Forewarned: Understanding the psychology of advertising

Great advertisers understand exactly how their audience thinks and what they respond to. Learn how businesses apply psychology to create effective ads.

Psychology is not only a tool to better understand those around you — it can also lead to increased influence. And while these persuasion skills are typically put toward research or counseling, they can also be useful in fields outside of the direct psychology world, such as marketing and advertising.

Although the methods used in advertising and marketing have changed progressively over the years — from merchants in ancient times screaming in marketplaces to digital marketers buying ads on social media sites — the underlying psychology in marketing and advertising has remained the same.

No matter how complex it may seem, psychology truly is an everyday principle. We use it in our relationships, our communication, and we can learn to use it to improve sales in business.

This article aims to uncover the link between psychology and advertising and how you can use advertising psychology to sell smarter.

According to research, people generally lose concentration within a short period of time — about eight seconds. This is largely due to the constant overload of messaging in today's society, causing us to become desensitized to a lot of information around us....<<<Read More>>>....

How to Recognise a Spiritual Ego

 [Wake Up World]: Nice people often want to help others and spiritual people are no different, but as we begin to seek our own enlightenment, we find out very quickly from those that have gone before us that we can not and must not try to “help” others spiritually, until we have attained our own enlightenment, lest we hinder them.

We describe the process of self-realization and enlightenment as “waking up” because we have learnt that everything we may not have previously realised is already there.

We all function normally with our own perspective, born out of our own needs and cultivated by our actions and beliefs throughout our lives. If at some juncture, we begin considering our spiritual side, we soon realise that the boundaries around the ideas we have of ourselves are nothing more than imaginary fences that we have constructed in our psyche, to protect and maintain the idea of who we are in the eyes of others. We encapsulate ourselves as something and someone to present to and function within the world and usually end up making the mistake of believing that we are the act.

With attention these misconceptions are dismantled and ignited by the fires of our own awareness, resulting in our perspectives widening....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>>...

What Are You Feeding Your Mind?

 [Wake Up World]: Your mind is like a garden. Flowers won’t bloom if you feed it mental poison. What are you feeding your mind?

All sensory input we receive affects us, from major to minor ways. Everything from the music we listen to, to the clothes we wear, to the food we eat, it all affects us in more profound ways than we sometimes realize.

This is because everything has its own vibrational energy structure. If you are interacting with, engaging with, or exposed to something, you can bet it is affecting you either positively or negatively. You can also say that it is also either strengthening or weakening your energy field. Remember the basic principle of Reality: everything affects everything.

Mainstream consciousness, which goes along with whatever the latest popular music, movies, sayings, food, and digital content is, is not the only one that is feeding its mind mental poison. So-called alternative culture, in all its forms (especially the “truth” movement) will repeatedly feed its mind with dark, depraved, and dense content, all in the name of “researching” and “uncovering” the truth. While going down the rabbit hole and learning about how you are in a control matrix designed to manipulate people and use your energy for nefarious purposes is part of the awakening process, there is a point where you can come back up to the surface and get some sunlight....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

How to Form Blueprints of Potential Realities

 [Wake Up World]: The brain is a holographic information processor that, when made conscious, has the power to form blueprints of potential realities.

People are often sleepwalking through life, which keeps the organic technology they have within them dormant. However, it has the ability to interface with a multidimensional matrix and imprint the framework of potential possibilities.

You see, conscious projections can act as blueprints for any possible reality, and anything is possible. Active conscious alignment with what we intend to be, can be.

Now, that’s not to say that you can suddenly form a reality where there are crystalline cities and all manner of light beings inhabiting it. Something of that magnitude requires a tremendous amount of focused intention energy to manifest and there no one localized node, or even group, of the Whole can accomplish it. We’re talking about something a little more practical, given our limited brain processors.

Evolution is the name of the game. Everything is constantly changing, transforming, and transitioning. When it comes to us humans, certain aspects of evolution, especially the physical side of things, seem to be slow-going. Others, like the consciousness inhabiting humans, appears to be shifting quickly. While most evolutionary processes are oftentimes not driven by conscious awareness, there is a massive subconscious movement occurring. After all, most of the time, we are being guided through life by our subconscious....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Your Body is a Projection of Consciousness and Thought

At the cutting edge of science and technology today is artificial intelligence and robotics, which are being driven by ever-increasing computational speeds made possible by quantum computing. When the capacity of technological computation rivals the speed of our capacity to think and process information as humans, then we will reach the singularity and a superintelligence will emerge in our society, triggering runaway technological growth.

While this is coming in the very near future, we are also now learning how this very type of quantum creative power is already at play in our world via the interplay of human consciousness and the material world. In the early 1900’s, the famous double-slit experiment demonstrated that material objects can actually change their composition based on what is being held in consciousness when said objects are observed.

In other words, the world around us is being created moment by moment, and our expectations of what the world should be is what gives it form. In order to alter its form or to change course, we can use the directed focus of the mind to envision and feel something different for ourselves, and in time and through repetition, this reality will eventually take form. The feeling is the key.

This is something we do all the time. The best example of this, perhaps, is the human body, which can by some measures be considered a projection of human consciousness. We see this everywhere. ...<<<Read More>>>...

Us vs. Them’ Thinking Is Hardwired—But Consciousness Can Overpower It

 Are we hardwired to categorize each other into ‘Us vs Them?’ Simply put, yes. But this hardwiring is remarkably easy to break. It’s time we equip ourselves with the knowledge and tools to do so.

Why? Well, anything from powerful governments to mainstream and alternative media is consistently trying to divide us by focusing aggressively on our differences. When we know how these mechanisms work and focus our consciousness in an effective way, these attempts to divide fail.

Neuroscience suggests that this Us vs Them biological trait developed thousands of years ago. As you might imagine, it had much to do with survival in much different times than we live in today.  

It essentially states that human beings are primed to make very basic and categorical Us vs Them judgments. In fact, your brain is processing these Us vs Them differences in a twentieth of a second. These noticed differences are your classically promoted artificial constructs of: ethnicity, gender, skin color, age, socioeconomic class, and even something like sports team preference.

(I say artificial because social constructs tell us we should focus on these as differences. We don’t actually have to see them as differences as we are ALL one species. Other animals do not engage their Us vs Them biology within their species – only we do – and it’s a taught behaviour.)

All of this is enhanced by a multi-purposed hormone in our brain called Oxytocin...<<<Read More>>>...

Filmmaker Reveals the Truth About Subliminal Messages

 We’re all being conditioned to think and believe certain things without any rational explanation through subliminal messaging in advertising, music, film, television, political propaganda, and military psychological operations.

Considering the definition of the word subliminal – ‘existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness’ – it is easy to downplay the power of this brainwashing technique because most people are not consciously aware that it is happening, yet, it is affecting their lives. Once you realize that subliminal messaging is real and start to pay attention, it becomes much easier to recognize the we are, indeed, all being conditioned to behave a certain way, to want certain things, and to believe in ideas, without being able to rationally explain why.

A common response to this type of revealing information is skepticism and disbelief that sexual innuendos or random words embedded in pictures or film will not impact a person’s willingness to buy a product.

Although it is a common assumption that sex sells because for most people it is associated with feelings of pleasure, excitement, enjoyment or even love, subliminal messaging is about much more than helping advertisers sell more product. These messages are designed to have an impact on general consumer behavior and affect people’s life patterns, thus molding society as a whole, creating and captivating more and more receptive consumers....<<<Read More>>>....

How Corporations Influence You & Control Your Actions

[Collective Evolution]: In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio and his team work by placing thoughts and ideas into influential people. Have you ever had a idea suddenly pop up in your head? If so, you might be a influential person.

Think back to when you’re going through your day, and boom — a crazy, completely random idea enters your mind. It’s frustrating and completely throws off your routine. You’re not alone. The worst part is that the thought seems to linger before disappearing — the inception.

We all have thoughts that come in out of left field and throw off everything. Whether you’re trying to study, or trying to focus, the IG post you saw yesterday or the article you just read, randomly comes to mind that doesn’t have anything to do with you.

These “inceptions” are the effects of what’s known as propaganda. Propaganda is “telling people what to think.” The act of thinking happens in the brain, which is made up of three separate brains:

1. Human Brain: This is the only part of your brain that’s you consciously control. It oversees all logical thought process.

2. Mammalian Brain: This is the first half of your subconscious. It oversees all emotional attachments. This is the largest brain. 

3. Lizard Brain: This is the second half of your subconscious. It oversees survival and reproduction.

And that’s why propaganda is so dangerous — it doesn’t appeal to your logical mind; it appeals to your feelings, the language of your subconscious, the driver of 90% of the actions you take. By doing this, propaganda influences you to have certain thoughts that it placed there. These thoughts lead to actions like impulse buys, and before you know, you have new shoes everywhere.

The good news is that these aren’t your thoughts, and since they’re not, you can use this piece of information to form a solution. Identifying these thoughts and evaluating them stops the propaganda before it takes place....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Watch This if You Still Believe People Are Thinking For Themselves

[Waking Times]: I’m increasingly amazed at what we can learn about human behavior by watching people react to the present pandemic crisis.

Rational thinking, critical thinking, and discernment are largely absent in herd behavior, and if you’ve wondered whether or not people are even thinking for themselves, you’d be asking a great question.

The answer to that great question would be, ‘no.’

People may believe they are having original thoughts, making independent choices, and navigating this crisis under their own volition, but the human mind is incredibly self-deceptive, and we are under the influence of incredibly deceptive experts.

In fact, most of the decisions we make are unconscious, not even registered by the thinking mind. It’s the subconscious mind which drives the majority of human behavior, and if you don’t yet grasp how real this is or how easy is to program the subconscious, then, your understanding of our current situation is woefully incomplete.

We live in a society of influencers, and the one’s who are able to get hundreds of millions of people on the same page about masks, social distancing and lockdowns are the greatest influencers of all time. They know how the mind works, and use this knowledge against you.

This is how so many people can find themselves suddenly believing that the human immune system is worthless against a disease with a 99.9+% survival rate, and that the only way to be healthy is to inject ourselves with experimental DNA altering pharmaceuticals. It’s Backwardsville.

What’s their secret?

Simple. Exploit the subconscious mind by inserting endlessly repetitive messages into our environment all around us, so that when a decision needs to be made, the choice is already familiar and clear, because we’ve already seen the answers all over our environment, while competing information is being banned and censored from view.

This is a very real form of mind control, and every one of us is a target....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

How Changing Your Thoughts Changes Your Life

[Wake Up World]: How many thoughts do you have every day? How many of these thoughts are ones you are consciously aware of? How many of them are helpful to you or others? How many of them are harmful? Taking this path of self-inquiry can help you perform a “thought audit” where you assess whether your current life circumstances are being improved or worsened by your thoughts.

Self-responsibility is the mark of an evolved person who takes ownership of the way they feel and what they experience. Your thoughts are the most powerful form of energy in the multiverse. They can create something from nothing, which is a remarkable feat when you think about it. Everything you see in the world that is both tangible and intangible emerged out of thoughts. You can also expand this out on a macrocosmic scale and say that the Earth, solar system, galaxy, universe, and multidimensional multiverse were also created thanks to conscious creative thoughts....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
 

Why Do We Condemn Others For Being ‘Less Awake’ or ‘Less Conscious?’

[Collective Evolution]: So much of the time, many in the 'truth seeking' community will judge and condemn others who are not 'as awake.' This keeps us plugged into egoic consciousness and creating a world driven by polarity.

Right and wrong aside, as these are just subjective polarities, how does it feel to judge others? Does it connect you to them? Does it allow you to see and feel that they are inherently one with you? Do you feel free when driven by judgement?

It’s humbling to remember that you once did not know the things you know today. Yet sometimes many of us judge and condemn others who do not yet know what we currently know. Why?  Would it be serving to simply share information with others, with no authority or worry about how they will react but simply with love and see what happens.....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

 

What Are You Feeding Your Mind?

[Wake Up World]: Your mind is like a garden. Flowers won’t bloom if you feed it mental poison. What are you feeding your mind?

All sensory input we receive affects us, from major to minor ways. Everything from the music we listen to, to the clothes we wear, to the food we eat, it all affects us in more profound ways than we sometimes realize.

This is because everything has its own vibrational energy structure. If you are interacting with, engaging with, or exposed to something, you can bet it is affecting you either positively or negatively. You can also say that it is also either strengthening or weakening your energy field. Remember the basic principle of Reality: everything affects everything.

Mainstream consciousness, which goes along with whatever the latest popular music, movies, sayings, food, and digital content is, is not the only one that is feeding its mind mental poison. So-called alternative culture, in all its forms (especially the “truth” movement) will repeatedly feed its mind with dark, depraved, and dense content, all in the name of “researching” and “uncovering” the truth. While going down the rabbit hole and learning about how you are in a control matrix designed to manipulate people and use your energy for nefarious purposes is part of the awakening process, there is a point where you can come back up to the surface and get some sunlight....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

How to Recognise a Spiritual Ego

[Wake Up World]: Nice people often want to help others and spiritual people are no different, but as we begin to seek our own enlightenment, we find out very quickly from those that have gone before us that we can not and must not try to “help” others spiritually, until we have attained our own enlightenment, lest we hinder them.

We describe the process of self-realization and enlightenment as “waking up” because we have learnt that everything we may not have previously realised is already there.

We all function normally with our own perspective, born out of our own needs and cultivated by our actions and beliefs throughout our lives. If at some juncture, we begin considering our spiritual side, we soon realise that the boundaries around the ideas we have of ourselves are nothing more than imaginary fences that we have constructed in our psyche, to protect and maintain the idea of who we are in the eyes of others. We encapsulate ourselves as something and someone to present to and function within the world and usually end up making the mistake of believing that we are the act.

With attention these misconceptions are dismantled and ignited by the fires of our own awareness, resulting in our perspectives widening....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>>...

How to Form Blueprints of Potential Realities

[Wake Up World]: The brain is a holographic information processor that, when made conscious, has the power to form blueprints of potential realities.

People are often sleepwalking through life, which keeps the organic technology they have within them dormant. However, it has the ability to interface with a multidimensional matrix and imprint the framework of potential possibilities.

You see, conscious projections can act as blueprints for any possible reality, and anything is possible. Active conscious alignment with what we intend to be, can be.

Now, that’s not to say that you can suddenly form a reality where there are crystalline cities and all manner of light beings inhabiting it. Something of that magnitude requires a tremendous amount of focused intention energy to manifest and there no one localized node, or even group, of the Whole can accomplish it. We’re talking about something a little more practical, given our limited brain processors.

Evolution is the name of the game. Everything is constantly changing, transforming, and transitioning. When it comes to us humans, certain aspects of evolution, especially the physical side of things, seem to be slow-going. Others, like the consciousness inhabiting humans, appears to be shifting quickly. While most evolutionary processes are oftentimes not driven by conscious awareness, there is a massive subconscious movement occurring. After all, most of the time, we are being guided through life by our subconscious....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

What are You Dreaming For?

[David Icke]: A dream often times seems like a very elusive and surreal thought or event; something that seems real, while also feeling like it is a fake reality. Dreams are a very natural thing for human beings, even our pets are enhanced with dreams.

When we go to sleep, we often times find ourselves in a dream, another reality, a voyage that can often feel like the reality that we know in our awake state.

But what is a dream? Do you often wonder where these voyages and experiences come from? Do you think that you are simply in Wonderland which is totally made up without our minds somehow?

Our minds are vastly complex and inherent with unseen talents; so why would our minds not reach out to other realities to seek out answers that are not necessarily available to us? It may seem very difficult to accept that our minds can perform at this level in an awake state, however, we generally accept the idea of dreams while we sleep. The difference between being awake and asleep is the activity of our conscious minds....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Using Human Intention Help Manifest The Physical World Into Being

[Collective Evolution]: Many people believe that human intention has a direct impact on physical material reality. Quantum mechanics has played it's role in this belief.

Do you want to change the world. Do you want to change your-self? Perhaps both are intertwined.

The idea that we actually manifest the physical world into being in every moment based on our thoughts used to be the stuff of fairy tales for most people. There was a sense that old sayings like ‘As ye think, so shall ye be,’ and ‘Everything is possible for him who believes,’ were considered to have some mysterious wisdom, but few really took them to be direct conditions of reality itself.

To manifesting through intention is first to overcome what seems to be a logical paradox; as we try to visualize what we want (a new car, lover, etc.), we have to somehow ‘feel good’ about the whole matter, as though we are not actually lacking what we want. As The Secret feature speaker Joe Vitale says,

"It’s really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher"...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Power Outside The Matrix: Inventing New Reality

[David Icke]: There are two major effects of overall mind control.

The first is the distracting and confusing of thought processes.

This is defeated and kept at bay by logic, a discipline employed by Plato 2400 years ago and refined by his student, Aristotle.

Today, logic needs to be expanded and updated to deal with the flood of information and misinformation we encounter every day.

The second overall effect of mind control is the repression of the individual’s creative impulse. Creation and imagination are, of course, the energies that bring about the invention of new realities.

All forms of mind control target the individual so that he passively accepts the reality presented to him.

Taken together, logic and imagination are the most formidable force in the liberation of the individual—his consciousness and his action.

That liberation should be the goal of any sane teaching.

It is the goal of my collection, Power Outside The Matrix.

Expanding one’s own power involves the conscious projection of new realities.

Previously, the notion of “projection” has been the property of the pseudoscience called psychology. The concept has been twisted to mean the blind projection of one’s own “negative images and feelings” on to other people.

Beyond this blip on the radar of human existence, there emerges a far greater kind of projection: conscious and imaginative invention of new futures. That is where liberated individual power travels and operates and works...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...

Proof That Our Thoughts Create Reality

[Wake Up World]: “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.”

These are the words of the Buddha spoken over 2,500 years ago. What this statement declares is the idea that our consciousness creates our reality.

Take some time to think about this, because the implications are staggering. This understanding concerning the nature of consciousness fully empowers us to essentially be able to accomplish anything and everything.

Our very health and well-being are largely in our hands when we realize this tremendous power is at our disposal during every moment of our existence.

Water is the most common and arguably most mysterious substance on planet Earth. This substance is so incredible that we as humans through directed thoughts, can literally change the composition of water molecules themselves.

No, that was not a typo. To explain such a bold statement, consider the following...read more>>>...

Lest We Conjure A.I.

[David Icke]: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

The fear of an artificially intelligent takeover grows by the day, and by the night we dream it. How far will we dream this before it comes true?

As the veil thins more and more every hour forward, our subconscious and conscious attentions are collected within each hour, and the more concentrated it becomes. By the organic nature of reality, this effect pools in our very thoughts to create the World we see today. As we live our daily life, we draw to us ethereal wisps of energy by our senses. What we see, hear, feel, smell, taste, and perceive is like choosing the ingredients and meals of destiny’s potluck.

Where we place our time, we also accept, and thus conjure up; thereby, the greater we focus on the terror of artificial intelligence, the greater WE ACCEPT THAT AS OUR DESTINED REALITY.

If we wish to delve deeper into this great lie we are being sold, we have found another new depth to this tragedy. Money and media dance hand in hand to entertain and to influence us on a daily basis, for the Human Soul thrives on creativity. So what better way to rip away our control than for the pied piper to lead us down the rabbit hole of pretty ideas and fancy amusement? One trick after another, we consistently condone this deception, even if we do not totally agree with its rules, perhaps this new, trendy contract will be for the greater good? For each new contract we spiritually sign, we allow its consequences and horrors to unfold.

Doom and gloom our sensual World depicts, but who is writing the script? Are we writing it, or do we leave it up to the care of the “professional magi”? No matter if the subject is science, art, politics, fiction, or religion, the Human Soul is demonized as never being suitable for existence, and exaggerated on the basis that we are all only “automatons just alike”.

But you see, this is how these demonic magi operate. “As above, so below, as within, so without”, they create their Magic by casting their exact, true natures onto the World. In this way, they summon shadows of themselves to do their bidding.

Whether they be celebrity clones, technological poisons, legal dictatorship, or religious pseudonyms, they are all but algorithmic copies used to persuade Humanity to devote their power toward opening the gate of the Nether and collectively granting Kali Yurga’s full form access to our Middle Earth.

And when it is all said and done, what will be left of our beautiful, precious Earth? Lovecraft’s story of Cthulu wasn’t just a spooky tale; it was a warning if we continue to allow ourselves to be its prey.

So then, how do we make our stand against this threat? The veil still opens just as nature ensures it, but remember that the Dark One can only truly enter its form into our domain if we permit it, no different than the Nosferatu’s house invitation.

Repel its siren’s song, and CHOOSE WHAT YOU TAKE INTO YOUR PERCEPTION. Do we have to keep watching the same television shows about demonic possessions, deceit, and murder? Do we have to keep reading the same books and tweets about how little we mean to the World or how we are unable to fight the onslaught of the New World Order’s government and military?

I think you will be very surprised by all that you CAN do and create....read more>>>..

Science of the Whole: Integrating Matter & Spirit

New Dawn Magazine: If we want to experience and understand the non-physical aspects of ourselves and the world, we first have to develop the means to do so. In practice, this involves developing and using forms of consciousness that are dormant in the great majority of people.

The actual process of awakening and training this “additional consciousness” is not easy. There is a lot to it. It is as much a general character training as it is a specific training in being able to experience at will what we may have experienced only haphazardly and infrequently, in the form of an extraordinary experience. If we did go though such a training, the range of our perception would extend considerably, and our lives would change as a consequence. It is worth trying to imagine some of the changes.

First, extraordinary experiences – such as telepathy and clairvoyance – would become a normal, accepted part of our daily lives. That alone would change much that we believe to be true and possible. And that, in turn, would almost certainly lead to changes in our behaviour and our lifestyles.

Second, we would learn about aspects of the universe and the human being that we are completely unaware of. What we think of today as indisputable scientific facts will turn out to be the product of restricted (physical) consciousness. That would change our understanding of who we are, as human beings, why we are here, and what we are capable of....read more>>>...