What To Do When You Hit the Wall Part 2

Yesterday we discussed the paradigm of  “seeing is believing.”  We’ve all heard it many, many times.  Most of us hold this belief as true whether consciously or unconsciously.  Here’s where I want you to question, look deeply and have your flashlight ready.  If it gets dark for you, shine the flashlight of your consciousness; your awareness and the shadows disappear.

Here we go!  Just like the walls we talked about in part 1, what if, just maybe the circumstances in your life, both now and in the past, are the results of your beliefs?  Can you allow that maybe your thought about something shapes the way you perceive it?

Science has given us a great example of just this idea when we look at light.  Light can manifest as both a particle and a wave.  If we believe (expect) to see particles, we’ll see particles. Same thing if we look and believe we will see waves.  (Google the whole story of this conundrum for scientists.  Its fascinating!)

Our walls are no different.  We see them and feel them because we have believed they are there.  If you “believe” you are limited in any way, you will indeed see evidence of that belief all around you.  If you believe things will never get better, they won’t in your experience.  In other words, you will create the walls, the very conditions needed, to verify your belief.  Please understand, I’m not saying we all sit around and consciously decide to have bad things in our lives.  We do it by our lack of awareness and mostly without questioning our thinking about it. It has become unconscious.

The Good News is that you can choose to change your life by changing your beliefs about how your life “is.”  The process is simple, infallible and immutable; but … it is seldom easy when we first start out. Like any new skill it takes practice and perseverance.  We must be willing to examine, with great compassion toward ourselves, our habitual ways of thinking about everything!  It takes believing even in the face of what looks contradictory.  Be aware though, that in the beginning, you’re likely to continue to “see” the results of your previous thoughts.  Just realize they are thought-forms you’ve already birthed and they must play themselves out.  Hold onto the grace that will come from your new thoughts!

The Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”  The Bible says, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”  James Allen expressed it so well in the poem:

“Mind is the master power that molds and makes,

And we are mind, and evermore we take

The tool of thought, and shaping what we will,

Bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills.

We think in secret, and it comes to pass,

Our world is but our looking glass.”

Believing is seeing!  Believe those walls are an illusion and you will see them dissolve!