Base Desires And Persuasion

Persuasion has always been my passion. Self persuasion and self mastery have become extraordinarily important to me over the last year and a half. I have had some tremendous changes in my life as a result.

I truly believe that the quickest way to make progress externally is to take it upon yourself to make progress internally.

Learning how to ask the right questions is key. You'll automatically lock on to the right answers if you start to do this. I have been diligently using this as my guide.

I'm talking about the big questions: What is the real make up of a human being? Where do we come from? What is our organic makeup?

Philosophical questions are difficult to substantiate. The answers you're seeking can be vague and nebulous. . . but I'd ask you to give it a try, see where it leads. . . What can it hurt? For example, where does the subconscious mind live? It lives in the body. What then would be the influence of the body on our subconscious mind? If the subconscious mind lives within the framework of a human being, must it carry with it then the frame work of that body?

The answer is most definitely.

Our bodies carry genetic programming that directly influences our subconscious mind. Our genetic programming influences our thought processes. Through our learning, our adaptations, our experiences, we formed values.

What in life is more fundamental than our values?

Our core drives. They supersede every other aspect of our lives. Our first core drive: the need to sustain ourselves. We need food to live. Period.

We all know that if we stopped eating right now, forever, our lives would end fairly soon. Energy consumption allows live to exist. It's about continuing on.

When we become gluttonous we pervert the drive. Then we eat, not out of a genetic drive to exist, but out of a desire for pleasure.

About a year and a half ago I started asking myself some tough questions. What's the difference between needing to eat to sustain life, and my desire to overeat and eat poorly on a constant basis. I'd think about food when I wasn't eating. I'd look forward to dinner while I was still eating breakfast.

If you're eating for pleasure, like I was, then you're going to hurt yourself. I started to persuade myself that it's more important to eat to survive, to eat to continue, than it is to eat for fun. I continually work to make the right choices and it isn't always easy but add to that the diabetic factor and a few other health issues and it starts becoming more and more clear choice.

There is some research that has been done recently on why do some people when faced with huge health issues change and other people don't. The desire to eat turns into something so perverted, so infected, so unhealthy, that the concept of 'continuing on' is not even a priority anymore. (More on the other kind of perversion/desire in an upcoming article on the fourth base drive.)

For me the question became: how can I learn to eat to survive and eat as a source of nutrition, not enjoyment? This focus helped me understand that I had to begin to find joy in other things.

Look for more on the remaining base desires of fight, flight, and reproduction to come, and for tips on how to use these impulses, urges and drives to persuade like crazy.

Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

Article Source: http://www.c3careerarticles.com

Please Rate this Article 5 out of 54 out of 53 out of 52 out of 51 out of 5  Not yet Rated

Click the XML Icon Above to Receive Articles on Motivation Via RSS!