I don’t know about you, but I am not a big fan of “silent seated meditations.”

Why?

Because noisy meditation is faster. Much, much faster. And if you’re MOVING as you make noise, that’s even better.

You can literally go from frazzled feelings to a sense of transcendence, and do so within minutes, if not seconds, by making sensory specific noises as you move. Ah, such is the power of big bangs.

Silent meditation has its place – and it can be valuable once in a while – but if you have overlooked the seemingly mystical power of noise, you’re doing your mind a disservice.

Instinctively, we can see the benefits of listening to the sounds of ocean waves, or the birds singing, or the wind blowing. But we don’t usually make the connection when it comes to the value of making our own noise.

When you make noise, and do so deliberately, you will shock yourself into feeling better.

There are many ways to test this idea out for yourself.

Listed below are three of my favorite ways to practice noisy meditation:

1. Cracking a Bullwhip – My neighbors can count on the sound of my bullwhip cracking each morning to wake them up. Whipping your brain awake is so much better than an alarm clock.

To crack a whip, you remain calm and relaxed. You stay centered and focused. As the whip goes from coiled to straight, you apply a slight amount of tension, which causes it to pierce the sound barrier. You have to be mentally quick without hurrying in order to pull this off.

In order to get the desired sound, the whip must be traveling at 767 miles per hour – and any unnecessary extraneous effort to force the whip to crack will prove futile (similar to forcing positive affirmations upon yourself). This teaches you to get into a state of flow while effortlessly solving the ancient koan about the sound of “one hand clapping.”

2. Reciting Nonsensical Poetical Mantras – Unless you grew up learning Sanskrit, reciting mantras probably doesn’t make sense to you. On top of that, how do you know that the meaning of what you’re being told to chant is in fact what it means? If you don’t speak the language, you can’t verify. This is why I believe you’re better off making up your own mantras based on simple, dimple poetry. Pick a sound. Any sound will do. You can do this while sitting, walking, standing or lying. Once you have your first sound, come up with another one that rhymes with it. Then add a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. Keep going until you think you are completely out of matching sounds. But don’t be surprised if an avalanche of rhyming sounds comes rushing to your rescue.

Here’s an example: Dumb, rum, numb, bum, come.

Chant this out LOUD for a few minutes and you’ll be good for 24 hours.

3. Knocking on Wood – Most people only knock on wood in their imaginations. And they usually do it when they are bragging about how great their lives are. In the midst of bragging, said people get an internal fear response with the following type of self-talk: “Oh my God, I’m bragging again. I better knock on wood so that I don’t jinx myself.”

This must mean that, encoded deep within the recesses of your brain and nervous system, there’s a nonsensical notion that knocking on wood does a body good. Well, it turns out to be true, because as soon as you knock on real or imaginary wood, with your fingertips, knuckles or toes, your brain lights up and you feel good for no reason whatsoever. This means that drumming is good for body, mind and soul.

So grab something inanimate and pound on it. I guarantee that within a few minutes you’ll get the knocking and pounding out of your system. And you’ll feel awesome. If by chance you need more than a few minutes of this type of meditation, this may mean that you are destined to be a knock star.

Now, I realize that someone reading this message might think that what I’ve written here has nothing to do with Psycho-Cybernetics.

Anyone who thinks such a thing hasn’t read the book in a long, long time. It would be good to give yourself a right-brain refresher.

In fact, Psycho-Cybernetics, is a book that must be read over and over again.

With each reading, you go deeper into the truisms.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

One of the most misleading words in self-development is the term “visualization.” It implies that you use your internal sense of sight with your eyes closed. 

But truly effective visualization is not purely visual and it is not necessary to close your eyes to make it work.

Consider the star basketball player at the free-throw line during the final seconds of a championship game. He must make the shots in order for his team to win.

Does the player close his eyes and visualize when he’s at the line? No, but he does see and feel the ball going through the hoop before he shoots it. He may also hear the swoosh sound. 

Key point: Without the accompanying sense of emotion or FEEL, visualization does NOT work. 

Yes, you see what you want in your mind’s eye, but you must also FEEL it to get results. After you have the FEEL, you work on adding the sound effects. And beyond that, you can figure out how to include taste and smell. 

The first order of business though, is always to “imagine and feel.” Imagine what you want to see. Imagine what you want to feel. And imagine what you want to hear. 

Although imagination is a much better word than visualization, we do have to use both when explaining the success process.

Just keep in mind that whenever you are visualizing effectively, you are tapping into the power of three words: Imagine and Feel.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

1/11 – 2.2.2

It’s easy to overlook the obvious.

When I looked at the calendar this morning, I stopped in my tracks and pondered for a spell.

“My goodness,” I thought. “It will be another 200 years before all the numbers, excepting zero, will be 1’s and 2’s.”

Later on, as I sat in my chair and took a look at the agenda mapped out before me, I tuned in a bit more on the number 1’s.

What’s most important on my list?

What’s #1?

And am I going after it with purposeful action that is getting results?

When I saw the answer was a definite “yes,” I took a look at item #2.

Even though my primary focus is on #1, is #2 also being dealt with?

Yes, again.

Same goes with #3.

#4 was not the case… yet, but am I concerned?

No.

Why? Because my chief objective is getting the fire of desire burning. If I attempt to get the desire going with a hundred different causes and concerns, good luck. But when I shine the light on ONE THING, it’s inspiring to see how the light spreads to other areas that I am not AS focused.

This is why I’m not concerned. The fire and the light will spread, effortlessly, as I continue doing what I’m doing.

What you are pursuing each day begins in your imagination first, then it flows into action. This is why it’s good to work from a piece of paper or journal that you review each morning, before you do anything else.

Your piece of paper may have one item on it; or four; or forty.

Regardless of the number, you put your first goal under the microscope and examine it in detail, including where you are in relation to the result you want.

Take a peek at however many goals you want, but when it comes time to visualize, narrow your choices to ONE.

How can you go wrong when you have ONE GOAL for each day? Everyday is a winner and so are YOU.

Gigantic goals that are 10-20 years off, or goals that are 10X your current circumstances, are almost always the wrong approach.

When your focus is too big, you’ll know because you keep finding yourself in an agitated, anxious, uptight, perhaps even depressed state of mind. And if you’re anxious and depressed, I can assure you that you ain’t moving toward what you want.

Keep your eyes on the obvious.

Small steps end up being big moves.

One accomplished goal at a time turns into two; two splits into four and before you realize it, you’ve accomplished ten thousand things.

1.1.1 – 2/2/2

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey

You may recall the Olivia Newton-John music video, “Let’s Get Physical.”

I’m not going to get into the lyrics of said song, but I am going to make a point about Psycho-Cybernetics that no one else has made before. And that point is…

Psycho-Cybernetics works faster when you are engaged in something physical.

There are many reasons for this, but chief among them is that your physicality establishes verifiable, quantifiable proof that the mental gymnastics you are doing are working.

Por ejemplo, if you are involved in a sport or athletic endeavor, you can picture a result – then go out and make it happen. You can prove to yourself that the way you picture things in your mind does make a difference.

I remember working with a young-boy who had never scored a goal in the sport of soccer. He was only eight years of age at the time and the final game of the season was close at hand. I taught him how to visualize scoring his first goal, and later that day he went out and scored three goals.

In two years of the sport, not a single goal. Within a few hours of using visualization, three goals.

Now you may chalk the above up to “coincidence,” but when these same sort of coincidences continually take place after visualizing, it’s pretty hard to pooh-pooh them.

If you’re not involved in a sport and don’t feel inclined to do any type of exercise, this reality can serve as the greatest of proofs imaginable.

You begin to mentally picture yourself going for a walk, and then you do so. You picture it again the next day, and you go for a walk again.

You picture yourself walking everyday for the next 30 days and you end up going for a walk all 30 days. Before those 30 days began, you never went for a walk on your own.

You might think this is not a reflection of “mind power,” but it most certainly is. You formed a mental image and your body followed through with action.

Once you realize you can train your body to follow the commands of your mind, the “other stuff,” such as making money, is a whole lot easier.

Your ability to get your body to do what you mentally picture it doing, teaches you to use your mind in other areas, with the same type of results.

Keep in mind that you cannot “get physical” without the use of mental imagery. You don’t get out of bed without picturing it first. Same goes for taking a shower, brushing your teeth and eating a meal.

You picture it, then you do it. You never “just do it.”

A client sent me a video of himself getting into a tub of ice water. Before doing so he continually repeated, “Don’t think about it. Just do it.”

For well over a minute he continually repeated this “mantra.” Then he got into the cold tub.

It was a great video… but did he “not picture himself getting into the water?”

Of course he pictured himself in the water.

If he didn’t see himself taking a cold plunge, he wouldn’t have done so.

The reality of what he did (not what he said) was as follows…

Picture it fast – then do it.

And do it before you over-think it with a bunch of fearful, doubtful mental pictures.

Here endeth the lesson.

Matt Furey