Mind Hacks by Dale

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There are many smart people out there working on the problem of stress. The stress reduction industry is larger than the pharmaceutical industry by a long shot. Stress is big business at over 8-trillion dollars a year. And the industry grows bigger every year.

In this article I look at the question, WHY IS STRESS GROWING?

The simple answer is that the stress industry works on the reduction of symptoms not the causes of stress. Let’s say you believe that stress is causing you to have indigestion. You take an antacid and you feel relief. You have resolved the symptom (indigestion) but not the cause of indigestion. When the cause of the problem returns, the stress returns.

The same thing happens with using exercise to reduce stress. Let’s say you feel stressed because you are angry with someone at work. You grab your exercise gear and go do a workout and you feel better. You have resolved the symptom (feeling stressed), but not the cause. If the cause reappears (the thing that caused you to become angry) the stress will return.

Stress is an outcome, not a cause. The 8 trillion-dollar stress relief industry focusses on symptom relief, not a causal reduction. So, what’s the answer?

I have spent many years in manufacturing, and I used root-cause analysis-tools to look at quality issues. If stress keeps coming back, we have a quality issue. So, I ran the stress industry problem through the Bekaert Learning Cycle tool. The Bekaert Learning Cycle looks at the symptom, cause, remedy, and action.

SYMPTOM – CAUSE – REMEDY – ACTION

When I put the industries focus on stress reduction, through the root cause analysis tool, I found the base of the problem; stress is a symptom, not a cause. Work on symptoms reduces the symptoms (the current industry focus). Only, work on the cause, can both reduce the symptoms and prevent symptoms from recurring.

That has become my new, cause celeb. I am working on creating a start-up, to address the problem of stress, and I will ask you for a little help later, to help me build a business foundation. So, let’s get back to stress.

If the stress is a symptom, in Bekaert Learning Cycle, then what is the cause?

Stress is caused when your sympathetic nervous system (the fight or flight response system) is activated. It is called a stress response. A stressor causes a stress response. Back to the Bekaert Learning Cycle. Stress is the Symptom. A stressor is the Cause.

What is the Remedy? We need to identify the stressor before we can come up with a remedy. In the manufacturing industry we often looked to the 5Ws +1H (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How).

Let’s use the antacid stress problem. We take a little time to look at what we do, or what is happening around us before we start to feel the acid pain in our stomach. Let’s say, I feel it every morning after breakfast. Then after a little more investigation, I find I only get it Monday to Friday after breakfast. On the weekends, I have the same diet, just no pain.

Maybe it’s the Monday to Friday traffic in the morning? No, I have similar traffic going home and no pain.

Maybe it’s work? Almost everything at work is great, except for that new person. When you think of the new person you begin to feel the acid flow in your stomach. We are getting close.

Let’s say you find out that it was not the person but actually that she or he got the job you wanted, and that you were angry with your supervisor for giving it to that person. Indigestion is the symptom. You not getting the job and being angry with your supervisor is the cause. Now you know the cause, now you can work on a remedy.

The Remedy might be, talking with your supervisor about how you feel and asking what you can do to improve your chances of getting the next similar position.

The Action is to talk with your supervisor, to create a plan, and to act on the plan.

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And if it feels as if it is just all too much…

If even thinking about all of that, seems like it is just too much work, then stress is already becoming a debilitating issue with you. Do what you can to feel better. Do your exercises to relieve stress and perhaps see your doctor.

I said earlier in this post that there are many smart people out there. A few people are going to recognise that professional therapists might use specific therapy to identify and act upon on a single activating stressor.

As an example, cognitive behavior therapy is a type of psychotherapy in which patients reframe negative thinking patterns into positive thoughts. Of course, getting to the root of the problem might take months or even years depending on stressor severity. For most people, the cost of therapy is not free. And of course, there is a negative stigma about seeing a therapist.

This kind of talk therapy works but there is just not enough qualified therapist out there to provide the needed service to help each of us dig down to root causes. That is just one reason why we have a stress epidemic.

The Trouble with Tribbles

I recall a Star Trek episode that aired in December of 1967 called ‘The Trouble With Tribbles’. Tribbles are furry little creatures that are born pregnant and multiply when they are fed.

Stress and stressors, like tribbles, also multiply when fed. We feed stressors by neglecting them. Our body recognises something as a real or potential danger and produces the stress response. We then react to the danger and the bodies relax response will kick in. Given time, the stressor damage heals, and we go back to normal.

Where our bodies developed to deal effectively with a few stressors each day, we are now bombarded with thousands of stimuli that our bodies perceive as stressors. Our bodies can’t keep up so the stressors, for the most part, become neglected. Our stress-tribbles multiply.

Perhaps you might consider what I did to improve my tribble trouble.

A Stressor, is a Stressor, is a Stressor

I have found that there are many stressors. In fact, I personally found when stress became a debilitating issue with me, I was far too stressed to even think about any particular issue; it felt like everything was an issue. I needed to find a way to work on all my stressors at once.

I developed three metaphysical exercises that helped me apply an ACTION that became an across-the-board REMEDY for all the stressors in my life. I can use these exercises at any time that I feel the stress. I feel less and less stress every day.

The exercises worked like a placebo. The word placebo means - to soothe. A placebo is an innocuous medication or practice of no intended therapeutic value, that results in a therapeutic improvement. My exercises are built around our response physiology, powerful wording that anchors to strong feelings, and energy transfer or removal thoughts, that the subconscious brain responds to as if they were real.

To me, the exercises create a therapeutic improvement, and my psyche and physiology, respond positively. I now call them the placebo exercises, because they appear to work at the subconscious levels offering me peace through the placebo effect.

These placebo exercises work on stressors both at the conscious and subconscious levels. After using these placebo exercises my thinking became easier and clearer. The stressors presented less stress and I was able to finally work on CAUSES as needed.

What I found was that many of the stressors simply evaporated. The stress dissolved as the stressors became weaker.

I wanted to share my experiences. The placebo exercises worked.  I began to show others, but I found that that took considerable time and effort. I found that I needed to explain all about the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, about stimulus and response, and even how to learn so that the learning would stick. I even showed others my morning placebo exercises and the short cut placebos that I used when I am out and about during the day. With friends, you do things a little at a time when you have the time and it worked but was not cohesive.

I ran my problem through the Bekaert Learning Cycle.

the symptom (hard to learn),

the cause (sporadic learning attendance, low commitment),

the remedy (create a proper training placebo effect-seminar), and

 the action (create and deploy a placebo talk seminar business)

In the past, I not only worked in manufacturing continuous improvement I also taught at a vocational college. I worked with adults recovering from mental illness. Because of this experience, I knew the methods worked. But if I wanted to help anybody, I needed to put it into a true training and delivery program. If I wanted to help with the stress epidemic, then I needed to develop a way to deliver the training properly. That is where the idea for a business start-up came in.

I plan to teach people about placebos that they can create and use across-the-board to reduce or eliminate stressors. The proposed seminar-talk business shall be called Placebo Talk.

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TO SUMMARIZE

Stress is a symptom that may show in many forms.

The cause of stress is the stimulus that creates the stress effect or the number of stressors that you are faced with. To reduce stressors in your life, you need to reduce the strength or the effects of the stressor stimuli, that is creating a stress response. Find a way to reduce the stress response.

The remedy is a method to root out and resolve the stressor or to reduce the number of stressors.

The action is to do something that will make stressor reduction happen.

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Is there a way that we can apply altered states of mind to improve personal safety?

Under a five-minute read…

I was listening to an internet personality that built a successful business by researching and providing information on success. He alluded that most successful people, those charismatic leaders that create change, are competent at entering altered states of mind.

I recently interviewed for a health and safety position and it got me thinking about behaviour-based-observations and a behaviour called mind-on-task. The more we attempt to keep our mind-on-task, the more our brain will try to get us to space-out and think about something different. Eventually, you will space-out. Your mind will wander. That puts you at risk.

One of the best ways to overcome risk is to remove or control all the risks by removing or reducing the hazards. You or your health and safety teams do this with a task hazard analysis and risk assessment.

The key is to do this analysis from an altered state of mind. Why? Albert Einstein said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

You designed the task, but you can’t see the problems from your current state of mind. That is because you are in the state of mind in which you created them. That is why even after doing hazard reduction assessments you may still find that you or your employees are having accidents.

I developed a fantasy-based thought-technology review-process that changes your state of mind called ‘Parent-Child,’ that creates an altered state of mind.  It works like this.

Do the following, all in your mind, except for writing notes. It helps to do this with one or two others who also use the same technique and to record the altered-state task breakdown and assessment on the whiteboard as you work through a task.

1.      Take a job that makes you space out and do a typical job task breakdown. That should give you steps, hazards and controls. Hopefully, you have already done this as a part of best practice.

2.      Now think of a six or seven-year-old child that you know.

3.      Pretend you are teaching that child the task that causes you to space out.

Your subconscious brain does not know what is real or not, so this will work. Your instinct is to automatically care for a child and to train him or her systematically and safely. That is how we maintain the species. Your brain will act as if the child is really there.

You will potentially perceive things like that the fantasy child is too weak and too short; there may be dangerous traffic or surroundings that are too loud. Perhaps they will need PPE and you will have to teach them how to use it. You will see that they can easily mix up directions that may be complex. They may need to reach over dangerous areas.

The ‘pretend thinking,’ will cause you to stop and rethink everything you thought about the task and the way that it is done. You will perceive all kinds of issues. I find it best to do this assessment in the actual work area, so you can become aware of more potential hazards.

Make it a task rule, that you cannot physically (or perhaps metaphysically – pun intended) help the child, so you have to get them to do the task and will need to find new ways to deal with current hazards and newly perceived hazards.

4.      Record the new steps, new hazards and new controls that you come up with.

Ask! Is there any of these hazards that can affect you or your employees while doing the task? If so, put the controls in place and go back to doing the spaced-out, but this time a little safer, task.

Of course, that doesn’t stop you from rotating people through needed mindless-tasks or perhaps even automating the tasks.

NB: Spacing out of a mindless task is normal for the brain so expect it to happen and take actions to prevent potential hazards.

Now try this and eventually teach it to every one of your team.

Until next time.

Follow and connect.

Dale

“There is a half full homes with frog fronds.”

She actually said, “It’s a hassle to get my shoes on.” I was in the kitchen with a fan running, toasting a bagel and thinking about the day’s events. My loving wife was in the living room putting on a pair of slippers over a pair of fluffy socks. It was a cool morning and we were going to do coffee on the balcony.

Hence my wife saying, “It’s a hassle to get my shoes on.” And me hearing, “There is a half full homes with frog fronds.” Your subconscious brain makes patterns automatically. It doesn’t think. In fact, your brain lies to you, a lot. Good morning my friends. This is Dale from Mind Hacks by Dale, and this is a mind hack moment. I help people to create mind-work that WORKS.

It’s is also Brain-Tip Tuesday #tiptuesday. Our subject today is not frog fronds rather ’brain lies’ and how ‘listening to the liar’, can get you into trouble. We are built for survival not for success. To our subconscious mind there is no correction, there is only now, and it doesn’t make mistakes. There can’t be an error, because, to it, there is only now. A mistake is past related and to it there is no past.

Our subconscious mind only repeats things when you are in a relaxed state. Doing it is not a conscious effort, rather like a scratched vinyl record, it repeats and repeat until you lift the stylus. More about that in a later session. Our subconscious doesn’t think in words, rather it perceives in electrical impulses that create feelings. It picks up a sound and if it produces an understanding for the sounds that it perceives. I couldn’t hear my wife properly so if filled in what it heard. The closer you are the better you hear and the more focussed you are in what is being said. I was far away and focussed on my bagel. The brain fills sound from what it knows. It does the same thing with sight. Today I was driving up from the beach and a car came down the road. The driver, a lady, was talking but nobody else, that I could see, was in the car. She appeared to be scowling and was quite animated. My initial reaction was that she was cursing me out for some reason. Why? To the brain it defaults to survival mode. Sometime in my past, someone reacted that way and was cursing me out or someone else out and causing me to feel fear. My subconscious remembered that incident. Because the brain is focussed on survival, the brain will create negative survival messages 99 out of a hundred times. The woman was probably talking with a friend through a handsfree phone, was excited and was scowling because the sun was in her eyes. Because I have used the deflect mind hack so often I automatically corrected my thoughts, smiled and thanked my subconscious self for trying to keep me safe. I was able to keep that negatively from growing, and ended up in a better state and was able to use what I learned from the situation to help me learn more.

Remember, to the subconscious brain everything is real, real or not. I use that fact, to program my brain to focus less and less on negativity and focus more and more upon positivity. Because of this I can see more, understand more, and feel more in any situation. Why more? When under the stress of negativity, you have less conscious ability to process.

Here is a quick Deflect hack review:

Put your hand to the connect hack position to break the negative thought pattern.

Visualise the negativity as a dark mass in your body.

Reach in with your dominant hand and pull the negativity out of your body.

Use your other hand to project positive energy at the mass.

See the mass change into beautiful white light as a positive gift of healing or light.

Cast the white light out into the universe where it will be used as needed.

Put your hand back to the connect hack position, take a deep breath and think thanks.

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Until then My Friend, let’s Connect!

“Between a wish and its fulfillment is an onrushing mind-wipe that only immediate action will prevent.” – Dale Syrota

This is Dale Syrota for Mind Hacks by Dale and this is a mind hack moment. Hello My Friends. I answer questions of the mind to help you make your mind-work, WORK.

In a recent Tumblr post, that I called Think and Do, I talked about the need to take immediate action when wanting to move forward on a particular goal. In this post, I will expand on that and I will also talk about the power of three and how to use it to achieve great results.

I remember an incident, during the runup to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, where, during a tirade at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the podium three times, hesitated momentarily and gave it a fourth bang for effect. The first three got our attention and with the forth, he drove home his assertion.

Politicians have learned that if you repeat things such as a hand gesture or words three times, psychologically, we are programmed to notice. In my how-to mind hack posts, I recommend three repetitions as the best way to review and learn something.

Rule of Three

This programming comes from the way our brain learns. Something is said, and we interpret it as a feeling where it sits for a short time in the hippocampus. If there is no repeat of the word a mind-wipe occurs, and you forget it.

If the word is repeated, then the feeling that the word represents is forwarded to the thalamus where it sits for about an hour and a half. If the word is not repeated another mind-wipe occurs and you forget.

If the word is again repeated, then the feeling of the word is forwarded to the hypothalamus where it sits for the next day and a half.

Now, if you get a good night’s rest and you drop into REM-sleep the hypothalamus will cause the feeling to be repeated 11,000 times and move the feeling into the basal ganglia where it becomes more or less a permanent memory.

Get a bad night’s sleep and a mind-wipe occurs and you forget.

And you thought you learned during the day when you were sitting in a class. Nope! You learn when you are asleep.

Using Ready, Set, Go

There is a phrase that starters use at the beginning of a race. It is, “On your mark, get set, go.” Others will say “get ready, get set, go.” Still, others shorten that to, “Ready, set, go.” Each follows the rule of three.

Here is how you can use ready, set, go. Let’s say that you have an idea. You want to go for a walk. You know if you think about it you will find all kinds of reasons or apply some perverted logic that will stop you from doing the walk.

The moment you first decide to go for that walk move your hand to the Connect position. You will feel that something good is about to happen. This time your affirmation is the word, ‘ready.’ In other words, you are about to go for a walk and you are READY, to do so.

When you say, ‘SET,’ you are summoning your energy to move.

When you say, ‘GO,’ move. Get your coat and keys and head outside for that walk.

Ready, set, go! You have used those words a thousand times as a child when you were about to race, or run, or try some type of game. You have heard your friends say it, your parents say it, and teachers and kids at school say it. Ready, set, go, is a very strong part of your psyche. Ready, set, go is a very strong habit. So much so that when you say it without a reason to move, your brain does a head shake as it wonders what action you are going to use ready-set-go, on. It is a very strong drive indeed.

When you have started the walk, use the Connect hand motion again, and say, “thank you.” That just makes the Connect move even more powerful for the next time that you use it.

Use the Connect motion to stop the mind wipe and ready, set, go to move forward on that dream, that inspiration, or that thing that you know that you should do.

There are a thousand things that you can get yourself to do with, ‘ready, set, go.’

Are you afraid to do something that you should be doing? Stop thinking and ready, set, go, it.

Are you postponing something that you should be doing? Ready, set, go, it.

 Are you stuck with a choice between a good and bad food? Look at the good food and ready, set, go, it.

Do you need to go make a recording? Ready, set, go, it.

READY, SET, GO! 

Perhaps the most powerful words in the English language. Use them!

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Let’s connect.

(Acting on Inspiration)

Hello My Friends. Dale here from Mind Hacks by Dale and this is a mind hack moment. Today, I am going to talk about getting it done, whatever IT is, what stops that from happening, and what you can do to act on inspiration, now.

I am going to share four words that can change your life. THINK IT, DO IT. That needs to become your life motto, that is if you really want to move ahead.

I remember that day when I stepped out of Gordon Neighbourhood House, in the West End of Vancouver, and sat on a nearby bench. I looked down and laying next to me was a book, by Napoleon Hill, called ‘Think and Grow Rich.’ Without any forethought, I picked it up and began to read.  Reading it, led to a dramatic life-change for me.

But now after three decades of brain and psychological study about how we learn, I am now focussing on what STOPS US from learning and what stops us from acting on what we have learned. The reason why we fail to act is beautiful in its simplicity. This knowledge brought to mind another book from my past. A non-descriptive book that many of us were forced to read when we were children.

It was my primary school book called, ‘Think and Do.’  Yes, for those who remember, that was from the Dick and Jane books. Reading it wasn’t important.  What stops you from being successful and the secret to success is all in the title. The secret is to ‘think and do.’

It wasn’t thinking and think again, it was Think and Do. ‘Think and Do’ immediately, because if you overthink or hesitate, you will not do whatever IT is, because your brain will stop you cold. As the title declares, AS YOU THINK IT, DO IT.

Your brain is designed for survival, not for success. Thinking uses energy that the subconscious brain wants to use to look for danger. Specific thoughts take away even more of that energy.

You have about seven seconds to act on a thought, any longer than that, and you are overthinking. Overthinking takes more than seven seconds and that gives your brain time to activate its motivational-idea eraser. As that activates, it clears your thought from the hippocampus, and zip, your thought is gone and also so too is your drive to do whatever you were originally inspired to do.

If the mind’s motivational-idea eraser doesn’t work, then your brain will begin to leak doubt’s or even use its ultimate no-change device that I call a logic bomb. If your thought has the sticking power to overcome that onslaught, you may gain a little success.

DO THINKING

There are three things that you can DO that can stop your brain from wiping away your ideas and inspiring thoughts. The first thing you can do is to repeat the exact same thought, but this time, say it out loud.

That conscious effort will momentarily stop the brain’s wipe-away weapon from being deployed. That repetition will move a thought from the hippocampus to the thalamus where it will sit for about an hour and a half, waiting to be acted upon.

The second thing that you can do, is to take a physical action toward doing whatever it is that you are being inspired to do. I often use the Connect hack (a physical action) and the repeating of a thought out loud, to reinforce retention long enough to take more concrete action.

The third is to move. I link my Connect hack to a more physical motion and feeling. I know that if I shower first thing in the morning before doing any writing or recording, that I get more done. Sitting about in my lounging clothes means, it is time to lounge. Lounging around doesn’t get a lot of interesting work done. An early morning shower keeps me focussed and productive.

So, each morning I lay in bed for a while which is my serious thinking time. This has become a habit of many months of early morning meditation. Now, I can perform deep meditation whenever I wake up without going back to sleep.

At some point though, I get the urge, or I am inspired to ‘get up.’ That leads to making a decision to either do lounge-around-time or to shower and get more productive and get things done. So, I make the Connect mind hack move and remember how wonderful a day filled with productivity can feel and I get up. That positive feeling of being productive causes me to head directly for the bathroom shower.

Mulling ideas around in your head increases your chances of failure and brain actions that result in de-motivation. So, stop thinking and act; immediately, whenever you become aware of an inspiring thought.

HOW TO STOP THE THOUGHT

How do you stop overthinking and act immediately? The brain’s motivational-idea eraser is at the subconscious level. So, to affect change, you must affect things at the subconscious level. The subconscious part of the brain that you need to affect, is only changed or impacted through feelings. The best way to foster change is through the repetition of habitual feelings. That subconscious part of the brain that wipes inspiration doesn’t speak, or read, or see pictures, it only feels things.

You can, however, activate feelings through motions (repetitive actions connected to a feeling), feeling-connected words (affirmations), feeling-connected fantasy or pictures (visualisation) and past recall of related feelings (a habit).

I remember the night of May 7, 1995. My wife and I, and 1500 other people, all walked on fire (or at least hot coals) at the Tony Robbins Fire Walk Experience. Tony had us think about an anchor move that we would use after we stepped off the hot coals. So, immediately after stepping off the glowing coals, and wiping my feet on the soft wet earth at the end of the fire path, to remove any hot coals from between my toes, I performed my special move as I had been instructed. To this day when I do that power move (my anchor move), I am filled with confidence and excitement.

I decided to create a success anchor too and did so using an action that we all do, but of which we are seldom aware that we are even using.

Often, when we are faced with an inspiring poignant moment where we feel both happy and sad, we put our hand to our chest near our heart just under our throat. We have been doing this for thousands of years. So much so, that when you place your hand there, it causes a positive change in your physiology. That simple motion is often a precursor to a paradigm shift in your thinking or in the way you act. It is a link to great inspiration.

I have created a habit move, based on this hand movement, that I call Connect. Now, when I perceive an idea or concept that requires action, I place my hand in the Connect position and it stops any doubt from the beginning.

To me, it also means that I am about to make a change that will make my life better. That spurs me on to take needed action, right now. I am writing this post because I was inspired to document a simple way to make a change in our lives. I simply had the idea, did my Connect move, grabbed my computer and began to write. Think and do!

I could have waited, and soon I would have been engrossed in a movie or in some rabbit hole on Tumblr, Instagram or Facebook. Immediate action on an urge to tell a real story, made me connect with you, so you could read that story.

I perform one of two other moves any time I feel positive or negative about a stimulus that is presented to me. That also creates a bias for action.

When presented with a recognisable negative stimulus, I fantasise that I reach inside of me at the Connect position, pull the negativity as a dark mass out of my body, hold it in my hand, change it to a positive white light with my other hand, and gift it out to the universe where it will do the most good.

When presented with a recognisable positive stimulus, I fantasise that I see the feeling in front of me as a white light of positiveness and I reach out and grasp that white light, draw it to me and then press it into my body at the Connect position. I dwell for a moment or two on how good this feels.

All three moves, as I stated above, use motions (repetitive actions), words (affirmations), fantasy or pictures (visualisation) and past recall of related feelings (habit) to create immediate action and consistent change. And man do those results ever feel good. It leads to a life that I find to be truly magical.

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Until then My Friend, let’s Connect!

Hello, my friends. Dale Syrota here from Mind Hacks by Dale, and this is a mind hack moment. Mind hacking is about being able to change your life, for the better, for the rest of your life.

In this mind hack moment post, I am going to talk about empowering the Connect Mind Hack by using an affirmation and performing a simple hand exercise to boost that contact. Let’s get started.

The activities and actions that I am going to be talking about, comes from my research into the practice of the Philippian art of Pranic healing, the Hawaiian healing art of Ho’ oponopono, from the Silva Mind Control Method.

Here is the affirmation:

·         Hello My Friend

·         I love you

·         Every day in every way I am getting better, better and better

·         Thank you

Affirmations are great, but unless you add feeling (the correct feeling) when saying them, affirmations are useless at best and harmful at worst. I will talk more about the best way to create and use affirmations in another post.

Let’s dissect our affirmation.

HELLO MY FRIEND: Let’s look at the feeling part (Hello My Friend). When I studied the Hawaiian healing art of Ho’ oponopono, I watched psychologist and Ho’ oponopono master Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, walk people through an inner child exercise. Your inner-child, is psycho-speak for your soul or your subconscious. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHiWyWU-Eo.

I found that my inner child was no child at all, rather an essence of such immense power and caring that I had a hard time conceptualising or even understanding of it. I called this immense essence my friend.

So, when I say hello my friend, I am connecting with my soul or my subconscious. Most often I start my videos, post or talks with the words, hello my friends. That is my connection to you and a play on my connection to my subconscious or soul. Is it any wonder why I call this mind hack, Connect?

I LOVE YOU: When I say, I love you, I am saying that I love myself and everything about me. I am worthy of love and of being loved. You will become aware that you are worthy of love and of being loved too.

All the three mind hacks I use to affect a paradigm life shift, start off with Hello My Friend, and I love you, and are then followed by a change statement, and end with the words thank you.

EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, I GET BETTER, BETTER AND BETTER: This is the key statement of the Connect mind hack. I studied the Silva Mind Control Method a few decades ago. The statement, “every day, in every way, I get better, better and better,” comes from Jose Silva and Philip Miele’s book, The Silva Mind Control Method.

What feeling does getting better in every way, every day, provoke in you? It gives you permission to improve, I get better and better. It is complete, every day in every way. It is truly a powerful, impelling statement. It is a statement that you can enhance with very powerful feeling.

When you say the ‘I get better,’ words it may cause you to recall a time when you were other than better but eventually that recollection gets dismissed. In time, it will be recalled less and less. Every day in every way!

THANK YOU: The Connect, Impress, and Deflect mind hacks all end with the words, Thank You. Thank you, is an acknowledgement that you are getting what you are asking for; to get better, better, and better, every day, in every way.

Okay, so we have covered Ho’ oponopono and the Silva Mind Control Method aspects that I promised, but what about the Philippian art of Pranic healing? Here is an exercise that is helpful to do before you use the Connect, the Impress, and/or the Deflect mind hacks. It certainly helps as a vehicle to transfer feeling when you are first learning to use the mind hacks.

When I was researching how to heal myself and others, I studied the Philippian art of Pranic healing. Whether you believe that it Pranic healing works or not is irrelevant. The subconscious brain does not understand the difference between real or imaginary. To it, everything is real. If you use the practice, it will have a positive impact on all three mind hacks.

Sit or stand, whatever is comfortable. Rub your hands together in a circular motion in the direction that feels most comfortable. Just for a few seconds. You will know when to stop. Now, hold your hands at the level that you clap at when you applaud for a great show. Put your hands together then pull them apart about the distance of a ruler.

Now slowly, move your hands closer together and farther apart, closer and farther, until you begin to feel something between your hands. You may feel an energy perhaps, or your hands may begin to itch or heat up. Whatever, you will begin to feel something.

My hands itch, I feel heat, and I feel a pressure, pushing against my hands or pulling as I pull my hands apart. For you, the feelings may flutter on the just perceptible or be very intense. Enjoy for these feelings, because they come from your inner self, and therefore, can only help you.

If you like, take a few minutes to play with and to feel this energy.

Okay, it is practice time, and time to pull it all together. For this practice session, you can use ‘My Friend,’ for the name of your inner being. If you do have a special name for your inner being, your subconscious, then please use that.

You may at any stage during the following exercise, repeat the statements if you feel you need or wish to do so.

Pull your now fully charged hand (left or right) to that comfortable connect point between your chin and your centre chest area. Move it about until you find the comfort spot.

Take a deep relaxing breath. You may have your eyes open or closed as you do this.

Say, “Hello My Friend.” You may speak out loud or silently; whatever feels comfortable in your current situation.

Take another deep relaxing breath.

Say, “I love you.” Remember, we should always love ourselves.

Take another deep relaxing breath.

Say, “Every day in every way, I am getting better, better and better.”

Take a deep relaxing breath and think about the words that you just said.

Take another deep relaxing breath.

Say, “Thank you.” Your friend is working on you to get better and better, every day, in every way.

Take a final deep cleansing breath.

Feel better?

So, that is it. The Connect mind hack is also a simple meditation. Think for a minute how did it make you feel? Having been a trainer and have learned and use the worlds most powerful learning methodology I am going to ask you to use that right now.

Do the connect mind hack at least two more times in a row. You can continue doing it if you are so inclined, but please do two more things.

Within about, one hour do it one more time, set a cell phone alarm if needed.

Finally, tomorrow morning, please do it again.

Here is some homework.

Get something to write on. Write down just how you feel as compared to how you believe you felt before.

Watch the parent-child session by Dr. Hew Len at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHiWyWU-Eo.

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Practice the Connect mind hack and come back to Mind Hacks by Dale, because soon I will be introducing the Impress mind hack

Let’s Connect...

Hello, my friends. Dale here from Mind Hacks by Dale, and this is a mind hack moment. In this post, I am going to introduce you to the Connect Mind Hack.

Mind hacking is about being able to change your life for the better, for the rest of your life.

Here is an introduction to a simple yet powerful mind hack that I call, the Connect Mind Hack.

Place your hand between at the base of your throat and upper chest. Move it about, until it seems to be in a natural and comfortable spot.

When you find that comfortable spot just take a moment to perceive how it feels. Think about the times you have put your hand in this exact position?

You may find yourself closing your eyes and taking a deep breath. These actions have the beneficial effect of turning on your internal healer.

That can mean a boost to your immune system and the calming of your digestive system. In other words, you will begin to feel better.

Humans have been making this connect motion, most often subconsciously, for 40,000 years. More often than not, I suspect, around the campfire during a tribal story when a moving, poignant or exciting moment was presented. That hand position was often a precursor to major internal change or a paradigm shift in one's thinking.

A momentary feeling of calmness, that accompanies the action, is supported most often by a flood of happy brain chemicals to help you to remember.

There is no campfire, but our body, out of our DNA habit, still reacts with a push of happy feel-good learning chemicals.

Let’s practice. With your hand in the feel-good Connect-position, close your eyes and take three deep breaths.

Feel better?

Here is some homework.

1. Set your alarm for one hour. When the alarm sounds do the Connect hack making sure to take those three deep breaths.

2. Watch others and see if you can spot them moving their hand to the Connect position.

3. Comment on what you felt or what you learned.

I will be expanding upon the Connect mind hack here at Mind Hacks by Dale. In time, this practice will become a very powerful mind hack indeed.

Let’s Connect...