How The Psychic Got Through

Joseph Stalin’s
Security Screen

A few decades ago, there lived a

Russian psychic whose reputation for
accomplishing strange and mysterious
feats rivaled that of our greatest
magicians.
It was said that while magicians used
tricks to accomplish their sensational
effects, Wolf Messing did not.
As the story goes, the Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin asked to see the
psychic. He told his head of security
to get the message to Messing that he
was to be in Stalin’s office at the
Kremlin within three days.
He also told the security chief not to
give the man a pass; if he was as good
as he claimed, he should be able to
get into the office without any passes,
sanctions, or written material of any
sort—even if it was the most closely
guarded area in all the world.
Two days after the request was made,
Stalin looked up from his desk
to see a man standing in front of him.
Not only was this a breach of
security, but to his mind it was
impossible. Calling for his security
people, he pressed hidden buttons that
rang loud clanging bells and alarms.
The entire floor was soon in an
uproar. Guards ran in and surrounded
the stranger.
When the man was questioned, he
revealed himself to be Wolf Messing,
simply
complying with Stalin’s request for
an appearance.
On further questioning as to how he
accomplished the seemingly
impossible feat, he said that he laid a
cloak of invisibility over himself by
saying the words, “Beria, Beria, I am
Beria,” and repeating it until he
believed
it himself.
When questioned, the guards said that
the only person who’d passed them
was the head of the Soviet secret
police, the chief of security, Lavrenti
Beria.
Wolf Messing’s feat is a remarkable
demonstration of the concept of
power words. Examples of the use of
power words are all around us, from
the shouts of martial arts practitioners
to the “Fore!” of golfers.
Despite the prevalence and obvious
utility of this concept, however, it
seldom occurs to most people to
apply it in their own lives.
Power Word Use in High School
An example of the dynamic force of
the words of power came from one of
our Power of Self Mind Control
students.
She was a teenager who attended the
seminar with her parents. She hated
school. Not because of the work, but
because of a few of the students there.
The young lady feared some of the
local toughs in the school after
suffering several verbal assaults by
them in the past.
She paid particular attention to the
segment on power words . She asked
again and again if it were true that her
thinking a particular word could
actually have an effect on another
person.
She was told to try it and see. Her
main interest was in keeping herself
safe from harm, and she felt that
learning power words would
accomplish the most good.
The day after the seminar, she
subsequently reported, she was
walking through the school yard past
the group she feared, and instead of
expecting sneers, smirks, someone
tripping her, or perhaps a punch on
the arm or worse, she concentrated on
the power word ‘beware.’
She repeated the word beware over
and over again mentally as she had
been taught. She visualized a quiet
beware in her mind growing louder
and louder until the word filled her
consciousness.
Approaching the group with her head
high and concentrating on the word
beware, she strolled right on past the
group, and for the first time she
reported, not one of them said or did
anything to harm her in the slightest.
Indeed, she said, they acted as though
she wasn’t even there.
Reasons abound for the effectiveness
of the power word.
There is the expectation that things
will be right. There is the elimination
of the negative expectation of fear,
thereby producing a stress-free and
relaxed state of
mind.
And not the least, there is the faith
that the word instills in an individual.
Here’s how to use the concept of
power words as a resource to help
better your life.
Begin with a simple word, one that
will demonstrate to you the
effectiveness of the power word
concept.
The first power word for you to use is
the word power itself. You may use
the finger/thumb technique by placing
the thumb and forefinger of your
stronger hand together as a trigger
device to enhance its use.
Think the word power for thirty
seconds, repeating the word every
two or three seconds. Begin with a
diminished image and enhance it.
Enlarge the word so that you can see
it in huge letters on the side of a
mountain. At the same time, hear the
word spoken, becoming louder and
louder.
Mentally shout out the word power,
feeling yourself become more
powerful as you do.
Take a few steps as you do this and
you will notice that you are walking
taller, straighter, and with more
confidence. You may be able to feel
new strength surging through your
body.
That is the concept and use of the
power word.
Strong and Weak
During my Power of Self Mind
Control seminar we demonstrate the
action of the power word.
Each person sitting in the front row of
seats is given a word to repeat
mentally. I whisper to half of them to
think the power word, ‘strong’; the
other halt to think ‘weak’.
All are told to hold their right arms
straight out and away from their
bodies. My associate then strolls by
and attempts to pull down each arm.
What follows is a gasp of
astonishment and amusement from
the students in the seminar as they
realize that something unusual has
taken place.
Half of the front-row occupants end
up with an arm down, while the rest
stand with arms straight out and rigid.
All those who were told to repeat the
power word ‘strong’ have their right
arms extended; the instructor could
not pull them down.
The rest stand looking somewhat
sheepish, with their right arms loosely
dangling at their sides.
The power words used have
weakened those who thought weak
and strengthened those who thought
‘strong.’
A muscular, healthy, bull of a man,
believing that for some reason he is
weak due to an imagined problem, or
that someone he is going to meet is
stronger than he, will in fact be
weakened.
This has been proven many times in
the professional arenas of the world,
especially with boxers who attempt to
“spook” or weaken their opponents
with words of power for themselves
and weakness for their opponent.

The same effect is seen in the home-

team advantage that has been well
documented over the years in every
high school, college, and professional
stadium in the world.
When you get thousands of people
together thinking of their man,
woman, or team winning, those
thoughts generate a feeling of power
in the team members.
The home-team advantage is
enhanced even more when all the
spectators use the same word, as they
do when chanting the mane of a
favorite player.
You can use the technique of power
words to create an immediate change
in your actions. Whether it involves a
change from cowardice to courage,
procrastination to motivation, or
lethargy to activity, there is a
word for you.
Say that you wish to do something
now that you have been putting
off. Create a mental image of yourself
doing this thing. You can add to the
technique by brightening the image
and then enlarging and zooming in
on it.
Once you have a clear image in your
mind repeat the appropriate power
word, in this case “energize.” Repeat
the word over and over while holding
the image of the thing you wish to do.
You will find your energy building to
the stage where you will in fact
energize yourself to do it.
There are many words that you can
use as power words. Strength,
health, beware, handsome, beautiful,
strong, powerful, courageous,
fearless,
thin, relaxed, successful, effective,
attract, repel, creative, are but a
handful.
See how many more you can think of
that would be useful to you.
Understand that you are in control,
and that one of the tools of that
control is the directed use of the
power word. You can change, by
degrees,
from weak to strong, from fearful to
courageous, from fat to thin, from
putting things off to getting them
done, and from failure to success in
any
goal you direct the powerful force of
your mind to achieve.
Notes From a Recent Student
Pam Robinson was in a seminar I
presented in Dallas, in August, of
2002. Here are a few words taken
from her long, exciting letter.
“This one is really amazing. I have
walked with a cane because of
my back spasms and injured knee for
two years. To help my self walk I use
the “Power Words”. My power word?
“Beautiful”.
“I have to say knowledge is indeed
power. I am 15 pounds lighter
and no longer walking with a cane.
Cool HUH. Better and Better. I found
that I could not “Lose Weight”
because I “Found It”. I am known for
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THE POWER OF SELF MIND
CONTROL
finding things I lose. So I am melting
the fat, and eliminating it. I have
gone from drinking 1/2 of a 3 liter of
Dr. Pepper a day to lots and lots of
water every day, to “wash the fat
away’! “
Examples of Power Words
Any word spoken either mentally, or
physically can be a power word.
The determining factor as to its
outcome is the intention behind the
word.
A power word is just that, a word.
One, single word. Not a string of
them.
More than one word is an affirmation,
not a power word and although
affirmations are powerful, they are
not the same as the power word.
Affirmations are designed to manifest
their energies at some future time
where the power word is designed to
energize immediately.
Energy, energize, stamina, might,
strong, mighty, competent, skilled,
acceptable, beautiful, beware,
invisible, talent, love, health, find,
notice,
desirable, hearty, hungry, satisfied,
content, happy, comfortable, easy,
relaxed,
forgiving, energy, awake, and on and
on and on and on. Virtually any word
can be a power word if that be your
intent.
Note that power words are spoken
mentally. It is important also to
realize that you have a volume of
degrees when speaking mentally.
Mentally
you can shout, or you can whisper.
Sometimes you want to shout the
word,
other times, whisper it. You will
know as you realize you have that
ability.
Obviously if you are using a power
word to relax, be comfortable or to
sleep, you want to whisper it, not
shout it. Sitting in a dentist’s chair
waiting
for a drill, to shout the word relax will
not work. Whispering the word
however will send you off
immediately into a pleasant state of
comfort.