The Power Behind Beliefs

by Ariela Sarai

“Beliefs are seeds that will one day flower into realities.” ~ Harry Palmer

Belief Can Be a Power to Use

Many people are aware that their beliefs create their reality. But there is much more to this than simply positive thinking. The ability to create new beliefs that actually attract a new reality requires learning three foundational skills:

1) You have to be able to find your hidden beliefs.

2) You have to learn how to weed them out.

3) You must practice creating new ones that have the power to manifest.

If you just stick a new belief on top of an opposing one that you already hold, you have just put one foot on the gas while the other foot is on the break. You have created a stand-still rather than a new reality. How do beliefs really work? Let’s break it down:

Beliefs act as filters, through which we see the world

When you hold a belief like “It’s hard to make money doing what I love,” it starts to filter your reality. You will generate evidence to support it, and you will tune out other possibilities. One day I was walking down the beach looking for blue sea glass. My eyes kept jumping to bits of shiny blue objects. There were tons of other shells and rocks around me, all forming gray blur. It dawned on me that this is how belief works. When you are holding the belief it is filtering your reality and, depending on the belief, you will either attract opportunities or miss them!

Beliefs generate their own evidence

They are like individual self-fulfilling prophecies. When we have evidence for something, we assume that it is real, rather than realizing that we generate the evidence by the belief we are holding. If we believe we can’t create the relationship we want, we use our lack of a partner to “prove” it. But what makes it real is the fact that we believe it! The belief generates evidence, and the evidence strengthens the belief. It can feel that there is no way out.

How strongly you hold a belief is what gives it power

Do you ever wake up energized and excited about the day, and a little while later you could be dreading the exact same day? What is happening? Let’s say you hold a belief, “I am grateful for my life.” If you wake up and feel it, strongly that means that your conviction turns up to a nine or ten. Then, you may get an unexpected bill or have a stressful conversation. Then you automatically turn that dial down and now that belief is held at a one. You will start to see what is wrong with your life. You notice what you are lacking, and the belief that you are grateful is dormant. The power we give beliefs is usually operating on automatic. But, we can also turn this dial up or down deliberately to feed positive beliefs or deflate limiting ones.

We all have conflicting beliefs

If every belief is a seed that wants to grow, that means that we all have an internal garden full of plants as well as weeds. This is why we often feel like our mind is opposing us. We decide we want to make a change, and we plant empowering beliefs, but then our mind starts showing us all the beliefs that cause us to doubt that decision. These doubts cause us to question ourselves, and we end up stalling or stopping our forward movement. Time to weed the garden!

Beliefs form a blueprint

Just as we use blueprints to create the house, beliefs form a blueprint in consciousness that creates our life experiences. If we are trying to create something new, but we have not changed our existing belief blueprint at all, guess what we will create – a variation on the theme! It may be a different person or circumstance, but it will produce the same feelings at the end of the day. If you really want to make lasting changes, be willing to explore your blueprint and change your internal foundation so you can create what you really want.

When I took the Avatar Course, I had been through a difficult divorce and had been a single mom for over two years. I had lots of impeding beliefs about relationships. The week before I left, I was introduced to someone, and I thought he was really nice but “too mainstream; not spiritual enough.” At the course, I saw that in my blueprint I believed that if someone was focused on making money, that meant he wasn’t spiritual enough.

Beliefs and Spirituality

Because spirituality is so important to me, I always attracted men who did not make a living! Thankfully I let go of that and went out with him again. It is 16 years later, and we have a thriving marriage. We raised my son, we get along very well with my ex-husband, and we have both a great lifestyle and a great spiritual connection. This is the power of recognizing and changing your belief blueprint!

Part of training your mind and tuning-in to your soul is doing your belief-work. The first step is to be at a level of awareness. Recognize that you are not any of your beliefs or stories. From this place, you can decide what you want to believe from a clear place. Harry Palmer says, “YOU are the gardener, the essence of Source.” You can create a habit of planting new seeds and weeding as a daily practice. When you take care of your internal “garden,” you will find that you naturally and rapidly blossom new, wonderful, inspiring realities!

About the Author

Find out more about author Ariela Sarai at: www.powerofavatar.com