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Module 2 · Lesson 5
Lesson 5 of 14

If you like, we could try this.

Don’t present an idea as fact. ‘You need to do this’ — the conscious mind evaluates it and can reject it on the spot.

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Card 1 of 5: “If you like, we could try this.”
Card 2 of 5: Don’t present an idea as fact. ‘You need to do this’ — the conscious mind evaluates it and can reject it on the spot.
Card 3 of 5: Offer it as a possibility. ‘If you like, we could try this.’ The mind can’t reject what it was never forced to accept.
Card 4 of 5: The idea gets in without the defence. An instruction delivered as fact is something they can argue with. As an option, it slips past the no.
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The lesson

  1. Don’t present an idea as fact.

    ‘You need to do this’ — the conscious mind evaluates it and can reject it on the spot.

  2. Offer it as a possibility.

    ‘If you like, we could try this.’ The mind can’t reject what it was never forced to accept.

  3. The idea gets in without the defence.

    An instruction delivered as fact is something they can argue with. As an option, it slips past the no.

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