“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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