The human mind. It's incredibly complex and powerful.
And until now, despite the best attempts of modern science, most of its powers have remained a mystery.
Just consider, thousands have walked on fire without so much as a blister.
They walked barefoot over coals burning at up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Or consider this, the 1976 Summer Olympics,
when against all odds the tiny country of East Germany took second place, winning an incredible 40 gold medals.
Afterwards, it was revealed that the East Germans had used a new kind of training, a mental training.
Then consider this, major surgery, but patients feeling no pain even though no anesthetic has been used.
Or this, a movie theater, but subtle changes have been made to the movie this audience is watching.
Changes, which make popcorn and soft drinks, sales go up 58%.
Yet afterwards, no one remembers seeing anything unusual.
How can the Fire Walkers do it?
What is mental training?
Why would so many moviegoers unknowingly feel motivated to buy refreshments?
Hello, my name is Jonathan Parker.
And in the next 60 minutes, we'll find the answers to all of these riddles.
We'll see some amazing scientific breakthroughs that are changing the way people live, work, learn, and play.
We'll see some amazing techniques that you or anyone could use to dramatically improve your life in many areas
as we explore mind power.
For years, I wondered about the untapped potential of the human mind.
We've all heard stories of a frail grandmother lifting a car weighing thousands of pounds to save a loved one.
Or crash survivors who could withstand sub-freezing temperatures for days.
Or those who could remember the names and faces of hundreds or even thousands of people they'd only met once.
How do they do it?
And maybe the more important question to ask is why can't we use these powers on a daily basis to enhance our lives?
In my clinical work and my private practice, I've spent the last 15 years of my life researching these and many other questions
about the powers of the mind.
And the results that I've found are fascinating.
And they all point to one thing, that there are forces and resources available to us
that enable us to accomplish far more than we ever imagined possible.
And the secret to releasing those resources lies in the powers of your inner mind.
One of the most fundamental tenets of psychology is that you have both a conscious and a subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is of course the part of your mind that you're aware of.
You use it continually to think, to analyze, to solve problems, and to make decisions.
But the conscious mind is just the tip of the iceberg.
Because beneath it there is a much greater resource, the subconscious.
The subconscious portion of your mind plays a different role.
It stores all of the information that goes in through your conscious mind,
housing all of the memories and knowledge that you have gained from the time of your birth.
And with this information, the subconscious exerts a tremendous influence on your conscious behavior and actions.
In fact, few people realize just how powerful that subconscious really is.
William James, the father of American psychology, said that the power to move the world is in the subconscious mind.
Most people think they're in conscious control of their life.
But in reality it is the subconscious mind, that huge reservoir beneath the surface,
that is the actual determiner of our life's destiny.
Many psychologists liken the subconscious to a computer, which although it's extremely fast and powerful,
operates only according to a set of instructions called a program.
A program like the one stored on this floppy disk.
With different programs a computer can do different things.
Word processing, accounting, filing, budgeting, calculations, games, the list is almost endless.
And you can change the programming of the computer by loading different programs.
Your subconscious is like a computer in that it too operates according to a set of instructions or a program.
And all of those memories and experiences which are stored in that subconscious become your master program.
It's the master program in your subconscious that directs, controls, and determines virtually every aspect of your life.
Now what if you could control the programming of your mind just as easily as you can control the programming of a computer?
Imagine being in total control of all the potentials you have.
Wouldn't that be the most valuable resource you could ever possess?
The master program controls our relationships and dictates whether we have rich and satisfying ones
or problems even with the people we love the most.
It determines whether we are positive and happy most of the time or depressed and moody.
Even our habits that we are so often slave to and find difficult to change are controlled by our subconscious.
The subconscious is especially important in your financial life.
If you're not making as much money as you should be,
in most cases the reason is that the self-sabotaging programming in your subconscious is preventing you from making it.
Whether you make $20,000 a year or even $2 million a year
has more to do with the limitations set in your subconscious mind than any other single factor.
Your master program affects your income more than your background, your education, the economy, the business you're in,
or even how hard you work.
But where did this master program come from?
Who is actually responsible for your life as it stands now at this very moment?
Well, it all began at birth.
From the time you were born, your mind began receiving input from those around you.
Most of us greeted this world with bright lights and a lot of loud noise.
Not exactly a warm and friendly way to greet a new arrival.
And as we grew, we went on to be told that we couldn't do this or that,
bombarded with negatives and limitations by almost everybody around us.
No, Johnny, stop that.
I told you before not to do that. When I say no, I mean no.
Now don't you do that again.
One researcher estimated that by the time we enter school, we've heard no 40,000 times.
That's a lot of negative programming going into our subconscious minds.
Early in our lives, we're very impressionable and strongly influenced
by the attitudes and the beliefs of the people around us.
This formed an image of ourselves in our subconscious mind, our self-image.
We began seeing ourselves a certain way according to other people's expectations of us.
Imagine there's a little league baseball player who usually strikes out,
and now he's about to get up to bat.
What kind of images are likely to be going through that child's mind?
Is he thinking, this time I'm going to hit a home run?
No, of course not. This youngster has very little self-confidence
because each time he gets up to bat, he's more scared than he was the time before.
And that's why he usually does strike out.
I understand that, little boy, because as a kid, I played on a little league team,
and I struck out every time but twice the entire season.
One of those times was when the pitcher walked me to first base.
My batting average was at the bottom of the list.
Do you know how it felt to strike out? That sinking feeling of defeat.
Did you ever experience being the last one picked for a team?
Well, I did. I think we've all had similar examples in our lives.
We may laugh about them now, but deep down they're still there.
Specific moments of negative programming can add up and stay with you for the rest of your life.
After that little league season when I was eight years old, I never played baseball again,
and it was a long time before I got over those feelings of failure.
But now suppose someone had taken you or me aside when we were young and worked with us,
putting positive thoughts and pictures in our minds.
If instead of being afraid of striking out and failing,
you had thoughts and feelings of knocking the hide off the ball.
Can you imagine the difference it would have made?
Creating a positive self-image is critical because it's the key to everything about you.
The self-image is much more than just what we think about ourselves consciously.
It's also the deeply held beliefs that we have about ourselves at a subconscious level.
Whether we're smart or dumb, successful or a failure, confident or shy,
attractive or unattractive, prosperous or struggling financially,
our self-image manifests itself in every aspect of our lives on a daily basis.
And even if your conscious desires for your life to be better,
you're limited by the master program in your subconscious.
And the subconscious doesn't pick and choose on the basis of what would be good for you or not.
It continues operating according to the program that's in it,
just like the computer we talked about earlier.
You know, many people want to succeed, but inside they keep hearing little voices
that say things like, you're not rich, you aren't a success, with your luck you could never succeed.
You're the same now as you've always been, mediocre at best, who are you trying to kid?
95% of all people are hearing these messages subconsciously and they're believing it.
And their lives reflect this limiting belief.
Now, you would think that it's your conscious mind that's determining what's going on in your life,
but it isn't. And that's why it's so hard to change habits.
Have you ever tried to overcome a bad habit or change something in your life
by making resolutions, exerting willpower, setting restrictions on yourself,
rewarding yourself when you do well and so on, and yet you find that you just keep slipping back into those old ways?
It's sort of like there's an automatic pilot that keeps bringing you back onto your old course.
Think about those New Year's resolutions, or maybe ones you made when you were on vacation,
and then after a few weeks you found yourself in the same old routine again.
Why is that? Or what about the other ways that we try to change?
Reading self-help books, listening to sermons, or attending seminars,
or promises we make to our family or friends?
These methods usually don't make lasting changes because they're not getting at the root of the problem
that lies in the subconscious portion of the mind.
So even though you're making every effort to change on a conscious level,
you still haven't changed your subconscious program.
And it's this master program that's exerting the strongest influence in your life.
The subconscious works something like an automatic pilot on an airplane to guide and control your life.
It holds you on a particular course until that course is changed.
And if the autopilot is set for a course that takes it into the side of a mountain,
that's where the plane is going.
And if your subconscious is set on failure, you will fail.
Conscious attempts to change the subconscious won't work any better than radio instructions
from the control tower going to change the course of that plane,
because by themselves they just don't get through.
If you want to change your life, you must change that master program in your automatic pilot,
your subconscious mind.
You must change your self-image.
And the self-image is incredibly powerful.
I remember my dad taking me to the circus when I was about 10 years old,
and I saw this huge elephant tied with just a little rope.
And I remember wondering, how is it possible that a 6,000-pound animal,
big enough and powerful enough to push down a whole house,
could possibly be held by such a little rope?
Well, the reason for this is that when the elephant was small,
it was tied very securely with a heavy chain to a large post.
And of course the elephant would try to get away,
but every time it got to the end of the chain it was stopped in its tracks.
And after tugging on that chain time and time again,
the elephant became conditioned to the fact that it couldn't get away as long as its leg was bound.
So after a while it just gave up trying.
And when this happened, then it was no longer necessary to tie it with a heavy chain
to a large post a small rope would do.
The elephant believed that it couldn't get away.
There was a limit set in its brain due to past conditioning.
Is the limit valid?
Well, of course not. We know it's ridiculous.
But the elephant doesn't.
It is limited as an adult because of a belief that was established in its mind as a baby.
And it's the same with us.
Let me tell you about an example of how changing a limiting belief
can change what a person is able to accomplish.
Back in the early 1950s it was commonly accepted
that it was physically impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes.
No one had ever done it before.
And it was referred to as the four-minute barrier.
Well, I still remember those headlines in the newspaper saying that at Oxford
on May 6, 1954, a young man proved the whole world wrong
when he ran a mile under four minutes and set a new world's record.
Today running a mile under four minutes is common, and it certainly doesn't make headlines.
It's no longer referred to as the four-minute barrier either.
So once it was proven that it could be done,
a long-held belief was changed and others began running the mile under four minutes.
Let me give you another example of how changing a limiting belief
can change what a person is able to accomplish.
Before the mid-1970s, no human being had ever lifted 500 pounds overhead.
The world's record was held by a Russian, and he'd come the closest,
but he'd never been able to break that 500-pound mark.
Well, for one important competition, his trainers told him
that he would be lifting a weight that he knew that he could lift,
because he'd lifted it before, 499.9 pounds.
And he did it.
And then it was discovered that the trainers deceived him about the weight that he had actually lifted.
He lifted 500 and a half pounds and set a new world's record.
Well, what his trainers did was they purposely told him to do something that he already knew he could do.
And they had erased a limitation that had been embedded not only in his mind,
but also in the mind of all the other weightlifters.
And the 500-pound barrier was broken forever.
So an elephant is limited because of its beliefs.
A weightlifter and a runner are freed because of what they believe.
And all three are examples of how our subconscious self-image can either prevent us from having
or help us to achieve what we really want in life.
A self-image, by the way, that was basically formed by the time you were 12 years old.
Would you entrust your life to a 12-year-old?
Well, that's actually what most people are doing.
Unless, as in the case of the weightlifter, something happens to change this.
Yet we all know people who just can't seem to get their lives together.
They go from one job to another or get into one business after another,
and nothing seems to work out right for them.
Even though other people are successfully doing the very same type of things.
I think we've all known sincere, hardworking people who just couldn't seem to make it financially,
no matter what they did.
Or if they had a temporary success and good things did come their way, it just wouldn't last.
They'd end up losing it.
I've seen some people do very well financially one year,
and then things would almost fall apart for them the next year.
Their finances would go up and down like an elevator,
and they could never seem to get lasting financial success.
Why is that?
The reason is that real success just isn't a part of their master program.
It's simply inconsistent with their self-image.
They're tied down by a subconscious belief that is an illusion,
just like that elephant was held by a little rope.
But until the self-image is changed, the thinking in the deepest part of a person's mind,
it doesn't matter what opportunity comes along, it just won't work out right for them.
And the single most important factor contributing to any type of success,
whether business, personal, athletic, romantic, or social, is a positive self-image.
Have you ever wished that you could win a large amount of money in a sweepstakes or lottery?
Well, I have, and I'm sure just about everybody has had this desire at one time or another.
Have you ever thought that if you could only win a million dollars,
then all of your problems would be solved, you'd be set free for life,
no more financial worries ever again?
Well, the shocking truth is that money isn't the answer.
In fact, research into the case histories of lottery winners and sweepstakes winners
shows that many of these people, some who had become millionaires,
actually found themselves right back where they started from in a few short years.
They had either wasted or lost the money, and they were no better off than before.
In some cases, they managed to lose the money in as little as a year's time.
Why did this happen? How can it be?
The reason is that even though the outward circumstances in the lives of these people have changed,
the master program in the subconscious had not changed.
They still had the same old beliefs, the same old self-image in the subconscious,
a self-image of not being financially successful.
The powerful subconscious, that automatic pilot,
gradually brought their outward image back into consistency with that poor self-image.
You see, the subconscious mind holds on to the self-image that it has accepted from childhood
and causes everything in life to be consistent with it.
This even applies to our physical image,
and is why the vast majority of people who lose weight gain it back again.
They might do what is necessary at a conscious level to lose weight by dieting,
exercising, exerting willpower, or whatever,
but they don't change their self-image at a subconscious level.
Their subconscious still identifies with them as being overweight,
and it's uncomfortable with an outward image that's different from the inner image,
that image that's been with them for so many years.
And gradually, the subconscious will cause the person's outward image to be consistent with that inner image.
If that inner image is one of being heavy, they will return to being heavy.
However, what research has shown is that when a person's subconscious self-image is changed,
then the weight loss is much more lasting and permanent.
You might think of your life as being similar to a movie.
The subconscious mind is like the projector showing the movie on the screen.
The projector, of course, can only project what's on the film that has been loaded into it,
and the film is like the master program in your subconscious mind.
Now here's the interesting thing.
A film of a frustrating and disappointing life, like the film we've just seen,
runs through the projector just as quickly and efficiently as a film with scenes of romantic love stories,
or the lives of the rich and famous.
If the film in your projector has images of financial frustration,
failed relationships, and things going wrong,
then you're not going to see a movie about happiness and prosperity.
That would simply be impossible.
So if you want to see a different movie,
then you will have to take this film out of the projector and replace it with one you want.
If you want to live a better life,
then you will have to change the film you're playing,
change the master program in your subconscious mind.
But the question is, how?
Now think about this.
If you could put whatever film in your projector you wanted,
you could have the life you want.
If you could program your own mental computer the way you want it,
you could make your life exactly what you want it to be.
Back in 1976, the East Germans showed what happens
when you change that film running inside the subconscious mind.
They shocked the world when such a small nation won an unprecedented 40 gold medals
and second place in the Summer Olympics, beating out the United States.
The population of East Germany was only 15 million people,
and yet they beat the United States with more than 200 million.
Eight years earlier, at the 1968 Summer Olympics,
the East Germans had won only nine gold medals.
What happened between 1968 and 1976 that enabled them to more than quadruple the number of gold medals won?
Well, slowly rumors began leaking out about a new training technique
that had to do with tapping the powers of the subconscious mind.
The East Germans, it turned out, were not just physically training,
they were mentally rehearsing for success each and every day of their training schedule.
They'd been using their subconscious to dramatically improve their athletic performance.
An elephant is chained because of its master program.
A weightlifter's performance improves because of what he believes.
An Olympic team trains in the mind.
All of these amazing examples show how the subconscious mind controls our lives.
But how can we harness the power of the subconscious mind to get what we want?
How can our minds help us instead of hinder us to make our life better?
The answer is contained in a series of tapes developed and tested through years of research
at the Gateways Research Institute.
Our library of 34 cassettes contains the tools you need to reprogram your mind
for success in virtually every area of your life.
These tapes help you use the four most powerful methods for reaching the subconscious.
Visualization, relaxation, subliminal communication, and mind talk.
Let's cover each of these areas in depth starting with visualization.
It's one of the most powerful ways to reach and change the subconscious mind.
Have you ever had a dream that seems so real that you woke up and wondered if it was really just a dream?
Well, what research has discovered is the subconscious doesn't even discern between
what's actually happening to you in real life and what you vividly imagine.
The power of visualization was illustrated in an experiment at the University of Chicago.
Students all with about the same ability in basketball were divided up into three groups
and asked to shoot foul shots.
The percentage of baskets that each team made was then recorded.
The first group was told not to practice or play basketball at all for 30 days.
The second group was told to practice shooting foul shots every day for one hour for 30 days.
And the third group was told not to go on a basketball court at all for 30 days,
but to practice shooting foul shots in their mind for one hour each day.
Well, at the end of the 30 days there were some very interesting results.
As you would expect, group one, who hadn't practiced at all,
made no improvements over the original percentage of baskets made.
Group two, the group that actually practiced, had improved their performance by 24 percent.
And group three, who hadn't even set foot on a basketball court,
but only imagined shooting baskets in their mind, improved their performance by a phenomenal 23 percent,
almost the same improvement as the group who had actually played basketball.
Why did this happen?
Because the subconscious mind can't tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.
To the subconscious, playing basketball or just imagining playing basketball was virtually the same thing,
with the same results.
Visualizing what you want your life to be is so powerful that if it's done properly,
the subconscious mind will actually bring it about in your life.
And that's why the Gateway's research program includes 17 guided visualization sessions.
They teach you the correct way to utilize this powerful technique,
leading you step by step through visualization procedures that will change your subconscious
and charge it with a strong, confident self-image and a totally positive mindset.
Some of the tapes are specifically designed to put wealth and prosperity thoughts in the subconscious.
They can help you move ahead financially.
There's a tape to unlock hidden creativity and imagination.
Regardless of the kind of work you do, this tape's invaluable.
And then to get you out of ruts and break new ground for a more rewarding life,
there's also a tape to eliminate procrastination.
It's the tape that can transform you from a watcher to a doer to help you attain the good things in life.
Remember, visualization was the key to the unprecedented success of the East Germans in the 1976 Olympics.
And since then, it's been used by almost every serious athlete, and in education, medicine, and business.
Visualization has a profound effect on people from every walk of life.
Through Jonathan's visualization techniques, I have created a new person.
If you saw me before, you wouldn't think I was the same person.
The most outstanding improvement has been the ability to direct my life in whatever direction I would want after the tapes.
I knew that if you ever learned how to program your subconscious mind,
you would be able to handle feats that you could never touch no other way.
I don't think there's anything that will beat them. I've never heard of anything that would touch these tapes,
because it gives you so much positive thought, so much positive action that you can take in every kind of situation.
The tapes work for those people, and they can work for you.
But when visualization is teamed up with relaxation, the second method to reprogram the subconscious,
the results can be even more amazing.
Tens of thousands of people have walked barefoot over beds of hot coals ranging in temperature from 1600 to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit.
That's about four times hotter than your kitchen oven at its highest setting.
Now, this isn't something you should ever attempt yourself without a great deal of preparation, training, and safety precautions.
But what the fire walkers do is first spend some time putting themselves into a deep state of relaxation,
in which their breathing is slow and regular, and their pulse rate is slow, steady, and even.
In this relaxed state, these people visualize cool green grass stretching out before them,
and they see themselves reaching the end of the grass 15 or 20 feet away.
They think of their fears and turn them into confidence and power to walk over those hot coals.
The mind has incredible power.
And visualization and relaxation are two of the most powerful ways of tapping its resources.
An amazing example of what these two techniques together can do is in enabling patients to undergo surgery without anesthesia.
The patient can actually desensitize parts of the body and be immune to pain, just like fire walkers are immune to heat of burning coals.
This is also the key to some of the incredible feats of memory, in which a person's ability to remember is increased by 3 to 10 times.
Back in the late 1960s, relaxation techniques allowed children in school in Bulgaria to learn an entire year's worth of material in just three months.
Relaxation techniques work on both the mind and the body, and most importantly, they act as the gateway to the subconscious.
They've been the subject of literally hundreds of studies in professional journals.
For instance, using relaxation techniques, the University of Iowa found that students learned Spanish three times faster than by conventional teaching,
and another test group learned computer language seven times faster than before.
It's important to remember that these results weren't achieved by what we usually think of as relaxation,
such as reading a book or watching a movie or talking with friends.
These were special structured relaxation sessions.
They included special music, breathing techniques, and guided the participant toward positive imagery.
This kind of structure is included in the 27 guided relaxation sessions found in the Gateway's program.
They can help you remove the roadblocks that hold you back.
With these tapes, you can create prosperity and success in your life,
develop better business skills and become a successful achiever, release more creativity and imagination,
dissolve stress, one of the biggest killers in America, develop high self-esteem and self-confidence,
attract positive and loving relationships into your life, become a happy, fulfilled person, and just plain get more out of life.
As a result of working with the Institute programs and seriously working at trying to identify why I think in certain ways
and evaluating that process and working on the changing in my thinking,
I've manifested tremendous change in my life, in my relationships, both personal and in business, in my physical living environment.
I've just experienced marvelous changes, but I think that the materials that I have viewed from the Institute are extremely,
have been the most helpful for me.
They have not only helped me, but I have purchased them as presents, birthday presents for some dear friends,
and I've just seen too many people benefit so greatly in such a short period of time.
To me, it's the highest quality production I've found.
How do I feel about the tapes from the Institute?
I think they're just wonderful, and they have done marvelous things in my life.
I can look back and I can see my God.
I have changed many, many ways.
They have brought such a great amount of change, I would say inner changes.
I think, of course, the outer follows what happens, and I guess even people notice it.
Anita and I have listened to so many of the tapes for so long, and we anticipate listening to more because we just really sold on them.
The most important thing about the tapes we feel is that they teach you that you can control your own life.
We really feel the tapes have just opened the door to a new way of life.
Subliminal communication is the next effective way to make changes at a subconscious level.
The word subliminal means below the level of conscious awareness or the threshold of consciousness.
In other words, you don't consciously see or hear it, and yet it registers in your subconscious mind.
The public first became aware of subliminal techniques in the late 1950s when the subliminal messages,
eat popcorn and drink Coca-Cola, were flashed on a movie screen for only a fraction of a second between the frames of the 1956 movie Picnic.
Although the audience never remembered seeing these messages, a 58% increase in popcorn and Cola sales attested to their effectiveness.
Let me show you how that was done.
While you're watching this short sequence, we're flashing some words on the screen.
If you're videotaping this, you can play it back later frame by frame, and you'll see the words subliminal communication.
Even though your conscious mind didn't see it, hundreds of research studies prove that your subconscious mind did.
Now I'll play that same scene for you again, but this time I'll stop the film so you can see the message.
There it is.
Well, because subliminal messages were found to work so powerfully, the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission,
and the National Association of Broadcasters barred their use in advertising back in 1958.
In the 1970s, many stores began using subliminal messages in their music systems to reduce shoplifting and employee theft.
Today, subliminal tapes are being used by government agencies, businesses, hospitals, physicians, prisons, to improve conditions in almost every area of life.
And they're also being used by ordinary people like you and me, because Gateways Institute has made subliminal power available to individuals to help you make your life fuller and richer.
There are six subliminal tapes in our program, each containing thousands of positive, affirmative instructions to your subconscious, but you can't hear them.
They're hidden by relaxing, beautiful music by the gentle, soothing sounds of a tropic lotion.
Listen.
In this music, our special computerized stereo processor embeds powerful positive statements that make an imprint on the subconscious.
These statements reprogram the mind, just like the flashed messages in the movie theater motivated people to buy refreshments.
But in these tapes, the subliminal messages are something under your control.
The Gateways program consists of six subliminal tapes, plus the scripts of the statements made on each tape.
These tapes are powerful tools that can help you in the six most vital areas that are important to your life.
The first tape, Build a Winning Self Image, gives you a confidence and positive self-esteem that is so important for happiness and success in life.
Another tape, titled Attracting Wealth and Prosperity, helps eliminate financial frustrations and bring you the things you really want in life.
Then there's the tape on Stomp Procrastinating, titled The Action Habit, Becoming a Self-Starter.
And some others, Positivity, Optimism, and Confidence, High Self-Esteem, and finally, Becoming a Successful Achiever.
The great thing about using these subliminal tapes is they require no active effort on your part.
You don't even need to pay attention to the tapes.
All you do is play them loud enough so you can hear them while you go about other activities, like working at home or in the office,
reading, studying, doing paperwork, watching television, exercising, eating, or practically anything you can think of.
There's no effort required, but the results are impressive.
The subliminal tapes seem to change you from the inside, which I think is really the only way you can really get permanent lasting change is to change from the inside.
They do work, and it's just that simple. And being so easy, I think, is the really marvelous thing about them.
The tapes in this room change me. They're phenomenal.
Rather than going to classes, courses, psychologists, his tapes, they're the quickest way.
There's not any tapes that we don't listen to, and especially if we're getting geared to go into something new and trying something new,
we figure out which is the best tapes for us to be able to use that would benefit us most, and that's the tape we get.
And I'm 100% sold on them and couldn't ask anybody or tell anybody any better thing than to try them.
A fourth tool for reprogramming the subconscious is called mind talk or self talk.
It's what you say to yourself in your own mind.
And these self statements, which are said or thought on a conscious level, are heard by the subconscious.
If you say them often enough, they also work as programming for the subconscious.
Most people say negative self statements so much of the time without really even being aware of it.
I can never remember anything.
Something can go wrong at will.
It isn't easy to lose weight.
Just my luck.
I can't quit smoking.
I don't have enough money.
All of us say these type of things all the time, but when they're repeated over and over again,
they make an impression on the subconscious mind, an impression that makes these statements self-fulfilling prophecies.
The Gateways program includes special tapes filled with positive instead of negative self statements,
and listening to these tapes just a little while each day helps you to reprogram yourself for success in your personal relationships,
your job, your financial affairs, your self-confidence, virtually every area of your life.
But the Gateways mind talk tapes are more than just positive conscious statements.
They also have a subliminal background composed of music and subliminal statements
that are designed to help you absorb their messages even faster and better.
Just listen to what these tapes have done.
I know that most people would say that Jonathan has made a great change in their life.
He has also made a change in mine.
The tapes from the Institute are so profoundly helpful.
People look at me now and they wonder what the secret is.
And I have not found any other place that I can say is as wonderful as Jonathan's tapes.
They are the most fantastic tapes that I've ever been through.
I feel like I found the gold mine.
The complete program of Gateways research tapes includes two different sets, 34 tapes in all.
They're a lot like the ones I've already done being used in schools, hospitals, and business organizations throughout the world.
The first set is 16 tapes called Build a Winning Self-Image.
It will enable you to change the self-image which was developed when you were a child,
a negative self-image that's probably holding you back from the things you really want in life.
These tapes are the tools that let you replace those old negative self-destructive images in the subconscious with new positive ones.
Life just becomes so much easier and freer. Problems that used to be constantly coming up just don't come up anymore.
And it's just much happier. I enjoy life more and I can see more things.
You've heard the phrase, take time to smell the roses. You actually do that now.
I'm in the health professions and I see so much in the literature anymore about guided self-image and how important it is.
And I think the medical profession is starting to realize that self-image has a lot to do with our health.
And it seems like in these programs, Jonathan's been able to be at the cutting edge of what's going on in not only the psychological but the medical field also.
And I feel much better about who I am, how I present myself to the world, what I've been able to accomplish, what lies ahead for me in the world.
I feel like I'm at cause at what's going on in the world rather than being in effect all the time.
Like I said, I'm much more calmer, much more peaceful, happier.
You know, I can honestly say I can get up in the morning now and say, God, it's fun to be alive. Before it was, God, I hate getting up.
The successes are much more. The failures are much less. I'm excited to have learned about such things at such a young age because it's really put me on the right road.
Build a winning self-image lets you reset your subconscious images to start seeing yourself as a winner.
And this applies to every aspect of your life, not only to financial success and prosperity, but also everything else you desire in life, including a sense of accomplishment and self-worth, emotional well-being, fulfilling relationships and lasting friendships.
In short, your whole personal and professional life. The tapes work on the most essential part of what makes you you.
In fact, a recent study asked people what they thought was the most important characteristic and appealing to the opposite sex.
And the results were surprising. The number one most important factor wasn't good looks, a good personality, money, a status job, or even intelligence.
Those were all high on the list, but none rated as high as a good self-concept, a positive self-image.
Think about it. Aren't you attracted to those who feel good about themselves and who project self-confidence? Sure.
The tapes have given me the confidence for the drastic changes. And that's what I needed to go forward with the confidence.
After listening to the tapes now for about a year, there is that level of self-confidence and it's just a feeling of knowing that whatever I want to do, I can do.
What I can accomplish is so limitless that there just is no limit. I mean, I know I can do anything I want to do.
And I think the tapes have helped give me that confidence to know.
Building a winning self-image can help you attract that special person into your life or enrich your present relationship.
And it can help you build a satisfying relationship that works and lasts.
You see, it's self-doubt and negative feelings that sabotage most relationships and cause them to go sour.
When you have a positive self-image, you will find that all the relationships in your life are tremendously improved.
And you become the positive, happy person that you're right as a human being.
Building a winning self-image is the most important tape course ever developed for living life to its fullest.
But it's just half of the Gateway's library.
The second part is 18 tapes entitled The Prosperity Solution.
This program includes all the tools to enable you to develop a strong attitude for success.
At the Institute, we call it a prosperity consciousness.
And when you see it in other people, you recognize it immediately because it's an attitude,
a feeling about a person that just seems to attract good fortune and financial success.
I noticed a difference right away.
The next month, I did double what I had done the previous four or possibly five months.
It was instant, I'd say within a week, less than a week.
Almost right away, I noticed the difference.
I would say that if anybody is in sales, I recommend it highly.
What Jonathan has on the tapes is I'm quite a scientific person and I'm analytical.
And his tapes are just logical.
I'm able to manifest luxury for myself.
Like I had a picture of my Mercedes convertible on the wall three years ago,
and then it showed up on my driveway.
No, I know that I can create what I want.
I've stayed within the same field but have evolved my beingness and my creativity into that field.
I've just skyrocketed with success with it, which is phenomenal.
The tapes are a blueprint.
They're a map showing you how you can make those things happen that you want, whether it be money,
whether it be adventure, whether it be romance, whether it be whatever you want, you can have it.
With this course, you don't have to go through life envying what other people have.
You can enjoy the good things in life, too.
You can change your subconscious self-image to that of a successful, prosperous person,
the kind of person that gets the promotions, makes the sales, earns the high income.
In both parts of the library, incorporate the four methods we've seen working in this program,
visualization, relaxation, subliminal communication, and mind talk.
And the tapes are incredibly simple to use.
You just slip them into a tape player and listen for a little while each day.
You don't even have to pay attention to the subliminal tapes.
That's how powerful they are.
And yet you'll start seeing results generally within 30 days.
The library was developed by researchers, psychologists, and audio technicians
so that anyone of any age can benefit from it.
One of the fantastic advantages of Jonathan's material is the fact that he has an excluded children.
It's helped me to get along with people, to talk more.
I used to be more shy, but now I feel more confident about myself.
I never used to get good grades. It helps me to work harder.
I try harder in school. I want to get the good grades, and I get them.
My son, for example, he's a student at the university.
The first three years were all like, great.
I put him on these tapes and he just gobbled them up.
And his grades have pruned this last year.
It's making a big difference in his attitude, too.
The subliminal tapes have made a definite improvement in all of our family's lives.
I have a 10-year-old son and my 16-year-old son.
And the grades and attitudes towards school have improved so greatly.
And I owe all of it to the subliminal tapes.
Brian was a CD student to start with.
He's now a B student.
My little one, the 10-year-old, started out 30 days before school started, listening to the tapes.
He went in with a bang with A's and B's.
But the last four report cards towards the end of the year have all been A's, straight A's.
The subliminals in MindTalk tapes are particularly helpful for children and teens because they're so easy to use.
And young people need as much positive input as possible just to counteract the negative they get all day long.
And those in their 20s, 40s, or 60s can use this program to help ensure a much more fulfilling and rewarding life
without falling into so many negative traps that life seems to set.
Life can hold richness and enjoyment no matter what age you are.
Did you know that there have been numerous musicians, artists, politicians, doctors, entertainers, business people,
and others who made their major contributions after they were 70 or even 80 years old?
Life holds incredibly rich rewards for those who have a happy, positive self-image
and who have success beliefs in their subconscious.
All of us at Gateways Institute feel a great deal of satisfaction when we see success stories like those you've seen in this program.
But for me there's something more than that.
You see, part of my reason for developing the tapes was personal.
When I first began research into the power of the subconscious, I had suffered from incredible shyness and a lack of self-confidence all my life.
I was plagued by self-doubt and fears about my own abilities.
The contents of these 34 tapes, this library for the mind, helped me get myself back together and overcome those fears.
In fact, in less than three months I lost that shyness that I had all my life by using these techniques.
I erased those feelings of inferiority and self-doubt that were strongly reinforced in my mind when I was a teenager.
I became filled with a new confidence and a determination to break out of the job that I had that was keeping me living from paycheck to paycheck.
And as time went on, I noticed that the effect of the tapes seemed to be snowballing.
Well, since 1974 I've dedicated my whole life to passing on the knowledge that changed my life
with the assurance that anyone's life can be transformed just like mine.
In the obvious ways that I've talked about, but also in some other ways that you probably haven't even thought about.
And I'm talking about the way you feel about life.
All it takes is that first step.
You can invest in yourself with this program or continue with your life just as it is for the next 20, 30, 40 years or more.
And if you don't do something to change your self-image and those limiting beliefs in your subconscious mind,
then your life will continue pretty much as it is now.
But it doesn't have to.
Just think about how much those tapes can help you.
And think what this would mean not just for yourself, but also for your children or children you love.
These tapes are the most valuable gift you could ever give your children.
Because a positive self-image means the difference between a happy, fulfilling, successful life on the one hand
and frustration and failure on the other.
Ensure your children's success and your success by building a self-image that's a winning self-image.
This is the most important thing you could do for yourself and for them.
A mind is our greatest resource.
It's the connecting link between our dreams and desires and our attaining them.
And I truly would like to see life be the best it can be for you.
You deserve it. You really do.
So do something for yourself. Invest in yourself.
It's the best investment you could ever make.
In this program, you have seen how people are using the subconscious mind to get more of what they want out of life.
Now you can do the same, plus get these four subliminal tapes designed to enrich your life.
They're yours absolutely free to help you get started with the Mind Power Library from the Gateways Research Institute.
It includes two best-selling self-improvement courses to build a winning self-image and the prosperity solution.
These 34 cassettes can be the beginning of a new, happier, healthier and wealthier life for you and everyone in your family.
Designed and narrated by Dr Jonathan Parker, one of the country's leading experts of the hidden powers of the mind,
these courses contain in full detail and in easy-to-follow guided format the incredibly powerful principle and technique shown in this program.
They represent the most effective methods ever developed for reprogramming the subconscious for success.
There are 34 tapes in all. These tapes will help you to achieve what you really want in life, make the kind of money you've always wanted, obtain goals you may have never believed possible,
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The tapes contain the highly powerful visualization, relaxation and mind-talk techniques shown in this program,
plus there are the subliminal communication tapes that contain thousands of subliminal statements,
statements that you cannot consciously hear but go to work directly on your subconscious mind.
You can listen to these tapes any time when you first wake up or when getting ready for work, at lunchtime or when working at home or even when you go to sleep.
The tapes are especially vital for children and teenagers who are forming that all-important self-image which will make the difference between success and failure in school and life.
In all, there are 34 tapes designed to help you transform yourself into the person you want to be.
They take you step-by-step through techniques that take as little as 10 minutes a day but give you a lifetime of benefit.
The cost for the complete MindPower library, both best-selling courses, is just 10 payments of only $59.95.
That's less than $2 a day to make every day of the year fuller and more satisfying than you ever imagined for you and every member of your family.
For a limited time only, viewers of this program will receive a special bonus when they purchase the MindPower library.
You'll receive these four additional subliminal tapes, a $100 value absolutely free.
They cover attracting harmony and happiness, success for children, stress reduction and creativity.
You get 38 tapes in all for just 10 payments of only $59.95.
The MindPower library is already working for thousands of people around the world.
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I couldn't afford the tapes, but it turned out to be the best investment that I, monetary investment that I'd ever made.
And they helped me in every different aspect of my life.
I can't tell you what a difference it made because it put me in control of my life for a change.
Johnson's tapes have taken me from being a victim and unhappy person into a person who's living a very full, exciting life, a person who's in charge and isn't afraid.
It seems that I'm attracting the people into my life that I need for the prosperity, the wealth, the health, the joy. And I stay happy.
I tell you what, since I got the tapes, to me, that's been a turning point in my life.
Definitely. I mean, I can trace it. You know, to the day I started. And they have done marvelous things in my life.
They're incredible. They've changed my life in a lot of ways. They represent to me, I feel like I have the wealth of the universe with this set of tapes.
This is exactly how I feel about them.
I think they're wonderful. If I had to go to a desert island and they'd only let me take one thing, I'd take the tapes with me.
Well, everyone cares for someone. And I would say that one of the nicest things, if not the nicest thing that you could ever do for a person you cared for, is to share Jonathan Parker's tapes.