Are you a Smoker? Would you like to stop?

Hello my friend,

This message today is going to be brief. It's only for you if you are a smoker who would like to stop smoking, or perhaps you have a friend that fits this category who you would like to send this message to. 

My history with smoking is this:

I started smoking at the age of ten, picking up butts on the street. I found the best place to find them was at bus stops. People would throw away large ones when the bus came before they were done. 

By my mid to late teens I was smoking a package of cigarettes a day. By the time I was in my late twenties, I was smoking up to three packs of cigarettes a day. I had wanted to quit for a while but always found it pretty well impossible. I couldn't make it more than a day without a cigarette. 

Then, when I was 28, I decided to give it a real shot. I thought that if I could quit for six months I would have it beat. But it didn't turn out that way. I actually did manage to make it for six months, but unconsciously started again without even knowing why. That was depressing and frustrating.

Around this time I got into studying "Mind Power" and had been doing meditation for a few months. I was building my belief in myself and increasing my self-esteem and confidence. I decided once again to quit. 

It nearly drove me crazy. But I believed so much in the power of the mind to change my life that I put together a program for myself. I recorded a couple of meditation exercises and put together a few worksheets on which I did some brainstorming.

I created some small cards on which I wrote down key ideas from these worksheets that I could carry with me in my pocket. I had learned that as powerful as the ideas on the worksheets were, they were no help to me if I forgot them when I was tempted with the urge to smoke. These small cards, which I carried in the same pocket that I used to carry my cigarettes worked great, because when I unconsciously reached for a cigarette, I would pull out these cards instead.  That was a great idea!

I developed a way to strengthen my self-image. 

I developed a way to increase my motivation. 

I developed a way to boost my self esteem. 

I developed a way to increase my feelings of success.

I developed a couple of visualization exercises I did in the morning and evening.

It worked!

I eventually developed a way to deal with every craving I had. After a while I put my plan into a little booklet with my "CUE" cards (Cigarette Urge Erasers) and a cassette tape with the meditation exercises on them. I began teaching my method at through the board of education night school in the city where I lived. This was the first book I ever wrote and was the beginning of my "Success Coaching" business and my writing and public speaking career as well. I have written a couple of more books, including one with Brian Tracy which will soon hit the best-seller lists.

I realized the other day that this month it has been 38 years since I last smoked a cigarette and I owe it all to this program I put together for myself all those years ago.

I haven't taught this method to anyone for quite a while. But I recently came across a copy of the booklet and the cassette tape that was in a box of my earlier writing which I had in a store room and had forgotten about. 

Listening to the cassette and reading over the little booklet again, I realized that this little program was not only the beginning of a new life of health and personal power and confidence for me. It was also a darned good program. In many ways I am still using the same techniques to move my life ahead today.

So I decided to see if any of my loyal readers were interested in getting their hands on this stop smoking program. 

I dubbed the instruction recording and the meditation exercises onto a cd and redid the booklet. 

If you are interested, I will upload them to the web so you can download them. You can listen to the recordings and fill out the worksheets and cards. I will even conduct a series of live coaching calls that you can listen to. This will guarantee that you understand how to use this program to transform yourself into a non-smoker, the way I did. 

What am I asking as an investment in this program?

Probably less than you are spending right now in a month of smoking.  Of course, when you stop smoking you will get all the money back in few weeks, and.... have that money re-appear in your pocket every month for the rest of your life to spend on other things.

Not only that... you'll feel a tremendous sense of pride, accomplishment, satisfaction and success.

AND ........ if you want to.... once you succeed, you will be able to teach other people this method and earn an income as a success coach for years into the future. 

That's what I have done. 

Interested?

Just send an email to me at www.anthonyhamilton.org with "smoking" in the subject line, and I'll contact you right away.

And, as I said, if you have a friend who you think might want to take advantage of this program, please forward this email to him or her. 

Take care, 

To your success, 

Sincerely, 

Anthony. 

Is Thinking Really Time-Travel?

According to Einstein, there is nothing to distinguish past from future. It depends on the frame of reference. The same event could be in the past, present or future, depending how you look at it. The cause for a present event might even be in the future! In Einstein's universe virtual future events influence the present as much as past events! This is a distinct departure from the Newtonian world view of the seventeenth century.

Let's take a look at some of the implications of living in Einstein's world.

Space-time, wormholes and multiple universes

Like matter and energy, space and time are also two sides of the same coin, which Einstein called space-time. The laws of space and the laws of time mirror each other. Time travel is as possible as space travel.

According to Einstein, gravity is not a force. Rather, it is a bending of space-time. When strong enough, this bending can create a hole in the physical universe called a black hole. Something drawn into it is sucked out of space and travels through time, where it emerges from a white hole in a different space-time location! Because neither time nor distance has any absolute meaning, the particle is in two locations at once. These separate space-time locations are connected by a wormhole, like a tunnel connects two points on opposite sides of a river.

One implication of this new conceptual framework is that there are a multitude of virtual worlds, giving a place and a time for every possible event to occur. When flipping a coin in Einstein's world, it lands both heads and tails, but each event occurs in its own world!

To a person in world A, the coin lands heads and tails is a virtual event that never materialized. A person in world B will see the coin land tails. To this person, heads is a possibility that never materialized. All worlds are connected by wormholes. What is physical in one world is non-physical in another. The border between the virtual and the real is a matter of perspective.

How can you tell which universe you are in? you may ask.

According to modern physics, you can't! We are all trapped inside our own private frame of reference. No matter how much evidence we gather, we can never know for certain what's happening in someone else's world.

But, what is the real truth? you might ask.

However in Einstein's world the question is invalid. Absolute truth is a Newtonian concept. It has been discarded. In Einstein's universe it makes no more sense to ask about absolute truth than to ask, "How many angels can really dance on the head of a pin?”

No matter what we believe, we will never be able to prove it outside our own frame of reference. When we change the frame of reference the meaning of events shifts to line up with our new point of view. Since everything is a matter of perspective, whatever evidence you gather will support what you choose to accept. There is no such thing as the truth, only your truth.

Applying Einstein's model to your life

Modern physics provides us with a new model we can apply to our life, giving us new insight into how we create recurring patterns of events and implying new abilities that were previously considered impossible.

When we realize that Einstein's model of the universe applies to the inner world of the mind, we begin to realize that thinking is a kind of worm-hole. When we think, our awareness travels from the present, to the past or to the future. It can gather information from any area of any one of an infinite number of possible pasts, possible presents or possible futures.

When we think, we are sending a part of our awareness to a different region of some parallel past, present or future. Every thought, therefor, is an example of time travel.

In a similar fashion to sending a probe to Mars, this "mental probe" called our awareness, gathers information from whatever region of the possible past, present or future, it happens to be in and makes us conscious of it.

This information can be used to enhance our ability to make decisions, make plans, change our thinking and perhaps even change the direction of our life.

There are many worlds. We each create our own. Your frame of reference is your choice. You are free to choose the laws of your world. You are free to choose the meaning of every event. Whether anything is positive or negative is a matter of perspective. You are free to choose the overall pattern of your life and choose what your life will ultimately mean.

Your physical present sits between a spectrum of virtual pasts and virtual futures. It is connected equally to the past and the future.

Your past is not physical. It is a thought form. Your future is another thought form. Both contain numerous possibilities connected to your present through the medium of your mind Both affect your present as any thought form does.

Your mind has a counterpart to memory which operates in the future. With it, you are able to gather information from the future as easily as from the past.

You have the power to transform your past and to influence which possible future becomes real. A clear concept of your chosen future as an already existing (virtual) reality, gives you the opportunity to connect with it, providing the information you need to help it materialize in your physical present.

You can give up the struggle of trying to live according to someone else's beliefs and choose instead the boundaries of your own world.

By coupling a new conceptual framework with a new belief in your personal power, you transport yourself from the seventeenth century into the twenty-first!