| So many of us harbor beliefs about ourselves that | | | | the Belief Detective lashes out. |
| are not only wrong, but downright destructive. Would | | | | I'm sure you've experienced a time in your life when |
| you like to find out how to bypass the Belief | | | | your negative beliefs have kept you stuck. If you |
| Detective inside of you that is holding you back from | | | | believe you always get the short end of the stick, |
| believing good things about yourself? | | | | that's what you will get. Your subconscious will help |
| When we are first born, we are an open book so to | | | | to prove you right by giving you examples of how |
| speak, we have no beliefs. As we begin to grow, | | | | you always get the short end. But in truth, we all |
| every experience we have leads us to draw | | | | have many positive beliefs as well or we'd never get |
| conclusions, make assumptions or make explanations | | | | anything done. Most of these beliefs lay hidden in our |
| for that experience. Over time, each new experience | | | | subconscious and we never even know they are |
| gets filtered through the beliefs we've set up from | | | | there until we try to do something that threatens |
| those earlier experiences and we tend to make it fit | | | | that belief. Then trying to change them becomes |
| into the way we think about ourselves. It's become | | | | very challenging. |
| so ingrained in us that we don't even question | | | | Sometimes old beliefs that no longer serve any |
| whether our beliefs are accurate. In our minds, they | | | | purpose dissolve on their own and are replaced with |
| are truth, but in fact they are only our beliefs. | | | | more productive beliefs. (YEAH!) Our work, then, is |
| Why, for example, might one child grow up believing | | | | to uncover and remove the negative beliefs that no |
| one thing, while a sibling believes something entirely | | | | longer serve us and are holding us back from |
| different? Because beliefs are based on the | | | | achieving all that we desire. |
| individual's interpretation of an event, not on the | | | | Now how do you go about changing these beliefs? |
| actual event itself. So if one child is neglected, they | | | | First you have to be willing and you need to realize |
| might become needy, always seeking love because | | | | that the beliefs you hold have some sort of payoff |
| they felt rejected. However, the sibling may become | | | | for you. Maybe they prove you right, maybe they |
| independent, because they learned to stand on their | | | | keep you safe, but whatever it is, when you try to |
| own. Same situation, different interpretation, different | | | | change it, your Big Bad Belief Detective will try to |
| beliefs. | | | | stop you. For instance, I was told that doing |
| Our beliefs about our world are the very foundation | | | | affirmations was very helpful in reprogramming limiting |
| upon which we view the world. It is our truth. It's | | | | beliefs. However, I found that I just couldn't do them |
| hard to move forward in life if our beliefs limit us. | | | | for any length of time. I'd get bored, tired or find |
| They totally define our world. Anything that | | | | other excuses not to do them. Why, because my |
| challenges a deeply rooted belief will meet with great | | | | Belief Detective put up those roadblocks to stop me |
| resistance. I know that anytime I start to grow, it | | | | from trying to change my beliefs. Insidious, isn't it? I |
| feels like I have this internal battle going on. It seems | | | | finally realized that I would need to find a way to |
| like I have this Belief Detective who is standing guard | | | | bypass my Belief Detective. |
| so that anytime one of my beliefs feels threatened, | | | | |