Book Byte #65 "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author

“The quantum field responds not to what we want; it responds to who we are being.”

“When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.”

Energy is the very fabric of all things material, and is responsive to mind.

“A memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom.”

“Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don’t need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?”

“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.”

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

“Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.”

“To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are…. Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….”

“Your thoughts and feelings come from your past memories. If you think and feel a certain way, you begin to create an attitude. An attitude is a cycle of short-term thoughts and feelings experienced over and over again. Attitudes are shortened states of being. If you string a series of attitudes together, you create a belief. Beliefs are more elongated states of being and tend to become subconscious. When you add beliefs together, you create a perception. Your perceptions have everything to do with the choices you make, the behaviors you exhibit, the relationships you chose, and the realities you create.”

“And can you teach your body emotionally what it would feel like to believe in this way . . . to be empowered . . . to be moved by your own greatness . . . to be invincible . . . to have courage . . . to be in love with life . . . to feel unlimited . . . to live as if your prayers are already answered? . . .”

“Meditating is also a means for you to move beyond your analytical mind so that you can access your subconscious mind. That’s crucial, since the subconscious is where all your bad habits and behaviors that you want to change reside.”

“Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely.”

“I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.”

“To be happy with yourself in the present moment while maintaining a dream of your future is a grand recipe for manifestation. When you feel so whole that you no longer care whether “it” will happen, that’s when amazing things materialize before your eyes. I’ve learned that being whole is the perfect state of creation. I’ve seen this time and time again in witnessing true healings in people all over the world. They feel so complete that they no longer want, no longer feel lack, and no longer try to do it themselves. They let go, and to their amazement, something greater than they are responds—and they laugh at the simplicity of the process.”

“Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those of us over 35, we have memorized a select set of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, emotional reactions, habits, skills, associative memories, conditioned responses, and perceptions that are now subconsciously programmed within us. Those programs are running us, because the body has become the mind. This means that we will think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, react in identical ways, behave in the same manner, believe the same dogmas, and perceive reality the same ways. About 95 percent of who we are by midlife is a series of subconscious programs that have become automatic—driving a car, brushing our teeth, overeating when we’re stressed, worrying about our future, judging our friends, complaining about our lives, blaming our parents, not believing in ourselves, and insisting on being chronically unhappy, just to name a few.”

📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:

You're here because you know deep down that you deserve to take charge of your life and be your best self.

So use meditative contemplation to bring out the new you. To accelerate your growth, combine self-assessment, visualization, and a better understanding of the science of change with techniques such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, and gratitude.

🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry

Mid Life is a relevant topic for me. I turn 40 years old in 1 Month. When you get to reach this age, you begin to notice things you’ve never noticed before. Mostly you being to notice the things you just can’t like, even if your job depends on it. You realize that if you don’t want to do something, you shouldn’t be doing it.

Most people don’t have the luxury of that way of thinking especially in their jobs, but it's almost biological in the fact that you want to be doing things that will leave an impact instead of administrative bs. If you’ve felt up to this point that you haven’t done anything of worth, cheer up, the best is yet to come. When you start to feel like failing around and finding out is not so bad, then you’re second, true life is ready to begin…

🤝Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:

What actions do you take to keep your mind focused on the positive aspects of your life and future?