Thought Mastery Main Text Hello, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the next lesson. Today we're going to talk about "Thought Mastery."

<p>&nbsp;The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People</p> <p>Thought Mastery Main Text</p> <p>Hello, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the next lesson. Today we're going to talk about</p> <p>"Thought Mastery." And what thought mastery is, it's controlling and managing your</p> <p>thoughts. And when you control your thoughts, when you manage your thoughts, when</p> <p>you can change and shift your thoughts, you change and shift your motivation. You</p> <p>change and shift your emotion. And that causes you to change and shift your actions.</p> <p>And a lot of what we're going to talk about today comes from NLP. That's</p> <p>neuro-linguistic programming which is a very long word. Neuro means nerve or brain,</p> <p>something to do with the nerves or the brain or the nervous system, neuro. Linguistic</p> <p>we've learned already.</p> <p>Linguistic means language. And programming, of course, is similar to programming a</p> <p>computer, telling it something, what to do. So what it talks about is how to program your</p> <p>brain with language and with thoughts and with pictures. Thať's neuro-linguistic</p> <p>programming. It was developed by several different people, one of the most famous</p> <p>people is Richard Bandler developed this system called NLP. And NLP is designed to</p> <p>help you kind of control your brain a little better. To decide the kind of images, decide</p> <p>the kind of thoughts you want to have in your brain. And by doing that, by changing</p> <p>your thoughts you will change your emotions and your actions.</p> <p>One of the key techniques of NLP is to take images that you have in your brain and to</p> <p>modify them and change them. So a lot of times we have negative pictures in our head</p> <p>and we don't realize how powerful they are, how much they affect us, how they change</p> <p>the way we act, how they change the way we feel. And so what we want to do is look at</p> <p>the pictures that we make in our head and we want to choose them. We want to</p> <p>change them and choose bette