The Bottle When he was just a boy, the old man heard a story of a woman who found a corked bottle on the beach. When she pulled the cork from the bottle, she imagined a genie came out. The genie granted the woman all her wishes. The old man spent his life searching for…
Do You Have a Clue What’s in Your Subconscious Mind? Go ahead, tell me, “What’s in your subconscious mind? What concepts does your subconscious mind hold to be true? What programs, acquired at a very early age, dictate your behavior? Why is your personality the way it is?” Stumped? Never thought about it? Why should…
The Metronome Sound I get emails now and then asking about the sounds on the metronome recording. The most frequent question is this: if the frequency of the theta sound is 5 cycles per second, how can I hear it? Five cycles per second is below the sensitivity of the average human ear. First of…
TV Advertising TV advertising is amazingly effective. Madison Avenue, on its own, could not have come up with a better delivery mechanism than TV for selling a product. It’s so effective that businesses spend billions of dollars on TV ads. Half a minute during a Super Bowl game alone costs millions. Companies wouldn’t spend this…
Tuned Out TV Ads Many TV commercials are infantile and foolish. So you don’t watch them, right? You tune them out. To quote John Wayne in an old western movie, “Not hardly.” As long as you can hear the TV or see the screen out of the corner of your eye, they are not tuned…
Stand Up, America More exciting news about exercise. In Newsletter No. 7, February 2014, the leading researcher, a professor in Scotland, stated, “Chairs are killers.” The basis of that statement was the fact that the longer we sit, the more bad stuff agglomerates in our blood, leading to chronic diseases, such as circulation and heart…
Well, Imagine That Which of these options do you think would be the best way to learn something new, or improve something you already do? 1. Read how-to books 2. Talk about it 3. Practice physically 4. Practice mentally Option 1? It’s a good way to start. Option 2? Talking about it (conscious mind activity)…
Long Live Longevity At least one new book on how to live longer and look younger is published every week. Topics include such things as cosmetic surgery, exercise, diet, and attitude. Cosmetic surgery may make you look younger, but it won’t make you live longer. Exercise and diet are important and everybody, young and old,…
Writer’s Block Is Only In The Mind—Duh! Wow! That’s impressive,” I said to my wife. We were at the annual fair in Del Mar, California watching a stage hypnotist. He had eighteen volunteers on stage and was making them do things they would not normally want to, nor could do. One of the volunteers was…