“Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.” - Deepak Chopra

According to Lissa Rankin, MD, who runs an integrative medicine practice and is the author of the book Mind Over Medicine, “The key to remember is how our minds feel as we go about our day—how relaxed, happy, and fulfilled we are—gets translated into the physiology of the body.”

That's why she says sometimes healthy people make themselves sick or under perform because of their thoughts and beliefs. 

Do you know any of these people?

We can tap into the power of the mind to feel better or worse.

Here is an example I learned from Russell Wilson’s mental performance coach, Trevor Moawad (who has also done mental coaching for national championship programs like Alabama and Florida State). These story highlights are from a 1978 edition of the magazine Success Unlimited, which featured an article written by Dr. Harold R. McAlindon called, You Can if You Believe You Can—Reflections on Human Potential:

• In Russia, a railway employee accidentally locked himself in a refrigerator car and couldn’t get out.
• He started writing sentences on the wall of the car as he became colder and his body became numb. He wrote: "Slowly freezing to death…I can hardly write…These may be my last words.”
• Though he was found dead, the temperature of the car was actually fifty-six degrees because the freezing mechanism was out of order. In reality, there was no physical reason for his death.
• The employee was the victim of deception created in his mind—his mind told his body that he was freezing to death, and his mind won.
• Our minds are powerful and capable of creating the future. Never underestimate the power of your mind.

Are your thoughts hurting or helping you perform as your best self?

Pay more attention to your thoughts. Notice unproductive thought patterns. 

Challenge your negative thoughts with these two questions:

1. Is that thought true?
2. Said by who?

Develop a self-talk game plan to redirect unproductive thinking. We call this your “advertising campaign.” Take out a notecard and write down answers for these three questions:

1. Past Success
2. Habits you are doing to “earn” the right to be confident
3. Three “I am ___” statements

Use this “ad campaign” system to make your thoughts become physical in a productive way. Never forget: Thoughts Become Things.”

Quiet Mind is the blueprint you need to get out of your own way, gain clarity on what you want, and build a system to get there. Written by top rated speaker, mental performance coach, and founder of Master Your Mindset, Collin Henderson, the goal of this book is to help you find inner-peace, confidence, and maximize the most powerful tool you have to execute your goals: your mind.