What do you believe? This is extremely important, because ultimately your

beliefs create your reality! You create what you believe and your world is only

your interpretation of the reality. In other words, we don’t see the world how it

is, but how we were conditioned to see it. Our perception is only an

approximation of reality. Our maps of reality determine the way we act more

than reality itself. Each one of us sees the world through the lenses of their

own beliefs. Does this sound like hocus-pocus to you? It did to me too until I

studied two semesters of Psychology at my High School and learned about the

Placebo Effect, The Pygmalion Effect, and Self-Fulfilling prophecies. Studies

on these subjects out there show how powerful our thoughts and beliefs really

are! But what is a belief? It’s the conscious and unconscious information that we

accept as true. Robert Dilts defines beliefs as judgments and assessments about

ourselves, others, and the world around us. A belief is a habitual thought pattern.

Once a person believes something is true (whether it’s true or not) he or she acts

as if it were - collecting facts to prove the belief even if it’s false.

Beliefs are like a self-fulfilling prophecy. They work like this: your beliefs

influence your emotions, your emotions influence your actions and your

actions influence your RESULTS! Depending on your belief-system you live

your life one way or another.

I want you to realize that life doesn’t just happen to you! It’s a reflection of

your beliefs, thoughts, and expectations. If you want to change your life you

have to first change your patterns of thinking.

Even if beliefs come from early childhood programming for most of us, we are

able to change them. Nobody can impose your beliefs on you. It’s always you

who in the last instance can permit a belief to be true for you or not! L