Archive for Beliefs
Words of Wisdom
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This week’s phrase is “Hurting for money”.
Have you heard this? People who don’t have enough money sometimes will say this. But what are you really saying?
“Hurting” = pain
“For Money” – Getting money
So, this tells your subconscious mind that you have to have pain in order to get money.
This contradicts all we teach. You do NOT have to hurt or experience pain in order to get money. Prosperity (in all fields, not just wealth) is easy and is yours by Divine Right!
See if this is your belief. Were you brought up thinking you have to struggle and work really hard and have pain in order to be prosperous.
If this is buried inside you, create your denials (such as “there is no pain in or around my financial affairs” or “I do not have to hurt in order to get money” etc). Say these denials for at least a week and see what else comes up (and create denials for whatever comes up).
Then use your affirmations after that. If you can’t come up with a personalized one use “Wealth and prosperity is mine by Divine Right and it comes to me easily and quickly”.
You do deserve everything and can have everything. We just have to peel that onion away.
Terrie
Words of Wisdom
Posted by: | CommentsI read this in “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey and it applies to our goal setting process and the identification of our limiting beliefs.
“If we want to change a situation, we first have to change ourselves. And to change ourselves effectively, we first have to change our perceptions.”
This is exactly why we go through the entire process from inventory to future desires to identification of limiting beliefs, removing them and replacing them with those you choose.
Terrie
When is Failure Truly Inspirational?
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Have you ever not completed something you were aiming for and automatically decided you were a failure? Perhaps you didn’t totally disparage yourself but still decided that you failed. I was inspired to write this by the recent attempt by Diana Nyad to swim 103 miles from Cuba to Florida. She didn’t make it. Was she a failure?
The attempt failed but Diana Nyad was anything but a failure. In fact, she probably inspired more people in her attempt than if she had actually swum the entire 103 miles without a hitch. She had multiple problems during the 29+ hours she swam approximately 55 miles. In fact from hour 3 she was swimming with excruciating shoulder pain, which she had never had before. Then the last 11 or so hours she was besieged by an asthma attack, which she also had never had before. As a physician, I can’t imagine her staying in the water at all with an asthma attack to say nothing of the 11 hours she continued. Then there were the “little” things – she was apparently stung by jellyfish in every imaginable part of the body adding to her already pain-wracked body. 
This woman endured more in those 29 hours than most of us endure in our life time. Being unable to breathe is such a frightening experience but she pushed on trying to achieve her goal. However, reaching Florida and swimming that 103 miles was actually only part of her goal. She repeatedly professed that she wanted to show people her age (and mine) that life wasn’t over and that they could accomplish their dreams despite their age. She certainly accomplished that goal. Her story is all over the social media networks, CNN and the Internet.
Diana showed courage under fire – fire that most of us will never know. It was not only her personal desire to continue on but she wanted to do this for all the people who supported her and were there for her. Wouldn’t you like to pattern your life after her? I know that I would. I cannot tell you how inspired I have been by her and her attempt. I think I’m more inspired by her “failure” and what she went through than if she had simply made it. I also believe that most of the world reacts the same way.
How can you change your life to pattern it after Ms. Nyad’s? Take some inventory about what’s going on in your own world and see what goals you have or have had. What good came out of the ones you didn’t achieve? Take a look at her actions after the event. She admitted intense disappointment but she also carried through on promises she made to her team – she had the parties she had told them they’d have. That is the sign of a true leader and a champion. Do you behave like that when you don’t succeed? Or do you go off and pout? What can you change about your reactions and behavior? She also made sure she made a video for her fans thanking them for their support throughout the aftermath of her swim. She thanked them for sending in their stories and telling her how much she had inspired them. She didn’t have to admit all these things. She could have just gone into hiding and had a pity party. But that is not Diana Nyad. She is phenomenal.
I recommend that you look at everything you “failed” at and see what good came out of it – either for yourself or for others. Analyze the results and I bet you will see that you helped others. And if you didn’t, think about how you can use your situation to help positively influence others.
Check out Ms. Nyad’s blog . If you’re interested in improving your life, setting realistic and achievable goals and living each day to the fullest, take a look at The Art of Making Things Happen.
Terrie
Metaphysical Moment From “The Help”
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As I wrote in my day 2 Gratitude, I am grateful for the movie “The Help”. Apparently this movie has created quite a stir because of what it portrays and many people say it’s inaccurate but then others say it’s very accurate.
I do not want to debate that. I feel it was an excellent movie and hope that it gets several Academy Awards – but they are a long way off.
It ought to get a “Metaphysical Award” though. There was one concept repeated throughout the movie that everyone must be aware of and practice. Aibileen (the star in my opinion) has taken care of many white babies and children through her years of service with multiple families. She ALWAYS tells the children that they are smart and important no matter what anyone tells them. She repeats this daily and whenever a parent yells at a child. She talks about how important it is to her to make sure the children have self-respect and confidence, again no matter what the parent says or does. This scene is placed stategically in the movie several times and Aibileen talks about it many times too. Please pay attention – this woman knows that what is impressed upon us as children tends to stay with us – thus, the basis for our “beliefs” – and it is the limiting beliefs we have that keep us from attaining the goals we aspire too. Unfortunately, because they are so ingrained in us, it is often extremely difficult to figure out what they are.
See the movie or read the book (or both) but always remember to tell your children (and anyone else you interact with) that they are smart and important.
Have a great day!
Terrie
Do You Know Who You Were Born To Be?
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As anyone who’s followed this site for any length of time knows, I am an avid Susan Boyle fan. I could write for days about why and what I think she represents but today I wanted to share the lyrics of one of her most wonderful songs – and one that was written for her. It’s “Who I Was Born to Be”, written by Johan Fransson; Tim Mikael Larsson; Tobias Lundgren; Audra Mae.
Here are the lyrics:
When I was a child
I could see the wind in the trees
And I heard a song in the breeze
It was there, singing out my name
But I am not a girl
I have known the taste of defeat
And I’ve finally grown to believe
It will all came around again
And though I may not know the answers
I can finally say I am free
And if the questions led me here
Then I am who I was born to be
And so here am I
Open arms and ready to stand
I’ve got the world in my hands
And it feels like my turn to fly
Though I may not know the answers
I can finally say I am free
And if the questions led me here
Then I am who I was born to be
When I was a child
There were flowers that bloomed in the night
Unafraid to take in the light
Unashamed to have braved the dark
Though I may not know the answers
I can finally say I am free
And if the questions led me here
Then I am who I was born to be
I am who I was born to be
This song says so much more than I could possibly write to you about what I feel each of us needs to do and be in order to live our lives to the fullest.
Read them again and see if you don’t agree. Search back in your memory and see if you know the answer to who you were born to be.
Print these out and put them on your wall or your desk. Read them every day and see what you were born to be.
Terrie
Did You Know You Can Change Your Beliefs…And Change Your Life?
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Did you know you can choose your beliefs? Your beliefs are just thoughts, standards or ideas that others have embedded in your subconscious mind so frequently that you came to believe them. You can change these thoughts. You can eliminate the ones you no longer choose to believe. Then you can replace those thoughts with beliefs you decide you want to adopt. Let’s talk about these things.
Your parents constantly told you things. Most were well intentioned and in an attempt to guide you through life in the way they thought was proper or to protect you. However, not all of their ideas are accurate nor did all of them serve you well. For example, I was always told I was no good with money. So guess what happened? Yep, that’s right. I grew up not really knowing how to manage my finances. I’m sure you’ve heard about the experiment where one teacher tells a group of poorly performing students how smart they are and that they are the best in the school etc. And lo and behold, they became the best and the smartest. The teacher believed in them and then they came to believe in themselves. It’s all about what you believe.
Write down the first memory you have of a belief that you want to eliminate. You know the kind of beliefs I’m talking about. These are the things like, “You’re not good with money,” or, “If you didn’t go to college you won’t make money,” or, “You don’t have the personality for it,” or, “You don’t know enough. You’re not smart enough.” Write down any of those things and if possible when was the first time you heard it and who said it. Once you figure out who said it and where it came from, then the first thing you need to say is, “Why am I giving them the authority to make my life miserable and make me feel want, lack and limitation? Why am I today allowing something that heard 30 years ago to influence what I’m doing today?” That’s what you’re doing.
If somebody told you long ago, “Count your change. People want to cheat you,” then you’ll set yourself up to be cheated. Don’t believe that from somebody else. You say, “I am honest, therefore I only attract honest people to me. I will not accept what my great grandmother said about people and their honesty.”
Spend about 15 minutes every day listing beliefs that you now know you’ve had and do the same thing with them. These are not beliefs that you choose today. These things are so very important. The only way to get rid of them is to look at them and ask, “Why do I think that they knew?”
Keep these things in your journal. Review them frequently and most importantly keep the list of these beliefs updated. You’ll find more and more as you peel back the layers of that onion. If you want to find out more about how to continue replacing your beliefs why don’t you check out The Art of Making Things Happen
Terrie
What You Can Learn At An Office Luncheon…
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Who would have thought it? I don’t usually go to the office lunches but yesterday was a retirement and going away lunch for one of the guys so I felt obligated to go.
I ended up trading good for not-so-good.
I asked one of the guys I really like if I could ride with him. He said “sure” and that was alot of fun since we rarely get to talk together since we work in this big open room.
But we got to the place earlier than the others and the guy I was with went to the end of the table. So of course, it didn’t end up being the ones I would have chosen to sit by – at least on one side. On one side it was ok and I had fun harassing the guy about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. But on the other and louder side someone ended up sitting with us that really opened my eyes.
I listened to this person for the entire time and wondered which of those qualities I was cringing from were also in me.
You see, we attract people that are like us. Notice I didn’t say that we attract people we like. It’s simply that people around us have characteristics that we don’t necessarily want to have. That was what I found out yesterday.
When I came home from work – after being saturated with the sensation of fingers grating across a chalkboard, I sat down, pulled out my paper and 
made a list of what it was that drove me nuts during that experience. I just wrote quickly. Then I looked at the entire list and put check marks by those qualities that I realized were also within me.
I then went back over the list and put question marks by the qualities that I wasn’t sure were inside of me or not (odds are that they are there, though).
Then I went to my computer and made a list of denials using each of those qualities as the basis for one denial. I followed that by creating affirmations that would embed the qualities I really wanted to have inside of me.
For this next 3-5 days however, I will simply say the denials over and over all day long.
After that, I will then say the denials followed by affirmations for as long as it feels right AND I notice the beginnings of some changes in me.
Why don’t you take advantage of what I learned so that the next time you have an experience like mine, you can make the most of it. You know what else I did? I thanked the Universe for letting this happen to me – of course, I used my Gratitude Journal to record that thanks.
This has been another quick tip for making metaphysics work for you! Hope it was helpful.
Terrie
Different People See Different Worlds – Emmet Fox
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Emmet Fox was such a wise man. See if you can relate to this “story”. It made a lot of difference to me but I will comment after you read the story…..
Different People See Different Worlds
“What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it in another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts. It follows from this that if our thinking is faulty, our conditions must be faulty too until our thinking is corrected; and that it is useless to try to improve outer things if we leave our own mentality unchanged.
We see inharmony because of a spiritual lack within ourselves. As we gain greater spiritual understanding, the true Nature of Being opens up. As long as we move from one place to another in search of harmony, or try to bring it about by changing outer things, we won’t succeed.”
Right now things at work could be, let’s say, “better” as I’m having to deal with people that are from different organizations, different parts of the country and with little experience in what they are talking about. In fact, today I realized that my tolerance/patience lasted about 1 hour 50 minutes in a 2 hour meeting.
Trying to communicate with some of these folks who like to hear themselves talk is bothering me. And yet, I am creating more of this by my thoughts (most of which I won’t repeat here) and when I was deciding what to post about I thought of this and have set about changing my thoughts and ideas realizing that each player involved is coming at this from a different perspective – a “different world”.
How is this affecting you in your everyday world? Can you think of circumstances that can be appropriately changed when you realize that you’re both in different worlds?
Let us know by commenting below…
Terrie
Is There a Limit To What Belief Can Achieve?
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s a great day to talk about belief! Of course, any day is a great day to do that!
Here’s more wisdom from Napoleon Hill:
Is There a Limit to What Belief Can Achieve?
by Dr. Napoleon Hill
Your subconscious mind is your hidden boss, then, and gives orders to your conscious. But your subconscious, as you surely know by reading this book, is a very special kind of boss. It will go into conference with you, so to speak, and consider changing any of its standing orders, canceling them, substituting others if need be.
Decide upon the belief you want, set it firmly into your subconscious mind, and your subconscious will thereafter instruct your conscious mind to “live up to” that belief.
Let your belief include the concept of achievement and your subconscious mind will discover ways and means toward that achievement which, on the strength of a mere wish, would completely escape you. You may talk of “good fortune” and “lucky breaks,” but what you mean is a sharpening of all your senses toward the achievement you want – focusing of all your forces away from other matters and toward that achievement. A mighty access of strength and resourcefulness tuning in upon other minds whose aid otherwise would have escaped you and more! The best of words limp when they talk of the power of belief. Only feel your belief propelling you toward the goal of your achievement and you will know at last that an irresistible force is at your command.
Is there a limit to what belief can achieve? If there is a limit, nobody has seen that limit yet. I have mentioned often that we may at times avail ourselves of powers beyond our ordinary senses. (Not supernatural, but natural powers we are only beginning to understand.) Deep subconscious belief aids mightily in winning the aid of these unseen powers.
Once, when I was a child, I had typhoid fever – the only serious illness I ever have had. I was ill for weeks without showing any sign of improvement. At length, as my father informed me years later, I lapsed into a coma. The two doctors who had come out to our farm told my father there was nothing else they could do; my end was only a few hours away.
My father walked into the forest. There he knelt down and prayed to another Doctor beyond earthly doctors. With his prayer he generated a mighty, all-embracing belief that I would recover. He remained on his knees for an hour or more, and at length a great peace came over him… that peace of mind which is the condition in which the mind words at its mighty best. And suddenly, from nowhere, and yet beyond the slightest shadow of doubt, he knew peacefully that I was going to recover.
I do not know where my father’s prayer might have been heard, nor if it was heard, nor if the mere fact of the prayer gave him the focusing and intensifying agent which is part of deep subconscious belief. But I know that when he returned to the house he found me sitting up, which had been impossible for me to do a couple of hours before. Sitting up, crying for water, and with my fever “broken” as we used to say.
Source: Grow Rich with Peace of Mind. Fawcett Crest Book. 1967. Pgs. 179 & 180.
Does this ring tru? What are your experiences or thoughts…Let us know – comment below (hmm, that rhymes…LOL)
Terrie
Phrase of the Week
Posted by: | CommentsHow about this one? I’ll bet you hear this at least once a week. You can hear it on TV shows, read it it in the papers, listen to your friends, etc.
But if you were on the teleseminar the other night, you’ll realize that you can completely change this around.
See what you think.
Terrie
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