Building and Nurturing Your Beliefs - and Blasting Off!

Posted on January 6, 2009
Filed Under Step 1: Crystalization, Step 4: Confidence |

Beliefs will either create or destroy. Beliefs affect our minds and thoughts. In a previous posting, I mentioned that the Chinese knew that thought is the key in the success process. Because in Chinese, the word ‘thought’ is a combination of 3 key characters that form the word ‘thought’. The characters are Vision, Beliefs, and Heart (which represent Desire, Determination, and Faith).

Therefore, belief is one of the important steps we have to take to succeed in the process. Belief is the force that controls our decisions, influences how we think and feel, and hence gives our brains the unquestionable command to respond to things in certain ways. Look at what some religions and cult groups can do to beliefs - they can command people to give their lives away for a certain cause they believe in.

“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward to this faith is to see what you believe” - St. Augustine.

Therefore, beliefs can be powerful enough to motivate you to keep your mind focused on the possibility that you can do certain things, and that you will do them. I noticed that most positive thinking seminar speakers use this technique to motivate their audience. T-Harv Eker is a good example. He liked to end his speeches by asking everyone in the audience to stand up, put their right hand on their chest, and say some affirmation words that reinforce what has been taught. See some of his videos here:

Tony Robbins admits that he uses the same techniques not only on his students, but on himself, too. Belief is a feeling of certainty about what something means to you. If you feel certain that you can do it, you will be able to tap on resources around you that you can get hold of and act intelligently on, to produce the results you set forth to achieve.

Some of the techniques to reinforce the belief you have is to establish references, examples, and even mentors. That is the reason why I have always encouraged my readers to take the Wealth Profiling test. It gives you references, directions, and examples of successful people who have profiles similar to yours and some recommended and proven strategies you can adopt to achieve similar or better results.

You can see that Tony also emphasizes ‘feelings’. According to The Secret movie, what you think is what you get and you become what you think. So in order to control your thoughts, you have to control your feelings. Like if you go to watch a sad movie, the sad vision you see on the screen stimulates melancholy in you and may even make you cry. So feelings and vision are quite linked. Watch out for what you put into your minds and what you think of, as it is what you will become.

If you believe in something, continue to feed positive thoughts by making sure you have positive feelings. Think of something that makes you happy, like the kid or the puppy you are fond of…control your focus, and focus on things that are positive and good.

We have real stories of miracle healing in the Secret movie – Law of Attraction. The Secret movie demonstrates a woman whose cancer cells were gone in 3 months when she focused on happy times and believed that she was already healed. And it was borne out that she was healed just by believing. And then there’s the story of the ‘miracle man’ who crashed his plane and hurt his back and spine. When he woke up from the hospital, the doctor said he will never be able to use his whole body again and could only blink his eyes. He refused to believe it and instead decided that he would recover by Christmas, believed this 100%, and by Christmas, he actually did.

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