Change Your Mind, Change Your Life!

In Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow, Karen Casey writes, “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 wisdom that Karen Casey shares in this life-altering book is simple, yet powerful; intuitive, yet profound. If you decide to change your mind, your life will follow. What will you decide?

Learn more... Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow Organized around 12 very simple steps, this books gives us the tools we need to find within ourselves the positive, peaceful response to every curve life throws us.

Excerpted from Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow Most of us think that our lives are just too complex, too difficult, too unique to be bettered by simple changes. But it’s not true. We only choose to think it’s true so we don’t have to exert the effort to change. I am here to tell you, to promise you in fact, that simple, tiny changes made one minute at a time, one experience at a time, will positively change your life and every outcome of every experience, in powerful (though sometimes subtle) ways. I know that tiny changes work. My life today is a testament to that fact. More than twenty-nine years ago I wandered into my first support group, an Al-Anon meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I thought Al-Anon would teach me how to control someone’s drinking. I was also desperate to discover how to “fit in” everywhere. I came in absolutely convinced that if I could just change the people around me, I would be free from fear. But in that first meeting, I realized otherwise. Several times that night the group broke out in laughter over the idea that we can control or change other people’s behavior. Their laughter frightened me. When someone remarked that you can only change yourself and not anyone else – and everyone chuckled in agreement – I thought I had landed on Mars. These folks must not have had life experiences like mine, I figured or they wouldn’t be laughing. I was desperate to change the people around me. What other choice did I have? Fortunately I stuck around long enough not only to understand their laughter but also to be able to laugh at my own obsession with controlling the uncontrollable. The fact is, we can’t change anyone but ourselves, and many of us die trying. My life has changed dramatically since that spring evening so many years ago, when I heard, for the first time, that I could be in charge of only one thing: what I harbored in my mind and the actions that followed. For nearly thirty years I have practiced taking charge of my mind, and the results have been awesome. It’s my hope that this book will allow you to see how easy it really is, moment by moment, to take charge of the contents of your mind and, thus, to change your whole life. In over six decades, I have yet to meet a fellow traveler who didn’t want more peace, more joy, more contentment. Difficult bosses, troubled marriages, personal struggles with addiction, or worries about our children and the world we all share trouble us all. It is my hope that this book will give you every good reason to believe that, with a little willingness on your part, a willingness to change your mind, tomorrow really will be better than today.