Adam Up

I call it a prosperity conscious edition of Adam Up because we are blazing that trail this month… Last week I was ranting with a rabid-like enthusiasm about developing a prosperity consciousness and refusing to allow the media or anyone else to hypnotise you into believing that any 'recession' is something that should be causing you to suffer in any way.

My wife Katie and I had a quiet weekend just gone… We have so much work and entertaining coming up that we do not have a free weekend until late September and decided that we wanted some time together this weekend.

I got out in the sunshine and worked on the garden and we both pottered around the house, on a whim we decided to go to a very highly regarded restaurant at the Harbour Height hotel in Sandbanks, a place with exceptional fresh fish, we drank Sancerre, ate lobster, looked out over the harbour to Swanage and the sun shone on the sea and all was wonderful in the world.

Without wanting to sound vulgar and simply to illustrate my point, the bill was hefty and it is no wonder the staff are immaculate and always smiling. Yes, the bill was one of those that many people would need to be sat down to read… And this at a time when we are being told to tighten our belts in anticipation of a global recession.

We did that on a whim.

Because we can.

Now, a prosperity consciousness is not about being able to go fine dining when you want to. It is the attitude underlying it. Marathon runners have a prosperity consciousness; they dedicate themselves, enjoy strict training and deliver results… I love the marathon running community.

Many mature students have a prosperity consciousness, recognising the value of self-improvement, building of knowledge and enhancing of skills. Regular ezine readers could be seen to be doing the same, as long as they take action and use the information they read.

The Spanish national football team and athletes readying themselves for the Olympics have a prosperity consciousness, people thriving in recession times, people who laugh and get as much joy out of life as possible; there are so many people with a prosperity consciousness in at least some part of their life.

These are all examples of people for whom abundance is a natural state. Did you ever read 'The Upanishads'? It has some incredible messages for the prosperity minded, such as:

"Out of abundance, He took abundance, and still abundance remained."

The world we live in, the universe it sits in, our minds, life and everything else is abundant by nature. There is no shortage of it, except in the minds of those that choose to allow such a thought.

Whatever wealth means to you, there are infinite amounts of it awaiting those who have a prosperity consciousness. Many more opportunities, chances and choices come to those of us who have a prosperity mindset… Millions of other people have created incredibly prosperous lives for themselves and so can you!

The sunset that Katie and I watched from our restaurant seats last weekend could not be totally absorbed by just us. No-one can absorb all the magnificence of such an abundant sunset, can they? There is an infinite amount for us all to be inspired by in that sunset, to photograph, enjoy, absorb and to share. And that sunset returns time after time, it is endless. Just as any foundation of abundance is.

The simple idea of abundance is as the dictionary says: "Great supply, plentitude, sufficiency, more than enough." Abundance is a prosperity mindset, abundance cannot wear out, get tired, stop delivering or run out.

Once you are the proud owner of a prosperity mindset at the core of who you are, then your abundance and prosperity pour into your life… There is more than enough to attend the needs of everyone who adopts that mindset.

If you do nothing else, learn how to get into a receptive mindset, ideally self-hypnosis (get my book, The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis, or The Secrets Of Self-Hypnosis Masterclass MP3 product to learn how) and deliver this message to yourself each and every morning and night:

"I am more and more abundant, in a way that is increasingly harmonious for me and those around me… Infinite money is mine to earn, save, invest, exponentially multiply, and share… My abundance helps make more and more other people better off… I embrace abundance and abundance embraces me… I have an increasingly beneficial prosperity mindset."

If you learn the language of self-hypnosis, you can write your own version and deliver your own created message to yourself each day. Which brings me nicely on to my next train of thought for today…

I have written week upon week about the words you speak and the thoughts you think, I always talk about reading Joseph Murphy's 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind', or James Allen's 'As A Man Thinketh', as a way of illustrating this notion.

Anyone with a prosperity consciousness needs to know how to police their thoughts. If you notice that you are putting yourself down, being negative towards yourself or using negative beliefs to fuel your words, then you need to get them to stop.

You regular readers know I say a lot that your mind is like a fertile garden and every thought, every word is a seed that if given sufficient attention will grow into full blown sensations and problems like experiencing lack, fear or the belief that you should be experiencing a recession!

You just want to be able know that you are a prosperous person, with potential for increasingly more abundance and your wealth grows and that it gets better as each day passes, that you feel in control of your own mind and that you are feeling happier and happier about it.

I used to forever pick my Mum up for tutting and saying, "That's typical…" every time anything bad happened to her or her health. She'd say, "That's typical of me and my luck…" It used to drive me mad! She was basically affirming the negative thought, the thought of lack, running herself down.

Here is a simple technique to stop any poverty conscious thoughts, just do it as and when you are required to do it:

If and when the old negative thoughts enter your mind in any form (negative internal dialogue, images, sounds, feelings), then first of all you need to 'stop' the thought. Shout "Stop!" to the thought in your mind to stop it from spreading. Here you are acknowledging the old thought and choosing not to let it become a seed in your garden.

No lightning bolt is going to come out of the sky at this point, yet you are showing yourself that you are aware of yourself and your thoughts and that you are putting your foot down — heck, YOU should be the one deciding what goes on in your own head, am I right?

Having done that, take two or three deep breaths from the area beneath your tummy button. Some really good deep breaths and alter your physiology so that you are standing, sitting or holding your body differently than you were previously.

Then turn that thought into an imaginary 'thing'. Put the thought (the thing) on to an imaginary screen of any sort, inside your mind. Just put it on to a screen to dissociate yourself from it. This further stops it from becoming a seed in your mind. Then send that screen away, make it smaller, smash it, white it out, just get rid of it in any way. Banish that thought from your mind.

This has gotten rid of the old unwanted thought (or at least signalled that you are no longer going to allow them to do their own thing). You really need to focus on what you want, and not focus on what you don't want. Whatever you focus on the most (positive or negative) is what you get more of.

So start to police your thoughts in this way and effuse to allow non-prosperous thoughts on board.

The spoken word has tremendous impact on both our external and internal reality. Words have power on so many levels. Whatever you say eventually comes back to you like a boomerang. Therefore, it is important to learn how to make the most out of the words you use.

I do not have the space here today to re-apply messages of progressive language, however, at my website you can read my article about the language of self-hypnosis, in the articles section of the resources area; that article is going to help you with you language a great deal.

What I am more interested in sharing with you today is the underlying thought process of your language rather than the actual words you are using.

I want to quote an excerpt from Mark Victor Hansen's book The One Minute Millionaire to get this point across today:

Marshall Thurber, a partner in one of the most successful real estate companies in San Francisco, told of a powerful experiment he conducted with his office staff:

"There was one discipline that immediately transformed my entire organization. It developed from one of our weekly Monday morning meetings with the entire company. At that meeting, I read a passage from a book detailing the life of Rolling Thunder, an American Indian Medicine man."

These are Rolling Thunder's words:

"People have to be responsible for their thoughts, so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy, but it can be done. First of all, if we don't want to think certain things, we don't say them. We don't have to eat everything we see, and we don't have to say everything we think. So we begin by watching our words and speaking with good purpose only."

Upon reading this quote, everyone in Thurbers company agreed to only speak with good purpose. That is, "If it doesn't serve, don't say it."

According to the rules, if anyone was observed not following the policy of speaking with good purpose, he or she had to donate $2 to a bowl in the office. At the end of the month, the money in the bowl was given to charity.

This simple act of putting $2 into a bowl was a transforming experience for this entire office. According to Thurber, nothing he has one before or since had such a powerful impact on a group of people.

So when thinking about your own development, your own prosperity and enhancing your wealth mindset, why not have a period of time to test this premise out?

Go on, I dare you to spend a day or even a week only speaking with good purpose. If it does not serve, don't say it. If you catch yourself speaking words that don't serve, put a couple of quid in a money box, or donate to charity and just watch how his impacts massively on your own life. You can maybe even use the money to go invest in The Hypnotic Millionaire Mindset audio programme of mine that is highly reduced this month in line with our ongoing theme.

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Ok, so I mentioned it earlier in this edition and I thought I would wait and give you my guest article next week, but I thought I would save you the task of attempting to trawl my website for this article… It is my own article based upon some notions from my book, The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis and from The Secrets Of Self-Hypnosis Masterclass MP3 product

Think of the underlying principles and apply them to how you use language. Then watch how the world responds positively and notice how opportunities open and you develop a prosperity language…

The Progressive Language of Prosperity

by Adam Eason

Using language in the most progressive way to ensure your internal dialogue can be as amazingly powerful to you as using self-hypnosis. The author of the best selling book The Secrets Of Self-Hypnosis tells you how.

Words are just a part of our lives, aren't they? Why do we need to think about them? When I teach people self-hypnosis, the language they use in self-hypnosis sessions is very important. What's more, the kind of language used in self-hypnosis can be used outside of formal self-hypnosis too, to enhance your communication with yourself at all times.

The words that you use in and out of self-hypnosis carry a lot of connotation and a lot of deeper meanings for you as they do for everyone. What one word means to one person can mean something completely different to another.

Self-Hypnosis: Language of Joy!

Think about an occasion in your life that was a wonderful occasion; maybe a happy birthday, the birth of a child, a wedding or a celebration, maybe a time when you achieved something, when you succeeded or maybe a time when you felt the full force of joy or love. Really think about that experience. Remember what you saw, remember and think about the sounds that you heard and think about how you know and how you knew you felt so good then. Whereabouts in your body were those good feelings? Now, as you really think about that memory and immerse yourself in it, think about the words that you would use to describe that experience.

These are the words that are going to elicit the most powerful response from within you when you use them in self-hypnosis sessions and when you communicate with yourself at any time.

Self-Hypnosis Language: Some questions for you:

Have a think about these questions… What words make you feel good? Which words give you good feelings? Make a list of the words that appeal to you. You can use a thesaurus to help.

Ask yourself; how would I like to feel? Here are some good words you may like to use in your self-hypnosis or just to frequent the internal workings of your mind with:
Healthy, peace, balance, harmony, relaxed, confident, good, happy, powerful, joyful, calm, unison, assured, vibrant, loving, progressive, better, beautiful.

All a bit obvious, I know you get the idea. It is really important though that you do actually use words that have a good meaning to you and make you feel good within your self-hypnosis or just your internal dialogue.

Words in Self-Hypnosis:

Now, I am going to add a couple of words here for you to think about. Think about the words 'more and more' and 'increasingly'. These words are going to be important to create growth, power and fluidity in your mind. Let me explain how.

Consider the sentence, "As a result of achieving my ideal weight, I am happy." This is a nice way to remind yourself that by achieving this particular goal (whatever it might be for you) you are happy. Great. However, we can make that more powerful by changing a rather static "happy" to "more and more happy". I don't know about you, but I would never want to think that I ever reached the pinnacle of happiness and could not go any further.

Happy is static. In order to supercharge your programmes and the way you utilise language in and out of self-hypnosis, you can mobilise the words and get them moving onwards and upwards for you. You can change "happy" to "happier and happier", or "more and more happy", or "increasingly happy", or "progressively more happy", or "more and more appropriately happy". Use whatever feels right for you, just use other words to develop and power it up.

Words to avoid in Self-Hypnosis:

Some of these words may seem fine and feel fine to use for you. I am just giving you ideas and considerations when using these words in and out of self-hypnosis.

When communicating with yourself, my recommendation is that you consider avoiding the following words and types of words;

Words that elicit bad feelings. Words that are ambiguous. Words that are limiting, restrictive or disempower you. Words that you are uncomfortable with.

When communicating with yourself, ask yourself these questions: Is there another phrase or word that is better? Is there a word or phrase I find more pleasing? Is there a way in which you can put your energy and power into this suggestion in a better way?

Words that elicit bad feelings in Self-Hypnosis:

So, firstly, I want to point out some words that can elicit bad feelings:
Try, can't, won't, don't, should, shouldn't, must, mustn't, jealousy, temper, no, lose, will, sad, difficult, but.

I want to point out a couple of these words in particular.

The word 'try' sends a shudder down my back. I use this word in therapy often to ensure that people wont do what I am asking them, for example I might say, "Try to resist the urge to relax." When you are trying to do something, you are not doing it. You build in failure by using the word 'try'. So just remove it from your internal communication.

You will have heard that expression, "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again." Yuck. Awful stuff. It really should read, "If at first you don't succeed, try and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, and try, etc, etc…" You want to do the things you want to do, you want to achieve the things you want to achieve; you don't want to try and do them or try and achieve them.

The word 'will' is another one to avoid if you can. 'Will' is not actually happening, it is something you will do rather than actually are doing. It never occurs. You know, you can put almost any sentence together with the word 'will' in and simply remove that word to make it more progressive and positive for your self-hypnosis requirements. Have go at doing that (I realise that there is likely to be at least one wiseguy who now uses the word as in Last Will and Testament… yes, very clever, I have not heard that one before). Here are a couple of examples…

Your Last 'Will' and Testament:

"As a result of stopping smoking I will be healthier." It now becomes, "As a result of stopping smoking, I am healthier." "I will successfully achieve my goals," is transformed into, "I successfully achieve my goals." Here we have just removed it to make it more progressive. You see, it is those finer distinctions that I refer to often that can really make a difference to the way you use language, and you may as well really use it more and more powerfully while you are in the state of self-hypnosis.

Lots of people tell me that they want to lose weight. I always tell them that no one loses when they come to see me. Think about what else you lose in life. Generally, it is things that you would rather have kept like your keys or your wallet. You generally lose things that you want to find again. Lose has many negative connotations. Instead of losing weight, reframe it with the words achieving and maintaining the size, shape and weight that pleases me. This is much more progressive.

Finally for this section, I want to mention the word 'but'. This word can often be seen to be negating what has come before it;
"I would really like to come out tonight, but I have to wash my hair."
"Of course I really love you, but I need to pursue my career."
"I had a great time, but that guy sitting next to me was rude."

This might not always be the case for you; however, it is for you to be aware of when addressing your own unconscious mind in and out of self-hypnosis.

Put Down the Put-Downs:

Secondly, I recommend that you really do avoid using words that are putdowns. They dont really have a place in self-hypnosis or your mind at all. Avoid the following words and words like them:
Untidy, dirty, smelly, ugly, stupid, lazy, hopeless, disliked, unkempt, idiot, embarrass, ridiculous.

I know you know lots more. I don't really like even having to write these in this article. Your internal dialogue and self-hypnosis sessions are better without these words.

Absolute Self-Hypnosis:

This next set of words is for you to keep aware of and avoid if you feel they limit you or your programme in any way. I am referring to words that are absolutes. These are words that have no flexibility, that are final. For example:
Always, totally, closed, never, finish, impossible, definitely, completely, death, cancelled.

You may, for example, state in a self-hypnosis session or tell yourself that you never smoke again. Which is fine and good for some people. However, you may have one too many glasses of sherry at Christmas and have a sneaky puff on your friends cigar. Now this does not make you a regular smoker again, however, it has negated the sentiments that you told yourself. It has made your internal communication to yourself less credible to you because you wrote that you would never smoke again and you just did, albeit only one puff. By writing that you would never do it, you leave no flexibility and you leave no room for interpretation of particular circumstances that may arise.

That may be fine with some, just bear it in mind. I mentioned the subject earlier within the guidelines for writing programmes and that is the notion of ambiguity. With self-hypnosis and when communicating with yourself in your own mind in other ways, it is best to avoid words that are ambiguous. Words such as; Maybe, desire, growth, positive, negative, normal, whole.

You might well use the expression that your desire to stop smoking is increasing. Again, this sounds fine on the surface. However, do you want your desire to stop smoking to increase or your actual ability to stop smoking to increase? If you only increased your desire to stop smoking, it might become a very frustrating experience. Also, you might want to consider referring to your personal growth increasing. It could be referring to something growing on your body somewhere!

Think about the word 'normal'. Who is to say what that is? Do you know specifically what you mean when you refer to anything as being 'normal'? If you are going to use the word 'normal', I would recommend that you define what that means to you also, be specific about it or just substitute it for the word 'usual' if you can.

Finally, on the topic of words, I would like to point out to you the use of the word 'able'. It is one thing being able to do something; it is another to actually do it. If you are going to increase your ability with something, then also ensure you do it.

I realise that this article has offered up many considerations so far with self-hypnosis use of language and internal dialogue. These are just that; considerations.

You can allow yourself to find the right solutions and methods for you. As you get more and more used to being in self-hypnosis or just communicating with yourself more progressively and discovering the kind of suggestions and words that have the most powerful effect for you, then you can fine tune your use of them.

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Very funny… Very hard to choose this week, we have sooo many hilarious jokes in the members area at the moment.