Mind Control and Distraction: Mind Control Techniques for a Lifetime

Chapter 39 Distraction Technique Training (2)
For example, a guitar, for example, will only sound as it should if the strings are in the right shape, not glued to cardboard, nor stretched so tight that they snap when played.As for us human beings, the most appropriate state is to relax our mind, laziness and impatience will bring bad effects.I remember a business trip, the flight was delayed due to weather, the whole waiting room was noisy, and everyone was very irritable.I was also sullen at the thought of possibly delaying my work.But an old man sitting next to me was quietly closing his eyes and resting his mind. He noticed that I opened my eyes when I was looking at him, and said with a smile, it seems that the more impatient the plane is, the less likely it is to come.Yes, being impatient doesn't help at all, so it's better to relax and take a rest.I also imitated the old man and closed my eyes.A few minutes later there was the announcement of boarding.Such a situation is neither a coincidence nor a superstition. It can be said that you got the result you expected while relaxing.

It's not easy to really relax.Because when you face an unexpected situation, you will subconsciously enter a defensive state. At this time, your body and mind are tense, and you are very prone to anxiety.A survey of patients with stomach problems shows that most of them, more than 3/4 of them, are not really having something wrong with their bodies, but because of their hearts.Fear, anxiety, tension and inability to adapt to life are all causes of stomach problems, and they even far exceed the origin of stomach problems from a medical point of view. A report in Life magazine stated that stomach ulcers are the tenth leading cause of death worldwide.This also reflects from another aspect why doctors prescribe medicines for us in most cases and tell us to maintain a good mood.Most of the time, we think we have a serious illness. Maybe it's just a grain of sand in your shoe, but you think you're going to be paralyzed.Of course, we do not deny that some diseases are indeed real diseases and need to be treated in time.But we must not make ourselves ill unnecessarily by our own tension and anxiety.Many years ago, on a peaceful night in New York, people were woken up by volunteers and told to vaccinate against smallpox.Everyone was terrified, even queuing up to get vaccinated day and night.what is the reason?It turned out that eight people in New York had smallpox, and two of them died.In other words, two of New York's 8 million people died of illness, which shocked the whole New York.But everyone forgets that there is a disease more ferocious than smallpox, and that is depression.Over the past 800 years, depression has killed at least 37 times more people than smallpox.

In fact, depression can sicken anyone, even the strongest.Carnegie wrote in "How to Stop Worrying and Start a Life": "A few years ago, I was on vacation with Dr. Gerber. We talked about the consequences of worrying, and he said: "If the patient can?In addition to fear and worry, 70% of people do not need to see a doctor. "
"It's not that their illness is imaginary, I know it very well, because I myself suffered from stomach ulcers for 12 years."
"Fear produces worry, and worry causes tension, which affects the nervous system of the stomach, changes the secretion of gastric juice, and causes gastric ulcers." Dr. Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic once said: "Ulcers follow the emotional pressure." This The belief is backed up by a Mayo Clinic study that followed 1.5 people with stomach ailments, 80 percent of whom had no real cause.Fear, worry, hatred, excessive selfishness, and poor eating habits are the biggest causes of stomach problems and ulcers.

I recently corresponded with Dr. Haibin of the Mayo Clinic. He presented a report at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicians in which he pointed out that in his study of 176 business executives with an average age of 44.3 years, about 1/3 of the executives were affected by stress-induced triads. afflicted with a variety of ailments—heart disease, peptic ulcers, and high blood pressure.When you think about it, one-third of business executives suffer from these problems before they reach the age of 1. What a high price of success!Their illness is not pathological, but caused by emotions such as frustration, anxiety, worry, fear, and despair.

Worry causes rheumatism, arthritis, and puts you in a wheelchair.Dr. Cecil, an authority on arthritis, listed four major causes of arthritis: 1. Marriage on the rocks; 2. Financial crisis; 3. Loneliness and worry; 4. Resentment.

Worry can also cause tooth decay.Dr. McGonigal mentioned in a speech at the American Dental Association: "Emotional distress caused by worry, fear, and nagging can change the balance of calcium in the human body and cause dental caries." The doctor mentioned one of his A patient who had perfectly healthy teeth had nine cavities during his wife's stay in the hospital for three weeks because he was worried about her illness—so worry causes cavities. "
Worry not only brings about mental depression, but also causes diseases in other parts of the body.Therefore, it is very necessary to practice relaxation, and its impact on oneself and even life is huge.Sociology expert James said: "Americans living in cities are overly nervous, fidgeting, and often express anxious and tense and painful expressions... This is a bad habit, an out-and-out bad habit." Tension is a habit , relaxation is also a habit, and bad habits should be corrected, and good habits should be developed.

So what exactly should you do to relax yourself?You may think that it starts with the mind or the spirit, but now I want to tell you that it is neither. The first thing to relax is the muscles.Then start with your eyes first. After reading this sentence from your eyes, tilt your head back, close your eyes, and say to your eyes in a low voice or in your head, relax, relax, don't be nervous, don't Frown, relax, and relax...you'll feel, the next moment, the muscles in your eyes begin to follow your instructions.Continue to relax, and you will feel the tension and anxiety disappear.Yes, it's that simple, maybe you find it incredible.In just a few minutes, you've mastered the first steps of relaxation techniques.

Then we will proceed by analogy to relax the facial muscles, cervical spine, shoulders, and even the whole body.The eye is the most important organ of the human body. It collects more than 3/4 of the information in our brain and consumes 1/4 of the energy of the whole body.If you can completely relax the eye muscles, you can forget all your troubles.Many people who like to observe will feel "eye tension", which leads to mental tension, because most of the external information comes from our eyes, and receiving too much information will make the eyes feel tired or tense.Above we have learned the first step of relaxing the body, which is to relax the eyes, so how to deeply relax the whole body?Here are five tips: First, read a professional book about relaxation. I recommend David Harlow Funk's book "Removing Mental Tension".Second, when tension is approaching, immediately remind yourself to do relaxation exercises to make your body as soft as a sweater or a cat.Imagine yourself as a shirt hanging in the sun, or a cat napping in the sun.Yoga training is a good choice.Third, put yourself in a comfortable position as much as possible.For many people, work is not an easy task. Even if it is not physical labor, they will still feel physically and mentally exhausted after get off work.Then you should adopt a comfortable posture at work, because the tension of the body will cause pain in the cervical spine and lumbar spine, resulting in fatigue.Fourth, you must know that 2/3 of the fatigue we usually feel is due to inertia.So we have to give ourselves some time every day to review whether we have just imagined the work to be more difficult than it actually is, and have we put pressure on ourselves out of thin air?Fifth, before going to bed every day, think about it and ask yourself, how tired are you today?See if this kind of tiredness comes from the work itself, or from your own excessive anxiety?Slowly get into the habit of judging how your day goes by not by how tired you are, but how not tired you are.

The Law of Distraction - Do things generously, don't worry about small things
There is an old saying in China that a prime minister can punt a boat in his belly.It means that if you want to achieve great things, you must have a broad mind.How many things will we experience in this life?These big or small things, when you think about it after a few days or months, many of them are trivial things.Therefore, most of the problems we often face are that we exaggerate its influence. In fact, it is simply a trivial matter.So why not try to be magnanimous when it happens?My neighbor Moore was a beautiful girl. When she was 19 years old, there was a fire in her house.She later told us, "I've never been so scared, and now I feel terrified when I think about it. It was in my sleep that I woke up suddenly, and I saw the flames in my eyes, and there was no response when I called my parents' names. The fire was approaching me, I even lost my mind and was completely stunned. I think it was over 40 degrees in the room at the time, but I was still so scared that I broke out in a cold sweat. I became very weak by crying loudly, and the tears ran down my face and dried up in no time. "
"The fire is getting closer and closer, and my hair has been burned. I may be dying soon, and I prayed to God without listening. I remembered that I had a fight with my mother because of the length of the skirt not long ago, but at this time I didn't Know what happened to the mother next door; and the strict teacher White at the school, who is so kind when I think about it now. Yes, I used to be angry for not collecting all the complete Nirvana albums, and for jumping the checkout line at the supermarket People are angry, but now that I think about it, it's such a trivial matter."
"Then when I seemed to have accepted the idea that I was going to die, the firemen came and put out the fire and lifted me out of the wreckage. When I saw my parents, their faces widened .Yes, living is the best wealth. I used to worry about those trivial things, but in the face of the threat to my life, those things seemed small and absurd. I knew this truth as if I had grown up suddenly. A fire made me I learned a lot more than what I learned in school."
Sometimes we remind ourselves to cheer up when facing a huge crisis, but we are often depressed by small things.Like a seemingly shrewd herdsman, he installed many layers of fences for his cattle pens to prevent wild wolves from attacking.But the ox was killed by the little gadfly.In life, most of the sad things in this world are caused by small things that happen between husband and wife.A judge in Washington said that he has arbitrated more than 3 unhappy marriage cases. The reason why their marriages are not happy is often caused by small things in the beginning.Many times when we are worried, we don't notice that this matter is not a big problem at all.Everyone exaggerates the face of success and happiness, thinking that they should be perfect and can only be obtained by hard work.But life isn't perfect, and everyone has problems, so don't worry about the little things so you can use your experiences more effectively.Always remember that the first step to success and happiness is not to worry about the little things.

Diversion of attention - why not find another way?
We will experience many setbacks and tribulations in our life. At this time, what is before us is not a flat and broad road, but a difficult and dangerous road. If we insist on walking along it, we may lead to a dead end.Sometimes changing the road, learning to find a unique way can get rid of the current difficulties, and this road may eventually lead to success.

There is a company in the United States that produces toothpaste. The products are excellent and the packaging is exquisite. They are deeply loved by consumers and their turnover is booming.However, when the company entered No.11, No.12, and No.13 years, its performance stagnated, maintaining the same number every month.The board of directors was dissatisfied with this, and immediately held a national executive-level meeting to discuss countermeasures.

During the meeting, a young manager stood up, raised a piece of paper in his hand and said to the board of directors: "I have a suggestion. If you want to use my suggestion, you must pay me another 5 yuan!"
Hearing this, the president said angrily: "I pay you salary every month, and there are also red envelopes as rewards. Now I ask you to come to a meeting to discuss, and you have to ask for an additional payment of 5 yuan, which is too much!"
"Mr. President, please don't get me wrong. If my suggestion doesn't work, you can throw it away without paying a dime," explained the young manager.

"Okay!" The president took the paper, read it, and immediately signed a check for 5 yuan to the young manager.

There is only one sentence written on that piece of paper: expand the existing toothpaste opening by 1mm.

The president immediately ordered to replace the new packaging.

Just imagine, every morning, if each consumer uses 1 mm more toothpaste, how much will the daily consumption of toothpaste increase?The opening of the toothpaste was enlarged by 1 mm, which increased the turnover of this company No. 14 by 32%.

A small change often brings unexpected results.When we face new knowledge, new things and new ideas, we must not seal our heads and leave them behind. We should open our minds by 1 mm and actively accept new knowledge, new things and new ideas.

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