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Speaker 1: On iHeartRadio, we are back with Mitch Horowitz with his

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Speaker 1: latest book, of Course to the Miracle Club, How Thoughts

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Speaker 1: Become Reality. Mitch tell us about the four important points

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Speaker 1: to start doing this we'll do. I've never talked about

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Speaker 1: these four points before, so this is kind of a

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Speaker 1: first time run exclusively for Coast listeners. Point number one,

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Speaker 1: when you wake up in the morning, you should make

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Speaker 1: it a practice every single day to make a gratitude list,

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Speaker 1: and you should be able to identify at least three

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Speaker 1: items that can go on your list. There are always

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Speaker 1: three things for which you can be grateful. Give us

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Speaker 1: an example morning. Oh, you could be grateful for health.

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Speaker 1: You could be grateful friends, you could be grateful for

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Speaker 1: any number of things that come to you. Number two,

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Speaker 1: you should take daily gratitude breaks during the day. We

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Speaker 1: take coffee breaks, we take stretch breaks. You should take

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Speaker 1: at least three gratitude breaks during the day, and you

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Speaker 1: can take many more. It can be in between work,

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Speaker 1: it can be while you're in your car. It can

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Speaker 1: just be a few silent moments that you privately reflect

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Speaker 1: while you're in a meeting or something like that. Make

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Speaker 1: it a practice to take daily gratitude breaks. Find at

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Speaker 1: least three people. This is step number three. Find at

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Speaker 1: least three people every day to think, to appreciate, or

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Speaker 1: to encourage. And you should try to find three new people.

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Speaker 1: And it can be something as small as just complimenting

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Speaker 1: somebody on something or really going out of your way

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Speaker 1: to thank somebody for doing something for you. It's a

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Speaker 1: demonstration of appreciation that multiplies because when you model that behavior,

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Speaker 1: other people will repeat it. And finally, number four, at

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Speaker 1: least once at least once every day, whether morning, midday,

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Speaker 1: or night, you should pray in gratitude, pray and appreciation,

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Speaker 1: pray in things. So this is you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: very simple four point plan. Number one, your morning gratitude list.

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Speaker 1: Number two, gratitude breaks during the day. Number three, find

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Speaker 1: at least three people to express appreciation to over the

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Speaker 1: course of the day. And finally, number four, pray and

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Speaker 1: thanks at least once a day. It's a very simple program.

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Speaker 1: Everybody can do it, but it only works if you

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Speaker 1: really apply it and make it a practice seven days

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Speaker 1: a week. Once you do that, what happened. Once you

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Speaker 1: do that, you will see that you will feel nobler,

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Speaker 1: You will feel better, You will engage in less gossip.

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Speaker 1: You will be the kind of person that people look

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Speaker 1: to as a leader. People will come to you asking advice.

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Speaker 1: You will stand taller, you will sleep better, you will

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Speaker 1: feel better, and you may be very, very surprised to

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Speaker 1: find that extraordinary things come into your life. You know,

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Speaker 1: terrible tragedies do strike us, and your segment and your

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Speaker 1: continuing segments on the California fires have been so important,

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Speaker 1: But in so far as catastrophes strike us, absurdly good

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Speaker 1: and wonderful things also come into our lives. Things that

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Speaker 1: depart from all expectation you will bring more of these

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Speaker 1: positive things into your life if you follow a program

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Speaker 1: like this one. Tell us about the title of the book,

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Speaker 1: The Miracle Club. I like that, Yeah, The Miracle Club

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Speaker 1: is a tribute to my heroes. Really, there was a

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Speaker 1: small group of New Yorkers. I live in Manhattan. There

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Speaker 1: was a small group of New Yorkers who gathered together

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Speaker 1: on the West side of Manhattan in the year eighteen

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Speaker 1: seventy five with the goal of exploring the paranormal, all

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Speaker 1: aspects of the unknown, the uses of the mind, questions

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Speaker 1: much larger and more influential organization, the Theosophical Society, which

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Speaker 1: they had just one principle. You had to want to try,

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Speaker 1: our strengths and powers of the mind. Oh, for real,

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Speaker 1: for real, absolutely, In fact, I never go to sleep

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Speaker 1: for introducing suggestions to your subconscious and serious psychical researchers

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Speaker 1: relaxation when your rational defenses are down and your mind

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Speaker 1: is in a dreamlike state, but you still have control

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Speaker 1: of time just before you drift off to sleep to

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Speaker 1: It's a remarkable period of time. Psychologically, you can reprogram

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Speaker 1: your subconscious and also psychical researchers have found a spike

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Speaker 1: It's a very creative period of time, and we all

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Speaker 1: Use it, Mitch. Let's talk a little bit about the holidays,

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Speaker 1: of course, and depression. I've talked with our resident psychiatrist,

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Speaker 1: was depressed. It's just it's it's it's it's it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Why does this happen? You know, it's interesting. I think

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Speaker 1: the holidays lay two forms of stress on us. One

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Speaker 1: form of stress that the holidays lay on us is

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Speaker 1: this excess of expectation that we're supposed to be surrounded

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Speaker 1: you can't summon up these things on demand. You can't

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Speaker 1: being around relatives, family, co workers, acquaintances incredibly stressful. They

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Speaker 1: opportunity to separate physically. In fact, never give up the

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Speaker 1: principle that you are around everyone in your life by

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Speaker 1: your own consent. You control that that belongs to you.

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Speaker 1: That is one of the most basic aspects of life.

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Speaker 1: remember that they have this choice, this sacred choice, who

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Speaker 1: who you feel devalue, you run you down. You can

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Speaker 1: cut those ties, or you can at least vow to

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Speaker 1: an extraordinary feeling of agency and choice and purpose into

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Speaker 1: your life, and that really belongs to you. Why did

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Speaker 1: it seemed that the more you use your mind, the

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Speaker 1: more active you are, the more younger you appear and act.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that wild, But it happens. It absolutely happens. There

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Speaker 1: one of the things she has been studying going back

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Speaker 1: people in settings that remind them of their youth, nostalgic

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Speaker 1: There's also a great improvement in mood. The idea that

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Speaker 1: everything that we've been educated to believe, which is that

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Speaker 1: certain aspects of physical decline are inevitable and they're kind

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Speaker 1: vitally important that individuals stay in touch with what made

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Speaker 1: let go of those things. Those things actually have healing properties.

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