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"In this life. . . we are unable to forget whatever remains unforgiven. So, if we won't let go of some pain - whose time has now past - then who is to blame for the weight of this burden still being carried on our back?” – Guy Finley

 

RE-CHOOSING

When we allow ourselves to become conscious of these confusions, or errors in our perceptions, then we have a choice once more about doing something about it. Sometimes illness is a valuable clue that we need to examine our inner world and make adjustments. Then we can be grateful for the illness. What a paradox......the illness that was first perceived as an "enemy" to be got rid of, sometimes becomes in reality a friend, a teacher, a guide, leading us back to the course in life preferred by our highest consciousness, our Higher Self.

Once we are conscious of our error(s), we need only regret the wrong long enough to decide to learn the lesson which the mistake can teach us.

The next step is to allow healing of our stress to come from the Higher Self, which is the origin of health and healing within us. When we hold ourselves open to the transpersonal attitude of unconditional love and forgiveness, the Higher Self can and does pour its healing energies into our bodies, emotions, and minds. All healing comes from within ultimately, - without this miracle no doctor or surgeon would ever make a living...

We do NOT have to stay in the punishing or lamenting space into which the confusions and misperceptions outlined above have led us.

We can learn from our experience, see our role in the situation in wiser and more compassionate perspective, and use our Will to discontinue unproductive perceptions, decisions, and behaviors. We can allow the natural healing energy of the Higher Self to restore us to perfect balance once again. -- http://www.iloveulove.com/forgiveness/pfpself01.htm

 

Where do our beliefs come from?
Any event, small or large, can help foster our beliefs.

1. Environment
People growing in a certain environment consistently model
what they see. If you grow up in an environment of wealth and success, you can easily model posibility, wealth success.

2. Knowledge
A direct experience is one form of knowledge. Another is gained through reading good books. Acquiring relevant knowledge is one of the great ways to break the shackles of a limiting environment.

3. Through our past efforts and results. The surest way to make you believe you can do something is to do it once. If you succeed once, it's far easier to form the belief that you'll succeed again... and again.

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristoteles


4. Learn and use the technique of VISUALISATION: You can create in your mind the experience you desire in the future... as if it were here now. Just like past experiences can change your internal representations and thus what you believe is possible, so can your imagined experience of how you want things to be in the future. The kind of and intensity of belief you have, the amount of potential you unleash, the kind of actions you take and the kind of results you get are all linked. WE CREATE OUR REALITY and it can be changed... in an instant!

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being,
not because anybody says so, not because you're successful,
not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide
to believe it and for no other reason.
-- Wayne Dyer

Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life
By Gini Grey

Underneath your life circumstances are your actions and underneath your actions are your choices. Underneath these are your beliefs; thoughts and messages strung together to create the foundation upon which you build your life. Beliefs are not good or bad, right or wrong. They just are and they either support you in life or they limit you. Just like the old saying goes, "if you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can't, you can't."

Where do our beliefs come from? They are passed on from our families, picked up from our friends, absorbed in from teachers, peers and society, or triggered by our experiences. Sometimes even a seemingly insignificant event like seeing the frown in our grade four teacher's eyes as she looks upon our purple rendition of a forest could stifle our creativity later in life.

Often we develop our beliefs unconsciously. For example, if our parents modeled a hard work ethic with a good dose of struggle and some martyrdom thrown in, chances are we grew up believing that to attain anything we have to work extra hard or it's not worth anything if it wasn't achieved with effort and sacrifice. We may not know why we believe this, we just think its true and now we have our lives to prove it. Yet it's only true for those who believe it. Take a closer look at people who effortlessly create wealth and joy in their lives and you will see beliefs based on ease and abundance.

Even if you secretly rebel against certain beliefs what you resist persists so you might end up playing both ends of a dichotomy, neither of which is freeing. One common dichotomy involves creative and artistic pursuits. The starving artist mentality has led many people to bounce between following their creative careers, but living meagerly, or taking on well paying work, but at the expense of their passion.

So how do you free yourself from a set of beliefs that prevent you from creating the life you want? First it is important to explore your beliefs so you know what you are dealing with. An easy way to do this is to look at the situations in your life that you are not happy with and ask yourself what your underlying beliefs must be about yourself, others and life in general in order for you to have created your current circumstances. Be particularly willing to unearth the core beliefs about feeling good enough, deserving and worthy. The next step is to replace these limiting beliefs with empowering supportive beliefs. This may involve useful tools such as affirmations or visualizations, or it might take a deeper approach such as releasing any unhealthy attachments to those in your life who gifted you with the limiting beliefs or letting go of unspoken family agreements, or draining the charge out of unpleasant experiences.

Just imagine what you could create in your life by changing your beliefs and perceptions about life. The possibilities are endless.

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Our beliefs are programs that we have installed inside of us, on our hard drives called the subconscious. The subconscious is programmed to process and respond to any information it receives. The conscious mind decodes the response that the subconscious has processed. The subconscious mind is our knowing, while our conscious mind is our thinking.
 http://www.onenesspendants.com/NewsLetters/November_2007

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ONE OF THE EFFECTS of meditation is that thoughts lose their "significant" status. Usually we are imbedded in our thoughts (and the feelings they evoke). Your thoughts and feeling pull strongly on your attention, drawing you into an inner world, somewhat removed from the outer world. We, in a sense, live in our thoughts. They strongly color our experience.

When you meditate, you continually interrupt your own thoughts. You dismiss your thoughts and go back to the mantra or your breath. Slowly but surely, your thoughts lose their status. Instead of the natural rulers, thoughts become annoying pests.

This change in your relationship with your own thoughts is an important side-effect of meditation, and is probably responsible for many of meditation's benefits. This new, lower status of your thoughts allows you to gain a kind of detachment from the drama of your daily life — the drama that normally captures and enmeshes you so much. It allows you to maintain your inner peace for more and more of your life.

Again and again you get sucked into the thought-world only to realize you've been lost in a daydream, and you drop it and come back to the mantra. Over time, you begin to understand that you've been lost in a daydream a good portion of your life, and that the daydream is in many ways what you used to give the most significance.

But thoughts are not the enemy.  Your own attachment to the thoughts is what prevents peace.   And as you do your regular meditation, you naturally and easily feel less and less attached to the thoughts, and you become more and more happy and peaceful.
http://www.youmeworks.com/lost.html

 

 

 

 

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