Comments on: Personal Power II – Day 3 http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/ Make Money. Do What You Love. Feel Great. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rudolf http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 Rudolf Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:45:16 +0000 http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/?p=1193#comment-1956 @Paul: True, many people do not even realize that it is possible to change those negative associations and when you tell them they do not accept it, they even feel threatened sometimes! Changing negative associations to positive ones is time well spent, with proper concentration and technique this takes minutes to hours and the benefits come for the rest of our lives. @Paul: True, many people do not even realize that it is possible to change those negative associations and when you tell them they do not accept it, they even feel threatened sometimes! Changing negative associations to positive ones is time well spent, with proper concentration and technique this takes minutes to hours and the benefits come for the rest of our lives.

]]> By: Paul Piotrowski http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Paul Piotrowski Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/?p=1193#comment-1959 @Rudolf: That's awesome! I recently did a bit of public speaking to a room of about 10-15 people on some personal development topics. It was for a company that has a similar structure to MLM. The audience loved what I had to say and it was a super positive experience. It also felt great. All previous public speaking experience I had was at school in my younger years and those were all horrible experiences. High school can be so cruel to people. :) On another note, when I left high school I also had a lot of negative associations towards reading. I hated reading in high school, because the books they picked were so boring. Luckily after high school I read a couple of books that hooked me on reading, and since then I've read thousands of books. I still know a lot of people that haven't picked up a book since high school though...what a shame. @Rudolf: That’s awesome! I recently did a bit of public speaking to a room of about 10-15 people on some personal development topics. It was for a company that has a similar structure to MLM. The audience loved what I had to say and it was a super positive experience. It also felt great. All previous public speaking experience I had was at school in my younger years and those were all horrible experiences. High school can be so cruel to people. :) On another note, when I left high school I also had a lot of negative associations towards reading. I hated reading in high school, because the books they picked were so boring. Luckily after high school I read a couple of books that hooked me on reading, and since then I’ve read thousands of books. I still know a lot of people that haven’t picked up a book since high school though…what a shame.

]]> By: Rudolf http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Rudolf Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:46:07 +0000 http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/?p=1193#comment-1957 That is a good example Paul. I had some pretty bad experience connected to public speaking...when I gathered the courage to speak in front of larger audience for the first time in impromptu speech I got totally negative feedback, most of my listeners were college students or graduates and they basically shot me down. This experience transformed to some negative associations which held me back during the next few years...until I consciously analyzed that day again and realized that most of those criticizing people there would never go to that stage themselves and that their critique really was not very constructive. So I tried Tony's method and connected some pleasant feelings to public speaking, used that momentum and joined Toastmasters while it was fresh. Guess what, I am doing speeches weekly now and I like it, a lot! This is very empowering.. That is a good example Paul. I had some pretty bad experience connected to public speaking…when I gathered the courage to speak in front of larger audience for the first time in impromptu speech I got totally negative feedback, most of my listeners were college students or graduates and they basically shot me down. This experience transformed to some negative associations which held me back during the next few years…until I consciously analyzed that day again and realized that most of those criticizing people there would never go to that stage themselves and that their critique really was not very constructive. So I tried Tony’s method and connected some pleasant feelings to public speaking, used that momentum and joined Toastmasters while it was fresh. Guess what, I am doing speeches weekly now and I like it, a lot! This is very empowering..

]]> By: Paul Piotrowski http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1960 Paul Piotrowski Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:51:40 +0000 http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/?p=1193#comment-1960 @Rudolf: Yes, exactly. The "pain" is already there in your subconscious. All Tony is saying is "What pain do you associate with ___________?" and that allows you to be aware of the feelings that you associate with certain things. For example, if you take three different human beings and you say "Do you want to go to the gym?", they may each have a TOTALLY different association with that question. Imagine if one of those people went to the gym once, and ended up being completely embarrassed by all the people that worked out there, was called names, intimidated, etc. That person may very well have associated disgusting pain and embarrassment with going to the gym, and when someone asks them that question they may be very scared of going to the gym NOT because they are afraid of the pain of working out their muscles, but rather because they don't like the people at the gym. Years later when they TRY to set a goal to go to the gym, as an example, they may not want to go and not realize why. I had an experience at Fitness World once where I went there and did a "Fitness Test" with a couple of my friends. Part of the fitness test was to go on a stationary bike and pedal at a certain speed for a certain period of time. About half way through I felt that it was too hard of a pace for me at my level back then so I asked the girl if I can slow it down, unsure if it would "ruin" the test or not. She made some rude remarks basically calling me a "wuss" and more or less told me to suck it up in front of my friends who were doing even worse than I was. She was and totally clueless about anything to do with fitness, and had no real understanding about maximum heart-rates etc. and basically just put us all on he same "test" as someone who was already in great cardiovascular shape. We did the exercise, and I felt like throwing up right after because I way overdid it for my first time on any cardio machine for years. I used to play a LOT of basketball and was in awesome shape, so I know what my body feels like when it's in shape and not in shape. The same girl also told us later that we need to start drinking way more milk to have more calcium in our body, which is a really dumb statement to make as well. That was my first experience at Fitness World. My second experience was going there early morning and after work and finding the place completely packed and having to wait 10-20 minutes to get on each of the machines. I came there with a plan to do about 10 different exercises in 1 hour on different machines, and ended up probably doing 2-3 exercises in an hour and a half. After a few times like this I realized that Fitness World is a total waste of time for anyone who works during regular hours because EVERYONE goes there after work and early morning, and between 10am and 4pm it's totally dead. So those are some of the associations I have with going to the gym. That is probably why I have a room in my house dedicated to working out with all the workout equipment available at my finger tips. However, I'm sure other people have had great experiences going to the gym so they associate pleasure to them. @Rudolf: Yes, exactly. The “pain” is already there in your subconscious. All Tony is saying is “What pain do you associate with ___________?” and that allows you to be aware of the feelings that you associate with certain things. For example, if you take three different human beings and you say “Do you want to go to the gym?”, they may each have a TOTALLY different association with that question. Imagine if one of those people went to the gym once, and ended up being completely embarrassed by all the people that worked out there, was called names, intimidated, etc. That person may very well have associated disgusting pain and embarrassment with going to the gym, and when someone asks them that question they may be very scared of going to the gym NOT because they are afraid of the pain of working out their muscles, but rather because they don’t like the people at the gym. Years later when they TRY to set a goal to go to the gym, as an example, they may not want to go and not realize why.

I had an experience at Fitness World once where I went there and did a “Fitness Test” with a couple of my friends. Part of the fitness test was to go on a stationary bike and pedal at a certain speed for a certain period of time. About half way through I felt that it was too hard of a pace for me at my level back then so I asked the girl if I can slow it down, unsure if it would “ruin” the test or not. She made some rude remarks basically calling me a “wuss” and more or less told me to suck it up in front of my friends who were doing even worse than I was. She was and totally clueless about anything to do with fitness, and had no real understanding about maximum heart-rates etc. and basically just put us all on he same “test” as someone who was already in great cardiovascular shape. We did the exercise, and I felt like throwing up right after because I way overdid it for my first time on any cardio machine for years. I used to play a LOT of basketball and was in awesome shape, so I know what my body feels like when it’s in shape and not in shape. The same girl also told us later that we need to start drinking way more milk to have more calcium in our body, which is a really dumb statement to make as well.

That was my first experience at Fitness World. My second experience was going there early morning and after work and finding the place completely packed and having to wait 10-20 minutes to get on each of the machines. I came there with a plan to do about 10 different exercises in 1 hour on different machines, and ended up probably doing 2-3 exercises in an hour and a half. After a few times like this I realized that Fitness World is a total waste of time for anyone who works during regular hours because EVERYONE goes there after work and early morning, and between 10am and 4pm it’s totally dead.

So those are some of the associations I have with going to the gym. That is probably why I have a room in my house dedicated to working out with all the workout equipment available at my finger tips. However, I’m sure other people have had great experiences going to the gym so they associate pleasure to them.

]]> By: Rudolf http://www.paulymath.com/2009/01/26/personal-power-ii-day-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Rudolf Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:10:32 +0000 http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com/?p=1193#comment-1958 Hi Paul. Even though this "focus on pain" in Tony's teachings works, it was exactly my concern because it did not seem to match what I know about LoA..What you wrote here is definitely great way of looking at this. Bringing that pain to the surface is also a path of higher awareness where you can really take control, actually from this standpoint you could really enhance your LoA, making it more effective as you clear some obstacles in the path using Tony's methods. This is truly exciting.. :) Hi Paul. Even though this “focus on pain” in Tony’s teachings works, it was exactly my concern because it did not seem to match what I know about LoA..What you wrote here is definitely great way of looking at this. Bringing that pain to the surface is also a path of higher awareness where you can really take control, actually from this standpoint you could really enhance your LoA, making it more effective as you clear some obstacles in the path using Tony’s methods. This is truly exciting.. :)

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