#22 CRECENDO VIDES: AND AS YOU BELIEVE YOU SEE

PROOF OF IT ALL

     What you believe you seek to validate.  What you do not believe you seek validation against.  We often require proof of some sort prior to changing an existing belief:  Seeing is believing.  Proof is in the pudding.  I will believe it when I see it.  These cliché’s support a faulty belief system.  Faulty because you require proof of some sort before change in belief structure can occur.  However, proof was not an initial requirement as beliefs were built up.  Data was accepted without factual basis since nothing stores truth in the first place.  Consider for a moment what your initial requirements were for accepting your current beliefs.  You likely formed your beliefs without question based upon the opinions of others.   Like thoughts developed and a belief was adopted.  As time went on you allowed only data that validated your belief to pervade your experience.  As you sifted through thoughts you rejected or trivialized that which did not fit.  The books you choose to read, interests you form and people you associate with provide your validation. 

     You protect your beliefs.  But as proof was never an initial requirement in forming your beliefs, why ask for it now as you consider changing your beliefs?  Who would provide that proof?  What would it consist of?  How would you prove its accuracy?  Virtually nothing is true and virtually nothing is false except in the context of the perceiver.  So why not put a supportive belief framework to use. 

     Beliefs contain power.  They serve as magnets to like thoughts and deterrents to thoughts that would change the belief.  We are confined in our current situations because we cannot penetrate these forceful barriers.  Beliefs serve are barriers until we are ready to exam their structure.  Believing in your unbound ability empowers you with Omnipotence.  That one small seed of faith planted grows a forest rich in beneficial beliefs. 

     Faith precedes the miracle.  If you hold steadfast to your unbound ability the way shows itself.  Miracles occur.  Old beliefs deteriorate as new are installed.  You must be willing to accept new beliefs on faith alone actively seeking validation.  Just as you did your old beliefs.  That is the only way.  If you do not have faith in yourself, you will continue to reject the newly forming infant thoughts as unreliable because what you have already created will persist for a period of time creating doubt as to ability.  You will see the stagnate you that exists now and reject your ability to create a fresh you relinquishing your control yet again.  Initially faith in your abilities is critical.  I’ll remind you again, your thoughts are brewed not instant.  Successful thoughts must simmer for a time before reality builds up. 

     Your conscious mind provides the thoughts and visualizes the pictures that draw upon the Universal Mind.  It is only your beliefs that stop you short from drawing upon the infinite.  The Universal Mind with its infinite resources determines the methods by with our thoughts actualize.  So we find that by focusing on the ideal, the ideal is presented.    If we predetermine for our infinite mind the methods by which our thoughts can materialize (for example if we believe money's only path is through hard labor)  then we reduce infinity to a mere few choices. 

     “Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t either way you are right.”  -Henry Ford

#21 Belief Inspection

The primary thrust of the advertising industry is that repetition forms beliefs, as do associations of beliefs with images of sex, love, and other strong positive emotions.  However, even educated people, well aware of the process by which beliefs form, still strongly cling to their beliefs, and act on those beliefs even against their own self-interest.

     Have you ever considered what you believe?  Where the belief originated or why you believe what you do?    Most people easily tally their religious and political beliefs or site a few moral and ethical values.  However, beyond that they remain contently unaware of what they believe on a realm of ideas.  Even moral or ethical statements are rarely inspected beyond global statements ushered as fact such as always do the right thing.  People quickly nod their head in agreement that the right thing to do is a valued belief of theirs.

     When you take the statement always do the right thing, for example, it is without consideration of the areas of impact.  Always do the right thing, for whom?  Who gets to define what the right thing is?  Are there times when you wouldn’t do the right thing?  In the 1940’s Hitler told the German people that annihilating the Jews was the right thing to do.  In 1692 Salem Massachusetts young girls suspected of witch craft were lit on fire.  Understandably that was the right thing to do in 1692 Salem.  According to the laws of the United States of America, arguably the law would be the right thing do, prior to 1920 allowing men the sole vote was the right thing to do.  I’ll ask you again:  Should you always do the right thing? 

     The roots of your beliefs penetrate like outstretched tentacles deep within the conscious mind creating other assumptions on matters never occurring to you.  If your intention is to move along the path of success, happiness, abundance, joy, harmony or wellness considering what you believe about these paths, the means of obtaining each and the result the end holds is well worth undertaking.  Each of these is likely wrought with limiting beliefs, not necessarily wrong, just restraining. 

     Your thoughts contain the arsenal to annihilate faulty beliefs because you can just as easily guide thoughts into shaping advantageous beliefs.  However, you cannot overpower a belief without knowing which one to assault.  You have to confront the right belief(s).  You can steer around your beliefs on the paths of money, but if you fear rejection of your ideas by other people you will again end up stalemating yourself. 

     How do you know which beliefs are the correct beliefs to do away with?  They are the ones that conflict with your ideal intention of you.  For example, if health is desired, beliefs and thoughts that contradict this ideal image of you should be dismissed from your mind.  Before you stammer with, “But I am sick or I am overweight or I do have cancer,” let me ask you this.  How does believing in the destruction of yourself help you?  The answer is it does not.  There is a long list of people who have conquered illness, weight problems and even cancer with a belief in their ideal self image.  Harboring beliefs in your own self demolition does you no service.  You cannot hit a building with a wrecking ball and expect no damage.  Your destructive thoughts are your wrecking ball.  Accept the damage you have done as your responsibility.  After you have done that, claim your power to change your situation.

     Upon first inspection of your beliefs, you may overlook several culprits.  Often it does not occur to you to look for certain beliefs.  You have grown so accustomed to accepting your beliefs as actuality that identification and dissection are very difficult.

     Asking yourself questions is a good start to unraveling tangled beliefs.  What about your current situation feels limiting to you?  Are you having difficulty finding a job?  Why?  Do you believe the job market is saturated with overqualified candidates?  Each time you feel the inclination to defend a belief, stop!  Instead ask yourself what the advantage is to holding the current belief.  How does believing the economy prevents you from moving forward help you?  How does believing your body is failing favor you?  In what way is it self serving to believe you are too old for the job.  If beliefs do not serve you, let them go.  Giving refuge to discouraging beliefs restrains you.  If your focus is on the limit, then you cannot see the opportunity. 

     Wouldn’t you receive far greater benefit holding beliefs that opportunity is plentiful in downward economies?  What about the benefit in believing your body is capable of eradicating disease?  What new and invented challenges await you after 65?  As your beliefs turn course, so will your experiences.  However, the thoughts must come first.  Experiences chase your thoughts.  Thoughts lead the way.    

     The greatest challenge we face when trying to make change is convincing ourselves that we believe we can change since we have mental corridors crammed with existing beliefs supporting the status quo.  Introductions of new beliefs won’t formerly last unless we make a concerted effort at whittling away the old belief.  It can be done.  You have changed your beliefs many times without realizing it.  You have changed your thinking on previous romantic relationships, jobs, and ideas on health.  We have all likely switched from butter to margarine and back to butter depending on the disposition of advertisers.  You change your beliefs more often than you realize. 

     Deliberate change requires active and deliberate thought until the thoughts becomes passive beliefs.  How do you get a new belief to stick?  You actively seek validation.  You do the same thing you did when building up your current beliefs.  The difference is you are now building beliefs aimed at your ideals with an awareness of what you are doing.  Previously, you allowed beliefs to build unsupervised. 

     This means you have to chip away at it until you are absolutely convinced that the new belief is true and valid.  You will know when you are absolutely convinced of this new belief when you find yourself defending it; much like you did with your old beliefs when you found yourself defending your excuses (excuses are only beliefs).  You defend what you believe in because you think it holds truth.  When your beliefs pivot you will find yourself defending new beliefs in abandonment of old.  When and only when this defensiveness of new ideals takes place have your beliefs truly changed. 

     Take the sales strategies used in many companies like Amway Corporation, Mary K. Cosmetics, Tupperware, or Pampered Chef.  You may not be aware of all of these companies.  Hopefully, you are at least familiar with one of these very successful businesses.  Under each of these establishments, sales consultants sell a product and promote ongoing business through recruitment of other sales consultants.  The recruits are no different than you and I.  At first the recruits may be hesitant and even skeptical at their selling abilities.  However, with enough encouragement and reinforcement, at some point the new recruit’s beliefs about their abilities change.  The recruit becomes on fire completely engrossed in the selling program wholly convinced in their ability to succeed at the job.  As this occurs, if you happen to know anyone who has ever sold products for any of these companies, the new recruit attempts to convince you of the worthiness of the product and the benefits in partnering with their company. 

     This is the same sort of transformation that your beliefs need to go through in order for your experiences to change.  You need to go from skepticism to complete embracement of the belief.  You will know when you believe wholly because you will find yourself upholding the new belief.  If you are not protecting, defending or shielding your beliefs, then you have not formed a belief.  You defend what you believe in.  It is that simple!

     Beware!  This defensive action towards your beliefs is exactly how you maintain your status quo.  If you find yourself defending your disparaging circumstances, stop!  Make note of what it is that you are defending.  Send in thought power in opposition. 

     Positive thinking, wishful thinking, hopeful optimism and enthusiasm, while nice, are not enough to thwart an existing belief.  Active contrary thought fired away at a belief causes it to decay.  Equally important to fresh new thought is vigorous endorsement.  Validating your new thoughts is the only manner in which they will stick.  Through validation reinforcement occurs, sprouts of similar thoughts take shape and soon a new belief is sprung.  Validating your beliefs means actively pursuing similar thoughts, actively pursuing examples of people or situations that strengthen your thoughts, actively pursuing material that sponsors the belief you are trying to grow and taking action.  You are growing a belief.  Beliefs must have thoughts. 

     Your goal is to get the new belief from active to passive state.  Once it is filed away passively, it churns the butter of your thoughts uninhibited attracting other similar beliefs and thoughts.  You can then move on to other areas of concern.  This is exactly the way you formed your current beliefs and exactly the way reality is presented to you.

     As you progress you must be willing to visit your beliefs often.  Ones that seemed unapparent to you before will glare in error at you later.  The layers of your beliefs will peel away and soon reveal the onions that you have been planting.

     Beliefs have layers that must be delved into in order to “right” the faulty belief.  Take public speaking for example.  Most people fear public speaking.  If you were to peel back the beliefs associated with the fear of public speaking, you would find that what you actually fear is what people think of you, not necessarily speaking in public.    Thoughts spark emotion.  Thoughts spark fear.    In order to remove the fear, you must purge the thoughts.  What thoughts do you have that cause the fear?  People will laugh at me?  I will feel humiliated?  People will think I am an idiot?  People will think I am not very good.  Keeping peeling back the layers by asking yourself “why” questions.  Why do I think people will laugh at me?  Why are other people’s thought important to me?  As you question your beliefs, they become less of a force.  You start to question their integrity.  As you do this, they lose their hold on you. 

     The most empowering belief that you can hold as you sift through your current belief structure is the belief that you are unbound and capable of absolutely anything.    Retaining that belief aids in revealing false beliefs because any statements you can make to the contrary contains a limiting belief.  You cannot have unbound power if:  you are at the mercy of an economy, have poor health, are not at your ideal weight, lack abundance, or are without happiness.  Each of these MUST then contain sets of forged beliefs.  Your goal is to locate these beliefs and overpower them.

     As an example, let’s examine your ideas on wealth.  How do you define wealth?  How do you believe wealth comes to you?  Do you believe the only ways wealth can be created are through good ideas, physical labor, winnings or inheritance?  Take a moment and really think about those questions.  What assumptions have you made in regards to obtaining wealth?  What do you consider a large sum of money?  What is obtainable for you?  What impression do you have of wealthy people?  How will wealth benefit you?

     Your answers should reveal many of your beliefs.  If you could not think of another way that wealth comes except through ideas, labor, winnings or inheritance then you do not understand yet that wealth is a creation of the mind.  How will wealth benefit you?  Did you answer job freedom?  The ability to do what you want?  How is wealth preventing you from going after the job you want or the lifestyle you want?  These are your onions! 

     Holding a belief that you need something, such as money, in order to get something else, say job freedom creates an environment for you in which you are always trying to get something.  It is not really money you are after.  It is not even job freedom you pursue either.  Since your thoughts are not squarely on what you want, it does not arrive at your doorstep.  You do not really consider what you are in pursuit of.  Instead you have thoughts that somehow money will free you from your current restraints.  More often than not, we have not identified what it is we want.  Yet, we think that money will provide what we want even though we have never identified what it is we really want. 

     If a dump truck arrived at your house and dumped one million dollars in your backyard for you to count, roll in and smell would you be satisfied?  Just imagine going outside every day to check on your pile of money.  You could pile your money in different ways.  Count it each Thursday and sort it by serial numbers.  If all you want is money, monopoly money would suit the same purpose.  It is not money that you want.  It is always what money can buy.  The quick physical form fix.

     Just as it is not money that you are after, it is not really job freedom that you want either.  You do not need a million dollars to sit around and do nothing all day.  In all likelihood you probably do not know what you want.  You probably have not taken the time to describe what job freedom means.   Does job freedom mean having no boss or having no job?  Do you want to work independently as a sales consultant?  Or do you want to be the boss?  How much job freedom do think company owners’ feel they have?  More than likely, they are tied even more to their job.  If you cannot define what you want and what you mean by job freedom, you cannot have it.  Money is not going to free you from bondage, but your clarified thoughts will.

#20 Beliefs as Barriers

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” ~Albert Einstein

     At the heart of our all our failures and all our successes is our beliefs; our like thoughts that have amassed.  What you believe and what you do not believe are your experience drivers.  You cannot tip-toe around them.    

     Beliefs provide heavy barriers that do not betray you.  They are intended to cement a reality for you.  They are strong beaconed attractors of like thoughts, of like situations, of like experiences.  They filter your thoughts rejecting those thoughts that are disloyal to the belief.  They are strong magnets for any thoughts that validate and strengthen the core belief and strong repellants for thoughts that betray the belief. 

     Your beliefs, regardless of what they are and your attitude toward them limit you.  Understand that.  Beliefs limit you by restricting your experiences only to those which fit neatly within the structure of the belief.  On the over hand, beliefs are meant to restrict.  You need to operate within a framework for harmony and solidarity.   However, you do not have to stay in that framework. 

     You cannot bring into reality that which conflicts with your belief system. This is a fundamental key to understanding why you seem stuck.  What you do not believe or what is not believable is repelled.  What you do believe shows up in your life.  Your beliefs set forth your physical reality.

     Too often we become discouraged by our attempts at positive thinking, attracting by way of the Law of Attraction, changing our thoughts to change our life or developing effective habits.  Our small doses of positively constructed thoughts and forced feelings of expectancy are of no match to our monumental super-sized beliefs.  If I want to be a rock star, I cannot draw that experience towards me if I do not believe that is an option for me.  I will repel that frequency.

     You can think thoughts of abundance consistently.  You can attempt feelings of elation over your current situation.  You can force excitement as you approach the mailbox expecting a check.  But these attempts will disappoint you, further endorsing the permanency of your current situation, until you eradicate the underlying belief that prohibits opportunity from migrating to you.  Success cannot come to you if you repel it.

     At the back of your mind, gnawing away at your futile attempts to change, are your beliefs.  These super-sized thoughts have already formed opinions over what is believable for you.  Changing your beliefs requires your acquaintance with them just as you were required to acquaint yourself with your thoughts.  You can change your beliefs, people do all the time.  You need ample ammunition.

     What are your beliefs about success, abundance, your health, opportunities that exist, your abilities?  What do you believe about society?  Do you believe in bad luck and bad circumstances?  What are your beliefs about how money is acquired, the path it takes?  What beliefs do you hold about wealthy people?  What beliefs do you hold about how people become wealthy?  Do you believe it takes money to make money?  Do you believe there is somebody for everybody or nobody for you?  What is your ideal weight?  Why aren’t you at your ideal weight?  What do you believe?

     For the first time in your life, inspect your beliefs with the finely tuned precision of a scientific microscope.  Turn them over.  Rattle them around.  Remember your beliefs are only assumptions that you hold and have no factual merit.  The only reason they appear true is because you have been providing the validating proof.  You assume that you are fat, skinny, beautiful, ugly, intelligent, or rich because you subscribe to a set of beliefs that define what those things are.  But those things are all meaningless without the definition. You provide the definition.  You can say, “No, society does.”  However, all you hold is similar thoughts.  Thoughts do not make things true. 

     As you kick the legs out from the detrimental beliefs, your experiences will change.  You must be willing to release beliefs that do not serve your purpose.  Stop subscribing to limiting beliefs such as:  I am fat, or I am too thin.  I have limited opportunities, I am unhealthy.  Replace these adverse beliefs with constructive thoughts such as:  I am energetic, unbound, limitless, and capable of achieving anything.  Old beliefs will crumble as new beliefs are installed.  Your experiences will shift in response. 

     At first you might be inclined to whip out your ready-made list of excuses defending your shortcomings which include blaming anything or anyone but yourself, blaming the economy, your job loss, rotten luck or poor health.  Recognize these excuses for what they are:  thoughts validating your current reality.  They have no factual merit.  Remember change resides in embracing your power not forfeiting it to circumstances.  Do not be tempted to resort to an excuse list that stands erected on faulty thoughts.     

     If you believe in the limits of a faulty economy, you will not see the opportunity that exists in these rare moments of economic change.   If you believe you cannot possibly succeed without seed money, you will not see opportunities that require little or no seeding of funds.  If you find people to be difficult, they will not let you down.  Believing in the worst for yourself does you absolutely no favors.  Equally as bad as a pessimist with a cup half empty is an optimistic with a cup half full.  They both are only getting half of what they could have.  Each needs to simply walk over to the sink and fill their cup full; neither realizes this is an option.  You are not limited so stop thinking that you are. 

     Your beliefs are not actual facts only interpretations through which your thoughts filter.  It is like only seeing the white light of the noon Sun.  Change your viewing perspective and the Sun looks different.  Change your beliefs and things will look different too.  You can change your beliefs at any time by imposing constructive thoughts.  Your new belief(s) will form as did your old, by validation.  Harboring detrimental beliefs that usurp your power only allows current conditions to prevail.  Realigning your beliefs to more appropriately serve you is where your real power resides.  This is one of the profound secrets to tapping into your inner power.  Your personal power is harvested from the garden of your beliefs. You will begin to attract and experience new pleasures once your beliefs have plowed the way.  What you believe either gives you what you want or keeps it from you.  The revelation will come to astound you; you direct your beliefs through your thoughts.  You are in charge of your destination, always!

     The most empowering belief you can hold at this time is the belief that you are unbound and capable of anything.  You have no limits or restrictions.  Truly cultivating this belief will liberate you from limiting beliefs.  As you tell yourself that you are virtually anything you wish to be, those thoughts that fire off in counterattack are then easily identified as your limiting beliefs.  As you think:  I cannot.  I won’t make it.  I am not smart enough, talented enough or fortunate enough.  Times are tough.  I lost my job.  The economy is bad.  I can’t do it.  Congratulate yourself!  You have found an onion to dig up.  Rid yourself of the belief and take the next step forward.  What are the whispered thoughts you now hear? 

     It may be tempting to confuse what you have been experiencing as an unalterable situation.  It is easy to do since you have been validating your beliefs quite readily in this regard, holding the situation to a level of permanency.  For example, you might point to your belief that you are shy as an actual fact of reality that has limited you.  It might be easy for you to bundle your lack of opportunity right around being shy (or your lack of education, or inexperience, or fill in the blank).

     By now you should understand that believing you are shy does not make you unalterably shy, but rather you are shy because you believe you are.  There is a difference.  Believing in something does not transfer truth into truth.  The concept of truth is formed by the validated belief.  By changing your belief, you can easily make anything appear true or false.  As a result it is not the object, the thing or the condition that truth garnishes.  It is only the belief that is laced with truth.  You are not shy.  You only hold a belief that you are.  You subscribe to a definition of what shy is.  You could change your definition of what shy is, similar to the consequences of Pluto, and thus stop meeting the mold.  Alternately, you could shed your shy beliefs in favor of a more outgoing you; hence, also setting aside your shyness.  Shyness is not a fact, only a belief.    

     Once you believe in something, you will seek opportunities to validate that belief.  The thoughts will trickle in like a sprung leak.  The first time someone labels you as shy for example, thoughts trickled until a belief sprung.  When you have to speak up you will stutter, stammer and sweat.  These experiences flourish from the shy thoughts.  People overcome shyness all the time.  They do it with a change in thought.  As soon as you discourage shy thoughts and encourage thoughts on confidence your experience will change.

     Remember, like attracts like and creates an infinite amount of offshoots of thoughts impossible to categorize.  It is likely that if you have shy thoughts, you have also attracted offshoots of similar patterned thinking such as:  I embarrass easily.  I am afraid to lead.  I am uncomfortable being in charge.  I am uncomfortable conducting meetings.  I don’t like to be the center of attention. 

     Suddenly, if you want to start your own business, you have a problem.  You cannot attract into being that which goes against your beliefs.  If you are shy and likely hold negative beliefs about being in charge, leading and being in the spotlight you have stalemated your opportunity on running a company since you likely also hold beliefs that running your own company requires leadership, effectiveness, and the ability to take charge.   Your beliefs provide barriers to you in ways you do not realize unless you hold the belief I mentioned earlier that anything is possible for you.  You can still be successful and be shy.  There are all sorts of success people who consider themselves shy.  The difference is their thoughts on success overcompensated for their shy thoughts.

     Another common misnomer is blaming the economy on your situation.  Often we interpret the economy as being an unalterable fact of our condition.  We blame our job loss, financial hardship or lack of sales on bad economic times.  We feel stuck and unable to move ahead.  Since our thoughts are centered on all the lack and despair the economy has perceptually brought upon us, we are unable to see the opportunity.  What we focus on is brought constantly to our awareness and that becomes our boundary.  We are unable to see beyond the boundary of the economy, unable to reinterpret our abilities from a job loss except through the definition of how we see ourselves as a teacher, a steel mill worker, or an accountant.  We cannot see beyond the view we currently hold of ourselves because the filter is so strong.  We easily pump out what is not within our current definition.  Our beliefs do this for us.  But we do not have to let them.  We always have free choice on what to think.

     Time and again, we are shown that the economy binds no person willing to find the opportunity.  We also see people empowered by age, not enfeebled by it.  Job loss is a powerful setting to reinventing yourself.  Illustrated below are people who were not bound by the economy, age or job loss.  Excuses are misinterpreted beliefs.  The sooner you lose them, the better you are for it. 

     Charles Darrow finding himself out of work after the stock market crash of 1929 took the opportunity to perfect a little parlor game that we call Monopoly.  Within a year of patenting the game, 20,000 Monopoly games a year were selling making Darrow the world’s first millionaire game designer.  Darrow did let neither his job loss nor an extremely depressed economy draw his limits. 

     Have you ever heard of a man by the name of Floyd Bostwick Odlum?  Odlum took advantage of the failing economy during the great depression by buying up failing companies at around fifty cents on the dollar.  He reorganized the firms and sold the assets to raise more money.  He repeated this process for more than fifteen years amassing over $100,000,000 making him one of the greatest investors of the Depression Era.  Where others saw failing businesses, Odlum looked for, saw and found opportunity. 

     Colonel Sanders did not let his age stop him or his flopped restaurant.  At the age of sixty five Sanders having a failed business, took his $105 from his first social security check and began visiting potential franchisees.  He received over one thousand rejections before pairing up with Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s Old Fashioned Burgers.  Sanders opted to revitalize a failing Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant stripping the menu down to just basic fried chicken and salads…the start of Kentucky Fried Chicken that we know today.  He was sixty five years old, with a failed business and on Social Security.  However, he did not allow his current predicament to determine his potential.

     Winston Churchill failed sixth grade.  He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of sixty two.  He later wrote, “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never , never- in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.  Never, Never, Never, Never give up.”

     Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was too stupid to learn anything.  He was fired from his first two jobs for being non-productive.  Edison made one thousand unsuccessful attempts at the light bulb.  When a reporter asked, “How does it feel to fail one thousand times?”  Edison replied, “I didn’t fail one thousand times.  The light bulb was an invention with one thousand steps.”

     Hyatt Corporation opened its first hotel doors at the Los Angeles Airport during the Eisenhower recession 1957-58.  Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft during the recession in 1975.  CNN started its humble beginnings as a little known station called The Cable Network News during the 1980’s recession.  The Fortune 500 is full of companies that were founded during down times:  from Johnson and Johnson to Disney, Cisco and Intel. 

     A recession can offer opportunities such as lower rents, a surplus of employees willing to work for lower wages, partnership opportunities, and opportunities to scoop up failing businesses, or job losses that can be turned into opportunities of a life time by forcing self reinvention.  Unemployment equals time to find opportunity.

     When you do not allow conditions to dictate your experiences, they do not.  When you do not allow boundaries, no matter how real they seem to limit you, they cannot.  And when you do not define success according to the prevailing economy, a job you had, your age or lack of education then success is a wide-open path for you.  What do you want to do?  Why aren’t you doing it?  Your excuses are your belief barriers. 

     Darrow, Odlum, Edison, and Sanders looked for opportunities not explanations for their failures.  They did not seek out reasons why they were incapable, or somehow prevented from accomplishment.  Their focus remained on seeing the opportunity. 

     When we focus on our limits, they become our boundaries.  Excuses are our losers limp.  You are probably familiar with what a losers limp is from watching sporting events.  The loser, not wanting to take responsibility for a loss, limps off the playing field pretending to be hurt.  The injury is cited as the reason for failure in the game.  We employ our losers limp on occasions when we are unwilling to take personal responsibility for our failure. 

     Blame and excuses are loser’s limps.  People have shown that success, wellness, abundance, happiness and harmony can be had in spite of any prevailing circumstances.   It is a belief in excuses that keeps you holding hands with current predicaments, whatever they may be.  If you feel stuck, complaining something is preventing you from moving forward, it is your complaints that are your losers limp.  Essentially, you are using “that thing you are complaining about” as a scapegoat for continuing on.  However, most people do not do this purposefully. Their beliefs have so engaged them that they do not understand how reality is created; and so like vultures they keep circling rotting experiences.

     You cannot attract into your experience events, people, places or opportunities that go against your beliefs.  That is yet another of the fundamental secrets to achieving whatever you want.  You can only attract what you believe in. If you want the experience of being a millionaire, then you must believe with absolute certainty that this experience exists for you. 

     Intense emotional outpourings and saturated thoughts of success get you nowhere if you have contrary beliefs.  If you put up a vision board with a picture of you next to a yacht, pin up the ideal skinny you on the refrigerator, try visualizing yourself successful, or even write an acceptance speech for some award you try imagining yourself earning; all of these attempts will do nothing for you if in the back of your mind you hold doubt. 

     Think back to when you were a child at night alone in bed and afraid.  Night after night your heart beat faster and faster as you tucked your head under the covers nearly intoxicating yourself with your short shallow breaths.  Sweating profusely, you were afraid something was going to get you.  In all likelihood, a villain should have appeared.  The intense emotional outpouring, the cyclical thoughts, the body behavior all should have produced that furry monster ready to nibble your fingers off.  However, the monster never appeared.  Why?  In the back of your mind, tucked way down in there, a belief existed that monsters do not exist.  You cannot produce that which goes against your beliefs even in the event of emotional climax. 

     Beliefs confine you.  That does not mean that all beliefs are bad.  On the contrary, you have many

beliefs that benefit you.  You do need to be aware of what your beliefs are because they do encase you

in a framework.   They prevent you from changing your course, taking action, succeeding, feeling well

and being abundant.   But they also provide consistency, stability and reliability. You can alter any part

of your life simply by starting with the phrase, I am anything.  What slaps you back with “no you are

not,” is where your belief inspection must start.

#19 Validation of Our Beliefs

     Often you consider your beliefs as facts, far too obvious for inspection.  However, since you create your beliefs, you also provide the validation.  You readily gravitate towards material that validates your belief due to the Law of Attraction.  If you looked, you could just as easily find as much information that invalidated your belief.  For example, you can just as easily find countless examples of people displaying rude behavior as you can easily find as many examples of people displaying kindness.  What you think, you validate by seeking out specific examples that fit the mold of your belief. 

     We form our beliefs through our own self-imposed thoughts.  We validate our beliefs by what we allow into our reality.  The validation of the belief is secured through the choices we make, the books we choose or refuse to read, acquaintances, discussions we partake in, magazines we subscribe to.  All that we attract that supports the belief is chosen by us through our thoughts, although we are quick on the trigger to congratulate ourselves on mastering the validation of the belief.  However, we have really done nothing more than draw to ourselves our personally selected proof all while rejecting contrary material. 

     A rather obvious example of belief validation lies with both the person holding religious beliefs and the person who believes in science as our origin.  Each person forms their beliefs and validates the belief from material exclusively selected.  While a person with strong religious beliefs can have an awareness of scientific opinion, it is very unlikely that this person would have a home library full of studied resources on scientific origin of humanity.  This person would likely have many friends with mutual ideas on religion and engage in conversation supporting religious points of view.  Conversely, the person who supports a scientific origin of humanity would draw material that supported their scientific belief excluding from their reading material religious doctrines, forgoing church participation and bible study.  While each person might encounter differing opinions (thoughts), it is through debate (repelling the other persons thoughts) not understanding of the other persons view point (beliefs) that discussion is approached.  We choose what we allow into our reality.  What we allow predominantly supports our belief.  We reject what does not support our beliefs.  It is that simple. 

     It is always easier to see beliefs held in religion or science since these beliefs are commonly held in opposition.  It is harder to see the beliefs that we validate day to day such as our beliefs on the state of the economy, social prejudices we hold, or beliefs about ourselves.  We are nearly blinded by most of our beliefs because they seem so obviously true.

     Already you might be tempted to sputter several scientific beliefs as facts that govern your life.  You can point to the formulas and equations and say with certainty that they are accurate.  But their accuracy is reliant upon your beliefs.  If you changed those beliefs, the formulas and equations would fall like the Roman Emperor. 

     Be aware, science (and religion to some degree) is a self-correcting system of inquiry, a collection of opinions as socially conditioned as the weathervane of Paris couture.  It was not that awfully long ago that we believed ourselves out of a flat world, an earth-centered universe, and the planetary status of Pluto.

     You can convince yourself that these changes are evolutionary and progressive.  But are they?  You might even think beliefs change through knowledge and understanding.    Consider the story of Pluto.  From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto enjoyed planetary status as the ninth planet in our solar system.  In August of 2006, scientists with no real definition of what constituted a planet, finally agreed and voted in a definition.  Unfortunately, this definition demoted Pluto to that of a dwarf planet. 

     According to this “voted in” definition, a planet must orbit the sun and must be large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity, both of which Pluto meets.  However in addition, for an object to be considered a planet the object must dominate the neighborhood around its orbit.  A planet must clear a path along its orbit sweeping up asteroids, comets and other debris.  Here is where we find that Pluto is a bit untidy.  Pluto has a bit of tail debris, thus, the demotion of Pluto. 

     Ultimately nothing really changed, did it?  No ancient tableau was found passing this wisdom down.  Pluto sits out there in outer space not really caring about any beliefs here on Earth, I assure you.  Pluto is no more “a planet” or “not a planet” than it is a widget.  Our beliefs do not thrust upon Pluto any sort of truth.  Understand that.  The only change that occurred was that of our beliefs.  It is through the filter of beliefs, beliefs that we provide both the definition and the accuracy test for, that we view what is factual and what is fictitious.  Now when we look at a text book and see the handsome new definition of a planet, we validate our belief that Pluto does not meet the criteria.  Therefore, we believe it is true that Pluto is not a planet. 

     Consider how many planets there are.  Doesn’t that necessitate that you believe in some definition of what a planet is?  Does that definition hold truth?  Of course not.  Neither is it false.   Truth is reliant upon a belief in something.  However, we know believing in something does not make it true whether we are talking about a planet, money, poverty, religion, science, prejudices or you.  We experience inescapably what we believe. 

     All of your beliefs are formed in much the same manor.  There is virtually nothing you can point to and say conclusively that it is fact or fiction.  Everything you consider factual or fictitious, you have provided both definition and validation.  To see the fallacies of your beliefs, you have to have unbiased inspection and accept that your beliefs are neither true nor false. 

     Let’s take a look at a not so obvious validation of your reality.  Consider a social studies teacher working in a rural school system located within a democratic belt of the Midwest.  Already from that very brief description several images certainly pop into mind:  this teacher more than likely supports social programs, probably believes in unfair social class divisions, more than likely thinks children born into economically challenged homes do not have the same opportunities as economically privileged children, probably believes in social barriers, caps and limits of opportunity.

     This teacher will hold out his assumptions as fact.  He will validate his belief through reading material, speaking with other “like-teachers,” and supporting political candidates he chooses to read up on.  He will see his experience as proof of his belief and all that he seeks to read and people he chooses to engage in conversation with will also seem to support his beliefs.  In turn, he validates the beliefs of others including his students that barriers to opportunity exist, that it takes money to make money, and rich people have special privileges.  This belief sheaths those who validate it including teacher, co-worker and students until at some point, for example, a student breaks free of this belief (that he or she is limited in some way) and actually achieves outstanding success.  Others still engaged in that framework of beliefs look at that successful student as the “one in a million.”  However, the one-in-a-million student did nothing but shed limiting beliefs. 

     Beliefs are only thoughts you have on matters.  Thoughts do NOT transmit truth, ever.   For as many people who believe in limits and barriers there are equal amounts of people who believe that anyone can be whatever they aspire to be.  Which is true?  Which is false?  Only your personal beliefs can determine that answer for you.  Believing as this teacher does, experiences that exhibit limits will surely follow further validating his belief. 

     It is easy to understand how our beliefs direct the planetary status of Pluto and the color we use to describe the Sun.  It is not so easy to see how our personal beliefs guide our lives and direct our experiences.  They both limit and provide opportunities without our awareness.  As we become aware of our beliefs, we can change our experiences.

     For change to occur, you must not surrender to your beliefs.  You must see your beliefs as nothing more than thoughts that breathe no truth.  It does not matter what proof you think you have.  All beliefs are thoughts.  Thoughts are energy translated into form.  The only truths are the truths we create, then.     

# 18 PURPOSE OF BELIEFS

     Beliefs form to relieve the conscious mind of overwhelming thought abilities.  Their purpose is to the hold the structure of already amassed information.  Beliefs are passive in nature.  They can be pushed to the back corners of the mind and allowed to collect other like thoughts unsupervised.  The conscious mind is then free to pursue active spontaneous thought.  

     Your beliefs are loyal to you.  They are the guards to the Universal Mind.  Recall I said earlier that you have guards in place to protect the Universal Mind from the spontaneity of thought?  Your guards are your beliefs.  They are likewise your most energized thoughts.  Thus they both extract physical form from the Universal Mind and protect the Universal Mind.  If you didn’t hold beliefs, you would easily become overwhelmed with inconsistent thought.  Beliefs screen thoughts holding form true to already assimilated information. 

     Your reality is formed by your thoughts.  Beliefs are the nests of those thoughts and are responsible for maintaining the reality you experience.  What you experience is a projection of those beliefs. You can imagine the chaos your life would turn into if your thoughts did not compound into beliefs.  Imagine having to constantly rethink your religious views, your moral values and your professional aspirations.  Nothing about you would remain intact.  But you do remain intact and so does everything around you because it is cemented by your beliefs. 

     Beliefs provide the stable foundation from which other thoughts build upon.  Like thoughts attract not only other like thoughts but offshoots of similar thoughts.  Multiple beliefs can grow from an initial thought instigator.  For example, you may have developed a belief early on as a child on the paths money takes to reach you.  As a belief developed that money comes from paychecks, you may have had a thought that the harder you work the more money you make.  As these thoughts trickled in, other offshoots of thoughts may have sprung such as aggressive people make more money or people who work little get less.  Soon you had very specific beliefs on how money is made and how it is distributed:  through the hard work of a weekly pay check. 

     At the same time you were building specific thoughts on the ways money is earned, you were repelling thoughts that did not coincide with these beliefs.  Thoughts that money has many paths or requires little effort to obtain would have been rejected by you.  Your experience would then follow.  You would indulge in hard work to earn money.  You would only see ways in which money was earned through hard work solidifying your belief all while avoiding routes of earning money in less cumbersome ways.  Examples of people earning money in easier methods would be looked upon by you as extreme exceptions to your rule; the one in a million chance.  Hence those one in a million chances would become unbelievable opportunities for you.  You would not pursue what you believed to be a long shot.

     Your beliefs grow in certain ways depending upon the thoughts you allow.  Thoughts that conflict with the mature belief are expelled.  Your experiences then are produced only from the structure of your beliefs.  In the example, your experience follows a specific path; you work hard to secure assets.  It does not occur to you to secure assets in other ways.  Your beliefs guard you against alternate paths.  

     The purpose of beliefs, therefore, is to effectively frame in your experiences so your reality is a reliable framework to work within.  However, you are not meant to work entirely within one framework.  Frameworks provide the physical parameters that hold your current form.  You are free to change your framework of experiences through fresh thought and beliefs.  The only reason you do not, is because you are unaware of how you created this framework to begin with.  If you understood the process, you could alter your experience by building a new house of beliefs. 

     A framework of validated beliefs imposes experiences directed by your thoughts.  You cannot experience that which goes against your beliefs.  Beliefs are highly magnetic thoughts that attract onto you like thoughts and experiences.  Any thoughts or experiences to the contrary are repelled.  That is why understanding what you believe is essential to altering experiences. 

     If a belief is held that money comes to you only under certain conditions, such as a paycheck, other means in which money can be obtained will not occur to you.  These ideas will not occur to you because your belief system is nudging them out of the nest.  How many times have you heard yourself say, I never would have thought of that?  You will not as long as your beliefs stand guard.  They repel contrary thoughts just as easily as they attract like thoughts.    

     Certainly you are free to entertain what would be unusual thoughts for you because the conscious mind does have free will of thoughts.  While money earned through hard work is a belief you hold, you are free to consider other methods of earning money (such as investing options).  However, you will not entertain these thoughts long term.  They will seem more like impossibilities to you because you will not allow the supporting thoughts to grow.  So while the mind is free to roam, it easily sticks to the trails it has been treading. 

     Beliefs remain intact and unchallenged until an opposing belief whittles the collection of thoughts away.  Realize our beliefs do change over time, however, or we would all still believe holding our mother’s hand was necessary to cross the street safely.

     Active spontaneous and imaginative thought when allowed free roaming ability can pursue constructive beliefs and discharge adverse beliefs.  That is why it is very important to promote rather than stymie our imaginations.  When you allow beliefs to confine your thought process they become your artificial barriers.  When constructive thoughts are not permitted or considered your situation holds.  If you do not allow yourself to think of alterations to the current you, then the current you is what keeps returning.  If you think in terms of this is my life nothing can change it or if you think you are at the mercy of your job or health or economy, and argue that fact, then opportunity will not reflect back to you.  If you believe in your abilities, and that is all that is necessary to promote new thoughts, one will trickle then another and soon you will think maybe I could change that and then you do. 

     Without beliefs chaos would ensure.  Beliefs are the cohesiveness to the reality you experience.  They are your glue.  Whatever you believe about yourself, others, your world, your opportunities or your lack of opportunity is drawn to you.  And it sticks!  If it did not hold form, you would be in a constant state of upheaval.  Imagine not having any beliefs; no thoughts on relationships, safety, friendship, or work.  To that degree, beliefs provide you with a stable environment by giving you consolidated thoughts on matters in which you can effectively operate.

     Your purpose is creative.  Your intent is to learn through creativity.  Beliefs frame your creative mental images creating a consistent backdrop for enrichment to occur.  Your experiences within the framework of your beliefs provide that enrichment.  You can steer out of your framework once you understand that the structure does not hold you, but rather you hold the structure. 

#17 An Introduction to Your Beliefs & How They Limit You

Content we are to operate within the socially conditioned framework of our beliefs, ever changing over time to accommodate the evolution of our thought.  It is without examination that we accept beliefs and without thought that we allow beliefs to fade into insignificance.  –Christina Bialas

WHAT ARE BELIEFS

     Your thoughts are magnetic in nature and attract other like thoughts, situations, experiences and people.  As thoughts enter into your awareness, other like thoughts soon trickle building momentum.  Thoughts attract thoughts!  If no opposing thoughts tackle the growing collection of like thoughts a belief forms.    A belief is a super-sized bundle of like thoughts.

     Beliefs are your assumptions about reality.  Your beliefs are yours alone.  And they are neither factual nor fiction.  They are your personal interpretations of your reality some ever changing and some holding strongly true for only you.  Believing something is true does not make it true anymore than believing something is false makes it false.   

     We use words like verified, fact, scientific, true furthering our impression that our beliefs hold some degree of virtue.  However, if you genuinely contemplate what truth your beliefs hold you will undeniably conclude that beliefs are mere assumptions about your reality and nothing more.  Your beliefs are your prejudices, biases, preconceptions, predispositions, and influences all bundled up by your thoughts.   When you “think,” you rearrange your prejudices. 

     You view your world through packaged beliefs.  What you believe about the physical world largely determines what you will experience.  What do you believe about other people, the air you breathe, restrictions upon you, your family situation?  How do you believe you were formed?  What do you believe about the world around you?  Our mammoth beliefs keep us tethered allowing little persuasion in.  However, we easily adopt beliefs when we have no former thoughts on a matter.  Initial thoughts planted with no counteractive belief to contend with spark a trail of like thoughts.  When we watch the news, pick up the newspaper or engage in conversation with a friend we form beliefs rapidly on the ideas presented based on the initial trigger of thought.  Thoughts attract more thoughts until a belief is formed. 

     It is difficult to see the mask of beliefs you have been parading under because of the method beliefs receive our acceptance:  attracted like thoughts validated through the strength of their magnetic power.  You have a thought that attracts another thought and then another.  Thoughts left unchecked collect further strengthening the core.  As roots develop experiences are brought into being that validates the grouping of thoughts; as you think the thought, you draw experiences that endorse the thought.  Seemingly then what you think appears to be true because you have provided both the original thought and the experience that validates it.  This pattern is cyclical until it is broken.

     For example, you have thoughts of disappointment and frustration with other people.  Constantly, you “think” of ways that people disappoint you.  You are focused on this aspect.  You often complain that other people disappointment you.  Since your focus is on the many ways in which people disappoint you, you attract it.  You draw to yourself disappointment and clearly see it because of this concentrated focus.  In this analogy, you have created the original disappointing thoughts and the experience that follows:  people disappointing you.  What you experience appears true because you look for and see ways that people disappoint you thereby giving credence to the original thought.   What you believe you see, and in turn you end up believing it even more because you keep creating it.  Conversely, what you do not believe you repel and therefore do not see.  If you focused on ways people please you, your thoughts and focus would shift changing what you experience to pleasant encounters.  What you believe to be true and what you believe to be false is what you experience. 

     Your beliefs always come first followed by a reality that validates the belief.  Your beliefs are attracted like thoughts.  If you change your beliefs (thoughts), then what you validate as truth changes along with it.  Your beliefs are nothing more than a perspective, a viewing angle, which only holds truth from the point of view of the angle.  Change your viewing angle and truth changes.  There are no truths except what you believe to be true, just as what is false exists only within the parameters of your beliefs.  What is true and what is false are virtually indistinguishable. 

     Take a moment to examine the truths and fallacies associated with these statements.  After you read each statement, pause a moment and consider what you think about each example.  Is each statement true or false?    

• People are good at heart.
• Puppies are cute.
• The earth is round.
• The sky is blue.

     These statements seem true, don’t they?  However, any statement made relies upon “your definition.”  What is good?  What is cute?  What does it mean to be round?  What does blue look like?  To illustrate further, suppose we gather a bunch of objects and “call them round.”  We could easily call the shape square or rectangular or invent an entirely new name.  The only thing we have done is provide a definition.  By virtue of calling objects round, roundness is not bestowed upon them.  It is true that they are round only within the parameters and according to our definition of what we believe round is.  If we later rename round objects calling them “contours,” it becomes false under our beliefs that the object is round.  The only change is in our belief.

     Why talk about circles, contours or blobs for that matter?  It is important to see your beliefs for the “thoughts” that they are and realize that your beliefs do not bequeath truth, in any instance.  Understanding and accepting that your beliefs hold no truths helps when it comes time to shed adverse beliefs.  If you hold your beliefs as absolute truth, you will not be able to let go.  You will find yourself defending them.  If you are willing to examine your beliefs only on the worth of serving you, understanding they are only a framework of thoughts holding no virtue, then you will be able to reject underserving beliefs. 

     Do people disappoint you?  Do you have a hard time making ends meet?  Are you chronically ill?  Do you have a weight problem?  Is a dollar a lot of money?  Is a million dollars a lot of money?  Are you attractive?  What do you believe?  What you believe does not matter a little, it matters a whole heck of a lot!

     Your beliefs are your viewing angle.  Imagine Person A driving to work.  Person A thinks drivers on the road are reckless, rude and idiotic.  Person B is also driving on the road but thinks other drivers are courteous, respectful and only occasionally absent minded.  Person B has forgiving thoughts.  Person A has aggressive thoughts.  Which driver do you think has a more pleasurable drive to work?   Which driver do you suppose is more likely to draw tickets and accidents?  Which driver experiences stress behind the wheel?

     I will say it again because it is that important:  What you believe matters!  If entertaining therapeutic thoughts while driving draws a pleasurable safer driving experience, what does thinking successful thoughts do for you?  What about concentrating on thin thoughts or healthy thoughts?  Your beliefs are your viewing angle neither right nor wrong.  They are perspective from which you view reality.  Your viewing angle makes all the difference in what you see and experience.

     Take for evaluation the beliefs we hold about what the Sun looks like.  If you ask any child what color the Sun is, almost 100% will respond with “yellow.”  We learned to draw the Sun as a perfectly round lemon yellow ball of fire in Kindergarten and have  doodled it that way ever since.  But the Sun is not just yellow.  It produces a range of visible light from red to blue in which yellow is the most plentiful.  If the sun were cooler, it would look red.  If it were hotter it would look blue because both of these colors are contained within it. 

     The Earth’s atmosphere acts as a kind of light filter.  Some colors are filtered more than others.  While the Sun is a yellow star, the Earth’s atmosphere makes the Sun look “more yellow” than if you were to observe it from outer space where it would look “more white.”  White light is a combination of all colors produced equally by a glowing object.

     The Sun appears whiter in a high noon sky because it has less air to travel through.  Less air means all colors are equally reaching your eyes.  From a high flying plane or the moon, the Sun also appears to be white; closer to the way it really is!  Your beliefs about the color of the Sun, as it turns out, are all relative to the position which you view it, much like your beliefs.  Your beliefs serve as a filter through which reality is funneled.  And like the sun, you allow certain information to permeate the barriers of your beliefs. 

     How the Sun appears is much like how your beliefs appear.  It depends on the angle from which they are viewed.  While the Sun might look yellow or intensely white depends upon your view.  But because it appears yellow does not negate, or make false, the other colors contained within the Sun.  Neither does having multiple colors negate the yellowish appearance.  It is both true that it is yellow and false.  Neither is right.  Neither is wrong. 

     We can appreciate this distinction as it applies to the Sun.  It becomes much more difficult when we apply it to our own way of viewing reality because we believe the truths we have constructed.  Our beliefs filter thoughts, just like earth filters the suns color.  However, all colors are present in the sun just as all possible thoughts and beliefs are available to us if we choose to stop clinging to archaic ideas that do not serve us.  We do have a choice to alter our beliefs since we can control what we think. 

     Consider your thoughts towards other people.  We hold all sorts of beliefs about other people we often accept as undisputable facts.  We believe Joe is outrageous or Angela is shy based only upon our point of view and consequently our definition (definitions are just thoughts you have) of what outrageous is or what it means to be shy.  What we believe about someone else does not make it true of that person.  If that were the case, what others believe about us would hold absolute truth.  However, we are dynamic and every changing with situations and people we interact with.  What we believe about anything does not genie blink truth into it. 

     You harbor all sorts of beliefs that have been readily accepted without regard to their source or influence.  Some beliefs you inherited from your parents, some are cultural, some are influenced by peers, and several are even formed after a book you have read or are validated through reading the Sunday newspaper.  You are quite susceptible to the influences of others especially when they seem to validate your beliefs.

     It is no coincidence that others seemingly validate you; like attracts like.  You are a magnet for those who think like you do which lends added support to your belief system furthering the appearance of truth.  You likewise notice emotional intensity towards those who object to your beliefs. Your thoughts toward them (and their beliefs) are profound repellants.  That does not mean you avoid people who disagree with you.  On the contrary, you will find that your interpretations agree very little with other people on an array of subjects.  However, you are bound to those on your predominant frequency. 

     Major beliefs contain a web of attached thoughts that pull individuals together such as beliefs on raising a family, religious similarities, or economically similar situations.  It is the strength of your major beliefs that cement relationships.  While you might disagree on many aspects, these weaker beliefs do not contain the force to repel the mega sized belief attractors. 

     As you change neighborhoods, switch jobs, attend a new church, move to a new geographical area, divorce, marry, have children, receive a startling diagnosis, stop drinking or quite smoking your beliefs migrate quickly to a new set of lens from which you will view reality.  You always follow the pattern:  Think, Create, Perceive Believe, Validate. 

THINK>CREATE>PERCEIVE>BELIEVE>VALIDATE 

     So what, if the sky is blue or not blue?  What difference does it make if the sun is yellow, white or rainbow?  When you understand that your beliefs are not facts, you are free to change them to any degree.  As long as you clutch a belief, it clutches you.  By grasping an understanding that there is no truth in what you believe, you can untie yourself from limiting beliefs such as:  I will never amount to anything.  I’ll always be fat.  My health is poor.  I am always late.  The economy prevents me.          

     It is important to grasp the role beliefs play in creating your reality because what prevents you from moving up the ladder of success, achieving a goal, becoming well or losing weight lies always in what you believe.  Shortly, we will talk about why beliefs prevent you from change and how you can change your beliefs to support a more desirable experience.  Right now, it is imperative that you begin separating your beliefs from fact. 

     Begin to see your beliefs for what they are:  collected thoughts that you have been validating.  It is not necessary to abandon your beliefs, just yet.  Some serve you well and many you will keep.  However, it is important that you realize all you hold are thoughts on matters, and thoughts do not make things true or false.  As you sift through any of your beliefs, you will understand this.  Once you understand this, you can direct your thoughts to build desirable beliefs.

     Thoughts build beliefs.  Beliefs thrust themselves out into your experiences.  But not all thoughts are projected as we have learned; only those thoughts that are habitual, durable and intense thrust themselves out.  What thoughts are strong enough to thrust forward into reality?  Your beliefs, of course, are those energized thoughts thrust out due to their massive size and attracting power.  What you experience is a manifestation of your beliefs; your bundled habitually intense thoughts.   

     Due to the intensity of your habitual thought patterns your beliefs are extremely influential to you and radiate quite strongly attracting other like thoughts and beliefs of similar nature.  That is why your experiences change very little from day to day, why you have predominantly the same thoughts, why you seem stuck, and why change is so difficult to incorporate.  Experiencing situations outside of your beliefs is much like oaring up stream in white capped water.  You can only sustain temporarily. 

     Your beliefs surround you; how you see yourself, your ability, how you view the economy, where you live, opportunities available to you are all determined by what you believe.  Conversely, what you do not believe you cannot attract.  It will always be pushed away.  You cannot attract your dream house, ideal spouse, superior income or anything that is unbelievable to you.  Experiences that are unbelievable for you will be held from you.

     There is a difference between unbelievable and doubt.  You can doubt the likelihood of something such as winning a basketball game.  However, both winning the basketball game and losing the basketball game are believable outcomes for you.  Experiences such as winning the lottery, becoming a millionaire, or being the next big rock star are experiences that are likely very unbelievable for you.  Constructive thoughts on the plausibility of these experiences are so very limited, while destructive thoughts (such as “it will never happen to me) are so common that these particular experiences are drawn away from you.  Again, confirming the original thought that, “I could never be a rock star or millionaire.”

     People who have success draw the experiences towards them through constructive thoughts.  Put simply, they believe they can have the experience.  Just like you believe winning the basketball game is an option.  People who succeed are certain that success is a very, very likely option for them too; as likely an outcome as winning a T-ball game.  It is not something they push out to their wishful thinking list. They draw the experience very near to them through thoughts of absolute certain believability.  In fact their thoughts are so forceful that having the experience is as sure to them as the newspaper appearing on the front step in the morning.   It is with that level of certainty that they proceed.