Aug 10

Today, I’m proud to introduce an brand new subliminal video series tailor-made for Law of Attraction users. The series is called Subliminal Wealth, and it’s already stirring up LOTS of positive feedback from users!

Subliminal Wealth uses massive amounts of both audio and video suggestions of wealth, prosperity and success, along with powerful binuaral beats which ease the user into a relaxed state of acceptance. We had an absolute blast putting this series together, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we have. You can view two sample videos from the series here. And as always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated! (jon@attractanything.com)

Subliminal Wealth is designed to subtly change how you THINK about wealth and success. The Law of Attraction says that we are the result of our habitual way of thinking. But many people wonder if there is any scientific proof that this is true? Even hard-core believers in the Law of Attraction can sometimes become skeptical, and begin doubting the enormous power of their humble thoughts. So today I want to take a look at the scientific evidence concerning the power of thought.

Lauran Neergaard of the Associated Press (AP) has written a beautiful article outlining recent scientific research on the power of thought. I couldn’t say it better myself, so I’ve include the full article below. Read it, and take it to heart. The power of positive thinking is not just a nice belief–it is a scientifically verifiable fact. I hope you enjoy Lauran’s article as much as I did.

To your increasing wealth and success,
Jon Mercer
Attract Money and Success with Advanced Law of Attraction Videos

WASHINGTON (AP) — Your medicine really could work better if your doctor talks it up before handing over the prescription.

Research is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical — not just psychological — effects on your health. Scientists can measure the resulting changes in the brain, from the release of natural painkilling chemicals to alterations in how neurons fire.

Among the most provocative findings: New research suggests that once Alzheimer’s disease robs someone of the ability to expect that a proven painkiller will help them, it doesn’t work nearly as well.

It’s a new spin on the so-called placebo effect — and it begs the question of how to harness this power and thus enhance treatment benefits for patients.

“Your expectations can have profound impacts on your brain and your health,” says Columbia University neuroscientist Tor Wager.

“There is not a single placebo effect, but many placebo effects,” that differ by illness, adds Dr. Fabrizio Benedetti of Italy’s University of Torino Medical School, who is studying those effects in patients with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and pain.

The placebo effect is infamous from studies of new medications: Scientists often given either an experimental drug or a dummy pill to patients and see how they fare. Frequently, those taking the fake feel better, too, for a while, making it more difficult to tease out the medication’s true effects.

Doctors have long thought the placebo effect was psychological.

Now scientists are amassing the first direct evidence that the placebo effect actually is physical, and that expecting benefit can trigger the same neurological pathways of healing as real medication does. Among them:

–University of Michigan scientists injected the jaws of healthy young men with salt water to cause painful pressure, while PET scans measured the impact in their brains. During one scan, the men were told they were getting a pain reliever, actually a placebo.

Their brains immediately released more endorphins — chemicals that act as natural painkillers by blocking the transmission of pain signals between nerve cells — and the men felt better. To return to pre-placebo pain levels, scientists had to increase the salt-water pressure.

“Our brain really is on drugs when we get a placebo,” says co-researcher Christian Stohler, now at the University of Maryland. More remarkable, some especially strong placebo responders suggest “many brains can actually stimulate that (pain-relief) system more.”

Italy’s Benedetti gave Parkinson’s patients a placebo and measured the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in a movement-controlling part of the brain. Those neurons quieted down, a decrease in firing of about 40 percent that correlated with a reduction in patients’ muscle rigidity — they moved more easily.

To further prove the power of belief, Benedetti hooked pain patients to a computerized morphine injection system. Sometimes the computer administered a dose without them knowing it; sometimes a nurse pretended to give it. The morphine was up to 50 percent more effective when patients knew it was coming.

Likewise, Parkinson’s patients moved much better when they were told that doctors had turned on a pacemaker-like implant in their brains, which blocks tremors, than when it was turned on covertly.

But in a similar experiment with Alzheimer’s patients suffering pain, Benedetti found no difference between covert or expected dosing. The results are preliminary, he cautioned a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last month. But it appears that because Alzheimer’s robs patients of the cognitive ability to expect a benefit, they need higher doses of painkillers to get as much relief as non-demented patients.

Placebos aren’t a substitute for real medicine. But the research suggests maybe doctors should try to manipulate patients’ treatment expectations, for at least some hard-to-treat conditions.

“The bigger question is how do we capitalize on the placebo effect,” said Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University, whose studies suggest some antidepressants have a “placebo-plus” activity in the brain. “There may be a phenomenon we all have access to.”

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Jan 19

The inter-web has been all abuzz lately with talk of a sequel to The Secret. “The Secret 2” as many people are already calling the follow up, is being kept a bit of a mystery for the time being, but a few sites have been hinting that it’s on the way.

For example, Wikipedia claims the movie is under production right now and will be released spring 2008. But so far, the official Secret web site is making no mention of the Secret sequel. Hmmm…

Several of the teachers from The Secret have also implied (or in some cases confirmed) there will be a sequel, though they have mostly gone quiet on the subject lately, building even greater mystery.

There is no doubt that The Secret has made a huge impact on popular culture, and introduced many people to the philosophies of “implied responsibility,” and “attraction,” which in my mind, can only be a good thing. But the film certainly has its share of detractors too.

It is a bit odd that a film like this can incite so much controversy. 95% of all films released seem to re-hash the same well-worn motifs of victimization, tragedy and powerlessness. And then along comes Rhonda Byrne with a simple message of loving yourself, and believing in your own power, and some people seem to respond with violent emotional outbursts (oh dear)!

It seems that every once on while, some beautiful soul will go out on a limb and say, “Hey, wait a minute; we are all one, and guess what? Our thoughts have power.” And as soon as they do, some group or other will get so offended by this sentiment that they’ll try to squash it immediately. Makes you wonder what they are afraid of…

But as the late-great Bill Hicks once said, “If you’re offended by any of this–you probably deserve to be.” Haha

Personally, I hope there are 50 Secret sequels and 5000 other Law of Attraction videos in the very same vein–the world needs better influences than the same-old mindless horror films and so-called “reality” programs we’re getting now. We DESERVE better.

So I say, bring on The Secret 2, and any film like it. It’s all good.

Namaste,
Jon
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Jon Mercer, MA
Personal Development Coach
Advanced Attraction Videos to Attract Wealth
Managing Director, Youniverse LLC

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