If you want to get into the FLOW and stay there….then you’ll love the new Your Tube video I put up for you.
Follow the advice in this video and you’ll be amazed at how your vibration changes – and how quickly.
My Secret Goal Setting Code
Was at a coffee bar this morning – reviewing my goals, hammering out “copy” and poetry – while many college students sitting nearby have zero idea what I’m writing because I’m using what is now, in many ways, a secret code.
It’s called Cursive Handwriting.
I write all my goals, poems and somewhat deep thoughts, in cursive – first.
I write much of my copy the same way – first.
Then, when I need speed, I type.
I write cursive for many reasons. Here’s a partial list:
1. It uses the brain at a deeper level – causing neurogenesis and enhanced memory function
2. It improves fine motor skills that come into play when performing a gross motor skill, as in sports or martial arts, with a light touch
3. It releases neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, making you feel good
4. It puts you into a calm, relaxed, flowing mood – without even trying
5. It increases production of IGF1 – insulin-like growth factor – the hormone involved in keeping you YOUNG
6. It makes you feel superior to other earthlings who can barely print their name, much less write it in cursive
7. If you ever want to read the original writings of our forefathers and/or your forebears, you have the ability to do so.
8. It increases clarity of thought, organizational capability and precision.
I know many people who type out their goals. This is a big mistake.
Writing them out is much better – and writing them in cursive is FAR BETTER due to the increased brain wave activity.
This is why, whether you’re currently studying Psycho-Cybernetics or Zero Resistance Living – you want to fill in the blanks in cursive.https://youtu.be/7ocOIKI1fic
Doing so will engage more of your brain – both sides – and help catapult you to where you want to go.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
P.S. If you want to view the actual writing of today’s Psycho-Cybernetics poem – you can view it on Instagram @mattfureysays – or on the Matt Furey Theatre of the Mind Facebook Group I created.
P.P.S. You can also view my cursive writing in the YouTube videos I’ve been putting up. Subscribe to my channel.
Ultimate Secret for Shifting Your Mind
It’s so easy.
Too easy, in fact.
That’s probably why so many people are shocked and stunned how quickly it works.
You find yourself falling into a negative state of mind. Thoughts of fear, worry and self-doubt are visiting and you don’t what to do.
What’s the secret?
The moment you notice yourself slipping into negativity, catch yourself – then change your focus to something brighter, lighter and much more positive.
For example, as you’re driving to work you have a fearful thought of getting into an accident. Or that someone else will.
As soon as this thought hits, stop yourself, take a deep breath, let it out, and begin picturing being at home with your loved ones. See your car parked and in good condition. Picture yourself giving your loved ones a hug.
What will this do for you?
It will eliminate the negative emotions that are attempting to rule over you. Yet, with this technique, YOU are the captain of your vessel, whether it’s a car, a ship or a bicycle.
This technique is explained in Psycho-Cybernetics, yet most people miss it.
And it’s not the only technique in the book that people miss during the first reading. I’ve been reading the book since 1987, and I’m still learning from it. And that’s after reading it, highlighting it, writing in the margins, dog-earing pages and taking copious notes on cards and journals.
You’ll find a ton of those notes in the Theatre of the Mind audio program as well as Zero Resistance Living System – advanced courses for sure.
Use this technique today and let me know how you get along with it.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
The Positive Thinking Thought Police
“There you are, wrapped up in your own little moronic world,” a coach hollered at one of his players.
Parents sitting in the stands shivered. “Oh my gawd, did he just say what I think he said?”
“He did,” replied another parent.
“That’s horrible. How can you be so insensitive?” another questioned.
Meanwhile, there are a couple former professional athletes sitting in the same stands, laughing to themselves. To them, what the coach said is no big deal. When they were playing ball, they heard far worse, and not just once in a blue moon, either.
These athletes not only got reamed by their coaches, but once they turned pro, they heard it from the fans, from the local media, from the national as well as world media.
They heard thousands yelling, “You suck.”
And they learned to live with it and succeed in spite of the critics and the criticism.
These professional athletes learned the fine art of acquiring thick skin and not giving a damn about what the naysayers think.
Insult them beyond belief and they look at you, smile through busted teeth and say, “Is that it? That all you got? You better come up with something else if you want me to feel insulted.”
Raising an athlete who has never felt the sting of criticism is almost a goal for many people today. But is it a good idea? Does policing all criticism out of your life make you a better person? Does it make you tougher, more resilient?
What do you think?
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
P.S. If you’ll recall the story I told in Theatre of the Mind, one of my biggest breakthroughs in college happened after Coach Dan Gable told me that I “didn’t try very hard in practice.” I need to go listen to that one again. It still fires me up every time I hear it.
If You’re Getting the Opposite of What You Want…
Ever set a goal or form an intention and end up getting the opposite of what you want?
An athlete who is playing a sport of accuracy, such as golf, tennis, bowling and baseball, often finds out that whatever he or she intends may actually end up being the worst thing to focus on because it rarely, if ever, happens.
Try to sink a putt and you’ll miss. Try to hit a homerun and you’ll hit a ground ball. Try to serve an ace and you’ll fault.
Strange but true.
And it’s not just the word “try” that is the problem with these intentions.
It’s the reality that many goals are similar to the perceived “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow. You chase after them only to end up with nothing but feelings of emptiness.
The same is true of money. When you chase after money, it runs faster.
This is why people who understand the secrets of accumulating money never use the word “chase”or “push” in their description of the process.
Neither do they advocate doing nothing but “thinking.”
How you think is part of the equation. It’s the first and most important part.
Another part, though, is WHAT you’re thinking about – and chances are excellent that if you focus on a homerun when it comes to money, you’ll flop and fail.
Great athletes learn to focus on a process. In fact, for the most part, the process, the daily goal, the small action steps, the change in habits… these become the major goals and the desired outcome is minimized.
Yes, you still have a desire to have more, do more and be more – it’s just that you understand your mental images and the habits you implement from those images are what is going to move you forward. This means you’re far better off focusing on your habits. Period.
A high school baseball player I worked with had a goal to bat .400. He finished the season at .203.
The following year he set the same goal of .400. He batted .224.
The next year, he listened to my advice and set no goal whatsoever in terms of batting average. Instead he worked on the self-image techniques I taught him on how to focus on the process.
He batted .506 that year,
Hmmmmmmmm.
You read it here first, my friend.
Make the process the major goal – and you can work miracles.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
P.S. One of the best ways to get yourself HOOKED on the process of creating the SELF you really want to be, is my Theatre of the Mind audio program. Play it each day as you commute to and from work, play, grocery shopping, whatever, and you’ll find yourself doing better and better and better. Truism. Get the program NOW and see for yourself.
Mental Flexibility
A few question to consider this morning:
How flexible is your mind?
Not an easy question, so let me elaborate with “easier” ones:
How many different views do you have of yourself?
Can you see yourself from different angles and directions?
Can you picture yourself in different sizes or dimensions?
How many ways can you see your life and circumstances?
If the answer is only one – you have a lot of room to grow.
Why? Because mental flexibility is the key to being able to change your self-image and your life.
You cannot change your self-image or your SELF if you are unwilling to see yourself in a different way(s).
Can you picture yourself being 10 feet tall … or only at your REAL height?
Can you mentally pretend you are the size of a young child?
You might think these are interesting questions, but only because no one has ever asked you them before – including yourself.
I can tell you that these questions are KEY to changing who you are, and the essence of them is covered in even more detail in the first lesson of Zero Resistance Living, the ultimate program for turning your life right-side up.
Go check out the details on this program NOW. You’ll be thrilled you did.
Why?
Because the Power of Imagination is bigger than you think.
Play with it and you’ll understand why – especially when you see what the positive future holds for you.
Loser Pitcher Wins World Series Ring
To the fans and media in Boston, their pitcher was a bust.
He couldn’t win in the postseason and he couldn’t beat the Yankees.
On top of that, adding insult to infamy, this pitcher was getting $30 million a year.
And logic has it, if you’re getting $30 million per year, you are a loser if you don’t beat the Yankees, or win when it counts, in the playoffs.
In a playoff game a couple weeks ago, this loser pitcher didn’t even last two innings against the Yankees.
The ruthless fans showed their love, sung to the sound of “Booooo”as he walked off the field.
This morning, these same fans are in love. Their loser pitcher is now a hero.
He went from 0-9 in the postseason, to winning three games without a loss. Most importantly, he was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of the World Series.
He deserved the MVP for his efforts, but those things matter not when everyone knows you’re “the Man.”
David Price, rose from the fire of the abyss and transformed himself and his team into world champions – and did so within a few short weeks.
The talent and skill to win in the playoffs was there all along – but something was activated inside of Mr. Price after the pounding he received from the Yankees, and the Boston fans.
Coaches and players and the player himself can talk about a change in mechanics or some other physical detail all they want – but no change on the outside ever happens without one taking place on the inside.
As an observer, you can look into the eyes of a pitcher, quarterback or leader in any field, and you can tell who the warrior is and who’s the Nervous Nelly.
Becoming who Price was over the past couple weeks, comes from mixing your intention with your imagination. Not one or the other.
Both.
It also comes from being willing to move through the pain, to accept it as part of the process. Growth without pain (or pangs) rarely exists, regardless of what level of success you’ve already attained.
Price wasn’t just a pitcher in the Major Leagues. He was also a former Cy Young winner.
He was far from being a loser – but was considered one because he didn’t win when the fans thought it mattered most.
Now he’s proven to himself and the fans, at least for now, that he’s a winner – and a deserving one at that.
David Price’s monumental turnaround, proves to all of us, once again, that failure is never final and that when we are stuck in the deepest canyon, we are simultaneously in perfect position to scale the world’s tallest mountain.
See it. Feel it. Be it.
Matt Furey
When Nothing Changes – Remember This
“The more things appear to be the same, the more they may be changing – and usually for the better.
The more things appear to be getting worse, the more they may actually be improving – for the better.
The more you see on the outside, the more you need to peak beneath the surface. The more you look within, the easier it is to get better without.”
– el Furecat
nom de plume of Matt Furey’s alter ego
You Don’t Need to Change Your Beliefs
There’s a belief inside the minds of many in the self-help industry that all you need to do is believe in something and everything will work out for you.
This idea has some validity – even though it’s a fallacy.
Yes, if you believe the doctor will make you well again, it can and may help in your recovery. But then again, what if the doctor’s ways worked for you even though you had your doubts?
That would be better, wouldn’t it?
Why?
Because most people don’t believe anything 100 percent, with good reason.
If I have a visualization technique, such as Theatre of the Mind, and I say it works for me and millions of others, I don’t expect you to believe me just because I said so.
I want you to experiment with the technique, to work on it and observe what happens.
That’s how I got started.
Back in 1981, I first learned to use mental imagery to enhance my skills as a collegiate wrestler on a powerhouse team.
I was incredibly skeptical.
I wondered to myself, how can picturing something in my mind’s eye do anything?
This makes no sense. I’m a man of action. I need to do. I don’t need to sit around picturing myself doing.
But I was curious as well as skeptical, at the same time, so I gave the system a whirl.
I listened to the audio tape that was made for me.
I listened every day before practice and to my surprise, I started to make rapid improvements.
I still didn’t believe, so I tested further.
Over the decades (yes, it’s been awhile), I’ve tested mental imagery on everything from sports, to fitness to starting a business, learning a foreign language, writing a book, giving speeches, traveling the world, getting a new home, making a fortune, and so on.
I have not succeeded 100 percent of the time – but let me tell you, my winning percentage is waaaaaaay off the charts.
In Psycho-Cybernetics, Dr. Maltz understood the reality that people will be skeptical. That’s why he recommends a minimum of 21 days before you decide for or against the program.
He doesn’t ask you to change your beliefs, although he does write about the power of belief.
What he does do is give you a procedure, a prescription, to change your life. He gives it to you incrementally so that your beliefs change in and of themselves – not by force.
Your beliefs change because you KNOW the process works – not because you programmed yourself to believe.
Here endeth the lesson.
Matt Furey
Most Motivating Statement Ever Made
The year was 1988.
I was sitting in a Tom Hopkins seminar for salespeople in San Jose, California.
And then, the story…
The star of the show told about how he dropped out of college after only three months.
He went home and told his father.
“Son, I will always love you, even though you’ll never amount to anything.”
Long pause.
“That was my first motivational speech,” Hopkins quipped.
Everyone laughed.
I didn’t.
Instead I searched my mind for the deeper meaning. How was this motivational?
Wasn’t this the worst thing a father could tell his son?
The answer is: It depends.
For many people, being told you will NEVER do something is the key that unlocks your deepest ability.
It activates the, “Oh yeah? I’ll show you.” switch in your brain.
It causes you to ramp up your DESIRE.
And last time I checked, desire is that seemingly all-powerful word that makes such a huge difference in peoples’ lives.
That’s why I devote so much time to it in my Theatre of the Mind program.
Do yourself a favor and latch onto it NOW. And if you already own the program, listen to it again.
And remember…
See it. Feel it. Become it.
Matt Furey
P.S. Believe it – Tom Hopkins recommended Psycho-Cybernetics at the seminar I attended – and does so in all his books.
Hmmmm. Wonder why.
