Remember that even if you're not a Growth Zone member, you can still create an account and save your purchases in case you lose your downloads at any time. And here are July's brand new downloads for you:

1) Monday morning blues - start your week upbeat
2) Be debt free - gain the no debt mindset
3) Kids stop thumb sucking - because sucking sucks
4) Perfect pitch trainer - train your musical brain
5) Supercharged sight - really relish what you see

Plus:
6) Life and soul of the party - upgraded, new and improved

Mark Tyrrell Co-founder Follow me on Twitter Hi How well do you persuade and motivate other people? If we want someone, say, to stop smoking, should we try and scare them out of their cough inducing habit or focus on the future rewards of getting their lungs back? Or maybe a bit of carrot and stick? This month's free audio insight How to use positive language to encourage and motivate will show you how to frame ideas so people will act on them. People who are fun to be with, who put others at their ease and add sparkle to any occasion are also good at 'persuading'. They infectiously influence people around them to feel great, laugh and enjoy themselves. We've just improved and upgraded Life and soul of the party. So if you fancy upping your invites, then give it a go! Brand new this month we have the latest in our kids' hypnosis series Kids stop thumb sucking as well as the wonderful new (and melodious) Perfect pitch trainer for all those budding, and even seasoned, musicians. We make sure that all our sessions are not only easy on the ear and deeply refreshing but also encompass sound, science-backed understanding of how people feel, think, behave and act. Hypnosis without sound psychology behind it is like a jet without an engine. Looks impressive, but won't take you very far. Next in Downloads Unwrapped I'll let you have a sense of some of the ideas, psychology and inspiration that went into the making of three of this months hypnosis downloads. All the best, Mark

Downloads Unwrapped can now be found on Mark's blog (to get sneak previews of new downloads, subscribe by email or rss over at the blog). You can also subscribe to the podcast using iTunes.

Mark's Tip for the Top

For me it has to be this last one - Supercharge your sight as I love using hypnosis to amplify my own appreciation of the beauty all around me.

New Audio Insight

This free audio session How to use positive language to encourage and motivate talks about how we are affected by the positive and negative qualities of the language that is used to influence us and how you can use this understanding for your own and others' benefit.
Listen to this audio insight here

Note

1. Researchers led by Dr van Elst in Freiburg measured electrical responses to gauge the activity of the retina in groups of depressed and non-depressed individuals. The retina, at the back of the eye, contains the sensitive cells that turn light signals into nerve impulses which, when interpreted by the brain, make it possible to see. Depressed patients were found to have dramatically lower retinal contrast 'gain' than the volunteers who were not suffering from depression. It made no difference whether or not they were receiving antidepressant medication. There was also a significant correlation between the level of contrast gain and the severity of their symptoms. Patients who were most severely depressed had the lowest retinal responses.

   The pattern was so consistent it was possible to distinguish highly depressed patients from healthy volunteers simply by looking at the test results. With further work, 'electro-retinogram' tests could provide a better way of assessing a patient's mood than simply asking: "How do you feel?" the scientists say.

   Dr van Elst said: "This method could turn out to be a valuable tool to objectively measure the subjective state of depression, having far-reaching implications for research as well as clinical diagnosis of and therapy for depression."

   This research was published in the Journal Biological Psychiatry in 2010.

MP3 Competition Winners

To date, we have given away over 200 MP3 players and 28 iPod Nanos loaded with the download suggested by the winner. You can see the latest winners below. Enter today and get an extra chance to win an iPod Nano.

Winner of an iPod Nano

This month we have 1 winner for the iPod Nano

• Szymon Kaczmarek from Śrem, Poland who suggested No Excuses - congratulations Szymon!

Winner of an iPod Shuffle

• Tanja Gardner from Mt Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand who suggested both All or Nothing Thinking and Exercise Addiction
• Renee Lascala from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States who suggested News Addiction