Doubt sticks to us like a wad of gum on the bottom of our shoe. Yet, within each dose of doubt awaits an opportunity to discover an underserving belief!
For many of us, the swing to success and abundance is full of self-doubting messages. We feel good temporarily as we move towards new and exciting goals. Our enthusiasm is up. We are really going to do it this time! However, it does not take long before we find ourselves abandoning our fresh new ideals in favor of present contentment. We suddenly seem pacified again that our lot in life should be accepted. We settle back into the mediocrity of life because we doubt our aspirations.
Recognize doubt for what it really is. Doubt is a messenger not a measure of your capabilities or an interpretation of reality. It is a messenger with a purpose: to restore order amongst the temporary chaos in your belief system. Doubt moves your thinking back to normal (neutral).
Doubt offers itself up often. We start down the path towards abundance only to be ambushed by our messengers (hesitation, confusion, doubt). We retreat when we should have kept going. When you feel hesitation, confusion or fear your belief structure is being tested for potential weaknesses by fresh new thoughts vying for a chance at survival. The new thought frequency wants to flourish collecting other like thoughts until it too becomes a belief. Your current beliefs guard you. When conflicting thoughts gain enough momentum a message is sent to the inner psyche instructing it to reinforce current beliefs. “Send in greater arsenal in. Send in doubt,” it seems to say. “We are being attacked by a new frequency.”
The pings of doubt offer extraordinary opportunities for us that are so often overlooked. When we misinterpret the messenger, we miss the opportunity. Doubt comes to you cloaked in your current belief. The onion you have been looking for reveals itself. It is right there under your nose! All you have to do is sniff out the message. What is the content of the message? I cannot do it. I will never make it. I have a one in a million chance. I am too ordinary. These are your beliefs coming through to you.
You have likely heard of self-talk. Self-talk is the thoughts of your beliefs tip-toeing through your mind. Consequently, it is not necessary for a complete psycho-analysis of your thoughts to occur in order to break through belief barriers. All that is necessary to move towards your goals is this: Be aware of these messages and work actively against them by validating a new belief in opposition to the doubtful message sent. That is the secret to breaking through the barriers of your beliefs.
Doubt enters your awareness as contradictory thoughts only when thoughts are presented that conflict with a current belief. That is the only time doubt presents itself. Think about the times you doubt yourself, your abilities, circumstances, or opportunities. It is always relative to a change in thinking. Doubt appears when you want to try something new, make a change, go for it, or chase your dreams. Your thoughts always come first. As you consider (think of) new aspirations, it is the new thoughts trying to rub out the old thoughts that start the battle.
Doubt is sent to sniper newly developing thoughts and beliefs. It is the arsenal of the beliefs currently on guard. Harboring doubt attracts greater doubtful thoughts until you are filled with so much disbelief that you reject the infant seeds of opportunity you were attempting to grow.
On the other hand, we do not want to be that hard on doubt because it is intended to assist you. Your engaged beliefs are ready to serve you. You assembled thoughts into beliefs to eliminate the amounts of data you would otherwise have to sift through again and again. You allowed your beliefs to stand guard at the palace door of the infinite freeing the conscious mind for other work. Your beliefs would not be effective servants if protection was not provided. Protection is cloaked in the form of doubt.
Doubt is a message to you that your current thoughts are not copasetic with your beliefs. The intention is to restore harmony within your belief framework by changing whatever your current thoughts are to realign with the existing belief.
Doubt is not always an offender. Often it serves you well. When you decide to pull your hand out of the ferret’s cage, it is doubt that reminds you that you believe ferrets bite. Doubt allows you to read other people’s sincerity. It prevents you from making mistakes such as dashing across the street in front of a car or attempting to beat a train across the tracks. It reminds you that you believe trains are faster than you. It is sent quickly and efficiently to eradicate thoughts that are not cohesive with an existing belief.
Remember, your belief system is stacked with like patterned thoughts. As you settled into your life as a beautician, you attracted thoughts on being a beautician. But you also attracted thoughts on what you are not: I am not a millionaire. I am not a business owner. I am not an entrepreneur. I am not all these things. As you attempt to go from beautician to beauty shop owner all of these thoughts you house fire away reminding you of the reality you have created. That is where your doubt enters. Doubt attempts to prevent your experiences. Doubt is telling you that experiences will change if you continue entertaining these new thoughts that are not part of the old belief system. Doubt signals potential to change.
Perpetuating contradictory thoughts extends and intensifies doubt until you dismiss doubt from your mind. Doubt weakens in two ways: (1) You stop thinking your fresh new thoughts and revert to the old way of thinking or (2) You strengthen your new thoughts. As new thoughts take charge, your old thoughts crumble bringing the doubtful messages with them. If you invite doubt to stay, like an annoying house guest, it will overextend its welcome. Doubt enjoys being the master and will send in all sorts of subservient messages to do its bidding. Doubt will eventually diminish and extinguish its own flame if you bid it farewell.
Unfortunately, many of us interpret these messages as limitations of our abilities. We accept the messages as fact as to our chances at success. Your ability to doubt was never meant to prevent you from reshaping your beliefs. It is only intended to alert you to disparaging thoughts.
The Infinite Mind cannot distinguish between thoughts that are disparaging and thoughts that are beneficial. It relies upon the beliefs held within the conscious mind. Doubt, therefore, only signals when thoughts and beliefs held are mismatched. Thoughts of quitting your job are ushered by doubt as you are reminded that you believe you need this job. Doubt reminds you of your current beliefs as well as provides the ammunition necessary to defend your current beliefs. Doubt is never an interpretation of your ability. Doubt is thoughts. Thoughts hold no truth.
Great opportunities exist where doubt is present. Doubt allows you to identify beliefs that govern your current experiences. Your imperceptible beliefs that prevent you from achieving success and abundance become perceptible through doubt. All you need do is exam the contrary thoughts being fired at you.
For example, assume owning your own business is a goal of yours. Most often you hold it at bay as your someday dream, but occasionally you become excited to start your business after reading a book or talking to a friend. You begin thinking that owning your own business is something you can actually make happen. A few days of excited enthusiasm go by as the tiny seeds of a new belief start to form. As this happens doubt is launched.
Doubt is not always launched immediately, much like two magnets can exist separately at a distance without resisting. Fresh new thoughts and current beliefs can coexist as well for a period of time. However, as the magnetic forces confront each other they repel. The conscious mind allows itself freedom of thought. If doubt were launched each time a conflicting thought entered your mind you would not have freedom of thought. Doubt is launched as the seeds of a new belief are planted growing and pushing against old beliefs. As these new seeds squeeze in, repelling occurs. We call it doubt. However, it is really only your old belief system repelling your new thoughts. It is a signal that your experience will change if new thoughts are permitted to grow this belief. In lieu of this, you should welcome the pings of doubt both as an opportunity to rid yourself of faulty beliefs as well as a welcome signal that new beliefs are being seeded
Since doubt comes only when new thoughts have had time to brew, you should be pleased to feel doubts arrival. You have done your homework by planting seeds that are progressing. Continue with your new thoughts if they are constructive and in exact accordance with your ideals.
Take the opportunity to exam the belief originators of that doubt. What can you learn about these relic beliefs that are preventing you from achieving your ideals? Seize the moment to reshape previous thinking and then move on. However, you should not permit doubtful thoughts to continue. Accept the signal and continue forward cultivating the new belief. Over analyzing destructive thoughts will attract more destructive thoughts. Avoid lingering in doubtful messages.
One word of caution: If doubt were not effective it would be a useless guard. For that reason, doubt is extremely efficient at wiping out thoughts and ideas that conflict with a currently held belief. By now you understand that you live in a world of attraction. Your thoughts attract your experiences. Physical form materializes based upon thoughts ushered through the mind. If you allow doubt to linger in your mind, it will bring upon you physical experiences that validate the doubtful messages. Thoughts are not all that doubt is capable of sending. Physical form will also follow. For example, suppose you have a clever idea for an invention. As your invention idea swells, you allow doubt to permeate your mind. Soon after, you actually see a similar invention on the market validating the doubtful thoughts such as this invention is already created. You might also read an article in a magazine stating new inventions are extremely difficult to bring to market, further reinforcing your doubtful thoughts. Soon afterwards you release the notion of an invention. Doubt has won the tug-of-war.
Successful and abundant people focus on success and abundance, not failure and lack. While doubt occasionally enters their mind it is never permitted to stay long. It is quickly ushered out unto the scrap pile of destructive thought. Attention is always turned towards the ideal.
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