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The absolute essential
element for getting the MOST out of life.
- By
Harvey Cohen, Ph.D.
- How to
transform any lousy, rotten, stinking, getting
- nowhere job, relationship or situation.
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- How to
de-hypnotize yourself from self-limiting habits
- that sabotage personal and professional success.
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- How to
naturally relieve stress and assist
- in your
healing and recovery.
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Published by
AaaHa! Dynamics Press
264 South La Cienega Blvd. Suite 135
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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~ To my teachers, my darling
children~
Mark,
Lori, Dean Yacov
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The greatest discovery of the
20th Century is,
our attitude of
mind,
- not circumstances,
determines our quality of life."
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............William James, father
of modern day psychology
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.
- The chances are you have already established in
your mind attitudes about life and life's circumstances.
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- You've already made up your mind as to the
appropriate point of view to take under any given set of
circumstances.
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- You've already made up your mind as to what you
can feel genuinely optimistic about and what you cannot
feel genuinely optimistic about.
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- You've already made up your mind as to what
extent you see yourself as a victim of people and
circumstances.
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- You've already made up you mind about how
helpless or how empowered you believe you are.
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- You've already made up your mind as to what your
limitations are.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Bon voyage,
HC
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PRIMER
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Attitude
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- at-ti-tude -an expression of one's consciousness
involving beliefs that show one's behavior and
disposition;
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.
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- "For myself, I am an
optimist.
- It does not seem to be
much use being anything else."
- ............Winston
Churchill
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- "The history of the
world is full of
- men and women who
rose to leadership,
- by sheer force of
optimism."
- ..........Mahatma
Gandhi
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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.
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- 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.


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"All you need
is ignorance and optimism,
and then success is sure."
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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?
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- "A pessimist is a
man who knows the price
- of everything,
and the value of nothing."
- .......Oscar
Wilde
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "Nothing is
so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes.
What madness is it to be expecting evil before it
comes." ...........Seneca
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- To
fully realize the value and
- benefits of an optimistic
attitude will......
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BLOW YOU AWAY!

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- Well,
would you believe...astound you?

Pop Quiz
- 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
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- 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.

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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?
      
   

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It's a
Birds of a
Feather
flock together
Thing!
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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.
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- 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 ______.
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It's a
Getting Better,
Not Older
Thing!
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- 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.
- It's a,
- No Matter How
- Successful
You Are
- With Your
- Investments,
You
- Haven't
Scratched
- The Surface Until You Are A
- *Black
Belt Optimistic Investor
- Thing!
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- *Expert in spotting great and
prosperous
opportunities that pessimists with their narrow-
mindedness are too narrow-minded to see.
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- INVESTIGATE THIS;
There is no such thing as 'luck'.
You can bet on it.

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"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!
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- 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.
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- "A pessimist is one who
feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel
worse when he feels better."
- .........Anonymous
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Optimists do not
depend upon luck for their good fortune,
because they understand that nothing in the universe
happens by luck or accident.
NOTHING!
ZILTCH!
ZIP!
Optimists depend
upon their unshakable belief in their own
unlimited creative nature to prosper and thrive in
all ways,
poo-pooing (not buying into) the notion that anyone
or anything
can keep them from realizing greater joy and
fulfillment.
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.



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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?
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- a - Mop up forever.
- b- Turn the faucet off.
- Surely turning the faucet off is a no-brainer.
A perfect example of 'Cause and Effect'. The 'cause'
is the rushing water, and the 'effect' is the flood.
The flood didn't just happen.
- 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?
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- A 'Cause' Investigator does not accept things as
they are, but as they can be.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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