Mariyam Mohamed

  I remember very clearly the struggles I went through as a new mother. After birth I was unable to hold my baby as I was afraid I might hurt her neck or break a bone in her tiny body. She was so fragile and dependent on others around her. I didn’t even know anything about parenting. I never held a baby that small ever in my life so this new experience of motherhood built a fear in me. I was questioning “What have I got myself into?”, “How am I going to take care of another human being when I am unable to hold my own self together.” I am grateful I have a very able husband who did everything for her including cleaning her. She was only given to me for feeding which I was struggling to do. As I was a new mother I was feeding my baby the wrong way. I recall watching videos of how to feed a baby properly. To hold my baby I needed a pillow or I kept her on the bed. I cried for days and most of the time I didn’t even know why I was crying. Yes, I was going through Post Natal Depress...

  [contd..] “No thought, whether it be negative or positive, can enter the sub-conscious mind without the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion.” Napoleon Hill Any thought that enters into your mind must go from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. Most of us use our five senses to detect external stimuli that results in a thought or a set of thoughts. Our thoughts are mainly linked to the current events in our life. A thought or collection of thoughts form an idea. When we hold onto the same idea over a period of time, it gets registered in our subconscious mind and eventually becomes a strong belief. This can either be positive or negative. This belief is detected through the feelings of an individual and the feelings are shown through the actions. The best way to detect our thought process is through the results we get in our life. The results indicates an individuals daily habit, thinking patterns and actions. Throughout history there is this one philosophy tha...

  In order to understand how one can control his/her thinking it is important to first understand where the thinking takes place. Thinking is done in our mind. Even though our brain takes part in controlling of the body's reflexes, our mind is not the brain. Brain is just a switching station that is controlled by the mind. Dr. Thurman Flee stated that “The mind is an activity not a thing. No one has ever seen the mind. In order to gain clarity and eliminate confusion, I will create an image we can work with.” He drew this image to simplify on how the mind works. The Conscious Mind is also known as our thinking or rational mind. Sub-conscious mind is also known as our emotional mind. Our conscious mind has the ability to accept or reject information but whatever goes into our sub-conscious mind is accepted. Almost 95% of us use the five senses to comprehend the events or/and outcomes in the environment. So most of us respond according to our present results. If we are in a diffi...

Have you ever felt like you cannot achieve your desired goal because of lack of resources? Have you felt like you need approval from people to choose your dreams? If you felt like this you are not alone. I also felt the same way. I am Mariyam Mohamed. I am a coach. If you are wondering if I am a wrestling coach you can sort of call me that, I wrestle to change people’s minds. I am a transformational coach. Let me tell you about myself. I am a very organized person and I like to do things in certain way but this all changed 10 years back. I don’t come from a financially stable background so I had to struggle to achieve my dreams of getting a bachelor’s degree. To be honest I am not the brightest student in the class so I was rejected from all the scholarships I applied. So, I worked and saved up money to go for higher studies to Sri Lanka.  After all the dreaming and hoping to achieve my academic goal I ended up getting pregnant in my last year. I had few complications in my pre...

Most of us are brought up in a culture where blaming is the norm. We have a victim mindset where people blame the situation and other people for the outcomes in their own lives. This results in a repetitive pattern of outcomes. Every outcome in your life is a reflection of how you responded to an earlier event or events in your life. There are many contributing factors that might impact the outcome of an event but if this is the deciding factor non of us will succeed in life. If you start blaming the financial crisis or your spouse or the weather for your lack of results then you will never go forward in life. You will either be stuck or move backwards. So how can we handle such situations in life? In order to change the outcome an individual needs to focus on internal outputs. To have a deeper understanding of this subject a simple concept I learned from my mentor Jack Canfield is Event + Responses = Outcome. The events are external forces such as people, pandemic, natural disasters o...