This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that My good friend Michael Hall posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum :
Chapter 10 (Think And Grow Rich -- Napoleon Hill)- Power of the Mastermind: The Driving Force (The Ninth Step Toward Riches)
"POWER IS REQUIRED FOR THE ACCUMULATION OF MONEY! POWER IS NECESSARY FOR THE RETENTION OF MONEY AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED!" -Napoleon Hill
To illustrate the power of the Mastermind:
Monday night, after finishing my daily business activities, I felt restless. I turned on the tv and started up Netflix, but couldn't bring myself to sit and put something on. I found myself thinking about the people I have started to mentor, and realized that I felt uncertain about how to mentor them. This raised a familiar feeling for me as a green. The feeling was a reluctance to take action in the face of the unknown. I knew that I didn't really know how to mentor anyone, so I was reluctant to allow anyone else to download the ebook (I kept doing the actions, but was not getting the results because I knew that I didn't know what to do after I had brought someone through the 4 steps of the Mentoring For Free system).
Rather than succumb to the fear by sitting on the couch, I went back to my computer and opened up mffaudios.com. I clicked on "Videos and Special Audios." Wouldn't you know it, there was an audio entitled, "The Answer To: "How Do You Know What To Say When Mentoring People?"" So I put it on.
On the audio, Michael Dlouhy talked about the movie Ghost, in reference to how 'stupid' our subconscious minds are. He guaranteed that everyone listening to the call cried at the end when Patrick Swayze got to kiss and hold Demi Moore one last time. As he said it, I thought back to when I watched it, then thought, "I didn't cry." It was a realization that begged the question, "Why didn't I?"
Michael went on to talk about desensitization, which got me thinking, what is desensitization?
At another point on the same recording, Michael was talking about his solution for "what to say when mentoring people." He said, "Always listen with your conscious mind, keeping the 7 positive emotions in the front of your mind at all times. ALL TIMES, with no agenda." He explained that everyone who was in need of mentoring was going to be coming from one or more of the 7 Negative Emotions. He had several people reflect on times he had mentored them, and they discovered the negative emotions that they had been coming from.
As I pieced these elements together, I had an epiphany.
The reason I had not cried at the end of Ghost was not because it had not affected my sub-conscious mind. It was because I had trained my conscious mind to become desensitized to what I was feeling sub-consciously. Desensitization is using the conscious mind to block the communication of the sub-conscious mind.
I then realized that my ego had tricked me into believing that I was a positive person. Because I was denying the negative emotions I have felt in my life, I had considered myself to be a positive person, when in truth, I was simply in denial of how negative I really was.
Even as I write this, experiencing flashes of emotion, I feel my well trained sub-conscious mind, at the behest of my conscious mind, fighting to stifle the feelings of fear, superstition, anger, lack, and (though it's not listed as a part of the 7 negative emotions) sadness. And sadness is the big one. As I'm writing, I am suddenly recalling my parents yelling at me as a small child, "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about!"
My nephew is only 6 months old, and I've seen my uncle and grandmother, and other's telling him not to cry and saying things like, "I don't like you when you cry." When I heard them saying it I felt irate. I wanted to yell that it's okay for him to cry. But I stifled it. Then I looked at my nephew in the eyes, and thought to him, "I love you and it's okay that you feel this way." And he smiled back at me.
I've heard it said that emotions are "energy in motion." Without emotion, there is no power. I have denied so many of my feelings for fear of giving power to realities that I don't want, but in doing so, I have denied myself the power I need to live the life I DO want.
Thanks to this loving and safe mastermind, and the power of the feelings shared by Michael, Linda, and many of the other leaders of Mentoring For Free, I am starting to allow myself to feel again. Thank you for believing in me, while I am learning to believe in myself.
Michael Hall - North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Thank you Michael for allowing me to post this brilliant lesson.
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