How are you dressed? Are you dressed in fine clothes, rich in colors, warm and inviting to the eye, or are you dressed as a pauper in rags? The time has come to move onto a higher state of living. By saying this I am not implying that you place yourself above another human being or view others as beneath you. Rather, I am saying elevate your own self to a place where you are not trudging around in a rut, covered with mud, covered with flies and cursing all the while. Work on having integrity and being virtuous. Work on being whole. Work on being responsible for what you think, feel, and say. As we live and interact in this world, it is easy to give into our baser expressions. You know what I mean. Yelling in the car at the drivers behind or ahead of you or lifting that finger and displaying your I.Q. Expressing our displeasure with the idiocy of the store clerk you’re dealing with. Complaining loudly about your wait in line. These things are really not that important in the grand scheme of things. And when you make them important, you belittle yourself and those around you. We who have the advantage of living in first-world countries have become a spoiled lot. With our computerized, electrified, and modernized lives, we forget the simple things. We forget our manners. We forget that we are not alone here and our energy affects those around us. We tend to get caught up in the petty things on a daily basis. It is easy to fall into a complainer’s attitude. Why not train ourselves to exhibit a thankful attitude? It is easier on the body, the mind, and the soul and it has a wondrous way of spreading. When we walk around in our little clouds of negativity – we exude this energy to other people. Haven’t you ever had a bad day? Of course you have. When you feel a bad day coming on, stop, breathe, look, and listen. Pause for 30 seconds. Think about the alternative to living – you could be in a hole taking a dirt nap. Are things really that bad that you have to dump your negative energy on others? Really take the time and look at the world. I don’t care where you are, but if you look long enough, you will find the beauty in the day. And there is always beauty waiting for you to discover it. It is one of the many gifts of living. I know this sounds easier than many of you think it is – but it is as easy as putting on a different pair of socks. It is easy as changing the part in your hair. It as easy as changing the clothes you wear. Remember: you decide what you’re going to wear. Realize that your attitudes are the clothes of your soul. Try dressing up for a change and see if your day doesn’t go a little better.

To further illustrate the persuasive power of framing, I’ve chosen a few pretty hot topics. I’m hoping to stir us all up a little. Everybody knows about the world’s ‘oldest profession’ and whether you’re an opponent or proponent, it’s not going anywhere. Prostitution is illegal in most of the U.S. and unfortunately is connected to drugs and violence, disease and abuse. That’s one frame. We can all agree on that, can’t we? But how about a different frame? An acquaintance and former student of mine sent me the following link in an e-mail. He wrote, ‘Check out this frame.’ His link connected me to the International Committee for Prostitute’s Rights. http://www.walnet.org/csis/groups/icpr_charter.html Upon further research, I found another organization called C.O.Y.O.T.E. The letters stand for call off your old tired ethics. They bill themselves as a sex worker’s rights organization. Old frame: prostitutes. New frame: sex workers. There’s a pretty strong movement in the U.S. and all over Europe, to decriminalize prostitution and ensure rights and protection to the people working in the industry. To me, that’s a new frame. I had never heard of such a thing and it really struck me as interesting. Proponents of this frame differentiate between the prostitutes who are being victimized and the sex workers who feel empowered in the industry. The issue is certainly complex with the emotional fire that politics and sexuality can inspire. Another part of the frame is that sex work is an important part of the economy. Legalizing it, as it is in Nevada and in other countries, shows how some of the dangers associated with the industry can be lessened through regulation. For example, if there are no pimps, the violence is cut down. With mandatory medical checkups and regulated practices, the health and medical dangers are nearly eliminated. The issue of sex for money has been taken out of the frame of morality (which has been the strongest frame by far) and put it in the frame of being an important part of the economy. If you look at the argument for legalizing drugs, it’s very similar. The idea of ‘victimless crimes’ is an appealing frame to me in that the amount of money spent each year on imprisoning pot growers/users and sex workers, is staggering. I am not advocating to ‘legalize it’ though I am intrigued to know that there are intelligent opponents to the cultural norm. However, this is simply an exercise in framing and as with any frame, whoever has the stronger one, wins.

As you search for hypnosis products online, you’ll notice at least one recurring theme: virtually all reviewers highly recommend the Power of Conversational Hypnosis Course. In fact, not only do hypnosis reviewers rate it highly, but Doctors, Psychiatrists, and respected hypnotists claim that it is the #1 hypnosis product on the market. And they have good reason to say this: not only is it an excellent, well-developed course, but it clearly and cleanly teaches laymen to perform hypnotic feats in their day-to-day experience that few experts would think are possible. The Power of Conversational Hypnosis Course, created by Igor Ledochowski is both a study in how to harness the power of the psyche to achieve results and a process of learning a great deal about what shapes your own view of the world and how you relate to it. One of the things that makes Conversational Hypnosis Course such a great program is that there is something for just about everyone. Salespeople will be thrilled with the information that focuses on using conversations to get people to open up and provide valuable detail about what they want and need in the products they purchase. People who are tired of having to deal with office know-it-all types will delight in the processes that can help balance the flow of conversation around the water cooler. Customer Relations professionals will gain valuable insights into how both verbal and non-verbal communication methods in order to calm an irate customer, and lead the client to a resolution that is workable for everyone. Igor Ledochowski does this by using a step by step approach to learning about hypnosis. The first session, entitled The Power of Conversational Hypnosis helps the student to get rid of some of the more common misconceptions about hypnosis, as well as learn the basic truths about the science. Hypnotic Language Foundations are addressed in the third session, providing insight into how to mesmerize people into being receptive to your ideas and verbal pronouncements. Tools that help you deal with resistance are simple and straightforward in presentation. This session puts across the point that it is possible to capture the attention and support of people, even if there is initially not much interest in what you have to say. Few courses are able to explain this topic as well as Igor has in his excellent work. Session Five introduces the role of emotional triggers into the mix, calling into attention the way that many people create visual images that provide form and substance to their perception of the world. Reshaping those mental images can also mean changing the way someone reacts to what you want them to do. Emotional triggers are one means of shaping those images to your advantage. There are in total twelve well-organized sessions which make it possible for the eager student to progress through a process that establishes a foundation for participating in the program, and logically builds on the initial concept. The sessions are available on CD and can also be downloaded for storage on a hard drive. Unlike many other hypnosis audios, which are scratchy and hard to listen to, Igor’s work is studio quality. Here are some of the topics covered in this course: • Hypnosis Trance Formulas – Getting What You Want • The “Amnesia Technique”. How you can make people forget problems and complications. • How To Deal Directly With The Unconscious Mind • The Authority Strategy – Tactics To Ensure Success • Learn the amazing “60 Second Hypnotist” exercise. • Beyond Rapport & Signal Recognition Systems • How To Irresistibly Lead Any Interaction • Emotional Triggers: Controlling Inner Pictures And Feelings • And Much More… Whether you’re a budding hypnotist, an expert hypnotist, a car salesman, a shy accountant, or a desk clerk, you will find something useful in this course that you can use to gain leverage in personal relationships and in business. As a comprehensive study of what hypnosis is, and how it can be applied to your best advantage, the Power of Conversational Hypnosis Course by Hypnotist Igor Ledochowski, is easily one of the best hypnosis programs on the market today.

Amazingly, you have just come across the information that you need to find your own inner peace. Just look at the page in front of you. It’s you who is staring out at this page and it’s you that is the Source of your own inner peace. You just haven’t learned how to see yourself yet and you need a little guidance. Once you are able to focus in on who you really are, you will reach inner peace. You will know it because nothing will disturb you anymore and any feelings of dis-ease or “uncomfortableness” will be gone entirely. It’s not a joke. This is something that is possible for you and that has already happened for many other people. They learned to focus their inner consciousness onto themselves over longer and longer periods of time until, Boom! A breakthrough of consciousness happened that overwhelmed all of their old ways of looking at things and put them at peace with the entire contents of their mind. It’s almost entirely that simple. If you are wondering how to do this yourself, it’s a pretty good question and deserves a bit more explanation. All you have to do is watch every thought and emotion that goes through your mind. No matter what it is, if you continue to watch, as simple as that seems, you will become an expert in no time at all. Go ahead and try it. Just keep to this process of watching each thought and each emotion as it floats by. There goes a sad emotion, there goes a happy one. There goes an angry emotion, there goes a scared one. Watch each thought such as the thought about your mean old mother-in-law or the thought about your newest recipe that you plan to use for dinner tonight. Learn to relax as you do it. It doesn’t matter what the thought is, just watch it float up out of nowhere and watch it disappear again into nothing. As you practice doing this each day, you will become better and better at it until one day, Shazzam! Many people report a sudden eruption of energy inside themselves like a conscious energy that bursts up through their heart and into their head which utterly transforms all of their thoughts and feelings like they never imagined. This is called the Kundalini energy in Indian terminology and the Holy Spirit in Western terminology. It doesn’t matter what you choose to call it. The fact is, it brings inner peace and makes you feel like a million dollars every time you raise it up inside yourself. That’s right. Raising the Kundalini can be done at will once you have become practiced enough to make it happen the first time. This energy then becomes the source of all your happiness and inner peace in life. It becomes the thing that you look forward to each day as you prepare to sit down for another 30 minutes or so of meditation. In the beginning, if you are just starting out with A Course in Miracles or with any kind of meditation in general, you will find it quite hard to sit still. Everything inside you will want to move around and get up from your chair to go see what’s on television or happening down the street. Meditation can be so boring! Still, if you are one of those people who really believes that there is a great potential locked inside you, you will teach yourself to sit still each and every day for at least 30 or 40 minutes. Eventually , you will learn to sit for longer and longer periods of time and you will learn to be more and more content as you sit there doing nothing. It’s a battle with your ego is what it is. Your ego wants to get up from the chair and get back to the troubles of your life. Your spirit, however, will be stronger and will instruct you to just sit there and let the ego tire itself out. Over time, week after week, month after month, you will see that your mind becomes more and more contented with just sitting still. At the same time however, the ego will really get frustrated and try to throw up its worst attacks to try to stop you from keeping to your course. If you wait it all out and sit still no matter what, finally your ego will be broken and your Spirit will burst forth as the true champion. That’s basically how it works and you can pat yourself on the back for reading this far and learning what you just learned. It wasn’t an accident that you came here to read this and it won’t be an accident when you set your mind to the task of finding inner peace. The inner peace you search for is locked away inside yourself. It only takes a bit of serious intention and discipline to find it in there and then, you too will have the inner peace you have always wanted.

The French language, evolving from the Romance language, share similar words with the modern English language. There are obviously several words that are used in the English vocabulary and considered as English the way it is used by English speakers but originally, these have been derived from the French language. But do not take this as a negative factor in studying French. In fact, it is the other way around. You see, a French word may mean one thing for French speakers but then a completely different interpretation by English speakers but this difference itself is the bridge to the gap, the answer to the question of studying and learning French in a less complicated manner. An example is the French phrase “а la mode” which means “in fashion or style” but, for English speakers, it simply means “with ice cream”. Imagine both meanings of this word and associate them. When a person remembers a word, though it may exist in two languages; as in the French and English languages, both the English and French definition of this word sticks to the mind of the speaker. The differences with the definition of the word are actually the link to how a person is able to remember. In memorization, this strategy is referred to the process of memorizing by using association. This means that no matter how different the definition of a word is in French and English; it is the very same reason that unites them by imagination. In learning languages other than a person’s mother tongue, finding a way to connect one word (a French word for example) to something familiar is a great way to remember particular information. By using association with the words from French to English activates your brain by imagining a graphic look of the words. When either of the word is remembered, both of definition is remembered instantaneously no matter how different they are.