The Resilient Mind - Unlock Your Inner Power: Master the 5 Hidden Faculties of the Mind - Bob Proctor

Episode Date: November 24, 2024

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Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to, unlock your inner power, master the five hidden faculties of the mind, with Bob Proctor. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. I think the area I grew up in, we were so poor, things were so rough, but you're going to remember that was during the Great Depression in the 30s. I mean, there's not too many people in life that lived through that.

anymore and we didn't have dreams we just get by was the deal right now when I started rethink and grow rich I was 26 that's when I started to really dream and what do you think is the most powerful principle in the book obviously there's a lot of them for you well something that stood out there's a number of them but imagination is you know and and I had learned see I was studying many things at the same time are entire faculties, school teaches nothing about them. Many seminars don't teach you much about them.

We talk about you becoming what you think about, but you've got to go further than that. Most people live through their senses because we're programmed to do that. Literally, we're programmed genetically and then environmentally to go by what we hear, see, smell, taste, touch. But you know, I have a dog at home that can hear, see, smell, taste touch.

All animal life operates through senses. We've been created in God's image. We have these higher faculties. We are creative beings, literally. We have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, and intuition. They're the faculties that make us separate from everything else. Like all the other little creatures on the planet are completely at home in their environment. We're the only creature that's totally disoriented in their environment.

And that's because we've been given the faculties to create our own environment. environment. Right. But we've never been taught how to use them. Now we teach that in our company. We teach how to develop your perception, the will. You change your perception, you change your life, you know, and the will. When John Kennedy asked Dr. Warner von Braun, what it would take to build a rocket?

That would carry a person in the moon, bring him back safely at Earth. Von Braun said he answered him in five words. He said the will to do it. Now many people would hear that. don't really understand what he said. The ability to hold that picture on the screen of your mind and nothing else, because the will is what gives you the ability to concentrate.

Energy flows to and through you. Through concentration, you increase the amplitude of vibration when the energy leaves you. That's how absentee healing's done through the will. A practitioner will hold the idea, and they'll have the subject, relax, be very quiet, they transfer that thought right into the person's subjective mind. And so it affects the body.

Well, the will is very important. So we've got to understand these things, you know, intuition. I can walk by a person and like I could tell, as soon as I walked in the room, I know exactly what you're like. You operate, you've probably studied this, but you operate from almost evenly between the right and left hemisphere of your brain. You've got an interesting mix in your personality. I don't know if you know that.

Sure. You know, I could feel that. you're almost an even balance between the two. As I say that, I'm trying to figure more one than the other, and I don't think you are. Well, your intuition will do that. Because your intuition is a mental faculty

that picks up vibration and translates it in your mind. It's through intuition that you get answers to your questions. Like you asked a question, the opposite side of question is an answer. It's the equal and opposite side. So our answer comes with our question, but we're not tuned in to pick it up. You know, like every question is an answer.

Mm-hmm. Well, the imagination, of course, it's everything. Yeah. So you get these higher faculties, and you get using them, and I started to learn how to use these. And I started to see that we've got so much going on course that we never hear about. School doesn't teach us.

Our parents don't teach us. You go to work for a company, they don't teach you. So the odds of learning it are really slim, you know, And it's the reason there's so few people that really are successful in life. There's all kinds of material around on success. My goodness, there's more around today than there's ever been. Self-help books are, you know, top of the best-sellers list. The crossing, yeah.

In 1968, when I started 61, when I first started to study this, you had Norman Vincent Peels, Power Positive Thinking, you know, you know, how to win friends and influence people by Carnegie. It was a few books, you know, think grow rich, but there weren't that many. Today there's thousands of them. People need it because they don't know how to use the tools that we have. But they don't know how to use the information that's in the books.

Right. How do we... So what are these five faculties again, you said? You have perception. Yeah. Intuition. The will. Reason.

Reason. Yeah. imagination, they're six, and memory. Like everybody is a perfect memory. It's just weak. I worked with Harry Lorraine, who's probably had the best trained memory in the world. And I asked one time, he said,

Harry, how long do you remember something? She said, don't want to forget it. We had a man, Abdul over from Saudi Arabia for a Matrix seminar that we conduct, and he was teaching, he was a psychiatrist, he was teaching people to memorize the Quran. Jerry Lucas, a big basketball player. He was teaching people on San Franter, memorize the Bible.

We have a perfect memory. It's just weak. We never develop it. But we grow up, oh, you know, such a bad memory. Well, there's no such thing as a bad memory. The more you sing it, the more you're going to convince yourself that it's weak. Exactly, yeah. Which faculty of the sixth was the hardest for you to tap into and to become a master? They're all difficult to tap into because,

were programmed not to use them. Why is that? Because there's only one problem in the whole world, and that's ignorance. We didn't know we had them. See, people talk about perception, but they don't see it as a mental faculty, you know, it's just a word.

If I have a challenge, there's something really struggling with, I've learned how, I'll take it, I'll write it out on a piece of paper, as clear as I can, as if I was going to give it to you, and then you'll understand the same as I understand the problem. I'll put it in the middle of a table, and I'll sit and look at it, and I'll keep asking, now, is that problem in me or isn't on the paper?

Is it in me? And I'll work until I get it on the paper, get it out of myself. For example, what do you mean, like a problem that you might? Well, anything that I'm trying to figure out maybe how to improve a particular seminar, I'm just not happy with them. I've been doing it for a long time, you know. So you would write down. Yeah, right down.

The problem is the seminar. Any problem you've got, I don't care what the problem is. Maybe you're short of money, you're not even money. Write that down. Right. You're short of money for a purpose. You were wanting to buy a building or something. So you look at the paper and then you ask yourself.

Is the problem in me or isn't on the paper? And you work until you get it on the paper. Get it out of yourself. So you can look at it objectively like a stranger would. And then go and sit on the other side of the table. And I may say, no, you know, I would look at it. You know, how would Lewis House look at this? Yeah.

How would he handle this? I may go sit at the end of the table and literally move physically and say, how would Earl Nightgill handle this? How would he see this? I may say, how would Napoleon Hill go somewhere else? And the person doesn't have to be alive. They could be dead. Their energy is not dead.

It's always here. And, well, what you're doing is shifting your perception. As you change a perception, you eliminate the problem. The answer is there. But you've got to get in harmony with it. You know? So any one of them, you take any one of them. The will, like we were talking, the will,

if somebody's standing behind you, behind you, let's say in a mall, and they're staring at you. You feel them staring at you, don't you? Why? Feeling is conscious awareness of vibration. And when a person's staring, they're concentrating, they're sending such a powerful charge of energy at your brain that you start to feel it.

You turn around, sure as hell there's somebody there staring at you. Concentration increases amplitude of vibration. There's a power flowing to and through us all the time. It never stops. You can photograph the energy leaving the body. Well, concentration increase it, it makes it more powerful. So whatever you concentrate on, you're giving more energy to it. Emerson said the only thing can grow is that.

the thing you give energy to it. So as you start to learn how to utilize these higher faculties, you start to learn how to improve the quality of your life. And you start to see why you're God's highest form of creation. You know, it's, like I don't see God as a man on a cloud. Right. Just going to answer my questions for me. You know, great author one time said, God will feed every bird, but he's not going to put food in their nest. You've got to do it. You know, God's not going to do it for us. We're going to do it. Yeah.

And so we've got these higher faculties. We've got to learn how to utilize them. Which one was the hardest for you to learn how to utilize? And which one do you think is the hardest for the majority of people? Intuition. Was for you and everyone else? No, not for me. Intuition for everyone else.

Yeah. Because I made up my mind. I was going to study that one. I saw a guy that was very intuitive and I wanted to be like that. And I thought it was, you know, I would have said when I first saw it, he was psychic. Well, the truth is, he was psychic, but we're all psychic. Psyche is just Greek word for mind.

And so I was fascinated with what he did. He could just look at you and read the situation. And I want to learn how to do that. So I made up my mind I was going to study it. And in a seminar, if I'm teaching this, the one thing everybody wants to know, how do you develop your intuition? because you can get intuition is a feeling that you pick up.

Intuition reads feeling. Feeling is conscious awareness of vibration. So you're reading vibration. Vibrations a natural law of the universe. Your body vibrates. Your vibration, by high speed of vibration. Well, you've got to take your mind off yourself if you're going to read the other person's energy.

You've got to focus on the other person. You can't be insecure when you're trying to be intuitive. Oh, no. You can't be doubting yourself. Uh-uh. You can't be lying. lacking something? You have to give all of your attention

to the person you're working with. And of course, that's a secret for speaking too. Most people don't do that. We're more concerned what's he think of me. Does she like me and those my tie straight? Is this? What am I going to say next? Yeah, what am I going to say?

We're going to say the right thing. You got to take your mind off yourself totally and put it on the other person and you've got to be relaxed. You've got to get very relaxed and you'll tune in. Well, you'll tune into their energy. You start feeling. But if you're with somebody and you say, God, they were interesting,

why were they interested? You know, if you want to be loving, be lovable. If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want to be loved, be lovable. The most interesting person in the room is the most interested person in the room. Exactly. See, most people, they don't even remember the person's name. Why?

Because they're not interested in their name. in their name. They're too focused on themselves. What does a person think of me? If you're really interested, you're going to remember the person's name. You know, it's interesting, you mentioned their, there's a good story about public speaking. I had studied this stuff for a long time, and I had used it. I knew it worked. I knew it worked. I knew it worked. And all I wanted to do was teach it to other people. It took me nine and a half years to figure out why I changed and when I learned all I want to do is teach it to other people but I was afraid I was very shy very self insecure yeah

very insecure but I had all this knowledge I was earning a lot of money in there you know I did well outside of there forget it and on one of Earl Lake Gilles tapes on the recording called the magic work on attitude it's a familiar familiar with it huh oh let's check it out you've got it yeah I will get an original copy and send it oh please do you've got it you've got it I'll listen I will send it well he said now right there's an on attitude he said now right here we come to a rather strange fact we tend to minimize the things we can do the goals we can accomplish and for some equally strange reason we think other

people can accomplish things that we cannot you want to realize that you have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you now Now, if you had asked me, do you understand that? I'd say, of course I understood it. I've listened to it a thousand times, at least. Well, I was in the back corner of the room at the O'Hare Hyatt. Bill Gove was speaking to a thousand people. I was in the back corner of the room.

And I was watching him. Bill Gove was the Frank Sinatra speakers. One of the best speakers in the world. And I watched him, he came off, there was a thousand people, there were about 500 bank here, 500 here, and there was a central aisle. He got to this corner. He had a handheld mic, and he had his hand up. And he said, if I want to be free, I've got to be me. Not to me I think, you think I should be.

Not to me I think my wife thinks I should be. Not to me I think my kids think I should be. If I want to be free, I got to be. And I was watching him and I think, my God, this guy's so good. if only I could do that. All of a sudden, that record of Earl started to play in my head. Now, right here, we come to a rather strange fact.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish. And I thought, damn, that's what Earl means. And I suddenly realized, and I haven't listened to this thing for years, if Gove could do it, I could do it. And I made up my mind, I was going to learn how to speak

like he did, and I was going to get him to teach me. Wow. And so he became a mentor of mine. I paid him a lot of money just to sit down and talk to him for a few minutes. A number of times. Now I speak nothing like Bill Go- I mean, I'm nothing like him. He speaks totally different than me. Although I'll speak to thousands of people at the same time. What he taught me was to be relaxed in front of the audience. That was a big lesson. If you're not relaxed in front of an audience, the audience

will know it. How do you relax in front of an audience when you're terrified? You've got to think of the audience. You've got to think of what you're helping, how you're going to teach them something. Another mentor of mine a couple years ago told me very something similar because I was, I'd been training and toastmasters and had coaches and had overcome a lot of my fears of speaking in front of big crowds. And I got pretty good. I was getting paid big fees and things like that.

But I was still nervous a little bit before and felt a little insecure. And I remember calling him about 15 minutes before being like, can you give me some grounding? Can he give some coaching? And he said, don't make it about you, make it about them. You're going to mess up. Be okay with it.

You're not going to remember every word you want to say. Don't beat yourself up. Focus on them and how you can serve. don't focus on yourself and that's when everything started a shift just like you said when you focus on service to the audience you got to fall in love with helping that audience helping giving doing whatever you can to serve you stop worrying about everything the way you look it's the same thing when you're having an interaction with a group of people and you're just listening and you're not worried about what people think about you you're

just being interested in them you've got a very confident feeling in what about what you're doing you know how do people build that confidence if they don't have it. Well, you build confidence by learning, don't you? I mean, that's the only way you get confidence. I went to a nightclub in London, England, back in the 60s. Talk of the Town. It was the largest supper club in the world.

And the show they had was the Wild West, the Wild West. And it was like a Vegas show, and they'd bring in, that show may run for two or three years. And they'd bring in the stars to work it. And I went one night. and I had a seat right by the stage. There was a thousand, they'd said a thousand people down to dinner

in the talk of the town. It's not open anymore. Wayne Newton was the star. Wayne Newton was a kid. He was 20, maybe 21. His brother was playing with him, playing guitar in a little group of his. He walked out in that stage, just like that. He owned that place. I never forgot that.

That guy was so confident And he had that audience in the palm of his hand right away Whenever I go to speak I will find a place If I'm speaking to a group They go in the kitchen and sit down I've learned if you're dressed They'll think you own the place

They just leave you alone And I'll sit down there And I see Wayne Newton water I'm at that stage as a kid And that's what you gotta do You gotta really fall in love with the idea helping the audience and you own the place you go and you're going to be and delivered. And anytime you see a star come out, they own the place when they walk out.

But they've fallen in love with helping you. Years ago I started to realize the real power of self-image, studying Malta's work. And I will, and I've taught this from many people, I will build an image. different parts of my personality, I will see someone that I really, something they're due that I really admire the way they do it. And I will adopt that. Now I've got this, I've been doing this for years. And if you were watching me going from one place to know,

I never walk fast. Never. When I was a kid, this stuck in my mind, there was another kid, Donnie Miller, live down the street must. Now this was during the Second World War, so there weren't no fathers at home. They were always shooting at each other.

But his dad was home, his dad wasn't well. His dad had had a heart attack, so nobody went around his house because his dad was sick. They'd come around the other houses. But the doctor must have told his dad to walk. His dad was always dressed, shirt, tie. And I'd watch him walk up and down the street. I'd see him every now and then he walked up and down the street.

And he had this real relaxed walk about him. And when I was building a self-immy, he said, picture of his dad stuck in my mind. And so I sort of mimicked his walk. Wow. You know, but I've done different things. Like, I used to watch Earl Nightingale record. When I first went to work for him,

he had a recording studio. It'd be like this where there was a window. My office, I could look in when he was recording. And one day I realized he's talking to that damn microphone. Right. He was there as a microphone. He was a, and I thought, that microphone's a person to him. Now you create all great broadcasters, they just talk to one person.

They imagine a person. They don't say you people or you folks or talk to you. But they would be talking, and I realized he's talking to the microphone. So at an end in the recording, I talked to one person. It's a microphone. If I was an audience, I talked to one person. Mm-hmm. You're just little lessons that I picked up to get better at what I was doing.

I remember, if a person's negative in an audience, real negative, there could be 500 people in that audience. That one person's energy is so strong. It stands out, yeah. And there was a woman that I met, Beverly Lynch, years and years ago when I was at Nightgale, Conant, and I asked her one time, she was the speaker. And Beverly, what are you doing? There's a negative person in the audience.

She smiled. And she says, you talk to the light, not the dark. I thought, wow. So obvious. Why did I miss that? So if I'm talking on, there's a negative or a few negative, I just take one person that's super positive. And it doesn't matter where I'm looking.

That's the person I'm looking at. I'll talk to that person. So you focus on the positive people. Ah, always. Always. Yeah. Most people use their imagination. They use it the wrong way.

They imagine what won't work. They imagine something bad happening. What should we imagine more often every day? You should imagine you should see yourself where you want to be. You've got to live there. There's a great book. You may be familiar with Stella Adler's book, The Art of Acting. Oh gosh, you've got to get it.

Stella Adler was a great acting teacher. She was a method acting teacher. She studied and understands Lasky, the Russian acting teacher that originated method acting. Okay. Marlon Brando wrote the foreword in her book. He was the first method actor to reach superstardom. Okay.

And he wrote the forward in her book. Now, Steele Adler never actually wrote a book. A man named Kissel took all of her teaching, all her lessons for teaching, and he put them into a book. So when you read her book, you're going to her acting classes. Like Shakespeare said, we're all actors, you know, the world's the stage, and that's true. Well, when you reach a goal, you're going to act like you're already there. It's already happened intellectually the second you think about it.

It's already happened emotionally when you're emotionally involved with it. So it's only a period of time until it manifests in physical form. But because it's not in physical form, we act like we haven't got it yet. Well, so that's why most people stay stuck because they're acting like they haven't got it yet. or if I can't act like that Lewis would see that I haven't got that result he'll think I'm phony I'm going to quit worrying about what Lewis thinks

and start concentrating on what Bob thinks and so you see yourself your imagination you've got to be that person Gervis said that great philosopher he said before you can do something your verse must be something so you've got to be it intellectually you've got to be it emotionally

as Sake Solomon says that as a person in their heart the emotional mind. Well, it's only a period of time until it manifests physically. That's one of the first laws of the universe is the perpetual transmutation of energy. Energy is moving into form.

Always. Two form, moving into form, through form, back into form again. So we cause it all to happen the way we think and the way we stay locked into ideas. How should people be developing their imagination

on a daily basis in a positive way? Well, I think they should take time to image what they want. I have a business partner, Sandy Gallagher, who is a brilliant woman, and she rides horses, gated horses, and she's in Kentucky right now in big term or shows there. She images herself as a world champion. Every day, she takes the time and she sees herself as a world champion. she sees yourself getting the roses, getting the whole thing.

And that's the way you should do it. I think you build the image of what you want. I mean, you obviously image this studio before you ever built it. I mean, everything you see here was part of the image in your mind. But everything you create, you create twice. Once in here, once out here. You know, so you never get an original painting. You always get a duplicate.

The picture's in here. Wow. So we have to see ourselves with what we want here. Now we've got enormous deterrent in our paradigm. We're conditioned genetically and environmentally. And that conditioning is controlling most people's lives. That's why brilliant people are broke. Brilliant people are unhappy.

Brilliant people never really accomplished very much. They're absolutely brilliant, but their paradigm is controlling them. It's all about intellect. They're smart people. But like, you got to consider where we come from. A little particle of energy from mom, a little particle of energy from dad comes from a lump. That's a nucleus of us.

Then that goes on for 280 days, attracting more energy until you make your debut on the planet. And then you're programmed environmentally by your environment. So everything that's going on is going right into your subconscious mind. So you come out, you're programmed genetically. We don't know how far it goes back, four or five generations possibly. Like when I was a young man, I had red hair.

My mother didn't have red hair. My dad didn't have red hair. I got a brother and sister and they don't have red hair. And it causes you think, well. But my mother's father and all his brothers had red hair. So sometimes it jumps a generation. That's why we look like our relatives. It's genetic conditioning.

conditioning. And then there's environmental conditioning. We know almost all welfare recipients are fourth, fifth generation welfare recipients. So this is passed down generation to generation. Now unfortunately we're all, or fortunately we're all exactly the same. We've got exactly the same potential. Our spiritual DNA is perfect. But that perfection never expresses itself properly because of this paradigm. It's conditioning in our subconscious mind. You see so many brilliant people and they don't make it. I had a good friend of mine, Milton Campbell. He won the gold medal in the decathlon.

Wow. I was DeCathlet. Were you aware? I was an All-American DeCathlete. Well, Milk won in Melbourne in 56. Wow, okay. And he won in 52 in Helsinki. Wow.

Bob Matthias won his second gold. He won the gold in 48 and then in 52. But, Milk told me, if he told me once he told me a thousand times, every time I was with him. You know, there were a lot of athletes in schools that were better than me, but they quit. Yeah. Well, our paradigms get us to quit things. Why? Because the programming, you're programmed.

You have to ask yourself, why don't they do that? I did a little work with the Prudential of America. In fact, I got stuck in the insurance companies for a number of years. for a number of years. I was so effective at what I was doing. And we raised their sales by, one VP said over a billion dollars. And all I was doing, getting them to change their paradigm. I was having them change the way they worked. A paradigm, a culture is a paradigm. Every country has a culture. Every family has a culture. Every company has a culture. Well, in the insurance industry years ago they had what they called debit agents they went

around collecting the money and there would be a little book like the one you're working with who would have a record in there I remember we had a book on top of our ice box was right near our back door mr. Spenceley was the insurance man when I was a little kid he'd come in and there was a little book and a little box with some money and there's always just pennies and he would collect the debit mark the book and he'd be on his way And that's how the insurance business operated. They were called debit agents.

Well, then as time moved along, people started to sign a little shit of paper or something, and they would automatically draw it out of your bank account. But the agents didn't change. The agents would just go and sell at night when mom and dad were both there because you couldn't sell a mom if dad wasn't there. You couldn't sell dad if mom wasn't there. This was a programming. So here we are, in the 70s, agents are still going to their office every morning.

And they wouldn't go out to sell anybody because you sell at night. They collected their debit through the day. There was no debit to collect. This had been for years they were still doing this. And I'd ask them, I'd say, why don't you go to your office? Well, you have to go to the office. And they'd be there. And I'd say, why do you have to go to your office?

Because we have to go to the office. They didn't know why they had to go. Then they go to lunch, they go with another agent. I said, did you ever sell another agent in any insurance? No. I said, what the hell do you want to lunch with them for? I got them to do this. You got to be like this.

You got to be skin to skin with a person before 9 a.m. And you have to ask every person to buy at least $100,000 with their insurance. They don't even have to sell them. Just ask them to buy. Well, I got them doing that. They were selling more $100,000 policies in a week than they'd previously sold in a year in almost every office. Wow. You see, that's conditioning, that's paradigm.

That's the way they were working. They've been doing it for years. Nobody ever thought to change it. Largest insurance company in the world. And the head office was trying to figure out what I was doing, because wherever I went, the sales went crazy. I was showing them how to change paradigm. Your paradigm is your conditioned behavior.

How do we know when we need to change our own paradigm? You always need to change your own paradigm. How often are you changing yours? I'm working on it right now every day. Really? Yeah, I work at it every day. But you should only try and change one or two things at a time. Don't try to change everything at once.

Well, you know what your paradigm is. Just study your own behavior. Think of your results. You want to improve your results, don't you? Sure. You probably want to earn more money. Sure. You probably want this show to be bigger than it is.

Sure, yeah. How are you going to do that? You've got to change the paradigm. That's right. You've got to change your habitual way of dealing with these things. So you take a look at the results and say, what do I want to change? It's the results or an expression of the paradigm,

not the intellect. See, the conscious mind is where all our intellectual information is. You know how to do better than you're doing it. You know how to do better than you're doing. Sure. I know how to do better than you're doing it. The subconscious is programmed. It's your conscious mind where the intellect is,

and that's what our knowing is. A person knows, but they're not doing what they know. Why do you do that? I don't know. Well, you know better. I know. Why are you doing? I don't know.

Well, I know if their paradigm controls their behavior. So you take a look at your results and you say, what's causing that? So you've got to take back your behavior pattern. Why are you doing that? Because you're programmed to do it. Right now, the last time we did a paradigm shift seminar in Los Angeles

was a number three or four months ago, we gave everybody a ring binder. It's a damn thing about that. And on every page, every page is the same. At the top of the page, you write 10 things you're grateful for. And then there's a statement that you write. I'm so happy and grateful now that I know my spiritual DNA is perfect. And that perfection is within me.

Every morning, I look for ways to improve my paradigm. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.