If I had more money – If only I were better educated, healthier, younger, or had a pleasing personality – If I were better looking, thinner, more outgoing, if only I didn’t get a raw deal in life – If only………
The above statements are chronic.
You are meant to recognize your beliefs, consciously, at some point in your life. You then can take a look at their value, and change them if you wish. You are meant to also realize that you can change them; you can change any part of your life for the better, that you do have the power to create any aspect of your life. The following are examples of conflicting beliefs, and ones that many of you hold:
You must remember firstly, that you cannot take your physical objects with you when you go. You cannot take your body, your money, or your possessions. When you do go, you take your ideas. Over the eons your ideas build upon themselves composing a symphony of personality. In your current life, then, you must suppose that physical objects represent ideas. A counterpart of emotional archetypes within a physical reality.
You must understand that objects are ideas, nothing more. We will stay with objects here, and not events. Since most of your lives are spent concerned with your intimate space, and how you fill it.
Now you may say, “I want more money”, but most of you would find money useless without objects to purchase. So at the same time as saying – I want more money – You are saying “I hate money because it stands in the way of my objects.”
You hate that which stands between you and a loved (desired) object.
You wish for 100$ to purchase a new coat, where the coat is the desired end, and the money mere opposition. Here you have conflicting beliefs that you are unaware of.
You do not wish for $100 so you could then stare at it, post it on the wall and look at it. Money is an idea, you cannot take your paper with you, yet you can and do take the idea.
Clarifying your desires is key to understanding your beliefs and creations.
Say you want a new red sports car, the $30,000 it costs to purchase you do not want, yet you pray for the money instead of envisioning the object. By doing so, you are then free to receive it in miraculous ways other than financing it. Tie this desire into your beliefs of work, overtime to earn the money, you can then see why you hate your job, simply because it stands between you, your money, and your car…….
There is much more to any life than your eye can see, you in fact are more than your eyes and ears. For generations you have been told of beliefs – thoughts – desires, yet you have not accepted responsibility for all of it. The good, you accept, and the bad you curse. You cannot curse your soul and do it justice. You adulterate any intent you may have had.
You create you life – your beliefs are your own – you are the producer and the actors. You set the stage and adjust the lighting. With intent you set the mood, consciously. You then take a seat in the audience and forget your hand in it, period.
I tell you the money example above, so you may see the interweaving of beliefs, thoughts, and ideas with events and experiences and how simply you can misguide your life. You must understand :
My life is a portrait of what I believe, my life is an idea projected into space and time. By changing my ideas (beliefs) I change my life. I am in charge.
If you fail to recognize this, then your beliefs are automatically fleshed out long-term. Your beliefs will not ask you for permission on how you should act, you will simply live them. Moreover, your daily thoughts will follow suit, forcing you to say “Why do these thoughts haunt me so?”
You may believe if you are a man, that at age 40 you had better start with regular prostate exams, which is taught in grade school. At age 40 you find yourself with checkups meant to prevent illness, when the susceptibility was given life many years ago. This is not a fact of nature, nor is it well intent of the friendly medical community. This is a chronic belief, carried dormant for years, activated at 40 and beyond, triggering the probability for disease, period.
A belief is not meant to carry you through life unconsciously, acted upon as if under hypnosis at predetermined time schedules, unless you acquiesce.
You know of chronic physical illness, for example someone with arthritis finds no relief other than medication, and expects to carry this disease either in remission or not throughout their life.
A chronic belief is unrecognized, acted upon, and fueled by exterior circumstances, reinforcing the belief and creating more of the same. Arthritics expect the pain, and have given over their power to long-term conditions in which they can only hope to manage.
Chronic beliefs are beliefs learned as children through young adults that remain effective, carried out as commands for a lifetime. All the while, you condemn your creations to bad luck, fate, and accept outside conditions as physical facts. Condemning your creation condemns yourself as your value and quality of life decreases.
It can be illness, relationships, personal problems, financial or any uncomfortable issue you now face. It can be a life sentence.
Along with your passions, what you enjoy to do in life, your purpose is to recognize your involvement in what you create! Not as chronic, but as a temporary condition with an opportunity for change. That you can change, in fact were meant to change, any unhappy experience for the better.
So stop in your tracks – look at what you face this moment – and accept no condition as permanent, period. Understanding this statement, can lead you to at least lessen its grip upon you, and help you to change life for the better.
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