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Mind-Talk Software by Living Well Tools is a personal development tool. The program randomly displays positive affirmation statements within a small window on your computer screen and can be used to: - relax you
- motivate you
- program yourself for success
- change an attitude
- help you break bad habits
- help you engrain good habits
All self talk programs by LivingWellTools.com are based on the principle that what you believe, you will achieve. By repeatedly reading and/or speaking out loud positive affirmations, you train your mind to accept the statements. As a result, your behaviors and attitudes will begin to shift. MindTalk is a wonderful companion program to Self Talk audio programs by LivingWellTools.com.
OPENING MIND-TALK If you downloaded Mind-Talk from the Living Well Tools site, it will be in the form of a zipped Windows folder. Some versions of Windows XP can read this folder directly. Otherwise, you will need to unzip this folder. If you do not have the WinZIP utility, you may download a free evaluation copy at www.winzip.com.
If you received Mind-Talk as part of a Self-Talk CD program, copy the MindTalk folder to a location on your computer. The program will not run from the CD.
RUNNING MIND-TALK Once the MindTalk folder is saved on your computer, double click the folder to view it's contents. Now, double click the file titled 'MindTalk'. The program will display the pre-loaded affirmations that came with your program (see below).
GENERAL KEY COMMANDS Mind-Talk is a text based program that runs in a DOS window on any Microsoft Windows compatible system. It is not a mouse based program and therefore does not recognize mouse clicks. To perform a function, refer to the table below.
| Key | Function | | End | Quit the program | | Up Arrow | Increase the delay time between affirmations. Also used to move the cursor to the previous selection in a menu. | | Down Arrow | Decrease the delay time between affirmations. Also used to move the cursor to the next selection in a menu. | | (any key) | While the affirmations are displaying, you may press any key to display the next affirmation. After the program ends, striking any key will close the Mind-Talk window. | | Space bar | Select a topic and level. |
CUSTOMIZING THE AFFIRMATION STATEMENTS. Although this program comes with five files of pre-loaded content, it can be easily customized. The files containing the statements are:| FileName | Contains | | affirm.tx | Positive affirmation statements. | | relax.txt | Powerful suggestions to help you relax. This is a great topic to begin your self talk training sessions. | | focus.txt | Focus questions to put you in a positive mental state. | | visual.txt | Visualization affirmations | | quotes.txt | Success quotes. | | names.txt | Names of people, other than yourself. These names are randomly included in affirmations with the % character in the text. This is an optional feature of Mind-Talk. This file is ignored unless an affirmation contains the % character. | | mindtalk.aff | This is a file that is created from the selections you made during your session. It contains all the text that was selected. You may view this file with any text editor. |
Each affirmation within a file is assigned a level, from 1 to 5. Levels can be defined in any way that you would like. As an example, you may decide that level one affirmations will be stated in the first person (I), level two will be in second person (you) and level three in the third (Nancy is / Jim is), etc. Mind-Talk will display the levels in order, 1 to 5. Note that levels 1 through 4 will display only once. Level five affirmations will display continuously until the program is ended.
Alter these files to focus the statements on areas that are most important to you. The files may be edited with a simple text editor such as Notepad, which is included with all Windows based computers.
The program will use your name in the affirmations, making it personalized. The program will ask you for your first name at the beginning of the session. Insert the ^ character in any affirmation where you would like your name to appear.
You may incorporate the names of people you know in any affirmation. Insert the % character in any affirmation where you would like the name of someone else to appear. The program will randomly select a name from the names.txt file.
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