"Possibilities!"
DOUG BENCH'S
NEUROSCIENCE SELF-MOTIVATION NEWS
Volume:01 Issue:10
Trust Your Greatest Achievements to Neuroscience.
Teaching You the Science of Permanent Self-Motivation
Knowledge is Light! Absorb All That You Can!
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Providing YOU The SCIENCE of
PERMANENT Self-Motivation!
Trust your success to SCIENCE!
WELCOME ALL SUCCESS SCIENTISTS! Welcome, all new subscribers!
And welcome back to all others to our “Possibilities!” Science for Success, SELF-MOTIVATION SCIENCE RESEARCH NEWSLETTER.
We hope you find this FREE newsletter interesting and helpful,
especially in the areas of goal setting, achievement, workplace safety,
growing your business and GROWING YOU, making more money, and REACHING
YOUR HIGHEST LEVELS OF TRANSCENDENT SUCCESS.
SELF-MOTIVATION SCIENCE NEWS!
OK, here we go. This time we promised that we would take some of your
questions, and comments that have been e-mailed to us. We will try to
include some of these every 6 months or so in the Newsletter. Keep those
questions coming, because we will send an answer directly to you and get
your permission before we publish them in the Newsletter.
Question 1.
Doug, as I was reading your Newsletter Book Review, I was struck by
something you said about the book, The Hidden Powers of Your Subconscious
Mind, by Joseph Murphy. You said that the “Why” was missing from this
book. I’m the type of person that likes to know the “How and Why”, as long
as it isn’t too technical! But there are many people that just want to
know “How”. Is it important to know why, if you know how? Is there an
added benefit to knowing how and why? Does knowing both affect how your
brain processes the information? Rebecca F. Lake County, FL
Answer 1.
VERY GOOD QUESTIONS! And with your permission, I may publish your
question, with an answer next month!
Your brain will “process” information (the “what”) and form new Dendrite
Spiny Protuberances via repetition, association, and emotions even if you
have not already created neurode patterns for both the “how”
and the “why”, beforehand. Therefore, it is not always necessary, to know
both the ‘how’ and ‘why’ to learn and achieve. This is a statement heard
many times by computer-geek type people, who are trying to teach us
novices how to do things on a computer. “You don’t need to know the ‘how’
and ‘why’ the computer works, just that it does!”, is what they will say.
HOWEVER!!! Keep in mind that our goal is to make permanent self-motivated
changes.
Brain-Science Research has found the following:
1. Research subjects (students) who were given retention and understanding
tests after being given new material to learn, did an average 22% better
on tests, when they first learned (processed) information on the ‘how’ and
‘why’ of the material.
2. Further, research evidence showed that they retained and utilized this
material for time periods after the exam, UP TO THREE and one-half TIMES
AS LONG AS subjects that did not know both the ‘how’ and ‘why’; and UP TO
TEN TIMES AS LONG AS subjects that did not learn and include either the
‘how’ or ‘why’ but only the ‘what’!
3. When we learn something new, or create new goals and beliefs, and
involve our emotions (which would occur in the learning process for ‘how’
and ‘why’ but not the ‘what’ (see previous Newsletters), we definitely are
creating in our brain many more and much stronger synaptic connections and
neurode patterns!
4. Therefore our chances of maintaining our efforts toward our goals and
reaching them are greatly improved, by retaining these increased and
stronger connections in top condition for much longer periods of time!
Hopefully, nearly permanently with the proper techniques!
5. Finally, evidence has shown that high achievers, on average, put forth
an effort about 5-15% greater and longer than those that fail or
underachieve. THAT’S ALL! Only 5-15%! Therefore anything that gives you an
edge of even just 2% or more is great and more likely to make you reach
transcendent levels of success! LEARN MUCH MORE From our Educational
Systems and Tools.
Question 2.
Doug, I was in your Seminar last week in Jacksonville. It was very
interesting and informative. I must gain control of my weight. I know I
have willpower issues which means I have brain issues. I don’t understand
how I can be successful in so many areas of my professional and personal
life, yet a complete failure when it comes to controlling my weight.
Help?! What are your thoughts? Bob B. Jacksonville, FL
Answer 2.
Thank you for your kind comments about the Seminar in Jacksonville. I
greatly appreciate it!
First, it is not at all uncommon to create success pathways in the cortex
for certain functions, while having very few success neuron patterns in
your brain for others. It is not permanent however! You can create
scientifically, new neuron patterns that will help you lose weight!
You are NOT a failure! That is impossible! A human being cannot BE a
failure. But we certainly can get bad results at certain tasks. When you
break this down into scientific terms, it becomes very easy to see that
extraordinary things are possible, that you may have previously felt were
not achievable!
But rather than recreate our whole Seminar here, I want you to go to our
website: www.ScienceforSuccess.com and read EACH of the past Newsletters
that we have posted there (9 back issues in archives: After you have read those, get back to me, and let’s talk
further! I think you will see that it is not a matter of “lack of
willpower”, but something much more scientific, and much more easily
overcome, automatically, once you understand how the human brain works! Happy Reading!
Question 3.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed your seminar this weekend and we are
looking forward to implementing the concepts you are promoting.
There is one issue I am wondering about which I did not feel was appropriate to bring up in the seminar, and it pertains to goals and goal setting. I believe that we are a fairly successful couple and we thank God for our good fortune everyday. We have raised several kids, all drug free and successful in their own right. After 10 years on active duty and 16 more in the Reserves, I am enjoying the benefits of a retired Colonel.
I started our company 25 years ago on $1,000 and this year our annual volume will exceed $20,000,000. We live in a $600,000 home that is nearly paid for, we have a townhouse in the Florida Keys with no mortgage, and we pay cash for new cars and vacation several times a year. We have been blessed with everything anyone could possibly want.
We are active in our church and make substantial charitable contributions each year. I am not listing the above achievements to pat myself on the back, but to question one point. How was all this possible without consciously setting one goal? I was blessed with good Christian parents who struggled to bring up 6 kids, but it was never my goal to become a Military Colonel, a successful businessman, or a millionaire. I just wanted to be a good dad and provide for my family as best I could.
Is our success just fate, an undeserved blessing from God or just dumb luck? Or is it a result of ambitious goals without actually realizing it? I am anxious to hear your response. Name withheld. Vero Beach, FL
Answer 3
Thanks for the kind words about the Seminar!
I am very excited about your question! It is one that I myself have asked, since I have been blessed with a wonderful life! I do believe, however, that there is a scientific basis for response.
There is currently being conducted at The Ohio State University, research
by Dr. Tanya Chartrand (see bibliography), entitled ! “Mystery Moods and
Perplexing Performance: Consequences of Succeeding and Failing at a
Nonconscious Goal”
This research and its preliminary results would seem to indicate that our
nonconscious neurons and neurodes, can create for us, nonconscious goals
that we are not even aware of at the conscious level!
Also, research has shown, we can develop many positive, helpful,
achievement, success, and persistence oriented neurode patterns, as we are
growing up. Especially if we come from a very “enriched” childhood home
environment! I think you (and I) have been blessed in this regard!
There is no such thing as blind luck! I think you have the right to be
proud of your achievements! And it sounds as if your children made a good
start, based on the achieving neurode patterns that you helped them lay
down during their childhood! (Rather than the average 160,000 negative
“You Can’t” statements made to children. )
Also, I am sure that one of the neurode “qualities” that your parents
created and enstilled in you, is the philosophy that to get what you want
and deserve, it can come to you by helping others get what they want! This
may have been “installed” at the nonconscious level, but surely you have
it!!
But I must also candidly say, I have absolutely no doubts that with all
that I have achieved, I could have achieved much more (and plan to!), had
I set written goals and followed the scientific techniques for success
that we now know to work!! Boy is that exciting and gonna be fun!!!
Absolutely keep me posted on your progress towards your new goals! And as
you well know, they don’t have to be money related!!
I just read an article in the Daytona Beach Newspaper about a young black girl who had grown up in the projects, and was now about to graduate from medical school at the University of Florida. A great success story. Yet her mother, who had been a drug addict for more than 20 years, had said, “As she was studying calculus, in the next room I was getting high on crack cocaine.”
I couldn’t figure out how this girl had overcome and become a success. But
then there it was. The answer in the last paragraph of the article.
This girl’s grandmother, who lived with them in the projects was a diabetic, and since mom was too stoned all the time to help, this young girl, from the age of six, had to administer the insulin shots to her grandmother. Can you imagine the emotions involved with that! For a young girl who would normally fear shots, having to be depended upon to give them! What wonderful strong neuron patterns were being developed in her nonconscious memory storage system about being a helper and healer.
She had goals being
set for her that she wouldn’t even be aware of for years to come. Even
from the most difficult of backgrounds and experiences, goals can be set
for and by us that can lead to success!
I hope this has helped. Stay in touch! Doug
Comments 1.
I will do my best to keep this post as short as possible. I want to share
with you the impact of your presentation of Possibilities, The Science of
Permanent Self-Motivation on upon myself.
Background: I am 67 years old Class of '57 English Major Graduate of
Syracuse University
Weight at time of seminar was 338 lbs
Semi-retired and not concerned about business success
My reason for going to Orlando had nothing to do with business self
motivation. I intended from the time I heard your short presentation with
the CEU class that you had what I need. I have now started on a many
faceted Behavioral Modification, this at 67 years old and grossly
overweight.
The first of July following your June seminar, my wife of 46 years and I
started on a 3 week 4000 mile driving vacation. During the trip I
discussed your presentation and together we reviewed my "ANTS"(Automatic
Negative Thoughts).
While I did not go through the counting process and
reporting back to you, I was amazed at how many I have to "stomp out". The
main goal has been weight control. I have lost 35 pounds in the four weeks
since your Seminar. This is a personal quest I am on.
Goal One: "I am losing 100 lbs. in 12 months, 2 lbs a week, 8 lbs a
month" (forgive the math, my subconscious doesn't do arithmetic)
Further goals not yet articulated but in preliminary
stage:
Goal Two: "I am watching no more than 2 hours of TV a day"
Goal Three:” I am reading 4 nonfiction books a month."
I have to date read Inside The Brain; 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself;
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; and The Magic Lamp. Each of these
with my notes of importance to me, written on the seperation sheets of
your manual. I put down Ayn Rands, Selfishness at the half way point. I
presently am starting TheOwner's Manual For The Brain. I have read nothing
but trade related journals in over 20 years! Until now!
Goal Four: I will exercise in some manner 4 hours each week.
Here is the point of this tirade; I will keep you posted of my further
progress as time goes on, monthly or later. None of my E-Mails require a
response at any time, however; at any time in the future if my success
warrants it I hold myself at your disposal for a reference. Keep up the
presentations! Know that I can, because of you.
Respectfully, Darwin Richards
ANSWER
Thank you Darwin! It is YOU that can!
Entrust your Success to Science!
[Doug's Note: Since this email from Darwin, he has reached his goal! He has lost over 120 lbs in the last 12 months and still going strong!]
"POSSIBILITIES!- IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN, YOU PROBABLY WON'T"
Doug Bench
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