10: Myths
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The Power of Positive Thinking
There's not in my opinion any magical process involved in it and certainly if you do what some books tell you to do Which is visualise the end point you're actually undermining the chances of that happening. This gets us back to the 1950s and to James Vickery who was an interesting man as a teenager into snakes. Then he gets into the idea of subliminal advertising It's not quite clear where he got the idea from but it is his idea the idea of flashing up briefly images of snakes The snakes coming in again No, okay, yeah, you're not in snakes. No, not great. You've got phobia. Oh, no,no, no, no,
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