Belief Switching by Jennifer Brentano

Our program on September 22nd featured Jennifer Brentano as the speaker. After an intro by Jeremy, she began her presentation on the subject of "Belief Switching". Belief switching depends upon the power of the unconscious mind. She talked of the power of this part of the mind, telling us that we ask our bodies to do something, but the conscious mind transfers that task to the unconscious mind. She quoted William James: "Your belief creates the fact", then went on to say that what you think in your conscious mind is transferred to the unconscious mind, and it does everything in its power to make that belief be true. If you think you have extra energy on a particular morning, your subconscious mind will do everything to make that true. Most of us live with limiting beliefs, where the empowering belief serves a person better by having better ideas in our mind. And, with better ideas, you end up better off. Part of her talk involved writing your name as fast as you could as many times as you could in a measured period of time...first with your dominant hand and then with the other. The winner was Tim Litfin with both hands; I sat next to him, and he would have passed the 4 way test. (Story by Tad Shaw)