The Mind Matters

The Mind Matters is your source for hypnotherapy, therapeutic imagery and mind-body energy techniques such as EFT. Everything begins with a thought.

Your thoughts create your beliefs, Your beliefs create your actions. The Mind Matters!

12/26/2025

Philosophers, prophets and teachers throughout time have disagreed on many things but there is one point that they agree upon – the secret to your success and the secret to your failure is this: You create your experience of life with your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

Decide to pay the price. Do the work. Suffer the discipline or suffer the regret. Become the person you want to become. Or continue to live unsuccessfully. When you make the decision to work toward a goal, you are already a success. You have made a choice about where you want to be. Out of a hundred people, you belong in the top five percent!

Don’t be afraid to fail. Malcolm Forbes says, “Failure is success if we learn from it.” Keep your goal in mind at all times. Make your choices based on the successful fulfillment of your goal. Trust that you will know what to do and when to do it. Thomas Edison failed more than 10,000 times before the successful invention of the light bulb. He tells us, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Maybe you have failed in the past. Remind yourself that it was in the past. Tell yourself that this time will be different. Remember that what you tell yourself ultimately determines what you are and are not able to do. So tell yourself that you can and you will and you will find that it is so.

Maybe you need a mindset reset or a self-confidence coach. I know the way. Check out my website at www.TheMindMatters.com. And follow me for tips to help you along your journey to success.

12/25/2025

May today be a day where you find peace beyond understanding.

12/24/2025

Being present is a valuable gift. When you are present, you are in the now moment. The clock and the calendar don’t matter.

Take another look at your holiday traditions and decide what matters…what is worth your effort. You may find that on further examination, your “to do” list dwindles.

You make choices as to how you celebrate the holiday season. You make choices about who you spend time with and what activity is worthy of your time. You make choices about your budget and your need to buy things you can’t afford.

During this holiday season, make an effort to be present to the sights and sounds of the season. When you experience the beauty of a tree adorned with ornaments and sparkling with lights, consider that it is so much more than a holiday decoration. Evergreen trees, wreaths and garlands symbolize eternal life and the decorative lights symbolize the eternal light within. Consider the tree as a present to you and your family from Mother Earth. Be grateful for your abundance. Be uplifted by your faith.

And each choice you make to be present brings you a little peace of mind. Because after all, it is the season of Peace on Earth. Give yourself permission to be included. Or give yourself permission to skip the whole thing. Make a choice about how you do the holidays. And then enjoy it!

12/23/2025

"Thoughts are things. Everything you do or think is a cause set in motion."

~David Wolfe

What are you thinking? What vibration are you sending across the Universe? What are you creating?

12/21/2025

Are you aware that the first day of the winter season, on December 21, is the shortest day of the year – the longest night?

From the ancient Egyptians and Celts to the Hopi—winter has been a significant time of ritual, reflection, and renewal. Throughout history, this was a time to go inward, to create meaningful rituals to nurture the soul. It was a time to cultivate deeper relationships with self, friends and family.

These ancient cultures understood that our fundamental experience of reality was one that is spiritual in nature. The ceremonies and teachings focused on bringing one closer to a fully awakened state, towards enlightenment or ascension.

The winter solstice celebrates the longest hours of darkness which are followed by a renewal of the sun, the cyclical order of the cosmos. This rebirth of the sun is believed to hold a powerful energy for regeneration, renewal and self-reflection and a knowing that our lives are part of something that is always changing, always renewing.

This is a time of quiet energy. This is a time where you get the opportunity to look within and focus on what you want and need. It’s a time to set goals and intentions for the coming year, to examine and let go of your past. It’s a time to make changes within yourself.

Reflect on your whole self, including the parts that you keep hidden from others – your shadow self. Acknowledgement of your own darkness is powerful. It opens a door of communication between conscious and subconscious. Ask yourself, “What am I ready to release? What do I need to leave behind in the darkness?” And then ask yourself, “What do I want to bring into the light? What do I need to create?”

Embrace the darkness. Reflect. Think deeply about yourself, your past and your future. Turn inward. Realign yourself to making progress in your journey.

12/20/2025

"That is the moment when you feel the beauty of it.

But the moment you say that it is a beautiful sunset, you are no longer feeling it; you have come back to your separate, enclosed entity of the ego. Now the mind is speaking.

And this is one of the mysteries, that the mind can speak, and knows nothing; and the heart knows everything, and cannot speak."

~Rajneesh

12/19/2025

We all need sun, air and water to survive. Are you nourishing your body in all the ways it needs?

When you communicate positive, loving thoughts to the cells of your body, they respond with healing. Engage your body with love and compassion.

Allow feelings of gratitude for all your body does for you. Each cell of your body experiences your emotions. When you think positive thoughts, you feed positive emotions to your cells.

Begin to engage in mental conversations with your body. Talk to it like a friend. Build trust. Have faith. Believe that it is possible to overcome any pain, discomfort or ailment. When you are comfortable and at ease living in your body, there is no longer any need to have a condition of dis-ease. The mind-body connection is real. Healing begins in the mind. Set the intention.

Is there something you need to talk about to your body? Does your body need your help to heal? I can help you to access the power of your subconscious mind so you can talk to the 95% of your mind that controls your actions and reactions; the part of your mind that determines your health or your dis-ease.

Check out my website at www.TheMindMatters.com. And follow me for more bits of wisdom. I know things.

12/18/2025

Consider this:

The sky is eternal and timeless, just like you.
The clouds are temporary, just like your thoughts in the moment.

12/15/2025

Is there something blocking your way to a life of joy? Look for a way around it!

Do not let past programming limit your abilities now. Do not create limitation and imagined restraint.

What’s your excuse? What has you all tied up? Who created those limitations?

Your subconscious mind has all the answers. Get out of our own way. Go beyond the imaginary boundaries and limitations. Look a little deeper in order to understand where you are right now…not where you were in the past or where others tell you to be.

As spiritual beings, we need to acknowledge our strengths and power. To acknowledge that we hold the key to our own freedom.

Access your power. Access your joy. It's a choice you make. Check out my website at www.TheMindMatters.com.

12/13/2025

"Nature is not something separate from us.

So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves."

~Andy Goldsworthy

12/12/2025

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”

— Karen Kaiser Clark

12/11/2025

"The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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