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You Can Change If You Believe



Personal growth and development is a process and those seeking to effect changes in their lives know that real success comes from changing their thought first. However, many find this not to be quite as simple as it first appears. The movie, “The Secret” brought much attention to the Law of Attraction and many people have embraced the concept, but the movie was not intended to be a full course on how to change your life, rather just an introduction to the Law of Attraction concept.

After watching the movie many were thinking that all they needed to do is think their way to a new life and success. The management of your thinking is key to your ability to make changes but certainly not all there is to it. It doesn't help that their are self improvement teachers focusing mainly on the changing of your thought without delving into the other deeper aspects. This simplified version of The Law of Attraction focuses only your conscious thought, and does not delve into the power your unconscious thought holds over your everyday thought, feelings and behavior.

Your unconscious thought plays a major role in your overall thinking, and most influential are your beliefs. You hold deep seated beliefs that were set up usually without your conscious awareness, and are deeply integrated into your automatic operating system. These beliefs define exactly how you view yourself, the world around you, people and anything else you are in contact with. How you perceive everything, how you react to it and the actions you take are totally regulated by a set of firmly anchored unconscious beliefs.

If like most, you know some of your beliefs, but there are others directing your every thought and move that you are not aware of. Many individuals working to improve their life are either not aware of the breadth and influence of these beliefs or perhaps choose to ignore them hoping they can override them with affirmations or positive thinking, it rarely works this way. I'm not bashing affirmations or positive thinking, they just can't usually alone change your beliefs.

There is one key belief that can hold a profound influence over your ability to bring about changes for yourself. If you have been finding it difficult making the changes you want, most likely you getting blocked by your beliefs linked to your ability to change or experience something better. Your beliefs are ingrained in to your automatic unconscious operating system, so everything you do must pass through the filters of those established beliefs. You can't fool or sneak around them.

Some important questions to ask yourself about your beliefs in making change, and you may know the answers by some feelings you have had without knowing exactly why you have had them.

* Do you really believe that you can instigate changes in your life or do you feel it's up to someone or something else?

* Do you really believe that you are deserving of the changes you say you want?

If you answered yes to either or both of those questions with conviction then your beliefs support your ability to direct change. If not, your beliefs are preventing your desired change. In giving those questions some deep thought, you should feel deeply that they are true for you, as you will likely have experienced related feelings in different areas of your life. And similarly, you should know if you have long held doubt about your ability to change.

In short, both your thoughts and beliefs always determine the outcome of your efforts. The difference is that your conscious thoughts are basically visible to you and the unconscious is not. And the unconscious thoughts such as beliefs are so powerful in your mind because hey have been verified with strong references many times in your life, these are 'known facts' to your unconscious mind.

Every day such beliefs are there to filtering and directing your thoughts, feelings and actions by their rules. As you behave in accordance with these automatic beliefs you are continually validating them, thus providing them with ever increasing proof and power.

All the efforts you undertake to make changes to your life experience will go in vain as long as you hold beliefs that you can't instigate change, that you are not worthy of the changes you desire, or that you are subject to it being done to you or for you. If this is the case, you will need to address this core belief before you can have, do or be anything different from what you have in your life today. Your current life experience is the result of all of your thinking including your unconscious beliefs. Your are living evidence of what caused it.

So, if your desired results for change have been elusive after much effort, there must be a reason. This may even be a relief to you knowing there is nothing wrong with you, that you just may need to address something you didn't know about. That your unconscious beliefs have been the roadblocks to your change efforts.

You can in essence believe anything you want, you just need to know clearly that it's possible that you can. Changing your thinking, even your beliefs is a choice, you just need to know that you have this choice. You can begin discovering your deep driving beliefs by using the most powerful self help technique known, ask yourself questions. Of course you will want to calm down that incessant mind chatter so that you can hear or feel your answers.

“Why do I think this?”
“Why do I feel this way about ___ ?”

Then continue to ask why with each answer, probing deeper and deeper until you find a root cause. They all start somewhere with some event and build from there. Now you can consciously deal with something you are aware of and see that it no longer serves the life you want.

Your continued personal growth and self realization depends on a total belief in your ability to bring about change yourself, and that all the power in the universe will follow the command of your thoughts just as it does the commands contained in the tiniest seed. You, however have the ability to change your thought, the seed must stick with what it came with.
About Author John Halderman :

John Halderman, I write about effective self improvement methods, more specifically how you can bridge the gap between information and creating effective results. To learn more about what you just read here and to discover how this can help you change your life, follow this link- http://effectivepersonaldevelopmentblog.com Effective Personal Development Blog


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Article Added on Monday, March 9, 2009
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