Is it Possible to Shift Your Mindset Even Now?
- Brainz Magazine
- 37 minutes ago
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Written by Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is a renowned trailblazer and creator of an innovative, spiritually-based approach to inner transformation. Her program, Perfect Life Awakening, emerged from a lifetime of frustration searching for inner work that worked. She discovered that by revealing specific subconscious origins of self-sabotage and removing its persistent influence, life can shift.
Do you find yourself using everything in your toolbox trying to get to inner peace? Has hopefulness gone by the wayside, living on planet Earth lately? Are you able to read the news without getting thrown into panic mode? Do you struggle to keep a positive outlook, resorting to doing something mindless just to get through your day?
Living on planet Earth these last few months (or years) is challenging. Shifting your mindset from negative, hopeless, and worried to positive, hopeful, and filled with possibility-thinking might seem impossible.
The tremendous tests going on may have triggered what appears to be a justifiable negative mindset. You could be living reactively, stuck in fear, anticipating the next tumultuous shoe to drop, even if it isn’t your shoe size.
You’ve probably heard that the basic Law of Manifestation states that thoughts always manifest in a physical form. In other words, if your mindset lives in doom and gloom, that self-fulfilling prophecy is what shows up no matter what strategies you apply.
Here is what ‘mindset’ means.
Mindset simply implies how your mind is set, the context in which you hold and experience life. It’s your frame of mind, either fleetingly or permanently.
Compare it to the radio “station” you are tuned into; the frequency you are operating from, and it’s mostly functioning subconsciously.
Mindset is different than thinking about something. Pondering, planning, debating, and logically figuring out. Mindset is the way you’re thinking, your attitudes, opinions, judgments and anticipations based on pesky programmed beliefs.
It may look like the mindset is based on personal experience, but the opposite is true: How you perceive personal experiences is based on the lens you see it through with your mindset.
In other words, mindset determines how you perceive, interpret and approach things. If it’s positive, you see things positively; if it’s negative, like an outdated glasses prescription, everything appears blurry.
With a negative mindset, you read the news, and your focus is drawn to how depressing things are. If it’s positive, you see possibility, opportunity and can trust the unfolding evolution of the world.
Mindset also defines how you see yourself. It determines your level of self-confidence and self-esteem as well as your willingness to be open to change and personal development.
A fixed mindset has you believe that your basic qualities are unalterable traits. Rather than trying to develop or enhance your attributes, you spend time justifying, quantifying and feeling hopeless about them. You may try various things to bring about personal change, but you always land in the same hopeless pile.
You have an extensive list of reasons why you can’t change your mindset: Your genetics, those past traumas, your upbringing, society, your sex, race, age, body type, your education, your finances, your lack of confidence, no time, etc., etc.!
In other words, your stuck mindset dictates that it is stuck, and, like a practiced con artist, you believe it.
Where does mindset originate?
Your primitive, fear-based consciousness is hardwired to make sure you survive. It’s the groundwork that develops the core of your mindset.
Here’s how it works: Prior to the onset of your ability to think logically, specific incidents containing pain or loss, as well as times you believe you caused pain or loss, have you make decisions about yourself, others and life. Those decisions become your subconscious inner programming, determining your “belief system” from then on.
When anything similar happens, those beliefs get triggered and become more rigid. That creates your mindset.
Basically, your mindset’s job is to try to protect you by reminding you of your previous pain or loss and to by trying to stop you from causing more pain or loss.
This cycle continues even when your experiences are counter to those beliefs, even when life repeatedly shows those notions as faulty.
The most important thing that happens from that programming cycle is you repeatedly attract situations to prove you are right about what you decided. Ad infinitum.
Mindset shifts
The aphorism “Change your mind and change your life” is simplistic and may sound easy. After decades of working with people, I can attest that a fixed mindset is challenging to shift. Those long-held, survival-based notions offer predictability, comfort and security, even if subconsciously.
Changing them requires getting to their origins and that takes some digging. Your subconscious mind resides well hidden in the shadows.
However, if you have a strong, pure desire to change, with mindfulness, willingness and dedicated inner digging, even stubborn false beliefs can be transcended, not by simply recognizing and questioning them, but by finding and neutralizing their true origins.
IMHO, that’s your superpower and it’s well worth the effort.
But remember: Your mindset is simply trying to keep you safe. It’s a perfect mirror to help awaken you by noticing how it functions, when it feels strongest and even how it communicates with you.
Some handy suggestions
So, next time you find yourself wallowing in negativity, ask yourself if this is your stubborn, negative mindset trying to convince you that this is the way things are; nothing ever changes; life sucks; whatever.
Recognizing that this is your mindset dictating lies to you, is at least half the battle.
Then, ask yourself if you really want to change. Tell the truth. Part of you might believe it’s more comfortable, safer, easier, less risky.
Go a little deeper and ask: What fear comes up if I were to change? Trust what comes to min,d even if it’s not logical.
The next step is (shameless plug) reaching out to me to enroll in my next Perfect Life Awakening course to take a deep dive to resolve the origins. To get to the source of those false inner beliefs holding you back.
Here are some tools that can help you come from a more positive, growth-filled mindset. Granted, these are the first layers, but they start the process.
The first step to shift your mindset is to be aware of it. Take note of your attitude, your automatic, triggered thoughts, your reaction to hearing news reports, your judgments about people, and any beliefs, resentments and fears about life in general.
Particularly observe those self-sabotaging, limiting thoughts dictating false information about yourself and patterns showing up to prove they are right. By observation and acknowledgment, you are starting to “bust” those thoughts as untruths, releasing some of their power to affect your life.
Ten suggestions to help you come from a more positive, growth-filled mindset
Be aware
An important first step in shifting your mindset is to consciously notice it. Take note of your attitude during the day, the automatic thoughts you have, your reaction to hearing news reports, your judgments about people, and any beliefs, resentments and fears about life in general.
Particularly observe the self-sabotaging, limiting thoughts constantly dictating false information about yourself and see the patterns manifesting to prove they are right. By observation and acknowledgment, you are starting to “bust” those thoughts as untruths, releasing some of their power to affect your life.
Counter them
Once you notice mindset-generated thoughts, it’s important to remove some of their oomph. Remind yourself that these are just false notions, untrue thoughts, and consciously, lovingly, thank them for sharing, but let them know you don’t believe them. As you do that, feel any physical sensations indicating fear (such as your stomach tightening, your breathing getting shallow, etc.) and direct your body to relax. Use visualization, mindful inhaling and exhaling, a moment of meditation or prayer or whatever helps you feel calm and trusting.
Allow positivity
Challenge yourself to recognize and verbally state at least three positive things that have happened each day. This helps train you to acknowledge opportunities for success, suggestions for growth, willingness to change and different ways to perceive things. Try keeping a visual score by putting a dollar into a jar, only to be used for a special treat once filled.
Prioritize self-development
Take some time to do inner work that supports embracing success and expanding deservingness. Whether you meditate, do yoga, psychotherapy, spiritually based inner work, or journaling, have the intention to grow past your set mindset to generate positive change. Locating the true origins of why your mindset is means doing deep work.
Change your shoes
To help alter your mindset, experience what it’s like to approach your life from a different viewpoint. Try doing the job you hate the most, perhaps changing the bed or having a heart-to-heart with the person who has been doing it; it can completely change your attitude.
Be open
Share what you are going through, your feelings, and your needs. Expressing fears from an authentic, vulnerable place helps your mindset and can release the emotionally charged first layer.
Let go
Being invested in your success is a good place to be. However, letting go of any sort of attachment is a universal spiritual lesson to learn. Consciously releasing the fear-based need for something to be a certain way is not easy, but is effective to “create space” for things to change.
Re-focus your vision
Your overall “Life Mission” could be stuck in your negative mindset, preventing the manifestation of your long-term goals. It could be time to change, clarify or adjust your vision in some way. Is it still relevant? Does it fit with who you are or who you want to become? Does it need to expand in some way? Perhaps write or rewrite your Life Mission Statement to see what comes to you intuitively.
Be gentle on yourself
Change may not come easily or quickly, and it inevitably brings up fear. If you are noticing resistance to shifting your mindset, allow yourself to feel and acknowledge fears, whether they are rational or irrational, big or small. Simultaneously, know that you have the power of creation flowing through you, generating positive results and all that you deserve.
See it
Like looking at yourself in a mirror every day of your life, you may not notice subtle changes. Same for perceiving inner changes. It’s often easier to see that you are not reacting as you used to, or people are responding differently to you. That is sure-fire proof that the shift is happening!
Remember the bigger picture: The entire world is experiencing a huge transformation, a shake-up to wake up. You chose to be here to go through those changes, as well as agreeing to bring something important called you.
The power is within you to shift your mindset simply because you deserve to. Trust that you and the planet deserve that.
Because shift happens!
Royce Morales, Transformational Facilitator, Teacher, Podcast Host, Speaker, Author, Columnist
Royce Morales is the creator of the Perfect Life Awakening program. Reach out to her to awaken your evolutionary journey by neutralizing the origins of what’s triggering you. Transform from fear to empowered love in her empowering, life-shifting courses. Sign up for her next ten week seminar “Transform from Self-Sabotage to Empowerment” date and time TBA. Watch her awakening podcasts on OM Times Media, “The Perfect Life Awakening Show” and “It’s All Mirrors,” livestreaming every Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. PT or linked on YouTube.
