Why do some people achieve their dreams while others spend a whole lifetime fielding disappointments and settling for less?
According to Adam Khoo, author of Master Your Mind, the answer is the way we program our mind.
Khoo starts with the premise that we all have basically the same neurological make-up; we all have roughly the same 1,000 billion neurons in our brains. The difference between living a life of success or tolerating a life of failure is in how we use those neurons – what kind of programming we give them.
The majority of that programming is establish with the behaviors and habits we’re taught as we grow up.
Most people are not brought up with a winning mindset, Khoo says, but instead are taught to accept the idea of limitations as permanent and inevitable. Though it doesn’t even occur to most people that they can change their ideas, habits, and beliefs, we can do exactly that by stimulating our brains in the right way and creating new mental patterns.
The technology Khoo uses to reprogram the mind is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), which has proven to be highly effective. But Master Your Mind is far more than just another book on NLP. In addition to a comprehensive, thorough, and easy-to-follow description of the actual NLP techniques, Master Your Mind is also an extensive workbook that helps the reader to put all those techniques to use right away.
The book also offers a wealth of inspiring examples of mental reprogramming, including Sylvester Stallone, Richard Branson, and Khoo himself: starting out as an academically weak student with a future that looked glum indeed, Khoo successfully reprogrammed himself to become a top student and a millionaire by age 26.
Khoo clearly outlines a scenario for success, starting with setting specific goals, developing strategies to achieve those goals, and putting them into action. He stresses that successful thinking accepts that there’s really no such thing as failure; what may seem like failure is just feedback, and paying attention to feedback is what keeps us on the right track and accomplish our goals.
The key aspects of Khoo’s mind mastery program are analyzing our beliefs, taking control of them, and turning them into the kind that will get results. He calls beliefs the “tap to our personal potential” and provides evidence that they can even change our biochemistry. Master Your Mind also includes plenty of specifics and extensive worksheet sections designed to walk the reader through the steps of establishing an empowering belief system and values.
Among the strongest points of the book are the concise explanations of key NLP concepts like modeling, associating and disassociating, anchoring, working with mental submodalities, and taking control of your perception and imagination. Khoo lays out these concepts with amazing clarity, and provides detailed, specific instructions (including a workbook) on how to put them to work in your own life.
Master Your Mind is without a doubt one of the best, most comprehensive programs for making real, substantial changes in mind, which translate into changes in your life. Anyone who does all the exercises can hardly help but feeling profoundly changed.
