Slow To Understand Your Beliefs?
Have you been slow to understand your beliefs? If you are an above-average person, you probably don’t think much about your beliefs – why would you? Your life is busy enough now, without you having to explore something new and potentially perplexing. Unless of course, you are curious like an aspirant.
Through our work with our clients and customers, we have learned that defined beliefs produce certainty for the believer.
Your Beliefs Have Impact
We suggest that you should spend time understanding the impact of your beliefs to gain awareness. It’s not a challenge we offer, but an opportunity for a bit of fun and perhaps enlightenment.
We encourage you to inspect one or two of your current beliefs, but no more. Our focus is on designing new beliefs. Yet, before you might accept our processes, we want you to evaluate a few of your beliefs at a high-level by way of our suggestions in this article so that you can understand a little bit of how they work in your life.
We promise not to push the needle too far to the right with this examination: just enough to give you an initial awareness and an appreciation for what’s possible. We invite you to read a little further because we think you might find this article worthy of your consideration and time investment.
Beliefs Become Clearer
Thanks for staying with us, so let’s explore a few fundamental ideas. First, as the number one point, your beliefs can be found by looking at the choices you make. While this may seem counter-intuitive right now, after a few simple evaluations, you’ll gain an appreciation for the exercise, and your beliefs will be easier to understand. The same will be valid for the following.
As a second point, you can understand your choices by looking at the actions you take. Then third and finally, the results you get are determined by measuring them to your original belief. Your belief should define an outcome.
All beliefs do have a result, whether realized or not. We also say that once you have measurably defined the conclusion and you begin receiving those attainments, the result will produce faith.
You may consider this a claim, but we have the experience of it in our own lives through years of practice. One must manage the belief’s result by determining whether or not it matched or exceeded your defined measures. Of all the things that our beliefs and choices methodology deliver, the management portion is critically vital to your receiving an effective result.
Your results will represent reality and ensure that your beliefs are truthful, having delivered verifiable results culminating in faith. The accuracy of your results will set your experience of it as being real and trustworthy with irrefutable measurable evidence. Measuring is why we call our methodologies and related processes evidence-based.
Upon Further Investigation
The ideas just expressed so far takes form in the image below. We invite you to look closely at the connection and relationship with and between the numbers. BTW this model repeats after five by starting with one over and again until the results meet the measures defined for the belief (i.e., if the belief no longer works, it should be is discarded).
Most importantly, you should notice that for Results, actions are the source of it. For Actions, choices are the source to it, and so on.
Our Experiences are the source of our beliefs.
The most significant point to gain about this is the results produce the faith for us: trust and confidence arrive in the doing and receiving of it. We say when you define all these components, you will have designed manifested belief and received manifested faith through the process.
We think that the old wisdom-based saying “it’s not the destination but the journey that matters” should be revised to read “When the journey and destination are understood, you will receive an on-purpose life. We teach this at Choice Awareness.
Evaluating a Common Belief
Many people believe that Hope produces something valuable: we agree. Hope may seem akin to faith in God, which is not easily seen but is usually felt in some fashion or perceived intuitively in some ways, also not easily understood, yet known by people of faith. We concur with this concept of faith in God. We will show you our idea of the belief of Hope in a straightforward example that follows.
The preamble to Evaluating Beliefs
The declarative about “Do not attempt this at home alone” does not apply here; in fact, we encourage you to practice, practice, practice anywhere you wish. We are going to define a simple belief with all the components to show you how it works. Then you can use the completed example as a model for evaluating one of your own beliefs. You will be able to understand the connection and interaction between each component by determining how each one of yours currently operates for you.
We recommend you write your component examinations down during this exercise because it can make your beliefs come alive for you (see our comments about writing as a personal discipline for guidance).
Definition of Hope
Let’s begin by defining one belief called Hope-In-The-Future, which will produce a result of a Personal Positive Attitude on the CAM Awareness Scale of at least 8.0. One must realize that the opposing forces of hope are despair and its related fear-based emotions. To counteract this negative circumstance which occurs in all of us at times, we define two choices:
Being Positive – if despair, fear or other negative ideas/thoughts occur; and
What The Future Holds – as a reminder of what’s possible.
Definition of Related Actions
The action definitions are related to each choice we have defined and hence declared as valid choices for the belief: they are interrelated and connected. So that when you select a choice, you execute the actions you have defined for each. For the above example we selected, we created one set of actions for each choice (i.e., there is no limit to the number of choices you make create for your belief).
For this simple Hope example, they are as follows:
We define Being Positive Actions containing eight items, which you perform one after another until completed with a measure of at least 8.0 on the Awareness Scale as a final measure for the action as follows:
I will allow at least 30 minutes to do these actions.
I realize that despair, fear, or otherwise is occurring because depression has appeared in my feelings. Also, it occurs in my language, my body, my attitude, my mood, and my behaviors.
I will measure my despair on the Awareness Scale to determine the intensity.
I acknowledge that this is occurring, so I decide to stop what I am doing, lay down comfortably somewhere quiet, rest with my eyes closed and body relaxed while breathing deeply for at least 10 to 15 minutes. (Note: some of you may need to ensure that you have taken your prescribed medications).
I visualize that these are real sensing’s in me and that these feelings can and will pass from me.
I can ask my higher power for help in letting go of what is occurring: I will also ask for acceptance of my current circumstances and a full release from the despair.
I begin to visualize my most relaxed state (that bliss state which I have previously defined for myself) and feel the tension leaving me and a new sense beginning to take over; I continue this for at least 10 to 15 minutes.
I measure my current moods, energy, and positive attitude and state of relaxation using the Awareness Scale while entirely determined to gain at least an 8.0 or better. If I have not, I will go back to number 4 and repeat until you receive the result.
And also, the definitions for What The Future Holds Actions contain seven actions.
I allow myself at least 10 to 15 minutes to do these actions.
I believe my future contains with possibility and opportunity for me. My belief occurs because I define potential and opportunity.
I will read these belief definitions right now slowly, reviewing all of the choices that I have defined.
I will lay down comfortably somewhere quiet, resting with my eyes closed and body relaxed while breathing deeply for one minute or more and ponder what I have just read.
I will ask my higher power for help in allowing me to use all my skills and talents toward making my choices and actions accurate while delivering the results I have designed.
I begin to visualize my future filled with these possibilities and opportunities for a minute or two.
I will measure my attitude about the future using the CAM Awareness Scale while entirely determined to gain at least an 8.0 or better. If I have not, I will go back to number 3 and repeat.
The resultant belief of hope will look like the data in the image below. It contains the outcomes associated with each component of the belief and choices of architecture.
A Simple Example of a Belief Defined as Hope-For-The-Future
Now that you have an example of how you can build a belief, you can also use this as a model for how to construct more of your own beliefs.
Also, you can use the model as a way to deconstruct one or two of your own current beliefs – pick ones that you have a sense about already but only one or two.
Models will take some thought and action on your part to perform the first one, but give yourself the time to experiment with this process.
We recommend that you take our webinar for Getting On-Purpose, which covers these ideas in more detail.
