Jane Ransom - Self-intelligence : the new science-based approach for reaching your true potential

JANE RANSOM

THE NEW SCIENCE-BASED APPROACH

FOR REACHING YOUR

TRUE POTENTIAL

FOREWORD BY

JACK CANFIELD, COAUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL
BEST-SELLING CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL SERIES

Jack Canfield

I f you are reading this, count yourself lucky to have found this book. It contains some of the most fascinating information and material you will ever read. I have been teaching people a holistic model of personal growth and development for almost fifty years. I have read more than 3,000 books and have attended hundreds of seminars, workshops, and trainings. I have been a high school teacher, teacher trainer, self-esteem expert, psychotherapist, success coach, corporate trainer, professional speaker, and bestselling author. And yet, I found new information and helpful insights on almost every page of this book.

Jane Ransom is a self-described science nerd, a competent hypnotherapist, and in my opinion a great writer. She has the uncanny ability to look at tons of research and extract the most important useful concepts and processes that can be used to enhance your life. In chapter after chapter she sheds light on both the truths and the myths of human transformation.

Jane has synthesized all of her academic research and clinical experience into an original, holistic model of Self-Intelligence, a model that is based on up-to-date science, and, I was happy to discover, also validates my lifes work. Jane has spent seven years researching and testing her model, distilling and synthesizing scientific findings from many diverse fields, including research and insights from positive psychology, neuroscience, hypnotherapy, high-tech neurobiology, behavioral economics, and even game theory. Jane has mastered this knowledge, and she has used it to create dozens of transformational tools that you can put to immediate use in your life.

One thing that makes this book so accessible is that Jane uses all of the insights she has learned in the actual presentation of the material in the book. She uses powerful stories, pictures, and engaging humor (including cartoons) to actively engage all of your senses. She follows that up with practical action steps that you can take immediately to apply the principles that you are learning. All of this keeps you turning the pages and remembering and applying what you are learning.

What I also love about this book is that Jane addresses many of the myths and misunderstandings that abound in the world of personal development, human happiness, and achievement. She approaches everything with an open mind, and yet with the integrity of someone looking for the real truth. I find that refreshing in a world where there is so much hype and hyperbole.

My staff and I sometimes joke that a person could spend all day working only on their inner selfreading, meditating, writing and repeating affirmations, visualizing, etc.and ultimately end up getting nothing done. Thats why Jane and I both teach people the importance of setting realistic and measurable goals and then taking action to achieve those goals. We also stress that genuine success must be holisticencompassing among other things our relationships, our health and fitness, our fun and recreation, and our happiness, as well as our careers and our finances, none of which can be improved by only focusing inward. Therefore, Im pleased that Janes five-part model of Self-Intelligence addresses the whole person, from the hidden reaches of the subconscious self to the outer world striving self, which takes action to achieve those quantifiable goals.

I love that Jane is an ardent academic researcher, but she also happens to be a fine storyteller. To powerfully lock in what she is teaching you, she shares stories of transformation from her own personal life, as well as from the lives of public figures you will recognize, including how Michael Phelps used the power of visualization to win more Olympic gold medals than anyone in history, and how I used that same power to create a bestselling book series that has sold more than half a billion books. But mostly Jane writes about her clients, usually regular folks with regular problems, yet their case histories will fascinate you. And, although only one chapter in the book focuses on hypnosis, throughout the book you will get an insider view on Janes intriguing work as a professional hypnotist.

I first met Jane in 2010 at my annual Breakthrough to Success training, just two years after shed opened her hypnosis office. During the training she half-jokingly confessed to being a recovering intellectual still relatively new to the world of self-transformation. Over the subsequent years while Jane was developing her multifold model of Self-Intelligence, I watched her learn to embrace her own multifaceted uniqueness. As a result, shes now still a serious scholar, but she is also a playful presenter and a passionate agent of positive change.

I am excited knowing that this book will now enable her to help far more people than shes previously been able to serve, because I know thats her heartfelt aim and her true passion. Writing this book was the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) that she set back in 2010 at the Breakthrough to Success training. Now, because she practices what she teaches, the book is a reality. It is the culmination of a committed seven-year journey. But her journeys not overand neither is yoursfor as long as we live, the path to becoming all we can be continually opens before us.

I wish you well on your journey and congratulate you on your decision to read Self-Intelligence. By implementing the strategies here, you truly can change your life. Therefore, dont just read this book. Use the tools that are offered. Take action and commit to the never-ending process of your own personal growth.

Best wishes for a meaningful and fulfilling journey.

Jack Canfield, cocreator of the New York Times #1 bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be; founder of the Transformational Leadership Council

Welcome to the Party!

P ropped against the basement wall of my childhood home was a makeshift bookcase, where as an adolescent, I happened to discover, nearly hidden behind a pile of magazines, two tantalizing paperbacks. One touted so-called extrasensory perception or ESPthe author claimed to bend spoons with his mindand the other extolled hypnosis as a surefire way to impress people. I devoured both books.

Well, I never managed to bend spoons using only my psyche. But I did learn how to hypnotize willing schoolmates, and became a hit at slumber parties. For us kids in rural Indiana, this passed as great entertainment. One friend in particular, named Susan, went into a trance very easily. Looking back, I recognize that she was what we professional hypnotists call a high-hypnotizable.

One night I told Susan under hypnosis that she was walking along the beach. After coming out of her trance, she reported having felt the soft sand beneath her bare feet. She had seen the glittering waves collapse into foam against the shore. She had