You have superpowers - it is absolutely true!
You have the power to do things so far beyond what you can even imagine right now. In fact, you are capable of things that you would probably consider bizarre or even maybe supernatural. Your mind is a vast, largely unexplained source of energy and power. In fact, your thoughts even have the power to alter reality.
Unfortunately, because we don’t understand how these powers work, most people dismiss them. In so doing, we limit ourselves and our success in life. I will reveal here how you can tap into these superpowers and take advantage of them to make drastic improvements in your life.
Stay with me here. I know the tendency of many will be to immediately dismiss this as just a bunch of nutty ideas. But let me submit to you that many very successful people have believed in these powers and used them to create incredible fortunes and success. Also, if you just look at the facts, it is easy to conclude that there must be some truth to this. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire. These powers have been written about for centuries. They have been researched and acknowledged by very notable people. They are mentioned in most of the classic wisdom literature. They exist whether you are willing to admit it and use it to your benefit or not. If you don’t, then you are missing out on getting the very most out of your life.
Examples of Extreme Mental Power
There are so many powers of the mind that are not fully explained or understood. Things like telepathy, psychokinesis, and extrasensory perception (ESP) fall into this category. J.B. Rhine, a researcher at Duke University back in the 1930s, did extensive and rigorous lab tests on subjects to evaluate the existence of ESP. He concluded that many people did seem to have powers beyond the five senses to detect the thoughts and feelings of others. His research led to the coining of the term parapsychology and the founding of a research center at Duke to explore this further. Of course, there are numerous critics and skeptics of Rhine’s conclusions and the results have never been repeated since. However, Rhine was not the only researcher that came to these conclusions and many people think ESP is the sixth sense. This is just one area that suggests the mind has power and emanates energy beyond our current understanding.
There are also numerous people that believe in the miracle of faith healing. Faith healing is the belief that people can be cured of diseases and abnormalities through prayer and divine or supernatural intervention. Of course, when you look objectively at prayer, it is focused thought or meditation which is directed outside ourselves to summon supernatural power to achieve an end we desire. If you plug “faith healing testimonies” into any popular Internet search engine, you will find countless stories of people that have been miraculously cured of things like cancer. It usually involves situations where no further hope was offered by medical science. The person had to believe. If they didn’t, then they had to accept the fate of their medical diagnosis.
I mention ESP and faith healing to stretch your thinking. If you are still reading (I’m sure many have probably given up by now because they are just incapable or unwilling to consider that our minds have power beyond our current understanding), then you are ready to grasp and use the superpowers of your mind. You are ready to tap into the source of energy that has propelled people like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and Oprah Winfrey to levels of extraordinary success. You can also reach these levels. No matter how you define success or what it is that you desire. You can achieve it!
Unleash Your Superpowers
So, what is it that will unleash the superpowers of your mind? It is belief. You have to believe without doubt in the deepest recesses of your heart and mind that you can and will fulfill your desires. You have to believe so deeply that it creates a level of intensity in your thinking so that your desire becomes a burning obsession. You have to be able to visualize it and emotionalize it vividly. It has to consume you. You have to believe at the level where you know that you can overcome any obstacles that may arise. That you will pay any price. You will give and do whatever it takes to achieve your goal. When you believe like this, you invoke the superpowers of your mind and you will alter reality.
Your intense thoughts and belief when focused in this manner will create in the physical world exactly what you desire. This concept is well documented and absolutely true. It is confirmed in every classic success book that I have read. It is the secret or magic that these writers speak of so frequently. This philosophy is thoroughly discussed in Chapters 13 and 14 of Think and Grow Rich, a very well-known success manual written by Napoleon Hill. In Chapter 14, Hill states the following:
“This much the author does know - that there is a power, or a First Cause, or an Intelligence, which permeates every atom of matter, and embraces every unit of energy perceptible to man…This Intelligence may, through the principles of this philosophy, be induced to aid in transmuting DESIRES into concrete, or material form. The author has this knowledge, because he has experimented with it - and has EXPERIENCED IT.”
Another confirmation that these powers exist is from As a Man Thinketh written by James Allen. Allen states:
“Nature helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts which he most encourages, and opportunities are presented which will most speedily bring to the surface both the good and evil thoughts.”
In other words, these authors confirm that whatever it is we most deeply believe will come to be in our lives and that outside super forces, in these instances called Intelligence and Nature, will assist us. Of course, as the quote above alludes to this principle works in both directions of thought. We must therefore focus our thoughts on the positive to move in the direction we want. We must eliminate all negative thinking and fear. These thoughts dilute the effectiveness of our superpowers and may even take us in the opposite direction. Use your powers for good and not evil!
I think W. Clement Stone says it most succinctly. He states:
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Jesus even confirms this in the Bible when in Matthew 17:20, he states:
“I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
As you can see, this philosophy of belief is well documented. These men were not easily deceived. Napoleon Hill spent 20 years of his life researching the material in his book. These men knew the superpowers of the mind exist and they tried to document it so that others could use them too. Are you ready to believe? I could go on and on with more examples from many more books, but there is not room here to do so. You, however, can research this for yourself if you would like or you can take the leap of faith now and start benefiting immediately.
Believe and Succeed or Doubt and Do Without
I know that some will be reluctant to accept these truths. To the skeptics and critics, I say that I hope they are happy in their circumstances. No matter how hard they work or how much effort they put forth without utilizing the principle of belief they will always be severely limited in their accomplishments. If you look further into this, you fill find that every person with a track record of super success has fully and whole-heartedly embraced this philosophy. Our minds do have superpowers that we can utilize to our benefit if we believe. The only question that remains is, will you believe?
I would love to hear your comments on the ideas I have expressed in this article.
This article was written by Jeff Nickles. Please join him at My Super-Charged Life to learn more about living life to the fullest!
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I fully agree that you must believe. I have failed at most of the things I set out to do but had doubts. I am where I am and do what I do daily because I believe I can.
@Mohamed - I have failed many times as well because I doubted myself or my cause. We all have. However, when I think about it I realize that I have also had many successes. I try to reflect on the successes often because they give me the encouragement that I need to believe more strongly in my present endeavors. This belief is what propels me to my next success. Thanks for your comment!
Why did you write this useless article?
Hi Chris,
Perhaps you would like to elaborate on why you believe the article is “useless”?
Jeff: thank you for the interesting article. My only point of contention would be the way you say these powers are “confirmed” by various people, eg Napoleon Hill, James Allen, people on the internet who have written faith healing testimonies. Sure, these people may help suggest there are such powers, but I don’t think you should say they confirm them simply because they have written about them.
Peter: You may be right. What I was trying to say is that, according to what they wrote, these people believed in these powers themselves. The testimony of credible witnesses is usually strong evidence. I hope this helps to clarify.
The power of belief has been written about for centuries. Even as far back as Genesis, God said in chapter 11 vs 6, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they imagine will be impossible for them.”
People have known the power of belief for centuries, but it still has it’s detractors and skeptics (see comment #2).
Belief is a power we still don’t understand, but our lack of understanding doesn’t negate it’s power or existence.
My daughter’s elementary school recently adopted the slogan, “Believe. Succeed. Achieve.” It was a subtle way of getting kids, parents and educators to have a vision of success and then take actionable steps to make it happen. I’ve long been a believer in what the author writes about, and was happy to see our schools attempt to convey the same message. While it is this strong belief system that drives many to wild success, most people pass it off as “perserverance,” failing to credit the original belief that kept fueling the fire. Great post, Jeff!
Hey Frugal Dad,
I think that it’s a GREAT idea for the school to teach and embed that belief system in children at such a young age. It will carry through with them throughout their developmental years. I wouldn’t be surprised that, that sort of school system would pump out a good deal of action oriented achievers.
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Power Of Sub Conscious Mind - Joseph Murphy is a excellent book to learn and tap into the magic of believing.
Avani: Thanks for your comment! This one is on my reading list. I hope to get to it soon.
The quality of the posts on pickthebrain.com have really waned over the past several months and I have been deliberating whether to drop it from my daily reading. This post helped me to make up my mind. John - you’ve handed a quality blog over to people that are really ruining it.
Hi Steve,
While that is certainly not the type of comment I enjoy reading, I am very open to hearing constructive criticism if you have any. You can contact me privately at peter@pickthebrain.com if you wish to elaborate on your thoughts at all.
Peter,
Thanks for soliciting constructive criticism for your posting on how positive thinking may be channeled into ESP, faith healing and telepathy. I will write my suggestions on a post-it note, stick it on my monitor, and read them every time I sit in front of my computer. Please use your super powers of remote viewing to read them. If the weather is not so good, I am willing to convey them to you telepathically. Man,, what a shitty blog this has become. From actual productivity suggestions and really insightful entries early on to this crap. Stick to “top 10 lists” of other things people have posted before.
Thanks that at least one person has some common sense here. I may drop this blog as well. Many of the authors mentioned, Napoleon Hill for example, are to me, nothing but new-age snake oil salesman. Common sense tells us that positive thinking is important, but you can read these kinds of books and study all kinds of mental or personality enhancement systems and you will still not be a Henry Ford, Andrew Carnagie or Oprah Winfry. I used to be interested in Carl Jung but I realized that what most of those who became devotees of his thought accomplished was that they became “Jungians”.
I’ve been reading this blog for a while, too, and while I won’t drop it just yet, I find that the posts are becoming very formulaic. I usually just skim the headlines, instead of reading the entire articles like I used to.
Naploean Hill as an author was very thoughtful, and had a lot of good ideas, but I think that using the “ISP” thing at the beginning was a real turn-off. That’s not self-improvement, not really, and certainly not worth too much thinking over, in my opinion.
It’s true that we can accomplish anything if we put our minds to it–but everyone knows that, it’s overused, and overstated. This very site has points on why you should not just restate content in similar ways, b/c then readers grow bored. Well.. here we are.
We need some fresh content on this site, and I don’t think we’re getting enough of it.
I must agree, it was better a few months ago when John was running the site.
Great article, thanks for the reminder. I spent some time studying other peoples’ successes and everyone I ever looked into (from famous entrepreneurs who are successful in business to stay-at-home parents who are successful with their own unique goals) mentioned something about faith, or belief or something along those lines.
I think that the reason we don’t always truly believe that we can achieve our goals is that we tend to shy away from the fact that we are divine beings (regardless of the religion or belief system, this is something that is mentioned across the board). I face this n my life all the time and I notice myself falling into negative patterns of though … which are JUST as powerful as the positive ones. I think that just knowing the power we have is a little scary sometimes. But anyway, great article and thanks for the reminder.
I guess I have some constructive criticism. For those of us who think that claims require evidence, it would have been nice to have seen any real evidence at all that belief has such supernatural powers. The only things that come close to “evidence” presented here is a single study on ESP that numerous other scientists tried and failed to replicate, some talk about faith healing (the fact that “numerous people” believe in it doesn’t really count as evidence), and some quotes from a few authors who arguably aren’t even ascribing any supernatural power to belief whatsoever (some of them could be interpreted that way, but most seem to be making a weaker claim, closer to Clement’s, in a slightly more poetic fashion).
I fully agree that belief that a goal can be achieved is a prerequisite - possibly the most important one - to actually achieving it, which seems to be your core message anyway. If you’d just focused on that, without invoking all the ESP and faith healing and other supernatural stuff, I think you’d have gotten a better response.
Visualization is incredibly important to success. I’m not a believer in ESP or faith healing, however, I do believe in fate.
Everything begins in the mind. Every skyscraper, every painting, and every custom-made Italian suit were once ideas in someone’s head. Without these ideas, nothing would exist. Without new ideas, nothing will ever change.
The problem is that most people stifle new ideas without ever giving them a chance to flourish. One of the biggest things that held me back in life was my limiting belief about what was possible. I was always talking about how I couldn’t do this or how I couldn’t be that. Is it really surprising to see that what I believed actually came true?
We all need to start seeing the world from a different perspective. That comes from going out everyday and keeping our eyes open to all the possibilities. It comes from learning new and exciting things that force us to stretch our minds and move outside our comfort zones.
Eugene,
I agree. Breakthroughs come from people with big ideas that challenge “group think”. Many people want scientific proof before they are willing to even consider an idea. They don’t understand that their thinking is backwards. Belief has to proceed proof.
History is full of examples of men that achieved great things through their undying belief even when others thought they were crazy. Stories exist that Guglielmo Marconi, who is commonly credited with inventing the radio, was sent to a hospital because his “friends” thought he had gone mad when he announced what he was doing.
Most people fail to open their minds to new ideas. I guess that is why only a limited number of people create breakthroughs. Where would the rest of us be without these individuals that are willing to risk it all to believe in new ideas?
I think you should take it a step further actually.
Ever check out material on remote viewers? Read Mind Trek by Joe McMoneagle on the 20 year military program that used remote viewers to obtain useful intelligence during the cold war era.
You can even take classes and test yourself. It has also been demonstrated time and time again to work, albeit far from 100% (which is an impossible and unrealistic target to hit). But the mere fact that averaged results over time are statistically significant is intriguing…
Thank you for spreading these powers! I have used these in my life and can vouch for their success!
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Yet another beautiful post. The human mind is capable of virtually anything.
I was going to comment with the W. Clement Stone comment, then all of a sudden I saw you mentioned it at the bottom of your article.
You are so right. Those of us who will believe have a better chance than those who are full of doubts.
I recently encountered this as I toured the country interviewing more than 80 highly successful people in conjunction with my just finished third book. They all had several traits in common. One of those traits was that they all believed in themselves.
Parents. If you’re listening, be sure to teach your children that they can do virtually anything they want, as long as they believe in themselves.
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I agree that if you strongly believe in something you will have a higher success rate in accomplishing a goal, but I highly doubt you can make things like telepathy, psychokinesis, and ESP possible with it.
If that was the case i’m fairly sure that there would be solid proof around somewhere by now. I’m open to things we don’t understand but if it really exists, there should be proof somewhere.
There are so many powers of the mind that are not fully explained or understood. Things like telepathy, psychokinesis, and extrasensory perception (ESP) fall into this category.
Yes, they’re well understood, though clearly not by you. These phenomena are not real, they’re illusions, mistakes of our mind, not some magical superpower. Why don’t you first learn about all of the ways that our mind plays tricks on us, reaches incorrect conclusions, and leads us astray and then come back. Until then, this post just stands out as an example of how wishful thinking and can lead otherwise bright people to some very bad conclusions.
Before seeking explanations of a phenomenon, first establish that there is a phenomenon.
Fantastic article. I believe the prime source of unleashing potential in our lives is to cultivate our faith. This verse sums it up beautifully:
According to your faith be it unto you” Matthew 9:29
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I need to know how to acheve this goal, cuz I have tried to unlock the mind.
hey my names , shawn and all my life ive been researching this theory , but there is a strang occurance that has been bothering me for the last three years. when i go into my mental state of mind where anything is possible i feel alot of wind aound me , i can feel it swarming out from inside of me , and quite frankly i dont know what this means , its uncontrolable , and sometimes the force of it can damage objects. eg : my television set
any info on what’s going on would be nice
thanks
- shawn
hey my names , shawn and all my life ive been researching this theory , but there is a strange occurance that has been bothering me for the last three years. when i go into my mental state of mind where anything is possible i feel alot of wind aound me , i can feel it swarming out from inside of me , and quite frankly i dont know what this means , its uncontrolable , and sometimes the force of it can damage objects. eg : my television set
any info on what’s going on would be nice
thanks
- shawn