Russ Beauchene
If You Believe it, It's True
You have proven for yourself that it is true.
If that was all there was to it we would just be able to have whatever kind of life we wanted by just thinking about what we wanted.
Yet life is not the way we want it to be.
There is another thing involved in getting the life that we want.
That other thing involved is our beliefs.
We have already talked about that computer sitting inside of our heads.
We also talked about those programs that are running inside of that computer.
Those programs are our beliefs that we have about all of the different things in life.
We talked about changing the programs that run the computer.
The thing that we are doing here is changing our beliefs.
We DO live our lives according to our beliefs.
And our lives change as our beliefs change.
Just what are these things that we call beliefs?
As we go through life, we take in a lot of information from all kinds of different sources.
That information forms what we believe to be true about ourselves and our world.
When we are young, we just took in all of this information without judging any of it at all.
It became the information that forms the base of our truths.
They become the beliefs that we lived our lives by.
These beliefs shaped our lives and everything about it.
They told us what we can and can't do.
They shaped our morals, prejudices, values, concepts of what is right, wrong, good or bad, our abilities and a whole lot of other stuff.
Everything about us now is a sum total of all of those beliefs.
And we live our lives NOW according to those beliefs.
Each of those beliefs served us at some point in our past.
Some of them still serve us today.
But some of them no longer serve us.
In fact, some of them are now stopping us from getting what we want in life.
But they are still there running our lives.
And they will until we change them.
Your beliefs WILL show up as your reality.
Your beliefs DO show up as your reality every day.
If life is not going the way you want it to right now, it is really about the beliefs that you have.
Are you ready for the good news?
Each belief you have is true for you right now.
Read that again.
Each belief you have is true for you RIGHT NOW.
It is really only true for you RIGHT NOW.
And the beliefs that you have now can be changed.
Look at your own past to see the proof of that.
At one point in your life, you had the belief that you could not ride a bicycle.
At one point in your life, you had a belief that you could not drive a car.
There are a lot of beliefs that you had at different points in your life that changed as you got new information and had different experiences in your life.
And, as those beliefs changed, your life changed.
Here is something that is important to know.
Any belief that you have is only temporary.
It can, and most likely, WILL change as you get more information and experience.
You change your life by changing your beliefs by getting more information and experience.
Here is the equation.
Information plus experience equals belief.
Change the information and/or the experience and the belief changes.
And, as your belief changes, your life changes.
It really IS that simple.
Here is an example from my own life.
A few years ago, I was running across a recurring problem.
No matter how much money I made, I was constantly out of money and always in debt.
When I finally sat down to really look at it, I saw that there was a belief that I needed to change.
What I saw was that I had a belief in lack.
I could see that I got that belief from being raised in a poor family.
I could also see where that belief served me as I was growing up.
It saved me from a lot of disappointments when we were raised without much money.
I didn't get my hopes up about getting anything and so I was never disappointed when I didn't get the things that I wanted.
Now, I was living my own life and I was the one responsible for how the money came in and how it was spent.
I no longer needed to live with that old belief.
I decided to change that old belief to one of abundance.
I couldn't just SAY that I had a new belief.
I had to prove to myself that it was true before I would really accept it.
The next payday, I paid off whatever bills I could and bought whatever supplies that I needed for that week.
Then I set aside $10.00 that I would not touch.
The next week, I did the same thing and set aside another $10.00 that I would not touch.
Each week, I saw my abundance growing.
It was a little bit at a time but, it WAS growing.
It didn't take too long for me to get all of my bills paid off and I kept seeing abundance growing in my life with the money that I set aside each week.
I was constantly proving that my belief in abundance was true.
I began seeing abundance growing in other areas of my life too.
Now I live a life where I have a belief that there is abundance in life.
And, yes, I DO still have that original $10.00 bill to remind me that I live in abundance.
And all I really did was change a belief that was holding me back.
I changed the belief by changing the information AND the experience.
It really IS that easy.
But first, you DO need to find the beliefs that are holding you back.
Now is the time when we get to explore and see what our beliefs really are.
One of the best ways to find out what our beliefs are is to just listen to ourselves.
And then question what we hear or write.
When working on something like this, I tend to write with pen and paper.
I have a conversation with my mind.
Let's say that I made some sort of mistake and I say to myself, "You never do anything right.".
I might answer, "That's not true. I do lot's of things right. I DID happen to make a mistake this time but it is the exception and not the rule.".
The belief inside is that I never do anything right.
If that was not a belief that I had it would not have come up for me when I made a mistake.
If I want to I can look back and see where I was told that I could never do anything right as I was growing up.
I can see where that might even have been true at one point in my life.
I can also see where I make very few mistakes and do a LOT of things right NOW.
How can I change that belief?
I will sit there and list all of the things that I have done right today and any mistakes that I may have made.
As I look at that list, I can see that I did more things right than making mistakes.
Information and/or experiences equals belief.
Any belief that does not get challenged will stay the same.
Challenge the belief and you can change the belief.
New information and/or new experience equals a new belief.
Every day, for a month, I will make a list at the end of the day of all of the things that I have done right and any mistakes that I have made to prove to myself that I CAN do many things right and that I make very few mistakes.
I start to develop the belief that I am a very capable person.
And, I will give myself proof of that every day.
I will focus on my new belief for at least a month.
Soon, that will become one of my sub-conscious beliefs.
Now I DO believe that I am a very capable person.
We can do this same process with just about any belief that we may have.
Try it with any belief that does not really support you.
These, of course, will be beliefs about yourself and not about things outside of you.
The things outside of you will come later.
First, find out what the belief is by listening to yourself.
Listen to the things that you automatically think or say in different situations.
See the ones that don't really support you in your path towards getting what you want in life.
When you find one, question it until you find what seems to be the underlying belief.
Write out the belief in a simple form.
If you want, you can look back and see where that belief came from.
You don't have to if you don't want to.
Next, challenge that belief with undeniable facts.
Write down the proofs of the old belief and then write down the proofs that the old belief is no longer true.
Pick a new belief and prove that new belief to be true.
Spend a few days focusing on the proofs of your new belief.
It has been said that it takes about 30 days to change an old belief into a new one.
Go ahead and spend the time it takes to change your old beliefs.
It will be well worth it.
You can even do a fun script around your new belief so that you can keep reinforcing that new belief.
Here is one that I did for myself around mistakes.
You can listen to it here.
I listened to this one every evening for a month.
That way I really set up my new belief.
Remember to focus on your new belief rather than the old one.
Don't go away FROM your old belief.
Go TOWARDS your new belief.
What you focus on is what will come to you.
Your new belief will become another sub-conscious belief that you can live your life by.
And, as you change your beliefs, your life will change.
We have looked at the concept that what you focus on will show up in your life.
That belief changed.
That belief changed.
There never was or ever would be enough.
I believed in not-enoughness.
I had a belief that I would always be in debt and never have enough money to live life the way I wanted to.
And, start to get rid of the ones that no longer serve us.
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