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create something “outside” itself to be more powerful. That’s why it’s essential when doing the experiments to suspend judgment long enough to believe they’ll work. If you’re convinced they’re a family-size bucket of bull, you’ll collect data to support that viewpoint.
    6. We haven’t really practiced. Using the FP to direct your life is not an intellectual exercise. It’s not a theory. It’s a practice. Like mastering scales. Or learning to play Ping-Pong. Tiger Woods may have only been 18 when he won the U.S. Amateur Championship, but he’d already racked up 16 years of practice. And he still devotes many hours a day to conditioning and practice. You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom. And that’s where this book comes in.
    Picking Another Channel
    “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    —M ARCUS G ARVEY, J AMAICAN P OLITICAL L EADER
AND M ENTOR TO B OB M ARLEY
    The purpose of this book is to release you from the imprisonment of your illusions, to help you set aside the manufactured press release you believe to be reality. The good news is you don’t have to change a single one of your behaviors. All you have to do is change your mind.
    In case you haven’t checked Amazon lately, there are literally thousands of books on how to change your body. At last count, “buns” alone merited 678 books and CDs. But as far as I can tell, there’s not a single book on how to shape your mind. Yet your mind, with all its preset, misconstrued neural pathways, is the root of all your problems. Remember that it is consciousness, as brave physicists such as Fred Wolf are starting to acknowledge, that creates physical reality. Even those buns that aren’t steel yet.
    You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk. And all those desperate attempts to change your body, your relationship, your fill-in-the-blank are never going to work until you learn to change and shape your mind.
    It’s pretty difficult to control your mind when you think you have to do it forever. But by setting up a defined time frame, as you will in the experiments in this book, your mind can be coaxed into giving it a whirl. It’s like a 12-step program. Trying to stay sober forever can’t work. One day at a time? Now, that’s something a mind can wrap itself around.
    All but two of the experiments take 48 hours or less. That’s two short days out of a 70-plus-year life span. Even a flabby mind can commit to that. Why do I give you 48 hours? Call it the old deadline principle. When an editor gives a deadline, he or she knows to start checking for said manuscript around that time. Deadlines give us something to expect, something to look for. When you’re on an unfamiliar country road looking for the green mailbox where you’re supposed to turn left to your blind date’s house, it helps to know it’s 8.1 miles from the last turn. Otherwise, you start to wonder if you missed it and end up doubling back. A deadline simply jars you into paying attention.
    Once, I asked for guidance on whether or not to begin freelance writing full-time. I was working 20 hours a week for a small company and writing on the side.
    “I really like Resource and Development,” I said, referring to the place I was working, “but I have this dream, you see, of being a full-time freelancer. It’s not that I don’t like writing fund-raising letters; it’s just that I want to pursue my own story ideas, write about the things that burn in my heart. What do you think?”
    Already, I was getting lots of assignments. Big national magazines were calling. I was making new contacts, receiving nibbles on a couple of column ideas. That would have been answer enough for some people.
    But I’m dense. I wanted an unquestionable sign.
    “Okay,” I went on, “I need a sign that cannot be written off as coincidence. Furthermore, I’m imposing a specific deadline. I need to know in