Whistle Your Way To Success

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Michel Foucault’s essay Technologies of the Self Basically divides human technologies into four categories:

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As a context, we must understand that there are four major types of these “technologies,” each a matrix of practical reason: (I) technologies of production, which permit us to produce, transform, or manipulate things; (2) technologies of sign systems, which permit us to use signs, meanings, symbols, or signification; (3) technologies of power, which determine the conduct of individuals and submit them to certain ends or domination, an objectivizing of the subject; (4) technologies of the self, which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality.

Things like meditation, anything credible in alternative medicine, and most forms of spirituality fall into the 4th category.

In the essay, Foucalt relays that these are simply the ways that we shape our subjective experience of the world, rather than the world itself.

The essay also trys to resolve one of the most common disconnects that people have when we talk about things like religion, because the objective truth of a belief or a practice is often not relevant to the effect that it has.

If one has a silly superstition to whistle when we pass a graveyard, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of difference whether the whistling affects the world, what matters at that moment that we are passing the graveyard is how the whistling affects us.

Well, I’ve been whistling past the graveyards of my failed businesses and failed relationships all my life. I’ve whistled past lost jobs, lost money and lost time. Hell, I whistle from inside the graveyard of the cubicle and the wage slaves everyday because I still have a day job!

But I keep on whistling and moving on. I’d like to propose to you here that “whistling” to yourself could have an effect on the outer world, but you have to go inside first.

For example: I “whistle” (positive self talk) to get and keep myself happy in spite of anything that goes on around me. I whistle to get comfortable with the idea of wealth and success.

I read books about how to become wealthy. I subscribe to newsletters and read magazines for the affluent. I watch movies like “The Secret” or “What the Bleep Do We Know”. I buy products and join membership sites whose purpose it is to help others create wealth and abundance. I am in a mastermind group that is focused on becoming wealthy people, and I am actively seeking to join a mastermind group of people who are already wealthy and successful.

I basically keep on ”whistling” by trying to surround myself with things that are related to wealth and prosperity so I can begin to accept it, feel it, own it, and finally to start expecting it.

I also “whistle” to myself and to the Devine using something called Ho’oponopono. It’s an ancient Hawaiian healing method that has gained recent polularity. At first, it sounds really woo-woo and out there; then as you progress with trying to understand it and ‘get your head around it’, it truly becomes what many call ‘mind-bending.’

In Joe Vitale’s book, “Zero Limits,” he talks about the unusual therapist who helped heal an entire hospital ward of mentally ill criminals – without seeing any of them.

His method for healing, which involves “cleaning” yourself of all negativity in order to see change in others.

It seems bizarre, but when you take care of your own issues, they disappear in other people.

The whole idea is to love the problems away by ‘cleaning’ on them internally. You basically do it by saying four statements: “I love you, I’m Sorry, Please Forgive Me, Thank You,” pretty much non-stop.  

How can “cleaning” yourself with a mantra like “I love you” make a difference in your life?

The idea is based on the notion that there is nothing “out there.” The entire world is a projection of what you feel inside.

So, if you feel love, you will attract love. Because love contains gratitude, you attract more things to be grateful for. This is the essence of the law of attraction.

You get what you feel.

That’s it.

Everyone wants love. To be loved, to be in love and to be able to love. Love is the key. When you say “I love you” inside yourself, you cleanse yourself and you radiate an energy that others feel.

Skeptical?

Look at it this way:

Even if this whole method seems totally crazy to you, what harm can come from you saying “I love you” in your mind as you make calls, write emails, deliver pitches, create websites, sales copy or even just styanding in line to check out at the store?

If nothing else, you’ll have better feeling days.

Try it and see.

By the way, “I love you”.

Carl

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