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Magical
Mirror Machine
Highly
Recommends
THE BELIEF BUSTER KIT
"You
CAN Break Free!"
Over
20 exercises and techniques
to
identify and clear limiting beliefs and install
empowering beliefs in their place.
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Magical
Mirror Machine
Highly
Recommends
Banish
Mind Spam:
Four
Steps for Deprogramming
Self-Limiting and Self-Sabotaging Beliefs!
by Dr.
Sheri Rosenthal
"My goal," says Dr. Rosenthal, "is to
make your process of transformation an enjoyable and
fun experience, to assist you in the inventory your
program, and to search and seek out those aspects of
your program that are stealing your happiness, joy,
and emotional peace."
Click Here!
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What's
Belief Got to Do With It?, Part II
Changing Your Beliefs
In his CD series
Leveraging the
Universe and Engaging the Magic, Mike Dooley talks about beliefs as colored
sunglasses. Some people look at the world through rose colored
glasses; some people wear lenses that color the world in shades of
gold, or blue, or gray. The fundamental point he makes is that you
can exchange the pair you’re wearing for a differently colored pair
at will.
The way you do that is simply to choose to focus your attention on a
new set of thoughts. Beliefs are, as we talked about in
Part I,
groups of related thoughts that you habitually feed with your
attention. To change to another color of belief is simply a matter
of practicing sending your thoughts in a different direction.
Here at Magical Mirror Machine, you’ll find an ever-growing
collection of resources to help you do just that. Try different
techniques; play with the ones that appeal to you over the course of
a few weeks and notice how your awareness shifts and expands.
“What Would I Have to Believe . . .?”
Of course, before you can change the beliefs that are shaping your
life, you have to recognize which ones you are currently feeding.
One way to do that is to look at your feelings about yourself, other
people, and the way the world works and to ask yourself “What would
I have to believe in order to feel that way?” For example, are you a
confident person, or are you shy? Do you enjoy meeting new people,
or prefer to be left alone? What would you have to believe about
yourself in order to feel that way? What would you have to believe
about other people? What’s a different belief you might want to
explore?
The world is a mirror of your beliefs. Look at your
circumstances, at the situations in which you find yourself and ask
“What would I have to believe in order to have created this?”
Do you believe that things always go right for you? That every day
brings wonderful new ideas and opportunities your way? Or do you
believe that nothing goes right, that no matter what you try, things
always go wrong?
"Is it true?"
The next step is to recognize that beliefs aren’t statements
of what’s true; they’re constructs we have chosen—whether
consciously or not—to describe reality. They seem true,
because once we adopt them, they serve as filters for our
perception. They let into our awareness only the information that’s
in harmony with them. But nothing as small as a belief can encompass
the true nature of even a moment of reality. The best they can do is
flatter us into thinking we understand.
Especially when you run into a belief
that makes you feel small, powerless, incapable, unworthy or
ashamed, ask yourself, "Is this really true?" Yes, it will
seem true. It has, after all, done a fabulous job of
letting into your awareness only those ideas and experiences that
make it look true. That's what beliefs do! That's
they're job. So press on a little further; dare to ask
yourself, "What if it's not true?" What might be
a better, more empowering belief to have instead?
What if, in the movie of your life,
you got a bump on the head and woke up unable to remember a thing
about yourself? What if, when you woke up, you were in a huge
bed with satin sheets, surrounded by ultimate luxury? The
clothes laid out for you were of the finest cut and material.
A breakfast was sitting on a silver tray beside your bed, adorned
with freshly cut rose. And when you walked to the window, you
saw a magnificent, sprawling estate.
 It's
the stuff of Hollywood and fairy tales, and in these stories, the
character with no memory begins to live the life the evidence around
him tells him he leads. What if your beliefs were
nothing but a dream? What if you woke with the assumption that
you were powerful, complete, whole and surrounded by a world of
abundance? What if all the stories you have been telling
yourself about being sad, sick, lonely, broke, miserable or
hopelessly doomed were nothing but . . . stories - created
from the fabric of some unserving belief?
What if you decided to
believe in the best in you instead?
"Beliefs R
Us" - NOT!
The third step to changing your beliefs—after you have discovered
what some of yours are and accepted that they may not be the whole
truth--is to stop identifying with them.
We tend to think of
beliefs as defining who we are. But in reality, they are
simply ideas that we have been playing in our heads for so long that
they’re invested with a lot of energy; they have worn paths into our
brains.
Because they filter
our perceptions, and rule our expectations, and govern how we act,
it can feel as if they are the central core of who we are. But
the fact is they are simply habits. That’s all. And we can change
them by choosing to move our energy to a different line of thought,
a different belief set.
"What You Focus on Expands"
How do you move your energy to a different belief set? By moving
your attention to it. By “pretending” that it’s true, by talking—to
yourself and others—as if you believed it was true, by acting as if
it were true. You can identify someone in real life, or in a movie
or novel, and model his or her thinking and behavior. You can
program yourself by learning new
self-talk or by
practicing visualization or
self-hypnosis or using EFT. You can cultivate relationships with
people who hold beliefs similar to the one you want to adopt. You
can read about people who hold the belief you want to cultivate or
watch movies with themes that center on people who live the way you
want to live, believing what you want to believe.
Whatever methods appeal to you, the key is to practice focusing on
the belief you want to acquire and on expressing it through your
thoughts and actions until it’s second nature to you. The more you
practice, the more the world will magically reflect your new point
of view as new filters click into place in your brain. People will
begin responding to you differently, unusual coincidences will begin
to happen, your “luck” will change, new opportunities will begin to
appear. It’s an exciting and satisfying journey. And some of the
wisest among us say it’s the very reason we are here—to learn the
magic of creating for ourselves the reality of our choice, the magic
of making our dreams come true.
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