My love of personal development started about 25 years ago. I found myself drawn to self help books and anything that had the word psychology in it. One of the first books that changed my life was called 'Hypnothink' which was basically about how to use our own minds and change our thinking to create our reality. This book was the early beginnings of my interest in what we now know as brain plasticity. Scientist I am not, just an interested soul who is passionate about making better choices when I recognise I need to. We now know that new neural pathways and connections can be created by us, we have massive capabilities. It's actually a myth that we only use 10% of our brains, we use 100%. It would be truer to say that we only use perhaps 10% of our potential!..Thanks to technology and imagery, science can now prove this. Science can track a thought and all the emotional and physical responses that go with that thought. It's no longer complicated, nor airy fairy, yet as simplistic as it sounds it can be incredibly challenging to change unwanted old thought patterns which drive our choices in life. Some of those thoughts and beliefs have carved themselves quite a deep pathway in our minds. I've recently heard it said “you just have to make your mind up”, and I agree, but I also acknowledge how difficult that can be. There is no place for self doubt when the need for a change in thinking is recognised. It's a decision that we have to make and it needs to be strong enough to combat what we are naturally drawn back to until we can create better and healthier beliefs which can override our natural tendencies. It could be described as 'going into battle with ourselves'. When I returned to Whanganui some 18 years ago, I felt really compelled to start a crystal shop with therapeutic value. I had no idea how I was going to achieve this as I had no extra money in the bank to buy the necessary stock and the lease of a shop. Now this is where it got interesting and not that I realised it at the time but I do believe that I changed the course of my reality simply from my unshakable belief. I made my mind up!.. Of course this radical idea exposed people who strongly resisted my dream, friends and family included. But in my mind this was going to happen one way or another in spite of what other's needed me to be. It wasn't too long that an opportunity came my way and 'The Seventh Ray Crystal Shop' was born. The money came through the most unlikeliest of sources which I could never have predicted, and I honestly believe that it was my sheer intention combined with my firm faith that made this happen. My chance showed up as just a whisper of a possibility, but being so alert to it I was able to recognise it, grab it, and nuture it. I learnt a lot from this experience. I learnt that when we really believe in something that strongly with huge intention, that there can often be little choice but for that goal to manifest. That can also be a double edged sword, as I've also experienced how my thoughts and focus on what I don't want can also manifest!. Obviously some things are just un predictable but I often wonder about just how much we think about could be self-fulfilling prophecy? Which means a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself. This is due to the feedback loop between belief and behavior which as we know science can now measure. So whilst on one level I havn't got a clue what's going to pop up next in life, and I can't control others, I also believe that I do have some control on what I want in life. My beleifs and actions also get reflected back to me, minute by minute. I accept that I need to take responsbility for paving out my own future the best I can with what I know, what I've got or what I'm prepared to change and learn from. I believe we all have the choice to change our lives, and if we can't just yet? then find yourself a good friend or a professional who can do it for you and mirror and show you how to do it for yourself.
Carla is a life coach, registered exercise consultant, and has just completed her certificate to practise Hypnotherapy. Www.carlascoachingforhealth.com.
Carla is a life coach, registered exercise consultant, and has just completed her certificate to practise Hypnotherapy. Www.carlascoachingforhealth.com.
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