How To Work With Beliefs To Change Your Life For The Better

By Alan Tutt
http://www.PowerKeysPub.com

There are 2 ways to work with beliefs in order to improve our
lives. The first of those is to work with the beliefs we already
have and use them to produce results.

The concept here is to use what we already believe in order to
produce changes. For instance, most of us believe that flipping
a switch on the wall will change the state of a light, either on
or off. We also believe that placing a key in the ignition of a
car and turning it will cause the engine to come to life. These
are beliefs that produce a result when we comply with them.

Forgiving others in order to be ‘forgiven’ ourselves is a belief
that works for those who truly believe in a God that punishes us
for our mistakes. Blessing others so that we may be blessed
ourselves is another belief that works for those who truly
believe in the process. However, if you have doubts whether this
works or not, then results will not be quickly forthcoming.

And that leads us to the other method of working with beliefs,
and that is to change what we believe will produce reliable
results.

You see, the universe is set up in such a way that our beliefs
are reflected in our experiences. If we believe that others are
critical and uncaring, then our experiences will reflect that
belief and we get hurt and become lonely. If we believe that
“the economy” is tight and money is hard to come by, then our
experiences will reflect that belief and we find out what it’s
like to be poor.

However, when we believe that our lives ARE blessed and that more
blessings are coming to us each and every day, then the universe
has a different image to present to us.

Think of the world around you as a movie screen, and the beliefs
you have within you comprise the film that is projected upon that
screen. As soon as your beliefs change, the image on the screen
changes to reflect the new beliefs.

But here again, knowing the cause of a problem and being able to
DO something about it are two different things. What we need is
a process that will automatically and naturally alter the beliefs
within us.

There are actually several processes that have been used over
time. One process is prayer - and this works when you believe it
does. Repeating affirmations about what we desire as being a
current reality is another process that works when you believe in
the process.

As you’ll find on my content site, I found a way to use
affirmations that doesn’t require that you believe in the
process, because the belief is CREATED by the process, or at
least transferred from one set of beliefs to another.

This process comes from NLP, and uses something called “pacing
and leading” statements. You start out ‘affirming’ things that
you already believe are true, such as “My name is _____. I live
on planet Earth. Two plus two equals four. I am having a hard
time right now.”

By pacing your current beliefs, you are gathering momentum that
will carry over into a new statement that immediately follows.
This ‘pacing’ affirmation picks up the belief that you already
have in the ‘leading’ affirmations. So one example of using this
process would be:

My name is _____. (pacing)
I live on planet Earth. (pacing)
2+2=4 (pacing)
I am having a hard time right now. (pacing)
But things are about to improve. (leading)

Four leading affirmations is a minimum, although you don’t need
any more than 6 or 7.

If you think about the ’strength’ of a belief as something that
can be measured on a scale, and you measure the strength of your
belief that life is about to improve for you before you start
this process, by the time you’ve said a few pacing affirmations
and then a single leading affirmation, and then repeated the
process a few times, you’ll notice that your level of belief in
the new statement is growing a little at a time, until you reach
a point where you accept the statement as fact.

This is where things really get interesting, because once your
inner mind accepts the new statement as fact, the universe has a
new belief to reflect back to you in your life. The net effect
is that life will begin to improve for you.

Obviously, this only touches the surface of things. We all have
thousands of different beliefs within us, and some beliefs will
counteract other beliefs. When you think about the ‘new’ leading
affirmation, some thoughts will come up that will refute it.
Take note of them, because they are showing you what you believe
on a deeper, inner level. These will be beliefs that you’ll want
to change to support your new desired experiences.

Another process that you can use that also helps to reshape our
beliefs is creative daydreaming. By spending some time
daydreaming about the life you want to live, your inner mind
becomes conditioned to the idea and will accept its possibility
more so than it did before. This is the basis for what has been
known as “creative visualization” although the visualization
itself doesn’t actually change anything, it’s the beliefs that
are affected that do the work after the visualization process is
finished.

You can take this process one step further and extend it out into
the world around you by ‘pretending’ that things are the way
you’d like them to be. As kids, we had a natural instinct to
pretend, and it does seem that this is a powerful process that
has the potential to change everything.

The bottom line is that the universe will reflect your beliefs in
the experiences you have. It’s as if our beliefs act as a magnet
to ‘attract’ related experiences to us. Once you alter your
beliefs, your experiences will change as well.

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Alan Tutt writes books and produces audio programs designed to
help you empower yourself to create the life you desire. He
also maintains a blog at http://www.AlanTutt.com.
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