What Are Your Beliefs Creating?

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying, "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning."

People live their lives based on the deep seated beliefs they hold. A person's religious beliefs, financial beliefs, health beliefs, beliefs for every part of life direct every decision we make. These beliefs are formed due to a variety of factors. Your parents’ behaviour with you and with the society at large, your education, your social interactions, your own experiences with life and so on. Almost all of these factors are out of our hands. We can hardly do anything about them.

It's difficult to do anything contrary to the belief we hold in the various areas ofour lives.

If your parents had ridiculed you often when you were a kid, you will likely have a low self esteem. You will not believe in yourself, perhaps feeling unworthy of anything and consequently will find success difficult for you to reach.

If you had a teacher who had praised you, especially in front of your class, about some activity, say your elocution, and in subsequent years others reinforced that belief in you that you speak well then, as a grown up you will undoubtedly become an excellent public speaker and success will follow you. Thus, the beliefs we hold in our mind about ourselves dictate our life.

Hence, if you want to change your life, change your beliefs!

You can change your beliefs by changing your thoughts.

You can change your thoughts in a variety of ways. Affirmations, visualization, hypnosis are some ways in which you can do that.

That which we do not believe, we can't adequately express, though we may speak the words over and over!

"I have heard an experienced counselor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict. If he does not believe it, his unbelief will appear to the jury, despite all his protestations, and will become their unbelief. This is that law whereby a work of art, of whatever kind, sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it. That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say, though we repeat the words ever so often." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do others see the POWER OF BELIEF in you? How has the power of belief served you this week?