Maximize Your Potential with Powerful Tools (eBook)

... and No Stress

Dan Low (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 1. Auflage
270 Seiten
World Education (Verlag)
978-0-00-008722-5 (ISBN)

Infos

KEY TOPICS = Based on more than 25 years' observation of the undeclared, self-inflicted psychological war raging in the backyards of our mind, this book covers a wide range of topics - from how we function as humans to how to attain our objectives. Written in script-form with down-to-earth dialogues to enhance and enliven reading, it includes narratives, cartoons, pictures and real examples of how this subconscious war is fought by every Tom, Dick, and Mary. It demonstrates how it can be won. The dialogues and examples were taken from interactive training sessions conducted with trainees from all social, professional and cultural backgrounds, including executives from upper and middle-level management coming from Europe, Asia and America.
KEY BENEFITS = It provides a no-nonsense, step-by-step, easy-to-understand approach to maximize our potential. Identifies who our real enemies are - in our private and professional lives - and how to disarm them. And much more...

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ANDREBarbara and I would like to welcome you all to the first session on the art of Self-Combat – and how to maximize your potential. We are very excited at being able to share some of our concepts with you. We hope we will be able to stimulate your thoughts and help you gain a clearer insight of yourselves and your aspirations.

What is Self-Combat? Self-Combat is simply about life – and the inherent difficulties we encounter in our professional and private lives.

In Self-Combat, we learn the art of combat within our inner selves. We learn to handle our principal fears and prejudices. However, you won't get the entire picture on how to maximize your potential till the last session. So we ask you to be patient...

Furthermore, we invite you to test the concepts we shall be exposing. No matter how much knowledge we possess, or how valuable it is, this knowledge would remain inert if we do not act on it.

Self-Combat is simply a basic set of laws based on common sense and strategic reasoning.

The sessions are progressive. You will be introduced to concepts like Sting the Bull with 3 Bees and Call in the Snake... We use images for better recall. But these tools are highly pragmatic. For instance, we have a concept called 1+1=2.

 

You see, if we ask six groups of people how much is 1 + 1, we may get six different types of answers, depending on their vision or perception of things.

As you can notice from the first group, their vision was clear, so their response was rapid. The second group's view of 1+1 was slightly distorted, though meant to be interesting.

The third group came up with big figures. The fourth tried to be even more impressive... and the last two groups simply went out of control. They became data-drunk with mumbo-jumbo.

BARBARAThis concept teaches us to be simple, rapid and effective in the complex world we live in. There is nothing wrong with sophisticated thinking. But we must be able to get back to basics and keep things simple so we can move fast.

ANDRESelf-Combat is also a matter of decision making. During the fourth session, we will be given ten questions. Depending on how we answer those questions, and the force of our convictions, we will be able to determine the rapidity of our progress.

BARBARATo maximize our potential, we first need to know how we function as a human machine. Now, this is how we function...

In 1951, Dr. Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon from McGill University in Montreal, showed evidence to confirm that whenever a person is paying acute attention to seeing, hearing or feeling, this person is simultaneously recording his or her experiences in the subconscious mind.

What is important to note is that these experiences can be played back today – either voluntarily or involuntarily.

 

 

All perceptions received by one or any of the five senses are treated as data by the subconscious, with the aid of a "program" elaborated by the individual in the course of his existence, and notably during the stages of infancy. It is due to this "program" that the chance hearing of a past melody can instantaneously recreate the same mental and emotional states as was experienced initially. This is to say that all the individual's past experiences, perceptions and understandings, since early childhood, can be brought to play today – either voluntarily or involuntarily.

Whenever a person is consciously recalling past events, thinking out solutions to a problem, or how to get from A to B, his subconscious is being activated voluntarily. When he is spontaneously reacting to outside stimuli that causes him to feel sad, angry, worried, frightened, uneasy or happy, his subconscious is being activated involuntarily. In other words, the individual has no control over his own actions or feelings and is at the mercy of external stimuli. Examples:

Philip was in the middle of crossing a busy street when someone shouted his name. He turned, inadvertently putting himself in danger.

Luke was highly cheerful and enthusiastic when he arrived at work. He was happily looking forward to signing his first major contract that day. But what greeted him as he entered his office were news that the clients had changed their minds. This instantly triggered a negative mood that followed him for the rest of the day.

Caroline was driving to a business meeting when on noticing a patrol car ahead, she abruptly slowed down without warning, causing an accident from behind.

Anthony was feeling great after lunch, but when he saw what happened, he flew into a rage and nearly choked himself. Twice, his employee had made the same error.

 

These are only a few examples of how involuntary activation occurs in the subconscious. The subconscious can also be compared to a computer or videotape recording machine, with the difference that whatever is recorded – from birth to the present day – cannot be erased.

So we see how our subconscious mind can be activated – often involuntarily.

What is important are the three Early Conclusions and their ramifications or destructive thoughts that were recorded during childhood.

 

But what's equally important is to find out the types of data which are recorded in our subconscious. For it is from this data that our behavior stems. Here is this data, and the three Early Conclusions with their ramifications:
 

 

The types of data that are recorded by the individual fall into three distinct bodies: Parent, Child and Adult, as explained in Transactional Analysis and in The Book of Choice by Dr. Thomas Harris, M.D.

PARENT DATA: Let us briefly look at the recorded data of a child of age five, who at this age had to depend on his parents or whoever took charge of him for help or guidance, necessary to stay out of trouble. Everything the child saw his parents do, and everything he heard them say were taped in the PARENT. In it, too, were recorded all admonishments, criticisms and threats directed at him. A two or five-year old who does not have sufficient experience to modify or correct for himself records whatever is told to him as truths.

In the PARENT were recorded all information and pronouncements that were either constructive or destructive to the child in later years. There were thousands of: Don't do this – don't do that, How to do this – how to do that: How to tie your shoelaces; How to be polite; How to hit back; How you are judged by the company you keep; Never trust a stranger; Don't walk under ladders; Sex is dirty; Do not steal; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; Be proud of yourself; Be a success; and many others. As he grew older, he collected additional data from school, society and television that made up his ever-increasing body of PARENT data.

CHILD DATA: While events are being recorded in the PARENT, there is another set of recordings called the CHILD being made simultaneously. This is the recording of responses to what the child saw and heard. Since he did not have enough words to construct meanings, most of his reactions were feelings.

When the mother threatened: "Don't ever let me catch you again!" – whatever that meant – from the tone of voice thrown his way, the child would immediately register feelings of fear. If he happened to observe a row between mummy and daddy, his taping of the event would include fear and anxiety, watching the very people he depended on for survival trying to destroy each other.

Due to the situation of childhood (and not the intention of parents) a child is likely to record feelings of timidity, discouragement and inferiority when often criticized. At some time early in life, he comes to a conclusion that he is inferior.

Happily there is a positive side: in the child resides creativity, curiosity, the desire to explore and know, and the urge to touch and feel. There are the recordings of many first discoveries. This is the happy and bright side of the CHILD tapes: the positive or natural child, experiencing for the first time a voice saying "hello" to him in response to his picking up the phone; having a packet of sweets to himself; building sand castles; chasing butterflies;...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• ISBN-10: 0-00-008722-X / 000008722X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-008722-5 / 9780000087225