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Those of us who are very fortunate to have all of our five senses, touch, sight, smell, taste and sound, use these senses daily as we maneuver through the environment with ease. We accomplish small and large daily tasks using sight to drive a vehicle, our hearing alerts us to an unseen occurrence and allows us, through speech, to communicate with others. The meals we eat are accepted or rejected because of the way they smell, then further approved of by our taste buds. We are kept from harming ourselves when picking up objects that are very hot or cold, When a injury such as a cut finger happens a message is sent to the brain moving us to action.

You will agree that all our five senses are used constantly throughout the day. Even when sleeping they are not completely dormant, we can be awakened by the smell of smoke, or upon hearing an alarm clock. Someone touching us while we slumber will bring us awake and we use our vision to see the source of that touch. I keep a glass or bottle of water by my bedside to drink when the taste of deep sleep often leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Beyond these five senses I know there is a 6th sense some of us are vaguely aware of and others use on a daily basis to get what their hearts desire This 6th sense can be cultivated and trained into a powerful force in your everyday world, all you need to do is reach this inner force and direct it to your will. This power to attract that which we seek is within all of us, very reachable and awaiting to fulfill our desires.

The question is how do we reach this next level and focus it to our needs? There are many books and theories on this subject ranging from positive mental attidude, astral travel and meditation. No one method is correct for everyone, what works for you may not be right for the next person. I propose a mix, mash if you will of all three. Why not incorporate the best of PMA, astral travl and meditation to reac your higher goals? Let's start with PMA (positive mental attitude)

Wikipedia definition: Positive mental attitude, or PMA, is a psychological term which describes a mental phenomenon in which the central idea is that one can increase achievement through optimistic thought processes. PMA implies that one has a vision of good natured change in one's mind; it employs a state of mind that continues to seek, find and execute ways to win, or find a desirable outcome, regardless of the circumstances. It rejects negativity, defeatism and hopelessness. Part of the process of achieving PMA employs motivating "self talk" and deliberate goal-directed thinking.

The term autosuggestion is used for positive or negative physical symptoms explained by the thoughts and beliefs of a person. For example, some will experience more pain when they think it will hurt. Headaches sometimes go away after taking a painkiller, but before the painkiller could actually start acting on its own. Related to this is the placebo-effect.

This influence of the mind on the body can be used in a positive way to improve the way a person feels (mentally or physically).

Autosuggestion is a process by which you can train the subconcious mind to believe something, or systematically schematizes the person's own mental associations, usually for a given purpose.In this case success. This is accomplished through self-hypnosis methods or repetitive, constant self-affirmations. The acceptance of autosuggestion may be quickened through mental visualization of that which you would like to believe. Its success is typically directectly related with the consistency of its use and the length of time over which it is used. Autosuggestion can be seen as an aspect of prayer, self-exhorting "pep talks", meditation, and other similar activities. A trivial example of self-improvement by autosuggestion is the New Year's resolution, especially if it is followed up by systematic attention to the resolution.

Autosuggestion is most commonly accomplished by presenting (either through caressing or bombarding) one's mind with repetitivethoughts (hopefully positive), until those thoughts become internalized. Practitioners typically hope to transmute thoughts into beliefs, and even into actualities. Visualizing the manifestations of a belief, verbally affirming it, and thinking it using one's "internal voice", are typical means of influencing one's mind via repetitive autosuggestion. Autosuggestion is normally thought of as a deliberate tool, but it can also refer to an unintentional process.

Applications of deliberate autosuggestion are intended to change: the way one believes, perceives, or thinks; one's acts; or the way one is composed physically or physiologically. An example might be individuals reading nightly aloud a statement they have written describing how they would like to be, then repeating the statement in their mind until they fall asleep. People have attributed changes to such a nightly routine or similar employment of autosuggestion, for example, increased confidence, the conquering of life-long fears, heightened mental faculties (e.g., ability to calculate mathmatics or raed at a quicker rate), eradication of a disease or infections from one's body and even improved eyesight and growing taller. It is not uncommon to hear people claim that they have been able to get rid of warts on their hands, simply by making a point of saying, "There go my warts!" every time they saw a garbage truck or a trashcan, but it is not clear whether such anecdotal reports should be taken as evidence of the power of autosuggestion. The ability to fight sicknesses and infections, as well as many other things, shows that it may be a form of a placebo

. Making yourself "believe" the body is curing the sickness by itself may affect what your cells and body do, although this hasn't been conclusively tested. The same type of effect that deliberate autosuggestion may achieve can also be seen in individuals not consciously trying to program themselves through autosuggestion. The dominant thoughts that occupy a person's conscious mind, if constantly present over an extended period of time, may have the effect of training that person's subconscious mind to organize that individual's beliefs according to those thoughts. In this sense, the mechanisms of pathological fixations and obsessions to some extent resemble the process of autosuggestion.

Autosuggestion is differentiated from brainwashingin that the suggestions given during the sessions originate with the individual, rather than originating with suggestions from others.