peak emotions you need to develop race-car fuel for your Effortless
English™ engine.
The problem for learners is not a lack of intelligence, nor a lack of will
power. You are not “bad at English.” What most people lack is control over
their mind and emotions. In fact, you have all the talent, intelligence and
power you need to master spoken English at the highest possible level. You
simply need to learn how to control your power and use it to change your
emotions, beliefs, and actions in an instant, exactly as you want.
Like many English learners, perhaps you too suffer from “English
trauma.” Perhaps you hold limiting beliefs, and feel frustrated, nervous or
stressful when trying to speak. You want to feel confident and powerful
when speaking, and to do so, you must learn to control your internal
movies.
Your internal movies are the programs you use to create feelings, beliefs
and goals. You create these movies with your five senses: sight, hearing,
touch, taste and smell. Your memories and your dreams are recorded in
your mind as a combination of these senses. These are the ingredients you
use to write and direct your own internal movies. These movies then create
your emotions, thoughts and actions.
When you want to change the results you get with learning English, you
want to change two things: how you feel when speaking English and how
well you actually speak. In other words, you want to feel confident while
speaking and you want to speak skillfully. This chapter is about how to
change your internal movies so they program you for both powerful
feelings and skillful performance while speaking.
As you think about the movies you make in your mind, realize that there
are two things you can choose: What is in your movies and how that movie
is made. If you frequently think about memories of embarrassment with
English, that will change the way you feel. How that memory is structured
is also important. For example, perhaps you remember a time when you
were corrected by a teacher in class, and that memory creates nervousness
about English. That memory is a movie in your mind. Internally, you see
