How Belief Makes VRT Work For You

Here's an interesting quote from Gordon Anderson, a bodybuilding course afficianado, and it's worth remembering:

"The Magic Of Believing" by Claude M. Bristol is a great little book. It is a quick read and contains various simple techniques that can be a help in acquiring and perfecting many principles discussed on this site. The chapter on "The Mirror Technique" contains some of the simplest and most practical recommendations for putting yourself in what amounts to a state of self hypnosis that I have found. A number of years ago I was at a weekend business retreat at a resort in Colorado. The business climate was very difficult for the business that we were in which I am sure was a major reason that the company was sponsoring the retreat. As a result of the poor market conditions there was a lot of hard ball politics going on in the company that became very intense at the meeting. Since I was running one of the few profitable operations in the company I was a threat to a lot of the other managers in the company. While pretending that they were being supportive of me to senior management many of my competitors in the company were using all types of negative suggestions to get under my skin when out of site of senior management. After two days of this it was starting to get to me. I left the meeting for about 10 or 15 minutes and went to the men's room and used the "mirror technique" to put myself in a "postitve mental attitude" and what amounted to a state of "self hypnosis" altering my state of consciousness and then returned to the meeting. Projecting my personality strength and non reactions to the various harassment strategies of my antagonists proceeded to drive them crazy for the rest of the retreat. Not only did the technique work at the meeting ,but even after we got back to our regular work schedules at the company I continued to be able to control them as they continued to react in their weakened emotional states. There have been other situations where this technique saved the day for me,but this one has always stood out in my mind." All true power comes from within - from your mind"

Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"