“What separates those who achieve their dreams from those who fall short? Is it talent? Luck? Resources? While those factors play a role, the biggest difference lies in mindset and behavior. You can achieve what successful people achieve. You can adopt their mindset, their focus, and their determination to create the life you’ve always dreamed […]
“Last blog I wrote these phrases. ‘I’m not good enough.’ ‘I’ll never make it.’ ‘People like me don’t succeed.’ Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? These thoughts aren’t fleeting worries or just passing thoughts; they’re self-limiting beliefs, deeply ingrained patterns of doubt and negativity, powerful mental barriers that keep you stuck, playing small, doubting […]
“The biggest obstacle standing between you and the life you’ve always wanted isn’t external, it’s internal. The way you think about yourself, your potential, and your circumstances shapes your reality more than any external factor. Your thoughts and beliefs are the foundation of every decision you make. They determine whether you pursue your dreams or […]
“Hardship and setbacks aren’t proof you can’t succeed; they ARE the seeds of your success. Every difficulty is fertile ground for growth, for discovering your inner strength, and for creating the life you desire. Those moments of lack, frustration, or challenge are what ignite desire. When you experience what you don’t want, you gain clarity […]
“What is the secret? Is there a secret key to making what you want to happen? What should you do to make your dreams come true? Can you speed up the process to get your heart’s desires? Yes! The secret is: Have fun! Delight! Celebrate and enjoy. Feel good! Feel blissful. Smile, laugh, appreciate. Be light and be lite! You will get your goal faster when you feel really, really, really good most of the time.
Children learn faster and learn more when having fun, playing games, using their body to explore, skipping, dancing, singing, wiggling and laughing. When you’re feeling good everything is working for you. It does not happen quicker by screwing up your face and overthinking. Sweat, hard work and effort won’t make it occur any quicker. Sometimes less is truly more. Extra effort doesn’t always help.
Thinking about it and then thinking about not having it only makes it take longer. You make it happen quicker when you’re feeling blessed most of the time! The process is simple. You conceive it, believe it and achieve it. You decide what you want. See it as already accomplished. Keep your attention on what you want and how good you feel. Feel the wonderful feelings of having accomplished it.
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Feel grateful. Feel blessed. Feel Appreciation. Feel Delighted. Feel joyful. Feel excited. Feel eager. Feel wonderful. Why? Because energy flows where your attention goes. Keep focused on feeling good. Vibe high. Keep feeling blessed. Keep enjoying life! Maintain your attention on feeling ecstatic. Love your life. Love the process. Love yourself. Love others. Love everything that is or isn’t going on.
Keep your attention riveted on goodness come what may. No matter what the current circumstances are, maintain the attitude and feelings that you are blessed, blissful and filled with gratitude! Do those things that keep you feeling wonderful, thinking wonderful and vibing high. Have fun making it happen. Live life fully! Live fully at this moment. Be thankful and happy and positive.
Feeling wonderful will make everything seem like magic. It will get you through tough times faster and easier. You’ll manifest so much goodness. Why? Because of your energy. Remember, you attract who you are. It’s BE. DO. HAVE. Activate and elevate your attitude. Energy flows where your attention goes. Your attitude is your power. Make sure it is optimistic and positive. Be magical and you’ll create more magic. Be delighted and you’ll attract more delight. Get this. It’s why you celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“I recently received this message I want to share. It’s a reminder from Shirin Miranda ‘The more you do, the more you can do. Give yourself the permission to succeed, have fun, enjoy and continue then it will get easier and better.’ – Rex Sikes. This was in my notes when I listened to you in the Think and Grow Rich summit. THANK YOU for sharing, Rex Sikes.’ AND thank you Shirin for the reminder. Always the best!
I’ve said this for many years. It’s wonderful when people hear it and discover it. When a person realizes this and takes it to heart. Sometimes while reviewing, we later discover something we previously wrote down or read. This IS the very reason you want to go back through your notes. It’s why you want to revisit material you’ve read and study it. Later, at a different time, you may notice something obvious you had missed.
If we apply what we’ve been studying it’s beneficial to return repeatedly because we change between each reading or listening. We come to ‘old’ material with a new mind. I’ve countlessly been told people listen to my programs or watch them over and over for years and continually discover new things. The programs remain the same. The principles, practices, methods and strategies were there, but NOW they noticed.
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Illumination is hidden in plain sight. The secrets are in the open, however the student must be ready for the teacher or lesson to appear. It’s true.‘The more you do, the more you can do. Give yourself permission to succeed. Have fun, enjoy and continue. Then it will get easier and better.’ It’s a process. You progress. You move forward more easily the more you enjoy the process. The more you do, the more you can do.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.’ – Orison Swett Marden. You can accomplish more by staying focused on your goal, especially when you choose one that stretches you. If it’s too small, it doesn’t matter to you. If it’s a bit scary it’s probably the right size. It causes you to leave your comfort zone. This is good.
What’s required? That your goal be something worthwhile, that you really want to make happen. It may seem impossible, but you decide you want to make it happen. Because of your passion and commitment, you stay focused on creating it and attracting the right resources and people along the way to help you. The bigger and important the mission the more people will join you. The more may also criticize or discourage.
DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF
Stay focused. Persist. Here’s a few quotes by Earl Nightingale that are important to keep in mind. ‘Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.’ If time is going to pass anyway, you might as well make good use of it. ‘We will not receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” Get this!
It’s about service and making it happen. It’s not about wishing. Here’s a few more. ‘Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.’ Notice he says worthy. It ought to be worthy to you and worthy to others as well! ‘The key that unlocks energy is ‘Desire’. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.’ Be passionate! Thrive!
‘Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.’ ‘Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.’ ‘We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.’ ‘Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.’ Earl Nightingale
DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF
Get it! Attitude IS everything! Every moment should be enjoyed AND savored. Why? Because we become what we think about most frequently. The outer world is a reflection of your inner world. So, don’t wait for something outside yourself to make you happy. He had lots of great quotes and ideas for us to implement. Don’t let them be only platitudes you don’t act on but take them to heart. Hear them, understand and apply.
Because as Earl pointed out, ‘We must be the epitome, the embodiment of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.’ Earl Nightingale. Understand we must first BE IT to DO IT to HAVE IT!! Now become it. Go and do likewise. Enjoy and share my blogs. Revisit my materials. Study and apply. Revisit my programs. They work! They show you how to make everything work together for good. Live, learn, laugh and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“Rex distills and simplifies the wisdom of the ages in this easy to read book Life on Your Terms.It’s worth repeated and daily reading. I take it everywhere and have bought copies for friends. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is the axiom that when practiced with deep genuine feeling and consistency can change your life immediately and permanently. I give it the highest most practical recommendation!” – Paul G. Macfarlane, Brand Strategist
This book has so many layers to it, Rex pulls you through each chapter almost as if he were guiding you personally sitting next to you. It has so many wisdom nuggets! Make sure to have a journal and a highlighter! This book is for every season of your journey, as a new truth or revelation, to a confirmation! Must read! Must share with others!” – Sandy M. Archer Executive Producer, Host
“Life On Your Terms is SPOT-ON, Intentional and Direct! Life On Your Terms can become YOUR Roadmap to the Life YOU Want. Rex illustrates how to lead you to your full potential! This book is the must-have for you if you are ready to live your best life – on your terms! Thank you Rex Sikes, Thank you.” – Deborah Milotte, Health Advocate
“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author
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“What have you learned from My Money Manifesto? What have you applied? Knowledge without action, is of little value. To know and not to do, is to not know BUT the more you do, the more you become capable of doing. You can go from the impossible to the possible. From I can’t to I can. From I can to I will. From I will, to I did. You can make dreams come true and transform ideas into reality.
You make the invisible, visible. It’s from within to without. You initiate it. You begin it with a decision and decide to follow through. The journey of 1000 miles begins with the first step in your mind. You must decide to go on the journey. The second step is on the ground. You intend it and commit. You give it your attention, energy and power. You maintain it. You persist and see it through. You do it.
If not, nothing happens. All along the journey you learn to use your powers. You focus. You commit. You persist. You achieve. You adjust as necessary to feedback. If you keep going you can succeed. If you throw in the towel, it’s over. You develop awareness. You become more aware of who you are, what you can do and have. You become what you think about. What you think about you bring about.
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Attitude is power. It is the number one predictor of success in all areas of life. With the right attitude you go from I can’t to I can to I did! With the wrong attitude you remain where you are or worse. It is the little thing that makes an incredible difference because it shapes and causes what you do with what you have and what you are able to discover and accomplish. It’s the foundation of success.
‘Mind is force, energy, power. Mind shapes and controls matter. Every form which matter takes is but the expression of some pre-existing thought. But thought works no magic transformations; it obeys natural laws; it sets in motion natural forces; it releases natural energies; it manifests in your conduct and actions, and these in turn react upon your friends and acquaintances, and eventually upon the whole of your environment. You can originate thought, and, since thoughts are creative, you can create for yourself the things you desire.
All possession is the result of the accumulative attitude of mind, or the money consciousness; this is the magic wand which will enable you to receive the idea, and it will formulate plans for you to execute, and you will find as much pleasure in the execution as in the satisfaction of attainment and achievement.’Charles Haanel
DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF
I encourage you to re-read My Money Manifesto and learn to apply the principles and practices. Learn to act with what you know. Do the right things for yourself and others. Add value to you. Add value to others. Go beyond what others will do. Go the extra mile. Develop consciousness, money, abundance, prosperity consciousness for all. RECOGNIZE the divinity of everyone and everything. Be grateful.
Be giving. Be kind. End negativity. Eliminate it. Accentuate the positive. The optimistic. The kind, compassionate, unconditional loving attitude of one who lives without fear, worry or hatred. Learn to live carefree. Become an excellent giver and an excellent receiver. The right attitude kept the Wright Brothers working on flying. It kept Edison experimenting on the light bulb.
It kept Oprah from succumbing to horrible life circumstances to become the force she is. It is what makes all the greats great. Begin right. Stay right and you’ll finish right. The title of this series is My Money Manifesto. That means it is YOUR manifesto. It is what you do that makes all the difference. Think in terms of what must I be and do to have what I want. A manifesto is a public declaration.
DEVELOP THE POSITIVE ATTITUDE, MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO TRANSFORM YOURSELF
Declare the practices, principles and intentions you’ll use positively to manifest your dreams and desires. If they only remain dreams, desires and wishes nothing will change. When you change everything can change. To transform yourself activate your attitude! Really activate it. Make that your mission. The right attitude informs you and powers you. From the right attitude everything else falls into place. Learn to live life on your terms. Create the life you want. Do it. Want help? I’m here. Reach out. Email me. Join me. Transform yourself by the renewing of your mind. Celebrate everything.” Rex Sikes
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“I hope you read my article on the power of the mind to create both positive and negative results from the research done on the placebo. Notice the interesting thing about the case of Mr. Wright. Mr. Wright was reading the paper. When the paper proposed a ‘cure’ he begged his doctor for that ‘medicine.’ The doctor provided a placebo and he improved. This continued. Then read the cure was bogus.
Mr. Wright died. Consider the implications of this and social media and our media in general. When there’s a pandemic, epidemic or ANY bad news, what does this do to our mindset? How does it affect the consumer of bad news? Given today we are bombarded 24 hours a day. There’s no escaping it. People listen to negativity and fear mongering and internalize it. Placebo. Nocebo. It works. IT works!
Consider what happens with negative news, a disaster or a terrible personal or global event. People watch news all day long, talk about it, think about it, worry about it. They fill their minds with it. DO you think Mr. Wright is the exception? Do you? What we focus on expands. What we think about we bring about. Look at the media and all the news about hate and intolerance. People act on it.
Violence occurs when it’s promoted. Copycats exist. This research suggests that what you think about makes an incredible difference! The case of the young man who took an overdose of placebo pills and had the effect of an overdose as a result, demonstrates that what you think about as pro-vax or anti-vax matters. If you think it is beneficial, then likely it is. If you think it’s harmful, then likely it is.
Attitude IS The Number 1 Predictor For Success In All Areas Of Your Life
What we eat affects our bodies ability to generate health. What we consume mentally and emotionally affects our mind and bodies too. There are plenty of people who prove they believe and act on things that are not correct or are untrue but NOT for them. What you expect to find you most often will. If you think something is a problem or an irritant it most likely will be, whether it is or not. Get it?
People may argue this but we’ve lots of research suggesting this is accurate. People die because they think, believe and feel they will. People get healthier or heal because they think, feel and feel they will. Whether you think something may help you or harm you may make an incredible difference for you. That’s whether the ingredients are good or not-so-good for you. It’s the power of belief and attitude!
There are cases around the world where the ‘evil eye’ or a ‘voodoo curse’ is given to somebody, and that person becomes fearful. Some get sick. Some die. It may not be that sticking pins works but for the person who thinks it does, it does. Their reaction determines the outcome, whether a pill or curse has inert ingredients or active ingredients. People heal with placebos. People suffer nocebos.
Here’s the big news. Something can work or not work, and our beliefs can accompany the result. Get this. The attitude towards the ingredients, whether they’re active or inactive, or the procedure or treatment as in the study of the cancer patients demonstrated that attitude towards the treatment is the number one predictor of success. Think about this. Whatever you believe is MORE likely!
Attitude IS The Number 1 Predictor For Success In All Areas Of Your Life
Whatever you think will happen MORE likely will. That IS the attitude towards the treatment determines the success. Whether the treatment was useful or not, attitude made it useful. There’s a number of placebo studies demonstrating that people who have a placebo surgery, meaning they’re put under and nothing is done to them other than a small incision in the correct area and they experience healing.
They’ve done this on patients requiring knee surgery. Imagine this. They didn’t get the surgery, but they believe they did. Instead of having their knees replaced or fixed, they now walk and move and experience life without pain even when they’ve not had the treatment! This is an incredible power that we all have. We have the possibility to apply this power in our livesbecauseit’s a human power.
It’s the power of our beliefs. It’s the power of our convictions. It’s the power of our attitude. It’s the power of our expectations. It’s the power of the outcomes that we expect! Remember Job stated, ‘what I fear I’ve brought on myself.’ Jesus said, ‘ask, believing you have received and you will receive.’ Mindset matters. A positive, optimistic attitude that expects the best can be unstoppable. Understand?
BUT this Placebo Effect / Nocebo Effect demonstrates that if you don’t use it uses you. If you don’t develop the certainty, the positivity, the optimism in your expectations to move forward ahead successfully and happily with everything that you deserve and could have access to, then by default you’ll not have access to it. It truly seems to be either/or. You can’t sit on the fence.
Attitude IS The Number 1 Predictor For Success In All Areas Of Your Life
You can’t have one foot on the dock and the other on the boat. You must be all in to move forward. You can move forward using this incredibly powerful and transformative ability but it’s up to you to learn how to use it deliberately. You need to shape your attitude and expectation, making your mind like a laser and focus on the positive and believe in the outcome we want.
Unless we do, we live as victims. Learn how to use it. I’ve been arguing this for well over 40 years. Learn how to use it and you can become unstoppable. Invincible. You can become capable of doing many other things that you’ve never even thought of as possible. You can shape your destiny and shape your present by grabbing the power of this amazing principle and putting it to work for yourself.
Read my book. I discuss this there and teach it in many of my programs. I talk about it daily in different venues. Please learn how important this ability that we have is! It’s hidden for the most part. Science dismissed it for many years and now they’re coming around to understanding its true power. You need to do the same. Understand its power and begin to apply it in your life.
As you do you’ll begin to see incredible transformations occur. When you change your attitude and expectations everything changes because you’ve changed. Certainty is a powerful thing. Just ask Mr. Wright? Oops you can’t. Ask the young man who overdosed on inactive ingredients. Ask the people who gained muscle growth imagining their biceps growing. There are numerous studies to look into.
Attitude IS The Number 1 Predictor For Success In All Areas Of Your Life
There’s so much evidence of the power of mind. You can be certain something impossible will work out and it does. You can be certain something possible won’t work out and it doesn’t. Yes, sometimes you may get a different result. There are always counter examples. Still, the research demonstrates that what you focus on expands. It gets magnified whether it’s good or bad and friendly or fearful.
Stop living as a victim and begin living with choice. Choose how you want to be. Develop the certainty, the attitude, the beliefs to be happier, healthier, wealthier and more successful. Use your powerful positive attitude to see you through any difficulty. Then you are far more likely to make what you want happen. If it is to come true, it is up to you. Do nothing and nothing changes. You’ve as you have. More another time. Meanwhile, celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
The Attitude Activator™ is the only hypnotic process you will ever need! USE IT NOW TO DEVELOP THE POSITIVE MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO ATTRACT AND LIVE THE GOOD LIFE YOU DESIRE MOST! — Get the Attitude Activator™ TODAY and transform your life!
If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
Shocking studies demonstrate the power of your mind! Read the blog and the research:
“I’ve been arguing for the conscious application of the placebo effect for 40 years. I’ve been mocked in books and articles for suggesting you can use the power of your mind to make positive changes in your health, happiness, wealth and success. Attitude is everything. What you expect to happen opens the door for that very expectation to manifest. What you think about, you bring about. GET THIS!
It’s why I have written a daily blog for more than 10 years. It’s why I created the Attitude Activator™, Mind Design™ and other programs. You and I need to understand the incredible, usually untapped potential of our mindset which is our beliefs, our attitudes, our expectations. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are correct. You must develop a winner’s attitude to win. GET THIS!
Thinking makes it so. Believing makes it so. I’m not talking about fantasy thinking like wishing for an elephant to appear in your room. I’m talking about all those things within the laws of nature that you are capable of. People have done incredible things in moments of crisis because they tap into these inner reserves. People heal, become wealthy, attract love and live happier lives when they expect to.
I am sharing a few studies which demonstrate how powerful your mind, your attitude, your beliefs, your expectations, your thoughts are. Pay attention. I hope I convince you to do every positive thing you can to develop a positive, powerful, optimistic healthy attitude. Take charge of your thinking and you take charge of your life. Change your thinking and you can transform your life! GET THIS!
I’ll show you more and share more in upcoming blogs. If you’d like to learn more in the meantime get Life On Your Terms: Create The Life You Want.There are so many important studies, findings and applications for you to discover and use to create the health, wellbeing, wealth and success you want. As I’ve pointed out for more than 40 years we’ve great power to learn to use purposefully.
When I began this work more than 40 years ago there were handful of studies. Doctors routinely dismissed the Placebo Effect. Today, there’s more than 45,000 studies on the Placebo/Nocebo effect, the power of attitude and beliefs, visualization and creating wellness in your mind. Studies regarding weight lifting, piano playing and more. I discuss in my book. We’ve come a long way.
I can’t emphasize enough how important your attitude towards yourself, others and life is. What you think about you bring about. What you focus on expands. There are many examples of Nocebo Effects, or unwanted, undesirable effects occurring from negative attitudes, expectations and thoughts. There are many examples of positive effects by maintaining a positive, optimistic attitude. Understand this.
There’s no substitute for developing a healthy, positive attitude because the alternative sucks! I hope this speaks to your heart and mind and you make a deliberate choice to take charge of your life, health, wealth, love, happiness and success by developing an unstoppable, unwavering, positive belief in yourself and the goodness from within and all around you. Celebrate everything and everything changes. GET THIS. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
1. Case Reports
2007 May-Jun;29(3):275-7.
Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos
Roy R Reeves1, Mark E Ladner, Roy H Hart, Randy S Burke
ABSTRACT:
We describe an individual who experienced unusual negative effects while taking a placebo during a clinical drug trial. A 26-year-old male took 29 inert capsules, believing he was overdosing on an antidepressant. Subsequently, he experienced hypotension requiring intravenous fluids to maintain an adequate blood pressure until the true nature of the capsules was revealed. The adverse symptoms then rapidly abated. The nocebo effect (undesirable symptoms following administration of an inert substance that the patient believes to be an active drug) may have significant negative impacts on certain patients. Further research is warranted to better understand this phenomenon.
2. Eur J Neurol
2012 May;19(5):672-80.
Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Nocebo in fibromyalgia: meta-analysis of placebo-controlled clinical trials and implications for practice
D D Mitsikostas1, N G Chalarakis, L I Mantonakis, E-M Delicha, P P Sfikakis
Background: Nocebo refers to adverse effects (AEs) generated by negative expectations that medical treatment will likely harm instead of heal and can be assessed in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials (RCTs). We examined AEs following placebo administration in RCTs for fibromyalgia (FM), a condition characterized by patients’ poor medication adherence, which may affect outcome and/or increase healthcare costs.
Methods: Following a systematic Medline search for RCTs for FM pharmacologic treatment published between 2001 and 2010, we assessed percentages of placebo-treated patients reporting at least one AE or discontinuing because of placebo intolerance and searched for factors influencing nocebo’s extent. Percentages were compared with those revealed by similar meta-analyses of RCTs for multiple sclerosis and primary headaches.
Results: Data were extracted from 16 RCTs fulfilling search criteria. Of 2026 placebo-treated patients, 67.2% (95%CI: 51.0-81.5%) reported at least one AE, and 9.5% (95%CI: 8.3-10.9%) discontinued placebo treatment because of intolerance. AEs in placebo arms corresponded quantitatively and qualitatively to those in active drug arms (ρ > 0.88, P < 0.0001). Younger age and larger placebo arm size were associated with increased dropout rates. Patients with depression were more likely to withdraw from trials. Nocebo dropouts in FM trials were fourfold and twofold higher than in RCTs for multiple sclerosis treatment and migraine preventive treatment, respectively.
Conclusions: Nocebo is remarkably prevalent in FM patients participating in RCTs. Because nocebo contributes to drug intolerance and treatment failure in clinical practice, identification of predisposing factors and efforts to prevent nocebo by educating these patients appropriately may be important for FM outcome.
The placebo effect suggests your mind can be as powerful in some cases as the treatment itself.
It might be easy to shrug your shoulders whenever you hear someone say “it’s all about mind over matter,” but sometimes, especially with medical research, that’s literally the case. The mind can be a powerful thing that helps your body heal through times of stress and duress, and in some cases, it can be powerful enough to cause what’s known as the placebo effect….
6. SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY EXCEPTED FROM WORK OF CARL SIMONTON
‘The effects of positive expectancy in a study of 152 cancer patients at Travis Air Force Base, the major Air Force medical facility on the West Coast. Five staff members rated the patients on their attitude toward treatment and evaluated their responses to treatment over the next eighteen months. The results were clear: those patients with positive attitudes had better responses to treatment; those with negative attitudes had poorer responses. In fact, of the 152 patients only two who had shown a negative attitude had a good response to treatment. The most significant finding of the study was that a positive attitude toward treatment was a better predictor of response to treatment than was the severity of the disease. That is, patients who had very serious prognoses but positive attitudes did better than patients who had relatively less serious prognoses but negative attitudes. In addition, patients who began to view their treatments positively often reported reduced side effects.’ …
Simonton Md, O. Carl; Creighton Phd, James; Simonton, Stephanie Matthews. Getting Well Again (pp. 82-83). Random House Publishing Group.
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“People limit themselves by feeling strong negative emotions about what they want or don’t have. They feel strongly afraid, or hurt or depressed and end up getting back more of the same. The subconscious delivers or reproduces strong emotions regardless of whether they are positive or negative. These emotions become habitual or the default mode in which they live. Instead of living life they dread it.
If they don’t dread it they tolerate it. The attitude is ‘same s%*t, different day’ or ‘if life is a bowl of cherries, I am living in the pits.’ These attitudes, moods, mindsets become so pervasive, and fit so well, most people don’t even realize they go through life this way. They miss out without noticing it. Sure, they know they miss the good things, don’t have enough and are dissatisfied. BUT…
They don’t realize they are doing it. They are perpetuating the very notions and experiences they do not want. To change, one must become aware of their part in the process. You can’t claim to be a victim and take charge of your life. You must decide to stop doing the old ways and begin doing the new. You must pay attention to what messages you are sending your subconscious and change them.
Don’t be haphazard. You can’t be haphazard, that’s what got you there. You must put yourself in charge and aim your thoughts and feelings like a laser beam. If you want to be happy you must choose to be happy. If you want love in your life you must choose to be loving. If you want to be rich you must choose to be wealthy. If you want health, you must dedicate yourself to having it and healing.
Zest for life is what makes life worth living. Happy and successful people are passionate and intense. They go for what they want. They choose to be happy and successful. They enjoy their lives and their work. Their emotions are powerful. You can feel their energy when you’re around them. Creative energy is intense. They pursue their dreams with passion and expect to succeed. They expect it.
They know it. People who make money (think, ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ ) are intense. While that isn’t a healthy example it demonstrates that they don’t sit and let life happen to them. They make their lives what they want them to be. They’re not half-assed, namby-pamby, wishy washy, ‘oh well, ho hum’ people. They live to their fullest. They grab life and make life work for them. Attitude is everything.
When you live with passion, when you fill yourself with positive feelings and energy you become unstoppable. You don’t need to be licentious to enjoy life as in the example. Better if you aren’t. When you live with goodness, kindness, compassion and generosity things work out better for you because you connect with others who live similarly. Then you’ve access to positive opportunities and resources.
You become a powerhouse. Feel your power. How you think determines how you feel. How you feel determines how you think. Energy flows where attention goes. If you want to feel better, think better. If you want to think better, put a spring in your step. Shake up your body, dance, skip, twirl. Stand and move with confidence, energy and liveliness. Energy begets energy. Act alive and you feel alive.
The more you feel the good feelings now the more changes you will readily make. Live with passion. Feel fully. Commit to feeling WAY better than okay. Notice when you aren’t feeling good and take steps to feel better. Even if you only make yourself feel a little bit better, you are doing something valuable. You are either growing or dying. You are either positive or negative.
The more and the longer you devote yourself to thinking positively about yourself and your goals while feeling intensely wonderful, the more quickly and easily your life will change. The more time you spend smiling and feeling happy the better off you will be. You are either feeling good or you are not. Notice, become aware, and make the positive changes as necessary.
Live as the driver in charge of your life. Steer your thoughts and feelings to the most positive and glorious. Take yourself to the places you want to go. The more time you spend thinking and feeling wonderfully, the more wonderful you will be. You get and become what you spend most of your time thinking about. Take charge of your life and live it fully and completely.
After all, what else is there? Life is to be enjoyed. Few do, but you can. Appreciation appreciates! Express your gratitude, your joys and your love and passion much more often. Make it a daily ritual to be grateful and celebrate. Enjoy life. Love yourself. Do it. Decide to think, feel and live better. Speak better and act better. Be positive and optimistic. Smile and exude positivity.
You will discover that by taking small steps in the right direction, though it may seem unfamiliar, awkward or difficult at first, it becomes easier and easier. Just as you get better at anything with correct practice, you’ll get better with this. When you feel vibrantly positive and alive you can get through any hardship faster. When you celebrate and feel thankful and aren’t distracted by any circumstances you excel. FEEL GOOD NOW makes all the difference in the world. Decide to live passionately and fully one day at a time and you’ll notice an incredible difference. You’re able to do this. Grab today with gusto. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“Rex’s background as change agent, actor, magician, mentalist, communicator, performer, and survivor, makes him well practiced in the art of knowing the inner landscape of the human mind. In this book, he hands you the keys to unlock the magical kingdom within you. Not only do you receive the keys, codes, and passwords, you also get the full behind-the-scenes tour to know how to use them. You can now take charge of your own thinking and enjoy the abundant riches you are uniquely qualified to produce as you live life on your own terms.” – Paul R. Scheele, Ph.D
“Realize you may be wishy washy for a while as you learn to maintain your focus. Learning HOW to stay focused IS learning how to overcome the tendency to wander and to bring yourself back to what’s important. It is a process of learning, and the learning process includes making mistakes. Get over the notion it will only be easy and effortless. It will be whatever it will be so stick with it. All will be fine.
The point is to expect the best and understand that when learning to juggle dropping balls is part of the process. You drop them less and less as you get better and better. If you get upset over dropping balls it only impedes your learning. It doesn’t accelerate your learning to get stressed or fret over skills you are in the process of acquiring. Let go. Have fun. So, you are wishy-washy for a bit. You’ll improve.
Understanding the game of life, the rules and how it’s played is half the battle. Knowing in advance that there will be rough spots, corrections needed, times of doubt, loss of focus, as well as times of ease, exhilaration and celebration help you get through it all. When you have an idea of what you face you can persist no matter what. Again, just have fun learning to improve your ability to stay focused.
While you’re going through the process, accept that you’re in the process. Accept it may take some time. Celebrate that you’re in the process and learning to make the changes you want. Celebrate and be grateful for each moment, good and bad. Celebrate and learn from hardships. The attitude to have is to celebrate everything! Your Attitude IS everything! It makes an incredible difference. Understand!
It is important. Through celebration and gratitude, you will manage your images and self-talk and will move through the process more smoothly and quickly. It WILL be quicker and easier if you understand it and don’t fight it. The point is to think and feel marvelous most of the time. That said, you may fight it anyway. REALIZE you may resist. Realize what you resist persists. Get it. You go back and forth.
Eventually, you will let go and move through it! The best and most important part to learning is learning how to get out of your own way. Stick with it. Enjoy it. In time you will. All ups and downs are PART OF the process. Life is a process. Some people have lots of difficulty because they don’t realize this. Everything changes. Everything passes. Things get worse. Things get better. It’s life. Enjoy all of it. You are alive. Conscious. Realize that it’s a gift to be alive and conscious. Best to act like it. Best and easiest way to act like it IS to celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author
Get the book. Change your life using the principles and practices. Check it out now if you like. Read it, enjoy it, and transform. Celebrate!
“Rex’s background as change agent, actor, magician, mentalist, communicator, performer, and survivor, makes him well practiced in the art of knowing the inner landscape of the human mind. In this book, he hands you the keys to unlock the magical kingdom within you. Not only do you receive the keys, codes, and passwords, you also get the full behind-the-scenes tour to know how to use them. You can now take charge of your own thinking and enjoy the abundant riches you are uniquely qualified to produce as you live life on your own terms.” – Paul R. Scheele, Ph.D
“Here is a wonderful illustration of what so many people do without realizing that it influences them. It is the blind spot that creates the issues. Read this description and notice if you’ve ever had similar thoughts and feelings. Those are the very ones you want to change. Awareness is the key. Shine the flashlight on the limitations in a darkroom. Spotlight them so you see them and then drop them.
‘A woman I used to know is a good illustration of the fact that our PREDOMINANT MOOD, and not our superficial acts, brings the results. “Good people, deserving people stay poor,” she would say, “and wicked people become rich and ride in limousines. Look at me. I am virtuous and hardworking. I pay my bills and do my duty. But I’m not rich and never will be. I have barely enough to get along with.
It’s entirely unfair!” Needless to say, she never became rich. Also, needless to say, she continued to have “barely enough to get along with.” Life paid her in her own coin, paid her just as she paid others – exactly what was earned but never a penny over. That habit of never giving one iota more in kind words, love or money than was in the letter of the law built her life.
Not her hard work and “virtue,” but that inmost attitude, manufactured her experiences. The thing it constructed for her was as perfect a materialization of that attitude as a house is of its blue prints. True it is that rich people often have vices, just as this woman her virtues. But the person who makes money cultivates a mood ABOUT money the exact opposite of hers.’ Elsie Lincoln Benedict
Notice the woman was a good person. Her beliefs, her attitude, her outlook, her efforts, her projections and premonitions for the future, her predominant mood kept her, held her hostage to a present she didn’t enjoy much. Her future was more of the present. Why? Because she perpetuated sameness. She could change her attitude, her predominant mood, just as you can. She didn’t. Will you?
Realize, ‘that inmost attitude manufactured her experiences. The thing constructed for her was as perfect a materialization of that attitude as a house is of its blueprints.’ Whether it is money, happiness, health, connections, family, relationships, whatever you want you and I must cultivate an attitude about it the exact opposite of hers. You must cultivate a positive one about your desires.
It may be that what you need most right now is the exact opposite of the ones you presently hold. If you want change, you must change. The flashlight illuminates. If you discover things could be better, change them so they are. You can begin where you are at this moment. Decide to stop perpetuating the old and shift into the new. You can begin NOW to develop the appropriate attitude. Attitude is the number one predictor for success in all areas of life! Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“Many work hard, they make lots of effort, but their minds are not prepared for success. Success favors the prepared mind. Most people’s attitudes are defeatist, so they end up spinning their wheels and don’t get very far. They whine, blame circumstances and hope to get ahead instead of taking 100% responsibility and intending to get ahead come what may. Challenges are part of the process.
If your mindset, your attitude isn’t right and is not powerful and convinced then molehills become mountains and difficulties can seem insurmountable. People who put the cart before the horse and attempt to act without the proper attitude struggle needlessly. When the mindset is correct, correct actions flow from it. You don’t push it. You use the appropriate force or flow to make it happen.
Hill titled his book THINK And Grow Rich. He did not call it Work Hard And Grow Rich. He even says that. People have it backwards. THINK right and you do the RIGHT work AND that makes an incredible difference. Think wrong and you spend your life on the hamster treadmill. It isn’t the amount of effort that makes a difference, it is knowing and doing the RIGHT effort. THINK and grow rich. THINK!
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
Your dream must be more important than anything else! You must think about it day and night and believe in YOUR ability to make it happen. You must devote yourself to becoming the kind of person who can accomplish what you set your heart to accomplish. It begins with a clear, definite purpose you have a white-hot obsession for. Then you develop the certainty YOU will make it happen. YOU! YOU!!
You will make it happen. It isn’t that it happens but that you help bring it about. You are definite and purposeful in this. You know certainly that if it is to be it will be because you do it. Then you commit to making it happen. You persist. You adjust your plans as necessary while you continue the pursuit. Like the Wright Brothers and all great inventors, you keep experimenting until it works. Get it? You do it.
You do it but never alone. You require the harmonious cooperation of others. SO, it is best to learn right away how and to help others get ahead because they can help you get ahead. Together you make it happen. So, the more people you help, the more who can help you have anything you desire. There are rules for success. Follow these rules to success. Others follow them. You do the same.
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
The formula makes it all work. Those who become successful aren’t only those born to it. Those who succeed in life first succeed in learning how to transform themselves into becoming the kind of person who can make their dreams come true. You must first learn to think right so you feel, speak and act right to get better results. To create the success you desire, manage your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. You succeed by becoming the type of person WHO succeeds. You can do this! ” Rex Sikes
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The Attitude Activator™ is the only hypnotic process you will ever need! USE IT NOW TO DEVELOP THE POSITIVE MINDSET AND BELIEFSTO ATTRACT AND LIVE THE GOOD LIFE YOU DESIRE MOST! — Get the Attitude Activator™ TODAY and transform your life!
If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“Decide what you want in clear, compelling detail. The successful are driven by what they must accomplish. They know precisely that they would do or pay anything to make it happen. In researching 500 of the wealthiest doers in America, Napoleon Hill stated you can attain your Dominant Chief Aim when it’s backed up by a passionate burning desire kept in your mind day and night.
You must devote yourself to making it happen. Believe, have faith, and expect to create it without giving up. Hill found those who anticipated success were more likely to attain it. They persist despite the odds. They understood success exacted a high price and only those willing to pay it were ultimately successful. They didn’t lose sight of their destination when things got tough.
They changed their plans as necessary but not their goals. They kept going! Why and what they did arose from the kind of person they were. People who succeeded were positive, optimistic and unstoppable. They believed in themselves. They had the right attitude. They were convinced they’d succeed. They focused on the results they wanted, not the obstacles.
They were leaders leading themselves forward. They were 100% responsible. They were learners. They kept going forward toward their goal. They were flexible. What do those others who aren’t successful do? They wish rather than plan. They hope for better days instead of intending to have them. We don’t have the ability to wish things into being, but we are able to command them.
Hill pointed out that most of success comes from 99% what we did in our heads and 1% from the actions we took. If our mental attitude and beliefs were aligned, then our actions were too. Once the attitude is right, we do the right things to bring about success. Most put the cart before the horse. They work really hard and take massive action but without the right attitude. That makes it harder to succeed and many quit. When the attitude is right nothing else matters. More next blog. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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