Most of you are aware that doubling your memory, going from fair to great, is easy when you learn the association-mental imagery strategy.

All it takes is producing a picture in your minds eye that reminds you of something that looks, sounds or feels like something you already have in your long-term memory.

If you want to remember a great lady named Sister Rose Thering, who had her obituary in the N.Y. Times on May 8, 2006, you mentally visualize a long-stem rose, pushed through a wedding ring (Thering), being held by a nun.

Another baby-step example is recalling a form of moth called a Sphinx Caterpillar.

Create an association that is weird, exaggerated or ridiculous because the brain more easily remembers the unusual, not the mundane.

I see a five-foot tall pussy-kat sleeping on a pillow (Kat-pillow = caterpillar), with the face of a pharaoh (Egyptian King), and the body of a lion, which recalls the Sphinx of Giza. It is associated with strength and wisdom. That is my link to recall the Sphinx Caterpillar.

Too Easy

Q. But what about abstract, philosophical, theoretical or indefinite words?

Our examples were concrete, factual and objective; it is easy to imagine and visualize words or phrases like Sister Rose Thering and Sphinx Caterpillar, you say.

How about these?

1. Love 2. Disease 3. Lightness 4. Durability 5. Justice 6. Anxiety 7. Panic 8. Schizophrenic 9. Humor 10. Optimism

The principle is the same what concrete word can you associate with each of these ten that makes a picture in your minds eye?

Lets not over-think the examples how about a heart-shaped box of chocolates you see on St. Valentines Day for the abstract word love?

I like the Red Cross icon to remind me of disease.

For Lightness try a Feather. Durability applies to the Sphinx, which may be two-millennium years old. For Justice, try the statute of the woman blindfolded holding a scale.

For Anxiety imagine a man jumping off the Empire State Building passing the thirtieth floor thinking, So far so good! then comes the anxiety.

Now you dream up the last four terms.

Peg System for Order

What if you saw in your minds eye the Heart chewing on a Bun. The Bun is linked to a Heart. One is Heart.

Two is a Ton see a Ton of Red Cross vehicles which reminds us of Disease. Two is Disease.

Three is a Tree, and we see Feathers, not leaves, hanging from the branches of the Tree. Tree is associated with Lightness. What if you mentally construct 30 watt light-bulbs hanging from the tree. Three is Lightness.

Four is a Door and you walk through the door and are within the Sphinx, which we know has Durability because of its antiquity. Four is Durability.

Five is a Hive and the association is to the word Justice; see tiny Judges flying around the Hive instead of bees. Five is Justice.

Six is a Stick or Sticks and we link to Anxiety to the man who jumped off the Empire State Building. See the X in Anxiety constructed of two-sticks. Six is Anxiety.

Do the last four.

Affirmations For Goals

You may swear on a stack of Bibles that you do not believe in Flying Saucers. You think UFOers are all twisted because in over fifty years there has not been proof or evidence that would convince a five-year old.

If you create a two-minute Target Affirmation, type it daily, and read it out loud over a period of fourteen days you have involved your subconscious mind through your three most powerful senses. You type that is the sense of Touch; reading it aloud alerts your auditory sense, and looking at the page involves your visual sense.

If you spend two-minutes daily on your Target Affirmation, it becomes real and truthful for your non-conscious mind (right-hemisphere). Your right-brain does not judge the truthfulness of information, it just searches for ways to complete your goal, as stated in your Affirmation.

Your right-brain is not interested that your left-brain (your conscious mind), hates and does not believe in Flying-Saucers. It is motivated to produce what you want in your Affirmation.

It believes because it recognizes your voice, and to your right-brain, your words are Law and you are King of your brain.

What It Takes

Thousand will read this article and never realize the profound truth within.

Whatever you put in the form of a Target Affirmation the goal, objective or desire is up to you will be worked on by your right-brain 24/7. We cannot guarantee your success; we can state based on almost universal experience that you will discover personal talents and gifts that will amaze you.

Two Elements

There are two elements in realizing your affirmation: one is emotionalizing what you have a burning desire to accomplish, two is acting, thinking, believing mentally that you have already achieved your goal.

About emotion: we can more easily accept that when we add feeling to what we desire, it activates both halves of our brain.

The second element, believing-in-advance the Law of As-If that we have earned our goal before it becomes a reality on this physical plane is where 95% of us are defeated.

The secret of invoking the Law of As-If comes through reciting our Affirmations and daily Meditation. The purpose is to get our right-brain to offer us intuitions about how to win our goals.

Can you believe-in-advance that you already own your burning-desire, the object of your dreams? That is what it takes to Ace the exam, the job interview, obtaining your significant-other, and to gain prominence as an entrepreneur or win that fast-track promotion.

Secret Revealed

The secret-of-secrets is mentally visualizing your end-result on the movie-screen of your mind.

Can you create a mind-picture of your Test-Paper returned by your instructor with an A+ at the top?

How about mentally seeing yourself seating at the head of the Board of Directors of your company? What about living in your own castle furnished like the White House?

The Law of As-If is the final touch to actualizing the goal you desire.

It takes two-minutes daily of this visualizing for twenty-one days to create a working reality for your right-brain.

Will you use your volition to win your goals?

Experience

Graduates who have used Target Affirmations have communicated its usefulness. Would you believe winning the Lotto for huge sums of money? How about being admitted to and graduating from a school they never believed would accept them?

Some folks talk of successful personal relationships, career success, and changes in life-style which they attribute to Target Affirmations and old-fashioned hard work.

Would it have happened by hard work alone?

Do your own experiment and decide.

We recommend typing and reciting in-a-loop, one-dozen stanzas of

Every day in every way I am getting closer to my goal, and better and better.

Can you find two-minutes daily to win your burning desire?

The second half of your Target Affirmation is mentally-visualizing and flashing - the successful outcome you desire.

If you trust-in the unfolding of your Target Affirmation belief in the goal comes before the reality you will be attracted to the right-people, ideas and money to create your new reality.

More later.

See ya,

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