Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to unlock your inner power, master the five hidden faculties of the mind with Bob Proctor. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. I think the area I grew up in, we were so poor. Things were so rough.
But you got to remember, that was during the Great Depression in the 30s. I mean, there's not too many people in life that lived through that anymore. And we didn't have dreams. We just, you get by was the deal. When I started rethinking Grow Rich, I was 26. That's when I started to really dream. What do you think is the most powerful principle in the book? Obviously, there's a lot of them for you. What's the thing that stood out? There's a number of them, but imagination is, you know,
And I had learned, see, I was studying many things at the same time. Our higher faculties, school teachers, nothing but them. Many seminars don't teach you much about them. We talk about you becoming what you think about, but you've got to go further than that.
Most people live through their senses because we're programmed to do that. Literally, we're programmed genetically and then environmentally to go by what we hear, see, smell, taste, touch. But I have a dog at home that can hear, see, smell, taste, touch. All animal life operates through senses. We've been created in God's image. We have these higher faculties. We are creative beings, literally. We have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, and intuition.
They're the faculties that make us separate from everything else. Like all the other little creatures on the planet are completely at home in their environment. We're the only creature that's totally disoriented in our environment. And that's because we've been given the faculties to create our own environment. But we've never been taught how to use them. Now we teach that in our company. We teach how to develop your
perception, the will. You change your perception, you change your life, you know, and the will. When John Kennedy asked Dr. Warner von Braun, what it would take to build a rocket that would carry a person in the moon, bring him back safely to earth, von Braun said, he answered him in five words, he said, the will to do it. Now, many people would hear that, they don't really understand what he said. The ability to hold that picture on the screen of your mind and nothing else, because the will is what gives you the ability to concentrate.
energy flows through and through you, through concentration, you increase the amplitude of vibration when the energy leaves you. That's why absentee healing's done through the will. A practitioner will hold the idea and they'll have the subject relaxed, be very quiet, they transfer that thought right into the person's subjective mind.
And so it affects the body. Well, the will is very important. So we've got to understand these things, you know? Intuition. I can walk by a person and, like I could tell, if there's a walk in the room, I know exactly what you're like. You operate, you've probably studied this, but you operate from almost evenly between the right left hemisphere of your brain. You've got an interesting mix in your personality. I don't know if you know that, but, you know, I could feel that.
You're almost an even balance between the two. And as I say that, I'm trying to figure out more one than the other, and I don't think you are. Well, your intuition will do that. Because your intuition is a mental faculty that picks up vibration and translates it in your mind. It's through intuition that you get answers to your questions. Like you ask a question,
The opposite side of question is an answer. It's the equal and opposite side. So our answer comes with our question, but we're not tuned in to pick it up. Like every question is an answer. Well, the imagination, of course, it's everything. So you get these higher faculties and you get using them, and I start to learn how to use these. And I started to see that
We've got so much going for us that we never hear about. School doesn't teach us. Our parents don't teach us. You go to work for a company, they don't teach us. So the odds of learning it are really slim, you know. And it's the reason there's so few people that really are successful in life. There's all kinds of material around that success. My goodness, there's more around today than there's ever been. Self-help books are
you know, top of the best selvers lesson. A crossing, yeah. You know? In 1968, when I started 61, when I first started to study this, you had Norman Vincent Peele's power positive thinking, you know, how to win friends and influence people by Carnegie. It was a few books, you know, thinking Groveridge, but there weren't that many. Today, there's thousands of them. Yeah. People need it because they don't know how to use the tools that we have. But they don't know how to use the information that's in the books. Right.
So what are these five faculties again? You have perception, intuition, the will, reason, imagination, there's six in memory. Like everybody is a perfect memory. It's just weak. I worked with Harry Lorraine, who's probably had the best trained memory in the world.
And I asked him on time, he said, Harry, how long do you remember something? He said, still don't want to forget it. We had a man Abdul over from Saudi Arabia in a matrix seminar that we conduct. And he was teaching, he was a psychiatrist. He was teaching people to memorize the Quran, Jerry Lucas.
basketball player. He was teaching people in San Francisco to memorize the Bible. We have a perfect memory. It's just weak. We never develop it. But we grow up on such a bad memory. Well, there's no such thing as a bad memory. The more you say it, the more you're going to convince yourself that it's weak. That's exactly. Yeah. Which faculty of the six was the hardest for you to tap into. And they're all difficult to tap into because
We're programmed not to use them. Why is that? Because there's only one problem in the whole world, and that's ignorance. We didn't know we had them. See, people talk about perception, but they don't see it as a mental faculty. It's just a word. If I have a challenge, something really struggling with,
I've learned how I'll take and I'll write it out on a piece of paper as clear as I can, as if I was going to give it to you and then you'll understand the same as I understand the problem. I'll put it in the middle of a table and I'll sit and look at it and I'll keep asking now, is that problem in me or is it on the paper? And I'll work until I get it on the paper, get it out of myself. For example, what do you mean like a problem that you might... Well, anything that I'm trying to figure out, maybe
How to improve a particular seminar. I'm just not happy with it. I've been doing it for a long time. You would write down the problems with seminar. Any problem you've got. I don't care what the problem is. Maybe you're short of money. You're not even a money guy. Write that down. You're short of money for a purpose. You want to buy a building or something.
So you look at the paper and then you ask yourself, it's a problem and mirror isn't on the paper and you'll work until you get it on the paper. Get it out of yourself. So you can look at it objectively like a stranger would.
And they're going to set the other side of the table. And I may say, you know, how would Lewis house look at this? Yeah. How would he handle this? I may go sit at the end of the table and literally move physically and say, how do I think you'll handle this? How would he see this? I may say, how would Napoleon Hill go somewhere else? And they don't person doesn't have to be alive. They could be dead. They're energies, not dead. Always here. And well, what you're doing is shifting your perception.
As you change your perception, you illuminate the problem. The answer is there. But you've got to get in harmony with it. So any one of them, you take any one of them. The will, like we were talking, the will.
If somebody's standing behind you, behind you, let's say in a mall, and they're staring at you, you feel them staring at you, don't you? Why? Feeling is conscious awareness of vibration. And when a person's staring, they're concentrating, they're sending such a powerful charge of energy to your brain that you start to feel it. You turn around, sure as hell, there's somebody there staring at you.
Concentration increases amplitude of vibration. There's a powerful one to and through us all the time. It never stops. You can photograph the energy leaving the body. Well, concentration increases makes it more powerful. So whatever you concentrate on, you're giving more energy to it. Emerson said the only thing can grow is the thing you give energy to. So as you start to learn how to utilize these higher faculties, you start to learn how to improve the quality of your life.
and you start to see why your God's highest form of creation.
Like I don't see God as a man on the cloud. Just going to answer my questions for him. You know, great author one time said, God will feed every bird, but he's not going to put food in their nest. You've got to do it. You know, God's not going to do it for us. We've got to do it. And so we've got these higher faculties. We've got to learn how to utilize them. Which one was the hardest for you to learn how to utilize? And which one do you think is the hardest for the majority of people? Intuition.
was for you and everyone else. No, not for me. Intuition for everyone else. Yeah. Because I made it in my mind, I was going to study that one. I saw a guy who was very intuitive and I wanted to be like that. And I thought it was, you know, I would have said when I first saw it, he was psychic. Well, the truth is, he was psychic, but we're all psychic. Psyche is just Greek word for mind. And so I was fascinated with what he did. He could just look at you and read the situation.
And I want to learn how to do that. So I made up my mind, I was going to study it. And in a seminar, if I'm teaching this, everybody wants to know, how do you develop your intuition? Because you can get intuition is a feeling that you pick up. Intuition reads feeling. Feeling is conscious awareness of vibration. So you're reading vibration. Vibrations is a natural law of the universe. Your body vibrates. Your vibration by high speed of vibration.
Well, you're going to take your mind off yourself if you're going to read the other person's energy. You've got to focus on the other person. You can't be insecure when you're trying to be into it. You can't be doubting yourself. You can't be lacking something. You have to give all of your attention to the person you're working with. And of course, that's a secret for speaking too.
Most people don't do that. We're more concerned with what you think of me. She liked me and it was my tie straight. What am I going to say now? Yeah. What am I going to say? I'm going to say the right thing. You know, you got to take your mind off yourself totally and put it on the other person and you got to be relaxed. You got to get very relaxed in your teens. Well, you'll tune into their energy. It starts feeling like if you're with somebody and you say, cut, they were interesting. Why were they interested? Because they were interested. You know, you want to be loving, be lovable.
If you want to be loved, be loved, if you want to have friends, be friendly. The most interesting person in the room is the most interested person in the room. Exactly. See, most people, they don't even remember the person's name. Why? Because they're not interested in their name. They're too focused on themselves. What does a person think of me? If you're really interested, you're going to remember the person's name.
Generally it's interesting, you mentioned there, there's a good story about public speaking. I had studied this stuff for a long time, and I had used it. I knew it worked. I didn't wonder if it worked. I knew it worked. And all I wanted to do was teach it to other people. It took me nine and a half years to figure out why I changed, and when I learned
All I want to do is teach it to other people. But I was afraid. I was very shy, very self insecure. Very insecure. But I had all this knowledge. I was earning a lot of money. In there, I did well. Outside of there, forget it. And on one of our nightgills tapes, on the recording, called The Magic Work on Attitude,
It's a familiar, you're familiar with it? Oh, let's check it out. You've got it. I will get an original copy and send it. You've got it, you've got it. I will send it. Well, he said, now, right, there's an unaddicted. He said, now, right here, we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish. And for some equally strange reason, we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot.
You want to realize that you have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you. Now, if you had asked me, do you understand that? I'd say, of course, I understood. I've listened to it a thousand times, at least. Well, I was in the back corner of the room at the O'Hare Hyatt. Bill Gove was speaking to a thousand people. I was in the back corner of the room and I was watching him.
Bill Gove was the Frank Sinatra speakers. He was one of the best speakers in the world. And I watched him, he came off, there was a thousand people, about 500 bank here, 500 here, and then there was a central aisle. He got to this corner, in a handheld mic, and he had his hand up.
And he said, if I want to be free, I've got to be me. Not to me, I think. You think I should be. Not to me, I think my wife thinks I should be. Not to me, I think my kids think I should be. If I want to be free, I've got to be. And I was watching him think, my God, this guy's so good. If only I could do that. I could never do that. All of a sudden, that record of her all started to play in my head. Now, right here, we come to a rather strange fact.
We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish. And I thought, damn, that's what our own means. And I suddenly realized, and I haven't listened to this thing for years, if Goph could do what I could do. And I made up my mind, I was gonna learn how to speak like he did, and I was gonna get him to teach me. And so he became a mentor of mine. I paid him a lot of money, just to sit down, talk to him for a few minutes.
a number of times. Now, I speak nothing like Bill Graham. I mean, I'm nothing like him. He speaks totally different than me, although I'll speak to thousands of people at the same time. What he taught me was to be relaxed in front of the audience. That was a big lesson. If you're not relaxed in front of an audience, the audience will know it.
How do you relax in front of an audience when you're terrified? You've got to think of the audience. You've got to think of how you're going to, what you're helping, how you're going to teach them something. Another mentor of mine a couple years ago told me very something similar because I was, I'd been training in Toastmasters and had coaches and had overcome a lot of my fears of speaking in front of big crowds. And I got pretty good. I was getting paid big fees and things like that. But I was still nervous a little bit before and felt a little insecure.
And I remember calling him about 15 minutes before being like, can you give me some grounding? Can you use some coaching? And he said, don't make it about you. Make it about them. You're going to mess up. Be okay with it. You're not going to remember every word you want to say. Don't beat yourself up. Focus on them and how you can serve. Don't focus on yourself. And that's when everything started to shift. Just what you said when you focus on service to the audience.
You've got to fall in love with helping that audience. Helping, giving, doing whatever you can to serve, you stop worrying about everything the way you look. It's the same thing when you're having an interaction with a group of people and you're just listening and you're not worried about what people think about you. You're just being interested in them. You've got a very confident feeling about what you're doing. How do people build that confidence if they don't have it? Well, you build confidence by learning, don't you? I mean, that's the only way you get confidence.
I went to a nightclub in London, England back in the sixties, the talk of the town. It was the largest supper club in the world. And the show they had was the Wild West, the Wild West. And it was like a Vegas show, and they'd bring in, that show may run for two or three years, and they'd bring in the stars to work it. And I went one night, and I had a seat right by the stage.
It was a thousand, they'd set a thousand people down to dinner in the town. It's not open anymore. Wayne Newton was the star. Wayne Newton was a kid. He was maybe 21. His brother was playing with him playing guitar in the low group of his. He walked out in that stage, bang, just like that. He owned that place. I never forgot that. That guy was so confident.
And he had that audience in the palm of his hand right away. Whenever I go to speak, I will find a place, if I'm speaking to a group, maybe on the kitchen, sit down. I've learned if you're dressed, they'll think you're on the place. They'll just leave you alone. And I'll sit down there. And I see Wayne Newton walking in that stage as a kid. I thought that's what you got to do.
You've got to really fall in love with the idea of helping the audience and you own the place you would and you're going to be and delivered. And anytime you see a stark amount, they own the place when they walk out, but they fall in love with helping you. Years ago, I started to realize the real power of self-image, studying malts' work.
I will, and I've taught this for many people, I will build an image, different parts of my personality, I will see someone that I really, something they do that I really admire the way they do it. And I will adopt that. Now I've got this, I've been doing this for years.
If you watched me go from one place to another, I never walked fast. Never. When I was a kid, this stuck in my mind, there was another kid, Donnie Miller, lived down the street from us. Now, this was during the Second World War, so there were no fathers at home. They were always shooting at each other. But his dad was home. His dad wasn't well. His dad had a heart attack, so nobody went around his house because his dad was sick. They'd come around the other houses.
But the doctor must have told his dad to walk. His dad was always stressed, a short time, and I'd watch him walk up and down the street. I'd see him at Reno, and then he'd walk up and down the street. And he had this very relaxed walk about him. And when I was building this stuff in, it was a picture of his dad stuck in my mind. And so I sort of mimicked his walk.
But I've done different things. Like, I used to watch your own Nightingale record. When I first went to work for him, he had a recording studio. It'd be like this where there was a window. My office, I could look in when he was recording. And one day I realized, he's talking to that damn microphone. It was a microphone. He was like, and I thought, that microphone's a person to him.
Hey, you created all great broadcasters. They just talked to one person. They would say you people or you folks or talk to you. But they would be talking and I realized he's talking to the microphone. So I ended up recording. I talked to one person. It's a microphone. If I was audience, I talked to one person. These are just little lessons that I picked up to get better at what I was doing. I remember
If a person's negative in an audience, real negative, there could be 500 people in that audience. That one person's energy is so strong. It stands out, yeah. And there was a woman that I met, Beverly Lynch, years and years ago when I was at Nightgale, Conan. And I asked her one time, she was the speaker. I said, Beverly, what are you doing there's negative person in the audience? She smiled, and she says, you talk to the light, not the dark. I said, wow. So obvious, why'd I miss that?
So if I'm talking on there's a negative or a few negative, I just take one person that's super positive. And it doesn't matter where I'm looking, that's the person I'm looking at. I'm talking to that person. So you focus on the positive people? Always. Yeah. Most people use their imagination, they use it the wrong way. They imagine what won't work. They imagine something bad happening. What should we imagine more often every day? We should imagine you should see yourself where you want to be. You got to live there.
There's a great book. You may be familiar with Stella Adler's book, The Art of Acting. Oh, gosh, you got to get it. Stella Adler was a great acting teacher. She was a method acting teacher. She studied and understands, Lasky, the Russian acting teacher that originated method acting. Martin Brando wrote the forward in her book. He was the first method actor to reach superstardom.
And he wrote the forward in her book. Now, still Adler never actually wrote a book. A man named Kissel took all of her teaching, all of her lessons for teaching. And he put them into a book. So when you read her book, you're going to her acting classes. And like Shakespeare said, we're all actors, you know, in the world's the stage, and that's true. Well, when you're reaching, you're going to act like you're already there.
It's already happened intellectually, the second you think about it. It's already happened emotionally when you're emotionally involved with it. So it's only a period of time until it manifests in physical form. But because it's not in physical form, we act like we haven't got it yet. Well, so that's why most people stay stuck because they're acting like they haven't got it yet.
Or if I can't act like that, Lewis would see that I haven't got that result. He'll think I'm funny. I got to quit worrying about what Lewis thinks and start concentrating on what Bob thinks. And so you see yourself, your imagination. You got to be that person.
Guru has said that. Great philosophy. He said, before you can do something, you must be something. So you've got to be it intellectually. You've got to be it emotionally. As Saint Solomon says, as a person, that you've been there hurt the emotional mind. Well, it's only a period of time and until it manifests physically. That's one of the first laws of the universe is the perpetual transportation of energy. Energy is moving into form, always, to form, moving into form through form back into form again.
So we cause it all to happen the way we think and the way we stay locked into ideas. How should people be developing their imagination on a daily basis in a positive way? Well, I think they should take time to image what they want. I have a business partner, Sandy Gallagher, who is a brilliant woman, and she rides horses.
Gated horses and she's in Kentucky right now in big Tournament shows there. Mm-hmm. She images herself as a world champion Every day She takes the time and she sees herself as a world champion. She sees herself getting the roses getting the whole thing And that's why she do it. I think you build the image of what you want and
I mean, you obviously image this studio before you ever built it. I mean, everything you see here was part of the image in your mind. But every new create, you create twice. Once in here, once out here, you know? So you never get an original painting. You always get a duplicate, the pictures in here. So we have to see ourselves with what we want here. Now we've got enormous deterrent
In our paradigm, we're conditioned genetically and environmentally, and that conditioning is controlling most people's lives. That's why brilliant people are broke. Brilliant people are unhappy. Brilliant people never really accomplish very much. They're absolutely brilliant, but their paradigm is controlling them. It's all about intellect. They're smart people.
You've got to consider where we come from. A little particle of energy from mom, a little particle of energy from dad comes from a lot. That's the nucleus of us. Then that goes on for 280 days, attracting more energy until you make your debut on the planet. And then your program environmentally by your environment. So everything that's going on is going right into your subconscious mind. So you come out, your program genetically,
We don't know how far it goes back. Four or five generations, possibly. Like when I was a young man, I had red hair. My mother didn't have red hair. My dad didn't have red hair. I got a brother and sister and they don't have red hair because you think, well, but my mother's father and all his brothers had red hair. So sometimes it jumps at generation. That's why we looked like our relatives. It's genetic conditioning. And then there's environmental conditioning. We know almost all welfare recipients are fourth, fifth generation, welfare recipient.
So this is passed down generation to generation. Now, unfortunately, we're all, or fortunately, we're all exactly the same. We got exactly the same potential. Our spiritual DNA is perfect. But that perfection never expresses itself properly because of this paradigm is conditioning in our subconscious mind. You see so many brilliant people and they don't make it.
I had a good friend of mine, Milt Campbell. He won the gold medal in Decathlon. Well, I was the Catholic. Were you aware? I was an all-American Catholic. Milt won in Melbourne in 56. Wow, okay. And he won in 52 in Helsinki. Wow. Bob Matthias won his second gold. He won the gold in 48 and 52. Wow.
Milt told me, if he told me once he told me a thousand times, every time I was with him. In other words, a lot of athletes in schools that were better than me, but they quit. Well, our paradigms get us to quit things. Why? Because the programming, you're programmed. You have to ask yourself, why don't they do that? I did a lot of work with the Prudential of America.
In fact, I got stuck in the insurance companies for a number of years. I'm so effective at what I was doing. And we raised their sales by one BP said over a billion dollars. And all I was doing, getting them to change their paradigm. I was having them change the way they worked. A culture is a paradigm.
Every country has a culture. Every family has a culture. Every company has a culture. Well, in the insurance industry years ago, they had what they called debit agents. They went around collecting the money.
And it would be a little book like the one you're working with. It would have a record in there. I remember we had a book on top of our icebox with right near our back door. Mr. Spenceley was the insurance man. When I was a little kid, he'd come in and there was a little book, an old box with some money. And there was always just pennies. And he would collect the debit, mark the book, and he'd be on his way. And that's how the insurance business operated. They were called debit agents.
Well, then as time moved along, people started to sign a little sheet of paper or something, and they would automatically draw it out of your bank account. But the agents didn't change. The agents were just going to sell at night when mom and dad were both there, because you couldn't sell mom and dad, wasn't there? You couldn't sell dad if mom wasn't there. This was a programming. So here we are in the 70s,
Agents are still going to their office every morning, and they wouldn't go out selling anybody, because you sell at night. They collected their debit through the day. There was no debit to collect. This had been for years, they were still doing this. And I asked them, I'd say, why do you go to your office? Well, you have to go to the office. And they'd be there, and they'd go, why do you have to go to your office? Because we have to go to the office. They didn't know why they had to go. Then they'd go to lunch, they'd go with another agent. They'd say, do you ever sell another agent in any insurance?
I said, what the hell do you run that lunch with them for? I got them to do this. So she got to be like this. You got to be skinned to skin with the person before 9 a.m. And you have to ask every person to buy at least $100,000 worth of research. You're even enough to sell them. Just ask them to buy. I got them doing that. They were selling more $100,000 policies in a week than they previously sold in a year in almost every office. Wow.
You see, that's conditioning, that's paradigm. That's the way they were working. They've been doing it for years. Nobody ever thought to change it. The largest insurance company in the world. And the head office was trying to figure out what I was doing, because wherever I went, salesmen, crazy. I was showing them how to change paradigm. Your paradigm is your condition, behavior. How do we know when we need to change our own paradigm? You always need to change your own paradigm. How often are you changing yours?
I'm working on it right now, every day. Really? Yeah. I work at it every day. But you should only try and change one or two things at a time. Don't try and change everything at once. Well, you know what your paradigm is. Just study your own behavior. Think of your results. You want to improve your results, don't you, sir? You probably want to earn more money. Sure. You probably want this show to be bigger than it is, right? Yeah. How are you going to do that? You're going to change the paradigm. That's right. You're going to change your habitual way of dealing with these things.
So you take a look at the results and say, what do I want to change? It's the results are an expression of the paradigm, not the intellect. See, the conscious mind is where all our intellectual information is. You know how to do better than you're doing it. You know how to do better than you're doing it. I know how to do better than that. Why aren't we doing it? The subconscious is programmed. It's your conscious mind where the intellect is, and that's where our knowing is. Person knows, but they're not doing what they know. Just say, why do you do that? I don't know.
Well, you know better, I know. I don't know. Well, I know if their paradigm controls their behavior. So you take a look at your results and you say, what's causing that? So you've got to take back your behavior pattern. Why are you doing that? Because you're programmed to do it. Right now,
The last time we did a paradigm shift seminar in Los Angeles, which was a number three or four months ago, we gave everybody a ring binder. It's a damn things about that thick. And on every page, every page is the same. At the top of the page, you write 10 things you're grateful for. And then there's a statement that you're right. I'm so happy and grateful now that I know my spiritual DNA is perfect. And that perfection is within me.
Every morning I look for ways to improve my paradigm. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.
