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"Proof: Subliminal Messages Work"

Recently I (Raj Bapna) conducted a workshop for experts and owners of colleges at the Hotel Hyatt Regency in Mumbai, where the fee to attend was Rs 19,000 per person to hear me for 2 days.

One of the participants was Prof Ashok Davda of Thane. He is our old friend. Initially, Prof Davda, like many others who first hear of subliminal messages, was skeptical of our Mind Power Music technology and did not believe that such a thing could work. But being a professional hypnotist, he decided to check us out.

He simply ordered some of our Mind Power Music cassettes, and then what he did is really creative and remarkable. He hypnotized one of his students and played our Mind Power Music cassette. What we all hear is sounds of birds, sounds of water/river and very relaxing special music, but no words. That is for people who are not hypnotized.

But what Prof Davda did was to ask his hypnotized student, "What words do you hear". And to Prof Davda's utter amazement, the student heard positive empowering messages and spoke out what he heard.

Being scientific by nature, what Prof Davda did next is also surprising. He noted down the words (messages) heard by the hypnotized student, and then traveled to Udaipur from Thane. And then he asked us to tell him what are the exact messaged used. We showed him our list. And to Prof Davda's total surprise, our messages matched with the student's list. And, that is how Prof Davda became our friend.

How Can Music Improve
Your Memory and Concentration?

What is music? You can understand music as sound waves. So listening/hearing music means taking bath in some specific rhythmic sound waves. Music affects not only your ear and mind but your body also.

Certain music can relax your mind and your body. This can be verified by EEG studies of your brain waves and by measuring body relaxation. Such music increases alpha brain waves, which indicates relaxation.

Even Indian film music/songs or western Rock-n-Roll music can relax you. It actually depends how well you have experienced relaxation. How well can you relax? As you learn to relax more, you will find that you find fewer types of music to be relaxing. You will find that noisy music is no more relaxing. For example, I do not find Rock-n-Roll and "tabla" or "drums" music very relaxing. The music I like ideally for relaxing is nature's music and slow string-instrument like Sitar, or pipe-instrument like Flute.

Any good relaxing music reduces stress, which means all the problems associated with stresses are reduced. Which means that the body conserves the energy that otherwise gets wasted managing stress. All this in turn means you get less tired and can study longer continuously in a relaxed way.

Dr. Anil Bapna's Mind Power Music is specifically designed to be relaxing music and it also contains beneficial subliminal messages to change your mind programming in sub-conscious mind for your behaviour change and success.

Using Music and Relaxation
for Mind Programming

The sub-conscious mind is not under our conscious control. The sub-conscious mind functions on the basis of information stored in it. This is the basis of mind programming.

Mind programming means that if we can put information in a person's subconscious mind, then we can alter that person's behavior. The main difficulty is the conscious mind, which does not let us put information in the sub-conscious mind.

To understand the power of mind programming, let us see one example from history of my city Udaipur. You may also know a similar example from your part of India. When enemies attacked and killed the king, his son was saved by a servant named Panna Dhay. Finally, the boy grew up and became the king. Why do you think he could do it? Was it in the blood (genetics) of the boy? No. He did it because the servant and everybody else told the boy "You are a prince. You must become the king. The enemy has taken over your kingdom. And when you grow up, you must take revenge and defeat the enemy". Constantly hearing these messages, the child's mind was programmed. As a result, the child did not want to become an officer or an executive but he wanted to become the king. And he was willing to die to achieve his goal.

This historical story shows that people or society can program your mind. Unlike the prince, most of us become programmed by wrong messages such as "Don't do that ... don't take risk ... don't be stupid ... you are stupid ... you are not so good as so-and-so." You can imagine the bad effect such messages can have on any person.

To understand mind programming, let us consider how the conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind work. The conscious mind is like a watchman and the sub-conscious mind is like a store-room. The watchman has no intelligence on his own. He behaves on the information in the store.

Conscious mind is like a watchman, and the sub-conscious mind is like a store-room. Mind programming means putting information into the store without the knowledge of the watchman.

Mind programming involves putting information in the store without the knowledge of the watchman.

Suppose you tell yourself that "you are good at study". And the store has stored other people's comments such as "you are stupid, you can not succeed". The watchman sees your sentences and compares it with the knowledge in its store and says "this information is wrong". The watchman throws this new information away. He does not put the new positive information in the store. This is the fundamental difficulty in changing behavior of a person.

For the first time in the history of humanity, there are now easily available powerful techniques that allow you to program your mind. All these techniques reach the sub-conscious mind and put information into it without the knowledge of the conscious mind.

Relaxation and mind programming

You can relax using any relaxation technique you like.

In the relaxed state, you can tell yourself positive messages such as "I am good at studies". Use imagination to see yourself achieving success.

Music, songs, and mind programming

How to find out if some music is good? It is simple. The body and mind are very intelligent. This intelligence can not be measured by IQ tests because IQ tests measure only knowledge processing, for example, multiplying two numbers. If the music is good, you will feel good and you will like the music.

So, listen to any music that makes you feel good. Here is an important observation: as you learn to become more relaxed, your choice of music will change.

Because music can change the brain waves and relax you, we can combine music with voice or songs for the purpose of mind programming.

Consider what happens when you listen to a film song or any other popular song. The music and the soothing voice of the singer put you into a relaxed state. There is an increase in alpha brain waves. In the state of relaxation, the conscious mind becomes less critical of the incoming information. So the incoming information (words of the song) reaches your subconscious mind and is stored there. Now this new information also contributes to determine the subconscious mind's behavior.

As a result, the words of music get embedded into your subconscious easily. If those words are encouraging, motivating, positive, good then that music will make you feel good. If those words are negative, sad, discouraging, then you begin to feel that way.

Some researchers found that the happiness varies greatly for people of different countries. The happiness various across the boundaries. It does not vary so much for the people within a country, and it does not matter whether the people are rich or poor, powerful or powerless. It is my belief that the songs and music contribute to this.

Even the music that your neighbors play affects you. Particularly, film songs or other popular songs.

Dr. Anil Bapna's Mind Power Music is popular for mind programming. You can compare this music with being in a park, jungle, or a picnic spot. Your mind does not know when the next bird is going to sing or make pleasant sound. That is why being in park has a profound relaxing effect on a person's body and mind. Random music also increases the alpha brain waves, which indicate a relaxed state of mind and body.

Dr Anil Bapna's Mind Power Music contains subliminal messages for programming your sub-conscious mind with positive beliefs for your success.

Now let's learn

How Beliefs Work

How does a negative belief work? A negative belief is like an obstacle.

For example, suppose you are asked to speak to a group of 200 people. If you believe that you are not good at speaking, then you will not be self-confident. As a result, when you stand up and talk, you will lack the power, you will assume that you are not speaking well, and you will yourself feel bad. That will have bad effect on your speech. The result will be that you will not be satisfied with the speech. And this will confirm to yourself that you are not good at speaking in public.

There is a loop. A negative loop. This loop helps maintain the negative belief.

The positive beliefs work in the same way. They make positive loops and that maintain the positive beliefs.

Beliefs are in your mind and in your body

The human brain has about 15,00,00,00,000 (1500 crore) neurons or brain cells. Each single brain cell makes connection with 5,000 to 10,000 other brain cells. The network of brain cells is so complex that the brain can be imagined to be like a huge telephone network.

When we learn something, new connections are created in the brain. Repetition strengthens these new connections. A different experience can modify the network. It means that you are changing continuously, though you do not know about it.
The mind and the body are connected.

It has been recently found that the connection or interrelation is much more stronger than what the doctors believed in the past. In the last ten years it has been discovered that there are about 50 to 60 chemicals taking messages from the brain to the body. The most well-known of these are called endorphins. In the past it was believed that endorphins were present only in the brain. But now they have been found in the body, carrying messages to practically every cell in the body.

These chemicals carry messages in the body about everything including thoughts, happiness, feelings, beliefs, etc.
Let us see an example. A person is walking in the park. He sees something like a snake and thinks in his mind "It is a snake." That message of fear goes to other parts of the brain, then to the spinal cord, and then to the rest of the body. In a very short period, the whole body knows about the danger and prepares itself to face the danger. The heart rate increases, blood pressure increases, breathing becomes faster. Blood is diverted from the brain to the muscles, the hands and the feet. As a result, the person is ready to "fight" or "to run away". This well known phenomenon is called "fight-or-flight" response. Just the thought "snake" creates this response.

In the same way, there is a biological basis for every thought. Your body knows what your mind thinks. And it acts accordingly. It means that a belief is not just an idea, it is in your body and your mind.

Dr. Deepak Chopra is a famous doctor in USA who is invited all around the world for talks. According to him "To think is to practice brain chemistry."

When you are happy or you believe in achieving success in whatever you are doing, that thought is conveyed to your whole body. Your body is more energetic and less tired. When someone is unhappy and sad, his body is slow, dull, and tired.
In summary, your brain conveys your thoughts and beliefs to your body. If you think "I will succeed", your brain tells your body to get ready and expect success. If you think "I will fail", the brain tells the body "Do not even try, there is no chance of success."