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101 <div id="post-2" class="post_box grt top" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"> 102 <link itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" href="https://thoughtmedicine.com/about/" /> 103 <div class="headline_area"> 104 <h1 class="headline" itemprop="headline">About</h1> 105 <div class="byline small"> 106 <span class="post_author_intro">by</span> <span class="post_author" itemprop="author">Linda Gabriel</span> 107 </div> 108 </div> 109 <div class="post_content" itemprop="articleBody"> 110<h3>About Linda Gabriel</h3> 111<div id="attachment_106" style="width: 210px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-106" class="size-medium wp-image-106 " title="lindab300smtrans" src="http://thoughtmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lindab300smtrans-200x300.jpg" alt="photo of Linda Gabriel by Mary Ann Halpin" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://thoughtmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lindab300smtrans-200x300.jpg 200w, https://thoughtmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lindab300smtrans-682x1024.jpg 682w, https://thoughtmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lindab300smtrans.jpg 900w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" /><p id="caption-attachment-106" class="wp-caption-text">Linda Gabriel photo by Mary Ann Halpin</p></div> 112<p>Many years ago I asked in meditation,<br /> 113<strong>“What is my purpose? Why am I here?”</strong><br /> 114Guess what? I got an immediate answer!<br /> 115It was one of the very few times in my life that I actually heard a Voice.<br /> 116There was no mistaking it; <strong>the Voice clearly said,<br /> 117“To think certain thoughts.”</strong></p> 118<p><em>That can’t be it,</em> I thought. <em>What kind of life purpose is that?</em></p> 119<p>Over time I would come to understand and appreciate the truth and power of such an assignment, but at the time I believed that message was just… well – dumb! <strong>I was <em>sure</em> my soul purpose had to be much more complicated.</strong> Although the instruction was simple enough, turns out it’s not necessarily easy. Believe me, it can be incredibly difficult to think certain thoughts, especially during those times when I wasn’t feeling certain about anything.</p> 120<p><strong>Along the way I encountered teachings which have helped shaped my journey.</strong> Among my influences are Master of Nazareth, Caroline Myss, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, John Upledger, Solihin Thom, Venessa Rahlston, Michael Newton, Esther Hicks, Sanaya Roman, Michael Talbot, Albert Einstein, Barbara Brennan, Robert Scheinfeld, Arnold Patent, Don Miguel Ruiz and the Ruiz family, Joseph Rael, and Mingtong Gu.</p> 121<p><strong>I also acquired practical transformational tools</strong> including Hypnotherapy, NLP, Craniosacral Therapy, Brain Gym®, EFT and Psych-K®. I’ve authored two books one of which, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189740400X/wwwlindagabricom">Weight Loss Forever</a>, spent several weeks on amazon.com’s top 10 list of books about hypnosis for weight loss.</p> 122<p><strong>I’ve created Thought Medicine to share the best of what I’ve learned along the way</strong>, and to collect new insights and discoveries as they unfold. I know I will be learning a lot from my readers. I look forward to our conversations.</p> 123<h3>“In the beginning was the thought…”</h3> 124<p>…to paraphrase the opening sentence of a very famous book!<br /> 125Thoughts create things.<br /> 126Thoughts create feelings and perceptions.<br /> 127<strong>Everything begins with thoughts, even our words.</strong></p> 128<p>You’ve probably heard the phrase,<br /> 129<strong>“You create your own reality.”</strong><br /> 130There is a lot of truth to that.<br /> 131But it’s probably <em>truer</em> to say,<br /> 132<strong>“Your <em>thoughts</em> create your own reality.”</strong></p> 133<p><strong>Consider two people on the same amusement park ride,</strong><br /> 134maybe one of those loop-the-loop roller coasters.<br /> 135One perceives the experience as fun, fun, fun!<br /> 136The other person is terrified.<br /> 137Why?<br /> 138Because <strong>each person has a different inner interpretation of the exact same outer experience.</strong><br /> 139By the way, which person is right? 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