Discover What Your Mind Can Do

"The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind."

~ Jose Silva

This is so true.  The longer I practice and the more I learn, the more I realize how powerful our own minds are.  Your mind can help create your wildest dreams, or can keep you stuck and miserable.  When you harness what your mind can do for you--so that it empowers you--you open a world of opportunities for yourself. 

This week:  Spend some time thinking about how your mind works FOR you.  Write down the ways that your thinking empowers you to achieve your goals.  This is what you will want to do more of.  Then, think about the ways that your thinking keeps you stuck.  What thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes work to empower you?  What thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes work to make you feel bad?  Write these down.  Come up with 3 ways you empower yourself through your thinking.  Now, every time you start to think those negative thoughts, replace them with the empowering thoughts.  Notice what happens.  While this may not change everything for you, it will at least make you more awareof the power of your thoughts. 

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people overcome the limiting beliefs and negative emotions that keep them stuck.  She calls this "emotional clutter" and provides a process for getting rid of it, so that you can move on in your life.  For more information, go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/ . 

You Control Your Own Personal Growth

"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision."

~Bob Proctor

When you begin to realize that you are both the problem AND the solution, you empower yourself to move forward.  You empower yourself to grow in the direction of YOUR choosing.  Which would you rather have in your life:  the belief that you are a victim of the capricious whims of life? Or the belief that you can create your own destiny?  The universe is unfolding as it should and change is inevitable.  How do you want it to impact you?

This week:  Begin to look at your "problems" as creations of your own.  If you can create it, you can also un-create it.  You can solve it.  Ask yourself "Why have I created this?"  "What purpose does it serve in my life?"  Listen carefully for the answer from that wise part of you within.  There is always something you think you are accomplishing by having the problem.  It may not consciously make sense to your rational mind, but it was devised by you to serve some unconscious purpose.  Next ask yourself "What do I need to do about this?"  Brainstorm solutions.  Whether your problem completely disappears or not, you will be on the road to taking charge of your own personal growth and change. 

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people find their own solutions to life's challenges.  A personal growth and transformation expert at Inner Resource Center, LLC, Linda has a vast toolbox of resources to help people achieve their goals, overcome obstacles and get rid of the "emotional clutter" that blocks their dreams.  For more information, go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/ .

Find Beliefs That Empower You

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy."

~Tony Robbins

Our beliefs are very powerful.  Once you form a belief--any belief--you will do almost anything to prove it right.  You will ignore evidence to the contrary, distort perceptions to make it true, or generalize from one situation to another.  It is important to recognize which beliefs empower you and which limit you.  You create your own outcome by the things you believe.  Wouldn't it be better to believe things that empower you?

This week:   Spend some time looking at your beliefs.  What do you believe about your life that empowers you?  What beliefs limit you or keep you stuck?  Write them down in two columns.  Just sit with the question: What do I believe about myself?  When you uncover beliefs that limit you, ask yourself  "What would I need to believe in order to succeed?  What would I need to believe in order to create a more satisfying life?"  Imagine for this week that you DO believe that empowering belief.  Notice what that feels like.  Is there a difference? 

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people overcome "emotional clutter" in their lives--those negative emotions and limiting beliefs we form from past negative experiences.  Find out more at http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/ or http://www.emotionalclutter.com/.

Change Your Beliefs to Change Your Destiny

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is not our fate or life circumstances that limit us.  We are limited more by what we think and believe.  When we believe we are less than we could be, we limit our success and keep ourselves from living the life we could be living.  When you change your beliefs, you change your destiny.

This week:  Examine your beliefs.  What do you believe about yourself or your circumstances that keep you stuck?  What would you need to believe in order to empower yourself?  Challenge those limiting beliefs.  Are they really true?  Or have you just distorted events so that you can continue to believe them?  While you might feel safer limiting yourself, you won't be living the life you were really intended to live.  Write down the beliefs that need to change.  What empowering beliefs would serve you better?  Write them down.  Ask for help changing them if needed.

Linda Pucci, Ph.D. is a psychologist, life coach and expert in helping people change the limiting beliefs that block their success and happiness.  For more information go to http://www.innerresourcecenter.com/ or for downloads of free articles to get rid of this type of "emotional clutter" go to http://www.emotionalclutter.com/ .