2021 - Charisma School

Technology rules of thumb

Most likely you've read on this newsletter the issues with new technologies like netflix, cell phones (notifications), social media overall and so on. But the problem is not with them. The problem is not netflix... is in you GIVING IN to netflix. Yes, the technology...

Having one intense focus

Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "Attention is not a faculty of the mind in the same sense as perception, abstraction, judgment, etc., but is rather in the nature of an act of will concerned in the focusing of the consciousness upon some object...

How to know if you’re making progress

Here's an interesting question from a student: "How do we know if we are succeeding or failing in making progress? Are we suppose to feel a certain way? Maybe lighter? Is there something that represents when we’ve had a breakthrough in our training?" As we've talked...

Do you keep failing on your word?

If you have a friend that keeps saying he will do something and then doesn't do it, what happens? Maybe it's something that he promised to do for you, or even said he was going to do something for himself. He says he is going to do something, and always ends up not...

They have it in them!

Here's an interesting quote from William Walker Atkinson: "We wonder at the achievements of the great men in all walks of life, and we are apt to excuse ourselves by the sad remark that these people seem to “have it in them,” while we have not. Nonsense, we all have...

Feeling is living thought

Last week I shared a quote from Atkinson, and within it, it was this paragraph: "But right here, remember, first, last, and all the time, that it is not a mere matter of thinking—but a matter of feeling. Thoughts are cold, but feelings are warm, alive and vital....

The everyday exchange of energy

On every interaction you have during your day there's an exchange of energy. Normal people think it's about the content of the conversation. What you talk about and so on. But this is only a very small part of it. It's this exchange of energy that's important, not the...

It’s not merely about thinking

Here's an interesting quote from William Walker Atkinson: "In closing this lesson I wish to caution my readers to refrain from manifesting or feeling anything like fear at what I have said about the use of mentative energy by other people. Remember, that fear in...

Are you forever in that box?

Here's an interesting question from a student related the last email that talked about how people make up their minds about you in a few seconds of meeting you: "Will you be forever in that "box"?" Of course what you want is to constantly be projecting the type of...

You are always projecting

Most people undervalue the role of their whole communication. You are communicating all the time in an interaction, not just when you speak. The way you say something, or the way you carry yourself, or your whole energy give out information about who you are. In fact,...

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