This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 1692, and excerpt from the book,

Mind to Mind Conversation by Dennis Hashie, and I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator,

reading to you every day, including holidays, usually from blogs, but sometimes from books,

like today. I'll tell you about the author right after the reading, so for now,

let's get right to it, as we optimize your life.

An excerpt from the book, Mind to Mind Conversation by Dennis Hashie.

The voice of my subconscious grew stronger over time, refusing to leave me alone.

It didn't stop at answering questions anymore. Sometimes it actually told me what to do,

like saying I needed to pay closer attention to what I was looking at. It said I was missing

the important things in life. The life I'd been leading, it said, was a recipe for disaster.

It said that everything I did was my own choice, that my future was formed by the thoughts I

told myself and the decisions I made. For example, when I told myself I wasn't ever going to

amount to anything. Well, that's what would happen. I didn't want to listen to this kind of talk.

Life was what it was I figured. I hadn't been more lucky and I wouldn't be able to change a

thing about it just by thinking differently, but my subconscious disagreed. It insisted that my

subconscious mind was more powerful than I thought. It decided to show me a physical example of what

it was talking about, and I was pleased to see it chose to do so while I was playing cards.

When my subconscious was part of the game, it remembered every play. I started to win some pretty

good money based on what it was telling me, but after a few weeks it stopped helping me.

I demanded to know why. Because when he had cards making money like this,

it's not the way to happiness. I don't know about that, I said, fuming. I was feeling pretty happy,

so why did you even bother to help me at all? Because I wanted you to be aware of how powerful

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