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:

http://www.brightlightcoach.com

http://www.smartlifechanges.com
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Michelle's Prayer:

 

Michelle's Prayer 8/2/08 (reprinted from shiftinaction.com)

This came to me today while I was lying in the sunshine....

Dear God,

Hear my prayer.

Heal me. Teach Me. Guide Me.

Heal my mind of all negative and irrational thoughts.
Heal my eyes so I can see only goodness and higher potential.
Heal my ears so I can hear only positivity and joy,
Heal my heart so I can only feel love and compassion.
Heal my body so it attracts only like-minded and soul-centered human beings.
Heal my soul of any generational beliefs or programs of separation and anxiety.

Heal this planet, oh lord, of narcissism sexism, hatred, jealousy, greed, and unconscious consumption.

Allow me to play a part in the evolution of consciousness.
Teach me what I most need to know and understand about being a being of Light.
Teach me to activate myself and others into inspired action.

Guide me, God/Goddess, to whom I can help and to where I can do the most good.

May my will be aligned with your will.
As the light of the U that I am, I bless the world and claim Success, Happiness, & Righteousness.

So be this now and eternally.

Response from Charles: 

Everything you've been inspired to pray, is already prepared for you to receive at an appointed time in your genetic development.

This is an unrealized truth because we rarely consider the linear path of our inner desire to be connected to a larger whole, and the outer part of us that is drawing our awareness and will bring our consciousness back to wholeness.

I really hope you remember this prayer you've poetically crystallized so you are prepared to witness the transformation you've requested.
It's very important that you become aware of yourself becoming what you've prayed for Michelle.
That is what "actualization by activation" is, okay?

I don't remember his name but, one the speakers in "what The Bleep Do We Know?" mentioned this process a couple of times.
We ask, and then observe opportunities to become.
And always express gratitude when you see something different about you.

If you ever feel the need to modify such a wonderful request for wholeness and unity with the invisible creator of all that is visible...

Add to your prayer, "show me how you..." or, "show me the way to..." or "open my understanding of...", "so that I may comfort others, with the comfort by which I myself have been comforted."

When ever I've requested any knowledge, wisdom, insight or understanding with this sincere intention...I've never been disappointed.

So, despite what we've erroneously been taught to believe for generations about life, living and successful survival:
Humanity's true intent for seeking Truth is to know Joy...
Our true intent for seeking Joy is to know Love...
Our true intent for seeking Love is to know we are One in the eternal reality.

That's why any and all of life's difficulties, disturbances, and dangers are so we will get to know the best of our better intentions.

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
or visit any other of her life-transforming websites: http://www.brightlightcoach.com  to help you shine more brightly in all dimensions of your life.

http://www.smartlifechanges.com to transform any area of your life NOW

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It's Time To Celebrate Your Career--Career Development is Turning 100

Celebrate Your Career: 100 years and Counting!

November is National Career Development Month and not only that, we in the field of career guidance are celebrating 100 years of service.

This year’s theme is Inspire Your Career—Develop Your Dreams
In 1908, Frank Parsons established the first vocational guidance clinic and outlined the basic principals of vocational guidance, cementing him as the founding father of vocational psychology.

Since then, millions of people have performed millions of jobs.

Obviously our concept of work has changed quite a bit, and continues to evolve at an accelerated rate, with the advent of internet, and especially web 2.0 and 3.0 platforms. It is now a common idea that not only work can be fun, it IS SUPPOSED to be FUN.

For me, my own career started out working in the higher educational setting. In 1999, I decided to become self-employed and the rest, they say, is history. My own career has many twists, turns, and surprises, as I am sure yours has too.

One of my favorite things to discuss is how people got into what they are doing.

Feel free to share your story here.
One of my goals is to help people follow their bliss, fulfill a greater purpose, and to leave the world a little better because they were here. So in celebration, I am inviting you to join me for 5 special events:
1). Take my free Is Your Spirit Working Quiz to find out how much spirit you are bringing to your current work situation: http://www.smartcareerchanges.com/spirit-working.html

2). Listen in as Ryan Pearson of the Empower hour radio Show interviews me this Sunday, November 9 from 7-8 central time (646) 200-4905Topic: Discover Your Divine Life Purpose: How to Make the Shift So You Can Sing the Song in Your Soul

3). Check out my newly released book, Get Your Career on the Fast Track at a Friends only discount: http://www.smartcareerchanges.com/career-fast-track.html(receive bonuses worth hundreds of dollars)

4). Request your 11 minute Career Check up Coaching Call with Me (limit to the first 11 people to connect with me)

5). Jump Start Your Career with a Free package including an mp3, the 7 Steps to a Smart Career Change, and the Presence Process diagram: http:www.smartcareerchanges.com

Additionally, I would love to hear how your own career has progressed and what you have learned along your journey.

COACHING QUESTIONS:Do You Absolutely LOVE what you do with a Passion?
Would you do what you are doing even if you did not get paid?
If yes, Celebrate!
If no, Educate.

So here’s to you, the work you do now, and the work you will do in the future.
Be sure to give yourself a big pat on the back for a job well done and do something nice to reward yourself!

May you be blessed with abundance, joy, and happiness.
Michelle L .Casto
The Soul Coach

Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran

At the essence of any great career is love and passion—it is literally a labor of love. Michelle L. Casto