CNN: Larry King Live
Positive Thinking, Part II

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Vocabulary:
positive affirmation
to tell oneself every day
to do s.t. visually
poster board
to map out where you want to go
physically
to cut out pictures
to look at s.t. daily
to take s.t. a step further
what will it feel like when you get there
kids
naturally
the whole
to be covered with
surfboard
pictures
to get talked out of s.t.
adults
emotional
all five sensory channels
Soviet studies
enhanced performance?
highly imaged performance
learning to love oneself first
to travel
all around the world
soul mate
flawed
completion
to reside
outside oneself
inside oneself
relationship
into your life
to maintain a relationship
to tend to
to project onto s.o. else
unaccepted
unexpressed parts of oneself
to get s.o. to change
value
to reflect back to oneself
to create a great relationship
wife
what it is about me
that I'm rejecting in her
to make one angry
to clean up
fabulous
place to grow
fulfillment
to be in trouble
emotional happiness
to send out
negative energy
to be dependent on s.o. else
additiction
obsession
emtional need
fractured relationship
 to last
importance of
healing
essential
frequently
to rebound
to learn about oneself
to have a problem with s.o.
serious circumstances
mirror
in the process
to keep doing s.t.
to date
to be involved with
that's a good one
to deal with
one of the biggest causes of
relapse
abandonment
loss of our identity
to spend the rest of our time
missing piece
in others
bottom line
in ourselves
Alexandra Goldman
to maintain a relationship
successful
to grow as an individual
to grow apart
to sit down with s.t.
mate
where you're going
to take steps to get her
to begin moving in that direction
addictions
to become addicted to
to find some fulfillment
a release of dopamine
neurochemical
to be around s.t.
to create a high
absence
to put one into
a state of
deprivation
to hypnotize oneself out of/into s.t.
to be in love
to be hung out
to get out
Attractor Factor
five steps
there's only this one step
to do s.t. all the time
to cut through
to break the trance
in this moment
point of power
everything else
in the past/future

Listening comprehension questions:
1. What, according to Jayne Payne, is "positive affirmation", and how does Payne train her clients in it?
2. What example does Jack Canfield give of how kids may naturally go about "positive affirmation"?
3. George Pratt says that adding "all five sensory channels" to "positive affirmation" works because the brain can't really tell the difference between what two things?
4. Why does James Ray suggest that the idea of finding a "soul mate" is flawed?
5. James Ray says that we can never attract a "perfect" relationship with another person until we do what?
6. According to Jack Canfield, often when we are upset with our partner, it is a sign of what?
7. What does Jayne Payne say about the feeling of abandonment most of us have from some time in our childhood?
8. What does Joe Vitale say is the "one step" to happiness?

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