Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 9 February 2011
Most of us start off the New Year full of good intentions and with the motivation to do something, be something, or have something more than the year before. We get excited that this year is going to be one where we really do it—earn more money, improve our relationships, lose weight, change our careers, and improve our lives. We feel good because we are thinking positively, and so away we go, full of gusto. Then, more often than not, a month or two later we lose enthusiasm, lower the target, or forget about our good intentions altogether. We even come up with good reasons and logical justifications for why we couldn’t or didn’t continue with our resolutions.
Sound familiar? Ever been there? This scenario is so common that we often don’t look deeper into why resolutions are not only for making, but for breaking! There are good reasons, but they have little to do with lack of willpower or self-indulgence. They have to do with your subconscious belief systems. So, it’s time to stop beating yourself up over failing to see your good intentions through and to find out how you can change that dynamic.
Take a look at the illustration below, called the
Iceberg model, taken from my book Incredible You: Unleashing the Power of Your Beliefs and Intentions to Achieve an Extraordinary Life.
As you can see, everything we do—and everything we are—is based at the deepest levels on information and energy fields that control our perceptions, which in turn power our beliefs and emotions, which then shape our thoughts, which then dictate our behaviours. Let’s examine this cycle in more detail.
You Are What You Believe You may think you know what you believe, but the fact is that most of us are driven by behaviours based on beliefs that we may not ever have examined, let alone agreed to hold. The iceberg model provides a simple metaphor that reveals how beliefs influence our emotions and motivate our actions. As you know, an iceberg is approximately 90 percent unseen, submerged underwater, so we see only the tip of it. We can’t really know how big it is or what it looks like. That iceberg is very much like beliefs—very few of them are conscious (above the waterline of our knowing). Most beliefs remain hidden from us, submerged deep in our subconscious minds. Yet, they influence just about every aspect of our lives. So what exactly is a belief, and why are our beliefs so powerful?
A belief is a thought, or a collection of thoughts, that is taken as truth and that determines your perceptions of the world. Beliefs influence, and even dictate, the choices you make, the relationships you have, the creations you manifest, the behaviours you demonstrate, and ultimately the life that you live.
Almost all of our beliefs are ones we hold from past experiences, with most of them having been formed in childhood, when we learned about the world and formed our perceptions
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