• Mohamed King

    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.

  • Chris

    Why did you write this useless article?

  • http://www.mysuperchargedlife.com Jeff@My Super-Charged Life

    @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!

  • http://www.thewisdomjournal.com Ron@TheWisdomJournal

    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.

  • http://frugaldad.com Frugal Dad

    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!

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  • http://www.pickthebrain.com Peter

    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.

  • http://foodformind.wordpress.com/ Avani

    Power Of Sub Conscious Mind – Joseph Murphy is a excellent book to learn and tap into the magic of believing.

  • http://www.mysuperchargedlife.com Jeff@My Super-Charged Life

    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.

  • http://www.mysuperchargedlife.com Jeff@My Super-Charged Life

    Avani: Thanks for your comment! This one is on my reading list. I hope to get to it soon.

  • Steve

    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.

  • Tony

    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.

  • http://www.galvanizd.com Will is GALVANIZD

    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.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com Peter

    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.

  • Gabe

    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.

  • http://www.mydollarplan.com My Dollar Plan

    Visualization is incredibly important to success. I’m not a believer in ESP or faith healing, however, I do believe in fate.

  • http://www.varsityblah.com/about Eugene (Editor, Varsity Blah)

    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.

  • Rick

    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…

  • http://www.mysuperchargedlife.com Jeff@My Super-Charged Life

    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?

  • David

    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”.

  • Cory

    Thank you for spreading these powers! I have used these in my life and can vouch for their success!

  • Steve

    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.

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  • http://stanleybronstein.com MrPositioning.com (Stanley Bronstein)

    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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    Professional Speaker

  • Mark

    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.

  • Tyro

    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.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/quantumknights Art Gonzalez

    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

    Many blessings to all,

    Art Gonzalez
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  • http://david.klippensteinblogger.com David

    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.

  • william richard hopkins 2

    I need to know how to acheve this goal, cuz I have tried to unlock the mind.

  • shawn

    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

  • shawn c

    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

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  • Flaming Arrow

    Research Aerokinesis. What might be happening is your body is using Aerokinesis when you go to that state of mind. Long shot, but it’s just a thought.

    -Flaming Arrow

  • Anthony Flores

    Hi,my name is Anthony,and Ive been trying to focus my mind on my spirit and my surroundings,to once again elevate my body off the ground. When i was a kid,i always had a hard time sleeping because i was so scared of the dark and of little weird noises and small things moving by themselves at night.So one night I decided to shut my eyes and be brave enough not to open them no matter how hard i wanted to,and all of a sudden i felt my body leaving the bed. I opened my eyes and saw myself floating up to the ceiling slowly. I was paralyzed,and it wasnt until i moved my head that i broke off of that motion,and i fell back to the bed. My question here is: Is it possible to stumble on to powers accidentally? Thanks.

  • http://google Arslan

    hi
    Excellent article and so many things to think about in this article
    keep it up

  • Julie

    I’ve been to about six hundred different websites and they all say different things! This is starting to sound just like a bunch of other websites…I woudl put the names but I didn’t pay attention to them. Sorry…
    Besides, if you keep this up, a bunch of people probably will just keep reading for the sake of reading it.

  • coby

    when i was 7 i made orange seed disappear out of an orange and appear under the skin of my sisters hand just by thinking it and i have two witnesses

  • B Dawg

    hey jeff lets say that this article is true, what you say sound very intelligent and it sounds like you know what your talking about. but have you ever experienced this for your self please reply

  • Geoff

    I agree with your post 100% and find it fascinating that I stumbled upon it before going heading downstairs to bed to get a quick read from a book…none other than, ‘the magic of believing’…which three hours previously recommended to a friend because I had encouraged her that she could accomplish a commitment she had put in place and subsequently stated she loved the fact that I’m such a believer.

    And I believe anyone, skeptic or not can accord to finding at least one testimony in their own life of attaining something and if analyzed with the right thinking would find that their result was achieved through a deep belief, even if not known consciously then subconsciously through the influence of something other then themselves whether it be from another person, a slogan, etc.

    Appreciate you speaking the truth.

  • raisa

    I believe everything that youve just talked about, I always have, but these days everything I think I can do or handle just isnt working out, Im frequently being let down and I dont know how much more i can take of it, being positive and optimistic and not actually getting anywhere.
    I really want to know what i can do to get over and above this.

  • Simon

    soooo… r u saying if i beleive tht uch i would be able to fly or sothing like tht?

  • Niko

    Dear Jeff, thank you for showing me that there are other people like me.
    I believe that i think different from everybody else, whether it means i am insane, or a genius. thank you for showing me that there are other people out there

  • np

    Some people might call this a load of crap. Some people may not believe in this. The problem with their analysis is that it goes against their belief system if they are religious. Every religion states we have hidden potential. The bible even says that God created man in his image. Maybe its not our physical bodies that were created in his image. Maybe it is our spirit. Either way if we are created in his image that means we are divine and just as powerful. There are many people who take the Bible literally in some parts and then discount other things like this.

    I don’t know about anybody else but I was an athiest for 5 years. I still don’t have a religion and I don’t think I ever will. I do know that God is within us. I don’t know how I know, but something keeps drawing me back to believing and understanding when I really just want to stop believing. I also meditate alot now. I feel refreshed afterwards with no worries. That is just my take on it. Im not a new age nut job. I don’t dress like a hippie or do drugs. Im a regular guy. I don’t push my beliefs on people, because I know that no matter how much you want to doubt, you will come to see the truth on your own. You don’t need religion to get you there.

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  • ChrisRCordova

    I’ve been reading articles much like this for some time now, and all of the ideas expressed are very interesting to me. I’ve always been curious about the human mind and its capabilities. I actually use articles like this as a guideline for my life. They help sometimes, but I still find myself staggering at times. I’ve always had doubts about my capabilities, you know? I was usually on the borderline of things academically, and my book smarts aren’t really up to par. I want to pursue more education and discover what I wish to do with my life, and these articles really help to to gain the courage and confidence to do so. It’s like every time I read an article like this I am filled with this energy. .It’s really hard to explain. I’m very enthusiastic about this type of research and thought. Great article. I very much enjoyed reading it.

  • kmy

    I really loved your post. i have read this before as the law of the universe. you have to belive it and feel it like it was allready there and the universe will find its way to work for it. i have personaly put it to work. I have had many sussesed in it. I have started with samall thins. Ofcorse things are not going to happen that fast. Just keep on beliveing that it will happen, i might take some time but i know you will have great resuls.

    Thanks for writing all this. by the way sorry for my bad spelling. English is my second learning language lol….

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  • corey

    I trully belive that if if you can help people unlock the part of the mind that holds super powers than I will be gratefull cause I have failed countless times and ever since I was a little boy I have always belived that super powers were real

  • http://www.youtube.com Omar lock

    Hello , i have a friend who can see the future. i can sense danger. he can push people ( perswade ) on the laptop / computer to.

  • youknowit

    okay before i read this yesterday i had already proven these special abilites to my friends a year ago, and i know how these things work, seen them work, have proof and eyewitness of it, and have a list of confrimed abilites, so trust me when i say that your work is flawed

  • Alex

    It is not enough to think Positively, you must take action. For me positive thinking is more like tricking my brain. As you start to think positively (I say things outloud to make it audible adding more reinforcement) your brain takes the thought and imbeds it deep into your subconscious. Your subconscious is very powerful and acts like “cruise control.” It starts to steer you physically to take the necessary actions needed to make that thought a reality. This technique is even more powerful when combined with visualization.

    I use these everyday, I have a simple technique for impregnating my subconscious mind with positive thoughts and it works. Small changes in your life can yield big dividends.

    Please note: This is slightly different from the Law of Attraction and Thought Vibration

  • king anu

    to all: if you believe this is a load of bullshit, it will be…..
    if u believe this is infact true, it will be…….
    our mind creates, without thought, there would be nothing.look around you….
    right now! if man/woman did not believe creating a computer would be possible,
    this message im leaving would not exist……..

    believe it!!!

  • J.R.

    How do I control this?

  • Umair

    i said someone i can say what people is thinking right now he start laughting at me and said stop lying but its not like i can read all what he is think but i can say what is going on in his mind like what he is thinking right now and iam not saying iam always right and sometimes its wrong but mostly i hit the point what he is thinking but i never tell anybody…

  • mashusudhan

    HEY U R PHILOSOPHY IS CORRECT ANY VERY TRUE.THERE IS VIDEO CALLED ‘THE SECRET’ON THE SAME PHILOSOPHY.

  • http://www.superpowers.com ibrahim

    i believe i hv an ability but dnt knw hw it wl be or how i wl discover it.pls pray 4 me 2 learn abt my ability.

  • mary

    I have to tell you that I just read the information on your site and after I took a short nap. I had a dream that I was running the wrong way on the track at my gym and it felt good. I think that’s me realizing that I’ve been doing things incorrectly for many year and welcoming the life change. Thank you!

  • Alex

    Well I have to say that I do believe that there’s more to our mind than we believe. Since we only use less than ten percent of our mind. We have no idea what potential our brain may unleash. So I do think we have to believe in order to succeed ill keep your observations in mind. Thank you.

  • jon

    I have witnessed this so completely – everything in my life at the time was a miracle and there was the illusion (or not?) that everything I wanted to happen would happen. I thought my mind was strong and it clearly was… This only lasted for a while, maybe a couple of months. And now I feel like I am the worst person alive, I feel like nothing matters anymore. My mind has gotten me a job that is like a prison (for me anyway) where I do basically nothing all day and I have lost the will to live. My mind is only concerned with eating food anymore and that is the only thing I look forward to, and then after eating, feel bad about doing it. I am not overweight. I feel so uncomfortable in my own skin, life has no meaning – what to do? The past has come back to haunt me and what has happened in the past is not even that bad… I just feel like I have the weakest mind ever and I am constantly consumed by negative thoughts which i completely believe in, making me feel very alone all day. And then at my job, I’m supposed to talk to people but it just makes me feel like the know how pathetic I am. I have a serious mental problem going on. I wish I had never known the power of my mind because it has gotten me into this living hell. (And even calling it that is messed up, because it is not a living hell at all, I have it really good, but I am so stuck in my mind that everything feels like living hell.. I hate giong to work, I hate seeing people, I hate leaving work, I hate watching TV, don’t want to leave the house, when people try to help me I get mad at them.. it’s like i don’t want any help and I just want to die.)

  • tommy

    In respons to JON,

    Jon i’ve come to dicover those same feelings arise. however the way i got around those types of negative thinking is invest my life in something that i can truely support. maybe your feeling the way you do about your life because you’ve convinced yourself that this is all that there is in your life. instead find something new that makes you proud of your life and your new power. try to spend your time thinking of ways that you can make an beneficial impact on the world. try to help others. not just yourself. if your main goal in life is to gain power for selfish reasons your power will consume u. instead use ur powers for the good of the world. and turn your depression into enlightened action. once you feel good about what you are doing again. than naturally according to the laws of attraction you will attract more good feelings. but you cant feel that way if you feel bad about your life. like you said your trapped. but dont give up. because if u do find a way out of ur troubles . it will all come rushing back. and you will be armed with even more strength and power than before. because not only will you have power but you will have cause and reason for these powers. I have been spending my time testing out these theories . and among all of my time spent i have discovered lifes synchronicities and signposts. its lead me to an intresting investment of my time. because this project i’ve been working on is not just for me. its for everyone i know. its an idea that came to me when i was feeling at the most determined to do soemthing positive to help my fellow man evolve. You can be happy again you just need to let out those positive feelings in a more open and helpful manner. with great power comes great responsibility it not just some saying. you have to live it.

  • Dakota

    I do believe we have the power to unlock these powers and this i kno for fact cause its happened to me and im for sure its different for everyone to unlock these unkown talents but for me i had an encounter with one of my hidden powers yes it would be nice to be able to harness these powers but for me some of them For i wish id never known for instance the only one i know i have unlocked is my strength and i have only been able to unlock my full strength out of pure hatred and anger to the point were i lost control it scared me so bad to know what i was capable of doing i just wish this was one of few powers i would have never discovered so for some people it might be a way for sucsess but unlocking the potential powers is scary and very hard to do but for anyone to believe in being able to unlock your brains power if you believe hard enough you can accomplish anything.

  • Andrius

    I blown light bulbs twice just by looking at them. Might be just coincidence. But 2 times in a row is hard to believe.

  • Roy

    Jeff, I also believe that there must be a higher purpose for our brains than solving soduku, but why is there no media about it? or why has the military not excelled in this area?

  • julie

    this was pointless. waste of my time. i have grown up having my mother tell me this. utter waste of time… sad really.

  • RJ

    does having a forethought of what others near you think or having to take a very vague thought of what’s about to happen count as a mental super power. i’ve been having them since i was about seven, yet i don’t understand how to control them. I do believe they exist i just wanna know how to hone them.

  • Joel

    Useless???

  • Dean

    Mr. Nickles, I agree with your article. But while trying to believe and understand all of this do we have to try and do it on our own or is there more help we or I can get?

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  • Billye

    I love hearing different perspectives about The Secret, it was an eye-opening film and book. I have been working on altering my thoughts for a year now. It is hard to keep the negativity fully away but it has made me more focused on my goals. Great motivation to know the mind is what holds success(:

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    Mr.Nickles, I am a 32 yrs old. I am highly motivated and hellbent on achieving a high level of success. I’m totally convinced of the powers of the mind and more intrigued on unlocking the full potential of my brains power… For a little more than year now I’ve basically closed myself off from negativity, but the negative influence and surroundings of people and the world makes it very hard to believe that I can actually pull this off. I’m open to all and any suggestions…

  • Shayne

    Dear sir, I am 13 years old will be 14 soon I belive at my age I have experiences to overcome in my life and is one of those extremely intelligent kids that would blow your mind if I told you what I knew I recently looked this up because I told my mom the day my grandma died before she did with no warning something is going to happen I also sensed when my mom tried to suicide I felt something was wrong and stayed calm thought positive and I saw my mother take the pills and the toxology report showed she took nothing and i also told my mom when she was gonna have her baby about a month early some call this stuff crazy but they also called Einstein crazy I think people need to at least open the mind to this possibly and then take steps into actually believing thanks if u read this all

  • Jesus Zamora

    Nice article it helped me understand

  • Alex Joling

    great article, i will try my best to unlock the powers of my mind. i to had a event happen. i was about 6 or 7 it was the middle of the night, i got up and had a bloody nose went to the bathroom and got a kleanex to plug my nose with, and my mother had followed me in and i cant remember everything but i said to her “grandpas gonna be ok”. at the time my grandfather had cancer, my mother went to hospital days later and found out that he was ok. heres my point everyone can do this, we just dont realize it. thanks for reading. BELIEVE

  • bradlee

    please read..
    i have believed stuff like this all my life, its hard to explain some times i can help others & that, but i have been tring to do this thing that i have wanted to do all my life so why cant i do it? i help people all the time to get the best out of their life yet i cant do the thing i most want & need to do, can you help?

  • http://Yahoo Fan man

    All I want to be able to do is concentrate my mind enough to turn a fan on I believe whole heartfelt and with all of my mind but idk how to do it I visualize and feel it and think and beleive am I missing a step?

  • brandon

    i was wondring is there any tips that can help me

  • Lavell Black

    My name is Lavell and I believe that the mind is the key to having everything that u want out of life.Ive seen the secret and read a few books including The laws of success by Napoleon Hill.I want to know is their anymore direct advice u can share with me to help harness the full power of my mind and used it to its full 100%

  • Joshua Saint Furcy

    I believe this without a doubt because i have done such things mentioned on numerous occasions, i don’t want to sound as though i am lieing just the attention but i can actually do some of these thing not on command of course but more than 2 in a day i just want to know am i the only one?! If there is anyone out there reading this contact me via facebook look up my name….

  • http://? Some guy

    It’s really funny (not at all) how he takes that bible verse out of context. With God anything is possible, not our own power. I think that the reason we don’t have all kinds of powers and stuff is because 99.9% of the people in the world would use them to their own advantage. When man tries to play god is when mankind is too conceited for it’s own good. If you disagree, I’d love to hear your opinion. Please reply.

  • http://? Some guy

    Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. (2 3:4-5 NIV) 

  • lawrence

    im 12, about to be 13.I understand and believe the mind has super powers, and that negative thoughts weight down the odds/chances, but i don’t get how someone can let something be so important that it would be an obsesion, and to make your mind void of any dout. I would do anything to acheive psychokinesis. answer back if you aren’t too busy

  • jacob clendennen

    im fourteen and im right there with u

  • one of us

    While serving in the united states marine corps I was over seas in Iraq, one night I felt my fiancee I felt her feelings I felt them like they were my own. When I called her she stated she had the worsted day of her life ( ill spare the details ). I have had this ” sixth sense” about things nothing major my whole life. To reply to the man above I believe that god made us with this potential and the free will to unlock it but even with this we can not create life itself

  • Heaven

    Honestly, i came here to read about helping me to unlock the brain, but the stuff here i probable already knew what i should have done but it still helped btw, Believe if you want i stopped time at age of 12 or 13 one time can’t seem to do it again believe if you want, i don’t know if the whole world stopped but around me did I almost got hit in the eye with one of those beyblade things and that helped me, all i wanted to share :D .

  • Obama

    Steve,
                 Your reading comprehension level is apparently that of a second-rate first grader. You missed the entire point of the post, while regarding your own opinion as worthy. If you wanted to rant and bitch like a little kid who didn’t get his frosted flakes because his mother didn’t want him becoming a lard ass you should have considered a celebrity lifestyle blog to comment on so you can bitch about how unproductive the cast of Jersey Shore is. You are an arrogant, pompous ass hat who thinks people actual give a shit about what you think. Newsflash: You were born alone, you’ll die alone, and in the process of life unless you learn to keep you’re stupid ass mouth shut you will always end up spinning your wheels at a sorry attempt at life with no friends to share it with. Get a life. Oh yeah, greetings from 3 years later. people still read this “shitty” blog.

  • Gcinilef

    hard to believe that the mind is so powerful once you realy focus.
     

  • Lubax

    do i use my hand or i use eyes?

  • http://www.facebook.com/hannonthecanon Hannon Harding

    It has been shown that the universe viewed from a great distance looks like a massive interconnected web of  of points of light connected by filaments. The workings within the universe and its form together project the image of a massive brain. If  The universe itself is a physical representation of a universal mind, are we not part of that mind? If so, we have the power to affect the universe which is our reality, why else would intelligent beings capable of thought exist? We are but, the universe within trying to discover the universe without.

  • Mostafa

    I am an Egyptian boy and my name is Mostafa , I wish you keep writing articles about this because I am doing my INTEL project about this .

    p.s.
    very nice article

  • Tim

    unlocking your full brain potential
    Believing in Jesus

    Pick one…

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  • Aaron

    Hi Jeff, thanks for your thoughts they are the stuff the world is made of. I am reading, “the Bible Is a Story of You” by John Lee Baughman. He shows the meaning within and explains the allegory and parables throughout the Bible. It is a must for any who seeks to Know thyself.
    Blessings,
    Aaron

  • Bondes

    Woot. I love a good blog site argument. By the way, this article wasn’t as shitty as his your attitude or his choice of words. Maybe he should learn to unlock the other 100% of his brain!

  • Bondes

    Make the ‘your’  in the second sentence disappear. After all, that’s what steve’s intelligience did…. 

  • Bhaskar_longhorn

    I always had this question in mind…If one believes that he will live forever, will he?

  • jaysmith

    theres not alot i can say but i am doing what i wanted to do as a kid and i am loving it

  • jaysmith

    they worte it for that way you can understand how the brain works and how you can make your hole brain work then just little parts of it.

  • Brester!!!!!!

    I believe what you are saying 100%,but i also believe that people can’t not doubt them self because if you say you can do certain things that are not normal then people will diss you and not accept you (and this has been happening for so many years) so if you can do it you don’t fully nuture it and even if you can’t do it you close it out of your life so you can be normal but there is no normal, normal dose not existe.

  • Adamjrox

    I believe

  • Adamjrox

    I believe

  • Maumar6162

    Outstanding material , brian storming is streching our minds for the further…….thx

  • Duane

    well i believe that if i think straight or in other words if i think that i can do something even if it seems impossible i get this feeling that i can do it but Mr Jeff your article is not a new idea but it has been causing doubts for so many people for so long so i would love to know more about this  
    believe & succeed & i thank you sincerely for sharing this knowledge with us  

  • Alexraygoza52

    ok….iv wanted to tell this to many people but i was afraid of what they will think of me so i come to you because you will seem to understand,alrite,…i have an ability,….move things with my mind…but please…how can i show this without being afraid???

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  • AdamJRox

    You can first show the person you mostley trust and he won’t freak out because he or she will understand. When you show it that person will think it’s amazing :) If anything gies wrong email me.

  • Bnlk789

    I agree to the most part but I need a few clarifications. Belief motivates us to work hard for success – indeed it is the activating ingredient of success.  However, is this magic… is this your brains full potential? That is something I would disagree upon.

  • Alexraygoza52

    well,i showed the person i trust the most and it went great

  • Alexraygoza52

    well,i showed the person i trust the most and it went great

  • 080800

    YES PROFESSOR
    CAN I BE IN THE BAND

  • Freetafree

    I believe. but i need to know that has any one of you till now experienced such powers.
    No, Explaination YES or NO

  • Rehman342

    give me a step to step guide to unlocking the rest of my brain.  i have a levels coming up and are failing.

  • ELG

    Thank you Jeff for your awe inspiring article about believing. I say this is true.

  • Alatorre88

    I think I killed someone by pretending to choke him.

  • George Mccully

    This article is trash.

  • Jamez Prentice

    i understand this my mind is power full things i have nether done befor the hardest obsicles just feel like an easy day. I told my friend i was an amazing climber but i realy wasnt he told me to climb a house of his friends and i close my eyes opened them and i had climb to the top i agree but we need to research thurther in or these supernaturel things can turn u against ure loved ones i am only a 13 year old boy i understand it completely.

  • Freemasonry

    Magick 101 ..  ” elementary my dear watson”   break it down into a metaphysical science and formulas are created,, hmm which to use this night    =]

     Mage

  • Anonymous

    While I whole heartedly believe belief in yourself is key to success.  I think bringing in faithhealing, ESP, and such really discounted the good advice.  I almost quit reading before I got to the real point of your article.  Next time stick to the less mystical evidence and you make you point more effectively.

  • Unknown

    Steve, You don’t have to believe if you don’t want to but believing is the key to success.

    Alexander

  • Unknown

    Never doubt believe

  • Unknown

    We think the same bud :p

  • Willynyc61

    Thanks for such great article, I have used spiritual healing to treat my own family for the last 12 yrs, I have to say that I am a witness to its power and effectiveness, my 2 kids wife and me have not visited a doctor in that long, nor have we taken any medicine for the different maladies that affect the common family, we have even treated serious traumas like my son’s fracture of his skull at age 5, this just to give an example. And yea, ESP is very much real and pure when used for the good of the universe and ourselves. THanks for brigiing out the message, hope many will join you in this difficult but beautiful mission. 

  • Willynyc61

    Why being afraid? Dont allow society to dictate how to better put at use the beautiful gifts and powers given to you by your creator, go to a center in your town or county where there is metaphysical treatements and speak with them, they will understand and guide you, metaphysisits are usually very open minded and understandisng. Wish I could experience with you such things. Lots of blessings and go for it, nothing as beautiful as having ppl benefit from our abilities. Email me if you will, willynyc61 @hotmail

  • Willynyc61

    THe real question for you is, what is death? It needs to be addressed with grain of spirituallity

  • truth

    if you could move things with ur mind you would be known world wide that is not the sort of thing to be affraid of, but it is believeable due to the progress of our potential since the begining of humanity

  • Hav0kZ

    ok, it’s impossible for anyone to put this hypothetical, supposed superpower into practice, because, firstly: ITS INFUCKINGPOSSIBLE to fully believe in something and have no doubts about any particular thing, the only people capable of having such belief in one particular are incredibly religious people, who would singularly believe in god and whatnot, and nothing else let alone superpowers.

    cheers kunt from down under, aka a 15 year who just owned your theory.

  • Jonathon Milner

    at one point you state that a man says and i quote “use your powers for good and not evil!” if you truely have these powers, wouldnt it be impossable to use them for evil, because to have these powers you need faith and if you are truely evil faith is something you must live without. so i say to you in my opinion, evil people will not succeed.

  • Jonathon Milner

    at one point you state that a man says and i quote “use your powers for good and not evil!” if you truely have these powers, wouldnt it be impossable to use them for evil, because to have these powers you need faith and if you are truely evil faith is something you must live without. so i say to you in my opinion, evil people will not succeed.

  • OhioLovesGambino

    This article is more religious than anything. You are sickening you bible thumper. I just want a superpower, not Jesus.

  • john Eldridge

    whooo i believe i can i’ll never give up trying and post back when i’ve succeded

  • Shafdawg38

    I completely agree with this article.. I mean, I feel like I sense, believe and see things more than 10 times a day. I mean, even while playing a video game, and say I come across a good player that I know,, if I get a bad sense, every single time I lose in a match. I mean, I felt as if his confidence was higher at that point in time than mine was. I hate using a video game as my example but every single time, this theory applies itself. when Im in a good mood, not caring about the game, Ill set PRs. if I play with someone that knows I’ll do great, I do. It really does blow my mind, and this happens with a lot of things than just video games. I will acheive.

  • Rroyceleo

    impossible

  • Jasmine_reyes62

    duh!!!….are you sure about this??…oh my god..!!!…how old are you exactly???…maybe your above 16 years old…..lol!!!…no offence bro…you’re still believe in fairytales…lol…i rather agree to the saying “TO SEE IS TO BELIEVE”…than to believe on your article…duh..!!!…ahm…you can visit our house anytime…hehe..i like to see your power in my own eyes…lol…if you can do that…thats the time I WILL BELIEVE IN YOU..!!!…Heheh…relax bro…dont take my opinion seriously..hehe..lol

  • Tim

    This cant be true it was my burning passion since 3rd grade to make it into west point military academy and i made it my life worked out all the time played 3 sports did leadership events volunteered for countless hours of community service excelled in the classroom with my final high school GPA being a 3.54 and i was told i wasnt good enough or smart enough. it was my dream my passion and my life but it didnt come true

  • Tim

    This cant be true it was my burning passion since 3rd grade to make it into west point military academy and i made it my life worked out all the time played 3 sports did leadership events volunteered for countless hours of community service excelled in the classroom with my final high school GPA being a 3.54 and i was told i wasnt good enough or smart enough. it was my dream my passion and my life but it didnt come true

  • indian

    i dont know about this thing first from the past 2yrs i’m xperiencing this in the same form as you wrote down above and when i googled opened this link and read about it i was shocked thanks dude from now i’m going to control my thoughts and use it for benifits 

  • Gloria

    wow i will definetly try this out i want superpowers but ill also have to remember not to be power hungry or else that would make me a menacing person

  • Super? Yes. Powers? No.

      Confidence and belief are powerful things indeed (as life has at many times shown) and there is enough smoke to notice the fire (like a court case decided on overwhelming circumstantial evidence). But it is one thing to state slight yet realistic ESP (When we notice someone’s or something’s presence without seeing or hearing them) and an entirely different field to state telepathy and psychokinesis.
      ESP is when one notices the disturbance of electrons in the air which should be unnoticeable because the disturbance is so small (anything moving or living or using electricity expels electrons) think of it like our bodies are “radiation” sources.
      Telepathy requires something to control and pattern those electrons in such a way that they become translatable: except we don’t have built in “circuit boards” to code or decode these electrons like a cellphone does and our own “radiation” would mess with the signal anyway.
      Psychokinesis would be to move something using only the electrons our brains release to physically move an object. This poses two main problems: 1) A large enough power source. And 2) Absolute control over the path of least resistance (otherwise we interfere with the laws of physics). Think of them like this (If you will): 1) We’re running a full-size (X amount of tons) train on two AA batteries. And 2) This train has no tracks.
      The amazing healings may well come from belief and faith which changes your thinking and your brain controls the rest of your body; so therefore it may heal you. Anything beyond this is stepping into supernatural (beyond possible according to the laws of physics). Please note that according to the laws of thermodynamics we currently have no plausible explanation (outside of intelligent design) as to how everything exists because matter a)cannot come into existence from nothing and b) over time becomes more chaotic (useless to any bonding except gravity) EX: we would be a big, compact blob right now if matter had always existed.

  • Manuel De Luna

    I am inspired by what I have read here, thank you for posting this article. I’m only 17 and looking for ways to expand my mind, and what you have written here has made me believe that if I am to believe myself that I could accomplish literally anything i put my mind to. One question, are you also implying the idea of possibly being able to levitate inanimate objects with the human mind alone?

  • fridge

    just 

  • fridge

    just like in the matrix

  • fridge

    just like in the matrix

  • http://www.facebook.com/maxstryker91 Max Stryker

    So true. This is a topic that has caused a lot of controversy. Just because people can’t perceive  something with their 5 senses, doesn’t mean it’s not here. If they were given the ability to master their 6th sense, they will then think to themselves, “Boy I was Wrong!”