Challenge Every Belief ❤ Self – Love Note

Everything you think may be a belief.

We all know that some things are “fact” and some are “belief”, but are there thoughts you have that you assume are fact?

A HUGE way to love yourself – your essential being, the core of you that is interconnected with the whole – is to know the freedom and truth of who you are and who you are not.

The beliefs we hold about ourselves and the world are mostly distorted to say the least!

I love to challenge the beliefs that I hold very close to me and better yet, to reveal ones I didn’t know about.

Some recent ones that I’ve found in myself and parts of myself:

• Healing needs a process of transformation in the body.
• Life/something has to be hard or painful to be worthy of it.
• You only get somewhere by working hard.
• People need to be fair.
• I need a certain amount of money to feel safe and I need to feel safe to feel joyful.
• Money is more important that me.

Ouch! …When I unearthed that last belief about my importance especially.

So what has been creating your reality?

Examining Beliefs

If you’d like to take a look and find more freedom in yourself, try these journal questions with curiosity and compassion. Look closely and in the nuances and subtleties of your experience and let yourself be surprised by what reveals itself.

• When have you had reactions to people and thought, it should or has to be this way or they should…?
• What was your last triggering moment, a moment you had a reaction to something that bothered you?
• When have you thought, I can’t do or I am not able to unless…
• In these situations, what fears or belief sets underlie the situation?
• Explore your fears and open to detecting an underlying web of belief sets that stem from this or support this.
• Which beliefs are you ready to release? Which are you wanting to keep?

The Most Powerful Beliefs

The beliefs that hold the most power are the ideas that live undetected, unexamined, and taken for granted as truth. They live unconsciously in our every move and feeling, without question. And many of these biggies can come from our unspoken ancestral inheritance. What worked for people before us doesn’t always work for us in the present day. Be open to these showing up in uncomfortable ways to show you another belief set.

Beliefs shape our reactions and our actions. They define who you are being. Whatever way of being we are living from – which includes the complex web and layers of belief sets – in each given moment, we act from that place, and then receive the outpouring of that belief in manifest expression. We create our reality.

Finding Your Pleasure and Preferences

You don’t have to throw out your personality, your preferences, or your pleasure. When I identify for example, that people don’t necessarily need to be fair, I can also get clearer on my values and what gives me pleasure – that I really like when people are fair.

There’s a power to knowing your beliefs are beliefs and they are yours. That the whole world doesn’t run on the same set of beliefs. There are people that completely defy your belief sets and do the impossible – those are the ones that can bring us new learning! Can you hold the complexity that others may not believe it and still have the conviction to believe it?

When I reveal that belief that has caused me suffering, I find a release of emotion and a big breath of fresh air! Freedom from the limitations of the belief, more possibility and flexibility, and greater acceptance, respect, and harmony with others that have their own beliefs.

What do you find?

 

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