Author: David Lawrence Preston
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Why Creative Imagery Has Such A Powerful Effect On The Unconscious
Why does creative imagery have such a powerful effect on the unconscious, and consequently your life? Imprinting a thought-form in your mind (words and/or pictures) is like planting a seed. It may take a while before you see the results, but every time you focus on that thought, the roots are burying deep. Eventually the…
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Creativity and intuitive ideas
‘Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to look after them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.’ John Steinbeck There are many ways of generate creative ideas. The first uses the mind as an information and data processing device, reacting to the environment to create new associations, connections and solutions. The…
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Why goal setting is so powerful
There’s a wonderful sequence in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Alice is lost in the woods when she encounters the Cheshire Cat looking down on her from the branch of a tree: ‘Cheshire Puss,’ Alice began rather timidly, ‘would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good…
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Your life’s mission
‘Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.’ Richard Bach King Solomon, reputedly the wisest man of his era, said, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ But it’s amazing how some people have no vision for their lives, no idea where they are…
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Setting Goals
Goals are used by all high achievers. Anyone who deliberately becomes a goal setter, whatever they have done with their lives previously, writes them down and focusses their mind on them immediately notices an increase in their level of accomplishment. The goal-setting technique is not that difficult to master. Begin with a few small goals,…
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What motivates you?
Motivation is what gives us a reason for action. For instance, when we are hungry, we are moved to find food. (Physical deprivation produces powerful motivation.) Well motivated people have more enthusiasm, more energy and are less likely to give up. And they get more done. Early experiments on animals concluded that we are motivated…
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Depression – Scourge of the 21st Century
Depression is the scourge of the 21st Century. The number of sufferers rises every year and the use of anti-depressant medication is skyrocketing. Depression is the state of being dejected or dispirited. People who are depressed have a constant feeling of deep sadness. They may lose interest in activities that were once pleasurable and contemplate, attempt…
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Health, Nutrition and Stress
Do you value your health? What kind of fuel do you put into your body? Do you pickle your brain and liver with alcohol? Clog your arteries with grease? Blacken your lungs with tobacco smoke? Are you slim and full of energy, or overweight and sluggish? Do you huff and puff going up stairs? Health…
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Are you dependent on pharmaceuticals?
The drug companies are trying to make us dependent on them. Today’s drugs don’t just treat the health conditions we have, but are sold to us just in case we develop illnesses we don’t yet have. A good example is statins. Statins are claimed to reduce cholesterol in the blood which, they claim, reduces the…
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Consciousness
Consciousness is awareness; awareness of self, the world and its possibilities, and our extraordinary capacity (possessed, as far as we can tell, by no other species) to examine, evaluate and modify our own thoughts, feelings and behaviour. When we say a person has lost consciousness, we mean he has lost awareness of himself and his…