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The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Beliefs Main Text

Hello, welcome to the fourth lesson. This one is called “Beliefs." Let's get started.

Beliefs are another important part of managing your psychology, of strengthening your

psychology so that you will learn English, or anything in fact, much faster. And there are

two kinds of beliefs to general categories of beliefs. Limiting and empowering.

Let's talk about limiting beliefs first. Now limiting means, limit is something that stops

you. It's like a boundary. It stops you from going ahead. So a limiting belief is a belief

that stops you from improving, a belief that stops you from getting better. And l'd say

most English students have limiting beliefs and many English students have very strong

limiting beliefs. I call these beliefs English trauma and I got that name from a few of my

Japanese students. They would tell me “AJ, I can't speak English well because I have

English trauma."

What is English trauma? What is that, what are they talking about? Well, trauma

means some kind of injury, some kind of hurt. Emotional hurt, deep emotional hurt. So

what they mean is that they had some very negative, painful experiences with English in

the past. In other words, when they were in school in English classes, even as adults

going to other English schools, they had very negative experiences. And all these

negative experiences have created some very negative beliefs, some very limiting

beliefs. For example, they say "I am not good at English." Well, that's a belief. It may

be true, it may not be true. But it's an opinion, it's a belief that they have.

Another belief, a very common belief, English is difficult. Or, English is complicated.

Well, that's just a belief. For me English is very easy, because l'm a native speaker, just

like your native language for you is very easy. Tomoe can speak Japanese fluently

because she's Japanese, so I might say "Japanese is difficult," and she would say “No,

Japanese is super easy." These are just beliefs that come from our experiences. The

problem is these limiting beliefs limit us. They in fact do limit us. They stop us from

getting better. They cause a lot of problems for us as students, as learners. I have

them, too. As I try to learn Japanese, for example, I have a lot of these limiting beliefs I

realize. I think "Oh, Japanese is so difficult." Japanese is complicated, just look at the

writing system. It's so different from English.

And these beliefs hurt my motivation. They lower my energy, and in fact they're wrong.

They're not true. Japanese does not have to be difficult, it does not have to be

complicated. A small child, even a small American child, could learn Japanese very

effortlessly, very easily. And the reason is, the number one reason is, they don't have

the limiting beliefs. They can sing songs and play games and enjoy the language, and

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Emotional Mastery 2 Vocabulary Text

Hello. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Emotional Mastery 2." Let's get started.

Now are you smiling? Is your posture strong? Are your shoulders back? Is your head

up? Are you moving? You should be. Get in a strong peak emotional state right now

before we begin. Okay, let's start.

Acquisition, the word acquisition. I talk about language acquisition. Acquisition means

to get something and keep it. So to get and keep. So language acquisition means you

get language, in other words you learn it. You get it and you keep it. So the idea is that

you don't lose it. And sometimes, some teachers talk about language learning and

language acquisition. And the idea is that learning is more temporary, for example, in

school for a test you learn English, you take the test then you forget it. That's language

learning. Language acquisition means you get the English, you keep it, you never

forget it. So acquisition, to get and keep something.

Another word we use in this lesson is anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety is nervousness or a

feeling of stress. So anxiety, a feeling of nervousness or a feeling of stress. Anxiety, it's

the feeling, it's a noun. Now the adjective is anxious. So you might say "I am anxious"

or "I feel anxious." It means I feel worried, I feel nervous, I feel stressed. I feel anxious.

So anxiety is the noun, anxious the adjective.

Our next word, vividly. I say imagine your future vividly. Imagine your goal vividly.

Vividly means clearly, colorfully. It has this idea of very powerfully, right? You can

imagine your future. Let's say, imagine yourself speaking English very well. Maybe the

picture is kind of small and dark, not clear. But if I say imagine your future vividly, you

see yourself speaking English but it's a big, clear, colorful picture. So vividly has this

idea of colorfully. The adjective is vivid. Vivid, we sometimes talk about a vivid picture,

a vivid photograph. Very colorful, clear, strong photograph, a vivid photograph.

Alright, another word we have in this lesson is visualize. You probably know visual.

Visual means related to seeing, related to the eyes. To say "I am a visual person"

means I like to look at things. My emotions are strongest when I look. So visual,

related to seeing or about seeing, about your eyes. To visualize is a verb, it's an action.

And it really means to imagine. It means to see in your head. So visualize your future

means see your future in your head. I can say "Visualize a hamburger right now" it

means see a hamburger in your head, visualize. Visualize.

Another word we have in this lesson is comprehension. I talk about listening

comprehension. Comprehension means understanding, very simple. So listening

comprehension means listening understanding. It means you understand what's

The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Emotional Mastery 2 Mini-Story Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the mini-story for "Emotional Mastery 2." Now,

before we start this story, I want you to do something. You know what I want you to do.

Stand up.

breathe deeply. Good. Now big grin, a big, stupid, crazy smile on your face, come on,

you can do it. And finally, move your body. Walk, you can walk in one place without

moving if you want. Just lift up your feet. If you're outside, then move. Move your

body. Okay, you need to be awake. You need to be alive while you're learning. You

ready? Let's start the mini-story.

Pull

your

shoulders back. Chest up. Chin up. Eyes up. Stand strong. Now

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Elvis the spider can't swim. But he wants to.

What does Elvis want to do?

Świm, Elvis wants to swim.

What is Elvis?

Well, of course, Elvis is a spider.

How many legs does Elvis have?

Eight, just checking.

Okay, Elvis has eight legs because?

Because he's a spider, of course.

Elvis has eight legs because he's a spider. Elvis the spider has a problem.

What is his problem?

Well, his problem is he can't swim.

Poor Elvis, he can't swim. He wants to swim. In fact he wants to swim a very

long way.

 The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Emotional Mastery 2 Main Text

Hello and welcome to the next lesson "Emotional Mastery 2." So in Emotional Mastery

1 we learned about changing our physiology, changing our bodies to change our

emotions. Remember in that less I said there are two ways to change your emotions.

Number one is physiology, we talked about that. There is something else you can

change so you can be in a peak emotional state as you learn English and that is your

focus, your mental focus. What you think about consistently, that will change your

emotion also. So what do I mean by mental focus? How do you change your mental

focus? What should you focus on? What should you not focus on?

First, let's talk about the negative. What should you not focus on? Try to remember

when you were in school in your English classes. What did you focus on when you

were in school? What did you think about, worry about, consistently, frequently? Well

probably tests, right? That was one I always thought about. You probably were focused

on tests a lot. “I gotta pass this test, I gotta pass this test." Tests, and then grades.

"Will I get an A? Will I get a B? Will I get a C? Will I fail this course?" So you were

thinking about judgment, other people judging you, the teacher judging you, getting a

grade, getting a score. How did you feel about that? When you think about tests, tests,

tests a lot and you think a lot about a score, a grade, A, B, C.

Or maybe now you're thinking about the TOEFL exam and you're worried "What number

will I get on the TOEFL exam?" How does that affect your emotions? Do you feel more

relaxed or more stressful? Well, most people feel more stressful, of course. The more

you think about judgment, the more you think about a test score, the more nervous you

become, the more worried you become. And that's not good. You actually learn more

slowly when you're worried. You learn more slowly when you're nervous, when you

have anxiety.

Again, l'll talk about Dr. Stephen Krashen, our favorite researcher. Anxiety is a major

part of his research. It is the single number one most negative factor in language

acquisition, in language learning. Anxiety means worry or stress and there are many,

many studies about this. They study different language learners, study different English

learners. And they put them in a situation where they are more stressed or more

worried. And they have others that are in a more relaxed situation. And the relaxed

students always learn better and faster.

So let's say after six months the relaxed students will have better grammar, better

pronunciation, better listening and understanding, better writing skill, better everything.

The anxious students, the worried, nervous students, the stressed students, of course,

have worse pronunciation, worse speaking ability, less vocabulary, worse writing, less

Automatic English For The People Emotional Mastery Vocabulary Text

Okay, welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Emotional Mastery." Let's get started.

A few of the words I used in the main speech, the main article. First leť's talk about

posture. Posture. So posture means the position of your body, it's how you stand or sit.

So we talk about good posture, for example. Good posture means your shoulders are

back. Your back is straight, your chin is up. That's what we usually call good posture.

And bad posture would mean, you know again, you're leaning forward. Your shoulders

are forward. Your back is not straight. So again, posture just means the position of

your body, how you position your body. How you hold your body, that's posture.

Another word I used was grin. A grin can be a noun, it's a thing. Or it can be a verb, it's

something you do. So to grin means to smile, but to smile in a big way. When you grin,

you're not using a small smile. You're using a very, very big smile. Again, it's also a

noun so if you have a very big smile on your face, we say that is a grin. He has a big

grin. You could use both, I guess. You could say he is grinning a big grin. Okay, so

grin again is a large smile or the act of doing a large smile.

Another phrase I used was “tends to be." He tends to be an angry person. Tends to be

means usually is. So he usually is an angry person. He tends to be an angry person.

So it's something that usually happens, usually is true, mostly is true. But not always,

not always. So I could say, Tomoe tends to be happy. It means she usually is happy.

It's her normal thing to do or normal thing to feel. But not always, sometimes she's not

happy. So tends to be, usually is or often is or mostly is.

Okay, another word I used was shifting. Shifting your body and the verb is to shift. To

shift your body means to move it. It really means kind of to change its position. A shift

is a change of position. So if I have my head down and then I shift it, then maybe I

move it to a different position. Now it's up. I shifted from down to up. We use this in

other areas, not just body. You can use it for driving, for example. When you're driving

you can shift from first gear to second gear. Or reverse, you're going backwards, then

you stop, you shift the car and you change and you go forward. So again, you're

changing the gear's position. Okay, so shift is a change in position.

I used the word shallow, shallow breath or shallow breathing. And I also used the word

deep, deep breathing or a deep breath. So they're opposites, of course. Deep, we also

use this with water, for example. Deep water means water that goes down very far.

Shallow water means water that's not very deep, right? It's the opposite, water that

does not go down far. So shallow breathing is the same idea. It means breathing that

is very small, that doesn't go down into your body very much. So...that's shallow

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Okay, welcome to the mini-story for "Emotional Mastery." Let's get started.

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Vanilla wanted to be rich.

Who wanted to be rich?

Vanilla, Vanilla wanted to be rich.

Who was Vanilla?

Vanilla was a beautiful, intelligent woman.

What kind of woman was Vanilla?

She was a beautiful, intelligent woman.

And what did she want?

She wanted to be rich.

She said "Show me the money."

What did she say?

She said "Show me the money."

Who wanted a lot of money?

Vanilla, Vanilla wanted a lot of money.

She was beautiful. She was intelligent. But, unfortunately, she was poor. So

Vanilla went to Las Vegas. She went to Las Vegas to get rich.

Where did she go?

Las Vegas.

Automatic English For The People

Emotional Mastery Main Text

Okay, welcome to the main audio for "Emotional Mastery." So let's talk about emotional

mastery in more detail now. How can you manage your emotions, how can you control,

I don't like the word control, but let's just say manage your emotions so that you feel

better and stronger while you're learning English. So it's easy to say that "Oh, feel good

when you're learning English," but unfortunately a lot of people feel bad when they're

learning English. A lot of people feel bored. Or maybe just in your life in general, you're

tired, you're working hard, and it's difficult to learn English also and still feel energetic

and happy.

So we have to learn some techniques, some methods to manage our emotions, to make

sure our emotions are feeling strong while we're learning. And remember, again, that

emotion and psychology are 80% of success. And a lot of people talk about this in the

academic world. Dr. Stephen Krashen, again he's the top expert on language

acquisition, language learning and language education, and he talks about this idea of

non-linguistic factors. Which basically means psychological and emotional factors, that

they're more important than the method you're using. Tony Robbins, the famous peak

performance coach, talks about this as well. He says directly success comes from

emotion, 80% of success is emotion. The other 20% is the method, it's how you do it.

So we've got to master our emotions to master English. How are you going to do to

that? Let's talk about that now. There are two keys to emotional mastery. One is your

physiology, again it's your body, how you use and manage your body. And second is

your focus, your mental focus. Now a lot of this comes from again Tony Robbins and

Joe Vitale and some other peak performance coaches so l'm using their information and

I'm applying it, I'm focusing it on this process of learning English and how can you take

those ideas and use them to increase your English learning power, so you learn faster,

so that you speak better. So again we have two ways to manage our emotions. One is

physiology, through the body. And the other is through focus, mental focus. What you

think about again and again and again.

In this lesson we're going to talk about physiology, managing physiology. So this is an

easy way to change your emotional state. So let's imagine that you are tired. You've

gone to work, you've worked a very long day. You're tired. And you're thinking "I don't

want to study English." How can you change that feeling? Well you can try to talk to

yourself "Oh, should study, should study, should feel better," but usually that doesn't

work, right? Usually you still feel tired. What you have to do is start with your body.

Change your body. What does your body look like when you're tired?

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Hello, welcome to the vocabulary for the "Introduction to Power" lessons. Let's start.

Okay, let's talk about our first word is linguistic, linguistic. Linguistic means related to

language or about language. It's an adjective. So linguistic factors, I mentioned

linguistic factors. A factor is an element, for example, it's a piece of something. So

linguistic factors means elements about language, elements related to language. Or

even more simply, things, things related to language. And then in this talk I talk about

non-linguistic factors. Of course, non- means not, it's negative.

So non-linguistic factors means things not about language. Things not related to

language. So in the talk I'm talking about, for example, two different things. One are

emotional factors, emotional elements, emotional things. And then the other is linguistic

factors. So, for example, study method, that's a linguistic factor. It's connected to

language learning very directly. It's a linguistic factor. It's a language related thing. On

the other hand emotion is not directly related, is not directly connected to language

learning. At least most people don't think so, so it's a non-linguistic factor. Alright great,

so that's linguistic and factor.

Let's talk about next subconscious. I mentioned the word subconscious. Sometimes

you hear the word unconscious is another synonym for that but subconscious means

something that is under your normal thinking. So, for example, if you're quite hungry,

suddenly you find that you're hungry but you're busy, you're thinking about something

else. You're reading a book. But kind of under your thinking you have this idea "I'm

hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry." It's not a conscious thought, it's not a strong direct

thought. It's not at the top of your brain. Sub means under or below. So it's kind of in

the bottom, the back of your brain, this sort of quiet, small voice, or this quiet, small

thought. So that's subconscious.

So I mention that you want to engage your subconscious. Engage means to use. To

use, or to, it's like turn on. So to turn on your subconscious, to use your subconscious,

to engage your subconscious. It means you want to use those emotions that are in the

back of your brain or the bottom of your brain. You want to use that quiet voice. You

want to use those strong emotions that are kind of in the back because they are very

Intro Mini-Story Text

Hi this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the mini-story for "Introduction to Power English". Let's

get started. In the mini-story I will tell a kind of strange, funny, stupid story. Usually

actually I will ask the story. It means I will ask a lot of questions. The reason I ask

these questions is to get a lot of repetition so that the grammar structure, the grammar

pattern will go into your brain deeply because you're getting it again and again and

again.

You don't need to think about it. Just relax, listen to the story, answer the questions

quickly. If you need to you can pause your iPod, pause your computer and answer the

questions. Orif it's too fast, just listen. You don't have to speak. Speaking is optional.

If you can do it, if you want to answer the questions, great! Shout them out. If you

don't, if it's too difficult or you're in a train with other people, that's fine. Just listen and

relax, that's okay too. Okay, let's start.

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There was a beautiful woman named Sophie. Sophie had to play Tiger Woods in

golf in just one month.

Who had to play Tiger Woods in golf in just one month?

Well, Sophie. Sophie had to play Tiger Woods in golf in just one month.

What kind of woman was Sophie?

Sophie was a beautiful woman.

Who did she have to play?

Tiger Woods, she had to play Tiger Woods.

Who had to play Tiger Woods?

Sophie, Sophie had to play Tiger Woods.

In tennis, right?

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Hi, this is AJ Hoge, Director of the Effortless English Club. Welcome to our new set of

lessons, these are called the Power English Lessons. The reason they're called Power

English is because in these lessons we're going to do two things. Number one, you're

going to learn English, of course. As always, we have the mini-stories which are our

favorite lessons for most of our members, but the content, the focus, the topics in these

lessons are going to be focused on the psychology of learning and the psychology of

success.

Now these ideas, they're not just my ideas. In fact, they come from a lot of other

people. They come from people like Tony Robbins, who is a famous success coach,

Robert Anton Wilson, Joe Vitale, Robert Kiyosaki, Alan Watt, so l've taken a lot of ideas

from a lot of different people about this topic of the psychology of success. And the

reason that we're going to talk about this in these lessons is that in my experience, most

English students struggle and fail because of psychology, not because of methods, not

because of teachers.

Those things are important, but Tony Robbins talks about the fact that psychology is

80% of success. And I think he's right, based on my experience with many, many

English students. Psychology is 80% of success, so 20% are the methods you use to

study. 20% are the schools you go to, the teachers you have, the books you use.

Those are important, we talk a lot about them. But the other 80% is psychology, your

motivation, your emotions, how you manage your time. All of these things are in fact

much, much more important.

What I saw in my classes were that the enthusiastic students, the energetic students,

the optimistic students always learned much faster. They succeeded. The ones who

failed, the ones who dropped out and quit, the ones who struggled had the opposite

mentality. They had a very negative mentality. Their motivation was low. They tended

to be pessimistic. They felt that they weren't good at English. They had ideas that

English was very tough, very difficult, they struggled. They didn't have enthusiasm for

English. They didn't love English.

So in these lessons we're going to talk about how can you manage your emotions. How

can you develop that strong, powerful, enthusiastic attitude towards English,