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The True Power of Beliefs, Part 1

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The Power Of Belief

The True Power of Beliefs, Part 1

And you can believe anything in if you will not accept the facts your senses dictate; for nothing is impossible to imagine, and imagining – persisted in and believed – will create its own reality. Neville Goddard

How do beliefs affect our lives?

A belief is defined as “something that we hold to be completely true.” A person’s beliefs are the subconscious guideposts that shape how a person thinks, decides and acts in different situations.

Our subconscious mind is responsible for forming and enforcing our beliefs. The conscious mind on the other hand, is the armored sentinel that makes sure that our subconscious beliefs are enforced – until such time that they are discarded or changed at a subconscious level.

How are new beliefs created?

Normally, a belief forms as a result of memorable or emotional experiences.

A new belief can also be formed from any form of mental training, such as attending classes at the university or reading books that we like. We subconsciously create powerful beliefs at each stage of our lives, from childhood to adulthood.

Small children can have powerful beliefs that can even survive to adulthood. As a person matures, he picks up new beliefs from different experiences in life.

We usually discard an old belief if a new belief provides a better benefit or advantage.

Ideally, a person should be able to pick up new beliefs easily, especially if a belief obviously provides a better route to achieving goals. However, our minds are actually built to retain beliefs rather than let them go.

As humans we have a natural tendency to hold on to old beliefs because it is our way of creating equilibrium and permanence in our lives. It feels safe to cling to our beliefs. Unfortunately, this desire to keep old beliefs can sometimes prevent a person from improving or progressing in certain aspects of LIFE. This is also probably the biggest obstacle when it comes to manifesting. More on that later.

How are beliefs different from each other?

There are two classes of beliefs, based on how they affect human behavior: empowering beliefs and limiting beliefs.

Empowering beliefs are often used by people to accomplish things. For example, a person can believe that with imagination all things are possible. This belief can help the person reach untold heights in achievements .

What are Empowering beliefs

This type of positive belief can help a person overcome his present limitations by imagining a dream life . A person’s empowering beliefs can help him succeed as long as he remains persistent and faithful about his target outcome.

What are limiting beliefs?

Limiting beliefs are just like empowering beliefs: you hold these ideas as true (whether you are consciously aware of them or not) and they guide how you think and take action.

What are limiting beliefs?

How do you know if a belief is a limiting one?

A limiting belief has the following characteristics:

Most of the time it is stated in the negative or it has a negative meaning. Limiting beliefs can often be stated using the words “can’t,” “can’t possibly,” “shouldn’t,” “wouldn’t,” etc. Other times it is formulated as a simple observation such as “I’m horrible at basketball” or “I’m a horrible driver.”
It prevents you from doing something that you’ve never tried before.
It is hinged on fear, sadness, loss of hope and other negative emotions.
It can be hard to acknowledge that you have this belief but at the same time, you cannot do anything that contradicts this belief.
It can make you feel depressed, angry or inadequate when you consciously think about this belief.

Are we naturally pessimistic?

Some experts say that limiting beliefs exist because humans have a naturally pessimistic mindset.

Pessimism, some experts argue, is the reason our ancestors survived predators, natural calamities and food scarcity. Optimists, they say, don’t think of what misfortune could come next so they don’t survive as well as the pessimists.

A pessimistic mindset might make sense if you are using stone tools and there are large predators that might bite you in the dead of the night. However, modern society has changed so much that a pessimistic mindset produces the opposite effect: instead of enhancing your ability to survive and grow it puts you in a small, imaginary box and traps you there.

Having many limiting beliefs are symptomatic of a negative or pessimistic mindset.

Fortunately, you can change a lifetime of pessimism through conscious imagining.

By applying Neville Goddard’s strategies, you can change your mental design and create a more powerful mind that is focused on creating and implementing the best plans so you can start enjoying the outcomes that you have always dreamed of.

We will be going deeper into the world of beliefs and values in our next blog post.

For now, try to answer the following guide questions:

What are my most powerful beliefs about myself right now?
Which of these beliefs empower me and help me grow as a person?
Which of these beliefs prevent me from venturing out into the world so I can find out what works and what doesn’t?
What should I do about my limiting beliefs?
How can I nurture my empowering beliefs?

Michael Sutherland

Michael Sutherland is the founder of TrueCosmic and a devoted student and practitioner of Neville Goddard teachings. His path to this work was not academic — it was forged in crisis. Raised as a devout Jehovah Witness and Baptist, Michael walked away from the church at eighteen and spent the next 25 years in what scripture calls the far country — the prodigal son, wandering. He built a life by the world rules, searching without knowing what he was searching for. When the biggest crisis of his life arrived, he turned back — not to the church, but to scripture itself. Through Neville Goddard teachings he found what the church had never shown him: that the God of scripture is not an external being to be feared and appeased. God is your own awareness. Your own consciousness. Your own imagination. The I AM within. What he discovered was not a set of Neville Goddard principles — these are cosmic laws, written about not only in the Bible but across every ancient spiritual tradition the world over. The same truth, expressed in different language, in every age. The law of consciousness operates whether we are aware of it or not. We are manifesting constantly — the wanted and the unwanted alike. Understanding how this law works allows us to work with it consciously and intentionally, directing it toward the experiences we actually desire rather than the ones our unexamined assumptions are silently producing. In 2017, guided by two mentors — Dr Bruno R Cignacco and Roupa Jetto, a hypnotherapist and Buddhist practitioner — Michael had his first transcendent experience during deep meditation. In 2018 came something he could never have sought or engineered: what is described across traditions as a Kundalini awakening. A sound like rushing wind in both ears. An electrical current rising from the base of the spine, so intense it seemed impossible to survive. Every experience that followed — out of body states, movement along the spinal cord, sensations inside the skull — was documented in scripture, passage by passage, hidden in plain sight. This is not something that can be earned or manufactured. It is grace. According to scripture, it is every soul birthright — every one of us will experience this unfolding, in this lifetime or another. Michael does not share this to define himself above anyone else. He shares it because it confirmed, beyond any doubt, that what Neville Goddard taught is true — and because that confirmation is the foundation on which TrueCosmic was built. TrueCosmic today is home to the most comprehensive Neville Goddard library available online — 292 lectures — alongside an academy of courses, masterclasses and workshops, and 13 specialist coaches serving students across every continent. At its heart is a global community of over 92,000 members, all discovering what happens when you begin to work consciously with the law that was always operating anyway. The invitation is simple: become aware of the law. Understand how it works. And begin, deliberately, to use it.

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