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Today's
Meditation:
I've spent much of my life believing that things
couldn't be changed, that things are the way they are and
the there are simply unavoidable problems and obstacles
that come up in life and slam us to the ground, forcing us
to do little more than try to deal with the problems-- but
certainly not thrive and do well.
It took me a very long time to learn that my beliefs
helped to cause this sort of thing to happen. I
believed something negative would happen, and therefore it
did: a simple cause-and-effect relationship that
nobody had ever taught me anything about. And
because they would happen, they would reinforce my
beliefs, which would then lead to. . . well, you know.
There's a big difference between believing in limitations
and impossibilities and believing in possibilities and
potential. When we believe in the possibilities,
then we approach them as if they can be accomplished, and
it's that approach that allows us to actually get them
done. Many of the difficulties in our lives hang on
because we believe in them and we believe in their power
to harm us and to be problematic to us, whereas they could
be overcome quite effectively-- if perhaps not extremely
simply-- if we were simply to believe that we can overcome
them.
One of the things that separates Olympic and professional
athletes from others is the way that they believe that
they can do whatever they try to do-- they know it may take
a lot of work to get to the point at which they can, but
since they do believe, they're willing to put forth the
work necessary to accomplish their goals.
Because this topic isn't one of the things that we teach
in our schools or that most of our parents have passed
down to us, most of us tend either not to know the power
of our beliefs or not to believe just how powerful they
are. We can overcome that deficiency, though, by
changing what we believe and living as if we do believe
the things that will make our lives much more positive
than they are when we believe the negatives.
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