Walk Down The Mindset Path

Sounds easy, right? Not! This is work!

These Illuminated Manuscripts will, through using music and the wisdom of the ages, help put you in a headspace through which you can not only tackle your past, but you can engage your present and plan and instantiate your future.

To conclude, we are going to highlight a variety of quotes from our bibliography. These are soundbites – tweets of sorts – to help you see that there is growing consensus of the power of changing your mindset.

“They call it cognitive reframing. It’s when we learn to identify and correct irrational thinking. We could say this happens when we unbias our bias.”“Ask is it true, is it helpful, is it kind?”“The goal isn’t to stop listening forever to all my broken soundtracks. The goal is to turn them down when they get loud. The goal is to head them off at the pass when a traffic jam, unexpected corporate merger, call from an estranged sibling, or any of the billion surprises life throws at you cranks the volume to 10.” “You don’t think your way out of overthinking. You act your way out. You retire broken soundtracks. You replace them with new ones. You repeat those so often they become as automatic as the old ones. Those are all actions.”

The challenge is cognitive distortions. What are cognitive distortions? They are effectively when “we think about ourselves and our lives in ways that are pretty illogical and even unfair to ourselves. We make interpretations about what’s happening that are twisted and misleading, but we don’t realize it. That is what cognitive distortions are: a highly misleading way of thinking about yourself and the world. It’s a way of fooling yourself. And when you feel depressed and anxious, you will nearly always be fooling yourself.”“Need to learn to stop your ANTS: Automatic Negative Thoughts (Dr. Amen)”. “The key to dealing with any kind of negative thinking is to realize that you are ultimately in charge of whether to listen to or agree with any thought. Just because you think it – or hear it – doesn’t mean it’s true.”  

“Visualization activates the creative powers of your subconscious mind. It focuses your brain by programming its reticular activating system (RAS) to notice available resources that were always there but were previously unnoticed, and through the Law of Attraction, magnetizes and attracts to you the people, resources, and opportunities you need to achieve your goal.” “Remember: your negative feelings will always result from your thoughts and not from the actual events in your life. And if you're depressed and anxious, your thoughts will nearly always be distorted.” Things to be on the lookout for: “all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, mental filters, discounting the positives, jumping to conclusions, magnification and minimization, emotional reasoning, ‘should’ statements, labeling, and blame. These all denote forms of cognitive distortion.”

“As someone who wants to eliminate all self-sabotage, you avoid prioritizing which of your self-defeating patterns are the most important to target. And instead of actually trying out some suggested strategies, you ruminate about all the mistakes you’ve made in the past and continue to make.” … The “problem is with doing what they know rather than knowing what to do.” “Whatever you think about most will grow.”“The MPA (Multiple Perspective Advantage) means standing back and observing your own thinking.” “Our emotions are strongly determined by how much we talk to ourselves and how we interpret the events happening around us. A great deal of energy, time, and attention can be wasted on small and insignificant incidents just because they are continually being replayed in our minds.”

“By continually talking, thinking and writing about the way things are, you continually reinforce those same neuro-pathways in your brain that got you to where you are today. To change this cycle, you must focus instead on thinking, talking, and writing about the reality you want to create. You must flood your subconscious mind with thoughts and images of this new reality.” “Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.” Write down your affirmation, repeat the affirmation day and night, and write it down and place it somewhere that you encounter frequently. 

“Remember, as you carry out these instructions, that you are applying the principle of auto-suggestion, for the purpose of giving orders to your subconscious mind.” “Remember, your subconscious mind functions voluntarily, whether you make an effort to influence it or not. This, naturally, suggests to you that thoughts of fear and poverty, and all negative thoughts serve as stimuli to your subconscious mind, unless you master these impulses and give it more desirable food upon which it may feed.” “Whether we consciously recognize it or not, we are always responsible for our experiences. It’s impossible not to be. Choosing to not consciously interpret our lives is still an interpretation of the events of our lives. Choosing to not respond to the events in our lives is still a response to the events of our lives.” “I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. And life doesn’t work that way. Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”