Welcome back to Self-Help Book Junkie, where we are continuing our series on Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

In this video, we are talking about one of the biggest questions in spiritual growth and manifestation:

What is the soul?

Dr. Wayne Dyer writes about the “ghost in the machine,” this invisible part of us that cannot be seen, touched, measured, or located in the same way we can point to the body, the brain, the senses, or the nervous system.

And this took me right back to my very first book review series on The Untethered Soul, because that book completely changed the way I thought about who we really are.

We are not just the body.

We are not just the five senses.

We are not just the brain processing information.

We are not even every thought, feeling, impulse, or reaction that moves through us.

There is something deeper.

There is the witness.

The part of you that can observe the thought.
The part of you that can notice the feeling.
The part of you that can see the temptation.
The part of you that can hear the higher guidance.
The part of you that can choose.

That is where this conversation gets powerful.

In this video, we talk about:

• What Wayne Dyer means by the “ghost in the machine”

• Why the body and senses are not the whole of who you are

• How your brain processes information, but is still not the soul

• Why thoughts and feelings are experiences, not your full identity

• How the witness within you observes your inner world

• The difference between ego, higher guidance, and the soul

• Why choice points matter in manifestation

• How the “little devil” and “little angel” show up in daily life

• Why the soul is the part of you that gets to decide

• How spiritual alignment is built through repeated choices

• Why sometimes the aligned action is to move

• Why sometimes the aligned action is to rest

• How guilt can disguise itself as productivity

• Why discernment is such an important part of manifestation

This conversation is not about judging yourself for having thoughts, impulses, desires, fears, or doubts.

It is about recognizing that you are not powerless to them.

You are the one who can witness them.

You are the one who can decide which voice you are going to follow.

Sometimes the ego tells you to avoid the thing you know you need to do.

Stay in bed.
Skip the workout.
Don’t record the video.
Don’t show up.
Call the ex.
Eat the thing you know does not serve you.

But sometimes ego also uses guilt, pressure, and fear to make you do things from the wrong energy.

You should be working.
You should be producing.
You should be doing more.
You are bad if you rest.

That is why discernment matters.

The soul is the witness.

The soul is the part of you that can pause, observe, and ask:

What is actually aligned here?

What is God guiding me toward?

What choice brings me closer to who I am here to become?

This is where manifestation becomes deeper than just visualizing or wanting.

It becomes a practice of alignment.

A practice of listening.

A practice of choosing, again and again, to move toward the highest, most loving, most truthful version of yourself.

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Welcome back to Self-Help Book Junkie.

Let’s talk about the soul, the witness, and the part of you that gets to choose.

What if changing your life is not about changing your location, your job, your relationship, or the people around you?

What if the real shift begins with the words you use after “I am”?

In this episode of Mindset Matters More, I sit down with Brooke Dawson, identity and mindset coach, host of The Process with Brooke Dawson, and a powerful voice on language, identity, self-concept, and micro actions.

This conversation is all about identity shifts, the language we use to define ourselves, and why moving across the world does not automatically make you a new person if you are still carrying the same internal story.

Brooke shares her own experience of growing up as “the smart girl” and how that identity followed her all the way from Canada to Australia. Even though she thought a new environment would allow her to reinvent herself, she found herself recreating the same role because her identity had not actually changed.

And that is the heart of this conversation.

You can change the scenery.

You can change the friend group.

You can change the city.

You can change the job.

But if you do not change the identity you are operating from, you may keep recreating the same pattern in a new place.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What identity really means

• Why your identity is shaped by the words that come after “I am”

• How self-deprecating language becomes part of your subconscious programming

• Why “I’m just joking” does not always protect you from the impact of your words

• How to use the word “yet” to create possibility

• Why micro actions create powerful identity shifts

• How to stop defining yourself through limitation

• Why awareness has to come before change

• How to audit your self-talk

• Why massive identity shifts can sometimes feel unsafe to the nervous system

• How small actions create evidence for a new version of you

• Why comparison can be reframed into possibility

• How “third-degree mentors” through books, podcasts, and online content can expand what you believe is possible

• Why language, action, and identity work together

• How Brooke’s singing lesson completely changed the story she had about her voice

• Why the smallest moment can create a massive internal shift

One of my favorite parts of this conversation is Brooke’s definition of identity:

Identity is any word that comes after “I am.”

I am bad at this.
I am not a morning person.
I am indecisive.
I am not good at cooking.
I am not a runner.
I am an alto, so I cannot hit that note.

Those statements may seem small, funny, or harmless, but they become instructions.

And the beautiful part is that you can begin shifting those instructions.

You can say:

I am not a morning person yet.
I am learning how to wake up earlier.
I am becoming someone who follows through.
I am willing to try.
I am giving myself permission to be bad at something while I learn.

This is where identity work becomes practical.

Not by forcing a massive overnight transformation.

But through tiny actions, new language, and building evidence that a new version of you is possible.

This conversation is for anyone who feels like there is more available to them, but also feels stuck in the story of “that’s just not me.”

Because maybe it is not that the thing is unavailable to you.

Maybe you have just been speaking from an old identity.

Connect with Brooke:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heybrookedawson

Podcast: The Process with Brooke Dawson

Brooke also offers one-on-one coaching, a free community with monthly challenges, and shares powerful reflections on identity, language, mindset, and personal growth.

Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who is ready to shift their identity, change their language, and start becoming the person they know they are meant to be.

Absolutely. Here’s the YouTube description for your first Self-Help Book Junkie video on Wishes Fulfilled by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Welcome back to Self-Help Book Junkie.

Today, we are starting a brand-new series on Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

And let me just say, after finishing Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger, this book is taking us in a very different direction.

We are moving from the practical, grounded, action-based side of manifestation into the spiritual, energetic, and more esoteric side of manifestation.

But here is what I want you to know:

This is still not about abracadabra manifestation.

This is not about sitting on the couch, thinking happy thoughts, and expecting a million dollars to magically appear at your front door.

That is not manifestation.

Manifestation requires thought.
It requires belief.
It requires openness.
It requires divine inspiration.
It requires action.
It requires you to become available for something greater.

In this video, we talk about:

• Why Wishes Fulfilled is such a powerful book on manifestation

• Why manifestation is not magic in the way most people misunderstand it

• How Wayne Dyer brings us into the spiritual side of manifesting

• Why partnering with God, the I AM presence, or a power greater than yourself matters

• Why you are not the source of creation, but you can become a conduit for it

• How divine inspiration comes through when you are open to possibility

• Why manifestation is not about forcing one specific outcome

• How limiting the “how” can block the manifestation

• Why there are infinite ways your desire can come into your life

• Why being open is more powerful than trying to control every detail

• How Be → Do → Have connects to spiritual manifestation

• Why you still have to take inspired action

One of the biggest lessons in this video is that you cannot pigeonhole God.

You cannot decide there is only one way your desire can arrive and then call that manifestation.

If you say, “The million dollars has to show up this exact way,” you have already eliminated almost every other possibility.

But when you open yourself to divine inspiration and say, “I am available to receive this in whatever way God wants to bring it through me,” everything changes.

You may receive an idea.
You may meet a person.
You may get an opportunity.
You may feel called to take a trip.
You may hear a sentence that changes your life.
You may be led toward the exact action that opens the door.

That is manifestation.

Not sitting still.

Not controlling every outcome.

Not pretending you are God.

But becoming the conduit, the channel, the vessel, the straw, the tube through which divine energy can move from the unseen into the seen.

This series is going to stretch your mind, your faith, your imagination, and your understanding of what manifestation really is.

So come with an open heart.

Come with discernment.

Come with curiosity.

And most importantly, come ready to engage with the book.

Please support the author by buying the book, borrowing it from your local library, listening to the audiobook, or reading it in whatever way works for you. Don’t just watch these videos for cliff notes. Actually engage with the material.