There is this huge misunderstanding among men who study attraction techniques or "PUA" tactics for attracting women, and it boils down to this question:
"What's more important for attracting women-being in the right STATE OF MIND, or being able to CALIBRATE properly?"
State of mind refers to being in that state where you are confident, optimistic, sexual, dominant, flirty, playful, relaxed-all that good stuff!
Calibration refers to being able to use all the various techniques of attraction and connection properly-in the right amounts, at the right time. So for example, calibration would include playfully teasing a woman when you first approach her, but not right in middle of you and her making love!
I give this obvious example to make my point clear, however calibration refers to far more nuanced and subtle things as well. It means knowing when a woman is actually testing you, and when she is just truly being playful and funny. It means knowing exactly when to stop playfully teasing and progress the interaction forward. It means knowing when you've screwed up and apologizing. It means knowing when to kiss, and when to pull back to create more sexual tension. It means all this and so much, much, MUCH more.
But the answer to what is more important all depends on the INDIVIDUAL.
Some men are NATURALLY great at calibrating; they have amazing social skills with ALL human beings, but when it comes to approaching women out of the blue, or even women in general who they want to attract, there is fear, anxiety, insecurity that FREEZES them up.
And because of THAT, they can't access their mental processors for CALIBRATING. Their brains are too busy being FROZEN because they have gone into FIGHT/FLIGHT/FREEZE as a result of the AMYGDALA in the brain being triggered by stress. The amygdala SHUTS down all the thinking and turns on the biology to prepare you for DANGER. As if a tiger is about to jump at you. And your brain doesn't think then-it just causes your body to react physically and your mind emotionally-and not in a productive way.
So for a guy like that, it's ALL about STATE OF MIND. If he can get into the right state of mind again, then he can naturally access his CALIBRATION SKILLS if he already has them.
For HIM, it is also true that calibration skills are SUPER IMPORTANT, but since he already has them, he doesn't have to worry-HE has to work on his STATE OF MIND.
But for other men, they may be totally OBLIVIOUS to fear or anxiety or giving a damn about what anyone thinks at all, to a point that this is actually a FAULT. They may be in a GREAT state of mind, but they lack the ability to truly engage in maximum PERSPECTIVE TAKING, and CALIBRATION requires MASTERING the skill of PERSPECTIVE TAKING!
Perspective taking means you can truly feel and sense what it is like to be ANOTHER person. So if you want to calibrate properly, you must be able to SENSE what it feels like for HER to be on the RECEIVING end of whatever you are saying and doing with her. This is a SKILL.
In fact, calibration is IMPOSSIBLE without highly developed PERSPECTIVE TAKING skills.
And what is so funny is that 99% of the guys who talk about being ALPHA completely UNDERESTIMATE the absolutely MASSIVE ROLE of perspective taking.
They think that being ALPHA means NOT caring what SHE is thinking and feeling, when in reality this stuff is EVERYTHING! They mistake the idea of "not seeking approval" with truly not CARING or FEELING what she is feeling or thinking.
How can you know if you are teasing too much and it's time to go into deeper rapport, if you can't actually FEEL and UNDERSTAND the interaction from HER perspective? After all, you aren't calibrating for yourself, you are calibrating to get HER!
It's also ironic how this stuff is SO important, and yet you can see how LITTLE most of the so called "experts" really know about perspective taking, and even worse, how little they actually INTUITIVELY AND EMOTIONALLY feel perspective taking, because they FILM WOMEN WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION and put them up on the internet!!!! Even the greatest ignoramus in the world could see that this is something that women would feel BAD about, but there is so horrifyingly LITTLE perspective taking ability or feeling in these guys that they go right ahead and do it anyway.
There is so much out there about being ALPHA that actually is NOT true. The TRUE alpha GETS the woman, and since perspective taking and the ability to truly FEEL what she is feeling, and the ability to feel and understand her perspective is INTEGRAL to your success in getting the woman, PERSPECTIVE TAKING is therefore an absolutely FUNDAMENTAL part of being a successful ALPHA-MALE.
And it's also important to understand how perspective taking and calibration go hand-in-hand. For example, if you are in a CONFIDENT state of mind, then you will not negatively DISTORT the things a woman says and does. This means you will be better at perspective taking accurately, and allow you to CALIBRATE your response perfectly.
In my video, I give the example of a mind-blowing woman who was at my place, and she mentioned how my TV is from the 1960s. If I was in a bad state of mind, a weak state of mind, an insecure state of mind, I would have felt threatened, insulted, or challenged, and I would have thought I had to "strike back" to get her down to size and off her pedestal. That would have RUINED the entire vibe and DESTROYED the attraction.
But the fact is, being in a great state of mind helped me understand she was being PLAYFUL. Not only could I tell from her tonality, but also because she HERSELF was calibrating her humor very INTELLIGENTLY.
The reason I say this is because one of the great ways to CALIBRATE a playful tease is to make sure that the thing you are saying cannot be interpreted seriously by anyone with common sense. So the fact is, there is NO REALISTIC WAY that she ACTUALLY thought the TV was from the 60s and that it was 57 years old!
That is PROOF she didn't REALLY mean it. (Notice that SHE was calibrating properly.)
And of course, even if she did mean it, it really doesn't matter much one way or another, as far as what the INTELLIGENT response should be, right?
So I did what I FELT like doing, based on my state of mind AND my understanding of the situation-I thought it was FUNNY, so I LAUGHED. It was the perfect response, and it allowed us both to laugh and move AHEAD, as neither one of us had TV in mind.
And we never ended up watching TV that night ;)
As you can see, I know what I'm talking about, and it's also why I love CUSTOMIZING my training for each man, because each man is DIFFERENT. I can tell exactly what YOU need, which is different from what the NEXT guy needs. Whether it is SKYROCKETING your state of mind with women, or whether it is perfecting your CALIBRATION SKILLS with women, or whether it is any of DOZENS of other skills, such as creating spontaneous humor, or whether it is a combination of these things, I will get you the success you want with women by CUSTOMIZING your training so that it's perfect for YOU.
I will assess your strengths and weakness and then create the PLAN for you, and then CARRY OUT THAT PLAN WITH YOU so that you QUICKLY see the success you want with women right before your eyes. My live coaching, including my bootcamps, are EXCLUSIVE. That means you get 100% of my time during bootcamp. The attention is not split between you and other students. This allows you to get the skills you need to attract women FASTER than anything else on EARTH.
I seriously suggest you sign up for my bootcamp NOW at:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/bootcamp.html
And I also seriously suggest you download ALL my digital programs for skyrocketing your success with women. Each and every single one of these programs will BLOW YOUR MIND with VITAL strategies and knowledge for success with women that you won't find anywhere else.
These programs give you the KNOWLEDGE I have gained over 15 YEARS in the field of helping men attract amazing women, and these programs also allow you to make MORE out of your live coaching with me because you are not coming in to my live coaching then as a total beginner.
Download these programs at:
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For a SKYPE or phone consultation with me, go here:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/consultations.html
I will ensure you DO attract the women you want, and if you are in a relationship, I can also help you solve any RELATIONSHIP issue you want FIXED.
Till next time,
Michael Marks
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
Saturday, February 4, 2017
How To Use Your Voice To Attract Women
I have some great news for you: Just using the power of your VOICE ALONE, can attract women to you INSTANTLY.
This is because your VOICE serves as a MIRROR to your INTERNAL state of mind, and reveals to a woman every single NUANCE and DETAIL of your state of mind. At the same time, when you CONTROL your voice to ENSURE it is sounding right, you then actually CONTROL your internal state as well.
This is because the MIND AND BODY are interconnected to the most mind-blowing degree. So, make sure your VOICE is projecting power, warmth, and masculinity, and she will FEEL these things OOZING from your every PORE and be all over you FAST.
Here's the video:
As you can see, I know what I'm talking about. I'm the REAL thing, no b.s., no gimmicks, no phony come on lines, no hypnosis, just REAL RAW NATURAL ATTRACTION of the most AMAZING women.
Sign up for my ATTRACTION BOOTCAMP here:
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Download my digital programs HERE:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/catalog.html
EVERY SINGLE ONE of these programs contains NEW AND IMPORTANT content for MAXIMUM SUCCESS in attracting amazing women, and you will not find this content anywhere else.
And for a SKYPE consultation session with me, go here:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/consultations.html
Have an amazing weekend!
Michael Marks
This is because your VOICE serves as a MIRROR to your INTERNAL state of mind, and reveals to a woman every single NUANCE and DETAIL of your state of mind. At the same time, when you CONTROL your voice to ENSURE it is sounding right, you then actually CONTROL your internal state as well.
This is because the MIND AND BODY are interconnected to the most mind-blowing degree. So, make sure your VOICE is projecting power, warmth, and masculinity, and she will FEEL these things OOZING from your every PORE and be all over you FAST.
Here's the video:
As you can see, I know what I'm talking about. I'm the REAL thing, no b.s., no gimmicks, no phony come on lines, no hypnosis, just REAL RAW NATURAL ATTRACTION of the most AMAZING women.
Sign up for my ATTRACTION BOOTCAMP here:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/bootcamp.html
Download my digital programs HERE:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/catalog.html
EVERY SINGLE ONE of these programs contains NEW AND IMPORTANT content for MAXIMUM SUCCESS in attracting amazing women, and you will not find this content anywhere else.
And for a SKYPE consultation session with me, go here:
https://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/consultations.html
Have an amazing weekend!
Michael Marks
Thursday, July 7, 2016
The Connection Between Your Mind And Body
Anyone who knows ANYTHING about attracting
women knows that INNER GAME is of absolutely
MASSIVE importance to your success.
Women can DETECT your state, your confidence,
your comfort with being sexual, in an INSTANT.
They size you up quickly on this, and they
do it unconsciously. They make up their minds,
instinctively, on whether they WANT to get
sexual with you or not, in the BLINK of any eye.
And throughout the years, I’ve known the
MIND and the BODY are connected in ways
that go far deeper than most people realize.
When you are in PEAK CONDITION physically,
your state of MIND goes THROUGH THE ROOF.
Your body actually releases CHEMICALS into
your bloodstream NATURALLY.
These chemicals give you a NATURAL HIGH that
make you feel GREAT.
They make you feel EMPOWERED to do ANYTHING.
And there is no negative SIDE effect!
Scientific studies have actually PROVEN that
the effect of proper exercise is the SAME
effect as taking DRUGS that put you in a
GREAT state of mind, but without the negative
consequences!
And the same studies have also shown that
going WITHOUT proper exercise is the same
as taking a DEPRESSANT and making you feel
like doing nothing but sleeping and moping
around.
And it gets even BETTER, because of something
else proper resistance training produces in
your body:
THE RELEASE OF TESTOSTERONE-THE CHEMICAL THAT
MAKES MEN MASCULINE!
Working out hard with WEIGHTS actually causes
your body to release TESTOSTERONE, which is
the very ESSENCE of what makes men MASCULINE
in the first place!
It’s what makes you feel turned on around a
woman, it’s what makes you aggressive, it’s
what builds muscle, and it’s what makes a
man’s voice manly.
There is NOTHING more arousing to a woman,
nothing that makes her want to be FEMININE
for a man, more than the POLARITY of her
femininity contrasted with a man’s MASCULINITY.
Testosterone is a HUGE PART of what makes
you A MAN, and PROPER weight-lifting actually
cause your body to produce MORE of it, and
totally NATURALLY without ANY side effects!
And so I decided to do create something very
special for you, and it's all at:
http://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/workout-.html
See you there!
Sincerely,
Michael Marks
women knows that INNER GAME is of absolutely
MASSIVE importance to your success.
Women can DETECT your state, your confidence,
your comfort with being sexual, in an INSTANT.
They size you up quickly on this, and they
do it unconsciously. They make up their minds,
instinctively, on whether they WANT to get
sexual with you or not, in the BLINK of any eye.
And throughout the years, I’ve known the
MIND and the BODY are connected in ways
that go far deeper than most people realize.
When you are in PEAK CONDITION physically,
your state of MIND goes THROUGH THE ROOF.
Your body actually releases CHEMICALS into
your bloodstream NATURALLY.
These chemicals give you a NATURAL HIGH that
make you feel GREAT.
They make you feel EMPOWERED to do ANYTHING.
And there is no negative SIDE effect!
Scientific studies have actually PROVEN that
the effect of proper exercise is the SAME
effect as taking DRUGS that put you in a
GREAT state of mind, but without the negative
consequences!
And the same studies have also shown that
going WITHOUT proper exercise is the same
as taking a DEPRESSANT and making you feel
like doing nothing but sleeping and moping
around.
And it gets even BETTER, because of something
else proper resistance training produces in
your body:
THE RELEASE OF TESTOSTERONE-THE CHEMICAL THAT
MAKES MEN MASCULINE!
Working out hard with WEIGHTS actually causes
your body to release TESTOSTERONE, which is
the very ESSENCE of what makes men MASCULINE
in the first place!
It’s what makes you feel turned on around a
woman, it’s what makes you aggressive, it’s
what builds muscle, and it’s what makes a
man’s voice manly.
There is NOTHING more arousing to a woman,
nothing that makes her want to be FEMININE
for a man, more than the POLARITY of her
femininity contrasted with a man’s MASCULINITY.
Testosterone is a HUGE PART of what makes
you A MAN, and PROPER weight-lifting actually
cause your body to produce MORE of it, and
totally NATURALLY without ANY side effects!
And so I decided to do create something very
special for you, and it's all at:
http://www.thedatingwizardreturns.com/workout-.html
See you there!
Sincerely,
Michael Marks
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
How The MIND Is The Most Powerful Key To Attracting Women
I have
THREE massively important things to let you
know
that have MONUMENTAL consequences
for
your success with women.
The
FIRST one is the power of BELIEF.
Most people
NEVER realize the FULL SIGNIFICANCE
of
this, and the EFFECT it has on women.
If you
feel a SHRED of self-consciousness, a SHRED
of
doubt, it SHOWS.
On the
other hand, if you REALLY DON’T GIVE
A
CARE, not in the NEGATIVE sense, (which
would
mean that you really DID care, and were
feeling
bitter) but that you really DIDN’T CARE
what
people THOUGHT, what the woman
THOUGHT,
well THAT SHOWS TOO.
The
GOOD kind of “not caring” comes from feeling
EMOTIONALLY
OVERFLOWING WITH EMPOWERMENT.
When
you feel this way INTERNALLY, you truly
DON’T
give a F what other people THINK, and
THIS
MAKES YOU SUPERHUMAN WHEN IT
COMES
TO ATTRACTION.
Because
you really are now FREE to INDULGE
in
WHATEVER YOU FEEL LIKE DOING OR SAYING.
SINCE
THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE TO YOU
INTERNALLY
NO MATTER HOW PEOPLE APPROVE
OR
DISAPPROVE.
This
makes you FUN.
This
makes you FLIRTY.
This
makes you SEXUAL.
This
makes you SHAKE THINGS UP.
If you
are doing OTHER stuff to try to
attract
women, like doing them favors,
buying
them things, and in general trying
to
play it SAFE, well then you need to
realize
that THAT IN ITSELF IS A HUGE
PART
OF THE PROBLEM.
And
you need to understand where that
behavior
stems from!!!!!!
It
stems from NOT wanting to be DISAPPROVED of.
This
is where BOOTCAMP with me is SO
MASSIVELY
AWESOME, because I will
RIP
APART THE STUFF INSIDE OF YOU
THAT
IS HOLDING YOU BACK FROM
MASSIVE
SUCCESS WITH WOMEN.
You
need to bring me your MOTIVATION.
And
then I will do the REST.
I will
UNLEASH the BEAST in you that makes
you
UNSTOPPABLE with women.
Because
you are there IN PERSON with me,
I can
actually FORCE this process to happen,
so
that you are ENSURED getting this DONE
once
and for ALL so that this whole part of your
life
is handled and you can enjoy your life
so
much INFINITELY more as a result.
A
woman CAN’T HELP but be attracted to a man
that
DEMONSTRATES this level of ROCK-SOLID
“NOT
GIVING AN F” in the way I described,
ESPECIALLY
when it is combined with sexual
flirtation.
You
have to be committed to this ALL THE WAY, though.
It’s a
bit similar to CHOPPING a block of wood with
your
hands in karate. You have to be thinking of
not
just “somewhat” breaking through some of the
blocks,
or even all the blocks, but rather WAY
PAST
THE BLOCKS!
THAT’S
how mentally committed you have to be.
PART
II – THE MIND IS WHERE IT REALLY PLAYS OUT
The
next thing I want to explain is that ULTIMATELY
the
only place that really matters in order for you to
attract
her is her MIND.
And
what goes on in her MIND regarding how she
perceives
you is NOT the same thing she actually
saw
and heard and felt when she interacted with you.
It
could be WORSE or it could be WAY BETTER.
What happens
in her mind regarding her
PERCEPTION
and FEELING about you continues to
EVOLVE
long after your first interaction with her is
OVER
and she is AWAY from you.
It is
during this time her mind starts to FILL IN
all
sorts of blanks, and if you set things up RIGHT
in the
first place in your interaction with her,
she
then starts to create a FANTASY for herself
with
YOU being the object of it.
This
is why a proper pick-up is about so much
more
than just TALKING.
It’s
about helping HER fantasy come true, and
you
can do this in a very honest way as well.
Think
about it- you LIKE it when a woman is
ATTRACTIVE,
right?
So why
not make the pick up something that makes
HER
feel not only attracted, but more and more
CRAZY
about you as time passes by, when she
is
AWAY from you???????????????????????
This
is a HUGE topic, but for ONE thing, keep
the
conversation as INTIMATE as possible,
and by
intimate, I mean the TONE, not necessarily
that you
are discussing sexual matters, but rather
that
there is a demeanor to your tonality and
body
language that is similar to the way a man
and a
woman who are lovers might speak to
each
other right before or after love-making.
It is
in the TONALITY.
The
EYES.
The
EXPRESSIONS.
The
more something LOOKS like a duck, SOUNDS
like a
duck, and FEELS like a duck, the more the
MIND
will BELIEVE it is a duck.
And so
the more you adopt all the congruent
traits
of THAT kind of situation and vibe,
the
more she will FEEL that with you and
take
that with her into her mind as she parts
from
you and continues to think of you and
what
will happen with her and you in the future.
And
what is so great about this is that the
PICTURE
she PAINTS in her mind is going
to be
so good, because SHE made it!
And
the more she LIKES it, the more she WANTS
it to
happen, and the more she wants it to happen,
the
more she is going to ROOT for you and she will
even
go so far as to TRY TO HELP YOU simply so
SHE
can enjoy what is HER fantasy!
PART
III: A SECRET BREAKTHROUGH
This
is something that I am not going to repeat very
likely
in the newsletter, because it is a one-time only
event
and it is going to cost more than most people
are
able to pay.
I
understand that. And before I go any further on this,
just
let me say that the following program is a
LUXURY.
My
other programs will ALSO get you success, so
you
don’t NEED to get the following program, it’s
just
that this following program is something I
need
to keep to a very LIMITED number of people.
I have
discovered and formulated a way to use
ONLINE
DATING and the power of the internet
combined
with my insights into attraction to truly
BLOW
AWAY anything else that exists out there
to
attract women online.
The
strategies involved in this approach to online
dating
are truly NOT AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE.
There
is nothing even CLOSE to it out there
in terms of how EFFECTIVE this is at getting
women to be HEAD OVER HEELS in LUST
with you.
Now,
there is a reason I’m not making this program
available
to the public at large.
I’ve
been burned before.
In the
seduction community, I was the guy who
first
instructed that things like NEGS will destroy
the
TRUST in a relationship and will cause men
to
actually LOSE the women they care about MOST.
This changed
the entire FIELD.
Today,
you barely EVER hear about the use of
that
strategy, ESPECIALLY not when it comes to
getting
a great woman for a great relationship.
Millions
of men around the world BENEFITED
from
that positive development, but not ONE
pick-up
artist or member of the seduction community
even
went so far as to ACKNOWLEDGE that this
was my
work.
Second,
the entire use of PICK UP LINES was
something
that I taught were NOT only not necessary,
but
that actually UNDERMINED a lot of mens’ success
because
it made men attribute their success to external
things
like lines rather than their own developed selves,
so the
pick-up lines were actually HARMING men’s
INNER
GAMES.
I was
preaching this and teaching this to my own students
even
during the HEIGHT of the pick-up lines and routines
craze,
and many of the most prominent pick-up artists at
the
time SWORE by using pick-up lines, going so far as
to
ADMONISH any students who did NOT use pick-up lines,
telling
the students to “STICK TO THE SCRIPT!”
Fast
forward a few years, and eventually EVERYONE
ON THE
PLANET came to accept what I was teaching
before
anyone else.
Did
even ONE pick-up artist or dating coach give me
ONE
OUNCE of credit for this?
Nope.
And I wasn’t
exactly a SECRET to them.
They
knew me, because I would post on a Forum known
as
FastSeduction then, the same place that Neil Strauss
was
first posting under his pseudonyms “Chris Powles” and
“Style”
when he was writing the book THE GAME.
In
fact, Neil even wrote to me there that he CAN’T
pick
up women WITHOUT using the routines and
pick-up
lines! When I wrote back the SOLUTION,
he
never replied to me.
And when
I spent YEARS writing about getting a great
girlfriend
and how that required a DIFFERENT approach
than
typical seduction advisors and pick up artists, no
one
gave me an OUNCE of credit.
David
DeAngelo, a famous name in this field,
came
out with a product that basically described
all of
my strategies, called MANTRANSFORMATION
long
AFTER I had written about my strategies,
and
these strategies were in many ways the
complete
OPPOSITE of the strategies that
many
of the people he promoted used to teach.
There
too, I got no credit for my true impact on the
community
of men world-wide.
So, I
would have to be a freaking IDIOT to
PUBLISH
yet ANOTHER incredible, original,
and
ground-breaking idea to the public at large,
only
so that somebody else who already has a
massive
distribution should COPY and then
rip me
off once again.
I
simply won’t do it.
I love
what I do. But I work hard at it, and I
don’t
like getting ripped off.
I
spent my years not on marketing but on
TAKING
THIS FIELD FURTHER FOR REAL.
I never built up "my list" of subscribers; instead
I poured all my energy into the actual LEARNING
of HOW TO ATTRACT WOMEN itself.
So,
what I am going to do is give ONE seminar
on
this MOST POWERFUL METHOD FOR
ATTRACTING
WOMEN ONLINE EVER.
It
will be ONE seminar, on ONE night, in
ONE
city.
And
then that’s IT.
There
will be no recordings allowed.
People
will be searched and possibly removed.
The
city it will be held in is still to be announced,
but it
will likely be in Toronto, New York, or
Miami,
and it will be held THIS SUMMER
in
July or August.
The
cost of this program is $10,000.
Seats
will be LIMITED.
If you
would like to RESERVE a seat, go here NOW:
A
confirmation of your reservation will be sent to you immediately,
and
full details of the event will be sent to you on July 5, 2014.
If you
can’t make this, relax.
You
can still attract women GUARANTEED using my other programs.
For
Bootcamp, go here:
For a
listing of all my other programs, go here:
Till
next time,
Michael
Marks
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