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 pur ple 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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Possible Answer to What is the Shift?
I love how the Divine speaks to me. I had several people ask me, what is this SHIFT I keep he aring 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. 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. See me on http://www.youtube.com/brightmichelle Friend me on Facebook Note: The article was originally posted on www.shiftinaction.com Labels: attraction, awake, awakening, aware, beliefs, bright light, change personal evolution, changes, choice, choices, confidence, consciousness, create reality, creativity, decision, decisions, destiny, divine human, divine life, divine love, divine mind, divine wisdom, ego, empowers, enlightenment, essence, happiness, higher power, inner knowing, intuition, life purpose, life's work, miracles, personal coaching, prosperity, reality creation, relationships, shift, soul coach, soul connections, spiritual awakening, spiritual coaching, spiritual development, spiritual foundation, spiritual purpose, spiritual resources, spirituality, success, thinking, thoughts, transformation, wake up calls
The following article is by Jim Rohn and was published in his weekly ezine.
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation. And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice. To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all. Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can? Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings. Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become. To read previous articles, quotes, and Q and A from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine Archives, or to get a complete listing of Jim Rohn's books, audios, videos and seminar schedule, or to place an order; please go to: http://www.jimrohn.com ***If you are ready to make a NEW CHOICE, then visit http://www.brightlightcoach.com/everyday-enlightenment-store.html
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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. 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. See me on http://www.youtube.com/brightmichelle Friend me on Facebook J Labels: bright light, career, career change, career coach, career development, career transition, change personal evolution, changes, choice, choices, michelle casto, self improvement, self-help, thinking, thoughts
The 11 Reasons Why We Do What We Do and Do not Do What We Could Do
1. Because of the Personal Operating System (POS) we use.
What is your POS? Does it need an upgrade?
2. Because of the Personal Environment Surrounding Us
You are most like the 5 books you last read, 5 people you spend the most time with, and the 5 places you consistently live and/or travel.
3. Because We Dont Know What We Dont Know
What dont you know that would be wise to know? What do you want to get smart about?
4. Because of Our Degree of Self-Awareness
You do what you can sense. What are you not sensing that would help you know yourself more intimately?
5. Because of What We Believe To Be True
Truth is evolving very quickly. Can you keep up?
6. Because of Our Humanity
You inherited biological and sociological influences such as genes, personality, ego, past, roles, and responsibilities.
7. Because of Our Society
You were born into a culture that often defines who you are and what you should do.
8. Because of the Ideas that Determine Our Thinking
New ideas lead to change. What new ideas can you search out?
9. Because of the Strength of Our Support Team
You need quality friends, coaches, mentors, and people in your life to be your best.
10. Because of Our Level of Openness and Responsiveness
The more open-minded you are and responsive to incoming stimuli, the more adaptable you become.
11. Because We Either Ignore or Follow Our Intuition
If you follow your intuition, you are guided in the direction most joyful to your soul.
(This list was inspired by the Father of Coaching, Thomas Leonard).Brightly, Dr. MichelleLabels: cognition, intelligence, intuition, smart, social conditioning, subconscious programming, thinking
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