A Simply Powerful Technique To Change Your Beliefs

Change your thoughts and your change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to change your thoughts permanently - it's important to adjust your beliefs. Your beliefs are merely those things you hold to be true.

If you'd like to think positively it wouldn't serve you to hold the belief that you cannot be successful. If you'd like to create more abundance, it wouldn't serve you to hold the belief that there are limited resources in the Universe.

You can easily change your beliefs. It requires a little bit of work - particularly if your beliefs are long-standing. I call this technique belief massaging, because it doesn't force the belief shift - rather it's gentle.

1. Pick an area of your life where you'd like to see some change. For example I will use finances. Let's say I'd like the Universe to be more prosperous for me.
2. Identify any limiting beliefs you might hold. Ask yourself why things aren't or couldn't be the way you want. Write the strongest beliefs you hold down. For my example let's say that I believe that I can never get ahead.
3. For each limiting belief - choose a counter-belief that is more empowering. I choose the belief that I can become financially free.
4. Now, here comes the magic. Get a notebook that you will carry with you. On every other page write one of your new, empowering beliefs.
   
5. Then, as you go about your days- write down every piece of evidence you come across that supports your new belief. Ignore anything to the contrary. Pay attention to how you feel as your new belief grows.

Here's my example:
belief: I can be financially free
Evidence:

• Many other people have gone from rags to riches before me, so it is very possible.
• I know Jim who went from bankruptcy to owning a multimillion dollar business.
• I got a raise at work - so my income has not hit the ceiling
• I have many resources that I can use to generate income besides working.
• etc. etc. etc.

You should be feeling more and more positive as you carry this exercise over the following days and weeks. You can completely remake your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and Universe.

Happy New Year - Feel Good!

Happy New Year...seriously. Be happy in 2007. Why is it important to be happy? Is it just because it feels good?

From a metaphysical standpoint, emotions are vibrations of energy. You've probably heard or used the expression, "I got a weird vibe from that person." This is shorthand for talking about a feeling you got that you couldn't really wrap words around.

At our core, feelings are complexes of tens of thousands of thoughts. If your dominant thoughts are "negative" then you will get a bad feeling, if your dominant thoughts are happy - then you'll have a happy feeling. It really is that simple. And, when you let go of an unpleasant feeling, you are loosening the hold of thousands of thoughts over your mind.

Remember, your mind is your servant - it is there for you. You created it so you should be the one to tell it what to do.

Trying to hold conflicting thoughts or feelings creates an uncomfortable situation called cognitive dissonance. Eventually the dominant thought will win out. This is why people sometimes describe depression as a downward spiral. You can build emotional momentum, so let's move it in the right direction.

The law of attraction states that we create what we focus on. So, the emotional state is not just a barometer, but it is also a creative tool. Staying negative only creates those things you do not want. Positive emotions, leading to positive thoughts, can only create that which you want.

Find some tools to use to get yourself into a happy state and stay there. Beware of escapism, it only masks the underlying state. Self inquiry using tools like the Sedona Method, is one of the best ways to do this.

How You Are Sabotaging Your Abundance

The mind is a creative organ. You can use it to create anything you wish. Why then aren't you getting your desires manifested.

There is only one reason that everything you desire doesn't appear before you - you are preventing it. "Nonsense," you say, "why would I do that?"

Let's say that you set the intention to create a million dollars tax free. If you truly set this intention with belief and feeling, the Universe will start to move itself to produce it for you. The problem is that the monkey-mind meddles.

Before the million bucks can show up in our limited awareness of time and space, we start to have negating thoughts and intentions. We think: "I don't think this is working." "How am I going to make that million bucks?" "I need it now or never." and eventually we give up the belief that it can happen.

Consistent and unwavering belief is the key to producing everything with conscious control. Another definition for this is faith. However, faith takes discipline. You must work to let go of self-negating thoughts and feelings.

I have mentioned a couple of tools that are amazing for doing this - the Sedona Method, and the Release Technique (abundance course) are two of the finest.

Remember that your mind is your slave, not vice versa. Do not let your mind run you, you run your mind. Show that monkey who's boss.

The Most Powerful Word In The English Language

Metaphysically speaking, the most powerful word in the English language is not love, or God, or even cookie - although cookie is up there on my list. The word is "allow".

First, you are an unlimited being that creates the Universe with your consciousness. Your beingness created a mind which thinks it's a body. However, you are unlimited.

So let me pose this question: What does an unlimited being have to do to create anything, any situation, any experience in the Universe? The answer is merely "allow" it.

In the Sedona Method and the Release Technique, goals are usually phrased as such: "I allow myself to ....". Think about that. In order to achieve any goal you merely need to allow it. Let go of resisting it.

The entire Universe is yours now, but you are holding away the things you think you don't have. Your mind thinks you are this limited body. What do you desire now? what is preventing you from allowing it to happen? Let that go.

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."
-Yoda

Save the Drama For Your Mama

From time to time many of us get caught up in our stories: "I lost all my money; I grew up in an abusive household; I have a disease." And while these things may seem true to you, the more we dwell on our "poor me" stories the worse things get. After all the Universe just gives you more of what you ask for with your dominant thoughts.

Why do we love this drama when it moves us away from what we truly want? Metaphysically we are each the embodiment of the Universe. The Universe creates a sense of ego in order to observe itself. Then, like a doctor pressing on parts of the body to find out what hurts, we create tension and resistance as a form of exploring our nature.

However, the ego likes to believe it's separate from the Universe. Nothing is separate from the Universe. We are an integral part.

Sometimes our stories become a launching board to a downward spiral away from the consciousness of our god-selves. They become false "becauses". I can't do that because I am not smart enough. I'll never be happy because my spouse left me. On, and on, and on.

There is no such thing as "I can't because." Very fat people have become healthy and in shape. Homeless penniless people have become millionaires. People with terminal diseases have gone into complete remission. If someone has done it at least once, then you know it is possible for you now.

Our stories and our drama do not serve us. they do not protect us from anything - they only prevent us from the realization of our unity. Snap out of it. If you find yourself lost in your drama, stop yourself right there. Find a positive focus, meditate, or reframe and shift your thinking.

Remember that the law of attraction states that like attracts like. If you are lost in negative thought - you attract more negativity to you. Shift to the positive any way you can, right now.

Does God Want You To Be Rich?

There's a lot being written right now about whether or not God wants you to be abundant. So far, everything I have read missed important points.

First, I believe that anthropomorphising God is unnecessarily limiting our idea of God. We are still laboring under the impression of a bearded man who lives in the sky and randomly acts in mysterious ways. God is the unlimited, omnipresent soul of the Universe, of which we are all a part. God wants us to be whatever we desire - rich or poor. Above that, God wants us to realize our unity with the Universe, and that we are the outprojections of God and not separate beings.

So, should we take a vow of poverty, or go for the gold? The answer is: whatever makes you happy and brings you closer to God. For most people that is abundance, for some it is not.

Some people use the manifestation of abundance as a spiritual practice. Money and things are just symbols of the energy they are learning to attune to at will. They build an unceasing awareness of God as the only source of everything. This is great.

Some people join monastic orders and take vows of simplicity and poverty, spending all day in meditation. They gain experience connecting consciousness with their inner God-mind. This is great too.

Problems ensue when people lose sight of God. When money becomes their God, or when they are overcome with pride and fundamentalist attitudes. It's great to be rich as long as you are using your inner God-consciousness to do so. It's great to live austerely as long as you are becoming more in tune with your God-mind.

Both paths can bring you to the realization that you are manifesting the Universe with your consciousness. There are many traps along the way, but they all come in two flavors - attachments and aversions. Attachments are those things we cling to, and aversions are those things we push away. God, the Universe, is a great teacher and has a way of taking away the things we are attached to, and giving us more of our aversions. Giving up our attachments and aversions, we manifest everything a will.

Seek what material things you will, but remember that God is the source.

Responsibility And So Called Negative Intentions

"If I think the entire Universe into existance, then why isn't the Universe exactly the way I want it. Why don't I have everything I want now."

Well dear-one, if you are experiencing that which you do not desire, it is because your thoughts to the contrary are dominant. I know it's a tough pill to swallow but you are indeed responsible for everything you experience.

"But that's crazy. Why would I want to experience a lack of abundance, or unhealthy relationships, or poor health?"

That is a slightly more complicated matter. I'm sure that much of the time, consciously, you do not desire any of the things you think of as "bad". However, there is some part of you - conscious or otherwise, that is bringing these things into existance.

Firstly, the Universe does not interpret negative thoughts negatively. It doesn't know or care about good or bad, it only responds to your thoughts. If you are worried about being in debt, your dominant thought is debt - and the Universe will bring you more.

Isn't it wonderful to have such an obedient servant?

Metaphysically, you must take full responsability for your Universe right now. Then, you must train your mind to only hold that which you desire, not that which you would avoid.

If money is your problem, having poverty consciousness is not going to help. Instead only think about wealth. Some egos might say that this is a form of denial, but the true denial is hold on to the victim mentality. For now it may be more confortable to blame others and the Universe for your problems when you brought them about. This is the mindset of a victim.

Adopt instead the mindset of the victor. Take full responsability and consciously create your Universe at all times. Eliminate negative intentions and replace them with only thoughts about those things you really want to bring about. You can be, do, and have anything you want now.

Cultivate The Attitude of Gratitude

One of the most important lessons in the metaphysics of abundance and manifestation is being gracious and showing gratitude. By being genuinely grateful for the things you have, you send a signal to the Universe to send you more wonderful things and experiences. Spend time daily thinking of those things you are thankful for.

You may also try this experiment. Think of something you'd like to manifest in your life. Close your eyes and imagine, as vividly as possible, what life will be like when you have manifested it. Put yourself into a moving scene, feel the sensations, smell the smells, hear the sounds. Now, simply allow yourself to become as grateful as you can be to the Universe for producing Exactly what you desired. Be grateful now as if you already have the thing that you are now manifesting.

This is the essence of conscious creation, and you will amaze yourself the first few times your dreams become reality. Keep the gratitude and all good things will be yours.

Another great practice is to remember to say thank you. My twin girls were born prematurely and wound up spending a few weeks in Intensive Care. Every day I thanked the Universe for our little gifts and how well they were doing. The nurses were simply amazed at how well our girls were doing, and how quickly they grew.

Every day, when we visited the hospital, we thanked the nurses for taking such good care of our children. Even though many of them said, "it's our job," every one's face would light up. Over time, the nurses became a second family to us. Many of them would try to switch assignments to be able to work with our girls. The nurses would even afford us special 'perks' - letting us stay past designated visiting times.

When you thank people and the Universe (same thing really), you must be genuine and mean it. An off the cuff "thanks" when a waitress brings you a glass of water has little energy behind it. "Thank you, I can see how busy you are," goes so much farther.

Be specific, be genuine. Everything in the Universe is rightfully yours for the asking, as long as you play by its rules.

Intention is Everything

We create our universe, you and I. Whether conscious or unconscious, our thoughts become things. Everything that is would not exist to us without our thinking about it. It's a powerful idea, and one of the most important tenets of metaphysics.

My personal practice of metaphysics revolves around becoming more conscious of the way I create the universe, and do so with more alignment between my conscious and unconscious.

Ester Hicks, in her Abraham books, puts forth a wonderful practice she has called segment Intending. This is, having a set intention for just about everything you do. Notice I did not say "goal". An intention is more resolute than a goal.

So you might wake up and set the intention that you are going to have a day where you feel great and learn something new. Then, before you brush your teeth, you set the intention that you are going to have a healthy mouth. And keep setting intentions throughout your day.

A couple of important things happen then:

1. Instead of living robotically, you begin to wake up and live life more consciously.
2. You actually start to shape your experiences to be what you want.
3. You realize that you and God are inseparable partners in the creation of the universe

Life is the ultimate self-fulfilling prophecy. Have you ever known someone who, during cold season, constantly says - "I just know I'm going to get sick"? What happens? They get sick. I once drank water that turned out to make over 300 people seriously ill and had no ill effect. I simply told myself - I have things to do and I will stay healthy. I BELIEVED it too.

I can tell you that I have used the metaphysical power of intention to buy the exact house I wanted (when it wasn't on the market yet). When my wife and I wanted to have kids I told her exactly when and where we would conceive and that we would have twin daughters - it happened. I have manufactured the life I want perfectly, and so can you.

First, set an intention. Then, you must believe to the depths of your soul that what you intend is already true. Lastly, let go and let god. Don't try to manage how your intention comes to fruition. God does not need to be micromanaged, and frankly - we'd mess it all up. You do not need or even want to control the process of manifesting your intention.