What Do You Believe?

"I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining."

~World War II Refugee

Beliefs are integral to the reality you create.

YOUR BELIEFS SHAPE WHAT YOU MANIFEST BECAUSE YOUR BELIEFS ARE A PART OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. AND YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS REFLECTED TO YOU THROUGH YOUR EXPERIENCE.

In the spirit of awareness, I invite you to consider what you believe. Do your beliefs create what you want? Are you willing to discard your beliefs and replace them with ones that serve your desired experience? Do your beliefs limit you or expand you?

The dictionary says belief is:

1) The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another
2) Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something
3) Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons

Your beliefs can be so engrained that you don't even consider whether they are real or not. Your beliefs can be so automatic, that you live based on their "truth" (another demonstration of stimulus-----> response habits I talked about last week). For example, you may have been taught that dreaming is too lofty, too "pie in the sky". You may have heard that you can't make money doing what you love, that you need to be more practical. You may have been influenced by the idea that there is only so much to go around. These are only beliefs. They are not reality. That is, if you don't want them to be.

Beliefs are stories repeated over and over again. They are affirmations that we have given our confidence and trust to.

What do you want to give your confidence to? What do you want to trust to be true? About the nature of reality? About your circumstances? About your future? About your self?

YOU GET TO DEFINE WHAT IS TRUE. YOU GET TO DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN.

Do you want the real reality to be that we are here to thrive and know light-hearted joy?

Do you want it to be true that the universe wants you to succeed?

SUGGESTED EXERCISE:

Write/journal about your beliefs. Create a column of "LIMITED BELIEFS"
and "EXPANSIVE BELIEFS". In one column, write out your limited beliefs. These beliefs limit your reality, hold you back, keep you small, create obstacles, and simply make you feel bad. In the next column, write out your expansive beliefs. These beliefs expand your reality, connect you with a greater purpose, align you with your values, and help you feel good.

You can do this with specific topics. i.e. the nature of the universe, joy, your self, success

At the top, put your topic. My beliefs about ______ are.....

When you are done, take note of how much time you spend in limited beliefs and how much in expansive beliefs.

If you are ready, decide to spend more time in expansive beliefs. Choose a few keys ones and write them somewhere you can read and say aloud to yourself frequently.

Awareness Eradicates Suffering

In the May edition of my SpiritAlive enewsletter, I said: Awareness is the very foundation that your life sits upon. Life mirrors what you hold possible and true in your mind.

AWARENESS IS ....

a vehicle for thriving.

AWARENESS IS....

• paying attention
• consciousness
• being awake
• presence
• noticing
• being real about what is
  

AWARENESS IS....

A tool for the Law of Attraction.

So what does awareness have to do with the law of attraction? The power of your mind... to decide, to choose, to focus. All these qualities and abilities of the mind influence your ability to harness the law of attraction to work for you, for what you desire.

As far as harnessing the law of attraction, most people want to learn how to harness it to increase their joy.

First, let me explain how most people live.

They have an experience. The experience is the stimulus. Then they respond.

Stimulus----->Response

In this way of being, one is at the mercy of default responses. This can include stories, defenses, and reactions. These do not come from who one is... they come from the past, what one has been "trained" to do, and survival.

When you cultivate awareness, you create, among other things, choice.

You have an experience (stimulus). You breath. You feel. You stay present. You draw forth your innate knowing. You pay attention to what you want. You are awake to the moment.

Thus, you create:

Stimulus------> CHOICE----->Response

We create our suffering.* I know that is a big reality to consider. But I truly want you to live in your power. To do this, you need to get real about the power you have to create your reality. Suffering can be mild or dramatic. You know what suffering means to you.

I believe you can eradicate suffering with awareness. In turn, you welcome a state of being that includes ongoing joy.

*I saw Iylana Vanzant speak the other night and she said that we have to stop glorifying our suffering.

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TIP: Pay attention to your stimulus-----> response patterns. When you have experiences, what do you notice about how you respond? Do you react automatically? Do you think? Do you lash out? Do you stifle your voice? Do you stay present? Do you choose?

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Kendra E Thornbury, MA, inspires and guides people to be fully alive through coaching, training, teleseminars, workshops, writing, and resources. http://www.spiritalive.net/http://www.lessonsinlawofattraction.com/

Awareness and the Law of Attraction

There is a relationship between awareness and the Law of Attraction.

You see, your consciousness creates your reality. You may be aware of your consciousness, or you may not. When you are, you are able to see things for what they are, be with them, and evaluate them. You are able to do this with ease and clarity. Once you are able to be with what is (which is another way of describing acceptance) you can evaluate and discern whether what is occurring is a reflection of the reality you want to experience.

If it is not, you then can change your reality.

What you are aware of you can change.

Any thing or experience that you want to have
is available to you. You can become it. You just have to
get into the consciousness that allows that to occur.

When your consciousness dominates your awareness to
such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state
of mind other than the state of mind that you're in,
turn your attention to the power of mind, make a choice,
and learn to create an awarneness that will allow you
to expand your consciosness to be the consciousness
that will attract what you desire.

Whew!

Isn't this stuff fun?!

Abraham-Hicks Video Explains Law of Attraction, Resistance, Your Frequency and more!

A great video on the Law of Attraction...


Some highlights:

Law of Attraction= That which is likened to itself is drawn.

Ask for what you want and then find a way to bring your self into vibrational frequency of what you are asking for.

If you want more money, you must not continue to tell the story that you don't have enough money. You cannot continue to point out the absence of something you want without holding your self in resistance to something you want.

As you tell the story, you activate the vibration within you.

Tell your self...

"If I let go of resistance and doubt,
If I let go of unworthiness, unfairness and injustice.
If I focus upon the brightest spots that I can find in my physical time space reality or beyond,
I will let loose of resistance and the stream will carry me to the exalted expression of who I truly am."