Throwing Away The Drill
“Seeing is a believing.” Most people live by this cliché.
Of course, anyone who understands the law of attraction knows the opposite is true: “Believing is seeing.”
I’ve known for a long time that believing in an outcome is important to achieving the outcome; but in the past, I’ve had trouble developing the beliefs I need to achieve what I want.
Years ago, I attended a week long self-improvement seminar that focused on drilling through your past to find your dominant “story,” the one belief about yourself that impacts everything you do. The belief I found (and it wasn’t difficult—it was lying right on the surface) was “I’m not good enough.”
I’m not going to rehash all the reasons I developed that belief about myself. Why would I want to go back and activate a vibration around all sorts of negative stuff? But that is the belief I carried around for a very, very long time. And it’s a belief that creeps back in from time to time, like the occasional bug that manages to get past an exterminators’ chemicals.
My book shelves used to be stuffed with self-help books designed to help you ferret out your limiting beliefs and patterns. All these books—I’m talking literally hundreds of them—asserted that if you can find your “core beliefs,” your “imprints,” or your “self-repeating patterns” (and other similar catchy names), you can change them and transform your life. Every one of these books was usually full of helpful programs or systems or exercises that were supposed to excavate the crud in your psyche and clean it up.
Before I bought all those books, I paid thousands to a therapist who was supposed to help me do that too. She too had plans and tasks that were supposed to change my old beliefs.
If I were to total up all the hours I’ve spent making lists, writing out old memories, repeating affirmations, doing meditations and visualizations, and journaling about belief systems, they’d probably fill a whole year of my life. And did I ever get rid of my old beliefs?
Some of them, yes.
Am I a transformed person? Somewhat, yes.
Did this process make my life all wonderful?
No.
So what am I going to do with all these beliefs that may still be holding me back?
I’m going to ignore them.
Abraham-Hicks says, “If your desire is strong enough, it doesn’t matter what your beliefs are. If you have a desire that is strong enough, that desire will be the dominant vibration, and it will over-ride any other vibration that you have.”
It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are. Wow. I wish I’d known that before I invested in all that therapy and those books and workshops. But that’s okay. All those experiences provided contrast that showed me what I truly want.
What do I want?
I want to be happy without all kinds of work attached to it.
Self improvement can turn into a job unto itself. I believe we shouldn’t have to work so hard to be okay.
And we don’t have to.
I have finally come to understand that the old beliefs, the old patterns, the old imprints are irrelevant if we follow Abraham-Hicks’ most basic teaching: find reasons to feel good.
You don’t have to go looking for negative beliefs if you’re paying attention to how you feel. If you start feeling bad, you can be pretty sure that some negative belief has erupted from within and is guiding your thoughts. Why bother to drill for the things if they’re going to jump out and wave their arms around right in front of your nose?
Let’s say you have moles in your backyard. You used to drill down into the earth to throw in smoke bombs or poison or bleach or whatever other mole-killing concoction you heard about. Then some very smart person told you about a vibrational sensor you had built into your lawn. This sensor goes off every time a mole is creating another dirt mountain on your grass. All you have to do is go out there and redirect the mole.
Wouldn’t that be handy?
Well, we have such a sensor for our industrious old beliefs and negative thought patterns. Abraham-Hicks calls it our emotional guidance system. It is absolutely fool proof. When we’ve activated a negative belief or thought, we feel bad. All we have to do is find a thought that feels better.
Simple.
Picture that robot in Lost In Space flailing its mechanical arms about: “Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!”
Who needs a drill when you have a helpful robot?
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March 25th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I couldn’t agree more, Ande. I’ve noticed for years that the folks who are going from one program to the next, trying to identify and ferret out limiting beliefs, just seem to be ever mired in that process. And then, from Abraham-Hicks I learned that any thing we give our attention to will only loom larger in our experience, so now I understand why all that exorcising of negative patterns is less than effective — even counter-productive. But until one factors Law of Attraction into the equation, it seems logical to try to pull out limiting beliefs in the same way that we might pull a gray hair from our head. Trouble is, two new ones seem to grow back in its place.
March 25th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
You’re so right, Karen. It goes counter to what we’ve learned as kids and what society tells us. We live in a seek and destroy society. Go after the weeds, the bad seeds, the blight and try to get rid of it. And the more we get rid of, the more we need to get rid of because, by looking for it, we find more. As you say, two new ones to every one pulled.
March 25th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Ande, you did again. I fail to see how you can have a Im not good enough core story because you always deliver the goods…
I know we all to some point have that in us and I dont know your past but I just love your posts. Seems like I just finished a book by my favorite author and the very next day, She puts out another one and I read it and it was as good or better than the first one and I go to sleep and wake up and whoa, another best selling book to read. That is how I feel about checking this blog everyday.
Now, the reason why this is so timely to me is because I had a local bible study meeting in my house last night for 21 member of the church that I go to and most of the people there are between 21 and 27. I am old at 47. There is one other lady that attends and she is 56. Well, this lady has a heart of gold but she is always involved with helping women who have had past bad experiences with men ie rape, bad abusive marriage etc. She even volunteers for a prayer hotline so that these people can call her 24 hours a day and unload. I know what you must be thinking… Whoa.. Well, you;re right. Last night, she just came unglued. She said she is mad at God, she is mad at her father who abused her, he’s dead now, she is overwhelmed and just cant take it anymore…. While she was blurting all this out with crying and whaling and arms flayling and threatening to leave and getting up and sitting down and lots of drama, (of course she never left), People offering symphathy and emphathy, when it got quiet, I finally said, maybe you need to give up.
Could’ve heard a pin drop. .. My point was not give up on God or yourself just give up all this paddling upstream. I even told her the analogy. she told me that she had to “Feel To Heal”. In other words, she had to go back and re enact all the bad stuff and purposely feel all that stuff and then forgive it and then move on. I told her, “What you give your attention to Grows. If you focus on all the craziness and hurt and suffering from the PAST, you know what you’ll get more of.. wait for it… you’ll get more Craziness, hurt and suffering. Seems like good bible teaching to me,.. To Him who has, more shall be given, to him who has not, even that which he has shall be taken away. In other words, if you wave the flag of Craziness, suffering and Pain, God will look down and say, Ok, More craziness, suffering and pain for this one. Thank God the opposite is also true.
I just wanted to say that I experienced the truth of what you mentioned above first hand. What shocked me was that there were a number of people there that night who were very angry with God. That I didnt understand. One person said that he gave a used car to a friend of his who was having a hard time and that friend turned around and did something he shouldnt have done and the whole thing ended up badly and somehow they are angry at God for that??? If you’re going to be Angry, be angry at the guy you gave your car too. I wouldnt advise being angry in that situation at anyone but why did God get the bad rap on that one. If my parents gave me a used car and I got in a crash with it, would I then go straight over to my parents house and be mad at them for getting in a crash with the car they gave me??? Anyhoo, Just wanted to say that I am so happy to know that what I give my attention to grows and for most of the time, I am easy about things nowadays and things are getting….wait for it… a lot easier..
Greg T
March 25th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Hmmmm…I don’t seem to recall ever getting such long comments OR compliments from Greg about MY blog. And I don’t know whether to be mad at Greg or Ande or God about that. Ha. Just kidding. So glad you guys are friends.
March 25th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Ha, ha, Karen.
Well, it’s thanks to you that Greg and I connected. AND it’s thanks to you and me, that you and I connected. I am finding more people coming into my world who are actively taking this non-action journey (how’s that for an oxymoron? 
). It can’t be a coincidence, obviously. And I’m glad you’re wise enough to know that getting mad at anyone is a big fat waste of time and serves us not one little bit.
When you keep in mind that God is the divine within us all, when people get mad at God, they’re really mad at themselves. Who wants to be yelled at? No one. So we yell at God. Better not to yell at all.
Greg, I love how you told your truth at that meeting and challenged the people to expand the way they saw their world. Of course, only those in vibrational proximity to you will get it, but those who ARE vibrating in a similar place can be changed by your words.
And thank you for your comparison of my blog posts to a bestselling author’s book. I’ll take that comparison any day.
Feel free to share them on whatever social site (Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, Twitter, etc) strikes your fancy. (Humble request for help to expand the readership
).
March 25th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
sharing on facebook. done.
March 25th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Karen, You are the genesis of this whole thing. You were the website that I went to for relief. You were the first website that I ever went to that had the LOA in plain unerring truth. Very simple and powerful. Clarity rules at your site. You are the original.
March 25th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Well, ahem, thank you, Greg. And I like the word “genesis,” but could you make that “genius,” just this once??
I’m a goofball — just teasin’ ya. LOA brought us together, and it did a darn fine job.
March 25th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
In every LOA goofball lives the heart of a true genius.
March 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Thanks for sharing on Facebook, Greg!!
March 26th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Yes, believing IS seeing.