Remember, beliefs are changeable just like sweaters or pants; what you have for dinner, words you place on paper, paint in a picture, notes in a melody, or whom you spend the day with.
Beliefs are choices. We choose them, or, if we are unaware of them, they often choose us. Either way, they are creating our everyday reality. Whether you believe this or not, it is still true.
In order to be responsible and have freedom and choice in our lives, it is necessary to take responsibility for our beliefs. To have responsibility for our beliefs, we must be “able to respond.” Respond to limiting beliefs by changing them and to life-promoting beliefs by encouraging them. To do this, we must first believe that beliefs are changeable.
Core Beliefs
Core beliefs or core concepts about our everyday reality are very powerful indeed. Their particular and unique power derives from their obvious nature. They are so a part of our daily perception that we mistake them for REALITY. We don’t see them as beliefs, which renders them immutable and unchangeable. This causes us to lose our sense of individual power and free will, leading to hopelessness and helplessness. We believe we are “victims” of “reality” and cease to recognize our power to change our beliefs.
Look around you. All that you see is not reality. It is your “reality” through the focus of your personal and culturally accepted beliefs. Change those beliefs and you will change your “reality.” The more thoroughly you accept these new ideas, the greater the change in your experience. You are the creator of your experience. The artist of your own life. Pick your colors well and plan the picture most pleasing to you. It’s your picture and the quality of every painting is in the eye of the beholder. Don’t trade your free will for the likes and dislikes of another. It is the very diversity of opinion that gives life variety and interest. If we all lived according to the views of others, there would be no excitement, only the sameness of these opinions and ideas. The purpose of life would be lost in the beliefs of others.
