Life Builders By Julie Hamilton

You are a brain surgeon.  When you wake up everyday, you literally get to sculpt the physical structure of your brain by choosing your thoughts. In this episode, we cover the body's physical responses to negative vs. positive thoughts down to a cellular and molecular level! It's fascinating to see how even water responds very differently to positive vs. negative influences which gives us a clue to the incredible power of thought on our bodies-- because we are mostly made out of water!

Today's topics include: brain's structural response to love vs. fear based thoughts, a tip to change a fear thought, cell growth state vs protective state, impact of negative and positive influence on the molecular structure of water, Emoto's water experiments

Action Step: Take every thought captive. If you identify a fear based thought, use gratitude to flip that thought to love based. 

Resource:

1) "Yield" Stainless Steel Sculpture by Roxie Paine at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. (resembles brain structure of a fear based thought). Interestingly, the artist describes it as a "dendroid" and not a tree. Thought structures are called "dendrites."

2) Pictures of water molecule experiment with Dr. Masaru Emoto. How does negative vs. positive influence affect the structure of water molecules?

3 minute YouTube Video

Photos of Emoto's results

The amount of actions that your subconscious mind is responsible for is crazy.  Your conscious mind only handles a small part of all the decision making and actions daily. Here's how & when the subconscious is formed, how & why you can change your beliefs and how you can purposefully capitalize on using brain waves, whether your goal is creativity or rest! 

Today's topics include: Forming of subconscious, conscious decisions, changing limiting beliefs, free will, limiting beliefs in marriage, brain waves

Action: Write down 3 subconscious beliefs that were engrained before you were 6 years old. 

Resource: Spotify playlists according to brain wave speed -- 

For creativity, work, study, choose

Beta Brain Waves

Beta Waves Brain Power Vital Energy

Brainwaves Beta

Study - Deep Concentration

For calm or rest choose

Alpha Brainwaves Music

Alpha Brainwaves Music

For sleep

Search playlists with Theta or Delta Brain Waves

Whether you're strutting or struggling right now, this brand new 7-day series "The Power of Thought" is for you! For those on a mission, the next 7 days is going to teach you how to maximize your brain and mind's potential to build a strong life and a great future.  For those who are struggling with your thoughts right now, this series is going to give you some life preservers to hang on to! I'm geeking out because this is one of my favorite topics to learn and share about, so here are some of the things you can expect from this series: a daily action step and extra resource to support your learning, learning how your subconscious affects your daily life, why you are literally a brain surgeon every day, how to move out of old thinking patterns into new, the intricate and fascinating ways in which thought controls body (even DNA) and how & why thoughts are contagious.

Today's topics include: Brain power, Placebo Effect, the power of a thought

Action step: Just sit back and observe your conscious thoughts today. Look for 1) how you speak to your self 2) whether your thoughts are mostly in past, present, or future and 3) the source of/influence on your thoughts.

Resource: Heal Your Body with Your Mind: Dr. Joe Dispenza on Lewis Howes "School of Greatness" podcast

A practical tip to using the power of NO! This tip has been so insightful for my own life because I love to say YES! From Kyle Maynard in "Tribe of Mentors" by Tim Ferriss. Also find out about the exciting series I'm doing on my podcast next week! I'm geeking out about "The Power of Thought" 7-day series! 

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new," according to Albert Einstein. Find out why failures aren’t fatal & are even an important part of progress and success, at least according to the most successful people on the planet! Don't feel defeated because of the learning process--you either win or you learn. You never lose. Your experiences are not wasted.  I even share one of my most costly learning experiences, to the tune of $7K. 

"Dream of future bigness, but be ready to begin at once, no matter how small or insignificant the beginning may appear to others." True stories about why there’s no shame in starting small! “You’ve got a lot of starting lines to conquer—stay prepared!” - Coach Chris Bennett- PS: and also—get a will 😂 Excerpts from "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell

Oh my goodness! I laughed until I cried on this one! Here are some of the weirdest & funniest questions parents ask AND one question people are asking you every day...even if they don’t say it! Don’t be the one that can’t answer!

One simple question about self compassion helped heal a traumatic time in my life & will continue to bring freedom to all of us if we ask it in the face of failure, disappointment, or loss. “Live Free: The Inner Journey to Healing” by Gayle Belanger.  PS: I would like to note that Gayle is actually FIVE years younger than I stated! I thought she looked really young for her age (or what I thought I remembered it was!)

The more women I talk to, the more I hear about this topic that I've been through myself -- How can I follow my husband and keep moving forward if they're not leading?? Here are some practical tips about why people are like confetti, how to help create leaders & see them grow, and how to accept different forms of leadership (+ a note about the prison of expectations.) Real, honest chat about dealing with faith & leadership in the home.

Don't beat yourself up for feeling behind! You are running right on time for your own story! We are all getting to our destiny in a unique way!

Are you using what is in your hands right now? Don't let what you DON'T have hold you back---use what you DO have. Don't wait until the right time to start...it may expire. Start right here, right now with what you have. Inspired by "Acres of Diamonds" & "Everybody Always." 

Some of you are in huge mental, physical, & spiritual battles for your life right now! Here are a few practical tips from inside the ring to get you through to the next round!! You're going to make it! Special mention to Roze Abernathy (@dear.younger.self) in this video and thanks to Matias Martial Arts for teaching me some hard lessons :))

Here are six simple words we’ve probably all said (at least Damion & I said them to each other last week) that show how absolutely twisted our perspective is when we say them! If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, it's time to water your own grass!

How do the tallest trees on the planet endure the harshest winds & still stand? They have a very shallow root system, but yet manage to remain standing through earthquakes, raging floods, and high winds. How can you withstand the storms of life and still stand tall? Here's an important lesson we can learn from the California Coastal Redwood! Inspired by Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast "How Effective Leaders Handle Criticism" and Next Level Living Podcast with Chrissy Helmer.

Fear will always be with us and is even good for us, but we don’t have to let it be the GPS! Time to stop letting fear drive the train and put it in the most healthy place. Inspired by “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert 

When we're at the ground level, our thoughts are often limited and about ourselves. But if we can get a higher perspective, we can see our difficult situations in a much different light! A recent tough, uphill hike at Angel Island taught me this so clearly! Here are questions we can ask that will give us a bigger perspective.

Doris came up through the mud, but it has long since been washed away to reveal the diamonds. This hope inspiring interview will fill you with a new perspective on humanity, compassion, and what God can do in a life! Here are some of the things we chatted about: Fun things coming up in Napa, (4:56) Why there's no perfect home,(5:30) Why we measure our lives by comparison, (6:10) How Doris came up through the mud, (7:15) Figuring out childhood trauma as an adult, (8:55) Moving beyond yesterday and into the future "Yesterday is old news!" (9:24) Don't chase the mud of yesterday, (10:15) Finding acceptance & community that she'd never experienced before changed her life as a child, (12:10) *trigger warning* Just one example of how God MIRACULOUSLY saved her life after being drugged & kidnapped, (16:58) Being a foster mom to 100+ teen boys and creating the home she wanted as a child, (18:26) A foster story 10 years in the making that makes her cry, (24:10) Lack of education & why most people assume that she has much more education that she actually does, (25:28) The only difference between her and the person on the couch, (26:18) Life is never wasted. There are no throwaway kids, no throwaway people, and (27:36) Why Doris has so much hope for the future of America! 

Ever feel like your life is small or insignificant? Don’t! You are a part of something so much bigger than yourself! You are part of God's story! Here's how you are already affecting up to 1K people a day and a story that proves that no matter how small our actions, they are still making a BIG impact! Book: “Restless” by Jennie Allen