Archive for October 2007
How to Wake Up Feeling Totally Alert
Your alarm goes off at 5am, and you immediately get out of bed without a second thought. As you orient yourself to the waking world, you can barely detect any lingering grogginess, even if you look for it. You stand up and stretch, feeling totally alert, fully conscious, and eager to start your day. The…
Back in Vegas
Proof
A forum member recently shared the Carl Sagan quote, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Sagan is credited with popularizing that slight rephrasing of an older quote by Marcello Truzzi: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” These quotes assume an objective universe, which is a rather biased way of looking at reality — and not particularly accurate.…
New York City Meet-up Details
New York City Meet-up Update
Reality and Perception
Our shared physical reality is the most common state of reality we experience, but it certainly isn’t the only one. Our nighttime dreams are another state, as are astral experiences, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences. I regard these different levels of reality as being at different frequencies or energy levels. It’s like tuning into different…
Humor Speech
Recently I competed in Toastmasters International’s annual humor speech contest. I wrote and delivered a speech titled “39-1/2 Winks,” which was based on my polyphasic sleep experiment. The Toastmasters humor speech contest has 4 levels: club, area, division, and district. I won at the club level but lost the area contest. Technically I came in…
Paraliminals Discount
Learning Strategies is once again offering the Paraliminals discount for StevePavlina.com readers. I have the complete Ultimate You Library, and I continue to use them regularly. I loaded them all onto an iPod, so it’s very convenient to access the collection. My favorite Paraliminals right now are Belief, Talking to Win, Peak Performance, and Deep…
PhotoReading Walkthrough
Three-Year Anniversary
Today is StevePavlina.com’s three-year anniversary. What an amazing journey this has been — and a heck of a lot of typing! One thing that’s been happening more frequently over the past year is that my friends and family members are bumping into my work via other sources. For example, a friend will tell me that…