I believe that the mind development is the gateway to having and amazing life. What I mean is all the parts of our life are filleted and processed by our brains. Depending on how well devolved our minds are will determine the quality of our lives. If I go to a friend’s place for a barber queue (bbq) – yes I am Australian so I do this a lot. Then at the end of the bbq I will say to myself, generally on a subconscious level, I enjoyed that because I like hanging out with friends and having a good beer. Because I have said that to myself then my brain will release chemicals or otherwise known as endorphins into my body as a result of telling myself I had a good time.

Whether in Life Coaching, Counseling or other therapies this is often called self talk. This self talk servers the purpose of proofing that the beliefs we have about the world are true. Let’s play with this idea….. Belief = If I go to church on Sundays’ I am a good person Action = Go to church Self talk = I am a good person Result of the self talk = Feel good because now you are a good person after going to church on Sunday I find this a fascinating pattern. The question I pose to you is where did the belief come from in the first place? Who said that “if you go to church on Sundays’ you’re a good person?” If that is true, does that mean that all people that don’t go to church and bad people?? I am impartial whether you choose to attend a church of any kind, on any day or not. I am questioning who developed your mind with these beliefs? It’s my understanding through my life experience and training as a Life Coach that all beliefs like these are created for us by other people and our experiences in the beginning of our life when we are 0-7 years of age. A belief that was created for me as child was “I must always sit up straight at the table” Yet when I travelled to East Timor a few years ago I realized that many people there did not have tables. How could this belief be true when everybody in the world doesn’t have tables? After this experience I began to realize that beliefs are created according to your upbringing within your social economic environment. This was the time when I really began to use Mind Development. If I believe in sitting up at the table and someone does not have a table and as a result they believe in sitting in a circle on the floor (which in East Timor was dirt and lot of the time) and sharing the food around the circle with friends and family. Who is right? If right exists then there must be a wrong to create the balance, so who is wrong?

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