There’s all kinds of ways it can help.

One is to simply carry a small notebook around with you. Any time you’ve got an idea, take some time to write it down.

Using an actual paper and pen is helpful. It takes a bit more time than typing, and is more of an involved process from a mind-body perspective.

So whatever you are writing down, your subconscious is going to figure it’s pretty important, since you’re making the effort.

Otherwise it may think your texting or tweeting something not so important.

Sometimes I’ll go to a coffee shop, sit there with my notebook and pen, and just start writing. After a few minutes, it’s hard to keep up with my brain. Once you train your subconscious that you’re really serious, it will start feeding you all kinds of creative ideas.

I usually make a list of things I want to do, and the list is WAY longer than I have time. Which means I get to choose the best ones, and try them out.

If you’re the type who likes using your dreams, this is also a good method. Keeping a notepad and pen next to your bed, so when you wake up, just write down a few ideas from sleep.

Some of the best inventions came to geniuses while they slept.

Now, were they geniuses because they wrote down their dreams or did they wrote down their dreams because they were geniuses?

It’s very likely that one follows the other.

Another way writing can help is to review things that didn’t go so well. You can actually use this to rewrite your memory.

Take something that happened, and write it out.

Then write it out the way you wish it had happened. 

If you wanted to say something, but didn’t, or said something but didn’t want to, this is perfect.

Just write out what happened, and write out what you wish would have happened. Then come up with a reasonable scenario that would have happened if you did you wish you would have done.

Then take a few minutes remembering your NEW memory. Since you took the time to write it out, your subconscious will most likely go along with it.

And next time you are in a similar situation, you’ll actually respond as if you DID do the “rewritten” memory. Which means you’ll perform better, whatever that means to you.

If you did this once per day, you’d slowly be building up a huge collection of real successes. Which, of course, would spur even more successes.

You can not only do this to your daily activities, but your entire history as well.

Rewrite it however you’d like it to be.

So you can have whatever life you want.

Emotional Freedom

However, us humans tend to think many things are fixed.

Like if somebody asked you if you could juggle, you’d likely say no, you can’t.

But this isn’t entirely true. If somebody offered you 100K to learn to juggle, you probably would. I know I would!

So a more “correct” statement might be, “I can’t juggle now.”

This is a small but effective tactic that is used in NLP to help people get over self imposed limitations.

A guy goes to see a dating coach for example, and says “I can’t talk to girls.”

And the coach says, “You mean you can’t talk to girls yet.”

Once he agrees to this, suddenly his “inability” is no longer set in stone, it’s only a temporary thing.

And once we accept that something is temporary, we start to imagine a time when it’s not true.

One of Abraham Lincoln’s favorite sayings was, “This too shall pass.” While he was talking about countries, governments, wars, etc., this is true about everything.

Sure, some things take a long, long time to change. Like the Grand Canyon, or the continents slowly drifting around due to plate tectonics.

But they change. Even the universe itself is changing, on a very large scale.

This is one reason why some recommend not using the “be” verb when speaking, especially about personal abilities.

Saying “I feel sad,” is, on a deep level, a lot less limiting than “I am sad.”

Even better, saying “I feel sad now,” implies that later you’ll feel something different.

Some folks even use this in sales.

“Can you see how wonderful this product will be when you get it home?

“No. I can’t.”

“Not yet, huh? Well, lemme show you this cool part…”

This is one reason why some therapists and salespeople are so ultra powerful, while others are kind of so so.

The ultra powerful ones simply assume some positive things about the person they’re talking to.

They assume their problems and limitations are temporary, and it naturally comes out in their language.

Simply discussing them like this, without coming up with specific solutions, is often times enough.

Once you accept that all your limitations are temporary, it’s much, much easier to shrug them off.

Then it’s just a matter of doing what it takes to get rid of them.

No matter what kinds of issues you’ve got, no matter what kinds of things you think you can’t do, they are temporary.

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