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.