Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow: 12 Simple Principles

by Karen Casey

Overview

The bestselling author of Each Day a New Beginning offers a practical, easy-to-implement guide to making positive changes—and living the results.
 
Thirty years ago, Karen Casey wandered into a support group and learned there was only one thing she could change: herself! She found a group of people who had adopted this concept, and she joined them. The resulting transformation was so profound that Casey dedicated herself to teaching others what’s possible when we put our minds to changing our lives.
 
Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow offers a dozen simple principles to live by. Each principle is explored in its own chapter and includes meditation-style essays to help readers access peaceful, life-changing responses to just about any situation. Finding happiness, peace, and purpose really can be as simple as changing our minds. This little book will show you how.
 
“Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow tells the truth and tells it well. I recommend it.” —Marianne Williamson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684811014
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	04/09/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
Sales rank:	545,016
File size:	771 KB

About the Author

Karen Casey has sold over 3 million books that draw upon meditations, motivations, and religion to guide and support women throughout the world. Based in Minneapolis since 1964, Casey is an elementary school teacher turned Ph.D. Casey published the first of twenty-eight books, Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women, with Hazelden Publishing in 1982. Casey has spoken to tens of thousands world-wide over her forty years as a writer. Through each new experience, her gratitude and commitment grow to continue doing what brings joy to her life.

Additional notable works from Karen Casey include 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles: Cultivate a Simpler, Slower, More Love-Filled Life, Let Go Now: Embrace Detachment as a Path to Freedom, and A Life of My Own: Meditations on Hope and Acceptance.

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From the Introduction

We can have better lives if we make up our minds to do so. The choice is ours. Wherever we go, there we are, as the people we have decided to be.

We decide. That’s the revelation. We decide if we are going to live lives that are bitter or sweet. We decide, in every moment, to respond from peace or from fear. We decide.

The truth is, it doesn’t take very much effort to make our lives “sweeter.” It does take willingness, though—willingness to make tiny shifts in how we perceive our experiences and our fellow travelers. Instead of perceiving everyone and everything as a potential threat or obstacle, we can choose to approach each moment as an opportunity to be peaceful. And each time we choose the peaceful response, we are paving the way not only for our own happiness but for a peaceful world as well. In this book I will teach you the twelve principles that can help us manifest a peaceful world. Just twelve simple principles to practice. That’s all. Won’t you join me?

Table of Contents

Contents

A Preface Revisited
Introduction: My Journey

Chapter 1 Tend Your Own Garden
Chapter 2 Stop Focusing on Problems So Their Solutions Can Emerge
Chapter 3 Let Go of Outcomes
Chapter 4 Change Your Mind
Chapter 5 Choose to Act Rather Than React
Chapter 6 Give Up Your Judgments
Chapter 7 Remember That You Are Not in Control
Chapter 8 Discover Your Own Lessons
Chapter 9 Do No Harm
Chapter 10 Quiet Your Mind
Chapter 11 Every Encounter Is a Holy Encounter—Respond Accordingly
Chapter 12 There Are Two Voices in Your Mind—One Is Always Wrong
Chapter 13 Shortcuts for Changing Our Minds and Our Lives: A Summary

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Editorial Reviews

These books are based on the premise that while people may not have power over their circumstances, they can control their response to those circumstances. According to Hobbs, a licensed marriage and family therapist, more joy can be experienced in life if one becomes aware of one's current feelings and then responds differently to those that are negative. To that end, Hobbs recommends a three-step approach, which she developed from principles found in New Age spirituality, bioenergetics, and other disciplines. Using case studies and personal examples, readers are taught how to "make friends" with anger, fear, shame, and destructive belief systems. For those interested in digging deep into their psyches, this book would be helpful and is recommended for larger self-help collections. Best-selling writer Casey (Each Day a New Beginning) offers a less intense read built around 12 meditations to help readers to "let go and let God," so to speak. While some religious and Alcoholics Anonymous-based solutions are woven throughout, the prescriptions for peace and well-being are sound and involve various truisms, e.g., that obsessing about others can make people sick. She encourages readers to stop judging, do no verbal harm, be peaceful rather than right, and learn from all experiences. This book is small, is easy to digest, and would likely be taken from the display shelf by someone needing a psychological boost. Recommended for most libraries. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

"This book is small, is easy to digest, and would likely be taken from the display shelf by someone needing a psychological boost." —Deborah Bigelow, Library Journal

Reviews

"Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow tells truth and tells it well. I recommend it." --Marianne Williamson, bestselling author

"These simple steps can lead to a peaceful and meaningful life. Casey's self-help book is a winner!" --Frederick Brussat, spiritualityandpractice.com

"This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the quality of his thoughts and how being aware of them can bring positive change. " --Mary Porter, Science of Mind

"Casey's voice is thoughtful and accessible. Readers with a belief in the power of God will be most amenable to her recommendations for a simpler, more rewarding life."--Publishers Weekly

"This book is small, is easy to digest, and would likely be taken from the display shelf by someone needing a psychological boost." --Deborah Bigelow, Library Journal

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