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Belief In Ourselves
Belief is one of our most
powerful assets. With the ability to believe, you can accomplish nearly anything! The more you believe in yourself, the more you'll definitely accomplish.
Do you think you can lose 20 lbs, stop smoking, jump over a wall without touching it? If you said "NO," then you wouldn't be able to.
If you said, "Yes," then
you certainly would be able. It's just as simple as that.
When we face situations
that are near physical or mental impossibilities, then it's our belief system, or belief in ourselves, that determines IF it's possible.
Our body & minds are
stronger & more complex than most people think. We're capable of much more. People place too many limits on what they can do. Learning to believe in yourself & your abilities is a hard job
that never ends.
Although, it does get easier
with time. You need to start pushing yourself. Attempting things that are just outside your ability. I know, you're saying to yourself, "I push
myself," or "I do my best," & yes, that's very important, but you have to believe you can go past your limits.
By putting in the time &
effort you'll succeed. As you succeed, your confidence will grow. The trick to this is, every time you reach what you believe is your limit, remind yourself that you can do more.
Always assume that you can
do more than you already have accomplished. One of the best things about expanding your limits, is that things that used to be impossible, can now be apart of your everyday life!
By building the belief in your ability, you can accomplish anything in life. Try it!
* Our Belief System is one of the major factors that can get us thru situations or can cause our life to crumble around
us!
I do believe that there's a lot of innate goodness & balancing our minds do subconsciously to get us thru hard times. The other portion of this is how we "program" ourselves to deal with any given
situation.
* Really appreciating what we DO have as opposed to what we'd like to have, sometimes makes a signifcant difference.
This is always an important element in healing that's often neglected.
 
Your Beliefs
Matter
by Jeri Noble
source site: click here
I
attended Easter Sunday Services
given by one of my favorite New Thought Ministers, Dr. Bob Henderson. It was a terrific service
(well
worth the 50 mile drive)
& there was one particular concept he shared with us that I found especially inspiring, "What you believe,
matters".
What an affirming idea for a metaphysician! We understand the power of our thoughts & beliefs & that we create our reality with what we attract to us, but do we always know
that our beliefs count in the big scheme of things?
I looked at this & looked at this & found several
angles from which emotional & spiritual relief could be found. Throughout our lives, we have played the "belief war" (a subject for a later article) with those around us.
- "That's what you think!"
- "What do
you know?"
- "That's only
your opinion."
- "Who
cares what you think?"
- "You
can't seriously believe that!"
- "How could you think such a thing?"
The list goes on & on of all the ways that we invalidate each
other's belief
systems. Depending on our
degree of vulnerability at the time, we may lose confidence in the validity of our beliefs or even in our right to hold beliefs that are contrary to the "norm."
Actually, the beliefs don't necessarily stop. We may still hold onto them, but may not believe that they're worth anything, they're not as pretty & shiny & fancy as someone else's.
We're
thus discounting our beliefs
& thereby reducing their power. Remember, the only person who can affect our power is the self & this is a very effective method of so doing.
Consider what this does to our affirmations & visualizations. We may know that we're holding the belief that we want to. We may be able to image it & embody it. But if we think that we're weak & useless in the quality of our beliefs, our efforts are being sabotaged.
Tell yourself, "What I believe, matters". "It has importance & validity". "My thoughts count."
Your beliefs don't have to counter or be stronger than those who have invalidated you. They're naturally stronger
for you because they're your own. The other person, or TV personality or authority figure can't have beliefs which overpower yours, because spiritually, this sort of domination isn't real.
They have power in their own reality, just as you do in yours. You needn't allow their charisma to take
the place of your own. Who you are, what you believe,
matters.
You'll See It When You Believe It
by: Therapist and author, Thayer White MA MFCC, has over 23 years experience
as both therapist and client in the areas of therapy and self-growth
source site: click here
The
statement, "You'll see it when you believe it,"
is contrary to much of what we've learned in this materialistic society. Materialism isn't just the gathering of goods to
me but also includes the belief that
if I can't sense it with one or more of my 5 senses, then it's suspect.
The
idea that one might choose to believe something
before actually sensing it's considered daft. Nevertheless, such a so-called daft idea can lead to much increased happiness & the possibility of manifesting the impossible. Impossible cures, improbable events,
unexpected windfalls & happy surprises await those who believe (or
pretend or imagine) first.
For more detailed information I recommend an important book by Wayne Dyer & titled the same as the above subheading, You'll See It When You Believe
It.
Is it the belief in abundance that triggers the windfall?
Is it the belief in a cure for an incurable disease that triggers
the healing?
Is it the belief in oneself that triggers a creative leap?
Is it the pretend
- belief in thinness that triggers the reduction in weight
for an overweight person?
One common pattern seems to be that my unconscious
often follows my conscious wishes & my conscious visualizations, thus producing so-called impossible cures & unexpected
windfalls. Unfortunately for my conscious ego, my lifeplan may interfere with manifesting some of my conscious wishes.
i.e., if I'm learning the lessons of relationship this
lifetime, then a conscious wish on my part for years of isolation will not likely occur.
My judgments as to the possibility or impossibility of a future event can be as tyrannical as my other
right / wrong & good / bad judgments discussed earlier in this chapter. If I judge that event to be impossible, then it likely will be impossible
for me.
Yet if I judged it as possible, it might be. If you believe that you can cure your incurable cancer (there are people who've gone before you who have done so), then it may be possible. Dr. Carl Simonton has discovered important truths about self healing by cancer patients by the self use of imagery. This healing
has confounded conventional medical wisdom.
Could my beliefs in a dangerous & unjust world be causing added violence & injustice in my life?
Do my cynicism & pessimism draw dreadful experiences to me, instead of being the result of such experiences?
"You'll see it when you believe it" may initially seem a bit crazy, but if true, it implies that we'd serve ourselves best by
cultivating our optimism & our hopefulness.
Pollyanna was obviously happy. Could it also be true that she was much more intelligent & wise than her detractors?
Spiritual Beliefs
Every religion attempts to answer these basic questions:
* Where did we come
from?
* What's the meaning
of human life?
* Why do people die
& what happens after?
* Why are we here?
* Why is there evil?
* How should people
behave?
* What's right &
what's wrong?
*What should we believe?
A simple & basic
definition of religion is:
Paul Tillich
It's to have something
that the heart trusts completely. Religion doesn't have to necessarily be involved in a shrine, church, synagogue or temple, nor a complexed doctrine or clergy.
It can be anything
to which people devote themselves that fills their lives with meaning.
Spiritual Growth: Drop All Conclusions About God Almighty
By SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV
source site: click here
Drop All Conclusions
About God Almighty
It takes enormous courage for a person to look beyond the conditioning of his belief systems & admit that he
knows nothing about even the most basic aspects of his life.
Do you
believe that you have two hands or do you know you have two hands?
Even if you don't
use your eyes to see them, you still know you have two hands. It's experientially clear to you. But when it comes to
God, you've been told to believe:
Nobody told you to explore Divinity.
But without an enquiring mind,
we can't know anything beyond our limited levels of existence; there will be no inner growth.
Believing
can't transform you. But if you experience the Divine, it will leave you absolutely transformed.
For, where experience is absent,
whatever you believe in is of no significance.
What if I kept telling you
from the day you were born, that this finger is God?
Divine emotions will spring within you. Similarly, if I taught you that
this finger is the demon, terror will arise within you. This is the nature
of mind.
The mind is fluid, you can make anything out of it. How it's shaped simply depends on how it's influenced.
If you look deeply, what you
call your mind is really something you have borrowed from thousands of people around you. You have accumulated this
mind in bits & pieces. Your mind is just your background - depending on the kind of family you come from, your education & religion, the country or society you belong to &
the world you're living in.
The mind is necessary to survive in this world, but it will not take you to the Truth. This can only be done by knowing experientially, not intellectually.
Whatever you know intellectually
isn't knowing, it's just a distortion. The intellect is just a survival tool, a limited aspect of your life. Modern man knows that survival isn't enough, it's not fulfilling.
So if you want to
go into deeper dimensions of life , first you need the necessary instruments.
Right now you experience life
with just sense organs - by seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling. With this you can't know anything beyond the physical.
If you want to measure the
depth of the ocean, you can't go with a foot scale. That's what's happening with people when it comes to God, to Divinity, to Truth. People are approaching the greatest questions of life
without the necessary instruments. So they jump to wrong conclusions.
People
are eager to jump to conclusions. On examination, we find that what we call as our self, what we perceive as our personality, is nothing but a bundle
of conclusions about life. So a spiritual process doesn't mean jumping to another set of conclusions.
Only when you dare to exist
here without conclusions, to be just a small particle of existence, then you have the possibility to know the limitlessness of creation...
Once there was a philosopher fish. As he was sitting in great misery & worry, another fish passed his way, stopped & said, "Philosopher why are you in such misery?"
The philosopher fish said, "Wherever I go every body
is talking about the ocean. I want to find this ocean. I went east, west, north, south & I can't find this ocean."
See, for the philosopher fish,
belief in the ocean isn't enough - he wants to experience it for himself. Now the problem is, he is also part of the ocean.
He is unable to perceive the ocean because he has no adequate tool of perception. This is also true of you & God.
As long as a given belief system isn't
imposed on others, but freely accepted by them & people with that belief system are allowed to practice & promote it, without harming the freedom of others & people outside the belief system are allowed to freely criticize it so that all can judge the merits of the system for themselves, then we have a healthy society.
Paradox & Belief
This
imbalance should always be addressed. Even the ancients knew that the pathway to happiness was for one to know thyself - the true self. It's a daily struggle. One person's idea of morality may seem like a paradox to another person.
Paradoxes are important to consider for the same reason that many laws fail: It's dangerous to put a rule into play without considering the possibility of an exception to
the rule.
One
person may be completely against any death brought by a human, whether it's murder, capital punishment or assisted suicide
- until the day when an incident forces him to reevaluate that belief.
While not arguing that any of those particular issues is either right or wrong, I'd strongly urge you to consider
the paradoxes facing us simply because we're human before you demand that everyone believe
as you do.
Consider
that you can't know the entire life of another person that brought them to a belief different
than your own. And consider that while some concepts are universal (people should be honest; people shouldn't murder; etc), many others aren't.
This can be traumatic or it can be less so. The single most important point you can make about change is that in most cases it's not what faces you that's the problem, it's how you react to it.
How you react is determined by how you perceive a particular change.
The Chinese word for crisis
is "weiji." Two characters that separately mean danger &
opportunity. Every problem we encounter in life can be viewed that way. It's a chance to show that
we can handle it.
The loss of a spouse or
child, the loss of a relationship, the move to a different career, by choice or not, the move to a new home or simply the
change in the weather & how we feel.
Often, in any situation,
we must take the quiet time to be with ourselves to observe this change.
How
is it going to effect me? Better yet, how am I going to let it effect me? What am
I going to do to get thru this? Allow the answers to come to you in your quiet time. Take everything
one day at a time.
Sometimes situations can
become overwhelming when looking at the big picture. Again, take your quiet time to observe the moment. Allow yourself to take all the time, take the space that you need to grasp the change.
Breath.
Support. We're always put at ease when we have
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