Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 126 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Your Beliefs Create Your Reality (3)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 126 of our Trek. Yesterday was day two of five on the trail of our reality, which is based on our beliefs. As I mentioned yesterday, we are wonderfully created, and we have a vast capacity to create our reality through our paradigms or belief systems.

It is so crucial that your belief system is on a solid foundation of truth. This is day three of five on our exploration into the concept that our beliefs create our reality. If you miss any of these episodes, make sure you go back and listen to them all to get a complete picture. If you have any of your own observations, comments, or questions as we share time together on our daily trek, please share them in the comment section of our daily journal pages.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. I was able to finish the dining room floor with two coats of polyurethane.  Check out the pictures.  I would encourage you to check out the journal each day as I include related pictures and tweetable quotes in each of them.  

We also attended our nephew Caleb’s wedding in Logan, Ohio, this weekend. He and his new bride Misheel will be living in Chicago where Caleb is an architect and Misheel is an accountant. It was a beautiful wedding and we had a great time together with family.  I have been so blessed to have a close family where we can share these times together.

Now it is time to break camp for today and head back out for day three on our reality trail.  As we start out I would like to ask you a question. "Why is it that two people can see and experience the exact same situation at the same time, but have two completely different interpretations or reactions?" Which response is true? Both are reality to the person who experiences it. This example supports what we have been exploring for the past couple of days. Our beliefs about our world create our own reality. That reality is personal to us.

 

On a subconscious level, each of us is convinced that our beliefs are both true and accurate. After all, they must be correct, otherwise why would we choose to believe them, right?

Here’s how the dictionary defines "belief" – “Acceptance by the mind that something is true or real, often underpinned by an emotional or spiritual sense of certainty.”

On the first day of our current Trek, we talked about how our beliefs provide a structured process through which we evaluate everything in our lives. Yesterday we saw how our beliefs become the foundation for our internal map of reality.

Today it’s time to take a closer look at how we subconsciously alter the meaning of our experiences and relationships to make sure they fit our map. We will also discuss how we attract people and situations into our life in an effort to verify the accuracy of our version of reality.

As a Christ follower, it is hard sometimes to question the beliefs that I was taught from childhood.  It is important that we make sure that our beliefs are grounded on Biblical truth and not the interpretation of someone else that we have blindly accepted.

If you are also a Christ follower, I would encourage you to adopt the practices of the church in Berea as is written in Acts 17:11, "And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth."

 

Part 3: Defending Your Beliefs