Wendy Yellen joins Kristin Maxwell to explore how eidetic images help to unlock your self-improvement potential. Named one of the International Top 3 Experts in her Field, Wendy uses eidetic imagery to help entrepreneurs and creatives move beyond the subconscious blocks that hold them back from reaching their full potential. In this fascinating interview, Wendy explains how eidetic images help the brain adapt, change and grow, leading to meaningful transformations that last. Listen in as she illuminates the real power behind this amazing work and walks Kristin (and listeners) through an eidetic imagery process on air.
Hi, everyone. This is Kristin Maxwell, and you are listening to Your SuperPowered Mind. We have a really fun topic today. We’re going to be talking to Wendy Yellen about using Eidetic Imagery to unlock your self-improvement potential.
Wendy is a transformational expert, who uses a process called Eidetics, to help individuals unlock their full potential and remove the blocks that have been holding them back from happiness and success. Wendy has been named one of the international top three transformational experts in her field, which is truly amazing. We have a special treat, because Wendy is actually going to, in the course of this show, take us through the Eidetics experience. I’m super excited for you to try it, and also for me. Wendy, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Thank you, Kristin, and thank you for being a true leader by being willing to be visible and vulnerable with the experience today. That says a lot about you, in my opinion.
Well, thank you very much. Yes, I am my own guinea pig sometimes. My first question on the show is always, what super power did you discover as the result of mastering your mind?
I’ve accessed a deeper part of my mind.
Okay, so when I read that question and thought about it a lot, I thought to myself, I don’t master my mind. What I’ve done, in terms of the question that I know that you’re asking, is I’ve accessed a deeper part of my mind that isn’t my rational, overly rational, conscious mind, that allows me to connect to something greater, and that allows me, my intuition, to be greatly increased, and other aspects of me to come forward, that aren’t my conscious, rational mind. That’s what you’ll get, and your listeners will get to experience. I wouldn’t actually call it mastering. I would call it allowing myself to connect to a deeper part of my mind.
Wow, that sounds very, very nice. Okay, I’m so excited to try it. How do you do that? How have you learned how to access that deeper part of your mind? What’s the process?
I think that would be better explained by the experience, but I think, let me go where I think you would like the listeners to hear, which is that if we … Let’s look at what happens when people want something. So often, you can think about New Year’s resolutions or whatever, whenever we make lists of what we want or we reflect on what we want. So often, people say they want something, and then we don’t do it, or we do the opposite, which is very common about being human.
Then, what we do is we try to pressure ourselves into acting a different way, or we berate ourselves because we’re acting a certain way. Yet, there is this other aspect of the mind, which I just was referring to, that is there not to regurgitate history or memory, but to offer a handout to us, to connect us to the potentials that are underneath the way we think. That’s the part of the mind, the way we think, that I think needs the mastering. Does that answer your question, or did I go too far afield?
No, no, I think that really is true, is our minds don’t always … The thinking part of our minds don’t always serve us very well.
Well, they’re not meant to, right? The memories and histories … those are meant to help us tie our shoes again, ride the bike again, know how to hold a fork. Those are things that we don’t have to keep relearning. They’re meant to help us just smooth or streamline what we normally do. What the problem is that so many people try to use that part of the brain to change, and it’s not what it’s for, so it doesn’t work. What happens is people say … I think it was Einstein that said, “You can’t solve the problem on the level at which it was created.” People repeat that often, that quote often, but then they … What we all do is continue to try to solve the problem with the head, which is exactly, to my mind, where it was created.
Great, so how do you get out of the head? I’m assuming it’s Eidetics, because that’s what you talk about.
Yeah, because I used to be … I’m relatively smart. I always did really well in school. That was fairly easy for me, and so I lived, and my success came, I thought, from my intelligence, and I was really proud of my intelligence. I thought it had taken me very far.
The problem was that my head wouldn’t let go.
Then, I got to a certain point in my life when I … I don’t know how it was, but I just realized, if I wanted to go further and deeper and connect more deeply, spiritually and otherwise, it wasn’t going to come from my head. The problem was that my head wouldn’t let go, so when I first actually heard of Eidetics, I went to New York to hear the founder and father of Eidetics, Dr. Ahsen. I went to hear him talk, and I literally could not understand a word he said. My mind was screaming, trying, trying … It was just so loud, I couldn’t understand him. Everybody else, most of whom … Many of the people there had worked with him before, and they’re all nodding and getting into it, and I’m looking around, and I’m thinking, “They have drunk the Kool-Aid, and I didn’t get any,” because it was crazy.
I had done years of personal development work, because I have a master’s in social work, and I have done a lot of processes, traditional and nontraditional. I couldn’t understand, literally, what he was saying. I was so in my head, I couldn’t take anything in on this deeper level, but 20 years later, 20 years later, when I rediscovered him by “accident,” my mind was a little softer then, and I wasn’t holding on, and I wasn’t rejecting things and judging things so quickly. I realized, oh my goodness, this is what I’ve been looking for. This stuff actually changes people, and so I jumped in for the three-year training.
Wow, so that’s funny. You were very much involved in traditional therapy, it sounds like, and personal development, and yet you discovered Eidetics and found that it was significantly more successful in creating change?
Yeah, absolutely. When I was in social work school at Smith, I did my … I know you said you’re really interested in how people transform. Well, I did my thesis on how change happens. I was studying traditional and nontraditional of therapy, but also non-psychotherapy kinds of techniques. I got certified in lots of them. I really wanted to understand, how does a person change?
I knew it wasn’t just by understanding. That’s obviously not enough, because that doesn’t change our behavior enough. It doesn’t change how we feel enough. It doesn’t change how we quick react to certain situations that push our buttons. That’s why, when I heard Dr. Ahsen the second time, then I understood, this is, to my mind, real transformation.
Wow, that’s amazing, because I do … I am also very, very interested in the process of transformation, and one of the things I love about this show is talking to people who are further along, really, in their journey, and finding out … learning from them what they’ve discovered. Well, we are going to take a really short break, but before we go, I would love if you could tell people maybe where they could learn more about you and Eidetics, and they’ll get the chance to hear about it again later, but just quickly now.
Hot off the press is my just produced Spiritual Manifesto: The Ancient Secret to Boost your Spiritual Practice and your Life. I’m offering it to your listeners as my gift. You can … It’s a manifesto on how not to live a life half-lived. You can get it by going to myspiritualmanifesto.com.
Oh, that sounds great. I’m certainly interested in looking at it. Well, hang on, listeners, to come back, because we are going to get a taste of Eidetics and see what it really feels like to get out of our brains and learn how to use Eidetic Imagery to unlock your self-improvement potential. Hang on, and we’ll see you in a minute.
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