Quotes About Change

Always, in order to change, we have to come to a new understanding of self and the world so that we can embrace new knowledge and have new experiences. That is what reading this book will do for you. Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven't committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

En su lugar, si cambias tu mundo interior —el modo de pensar y sentir—, verás que el mundo exterior cambia gracias a tus esfuerzos. Intenta crear una experiencia nueva y desconocida en tu vida. Y cuando te ocurra de manera inesperada, te llevarás una grata sorpresa. Significará que te acabas de convertir en un creador cuántico. Que has pasado de la «causa y efecto» a «causar un efecto».

If you keep the same routine as yesterday, it makes sense that your tomorrow is going to be a lot like your yesterday.

los circuitos del cerebro se reorganizan para reflejar nuestros objetivos. Podemos hacer que nuestros pensamientos sean tan reales que el cerebro cambia como si la situación ya fuera una realidad física.

For now, it's enough to keep in mind that if your goal is to effect change and you haven't been able to make it happen with all your external-world resources, then clearly you'll need to look outside the limits of what you see, sense, and experience for your answers. You'll need to pull from other sources you haven't yet identified—from the unknown. So in that sense, the unknown is your friend, not your foe. It's the place where the answer lies.

This is possible through mental rehearsal. This technique is basically closing your eyes and repeatedly imagining performing an action, and mentally reviewing the future you want, all the while reminding yourself of who you no longer want to be (the old self) and who you do want to be. This process involves thinking about your future actions, mentally planning your choices, and focusing your mind on a new experience.

You and I have been conditioned into believing that we need a reason for joy, a motivation to feel gratitude, grounds to be in a state of love. That's relying on external reality to make us feel different internally; it's Newton's model.

Absorbing knowledge (knowing) and then gaining practical experience by applying what you learned until a particular skill became ingrained in you (knowing how) is probably how you acquired most of the abilities that now feel like a part of your being (knowingness). In much the same way, learning how to change your life involves knowledge and the application of that knowledge.

Instead, change your internal environment—the way you think and feel—and then see how the external environment is altered by your efforts.

El mayor hábito que debemos dejar es el de ser el mismo de siempre.

If the placebo effect is a function of how a thought can change physiology—we could call it mind over matter—then perhaps we should examine our thoughts and how they interact with our brains and our bodies.

While the process of genetic evolution can take thousands of years, a gene can successfully alter its expression through a behavior change or a novel experience within minutes, and then it may be passed on to the next generation

I want to be clear that by itself, positive thinking never works. Many socalled positive thinkers have felt negative most of their lives, and now they're trying to think positively. They are in a polarized state in which they are trying to think one way in order to override how they feel inside of them. They consciously think one way, but they are being the opposite. When the mind and body are in opposition, change will never happen.

si te esfuerzas por cambiar el mundo interior de tus pensamientos y sentimientos, tu entorno exterior también empezará a cambiar, demostr

If emotions are the end product of experiences, then by embracing the same emotion every day, the body is being fooled into believing that your external world is staying the same. And if your body is being conditioned to reexperience the same circumstances in your environment, you can never evolve and change. As long as you live by this emotion daily, you can only think in the past.

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Un nuevo estado del ser crea una nueva personalidad, y una nueva personalidad produce una nueva realidad personal.

To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.

So whether you've been trying to effect positive change to create a new state of being or you've been running on autopilot and staying stuck in the same old state of being, the truth is that you've always been your own placebo.

That's why I say you have to think greater than the way you feel to make any real, lasting changes.

Most of us live in the past and resist living in a new future. Why? The body is so habituated to memorizing the chemical records of our past experiences that it grows attached to these emotions. In a very real sense, we become addicted to those familiar feelings. So when we want to look to the future and dream of new vistas and bold landscapes in our not-too-distant reality, the body, whose currency is feelings, resists the sudden change in direction.

La tecnología es una gran distracción y una poderosa adicción. Piensa en ello: puedes cambiar en el acto tu química interior y hacer que un sentimiento desaparezca al cambiar algo del exterior.

The only way we can change our lives is to change our energy—to change the electromagnetic field we are constantly broadcasting. In other words, to change our state of being, we have to change how we think and how we feel.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.