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 – Part 2

The Awesome POWER of SUGGESTION.

Watch this – this is fun…

Try really hard the rest of today to NOT think about a
red-faced koala bear who is having a bad hair day!

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

The Awesome POWER of SUGGESTION.

Watch this – this is fun…

Try really hard the rest of today to NOT think about a
red-faced koala bear who is having a bad hair day!

Having fun yet? Your poor SUBCONSCIOUS MIND cannot
resist my harmless little Suggestion.

Go ahead… try REALLY HARD to STOP thinking about that
little koala with the bad hair and the red face.

OK, how many of us parents have said a stupid thing to
our children like, “Whatever You do, don’t touch that
vase!”

Or worse: “If You touch it, You will break it!”

Then we dumb-ass parents wonder why the child broke the
vase!

WHO planted the SUGGESTION in their little Subconscious
Minds? Left alone, the child may have never even
noticed the vase.

How many times have we said to someone, “Don’t hesitate
to call me.” – then wonder why they never call?

Their Subconscious Minds hear and act on, “Don’t call
me” and “Hesitate to call me.”

Meanwhile, how are we doing with the koala?

This is EXACTLY why You should avoid watching
television and listening to radio while You are seizing
OWNERSHIP of Your MIND.

Advertisers and programmers use fantastical images and
SUBLIMINATION (koala, anyone?) to plant SUGGESTIONS
into Your Subconscious.

Much of what we THINK is news, education, and
entertainment is actually masterfully crafted
SUGGESTION.

How else would masses of people embrace SUPERSTITIOUS
myths such as Global Warming?

Why in the world would talented folks spend their
precious time and resources instilling a myth?

A CRITICAL THINKER would ask, “Who stands to gain
billions of dollars from the public’s reaction to the
hoax?”

I have worked long and hard to flood my Subconscious
Mind with my own SELF-SUGGESTION through my SELF-TALK
and association with my MASTERMIND Group. And I am
enjoying benefits of that work.

Yet I must still guard against the attempted Suggestion
of others, especially of those who mean well for me.

The night before last week’s Mental Cleanse calls, I
had an amusing conversation with my baby cousin. (Well,
I was in high school when she was born.)

She is a licensed pharmacist who likes cuddly little
things like koala bears. Part of the conversation went
like this:

COUSIN: “What kind of health insurance do You have?”

ME: “Self insurance.”

COUSIN: “How often do You see Your Doctor?”

ME: “I check on him every four months, whether he needs
it or not. He cares for people very dear to me.”

COUSIN: “How do You pay for the visits?”

ME: “Cash.”

COUSIN: “You mean You don’t have ANY insurance?”

ME: “Life and Auto.”

COUSIN: “No HEALTH insurance?”

ME: “I’m not planning to get sick. When was the last
time You heard me complain about anything?”

COUSIN: “I can’t remember. But what if You…, or what
if You get…., or what if…?”

ME: “Stop that! If You only knew how much effort it
took me to get my head out of the ‘what if’s’ of the
future and the ‘if only’s’ of the past, and learn to
live in the ‘what IS’ of the present…”

COUSIN: “Alright. Suppose…”

ME: “Suppose nothing! That’s another way of saying
‘what if’.”

My cousin is beside herself because her 40th birthday
is next week (poor baby), and she is concerned she has
done nothing meaningful in her life thus far.

Yeah, I told her about the two best times to plant a
tree: Best – 20 years ago, second best – NOW.

She needs a Mental Cleanse:

Cut-off all external sources of chatter for 30 days and
spend quality time with Your OWN MIND, get to know WHO
YOU ARE, and discover Your LIFE’S PRIMARY INNER
PURPOSE.

Drink at least 1/2 ounce of water for every pound of
Your weight everyday to help Your brain cleanse and
build new thought patterns.

DESIGN and INSTILL Your own DESIRED thought patterns by
using AUTO-SUGGESTION (SELF-TALK) hundreds of times per
day as if Your life depended on it – it DOES!

You must shut-off ALL external sources of SUGGESTION
for 30 days. It takes 25-30 days to break an addiction,
or to replace one habit with another.

Watch television ONCE during the period, and You must
rest Your timer back to zero – and begin again!

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm- Florida, USA

P.S. To stop thinking about the koala bear, flood Your
mind with Your SELF-TALK.

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!

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

 ============================

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!

Desire – The Starting Point Of All Achievement

Inspired by Chapter 2 of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

What force enables the apple seedling to ATTRACT the
RESOURCES it needs to become a mature apple tree?

It has a “PASSION” to produce apples: That is its
DEFINITE, singular PURPOSE.

Not pears, oranges, bananas, or anything else – APPLES!
This is built into its DNA, along with the plans on how
to do it.

Is the tree’s purpose to make money?

NO! …APPLES!

People may purchase some of its apples throughout the
years, and money will be made as a result,

But the tree is laser-focused on making apples. Apples
are its WHY!

People may BENEFIT from consuming the apples, and for
that they will pay. The money is a way of measuring the
tree’s PRODUCTION and the BENEFITS it has provided
others.

I was once confused about something:

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill talks about money
consciousness, the burning desire to attract money, and
the FORMULA for manifesting it.

But, in Success in 10 Steps, Michael Dlouhy talks about
a WHY that will make You cry, and it has NOTHING to do
with making money!

Huh?

Well, OK – gold cannot give You a hug. Gold cannot look
at You with tears in its eyes and thank You for
impacting its life.

I get it!

I’ll stop mincing words now. I am both a spiritual
being and an organism.

I, the spirit, have an INNER PURPOSE, a DRIVING FORCE,
a WHY. This is what really motivates me to do all I do.
I SERVE – Gold cannot.

I, the organism, have gifts I can employ to BENEFIT
others who will compensate me. This is my OUTER
PURPOSE.

When my Outer Purpose is in HARMONY with my Inner
Purpose, then my Outer Purpose is infused with PASSION.

A chef without PASSION for food, and pleasing others
with it, will never create great restaurants.

I must take inventory:

1. What is my SINGULAR PURPOSE, the one that DEFINES my
BEING? (No tears, no PASSION!)

2. What gifts was I given in this life?

3. How can I best use those gifts for the BENEFIT of
others?

4. What is my specific plan of action to utilize those
gifts?

5. What specific goals do I have to measure my
PRODUCTION and keep me ENTHUSIASTIC?

Your Friend and Servant,

Ken Klemm – Florida, USA

P.S. If my gifts have benefitted You today, please tell
me. Your words are my compensation.

Originally published at 30DayMentalCleanse.info

Ken Klemm

 ============================

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!