Monthly Mind Power Questions & Answers

A This is a common question and I usually answer by saying, "You crawl before you walk. You walk before you run." In other words don't try and do everything at once. A common error with Mind Power beginners is to try to do too much. When you do this you disperse the energy. While you're not limited to just one area, you shouldn't try to achieve a dozen goals at once. Pick one or two areas where you want to apply Mind Power and focus on these. As you achieve these goals you can move on to others.

As well, a bonus in using Mind Power is that you often have a spill over effect in all areas of your life. So even areas you haven't been working on will benefit. As you get more proficient in these techniques you can increase the number of goals you work on simultaneously.

A We have just returned from a tour and are now back in Vancouver. I'm looking at ways of making this information more available to everyone. I think a chat session on the Internet is a great idea. So keep checking our Web site, as some time in the next couple of months we will do something like this, and we'll let everyone know. Great idea - I've been thinking of it as well.

A Affirmations and visualization are two totally different techniques. You can do one without the other. I always advise people to have many techniques that they can use in working with Mind Powers, and to vary them. However, many people have had great success using just one or two techniques. So it's not necessary to do both the techniques to get results. If you persist with only your affirmations you should gain success as well.

A It is indeed discouraging when everything seems to be going wrong for us and it seems to build upon itself; one thing leads to another and it just seems to be a never-ending, downward spiralling rut that we find ourselves
in. What you need to do is to change the patterns. And we change our patterns by changing our thoughts. You haven't mentioned whether or not you are doing the techniques of Mind Power Into the 21st Century. If you
are not, what I suggest that you do is reread the book and begin practicing the techniques. Sometimes we feel so down that we don't have the energy or time to do the techniques, but mind powers is a practice, not a philosophy, and when you do the exercises you really do get results. So try and work yourself out of this bad situation that you find yourself in. Even doing ten or fifteen minutes a day, you will achieve excellent results.

I also suggest that you look within and discover why is it that you are creating all these negative things for yourself. We must take responsibility for the things that happen to us. If all these negative things are happening to us, what is it within us that is creating and manifesting these things? Some good soul-searching within, looking at your beliefs, looking at your thoughts, looking at your attitudes about other people and yourself, will reveal a lot. So, please, I encourage you to stop this pattern and to start creating for yourself a happier and more successful life. It can be done. It is by done by thousands of individuals every day all over the world who have turned the most horrendous situations into positive ones. All our lives go in phases and cycles. You are in a very down cycle right now, but by using your mind power you will work yourself out of it. I wish you all the success in your life.

A It doesn't matter what the odds are, you increase your chances by using mind power. If you use your mind powers and it doesn't manifest, you have lost nothing. If, on the other hand, you fail to use your mind powers and you are refused, you will never know whether the mind power would have made the difference.

Imagine an athlete holding back because of fear of failure. That person has failed already. The same in this situation. Don't hold anything back. Use every tool you have to manifest this reality.

It might be of interest to you that the creator of the Dilbert cartoon used Mind Powers to create the exact situation you are trying to manifest. I have written about this in one of my previous topics. Go for it!

A No destiny is written in stone. Palmists and astrologists can only tell you possible outcomes, and that's assuming they're good at what they do. While I feel both these methods have merit, it has been my experience that at least 90% of these people are poorly trained, and have no true knowledge. This is unfortunate because many people go to them for advice and council. The real power they possess is in the power of suggestion, which is great when the suggestion is positive, but when the suggestion is negative it can be incredibly harmful.

Your thoughts and beliefs are what is most important in determining what will happen to you. From this point on, every time you find yourself thinking this thought recognize it as a negative. See the Topic of the Month on negatives. And do not allow it any power over you. Begin visualizing yourself in a happy marriage. Move through it seeing yourself with children (if that's what you want), and picturing yourself having your 50th wedding anniversary. Feed your mind daily, for five or ten minutes, images of a happy successful marriage. Practice my Mind Power techniques and all will be well.

A Dreams have a way of choosing for us images and messages that the subconscious mind wants us to look at. That being the case, it is often wise to not resist them but look within to see what they might be saying to us. There is nothing to fear. Even unpleasant dreams have a way of enlightening us when we honour them for the messages they bring.

Having said this, you can program your mind before you got to sleep to bring you dreams on a certain part of your life where you're trying to work out answers and often it will.

Practice the techniques mentioned in the Dream chapter of Mind Power Into the 21st Century and this will open a dialogue between your conscious and subconscious mind, which is what dreams are attempting to do.

A You're not supposed to be thinking of anything in particular when doing affirmations. Quite often our mind will conjure up thoughts that mirror what we are affirming. Other times it will wander to different things, as you mention. I don't try to control my mind when doing affirmations. I let it go where it wants. The incredible aspect of affirmations is that just by saying them they will naturally take effect. They resonate deep within our subconscious and, when continued, will effect our thinking, which in turn changes our vibration. So relax and just do the affirmations without any concern to what you should be thinking.