Empower Newsletter – February 2015
Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month the focus is on our beliefs and how some of them can be making us or breaking us.
Do you know?
‘your beliefs can hold you back’
Is there something in your life that isn’t exactly the way you want it? If the answer is yes, chances are you have a limiting belief.
How do we get our beliefs anyway? Did you sit down and decide what beliefs and values you will have and why? I know I didn’t. Chances are they just turned up due to life experiences, circumstances and surroundings. Beliefs are formed in our childhood and influenced by the significant people around us such as parents, family members, teachers, peer groups, media and religion.
I wonder if you would choose some of the same beliefs if you did sit down to establish them today. I wonder how it would change your life moving forward if all of your beliefs actually served you.
As we gather our beliefs we also gather evidence to support them. That way, whenever we need to defend our position on a particular issue, we already have the evidence to come up with the proof we need.
But, in reality, there is very little in life that is absolutely right or wrong. Mostly we just adopt a belief and then stick to it unless we make a conscious decision to change it. And we interpret life and the events around us in the light of our beliefs. For example, look at the way we view other people. I believe that people are basically decent and, given a chance, will do you a good turn. Others may believe that people are selfish, only out for themselves and, given a chance, will rip you off. Which is true? Simply the one you decide is true.
The person that believes that people are only out for themselves can support their view with plenty of examples. The evidence I look for and accumulate supports my belief that people are basically good and are happy to help you if they can. Which of us is right? Both views can put forward very strong cases for their positions. The former will unconsciously be looking for the evidence they need every time they read a newspaper, watch television or have a conversation. I am doing the same thing. This is because we get what we expect and look for in life.
You may not have consciously chosen any of the beliefs you now hold. In fact, you probably took most of them on board before you were old enough to understand the concept. But the truth is that you can choose to change any of them or add to them right now and from here on.
Most people never question their beliefs because they are set in stone. Because all our thoughts, our behaviour and our actions are a direct result of our beliefs, they can inspire or destroy us.
Definition
Beliefs
Beliefs are not meant as religious beliefs but beliefs that individuals hold about themselves and their world. In the dictionary they are defined as “a principal accepted as true or real without proof. An opinion or conviction.”
Something to Ponder
“If you were able to rewind your life and watch it in slow motion from its very beginning, you would be able to see the key times when certain beliefs were formed and you would understand why you developed those beliefs.”
“The realization that what we’ve been living and telling ourselves all these years was based on a skewed perception of something that happened as a child, is a freeing moment.”
Quotes of the Month
“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.”
~ James Allen ~
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”
~ Tony Robbins ~
Affirmation Corner
‘I now change the way I look at things so the things I look at change.’
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February 3, 2015 11:54 am
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