You experience what you think

MindAffects™ was developed from the knowledge that there is a real cause-and-effect relationship between what you think and what you experience. Mastering the art of thinking productive thoughts can bring profound and positive changes to your life. These changes in turn may relieve, even alter, the life situations that contribute to stress, depression, and even illness. Changing your perception is not enough. Stress and depression will not really go away until their causes go away. The MindAffects™ process addresses and acts on these root causes by creating positive and desirable experiences. MindAffects™ is fully described in Joanne Rodasta's Take a Moment and Create Your Life!

You have free will to create your life

While many self-help and spiritual movements already instruct that our conscious thoughts help to create our lives, a full embracing of your ego’s qualities and characteristics is often not included in the equation. MindAffects™ cultivates a fertile relationship between your conscious free-will and your subconscious ego. It puts them on the same page so they want the same thing for you. When this alignment occurs, you can consciously create positive future experiences.

You want what you want for a reason, and you can have it.

There really is a reason you want what you want, and you come equipped with the tools to create it. You just have to understand how to use these tools to maximize your ability to create what you want. Remember, you are the artist of your own life. You are in control of the paint, the brush and the canvas. Embracing and acknowledging that kind of power can be an overwhelming proposition for many people, especially if they have tried and failed with other methodologies. MindAffect™ gently and gradually helps you understand your magnificent power so that you can create your dreams and desire.

MindAffects™ reaches beyond conventional psychology and self-help methods by applying the findings of mind-matter scientific research, and extends beyond conventional motivational and spiritual work by making your ego a full partner in the mind-body equation. Practical applications of mind-matter and body-mind research are currently used by athletes, the medical community, entrepreneurs, and people who realize that planting the right thought or vision in the subconscious is a major key to producing desired effects in the future. Simply stated, by learning how to give your ego positive virtual experiences, your imagined reality can become your true reality.

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Take a Moment and Create Your Life! Joanne C. Rodasta, M.A. © 1997, Spiritsmith Co. $9.95 ISBN 0-0652628-0-4 LCN 96-092601 Distributed by New Leaf Available through Amazon.com

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From Northern Sun
What you eat becomes your body, and what you think becomes your experience. This is the theme of Joanne Rodasta’s new book, Take a Moment and Create Your Life! Rodasta explains the thought-experience connection by presenting credible evidence that each of us comes equipped with a “creative system” that turns thoughts, even subconscious thoughts, into experiences, much like a digestive system turns food into tissues.
Take a Moment leads the reader on a tour of his creative system and allows him to see the steps it took to create the events of his life. Included in the tour is a description of what a creative system needs to produce positive experiences and a list of symptoms a creative system might send to warn when it is forming a negative experience. She challenges the reader to create experiences based on desire rather than fear. This is a must-read for those of us interested in creating lives of wellness. Tools for doing this provided in this highly recommended book.

From Concepts
You are what you eat! is a familiar phrase to many of us. A similar concept introduced in this book is: What you think becomes your experience. This is the theme of Joanne Rodasta’s new book, Take a Moment and Create Your Life! Rodasta explains the very real existence of a body system that designs and creates experiences much as our other body systems regulate breathing and food digestion. Rodasta presents a very easy to read and understand process of learning to identify and transform fears that translate to beliefs and life experiences.
Each chapter includes exercises and journal tips for the reader to immediately being pinpointing challenging areas. According to Ms. Rodasta, now we can create experiences based on desire rather than fear, since focusing on what we fear creates what we fear. She has given readers the tools needed to learn to create the experiences they truly desire. Do something good for yourself and “take a moment” to look for this book at your local bookseller. Top

From Network Quarterly
Not only does Joanne Rodasta provide guidance on how to create your life by defining beliefs that create experiences, she also connects to the spiritual side of physics in an easy to understand manner. I especially like her parallels to cars -- something both males and females can relate to such as, “Your feelings are the dashboard of your life.” She makes excellent points about self-exteem/self-worth, like: if your dashboard tells you your car needs fuel to keep going, do you get into a discussion about self-worth, or do you put more gas in the tank. This book contains good, common sense that often goes unrecognized from the fog (or smog) of erroneous ego beliefs that need a new filter. A practical, enjoyable, and useful book.

From The Book Reader
“If you think a perfect life is impossible, guess what you create!” This powerful exploration of cause and effect challengest he reader to create life experiences that focus on desire, not fear. A pro-active approach that can make a permanent change. “Many of the beliefs we formed as children are still maintained as gospel by our egos.” That can be a bummer, especially if one has been permitting fear to keep control. As long as people believe negative things will happen, their creative energy will see to it. Rodasta, teacher and consultant who decised this Life-Creating process, examines feedback, how to want what you want, the disadvantage of being tentatitve, how to make dreams a reality. In a chapter which celebrates the individual as architent, one reads of fmiliar habits. “Horse are wonderful animals; sharks are dangerous.” Who says? Movies, stories, conversations, mass media. Experiences. Some are real, some are vicarious and lived through others. Some are just imagined or dreamed. One of her steps: change your experiences and you will change what you believe. Sample antidote: write down your goal ten times a day. Dilbert creator Scott Adams uses it. “Our emotions are signals letting us know what our ego things. Negative emotions are red lights, and positive emotions are green lights.” Hey, the illuminator is verdant. Go for it!

From the International Society for Philosophical Inquiry’s Telicom
by Bob Skinner
If you enjoyed Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, you will appreciate the in-depth think and analysis behind Joanne C. Rodasta’s new book: Take a Moment and Create Your Life! Joanne carefully explains how your thoughts, attitudes, and expectations can lead to the desired -- or feared --- result. Her examples are both realistic and personal. Are you dreading the job interview because you think you’ll do poorly? Chances are you will do poorly. Do you feel good about yourself and the presentation you’re sceduled to give? Chances are that you’ll do well. Joanne’s visualization techniques really bring the concepts home. Her Life-Creating process embodies an interesting meld of quantum mechanics, psychology and physiology and leads the reader to greater self-enlightenment, showing us how to build positive outcomes from negative experiences. If you’re looking for a true “self-help” book, don’t miss Joanne Rodasta’s Take a Moment and Create Your Life!
NOT: Joanne Rodasta has changed the term Life-Creating to MindAffects™.


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Your Creative System
YOU ARE A NETWORK OF SYSTEMS
Your body is a magical, miraculous mechanism. With very little input from you, it is busy doing all the things required to keep you healthy and alive. Its activities range from regulating your metabolism so that you stay warm and nourished to creating enzymes and cells that build your strength and fight infections. One reason your body functions so efficiently is because it is made up of a network of systems, each having a specific set of tasks to perform which are necessary to assure your health and survival. Your digestive system has its job cut out breaking down the food you consume and transforming it into energy and tissue, while your circulatory system is busy pumping your blood encouraging it to course through your body. In no case can one system do the job of another. You would never expect your respiratory system to digest your food, nor would you expect your endocrine system to produce your children.

Your body's systems, while apparently independent, are not self-sufficient, and they must work together as they perform their jobs. Your reproductive system, for example, relies on your endocrine system to excrete the appropriate kinds and amounts of hormones needed to support the creation of babies. Likewise, your muscular system depends on the efficiency of your nervous system to send messages which activate muscle responses.

Thus, while each system has a specific function to perform, your systems are interrelated in some way and cannot perform their tasks without the help of the others.
THE SYSTEM THAT CREATES YOUR EXPERIENCES
A new concept introduced in this book is that everything you experience is also controlled by a body system, namely your "creative system". Your creative system is a part of your overall design package, just like all of your body's other systems.

So, besides having systems to digest food, regulate hormones, and absorb oxygen, you also have a system which designs and creates your experiences. It creates your relationships with others, your various achievements, your health and physical stature, and all the big and little events which make up your everyday existence.

Your creative system operates by taking in your experiences, forming beliefs about them, and then creating new experiences based on the beliefs. In short, you would say that your creative system makes new experiences out of your old ones. As you read further about Life-Creating, the process which is taught in this book, the dynamic correlation between what you experience and what you believe will become very apparent.
For now, take a look at a sequence of events which at first glance appears to be only marginally related. Jake's neighbor had recently been burglarized on a Saturday afternoon while she was in her backyard planting fruit trees. From Jake's perspective, it seemed that burglaries were becoming a greater danger in his neighborhood, even though a burglary had not occurred on his block for more than two years prior to this.

As would be expected, Jake was furious about anyone trespassing in his neighborhood, and spent a lot of time talking about it and planning what he should do to inhibit a thief from stealing his possessions. A week later, again on a Saturday, Jake discovered that his lawn mower was missing, which only served to further convince him that burglaries were indeed becoming a greater danger in his neighborhood. Even though he discovered a couple of days later that he had inadvertently left them over semi-hidden behind a tree in his back yard, he still kept up his mental discussions about how burglaries were definitely becoming a problem in his neighborhood.

A month later, the stereo was stolen out of his car, and it was never found again. At this point, Jake felt totally confident in his conclusion that burglaries were increasing in his neighborhood.

While these events seem merely coincidental, a closer examination reveals their connectedness. When Jake noticed that his neighbor had been burglarized, he formed a belief about the situation that actually became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Jake's belief that his neighborhood was becoming a magnet for burglars was transformed by his creative system into experiences in which he lost his lawn mower and his car stereo.
At the same time, the experiences themselves compelled Jake to form even stronger beliefs about the increase in neighborhood burglaries. Thus, what he believed, his creative system created, and what his creative system created reinforced what he believed.

Of course, the same type of scenario holds true for positive experiences. Had Jake had an experience in which he won a raise or a bonus for a job well done, he would have believed that he gets the credit he deserves. Based on this belief, his creative system would have then created another experience in which he would be congratulated for a job well done, perhaps in the form of a promotion. This would have strengthened his belief that he gets the credit he deserves, which (you guessed it) would then be recreated by his creative system as yet another experience in which he is honored for his brilliance and creativity, this time perhaps in the form a personal interview in a trade magazine.

IT NEEDS YOU
Because your creative system is designed to create experiences, it has the potential to create any type of life experience you wish to have.
If you want happy, positive experiences, it can create them. All you have to do is have happy experiences which foster positive beliefs which will then become positive experiences.

If you want to have negative experiences, it can create these too. Again, all you have to do is have negative experiences which foster negative beliefs which will transform into negative experiences.
If you get the feeling that this has been oversimplified and that some steps have been lift out, your are right! There is much more to it than this. But in a nutshell, what you experience now determines what you experience in the future, because what your experience today results in beliefs which your creative system transforms into your future experiences.

Your creative system cannot create what you want without your help. Since your creative system cannot create positive experiences if it does not have positive beliefs, sometimes you will have to provide it the positive beliefs it lacks. And since it cannot create positive beliefs if it does not have positive experiences, there will be times when you simply have to provide the favorable experiences it lacks. This may sound impossible, but it is not. Life-Creating will show you how.

SEEING IS BELIEVING
One of the easiest ways to see how your creative system creates your experiences is to actually use your own life as an example. So, beginning in chapter four, Life-Creating will use your life to illustrate the course your creative system has followed in creating your life experiences. As a result you will see, step-by-step, how your creative system's components have worked both separately and together to create all of the happiness that you have experienced in your life, as well as all of the drama and complications.

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