Are you aware that your beliefs can and do affect your reality? It is through your beliefs that you interpret the world you are living in. How you respond is influenced by your beliefs.
To put it into perspective, imagine you are wearing a pair of sunglasses with green lenses, and I am wearing a pair with red lenses. You and I will see a different world won't we? Your world will be green and my world red.
The point I want to make here is that you and I are living in the same world, yet because of the tint of our lenses we see a different world. Your behaviours in your green world will be different from my behaviours in my world.
That's how your beliefs shape the way you act. You perceive your world through your green lenses, through the beliefs that you currently hold. This is why two people in the same circumstance can have two points of view; they see two different things happening in front of them.
To further expand on this, as human beings we have two kinds of beliefs. We have those beliefs that assist us and those that do not support us. Those that work against us are called limiting beliefs. On the other hand those that are working with us are called empowering beliefs.
It is generally recognised that we all got most of our beliefs from our childhood, and added to them other beliefs as we grew older. And these beliefs are still within us influencing our lives.
Since our beliefs are influencing our lives, it is imperative that we identify what our beliefs are so we may establish which beliefs are supporting us and which are not. And once we find those that do not support us, we have to set a course to start removing them.
Your life will not change if you have limiting beliefs working against you.
If you want more money, yet you have the limiting belief: money doesn't grow on trees, you will not get a hefty amount of money. Similarly if you have a belief that rich people are tight-fistedmisely, again, that belief will keep you away from making the money you desire.
So, using money as an example, if you want more money in your life, you will need to eliminate your negative beliefs around money. Chances are you will not make the money you want until the beliefs have been changed. If you are fluky enough to win the lottery and have $5 million dollars come your way, more than likely you will be back where you started, if not worse off, within a short number of years.
Why? Because your disempowering beliefs are still there. They're still influencing your life in the background.
The great news is that beliefs can be eliminated, and you should make it a daily habit to eliminate as many limiting beliefs as you can. That's if you want a better life, where you can have all that you want; where you can live your dream life.
Your beliefs are not real and they can be eliminated. Beliefs are simply a way you decipher life through your green lens. Take off your sunglasses and buy a new pair of blue tinted lenses and you will see a whole new world, from a whole new perspective.
A great procedureprocess I discovered which I use every time a limiting belief surfaces is I challenge it. For example, if the limiting belief, "I hate this world I live in," surfaces I immediately challenge it. I say things like, "Yeah says who? I have great friends, a roof over my head, food on the table, I go to the bar every weekend, I have two computers…"
Get the idea. This is a very powerful tool. If possible, confront your disempowering belief in front of a mirror looking straight into your eyes, and add emotion to it. Holler at that negative belief. You'd be surprised how quickly it will go away. You might not see instant results; you will be weakening it each time you challenge that belief, and soon enough it will have no power over you.
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Hani Al-Qasem is a published author and personal growth specialist.
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