Pathways To Change Module 4: IT’S ALL IN YOUR MIND

Step 1: Exercise

‘Before we delve into the course material for this module – I’d like you to take the time to write your story in the box below. Your story can be as simple or detailed as you feel. It is the sum of all of your thoughts and experiences that have impacted your life to this moment.. Sometimes we are aware that we are creating in every moment and so the outcome is the desired outcome. Sometimes we are unconscious that we are creating in every moment and with this, the outcome can be undesired.

For this exercise, we are exploring the story and the part it has played in delivering you here, to this moment in time. Let’s put a framework around your story – to bring you to an awareness of your story so far and then to offer the tools to assist you in shaping a continuation of your existing story or a brand new one. Once you’ve completed this task, then move onto Step Two.

Step 2: Workbook

‘The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.’ Deepak Chopra

I love this quote from Deepak Chopra – it describes so beautifully and simply the process we are moving through with this programme– the creation (or re-creation) of you. In this world full of crazy it can be difficult to connect in with yourself in a way where you are consciously creating. Where conscious creation becomes second nature. One of the most important building blocks for you to master in this process of change is the understanding that all things in your life – the things that you are seeing all around you – first began in the mind. With a thought and idea, whether a fleeting thought or a well-crafted idea – the mind is the engine room of creation.

Thoughts become things.
You’ve probably heard this saying before – thoughts become things. It’s an integral part of the manifestation process. And it’s very true. All manifested outcome begins firstly in the mind. What you think: becomes. However, the thought is just the beginning of the process, it’s not all there is when it comes to creation. it’s not just the thought that creates – if the creation was that simple you would be creating every time you had a thought. When you think about how many thoughts you have in a minute, an hour, a day – life would become very, very messy if you were manifesting from thought to thought.

The integral aspect of conscious creation isn’t just the thought, but the energetics behind the thought. It’s how resolved the thought is. And how much you truly believe in the outcome. This is not about forced believing. Not about the daily affirmation, or the visualising ofthe outcome in a way that forms some kind of attachment to it. This is about how the energy of the thought matches in with the energy of your belief that the thought is possible. And then it’s how quickly you let the thought go. It’s basic quantum physics. What is quantum physics? It’s a big subject but at its core and for the purpose of what we are talking about here – quantum physics is the measure of all that is – the nature of particles, atoms, sub atoms. It is the theory that like attracts like. You think of someone. And if you throw your weight behind the thought – and believe in the thought in an integrated way then it is very possible for the thought to manifest. For the person to materialise in front of you. You’ve probably had this experience at some stage in your life, amongst other experiences.

If you break down this process – the mechanics are very simple. You think a thought. The energy behind the thought is fully integrated meaning it feels very natural and easy and is without negative emotion. It isn’t weighted by a wanting or by an expectation. You are not laboring over it in your mind. You are not wrestling with your expectation of it, in the middle of the night. It just is. You think a thought, for example, ‘Oh I wonder how such and such is going?’ Then they contact you directly or you hear how they are going. The news travels back to you. How does this work? You put some energy behind the thought. Then you let it go. You allow the thought to waft past you – and then patiently wait for the universe to do her magic. Through the process of energetics, the manifestation of that thought has no choice but to return to you in manifested form. Like a boomerang; when thrown out it has no choice but to return.

Why is it so important for you to understand the energetics behind thoughts when it comes to making a change? Two reasons – understanding this basic premise helps you to refine and resolve the why and the how around the position that you find yourself in today. The concept explains that you are the driver of your life. That, sometimes even without you knowing it, your thoughts are generating energetic reactions that result in actual situations occurring. Once you understand that you are always in the process in the process of creating consciously then you can bring awareness and intention to your thoughts. And begin to shape and drive things that you actually want to happen in your life. You become a conscious creator.

In this exercise I’d like you to create a time for a series of events that have evolved in your life. I’d like you to write the result at the end of the timeline. The position you find yourself in now. Then I’d like you to track backward. Can you identify the initial thought that was the initiation of this outcome? Then make points along the road that have significantly affected the outcome. Can you make a connection between each thought and each outcome?

Step 3: You are the creator

What do I mean by conscious creation? There are many aspects to your nature that are responsible for your decision-making process - responsible for delivering you to this place here and now. Two aspects, in particular, are important to fully understand; the conscious self and the subconscious self. Every action you take is driven by these two aspects of you. The conscious is simply what you are aware of. These are the actions that you are taking in complete awareness of the why and the how. For example, you consciously make the family dinner every night because the family needs have to be met. The children need to be fed. It’s pure and simple. So you think about what you are going to create in a conscious way. Then you go about taking the actionable steps to achieve your aims. But there is another type of consciousness at play that further drives your actions. This is the subconscious self. The subconscious self is the part of yourself that is driving this action that you are unaware of in a minute-to-minute scenario. The subconscious is where your deeply rooted emotional drivers live. So, in the case of the family dinner. It could be that you are overfeeding the family. Or that you are making your children finish their dinner regardless of whether or not they are still hungry. You are making the family dinner every night because - you have an innate need to ensure your family survival, you don’t want to be seen as a ‘bad’ mother, you don’t want your children to go hungry because you may have been hungry as a child and are now driven by a scarcity mentality. These two aspects of the mind are playing their role every minute of every day. Understanding your subconscious drivers is the first step to coming to terms with the shadow self.

What is the shadow self? The shadow self is the parts of your core self that drive your behaviour and cause us to act and react in certain patterns. These aspects are generally driven by an event or situation that has impacted you negatively. Generally, they are situations that have caused you some kind of a shame – have impacted your pride – and resulted in you hiding these aspects of yourself. They become your subconscious drivers. And cause you to act and react in a certain way without you being conscious of the behavioural pattern. When y When you are confronted by negative triggers in your life you retreat back into these behavioural patterns – which generally are self-sabotaging patterns. If you are making a change, it’s vital that you understand the role of the shadow self and learn to dredge it from the subconscious into the conscious, to bring these patterns out of hiding and into the light. Why? Because once the shadow self lives in the conscious, it’s negative power is diffused. Once you become aware that you are overfeeding your children because of your fears around scarcity you are in a better position to redirect this energy in the direction of the change you want to make.

List below your shadow drivers. What are the drivers living in your subconscious that are steering your actions in the conscious? Can you bring them forward? Can you out them?