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How we respond to the world, and the mindset we adopt in doing so, can be game-changing…..

November 24, 2023
By Damon Bowen-Ashwin

We are powerful beings, we truly are. Our minds and bodies are capable of so much more than we have grown up to believe, and I’d love to prove it to you.
As part of my ongoing mission to inspire people to believe that we are powerful beings, I am always keen to talk to people about mindset and demonstrate how we can create the right conditions so that we believe, think and act by the rules that we can do anything if we put our minds to it….ANYTHING.

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The world is going to keep happening around us, it can be quite hard to control! The one thing we are able to control though, is our thoughts and actions.

This does however, take practice. It takes awareness, motivation, inspiration, desire, focus and determination to change old habits (mental and physical) and install new ones.

With the right mindset and healthy empowering habits, we can control how we respond to this crazy world….and that is far more powerful than we realise. How we respond to the world, and the mindset we adopt in doing so, is everything.

For me personally, a significant and life changing shift in mindset came from inspiration.

What is sometimes overlooked in today’s society, is that conditions and changes need to come from within. Life is going to keep happening around us, the world is going to keep turning, and if you really want to change your life and change your world, then you have to change the way you look at it. You have to change your mindset.

As humans, we tend to like proof. Proof gives us something tangible to go off and believe in. I’d like to share with you my proof. It’s up to you then what you do with my proof. I hope it plants a little seed of hope, inspiration and possibility…

It’s the end of May 2021. I’m due an MRI check-up scan to see how the residual mass of my brain tumour is doing. For those of you who aren’t aware, brain tumours are graded just like other cancers, from 1 to 4. Generally speaking, grade 2 and above are diffused. This means that if surgery is performed, it is a debulking process and the aim is to remove as much as possible without damaging anymore of the healthy part of the brain. The residual mass that is left is then monitored.

So, is it shrinking, is it stable or is it growing? The big fear of which I was constantly running from was what if it grows?

Can you guess what happened? Yep, that’s right, it had grown. It won’t surprise you when I tell you that I was absolutely petrified. The thoughts going through my mind, that I would from time to time utter, were:

I’m 40 years old, I’m scared I might not live to see 50

This was my state of mind at the beginning of June 2021. Six weeks later, exactly the same world….but one thing hand fundamentally changed….my mindset.

It didn’t happen overnight, but towards the end of the six weeks I found my hope, inspiration and proof. Proof that we really are powerful beings, and that our minds and bodies are infinitely more powerful than we realise.

My source for this realisation and shift in belief system, and so shift in mindset, was Wim Hof and the Wim Hof Method and the book Radical Remission by Kelly A. turner Ph.D.

Wim Hof was a man who was defying the odds and capturing the attention of the medical world with his stunts and experiments. Here was a man who underwent a science experiment agreeing to be injected with endotoxin, a dead bacteria, and all he was armed with was his breath and mindset. Usually when anyone is injected with a dead bacteria (It’s not advisable and not a normal activity to undergo! ) it is normal to experience nausea, headaches, flu like symptoms, vomiting, diarrhoea and more! Wim practiced a breathing technique (The Wim Hof Method breathing technique) priming his body and focused his mind and his only symptom was a mild headache that disappeared. To top it off, he then trained a group of men with his breathing method and mindset exercises, and they too had very few symptoms when undergoing the same experiment. This to me was amazing proof of what the human body and mind is capable of.

The book Radical Remission – Surviving Cancer Against the Odds – gave real life evidence and stories that inspired me, especially the stories about brain tumour diagnoses! The book runs through 9 key factors that those who have survived cancer against the odds have in common…..and they were all easily accessible! One was Radically Changing your diet, another was using herbs and supplements, and the other seven were all Mental, Emotional or Spiritual! These were all things I could tap in to….we all could!

Once I realised how powerful we are as humans, had some hope and found inspiration, my world changed in such a profound and powerful way. I went from thinking I was destined to die before 50, to releasing the fear and thinking this tumour growth is the best thing that ever happened to me. It was my opportunity to test and prove that we are powerful beings and can do anything we put our minds to…..and I was excited….! That is quite a shift in mindset, isn’t it?!

It was exactly the same world as it had been six weeks before.

I still had a brain tumour that was growing, I was six weeks older….but nothing had changed, except my belief system, the story I was telling myself everyday and how I perceived and interpreted the world……this changed everything……

My suggestion to you is that if you look for it, it is out there…the hope and inspiration and proof that will help you shift your mindset, shift your belief system, shift how you interpret and perceive the world….and that shifts your experience of the world….which is everything…..and this all happens internally, not externally.

The world keeps happening and is out of our control. What we can control is our inner world, and that shapes how we view and respond to the world.

We can therefore shift from a mindset of fear and feeling like a victim, which we all do at times, to a mindset whereby we take back our power and take control of our minds, and in doing so we change our experience of the world.

Thank you for reading this story. I really hope you can take something from my story and my proof. You are a powerful being, we all are. We just need reminders, proof, hope and inspiration.

If you are ready and need a little support in shaping your mindset, get in touch, I’d love to talk to you.

Please share this story with anyone you think might be in need of some proof of the power of the mind.

Together we can do this, together we are stronger.

All the love and all the power

Damon xxx

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