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Gratitude Will Change Your Attitude
Are you constantly feeling down in the dumps and can’t seem to pull out of it? You work all the time, but it feels hard when it comes time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Do you stop and look at the world around you in this fast-paced world, or are you running too much to see the beauty?
I know I get too busy to look around. That’s probably not a good thing to admit as a certified NLP Life Coach, but it’s true. I can have fifteen certifications, but I can’t lie to you guys. With two kids, a husband, a church family, and a business, I rarely get time to stop and look around. It’s easy to become cynical and just all around bummed out. What can we do? Well, I have a very simple answer. It’s so simple most of you won’t even do it.
You see when things are simple to do, they are also simple to forget. They are simply easy to put off until later. Later never comes, and then the simple becomes forgotten entirely.
Gratitude has been scientifically proven to change your attitude by changing your biochemistry, heart rate, and overall mental health. Every religion on this Earth, past and present, has given high priority to gratitude, and yet we don’t do it. Why? It’s too simple.
A 2018 Greater Good Science Center study found that a regular practice of gratitude increases happiness and overall satisfaction with life. It helps you sleep better at night and have less fatigue during the day. Gratitude has been shown to reduce pain, regulate stress and anxiety, increase energy and focus, and increase our productivity in the workplace. A UCLA study says that regularly expressing gratitude changes the brain’s molecular structure. It means we can literally train our brains to be more grateful over time, increase our brain function, and improve our overall mental health.
So enough sciency stuff Synova!!! What do we do?
Ok. It’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty. Set a notebook by your bed, and I want you to write down ten things you are grateful for every night before bed. Now don’t scribble down the same ten nonsense things every night. Take time to really feel the gratitude well up in your chest for each item listed before moving on to the next one. Thank God for each one and drift off into dreamland peacefully. Then repeat the process every morning to start your day. You don’t have to spend hours. It only takes minutes to set your day up right.
Love you all – Synova
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Gratitude Through The Storm: A Guided Gratitude Journal
Like a lighthouse in the storm, gratitude will guide you through to calm waters. This guided gratitude journal is a very personal project of mine and I can’t wait to share it with you all. My life hasn’t seen the sun in almost two years, but when I remember to practice gratitude my ship sails smoothly through the day. When I forget the waves crash over me and I find myself flailing about amid troubled waters. Once I catch my breath I’m again drawn back to the light of gratitude and the inner peace it brings.
This journal is more than just another list of self help topics, or scientific facts. It’s a tried and true journey that I am on. I do believe I can see the clouds parting and the sun shining through . It’s time to share with you all.
Whispers of the Mind: How Thoughts Become Things
Humans have a hidden superpower. With it we can both create and destroy. In most people it is raw, unfiltered and troublesome. But, if we could train it and hone it to perfection, it is powerful enough to change the world.
There’s a wise old saying that says, “for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” What does that mean, exactly? It means you become what you think about regularly. Your consistent thoughts become your actions, and your actions change the reality around you. I know this sounds like a bunch of hoodoos, but I promise you there’s science behind it.
What if we trained our minds to create instead of to destroy? We could change the world with one mind at a time.
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Elephants & Mindsets
African elephants are the largest land mammals. They can grow to be 13 ft tall from toe to shoulder. Some species of elephants can weigh up to $13,000. Their trunk alone has 150,000 separate muscles, which gives them enough power to uproot full-grown trees. Why do we see these magnificent creatures held back by tiny ropes at the circus?
As an infant, these elephants have been conditioned to believe they cannot break their chains. When they were small, they were held back by a giant log chain that was too much for them to break. After a while, the poor creature stopped trying to break free. Although it is more than physically capable, it has been conditioned with this limited mindset.
If an elephant is spurred into a rage, it can break the chains that bind it and tear down the entire circus. I use this analogy for you, my readers. The human mind is infinitely capable, yet limited mindsets hold us back. Sometimes these mindsets aren’t even our own. They are limiting beliefs passed down for generations or by our society. What limited mindset is holding you back?
When I first started writing, I believed it took years to write a book, and now I realize I could write a book in 30 days. When I realized I could publish my next book in 30 days, I listened to one of my coaches talk about writing a book on a weekend. Then when I just started believing that that was possible, another coach of mine, Dr. Joe Vitale, wrote his 81st book by transcribing a 2-hour seminar.
The three keys to succeeding in this course are planning, redefining, in mindset. I believe mindset is the most important. I will leave you with a quote by the great Henry Ford.
“If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are right.”
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Whispers of the Mind: How Thoughts Become Things
Humans have a hidden superpower. With it we can both create and destroy. In most people it is raw, unfiltered and troublesome. But, if we could train it and hone it to perfection, it is powerful enough to change the world.
There’s a wise old saying that says, “for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” What does that mean, exactly? It means you become what you think about regularly. Your consistent thoughts become your actions, and your actions change the reality around you. I know this sounds like a bunch of hoodoos, but I promise you there’s science behind it.
What if we trained our minds to create instead of to destroy? We could change the world with one mind at a time.
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4 Words for Today
Four words for today….
Relax….Release… Grow…Become
Relax – the answers will come in their time
Release – all the stress, negative thoughts, anger and hurt
Grow – allow yourself to grow anyways. Don’t cut yourself off and stagnate
Become – when the storm clears you will become what you’re meant to be
I don’t know if this helps you but this is what I got this morning when I’ve been seeking answers. Love you all.
Local Award-Winning Author, Synova Cantrell to be featured on Discovery Channel
Local Award-Winning Author, Synova Cantrell to be featured on Discovery Channel
Cantrell teams up to retell the story of one legendary Sheriff who battled the State Line mob and the Dixie Mafia. Buford Pusser was stabbed seven times and shot eight, but he kept getting back up. His brutal battle with moonshiners is what attracted the attention of the producers of the popular TV Series Moonshiners.
Cantrell’s book was discovered during the research phase, and the local crime writer turned coach was brought on board.
On May 10, 2023, at 7 pm Central, Moonshiners Mysteries: True Crime & Shine will air on the Discovery Channel. Tune in for a tall tale that happens to be true.
Who is Synova Cantrell?
After a decade in the world of true crime & victim advocacy, Cantrell has taken her 10,000 hours of study & entered the self-help field. She’s a certified NLP Life Coach through the American Union of NLP. She’s also the owner of Synova’s Simply Biz author coaching service & an award-winning crime writer with over 300 cases under her belt. (Or pen, whatever!) One of her books was even endorsed by a retired FBI Agent!
To top it all off, a flag was flown over the Capitol in Washington D.C. to honor her cold case work!!!
Synova’s life coaching includes elements of NLP, practical psychology, biblical principles, and biochemistry. You can live a more abundant life and enjoy the journey!
Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine [Norman Cousins]
Norman Cousins was an Editor, Author, and Philosopher who found his young life plagued with illness. In 1964, he was diagnosed with a deadly connective tissue disease and ankylosing spondylitis that left him paralyzed and in excruciating pain. The doctors gave him no hope, but he had been studying how emotions affect the body’s biochemistry and decided to try something radical. He checked out of the hospital where death hung in the air like the black fog from a diesel engine.
Instead, he checked himself into a quiet hotel room where his doctor would visit him in a peaceful atmosphere. He was in extreme pain and sleep was rare. Then the nurses would routinely wake him and disturb him even more. Here in this peaceful place, he could sleep. Pain pills wouldn’t touch his pain. At one point they were giving him 36 Aspirin a day!
In desperation, Cousins started laughter therapy and found that if he could really laugh for ten minutes he would have two hours of pain free, peaceful sleep. This encouraged him to continue even though the act of laughing was terribly painful. With this routine and keeping himself in a restful environment Norman began to improve. The doctor added massive doses of vitamin C to his health regimen and Norman walked out of that hotel. This was impossible because his spine was supposed to fuse together and he was going to have to choose between sitting or laying flat on his back for the rest of his life. Instead, he carved his own path and now laughter therapy is a well known, scientifically documented reality.
Read more about this amazing story in his book
Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient
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Humans have a hidden superpower. With it we can both create and destroy. In most people it is raw, unfiltered and troublesome. But, if we could train it and hone it to perfection, it is powerful enough to change the world.
There’s a wise old saying that says, “for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” What does that mean, exactly? It means you become what you think about regularly. Your consistent thoughts become your actions, and your actions change the reality around you. I know this sounds like a bunch of hoodoos, but I promise you there’s science behind it.
What if we trained our minds to create instead of to destroy? We could change the world with one mind at a time.
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10 Daily Confidence-Building Affirmations:
10 Daily Confidence-Building Affirmations:
1. I am enough. (You’re infinitely more capable than you realize)
2. I am going to be okay. ( Things will get better if we can let go of the past)
3. Good things are coming for me. (It’s just like the four seasons. Winter is hard, but Spring always comes)
4. Today I choose Happiness (You must choose Happiness or defeat every day)
5. The past is over. ( Stop ruminating over it)
6. I love myself.(You are worthy of love)
7. I am proud of myself. ( You should be. You’ve been through so much)
8. I am letting go of doubt and fear. (Let those energy suckers go!)
9. My life is worth living. (Yes it is! You are here for a reason)
10. I focus on what I can control (Where focus goes, energy flows)
Mind Games [Breaking Bad Habits]
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Mind Games:
“…be transformed by the renewing of your mind” – ancient proverb
What does your mind look like? No, your mind is not the brain inside your skull. The organ inside your head is a highly sophisticated electronic switching station. The essence that makes you who you are goes beyond such an organ. We have a hard time picturing the mind’s appearance because we have never seen it physically, but our brain searches for an image to identify things.
Use this graphic as a mental picture of your mind. Notice the head is massive compared to the body. In reality, it should even be more prominent. See, our minds control so much of our lives it should be quite a bit bigger by comparison. I’ve talked about this before, but today I want to talk about a specific part of our mind that acts like a servomechanism.
Definition: A servomechanism is an automatic device that senses when the mechanism is off track and repositions it until it’s back on track. Some examples would be the autopilot of an airplane or the thermostat in your house. Our minds do the same thing! Unfortunately, it doesn’t always benefit us.
Our mind is designed to protect us, but when we’ve spent a lifetime building bad habits, that servomechanism pulls back in line with the very pattern we are trying to break. Our habits and beliefs are embedded deep within the subconscious mind, and those things are what programs the mechanism in the first place. What happens when we try to change for the better? If it goes against those subconscious beliefs, then our minds will fight against us.
So, how do we break through that old negative programming? It’s like going up against a proverbial Goliath, and many people simply don’t have the courage to do it. Our minds are also equipped with a fight or flight mechanism, and it’s much easier to run than it is to fight sometimes. Today I encourage you to stay and fight.
The old saying above talks about renewing the mind. How do we renew our minds? How can we banish our fears and stand up to the preprogramming that no longer serves us? How can we program in new habits and beliefs? It’s simple, but it’s not quick. It takes repetition and time.
Think about it. How many times did you hear or see something that created the habit in the first place? It took years of programming. What limiting beliefs are lurking deep within your subconscious? How can we reverse them?
- I’m not good enough
- God’s got better things to think about than my little problems
- Things work out for other people but not for me
- I’m not worthy of God’s blessings
These are just a few examples of the lies we get programmed with. Here’s one more for you. For centuries doctors and scientists told us that after a certain age, your gray matter started to die, and there was nothing that could be done. You were just out of luck, and you had to accept your fate.
Now, we know better. There’s a whole new branch of medical science that centers around Neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to form and reorganize neurological connections. We can literally renew our minds with repetition and time. It’s crazy. That passage about renewing the mind was written thousands of years ago, but we are just now figuring out how it’s possible.
Homework Assignment:
Write down a list of the negative programming in your subconscious mind. Keep the list on the left-hand side of the paper. Then turn your paper to the side and write ‘lie’ in big red letters across the entire list. Turn your paper back to normal. List the opposite to each lie on the right-hand side of the paper and highlight each one in a yellow highlighter so they really stand out. Post this paper next to your bathroom mirror to where you have to see it every day. Slowly you’ll start to believe the right-hand side of the paper, and you’ll identify the old programming as lies.
Coming Soon!
Humans have a hidden superpower. With it we can both create and destroy. In most people it is raw, unfiltered and troublesome. But, if we could train it and hone it to perfection, it is powerful enough to change the world.
There’s a wise old saying that says, “for as a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” What does that mean, exactly? It means you become what you think about regularly. Your consistent thoughts become your actions, and your actions change the reality around you. I know this sounds like a bunch of hoodoos, but I promise you there’s science behind it.
What if we trained our minds to create instead of to destroy? We could change the world with one mind at a time.
Have you signed Up for Synova’s Free E-Book?
What’s Holding You Back? Is it a Limit or a Limiting Belief?
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What’s holding you back from achieving your heart’s desire? Sure, there might be logical reasons, but most of the time, it’s nothing more than a few limiting beliefs.
What are limiting beliefs?
Before May 6th, 1954, science said running a mile in under four minutes was impossible. The entire world believed it. It sounds very logical. Unfortunately, it was not true. Read that again. It was not true!
Roger Bannister was determined to break the barrier, and he did on May 6th. That day he finished at 3: 59. With one race, Bannister broke a limiting belief held by the entire world. Think about it. This belief was held by humanity for six thousand years of recorded history, and one man broke it with one amazing foot race.
So let me ask you a question. Think about all of the reasons you can’t achieve success. Write them down. Then I want you to study them carefully. Are they limits, or are they limiting beliefs?
If you think Roger Bannister was just some superhuman, let me tell you another tidbit of information. His record only lasted 46 days! Somebody else broke it six weeks later. Now more than 1400 men have broken the barrier.
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So was it really a limit, or was it a mindset? It was a limiting belief.
How many times have you told yourself? You can’t succeed because you went to the wrong school or didn’t have enough money. If you study the most successful people in the world, you will find that most of them didn’t go to the right school, have the right name, or have enough money.
You’ll find people with dyslexia that failed school. When you start studying successful people, you’ll find high school dropouts, college dropouts, poverty-stricken people, and people of all sizes, shapes, and colors. It doesn’t matter what your limiting belief is. It can be overcome.
I think about one example that hit me hard. When I first heard it. I was writing true crime stories back then and listened to an interview given by Sammy the bull. For those who don’t know, he was John Gotti’s underboss. In this interview, he blamed everything on the fact that he had dyslexia and didn’t do good in school. No one was there to guide him, so he just went off the rails. Now, this sounds legitimate. But then listen to this. Richard Branson has dyslexia too. He didn’t do well in school either. At the time of this writing, he is worth 3 billion dollars!
If that doesn’t surprise you enough, guess who else is on the list of famous dyslexics on Google.? Albert Einstein! Yes, you read that right. The man known for his IQ and genius had dyslexia.
So let me ask you again. Why can’t you achieve what you’re going after? Are those excuses valid? Maybe you need to learn a new skill or find a mentor, but you can overcome your perceived limits most of the time.
Recommended Reading:
Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
What is possible in your life? Those with a fully expanded belief system would answer that virtually anything they want to do or become is possible.
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-Synova