Lesson Two - Beliefs

I'll see it when I believe it!                                          -Wayne Dyer

So what are your thoughts about the following things?

• Life
• Yourself
• Your Body
• Money
• Love
• Other People
• Being Successful
• Drugs & Alcohol

Now consider why you think the way you do about them.

These are your beliefs about these things!  You may think that what you think about them are just some observations based upon your realities about them, but in actuality they are your beliefs about them and these beliefs will create help to create your reality based on your thoughts about them.  Maybe your first thought about life was that it was hard.  Maybe it is only hard because you started thinking it was hard.  Don't think so?  Then why is life easier for some people.

When you start thinking something, no matter if you are "right" or "wrong", helpful or unhelpful, you automatically start thinking similar thoughts.  AND those thoughts become the things and events of your life.  It is when you understand that where you are in your present life is a direct result of your thoughts and beliefs that you understand that where you need to go first is to those thoughts and beliefs to make a change!

You know, you can't make something happen without first believing that it can happen.  The belief in something comes before we make it happen.  The Wright Brothers believed in flight long before their first plane actually flew!  Belief is why people succeed in sports, music, business and absolutely everything else.  Your life won't change until your beliefs about life change.  But here's the good news, you can change your beliefs.

Most people think that their beliefs come from their life experiences but where did your life experiences come from?  They come from your thoughts!

Let's take the following example:  You're driving down the road and all of a sudden your gauges register that your engine is overheating.  You pull to the side of the road and phone your significant other about your problem.  Two conclusions are made about this episode:

1. This car is old and is now going to start costing us money, OMG we are going to have to get a new car and have another payment to worry about.
2. This is something that I should have checked because our car is getting a little older, no problem, we will have the mechanic take a look at it in the morning.

Both of these conclusions were about the same incident, but the one person took the negative thought approach based on the belief that they have as to the age of the vehicle.  The other person took the positive approach based on the belief that since the vehicle is older that they just have to be more aware of it and take better care of the car.

This may not be the best example, but it is an example of how thoughts play into the lives of many people, causing them stress and anxiety in their lives.  But people don't see the connection between their beliefs, their thoughts and their experiences.  If you look back at things that have happened in your life you might just begin to see the proof that your beliefs and thoughts about something is what made it happen in just such a way.

As I have stated in other posts it is your thoughts that create your reality and now we can add into that mix the belief in something that creates the thoughts.  "To master your thoughts, and therefore your life and destiny, you must first master your beliefs."  You get to choose what you think and believe and by choosing you build your life.

If you think about 2 positive thoughts and 2 negative thoughts what do these thoughts reveal about your underlying beliefs.  If you change these beliefs you can change your thoughts and therefore your life.

Let's break this down into the conscious and sub-conscious mind.

The conscious mind, based on free will - the ability to think whatever we want, can accept or reject thoughts.  What this means is that when a negative thought starts you have the ability to reject the negative and turn it into a positive.  This is the part of your mind where you are consistently thinking about things.  And whatever you consistently think about ultimately gets stored in the sub-conscious mind.

The sub-conscious mind if filled with conditioned or fixed thoughts.  These are the things that your conscious mind has thought about for so long that they are now stored and are left to function in every cell of the body.  These become habits and they are not able to be rejected unless changed by the conscious mind.  This is where the free will comes in again!  You can change your thoughts but first you must change your beliefs.

Choose new thoughts, words and behaviors and your life experiences and then your beliefs will change to mirror those changes.  There are 3 steps for installing new beliefs.  1.  Choose beliefs that serve your life.  2.  Claim these beliefs through your thoughts and words.  3.  Act as if these beliefs are true every day.

1.  Create a list of belief that you'd like to possess.  Beliefs about life, yourself, your body, money, love, other people and being successful.

2.  After you know what you want to believe, then start thinking and speaking as if you already believed it.  I love my life, life is good.  I am happy, healthy and prosperous.  I am the perfect size.  I have abundance.  See how it works?

3.  Act as if these beliefs are true every day.  Live your new beliefs!  Act as if they were yours by behaving in ways that reinforce them.  Think about them when you get out of bed, when you choose your food, what you will wear or where you will go, who you will be friends with and in every decision that you make.

And remember - sometimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place.

"Happy, successful and wealthy people are proof that you don't have to be blessed, spiritual and perfect, you just have to dream and believe in those dreams."           - Mike Dooley

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