Changing beliefs
Sunday, October 26th, 2008In my previous post I made the point that you choose your beliefs and when your beliefs no longer serve you you can change them. The bad news is that to do so is easier said than done. The good news is that there is more than one way to change beliefs. So here is a variety of means:
1) Take contrary action. If as assigned in my proevious post you made a list of limiting beliefs you can start to dismantle thoses beliefs by taking actions that you would take if the belief were not true. For example, say you have the belief “there’s not enough to go around.” First decide what would you do differently if you knew as an absolute fact the that belief was not true, that in fact, there is more than anough to go around. Or if you believed, “I’m too old to start a business” what if you knew that “I’m the right age to start a business.” What would you do?
Be for I say just do it, let me first say, you know that there’s not way to know with absolute certain that this contrary belief is right, right?
But to be fair, you also have to admit that you can’t know with absolute certainty that your original limiting belief was true either. So what I’m suggesting is really just an experiement.
What is that contrary action? Take it. Do it wholeheartedly. and watch what happens.
2) Find the proof. Remember that we choose or beliefs based on evidence– primarily evidence of what we observe and what we recieve second hand from others. But it is just as true that we find the evidence we are looking for based on what we believe.
So if taking contrary action is too scary try this instead. Pretend, imagine or just think what it would be like is you believe the opposite of youor limiting beliefs. For example you used to believe, “It’s not spiritual to have too much money.”, Now imagine , pretend, or just think about what it would be like to believe that wealth is a sign of great spirituality.
Find proof for that new belief. There is evidence for that new belief all aound you. Find it.
3) Mental reprogramming. Hypnosis, self-hypnosis, NLP. EFT and a number of other techniques provide means of reporgamming beliefs on a subconscious level. I’ll write more about hese in future posts, or look through many of the resource on these pages.
