"Possibilities!"
DOUG BENCH'S
NEUROSCIENCE SELF-MOTIVATION  NEWS

Volume:03/Issue:01

Change Your Thoughts=Change your Brain=Change Your Life

AUTOMATICALLY!

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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In This SPECIAL Issue:

[Note to our readers:   A few weeks ago, as an experiment, we sent out an email to about 6,000 of our subscribers that appeared to possibly have a negative tone to it.  That is, the words were carefully chosen to make it appear neither positive nor negative, but rather it would be construed, BASED ON YOUR ATTITUDES, as either a positive or negative.  Here below is an explanation of what happened.  It's amazing!]

      1. Your amazing unbelievable response to our Experimental Research Email of three weeks ago.  Do NOT miss this!  See our shocking explanation and many of the written "no holds barred" replies below.

      2.  VITAL EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: Without Question, The Beginning of a NEW ERA in Brain-Science Research and Human Achievement! (see the remarkable Revolutionary truth below!)

      3.  In Celebration of the NEW ERA, Science for Success Systems has: 

• Given our website a Brand NEW LOOK! 
• Created Dozens of  new Systems and Tools to utilize the fantastic new brain research-based phenomenal findings.(see below)
• Created NEW Never Before utilized Breakthrough Methods and Techniques to take you and anyone who can dream to never before imagined heights of Achievement and Unsurpassed Permanent Self-Motivation Success![MASTERY OF ADVANCED ACHIEVEMENT HOME STUDY SYSTEM]
• Created Inexpensive, convenient "Click-n-Listen-Click-n-Learn"™ Instant Audio Seminars. (see below)

       4.  Due to this SPECIAL NEWSLETTER EDITION, All of our other regular features  Self-Motivation News; Book Reviews; Timetable for Success; Monthly Specials will continue in our next issue of the Newsletter  

 Hi Everyone!  

a. Welcome to the latest issue of "Possibilities!" 

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b. PASS IT ON. If you find this Newsletter information beneficial please forward it on to a friend or loved one, or subscribe them as a gift of love. You can Subscribe them by going to our website, clicking on the "subscribe" button on the homepage, and entering their email address.  Be sure to follow up with a gift notice email to them so they know about our Newsletter when it arrives. THEY WILL THANK YOU FOR IT!  Send me a copy of your referral email and you will be eligible for a free Educational System Gift!

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1.  Experimental Research email

3 WEEKS AGO, WE SENT OUT an email   In that carefully worded email we tried very hard to disguise our tone, demeanor, and intent.

Our overall goal was twofold.  First to let you know how vitally important and astoundingly exciting we think the Neuroscience announcement below was going to be for all of us; and therefore to make sure that you opened this Newsletter email when it arrived and then clicked over here to read it.  I think you will agree with its significance and importance when you read on!

Second, we intentionally hid our enthusiasm and excitement, so that YOU and your Conscious and Nonconscious neuron patterns would have to decide and give meaning to our words, statements and intentions.

Remember,  only you, and no one else controls whether your neuron firings go down the more evolutionary-created negative pathways and patterns to give meaning to what you hear, see, smell, touch, or THINK!  Or whether you have developed through habituation and Science for Success Techniques No 2, Stomp the ANTS; No 4, Innerstates; and No 7, Trust the Darkness, the ability to ALWAYS go down the positive pathways to give meaning to what your senses and thoughts must evaluate.

How did you do?  Did you allow yourself to respond positively and with excitement to our email?  Or do you need more work on the 12 Science for Success Techniques by allowing yourself to feel hurt, resentment, or some other negative response.  Remember, I cannot control or create your feelings!  Only YOU can do that.  Therefore we must ALL take full responsibility for the way we feel, act, and think. Then Great Achievements will follow!

But don't beat yourself up if you think you "failed" this test.  Remember, the human brain for a million years was required to emphasize the negative to survive.  The good news is that you and I can change this.  We can change the way we think, change the way we feel, change what we believe, and therefore change how we act.  What a wonderful, exciting and now totally proven fact of science! (see below)

I surely expected and elicited your responses to the email.  However, I was totally overwhelmed by the shear numbers of emails I received.  Here are the statistics and many of your responses (names removed).  I got so many emails that I  realized  even though I stayed up two nights straight, I would have to choose not to answer all of them personally.  Many of you did get a personal response from me.  I can assure you however that I read every one of them.  All 3,680 so far!

Here are the results:           Total replies: 3,680

                                        37 subscribers unsubscribed without comment

                                         3  subscribers, I removed from  our list myself (nasty reply)

                                       24  emails contained a virus

                                       49 contained negative comments (from mild to wildly)

                                         2 threatened me bodily harm if I removed them

                                   3,140  were recognized as very positive

Here are just a few of your replies:

***Yes I have been reading each and every one of your emails. The information is extremely
valuable to me as I am currently studying for a degree in Social Science ,majoring in counseling.
As time and money allows I will be investing in your products not only for my own personal
development and I am sure the insights I will gain will be invaluable in helping clients.

*** Keep up the good work,I am sure your information and programs are helping thousands of
people live happy and productive lives. Maybe one day in the future I will be able to make it to
America and attend one of your seminars.

***i dont like your tone!!
i found this email very rude and unnessasary!!
the language inappropriate and if you value my interest then i would appreciate an apology for
this and some sort of guarantee of better communication in the future.

***I'M EXCITED!!!! The Pastor of my church has also been interested in your information and is
sharing the knowledge with the whole congregation! Thanks. Show me more!

***Since you recently printed one of my responses in your newsletter I wonder why you chose to send this email to me.I don't like to be threatened. Remove me if you wish.

***I read every newsletter from top to bottom and i enjoy reading about the
cutting edge research. Can't wait for the new stuff!

***I think this e-mail was sent in error because I am a regular reader of your articles, so keep up the great work! Many Thanks

***I read yours and was concerned. I open and read your Newsletter as regular as I can. I live in Nigeria and this precludes me from your Seminars.

***Sorry for not saying earlier how grateful I am for this wonderful opportunity you are offering me with your fantastic and fascinating neuroscience news and discoveries (which I am not only
reading but literally absorbing). But the most of all, dear Doug, thank you for giving me your 7
Mini-Science Lessons for Maxi-Success with training techniques. I find them the most useful for me and I started applying them immediately I received them.
For some time now I am in a pretty poor condition, without a job (and company where I used to
work still owes me money), but I am trying my best not to drown and you are helping me in this a lot.  Please keep on motivating me and being my light at the end of the tunnel!!!

***Once again I thank you very much and I think there are thousands of people worldwide who
share my opinion!

***Woot woot! ...sooo excited .well im 17 so cant really afford stuff at the moment. Although im
thinking about getting your biblogoraphy. What your doing is great so dont take me off the list.

***Good luck with your research and keep sharing it, by all means!

***Why have you sent me this???!!! I am a customer of yours, I have the CD set! So, yes I DO read the newsletters and emails and benefit from your material...

***I understand your need to clean up your subscriber list
now and then. So no hard feelings, just VERY surprised
to receive your message. Keep up the good work and thanks for your generosity
in making your newsletter more AND better.

***I DO NOT THINK the emails you send me are 'CRAP'.
It is your choice whether or not you decide to remove me from your list.
I feel some presurre in your words to perhaps purchase your products, is this the case?
Let me know.

***Sounds exciting! I am looking forward to the next news letter. I can hardly wait.

***Don't freak! I am definitely a reader! Please keep them coming!
(a coach) I am holding my breath, till Friday's release......
Okay I will take short breathes. Thanks for all your contributions!

***Everything that you are talking about are the reason that I signed up for the newsletter. I've
never really been motivated, even after I got out of the Navy. Now that I've been married for
two and half years to the most wonderful woman, and having a baby boy in November, my goals have become a big thing. Now after reading the material you've sent me, and waiting for more, I am getting the skills I need to bring them into reality and be a better person. Thank you.

***Hey Doug Bench,
Please keep me on your newsletter mailing list. I never delete them
without reading. I believe that the mind is most powerful and that most
people waste their brain capabilities to the demands of everyday life.
And, that the everyday life is a creation of their own mind. Same with me
of course. I keep thinking (and thinking and thinking) that maybe
something I read in your newsletter will help me to choose appropriate
goals, and then use the power of focus to overcome mundane distractions to
accomplish them.

***Take me off your list NOW, you damn idiot and go ----- yourself!

***Thank you very much for reminding me of the importance of your
Newsletter. I am a Lecturer of Cell Biology and Genetics at the
University of my country and so being a scientist and a researcher, I
know the difference between useful information as yours and misleading
information. Even though I did not have time to read your emails lately,
I always open them and save them in a word file for future use. I will
set time to read them on a regular basis and learn more about myself.

By the way, could I please have the Deaton's ultimate Secret of Science
on page 169 of his book Mind Management, you talked about? Thank you in
advance. I am very excited about the next very important email of tomorrow you
talked about. Thank you for the wonderful job!!!

***Doug,
The work you are doing is fantastic.
I have read all the newsletters, signed up for the
mini-course, made notes from the newsletters on the
format and time schedule for the 100 Days to Success
(I couldn't wait to get the information from the
mini-course. I have to get started now.),after just
reading for a couple days the material I was
discussing the concepts with a science Phd. yesterday.
I am very excited about what you are doing.
If you take me off the e-mail list, I will
personally hunt you down beg you to put me back on.
Thank you again for what you are doing.

***Doug, Show me what you've got!!!!

HERE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF MY RESPONSE LETTERS BACK!

*****Great to hear from you!

We won't remove you from the list!
In fact, we will let you in on a secret. We sent this
email to everyone on the list, to see what kind of
response we would get. And to show those different
responses as how differently we all perceive the same
information at the conscious level!  That's why it's so                                                    important to change from the inside out, starting at the  nonconscious level!                                                           

Wow! we have gotten over 3000 replies. Some very good!
Some very bad-from misinterpreting what we said! But this
is exactly what we wanted to be able to show and talk about
in the upcoming newsletter! Watch for it on Friday-Saturday.

*****You passed the TEST! :-) We sent the email to see who would respond from their positive neuron pathways and Who would respond from their negative ANTS pathways! Watch the Newsletter for details. I had no doubts about you!! ;-)As Always, if we can help in any way, just holler. Knowledge is Light. Absorb all that you can!

*****Thank you very much for your email.
You have every right to be negative with all you are facing.
But you must always, in every event, stomp the ants(negative thoughts)
And turn them into positives. EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THEM YET!
This is vital. This is how you change your brain, by starting at
The nonconscious level! You can do it! Everyone can! You
Just have to trust neuroscience to change your brain, but you
Have to start with positive neuron thinking, EVEN if right
Now you think it's a lie!

Keep trying. Keep reading. IT WILL HAPPEN for you.
Science cannot fail. Nor can you!
As Always, if we can help in any way, just holler.

**** Thanks for your great email.
I appreciate it very much.
Sounds to me like you are are good solid footing
to be a success at whatever you do.
Keep on reading!
Enjoy the journey!
Congratulations on the great wife and son!
What a blessing to watch him grow and achieve in such
a positive environment!

*****Thanks for your great email!

Yes! The recent research findings and some techniques we have been
developing on our own have kept the fire hot and now even white-hot.

****Hi Todd,

Thanks for your great email note. I appreciate it very much.

Sounds like you have made things great for you and your family!
I also had three as teens, so I am sure you are either greatly
Excited or turning gray, or both!

Keep it up, and enjoy the journey!

I'll let you in on a little secret. The email that I sent,
Went out to our entire list, and the wording was very, very
Carefully chosen, so as to make it unclear just where I was
Coming from.

Our goal here has been to trigger a response from our subscribers,
So that all who respond can see whether they CREATE a negative perception
Of reality or a positive one! You by the way, pass with flying
Colors!! It is amazing however, how so many who really "feel"
That they are positive, allowed THEMSELVES to perceive our
Email as a negative!

It was not negative at all! Unless one allows their own mind
To go down the negative paths, without stomping the ANTS!

The real tone of the letter was to say, "Hey man fasten your seat belts, cause
We sure do have some fantastic learning and motivation science stuff
Coming for the next weeks and months! So make sure you open the emails"

Thanks for responding, and thanks and be proud that you responded positively!
It means that you are creating your world in a positive way, so the
Scoreboard can only read, "You Win" when the game is done!!


As Always, if we can help in any way, just holler.

Knowledge is Light. Absorb all that you can!

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Did this help you learn the importance of taking the positive neuronal pathways?  What do you think?  Send me your comments!  I personally think the results are fantastic!  Even the 49!  Trust Neuroscience for your greatest achievements and Success!

2.  Here it is!  The most important statement I have read yet in over 60,000 pages!

This is it!  Listen carefully.  If you have been with us for some time, you know that we have mostly taken what the neuroscientists have been discovering through MEDICAL research on the brain, and trying to translate, transpose and apply it to the Science for Self-Motivation, Achievement and Success.

Sometimes this has been a real struggle to make that transformation at all, let alone make sure we keep intact the integrity of the research methods and findings.

Now comes word in a just release book, that totally made me break down and cry when I read it!  This is such fantastic news!  I read it about 6 days ago, and I have been unable to sleep since because I am filled with so much excitement!  We have been furiously taking this and plugging it into our Systems and Tools that we are in the process of completely upgrading. [More about that in #3 below].

The Statements comes form one of the most respected Neurology-Neuroscientist Research M.D.'s in the World!  This validates it and makes it all that much more exciting.

I just last week purchased a brand new book, written by Dr. Richard Restak.  Dr. Restak is a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, a clinical research professor at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and is the author of over 15 books on the brain, including "The Secret Live of the Brain" for PBS, and Mozart's Brain and The Fighter Pilot" (which I positively reviewed last month in the Newsletter! 

His new book, just release a few months ago is entitled "The New Brain:  How the Modern Era is Rewiring Your Mind".  So many times we have picked up books that appear on the cover to have potential to convince and prove to people that they can be anything they desire by just changing what they think, only to be let down after reading the books filled with the same tired old clichés.

OOOOOOOHHHHHH my friends, not this one.  Not this book.  This is it!  If you have read or studied or applied any of our Science for Success Systems, this next set of quotes should just give you goose-bumps all over! 

Here it is, quoting directly from the book,

in Dr. Restak's own words:

. . .the old brain was remote and mysterious, deeply hidden within the skull and inaccessible except to specialists daring enough to pierce its three protective layers. ...therefore, brain experts knew little about the functioning of the NORMAL brain.

     The New Brain, in contrast, doesn't require dangerous intrusions but can now be depicted using sophisticated computer-driven imaging techniques with abbreviated names like CAT, PET, MRI, and MRA.  These techniques reveal exquistely subtle operational details and provide windows through which neuroscientists (brain scientists) can view different aspects of brain functioning without opening the skull or performing other risky procedures.

     Thanks to the new developments, brain science is now capable of providing us with insights into the human mind that only a few years ago would have been considered the stuff of science fiction.

   We can now study the brain in "real time" when we are thinking, taking a test, practicing a craft, experiencing an emotion, or making a decision.  Brain tests can even indicate when we're telling the truth.

Neuroscientists refer to  this new field as Cognitive Science.

In the era of the New Brain, the emphasis is shifting from diseases and dysfunctions to an understanding of the brains of the average man and woman.  An exciting consequence follows from this new emphasis on the NORMAL brain:

. . .Research can now provide us with useful guidelines about our everyday lives.  For instance, recent findings, [discussed in the book] indicate that by following certain brain-based guidelines ANYONE can achieve expert performance in sports, athletics, or academic pursuits.

   Such findings, of course, run counter to the traditional theory that sports achievers and geniuses are born not made, that our genes and other factors outside of our control impose limits on our individual capabilities.  Not so.

   Instead, it is now clear that by learning about and applying this new research, most of us can reasonably expect greatly enhanced personal levels of achievement.

Thanks to such advances and the promises of even greater ones in the near future, it seems fair to say that technology, rather than biology, will play the major role in the evolution of the human brain.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, a new Era has begun.  No longer can any of us hold self-limiting beliefs!  Learn the Scientific "How" and "Why"; apply the 'brain-based guidelines'; and anything, ANYTHING can be achieved.  Join us on that exciting journey.

This shift in neuroscience research towards emphasis on the NORMAL brain rather than medical research (which of course will continue too.) will bring forth new fantastic, revolutionary discoveries that make our mission much easier.  And if we all learn and apply them, (such as the newly revised 12 Science for Success Techniques) not even the sky is the limit!

Click the play button!    ((((make sure your computer's speakers are on))))

HEAR Doug Bench's comments on Dr. Restak's Exciting Statements

Call for Questions!

 In one or two of the next Newsletters we will be doing our annual "Question and Answer" issue.  Therefore, this is a call for questions from you to be included and answered in that issue.  Send us your "Science of Permanent Self-Motivation" Questions.  The harder the better.  If we include your question in the upcoming Newsletter, we will send you a free gift from our Systems and Tools!  Deadline for questions by email is September 30th, 2003.  So get them in to us ASAP!

Coming Book Reviews:

aaa.  The New Brain   Richard Restak, MD

a.  Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot.  Richard Restak, MD DONE

b.  The Mind and the Brain:  Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Schwartz and Begley (WSJ Science Editor)

c.  100 Simple Secrets of Happy People:  What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It.    Dr David Niven

d.  100 Simple Secrets of Successful People:  What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use it.     Dr. David Niven

e.  Think Like a Winner!     Dr. Walter Doyle Staples

f.  Success Is Not an Accident!: Change Your Choices, Change Your Life.     Tommy Newberry

g. The Power of Positive Habits  Dan Robey

h.  The Greatest Money-Making Secret of All Times.  Joe Vitale

i.   Time Tactics of Very Successful People. B. Eugene Griessman

j.  What Happy People Know: The New Science of Happiness. Dan Baker, PhD

k.  Bringing out the Best in People  Alan Loy McGinnis

l.  "BLINK"

These all will be added to our Annotated Bibliography as we finish them.  Including our notes on each book!

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