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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio, Bitch Harowitz, an expert on esoteric The new

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Speaker 1: book is pulling a thread that I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people would benefit from. But I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of perhaps you know, guilty or sort of puritanical

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Speaker 1: associations over the years to talking about sex like that,

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Speaker 1: and yet the ancients knew it. So there's nothing that

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Speaker 1: is here that that should ever be considered something satanic.

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Speaker 1: I think anytime people start associating sex and business or

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Speaker 1: sex and they start thinking, it's like it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: something about voodoo or something like that niche. So I

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Speaker 1: just I wanted to address that upfront. Oh sure, No,

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Speaker 1: it's nothing evil, it's nothing sinister, It doesn't have anything

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Speaker 1: to do with manipulating other people. It goes back to

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Speaker 1: some of our earliest, most ancient esoteric religious traditions, and

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Speaker 1: it's basically the belief that the sexual urge is the

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Speaker 1: creative urge. It's how we propagate the species, why we're here,

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Speaker 1: and of course it's also something that we associate with

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Speaker 1: pleasure and so on. But Napoleon Hill was pointing out

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Speaker 1: that we can redirect or rechannel the sexual urge through

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Speaker 1: what is called sex transmutation by shifting our thoughts and

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Speaker 1: rather than shifting them our thoughts being directed towards some

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Speaker 1: kind of bodily desire or satisfaction, we shift our sexual

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Speaker 1: thoughts in the direction of something we want to accomplish,

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Speaker 1: whether it means saving money, working on our budget, building

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Speaker 1: up a positive personality trait like enthusiasm or courage, or

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Speaker 1: killing it performing well in a job interview or an exam.

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Speaker 1: Hill made the case and from my own personal experiments,

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Speaker 1: I believe it's true that when you use this process,

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Speaker 1: which just involves privately, mentally redirecting your thoughts towards a

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Speaker 1: wish for accomplishment, it puts great power magnetism, intellect, charisma

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Speaker 1: at your back. And Hill even made the case that

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Speaker 1: under the right circumstances, sex transmutation can elevate the individual

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Speaker 1: to the status of a genius. That when you see

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Speaker 1: people who have this incredible enthusiasm and work output and

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Speaker 1: they just always seem to kill it. He theorized that

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Speaker 1: very often, albeit unconsciously, these folks were using this act

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Speaker 1: of sex transmutation. It's totally private. It doesn't mean going

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Speaker 1: to the fringes or manipulating anybody. It's just a tool

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Speaker 1: that we've been given to use to heighten our performance

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Speaker 1: out in the day to day world. And so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean taking a cold shower. It doesn't mean think

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Speaker 1: about baseball, think about baseball, it doesn't mean anything like that.

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Speaker 1: So how do we do it? Then? What is as

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Speaker 1: you say, you started some experiments. What were your early

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Speaker 1: experiments in trying to prove Napoleon Hill's theory? Correct? Sure,

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Speaker 1: it's super simple. When you feel the sexual urge, something

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Speaker 1: totally natural, something that men and women from all walks

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Speaker 1: of life experience, rather than satisfying it physically, or rather

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Speaker 1: than sublimating it because maybe you're in public or something,

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Speaker 1: and obviously it's something that you have to deter until

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Speaker 1: you're in private. You redirect your thoughts away from the

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Speaker 1: satisfaction of the sexual urge and in the direction of

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Speaker 1: something that you want to accomplish. Now, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people say to me, for example, my work output seems

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Speaker 1: to be incredible. I'm always putting out books and narrating

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Speaker 1: and possessing and doing various things, And people ask me,

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Speaker 1: don't you sleep at night? And the fact is I

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Speaker 1: do sleep at night, and I do get done the

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Speaker 1: normal things that a person needs to get done. I

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Speaker 1: honor my obligations to my kids and to other people

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Speaker 1: in my life and so on. But I do believe

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Speaker 1: that some of the enthusiasm that I experience has to

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Speaker 1: shifting the sense of desire in the direction of some

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Speaker 1: other task. It doesn't mean abstinence, mean sublimating anything. It

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Speaker 1: just means choosing at a private moment to make that decision.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe when people say that to you, you know, wow,

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Speaker 1: you sure write a lot of books. You've got a

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Speaker 1: lot done. Is the subtext or that is? G Mitch,

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Speaker 1: I guess you're not having any sex anywhere at any time.

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Speaker 1: You must have no sex. You don't think that's what

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Speaker 1: they're saying to you. No, No, I don't. Actually, I

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Speaker 1: think they're saying, give us your secret, give us your secret, man,

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Speaker 1: how do you do it? And I think that's part

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Speaker 1: it come from? It's the creative urge in life. Without enthusiasm,

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Speaker 1: back the onion behind enthusiasm, what Hill was saying is,

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Speaker 1: But he said, it's really the universal life force. Physically,

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Speaker 1: it expresses itself through sex, but in other areas it

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Speaker 1: Show me how though you get from I'm having a

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, how do you do that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: are we talking about a series of and I'm not

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Speaker 1: being facetious. Pictures are their word tricks? Are there? I

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Speaker 1: mean you write something on your hand. How is it

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Speaker 1: that you would take a moment which is sort of

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Speaker 1: primal and channel it into something which is more intellectual.

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Speaker 1: You do it through a mental act, just through a simple,

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Speaker 1: private mental act. Let's say you're feeling the primal sexual

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Speaker 1: every walk of life experience. You may be in private,

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Speaker 1: you may be in public, may be in transit. Whatever

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Speaker 1: your choosing. At a moment of your choosing, you redirect

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Speaker 1: that sexual urge towards something that you wish to accomplish.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you want to become a killer guitar player.

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Speaker 1: That's a dream of yours. Whatever it may be, you

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Speaker 1: towards rehearsing, towards playing well, towards being in harmony, towards

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Speaker 1: creating beauty through that instrument. It doesn't mean abandoning sexuality,

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Speaker 1: abstinence or sublimating sexual But how do again give me

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Speaker 1: that moment, am I? And I'm imagining you? So here's

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Speaker 1: you in my head, and I'm thinking, okay, Mitch says,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, all right, you know what I really show.

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Speaker 1: defer it to another moment. The sexual allerge is not

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Speaker 1: When you feel that sexual urge, it doesn't just dissipate,

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Speaker 1: doesn't just go away. It's there. At the first possible moment.

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Speaker 1: And again, it doesn't mean abstinence or sublimating the sexual urge.

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Speaker 1: physical pleasure or this propagation of the species. But there

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Speaker 1: make a different parallel. I think this is a retrain

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Speaker 1: call tonitis retraining therapy TRT. And it's a constant thing

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Speaker 1: what I'm that's the parallel I'm drawing with you here.

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Speaker 1: I'm not so what that means for me is I

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Speaker 1: So that's where I'm seeing a parallel to what you're

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Speaker 1: is something the individual cares about. You're redirecting this sexual

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Speaker 1: in my personal experiments, I must say it absolutely works.

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Speaker 1: It's the most underutilized and in some ways the simplest

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Speaker 1: it because they feel it's kind of embarrassing or fringe,

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Speaker 1: but it's super private and it's super simple. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: problem is with the title The Power of Sex Transmutation.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you should have titled this book Shrink and Grow Rich.

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Speaker 1: Maybe well, I'll tell you something is funny. One of

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Speaker 1: my heroes, the Great Radio Broadcast or Earl Nightingale condensation

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Speaker 1: of Thinking Grow Rich in nineteen sixty interesting because these

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Speaker 1: forget sex transmutation. Everybody kind of wants to know what

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Speaker 1: totally in private. You don't have to tell anybody that

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Speaker 1: think the transmutation part is maybe what gets It's a

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was such a master of human nature.

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