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Chapter 11 The Power of Perception. By Robert Holmes. This material may be used without fee or charge, providing relevant acknowledgement is made about authorship. No replication, printing or use in training Institutions without prior written permission. . The Power of Perception.
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Chapter 11 The Power of Perception By Robert Holmes This material may be used without fee or charge, providing relevant acknowledgement is made about authorship. No replication, printing or use in training Institutions without prior written permission.
The Power of Perception • “Do not eat the bread of a miser, nor eat his delicacies; for as he thinks in his heart, so he is” (Proverbs 23:6,7a) • As we think, so we are! • This especially applies to leadership
The Power heal or suffer Consider a roller coaster ride • Deep level fun and joy: • Create interleukins and interferons (interacting with the leucocytes) • Result, health and healing
The Power heal or suffer That same roller coaster ride • Deep level fear and anxiety: • Create cortisoland adrenaline • Have harmful effects, lower immune system
Perception • “Perception is the perceiver’s reality (whether it is actually true or not” Kerry Denten • “You create your own experience” Tony Robbins • Perceptions of children at Christmas
The Power to live or die • Consider the urban myth of Nick Sitzman, • Train crew locked refrigerated box-car. • Man dies because of his perception of reality. • Real temperature – 55 F (13 C).
The Source of Sickness Research shows that 87% of illnesses can be attributed to our thought life, and only 15% to diet, genetics and the environment. Almost 100% of chronic and lifestyle disease are directly related to stress (how we perceive and cope with our lives) SOURCE: Dr Caroline Leaf. “Who Switched off my Brain?” Pg 5
The Source of Sickness 75 – 90% of visits to primary care physicians result from stress related disorders. Hypothalamus -> CRH and ACTH -> cortisol and adrenalin Recognise the toxic combination again? SOURCE: The American institute of Stress, 2006
Do externalities control you? • Look at the chart, what do you see? SOURCE: Dow Jones Index (17 Sept – 16 October, 2008)
Do externalities control you? • Is that a stock market crash, or an opportunity to buy stocks at a reduced price? • Do you see disaster, or opportunity? • These same market forces are reducing house prices.
Potential is all around you • Look at the chart, what do you see? SOURCE: ASX exchange rates (17 July – 16 October, 2008)
Potential is all around you • We made 350% on our forex investment during this slide • You can make a win either way, it all depends how you look at it!
Potential is all around you • Beethoven’s music teacher • Thomas Edison’s teacher • Walt Disney’s newspaper editor • Steven Spielburg dropped out of high school • The Shack and missed potential
Albert Einstein • Swiss Patent office rejected his application for promotion • Submitted five papers to AnnalenderPhysik • He unravelled the nature of the photoelectric effect and explained particle motion in suspension, as well as outlining his general and specific theories of relativity!
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