We are exactly who we are, simply, because we believe we are who we are. Our minds are made up of millions upon millions of beliefs. Basic beliefs like the sky is blue, grass is green, and air is needed to breath. There are also the personal beliefs like self appearance, self worth and self health. Now the difference between these two types of beliefs is that the basic, universal beliefs are just that. We believe the sky is blue because all people of the world believe the sky is blue. We believe that we need air to breathe because that is what we were taught. Even though we can not see air, we believe it is there.

Now personal beliefs are quite different. These are beliefs based entirely on the experiences we have throughout our lives. These beliefs make up our physical appearance, our personalities and our state of health. Each experience we have forms a new belief or compounds an old belief that we already have.

You see, all beliefs that we store in our minds are stored in the subconscious level of our mind. Once a belief is stored, the subconscious wants nothing else but to achieve this belief as a goal. The subconscious mind is completely goal driven. So a belief like “I am rich and successful” becomes a goal for the subconscious mind to achieve. The subconscious mind takes every belief literally.

What this means is, that all though the subconscious mind is extremely powerful, it is also very simple. Any statement that is taken into the subconscious mind as a belief is taken exactly how that statement is worded. The subconscious mind will not try to examine every statement you make and discuss it with you to be sure it is all exactly what you believe. It will just basically say “I can feel that you believe this statement, so now I will set a goal to achieve this.”

For example, let’s say that a person goes to a job that they are bored with. This person does not look forward to going to this job five days a week. Well, this person may make a statement like “I am so sick of this job” and really believe this statement. Then the subconscious mind just says “Yeah you believe this. You really are sick of this job. I can feel this”.

So then the subconscious mind sets a goal to achieve this statement. Except the goal it is set to achieve, is to make this person feel sick while at this job, which could cause all kinds of illnesses. You see, the subconscious mind can not interpret this belief to actually mean “I am bored with this job. I would like something more challenging”. So please give your subconscious positive beliefs to work on.

The thing that separates humans from the rest of the animal world is the power of our brains. In our brains we have many ‘tools’. The reasoning tool, the thinking tool, the understanding tool and many more. We also possess the power tool of ‘imagination’.
All the authors of ‘how to be successful’ type of book agree on one thing. That is, that you have to think, imagine & really believe in something to make it happen!

For a long time I thought that this was all psychological mumbo-jumbo, just as you might be thinking right now, but it really does work to believe strongly in the object of your desire to make it happen!

So now we are working with the subconscious level of the mind. We can overpower all the negative beliefs we may have and build strong and positive structures with the beliefs we do want.

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