Michael Benner on the James Allen Classic "As A Man Thinketh"

One Book That Changed My Life

James Allen’s “As a Man Thinketh” may have been published over 100 years ago, but it still remains one of the most powerful books in the realm of personal development and self-awareness.

For personal intelligence expert, coach and teacher, Michael Benner, it was a lid-lifting book that gets to the heart of what it takes to overcome fear and remove barriers to success.

How does fear erode our innate heart and brain function and make it harder for us to accomplish anything? How do we become more aware of our own fear and get our fight or flight response to back off?

In this episode, Michael shares how this book impacted him and he also talks about the key ideas behind his own book, Fearless Intelligence.

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode

Take total responsibility for creating your life

Your intention and the thoughts, feelings and behavior that follow create your reality. We’re not victims of a life that’s being done to us, but life flows through us and if we create alignments with our creative life force, all things are possible.

How to become aware of and defeat fear

Fear is what we don’t understand, it has little or nothing to do with danger, it’s just a response to confusion. It triggers an amygdala hijack and shreds your heart and brain function so you’re left with your primitive lizard brain. Using slow deep breaths and positive affirmations, we can persuade the unconscious mind that we’re actually safe and regulate the fight or flight and the lizard brain to back off.

A powerful way to tap into confidence

Our essence as human beings is to solve problems and redeem ignorance into understanding. Whether we’re confident or not, this is a nature we all possess. When we set the personality aside and look at who we are as a species, we can remind ourselves that we’re made to step into the unknown and improve what’s there and bring order to chaos. With that attitude, success is guaranteed

Guest Bio

Michael Benner is an expert on personal intelligence, teacher, podcaster, and author of Fearless Intelligence — The Extraordinary Wisdom of Awareness. He's also written the breakthrough self-awareness training, Internal Vigilance, commissioned by the Orange County California Sheriff's Academy in Anaheim. He is well known throughout Southern California for his popular human potential talk radio programs on KABC-AM, KLOS-FM, KLSX-FM, KCBS-FM, KRLA-AM, and most recently on KPFK-FM. He has served as the Sports Psychology Consultant for the U.S.C. Women's Tennis Team and the Burbank Burroughs High School Baseball Team. Michael left broadcasting as a full-time profession in 1987 to begin his own business, Personal Development Strategies. With offices now in La Quinta near Palm Springs, California, he provides counseling and personal development training to individuals and couples, as well as consulting, training, and coaching for business executives, managers, and teams. As presented by Michael, Personal Development Strategies include self-awareness and emotional intelligence, stress management, critical thinking, and relationship management.

Buy Fearless Intelligence: The Extraordinary Wisdom of Awareness on Amazon and listen to the podcast Ageless Wisdom over at https://www.theagelesswisdom.com/.