Sometimes people get poor results with affirmations. When they say positive things about themselves the dialogue of thoughts in their head pushes back with harsh negative comments.

#46: Affirmations can backfire

Explore changing beliefs, discovering unconscious beliefs, emotions, and how your mind works. Using conscious awareness to step outside your mind and ego patterns you will have methods of change that were unimaginable.

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Changing Beliefs using the Self Mastery Course from PathwayToHappiness.com is explained by Gary van Warmerdam. I outline the beliefs at the root of negative thoughts and emotional reactions affecting behavior. Then I outline how the Self Mastery practices guide you to develop the skills needed to do an inventory of your beliefs and dissolve them.

#87 Changing Beliefs

When you use your attention to control your beliefs, you can identify the assumptions you live by, and consciously choose another thought, interpretation, belief, or behavior about what is happening. There is a lot of great advice about not letting others bother you, or "don't take anything personally." What needs to be known to follow this advice is that you need control over your attention to follow it.

#86 Beliefs and Attention

Changing beliefs will allow you to change your narrative story and emotions.  Beliefs are also the foundation for how economic, political, monetary, and social systems work.  If you want to understand any one of those aspects, you will need to understand how beliefs work because that is the basis.

#85 Beliefs are the Key to Change

Your Will and Consciousness was divided early in your life during emotional events and repetition.  This creates a fragmented mind. 
Recover those separate parts to feel whole and live in integrity.

84 Divided Will and Consciousness

In this session, I guide Greg, a Self Mastery subscriber, through changing a belief.  The narrative of the belief is "I'm not ready."  However, the roots of that narrative story are based in the emotional experiences of a young child who was pushed to do things before he was ready. The belief is actually an energetic memory formed in the mind of a young child, with emotion, perspective, fear, several stories, and a need for protection.

#46: Affirmations can backfire

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