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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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.

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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

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

http://www.getsmartseries.com articles, books, and resources to live wisely

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Note:  The article was originally posted on www.shiftinaction.com

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. 

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

http://www.getsmartseries.com articles, books, and resources to live wisely

See me on http://www.youtube.com/brightmichelle

Follow me on http://www.twitter.com/brightmichelle

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Thoughts to Think and Atlanta Become a Divine Human Event

I am traveling this week in the Southeastern United States, and enjoying the many signs of spring, with beautiful flowers blooming everywhere....just got finished with a motivational weekend seminar and now headed to lead the Become a Divine Human seminars.

Wanted to make sure to send you a quick shot of inspiration and give you the details of the Atlanta Event, happening this Saturday, April 5 from 1-4p.m. at Atlanta Unity
4146 Chamblee Dunwoody Road. Unity:(770) 455-8920
To pre-register, please email me.

Here is one of my favorite thoughts on the importance of our thoughts.
It is a quote by Henry Van Dyke:

Thoughts Are Things

I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate.

What is your dominant thought about the area of life that is giving you the most challenge? Think about it, write it down, and then decide if that thought is serving you or not.

If not, feel free to replace that thought with one that is more empowering to you. When you learn to change your thoughts, your life starts giving you more of what you want.

Learn a lot more about how powerful you really are at my event, this Saturday in Atlanta, GA and Sunday (in Louisville, KY).
I hope to see you there…..the power of face to face learning is critical to your personal transformation. Remember to win at the game of life, you must apply what you know.

In Light, Dr. Michelle Casto
The Soul Coach, Speaker, Author, and Philosopher