By Harvey Cohen, Ph.D.

How to transform any lousy, rotten, stinking, getting

nowhere job, relationship or situation.

 

How to de-hypnotize yourself from self-limiting habits

that sabotage personal and professional success. 

 

How to naturally relieve stress and assist

in your healing and recovery.

The discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel are small potatoes compared to discovering that......one's 'attitude' determines the ideas he/she has, the opportunities he/she sees, the amount of joy, success and fulfillment he/she realizes, and the quality of life lived.

The idea being, that, someone with an optimistic 'attitude' will bring about greater health, wealth and well-being than someone with a pessimistic/negative state of mind. Surely not new news to you, but  have you thought it through?

What if it's true? I mean, what if it's absolutely true? Because if it's absolutely true that your 'attitude' determines your quality of life, not circumstances, if it's absolutely true, then, any strategy for changing a lousy job, relationship or situation, without changing the 'attitude' that brought about something lousy in the first place........will be futile. It will be just changing one lousy job, relationship or situation for another lousy job, relationship or situation.

Of course, if it's not absolutely true for you that your 'attitude' determines your quality of life......all of the time, then you  get to pick  and choose when those times are.

Perhaps even with your knowledge of positive thinking philosophies and your attempt to look at the 'bright side of life', you have yet to connect the dots and investigate the clues for fully understanding the enormous scope of your natural ability to bring about more of the good life, whatever that is for you, regardless of present circumstances, regardless of anything.

Let The Optimism Factor be your guide for revealing awesome qualities about your SELF. Qualities embedded at birth, and perhaps long forgotten, that when remembered, take you from something or other going on in your life that seems  'unmanageable' into becoming 'a piece of cake'.  Not necessarily because things change, but because you are more aware of SELF-empowering ideas and more aware of life-enriching opportunities. You will surely 'leap tall buildings in a single bound'. Translated; overcome obstacles to your dreams and desires. Even the really big obstacles. 

The Optimism Factor is not about telling you that you better be optimistic so that you may benefit from the greater creative success and healing ENERGY, yes.....ENERGY, that an optimistic 'attitude' is known for. It's about expanding your awareness to levels that bring about more of an optimistic state of mind without trying to be more optimistic.

The early stages of The Optimism Factor is a form of 'self de-hypnosis', in that, you will expand your data-base of self-empowering ideas that open your mind, in a greater way, for transforming old ideas about yourself that limit you in any way. The 'Optimism Exercise' section of this eBook are powerful anchoring exercises that continue to de-hypnotize you from whatever ideas may be sabotaging your greater Potential to live life more fully and completely. All else follows. 

Just as there is an advantage to knowing that water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit and freezes at 32 degrees, just like there is an advantage in understanding the principles of gravity and  electricity,  the advantage in understanding the unlimited creative  energy of an optimistic attitude cannot be overstated.

That your optimistic attitude is the easily accessible ENERGY that reveals countless ways for you to be at the center of the quality of life you desire, all of the time, regardless of anything, is for YOU to  discover. If  'all of the time' is a bit much to expect now, how about 'more of the time?"

This is for sure; the phenomenon of 'optimism' deserves your serious investigation.

Connect the dots

              

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INVESTIGATE THIS;

You've been hypnotized!

The chances are you have already established in your mind attitudes about life and life's circumstances.

 

You've already made up your mind as to the appropriate point of view to take under any given set of circumstances.

 

You've already made up your mind as to what you can feel genuinely optimistic about and what you cannot feel genuinely optimistic about.

 

You've already made up your mind as to what extent you see yourself as a victim of people and circumstances.

 

You've already made up you mind about how helpless or how empowered you believe you are.

 

You've already made up your mind as to what your limitations are.

 

In a sense, you've been conditioned, programmed, trained, indeed.....hypnotized into believing ideas that make up your attitude toward yourself and life as it unfolds.

 

You've been hypnotized into being an optimistic/positive/open-minded person or a negative/ pessimistic/ narrow-minded person, to whatever degree you are optimistic or pessimistic. That's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong. It just is.

 

The first part of The Optimism Factor contains essential elements necessary for you to seriously consider and firmly anchor into your consciousness. A clear understanding of the OBVIOUS creative ENERGY of your 'attitude' paves the way for intentionally designing your attitude in ways that bring about greater ideas, opportunities and insights not available to a hypnotized pessimistic narrow-minded person.

 

The Optimism Factor is about you re-thinking some erroneous pessimistic, narrow-minded, self-limiting ideas you picked up from others and were hypnotized into believing were true, behaved as if they were true, and never bothered to re-think.

Upon re-thinking, and upon coming to a less-limiting conclusion about something or other, you de-hypnotize yourself from habitually repeating limiting and frustrating patterns that sabotage you from the greater joy, success and happiness that is available to you. Upon re-thinking, you become a passenger on a voyage that will bring greater joy, success and fulfillment into your life. A most remarkable journey awaits you.

 

Bon voyage,

HC     

 

Your consciousness is the sum total of your beliefs about yourself and the concepts about life you learned, accepted, identify with, and is the 'Attitudinal ' ENERGY that effects your immune system, your behavior,  as well as the ideas and opportunities you will be aware of. 

"The history of the world is full of men and women who rose to leadership, by sheer force of optimism." ..........Mahatma Gandhi

 

You will absolutely, positively, 
without question........ be better
 equipped to;
naturally relieve stress, 
assist in your healing and recovery, 
experience more joy and fulfillment 
in all areas of your life to a greater 
degree than usual, just by........being 
more OPTIMISTIC than you usual.

It's not speculation. It's not theory. 
The evidence that an OPTIMISTIC
 ATTITUDE  is beneficial to your health, 
wealth, and overall well-being is........

A 20/20 -ABC TV report found that the number one reason for the longevity of healthy, enthusiastic, mentally alert, and physically active men and women over 100 years of age is; an optimistic, hopeful attitude. Not diet, not drugs, not exercise. The evidence IS overwhelming.

As your curious investigation discovers, that, without a doubt,  'attitude' trumps conditions, life-changing beliefs are introduced and impresssed into your consciousness. A most powerfully effective game-plan for de-hypnotizing your SELF from learned beliefs that sabotage greater success and well-being is accessed. Sooner rather than later you will rely on your optimistic  attitude to bring about your greater success and well-being, not circumstances, not others.

 

But first things first. Just how sure are you that this optimism thing is all it's cracked up to be?  Curious? Investigation couldn't hurt. Connect the dots.

                                                                

                                                                     

Get this:

Everyone agrees that an optimistic, hopeful, confident attitude will bring more positive life experiences than a pessimistic, doom-and gloom attitude. Everyone agrees!

Doctors agree that an optimistic, hopeful state of mind enhances the immune system and the healing and recovery process more than a worrisome, fearful, doubtful, panicky state of mind.

That means, when you go to a doctor, it is really your 'attitude' that is going to the doctor, using your body. The more optimistic your 'attitude', the more effective is your treatment, making you a better candidate for healing and recovery than if you were a hypnotized pessimistic worry wart.

Therapists agree that an optimistic patient is more open for healthy psychological change than patients who doubt things will ever improve. That means, just by having a more optimistic mental  attitude than usual, a patient will be more receptive to life-enhancing insights and breakthroughs than hypnotized pessimists.

Business professionals agree that an optimistic, confident person will have more creative, more inspired, more profitable ideas, than someone who feels insecure and inadequate. That means, optimistic, confident individuals are more valuable to business and industry than narrow-minded individuals with a 'victim' mind-set.

Optimists are first choices for first-class positions and first-class success, regardless of economic conditions, regardless of competition, regardless of anything. Pessimists are ignored and complain about being ignored.

GOT IT?

 

"A pessimist is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." .......Oscar Wilde

It's not you that attends a class, seminar or money/success workshop, it's your 'attitude', strutting around in your body that's attending a class, seminar or money/success workshop. Pessimists complain about getting little or no value, no matter what they find themselves doing, while optimists realizes great value, meaning and satisfaction, whatever they are doing.

 

It's not you that gets laid-off or fired, it's your attitude that gets laid-off or fired. An optimist confidently and easily finds a better position, even if it means creating something different, while hypnotized pessimists habitually blame circumstances for their recurring struggle and plight.

 

It's not you that finds yourself in the midst of an economic recession or in boom times, it's your attitude wrapped up in your body that's in the midst of an economic recession or in boom times. An open-minded optimist will prosper and thrive no matter how bad things are while a narrow-minded pessimist will struggle no matter how good things are.

Educators and coaches agree that optimistic students retain more pertinent information, excel in exam taking, and realize far better results in their field of endeavor than pessimists,  whether it be;

art, law, auto mechanics, real estate,

medicine, counseling, losing weight, 

stand-up comicing, accounting, music, 
stopping smoking, sports, communication,

elephant training, writing, plumbing, love, 

  interior decorating,  acting, consciousness raising, 

gardening, line dancing, archeology, basket weaving, 

nuclear physics, accordion repair.......or whatever.

It takes great optimism (an open-mind) to make great discoveries,  have great inventions, and make  great contributions to human-kind. 
 
Pessimists are too close-minded to be aware of great ideas and opportunities that open-minded optimists cannot help but be aware of. It's like......someone with blinders will see less than someone  without blinders.

In the most remarkable and obvious way (obvious once you bother to think about it), the outcome of any endeavor is determined by one's 'attitude', not circumstances. If that doesn't get you thinking, nothing will.

That means, any strategy to improve a less than desirable situation in your life without  changing the 'attitude' that brought about something undesirable in the first place, will be futile.

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE AGREES, 'ATTITUDE' IS EVERYTHING!

If it's a bit 'much' to believe that 'ATTITUDE' IS EVERYTHING!, then certainly you can agree that 'ATTITUDE' is a great big chunk of something very, very powerful, huh? That's good enough.

To fully realize the value and 

benefits of an optimistic attitude will......

BLOW YOU AWAY!

Section One Section Two Section Three Section Four Section Five

Well, would you believe...astound you?

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Why do you think there are some people who,

with little or no effort, have no difficulty

being in ideal relationships

while some people wallow in loneliness

or have recurring stinko relationships

?

Ans:

Optimists are magnetized to attract loving, caring,

supportive, optimistic people wherever 

they are under all circumstances,

while repelling critical, non-

supportive,  pessimistic

 people. 

Pessimists are magnetized to attract critical, non-

supportive, pessimistic people wherever

they are under all circumstances,

while repelling loving, caring,

supportive, optimistic

people.

 

 

If you have a bunch of optimists in your life,

or have a bunch of pessimists in you life,

guess what that says about you?

        

 

Optimists don't get pushed out of shape the way pessimists do when obstacles appear, because optimists realize that no obstacle is insurmountable, thereby naturally overcoming obstacles pessimists continue to be stymied by.

Optimists focus on living each moment to the fullest, because they realize that it's not how long one lives that counts, but rather the quality of life one lives that counts.

 Optimists look for opportunities to be supportive, encouraging, and optimistic to others, while pessimists do their 'gloom and doom' thing.

 

Optimists advance in age as: 

agile, healthy, spry, clear thinking, creative,

witty, productive, ageless, life-exploring, 

open-minded, younger looking, wise, life-affirming, 

fit, unconventional (off the wall?),  

exciting, fun loving, interesting, 'a pleasure to be around', 

people. Pessimists age as bores and pains in the ______.

Optimists have a w i d e r perception, a more

 e x p a n s i v e  point of view, a more COMPLETE outlook on life, than pessimists. That's what makes them optimists. Therefore, optimists are more inclined to have a creative intuitive edge over pessimists when it comes to financial investments.

*Expert in spotting great and prosperous
opportunities that pessimists with their narrow-
mindedness are too narrow-minded to see.

 

"The most incomprehensible fact about the universe is, it is comprehensible. There is universal law and order. God doesn't shoot dice with the universe". ------Albert Einstein

Go argue with big Al!

 

A 'luck' mind-set is a victim mind-set, learned hand-me-down superstitions that imply there is 'good luck', 'bad luck'.....and things 'just happen'.

It's not 'luck' that watermelon seeds become watermelons and not cashew nuts. It's no accident that April showers bring May flowers, or that ulcers and related dis-eases come from stress.

To just consider the improbability of a 'luck' factor, ABOUT ANYTHING, automatically frees your mind to explore your SELF in a more creative and a more empowering way.

ONE MORE TIME:

To just consider the improbability of a 'luck' factor, ABOUT ANYTHING, automatically frees your mind to explore your SELF in a more creative and a more empowering way.

As long as you believe in luck, you will repress your natural tendency to prosper and thrive, regardless of circumstances.

Things don't just 'happen'.

Until you 'get' that nothing 'just happens', you are not inclined to investigate, discover, and change what 'causes' the stuff going on in your life that is less than you prefer. So then, accepting less than what you want reinforces a habit of 'getting less than what you want.' . "I'm just unlucky.....I guess."

Until you 'get' that nothing 'just happens', you are not inclined to investigate and discover what 'causes' the stuff going on in your life that is joyful and fulfilling. Important information for bringing about more joy and more fulfillment habitually. Otherwise it's, "I'm just a little lucky......I guess."

As you understand that things don't 'just happen', the ENERGY of your understanding frees you to explore the more-ness of your SELF.

Optimists do not unfairly take advantage of others, (aka: stealing,  ripping off, cheating) but rather are naturally confident in and depend exclusively on their own unlimited Potential to prosper and thrive, thereby prospering and thriving in ways greater than unfairly taking advantage of others can ever provide.

Pessimists rip themselves off by erroneously believing and behaving as if they could benefit at the expense of others, thereby not fully accessing the greater  potential that optimists naturally access.

Get it?

 

 

Yup, it's a Cause and Effect thing.

Pop Quiz;

 Problem: A Flood. Bathtub is overflowing~

Water is coming in faster than it is draining. What to do?

 

a -  Mop up forever.

  b- Turn the faucet off.

Stopping the rushing water by turning the faucet off  is the new 'cause', and the 'effect', the flood, is changed automatically. Get it?

Then get this:

The only reason for recurring lack and limitation, frustration, mopping up all the time, getting nowhere about your job, career, relationship, weight, finances,  whatever, is; not because of circumstances, even though it may seem that way, but because you have not yet discovered what the REAL 'cause' is to your  dismay. Otherwise, you would most likely choose to change that 'cause', and dismay, like the flood, would be history. Sound too simplistic? You want complicated? This is not the place.

To investigate and discover what REALLY causes your joys and disappointments, your successes and struggles, frees you to explore aspects of your SELF that are beyond hypnotized limitations. 

A 'Cause' Investigator rides the ENERGY, yes.....ENERGY, of expanded awareness to greatness. Greatness? Yes! Where do you think all great discoveries, inventions, and life-changing breakthroughs come from, chopped liver?

 

A 'Cause' Investigator does not accept things as they are, but as they can be.

 

 

INVESTIGATE THIS;

Not everyone is limited by the same

limiting appearing circumstances.

Very important clue to investigate and ponder. Certainly in the top ten of the most important things you could think about.

 

Until you are totally convinced that circumstances, appearing limiting, do not determine someone's quality of life, you are convinced, because of your learned hypnotic conditioning, that the reason for you not realizing greater peace of mind, greater joy and success, is because of some circumstance or other that holds you back. That learned, hypnotic conviction is the ENERGY that represses the natural creative urges that you are here to express. And you are here to express something very unique about your SELF, in the most fulfilling  and successful way, regardless of limiting appearing circumstances.

For openers, consider;

Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, Lance Armstrong,

Ray Charles, FDR, Rosa Parks, Steven Hawking.

Surely inspiring people with inspiring stories. To insist they are exceptions to the rule instead of examples of the rule itself, reinforces a leaned, hypnotic 'attitude' of believing less of your SELF than you really are. A learned, hypnotic 'attitude' of believing less of your SELF than you really are is the ENERGY that blocks creative ideas and opportunities from your awareness.

Some people are literally hypnotized to believe there is no adversity they cannot overcome, and their 'attitude' becomes their reality of life, while some people are literally hypnotized to believe they are limited because of conditions, and their 'attitude' becomes their reality of life.

To just consider, because of the evidence, that  'limiting' appearing circumstances do not define your SELF but is a reflection of your trained and hypnotic conditioning, frees your mind to explore an aspect of your SELF in the most creatively empowering and bountiful way.

ONE MORE TIME:

To just consider, because of the evidence, that  'limiting' appearing circumstances do not define your SELF but is a reflection of your trained and hypnotic conditioning, frees your mind to explore an aspect of your SELF in the most creatively empowering and bountiful way.

That you have what it takes to spit in the eye of adversity and never deny your SELF the joys and pleasures of life, regardless of circumstances, is what you are here to discover, and WILL discover. Consider that!

 

To consider something that empowers you,

empowers you!

Right now, without even trying, your consideration that your 'attitude' can be greater than limiting appearing circumstances has empowered you to overcome something in your life you thought was holding you back from greater peace of mind.  

ONE MORE TIME:

Right now, without even trying, your consideration that your 'attitude' can be greater than limiting appearing circumstances has empowered you to overcome something in your life you thought was holding you back from greater peace of mind.  

ONE MORE TIME:

Right now, without even trying, your consideration that your 'attitude' can be greater than limiting appearing circumstances, has empowered you to overcome something in your life you thought was holding you back from greater peace of mind.  

 

Your clear understanding that just considering that your 'attitude' can be greater than limiting appearing circumstances is the ENERGY that reveals supporting evidence of your consideration. Clear understanding requires thinking outside the box of hypnotically imposed limitations.

 

Thinking about going outside the box?

Connect the dots.

 

 

 

Cosmically Thinking 

In the cosmic scheme of things (how's that for going outside the box?) there are no 'limiting' circumstances, there is only the absolute, 'can't get away from it', perfection of ‘Cause and Effect’.  And because we are not exempt from the laws of the cosmos, we are ruled by 'Cause and Effect'. Until you get that, you are looking for answers to life's challenges and mysteries in all the wrong places.

Whatever is necessary for you to experience the full brilliance of your unique and special gifts and talents (whether you are aware of what those gifts and talents are or not), in the most joyful, prosperous and fulfilling manner...... you already have. There is nothing you are in need of.

Whatever is necessary for you to experience great wisdom, a full and joyful heart, unshakable faith, and fearless courage...you already have. You don't need a wizard. You don't have to schlep to Oz........or anyplace else.

Investigate this:

Just like there are unlimited oak trees within the innate potential of one acorn, you too have, unquestionably, innate Potential of an unlimited nature.

 

Think about it. There are no limits to the thoughts you have the Potential to think. There is no idea you cannot have. There are no limits to your mind's creativity.

 

Indeed, the ability to think is the second greatest power in the universe. However, the single greatest power in the universe is the awareness to think beyond learned worldly, cultural, finite conditioning.

 

Great ideas, great discoveries, great inventions, great contributions to humankind are the result of thinking beyond learned, worldly, finite conditioning,.

 

Even though you may not have realized the full measure of your innate Potential somewhere in your life doesn't mean you do not have the Potential, the ability, to access whatever creativity is necessary to transform worry and concern into greater peace of mind, to transform lack and limitation into plenty. It just means you have yet to fully understand the phenomenon of 'attitude' and your power to break habits that  sabotage your innate/natural abilities to overcome fear and limitation.

 

Understand that;

........you have, without question, the innate Potential to know whatever is necessary for you to  know for your quality of life to be filled will success, joy,   happiness and fulfillment, regardless of limiting outward appearances, regardless of past limiting experiences, regardless of anything.

........you have, without question, the innate Potential to unblock whatever is blocking you  from experiencing greater peace of mind and greater creativity.

........ you have, without question, the innate Potential to be in relationships that are gloriously loving, totally accepting, and delightfully delightful.

....... you have, without question, the innate Potential to transform struggle, conflict and fear into peace, calm and abundance.

..........you have, without question, the innate Potential to break, de-hypnotize yourself from habits that do not serve you well.

 

 

 

Potential is accessed as you acknowledge its existence......and not before.

ONE MORE TIME:

 

 

 

 

Potential is accessed as you acknowledge its existence......and not before.

 

 

If you're looking for a rest stop,

a place to think and ponder

what you have read so far, this is the place.

Ponder away!

The rest of you come with me. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Surely, your indisputable, innate ability to express limitless creativity is what is meant by; "...made in the image and likeness of God."

What could be a more god-like quality than the ability to express limitless creativity, just like God?

You don't have to be religious to recognize your indisputable, innate ability; just have curiosity and common sense.

Atheists, too, have this quality; however, atheists attribute their indisputable innate  Potential to a natural aspect of nature's unlimited-ness, instead of a god. Whatever!

Just because you may not NOW know whatever is necessary to know to overcome some  current problem, obstacle, fear, lack or frustration.....doesn't mean you do not have the Potential to know. It just means that YOU, from habit, are blocking yourself from being aware of more creative ideas and seeing greater life-enhancing opportunities. You have been hypnotized to believe you are limited in your ability to think outside traditional boxed-in limiting thinking.

You have been hypnotized to believe that you do not have innate, unlimited potential to think greater thoughts than you have been hypnotized to think.

You have been hypnotized with lies.

It's the lies you were hypnotized with that sabotage you from experiencing greater success, joy  and fulfillment, not someone or something. At the time you were being hypnotized with lies you didn't know them to be lies.  

 

Your immature childhood intellect thought the lies were true. The lies of other people habitually believing and complaining about how they were victims of people and circumstances became your lies. You bought the lies.........hook, line and thinker!

 

So, with all this unlimited potential, how come you're still struggling somewhere in your personal life? In your career? In your finances? In your health? In your.............. whatever? How come?

How come? I'll tell you how come. Better yet, I'll show you 'how come'. Do the following 'Insight/Outsight Exercise'. It will help you understand how you create your own reality.

Frequent understanding of the phenomenon of your creative nature de-hypnotizes you from self-limiting erroneous nonsense you were hypnotized to believe was gospel.

Insight/Outsight Exercise Part I In your own well-lit living room, sitting room, dining room, bedroom, or furnished office, deliberately look for and make a mental note of anything you see in the room that has the color red.   Carefully look around the room, make a mental note of  anything  red; large, small or insignificant. (ex: chair, drapes, books, trimming, sweater, tie, picture.) DO IT NOW! When you are pretty sure you have spotted most of the red stuff, go to Part II for further instructions.    You will do yourself a whopping disservice and deny yourself huge insights if go to Part II without doing Part I first. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

CLICK HERE FOR PART II

 

Optimists have a habit of focusing on knowing that there are always ways to enrich life, regardless of limiting outward appearances, regardless of the odds, regardless of; the economy, the weather, the competition, or someone or something. Thereby causing their mind to be drawn to what they were looking for, filtering out what they were not looking for.

Pessimists have a habit of focusing on lies by believing they are victims of the economy, the weather, the competition, of someone or something. Thereby filtering out greater life-fulfilling ideas and opportunities that optimists are easily drawn to.

 

 

The Power of Conscious Focusing

 

There is a process for learning to use a typing keyboard or play a musical instrument. First, you concentrate/focus your thinking on training your fingers to make specific moves new to their experience. After awhile it is no longer necessary to concentrate/focus your thinking on where to place your fingers. It becomes automatic. Without thinking, your fingers do what they were taught to do. You literally hypnotize yourself to place your fingers appropriately, without any conscious effort. You pick up speed with practice.

 

There is a similar process for learning to drive a car. Initially you concentrate/focus your thinking on;

putting on your seat belt, 
starting, 
steering, 
shifting, 
accelerating,
slowing down, 
stopping, 
passing, 
parking, 
looking in the side view mirrors, 
looking in the rear view mirror,  
looking to your right,  
looking to your left, 
checking your speedometer,  
checking your gas gauge, 
watching ahead for signal changes, until.......... with practice, you drive automatically. Unconsciously doing everything you learned to do consciously. You literally hypnotize yourself to drive a car. I'm telling you, you're a regular Svengalli. 

It's like an off-duty hairdresser who, without thinking, has a habit of noticing hair-do's of others more than an off-duty dentist ........... who has a habit of noticing smiles more than an off-duty gardener .....................  who has a habit of noticing plants and flowers more than an off-duty plastic surgeon ............. who has a habit of noticing breasts and noses more than a .......well, you know what I'm talking about.

The idea is to frequently fill your mind with truthful, self-empowering ideas that you do not have a habit of thinking about, until the mind becomes so familiar with what you are thinking it becomes an automatic way of thinking. Your  behavior takes orders from your pattern of thought. 

There is no lie, no negativity, no pessimism, no matter how deep-rooted, that can long survive enough realization of the truth. How much is enough for you? I don't know. But if you've come this far you've come a long way. If you've come this far you are now more inclined than usual to be aware of ideas and opportunities that will benefit your life in greater and greater ways. 

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Remember, positive affirmations that you keep repeating over and over again, that in your heart of hearts you do not really believe, is not the same as FREQUENT REALIZATION OF REASONABLE AND EASILY BELIEVABLE SELF-EMPOWERING TRUTHS.

 

Repeating over and over again 'positive affirmations' that in your gut you don't really believe only reinforces dis-believing the 'positive affirmations', while FREQUENT REALIZATION OF REASONABLE AND EASILY BELIEVABLE SELF-EMPOWERING TRUTHS reinforces your focus on your indisputable, innate, unlimited Potential. And what you have a habit of focusing on determines the ideas and opportunities you will easily be drawn to. 

Remember, the Insight/Outsight Exercise? A pessimistic/negative person is easily drawn to ideas and opportunities that will ultimately be limited and unfulfilling. While an optimist is easily drawn to ideas and opportunities that will ultimately be expansive and fulfilling. That's the way it works! It's an ENERGY thing. It's 'Cause and Effect'. It's not luck or accidental.

Remember, don't try not to feel what you are feeling if the feelings are negative/ irritating/pessimistic. Those feelings depend upon immature logic for their very existence, and as you consciously train your mind to focus on truthful, easily believable, self-empowering ideas, feelings of greater confidence, and a greater sense of adequacy replace feelings of fear and  inadequacy.

Remember, feelings of greater confidence and a greater sense of adequacy depend upon your mind being so convinced that you are greater within your innate, unlimited creative Potential than any idea of fear or limitation, that, without even trying, you automatically access more of your indisputable, innate, unlimited creative Potential.

Remember, unless you frequently realize the truth of your being, the pessimistic/ negative lies you were hypnotized with will remain un-challenged and continue to exist through you as your behavior and the ideas and opportunities you are drawn to.

As a point of information, you should know that many people will not do the upcoming exercises recommended in THE OPTIMISM FACTOR. Not because they do not see the value in doing the exercises, but for the same reason ninety percent of the people who join health clubs, with the greatest of intentions to attend regularly, do not show up shortly after joining.

 

A habit of being in a familiar routine resists any attempted change of routine. Here is where you must exercise tenacity on your own. Tenacity is your secret weapon.

Reviewing this book from time to time is an effective way of anchoring self-empowering truths. Having a copy of THE OPTIMISM FACTOR handy, in your car, office, locker, brief case, desk, coffee table, etc. for opportune conscious moments of reflection is a good idea.

 

The upcoming 'optimism' exercises, strange as some of them may seem, will shape a more expansive attitude of mind', much like physical exercises shape and firm a body. 

 

I encourage you to do the exercises, some or all. Without effort, you will find yourself being more optimistic and creative about issues in your life, and more confident about yourself. As a matter of fact, you can expect it.

Continue to SECTION FIVE. 
Powerful exercises that will de-hypnotize

you from self-limiting habits of negativity and pessimistic yuck.

 

OPTIMISM  EXERCISE  ZONE 

Training your mind to focus on reasonable and believable ideas that empower you in greater ways de-hypnotizes you from beliefs that limit you in any way.

START

 

Like practicing the scales or fundamentals on a piano, first you're going to practice being aware of, and focusing on, some fundamentals for sculpting a greater optimistic mind-set.

 

At the start of each day, for six weeks, and periodically thereafter for reinforcement, say to your self - or aloud - with feeling and exaggerated authority, three repetitions each of the following sets;

Now, that was easy enough, huh? It's not something you are used to doing, but that's the point.

 

It's not unusual to feel a surge of believability and empowerment while reviewing the Fundamentals. As your mind gets used to the SELF-empowering truths of the Fundamentals, and as you can easily feel the sense of believability of the  Fundamentals, don't be surprised to find your SELF more confident, more hopeful, more relaxed, and more aware of greater ideas and opportunities that enrich your life, without even trying. As a matter of face, you can expect it.

One more time:

Don't be surprised to find your SELF more confident, more hopeful, more relaxed, and more aware of greater ideas and opportunities that enrich your life, without even trying. As a matter of face, you can expect it.

 

You see, just by reinforcing the FUNDAMENTALS as easily believable truthful ideas, you shake loose and ultimately replace old habits of doubt, fear and helplessness, to habitually finding your SELF more confident, more creative, more calm, more joyful than usual.

 

In other words, the more you exercise your state of mind by being aware of the value and benefits of optimism, and the more you realize that you may choose a more expanded point of view, and the more you choose a more expanded point of view, critical mass takes over and  you automatically develop habits in that direction, de-hypnotizing yourself from narrow-minded attitudes of pessimism and negativity.

 

Just like you would do repetitions with physical exercise to strengthen and tone your body, so the repetitions of the FUNDAMENTALS will strengthen and tone an expanded state of mind.

 

GRATITUDE EXERCISE

As best as you can remember, write in a journal your thoughts and feelings about people who you are grateful for having in your life or for having been in your life. Bring to mind and write in your journal names of people you think about with love, affection, a wide grin, gratitude and appreciation. Also, bring into your awareness and write in your journal experiences and activities from the past and the present that give you feelings of success, fulfillment, joy and pleasure when you think about them.

 

Add to your journal whenever you remember something that qualifies to be included in your journal. Review your journal for at least five minutes every day for six weeks, and periodically thereafter. Close out each review by writing the following 'truth' three times.

There Is No Limit

To The Loving, Joyful And Pleasurable People,

And Successful And Fulfilling Experiences,

I Have The Potential To Have In My Life.

No limit indeed!

 

The purpose of this exercise is......to recall, re-awaken, expand, and reinforce the greater optimistic state of mind that was operating through you at those times you experienced situations and people in your life with gratitude and success.

 

As you deliberately reflect on 'THOSE' times of gratitude and success, more than you ordinarily think about THOSE' times of gratitude and success, and frequently remind yourself that...............................

There Is No Limit

To The Loving, Joyful And Pleasurable People,

And Successful And Fulfilling Experiences,

I Have The Potential To Have In My Life.

No limit indeed!

a new habit is formed.

The more you reflect on your healthiest, hardiest, successful and happiest experiences, the more  healthy, hardy, happy and successful experiences you will have to reflect on.

 

 

I suggest that you have set your SELF up, indeed, magnetized your SELF, to have more people in your life that you feel grateful, thankful and appreciative of.

 

 

I suggest that you have set your SELF up, magnetized your SELF, to reveal more successful situations in your life for you to feel fulfilled about.

 

I suggest that you have set your  SELF up, magnetized your SELF, to tap into

 your Potential for optimum well-being.

 

It's a What You Think About You Bring About thing!

Part 1

 

Every day for six weeks, and periodically thereafter, carefully go through a daily newspaper looking for uplifting, inspirational articles. Deliberately include in your daily conversations and 'small talk' the substance of some of what you have read. As you develop a habit of looking for uplifting, inspirational stories to talk about, and talk about them, YOU become uplifted and inspired just by hanging out in that ENERGY.

 

Part 2

Just like a body-builder might contemplate, ponder, meditate on, daydream about, imagine, FEEL and think about what his or her body will look like as a result of tenaciously exercising and working out, consciously contemplate, ponder, meditate on, daydream about, imagine, FEEL and think about, for five minutes twice a day.......for the rest of your life, what it would be like for you to be so optimistic that you always....

have the serenity to accept the things you cannot change,

the courage to change the things you can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.--Reinhold Niebuhr

 

As you develop a habit of consciously focusing on ideas and situations that are uplifting, your potential for joyful and uplifting experiences is realized to a greater degree than usual.

As a result of the focusing exercises don't be surprised to find yourself more aware, more secure and confident about your unique gifts and talents to prosper and thrive in greater ways.

The more you are mindful of thoughts that trigger laughter-type feelings, the easier it is to replace  'stress and struggle'  with ideas of  'peace and harmony'.

 

Don't be surprised to find yourself more aware of creative options, ideas and opportunities that benefit you in greater ways. AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN EXPECT IT.

 

Note: For more information about the healing and success power of laughter, I recommend THE ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS by Norman Cousins, and Prosperity is a Laughing Matter by yours truly.

Part 1

 

Every day for six weeks and periodically thereafter, deliberately and honestly acknowledge, compliment and praise people, MORE than you ordinarily would.

 

Decide right now who you could acknowledge, compliment and praise more than you ordinarily would.

Friend(s) - Relative(s) - Significant relationship(s) -

Co-worker(s)-  Waitress - Nurse -  Doctor - Dentist -

Store clerk - Civil servant-.

Part 2

In your journal, acknowledge praiseworthy qualities about yourself. That's right, yourself.

 

Some examples might be:

I am an interesting and fun person to know.

I am a very loyal friend.

I am generous. I am a terrific cook. I like the way I walk.

I am a caring and sensitive person.

I appreciate my desire to learn and grow.

I have a good sense of humor. I like my taste in ties.

Add to your journal whenever you think of something that qualifies. Review this part of the journal every day for six weeks and periodically thereafter.

 

By deliberately focusing your attention on the admirable qualities of others, and yourself, more than usual, you develop a habit that............. EXPANDS your perception of others.... and your own SELF-worth beyond hypnotized limits.

 

Don't be surprised to find that you de-hypnotized yourself, to a significant degree, from habitually criticizing yourself and others.

For reinforcement and anchoring purposes, review until memorized, the following, and recite in front of a mirror every day for the rest of your life. Well, often anyway.

 Attitude  is  everything!

Get it?   Got it?   Good!