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.