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To Master Stress, Think Of Your Mind As An Elevator Part 1 (Main Floor)

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Dr. Mort Orman here and today, I want to begin a three-part series on how you can eliminate stress by challenging and then changing some of your most strongly held beliefs…and by thinking of your mind as an elevator. In previous articles and videos, I have demonstrated how stress (in human beings) often results from faulty, incomplete or even completely wrong beliefs. Whenever this occurs, the best way out—the best …

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To Master Stress, Think Of Your Mind As An Elevator Part 2 (Lower Level 1)

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I’m explaining how it can be very helpful, in terms of challenging your beliefs and reducing your stress, to think of your mind as an elevator. In my first article in this three-part series, I talked about the “elevator” being located on the Main Floor and how most of our conscious opinions and beliefs reside on this floor.  Today, in this second article …

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To Master Stress, Think Of Your Mind As An Elevator Part 3 (Ground Floor)

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I’ve been explaining how it can be helpful, in terms of challenging your beliefs and reducing your stress, to think of your mind as an elevator. In my first article, I talked about the “elevator” starting on the Main Floor, where most of our conscious opinions and beliefs reside.  Then, in Part 2, I talked about “getting into your mind elevator” and going …

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How To Be Extraordinary Part 5: Have A Calling

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Dr. Mort Orman here and in my final post in this 5-part series, I’m going to review Part 4 of the new book by Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani, The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind.  In this last section of the book, called “Being Extraordinary: Changing The World,” Vishen talks about what it means to have a calling. Have A Calling…Not A Career In this section, Vishen talks about how all …

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How To Be Extraordinary Part 4: Recode Yourself–A Prescription For Happiness

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Dr. Mort Orman here and in my fourth post in this 5-part series, I’m going to review Part 3 of the new book by Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani, The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind. Part 3 is called “Recoding Yourself: Transforming Your Inner World.” A Prescription For Happiness The best way to summarize this entire 3rd section is to say it is essentially one big, well-constructed, two-pronged prescription for life-long …

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How To Be Extraordinary Part 3: Consciousness Engineering

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Dr. Mort Orman here and in my third post in this 5-part series, I’m going to review Part 2 of the new book by Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani, The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind.  In particular, I’ll be talking about what Vishen calls consciousness engineering. Part 2 is called “The Awakening: The Power To Choose Your Version Of The World.” According to Vishen, most people live their lives at Level …

How To Be Extraordinary Part 2: Question Established Beliefs

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I am publishing a 5-part series on how to be extraordinary. in this second post the series, I’m going to review Part 1 of Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani’s new book, The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind. Part 1 is called “Living In The Culturescape” and it is all about how we get programmed to have certain beliefs, thoughts, ideas, rules and daily practices, …

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How To Be Extraordinary Part 1: Overview

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I’ll be doing a five-part series on how to be extraordinary, based on a new book called The Code Of The Extraordinary Mind, by Mindvalley founder Vishen Lakhiani. The League Of Extraordinary Stress Eliminators As you may know, I recently started a private Facebook group called The League of Extraordinary Stress Eliminators. The idea here was that there’s so much focus on managing …

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What Is Effective Thinking?

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I’ve been focusing on different types of thinking or styles of thinking. Not individual thoughts themselves, of which there are infinite possibilities, but rather discernable types or styles of thinking, such as negative thinking, positive thinking, scientific thinking, irrational thinking and many others. In my first post this week, I looked at the distinction between automatic thinking and reasoned thinking. In my second …

Unconscious Thinking .vs Conscious Thinking

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Dr. Mort Orman here and this week, I started a new challenge in my private Facebook group (The League of Extraordinary Stress Eliminators) to jointly build a list of key “thinking types” that we human beings are capable of utilizing. The premise behind this challenge is that there are a large number of thinking types or thinking styles (as opposed to specific thoughts) that we can engage in, and each …