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Thought Mastery Main Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the next lesson. Today we're going to talk about

"Thought Mastery." And what thought mastery is, it's controlling and managing your

thoughts. And when you control your thoughts, when you manage your thoughts, when

you can change and shift your thoughts, you change and shift your motivation. You

change and shift your emotion. And that causes you to change and shift your actions.

And a lot of what we're going to talk about today comes from NLP. That's

neuro-linguistic programming which is a very long word. Neuro means nerve or brain,

something to do with the nerves or the brain or the nervous system, neuro. Linguistic

we've learned already.

Linguistic means language. And programming, of course, is similar to programming a

computer, telling it something, what to do. So what it talks about is how to program your

brain with language and with thoughts and with pictures. Thať's neuro-linguistic

programming. It was developed by several different people, one of the most famous

people is Richard Bandler developed this system called NLP. And NLP is designed to

help you kind of control your brain a little better. To decide the kind of images, decide

the kind of thoughts you want to have in your brain. And by doing that, by changing

your thoughts you will change your emotions and your actions.

One of the key techniques of NLP is to take images that you have in your brain and to

modify them and change them. So a lot of times we have negative pictures in our head

and we don't realize how powerful they are, how much they affect us, how they change

the way we act, how they change the way we feel. And so what we want to do is look at

the pictures that we make in our head and we want to choose them. We want to

change them and choose better pictures.

Let me give you an example. Let's talk about English class, English class. Imagine in

your head an English class. What do you see? What picture comes into your head

when I say English class? For example, do you see a room with a lot of students in it?

Are they sitting at little desks in rows? Are they moving a lot or are they still? What

about the teacher? Where is the teacher? Is the teacher at the front of the class

standing above the students talking down to them? Do the students look happy? Are

they smiling or do they look bored? What about the quality of this picture in your head?

Is it bright and sunny and colorful? Or is it kind of dark, maybe black and white? Is it

loud? Is there music or is it quiet? Or is it silent? Is it big and in your face, close to

you, or small and far away?