Quotes from Shad Helmstetter

the most important chemical process necessary to wiring or rewiring your brain is repetition. The brain is designed to pay attention to, and store, the messages that are repeated most often.

That's how the brain works. If you want to manage yourself in a better way, and change your results, you can do so at any time you choose. Start with the first step. Change your programming.

self-talk is a way to override our past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with conscious, positive new directions. Self-talk is a practical way to live our lives by active intent rather than by passive acceptance.

Instead of giving birth to dreams and accomplishment, Level 2 self-talk creates guilt, disappointment, and an acceptance of our own self-imagined inadequacies.

The first thing I look for when I'm going to spend any length of time in a living or writing space is what's on the walls. What's on the walls will become what's in your brain.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough. It will simply go to work to carry out its new directives. Your subconscious mind will receive the new direction, create a new, more successful picture of you in your control center, and, over time, will convince you to put the cigarette out, put down the fork instead of eating that extra dessert

The result of that kind of programming is that we end up where we are today, with our brains improperly wired, or often wired to work against us.

Together, those inaccurate messages, through lifelong repetition, have created every negative belief you have about yourself today. Your self-doubts, your imagined inadequacies, most of your fears, and everything you believe incorrectly about who you are today, are the result of the repetition of inaccurate messages to your brain.

The first was that I would never again give in to negative programming, of any kind, in my own life, if I could help it in any way. The second decision I made in this area was that I would research the concept of self-talk and programming, and explore the science behind the concept.

Most of our stress is the result of mental programs that tell us what we cannot overcome.

People who have trained their brains to think in the positive, actually wire more neural networks into the left prefrontal cortex of their brain.

I happened upon what I thought to be the most exceptional self-improvement idea I had ever encountered. It was a simple idea, new at the time, which would require only that I spend twenty minutes each night writing my goals, reviewing my progress, and mentally visualizing reaching each goal I was setting.

our thoughts not only become wired into our brain––they change the structure of the brain itself.

Before we can solve the problem of stress and anxiety, we have to look at one final actor––and the critical role it plays in setting you up for stress. It's your hidden alarm system; it's called the amygdala.

It has been estimated that, in the average individual, 77% or more of their unconscious programs are negative and may be working against them.

We are too busy fixing the train to realize that we are on the wrong track. We are too busy staying alive to figure out how to live.

know that loss, and losing someone or something very important in my life, can seem unfair in every way. So I choose to do my best to accept the truth of my loss, continue to trust in a brighter, more sensible day to come, have the patience to wait for the sunrise, and believe with all my heart that the light is coming.

Imagine, then, what happens when your over-active amygdala teams up with your overly-negative self-talk. When it does, all bets are off. Suddenly, it's mental chaos! The alarm bells are clanging and your self-talk goes into total negative and makes everything triple-worse. You are no longer in control. Even good things look bad. Promise and hope fly out the window. The only thing left in the room is tension and panic––and your stress level goes through the roof!

The obvious solution to this problem would be to get rid of the mental programs you have that are negative, and to make sure you have enough positive programs stored in your subconscious mind to ensure that your attitudes and actions will also be positive.

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures

The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.

We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programed to do. The brain simply believes what you tell it the most. And what you tell it about you it will create. It has no choice.

Repetition is a convincing argument.