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1.Positive Thinking - You will discover this book to be unique. It departs sharply from the timeworn formula for self-realization. Its pages do not dangle the promise of success and happiness before the reader and end by giving him just another warmed-over version of positive thinking. Neither does it suggest to the man beset with problems, who is low in spirit and harassed from too much fail­ure, that he is equipped to achieve the success that has eluded him all of his life.

2.Creative Power - If you should ask someone how his mind operates, what thoughts are, or to explain memory, do not be surprised if his knowledge about the mind is vague or completely lacking. He may tell you it is a mystery beyond understanding, and so dis­miss the subject. We are prone to avoid matters about which we have no knowledge. We label them mysteries or unworthy of consideration and so excuse our ignorance.

3.Secret Behind Miracles - Concepts are beliefs. Concepts are as endless and varied as are the ideas of man. Some ideas remain vague with little defini­tion, while others, in time, develop into well-defined beliefs. All ideas, regardless of their nature, germinate, grow, and bear fruit, or wither and die, depending upon the attention and cultivation given to them.

4.Sleep Learning - By now, nearly everyone has at least heard that it is possible to "learn while asleep." Seldom has anything aroused more in­terest and stimulated more controversy than has the subject of sleep learning.

Early in the century, Dr. William James, one of the America's foremost psychologists, became convinced that the human mind could receive suggestions while asleep and recall the material and impressions upon awakening.

5.Wisdom & Relaxation - Man's great inner fortress of wisdom cannot be stormed by mental effort or physical force. We have accustomed ourselves to accept hard work, study, patience, long hours, and aching muscles as the payment required for achievement, but the higher plateaus of knowledge, intuitive perception, and subconscious inner power cannot be commanded or subdued by force.

6.Transitional Sleep - When you are wide-awake you are conscious; when you are asleep you are unconscious. The bridge between, or the twilight area of transition spanning these two states of mind, is called the transitional-sleep state. You are familiar with this drowsy condi­tion, for you pass through it each night as you fall asleep and again each morning when you awaken.

7.Seven Keys - By 1955, sleep education via transitional-sleep methods had progressed a long way. No longer was sleep learning a hit-or-miss method benefiting only a few, but a predictable tool for learning languages and other courses of study, yielding benefits up to 85 per cent for all who used it. Our primary interest in developing transitional sleep was for educational purposes, to find a tool for supplementing regular studies, and consequently our first publication Transitional Sleep Education (1957) was directed solely toward the student.

8.Understand Yourself - What are attitudes? Attitudes control our failures and suc­cesses. They are our beliefs and our certainties; they are the sum total of our convictions. Character and personality reflect our inner attitudes and beliefs. When we believe a certain thing is true, we refer to our attitude about that particular thing. Even though we may be entirely wrong in our conviction, to us it is true and so becomes our reality.

9.Transitional Sleep - Many systems devoted to re-education and self-mastery begin by stressing the following instructions for students to follow. Usually, suggestions for best results are absolute faith or belief in a system, the observance of special mental and/or physical disciplinary practices, abundant will power, self-confidence, and persistent effort.

10.Powerful Personality - Personality is a broad term and reflects one's attitude toward life. It might also be termed the reflection of one's philosophy. In studying the personality of an individual you discover the reasons for his actions. A person who is shy, uncertain of his ability, and prone to worry reflects his attitudes and beliefs.

11.Natural Therapy - We have seen how suggestions made directly to the subcon­scious mind can produce important personality changes. Thera­peutic benefits accruing from suggestions have been no less spectacular. Many books have been written of the successful treatment of illness through suggestive therapy alone.

12.Transitional Sleep - It is our wish to cooperate fully with all groups and for this reason this section is directed in part to them. Anticipating that more and more practitioners will be using sleep tapes, we be­lieve professional understanding of transitional sleep and its therapeutic value is most important.

Therefore we invited distinguished representatives of various professions to bring transitional sleep and its therapeutic pos­sibilities to the attention of their fellow practitioners.

13.Student Plan - You may be familiar with transitional sleep as a system of self-development, or perhaps the achievements outlined in this volume may be new and strange to you. Five years ago when transitional-sleep tapes first became available, the public was understandably dubious. At that time, few had heard of transi­tional sleep and, as only 5 per cent of the population has a working knowledge of hypnosis and its wonders, skepticism was inevitable.

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