Nov 14

Confident PeopleSelf confidence problems are an issue for many people, but luckily, it’s not hard to improve these situations. Here’s an effective tip that can improve self confidence problems; it affects not just how self confident you feel inside, but also how other people see you.

This one little change in your day-to-day life, when used consistently, will have a very noticeable effect on your level of confidence, and yet it is the simplest tip you can imagine. Here it is:

Just hold your chin higher than normal.

There’s no behavior that conveys high self confidence as much as a prominently raised chin. It makes YOU feel confident, and it makes OTHERS see you as confident (win/win situation). Try it out: while standing in front of a mirror using your usual posture, notice how you look and make note of how confident (or not) you appear to be right now.

Now step away from the mirror for a minute, and change your posture so that you hold your chin MUCH higher than normal. Go ahead, raise your chin up so high that it feels a bit awkward (this is only because you’re not used to it — yet!). Now step back in front of the mirror and look at yourself with the new raised chin posture.

Notice how confident you look AND feel with the chin held high. It’s quite a difference, right?

Here’s a challenge for you: start noticing where you hold your chin and try to keep the raised-chin-position as much as possible for 21 days without skipping a day — that’s the length of time it takes for the subconscious to fully accept a new habit. After about 18-21 days you should definitely notice more self confidence, and people around you will notice it too.

We recommend the UltraConfidence System to improve self confidence problems quickly.

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Nov 05

Barack Obama - The Power of BeliefNo matter where you live or what your political persuasion, you have to feel a sense
of pride and hope this morning. As I write this, Barack Obama has just been elected
President of the United States. Obama’s story is a story of hope, perseverance,
and above all else, belief.

President-elect Obama got were he is today by a strong and unwavering belief.
Obama’s story is everyone’s story. We ALL get where we are in life
according to our beliefs. And whether we are religious or not, each of us can
appreciate the timeless wisdom of that one simple phrase from the Bible: “According
to your belief it is done unto you.”

The subject of belief has been on my mind a lot lately. Monday I was recording
the narration for a new video on this very subject, and on Tuesday (yesterday)
I had a living, breathing example of the power of belief staring me right in
the face: the 44th President of the United States will be an African American,
something many people doubted they would ever see in their lifetime.

But as many of the world’s wisest people have noted throughout the ages,
what we believe tends to become our reality. Winston Churchill said, “We
create our own universe as we go along.” Famed psychologist Albert Ellis
said, “We become what we think about all day long.” Even pioneering
industrialists Henry Ford noted, “Whether you think you can or you can’t,
either way you are right.”

These aren’t just lovely sentiments, or stirring rhetorical devices;
these statements represent a universal truth regarding the world we live in,
and we ignore their wisdom at our own peril.

Once we recognize the power of belief, it behooves us to spend a little time
thinking about what we believe, what we REALLY believe deep down — and why
we believe it.

What do you believe about yourself? Do you believe you’re good, strong,
smart, wealthy, healthy, lovable? If we are really honest, too many of us seem
to believe the opposite of these things about ourselves. But why?

It’s important to examine why you believe what you do, especially if
you have limiting beliefs that are holding you back from achieving the things
you desire in life. The truth is, you can believe anything you want. If you
have a belief that is not serving you well, you can simply choose to believe
something else.

This may sound oversimplified, but in the end life is just that simple. The
universe responds to what you believe — it does not care WHY you believe it,
or even if it is true (true according to whom?). If you can believe something,
and persevere in that belief, you CAN achieve it. Great men and women have told
us that for centuries.

But if you’re skeptical, just turn on your television this morning (almost
any channel will do), and witness for yourself the awesome power of belief in
our new president elect, Barack Obama.

JM
www.attractanything.com

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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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Apr 01

Is the law of attraction always working, or only working every now and then when you want it to? When asked, most people will answer that of course the law of attraction isn’t only working when you want it to, but if you look at their lives, they might just live as if it did.

It is easy for us to look at other people and see what they are doing wrong when it comes to the law of attraction, but much harder to take the same look at ourselves. One thing that is repeated over and over again in almost all the material dealing with the law of attraction is the importance of taking responsibility.

We accept this concept in theory, and we might even be able to look at our past and admit to attracting to us the bad stuff that happened. Our problem comes when we are asked to do this in everyday life. It is hard to stop pointing fingers around at other people, blaming them for causing us problems or making us feel bad.

It is hard because we have years of experience with the finger pointing, and a lot of us still have a hard time taking responsibility without feeling that there is something wrong with us or blaming ourselves for the mistakes we made.

As hard as it might be, it is important to take responsibility. The finger pointing and blaming other people only attracts more things to place blame for. As harsh as it may sound, it is never them and always you. Whatever problems you have in your life, you created, and only by doing something different can you create something else.

The first thing you need to do in order to get a better life is to stop pointing to others when something goes wrong or you don’t feel good and start owning up to it. Rather than focusing on what someone else did or didn’t do to you, try to focus on what you can do for someone else.

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Mar 25

If it’s been a while since you first heard about the law of attraction and stared implementing it in your life, you might find that you have hit "the slump." "The slump" is my word for that period of time that comes after the first excitement over the discovery of the law of attraction has settled, and you start feeling a little disillusioned
because your millions have not manifested themselves.

If you are anything like me and a lot of other people, when you first started using attraction, you were baffled and exited at how it actually worked. After a while though, it may seem like it got harder to use the law of attraction, or like it somehow stopped working.

It is very common for people to hit "the slump" and give up on using the law of attraction all together. What happens when we get to this point is usually that attraction is not as new and exiting to us anymore, and we don’t dedicate as much time as we used to on the practices that will help us create the life we want. We gradually slip into our old, comfortable habits, and forget that as much as we might like them, they could have a negative effect on our lives.

If this is where you’re at, it is time to do a restart and go back to the basics! When was the last time you made or even looked at a vision board? When was the last time you meditated on money coming your way? As with almost anything else, after the novelty of it all wears off, we tend to not put the same amount of energy and attention to what we want to attract.

I suggest you start your back to basics approach by writing a gratitude list. Looking around you and listing what you are grateful for will steer your mind off negative feelings of discontent (and we all know what they will attract to you).

Here are a few more things you can do to get back on track:

1.Write a new set of goals. You might want different things today than you did when you first started.

2.Make a new vision board. You’re probably so used to the old one that you no longer even really see it.

3. Pay attention to the negative influences you get from the media and the people around you, and change what you focus on.

4. Set of time to meditate on wealth and visualize money coming your way.

5. Study the people you want to be like.

6. Read the books written by the old masters of the law of attraction like Wallace D. Wattles and Napoleon Hill.

These are just a few tips to help you get back on the horse. If you hit “the slump,” don’t waste time on doubt or worries; take action to move forward instead.

Stop looking at what you think is reality, and remind yourself that what you see around you today is the past, not the future.

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Jun 18

 ”Fear is the path to the dark side” – Yoda (the little green dude from Star Wars)

At any given moment, you are either in the competitive mindset or the creative mindset. It’s always one or the other, but never both. A creative mindset attracts; a competitive mindset repels. It really is that simple, and here’s why:

The concept of competition is based upon fear: fear of failure, fear of someone else taking what you want, fear that there won’t be enough to go around, fear of being taken advantage of, or laughed at, or criticised or rejected. Fear is the fuel of the competitive mindset and it keeps millions of people living in lack, limitation, misery and poverty.

To attract our desires, it is necessary to think from a different perspective, a perspective of abundance, opulence, well-being and joy. That’s why the (fear-based) competitive mindset must be overcome.

But I’ll be the first to admit, it is sometimes difficult not to think competitively. I’ve been studying the Law of Attraction for many years and I still have days where the old competitive voice trys to “creep back in” and direct my thoughts and actions. Luckily, that voice is not nearly as strong these days, and I’m usually able to shut it down quickly.

Something that has helped me greatly is to become extremely picky about what I will allow “on my radar.” Not watching films or reading books or magazines that are based on conflict or competitive thought (or even getting into conversations about these things). It has taken some time to drop some of these old habits, but it has really been worth the effort. I try to remember:

“If it’s not something I want in my life, I don’t want to know about it.”

I find that the more “selective” I get about this, the less competitive thought is an issue. I call this being a ”media snob” :-) and it really does help reduce the competitive mindset. There’s a lot of discussion about this attitude in the AttractAnything! Video series ( www.attractanything.com) and it’s probably the most important thing I work on with clients in one-on-one training sessions. Dropping that fear-based competitive mindset really opens up the world. It makes “real magic” possible.

The little green dude was right: fear (and it’s ugly cousin, competition) really is the path to the “dark side.”

Jon Mercer, MA
www.attractanything.com

Jon Mercer, MA, Author and Personal Development Trainer

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