It's Up to You, livre ebook

Personal Growth Comes with Changing Your Mind

"Casey challenges us to see that the only things we can control are our own attitudes and behaviors. It is possible to change the ways we respond to others and to the difficulties that come our way." —Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice

Letting go of codependent relationships, finding inner peace, and changing your life starts with intentional daily practices.

Bestselling author Karen Casey has sold over 3 million books that draw upon meditations, motivations, and religion, providing inspiration and support to tens of thousands of her fans worldwide. Among her most influential books are 52 Ways to Live the Course in Miracles and Let Go Now.

Find inner peace for personal growth. If you’ve felt blocked by old behavior patterns, read It’s Up to You which offers 12 principles for changing your life by changing your thinking. As you apply these simple yet powerful principles, you’ll find it easier to embrace positive thoughts.

All change is incremental. Apply the principles in this book one day at a time, one week at a time, to produce a healthy positive mental attitude. Karen Casey has crafted principles to teach you how meditation, paying attention, and making choices for real life change is in your hands.

With daily readings and meditations, this book teaches you how to:

• Be more positive and find your purpose in life
• Let go of codependency, judgments, and change your life
• Surrender and give up control of the uncontrollable

If you’re looking for inspirational books, mindful gifts, quotes about thinking positive, or mindfulness books for adults—or enjoyed books like A Year of Positive Thinking or 5-Minute Daily Meditations—then you’ll love It's Up to You.

Welcome to It’s Up to You, the companion book to Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow. It’s Up to You grew out of discussions with a number of people about how to take the ideas presented in Change Your Mind and apply them, incrementally, a week at a time. There are twelve weeks’ worth of messages, two for each day of the week—one for the morning and one to close the day—based on the specific principles contained in each of the twelve chapters.

My own journey in Twelve Step rooms has taught me that all change is incremental. I have also learned that the willingness to change is the necessary first step anyone must take, or nothing changes at all. No one turns to a book like this one, or its companion book, unless they have felt blocked by old behavior patterns. The good news is, you have already shown your willingness to try something different.

I am convinced because of the miracles that have happened in my own life that miracles will happen for you too. The shift in our way of thinking, a shift that makes everything more joyful and peaceful, can’t be avoided when we begin to apply the principles contained in this little book. Even applying one principle occasionally benefits us in ways we’d not imagined possible.

When taken one day at a time, one week at a time, life will become different. It will be more manageable, more productive, more purposeful. It will be more hopeful. And it will be more peaceful. That’s a promise I can safely make.

Now it’s time to begin. You may want to keep a notebook or journal to record your thoughts about the daily messages. Enjoy every step of the way. This is a journey you will treasure because of its simplicity, and it’s one that will affect you for the rest of your life.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Week 1: Tend Your Own Garden
Week 2: Seek Solutions
Week 3: Let Go of Outcomes
Week 4: Change Your Mind
Week 5: Choose to Act Rather Than React
Week 6: Give Up Your Judgments
Week 7: Remember That You Are Not in Control
Week 8: Discover Your Own Lessons
Week 9: Do No Harm
Week 10: Quiet Your Mind
Week 11: Every Encounter Is a Holy Encounter—Act Accordingly
Week 12: Choose the Quiet Voice of Loving-Kindness

Closing Thoughts

About the Author