Where Is Your Hidden Wealth?

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If you have ever taken a writing class one of the things you are told is to SHOW don’t TELL. This also applies when trying to teach someone something.

When learning hypnosis on of the things you learn is the power of using metaphors and stories to hypnotize someone. One of the reasons is that when listening to a story a person begins to slip into the alpha state where they are 200% more open to suggestion, the other is that people can relate to new material when it is presented in a way they are already familiar with.

Over the next few articles I will be reading Russell Conwell’s “Acres of Diamonds” and seeing what can be learned from this classic of success motivation book. For reference the story is being told to an American traveler by an Arabic guide.

“Acres of Diamonds” teaches a series of lessons through a story. The story is about Ali Hafed a wealthy Persian farmer who was content with what he had until he was visited by a Buddhist priest.

The priest told Ali about how the world was formed and the values of diamonds, and that with a diamond the size of his thumb he could purchase the whole country. This played on Ali’s mind and in a matter of a simple went from being a wealthy man to a poor man in his own mind.

Ali could not shake this feeling and asked the priest where he could find diamonds. “…if you will find a river that runs through white sands, between high mountains, in those white sands you will always find diamonds.

So Ali sold his farm, left his family with a neighbor and went searching for diamonds. Ali searched every place for diamonds, through Palestine, through Europe, until he found himself penniless and in rags at the Pillars of Hercules where he casted himself into the sea.

The man who purchased Ali’s farm one day had led his camel to the garden brook to let it drink. When the new owner of Ali’s farm looked down into the water he saw something glimmer in the sun’s light; it was a black stone that reflected all the colors of the rainbow. He took the stone home and placed it on the mantel of his fireplace and forgot about it.

A few days after the new owner found the stone the old Buddhist priest stopped by for a visit, when the priest saw the stone on the mantel he told the owner it was a diamond and asked where he found it.

The new owner said it was found just outside in the stream and it couldn’t possibly be a diamond; when they put their hands into the river they found more and more diamonds, and became the Golconda diamond mind.

The Arab broke from the story and said, “Had Ali Hafed remained at home and dug in his own cellar, or underneath his own wheat fields, or in his own garden, instead of wretchedness, starvation, and death by suicide in a strange land, he would have had ‘acres of diamonds.’

What do you get from this first part of the story? I personally see that one should look within themselves for the treasures that can be found. Everything you need to succeed is within and yours already. There is no need to seek outside yourself for the means of success, instead learn how to tap the resources within first.

Tomorrow Californian Gold

James Darren Davis
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