Trained Observation

Let's begin with some background information that will set the stage or lay the foundation of everything that I will teach you. Becoming a trained observer involves training the mind and before you can train your mind you must first learn about the mind. I will offer a good amount of foundational material for you to learn but the actual training will be in the form of exercises at the end of each chapter. Learning involves repetition so unless you commit yourself to the exercises on a daily basis, you will not see the results you seek.

The Complete Person

The Body

The physical body, of both men and women, are made up of 18 chemical elements, all of which are the exact elements found in soil. That should hit you in your self-esteem.

The central nervous system, made up of the brain and spinal cord, controls all the functions of the body.

Two subsystems are employed to assist the central nervous system.

%u2022 The first is the somatic nervous system, which controls all skeletal and muscular movements.
%u2022 The second is the autonomic nervous system, which controls the glands and emotions.

In the science of physiology (the study of the physical body), the endocrine system is the system, which encompasses the glands of the body. An endocrinologist is a medical doctor, who specializes in this system. Science tells us that almost all disease originates because of a malfunction of the endocrine system.

It is also important to understand that the health of the physical body has a tremendous effect on the mental health of an individual. Not all mental health maladies have mental roots. Many have physical causes, and it is important to understand the need for proper nutrition and medical check ups.

Using computer terminology, the autonomic nervous system is the software, which controls the brain, which in turn is the hardware, which relies heavily on the information stored in the hard drive, which is the mind. All the parts are connected and the illness of one part affects the health and well being of the other parts as well.

There exist three important control mechanisms of the body. They are energy, belief systems and the subconscious mind.

Einstein proved (e=mc2) that all matter is controlled by energy, even atoms. All energy has a measurable frequency. In current medical technology, energy frequencies are measured with MRI's, CT scans, PET scans, and EEG's.

It is now possible to use the body's energy to identify and treat unhealthy frequencies. It has been discovered that certain frequencies (about 7.83 hertz) operate in people of remarkable talent: i.e. healers, radionics operators, dousers, shamans, witch doctors, mystics, golden don, priests and priestesses, etc.

We also know that the optimum human frequency is a little below 7.83 hertz. To drop below this frequency brings on the onslaught of disease.

There are many factors, both internal and external, that affect optimum human frequency. What Einstein may not have realized is that beliefs affect energy.

Research by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. of Stanford University, shows that biology is controlled by perceptions, or beliefs. His work, on cells, demonstrates how cells are either growing, or trying to protect themselves from toxins, or harmful thoughts. Cells in perpetual self-protect mode are more prone to disease, while cells in growth mode are more amenable to wellness.

In behavioral science, we see a similar pattern. Humans are either growing within their minds, or more often they are attempting to protect themselves from influences and belief systems that bring on anxiety, stress and psychosomatic symptoms.

The subconscious mind, referred to in religious terms as the "heart," is the term we use to describe the control mechanism the body uses to store our beliefs. These beliefs are stored as pictures in our "heart" and create frequencies in our bodies. Harmful beliefs, that cause unhealthy frequencies, are the source of almost all problems - physical, mental and emotional. If our problems were conscious, we'd have solved them already. Self-help books and many current cognitive therapeutic techniques focus on changing beliefs by painting over existing beliefs with new inputs; often with limited success. I have demonstrated previously, in one my books, just how easy a painted over belief system can bleed through and manifest itself in previous behavior. Have you ever wondered why?

The subconscious mind creates a belief system, which we call "pictures of the heart." These pictures involve either visions, or dreams. Dreams are fantasies. Science now tells us the subconscious mind cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. This is why you cry at sad movies. Your conscious mind knows you are in a theater watching a movie. Your subconscious mind does not.

The subject of all dreams is the dreamer. Dreams are born in our desires, emotions and our will. People who are dreamers tend to gravitate toward the desires, emotions and the will of their psyches, and they believe in a belief system, which is fantasy. A life lived within a fantasy creates a feeling of self-centeredness, hopelessness and despair.

Visions, on the other hand, are pictures of the future that have already been experienced in the heart of those who give it birth. Visions are born in the intellect. Visionary people tend to gravitate toward their intellects. The subject of a vision is not the visionary but the world. Visionaries sacrifice themselves for the good of mankind. Visions are much more powerful than dreams. Visions have a moral quality that transcends the self-centered nature of dreams. By its very nature a vision launches a mission, a "cause-that-inspires." Visions create a sense of belonging.

Dreams are fantasies that vanish, more often than not, when we wake up. Visions live and grow until their birth. Visions provide the energy of their own fulfillment because visions are born of the spirit. They pulsate with a passion that carries the person who carries them. Visions require no evidence, brush aside all obstacles, and simply ignore the rebukes of those who can't see them. Visions restrain people; dreams and fantasy do the exact opposite, and are born of the soul.

We act upon visions and/or dreams, using thought. Thought employs the intellect, in the case of visions, or the desires, emotions and the will, in the case of dreams. Intellectual thought relies on wisdom; emotional thought relies on the pursuit of pleasure, comfort and delight.

Thoughts evoke action. We act out our thoughts in the form of behavior, and/or conduct. Dreamers live within a facade; they create a false sense of worth using imaginary situations. Visionaries live within reality; they create change, within a framework of restraint, and intellectual thought.

Love is born in the intellect; lust is born in the desires, emotions and will. Love is a vision; lust is a fantasy. Love restrains; lust is selfish. Love is a sense of being one with someone; lust is a sense of being with someone. Love is communion; lust is companionship. Visionaries love; dreamers lust!

Relationships founded on lust, never endure. Lust must be renewed; once it is not, the two parts attempting to make up one whole tend to be abrasive to one another. Relationships founded on love tend to last. Love grows and the two parts into one whole, spend a lifetime discovering the mysteries of their mates. Let's go on...

When you breakdown the human anatomy into its most basic components (subatomic structures), there is absolutely nothing that you can see, or touch! Science has proven that the atom, the once assumed basic building block of all matter, is 99.99% EMPTY SPACE! All that exists is energy -- electrical impulses, flowing streams of quantum data, and various frequencies that hold together the small volume of subatomic particles, you call your body. This energy base enables the chemical reactions, essential to life, to take place, which allows your system to function normally -- digest food, eliminate waste, filter toxins, and so on.

But several factors contribute to the interruption of this energy flow in the body, which results in slow and devastating degradation of the human machine. These include air pollution, chlorine-treated water, pesticides on food, synthetic additives and chemicals put into health supplements, Peggy's lasagna and countless more. When these factors disrupt the electrical interaction of your body, it can, and will, manifest as hundreds of symptoms including Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Fibromyalgia, Allergies, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc., etc., etc.

The human body is finely designed to stay in balance (homeostasis), in terms of tissue building up (called anabolism), and tissue breaking down (called catabolism). An excess of one over the other, is called a metabolic imbalance.

Toxaemia (the build up of toxins in the body), first occurs as a process of metabolism. Old cells are constantly being replaced by new cells; in fact three hundred billion plus, old cells are called toxic, and must be removed, as soon as possible, by the immune system, through one of four channels of elimination: bowels, bladder, lungs, and skin.

The problem of Toxaemia first occurs, when your body is not eliminating toxics, at the same rate the toxics are being reproduced. The second way Toxaemia occurs is from the by-products of foods that are not properly digested. The major portions of the foods we eat are processed, that is if we haven't processed them to death before we eat them. Because most of our food has been altered from its original state and we are not biologically adapted to deal with this altered food, the by-products of the incomplete digestion form a certain amount of residue, which builds up in the body.

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From: Duncan Carver
Monday, September 24, 2007

If you've followed along with the "Worm Farming Secrets" case study that I've been sharing with the 31,628 readers of my popular Online Marketing Today newsletter, then you've probably noticed that the project website now has a Google Page Rank value of 7. Yes it went from a completely new domain... page rank value nothing... to a PR7 in just over 8 weeks...

Check out the screen shot below -

This was NOT an accident.

By the way, if you haven't been following along with the case study, where I've revealed every marketing technique I've used for this project from day one (at absolutely no cost), click here to request it now. However, it's not essential to what I'm sharing with you in this letter today, because the key point is as follows:

The LARGEST CONTRIBUTING FACTOR in achieving this result was the fact that I linked the "Worm Farming Secrets" website from - without a doubt - the most powerful Authority Website that I have in my personal network.

Just how much of an authority website is this?

Here are some specific details for you...

Search Engine Spider Activity as at 23rd September 2007...

...That's 327,540 visits from GoogleBot (an average of 10,918 visits per day) AND 107,097 from Yahoo Slurp (an average of 3,969 per day) in just 23 days...

Search Engine Spider Activity August 2007

Search Engine Spider Activity July 2007

Over 1 Million Incoming Links (833,039 listed in Yahoo alone!)

* Note I have edited the above image to mask the sites identity for privacy reasons.

You'll notice that the search engine spiders literally eat this site up.

Not a day goes by without a visit from the mighty GoogleBot, Yahoo's Inktomi Slurp, and the MSNbot (not to mention all of the rest). Not only that, but given that this site only has a couple of hundred pages in total, on each visit these spiders are crawling and updating nearly every single page in the site on a daily basis.

So what makes this site so powerful?

We'll that last screen shot kinda says it all.

The site has over 1 million incoming links pointing to it.

I've been quietly (that might be an understatement I guess) building this websites link popularity up over the past few years to the point where it now has as much incoming link power as huge multi-million dollar web properties such as about.com, napster.com... and heck, it's even more popular than coke.com (ha ha, forget about pepsi.com).

This powerful website has been the most critical factor to success in all of my search engine marketing campaigns. Anytime I setup a new website, I simply link to it from "Authority Site X", and usually within just 12-48 hours, the search engine spiders have crawled the new website.

Then usually within just a few days after the spiders have been around, it's pages begin showing up in the search engine indexes and the traffic starts to grow.

Anyone following the worm farming secrets project would've seen the extremely fast results I was able to achieve first hand. Many thought I wasn't telling them the whole story, but I was, what I didn't reveal is exactly how powerful "Authority Site X" actually is.

Aside from myself, only two other very close business associates had ever been invited to check the site out (before I decided to share it with you - more on this soon). And even though these guys are in my tight inner circle of online marketing friends... I wouldn't even allow them to post their links to it... it was simply to much of a valuable asset.

However, when I started getting inundated with emails from people wanting to know how I was able to take a completely new website from no Google Page Rank value to PR Value 7 in just over eight weeks, and pleading to help them do the same, I decided I'd do perhaps the most radical thing I've ever done in my 8 year online marketing career...

"I was getting the worm farming updates, and I checked your page rank, jeeeeeze you have accomplished what I have been trying to do for 4 years on your website (a great page rank). Wormfarmingsecrets.com is a master piece and I am so distressed that I have not reached a good page rank for my site in 4 years, this is very disheartening for me. I wanted to know if you could give me some of your expert opinions on what I could do to achieve good page ranking. I would GLADLY pay for your time without a problem... Can you help Duncan? ~ Ellen."

...I've decided to not only open the site up to a select few to post their links to, BUT... I've gone one step further and made the tentative decision to allow you to setup your own complete blog on "Authority Site X".

Your own blog.

A blog YOU control.

Yes, you read that correctly.

If you want to tap into the single most powerful search engine marketing tool I have in my arsenal, here's your chance to setup your own tightly themed blog, relevant to the topic of your primary website, one that you are in complete control of subject to a few quality assurance guidelines that I must set due to the extreme value of this asset.

(Basically you must post valuable "human written and edited" content to the blog because it will be seen by hundreds of thousands of REAL unique visitors per year - or you can have us create the unique content for you for complete automation - more details soon).

Here's what you can expect to see as a result...

Increased Spider Activity ~

You've seen first hand how active the search engine spiders are on "Authority Site X". Having your own independent blog will pull those spiders towards your own primary website anytime you link out from your new blog.

If you have a new website you want to get spidered and indexed FAST, simply write a blog post about it and include a link to it. In addition, linking to your existing primary website will ensure any new pages you add (or changes to existing pages) will become reflected in the search engines much faster.

Increased Search Engine Rankings ~

Linking out to your primary website from relevant content within your blog and using your target keyword terms as anchor text, will help to boost your rankings in the search engines and drive more traffic directly to your website. "Authority Site X" has an amazing ability to do this.

Increased PageRank Values ~

Although I cannot personally guarantee this will happen for you as it depends on a number of other factors completely beyond my control, you should see a nice Page Rank value increase to any websites you link out to from your blog.

Direct Traffic ~

As "Authority Site X" is such an extremely powerful website, your blog is going to generate additional search engine traffic directly from the blog itself (and from the natural traffic that already passes through "Authority Site X" ).

You are in complete control of your blog so you can funnel this highly targeted traffic directly to your website by using well placed advertisements and linking methodology.

...if you've ever wondered what it would be like to control your very own "Editorial Section" on the popular about.com website, well this could be as close as you're ever going to get because as you've probably noticed... about.com isn't knocking down your door inviting you to become an editor (not to mention that even if you got in, when you started linking out to a few of your own websites they'd boot you out on your arse without an ounce of hesitation).

Here's what the very first person to create a blog on "Authority Site X" emailed me to say... just 24 hours after setting up his own niche blog...

"Duncan, I've followed your advice for quite some time and have always admired your ability to generate sites with high PR values and search engine rankings with the seemingly ease at which you do. So I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to test this out. Sure enough it seems you're still living up to your nickname as the "spider magnet" here in our office. I linked out to a domain we had just registered from the new blog to see if you were still "walking the walk". In just 4 hours the Yahoo search engine spider had visited. It has since been back more than 20 times in the past day and is all over the new site crawling pages. Awesome mate. Thanks for another job well done. I'll certainly be recommending this to our web hosting clients as something that can actually produce the results you say it can. Thanks again." ~ Todd Spears - WebHostForSEO.com

...and here's what Melody, a member that already has two blogs up and running reported back with, only a week after she created her blogs on the site...

"I have two blogs up and I can tell you that they were both indexed within 48 hrs... with the little spider guys heading straight out to the linked sites from there... I was skeptical at first as well but so far it seems to be working quite well ;-) To be honest - it was a lot faster than any of my blogger blogs getting indexed!" ~ Melody Wigdahl

...two weeks into John's new blog he had this result to share...

"Hi Duncan, I wanted to let you know that since I have been posting articles on the authority website my ranking for "Kansas City Entertainment" has moved up 150 places. Awesome! Great site Duncan! Thanks" ~ John - kckfun.com

...and after hearing about John's result, Rebecca also checked her search engine rankings. This is what she discovered and emailed to say...

"Hi Duncan, The note in my blog admin area from John prompted me to check my own rankings. When I last checked (a couple of weeks ago), I was on page 10 of Google for keyword*. Now I'm on page 7, at 75! (I'd rather not share the keyword if you use this as a testimonial). I haven't really done much else in the way of SEO or link building either. And I did this without linking much to the home page - not in the links section (though I have now), and mostly linking to topically relevant internal pages. Pretty cool! Thanks. ~ Rebecca"

* As per Rebecca's request I have edited the actual keyword term in question here, but this one word keyword term is