Empower Newsletter – January 2018
| Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the Empower Newsletter. This month the focus is on starting the new year with an empowering new belief.
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Did you know? |
‘you make decisions based on self beliefs’
Very early in our lives we started to believe that we were a certain way and formed beliefs about ourselves. These beliefs can be positive or negative! For example, as a child we may have made something that happened to us mean that we were not good enough. It could have been a teacher, parent, relative or friend who laughed when we got a question wrong or called us stupid when we merely didn’t understand.
Once we have created a belief about ourselves we start gathering evidence to support this belief deleting, distorting and generalising any evidence to the contrary. For example, after being disciplined as a youngster, we may have consciously or unconsciously made this mean that it must have happened because we were not good enough. And after that event, every time we were disciplined for any reason at all, it continually proved that we were right.
The thing is, because we were busy gathering evidence to support this belief we were actually deleting, distorting and generalising every time we were good enough. For example, when we were praised, won awards or accomplished something.
Once we have created a belief about ourselves we then make decisions based on that belief. For example, we might not have chosen to follow a career we were passionate about because we considered ourselves not good enough to do it.
On the opposite side of the coin, if we formed a belief that we could do anything we wanted, again discarding, distorting and generalising alternate evidence, and then gathered evidence to support that belief, then we would make decisions based on that belief.
Can you imagine the different decisions made by each of these belief systems? Which belief do you think would create more happiness?
The good news is that beliefs can be changed. Once a disempowering belief has been acknowledged and the decision is made to change it, a good place to start is to acknowledge or even write down all the things that happened in your life to support your new belief that you had previously deleted, distorted or generalised. It may even help to ask family members or friends for their recollections.
Here’s to making every day decision based on your new belief about yourself!
Definition |
Self Beliefs
Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things really are, what we think is really true and what therefore expect as likely consequences that will follow from our behaviour.
Expressing a strong intention or assertion about the future:
- “come what may, I will succeed”
Something to Ponder |
Many of the limitations you face in life are self-imposed. What you believe about yourself can keep you locked behind your fears or thrust you forward into living your dreams.
“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right,”
~ Mark Twain ~
Quote of the Month |
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Affirmation Corner |
‘I am capable of reaching any goal.’
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January 1, 2018 12:40 pm
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