The Answer... to great brains, business and Spirit

by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com

The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray is a penetrating work on re-wiring your brain so it naturally manufactures achievement powers in business. The book has two parts. First, the mental retraining part, which is one of the most thorough treatments on this which actually shows you how you can re-wire your brain. Plus a section on building your business using these dynamic mental processes.

Here is a short view of what they do.
All the universe is tied to a brain that has a connection to everything. Goal setting, visualizing, affirmations work if done the right way. Assaraf scientifically explores these dynamics and shows the power of the process behind it.

Our physical world is made up of atoms. Atoms are indivisible units of energy when united. Einstein breaks it all down to that everything is energy. With the property of entanglement, these influence each other. When in a zero point field, a force appears at absolute zero, that's when all known forms of energy vanish. Instantaneous connections of entanglement are made and a field of information appears. Basically, then, everything is made of thought.

In a nutshell, everything in the physical world is made from atoms, atoms are made out of energy, and energy is made out of conscious.Thoughts create things, and belief is the power which creates reality of the thought. So ideas precede things and belief creates the things.

A law of attraction is established... what we think comes to being.The seed of your business is vision.The law of gestation then comes into play in that seeds need time to gestate and form. Carrot seeds take 70 days, human life takes 280 days. You can't force the seed to grow at this stage. If you push the process it pushes back. If you root up the seed before it gestates, it dies. You have to allow the idea time to germinate and grow, to take root and find its resources on its own time. The next most important law is the law of action. After you plant you water, weed, take care of the planted seed; you create the environment so it can grow.

These three laws work together
... attraction, gestation, action...
so you must be purposeful, patient, and active.

Along with this time you maintain clear thinking with a clear vision, clear on its details which is focus. The greater the clarity, the more consistent the focus, the better the results outcome.

Your brain is amazing. Your conscious brain has a will, memory, perception, reasoning, intuition and imagination. But your conscious brain is only 17% of your brain. The nonconscious brain has 83% capacity. It functions 800 times faster, stores everything, processes four hundred billion bits of information per second, and serves limitlessly all the requests of the conscious brain... good or bad. The conscious brain perceives past and future, whereas the nonconscious brain functions in the now.

Setting goals is a conscious process; achieving goals is a spiritual, nonconscious process. To achieve anything requires the extraordinary function of the nonconscious brain's advanced functions. You got to re-wire it. It has stored everything and recorded your judgments on every experience... good and bad. The bad needs to be replaced with the good, and that can be done.

Here's Assaraf's method: You must...

Find something that stirs your soul.
Become excellent at it.
Recondition your mind to believe you can have it and achieve it.
Understand how to make money at it.
Take daily action.

By establishing new habits that match your beliefs, without having your brain in conflict with your beliefs, your achievement levels begin advancing on their own. Assaraf calls this neural conditioning.

There are six steps to neural reconditioning.
Step 1: Create a new vision of your financial and business success. Make it emotionally rich and crystal clear.
Step 2: Create powerful declarations and affirmations that support the new vision.
Step 3: Develop emotional anchors for neural linking.
Step 4: Prepare a portfolio of imprinting material... written, auditory, visual, subliminal pieces.
Step 5: Maintain a brief daily routine of reconditioning techniques, three times a day (on waking, midday, before bed).
Step 6: Employ various forms of neurotechnology to reinforce these images throughout the day.

Create a new vision.
New vision takes repetition, repetition, repetition. Plus impact. You create an imprint in your mind that has dramatic impact. To imprint, it must be done over and over again. You are laying down new tracks to replace the old tracks so this becomes your neural path. What you have experienced is eventually over-ridden by what you imagine, if done enough times. The brain does not know the difference from what is imagined, if imagined vividly, strongly, and repeatedly, and it becomes the new reality of who you are, of how you immediately respond.

Create Powerful Affirmations.
Affirmations are statements as if what you are saying is already existing with the emotion of how much you are liking the way it is. It's taking the future and making it present. One suggestion Assaraf has is to think about something very exciting that happened in your life, and think on this until your emotions well up like they did when it actually happened. At the peak of this emotion, do your new affirmation with the same excitement. This gives real life to your affirmation. It affects your belief system to really believe it is possible. Say, "I am a brilliant and savvy business person" over and over, and your nonconscious will embed this belief and create better thinking process for you to be just that. When you brain says... "naaaa"! You must override it with the affirmation again and again and it will eventually believe it, and make it you.

Create emotional anchors for neural linking.
This is linking the new belief with powerful feelings that already exist in association with some other memory. It is taking the example above of a highly gratifying, positive emotionally charged experience, like winning a talent show, getting a wonderful present, being loved by someone very special, doing something that no one can do as good as you... that made you feel sensational inside. Then as you recall these events, it potently affects your self-worth to override failures of the past, to create the excitement tied to it, making your new affirmation become you. At the height of this emotion, say the affirmation within the vision and feeling of this
heightened emotion. This is neural linking.

Neural linking is a powerful mind-control exercise that strengthens your mind belief system, and desire for what you envision and hope for.

Prepare neural imprinting material.
Write statements about your success, type and laminate them. Listen to audio recordings, and record your own voice about the excitement of your achievement. Also consider subliminal recordings (which Assaraf has) and vision or dream boards. Keep pictures of what your new life looks like around you everywhere.

Create neural reconditioning routines.
Meditate. Learn the art of meditation which Assaraf explains how to do it. He is very thorough in explaining how you can do this... and do it well. It must be mastered, and when you do, you will get outstanding results and see amazing changes in your life.

Meditation increases abilities of focus and concentration, observation, creates energy, helps you learn and remember better, overcomes illnesses... and more. When the brain waves are at the alpha lever, between totally awake and asleep, that is sleepy but still awake, the nonconscious is most susceptible to impressions to it. It takes when you put in it as fact, records these and makes them your active reference on how you function. In meditation and then deliberately reprogramming or re-wiring the brain, you create some of the most astounding changes you will ever see in your life.

The sixth step is using neurotechnology.
That's audio and subliminal forms of communication. Even though we are not consciously aware of many impulses to our brain, they are making an imprint on our brain.

In summary, when doing the neural reconditioning processes, it is better to do them three times a day... at morning, midday, and evening. The dynamic core is
Meditation
Visualization
Affirmations

And throughout the day, apply various forms of neurotechnology.

Then the second part of The Answer takes you into how to re-wire your business using your re-wired brain to build a mental magnitude that propels your business to greatly expanded horizons.

It's about vision, focus, action. Doing a gap analysis... looking at where you are, where you want to go, and what needs to be done in between.

Murray Smith handles much of this second half taking you through a systematic journey of identifying your ideal customer, innovating your business, finding your business DNA, reaching your ideal customer, using the laws of attraction, gestation, action to think big... but this time you make it work. This is equivalent to a second book... very thorough.

The Answer is loaded with forms at the back of the book and even more resources at www.onecoach.com/theanswer

The brain is a very powerful organism created by God. Jesus told us about another powerful organism... that is living in Spirit and tying to God in Spirit. When in Spirit with God, we then expand brain potential to Spirit potential which is universe creating power. We can apply the method suggested by Assaraf to refining this Spiritual connection we have.
In Meditation-- go into the presence of God and let the Spirit speak, allow the Principles of Scripture to soak in. Allow The Holy Spirit to penetrate and rebuild your soul.
Add Visualization--see God revolutionizing the lives of those you are praying for.This is faith. Seeing the answer as given, before it materializes. From this, God stirs revelations of Spirit, of things to come and what He will do. (Do this as you pray for friends, relationships, co-workers... and see God transform their lives.)
Then Affirmation--Praise God for the victory as if everything you are praying for has already happened. In faith let praise be on your lips, your voice, your heart and mind. As David did, proclaim the victory like he did when he charged the giant. In vigor and with all you got, shout out in strong belief the power of God in your life, claiming victory. In the Old Testament, many times they gave a Big Shout as they charged the enemy.

If we would make this our process of prayer, and in faith reach into the presence of God, and seek His insights and directions, we would see a super-powerful path open up before us.

"For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs." (Zephaniah 3:17, NLT)

We are reminded that God is a Living God. He is Spirit. And this is an active creative Spirit. This is an intelligent Spirit that communicates and saturates the universe... all of existence, and all that can be created to exist. He is personal and speaks personally to each and every creation... of those who will listen. This very Spirit of God chooses to live in Us. In meditation we can go to this Spirit of God which then extends into His infinity of existence.

"Yet the time will come when Israel's people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, 'You are not my people,' it will be said, 'You are children of the living God.'" (Hosea 1:10, NLT)

This Spirit lives in us and delights to bring tangible victory we can witness with our own eyes. Spirit, of the invisible, becomes visible in production of its results. He brings joy into our lives and gives us depth of satisfaction in lifestyle.

God then takes these simple steps and begins transforming us as we continually mediate on His ways, His principles of living. We know the source of our power and we go to it. We know the credit belongs to His Power in us, working for us, that penetrates all things around us.

"As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world's interest in me has also died. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation. May God's peace and mercy be upon all who live by this principle; they are the new people of God." (Galatians 6:14-16, NLT)

"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." (Romans 12:2, NLT)

Our methods to accomplish things change. We learn, become acquainted with Spirit and rely on Spirit to work at levels greater than our brains. Our brains join with this power and we walk in a dual transforming power.

Andrew Murray reminds us of how significant this vehicle is in our lives.
"Man is God's temple. In him, too, there are the three parts. In the body you have the outer court, the external visible life, where all the conduct has to be regulated by God's law, and where all the service consists in looking to that which is done without us and for us to bring us nigh to God. Then there is the soul, with its inner life, its power of mind and feeling and will. In the regenerate man this is the Holy Place, where thoughts and affections and desires move to and fro as the priests of the sanctuary, rendering God their service in the full light of consciousness. And then comes within the veil, hidden from all human sight and light, the hidden inmost sanctuary, ' the secret place of the Most High,' where God dwells, and where man may not enter, until the veil is rent at God's own bidding. Man has not only body and soul, but also Spirit. Deeper down than where the soul with its consciousness can enter, there is a Spirit-nature linking man with God." (from the Spirit of Christ by Andrew Murray), more at:
http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/murray/7764/776424.htm

The implications here are beyond mental comprehension, so in faith as we meditate on Scriptures, see the answer as we pray, and proclaim with our voice the workings of God's Spirit in our life, we see this Supernatural power working outstandingly around us.

It's embedded in our minds, hearts and Spirit when meditating on His principles.
Revelation is produced to show what God is about to do and what we are about in doing it.
Proclamation voices it vigorously in our lives to boldly overtake our foes.
A partnership in Spirit that yields an active, living Supernatural lifestyle.