Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Mental Banking and Language Learning

The other day, the outfit where I got my hypnosis certification (www.hypnosis.edu) sent me a link for a program called "The Mental Bank." Since I talked about the $36.00/hour nickel in the last post, I thought I'd pass along another money approach to learning, personal growth, etc.

The Mental Bank is a program for funneling positive suggestions into your subconscious without having to go into hypnosis. The idea is to handwrite - motor connection with the idea - the things you are doing for improving your life within a half-hour before bed, so that they'll be the last thing you're thinking about as you drift off to sleep and hit the "what does my life mean and what does tomorrow hold?" phase of dreaming. There's a lot more to it, including putting a dollar value on what you do to take care of yourself, and I'm not going to get into that because 1) it's complicated and 2) it's not my program to give away. But here's a way to use one of the ideas:

1) Figure out what you earn per hour.
2) Take the number of hours (or fraction of hours) you spent on language learning each day.
3) Write down (for example): "45 min x $10/hr = $7.50."
4) Then write, longhand, "Today, I invested $7.50 in learning Russian."
5) Keep a running tally. At the end of each week, also write, "As of this week, I have invested $172.50 in learning Russian."

Keep your records in a notebook where you are noting vocabulary or some such thing. Do it every day that you study. And do the exercise right before bed. This will put into your mind the idea that you're investing in your language learning and that you are steadily adding to your efforts. It will also make you study lest you have to see missing days when you go to fill out the next entry.

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