CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CREATE A NEW MIND FOR YOUR NEW
FUTURE
(Week Four)
STEP 7: CREATING AND REHEARSING
Week Four will be a bit different from previous weeks. First, as you read
and write for Step 7, you will receive knowledge about creating and
instruction on the “how-to” process of using mental rehearsal. Then you’ll
read the Guided Mental-Rehearsal Meditation to follow, to familiarize you
with this new process.
Next, it’s time to do what you have learned. Every day this week, you
will practice the Week Four meditation, which includes Steps 1 through 7.
As you listen, you will apply the focused attention and repetition you have
employed to create the new you and your new destiny.
Overview: Creating and Rehearsing the New You
Before you begin the final series of steps, I want to point out that the
preceding steps were all designed to help you break the habit of being
yourself so that you could make room both consciously and energetically
for reinventing a new self. Up until this point, you’ve worked at pruning
away old synaptic connections. Now it’s time to sprout new ones, so that
the new mind you create will become the platform of who you will be in
your future.
Your previous efforts have facilitated unlearning some things about your
old self. You’ve weeded out many aspects of the old you. You’ve become
familiar with your unconscious states of mind that represent how you
thought, behaved, and felt. Through the practice of metacognition, you’ve
consciously observed the routine, habitual ways your brain fired within the