EDITION 11

Endings often land with a timestamp. Strange how that is. Mine came last week—Friday, 15:15. Six and a half years… done and dusted in 15 minutes.

Incredibile.

If you’ve ever watched an era end, you know the feeling. It’s a strange blend of relief, excitement, and a nervous flicker of old doubts just beneath the surface. It goes something like:
“Well, that's that. Was that it? I'm free! What now..?”
The ol’ brain starts offering up its greatest hits.

(I imagine my offerings in ‘80s soft rock.)

Old fears, limiting beliefs, familiar scripts—all hoping to fill the space you’ve just carved out for yourself. I was ready for it…

But da-da-da-da-da… something different happened this time.
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Instead of spiraling into panic and dread, I found myself observing.

An interesting turn.

I noticed the old patterns show up.
Those “blips” of doubt and fear that once would have sent me reeling.

(Imagine a beginner fisherman, fresh on, deep blue, his line spun out by a larger-than-anticipated marlin… Not pretty.)

But rather than letting these blips aka Marlin-fish take over, I simply allowed myself to watch.
I saw the stories flicker, the nudge at the worry strings, felt the familiar pull to brace for the worst—then let myself just softly pump the brakes.

There’s a quiet power in pausing the playback. In noticing—not immediately reacting, but letting the old narratives play out and realizing you’re no longer automatically subscribing to them. The old scripts are still there, yes, but they take up less room now.
Because you decided it so.

I guess it’s a bit like the scene in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf warns the Balrog, “You shall not pass!”

This, dear friends, makes more space for possibility. New thoughts...

I think that’s where true rewiring starts—not by erasing every old fear or limiting belief, but by letting your awareness lead so something new—something wilder (wink, nudge) and more true to the new you—can take root.

Lately, I’ve been doing a little more digging into the science behind how our minds actually change. Not just the “woo woo” affirmations, law of attraction stuff—but the connection to our biology and the wiring underneath it all.

(If you’re curious, look up the Reticular Activating System—RAS—a filter in your brainstem that lets in only what fits your beliefs, expectations, and sense of possibility. Andrew Huberman, American neuroscientist, has some great shorts on this.)

Turns out, it’s not just metaphysics and subliminals at play here. Your mind literally re-wires itself according to what you believe is possible. What you feed your mind, it takes as truth.

Buy a new car—suddenly you see it everywhere? That’s your RAS: what you focus on expands.

And this ties directly to Neville Goddard:
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To attempt to change circumstances before I change my own imaginal activity is to struggle against the very nature of my own being, for my own imaginal activity is animating my world.

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What you train your mind to assume—to look for, to expect—becomes the story your brain collects evidence for.

The filter you set determines what makes it into your world.

Rewiring isn’t about forced positivity or “faking it till you make it.” It’s about gently, consistently teaching your system a new way to see.
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MINI INVITATION FOR THIS WEEK

If you feel like experimenting with your own rewiring, try these gentle questions as a starting point:

• If your subconscious is a filter, what have you been priming it to find—lack or possibility?
• What if, this week, you looked for just one sign each day that a new story is possible, maybe even already forming?
• Could you give thanks before you see the outcome—not as pretending, but as a practice in trust?

It’s a slow, sometimes awkward process.

No instant lightning bolts—just the gentle opening of new connections, one neuron, one wilder thought at a time.

The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

– Tony Robbins

Here’s to gentle rewiring, gratitude-first mornings, and the wild experiment of moving yourself toward the reality you’re ready to live—all from the inside out.

Growth isn’t a grand gesture. It’s made of many small, brave wriggles. Wriggles ever forward into the life you see in your wildest imagination.

That’s all for now.

Until next week!

Always light,

Shanna "rewiring the pathways" Lindinger

P.S. If you’re standing at the edge of change and feeling old anxieties or lingering doubts, you’re not alone. I was first diagnosed with depression at 16, and anxiety in my twenties—so I know that the road to your truest self is sometimes slow, always imperfect, and almost never a straight line. Here’s the good news: change is not only possible, it’s often easier than you think when you give yourself permission to go gently and celebrate even the smallest shifts. Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is simply notice, take a breath, and try again—awkwardness and all. You’ve got this. 💛

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WILDER ESSENTIALS

What's  On Shanna’s List of Things Right Now

▶   Thinking Spot: Coastal path walks with the pooch

▶   Podcast pick: The Rich Roll Podcast

▶   Current read: The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

▶   Writing setup: MacBook Pro + simple notebook and pen

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Not only does behavior change the structure of the brain through neuroplasticity; just thinking about or imagining particular behaviors can change brain structure as well.

― John B. Arden

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