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Persuasion Through Base Desires

This is a subject that's near and dear to my heart. I've been exploring it over the last year and a half and have had some tremendous results with self persuasion and self mastery in this arena.

Ultimately, the way to really make progress in the outside world is to make progress on the inside world.

If you learn how to ask the right questions, you will all of the sudden lock in on the right answers. With that as my guide, I began asking myself questions.

Some of the "right" questions: What is the real make up of a human being? Where do we come from? What is our organic makeup?

Philosophical questions are difficult to substantiate. The answers you're seeking can be vague and nebulous. . . but I'd ask you to give it a try, see where it leads. . . What can it hurt? For example, where does the subconscious mind live? It lives in the body. What then would be the influence of the body on our subconscious mind? If the subconscious mind lives within the framework of a human being, must it carry with it then the frame work of that body?

And the answer is, yes.

Our bodies carry genetic programming. This genetic programming directly influences our subconscious/other than conscious minds, our thought process, our learning, our experiences, how we form values. . .

So what is more fundamental than values?

Our core drives. They supersede every other aspect of our lives. Our first core drive: the need to sustain ourselves. We need food to live. Period.

If you stopped eating right now and didn't ever eat again. . . your life would end. This energy consumption is about continuing on.

When we become gluttonous we pervert the drive. Then we eat, not out of a genetic drive to exist, but out of a desire for pleasure.

I began asking myself last year, what's the difference between my need to eat and my drive for pleasure? I used to say things all the time like, 'I can't wait for dinner tonight because I'm going to really feel good eating the kinds of things that my wife is going to make me.'

When someone eats for pleasure (others call it "stuffing"), it can really damage you. These hard questions made me rethink and focus on mindful and intentional eating. I persuaded myself that it is far more important to eat to survive than it is to eat for fun. Making the right choices is hard sometimes. Adding in cravings, medical conditions, genetics. . . all of this factors in and the choice became incredibly clear.

There is some research that has been done recently on why do some people when faced with huge health issues change and other people don't. The desire to eat turns into something so perverted, so infected, so unhealthy, that the concept of 'continuing on' is not even a priority anymore. (More on the other kind of perversion/desire in an upcoming article on the fourth base drive.)

For me the question became: how can I learn to eat to survive and eat as a source of nutrition, not enjoyment? This focus helped me understand that I had to begin to find joy in other things.

Look for more on the remaining base desires of fight, flight, and reproduction to come, and for tips on how to use these impulses, urges and drives to persuade like crazy.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies. Click here to get your own unique version of this article.

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