they say, that to make beneficial changes in one's identity, that to do it through the conscious mind, is often ineffective and extremely gradual.
but when one can overwride the conscious mind through subliminal messages more permanent and lasting beneficial changes occurred to our identity because you have reached the subconscious mind.
they say that through subliminal messages you reach the subconscious mind and if the subliminal messages are of a positive nature for good things they will produce tremendous benefits for you.
Thanks for the advice, f. Read the book... the late Dr. Maltz basically popularized affirmations in the US . Of course the web site is trying to sell you something - so is the Honda dealer.
Here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671700758/002-4059721-3215240?v=glance
They're trying to sell you the book for 7.50 :)
something i've noticed on this board is that there seem to be many more liberal-left types than conservative-right types.
what do you think of my following theories?
in the 70s, many converts to jw-dom were influenced by the anti-establishment philosophy and anti-viet nam war.
"a badger with a chili paste enema"?
Is that a Pennsyvanian folk saying?
ROFL!
they say, that to make beneficial changes in one's identity, that to do it through the conscious mind, is often ineffective and extremely gradual.
but when one can overwride the conscious mind through subliminal messages more permanent and lasting beneficial changes occurred to our identity because you have reached the subconscious mind.
they say that through subliminal messages you reach the subconscious mind and if the subliminal messages are of a positive nature for good things they will produce tremendous benefits for you.
The subconscious mind learns either through repetition or through emotional attachment to an event or experience.
If you consistently engage in negative self-talk, or have negative beliefs about yourself that are pre-verbal (i.e., feelings that come up, triggered by events that remind you of some event in your childhood that happened before you thought using language-symbols), these don't disappear because you listen to some affirmations.
Affirmations are very powerful tools, though. I volunteer-coach a ninety-day goal-acheivement program occasionally, and the most powerful tool we use is an affirmation called a "contract", which is used throughout the 90 days. By itself, it would not be as powerful, but as a tool or component of a program that is designed to keep thoughts and behavior aligned and changed, affirmations are very effective.
You might want to read about Dr. Maxwell Maltz's techniques of affirmation here: http://www.psycho-cybernetics.com/
do you agree with that statement?
No, I don't, as a class. Many JW's are compassionate, caring people.
Many humans do try to build up their self-image by tearing others down... but JWs don't have any sort of exclusive on that, and I don't think it's a dominant characteristic of JW's - at least as something they "enjoy".
something i've noticed on this board is that there seem to be many more liberal-left types than conservative-right types.
what do you think of my following theories?
in the 70s, many converts to jw-dom were influenced by the anti-establishment philosophy and anti-viet nam war.
It's interesting that the WTS appeals to those that would like the world to be better... and then the WTS tells them that they as individuals are powerless to effect a better world.
I suspect that those who leave and beleive that they can make a positive impact tend to be liberal...and those that think that all we can do is foul things up are conservatie. Or maybe not...
yes, if we think of god as a "transcendant" above everything and then when we think of the biblical jehovah, we come up short 51 cards of a deck of 52.
he is so human,,,, come on,,,,, that to me is proof enough of the preposition that he is just the:
"figment of the jewish imagination"
Gotta go with L here... what I've read and heard points to El, who became Yahweh, as the consort to Asherah.
i'm wondering what the wts teaches about the rapture and tribulation.
does that tie in with their "paradise earth" doctrine somehow?.
robert
I saw this bumper sticker this weekend:
In case of rapture: Can I have your car?
confidence man .
the case for bush is the case against him.
by william saletan.
As Michael Moore has pointed out, if you want to impact politics, it's pretty simple: go to a local party meeting with 10 friends (all of whom are registered to that party, of course). You'll take over the precinct, and then you can have a real affect on local and regional party politics...if you really want to make a difference, that is.
Not voting is a pretty ineffective way to effect change. I offer the following quotes from Robert Heinlein on voting and democracy:
Democracy is not an automatic condition resulting from laws and constitutions. It is a living, dynamic process which must be worked at by you yourself - or it ceases to be democracy, even if the shell and form remains.
Politics is just a name for the way we get things done... without fighting. We dicker and compromise and everybody thinks he has received a raw deal, but somehow after a tedious amount of talk we come up with some jury-rigged way to do it without getting anybody's head bashed in. That's politics.
One way or another, any government which remains in power is a representative government. If your city government is a crooked machine, then it is because you and your neighbors prefer it that way - prefer it to the effort of running your own affairs. Hitler's government was a popular government; the vast majority of Germans preferred the rule of gangsters to the effort of thinking and doing for themselves. They abdicated their franchise.
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong. If this is too blind for your taste, consult some well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your wish) without spending the enormous amount of time on it that a truly intelligent exercise of franchise requires.
marc l. miringoff, a professor who invented an index to better understand.
the nation's social health, died thursday night at his home in.
poughkeepsie, n.y. he was 58.. .
Marc L. Miringoff, a professor who invented an index to better understand
the nation's social health, died Thursday night at his home in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 58.
Dr. Miringoff founded the Fordham Institute for Innovation in Social Policy
in 1985. He achieved prominence through the development of a new report
card to measure the nation's well-being.
Dr. Miringoff argued that growth, inflation, interest rates and other
standard economic variables were insufficient to adequately capture the
state of the social fabric. So he compiled an alternative index, combining
data ranging from child poverty and infant mortality to crime, access to
health care and alcohol-related traffic deaths.
In a lecture in 2001, he noted that if progress were to be measured only
in terms of gross domestic product, the performance of the stock markets
and other narrow economic measures we would be "missing most of what makes
life miserable, interesting or good." His new indicator painted a novel
picture of the nation's prosperity, confirming that economic growth and
social progress did not always go hand in hand.
Dr. Miringoff's social index plummeted to a low of 38 out of 100 in 1993,
from a high of 77 of 100 in 1973, notwithstanding 20 years of per capita
income growth. Since then, the nation has recorded progress, according to
Dr. Miringoff's index, which jumped back to 54 in 2000 only to drop back
to 46 in 2001.
"It used to be that a rising tide lifted all boats, but at a certain point
during the 70's, social health and per-capita income split apart," Dr.
Miringoff said in an interview with The New York Times in 2000. "And this
may be the result of the new economy: the loss of steady, well-paid jobs
with benefits for less-skilled blue collar workers."
Since the 1980's, other groups have developed alternative indexes of
social health using different sets of variables. Dr. Miringoff's social
health index was adopted by state officials in Connecticut to measure
social problems and formulate policies.
But Dr. Miringoff remained concerned at what he saw as a lack of social
progress. "We really haven't created much in the way of a comprehensive
social policy in America for 30 or 40 years," he said in 2001, when he
peppered his audience at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with
statistics. He said that 17 percent of American children lived in poverty,
and health insurance wages had worsened by 50 percent since 1970.
"The social health of the nation was declining even during the so-called
prosperity," he said.
what do you find yourself doing differently?.
do you ever feel a little shocked when your opinions on certain things have changed?
things that you were once so adamantly against?.
The single biggest change is that I believe that each individual can make a positive difference in the world, and I now act on that belief. This is obviously different than we were taught.
