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YES you can share this with a friend as prosperity comes when you realise your value

or by giving something of value.



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Contents – Your Free Extract in includes all Chapters highlighted in Blue Acknowledgments viii Preface: What to Expect from Infinity Belief® xii Introduction xv

PART I: AWAKEN Chapter 1: The Power of Belief 24 Chapter 2: Before Infinity Belief® 36 Chapter 3: What is Infinity Belief® 41 Chapter 4: The Irrefutable Law of Attraction 61 Chapter 5: What You Focus Upon Grows 79 Chapter 6: Become Conscious 89 Chapter 7: Set Your Intention 98 Chapter 8: Love Money, it will Love You Back 108 Chapter 9: What You Perceive You Believe 124 Chapter 10: Expect that Success is Inevitable 131 Chapter 11: Mind Your Language 140 Chapter 12: Imagination is a Magnet 157 Chapter 13: Commit To Act(ion) 166 Chapter 14: The Power of Visualisation 173 Chapter 15: The Very First Secret 180

PART II: INFINITE POWER Chapter 16: Energy is 100% – Always 186 Chapter 17: Passion is Infinite Power 198 Chapter 18: What are You Growing to Do 215 Chapter 19: Quarks Assist Change 222 Chapter 20: Responsibility is Power 242 Chapter 21: The Power of Space 250

PART III: PREPARE FOR Infinity Belief® Chapter 22: Negative Spirals turn to Spaghetti 258 Chapter 23: Protect Your Thoughts, Cherish Your Brain 272 Chapter 24: Release the Need to be Right 277 Chapter 25: You’re Too Right Mate 284 Chapter 26: Catharsis Clears the Space 299 Chapter 27: Are You Stupid or Just Saying That 321 Chapter 28: Courageous Thinking 328 Chapter 29: Help the Universe Help You 350 Chapter 30: Life is Bad for Good Reason 356



PART IV: CREATE INFINITUM Chapter 31: Affirm Your New Self in Trance 366 Chapter 32: Ego – A Position of Lack 380 Chapter 33: Spirit – Infinity Belief® 389 Chapter 34: The Very First Secret 396 Chapter 35: Divine Faith is Infinity Belief® 406 Chapter 36: The Law of Giving and Receiving 413 Chapter 37: Infinity Belief® is not Goal Setting 421 Chapter 38: Infinite Patience is Surrender 426 Chapter 39: Eight Steps to Infinity Belief® 433 Closing Reflections 435 Selected Bibliography 437 Infinite Creators – Testimonials 441 About the Author 446



Infinity Belief® Copyright© 2004 by Rik Schnabel. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or part, or transmitted in any form, used as educational or teaching material without the written permission from the author, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the author. Rik Schnabel is available for speaking events, Infinity Belief® workshops, training and one on one coaching and mentoring. Workshop dates and times are available at www.infinitybelief.com Rik Schnabel can be contacted courtesy of Life Beyond Limits Management or via www.infinitybelief.com or [email protected] Infinity Belief® is a registered trade mark in Australia, The United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom.

“Prosperity comes to all who have faith in abundance and self, it is Infinity Belief®.”

‐ Rik Schnabel



“We stand at the crossroads, each minute, each hour,

each day, making choices.

We choose the thoughts we allow ourselves to think,

the passions we allow ourselves to feel

and the actions we allow ourselves to perform.

Each choice is made in the context of whatever value system

we’ve selected to govern our lives.

In selecting that value system, we are, in a very real way, making the most important choice we

will ever make.” ‐ Benjamin Franklin

Thanks Craig



Dedication

To Rebecca, Zoe and Sienna – thank you for your wonderful patience, your enduring love

and belief in me, for without it, this book will never have manifested.

To my mother Hermine, may your roses always bloom fragrant and to my father Josef,

may you always smell their perfume from the heavens.



Acknowledgements While the insights for this book happened in a flash (I wrote it in 3 months), the research and the editing took almost 2 years from conception to completion. It was certainly a wonderful journey though as with life, there were some challenges along the way, nevertheless I am thankfully expanded due to them. I was helped along the way by many and I am sincerely grateful for their mentorship, coaching, advice, encouragement and the odd joke to break me out of ‘writer’s gaze’. I especially wish to thank my editor, Kabita Dhara for challenging the writer in me to allow the reader to gain the most from this book, Emelyn Usanto and Yeni Cahyodi for their wonderful dedication to the artwork and typesetting. Thank you Mark Zocchi, my publisher for your belief in me and your patience. I am most grateful to my wife Rebecca, my daughters Zoe and Sienna for allowing me the space for my passion to write this and the many nights that I know my infernal tapping at the keyboard kept them awake. Thank you too to my dear family, Mum and Dad, Eddy and Chris, Erika and Ray, Fritz and Jim, Steve, Michael and Jacqui, Rodney and Nikki, Michelle and Dave, Craig, Judyanne and Rob, Paul and Michelle, Phil and Carol, Sue and Ian, Tony and Heather, Paul, Reg and Marie for allowing me the leave of absence at family get togethers that enabled me to meet my writing deadlines and particularly Ryan Spencer and Lachlan Pottenger for helping me with my wonderful website. Also to my Father Josef, may you finally read it from heaven. A big thank you to John Dingeldei, Rosemary Lloyd‐Dingeldei and Chad Harris of Orangehammer Advertising for your patience and fantastic cover design. Thank you to my fellow coaches and NLP buddies; Jill Hosken, Sue Thurston, Jill Sheldon, Martin Dolan, Andrew McCaulay, Corey Reddish, Sandy Ewing, Cathy Lobley, Lindsay Tighe, Ben Angel, Marian Durrand, Helen Sharp, Chris and Tammie Morgan for your hearts and minds that allowed a sounding board for these concepts and to my coaches Rod Moore, Duane Alley and my Angel and Spiritual Coach, Evie Weaver. A warm mention to my BNI buddies for their continual support, namely Frank Costanzo, Lou Hope, Gary Immerman, David Klein, Sophia Lindsay, Kirk Holt, Steve Kostovski, Guy Naselli, Martin Dolan, Alan Graubard, Sam Pearce, David Shelley, Pat Ikonomidis, Chris Dedman, Dinnae Galloway, Robert Skehan, Pat Ikonomidis, John Anderton, Karen Gately, Tony Kaye, Geoff Kelly and David Byers. Blessings to my family in XL; Roger Hamilton, Paul Dunn, Dave Rogers, Margaret Loh, Rob Nixon, Andrea and Shane McKenna, David Cooper, Leanne Carrol‐Sproule, Karm Gillespie, Georgia Clifford, Margaret Li, Leanne Yeung, Chrissy McJouvelet, Derek Hall, Alex Swire, Allan Tong, Anthony and Jeanette Jifkins, Catherine McKeown, Ciara and John Parisi, Carmel Leone, Carol Stadelmann, Carole Vanderbilt, Danielle Paruit, Daphne Thompson, John Abbott, Rod Fraser, Gail Metcalfe, Denise Hill, Derek Beames, Diana Peterson, Dinh Pham, Fay Pearl, Grant Collins, Ian and Rose Robinson, Ilona Then, Jade Chong, Jane Roder, Jean Bromley, Jenette and Jim Youngman, Jiinni Ng, John McCallum,



John and Julie Sanders, Josie Roberto, Judi Minckler, Julian Thornton, Jurgen Rhyon, Karina Hilterman, Katherine Gorman, Kevin Ching, Lai Sie Murphy, Leo Jakeman, Lewis Rowell, Lionel Gonsales, Marianne Ady, Mark Bunker, Mark Mayes, Mary Brkljacic, Mary Scott, May Chiew, Melissa Ng, Michelle Ostrow, Nada Todorovich, Narim Abdullah‐Filis, Neil Sutera, Nicholas Brunton‐Yeung, Nicholas Pitts, Nichole Bourke, Pansy Foo, Paul Wetton, Paula Saltalamacchia, Philip Smith, Richard Yiap, Rob Moulton, Robin Amerena, Robin Power, Rona Judith Harvey, Rose Sutera, Rosemary Long, Samantha Pearce, Sarah Tebbutt, Sharon Randall, Sherry Strong, Sonia Mitchell, Stephen Brown, Stephen Hotley, Susanne Clarke, Tony Fanfulla, Tracey Habra, Tracy Rossiter, Vanessa Gay, Vidya Samlal, Violet Jakeman, Wallis Pattisonn, William Moolenschot, Yvonne Allen, Zagorka Bozanic. Thank you my dearest and closest friends for their support, George Viet, Gosia Reflenski, Dinah Hornung, Luanne and Rohan Simmons, Bruce and Michelle Hallett, Gavin Miles and Janette Carey, Tony and Julie Frederick, Lisa and Gary Moore, Warren Frehse, Anna Kurnuzsko, Mary David, Damien Jongebloed, Steven Kolakowski, Bob Aitken, Thomas Malone, Mark Eddy, Tony Picone, Ken Baker, Neil Benary, Rod Flanagan, Sam Catlow, Eliza Jamison, Jeff and Nancy Kerr‐Bell, Carrie Ann Gallagher and Tyson Eidt for balancing me. Thank you to Bob Feldman for your mentorship, Sally Carr for your clairvoyant wisdom, Steve and Jacinta Wilkie for allowing me to run a workshop at your wonderful restaurant by the ocean and thanks Steve for your unswerving belief and editing assistance ‐“Trust in your spirit; in your Universe, and all will be revealed.” And to my colleagues, Craig Faram, Sonja Olsen, Mick Paul, Vanessa O’Hanlon, Caroline Ferguson, Paul Traumanis, Enza Etna, Paul Matthews, Yvonne Schumann, Rebekka Kittle, Sean Sparks, Charles Fairlie and Stephanie Salpietro, thank you for your support at the times when it was most needed and greatly appreciated. And finally, I would like to thank my father Josef for his love and faith in me and who passed away just before publishing. I love you all and thank you dearly for the special parts that you played in the creation of this book and you know what these are. Thank you to Jesus Christ, Buddha, Lord Krishna, Abraham, Mohammed, the Creator, and the Universe for your infinite inspiration and eternal guidance.



Preface: What to Expect from Infinity Belief®

Infinity Belief® ‐ Opening your mind expands your life. If you would like to learn how to empower your life and move toward your goals with volition, then you are about to learn a well guarded secret. It begins with the simple understanding that every action must first begin in your mind. And so, if you can alter your thoughts, then you can alter your actions and therefore your outcomes. But what if you were able to easily expand your thoughts and therefore dramatically improve your results? Infinity Belief® is a new way to look at wealth and will provide you with a powerful foundation upon which you can improve your ability to earn money by making small, but significant shifts. If you do not consciously take charge of your mind, your unconscious mind will not be set for success. On reading Infinity Belief® you will soon realise why the seminars you’ve attended, the books you’ve read and your current knowledge left you seeking something more. It is not always what we don’t know that hinders our growth, but more so the knowledge we poses that is untrue, the so‐called facts that serve our intellectual needs but seldom provide our growth. Therefore, much of Infinity Belief® is to unlearn habits that no longer serve you. As a race, we think we know so much, but in truth we know so little. If the entire age of the earth, from the time it cooled down and was able to support life were reduced to the scale of a 24 hour day, humanity’s emergence on the scene would occupy less than the last minute. If you have you ever really ventured into the corridors of your mind to find out what is truly possible, you may have discovered that your thoughts, just as your potential, are infinite. Have there been times when an idea or a fortuitous notion just popped into your consciousness, you witnessed magic and surprised yourself? So how do you recapture that magic? How can you learn from it, understand it, so that it is replicable, over and over again? First, you must trust that you are more than you think you are. You underestimate yourself. The moment you decide who you are and the extent of your potential, understand that you are more than that too. As you unlock your mind with the courage of a lion and the wonderment of a child, you will venture within and discover that you can only improve your prosperity by first believing that more is possible. So, to gain the most from the insights within this book and improve your wealth, it is necessary to open your mind. Infinity Belief® is a state of prosperity, for this is the starting point, the place where the magic begins. As a precaution, I have chosen to embed the text with specific language. So just by reading it, at some level, you will implant into your unconscious mind beneficial and



productive ways to bring more wealth into your life. So please avoid speed reading this. Instead, read it out aloud or in your head. Expect seemingly miraculous events to manifest in your life. Expect to get more from life – because more is certainly possible. For this reason begin to notice the fortuitous, seemingly miraculous events that unfold during and after reading this book and do not be fooled by the simplicity of good fortune – because it can happen in an instant!



Introduction – Please read this before proceeding. If you were to discover a way to easily improve your wealth, health and happiness, would it be useful? It is now time to expand the realms of possibility. I will show you how to create your own miracles because sometimes you have to experience miracles first‐hand to believe in them. I certainly have had my fair share of miracles and continue to do so. In the early part of my life a series of bizarre paranormal experiences expanded my concept of what is possible. Little did I know that these miracles would help prepare me for this book. Further into the book, I will share with you experiences that may astound some and confirm to others that yes, more exists than that which we currently see. As you read, you will discover techniques that will unlock your ability to attract money and fortuitous events into your life easily and effortlessly and so improve your rate of success. You will begin to see your life transform as you hear the words from these pages unchain previous barriers to wealth and success. These will cause you to feel the feelings of confidence rise up into your body as you hear, see and feel your new and totally wonderful life unfold. These events will transform your life forever, for the better. What you are about to discover may defy some of your current beliefs of how the world and the Universe works. However, should you be prepared to shift your paradigm; Infinity Belief® will propel you forward in ways that will flout logic. If you’ve picked up this book, believing that it will improve your wealth, know that greater miracles are possible. What would happen if you realised a dream? Begin to think about what this means to you and know that destiny is a choice and you do have the power to choose it, just as you have the free will to avoid it. Some of life’s most tangled questions surround the concepts of coincidence, free will and the biggest of all, destiny. Does coincidence exist or do you create your future? Is coincidence fate in disguise and so, what led you to this book? Only you will know the answer to this question, as the truth unfolds with each turning of a page. I am here to help you to take the power into your own hands, so you can change your life if you choose to. While some of the insights I will share with you may not sound logical, know that Infinity Belief® is beyond logic. Welcome to the world of the courageous minority. Once you have read this book you will see your world in a more magical way. And I am certain you will enjoy the new view. The way in which you think will be altered for the better. You are about to grow your awareness and activate new neural connections in your brain that up to now have lain dormant. You will now begin to see more, hear more clearly and enter a world of wonderment. Your neural pathways within your brain, determine how you code and store information, they hold trillions and trillions of stored experiences, beliefs and



thoughts, all moving along their own path or circuit, some at a conscious level and most at an unconscious level. Simply reading this book will create new neural pathways that will program you for success. Your neurology will be more prosperously configured by the last chapter than in Chapter 1. In your journey through the text, you will begin to notice some wonderful changes in your life. These are created by your new thoughts that stem from your new neural networks. Every time you understand something new, you make a new connection, a new neural pathway. You will learn how to alter the parts of your life that you choose to change. But in order to do so you must first accept that you are capable of more, much more. You may have dreams that you haven’t yet achieved and destinations that you have not yet had the good fortune to visit. Maybe you could be happier, healthier and certainly wealthier. It’s time to bring your dreams closer to reality. Imagine coming across a jar in a shop that claims to magically realise your dreams. Would you purchase it? Probably not; it’s likely that you would not accept that your dreams can come so easily. And you’re right. There isn’t a single object or service that you can buy that will, without question, realise your dreams. Only you have the power to create your dreams and through Infinity Belief® I will show you how. Infinity Belief® is a way of life; a daily practise of expanding your belief of what is possible and using universal laws to manifest more magic in your life. Suffice to say, I will provide you with some mind‐blowing insights and helpful tools. When you practice Infinity Belief® and use these tools and techniques, you will certainly enhance your life. While this may be challenging at first, I urge you to open your mind, because in order to change your life for the better, there must be challenges. If you don’t allow this book to challenge you, then you won’t learn anything new. At this juncture, I feel it is important to point out that you do not have to be highly intelligent or have special skills to understand Infinity Belief®, just a preparedness to release the limitations that you have placed in the path of your success. Infinity Belief® will open a door to allow you to tap into your intuition and a deeper, unrealised intelligence, the intelligence that can only come from your higher self, your spirit. Infinity Belief® is not positive thinking or mere motivation as these are temporary. Infinity Belief® is power thinking as opposed to positive thinking; the latter is often the process of glossing over negativity. Infinity Belief® is a powerful insight that provides a bedrock, a stable foundation from which you can build the life of your choosing. You will learn new ways to clarify the filters in your mind to help you to attract what may appear as magic into your life.



The text takes a spiritual and practical approach to the subject of wealth creation and I will share many examples and research that further delves into the scientific, metaphysical and theological doctrines. This is to help your logical mind understand Infinity Belief®. You will learn proven ways of thinking and being that derive success, but one vital point must be made. You must be prepared to succeed. You must desire success. While some of this book is focused upon wealth creation you can equally use Infinity Belief® to enhance your relationships, health, career and any area that you choose to improve. Improvement almost always requires change. Therefore understand that you cannot bring about change without first altering the way you think and feel and I will show you how to make those vital changes. If you think the same thoughts and ask the same questions, you can only hope to obtain the same answers. Change however does not always have to be major. If we fly west from Australia and plot a two degree shift from our original course, we may end up in Brazil, not North America; a small shift but a completely different result. For this reason, I have carefully designed each chapter to help you to bring about minor shifts. By the end of the book these minor shifts will bring about major beneficial change. To gain the most from this book, it is important to be honest with yourself as you reach into your heart and ask yourself the big questions. What are my dreams and what would I choose to do or be, if more is possible? Right now, you may not know what your dreams are, just trust they will reveal themselves to you at the perfect time. So, what will be possible tomorrow? The answers are nestled in your dreams and potential. They are out there somewhere, deep in the Universe and the Universe is infinite, as infinite as your potential. Isn’t it true that we even attempt to cap the potential of the infinite? So if the Universe is infinite, why are we told it is around 13.7 billion years old and spans 20 billion light years? This is our logical mind working to understand something we cannot. Recently, it was claimed that we have underestimated its size and now it is supposed to be double the size of the previous measure. However old and however large, it is only when you consider the size of the Universe that you get a sense of infinity. In truth you can only wonder ‐ because infinity never ends, the concept is beyond reasoning and logic. What we do know however, is that there is much more to life than our current understanding allows. Sometimes we may gain a small insight into the unknown; although these insights make real our lack of understanding and more so reveal how much we don’t know. Shortly before he died, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in his diary the following words – “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea‐shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me!” We swim and some drown in the chaos and alienation brought



about by our culture’s obsession with reason. Does everything we choose to believe in and do fall into two limited conclusions; right and wrong? The innocence and imagination of the child’s mind soon dissolves into adult reasoning. We are reluctant to shift our two dimensional vision rather than view the Universe’s deeper dimensions. So let us begin this journey together by opening our minds to experience a deeper and more fulfilling realm of possibility ‐ prosperity. Throughout the text, I will often refer to another Universe. I shall use this term as a theologically neutral description of a deity, the life force, the energy that is around or within us all. I choose to respect your religious or non‐religious beliefs and instead I refer to The Universe. It is said, up to 90% of book buyers have good intentions but seldom read beyond the first chapter. You can easily make a decision today to join the top 10% by merely persisting and reading the entire book; I guarantee that you will be rewarded. The chapters are organised in logical and sequential order, so please read each chapter in order. Resist skipping chapters as you will miss valuable points, segways and breakthroughs that will help you to understand the next chapter and assist your growth. It may be helpful to underline text to deepen your understanding and circle anything that you choose to revisit later. Practice the insights immediately as this too will heighten your understanding as you develop new, positive habits. Prosperous reading!



PART I: AWAKEN 1: The Power of Belief

Infinity Belief® ‐ Your beliefs can kill you

as easily as they can breathe life into your dreams. Can you remember what it was like when you were a child? Life was a series of first experiences; your first puppy, your first day at school, your first bike, your first kiss. Life was full of surprises and there was so much to look forward to. I would like you to become a child in wonderment as you read this book, because in this state of wonderment, you will gain so much more. Getting into a specific state is useful in practising Infinity Belief®, so let’s talk about states. Would it be helpful to know how to create a state so that you could bring it about easily? Your feelings are state dependent, so bringing about a specific state will alter how you feel and therefore determine your thought patterns. Consider your thoughts when you’re happy as opposed to when you are sad. Do you know what it feels like to be totally confident, to be wealthy and secure? What does it feel like to be totally loved and be on purpose in life? To gain the state of love is as simple as accessing a memory and intensifying the memory to recreate it, to relive it. You may recall your first love or the day you first fell in love with your partner? Can you imagine what it may have been like after being born, nestled in your mother’s loving arms and wrapped in a cosy, warm blanket as you left the hospital? Recall a specific time in your life when you were totally loved, float down into your body and relive the event through your own eyes. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel the feelings of being totally loved. And isn’t it true that if you can imagine being totally loved, you can feel love? Could it be that your thoughts are responsible for such feelings? So if you choose to feel loved, all you have to do is imagine it and allow the related thoughts to develop the pictures and sounds in your mind to create the feelings of love. This is the first Infinity Belief® insight and later we will journey deeper to understand the relationship between thoughts and feelings and how these greatly impact your life. It is now time to discover the secrets to unlocking your ability to attract money into your life easily and effortlessly. See your life transform as you hear the words from these pages unlock previous barriers to wealth, the words of adulation from your friends and colleagues causing you to feel the feelings of self‐satisfaction and wealth rise up into your body as you hear, see and feel your new and wonderful life unfold. It is now time to awaken from a deep, deep sleep.



After awaking each morning, do you wonder what the day will bring, what events may unfold? Do you dread the moment you wake into consciousness, fearing the day’s outcomes before they have eventuated? The truth is that you have nothing to dread, you have far more control over your life than you may realise and my purpose in telling you this is to commence the process of awakening you. While at first it may be difficult for you to believe that you can create the life of your choosing, the purpose of this book is to show you how to regain control of your life and achieve inner‐peace; this is what most call enlightenment and I am choosing to call success. In order to classify success, let’s suppose that success is living your ideal life, whatever that may be. So each time I refer to success, you’ll know what I am talking about. I would like you to read the next sentence slowly and carefully to understand its message. Success begins the very moment that you believe it is possible and faithfully commit to the actions that move you forward. Your state is important. For success to occur, it is vital that you first see it in your mind even before you accomplish anything in your reality. Success must be your state of mind first, only then shall it manifest. If you cannot picture, hear or feel success in your mind, you cannot have it. As I mentioned earlier, the very first thing that you need to do is to open your mind to the possibility that more is possible. The only way you can expand your awareness and allow anything new to enter your consciousness is by opening your mind. So how do you do this? Start the process by asking yourself: what would I choose to do if more is possible? Dare to dream. I ask you to resist working out what is possible and impossible; simply suspend judgment as you read this book. In this state of mind the content will be much more useful to you. While it may be challenging to imagine that anything more than what you currently understand is possible, I’m sure you will agree that there is more to life than you currently understand. To remain open to the concept that more is possible allows for the prospect of more to occur. Close your mind and nothing more than you have experienced to date can transpire. It is time to use one of your greatest gifts – your imagination. You know that the mind is certainly powerful, but to what degree? In Cleveland, USA a fatal experiment was conducted on a prisoner to compare the strength of the imagination, against the strength of will and intellect. The event was described in Martin Kojc’s book, The Manual of Life. Summoned from death row, the prisoner’s time was up. Leaving his cell for the last time and upon entering the execution chamber he was directed to sit upon a chair. Strapped to the chair, he was blindfolded and told that his execution was to be relatively painless. A small incision would be made to a vein in his neck and he would slowly bleed to death. The prisoner prepared his mind for his inevitable passing. His white‐knuckled hands gripped the chair’s armrests as he awaited his end. Soon he felt a slight but sharp pain at his neck and he heard his blood stream from his neck and into a metal pail. The sound horrified him into a cold shiver



and soon, he felt his life flow from his veins and died. The prisoner died from a brutal experiment, amounting from no more than a bloodless scratch to his neck. Below him, was a pail into which the warders trickled water through a tube, to mimic the sound of blood. Prior to his execution, the prisoner was in good health. It seems he died by believing that the pain he felt to his neck was an incision to an artery, and convinced that the sound he heard was his blood streaming from his neck. He believed what he heard and I would also suggest he also believed what he saw in his mind; a fading picture of his life. Could it be that he died by believing that his life‐blood was leaving his body? Can beliefs be that powerful? Imagine committing this degree of belief to your life! Surgeons appreciate the power of belief. Some are reluctant to operate on anyone who is convinced that they will die during the surgery or if they are in a negative state. Make no mistake; your beliefs hold within them an awesome power. Your beliefs can kill you as easily as they can breathe life into your dreams. Use your imagination, control your thoughts and you will determine the course of your life. Your imagination is the lens that you choose to look through; it colours or dulls your life. Keep imagining it in your mind, until you believe it is possible and then your unconscious may well evolve it into a belief. Imagination is more powerful than intellect and logic; in fact imagination is sometimes the only tool we have to pull us out of a rut. As a child, the bogey man existed in the darkness and seemed to magically disappear the moment you found courage over darkness or for those who resorted to turn on the light. Beliefs are a feeling of certainty about something being real; they of course are not necessarily real. It is remarkable how we will defend our beliefs, even though they deceive us. Just as the medieval clerics who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope were afraid to abandon themselves to the power of a new myth. We so often attempt to reason out of existence the sights and experiences that are beyond our understanding. I used to find myself becoming frustrated by the blinkered rejection of the realm of potentiality. How could anyone resist the benefits of a deeper understanding of life? Until I realised that the less aware or conscious a person is, the more they are reliant upon their instinctive patterning. For some, it is easier to live in ignorant bliss; I guess that is how the term evolved. I had to then alter my belief and decide to accept all people, the ignorant included, and this dissolved my frustration. Like the prisoner, if you can fool your conscious mind into believing that something is possible, that something moves into your unconscious and your very cells will help you to make it happen. I’m sure you have heard a friend talk about a sore throat and before long they exclaimed that they are getting a cold. Soon enough the cold takes hold. Or someone who trips and says that they are clumsy. They then reveal their clumsiness again and again and again. What drives a tightrope walker to demonstrate amazing balance and a billionaire the courage to build enormous wealth? A belief that more is possible is the



“A man

becomes what

he thinks about

most.” – Ralph

Waldo Emerson

driver behind success just as a belief that nothing more than what we know exists ensures a stagnant life.

Like a computer that deals in 0’s and 1’s the conscious mind seeks a yes or a no from the unconscious (your mind’s library) before attempting anything new. A yes moves the body forward, while a no stops the body in its tracks. The unconscious mind is responsible for 90 percent of your functioning while the conscious mind is responsible for the rest. It makes sense why we unconsciously resist change or challenge unless we consciously focus our efforts. John Davidson writes in The Secret of the Creative Vacuum – Man and the Energy Dance, “…a concentrated mind is able to control physical matter and manipulate the laws of nature. This is how the miracles associated with yogis and holy men are performed. It is also the means by which paranormal phenomena take place. All spiritual practices entail concentration of the mind, whether it is prayer, meditation, telling of beads or some other technique.”

Throughout the book I will help you to plant success data into your unconscious. This practice will at first appear to miraculously create the outcomes you desire; outcomes that you have pre‐determined by altering your thoughts. But this is no more a miracle than the miracle of life itself; it is just possible. Your beliefs are a culmination of your predominant thoughts. If you believe you can do a particular thing, you will consciously, and often unconsciously, act to achieve it. Believe you can’t learn French and c’est la vie, you will ensure won’t try. Believe success is inevitable and you will make it happen. Here you begin to realise that beliefs are not necessarily real, just either convenient or inconvenient. An inconvenient belief is that you can’t remember names and it will limit your social interaction, a convenient belief is that you will soon learn how. My greatest insights were learned and practiced in sales. It taught me how to use these insights at the coalface. Moments before my sales presentations, I connected to Infinity Belief®. I allowed an extra 10 minutes before a meeting. I sat quietly in my car and imagined my desired outcome. In my mind I heard the content of the meeting that was about to take place, hearing the conversation moving toward our mutual success. At the same time, I visualised it until I could feel the elation from a positive meeting, I created a success state. Seeing is believing and feeling is experiencing. If something feels real, your unconscious mind will believe it is real. When I began to feel what I imagined, I felt a sense of calm, a sense of success. I then knew I was ready for my meeting. My unconscious was programmed and I was connected to Infinity Belief®. During my presentations, I felt relaxed, successful and confident.



Using Infinity Belief® in sales created results that seemed unbelievable. My peers could not believe my luck, but luck was not responsible. Yes, there was a time that I doubted the source of my success and the day I put it down to luck, my success ceased. No matter how long or hard I worked, my success vanished. I scheduled more meetings, made more telephone calls, worked harder without success. The moment I practiced Infinity Belief®, my success resumed. I knew then that I was able to turn it on and off like a tap and you will too, with practise. You can change your thoughts as quickly as you can turn on a tap and you can change your success just as easily. It is important at this early stage that you understand that your beliefs determine your future. So what is a belief? A belief is not a notion or a thought, or an idea; it is a 100% agreement that something is true for you. If you believe that something will occur, you will ensure it does, because you also like being right. Anything less than belief is only partial commitment and is like driving a car with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Success begins the very moment that you believe success is possible and commit to moving forward.

2. Your beliefs determine your thoughts and the course of your life. 3. Changing your beliefs alters thoughts that enter your unconscious. 4. Your conscious mind seeks information from your unconscious (your mind’s library) to determine your next action.

5. Your unconscious decisions are in accord with your values and beliefs.



2: Before Infinity Belief®

Infinity Belief® ‐ Feel successful and you begin the process of success.

Most discoveries occur whilst you are on a journey. My journey began upon realising that I was working in a job that seemed to serve no other purpose than to pay my bills. Like a large oil‐tanker that can only alter its course with great effort, the company in which I toiled was set in its ways and the insecure egos of the senior management were suffocating its ideas people. I was employed for my ideas and felt like an oft‐crunched cog in a gearbox. So I searched for greater meaning and thanks to a journalist friend I was introduced to coaching. Coaching seemed like a natural progression for me, as my friends and work colleagues so often sought my advice. When I hit the nail on the head and helped them to succeed, it was like someone secretly placed a million dollars in my wallet. It was gratifying to say the least. Helping others and providing guidance and motivation exhilarated me indescribably. As they say, “When the student is ready the teacher will come.” I was ready, willing and insatiable. So I began studying coaching and later Neuro‐Linguistic Programming (NLP). I loved learning new coaching techniques and the science of these life‐changing tools, tools that I believe are the most powerful on the planet. These allowed me to improve not only other people’s lives, but also my own. However, a much more profound insight was about to arrive. During my studies I was introduced to a Prosperity Coach who explained the details of prosperity thinking. My appetite for this new knowledge became all the more insatiable and this led me on a personal journey of discovery that soon evolved to become a tangible reality, and you now have it in your hands; I call it Infinity Belief®. I dedicated almost every moment of my spare time researching the ways of prosperity and applying this new thinking along with some of my own discoveries with amazing results. And I mean amazing! I’ll share my experiences with you a little later, but first I’d like to give you an idea of the position I was in before this awakening, as it serves as a helpful comparison. After hearing about prosperity thinking, I was so excited that I opened a bottle of expensive French wine that my wife, Rebecca and I were saving for a special occasion. Rebecca couldn’t believe I’d opened the bottle; she thought we’d won the lottery! When she questioned my lunacy I exclaimed, ‘We are celebrating our prosperity!’ Before this moment I had been rambling on about how we needed to tighten our belts, as financially we were not doing so well (in fact we were heading for financial ruin). As we enjoyed the wine I explained the sudden about‐face and discussed the concepts of prosperity



“It is not the

mountain that

we conquer,

but

ourselves.”–

Edmund

Hillary

thinking. Rebecca soon came to realise that there was something empowering about this way of thought, but there was something missing. How do you practice it, what do you do and how does it work? I guess much of what you may be asking yourself right now? The insights came at the perfect time as nothing happens by accident. Our finances were dwindling and our hopes of climbing out of our financial pit were receding. Let me complete the picture for you. I was working in a new job and Rebecca had left her career to raise our newborn baby. We were now a one‐income family and my income was paltry to say the least. Before developing Infinity Belief® my sales for the previous 12 months netted $35,000. We could not survive on my income. Our bank account was down to the last $100, we were treading water and deeply in debt. Like many families, we had a sizeable mortgage and at the time we feared that we would have to sell our home. Matters got worse. While the company supported me by paying me a regular salary, if I didn’t cover my fortnightly income in sales, then I owed the company the difference. Alarm bells were ringing in my head! I owed the company $35,000 ‐ we were going backwards fast. I felt weakened by the experience as I was unable to support my new family. Our situation felt desperate. No matter how well we budgeted and reduced our expenditure, the bills just kept coming. Our debts grew bigger and my income showed no signs of increasing; sales just weren’t coming in but the bills certainly were. Then a remarkable turnaround occurred. I could say that I couldn’t believe my luck, but I know better. On discovering the practice of what I termed, ‘Infinity Belief®’, and in the following 6 months, my income rose by over 400%! Soon I held the lead position within the company, reaching a landmark position by bringing $350,000 into the company in one month. I was soon to learn so much more about prosperity. Through more research, I fine tuned my efforts and improved my results even further. Choosing to change my personal belief in regard to prosperity opened my financial door. In the first 6 months of practicing Infinity Belief®, I not only increased my income but also received the biggest tax cheque I have ever been granted. I was then offered an investment property and through good advice saved thousands of dollars and decreased my tax rate by more than half. My entire financial life had altered completely. I used to believe I was financially unlucky, disadvantaged and couldn’t seem to hold onto money. I will never believe that again. The shift came at the perfect time. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Encourage constant positive change. 2. Be insatiable in your growth.



3: What is Infinity Belief®?

Infinity Belief® – Magnetise thoughts that program your inner success. Infinity Belief® is the practice of expanding your belief out into the infinite. By doing this you expand your opportunities. So many people do not do so well in life because they limit their belief of what is possible; equally their concept of themselves is limited. They may describe themselves as realists and so they do not strive for more and as such, live unfulfilled lives. Through teaching Infinity Belief®, I have witnessed what most would consider miracles. I have seen my own life completely transform. So if you consider yourself a realist, are you willing to see how amazing your life can be, once you tap into your courage and transcend reality? You are about to discover that nothing is real, reality is merely the way you choose to see the world and others may believe in an entirely different reality. Infinity Belief® is an enlightened and expanded state of consciousness. It is a specific and productive way of thinking where you become awake to your thoughts, completely conscious, acutely aware of the world within you and around you. Once you do, you connect to an abundant resource and attract and create the life of your choosing. Infinity Belief® will help you to cease disempowering thoughts and choose thoughts that support what you prefer to bring into your life. The moment you recognise a thought that is disempowering or stems from fear, insecurity or anger, stop thinking that thought and connect to the source. So how do you connect to Infinity Belief®? The first step to connecting to Infinity Belief® is by moving beyond logic and the limiting thoughts that stem from logic. Infinity Belief® is moving into your imagination and imagining what your ideal life could be like. Imagine before you, a conveyor belt made of light, in the shape of an infinity symbol; it’s stretching out into the universe. You can hear the static energy above the conveyor belt as a swimming mass of atoms and energy are just waiting for your thoughts to determine their form. The moment a specific thought persists in your mind, somewhere along the infinite conveyor a group of atoms configure to manifest your thoughts. Now, the more you have faith and expect the manifestation of your thoughts to be delivered to you, the faster your manifestation moves along the conveyor and toward you. But the moment you doubt your power of manifestation is the instant your manifestation dissolves back into atoms and energy, back into the realm of potentiality. But continue your faith and move toward your vision, expecting to see it as you imagined it and it will be there, expecting you to arrive. You can see why it is important to move beyond logic, because logic will not serve you in creating an expanded life. Logic will see this as absolute bunk! But this is also were logic does not serve your higher good.



As an example, if you have never experienced setting up a business, your logical mind is more apt to find reasons why starting a business is not possible. Your mind may even summon an emotion such as fear to assist in this process. Here you use Infinity Belief® and tap into your creative mind to move your thinking beyond logic. Begin to imagine yourself having a wonderful time in your new business. Imagine yourself confident and successful. If you can’t bring your imagination to see yourself succeeding in a business, then recall a time in your life when you were totally successful. Recall a specific time and make a picture in your mind of that time and hear what you heard and feel the feelings of being totally successful. This is more than merely visualising; this is altering your emotional state. Do not allow your logical mind or ego to cajole you to stop pretending and get real. Avoid feeling foolish. Keep practicing seeing, hearing and feeling your success and watch your successes grow, maybe not today, but soon. This gets much, much easier as you learn specific helpful techniques, but we will cover these later; the purpose of this early part of the book is to understand the basis of Infinity Belief®. Move beyond logic because Infinity Belief® is non‐linear thought and moving your thinking beyond previous limitations. This might seem a complicated and challenging process but truly, it is not. Life is simple, we just complicate it. Let’s apply this in a practical and simple sense. Resist thinking that your day is going to turn bad just because you have woken from a bad dream. Thinking this way attracts undesirable experiences into your day. If you think something bad is going to occur, you will activate your unconscious guidance system and you will find bad experiences or they will find you. If you believe you do not have a creative mind, understand that this is a limited belief that you have adopted, maybe due to some clown who laughed at an idea you had, or a drawing you crafted. Now if it is raining, close your eyes and get a picture in your mind of a sunny day. Or if it’s sunny, imagine its raining. When you are able to imagine something in your mind that is not real, that is your creative mind! We are all creative and we all have the capacity to imagine things that we know are not real. So why does Infinity Belief® use imagination? Creativity is where you create! Imagine something enough and your unconscious will begin to believe it is possible. Infinity Belief® is the act of moving away from finite thinking and into expanded thinking. Finite thinking is the belief that there are limits and will have you attempt nothing more than that which you perceive to be real. Infinite thinking is a belief that with the right resources, with the right way of thinking, anything is possible. Infinity Belief® means to go beyond what you currently believe is possible by using your imagination to create a desirable future. Understand that your conscious and



“If someone

hands you a

million dollars,

best you

become a

millionaire or

you won’t get

to keep the

money.”– Jim

Rohn

logical mind will attempt to create boundaries of what is possible. This is how your mind operates, seeking to place a finite meaning upon everything. Understand that if you place bounds upon Infinity Belief®, it cannot be Infinity Belief®. In practicing Infinity Belief®, you will soon find that new data seems to just pop into your mind. A chance meeting may occur or a book may fall into your lap. Believe me, more is possible and events appearing to be miracles can and do happen. Infinity Belief® is a conscious state, so be conscious of your thoughts, choose them. This is what I will call Expanded Magnetic Thinking ‐ choosing the thoughts that will support your success. Your thoughts determine your emotional state and your emotions determine your energy. It is your energy that not only determines how you walk, talk and act, but also what you attract. If you choose to attract wealth into your life, stop worrying about paying your bills. Stop thinking about going broke. Stop thinking you are going to lose your home. Start seeing your wealth in your mind, hear it, and really feel the joy as you imagine your wealth growing. Do you choose to attract love into your life? Then desist abhorring being without love. Imagine the perfect partner in your mind, see them, hear them, really feel the joy as if they are now part of your life. Feel the feelings of being totally loved. Can you see how easy it is to choose thoughts? Believe me; you can change almost everything about yourself and your world. The change, however, starts in your thoughts. To become a millionaire you must first, think, feel and act like one. To become an artist you must first think, feel and act creatively and tap into your passion to create. To become a successful businessperson you must first think, feel and act like one. Know this; you are doing this now. You have already become the person you believe you are, so to change you must begin to think like the changed person. To first effect change, you must know who it is that you choose to become or what you choose to attract into your life. Adopting the beliefs and actions of the person you choose to become will shift your energy, otherwise known as your vibrations or vibrational energy. Vibrations are the energy field, the frequency or electro magnetic energy field that you create with your feelings. When you alter your thoughts, you alter how you feel; you change your emotional state. In doing so, you will observe further transformations in your thoughts, language, posture, actions, responses, and interactions. If you believe you can increase your self‐confidence and learn how to tell better jokes, you’ll have your friends in stitches! Anything can be learned, anyone can tell good jokes by remembering some and practicing timing and physical animation? Think



“The key

programmes of

human

behaviour are

habit and

imagination,

and they are far

more powerful

than logic and

willpower will

ever be.”– Paul

McKenna

of it this way. If you chose to become a millionaire, do you think you would be lax in your financial management? Would your dreams be small and your efforts insignificant? Would you choose to be unfocused through the use of drugs or temporarily wash away your pain by abusing alcohol? Could it be that you would stop blaming others and take full responsibility for your actions, your future, and your life? Just like we run to our addictions so we can’t connect to our intuition, we grow deaf to guidance and hide from our power. It is time to accept your infinite power and begin to learn and practice Infinity Belief®. It is now time to seriously think about who and what you choose for you. Be careful not to choose to change for the sake of pleasing others or to prove your self‐worth. Understand that this is seeking to validate yourself and by doing so you will suspend your happiness and give your power away to others. Changing for others drains your energy. So who do you choose to be for you, who do you choose to become? What do you really choose to do with your life? If you have an answer to this question, write it down. When you work out who you choose to become, ask yourself this next question. Why am I not that person now? Are your current beliefs and subsequent thoughts creating obstacles in your path? Or are they stopping you from taking that first step? Begin to dream as though nothing will hold you back. Before you go to sleep or the moment you awake, let your mind wander, think like a child and imagine yourself doing or being something that makes you feel good; choose a dream for yourself. Once the dream comes and you feel a sense of joy in your heart or a sting of fear, chances are you have found your dream. Keep dreaming until you find your dream. Again avoid logic at this juncture because logic serves no purpose in dreams; logic will hold you back. Logic is what you do when you need to bring order to things, or search back into the past for information. It is the process of arguing or reasoning, but this is about creating from nothing, dreaming. Choose to use logic when it is useful, when it is necessary to work out how to build your dream. Statistics Canada reported that in 2000, 2.7% of tax payers earned over $100,000 per annum. In Australia, the figure represents less than 1% of taxpayers. The reason for this I believe is simple. The large majority of people believe that they are incapable of earning an income beyond $100,000 and so never do. Conversely, if you believe that increasing your income is possible, then your actions will conform to your beliefs. So what would



happen if from this point forward you believed you could earn whatever you chose to earn? That’s Infinity Belief®, believe more is possible and it is. What would have to happen for you in order to achieve this? What would not have to happen to achieve this? Income, like many other aspects of your life, falls into a comfort zone. Believe me, when you first earn well beyond your previous income, there is as much discomfort. The discomfort is almost as uncomfortable as if you had dramatically reduced your income. It is as though a fear exists that soon your luck will run out and you will financially go backwards. In the diagram below, I would like you to circle your current income. This is your Income Comfort Zone. Later, once you have completed this book, I’ll ask you to do the exercise again. YOUR INCOME COMFORT ZONE

If you choose to remain within your income comfort zone, believing that you will never earn more money, then you won’t work on ways to increase your income. Your beliefs form the foundation in your mind from which all thoughts are spawned. These thoughts determine your emotions. Your emotions determine your energy (your vibrations), and this energy alters your actions and therefore your outcomes. So your vibrations will attract to you, the manifestations of your thoughts. Simply said, what you manifest is the result of your thinking. Your vibrations are the sum total of your thoughts and emotions. Emotions are essentially energy in motion. The diagram below illustrates the process of creation. Infinity Belief® is choosing the thoughts that are synchronised with what you choose to create and attract. Your thoughts determine your emotions and emotions determine your vibrations, actions and results. Think about it. What do you begin to feel when you think of a highly emotional event in your life? Try it and see for yourself. Emotions are the result of feelings and most of us are completely unaware as to how we generate them. And as you now know, you can

$50,000 and below

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$100,000 and above

Circle your Income Comfort Zone?



“One of the

greatest

discoveries a

man makes,

one of his great

surprises, is to

find he can do

what he was

afraid he

couldn’t do.”–

Henry Ford

alter your emotions by remembering events in the past or imagining events in your future. So your emotions can be triggered by feelings, words, pictures and sounds that are either real or imagined.

Before you proceed to do anything, you will think it first. You either see or hear something and you then feel it. The experience will either drive you to feel pleasure or pain and this will determine your next action or distraction. If you see, hear or feel pain and cannot move beyond the pain you will feel fear and likely distract yourself with another thought or activity. Glorify or enhance the outcome in your mind, it is an effective method to move you forward with purpose. I once worked with a client who was diagnosed with manic depressive disorder. Each day as he drove to work, he saw himself at work, putting on a big fake smile and then walking into his office with his head down, depressed. It was no wonder he disliked his job. I guided him to change the picture he held of himself, the picture he saw in his mind every morning. Together we changed the picture; he saw himself laughing and joking with his work mates and heard the laughter in his mind. I also asked him to look into the mirror each morning, stand up straight with his shoulders back and smile. Go ahead and try it. It is hard to remain depressed or angry while you’re smiling at yourself.

INTERNAL STATE determines EXTERNAL OUTCOMES

OutcomesActions

VibrationsThoughts

Emotions

Your Beliefs Create



Soon he was much happier. He had changed how he saw himself and with it his thoughts and emotions changed too. Believing that more is possible, that your life is changing for the better magnetises your thoughts to attract better results. You must believe that you can remove the programmed and learned limitations that you have placed upon yourself. But first let’s understand more about beliefs. Your beliefs are pivotal in determining your actions to the degree that you will rarely attempt anything you believe is not possible. Working with business owners in order to grow their companies, we must first work in the realm of beliefs. To achieve success, it is important to assist them in expanding their beliefs and so themselves. It is usual to commence our sessions by explaining the basis of beliefs. I’ll often ask ‐ Before you commenced your business, did you believe that you would fail? The answer is always a solid and passionate No! Why? Because you will not commence anything that you believe will result in failure. Your beliefs can be formed from your experiences or derived from parents, friends, mentors, amongst other influential people in your life. For this reason, beliefs are often cemented in your mind well before you have established if they are true or not. Right or wrong, once you believe something to be true, you will seek out evidence to build your belief and ensure you are right. New beliefs are formed by seeking out new evidence that is congruent with what you believe is possible. I’ll explain this process in a practical sense. Imagine for example, that you believed you were going to live to 100. It is likely that you have created this belief through evidence. Evidence may include what you have seen, heard, read or experienced. Maybe your grandparents lived beyond 100. Your parents may be in their late 90’s and still going strong or maybe a person who you consider an authoritative source, such as a doctor, remarked upon your amazing health and suggested that you would live beyond 100. The moment you believe that you will live beyond 100, your thoughts will have you act in accordance with what you believe. For instance you may improve your diet, exercise regularly, choose not to smoke or drink to excess. These actions may not guarantee that you live to 100. However you are more likely, due to your beliefs and subsequent actions. You see, thoughts are a series of questions and answers that work within the confines of your beliefs. Your thoughts fire a rapid succession of questions and answers in your mind. Let’s say, a new job opportunity is offered to you. Your thoughts may follow a series of questions and answers along these lines. Can I do this job? I’ve never done it before. What if I can’t do the job and I’m sacked? I’ll have to find another job or beg for my old job back. I’ll look like an idiot! But the pay’s much better than I’m getting now. What if I have to work longer hours? After all, it pays more than I’m earning now. I’ll have to work my butt off and maybe into the night. Will this job make me happier? Will I like this job more? While I’m not as happy as I could be in my job, it is secure. So why change?



“What is

important is

not what

happens to us,

but how we

respond to

what happens

to us.”– Jean‐

Paul Sartre

DISCOMFORT ZONE

DISCOMFORT ZONE

COMFORT ZONE

CYBERNETIC SYSTEM

Can you see why it is easier to resist doing anything more than you have done to date? Can you see how easy it is to let your beliefs and corresponding thoughts limit your growth? What would have happened if you practiced Infinity Belief®? What would happen if you became conscious of your thoughts and managed them like a well‐oiled machine? Would you now accept the job and increase your income? The beliefs that you have held up to this very point have determined your present life situation and the person you are today. Everything that you have seen, experienced, heard, smelled, tasted, felt and intuited up to this very point, every profound experience is stored in the unconscious and some experiences determine who you are and more importantly, how you view yourself and the world. But in saying as much, know this; all of your life’s experiences are not as important as how you continue to view them. For example; if you have had a succession of negative experiences surrounding money then you may have built a belief that money doesn’t come easily. Therefore you unconsciously avoid discomfort and never expect to be wealthy. In fact, your unconscious may place you in positions to support your belief and avoid financial windfalls at all costs. As you practice Infinity Belief®, look for signs that reveal you are moving towards your success and with each signal, relish in it. Seize on any evidence that you are moving in the right direction. And believe me, when you look for signs, eventually you will find them everywhere. Infinity Belief® is the opportunity to get excited about change and expand your comfort zone. There is a system that exists in your mind, a cybernetic system, a thermostat if you like, that ensures you remain the same. Let’s have some fun with this. Let’s say your comfort zone is 25 degrees Celsius. Moving to 45 degrees Celsius, you have moved beyond your comfort zone and your thermostat will engage and bring you back to 25 degrees. Go below your comfort zone, let’s say 10 degrees, again your thermostat engages and brings you back to 25 degrees. Infinity Belief® assists you to expand your comfort zone by believing that more than what you currently know is possible. It may just be time to adjust your thermostat.



Keep imagining yourself in your dreams and you will begin to feel excited. Get excited about life and life will get excited about you. You know when you are practicing Infinity Belief® because you will sense it; you will feel your energy rising and circulating through your body, it will become easier to smile and remain positive, you will become conscious of your surroundings, your thoughts will be focused. You will have a sense of calm, coupled with a hint of excitement. You will also notice that people will treat you differently, confidence will exude from every pore and you’ll feel like nothing is impossible because you know that more is possible. I will layer these insights into your understanding of Infinity Belief® until you possess a deep awareness. As we, layer by layer reveal the insights you will eventually expand your consciousness and create the life you desire. So let’s move deeper now and expand our awareness of Infinity Belief®. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Cease disempowering thoughts and choose thoughts that support that which you choose to bring into your life.

2. Your logical and conscious mind resists believing that anything more than what you have previously experienced is possible. Use your imagination to move beyond logic. Imagine something enough and your mind and you, will begin to believe it is possible.

3. Good thoughts activate your unconscious guidance system. You will find good experiences or they will find you.

4. What you think about most, you attract into your life. 5. Your thoughts determine your emotions which determine your vibrations which alter your actions and attract your results.

6. Glorify or enhance the outcome in your mind. It is an effective method to help you to move forward.



4: The Irrefutable Law of Attraction

Infinity Belief® – Like energy attracts that which it is like. There are invisible streams that run through the air called radio waves. You can tune your radio’s frequency and hear the sound through the speakers as easily as you can switch stations by changing frequencies. You can project SMS messages across to another mobile phone as easily as you can tune into the 13 trillion dollars that move across the globe each day. Just as you have faith in radio signals and SMS, you can expand your faith into your ability to create your desires. The frequency of abundance is faith in abundance and with faith all is possible for those who believe. But do we really communicate our thoughts through the air? Cleve Backster, a former interrogation specialist with the Central Intelligence Agency, in 1966 operated a training school in New York for police officers in the use of the polygraph equipment or lie detectors. Backster came upon a fascinating discovery when attempting to measure the rate at which water rose from the roots of a plant to its leaves. He attached the electrodes of a psychogalvanic reflex meter (PGR), a device for measuring electrical skin resistance in people, to the leaves of a Dracaena Massangeana plant and contrary to expectation, discovered that rather than measuring a moisture change, the PGR began tracing a reaction pattern typical of a human subject suffering a brief emotional stimulation. In Backster’s words: “I decided to try to apply some equivalent to the threat‐to‐wellbeing principle, a well‐established method of triggering emotionality in humans. I first tried to arouse the plant by immersing a plant leaf in hot coffee, but there was no measurable response. After a 9 minute interim, I decided to obtain a match and burn the plant leaf. At the instant of this decision, at 13 minutes and 45 seconds of chart time, there was dramatic change in the PGR tracing pattern in the form of an abrupt and prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen. I had not moved, or touched the plant, so the time of the PGR pen activity suggested to me that the tracing might have been triggered by the mere thought of the harm I intended to inflict upon the plant.” If our thoughts develop specific frequencies, could it be possible that plants are able to interpret these frequencies? And if plants can, can we? Have you ever visited a couple, who before you arrived, had a huge argument? You walked into the room and you could cut the air with a knife. All the while, they are smiling and all appears harmonious. Everything you see conflicts with what you are sensing. However, what you are sensing is their invisible communication, their frequencies or their vibrations. Like the vibration that continues after twanging an elastic band, the couple’s vibrations continue to communicate anger as they think about their quarrel. Now as they smile and act as though nothing is wrong, they begin to change their



thoughts and alter their vibrations. Soon their angry feelings disappear and everyone is laughing and having a good time. You may have heard of the Law of Attraction, but in case you haven’t, I’ll explain the premise simply. Everything around you is composed of energy; you, me, the table, the chair, the ocean, the sand, even your thoughts are made up of energy. This is one of the most basic laws of physics. Energy vibrates at varying frequencies otherwise known as vibrations. Anger vibrates at a different frequency to love. Thoughts of success vibrate differently to those of fear or loss. The most significant aspect of this knowledge is that your vibrations stem from your thoughts and they either attract or repel other vibrations depending upon their sameness. In other words, same energy attracts same energy or like attracts like such as birds of a feather flock together. The Law of Attraction states, that if you’re angry you will attract other angry people and so angry events. Conversely, if you’re happy you attract happy people and events. It doesn’t mean that anger will disappear from your life altogether, though happiness will surely feature in your life. Alfred Tomatis, a French physician studying the effects of sound and speech on the nervous system, discovered that every cell of the skin is an ‘ear’ that picks up sound waves. Sound is also a system of frequencies and vibrations. Have you ever noticed how certain notes from a speaker will rattle a glass or an object in the room? This is a result of a specific sound vibration matching the vibration of the object it is vibrating. In other words, the note and the object have the same vibration or same energy. In music this is called the principle of Sympathetic Resonance. Any musician knows that in an auditorium full of middle C tuning forks (designed to vibrate at precisely 256 cycles per second), only one of them need be struck for all the rest to resonate in sympathy. If you tuned two identical guitars to the same key, placed them just metres from each other and plucked the D‐string, a remarkable thing will occur. The D‐vibration will move through the air and vibrate only the D‐string on the other guitar at the same rate. None of the other strings will vibrate, just the D‐string. Vibration finds its twin. This may help you to understand how some people who seem to have less talent than you get more of what they want from life. They are vibrating success and therefore attracting it into their lives. Now knowing this, you are ready to gain a deeper understanding of Infinity Belief®. You know that your thoughts alter your emotions and determine your vibrations, thus attracting the contents of your thoughts into your reality. And you should also know that Infinity Belief® means that you have a say about what occurs in your life. You have an infinite number of options day of your conscious life. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be sad about the events you experience in your life. Have thoughts of lack and you attract poverty. Have prosperous thoughts and you attract prosperity – your vibrations will ensure you do.



VIBRATIONAL ENERGY

Objects would not mirror a sound if they had no sound of their own, they would not resonate. If we are in love, we resonate to another, to the degree that the resonance may so fill us that to everyone around us we hum with an unexpected radiance. Become aware of your energy and vibration. We seem to moving into the logical mind and sacrificing our sensory perceptions and deeper distinctions of the Universe around us. Could it be we are choosing to ignore the subtleties of our power of perception and creation? Joseph Chilton Pearce in his book, The Biology of Transcendence recites a study conducted in the late 1960’s by professors at the University of Tubingen, Germany, who noticed: “A serious drop in sensory perception and general awareness in their students” The tests involving over 4,000 test subjects was summarised thus: “Our sensitivity to stimuli is decreasing at a rate of about 1% per year. Delicate sensations are simply being filtered out of our consciousness.” It went on to state specifically that: “15 years ago people could distinguish 300,000 sounds; today many children can’t go beyond 100,000 and the average is 180,000. 20 years ago the average subject could detect 350 different shades of a particular colour. Today the number is 130.” Until Semyon and Valentina Kirlian developed Kirlian photographs, auras didn’t exist in the logical minds of most people. It was impossible to see the aura, streams of light shooting off like sun‐flares all around us painting our emotional state with coloured light. Later it was discovered that the Kirlian photographs also revealed a match between the body’s flare‐points seen in the photographs and the traditional power‐points in the Qi body represented in acupuncture charts. Mae Wan Ho in her book, The Entangled Universe states: “Invisible quantum waves are spreading out from each of us and permeating into all other organisms. At the same time, each of us has the waves of every other organism entangled without our own make‐up… We are constantly co‐creating and re‐creating ourselves and other organisms in the universe, shaping our common futures, making our

Prosperity Prosperous Thoughts

PovertyThoughts Of Lack



dreams come true and realising our potentials and ideals.” So how does this aid your choice to create? Your emotions emit a vibrational energy that extends beyond you and seeks out same energy and repels opposing energy. What you choose to think most you attract; it’s really that simple. If by thinking of wealth you respond with feelings of joy, as though you have already attracted it into your life, you will vibrate and attract wealth. Alternatively, if you think of wealth and your emotions shift to fear or feelings of lack, you will vibrate and attract lack. If you choose to bring success into your life, project the thoughts and feelings of a successful person and you will shift your vibration and attract success. You may have heard it said that “We are all connected.” It is said that our planet is a sea of swimming energy that is interconnected, that we are in fact all connected. It is our feelings that connect us and the power is awesome when we do. Think of the warmth created by a loving family, spending time together at Christmas. Think of an entire nation watching their team win gold at the Olympics and consider the enormous energy that it creates. Now expand this to the entire planet each advocating a united cause, imagine the enormous energy that it would create. Our feelings have the ability to truly connect us and producing a most powerful vibration. I would argue that if only 20% of the world’s population embraced peace, it would have the power to influence the rest of the world, and it all starts with you. Opening your heart is choosing to communicate with your heart and altering your vibration in productive and positive ways, because feelings connect us. In Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie states, “We are all collectively bonded to each other while on earth, united in this one supreme purpose – to learn to love each other.” Simply choose your desired vibration. You can alter your thoughts, which will alter your emotions and alter your energy and in using the Law of Attraction you will attract whatever you project. So by choosing to think prosperous thoughts, you will begin to feel prosperous and therefore attract prosperity into your life. Try this. Sit down, get comfortable and begin to relax the muscles in your body and begin to create your dream home in your imagination. What does it look like? What colour is it? Now imagine it located in your dream location and your dream car is parked in the garage. Maybe it is situated on a tropical island and you see yourself and your loved one(s) standing on a jetty, looking up at your home. Maybe the temperature’s warm, there’s a soft, gentle breeze caressing your skin and the water’s like a millpond. A luxurious yacht has come to collect you and take you to the mainland. You have all the money you need to live the life of your dreams, there is nothing to worry about. You own all these things outright. Now really imagine this and I would like you to focus upon what you think it would feel like to be that wealthy. It may help to close your eyes and really imagine it, see it in your mind and really feel it in your gut as if it were true, as if it was happening to you right now. Change the images if it works better for you. The



moment you are able to feel a shift, you have successfully altered your vibrational energy; feelings are the key. Hold this feeling (and you can), and slowly but surely your outcomes, your world, will alter to be as you imagined it to be. Maybe a yacht and island won’t fall from the sky, but you will certainly be vibrating wealth. In doing so, what may first appear to be miraculous changes, will begin to occur in your life. This is connecting to Infinity Belief®. Similar to a thymus thump, you can also change your vibration by vigorously beating your chest like a gorilla while smiling and thinking of someone you love. Try it until you feel the energy emitting from your sternum, the v‐point where your ribs meet. Again you have successfully altered your vibration. This is a good exercise if you are feeling sad or have low energy levels. Beating your chest like a gorilla will elevate your state, as I’m sure it does for gorillas! Everything that is created first began with a thought. You cannot invent or create something new without first thinking of it and your body will conform to your thoughts. You cannot become motivated without first having thoughts that motivate. What you think about most is communicated via your body through vibrations, so isn’t it any wonder that your thoughts influence your emotions. Think about it this way. The beating of your heart creates a vibration and it pumps blood through your body. Run fast for a good distance and your heart will beat faster and harder, altering your body’s vibration. This inturn will pump more blood through your body at a faster rate, which alters the colour of your skin, speeds up your breathing and brings perspiration to the surface of your skin. And it all started with the thought to run. We know however that vibrations move beyond us and as in Cleve Backster’s experiment with plants that we can also receive thoughts. But how far do thoughts travel? In 1920, William McDougall ran a series of experiments at Harvard University, USA, to see how long it took for rats to escape from a maze filled with water. To his surprise, he found that successive generations learnt the escape route more rapidly. The startling revelations were found when other research teams in Scotland and Australia, repeating McDougall’s experiment discovered that their rats began their learning at the same level of expertise reached by McDougall’s last generation of rats. Somehow the thoughts or the result of them, the skill had traversed from the USA to Australia to Scotland. As if some collective unconscious or as a field or vibration of energy common to all rats. This experiment is similar to the ‘Hundredth Monkey’ experiment. The Japanese monkeys, Macaca fuscata, were observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. They liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but found the dirt unpleasant. An 18‐month‐old female named Imo solved the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream and taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too. This cultural innovation was



gradually picked up by various monkeys in full view of the scientists. Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes. The adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement while other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes. In the autumn of 1958 a miracle occurred. A certain number of monkeys were washing sweet potatoes; the exact number is not known, but let us suppose that one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Letʹs further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes. Then it happened! By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough! A further miracle was observed by the scientists as the practice of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea. Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes. Thus, when a critical number achieves awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field or vibration is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone! Vibrations are magnetic energy that flow through the air, to what distance I do not know, although I believe the field is infinite. While I am not certain how far these energies travel it is certain they will affect the thinker and most likely those around them. Your thoughts and feelings alter your vibrations and these can alter your very being. Your extreme thoughts can change your physical world. Remain angry and it is likely you will affect the condition of your heart adversely. Stay anxious and you will feel it in the pit of your stomach, you may even grow an ulcer. Resist speaking up about issues that concern you and it constricts your throat or possibly even your breathing. Think something is hard for long enough and you may create a headache. Vibrations alter state, such as water molecules vibrating at a specific frequency may alter their physicality and turn into ice. By heating ice, you again alter its vibration and it will return to water. Continue to alter the vibration with heat and the water will change to steam. Just like your thoughts, different vibrations alter the outcome. Nothing is destroyed, but something is changed. You can choose your thoughts to change your vibrations and alter your physicality. Low self‐esteem and self‐abuse are clear examples of this. Observe the slumped shoulders, the setback, sullen eyes, the down‐in‐the‐mouth demeanour. These are all manifestations of a low vibration or low self‐esteem. An alcoholic or drug user changes their state which often attracts low self‐esteem and sometimes disaster and self‐ruin. We can equally use this understanding to attract success. So what could you think or do to vibrate success?



Have you ever thought of someone and then they telephoned you? Vibrations are just like a radio frequency that flies through the air and is intercepted by matching the frequency via a radio. There are many frequencies or vibrations that we cannot see but, like radio frequencies and television signals, they exist. Light is also a vibration. There are colours in the spectrum of possible colours that your eyes cannot see, but that can be seen by a snake. Dogs hear frequencies of sound (also energy) that we cannot hear; these are out of our range. Everything vibrates, albeit at different frequencies. Vibrations vary between high and low, fast and slow. Lower and slower vibrations are material and higher and faster vibrations are spiritual. In fact, the faster and higher the vibration, the more difficult they are to see with the naked eye. It is easy to see the slower vibrating table, but not the higher vibrating thought. It is no surprise that the higher the vibration, the less you see and the less you believe in their existence and it is this lack of belief that will keep you in a low vibration. We see what we believe and we believe what we see. There are so many ways to increase your wealth through high vibration. However, a self‐made millionaire who becomes wealthy by investing in stocks will attest that investing in the stock market is the only way to become wealthy, just as a real estate magnate will say that the best way to become wealthy is by investing in real estate. The common ground in both examples is that you can be certain that each investor believed they would become wealthy and as a result each chose a high vibration and became wealthy. If you look at any object under a powerful electron microscope, you will see a swimming mass of energy, or vibrations. Money is equally made up of energy and your prosperous thoughts and feelings attract the same vibrations, namely wealth. Your vibrations attract like energy and particle by particle, they shift the energy of the Universe to create your physical and material life – Thought Proceeds Form. Infinity Belief® is a powerful foundation upon which to build your life. When you believe that you’ve got what it takes, that you’re in the right place at the right time and you believe in your assets, or anything that you need to believe to succeed, you don’t see obstacles blocking your progress. In your mind they don’t exist! Every successful sportsperson can see themselves succeeding even before the race is run. Equally, an athlete who is in tune with their thoughts can tell you the precise moment they realised that they were going to lose. The moment you think you are going to lose you have lost. It is not at the end of the race, for you have lost well before the finish line is in sight. But this is not about winners and losers. Infinity Belief® is a belief that everyone can attain, not just a select few. The truth is, few know how and fewer believe



that they are able to achieve more than they have already achieved. So take your foot off the brake and hit the accelerator of life. Connect to Infinity Belief® and enjoy the fruits of life. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Thoughts produce specific vibrations that attract like vibrations and what you think about most you attract; it’s really that simple.

2. Change your vibration and you change what you attract. 3. The moment you are able to change how you feel, you have successfully altered your vibrational energy.

4. If your thoughts become negative, stop thinking them.



5: What You Focus Upon Grows

Infinity Belief® – Focus upon the life that you choose to grow. While living in Perth, I recall a conversation with my neighbour. He said he had never succeeded at growing corn. I couldn’t understand why such a simple task befuddled him, soon I learned why. He always planted his seeds in the heat of summer, instead of spring and forgot to water them as he was often distracted. He failed to focus upon them, so they never grew. Success requires focus because what you focus upon grows. What grows in your life is pre‐determined by your thoughts – your focus. Not a single thought, but how often you have these thoughts and how deeply you feel about them. In fact, you have already created everything that features in your life right now. The moment you stop to become conscious of your repetitive thoughts and emotions you will realise that they are in fact congruent with the life you have experienced thus far. Think about a body builder ‐ what do you think their predominant focus would be? Their body shape and muscle tone provide the answer. They focus upon their body of course; it is what is important to them. A successful businessperson will focus upon their business, while an artist will focus upon using their imagination or expressing themselves. Equally a person who cannot seem to succeed is likely to be focusing upon their failings and becomes better at failing than succeeding. And someone who is depressed will be focusing upon the source of their depression. Should they shift their focus and begin to recall some of the wonderful things that have occurred in their life and focus upon duplicating these thoughts, their depression will then begin to fade. A person who is depressed is likely to be focusing upon what they don’t want (their depression) and therefore getting more of it. If someone tells you that every time they ask someone out on a date they get tongue‐tied and muck up, they are telling you that they are focusing upon mucking up and not success. They are being inflexible in the context of dating and their associated behaviour is not conducive to success. Another insight worth noting is that the financially disadvantaged focus upon what they don’t want and get it anyway – debt. This is called ‘Away From Motivation’ and usually provides short term results. Wealthy people however, focus upon what they do want – a desirable life or wealth. This is called ‘Toward Motivation’ and provides longer lasting results. ‘Away From Motivation’ is like moving only one‐step away from the problem and not fully moving toward what you do want. Similar to denial, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the problem will go away, just like running away from debt does not ensure wealth. So it is best to focus upon what you do want rather than attempting to move away from what you don’t want, a subtle change, but a significant difference. Look at your own life and you will see signs of what you think about most. If you don’t like what you see, change your focus. It’s really that simple. Can you see that what you



“A man

becomes what

he thinks about

most.”– Ralph

Waldo Emerson

think about most is what you are being? If you choose to become wealthy, don’t focus upon avoiding debt. How do you become wealthy? Become a millionaire in your mind and millions will come. You must be the person you choose in the future now, create your future in the present! You cannot create your future in the future; you can only create your future in the present! Let me be clear here. This does not mean that if you decide to become a millionaire in your mind today that tomorrow your millions shall be delivered. To become a millionaire is a decision to change your mindset from this point forward and trust that it is inevitable and shall manifest at the perfect time. And the perfect time is when your thoughts, your feelings, your vibrations and actions are that of a millionaire. Whatever you focus your attention upon automatically determines your predominant thoughts. And as thoughts are composed of energy, thinking about something constantly, will add more energy to that thought. Let’s see how this works in action. Can you remember back to when you were learning to ride a bicycle? Once you worked out how to balance upon the bicycle and increased your confidence, you moved much quicker and took more risks, until the inevitable happened. While racing along a path you somehow lost your balance and all of a sudden the bicycle flailed from side to side as you struggled to keep it upright. On one side was a blanket of soft green grass and on the other a solid fence loomed ever closer! In panic you heard yourself say, I’m going to hit the fence, I’m going to hit the fence, I’M GOING TO HIT THE FENCE! And guess what? You hit the fence. By focusing on the fence and not the grass, the fence became larger in your mind, the grass smaller and of course you attracted what you focused upon most. For this reason, racing car drivers are taught to look away from the direction of skid and instead look to where they choose to direct their car. They know that the moment they focus upon the obstacle, they hit it. For the same reason, footballers focus upon where they choose to kick the ball. So in an energetic sense, what you focus upon expands (you attract) and what you do not focus upon contracts (you repel); the more attention you give to something, the more it expands. Therefore what is not in focus is not present in your life. For example; if you choose to lose weight, stop focusing upon your weight and focus on the new you. Imagine yourself thinner. Stop focusing upon the foods that put on weight and instead focus upon healthy foods and exercise. Your focus can also derive from your beliefs. If you believe your children are naughty, they will become highly visible when they are naughty and invisible when they are good, they are both good and naughty, but you are more likely to see their misbehaviour. Equally overcome procrastination by focusing upon the task at hand and the outcome and



how great you will feel when you complete it, rather than focusing all the work you have to do. If you choose to get motivated, find a great motive to move you forward – ‘Toward Motivation’. If you can’t find a reason to enjoy your job, find an aspect of it that you can enjoy or learn a skill to make it easier to enjoy the job or focus on getting that dream job. If you’re not looking forward to visiting your parents or in‐laws, find a conversation subject that you would enjoy discussing with them and swing it around. You truly can change your focus on anything and just by changing your focus you will change your life. Okay, I hear you ask ‐ Anything? Yes, anything! Remember more is possible, unless you choose to invest in limited thinking. Even cleaning the toilet can have a better focus by thinking about how much better it will look with a sparkle! So, you can focus upon what you choose to expand into your life and what you do not focus upon contracts. As a lack of focus reduces your awareness of something’s existence, it is true that something can almost disappear. In Lawrence Blair’s Rhythms of Vision, he describes Magellan’s first landing at Tierra del Fuego. As Magellan and his crew stood on the beach, they were met by the Fuegans, who for centuries were isolated by their canoe culture. The Fuegans had no concept of large ships; they had never seen one prior to Magellan’s landing. They had never seen a ship nor had they ever imagined one. The Fuegans greeted Magellan and his crew and while Magellan’s ships were clearly visible from the beach, anchored not far from shore, the Fuegans could not see them. The ships were invisible to their eyes because they did not exist in their reality; there was no frame of reference for them. The Fuegan Shaman was naturally curious. He wondered how the newcomers had arrived on their island. Seeing the large contingent of Magellan’s crew, the Shaman deduced that they must have arrived on the island using many canoes. However there was not a single canoe in sight. He squinted out to sea and after some time Magellan’s grand galleons materialised. Excited, the Shaman pointed out the ships, but his fellow Fuegans could not see them. Frustrated, he began drawing the shape of the ships in the sand and soon, one by one, the Fuegans saw the ships. Their reality expanded to see the huge hulking vessels. It is this understanding that begs the question. What can’t we see because we do not believe it exists? Whatever you can see at this very point in time is what you believe exists, nothing more. But it certainly doesn’t mean that what you can’t see doesn’t exist. I trust you now realise that beliefs are not necessarily true, just productive or unproductive. The example of the Fuegans’ experience is similar to what we see when focusing upon a singular subject, such as a car we desire. If we decide to purchase a red sports car, suddenly, we see more of them appear. Miraculously, red sports cars seem to be everywhere. The desire for a red sports car is expanded in our mind and it seems that



every other car on the road is almost invisible; we have sensitised ourselves to see red sports cars.

Imagine your favourite song. If you don’t have a favourite song, just choose one that you like and begin singing it or humming the tune in your head. Choose the chorus and repeat it over and over again. Now imagine the artist playing the tune or see the film‐clip and see the picture in your mind or see the film clip and hear the tune. Now stop thinking about the tune. Forget everything you just remembered and don’t allow yourself to think about the song at all – think of anything and everything except the song. How did you go? It can be hard to push something away while you are focusing upon what you are pushing away. This is like trying to move from fear by focusing on the fear. This is also like trying to move from a position of lack while still picturing your lack. You just bring it closer. So, don’t focus upon what you don’t choose to have in your life. Focus upon what you do choose to bring into your life. When you believe you are disadvantaged you demonstrate your disadvantage in your actions. You will manifest the outcome you envision in your mind. You may walk around staring down at the ground, shoulders slumped, feeling and seeing sadness. Your beliefs will have you expecting second best, receiving poor treatment, thinking you are worth less than others. If you are using this book to improve your wealth, be mindful of this next point. Once you improve your wealth it is important to feel worthy of your new‐found gains or you will fritter away your new acquisitions and manifest your lack of worth. Does it now make sense to you why the financially disadvantaged often put up

RED SPORTS CAR

Your Focus Expands your Reality

What you focus upon expands your reality; it is what you choose to see. What you do not focus upon contracts your reality, this is what you do not choose to see. You can contract and expand anything in your life, this is Infinity Belief®.

Other Cars



with poor service and bad behaviour, and Third World countries settle for much worse? In contrast, the wealthy seldom tolerate ill‐treatment and demand respect. Those who are angry, needy and hateful glue themselves to their discontent. What we focus upon becomes larger in our lives. Focus upon prosperity and allow your prosperous life to expand. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. You attract things into your life by choosing to keep them in your predominant thoughts.

2. To get motivated, find a great motive to move you forward. 3. Focus only upon what you choose to attract. 4. What you focus upon becomes larger in your life.



“I know of no

more

encouraging

fact than the

unquestionable

ability of a man

to elevate his

life by

conscious

endeavour.” –

Henry David

Thoreau

6: Become Conscious

Infinity Belief® – Consciousness is realising that you control your thoughts; your thoughts do not control you.

Australian surfing legend and two‐time World Champion, Tom Carroll said, “Once I was able to control my thoughts and get my thoughts to focus upon my performance and not on my competitors, my performance improved and I began winning.” Without being conscious of them, your thoughts are often like dust in the wind, scattered and rarely focused. Psychology Today Magazine stated that we have up to 50,000 thoughts a day and 80% of them are recycled over and over again. That’s a lot of thoughts going around in our heads. Silly as this may sound, we often have thoughts without being conscious of them. Unless we are conscious, our thoughts drift from stimuli to stimuli, moment to moment, event to event. One moment there’s a song in our head, the next we’re thinking about an event that happened years ago. Suddenly a car screeches past and we’re thinking about the driver or admiring the car, a second later we’re wondering why our boss didn’t give us that pay rise and we get angry. This is certainly not the best way to control your state. Imagine 50,000 thoughts from one moment to the next shooting off in all directions like golf balls, ricocheting off the walls of your mind. No wonder you’re tired! Even unconsciously, your thoughts are determining your day and ultimately your experiences. In fact, they have led you to this very point in your life. Are you happy with where your thoughts have taken you so far or would you prefer a new destination? If so, where would that be? Where would you prefer to be right now, this very minute? It is time to wake up, be conscious by magnetising the thoughts that will lead you to your chosen life, connect to Infinity Belief®. If you think life is a series of accidents, you will have many accidents in your life; think again. The mind cannot serve you until you direct it, focus it. Those who consciously manifest, get what they choose. Those who do not think to choose, attract unconsciously. Like walking along a pier blindfolded, your scattered thinking may lead you into uncomfortable and undesirable situations. Determine where you’re going; become conscious of your thoughts. While some people find it difficult to focus, meditate or even hold a single thought without being distracted, know that to master any skill you must be conscious of the learning and with practice, it will become easy.



“Like the mind,

when you still

the water, the

mud will

settle.” – Sogyal

Rinpoche

You can be conscious of your thoughts by rising above them; listen, rather than react to your thoughts. This practice alone will develop and heighten your awareness. You will become separated from your thoughts, a silent observer of them if you like. Wake yourself up every now and again, become aware of your surroundings, open your eyes and start looking as a curious child does. Stop walking around with your eyes focused on the path in front of you. Believe me, it’s safe. You won’t fall down or trip, but you will notice how few people look around them as they walk. They may be focused on their future or their past, but they are rarely focused upon their present. Know this; your thoughts do not control you, you control your thoughts. Set an alarm on your clock, the computer or your watch to remind you to wake up and become conscious. I used to get angry when other motorists cut me off or when people would dart out in front of me when walking. I thought their actions were deliberate until I realised what was really going on. They were unconscious! Most people have no idea what is going on around them and often offend without being conscious. Make time for your mind to be still, it will help you to become conscious and will aid your productivity. You’ll be amazed at how much time you seem to gain with daily meditation. Your mind will become clearer and less fogged by scattered thinking. If you don’t know how to meditate, I suggest taking a course. Or try this simple method. Choose a time in the day, maybe during your lunch break or at the end of the day. Find a quiet, comfortable place where you won’t be disturbed. Switch off your mobile phone and take the phone off the hook. Sit down and start the process of relaxation by taking deeper, slower and longer breaths. Repeat this process a few more times and gently bring your breathing back to normal. Focus on how it feels as you breathe in and breathe out and avoid thinking. You can do this with your eyelids wide open, half‐shut or closed. I prefer to do this with my eyelids half‐shut as I can see a slightly blurred vision of what is happening around me, but I’m not distracted by visual stimuli. Try meditating for 10 or 20 minutes and whenever a thought enters your mind, do not respond to it but release it. You will find this an energising and clarifying experience. Meditation is easier than you think (pardon the pun). Remember, you can simply change your thoughts; anticipate and believe that it will come to you quickly and easily. Think it easy and it will become easy, think it hard and it will become hard.



“Never look

down to test

the ground

before taking

your next step;

only he who

keeps his eye

fixed on the far

horizon will

find the right

road.” – Dag

Hammarskjold

Your greatest power is the power you gain by choosing to be in the present. Become conscious of your thoughts at this very moment and you become present. In being conscious, you can be selective about what data you absorb and who or what you choose to expose yourself to. I once heard someone say ‐ Don’t walk away from negative people, run. The same applies to negative news. Remember that what you focus upon becomes larger in your life. Focus upon negativity and you draw more negativity into your life. Catherine Ponder, in her book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity says, “Do not think, talk or act any way but prosperously. Do not allow others to talk to you in any way but prosperously. Do not read anything or take seriously anything that is printed or said that seems contrary to prosperous thinking. If you mix up your trend of thought, you set up cross‐currents that neutralize your efforts of prosperity.” Guard your thoughts; be selective about the material you digest. You can read negative news or positive life‐changing material; it is your choice. But either way it will affect you if you let it. When you choose to be present, you cannot do anything other than become conscious. Your thoughts are not in the past or the future, but in the present. In consciousness you expand your awareness of what is around you. Your sight is clearer, your hearing sharper, your touch more sensitive, your sense of smell and taste are more acute and your intuition is heightened. It is impossible to think about the past while you are present, while you are conscious. An excellent reference can be found in Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now. In the chapter on The State of Presence he makes a valid point about consciousness. “You can’t think about presence, and the mind can’t understand it. Understanding presence is being present. Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself; I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? Try it now. As long as you are in a state of intense presence, you are free from thought. You are still, yet highly alert. The instant your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in. The mental noise returns; the stillness is lost.” The start to a bright new future begins in the present, not in the past or the future, but right here, right now. A new future is the act of being conscious and thinking new thoughts. The new thoughts that you continue to have right now become your future. Being in the present is vital to Infinity Belief®. You are not practicing Infinity Belief® while your thoughts are focused upon the pains of the past or feeling fearful about something you have to do in the future. Remember all creation is state dependant and



thinking of negative or fearful things can only bring about negative or fearful states. The power is in the present. Change takes as long as you allow the pains of the past to overrule your thoughts. If you speak of the future as if it is not here in the now, your mind believes that what you speak of is not here. Therefore, you unconsciously choose to reject your own thoughts. When your thoughts are in the present, even deadlines are relieved of stress. Fear of not making a deadline is not being present. If you simply focus upon the task at hand, you trust that you will make deadline; it is the act of being present – what single thing do you have to do right now! Do not focus your energy on worrying about the future. While conscious you are receptive to the subtle clues and intuitive messages that help to guide you along your path. You can only achieve this by being present. Otherwise you will miss message after message. It is time to wake up. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. We have 50,000 thoughts each day, 80% are recycled. 2. Your thoughts don’t control you, you control your thoughts. 3. The mind cannot serve you until you direct it. 4. Control your thoughts; be conscious of them, like an observer. 5. Meditation will increase your clarity of thought and with it, your productivity. Allow your mind to be still. 6. Change takes as long as you allow the pains of the past to overrule your thinking in the present. 7. The thoughts that you continue to think about in the present become your future. EXERCISE – Become Conscious. Choose to be alert and continue to raise your consciousness by listening to your thoughts. See what occurs around you and begin looking for evidence to prove that your dreams are possible. You’ll be amazed at what you begin to see and experience. For a start, you will reduce scattered thinking, the constant mental rambling that seems to go no‐where. You could choose a regular time each day to allow your mind to be still. If 80% of your thoughts are recycled, then this means you are not making decisions, you are not drawing conclusions and it also suggests that you are thinking too much. Try to stop thinking for five minutes and you’ll see what I mean. Go ahead try it now. And then wait for an inspirational thought to come, and experience it. You cannot practice consciousness, you can only be conscious.



“Man, you are

asleep; must

you die before

you can

awake?” – Sufi

saying

7: Set Your Intention

Infinity Belief® – Intention is a laser beam that propels you towards that which you focus upon. There was once a racehorse that loved nothing more than to feel the wind across her mane. And while the mare loved to race, she was never a winner, never triumphant. During each race, the mare could only focus upon the other horses jostling for position, the blur of whips, the pounding hoofs and the roaring crowd, it was all too much. Soon her love of racing subsided. She would never feel the winning sash lain across her back or taste the sweetened oats of the victorious. Then early one morning before the mare’s final race, the trainer had an idea. He resolved to one last ditch effort and placed blinkers upon the horse. The horse could only see ahead and the blinkers also muffled her ears. In her final race, she could only see in front and focus only upon the winning post. The mare no longer focused upon the other horses or the roaring crowd, her only intention was to win and win she did. Have you ever wondered why some people seem so comfortable with winning, with success? They’re less surprised than you are when success arrives. It is as though they expect it. These same people wake up in the morning and decide what they will focus upon that day, the one thing that they will do today to bring them a step closer to success. They are seldom distracted by dramas, rarely use excuses and focus only upon solutions. Their intention is in the forefront of their minds from the moment they wake. If you don’t set your intention by consciously determining what you choose from the day, your day will be ruled by your unconscious. It is like a drive in a dodgem car. Bumping from one incident to another and ending up at the end of the day at the scene of your last accident! Is it time to become conscious of what you intend and move on from unconscious life? Instead of waking to your alarm and falling out of bed and into a routine, set your intention and focus upon what it takes to allow your intention to manifest. Consider what could be done today to bring your intention into your life? I have noted that companies that create a ‘family’ feeling among their employees by providing a nurturing and supportive environment create a caring intention within the hearts and minds of their employees and as a result, their employees smile genuinely at customers.

We have discussed the unconscious with frequency, so would you like to gain a deeper understanding of the unconscious? So what is its intention? The unconscious mind’s functions are to keep us alive by preserving the body’s blue print (as it is now) regulating



our bodily functions and emotions. The Penfield Study, research in 1957 indicated that everything that happens to a person is faithfully recorded and stored as a memory. In this research project, a women’s brain was probed with an electrode and she remembered everything that happened during a birthday party when she was a very young child. She remembered the feel of her dress, the taste and smell of her birthday cake, how her mother and her friends looked, etc., as if she were there. As a result of this study, Neuro‐physicists postulated that everything that happens to us is stored in the brain in full detail. In 1960, Nobel Prize winner, Carl Pribram postulated that memories are stored holiographically in the nervous system throughout the entire body, not just within the brain. It is the unconscious mind that is responsible for the co‐ordination, storage and access to these memories. The unconscious mind is also responsible for generating and maintaining emotions. It is within this domain that we find it represses hurtful memories with the emotion intact, until the issue is resolved. In the meantime, these repressed memories are trapped in the body, causing blockages to the communication through the neural network, often causing ‘dis‐ease’. The unconscious will repress the memory to protect the conscious mind; however it will present it to conscious awareness in an effort to release a trapped emotion. It also generates, distributes, stores and transmits energy. It can distribute enormous reserves of energy in a ‘fight or flight response’ as well as coding and storing habits. Interestingly, it also maintains your moral code according to your experience of life, values and beliefs. It regularly sends and receives information from the conscious mind and if the unconscious mind thinks that you’ve been bad, then it will believe you must be punished. It is by no surprise that it follows orders and takes directions from the conscious mind. Many believe the unconscious acts as a child of 7 years old.

The unconscious learns by continually seeking more knowledge and creating new experiences, while it seeks to function optimally with minimum effort, conserving its energy stores, but not necessarily for personal well‐being. The fewer the parts in a process, the better, as more parts allows for the possibility of inner conflicts, as each part cannot be expected to have the intention of the whole as its highest intention.

The unconscious also seeks out symbols and patterns and attaches meaning to them for fast interpretation. What it likes about your friends is you as much as what it doesn’t like about your friends is also you. The saying in psychology is, perception is projection – what you see is who you are. When talking to your unconscious always talk in positive terms as it cannot process a negative. Make sure you are telling it what you want it to do or think (set a positive intention), rather than what you don’t want it to do or think. Negative statements are accepted into our unconscious without first being corrected. Avoid using them.



Have you ever set an intention for the day and programmed your unconscious? You will notice that the moment you do, you achieve more of what you intend? If you work around the demands of others, without setting an intention for yourself, you will never be living your life. Intention is setting your objective, prioritising. It is like placing your aspiration into a specific place, a time in your future and committing to following the path until you get there. Here is another reason why Infinity Belief® is important to success. If you don’t believe that you can improve your future, it is likely you will not follow your path, but stray and likely follow others along their path. Here you will end up in a place that is not your own. You’re likely to have heard it said that life is a series of choices. It could also be said that a great life is a life where you make great choices. Setting a great intention is, in a sense, predetermining great choices. Imagine if you set your intention to become an Olympic athlete long ago. Would your choices have led you to this life? Or would you be fitter, faster, more agile and committed to training? A series of choices is a series of actions and actions are the outcomes of intention. Intention is what gets the whole thing started. If you intended to become a millionaire, do you think you would fritter away your savings? What would happen if from the age of 20 you made a choice to invest an initial $5,000 in a compounding interest account at (say) 10% interest and each week you invested a further $100? At the age of 50 it is likely that you will have made your first million! You don’t have to be highly intelligent to become a millionaire, you just have to intend to become one and commit to the actions to get you there. Alternatively, when your intention is to make enough to pay the bills that is exactly how much you will make. The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is due to not knowing what they want and never setting an intention. Think about this. What could be more powerful than the belief that you are going to succeed and setting your intention to take another step toward success? There is only one outcome and that is the life that you have intended. Connect to Infinity Belief®, set your intention and obtain your desired outcome. So an

easy formula for you to remember is, Beliefs + Intentions = Outcomes. B+I=O! BIO is the secret to unlocking your desired life! Bios is the Greek word for life. It is life! Your intention will pre‐determine your outcome. Approach your study with flippant intention and you will get flippant results. Or you can approach study with the intention to learn great things and guess what? You’ll learn great things! However you approach something pre‐determines how it will end. So Bring It On! Setting your intention for the day will help you to become conscious of what is occurring around you, particularly those things that help you to achieve your goals. Plus you will



find that you are far more focused on achieving your aim. Try it. Set an intention now, something that you choose to do and then gradually make your intentions bigger. Play with this and you will be amazed at what happens. You could also write an intention that helps to reinforce and instil your intentions within your unconscious. This will assist you greatly. You can also visualise your intention occurring in your day. ‘Today I will discover how to balance life and work’ or ‘I will improve my relationship with my boss’ are examples of intentions. By setting your intention you are focused on the day’s outcome and as such, you will look for answers and the Universe will help you to find them. Success is simply a series of intentions that were set and met. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. If you work around the demands of others, without setting an intention for yourself, you will never live your life.

2. Setting an intention for the day will help you to become conscious. 3. Intentions will have you focused on achieving your aim. 4. It is powerful to believe that you are going to succeed so set your intention to take another step toward success.

5. Beliefs + Intentions = Outcomes; B+I=O! BIO is the formula to life! Exercise – How to set your intention. What do you choose to bring to your life? ‘I intend to be a success and an inspiration to others!’ Maybe you have a more specific intention? ‘I intend to be a loving parent.’ Or maybe you would like to be day specific? ‘Today I intend to clear my desk of all the things that are nagging at me.’ Or connect to your spirit? ‘Today I intend to allow into my life, those people who shall help me to follow my path.’ Work out your intention for the day first thing in the morning or the night before. Write it down on a piece of paper and place it with your work things or on the breakfast table so you pick it up and remind yourself of what you have set for the day. While you are lying in bed, imagine yourself achieving your intention and try to feel yourself actually achieving it. See your intention in detail so you instil it into your unconscious.



“Money never

starts an idea. It

is always the

idea that starts

the money.”

– Owen

Laughlin

8: Love Money, it will Love You Back

Infinity Belief® – What you love expands in your life. We spoke about what you focus upon grows, so what you love grows large and fast! Boris Vene and Nikola Grubisa’s book The Millionaire Mindset recounts a wonderful story of a seemingly stupid boy. “It is common knowledge that older children often make fun of the youngest one in the group. In this situation, they made him choose between two coins, one larger and one smaller. Of course, the nickel is larger in size than the dime. The youngest boy always took the larger coin and the boys laughed at his stupidity. They repeated this game every time a new boy joined the group. After a long time of making fun of the same young boy, one of the boys felt sorry for him. He met with the boy alone and told him; the other boys are just making fun of you. When they offer you a coin, the smaller one is worth more. You should always take the smaller one. The young, seemingly stupid, boy looked at him, smiled and said ‐ Of course, but once I do that they’ll stop offering me money.” According to science, the basis of all things, everything we see, is made up of matter which translates into energy. Theology and science have found common ground, when they agree that energy is light and light is the first basic element from which all things are created. I believe that the second basic element is passion, from which all energy is driven. To help you to understand my thinking here, imagine the concept of electricity. Light is energy and like electricity it serves no purpose until you switch it on and connect the circuit. It is your intention or to a greater degree, passion for light that leads you to turn on the light. So what you have at your disposal is energy and it is the degree of your passion that determines what you create. The degree of passion is like a dimmer switch. Passion is a high‐energetic transference. Looking at the diagram above and using the example of the dimmer switch, we liken hate to darkness and low energy and love to high energy and the brightest, whitest light. Your degree of passion determines a specific intensity of energy or light. Hate is the lowest energy of PASSION and love is the highest energy, but each is still PASSION, they are simply varying degrees. In other words, what happens when you place your passion into hate as opposed to love? While I’m certain you know the answer, I’m not taking any chances! Place your passion into hate and you will bring about darkness and as a consequence, you will lose your energy to it and hate shall overcome you. Place your passion into love and you will bring about light and it will give you an abundance of energy. Now I’m certain you understand the sort of outcomes at either end of the scale.



But there’s more. As hate is low level light or darkness and love is bright, white light, understand that what I am referring to is again vibrational energy; remember light is a wave of energy. So there is another benefit in moving your passion toward the love‐end of the scale, as I shall elaborate. As love is a high level of energy, a bright white light, it is a higher vibration. Hate on the other hand is low level light or darkness and is therefore a lower vibration. The other reason for aiming to move up the love‐end of the scale is that the higher your vibration, the closer you come to your spiritual self and the greater the intensity of energy you bring to what you do. Can you begin to see why it is important to follow your passion by directing love to it, rather than hate? If you choose never to work for money and instead work toward your passion, guess what? Chances are you will have a lot of money. Now I haven’t yet discussed the middle position of the Passion Scale ‐ ambivalence. Ambivalence is the position where love and hate coexist and here the scale is easily tipped either way. Living in the middle, between love and hate is no man’s land where you are easily swayed or influenced because you have not affirmed your intention either way. In ambivalence you run the risk of living multiple lives, being non‐authentic and clinging to anything that may hold the promise of pleasure. People who live in the ambivalence‐section of the scale are usually depressed and without purpose. The way out of this position is to make a commitment to set a favourable intention. Your level of passion is also the degree of intention, the intensity that you direct towards anything you do. In other words, the extent of what we create is dependent upon the degree of passion we direct toward the things we do. In darkness everything is hidden, while a 100 watt light globe will light up a room. However a 100 watt laser beam will cut through steel. Focus your energy into your passion and you unleash a powerful source. It will manifest your dreams. Using a technique I call a white‐light‐meditation I assist my students to reveal their hidden passions. After doing so, they participate in an exercise where I encourage them to exchange what they experienced, their passion, with the person next to them to anchor their truth. The energy in the room dramatically elevates to amazing intensity. This is the only time I have to raise my voice to get their attention. They are completely in their passion, they go deaf and nothing else exists. This is an example of the power of passion or love. In Bob Doyle’s, Wealth Beyond Reason he says,

Low Energy ‐ Darkness High Energy – Bright Light

LOVE HATE AMBIVALENCE

THE PASSION SCALE



“The starting

point of all

achievement is

desire. Keep

this constantly

in mind. Weak

desires bring

weak results,

just as a small

amount of fire

makes a small

amount of

heat”–

Napoleon Hill

“If I could instil ONE principle into your head forever, it would be the fact that you do not have to figure out how anything will happen. It will happen because you follow your intuition and passionate feelings. It will not feel like work and you will not have to suffer over it one bit.” To help you to gain a deeper understanding, I will summarise this insight through the Law of Creation. All you see around you is energy; the degree in which you shift this energy is dependent upon the degree of passion you direct to it. At the love‐end of the passion scale, you will magnetise your thoughts and move heaven and earth to materialise your passion, because the energy from your thoughts attracts same energy. So get really excited about doing something specific and watch what happens. Feel your life transform and hear the observations of those around you begin to change, as you change. Now that you understand this basic Law of Creation hits you, your life will become much simpler and you will become more fulfilled. From this point on nothing will be complicated because you realise that if your life becomes complicated, it is in fact you that is complicating it! Moving to the love‐end of the passion scale is when you choose to let go of fear and follow your heart; passion of course comes from your heart. In doing so, you intensify your energy. You will be able to work incredible hours with endless energy. Others will be astonished at your productivity and you will maintain your energy for as long as you are passionate. Of course you will sleep and rest, but in the morning you will leap out of bed with purpose. When you choose to follow your heart, the essence of your spirit, you bring an awesome power to what you do. If you are currently working in a job for which you have little love, notice how you lose energy so easily, just by thinking about it. This is one of the clearest examples I can offer. If you do what you love, your energy levels will rise. Now that you know this, how do you love money so it will love you back? Can you recall when we discussed how everything that we can see is made up of matter? Well, money is also matter, so money is also energy. So, what happens when you love money? You alter your vibration to the same frequency as money and attract it into your life. You co‐mingle with the energy of money. You will create the same vibration as money and you will find that it flows into your life much easier than before. As thoughts are energy, this also makes sense why people with negative



“There’s no

such thing as

bad weather –

only the wrong

clothes.” – Billy

Connolly

associations to money and what it represents, never seem to have much of it. We will discuss this at length shortly. Vibrate success by talking, walking, acting and feeling your wealth in the present and you will have it delivered to you in the future. Right now you might think this sounds a bit far‐fetched, but believe me, understanding this fundamental concept will change your financial future forever. Understand that choosing to remain fixed on your current beliefs is choosing to remain unchanged. Just as a knife is not dangerous but a person can make it so, it is not money that corrupts; it is you who chooses to be corrupted. Find an angry, poor person and give them wealth and all you will get is an angry wealthy person. However, the poor remain poor more often due to their beliefs about money. Understand that I am not criticising the poor, nor am I devoid of compassion. I am merely making the point about respecting money, making it important. If you do not think your friends or family are important, do you think they would be around for long? What do you think occurs if you don’t think money is important? Understand that it is often those who do not have wealth that find wealth so difficult to stomach. If you find it difficult to love money, it is likely that this attitude has its own language in your life; phrases such as; ‘filthy rich’, ‘money is the root of all evil’ and one of my personal favourites, ‘they’re just in it for the money’. So what are people doing working in jobs they hate? Isn’t that being ‘just in it for the money’? I once read a newspaper survey stating that 80% of employees disliked their jobs. That’s a lot of people who are ‘just in it for the money’. Believing that ‘money is the root of all evil’ or it is greedy to desire money is a belief that will financially work against you. This belief builds enormous cognitive barriers that will keep you from improving your wealth; in fact it will repel money. I’m sure you will agree that if you believe that money is bad, it is certainly not a healthy belief to assist in growing your wealth. This belief will have you sabotage yourself and provides excuses for not realising your dreams, particularly the ones that require money. So choose to think productively about money. Embrace money and use it to help you to get what you really choose from life. Help others along the way too if you can. Remember, money is a concept. It is merely paper and digits, it is not evil or bad, it is only what you believe it is. Get out of your way and focus upon success? The sun is always present, but sometimes we let the clouds get in our way. It is time to remove the clouds from your mind. Imagine money flowing easily and effortlessly into your life, like blood flowing into your heart.



Before we continue however, I would like to make just one last point about money, while I suggest you should love money, I do not suggest that you love it above all else. I have watched people allow money to become their cancer by ignoring their families, compromising their ethics and using money to elevate their low self‐esteem. To the extreme, I witnessed a once old friend allow money to rule him to such a degree that upon rising up in his career and increasing his wealth, his personality dissolved into arrogance, he became ruthless and vicious. He destroyed many careers along the way, but like a fish, they always rot from the head first. His thoughts about money over all else destroyed his mind as he severed his friendships over money. Love money, but love it with love in your heart and care and respect others. Any reasons that you recite easily as to why you are not currently wealthy are blocks that you have placed ahead of your prosperity. These blocks become lodged firmly between your current life and the life of your dreams and are why you limit your financial growth. This unconscious sabotage is a finite belief. It is limited thinking. Finite beliefs are negative, cognitive associations that stop you from moving forward in your financial life and will nail you to the spot, hindering your progress. You believe you can go no further and you cannot succeed due to whatever excuse you have fabricated. Finite beliefs assist you in finding reasons for not making it or for your inability to achieve your dreams. As we are creatures of habit, we soon become unaware of our finite beliefs; we become unconscious. For this reason it is important to question your thoughts, beliefs and actions. Listen to your conscious mind, become aware of your thoughts. Over the next few weeks listen to your thoughts, your inner‐chatter or self‐talk and take mental notes of your thoughts. Become aware of the beliefs that limits your growth. You may discover some limiting thoughts and once you realise they exist, you are halfway there to ceasing those thoughts and associated blocks. Below I have included a list of some examples of finite beliefs. Some of these may be holding you back. It would be helpful at this point to read through these statements and tick any that you believe are currently the reasons why you are not wealthy. It is important to be honest with yourself as you can only benefit from truth. The Reason why I am not wealthy (tick the reasons that apply to you).

I left school too early and I lack education. My family is poor/not well‐off. The cost of living is too high. I can’t seem to get ahead. I can’t seem to save money. I’m not prepared to work the long hours to earn the big salary. It takes money to make money. I’m reluctant to play the game or play the politics.



Wanting more money is greedy. I wasn’t born in the right neighbourhood. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. The rich are a bunch of snobs. Who’d want to be one anyway? If I made a lot of money, I’d only lose it again. I would lose my friends if I were wealthy. If I was meant to be wealthy, I’d win the lottery. I can’t be bothered trying, I’ll just fail anyway. There is only so much to go around and the rich have most of it.

(Add any of your beliefs that are not listed on the lines below) ……………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………….. ……………………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………..

Below are some common finite beliefs and underneath them I have countered these using Infinity Belief®. You will notice that there is a common thread that runs through these. Can you guess what it is? 1. I left school too early; I lack the education I need to get ahead. Infinity Belief®: My knowledge continues to grow. I have all I need to succeed within me now. Success after all is a journey and I’m on track. Believing that a lack of education is holding you back is an excuse and you can use it conveniently to avoid success. Any knowledge that you need can be found. There are also many examples of people who have succeeded with limited or no formal education. 2. I pay too much tax, my bills just keep getting bigger and I just can’t seem to save. Infinity Belief®: I take total responsibility for my life. I budget and I stick to it. I have enough to pay all my bills and my savings keep growing. This demonstrates a limited belief that others are to blame, corporations are out to get you and life will never get better. Move beyond blame. 3. I don’t know what I want to do for a living. Infinity Belief®: I ask my higher self, my spirit to reveal my passion to me at the perfect time and now choose to relax and get out of my own way. Life is not perfect so what does it matter if you try something you like and find out later you like something more and move on to something else. Find your passion for life and through the experience you may realise your destiny. Trust that it will be revealed to you upon asking your higher self. However, realise that you will not find your destiny by living a less than passionate life.



4. It takes money to make money and I don’t have enough. Infinity Belief®: My wealth grows daily. I accept wealth and trust in the Universe to deliver a multitude of opportunities for wealth. Few of the wealthy people today were born wealthy. It is easy to blame your current situation, your parents and your heritage. 5. Wanting more money is greedy. Infinity Belief®: The more money I manifest, the more opportunity I have to live a full life and the more people I can help. Greed is a social perception, a judgement that allows society to build a wall of negative energy between what we know as ‘us’ and ‘them’ and the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. In reality, it is a poor excuse in the true sense of the phrase. How will you ever have money if you believe that wanting money is being greedy? If you resent what others have in any shape, manner or form, you will never have it. The statements above are some common sayings and beliefs. Holding these as true will not help you. They will however provide excuses or blocks that you can place in the path of wealth. A complete list of excuses, I am certain, will fill an entire book. Have you noticed how most of these finite beliefs pass on responsibility to someone or something other than you? So, what beliefs and values do not serve you? Which ones are holding you back? Uncover them, interrogate them and free yourself from the burden of finite beliefs by being conscious of them. From this point on know that if you choose to attract wealth, you must love money and it will love you back. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Our Universe is made up of only two elements; Love and Light. Light is Energy and Love determines the direction of this energy.

2. The degree of which you can shift energy is dependent upon the degree of love you direct at it.

3. Love money and you will attract more of it into your life. Vibrate success by talking, walking, acting and feeling your wealth in the present and you will bring it to you in the future.

4. Remove the clouds from your mind and your day will be sunnier. 5. Monitor your finite beliefs; take note of them and interrogate them.



“If you believe

you are capable

or incapable of

doing

something, you

are right in

both cases.” –

Henry Ford

9: What You Perceive You Believe Infinity Belief® ‐ Expect it is easy and it is. The Law of Expectation is a universal law that states whatever you expect with confidence becomes your own self‐fulfilling prophecy. Nothing is stacked against you in life, nothing but your own thinking. Fear of failure, a lack of confidence and any phobia for that matter, originates from your own thinking. The Law of Expectation explains why the optimist and the pessimist are both correct – whatever you expect, you get. So you don’t get what you want or need, but what you expect. Think of it this way. Your expectation determines your thoughts and so your efforts and actions shall be no greater and no less than what you believe is required. Thus, the end result is pre‐determined by you. You are no wiser than your current logic allows, no wealthier than your self‐esteem permits and no braver than your courage to face your fears. To expect a result, an outcome means that you are in charge of the ship and its destination. The course you choose and the speed and time it takes you to get to your destination is your choice. Could it be that elite athletes become so because they believe they can through dedication and extensive training and so they dedicate to train extensively? Due to their expectations, they commit to what they believe it takes and hence they become elite. Could it be that they stretch themselves and consistently push themselves beyond their threshold and as a result, they break world records because they believe they can and expect to do so? You perceive what you believe and you believe what you experience. So believe you can and you will direct your energy into your beliefs and as a result, you will realise your beliefs. Some believe that if you work long and hard, success and money will come your way. There are two interesting points here. If you believe that working long and hard ensures success, then this approach is the only way you will work to increase your wealth. No‐one has more than 24 hours at their disposal and many work long and hard, so why is it that some people seem to succeed and some fail? The answer is strangely simple. Wealthy people believe that for them it is easy to build wealth. So their belief has them acting to manifest wealth easily. While others believe that no matter how hard or long they work, success is not meant for them and so this is also true. The Law of Expectation prevails again.



“Those who

say it can’t be

done are

usually

interrupted by

others doing

it.” – James

Arthur Baldwin

I recall talking to a friend on the phone one evening. He was annoyed at his wife because he wanted to go away for the weekend with his mates and believed his wife would refuse him the opportunity. The most amusing twist to this was, he hadn’t yet discussed the weekend with his wife and already he was getting upset at her refusal to let him go. I asked him ‐ What would have to happen for his wife to agree and let him go? And I asked him to imagine her agreeing and in fact, encouraging him to go. He soon calmed down and laughed, realising he was creating an issue that hadn’t occurred. He felt a little silly, but the truth is, he was unconscious of what he was doing. I asked him to connect to Infinity Belief®. When he discussed the weekend with his wife, she not only agreed to him going, she encouraged him. How often do you get in your own way and attract undesirable circumstances? Believing you will not win will have you fail. Believing you won’t come to an agreement will have you argue; in fact it will prepare you for one! Understand that your ‘knee‐jerk’ responses are often unconscious behaviour, habits of response that stem from your beliefs. Understand how easily beliefs are developed in formative years. At a very young age some elephants are chained to a stake in the ground. They pull at the chain to break free, but the chain does not allow them to escape. Their attempts instead create pain and soon they give up. When this occurs, their keeper replaces the chain with rope. The elephant still believes that the connection to the stake holds them and attempting to break free will only cause itself pain. The elephant then makes a conscious decision to desist from breaking free. You have also been conditioned to believe certain things are true and seldom rethink your beliefs. This conditioning equally limits your freedom. It is for the opposite reason as the elephant with limited belief that I believe children experience what we describe as paranormal phenomena. They have no expectations at all! They believe that more is possible and so what they see and experience is beyond most sceptical adults. Their beliefs and thoughts are neither polarised nor adulterated. So why do you think that making money is hard? Why is finding your soul mate or losing that extra weight far too difficult? Where did those chains come from? When it comes to the notion that making money is hard, the idea may have come from watching your parents arrive home each day from work. Listening to them complain about how hard they worked for so little money and complaining about the bills. It is then easy to understand how you formed this belief. I recall a time before I understood these principles and I touched on this earlier. I believed I worked harder than most. It was not unusual to hear me say, ‘I’m so sick and tired of working so hard.’ I was like a broken record. And not surprisingly, what was true in my life during this time? I was often sick



and always tired. What would have happened if I’d said more often, ‘Wow! Making money is easy!’ And more‐so, what would have transpired if I believed it? Be conscious of your thoughts and mindful of what you think and say. In terms of prosperity, however you think is the way in which wealth will manifest itself into your life, is the way it will be true for you. You can think that prosperity comes from hard work, smart work or passionate work, but what if you began reading this book and something changed at a neurological level and money started coming your way easily? It can and it will. I recall working with a gentleman who phoned me excitedly one afternoon and said ‐ Guess what? I just doubled my salary, just like you said I could! I then replied ‐ What if you chose to triple your income? Realise that you do have an enormous influence on your life. Follow what you love and work won’t seem like work. Find the work that your intuition is guiding you towards. Don’t worry if it doesn’t seem like work to you and do not feel guilty accepting payment for something you love. You will be all the better a person for loving what you do. And by thinking this way, it is likely that you will become one of the best if not the best in your field. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Think it easy and it will be; think it hard and it will be hard. 2. Be mindful of what you say, even in jest; you may begin to believe your own words. Know what you are creating.

3. However you believe it to be, is how it will occur in your life. 4. Believe you can and you will find ways to get over, under and around every obstacle.



10: Expect that Success is Inevitable.

Infinity Belief® ‐ Expect to find ways to succeed and you shall. A school once had a problem with a group of 12‐year‐old girls who were starting to use lipstick. For fun they repeatedly kissed the mirror above the hand basins, leaving marks. The janitor found the lipstick marks difficult to remove and was frustrated as each day he would clean the mirror, only to see them reappear the following day. The school tried countless ways to stop the girls until the janitor, believing success was inevitable, came up with the solution. The headmaster called all the girls into the toilet and explained how difficult it was to clean off the lipstick. The janitor then demonstrated, by dipping his mop into a nearby toilet and smudging the lipstick across the mirror. The girls never kissed the mirror again. Believe success is inevitable and success will find you. If you accept a problem, you get to keep it. The moment you accept that success is inevitable, you will move heaven and earth to obtain it. When I was a child, unlike my friends, I wasn’t given an allowance as my parents were post‐war immigrants and not financially well‐off. They possessed a poverty mentality and that didn’t help either. But somehow I always seemed to find ways of earning money. Without knowing it, I was subscribing to the Law of Expectation – you receive whatever you believe and expect to obtain. For me, opportunities seemed to magically present themselves, maybe because I believed in magic. One day, I helped a school friend to cart his old newspapers to the grocer. I learned that the grocer used them to wrap his vegetables and he duly paid my friend a few cents for them. I asked the grocer if he would like more and soon I was knocking on every door in my neighbourhood, offering to rid them of their old newspapers. My neighbours were glad to clear them from their garages and I was happy to do the work and earn the money. Some also had empty lemonade bottles and were glad to be rid of them too. I then collected lemonade bottles for their deposit. One day at school, my most entrepreneurial idea came to me after presenting soldier crabs at Show‐and‐Tell. I had all these crabs and didn’t know what to do with them. My school friends were fascinated by them, so I sold them as pets. Soon I began thinking about a regular income. So I rode my bike up a hill that overlooked the West and peered down at Melbourne’s factories. There were factories everywhere, so I expected to get a job. After all I only wanted one job and there were so many factories. I was filled with a sense of excitement as I knew success was inevitable. I visited factory after factory and received rejection after rejection. I didn’t know being 8 years old was a disadvantage. Work was not to be found, but I still held the excitement of success in my heart. I knew a job was out there somewhere but today was not the day, so I started home. On my way home I passed the newsagent and slammed on my brakes and screeched to a halt. I thought to myself, ‘I’ll



“80 percent of

success is

showing up.” ‐

Woody Allen

give this a go! I have a bike, so I could be a paperboy!’ I asked for a job one last time that day and it turned out that just that day a paperboy had resigned and they needed someone fast. I was underage, but that didn’t seem to bother the owner, nor did it get in the way of my inevitable success. From that day forward I had all the money I needed (I didn’t need much back then). Believe in inevitable success and you will find it, or it will find you. Can you see how by believing you will succeed leads you to push on, rather than giving up without trying? If you truly believe success is inevitable, will you change the way you approach the task? Will you conduct yourself differently? Will you work harder to manifest your expectations? Will obstacles become large, imposing boulders or stepping stones toward that which you choose? Most importantly, will you take the first step? You can think and talk about anything for as long as you like but this will only do so much. To truly succeed, you must show up, you must take action, but belief in success will make all the difference when you do show up. If you knew of a magnificent fishing spot, brimming with fish, would you bait your hook more carefully? Would you be more patient, knowing that soon you would yield your quarry? Would you cast your line with precision into the perfect spot, with much more thought invested? But mostly, would you bring along a bucket to bring home your catch? The moment you believe in success, the moment you commit to it, is the moment you succeed. If you do not expect wealth you will never find wealth, you will unconsciously sabotage any attempt to become wealthy. You may invest in stocks without researching the market. You may never apply for that promotion or unconsciously sabotage your efforts. Equally if you believe you are socially inept, you will get in the way of any chance to unveil or discover your charisma. So, is a belief in inevitable success vital to success? Change your expectation and you change not only your attitude, but also your methods of action. If you believe that success is close you’ll look under every rock to find it because you would never look for something that you believe does not exist. Simply knowing this and being persistent ensures success. You increase your chances of success to a much larger degree than if you had chosen to do nothing. Suspend disbelief for a moment and believe that success is inevitable, and you will approach the task in a successful manner. Try it and see how your results seem to magically improve. A consistent theme that seems to divide the successful from the fearful is that they each get what they focus upon. Successful people focus upon success and fearful people focus upon their fear. When you focus on worry, you place fear in your path. Fearful people



also tend to think of the past with a sense of remorse and the future with a sense of dread. Successful people however look forward to the future and focus on being productive by placing their attention upon the present. Do you invest more of your thoughts in your past than in your present or future? If you think about the past, you bring the past into the present and recreate your past in your future. If financially you’ve done well in the past, then you will expect more of the same. If you’ve done badly, it is likely that you will expect to do badly. If this is the case, know that you can change your financial situation by altering your expectations and thus your thinking and actions will change. And by changing your actions, you will certainly change your results. So view your past as lessons, not failings, and invest more time in developing your present state into a more desirable state. Try this. The next time you go for a job interview, before you even arrive for the first interview, imagine that you’ve already got the job. Or if you’re selling an idea, imagine that it’s sold before the presentation starts. Or if you are going to purchase a car, a house, a fridge or anything, believe that you are going to get a great deal and watch what happens. I mean really believe it. Visualise it, magnetise your thoughts, and say it out loud. ‘I have a wonderful new job! I have succeeded in selling my idea! I just saved hundreds!’ Now find 10 reasons why any of the scenarios above could be true for you. Really, really believe more is possible. Why? Because more is possible when you believe it is. Step up to the plate, believe you can and you will. If you believe something is not possible, or it is not easy, you will look for hard and complex ways in which to make it happen for you. It can’t be that easy because if it were, everyone would be doing it, right? Wrong! History has many examples of success found easily. I recall a client who expressed her sadness and desperation in trying to find her soul mate. Because she was middle aged and divorced with a child, she thought that no‐one would see her as a suitable partner. I explained that while she needed to alter her expectation. She was wanting, telling herself and the Universe that she didn’t have someone special in her life; her desperate state was not matching the vibration of a suitor and her wanting was repelling her potential partner. The moment she understood Infinity Belief® and altered her thinking, change occurred. Three days after Infinity Belief® coaching, a wonderful man came into her life. They are still together today and both are blissfully happy. I recall another client who was looking for a job but not gaining

PAST FUTURE THE PRESENT

WHERE DO YOU INVEST YOUR THOUGHTS?



interviews. After coaching, she not only gained an interview but made it to the final two from 120 applicants and while she didn’t get that job, she was offered another soon after. Success is inevitable if you believe it is. If you believe that success is inevitable, you will move mountains and try numerous ways until you succeed. Connect to Infinity Belief® and you will never give up. This alone is inevitability in action. While I talk within the text of this book of ways to attract many things in life including wealth, it is of course not a cure‐all. I use wealth because it is helpful to teach you Infinity Belief®. So at this juncture, I would like to make another point about money. While it is fantastic, it is not heaven. Some people flaunt their wealth in an attempt to prove they are worthy and lift their illusion of status. Understand that Infinity Belief® is about expanding spiritually, from the inside‐out, growing a healthy respect for all who walk this earth, rich and poor. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Believe you will fail and you won’t even try to succeed. 2. Success is inevitable if you choose to believe it is. 3. Change your expectation and you change not only your attitude, but also your methods. If you believe that success is close you’ll look under every rock to find it.

4. Whatever you expect, you create. It is the Law of Expectation. 5. Persist until you succeed, not a second less. EXERCISE – Brainstorming for Success. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to move closer to success. Have a piece of paper and a pen handy for this exercise. 1.What would have to happen for me to become successful? 2.What is the first thing that I have to do to start? 3.If I secretly knew what to do now, what would it be? 4.If I had a major breakthrough, what might that be? 5.What is the one thing I can do to fast‐track success? 6.What is something I haven’t thought of yet?



11: Mind Your Language

Infinity Belief® – Be conscious and choose your words. Your words determine who you become.

Dr. Masaru Emoto, the chairman of the IHM General Research Institute in Japan, demonstrated that subtle energies such as words can alter states of matter. Dr. Emoto proved that water has the ability to register and store vibrations produced by the spoken and written word and by thoughts, feelings and sounds conveyed to it. He instructed a group of people to project love and gratitude to water samples, gained from the same source. Each water sample was then frozen, examined and photographed under a powerful microscope. The water that was exposed to positive vibrations, positive words such as ‘wisdom’, ‘love’ and ‘thank you’, showed delicate, bright crystalline structures with beautifully formed hexagonal crystals. The water that was exposed to negative vibrations, words such as ‘fool’ and ‘I hate you’, revealed dark, distinctly dull, chaotically formed crystals. According to science, we are open, dissipative systems, continuously receiving and transmitting energy. This now brings logic to what we have intuitively known for many years. Our thoughts and words profoundly affect and mirror our inner selves, as well as those around us. Try it for yourself. Here’s a little experiment to help you to understand the power of your words. Say to yourself or out loud, ‘I am tired and weak’ 50 times and then exert yourself. Swim a lap of a pool, do push ups or run around the block and record your times. Then conduct a similar experiment. But this time say to yourself 50 times, ‘I am energised and powerful’ with passion and note the power of your words. I guarantee that even though you have already run around the block or swum a lap, your second time will be better than your first. Understand your words are certainly powerful. This is serious, do not take this lightly. Understand the power of a stated intention. A friend of mine at a Goal Setting workshop and in a state of ego, he wrote down an intriguing goal, stating that he would overcome an incurable disease. Soon after, he developed Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Using Infinity Belief® to alter his unconscious habit patterns, my friend is now uncertain as to whether he has MS as the symptoms have subsided. Be conscious. Be mindful of the words you choose, because what you think and say out loud not only possesses a specific vibration, but will also at some level have you believing in your own words. Your words also provide clues to your beliefs. For example, phrases such as ‘I’ll give it a try’, or ‘I’ll see what happens’ or ‘maybe I’ll be lucky this time’, communicate to your unconscious that you do not hold a great deal of hope for yourself, and your body and mind will minimise your efforts. These phrases reveal uncertainty, low self‐esteem or insecurity. While this may be the case, realise that you can talk yourself out of feelings of insecurity by choosing empowering words and corresponding



“Resentment is

like taking

poison and

waiting for the

other man to

die.” – Malachy

McCourt

images, thereby altering your feelings. Don’t be humble when talking to yourself. Instead rephrase your words and put an empowering spin to them; ‘I can make anything work’, or ‘I feel fantastic’! Or ‘I am my own luck’! If you’re a parent, be mindful of what you say to your children because you could be developing insecurities in your children, among other self‐limiting behaviours. I hope these phrases don’t sound familiar to you: You’re a pig! Are you stupid? You’re so clumsy! Get out of my face you brat! I can even feel the negative energy as I write these words. What sort of child do you think you are creating with this language? Not a very confident one I’m afraid. You may have noticed that I prefer to use the word ‘choose’ rather than the word ‘want’. The reason for this is because wanting doesn’t necessarily lead to having. For example; ‘I choose to be wealthy’ holds more power than ‘I want to be wealthy’. Millions of people want to be wealthy, but few are. Choose your words carefully. The study of Kinesiology, through muscle testing, further demonstrates the power of words and their effects on the muscular system. Statements of blame, anger, resentment, shame and fear reduce energy and weaken the muscular system, while statements of pride, excitement, passion and optimism strengthen the muscles. So your words can weaken or strengthen you. And you, of course, can choose your words. If you realised the power of words and thoughts, you would choose absolute silence over negative words and no thought over destructive reflection. I have heard it said that we spend the rest of our lives working to build the confidence that we lost as children. As a child, negative statements and threats are accepted into the unconscious without correction and of course this is also true in some adults. Later in life and with this type of conditioning, if an event occurs where you need to summon courage, your conscious reaches into your unconscious and is likely to only find fear. Then the negative thoughts begin; I’m so clumsy. How could I even think I could join the football team? If I try, the others will just laugh at me, so I’m better off not even trying for the team. I’ll just lay low. I’ll say I’m not feeling well and not turn up. You know this is not an over‐exaggeration. This is how some children think and it troubles me deeply. I hope that some young rising stars are reading this now, saying, ‘No way man! I’m shooting for the stars and I’m going to do something great with my life!’ Good for you, because you can. As you know, your words come from your beliefs and can often arise from distorted thinking, otherwise known as cognitive distortions. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire cited a number of cognitive distortions. I have listed some of them



“Anyone who

has ever

struggled with

poverty knows

how extremely

expensive it is

to be poor.ʺ –

James Arthur

Baldwin

below to provide you with an idea as to how you can so easily corrupt information. I have taken the liberty of simplifying these. 1. Black and White Thinking ‐ There are no shades of grey here; it is all or nothing, it’s either this way or that way, no in‐betweens. 2. Limited Conclusive Thinking ‐ This is taking only one or two pieces of information to form quick conclusions, giving little thought to other options or seeking more relevant or pertinent data. 3. Negating the Positive ‐ This is pure rejection of anything positive, such as rejecting a compliment by suggesting it doesn’t count for some reason or other. 4. Filtering the Negative ‐ This is a process of listening out only for negative data and deleting positive data. Commonly known as pessimism. 5. Expanding the Negative ‐ This is over‐inflating a situation; making a mountain out of a molehill is a common description of this thinking. 6. Should Statements ‐ are commonly statements about tasks that you are not doing and so bring about guilt. Your words stem from your beliefs and these beliefs have become part of you so easily, often without you even understanding their origin as you seldom question their validity or their truth. I’m sure you have heard people excuse their inability to gain wealth or have what they desire with beliefs such as ‘money cannot buy happiness’ or ‘wealth is misery’. Well I’m here to tell you that these sayings are true ‐ if you believe they are. As Infinity Belief® encourages you to go beyond limited thinking, I would like to challenge some common beliefs to demonstrate their limitations. Here are some well used and often believed sayings: ‐ 1. “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” Now here is a saying that is not meant to be taken literally, but is so frequently recited around children who ask for things that cost more money than parents are prepared to pay. But money does grow on trees. The agriculture industry would argue that trillions of dollars are generated each year by planting and harvesting orchards. So money does in fact, grow on trees.



2. “Money is the root of all evil.” Many wealthy individuals and companies provide generous donations to charities and worthy organisations. In fact, money is responsible for most of the things we use and enjoy. Money helps fund research and development for new medical breakthroughs and exciting playthings, those items we often call comforts. Is money the root of all evil if it is responsible for so much good? If you believe that money is evil, you will not attract it into your life, simple. 3. “You need a good education to succeed.” Check your history books and start counting how many amazing success stories were initiated by uneducated individuals. Thomas Edison, one of history’s greatest inventors, hardly went to school. 4. “You can’t buy happiness.” If you retired and were able to spend your time travelling the world, fishing from your own cruiser, walking along the beach of your own island, or living your dream, I’m sure you would be happy to some degree. How good did you feel the last time you paid for a massage? How did you feel the last time you took the family on a holiday? There is some truth in this saying, but I think it is misunderstood. Money cannot buy you happiness, only you can make you happy by choosing to be. However this saying is often used by people who ward you off making money and doing better than them. 5. “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Try this. Walk into a patisserie, buy a cake and eat it. I know after you have eaten your cake that you no longer have it. Who cares, go out and buy another one. This saying is often motivated by jealousy. Limited thinking is not only a barrier to progress and invention, but also your financial health. Believing in limiting, well‐worn sayings have the power to stop you from even trying. Now I would like to examine some predictions made years ago to show you how limited thinking can be. Many of these have come from highly respected leaders in their field, so be careful what you believe, no matter how influential the source. No matter how many people you hear saying it, remember that most people are unconscious of what they are saying and the majority are certainly not financially successful. Some people also make wealth conditional with phrases such as, ‘I’d rather be healthy than wealthy’. I’m sorry, but the two are not mutually exclusive; you can be healthy and wealthy. “This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” ‐ Western Union internal memo, 1876



“Heavier‐than‐air flying machines are impossible.” ‐ Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895 “TV wonʹt be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first 6 months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” ‐ Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946 “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” ‐ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899 “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” ‐ Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” ‐ Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “We donʹt like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” ‐ Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 While Bill Gates got this one wrong, thankfully he kept altering his beliefs. “640K ought to be enough for anyone.” ‐ Bill Gates, 1981 One way of altering a limited belief is to ask yourself this question. ‘What if I’m totally wrong about this?’ The moment you challenge a belief with a more empowering question, you destabilise the belief. You may become surprised when you realise that you cannot know for certain if your belief is totally true. Think of one of your beliefs and ask yourself this question and see what thoughts arise. If you can’t think of one, try this one on for size – ‘I can’t double my income.’ Now, what if you’re totally wrong? The questions you ask yourself determine your answers and it just might be the perfect time of your life to improve your answers and so too your life. Einstein said “The most important decision we ever make is whether we believe we live in a friendly Universe or a hostile one.” Imagine how your interactions with strangers would alter if you decided that people are naturally friendly? What would you experience as a result? And what would happen if we all accepted this positive position? Think of your thoughts as making a series of telephone calls and scheduling events in your future. Are you making positive, pleasant calls or abusive and angry calls? Do you expect the caller at the other end to be hostile and if so, how will you begin the conversation? If you are constantly thinking about an irritation in your life, what are the orders that you are placing in your future? Could it be you are expecting more of the same?



Be mindful of what you think about because what you think about most, you create, you unconsciously guide yourself toward that which you believe. Like a stone in a pond, your words and thoughts ripple outward until they reach the bank (the Universe) and then expand as they ripple back toward you, to become you. Imagine you’ve received a bill in the mail. You look at the amount owing and say to yourself ‐ ‘I can’t afford to keep paying these bills.’ What are you saying to your unconscious? These thoughts ensure that you will find ways not to pay your bills and your thoughts will at a deeper level create stress. Yes, you got it! You create your own stress. You might be thinking of someone in particular and how they make you feel. Know that no‐one can make you feel anything, only you can choose to feel a particular way. You cannot blame anyone for how you are feeling, because only you allow yourself to feel a particular way. Worrying about what others think of you creates a state of anxiety in the presence of others. If you wish to be relaxed, choose to think about the social interaction in a calm way or see yourself as calm or friendly in your imagination. Worrying about your bills only creates more worry. As you are in control of your thoughts, you are also in control of your spending. Maybe it is time to consider a budget or think differently. You have control of this thing you call life and its time to start acting accordingly; you’re driving the bus, choosing the direction, the pace, the final destination as well as the baggage and passengers you choose to enjoy, or carry along the way. Understand that your thoughts ripple outwards into the Universe, and if you worry about your finances you magnetise more lack in your life (fulfilling your beliefs), flowing back to you as your reality. So whatever you think, ask for and believe with conviction, the Universe will help you to manifest it. Now, I did say help you, not do it for you. Know that you have to ‘action your thoughts’ too. If you believe you will continue to struggle financially, you will fulfil your belief; you will find ways to struggle financially. Remember you only get what you believe and focus upon. Thoughts of lack bring more lack, thoughts of prosperity bring more prosperity and mixed messages bring confusion and chaos, if anything at all. So be mindful of your thoughts and words. The next time you hear yourself say, ‘I’d give my right arm for that…’ stop and ask yourself – What am I instructing the Universe to do? Mick (not his real name), is what most would call a workaholic. Each time I met with him he was stressed over work. Finally his wife begged him to take a holiday and reluctantly he agreed to take two weeks off. In the first week he decided to do some work on their home. I recall him often saying that he would have to lose his right arm to stop working. Mick was using a circular saw to cut a piece of timber when he spotted blood on the floor. Only then did he realise that he had cut off a finger. Fortunately, after microsurgery, his finger was back on his hand. However he had to spend the next two weeks resting.



“If you believe

you can, you

probably can. If

you believe

you won’t, you

most assuredly

won’t. Belief is

the ignition

switch that gets

you off the

launching

pad.” – Denis

Waitley

Coincidence? What do you think? Be careful what you think and/or believe as it might just come true. Here is how it works. Let’s say that one Sunday afternoon you and a friend are watching a movie which features two friends who travel around Europe on motorbikes and have a wow of a time. Your friend is inspired by the movie and suggests that you could get a motorbike licence and together head off to Europe to do the same thing. Now while your friend has a licence and rides a motorbike, you don’t. But you like the idea. Remember, nothing happens without a thought. Now here enters your first thought ‐ Travelling around Europe on a motorbike sounds like fun, but I can’t ride a motorbike. Now the thought moves to an emotion and you feel excited, the emotion determines the next thought. How hard could it be to get a motorbike licence? Now because you can see more pleasure in doing the trip than the fear of not being able to get your motorbike licence, you begin searching for supporting evidence to allay your fears and begin to build a belief that you can do this. So you think to yourself ‐ I’ve ridden a bicycle and it couldn’t be that much harder to ride a motorbike. I drive a car and know the road rules, so getting a motorbike licence should be easy. I just need to learn how to ride a motorbike. I’m better at sport than my friend, I’m more courageous, I’m smarter than he is and he can ride a motorbike, so it can’t be that hard. So okay, now you Believe you can do this, so from this point onwards your Thoughts reflect this Belief. Then as your Thoughts surround the trip to Europe you begin to feel excited, so your Emotions are supporting the Belief and so you begin planning the trip. You learn to ride a motorbike and the biggest hurdle is overcome. Here are the Actions, and the Result is that you get your licence and travel to Europe on a motorbike with your friend. However should you not be able to build a Belief that riding a motorbike around Europe is possible, then your Thoughts would reflect doubt, your Emotions would bring about fear or uncertainty and no Actions would be the Result. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Many of your beliefs may be incorrect. Ask yourself – ‘What if I’m totally wrong about this?’ Interrogate your limiting beliefs.

2. Be mindful of what you accept and believe, no matter how influential or supposedly credible the source.

3. Your thoughts are like making a series of telephone calls and scheduling events in your future.



4. Thoughts of lack bring more lack, thoughts of prosperity bring more prosperity and mixed messages bring confusion and chaos.

5. You will rarely commence anything that you believe you will not succeed in doing. Expand your beliefs and you will achieve more.

6. You can alter your beliefs by seeking supporting evidence to validate a new belief. New beliefs can be changed just by using your imagination EXERCISE: Determine Your Words Below is an example of the associated feelings that I believe relate to poverty as opposed to feelings that relate to prosperity. Each of these states can be created by thinking pre‐determined thoughts. Create a list of words that describe the feelings that you believe are associated with what you choose to bring into your life and practice saying them, feeling them and seeing the related pictures on a daily basis. That’s right, you can create a feeling. Just imagine yourself being in the state that you choose to be.

POVERTY STATE PROSPERITY STATE YOUR GOAL STATE Anxious Calm

Unsure/Tentative Confident

Drama‐focused Action‐focused

Hopeful Certain/Focused

Fatalistic Responsible

Indecisive Decisive

Angry Loving

Hesitant Cool Determination

Focus on Past Focus on Present

Seeking security Seeking Growth

Fixed Mindset Creative/Flexible

Cynical/Limited Infinity Belief®

Practice this state daily



“Everything

you can

imagine is

real.” – Picasso

12: Imagination is a Magnet

Infinity Belief® – Manifestation starts in the imagination. As each of us, my spiritual expansion began when I was born, though for me, I became conscious of this at 7 years old. In the early hours of the morning, while still dark, I awoke to see a glow in the corner of my bedroom. Within the glow I saw what I believed to be several small elves, they were playing in the glow and I could hear their laughter. Each was about 10 centimetres high and wearing brightly coloured clothing. They were jumping around like circus performers; I watched them from my bed, for around 15 minutes until I was compelled to get closer, so they could see me. The moment I moved toward them and my bedcovers ruffled, their eyes darted toward mine and they instantly vanished. As much as I wanted to, for the next 10 years I never experienced anything like that again. And then, at 17 I began seeing what I believed to be spirits. This next sighting occurred at an art camp. I was among a group of students selected from my school to attend an art camp at Noojee, Victoria. We slept in large military tents with wooden floorboards, under the canopy of the tall eucalypt trees. On the second last night, as I was walking out of the tent, I saw a spirit up in the lower branches of the trees. Behind me a girl named Sharon was following me when all of a sudden she screamed, she saw the spirit too. Did we really see a spirit? In truth, I do not know. But I do know that seeing the elves and spirits amongst other things, convinced me that we can only know a small part of the real story. And while I know I am not alone in my experiences, I also know our self‐doubt and our need for acceptance will have us remain tight‐lipped about our paranormal experiences, so nothing other than the accepted norms are discussed, even imagination is often viewed as folly. I believe there is purpose to childhood. It is not only a time in which we grow and learn, it is also a time in which we learn to dream, to imagine and go beyond what the majority perceives to be real. Unfortunately, as we grow and move into adulthood, we are led to believe in only what our eyes see and what our ears hear and our senses truthfully feel. It is not unusual for us to disbelieve our intuition and to fail our imagination. In doing so, we lose the art of creation and deny our intuition. The power to create does not come from what we know, but what we can imagine and to the extent of our imagination. It is no surprise that to dream can bring about euphoria! It seems however, that we strive as adults to move our children out of their imagination and into the realm of logic as soon as possible. Joseph Chilton Pearce’s The Biology of Transcendence rightly states, “We are convinced our agenda for our children is good for them and are perplexed when they resist this apparent benevolence with all their might, mystified as to how it is that nature



“There is more

treasure in

books than in

all the pirate’s

loot on

Treasure

Island.” – Walt

Disney

would build into children a compulsion to play when responding to our adult wisdom about learning to survive often seems to suffer as a result.” He then goes on to say, “…I knew that play was the whole reason for and essence of life – and not just for children, but for all God’s children, whatever their age; and I understood that our great model’s observation that we must become again as little children meant precisely what it said.” To change your life, you must first rest your ego and allow change, and then change your thinking. In order to alter your thoughts you must first understand that you are not your thoughts or your brain (as many believe), your brain is a tool and you can take charge and change your thoughts. You, your very being (your spirit) control and direct your brain and your thoughts. You can alter your thoughts as easily as choosing to change the direction in which you walk. If you are fooled into believing that your brain controls you, you are allowing your thoughts to amble, unfocused, waiting for a thought to come from your brain and instruct you as to what to do next. If you cannot direct your thoughts, you cannot direct your life. Understand that by believing that your brain controls you, you are giving away your power to a subordinate tool that is looking for a leader. Do not for a moment believe that you cannot control your thoughts because you can. Think about a tree. See it in your mind. Imagine the sound of the leaves rustling in the breeze and feel the gentle breeze on your face. What you just created in your brain was not real but imagined. There, you have just accepted leadership over your brain. While I made the suggestion, it was you who chose to think of a tree, not your brain; your brain merely obeyed your order. A man visited me and asked me to remove the dark thoughts within his mind. I suggested that he imagine a landscape and describe it to me. He did just that, in such detail. On opening his eyes, I asked him ‐ Where is this place you so beautifully described? He told me that it was in his imagination. I said ‐ Is it not true that beauty lives in the same place where dark thoughts can co‐exist and that you can simply choose what type of thoughts to imagine? His dark thoughts disappeared. Infinity Belief® is taking responsibility for your thoughts, direct them, otherwise it is like sitting in a car with the motor running. The car is in neutral, having no purpose and therefore no journey. When you choose to be the driver of your life, you are driven. You are choosing to be conscious and you will not allow other people’s myopia and outside influences to control you. You are certainly directing and taking control. You bring about what is not present in your life by choosing to be the driver of your life and it is possible to bring about positive change in using your imagination. Your imaginative thoughts provide the plumbing that connects you to the rich source, the



abundant Universe. Abundance is all around you as well as within you. You manifest it by imagining its presence in your life, really feeling it as if it were true. Let go of how it will come true for you, allow the Universe to surprise you. Manifesting is not logical, so do not concern yourself how the Universe manifests your desires, but understand that the Universe can only manifest its power through you and not for you. So it is up to you to take action and believe in your ability to alter your life to become that which you choose. Start using your imagination. Think only the thoughts that attract your imagined life and believe as though they are part of your life now! If we can see it, chances are we may come to believe it. Due to the nature of how we learn, we must see it with our own eyes before we come to know it to be true. But how do we go beyond what we know, to create in ways in which we do not understand? Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” He understood perfectly the power of imagination to propel us forward. Every great creation began with a thought, an idea that transformed lives. As we discussed earlier, you can only use logic to create the known and imagination to create the unknown. In other words, the past is known and can be recreated using your memory, whereas the future is unknown and can only be created using imagination. Your future is a blank canvas begging your imagination to stir. Seeing yourself being, doing or acting out your dreams is an extremely potent method of drawing your visions into your reality. The unconscious cannot discern between what is real and what is imagined. The act of seeing yourself living your dream suggests that you believe it is possible. Seeing yourself doing what you choose to bring into your life endorses or alters your belief of what is possible. Einstein imagined himself riding through space on a beam of light which aided his understanding and helped him to develop his theory of relativity. Mozart imagined and created entire symphonies in his mind and Edison imagined a world with light; he had his light‐globe moment in his mind, well before he invented the real thing. Imagine your future in vivid detail and draw it into your reality. It is helpful to practise thinking the thoughts that are congruent with the changes you seek. In other words, practise what you preach. See your ideal life in your mind. Imagine hearing what people are saying around you as you begin to transform into your ideal self. Hear the change in your mind. What do you sound like? What are other people saying about the wonderful changes in you?

Use Imagination to create the Future Use Logic to recreate the Past

Y o u r T i m e l i n e

P A S T F U T U R E



What are you saying to yourself? What does this change feel like and where is the feeling? Is it in your heart or in your stomach or is it in your head? Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. All great inventions and ideas first begin in the imagination. 2. Your being (spirit) controls your mind and you can alter your thoughts as easily as you choose to change the direction in which you walk.

3. Take responsibility for your life by choosing to be conscious and don’t allow your rambling thoughts to determine your life.

4. See your ideal life as a movie and play out the movie in your mind daily. 5. Practice thinking the thoughts that are congruent with the changes you seek. EXERCISE: Change Your Self‐Image. Here is a technique for change to help you to alter how your unconscious mind sees you and it all starts in your imagination. 1. Close your eyes and begin to imagine yourself as you would like to see yourself. Start right close up, you might only see your nose. Now slowly walk backwards and see more of yourself, exactly as you would like to see yourself. 2. Now make the picture clear and intensify the colours, make them bright and vivid. Make the picture large and panoramic as if you are seeing it with your own eyes. 3. It is now time to add movement to the picture. Create a movie. 4. Begin to hear the sounds associated with your new wonderful life. 5. Finally, feel the feelings of this new wonderful change. While I have covered many ways to help you to see, hear and feel yourself in your ideal life, the best way to summarise this process is to imagine your ideal life as a movie and play the movie often. Understand that imagination is merely thinking, feeling, seeing or hearing something that isn’t there. Use this technique often; imagine the change and the changes become inevitable.



“See yourself

and what you

see you will

become.” ‐

Aristotle

13: Commit to Act(ion)

Infinity Belief® – Grow within, or grow old without.

Thomas Crum, author of The Magic of Conflict said, “Change does not take time, it takes commitment.” Crum makes the important distinction that change can only occur upon deciding to act. Change does not occur by thinking about it or talking about it, it only comes from commitment to action. The moment you commit is the moment your thoughts are directed toward success and your intention follows. For that reason, New Year’s resolutions seldom stick; they are often fashionable goals, flaccid chatter without real intention. For success to occur you must give over your full commitment, because anything less does not create enough intent, genuine belief or real desire to make the necessary changes. Psychological research concludes that we can only tolerate a small amount of discrepancy between our thoughts and our behaviours. For this reason, it is vital to your success that you not only think like the person you choose to be in your future, but act like them too. This assists in altering your self‐image, the way you see yourself in your imagination. Could you model yourself on someone whose success you would like to emulate? Connecting to Infinity Belief® is acting like the person you choose to become in your future and therefore altering your present state. This initiates the Law of Attraction to attract into your life what you choose. Some people may say that acting like someone you are not is being false. Of course it is! But who said it was wrong to become someone that you currently are not? That is progress, growth! Resist criticism; while some may suggest you’re faking it and while you may not be successful now, eventually this state will become your truth and success will come your way. Imagine yourself succeeding and act like that person you see in your future and you shall become them. This is a key tool to practicing Infinity Belief®. Maintain a strong self‐image and ignore negative comments and what others say, unless you choose to remain the same. Worrying about what others think of you will only harm your self‐image and negate a successful state. Remember, all success is state‐dependent. If you were to puff out your chest, pull your shoulders back and poke out your chin, you would begin to feel a certain way. Dropping your shoulders and slouching will have you feeling another way. This is one technique that actors use to transform themselves into the role they are about to play. In fact, one action such as poking out your chin will have the rest of your body conform to your perception of what that one single action



“I acted like

Cary Grant for

so long, I

became him.” –

Cary Grant

represents. Choose an action or a pose that you see yourself doing in your future and practice it daily. Soon your thoughts will conform to your actions. Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon, noticed that surgically changing the physical appearance of his clients dramatically elevated their confidence and at times even altered their personality. That was of course unless the client’s self‐image was poor, or as he put it, when they were ‘scarred on the inside’. Then, no matter how spectacular the changes, some of his clients experienced no psychological benefits. I know that I am asking you to act like someone you are not and this may sound silly to you, but this is an effective method of becoming the person you choose to be in your future. If you wish to change, resist social pressure to stay the same. While you may not be wealthy now, at some point you must accept wealth and with it your life will change. One caution however. Do not think that belittling others is acting wealthy or that you are above them. Don’t be fooled into thinking that wealth gives you the right to disrespect others with less. It is appropriate that I let you in on a secret. Most wealthy people are great communicators and respectful of other people. It is this way of being that has led to their success in the first instance. Being disrespectful of others, talking down to them is an attempt to talk you up; it is the disease of insecurity at work. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe put it insightfully. “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back ‐ Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events ensues from the decision, raising in oneʹs favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” So when is the right time to act? When the time is right for change, your spirit will quietly knock at the door of your intuition. It will whisper in your ear, it will show you physical signs, intensify your experience and if needed, it will put up sign posts at every intersection. When you accept change by moving with the guidance of your spirit, opportunities will appear. When you follow your inner‐guide, you seem to move forward effortlessly and easily, you are flexible. It is only when you resist the change that you will experience hardships and tumultuousness, unless there of course is a lesson to be learned.



“Change the

way you look at

things and the

things you look

at change.” –

Dr. Wayne Dyer

It is the most flexible behaviours that win, not the most rigid. Bend like the willow and you will not break, but grow. Acting is also about being flexible. In Paul McKenna’s book, Change Your Life in 7 Days, he states, “Researchers in the relatively new science of cybernetics have found that the most powerful person in any group is invariably the most flexible. The individual who has the most ways of looking at things has the most choices, and hence the greatest possibility of controlling the outcome of any situation.” You will understand this all the more when you are conscious and listening to your inner spirit, through the means of your intuition. Listen to your soul, your intuition or what some call instincts or gut feelings and all will flow easily, without resistance. Your life will vibrate wonderfully, in tune with your soul, so beautifully balanced. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Change does not occur by thinking about it or talking about it, it comes from commitment to action.

2. For real change to occur you must give over your full commitment, because anything less does not show real intent, genuine belief or real desire for change.

3. Act like the person you see in your future, now. 4. When the time is right for change, your spirit will quietly knock at the door of your intuition, whisper in your ear and show you physical signs, intensifying your experience and if needed, putting up sign posts at every intersection.

5. Become conscious and listen to your inner spirit through your intuition, it will never let you down. EXERCISE: Commit. You will only change when you are committed and ready. If you can’t believe that you can be wealthy, go out and test‐drive an expensive car, view a luxury home that’s for sale, go yacht shopping, design the floor plan of your new luxury home. Cut out pictures of things you choose to enjoy in your life; boats, cars, homes, holidays, jewellery and the like and stick them onto a board and hang or stick the board up where you will see it every day. If you are choosing to have someone wonderful come into your life, pretend to yourself that your ideal partner is away overseas on business. Prepare your home as though they are going to walk through the door any moment. Love life, enjoy your time socially and alone as if it were precious and watch how attractive you become.



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Soviet Athletes 1980 Winter Games - Visualisation Experiment

Training

Visualising

14: The Power of Visualisation

Infinity Belief® ‐ See your future in the present. The moment you see yourself living your ideal life in your imagination you begin the process of change. Visualisations are an effective method of focusing your intentions on what you choose to attract into your life and reducing opposing self‐talk. Your imagination is a conduit into your spiritual self; it connects you to the flow of the Universe. It is through your union with spirit and the Universe that Infinity Belief® is possible. It is therefore no surprise that to connect to Infinity Belief® is innately spiritual. The result is to manifest your predominant thoughts and what you see yourself doing or being. Visualisations help you to see yourself interacting with what you see and help the journey to become far more real. And as you know, if it’s believable, it’s achievable. If you can see yourself as wealthy, then the Universe and your actions will find ways to ensure you’re right. While in your logical frame of mind, it is easy to marginalise the power of imagination and easier still to miss the connection between imagining something first in order to make it real. So how powerful are visualisations really? Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe, describes an experiment into the power of visualisation which was conducted among a group of Soviet athletes preparing for the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid, New York. The athletes were divided into 4 groups and each was involved in varying degrees of visualisation; seeing their precise movements in their minds’ eye and the results they intended to achieve.

The first group invested 100% of their available time training, the second group 25% training and 75% visualising, the third group spent 50% training and 50% visualising, and finally, the fourth group 75% training and 25% visualising. The second group achieved the best results in the Winter Games as they invested the highest amount of time visualising their results. At the other end of the scale, the group which invested the least



“You have

powers you’ve

never dreamed

of. You can do

things you

never thought

you could do.

There are no

limitations to

what you can

do, except the

limitations of

your own

mind.” –

Darwin P.

Kingsley

amount of time visualising was the least successful. In each instance the group who invested more time in visualisation did better. The power of visualisation cannot be understated. The Soviet experiment revealed a common misconception that focusing on training alone or working harder doesn’t necessarily produce the best results. Could it be that the more you see yourself doing something, the more likely that your vision will manifest? Another misconception that I would like to raise at this juncture is that it is greedy or selfish to visualise and ask the Universe for what we choose. Know this; the Universe can only manifest its power through you and so it shall. “Ask and it shall be given; seek and ye shall find; knock and the door shall be opened.” – Matthew 7:7. In Jeanne Achtenberg’s book, Imagery in Healing she recounts Dr. Carl Simonton’s work while a radiation oncologist and the Medical Director of the Cancer Counselling and Research Centre in Dallas, Texas. He worked with a 61‐year‐old man with throat cancer, who was extremely weak and the cancer was so advanced he could barely swallow or breathe. The man had only a 5% chance of surviving the cancer until Dr. Simonton taught him specific visualisation techniques that he combined with conventional therapy. The result was so dramatic, the recovery so remarkable, that Simonton and his colleagues taught their mental imaging techniques to 159 cancer patients considered incurable. Four years later, 14 of those terminal patients were free of disease, 17 had stabilised and cancer was continuing to regress in another 12. Altogether an astonishing 63 of the 159 terminal cancer patients were still alive after four years. Some sceptics may exclaim that the visualisation was not completely successful in saving all of the patients. We must however realise that visualisation techniques only work if you can believe, and have faith in the power of your own visions. It must also be said that we are not meant to live forever. Death is inevitable, for without it we cannot continue upon our spiritual journey. Our eternal truth is that we all must choose death at some time and any amount of therapy, medication and visualisation is useless when the Universe tells us ‐ it’s time. Seeing yourself in a specific state in your future seems to evince your vision. In another study of 100 survivors of a terminal illness, each used various treatments, ranging from chemotherapy to acupuncture, natural diets to religious practice and were still alive after 12 years of their initial diagnosis. The study found that



they all shared one thing. They saw themselves in their future, healthy, certainly alive and believed what they were doing would work! Before you commence your visualisation, decide what you choose to materialise into your life. Decide your dream and commence the process by writing it down on paper. Define exactly what you choose, include all the details. See yourself doing, being and feeling your entire dream. If you are truly following your heart, you will feel the warmth of your dream, it will make you smile and you will feel it materialise in your thoughts. And materialise it will. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. If you can see yourself wealthy, then the Universe and your ego will see that you are right.

2. Seeing yourself being, doing or acting out your dream is an extremely potent method of drawing your dream into your reality.

3. Visualisations focus your thoughts and block opposing self‐talk. 4. Before you commence your visualisation, decide what you choose to materialise into your life. EXERCISE – Change Your Thinking with NLP In Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) we often use the client’s power to visualise along with their auditory, kinesthetic representational systems, to help them move beyond their limitations and program them for success. This process helps the client by rewiring the clients’ neurology to assist their desired outcome. In the chart below, I have included a summary of steps to help you with a technique to reduce unpleasant experiences and intensify positive experiences. Simply, before you begin visualising, run through the list so you know how to create the image in your mind, depending on if you choose to manifest something in your life, or if you choose to have something vanish from your life.



YOUR MANIFESTATION GUIDE The first step is to get an image in your mind of that which you choose to manifest or vanish from your life. Then follow the guides below ‐ use the instructions on the left to make something manifest and the right to make something vanish… MANIFEST VANISH

Create a picture and see it as if through your own eyes

Create a picture and see yourself in the picture.

Intensify the colours and make the picture clear and bright.

Dull the colours off to black and white and unfocused.

Make the picture large, like you’re standing up close to a massive cinema screen.

Make the picture small and move it far away from you.

Make the picture into a movie. Make the picture small, about the size of a postage stamp.

Introduce clear sound, like you are in a cinema.

Muffle the sound, make it quiet, seemingly further away.



“You are never

too old to have

a happy

childhood.” –

George

Harrison

15: The Very First Secret

Infinity Belief® – You cannot give that which you do not have.

Adam (not his real name) shared his secret with me. In doing so, it was no longer a secret. In sharing his pain he released the anguish that burned in his heart and clouded his mind for so many years. For Adam, it all began as a young boy growing up in Oklahoma. Adam was a sponge for information and as such, impressionable. He had a song in his head and joy in his heart as he strolled along the footpath near his home. At the roadside an old and shabby teddy bear was discarded, sitting upright in a box filled with rubbish. Adam couldn’t believe his luck. His eyes grew round like saucers at the joyous find. He reached down to the bear, picked it up and gave it a cuddle, and ran home excitedly to show his mother his miraculous find. A woman with high morals, and believing he stole the bear, Adam’s mother demanded he return it immediately. She insisted he tell the owner of the bear the truth, that he had stolen it and to apologise. The joy poured from his heart, his eyes welled up and his song died. Shamed, he reluctantly walked back to where he found the bear and gingerly dragged his feet up the steps to the front door. Too afraid to admit he was a thief, Adam knocked on the door and anxiously waited. A woman answered the door and with that Adam thrust the bear out toward her and in a sheepish voice said he’d found it. He lied. From that day on, Adam had a secret. He was a thief, but much worse, he was a liar to boot. No‐one but Adam knew of his secret. It burned in him. As he grew older the memory of the secret faded but the pain and the associated low self‐esteem remained, to the degree that he was unable to face other people because he believed he was a liar and a thief. Adam knew what people thought of liars and thieves. He worked in the public service and when he saw more than one person approaching his desk, he would hide underneath it – I kid you not. He barely had the confidence to face one person, but he certainly couldn’t face two or more. Fortunately, through his own efforts to personally develop, Adam finally faced his fears and released his secret. He improved his confidence, but not without changing his thoughts about the events that occurred so long ago. By releasing his secret and the associated low self‐esteem that grew from it, today Adam is not only a confident man, but a highly articulate and courageous man. Release a secret to those with eyes to see, recognise them as tuning forks to freedom and feel the liberation of your burden. Holding onto a burden that saps your self‐confidence will sap your energy and will disconnect you



“To swear off

making

mistakes is

very easy. All

you have to do

is swear off

having ideas.”

– Leo Burnett

from Infinity Belief®; release it. As a child, in your incomplete state and not fully knowing how the world works, you may have unquestionably believed the views and accepted the vitriol of authority figures. As you matured, you seldom questioned the source or validity of the accusations that were directed at you as a child. Understand that we all have secrets and like Adam’s secret, they burn in our hearts, shredding our self‐esteem and courage. That is until we release our skeletons in the closet or secrets, by questioning their source or validity. If you have a deep secret that you are ashamed, ask yourself this question ‐ Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m completely wrong about the judgements I have placed upon myself? Avoid judging yourself or your behaviour of the past; you are not your behaviour and you are not your past. You are your present and what you choose to think about yourself today. Search for the secrets that condemn you and hold you back from being great and release them; forgive yourself. Further into the book, I will discuss a helpful process in the chapter entitled Catharsis Clears the Space. If a secret of the past is holding you back, but you cannot locate the source, ask your Higher Self for guidance and you will find the answer or speak to a NLP practitioner about the timeline therapy. Too many people think they will be found out as a fake; that is only low‐self esteem talking. I recall once hearing about a confidence survey, where notables and leaders were asked if they could do with more confidence. Every person surveyed said yes! It is often our negative self‐talk that leads you to believe you are less than you are, when in fact you are more than you can ever imagine. The moment you think of all you can be or do is the moment you have marginalised your potential. Yes, you know you are more than that! In order to connect to Infinity Belief®, you must care for all people, including yourself, because you cannot truly love until you first love yourself. I know it sounds cliché but it’s true! Please don’t beat yourself up mentally, do not hurt yourself or others. Realise that everything that you have done in your past, no matter how crazy, irrational or seemingly stupid, it was done because you were trying to cope the best way you knew how at the time; forgive yourself. Stop feeling sorry for yourself by focusing on all that you are not and begin focusing upon all you are and can be. Don’t choose an early death or drown your emotions by drinking yourself into a stupor, or blocking your brain’s potential with addictive drugs and poisons. And if you still feel you are bad, forgive yourself because it is time to move on. We have all been bad, stupid, uncaring or foolish at some point in our lives. It is time for good and it is time to reclaim your power and be in your energy. By believing you are imperfect your energy is leaching from you. We are all meant to succeed, you, me,



everyone! Your lesson, my lesson, is to learn from our mistakes, to release the pains and retain the learnings, so that we may shine our brightest and become our true amazing selves. So to benefit from your mistakes, it is vital that you focus on the learnings and not the mistakes. As mistakes are only the vehicle that got you to learn the lesson – you can now dump the car. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Care for all people, especially yourself, because you cannot truly love until you love yourself.

2. Are you wrong about how you negatively view yourself? 3. Stop feeling sorry for yourself by focusing on all that you are not and begin focusing upon all you are and can be.

4. Forgive yourself and dump your secrets.



PART II: INFINITE POWER 16: Energy is 100% ‐ Always

Infinity Belief® ‐ The Universe is made up of Love and Energy.

Your experience is determined upon how you use these two elements. The greatest crime that you could ever commit against yourself is denying your passion over earning an income. It may then occur that later in life, when the gloss of income has dulled; you are led to believe that you have wasted your time in a passionless life. Your first pay cheque holds the potential to start a most disabling habit. This habit may defy you for the rest of your life, unless of course you break it. Are you working to earn an income, rather than enhance your life or live your passion? Preceding adulthood you may have been told, and soon believed, that to get the most from your life you must get a well‐paying job. So what did you do, did you pursue your passion or a well‐paying job? Perhaps you were led to believe your dreams were folly and would not support you. So you may have denied your passion in order to earn the all important income. Have you been fooled into believing in other peoples’ values and have you denied your passion? It is no wonder so many people are unfulfilled as their lives revolve around a job they dislike and they have established a lifestyle based upon the job’s income. Isn’t being passionate the most amazing feeling? It’s as though you are as light as air, nothing appears to be in your way, your energy levels are high and you can’t stop talking about what you love. Time disappears. Passion is the greatest energy of all. But deny or defy your passion and you will stifle your energy and, like pulling the plug from a bath, it will drain your energy completely. Bottling up your passion compresses your energy, it is like shaking a bottle of lemonade. Release the pressure and the lemonade shoots from the bottle, you lose its contents or let it stand dormant and it goes flat and has little value or personality. It’s no wonder so many people are depressed and flat. Now back to the habit of receiving pay cheques. Once we form a habit, no matter how disturbing or how much discomfort it causes you to feel, there is pain in change and many avoid this particular pain. However, a little pain is so often necessary in pursuing your passion. It is then clear why people will go through so much suffering to avoid their dreams. Suffering is simply not doing what you know you should do. Understand that sometimes others do not wish you to fulfil your passion and become (seemingly) greater than them. Some may coerce to remain the same by controlling you, using various methods to hold you back so that you do not outgrow them. Their ego will often do anything to keep you from doing better or being happier. Resist conforming to other



people’s image of you; there is no surer way to lower your self‐esteem and stifle your passion, your true self. This is merely a process of validating yourself in the eyes of others; doing this limits you and lowers your vibration to match other people’s limitations. Please understand that validating yourself, is giving your power away to others. Do not allow other people’s vision for you to get in your way. The wise and passionate do not fear the opinions of others but are a guiding light, an inspiration to others. Follow your passion and you will inadvertently help others and drive yourself further into success. You become a beacon, a light, an inspiration and this will help you stay successful. We are made up of energy, it is what drives us. Energy comes from your thoughts, it is what builds you but it can also cause your demise and I would like to demonstrate this to you. I will provide you with some images and ask you to imagine them in your mind’s eye and feel the associated energy that comes with the images, feelings and sounds. Imagine yourself succeeding at something specific. Choose something in your past that you knew without a shadow of doubt that you could succeed. If you cannot recall anything, imagine yourself as a child, learning to tie your shoe laces for the first time, or winning a race. Close your eyes and begin to see yourself succeeding or doing something that you would really love to do or being the person you would really like to be. If you can’t think of anything, see yourself doing what you love, having sex if you like. It can be anything; work, a hobby, enjoying a holiday. Now visualise this in your mind’s eye. Turn up the colour, enlarge the image to cinema‐screen proportions and make the picture vivid, bright. Now begin to hear the sounds around your success, make the sounds crystal clear. Now recall the feelings as you see yourself succeeding. Upon successfully visualising this, you will begin to feel a wonderful energy within you. This is your energy balanced throughout your body, a high vibration. You will feel success, a flow of energy running through your entire body. That is what you will feel like most of the time when you live in your passion. Can you see, hear and feel how passionate people have enormous energy reserves? They have abundant reserves or energy and seem to work tirelessly at manifesting their passion. Now let’s change the picture. Try to remember something horrible that has happened in your life or imagine your worst nightmare, or something you deeply dread and go through the same process, visualising it until you can feel it. If you are successful you will feel the panic, pain or fear. Your breathing will have changed; you may even feel a tightening in your stomach or chest. It is a major contrast to your earlier experience. This is directing your energy into your fear, not a nice place to be. It’s energy in the wrong place. Leave it there and you will become ill, your thoughts will move to fear and you will notice dark occurrences surround you. Mental fatigue is not only extended durations



of intense thinking, it is focusing your energy on fear or negativity for long periods of time, just like muscle fatigue is focusing your energy into long periods of exercise. Anxiety is energy focused at a dreaded event and aggravates your stomach area. The moment you begin to see, feel or hear yourself overcoming the anxious event in your mind, then you are beyond the panic and you have overcome anxiety. Can you see how easy it is to manage your energy; it’s all in your imagination. Now release any anxious thoughts by going back to visualising your dream and balance your energy again. This gets much easier with practice. Did you notice how easy it was to control your thoughts and how certain thoughts have specific feelings? This is a fundamental insight into creating a life beyond limits. You have control over your thoughts and your energy, your mind does not, and your body does not. Only you have control over how you feel. You can direct a large percentage of your energy into your passion and a small percentage into your job. You can direct 80% of your energy into your fear and 20% into your success. But what would happen if you placed 100% of energy into your passion? Would success arrive? It is helpful to view your energy as 100% always and become conscious as to where you are directing the percentages. Energy is always 100% and never disappears; it is merely directed toward that which you think. Have you ever noticed how you lose your energy when you are not feeling well? Here the bulk of your energy is directed at the illness to heal your body. Your energy works together with your organs, muscles, blood and tissue to repair the damage. If you have a fever, your mind is slow and your thoughts drift without focusing on anything but the fever. This is another example of shifting your energy and as you can see, it serves a purpose, albeit a different one depending upon your need. When our daughter Zoe was a baby, she had a series of febrile convulsions. This was a horrifying time as we watched her poor little body convulse uncontrollably. The first time it happened her temperature soared to such heights that she stopped breathing. Thankfully the skills and focus of her grandmother Carol, Zoe was brought back to life. After the attack Zoe was listless, she lacked energy and all she could do was lay still and silent in her cot. Her energy was quietly working away at her little body to bring her back to a healthy and energetic state. You will also feel empowered or disempowered depending upon where you focus your energy levels and this can be illustrated by what you say. William Glasser, M.D. and Carleen Glasser, M.ED. provides excellent examples of energy control in their book, The Language of Choice Theory. Here they present (as parents) one way of taking energy away from your kids and creating an ego battle by stating this oft‐heard gem, “Your room’s a



“You can end

half your

troubles

immediately by

no longer

permitting

people to tell

you what you

want.” –

Vernon

Howard

pigpen. Clean it up or no car this weekend.” Here they suggest an alternative which empowers and balances the energy of both the teenager and the parent, “Look, I’m at the point where all I want is for you to keep your door closed. But I have to be honest. I’d like you to clean up your room; it bothers me. If you want some help from me, ask and I’ll be glad to pitch in. But I’m not going to clean it for you anymore.” This technique helps each party maintain their energy and no individual loses energy or loses face. You can have your energy taken away as in the earlier example and you can as easily give your energy away to the situation. Have you ever tried to push something away only to find that the moment you did, it became impossible to budge? This is called ‘The Law of Reversed Effort’ or ‘what you resist persists’. It is like hitting a snooker ball and transferring the energy from the cue to the ball and from one ball to another. Once the ball hits another ball, it transfers the energy to it. When you push something away you transfer your energy to the object or person you are pushing away from you. Inadvertently, you are giving the person or object your energy to fight you. So instead, become detached; ignore it or them or choose not to become angry. Take your focus away and it will be much easier to release. By doing so, you are withdrawing your energy and taking power away from what you have detached. Everything is made up of energy and like static electricity, objects and events that you focus upon or give energy to, will cling to you or be propelled. Understandably, the moment you push your energy upon another, by changing someone’s plans by insisting upon your own agenda, there is likely to be pain and grief, otherwise known as ‘resistance’. This redirects energy into negative action and is often likened to prodding a wild beast. No‐one likes to be told what to do, let alone manipulated. In Boris Vene and Nikola Grubisa’s book, The Millionaire Mindset they illustrate a fascinating experiment. “Make a pendulum by tying a weighted object to a string or holding a pendant suspended from a necklace. Grasping the string or necklace between your fingers, lean on the table with your elbow, allowing the pendulum to hang with enough room to swing freely. Calm your arm. You will find that the pendant or weighted object is standing still, possibly inclined slightly by your heartbeat. Once you have achieved calmness, tell the pendant with your mind, to swing in whatever direction you’ve chosen, back and forth, side to side, around in a circle, etc. It will start to move in exactly the direction you have told it to. Yes, just like you imagined. If you clear your mind and really concentrate on telling the pendant to stand still, it will stop moving. What causes



“Every great

achievement is

the victory of a

flaming heart.”

– Ralph Waldo

Emerson

the pendulum to swing and stand still? You are holding your arm in the same calm position throughout the experiment, so how can the pendulum move independent of your arm?” This experiment helps you to experience the power you hold not just in your mind, but in your being. How you view a situation is an indication of where you are putting your energy. The glass is half‐full or half‐empty conundrum illustrates this well. Seeing the glass as half‐empty will have you lose energy. If you see the good in most things and opportunities in most circumstances, it is likely that you are expanding your energy. Energy is so vital to your well‐being, but you must understand that you direct it and therefore learn how to direct it. Place your energy into your passion and your dreams and you will build them at such a fast rate, it will shock you. You will be amazed at how quickly your dreams can manifest. Put your energy into your fears and you will grow them and likely become ill at the same time. As you experienced earlier, you can direct your energy using your thoughts. This sounds easy because it is. All you have to do is to imagine your energy growing in the area you choose to direct it and it goes there. It is as simple as that. While your logical mind will wish to demystify the mystics, sometimes it pays just to accept that you can do things that bear no logical explanation. You can direct your energy outwards from you. When you choose what to achieve, put your energy into it and watch your mind, body and spirit move heaven and earth to make it a success. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. Direct your energy where you choose for it to grow. 2. Suffering is simply not doing what you know you should do. 3. You have control over your energy, your mind does not, and your body does not. Only you have full control, if you choose it.

4. Don’t control others and take their power away. 5. Do not allow other people’s vision for you to get in your way. 6. Placing your energy into your passion will heighten success. EXERCISE: Shifting Negative Energy. Have you ever seen a dog get all worked up by chasing a car? Have you noticed that once they stop chasing, they shake their entire body? Do you know what they are doing? They’re shifting their energy away from the muscles that required energy to chase the car. In a sense, they are ridding themselves of anxious, adrenalin‐filled vibrations. Whenever you feel yourself getting tense or have just experienced a negative experience, shake it off like a dog and feel the bad energy shift and disappear. It is almost instant.



“The person

who does not

work for the

love of work

but only for

money, is not

likely to make

money nor to

find much fun

in life.” –

Charles M.

Schwab

17: Passion is Infinite Power

Infinity Belief® – In passion there is no time like the present.

Socrates and one of his students were strolling near a fountain one day and the student asked Socrates, “How can I become as wise as you?” Without warning, Socrates grabbed the student and pushed his head into the fountain and under the water. The student struggled to break free from his grip and quickly ran out of air. Socrates released his grip and the student recoiled from the water, gasping for air. When the student caught his breath, Socrates asked, “When your head was under the water, what was the thing you wanted most?” “Air!” the student answered, “All I wanted was air.” Socrates continued, “When your desire to be as wise as I is as strong as your desire for air, then nothing will stop you.” Socrates’ lesson, while brutal, is a brilliant demonstration of the driver behind all realised dreams; passion. Without passion, life has no meaning, no focus, no power; your life becomes routine, meaningless, unconscious and numb. By engaging your passion, you activate your energy. In passion you connect to Infinity Belief® and create such energy that it recruits the interest of others and stirs the Universe to support your efforts to make it real. In your quiet moments alone, have you ever felt a sense of desperation and looked up to the stars or stared aimlessly across oceans wishing someone or something could hear your thoughts and make your dreams come true? Is it easier to keep your dreams to yourself and avoid the sting of mockery? Understand that to deny your dreams and to compensate by seeking material gains to find some sense of happiness is a temporary euphoria. However, to follow your dreams is to fulfil your heart; seek happiness from within and your euphoria will last, possibly for eternity. Seek it from outside of yourself and happiness is temporary. The key to life is to find your passion and share it. In doing so, you will not only find happiness from within, but also energy. Passion is all about energy! Low energy levels can be attributed to poor diet, lack of exercise, stress and overwork; however, I believe it is more often the result of the denial of passion. Think about what you do for a living and monitor your energy levels; you will soon know what I mean. When you think about what you do for a living, how are your energy levels? Are they high or low? If low, chances are you are not following your passion, nor being true to yourself. Are you doing what someone else wants you to do? Maybe you fell into your career? Maybe it is all you



“Start by doing

what’s

necessary, then

what’s

possible, and

suddenly you

are doing the

impossible.” –

St. Francis of

Assisi

believe is possible for you? Are you emulating the masses, trying to be like someone else? Arthur Schopenhauer said, “We forfeit three‐fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” If Schopenhauer is right, you may be denying up to 75% of your potential. Our greatest frustration is not knowing who we really are and just following the masses, hoping they have the answers. If you follow the masses you can only end up behind them in the queue. You can blame having to work to cover your mortgage, your bills and so forth, but in truth, you can always sell up and rent, you can always adjust until you establish yourself. But choose to work for money alone and you shall pay a price. Your passion doesn’t have to be your job either, it could be a hobby. Understand however that you must fulfil yourself at some time and at some level. It seems to me that we have allowed the passion centre of our minds to be lobotomised, in that there is more value to appearing cool and showing no emotion. So many are trying so hard to stem their passion and appear cool, polished, professional, strong and in doing so, they do themselves a major disservice and limit their potential and marginalise their energy levels. It takes far more energy to conceal your passion, your emotions than to allow them to flow. So what’s in it for you? What happens when you follow your passion? In his book, Manage Your Own Career, Warren Frehse recounts a study conducted in 1980 where 1,500 undergraduate business students were asked whether they planned to pursue their dreams or whether they intended to accept more stable, lucrative jobs on graduation and find their passion at a later date. A huge 87% indicated they would take a stable job, enjoy the money now and worry about self‐fulfilment later on. The remaining 13% said, “To hell with the cash, we want to pursue what we really want to do.” Some 20 years later, the original group of 1,500 contained 101 multimillionaires. All but one of those successful people came from the 13% who valued passion over a quick pay cheque and stability. Avoid chasing the buck. Live your passion and you’ll find wealth, or at least all you need. In coaching clients to uncover their dreams, some have insisted that everything must be in place before they pursue their dreams. It is not how you start, but how you finish that counts. Don’t worry about getting all your ducks in row. Yes, it is important to plan, but if you spend most of your life in a miserable job, planning to pursue your dream, will you ever commence the journey? Or will you just close your eyes to your dream and deny it by distracting yourself in your job? Don’t keep gathering information, fooling yourself



“We followed

our dreams, for

dreams were all

we had. In the

process our

lives became

magical.” –

Siegfried & Roy

that you are acting on your dream when in reality, you will never allow yourself to start. So many people are sacrificing their dreams over a job, working under psychopathic bosses (yes, they certainly exist) and choosing to relegate themselves to victim. I used to be one myself and didn’t realise how much energy I was loosing until I became ill. If you don’t know what your passion is, chances are you have buried it so deeply within you that you are no longer connected to it. Do you fear speaking of your passion, thinking you will be seen as foolish? Have courage, grow a Teflon® coating and ignore what others say about you or what they think of you; it is not their life, it is yours. It is none of your business what others think of you. Stop doing things to please others, because it is your purpose to please yourself by following your passion and being your greater self you will have more energy and more of you to give to others. So by you being happy and fulfilled, we all benefit! Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked in an interview, “You’ve got money, fame, a great young family. Why take on governing the state of California? What drives you to constantly reinvent yourself even at this stage in your life?” Schwarzenegger responded, “It’s not even really a matter of my choosing to make big changes in my life. It’s like I get this vision without me controlling it of what I’m supposed to do next and then that vision consumes me. It becomes me. And from the beginning I absolutely believe that I can do it, you know? It’s almost like you have faith that you can do this thing and then you can’t wait to get started on what you have to do to get there.” One afternoon I was helping a relative to find his passion. It was no surprise that he had buried his passion deep within. Firstly I worked with his beliefs and values, implanting a belief within him, that should he choose to release his fear and allow his inner spirit to speak, that his passion would rise from the depths of where he had buried it. Without any pain whatsoever, his passion would burst from his lips, easily and effortlessly. Using NLP and a hypnotic technique, I gently relaxed him, gave him back his power and allowed his spirit to speak. Finally when he was relaxed, I told him that in 5 seconds he would blurt out his passion. I began to count backwards quickly from 5 to 1. The moment I got to 1, the words ‘fishing charter’ burst from his lips. His head snapped from side to side, as though the voice came from another source. He was shocked to hear it and couldn’t believe it came from his own mouth. Your passion may be locked inside of you, too deeply buried and too stifled to rise. If it is, consciously ask your unconscious mind – what is my passion, what is my purpose? And trust that the answer will eventually surface, so become conscious of the signs. Where will you be 10 years from now? Are you happy with your answer? Do you have an answer? You may be looking too deeply for your passion, it may well be on the



surface, it may be obvious. It may simply be what you enjoy doing the most and yes, sex is a career! But in all seriousness, your passion is likely to be close to the surface, it is usually what you see as fun and when you’re doing it, time disappears. Lenedra Carroll, in her book, The Architecture of All Abundance recounts a time when coaching her daughter, singer‐songwriter Jewel. At a pivotal moment in her life, before fame, Jewel wanted desperately to record a demo tape of her songs so she could pitch her material to record producers. She asked her mother for help. Lenedra asked Jewel, “What time is it now? If it is truly demo time, the demo resources would be more apparent. But when we examine our resources, there aren’t any for it – no money or people, no situations, or energy even, that would create it. Instead of forcing a demo simply because everyone says you have to have one, let’s ask what time it is. It is not time for you to get someone else to hear your songs and give opinions about you. It’s time for you to get your own feel for yourself as a singer‐songwriter. You don’t feel like a writer or singer; you’re very uncertain about it, you’ve only written about a dozen songs. You don’t know if you can keep writing, you aren’t certain where they come from. You don’t know if larger audiences will like your songs or if a fan base will start to grow. …When we ask what time it is, the answer is that it’s time for you to have that experience – the one of performing and relating to the group that would become your audience, experimenting with your material, feeling yourself in the role.” Jewel took her mother’s advice, wrote more songs and easily found a place to play her music and began to build her following. Organically and perfectly, Jewel grew, her music grew and her fan base grew and of course the rest is history. I wanted to share Lenedra’s account of this part of her daughter’s life because it is always easy to see success as an end and never see where it began. We all have to start from somewhere. But know when you ask what time it is, be prepared to listen and move beyond your fear. The unconscious mind or higher self knows only your truth. When you ask your higher self a question it will only provide the truth, it cannot grant anything else. When I conducted my first Infinity Belief® workshop, my friend Helen came along and taught our group how to find the answers to everything and you can do this so easily. Stand up and close your eyes and repeat this sentence ‐ I ask my higher self. What is NO? Now wait until your body tells you how it will communicate to you what it feels like to get a no. You will get a specific feeling. Ask yourself a few times just to be sure you can translate the sensation of no. Then repeat this sentence ‐ I ask my higher self. What is YES? You will get a distinctive sensation that will be different to no. You can use this whenever you are unsure of what to do. The first positive result will dispel any initial embarrassment or feeling of gullibility. Using this technique you can find the answer to anything. If you are unsure which road to travel next, ask your higher self for the answer. You are your spirit and your spirit will never steer you wrong.



“Those that

have failed to

work toward

the truth have

missed the

purpose of

living.” –

Buddha

Another way to discover your answer is to examine how you feel after deciding not to do something. If you find it easy to move on without doing it, move on. If you can’t get the idea out of your head, maybe you should just do it? Neale Donald Walsch in his book Conversations with God – Book 1 put it well in offering this advice. “At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question ‘What would love do now?’” By asking a question you will lead yourself to the right answer and move out of fear. Love and Fear cannot exist in the same space at the same time. Are you enjoying life because you are using the gifts that you were blessed with at birth, or is time dragging for you? The answer hinges upon one question ‐ Are you living your dream? No doubt at some point in your life, while working or playing at something you love, deep in the experience, you have looked up only to see that hours had passed, but it seemed like minutes. When the time is right and you move toward your dream, everything moves quickly, a confirmation that you are on the right path, following your dream. Love creates a sense of timelessness and in following your passion you are immersed in your love. Time has no meaning, money has no meaning; love is all the meaning there is. Follow your passion and you will have all you need, the money will follow. I’d like to say something about passion, before we venture further. Understand that sometimes this word is too extreme for most, so you may choose to change ‘passion’ into ‘likes,’ ‘loves’ or ‘yearning’. However, I choose to use the word ‘passion’. When you know you are following your passion, something within and around you changes. It is almost a magical moment when doors and windows of opportunity open at the perfect time. Just before moving toward every major milestone of my life, I noticed a sense of excitement, coupled with a yearning or passion, wrapped in a veil of fear. Each time that I removed the veil and overcame my fear, wonderment arose, not always immediately, but certainly inevitably. Remove the veil of fear because it is an illusion created by thinking. Stop thinking fearful thoughts and take action, and you rule over fear. Action is often the most potent method of overcoming fear, it’s a process where you stop thinking and start acting, otherwise known as ‘flow’. When you are in your flow, you are most likely in your passion or at least enjoying the moment. It is a state where time seems to drift away, hours seem like minutes, you are motivated and you can achieve almost anything. It is no surprise that the foundation of the word motivation is motive. It is difficult to become motivated if you do not have a motive; a reason for taking action. When you find yourself being motivated or passionate, ask yourself why? The answer to this question will reveal



“Great hearts

steadily send

forth the secret

forces that

incessantly

draw great

events.” –

Ralph Waldo

Emerson

your motive and the energy it creates is often described as ‘self‐motivation’. The why is said to be responsible for 80% of your success; what and how are responsible for only 20%. It is the why that will power you towards success. If you still cannot unearth your dream, your passion – come along to my ‘Wealth Weekend’ workshops, you can learn more about these powerfully revealing weekends via www.infinitybelief.com In the final stages of writing this book, I decided that I needed to spend some time alone to finish it. So I rented a cabin in Apollo Bay so I could watch the ocean and enjoyed five days in my passion. Each day I sat quietly tapping away on my laptop, looking up every now and again at the awesome ocean panorama that was ever‐changing. I was at peace listening to the rolling surf. I could write without distraction and be inspired by the ocean. To the east, on a hill is The Blue Olive, a restaurant owned by my dear friend Steve; we’ve known each other since Grade 3. During a break from the book I caught up with Steve and we discussed the concept of creating wealth from the energy of ideas. He then told me about one of his passions, the study of the undergrowth, below the canopies of the Australian bush. He remarked upon the value of particular native products and how, if you collected them, you could easily earn around $300 a day. If you then processed them more efficiently, the returns would be ten‐fold. I asked ‐ if success could easily be achieved, why then was he procrastinating and not following his passion? It then dawned on him that following his dream was as easy as collecting the products and taking them to market. We think about our dreams too much and act upon them too little; there are many ways to open a door, but to open it you must act. If you know what your passion is, stop thinking and start doing it because it will never arrive by merely thinking about it. Know also, that you do not have to quit your job immediately and put yourself out on a limb. Plan for it, save for it, but start something for it to eventually become. Abundance is everywhere, you only need to expand your thinking and it will reveal itself. Writer Chuck Gallozzi demonstrated the truth behind this with his study of iron and economics. A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes it’s worth $12, made into needles it’s worth $3,500, made into balance springs for watches, it’s worth $300,000. If you believe you haven’t got much to work with, think again with Infinity Belief® and you will have a life beyond limits. Would you like a clue as to how to recognise your passion? Following your passion is not unlike being in love. You will find yourself speaking excitedly about the ideas that rise from your passion, not unlike how you speak of your loved ones. In passion your energy levels rise, you are aroused. It will feel perfectly natural to you. If a fish were asked ‐ why



do you swim? It would answer by saying ‐ because I am a fish. We, however, are confused by so many options and a logical mind and an ego that often assists our confusion. This is why meditation is a good practice and assists us to download the mental clutter and find clarity. Ask your higher self or the Archangel Michael to reveal your passion to you and have the patience to discover it. Schedule some ‘me‐time’ and examine your life with a sense of fun, without seriousness and ask yourself some simple questions. I’ve included them in the Exercises at the end of this chapter. Remember, you can’t copy passion; you have to find it within you. But if you don’t know what your passion or your truth is right now, life is not over. It’s just begun. Infinity Belief® – Tips and Truths 1. When your desire for success is as great as your desire for air; you have found your passion.

2. Your passion connects you to the Universe. 3. The why is responsible for 80% of your success. What and how are responsible for 20%. It is the why that will power you into success.

4. Find your passion and you find your wealth. 5. It is none of your business what others think of you. 6. Stop thinking about your passion and start acting upon it. 7. When it is the right time and you move toward your dream, everything moves quickly, this is another confirmation that you are on the right path. You are following your dream.

8. When your dream appears, you will feel a sense of excitement and passion, wrapped in a veil of fear. Remove the veil, for it is an illusion created by thinking. Stop thinking fearful thoughts and you will move through your fear. EXERCISE: Find Your Passion. If you could choose one book or one magazine to take with you to a deserted island, what would you choose? If by some miracle you never needed to work again, what would you choose to spend your time doing? If you had to write an article for a magazine or write a book, what would it be about? These are some of the questions you can ask yourself and within your answers your true passion may arrive. If you don’t get an answer, persist; keep asking until you do get an answer and if, after much effort, you still don’t, it may mean you are asking the wrong questions. So ask yourself another question. How about this one? You are a debt‐free billionaire and you have everything you need and desire. You’ve just enjoyed 2 years travelling the world and you now would like to do some work. What would you choose to do? If you are not working in your passion now and you’re not prepared to move forward, ask yourself ‐ what is positive about my current job? It will help you to focus on the positive and improve how you feel about your job. Ask a positive question and you get a positive answer.



Another way to discover your passion is to write down on a sheet of paper a list of things, events and people you like. Don’t edit the list as you go, just write what comes into your mind and review the list when you believe the list is complete. Then look for a theme.



Closing Reflections

Infinity Belief® – The Prosperous know it and use it. Believe and act in faith and it is assured. There is an invisible stream that runs through the air ‐ it’s called ‘wealth’. You can tune your frequency into wealth and tap into the 13 trillion dollars that moves across the globe each day. The frequency of abundance is faith and with faith, all is possible for those that believe. I would like to thank you for your faith in buying this book. By showing me that you can climb those personal mountains and reach your goals is another blessing. So go out there and bless more people with your newfound wisdom, and bless yourself along the way too. May you shine brightly as you are the light. I hold faith that you too are graced with the wisdom and prosperity of Infinity Belief®. May your greatest aspirations materialise in beautiful form and warm your heart. I have faith that in your passion and in your faith you will shine. May you shine as boldly and as brilliantly as the brightest star and behold the warmest of smiles. Thank you for purchasing my book and from the bottom of my heart I wish you a Life Beyond Limits! Warmest Wishes Rik Schnabel



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“Your book is positively dangerous! It helped me to change my thinking and unexpected, wonderful things have happened. The mind boggles at what will happen when I get further into the book.”

Anna K (Herald Sun ‐ Melbourne, Australia). “At first Infinity Belief® expanded my paradigm of what is possible. Then it shifted my thinking and helped me to double my income!”

Vlad Platil (Sales Executive – Melbourne, Australia). “After attending Wealth Weekend I attracted and created $24,000 billings in one month ‐ Infinity Belief® is powerful!”

Sue T (Marketing & Communications Agent – Melbourne, Australia). “Infinity Belief® goes beyond all the common stuff we have been used to and into another dimension. I used Infinity Belief® to write my first book, ‘Manage Your Own Career: Reinvent Your Job; Reinvent Yourself’. I then became the resident career coach on a leading Melbourne radio talk show!”

Warren Frehse (Author – Melbourne, Australia). “Eight weeks after being coached using Infinity Belief®, I moved into the career of my choice and doubled my income!”

Name withheld (Sales Executive – Melbourne, Australia). “Infinity Belief® has been a life changing experience. I visited places that I did not know existed and was introduced to living life with a positive mindset. A significant sum of money that was owed to my family and which I thought we would never see again, miraculously arrived. The week after Wealth Weekend, I began living the future I had created!”

Dita Kasal (Training Co‐ordinator – Melbourne, Australia).

“I’d run late for meetings and beat myself up. I pictured the worst case scenarios, which often materialised. Infinity Belief® showed me how to change my expectation, so that my timing is perfect. When I arrive late for an appointment, those that I am meeting are ready, soon after I arrive. I now feel calmer and my outcomes are magically positive.”

Cathy Lobley (Life Coach – Brighton, Australia).



“At 50, I suffered from anxiety and depression. It was an extremely difficult time in my life and thanks to Infinity Belief®, I am back to my old self, enjoying my hectic life again and having a ball!”

Name withheld (Melbourne, Australia). “After fighting depression for nearly a year, and at times not even having the desire to get out of bed, Infinity Belief® is a fabulous feeling. Infinity Belief® has brought clarity to my goals and dreams. I have reconnected with my spirit and I am experiencing a new enthusiasm and excitement for life!”

S. Watt (Malvern, Australia). “Thank you so much for sharing the Infinity Belief® insights with me. I am now conscious for the first time in my life!”

Dave B (Mechanic – Parkdale, Australia). “Thanks so much for sharing Infinity Belief® with me, my business is expanding; I now practice Infinity Belief® every conscious moment.”

Steve W (Restaurateur, The Blue Olive – Apollo Bay, Australia). “Before you shared the Infinity Belief® insights I was alone with a child. For years I wanted someone special in my life and within a week of practicing Infinity Belief® I found the man of my dreams. I can’t thank you enough as words cannot express my joy.”

Alexandra A (Marketing Executive – Geelong, Australia). “Infinity Belief® gave me the shot in the arm that I needed. I moved from a job I loathed and onto the stage to realise my dream.”

Michelle J (Entertainer ‐ Sydney, Australia). “I now know without a shadow of doubt that there is this great creative process that helps us to manifest; it’s all here and now. Thanks a million, no, actually thanks two million!”

Steven Kolakowski (Melbourne, Australia) “Since Wealth Weekend, I am now coaching full‐time. I needed a computer and an office; I manifested both in 48 hours, just by following my intuitive voice. Four days after the Workshop I got very specific about the group I chose to coach (Expatriates adjusting to life in their new chosen country). As a result of being specific, I have 2 potential strategic alliances and a new networking group. I believe this is just the start of endless possibilities for me. If you want more from life, connect to Infinity Belief®.”

Sue Thurston (Star Coaching – Melbourne, Australia).



“After Wealth Weekend Workshop, I noticed how uncannily I now seem to be in the right place at the right time. So far, I have a sponsorship deal, two new alliances and four new clients! It is definitely my new Infinity Belief®.”

Sandy Ewing (Principal, Life Coaching Melbourne – Melbourne, Australia).



About The Author

International Speaker and Author, Rik Schnabel is the Founder and Chairman of Life Beyond Limits Pty Ltd. Rik’s caring and intuitive albeit persuasive coaching and training style elicits more from his clients and students than they expect of themselves – he truly believes that anything is possible. After studying at The Life Coaching Academy of Australia, Rik studied under the tutorship of world renowned NLP Master, Christopher Howard. Rik Schnabel is one of Australia’s leading Coach Trainers and a highly respected Trainer of Neuro‐Linguistic Programming (NLP). He is also Master Certified in Neurological Repatterning™, NLP, Hypnotherapy and Coaching. Prior to working in the field of personal and professional development, Rik was a successful Marketing Manager for News Limited and a respected Creative Director in Advertising. He was also the Founder and Creative Director of Whozu Advertising & Marketing, and Schnabel & Knights Advertising and is the Melbourne City Manager for XL Results Foundation – a global group of entrepreneurs that assist other entrepreneurs to grow their wealth to give it away. Led by Roger Hamilton, XL Results Foundation are on track to give away US $1 Billion each year by the year 2020. Rik Schnabel specialises in Developing the Prosperity Mindset, Living a Life Beyond Limits, Smoking and Habit Cessations, Personal and Business Coaching. Rik also runs workshops and is an entertaining, motivational speaker. Rik lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife Rebecca and their daughters Zoe and Sienna. “Your intellect has brought you to this very moment; to think with courage and faith that more is possible delivers you beyond intellect – it is Infinity Belief®.” ‐ Rik Schnabel

If you would like to receive the full version of Life Beyond Limits – you can purchase your own personal and signed copy via: www.infinitybelief.com/Life‐Beyond‐Limits‐Book or ask for it at all good book stores – and even the not so good ones ☺



ʺThe minute I walked into that room I knew I was not going to walk out the same man. I am on fire with my whole being and the law of attraction seems to be working over board even in the smallest ways. Wealth Weekend is totally awesome.ʺ ‐ Michael Bury, Moorabbin Austalia

Learn the Secrets behind "The Secret?"

If youʹve seen ʺThe Secretʺ and want to learn techniques that help you to attract wealth and what you seek from your life, then Wealth Weekend is for you. If youʹre feeling like youʹre

stuck of late, then it may be because youʹre not seeing a clear future. Wealth Weekend is learning how to create attraction and about building your ʺWHYʺ. Why youʹre here, why youʹre moving forward or why you are not. In the movie, ʺThe Secretʺ we learned that in relation to wealth, that our thoughts create our next reality. And while so many decide to think prosperously, they still find that wealth eludes them. Wealth is not simply showing up in your job or in your business to collect a weekly income. So what is the real Magic that underlies ʺThe Secretʺ ‐ what is your ʺWhy?ʺ One major distinction in the understanding of wealth, is that wealth is a river not a collection of stones at the bank. Wealth is the process of being in the flow. So what is flow?

DAY 1 you will learn to: • Release the poverty mindset • Remove your mental limitations that stem your income • Discover how to get into your FLOW • Move beyond your ʺIncome Comfort Zoneʺ • Discover the Ancient Art of Attraction • Learn to magnetise money • Release emotional baggage that weighs you down • Relinquish anger, hate, sadness and fear • Learn how to anchor calm and useful emotional states into your body • Discover ways to become conscious of your thoughts and program powerful thoughts • Learn proven techniques to expand your ʺWealth Potentialʺ • Master the technique of ramping up your energy



ʺI attended Rikʹs Wealth Weekend and found it AMAZING. Rikʹs knowledge on mind powers and his teaching methods are second to none. You cannot help but be moved by his tremendous PASSION. Thanks for a great weekend and Iʹll be back for more.ʺ ‐ Rohan Simmons, Melbourne Australia

DAY 2 you will learn to: • Install a wealth mindset • Live a calmer, more peaceful life • Learn the answer to anything • Discover how to release procrastination and indecision • Learn the ways to visualise and empower your life • Discover your destined self (the person you were supposed to be) • Uncover your value and learn how to GROW your Wealth

Wealth is a Neurological River

Wealth Weekend was developed by Rik Schnabel from the content of his book, Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief. This wonderful book holds an energy that is beyond the book, beyond the words but wrapped within the learnings. Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief is helping to empower those who read its words and come to know its teachings. It is time to enter into the river as Wealth Weekend teaches you how to create flow in your life, a river of wealth. Wealth is more than money and in order for it to flow it must encompass health, knowledge and the true

understanding of ʹflowʹ. Wealth is seldom created without knowledge and rarely enjoyed without health. For wealth to be present, it must also be ever‐present in your spirituality and your values. Here you will learn how to develop a prosperous state of mind and the spirituality of wealth and change your values to change your life. Imagine if Richard Branson lost all his money, what would he have left and how quickly would you put your hand in your pocket to invest in his next venture. Because Wealth is what you have left, when all your money is gone.” ‐ Roger Hamilton

Did you know that everything you are is a concept in your mind and your thought patterns determine your outcomes, but only through your emotions. So if you havenʹt yet found success it means that it is not present in your neurology ‐ it is not in your mind! This also means that you are not feeling wealthy.



ʺRik is a charismatic, exciting, unique and dynamic speaker/coach/healer whom gave me answers of universal significance to cope with this world we live in. We came with our questions; problems; doubts and hunger for a healing of our mind/body/spirit and we left with our own personal prize/gift to take on our journey.ʺ ‐ George Viet, St Kilda Australia

ʺOn Monday morning I woke with the same smile on my face that Iʹd had when I left Wealth Weekend. To feel this new inner knowledge that had replaced old thinking I felt the sky is the limit or should I say beyond limits!!ʺ ‐ Loyola Armiger, Melbourne Australia

Wealth Weekend is Not a Financial Planning Seminar – but a focus on the mind and the spirit to align you to wealth. You will learn how to empower your mind and spirit for wealth. Wealth is made up of 3 elements; Health, Knowledge and Money. Your thoughts not only determine your health, but also how much knowledge and income you create

and how much you retain. Wealth Weekend will teach you the all important mind management techniques of the masters. You donʹt have to be highly intelligent, you donʹt have to be well‐read, you just have to have a desire to live a life beyond limits today.

Wealth is impossible without a healthy mindset! This powerful 2‐day workshop will show you how to gain the all important neurological shift for wealth. So does this mean that we sabotage our own efforts to succeed? You better believe it! So how do you remove the self‐sabotaging software within your mind, the virus that is limiting your potential

and can you install a much more powerful version? Absolutely! Everything you are is determined upon how you program the software in your mind, how you code and store the concepts of who you are ‐ and you can learn how to change it! In one weekend, you will gain a unique level of mastery over your mind and remove the limitations that keep getting in your way.

Is it time you found your value and released your limitations?

Learn how to find the answer to anything ‐ thatʹs right, anything! Once you learn how to deprogram your self‐sabotaging efforts, you will discover the secrets to unlock your ability to attract money into your life, easily and effortlessly. You will see your life transform as you hear the new words in your mind that will remove previous barriers to wealth, good health and energy. These will cause you to feel the feelings of confidence rise up into your body as you hear, see and feel your new and totally wonderful life unfold.



ʺI enjoyed the massive rush of energy that I experienced in gaining the knowledge that sets me free from past associations that once held me back from my full potential.ʺ ‐ Steven Kolakowski, Altona Australia

ʺI am living an awesome life. I trust the universe and know that my goals and visions will happen. My dreams are real and I am excited about what I can contribute to this universe.ʺ ‐ Tracey Maud, Brighton Australia

“You helped me to change my thinking and unexpected, wonderful things have happened. The mind boggles at what will happen when I get further into my life.” ‐ Anna K, Herald Sun ‐ Melbourne, Australia

ʺWealth Weekend is an empowering, enlightening two days. My energy and focus has increased and I truly feel that I have the tools to create my own ʹwealthʹ.ʺ ‐ Sara Bowers, Southbank Australia

ʺMy Wealth Weekend experience was amazing, I learnt so many new ways of looking at myself, my life and also how to move on with my life and drop the past and live for the now. Each moment is the present... to move from my limiting beliefs and truly be involved in a life and live a life beyond limits...where everything is possible and attainable.ʺ ‐ Philomena McCormack, Eltham Australia

Would you like to kick‐start your life again in a positive direction with powerful force? Day one you will learn ways to release your limitations and on the second day you will learn how to program your neurology, your inner‐self so you can soar to new heights.

If you feel that your mindset is limiting your life, or youʹre struggling to get out of bed each day without goals or a vision for your life? Is your own self‐talk negating your efforts or if you cannot see your way clear in any situation in your life, then these 2 days will release the glue that has you stuck on the spot. In fact, anyone who wants to earn more, live more and be more should attend.

This is amazing value for what are essentially the tools of the worldʹs most successful entrepreneurs. This will turn your thinking 180 degrees into the positive! It is like installing empowering software into your neurology.



ʺIn a world where time is of the essence and change is the norm, I have learned techniques through Life Beyond Limits that have assisted me in making immediate changes in the most effective ways. I was always of the belief that you couldn’t change and that I needed to accept that I was who I was. Thanks to Life Beyond Limits I am assisted to excel in my personal and career life.ʺ ‐ John Abbott, Managing Director, Platform Interactive, Perth Australia

“At first the Wealth Weekend expanded my paradigm of what is possible. Then it shifted my thinking and helped me to double my income!” ‐ Vlad Platil,

Wealth Weekend was developed from the content of the book, Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief by its author Rik Schnabel. This wonderful book holds an energy that is beyond the book, beyond the words but wrapped within the learnings. Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief is helping to empower those who read its words and come to know its teachings.

Your Facilitator – Rik Schnabel

Rik Schnabel is a Coach Trainer, Master Hypnotist, Master NLP practitioner and highly sought after Business and Life Coach – Prepare to sour to new levels that have never explored, never imagined as you shift consciousness and learn some exciting and powerful tools to empower your business and life to a Life Beyond Limits.

For More Information visit: www.infinitybelief.com

or phone: 1300 883 032

WORKSHOP TITLE: Wealth Weekend

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Become the Master of Your Life! Learn NLP and Coaching!

Achieve the results that youʹre looking for in your life and feel the exhilaration from a totally new and empowered way of living. You can be, do and have whatever you desire as you master the art of Neuro‐Linguistic Programming (NLP), one of the most powerful trainings on the planet! Become a certified NLP Practitioner and increase your levels of awareness and productively enhance

your life and the lives of others.

So why are more leaders of business and industry learning NLP? Why are the highest paid coaches masters of NLP?

I have been told that “NLP” also stands for “No Longer Poor” and there is some truth in this. Why is it that NLP trained leaders and coaches seem to earn more than most? Could it be that they are using what they have learned? NLP is a quick, effective series of techniques to create instantaneous change in your life, your finances, health, relationships and career. NLP is a hybrid science that was discovered and created by a computer scientist and a linguist ‐ Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the late sixties. They discovered by watching the best of the best therapists around the world to develop the powerful science of NLP and today you can learn these simple techniques to remove your limitations and remove phobias, fears, anger, sadness and powerfully accelerate your success in all areas of your life. This is a seriously awesome, awesome set of skills in one amazingly power‐packed course!

What Others Said About This Course:

ʺAwesome!! A course that will touch your heart so you can find your way.ʺ ‐ Michelle Rupuha, Queensland.

ʺWow! What an empowering journey ‐ the ʹAha!ʹ has arrived.ʺ ‐ Steven Kolakowski, Victoria

ʺJust do it!! if you want to know what to do with your life, find your passion or purpose, Rik will encourage these out of you. Absolutely fantastic!ʺ ‐ Luanne Simmons, Victoria



The experience is not about changing, it is about tapping into your personal power. Rik touched the hearts of every person in the room and boy, did the experience open my heart. Rik, I feel blessed to have met you.ʺ ‐ Denise Bonanni, Victoria

Richard Bandler and John Grinder discovered that the most effective method of change consisted of reconstructing beliefs, cognition and language in such a way as to make them work for instead of work against the patient. If we think about the mind like a computer, we can get a sense of what is possible by recoding and reinstalling a much more potent and powerful version of software. NLP is that software and this certificate will teach you the basics of NLP and will literally blow out the boundary conditions of your mind so that success for your is not only believable, but also achievable.

What You Will Learn in the NLP Certificate Course and NLP Master Certificate Course: -

• Remove Phobias, Fears, Guilt, Anger, Sadness and Install a state of success ‐ If you can manage your state, you can manage your thoughts and therefore your life. State Management is the practice of anchoring and envisioning a compelling future. Learn how to create empowering states that propel you and your clients toward a successful outcome.

• The Art of Hypnosis ‐ If you can read from a page, you can master the powerful art of hypnosis. Learn how to use conversational hypnosis, deep authoritarian trance, cataleptic hypnosis and understand the power of language in therapy and business.

• Remove Limiting Beliefs ‐ Blow away limiting beliefs such as ʺI canʹt earn enough moneyʺ, ʺI canʹt find a partnerʺ, ʺI canʹt quit smokingʺ, ʺI canʹt lose weightʺ among other BS (Belief Systems).

• Change Unwanted Behaviours ‐ Change an unwanted behaviour into an empowering behaviour.

• Anchoring ‐ Learn how to create powerful anchors that lead to successful actions that create the results that up until now were exclusive only to business and political leaders.

• Sensory Acuity ‐ Learn how to read a personsʹ physiology, language and actions so you can communicate within their preferred communication style.

• Deep, Deep Rapport ‐ Learn advanced rapport techniques. The basis of rapport is that when people are like each other, they like each other. So the first step in developing deep rapport is through the understanding and the ability to read your customer’s cues and communication preferences.



• How to Develop Deep Rapport ‐ The second step is gaining the knowledge as to how to respond. To win the all important sale, should you speak fast or slow? What words should you use? Would it be better to match or mirror their physiology and what would be the result? And isnʹt it true that all success begins with good relationships? Here you will learn advanced level rapport building techniques that are almost invisible though powerfully engaging.

• Determine Your Customersʹ Lead Representational System ‐ Understand and learn why others communicate within a specific modality and you may not be speaking their language. In fact, if you think you are both speaking English, youʹre wrong. A great skill that few people really understand.

• Communicate As The Master Salesperson ‐ how can you tell if you have rapport and what do you do now that rapport is achieved? Learn the skills of the master salesperson and watch your sales grow as you hear your customers respond positively to your close. Once you have mastered Rapid Deep Level Rapport you will feel your level of control dramatically increase.

• The 5 Principles for Success ‐ Understand how 5 awareness conditions will not only enhance your success, but also allow you to predetermine your level of success.

• The 9 Keys to an Achievable Outcome ‐ Learn a series of questions that will have you able to assess any situation with accuracy. This one understanding will have you in charge of your life.

• NLP Communication Model ‐ There are a series of filters in the mind that determine what we see and experience and how we interpret our lives. Gain a deeper understanding of these filters and how they are useful.

• Uncover your Lead Representational System ‐ Learn by which means you prefer to communicate.

• Submodalities and their use ‐ How we code and store information is largely due to the way we break down the information that comes to and lives in our brain. Learn how to change these to create empowered outcomes. Learn Belief Change, Like to Dislike, Changing Minor (Unwanted) Behaviours, Phobias and Fears.

• Language Patterns ‐ how to hear specific language patterns and use them for best effect.

• Hierarchy of Ideas ‐ What is ʹChunking Upʹ and ʹChunking Upʹ and when is it useful.

• Milton Model ‐ Using the hypnotic language patterns of Milton Erickson for best effect.



• Meta Model ‐ Learn how language clarification can be used to uncover a personʹs underlying intent and assist in helping them to move to a more empowered position.

• Powerful Metaphors ‐ Discover how metaphors can assist in delivering a learning and learn how to design them.

CERTIFICATIONS: ‐ on successful completion of these courses including some pre‐study, attending each 7‐day course and a 40 session coaching program, you will attain the following certifications: ‐

NLP Practitioner and Coaching Course – dates via www.infinitybelief.com 1. Practitioner Certificate in Neuro‐Linguistic Programming 2. Practitioner Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnosis 3. Practitioner Certificate in Coaching

NLP Master Coach Certificate – dates via www.infinitybelief.com 1. Master Practitioner Certificate in Neuro‐Linguistic Programming 2. Master Practitioner Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnosis 3. Master Practitioner Certificate in Coaching

NLP Trainers Training/Presentation Skills – dates via www.infinitybelief.com 1. Trainer Certificate in Neuro‐Linguistic Programming 2. Trainer Certificate in Ericksonian Hypnosis 3. Trainer Certificate in Coaching

Each participant is given a Pre‐Learning CD series to assist their learning and a ready reference “NLP Manual” to assist in retaining the information and can be used for internal reinforcement of the learnings provided in the training.

UPON COMPLETION OF THE NLP COURSES all students undergo a 39 session coaching program where coaches can practice their learnings and coachees remove their baggage and empower their lives. There is no extra charge for this component of the course.

Your Satisfaction Money Back Guarantee: Your total satisfaction is our goal. We believe wholeheartedly that our training will assist you in achieving the results you want. If you are not convinced, let us know by the end of the training and we will happily refund your investment – less $495 for the Pre‐Training NLP CDʹs.

For More Information visit: www.infinitybelief.com

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Welcome to a whole new world of understanding and accelerated thinking. Besides gaining the skills of a reputable coach, you are also about to embark upon a wonderful self development journey that will change your life for the better, forever.

Upon completion and receipt of your registration form you will receive a set of pre‐training CDs and confirmation of your application. Following the successful completion of this training, you will receive a Life Beyond Limits Certificates based upon specific trainings and success completion.

COURSE TITLE: Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner (NLP) Coach Certificate

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