Breathing Under Water

Do you remember what it was like breathing under water? I mean, that’s how you started the first 9 months of your life… well, maybe it wasn’t water, per se, but that liquidy, oxygen-filled, nutrient-rich wet gooey stuff? Remember?

In actuality, I think we all may be born with everything we need to thrive in this world, cable-ready so to speak. With all the intuitive and spiritual faculties necessary to live out our life of choice.

And then they get their hands on you and completely screw you up!

You come into this new world naked and open to learning and having experiences, and what do they do? They slap you on your ass and within hours are cutting off part of your manhood. Uhh, I think I got off at the wrong bus stop, nurse… put me back in!

And then it starts…

• Sit up straight
• Eat your vegetables
• Don’t wipe your nose with your sleeve
• So, if Billy jumped off a cliff, are you gonna jump too?
• Stop listening to that crap, you’re gonna go deaf
• Cut that hair
• Do you want to end up a bum on the street?
• Get a job
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
• Buy low, sell high (ok, that was good advice)
• Are you going to live in my house until you’re 40?

…And then they pass the baton on to your spouse

• Don’t leave the toilet seat up
• You never listen to me
• Complaint 3 (sorry, I stopped listening at this point)
• Complaint 4
• Complaint 5

Geez, breathing under water was so much more pleasurable; the sensory deprivation experience of it all seemed so relaxing, like some kind of free spa. I had 3 squares a day, a warm environment, didn’t have to wear those ridiculous baby uniforms with the matching hat and booties that made me look like a 3-year old “Baby Gap” pimp hanging out in front of toy’s r us. What’s the point of it all?

But I am not cynical!

Believe me; I am not cynical at all. I am not Al Bundy (well maybe just a tiny bit)!

I am truly fascinated by this all; I mean how bizarre is life, you know? We go through all this social conditioning and programming in our formative years, only to realize that these parents who we looked upon as the gods of our lives, were just a couple of scewed up kids trying to figure things out for themselves too. It is a wonder any of us actually survive, but we do. And we learn great lessons – if we are looking for answers.

What is amazing to me is the number of people who walk around all day and are NOT trying to figure out the meaning of it all. How can one look at the moon, for example, and not just stare in utter amazement wondering, “How the heck is that big ball of dirt just floating up there?”

I have been breathing air now for about 45 years and I am ready to start breathing under water again – to return to that cable-ready being that intuitively got it, who had no resistance whatsoever. The being who could bypass all the mixed messages and the marketing hucksters trying to sell me a piece of shiny cheese. The being that was just plugged in and connected. I am ready to create – not regurgitate! It’s time to get off the competitive plane and onto the creative plane, because that is where there is no competition – in the rarified air.

Why Are Your Self-Beliefs So Important?

Why are your beliefs so important to you?

Beliefs are important to you because what you believe about yourself on a given subject is what you will eventually experience.

“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs” – James Allen

For example, if you believe that it is hard to make money, you will always struggle with money. If you believe that heart disease runs strong in your family, you will likely end up dealing with it too…

You can choose what you believe. Your attitude towards beliefs should be based on their usefulness to you - not whether they are technically “true”. The subconscious mind does not consider whether something is true or not before it registers it and programs it in your brain’s neural network.

For example, holding a belief of poverty is not useful to you (even if you have no money and it is technically true). Rather, committing to and holding to a belief of wealth – over time – can overwrite the “faulty” poverty belief. Once the new belief has been established and hard-wired in the brain, the results you see in your life will start to match your newly held belief-state of wealth. This is so because through natural law, our states of mind and belief are re-created as our life experience…

Read more: http://www.belieftracks.com/faqs.htm#ixzz0IujDe0UD&C

What is a Belief?

What is a Belief?

Do you ever really think about what you believe and why you believe it? Do you know how you come to believe what you believe? Do you understand the long-lasting ramifications of your beliefs?

Most people link beliefs with all sorts of moral and religious associations; and while there are many religious and moral beliefs, at a very basic level beliefs are much more than that. Simply put, beliefs are just thoughts that we think over and over. They are repeated thought-patterns that gain a foothold in the mind and become “habits of thought” over time. Very literally, in the brain there is a “hard-wiring” of these habitual thoughts that in time dictate our auto-responses for any given topic. A belief has little to do with truth; it is much more about routine programming of our subconscious mind. (Remember, there was a time when people believed the world was flat!)

Ultimately, beliefs are choices we make. We either deliberately choose to believe in something or by default, we keep allowing a message in. We think about it over and over, all the while, with each repeated re-thought, the hardwiring of the neural network in your brain becomes more and more defined, strengthened and permanent. And with that, your new belief becomes more and more “true” to you. Just like the muscles in your body as you exercise them, those neurons become more and more dominant, transmitting stronger and more frequent impulses through your nervous system. Until one day there is no more question in your mind about its veracity.

So THAT is how that smallish 7-inch trout grew to become the 3-pound monster I talk about at family gatherings!

So why should you care about this? Because what you believe about yourself will play itself out in your life – in full living color. (How this actually happens is a topic for another post).

Deep down, what do you believe about yourself in the following areas?

• Your ability to be happy
• Your ability to make a lot of money
• Your ability to be healthy and well

For example, if you believe that it is hard to make money, you will always struggle in this area and you will never make more money than your beliefs will allow you to.

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is.” – Proverbs 23:7

The good news here is that beliefs are just like clothes – you can change them if you don’t like how they look or feel.

Although you will need to go to the root of the true belief, or the foundational belief, to address it, you can simply choose to believe something different. There is a process by which you can choose to believe a different, more helpful truth about yourself and if you care for it and nurture it over time, that fish too will start to grow!