IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND

Inspired by Chapter 6 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

CREATIVE IMAGINATION – form a conscious image of
something, and with enough EMOTIVE FORCE, manifest it
into physical reality.

The first apple seed was certainly creative.

SYNTHETIC IMAGINATION – form a conscious image of
something involving existing physical stuff, and with
enough EMOTIVE FORCE, manifest it into a new thing.

I think a lot of things came about just by messing
around with stuff, others by deliberate design.

Look at all the varieties of apples: Baldwin, Cortland,
Delicious, Empire, Golden Delicious, Green, Macoun,
McIntosh, Northern Spy, Russet – to name a few.

Stuff made with apples: candy apples, caramel apples,
apple pie, apple tarts, apple turnovers, apple strudel,
apple cobbler, apple crisp, applesauce, apple
preserves, apple jelly, apple butter, apple juice,
apple cider, apple cider vinegar, applejack, apple
schnapps, and much more.

I look at the things around me in amazement all the
time. From the simplest things: carpet, furniture,
doors, windows, walls, etc. – all began with someone’s
IMAGINATION.

More amazing stuff: I used to move my recorded music
collection around in many heavy boxes. Now the whole
mess is stored in a tiny thin box that fits in my shirt
pocket.

My entire library of books is stored in a thing about
the size and weight of a small writing tablet.

Years ago, if I wanted to phone someone from the road,
then I had to find a payphone and drop a dime. Years
before that, if I wanted to talk with someone, then I
would have had to meet with them in person.

Publishing was once a major endeavor. Now I mash a few
buttons…and what I’m writing is published!

Most amazing: The POTENTIAL, the possibility of all
things past, present and future existed many thousands
of years ago.

My theory: If it can be IMAGINED, then it can be
MANIFESTED. If it cannot be Manifested, then it cannot
be Imagined.

It matters not how fantastic the IMAGE – with an
Insatiable DESIRE, Firm BELIEF, an ORGANIZED PLAN, and
PERSISTENT Action – it WILL MANIFEST.

There is not much difference between MANIFESTED REALITY
and IMAGINATION. My concept of Reality is almost
certainly different than Yours.

If I show 10 people the same scene from a movie, then I
might get as many as 10 different Emotional reactions,
ranging from “hilarious”, to “warm and moving”, to
“glorious and triumphant”, to “sad and depressing”. It
depends on each individual’s point of view.

If I say the name, “Adolf Hitler”, then the most common
reaction I get will be something like “evil
monster/madman”. Although, 75 years ago, some might
have said, “visionary”, or “charismatic hero”, or
“savior”, or “messenger of hope”. Some of those same
folks may have said a few years later, “dangerous
mistake”. A few years earlier, “a house painter from
Austria.”

If I say the word “God” to 1,000 people, then 1,000
different IMAGES will appear in their minds. All 1,000
Images are REAL, true and correct.

I FOCUS my daily activity from a point where the thing
I am working on is already completed.

The Case of the Martial Artist, the Skeptic, and the
Quantum Theorist:

Three different REALITIES concerning an encounter with
a concrete block.

The martial artist says, “I can break this block by
focusing my CONSCIOUSNESS to a point BEYOND the block.
MIND OVER MATTER.”

The skeptic, focusing on the point of impact, says, “He
will break all the bones in his hand when he hits the
solid block – unless he has a trick block. MATTER OVER
MIND.”

The quantum theorist says, “Both hand and block are
composed of photons at the quantum level – their
solidity is an Illusion. A true believer without DOUBT
could pass his hand THROUGH the block, damaging
neither. MIND AND MATTER ARE THE SAME THING.”

Whose REALITY is true and correct?

ALL THREE ARE!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Let us be careful here. This principle works for
both creation and destruction.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!

AUTO-SUGGESTION – THE MEDIUM FOR INFLUENCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Inspired by Chapter 4 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

I often mused that Hill should have put this chapter
with Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind. Why HERE, after
the chapter on FAITH?

AUTO-SUGGESTION induces FAITH, and FAITH empowers
AUTO-SUGGESTION. They feed each other.

Everything we BELIEVE is the result of SUGGESTION
planted by others – instilled, drip by drip, over time.

Most people feel a swelling of POSITIVE EMOTION when
they hear their national anthem played. Americans can
recite the Pledge of Allegiance instantly – without
thought.

Catholics can recite the Ave Maria and Pater Noster in
their native tongue (perhaps in Latin as well). Can the
same be said for our SELF-TALK?

Tom “Big Al” Schreiter teaches how to use “commercial
talk” to influence the SUBCONSCIOUS MINDS of others.

Wild, untamed apple trees spend much of their resources
growing branches to reach wide and high – seeking more
sunlight.

The owner of an apple orchard plants his trees far
enough apart so they need not compete for sunlight. He
prunes his trees to allow them to reach wide, but not
high. The grower SUGGESTS to them, “Spend Your
resources growing more APPLES!”

The same is true with spruces, pines, and firs. In the
wild they attain all sorts of fantastic shapes and
heights, befitting the spot they find themselves in.

A close friend of mine owned one of the largest tree
farms in New England. His many thousands of trees were
planted far enough apart, like an apple orchard. His
staff sheared the trees at every stage of their growth.

My friend SUGGESTED to his trees, “You need to be
symmetrical. You are Christmas trees.”

Who created dogs?

Show me a dog who was not nurtured with constant human
SUGGESTION, and I’ll show You an animal who has
rekindled its wolf nature.

Through SUGGESTION, apple trees BELIEVE they will
produce more apples, evergreens BELIEVE they are
Christmas trees, and wolves BELIEVE they are dogs.

What do I want MY Subconscious Mind to BELIEVE?

AUTO-SUGGESTION, SELF-SUGGESTION, SELF-TALK!

We’ve been doing SELF-TALK all our lives.

…Huh?

…YEAH!

Everything we have convinced ourselves about – we have
been saying over, and over, and over again!

I CHOOSE a SELF-TALK of my own design. It has the 3 P’s
– PERSONAL, PRESENT, and POSITIVE.

Why Personal and Present? Because it’s about what I
BELIEVE. The phrase, “I AM,” takes care of those.

Why Positive? Because it WORKS!

Uh-oh! …Put Negative in there, and that will work
too.

I’ve got to speak the right LANGUAGE though.

Oh no! There’s a LANGUAGE?

Yes, my Subconscious Mind and the CREATIVE FORCE it’s
connected to understand a specific LANGUAGE.

The CREATIVE FORCE has many names: Universe, Source,
Infinite Intelligence, Father in Heaven, Mother Nature,
The Force, Devine Matrix, Zero-Point Field, Quantum
Field, The NOW, and others – but one LANGUAGE.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Yes? Oh! Of course! The Language? HUMAN EMOTION.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!

CHAPTER 3 – FAITH

Inspired by Chapter 3 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
An older lesson written 9/22/2010 – my birthday (woo-HOO!)

CHAPTER 3 – FAITH
Visualization Of And Belief In Attainment Of Desire

Here is some of what I’ve learned or realized so far
about Faith.

Some of this is going to be Green stuff. Well, Luther
Brotherton DID accuse me of being a quantum physicist.
But I promise, as my writing coach tells me, to include
some word pictures and a story or two.

I would usually begin with…

FAITH is the SUBSTANCE of things EXPECTED, the EVIDENCE
of things NOT SEEN.

…or some similar poetic tripe.

Listen, Faith is NOT wishing, hoping, dreaming,
yearning, planning, or any of that kind of stuff.

You see, I’ve lived most of my life trapped in the
flat, illusional, horizontal dimension of psychological
time – a prisoner of my Egoic mind. My thoughts were
dominated by the word/concept [IF].

The FUTURE: “What IF…?”; “What if it rains on
Sunday?”; “What if someone gets sick?”; “What if my
check doesn’t arrive before the bills are due?”; and
on, and on, and on…

The PAST: “If only…”; “If only I had taken that other
course, job, route, etc.”; “If only we hadn’t gone to
New Hope that night, or if only we had returned 5
minutes earlier or later, then that 21-year-old father
would not have died in the car accident we were in.”;
“If only I had not volunteered to umpire that one more
softball game in the Fathers Day Tournament, then maybe
I wouldn’t have had the stroke.”

Good Lord, those last two were 35 and 10 years ago!

My Ego is built on identification with past glories and
accomplishments – but also on identification with the
PAIN of GUILT and REGRET.

It is also identified with WORRY, WAITING, and FEAR
about the future.

None of this past or future stuff is ultimately REAL –
they are all phantom projections of my Egoic mind
trapped in time. (Not Clock Time, mind You. We need
that so we can all be together for the Mental Cleanse
Call and stuff. I’m talking about Psychological Time.)

AH! FAITH is the opposite of FEAR. There’s a clue!

But that still doesn’t tell us what Faith IS.

I cannot affect what happened a moment or more ago, so
why feel its PAIN?

I cannot deal with the future right now, so why feel
its FEAR?

The only thing ultimately REAL is the PRESENT MOMENT.

Should I be injured right now, the Pain alerts me
something’s wrong. Should I be physically threatened
right now, the Fear gives me energy to cope with it.

Pain and Fear are only useful in THE NOW… AH! Another
clue!

So, the horizontal dimension of psycho-time is
infinitely FLAT.

But, the Vertical Dimension of THE NOW is infinitely
DEEP!

REALITY and TRUTH Discovery can only exist in THE NOW.

Digging deep for the Truth: My good friend and personal
mentor likes the word picture of the onion – peeling
away the layers.

We all inherited our own Onion – and FAITH is inside
it. We must peel away the layers of DOUBT and the
psycho-time junk (the layers of Egoic Mind Chatter) to
get to it.

I discovered there are infinite layers of the Onion.
It’s like there’s some kind of reverse black hole at
its core. Beyond inherent FAITH there’s more, More,
MORE.

Story time…

Almost 2000 years ago a guy from Nazareth decided to
retire his carpentry business and launch a 3-year
spiritual ministry. Before he sponsored his 12
front-line associates, what did he do?

What did he do?

He went into the wilderness and did a 40-DAY MENTAL
CLEANSE!!!

There was no radio or TV back then, so how much chatter
did he have to stop? I mean 40 FLIPPIN’ DAYS!

I believe he successfully resisted the temptation of
the Ego and went deep, Deep, DEEP into the infinite
vertical dimension of THE NOW – perhaps deeper than any
human soul has ever gone.

During His ministry, it’s reported the retired
carpenter sometimes touched a blind dude, and then the
dude saw – or some lame guy reached out and touched
Him, and then got up and walked.

On these occasions the retired carpenter always said
something like, “By Your FAITH are You healed,” or,
“Your FAITH has made You whole.” Stuff like that. He
never said. “MY Faith,” or, “MY Power,” or anything
like that.

He talked about His Dad a lot, His Father – OUR Father,
the SOURCE.

He taught us FAITH the size of a mustard seed will move
mountains.

Before him, another dude named Gautama Siddhartha went
really deep too. But that’s another story…

I believe folks have been and always will continue to
be moving mountains. Think about it some time.

So, what is FAITH?

OK, now the lesson learned:

Faith is simply KNOWING – right HERE, right NOW. That’s
it. It isn’t complicated.

I KNOW I’m OK at this moment.

I KNOW I’ve learned from past mistakes – and they are
mistakes no more, they are lessons learned.

I KNOW I will cope with future moments coming my way –
I have no problems, just life situations.

Yes, I’m on a journey. I KNOW where I’m going because I
KNOW where I AM RIGHT NOW.

The journey has millions of steps, but… Never mind,
that’s another lesson.

YOU might say I’m a retired Musician/Customer Service
Specialist from Spring Hill, and a front-line associate
of a retired Carpenter from Brooksville who is
conducting a spiritual “ministry” RIGHT HERE, RIGHT
NOW.

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm

P.S. If You are attempting to read more into what I
wrote than what is there, STOP IT! Just STOP IT!

We are not spreading a religion here. Remember,
Religion is what happens when Egos get their hands into
scriptures – dogmatic brainwashing.

We ARE talking about Spiritual Stuff here. HILL is
teaching us Spiritual Stuff – just in case You hadn’t
noticed.

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!

 

Faith – Visualization of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire

Inspired by Chapter 3 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

FAITH, a State of Mind, is simply KNOWING. No
doubt…just Knowing. It exists by living in THE NOW.
Doubt lives in the future and past. What is NOW, I
KNOW. How can I not?

A wild apple tree seedling has FAITH in its water
supply. At its low level of consciousness, it does not
contemplate the possibility of no water in the future.
Water just IS.

FAITH is the result of CHOICE – a DECISION.

A farmer who has a PASSION for apples will plant and
nurture an entire orchard. These are not wild apple
trees – but trained creatures, cultivated with LOVE.
They are spaced so as not to harm each other, and
pruned to maximize their PRODUCTION.

For the apple grower, water is matter of FAITH. When
the CHOICE is made to produce apples commercially,
water is not an option.

Should rain from the sky be inadequate for the
orchard’s needs, the grower will devise a way to bring
the planet’s most abundant resource to the orchard.

There is no doubt, no puzzle. The water issue was
DECIDED when the grower made the CHOICE to create the
orchard.

How do I develop FAITH without a trace of doubt?

I begin by eliminating its opposite – the mind-set of
FEAR. Fear is the emotional energy I hold inside when
my thoughts dwell on the past or the future – the realm
of the UNKNOWN.

What I do not KNOW, I Fear.

FAITH is what IS…NOW!

I was conditioned all my life to question the past and
fret about the future. Changing my mind-set completely
to THE NOW does not happen in an instant. It is a
process.

What is the process, the formula for changing my
mind-set?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. Chapter 4 provides the answer. See You there!

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

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TRUTH CANNOT BE TAUGHT,
IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT,
TRUTH MUST BE DISCOVERED!

That is why, at Mentoring For Free, We Teach You HOW to
Think, Not WHAT to Think.

FREEDOM MEANS SEIZING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR MIND!