept that I made last year in China. It's a great example of how to get the Law of Attraction working in your life.

Enjoy it and pass it on to your friends.

Sincerely,

Anthony

A Simple Technique for Getting More of What You Want

2009-10-17T07:03:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy it when I get a great letter from someone who is using my material to create their dreams. Here is a wonderful letter I recently received from Salim, in England, who recently purchased my book.

It gave me an opportunity to explain how to use three very powerful tools -- Three worksheets that I learned about from my friend and mentor, Michael Losier, author of the book, "Law of Attraction". You can get these from Michael's site: http://www.lawofattractionbook.com.au/

Dear Anthony,

About two months ago I came across your free 30 day course and in that time I began to see a subtle change in my life. My mind started to open up, in seeing every thing in a very different light. I then decided to purchase your book, Mind, Time and Power and just this week I finished it, and I've started to read it again and I don't think I can stop. My out look on life is changing rapidly for the best, there are things that I'm yet to understand and I believe I will all in good time. Thank you so much for creating this gift for us. I have past over your free 30 day course to my closest friends and family members and told them to perches Mind, Time and Power.

I am about to embark on the second stage on my dream, which is to meet up with production companies and producers to pitch them my film script in India, that I would like to direct. However when I think of these top producers I get very nervous and get to a point were I feel I cannot talk about my film, my story does not flow in the way it should. I have been working to get to this point for some time. Is there any advice you can give me before I fly out to meet up with these people. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Salim

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Here is what I told him…

Salim... sounds like you are on to some great things. I'm sure your trip to meet with some producers is going to be an amazing experience for you.

I'm attaching three worksheets. The first is called "clarity through contrast". Here's how you use it.... on the left side write down all the negative things that you think and feel as you imagine meeting with the production companies... for example,
"When I think of making my pitch I feel nervous.";
"I see them rejecting my idea." ;
"They won't want to produce my movie."

Write it all down.... the more the better.

Then on the right side of the sheet, just turn all those negative statements around to the positive. For example...

"Wne I think of making my pitch I feel relaxed and confident."
"I see them nodding their heads and liking my idea."
They want to produce my movie."

And so on...

Then on the second sheet, called "Desire Statement", write down all the positive statements that you have written on the right side of the "Clarity through Contrast" sheet.

Read this over and over again. This is what you do want to happen.

I think if you do this exercise with your idea, you will be thinking about what you DO want instead of what you DON'T want and will feel better about what you are doing.

The third sheet, "Allowing Statements" is where you write down ideas that tell your mind that what you are doing is not new. Other people are doing the same thing and getting good results. Write down ideas like,

"Lots of people are selling ideas today."
"Movies are pitched and accepted every day."
"Hundreds of people are having movie ideas produced right now."

and so on....

These three work sheets should really help you get clear on what you want and help you make a great pitch.

Good luck Salim.

Write and tell me your good news when you have sold your idea.

Cheers for now, and thanks again for the very positive letter.

Anthony

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I have found these three worksheets to be incredibly easy to use and a fantastic way to cut through the negative thinking that prevents us from getting what we want in life. I am sharing them with you so you will be able to use them as well.

Sincerely,

Anthony
www.anthonyhamilton.org

"HOW TO" REFERENCES IN MY BOOK

2009-05-11T03:24:00.000-07:00

A number of people who have purchased my book, "Mind, Time and Power!" have said that an index to all the techniques and exercises in the book would make the book more valuable as a "tool kit" and enable them to find specific areas of the book which contain the exact information they need.

I agree that this is a great idea and I am working on getting one together.

In the meantime, I have compiled this list of "how to" exercises and instructions, so that you can begin to use it right away.

There are quite a few places in the book where I've included exercises and step-by-step instructions on how to develop your personal power in specific ways.

I hope that this partial list will make it easier to find the specific information and the technique you want to work on this week.

85 Chapter ten explains a new model of consciousness based on quantum physics.
109 Chapter eleven explains the connection between your inner and outer world.

120 Chapter twelve explains that your imagination is an inner time machine, that connects you with all regions of the past, present and future.

Chapters 13 to 22 contain explicit instructions on how to use your new-found cosmic connection in a number of exciting ways. For example, cultivating your skills in all these areas…

• Working with your attitudes and beliefs
• Developing an empowering self-image
• Healing your past wounds
• Transforming negative events into positive ones
• Erasing negative emotions
• Cultivating positive emotions
• Drafting a blueprint of your chosen future
• Forming a plan to create the life of your choice
• Building motivation
• Taking action

130 The key to your personal power.
138 How to change any negative event into a positive event.
140 How to ask questions that automatically encrease your personal power.
142 Using internal adjustments to keep your your life on course.
144 How changing an attitude changes your past and your future.
151 How modifying your attitudes opens the door to a flood of new experiences.
181 How to eliminate negative emotional states.
182 Specific instructions on creating confidence
184 How to create and develop any positive emotional state
184 How to eliminate negative experiences from your life.
185 How to cultivate the skill of consciously changing your reality.
187 How to change the past.
190 How to heal your emotional wounds.
192 How to transform emotional wounds into emotional strengths.
198 How to develop an attitude of gratitude.
200 How to cultivate the future of your choice.
204 How to harness the power of the future to move you where you want to go.
205 How to transform a negative thought into a positive one.
206 How to cultivate happiness.
210 How to increase your luck.
211 How to design your destiny.
221 How to cultivate more success.
233 How to use the goals process to achieve any goal.
236 How to get back on track after life deals you an unexpected blow.
251 How to create a blueprint for the life you want.
260 How to use the two keys to personal motivation
271 How to erase your fears.
285 How to use your imagination in a daily process of creating your dreams.
286 How to use your imagination to experience your chosen future in advance.
289 How to use your imagination as a creative force in your life.

The Power of Purpose

2009-03-29T04:13:00.000-07:00

One of the most important ideas in virtually every self-development program is the idea of "purpose". It seems that almost every book and every seminar talks about the importance of understanding your "Life's Purpose".

These teachers and writers explain that when you know your purpose, you experience an increase in your personal power. Knowing your purpose helps shape your thinking. It enables you to quickly decide what's important and what's not important. It shapes your values. It increases your motivation. It decreases your stress. It gives you peace of mind.

To think of your purpose as simply another interesting concept to play with or another nice attitude to adopt is to misunderstand that fact that becoming clear on your purpose conveys REAL POWER.

In my years of teaching and coaching, I've wrestled with this idea more than once. I've seen large numbers of people struggle with trying to understand their life's purpose. However, I believe that most people make one fundamental mistake when it comes to deciding on their purpose.

First of all, they frame the question incorrectly. Framing the concept in terms of your "Life's Purpose" is a mistake. Your "life" is too big. Thinking of the purpose of your entire life, immediately brings to mind the idea, "What if I'm wrong?"

Because they don't want to choose the wrong purpose, many people delay the decision and end up making no choice at all. This is the real mistake.

I learned something important from Anthony Robbins. He says to have a purpose for this year. After all, you can't live the rest of your life without living out the next year, can you?

Having a purpose for a year is a good way to see whether the purpose you've chosen works for you or not. A year is not too long. If at the end of the year you decide to refine your purpose, you can do it.

What if you are confused and think a year is too long? No problem. Choose a purpose for the next six months, or three months, or one month.

One reason I believe people get such valuable insights from the thirty day "How to Get What You Want" course is that it forces you to focus on a one month time frame.

Once you finish the course, I advise you to do it again. But next time through the course, focus on a different area of your life. If your focus the first time was on your finances, make the next month's focus on your physical health, or on improving your relationship with your significant other, or on FINDING a significant other. Or, perhaps on finalizing your plans for next year's summer holiday.

If you want to sign up for the free course, you can access it through my website at http://www.anthonyhamilton.org

Whether you choose to focus on clarifying your plans for a great holiday, losing ten pounds, improving your communication with your spouse, or saving money on the purchase of you’re your next car, make that the purpose of the next thirty days. When you get good at clarifying your purpose, you can choose a longer time frame, perhaps three months or six months.

Here's a suggestion: How about making your purpose for the next three months on developing the habit of using your mind to create your life until it becomes automatic?

Until next time, enjoy your life as it is today and focus on making it even better.

To your ongoing success,

Anthony

Understanding Time

2009-03-21T17:39:00.000-07:00

In my book, "Mind, Time and Power!" I present an idea that the mind works like a time machine.

We can remember the past, create the future and transform the present, by using our mind's "inner time machine"

When we change the past, we actually end up on a different time line in the present. This is moving sideways in time. Whenever we imagine something that is not physically real, which scientists tell us happens about 50,000 times a day, this part of our mind is moving sideways in time.

Here is an interesting video, which presents some modern concepts of time in a very entertaining way.

As you watch this video, think about some of the concepts I present in my book and on my videos, available on "you tube".

I believe understanding time and the mind's role in travelling in time, gives us tools and resources that enable us to do things which to other people, seem simply impossible.

Adopting a Winning Mind Set

2009-02-06T04:45:00.000-08:00

Over the past thirty years or so, since I first started studying "Mind Power" and "Personal Empowerment", I've noticed that what creates a "shift" in the quality of my life is not learning something new. It is in looking at things from a new perspective.

What I've experienced is that to discover a new perspective or a new attitude is more important than learning a new bit of information. I think this is because when you change your perspective, EVERYTHING CHANGES. All the learning you've had in the past suddenly means something different, because you've now changed your mind set. The world looks different because you now have a new standpoint from which you are viewing everything.

Here's an example of what I mean:

Over the years, I've taken countless seminars and workshops and read countless books. When I first started reading books on personal growth, I'd ask myself, "Is THIS book for $20 as good as THAT book, for $20?" I would compare books and try to get the best value for my money. I didn't want to buy something that was worth less than some other thing.

Later on, I realized that after I'd read a book, I could barely remember anything that was in it. If I could remember anything at all, I'd ask myself, "Did I learn something that improved my life? and "Was the improvement worth $20?" If the answer was "yes" on both counts, I'd consider the book to be a good investment and I would feel good about it.

If not, I'd consider it a bad investment and feel bad about it. My book deciding behaviour came down to trying to buy books would make me feel good and avoid those which would make me feel bad.

When I first began attending workshops, I had the same sort of attitude. I would think about the price of the workshop and I'd ask myself, "Is THIS workshop really worth $400?" Or, should I take THAT workshop? Which one is the best value?

This attitude often left me feeling ripped off, because many of the books I'd read and many of the workshops I'd attended were mediocre, at best. Not much of the information was really new. I found myself making buying decisions based on trying to avoid feeling bad.

As I became more self-aware, I examined this mind set and realized that I was setting myself up as a VICTIM. I was leaving it up to the BOOK or the WORKSHOP to change my life and make me feel better. If it didn't, I'd feel cheated or ripped off.

I began to look for a mind set that would guarantee that I would feel good with every purchase.

Eventually I got wise. I found a new way to look at the entire process. Instead of asking myself, "Is this book worth twenty bucks?" or "Is this workshop worth four hundred dollars?" I started to ask myself, "Can I find something in this book that would be worth twenty dollars to me?" and "Can I find something in this workshop that would be worth four hundred dollars to me."

This attitude changed everything. Suddenly I was in charge of how I was feeling. I realized that it wasn't the responsibility of the book or the workshop to change my life. That was MY JOB. It was my life, and it was my responsibility to figure out some way to improve it, USING THE BOOK or USING THE WORKSHOP as a tool.

I began to read books looking for "twenty dollar" ideas and attending workshops looking for "four hundred dollar" ideas. I always found them. I discovered that as soon as I took responsibility for generating the value of the book or course in my own life, I was able to do it every time.

I could attend a four hundred dollar training and because I was looking for something that I COULD USE to improve my life, and I found it.

I had stopped being a victim and started being a co-creator of my life USING THE IDEAS OF THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OR OF THE WORKSHOP LEADER.

This was a huge shift for me.

My attitude shifted from "Which book is worth the most?" to "How much can I improve my life using THIS book?"

And, "What idea or techniqe can I learn in THIS workshop that will improve my life four hundred dollars worth?" What I found was that I ALWAYS learned something I could use that improved my life. So the books and workshops were all worth the investment.

I suggest you try this attitude when you are making a decision about what to buy that you are hoping will improve the quality of your life. You might find it puts YOU in the driver's seat in your life.

To your success,

Anthony Hamilton
Author of "Mind Time and Power!"
www.anthonyhamilton.org

What is your immediate challenge?

2009-01-15T12:36:00.000-08:00

Since we are now starting a new year, many people find this the perfect time to set new goals and focus themselves on making changes.

What I want to ask you is this…

"If there were one thing I could help you achieve, starting now, what would it be?

Here are some examples that come to my mind…

Develop a better self-image.
Build my confidence.
Become more focused.
Make decisions and stick to them.
Set and achieve goals.
Overcome obstacles.
Become more motivated.
Learn to use my imagination as a creative force in my life.
Increase my self-knowledge.
Earn more money.
Find a better job.
Get more education.
Attract a better relationship.
Improve my present relationships.
Find the perfect partner.
Become more persuasive.
How to change a negative past into a positive one.

Of course, you may have other, specific goals or intentions that you are presently working on, or other challenges that you are faced with. Here's the reason I ask the question.

From 1980 until 1986 I ran a "success coaching" clinic in Vancouver, Canada, where I accepted all comers. Over the period of six years, I conducted approximately 10,000 one-on-one personal coaching sessions… all of which were very successful. During this period of time, I had a chance to hone my skills and develop some very powerful strategies. These same strategies are ones you can use to harness your intention and your personal power to create the results you want.

My point is simply this… I believe I can help you with whatever obstacle you are facing… if you can tell me what it is you want.

If you will take the time to send me an email telling me what you want, I will target my upcoming newsletters and videos to address your specific issues.

However, if you don't ask me for my feedback, I won't be able to help you.

So take a moment to think about what is challenging you at the moment and drop me a line at ah(at)anthonyhamilton.org. Or, leave a comment for me below.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Brick Walls are There for a Reason

2009-01-04T03:01:00.000-08:00

Well, here we are again at the start of another year. Let's hope it's a great one for you and for me. I certainly expect great things this year. I hope you do too.

I'd like to start off the first newsletter of this new year by telling you of an idea that I read somewhere which I think bears sharing with you because it's an important idea. Here it is:

"Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out, but to keep others out. They are there to give us a chance to show how bad we want something. They're there to stop the other people."

Let's look at this idea a little closer.

In a previous newsletter, I mentioned that you need to "include yourself in the group", meaning you need to imagine yourself as one of the people that actually gets what they want, instead of one of the many who want it but don't get it.

Let's face it. If you look closely any one of your main goals or ambitions, it's a safe bet that thousands of other people want the same thing. It's also a safe bet that some people will get it and some people won't. If you were to ask any one of the people who doesn't get the results they want, why they didn't win, they will be able to point to some reason they didn't get the result they wanted.

Some will say, "I didn't have enough money." Others will say, "It wasn't my time." Others will say, "Something was against me." Still others might say, "I didn't get the breaks I needed." Others might say, "I guess it just wasn't meant to be."

The interesting thing is that if you look at the people who did get the desired result, you will find that many of them didn't have the money either. Some didn't get the breaks. Some were in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong luck. Some had tremendous odds against them. But they overcame these obstacles and carried on until they got the results they wanted.

When you read stories of successful people, you are struck repeatedly by some of the incredible obstacles they've overcome.

Each person who achieves something important has had to overcome obstacles along the way… the very obstacles that stopped someone else. What one person saw as a brick wall, another person saw as an opportunity to become a different person…. a person who is not stopped by that particular brick wall.

So here's the point… what obstacle are you facing?

Are you going to let this obstacle become a brick wall, keeping you from the success you want? Or, are you going to find a way to get over it, get around it, get through it, get under it….. by doing whatever it takes to get passed your particular obstacle?

What will it take for you to continue on your particular path to greatness?

Whatever it takes, I know that you have the resources within you to manage it.

Continue to believe in your ability to achieve the results you want.

To your success,

Anthony

Changing the Past

2008-12-29T13:38:00.000-08:00

One of the most common questions I receive from people who buy my book is "How do I change the past?"

Changing the past is one of the most life-changing ideas that I teach. For many people, the idea of changing the past is an idea they never thought of before. The belief that "you can't change the past" is so ingrained in their thinking that they've never investigated it. They just accept that the past is what it is, and that's that. Negative events simply are negative…. We can't change them.

Virtually everyone who has an "issue" of any kind can point to a number of incidents in the past that were "negative" and which played a major or minor part in creating their life as it is today.
It might be that the past situation triggered the formation of a belief; helped to destroy a prevously held belief; caused emotional pain; or created an emotional pattern that still exists today.

If you have any negative belief, like "I'm not good enough."; I don't deserve to get what I want."; "The world is a scary place."; "Life is a struggle."; "Finding a suitable partner is difficult."; "I can't trust people." or similar ideas, it is almost guaranteed that you will be able to point to a past event that "proves" the truth of this belief.

If you ask yourself a question like, "What was a really negative thing that happened to me?" it is likely that you will quickly recall an event where someone betrayed you; a relationship ended; you got fired from a job; someone rejected you; someone ridiculed you; something important was taken from you; or, a similar event.

These past events and situations have effects that linger into the present. Sometimes they can be associated with such negative feelings and emotions that we avoid thinking about these situations because we want to avoid the pain associated to them. If the event happened in our childhood, it's possible the impact of the event changed the direction in which our life was moving. I know someone who was pushed into a swimming pool as a child, and has never learned to swim. The event was so scary, he never overcame the impact of it.

However, when we think about what the past is…. we realize the past is not real. It is not physical. It is just an idea, and any idea can be changed. The trick is to understant what to change and how to easily change it.

For any past event or situation that seems to be causing you to feel bad, you need to understand that it is the MEANING that is the source of the bad feeling, not the event itself. If you change the meaning, the feeling automatically changes. And the meaning can be easily changed by changing the way you perceive it.

There are many ways to change how you perceive any past situation. Many therapists or coaches or seminar leaders have their own favorite techniques.
Here's what I suggest…

On page 193 of my book, " Mind, Time and Power!" is an exercise about changing your past. There is a series of questions on that page that you can ask yourself.

The trick is to become aware of exactly HOW you are remembering the past event and then change SOMETHING … ANYTHING…about the way you are remembering it.

One of the quickest ways I have discovered is to ask myself these questions…

"What was I expecting just before this event happened?"
"How was I feeling just before this event happened?"
"If I had been expecting and feeling something else, how would the meaning and the feeling of this event change?"
"What happened that I did not expect?"
"If I had expected and planned for this unexpected thing, how much different might the outcome have been?"

I have found that answering these questions makes me aware that my thinking and my expectations just before the event were what really caused the event to be perceived as negative. As I become aware of these past feelings and expectations the meaning of the event changes. When the meaning changes, your feelings and emotions change too.

Changing a long-held meaning of a past event might take some time, because you need to learn to think of it differently. But with repetition, you can eventually see a different way of looking at it. And when you discover this… everything changes.

I am attaching a visualization exercise that I find very helpful to do in situations like this. Try listening to this exercise, and also do the exercises I described in the previous paragraph. I think if you do this… you will experience some great changes in the way your life is unfolding.

Make Your Mind Power Practice a Daily Habit

2008-12-22T19:05:00.001-08:00

The thirty day course in How to Get What You Want (which is available on my web site) could be the beginning of a whole new life for you if you make the techniques I've shared with you a daily habit. The way to do this is to see yourself as one of those people who has learned to recognize the power of the mind and take the time to form a habit of doing little things over and over again until it becomes a habit.

A wise friend of mine, who became a self-made millionaire using these techniques, once said, "First you make your habits, then your habits make you."

The bottom line is this… successful people are successful because they make a habit of using their mind's power to achieve their goals.

Here are a few examples of what I am referring to, taken from a goal setting website I stumbled across recently called "goals-2-go.com"

One of our very favorite stories about visioning the dream has to do with Walt Disney’s widow. When they were dedicating Epcot Center a reporter went up to Lillian Disney and said to her that it was a shame that Walt wasn’t there to see how everything had turned out. She turned to the reporter without any hesitation and replied, "Oh, he saw it, and long before we ever did."

A key part of visioning your dream is the practice of visualization and there are a number of well-known examples of the power of visualization. None other than golfing legend Jack Nicklaus is said to have always played a course in his mind before actually beginning a game. In his own words:

"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there; its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality."

Jim Carrey's "Secret" that turned him from struggling comic to multi-millionaire movie star can be used by anyone

One night in 1987, Jim Carrey was a 25-year-old struggling comic when he drove his old Toyota up to Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Sitting there overlooking the City of Angels and visioning his future, Carrey wrote himself a check for $10 million. He dated it Thanksgiving 1995 and added the notation, "for acting services rendered."

This story has become famous, of course, because Carrey's expression of brazen optimism turned out to be conservative. By the time 1995 actually rolled around, his rambunctious goofball roles in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "The Mask" and "Dumb & Dumber" had yielded worldwide grosses of $550 million, and the newly minted superstar's asking price was up to $20 million per picture.

Author and entrepreneur Brian Tracy says that,

"All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. Your mental pictures act as a guidance mechanism that causes you to act in ways that make your mental pictures come true in your life."

The Law of Correspondence says that "As within, so without." It says that your outer world tends to be a reflection of your inner world -- like a mirror. What you see in the world around you will be consistent over time with the world inside you. The Law of Concentration says that "Whatever you dwell upon grows in your reality." Those two laws in combination explain much of success and most of failure.

For a true story of focus and persistence and raw determination, go to the You Tube site and search for the story of how Sylvester Stallone turned his dream into the Oscar winning movie, "Rocky".

Successful people are those who continually think about pictures and images of the people they would like to be and the lives they would like to lead. Your subconscious mind is extraordinarily powerful, but it is a servant, not a master. Your subconscious mind coordinates every aspect of your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, words, actions and emotions to fit a pattern consistent with your dominant mental pictures. It guides you to engage in the behaviors that move you ever closer to achieving the goals you visualize most of the time.

A Personal Demonstration of Mind Power "Synchronicity"

2008-12-22T18:51:00.001-08:00

As students of Mind Power, we each have to get over the hurdle of convincing other people to believe what we believe and simply let the evidence pile up in our own lives. Others may never experience the results we do, but that does not diminish what we know to be true from out own experience.

From my personal perspective, I have been demonstrating the effects of what some call "synchronicity", or the "law of attraction", or "holographic consciousness" for so long that I often take my good fortune as a matter of course. Something magical happens and I just sort of shrug it off and accept it as another example of what I have come to call "luck".

But something happened today that seemed such an affirmation of the principle of attracting what we want that I had to put it down on paper… or in this case in digital bits on my blog.

Here's what happened…

Some time ago I created this on line blog and have been adding to it here and there over the past few months. I am not a very "tech savvy" guy, and I am still learning to get used to the new digital world we now inhabit. Recently I decided to use the blog as an addition to the "Mental Magic" newsletter I offer to people who buy my book. So I started adding these newsletter mailings to the regular postings. I thought this would be a good idea, since it will allow people who join the newsletter late to access earlier editions of the newsletter simply by going to my on line blog.

Since I arrived in China as a training consultant in 2005, many interesting things have happened. One of the most rewarding is that I met a wonderful woman who became my wife in 2006.

In the past few months, we have been planning to travel to Canada. I was expecting to get an air ticket paid for by a company that I'm doing some work for, but that recently seems to be called into question and there is some doubt whether I will receive a ticket which I can use to take her to Canada. If I needed to pay for her air ticket it would not be a problem, but it would be nice to receive a free ticket, would it not? My wife and I have had ongoing discussions about this for the past several weeks.

As I was experimenting with my blog this morning, I decided to add a video or two to my blog, to see if I could do it successfully. I chose a video called, "Cultivating More Blessings", which explains how to cultivate a fairly simple mind set that brings into your life more of what you want.

In the video, I speak of cultivating luck… one of my favorite topics. The idea is that by cultivating the attitude that we are lucky, more lucky things happen to us.

After I put the video on the blog, I decided to check my email… since I was at the computer anyway… and there was an email from an airline company saying I had won the top prize in a recent contest of theirs…. two business class, return air tickets from Shanghai to anywhere in the USA!

As I read the email, I thought it was a joke… or some kind of marketing ploy. But I checked with the airline and discovered that it was indeed genuine. It turns out that I absent mindedly entered my name in a contest some months ago and promptly forgot about it. But when the winning name was recently chosen, they chose my name. So a major part of my travel expenses for my wife and I have been solved in a pretty lucky… some would say "magical" way.
Pretty neat hey?

If you haven't yet ordered a copy of my book, "Mind, Time and Power!" you can access my website from the top of this blog.

Watch the video and try the simple "Mind Power" exercise. You might soon find yourself telling your friends about your new increased luck too.

Gregg Braden Video

2008-12-08T19:10:00.000-08:00

This great video with Gregg Braden explains how the power of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs has the ability to change our world.

How to Cultivate More of What You Want

2008-12-08T18:28:00.000-08:00

Here is a video that shows you a simple technique for bringing into your life more of what you want.

This is one of a series of videos available at http://www.youtube.com/user/TonyinChina

Include Yourself in the Group

2008-12-04T20:40:00.000-08:00

As you study the art and science of personal creativity and personal manifestation, you soon discover that one of the keys to your personal power is learning to create specific FEELINGS. To engage your subconscious mind's automatic creating mechanism you need to be able to generate specific feelings in your body, in a similar way to how you learn to create specific images in your imagination.

We hear a lot about the power of visualization, and it's an important skill. But there's more to manifesting that just forming a picture of something in your mind's eye. Not only that, but if you form the mental picture incorrectely, you can actually prevent yourself from being successful. If you visualize your goal as though it is in the distance for example, as though you were watching someone else achieve it, you are sending your mind the message, "I am not there yet."

With that message your subconscious mind gets the instruction to create a distance between you and your goal. This actually keeps the goal away from you. You soon become aware that other people are reaching the goal that you want, but you are still left wanting. This can be very frustrating.

This is why, when I teach visualization skills, I couple the visual skill with the feeling of already being in possession of the goal. In other words, you need to feel that you are one of the people who is experiencing what you want as a physical part of your life.

This is why one of the most important feelings you can learn to generate is the feeling of being one of the people who is doing what you want to be doing and experiencing what you want to be experiencing. In other words, you need to FEEL THAT YOU ARE A PART OF THE GROUP who is already enjoying the fruits of your efforts; the results of your mind power exercises.

To generate the feeling of being part of the group, you need to learn to recognize what it feels like. Think of some group that you are already a part of and notice how it feels to be part of this group. For example, if you have graduated from high school, notice how it feels to be part of this group. If you have learned to drive a car, notice how it feels to be a part of this group. If you have children, notice how it feels to be a part of the group of people that are parents.

As you learn to recognize how it feels to be part of the group, include this feeling as a part of your daily visualization exercise. When you are imagining that you have achieved your goal, and are enjoying the experience of having the goal be a part of your life, imagine it with the feeling of being part of the group of people who already have this as part of their lives. When you couple this feeling with the specific images and sounds of the goal, your subconscious mind will begin to attract to you the people, the opportunities and the situations that will help to bring it about.

This feeling of being part of the chosen group is one of the most subtle yet one of the most powerful feelings you can experience. If you don't learn to generate it, you might find that your subconscious mind is creating obstacles for you instead of opportunities.

Learn to consistently generate this feeling and you will experience opportunities opening up for you. Soon you will find yourself enjoying the situations and the circumstances of your choosing.

Life is a Journey, not a Destination…

2008-11-29T19:26:00.000-08:00

How many times have you heard that before? This is such a cliché that I'm almost embarrassed to use it. However, this expression does have a lot of value. It is a great metaphor for what I will be covering in this newsletter. By thinking of this process of creating more of what you want in your life as a journey, you anchor several ideas at once.

The first idea is that you are engaged in a process. A journey is a process. So is the development of the abilities and the skills to create the life you want. It doesn't happen in one step. There are a number of steps involved. Your knowledge, your skills and your talents will grow over time. Understand that the important thing is to engage in the process and then keep the process going.

Live one day at a time…

The second idea is that they word 'journey' comes from the French word 'journee' meaning 'day'. The key is to do something every day. By engaging in certain activities each and every day, your skills and awareness will develop. You will undergo subtle shifts in your knowledge and abilities and will find yourself continually moving in the direction you want to go.

You need a journal…

Another word from the same source is the word 'journal'. It used to mean newspaper, because they were published once each day. However, the word journal also refers to keeping a record of your progress. In simple terms, you must have a binder, a journal, or a computer file in which you record your ideas, thoughts, goals, successes, good experiences and bad experiences so that you can refer to them often and keep track of them.

One of the key ideas in my life was the insight that ideas have power. If this is so, I reasoned, then it must be a good idea to keep track of my ideas, because in this way, I am compiling a list of tools that I can use when I want to use them. This idea of keeping track of specific kinds of ideas and specific ideas has been one of the most powerful insights of my life.

So, as you begin this journey from where you are now from where you want to go, realize that you will need to do some activity on a daily basis. This activity will involved working with your thoughts and your feelings. You must begin to recognize the value of your ideas and to keep track of them in a special place.

Create a journal for yourself…

Your task for today is to create this journal. You will be adding to it later of course, but for now, have a section for your "Goals and Dreams"; your "Past Successes"; your favorite "Feelings and Emotions"; and your "Reasons to be Successful".

Begin to write down ideas on these pages, or in these folders, as you think of them. If you have completed the "How to Get What You Want" 30 day program on my website, www.anthonyhamilton.org, you will have started these already.

Visualize yourself succeeding…

The next thing you need to do every day is visualize yourself progressing farther down the road toward the life you want to create for yourself.

The easiest way to do this is to download the visualization exercise from this website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbuyQgPeZ3A.

We will be working with your journal and your visualizing ability as we move ahead. Just be aware that these two tools are absolutely fundamental to your succeeding in your journey. Each time you perform this visualization exercise you will receive new ideas. Write them down in your journal.

I'll see you again soon.

Sincerely,

Anthony

A Visit to a Chinese Doctor

2008-11-07T00:38:00.000-08:00

Things are pretty cold here in Harbin these days. There's ice on the ground and it snowed (a little) last week. There is a cold wind blowing from Mongolia and it's a bone-chiller. I went downtown this morning with Zhang Jing because I wanted to consult with a Chinese traditional doctor. This old woman is someone Zhang Jing has known since she was a young child. She told me she can remember her father bringing her along when he went to see this doctor more than thirty-five years ago.

Going to see the doctor was an interesting experience. Her office is very small, only about fifteen feet square. She sits behind a tiny table and there is a steady stream of people going in to see her. We didn't have to make an appointment and didn't have to wait. We had to be careful to arrive before ten thirty though because she only works until 11 AM three days a week.

Her "office" is in a nondescript building in a part of Harbin quite close to the main downtown area. When we went in, Zhang Jing introduced me to the doctor, a kindly, slightly overweight woman who looked to be in her late sixties. The old woman had me sit down on a stool as she proceeded to feel my pulse. You probably know that feeling a person's pulse is a primary diognostic tool in China. She pressed three fingers against the inside of my left wrist and moved them up and down a little bit while she felt my pulse. Then she did the same thing on the other wrist.

While we were there, a number of people carrying sacks of herbs came in. The people looked as though they'd just picked the herbs themselves from a local field and dried them in their back yard. They dropped the herbs off with to another person who was working in an adjascent room, which contained shelves holding bags of herbs, similar to the ones the people were bringing in. The person inside seemed to be sorting the herbs into groups. In the centre of the room was a kind of pressure cooker looking thing, in which I was told mixtures of herbs were being cooked.

After about two minutes of feeling my pulse, the doctor said to Zhang Jing, "He has high cholesterol and kidney stones, but the stones are very small and not much of a problem."

I thought this was pretty interesting since about six months ago, I had an ache in my back and went to another hospital to have an ultrasound done. They showed me the photos. I had a bunch of tiny, grain of sand sized kidney stones which they said should not cause a problem. And the last time I saw Ron in Vancouver, he had me take a blood test and told me that my cholesterol was a bit high. To me, the accuracy of her diagnosis gave the doctor a high degree of credibility.

After she made her diagnosis, she wrote a prescription consisting of a mixture of various herbs and gave it to Zhang Jing. I asked her how much her service cost and she said to me, "Five yuen." This is about seventy-five cents.

The prescription was given to another person, who figured out the price (about $25) and handed the receipe to the person in the other room, who would later cook them for us, strain them and package the resulting liquid. We were told to come back at seven in the evening to pick up the mixture. The doctor told us to take the mixture for a month and return at them time for a follow up diagnosis.

I'm looking forward to trying the medicine and seeing whether or not I can tell any difference.

All in all a pretty interesting way to spend about twenty minutes.

Personal Transformation

2008-07-30T22:19:00.000-07:00

Personal Transformation - Living the Life of Your Dreams

As a young man I was fascinated by people of power.

I loved reading tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I was especially intrigued by the magical power of Merlin the Magician.

He had extraordinary insight and wisdom and possessed the power to do things that were impossible for the average person. He could heal the sick, predict the future, make things appear or disappear, understand the inner workings of the world and unravel the secrets of the universe. This kind of "secret" power was very appealing to me.

In the middle ages, European alchemists searched for the secret for transforming lead into gold. Like them, I too was captivated by the idea of being able to transform an ordinary substance into something of great value and power.

In high school I realized that the founders of modern science - Copernicus, Kepler, Gallileo, Newton - began their careers as alchemists. They became scientists as they learned to explain their discoveries with new laws of physics and chemistry instead of magic formulas and superstitions.

The most famous of these early scientists was Isaac Newton, a brilliant 17th century thinker who formulated laws of gravity and motion. His work, of the work of his contemporaries, actually created science from the fires of the alchemists' cauldrons. These early alchemist-scientists bridged the gap between the magicians of old and the giants of the modern scientific age - Rutherford, Edison, Marconi and Bell.

Yet the modern scientists of today have something in common with the ancient magicians and alchemists - they can see the connection between the world of the mind and the world of matter. They have discovered that the transformation of the world is always preceded by the transformation of an idea.

The most famous of these modern scientists, Albert Einstein, transformed Newton's ideas of time and space, coining the phrase space-time continuum to explain that the laws of space and the laws of time are mirror images of each other.

Since one characteristic of the human mind is its connection to both the past and the future, I wondered if Einstein's ideas of time might also be applied to the mind, meaning that a psychology based on the work of Einstein could replace a psychology based on the work of Newton.

If so, this would bring into play the power of the future as a creative force.

This seemingly bizarre idea made intuitive sense to me.

"After all" I thought, "isn't it true that to succeed in life we must know which possible future we want to experience?" In short, if we want to create our dream, we first need a dream to create.

Whether our creativity is manifested in the arts, in business, politics, sports or science, are not those with power those who know what dreams they want to make real?

Does not the dream create a connection to the chosen future and provide the information, the inspiration and the motivation that keeps us going when people lacking a dream run out of steam?

I realized that the power of a goal is that it tells us how it can be achieved -- if we will but ask it the right questions.

And of course, a goal is in the future. So here was a clear example to me of how the future could be used as a source of information and power.

A 21st Century Psychology

In the course of my own personal journey I have come to realize that we are all alchemists. We all have the power to transform ordinary experiences into extraordinary lessons. We can transform our failures into sources of power. We can transform ourselves from ordinary people into people of extraordinary patience, love, wisdom and compassion.

I believe the transformation from a 17th century psychology to a 21st century psychology is an idea whose time has come.

I believe it is time for each of us to realize that we were born to be co-creators, to participate in a great river of unfolding manifestation which began before we drew our first breath and which will continue long after we are gone.

If we are to claim the power we were born with, we each need to begin by transforming our vision of ourselves. We need to see ourselves as people of power.

I eventually came to realize that the life I wanted to create was calling to me, trying to manifest itself through me, if only I had the courage to accept responsibility for living my dream.

I believe the same is true for you.

If you have a vision of a life you would like to create, I believe the power to create your dream is lying within you right now waiting to be claimed, if you will have the courage to accept it.

Can you do that?

Can you accept that you have within you the power to create your dream?

If you can, I promise you an exciting and eventful journey. The path to the future of your choice may be at times confusing, at times frustrating, perhaps even frightening. But it will never be boring.

If you will persist in the belief that you deserve to be happy, that you deserve to be fulfilled, that you deserve to experience love and fulfillment I believe you will be proven correct.

I believe that one day you will wake up -- as I did -- to realize that the life you have always wanted is the life you are living now.

Is Thinking Really Time-Travel?

2007-11-07T02:47:00.000-08:00

According to Einstein, there is nothing to distinguish past from future. It depends on the frame of reference. The same event could be in the past, present or future, depending how you look at it. The cause for a present event might even be in the future! In Einstein's universe virtual future events influence the present as much as past events! This is a distinct departure from the Newtonian world view of the seventeenth century.

Let's take a look at some of the implications of living in Einstein's world.

Space-time, wormholes and multiple universes

Like matter and energy, space and time are also two sides of the same coin, which Einstein called space-time. The laws of space and the laws of time mirror each other. Time travel is as possible as space travel.

According to Einstein, gravity is not a force. Rather, it is a bending of space-time. When strong enough, this bending can create a hole in the physical universe called a black hole. Something drawn into it is sucked out of space and travels through time, where it emerges from a white hole in a different space-time location! Because neither time nor distance has any absolute meaning, the particle is in two locations at once. These separate space-time locations are connected by a wormhole, like a tunnel connects two points on opposite sides of a river.

One implication of this new conceptual framework is that there are a multitude of virtual worlds, giving a place and a time for every possible event to occur. When flipping a coin in Einstein's world, it lands both heads and tails, but each event occurs in its own world!

To a person in world A, the coin lands heads and tails is a virtual event that never materialized. A person in world B will see the coin land tails. To this person, heads is a possibility that never materialized. All worlds are connected by wormholes. What is physical in one world is non-physical in another. The border between the virtual and the real is a matter of perspective.

How can you tell which universe you are in? you may ask.

According to modern physics, you can't! We are all trapped inside our own private frame of reference. No matter how much evidence we gather, we can never know for certain what's happening in someone else's world.

But, what is the real truth? you might ask.

However in Einstein's world the question is invalid. Absolute truth is a Newtonian concept. It has been discarded. In Einstein's universe it makes no more sense to ask about absolute truth than to ask, "How many angels can really dance on the head of a pin?”

No matter what we believe, we will never be able to prove it outside our own frame of reference. When we change the frame of reference the meaning of events shifts to line up with our new point of view. Since everything is a matter of perspective, whatever evidence you gather will support what you choose to accept. There is no such thing as the truth, only your truth.

Applying Einstein's model to your life

Modern physics provides us with a new model we can apply to our life, giving us new insight into how we create recurring patterns of events and implying new abilities that were previously considered impossible.

When we realize that Einstein's model of the universe applies to the inner world of the mind, we begin to realize that thinking is a kind of worm-hole. When we think, our awareness travels from the present, to the past or to the future. It can gather information from any area of any one of an infinite number of possible pasts, possible presents or possible futures.

When we think, we are sending a part of our awareness to a different region of some parallel past, present or future. Every thought, therefor, is an example of time travel.

In a similar fashion to sending a probe to Mars, this "mental probe" called our awareness, gathers information from whatever region of the possible past, present or future, it happens to be in and makes us conscious of it.

This information can be used to enhance our ability to make decisions, make plans, change our thinking and perhaps even change the direction of our life.

There are many worlds. We each create our own. Your frame of reference is your choice. You are free to choose the laws of your world. You are free to choose the meaning of every event. Whether anything is positive or negative is a matter of perspective. You are free to choose the overall pattern of your life and choose what your life will ultimately mean.

Your physical present sits between a spectrum of virtual pasts and virtual futures. It is connected equally to the past and the future.

Your past is not physical. It is a thought form. Your future is another thought form. Both contain numerous possibilities connected to your present through the medium of your mind Both affect your present as any thought form does.

Your mind has a counterpart to memory which operates in the future. With it, you are able to gather information from the future as easily as from the past.

You have the power to transform your past and to influence which possible future becomes real. A clear concept of your chosen future as an already existing (virtual) reality, gives you the opportunity to connect with it, providing the information you need to help it materialize in your physical present.

You can give up the struggle of trying to live according to someone else's beliefs and choose instead the boundaries of your own world.

By coupling a new conceptual framework with a new belief in your personal power, you transport yourself from the seventeenth century into the twenty-first!

Developing Personal Power

2007-11-07T01:42:00.000-08:00

Down through the ages many masters have spoken of developing personal power. And their advice has always been the same - know thyself. They meant that the key to mastery over the outer world is gaining mastery over the inner self - to choose for ourselves what we think and how we feel. The rewards of developing such power are huge - personal happiness, peace of mind and worldly success. But developing this degree of mastery takes discipline. The journey to the inner self is not for the faint of heart.

My book, "Mind, Time and Power!" outlines a system for developing the power to transform various aspects of our lives, so we can decrease what makes us unhappy and increase what makes us happy.

As we study some new concepts, complete some mental exercises and practice some new techniques, we find that our awareness, control and power grows. We discover we really do have the ability to create conditions and circumstances of our choosing. The key to the entire process lies in using our mind in a way that may be quite different from what we have been taught before.

We live in two worlds

The first step is to realize that the mind operates simultaneously in two worlds - an outer, physical world of events and an inner, non-physical world of thoughts.

Like a cat sitting on a windowsill, our conscious awareness sits at the interface of both worlds. Sometimes our conscious attention is directed outward, to the physical world. At other times it's directed inward, to the world of our thoughts. If you're like me, you may have spent considerable time trying to make sense of the relationship between the world of the mind and the world of outer reality. But we have blind spots in both worlds, so it's not so easy to figure out. There are aspects of both of which worlds of which we are simply unaware.

At first glance the outer world seems separate from the inner world of the mind, but this is an illusion. The two are really just different aspects of one overall reality that reflects something deep within us. Our job is to figure out what that "something" is.

The connection between the inner world and the outer world

The outer world and the inner world are connected and our thinking is the connection between them. We are simultaneously experiencing our thoughts and experiencing our world. What we perceive in the outer world reflects what we conceive in the inner. Our beliefs about reality influence our experience of reality.

One clue to this connection is to explore the nature of our private, innermost feelings. Many people think our feelings occur because of what happens in the outer world.

That the outer world can affect the inner world may seem obvious -- something happens and we feel either good or bad about it -- but this simply another illusion. Our feelings are not caused by outer events but by the meaning we attach to them.

And… ultimately the meaning of any event is chosen by each of us, often unconsciously. Cultivating the skill of consciously giving any event a positive meaning should be one of our main tasks. Mastering this allows us to gain control over our thinking and our feelings.

What might not be so obvious is that the connection between the two worlds goes both ways. In other words, our thinking affects the outer world! The process that brings this about is quite subtle, but we can easily prove it to ourselves because any time we change an attitude the world shifts. Doing this with control can take considerable insight and awareness.

The good news is that to create our desires as physical realities we don't need to change the world. We need only change our thinking. The outer world is then transformed automatically, as an effect. Changing our thinking changes both your inner and outer worlds!

I'll have more to say on this topic in the near future.

The most important idea in 21st century psychology

2007-11-03T20:18:00.000-07:00

The history of civilization is really the history of how one new idea replaces another, older one. When this happens the new idea creates an impact which seems completely out of proportion to the original idea that triggered it.

Here are two examples…

In 1630, Galileo proved the earth revolved around the sun. This idea triggered a new paradigm that replaced the age of superstition with the age of science.

In 1904, Einstein replaced Newton's formula, E=MV² with E=MC². This idea triggered a scientific revolution that is continuing to this day.

Right now, for some people, a new idea is creating a similar shift.

Here's the idea I'm talking about…

Einteins formula also applies to the inner world of the mind.

Einstein once said, "The problems we create at one level of thinking can only be solved by moving to another level of thinking."

When Einstein's formula is applied to the inner universe of the mind, you shift from a Newtonian Psychology to an Einsteinian Psychology. This means instead of focusing on causes and effects, you focus on creating your personal reality.

Those of you interested in "Mind Power" or "The Metaphysics of Consciousness" know that the forces which influence our personal reality can be very subtle. Sometimes a shift in awareness results in an entirely new experience of the world. Because of this new idea, our luck shifts from bad to good; our life shifts from lack to abundance, our experience shifts from pain to pleasure.

When we apply Einstein's formula to our consciousness many of our personal problems simply disappear and new talents and powers appear as if by magic.

Explaining how Einstein's model can be applied to your consciousness, and how this increases your personal power, is the reason I wrote, "Mind, Time and Power!"

I have been sharing these insights with people in my writing and my public speaking since I first learned this idea in the late 1970's. This is why I am so happy to welcome you to this website.

I will be adding more ideas on this theme later and also be giving some insights on what I'm experiencing as I travel throughout China and other places in the world.

I welcome your comments and your reaction to the ideas I am sharing with you through this site.

Sincerely, Anthony