Become a Seeker Who Also Finds

by Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D.

So you have read the books, watched the movies, and spent thousands on products that are supposed to help you finally attract what you want in life.

You have shelves of information, right?
In fact, I bet some of those very resources remain unopened and still in the package.

The real question is Do your results match your investment of time, money and energy?

Not so much?

You are not alone, my friend.
I have been there and so have many of my clients.
They too were seekers who were on a continual search for “the secret.”

Lovers of knowledge must seek, that is natural.
However we must also FIND.

Let me use a simple analogy.
If you are making a cake and forget the eggs, your cake will not turn out the way you want it to, it may not even taste good at all!
Just like with personal development, you must have all the necessary ingredients to experience a Fulfilling Life.

If your life is not happy and successful (the way you envision it), an ingredient is missing.

Let’s see what you have so far.

You have a secret dream of being someone bigger, brighter, happier, and more loving.
You want to contribute your gifts and talents to the world.
You want to liberate yourself from a mundane existence, the prison of working for not-so enlightened people, barely scraping by financially, and running low on energy.
You want to help yourself so you can help others.
You can imagine the happiness, love, and success in your mind’s eye, but still see the same old reality in your face.

And still you persist.
You absorb wisdom every day and take time to self-reflect, learn, and grow your soul.
You are gaining new insights.
You are seeing new opportunities.
You are meeting like-minded people.
You are journaling your heart out.

Exhaustion is creeping in.
You wonder: Will I ever get there?!

Not if a critical ingredient is missing.

Something that would bring everything together for you.
Something to help you stay aligned with your BIG VISION.
Something to help you fight off the demons of doubt and fear.
Something to help you put the final pieces of your success puzzle together.

If you are spiritually smart, you know it is not some Thing at all.
You realize you have gone as far as you can on this journey alone.
It is time to enlist a guide.
It is time to admit it: I need help.

Yes, you are only human and need someone.

Someone who believes in you.
Someone to keep you on the right track.
Someone to walk with you as you progress towards your dream.
Someone who has “been there, done that.”

Enter the coach.
Ara Parasheghian once said, A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. A professional coach can help you shift from seeker to finder, from confused to confidence, from lost to found.

Do yourself a favor, go to the telephone, call a Coach, and get the support you need to succeed!

Why not try a SOUL Activation session w/ me?

How Does Your Mind Create? by Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D.

 

Knowing how your mind works is a great advantage in the modern world

especially since it creates your reality.  

Whether it is a happy and successful reality is up to you.  

Successful (or effective) people know their own minds and recognize the relationship between their thinking and their reality. 

 

They make spiritually smart decisions that are in alignment with a higher power source.

Successful people look within for guidance.

Unsuccessful (or ineffective) people have no clue what they are thinking and see no relationship between their thoughts and their reality.  They make unconscious decisions that are disconnected from a higher power.  Unsuccessful people look to other people for guidance. 

A major problem in the world today is that human beings have not developed their thinking skills. 

Here's a thought to ponder (I love brain twisters).

Just because you have a thought does not mean you are thinking!

Thoughts fly through our heads all day long (to the tune of about 65,000 a day, and 95% of those are thoughts we have already thought, and those are negative and limiting). 

In this mode, we are on autopilot and going nowhere fast, circling the same territory again and again.

Thinking involves a conscious and deliberate act to monitor and choose the thoughts you want to think.

It involves asking yourself questions so you can gain insight and revelation.  It is kind of like conscious dialoguing with yourself and a higher power.

It's been said many times in the field of self-help that we become what we think about all day long.  So when we allow unconscious and negative thoughts to run through our minds all day long, guess what our reality is like?! 

Not a pretty picture. 

Speaking of pictures, are you aware that your brain thinks in images?

Let me demonstrate....

If I were to say--- think of a horse. 

You would think of a horse

If I were to say--- think of a purple horse.                      

You would think of a purple horse.

 

 

If I would say--- DON'T think of a horse.

You would still think of a horse.

See what I mean!

So what are you telling yourself-what to do or what not to do?

Follow me..

If you are saying to yourself:

Don't make a mistake.

Your subconscious cannot see "don't" so it "sees" mistake and that is what you get. 

In fact, research shows the brain cannot "compute" words like no, don't can't, not and yet we use them all the time.

(To do your own research, keep a log of the number of times you and those around you use these words in our daily conversations!)  You will be astonished.

I was--- especially when I did my job on the junior high campus:  "Don't run. Don't talk."  "No talking. "
Ha. The kids do just the opposite! 

 To grow new neural pathways in your brain,  you may want to think/say something like this:

I am completely focused and get my work done ahead of schedule.

Now your brain can go to work on how to make that happen.      

To change results/reality, you will need to think empowering thoughts many times so it can sink in!

So if you are really interested in learning to overcome your "default thinking mode" and move into enlightened thinking mode, consider getting a copy of my Dissertation called the Science of Success..it will save you thousands of hours of research on the power of the brain, why coaching works, and everything you need to know in order to be more successful and happy. 

You know that all great thinkers have great teachers.

I have studied the BRAIN and I can help you understand yours and train it to work for you and not against you.  Watch your email for two new programs you may want to upgrade your brain (and your life)  this summer. 

Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D., is known at the Soul Coach, because she helps with people get in touch with the work that ignites their fire, and empowers them to shine their bright light in the world. As an inspirational speaker and author, she teaches people how to gain a higher understanding of themselves and uses a unique soul-centered and integrative process that taps into their passion, purpose, and power.  Her latest book, Get Your Career on the Fast Track:  A Navigational Guide for the Modern Manager, is a comprehensive and interactive book that covers career management from A=Z.  Sign up for your free jump start your career change package at http://www.smartcareerchanges.com or visit any of her life-transforming websites:

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The Age of the Soul & The Purpose of You By Michelle L. Casto

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We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us. --- Raymond Barker

We are undergoing an alchemical transformation of what it means to be human.

Traditionally, we have held two world views:  material and mystical.   I believe we will be moving beyond a dualistic world view to a holistic worldview where everything---light, dark, material and mystical unify and harmonize.

A Course in Miracles teaches that welfare of the world depends on you learning.  Learning what you might ask?  Learning to live a higher life and learning to actualize your humanity and mature into your divinity. 

The time for spiritual education is here. We can no longer cast a blind eye to the ills, wrongs, and general ignorance of our current reality.  It is time for an end of the ego and the rise of the Soul.

Many prophecies about the Shift of Consciousness that is occurring between now and 2012 have emerged from ancient traditions of the Mayans, Hopi, Zulu. With this ending of a cycle comes a sense of loss and the opportunity for massive expansion.

A new consciousness is being birthed on the planet, I call it the Age of the Soul, because inner lights are being awakened and activated, causing humanity to grow its angel wings.   We are blessed with the very real opportunity to ascend higher up the evolutionary scale, where we can experience our own version of heaven on earth.

You have everything you need to be a pioneer in this new age of practical spirituality.   The good news is that the divine you is not something you need to create. God already did that. The divine you is the light and love that you are. Your job is to clear the blockages so you can shine bright.  

The New energy arriving on planet Earth requires a new and upgraded human being, one in sync with their soul's purpose and strong in loving presence, a divine human.

Now more than ever we are called to trust our inner knowing and make spiritually smart life decisions.

We live in an era that is inspiring souls to awaken and take action. 

Let everyone get in their destined place.   It's time to for us to unite and create a  bright new reality.  This work requires the heart, hands, and intentions of as many people as possible.  We will need to create new solutions to modern-day problems, and be called upon to work together collaboratively. 

First let us understand what the soul is.  As C.S. Lewis so eloquently puts it: 

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul.  You have a body."   The soul is the spiritual essence behind your physical form.   It is eternal, unlimited, and connected to Infinite Intelligence.  It knows who we are, why we are here, and where we are going.

Thus it is no accident that You are here on Earth at this time of the Great Shift in Consciousness (or the fact that you are reading this).

The divine's plan for salvation includes you.  
You are at a choice point. 
Will you choose to ascend or remain stagnant? 

Your answer to this question may reveal how ready you are to show up and shine:

What do you think when you think." if others saw the real me, they would ?"

Marianne Williamson says, "They would be blinded by my light!"
When we can see ourselves as divine, light and love filled beings with wisdom to share, gifts to bring, then we can see it in others.

 

So it's the divine time for YOU to:

1. Reclaim your divine inheritance  
2. Accept that you are anointed and appointed to do great things.
3. Take action on your desires and dreams.
4. Shine your bright light.

Our greatest opportunity will be to stand in our true power and glory-to radiate our light for all to see, no more turning it down so others won't feel uncomfortable or holding back our power and presence.  

In this great awakening, Truth will be revealed and most especially masks will be removed. Games and manipulations will be seen for what they are and the reign of the ego will end.

Socrates said that the purpose of life is the enlightenment of the soul vs the pursuit of materialism that leads to darkness.   Since much of our history has been about the accumulation of things, it seems natural that in this Age of Soul,  for a deep change to occur in where and how we find our happiness.

I hold the belief that the curriculum for our enlightenment has been set by our soul and that LIFE gives us the opportunities to collect the keys to our eternal wisdom. 

In life, we experience 3 major challenges: 
Power-oriented-making a stand/being courageous
Love---expressing and receiving love
Intellect---developing our mind and creating things.

Using the keys to the kingdom, we can grow into our expanded self & fulfill our divine destiny in each of these areas and more.     

3 Keys to the Kingdom

Key 1:  Conscious Learning Learning is the connection for your soul's evolution
Knowing yourself is understanding both your personality and your divinity and creating a life that harmonizes with both aspects of your Self.
Along the way, you may learn lessons, however, the main thing is to learn to be a conscious creator and masterfully apply the skills of cognition and choice to manifest a reality that you adore.

Key 2:  Soul Purpose
To discover and live one's soul purpose is essential to your well being.  
Look within at your desires, dreams, aspirations, and longings that you carry in your heart of hearts.
Ask not, Can I do it?  But Will I enjoy it? 
Ask not, What can I get, Ask, What Can I give?

Fulfilling your purpose means creating a pathway to your soul's highest happiness and inner fulfillment, which can be expressed in 3 ways-universal purpose, personal purpose, and professional purpose.
(To discover your Soul's Purpose:  http://www.brightlightcoach.com/life-purpose.html)

Key 3:  Conscious Creation
Understanding the idea that thoughts are things is the first step to re-creating your reality.   Harnessing the laws of the universe such as law of attraction, law of action, law of reciprocity, law of intention, etc will make this effortless.
The first and most important step is to make the decision to be happy and successful. Keep in mind,  the brain does not make the human, the human makes the brain by what he thinks about, focuses on, and what he allows to influence his thinking.

A classic explanation of all this comes from the book, As a Man Thinketh   by James Allen:

"Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this - that man is the master of thought, the molder of character, and maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny."

Here is how it works: As you begin to know yourself, you begin to master yourself. As you begin to master yourself, you begin to recreate your reality based on your soul's longings and desires

Here is an Affirmation to empower you:

I absolutely know and experience my  brilliant and illuminated mind.
Light energy from heaven guides my path and from here my genius shines brightly.

Welcome to the Age of the Soul, you beautiful Soul, You.

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Michelle L. Casto is known as The Soul Diva.  Diva in Sanskrit means "shining, light of God."  Michelle knows there is a divine spark within every human being that longs to fully ignited and expressed.  She works with people who are unsure about the next best step to take in life and helps them by building a bridge to their inner self and then uses that connection to tap into the wisdom of their own souls.  With these foundations in place, she coaches them through all of life's changes and decisions. Through a revolutionary process called soul excavation, she teaches the 6 Life Mastery Lessons. (Shine, Integrate, Dance, Communicate, Seek, Decide)

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Possible Answer to What is the Shift?

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I love how the Divine speaks to me.  I had several people ask me, what is this SHIFT I keep  hearing about.

I opened a book and received insight. This is an excerpt from Marianne Williamson, a luminary, and someone I have had the pleasure to spend a little time with personally, who I believe is such a blessing to us all.

This comes from her 1994 book Illuminata, and is in the very beginning in the chapter on Renaissance:

The antidote for what is fundamentally wrong is the cultivation of what is fundamentally right.

Should we choose to expand who we are on a fundamental level, new structures will replace the casualties of premillenial disintegration, and the next twenty years will usher in an age of light more dazzling than the world has ever known.

..Ultimately, the choice to love each other is the only choice for a survivable future. The meek shall inherit the earth because everyone else will have died upon their swords.

.The opening of the heart is an awesome personal politic, providing us with an internal strength greater than any worldly power.

As we receive God's love and impart it to others, we are given the power to repair the world. We have begun to recognize that our individual minds create our collective realities , and we are taking more responsibility for the world by taking more seriously our individual contributions to it.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

We are learning, loving, lighting, shifting, being, and maturing into our TRUE SELVES.

MW says "We are looking not so much for more ground to conquer, but for a truer ground of being on which to stand inside ourselves. The most positive breakthroughs of our times are internal.

This history of the world is the history of control.... seizing someone's soul is the ultimate form of control, because without soul we are without love. Without our love, we are without our power."

So in my estimation, when each of us does what we each are called to do, in my case, free people's souls from any imaginary form of imprisonment, then all those soul seeds start sprouting, and when the time is ripe, a new earth is born.

Be the change, says Gandhi.
When we change, the world changes. So Be this.

Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D.  is known as the Soul Coach, because she helps people get in touch with the work that ignites their inner fire, and empowers them to shine their bright light in  the world.  As an inspirational speaker and author, she teaches people how to gain a higher understanding of themselves, and uses a unique Soul-Centered and Integrative process that taps into their passion, purpose, and power. Her latest book, Get Your Career on the Fast Track:  A Navigational Guide for the Modern Manager is a comprehensive and interactive book that covers career management from A-Z. 

Enroll in the Career Change Academy: http://www.smartcareerchanges.com

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The Day I Decided a Job Was Too Small for My Soul

 

  by Michelle L. Casto, Ph.D

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For a few years, I desperately tried to fit a square peg in a round hole in the corporate environment.
And guess what, it was not pretty.
During that time, I thought there was something wrong with me because I had all the worldly success symbols--- college degrees, a good job with a big name company, benefits, etc, and yet;
I was miserable.

In fact, the whole situation was making me sick. 

The culture was toxic---politics and favorites reigned supreme.  I am sure you know what I am talking about.

I just about burned myself out in my twenties, just going to work, coming home, falling into bed, and doing it all again day after day.  I especially resented how my time was dictated, especially my days off.  

I found out later that many organizations, just like families, are highly dysfunctional and those who know how to play the game get rewarded, while those with integrity and heart, are seen as threats to the system (aka status quo).

I once got reprimanded for being too passionate!

I told the supervisor, "I thought I was supposed to care about my job and those that I serve!"
I knew I was in trouble when I kept having dreams about work that would wake me in the middle of the night!

The real deal breaker, though, was when my personal values conflicted with the organization's values---they seemed willing to do just about anything to make a buck. 

For me, the typical 9-5 work situation felt more like a self-created prison.

I held the belief then and certainly do now, that work not only could be fun, it was supposed to be fun. I knew I had to find something else or I was going to be unhappy for a really long time---like my whole life.

I decided very early on in my career that I was not going to find what I was looking for in a traditional work environment. 

One day, I woke up and just said, Today I choose to be happy. I Quit my job and have not looked back since.

Gratefully, I followed my inner guidance and was led to Life Coaching. Over the course of these years, I have had many wonderful mentors and coaches, and all have helped me grow in different ways.
That was over 15 years ago, and Coaching is the best job on the planet for me because I get to help people clarify and claim their dreams. And then we work together in partnership as those dreams become their new reality.

Of course, being self-employed also has its good days and bad days, positives and negatives. However, I would not my freedom for any amount of money in the world.

Everyday I wake up and thank God for the work that I do, the people I work with, and the lifestyle it affords me. You can have the same experience just by being willing to learn a new way of life.

If you would like to go from career to entrepreneur, visit http://www.smartcareerchanges.com/career-fast-track.html

Michelle L. Casto is known as the Soul Diva Coach (Diva is Sanskrit for shining light of the divine) Speaker, and Author of the Get Smart! LearningBook Series.  Her coaching practice is Brightlight Coaching; she helps people come up with bright ideas for their life and empowers them to freely shine their bright light to the world.  She loves working with women to discover their inner Business Goddess.

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Fear Not! Your Future is Exciting and Bright

Fear Not! Your Future is Exciting and Bright
Michelle L. Casto

Recently I publicly admitted that I had been afraid of making technical changes, and how once I did make those changes, how amazed I was at the sheer amount of energy this freed up in me. I compared the old Michelle with that of a fraidy cat, and the new Michelle with a roaring lioness.
It is true, I feel like I can do anything now.

I had not realized how much of my personal power I was giving away to my fear. Now I have come to understand fear at a greater level. I see that fear is really just a lack of understanding. Because once I understood the process and what needed to be done, it was like, hey, no problem, I can do that!

I have seen this time and again with my coaching clients too, they come to me at first timid and lacking self- confidence, and after just a couple of sessions, they get activated, at their soul level. That is the power of soul coaching, when we connect on that deep soul to soul connection, something gets sparked within you that allows you to be and do more. I cannot really explain what happens, you really just have to experience for yourself, to feel the powerful energy exchange that happens between us.

And then, like a miracle, things start shifting and moving in your favor, and things start lining up, showing you the next best step to take. I wish I could take all the credit, but I have to tell you, it is because when YOU are willing to do your inner work, everything just starts transforming right before your very eyes.

There is a lot of fear tv and media out there. I do not personally watch, read or listen to it, but on occasion I will over hear others talking about the latest thing to be afraid of. If you ask me it is all a ploy to keep human beings out of their power so we can be controlled by a ego-dominated system that thrives on greed. (how is that for a soap box)

There is nothing to fear. There will always be jobs, there will always be loss of jobs, because there is a balance to everything. However, you can put yourself in a better position to handle the coming changes and challenges of the new earth, by obtaining self-knowledge and applying spiritual techniques to your real life challenges.

We live in a belief driven universe.
Whatever you believe to be true comes true. PERIOD. End of Sentence.

To live a truly abundant and happy life requires an investment of time, money and energy.
You can change you beliefs about money any time you want, since that is one of the more popular “reasons” people opt out of personal growth programs.

Why not choose to believe—that money is abundant and comes to me before I even need it. Money is energy and freely flows to me Now.

Work with me and we can determine if your beliefs are serving you or not and replace them with ones that help you to recreate your reality.

Jared, one of my past clients had this to say about our work together:
Michelle helped me through a career change that would not have happened without her collaborative and professional assistance and encouragement. Michelle makes rather challenging career changes happen with great ease because her care and concern about the individual. She makes milestones like finding and aligning passions possible. Her gentle enthusiasm is priceless.

So what is your future going to be like?

There is a quote by Victor Hugo that sums this up:
"The future has several names. For the weak, it is Impossible. For the faint hearted, it is Unknown. For the thoughtful & valiant, it is Ideal."

You can create an exciting and bright future, despite what THEY say.
When you believe, it will be.
In light, Michelle