Persuading Through Desires

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?

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?

And the answer is, yes.

Our bodies carry genetic programming. This genetic programming directly influences our subconscious/other than conscious minds, our thought process, our learning, our experiences, how we form values. . .

What in life is more fundamental than our values?

I'll tell you. There are four core drives that supersede most every other drive of a human being. The first and most important drive is the need to eat, to sustain oneself.

If you stopped eating right now and didn't ever eat again. . . your life would end. This energy consumption is about continuing on.

The converse of this is gluttony. This ceases to be about our genetic drive to simply exist and becomes a perversion of excess. . a desire for pleasure. (Obviously, overeating isn't THAT simple. There are many reasons aside from the pleasure factor.)

I began asking myself last year, what's the difference between my need to eat and my drive for pleasure? I used to say things all the time like, 'I can't wait for dinner tonight because I'm going to really feel good eating the kinds of things that my wife is going to make me.'

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.)

The question for me became: how can I learn to eat to survive and continue, not for the purposes of enjoyment? And this focus helped me to understand that for me, I had to find enjoyment in other things.

Coming soon: the remaining base desires of fight, flight, and reproduction and tips on how to use these impulses, urges and drives to persuade like crazy.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies 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 strategies.

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