Change your mind and your life will follow: 12 simple principles

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Tend your own garden -- Stop focusing on problems so their solutions can emerge -- Let go of outcomes -- Change your mind -- Choose to act rather than react -- Give up your judgments -- Remember that you are not in control -- Discover your own lessons -- Do no harm -- Quiet your mind -- Every encounter is a holy encounter -- respond accordingly -- There are two voices in your mind -- one is always wrong -- Shortcuts for changing our minds and our lives : a summary.;Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow suggests that we have only two real choices in life. The first is to fall into despair, become numb, and let fear have its way with us. The second is to open our hearts to those around us, to heal ourselves and each other by changing how we respond in every interaction. We cannot change a person. We often cannot change a situation. We can change how we react. We can learn to act out of our own hearts rather than to react in hurt or anger. We can remember we are not in control. When we stop focusing on problems, solutions tend to appear. Tend your own garden -- Stop focusing on problems so their solutions can emerge -- Let go of outcomes -- Change your mind -- Choose to act rather than react -- Give up your judgments -- Remember that you are not in control -- Discover your own lessons -- Do no harm -- Quiet your mind -- Every encounter is a holy encounter -- respond accordingly -- There are two voices in your mind -- one is always wrong -- Shortcuts for changing our minds and our lives : a summary.