Seek and Ye Shall Find – or – If Your Life’s Not Perfect Yet….
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
What if your world only existed in your head? Would that be a scary thought or a liberating one? Chances are your answer to that question will depend a lot on how much you are enjoying your life at the moment and your point of view.
You might be relieved, or equally horrified, to think that your world is your creation, but in many ways it is, and the sooner you learn to reap the benefits that can bring the better your life will be!
Let me explain what I mean.
You use your 5 senses all the time, 24/7, 365 days a year, to pick up information from your surroundings. Over 99.9% of that information won’t even reach your conscious mind because your will disregard most of it. If it didn’t your brain would melt because you pick up over 2 million bits of information per second, every second of the day!
You actually pay attention to about 7 of those bits of information and from just this tiny sample you create your reality. You pick your keepers based on your unique internal filters which have been created by your life experiences and according to the things that interest you and fit in with your beliefs. So, is it any wonder we all have such different views of the world?
If you were to put two million pebbles on a table (you’d need a big table I know!) or two million anything for that matter, and tell half a dozen people to pick 7, there isn’t much chance they’d pick the same things is there! Seems logical, even obvious, when you put it like that doesn’t it and yet we often find it hard to understand when people see things a different way to us!
Take that thinking to a logical conclusion. If you pay attention to the things that support your beliefs, it is inevitable that you will find what you expect to.
If you expect to be happy, successful and fulfilled, you will filter your experiences accordingly and pay attention to the things that fit in with those expectations and the beliefs that underpin them.
If you expect to fail, be lonely and miserable…. guess what kind of things you’ll notice and which ones you’ll miss!
It’s not rocket science honestly, it’s the law of attraction at its most basic level!
Seek and ye shall find!
Now, the great news is, that because your beliefs are ONLY your beliefs and NOT hard and fast facts set in stone, you get to choose them and change them at will!
Just imagine for a second, how great your life might be if you believed to your very core, that your life was about to improve a millionfold and that you were going to achieve all your dreams. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful place to be? Isn’t that something you’d like to do?
The only thing stopping you, is YOU!
I’ve written lots of posts on Beliefs and Mindset on this blog that will give you a some tips on how to start to recognise and change the beliefs that hold you back, and you’ll find even more in my Self Help Bible books. Why not do some exploring and see how much bigger, better and brighter your life could be if you created the one you REALLY want!
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