What was going on?

The conclusion was that patients who were terminally ill, or old people who were about to move on, were willingly postponing their deaths so they could experience the dawn of the new millennium. Yes… oddly enough… people were postponing their death by setting a goal to experience New Year 2000—the dawn of a new century.

I believe we can all postpone death and aging… the key is setting a goal!

Goals give us something to work toward, an objective that helps to define our path.

If you’d like to be self-employed in the next ten years for example, there are steps you should be taking now to reach that mark by 2018. But why stop there? What do you want to be doing in another ten years, say in 2028? How about 2038?

In previous lessons, you’ve learned to remove stress and plant your desires you would like to attract. I’m now asking you to set those expectations even higher and broaden your mental view to include decades into the future.

This allows us to begin to see the proverbial BIG picture.”

We are no longer focused on today and next week, but instead we’re able to step back and create our life as a whole rather than piece by piece.

This gives life to your desires.

It instructs the Universe to keep busy, there’s a lot of creating to do!
All you have to do is decide where the creation should begin.

The World is Your Canvas

Think about all the things you’ve always wanted to do. Make a list if you like, so that you’re sure not to leave anything out.

• Would you like to go skydiving?
• Play the piano?
• Get that college degree you’ve always talked about?
• Maybe you’d like to learn a foreign language?
• Take up painting or sculpting?
• Buy a vacation home in the Bahamas?

Setting these goals allows you to turn your focus to something other than your age. You’re no longer concerned with how fast time might be flying by. Instead, you’re excited about buying that first set of acrylics or signing up for your first class at a community college.

This energy is carried into every other aspect of your life as well. You begin to move and speak and think with purpose because in fact, your life has purpose. And it doesn’t matter that your goal goes well into the next five decades. What matters is that the goal is yours and you’re excited about the possibilities.

When you’re energized by the goals you’ve set for yourself, your body is filled with positive energy and that does wonders for helping your system to combat all that stress.

Setting goals also changes your perception. You no longer expect your life to dwindle away because you’re too busy looking forward to all the things that are coming next.

When we learned about the Law of Attraction, we learned that what we expect is what will happen. We attract those things that we give our energy to, regardless of whether they’re good or bad. And likewise, we repel the things that receive no energy from us at all.

Using this concept, it stands to reason then that if our focus is on events that will take place forty years from now, there’s a good chance that we’ll still be living it up when those forty years roll around.

No, I’m not suggesting that you can hold off aging forever.

But I am suggesting that with the right attitude and beliefs, you can enjoy a much more energetic existence and add some years to your life while you’re at it.

The Longevity Shield: A Technique for Slowing Down Aging

The technique I’ll give you at the end of this lesson is used to slow down aging.

The Longevity Shield is a metaphor that enables your body to send out positive energies that act as a positive, outgoing force. Use it to help preserve your positive state of mind and to prevent stress and negative energies from affecting your body.

But before we get there… let’s quickly cover healing.

Part 2: Self-Healing

Using Your Mind to Accelerate Healing in Your Body

My friend Jose Silva, who founded the Silva Method, used to demonstrate in his classes how he could put someone into a hypnotic state of mind and then suggest to them that the pencil he was holding was red hot and that if the pencil touched their skin they would feel no pain but their skin would produce a blister. One in five people would actually develop the blister from the touch of the pencil. The blister could then be made to disappear automatically, again with mere suggestion.

But it gets weirder… recent studies show that…

• People under hypnotism can be made to tan on command by being made to believe they are under a hot sun.
• Doctors like J. Bruce Moseley have shown that serious ailments like arthritis of the knee can be improved by changing a patient’s belief system… by “ricking” the patient into thinking a surgery has been performed. They emerged out of the hospital reporting that their pain was gone. But in fact, no surgery was actually performed. The patient had been put under anaeshesia and simply made to believe they underwent surgery.
• Children with warts can cause those warts to disappear when a doctor applies ordinary paint to the warts and tells the children that this placebo is a powerful wart remover.
• Bald people can grow hair when given a placebo and made to believe that it’s a miraculous deterent for baldness.

This leads to an interesting question…

Just how much of your physical body is influenced by your belief system?

The gap between mind and body seems almost non-existent. Jose Silva believed that as much as 90% of all physical ailments are induced and curable by the mind.

So we know, through modern science, that the mind controls the body.

Part 3: Using the Mind to Heal Others

Using Your Mind to Influence Healing in Loved Ones

When I presented seminars with Uri Geller, we regularly asked participants to bring in any old watches that hadn’t worked in years. We’d place the watches in a big pile on the table and use energy or “ki” as it is called in the East, to give them a jump start. At one seminar in particular, we had almost one hundred watches on that table and after using ki, forty of them started ticking again.

This is called energy healing.

To be successful in energy healing, you must be able to maintain a neutral state of mind. This means that you must remain detached from the outcome and feel no pressure to “make the healing work”

Remember we discussed how our brain waves are heightened by emotion and heightened brain waves mean you can’t think logically.

You must be able to remove all the emotion from the healing session in order to see the best results.

A productive energy healing session should take no longer than 30 seconds and to reinforce your intention to heal, I suggest doing something that represents the process of sending healing energy to the person in distress. This could be through the use of a catalyst as mentioned before or through a meditation session where you utilize a technique I call The Power Catalyst.

Is it really that easy to heal?

Truth be told, I can’t tell you exactly what happens when you draw upon ki. I’m not sure what portals open or which mountains are moved to make the connection but I can tell you that it works. During energy healing sessions, I’ve visualized my ki spreading out into the heavens and was rewarded with such vivid imagery that I know I must have been immersed in spiritual energy itself.

My body may have still been standing in the auditorium or sitting in the front seat of a tired van, but my energy—my force—was definitely somewhere else.

In the video below I demonstrate how to do Energy Healing in front of a live audience.

Can you imagine what the world would be like with no illness and no disease?

In truth, we are meant to be in wonderful health—not one hundred years and a day but a full one hundred plus years!

What Is The Spirit Telling You?

I want to congratulate you—just look how far you’ve come! By now, you’re likely starting to experience the metaphysical shift that comes with living a spiritual and connected life.

You’re probably starting to see things begin to take shape, small coincidences that you and I both know aren’t really coincidences at all but rather, a deliberate co-creation between you and the universe.

But now… let’s get you moving towards supreme health, your body is the vehicle through which your spirit shall shine. Download the first audio below on the Longevity Shield and start your path towards wonderful health!

Then walk the path towards a wonderful health and fulfilling life further and further…

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