Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

Dear Reader,

I'm going to share a concept with you in this newsletter that is one of THE KEY DIFFERENCES between those who really make remarkable progress with personal development programs, and those who make little or no progress.

Theres only 1 aspect to this distinction. It's very simple, straightforward, difficult to apply, and could be the missing factor that can totally revolutionize your life.

Most of us in the West try to skip this factor.

I'll call it Massiveness. Sounds kind of hip, sexy, and mysterious, doesn't it?

It's actually an ancient distinction.

In Hinduism, there is a concept called "Siddhi". Pronounced "Sid - ee." It means perfect consciousness.

Perfect consciousness, or attaining a Siddhi is synonymous with we today call a perceptual bias, or a perceptual filter. The installation of a perceptual bias is the goal of every Wisdom Strategy Research Institute package.

In Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism there are practices that involve chanting mantras or sacred sounds for, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS and even millions of repititions.

There are 3 main ways to approach a Mantra practice:

1. 108 repetitions of your mantra per day for 40 consecutive days.

2. 100,000 repetitions of your mantra in as short a period of time as possible, without regarding how many are done per day.

3. 100,000 repetitions of your mantra for each syllable in your mantra as quickly as possible. This might mean MILLIONs of repititions for a long mantra.

You can do multiples of any of these. For instance 216, or 432 repetitions per day of a Mantra for forty consecutive days, or 200,000 or 300,000 repetitions of a mantra, etc.

A similar practice that many Westerners work with is affirmations. That is repeating a positive phrase or statement to ourselves.

If you do affirmations, how many do you usually do? 1, 3, 5, 10, 100? I think it would be safe to say that most of us do a practice of about 1 to 10 repetitions per day of our affirmations.

That is great!! If you go from not doing any affirmations to doing 10 affirmations a day, you will probably gradually notice a positive difference.

More than once I've heard someone say that they tried affirmations, and they didn't work.

I got really curious about this. Many of the self - improvement teachers talk a lot about affirmations being a useful tool.

What do people mean when they say they tried affirmations? I've asked several people this question. Typically it was approximately 7 - 10 days of a few affirmations per day. And they were hoping that 5 or 10 affirmations a day, for a few days would change lifetime patterns!!

Talk about wishful thinking!! I have to admit that in the past I've been guilty of this as well. In hindsight, it's humorous.

Brian Tracy, in "Thinking Big", and other programs, talks about the power of making your life a "Continuous Affirmation." Intriguing, but what does it mean?

This is an opportunity and challenge to take your affirmation practice to a whole new level and realize a whole new level of benefit from your affirmations.

After I had done a bit of research on Hinduism, I started to ask myself, "What if I did 100,000 repetitions of an affirmation?"

It's definitely a way to make your life a continuous affirmation. Since we aren't necessarily doing this in a religious context, we can do away with certain formality, such as only doing affirmations in private. This dramatically speeds up how quickly you can make progress with a siddhi.

What happens as you get into massive repetitions is the affirmation begins to take on a life of it's own, and becomes an integration point for a LOT of your experience. It's a powerful shift in what affirmations can mean for your pesonal development.

I invite you to begin to explore this. Short affirmations are easier to attain a siddhi with than longer ones. I would recommend that the first few affirmation siddhis that you do be shorter ones. If you aren't sure what to use for your affirmation, good ones for most people are "I Like Myself" and "I Can Do It."

You'll have to have some discipline and persistance in this practice. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

To Your Profound Personal Development,
Robert Holzhauser
Founder, Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

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